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Productive Thursday I Feel
Mar. 2nd, 2023 11:50 pmAnd hopefully my to-do list will bear that out as I get ready for bed --
Work – Somewhat quieter day today – actually had the time to help with some roster maintenance tasks, which was a surprise! Also talked to the credit card contact person (who kept saying she’d have to talk to her own supervisor about the stuff I brought up, which – *sigh*), and of course the minute I tried doing some reversals to fix stuff is when the only two proper credit card calls of the day came in. Meeh. But it wasn’t horrible, and I actually had a decent ride home, so I will take it. One more day!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike for a bit of a longer ride tonight (to make sure I finished this by tomorrow night), back to the Live Oxventure “Bride Or Die!” As Bearilwen only rolled an eleven on her attempt to intimidate the Bad Boggles, they were not at all intimidated and instead just tried to warn her away from their field. For a moment, everyone was stumped –
And then Dob was like “I just pick six of the flowers” because boggles are tiny and these ones aren’t very good at their job. XD Indeed, as he grabbed the flowers needed, the Bad Boggles began yelling at each other to “get the kit,” all with no one actually moving to get said kit. Dob quickly told them that he was the one prophesied to be immune to the poison, and Corazon inserted himself as Dob’s sidekick Kickman, who kicks people and if they die from it they weren’t righteous. Dob got all the Bad Boggles to kneel in supplication, then had them declare war on the other boggles because he could, apparently. XD The Bad Boggles were all for this “war with concerning rhetoric,” to paraphrase how Johnny put it, and began preparing (starting an industrial revolution at Dob’s suggestion). They also gave Dob the “antidote” to the poison – an “ep-pee-pen,” aka a giant syringe full of their urine. Dob took it, careful to keep it away from the flowers, then as they headed off, used Prestidigitation on it to make it taste like vodka and drank it. Everyone was appropriately grossed out. XD
With this sidequest sorted, it was time to head onto the actual stag do! Corazon had set up tents and a bar (with bartender) in a nice clearing – he’d also TRIED to book some boggle exotic dancers, but they’d been drafted into the “war with concerning rhetoric.” An elf goddess of the sea eventually turned up instead and did a bizarre dance simulating the mating of dolphins – Prudence was into it. XD Dob got Prudence’s help to make some fancy “buttonholes” from the flowers to keep them nice (in exchange for making her Maid of Dishonor, as she insisted – Johnny HAPPILY gave her inspiration) – however, Prudence got a crit 1 on the roll, and managed to make knots that spelled out horrible expletives against Katie (with the flower dotting the “i,” which was a nice touch). Fortunately Dob was way too piss-drunk to notice. XD They also sat around the campfire and told spooky stories – namely, Corazon attempted to tell one about a dude who married a woman with a jewel for a head only to get poisoned and die, and Dob deliberately stayed oblivious. XD Eventually, though, he insisted on knowing who thought they had a legitimate reason to object to his marriage to Katie –
Cue not only the other Oxventurers, but the AUDIENCE raising their hands. XD The others tried to bring up the “poisoning” thing again, and cited other worries – he wasn’t going to have time to go adventuring, he wouldn’t be able to do loads of fun carousing, he’d be housebroken (but in a bad way!) – but Dob was insistent: he wanted to marry Katie, and that was that. Cue a lot of silent boozing until the elf goddess showed up, and finally everyone drifting into a drunken sleep to the sound of Boggle War With Concerning Rhetoric. XD
And then it was morning (Corazon proving to be the WORST sort of “post-drunken-revelry” kind of morning person, very loudly making himself a bacon sandwich), and the group trekked their way back to the venue, a lovely crumbling church made pretty with tons of flowers and bunting and whatnot (metaphor for Dob and Katie’s relationship?). Dob’s side was made up of mostly people who’d he dragged along on adventures (Iron the fishman was explicitly stated to be there, while Bob was explicitly stated to have declined) and the skeletons with their flaming skull foreman and that one donkey they skeletonized back a while ago, while Katie’s side was made up of a whole army of ne’er-do-wells brawling and her parents (a giant clam and a piece of grit – it WAS pointed out later that Katie wasn’t BORN with a pearl on her head, they’d PUT it there, and Corazon explained he’d put the clam and the giant piece of grit on their heads last night). Everyone got into positions; Corazon took an absurdly long time walking down the aisle; Egbert thanked his god for looking down upon them and started the ceremony asking if anyone had any objections –
Cue Merilwen putting her hand up and (despite Dob’s attempt to cut her off early with clapping) saying Dob could do better. There was a lot of gasping, and Egbert fumbled with what he should do, because, well, being ordained as a paladin didn’t cover THIS! He consulted his god, who was similarly stumped, and Dob quickly just imitated said god’s voice to get him to go on. Egbert gamely gathered himself and asked if Dob took Katie to be his wife –
Cue ANOTHER interdimensional rip opening up (Egbert: “Hungry Hungry Hadar!” Prudence: “It’s not me!”) and a demon dressed in tweed stepping out. He introduced himself as a “doubt demon,” and explained that he’d been drawn here because of immense doubt. Specifically, doubt coming from Dob about his union. The Doubt Demon told Dob that he would set him an appropriate challenge to overcome or otherwise prove he had no more doubts, and if he failed, the demon would cut off his head. And probably the heads of everyone else in the room, because once you start. . . Dob accepted, and the Doubt Demon presented him with the challenge of singing a song from his heart (after getting him a new lute from a musical instrument dimension, as Dob still hadn’t replaced his old one). Dob took the lute, prepared himself, and began singing a love song –
To Liliana. Now, admittedly he DID lead that he’d written this song BEFORE meeting Katie, but as Corazon pointed out, he COULD have swapped out the name at least, as they have the same number of syllables. But yeah, Dob brought the house down with an ode to his beloved archnemesis (to the point where Ellen got the whole audience to start waving their phones with their flashlights on like lighters). The Doubt Demon, stunned by this, admitted that Dob had managed to surprise him (despite him doing this job for 12,000 years) and that he’d passed the challenge. And then he got pulled away to his next appointment, leaving Dob to face an eerily calm Katie. He admitted that he’d lied to her about extinguishing the flame in his heart for Liliana (honestly, he’d lied to HIMSELF about that), and while he loved her, he also still loved Liliana, so. . . Katie, very calmly, asked him to recall how this had all kicked off, with him running after her for two days to get the item they needed and then asking her to run away with him, and how it had been so romantic. . .and now she wanted him to run away from her. Dob anxiously asked if this was a “head start” sort of thing, and she just told him that he’d better hope she never caught up, because she’d make him wish the demon had whacked his head off. . .
Aaaand I left off with the skeletons starting their speech, having failed to read the room (possibly deliberately, given what they’re like). XD Tomorrow, we see if the final half-hour or so of this is a boss fight against Katie and her thieves!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice managed to make it over the drainage pit (spurred on by Carpenter trying to read Shakespeare in his own unique way), and navigated the twists and turns to Brother Kanker’s place with Mock’s help and Cheshire’s snark. She’s currently climbing into his twisted “cathedral,” ready to hear his little speech – we’ll see how the boss fight goes!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Well, my Watch Later keeps growing (OXBoxtra lists and Jon doing another video on Hitman: Freelancer are mainly to blame), but I did get ONE out the door, plus both my Subs videos –
A) First, the latest from Red Plumbob – “♦ Burglars ♦ Sims1 vs Sims2 vs Sims3!” Yes, a list that does not feature The Sims 4, because it’s the only base game that did not come with burglars. You need a mod for that. *shakehead* Anyway, it was the usual fascinating and amusing comparison between games, showing off how burglars, burglary, and getting your stuff back evolved over the games (namely, you only got insurance payouts in 1 and 2, but 3 actually gave you back your stuff – unless the person getting robbed was a Sims 2 werewolf who could attack the burglar and force them to give back their shit). A fairly simple subject – the basics of getting burgled didn’t change much from game to game, just how strongly Sims reacted – but a fun one!
B) Then it was over to the Subs for the latest from Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Kitty Poses and Expressions!” Josh digging out some old videos of him practicing various poses (taken from real-life cat videos and pictures he found) and expressions (all from the old noggin) of his unnamed cat character from his old abandoned webcomic “Sylvan Glade!” Back when the cat had a bit more of a raccoon coloration, complete with mask. XD They were very cute drawings, though, and Josh still liked them, and expressed an interest in doing more animal pics in general, and perhaps ones of his cat specifically. I’m game!
C) Then, of course, being Thursday, we had to end with the GrayStillPlays YouTube Shorts minisode – “Busting 5 Myths in GTA 5 #shorts!” Yup, another quick round of myth-busting in GTA V, featuring “you can’t skydive through two cranes in a row and survive” (you can if you’re very careful about where you aim yourself to get through the gaps in the cranes!); “you can’t fire an RPG at your feet and survive” (you CAN if you fire it in the pond next to the amusement park – for some reason, if you shoot a missile at your feet there, it just zips away into the water to assault other pedestrians); “you can stand on the ‘This Does Not Exist’ hidden sign in midair” (nope – Gray tried it and went RIGHT through); “you can tow a jeep with soldiers in it and they won’t do anything to you” (YES – Gray tried it and the soldiers just kept trying to drive their jeep while he towed it, ignoring him entirely); and “you can kill a pedestrian by grinding your car against a house gate” (yes again – Gray tried it, and while his dialogue indicated it took a while to jerk it out of position, eventually it slammed closed on the poor pedestrian hanging out by the other side). Nice!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check on both! I got a fandom reblog into Valice Multiverse’s queue early (my regular partner is sick with COVID :( so no threads), which was followed up by an ask reply a little later; and I solved my dilemma regarding Song Saturday on Victor Luvs Alice by going deeper into the tag and picking an entirely different song for this week. XD I’ll come back to the song I was originally considering later!
*nods* I approve of all this. And now it is time to hit the sheets as I listen to the wind picking up outside. Reasonably nice today, but gonna be colder tomorrow, and we've got that rain-snow thing coming in overnight. . .March is DEFINITELY coming in like a lion this year! Hopefully it does indeed go out like a lamb. . .night all!
Work – Somewhat quieter day today – actually had the time to help with some roster maintenance tasks, which was a surprise! Also talked to the credit card contact person (who kept saying she’d have to talk to her own supervisor about the stuff I brought up, which – *sigh*), and of course the minute I tried doing some reversals to fix stuff is when the only two proper credit card calls of the day came in. Meeh. But it wasn’t horrible, and I actually had a decent ride home, so I will take it. One more day!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike for a bit of a longer ride tonight (to make sure I finished this by tomorrow night), back to the Live Oxventure “Bride Or Die!” As Bearilwen only rolled an eleven on her attempt to intimidate the Bad Boggles, they were not at all intimidated and instead just tried to warn her away from their field. For a moment, everyone was stumped –
And then Dob was like “I just pick six of the flowers” because boggles are tiny and these ones aren’t very good at their job. XD Indeed, as he grabbed the flowers needed, the Bad Boggles began yelling at each other to “get the kit,” all with no one actually moving to get said kit. Dob quickly told them that he was the one prophesied to be immune to the poison, and Corazon inserted himself as Dob’s sidekick Kickman, who kicks people and if they die from it they weren’t righteous. Dob got all the Bad Boggles to kneel in supplication, then had them declare war on the other boggles because he could, apparently. XD The Bad Boggles were all for this “war with concerning rhetoric,” to paraphrase how Johnny put it, and began preparing (starting an industrial revolution at Dob’s suggestion). They also gave Dob the “antidote” to the poison – an “ep-pee-pen,” aka a giant syringe full of their urine. Dob took it, careful to keep it away from the flowers, then as they headed off, used Prestidigitation on it to make it taste like vodka and drank it. Everyone was appropriately grossed out. XD
With this sidequest sorted, it was time to head onto the actual stag do! Corazon had set up tents and a bar (with bartender) in a nice clearing – he’d also TRIED to book some boggle exotic dancers, but they’d been drafted into the “war with concerning rhetoric.” An elf goddess of the sea eventually turned up instead and did a bizarre dance simulating the mating of dolphins – Prudence was into it. XD Dob got Prudence’s help to make some fancy “buttonholes” from the flowers to keep them nice (in exchange for making her Maid of Dishonor, as she insisted – Johnny HAPPILY gave her inspiration) – however, Prudence got a crit 1 on the roll, and managed to make knots that spelled out horrible expletives against Katie (with the flower dotting the “i,” which was a nice touch). Fortunately Dob was way too piss-drunk to notice. XD They also sat around the campfire and told spooky stories – namely, Corazon attempted to tell one about a dude who married a woman with a jewel for a head only to get poisoned and die, and Dob deliberately stayed oblivious. XD Eventually, though, he insisted on knowing who thought they had a legitimate reason to object to his marriage to Katie –
Cue not only the other Oxventurers, but the AUDIENCE raising their hands. XD The others tried to bring up the “poisoning” thing again, and cited other worries – he wasn’t going to have time to go adventuring, he wouldn’t be able to do loads of fun carousing, he’d be housebroken (but in a bad way!) – but Dob was insistent: he wanted to marry Katie, and that was that. Cue a lot of silent boozing until the elf goddess showed up, and finally everyone drifting into a drunken sleep to the sound of Boggle War With Concerning Rhetoric. XD
And then it was morning (Corazon proving to be the WORST sort of “post-drunken-revelry” kind of morning person, very loudly making himself a bacon sandwich), and the group trekked their way back to the venue, a lovely crumbling church made pretty with tons of flowers and bunting and whatnot (metaphor for Dob and Katie’s relationship?). Dob’s side was made up of mostly people who’d he dragged along on adventures (Iron the fishman was explicitly stated to be there, while Bob was explicitly stated to have declined) and the skeletons with their flaming skull foreman and that one donkey they skeletonized back a while ago, while Katie’s side was made up of a whole army of ne’er-do-wells brawling and her parents (a giant clam and a piece of grit – it WAS pointed out later that Katie wasn’t BORN with a pearl on her head, they’d PUT it there, and Corazon explained he’d put the clam and the giant piece of grit on their heads last night). Everyone got into positions; Corazon took an absurdly long time walking down the aisle; Egbert thanked his god for looking down upon them and started the ceremony asking if anyone had any objections –
Cue Merilwen putting her hand up and (despite Dob’s attempt to cut her off early with clapping) saying Dob could do better. There was a lot of gasping, and Egbert fumbled with what he should do, because, well, being ordained as a paladin didn’t cover THIS! He consulted his god, who was similarly stumped, and Dob quickly just imitated said god’s voice to get him to go on. Egbert gamely gathered himself and asked if Dob took Katie to be his wife –
Cue ANOTHER interdimensional rip opening up (Egbert: “Hungry Hungry Hadar!” Prudence: “It’s not me!”) and a demon dressed in tweed stepping out. He introduced himself as a “doubt demon,” and explained that he’d been drawn here because of immense doubt. Specifically, doubt coming from Dob about his union. The Doubt Demon told Dob that he would set him an appropriate challenge to overcome or otherwise prove he had no more doubts, and if he failed, the demon would cut off his head. And probably the heads of everyone else in the room, because once you start. . . Dob accepted, and the Doubt Demon presented him with the challenge of singing a song from his heart (after getting him a new lute from a musical instrument dimension, as Dob still hadn’t replaced his old one). Dob took the lute, prepared himself, and began singing a love song –
To Liliana. Now, admittedly he DID lead that he’d written this song BEFORE meeting Katie, but as Corazon pointed out, he COULD have swapped out the name at least, as they have the same number of syllables. But yeah, Dob brought the house down with an ode to his beloved archnemesis (to the point where Ellen got the whole audience to start waving their phones with their flashlights on like lighters). The Doubt Demon, stunned by this, admitted that Dob had managed to surprise him (despite him doing this job for 12,000 years) and that he’d passed the challenge. And then he got pulled away to his next appointment, leaving Dob to face an eerily calm Katie. He admitted that he’d lied to her about extinguishing the flame in his heart for Liliana (honestly, he’d lied to HIMSELF about that), and while he loved her, he also still loved Liliana, so. . . Katie, very calmly, asked him to recall how this had all kicked off, with him running after her for two days to get the item they needed and then asking her to run away with him, and how it had been so romantic. . .and now she wanted him to run away from her. Dob anxiously asked if this was a “head start” sort of thing, and she just told him that he’d better hope she never caught up, because she’d make him wish the demon had whacked his head off. . .
Aaaand I left off with the skeletons starting their speech, having failed to read the room (possibly deliberately, given what they’re like). XD Tomorrow, we see if the final half-hour or so of this is a boss fight against Katie and her thieves!
2. Continue writing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice managed to make it over the drainage pit (spurred on by Carpenter trying to read Shakespeare in his own unique way), and navigated the twists and turns to Brother Kanker’s place with Mock’s help and Cheshire’s snark. She’s currently climbing into his twisted “cathedral,” ready to hear his little speech – we’ll see how the boss fight goes!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Well, my Watch Later keeps growing (OXBoxtra lists and Jon doing another video on Hitman: Freelancer are mainly to blame), but I did get ONE out the door, plus both my Subs videos –
A) First, the latest from Red Plumbob – “♦ Burglars ♦ Sims1 vs Sims2 vs Sims3!” Yes, a list that does not feature The Sims 4, because it’s the only base game that did not come with burglars. You need a mod for that. *shakehead* Anyway, it was the usual fascinating and amusing comparison between games, showing off how burglars, burglary, and getting your stuff back evolved over the games (namely, you only got insurance payouts in 1 and 2, but 3 actually gave you back your stuff – unless the person getting robbed was a Sims 2 werewolf who could attack the burglar and force them to give back their shit). A fairly simple subject – the basics of getting burgled didn’t change much from game to game, just how strongly Sims reacted – but a fun one!
B) Then it was over to the Subs for the latest from Josh Way – “SKETCHY: Kitty Poses and Expressions!” Josh digging out some old videos of him practicing various poses (taken from real-life cat videos and pictures he found) and expressions (all from the old noggin) of his unnamed cat character from his old abandoned webcomic “Sylvan Glade!” Back when the cat had a bit more of a raccoon coloration, complete with mask. XD They were very cute drawings, though, and Josh still liked them, and expressed an interest in doing more animal pics in general, and perhaps ones of his cat specifically. I’m game!
C) Then, of course, being Thursday, we had to end with the GrayStillPlays YouTube Shorts minisode – “Busting 5 Myths in GTA 5 #shorts!” Yup, another quick round of myth-busting in GTA V, featuring “you can’t skydive through two cranes in a row and survive” (you can if you’re very careful about where you aim yourself to get through the gaps in the cranes!); “you can’t fire an RPG at your feet and survive” (you CAN if you fire it in the pond next to the amusement park – for some reason, if you shoot a missile at your feet there, it just zips away into the water to assault other pedestrians); “you can stand on the ‘This Does Not Exist’ hidden sign in midair” (nope – Gray tried it and went RIGHT through); “you can tow a jeep with soldiers in it and they won’t do anything to you” (YES – Gray tried it and the soldiers just kept trying to drive their jeep while he towed it, ignoring him entirely); and “you can kill a pedestrian by grinding your car against a house gate” (yes again – Gray tried it, and while his dialogue indicated it took a while to jerk it out of position, eventually it slammed closed on the poor pedestrian hanging out by the other side). Nice!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check on both! I got a fandom reblog into Valice Multiverse’s queue early (my regular partner is sick with COVID :( so no threads), which was followed up by an ask reply a little later; and I solved my dilemma regarding Song Saturday on Victor Luvs Alice by going deeper into the tag and picking an entirely different song for this week. XD I’ll come back to the song I was originally considering later!
*nods* I approve of all this. And now it is time to hit the sheets as I listen to the wind picking up outside. Reasonably nice today, but gonna be colder tomorrow, and we've got that rain-snow thing coming in overnight. . .March is DEFINITELY coming in like a lion this year! Hopefully it does indeed go out like a lamb. . .night all!
