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Busy Friday
Mar. 3rd, 2023 11:48 pmLot happened today, and I'm still catching up on it all, honestly, so let me give you the round-up --
Work – More annoying than I would have liked – I had a long GL in the morning, just enough credit card calls to be a bit of a pain, and of course near the end of the day I found a bunch of stuff that the credit card company hadn’t put on, so – yeah. That’ll be a conversation on Monday. *sigh* Also, I somehow scraped a little hole out of my finger, so I’ve had to wear a bandaid over it the whole day. Meeeh. At least now it’s the weekend!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – one final night on the bike, one final night with the Live Oxventure “Bride Or Die!” With Katie having given Dob the “I am going to hunt you down and make it SOOO slow” speech, the skeletons gave their speech praising the wedding, hoping Dob and Dob’s wife had plenty of children who weren’t orphans, and if the kids did become orphans, the skeletons would look after them. Corazon then started his best man’s speech, with Dob trying to use that as a distraction to escape with the others, only for Corazon to narrate what he was doing. XD With nothing left to do before Katie went critical, the gang all tried to cheese it –
And the boys failed their Strength/Athletics rolls HARD. Merilwen managed a 13, though, and Prudence just flew out with a dirty 20, so they ended up outside just before one of Katie’s henchmen barred the door to the ruin. Johnny allowed them a free action as the combat initiative was rolled (Dob, who very much did not want to go first, ended up going first, as Corazon – usually the master of these things – only got 9) – after dithering about whether they wanted to help their friends or go hit the bar while it was still in its “open” phase (first hour, then you gotta pay), they decided to help once Merilwen remembered she had Stoneshape and could just put a doorway into the wall next to the door they’d barred. Prudence decided to help by “clearing the way” with a pair of Agonizing Blasts – one went down the aisle and knocked some people over, the other went wild and killed old Charley, the dude they’d hired to drive the “just married” cart. Whoops. XD
Anyway, time for combat – Katie and her thieves versus the Oxventurers plus their skeletons! Dob, going first, decided to be practical and turn himself invisible, then bowled over some guys who were threatening Corazon (who, due to his position in the initiative, was just like “huh”). Egbert, going second, also decided to be practical!
By throwing a “warning bomb” to get everyone to clear the church. This was, as you might expect, just one of his regular bombs, thrown as a warning. Hilariously, everyone succeeded the Dex save except Dob, leading to the bomb landing on his head and exploding on him for 14 points of fire damage. *wince* Johnny was nice and said it didn’t break his invisibility – just painted him with an outline of soot, fire, and Charley’s giblets. And then Egbert pointed out that he goes twice per turn and threw ANOTHER bomb, this one a bit more targeted. This time, things went a bit more to plan, with Dob and Corazon avoiding the bomb and the crowd taking the brunt of it – after some back-and-forth, it was ruled Egbert killed twelve people, including two who just didn’t have top halves anymore. La Vauche Mauve had fortunately already closed their eyes at this point. XD The skeletons ended up just idling through their go (as Dob was insistent he’d given them the day off and refused to give them commands), and Katie attempted to wang a knife at Dob on hers, but missed and nailed a henchman instead. Dob chose to believe she’d deliberately missed because she couldn’t go through with the murder at the last second. :p This brought it around to Merilwen and Prudence –
Who cast Moonbeam and Hunger of Hadar (or “Hungry Hungry Hadar,” as I am sure it is going to be known from now on around these parts), both centered on the thieves. Corazon, realizing bad shit was about to go down, cast Grease down the aisle and belly-slid his way out of there, straight over to the bar, where he ordered a fruity cocktail and continued watching the action through his telescope.
He regretted this when the mob’s turn came around, they wasted their action trying to find Dob with their knives, and – well. They failed all their saving throws, and Merilwen and Prudence rolled VERY well on their damage, leading to, essentially, Moonbeam searing everyone’s flesh off, and then the tentacles of Hungry Hungry Hadar smashing the bones to pieces with cold and acid damage. Essentially all that was left was a bone broth. Corazon was very much put off his drink, as you might imagine. XD Dob, deciding it was DEFINITELY time to go now that the bride’s side was basically mulch, summoned the skeletons back to their hammer and – to prevent her following them – cast Hideous Laughter on Katie to paralyze her with laughter. This did require him to tell a very funny joke –
Merilwen suggested “your relationship,” which even JOHNNY thought was cold. Dob rolled with it, though, and it worked – Katie became so doubled-over with laughter, she fell over her high heels and onto the floor, practically retching out the “HA-HA-HA”s. And then Egbert decided he wanted to do one last thing before they fled. . .
Namely, get a certain umbrella full of bees he’s been carrying around ever since Prudence gave it to him as a get-well present, shove it up Katie’s pearl head, AND OPEN IT. Leaving Katie to inhale bees as she continued to laugh madly. I – you know, I shouldn’t assume, characters have survived weirder in this game, but it really FEELS like she should be dead. Damn.
And so the story ended with the gang fleeing on the “Just Married” cart (now, thanks to the dripping remains of Charley, reading only “Marred”), with Dob telling the gang they must feel foolish now, thinking that Katie didn’t love him and was trying to poison him! Turns out he didn’t love her, so there. And also he finally got a new lute from a dimension of demon instruments, that will remind him of this every time he so much as thinks of it. XD But, uh, he’s no longer being slowly poisoned? XD Oh man, this lot. . .I look forward to starting “Legacy of Dragons” in the future! But, for the next couple of weeks at least, it’s gonna be back to Volisport and its various scoundrels, because I’m eager to see where THAT’S going too. . .
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen”: Check, if not in the way I intended – I got on too late to actually do a proper new page (game night ran long thanks to a very tense game of BTTF Monopoly where I had an early advantage with the first and only monopoly for a while. . .but then I had to trade some cards to actually pay people their rents, and Mom landed on Free Parking and got the MASSIVE amount of money from various fines and such that had racked up there (mostly from Dad CONSTANTLY going to Jail) and once she started spending it all on upgrades, it was all over), so instead I took some time to look up how prosthetic legs actually stay on (mostly through suction, though pin models (attached to special liner socks) and full-on vacuum sealed ones (with longer liner socks) exist too), then edited the scene of Rita almost losing her prosthetic leg appropriately (her leg now holds on with suction, but the liner got a little fucked up, leading to it getting loose). So now that’s in-line with reality (even if I’m hinting that prosthesis technology in this world is rather more advanced than ours). Next week we’ll continue with actual new content!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – managed to fit in GrayStillPlays and “Which construction vehicle can jump the highest obstacle?” tonight, yaay. The game was Construction Ramp Jumping, and it was your usual “ramp the car and jump to the target, get coins for all the destruction and random flips you do along the way,” only this time the “cars” were all stuff like construction equipment (like the steamroller and the forklift), emergency vehicles (like the firetruck), and big old tractor trailers (like the gas tanker and the standard tractor trailer). And Gray had to do things like ramp the steamroller over a junkyard; ramp the tractor trailer over a busy highway and some bridges; ramp a luggage carrier over a bunch of planes at the airport; and ramp a crane truck over a bunch of oil rigs, deserted islands, and wind turbines. XD All the while smashing into crash test dummies, planes, cranes, and – for a big money maker – random gas tanks on the side of the road. That board where he was ramping the tractor trailer proved to be so lucrative he was able to earn two million coins on it. Which is good, as he needed all of that money to upgrade the crane truck for that ginormous final ramp. XD I’ll give this one credit for not being a straight-up copy-paste of a lot of these games, but as usual, Gray is the one that makes it fun. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – just finished queuing the three ask replies I had over at Valice Multiverse. Glad it wasn’t anything more difficult!
Whew! Yeah, the combination of work stuff and that Monopoly game kinda fried my brain a little bit. Glad I was able to get that writing done and Gray watched, but I think I'm off to just chill for a bit as I finish up being social. Tomorrow's goals are to write some more on "Londerland Bloodlines" (start getting through Kanker's dialogue at least); play Sims 4 and try to get through the day without just doing more building; and try and get a couple of things out of the old Watch Later on YouTube. We'll see how well I do! Night all!
Work – More annoying than I would have liked – I had a long GL in the morning, just enough credit card calls to be a bit of a pain, and of course near the end of the day I found a bunch of stuff that the credit card company hadn’t put on, so – yeah. That’ll be a conversation on Monday. *sigh* Also, I somehow scraped a little hole out of my finger, so I’ve had to wear a bandaid over it the whole day. Meeeh. At least now it’s the weekend!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – one final night on the bike, one final night with the Live Oxventure “Bride Or Die!” With Katie having given Dob the “I am going to hunt you down and make it SOOO slow” speech, the skeletons gave their speech praising the wedding, hoping Dob and Dob’s wife had plenty of children who weren’t orphans, and if the kids did become orphans, the skeletons would look after them. Corazon then started his best man’s speech, with Dob trying to use that as a distraction to escape with the others, only for Corazon to narrate what he was doing. XD With nothing left to do before Katie went critical, the gang all tried to cheese it –
And the boys failed their Strength/Athletics rolls HARD. Merilwen managed a 13, though, and Prudence just flew out with a dirty 20, so they ended up outside just before one of Katie’s henchmen barred the door to the ruin. Johnny allowed them a free action as the combat initiative was rolled (Dob, who very much did not want to go first, ended up going first, as Corazon – usually the master of these things – only got 9) – after dithering about whether they wanted to help their friends or go hit the bar while it was still in its “open” phase (first hour, then you gotta pay), they decided to help once Merilwen remembered she had Stoneshape and could just put a doorway into the wall next to the door they’d barred. Prudence decided to help by “clearing the way” with a pair of Agonizing Blasts – one went down the aisle and knocked some people over, the other went wild and killed old Charley, the dude they’d hired to drive the “just married” cart. Whoops. XD
Anyway, time for combat – Katie and her thieves versus the Oxventurers plus their skeletons! Dob, going first, decided to be practical and turn himself invisible, then bowled over some guys who were threatening Corazon (who, due to his position in the initiative, was just like “huh”). Egbert, going second, also decided to be practical!
By throwing a “warning bomb” to get everyone to clear the church. This was, as you might expect, just one of his regular bombs, thrown as a warning. Hilariously, everyone succeeded the Dex save except Dob, leading to the bomb landing on his head and exploding on him for 14 points of fire damage. *wince* Johnny was nice and said it didn’t break his invisibility – just painted him with an outline of soot, fire, and Charley’s giblets. And then Egbert pointed out that he goes twice per turn and threw ANOTHER bomb, this one a bit more targeted. This time, things went a bit more to plan, with Dob and Corazon avoiding the bomb and the crowd taking the brunt of it – after some back-and-forth, it was ruled Egbert killed twelve people, including two who just didn’t have top halves anymore. La Vauche Mauve had fortunately already closed their eyes at this point. XD The skeletons ended up just idling through their go (as Dob was insistent he’d given them the day off and refused to give them commands), and Katie attempted to wang a knife at Dob on hers, but missed and nailed a henchman instead. Dob chose to believe she’d deliberately missed because she couldn’t go through with the murder at the last second. :p This brought it around to Merilwen and Prudence –
Who cast Moonbeam and Hunger of Hadar (or “Hungry Hungry Hadar,” as I am sure it is going to be known from now on around these parts), both centered on the thieves. Corazon, realizing bad shit was about to go down, cast Grease down the aisle and belly-slid his way out of there, straight over to the bar, where he ordered a fruity cocktail and continued watching the action through his telescope.
He regretted this when the mob’s turn came around, they wasted their action trying to find Dob with their knives, and – well. They failed all their saving throws, and Merilwen and Prudence rolled VERY well on their damage, leading to, essentially, Moonbeam searing everyone’s flesh off, and then the tentacles of Hungry Hungry Hadar smashing the bones to pieces with cold and acid damage. Essentially all that was left was a bone broth. Corazon was very much put off his drink, as you might imagine. XD Dob, deciding it was DEFINITELY time to go now that the bride’s side was basically mulch, summoned the skeletons back to their hammer and – to prevent her following them – cast Hideous Laughter on Katie to paralyze her with laughter. This did require him to tell a very funny joke –
Merilwen suggested “your relationship,” which even JOHNNY thought was cold. Dob rolled with it, though, and it worked – Katie became so doubled-over with laughter, she fell over her high heels and onto the floor, practically retching out the “HA-HA-HA”s. And then Egbert decided he wanted to do one last thing before they fled. . .
Namely, get a certain umbrella full of bees he’s been carrying around ever since Prudence gave it to him as a get-well present, shove it up Katie’s pearl head, AND OPEN IT. Leaving Katie to inhale bees as she continued to laugh madly. I – you know, I shouldn’t assume, characters have survived weirder in this game, but it really FEELS like she should be dead. Damn.
And so the story ended with the gang fleeing on the “Just Married” cart (now, thanks to the dripping remains of Charley, reading only “Marred”), with Dob telling the gang they must feel foolish now, thinking that Katie didn’t love him and was trying to poison him! Turns out he didn’t love her, so there. And also he finally got a new lute from a dimension of demon instruments, that will remind him of this every time he so much as thinks of it. XD But, uh, he’s no longer being slowly poisoned? XD Oh man, this lot. . .I look forward to starting “Legacy of Dragons” in the future! But, for the next couple of weeks at least, it’s gonna be back to Volisport and its various scoundrels, because I’m eager to see where THAT’S going too. . .
2. Continue writing “The Joker And The Queen”: Check, if not in the way I intended – I got on too late to actually do a proper new page (game night ran long thanks to a very tense game of BTTF Monopoly where I had an early advantage with the first and only monopoly for a while. . .but then I had to trade some cards to actually pay people their rents, and Mom landed on Free Parking and got the MASSIVE amount of money from various fines and such that had racked up there (mostly from Dad CONSTANTLY going to Jail) and once she started spending it all on upgrades, it was all over), so instead I took some time to look up how prosthetic legs actually stay on (mostly through suction, though pin models (attached to special liner socks) and full-on vacuum sealed ones (with longer liner socks) exist too), then edited the scene of Rita almost losing her prosthetic leg appropriately (her leg now holds on with suction, but the liner got a little fucked up, leading to it getting loose). So now that’s in-line with reality (even if I’m hinting that prosthesis technology in this world is rather more advanced than ours). Next week we’ll continue with actual new content!
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – managed to fit in GrayStillPlays and “Which construction vehicle can jump the highest obstacle?” tonight, yaay. The game was Construction Ramp Jumping, and it was your usual “ramp the car and jump to the target, get coins for all the destruction and random flips you do along the way,” only this time the “cars” were all stuff like construction equipment (like the steamroller and the forklift), emergency vehicles (like the firetruck), and big old tractor trailers (like the gas tanker and the standard tractor trailer). And Gray had to do things like ramp the steamroller over a junkyard; ramp the tractor trailer over a busy highway and some bridges; ramp a luggage carrier over a bunch of planes at the airport; and ramp a crane truck over a bunch of oil rigs, deserted islands, and wind turbines. XD All the while smashing into crash test dummies, planes, cranes, and – for a big money maker – random gas tanks on the side of the road. That board where he was ramping the tractor trailer proved to be so lucrative he was able to earn two million coins on it. Which is good, as he needed all of that money to upgrade the crane truck for that ginormous final ramp. XD I’ll give this one credit for not being a straight-up copy-paste of a lot of these games, but as usual, Gray is the one that makes it fun. :p
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – just finished queuing the three ask replies I had over at Valice Multiverse. Glad it wasn’t anything more difficult!
Whew! Yeah, the combination of work stuff and that Monopoly game kinda fried my brain a little bit. Glad I was able to get that writing done and Gray watched, but I think I'm off to just chill for a bit as I finish up being social. Tomorrow's goals are to write some more on "Londerland Bloodlines" (start getting through Kanker's dialogue at least); play Sims 4 and try to get through the day without just doing more building; and try and get a couple of things out of the old Watch Later on YouTube. We'll see how well I do! Night all!
