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As my write-up for the day should make abundantly clear --

WorkVery quiet day to end out my short work week – my director was out sick today, and with the assistant director out on vacation this week, that meant it was just me and my coworker there today. We ended up working on a spreadsheet together once she’d done the GL and I’d pulled the morning credit card reports and done some obituaries, looking at donors who were potential duplicates on the system and determining if they needed to be merged or not. Only phone call I took all day was from a donor I called yesterday about a failing credit card, and after a bit of struggle I was able to update her card and stop it constantly throwing “Security Denials” (turned out the expiration date was wrong). *shrug* Honestly, I’ll take it – after Monday and Tuesday were so annoying, it was nice to have a quiet day! And now I have a five-day weekend, yay~ Looking forward to it!

To-Do List

1. Get in a workout: Check – after confirming with Mom that, yes, tomorrow’s adventures should constitute a workout in and of themselves, so I shouldn’t worry about doing an “official” one, tonight’s stationary-bike-riding videos consisted of:

A) The last twelve or so minutes of “Oxventure D&D: Wyrdwood | Chapter 7: Friends & Falsehoods - Part 1!” Which featured:

I. Happen managing, after a false start, to clamber up and out of the hole he made in The Superior’s roof, slip back down unnoticed, get his hood back into place, and finally rejoin the others with his hand tucked into his robes Napoleon-style because his encounter with Beatrice made him realize, oh yeah, that tattoo makes him highly identifiable. XD Better late than never?

II. The gang heading to the dining hall (with Morven dispelling her Minor Illusion on her hood and returning it to the initiate blue once no one was looking – Johnny had a very “damn it, I was hoping Andy would forget” look on their face XD), and discovering that, one, all of the tables were arranged so everyone sat in concentric rings around a central table for The Superior, with everyone sitting on the inside edge so they would be facing the next ring’s backs and thus avoid seeing their faces, meaning everyone could eat together while maintaining the cult’s rules (Luke was like “why have real restaurants not implemented this?!” XD) –

And two, as the initiates, it was their job to serve everyone the evening meal. Which was, you guessed it, stew and bread. XD Cressida was fuming, both because she had to call everyone “superior” as she served them and because she already hated soup and here was yet more of it. (Well, STEW technically, but I don’t think she particularly cared about the distinction. XD) Jokes were made about how before now the only ladle she’d ever touched was a punch ladle, with Johnny teasing that that was the thing she used to beat people who were behind on their payments. XD But she did her duty (very grumpily), and so did the others, and eventually everyone was served, yay. Leading to –

III. Johnny having everyone roll Charisma/Performance to eat their meals and saying “just don’t biff it” – only for everyone but Morven to totally biff it. XD Johnny described it as the others having real trouble figuring out how to get the food to their mouths given the tunnel of stiffened cloth protruding from their faces, and thus getting food all over themselves. Not a great look in front of the others – especially not The Superior, who we learned was NOT Beatrice! Beatrice’s black hood actually marked her as a SECOND-in-command – the actual The Superior’s hood, when they showed up, was white. Fortunately they didn’t notice the messy initiates – instead, the job of scolding our heroes for getting food all over themselves went to the red-hooded woman who met them at the gate. Willowfine attempted to bow her head in shame, only for stew to start pouring out of her woven faceplate. XD The woman then informed them that they had one last duty before they could retire – to clean the sacrificial chamber and prepare it for a sacrifice tomorrow. Lug was like “a sacrifice? Right after we showed up?” causing Happen to nudge him in a desperate “quit the backtalk” kind of way, then skitter away as the woman scolded our poor barbarian on how the work of the cult doesn’t stop for mere initiates. First time Happen’s want to get AWAY from Lug and his poor luck, I’m sure. XD

IV. The red-hooded woman thus leading everyone down to a secret room underneath one of the storage sheds, full of the scent of dried blood and decay, with strange arcane symbols on the wall and five plinths stretching up from the floor – plinths with corpses on them. Corpses that looked like they’d died in absolutely horrific pain. And as Lug quickly counted to make sure that the number of plinths exactly matched the number of people in their little party, Johnny revealed that some of the corpses looked at least vaguely familiar to the others – and confirmed, once Jane/Willowfine asked, that one was missing a hand… Yeaaaaah – think we found North Team. And the people who axed their copestone. D:

V. And the episode ending on the Rolling Rite, with Cressida picking up her first envelope, and poor Happen his second (the result of Luke rolling the die away from the edge of the tray when it initially stopped cocked – I don’t know how you TELL that on a D100, but okay then!).

So yeah – seems like the reason that red-hooded woman might have been happy to see them was because the cult needed fresh blood to SPILL, not take in. We’ll see how this all wraps up next week with the big season finale! SOMEONE is probably gonna get Sorcerous Bursted, that’s all I’m saying. :P

B) The entirety of “7 Incredibly Stressful Situations in Games That Will Take Years Off Your Life” by OXtra! Because I figured, if I couldn’t watch more Oxventure, I could at least work on getting yet more OXBoxtra list videos out of my Watch Later. :P This one featured Ellen and Jane talking about those ultra-stressful situations in video games that feel like they’re shortening your actual real-world lifespan, and featured such things like:

I. Trying to get all the loot you’ve collected over to the relevant quest-giver in Sea Of Thieves so you can level up and get all the fun bonuses, without falling victim to the other players in the game or to the various horrible tentacle monsters in the sea

II. Hiding from the Alien in Alien Isolation, which, thanks to various AI tricks, knows EXACTLY where you are and how best to terrify you as you hide under a desk sobbing

III. And, worst of all – TRYING TO WRANGLE YOUR FELLOW PLAYERS IN THE OVERCOOKED GAMES. Because at least in the other two cases, you were facing off against enemies – in THIS one, you’re being fucked over in the stressful cooperative cooking game by your supposed friends. As Ellen can attest to, it is rage-inducing. XD

So yeah – long story short, if you’re looking for stress relief, maybe don’t turn to video games. Or, at least, don’t turn to these video games in particular. :P

2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – I wrapped up Alice’s meeting with LaCroix tonight, with –

A) LaCroix setting Alice the task of going to the Museum of Natural History and retrieving the Ankaran Sarcophagus for him so it would be safe under Camarilla protection! ...Tomorrow evening, because – as Alice pointed out when he started going on about how she needed to get it as soon as possible – it was almost dawn by the time she made it back to see him. XD He gave Alice the keys to the front door, told her that Mercurio would be waiting for her in the nearby parking garage with a truck to bring it back, and warned her not to kill the security staff – Alice was like “do I seem like the sort of person who just wants to randomly murder anyone in front of them?” and LaCroix was like “right now you do, yes.” XD (Alice quietly noted in her head “that’s because you’re in front of me” XD)

B) And Alice shaking down LaCroix for some cash after the hell she’d gone through, as she is his employee and he just said she was indispensable – and, to her mild surprise, getting it, as LaCroix handed over $300. Without even putting up much of a fuss. She really wasn’t expecting that, as she will elaborate on in tomorrow’s editing session!

Not bad, not bad at all. I left it on Alice walking out of LaCroix’s office, having stunk it up enough (probably literally). Tomorrow, the poor girl FINALLY makes it back to her apartment in Skyeline – and to a certain deeply-worried ghoul of hers...

3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – as I watched my OXBoxtra list with my workout, I decided that my “official” YouTubery tonight would be another one of Proxy Gate Tactician’s videos instead – specifically, “Can you level 1-12 Without Leaving Baldur's Gate?” Yes, after seeing how much there is to do in Baldur’s Gate Lower City in Act 3, Proxy started wondering if it was possible to go from level 1 to level 12 (the normal max level in the game) in just that area. So, with the help of mods, he transported his level 1 ranger (and his pet cat summon) to the city, got rid of all his starting gear to accurately roleplay as a homeless fellow seeking his fortune, and began looking for ways to earn XP without ever leaving the region! Which involved:

I. Ranger (I don’t think we ever learned this character’s name) starting out slaying level 1 rats in the basement of the Elfsong Tavern

II. Ranger attempting to parley this money into becoming a thief, breaking into people’s houses to steal their shit – only to get near-immediately caught by the guards and thrown in jail. Lucky that he had a cat buddy to help distract them while he escaped

III. Ranger embarking on a quest to steal everything he could get his hands on and lie (well, “lie,” given he genuinely had no idea what most of these NPCs talking about “the Nightsong” and “the Absolute” were yammering on about) to a bunch of different NPCs to gain as much XP as he could

IV. Ranger getting some fancy threads from clothing merchant Figaro and then attempting a bank heist on the counting house – only to find that Minsc and his handlers had already beaten him to it, forcing him to pick off the assassins the guards couldn’t handle. Fortunately he got some extra-sneaky leather armor out of it, allowing him to be a Stealth Archer, the most broken of builds

V. Ranger realizing that the only truly viable career path in Baldur’s Gate was as a murderer for hire and thus making his bid to join the Unholy Assassins of Bhaal – after saving the life of Figaro because that guy really helped him clean himself up, you know? But he happily killed two of the other targets on the list he found (including his former boss the chef at the Elfsong), presented their hands to the tribunal, killed the weird flying elephant they presented to him as his final test, and officially became an Unholy Assassin

VI. Ranger then having second thoughts about the life he’d chosen and going to the House of Grief for counseling…only to find it was a front for a brainwashy cult and murdering everyone with the help of some barrels to create an impenetrable barrier in front of the door he kept hiding behind XD

VII. Ranger deciding that he might as well try to find those rapscallions who got away with the bank’s money before he could and tracking them down in the sewers, before finding a note on them that led him to the guild headquarters of the Thieves’ Guild, where he helped leader Nine-Fingers take down a potential usurper because Nine-Fingers had never tried to take his job or kill him

VIII. Ranger taking a moment to save poor Volo from being blown up, before heading to the Water Queen’s temple to see what was up there, leading to him avenging a recently-killed member by tracking down the asshole who ran her over with his submersible for the head priestess. Because, well, he is an assassin for hire :p

IX. Ranger taking a stroll through the park to enjoy the statuary – only to find a bunch of his fellow assassins hanging out and talking about killing civilians, prompting Ranger to kill them because he’s not into the murder hobo lifestyle

X. Ranger deciding to take out the Steel Watch Factory to destroy the emo lord Gortash’s mechanical guards and make it easier for him and his fellow criminals to exist on the streets – he was planning on saving the enslaved Gondians inside, but a fun new bug meant that he couldn’t turn off the “motivator” controlling their collars, and all their heads blew up. Ranger considered this an acceptable loss XD

XI. Ranger invading Cazador’s house and deciding to make up for not being able to save the Gondians by killing Cazador (after stealing Astarion’s corpse to shut down his ascension ritual) and setting free all the bloodthirsty vampire spawn trapped within, yay~

XII. Ranger tracking down a thief for a mummy trader in the city...only to learn that the “thief” was in fact an innocent man and instead taking out the trader and his mummy spawn (while the citizenry walked by like “ho hum, just another day”)

XIII. And finally, Ranger deciding that he wasn’t impressed with his fellow assassins and heading down into the depths of the Bhaal temple hidden under the city to slay them all, ending with Orin

All of which, yes, did indeed get him to level 12. XD Kind of by the skin of his teeth, but he did it! Proxy was very impressed – ESPECIALLY since it didn’t involve him having to resort to doing any murder hoboing! Just following as many quests as he could did the trick. Great stuff! I do like his challenge runs, he has very interesting ideas and makes playing them out VERY amusing. :P

4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – just Victor Luvs Alice to worry about tonight, and I did figure out what I wanted to stick in my queue for Friday at least: Deals And Revelry! A story by “shady-tavern” about a woman who, after discovering a plot against herself and her parents by her future mother-in-law and escaping after being drugged, goes to the leader of the Revelry (a party street in her city), Quin, to make a devil’s deal with him because all she wants is to live...and ends up falling in love with him once he takes care of her little problem. It’s a somewhat dark fantasy romance, as Quin is a dangerous person who made a deal with an ancient god that turned him into something not exactly human that puts off most people...but the protagonist (never named because it’s a second-person story) doesn’t care. She loves him not despite his sharp edges, but BECAUSE of them. It’s sweet, in a faintly-twisted way. XD I quite like it, so I figured it was about time it got put on my blog! Now I just have to figure out Saturday, and I am set...

Yeah -- not a lot of stressful stuff happening today! I am very pleased. And now I should wrap things up and see about getting to bed, as while I don't have to get up SUPER early tomorrow, I do need to get up early enough to have breakfast and get dressed before we head out to the zoo and the botanical gardens and all that. I'll tell you all how that goes tomorrow! Night all!
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