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Dec. 21st, 2022 11:44 pmI don't know if it's fully sunk in yet for me, but yes, my personal "twelve days of Christmas" starts now, with my vacation day tomorrow and then the long Christmas break starting Friday. :D Hooray for having a bunch of time off! Hopefully I can get some shit accomplished. Oh, and speaking of which:
Work – I have to admit, not too bad for my last day of work before the year ends. The actual working part of the day was very quiet – pretty much exclusively cleaning up duplicates. We did have our Christmas lunch, and I ended up getting a calzone so big I only ate half of it and brought the other half home in a big old Ziplock bag. And we did do the gift exchange right afterward – everyone was very happy with their birdfeeders, I was glad to see! And I got some nice stuff in return, including seasonal kitchen towels with polar bears on them (Mom quite liked them); toasted-almond-scented foaming soap (in the bathroom); a wooden tree Christmas ornament (Mom hung that on one of her new shelves); various candies and mints (including a little box of Ferrero Rocher and a tin of French rose-flavored mints); a little teacup-shaped writing pad and pen; a head massager thing; a pair of soft bed socks; a tube of lip balm; and a number of little pocket tissue packs. So yeah, not a bad haul, and I’m glad it wasn’t absolutely mental. And very glad I don’t have to go in again anytime soon!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Live Oxventure “Wedded Redemption!” Corazon’s attempt to choke out the servant he’d just barely convinced to go into the isolating corridor hit a crit 1, leading to him attempting the choke-out just as the servant bent over to tie his shoes and doing a weird backflip instead over him before thudding comically to the floor. The servant was somewhat nonplussed. Corazon then tried to convince the guy that the “not-agency” said that he should have all the guy’s clothes, then attempted to chop him in the neck to knock him out, which ended up as more of an aggressive encouraging pat. The annoyed servant said that this wasn’t even his real job, and Corazon attempted to get him to follow his dreams and leave his clothes behind as a symbol, only to be told the guy’s real job was as one of Featherby’s sommeliers. However, the conversation did actually bear fruit for Corazon – the guy admitted to being pissed that he’d been dragged here to work on his day off for no pay because Featherby was too cheap to hire temporary staff (which is how he knew Corazon was talking out of his ass), but despite being disgruntled, he didn’t want Featherby to DIE, the man pays his salary. He was open to maiming, though. XD Corazon thanked him and hurried away and quickly told the others that he’d awesomely infiltrated the servants and learned they don’t want their employer dead if only because that means no money. Everyone kindly believed him. XD
With that, we cut back to Egbert, still out in the hedge maze – and a bad roll meant that he was still lost in there and had just heard the dinner bell! Desperate not to miss the meal, he ran back through the hedges to get to the dining hall. He tried to bargain that this was a Strength/Athletics roll, but Johnny insisted it was a Constitution saving throw against the hedges. . .and then it proved not to matter because he got 21 with his modifiers. XD Johnny decided the result was that he punched perfect silhouettes of himself running through the hedges (like a hedge flipbook of sorts), and skidded into the dining hall without a scratch on him (though with numerous scratches on the nice floors thanks to his dragonborn claws).
And so began dinner! Corazon and Prudence were seated near each other and Viscount Featherby himself; Aubrey and Merilwen were seated across from each other, near Lord Fortescue, who was being fed bisque by his manservant Henry; and Egbert was down the kids’ end of the table. XD Aubrey, seeing an opportunity for a plan, asked if Merilwen could somehow get Henry to leave the room briefly. Merilwen faked a ginormous sneeze and – thanks to a high Charisma/Performance roll – managed to smack the bowl of bisque all over the unfortunate Henry, before luring him away to the isolating corridor with the promise that she knew a magical way to clean him up. Aubrey followed, used his magics (I believe he’s a sorcerer!) to alter his appearance to be that of Henry, then came back to feed Lord Fortescue his bisque (before the man could figure out how to use a spoon himself and thus put Henry out of a job), before quietly saying that the preparations were all in order. Johnny was gobsmacked at someone actually having a good, subtle plan going on. XD However, what this actually revealed is that Lord Fortescue did NOT have any plans on murdering Viscount Featherby – he was genuinely a bit puzzled about what Aubrey was going in about, and said that while he didn’t LIKE Featherby and that his daughter Michaela shouldn’t feel obligated to laugh at his jokes, he wasn’t about to take him out of the picture entirely. Aubrey then had the horrible realization that he’d condemned himself to playing manservant to this man for probably the rest of the reception (meanwhile, Merilwen tried using Destroy Water to get the bisque out of the real Henry’s suit, only to create a horrible dry stain and dehydrate him. . .and then used Create Water to make him a refreshing fog XD).
And then Viscount Featherby got up to make a Father of the Bride speech, and Johnny asked for Wisdom/Perception rolls from those still present! Corazon: 22! Prudence: nat 20! Aubrey: crit 1! Egbert: talking to the kids about how cool the hedge maze is! XD Corazon and Prudence correctly spotted that Featherby’s wine glass was smoking in the classic “video game poisoned” way – Prudence went to smack it out of his hand with Mage Hand, only for Corazon to get huffy because Mage Hand is HIS thing damn it and start dueling her for the pleasure. (Aubrey then pointed out that he can ALSO cast Mage Hand. XD) Which resulted in the wine glass being successfully smacked away, yes (melting a painting in the process), but also in Viscount Featherby being smacked around by invisible hands as they engaged in a magical slapfight. XD Meanwhile, Aubrey became convinced that some dark necromancer was going to reanimate one of the main courses – an enormous cooked swan with head still attached – and cast Firebolt upon it, making it explode and sending swan grease EVERYWHERE. The other guests were naturally unnerved by this, but Corazon managed to save things by convincing everyone to just applaud the Viscount’s speech, which consisted of an awkward “didn’t rehearse this” beginning, being slapped around, and then saying that he hoped he and his daughter and daughter-in-law could share many laughs together and that he was eager to tell everyone about his new investments in “cryptic currency.” XD Also, Egbert got the wishbone – after hoovering up all the meat on it, he played with a kid and easily snapped it, and wished for the killer to reveal himself in an embarrassing way, since it was really the only contribution he’d made to the actual investigation so far. Johnny was actually sad to tell him that wishbone wishes aren’t a thing in G’eth, aww.
After the speech, though, one of the guests huffily went off – Corazon and Prudence promptly followed, and found him muttering to himself by the big wine pool. Prudence cast Clairvoyance and was able to pick up that he was muttering about the “cryptic currency” and how you can only spend it if you answer its riddle and how it was such a STUPID idea for money. Corazon, for his part, decided to do a cool sneaky slide over to the guy –
Crit 1. Thanks to the swan grease that got splattered everywhere, turns out he was extra slippy on the floor and rammed into the back of the guy’s knees. Corazon spun it as wanting to get to the wine before everyone else, and then said he’d overheard the guy’s mutterings and that it sounded like he wanted Featherby dead. The startled man – who now identified himself as one of Featherby’s business partners – demurred, even when Corazon offered himself up as an assassin – though that was partly because he couldn’t PAY Corazon, only having the awful cryptic currency on him (the coin asks its riddles when you pull it out, and if you fail get the correct answer, you have to wait fifteen minutes before trying again. Corazon promptly decided he hated it. XD). He in fact seemed quite concerned that someone was trying to kill Featherby, as he actually counted the guy as a friend, and said that he’d be willing to help. Corazon got Prudence to come over and brought her up to speed – she, however, wasn’t convinced by the business partner’s words, and attempted to waterboard him in the wine. A poor Strength roll meant she only kicked him in the shins, however, and his repeated protestations of innocence finally brought her around. Corazon, upset, said this ruled out all three leads they had, while Prudence brought the business partner up to speed on the poisoned wine (he’d missed that part, distracted either by the cryptic currency or the exploding swan) –
And when I left off, the partner was telling them that only Featherby’s head sommelier would have had access to that wine. Because just because Corazon spoke to ONE servant who didn’t want Featherby dead, that doesn’t mean they ALL feel that way. :D Tomorrow, I presume the hunt for that sommelier begins!
2. Continue writing gift fics: Check – finished up editing Ace’s today, which was their fem!Leo and Klaus from the anime/manga Blood Blockade Battlefront attending a Mad Hatter Haberdashery tea party with Richard and the rest of the gang, after having already met and befriended Victor and Alice in previous works. The two are a little embarrassed that stuff in Secundus is still throwing them, given they’re from the weirdest place on planet Earth, Hellsalem’s lot, but Victor has pointed out that even if they’re used to their local brand of weird, this separate brand of weird is allowed to confuse them. :p And that, happily, is the final gift fic, so I am GOOD for this upcoming Sunday, yay! :D
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Eh – three-fourths check, as I wasn’t able to get to one of the Subs videos uploaded today. But tomorrow is a new day, and a day where I don’t have to go to work, so I will be catching up then! In the meantime –
A) Started, of course, with OXmas – “XMAS CHALLENGE DAY 12! Hitman Santa Costume Change Challenge | Tournament of Champions 2022!” This was Andy versus Ellen, with a bit of a different Hitman challenge – this one wasn’t about murder so much as it was about fashion. Specifically, both Andy and Ellen got ten minutes in the Whittleton Creek level, and – starting in the Santa outfit – they both had to change outfits as many times as possible in those ten minutes (without dying – if you died before the ten minutes were up, that was your time). Mike was there as the adjudicator and costume-counter, deciding what counted as a unique costume and what didn’t (basically, you couldn’t dress up in the same policeman uniform twice, but he would and did allow two construction worker outfits as separate changes because they had unique shirts). Andy went first and after a few careful choke-outs, decided to go Full Mike and just start a murder spree to get more costumes more quickly. XD He ended up with nine costume changes altogether (including policeman, gardener, scientist, named character James Battey, the two different flavors of construction worker, guard in hi-vis vest, cupcake seller, and exterminator) before his many and varied crimes caught up with him and he was taken down at about the seven-and-a-half minute mark. Ellen, by contrast, started more leisurely and did TRY to keep it to choke-outs at first (though she did snap a man’s neck by accident), but eventually succumbed to the lure of shooting people and putting axes into their heads (whispered to her by devil-on-shoulder Mike XD). She ended up with most of the same costumes as Andy, but also added random nurse by the pond, the guy trying to help the politician with his polling, and a regular bodyguard before going down in the last few seconds of the challenge (as she did the guard in plain sight of his buddies AND a security camera). She ended up with ELEVEN costume changes in the end, and thus won the Christmas point! w00!
And according to the comments, this means that Jane AND Andy are out of the running for Christmas Ultra-Champ! Jane because, while my math was wrong and she SHOULD get one more challenge, she can only score one more point and thus have a maximum of two; Andy because he HAS completed all of his challenges at this point (he’s been involved with six, which is the actual max) and is stuck at three. Meaning this competition just came down to Luke, Ellen, and Mike. . .interesting. . .
B) Then it was time for ONE of Josh Way’s SKETCHY videos of the day, as (thanks to the above and then getting my dessert cookies), I was running low on time – “Little Quacker from Tom and Jerry!” I – do not remember this baby duck character at ALL, but then again, I don’t remember anything from any Tom and Jerry cartoons I watched growing up, so. . .he’s a deliberately-overly-cute baby duck from the series that Josh liked the design of, and that’s what’s important here. XD
C) And finally, we had GrayStillPlays and “When you attach a $1,000,000 engine to a $10 bike” – aka Gray Plays Bike Hop: Crazy BMX Bbke jump! Yes, according to YouTube, that IS the spelling of the name of the weird mobile game he played today. This was one of those “jump the furthest” games, featuring a guy on a bike with a rocket strapped to his back leaping off a ramp and trying to make it farther and farther each time, going from a random field into a city, into a beach, into alien-infested farmland – the board actually went on for quite a while! Also you got extra coins for smacking into people. Gray was content to play relatively normally at first – slowly upgrading his rockets and bike (getting himself a pig companion in the process), testing his boosts to see how far he could go (pretty damn far), trying to hit as many people as possible (he was particularly keen on getting the discount Power Rangers hanging out on the road), getting slightly spooked out by the various fast food mascots (Fry Guy and Soda Aardvark DID look freaky, not gonna lie), geeking out over the new hats he was winning (one even expanded and retracted all on its own) – but then he got impatient and got his Hax-making friend to give him a bunch of coins and gems so he could upgrade everything to full, turn himself into an alien, and give himself so many levels of upgrades he basically went the speed of sound the moment he got off the ramp, circumnavigating the “globe” multiple times before crashing down in the path of bicycling Godzilla. XD It was delightful, as are all his “weird mobile games” videos. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice to one early on, then stuck in a reblog about how The Smiler would wear light-up Sketchers sneakers as a human (mine TOTALLY would) for Friday and another round of the “12 Pains of Christmas” Corpse Bride/The Nightmare Before Christmas music video I reblogged ages ago and keep bringing back up periodically for Saturday. :P So at least the Victor Luvs Alice queue is set for the remainder of the week!
And -- that's about it! :) I don't plan to stay up too late tonight just because I'm trying not to wreck my sleep schedule any more than it already is, though I'm allowing myself maybe another half-hour or so of looking at TV Tropes. XD And tomorrow -- okay, main goals are to answer Ace's FF.net PM; catch up on Call Me Kevin in the YouTube Subs and keep up on OXmas; play some Sims 4 and see if I can get Alice that final promotion and the good bed already; and continue my workouts. *nods* Sounds reasonable. . .let's see what I can manage! Night all!
Work – I have to admit, not too bad for my last day of work before the year ends. The actual working part of the day was very quiet – pretty much exclusively cleaning up duplicates. We did have our Christmas lunch, and I ended up getting a calzone so big I only ate half of it and brought the other half home in a big old Ziplock bag. And we did do the gift exchange right afterward – everyone was very happy with their birdfeeders, I was glad to see! And I got some nice stuff in return, including seasonal kitchen towels with polar bears on them (Mom quite liked them); toasted-almond-scented foaming soap (in the bathroom); a wooden tree Christmas ornament (Mom hung that on one of her new shelves); various candies and mints (including a little box of Ferrero Rocher and a tin of French rose-flavored mints); a little teacup-shaped writing pad and pen; a head massager thing; a pair of soft bed socks; a tube of lip balm; and a number of little pocket tissue packs. So yeah, not a bad haul, and I’m glad it wasn’t absolutely mental. And very glad I don’t have to go in again anytime soon!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with the Live Oxventure “Wedded Redemption!” Corazon’s attempt to choke out the servant he’d just barely convinced to go into the isolating corridor hit a crit 1, leading to him attempting the choke-out just as the servant bent over to tie his shoes and doing a weird backflip instead over him before thudding comically to the floor. The servant was somewhat nonplussed. Corazon then tried to convince the guy that the “not-agency” said that he should have all the guy’s clothes, then attempted to chop him in the neck to knock him out, which ended up as more of an aggressive encouraging pat. The annoyed servant said that this wasn’t even his real job, and Corazon attempted to get him to follow his dreams and leave his clothes behind as a symbol, only to be told the guy’s real job was as one of Featherby’s sommeliers. However, the conversation did actually bear fruit for Corazon – the guy admitted to being pissed that he’d been dragged here to work on his day off for no pay because Featherby was too cheap to hire temporary staff (which is how he knew Corazon was talking out of his ass), but despite being disgruntled, he didn’t want Featherby to DIE, the man pays his salary. He was open to maiming, though. XD Corazon thanked him and hurried away and quickly told the others that he’d awesomely infiltrated the servants and learned they don’t want their employer dead if only because that means no money. Everyone kindly believed him. XD
With that, we cut back to Egbert, still out in the hedge maze – and a bad roll meant that he was still lost in there and had just heard the dinner bell! Desperate not to miss the meal, he ran back through the hedges to get to the dining hall. He tried to bargain that this was a Strength/Athletics roll, but Johnny insisted it was a Constitution saving throw against the hedges. . .and then it proved not to matter because he got 21 with his modifiers. XD Johnny decided the result was that he punched perfect silhouettes of himself running through the hedges (like a hedge flipbook of sorts), and skidded into the dining hall without a scratch on him (though with numerous scratches on the nice floors thanks to his dragonborn claws).
And so began dinner! Corazon and Prudence were seated near each other and Viscount Featherby himself; Aubrey and Merilwen were seated across from each other, near Lord Fortescue, who was being fed bisque by his manservant Henry; and Egbert was down the kids’ end of the table. XD Aubrey, seeing an opportunity for a plan, asked if Merilwen could somehow get Henry to leave the room briefly. Merilwen faked a ginormous sneeze and – thanks to a high Charisma/Performance roll – managed to smack the bowl of bisque all over the unfortunate Henry, before luring him away to the isolating corridor with the promise that she knew a magical way to clean him up. Aubrey followed, used his magics (I believe he’s a sorcerer!) to alter his appearance to be that of Henry, then came back to feed Lord Fortescue his bisque (before the man could figure out how to use a spoon himself and thus put Henry out of a job), before quietly saying that the preparations were all in order. Johnny was gobsmacked at someone actually having a good, subtle plan going on. XD However, what this actually revealed is that Lord Fortescue did NOT have any plans on murdering Viscount Featherby – he was genuinely a bit puzzled about what Aubrey was going in about, and said that while he didn’t LIKE Featherby and that his daughter Michaela shouldn’t feel obligated to laugh at his jokes, he wasn’t about to take him out of the picture entirely. Aubrey then had the horrible realization that he’d condemned himself to playing manservant to this man for probably the rest of the reception (meanwhile, Merilwen tried using Destroy Water to get the bisque out of the real Henry’s suit, only to create a horrible dry stain and dehydrate him. . .and then used Create Water to make him a refreshing fog XD).
And then Viscount Featherby got up to make a Father of the Bride speech, and Johnny asked for Wisdom/Perception rolls from those still present! Corazon: 22! Prudence: nat 20! Aubrey: crit 1! Egbert: talking to the kids about how cool the hedge maze is! XD Corazon and Prudence correctly spotted that Featherby’s wine glass was smoking in the classic “video game poisoned” way – Prudence went to smack it out of his hand with Mage Hand, only for Corazon to get huffy because Mage Hand is HIS thing damn it and start dueling her for the pleasure. (Aubrey then pointed out that he can ALSO cast Mage Hand. XD) Which resulted in the wine glass being successfully smacked away, yes (melting a painting in the process), but also in Viscount Featherby being smacked around by invisible hands as they engaged in a magical slapfight. XD Meanwhile, Aubrey became convinced that some dark necromancer was going to reanimate one of the main courses – an enormous cooked swan with head still attached – and cast Firebolt upon it, making it explode and sending swan grease EVERYWHERE. The other guests were naturally unnerved by this, but Corazon managed to save things by convincing everyone to just applaud the Viscount’s speech, which consisted of an awkward “didn’t rehearse this” beginning, being slapped around, and then saying that he hoped he and his daughter and daughter-in-law could share many laughs together and that he was eager to tell everyone about his new investments in “cryptic currency.” XD Also, Egbert got the wishbone – after hoovering up all the meat on it, he played with a kid and easily snapped it, and wished for the killer to reveal himself in an embarrassing way, since it was really the only contribution he’d made to the actual investigation so far. Johnny was actually sad to tell him that wishbone wishes aren’t a thing in G’eth, aww.
After the speech, though, one of the guests huffily went off – Corazon and Prudence promptly followed, and found him muttering to himself by the big wine pool. Prudence cast Clairvoyance and was able to pick up that he was muttering about the “cryptic currency” and how you can only spend it if you answer its riddle and how it was such a STUPID idea for money. Corazon, for his part, decided to do a cool sneaky slide over to the guy –
Crit 1. Thanks to the swan grease that got splattered everywhere, turns out he was extra slippy on the floor and rammed into the back of the guy’s knees. Corazon spun it as wanting to get to the wine before everyone else, and then said he’d overheard the guy’s mutterings and that it sounded like he wanted Featherby dead. The startled man – who now identified himself as one of Featherby’s business partners – demurred, even when Corazon offered himself up as an assassin – though that was partly because he couldn’t PAY Corazon, only having the awful cryptic currency on him (the coin asks its riddles when you pull it out, and if you fail get the correct answer, you have to wait fifteen minutes before trying again. Corazon promptly decided he hated it. XD). He in fact seemed quite concerned that someone was trying to kill Featherby, as he actually counted the guy as a friend, and said that he’d be willing to help. Corazon got Prudence to come over and brought her up to speed – she, however, wasn’t convinced by the business partner’s words, and attempted to waterboard him in the wine. A poor Strength roll meant she only kicked him in the shins, however, and his repeated protestations of innocence finally brought her around. Corazon, upset, said this ruled out all three leads they had, while Prudence brought the business partner up to speed on the poisoned wine (he’d missed that part, distracted either by the cryptic currency or the exploding swan) –
And when I left off, the partner was telling them that only Featherby’s head sommelier would have had access to that wine. Because just because Corazon spoke to ONE servant who didn’t want Featherby dead, that doesn’t mean they ALL feel that way. :D Tomorrow, I presume the hunt for that sommelier begins!
2. Continue writing gift fics: Check – finished up editing Ace’s today, which was their fem!Leo and Klaus from the anime/manga Blood Blockade Battlefront attending a Mad Hatter Haberdashery tea party with Richard and the rest of the gang, after having already met and befriended Victor and Alice in previous works. The two are a little embarrassed that stuff in Secundus is still throwing them, given they’re from the weirdest place on planet Earth, Hellsalem’s lot, but Victor has pointed out that even if they’re used to their local brand of weird, this separate brand of weird is allowed to confuse them. :p And that, happily, is the final gift fic, so I am GOOD for this upcoming Sunday, yay! :D
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Eh – three-fourths check, as I wasn’t able to get to one of the Subs videos uploaded today. But tomorrow is a new day, and a day where I don’t have to go to work, so I will be catching up then! In the meantime –
A) Started, of course, with OXmas – “XMAS CHALLENGE DAY 12! Hitman Santa Costume Change Challenge | Tournament of Champions 2022!” This was Andy versus Ellen, with a bit of a different Hitman challenge – this one wasn’t about murder so much as it was about fashion. Specifically, both Andy and Ellen got ten minutes in the Whittleton Creek level, and – starting in the Santa outfit – they both had to change outfits as many times as possible in those ten minutes (without dying – if you died before the ten minutes were up, that was your time). Mike was there as the adjudicator and costume-counter, deciding what counted as a unique costume and what didn’t (basically, you couldn’t dress up in the same policeman uniform twice, but he would and did allow two construction worker outfits as separate changes because they had unique shirts). Andy went first and after a few careful choke-outs, decided to go Full Mike and just start a murder spree to get more costumes more quickly. XD He ended up with nine costume changes altogether (including policeman, gardener, scientist, named character James Battey, the two different flavors of construction worker, guard in hi-vis vest, cupcake seller, and exterminator) before his many and varied crimes caught up with him and he was taken down at about the seven-and-a-half minute mark. Ellen, by contrast, started more leisurely and did TRY to keep it to choke-outs at first (though she did snap a man’s neck by accident), but eventually succumbed to the lure of shooting people and putting axes into their heads (whispered to her by devil-on-shoulder Mike XD). She ended up with most of the same costumes as Andy, but also added random nurse by the pond, the guy trying to help the politician with his polling, and a regular bodyguard before going down in the last few seconds of the challenge (as she did the guard in plain sight of his buddies AND a security camera). She ended up with ELEVEN costume changes in the end, and thus won the Christmas point! w00!
And according to the comments, this means that Jane AND Andy are out of the running for Christmas Ultra-Champ! Jane because, while my math was wrong and she SHOULD get one more challenge, she can only score one more point and thus have a maximum of two; Andy because he HAS completed all of his challenges at this point (he’s been involved with six, which is the actual max) and is stuck at three. Meaning this competition just came down to Luke, Ellen, and Mike. . .interesting. . .
B) Then it was time for ONE of Josh Way’s SKETCHY videos of the day, as (thanks to the above and then getting my dessert cookies), I was running low on time – “Little Quacker from Tom and Jerry!” I – do not remember this baby duck character at ALL, but then again, I don’t remember anything from any Tom and Jerry cartoons I watched growing up, so. . .he’s a deliberately-overly-cute baby duck from the series that Josh liked the design of, and that’s what’s important here. XD
C) And finally, we had GrayStillPlays and “When you attach a $1,000,000 engine to a $10 bike” – aka Gray Plays Bike Hop: Crazy BMX Bbke jump! Yes, according to YouTube, that IS the spelling of the name of the weird mobile game he played today. This was one of those “jump the furthest” games, featuring a guy on a bike with a rocket strapped to his back leaping off a ramp and trying to make it farther and farther each time, going from a random field into a city, into a beach, into alien-infested farmland – the board actually went on for quite a while! Also you got extra coins for smacking into people. Gray was content to play relatively normally at first – slowly upgrading his rockets and bike (getting himself a pig companion in the process), testing his boosts to see how far he could go (pretty damn far), trying to hit as many people as possible (he was particularly keen on getting the discount Power Rangers hanging out on the road), getting slightly spooked out by the various fast food mascots (Fry Guy and Soda Aardvark DID look freaky, not gonna lie), geeking out over the new hats he was winning (one even expanded and retracted all on its own) – but then he got impatient and got his Hax-making friend to give him a bunch of coins and gems so he could upgrade everything to full, turn himself into an alien, and give himself so many levels of upgrades he basically went the speed of sound the moment he got off the ramp, circumnavigating the “globe” multiple times before crashing down in the path of bicycling Godzilla. XD It was delightful, as are all his “weird mobile games” videos. XD
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – reset the queue speed on Victor Luvs Alice to one early on, then stuck in a reblog about how The Smiler would wear light-up Sketchers sneakers as a human (mine TOTALLY would) for Friday and another round of the “12 Pains of Christmas” Corpse Bride/The Nightmare Before Christmas music video I reblogged ages ago and keep bringing back up periodically for Saturday. :P So at least the Victor Luvs Alice queue is set for the remainder of the week!
And -- that's about it! :) I don't plan to stay up too late tonight just because I'm trying not to wreck my sleep schedule any more than it already is, though I'm allowing myself maybe another half-hour or so of looking at TV Tropes. XD And tomorrow -- okay, main goals are to answer Ace's FF.net PM; catch up on Call Me Kevin in the YouTube Subs and keep up on OXmas; play some Sims 4 and see if I can get Alice that final promotion and the good bed already; and continue my workouts. *nods* Sounds reasonable. . .let's see what I can manage! Night all!
