A Not Great Tuesday
Jul. 15th, 2025 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickDad had a dentist appointment to remove some broken-loose teeth and get some new lower dentures put in, meaning he was in pain a lot of the evening; I found another of the tiny ants we're trying to get out of the house crawling on my cereal box (though, fortunately, not IN the cereal -- I was still not happy, though, as you might expect) while trying to have breakfast this morning; dealing with said ant (and its buddy I found on the counter) made it so I got basically no computer time before work; work itself was kind of annoying (details below); and it was also really hot and humid today because summer. Yeah, it was -- well, see the title. *sigh* But we all made it through, and I even managed to accomplish some stuff:
Work – A fairly “meh” day at work – I spent pretty much all of it going through the exceptions we got back the other day, seeing what I could handle while we were still in our processing freeze (calling some people to assure them that we did have their final payments on their pledges, the billings just got sent out before they were processed; writing out a big long letter to a couple who thought they’d paid their GFGP pledge and wanted an itemized list if we found a discrepancy – their online pledge missed a few payments back in the day), and what I couldn’t (no putting on any of the checks or calling anyone who’d had a failed credit card payment, basically). My coworker and I also went through all the envelopes from that one big bundle from one of the parishes that was returned to us, which took most of the morning, only to discover that the parish check included with it didn’t match the amount the envelopes added up to – it was a little too much. *sigh* My supervisor handled that, but – meeeh. Little mistakes like that just slow processing down so much… Oh, and speaking of mistakes, my coworker found a rejected ACH payment that never got properly taken off by our credit card processors, so now I get to talk to them about that on the call tomorrow. Yay. Plus my supervisor keeps asking me to download things for him from the file sharing site because apparently he figures he doesn’t have to get his password reset if I’m there. *grumbles* Just annoying...but then again, that sums up MOST of my time at work, so… We’ll see if tomorrow’s any better!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back to “Oxventure D&D: Wyrdwood | Chapter 2: Rootbound!” And things got even hairier in this chunklet, let me tell you – or perhaps the correct phrasing is even leafier… Anyway, here’s the gist of what went down:
A) After agreeing they needed to find Ashling, Happen tried to climb on the roof for a better view of the village and see if he could find her – only to be knocked off the roof by his own sprites and get the wind knocked out of him. Praise Cadence! XD Some of the roof-fixing people asked if he was all right, and when he said he was mostly fine, asked if he’d be joining them for the midday meal. He said yes, and went to confer with the others – it was decided that at least one of them should snoop around while the others went to lunch, and Cressida immediately volunteered herself to nose around. Because she’s nosy, and she suspected lunch would be another terrible bread-and-soup deal. So Happen, Willowfine, Lug, and Morven all went off to eat in the communal dining hall while she stayed behind –
And sure enough, it was a terrible bread-and-soup deal! XD Or, rather, a surprisingly-delicious-looking soup with greens and what looked like little goat cheese pearls (Lug/Mike was like “I’d be happier about that if I didn’t already know there were no goats), paired with HORRENDOUSLY awful barely-baked bread. Morven quickly used Sending to let Cressida know she should check out the bakery, while she and the others all pretended to eat their food. Unfortunately, Happen’s chosen “pretending to eat” method meant putting the soup in his mouth (to spit back out into his napkin later), and thus got him a private note from Johnny! Which prompted a mysterious die roll…
B) And then a swap over to Cressida, going to investigate the bakery! She got in without an issue, and discovered pretty quickly that the place hadn’t been touched in a while – everything was covered in dust, and when she opened one of the big barrels of flour in the back and gave it a little stir with a spoon, she found it was utterly infested with weevils. Cue her using Message to scream at poor Morven in a panic about the weevils. XD However, things rapidly got even worse for our stuck-up spoiled little rich girl, as she turned around after poking through the weevil flour –
To find a villager right behind her. Who grappled her by the back of the neck, and shoved his hand in her face...as the palm split open and deposited a seed in her mouth. A seed that then sprouted on her tongue and crawled its way down her throat. D: Cressida was naturally horrified and attempted to punch the guy – though, thanks to a poor damage roll (a one plus her Strength modifier – which was minus one XD), she didn’t actually hit him, realizing at the last moment she didn’t actually WANT to touch him. XD However, the attack set off a strange shiver of alarm in the back of her head…
C) And in the back of HAPPEN’S head, as the villagers around the group all froze for a moment. Some of them attempted to go back to eating, or at least pretending to, but about six men got up and headed for the bakery. Around the same time, Cressida was able to send another Message to Morven about being forced to eat the seed – Morven relayed this to the others, and while Happen kept playing along with the villagers (who were eating their food in increasing slow motion), Willowfine deliberately knocked her and Lug’s soups all over them so they and Morven could pretend to need to do laundry and get out of there. They made their way over to the bakery, where they found the six men already inside, watching Cressida but also clearly ready to take on any threats that walked through the door. Cressida, spotting her traveling companions, quickly began chattering on about how happy she was that everyone had been so hospitable, and how she’d wanted to help, and that she’d baked as a child, and what was that delicious sprout they’d just fed her? A good Charisma/Persuasion roll meant that she kept all the villagers’ attention on her –
And Morven promptly took advantage of that to cast Hunger of Hadar on the lot, using a sorcery point to make it a “Careful” spell and keep Cressida out of the blender. (Mike: “Spells can be careful?” Johnny: “Not historically!”) Cressida was thus stuck in the middle of hungry hungry Hadar just absolutely DECIMATING these poor villagers. XD Hey, Cress, you’re just lucky you’re not part of the OLD Oxventurer’s Guild – PRUDENCE would NOT have tried to protect you! Eventually the slaughter stopped, and the others went in to check on the horrified Cressida and ask her what had happened. Cressida began telling them all about the seed and whatnot –
And then Johnny interrupted her with a Constitution saving throw! Which she failed! Cue Cressida suddenly getting a very strong urge to “protect the tree” and running off, with Willowfine, Lug, and Morven being like “???”
D) At the same time all this was going on, the villagers still in the dining hall got up and headed off themselves, into the Wyrdwood. Happen, still playing along, followed them, trailing near the back of the group as they headed carefully into the forest, avoiding brambles and such –
And then there was another flash of panic in the back of his head as Hadar started nomming on the villagers in the bakery, and suddenly everyone started BOOKING IT, crashing through the underground and charging straight over a large pile of all the village’s goats, who Happen just had time to see had been slaughtered and bled before he rushed to catch up with the others. Their frantic run took them to a strange tree, which looked KIND OF like an ash tree, only it had strange creeping tendrils moving all through it, and a number of bizarre fruits, kind of like raspberries, all over it. Oh, and a big old gash in its side, the rest of an ax lying next to it. And with Happen’s ranger experience, he was able to tell that gash was about two weeks old...when the last of Ashling’s sister’s letters was delivered to the village…
Anyway – the villagers formed a protective ring around the tree, clearly eager to keep it from harm. Happen considered using Mage Hand to lift the ax and take another swing at the tree (while just BARELY fighting off the urge to protect the tree himself, courtesy of the seed he himself must have swallowed in the soup), but after realizing the ax would be too heavy (aka the players discussed it and realized it would be heavier than ten pounds), instead tried to Web it with the help of his sprites. They did their best, but the tree avoided being webbed and lashed out at the sprites in turn. Fortunately, they were too fast for the tree to actually swat with its tendrils, but the increased agitation from the tree put all the villagers on even HIGHER alert (“breathe too loud and you’re gonna get killed,” as Johnny put it)…
Aaand that’s where I left it! With Happen struggling against the parasitic plant inside him; poor Cressida under its control and running off to help defend the tree; and the others presumably following Cressida to figure out what the fuck is going on. Tomorrow, we should see the big finale of this episode – gonna be creepy, no matter what happens, I think!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – after having been left there over the weekend as I wrote my gift fic and worked on “The Van Dort Vacancy,” Alice finally got to escape the creepy mannequin house today – though she first had to take a creepy phone call, because the place wasn’t spooky enough without someone whispering in her ear about how “wishes and words sprout from the same seed.” XD But yes, she made it out of there in one piece, and was allowed to enter the next part of the maze as a result (the final door in the upside-down hall having unlocked itself at last)! So far, she’s found a very pink hallway, and a bedroom that is mostly-but-not-entirely upside-down. Tomorrow, we see her figure out WHY not all of the furniture in this room is bolted to the ceiling, and find a way to progress even further. She’s gotta get out of this hell maze eventually! If I ever want to post the chapter, anyway...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – and I am pleased to announce that I finally got a chance to watch what is probably Proxy Gate Tactican’s most famous video tonight: “Can You Beat Baldur's Gate 3 As a Cat?” Yes, Proxy did indeed attempt to take on the massive, sprawling RPG that is Baldur’s Gate III with a party full of people wildshaped into cats! House cats to start, with panther and saber-toothed cat forms becoming available as they leveled up. The rules were simple – druid Felix and his party (Shadowheart and a pair of hirelings, all multiclassed/respecced into druids) had to stay in cat form as much as humanly possible! (Uh, pun not intended. XD) The only times they were allowed to be human were if:
I. The game FORCED them back into their human forms, either to facilitate a cutscene triggering or to represent their cat form taking enough damage to “kill” them – in that case, everyone had to shift back either once the conversation was over or once it was their turn again
II. They were in camp and had need of Withers’s services – after all, the hirelings won’t hire themselves, nor the dead resurrect themselves!
III. And, technically, when they physically COULDN’T transform into a cat by virtue of being a level one character – but that only applied to Felix on the Nautiloid, and Proxy didn’t actually show any of that in the video, just saying he speedran it to get to level 2 and his chosen wildshape. The game proper starts on the beach post-crash anyway (at least according to him)!
So yes – with those simple restrictions in play, was Proxy able to beat the game as a cat? Was he able to prove that you don’t have to be human, or elf, or githyanki, or even gnome to defeat the Elder Brain and save Faerun? Was he able to be the fluffiest, cutest savior the city has ever seen?
...not quite. Oh, Proxy gave it his best shot, enduring long hours adventuring without being able to talk to anyone or pick up quests (hell, the only reason he managed to recruit Shadowheart is that she showed up to talk to him during one of the “forced human” cutscenes); figuring out how one actually KILLED people as a weak housecat (traps, basically – meow to get your targets together, then have your other cat friend destroy them with a dropped block of stone or by throwing a candle into some alcohol to trigger an explosion); resorting to using the necromantic powers of Sovereign Glut to make it through the Underdark and kill some duegar for the mushroom-people so he could complete a quest already (and then discovering he couldn’t go kill True Soul Nere for them next because cats can’t float a boat); finding good ways to level up so he could finally get more powerful cat forms (Moonrise Towers in Act II proved especially useful for this, as he could lure guards away from each other into clawed ambushes, which provided plenty of experience); enduring having to drag that damn moonlantern along the ground next to his party so they could go places without being devoured by the Shadow Curse in Act II (because cats can’t carry things – no hands; he loathed THAT by the end of the road, let me tell you); and dealing with the occasional bit of game breakage thanks to his insistence on staying in cat form (like a certain cutscene not playing properly and thus not letting them open a door to confront a certain enemy). And none of that – NONE of that stopped him from staying in cat form. You know what finally made him have to willingly change back into a human (well, half-elf) form?
DOORS. Specifically, the gate that acted as the passageway into Act III, and the door that guarded the key necessary to get to Orin (one of the bosses you have to kill to progress the game). All the other doors, Proxy could find ways to glitch through (either via box towers or by throwing a dead party member in a burning box through a wall to use their corpse to trigger a cutscene – this was actually an Accepted Speedrunning Technique for a while there) or otherwise bypass (using a back entrance into Grymforge to grab more explosives, for example), but these two? These two HAD to be interacted with as a person if Proxy wanted to complete the game. Proxy was very sad about that, as you might imagine. *pats him* But he pressed on, and managed to complete the game having spent MOST of his time as a cat. And having had Shadowheart kill the Nightsong and allied with the Emperor, as he seems to do in most of his challenge runs. XD Like, I want to say that he’s left Dame Aylin alive maybe twice (I’m pretty sure she was key to his “I don’t personally kill anything” run), but otherwise – yeah, it’s all about following Shadowheart’s evil path and allying with the squidboy. XD We’ll see if the pattern holds true for the other challenge videos I still have to watch!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though only a small one, as I only put one thing in each queue –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I naturally dropped the “Teen Valicer Save” post I was working on previously into the queue to post tomorrow – I worked hard to complete that, and now it’s time to put it into the world!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I hit up “rpmemelibrary” for a meme to chuck in the queue – “Suggest or Submit an Outfit for my Muse to wear and they will react.” Because it might be fun to see if anyone comes up with any particularly interesting or silly outfits for my Valicer trio (or any of my other muses, though it’s mostly the trio these days) to wear. :)
Mmm -- not too bad, I suppose. I would have liked to have put more in my VLA(NS) queue, but I'm having trouble coming up with stuff -- I haven't checked my tracked tags in a while, so my supply from those is depleted. On the other hand, Oxventure: Wyrdwood was definitely a highlight of the day -- I am getting way into these "folk horror" vibes. Looking forward to how the team saves the day tomorrow! :D Anyway -- time for me to hit the sheets and hope that Wednesday is better. Night all!
Work – A fairly “meh” day at work – I spent pretty much all of it going through the exceptions we got back the other day, seeing what I could handle while we were still in our processing freeze (calling some people to assure them that we did have their final payments on their pledges, the billings just got sent out before they were processed; writing out a big long letter to a couple who thought they’d paid their GFGP pledge and wanted an itemized list if we found a discrepancy – their online pledge missed a few payments back in the day), and what I couldn’t (no putting on any of the checks or calling anyone who’d had a failed credit card payment, basically). My coworker and I also went through all the envelopes from that one big bundle from one of the parishes that was returned to us, which took most of the morning, only to discover that the parish check included with it didn’t match the amount the envelopes added up to – it was a little too much. *sigh* My supervisor handled that, but – meeeh. Little mistakes like that just slow processing down so much… Oh, and speaking of mistakes, my coworker found a rejected ACH payment that never got properly taken off by our credit card processors, so now I get to talk to them about that on the call tomorrow. Yay. Plus my supervisor keeps asking me to download things for him from the file sharing site because apparently he figures he doesn’t have to get his password reset if I’m there. *grumbles* Just annoying...but then again, that sums up MOST of my time at work, so… We’ll see if tomorrow’s any better!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, back to “Oxventure D&D: Wyrdwood | Chapter 2: Rootbound!” And things got even hairier in this chunklet, let me tell you – or perhaps the correct phrasing is even leafier… Anyway, here’s the gist of what went down:
A) After agreeing they needed to find Ashling, Happen tried to climb on the roof for a better view of the village and see if he could find her – only to be knocked off the roof by his own sprites and get the wind knocked out of him. Praise Cadence! XD Some of the roof-fixing people asked if he was all right, and when he said he was mostly fine, asked if he’d be joining them for the midday meal. He said yes, and went to confer with the others – it was decided that at least one of them should snoop around while the others went to lunch, and Cressida immediately volunteered herself to nose around. Because she’s nosy, and she suspected lunch would be another terrible bread-and-soup deal. So Happen, Willowfine, Lug, and Morven all went off to eat in the communal dining hall while she stayed behind –
And sure enough, it was a terrible bread-and-soup deal! XD Or, rather, a surprisingly-delicious-looking soup with greens and what looked like little goat cheese pearls (Lug/Mike was like “I’d be happier about that if I didn’t already know there were no goats), paired with HORRENDOUSLY awful barely-baked bread. Morven quickly used Sending to let Cressida know she should check out the bakery, while she and the others all pretended to eat their food. Unfortunately, Happen’s chosen “pretending to eat” method meant putting the soup in his mouth (to spit back out into his napkin later), and thus got him a private note from Johnny! Which prompted a mysterious die roll…
B) And then a swap over to Cressida, going to investigate the bakery! She got in without an issue, and discovered pretty quickly that the place hadn’t been touched in a while – everything was covered in dust, and when she opened one of the big barrels of flour in the back and gave it a little stir with a spoon, she found it was utterly infested with weevils. Cue her using Message to scream at poor Morven in a panic about the weevils. XD However, things rapidly got even worse for our stuck-up spoiled little rich girl, as she turned around after poking through the weevil flour –
To find a villager right behind her. Who grappled her by the back of the neck, and shoved his hand in her face...as the palm split open and deposited a seed in her mouth. A seed that then sprouted on her tongue and crawled its way down her throat. D: Cressida was naturally horrified and attempted to punch the guy – though, thanks to a poor damage roll (a one plus her Strength modifier – which was minus one XD), she didn’t actually hit him, realizing at the last moment she didn’t actually WANT to touch him. XD However, the attack set off a strange shiver of alarm in the back of her head…
C) And in the back of HAPPEN’S head, as the villagers around the group all froze for a moment. Some of them attempted to go back to eating, or at least pretending to, but about six men got up and headed for the bakery. Around the same time, Cressida was able to send another Message to Morven about being forced to eat the seed – Morven relayed this to the others, and while Happen kept playing along with the villagers (who were eating their food in increasing slow motion), Willowfine deliberately knocked her and Lug’s soups all over them so they and Morven could pretend to need to do laundry and get out of there. They made their way over to the bakery, where they found the six men already inside, watching Cressida but also clearly ready to take on any threats that walked through the door. Cressida, spotting her traveling companions, quickly began chattering on about how happy she was that everyone had been so hospitable, and how she’d wanted to help, and that she’d baked as a child, and what was that delicious sprout they’d just fed her? A good Charisma/Persuasion roll meant that she kept all the villagers’ attention on her –
And Morven promptly took advantage of that to cast Hunger of Hadar on the lot, using a sorcery point to make it a “Careful” spell and keep Cressida out of the blender. (Mike: “Spells can be careful?” Johnny: “Not historically!”) Cressida was thus stuck in the middle of hungry hungry Hadar just absolutely DECIMATING these poor villagers. XD Hey, Cress, you’re just lucky you’re not part of the OLD Oxventurer’s Guild – PRUDENCE would NOT have tried to protect you! Eventually the slaughter stopped, and the others went in to check on the horrified Cressida and ask her what had happened. Cressida began telling them all about the seed and whatnot –
And then Johnny interrupted her with a Constitution saving throw! Which she failed! Cue Cressida suddenly getting a very strong urge to “protect the tree” and running off, with Willowfine, Lug, and Morven being like “???”
D) At the same time all this was going on, the villagers still in the dining hall got up and headed off themselves, into the Wyrdwood. Happen, still playing along, followed them, trailing near the back of the group as they headed carefully into the forest, avoiding brambles and such –
And then there was another flash of panic in the back of his head as Hadar started nomming on the villagers in the bakery, and suddenly everyone started BOOKING IT, crashing through the underground and charging straight over a large pile of all the village’s goats, who Happen just had time to see had been slaughtered and bled before he rushed to catch up with the others. Their frantic run took them to a strange tree, which looked KIND OF like an ash tree, only it had strange creeping tendrils moving all through it, and a number of bizarre fruits, kind of like raspberries, all over it. Oh, and a big old gash in its side, the rest of an ax lying next to it. And with Happen’s ranger experience, he was able to tell that gash was about two weeks old...when the last of Ashling’s sister’s letters was delivered to the village…
Anyway – the villagers formed a protective ring around the tree, clearly eager to keep it from harm. Happen considered using Mage Hand to lift the ax and take another swing at the tree (while just BARELY fighting off the urge to protect the tree himself, courtesy of the seed he himself must have swallowed in the soup), but after realizing the ax would be too heavy (aka the players discussed it and realized it would be heavier than ten pounds), instead tried to Web it with the help of his sprites. They did their best, but the tree avoided being webbed and lashed out at the sprites in turn. Fortunately, they were too fast for the tree to actually swat with its tendrils, but the increased agitation from the tree put all the villagers on even HIGHER alert (“breathe too loud and you’re gonna get killed,” as Johnny put it)…
Aaand that’s where I left it! With Happen struggling against the parasitic plant inside him; poor Cressida under its control and running off to help defend the tree; and the others presumably following Cressida to figure out what the fuck is going on. Tomorrow, we should see the big finale of this episode – gonna be creepy, no matter what happens, I think!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – after having been left there over the weekend as I wrote my gift fic and worked on “The Van Dort Vacancy,” Alice finally got to escape the creepy mannequin house today – though she first had to take a creepy phone call, because the place wasn’t spooky enough without someone whispering in her ear about how “wishes and words sprout from the same seed.” XD But yes, she made it out of there in one piece, and was allowed to enter the next part of the maze as a result (the final door in the upside-down hall having unlocked itself at last)! So far, she’s found a very pink hallway, and a bedroom that is mostly-but-not-entirely upside-down. Tomorrow, we see her figure out WHY not all of the furniture in this room is bolted to the ceiling, and find a way to progress even further. She’s gotta get out of this hell maze eventually! If I ever want to post the chapter, anyway...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – and I am pleased to announce that I finally got a chance to watch what is probably Proxy Gate Tactican’s most famous video tonight: “Can You Beat Baldur's Gate 3 As a Cat?” Yes, Proxy did indeed attempt to take on the massive, sprawling RPG that is Baldur’s Gate III with a party full of people wildshaped into cats! House cats to start, with panther and saber-toothed cat forms becoming available as they leveled up. The rules were simple – druid Felix and his party (Shadowheart and a pair of hirelings, all multiclassed/respecced into druids) had to stay in cat form as much as humanly possible! (Uh, pun not intended. XD) The only times they were allowed to be human were if:
I. The game FORCED them back into their human forms, either to facilitate a cutscene triggering or to represent their cat form taking enough damage to “kill” them – in that case, everyone had to shift back either once the conversation was over or once it was their turn again
II. They were in camp and had need of Withers’s services – after all, the hirelings won’t hire themselves, nor the dead resurrect themselves!
III. And, technically, when they physically COULDN’T transform into a cat by virtue of being a level one character – but that only applied to Felix on the Nautiloid, and Proxy didn’t actually show any of that in the video, just saying he speedran it to get to level 2 and his chosen wildshape. The game proper starts on the beach post-crash anyway (at least according to him)!
So yes – with those simple restrictions in play, was Proxy able to beat the game as a cat? Was he able to prove that you don’t have to be human, or elf, or githyanki, or even gnome to defeat the Elder Brain and save Faerun? Was he able to be the fluffiest, cutest savior the city has ever seen?
...not quite. Oh, Proxy gave it his best shot, enduring long hours adventuring without being able to talk to anyone or pick up quests (hell, the only reason he managed to recruit Shadowheart is that she showed up to talk to him during one of the “forced human” cutscenes); figuring out how one actually KILLED people as a weak housecat (traps, basically – meow to get your targets together, then have your other cat friend destroy them with a dropped block of stone or by throwing a candle into some alcohol to trigger an explosion); resorting to using the necromantic powers of Sovereign Glut to make it through the Underdark and kill some duegar for the mushroom-people so he could complete a quest already (and then discovering he couldn’t go kill True Soul Nere for them next because cats can’t float a boat); finding good ways to level up so he could finally get more powerful cat forms (Moonrise Towers in Act II proved especially useful for this, as he could lure guards away from each other into clawed ambushes, which provided plenty of experience); enduring having to drag that damn moonlantern along the ground next to his party so they could go places without being devoured by the Shadow Curse in Act II (because cats can’t carry things – no hands; he loathed THAT by the end of the road, let me tell you); and dealing with the occasional bit of game breakage thanks to his insistence on staying in cat form (like a certain cutscene not playing properly and thus not letting them open a door to confront a certain enemy). And none of that – NONE of that stopped him from staying in cat form. You know what finally made him have to willingly change back into a human (well, half-elf) form?
DOORS. Specifically, the gate that acted as the passageway into Act III, and the door that guarded the key necessary to get to Orin (one of the bosses you have to kill to progress the game). All the other doors, Proxy could find ways to glitch through (either via box towers or by throwing a dead party member in a burning box through a wall to use their corpse to trigger a cutscene – this was actually an Accepted Speedrunning Technique for a while there) or otherwise bypass (using a back entrance into Grymforge to grab more explosives, for example), but these two? These two HAD to be interacted with as a person if Proxy wanted to complete the game. Proxy was very sad about that, as you might imagine. *pats him* But he pressed on, and managed to complete the game having spent MOST of his time as a cat. And having had Shadowheart kill the Nightsong and allied with the Emperor, as he seems to do in most of his challenge runs. XD Like, I want to say that he’s left Dame Aylin alive maybe twice (I’m pretty sure she was key to his “I don’t personally kill anything” run), but otherwise – yeah, it’s all about following Shadowheart’s evil path and allying with the squidboy. XD We’ll see if the pattern holds true for the other challenge videos I still have to watch!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, though only a small one, as I only put one thing in each queue –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I naturally dropped the “Teen Valicer Save” post I was working on previously into the queue to post tomorrow – I worked hard to complete that, and now it’s time to put it into the world!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, I hit up “rpmemelibrary” for a meme to chuck in the queue – “Suggest or Submit an Outfit for my Muse to wear and they will react.” Because it might be fun to see if anyone comes up with any particularly interesting or silly outfits for my Valicer trio (or any of my other muses, though it’s mostly the trio these days) to wear. :)
Mmm -- not too bad, I suppose. I would have liked to have put more in my VLA(NS) queue, but I'm having trouble coming up with stuff -- I haven't checked my tracked tags in a while, so my supply from those is depleted. On the other hand, Oxventure: Wyrdwood was definitely a highlight of the day -- I am getting way into these "folk horror" vibes. Looking forward to how the team saves the day tomorrow! :D Anyway -- time for me to hit the sheets and hope that Wednesday is better. Night all!
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Date: 2025-07-19 10:25 pm (UTC)Instead of building Naye Tchure an actual house, I did the micro home thing of, what is it 32 tiles? and just made a floor so she benefits from the micro home buff but it's not actually a house. I put a tree in it and was trying to find something that looked like branches to use as shelves but I haven't found anything yet. But that floor is where I put the woodworking table so she can make her own furniture.
Like I see a thing in my head but idk if I'm skilled enough to get it onto the play area.
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Date: 2025-07-20 03:51 am (UTC)Yeah, I believe 32 is the maximum you can have for the smallest tier, though you only need four to get the benefits -- and that's clever! Get her all the micro home stuff while continuing to live off the land! I wish you luck with finding your branch shelves -- and that's a cool idea! :D Talk about being self-sufficient...
I know that feel -- it can be difficult to make something just like you imagine it! I wish you the best of luck with her lot!
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