Okay Tuesday

As usual, work wasn't great, and the weather was a little iffy (kinda cold and cloudy most of the day), but I got a good amount done this afternoon and evening --

Work – Another fairly “meh” day – while the phones were quieter, I started the day having to do a pledge for one of the people who works in the building – or, rather, FOUR pledges, as he supports multiple parishes. I also had to listen to Talky Coworker bitch and call someone to inform them they’d made the wrong type of gift. *sigh* But I got through pretty much all my exceptions and a few obituaries, and I got my lunch and my break, so can’t complain too much there. And the ride home was surprisingly good. Don’t expect that trend to last, but I’ll take it while it’s around!

To-Do List –

1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with Oxventure: Deadlands, “Forty Times A Killer, Part I!” We picked up with Silas, upon seeing that Senator Waxman’s spare shoes would be a good fit at least, agreeing to dress up as some rich man seeking treatment in the Sanitorium (which was called Hobb’s End, by the by). Though he refused to do so in the street and instead hopped in the stagecoach – Andy insisted on him making a Stealth roll to ensure no one saw his naked ass. XD Fortunately, Silas succeeded, and got dressed without issue. Well, without any issue other than the clothes being rather too big for him. Edie tried to help out with a bunch of bobby pins, but a poor Repair roll meant that didn’t go, uh, great. At least the top hat and the shoes looked good? The pair decided to go with what they had and headed inside with the help of the fancy mechanical bell-pull. They found themselves inside a big lobby, with a man at the reception desk who politely asked them their business –

Cue Silas putting on the world’s STUPIDEST accent and flailing around his arms while declaring he was early for his appointment, in a performance that kept making Ellen crack up and eventually earned him a benny from Andy. XD The receptionist quickly switched to talking to Edie once Silas claimed he was too sick to remember his name, and Edie pretended she was his caretaker and said that they were actually walk-ins, hoping to get some help for poor “Mr. Free.” Why, look at his clothes, he’s just wasting away! The receptionist agreed and commented that something must have happened to his voice as well – Silas tried to claim that everybody back East talked like this, prompting a glare from Edie and a muttered comment that he’d better not go to Louisiana anytime soon. XD At any rate, the receptionist was only too happy to pencil them in, talking up their amazing director Ducrow and highlighting a couple of the paintings of her on the wall – one of her looking imperious in front of the building, and one of her standing in front of a patient giving a thumbs-up in obvious hospital propaganda (“hospaganda,” Ellen riffed). The woman in the paintings definitely looked like their target, so the pair sat down to wait while one of the doctors, a Dr. Harker, was summoned. He arrived, both looking and talking like a creepy vampire – Silas kept up his “flailing around while talking ‘fancy’” act, and Dr. Harker agreed he would need treatment and took them on a brief tour of the ground floor, highlighting their guest suites and talking about what a medical genius Ducrow was. Though he refused to take them into the actual treatment room, claiming their methods were proprietary. . . Instead, they had to look at a picture of him looking even MORE like a vampire and Ducrow wearing a fruit hat nearby. XD “Mr. Free” was convinced and said he’d like to check in right away, so Dr. Harker took them to his office –

Where he asked if they had the ten thousand dollars necessary for the treatment. Silas promptly flailed in a way that allowed him to check his pockets, and a really good Notice roll allowed him to notice really well he had no money. Edie stepped in at this point to try and claim they had the money back in their transportation, “Mr. Free” really wasn’t well after all –

But Silas was like “fuck this” and instead punched Harker in the face. XD He did well, but the punch barely seemed to affect Harker at all, who finally realized that they weren’t who they said they were and went over to lock the doors into the office. He confirmed that Silas was definitely not who he said he was – Edie making a joke that “Nothing in life is free” and getting a benny for it – and thanked the two for coming along, as it saved him the trouble of finding more “receptacles” tonight. Edie immediately realized that Harker was in fact the “weird guy” that the kid’s friend had seen – Harker seemed kind of hurt by being called weird, so she kept doing it to annoy him. XD Harker instead said he was an experiment of Ducrow’s, and as he hadn’t died, she’d gifted him a new purpose in life. Silas was like “doing the accounts? That’s no gift!” Harker disagreed and pulled out a huge amputation knife –

An amputation knife that showed a DIFFERENT FACE in its reflection than his own, disturbingly mask-like one. Shortly thereafter, he dropped the act and the illusion, revealing himself to be a boil-ridden creature called a Pox Walker. D: Well, I think we know now why the few townsfolk that came back came back riddled with disease! Edie and Silas were like, “well, THIS man is NOT a doctor.” XD

And with that, combat started! Sort of, as Harker completely whiffed his first slash on Silas, who managed to get out of the way; Edie managed to land a minor hit on Harker with her derringer, leaving him shaken; and Silas yanked out his Colts and tried to fire – only to have gotten so sunk into his performance that he pulled them out wobbly-armed and fired them directly into the ceiling, leaving HIM shaken from the loud noise right next to his ears. XD And then HARKER got the Joker for the next round and successfully slashed open Silas’s chest – fortunately, Silas’s alcohol-boosted immune system was able to hold off the guy giving him a horrible disease. :p Edie missed with her second shot, but Silas then got his wits back about him and did a beautiful center-mass double-shot that inflicted some pretty damn nasty wounds on Harker. Gotta love that Two-Gun Kid Edge! :D Unfortunately, Harker ONCE AGAIN was able to get the high card for the third round of combat, and was able to stab Edie – and despite her spending the last of her bennies to try and reroll her extremely poor Vigor rolls, he managed to inflict some terrible disease upon her. *wince* We’ll find out what that is, and move into Part II of this particular bounty, tomorrow!

2. Continue writing “Start At The Beginning. . .Sort Of”: Check – I have finished Chapter 3, with Emily having successfully possessed Barkis, discovered his electroplasm bombs, tossed one to Alice just in case she needs it. . .and then used the other to burn both him and herself up to stop him ever hurting anyone else and stop herself turning into a mindless vicious specter. As you might imagine, Alice couldn’t watch that particular scene. :( We ended with Tannen and his Bluecoat squad coming into the alley where this all happened, having been attracted by the screams – next time, we start Chapter 4 with Smiler ALMOST successfully explaining things. . .until one of the squad discovers something very unfortunate on Barkis’s corpse. . .

3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – another night with just GrayStillPlays and “Whatever I draw is turned into a weapon,” aka Gray plays Draw 2 Smash! This was one of those “drawing puzzle” games – except, instead of drawing things to save creatures from harm, you were instead drawing things to MURDER creatures. Specifically, you were murdering horrible yellow devil eggs. The game DID introduce “good guy” white eggs in later levels that you had to protect, but for the most part, it was all about drawing things to either smash the evil eggs or enable other things to smash them. As you might imagine, Gray had a lot of fun with that premise – he started off by killing an egg with the word “SATAN” and continued along those lines for the rest of the video. Need to roll something down a slope to kill an egg? A nice spike-ball should do the trick! Need to loop something around a hanging bit of brick to kill an egg? How about a hanging ninja doing a big old kick? Need to drop something on a platform moving side to side to kill an egg? Go for the world’s most poorly drawn Universal Studios globe! The game foolishly lets you draw all over the board to kill four spinning eggs attached to a central square? FILL THE SCREEN WITH INK AND WATCH THEM GET CRUSHED. XD It was all quite delightful – finally, a drawing game that properly utilizes Gray’s talents!

4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check –

Victor Luvs Alice – Got my three VITD Lookbook posts in the queue, and cleaned up my “Duskwall Slang” post a bit more – once I get the tags done, it should be good to go tomorrow!

Valice Multiverse – Nothing happening over here, so I just left Marie a message asking if she had any prompt ideas for a birthday fic (hers is near the end of the month) and put the A:MR gifset and the CB gifset I stuck in my drafts for just this situation into my queue. *nods* All set despite everything!

Other: And TONIGHT I managed to answer all of Moose’s messages, yay~

And that's about it! Meaning it's time for me to head to bed and prepare to do it all again tomorrow. Just have to remember, I've got a long weekend coming up. . .night all!