Stupid Impasse
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crossover_chick-D: Pardon?-
I'm stuck at a certain point in "Boy Genius."
-TD: O.O-
You don't have to look SO shocked, it was bound to happen eventually. It's just a small thing -- I need to have something weird and wacky that's made out of sausage. You see, I'm up to actually DOING "Socket Wench of Prague," and I plan to make a couple of dirty sausage jokes ("Sausage never stands that straight, nor is ever that plump! I know from painful experience. My husband has never been a good cook.") before getting back to the main plot.
-VDM: Isn't there some "Vala" person you can ask?-
She's an alien, I don't know if she knows what sausage IS yet. Though I'm sure she could think up a number of good dirty jokes once she finds out.
-TD: So edit an earlier chapter. I'm due for an update.-
I know, I know. I just want to get this chapter done before I edit and post a new one.
-VD: You're pretty far along in that story, aren't you?-
Yeah, I'm almost to the end. After that, it's a quick break from "Boy Genius-y" things, and a return to NonTrilogy (I hope).
-D: You read both Girl Genius and Narbonic on a regular basis now. I'm shocked you CAN write anything in ANY of your other universes.-
Hey, you're technically Mad in all of them!
-OD: But only one version of us builds death rays.-
Time-ending paradoxes can be cooler. . . .
-D: Can we keep it to more -- conventional -- accidents?-
-M: It's TIME TRAVEL, Doc. There's no such thing as conventional.-
Kid's got a point. But yeah, I don't generally go in for the world-ending stuff most of the time. I'm more interested in more personalized angst.
-Docs: *chorus* We know.-
Anyway, I might work on more of the August challenge instead, or perhaps find an idea for a drabbles88. And yes, I'll work on "V.D." edits, VampDoc.
-VD: I was all set to use the poking stick too.-
It was off to the Hill Valley Browns today -- a bit later than usual, thanks to my rereadings of Narbonic. (<.< >.> I think I'm gonna end up buying the collections. They'll look nice next to my Girl Genius books.) Still, I managed to get them through a whole Monday relatively unharmed. We started off with some early-morning socializing, then breakfast -- Martina had a muffin while the rest of the family ate pancakes.
She also danced with her brothers -- she and Verne are still working on the best friend thing, but they're getting closer.
Verne also got a body point from working out -- fitness on this group is starting to get dangerously low. No one's fat yet, but it's only a matter of time.
Doc worked on Toy Robots, and finally got his Bronze badge! Hooray!
The kids eventually trundled off to school, leaving Clara to work on her Logic and Doc to work on a Hydrobot.
Shortly afterwards, Clara went to work, and Doc caught a nap in preparation for his own shift, so not much happened midday. Jules did manage to score 100 bucks from relatives though.
At one, the boys arrived home. Jules suffered from a rather interesting glitch. Verne got off the schoolbus normally, and I had him set his homework on the floor. After he was done, I realized I didn't see Jules. I panicked for a moment, wondering if he had somehow disappeared --
Nope. Hovering over the sidewalk, apparently walking away. I unfroze time, and he safely teleported down. He was able to interact with everybody and walk everywhere, so I assume he's unharmed. He just didn't get any homework, the lucky bastard.
While all this is happening, Doc finishes his Hydrobot, then heads to work. Verne makes himself a grilled cheese.
On a whim, I decide to have Jules call the headmaster for the private school -- getting Martina in is a major want for both parents. The only problem is, neither Doc nor Clara will be home when he first arrives -- Clara gets off work at 7, Doc at 8. Not a problem, though -- Jules can handle dinner while Verne does introductions and stuff.
Martina arrived home at three, first getting a chance card in which she wins the Science Fair (natch), netting an extra 250 for her house. She happens to bring home Marsha Bruenig(?) -- they end up playing chess for the next few hours, making friends along the way.
The headmaster, Korey, arrived promptly at five -- Verne greeted him and engaged him in some talk about other planets while Jules prepared a salmon dinner.
The talk didn't end so well, but it netted them important schmooze points. Jules took over at the dinner table -- Verne needed a nap.
During the scenario, Doc and I got the first chance card I've seen for the Time Travel career. Doc was slowly going crazy from winding watches when some friends asked if he wanted to shuck off the last half-hour of his shift. I decided I really ought to try it and had him stay at work. This turned out to be a BAD move -- Doc eventually knocked himself unconscious by running into a grandfather clock and lost a Logic point. :(
-VD2: Damn damn. . . .-
Things did even out. As night fell, I sent Marsha home and Martina to bed. Clara also came home, with a nice promotion to Scholar! I sent her inside to have some salmon while Jules offered Korey a tour.
Korey agreed, and Jules showed him around the ground floor. Luckily, the Browns have a very nice house, and Korey was quite thrilled by the environment scores.
Doc arrived home as the tour ended -- despite the accident via chance card, he'd been promoted too -- he's now a History Textbook Eraser! Satisfied with his money-making ways (he's apparently earned 5,000 simoleons now), I sent him to the telescope, where he promptly regained his lost Logic point. :)
Back inside, the tour brought the point total to 89/90. I let an exhausted Jules go upstairs to use the bathroom and sleep, and tag-teamed in a newly refreshed Clara to chat up the headmaster.
Success! With a final score of 98/90, Martina got in! :D So Doc and Clara are happily platinum for once.
Now that's she's a private school girl, Martina ought to know how to study. She enlisted Doc's help with her homework. After a false start and her taking the damn thing upstairs to put by the desk (grumble), Doc manages to teach his daughter how to study.
By this point, everyone else is in bed. I send Martina to bed as well, but Doc, with his failing needs, gets a ride in their new Energizer instead.
I save with him making a Cleanbot while everyone else sleeps. Time to get the Silver Robotery Badge!
-VD2: *looks at me* On the rag and coming off a heatwave. You're in no shape to concentrate, are you?-
I'm doing my best. Just don't expect any groundbreaking work out of me.
-VD: So long as you make some more edits, I'll be happy.
-OD: I can't complain -- she did some sketching this morning.-
Just confirming I can't draw anything, including animals -- I was attempting Sigmund.
-M: So what now? Besides the obvious?-
More YouTube music videos, and maybe I'll start reading the alternate Victorian story on Narbonic. *shrug* I'll honestly try to get more done tomorrow.
-DW: Suuure you will.-
Oh hush.
I'm stuck at a certain point in "Boy Genius."
-TD: O.O-
You don't have to look SO shocked, it was bound to happen eventually. It's just a small thing -- I need to have something weird and wacky that's made out of sausage. You see, I'm up to actually DOING "Socket Wench of Prague," and I plan to make a couple of dirty sausage jokes ("Sausage never stands that straight, nor is ever that plump! I know from painful experience. My husband has never been a good cook.") before getting back to the main plot.
-VDM: Isn't there some "Vala" person you can ask?-
She's an alien, I don't know if she knows what sausage IS yet. Though I'm sure she could think up a number of good dirty jokes once she finds out.
-TD: So edit an earlier chapter. I'm due for an update.-
I know, I know. I just want to get this chapter done before I edit and post a new one.
-VD: You're pretty far along in that story, aren't you?-
Yeah, I'm almost to the end. After that, it's a quick break from "Boy Genius-y" things, and a return to NonTrilogy (I hope).
-D: You read both Girl Genius and Narbonic on a regular basis now. I'm shocked you CAN write anything in ANY of your other universes.-
Hey, you're technically Mad in all of them!
-OD: But only one version of us builds death rays.-
Time-ending paradoxes can be cooler. . . .
-D: Can we keep it to more -- conventional -- accidents?-
-M: It's TIME TRAVEL, Doc. There's no such thing as conventional.-
Kid's got a point. But yeah, I don't generally go in for the world-ending stuff most of the time. I'm more interested in more personalized angst.
-Docs: *chorus* We know.-
Anyway, I might work on more of the August challenge instead, or perhaps find an idea for a drabbles88. And yes, I'll work on "V.D." edits, VampDoc.
-VD: I was all set to use the poking stick too.-
It was off to the Hill Valley Browns today -- a bit later than usual, thanks to my rereadings of Narbonic. (<.< >.> I think I'm gonna end up buying the collections. They'll look nice next to my Girl Genius books.) Still, I managed to get them through a whole Monday relatively unharmed. We started off with some early-morning socializing, then breakfast -- Martina had a muffin while the rest of the family ate pancakes.
She also danced with her brothers -- she and Verne are still working on the best friend thing, but they're getting closer.
Verne also got a body point from working out -- fitness on this group is starting to get dangerously low. No one's fat yet, but it's only a matter of time.
Doc worked on Toy Robots, and finally got his Bronze badge! Hooray!
The kids eventually trundled off to school, leaving Clara to work on her Logic and Doc to work on a Hydrobot.
Shortly afterwards, Clara went to work, and Doc caught a nap in preparation for his own shift, so not much happened midday. Jules did manage to score 100 bucks from relatives though.
At one, the boys arrived home. Jules suffered from a rather interesting glitch. Verne got off the schoolbus normally, and I had him set his homework on the floor. After he was done, I realized I didn't see Jules. I panicked for a moment, wondering if he had somehow disappeared --
Nope. Hovering over the sidewalk, apparently walking away. I unfroze time, and he safely teleported down. He was able to interact with everybody and walk everywhere, so I assume he's unharmed. He just didn't get any homework, the lucky bastard.
While all this is happening, Doc finishes his Hydrobot, then heads to work. Verne makes himself a grilled cheese.
On a whim, I decide to have Jules call the headmaster for the private school -- getting Martina in is a major want for both parents. The only problem is, neither Doc nor Clara will be home when he first arrives -- Clara gets off work at 7, Doc at 8. Not a problem, though -- Jules can handle dinner while Verne does introductions and stuff.
Martina arrived home at three, first getting a chance card in which she wins the Science Fair (natch), netting an extra 250 for her house. She happens to bring home Marsha Bruenig(?) -- they end up playing chess for the next few hours, making friends along the way.
The headmaster, Korey, arrived promptly at five -- Verne greeted him and engaged him in some talk about other planets while Jules prepared a salmon dinner.
The talk didn't end so well, but it netted them important schmooze points. Jules took over at the dinner table -- Verne needed a nap.
During the scenario, Doc and I got the first chance card I've seen for the Time Travel career. Doc was slowly going crazy from winding watches when some friends asked if he wanted to shuck off the last half-hour of his shift. I decided I really ought to try it and had him stay at work. This turned out to be a BAD move -- Doc eventually knocked himself unconscious by running into a grandfather clock and lost a Logic point. :(
-VD2: Damn damn. . . .-
Things did even out. As night fell, I sent Marsha home and Martina to bed. Clara also came home, with a nice promotion to Scholar! I sent her inside to have some salmon while Jules offered Korey a tour.
Korey agreed, and Jules showed him around the ground floor. Luckily, the Browns have a very nice house, and Korey was quite thrilled by the environment scores.
Doc arrived home as the tour ended -- despite the accident via chance card, he'd been promoted too -- he's now a History Textbook Eraser! Satisfied with his money-making ways (he's apparently earned 5,000 simoleons now), I sent him to the telescope, where he promptly regained his lost Logic point. :)
Back inside, the tour brought the point total to 89/90. I let an exhausted Jules go upstairs to use the bathroom and sleep, and tag-teamed in a newly refreshed Clara to chat up the headmaster.
Success! With a final score of 98/90, Martina got in! :D So Doc and Clara are happily platinum for once.
Now that's she's a private school girl, Martina ought to know how to study. She enlisted Doc's help with her homework. After a false start and her taking the damn thing upstairs to put by the desk (grumble), Doc manages to teach his daughter how to study.
By this point, everyone else is in bed. I send Martina to bed as well, but Doc, with his failing needs, gets a ride in their new Energizer instead.
I save with him making a Cleanbot while everyone else sleeps. Time to get the Silver Robotery Badge!
-VD2: *looks at me* On the rag and coming off a heatwave. You're in no shape to concentrate, are you?-
I'm doing my best. Just don't expect any groundbreaking work out of me.
-VD: So long as you make some more edits, I'll be happy.
-OD: I can't complain -- she did some sketching this morning.-
Just confirming I can't draw anything, including animals -- I was attempting Sigmund.
-M: So what now? Besides the obvious?-
More YouTube music videos, and maybe I'll start reading the alternate Victorian story on Narbonic. *shrug* I'll honestly try to get more done tomorrow.
-DW: Suuure you will.-
Oh hush.
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Date: 2006-08-05 03:18 pm (UTC)...
I'm serious. The Mythbusters (http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/episode/episode_02.html) did it with salami. Episode 51.
Just a suggestion. ^^v
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Date: 2006-08-05 08:11 pm (UTC)