Wrath of the Righteous on Core

Started another go of WotR Lord of Nothing on Core difficulty
playing a Nature Oracle with a mercenary Cleric of Erastil who took Community and Nature domains.

I now get why every character builder guide tries to wedge an animal companion in there.

I am playing on Core and I think my Oracle is being rather useless and yet
it hasn't been particularly difficult so far.

Indeed the only time so far we got much injured was when a Protection from (element) wore off and I hadn't noticed and was on... not turn based.

Guarded Hearth is just a Win The Boss Fight button.

And with two wolves along and Sendri casting selective grease the enemy just isn't spending much time on their feet.

The spells bar is being annoying because it keeps forgetting spells when I quick load or something, I go to throw a snowball and someone and there's a gap where my snow spells should be, and Selective metamagic is falling off the bar sometimes too, which is doubly annoying because I don't think it adds itself properly in the first place. But that's just fiddly.

I appear to be having fun again because it stopped dying so much.

Now I just have to get all the way back to the Shadow before I can try for those achievements I'm sure should have worked last time.

Doctor Who 12 and Clara

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.