Irritating Monday
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crossover_chickAny day that starts with me going to the toilet, only for the toilet to not flush properly, is not a good day, I have to say. *sigh* Fortunately Dad was able to fix the issue, but it took up a MAJOR chunk of my time this morning trying to sort it out, meaning I had to wait until this afternoon to finish off my F:NV YOLO Remastered write-up from yesterday. Which then made it so I got to all my OTHER stuff later than usual this evening, and -- yeah. Bit of a snowball effect there. I dislike it immensely. >( Stupid PMS making focus and writing more difficult! Stupid write-ups always taking so freaking long!
*sigh* Anyway -- at least the toilet's working now, and yesterday's entry is all set. Let's finish off TODAY'S entry now, shall we?
Work – It proved to be a somewhat annoying Monday at work, which was unsurprising given how my day actually started:
A) Most of my morning was spent doing the GL, which was one of those where I had to reference past GLs constantly to make sure all the recently-added-in payments that the credit card company posted on Friday were correctly added into the old totals – they were, it just took a little while to confirm!
B) Then a good chunk of my afternoon was spent doing another QC file for the upcoming thank-yous – but thanks to various interruptions, I was unable to finish it (came fairly close, though, so I should be able to wrap it up pretty quickly in the morning)
C) And as for the interruptions, two of those were from the very processing company who had sent me the QC file – asking us about a gift from someone who hadn’t specified WHICH parish-with-a-common-name she wanted her gift to go to, and hadn’t provided any way to contact her to ask (our boss eventually said “have them credit the one closest to her address”), and informing me of some credit card nonsense that apparently happened late on Friday which will need to be resolved pronto. Hmph – I do NOT like feeling like the only competent one in the room!
Yeah – not exactly a fun time. At least the phones were mostly quiet, with my longest call of the day featuring someone just checking up on the recurring gift she’d made over the weekend and confirming that it would result in the amount she wanted to give yearly being credited to her parish. *nods* We’ll see if things improve tomorrow or not!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – but rather than returning to the Oxventure for today’s bike ride, I instead visited the regular OXBox channel to check out their latest Hitman video – “Hitman 3 Ways To Play MILLA JOVOVICH | Patient Zero Requiem: Explosions! Firing squads! Rampage?” Yes, the trio of Andy, Jane, and Mike returned to their classic “Three Ways To Play” format for Hitman videos to cover the latest Elusive Target contract, “The Harbinger!” Starring, as per the title, Milla Jovovich, actress and star of the Resident Evil films. Which was very appropriate as, also as per the title, this particular contract was a follow-up to the “Patient Zero” series of missions the game released – quite a while ago, as the game recently had its tenth anniversary. O.o Yeah, I’m shocked by the passage of time too. Anyway, you may remember those missions (dedicated to taking down a horrible doomsday cult) mostly for the climactic finale, where a deadly disease ravaged the Hokkaido hospital – followed by Mike ravaging it as he tried and failed repeatedly to contain the virus. XD However, while the teaser at the start of the video hinted at the gang having to once again contain a deadly outbreak before it became a plague upon the world, we didn’t quite get to that in today’s pedal session. Instead, we covered –
A) Everyone arriving at the Dartmoor mansion in England, to attend a fundraiser hosted by their target, Lilith Devereux (Milla), who was taking over the Ether Company from its former CEO, Gregory Carlisle:
I. Andy rocked up in a red hunting jacket and tight horse-riding trousers and marched straight into the house, talking about how much he loved killing foxes
II. Jane went the stealthy route and started in the staff room, disguised as a member of the lowest tier of security, who made sure to rob said staff room for anything useful
III. And Mike of course showed up as a clown with a briefcase and had to sneak in via the kitchen, where he proceeded to brain a waiter with a baseball (which Mike was insistent should have been a CRICKET ball, given the location) for his outfit and sic his homing briefcase on the unfortunate chef who witnessed the act. XD
B) Everyone watching the big announcement that Lilith would be immediately taking over from Gregory as CEO of the company, with Lilith discussing her big plans for Ether:
I. Andy stood right in the front, overdramatically spinning around in response to the news that Lilith would be immediately taking over as CEO – only to afterwards be pulled into a conversation with Gregory and Lilith when Gregory hailed him for his perspective on things; some very carefully-worded conversation later, it became apparent that Lilith knew who 47 was, a fact which spooked Diana and made her encourage him to keep a careful eye on her while she tried to dig up more info on the woman
II. Jane (after security a “higher tier security” disguise via the classic Hitman technique of “bait a person with the clothes you want toward you, wait for them to go “must have been the wind,” then choke them out as they go to leave) also stood in front, though her aim was to take as many pictures of the event as she could. She noted that people who wore spider-themed jewelry, like Lilith, were always so trustworthy and not evil – and that this particular passing of the CEO torch also seemed to involve the passing of a family ring, which was a bit unusual…
III. And Mike showing up as a waiter and not paying that much attention to the big speech, being much more concerned with all the noticers in the room – fortunately, none of them clocked him, and he was free to keep an eye on his target (er, when he managed to find her again after a brief panic over people seeing him when the crowd moved slightly post-speech) and overhear her talking to someone about how “once you see my work, all will become clear”
C) Everyone trying to follow Lilith about the mansion to keep tabs on her and learn more about her whole deal:
I. Andy tracking Lilith’s movements around the party, then realizing that a “high tier security guy” disguise would probably be a good idea and going to get one by distracting a guy with a vacuum cleaner in the library before knocking him out to steal his clothes – unfortunately, one of the OTHER security guys saw the knocking out, if not who did it. Fortunately, Andy managed to pull it back by hastily dragging the unconscious guard into a nearby box and stealing his clothes and gun before the other one came around the side of the staircase, and was able to follow Lilith until she went into Gregory’s room, before climbing out the open window in the bathroom and eavesdropping on their conversation from just outside their window (learning that Gregory definitely had a thing for Lilith, but she didn’t seem to reciprocate that much)
II. Jane actually following Gregory up to his room and unlocking it with the key before he could get there – but not soon enough to actually slip inside without being detected (he arrived the moment she tried). Cue her deciding to go in the bathroom and flood the sink to lure away a bodyguard and knock him out to clear the way to Gregory, which also involved climbing out the open window there and discovering Lilith visiting Greg – though she didn’t pay much attention to the speech, as she was busy knocking out the bodyguard who came to curse over the overflowing sink and stuffing him in a convenient closet XD
III. And Mike, upon learning waitstaff couldn’t follow Lilith into certain areas, climbing into the library through the window, beaning a maid with a baseball because she was a noticer and would have gotten him in trouble, getting caught by a security guy who rushed in to take him into custody, accidentally killing the guy with the letter opener he’d just picked up, and running upstairs to jump out the window and hide until the heat died down. XD He did eventually manage to sneak back inside and get the disguise he was looking for by attacking a dude on the stairs for it, then located Lilith in a nearby hallway, complaining about how there were too many people around for him to just shoot her and be done with it… And then, as she walked over to another guard, someone found the unconscious guy on the stairs and woke him up, and Lilith started running around with a silenced pistol (Mike: “Folks, I may have met my match”) trying to find the miscreant herself while Mike fled outside and started tracking her via climbing around the walls
D) Everyone getting a message from Diana that “the target has disappeared from the library – but how?”, and reacting to that – though out of the three, two of them didn’t actually need that message –
I. Andy saw her heading around with his Hitman vision and determined that she was going into the library for some reason – and while wandering around the upper balcony level trying to get eyes on her to see what she was doing (and why she’d demanded someone block the door), spotted a bookcase JUST sliding back into place. Cue him going “bookcase door! Bookcase door!” gleefully (he loved the idea of secret passages) and heading downstairs to check it out – careful examination of the bookcase in question revealed a skull, an old book, a – raunchy monster novel (“we’ll save that for later”), and a hand statue that looked like a ring could be put on it – a Carlisle family ring, perhaps?
II. Jane followed Lilith into the library and choked out the guard on the door she entered through (before the whole thing got locked down) – she then crept down the stairs and straight up caught Lilith in the act of opening the secret door! Causing her to be like “I SAW, Diana” when Diana tried to tell her about Lilith disappearing. XD She too then examined the door, and discovered the hand statue that would open it once a ring was put on its finger (though not the raunchy monster novel, sadly)
III. And Mike – well, thanks to his antics, he wasn’t nearly as close to Lilith as the others, and thus she genuinely managed to disappear on him. Cue an extremely puzzled Mike heading to the library (complaining about how it was now “trespassing” to go on there when he was in there before no problem), looking around, and wondering if there was a secret door or something somewhere. XD He figured out it eventually, folks – we saw him examining the hand statue on the bookcase door, same as Andy and Jane!
E) Everyone getting a Carlisle family ring and following Lilith through the secret door to see what was behind it:
I. Andy choosing to dig up their old target Alexa Carlisle and get her ring, since that was the easiest option – and learning from Diana as he did that Lilith was a member in good standing of that “Liberation” cult they’d taken care of in the “Patient Zero” missions; he then brought the ring to the hand and opened up the door to find a small room on the other side – which turned out to be an elevator! Which brought him down to a secret lab beneath the house! One with its own special AI running it, H.E.R.B.! Who could hear Diana over the comms and complimented her on her authoritative voice! Andy was in absolute Resident Evil-themed heaven over it all, squeeing about the lab and the “GLaDOS” and everything. XD
II. Jane going after Gregory, and finding him alone in another bathroom by sheer luck (the one she actually had the ICA stash a briefcase with some sedative in, actually) – cue her choking him out, taking his ring, hiding him in a wardrobe, and going to open up the secret door and discover the secret lab! She personally felt that H.E.R.B. was more of a “Wheatley” than a “GLaDOS” – which, given how he acts, I’d have to agree.
III. And Mike also chose to dig up Alexa for her ring as the easiest option (though it took him longer to find the shovel to do so – got another free baseball out of his searching, though, which he ended up tossing in the grave with Alexa XD), before going and opening the door and descending into the lab – his comment about H.E.R.B. was “oh no, they’ve put ChatGPT into the lab.” XD
And so I left it with everyone exploring the lab and discovering that the late Zachary Carlisle was apparently part of a group that was studying a virus that made rats explode after a few days. I am not even joking, that’s what it said on the audio log. XD Next time, I suspect a certain virus is going to escape containment, and everyone is going to have to deal with that…
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – yeah, I know I said yesterday that I was going to keep going on Chapter 5 of “The Van Dort Vacancy,” but honestly the spot where I left off yesterday was actually a pretty good point to take a break, and I do want to get this final LB:DQ chapter up sooner rather than later. Plus I got to the editing late, and this particular story doesn’t need me to watch reference videos at this point in time. *nods* Anyway, today’s editing session took me through:
A) Jack asking Alice to confirm she was at the museum to get the sarcophagus for LaCroix (“The jester prince did indeed send me to grab that terrible talisman”) – then noted that he seemed to have a lot riding on it to get so upset about its disappearance. Alice took the bait and said that he’d claimed the city would rest easier, knowing it was in Camarilla hands – Jack snorted at that idea, saying he wouldn’t rest easy if all LaCroix was hunting for was Grandma’s ashes, then said he had a different scenario that he wanted to run by Alice –
Before asking her if she knew what diablerie was. And when she said “if I did, I’ve forgotten, remind me,” explaining that it was when a vampire sucked another “drier than dry,” consuming both their blood AND their soul. Alice was like “we can do that?!” – Jack confirmed they could, and added that if a younger vampire diablerized an older one, the younger one got all the older one’s powers. Meaning there might be a darker reason behind LaCroix being so desperate to get the sarcophagus… *grimace* Alice wasn’t sure if the idea of LaCroix getting the power of some ancient sleeping vampire made her want to hide under the bed, stab something, or both.
B) Alice, doing her best to keep calm after hearing this news, stating that it was a good thing Becket was so sure the only thing inside the sarcophagus was a dead human – Jack, however, was not convinced, allowing that Beckett was smart, but that one of his blind spots was not believing the Antediluvians were still around. And that, sure, he was willing to allow that there could be nothing in there – but there could be something too. Alice, rather distressed by this point, asked what the hell he wanted her to do about it –
And, to her surprise, the answer was “do as LaCroix wants, for now.” With Jack’s reasoning being that any vampire who gets their hands on the sarcophagus is going to be thinking about cracking it open and drinking whoever’s inside. At least if LaCroix has it, everyone knows where the hell it is! (Meaning everyone would rest easier, ironically.) And he noted with some amusement that getting the sarcophagus and getting it open were two different things… Jack, you couldn’t be telegraphing that you’re involved with this sarcophagus business any more if you tried. XD
C) And Alice noting that she had to find the damn thing before anyone could try popping the lid, and asking Jack if he had any tips for dealing with the Nosferatu and Gary – Jack told her to remember that it was their domain, so their rules, and said she’d probably be fucked with at least a bit, but not too much. And that Gary, for all that he was a dick, was straight with anyone who was straight with him, and honored his deals. All Alice really had to do was go in and be herself, and see what Gary thought of that. Alice promised to keep that in mind.
And so this particular page ended with Alice preparing to head out so she could get packing and brave Hollywood! Tomorrow, though, we make this absurdly long chapter just a little bit longer by adding a new scene – namely, Jack informing Alice for future reference that there’s ways to loophole Dominate. Like writing something down when someone forbids you to speak of it. ...Alice is going to be so mad. XD
3. Watch something on YouTube: No check – didn’t have the time or the focus to try and find anything worth watching. We’ll see if this changes tomorrow!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A, as usual on Mondays – nothing to do over on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler)! Though I did spot a post on polyamorousmood that I’ll probably be adding to my drafts, or even my queue, tomorrow...
Good, managed to finish this one before bed, hooray. And now I am off to bed to actually try and get some sleep. *nods* Night all!
*sigh* Anyway -- at least the toilet's working now, and yesterday's entry is all set. Let's finish off TODAY'S entry now, shall we?
Work – It proved to be a somewhat annoying Monday at work, which was unsurprising given how my day actually started:
A) Most of my morning was spent doing the GL, which was one of those where I had to reference past GLs constantly to make sure all the recently-added-in payments that the credit card company posted on Friday were correctly added into the old totals – they were, it just took a little while to confirm!
B) Then a good chunk of my afternoon was spent doing another QC file for the upcoming thank-yous – but thanks to various interruptions, I was unable to finish it (came fairly close, though, so I should be able to wrap it up pretty quickly in the morning)
C) And as for the interruptions, two of those were from the very processing company who had sent me the QC file – asking us about a gift from someone who hadn’t specified WHICH parish-with-a-common-name she wanted her gift to go to, and hadn’t provided any way to contact her to ask (our boss eventually said “have them credit the one closest to her address”), and informing me of some credit card nonsense that apparently happened late on Friday which will need to be resolved pronto. Hmph – I do NOT like feeling like the only competent one in the room!
Yeah – not exactly a fun time. At least the phones were mostly quiet, with my longest call of the day featuring someone just checking up on the recurring gift she’d made over the weekend and confirming that it would result in the amount she wanted to give yearly being credited to her parish. *nods* We’ll see if things improve tomorrow or not!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – but rather than returning to the Oxventure for today’s bike ride, I instead visited the regular OXBox channel to check out their latest Hitman video – “Hitman 3 Ways To Play MILLA JOVOVICH | Patient Zero Requiem: Explosions! Firing squads! Rampage?” Yes, the trio of Andy, Jane, and Mike returned to their classic “Three Ways To Play” format for Hitman videos to cover the latest Elusive Target contract, “The Harbinger!” Starring, as per the title, Milla Jovovich, actress and star of the Resident Evil films. Which was very appropriate as, also as per the title, this particular contract was a follow-up to the “Patient Zero” series of missions the game released – quite a while ago, as the game recently had its tenth anniversary. O.o Yeah, I’m shocked by the passage of time too. Anyway, you may remember those missions (dedicated to taking down a horrible doomsday cult) mostly for the climactic finale, where a deadly disease ravaged the Hokkaido hospital – followed by Mike ravaging it as he tried and failed repeatedly to contain the virus. XD However, while the teaser at the start of the video hinted at the gang having to once again contain a deadly outbreak before it became a plague upon the world, we didn’t quite get to that in today’s pedal session. Instead, we covered –
A) Everyone arriving at the Dartmoor mansion in England, to attend a fundraiser hosted by their target, Lilith Devereux (Milla), who was taking over the Ether Company from its former CEO, Gregory Carlisle:
I. Andy rocked up in a red hunting jacket and tight horse-riding trousers and marched straight into the house, talking about how much he loved killing foxes
II. Jane went the stealthy route and started in the staff room, disguised as a member of the lowest tier of security, who made sure to rob said staff room for anything useful
III. And Mike of course showed up as a clown with a briefcase and had to sneak in via the kitchen, where he proceeded to brain a waiter with a baseball (which Mike was insistent should have been a CRICKET ball, given the location) for his outfit and sic his homing briefcase on the unfortunate chef who witnessed the act. XD
B) Everyone watching the big announcement that Lilith would be immediately taking over from Gregory as CEO of the company, with Lilith discussing her big plans for Ether:
I. Andy stood right in the front, overdramatically spinning around in response to the news that Lilith would be immediately taking over as CEO – only to afterwards be pulled into a conversation with Gregory and Lilith when Gregory hailed him for his perspective on things; some very carefully-worded conversation later, it became apparent that Lilith knew who 47 was, a fact which spooked Diana and made her encourage him to keep a careful eye on her while she tried to dig up more info on the woman
II. Jane (after security a “higher tier security” disguise via the classic Hitman technique of “bait a person with the clothes you want toward you, wait for them to go “must have been the wind,” then choke them out as they go to leave) also stood in front, though her aim was to take as many pictures of the event as she could. She noted that people who wore spider-themed jewelry, like Lilith, were always so trustworthy and not evil – and that this particular passing of the CEO torch also seemed to involve the passing of a family ring, which was a bit unusual…
III. And Mike showing up as a waiter and not paying that much attention to the big speech, being much more concerned with all the noticers in the room – fortunately, none of them clocked him, and he was free to keep an eye on his target (er, when he managed to find her again after a brief panic over people seeing him when the crowd moved slightly post-speech) and overhear her talking to someone about how “once you see my work, all will become clear”
C) Everyone trying to follow Lilith about the mansion to keep tabs on her and learn more about her whole deal:
I. Andy tracking Lilith’s movements around the party, then realizing that a “high tier security guy” disguise would probably be a good idea and going to get one by distracting a guy with a vacuum cleaner in the library before knocking him out to steal his clothes – unfortunately, one of the OTHER security guys saw the knocking out, if not who did it. Fortunately, Andy managed to pull it back by hastily dragging the unconscious guard into a nearby box and stealing his clothes and gun before the other one came around the side of the staircase, and was able to follow Lilith until she went into Gregory’s room, before climbing out the open window in the bathroom and eavesdropping on their conversation from just outside their window (learning that Gregory definitely had a thing for Lilith, but she didn’t seem to reciprocate that much)
II. Jane actually following Gregory up to his room and unlocking it with the key before he could get there – but not soon enough to actually slip inside without being detected (he arrived the moment she tried). Cue her deciding to go in the bathroom and flood the sink to lure away a bodyguard and knock him out to clear the way to Gregory, which also involved climbing out the open window there and discovering Lilith visiting Greg – though she didn’t pay much attention to the speech, as she was busy knocking out the bodyguard who came to curse over the overflowing sink and stuffing him in a convenient closet XD
III. And Mike, upon learning waitstaff couldn’t follow Lilith into certain areas, climbing into the library through the window, beaning a maid with a baseball because she was a noticer and would have gotten him in trouble, getting caught by a security guy who rushed in to take him into custody, accidentally killing the guy with the letter opener he’d just picked up, and running upstairs to jump out the window and hide until the heat died down. XD He did eventually manage to sneak back inside and get the disguise he was looking for by attacking a dude on the stairs for it, then located Lilith in a nearby hallway, complaining about how there were too many people around for him to just shoot her and be done with it… And then, as she walked over to another guard, someone found the unconscious guy on the stairs and woke him up, and Lilith started running around with a silenced pistol (Mike: “Folks, I may have met my match”) trying to find the miscreant herself while Mike fled outside and started tracking her via climbing around the walls
D) Everyone getting a message from Diana that “the target has disappeared from the library – but how?”, and reacting to that – though out of the three, two of them didn’t actually need that message –
I. Andy saw her heading around with his Hitman vision and determined that she was going into the library for some reason – and while wandering around the upper balcony level trying to get eyes on her to see what she was doing (and why she’d demanded someone block the door), spotted a bookcase JUST sliding back into place. Cue him going “bookcase door! Bookcase door!” gleefully (he loved the idea of secret passages) and heading downstairs to check it out – careful examination of the bookcase in question revealed a skull, an old book, a – raunchy monster novel (“we’ll save that for later”), and a hand statue that looked like a ring could be put on it – a Carlisle family ring, perhaps?
II. Jane followed Lilith into the library and choked out the guard on the door she entered through (before the whole thing got locked down) – she then crept down the stairs and straight up caught Lilith in the act of opening the secret door! Causing her to be like “I SAW, Diana” when Diana tried to tell her about Lilith disappearing. XD She too then examined the door, and discovered the hand statue that would open it once a ring was put on its finger (though not the raunchy monster novel, sadly)
III. And Mike – well, thanks to his antics, he wasn’t nearly as close to Lilith as the others, and thus she genuinely managed to disappear on him. Cue an extremely puzzled Mike heading to the library (complaining about how it was now “trespassing” to go on there when he was in there before no problem), looking around, and wondering if there was a secret door or something somewhere. XD He figured out it eventually, folks – we saw him examining the hand statue on the bookcase door, same as Andy and Jane!
E) Everyone getting a Carlisle family ring and following Lilith through the secret door to see what was behind it:
I. Andy choosing to dig up their old target Alexa Carlisle and get her ring, since that was the easiest option – and learning from Diana as he did that Lilith was a member in good standing of that “Liberation” cult they’d taken care of in the “Patient Zero” missions; he then brought the ring to the hand and opened up the door to find a small room on the other side – which turned out to be an elevator! Which brought him down to a secret lab beneath the house! One with its own special AI running it, H.E.R.B.! Who could hear Diana over the comms and complimented her on her authoritative voice! Andy was in absolute Resident Evil-themed heaven over it all, squeeing about the lab and the “GLaDOS” and everything. XD
II. Jane going after Gregory, and finding him alone in another bathroom by sheer luck (the one she actually had the ICA stash a briefcase with some sedative in, actually) – cue her choking him out, taking his ring, hiding him in a wardrobe, and going to open up the secret door and discover the secret lab! She personally felt that H.E.R.B. was more of a “Wheatley” than a “GLaDOS” – which, given how he acts, I’d have to agree.
III. And Mike also chose to dig up Alexa for her ring as the easiest option (though it took him longer to find the shovel to do so – got another free baseball out of his searching, though, which he ended up tossing in the grave with Alexa XD), before going and opening the door and descending into the lab – his comment about H.E.R.B. was “oh no, they’ve put ChatGPT into the lab.” XD
And so I left it with everyone exploring the lab and discovering that the late Zachary Carlisle was apparently part of a group that was studying a virus that made rats explode after a few days. I am not even joking, that’s what it said on the audio log. XD Next time, I suspect a certain virus is going to escape containment, and everyone is going to have to deal with that…
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – yeah, I know I said yesterday that I was going to keep going on Chapter 5 of “The Van Dort Vacancy,” but honestly the spot where I left off yesterday was actually a pretty good point to take a break, and I do want to get this final LB:DQ chapter up sooner rather than later. Plus I got to the editing late, and this particular story doesn’t need me to watch reference videos at this point in time. *nods* Anyway, today’s editing session took me through:
A) Jack asking Alice to confirm she was at the museum to get the sarcophagus for LaCroix (“The jester prince did indeed send me to grab that terrible talisman”) – then noted that he seemed to have a lot riding on it to get so upset about its disappearance. Alice took the bait and said that he’d claimed the city would rest easier, knowing it was in Camarilla hands – Jack snorted at that idea, saying he wouldn’t rest easy if all LaCroix was hunting for was Grandma’s ashes, then said he had a different scenario that he wanted to run by Alice –
Before asking her if she knew what diablerie was. And when she said “if I did, I’ve forgotten, remind me,” explaining that it was when a vampire sucked another “drier than dry,” consuming both their blood AND their soul. Alice was like “we can do that?!” – Jack confirmed they could, and added that if a younger vampire diablerized an older one, the younger one got all the older one’s powers. Meaning there might be a darker reason behind LaCroix being so desperate to get the sarcophagus… *grimace* Alice wasn’t sure if the idea of LaCroix getting the power of some ancient sleeping vampire made her want to hide under the bed, stab something, or both.
B) Alice, doing her best to keep calm after hearing this news, stating that it was a good thing Becket was so sure the only thing inside the sarcophagus was a dead human – Jack, however, was not convinced, allowing that Beckett was smart, but that one of his blind spots was not believing the Antediluvians were still around. And that, sure, he was willing to allow that there could be nothing in there – but there could be something too. Alice, rather distressed by this point, asked what the hell he wanted her to do about it –
And, to her surprise, the answer was “do as LaCroix wants, for now.” With Jack’s reasoning being that any vampire who gets their hands on the sarcophagus is going to be thinking about cracking it open and drinking whoever’s inside. At least if LaCroix has it, everyone knows where the hell it is! (Meaning everyone would rest easier, ironically.) And he noted with some amusement that getting the sarcophagus and getting it open were two different things… Jack, you couldn’t be telegraphing that you’re involved with this sarcophagus business any more if you tried. XD
C) And Alice noting that she had to find the damn thing before anyone could try popping the lid, and asking Jack if he had any tips for dealing with the Nosferatu and Gary – Jack told her to remember that it was their domain, so their rules, and said she’d probably be fucked with at least a bit, but not too much. And that Gary, for all that he was a dick, was straight with anyone who was straight with him, and honored his deals. All Alice really had to do was go in and be herself, and see what Gary thought of that. Alice promised to keep that in mind.
And so this particular page ended with Alice preparing to head out so she could get packing and brave Hollywood! Tomorrow, though, we make this absurdly long chapter just a little bit longer by adding a new scene – namely, Jack informing Alice for future reference that there’s ways to loophole Dominate. Like writing something down when someone forbids you to speak of it. ...Alice is going to be so mad. XD
3. Watch something on YouTube: No check – didn’t have the time or the focus to try and find anything worth watching. We’ll see if this changes tomorrow!
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: N/A, as usual on Mondays – nothing to do over on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler)! Though I did spot a post on polyamorousmood that I’ll probably be adding to my drafts, or even my queue, tomorrow...
Good, managed to finish this one before bed, hooray. And now I am off to bed to actually try and get some sleep. *nods* Night all!
