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I even saved the game properly so I can prove it.

Did it pop up an achievement? Did it heck. Haven't had achievements show since 02/08 and it is very annoying because I have Achieved repeatedly.

But I named the main character Coren so I shall remember which victory was on Core when it is import to main game time.

... I also finished saving the world without having a rest, which is just showing off really. They were soooo out of spells, and we couldn't use Guarded Hearth again without resting, but honestly the only fight in this game that gave me any difficulty at all is Chained Darkness.

I think winning was quite a lot luck. My best characters were hitting on 16s and most tries they just ran out of health before the Darkness did. But this time I did a bunch of Dispels early so they got rid of his best spells, and he never cast one really annoying one because surrounded by stabby. Either that or it was bugged. But I won either way.

Happy now :-)



Possibly shall do something other than retry this for entire numbers of days...

Today I did another load of laundry and played WotR on Core some more.

I am 100% certain I did the achievements again but they did not ping. Again.

Somewhere around midnight I decided to just have a go at the achievement boss fight in the secret bit.
... it is now 4am and I have a much better idea of what doesn't work.
*sigh*

I am going to have to try it again with different characters. And buy a lot of holy water in case I don't get any better ideas. The only ones doing damage are casting Pillar of Life or running right up to the jerk and slapping Heal on him. Funnily enough, not optimal. Someone should be able to lay a sword, club, arrow, bite or talon on it but noooooo.

I shall bring someone better at hitting things and hope it works better.

It is ridiculously difficult. Literally nothing else has been a challenge, and then suddenly this thing is impossible. Rubbish scaling there.

If this second try doesn't work I'm going to have to design a mercenary specifically just to hit this thing. Which would be very mathy and annoying.

Up until then I was having fun though.

Pretty okay day, just want the game to do what it says it will.

I am rewatching the season after Danny died, so far up to The Girl Who Died, and it is being a lot more interesting than I remember. Clara has more going on than I remembered, layers and trying to connect to people on shared grief. And the Doctor... he's angry and caring and fascinating. He just realised who frowned that face and what his message to himself is, which is an interesting angle, because then you wonder about literally all the other hims. But as soon as he tries to act on it he fears he goes too far.

I like how he is clearly scared and running and being some kind of clowning version of himself, or himselves, throwing a party and all of him are invited. But very clearly aware that there are were ought to be limits, just, like, leaning on them hard until they break.

These two part stories give it a lot of room to manuever, I like them.
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So they've been good to rewatch and I'm definitely getting more out of them than I remembered from the first time around.

But on the plus side I do remember these ones in general, unlike that half season from the end of college.

Shall keep watching later.



Other than that today I did the laundry and realised that after a full load of laundry I could detect no shrinkage in the laundry pile, as it seems to fill all space available.

I forsee more laundry in my near future.

And my far future actually.


The Doctor's best trick: making that few clothes last that long.

Wrath of the Righteous Lord of Nothing DLC is not giving me achievements. I followed a guide and redid the shadow realm and definitely did the achievement as listed and uet, no achievement.
Explains why the percents are so tiny, it doesn't flipping work.
I've put it back so that character's win can be used in the main game and deleted all the in between saves. Frustrating mess.
I shall be back eventually to win it on Core or above for a specific fight, but, I shall need to redesign my characters and start again at the beginning for that.
Grumpy now.

Big Finish audios are not grumpy making though.

Most recent one I listened today:

Dark Universe
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I either need to listen while paying attention (very possible) or I didn't like it much.


Before that I listened to
3 adventures with 7 and Mags, the werewolf from the circus. Excellent companion material, refreshed stories because you don't know which way she will jump, and she's always afraid of her own darkness, which 7 at this point very much should be as well.
The Monsters of Gokroth
Moons of Vulpana
An Alien Werewolf in London
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I think it worked very well.

So I liked those three a lot


Pretty good listening.

I have just listened to
https://www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-death-and-life-of-river-song-series-01-last-words-3027
The Death and Life of River Song series 01
which is set after River dies at the library.

So the first question is, why wouldn't the Doctor redownload her if it is at all possible?
And the answer is, getting her out nearly crashed the library, and everyone else in it.
An answer that preserves the status quo.

I just deleted a lot of me poking the wiki and quibbling the timeline. But this is Doctor Who, so time works on vibes and the general feeling it probably fits in somewhere. So that's okay...

River is woken up just before a scheduled apocalypse and the story ends with Nerva Beacon and the solar flares. And I really liked the ending. River brings her life experience and her belief in What Would The Doctor Do, and does amazing things.

The interesting bit with this set of stories is: her diary is full. She died, and he knows that. And she has been living on in the afterlife he found for her, but without him.

Basically we've seen how the Doctor copes when he finally loses River, but this is River when she has logically lost the Doctor.

And she keeps on telling her diary that this is how it works, someone lives on, and that's okay.

... she's really working on it being okay.

And you get some compare and contrast in ways that would be Spoilers.

There's a lot of running around and spending four discs in one set of weeks at the end of this particular version of Earth, so we get an interesting slice of viewpoints there.

It's just very very good.


I want to stop reviewing it and tell you to go listen to it.

Many big feelings and excellent angles.




Also this week I listened to two of the Main Range for the first time:

Muse of Fire with 7 Ace Hex, which was an Iris Wildthyme adventure and... she's always a lot and not quite my thing.

and

The Quantum Possibility Engine, 7 Ace Mel when Big Finish had Mel rejoin them after Hex left.
... the plot doesn't suck or anything and it does use the uploaded into alternate versions of their lives to say something about them, but I'm not quite keen on what it did there.
Also the way Mel behaves I cannot make sense of in my head, it was just lead up to the Doctor telling her not to make secret plans and be manipulative.
7, saying that.
And Ace calling him out on the absolute whopper of a hypocrisy.
So it leads up to a done as you did, sure, but to get there it puts Mel in trouble an earlier story got her out of and then has her try to fix it by getting people out of danger by putting them in danger.
So I didn't really follow it around that corner and the story felt a bit wrong because of that.

I did like the bit where one set of aliens are always on camera so they do three different takes of every reaction so they can control their image later. That was funny. Can use that for mirrors.

So, good bits but didn't grab me.



I still listen to audios more than I do most things, so I like them plenty well enough.


Also, I have realised I'm not reading much fanfic at all lately.
Because all I am read listen watching is Whoniverse, and I am not running out of that any time soon.

Which is ace.