Not Quite As Tired Monday
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crossover_chickDespite getting to bed later than I should have last night, and waking up early a couple of times (seriously, brain, can we STOP with that??), I got enough sleep to be functional today, which is good. I am actively making an effort to get to bed earlier tonight, though, so let's get straight on with the round-up for the day:
Work – Fairly quiet Monday to start off the work week – I did the GL; I took three calls from people updating credit cards/bank account numbers on pledges; I e-mailed some other people about failed credit cards; I did a QC file for the next capital campaign billing to go out; and I looked at some returned mail and filled out one write-off form for a pledge that hadn’t had anything paid on it for a while. *shrug* Nothing exciting! Though I am pleased to report that my commute was easier today, as the kids are slowly but surely getting out of school, meaning there’s less buses and such on the road. One of the perks of summertime, that. :) Hopefully tomorrow will be good too!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back with alien teens Radian Inu (Andy), Kae’l Crex (Jane), and Galaxa Spacemountain (Liv) as they continued their space adventures in “Party Time! | Teens in Space TTRPG | Episode 3!” This episode saw them:
A) Quickly check in pre-party with both the Storacle lady to make sure she knew they’d won and done the promo, as promised (she’d seen it on the big screen and was very happy with their work – though she warned Galaxa not to push it when she started hinting at getting free stuff XD) and their lawyers because, well, they did kill a lot of people in that race and wanted to make sure they were adequately protected against wrongful death lawsuits (the lawyers were rather horrified by the list of names, as well they should be); they also consulted with Memples about what they should wear – Memples said that Kae’l in her awesome black power armor and Radian in his RGB EVO suit would be fine, but Galaxa MIGHT want to rethink the out-of-fashion hot pink on her EVO suit (thanks to a failed roll, she did not XD Barbie for life!)
B) Head to the party venue where, encouraged by Memples, they tried to skip the queue on the basis of being famous space racers – they ran into some initial trouble with one of the robot bouncers, with Radian offering an absurdly-low bribe and Kae’l offering to autograph their chassis (which it didn’t think much of), but then a pair of EXTREMELY good charm rolls saw one of the other bouncers recognize them, shove his colleague out of the way, and bring the four upstairs to the members lounge, giving them top-quality alcoholic drinks on the house (the kids were VERY excited)
C) Enjoy the fancy lounge with views of the rolling blue sands of the planet’s surface, drinking their drinks (Kae’l and Radian managing to handle theirs pretty well by taking small sips, while poor Galaxa gulped hers down and ended up doing the morpher version of a somersault where she briefly melted into goo for a second before snapping back), lying to Memples about how they live out in space (to avoid telling him the name of their home planet) and that they live so dangerously because they’re over the hill for their respective species – a whole 24 years old (Jasper ruled that all the players at the table had to take psychic damage XD), and – in Galaxa’s case – seeing a fellow goo shapeshifter and actually forming a bit of a bond despite being the most awkward person on the planet XD (especially since the shapeshifter apparently was a huge celebrity, yet still found Galaxa genuinely intriguing – it was kinda sweet, actually)
D) Have their good time ruined by pirates breaking in through the windows, killing Galaxa’s new celeb friend, and demanding all their valuables – cue Galaxa absorbing all the remaining goo from the celeb’s corpse and becoming 23% more fabulous; Memples sacrificing himself to save his new friends by arming some plasma grenades and throwing himself at the pirates; and the kids just BARELY getting out of the room before getting swallowed up in the twin plasma blasts, with Kae’l’s power armor and Galaxa’s EVO suits getting damaged thanks to poor rolls (better than dying!)
E) Flee back to the ship in absolute terror, with Galaxa using her new fabulous extra mass to bat pirates away while poor Radian (on a bad roll) smacked straight into the cloaked ship; fortunately, an excellent roll right afterward allowed Radian to PUNCH the controls and get them out there at practically warp speed, just SMASHING straight through one of the pirates’ ships on their way
F) And finally, discover that Galaxa’s tinkering with his systems had made the ship’s AI, V.I.N.N.I.E., feel more kindly disposed toward them – and, more importantly, open the mystery door downstairs; Galaxa thus dragged herself down there while the ship continued rocketing away from Rez T-75, pursued by pretty much all the pirates looking to avenge their fellows –
And found a warp drive based on that teleporter technology that was supposed to be banned after the super-advanced race that invented it got sick of all the lesser races fighting over their attention and left. She was – shocked, to say the least. O.O However, it quickly became apparent that using it might be their only chance to get away from the pirates, who were starting to shoot rather a lot of shit at them. I left off with the teens pooling their adversity tokens to help boost Galaxa’s brains roll up to the necessary 20 to figure out how to use the drive – tomorrow, we’ll see where the warp takes them! :D
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – we continued with Alice’s adventures in Grout’s hellhouse today, with her finishing powering down all the Tesla coils in the electricity room; briefly wondering how the hell she even works as a vampire – specifically, why she doesn’t need to pee anymore – only to get disgusted by Carpenter suggesting she could do as vampire bats do and pee as she feeds (no thank you); finding a mysterious lever in the hallway past the electric death room and, at Wonderland’s urging, pulling it, triggering a mysterious “grrunch” noise from the wall; and finally following the hallway up some stairs and to a door – only to discover it was the mysterious locked door she passed on her way to the library the first time. Meaning she’s basically come all the way back around to the beginning again. She promptly accused the mansion of being entirely backtracking. XD Anyway, tomorrow she’ll invisibly sneak her way through the front foyer and back into the big old staircase room – where she will discover another path has opened up for her to explore...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – went back to C. M. Alongi tonight for “CaFae Latte Season 63 - TikTok Compilation!” This series featured:
A) Cyrus and Rethu planning a date night together when a woman came in and asked if Cyrus was “Blue Johnson” – and when he confirmed that was his legal name, asked if he was still a defense attorney. Which he confirmed, to my and Rethu’s shock. O.o Turns out he got a bunch of degrees back when college was still cheap, and a law degree was one of them. And he was only too happy to break it out again for the woman – one Rebecca Black Bear, who explained that she’d been accused of murdering her boyfriend after he went missing recently after a morning jog...
B) Cyrus representing Rebecca at her interview with the police, where she downed a truth potion (with the cop’s off-duty friend acting as a control) and firmly insisted that no, she did not kill her boyfriend Xavier, nor had anyone else do it for her. And revealed that Xavier was an abusive asshole who had threatened to beat her the morning he disappeared. Cyrus was not happy but also not surprised to learn she’d tried filing some reports, but never got any help. :( Anyway, she insisted that she was just trying to find a way to get out of the situation without getting murdered – and then another cop showed up, revealing that they’d just found Xavier’s body…
C) Cyrus getting the second cop to reveal how Xavier died – apparently it looked like starvation or exposure. Which was very weird, given the area he was in was 10 square miles, very near civilization, and was a place he knew like the back of his hand according to Rebecca. The cops started wondering if Rebecca or someone else had enchanted or drugged him – but then Cyrus noted that Rebecca was Lakota, and that the death had happened on Lakota land, and asked if any of them knew about “Deer Woman…”
D) A scene switch to Kenny the goblin and Patrick the werewolf hanging out in a bar near the Lakota lands, talking about how Kenny had just learned Patrick himself is half-Lakota (the other half is Irish – and werewolf) – only for the bartender to ask for Patrick’s help because he was pretty sure some creep had drugged one of the women at the bar. Patrick was immediately on it, easily cutting through the creep’s lies, and choking him when the creep offered to share his conquest. He got Kenny to get a picture of the guy’s ID so he could send Bob the creep’s full name for cursing purposes and chased him out of the bar before going to help the woman...only to suddenly notice she had hooves for feet…
E) A swap back to Cyrus talking to the police and telling them about Deer Woman, a magical woman who specifically hunts abusive assholes and enchants them so they can’t take care of themselves, turn into catatonic zombies, and slowly waste away – the cops were a little skeptical, but admitted that they didn’t have anything else against Rebecca and told her and Cyrus they could head out; then a swap back to Patrick, who apologized to Deer Woman for ruining one of her hunts (she was sour, but later admitted she wasn’t TOO mad as, of course, he was just trying to do the right thing) and called Bob for her when she said she wanted to speak to the fairy – aaand of course it turned out they knew each other, with Bob being only too happy to hit the creep with an especially nasty curse to give him ill health, ill fortune, and ill luck and make him unable to hurt anyone in any way except for self-defense until he truly redeemed himself. Patrick was like “I dunno why I’m surprised you two are acquainted.” XD
F) And finally, a wrap-up back at the cafe, with Patrick revealing that, post-phone call, he and Deer Woman hung out playing XBox games and eating pancakes together (he lost. Badly); Cyrus revealing that Rebecca was totally cleared and paid him in awesome Lakota food (a big jar of wojapi berry saw and a stack of fry cakes); and JC and Nicole revealing how Thanksgiving went at Nicole’s parents place after JC asking about wojapi ended up turning the discussion toward how it compared to cranberry sauce (JC and Nicole’s dad Charlie argued about if aliens were real or not, while Kelly and Nicole’s mom Abigail chatted makeup and how shitty is was when an ‘inclusive’ brand actually looked terrible on Black skin). Best holiday JC and Kelly have had for a while, apparently – and JC already knows they’re gonna give Charlie loads of sci-fi novels for Christmas as a prank of sorts. XD
Lovely stuff, as always – and proof that I haven’t managed to spoil myself on everything in this series, as Cyrus being a defense attorney came TOTALLY out of left field for me. I mean, good for him, given he canonically has dyslexia (in fact, he cited that as the reason he works in the cafe rather than as a lawyer – less paperwork), but still – damn. I wonder what surprises the next compilation will bring?
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, surprisingly – I actually managed to make it into the drafts of Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) to work a little bit on the “hey, the Polyheart OT3 house is done” post, tweaking the main text and turning a couple of the bulkier paragraphs into lists to make them easier to read/match what I did later in the post better. Didn’t get past the section on the pool, but it felt good to make SOME progress! That being said, not entirely sure I’ll be able to get this up this week after all – depends on how much time I’ll have to spend on it tomorrow. We’ll see what happens!
Other: We did indeed play beanbags once I got home from work (and from getting gas), and I am sad to report that I had another terrible game, losing all three rounds while Mom and Dad traded wins and seconds. *sigh* I just don’t know why it’s so hard for me to throw higher than a four these days… Anyway, final scores were me 3-3-3; Dad W-2-W; and Mom 2-W-2. *sigh* Maybe I’ll do better tomorrow – we’ll see.
*nods* There we are then! And now I have to go to bed while it is still a Reasonable Hour. Night all!
Work – Fairly quiet Monday to start off the work week – I did the GL; I took three calls from people updating credit cards/bank account numbers on pledges; I e-mailed some other people about failed credit cards; I did a QC file for the next capital campaign billing to go out; and I looked at some returned mail and filled out one write-off form for a pledge that hadn’t had anything paid on it for a while. *shrug* Nothing exciting! Though I am pleased to report that my commute was easier today, as the kids are slowly but surely getting out of school, meaning there’s less buses and such on the road. One of the perks of summertime, that. :) Hopefully tomorrow will be good too!
To-Do List –
1. Get in a workout: Check – back on the bike, and back with alien teens Radian Inu (Andy), Kae’l Crex (Jane), and Galaxa Spacemountain (Liv) as they continued their space adventures in “Party Time! | Teens in Space TTRPG | Episode 3!” This episode saw them:
A) Quickly check in pre-party with both the Storacle lady to make sure she knew they’d won and done the promo, as promised (she’d seen it on the big screen and was very happy with their work – though she warned Galaxa not to push it when she started hinting at getting free stuff XD) and their lawyers because, well, they did kill a lot of people in that race and wanted to make sure they were adequately protected against wrongful death lawsuits (the lawyers were rather horrified by the list of names, as well they should be); they also consulted with Memples about what they should wear – Memples said that Kae’l in her awesome black power armor and Radian in his RGB EVO suit would be fine, but Galaxa MIGHT want to rethink the out-of-fashion hot pink on her EVO suit (thanks to a failed roll, she did not XD Barbie for life!)
B) Head to the party venue where, encouraged by Memples, they tried to skip the queue on the basis of being famous space racers – they ran into some initial trouble with one of the robot bouncers, with Radian offering an absurdly-low bribe and Kae’l offering to autograph their chassis (which it didn’t think much of), but then a pair of EXTREMELY good charm rolls saw one of the other bouncers recognize them, shove his colleague out of the way, and bring the four upstairs to the members lounge, giving them top-quality alcoholic drinks on the house (the kids were VERY excited)
C) Enjoy the fancy lounge with views of the rolling blue sands of the planet’s surface, drinking their drinks (Kae’l and Radian managing to handle theirs pretty well by taking small sips, while poor Galaxa gulped hers down and ended up doing the morpher version of a somersault where she briefly melted into goo for a second before snapping back), lying to Memples about how they live out in space (to avoid telling him the name of their home planet) and that they live so dangerously because they’re over the hill for their respective species – a whole 24 years old (Jasper ruled that all the players at the table had to take psychic damage XD), and – in Galaxa’s case – seeing a fellow goo shapeshifter and actually forming a bit of a bond despite being the most awkward person on the planet XD (especially since the shapeshifter apparently was a huge celebrity, yet still found Galaxa genuinely intriguing – it was kinda sweet, actually)
D) Have their good time ruined by pirates breaking in through the windows, killing Galaxa’s new celeb friend, and demanding all their valuables – cue Galaxa absorbing all the remaining goo from the celeb’s corpse and becoming 23% more fabulous; Memples sacrificing himself to save his new friends by arming some plasma grenades and throwing himself at the pirates; and the kids just BARELY getting out of the room before getting swallowed up in the twin plasma blasts, with Kae’l’s power armor and Galaxa’s EVO suits getting damaged thanks to poor rolls (better than dying!)
E) Flee back to the ship in absolute terror, with Galaxa using her new fabulous extra mass to bat pirates away while poor Radian (on a bad roll) smacked straight into the cloaked ship; fortunately, an excellent roll right afterward allowed Radian to PUNCH the controls and get them out there at practically warp speed, just SMASHING straight through one of the pirates’ ships on their way
F) And finally, discover that Galaxa’s tinkering with his systems had made the ship’s AI, V.I.N.N.I.E., feel more kindly disposed toward them – and, more importantly, open the mystery door downstairs; Galaxa thus dragged herself down there while the ship continued rocketing away from Rez T-75, pursued by pretty much all the pirates looking to avenge their fellows –
And found a warp drive based on that teleporter technology that was supposed to be banned after the super-advanced race that invented it got sick of all the lesser races fighting over their attention and left. She was – shocked, to say the least. O.O However, it quickly became apparent that using it might be their only chance to get away from the pirates, who were starting to shoot rather a lot of shit at them. I left off with the teens pooling their adversity tokens to help boost Galaxa’s brains roll up to the necessary 20 to figure out how to use the drive – tomorrow, we’ll see where the warp takes them! :D
2. Continue editing “Londerland Bloodlines: Downtown Queensland”: Check – we continued with Alice’s adventures in Grout’s hellhouse today, with her finishing powering down all the Tesla coils in the electricity room; briefly wondering how the hell she even works as a vampire – specifically, why she doesn’t need to pee anymore – only to get disgusted by Carpenter suggesting she could do as vampire bats do and pee as she feeds (no thank you); finding a mysterious lever in the hallway past the electric death room and, at Wonderland’s urging, pulling it, triggering a mysterious “grrunch” noise from the wall; and finally following the hallway up some stairs and to a door – only to discover it was the mysterious locked door she passed on her way to the library the first time. Meaning she’s basically come all the way back around to the beginning again. She promptly accused the mansion of being entirely backtracking. XD Anyway, tomorrow she’ll invisibly sneak her way through the front foyer and back into the big old staircase room – where she will discover another path has opened up for her to explore...
3. Keep up with YouTube “Subs”: Check – went back to C. M. Alongi tonight for “CaFae Latte Season 63 - TikTok Compilation!” This series featured:
A) Cyrus and Rethu planning a date night together when a woman came in and asked if Cyrus was “Blue Johnson” – and when he confirmed that was his legal name, asked if he was still a defense attorney. Which he confirmed, to my and Rethu’s shock. O.o Turns out he got a bunch of degrees back when college was still cheap, and a law degree was one of them. And he was only too happy to break it out again for the woman – one Rebecca Black Bear, who explained that she’d been accused of murdering her boyfriend after he went missing recently after a morning jog...
B) Cyrus representing Rebecca at her interview with the police, where she downed a truth potion (with the cop’s off-duty friend acting as a control) and firmly insisted that no, she did not kill her boyfriend Xavier, nor had anyone else do it for her. And revealed that Xavier was an abusive asshole who had threatened to beat her the morning he disappeared. Cyrus was not happy but also not surprised to learn she’d tried filing some reports, but never got any help. :( Anyway, she insisted that she was just trying to find a way to get out of the situation without getting murdered – and then another cop showed up, revealing that they’d just found Xavier’s body…
C) Cyrus getting the second cop to reveal how Xavier died – apparently it looked like starvation or exposure. Which was very weird, given the area he was in was 10 square miles, very near civilization, and was a place he knew like the back of his hand according to Rebecca. The cops started wondering if Rebecca or someone else had enchanted or drugged him – but then Cyrus noted that Rebecca was Lakota, and that the death had happened on Lakota land, and asked if any of them knew about “Deer Woman…”
D) A scene switch to Kenny the goblin and Patrick the werewolf hanging out in a bar near the Lakota lands, talking about how Kenny had just learned Patrick himself is half-Lakota (the other half is Irish – and werewolf) – only for the bartender to ask for Patrick’s help because he was pretty sure some creep had drugged one of the women at the bar. Patrick was immediately on it, easily cutting through the creep’s lies, and choking him when the creep offered to share his conquest. He got Kenny to get a picture of the guy’s ID so he could send Bob the creep’s full name for cursing purposes and chased him out of the bar before going to help the woman...only to suddenly notice she had hooves for feet…
E) A swap back to Cyrus talking to the police and telling them about Deer Woman, a magical woman who specifically hunts abusive assholes and enchants them so they can’t take care of themselves, turn into catatonic zombies, and slowly waste away – the cops were a little skeptical, but admitted that they didn’t have anything else against Rebecca and told her and Cyrus they could head out; then a swap back to Patrick, who apologized to Deer Woman for ruining one of her hunts (she was sour, but later admitted she wasn’t TOO mad as, of course, he was just trying to do the right thing) and called Bob for her when she said she wanted to speak to the fairy – aaand of course it turned out they knew each other, with Bob being only too happy to hit the creep with an especially nasty curse to give him ill health, ill fortune, and ill luck and make him unable to hurt anyone in any way except for self-defense until he truly redeemed himself. Patrick was like “I dunno why I’m surprised you two are acquainted.” XD
F) And finally, a wrap-up back at the cafe, with Patrick revealing that, post-phone call, he and Deer Woman hung out playing XBox games and eating pancakes together (he lost. Badly); Cyrus revealing that Rebecca was totally cleared and paid him in awesome Lakota food (a big jar of wojapi berry saw and a stack of fry cakes); and JC and Nicole revealing how Thanksgiving went at Nicole’s parents place after JC asking about wojapi ended up turning the discussion toward how it compared to cranberry sauce (JC and Nicole’s dad Charlie argued about if aliens were real or not, while Kelly and Nicole’s mom Abigail chatted makeup and how shitty is was when an ‘inclusive’ brand actually looked terrible on Black skin). Best holiday JC and Kelly have had for a while, apparently – and JC already knows they’re gonna give Charlie loads of sci-fi novels for Christmas as a prank of sorts. XD
Lovely stuff, as always – and proof that I haven’t managed to spoil myself on everything in this series, as Cyrus being a defense attorney came TOTALLY out of left field for me. I mean, good for him, given he canonically has dyslexia (in fact, he cited that as the reason he works in the cafe rather than as a lawyer – less paperwork), but still – damn. I wonder what surprises the next compilation will bring?
4. Get my tumblr queues sorted: Check, surprisingly – I actually managed to make it into the drafts of Victor Luvs Alice (N Smiler) to work a little bit on the “hey, the Polyheart OT3 house is done” post, tweaking the main text and turning a couple of the bulkier paragraphs into lists to make them easier to read/match what I did later in the post better. Didn’t get past the section on the pool, but it felt good to make SOME progress! That being said, not entirely sure I’ll be able to get this up this week after all – depends on how much time I’ll have to spend on it tomorrow. We’ll see what happens!
Other: We did indeed play beanbags once I got home from work (and from getting gas), and I am sad to report that I had another terrible game, losing all three rounds while Mom and Dad traded wins and seconds. *sigh* I just don’t know why it’s so hard for me to throw higher than a four these days… Anyway, final scores were me 3-3-3; Dad W-2-W; and Mom 2-W-2. *sigh* Maybe I’ll do better tomorrow – we’ll see.
*nods* There we are then! And now I have to go to bed while it is still a Reasonable Hour. Night all!
