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Okay Enough Friday
Feb. 9th, 2024 11:53 pmPMS continues to make me grumpier and more emotional than I'd like, but the day wasn't too stressful, and my parents actually picked up a new edition of Trivial Pursuit (a used "Genus 5" version) that we played tonight, with me winning. :) So that was good. And I did get everything I wanted to get done on the to-do list, done --
Work – An “eh” Friday – I spent most of the morning working on the GL, then most of the afternoon putting on a couple of checks, cleaning up a few things on the system, and documenting more of the credit card bullshit I discovered the other day. Very quiet day (even with Talky Coworker – my other coworker was out, and she doesn’t go on quite as much without her there), but annoying just because – well, I’m so tired of the credit card bullshit! *sigh* Ah well, at least I have the weekend to ignore it. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – last night on the bike this week, and last night with Oxventure: Deadlands, “Forty Times A Killer, Part II!” We picked up with the trio of Edie, Silas, and Robert heading into the creepy dark medieval basement, where after a reasonably long descent, they came across a hallway with a pair of ornate double doors at the end. Silas and Edie were keen on learning what was past said doors without alerting whoever was inside – however, there was no keyhole, and when Edie tried to slide her mirror underneath, a bad roll meant she found the bottoms of the doors were flush with the floor. Silas thus decided to open one slightly and peek inside. An excellent roll had him open the door silently to see inside Daisy Ducrow’s office –
And Ducrow herself, clothed in a hood and cape, sitting at her desk, surrounded by paperwork, looking directly at the door. She complimented Silas on how silently he opened it. XD Silas was like “thanks” and closed the door, and after a silent “the fuck” conversation with Edie, opened it properly and strode in to confront her with his compatriots (yes, even Robert, Silas figured he owed them for saving him). Ducrow confirmed with Silas that they were here to kill her and that they’d seen everything that happened in the hospital (and that Silas could NOT be persuaded to look the other way), then began trying to talk up the place as a “miracle of science” and going on about how they gave the townsfolk in Sublimity Falls “purpose” by kidnapping them and filling them with disease. (Immediate thought: “Bumby Vibes”) Edie, Silas, and ESPECIALLY Robert objected to thisl, as you might imagine. Ducrow gave them one last chance to leave, and when they didn’t take it, rose from her seat and produced a creepy injector gun thing –
Cue combat! Ducrow got to go first in the first round and promptly cast a spell to fill the others with fear – Edie and Silas made their rolls, but Robert very much DIDN’T and started running away back down the corridor in a panic. With him temporarily out of the picture, Edie tried to take a shot at Ducrow with her sawed-off Winchester, but just missed, getting instead Ducrow’s cape under the arm. Silas decided to instead take that syringe gun out of the picture and aimed his two six-shooters at it – the first shot missed, but the second shot very much hit, shattering the glass and spilling the creepy purple liquid inside. Ducrow decided she didn’t like that, and – going first AGAIN in the second round – summoned up a Bolt of hypodermic needles to throw at Silas, leaving him shaken and looking rather like a porcupine. Fortunately, at this point Robert came back and managed to inflict a wound on Ducrow –
A wound that almost immediately healed around the bullet. Silas getting himself together and just firing on her with his guns resulted in something similar – for whatever reason, any injury inflicted on this woman healed up near-instantly! Edie, having a sudden thought, confirmed with Andy that it was now nighttime in the hospital, and – working on a hunch – found a wooden pencil, ran right up to Ducrow, and stabbed her in the heart. A good roll meant it hit –
But Ducrow just looked down at her disdainfully and said, “I’m not a vampire, idiot,” snapped the pencil in two, and flung the broken bit away. HOWEVER – Edie’s attempt had temporarily dislodged Ducrow’s hood, and Andy made a point of saying that Ducrow was trying very hard to keep her head covered. And in the following combat round, Silas actually got to go first, and made a point of swooping in and grabbing the hooded cape off her.
Cue Ducrow’s head being a lot more exposed than anyone expected, as a chunk of her brain was visible through an opening. O.O Well then. Robert attempted to shoot at it, but missed, while Edie decided to get in there with a knife (hidden in her boot, this woman has weapons everywhere) and stab the brain – she TECHNICALLY hit, but as the knife’s damage didn’t exceed Ducrow’s toughness, she wasn’t able to actually do anything to the brain.
Ducrow then decided to up the disgusting-o-meter, yank out some of her own brain, and stuff it in Robert’s mouth, leaving him foaming and convulsing on the floor as apparently it was lethal poison. D: Silas, fortunately, was able to go first in the next round and slap some handcuffs on Ducrow, hoping it would stop her pulling out more bits of her brains or doing any more spellcasting. It stopped the former, certainly –
But Ducrow quickly proved that it wouldn’t stop the latter by speaking a few eldritch words and cloaking the entire room in pitch blackness. Edie lit a match and marched up to her with the Winchester, intending to end this once and for all –
Aaaand rolled so poorly on her Shootin’ roll that they had to claim her gun’s chamber jammed. Fortunately she got to go first in the next round – unfortunately, she again rolled poorly, resulting in Edie desperately trying to keep her match alight while trying to fix her gun. Happily, though, she was able to clear the way for Silas, who was able to basically WRECK Daisy with one of his trusty Colts and bring the combat to a close. Daisy collapsed dead on the floor as the darkness lifted, leaving the pair in a room with two corpses. Edie respectfully closed Robert’s eyes while Silas forced the ring off Ducrow’s finger –
But then Silas was like “why don’t we try the tubes again on Robert just to see what happens?” So the pair dragged the two corpses up out of the basement, through reception (where they met the receptionist with Edie’s hot tea – she took it gratefully and advised him to leave town, which he admitted was the very idea he’d had just then), and back to the treatment room, where Ducrow got dumped on Waxman’s remains and Robert put in the alternate tube. Silas did a Science roll – untrained, but boosted by the fact that he was using Ducrow’s equipment and draining her own poison back into her body –
And rolled super well, bringing Robert back to life! :D Yay! And so the tale ended happily, with Silas and Edie celebrating their victory and Robert deciding to get out of Dodge. XD I personally think he should come with them and work on Victoria’s ranch, but that’s probably not how things are going to go down. But I am glad they saved him. :) Next week, we start “The Town That Dreaded Justice!”
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has officially informed LaCroix of her success in Santa Monica, and made sure to talk up Mercurio’s help. :) And now LaCroix is giving her her next mission – investigate the Elizabeth Dane! A stealthy, sneaky mission made pretty easy when you’re the clan that has the invisibility Discipline AND can just talk to other NPCs without issue because you don’t look like you lost a fight with a thresher. :p (Sorry Nosferatu!) Though Alice has to chat with LaCroix a bit more before she can make her way over to the boat – namely, about one Nines Rodriguez and the Anarchs. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – another GrayStillPlays-only night, with “I created a solution to overpopulation,” aka Gray plays Man-Eating Plant! This is a game about growing and leveling a man-eating plant into becoming a truly mean green motherfucker (though I don’t think this one is from outer space). You start out with a little head on a stem in a pot, that you have to direct to eat things like slimes and goblins, and over time, as you plant eats more things and levels up, it gets bigger and bigger, to the point of developing sticky tendrils and a long sticky tongue to grab prey, large pitcher plant protrusions to dissolve prey in (lured in by the smell of roasting meat), a root with a mouth on it that can burst up from the earth, two additional heads, and finally horns that allow it to cast a spell that drags every creature on the screen into its gaping maw. Additionally, as it levels up, you unlock new prey, moving from the aforementioned slimes and goblins, to wandering mercenaries and novice priests, to minotaurs and ogres, to high wizards. AND you can summon in loads of creatures from other realms, like random prisoners and aliens and Terminators. AND you can buy your plant pets to gather up all the money the plant spits up. AND you can cast spells on the plant that allow it to see on its own, protect it from attacks, and make it rage and eat more creatures. AND you can automate the whole process of sending creatures into the dungeon to be eaten if you want. Basically there’s a lot to do in this game. XD Gray went in with his hacky friends and beat up the code of the game a little to get enough money and gems to make sure he could unlock everything and get to the final bit of the game – which was the plant devouring HIM, allowing his creepy butler to take the throne. XD A delightful time with a weird and delightful game!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I’m all set on Victor Luvs Alice at the moment, so nothing particularly exciting to do there; and on Valice Multiverse, things are dead again, so I just put my VITD lookbook posts into the queue for tomorrow. Which, I should give you guys the links to that, and my Duskwall slang and my latest set of VITD Not-Incorrect Quotes too. . . Here:
VITD Sims Lookbook: Smiler
VITD Sims Lookbook: Victor
VITD Sims Lookbook: Alice
Valicer In The Dark Duskwall Slang
Not-Incorrect Valicer Quotes, Valicer In The Dark Edition, Volume III
Enjoy! :p
Yeah, not too shabby, I think. And tomorrow -- well, tomorrow is a Cleaning Saturday, AND we have to put the new plates on my car, AND I have to make my Valicertines for this year, so I'm think I'm going to skip gaming tomorrow in favor of getting that done and catching up on the old Watch Later list -- it's starting to get a little long again. *eyes it* If I do fire anything up, it'll probably be some building in Sims 4, but we'll see. Main focus of the day is getting the Valicertines sorted, getting some stuff out of the Watch Later, and working some more on "Start At The Beginning. . .Sort Of." Think that's an acceptable to-do list! :) Night all!
Work – An “eh” Friday – I spent most of the morning working on the GL, then most of the afternoon putting on a couple of checks, cleaning up a few things on the system, and documenting more of the credit card bullshit I discovered the other day. Very quiet day (even with Talky Coworker – my other coworker was out, and she doesn’t go on quite as much without her there), but annoying just because – well, I’m so tired of the credit card bullshit! *sigh* Ah well, at least I have the weekend to ignore it. . .
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – last night on the bike this week, and last night with Oxventure: Deadlands, “Forty Times A Killer, Part II!” We picked up with the trio of Edie, Silas, and Robert heading into the creepy dark medieval basement, where after a reasonably long descent, they came across a hallway with a pair of ornate double doors at the end. Silas and Edie were keen on learning what was past said doors without alerting whoever was inside – however, there was no keyhole, and when Edie tried to slide her mirror underneath, a bad roll meant she found the bottoms of the doors were flush with the floor. Silas thus decided to open one slightly and peek inside. An excellent roll had him open the door silently to see inside Daisy Ducrow’s office –
And Ducrow herself, clothed in a hood and cape, sitting at her desk, surrounded by paperwork, looking directly at the door. She complimented Silas on how silently he opened it. XD Silas was like “thanks” and closed the door, and after a silent “the fuck” conversation with Edie, opened it properly and strode in to confront her with his compatriots (yes, even Robert, Silas figured he owed them for saving him). Ducrow confirmed with Silas that they were here to kill her and that they’d seen everything that happened in the hospital (and that Silas could NOT be persuaded to look the other way), then began trying to talk up the place as a “miracle of science” and going on about how they gave the townsfolk in Sublimity Falls “purpose” by kidnapping them and filling them with disease. (Immediate thought: “Bumby Vibes”) Edie, Silas, and ESPECIALLY Robert objected to thisl, as you might imagine. Ducrow gave them one last chance to leave, and when they didn’t take it, rose from her seat and produced a creepy injector gun thing –
Cue combat! Ducrow got to go first in the first round and promptly cast a spell to fill the others with fear – Edie and Silas made their rolls, but Robert very much DIDN’T and started running away back down the corridor in a panic. With him temporarily out of the picture, Edie tried to take a shot at Ducrow with her sawed-off Winchester, but just missed, getting instead Ducrow’s cape under the arm. Silas decided to instead take that syringe gun out of the picture and aimed his two six-shooters at it – the first shot missed, but the second shot very much hit, shattering the glass and spilling the creepy purple liquid inside. Ducrow decided she didn’t like that, and – going first AGAIN in the second round – summoned up a Bolt of hypodermic needles to throw at Silas, leaving him shaken and looking rather like a porcupine. Fortunately, at this point Robert came back and managed to inflict a wound on Ducrow –
A wound that almost immediately healed around the bullet. Silas getting himself together and just firing on her with his guns resulted in something similar – for whatever reason, any injury inflicted on this woman healed up near-instantly! Edie, having a sudden thought, confirmed with Andy that it was now nighttime in the hospital, and – working on a hunch – found a wooden pencil, ran right up to Ducrow, and stabbed her in the heart. A good roll meant it hit –
But Ducrow just looked down at her disdainfully and said, “I’m not a vampire, idiot,” snapped the pencil in two, and flung the broken bit away. HOWEVER – Edie’s attempt had temporarily dislodged Ducrow’s hood, and Andy made a point of saying that Ducrow was trying very hard to keep her head covered. And in the following combat round, Silas actually got to go first, and made a point of swooping in and grabbing the hooded cape off her.
Cue Ducrow’s head being a lot more exposed than anyone expected, as a chunk of her brain was visible through an opening. O.O Well then. Robert attempted to shoot at it, but missed, while Edie decided to get in there with a knife (hidden in her boot, this woman has weapons everywhere) and stab the brain – she TECHNICALLY hit, but as the knife’s damage didn’t exceed Ducrow’s toughness, she wasn’t able to actually do anything to the brain.
Ducrow then decided to up the disgusting-o-meter, yank out some of her own brain, and stuff it in Robert’s mouth, leaving him foaming and convulsing on the floor as apparently it was lethal poison. D: Silas, fortunately, was able to go first in the next round and slap some handcuffs on Ducrow, hoping it would stop her pulling out more bits of her brains or doing any more spellcasting. It stopped the former, certainly –
But Ducrow quickly proved that it wouldn’t stop the latter by speaking a few eldritch words and cloaking the entire room in pitch blackness. Edie lit a match and marched up to her with the Winchester, intending to end this once and for all –
Aaaand rolled so poorly on her Shootin’ roll that they had to claim her gun’s chamber jammed. Fortunately she got to go first in the next round – unfortunately, she again rolled poorly, resulting in Edie desperately trying to keep her match alight while trying to fix her gun. Happily, though, she was able to clear the way for Silas, who was able to basically WRECK Daisy with one of his trusty Colts and bring the combat to a close. Daisy collapsed dead on the floor as the darkness lifted, leaving the pair in a room with two corpses. Edie respectfully closed Robert’s eyes while Silas forced the ring off Ducrow’s finger –
But then Silas was like “why don’t we try the tubes again on Robert just to see what happens?” So the pair dragged the two corpses up out of the basement, through reception (where they met the receptionist with Edie’s hot tea – she took it gratefully and advised him to leave town, which he admitted was the very idea he’d had just then), and back to the treatment room, where Ducrow got dumped on Waxman’s remains and Robert put in the alternate tube. Silas did a Science roll – untrained, but boosted by the fact that he was using Ducrow’s equipment and draining her own poison back into her body –
And rolled super well, bringing Robert back to life! :D Yay! And so the tale ended happily, with Silas and Edie celebrating their victory and Robert deciding to get out of Dodge. XD I personally think he should come with them and work on Victoria’s ranch, but that’s probably not how things are going to go down. But I am glad they saved him. :) Next week, we start “The Town That Dreaded Justice!”
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice has officially informed LaCroix of her success in Santa Monica, and made sure to talk up Mercurio’s help. :) And now LaCroix is giving her her next mission – investigate the Elizabeth Dane! A stealthy, sneaky mission made pretty easy when you’re the clan that has the invisibility Discipline AND can just talk to other NPCs without issue because you don’t look like you lost a fight with a thresher. :p (Sorry Nosferatu!) Though Alice has to chat with LaCroix a bit more before she can make her way over to the boat – namely, about one Nines Rodriguez and the Anarchs. . .
3. Keep up with YouTube Subs: Check – another GrayStillPlays-only night, with “I created a solution to overpopulation,” aka Gray plays Man-Eating Plant! This is a game about growing and leveling a man-eating plant into becoming a truly mean green motherfucker (though I don’t think this one is from outer space). You start out with a little head on a stem in a pot, that you have to direct to eat things like slimes and goblins, and over time, as you plant eats more things and levels up, it gets bigger and bigger, to the point of developing sticky tendrils and a long sticky tongue to grab prey, large pitcher plant protrusions to dissolve prey in (lured in by the smell of roasting meat), a root with a mouth on it that can burst up from the earth, two additional heads, and finally horns that allow it to cast a spell that drags every creature on the screen into its gaping maw. Additionally, as it levels up, you unlock new prey, moving from the aforementioned slimes and goblins, to wandering mercenaries and novice priests, to minotaurs and ogres, to high wizards. AND you can summon in loads of creatures from other realms, like random prisoners and aliens and Terminators. AND you can buy your plant pets to gather up all the money the plant spits up. AND you can cast spells on the plant that allow it to see on its own, protect it from attacks, and make it rage and eat more creatures. AND you can automate the whole process of sending creatures into the dungeon to be eaten if you want. Basically there’s a lot to do in this game. XD Gray went in with his hacky friends and beat up the code of the game a little to get enough money and gems to make sure he could unlock everything and get to the final bit of the game – which was the plant devouring HIM, allowing his creepy butler to take the throne. XD A delightful time with a weird and delightful game!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – I’m all set on Victor Luvs Alice at the moment, so nothing particularly exciting to do there; and on Valice Multiverse, things are dead again, so I just put my VITD lookbook posts into the queue for tomorrow. Which, I should give you guys the links to that, and my Duskwall slang and my latest set of VITD Not-Incorrect Quotes too. . . Here:
VITD Sims Lookbook: Smiler
VITD Sims Lookbook: Victor
VITD Sims Lookbook: Alice
Valicer In The Dark Duskwall Slang
Not-Incorrect Valicer Quotes, Valicer In The Dark Edition, Volume III
Enjoy! :p
Yeah, not too shabby, I think. And tomorrow -- well, tomorrow is a Cleaning Saturday, AND we have to put the new plates on my car, AND I have to make my Valicertines for this year, so I'm think I'm going to skip gaming tomorrow in favor of getting that done and catching up on the old Watch Later list -- it's starting to get a little long again. *eyes it* If I do fire anything up, it'll probably be some building in Sims 4, but we'll see. Main focus of the day is getting the Valicertines sorted, getting some stuff out of the Watch Later, and working some more on "Start At The Beginning. . .Sort Of." Think that's an acceptable to-do list! :) Night all!
