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What is it?

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Carrcassonne:

It’s a pod. For exploring space. And time. Me.

bb:

Because you are the all, I’m guessing.

Carrcassonne:

Yes.

Hucka D.:

It got here — predicted that you’ll call me in or ring me up — because it’s an escape pod. Wyn Galbraith Cutout was forgotten at the town meeting. For some reason she didn’t count. She was, let’s see, the 13th or 14th.

bb (after a pause):

I have just been counting and it looks like 15 or 16, with Wyn, if I may be so formal with her, the 17th. A lot of characters!

Hucka D.:

Now the forgotten enters the pod sideways. Is she heading to a different space and time? Can the pod actually launch?

bb:

I’m going to dig up the post I was just reading earlier today about when this pod first appeared in Old Pietmond. Interesting. Hold on:

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Here’s another:

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I’m reminded of several things, then. First, the pod originally sat in the Temple of TILE at the very spot which Carrcassonne occupies now, the immobile form of her, heehee.

Hucka D.:

Haha.

Carrcassonne:

We are the same, the all.

bb:

Well, you’re certainly close to the same color. And about the same size. Yet you didn’t show up until about a year later in the Temple of TILE. That’s another point — since its erection, the temple hasn’t changed much down through the years now. It’s been sort of a stability point. Remember when we were going to devote quite a lot of time to the discussion of VWX Town buildings?

Hucka D.:

The Temple of TILE should be in a sinkhole. It’s not now. But what are you going to do? Carrcassonne, the ruler of the temple, is ultimately displaced. Can she return?

bb:

Probably not, Hucka D. Sunklands is dead, seemingly. No return to Sikkima[ 14th sinkhole of SL] is perhaps possible. The other sinkholes — on Corsica and Maebaeleia — probably not as well.

Hucka D. (reinforcing):

The temple needs to be in a sink. Sink in, and all.

bb (after counting):

10 holes in the pod still. The mouth, where Ms. Galbriath passes through sideways, is the Sun, we’ve speculated before. And the hole at the top is Pluto, the destination point perhaps. This is a launching pod for an Ancient. Ancient Rising.

Hucka D.:

Wyn G. is at the mouth. Are you in or out, and so forth. Is she coming or going? Clues.

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Carrcassonne:

This is Sharon.

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I wanted to speculate a bit more on the newest object in VWX Town. It’s kind of like it belongs there and doesn’t belong there at the same time, which makes me think it *might* be a rocketship, a pod spaceship, or perhaps a memorial to a spaceship. It’s tied into whoever Wyn Galbraith — the forgotten — is. (pause) I wonder if it has to do with Casey the Alien, another new object in the town, and with somewhat similar colors. Wyn, I believe, is going to get in that ship and travel to distant places, maybe Uranus and Neptune, possibly Pluto. But she is arriving at the same time, which makes me think the ship exists in a time rift, where coming and going are the same. A breakdown of normal reality, which is probably pretty common in malleable and low gravity Second Lyfe. (pause) That the object exists in Westside also seems important. I’m also reminded of the concept of Piepodt, which is a sort of melding of words Pietmond and Teepot.

Right after the pod appeared in Old Pietmond, the underground, Pluto, started opening up. We found an opening into the underground, the underworld perhaps.

Great pic. This is the L and the P together. Pluto symbol. Casey The Alien exists in a newly dug underground for VWX Town. Casey The Alien was similarly in Old Pietmond’s Underground.

“What happens…

A cube/sphere half the diameter of a second will enter the second to make a whole. Lock. Turn, then. It’s on.

bb:

What happens then?

Hucka D.:

Each become stronger. Pietmond stronger.

This must be the concept of Piepodt.

I wonder about the nearby pool of water backed by the obelisk, another Old Pietmond related tableau.

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I’d forgotten that Carrcassonne was originally called Piepodt.

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VWX Town Reconfigurations

Baker Bloch’s dash to the center of the Heterocera continent kind of fizzled out, with the central of central lagoons skirted but not directly visited. The below photo finds Baker running on the western side of the larger lagoon which the smaller lagoon is nested within, enjoying the complicated underwater scenery. Where will he head next?

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Back in VWX Town, more changes a going on. I decided that the Table House near the center of the town could go, since its original purpose has instead been fulfilled by The Table on the second level of the Church of The Diagonal in Westside. The deletion of this fairly significant, almost 100 prim structure created a domino effect, with the results pictured below. First the deletion of the Table House allowed me to rez both the SoSo East Gallery and Bodega Supermarket in its spot. Both of these structures were last seen on my holdings in New Pietmond, Sikkima, if memory serves.

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As a result of the spacing between the two, a long avenue was opened up running through most of Central to Westside. Nice extension.

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With SoSo East rezzed, I realized it was possible to delete the Toxic Art Gallery in the northeast of town and relocate all the collages within it to both SoSo East (Oblong series) and my formerly established Gallery Jack (Rose Hill, Hidalgo, Yale, Wheeler, Newton, Jasper series), the latter which I then manifested in Southside directly west of the Power Tower Gowlery.

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VWX Town’s lone stream, now issueing from the eastern edge of Gallery Jack.

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Entrance into Gallery Jack from the Power Tower Gowlery. So nifty I could directly couple these two personal collage filled galleries.

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Gallery Jack’s atrium, with a map of Jasper County, Illinois surrounded by statues Newton and Jasper, still bickering and still opposing each other, I assume.

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Cool view of the Power Tower Gowlery from the hole in the top of Gallery Jack.

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In order to establish Gallery Jack in Southside, I had to move the Temple of TILE already in place there. The logical choice was the northeast corner of town where Toxic Art Gallery had just been derezzed. The temple seemed to slot in perfectly; Carrcassonne appears happy.

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Bodega Supermarket, another marvelous Arcadia Asylum freebie build.

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Yet another major change was the upgrading of C. Derek Jones’ Westside cottage to a bonafide house. He’s quite happy with the results as well. Everyone seems pleased with the new changes. Win win.

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VWX Town, for what it is, is being perfected.

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Thoughts….

“He knows that Casey the Alien sleeps in the tomb that is the womb. Carrcassonne isn’t it?”

Carrcassonne:

We must hide the true intent. I see all.

bb:

Hi. Interrupting anything? Tomb?

Hucka D.:

Casey the Alien is rainbowology reborn… or renewed. Your choice.

bb:

What happens if I give up that domain?

Hucka D.:

Nothing.

Carrcassonne:

You must walk my labyrinth. Move my labyrinth[ to the northeast corner of town] and then walk. That is rainbowology. Your line, Bee.

Hucka D.:

That is rainbowology.

Carrcassonne:

Pay attention. [(did Carrcassonne *smile*?)]

bb:

What about sinkology… and Sunklands?

Hucka D.:

Another valid object[ive].

bb:

Obviously this has something to do with Jamie pulling the plug on his [or her] own Dark Side of the Rainbow site, really the last one or at least the only current one in existence, subtracting my own. And my own isn’t complete.

Hucka D.:

Complete.

bb:

The whole blog here[ Frank and Herman Einstein blog] started as a reaction to Jamie’s nonacceptance, seemingly, of the concept of rainbowology.

Hucka D.:

He accepted the concept. However, it was different from yours.

—–

bb:

Sorry fellows. Computer wouldn’t restart and had to repair itself. Took a couple of minutes.

Carrcassonne:

I’m not a fellow. Lili Boulanger. Galina Ustvolskaya.

bb:

Thanks Carrcassonne.

Hucka D.:

The computer restart is not an error. We are unprepared to answer your tough but important questions tonight, baker b. We have become inept for some reason unknown. Right Carrcassonne?

Carrcassonne:

Wrong plug. Female plug. Plug in female. The.

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Furry Carl serving a dame.

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—–

bb:

So… is he coming back to life or not?

Carrcassone:

Create the [new] tower. Rainbow tower.

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Exploring Heterocera 01

I really appreciate some of the areas near VWX Town. Like the super significant VHC Town obviously, and also Simple Wunderlich’s almost sim sized zoo featured in other posts here. Although not as large as those 2, add at least the ground part of the Lunacast Moonbase Officer’s property in Dimidiata a bit below them on that local appreciation list. I love larger tracts of undulating terrain decorated by a good heaping of linden plants such as this. I think back fondly to Salazar Jack’s vast Kahruvel forest, and also the smaller Kerchal Forest and Heterocera’s own Rubi Forest. This is not nearly as big as even the Rubi forest, but I take what I can get from mainland at this point.

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Another beauty spot just west of there, across Route 3.5 in Serpentata now. It’s a rather significant, artificial hill with the stream pictured below tumbling down its east side. A hollow log home is set up next to the rocks on the top, and a campfire is nearby. Baker Bloch, in rechecking the site in real time, has found a base inside the hill, apparently owned by pagans. He does not wish to disturb them further.

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Moving on… the next route west is Route 3, and beyond that the central, high ridge of Heterocera, arching across its northern expanse. Luckily, ol’ running Baker is able to cross the ridge at a lower part here, before it rises into the towering mountains of the north.

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Nevertheless, the ground gets very steep on the other side, with SL 6 (“High Mountain Road”) just below. I’ve heard one old SL friend call this her favorite Linden route.

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Here’s more info about the road from the Second Life wiki:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Heterocera_Route_6

Some good text there. I’ll have to bike the entirety sometime soon.

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Nice pool on elven land in Perizoma.

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Heading back down to sea level, about a 150 meter descent for Baker from the top of the ridge he crossed.

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Exploring Heterocera 02

The continent’s central lagoon comes into view past the road below Baker Bloch here.

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Similar view from a vantage point in what’s called Rustport, a collection of buildings spaced one on top of the other beside the railroad. Not as rusty as it sounds.

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So many artists reside on the continent. Splendid! This may be just a private home in Tanietatum — nearing the sea again — and I apologize to the owner 23rdDjin Negulesco if so for the photo.

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Cornfield with blackbirds outside a neighboring structure. As Baker Bloch is checking now, this seems to be part of the Rustport complex.

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Linden protected channel surrounded by small, jagged cliffs. This appears to be in Tischeriidae, the sim immediately south of Tanietatum and southwest of Perizoma.

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Just wrong (but still cool).

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Texture change in the sea bed crossing from Tischeriidae into Thyatira.

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Sea floor running, above-water camera angle…

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… and below-water camera angle. You can deduce from this that the water is quite shallow here, as is the case for about all the continent’s interior lagoons. Depth here: only about 5 meters. Perhaps I’ll make a more comprehensive study of Heterocera water depths in the future.

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Baker checks out spots of more interesting floor textures at the base of a mound.

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Heterocera actually contains 2 atolls, one fitted inside the other. Below Baker stands on the edge of the interior atoll, with the 2nd, smaller lagoon not far over the ridge in front of him. He is about the visit the center of centers.

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Rock Stars

I don’t think this is the bus of local heroes The Kniks but I can’t swear to it. Anyway, it’s back in VWX Town, cargo unloaded.

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Peter’s Grave…

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Pass through the Fountain of Life into the grave.

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SoSo.

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Casey The Alien. Dead? Coming back to life?

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Underground VHC Town whirlpool of life/death.

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Looks like…

… The Temple of TILE’s position is fixed for a while, hehe.

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My neighbor’s tumblr site: Veyot’s View. She just opened up a pizza parlor (structure to right in above pic). Here’s an entry about VWX Town in particular — that’s Veyot with some of the town’s residents in the Church of The Diagonal.

Here’s Another recent entry about VWX Town from the always amazing dualatoll blog. My town is getting a little outside notice, and that’s probably enough.

I’m thinking I need to explore more of the Atoll Continent/Heterocera. Maybe run the rails again.

Unfortunately I still believe VWX Town will basically be destroyed by the first week of September, when my tier payment comes due again. Fall hiking season will be right around the corner, and I need to refocus on Frank and Herman Parks (check name of blog!). Need to get use to a new camera for park pictures. Still miss Liquor (nickname for my old camera). Pheh. But I’m sure the new one will be adequate.

In the meantime I have Second Life and Heterocera and VWX Town and VHC Town. Good clean fun.

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Meeting 01

50 minutes earlier…

bb:

1st order of business seems to be the, um, business of the first Table, which is now perhaps the second Table or the Table behind this Table. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? C. Derek Jones — I believe you mentioned that Knok of The Kniks lived in the garage next to your property in Westside or use to practice there.

CDJ:

Not to my knowledge. (pause)

bb:

Hucka Doobie?

Hucka D.:

The second is behind the first, which is more tangible. They’ll meet after us. Or will they?

bb:

I don’t know, Hucka D… Doobie.

Hucka D.:

Thank you Baker Bloch (smiles)

bb:

So if no one has any thoughts on the second Table we’ll move on. Just for the minutes, the characters at this table behind the table, so to speak, are Peter SoSo, who may be the same as Peter Gabriel; Dr. Blood, who may be Knok from the future; Little Robert Plant Variant originally from Nowtown on the Jeogeot continent — anyone familiar with that continent?

Hucka D.:

*I* am.

bb:

Anyone besides Hucka Doobie? (all shakes heads or else look blank) Then, continuing, we have Marty and Lemmon of The Beetles both; and, let’s see, Zapple may be there; Roger Pine Ridge.

Hucka D.:

You’re going to have a second table to do this. Remember The Table House in Central, guys? Remember The Table all set up upstairs — anyone visit that (all shakes heads or look blank again)? Ah, forget it. But that’s the original Table, actually. (shaking his own head) Where’d you find these guys, Baker?

bb:

These guys here? (looking around the current Table) Here and there. Carrcassonne: any thoughts on what we’ve talked about so far?

Carrcassonne:

The all, the one. See me and see the world, the universe. I is. You am.

Hucka D.:

See? Maybe we should just skip the next 37 minutes and head down to the cemetery.

bb:

What cemetery? The VWX Town Cemetery?

Hucka D.:

Yeah, that one. It’s rezzed isn’t it?

bb:

Kind of. A couple of graves.

Hucka D.:

Do you have the freshly dug grave there?

bb:

Yes, I think.

Tronesisia:

I can sing for 36 minutes. I have a beautiful voice.

bb:

Everyone in favor of Tronesisia singing for the next 36 minutes before going to the cemetery shake their heads or just look blank (looks around, seeing everyone doing just this). Motion passes unanimously. Right Hucka Doobie?

Hucka D.:

Wrong.

(the next 36 minutes were taken up by the most profound series of ideas baker b. had ever heard in his life)

(To be continued)

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VWX Town Magazine

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Meanwhile, 50 minutes in their meeting, the members of The Table find themselves in the VWX Town cemetery examining a fountain encompassing a chair. The chair of Baker Bloch.

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Is Baker the newly crowned prince?

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Gateway to The Underground?

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I think Carrcassonne knows.

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August 7, 2013 · 9:35 pm