Yeah... Dad and Julia came by earlier today and picked me up from my apartment, bringing me back to Mom's house in the middle of nowhere (but only after stopping by Victor's in Clifton Forge to scarf down some delicious pizza, of course.) This has been an oddly productive trip home; since getting back, I've gotten my mom's Internet to work on the desktop computer we still have here (previously, it wouldn't connect to the wireless and it was impossible to run a cable directly from the computer to the router because the computer's ethernet port was busted... she took the computer in and got the port fixed this past week sometime, but still couldn't get it to work... probably because she's not so good with computers. She claimed it kept asking her for an "IP number" when she tried to get it working before. Yeah... pretty sure they're called "IP addresses" and nothing ever calls them "IP numbers" and you don't need to enter them manually pretty much ever. All I actually needed to do to get it working was check the cables on both ends to make sure everything was plugged in right and then run the router setup program. I have no idea what she had been trying to do) and also set up a Skype account for her so we can talk through the computer instead of eating up my phone's minutes every time she calls (or I call her.) Skype is pretty simple to operate so hopefully she won't have any problems with it. I did have to plug in a second pair of headphones (because it has a built-in microphone), because the computer wasn't made with a built-in microphone like all the laptops are... but still, should be easy enough for her to use.
Also got to see the cats again after a month of being away, which is always nice. Buddy has gotten huge since the last time I saw her; she was one of the smallest ones before I left and now she's almost as big as Buttons (who is also slightly bigger than before.) Callie has gotten bigger too, though it seems to be mostly around the middle in her case. Shy unfortunately hurt her eye somehow and it's now infected, but Mom's been putting some sort of ointment on it (that she got from the vet, I think) so it should heal up okay. Other than that the kitties seem to be doing fine.
Another old house randomly got torn down while I was gone. Not out on White Rock Gap Road where I live, but in the Low Moor area nearby. I don't think this one was even in very bad shape, so I'm not sure why it got demolished... but now it's gone, just an empty field in its place. Weird to come back and see things like that change... makes it seem like I've been gone a lot longer than just a month. XD
My sister Julia drew a really detailed realistic-ish picture of a Pwubba and a K'hyurbhi during this last week, and colored it in (with colored pencils) and everything. It turned out really well. I was planning on making Pwubbas a bit more mammalian than they used to be, but her more-reptiley Pwubba looks really good. Her realistic-ish K'hyurbhis look a lot better in color than they do as pencil sketches--I thought her version of a K'hyurbhi just looked a little off the first time I saw one, but in color I was like "whoa! that's a K'hyurbhi!" rather than "wow... that looks weird." Even with the extra facial hair (which most K'hyurbhis have very little if any of), it still actually worked this time. (She also gave him blue shoes, which fits in nicely with the most recent K'hyurbhi design having actual feet and those usually-red oval things being shoes that they wear... so they don't need to always be red with black marks anymore, they can be all kinds of different colors and shapes now.)
Have made progress on Okédoké, too. 2nd and 1st basement floors of the secret Alaskan lab are both done, all the various lab stuff is functional (there's poison chemical spills on the floor in spots, you can ride around on conveyor belts, there's a switch that causes certain pairs of doors to alternate between open and closed, and there's teleporter tiles!), and you can even fight the first (out of three, plus one optional) boss, Darth Cheney. It took me roughly 23 minutes to explore the outside of the lab, enter, fall down to B2F, and then explore that whole floor (up to the start of B1F right before Darth Cheney's appearance), so this should turn out to be a decently long chapter if the other floors take even half that long. B2F may be the longest one in gameplay time, since it's a little bit maze-like with the conveyor belts going all over the place and one teleporter tile that takes you back to the start instead of further along, but the others are big enough and full of enough stuff that most people shouldn't blast through them too quick, either. Plus, if you go through too fast and skip the room with the door switch, you'll have to backtrack to B1F to get beyond 1F. Next up would be making some readable stuff in the big library-style bookshelves scattered around the lab, and also finishing up 1F so that I can move on to making 2F, which leads up to the second of the lab's bosses: George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America (...this game takes place in 2008, so yeah, he's still in office.) It turns out that he knows Kung Fu, can do his own version of Naruto's clone technique, and has a few more even stranger tricks up his sleeve...
But yeah... for the first time Okédoké being a finished game is actually looking like a real possibility. It'd be nice if it's done before 2013 is over, but I think it'd make more sense to set the "deadline" at "finish playable portions before summer 2014, and then make the ending sequence during the summer." Heart of the OHR 2014 entry? I guess it'd count as an "OHR Legends" entry at this point in its development, since it was part of HotOHR 2010 already.
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