Behold the Rock of Throwing
Dec. 31st, 2024 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenI haven't updated Over The Mountain in a few weeks because I not only hit a busy time in life, but I was also up against a species of writer's block. The same character shows up twice in one day, and she has items both times, AND one of the encounters is a side quest to find a lost item.
Just playing the game straight through is fun, but I may go back and rewrite some entries later to make the story make more sense. I may end up with Chekhov's Entire Armory. I rewrote my character's profile, making her special ability "finding lost things," though using that power is exhausting and I'm self-imposing an interaction penalty on the next day's rolls. The game suggests you have a collection that you can occasionally show off to get positive interactions, and I've made mine jewelry.
While trying to think up some of these items, I came up with some silly items, just for fun, that are more at home in a traditional fantasy RPG setting, but I'm sharing them here for laughs.
It rained off and on all night, a welcome sound. The road has been getting really badly rutted out in places, and without rain to help pack the sand down, the churned up sand just gets soft and fluffy. The dickhole who rides around on an ATV at night isn't helping, either. The digital weather station says .13" since midnight and I haven't looked at the standard gauge yet, my reading time is eight a.m.
While we're away at Marathon Weekend it's supposed to get freezing cold here, so now I have to try to figure out what to do about my citrus trees. I don't think I can leave them covered the entire time we're gone, but I also don't want to impose on Jamie's good will by asking her to cover them. And the younger trees may not withstand the cold as well. The yuzu is finally starting to come back healthy, and the key lime is actually giving some fruit, and I'd hate to lose all the money and work.
Just playing the game straight through is fun, but I may go back and rewrite some entries later to make the story make more sense. I may end up with Chekhov's Entire Armory. I rewrote my character's profile, making her special ability "finding lost things," though using that power is exhausting and I'm self-imposing an interaction penalty on the next day's rolls. The game suggests you have a collection that you can occasionally show off to get positive interactions, and I've made mine jewelry.
While trying to think up some of these items, I came up with some silly items, just for fun, that are more at home in a traditional fantasy RPG setting, but I'm sharing them here for laughs.
- Boots of Blistering Speed - doubles the wearer's movement speed when the wearer is on fire.
- Bag of Bobcats - looks like a normal traveler's bag but can be used to unleash a swarm of bobcats. Also not useful for storing anything, because whatever you take out of the bag is a bobcat. If you're the kind of person who likes precision, roll a d100 for how many bobcats, or two d6 for 11 - 66 cats.
- Potion of Insect Controlling - allows you to speak to and command one (1) insect, which could actually be pretty useful in the right circumstances.
- Potion of Uncomfortable Wakefulness - it's a Jolt Cola - increased movement speed and perception but roll a 1d6 for how many health points you'll lose.
- Potion Helmet - holds two potions and allows you to consume them without using an action, +1 armor but also -5 charisma because you look like a dork.
It rained off and on all night, a welcome sound. The road has been getting really badly rutted out in places, and without rain to help pack the sand down, the churned up sand just gets soft and fluffy. The dickhole who rides around on an ATV at night isn't helping, either. The digital weather station says .13" since midnight and I haven't looked at the standard gauge yet, my reading time is eight a.m.
While we're away at Marathon Weekend it's supposed to get freezing cold here, so now I have to try to figure out what to do about my citrus trees. I don't think I can leave them covered the entire time we're gone, but I also don't want to impose on Jamie's good will by asking her to cover them. And the younger trees may not withstand the cold as well. The yuzu is finally starting to come back healthy, and the key lime is actually giving some fruit, and I'd hate to lose all the money and work.
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Date: 2024-12-31 10:34 pm (UTC)Bag of bobcats! [which also spells out BOB lol] Potion of uncomfortable wakefulness in the form of Jolt cola!! Nod to GenX! That crap was soo bad for my anxiety but dumbass me didn't connect the dots back then. Nor did I realize that my diet of sugar & fast food was bad for me.
omg, you also have a dickhole who needlessly rides an ATV??
I hope the cold doesn't negatively impact your citrus trees <3
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Date: 2025-01-02 01:22 pm (UTC)OMG I didn't realize it spelled BOB. That's awesome!
You'll be horrified to learn that someone is bringing Jolt Cola back for a limited time. So we can go around doing the "grandma voice" and telling people how back in my day we didn't have these Monsters and Red Bulls, we had Jolt, and it was awful, and we drank it anyway. I mainly remember it just being stupid sweet without any other taste. At least Mountain Dew was trying to be citrusy.
I did read that you can cover the trees for a longer time but you'll have leaf drop. It might be worth that to protect them from the cold, but then it depends on HOW cold it will get. The forecast is still too far out to really know yet.
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Date: 2025-01-02 08:42 pm (UTC)Mt Dew is tasty but the caffeine! I had a friend in HS who was addicted to the stuff & still is lol.
I hope it doesn't get too cold & you won't have to cover the trees. I agree though if leaf drop does occur, it's better than losing the whole tree.