Monthly Archives: August 2013

… The Temple of TILE’s position is fixed for a while, hehe.

My neighbor’s tumblr site: Veyot’s View. She just opened up a pizza parlor (structure to right in above pic). Here’s an entry about VWX Town in particular — that’s Veyot with some of the town’s residents in the Church of The Diagonal.

Here’s Another recent entry about VWX Town from the always amazing dualatoll blog. My town is getting a little outside notice, and that’s probably enough.

I’m thinking I need to explore more of the Atoll Continent/Heterocera. Maybe run the rails again.

Unfortunately I still believe VWX Town will basically be destroyed by the first week of September, when my tier payment comes due again. Fall hiking season will be right around the corner, and I need to refocus on Frank and Herman Parks (check name of blog!). Need to get use to a new camera for park pictures. Still miss Liquor (nickname for my old camera). Pheh. But I’m sure the new one will be adequate.

In the meantime I have Second Life and Heterocera and VWX Town and VHC Town. Good clean fun.

50 minutes earlier…

bb:

1st order of business seems to be the, um, business of the first Table, which is now perhaps the second Table or the Table behind this Table. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? C. Derek Jones — I believe you mentioned that Knok of The Kniks lived in the garage next to your property in Westside or use to practice there.

CDJ:

Not to my knowledge. (pause)

bb:

Hucka Doobie?

Hucka D.:

The second is behind the first, which is more tangible. They’ll meet after us. Or will they?

bb:

I don’t know, Hucka D… Doobie.

Hucka D.:

Thank you Baker Bloch (smiles)

bb:

So if no one has any thoughts on the second Table we’ll move on. Just for the minutes, the characters at this table behind the table, so to speak, are Peter SoSo, who may be the same as Peter Gabriel; Dr. Blood, who may be Knok from the future; Little Robert Plant Variant originally from Nowtown on the Jeogeot continent — anyone familiar with that continent?

Hucka D.:

*I* am.

bb:

Anyone besides Hucka Doobie? (all shakes heads or else look blank) Then, continuing, we have Marty and Lemmon of The Beetles both; and, let’s see, Zapple may be there; Roger Pine Ridge.

Hucka D.:

You’re going to have a second table to do this. Remember The Table House in Central, guys? Remember The Table all set up upstairs — anyone visit that (all shakes heads or look blank again)? Ah, forget it. But that’s the original Table, actually. (shaking his own head) Where’d you find these guys, Baker?

bb:

These guys here? (looking around the current Table) Here and there. Carrcassonne: any thoughts on what we’ve talked about so far?

Carrcassonne:

The all, the one. See me and see the world, the universe. I is. You am.

Hucka D.:

See? Maybe we should just skip the next 37 minutes and head down to the cemetery.

bb:

What cemetery? The VWX Town Cemetery?

Hucka D.:

Yeah, that one. It’s rezzed isn’t it?

bb:

Kind of. A couple of graves.

Hucka D.:

Do you have the freshly dug grave there?

bb:

Yes, I think.

Tronesisia:

I can sing for 36 minutes. I have a beautiful voice.

bb:

Everyone in favor of Tronesisia singing for the next 36 minutes before going to the cemetery shake their heads or just look blank (looks around, seeing everyone doing just this). Motion passes unanimously. Right Hucka Doobie?

Hucka D.:

Wrong.

(the next 36 minutes were taken up by the most profound series of ideas baker b. had ever heard in his life)

(To be continued)

Characters around The Table and assoc. town regions:

Tronesisia (neutral)
Cardboard (C.) Derek Jones (Westside)
Redbot (Southside)
Carrcassonne (Southside)
Grey Seal (Southside)
Furry Carl (Central)
Pietmond Boy (neutral)
Ranger Johns (Central)
Biker Jones (Central)
Ben Thar (Central)
Don That (Central — deceased; honorary position at Table)
Hucka Doobie (neutral)
Botblue (Central)
Philip Linden (Central?)
Baker Bloch (neutral)
Ross C. (Westside)
Barney Rubles (Westside)

Must identify characters or objects in town that *aren’t* alive and thus cannot sit at or stand around The Table. As stated before, Baker Bloch was surprised to find that Carrcassonne was able to mobilize from her position in the Temple of TILE and attend. However, similar “statue” Goldie, existing beside the Hole in the Wall bar in Central, is not quite alive or hasn’t reached that threshold, and so cannot be a part of The Table. Same for related (but currently not rezzed) town statues Brash, Newton and Jasper. In Pietmond, it was seen that Carrcassonne, while related to all the named above, stands above them or rises beyond them in their center — perhaps they are just split off aspects of herself, arranged around her like a quaternity.

Another issue:

What happened to this earlier version of The Table starring a stable of rock variants like Marty, Lemmon, Little Robert Plant Variant, Peter SoSo, Knok, and so on? Will this be a type of second Table behind or in the background of the first? And what of Dr. Blood — is he the same as Knok? Is he the same as the Tinman (Tin S. Man?) pictured in the collage on the wall next to the current Table?

And what of his partner on this picture, The Scarecrow?

Or is this “second” Table the one that was deleted from The Table House in Central to free up prims for the creation of the *current* Table and attached town characters? I think so; that’s official town history, then.

So let’s move on from that: Characters around the *current* Table actually exist in their original form in VWX Town, and in specific regions. What I mean by this is that the table characters are more or less exact duplicates of those found elsewhere in the town. Exceptions for now, just thinking of Table characters again, are Tronesisia, Small Pietmond Boy, Hucka Doobie, and myself as Baker Bloch. Philip Linden seems to sit on a fence between manifestation in the Sink Lair of Central and non-manifestation. Of the rest, Carrcassonne seems the most talkative, or the one that is most coherent. Oh, along with C. Derek Jones, of course. Does C.D. Jones have a bone to pick with Carrcassonne?

We’re watching the 5th season of True Blood, which has been somewhat disappointing. But we find it funny that one of the vampire chancellors, who are always pictured sitting around a table so far in our viewings, is a kid. This is because it reminds us of Kirk from the Board of Shaman in the Mighty Boosh, one of our favorite British comedy series, and which we recently re-watched in its entirety. And, likewise, the VWX Town Table has a child (Small Pietmond Boy), and also an animal (Grey Seal), 5 robots (Tronesisia, Barney Rubles, Ross C., Redbot, and Botblue), and several anthropomorphized animal-people objects (Cardboard Derek Jones, Furry Carl). In looking at it, I see that the only really human characters found in VWX Town itself are from Central (Ben Thar, Philip Linden, Biker Jones, Ranger Johns). Baker Bloch is only part human himself, and the same goes for Hucka Doobie.

That seems to bring us back to Carrcassonne. She may be the only true *alien* at The Table, then. Pietmond history identifies her with Pluto’s moon Charon, which can be pronounced like “Sharon”. More info here.

Tronesisia calls the meeting to order.

Hucka Doobie:

What are you Tronesisia? (He was blunt tonight.)

bb:

Instead, Hucka D. — or Hucka Doobie here in this meeting, this Second Lyfe of ours — let’s go around The Table and introduce ourselves.

Tronesisia:

I’m Tronesisia. Should we identify our town region?

bb:

Sure.

Tronesisia:

I am neutral, then. I am from the future, 2052.

bb:

Thank you Tronesisia. Nice to meet you. Enjoy your beer, hehe.

Tronesisia:

I will.

bb:

So beside her we have the now blog famous Cardboard Derek Jones.

CDJ:

That’s C. Derek Jones now. And I’d like to announce to those who don’t know that I have a cottage in Westside now, and I will keep Floydada open all the time on the lime table within for those who want to study it. Wander in, pull up a seat. Well, I’ll have to add the seat soon, but it’ll be there for you in a couple of hours to a couple of days.

bb:

Thank you C. Derek Jones. And you’re obviously from Westside.

CDJ:

You’re darn toot’n! And, yeah, I’m going to add here to start that Westside now wags the dog that is VWX Town, thanks to The Diagonal and this here church. Don’t you all agree?

(Grumbles from the crowd, some agreeing but most just grumbling incoherently.)

bb:

Next we have a red robot from Southside.

Redbot:

Red robot, Southside, yes.

bb:

Then Carrcassonne, who has very recently had to switch from Central to Southside due to the relocation of the Temple of TILE, her home. Do you have anything else to say now, Carrcassonne?

Carrcassonne:

I am the one, the all. Alpha and omega. Hear me and hear the world, the universe. Listen.

bb:

Thanks. Next we have Grey Seal, also from Southside. And you’re a neighbor of Carrcassonne’s now.

(Grey Seal barks.)

bb:

Next we have Furry Carl, now long time proprietor of the Hole in the Wall bar, originally in New Pietmond I believe, Carl.

Furry Carl:

Have a beer. Merry fucking summer.

bb:

I will in a moment, thanks. And thanks for providing the refreshments for the meeting, Carl, including this delicious but now almost empty giant bottle of wine from the Hole in the Wall Cellar Dweller, soon to open underneath the Sink Lair gallery. Fantastic.

Furry Carl:

Fucking… Merry… Christmas.

bb:

Next, just keeping to our counterclockwise direction we come to… well who are you small boy?

Furry Carl:

Fucking beer. Merry fucking beer Christmas. (pause) Dweller.

Carrcassonne:

Carl’s saying that the boy is from Pietmond and he has seen a lot but not the all that I have. He watched from his gazebo perch as Old Pietmond was destroyed piece by piece, building by building. He had to watch. He could not look away. He watched, he looked. He cannot speak now.

bb:

Traumatized?

(Carrcassonne does not answer.)

bb:

Does he have a region in town? (no one answers) I suppose we’ll just call him a Pietmond visitor or observer, then. We better move on to…

… the Johns/Jones twins, Biker and Ranger. Great friends you are, I understand. And you’re both from Central.

Biker Jones:

Follow the robots!

Ranger Johns:

Which way to the galleries?

bb:

Thanks guys. That brings us to, well, Ben Thar, do you want to go first before Hucka Doobie?

(Ben Thar laughs crazily.)

bb:

Well, I know that you’ve run a number of town halls now, Ben, being an information point to New Pietmond and VWX Town both — maybe Old Pietmond as well.

(more laughing.)

bb:

Then we come to Hucka Doobie. What can I say Hucka. You’re our blog spirit here, the glue that glues things together. The word that comes from nowhere to somewhere. The highest within the lowest. The upper, the downer. You’ve been with me, baker b., quite a long time now. Your story has been told in the “Where are we on that?” gallery and blog entries. You invented the Second Life beehive constructions. Your soul use to inhabit the body of renowned New Mexican surrealist Charles Nelson Blinkerton. You’re here in Second Life all the time as one of the undead, and you make a mean shepherd’s pie. Let’s hear it for Hucka Doobie.

(The room erupts in cheers. Everyone loves Hucka.)

bb:

Then we have another robot, this one from Central.

Bluebot:

Hello.

bb:

And then last but probably not least, the most famous of famous, Philip Linden.

Philip Linden:

Nice to be here. I don’t have a region. Just observing, like the Pietmond boy over there.

bb:

Thanks. So we’re ready to begin. Oh wait…

… forgot about you guys behind me — Barney Rubles and Ross C., both from Westside. Anything to say?

(no answer.)

bb:

Let’s begin.

(to be continued.)

In a startling late game move, Carrcassonne moves to the opposite side of The Table in Westside’s Church of The Diagonal to become a Southsider.

This is because of this: The Temple of TILE, Carrcassonne’s home, has been moved From Central back beside the Power Tower Gowlery in Southside. Will the changes and rearrangements never cease?!

The Sink Lair’s Philip Linden, having switched from Southside to Central himself in the switcheroo process, is beginning to doubt it.

C. Derek’s Jones’ new cottage in Westside.