What. a. day it was. A pretty crazy day. Having completed Horizon Zero Dawn a second time, I wanted to play VRChat to check out any new worlds that popped over the span of two months since I last played.
Found this rather interesting escape room called ‘Pop Escape!’. You’re supposed to be placed in a room where you must escape, but instead the entire instance is the escape room. ..Escape world? Guess you could call it that.
The first puzzle alone had me confused. Person lost the key to the staff room and the last known location is a room for kids. There’s four spots for blocks and you need to do something with them.
It was becoming past 5am for me and decided it was time to head to bed.
In the afternoon I hung out with DJ. He told me how he has people watching his back for any assholes that want to fuck with him. That’s good.
Getting close to dinnertime, he starts having issues with his IRL body. Trying to calm him down the best I can. Then he says it feels like someone stabbed him, and he starts acting really, really weird. He says a daemon is taking control of him. ..Apparently he’s into Satanism and the devil is now telling him to “murder”. This is really starting to concern me as I don’t know what to do about this. Dunno if this is another one of his personalities and he’ll be all “sorry for scaring you like that”, or him actually being possessed by the devil.
The 6pm alarm rang, and DJ was still acting very strange. I wanted to stay with him, but I also knew I had to eat.
So I chose “I had to eat” (as RL always comes first) and left him a message, hoping he’ll read it and understand I wanted to be there for him as much as I could. As I was warming up my food, I came back and saw this random person with him. I tried apologizing to DJ and he’s all “I scared you away”. No, not at all.
The person was telling him to burn essence candles or something like that to ward off the daemon. Heard my microwave buzzer beeping its head off telling me dinner’s ready. Told both of them I would be back on in an hour, and left VR.
…Sadly I didn’t make it back in time as DJ and the guy had left five minutes after I came back on (couldn’t be in full body at the time as they needed charging), but DJ did tell me after I went to bed last night the person did help him, but he feels weak and is sorry for “scaring me”. Again I told him he didn’t.
Next thing I did was go see why Lunar kept requesting invites to join me when I was with DJ. She never explained why, but I hung out with Sparky as he introduced me to a few of his friends (and his new BF). There was even a person from the Mystery Skulls discord here as well, so that’s cool. 🙂
Kovo later joined after I put a rather hilarious quote that Sparky said. Basically we were
in MEROOM, and you know those props in it. Sparky was smacking me with a riding crop. I grabbed it and smacked him with it instead, and he says “harder daddy!!”.. I pause for the longest time and tell him “I’m quoting that!”, and he’s all “NOO nonononono!!”
But I end up forgetting to do so as I was enjoying myself with Sparky’s really funny friends. Yet later as I was hanging with them, Sparky comes up to me and says “I don’t see the quote”.
Well thanks for reminding me Sparky! …Wow, you just dug your own grave there. Both Kovo and Nova immediately respond to it, and Sparky’s so. pissed. at me! HAHAHAHA!!
And that’s when Kovo popped in, and then he changed it where I felt a bit embarrassed. He’s all “well you are a bad dragon!”… WOW Kovo. Wow. Wanted to punch him from embarrassment as he kept chuckling, but it’s all good. 🙂
Hung with Sparky’s friends as Nova came on and showed Kovo the avatar she got. It’s one of these “mom protogens” I now see walking around. They’re really tall, and holy fuck their ass is BIG. Anyway, some of Sparky’s friends started heading to bed. That’s when I asked Kovo and Nova if they wanted to check out the escape world (so I could get help with it).
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They too were stumped at the first puzzle, but the solution is literally on the door. Can’t believe I didn’t see it before. The second one was kind of easy.
Near where the two assume is the last puzzle, I got D/C’d. Came back and was locked in the lobby, as late-joiners can’t join (even though they were the instance owner). That’s bullshit.
Something else that’s bullshit I discovered (not related to this), was noticing FavCat wasn’t organizing my avatars anymore. Huh.. I got the latest update of the auto updater. What gives? …Turns out the author of the mod went the same way emmVRC’s author went. They too caved to the VRChat devs, because of VRC+.
So it’s another dev trying to convince people “they need the money”, and also warning it’s not out of the realm of possibility more mods which try to work around VRC+, may
be ‘forced’ to stop working in favor of the devs. Claim to show the devs that modding isn’t all bad.
Personally, this is the wrong way to approach the issue. But this may be the only way to address it.
And…FUCK!! FavCat was one of my (if not THE) most valued useful mod(s) I’ve downloaded, due to this very need to keep my personal avatars organized in neat lists! Without it, I have to search now! I HATE THIS!!
There is some (but in my opinion VERY slim) hope over the horizon, with talks of a similar system of personal avatar lists (but for VRC+). …I would actually pay for this, and not look back. VRC+ (currently) has very few reasons it’s worth the money.
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If they add avatar lists…
Seriously. I’ve been too used to FavCat to do without. I don’t care about the avatar searching. I don’t care of the personal world lists, or personal friend lists. Personal avatar lists are what I’ve wanted for a very, very long time. Make it happen VRChat!! PLEASE!! I will forgive you for all the BS and questionable updates over the years.
Moving on, Kovo did an instance to the Room of The Rain and we hung out there. Nothing majorly exciting, just friends joining us from time to time. Then the two wanted to hop off.
I joined DragonRoy and hung out a bit with him, then saw Novice on and may or may not had lied that “a friend of mine wants me to see them”. He believed me, and I said how I would be back to see him when the other friend was done. ..That may or may not had been another lie. 😛
Sorry Roy, but sadly you don’t really hold a candle to Illunovice. In Novice’s home world, I asked him what he’s been doing and how he’s been surviving. One thing, he actually missed seeing me. That’s really sweet. 🙂
I explained the reason I left. Never mentioned DJ (wasn’t even on my mind), only what Kovo said about full body. He felt the same way I felt. Though Kovo isn’t exactly wrong, he shouldn’t really be focusing on something that doesn’t need to be focused on. Let people do what the hell they wanna do with their full body, you know?
I got mine where my avatar can closely do the pose I do IRL, without having to set up the stupid pose.
He actually got in full body and we laid together (both in full body). He even wanted to ERP. I mean hey, having full body does make it more realistic. And overall it was great to be with him again. 😉
I really missed him. And I’m glad he missed me.
He wants to be in a friends with benefits ‘relationship’ with me, and I gladly accepted. Just to be with Novice is all I really care about. 💛
Starting to get late for him and he wanted to go to bed IRL, but I convinced him to stay on an hour later. That’s when I got this picture above. I love pics like this, but getting the picture almost never happened, as my right controller decided to ‘commit die’ on me the moment I was moving my camera into position. Plus the charger cables for my trackers fell out.
Ok, seriously… first thing tomorrow: go to Amazon.com, buy longer Micro-USB male-to-male cables! I was able to test the compatibility earlier by plugging in the cable for my headphones into my waist tracker, and it fits perfectly. So these will work as well. They’ll be arriving by Friday. Very good. 🙂
Getting everything plugged back in and my controllers plugged in, I put my headset back on and got the picture.
Sometime after that, Novice says he really needs to get to bed and he hops off. Knowing I need to charge everything up, I hop off too.
And that’s what happened yesterday. What a great day I had. Hopefully tomorrow will be even better.
(Spoiler.. it was really, really really bad)