I was just poking around the eastern fringes of the Nautilus continent seas when I spied one of those spiffy Yava script touring pods and decided to hitch a ride. In the below photo you can spot me-as-Baker-Bloch in the background, heading in the opposite direction from the “Demoversion” boat in front. I was speeding along so fast I didn’t have time to investigate the boat and its strange crew further. Perhaps later.
The pod instructed Baker Bloch that we were now going to turn west to visit a very interesting inland sea destination. I had already guess what it was from the direction we were headed: the impressively huge Leviathan Skeleton extending across the whole sim of Ahab’s Haunt in the center of a large, Linden protected inland sea. So I readied my camera, knowing this would likely be a prime photo op moment.
The Leviathan Skeleton was create by Linden moles in early 2010, along with 10 accompanying sims in what was formerly a void hole in the middle of this inland sea. I remember the official announcement on one of their forums because I realized at the time that our own blog spirit Hucka D. had, shortly before, predicted or warned about its sudden appearance withing this void hole. In Fall 2008 Hucka D. has similarly foreseen the rising of the nearby Nautilus Island. If you’re not a bit spooked by his prescient ways by now, blog reader, then you simply haven’t been paying attention. 🙂
Baker Bloch boats pass the head. I can’t imagine running up against this monster face to face while he or she was still alive. I think the virtual version of me would be frightened all the way back to real life, never to return.
There were many boaters in the large inland sea this day.
A sim rather obliquely dubbed The Measure lies along the southern edge of this sea. Since he was in the area, Baker Bloch decided to prematurely end his pod tour and revisit the sim, known about before as a potential mystery spot. He wasn’t disappointed: the strange, geometric markings found back in December 2009 were still present all along most of its sea floor, brown on beige.
As I was taking overhead pictures of the strange glyphs a sailboat passed directly over top of the brown continent, as we’ll call it, that contains the central point of the sim, where you teleport into when typing and then selecting “The Measure” in the world map search box. I thought it might be sending me a message of some sort about this central shape. Maybe not, but here’s the photo anyway for the archives.
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