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Muggy Monday
Sep. 12th, 2022 11:33 pmTis very humid and I don't like it. At least I've still got my AC in the window, meaning I can keep it cool and dry here in the bedroom for sleeping. . . And despite the weather, I had a productive day:
Work – A quiet day mostly spent documenting the shit that the credit card company has not yet fixed yet in preparation for asking them to finally fix the damn shit, along with a short GL and helping out Fiscal with figuring out a few things. Not a lot of activity otherwise, which is good as I was a touch foggy this morning. Then again, I usually am a bit on Mondays, given the wrench back to my workweek sleep schedule. *shrug*
Beanbags – Not today – it was raining a bit this morning, and really humid this afternoon, with only patchy sun, so it was basically too wet and buggy. And there’s the potential for thunderstorms tomorrow, so I don’t think we’ll be playing then either! Rest of the week looks good though. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, finishing up Episode 8 of James Turner’s High School Years Rags To Riches series and starting the next Oxventure in line, “High Moon!” Let’s take them in order –
HSY Rags To Riches – After having a very successful date with Sidney on Friday, Reginald proceeded to have an even more successful prom with Sidney on Saturday – starting with Sidney dropping by his place while he was having breakfast and asking if they could be boyfriends! Reginald said of course, and they sealed the deal by “messing around” in the shower, because Reginald needed the fun. XD Reginald then spent the rest of the day studying for exams (as his grades STILL hadn’t gone up again), before catching a few quick zzzs before the actual prom. He did his best again to do everything asked of him – dancing, chatting with people (mainly Sidney), voting for prom royalty and prom jester (Sidney for the former, “Brad Vatore” for the latter – both won, proving Reginald was probably the only one to actually vote XD), messing around with Sidney in the photo booth – but James being unable to figure out “show off outfit” in time meant that, once again, Reginald only had a silver-level prom experience. *shrug* Still good! And now he and Sidney are official, yay~ Though James is skeptical of how long it’ll last, given Reginald has BOTH new traits that make it harder to make friends (“Socially Awkward” is the obvious one, but apparently “Overachiever” makes it harder to socialize too, damn). We’ll see when we move onto Episode 9!
High Moon – We rejoined the gang still in Port Morecow – Corazon, eager to keep his “commodore” status by having two ships, had gotten some shipwrights to help repair the Baying Hound and was spending his mornings gathering materials for them to use, while the others were just hanging around and taking in the sights. They’d finally gotten Corazon to agree to take a day off his plank-gathering so they could go to the local petting zoo and see the famous Morecow Bell (insert groaning here) – but the adventure actually began with the group gathered in the local tavern The Butchered Ewe the night before their intended trip. Specifically, it began with everyone wondering –
“Has Prudence really eaten six plates of nachos?”
Yes, apparently Prudence was SHOCKINGLY hungry that evening and was just devouring everything put in front of her – including, in fact, seven plates of nachos in the end. Naturally a rather thin Tiefling warlock just nomming nachos (and FREE guacamole, which made everyone at the table like “can we live in G’eth for real?”) like there is no tomorrow gets some attention – from the waitstaff working to keep up with her appetite; the people around making bets on just how much food she could hork down; and the mysterious ranger woman sitting in the corner, whom Prudence thought was giving her the stink-eye. The woman eventually came over and introduced herself as Jamila, and offered help to Prudence – confusing the others, as Prudence obviously needed no help eating all those nachos. XD Dob admitted he’d thought it was just the sea air improving all their constitutions, and urged Merilwen to start gorging herself on nachos – she gave it a try and, thanks to a couple of bad rolls, got through thirteen chips before she started feeling seriously queasy. XD Jamila refused to elaborate further, though, and told Prudence to meet her behind the tavern if she wanted said help, before throwing her drink back and departing. Prudence was a little iffy on meeting this woman, but Corazon told her that it might be a good idea to see what she was on about, and that they could listen in on the meeting to make sure she was okay. Prudence agreed to go then, telling everyone to start calling guards if she wasn’t back in five minutes, and Corazon followed her quietly in the depths of her incredibly creepy warlock shadow before hiding behind a barrel as the two women met.
As it turns out, the offer of help was because Jamila knows the signs of a werebear pre-transformation when she sees one! Yes, that plot thread is finally being picked up again – not that PRUDENCE could clearly remember how she’d been turned into a werebear. XD (It was back in “Fast and Furriest,” the speed-adventure they did in the village where the werebear blacksmith was raiding the bins – Prudence knew she’d been bit, but could not recall if he’d done it in human or bear form; Jamila was like “that’s disgusting if he did it while human.”) But yes, her first transformation was nigh, and Jamila – who is not a werebear herself, but is dating one, Frankie, leader of the local community of “like-minded werebears” – wanted to offer her and her beloved’s assistance in getting Prudence used to her new werebear state. (Corazon, by this point, realized Jamila wasn’t a threat and peaced out back into the tavern.) Prudence was all for getting help, but then Jamila admitted they could use her help with something in return. . .
Cue a hog-riding gang of G’eth greasers showing up. XD Turns out that they’re the thing Jamila and Frankie need help with – the gang, the “Prowling Moons” (or possibly “Howling Moons”) are a gang of more traditional werewolves, and they’re basically assholes, using every full moon as an excuse to kill livestock and bite people indiscriminately. The werebears have been doing their best to keep them in check, but haven’t had much luck, and were hopeful Prudence and her friends could be of assistance. Prudence immediately said she was down to murder some werewolves, which was not exactly the help Jamila was really looking for, she had to admit. XD Prudence explained that the “calm and good” thing most werebears have going on isn’t really her vibe, but if they need some sort of warchief, she was their Tiefling. XD She just had to explain the whole werebear thing to her friends, as she’d been keeping it a secret so far. . .
Cut back to a few minutes ago inside the tavern, where I left it probably just shortly before Corazon spills the beans (because I KNOW he heard the “werebear” part). XD And with the others probably having to deal with the Moons – we’ll see how it goes!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Victor and Alice have made it to Hannah’s apartment, and while the ORIGINAL plan was for them to claim to be “friends of friends of Paul” or something, Hannah – not thinking clearly thanks to her illness – has already mistaken Victor for Paul, and he is running with it while Alice Obfuscates her way into the bedroom. It’s making it easier for them to figure out what happened and who made HER sick, at least, but this whole situation is going to leave Victor with a bit of the old trauma before the scene’s over. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Technically a half-check, but I’m calling it a full check with the bonus video because Kevin uploaded an hour and a half long LP of Spider-Man 2 for the PS2. I MIGHT be able to squeeze that in on Thursday, but it’s more likely THAT’S gotta wait until the weekend. So yeah. In the meantime –
A) Started with a Plumbella I stashed away in my Watch Later the other day – “I tried to create my own custom content for The Sims 4!” Yes, Plumbella decided to fire up the old Sims 4 Studio again to make her own CC – this episode featured her combining a nightie and a t-shirt into a dress with a pink-to-blue gradient swatch and a green swatch; combining a long-sleeve shirt and long pants for a child into patterned pjs; and turning one of the wood paneled wallpapers into plain green paneling. They all came out pretty nice, though the kids pjs came out with one arm bluer than the rest of the outfit – also, upon looking at it in-game, Plumbella decided they had hospital vibes. XD But she really liked her green dress and her green wallpaper, so good for her. :) She has more patience than I would with making custom content!
B) And then it was over to the Subs for GrayStillPlays and “Going from $0 to QUADRILLIONAIRE in GTA 5” – Alex has found a new way to torture his favorite GTA V customer, and it’s by forcing Gray to do movie stunts to earn the money to get a nice house, loads of nice cars, and the requisite frolicking bikini women. XD We started with a Terminator-esque “do a backflip on a motorcycle over this helicopter while throwing a sticky bomb onto it to blow it up” challenge, then moved onto “Speed 69 – go below 69 miles in this car that you’re driving into the ocean and it’ll blow up, also there are cops EVERYWHERE on this course;” “Vin Diesel needs you to skydive at this guy shooting RPGs at him and knock him off the building he’s standing on;” “time to 360 no-scope a guy in your weird green car, then land in a parking garage and murder the other guy in it – uh, Gray, with the GUN, stop running him over;” “Vin Diesel needs you now to backflip over a crane with a parachute and land on your feet to shoot this guy before he can blow you up – third try? Not bad;” and finally “Matrix Gray – headshot the guy behind you, the guy below you, and the guy flying the helicopter so he explodes the final two guys, all in slow motion – DID YOU REALLY DO THAT FIRST TRY?” XD (He did, though it was a near thing – he did run into the bridge and lose his parachute before the helicopter finally blew up, but fortunately did not die!) Good stuff, and Gray now has enough money to build his own moneycastles. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A at this time, but I did completely catch up on my dash and my tags on Victor Luvs Alice, so I’ll call that a win. :) Also made some decisions about what to post this week – still subject to last-minute changes, but I think I’ve got it locked down!
Not bad, not bad. . .now I just have to get through the next four days of the work week, and cleaning on Saturday. :P Ah well, I've done it before, I can do it again. Night all!
Work – A quiet day mostly spent documenting the shit that the credit card company has not yet fixed yet in preparation for asking them to finally fix the damn shit, along with a short GL and helping out Fiscal with figuring out a few things. Not a lot of activity otherwise, which is good as I was a touch foggy this morning. Then again, I usually am a bit on Mondays, given the wrench back to my workweek sleep schedule. *shrug*
Beanbags – Not today – it was raining a bit this morning, and really humid this afternoon, with only patchy sun, so it was basically too wet and buggy. And there’s the potential for thunderstorms tomorrow, so I don’t think we’ll be playing then either! Rest of the week looks good though. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, finishing up Episode 8 of James Turner’s High School Years Rags To Riches series and starting the next Oxventure in line, “High Moon!” Let’s take them in order –
HSY Rags To Riches – After having a very successful date with Sidney on Friday, Reginald proceeded to have an even more successful prom with Sidney on Saturday – starting with Sidney dropping by his place while he was having breakfast and asking if they could be boyfriends! Reginald said of course, and they sealed the deal by “messing around” in the shower, because Reginald needed the fun. XD Reginald then spent the rest of the day studying for exams (as his grades STILL hadn’t gone up again), before catching a few quick zzzs before the actual prom. He did his best again to do everything asked of him – dancing, chatting with people (mainly Sidney), voting for prom royalty and prom jester (Sidney for the former, “Brad Vatore” for the latter – both won, proving Reginald was probably the only one to actually vote XD), messing around with Sidney in the photo booth – but James being unable to figure out “show off outfit” in time meant that, once again, Reginald only had a silver-level prom experience. *shrug* Still good! And now he and Sidney are official, yay~ Though James is skeptical of how long it’ll last, given Reginald has BOTH new traits that make it harder to make friends (“Socially Awkward” is the obvious one, but apparently “Overachiever” makes it harder to socialize too, damn). We’ll see when we move onto Episode 9!
High Moon – We rejoined the gang still in Port Morecow – Corazon, eager to keep his “commodore” status by having two ships, had gotten some shipwrights to help repair the Baying Hound and was spending his mornings gathering materials for them to use, while the others were just hanging around and taking in the sights. They’d finally gotten Corazon to agree to take a day off his plank-gathering so they could go to the local petting zoo and see the famous Morecow Bell (insert groaning here) – but the adventure actually began with the group gathered in the local tavern The Butchered Ewe the night before their intended trip. Specifically, it began with everyone wondering –
“Has Prudence really eaten six plates of nachos?”
Yes, apparently Prudence was SHOCKINGLY hungry that evening and was just devouring everything put in front of her – including, in fact, seven plates of nachos in the end. Naturally a rather thin Tiefling warlock just nomming nachos (and FREE guacamole, which made everyone at the table like “can we live in G’eth for real?”) like there is no tomorrow gets some attention – from the waitstaff working to keep up with her appetite; the people around making bets on just how much food she could hork down; and the mysterious ranger woman sitting in the corner, whom Prudence thought was giving her the stink-eye. The woman eventually came over and introduced herself as Jamila, and offered help to Prudence – confusing the others, as Prudence obviously needed no help eating all those nachos. XD Dob admitted he’d thought it was just the sea air improving all their constitutions, and urged Merilwen to start gorging herself on nachos – she gave it a try and, thanks to a couple of bad rolls, got through thirteen chips before she started feeling seriously queasy. XD Jamila refused to elaborate further, though, and told Prudence to meet her behind the tavern if she wanted said help, before throwing her drink back and departing. Prudence was a little iffy on meeting this woman, but Corazon told her that it might be a good idea to see what she was on about, and that they could listen in on the meeting to make sure she was okay. Prudence agreed to go then, telling everyone to start calling guards if she wasn’t back in five minutes, and Corazon followed her quietly in the depths of her incredibly creepy warlock shadow before hiding behind a barrel as the two women met.
As it turns out, the offer of help was because Jamila knows the signs of a werebear pre-transformation when she sees one! Yes, that plot thread is finally being picked up again – not that PRUDENCE could clearly remember how she’d been turned into a werebear. XD (It was back in “Fast and Furriest,” the speed-adventure they did in the village where the werebear blacksmith was raiding the bins – Prudence knew she’d been bit, but could not recall if he’d done it in human or bear form; Jamila was like “that’s disgusting if he did it while human.”) But yes, her first transformation was nigh, and Jamila – who is not a werebear herself, but is dating one, Frankie, leader of the local community of “like-minded werebears” – wanted to offer her and her beloved’s assistance in getting Prudence used to her new werebear state. (Corazon, by this point, realized Jamila wasn’t a threat and peaced out back into the tavern.) Prudence was all for getting help, but then Jamila admitted they could use her help with something in return. . .
Cue a hog-riding gang of G’eth greasers showing up. XD Turns out that they’re the thing Jamila and Frankie need help with – the gang, the “Prowling Moons” (or possibly “Howling Moons”) are a gang of more traditional werewolves, and they’re basically assholes, using every full moon as an excuse to kill livestock and bite people indiscriminately. The werebears have been doing their best to keep them in check, but haven’t had much luck, and were hopeful Prudence and her friends could be of assistance. Prudence immediately said she was down to murder some werewolves, which was not exactly the help Jamila was really looking for, she had to admit. XD Prudence explained that the “calm and good” thing most werebears have going on isn’t really her vibe, but if they need some sort of warchief, she was their Tiefling. XD She just had to explain the whole werebear thing to her friends, as she’d been keeping it a secret so far. . .
Cut back to a few minutes ago inside the tavern, where I left it probably just shortly before Corazon spills the beans (because I KNOW he heard the “werebear” part). XD And with the others probably having to deal with the Moons – we’ll see how it goes!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Victor and Alice have made it to Hannah’s apartment, and while the ORIGINAL plan was for them to claim to be “friends of friends of Paul” or something, Hannah – not thinking clearly thanks to her illness – has already mistaken Victor for Paul, and he is running with it while Alice Obfuscates her way into the bedroom. It’s making it easier for them to figure out what happened and who made HER sick, at least, but this whole situation is going to leave Victor with a bit of the old trauma before the scene’s over. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Technically a half-check, but I’m calling it a full check with the bonus video because Kevin uploaded an hour and a half long LP of Spider-Man 2 for the PS2. I MIGHT be able to squeeze that in on Thursday, but it’s more likely THAT’S gotta wait until the weekend. So yeah. In the meantime –
A) Started with a Plumbella I stashed away in my Watch Later the other day – “I tried to create my own custom content for The Sims 4!” Yes, Plumbella decided to fire up the old Sims 4 Studio again to make her own CC – this episode featured her combining a nightie and a t-shirt into a dress with a pink-to-blue gradient swatch and a green swatch; combining a long-sleeve shirt and long pants for a child into patterned pjs; and turning one of the wood paneled wallpapers into plain green paneling. They all came out pretty nice, though the kids pjs came out with one arm bluer than the rest of the outfit – also, upon looking at it in-game, Plumbella decided they had hospital vibes. XD But she really liked her green dress and her green wallpaper, so good for her. :) She has more patience than I would with making custom content!
B) And then it was over to the Subs for GrayStillPlays and “Going from $0 to QUADRILLIONAIRE in GTA 5” – Alex has found a new way to torture his favorite GTA V customer, and it’s by forcing Gray to do movie stunts to earn the money to get a nice house, loads of nice cars, and the requisite frolicking bikini women. XD We started with a Terminator-esque “do a backflip on a motorcycle over this helicopter while throwing a sticky bomb onto it to blow it up” challenge, then moved onto “Speed 69 – go below 69 miles in this car that you’re driving into the ocean and it’ll blow up, also there are cops EVERYWHERE on this course;” “Vin Diesel needs you to skydive at this guy shooting RPGs at him and knock him off the building he’s standing on;” “time to 360 no-scope a guy in your weird green car, then land in a parking garage and murder the other guy in it – uh, Gray, with the GUN, stop running him over;” “Vin Diesel needs you now to backflip over a crane with a parachute and land on your feet to shoot this guy before he can blow you up – third try? Not bad;” and finally “Matrix Gray – headshot the guy behind you, the guy below you, and the guy flying the helicopter so he explodes the final two guys, all in slow motion – DID YOU REALLY DO THAT FIRST TRY?” XD (He did, though it was a near thing – he did run into the bridge and lose his parachute before the helicopter finally blew up, but fortunately did not die!) Good stuff, and Gray now has enough money to build his own moneycastles. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A at this time, but I did completely catch up on my dash and my tags on Victor Luvs Alice, so I’ll call that a win. :) Also made some decisions about what to post this week – still subject to last-minute changes, but I think I’ve got it locked down!
Not bad, not bad. . .now I just have to get through the next four days of the work week, and cleaning on Saturday. :P Ah well, I've done it before, I can do it again. Night all!
