#especially since so much of what Smiler does requires the power to be on

[victorluvsalice]

We’ve reached Spring Monday in the Chill Valicer save -- an important day in the Valicer household! It was Egg Day! It was “purchasing new property” day! But most importantly, it was --

The Power Surplus Has Finally Run Out So Fuck You The House Is Dark Constantly Now Day! Yeaaah, I don’t know WHAT happened (other than the wind farm out back breaking down a little too often, and possibly the new stove and fridge being bigger power sucks than I expected), but midway through the wee morning hours, while Victor was chilling in the light of the sacred candles and Smiler was mastering their yoga (they know the warrior pose now!) and weeding a sadly-shrunken Snappy the Sixam Mosquito Trap, the lights went out and I got a message saying the power surplus had been used up. I promptly had Smiler fly out to check on the wind turbines and fix any that were busted -- as usual, one was, though I couldn’t see THAT being the cause of the sudden blackout. You’d think it would take ALL of them being broke to take the lights out in the house these days! But they repaired the turbine, got some spare parts, then headed around the house to do some recycling (stopping to cheer the snoozing Alice on the way, because yay Alicewolf I guess XD). Might as well keep up with the gathering of bits and pieces while we wait for the power to come back on!

And hey, you know what ELSE is a fun activity to do in a haunted house while you wait for the power to be restored? A seance! A group seance, no less, because Victor’s that good a medium now, and why shouldn’t Alice and Smiler help out with restoring the spiritual serenity of the house? They’re all cottagecore occults here! So I had everyone gather in the seance room and had Victor lead the ceremony, going ahead and plopping his sacred candles in the room to provide a little extra ghostly light. I mean, it definitely provides the right atmosphere, doesn’t it? Especially with Victor levitating like that. XD The ceremony went well, and to my delight right near the end the lights came back on --

Only to immediately go off again. And then a thunderstorm started outside. *sigh* Gonna be one of THOSE days in the game, huh? Well, I had an idea to try and fix the power problem, so I hopped into build mode, took a moment to build a proper chimney on the back of the house (I mean, they do have a fireplace, so they should HAVE one). . .