Grumpy Rainy Wednesday
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crossover_chickLike, they said it was supposed to be 75F with a chance of showers today, and while my parents indicated it was decently nice out at one point, I spent the day feeling rather chilly in my office -- and, rather than a gentle beginning-of-April rainshower, it fucking MONSOONED this afternoon. >( Just -- I am so sick of this kind of heavy rain that turns every road into a shallow river of sorts and makes driving a pain in the ass. Yes, it's better than snow, especially after the blizzard, but come ON. *sigh* And it doesn't help that I'm still PMSing super bad. Freaking hormones, making everything worse...
*shakehead* Anyway -- here's your daily write-up:
Work – Today was one of those days where the workday itself wasn’t that bad, but the commutes were pretty damn shitty:
Ride In – There was an accident on the highway this morning, meaning I was crawling for most of the commute until we actually got past where the two cars had smacked into each other. And then I managed to hit almost every red light after I got off at my exit, which was fun. Wasn’t super late to work, at least, but – still.
Actual Workday – Spent most of the day doing roster maintenance stuff (marking people “Deceased” or “Inactive” as per notes sent back on returned pledge cards and envelopes) and checking on credit card nonsense – found another missed payment, this time for a Capital Campaign pledge, courtesy of a call from Fiscal. >( And I had to send them a politely-worded “excuse me but where the FUCK is the batch taking off the ACH rejects” e-mail after realizing no one ever responded to my last one on the subject. *sigh* At least I can confirm that the last batch of missed Appeal payments were indeed all posted...and hopefully the damn problem causing these payments not to be imported has actually been FIXED now. We can but hope!
Ride Out – Remember how I said above that it ended up monsooning this afternoon? Yeah, uh, the worst of it hit right as I left work. Made driving down the highway a fun little trip! You could feel the car slipping a little in the water sometimes. Worse yet, I had to stop for gas (as I wanted to fill up my tank before it got even MORE expensive), so that didn’t help matters! Not fun to stand in a river of rainwater running off the little roof while pumping your gas, that’s for sure. At least I’m full up now...and I made it home safely, which I guess is the most important thing. Still, hoping I don’t have a repeat of THAT experience for a while!
Yeah, uh, not exactly a great Wednesday, as you can see. Here’s hoping Thursday is better! (And here’s REALLY hoping that they might let us out a bit early before our long Easter weekend...)
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – hopped back on the bike tonight to finish off “Hitman 3 Ways To Play MILLA JOVOVICH | Patient Zero Requiem: Explosions! Firing squads! Rampage?” (Well, mostly – I had to watch the last few minutes after supper.) The final forty-odd minutes of which featured –
A) Everyone dealing with the mansion full of infected people in very different ways (with the game itself throwing the two boys some curve balls):
I. Andy, having been compromised earlier, ended up changing disguises again in a desperate attempt not to immediately get shot by the guards and fled outside to try and regroup while hiding behind some hedges. He reiterated for the benefit of everyone watching that this was an Elusive Target, meaning that he wasn’t allowed to save or restart now that he’d completed one of the objectives (they’re supposed to be one-and-done deals, you see), winced over the Infected Count (55), but then said that he was going to figure this out, all he needed was a new outfit –
And then, just as he was trying to procure himself a new outfit by shooting one of the hazmat guards – the game crashed. Figures, right? However, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Andy, as the game let him retry the mission as a result! Armed with loads of foreknowledge from his previous attempt, Andy thus speedran the early parts of the mission offscreen and got Lilith killed by Squad Leader Kevin MUCH earlier, when the infected count was a mere FIVE. He thus proceeded to run around and cure a lady in the front hall with his remaining dart, and then – when his attempt at injecting a guy in the bathroom with the one injector he made resulted in 47 injecting HIMSELF instead – quietly killing the remaining three infectees, ending with letting himself into Gregory Carlisle’s room and shooting him while he reclined on his fainting couch. Now there’s the clean and efficient Andy we’ve come to expect!
II. Jane, finding herself with a pretty massive crowd of infected, began taking them out slowly one by one (mainly by choking whoever was alone before snapping their necks) – which, as you might imagine, took rather a long time (and allowed the guards outside to execute more infected people – she was very disturbed to see their firing squad take out a guest through a window!). Her attempt to speed things up by taking a few potshots at the infected partygoers from above brought the heat down upon her, though, and forced her to run and hide in Zachary’s room. While in there, she looked at the distilling equipment and bemoaned the fact that she couldn’t make any more antidote –
And then made a shocking discovery – the blue herb and the green herb you have to combine to create a vial of antidote? THEY GROW BACK. Not immediately after harvesting, but they do grow back! :D Jane IMMEDIATELY pivoted to “let’s CURE everyone” and started a gameplay loop of –
a. Make a vial of antidote and convert it into cure darts for her gun
b. Sneak out to the balcony overlooking the front room and, as unobtrusively as possible, cure a few infected people by shooting them with darts
c. Rinse and repeat!
Sure, this also took absolutely forever (especially since she did have to run and hide in one of the hallway wardrobes a couple of times when her dart-gun-firing was noticed), but Jane considered it worth it to be able to save a bunch of lives instead of take them. In fact, she was pretty sure that this mass vaccination program was going to balance 47’s karma – or at least tip it a little bit more in the right direction. XD She was quite pleased with herself when she finally cured her last guy – one of the staff, who was actually hanging out in the very staff room where she started out! Sure, she then immediately had to knock him unconscious when he noticed 47, but still. Pleasant irony there. XD
III. And Mike – well. First, Mike ended up dangling from the side of one of the balconies for ages, having attracted the attention and ire of the various masked bodyguards and hazmat suit guys around the place. Then, having survived that assault, he attempted to climb down to a lower level via the drainpipe – only to have to immediately flee back up it when it became immediately apparent that everyone downstairs wanted to murder him as well. Then he managed to get himself a fresh disguise (Kevin the Squad Team Leader’s outfit, in fact – from a body bag, as Kev did NOT survive Mike’s game) before shooting another hazmat suit guy, and the guards who came to investigate the death, and all the other people who noticed the dead bodies, to get more weapons and thus more ammo to kill people with. THEN he took out a few stragglers around the house with his new shotgun, before discovering that he was allowed to carry a propane tank as Squad Leader Kevin and taking THAT into the main entrance hall, dropping it among a bunch of people, and firing on it with his trusty Chrome gun to explode it and a bunch of infected. THEN he fled to the conference room and started a war with the actual guards where he would pop out as they came to kill him, kill THEM with whatever he had at hand (generally a thrown letter opener or a screwdriver or a unicorn horn snapped off a statue), then go hide in the box behind the backdrop to the little stage that had been set up for the speeches until the heat died down again. His GOAL was to kill all the guards if he could so he could properly massacre the rest of the infected – but while it went well for a while (with Mike even managing to get a new disguise – mansion guard – after discovering a massive pile of body bags while creeping around looking for people to murder), eventually he got caught knocking a guy out with a hammer, and his attempt to run and hide in the staff room just ended up trapping him in a tiny space while hazmat suit guy after hazmat suit guy with shotguns came in and shot him. He fought back as best he could, but eventually they took him down. Agent down, mission failed. :(
...except the game has something called the “Elusive Target Arcade” where you can go and replay Elusive Target missions that you’ve failed, or missed out on playing previously, so Mike just booted that up and tried again! And this time around, he made sure to take out every guard he could find with a silenced shotgun (off-screen), allowing him to start a PROPER massacre of the infected guests! Which involved dropping two propane canisters among the crowd (though he only ever set off one – the other ended up being used to bonk people), dropping a chandelier on them, and then chasing down all the survivors (including the few that made it outside) and blowing them away with his shotgun. All the while apologizing but insisting that he wasn’t going back into lockdown for two years. XD He eventually got them all, in a repeat of how he had to massacre basically everyone in the level in the original finale to “Patient Zero.” He promptly told off Diana for lying to him about it being “nicely done.” XD
B) Everyone getting out of the mansion once their work was finally done:
I. Andy went and grabbed his starting outfit, as tradition demanded, then slipped out a window – only to discover that there were still a number of guards outside, and they were not happy about him trying to get away! Cue him hiding in the bushes and realizing that he would have to get one of the hazmat guys’ hazmat suits in order to slip away safely –
And then cue one of the hazmat guys getting curious about said bushes and wandering in. Andy quickly and stealthily took him down, grabbed his suit, and ditched his beloved hunting outfit to run back up the path, past the remaining guards, and to his motorbike, before driving off into the night!
II. Jane snuck out into the hedge maze and proceeded to hide in some bushes by the helicopter the Ether guards were, er, guarding, waiting for just the right moment to try and steal it out from under their noses! So long as they didn’t spot her. Or the helicopter didn’t require a key. XD Fortunately they didn’t spot her, and once she finally managed to get around to the right spot to sneak behind them, she discovered the helicopter did not require a key! Apparently they just left it unlocked – more fool them! She thus hopped in and flew off, getting the most dramatic exit of the three. Good for her!
III. And Mike just strode out the front door past the few remaining non-infected screaming civilians, complaining about how this was a “total disaster” and “gross, grim, awful” before making his way back to his motorbike. Where he proceeded to say that he wasn’t proud of himself –
Before going “but be honest – even if this isn’t how you would have played the mission, weren’t you curious about what would happen if you had to kill literally everybody? So am I the bad guy here, or are you? Think on it” and driving off. XD Oh Mike...just because we EXPECT you to kill everybody doesn’t make US the bad guys!
C) And everyone getting their final ratings:
I. Andy – Phantom ICA Assassin, Three Stars! He was rather pleased, given he was headed for total disaster BEFORE the crash.
II. Jane – Black Cat, Zero Stars! Jane admitted she expected that, but that her victory was in saving so many lives – or, at least that was what she’d be telling Mike and Andy when they asked. XD
III. Mike – Huntsman, Zero Stars! Mike was like “well, lots of Location Mastery at least from all the stuff I was doing...not GOOD stuff, of course” and checked out his specific stats – turned out his “Non-Target Killed” penalty was -360,000. XD “Another successful mission for the clown show,” as he put it. XD
And there we have it! Good stuff, as per usual – I do love their Hitman content. The contrast between their various playstyles is great, and who doesn’t love a bit of murdery chaos from time to time? :D ...Okay maybe Mike’s right, maybe I am the bad guy.
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – got another solid page of edits/new writing done on this, covering:
A) Me editing Cheshire’s question from the other night to have him ask Alice if she really thought she could have written a comprehensible note to Nines the other night, AND delivered it to him without going off at the other Anarchs, given how she barely got through the meeting with LaCroix (as I thought it was better than my first version)...and Alice coming out of Hysteria mode and reluctantly admitting that he probably had a point, she likely would have ruined her opportunity to warn Nines by trying to murder Damsel the moment she made one of her little comments. But it was still upsetting to learn that she could have rules-lawyered the damn Dominate! Caterpillar assured her that no one was saying it wasn’t, but what was done was done – LaCroix hadn’t wanted Nines warned, and she believed he could stop her, so… “We are all servants of the plot” – yeah, you fucking are, Caterpillar. You fucking are.
B) Alice doing her best to look on the bright side – at least now she knows she can find loopholes in LaCroix’s commands if he tries Dominating her again (Carpenter cheered her on, encouraging her to improvise and refuse to pay the scriptwriter unless he gave her want she wanted – and then refuse to pay him anyway because he’d just spend it all on drink; Alice was like “no, bad Carpenter – the Octopus may be a drunken weirdo, but he writes your terrible plays, so he deserves all the drink he can get”) – before sinking into a funk again because it felt like most of Los Angeles was mad at her (LaCroix, Skelter and Damsel, Nines probably, and herself). She asked if she couldn’t just live under a rock for the rest of her existence; Hatter answered that it was probably a viable option, but she’d need a very big rock. Carpenter objected to this plan, however, noting it seemed quite “borull” (boring and dull) and asking where was the sense of drama and adventure –
Alice replied “far away from me, hopefully.” :p But then allowed she didn’t really have the option to find rocks of the correct size, so it was probably better if she just headed home to do that packing she kept telling everyone she’d do.
C) Alice thus returning to the Skyeline, where she encountered guard Larry in the lobby, reading a magazine on the couch – she asked him if everything was all right, and he informed her that “Silly Simon” got taken away by the men in white coats. Apparently, he became a lot more cooperative when one claimed to be an astronomer. Larry still had no clue what had set him off, though – Alice lied she had no idea either, then said that she hoped that he could get some help. Larry surprised her by agreeing...before adding that he needed everyone paying rent so he could get paid. XD I don’t think this guy knows much about compassion, Alice! Anyway, he bid her good night and told her not to go crazy on him –
Alice said, “Oh, it’s far too late for that” and escaped into the elevator before he could reply. XD I ended on her wondering if she could go back to handling all her problems by going catatonic for ten years, and Caterpillar telling encouraging her to be brave, this current situation wouldn’t last – “The powder keg will go off long before that.” Alice, naturally, found that less-than-comforting. XD We’re in the home stretch folks – tomorrow, she reunites with Victor and starts bringing him up to speed!
3. Watch something on YouTube: No check, we all know that’s more than likely to be the case now. *sigh* We’ll see what happens tomorrow.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Technical no check – I didn’t actually do anything on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler)’s queue tonight, but I DID spot a post on my dash that I know I want to be my Song Saturday. l just didn’t get a chance to reblog it into my queue yet! Maybe tomorrow morning, we’ll see.
Yeah, not an ideal April Fool's Day, but I suppose I survived and that's the main thing. And now it is very much time for me to go to bed. *nods* Night all!
*shakehead* Anyway -- here's your daily write-up:
Work – Today was one of those days where the workday itself wasn’t that bad, but the commutes were pretty damn shitty:
Ride In – There was an accident on the highway this morning, meaning I was crawling for most of the commute until we actually got past where the two cars had smacked into each other. And then I managed to hit almost every red light after I got off at my exit, which was fun. Wasn’t super late to work, at least, but – still.
Actual Workday – Spent most of the day doing roster maintenance stuff (marking people “Deceased” or “Inactive” as per notes sent back on returned pledge cards and envelopes) and checking on credit card nonsense – found another missed payment, this time for a Capital Campaign pledge, courtesy of a call from Fiscal. >( And I had to send them a politely-worded “excuse me but where the FUCK is the batch taking off the ACH rejects” e-mail after realizing no one ever responded to my last one on the subject. *sigh* At least I can confirm that the last batch of missed Appeal payments were indeed all posted...and hopefully the damn problem causing these payments not to be imported has actually been FIXED now. We can but hope!
Ride Out – Remember how I said above that it ended up monsooning this afternoon? Yeah, uh, the worst of it hit right as I left work. Made driving down the highway a fun little trip! You could feel the car slipping a little in the water sometimes. Worse yet, I had to stop for gas (as I wanted to fill up my tank before it got even MORE expensive), so that didn’t help matters! Not fun to stand in a river of rainwater running off the little roof while pumping your gas, that’s for sure. At least I’m full up now...and I made it home safely, which I guess is the most important thing. Still, hoping I don’t have a repeat of THAT experience for a while!
Yeah, uh, not exactly a great Wednesday, as you can see. Here’s hoping Thursday is better! (And here’s REALLY hoping that they might let us out a bit early before our long Easter weekend...)
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – hopped back on the bike tonight to finish off “Hitman 3 Ways To Play MILLA JOVOVICH | Patient Zero Requiem: Explosions! Firing squads! Rampage?” (Well, mostly – I had to watch the last few minutes after supper.) The final forty-odd minutes of which featured –
A) Everyone dealing with the mansion full of infected people in very different ways (with the game itself throwing the two boys some curve balls):
I. Andy, having been compromised earlier, ended up changing disguises again in a desperate attempt not to immediately get shot by the guards and fled outside to try and regroup while hiding behind some hedges. He reiterated for the benefit of everyone watching that this was an Elusive Target, meaning that he wasn’t allowed to save or restart now that he’d completed one of the objectives (they’re supposed to be one-and-done deals, you see), winced over the Infected Count (55), but then said that he was going to figure this out, all he needed was a new outfit –
And then, just as he was trying to procure himself a new outfit by shooting one of the hazmat guards – the game crashed. Figures, right? However, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise for Andy, as the game let him retry the mission as a result! Armed with loads of foreknowledge from his previous attempt, Andy thus speedran the early parts of the mission offscreen and got Lilith killed by Squad Leader Kevin MUCH earlier, when the infected count was a mere FIVE. He thus proceeded to run around and cure a lady in the front hall with his remaining dart, and then – when his attempt at injecting a guy in the bathroom with the one injector he made resulted in 47 injecting HIMSELF instead – quietly killing the remaining three infectees, ending with letting himself into Gregory Carlisle’s room and shooting him while he reclined on his fainting couch. Now there’s the clean and efficient Andy we’ve come to expect!
II. Jane, finding herself with a pretty massive crowd of infected, began taking them out slowly one by one (mainly by choking whoever was alone before snapping their necks) – which, as you might imagine, took rather a long time (and allowed the guards outside to execute more infected people – she was very disturbed to see their firing squad take out a guest through a window!). Her attempt to speed things up by taking a few potshots at the infected partygoers from above brought the heat down upon her, though, and forced her to run and hide in Zachary’s room. While in there, she looked at the distilling equipment and bemoaned the fact that she couldn’t make any more antidote –
And then made a shocking discovery – the blue herb and the green herb you have to combine to create a vial of antidote? THEY GROW BACK. Not immediately after harvesting, but they do grow back! :D Jane IMMEDIATELY pivoted to “let’s CURE everyone” and started a gameplay loop of –
a. Make a vial of antidote and convert it into cure darts for her gun
b. Sneak out to the balcony overlooking the front room and, as unobtrusively as possible, cure a few infected people by shooting them with darts
c. Rinse and repeat!
Sure, this also took absolutely forever (especially since she did have to run and hide in one of the hallway wardrobes a couple of times when her dart-gun-firing was noticed), but Jane considered it worth it to be able to save a bunch of lives instead of take them. In fact, she was pretty sure that this mass vaccination program was going to balance 47’s karma – or at least tip it a little bit more in the right direction. XD She was quite pleased with herself when she finally cured her last guy – one of the staff, who was actually hanging out in the very staff room where she started out! Sure, she then immediately had to knock him unconscious when he noticed 47, but still. Pleasant irony there. XD
III. And Mike – well. First, Mike ended up dangling from the side of one of the balconies for ages, having attracted the attention and ire of the various masked bodyguards and hazmat suit guys around the place. Then, having survived that assault, he attempted to climb down to a lower level via the drainpipe – only to have to immediately flee back up it when it became immediately apparent that everyone downstairs wanted to murder him as well. Then he managed to get himself a fresh disguise (Kevin the Squad Team Leader’s outfit, in fact – from a body bag, as Kev did NOT survive Mike’s game) before shooting another hazmat suit guy, and the guards who came to investigate the death, and all the other people who noticed the dead bodies, to get more weapons and thus more ammo to kill people with. THEN he took out a few stragglers around the house with his new shotgun, before discovering that he was allowed to carry a propane tank as Squad Leader Kevin and taking THAT into the main entrance hall, dropping it among a bunch of people, and firing on it with his trusty Chrome gun to explode it and a bunch of infected. THEN he fled to the conference room and started a war with the actual guards where he would pop out as they came to kill him, kill THEM with whatever he had at hand (generally a thrown letter opener or a screwdriver or a unicorn horn snapped off a statue), then go hide in the box behind the backdrop to the little stage that had been set up for the speeches until the heat died down again. His GOAL was to kill all the guards if he could so he could properly massacre the rest of the infected – but while it went well for a while (with Mike even managing to get a new disguise – mansion guard – after discovering a massive pile of body bags while creeping around looking for people to murder), eventually he got caught knocking a guy out with a hammer, and his attempt to run and hide in the staff room just ended up trapping him in a tiny space while hazmat suit guy after hazmat suit guy with shotguns came in and shot him. He fought back as best he could, but eventually they took him down. Agent down, mission failed. :(
...except the game has something called the “Elusive Target Arcade” where you can go and replay Elusive Target missions that you’ve failed, or missed out on playing previously, so Mike just booted that up and tried again! And this time around, he made sure to take out every guard he could find with a silenced shotgun (off-screen), allowing him to start a PROPER massacre of the infected guests! Which involved dropping two propane canisters among the crowd (though he only ever set off one – the other ended up being used to bonk people), dropping a chandelier on them, and then chasing down all the survivors (including the few that made it outside) and blowing them away with his shotgun. All the while apologizing but insisting that he wasn’t going back into lockdown for two years. XD He eventually got them all, in a repeat of how he had to massacre basically everyone in the level in the original finale to “Patient Zero.” He promptly told off Diana for lying to him about it being “nicely done.” XD
B) Everyone getting out of the mansion once their work was finally done:
I. Andy went and grabbed his starting outfit, as tradition demanded, then slipped out a window – only to discover that there were still a number of guards outside, and they were not happy about him trying to get away! Cue him hiding in the bushes and realizing that he would have to get one of the hazmat guys’ hazmat suits in order to slip away safely –
And then cue one of the hazmat guys getting curious about said bushes and wandering in. Andy quickly and stealthily took him down, grabbed his suit, and ditched his beloved hunting outfit to run back up the path, past the remaining guards, and to his motorbike, before driving off into the night!
II. Jane snuck out into the hedge maze and proceeded to hide in some bushes by the helicopter the Ether guards were, er, guarding, waiting for just the right moment to try and steal it out from under their noses! So long as they didn’t spot her. Or the helicopter didn’t require a key. XD Fortunately they didn’t spot her, and once she finally managed to get around to the right spot to sneak behind them, she discovered the helicopter did not require a key! Apparently they just left it unlocked – more fool them! She thus hopped in and flew off, getting the most dramatic exit of the three. Good for her!
III. And Mike just strode out the front door past the few remaining non-infected screaming civilians, complaining about how this was a “total disaster” and “gross, grim, awful” before making his way back to his motorbike. Where he proceeded to say that he wasn’t proud of himself –
Before going “but be honest – even if this isn’t how you would have played the mission, weren’t you curious about what would happen if you had to kill literally everybody? So am I the bad guy here, or are you? Think on it” and driving off. XD Oh Mike...just because we EXPECT you to kill everybody doesn’t make US the bad guys!
C) And everyone getting their final ratings:
I. Andy – Phantom ICA Assassin, Three Stars! He was rather pleased, given he was headed for total disaster BEFORE the crash.
II. Jane – Black Cat, Zero Stars! Jane admitted she expected that, but that her victory was in saving so many lives – or, at least that was what she’d be telling Mike and Andy when they asked. XD
III. Mike – Huntsman, Zero Stars! Mike was like “well, lots of Location Mastery at least from all the stuff I was doing...not GOOD stuff, of course” and checked out his specific stats – turned out his “Non-Target Killed” penalty was -360,000. XD “Another successful mission for the clown show,” as he put it. XD
And there we have it! Good stuff, as per usual – I do love their Hitman content. The contrast between their various playstyles is great, and who doesn’t love a bit of murdery chaos from time to time? :D ...Okay maybe Mike’s right, maybe I am the bad guy.
2. Continue editing Chapter 6 of “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – got another solid page of edits/new writing done on this, covering:
A) Me editing Cheshire’s question from the other night to have him ask Alice if she really thought she could have written a comprehensible note to Nines the other night, AND delivered it to him without going off at the other Anarchs, given how she barely got through the meeting with LaCroix (as I thought it was better than my first version)...and Alice coming out of Hysteria mode and reluctantly admitting that he probably had a point, she likely would have ruined her opportunity to warn Nines by trying to murder Damsel the moment she made one of her little comments. But it was still upsetting to learn that she could have rules-lawyered the damn Dominate! Caterpillar assured her that no one was saying it wasn’t, but what was done was done – LaCroix hadn’t wanted Nines warned, and she believed he could stop her, so… “We are all servants of the plot” – yeah, you fucking are, Caterpillar. You fucking are.
B) Alice doing her best to look on the bright side – at least now she knows she can find loopholes in LaCroix’s commands if he tries Dominating her again (Carpenter cheered her on, encouraging her to improvise and refuse to pay the scriptwriter unless he gave her want she wanted – and then refuse to pay him anyway because he’d just spend it all on drink; Alice was like “no, bad Carpenter – the Octopus may be a drunken weirdo, but he writes your terrible plays, so he deserves all the drink he can get”) – before sinking into a funk again because it felt like most of Los Angeles was mad at her (LaCroix, Skelter and Damsel, Nines probably, and herself). She asked if she couldn’t just live under a rock for the rest of her existence; Hatter answered that it was probably a viable option, but she’d need a very big rock. Carpenter objected to this plan, however, noting it seemed quite “borull” (boring and dull) and asking where was the sense of drama and adventure –
Alice replied “far away from me, hopefully.” :p But then allowed she didn’t really have the option to find rocks of the correct size, so it was probably better if she just headed home to do that packing she kept telling everyone she’d do.
C) Alice thus returning to the Skyeline, where she encountered guard Larry in the lobby, reading a magazine on the couch – she asked him if everything was all right, and he informed her that “Silly Simon” got taken away by the men in white coats. Apparently, he became a lot more cooperative when one claimed to be an astronomer. Larry still had no clue what had set him off, though – Alice lied she had no idea either, then said that she hoped that he could get some help. Larry surprised her by agreeing...before adding that he needed everyone paying rent so he could get paid. XD I don’t think this guy knows much about compassion, Alice! Anyway, he bid her good night and told her not to go crazy on him –
Alice said, “Oh, it’s far too late for that” and escaped into the elevator before he could reply. XD I ended on her wondering if she could go back to handling all her problems by going catatonic for ten years, and Caterpillar telling encouraging her to be brave, this current situation wouldn’t last – “The powder keg will go off long before that.” Alice, naturally, found that less-than-comforting. XD We’re in the home stretch folks – tomorrow, she reunites with Victor and starts bringing him up to speed!
3. Watch something on YouTube: No check, we all know that’s more than likely to be the case now. *sigh* We’ll see what happens tomorrow.
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Technical no check – I didn’t actually do anything on Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler)’s queue tonight, but I DID spot a post on my dash that I know I want to be my Song Saturday. l just didn’t get a chance to reblog it into my queue yet! Maybe tomorrow morning, we’ll see.
Yeah, not an ideal April Fool's Day, but I suppose I survived and that's the main thing. And now it is very much time for me to go to bed. *nods* Night all!
