I think I am better now, though!

Jan 30, 2012 00:22

Sooo. I've spent the last few days home sick with some sort of stomach bug. AWESOME. (It is not really.)

On the positive side, this has given me time to hang out with the new cat (her real name is Sazy, but I've mostly been calling her "Trauma Kitty" because she is super jumpy and has spent the very vast majority of her time here thus far hiding under my bed). She seems to be fairly friendly when she is not being startled into running away and hiding. But she is very, very easily startled into running away. She did not get along with the kids, so now she is afraid of noises that might be children, I guess? Right now she is sitting in the doorway to the kitchen and sniffing the frame. I was about to be worried she was gonna claw it, but then I remembered the declawed her, so, uh. Never mind.

Also, being sick has given me time to play way too much Uncharted 2.


Back to the snow and ice (since it's not like we have any here, because this is a shitty excuse of a winter).

And the giant statues carved into the rocks, those, too. (We don't have those here, either, but that isn't unusual.)

Nooo, I failed to climb the wall fast enough.

Wow. Wowww, Nate, I am honestly impressed you're making some of these jumps. Also, this is completely ridiculous. Who built this place. Why.

… aaaugh are you kidding? Bridge betrayal. D:

Hrmm. Am I supposed to crawl across the rafters (well, I say crawl. I suppose I mean leap) or am I supposed to play with the giant gears some more? Coin toss! Rafters it is!

My inclination is to continue with the gears, so that's probably the right direction, which means maybe there is treasure hidden in the rafters! Or maybe they're just there to distract me, I don't know. Let's go find out!

TREASURE.

Okay, now back to the wheels.

For real, guys, what was a ceremonial axe doing in a statue's eyeball? INQUIRING MINDS, and all.

I like Tenzin. I'll be bummed if (when) he dies.

Resin. There's obviously something important about this damn resin we're finding everywhere. Is the Cintamani stone secretly made of resin?

NAZIS?! Man, those bloody Nazis were everywhere, weren't they? Boats in the jungles, temples in the mountains… They probably show up (as corpses, of course) in the third game, too, don't they.

Nooo, not more Yeti monsters! D:

I know about being given the finger, but that was ridiculous. Friggin' snow monsters!

Oh, no! They found us somehow! Argh!

Why would he bring a tank?! (Also, Nate, why do you bother asking these questions anymore?)

…. Hahaha, sweet! Sort of? I'm a bit confused. I was lost and alone (Tenzin was, uh. Elsewhere?) and the tank had just come through a wall (after nearly driving me and itself over a cliff) and it SHOT ME DOWN, bang bang (I hit the ground), aaaaand rather than me needing to try and escape it again, the game reloads and I find myself standing outside a house with Tenzin. I SUSPECT I missed a scene somehow. Heeeeere YouTube~!

All righty! Mystery solved. NOW I KNOW.

AAARGH the tank just sniped me mid-rooftop leap. XD

… Or maybe it was the guy up ahead with the RPG. Seriously, pitting me against both at once is a bit unfair, don't you think?

Yaaay, we found the kid, at least!

NATE DON'T BE AN ASS. JUST LET ELENA DRIVE. She's better at it than you are, anyway. GET AWAY FROM THE STEERING WHEEL.

YEAH, NATE, WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LET HER DRIVE IN THE FIRST PLACE?!

Damn, Elena, you are so lucky these trucks are sturdier when I'm not in them. (Or maybe the yellow one is better protected, heh.)

… Well, we'd better hope it was the latter, since I'm back!

… oh, jesus! NEVER A DULL MOMENT.

Hey, no way was that water deep enough to kill me. MAN UP, NATE.

I am actually really not good at this SPAM TRIANGLE things. I do not really know why, I just… am not. So. Yeah. DON"T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT, ELENA. :< I am trying.

I like how Nate is all, "Follow me!" all over, and the whole time Elena is in the lead.

… it is so cute how people keep asking Nate to be quiet, or subtle, or any of those other things he absolutely cannot be.

Hahaha, shit, did - yeah, what Nate said. Did we do that??

I like sniping. IT IS FUN.

AAAUGH. Elena, we have bad luck with bridges, don't we? Ugh.

Uuugh, Would anyone believe me if I said that I really, really don't mean to get everyone killed?

Wow, I am hopelessly incapable of reaching that rope. I died four times! BUT NOW I am across! Yay!

Hrrrg. I hear people shouting and shooting, but no one is aiming at me. So, uh…?

Ah, now they are aiming at me. Still, what were they going after before? Nate also wonders.

Oh. Snow monsters. Of course. Apparently these idiots are dumber than the ones in the first game. At least those fools would target the bigger threat over me.

Whatever, I'll just go hide again and leave them to it. ~_~

OR NOT RPG TO THE FACE

Man, how many of those stupid creatures are there around here?? Stay away! Leave me alone!

Blarg! What are they wearing that they can survive two RPGs straight to the face? I want some.

… Nate, you didn't tell her about the TERRIFYING CREATURES? What is wrong with you?! Gah! XD Elena, I hope you punch him next time you see him.

AAA SURPRISE GAP AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS it's okay, I'm fine, my reflexes actually worked for once and I hit jump in time to avoid running straight off the drop. Yay!

Less yay is I think that was a yeti that just jumped away as soon as I landed. They're getting closerrrr.

I am continually surprised by Nate's lack of gloves, gotta admit.

Aw, geez, Flynn, you're always in trouble, aren’t'cha?

Ah, apparently I should be calling them "demon sasquatches" rather than "monsters", "creatures", and "yetis"…

Sully's someplace warm, remember?

YES, LET'S PULL STATUES OFF THE MOUNTAIN. BRILLIANT.

Dang, this supposed secret entrance is really obvious. I hope they're all embarrassed.

I have to go all the way back there?? Argh.

BUT FIRST: ammo, ammo, ammo, oh, I've missed you. … I've been running short for a while, now. There haven't been too many enemies, which I've appreciated, but I really dislike running around with a total of 11 bullets to my name.

Hahaha, Elena! For what it's worth, I'm a bit tired of walls, too!

Nate, I do not think holding an unnamed grunt as your hostage will really help you, here… Cute, though.

Y'know, Nate, you could still put your foot down. Sure, it will probably result in someone dying, but. Just saying.

(It's gonna be real fun getting out of here, isn't it…)

MORE ADVENTURE TIME WITH FLYNN.

Meanwhile… all right, girls, time to show these losers what you're made of, yeah? :3 (Probably not, as they are grossly outnumbered, and the other guys have guns, but I CAN DREAM.)

Yeah, 'cause I'm gonna know if it's a dead end or not. Been here so many times before.

Hahaa, oh, you boys. One snark after another, and none of them especially clever.

Uh, oh, Harry, I'm behind you! I'm behind you! :D What're you gonna do about it??

Nothing? God, you're dull.

SON OF A BITCH WHY

Hahaha, the battle ended right as I got snagged in one of those HIT TRIANGLE TO DODGE! things.

Costumes. Weird. Why not. Strange-looking without the mask, too.

Yeah, Nate, see, that's the problem with going along. Eventually they've got no reason not to kill you.

Fortunately, this guy's an idiot and he's gonna drag you along, anyway. Yay!

MORE YETIS! Only these ones don't have costumes. MORE BLUE GUYS! Scarecrows. Guardians. Whatevers.

… not sure how I just died. Gonna chalk this up to a poorly timed jump causing Nate to smash his own skull in on the walkway.

Chloe wants to leave, but they know better! (Me, I'd like to leave, too, but I also know that would be a bad idea.)

STOP LECTURING ME, CHLOE. I get it, it's fine. You can go. Elena and Nate can take care of it if you really can't deal.

Hahaha, I got my 50-Kills [AK-47] when I dropped the first of these guys, and for half a second I was like, wtf, you get a trophy just for killing these things??

… man, the sounds the sap/resin makes when you shoot it, you'd think it's alive. (MAYBE IT IS??)

Hahaha, the dialogue in this scene… COMPANY? AGAIN?! Shh, shh, quiet, maybe they haven't heard us!

Of course, this entire time, Chloe and I have been hiding behind poles, and Elena is out there being shot at by, y'know, every gun-wielding lunatic in the area.

Ah, geez, you two! Things got a bit hectic when more of those guardians appeared, and I ended up falling off our little platform. By the time I lost my big, blue friend and climbed back up, they'd killed the other one and then they had disappeared. I was starting to freak out before I noticed them standing at the bottom of a stairwell.

NOW NATE IS A COUNTERWEIGHT

And also now it is raining.

… and there is thunder! And lightning! And we are standing in water! Fantastic!

Whooo, that's a lot of enemies. I knew I'd held onto this crossbow for a reason.

I knew there was something going on with that resin! Eating it, okay, yeah, didn't get that far. Suppose the black teeth should've been a bigger clue. Oh, well.

Wow, dude, what happened to you between the guardian fight and here? Bit of a mess you've made of yourself, is all.

Possibly Flynn is even more crazed than I'd initially believed him to be. Or brainwashed? Or just impossibly stupid. (Prideful would fall under that last one.)

Nooo, Elena! :(

Aaaugh, Chloe, don't argue and just move! Not like we'll make it very far if he doesn't go out there and try to stop Lazarevic et al.

Hng. I'm probably gonna regret ending chapter 25 with a sniper rifle in-hand instead of something with a bit more ammo, aren't I?

NATE NATE
PLEASE DON'T WAIT
SHOOT HIM IN THE HEAD BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!

Alas. No one ever listens to me. NOT EVEN WHEN I RHYME IT.

Stand my ground?! Sorry, Lazarevic, but that is so not my style!

Oh, I guess he can throw multiple grenades. Well, that sucks.

DAMN IT AREN'T YOU DEAD YET??

EAAUUGH to you, too, Nate, next time try catching the edge instead of falling off it for fuck's sake

I think you're a fucking lunatic, 's what I think

Hahaha, jerk. Hope that hurts.

Whaaaat, I have to outrun a collapsing bridge WHILE FACING BEHIND ME? Unfair!

But I showed it who was boss anyway. HA!

Oh, man, how the hell are we gonna get Elena out of here? D: And of course we left our winter gear back in there. This is gonna be fun…

ELENA, NOOOO WTF GET BETTER YOU STILL NEED TO PUNCH NATE FOR NOT TELLING YOU ABOUT THE MONSTERS

I'M NOT FALLING FOR YOUR FALSE-DEATH-ENDING, GAME.

HA. Nice try, I guess, though.

LAST ASS JOKE?

Wow, uh, I totally did not realize that was Sully for a minute, there. Thank goodness for The Moustache, I guess.

Hahaha, clowns.

THEY ARE ADORABLE CAN WE PLEASE KEEP THEM THIS TIME INSTEAD OF STARTING THE THIRD GAME WITH SOME RANDOM OTHER PEOPLE AGAIN?

A couple random thoughts!!:

I do really like the music, but in a couple places it weirded me out. There's one bit that reminded me of something from the Lord of the Rings movies (I can't be bothered to look up which tracks, it was a recurring melody), and that was fine, just a bit odd. And then there was one bit that'd play sometimes that sounded a lot like some of the music from the "Dolphin's Nightmare" section of Ecco: Defender of the Future and that always made me twitch. So, yeah. No real point in mentioning this, just that it is a thing that happened, the end.

I am so glad Chloe developed a personality! I am so sad it took her so unreasonably long to do it! And even through most of the ending, I kept expecting her to somehow betray me. I am super glad she didn't, and I am glad she did not die, but I will also not really miss her if she is not in the third game, whenever I can get that.

ELENA IS STILL THE BEST. ELENAAAA ♥

Nate is pretty cool, too, I mean, but ELENAAAAA.

/THE END

DYING WHAT OCCURRED:

GRAVITY: 13
BOULDER TO THE FACE: 1
Yeti: 1
Siege soldiers: 5
TANK?!: 9
Truck crash: 3
RUN OVER: 3
Water: 1
Temple Ruins baddies: 6
SNIPED!: 1
Shouldn't you be more worried about the yeti?: 1
Grenade: 1
YETI TUG OF WAR ow: 1
Poor Jumping Skills: 1
Rock sliding accident: 1
Scarecrow Guardians: 1
More enemy soldiers: 2
Waterway Battle: 6
Wounded Elena Escort: 1
Lazarevic: 3

CUMMULATIVE DYING WHAT OCCURRED:

GRAVITY: 19
Stealth failure: 6
Exploding Barrel Oops: 1
Camp Battle: 2
Run Over: 4
Shield Bash: 1
CAR EXPLODE: 1
Building Collapse: 3
CEEEEILING: 2
Temple Escape: 1
Escort Failure: 1
Stealthing: 1
Train yard shoot-out: 1
Train: 6
Helicopter: 3
Train Climbing: 1
Train Wreck Ambush: 3
Mountain climbing Falling: 4
BOULDER TO THE FACE: 1
Yeti: 1
Siege soldiers: 5
TANK?!: 9
Truck crash: 3
Water: 1
Temple Ruins baddies: 6
SNIPED!: 1
Shouldn't you be more worried about the yeti?!: 1
Grenade: 1
YETI TUG OF WAR ow: 1
Poor Jumping Skills: 1
Rock sliding accident: 1
Scarecrow Guardians: 1
More enemy soldiers: 2
Waterway Battle: 6
Wounded Elena Escort: 1
Lazarevic: 3

Consolidated Death List:
Stealth failure: 6
GRAVITY: 24
Baddies: 33
Vehicle Incidents: 26
Object Incompetence: 9
Water: 1
Shambhala Guardians: 3
Lazarevic: 3

TOTAL: 105

So, yes. We are now accepting donations to the "Uncharted 3 for Jecca" fund.

Because ahbsfdjkglhkjd damn it I want the third game. XDD Stupid no money.

(But for now I am playing multiplayer online with a friend who also has the game. Anyone wanna join us?)

[Crossposted from DW. Comments:
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