This is from like… Four years ago. Just to keep the time line accurate.
Oh man. Yesterday was so good. Especially the D&D session.
After writing, I started taking care of some to-do list things. I cleaned the litter box, swept the room, and even mopped it with my Swifter. There’s a foam mat that I keep the cat’s food and water bowls on. I got that cleaned, too. Bonus points!
I took out the trash. I cleaned out my car. I even picked up the cigarette butts along the front stoop of the apartment and around the balconies. They weren’t all mine, but I know the wind sometimes blows them out of the ashtray I have and I figured I would be a good tenant and clean up a bit.
I washed the dishes and put the roast in the fridge once it was once cooking. I didn’t have time for anything else since I had to leave for counseling.
I got to tell my counseler the good news about my follow-up appointment. We talked about the progress with Jon moving to Nebraska. We talked about work. We spent a fair amount of time talking about my social experiement. We also started touching on the subject of summer and how I might not take a class, opting for some down time instead.
She said we would explore the topic of summer next time, but agrees that even though it’s only the end of February, I’ve already had a pretty intense time. I’ve had surgery, Jon is moving, Dagger had surgery, I’ve reconnected with my dad, I’ve been attending school… So many intense things… It would be nice to breath for a bit and just chill. Especially if Jon and I are going to be rooming together. We both will need to figure out our new norm and having time to spend together doing things would be nice. I’m also not sure what my financial situation will be during the summer and the thought of having to pay of a class I really don’t want to take out of pocket doesn’t motivate me very much.
So counseling was good. I like how she lets me know what she wants to delve into for our next sessions. It lets me think about things through the week so I can figure things out.
I met with Ox for lunch. I called the apartment complex Jon wanted me to look at. After Ox and I were done eating I went and looked at the two floor plans we’re interested in. Currently they only have 3rd floor units available, the apartments are pretty nice though. We’re going to wait to see about the new apartments in Hickman. We should know more about those today.
I came back to the apartment after talking to Jon about my tour. I paid rent. I emailed Ox my updated D&D papers since he got the printer at the house working. It prints the sheets perfectly so I don’t have to fight with mine. Score.
I finished doing meal prep. Washed some more dishes. Put my clothes away. I showered finally. By then it was time to head to D&D.
God it was soooooooooooooooo good. So good. XD
Our characters had agreed to try to stop the seaside operation of the smuggling ring we had found. My character asked if we could keep the ship, since we would be killing everyone on it, finders keepers right? The town leader agreed we could keep the ship. When I asked if we could keep the good on the ship he became more hesitant. We were trying to stop the smuggling, right? Wouldn’t keeping the goods make us smugglers, too?
Dagger: Well… I mean… You guys are already missing these goods. You’re hiring us to stop more bad stuff from happening. And it’s on the ship that will shortly be ours, so finders keepers.
The town leader relectantly agreed.
Our party headed back to the house and waited until dusk. We signaled to the ship that arrived that it was safe and they responded for us to come unload the goods.
As we were discussing out plan of action I told the party of a cool spell I could do where I made myself a disguse. Much to the panic of the rest of the party, they agreed that my plan sounded good and that I would be the emmissary between us and the smugglers on the boat. XD
Soooo goooooood.
I disgused myself as the hobgoblin we had captured and interigated. I got our party onto the ship. As were were beginning to unload the cargo there was a commotion on deck. The rogue in our party and entered combate. I dashed back onto the deck, reaching into my bag of tricks. When I threw my fuzzy object at one of the smugglers my Giant Badger appeared and began causing chaos. It was great.
Unfortantuely, I died like… four different times in this encounter. My character doesn’t have a lot of hit points, and during the initial alarm, more smugglers joined the encounter, with me in the center of it. Each time our other cleric tried to heal me, a smuggler would take a shot at me and reduce me back to 0 hit poitns.
Dagger: Hooray, I’m up! Goddamit!
Overall, it was a good encounter, and I’m grateful for the other cleric in our party. Once everyone was dead and my character was alive again, I began sulking becasue that was NOT how my character thought things would go down.
Dagger: This mission sucks. And there were the spiders before that and the trip across the sea before that. You’re an asshole, Sir Ick.
My character reached into her bag of tricks again, this time congering a boar. I had it charge and one of the closed doors, reveling some lizardfolk. I couldn’t understand what they were saying so I told Sir Ick to kill them because they deserved to die, and continued opening doors.
I wasn’t finding anyting on interest, which frustrated my character more. When I opened the door to galley, I took a frying pan and stalked over to one of the smugglers who had surrended to us.
I pointed at him with the frying pan.
Dagger: You! Where are the shiny things?!
Smuggler: What to you mean? There are tons of shiny things.
Dagger: I don’t me fire shiny things. I mean shiny shiny things. Magical shiny things would be even better.
Smuggler: They’re all over the place.
Dagger: Show me!
So the tied up smuggler proceeds to take to me one of the doors off of the main deck. I have him enter the room in front of me, followed by my boar because fuck getting ambushed. The room he took me to was well furnished with a couch and bed and all sorts of stuff.
Dagger: Get out!
The smuggler backed out of the room and I slammed the door, curling up on the couch to sulk.
God, it was so good! XD
I am enjoying this character so much. She’s total chaos and the polar opposite of anything I am in real life. It’s so fun and freeing to play her personality.
So that’s were D&D left off. Ox and I came home. I went to bed. He tried making his mini on HeroForge, but the app crashed on him shortly before he finished it, so now he has to start all over. I know that must have sucked.
As far as today goes. I’ve done my morning routine. I feel like I didn’t sleep enough last night, so I’m tired. I have all of chapter six to read, and will have three days worth of notes to type by the end of class today. I also need to finish my meal prep… Blaaaaaahhh…
I’ll figure out how I want to tackle today. Right now, with it being overcast and yucky outside, I’m not thinking today is going to be as productive as myu first two days off. I think that’s ok, though. I’m allowed to have one lazy day out of three, right?