Trip's Life (Recent episodes)
24 April 2018 - Tuesday
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23 April 2018 - Monday
Oh dear, there is incel
fuckery afoot in Toronto. Good thing that is not the street where
Avalon works any more!
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22 April 2018 - Sunday
After a long gap (during which I did nothing about updating Lam's
character sheet), it is finally time for PAD&D5
again! (Even though one of our ninjas is still en route from Hawaii.)
The Rats of Red Larch (and their Lesbian Separatist Skink, Akrá)
are herding their captive mice through the sewers of Yartar, to deliver them
to the Water Baron, when they are accosted by an ominous black cat. The cat
vanishes before doing anything terrible, but they are then immediately swarmed
by loathsome sewer rats. Fortunately, Hazelray is 9th level now, and can
cast conjure barrage, so between that and Lam's javelin of
lightning, the swarm is quickly dispatched. Mara is hardly even
electrocuted at all.
Hazelray is sure she knows where the mice need to be taken, so the Rats
continue to traverse the sewers, and are then set upon by hellterriers. A
smaller number of larger opponents are no match for the upgraded Rats of Red
Larch, though, and the ratters vanish with exciting special effects
involving the sigil of Cyric. The cat shows up to ask them if they really know where
they're going, but Hazelray is certain, so it vanishes and lets them get on
with it.
After some random alligators in a vast cistern, the Rats finally arrive
where Hazelray's instincts have been leading them: the temple of Cyric,
complete with chanting mouse cultists in red robes, an ominous flame, and a
black cat lounging on the altar. A fight breaks out.
The Rats are doing as well as can be expected against something so much
larger than them, full of evil divine energy, and with nine lives, which is
to say, losing slowly, when suddenly the hands of a titan scoop up the evil
high priest of Cyric. "Bad kitty!" Oh, right, there was another Popess of
the Crystal Dragon!
The Heroines are going to have to do something about this cult of Cyric
in the basement of the Cathedral of the Crystal Dragon, although they were
not quite cold-blooded enough to murder a small child's pet cat. This time.
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21 April 2018 - Saturday
Reduced anime tonight, because Ayse and Jus have a Girl Scout thing. We
played Roll for the
Galaxy. (I am still terrible at it.)
- My Hero Academia 1.10-11: Rewatch for Marith to catch up.
Frog Girl is still the best, though.
- Flip Flappers 10: Looks like Cocona is not so random!
- ACCA 3-4: I remembered it being longer until we got to the
stupid prince. But hey, Jean has been cleared of all involvement with
the plot!
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274.
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20 April 2018 - Friday
Space Opera (Catherynne M Valente) is very much Eurovision
× Douglas Adams. The aftermath of the great war! Hapless humans
holding the fate of the species in their hands! Special effects! Wild
aliens! Snarky judges! Wild alien sex! More special effects!
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19 April 2018 - Thursday
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18 April 2018 - Wednesday
13th Age Indian food! This
session, there were shenanigans with alchemy and dwarven spies on the way
to St Claire Island, and then a lot of breaking into an ancient tower to
confront the horrible cultist we believe is lurking inside. There were
traps, and also jealous academics.
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259.
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17 April 2018 - Tuesday
Hurray, Avalon is still alive! Although her coworkers seem to be trying
to make her stabby.
Words:
308. These numbers seem small, but for a long time my daily quota was 250,
so actually it's fine. Really. Not pathetic at all.
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16 April 2018 - Monday
Yuck, Monday. At least it's not too hot yet.
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15 April 2018 - Sunday
Today, about the only thing I did was read up through chapter 135 in
Exhuman, which is not
exactly good but has a soap-opera-like addictiveness to it. I really don't
know what the protagonist's damage is (besides the obvious), [SPOILER] is
obviously best, even if you take [SPOILER] into account.
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Weekly total: 2747.
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14 April 2018 - Saturday
Monkeycat Mountain is full of germs, so Cat and Earl and Marith all
bailed, but I went over to eat burritos and watch anime. And get
crawled on by germ-laden childs, so we'll see how that works out for me.
- Steven Universe 5.13: But we know that story isn't
completely true! I would like some plot development now!
- Steven Universe 5.14: This is adorable, yet not plot
development!
- Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 12-13: Conclusion of the
12-episode flashback! Next season, apparently we skip forward instead.
- My Hero Academia 1.10-11: I really like Frog Lass. She's
sensible. I think she should be the main character, and also get paired
with Floaty Nice Girl. Oh, yah, villains, boo!
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13 April 2018 - Friday
Marith came over to help me pet Ghirardelli and watch Brave. My, Merida was a
spoiled brat, and also didn't pay attention to fairy tales. But the plot
was not what I expected, so that was good.
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345.
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12 April 2018 - Thursday
Hurray, Avalon is still alive! And can even do martial arts classes!
Now I am caught up on all 83 existing chapters of Mother
of Learning and have to wait for more to be written. I think of this
subgenre as "worldbuilding and problem-solving".
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257.
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11 April 2018 - Wednesday
Finally, we had everyone for 13th Age and burritos! (But who designs a restaurant
website without a menu?!)
This session, the PCs went three levels deep into dreams, summoned the
spirit of a past PC and turned her into a tree that bears stars as fruit,
and fought the shadow of the battle that probably doomed the Dragon
Empire. Also, there was symbolism.
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10 April 2018 - Tuesday
At some point, I might need an ominous poetry
generator (from this
article).
Also, apparently some people play in a way that isn't
just taking the piss. Weird!
Kigurumi Guardians (Lily Hoshino) is about defending the pure
hearts of young girls (as of vol 1; probably other people have pure hearts
too), but the heroine doesn't have a transformation sequence, she has a
goofy creature that looks like somebody in a mascot suit until she
transforms it into a hot older guy in a regular suit to fight off the
villains.
Words: 704. But I stayed up until 978568345 o'clock.
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9 April 2018 - Monday
What the hell, plants? Do I have sex in your nose?
Words: 531.
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8 April 2018 - Sunday
No gaming today, too many people are busy with non-gaming stuff.
No brain today, too few smarts.
But, it's a nice day, so I walked down to the movie theater to see
Pacific Rim Uprising.
It was as good as the first one, I think. Full marks for no romance
between the male and female leads. Also, nice setup for a third movie, now
that they have [SPOILER].
Children of the Whales (Abi Umeda) could be
post-apocalyptic, or secondary-world fantasy. People on a small
island/large ship travelling for generations across an apparently endless
sea of sand, most of their generations are pretty short because people with
telekinesis are the majority and die young, everyone is mostly content
until...
Frau Faust (Kore Yamazaki) is still good up through volume 3,
and we get to see more demons and how they enable humans in making
everything worse. (The demon designs really show that this is the same
artist as Ancient Magus's Bride.)
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Weekly total: 2238.
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7 April 2018 - Saturday
Yay, humans came and cleaned my apartment.
Because we could, we got Chinese take-out and watched Chinese drama! Also
some people have become tipsy on peach and grapefruit bellini.
- Nirvana in Fire 35-37: [SPOILER] is a good guy, obviously,
but I think his mom is the one they should be putting in charge of the
country. Maybe they can work on that after [SPOILER] is consumed by his
own paranoia and stops being a problem.
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6 April 2018 - Friday
I could have gone to the Engineering team's offsite with them, but it seemed
like too much pretending coworkers are friends with the aid of alcohol, so I
did work instead.
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5 April 2018 - Thursday
Mother
of Learning is about a guy going to magic college, and facing some
minor tribulations, and then there is a huge plot twist. It's not an
unprecedented one, but it is definitely a twist. Also, chitin may be
involved.
Other webserials I have been reading with less dedication:
- The Rat Messiah has (pretty
bad) CG art to go with the story of a bunch of worlds getting smushed
together for massive confusion and probable apocalypse, which our
amnesiac protagonist must road-trip through.
- Entirely
Presenting You is a cross between superheroics and urban fantasy,
with some difficulties in keeping a secret identity.
- In Flow, a peasant girl
falls for a lady knight, gets sucked into a war with strange creatures,
and generally gets her life ruined for love and not knowing her place.
- The Dragon's
Scion (by the author of Small
Worlds/Strange
Cosmology) has a princess who was raised by a dragon, fighting UFO
monsters.
- Ink
(ditto) is set in a world in which society has devolved into being run by
gangs of tattooed supervillains, and the main character suddenly has to
start her own gang from scratch.
- The premise of Exercise
the Demons (ditto) is that even demons need aerobic exercise. But
when they set up a company account, how do they pay the instructor?
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4 April 2018 - Wednesday
After last week's plague scare, we are back to 13th Age and Greek food!
Kelsey cancelled at the last minute again, but surely the events of
this session will not be confusing when she shows up next week.
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3 April 2018 - Tuesday
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2 April 2018 - Monday
Words: 269. I was doing well for a while, but now I am stupid again.
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1 April 2018 - Sunday
The world of jokes about Easter and April Fool's Day being the same is
just too vast to describe. I'm sure you can explore it on your own.
Ayse and Ken did not deceive us about the Easter feast, though! The
glazed shallots were not a lie!
Since we had Earl and Cat, we watched more NiF. But Marith
crept away sleepily.
- Nirvana in Fire 33-34: Honorable people are so difficult
to work with!
Vol 1 of the Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid spinoff,
Kanna's Daily Life (coolkyousinnjya, Mitsuhiro Kimura), is
actually kind of cute.
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Weekly total: 2241.
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31 March 2018 - Saturday
It's Easter Eve (what? why is that not a thing?) so I went to Monkeycat
Mountain a little early to help the children dye eggs. There was a lot of
fighting, because siblings, but also eggs became colorful.
- Sailor Moon S 10: And now, heteronormativity for Rei!
- The Ancient Magus's Bride: Those Awaiting A Star 2:
Rewatch for Marith. Still very pretty.
- Flip Flappers 9: Yayaka's backstory.
- My Hero Academia 1.9: The worst foe a superhero can face:
the media!
- ACCA 2: Ayse and Ken like this, so I guess we'll keep
watching it!
Beasts of Abigaile vol 1 (Spica Aoki): "Your keywords for
this shoujo manga are: wolf, prison, and rose. Start writing!"
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30 March 2018 - Friday
Perhaps appropriately, The Lost Plot (Genevieve Cogman)
leaves the overarching plot of the last few books behind and dives into
draconic intrigue. Also, bootleggers. And giant wolves. And maybe some
progress on the UST.
I have been putting the harness on Ghirardelli when he tries to
investigate the Outside, but that usually results in him sitting down and
not going anywhere. Tonight I waited until he got all the way down the
stairs without the harness, then carried him back upstairs, put the
harness and leash on him, and carried him back to where he was to let him
keep exploring, and he did! Not that we got more than about 5m from the
bottom of the stairs, but he sniffed hedges and sidewalks and laundry
vents very successfully!
Words: 259. I had to walk the cat!
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29 March 2018 - Thursday
Words: 421. I thought I was being clever in breaking this up into scenes
the way Scrivener makes
easy, but now I think I was wrong. Perhaps tomorrow's writing will be
mooshing everything together into one thing so I can get good flow.
Which day's writing will be learning to end scenes instead of writing
the whole story in one single continuous shot?
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28 March 2018 - Wednesday
Small
Worlds and its continuation (not really a sequel)
Strange
Cosmology (Alex Raizman) are about a hapless schmoe who, after a
cursed life, finds a thing that makes him a god and also responsible for
dealing with the end of the world. Things get worse from there.
I am caught up on this and will probably keep reading it, but it didn't
get my vote on Top Web Fiction even
though it's at second place overall.
Words: 326. But although it is easy to write more on the scenes of how
my protagonist came to be in the media of all this res (I am keeping the
slowly-remembering-while-discovering-the-extent-of-her-doom opening), I
have the feeling that a good writer would edit them all down to evocative
snippets, and possibly not in any particular order.
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27 March 2018 - Tuesday
Avalon is still working way too much, but her feets are operational, so
that's something.
The Squidder (Ben Templesmith) is set in a world where the
tentacle monsters from another dimension have won, but although there is
definite horror, it is not nearly cosmic enough.
Generation Witch vol 1 (Uta Isaki) is
slice-of-high-school-life in a modern world where some people can do
magic. Whatever.
Words: 191.
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26 March 2018 - Monday
I somehow managed to go to bed at a reasonable hour last night, and yet
I am still sleepy this morning. That doesn't seem fair.
Heretical
Edge is kind of a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer
and Harry Potter and maybe Stargate? (It's still
ongoing, so I suppose more genres might get added later.) Secret school,
magic, monster hunters (and thus monsters), obscured and dramatic ancestry,
getting superpowers from murder, indiscriminate use of memory magic, aliens
with strange abilities, interstellar empires, ancient curses, the whole
eleven yards. Also, lesbian poly.
Words: 437.
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25 March 2018 - Sunday
This week in PAD&D5,
Dave did not have to eschew cookies!
As predicted, there is a big fight (in fact, the big fight, as
the Heroines have gone so far out of their way to avoid it that they end up
running into it from behind) but hardly anyone dies. Rimardo does not even
fall into a deep pit this time, although there is one conveniently to hand.
Then, having gained control of some wandering damage
combat resources from the [SPOILER], the Heroines decide to throw them into the
room they have not yet been willing to assault and set them off (metaphorically
speaking). Of course it then turns out that someone they especially wanted to
take prisoner is in that room, so there is a tense fight against the most fearsome
foe, but Rimardo saves the day with daring and the power of the Crystal
Dragon!
Laden with captives (mostly) and loot (a little), the Heroines head back to
Yartar.
Apparently that finished off this chapter? wing? of the adventure, so we
reaped a great bounty of XP. Level UP!
Some third-level paladin spells are actually pretty cool. Maybe I'll have Lam
cast some now, instead of just spending the slots for +4d8 radiant damage.
Made in Abyss (Akihito Tsukushi) is about an amnesiac
cyborg from a 20,000-meter pit full of excessive carnivores and ancient
artifacts, and the orphan girl who finds him. They seek adventure.
Words: 164.
Weekly total: 2331. But maybe it's all wrong again.
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