Monthly Archives: October 2015

Nautilus CI Explorations 01

We start at a rocky rise formed in the joined corners of Dido, Anath, Suniaton, and Hanno, centered by a eucalyptus tree and adorned with Linden ferns. The sim of Dido is the location of my garden-temple, only about 100 meters from here to the nnw. Baker Bloch is still very close to his new home. His goal tonight: to explore the harbor area to the southwest of Dido. He was partially successful.

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This wall Baker bikes along straddles the border between Dido (north) and Hanno (south). Nautilus City’s seemingly everpresent dark and light sculptpy cypresses have been planted on each side.

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Just west, and still along the same border: a row of eucalyptus and green cypress trees. Baker pauses to contemplate the meaning of a disjoined piece of wall. Ruins like this dot the island city; really cool.

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Then in the next block to the west, he finds a long, rectangular body of water, about 5 feet in depth, or up to Baker’s neck as he’s checking now. We’re still just traveling along the Dido-Hanno border.

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Across the lane and in a forested enclave, Baker sneaks a peak into a frosted set of windows of what he thought was a small house at the time, but can’t really make out what’s inside. As he’s checking behind himself today again, he finds that it is a garage or hanger for, presently, a small helicopter, 3 tiny planes, and a convertible sports car. On the other side of the garage is a miniature runway about 60 meters long, complete with landing lights.

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At the southwest corner of the same property is this highly detailed, 10 prim brown tree of unknown species. The leaves and branches of the tree are actually animated, as if waving in a breeze.

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Another row of Linden trees (brown and green cypresses) along the western boundary of Hanno, where it meets up with Yamm.

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And it is in Yamm where Baker Bloch reaches the harbor area.

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He skirts past two squares of Linden vegetation — tight clusters of plumeria surrounding two central green cypresses in each case — to reach this interesting terrain mound projecting from the pavement.

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He briefly perches on top to take in the view.*

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Hucka D. later informed me that the queerly placed terrain projection actually has a name: 12 Lb (Pound) Mound, resonant with 12 Oz Mouse of course. He’s says it’s purposely created by the founding Lindens to help aesthetically compensate a mistake in the placement of the two accompanying vegetation squares to the immediate north that Baker just biked past here.

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Nautilus City Alliance notecard

I found an object giving the following notecard during my explorations of Nautilus City this weekend; surprised to see me mentioned therein, haha. I promptly joined the group. I didn’t include the landmark SLURLs in the pasting:

Questions about the Wonders and Nautilus City sims in general? Go to:
http://nautilusalliance.com/forums/index.php

If you own or rent a parcel in any Nautilus City sim, we invite you to join the Nautilus City Alliance. (Find it under that name in Search.) We are a group for the land owners, residents, vendors, and designers of Nautilus City to use in communicating, marketing, and planning events and celebrations.

NCA organized the hugely successful first Nautilus City Annual Summer Festival – June 13-14, 2009.

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The Ancient Nautileans built them, the Not-so-ancient Magellan found them.

And now our present day Moles have swept away the Invisibility Shield to reveal those Wonders of the Ancients in Nautilus City for all of us to enjoy.

The generous Ancients left us treasures, hidden passages, sunken ruins and many other wonders on land and sea.

Free treasures are marked (*) but click around everywhere…we haven’t found them all!

The Citadel:

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The Eastern Flats and Bingo Strait:

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The Western Flats and Harbor:
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Rez Zones:

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Credits/Sources:

SL Forum “Nautilus” thread with photos, discoveries and Jean Swashbuckler’s auction watch:
http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=288237

Thanks to Calveen Kline for the Rez Zone collection

For the map fans among you, Framboise Werribee’s site at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fivetruelove/2964384707/

SL Forum “Where In the World Is Magellan Linden” thread where explorers swap tales about the emerging Land:
http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=248406

One of the (if not THE) first Nautilus City landmark collections, put together by Nimue Jewel and available at:
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Prokofy Neva’s Nautilus Navigator has snapshots, landmarks and observations. Pick up the latest issue from his parcel in Baal at the Promenade, just south of the Eye Pond.

Baker Bloch’s travelog, (and no, I haven’t found all of the Nautilus City spots he’s snapped):

About All This


[more precise link here]

The Lindens report on their marvelous new Land:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Nautilus_City_investigation
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Parks_and_Recreation_Directory#Nautilus

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Carrcassonnee?

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“Carrcassonnee’s no longer in the garden-temple, Hucka D.”

Hucka D.:

She has to make a choice. *You* have to make a choice. But it’s already done. You will return to the island. The Island.

bb:

Yeah, I kind of get that in exploring more tonight. So it’s Azure Island on the front end of my Second Life existence — the Bakers’ existence in Second Life, and you of course — and then Nautilus City-Island on the back end to complete the deal.

Hucka D.:

Deal completed. You can still study the Rubi Forest from Nautilus. You can visit Mysten, which is not too far off now. You can even go back to the Chilbo area or Sunklands if you desire. I don’t know why you would except for a small visit. You can set another gallery up in Chilbo if you wish. Where to put the galleries? I hear you are thinking about putting Falmouth on The Island. To be honest, you need another building for Gilatona-Lis.

bb:

Thanks. So: island mythology. So interesting that I was there when the island arose from the sea, and that *you* predicted it.

Hucka D.:

I did. And I knew this day would come when you would return.

bb:

Nice. Let’s see: Mossmen created Nautilus Island?

Hucka D.:

(pause) Yes. Crutter (name of Mossman?)

bb:

Any kin to Gene Fade?

Hucka D.:

Cousin. Like Boss Moss.

bb:

Probably the story of that island is coded in the garden.

Hucka D.:

Words out of my mouth[ you took].

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Putting a foot and more in Jack’s Hollywood mouth.

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Reading Light (2 Swifts).

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1 eye Mossman w/ scrunched Jesus and Mary.

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The other eye Light; the other Winesburg.

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Mutually exclusive jesters I.

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Mutually exclusive jesters II.

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Poorly-hid-in-vegetation Shake still opposing (poorly-hid-in-vegetation) Boxy Brown (not shown).

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Missing Carrcassonnee. Baker recalls something about an asteroid…

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Nautilus City 1024

My Nautilus city-island rental property has transformed into a garden temple, similar to the Mysten TILE temple throw in a lot of pretty landscaping. Basically I stole the vegetation from the Collagesity Heights garden, trimmed it down to a 32×32 meter square to fit my new property, and started adding in other objects within this base.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Nautilus%20-%20Dido/176/67/26
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The faithful reader will recognize many items from the TILE temple here.

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Front entrance of the temple/garden, I suppose.

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The spanning walkway is clogged with crystal clusters and plants.

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Perhaps the most central tableau of the garden: the return of Lisa V.’s burning lemon.

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Carrcassonnee is there too in the knee to thigh deep plants. Can she exist here and in Minoa’s Collagesity at once?

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The only structure per se on the property is this shed…

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… which acts as Baker’s small study, complete with computer and desk.

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Great view of The Wall within.

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Overhead view which includes the land of my castle dwelling immediate neighbor.

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The story of Nautilus City

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Nautilus_City_investigation

I have a related category on the inactive Baker Blinker Blog — best read from back to front, per usual.

https://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/category/nautilus-city/

My posts are essentially divided into land exploration of the new island in 2008 (first half posts) and then sea exploration around the island just afterwards (second half of posts). And that’s about it, except for one brief, former stay on the island described in another post, and a couple of revisits.

Now I’m back. Is this my new home? Or is it just a vacation of sorts? Will I finally give up Collagesity next to the Rubi Forest? I’ve been there going on 1 year almost. Why should I keep it? Will I be happy just existing in Nautilus City?

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Rediscovery>Wealthy Mountain

Yesterday, tried to reach Bigfeet Swamp for more hiking fun and toy happening scans but was blocked by the high water of Leola Creek. I could try wading, but that’s risky if you can’t really see the bottom well because of the slippery rocks involved.

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So I instead walked just uphill to Rediscovery (parking my car at the town mall once more). This is Leola Creek again, just below the Hand Lake dam.

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The dam. Water is still pouring out of the mountains, despite the rain having stopped several days back. But man did it come down in the 2 weeks before that.

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I was pleased to find the The Finger of Hand Lake still intact, if a bit shrunk and soggy looking. Compare with here from about 2 weeks ago.

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Yesterday I also decided to head over to Wealthy Mountain in Herman Park for what turned out to be a considerably more extensive hike, where I visited both Lion’s Roar and Tinsity/Green Oz Creek in the same sweep. Here’s a nice little falls about halfway up the side of Wealthy Mtn. on a fork of Byng Creek that I don’t think I’ve taken a picture of for this blog yet. About a 30 footer, I would reckon, a gently cascading affair. Considerably more dramatic in person that it appears in the below photo.

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Near the top o’ Wealthy Mountain looking out toward lower land to the south.

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A more prominent rock of Wealthy Mountain on a branch of Green Oz Creek.

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A shot from the Wallace/Tinsity area already covered in some detail in the related blog category.

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Colorful Tinsity fern. The leaves appear almost a bit past their peak here, but perhaps all the rain has dampened the fall colors, as it were. The actual peak for the Blue Mountain region traditionally comes in about a week’s time from now.

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I plan to take 1 or 2 more days off next week for hiking possibilities. A fun time of the year!

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Nautilus City 01

From my new exploring base in Nautilus-Dido (which I’m just going to call Dido from here on out), I poked around my new island digs a bit this night and took several pics of the builds found on a couple of my nearest neighbors’ lands…

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… plus a good number of the native Linden concoctions, like this ancient, horn topped lighthouse…

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… and the island’s main harbor guarded by two massive statues of Poseidon. I’m sure I’ll be revisiting these statues more up close soon enough. I knew about them from previous explorations of the city-island, starting in 2008 when it first rose, Atlantis-like, from the sea.

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Baker Bloch enjoys the sights, sound, and textures of a cluster of Linden ferns on the side of a hillock near the lighthouse.

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More Linden plant groupings (green cypresses and flowering plumeria).

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Baker recharges at a bar I can’t remember the exact location of; Nautilus city-island map on the background wall.

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Then it’s on to the island’s main wooded section, which probably surpasses the Great Rubi Forest in size if not tree density. I plan to make a detailed examination of this wood soon if I decide to stick around the island through Baker Bloch. We’ll see…

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The tree species are similar to Rubi’s as well: lots of brown and green cypresses, throw in a good number of eucalyptuses. But there’s more diversity of vegetation in the undergrowth; more diversity of ground terrain; more changes in elevation. And there’s also some big, nifty rocks — you don’t have any rocks in the Rubi Forest.

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The elevated central city seen from a high spot in the wood. Baker can only make out high green terrain from this distance.

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Nautilus City Rental…

… next to its walled center. More details soon!

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Judas/Jesus

2nd reference to Judas as Jesus’ brother instead of betrayer I’ve seen in a span of hours.

http://www.fringepedia.net/wiki/Walter’s_Lab_Notes

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1st here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemons_%28Red_Dwarf%29

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Notes and News

Outside: rain rain rain for the past week and more coming. So no new blog posts on the greater Blue Mountain area. 😦 But I plan to take several days off soon for fall leaf hiking when it dries out, and to still create some kind of toy happening… somewhere. Maybe Bigfeet Swamp. Maybe Rediscovery. Maybe still in Herman or Frank Park (Whitehead Crossing?).

I’ve taken advantage of being basically stuck indoors recently to create a new carrcass, or what in real life I call an audiovisual synchronicity. I can’t give much detail about it, however.* Currently I’m sprucing up The Table, a directly attached creation. I should have the carrcass ready for viewing by Monday or Tuesday at the latest.

Hucka D.:

I heard you want to talk about the latest creation. And the hiking. Where to put the happening? You’ll see.

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* Except this: Remember.

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