Okay, so.
Boxing day - sold out
Yesterday - not showing
Today - in danger of being sold out so I booked it last night.
We're seeing it at roughly lunchtime. Yay.
I should probably focus on the stories. But there are shiny things to look at...
Challenge #02181-E352: Mightier How?
Aliens find out about "ink poisoning" and get concerned about crew members who write on their hands. -- Anon Guest
There should be no reason for a living being to draw on their own bodies. Data readers are flexible and wearable, they can go anywhere a cogniscent being does. The art of writing in and of itself is a niche for hobbyists, since everyone in the modern era types. Well. Almost everyone. There are niche hobbyists and the occasional fanatic who just.
Read more »Slight Embuggerance
The pln this morning was to record another session for Oh My Mods. Alas, I had an update. It's currently going through an update and will be "a few minutes".
It's been more than a few minutes. It might be stuck. I can't tell.
And like a true cowardy custard, I dasn't do a thing about the planned sesh record until such time as the issues are resolved. Which may involve dragging my Beloved into the mess so that they can do
Read more »Challenge #02180-E351: Looks Peaceful Enough
"I think we may have pissed off the locals."
Loud explosions
"We definitely pissed off the locals." -- TheDragonsFlame
The Drizit thought the world they invaded was ripe for the picking because the inhabitants had no obvious weapons. They thought that an agrarian culture was passive and harmless. They should have really done their homework, because these apparently passive agrarians were also humans.
They took precautions, because parasitising an entire planet largely depends on remaining undetected until your presence is merely a
Read more »'Tis the Day After Christmas...
...And all on the roads,
Are the people driving,
Who prob'ly drank loads...
I took MeMum home this early AM with a hope that we wouldn't cross paths with the really dangerous dickheads and thereby give her more stress than she ever needed for the rest of her life.
And then... not even halfway to Costco...
Doodling the wrong way along an off ramp, using the lane, seemingly completely unaware that they were GOING THE WRONG WAY... there's this Ute. Lucky there
Read more »Season's Greetings
Wishing everyone a safe and happy festive season. May the next year be an improvement on the last, and may all your disasters be minor ones.
Read more »Challenge #02179-E350: Use Freedom Responsibly
"Do you beeep realize that they beeep wired my voicebox with a digital censor ! Under the beeep pretext that it might shock some Havenworlder. So now I can't say beeep like beeep, beeep, beeep beeep, beeep or even beeep! That's half my beeep vocabulary ! It's goddam beeep." -- Anon Guest
"You can still say 'goddam'," said Human Pel.
"Not beeep helpful, Pel," sighed Ioli, resident AI. "I've been hacked. This is a beeep violation of my freedom of beeep speech!"
Pel took
Read more »::Cue William Tell But Not Really::
Today, I am driving to the other side of the world Brisbane to fetch MeMum so we can have her over for Christmas day.
This comes on the heels of a disturbed night because this years' seemingly traditional Yule Disaster(tm) has happened to Capt. S.
The family is taking steps, because this one looks like a gold class clusterfuck that could have only been solved as it happened, and nobody got the memo as it was happening. I'm under orders to
Read more »Challenge #02178-E349: Worn Away
"I don't like escort mission..."
"It can't be that bad !"
"We must escort a class 1 Havenworlder with no survival instinct." -- Anon Guest
[AN: See here for reference on Havenworlder scale]
Havenworlders, especially, are known for not exactly evolving, but sauntering vaguely along the evolutionary tree until cogniscence eventually kicked in through sheer boredom. The higher the Havenworlder instinct, the worse they are at certain survival skills.
This is not the rule. Unfortunately for Humans thinking they have an easy escort
Read more »So here's my morning
Wake up at 1AM because nanna nap earlier in the day. I also had sulphurous burps for reasons I couldn't fathom.
Gave up on sleep because busy day ahead and I could always nap in the car on the way there.
Settle down to the compy to start writing and begin feeling really sick. Sulphurous burps continue, hot feeling rises, as does nausea.
Adjourn to the loo to realise, once again, that two Kirks' brand Diet Creamy Sodas is one too many.
Read more »Challenge #02177-E348: The Biggest Speech Wins
Monologuing Villain encounter Drama Queen Hero. To the detriment of both minions and party members. -- Anon Guest
Alcratho was midway through Opus 67: You Don't Understand My Struggles (It's a Harsh World and We Can Remake it). His nearby minions made themselves comfortable.
Meanwhile, working on counterpoint Zanthinar was midway through his epic performance of Oh My Trials! and his cohort were busy busting out the cushions to sit on and using Create Popcorn.
To the uninitiated, it seemed like they
Read more »Call me Cheaty McCheaterson
I have nine episodes of Oh My Mods ready to rock and roll. Hooray.
I have two weeks coming up in which I will be busy off my arse with everything and a bucket of eggs.
We have ducted air con! YAYA! ...and getting used to that has given me a case of da sniffoos.
I'm currently uploading my episodes to the YouTube and I have them all on schedule. The first one will be appearing on the Thursday following Christmas. Watch
Read more »Challenge #02176-E347: What Were You Thinking?
Deep inside our consciousness is the Lizard Brain, primitive, and kept us going till we got much better, but every so often it has it's say in our lives.
And probably at the 3 F's stage of existence with an attraction to distraction. -- Anon Guest
[AN: The three F's are something I used in some slightly-raunchy fanfictions for The Adventure Zone. They stand for "Fight, F*ck, or Feed"]
Brains are funny things. We like to imagine an internal hierarchy because
Read more »Crunch time
Things I gotta do:
- Make sure Beloved has the shopping list bookmarked so I can trust them to be my hands and feet whilst I'm fetching MeMum on Monday
- Start uploading those vids I made and arrange some kind of schedule
- Learn to FREAKING CHILL about this coming Tuesday
- At least learn to calm the heck down when I fail the last bullet point.
At least the presents are ready, so yay. The feast can be improvised, worked around, and whatnot.
I'm
Read more »Challenge #02175-E346: A Trail a Mile Wide
Elves. they come in all shapes and incarnations from Lord of the Rings to Santa's little helpers. What if they all got together for ElfCon. -- Anon Guest
Welcome to Warpvale. The impossible happens daily.
In this case, the 'impossible' is a wide and varied range of Elves, from all over the multiverse. All possible hues of skin and more than a few that aren't. All possible sizes of ear, too. From 'vaguely human but huge', through 'human with a point stuck
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