The Troll Hive Introductions

I'm not sure really, I thought I should say something. I want to introduce you all to my housemates but I haven't had the time to draw up the pictures yet.

The Troll Hive has an Arch Nemesis now! We were discussing conquering the neighbors when I mentioned we should put a sign at the end of the drive way saying we were auditioning for arch nemeses. Everyone thought that was a grand idea, but we didn't get to it in a few days. I noticed a friend on facebook talking about being at "The Cove" and then I remembered she knew of a similar domicile that referred to themselves as "Neckbeard Cove". So I asked if they would be interested in being our Arch Nemesis and they agreed and then promptly started discussing battle tactics.

They have a cat named Wilford Brimley who is also called Tank. This provided me much amusement.

I will however familiarize you with the names the people will be called and some of their characteristics.

I will start in one end of the house and move accordingly. The Obnoxious one and TrollDiva. This is a couple. The obnoxious one and I have a mutual agreement not to like each other but we manage to live peaceably enough as we both know where the other stands. He is loud, and most times has no volume control; however, I think this is something he has no control over as it tends to escalate when he get's excited about something. He also calls himself a tool bag and puts effort into being as much of an asshole as possible.  TrollDiva is his girlfriend. She is titled TrollDiva for a reason. She is often quiet but very sneaky when it comes to playing tricks on people. She provides most of us great joy because she likes to get The Obnoxious One worked into a frenzy over the smallest things. For example; her red glitter ceiling fan. Imagine Dorothy's slippers from The Wizard of Oz. She will also lock the door when you walk outside, get the DJ to Rick Roll a wedding party, hide your belongings when you aren't looking, and write "Bag of Dicks" In your inventory list on character sheets when you aren't looking.

Next is Dumbell and Coffee Monster. I might change coffee monster later but for now that is fitting enough. This is also a couple. Dumbell named himself by the way. He is a health and fitness whiz who works out regularly and happens to have ADD. I think he'd probably lose his junk if he didn't have his hand on it all the time. His wife is the Coffee Monster. She drinks coffee all the time, as a matter of fact I rarely see her without a coffee in hand. We all make it a goal in life to say and do things to watch them visibly twitch when we short circuit things in their brains. They are so expressive! The other day I went into the living room when Dumbell was playing the Xbox and said to him thoughtfully "Do you know what I like to do sometimes when I'm alone?" I lifted my thumbs and looked at them carefully and then stuck them to my boobs "I like to superglue my thumbs to my nipples and pretend I'm a T-rex! Raaaaawwwwr!" I even flailed my hands around and pranced around with my legs bent at the knee to make it more convincing.

We have a new addition to the Troll Hive, I haven't decided what I shall call him. He seems to have a fondness for screen names that evoke disgust so I might go along that vein but I'm not sure. He also has not been here long enough for me to get a gauge on an apt name. I was thinking I might refer to him as Iron Man because he has metal rods in his spine. For the moment you will know him as Iron Man until I can think of something more permanent.

Now I have three other people to talk to you about. They frequent here often, and two of them may live here one day so I might as well make the introductions.

The Angry One. He has an infinite amount of rage and everything he says often drips sarcasm. I blame the fact that his mother is British and I think the sarcasm is genetic. He cringes if I move too fast, it makes me happy inside. Sometimes I run at him to watch him flinch. Then I just stop and grin at him stupidly. He likes pancakes. A lot.

Dobby. Dobby is my little brother by choice. We call him Dobby because if and when he moves in he chose a large storage closet and house chores for a reduced rent. He has some backbone but tends to be more of a follower than a leader. I'm tough on him but he's trying to get his crap together. However, this is my little brother here so if anyone says anything bad about him I'll punch them in the face.

The Nord (Like Skyrim, only he actually has Scandinavian heritage and follows a Norse religion). A big hairy guy who always has a serious case of plumbers crack. He is also a chosen little brother. I'm harder on him though because he needs to get his crap together. Again, no one is allowed to be mean to him or I'll kick them in the junk too. We were working together and I noticed his plumbers crack and told him to wash his ass with pimple cream. He said something to the effect of he knew he should to which I quipped "it might as well be pretty if it's going to hang out all day".

Anyway, those are the people that live here and the regulars. I might change names if I think of something more suitable but this will do for the time being.

GAMES!

I've mentioned before that I play games. For probably the last month or so it has been Skyrim on my Xbox. However, I play games on other systems. Most times I am playing them all at the same time but not all at once. :) Hopefully you just had a fantastic image of someone busily playing several different games at one time.

Anyway, on my phone it's been cycling between games. At first I was really into Plague Inc which is the phone version of Pandemic. I love these games. You are a disease and your goal is to evolve and grow into a plague that kills the human race. Damn Madagascar in Pandemic does not want to die. :|

After Plague Inc, my hobby was Fishing Star. I still play both games I'm just not currently obsessing over them. >.< Currently I am obsessing over Bubble Witch Saga.  I bounce back and forth with games on my phone. Generally, it is whatever is holding my interest at the moment.

On my DS, I recently beat Chocolatier, <--That link, takes you to the one on gamehouse. It's the same game, but if you don't have a DS and want to check it out, there it is. I also went back to playing Gardening Mama. I utterly defeated Cooking Mama 2, having received Gold Stars in everything, there is nothing left for me to accomplish in that game.

But. I've steadily been plodding away at Skyrim on Xbox and it drives me bat shit crazy. I don't know if the game just get's super buggy after a while or if I've done something wrong. In one quest I can't save after a certain point because it freezes my system. When collecting a bounty from Skald, something glitched where it won't clear out of my menus. I collect the bounty and get all my money, but the quest is still there. I did another bounty that required me to collect from Skald and now that one is stuck in there as well.

I had a homeless dude tell me to steal a goddess statue from a temple (on principle I won't usually steal things from temples, perhaps healing potions from time to time). So to clear the quest I go to get it done and those ladies ship me off onto a different quest. The first time I tried to get the statue the ladies stopped me and wouldn't let me continue until they spoke to me. When I stole the statue the quest did not update.

The second time I tried I took the statue and my quest updated. I thought everything was good so I stopped to talk to the one called "The Mother" to initiate that quest before I left. Worked just fine. Well when I walked back to talk to the homeless dude, there was no option to tell him I got the statue for him, and when I checked my quest menu it wasn't there anymore. I was angry.

I also have the most awful luck with getting ganged up on and pwned in the face. Trying to release the Gray-Mane fellow from Thalmor custody and they won't let me in and then a dragon starts flying around. So I think I'll run out a ways and aggro the dragon so he follows me back and can get a little vengeance on these Ass Hats for me. Dragon disappears off my radar and in my gallivanting I almost run headlong into a Snow Bear. But I saw him. So I thought maybe he could kill the gate guard. I run close enough to get his attention and then I run straight at the guard. Then I stop short of the guard and dip around the backside of the abatises they have set up and the Snow Bear runs straight for him. He killed the bear and I was left wondering how I would get into this place without fighting. You see, I tried the fighting method, and I tried walking by him, and both make you fail part of the mission.

I don't like to look things up. I looked in the book for a cave I couldn't find, and I looked in there for house lists, and I looked when I was trying to find where a specific person was. When I looked things up I did not look at anything else and I only skimmed until I found the bit I wanted. I like to do things by myself so I can have a sense of accomplishment about it. *Sigh* Well, I might as well play it for a few hours until everyone get's up or 10 am when I can start being noisy and doing obnoxious chores.