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thessalian) wrote2006-05-02 11:49 am
thessalian) wrote2006-05-02 11:49 am
Entry tags:
- changeling,
- geek,
- jobs,
- rpg,
- writeup
To a Grinding Halt
Well, first day back and already it's gone to hell.
I don't get computers at all. How is it that my machine can see the outside world fine but can't see the internal servers at all? And how does it not have enough memory to print? (Possibly because it's not connected to the server somehow?) And how is it that I got a dozen pieces of spam that didn't even get filtered out? I hate this place. Now I have to find ways to look busy when I can't access a) the place on the server where scanned documents go (so I can't send decision letters), b) the place on the server where they insisted I move copies of the papers we receive (so I can't send out new papers to referees) and c) the place on the server where Ham-Fisted Editor saves his version of his "To-Do" sheets (so I can't check to make sure I haven't got a screwed up version printed out. Again). Yippee.
Bonus, though: we finally have a reasonable decision on that paper that Ham-Fisted Editor wrote the outdated decision letter on. Not surprisingly, said letter actually came from Lady Competence. At least there are things to do on that end - asking for final versions. Asking for final versions is easy enough and I can sit around half-glancing at handwriting like I can't quite make out the word while I'm actually faffing and doing something else.
Like, for example, a Changeling write-up.
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dodgyhoodoo: Silas, a Sluagh Grump of a hermitous bent who prefers books to people.
neonchameleon: Lesley, a Sidhe Wilder of House Gwydion with bishie good looks and insatiable curiosity.
weaselbitch: Edward, a Eshu Childling who's far too cute to be allowed.
Basically, not much of hugeness happened. This is rare for one of my plots. Basically, Silas got kitted out for his impending job interview at the British Library by a Nocker tailor -- all done by a machine, involved a wash, shave and haircut (Silas is NOT HAPPY). Lesley got fired from his supply teaching position after leaving his class watching The Muppet Movie while taking a phone call from Silas, who in turn had phoned to tell him that, after several not-so-random acts of vandalism (paint bombs, rocks through the window, broken outer door and trash strewn all over the forecourt), the borough council had decided to shut the library down. They honestly considered torching the place before they left. So much for their plans to save Marcus. They did, however, manage to get hold of Tina, who came out of her chrysalis as a sluagh. They also discovered that the Black Hole Headmaster is fuck-hard and didn't even flinch at Lesley's attempts at using Sovereign. Felicity the Boggan was asked to speak to the Black Hole Headmaster after class, and when Silas and Lesley went to rescue her, they found her hanged in the headmaster's office.
They went to the Trod Less Travelled after calling Tina's mother (who apparently works at Stringfellow's; her father, according to Tina herself, "could be in Guam for all we know") and getting a "Make sure she's in bed by ten". The Trod was full of trolls having some kind of a party and a sluagh contingent from Cardiff, including a woman named Petra who Silas knew. There was some kerfuffle as Tina went to look at the redcaps in the corner, rescued their 'dinner' (a cat) and then came close to taking said cat's place as their dinner. That was amusing as Silas failed to swing a chair at them, Lesley sicced the trolls on them, Edward wriggled free of Silas' confining grasp and wove through troll legs in order to hit a redcap over the head with a wine bottle ... just after Lesley hit them all with Sovereign, so no one could fight back. The trolls declared that Edward had no honour, so Edward left the pub while everything was calming down ... and got yoinked by a scary vampire in funny robes. (Tremere, actually, but it's not like the Changelings would know.) Got locked in a cold iron cage and everything. Lesley found out where Edward had gone and paid a street person handsomely for the information that he went with a robed man into a nearby warehouse-factory type of building. Ella was rediscovering her Fae nature and having a good time for a change (consider; in the last week this woman has had her boyfriend try to kill her, her house burn down, her entire nature changed and lost her job. Ella is not having a good time of it, so anything she can enjoy should be encouraged), so Silas and Lesley left her to it and went off to rescue the Childling. Tina came along because she wanted to learn to 'sneaky-sneak'; this was a good thing because she was carrying a 'gift' from Petra - a key to unlock just about any door. Silas and Tina went into the building alone because Lesley can't fight or sneak all that well, got Edward free ... and then of course the vamps went to check on their prize and discovered him missing. Cue chase scene and attempted fight, which didn't go too badly given that it's four Changelings where the Childling PC is the superior fighter versus a bunch of vampires who can spend blood to heal just about anything. They didn't do too badly and were at least beating them off when they were interrupted by headlights in the alley and a cry of 'Wahey!' Well, they are in Camden ... cue a big bald tattoed bloke beating on Silas' prone vamp with a glowy baseball bat before blowing the thing's head off with a sawn-off shotgun, a brunet in kevlar and leather attacking the one trying to break Edward's neck and decapitating it with a spork, and a tall skinny blue-haired guy running around and going 'Wahey!' After killing the vamps that didn't run like fuck, little mousy girl in a gaudy pink-green-orange scarf went over and blew their nest to hell in pretty pink and purple sparks. Some guy they called Rodney was at the wheel of the vehicle talking about the Changelings being 'creepy' and then Tina slithered into the footwell under the steering wheel, stood up in pure Sadako style and, peering through her hair, said, "Before you die, you see the ring..." Rodney screamed like a girl and wet himself. Rodney does that.
(Yes. They met up with Skank's cabal in this alternate universe where, as yet, there's no destiny or apocalypse on the way.dodgyhoodoo threw in a few Skank lines. It was fun.)
Last thing that happened was Tina's mother (Holly) getting blown up with three pounds of plastique in her locker, which took all of Stringfellow's up with it. They were all a bit thrown by this and weren't lying very well when they got to the club to check things over, but Tina ... well, 'saved' them by calling Silas 'Daddy'. He lied his way out of being beaten to a pulp by the surviving strippers for deserting their friend and their friend's little girl with WORST STORY EVER (but it filled their love of soap-style drama so hey), found out that the attempt seemed to be on Holly personally, and called it a night.
So not exactly uneventful, but not universe-shaking.
In other news, my head still hurts and I don't want to be here, but I need to be around to take the call from TechMan, our single outsourced tech support agent who I got on voicemail after rebooting this fucking eMac for the eighth time. Bah.
I don't get computers at all. How is it that my machine can see the outside world fine but can't see the internal servers at all? And how does it not have enough memory to print? (Possibly because it's not connected to the server somehow?) And how is it that I got a dozen pieces of spam that didn't even get filtered out? I hate this place. Now I have to find ways to look busy when I can't access a) the place on the server where scanned documents go (so I can't send decision letters), b) the place on the server where they insisted I move copies of the papers we receive (so I can't send out new papers to referees) and c) the place on the server where Ham-Fisted Editor saves his version of his "To-Do" sheets (so I can't check to make sure I haven't got a screwed up version printed out. Again). Yippee.
Bonus, though: we finally have a reasonable decision on that paper that Ham-Fisted Editor wrote the outdated decision letter on. Not surprisingly, said letter actually came from Lady Competence. At least there are things to do on that end - asking for final versions. Asking for final versions is easy enough and I can sit around half-glancing at handwriting like I can't quite make out the word while I'm actually faffing and doing something else.
Like, for example, a Changeling write-up.
dodgyhoodoo: Silas, a Sluagh Grump of a hermitous bent who prefers books to people.neonchameleon: Lesley, a Sidhe Wilder of House Gwydion with bishie good looks and insatiable curiosity.weaselbitch: Edward, a Eshu Childling who's far too cute to be allowed.Basically, not much of hugeness happened. This is rare for one of my plots. Basically, Silas got kitted out for his impending job interview at the British Library by a Nocker tailor -- all done by a machine, involved a wash, shave and haircut (Silas is NOT HAPPY). Lesley got fired from his supply teaching position after leaving his class watching The Muppet Movie while taking a phone call from Silas, who in turn had phoned to tell him that, after several not-so-random acts of vandalism (paint bombs, rocks through the window, broken outer door and trash strewn all over the forecourt), the borough council had decided to shut the library down. They honestly considered torching the place before they left. So much for their plans to save Marcus. They did, however, manage to get hold of Tina, who came out of her chrysalis as a sluagh. They also discovered that the Black Hole Headmaster is fuck-hard and didn't even flinch at Lesley's attempts at using Sovereign. Felicity the Boggan was asked to speak to the Black Hole Headmaster after class, and when Silas and Lesley went to rescue her, they found her hanged in the headmaster's office.
They went to the Trod Less Travelled after calling Tina's mother (who apparently works at Stringfellow's; her father, according to Tina herself, "could be in Guam for all we know") and getting a "Make sure she's in bed by ten". The Trod was full of trolls having some kind of a party and a sluagh contingent from Cardiff, including a woman named Petra who Silas knew. There was some kerfuffle as Tina went to look at the redcaps in the corner, rescued their 'dinner' (a cat) and then came close to taking said cat's place as their dinner. That was amusing as Silas failed to swing a chair at them, Lesley sicced the trolls on them, Edward wriggled free of Silas' confining grasp and wove through troll legs in order to hit a redcap over the head with a wine bottle ... just after Lesley hit them all with Sovereign, so no one could fight back. The trolls declared that Edward had no honour, so Edward left the pub while everything was calming down ... and got yoinked by a scary vampire in funny robes. (Tremere, actually, but it's not like the Changelings would know.) Got locked in a cold iron cage and everything. Lesley found out where Edward had gone and paid a street person handsomely for the information that he went with a robed man into a nearby warehouse-factory type of building. Ella was rediscovering her Fae nature and having a good time for a change (consider; in the last week this woman has had her boyfriend try to kill her, her house burn down, her entire nature changed and lost her job. Ella is not having a good time of it, so anything she can enjoy should be encouraged), so Silas and Lesley left her to it and went off to rescue the Childling. Tina came along because she wanted to learn to 'sneaky-sneak'; this was a good thing because she was carrying a 'gift' from Petra - a key to unlock just about any door. Silas and Tina went into the building alone because Lesley can't fight or sneak all that well, got Edward free ... and then of course the vamps went to check on their prize and discovered him missing. Cue chase scene and attempted fight, which didn't go too badly given that it's four Changelings where the Childling PC is the superior fighter versus a bunch of vampires who can spend blood to heal just about anything. They didn't do too badly and were at least beating them off when they were interrupted by headlights in the alley and a cry of 'Wahey!' Well, they are in Camden ... cue a big bald tattoed bloke beating on Silas' prone vamp with a glowy baseball bat before blowing the thing's head off with a sawn-off shotgun, a brunet in kevlar and leather attacking the one trying to break Edward's neck and decapitating it with a spork, and a tall skinny blue-haired guy running around and going 'Wahey!' After killing the vamps that didn't run like fuck, little mousy girl in a gaudy pink-green-orange scarf went over and blew their nest to hell in pretty pink and purple sparks. Some guy they called Rodney was at the wheel of the vehicle talking about the Changelings being 'creepy' and then Tina slithered into the footwell under the steering wheel, stood up in pure Sadako style and, peering through her hair, said, "Before you die, you see the ring..." Rodney screamed like a girl and wet himself. Rodney does that.
(Yes. They met up with Skank's cabal in this alternate universe where, as yet, there's no destiny or apocalypse on the way.
dodgyhoodoo threw in a few Skank lines. It was fun.)Last thing that happened was Tina's mother (Holly) getting blown up with three pounds of plastique in her locker, which took all of Stringfellow's up with it. They were all a bit thrown by this and weren't lying very well when they got to the club to check things over, but Tina ... well, 'saved' them by calling Silas 'Daddy'. He lied his way out of being beaten to a pulp by the surviving strippers for deserting their friend and their friend's little girl with WORST STORY EVER (but it filled their love of soap-style drama so hey), found out that the attempt seemed to be on Holly personally, and called it a night.
So not exactly uneventful, but not universe-shaking.
In other news, my head still hurts and I don't want to be here, but I need to be around to take the call from TechMan, our single outsourced tech support agent who I got on voicemail after rebooting this fucking eMac for the eighth time. Bah.
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FWIW, that sentence should read "So much for those plans to save Marcus".
They also discovered that the Black Hole Headmaster is fuck-hard and didn't even flinch at Lesley's attempts at using Sovereign.
Didn't even flinch at four successes (including a point of willpower) at 10...
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