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Very Fall Thursday
Sep. 15th, 2022 11:36 pmDefinitely on the cooler side today -- I wore a long-sleeve shirt to work and felt completely comfortable throughout! And right now I've got one window open with no fan and it's cool enough for sleeping without it. While I'm sad to see summer go, I must admit, I do like this weather a bit better. Just something nice about it, you know?
Okay, let's not get caught up in pontificating about fall -- here's the day's to-do list:
Work – Another quiet day, mostly focused around me finishing fixing up the credit card nonsense and seeing what other outstanding issues needed to be taken care of (a write-off and rearranging some things on my Credit Card Nonsense Tracking document – added a whole new section of nonsense!). Along with a couple of random obituaries. I imagine tomorrow will be more of the same! At least it’s Friday. . .
Beanbags – Check – a nice fall-feel day is perfect for the game! And it turned out ALMOST the same as yesterday, except that I had a much worse Round Two and Mom was able to get in and come second then. Final scores were me W-3-W; Dad 2-W-2; Mom 3-2-3. Some improvement, anyway!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to the Oxventure “High Moon,” to almost but NOT QUITE finish it. With Corazon running the baby werebears through his sandbag obstacle course to teach them fancy footwork, Egbert getting loads of praise for his snack-making skills, and Bearilwen giving Prudence various pointers on claw attacks and whatnot, Dob decided that, since Prudence was no longer chewing on him, he was going to head down to the clubhouse and see if that pledge was there and inquire about werewolf weaknesses! He found the pledge washing his pig and complimented him on his ride, which got the pledge feeling pretty good about himself – and then he rolled a nat 20 on his Charisma check, so the pledge essentially just HANDED him “oh, we’re weak to magical attacks and silver” on a buttered roll. XD Dob ATTEMPTED then to make his excuses, but the pledge was clearly a bit desperate for company – cue Dob staying for four hours at the clubhouse and coming back bored out of his skull and full to bursting with lemonade. XD He was able to pass on his knowledge, however, and Corazon, in a surprisingly sweet move, immediately offered up his rings to melt down and make silver for Prudence to dip her claws into for extra slashing power –
Cue Frankie being like, “Uh, guys, silver hurts us too.” Egbert tried to argue that it would be on the tips of Prudence’s claws, but Frankie pointed out that werebears are GONNA scratch themselves, so it was a risk better not taken. After wondering if Prudence would be able to use any of her magical abilities as a werebear, the gang instead decided to go for melting down the silver and dipping some of Merilwen’s arrows in it before turning them invisible, so she could stealthily shoot the werewolf champion if necessary. Merilwen pointed out this was cheating, but everyone was fine with that – even Frankie, who was like “I would not put it past the werewolves to find a way to cheat too, so. . .” Corazon also mentioned that he could come in with HIS hand crossbow, but Dob was like “we have taken SO MUCH from Merilwen these days, let’s let her still be the party archer.” Leading Corazon to have to apologize to that one commenter who wants him to use his bow, damn it. XD Another time! And so the training montage ended with Prudence filling up at a carb-heavy brunch (pulled pork nachos; Egbert covered Pigbert’s eyes), Dob melting down ALL the silver he could find and making twelve silver arrows (and then Egbert picking up the leftover silver cooling in a puddle on the floor, just in case they needed a silver Frisbee for some reason), and Corazon getting some silver filings and putting them in a pouch so he had some silver dust on him if necessary.
And then, cut to the evening, with the Oxventurers/X-Blades going down to the beach to meet the Howling Moons! The werewolves were already there, gathered around a bonfire and throwing cans in it to watch them pop – barbs were promptly exchanged, with Johannes mentioning that they were looking forward to having the town to themselves so they could start seriously eating people instead of chickens. Damn, buddy. . .anyway, he started to transform, but then Wolfgang walked up and put him in his place before officially challenging Prudence. Egbert got a barbecue going (summoning a very eager Seal Gaiman), Dob promised Prudence that he’d be on-hand to heal her if necessary (and then healed her as she pointed out she HAD gotten stabbed the other day), the Howling Moons set up torches as the sun set, and once the moon rose –
Well, once the moon rose, you got a hulking half-humanoid werewolf Wolfgang and a very angry werebear Prudence, stepping (or bounding) into the ring! Johnny had everyone roll for initiative, and Corazon took great glee in describing how Rakish Audacity lets him use his Charisma modifiers on initiative rolls. XD So he went first, and promptly used Mage Hand to throw some of the silver dust into Wolfgang’s eyes. He rolled quite well, and Wolfgang was very annoyed, putting him at Disadvantage for two rounds and giving Prudence the advantage on attacks. Merilwen went next, and she did indeed loose an invisible arrow into Wolfgang’s hindquarters, making him scream and burst the stitches on his head from when Corazon hit him with a chair (Johnny made a point of saying that Wolfgang had NOT healed all his damage from the bar fight). This brought things over to Dob – and while he wasn’t about to get involved in the fight directly, he was more than happy to bring the morale down by going over and using Calm Emotions on the designated “cheerwolves” trying to get chants and claps and whatnot going. He half-succeeded, with one group getting turned apathetic and the other – having nat-20ed the saving throw – trying to cheer extra-loud to bring the mood back up (Johnny compared it to going from a home game atmosphere to an away game one). However, it is worth mentioning that Johnny had already had them try a poorly-choreographed routine earlier and ruled they’d done so badly with the pyramid and whatnot that one of them died, so – yeah, even Dob only getting half of them to stop caring was a real success!
And then it was Prudence’s turn, and time for the ACTUAL FIGHT! Which consisted of an enraged Prudence throwing herself at Wolfgang and swiping twice with her claws, at Advantage AND with Bardic Inspiration, courtesy of Dob before he wrecked up Wolfgang’s cheer section. The various dice were kind, and she hit solidly and hard – hard enough that Wolfgang is ALREADY AT ZERO HITPOINTS. So the question we answer tomorrow is, is Prudence going in for the kill, or is unconscious enough. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – we have moved into the old “Breaking News” segment, with Victor catching a shocking alert – namely, Alice got both injured and caught on her latest murder (serial DUI offender) and is now in a hospital under police guard. And the captain, in giving his interview, happened to mention that if she’d had an accomplice, they probably wouldn’t have caught her. . .yeah, as you might imagine, the next couple of pages are gonna be all about Victor arguing with himself about whether or not he did the right thing by coming back home.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check in the technical sense – no uploads today, and I didn’t quite have the time for the Spider-Man 2 video, so instead I hit up the Watch Later –
A) Started off with a video from good old Anna Chess – “Our life as a simulation?” aka Anna reacts to Kevin’s video about that “Call Me Kevin” game someone made, where Nogla wants non-copyrighted trading/playing cards, Turg is keeping Default prisoner in a mountain, Jim is a cryptid who grabs people at night for his church’s basement cell, and Anna is being targeted by the chess mafia for her computerized lip balm. XD (No, seriously, someone apparently SERIOUSLY accused her of that once.) Anna was quite tickled by the video and the game within it – and apparently the whole bit with the “homegrown tomatoes” in the grocery store was a reference to her fans, whom she calls the “wholesome tomatoes,” aww. :) She also appreciated Kevin defending her from the chess mafia, but didn’t approve of Turg’s characterization in this game and quickly sussed out that Kevin shooting Jim Pickens was not going to stop Our Dear Leader anytime soon. XD She also had a rather heartfelt bit talking about his car accident and how that big negative turned into a big positive with him starting up his YouTube channel again – and though she didn’t come out and say it, I can’t help but think the “and if he hadn’t come back to YouTube and met Dan, we might never have met” was implied. :) Fun little video from Kevin’s lovely girlfriend! :)
B) Then it was over to Plumbella and “The Sims: Online is truly the Wild West of the franchise,” aka Plumbella returns to FreeSO (the fanmade version of The Sims Online as the official version shut down in 2008) after two years to try and find her old friend Tiggs, in the form of a Hula Bride of Frankenstein! She did not succeed in this endeavor, sadly, but she did find some new friends! You know, after the game stopped crashing on her and she was actually able to ACCESS some places (most of the places she tried to visit were very much offline). She made it to a random starting area in the middle of nowhere; an abandoned beach; the house of another Jesse (where she was able to find a waitress job and hung out with Other Jesse and their pals for a while); and the casino, where she discovered a member of her fanbase (Edith) and some other buddies, spent some time improving her needs (via food, sleep, and bubble blowing) before dressing up as a Spice Girl and putting her whole Simussy into getting a Body skill point via dancing! And before you object to my phrasing, she got that point via letting her Sim go ham in the classic The Sims dance cage, which involves quite a few – well. They’re dance moves you DEFINITELY wouldn’t see in The Sims 4. XD And a good time was had by all, even if Tiggs is still missing. *sigh* Someday we will find you again!
C) And finally I wrapped up with the latest OXBox list – “7 Villains Very Obviously Based on Real People!” The OXBox crew taking a look at those video game villains that so clearly had a real-life counterpart you could see it in a pitch-black room – like Richter from Titanfall 2 being a parody of one Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Zack from the Dead or Alive series being based on Dennis Rodman (to the point where it became official when they got Dennis to do Zack’s voice for a game! Also, Zack is apparently the guy behind the volleyball spinoff series?), to Mr. House from Fallout: New Vegas bearing quite the resemblance to Walt Disney. Yes, the comment section kind of exploded with “he’s based off HOWARD HUGHES” in response to that last one, but as I put in my own comment, I’m letting that pass because a) Disney could be a right dick sometimes too apparently and b) they honestly looked a LOT alike – that style of haircut and facial hair was pretty popular at the time. Basically, you could argue that House and all the other evil capitalists sharing his face are based off both of them at the same time. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – one thread reply (my partner is back from a hiatus), and one ask reply. Good stuff!
*nods* Not bad, especially as I was a little distracted tonight. But tomorrow is the last day before the weekend, so that's good at least. Hopefully it's decent! Night all!
Okay, let's not get caught up in pontificating about fall -- here's the day's to-do list:
Work – Another quiet day, mostly focused around me finishing fixing up the credit card nonsense and seeing what other outstanding issues needed to be taken care of (a write-off and rearranging some things on my Credit Card Nonsense Tracking document – added a whole new section of nonsense!). Along with a couple of random obituaries. I imagine tomorrow will be more of the same! At least it’s Friday. . .
Beanbags – Check – a nice fall-feel day is perfect for the game! And it turned out ALMOST the same as yesterday, except that I had a much worse Round Two and Mom was able to get in and come second then. Final scores were me W-3-W; Dad 2-W-2; Mom 3-2-3. Some improvement, anyway!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back to the Oxventure “High Moon,” to almost but NOT QUITE finish it. With Corazon running the baby werebears through his sandbag obstacle course to teach them fancy footwork, Egbert getting loads of praise for his snack-making skills, and Bearilwen giving Prudence various pointers on claw attacks and whatnot, Dob decided that, since Prudence was no longer chewing on him, he was going to head down to the clubhouse and see if that pledge was there and inquire about werewolf weaknesses! He found the pledge washing his pig and complimented him on his ride, which got the pledge feeling pretty good about himself – and then he rolled a nat 20 on his Charisma check, so the pledge essentially just HANDED him “oh, we’re weak to magical attacks and silver” on a buttered roll. XD Dob ATTEMPTED then to make his excuses, but the pledge was clearly a bit desperate for company – cue Dob staying for four hours at the clubhouse and coming back bored out of his skull and full to bursting with lemonade. XD He was able to pass on his knowledge, however, and Corazon, in a surprisingly sweet move, immediately offered up his rings to melt down and make silver for Prudence to dip her claws into for extra slashing power –
Cue Frankie being like, “Uh, guys, silver hurts us too.” Egbert tried to argue that it would be on the tips of Prudence’s claws, but Frankie pointed out that werebears are GONNA scratch themselves, so it was a risk better not taken. After wondering if Prudence would be able to use any of her magical abilities as a werebear, the gang instead decided to go for melting down the silver and dipping some of Merilwen’s arrows in it before turning them invisible, so she could stealthily shoot the werewolf champion if necessary. Merilwen pointed out this was cheating, but everyone was fine with that – even Frankie, who was like “I would not put it past the werewolves to find a way to cheat too, so. . .” Corazon also mentioned that he could come in with HIS hand crossbow, but Dob was like “we have taken SO MUCH from Merilwen these days, let’s let her still be the party archer.” Leading Corazon to have to apologize to that one commenter who wants him to use his bow, damn it. XD Another time! And so the training montage ended with Prudence filling up at a carb-heavy brunch (pulled pork nachos; Egbert covered Pigbert’s eyes), Dob melting down ALL the silver he could find and making twelve silver arrows (and then Egbert picking up the leftover silver cooling in a puddle on the floor, just in case they needed a silver Frisbee for some reason), and Corazon getting some silver filings and putting them in a pouch so he had some silver dust on him if necessary.
And then, cut to the evening, with the Oxventurers/X-Blades going down to the beach to meet the Howling Moons! The werewolves were already there, gathered around a bonfire and throwing cans in it to watch them pop – barbs were promptly exchanged, with Johannes mentioning that they were looking forward to having the town to themselves so they could start seriously eating people instead of chickens. Damn, buddy. . .anyway, he started to transform, but then Wolfgang walked up and put him in his place before officially challenging Prudence. Egbert got a barbecue going (summoning a very eager Seal Gaiman), Dob promised Prudence that he’d be on-hand to heal her if necessary (and then healed her as she pointed out she HAD gotten stabbed the other day), the Howling Moons set up torches as the sun set, and once the moon rose –
Well, once the moon rose, you got a hulking half-humanoid werewolf Wolfgang and a very angry werebear Prudence, stepping (or bounding) into the ring! Johnny had everyone roll for initiative, and Corazon took great glee in describing how Rakish Audacity lets him use his Charisma modifiers on initiative rolls. XD So he went first, and promptly used Mage Hand to throw some of the silver dust into Wolfgang’s eyes. He rolled quite well, and Wolfgang was very annoyed, putting him at Disadvantage for two rounds and giving Prudence the advantage on attacks. Merilwen went next, and she did indeed loose an invisible arrow into Wolfgang’s hindquarters, making him scream and burst the stitches on his head from when Corazon hit him with a chair (Johnny made a point of saying that Wolfgang had NOT healed all his damage from the bar fight). This brought things over to Dob – and while he wasn’t about to get involved in the fight directly, he was more than happy to bring the morale down by going over and using Calm Emotions on the designated “cheerwolves” trying to get chants and claps and whatnot going. He half-succeeded, with one group getting turned apathetic and the other – having nat-20ed the saving throw – trying to cheer extra-loud to bring the mood back up (Johnny compared it to going from a home game atmosphere to an away game one). However, it is worth mentioning that Johnny had already had them try a poorly-choreographed routine earlier and ruled they’d done so badly with the pyramid and whatnot that one of them died, so – yeah, even Dob only getting half of them to stop caring was a real success!
And then it was Prudence’s turn, and time for the ACTUAL FIGHT! Which consisted of an enraged Prudence throwing herself at Wolfgang and swiping twice with her claws, at Advantage AND with Bardic Inspiration, courtesy of Dob before he wrecked up Wolfgang’s cheer section. The various dice were kind, and she hit solidly and hard – hard enough that Wolfgang is ALREADY AT ZERO HITPOINTS. So the question we answer tomorrow is, is Prudence going in for the kill, or is unconscious enough. . .
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – we have moved into the old “Breaking News” segment, with Victor catching a shocking alert – namely, Alice got both injured and caught on her latest murder (serial DUI offender) and is now in a hospital under police guard. And the captain, in giving his interview, happened to mention that if she’d had an accomplice, they probably wouldn’t have caught her. . .yeah, as you might imagine, the next couple of pages are gonna be all about Victor arguing with himself about whether or not he did the right thing by coming back home.
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check in the technical sense – no uploads today, and I didn’t quite have the time for the Spider-Man 2 video, so instead I hit up the Watch Later –
A) Started off with a video from good old Anna Chess – “Our life as a simulation?” aka Anna reacts to Kevin’s video about that “Call Me Kevin” game someone made, where Nogla wants non-copyrighted trading/playing cards, Turg is keeping Default prisoner in a mountain, Jim is a cryptid who grabs people at night for his church’s basement cell, and Anna is being targeted by the chess mafia for her computerized lip balm. XD (No, seriously, someone apparently SERIOUSLY accused her of that once.) Anna was quite tickled by the video and the game within it – and apparently the whole bit with the “homegrown tomatoes” in the grocery store was a reference to her fans, whom she calls the “wholesome tomatoes,” aww. :) She also appreciated Kevin defending her from the chess mafia, but didn’t approve of Turg’s characterization in this game and quickly sussed out that Kevin shooting Jim Pickens was not going to stop Our Dear Leader anytime soon. XD She also had a rather heartfelt bit talking about his car accident and how that big negative turned into a big positive with him starting up his YouTube channel again – and though she didn’t come out and say it, I can’t help but think the “and if he hadn’t come back to YouTube and met Dan, we might never have met” was implied. :) Fun little video from Kevin’s lovely girlfriend! :)
B) Then it was over to Plumbella and “The Sims: Online is truly the Wild West of the franchise,” aka Plumbella returns to FreeSO (the fanmade version of The Sims Online as the official version shut down in 2008) after two years to try and find her old friend Tiggs, in the form of a Hula Bride of Frankenstein! She did not succeed in this endeavor, sadly, but she did find some new friends! You know, after the game stopped crashing on her and she was actually able to ACCESS some places (most of the places she tried to visit were very much offline). She made it to a random starting area in the middle of nowhere; an abandoned beach; the house of another Jesse (where she was able to find a waitress job and hung out with Other Jesse and their pals for a while); and the casino, where she discovered a member of her fanbase (Edith) and some other buddies, spent some time improving her needs (via food, sleep, and bubble blowing) before dressing up as a Spice Girl and putting her whole Simussy into getting a Body skill point via dancing! And before you object to my phrasing, she got that point via letting her Sim go ham in the classic The Sims dance cage, which involves quite a few – well. They’re dance moves you DEFINITELY wouldn’t see in The Sims 4. XD And a good time was had by all, even if Tiggs is still missing. *sigh* Someday we will find you again!
C) And finally I wrapped up with the latest OXBox list – “7 Villains Very Obviously Based on Real People!” The OXBox crew taking a look at those video game villains that so clearly had a real-life counterpart you could see it in a pitch-black room – like Richter from Titanfall 2 being a parody of one Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Zack from the Dead or Alive series being based on Dennis Rodman (to the point where it became official when they got Dennis to do Zack’s voice for a game! Also, Zack is apparently the guy behind the volleyball spinoff series?), to Mr. House from Fallout: New Vegas bearing quite the resemblance to Walt Disney. Yes, the comment section kind of exploded with “he’s based off HOWARD HUGHES” in response to that last one, but as I put in my own comment, I’m letting that pass because a) Disney could be a right dick sometimes too apparently and b) they honestly looked a LOT alike – that style of haircut and facial hair was pretty popular at the time. Basically, you could argue that House and all the other evil capitalists sharing his face are based off both of them at the same time. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – one thread reply (my partner is back from a hiatus), and one ask reply. Good stuff!
*nods* Not bad, especially as I was a little distracted tonight. But tomorrow is the last day before the weekend, so that's good at least. Hopefully it's decent! Night all!
