Spirit of the North, PowerWash Simulator and Other Notes

 Hi everyone,

Work was cancelled tonight as the assignment that was supposed to start got pushed back to tomorrow, so that helps in a big way as we haven't had work since the Friday before last! I also have a job interview tomorrow at 12:30 PM Eastern, which could possibly lead to a new career path. Then again I also applied for a position as for a major company that has a major presence in my home town too. Either job would be a good get because I wouldn't mind commuting via Uber or Taxi since they would be very local destinations with in the city!

We finished Spirit of The North on tonight's stream, and needless to say the final three plus chapters of the game may in total took two hours and changes to do, (since we were in the middle of chapter five last night), but man did the game develop a case of a 'where the fuck do we go', namely in the Chapter 7 where everything was mostly blue and rather hard to see. Almost at random I seem to find where I needed to go and things progressed to a rather satisfying ending.

Overall I like Spirit of the North, much like Abzu and Omno, there is a fairly logical approach to all the puzzles... and it's more about the journey and experiencing the creative direction the developers put in place. Would I personally play it again, probably not, but I do recommend folks play it.

Spirit of the North: Enhanced Edition Achievements

• Match Maker: Match 12 sets of Revolving Matching Glyphs
• Old Companion: Awaken 12 Shaman Spirits
• Spirited Away: Make it out of the Spirit World
• Northern Lights: Fill the night sky with Aurora Borealis
• Foxin' Around: Stand still for 3 minutes

Since we finished Spirit of the North two hours into the stream, after a break we switched over to PowerWash Simulator, starting on the Firehouse job, and clearing out well over 60% of it, leaving the side structure to deal with. There is an achievment for not using the scaffold, which is going to be an interesting challenge next time we use PowerWash Simulator as a filler game

For the raid we went over to twitch.tv/misscammi316 where Cammi was playing Smite

Kristi and I did a lot of free style writing on our little Power Rangers project, not sure if we'll publish it, but we certainly put in a lot of lore and detail into it.

Xfinity spent the morning installing fiber optic cable in my neighborhood so we're all on that 10G network... let's home that fixes the issues of intermittent Upstream power levels dropping.

I want to say I'm 70% finished the Mass Effect short story commission, and it's already the length of two and half stories at 5300 words. That's the problem with stories that involve 10 characters that need to be spotlighted equally.

Our next stream over on twitch.tv/fredcasden will start after 9:30 PM Eastern on Wednesday, as Iceman and I will begin the Ada Wong campaign of Resident Evil 6! I'm real curious to see where her story fits in with the other three campaigns.

And on that note, have a good night everyone!

Spirit of the North and other notes

Ho everyone,

Today was fucking awful, I had a job interview in a town called Mount Laurel, and I already had great fears about being able to get there and back because of the limited bus schedules, in fact I took an Uber over to ensure I got there for my interview on time while taking a bus back. But tings went from bad to worse when I was asked two questions that caught me off guard my best friend would describe me and how the person closest to me would describe me... and both made me very uncomfortable, the first because I'm not sure who I would consider to be my best friend and I never considered how they would describe me, and with the second... well, it's obvious I was close to my mom and I couldn't control myself from tearing up trying to think how she would describe me. I feel so fucking embarrassed by that, b

Then work was cancelled in the evening for the sixth consecutive shift.... and I may have missed out an opportunity for another job interview because I couldn't plan short notice for tomorrow (Tuesday). So yeah, really shitty day

The stream started at 7 PM and we played a little game called Spirit of the North, which is a puzzle platform  style game, where we guide afox through a journey involving spirits and... saving the land from pollution? Corruption? I'm not sure. It is a pretty game with a good sound track, but I may have glitched the game somewhere in the fifth chapter. 

There only eight chapters (apparently) so we should be able to finish it on Tuesday night's stream

Spirit of the North: Enhanced Edition Achievements

• A Guardian Forgotten: Awaken the Spirit of the North
• Infused with Light: Become Infused with Pure Ancient Energy
• Fetch: Carry a Shaman Staff for 3 minutes
• Awaken: Awaken 5 Shaman Spirits
• Spirit Bark: Unlock Spirit Bark Ability
• Eradicate: Destroy 3 Plague Tethers
• Blooms of Light: Collect 25 Spirit Bloom
• Spirit Form: Unlock Spirit Form Ability
• Uprooting Darkness: Destroy 8 Plague Tethers
• Garden of Light: Collect 50 Spirit Bloom
• Best Friends: Cause the Wisp chirp 100 times
• Weightless: While in Spirit Form; step on a pressure plate, an unstable platform, and walk on water
• Written In Stone: Infuse 30 Standing Stones
• Spirit Dash: Unlock Spirit Dash Ability
• Plague Doctor: Destroy 18 Plague Tethers

For the raid we went over to twitch.tv/princesspashley where Princesspashley was doing a Just Chatting stream.

Didn't do any writing on the Mass Effect short story commission, which is already at 2900 words, and I intend to work on it on Tuesday afternoon

Touched based with my former co-writer and long time friend Kristi, throwing around a few ideas for a few things Power Ranger related. It could be very Morphinomenal.

Our next stream is scheduled for 9:30 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden with more Spirit of the North as indicated earlier. If work is canceled, we'll start at 7 PM Eastern.

On that note, have a good night

Overwatch 2 and other notes

Hi everyone,

Tonight's stream of Overwatch 2 was a lot of fun, we started early and featured all three story missions which is limited to those who have the story mission pack along with the Underground mission that is available to everyone. We of course also got in a lot of quick play matches as well, and shockingly we didn't really see the Flashpoint mission too much tonight. Big thank you to BangBangBang, PandaSweet and Odeu for being apart of the fun this evenings.

I picked up one play of the game on stream as Ashe, in addition to playing as Junker Queen, Moira, Tracer, Bastion, Mei, D.va, Orissa and a handful of others. The new progression system means I may end up focusing on a few characters in particular to grind out levels for each character depending on role type.

For the raid we went over to twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x where x9abenonymous9x was playing Midnight Club: Los Angeles 

Pre-recorded the second 'episode' of my new Headcanon series for my YouTube channel focusing on Mass Effect 3 and how the Illusive Man's entire arc as a character hides the fact that the players choice as Shepard matters. 

Speaking of Mass Effect I knocked out another major chunk of the latest commission request based on the party that takes place during the Citadel DLC.

I have to take a day trip out to Mount Laurel on Monday, and if all goes well (which I doubt) I'll have some exciting news. But more than likely it's going to be the waste of $60 in terms of transportation.

Our next stream is schedule for Monday night at 9:30 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden and will feature the start of Spirit of the North. In theory it should only take about 5 to 7 hours to finish, so if there is no work, we'll start early to try and do the game in one session. But if we do have work (which we hope), we'll split it over two nights

So on that note... good night everyone!