This Week Remains Fairly Shitty
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crossover_chickMy day wasn't TOO bad, but my parents had a time of it, because ONCE AGAIN we're having trouble getting fucking pain meds for Dad. *pinches nose* I swear, we seem to deal with only the shittiest and most incompetent of doctors and nurses... Mom's going to call more people tomorrow and make sure the prescription goes through. In the meantime, here's the write-up for today:
Work – It was a mostly-fine day at work – with the servers back up, everything was functioning normally, and I could do all the regular morning reports in the morning and whatnot. I spent most of the day with credit card stuff, honestly – contacting people about failed payments; taking calls from a handful of the people I’d contacted and getting their gifts and pledges sorted; and looking up more missed payments. The one truly annoying thing happened near the end of the day, when my coworker tried to take a credit card pledge over the phone – only for an error message for a problem we thought was fixed to pop up again, and prevent the pledge from going through. *sigh* Cue me sending another e-mail to the credit card people before we left – we’ll see if they actually get back to me tomorrow! Given it’s going to be Friday the 13th, I doubt it.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – hopped back on the bike tonight and pedaled my way through the remaining half of “Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues - The Level 1 Naked Useless Survival Run! (Minus three minutes I had to watch after supper.) The second chunk of Useless Steve’s SCIENCE ADVENTURES included –
A) Useless Steve, after learning from Dala post-getting-her-off-via-radar-scan that Big MT actually was a mountain at one point, but the Think Tank exploded the top off at some point, creating the crater (which Jon was suspicious of because none of the architecture of the buildings in the crater suggested this facility was previously fully underground), making a plan to maybe try to get some of the goodies from Little Yangtze before heading south to the X-2 Transmitter Antenna Array to get the special technology there (as it was the easiest to retrieve) before stepping outside for the first time –
And IMMEDIATELY going into [DANGER] because his Sneak is SO abysmal enemies can spot him from halfway across the map. XD Steve proceeded to get his shit wrecked by a gang of Lobotomites (humans who have ALSO suffered brain surgery at the hands of the Think Tank) wielding Caravan Shotguns and Proton Axes (both the regular kind and the throwing kind), while doing absolutely piddly amounts of damage to them with his terrible Sonic Emitter. Welcome the Big Empty, everybody! Jon really wishes it was empty right about now! (I’m kidding, he was laughing his head off about Useless Steve’s terrible situation.)
B) Useless Steve employing the incredible power of “running away” to get away from the Lobotomites that wanted his blood, managing to avoid getting murdered by a Trauma Harness (an automated life support suit thing gone murderous, I think) and its laser weaponry and cross the pipes over to the Little Yangtze Watchtower, aka Father Elijah’s old hangout, before ducking inside to hide for a while and let the heat die down. He looted the place for goodies (including drugs, a jumpsuit that gave him +5 Repair, some Proton Throwing Axes of his own, and the upgrade for the book chute back at the Sink that allowed it to mulch stuff); read Father Elijah’s personal logs (which revealed that he only went to the Sierra Madre casino because Ulysses told him about the holograms and the toxic cloud he could study there – thanks, Ulysses); drank some Sunset Sarsaparilla for healing (because he used his only stimpack getting TO the watchtower, so soda it was); then stepped outside –
Only for the Trauma Harness he was running from to immediately find him. And follow him inside. Steve immediately decided discretion was the better part of valor and made another run for it, looping around the balcony to pick up Elijah’s Advanced LAER gun (a very powerful weapon, but one Steve couldn’t use effectively AND whose condition goes down SUPER fast, apparently – still, it was better than the damn Sonic Emitter) and some ammo before trying to escape through the Little Yangtze camp itself, avoiding the now-ghoulified prisoners within –
Only to succumb to a pair of sentry bots who came around to say hello, and were not stunned as much by the Sonic Emitter’s EMP effect as Jon had hoped. He was happy to see that the gun had SOME effect, though – proves it’s not TOTALLY useless.
C) Useless Steve managing to successfully flee the camp on his second attempt by luring some of the enemies to a different corner and then looping around them, before heading in the direction of the Western Tunnel and the X-13 Research Facility and attempting to glitch his way up a nearby cliff...only to get exploded by the plasma mine Jon had forgotten was there. XD Fortunately his second attempt at getting up the cliffs was much more successful, and he ended up being able to hop down onto a pipe and get up onto the roof of the facility, which is not something you can usually do right away! This scored him a bunch of mines (from Elijah’s secret stashes) and a spare ordinary LAER gun that he used to repair the special Elijah one so he could, you know, actually USE it (while Jon had a giggle about how this had not been his plan at all). He then figured that, while he was here, he might as well get the technology he was tasked with retrieving –
And thus, headed inside to pick up the boots, gloves, and chest piece that make up the Aural Stealth Suit! A lovely bit of armor that provided 14 DT and +15 Sneak (both of which Steve DESPERATELY needed), could auto-inject Steve with stimpacks and Med-X as necessary (should he actually pick up any), and – rather counterintuitively for a stealth suit – could talk! Jon was initially charmed by the voice, but that wore off quickly when the suit started reminding him on the regular that his Pip-Boy light was on. XD Better yet, Steve could pick up the suit without any danger to his person because the facility is pretty much completely safe until you do the first stealth suit test, at which point Mobius sends in the robo-scorpions (plus the various pieces are in fact pretty damn close to the entrance). Steve had no interest in doing the tests just yet, because he did not want to die to robo-scorpions, so instead he pottered around, looting the place (getting many bottles of Nuka-Cola for healing purposes, along with stuff he could sell to the Sink Central AI for ammo because he was going to need all the ammo – and, in the actual testing track itself (as you can visit it without starting a test), a second Stealth Boy) and reading the various terminals (unlocking a few mods for a gun he does not have and an implant he cannot get yet...though he may want to get in future, as it’s an implant that improves healing from eating food…). All while Jon talked about how you can cheat at three out of the four Stealth Tests, either by hacking or picking open one of the doors on the observation level after starting the test and using the catwalks up there to skip directly to the end, bypassing the actual testing track entirely, or by going into the track before starting the test and disabling all the traps and robobrains and whatnot (the latter explicitly only respawn for the fourth test, since the purpose of THAT one is to sneak up on them and turn them off). Basically, this is the Facility For Cheaters. :P
D) Useless Steve then heading back outside and immediately running for the invisible radar fence that X-13 bumps up against at the edge of the crater to teleport himself back to The Sink and away from everything that wanted to kill him. And then fast-traveling back to X-13 and doing it again to fulfill a little achievement and get a bit of bonus XP, because why wouldn’t you? :P (Jon learned at this point that Steve could go into [DANGER] mode on the Sink’s balcony, an area covered in force fields where no enemy could actually get to him, because his Sneak was so bad. He had a good laugh over that.) He then decided to see what was going on with the Lobotomites outside and if they had all returned to their previous positions or were still clustered near the Yangtze camp or what, which led to –
I. Steve stepping outside and getting set upon by the big group of Lobotomites, managing to take one down with his new super gun, but being unable to shoot the shotgun out of the hands of another, leading to his death
II. Steve noting that some of the Lobotomites were coming from a specific direction and setting a mine there to see if he could blow them up – he could, but it was not enough, and he ended up dying again
III. Steve realizing the MAJORITY of the Lobotomites came from the left and setting up FOUR plasma mines there – only to die when the enemies started charging in because he couldn’t get out of the blast radius in time
IV. Steve setting down THREE plasma mines instead, and managing to kill two Lobotomites straight away and heavily wound the third, who was carrying an axe and thus was easily taken down; he then managed to kill the original Caravan Shotgun guy and start looting bodies...only for more Lobotomites to show up and start grabbing the guns from their dead fellows to shoot Steve, making him realize he should have prioritized picking up the guns first
V. Steve killing the first guys with the plasma mine trap and this time looting all the weapons so they couldn’t be picked up – and leveling up to Level 4 because he actually wasn’t in danger for five seconds; he improved Science to 18 and Sneak to 16, then took some Intense Training to raise his Endurance to 2 and GET SOME MORE DAMN HEALTH XD
VI. Steve fleeing inside to get some sleep (despite the game insisting he was in [DANGER]), then stopping by the Sink Central AI to sell some of the stuff in his inventory...only to discover that, no, actually, he did not want to sell Nightstalker Squeezin’s or the Thick or Thin Red Pastes, because those were freaking healing items and he NEEDED those. In fact, he ended up buying a Weapon Repair Kit instead (though, given he only paid 7 caps for it, he obviously found SOMETHING to sell) just to keep Elijah’s gun going.
VII. Steve finally managing to kill pretty much every Lobotomite around by downing soft drinks and Thin Red Paste in between kills, along with taking regular naps! ...not that this got him out of [DANGER] mode, but Jon was coming to the conclusion that was just Steve’s default state of being now. XD
And so the episode ended with Jon declaring that, next time, Steve would be enacting his original plan to go hit X-2 and Higgs Village nearby to get the stuff there and eventually fight robo-scorpions. He was absolutely dreading it. XD We’ll pick up with that next week – I’ll have to find a nice little one-off video of some kind to watch tomorrow. *looks up* Something that doesn’t take ages to summarize.
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – got through another page tonight, covering:
A) Alice encountering the actual office space behind the office door – a little cubicle farm full of bland gray half-walls and desks, with a few bits and pieces of personalization here and there, like a calendar with beautiful mountain views, or crayon scribbles from the kids at home. She also found a bottle of pills someone accidentally left by their keyboard – the Queen of Hearts urged her to take them and sell them to Trip, but Alice was like “no, whoever left these here NEEDS them, if I need money I can find other things to sell to Trip” and instead stowed them safely in a drawer. Because Alice feels for those who need meds to function – she herself would happily take medication for her madness if she could!
B) Alice finding a door on the other side of the office that she hoped led to the basement – only to be prompted by Cheshire to pull out the map Victor drew for her of the lower levels (as opposed to the official museum map he annotated for her). Alice did so, remembering that Victor took a tour of the basement, so of course he’d know where the door to access it would be (and grousing about how she should have checked the map earlier, before allowing she still would have had to take the long way around to get the key) –
And, after unfolding the map, she spotted a little sketch of the very room she was in, with an arrow pointing to the very door she was in front of, with a note saying that, yes, this is exactly how Victor got into the basement when he took that tour. And that she’d probably need to find a key, but given he overheard one guard yelling at another for leaving his around, that shouldn’t be much of an issue. Alice was deeply amused. XD
C) And Alice commenting in her amusement that LaCroix would probably kill for a ghoul as helpful as Victor, before noting he didn’t seem to think much of the very-helpful Mercurio, so maybe he wasn’t as good at recognizing talent as he thought…
Only for Cheshire to warn her that LaCroix would definitely recognize something he wants, and that Victor needed to be kept out of his eye at all costs. A concerned Alice said that she’d been planning to keep Victor away from LaCroix anyway, but she thought the issue was that LaCroix would have her killed for making a ghoul by accident, not that LaCroix would want Victor for himself – Caterpillar told her that he’d use the first to justify the second, and further warned that Victor should really be kept away from as much of vampire society as possible. Alice guessed that meant “everyone but those Rosa said I could trust,” which Caterpillar confirmed – though he did add that there were a few people on the “trust as far as I can throw them” list that were okay, and that “Tung and the volcano goddess are lighter than they look.” XD Alice snorted, then assured them again that she’d already decided to keep Victor away from vampire society as much as possible – if only because most Kindred are assholes. Carpenter passively-aggressively complained about her wording, only for her to shoot back she didn’t think much of how he talked either. XD
Fun times! I left off with Alice preparing to descend into the basement at last – next time, she’ll be sneaking around all the guards and fooling some cameras with Victor’s bubbly blood!
3. Watch something on FreeTube: No check – I straight up did not have the time, and there was no list video from OXBox either, so… Honestly, I ended up rewatching more of my workout video than I thought while doing my overly-long recap, so maybe that should count for this category as well, like how I combine the two on Sundays for F:NV YOLO Remastered. *shrug*
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – there wasn’t anything going on over on Valice Multiverse, but on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), I was able to fully complete my post for tomorrow, and partially complete two of my posts for Saturday:
A) First, I finished up my two new Valentine’s Day-themed Not-Incorrect Quote scenes for this year, reblogging them onto the end of the original set and adding them to the queue! They include:
I. A text conversation between Victor, Alice, and Smiler consisting of Alice informing the others that she was making a red-and-white checkerboard cake for them for Valentine’s; Smiler suggesting a group date for the occasion and asking how everyone felt about ice-skating – after Victor and Alice pointed out it would probably be a bad idea to strap knives to Victor’s feet, they switched to visiting the rollerblading place where they had their first three-person date; and Alice and Smiler teasing Victor about what over-the-top gifts he had planned for them this year –
Only for Victor to reveal that Radcliffe was at one of his parents’ parties recently, because his parents were thinking of retaining him as a lawyer. Meaning he at least has a chance of getting Alice’s rabbit back. Alice and Smiler promptly turned this into a group project, with Alice saying she’d like to have some words with him about her inheritance too and Smiler telling Victor to lure the guy to Sunny Brews (the coffee shop where they work) so they could help as well
II. And a scene where Smiler and Alice present Victor with a surprise gift one Valentine’s when they weren’t supposed to be doing presents – they saw the item and just felt it was so him, and besides Victor gives them stuff all the time, so – and Victor opening it...to find a collar with a ring and a snap-on tie, as in this picture, only in blue. Cue Alice and Smiler having a laugh and reiterating how very him it was, with Victor blushing and laughing along – Smiler said that now he had a tie to fiddle with during their kinky scenes, only for Victor to retort that if he was fiddling with his tie during one of those, Smiler was doing it wrong. To which Smiler agreed...and then asked if he wanted either them or Alice to put it on him. Victor was very “please.” XD
Yeah, I like those! I’m glad I was able to come up with SOMETHING in time! And now I’m set for tomorrow, yay~
B) And second, I drafted out the posts for the official trio of Valicertine’s and the “Making Memories” bonus image for Saturday! Didn’t quite get them done, but I got the pictures and the initial text and tags sorted for both posts, and even managed to alt-text the first Valicertine. I’ll have to finish these up tomorrow – along with figure out a Song Saturday. Though I already have an idea for a poly song I could use, honestly…
So yeah, some decent progress there! Yay~
Good to actually get some stuff done -- but I am tired as FUCK, so I am heading to bed. We'll see what tomorrow brings and if I'm awake for it. Night all.
Work – It was a mostly-fine day at work – with the servers back up, everything was functioning normally, and I could do all the regular morning reports in the morning and whatnot. I spent most of the day with credit card stuff, honestly – contacting people about failed payments; taking calls from a handful of the people I’d contacted and getting their gifts and pledges sorted; and looking up more missed payments. The one truly annoying thing happened near the end of the day, when my coworker tried to take a credit card pledge over the phone – only for an error message for a problem we thought was fixed to pop up again, and prevent the pledge from going through. *sigh* Cue me sending another e-mail to the credit card people before we left – we’ll see if they actually get back to me tomorrow! Given it’s going to be Friday the 13th, I doubt it.
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – hopped back on the bike tonight and pedaled my way through the remaining half of “Fallout: New Vegas - Old World Blues - The Level 1 Naked Useless Survival Run! (Minus three minutes I had to watch after supper.) The second chunk of Useless Steve’s SCIENCE ADVENTURES included –
A) Useless Steve, after learning from Dala post-getting-her-off-via-radar-scan that Big MT actually was a mountain at one point, but the Think Tank exploded the top off at some point, creating the crater (which Jon was suspicious of because none of the architecture of the buildings in the crater suggested this facility was previously fully underground), making a plan to maybe try to get some of the goodies from Little Yangtze before heading south to the X-2 Transmitter Antenna Array to get the special technology there (as it was the easiest to retrieve) before stepping outside for the first time –
And IMMEDIATELY going into [DANGER] because his Sneak is SO abysmal enemies can spot him from halfway across the map. XD Steve proceeded to get his shit wrecked by a gang of Lobotomites (humans who have ALSO suffered brain surgery at the hands of the Think Tank) wielding Caravan Shotguns and Proton Axes (both the regular kind and the throwing kind), while doing absolutely piddly amounts of damage to them with his terrible Sonic Emitter. Welcome the Big Empty, everybody! Jon really wishes it was empty right about now! (I’m kidding, he was laughing his head off about Useless Steve’s terrible situation.)
B) Useless Steve employing the incredible power of “running away” to get away from the Lobotomites that wanted his blood, managing to avoid getting murdered by a Trauma Harness (an automated life support suit thing gone murderous, I think) and its laser weaponry and cross the pipes over to the Little Yangtze Watchtower, aka Father Elijah’s old hangout, before ducking inside to hide for a while and let the heat die down. He looted the place for goodies (including drugs, a jumpsuit that gave him +5 Repair, some Proton Throwing Axes of his own, and the upgrade for the book chute back at the Sink that allowed it to mulch stuff); read Father Elijah’s personal logs (which revealed that he only went to the Sierra Madre casino because Ulysses told him about the holograms and the toxic cloud he could study there – thanks, Ulysses); drank some Sunset Sarsaparilla for healing (because he used his only stimpack getting TO the watchtower, so soda it was); then stepped outside –
Only for the Trauma Harness he was running from to immediately find him. And follow him inside. Steve immediately decided discretion was the better part of valor and made another run for it, looping around the balcony to pick up Elijah’s Advanced LAER gun (a very powerful weapon, but one Steve couldn’t use effectively AND whose condition goes down SUPER fast, apparently – still, it was better than the damn Sonic Emitter) and some ammo before trying to escape through the Little Yangtze camp itself, avoiding the now-ghoulified prisoners within –
Only to succumb to a pair of sentry bots who came around to say hello, and were not stunned as much by the Sonic Emitter’s EMP effect as Jon had hoped. He was happy to see that the gun had SOME effect, though – proves it’s not TOTALLY useless.
C) Useless Steve managing to successfully flee the camp on his second attempt by luring some of the enemies to a different corner and then looping around them, before heading in the direction of the Western Tunnel and the X-13 Research Facility and attempting to glitch his way up a nearby cliff...only to get exploded by the plasma mine Jon had forgotten was there. XD Fortunately his second attempt at getting up the cliffs was much more successful, and he ended up being able to hop down onto a pipe and get up onto the roof of the facility, which is not something you can usually do right away! This scored him a bunch of mines (from Elijah’s secret stashes) and a spare ordinary LAER gun that he used to repair the special Elijah one so he could, you know, actually USE it (while Jon had a giggle about how this had not been his plan at all). He then figured that, while he was here, he might as well get the technology he was tasked with retrieving –
And thus, headed inside to pick up the boots, gloves, and chest piece that make up the Aural Stealth Suit! A lovely bit of armor that provided 14 DT and +15 Sneak (both of which Steve DESPERATELY needed), could auto-inject Steve with stimpacks and Med-X as necessary (should he actually pick up any), and – rather counterintuitively for a stealth suit – could talk! Jon was initially charmed by the voice, but that wore off quickly when the suit started reminding him on the regular that his Pip-Boy light was on. XD Better yet, Steve could pick up the suit without any danger to his person because the facility is pretty much completely safe until you do the first stealth suit test, at which point Mobius sends in the robo-scorpions (plus the various pieces are in fact pretty damn close to the entrance). Steve had no interest in doing the tests just yet, because he did not want to die to robo-scorpions, so instead he pottered around, looting the place (getting many bottles of Nuka-Cola for healing purposes, along with stuff he could sell to the Sink Central AI for ammo because he was going to need all the ammo – and, in the actual testing track itself (as you can visit it without starting a test), a second Stealth Boy) and reading the various terminals (unlocking a few mods for a gun he does not have and an implant he cannot get yet...though he may want to get in future, as it’s an implant that improves healing from eating food…). All while Jon talked about how you can cheat at three out of the four Stealth Tests, either by hacking or picking open one of the doors on the observation level after starting the test and using the catwalks up there to skip directly to the end, bypassing the actual testing track entirely, or by going into the track before starting the test and disabling all the traps and robobrains and whatnot (the latter explicitly only respawn for the fourth test, since the purpose of THAT one is to sneak up on them and turn them off). Basically, this is the Facility For Cheaters. :P
D) Useless Steve then heading back outside and immediately running for the invisible radar fence that X-13 bumps up against at the edge of the crater to teleport himself back to The Sink and away from everything that wanted to kill him. And then fast-traveling back to X-13 and doing it again to fulfill a little achievement and get a bit of bonus XP, because why wouldn’t you? :P (Jon learned at this point that Steve could go into [DANGER] mode on the Sink’s balcony, an area covered in force fields where no enemy could actually get to him, because his Sneak was so bad. He had a good laugh over that.) He then decided to see what was going on with the Lobotomites outside and if they had all returned to their previous positions or were still clustered near the Yangtze camp or what, which led to –
I. Steve stepping outside and getting set upon by the big group of Lobotomites, managing to take one down with his new super gun, but being unable to shoot the shotgun out of the hands of another, leading to his death
II. Steve noting that some of the Lobotomites were coming from a specific direction and setting a mine there to see if he could blow them up – he could, but it was not enough, and he ended up dying again
III. Steve realizing the MAJORITY of the Lobotomites came from the left and setting up FOUR plasma mines there – only to die when the enemies started charging in because he couldn’t get out of the blast radius in time
IV. Steve setting down THREE plasma mines instead, and managing to kill two Lobotomites straight away and heavily wound the third, who was carrying an axe and thus was easily taken down; he then managed to kill the original Caravan Shotgun guy and start looting bodies...only for more Lobotomites to show up and start grabbing the guns from their dead fellows to shoot Steve, making him realize he should have prioritized picking up the guns first
V. Steve killing the first guys with the plasma mine trap and this time looting all the weapons so they couldn’t be picked up – and leveling up to Level 4 because he actually wasn’t in danger for five seconds; he improved Science to 18 and Sneak to 16, then took some Intense Training to raise his Endurance to 2 and GET SOME MORE DAMN HEALTH XD
VI. Steve fleeing inside to get some sleep (despite the game insisting he was in [DANGER]), then stopping by the Sink Central AI to sell some of the stuff in his inventory...only to discover that, no, actually, he did not want to sell Nightstalker Squeezin’s or the Thick or Thin Red Pastes, because those were freaking healing items and he NEEDED those. In fact, he ended up buying a Weapon Repair Kit instead (though, given he only paid 7 caps for it, he obviously found SOMETHING to sell) just to keep Elijah’s gun going.
VII. Steve finally managing to kill pretty much every Lobotomite around by downing soft drinks and Thin Red Paste in between kills, along with taking regular naps! ...not that this got him out of [DANGER] mode, but Jon was coming to the conclusion that was just Steve’s default state of being now. XD
And so the episode ended with Jon declaring that, next time, Steve would be enacting his original plan to go hit X-2 and Higgs Village nearby to get the stuff there and eventually fight robo-scorpions. He was absolutely dreading it. XD We’ll pick up with that next week – I’ll have to find a nice little one-off video of some kind to watch tomorrow. *looks up* Something that doesn’t take ages to summarize.
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines”: Check – got through another page tonight, covering:
A) Alice encountering the actual office space behind the office door – a little cubicle farm full of bland gray half-walls and desks, with a few bits and pieces of personalization here and there, like a calendar with beautiful mountain views, or crayon scribbles from the kids at home. She also found a bottle of pills someone accidentally left by their keyboard – the Queen of Hearts urged her to take them and sell them to Trip, but Alice was like “no, whoever left these here NEEDS them, if I need money I can find other things to sell to Trip” and instead stowed them safely in a drawer. Because Alice feels for those who need meds to function – she herself would happily take medication for her madness if she could!
B) Alice finding a door on the other side of the office that she hoped led to the basement – only to be prompted by Cheshire to pull out the map Victor drew for her of the lower levels (as opposed to the official museum map he annotated for her). Alice did so, remembering that Victor took a tour of the basement, so of course he’d know where the door to access it would be (and grousing about how she should have checked the map earlier, before allowing she still would have had to take the long way around to get the key) –
And, after unfolding the map, she spotted a little sketch of the very room she was in, with an arrow pointing to the very door she was in front of, with a note saying that, yes, this is exactly how Victor got into the basement when he took that tour. And that she’d probably need to find a key, but given he overheard one guard yelling at another for leaving his around, that shouldn’t be much of an issue. Alice was deeply amused. XD
C) And Alice commenting in her amusement that LaCroix would probably kill for a ghoul as helpful as Victor, before noting he didn’t seem to think much of the very-helpful Mercurio, so maybe he wasn’t as good at recognizing talent as he thought…
Only for Cheshire to warn her that LaCroix would definitely recognize something he wants, and that Victor needed to be kept out of his eye at all costs. A concerned Alice said that she’d been planning to keep Victor away from LaCroix anyway, but she thought the issue was that LaCroix would have her killed for making a ghoul by accident, not that LaCroix would want Victor for himself – Caterpillar told her that he’d use the first to justify the second, and further warned that Victor should really be kept away from as much of vampire society as possible. Alice guessed that meant “everyone but those Rosa said I could trust,” which Caterpillar confirmed – though he did add that there were a few people on the “trust as far as I can throw them” list that were okay, and that “Tung and the volcano goddess are lighter than they look.” XD Alice snorted, then assured them again that she’d already decided to keep Victor away from vampire society as much as possible – if only because most Kindred are assholes. Carpenter passively-aggressively complained about her wording, only for her to shoot back she didn’t think much of how he talked either. XD
Fun times! I left off with Alice preparing to descend into the basement at last – next time, she’ll be sneaking around all the guards and fooling some cameras with Victor’s bubbly blood!
3. Watch something on FreeTube: No check – I straight up did not have the time, and there was no list video from OXBox either, so… Honestly, I ended up rewatching more of my workout video than I thought while doing my overly-long recap, so maybe that should count for this category as well, like how I combine the two on Sundays for F:NV YOLO Remastered. *shrug*
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check – there wasn’t anything going on over on Valice Multiverse, but on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler), I was able to fully complete my post for tomorrow, and partially complete two of my posts for Saturday:
A) First, I finished up my two new Valentine’s Day-themed Not-Incorrect Quote scenes for this year, reblogging them onto the end of the original set and adding them to the queue! They include:
I. A text conversation between Victor, Alice, and Smiler consisting of Alice informing the others that she was making a red-and-white checkerboard cake for them for Valentine’s; Smiler suggesting a group date for the occasion and asking how everyone felt about ice-skating – after Victor and Alice pointed out it would probably be a bad idea to strap knives to Victor’s feet, they switched to visiting the rollerblading place where they had their first three-person date; and Alice and Smiler teasing Victor about what over-the-top gifts he had planned for them this year –
Only for Victor to reveal that Radcliffe was at one of his parents’ parties recently, because his parents were thinking of retaining him as a lawyer. Meaning he at least has a chance of getting Alice’s rabbit back. Alice and Smiler promptly turned this into a group project, with Alice saying she’d like to have some words with him about her inheritance too and Smiler telling Victor to lure the guy to Sunny Brews (the coffee shop where they work) so they could help as well
II. And a scene where Smiler and Alice present Victor with a surprise gift one Valentine’s when they weren’t supposed to be doing presents – they saw the item and just felt it was so him, and besides Victor gives them stuff all the time, so – and Victor opening it...to find a collar with a ring and a snap-on tie, as in this picture, only in blue. Cue Alice and Smiler having a laugh and reiterating how very him it was, with Victor blushing and laughing along – Smiler said that now he had a tie to fiddle with during their kinky scenes, only for Victor to retort that if he was fiddling with his tie during one of those, Smiler was doing it wrong. To which Smiler agreed...and then asked if he wanted either them or Alice to put it on him. Victor was very “please.” XD
Yeah, I like those! I’m glad I was able to come up with SOMETHING in time! And now I’m set for tomorrow, yay~
B) And second, I drafted out the posts for the official trio of Valicertine’s and the “Making Memories” bonus image for Saturday! Didn’t quite get them done, but I got the pictures and the initial text and tags sorted for both posts, and even managed to alt-text the first Valicertine. I’ll have to finish these up tomorrow – along with figure out a Song Saturday. Though I already have an idea for a poly song I could use, honestly…
So yeah, some decent progress there! Yay~
Good to actually get some stuff done -- but I am tired as FUCK, so I am heading to bed. We'll see what tomorrow brings and if I'm awake for it. Night all.
