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Hucka D.:

I hear you want to call a town council meeting soon, baker b. Good idea. Who will attend? I will attend. Baker Blinker? Will you divide into Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker[ once more] for this meeting? How ’bout Karoz? And Bracket Jupiter — remember him? Remember the last 2 VWX Town meetings? Disaster! Remember? baker b.? (pause) Anyway, they were. Who attended? Basically ghosts, right? Right? (pause) Right? Plant, you there? Marty? (pause) Town meeting! Town meeting!!

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baker b.:

Sorry I’m late but I got caught in a net over on Highway 18. Butterfly trap!

Hucka D.:

That’s all right baker b. (pause) baker b.? Oh, there you are behind me.

baker b.:

I’m behind you.

Hucka D.:

That’s all right. About this town meeting…

baker b.:

Well… I want to avoid the problems of the Rubi meetings.

Hucka D.:

Knok’s in town. He has a knok knok joke for you.

baker b.:

What is it?

Hucka D.:

Um, he’ll tell you in person soon. So that’s one person that’s already in town, just like he was in New Pietmond, both versions. He likes your towns.

baker b.:

“For some reason,” I thought you were going to add.

Hucka D.:

No!

baker b.:

The Table must be reset up. Like I had in, oh, Siliconicus I suppose.

Hucka D. (correcting):

Mysten. You had a table and a house. A Table House, yeah. Do you want to set that up again? We can do so.

bb:

Okay.

2 photos showing the extremely close relationship between Tower of A. Mann and the ToXic Art Gallery, not touching, but about as close as possible without doing so.

Originally the Tower of A. Mann and neighboring Big Boy use to be set at the same angle relative to each other. Now there’s about a 10 degrees separation between the 2.

VWX Town skyline with “Up” style balloons.

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“Eternally Bickering Newton and Jasper” statues; Brash (another, similar statue) is in the background.

The newest addition to VWX Town: Wall of Eyes. The new-ish Temple of TILE is aimed directly toward it, as it turns out. Wall of Eyes also sits on my newest rental in the village, a 512 square meter parcel owned by Lama Estates, like my original 2048 parcel in the area (a.k.a. Southside). The Temple of TILE itself is situated on this 2048 parcel, along with the Power Tower Gowlery (original structure of the town).

Baker heading up the right arm of Central’s “V”, and away from the Trojan Warrior and friends.

But first, Baker turns left to look up the left arm of the “V”, whence he came. Kidd Tower can be seen in the background through the trees and bushes.

Standing in the same spot, he looks up. Big Boy towers over him at this position. Big Boy is probably the central structure of the village, nearer its geographic heart. And so far it too remains basically empty. Will town meetings take place within?

So… continuing to head up the right arm of the “V”…

… Baker soon reaches another juncture of paths. This is actually the crossroads of the “X” part of the V W X path design forming the core of Central.

The upper right prong of the “X” dead ends, once more, at the Newton and Jasper statues fronting the ToXic Art Gallery.

At the end of the lower left prong directly opposite this exists the Sink Lair Gallery, devoted to Virginia’s Synching Creek Designated Mystery Area first discussed in the Baker Blinker Blog that preceded the current blog. The virtual Sink Lair Gallery originally dates from spring of last year. Also here, to Baker’s right, is found the Quadtowers of TILE holding the Baker Bloch in England exhibit. This dates from spring 2010.

Top of the right arm of Central’s “V” shaped path, looking into Southside now. The Victorian house in the background is yet another structure that’s already been deleted from the village, having been replaced by the Temple of TILE just this morning.

VWX Town skyline from the second story of this now deleted Victorian home.

Overhead shot of the Newton and Jasper statues, surrounded by the ToXic Art Gallery (right) and Burl Tower (left) to the top, and Tower of A. Mann (right) and Big Boy (left) at the bottom. Heart o’ village.

VWX Town renewed 03

Where does each lead?

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7/12/13 update:

“Older” shot of VWX Town in Philudoria, my newest virtual village. Even to this scene, the Tower of A. Mann now sits on the little mound to the left with the circle of mushrooms, and the Burl Tower has taken the place of the Big E to the right. Things are changing rapidly in my new virtual city!

VWX Town has now been roughly divided into 3 unequally sized zones or districts: Southside, Central and Westside. Southside and Westside are actually the same size for now (2048 sq meters apiece), with Central being over 3 times as large as each (6656 sq meters). The next photo comes from a structure just into the Westside territory from Central, unnamed for now and containing various surreal art and also the aquarium seen below. The *twist* is that it’s not even my structure, and I’m just using or borrowing it. More on that soon. More on the zones of VWX Town as well. Note that the V W X symbols mentioned in the former VWX Town post all formed in Central. I’ll also provide a map of the virtual village as soon as the construction dust settles. 🙂

The VWX Town skyline, with Power Tower Gowlery to the left, Big Boy (Tower) and Tower of A. Mann in the middle, and the still unfinished Kidd Tower just to their right.

A photo looking down the length of Westside toward a small Gothic Castle, still devoid of objects within.

Baker Bloch starting to walk down the left arm of the “V” shaped path in moving from Westside into Central.

Off this path is another path heading into the heart of VWX Town, with its so-called eternally bickering Newton and Jasper statues surrounding a map of Jasper County, Illinois. They front the most recent incarnation of the ToXic Art Gallery holding my “Art 10×10” collages, with the names of most of its series coming from towns and villages of this county, as well as the county name itself (Jasper series, the final one of the 10×10). Oh, all the Art 10×10 collages are in this gallery *except* for the 20 part Greenup series, which has a separate gallery in Westside (House Greenup).

Baker Bloch standing in front of the Damned Mansion, which has also already been deleted from VWX Town and replaced with the Stairs Gallery last seen in New Pietmond, Otaki Gorge I believe. We’re still just heading down the left arm of the “V”…

… soon to reach this odd collection of characters clustered around the Trojan Warrior statue that marks the bottom of the “V”, and where it begins to turn upwards once more.

As you can see, he stands in the midst of a large treasure trove.

VWX Town renewed 02b

Very early snapshot. For this version, I have *10752* square meters of land to play around with, thanks to adding a 2048 rental to my 8704 tier. Excitement! More land than I’ve ever had at my disposal before, and that was the plan: figured I’d fairly quickly get bored with “just” an 8704 or less. We’ll see, but the land wasn’t that much, and the way I’m reading it, my oppportunity to do these kind of things is quickly closing. More soon!

7/9/13 update:

Thought I’d include the original paths for the VWX Town and the quick formation of the 3 letters making up the related acronym, which formed in correct order left to right: V…

W…

X…

My collages will be displayed in the Power Tower Gowlery once more (Gilatona-Lis series), which was finalized in the spring of this year. Also making a return will be the entire “Art 10×10”, mostly housed in the ToXic Art Gallery (last seen in Carrcassonne from last spring, I believe), and also House Greenup. No guest artists have been scheduled for a gallery so far, but a possibility is this person I recently found in a google image search for Shaw + “crop circles”:

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Hucka D.:

What are the psychological implications for the V, the W, the X? The V comes first. The Toxic [Art] Gallery was situated inside the V, then atop the peak of the W. Then the X, which stands for Crossroads or X-roads, completes. Where does each lead?

Details soon.