What?! Somehow I managed to score just 7.1 (rather than my usual 13-ish) for Syllable Count today. It was even on my fourth attempt, as I kept reading too quickly. How it dropped so low, I have no idea. Stupid thing. Luckily, I did much better on most of my other trials, getting a few more top-3s along the way. Did exceptionally well for the Brain Age too – I got 20 again, but managed 16 seconds for Calculations x20 …
It’s Sunday morning, and so it’s Turnip Time. Joan took a bit of finding, but it turned out she was right next to my house. Tch. Spent just over 500,000 bells buying 5,200 white turnips for 98 bells each, and then dumped them outside my house and Nook’s. Talked to a few of my animals, and found some more gyroids and fossils. Already had all the fossils though. Rubbish.
Yet another successful day on Brain Age. Managed two more top-threes in the training, and another one and two near-misses in the Brain Age test itself. Overall Age for today? 20, of course!
Only a brief play this evening – enough to get my mail (which included a model of Nookingtons – my “prize” for reaching Platinum status, along with 20% off everything), have a visit from Bunnie (it’s a Flea Market day and I went inside my house), and then go over to the Museum to see K.K. Slider. He played K.K. Rockabilly for me today. It was ace.
Extensive play today took me up to over 51 hours gametime. That’s like, forever. Or something. I’m certainly not going to explain everything I’ve done today, but here’s a bit of a synopsis: I summoned my skeleton, then killed it, over and over to get souls, with which I enchanted a few more things, making a full 22% shield at all times. Then set off to get a staff from some glade, only to be attacked. Got the staff, made …
One “Long Game”, one 10 question Quickfire Round, and a 30 question Quickfire Round. And I was the winnerer of them all! ACES! I am slightly disturbed by my knowledge of late 1990s dance-crap “outfits” though. Sash! FTW.
I didn’t actually do all that much today, even though I played for over an hour. I started by warping to Imperial City, and entered the Arcane University. After talking to some bloke there, I was promoted to Apprentice, and gained 10 more Gamerpoints (570 now) and another Achievement. I was then given pretty much free run of the University, and so explored it a bit. There was a Library, full of books (obviously). Reading many of them boosted my …
Ph33r my ub3r-|337 5k1||z! Y37 4641n my Br41n 463 5c0r3 15 ju57 20! 1 4m c|34r|y 7h3 m4573r3r 0f 73h 64m3. W1n! As well as that, I hit the top-3 again for some of the tests, getting an ACE 16 second time for Calculations x20. Also did one of the sudoku puzzles, seeing as I haven’t tried any of them in what seems like ages.
Platinumness Get! Hurrah! I don’t know what it entitles me to, but I’ve got it anyway. No more moon-buying for me! Excellent. Also excellent was the fact that Margie has decided to stay. And she was very pleased with the Regal Vanity I gave her today when she asked for White Furniture. Robin is after Blue stuff, Dirty Bunnie wants Pink (f’nar), and Friga wants houseplants. Can’t they do their own damn shopping? Also found a few more things for …
Another “Long Game” this evening, again against my wife. I won again, mainly because I kept guessing all the questions I knew she’d know the answers to, essentially stealing her points. ACE!
Since I was in Anvil anyway, and Crowhaven was just a short walk away, I decided to follow up the Grey Prince’s quest, and find out about his parents. Worked my way through the dungeon of Crowhaven, and killed Lord Lovidicus. Found his diary, and then worked my way out. I took a wrong turn on the way to the exit, and found myself being attacked by a Vampire Knight. Erk! I’d heard that catching Vampirism was a Bad Thing, …
Not much to say about my scores again today, except for the fact that they were all pretty good, and overall I managed another Brain Age of 20, getting just a whisker from the bottom of each of the three scoreboards. No “8 is not 6 or 2” issues today, either.
What a day for new stuff in Cheese! It was chucking it down, so I thought (once I’d done my “chores”), that I’d go fishing for the first time in about two months, mainly in the hope I’d get a coelacanth. I didn’t, although there was a HUGE fish, complete with shark-like fin and everything. I thought I’d stuck lucky (but Lucky was still ill, aha!), until I caught it. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be an …
Played another “episode” with my wife this evening, and chose the long game. This made each of the rounds longer than in the short game (as you’d expect), but also added some more rounds. I won. ACES.
I started the game at Weatherleah, and decided to head to Skingrad to progess the Nirnroot quest, as I had enough of the herb to do so, and it was just a quick cross-country job south from where I was. It didn’t take more than a few minutes, but I found both a wayshrine and an Oblivion Gate along the way. Erk. After speaking to Nirnroot Man in Skingrad, and finding he now wanted another 20 of them, I thought …