Somewhat Less Stressed Tuesday
Aug. 5th, 2025 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crossover_chickLike, it still wasn't great -- as you will see below, I had an annoying day at work, and the weather today was OKAY, but the wildfire haze and some lingering humidity made it far from perfect -- but I felt generally a bit calmer. Possibly because we didn't see any ants today, possibly because we got Chinese food for supper from a local restaurant and had a very good time feasting on it. :) Either way, glad to feel a little less angry at the world today! So here is the write-up --
Work – Another annoying day at work, with my woes being largely credit-card-related today:
A) While pulling the morning reports from our credit card processor’s site today, I discovered that a handful of gifts – including some final payments on last year’s pledges – hadn’t been uploaded because they were under the wrong event. *sigh* It wasn’t a LOT of missing money, fortunately, but it was a non-zero amount! And then, after writing an e-mail to my boss to let him know (and ask what he wanted to do with the 2024 Appeal payments, as I wasn’t sure if they could posted or not), I had to clarify to him that the 2024 Appeal stuff I was asking about was part of the stuff that hadn’t been posted. When I thought that was perfectly clear. *grumbles* Anyway, it’s with the credit card people now, so – we’ll see what happens!
B) While I was getting that sorted, I also had to field some questions from my coworker about some payments on some 2026 Appeal pledge payments that had come across as 2025 Appeal one-time gifts, because the pledges had been made at the absolute last minute and thus had 2025 Appeal source codes. I told her that she should apply the gifts to the pledges and fixed the source codes.
C) Then, after lunch, I had to help someone update her pledge (and do a catch-up payment to get her back to where she THOUGHT she was supposed to be), and explain to my coworker that our credit card system is dumb and that you had to always go by the pledge on our main database (because updating a card on a pledge changes the pledge on the credit card processor’s site to match the current BALANCE of the pledge) and ignore the “remaining amount” bit (because that’s always the “processed amount” being subtracted from the current pledge amount and thus won’t accurately reflect reality...especially if the “processed amount” is higher than the current pledge amount, resulting in a negative “remaining amount”). Which I swear I’ve explained to her before, but…
D) Then I had to create a new record for a guy who’d called in to do his very first gift...only to find that when I checked the version of the record that had ended up on the credit card processor’s site afterward, he had entirely the wrong parish listed. *facepalm* I’ve seen this problem before, but this was the first time I could take screenshots of the issue, so that’s what I did, e-mailing them off to the credit card processor’s support team –
Only to get an e-mail back from someone going “Oh, the transaction’s fine, the confusion resulted from the wrong parish being on the donor’s profile, I’ve fixed that. :)” *huff* I e-mailed back thanking them for fixing it and saying my question was why was the parish wrong in the first place. God knows if I’ll get an answer.
*grumbles* So yeah, not a great day. Though at least I caught most of this nonsense before it could get too bad...and I was able to get in some downtime with my puzzles. Very happy now that I took Thursday and Friday off for a long weekend – just one more day!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Oxventure D&D: Wyrdwood | Chapter 7: Friends & Falsehoods - Part 1!” Tonight’s half-hour-ish chunk featured:
A) The group being welcomed by the red-hooded woman, handing over their bees and presenting themselves as new initiates to the cult (for that is what it was) from Elmsteader – the woman was surprised, as the residents hadn’t seemed very interested in their teachings when they passed through about five years ago, but the group successfully claimed that they’d mulled it over and realized the cult was right, especially after recent events. The woman thus welcomed them to “The Hive,” telling them that they would get their own little cloistered cells because of their “nobody sees anybody’s face” thing (and not to abuse the privilege) and that their duties would include whatever their superiors asked of them, basically. Morven reached into her mind with Detect Thoughts to get an idea of what she was thinking, and learned that she was honestly pleased and relieved that they’d shown up, as they were the first initiates in quite a while, and the extra hands would help with the work around the place. Morven then tried to reach in further, curious –
Only for Johnny to make their saving throw, ending the spell – and making the woman aware that Morven had been poking around in there. Uh-oh. She didn’t do anything about it right away, though, just getting one of the brown-hooded acolytes to escort the group to the barracks. And Morven naturally did not let on what had just happened, as, well, she’d been ragging on the others constantly and did not need them knowing about her failure. XD We’ll see if anything comes of it later!
B) The group being seen to their cells in the barracks (tiny little things with pallets to sleep on, a table to stack things on, and a wash basin to wash up in), then fortunately being left alone, with just a warning that soon they’d be called to the evening meal. Happen was like “well, guess this is our life now,” prompting Morven to remind him that they weren’t actually joining the cult. XD Which then segued into Willowfine asking how this compared to his cult back home; Happen insisting he didn’t belong to a cult, it was an order, and that this was actually nicer, as back home he slept on a stone bed with a bunch of other acolytes; Lug pointing out that it’s very odd to have an organization devoted to chaos call itself an “order” and actually try to make things orderly (at least inside the temple), with Willowfine agreeing and Morven adding “it should be called a cult;” and Happen going “you’re all just trying to get a rise out of me and it won’t work” before shutting the door of his cell on them. XD Fortunately, with that out of their systems, things got a little more productive, and it was quickly agreed upon that they should go check out that nearby storage barn while they had a little time before dinner. Morven Minor Illusioned her hood to be red so they’d have the cover story of “a high-ranking member giving the lower-ranking members a tour;” they got Happen out of his room (and reminded him again that they weren’t actually joining the cult when he said they were supposed to wait for the gong); Morven got into character as a superior asshole (which didn’t need much doing, as Lug/Mike pointed out XD), and off they went!
C) The gang visiting the storage barn where they’d seen one of the brown hoods go to get a fresh beehive for the bees they’d brought – only to find it occupied by four brown hoods, working away. Fortunately, Morven’s disguise held as she questioned them on what they were doing (pretending to be testing them on if they knew their duties or not), and they explained they were checking on the grain stores to make sure none of the food had rotted. Morven then asked about the “non-edible” storage –
Only to get confused “we don’t know what you mean” responses. A look around the barn revealed that it was pretty much all general living stuff – bolts of cream-colored cloth for the robes, the grain stores previously mentioned, a wood pile in the corner, etc. No magical items at all! Morven told the brown hoods “good job, get on with it” and led the others out to discuss the issue. Happen suggested splitting the party to search all the remaining buildings quicker, but Lug shot that down as them needing the protection of their fake superior, so Willowfine instead tried casting Detect Object on the general category of amulets. She got a ping from a location directly north of them, which led to…
D) The gang finding their way over to what was clearly the grand leader’s (aka THE Superior, as per the brown hoods in the grain stores) house! After a brief diversion wandering over to a mysterious gated pen near the edge of the compound (and declining to go inside – in-character because it wasn’t where they needed to be; out-of-character I suspect because Johnny wouldn’t tell them what was in it without them going inside XD). This house proved to be guarded by some brown hoods – Happen, however, had a plan, and – as sneakily as he could – climbed up onto the roof, found a spot that was hidden from general view, and prepared to use his shortsword to cut a little peeping window in the thatch! (Making sure to act alone so the others would have plausible deniability should he be caught.) He asked the sprites for aid as Luke rolled the Cadence Die –
And – praise Cadence! – got a crit 1. XD Leading to Happen’s sprites pulling the thatch a little TOO tight, causing the sword to go through it like butter and Happen to rapidly follow it through the rotten underlayer before falling into the house itself! Where he found himself confronted with a rich-looking bed (because of course the leader has a nicer bed, they work harder! XD), a weird-looking painting of a beehive with a strange shadow behind it on the wall –
And someone in a black hood, looking straight at him. Morven used Telepathic Speech to ask if he was all right, and Happen said he was okay but that he’d been caught, and to tell the others that, if he was killed, he’d really enjoyed traveling with them, aww. However, the black-hooded person didn’t seem intent on killing him right away – instead, they seized his arm and turned it so they could see the symbol of Cadence (a skull with dice for eyes) on his hand. They then released him and rolled up their sleeve –
Revealing a similar symbol on their arm. One that had been ravaged by time and what looked like chemicals, yes, but was clearly the symbol of Happen’s order. O:
E) Happen having a surprise reunion with the black-hooded person – a woman named Beatrice – while the rest of the group waited outside, wondering what the hell was going on (with Morven doing a bit of telepathic checking-in occasionally). Beatrice asked Happen what he was doing here, and Happen explained “helping the order, just like you!” Beatrice said that was many years ago and explained she meant what he was doing here specifically – as in, in The Hive’s camp – and Happen proceeded to give her an increasingly-smaller-picture rundown of what he’d been up to, starting with “investigating magic and why it has gone wrong” and ending with “I need to find an amulet for the fey person who sent us here.” (Meanwhile, Morven was just “I bet he’s weaving a hell of a cover story.” XD) Beatrice considered all this, then took out one of the order’s coins and said “one last flip” before flipping the coin and catching it perfectly (without even looking). After checking the result, she informed Happen that he’d find a hidden lever behind the painting, but that he’d better hurry getting what he needed, as The Superior would notice if he wasn’t at the evening meal, before striding out. Happen was a bit nonplussed, but quickly set to finding the lever, which opened a hidden compartment in the wall. Inside of which was a chest –
Inside of which was the amulet they sought! Hidden among a bunch of confiscated magical items. He quickly informed Morven that he had it, and after confirming that he should leave the rest of the items (Cressida’s banker soul twinged at that XD), asked if he needed any help getting out. Happen was pretty sure he could climb out the hole he’d created in the roof, so Morven went to distract the guards with some idle chatter – asking them how their duties were going and whatnot – while he tried that. I left off with her having just told them to kiss, then passing it off as another test, as the gong for the evening meal rang out. Tomorrow, we’ll wrap up with how the evening meal goes, then...well, I don’t know if I should start the second part right away, because our plans for my Thursday off are to go to Roger Williams Park and visit the zoo and the botanical gardens, take a swan boat ride, and get ice cream. There’s a good chance I won’t want to work out because we’ll have done all the walking! So yeah, might have to think of another thing to watch for tomorrow and Friday, and leave the grand finale til next week...we’ll see!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice completed her report about Grout’s mansion to LaCroix tonight, which – very unfortunately for her – included mumbling to herself about if some of the horrors she saw within were what chased Nines out and made him act so very oddly toward her. Which caused LaCroix to suddenly be like “you saw Nines there? Leader of the Anarchs? Do you know what this means??” and Alice to be like “no I – WAIT WAIT WAIT I am not saying Nines killed Grout!!” Not that it did her any good, as LaCroix insisted that Nines’s very presence there was tantamount to guilt, over all of Alice’s protests. He did at least say that he would discuss things with the primogen before calling a “blood hunt” –
Before promptly Dominating Alice not to tell anyone about the matter, especially the Anarchs, until he’d made his decision. *wince* Ooooh, you could bet Alice was fucking mad about that. Even as she admitted in the privacy of her own head that of course she’d planned to visit the Last Round and ask Nines what he was doing there. But yeah, now she’s stuck being unable to tell anyone anything until LaCroix inevitably calls his blood hunt. Her night just keeps getting worse and worse, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, Alice – you’re ALMOST to the one good bit...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – another night chipping away at the OXBoxtra lists in my Watch Later, watching “7 NPCS Whose Lives You Ruined Like a Hero! (Commenter’s Edition but for some reason they didn’t actually include that in the title!)” Jane, Andy, and Mike going through seven more NPCs who have their lives ruined by the heroes of the games they star in, as inspired by the comments on the last video they did on the subject. Including Chunk, everyone’s favorite security guard from Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (who first gets fired from his initial guard job by Therese for letting the PC slip past him and ruin the paintings in Gallery Noir, then gets hired by LaCroix and thus ends up fighting you at the very end of the game (assuming you don’t side with LaCroix) – which doesn’t go well for him); Brelas, the wood elf serving girl at the Thalmor party the Dragonborn attends during the quest “Diplomatic Immunity” in Skyrim (who can be thrown in the dungeon if you tell the asshole guest harassing her that she is not into him so you can use the commotion as a distraction to slip away and do quest stuff – and even if you free her, she could easily die during the escape or spend the rest of her life hunted by the vengeful Thalmor who employed her); and every random NPC straight-up eaten by Alex Mercer in Prototype (because to Alex all they are is a disguise he can use to slip past the authorities). Man – it is ROUGH being an NPC in a video game sometimes...
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check for a change –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I got a couple of things queued up for the next couple of days:
A) The “Teen Valicer Save looks” post for Wednesday, featuring my pictures of the teenified version of the trio I made for Smiler’s birthday (two months late XD)
B) And that post by “bisexual-and-polyamory-is-okay” about how great “domestic polyamory” is for Thursday, featuring my tags about how that is so the mood for my Valicer trio :)
Still not sure what Friday and Saturday are gonna be yet, but at least I have a couple more days now to think of something!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, while I didn’t get any asks related to the “Mindful Monday” meme I reblogged, I did at least get an anon roleplaying a Malkavian trying to have a conversation with a lamp post – and then being like “wow rude” when it didn’t reply. XD Naturally, I had my own Londerland Bloodlines Malk!Alice reply and suggest the other Malk might have better luck with the local stop signs – after all, those at least know one word. XD
And there we have it -- Tuesday, in the books. And now I need to go to bed so I can get through Wednesday. *sigh* We'll see what that brings...night all!
Work – Another annoying day at work, with my woes being largely credit-card-related today:
A) While pulling the morning reports from our credit card processor’s site today, I discovered that a handful of gifts – including some final payments on last year’s pledges – hadn’t been uploaded because they were under the wrong event. *sigh* It wasn’t a LOT of missing money, fortunately, but it was a non-zero amount! And then, after writing an e-mail to my boss to let him know (and ask what he wanted to do with the 2024 Appeal payments, as I wasn’t sure if they could posted or not), I had to clarify to him that the 2024 Appeal stuff I was asking about was part of the stuff that hadn’t been posted. When I thought that was perfectly clear. *grumbles* Anyway, it’s with the credit card people now, so – we’ll see what happens!
B) While I was getting that sorted, I also had to field some questions from my coworker about some payments on some 2026 Appeal pledge payments that had come across as 2025 Appeal one-time gifts, because the pledges had been made at the absolute last minute and thus had 2025 Appeal source codes. I told her that she should apply the gifts to the pledges and fixed the source codes.
C) Then, after lunch, I had to help someone update her pledge (and do a catch-up payment to get her back to where she THOUGHT she was supposed to be), and explain to my coworker that our credit card system is dumb and that you had to always go by the pledge on our main database (because updating a card on a pledge changes the pledge on the credit card processor’s site to match the current BALANCE of the pledge) and ignore the “remaining amount” bit (because that’s always the “processed amount” being subtracted from the current pledge amount and thus won’t accurately reflect reality...especially if the “processed amount” is higher than the current pledge amount, resulting in a negative “remaining amount”). Which I swear I’ve explained to her before, but…
D) Then I had to create a new record for a guy who’d called in to do his very first gift...only to find that when I checked the version of the record that had ended up on the credit card processor’s site afterward, he had entirely the wrong parish listed. *facepalm* I’ve seen this problem before, but this was the first time I could take screenshots of the issue, so that’s what I did, e-mailing them off to the credit card processor’s support team –
Only to get an e-mail back from someone going “Oh, the transaction’s fine, the confusion resulted from the wrong parish being on the donor’s profile, I’ve fixed that. :)” *huff* I e-mailed back thanking them for fixing it and saying my question was why was the parish wrong in the first place. God knows if I’ll get an answer.
*grumbles* So yeah, not a great day. Though at least I caught most of this nonsense before it could get too bad...and I was able to get in some downtime with my puzzles. Very happy now that I took Thursday and Friday off for a long weekend – just one more day!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – another night on the bike, another night with “Oxventure D&D: Wyrdwood | Chapter 7: Friends & Falsehoods - Part 1!” Tonight’s half-hour-ish chunk featured:
A) The group being welcomed by the red-hooded woman, handing over their bees and presenting themselves as new initiates to the cult (for that is what it was) from Elmsteader – the woman was surprised, as the residents hadn’t seemed very interested in their teachings when they passed through about five years ago, but the group successfully claimed that they’d mulled it over and realized the cult was right, especially after recent events. The woman thus welcomed them to “The Hive,” telling them that they would get their own little cloistered cells because of their “nobody sees anybody’s face” thing (and not to abuse the privilege) and that their duties would include whatever their superiors asked of them, basically. Morven reached into her mind with Detect Thoughts to get an idea of what she was thinking, and learned that she was honestly pleased and relieved that they’d shown up, as they were the first initiates in quite a while, and the extra hands would help with the work around the place. Morven then tried to reach in further, curious –
Only for Johnny to make their saving throw, ending the spell – and making the woman aware that Morven had been poking around in there. Uh-oh. She didn’t do anything about it right away, though, just getting one of the brown-hooded acolytes to escort the group to the barracks. And Morven naturally did not let on what had just happened, as, well, she’d been ragging on the others constantly and did not need them knowing about her failure. XD We’ll see if anything comes of it later!
B) The group being seen to their cells in the barracks (tiny little things with pallets to sleep on, a table to stack things on, and a wash basin to wash up in), then fortunately being left alone, with just a warning that soon they’d be called to the evening meal. Happen was like “well, guess this is our life now,” prompting Morven to remind him that they weren’t actually joining the cult. XD Which then segued into Willowfine asking how this compared to his cult back home; Happen insisting he didn’t belong to a cult, it was an order, and that this was actually nicer, as back home he slept on a stone bed with a bunch of other acolytes; Lug pointing out that it’s very odd to have an organization devoted to chaos call itself an “order” and actually try to make things orderly (at least inside the temple), with Willowfine agreeing and Morven adding “it should be called a cult;” and Happen going “you’re all just trying to get a rise out of me and it won’t work” before shutting the door of his cell on them. XD Fortunately, with that out of their systems, things got a little more productive, and it was quickly agreed upon that they should go check out that nearby storage barn while they had a little time before dinner. Morven Minor Illusioned her hood to be red so they’d have the cover story of “a high-ranking member giving the lower-ranking members a tour;” they got Happen out of his room (and reminded him again that they weren’t actually joining the cult when he said they were supposed to wait for the gong); Morven got into character as a superior asshole (which didn’t need much doing, as Lug/Mike pointed out XD), and off they went!
C) The gang visiting the storage barn where they’d seen one of the brown hoods go to get a fresh beehive for the bees they’d brought – only to find it occupied by four brown hoods, working away. Fortunately, Morven’s disguise held as she questioned them on what they were doing (pretending to be testing them on if they knew their duties or not), and they explained they were checking on the grain stores to make sure none of the food had rotted. Morven then asked about the “non-edible” storage –
Only to get confused “we don’t know what you mean” responses. A look around the barn revealed that it was pretty much all general living stuff – bolts of cream-colored cloth for the robes, the grain stores previously mentioned, a wood pile in the corner, etc. No magical items at all! Morven told the brown hoods “good job, get on with it” and led the others out to discuss the issue. Happen suggested splitting the party to search all the remaining buildings quicker, but Lug shot that down as them needing the protection of their fake superior, so Willowfine instead tried casting Detect Object on the general category of amulets. She got a ping from a location directly north of them, which led to…
D) The gang finding their way over to what was clearly the grand leader’s (aka THE Superior, as per the brown hoods in the grain stores) house! After a brief diversion wandering over to a mysterious gated pen near the edge of the compound (and declining to go inside – in-character because it wasn’t where they needed to be; out-of-character I suspect because Johnny wouldn’t tell them what was in it without them going inside XD). This house proved to be guarded by some brown hoods – Happen, however, had a plan, and – as sneakily as he could – climbed up onto the roof, found a spot that was hidden from general view, and prepared to use his shortsword to cut a little peeping window in the thatch! (Making sure to act alone so the others would have plausible deniability should he be caught.) He asked the sprites for aid as Luke rolled the Cadence Die –
And – praise Cadence! – got a crit 1. XD Leading to Happen’s sprites pulling the thatch a little TOO tight, causing the sword to go through it like butter and Happen to rapidly follow it through the rotten underlayer before falling into the house itself! Where he found himself confronted with a rich-looking bed (because of course the leader has a nicer bed, they work harder! XD), a weird-looking painting of a beehive with a strange shadow behind it on the wall –
And someone in a black hood, looking straight at him. Morven used Telepathic Speech to ask if he was all right, and Happen said he was okay but that he’d been caught, and to tell the others that, if he was killed, he’d really enjoyed traveling with them, aww. However, the black-hooded person didn’t seem intent on killing him right away – instead, they seized his arm and turned it so they could see the symbol of Cadence (a skull with dice for eyes) on his hand. They then released him and rolled up their sleeve –
Revealing a similar symbol on their arm. One that had been ravaged by time and what looked like chemicals, yes, but was clearly the symbol of Happen’s order. O:
E) Happen having a surprise reunion with the black-hooded person – a woman named Beatrice – while the rest of the group waited outside, wondering what the hell was going on (with Morven doing a bit of telepathic checking-in occasionally). Beatrice asked Happen what he was doing here, and Happen explained “helping the order, just like you!” Beatrice said that was many years ago and explained she meant what he was doing here specifically – as in, in The Hive’s camp – and Happen proceeded to give her an increasingly-smaller-picture rundown of what he’d been up to, starting with “investigating magic and why it has gone wrong” and ending with “I need to find an amulet for the fey person who sent us here.” (Meanwhile, Morven was just “I bet he’s weaving a hell of a cover story.” XD) Beatrice considered all this, then took out one of the order’s coins and said “one last flip” before flipping the coin and catching it perfectly (without even looking). After checking the result, she informed Happen that he’d find a hidden lever behind the painting, but that he’d better hurry getting what he needed, as The Superior would notice if he wasn’t at the evening meal, before striding out. Happen was a bit nonplussed, but quickly set to finding the lever, which opened a hidden compartment in the wall. Inside of which was a chest –
Inside of which was the amulet they sought! Hidden among a bunch of confiscated magical items. He quickly informed Morven that he had it, and after confirming that he should leave the rest of the items (Cressida’s banker soul twinged at that XD), asked if he needed any help getting out. Happen was pretty sure he could climb out the hole he’d created in the roof, so Morven went to distract the guards with some idle chatter – asking them how their duties were going and whatnot – while he tried that. I left off with her having just told them to kiss, then passing it off as another test, as the gong for the evening meal rang out. Tomorrow, we’ll wrap up with how the evening meal goes, then...well, I don’t know if I should start the second part right away, because our plans for my Thursday off are to go to Roger Williams Park and visit the zoo and the botanical gardens, take a swan boat ride, and get ice cream. There’s a good chance I won’t want to work out because we’ll have done all the walking! So yeah, might have to think of another thing to watch for tomorrow and Friday, and leave the grand finale til next week...we’ll see!
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – Alice completed her report about Grout’s mansion to LaCroix tonight, which – very unfortunately for her – included mumbling to herself about if some of the horrors she saw within were what chased Nines out and made him act so very oddly toward her. Which caused LaCroix to suddenly be like “you saw Nines there? Leader of the Anarchs? Do you know what this means??” and Alice to be like “no I – WAIT WAIT WAIT I am not saying Nines killed Grout!!” Not that it did her any good, as LaCroix insisted that Nines’s very presence there was tantamount to guilt, over all of Alice’s protests. He did at least say that he would discuss things with the primogen before calling a “blood hunt” –
Before promptly Dominating Alice not to tell anyone about the matter, especially the Anarchs, until he’d made his decision. *wince* Ooooh, you could bet Alice was fucking mad about that. Even as she admitted in the privacy of her own head that of course she’d planned to visit the Last Round and ask Nines what he was doing there. But yeah, now she’s stuck being unable to tell anyone anything until LaCroix inevitably calls his blood hunt. Her night just keeps getting worse and worse, doesn’t it? Don’t worry, Alice – you’re ALMOST to the one good bit...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – another night chipping away at the OXBoxtra lists in my Watch Later, watching “7 NPCS Whose Lives You Ruined Like a Hero! (Commenter’s Edition but for some reason they didn’t actually include that in the title!)” Jane, Andy, and Mike going through seven more NPCs who have their lives ruined by the heroes of the games they star in, as inspired by the comments on the last video they did on the subject. Including Chunk, everyone’s favorite security guard from Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (who first gets fired from his initial guard job by Therese for letting the PC slip past him and ruin the paintings in Gallery Noir, then gets hired by LaCroix and thus ends up fighting you at the very end of the game (assuming you don’t side with LaCroix) – which doesn’t go well for him); Brelas, the wood elf serving girl at the Thalmor party the Dragonborn attends during the quest “Diplomatic Immunity” in Skyrim (who can be thrown in the dungeon if you tell the asshole guest harassing her that she is not into him so you can use the commotion as a distraction to slip away and do quest stuff – and even if you free her, she could easily die during the escape or spend the rest of her life hunted by the vengeful Thalmor who employed her); and every random NPC straight-up eaten by Alex Mercer in Prototype (because to Alex all they are is a disguise he can use to slip past the authorities). Man – it is ROUGH being an NPC in a video game sometimes...
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check and check for a change –
Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) – Over here, I got a couple of things queued up for the next couple of days:
A) The “Teen Valicer Save looks” post for Wednesday, featuring my pictures of the teenified version of the trio I made for Smiler’s birthday (two months late XD)
B) And that post by “bisexual-and-polyamory-is-okay” about how great “domestic polyamory” is for Thursday, featuring my tags about how that is so the mood for my Valicer trio :)
Still not sure what Friday and Saturday are gonna be yet, but at least I have a couple more days now to think of something!
Valice Multiverse – And over here, while I didn’t get any asks related to the “Mindful Monday” meme I reblogged, I did at least get an anon roleplaying a Malkavian trying to have a conversation with a lamp post – and then being like “wow rude” when it didn’t reply. XD Naturally, I had my own Londerland Bloodlines Malk!Alice reply and suggest the other Malk might have better luck with the local stop signs – after all, those at least know one word. XD
And there we have it -- Tuesday, in the books. And now I need to go to bed so I can get through Wednesday. *sigh* We'll see what that brings...night all!
