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Edwardston Again.
We follow another day in the life of VWX Town citizen Edwardston Resident. He wakes up in the Home o’ Fibs, his claimed residence…
… and takes a look out the window to see if any major changes have occurred in the town since he went to sleep. None spotted.
He decides to do some meditation this day before heading out into the virtual world. A little synchronicity here: note that the position of Edwardston’s arms here are almost exactly the same as the ballerina’s he tried to identify so hard with the day before.
Perhaps thanks to the additional calming influence of the meditation, Edwardston begins to think outside the VWX Town box, taking the perspective of a green crystal shaped skybox on the neighboring property to the west flying the rainbow colored flag.
Edwardston also makes an identification this morning between the neighbor’s rainbow flag (left center) and the similar rainbow colors of the Temple of TILE’s labyrinth, also glimpsed in the above snapshot (right center). This makes another kind of one-to-one match for Edwardston using this particular perspective I, his user, provide for him once more.
Edwardston looking toward the neighbor’s low skybox from his back porch. Two rainbows can be glimpsed.
He heads over to the Power Tower Gowlery, remembering that the same labyrinth was also in one of the 1st floor collages (Gila 07: “Temple Dors”).
In looking at the other collages in the gallery, he notices that the Temple of TILE building is in not one but several, including Gila 05 (“Height and Depth”)…
… and also Latona 01 (“Exodus”). “Exodus from what?” Edwardston finds himself thinking. “Is this a picture of the fabled Pietmond? Is this the *end* of Piemond?” If Edwardston would have peered a little closer at Latona 01, he might have made out the name New Pietmond on a dark structure just below Spongebob’s pineapple house. So Edwardston kind of got it right: the picture is about the dismantling of Sikkima’s New Pietmond, which existed just south of Rubi’s VWX Town in early 2013. Edwardston hasn’t made that connection yet; that Baker’s lived in this area a number of times with different sets of builds as a result.
Edwardston moves up to the 3rd floor and the Lis series, taking another look at Lis 09 (“Up into Victory”). He understands this is about resurrection, and correctly associates it with his own recent birth as VWX Town resident.
This red haired figure from the following collage (Falmouth 01) is somehow him… reborn in this town in this time. It is both a man and a woman in one, he realizes, staring at it. He even attempts to physically merge with the figure, as he had earlier done with the Confluence ballerina (and Bracket Jupiter had done with The Shining’s Jack). With less success this time — the red haired being was a little too large for the match.
Edwardston teleports outside VWX Town toward the house with the rainbow flag. His figure smushes together into a ball shape, and he feels he is being rejected and punished for not being able to do as Baker Bloch wished and identify with the town’s central ballerina at the Confluence Place.
Soon his correct form pops out from the ball again, but he still feels exiled. Dejected, he decides to head away from VWX Town in a southwesterly direction, soon finding another small community in Rosieri. “Could *this* be a new home?” he thinks while wandering its deserted streets. No, it would not be. I don’t think.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, collages 2d, Heterocera, Rubi^
“I heard…
“Knock, knock!”
… you went to visit Bracket Jupiter in VWX Town, Hucka D.”
Hucka D.:
Couldn’t see him. No good[ of a visit]. But I can see you!
bb:
Most excellent. I don’t understand why people — avatars — can see me and I can’t see them. Baker Blinker can’t see me. But everyone else can. But then everyone else basically can’t see anyone else but me. Don’t think there’s any exceptions to that. So I have to interact with everybody. You can’t visit with Bracket Jupiter.
Hucka D.:
No. But you did visit with Baker Blinker, even though neither of you can see the other. Oh *wait*…
bb:
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Forgot she can see me as well.
Hucka D.:
Super. You’re the hub!
bb:
But I’m also Baker Blinker.
Hucka D.:
Not as much any more. At one time. But you’re Baker Bloch much more now. That’s your avatar. That’s your bodily focus in the virtual world you live in.
bb:
Hucka D., Edwardston doesn’t remember the ballerina/Texas/Camp Ruby memories but does about that dog, the orange dog.
Hucka D.:
Well he is from Mythos. Edwardston from Mythos. What did you expect?
——
bb:
Strange about Bracket Jupiter coming back. I wonder if Karoz is next, or Wilsonia?
Hucka D.:
Bracket Jupiter is a good character. You need him to balance Edwardston. Alien to human. With Baker Bloch between them. Baker Blinker’s not quite human as well. And of course I’m mostly bee. Wilsonia’s sorta like the Marilyn of our Munsters — I think we’ve put it that way before. And now we have Edwardston, who’s pretty ordinary looking as well.
bb:
Bracket is resurrected like Jack at the end of The Shining, in that 1921 photograph.
Hucka D.:
Bracket Jupiter was well aware this was the Judgement Day, and he rose from the dead. That’s what I was going to talk to him about.
bb:
Sorry you couldn’t actually visit him.
Hucka D.:
You should explore more what happens to me when I visit this world.
bb:
Your Second Lyfe, you mean.
Hucka D.:
Yeah. Keep up with the buzz. I heard Flynn is back. Did you tell her the exciting news that you live in Rubi again, and own so much land there? I guess you had to.
bb:
I had to, as you guessed.
Hucka D.:
You should explore those woods more. Maybe through Edwardston. See what he’s up to tonight.
bb:
Thanks.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
New twist (literally!)
Baker Bloch and Edwardston *finally* get to visit 3 Stream Pool and the Confluence Ballerina. Once again, Edwardston can see Baker Bloch but not visa versa. Baker experiences disappointment: Edwardston has no strong reaction one way or the other to the ballerina statue. The oddest thing that happened during their visit was pointed out by me, the objective observer of both viewpoints. From Baker’s perspective, he sat facing the ballerina, just as Edwardston did across the pool from him (although he couldn’t see Edwardston).
To *Edwardston*, Baker Bloch sat sideways in respect to the statue, his body pointed directly toward the back wall of the Confluence Place. In other words, Edwardston’s Baker was turned 90 degrees from Baker’s Baker, or what Baker was experiencing in his own avatar body. Never seen this before. I would think Baker Bloch’s own viewpoint must be taken as the correct one in this case. Yet the *twist* seems synch-y, a message about the dilemma at hand (Edwardston’s non-reaction to the statue). Should they look at the situation from a new, different angle instead of just head on or as a one answer problem? Turns out that’s what needed to be done.
Just for the record, Bracket Jupiter and everyone else in my avatar family that I’ve tested so far can see Baker Bloch in grayed out fashion, but he only sees any one of them as mist. The only avatar I haven’t tried out in this way is Karoz Blogger, who hasn’t shown up in VWX Town yet.
Hucka Doobie’s VWX Town perspective has added twists. On occasion, his world breaks down into spectral colors such as seen below. This doesn’t seem to happen to any of the other avatars.
Pretty isn’t it? And I promise Hucka Doobie wasn’t on any hallucinogenics when I peeped through his peepers for these shots. 🙂
Back to Edwardston: He tries so hard to identify with the ballerina, for Baker Bloch’s sake. He idolizes Baker, but still no strong reactions when he crawls into her skin as best as possible (mimicking Bracket Jupiter’s earlier fusion with The Shining’s Jack Torrence). A possible solution would come soon, however.
Baker goes with Edwardston to the Toxic Art Gallery to take a look at that orange dog he *does* have a strong reaction to. This particular example involves the Jasper 04 collage. Edwardston correctly identifies the dog as a specific type of dingo, a rare American breed. And that’s a representation of me, baker b., up there with the dingo on top of that cliff in Jasper 04.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, collages 2d, Heterocera, Rubi^
Residents at The Table.
Of course it was The Table House and attached Confluence Place that still represented the center.
“Edwardston still needs to see the ballerina with the 3 hoops,” Baker Bloch muses. “That might help determine which Edward he is. Gees!”
3rd and 2nd streams respectively.
The Residents still look over the house. And certainly the residents of VWX Town have come alive as of recently (!) We now have Bracket Jupiter living in the community along with Edwardston Resident. And Baker Bloch apparently has his office here, in Table House. Is Wilsonia next? How about Baker Blinker?
Baker Bloch thinks way back to his old crush on the other Baker, the female one. Is that completely over? Yes, he realized. It was.
Then suddenly she was there again, beside him. It was the same situation as with Edwardston — again strangely, since Baker Blinker is an older avatar than even Baker Bloch. She is the original avatar of the Baker family, in fact, dating way back to February 2008. Lots of good times in that avatar body. In about 2010, I suppose, she got a sort of makeover, with the idea that she’d represent the public face of the family. She would be the one to attend parties to promote our art galleries, for example. But it never really worked out that way.
“What are your plans Baker Bloch?” she queried. “Are you going to live here, in the Table House?”
“I think so. At least set up my office here.” He didn’t know what to ask her back, however.
“I’ll remain in the background still,” she then said, noticing the uncomfort. “Remember the old days when you had to borrow from *my* inventory? I had the stuff, then. I was the queen.”
“Yes you were,” Baker Bloch readily agreed. He wanted to add, “… and you still are,” but he held his tongue.
Night descended yet they remained in their chairs, a silent communion.
Baker Blinker broke the spell. “We have a number of children now, I guess you could put it.”
“Yes, I suppose you could say that,” Baker Bloch responded. “I’m unsure of Edwardston, however. He’s this one Edwardston that our user, baker b., knows from childhood, yet he’s this other Edwardston that is a writer from Texas and loves ballerinas and worshipped another place called Rubi as a paradise.”
“Maybe it’s both,” Baker Blinker countered. “Can it be both?”
“I suppose it is. I suppose it might have to be. I need to get him *here* so that he can take a look at the ballerina below us here.”
“Will you take me there?” Baker Blinker requested.
“Follow me into the hole,” he said.
“Camp Rubi,” Baker Bloch said, pointing.
“Ah,” responded Baker Blinker.
“A model of the camp,” Baker Bloch clarified. “And only half of it. The other half is on the other side of the wall from here. Let’s see, that would be the higher value colors like green, yellow, red. That would be the dark side of the rainbow. Or maybe this part is the dark side.”
“Which one?”
“This part,” the male Baker decides.
“Ooops, tee hee. I tried to sit down on one of the houses and now I’m on the other side. How do I get back?”
“The walls should be phantom,” he responds.
Baker Blinker unsuccessfully tried to walk through the wall to get back to Baker Bloch. “Nope, its not.”
“Oh wait, here’s an opening.” Baker Blinker walks up to Baker Bloch, who still stares at the model of the camp. He turns to meet her.
“I really wish I could see you. I suppose I might never see you again, actually.”
“I can see you, but you’re grayed out.”
Baker Bloch grimmaced. “Yeah, Edwardston complained about that as well. But at least you guys can see me. I can’t see either of you. Not… fair.”
“No,” Baker Blinker agreed. “So what are you hoping will happen to Edwardston when he sees the ballerina?”
“Umm.”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
Another meeting.
[18:51] Connecting to in-world Voice Chat…
[18:51] Connected
[18:56] Terra Mk.V Teleporter Beam whispers: Teleporting edwardston Resident to City Hall 05.
[18:57] Terra Mk.V Teleporter Beam whispers: Teleporting edwardston Resident to City Hall 01.
[18:58] Kiosk.Net Greeter: Welcome edwardston Resident! Enjoy your visit.
[18:59] baker Bloch is Online
[19:00] edwardston Resident: How is it that I can only see you, Baker Bloch?
[19:01] baker Bloch: And I can’t see you.
[19:01] edwardston Resident: Been to The Moon lately?
[19:01] baker Bloch: Nah. You?
[19:02] edwardston Resident: No. Not since yesterday. So what’s you up to tonight?
[19:02] baker Bloch: Thought I’d down a beer and head to bed.
[19:02] edwardston Resident: Karl here doesn’t talk much does he?
[19:02] baker Bloch: Nah.
[19:03] edwardston Resident: Get lost!
[19:03] edwardston Resident: Boo!
[19:03] edwardston Resident: Boo!
[19:03] edwardston Resident: Boo!
[19:05] baker Bloch: You okay?
[19:05] edwardston Resident: Yeah sorry. Just testing out some gestures.
[19:06] baker Bloch: I think the computer’s going to beat me again. Karl, you going to serve me or not?
[19:07] Furry Karl: Hey you talking to me? You talking to *me*?
[19:07] baker Bloch: Aren’t you suppose to be helping the customers instead of criticizing or threatening them?
[19:08] Furry Carl: Touched.
[19:08] Furry Carl: Touched.
[19:08] Furry Carl: Touched.
[19:10] baker Bloch: Never mind Karl. I got it myself.
[19:11] baker Bloch: So Karl?
[19:11] Furry Karl: Merry fucking Winter?
[19:11] baker Bloch: Do you have a wife? Kids? Where do you live? Tell me about yourself. Make some small talk. Practice small talk.
[19:12] Furry Karl: Beer?
[19:12] baker Bloch: I’ve got a beer Karl, but thank you.
[19:12] baker Bloch: How about you Edwardston? Where do you hail from? Hell? Heehee.
[19:13] edwardston Resident: I’m from Mythos. The planet Mythos. I come from… well, my memory is scrambled a bit.
[19:13] baker Bloch: I saw your ship land about a week ago. What do you call that thing? Looks like a ship ship. A seagoing ship.
[19:14] edwardston Resident: If you mean the spaceship it’s The Arab. Also The Foreign One. Or 4 in 1. That’s because it’s 4 ships in 1. Like in the Verne story.
[19:14] edwardston Resident: You know, Jules Verne. The one set in Morganton, North Carolina. That’s where I’m from.
[19:14] baker Bloch: Is that Mythos, then?
[19:14] edwardston Resident: Yes.
[19:14] baker Bloch: Interesting. Do you know we probably have the same maker?
[19:14] edwardston Resident: No.
[19:16] baker Bloch: Well, we probably do. He’s got the same first name as me. That’s probably why I know more about him than you. Plus you just arrived here and all.
[19:17] baker Bloch: What’s shaking down or up in Mythos my new friend? My new bro.
[19:17] edwardston Resident: I live next to you in Mythos. Your maker I mean.
[19:18] baker Bloch: Nah, not possible. But I’ve heard you know a real life Edwardston. Or maybe Edward. Do you know?
[19:18] edwardston Resident: I know I’m Edward. I know Edwardston because it’s me.
[19:18] baker Bloch: You have an orange dog.
[19:18] edwardston Resident: Yes.
[19:19] baker Bloch: Nah, couldn’t be. I’ll have to talk to baker b. about this.
[19:19] edwardston Resident: That the user?
[19:19] baker Bloch: Yeah. baker b. I can talk to him sometimes.
[19:19] edwardston Resident: Tell me about him. I mean I know him differently. I remember him from childhood. I know him better than you but further back. You know him more recently.
[19:20] Furry Carl: Touched.
[19:21] baker Bloch: He created VWX Town where we are. He’s lived here before. This is the Sylver Forest, or the remnant of the Sylver Forest. He’s lived around here 4 or 5 times. He lived in that sinkhole you can see from the top of the cat. You been up there?
[19:21] edwardston Resident: I don’t like cats. Like dogs, though.
[19:22] baker Bloch: No, you’re suppose to be Edward but not this Mythos Edward I don’t think.
[19:22] edwardston Resident: I am ill defined.
[19:22] baker Bloch: Appears so. But if you are this other Edward….
[19:22] edwardston Resident: Yeah?
[19:23] baker Bloch: Then where is your dog?
[19:23] edwardston Resident: I’ve seen my dog. It’s in the montages over on the west side of town.
[19:23] baker Bloch: The dingo.
[19:23] edwardston Resident: Yeah. That made me remember about the Edward part. I am Edward.
[19:24] baker Bloch: Let’s go look.
[19:24] edwardston Resident: Okay.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
Bite
bb:
How long have you lived in VWX Town, Bracket?
BJ:
I keep going to the sun. Three score… no three years. thirty three years.
bb:
You died on the… well, you tell me where you died.
BJ:
I was like the Dodo. Trusting. With the guy with the huge arms. He killed me. This was on the island of Mauritius.
bb:
Yes, that’s where the dodo birds were found, I believe. But that’s not the island where you died.
BJ:
Yes. It is.
bb:
As I recall, you were reading the book Floydodo.
BJ:
Yes, and I noticed it was still in my inventory. But I was unable to rezz it in my new apartment. Is it my new apartment?
bb:
I think it might be, Bracket. I’ll add you to the Blue Feather group as soon as possible and take care of that problem.
BJ:
I desire the ability to create.
bb:
Yes, we’ll take care of it. But you came back from your death — a resurrection. Supposedly you came back as the first TILEpyre. (baker b. spells this out for Bracket)
BJ:
I don’t quite remember that. I remember death. I remember a white light. Mist. I am still dead.
bb:
No you are resurrected. The judgement bugle has sounded. You live here in the paradisiacal VWX Town now, Bracket. Maybe.
BJ:
Humm. Do I?
bb:
Yes, again. If you wish.
BJ:
If so, I want to study avatar ensoulment. Like the character Norman Bates and the character Marion Crane from Psychogumma. I wish to study Psychogumma where Marion came back or was resurrected as her sister. (pause) And it was Long Island. Or a long island. That’s where I was killed. And Torsit — yes, Torsit — was the stabber, the murderer. Sort it.
But it was also *you*, in a way, that killed me baker b. You *sent* me to that long island. You banished me, exiled me. Because I talked of Billfork. And now in this blog, as I understand, as I’m sensing, as I know intuitively, you talk of Billfork once more and are *not* punished.
bb:
I talk of Billfork the toy happening in Herman Park[ however].
BJ:
Then that is where I wish to live. In this Billfork.
bb:
That’s not possible[ right now]. VWX Town is kind of sort of the virtual version of Billfork. A bit.
BJ:
Bite?
—–
bb:
I just remembered it was called the Blake Sea. That’s where we sent you.
BJ:
*You* sent me. Because of The Bill and that circle where I chatted about it. A *bit*.
bb:
I can understand the *bit*terness. Sorry.
BJ:
I’ll return soon.
—–
http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/category/corsica-continent/comma-islands/
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
Edwardston & Bracket
Edwardston was back in eastern VWX Town, sitting outside the Hole in the Wall bar and staring at the nearby structures, including this still unnamed building whose windows cyclical change spectral colors.
Cat topped City Hall again. Edwardston has no fear in this spot.
He enters the bar and notices the white mist, same as how he appears to Baker Bloch perhaps.
But it isn’t Baker Bloch this go around. Instead we have a video playing, beer sipping Bracket Jupiter in the bar with Edwardston, who also sees the only other figure there as mist. Contrast this to Baker Bloch, who Edwardston can actually see, albeit in a grayed out manner. Interesting.
Since no, true interaction can take place this time, Bracket leaves the bar with his beer without speaking to Edwardston or even knowing who Edwardston is. But I believe Bracket knows Baker Bloch.
He arrives home at the apartment he’s started to rent above the Bodega market near the east end of town.
“No beer drinking my pale, thin ass!”
Bracket has a big chip on his shoulder and intends to speak to blogmaster baker b. about it asap.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
Baker Bloch: Go To The Moon!
Baker Bloch asked that Edwardston Resident join him in a special event: the launching of a rocket from the Norris Building that would take him all the way to *The Moon*. And Edwardston gets to hang with his new friend, once more! Notice from the below picture that, from Edwardston’s viewpoint of the meeting this time, his actual appearance was not altered. Baker Bloch remained grayed out, true, but this was a one step improvement from their first interaction. Unfortunately, Baker Bloch still only saw Edwardston as a white mist.
Baker enters the Norris Building, telling Edwardston to stay put and keep looking up. Less than a minute later Baker was in the air (!)
About 10 minutes later, Edwardston, still looking skyward as Baker requested, saw his friend, arms and legs flailing, return to virtual Earth in a crash, sans rocket. “What happened, what happened??” Edwardston implored. Baker just wiped himself off and headed back toward the Norris Building. “I gotta try that again,” he said to Edwardston while walking away. “Just keep looking up. And keep taking your photos!”
It was while he was snapping photographs of this second, witnessed launch that something more surprising happened. Edwardston must have touched the rocket in the wrong way, because, suddenly, *he* was riding in the launched pod alongside Baker Bloch! He looked over at Baker, whose appearance was strangely flickering and even contracting in certain places like the face as the elevation increased. He managed to take some pictures.
At one point, Baker even lost his glasses and armbands. Only a hat topped, faceted gray mass remained. Thankfully, it was only a brief effect.
Shortly they crash landed on The Moon itself, unharmed. They’d made it!
After looking around at some of the craters and staring at the star speckled sky, they found that the ship was irreparably damaged and would not make a return trip. They’d have to teleport home instead. What fun nevertheless!!
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi^
Sunklands 