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Kinda Grumpy Wednesday
Sep. 14th, 2022 11:42 pmNot FULLY sure why, though I know the commute didn't help -- a slow slog this morning thanks to an accident, and then had a full roster of idiots this afternoon on the road. *grumbles* Annoyed about some work stuff too, and -- I dunno. Just was a grumpy day, I guess. *shrug* But at least I got stuff done and had a few good moments --
Work – Another pretty quiet day, focused on obituaries and fixing credit card nonsense because it’s easier to do it myself then wait for the idiots at the actual credit card company to do it. *sigh* Nothing too horrible, but it did annoy me a little just on principle (as hinted above). At least we’re past the halfway point of the week!
Beanbags – Yes – weather has FINALLY gotten nice enough to throw them around again, and I ended up having a pretty damn good game – first round had me overtake Dad after I had a really slow start and he had really good one (he then proceeded to throw mostly threes is the problem), and the third round was just a well-timed climb to the top. :) Mom, by contrast, had a terrible game that she blamed on sore arms from lifting weights earlier. :p Final scores were me W-2-W; Dad 2-W-2; Mom 3-3-3. We’ll see if Mom’s improves tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure “High Moon!” We started on Part II of the episode, with Prudence finally telling the others about her status as a werebear and the deal with Jamila and the community in town and all that. The others were – okay, they were mostly accepting, with Dob mostly being hurt that she hadn’t told them earlier (Prudence explained about how the werebear community was mostly chill and good and how that’s not her vibe, her vibe is evil and cool, and also she honestly wasn’t quite sure before) and Merilwen being furious that somebody else had another one of “her things” and immediately demanding to know who else had stuff that she thought was her own. XD Prudence managed to calm her down a bit by saying she didn’t even really want to be a werebear (again, the vibes, they wrong), and the others promised to stand by her and help her out, and feelings were felt. :)
There were a few questions to be answered, though. Like, um, what happens if a werebear bites a werewolf (from Egbert, who had sussed out the secret of the Howling Moons)? Jamila wasn’t sure but figured either the second curse wouldn’t take because they were already a werewolf, or you might get a terrifying werebearwolf hybrid. Prudence immediately allowed that was on her if that happened – she just really wanted to BITE someone. XD For the rest of it, she went and got her girlfriend, Frankie (a rather unassuming-looking sort) to talk to them and clear up a few things – such as yes, there was a way for Prudence to be cured, BUT she couldn’t get it just yet – too close to the full moon. She’d have to ride out at least one transformation. The others were keen on seeing Prudence transform anyway, so that wasn’t a problem. XD Frankie was also keen to question them, mainly about the whole “jumping immediately to murder” thing that Jamila had told her about – Prudence was like “murder is what we DO,” but the others quickly explained that they were a guild of traveling adventurers and GENERALLY the murder was in self-defense. Frankie admitted that it WAS like the rules of the universe encouraged a lot of fighting to solve your problems. XD Dob said they weren’t OPPOSED to dealing with the Howling Moons non-lethally – like, say, couldn’t they remove the lycanthropy from them? Frankie was like “hang on a second, we’ve got a guy on-call who knows how to do that, but he won’t do that without the person’s CONSENT.” Dob, puzzled, said he thought the Howling Moons were spreading the curse willy-nilly –
Yeah, it appears Jamila got it wrong before – the Howling Moons DON’T do that. It’s actually more of a frat set-up, with them hazing potential pledges before giving them the chomp. Frankie said that they ARE total assholes – they’ll break into hen houses, steal sheep, and yes, maul and kill unfortunate humans who are out on the full moon, all under the cover of being just a random wolf pack that shows up once a month – but they’re not quite THAT bad. So Frankie would prefer they just be run out of town before they’re killed, please. XD The Oxventurers discussed possible ways to negotiate with the Howling Moons, and finally came up with the idea of challenging them to a one-on-one fight – Prudence the werebear versus one of their werewolves, loser has to leave town. Frankie and Jamila were a bit nervous about this, since they made it clear that the werewolves would think the werebears were all in on this even if the others tried to make it clear it was between the Howling Moons and the “X-Blades,” not the general like-minded werebear community, but they had no better ideas. And it was worth it for a chance to kick out the werewolves. (And if they lost, well, Frankie still had to meet Jamila’s parents. . .)
So it was off to the clubhouse, to see if any of the Howling Moons were around, or if they’d all taken their “road trip” out of town as per usual. The clubhouse turned out to be an old storage shack on the beach (past where the Baying Hound was being slowly reconstructed, with Seal Gaiman sitting on the bow and barking for all he was worth – Prudence promptly suggested making a seal the new figurehead on the front XD), painted with their vaporwave moon logo. The gang decided the only way to send this message was via a note wrapped around a rock and thrown through the window, and so Corazon and Dob collaborated on scribbling down an appropriately crude and taunting note (with Frankie being VERY confused by their insistence on using the word “ain’t” and writing in red ink and topping all the I’s with skulls), and Corazon got it through the window first try thanks to a good Dex roll, where a pledge found it and took it off to deliver to the gang leaders on his suckling pig. XD
And so I left it off with the group in the midst of a montage, with Prudence getting a load of werebear training! First eighteen hours being the basics of grooming. XD Merilwen turned into a bear to help with showing how to best groom yourself (Frankie was thrilled because that meant they didn’t have to dig out the training suit) and let Prudence use her paws as boxing pads; Dob wrapped up his limbs in some thick layers of sackcloth to allow Prudence to practice her mauling on him; Egbert catered the whole thing, providing snacks to all and sundry; and Corazon started working out roguish footwork for Prudence to try in her battle, gaining the attention of a bunch of the younger werebears and leading them in a bit of a weird impromptu Fancy Pirate Dojo. XD The battle is nigh – we’ll see how that goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – poor Hannah has given Victor and Alice the name of the woman who infected her – and then died right in front of them, which as you might imagine, is kind of traumatic. More so for Victor than Alice, admittedly, but still. As Alice said, though, at least they made sure she didn’t die alone. Alice is currently looking through Hannah’s appointment book for more clues on Jezebel Locke (like her suite number) – so far, though, all she’s found is that two of Hannah’s regular clients were Arthur Kilpatrick and Vandal Cleaver. She is like “seriously?!” XD Yes, seriously, Alice – your version of L.A. is a very small world.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – two in, two out today –
A) Started with the latest from Call Me Kevin (that was of a length where I could watch it easily) – “What happens when you give your Sims EVERYTHING they want?” Yes, we returned to the land of Sims 4 tonight, with Kevin striving to give Sim!Kevin and Jim Pickens everything they wanted! Which started with having Kevin fight his own ghost son because he had a want to fight a ghost (to clear his fear of them). XD Things just continued to get weirder from there, with Kevin discovering he could bring the ghost son back to life (and then just dropping him off on a random family); the pair of them getting jobs (Kevin as a politician, Jim as a Video Game Streamer despite having no computer); and the boys visiting Pupperstone Park and the vet at Brindleton Bay to eat random objects, be mean to Sims, chase flocks of birds, and in Jim’s case, have the world’s most unsuccessful date with his girlfriend Luna at the Salty Paws Saloon. XD After that, Jim was keen on declaring someone his enemy –
And that’s when Eliza Pancakes showed up. XD Cue Jim latching onto her (literally, in the form of giving her a cursed bite) and making her life hell – shoving her and throwing drinks; showing up at her house and murdering her husband (via cheats) before peeing all over his corpse and EATING THE URN; renaming her to “I Eat Pancakes;” and then just – taking over her house when she ran off as a werewolf. And THEN Kevin got the “inheritance money” phone call and chose the answer that meant he needed to get married in seven days – cue Kevin speed-romancing Eliza (when not having pillow fights with Jim on her bed) while Jim worked to get the welcome wagon to hate him; Kevin getting Eliza to marry him in a ceremony that no one actually attended (being too busy throwing rice and dancing) and where he got the fancy dress while she had a hot dog costume; and then killing her off right afterward so he’d have another ghost to fight later. XD And then, after fighting her (very glitchily) in werewolf/ghost werewolf form, dropping her off on ANOTHER random family so he didn’t have to deal with her. XD Frankly, I guess we should all just be surprised it took THIS long to get to house theft and murder. XD
And Jim? Well, after briefly considering becoming a spellcaster, only to discover the occults can’t be mixed, he returned to his hopes of becoming a “Villainous Valentine” and re-enrolled in school (reminder: Jim is in fact currently a teenager), dragging his dad, a random dog, and a random werewolf with him, then used cheats to make himself the love interest of EVERY TEENAGER THERE, before making sure to get caught cheating by all of them by randomly flirting and asking them all to be his boyfriend/girlfriend. Living his best Jim life, he is! While Kevin just ate all the computers and marked his territory with VIGOR. XD At least we can be sure that they are truly getting everything they want!
B) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and “Jumping Space Ramp with WORLD'S FASTEST CAR in GTA 5!” AKA, it’s time for Alex torture times again! And this episode, Alex torture times include a three-part super-ramp course! Gray had a choice of left, middle, or right, and he had to complete all three to make the torture end. On the right, Gray had the true wall ride from hell – having to slide through various moving thumbnail hole obstacles, then take a loop into a wall ride that regularly shifted from sitting low to sitting high (so he had to find the exact middle bit that didn’t move and STAY THERE), then go through ANOTHER moving thumbnail hole, into a rotating tube, onto ANOTHER wall ride, with a last surprise transfer before hitting the ending platform and getting his reward of sticky bombs. And the whole thing was CHECKPOINTLESS. That alone took a good half of the video. Then on the LEFT, Gray had another wall ride where the twist was he had to stay on the right side of anything green – otherwise he’d phase through the wall, hit the hidden stop sticks, crash into the invisible wall – whatever Alex felt like for any particular part of the course. Naturally this wall ride rapidly transitioned into a VERY THIN twisting ribbon with a final jump into a checkpoint at the end, so that the camera could help torture Gray just as much as all the green stuff. XD And THEN, in the MIDDLE, we had a rotating box that Gray had to find a way inside – once he located the holes in the corner, he drove in to find a wall launch into ANOTHER rotating box inside, only the wall launch kept twisting and turning because, well, the floor and walls kept ROTATING. Gray eventually got up it and into the second red box – to find a THIRD box inside in the form of a shipping container. This one he busted open with his sticky bombs, to find a teleporter inside – and that teleporter took him to a mega car, which he drove into another teleporter back to the top of the ramp. Turns out the mega car was designed to go so fast that Gray just yeeted out of existence, as demonstrated in a previous board. XD Alex didn’t say he’d WIN, after all – just that he’d make the torture end. XD Great stuff.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice back to one per day, and got a Song Saturday reblog sorted (“I’ll Be” by Edwin McCain – I associate it with the “Fallout of Darkness” version of Valice, so it went well with the stuff being posted tomorrow and Friday). Nice!
Not too shabby, I suppose. And now it's time to head to bed and hope I don't feel so cranky in the morning. Night all!
Work – Another pretty quiet day, focused on obituaries and fixing credit card nonsense because it’s easier to do it myself then wait for the idiots at the actual credit card company to do it. *sigh* Nothing too horrible, but it did annoy me a little just on principle (as hinted above). At least we’re past the halfway point of the week!
Beanbags – Yes – weather has FINALLY gotten nice enough to throw them around again, and I ended up having a pretty damn good game – first round had me overtake Dad after I had a really slow start and he had really good one (he then proceeded to throw mostly threes is the problem), and the third round was just a well-timed climb to the top. :) Mom, by contrast, had a terrible game that she blamed on sore arms from lifting weights earlier. :p Final scores were me W-2-W; Dad 2-W-2; Mom 3-3-3. We’ll see if Mom’s improves tomorrow!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Oxventure “High Moon!” We started on Part II of the episode, with Prudence finally telling the others about her status as a werebear and the deal with Jamila and the community in town and all that. The others were – okay, they were mostly accepting, with Dob mostly being hurt that she hadn’t told them earlier (Prudence explained about how the werebear community was mostly chill and good and how that’s not her vibe, her vibe is evil and cool, and also she honestly wasn’t quite sure before) and Merilwen being furious that somebody else had another one of “her things” and immediately demanding to know who else had stuff that she thought was her own. XD Prudence managed to calm her down a bit by saying she didn’t even really want to be a werebear (again, the vibes, they wrong), and the others promised to stand by her and help her out, and feelings were felt. :)
There were a few questions to be answered, though. Like, um, what happens if a werebear bites a werewolf (from Egbert, who had sussed out the secret of the Howling Moons)? Jamila wasn’t sure but figured either the second curse wouldn’t take because they were already a werewolf, or you might get a terrifying werebearwolf hybrid. Prudence immediately allowed that was on her if that happened – she just really wanted to BITE someone. XD For the rest of it, she went and got her girlfriend, Frankie (a rather unassuming-looking sort) to talk to them and clear up a few things – such as yes, there was a way for Prudence to be cured, BUT she couldn’t get it just yet – too close to the full moon. She’d have to ride out at least one transformation. The others were keen on seeing Prudence transform anyway, so that wasn’t a problem. XD Frankie was also keen to question them, mainly about the whole “jumping immediately to murder” thing that Jamila had told her about – Prudence was like “murder is what we DO,” but the others quickly explained that they were a guild of traveling adventurers and GENERALLY the murder was in self-defense. Frankie admitted that it WAS like the rules of the universe encouraged a lot of fighting to solve your problems. XD Dob said they weren’t OPPOSED to dealing with the Howling Moons non-lethally – like, say, couldn’t they remove the lycanthropy from them? Frankie was like “hang on a second, we’ve got a guy on-call who knows how to do that, but he won’t do that without the person’s CONSENT.” Dob, puzzled, said he thought the Howling Moons were spreading the curse willy-nilly –
Yeah, it appears Jamila got it wrong before – the Howling Moons DON’T do that. It’s actually more of a frat set-up, with them hazing potential pledges before giving them the chomp. Frankie said that they ARE total assholes – they’ll break into hen houses, steal sheep, and yes, maul and kill unfortunate humans who are out on the full moon, all under the cover of being just a random wolf pack that shows up once a month – but they’re not quite THAT bad. So Frankie would prefer they just be run out of town before they’re killed, please. XD The Oxventurers discussed possible ways to negotiate with the Howling Moons, and finally came up with the idea of challenging them to a one-on-one fight – Prudence the werebear versus one of their werewolves, loser has to leave town. Frankie and Jamila were a bit nervous about this, since they made it clear that the werewolves would think the werebears were all in on this even if the others tried to make it clear it was between the Howling Moons and the “X-Blades,” not the general like-minded werebear community, but they had no better ideas. And it was worth it for a chance to kick out the werewolves. (And if they lost, well, Frankie still had to meet Jamila’s parents. . .)
So it was off to the clubhouse, to see if any of the Howling Moons were around, or if they’d all taken their “road trip” out of town as per usual. The clubhouse turned out to be an old storage shack on the beach (past where the Baying Hound was being slowly reconstructed, with Seal Gaiman sitting on the bow and barking for all he was worth – Prudence promptly suggested making a seal the new figurehead on the front XD), painted with their vaporwave moon logo. The gang decided the only way to send this message was via a note wrapped around a rock and thrown through the window, and so Corazon and Dob collaborated on scribbling down an appropriately crude and taunting note (with Frankie being VERY confused by their insistence on using the word “ain’t” and writing in red ink and topping all the I’s with skulls), and Corazon got it through the window first try thanks to a good Dex roll, where a pledge found it and took it off to deliver to the gang leaders on his suckling pig. XD
And so I left it off with the group in the midst of a montage, with Prudence getting a load of werebear training! First eighteen hours being the basics of grooming. XD Merilwen turned into a bear to help with showing how to best groom yourself (Frankie was thrilled because that meant they didn’t have to dig out the training suit) and let Prudence use her paws as boxing pads; Dob wrapped up his limbs in some thick layers of sackcloth to allow Prudence to practice her mauling on him; Egbert catered the whole thing, providing snacks to all and sundry; and Corazon started working out roguish footwork for Prudence to try in her battle, gaining the attention of a bunch of the younger werebears and leading them in a bit of a weird impromptu Fancy Pirate Dojo. XD The battle is nigh – we’ll see how that goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – poor Hannah has given Victor and Alice the name of the woman who infected her – and then died right in front of them, which as you might imagine, is kind of traumatic. More so for Victor than Alice, admittedly, but still. As Alice said, though, at least they made sure she didn’t die alone. Alice is currently looking through Hannah’s appointment book for more clues on Jezebel Locke (like her suite number) – so far, though, all she’s found is that two of Hannah’s regular clients were Arthur Kilpatrick and Vandal Cleaver. She is like “seriously?!” XD Yes, seriously, Alice – your version of L.A. is a very small world.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – two in, two out today –
A) Started with the latest from Call Me Kevin (that was of a length where I could watch it easily) – “What happens when you give your Sims EVERYTHING they want?” Yes, we returned to the land of Sims 4 tonight, with Kevin striving to give Sim!Kevin and Jim Pickens everything they wanted! Which started with having Kevin fight his own ghost son because he had a want to fight a ghost (to clear his fear of them). XD Things just continued to get weirder from there, with Kevin discovering he could bring the ghost son back to life (and then just dropping him off on a random family); the pair of them getting jobs (Kevin as a politician, Jim as a Video Game Streamer despite having no computer); and the boys visiting Pupperstone Park and the vet at Brindleton Bay to eat random objects, be mean to Sims, chase flocks of birds, and in Jim’s case, have the world’s most unsuccessful date with his girlfriend Luna at the Salty Paws Saloon. XD After that, Jim was keen on declaring someone his enemy –
And that’s when Eliza Pancakes showed up. XD Cue Jim latching onto her (literally, in the form of giving her a cursed bite) and making her life hell – shoving her and throwing drinks; showing up at her house and murdering her husband (via cheats) before peeing all over his corpse and EATING THE URN; renaming her to “I Eat Pancakes;” and then just – taking over her house when she ran off as a werewolf. And THEN Kevin got the “inheritance money” phone call and chose the answer that meant he needed to get married in seven days – cue Kevin speed-romancing Eliza (when not having pillow fights with Jim on her bed) while Jim worked to get the welcome wagon to hate him; Kevin getting Eliza to marry him in a ceremony that no one actually attended (being too busy throwing rice and dancing) and where he got the fancy dress while she had a hot dog costume; and then killing her off right afterward so he’d have another ghost to fight later. XD And then, after fighting her (very glitchily) in werewolf/ghost werewolf form, dropping her off on ANOTHER random family so he didn’t have to deal with her. XD Frankly, I guess we should all just be surprised it took THIS long to get to house theft and murder. XD
And Jim? Well, after briefly considering becoming a spellcaster, only to discover the occults can’t be mixed, he returned to his hopes of becoming a “Villainous Valentine” and re-enrolled in school (reminder: Jim is in fact currently a teenager), dragging his dad, a random dog, and a random werewolf with him, then used cheats to make himself the love interest of EVERY TEENAGER THERE, before making sure to get caught cheating by all of them by randomly flirting and asking them all to be his boyfriend/girlfriend. Living his best Jim life, he is! While Kevin just ate all the computers and marked his territory with VIGOR. XD At least we can be sure that they are truly getting everything they want!
B) And then it was time for GrayStillPlays and “Jumping Space Ramp with WORLD'S FASTEST CAR in GTA 5!” AKA, it’s time for Alex torture times again! And this episode, Alex torture times include a three-part super-ramp course! Gray had a choice of left, middle, or right, and he had to complete all three to make the torture end. On the right, Gray had the true wall ride from hell – having to slide through various moving thumbnail hole obstacles, then take a loop into a wall ride that regularly shifted from sitting low to sitting high (so he had to find the exact middle bit that didn’t move and STAY THERE), then go through ANOTHER moving thumbnail hole, into a rotating tube, onto ANOTHER wall ride, with a last surprise transfer before hitting the ending platform and getting his reward of sticky bombs. And the whole thing was CHECKPOINTLESS. That alone took a good half of the video. Then on the LEFT, Gray had another wall ride where the twist was he had to stay on the right side of anything green – otherwise he’d phase through the wall, hit the hidden stop sticks, crash into the invisible wall – whatever Alex felt like for any particular part of the course. Naturally this wall ride rapidly transitioned into a VERY THIN twisting ribbon with a final jump into a checkpoint at the end, so that the camera could help torture Gray just as much as all the green stuff. XD And THEN, in the MIDDLE, we had a rotating box that Gray had to find a way inside – once he located the holes in the corner, he drove in to find a wall launch into ANOTHER rotating box inside, only the wall launch kept twisting and turning because, well, the floor and walls kept ROTATING. Gray eventually got up it and into the second red box – to find a THIRD box inside in the form of a shipping container. This one he busted open with his sticky bombs, to find a teleporter inside – and that teleporter took him to a mega car, which he drove into another teleporter back to the top of the ramp. Turns out the mega car was designed to go so fast that Gray just yeeted out of existence, as demonstrated in a previous board. XD Alex didn’t say he’d WIN, after all – just that he’d make the torture end. XD Great stuff.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice back to one per day, and got a Song Saturday reblog sorted (“I’ll Be” by Edwin McCain – I associate it with the “Fallout of Darkness” version of Valice, so it went well with the stuff being posted tomorrow and Friday). Nice!
Not too shabby, I suppose. And now it's time to head to bed and hope I don't feel so cranky in the morning. Night all!
