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Busy Busy Thursday
Oct. 13th, 2022 11:38 pmTrying to keep up on everything can be tricky sometimes. . .but I made it, as evidenced by my to-do list:
Work – Another quiet day, mostly spent scouring duplicate records from our system and helping the remaining supervisor go through a list of people and figure out what they gave recently. No word from the credit card people, which is annoying but unsurprising. Hmph. We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
Beanbags – Not today, mostly because it was miserable out – on and off rain all day. At least it never got very cold, which is something, but yeah. Definitely not good weather for cornholing!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another half-hour with the Oxventure Orbpocalypse episode “Monky Business!” Having successfully Detected Magic, Prudence drew her compatriots a quick rough map of where she thought the magic was in the building and shared it around to everyone – except Corazon, who was treating the place like a student hostel and thus had gone out to get very drunk. XD He found a little tiki place nearby, in fact, Wilbur’s Tiki Shack, which makes its business using the mangoes and coconuts that flow down the river. He stumbled in at 3 AM, deliberately making a huge fuss and stumbling into Harmony’s room, falling asleep briefly in his (apparently Harmony is a guy!) bed before stealing all his blankets as Harmony ordered him out so he could pray to his patron. XD Bogheck, for his part, was heavily regretting taking the room closest to the toilet, and Egbert’s snoring badly upset poor Bridget, who spent much of the night crying. Aww.
Eventually everyone got some sleep, and the True Heroes of Geth got up early the next morning to try and see if they could just get the trials done earlier – the Oxventurers weren’t having any of that, however, and got up as soon as they heard the others, with Corazon offering bacon sandwiches to anyone who wanted them. Amusingly, Bridget ended up taking him up on that offer, though possibly mostly to get away from Bogheck and Cora (Quora? I’m not sure how it’s supposed to be spelled) snapping at each other (Bogheck in particular getting on Cora for never wanting to actually GO adventuring). The True Heroes flounced off to huddle after breakfast, while the Oxventurers got the word from monk Benoir that Claudette, their leader (who is definitely female, I’ve heard the pronouns now), had decided that, to keep things fair, they were going to do the trials together with the other team and do it in one-on-one rounds in two hours – nobody was allowed to try and fulfill the prophecy before then. The gang thanked him for the info and asked what the order was all about and why he joined up in the first place; turns out the order is all about lorekeeping and storing magical artifacts until they’re ready to be handed out to fulfill prophecies – and he in fact just ended up REALLY drunk one night at the Tiki Shack and woke up here in robes, having apparently pledged himself. He still has no idea if he was kidnapped or if he genuinely drunkenly agreed to join, and at this point he’s too embarrassed to ask, so he’s just going with it. XD
So – trials in two hours! The gang discussed ways to make sure they could pass the trials (Merilwen once again bringing up the “legalese” method, including possibly poking more holes in Prudence to make her “holy” and her just refusing to cast Moonbeam if asked to “defy the moon”), then went for a look at where the trials would take place. It was basically the monkish equivalent of a basketball court, complete with stone bleachers and a picture of a wildcat for a mascot. :p It was also the location of that magical disc Prudence sensed before, which she pointed out. The gang also felt they should check on their opponents, and sent Corazon to go have a sneaky eavesdrop – he rolled well enough to accomplish this, and discovered that all was VERY much not well in paradise, with Harmony TRYING to rally the others, but Cora and Bogheck in particular were having none of it. And Bridget was still thinking about the nice bacon sandwich she got off him. XD Corazon reported to the others that they should be fine, and – when nobody else would do it – Prudence stabbed herself in the shoulder with her stiletto blade to make herself more “holy” in accordance with the legalese. At least it was a shallow and easily-healed wound!
And with that, the trials began! Everyone was gathered and lined up on opposite sides of the room, facing their mirror counterpart, and Claudette began calling them forward. First round was Cora versus Corazon for the “sneak-thief rich in ancient lore” round – and, hilariously, the one and only question was “How many suns does Geth have?” Corazon answered “two” before a sulking Cora could (and I THINK she may have said “one” anyway!), and got the point, much to Cora’s shock and horror. She ranted out Corazon, then told him to call her because apparently she has mixed feelings about him (she’d earlier blurted out that if he wanted to take her for drinks, he could, but then walked it back). She went to sulk as Prudence and Harmony faced off in the “holy warlock, friend to all” round – and, unfortunately, despite the group’s best efforts (Corazon pointing out Harmony wasn’t HIS friend, for starters, even with all the meat and cheese he ate on their boat), Prudence having to admit her patron was Cthulhu and thus part of her holy duties to him was murder gave the round to Harmony. Not even pointing out her new hole helped, as Claudette confirmed that the prophecy was written in Common – no weird translations here – and that the semantics weren’t important. Egbert also tried to sneak over and pour a little gunpowder in Bridget’s silenced armor while they were going at it, but a bad Sneak roll meant that Bogheck saw him and he had to head back over to his side.
With the scores at one-one, the trials went to halftime – Corazon gave his team a rousing “football manager” speech, while Harmony snapped at his guys (the others pointed out how dickish he was being, but the point had already been awarded, so no go). And then it was time for Merilwen and Bogheck to go head-to-head in the “druid who defies the moon” round! Which is where the magical circle came into play – basically, the druids would step on it, and if they were capable of casting Moonbeam, the circle would make them auto-cast it. There was some hurried discussion among the Oxventurers about how to stop Merilwen casting (it’s a prepared spell, but she’s always prepared to cast it, really) – and out of desperation, Corazon offered her a bottle of severely overproofed booze, saying it would help her forget everything she knows. Merilwen downed it and rolled a Constitution check –
Crit 1. Which in this case was FANTASTIC for the team, as it meant she was BEYOND drunk. XD She told off the True Heroes of Geth, then happily babbled to Prudence about how everyone was her favorite, but she was her FAVORITE favorite as Prudence helped her onto the circle. This continued for a good fifteen minutes before Claudette allowed that Merilwen must not be able to cast Moonbeam (obviously the magic could NOT find its way through all that alcohol XD). Prudence took Merilwen off, and Bogheck grumpily stomped his way onto the circle –
Cue Egbert casting Moonbeam. XD Johnny, I don’t know why you exasperated-laughed at this, they SAID earlier that Egbert using the spell to make Bogheck look like he could cast it was on the table! XD But yes, Egbert cast it, and this time made the Stealth roll to stop anyone realizing it was him. Bogheck was briefly horrified, but then just THRILLED by the idea that he could actually cast Moonbeam, calling it beautiful and burning his hand on the light (since, you know, flesh-melting offensive spell). That just leaves Egbert and Bridget, and the possibility of a “sudden death” tiebreak if they tie – we’ll see how that goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – I have in fact FINISHED THE STORY! :D Well, the first draft of it, anyway. Having completed their business in the hospital (namely, Victor finding them transport and Alice killing a doctor dealing in black-market organs), the pair have escaped back onto the road, to the titular tune. :) Time to let this thing sit for a little bit before I do my first round of revisions! And I think I know just how to spend my time too. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – as it was No Upload Thursday, I was able to catch up on Call Me Kevin’s hour-long Sims 2 video from yesterday, “I let my Sim do what he wanted for his entire life!” Or, well, his entire adult life – having been inspired by his attempt at doing whatever his Sims wanted in his Sims 4 save, he returned to The Sims 2, created a terrifying caveman-type Sim called High Maintenance, gave him the Pleasure Aspiration for starters, moved him into Veronaville, and started out trying to fulfill as many of the guy’s wants as possible! This proved to be a BIT difficult, as Pleasure Sims mainly want to buy things, but Kevin persevered, and managed to get him all the basic necessities, PLUS a mole person in his walls when the very first person he met, Tiffany, kept trying to shoo him out of the living room to use his toilet and Kevin just boxed her in rather than deal with that. :p Things continued through High getting a career in Crime (going up and down the ladder thanks to chance cards); adopting a puppy which he ended up neglecting to the point of it getting taken away; making friends via the medium of water balloon fights; restoring his own junker car to get Mechanical skill for his job; attempting to find romance with the Contessa vampire from Downtown and Cecilia the Atrociously Evil Witch and striking out both times (and gaining a fear of witches in the process); eventually finding romance with the cop who’d brought his puppy to him and then taken said puppy away and having his first woohoo with him; briefly changing his aspiration to Grilled Cheese due to unwise use of the aspiration-switching machine and devouring so much he gained a belly; switching over to Romance as an aspiration and suddenly becoming the love of everyone’s life with that belly; switching over to Family and asking the first and only woman he’d been a proper date with, Pamela, to be his wife – she accepted, weirdly; going on vacation with her to the islands and woohooing until she was pregnant, then going home; having Baby Boy the baby, who – as Kevin put it – didn’t exactly win the genetic lottery, but didn’t LOSE either (aka, the kid basically got Dad’s ears and mouth and was spared the rest); and losing his job right before aging up into an elder, so instead Kevin got him a counterfeiting machine. XD He had a very busy and amusing life, is what I’m saying! And now I’m filled with Sims 2 nostalgia, damn it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – busy night over on Valice Multiverse, with three ask replies, two thread replies, and two Tik-Toks made by one of my regular partners to chuck into the queue. Did it all in the end, though!
*whew* And that's that! Except for Moose's PMs, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow to get those. As it currently stands, I have to get to bed -- one more day of work this weekend! Then a busy weekend with cleaning and decorating the house. . .hopefully it all goes well! Night all!
Work – Another quiet day, mostly spent scouring duplicate records from our system and helping the remaining supervisor go through a list of people and figure out what they gave recently. No word from the credit card people, which is annoying but unsurprising. Hmph. We’ll see what happens tomorrow!
Beanbags – Not today, mostly because it was miserable out – on and off rain all day. At least it never got very cold, which is something, but yeah. Definitely not good weather for cornholing!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another half-hour with the Oxventure Orbpocalypse episode “Monky Business!” Having successfully Detected Magic, Prudence drew her compatriots a quick rough map of where she thought the magic was in the building and shared it around to everyone – except Corazon, who was treating the place like a student hostel and thus had gone out to get very drunk. XD He found a little tiki place nearby, in fact, Wilbur’s Tiki Shack, which makes its business using the mangoes and coconuts that flow down the river. He stumbled in at 3 AM, deliberately making a huge fuss and stumbling into Harmony’s room, falling asleep briefly in his (apparently Harmony is a guy!) bed before stealing all his blankets as Harmony ordered him out so he could pray to his patron. XD Bogheck, for his part, was heavily regretting taking the room closest to the toilet, and Egbert’s snoring badly upset poor Bridget, who spent much of the night crying. Aww.
Eventually everyone got some sleep, and the True Heroes of Geth got up early the next morning to try and see if they could just get the trials done earlier – the Oxventurers weren’t having any of that, however, and got up as soon as they heard the others, with Corazon offering bacon sandwiches to anyone who wanted them. Amusingly, Bridget ended up taking him up on that offer, though possibly mostly to get away from Bogheck and Cora (Quora? I’m not sure how it’s supposed to be spelled) snapping at each other (Bogheck in particular getting on Cora for never wanting to actually GO adventuring). The True Heroes flounced off to huddle after breakfast, while the Oxventurers got the word from monk Benoir that Claudette, their leader (who is definitely female, I’ve heard the pronouns now), had decided that, to keep things fair, they were going to do the trials together with the other team and do it in one-on-one rounds in two hours – nobody was allowed to try and fulfill the prophecy before then. The gang thanked him for the info and asked what the order was all about and why he joined up in the first place; turns out the order is all about lorekeeping and storing magical artifacts until they’re ready to be handed out to fulfill prophecies – and he in fact just ended up REALLY drunk one night at the Tiki Shack and woke up here in robes, having apparently pledged himself. He still has no idea if he was kidnapped or if he genuinely drunkenly agreed to join, and at this point he’s too embarrassed to ask, so he’s just going with it. XD
So – trials in two hours! The gang discussed ways to make sure they could pass the trials (Merilwen once again bringing up the “legalese” method, including possibly poking more holes in Prudence to make her “holy” and her just refusing to cast Moonbeam if asked to “defy the moon”), then went for a look at where the trials would take place. It was basically the monkish equivalent of a basketball court, complete with stone bleachers and a picture of a wildcat for a mascot. :p It was also the location of that magical disc Prudence sensed before, which she pointed out. The gang also felt they should check on their opponents, and sent Corazon to go have a sneaky eavesdrop – he rolled well enough to accomplish this, and discovered that all was VERY much not well in paradise, with Harmony TRYING to rally the others, but Cora and Bogheck in particular were having none of it. And Bridget was still thinking about the nice bacon sandwich she got off him. XD Corazon reported to the others that they should be fine, and – when nobody else would do it – Prudence stabbed herself in the shoulder with her stiletto blade to make herself more “holy” in accordance with the legalese. At least it was a shallow and easily-healed wound!
And with that, the trials began! Everyone was gathered and lined up on opposite sides of the room, facing their mirror counterpart, and Claudette began calling them forward. First round was Cora versus Corazon for the “sneak-thief rich in ancient lore” round – and, hilariously, the one and only question was “How many suns does Geth have?” Corazon answered “two” before a sulking Cora could (and I THINK she may have said “one” anyway!), and got the point, much to Cora’s shock and horror. She ranted out Corazon, then told him to call her because apparently she has mixed feelings about him (she’d earlier blurted out that if he wanted to take her for drinks, he could, but then walked it back). She went to sulk as Prudence and Harmony faced off in the “holy warlock, friend to all” round – and, unfortunately, despite the group’s best efforts (Corazon pointing out Harmony wasn’t HIS friend, for starters, even with all the meat and cheese he ate on their boat), Prudence having to admit her patron was Cthulhu and thus part of her holy duties to him was murder gave the round to Harmony. Not even pointing out her new hole helped, as Claudette confirmed that the prophecy was written in Common – no weird translations here – and that the semantics weren’t important. Egbert also tried to sneak over and pour a little gunpowder in Bridget’s silenced armor while they were going at it, but a bad Sneak roll meant that Bogheck saw him and he had to head back over to his side.
With the scores at one-one, the trials went to halftime – Corazon gave his team a rousing “football manager” speech, while Harmony snapped at his guys (the others pointed out how dickish he was being, but the point had already been awarded, so no go). And then it was time for Merilwen and Bogheck to go head-to-head in the “druid who defies the moon” round! Which is where the magical circle came into play – basically, the druids would step on it, and if they were capable of casting Moonbeam, the circle would make them auto-cast it. There was some hurried discussion among the Oxventurers about how to stop Merilwen casting (it’s a prepared spell, but she’s always prepared to cast it, really) – and out of desperation, Corazon offered her a bottle of severely overproofed booze, saying it would help her forget everything she knows. Merilwen downed it and rolled a Constitution check –
Crit 1. Which in this case was FANTASTIC for the team, as it meant she was BEYOND drunk. XD She told off the True Heroes of Geth, then happily babbled to Prudence about how everyone was her favorite, but she was her FAVORITE favorite as Prudence helped her onto the circle. This continued for a good fifteen minutes before Claudette allowed that Merilwen must not be able to cast Moonbeam (obviously the magic could NOT find its way through all that alcohol XD). Prudence took Merilwen off, and Bogheck grumpily stomped his way onto the circle –
Cue Egbert casting Moonbeam. XD Johnny, I don’t know why you exasperated-laughed at this, they SAID earlier that Egbert using the spell to make Bogheck look like he could cast it was on the table! XD But yes, Egbert cast it, and this time made the Stealth roll to stop anyone realizing it was him. Bogheck was briefly horrified, but then just THRILLED by the idea that he could actually cast Moonbeam, calling it beautiful and burning his hand on the light (since, you know, flesh-melting offensive spell). That just leaves Egbert and Bridget, and the possibility of a “sudden death” tiebreak if they tie – we’ll see how that goes tomorrow!
2. Continue writing “As Long As You Love Me”: Check – I have in fact FINISHED THE STORY! :D Well, the first draft of it, anyway. Having completed their business in the hospital (namely, Victor finding them transport and Alice killing a doctor dealing in black-market organs), the pair have escaped back onto the road, to the titular tune. :) Time to let this thing sit for a little bit before I do my first round of revisions! And I think I know just how to spend my time too. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – as it was No Upload Thursday, I was able to catch up on Call Me Kevin’s hour-long Sims 2 video from yesterday, “I let my Sim do what he wanted for his entire life!” Or, well, his entire adult life – having been inspired by his attempt at doing whatever his Sims wanted in his Sims 4 save, he returned to The Sims 2, created a terrifying caveman-type Sim called High Maintenance, gave him the Pleasure Aspiration for starters, moved him into Veronaville, and started out trying to fulfill as many of the guy’s wants as possible! This proved to be a BIT difficult, as Pleasure Sims mainly want to buy things, but Kevin persevered, and managed to get him all the basic necessities, PLUS a mole person in his walls when the very first person he met, Tiffany, kept trying to shoo him out of the living room to use his toilet and Kevin just boxed her in rather than deal with that. :p Things continued through High getting a career in Crime (going up and down the ladder thanks to chance cards); adopting a puppy which he ended up neglecting to the point of it getting taken away; making friends via the medium of water balloon fights; restoring his own junker car to get Mechanical skill for his job; attempting to find romance with the Contessa vampire from Downtown and Cecilia the Atrociously Evil Witch and striking out both times (and gaining a fear of witches in the process); eventually finding romance with the cop who’d brought his puppy to him and then taken said puppy away and having his first woohoo with him; briefly changing his aspiration to Grilled Cheese due to unwise use of the aspiration-switching machine and devouring so much he gained a belly; switching over to Romance as an aspiration and suddenly becoming the love of everyone’s life with that belly; switching over to Family and asking the first and only woman he’d been a proper date with, Pamela, to be his wife – she accepted, weirdly; going on vacation with her to the islands and woohooing until she was pregnant, then going home; having Baby Boy the baby, who – as Kevin put it – didn’t exactly win the genetic lottery, but didn’t LOSE either (aka, the kid basically got Dad’s ears and mouth and was spared the rest); and losing his job right before aging up into an elder, so instead Kevin got him a counterfeiting machine. XD He had a very busy and amusing life, is what I’m saying! And now I’m filled with Sims 2 nostalgia, damn it.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – busy night over on Valice Multiverse, with three ask replies, two thread replies, and two Tik-Toks made by one of my regular partners to chuck into the queue. Did it all in the end, though!
*whew* And that's that! Except for Moose's PMs, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow to get those. As it currently stands, I have to get to bed -- one more day of work this weekend! Then a busy weekend with cleaning and decorating the house. . .hopefully it all goes well! Night all!
