… tries out the coffin as well, finding it much more satisfactory inside than out.
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Underground 01
She stands up and gets her directions straight. Yes, to the right should be the safe plaza, or underneath it. She’ll head that way first. Taking a deep breath, Wheeler begins her exploration of VHC Town’s vast underworld.
Just past the doors to the basement of [delete name], she found this: what appeared to be a water filled opening with an actual stream flowing behind it. Boldly, she strides inside…
… to find herself not underwater atall, but instead on dry land beside the seen water flow. She looks upstream. “Is that a coffin?”
Yes. A coffin. And room for two on top, it seemed.
Why not.
Oh, this isn’t good. She stands up and tries the other poseball.
Yes, not as bad. What *is* this place? Is it the River Styx? Certainly seems like it. Heels in water — she remembers something from grade school about a hero being dipped in that river for protection, but he was, yes, he was held by the heel and that remained unprotected. Hercules? No, Wheeler didn’t think it was Hercules. Paris sprung to mind. Then the correct one: Achilles. She decides, just because it can’t hurt, to immerse herself in the waters. But underneath was dry. Uh oh. A red door. She scrambles upwards over rocks to reach it.
Are these the *same* red doors? The ones accessible from the safe plaza that are locked?
She tries the doors: indeed locked. A passageway just beyond draws her attention. First she checks out the pipes that this River Styx emerges from. All closed off in this direction.
To the passage…
… a twisty-turny affair, and pretty long.
Another reddish door at the end.
Wheeler can open this one, but can’t pass through. She even tries to remove her tiny hat to see if that will help. Still no luck. Seeing no other means of egress, she’ll have to turn around and retrace her steps back to the river.
—–
She then realizes there’s another opening the river flows through on the lower side. She jumps into the water again and walks foward.
Looking back.
She’s out again! And right behind the building where she started, sitting almost directly west of the Graphic Artist portal, she reckoned.
Wheeler walks to the north side of the building and makes a phone call to Baker Bloch. Wait till he hears about *this*!
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0004, 0114, Heterocera, VHC City^
Invite
“Sorry to get you up Musician, but I thought you might like to see this. I ran across it purely by accident.”
“Really?” returns The Musician. “How?”
“Looking for a faces in the holes prop for the next scene. Looks like you have, eh, 30 minutes to complete the hunt.”*
“Not enough time,” says The Musician. “It’s a complex sim, believe me.”
“Well, while you’re up… shall we?”
—–
But The Musician was too tired for posing…
… so Wheeler sent him packing and had a go at it alone.
Does she know? Has she guessed?
“Where is she?”
—–
* Turns out it was *12* 1/2 hours to complete the hunt, but The Musician, being very tired, still slept through the event, pheh.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0004, 0112, Heterocera, LEA sims^^, VHC City^
Test
“I thought we’d try this out tonight Hucka Doobie, since Wheeler and The Musician are away getting food.
Hucka Doobie was observing the planchette. “It’s spinning.”
“Yeah. Freaky. I thought we might have to hold the planchette but maybe not. Should we go ahead and ask some questions? Why don’t you read down through the list. Take your pick. Use your bee intuition to choose the correct direction.”
Hucka Doobie unfolds a piece of paper in her lap. “Alright. At the top we have… ‘Who is the owner of the Key Shop?'”
The planchette spin transforms into a back and forth movement across the length of the board. Then it goes to “YES”, and then the “O” of OUIJA. Then it moves to the center of the board and stops.
“‘O’ owns the shop?” Baker Bloch queries. The planchette returns to “YES” and then the “O” and then back to center. “That doesn’t really make any sense to me, Hucka Doobie.”
“Nor me. Let’s try another one. First off, can we identify who we are speaking to?”
The planchette spells out, more rapidly than the two expected, “THE DEAD”. It returns to center.
Baker stared over at Hucka Doobie. “The dead of VHC Town?”
The planchette hesitates, then moves to “YES” again and then more slowly back to center.
“Do you have a collective name?” asks Hucka Doobie.
“OD,” came the response after a small pause. But the “O” used was that in the word OUIJA again at the top of the board, and not the one that’s part of the 26 letters below it. And the planchette moved back and forth between this “O” and the “D” to its lower left a number of times before returning to center. Another thing: the “O” was lingered over longer than the “D” in each repetition.
“What do you think, Baker Bloch?”
“OD. The letter ‘O’ and the letter ‘D’?”
The board answered affirmatively.
“Maybe it’s initials, Hucka Doobie.”
The board then spelled out “OD” again, using the same motions as before.
—–
Meanwhile, Wheeler and The Musician were studying menus at a nearby sushi bar, oblivious to the oddity of the picture on the far wall.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0004, 0111, Heterocera, VHC City^
Wegee
“Best to not tell your Musician about all this right now. Until the memory fades about that face.”
“Yes. Best just to slide it back under there. For now. Did you get the planchette?”
“Got it,” responded Baker Bloch.
“Don’t lose it this time!”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0004, 0110, Heterocera, MAPS, Ohio, VHC City^
Sunklands 