Ranger Hal

Oh, for sure. Lots of tears, especially when I'm driving to and from work and am not actively distracting myself. I'm doing lots of distracting these days. Exercise seems to help, but it's probably not fixing the root of the problem. There's always another secret!

And I got it! Week 1, Tuesday Forest Encounters - stairs workout (+10 xp) for a ranged attack. 19 to hit, and of course, with the snake only having 1 hp left, I rolled max on the die for 11 damage (+25 xp), lol! Hal shot another arrow at the wounded flying snake, pinning it to a tree. Exploration - N/A Clearing the Safe House - already did Dust the Living Room, so the next item on the list is Living Room Floors. Melee attack against the Giant Wolf Spider. 24 to hit and 8 damage which takes care of the last spider (+50 xp). Her next thrust ran the spider through and she cautiously peered through the doorway to see what else was hiding inside. Fletching/Songs/Short Rest - Blackberries, dex check of 19 is a success on the arrow attempt (Feathers 31). Now that I've succeeded at 5 arrows, the DC goes down to 15 and I can attempt 1d2 arrows per short rest. Practiced songs. Candles and teeth for a short rest. Hal carefully finished making another good arrow. Something seemed to click in her mind after this one. Hopefully it would get easier and she would be able to work a little faster now.

RAGE!

Sometimes you have to take risks

Huh, didn't know that. I do see that there appears to be an "add to dictionary" option if I want to use it. That's weird, because I am using Firefox. (At least that's what it claims to be. I use engineering software every day at work, but I don't put much effort into knowing how computers and IT stuff work.)

Is the "Store" new? I don't remember if it was there before, but something seems broken.

Does your library have reciprocal lending agreements with any other libraries? I currently have cards from four different library systems (and know I could get at least one more if I wanted to) and sometimes one of them will have what I want when all copies are checked out in the other systems.

I'm excited for all the potential new horses!

Exactly what I was thinking!

Week 1, Monday Forest Encounters - gym cardio workout (+10 xp) for a ranged attack. Oh, starting out, I rolled on my Forest Encounters table and I'm fighting Flying Snakes. 17 to hit and 4 damage. That's a little sad because I rolled a 1 on the damage die and these things only have 5 hp, so rolling anything else would have killed it entirely. After making camp near the safe house (but not so close as to be bothered by its inhabitants), Hal rose early and went to the spring for water. As she filled her canteen, something flew toward her head. She dodged out of the way and turned to see two flying snakes sweeping around and heading back towards her. She pulled out her bow and fired an arrow, wounding one of them badly, but not quite killing it. Exploration - N/A Clearing the Safe House - Tidy the Living Room, did this for 5 minutes. Melee attack against the Giant Wolf Spider. 23 to hit and 4 damage (rolled another 1 on the damage die, yay). The remaining spider retreated into the giant tree stump for the night, but as Hal approached it the next afternoon, it hissed at her from the doorway. Hal drove her shortsword towards its head and scored a hit on it. Fletching/Songs/Short Rest - Blackberries, dex check of 12 is a failure on the arrow attempt (Feathers 34). Practiced songs. Candles and teeth for a short rest. This time, the fletching looked a little wonky.

Woooo! We're back!!!

Week 0, Sunday Forest Encounters - N/A, technically, skipping this today would mean an attack against me, but a turkey isn't going to do enough damage to be a problem right before a long rest. Also, it's zero week and I peopled (indoors) all day yesterday. I baked some bacon cheddar oatmeal breakfast cookies so that's a Goodberry spell (+10 xp). Exploration - N/A Clearing the Safe House - Bathroom sink. Because I did this both weekend days, I get to use a bonus action to make an attack with my second shortsword. First was 8 which misses. Second was a natural 20, 12 damage, finishing the third spider (+50 xp). One left to go. She swung her first shortsword, missing, but then ran the spider through with her second shortsword. Fletching/Songs/Short Rest - Blackberries, dex check of 20 is a success on the arrow attempt (Feathers 37). One more success and the DC will go down! Practiced songs. Candles and teeth for a short rest. But the one after that was straight and looked like it would fly true. Tracker I think instead of sharing the tracker every day, I'll just do it at the end of the week from now on. Aside from no weekend workout, this was a good week as far as the challenge goes. I did the things. Week 1 Plan Workouts M, T, W, Weekend. For Tuesday's stairs workout, I'll probably either do three sets or figure out some sort of pack thing to add weight (as long as I can figure out a way to do it without messing with the system I have for stuff I take to work). There's a part of me that wants to schedule a group hike for the weekend right now so I can't get out of it and another part of me that wants to procrastinate until it's too late for it to work. In spite of what my very nice tracker spreadsheet implies, I'm a real mess right now.

This is what I've been discovering about myself over the last year. For me, I think the problem is that even though most things have gone back to normal (which makes it feel like I should be normal as well), a couple of my in-person communities either disappeared or are very different from what they used to be and I haven't found new communities that fill the holes yet.

I mean, it seems about right considering the DC that I set for the first 5 arrows. It's a 30% chance of success. It will get better pretty soon and I will get a chance to make more arrows each short rest as well. For my own sanity, I decided that the different colored text happens at different times of the day (long rest is at the end of the week).

Week 0, Saturday Forest Encounters - N/A Exploration - N/A Clearing the Safe House - Kitchen Stove, 5 minutes wasn't enough to really clean it properly, but it's better than it was. 24 to hit and 4 damage to the third spider. Hal turned to the third spider and stabbed at it, but it shifted back and wasn't as damaged as she'd hoped. Fletching/Songs/Short Rest - Blackberries, dex check of 7 is a failure on the arrow attempt (Feathers 40). Practiced songs. Candles and teeth for a short rest. The next arrow attempt was somehow even worse. Tracker