So, I finished the main plot in Oblivion.
End part was pretty badass. The evil god Dagon managed to break into Tamriel from his dimension of Oblivion despite all my efforts to prevent that very thing from happening throughout the whole damned game, so I had to get the rightful heir to the throne, Martin Septim, past this three story tall Dagon-monster so he could use the Amulet of Kings gifted to the Septim line by the great god Akatosh to sacrifice himself to manifest an avatar of Akatosh to kick Dagon’s ass back to Oblivion and seal the gates between the dimensions forever.
So ya know. Just another Tuesday.
The final fight was insanely hard, with just way too many monster coming after me at the same time for my poor spells to handle.
Not even the big explodey fireball type spells!
But then Maelkoth called it a sneaking mission, and at first I was all psssh, I’m a sorcerer, I don’t sneak, I blast.
But that idea percolated in my mind for around an hour before I finally remembered that I had a potion of invisibility.
Took that, jogged right past Dagon, got Martin into the Temple, and Dagon got evicted with extreme prejudice.
I was just glad I didn’t have to fight the motherfucker myself.
It was a pretty good ending. Felt properly climactic, with monsters swarming the Imperial City and soldiers running around and the (remarkably convincing) sounds of battle all around.
Plus, ya know, an epic battle between a King Kong size demon and a giant dragon made of fire.
Right now, in the game, I am killing time waiting for my new Dragon Armor(my reward for saving the world, ya know) to be made by playing a quest mod quite misleading called HentaiMania 2 (haven’t fought a single tentacle monster yet).
It’s OK for a time waster. Pretty much just dungeons and monsters, neither of which are particularly inspired but what the heck.
For the curious the Hentai aspect is that most of the “monsters” are big titted anime chicks who are sort of naked-ish if you remove their armor.
Sadly, the same cannot be said for the big beefy orcs. Le sigh.
Once I get the fancy new armor, I will most likely start over with a new character. I’m very tired of being a wimpy wizard who has to rely on his summoned monsters to protect him because literally everything can kill him.
So I’m gonna go to the opposite extreme and be a big mountain of Orc or Nord muscle. With armor as thick as a sidewalk and an axe you could use to fell a sequoia.
It will be a huge relief just to stop having to switch spells and worry over my Magicka supply all the damned time.
Crap, I almost forgot I wasn’t quite done with part 1 AGAIN.
And at almost the same spot, too.
This is becoming alarming. Can’t go losing what marbles I have left.
Jesus I’ve got to get my shit together.
More after the break.
SO SHALL IT BE!
Lemme tell you about my Glucometer Saga.
First, there was the box of sensors that were all dead. I dragged my ass about calling the company about that for a couple of weeks.
Why? Dunno. Sometimes I just can’t do things. Some bizarre aversion forms and freezes me in place and I can’t do the thing until it thaws.
Maybe it’s a reaction to the feeling I am “supposed’ to do a thing. Maybe, perversely, that feeling of pressure to do something makes the busted up crazy part of my mind feel like things are going out of control so it slams on the brakes.
I dunno. It’s fucked up.
Anyhow, so I called the company, had a nice chat with a sympathetic lady at the call center, she took down all my details and promised I would get a new box within three to five business days.
So I sat back. And I waited. And waited.
And then, suddenly, I waited some more.
Waited a whole month before deciding I had been forgotten.
I wonder if that nice lady even bothered to take down my info, or if she just said what needed saying to get me off the phone.
Would not be the first time someone lied to me to avoid dealing with me.
And I’m such a nice guy!
Anyhow, so another couple weeks go by with me doing nothing to get my glucometer working until it occurs to me that it has been more than a month since my first order of sensors and an order lasts a month so the province will totally pay for more sensors for me by now.
Then, I dick around for another week before actually ordering them from the pharmacy.
Dear Julian then fetches them for me. All right, we’re back in business!
Except I can’t find the reader. Uh oh.
Another week or so of foot-dragging. Why can’t I just DEAL with things?
I dig for and find the reader. GO TEAM! Wait… it needs recharging.
No problem, here’s the plug right here. Now… where is the wire that connects the plug to the reader?
Nowhere to be found! Of course!
It then took me three more days to search for it, not find it, get bummed out about that, then suddenly remember it just uses a standard micro-USB cable and I had found like three of those looking for the “right” cable.
Mind still stuck in the days when everything used its own special cable, I guess.
So today I finally got it all together. The reader is charging as we speak. Once it’s done, I get to try to remember how to apply the sensor and get shit going.
I am proud of myself for finally getting this done after like two months of various forms and levels of dicking around.
But I swear, if none of these sensors work, I’m a-gonna smack somebody.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.