Another Icewind Dale Ranger for this week's DnD Character Colouring Book. This time, the half-orc Gloomstalker Ranger, Snow. Because if you haven't seen the sun in a long time, why not be the subclass designed to work in low light.
Snow was one of the ones that I remade a while ago. At some point I was just scrolling past and decided that I was tired of looking at the old version. It may have been after that particular mask came out. It is also fun being able to make an entirely white stealthy character because they're running around in snow.
The idea with Snow was also that him being a half-orc was going to be a reveal. He's help out the party with some encounter and then take his mask off. Not a giant reveal, I grant you.
Anyway.
This week had a lot going on. Let's start with the easy stuff.
I started soup season. Because I'm tired of inventing things to make. So I went back to minestrone. Well, my version of minestrone. Damn good though.
This week's Mini Media Reviews started with finishing up the last season of Snowpiercer. Damn it's a good show. I mean, occasionally frustrating, but so well done. But it's basically a show where the problems all stem from Entitled Straight White Men. Story literally checks out.
I also watched the National Theatre Live version of The Importance of Being Earnest. I'm very familiar with the story, but this is the first time I've seen the full and complete version, which was 3 hours long. Generally it was very good. Excellent costumes and sets, there were some directing choices I was less set on.
I also watched Ron's Gone Wrong. Which was actually both different than I expected but also better than I thought it was going to be. It is a little bit "hey kids, stop being so into social media and take your face out your phone". Actually, it's a lot that. It's very on the nose. But it also manages to be pretty good.
Last up was the first season of The Knick. Which was rough. Good, but rough. Which is to be expected when you're watching a show set in 1900 about doctors... because doctors knew what the fuck they were doing, and also full of racism and several other isms and more drug use than I was expecting.
So, the rest of the week was... a collection of things.
I made the LEGO Toothless on Sunday, while watching Earnest. And honestly, it took me longer than the 3 hours of Earnest.
But before that I wanted to move the Wall-E LEGO from my bedside table to the living room, which meant I needed to put something else away in it's box in the wardrobe. During which I managed to step back off the two step stepladder that I have and break the glass in one of the big pieces of art in the bedroom. Not really a good start to sitting down to build LEGO. Much fucking around with broken glass was required. On the plus side, I neither injured myself nor the art. Well, I got a minor cut from the glass after the fact, but that was fixed with a band aid.
So Monday I needed to go and run some errands, and it turned out that Frame Connection, where Ma and I went a number of times in the Before Times, was just down the same street. I got a quote for the glass, did my other errand and then stopped off at the tyre store on the Parade and set "hey, I have a really embarrassing problem, I can't work out how to put the air in my tyres". The very nice man took my car keys, disappeared in the car for a couple of minutes, came back and told me that the tyres were supposed to be at 32 PSI, and they were at 12. Yep, story checks out. So thank you Mr Tyre Man.
Tuesday the landlord came to fix the bedroom window. So, at least that's done. Thursday I went back to order the glass. I had expected that it would take a couple of days. No, they did it on the spot. Gotta love that.
Also this week I attempted to start The Witcher 3. For a variety of reasons I just did not click with it. Part of that was the game just did various things that annoyed me, part of it was the combat was needlessly complicated right off the bat, and the movement... I have never before been made nauseous by a game. The movement in this made me start feeling sick. And once the game dumped me out of the tutorial and into the game itself, I played for maybe 3 minutes before nopeing the hell out of it and deleting the game.
Instead I installed God of War. And I'm loving the hell out of that. Which is slightly weird because the personalities of Kratos and Geralt are not miles apart. But Geralt just annoyed me from the jump.
I do know a number of the reveals from God of War though, just from being a person who exists on the internet. Plus being a person who knows things about Norse mythology. Or some combination of the two.
Friday Night DnD was more dungeon exploration. And pressing the big red button only to find that the button is going to kill us. We have survived thus far though.
Anyway.
Today had a non zero amount of ignoring the election. Because Ma and I did postal voting.
Otherwise it was just the usual supermarket stuff. And then taking a quick trip to Spotlight just for looking at things. Nothing hugely exciting.
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