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Dreary Tuesday
Sep. 13th, 2022 11:36 pmCloudy and kinda ick (especially with the humidity) all day, but it wasn't terrible -- at least not in to-do list terms --
Work – Another pretty quiet day that I spent mostly working on credit card nonsense – cataloging and bringing various bits of it to people’s attention and whatnot. *shrug* Made the day go by. . .a bit slowly, but it went by. We’ll see if anything comes of any of it tomorrow.
Beanbags – As stated, another gloomy day with off-and-on rain (which is admittedly better than the severe thunderstorms they were predicting earlier), so no. We’ll see if things dry out enough tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to the Oxventure “High Moon!” We caught up with the rest of the Oxventurers having some drinks inside the bar and tormenting the queasy Merilwen by adding jalapenos to the salsa and saying she should get a combo milkshake/orange juice. XD I thought that Corazon overhearing Prudence being a werebear was gonna come up, but the arrival of the Howling Moons gang meant that everyone was very distracted. Namely Corazon and Dob, who were both taken with their leather jackets with a vaporwave-style moon on the back – Corazon started complaining that the Oxventurers needed jackets, while Dob – who already had a jacket of sorts – headed up to say hi to one of the members and ask if he could get in on the cool patch action!
The Moon promptly berated him for thinking he was good enough to hang with the Howling Moons and started flicking beer into his face. Corazon promptly came to Dob’s aid and asked what was so cool about their gang, before claiming that their gang was cooler – have the Howling Moons ever beaten a mechanical beetle? No, but the COOL Moons have! (Dob was like “what? We’re called the Oxventurers Guild, you know that” and Corazon was like “but that’s not COOL enough” and Dob was like “but Oxventurers has an X in it, that automatically makes it cool!” XD) The low-ranking Moon promptly called his leaders over – Wolfgang Bike-thoven and Johannes Sebastian Bark – to put these randos in their place, but Dob and Corazon – having decided on the name “The X-Blades” – doubled down, both on how cool their gang was and on the musical composer name puns (Corazon going “they call me Frederic Choppin’,” Egbert joining in with “BEAT-hoven,” and Merilwen with “Straminsky,” threatening both to mince them and “show them the Rite of Spring” XD). The Howling Moons remained fairly unimpressed and told the others to scoot –
But Dob, not willing to back down, promptly challenged them to a hog race! The Moons were willing, but asked where their hogs were – cue Egbert promptly making use of his Steed spell to summon one up, which he promptly named Pigbert. XD The Howling Moons considered this absolutely ridiculous and mocked the group for apparently having to just share the one magical hog – a pissed off Corazon pointed out that this wasn’t even the whole gang, and when their missing member showed back up, oooh boy. . . Dob tried to calm things down, but Wolfgang just waved them off and went to order nachos at the bar.
Cue Prudence showing up just in time for the barman to point to her and say she’s the reason that they didn’t have any more nachos. Now THAT pissed Wolfgang off. XD And so it was time for a BARFIGHT! :D Corazon nat-20ed on the initiative roll and got to go first, and in true barfight spirit, grabbed a chair and smashed it over Wolfgang’s head. And then used his Sneak Attack bonuses to roll a bunch of extra D6s on the damage. XD He ended up doing 21 points of damage in one go, leaving Wolfgang badly bruised and with a cinematic trickle of blood coming from his brow. Dob attempted to follow up with a cool charge into Wolfgang’s midsection and slamming him into a table, but a poor roll on the Strength attack meant that Wolfgang was able to turn out of the attack and instead throw Dob into the bar – fortunately, he was just a bit dazed, with the only thing seriously hurt his pride. Egbert decided to try and show off how cool Pigbert was next and attempted to charge a bunch of the Moons to knock them over – unfortunately, Pigbert’s charge wasn’t the best, and the Moons were able to scatter and avoid the blow. Damn. That left it up to queasy Merilwen to try and make things look cool again –
Cue her asking some very pointed questions about how the Moons were arranged (Wolfgang and Johannes on their own, with the others in two clumps of five apiece) and what the floor was made of (flagstones? Flagstones), before rushing in and Stoneshaping a hole in the floor under one clump. They promptly fell in the most comedic manner possible, even leaving their drinks hanging for a second in the air before they splashed down on the unfortunate group. XD Hey, they were lucky that was ALL that splashed down, given how Merilwen’s feeling. . .
And then, finally, it was Prudence’s turn! Prudence, who decided to full-on embrace the bloodlust, hop up on the bar in a very animalistic way, snarl at Wolfgang, and then pounce and take a chunk out of him with her teeth. Full eight points of damage from her baby tiefling fangs! Wolfgang DID get her back, though, pulling out a switchblade and slamming it into her shoulderblade (at Luke’s suggestion) for six points of damage back. Fortunately the rest of the gang were extremely ineffective, Johannes totally wiffing a punch aimed at Prudence and the remaining cluster of five making a few weak kicks at Dob and Corazon, but not connecting (all rolled like 14, but Dob and Corazon’s armor classes are just above that). So that meant the action circled around to Corazon again!
He promptly picked up a HEAVIER chair and bashed Wolfgang over the head again. And then used his Rakish Audacity to claim ANOTHER Sneak Attack bonus. XD He didn’t outright kill Wolfgang, but he did leave him sitting on the floor stunned and down to seven hitpoints, so Johnny decided they’d won the fight. XD Johannes and the remaining Moons promptly started trying to drag their leader away – Dob, not realizing that they were intending on leaving, ran outside and managed to kick over all their hogs like dominoes. XD Merilwen sealed up the hole she’d left in the floor (don’t worry, the other Moons will figure out how to get out eventually), Egbert gave Pigbert an apple (Pigbert promptly pissed on the floor), and Prudence got Jamila’s help in getting the switchblade out. Of course, everyone wanted to know what exactly was going on with Prudence’s animal rage – I left it right at the start of Part II, with her about to share her werebear secret! This should be interesting. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – we have started Chapter 8, with Victor safely back home and feeling very mopey about it. :p Not that he’s really clocked on why he feels so mopey just at the moment. . .he knows it’s because he hasn’t figured out his “purpose” in life yet, but nothing he’s tried has really clicked. However, he’s just about to see a breaking news report that’s going to give him a kick in the pants. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – I am still ignoring Kevin’s super-long Spider-Man 2 video for the moment, so we had Gray and a bonus tonight –
A) First up, from OXtra, the latest list video: “7 WTF Enemies Who Wandered in From a Different Genre!” Dedicated to those enemies that felt just a little, uh, out there when compared to the rest of the game they were in. Sometimes this was the fault of DLC – like Ghost Recon: Breakpoint adding a DLC in early 2020 where your PC fights a Terminator (T-801, aka “we couldn’t afford Arnie’s likeness”) or special events – like Kong and Godzilla showing up in Call of Duty: Warzone earlier this year to celebrate their new movie by making the CoD battle royale even harder – but sometimes they were just randomly there, like that Ruined Dragon hanging out in Super Mario Odyssey! Or the Pac-Man ghosts in a secret level in Wolfenstein 3-D! Yes, really. And God help you if you played the Mac version of that game, because – let me just put it this way: the ghosts from THAT version wouldn’t be out of place in your average modern indie jumpscare game. Please go back to being eight-bit, Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde – we’ll all sleep better at night.
B) And then, back in the Subs, it was time for GrayStillPlays and Happy Wheels! :D Haven’t seen THAT in a while! And we had some good ones tonight, including a bottle flip with a bunch of stuff like landing bottles on people’s heads – that Gray won in like five seconds thanks to a lucky throw; an epic ball fall that, after making all the balls smaller and smaller, suddenly became a triangle fall (Gray split in half but survived long enough to win); an epic bottle run of doom featuring harpoons and homing mines (and a secret win down a tiny gap, which of course Gray had to get); a pogo course featuring laser harpoons, crossbows, a spike wall, mines, wrecking balls, AND an elevator up to a spike fall; a rope swing through a thumbnail hole that REALLY lacked fairness (as in “spinning pinwheels of cleavers and sais” lack of fairness – it was only by PERFECTLY sliding Nixon through the hole that Gray was able to win); and an eight-bit pogo course featuring both a bottom area (where Gray had to survive a fall and make a pretty large jump to get the secret win) and a top area (where Gray had to survive encounters with mar10, lu1g1, both Impossible and Sick Pac-Men, and make it down ANOTHER spike fall to the win – and he had to pay a coin for the privilege of trying XD). Always nice to see the HW crew make a reapparance – I like GTA V, but it has been dominating the channel recently.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! I did Victor Luvs Alice right before my workout – the three-part Chill Save update for Wednesday; a post about Piper using her paper to help synths in the “Fallout of Darkness” verse for Thursday; and staying in the FO4 vein, some nice fanart of Preston for Friday. :P AND I got the notes up for another Valicer Not-Incorrect-Quotes post, this one focusing on music (like Smiler rickrolling Alice and Victor, only to get some rather interesting responses :p). So that was nice! As for Valice Multiverse, three ask replies in the queue tonight, booyah.
Not bad at all, especially with the queue stuff. :) But now it's time to wrap everything up and head to bed. At least tomorrow the weather's supposed to be better. And drier. We can but hope! Night all!
Work – Another pretty quiet day that I spent mostly working on credit card nonsense – cataloging and bringing various bits of it to people’s attention and whatnot. *shrug* Made the day go by. . .a bit slowly, but it went by. We’ll see if anything comes of any of it tomorrow.
Beanbags – As stated, another gloomy day with off-and-on rain (which is admittedly better than the severe thunderstorms they were predicting earlier), so no. We’ll see if things dry out enough tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to the Oxventure “High Moon!” We caught up with the rest of the Oxventurers having some drinks inside the bar and tormenting the queasy Merilwen by adding jalapenos to the salsa and saying she should get a combo milkshake/orange juice. XD I thought that Corazon overhearing Prudence being a werebear was gonna come up, but the arrival of the Howling Moons gang meant that everyone was very distracted. Namely Corazon and Dob, who were both taken with their leather jackets with a vaporwave-style moon on the back – Corazon started complaining that the Oxventurers needed jackets, while Dob – who already had a jacket of sorts – headed up to say hi to one of the members and ask if he could get in on the cool patch action!
The Moon promptly berated him for thinking he was good enough to hang with the Howling Moons and started flicking beer into his face. Corazon promptly came to Dob’s aid and asked what was so cool about their gang, before claiming that their gang was cooler – have the Howling Moons ever beaten a mechanical beetle? No, but the COOL Moons have! (Dob was like “what? We’re called the Oxventurers Guild, you know that” and Corazon was like “but that’s not COOL enough” and Dob was like “but Oxventurers has an X in it, that automatically makes it cool!” XD) The low-ranking Moon promptly called his leaders over – Wolfgang Bike-thoven and Johannes Sebastian Bark – to put these randos in their place, but Dob and Corazon – having decided on the name “The X-Blades” – doubled down, both on how cool their gang was and on the musical composer name puns (Corazon going “they call me Frederic Choppin’,” Egbert joining in with “BEAT-hoven,” and Merilwen with “Straminsky,” threatening both to mince them and “show them the Rite of Spring” XD). The Howling Moons remained fairly unimpressed and told the others to scoot –
But Dob, not willing to back down, promptly challenged them to a hog race! The Moons were willing, but asked where their hogs were – cue Egbert promptly making use of his Steed spell to summon one up, which he promptly named Pigbert. XD The Howling Moons considered this absolutely ridiculous and mocked the group for apparently having to just share the one magical hog – a pissed off Corazon pointed out that this wasn’t even the whole gang, and when their missing member showed back up, oooh boy. . . Dob tried to calm things down, but Wolfgang just waved them off and went to order nachos at the bar.
Cue Prudence showing up just in time for the barman to point to her and say she’s the reason that they didn’t have any more nachos. Now THAT pissed Wolfgang off. XD And so it was time for a BARFIGHT! :D Corazon nat-20ed on the initiative roll and got to go first, and in true barfight spirit, grabbed a chair and smashed it over Wolfgang’s head. And then used his Sneak Attack bonuses to roll a bunch of extra D6s on the damage. XD He ended up doing 21 points of damage in one go, leaving Wolfgang badly bruised and with a cinematic trickle of blood coming from his brow. Dob attempted to follow up with a cool charge into Wolfgang’s midsection and slamming him into a table, but a poor roll on the Strength attack meant that Wolfgang was able to turn out of the attack and instead throw Dob into the bar – fortunately, he was just a bit dazed, with the only thing seriously hurt his pride. Egbert decided to try and show off how cool Pigbert was next and attempted to charge a bunch of the Moons to knock them over – unfortunately, Pigbert’s charge wasn’t the best, and the Moons were able to scatter and avoid the blow. Damn. That left it up to queasy Merilwen to try and make things look cool again –
Cue her asking some very pointed questions about how the Moons were arranged (Wolfgang and Johannes on their own, with the others in two clumps of five apiece) and what the floor was made of (flagstones? Flagstones), before rushing in and Stoneshaping a hole in the floor under one clump. They promptly fell in the most comedic manner possible, even leaving their drinks hanging for a second in the air before they splashed down on the unfortunate group. XD Hey, they were lucky that was ALL that splashed down, given how Merilwen’s feeling. . .
And then, finally, it was Prudence’s turn! Prudence, who decided to full-on embrace the bloodlust, hop up on the bar in a very animalistic way, snarl at Wolfgang, and then pounce and take a chunk out of him with her teeth. Full eight points of damage from her baby tiefling fangs! Wolfgang DID get her back, though, pulling out a switchblade and slamming it into her shoulderblade (at Luke’s suggestion) for six points of damage back. Fortunately the rest of the gang were extremely ineffective, Johannes totally wiffing a punch aimed at Prudence and the remaining cluster of five making a few weak kicks at Dob and Corazon, but not connecting (all rolled like 14, but Dob and Corazon’s armor classes are just above that). So that meant the action circled around to Corazon again!
He promptly picked up a HEAVIER chair and bashed Wolfgang over the head again. And then used his Rakish Audacity to claim ANOTHER Sneak Attack bonus. XD He didn’t outright kill Wolfgang, but he did leave him sitting on the floor stunned and down to seven hitpoints, so Johnny decided they’d won the fight. XD Johannes and the remaining Moons promptly started trying to drag their leader away – Dob, not realizing that they were intending on leaving, ran outside and managed to kick over all their hogs like dominoes. XD Merilwen sealed up the hole she’d left in the floor (don’t worry, the other Moons will figure out how to get out eventually), Egbert gave Pigbert an apple (Pigbert promptly pissed on the floor), and Prudence got Jamila’s help in getting the switchblade out. Of course, everyone wanted to know what exactly was going on with Prudence’s animal rage – I left it right at the start of Part II, with her about to share her werebear secret! This should be interesting. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – we have started Chapter 8, with Victor safely back home and feeling very mopey about it. :p Not that he’s really clocked on why he feels so mopey just at the moment. . .he knows it’s because he hasn’t figured out his “purpose” in life yet, but nothing he’s tried has really clicked. However, he’s just about to see a breaking news report that’s going to give him a kick in the pants. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – I am still ignoring Kevin’s super-long Spider-Man 2 video for the moment, so we had Gray and a bonus tonight –
A) First up, from OXtra, the latest list video: “7 WTF Enemies Who Wandered in From a Different Genre!” Dedicated to those enemies that felt just a little, uh, out there when compared to the rest of the game they were in. Sometimes this was the fault of DLC – like Ghost Recon: Breakpoint adding a DLC in early 2020 where your PC fights a Terminator (T-801, aka “we couldn’t afford Arnie’s likeness”) or special events – like Kong and Godzilla showing up in Call of Duty: Warzone earlier this year to celebrate their new movie by making the CoD battle royale even harder – but sometimes they were just randomly there, like that Ruined Dragon hanging out in Super Mario Odyssey! Or the Pac-Man ghosts in a secret level in Wolfenstein 3-D! Yes, really. And God help you if you played the Mac version of that game, because – let me just put it this way: the ghosts from THAT version wouldn’t be out of place in your average modern indie jumpscare game. Please go back to being eight-bit, Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde – we’ll all sleep better at night.
B) And then, back in the Subs, it was time for GrayStillPlays and Happy Wheels! :D Haven’t seen THAT in a while! And we had some good ones tonight, including a bottle flip with a bunch of stuff like landing bottles on people’s heads – that Gray won in like five seconds thanks to a lucky throw; an epic ball fall that, after making all the balls smaller and smaller, suddenly became a triangle fall (Gray split in half but survived long enough to win); an epic bottle run of doom featuring harpoons and homing mines (and a secret win down a tiny gap, which of course Gray had to get); a pogo course featuring laser harpoons, crossbows, a spike wall, mines, wrecking balls, AND an elevator up to a spike fall; a rope swing through a thumbnail hole that REALLY lacked fairness (as in “spinning pinwheels of cleavers and sais” lack of fairness – it was only by PERFECTLY sliding Nixon through the hole that Gray was able to win); and an eight-bit pogo course featuring both a bottom area (where Gray had to survive a fall and make a pretty large jump to get the secret win) and a top area (where Gray had to survive encounters with mar10, lu1g1, both Impossible and Sick Pac-Men, and make it down ANOTHER spike fall to the win – and he had to pay a coin for the privilege of trying XD). Always nice to see the HW crew make a reapparance – I like GTA V, but it has been dominating the channel recently.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check! I did Victor Luvs Alice right before my workout – the three-part Chill Save update for Wednesday; a post about Piper using her paper to help synths in the “Fallout of Darkness” verse for Thursday; and staying in the FO4 vein, some nice fanart of Preston for Friday. :P AND I got the notes up for another Valicer Not-Incorrect-Quotes post, this one focusing on music (like Smiler rickrolling Alice and Victor, only to get some rather interesting responses :p). So that was nice! As for Valice Multiverse, three ask replies in the queue tonight, booyah.
Not bad at all, especially with the queue stuff. :) But now it's time to wrap everything up and head to bed. At least tomorrow the weather's supposed to be better. And drier. We can but hope! Night all!
