Category Archives: Heterocera

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Bodega Supermarket, another marvelous Arcadia Asylum freebie build.

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.

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

“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.

Furry Carl serving a dame.

—–

bb:

So… is he coming back to life or not?

Carrcassone:

Create the [new] tower. Rainbow tower.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Nice pool on elven land in Perizoma.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Just wrong (but still cool).

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

Sea floor running, above-water camera angle…

… 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

Characters around The Table and assoc. town regions:

Tronesisia (neutral)
Cardboard (C.) Derek Jones (Westside)
Redbot (Southside)
Carrcassonne (Southside)
Grey Seal (Southside)
Furry Carl (Central)
Pietmond Boy (neutral)
Ranger Johns (Central)
Biker Jones (Central)
Ben Thar (Central)
Don That (Central — deceased; honorary position at Table)
Hucka Doobie (neutral)
Botblue (Central)
Philip Linden (Central?)
Baker Bloch (neutral)
Ross C. (Westside)
Barney Rubles (Westside)

Must identify characters or objects in town that *aren’t* alive and thus cannot sit at or stand around The Table. As stated before, Baker Bloch was surprised to find that Carrcassonne was able to mobilize from her position in the Temple of TILE and attend. However, similar “statue” Goldie, existing beside the Hole in the Wall bar in Central, is not quite alive or hasn’t reached that threshold, and so cannot be a part of The Table. Same for related (but currently not rezzed) town statues Brash, Newton and Jasper. In Pietmond, it was seen that Carrcassonne, while related to all the named above, stands above them or rises beyond them in their center — perhaps they are just split off aspects of herself, arranged around her like a quaternity.

Another issue:

What happened to this earlier version of The Table starring a stable of rock variants like Marty, Lemmon, Little Robert Plant Variant, Peter SoSo, Knok, and so on? Will this be a type of second Table behind or in the background of the first? And what of Dr. Blood — is he the same as Knok? Is he the same as the Tinman (Tin S. Man?) pictured in the collage on the wall next to the current Table?

And what of his partner on this picture, The Scarecrow?

Or is this “second” Table the one that was deleted from The Table House in Central to free up prims for the creation of the *current* Table and attached town characters? I think so; that’s official town history, then.

So let’s move on from that: Characters around the *current* Table actually exist in their original form in VWX Town, and in specific regions. What I mean by this is that the table characters are more or less exact duplicates of those found elsewhere in the town. Exceptions for now, just thinking of Table characters again, are Tronesisia, Small Pietmond Boy, Hucka Doobie, and myself as Baker Bloch. Philip Linden seems to sit on a fence between manifestation in the Sink Lair of Central and non-manifestation. Of the rest, Carrcassonne seems the most talkative, or the one that is most coherent. Oh, along with C. Derek Jones, of course. Does C.D. Jones have a bone to pick with Carrcassonne?

We’re watching the 5th season of True Blood, which has been somewhat disappointing. But we find it funny that one of the vampire chancellors, who are always pictured sitting around a table so far in our viewings, is a kid. This is because it reminds us of Kirk from the Board of Shaman in the Mighty Boosh, one of our favorite British comedy series, and which we recently re-watched in its entirety. And, likewise, the VWX Town Table has a child (Small Pietmond Boy), and also an animal (Grey Seal), 5 robots (Tronesisia, Barney Rubles, Ross C., Redbot, and Botblue), and several anthropomorphized animal-people objects (Cardboard Derek Jones, Furry Carl). In looking at it, I see that the only really human characters found in VWX Town itself are from Central (Ben Thar, Philip Linden, Biker Jones, Ranger Johns). Baker Bloch is only part human himself, and the same goes for Hucka Doobie.

That seems to bring us back to Carrcassonne. She may be the only true *alien* at The Table, then. Pietmond history identifies her with Pluto’s moon Charon, which can be pronounced like “Sharon”. More info here.