Category Archives: Heterocera

“Well, we finally got a roof on this old gazebo. Carrcassonne’s been sitting in the rain for quite some time now. Maybe 1/2 a year.”

“I doubt if she minded,” responds Karoz. “Being inactive and all.”

“We’re working on *that* as well,” Baker Bloch replies. “Not Perch unfortunately.”

“Oh?”

“No, Wheeler has had a talk with him. He doesn’t want to give up his independence after being removed. Eyes are picky like that.”

“At least it’s better than a picky nose.”

Baker Bloch doesn’t reply to Karoz’s weak joke but continues. “Obviously not the abberant one you found on the fake Mars… LeMars, the one that really doesn’t exist.”

“No that wouldn’t be good (for Collagesity). Must be a place you can, er, place an ad. ‘All Seeing Eye Monthly’ or something.

“Maybe. But things are changing around here. Wheeler’s seen the light. She’s been assimilated (in turn).”

“Amazing,” says Karoz back. “And I seem to not work for her. Maybe we should call it an opening for a full time position with Tom Busker. Closer to home (since I live in the mall and all). Less travel… can stay home with the pet.”

“You have a pet?” Baker Bloch asks.

“The parrot… remember?”

“I think so. The Ancient?”

“No. Just a parrot. Wheeler Wilson is doing good by her name now. TILE may move forward. Pretty sure of that, actually.”

“We’ll see how it develops,” Baker ended.

“So you went into the void sim to the immediate west of Mos Ainsley, then were kicked out as zero became one and ended up in Mos Ainsley instead.”

“You cannot stay in the void zone. You must return to One.”

“Tell me now this works? How is Mos Ainsley the moon to Jeogeot and how does it correlate to The Moon of Jeogeot?”

“There is a purse,” then says Karoz. “A Curse Purse. On an island. Grassy knoll nearby.”

Baker Bloch had a hunch. “Is this island the same as Muff-Bermingham?” Turns out he was correct.

—–

“Karoz, it is said that Journal 1, which may be the same as Old Mabel’s Journal *4*, is located on this Muff-Bermingham. You and Baker Blinker almost found it last November when being ordered there by Wheeler. But the great Green and White wars started on that island, er, planet.”

“Both,” Karoz clarified. “Space wars, yes. But not ‘Star Wars'”

“But this war also started here in Collagesity. When the Facets tried to forcefully get the Lucky sign from resistant Furry Karl, who then pulled out his Treeshooter, as he calls it. His gun.”

“We’re going on quite a tangent, but yes Baker Bloch. All that is correct, once more.”

—–

“Is Journal 1 the same as Journal 4?”

“You know it is (Baker Bloch).”

“Lucky, the village, is the same as the audiovisual synchronicity “Dark Side of the Rainbow.”

“You are telling the story, but, yes, as I understand it, they are the vesica piscus as one. Two Lucky villages, the circumference of the second is the center of the first. Unch lies on the circumference of the original, the one with the Lucky sign in its midst still. The second lacked the sign. The great robolution had already taken place. Treestock. ’68.”

“I don’t know what a lot of that means,” admits Baker Bloch.

“Neither do I.”

—–

“Back to Sapphire, Karoz.”

“Yes.”

“Hold on just a minute. Let’s order some coffee.”

“Sure.”

—–

“Tell me about your grandparents, Karoz.”

“You mean Sapphire’s mom and dad?”

“Yes. Do you have other grandparents? I guess on your father’s side, obviously.”

“Mossman. I am part or perhaps half moss. I know [delete name].”

“Interesting… forgot about that. Is Gene Fade your father?”

“Yes.”

“How did that work? I think I recall the Gypsies keeping him in a cellar for a play thing.”

“Haha. Yes. That was their story.”

“Such a hunk.”

“Haha.”

“Can you tell me more about the Mossmen, then, Karoz?”

“A bit. I wasn’t raised by Gene Fade, but he created me. He also created Bracket Jupiter, who was king of the Comma Islands.”

“So Gene Fade is a user. But he is a toy avatar as well.”

“He is both.” (pause)

“How can he be both?”

—–

“Back to Sapphire, Karoz.”

“*Yes* You are asking too many questions I simply can’t answer. Ask about Sapphire. The Gypsies and Gene will have to wait. Arab back to Baracuda (Karoz spells this out).

—–

Into the night they went. The Blue Feather restaurant and bar had long closed. Discussions were spiraling around the truth but perhaps not getting much closer to the center than where they began. Weary, they decided to call it quits. But first thing the next time they would speak of Sapphire and Yeot and Yd Island and how she got to Norum and what happened to her when the Lindens came and she became the Lapis and the Lazuli both.

“I was trying to figure out which of those mounds was Meditation Knoll, Karoz.”

“Did you get it?”

“Yeah.”

“Good.”

“So to the topic of the night: Norum. You must begin to remember.”

“I remember,” says Karoz, looking at his nails. “I remember some.”

“Tell me about Sapphire.”

“Mother. Before she was Turquoise. Then she became the Lapiz and the Lazuli when the Linden Labs came and erased our Lemony ways. Norum was no more. Time passed.”

“How did you come into the, er, care of Sapphire.”

“I was given to Sapphire by the Gypsies of The Moon. Another 3-n-1.”

“What does that mean, Karoz?”

“There were 3 Gypsies who were actually one. Gypsy Rose, Gypsy Devarue, I think (sp?) and one other I can’t remember the last name of. But all three claimed to actually be this Gypsy Rose.”

“And this was on the moon of the Maebaleia or Satori continent, take your pick.”

“Yes.”

—–

“We’re going to use the Oracle, Karoz, to help us move forward.”

“Go ahead.”

—–

“Well, we know Gypsey is intimately connected to Grassy.”

“Another knoll,” Karoz responds. “Grassy Noll. Better known, hehe, as Salad Bar Jack.”

“Gypsy was his partner.”

“Yes.”

—–

“Then the Arab… Barracuda is Arab kind of sideways or backwards.”

“Right.”

“That was the ship that brought you to Jeogeot. Through the portal. 10 to 6 to 3 to 1 is the way Sapphire put it. Then you were at Mos Ainsley, the moon of *Jeogeot*. The twin to the moon of Maebaleia just as Jeogeot and Maebaleia themselves are twins. Opposites. 180 degree spins of the same 3d landmass.”

“Correct.”

“So the ship The Arab is the same as Barracuda.”

“Wilson sisters. 3 instead of 2. Gypsies.”