Trip's Life (Recent episodes)
13 December 2019 - Friday
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12 December 2019 - Thursday
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11 December 2019 - Wednesday
It was not my turn to get food,
so we had enough. (Possibly too much, or possibly I was just unwise to
order something I'd never had that was listed as "medium-spicy". Eating
most of a tin of chocolate chip cookies was also a mistake.)
As anyone who is smarter than my character could have predicted, the
apparently-friendly elf sold us out to the Lunars, framing us for murder
after pretending to trade us an iron greave for a robin's egg and
mystical Trickster secrets. Now most of us have been arrested by flying
Lunar bird-weirdos, except the monk and the bandit, who are lurking in
the woods. I suppose we could have tried to fight them, but D&D.
Read:
- Genial Jack vol 1 (Jonathan Newell):
A city built in the belly and on the back of an enormous,
possibly-divine whale! The PC race writeups are in D&D5, so they're
lame, but that's pretty much the only mechanics, and you can be a
business octopus. The fantastical lands the whale travels near are only
alluded to, but hopefully that's what volumes 2+ are for.
Words:
FAIL.
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10 December 2019 - Tuesday
Bah, work. Boss A is going abroad for a few weeks, so the rest of us
need to cover the days she was on call, which is not actually tragic, it
just makes me go bah.
I thought a customer might be exploding, but no, he's good. I guess
we'll wait and found out what the experts think.
Watched:
Orphan Black 1.3: Some of the other characters are growing on me, but Felix is still best. Also Cosima is probably going to horribly betray everyone.
Read:
- Monstrosities (Matthew J Finch, et al):
OSR monster manual, with all the giant monsters, color-coded dragons,
and random nonsense that has become canon (otyugh, gnoll, rust monster,
owlbear), and not enough novel monsters. The IOUNizer is good, though.
- The Excellents (Adriel Wilson, Chris O'Neill):
Princesses! Specific princesses, like the princess of maple syrup, or
the princess of lasers, in a cartoon world of awesome that they have to protect.
Uses a hack of the one-die-per-player system from
Mazes, with
special princess stuff on the max or min roll, so it's pretty
success-heavy, which is good for younger players. I think I like
Princess World better, but this is still worthy.
- Phantasmagoria vol 1-2 (Chance Phillips): Adapts
DCC
with all its d14s and individual spell tables to space-going fantasy
adventure. So basically the same as Starfinder in 1/10th the page count.
Words:
FAIL.
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9 December 2019 - Monday
I did some works today, but do not feel very productive.
Watched:
- Orphan Black
1.2:
I think she actually handled that very competently, but Felix still deserves a
better sister.
Read:
- Mononoke Sharing vol 1 (coolkyousinnjya): Human teen
ends up housemates with five goofy and top-heavy monster girls, who she
bonds with even though they are sometimes pretty annoying and/or gross.
Words:
FAIL.
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8 December 2019 - Sunday
I spent all day making three separate shopping trips, and spent about a
zillion dollars, but none of it seems like it made the world a better
place. I might change my mind when it starts getting cold and I'm glad I
bought a heater, though.
Watched:
- RWBY 7.5: Okay,
Robin is cool. But I don't know about any of these others. Except
Schnee, we definitely know about him.
- The Good Place 1.6: Wow, Eleanor was a real piece of work.
Read:
- The Wize Wize Beasts of the Wizarding Wizdoms (Nagabe):
Short story manga collection of boy's love × Harry Potter ×
uplifted animals. Same art style as The Girl From The Other
Side, but 1000% less doom.
Words:
FAIL.
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7 December 2019 - Saturday
I finally stopped being lame and tried out the
new Thai place down the street.
It is tiny, and has a tiny menu, but the food was fine. I will try to
support them, even though they don't have an omnidrink machine or 80s
music.
Not only did I forget my bag with important things like meds when I
went over to anime, I also forgot the garbanzo beans, so we had no
hummus! It was tragic!
Nigh-weekly anime:
- RWBY 5.12-13:
Vernal's secret revealed! Climatic battle with Cinder! Adam's plan
thwarted! But still one episode left.
- Chihayafuru 3.5: Of
course that's who Chihaya has to face in the final round of the
tournament! But it looks like Queen Mum might be a recurring character,
so that's good.
- My Hero Academia 68: I know Deku has the main plot and the scariest villains and everything, but I want to see more of Uravity and Froppy, and even Red Riot.
Words:
FAIL.
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6 December 2019 - Friday
Everyone was in meetings or dead or something, so when three tickets
arrived in one hour, I handled all of them. None of them were obscure or
urgent or anything, but I felt like I was not letting the side down.
Watched:
- Orphan Black 1.1:
Well, that's a lot of doom. And death. And fake death. And distracting
sex. And more doom. And bad decisions. And cute gay guys.
Words:
FAIL.
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5 December 2019 - Thursday
I did some work, I took some selfies until one was slightly less
horrible than the others and set that as my profile picture for JIRA and
whatnot (thus removing the oldest item from my todo list), and stayed at
work until forever o'clock.
When I got home, I found the accessory for my new iPad had been
delivered, although the iPad itself is still in transit. This is
acceptable.
Words:
FAIL.
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4 December 2019 - Wednesday
Today, there were cars on two completely separate railways, which
engendered great confusion. (When we send the billionaires to the
guillotine, let's use part of their hoarded wealth to get rid of at-grade
crossings.) Brooks kindly gave me a lift part of the way, but there was
confusion, so we were kind of late, and also I had failed at ordering an
adequate amount of Thai food, so in
many ways the evening was less than ideal. However, I had more fun playing
13G
than usual, perhaps because there were no fight scenes. Our Heroines (and
their trickster) were secretly given food by a high-level and chill Lunar,
and more importantly, directions on how to escape the Mad Sultanate, which
worked! Back in the normal world, they continued trying to get home
(fortunately everyone's home is in the same direction from this far away),
and met an elf who seemed friendly and said she wanted to trade but
probably wants to eat them or pollinate them or something.
Read:
- Electric Bastionland Free Preview:
Kind of like
Troika!
in that the world is mostly defined by the table of bizarre character backgrounds, but
a little more focused in that all the backgrounds are failed careers and
you are now collectively 10,000 moneys in debt so you have become
treasure hunters.
Words:
FAIL.
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3 December 2019 - Tuesday
Watched:
- Leverage 1.9: The
one where Parker is the worst damsel in distress ever, but not the worst
cancer patient ever. How did Sophie manage to not sleep with those guys,
though?
Read:
- The Ultraviolet Grasslands and the Black City (Luka
Rejec): Science-fantasy adventure in a world of unfamothably deep time, or
at least the slice of it running from the western edge of the Rainbow Lands
around the Circle Sea to the mysterious Black City in the far west. It is
not unlike Numenera in some
ways, it even describes active threats with a single number. However, it is
better than Numenera because it adds an adjective, which might be
roleplaying (L2, curious), mechanical (L1, paralytic), atmospheric (L4,
howling), or just weird (L8, time-spliced). Also UVG is better because in
Numenera, everything you meet or find or see is completely unique and
bizarre, but in the UVG, there are classes of things. The vomes here might
be different from the vomes at the last place you stopped, but they're all
creepy, bug-ridden biomechanical monsters; the stuckforce here might be
pinning an ancient structure to the sky while the stuckforce there is being
used as load-bearing planets by the locals, but it's all still the detritus
of ages of Tenser's floating disk and wall of force. It
even comes with a system, sort of a stripped-down D&D where you can use
inventory slots to store spells if you make a good case for it.
Words:
FAIL.
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2 December 2019 - Monday
Reorg at work, but I think it is minor enough to not portend any
great doom.
Watched:
- Leverage 1.8:
The one where Parker is the worst flight attendant ever.
Read:
- Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro vol 1 (Nanashi): Like
"he's only sticking your pigtails in the ink because he liiiiiiiikes
you", only gender-reversed so it's more psychological torment. The
female lead is extremely gleeful about it, but meh.
Words:
FAIL.
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1 December 2019 - Sunday
Omens were unclear, but it turns out Dave was up for running SCRPG
today despite spending days and days in Granite Bay with Thanksgiving
food.
Now that Mav is gone, the first order of business is to secure her
extradimensional house so that it doesn't eat any squatters. It may be
too late, as the place has been tossed, but the Rollers decide that the
best way to keep anyone else from coming to grief in the house is to
occupy it themselves. Surely this cannot go wrong! After a couple of
weeks, they even stop getting lost (as long as they stay out of the
attic) and start to make friends with the tiny people who live in the
walls and sneak food from the kitchn (the same ones that worked in Mav's
impossible weapons).
After the disruption of Mav, the local mob bosses want to restore
their power, so they try recruiting the Mechanic back to their side. A
direct appeal doesn't get anywhere, so they try leaning on his friends
the vintage cars, first roughing one up and then kidnapping several
outright. Naturally the Rollers have to rescue them, despite the goons
with cutting arcs holding the poor cars hostage! Since cars aren't that
fussed about physical modifications, this doesn't work as well as the
mobsters hope, even when they overload the arcs into plasma guns and set
the garage on fire. Victory: the Rollers.
The goons involved in that fight don't have much morale, but mob
lawyers are getting the ones who were put away on Mav's escapades off on
some kind of mind controll/duress technicality, and they want to recoup
their losses, so they try holding up a casino. (Casinos get held up a
lot in this town.) Despite having the last of the stock of Mav's
weapons, and two transforming mecha suits diguised as vintage cars, this
doesn't go well for them as Moth bursts in through the skylight to draw
their fire, Nighthawk and Anonymouse pick them off from the shadows, and
Feathers and the Mechanic charge with guns zapping and engines revving.
The Rollers are victorious again!
No gaming next fornight, gingerbread instead.
Watched:
- Leverage 1.7: The one with the mob wedding.
Words:
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30 November 2019 - Saturday
Dave and Marith and I escaped while the kids were at the park, which
hopefully meant there was at least 36% less confusion when the other car
left. But we were sad to leave our friends and return to the everyday
world.
There was some rain on the way back, and some traffic, but so much of
either that we couldn't make it home in good time.
As soon as I was not trapped in a box with humans, like as soon as I
went out to catch the bus to get to the grocery store, I started coming up
with ideas for continuing yesterday's DW
game, and what is really going on.
Watched:
- RWBY 7.4: We can
has plot? Maybe next time? But those guys are definitely related.
- The Good Place 1.4-5:
Jason is such a Jason.
Read:
- Nicola Traveling Around The Demons' World vol 1 (Asaya Miyanaga):
Small girl with extremely limited and cute magical abilities wanders
around with a demonic peddler, meeting demons who are not all that mean
or scary.
Words:
FAIL.
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29 November 2019 - Friday
Man, sleeping is hard. But I eventually got up and ate a million
pounds of leftovers and wandered around aimlessly. Ayse and Ken and
assorted smols went to see
Frozen II, but
Marith and I did not go because it would have been logistically
complicated. Instead Al and I went to the gaming store and I found a
Christmas present for Ken. (I'm not sure what Marith did.)
Played:
- Gloomhaven:
Apparently there's a whole different party for playing in Roseville! I
tried the spellweaver, but I didn't do a very good job because I treated
loss cards as a precious resource and didn't need to play my Special
Card of Ultimate Power until like the second-last turn of the game. But
we redefeated the necromancer and undead anyway, and this time managed
to also get the treasure chest.
- Codenames: Now
Marith knows how to play Codenames, at least the cooperative version
that is all we ever play! Also she is not worse at giving
clues than me, because I got everyone murdered with "enlongated for 2".
- Dungeon World:
I declared that we were playing DW, and no one opposed me, the more
fools them. I don't think it worked as well as at the con, because the
energy of the group is not to take anything seriously. Also going to the
moon is probably cooler than being shipwrecked. I did get them mixed up
with pathetic ghouls and underground mazes and lost cities and
smoke-ghost-monsters, at least. But later I heard Ken thought it was
terrible, so I dunno.
Words:
VACATION.
Dungeon World by marithlizard (Wed Dec 4 01:46:29 2019)
I am quite sure it was not terrible, even if it wasn't to someone's personal taste!
Re: Dungeon World by Trip (Sat Dec 7 15:25:03 2019)
Enh, it wasn't great. I think Sherilyn may not have actually wanted to play. People are so difficult.
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28 November 2019 - Thursday
I had nothing to contribute to the cooking except a little bit of keeping
kids out of the way, but I was there to help eat all of the everything!
And also to lie around in a bloated heap.
Jus's friend carries chopsticks and a tape measure everywhere, to be
prepared.
Played:
Roll for the Galaxy:
I came in dead last, I think because I worried too much about getting
the most use of my early exploration powers and didn't ignore them in
favor of building all the things I scouted.
- Azul: Another
unexpected victory! To the extent it was anything other than luck, I
blame concentrating on my own tableau instead of worrying about what
other people needed.
Words:
VACATION.
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27 November 2019 - Wednesday
Despite the usual amount of inefficiency, Marith and I successfully
got a ride with Dave to Roseville Granite Bay to see Al
and Sherilyn and one of their kids (the one not trapped at college by
inclement weather) and Jus's best friend in the Sacramento suburbs and
everyone was happy. As is our custom, we had take-out Chinese food
because no one wants to cook on the day before Thanksgiving.
Played:
- Terraforming Mars: Somehow, I won! I played with a starter corporation because usually I
suck, but although that gave me extra cards at the beginning of the
game, I don't think they were qualitatively better cards. Maybe I was
just more ruthless about culling cards that weren't immediately useful,
but however it worked, I managed to keep bumping up my terraform rating,
and had enough money toward the end of the game to buy a couple of
milestones.
Words:
VACATION.
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26 November 2019 - Tuesday
It's like Tuesday and Friday! Yay! I mean, I had all the Tuesday
meetings, but the one where I have to talk was really short because
there isn't any more to this week as far as I'm concerned.
Watched:
- The Dragon Prince
7-9: That was definitely a climactic battle in the fantasy tradition! I
don't think it was as well-done as the season 4 finale of
She-Ra, but that's a
really high bar.
Words:
FAIL.
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25 November 2019 - Monday
It's Monday, but also Thursday! Kinda. I did some stuff at work. It
was not abysmally stupid, but it was not amazing.
Watched:
- The Dragon Prince 5-6:
Augh! Smooching! Augh! But at least they have a proper army, unlike
She-Ra where a dozen people is a major battle.
Words:
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24 November 2019 - Sunday
First I slept in too much, then I went shopping, then I went shopping
again. I went to Target with a list, I got everything that was on the
list for Target, and I got nothing that wasn't on the list, so at least
it was successful shopping.
Marith is dead (because why are bodies?) so we ordered pizza, but when
it arrived, it was the wrong pizza. (I mean, it matched the order we
gave, but it was not what we hoped for.)
Watched:
- RWBY 7.3: I'm not sure
we needed another team of super-powered fighters to take up
screen time showing off when we could be having plot or Bumblebee
smooches or something instead.
- The Dragon Prince
3-4: Yep, all of that went about as well as could be expected.
Read:
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23 November 2019 - Saturday
Nobody is sick or having a birthday or in Portland or invaded by
humans, it is a routine Saturday! Except I forgot that I have to always
give a deadline when trying to coordinate with other people.
But then, turkey chili! And Ayse pointed out that staying up past the
point where your body wants to go to sleep doesn't just mean you have to
sleep in more, it means your sleep is worse because your body is full of
adrenaline and cortisol for whatever emergency is making you not sleep
(so, capitalism). Maybe this will lead to me being more sensible even if
I have more stuff to do in the evenings.
Nigh-weekly anime:
- Steven Universe: The Movie:
We only saw about 20 minutes of this before they had to put Jus away for
the night, but it is not sparking joy. The songs aren't as good and the new
threat seems both spurious and from a slightly different genre. It is
nice to see everyone in the future being happy, though!
- RWBY 5.10-11: End
of the big fight at Blake's place, start of the big fight at Leo's
place. I think Qrow should probably have mentioned something to the
team. Also I agree with Dave that the fight choreographers should have
remembered they are a team.
- My Hero Academia 67:
I'm not sure everyone in our group is up for a season based around child
abuse. :(
- Chihayafuru 3.4:
It's hard to write summaries for this series, because almost every one
is "The karuta match continues! Chihaya (or sometimes another character)
gets a better understanding of the particular subtlety of karuta
their opponent specializes in! They struggle with another aspect of
Karuta! Other characters look on worriedly! Who will win?". In this
episode, Chihaya is learning to identify the upcoming word by the very
beginning of the syllable, which sounds like something Americans would
train machine learning to do.
Words:
FAIL.
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22 November 2019 - Friday
It's Friday. We made it. Kinda.
Watched:
- The Good Place 4.9:
So much Chidi! But is it enough?
- The Dragon Prince
3.1-2: Ugh, being king kind of sucks, doesn't it? Also I'm not sure
Rayla's going to get as much of a homecoming party as she thinks.
Read:
SCRPG chapter 4: This is the chapter on running adventures, but probably what we need is the chapter on creating adventures, which isn't expected to be in
preview until next month.
- Iron & Velvet (Alexis Hall): Previous work by the
author of The Affair of the Mysterious Letter. Not as
eldritch, but super-gay urban fantasy with vampires and werewolves and
PIs. It does not stretch the boundaries of the genre (except in the lack
of hetness) but it entertained me.
Words:
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21 November 2019 - Thursday
Ugh, I hate meetings in warm rooms. Maybe if I stab myself with a
dull spoon for an hour straight?
Once I recovered, I wrote a very simple shell script to extract
meaning from large log files. Perhaps my coworkers will like it. Perhaps
they will carefully pick it up with tongs and dispose of it in the
compost heap.
For a change, the train was not unusually late, but the announcements
and signs could not agree which platform all trains were boarding on. It
was stupid enough that I tried calling railroad support, but of course
they are only available when office workers are at work, not when people
are riding the train. Eventually someone figured it out, though.
Read:
- The Ancient Magus' Bride vol 11 (Kore Yamazaki): Chise
hasn't even attended classes yet and already she is freaking people
out and making new friends. Also, doom.
- What My Mother Doesn't Know (Sonya Sones): A YA novel
about a high-school girl and all the feelings she has for different
boys, but in blank verse.
Words:
FAIL.
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20 November 2019 - Wednesday
No one is currently very sick, so we were able to play 13G and
eat Chinese
food as is our custom.
In the Home Team mini-adventure that we play while waiting for a
quorum of Away Team players to show up, one of Brogandi and Gosik's
caravan guards started flirting with one of the Lunar lion soldiers, and
no matter how sex-positive Orlanthi culture is, that was not okay with
her brother. (Because brothers.) But Brogandi was also getting chatted
up by one of the Lunar lion soldiers, who was offering him the glamor of
a life as a Lunar assassin, so Gosik was going to have to deal with
fraternization. Surely nothing could go wrong with that.
Then people finally showed up, so we went back to the Away Team being
harrassed in the night by the shambling Chaos-tainted inhabitants of the
Mad Sultanate. This was not very dangerous, but almost entirely unlike
getting a long rest. The next day, they continued pushing forward with
only a few wild (and hopefully Chaos-free) onions as food, because
they found starvation much less worrisome than Chaos monsters. Good call
on their part, because the next thing they run across is the corpse of a Lunar
in armor of strange design that did not protect him from being stabbed
in the chest and exsanguinated, probably by either the thing that left the
three-legged rhinoceros-like tracks, or something on the wagon that left
the other tracks. (Also there was a wagon-sized snail with two heads, one
or more radulae, and Chaos fire, but everyone noped right out of that
encounter.)
The wagon tracks were going in the direction thought to be "the only
way out is through", which seemed slightly promising, but they ended up
leading to a party of Lunars with two wagon-mounted ballistae and
several maniples of explicitly expendable soldiers. Figures.
Words:
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19 November 2019 - Tuesday
Argh, bus, why do you fail me so? On the day when I have a meeting
right after I would normally get in to work? Wait, I may have answered
my own question.
Watched:
- Leverage 1.6: The
one with all the kids. Also Parker feels.
Read:
- Randomize (Andy Weir): A short story about crime in the
quantum-computing future.
Words:
FAIL.
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18 November 2019 - Monday
Whee, capitalism. I proactively volunteered to do a thing, which
might make my boss like me better, but did not actually do many things
today.
Watched:
- Leverage 1.5: The
one with the bank, and the judge.
Read:
- The Once King (Rachel Aaron, Travis Bach): Conclusion
to the "FFO" trilogy, in which the final boss is faced down and defeated
in a way that is pretty much what you would expect from the previous two
books. Also various personal plot arcs are resolved, mostly not with
doom.
Words:
FAIL.
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17 November 2019 - Sunday
We are back on schedule for Atlantic City Rollers! (If I were competent,
I would make a web page for the campaign, but I don't think I am.) The SCRPG
system continues to be vaguely functional, at least when the GM plans a big
set-piece battle.
After mostly foiling Mav's plans last
session and hoping things will blow over, the Rollers' receptionist
Kevin is surprised to have a mobster fall out of the ceiling of their
office. He knocked himself out by falling badly, so whatever information
was supposed to be conveyed is lost, but soon someone starts trying to
contact the team by phone. When they finally get through to Nighthawk and
set up a meet, it turns out to be another mobster, who wants help in
getting rid of Mav. She's getting more unstable as the team frustrates her
capers, and her minions are afraid she's going to lose her temper and turn
them all inside out or something.
Other heroes across the country have had time to respond to the email
Vila and Moth sent out, but they don't have a lot of helpful
information. Things like Mav have been seen before, they engage in
pop-culture-based antics, don't usually hurt people too much, and
sometimes get dragged away mysteriously when they do start transforming
people. Mav turned a random citizen into a car in the issue where she
first appeared, but he seems happy as a car, so does that count? Who
knows!
Since it worked so well last time, Anonymouse tries to sneak into
Mav's new warehouse lair by the docks (only the classics!), but before
she can, the building changes shape several times and all the mobsters
rush out, get into cars, and drive away. Anonymouse goes in looking for
Mav, and is never heard from again.
Meanwhile, the mobsters have taken the team's office hostage (but not
Kevin, since Moth tailed them and warned him to get out). No one is in
the building, and it's just an office, not a headquarters with anything
important in it, so she leaves that situation to the police (completely
ignoring the demands for the heroes to lay off Mav) and goes
back to help look for Anonymouse. Feathers has made a drone, had it get
lost, made another drone, and gotten signal back on the first one, to
see Mav putting Anonymouse in an old-school death trap with ticking
clock.
Inside the warehouse, however, is not the bland space with drowning
tube the drone showed them, but a grassy plain with giant crabs and
peel-flinging monkeys and also Anonymouse who is not in a death trap at
all. (It's the real Anonymouse, everyone is almost certain.)
The enemies vanish like soap bubbles when struck, and the terrain
that was ahead of the heroes is now behind them when they defeat enough
enemies; looks like one of the mobsters introduced Mav to side-scroller
video games! After a few zones, the Mechanic manages to analyze the
structure of this artificial universe, freeze the water filling the
current zone, and start shattering it in the correct pattern (despite
the lack of help from his teammates who don't enjoy being frozen into
ice full of sharks). He hooks onto the edge of the universe with a
towline, everyone piles into Guiseppe, and away they go through the
void.
Of course they can't escape that easily, and soon they find a lava
field, with stony platforms, chains hanging from the indefinite firmament, and
a huge ziggurat with a stylized 8-bit version of Mav monologuing atop it.
One way or another, everyone manages to get across the lava to the
ziggurat, where the lava crabs are waiting. Even that isn't too bad,
except that when the heroes try to fill Mav full of rays, it turns out
she's protected by an impenetrable(?) forcefield. Good thing her sins
are already in there with her, so that when Moth makes them manifest as
demonsquites, they're in there too! More importantly, the door in the
backdrop behind Mav also exists on the other side of that wall, and
leads back to the warehouse in the real world! Feathers leads everyone
not grappled by the lava crabs through, but then Mav drags everyone back
into her video game realm where the scene tracker is on the last round
of red!
Either dragging them back was out of line, or Mav's earlier
car-transforming ways have finally caught up with her, because a huge
person comes out of the door on her side of the backdrop and drags her
kicking and screaming out of reality.
Well. That was certainly a thing that happened.
Watched:
- RWBY 7.2: Ironwood is acting reasonable, although apparently there is massive discourse about how terrible his plan must be.
- The Good Place 1.3: And
this is where the Eleanor/Tahani shipping really took off.
Words:
FAIL.
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16 November 2019 - Saturday
Thursday isn't a good day for birthday parties, so we celebrated
Nonny today, with pizza and cupcakes and presents and Super Mario
Smashing Brothers, or whatever it's called, and also Lego ninja movie. I
think he was happy!
Watched:
- The Lego Ninjago Movie: A very ridiculous movie, but charming. (How can it not be charming, it has Jackie Chan!)
- Sailor Moon Stars 184: Well,
at least Usagi had lots of company when she had a hot guy over while her
boyfriend was out of town?
- RWBY 5.8-9:
Yang's anger issues, Raven's clever plan, pitched battles in menagerie.
- Chihayafuru 3.2-3: Chihaya has her right hand back! But she has to choose between karuta and not getting expelled.
Read:
- The Promised Neverland vol 12 (Kaiu Shirai, Posuka Demizu):
Finally they are getting close to the root of the real problem, which
probably means a lot more battles to the death and also unpleasant
revelations are coming up.
- My First Vampire Blood Drive, Rose/Briar: We Dragged Our Manager Into Our Girl Group, and Galaxy Ballerina (Mira Ong Chua): Extremely cute but kind of silly lesbian romance. (Okay, Galaxy
Ballerina isn't silly at all, but Rose/Briar makes
up for it.)
Words:
FAIL.
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15 November 2019 - Friday
I did some work and some other work today, but now I will always feel
that no one thinks I am doing my share and I should die in a pit. But if
I die in a pit, Marith and Aspen will have to die in a pit too, which
isn't fair to them.
Watched:
- The Good Place
4.8: Those were very touching! And also, wow Michael! That was
unexpected support!
- The Good Place 1.2:
That's not a bad metaphor for Eleanor at that stage. But somehow Chidi
did the thing.
Words:
FAIL.
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14 November 2019 - Thursday
HAPPY HAPPY NONNY-DAY!!
I made a dumb mistake at work, but fixed it so other people could do
their work. I guess that's okay? Probably not.
For a change, the train was not too late and I got home from late
work at an expedient time.
Read:
- Laughter at the Academy (Seanan McGuire): Short story
collection, much of which I had read before. Contains all the important
McGuire tropes, like mad scientists, murders, monsters, more murders,
mutations, genocides, etc.
Words:
FAIL.
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