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.