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The Gap.
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Pink Think
“We are getting ready for the next step foward, Syd. You and I. Together.”
“I just had to figure out how to get rid of that inside demon. And I’m becoming a bit pink!”
“Yes, this might do for an audience. Next!! hehe.”
“Oh. Already.”
“Well, I’m not quite ready but what the heck. Let’s give this a try. Welcome Tom Busker! Bow to Syd before addressing me.”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Rubi
Blue Feather, White Tower
An unparalleled period of expansion has arrived for Collagesity, given all the extra prims we have now (1.5 times the former amount!!). 1st comes an upgrade for the Blue Feather club, giving it several extra, large rooms and platforms. Baker Blinker and Karoz can now stay in the Blue Feather along with Wheeler — more on that soon.
Then this morning I’m playing around with adding the White Tower to the eastern part of town, but in a different place than when I experimented with the idea before there.
Much excitement to come. There will be only so much I can do on the ground. Then we’ll have to move to the sky for more fun and development!
Blue Feather (foreground), White Tower (background).
Blue Feather.
“What do you think, Jim?” asks Baker Bloch.
“Yes, there’ll be that.”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Rubi
Holy B-Jesus: F-load of Extra Prims!
If you haven’t heard about this and you live on the mainland, check your prim count. Mine is c1000 more than it was yesterday. Collegesity Heights is about to take a mighty jump!
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, Heterocera, Rubi
Newvember
Now that all the Halloween mayhem is over, Baker Bloch thinks it’s time to refocus on the woods. True, Wheeler kind of controls the whole town now, but *he* owns most of the objects, and she cannot manipulate him the particular manner she can others. He’ll always remain above the fray in that way. However, it’s damage assessment time for sure. He better head over to Carrcassonnee’s.
Baker Blinker was already there.
—–
Carr.:
Good, we can start. Let me just check the roll. Spider? (pause) Spider?
Baker Bloch:
He’s here Carrcassonnee. He’s just in a position where you can’t see him as well, I guess.
Carr.:
Good. Then there’s you Baker Bloch, since you’re talking. I assume you’re here. And you’re not Wilson.
BBloch:
No.
Carr.:
And you’re sure about that.
BBloch:
Positive. And then there’s Baker Blinker right in front of you. And that’s it.
Carr.:
Baker Blinker, are you here?
BBlinker:
Yes. But barely. (She glances at Baker Bloch)
Carr.:
Good. And I know you’re not Wilson as well. And you’re not Wheeler. Are you?
(Baker Blinker doesn’t even answer this. A tension fills the air.)
Carr.:
Well, let’s have it. How are the others? Hucka Doobie is alive?
BBlinker:
Go ahead, Baker Bloch. Tell him.
BBloch:
Yes. But he won’t be using that classic avatar body for a while. And he sprained his ankle. And he probably won’t be able to gather pollen for several weeks. But it’s almost winter anyway. Gathering time is basically over. So, all in all, he came out of it remarkably well for the beating he suffered.
Carr.:
We’re sure Wheeler did this. I heard she changed several times during the commotion.
BBloch:
Well, she was Wheeler when it started and Wheeler when it ended, so I assume the middle part was Wheeler as well. She just…
Carr.:
Yes?
BBlinker (finishing; voice still sharp):
She was a bee as well.
Carr.:
How did that work? Fill me in on the details.
BBloch:
It was a power move. She wanted to rub everything in our face. What we are, what we do. But speaking from a higher ground, the bee part was just accidental. It fit into the story we’re telling here well. There was a slot. Round peg in a round hole situation.
Carr.:
And so what of Karoz?
BBlinker:
I’ll take over in talking about that little bastard boy. Karoz has a sprained neck. He’s lucky to have a head. Wheeler could have easily snapped it off at one point.
BBloch (turning to BBlinker):
*But*, it could have been the other way as well.
Carr.:
I’m confused. I don’t like to be confused. What are you Bakers on about? Who won the fight? Wheeler? I understood that Wheeler won the fight. Did she? Doesn’t she control the town now because of it? I need to know. I need to start packing if necessary. I’ll have to buy a special piece of luggage for my eye. I have difficulty taking it through customs. Nautilus might be a destination. Hucka Doobie and I talked about it before the party. Place called Black Rock — he *assured* me I would be safe there and that we could start Collagesity over at that location if needed. Black Rock — ever heard of it?
BBloch:
Whoa Carrcassonnee. Slow down there. One at a time. Let’s see. About the fight, Karoz did indeed lose. He was ahead early but Baker Blinker and I think that Wheeler could have been toying with him all along. We’re not sure[ however]. At a certain point, it *seemed* that Karoz could injure Wheeler’s neck if needed (to end the fight), but then, quick as a wink, Wheeler took the advantage and pinned *Karoz’s* head. Just like that (he snaps his fingers here). Bizarrest thing: instant swappers. Baker Blinker had left by then.
BBlinker (tersely):
I left after 10 minutes. When I realized that the agreement (between Wheeler and herself) had most certainly been broken.
Carr.:
This involved a metal heart I heard. 3 hearts. Hucka Doobie says Black Rock has 3 hearts, hmmm.
BBlinker:
Yes. 3 hearts. (she blew out air) It was meant… to set us apart.
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Carr. (offering):
Like the sneetches? Let’s go back to them. Stars for the sneetches. No stars for the others. (pause) Okay, it’s like Baker Bloch’s bird that set him apart from Wilson. *Use* to. There’s no telling who is who now.
BBloch:
Let’s move on please. Baker Blinker is still obvious quite upset, Carrcassonnee. She needs to get back to her journal. So to wrap it up for now, Karoz lost to Wheeler and now Wheeler controls the town. This negates *everything* Baker Blinker *won* during the previous match (with Wheeler). So everything has been reversed.
BBlinker (crying now):
He could have been killed. He’s lucky he didn’t get killed. And I’m not sure how it *didn’t* happen.
BBloch (taking over again):
We don’t know what Wheeler will do with the town but it’s hers now. I assume she’ll tell us in her own good time.
Carr.:
So I have no protection at all.
BBloch:
All I can do for you, Carrcassonnee, is to assure you, through my user, that we’re going to try everything we can to make sure you’re in a position of power still.
Carr.:
Advisory? I don’t work well as an advisor. The eye is the important thing. Is *Wheeler* the eye now?
They didn’t have an answer.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Rubi
BF Halloween “Party”
Seldom seen Murdoch came all the way from Middletown to protest the fight and possible destruction of Collagesity. But when Wheeler explained to him what squaring the circle actually meant, the street magician yielded and returned to his own circle.
Blue-green Hummingbird sprang off Wheeler’s upper back and whispered something in her ear.
“Of course you have my permission to attend another party, Hummie.” Wheeler then indicates the presence of Baker Blinker with a wave. “Blinks is already here. She will not be showing up *again*. No need for you to hang around. Be gone… enjoy!”
Baker Blinker suddenly realized what this meant. “This is it,” she says aloud to Baker Bloch beside her. “This is what we feared.” She looked over at the bowie knife laying on the edge of Barrett’s table, the one that cuts both ways.
“I’ll cut her so far back she’ll turn into a Monkee,” she then hisses.
Baker Bloch shakes his head vigorously for no one to see. “That’s what she wants. That’s exactly what she wants. Let her go through with this. It’s Karoz’s choice in the end. Karoz doesn’t have to win, er, lose. Lose, I meant there.”
“Urrggh”, is all Baker Blinker could manage in reply. She stares at a non-costumed Karoz again. You moron, she thinks. You complete fool. You’d do this to *me*!
But it was too late.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Rubi
BF Halloween Party 04
Karoz then explains to them about the fight. Wheeler manifests just in time to take a threatening pose, punctuating his spiel.
“You’re going down tonight buddy boy,” she says in a tough guy voice. “And I’m going to use Hucka Doobie’s anatomy to do it, just to rub it in. Rub it all the way in. Tonight Collagesity will be *mine*.” She turns toward the others, eyes afire. “But first, Hucka and I must do the dance of death. Remember the dance we rehearsed?”
“We did?” Hucka Doobie exclaims. Baker Blinker eyes her bee friend evily. “Oh yeah, we did, huh. Didn’t know it was the dance of *death*. But, sure, we can do that for the others. It’s Halloween after all. The one day talking about gruesome death and dismemberment is okay.”
“Right.” Wheeler jumps onto the dance pad. And turns into a bee for all to bee-hold. Halfway through it got even stranger. “About ready for that fight Karoz?” Wheeler called to him during the frenzy. In the aftermath Hucka Doobie lay on the floor, not quite dead but seemingly close to it. Wheeler changed back to Bowie.
“Almost went up to your White Palace forever and ever, Bee,” says Wheeler, towering over her. “Soon enough.”
“Next!!”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Rubi
BF Halloween Party 03
Baker Blinker was next to arrive, radiant as a blue clad Cinderella.
“May I have this dance,” the similarly blue Baker Bloch asks after introductory formalities. Blinks’ black eyes glistened.
Hucka Doobie is all like, “yes, yes, yes!” He wants to see his two favorite people in the world swinging around together in complete harmony. The great 3-n-1. Just like the good old days in Azure Islands.
But it doesn’t turn out to be quite the eloquent choreography he imagined. Oh well. Still fun!
Just before Wheeler returned, we had Karoz’s grand entrance.
“Karoz!” a disheartened Baker Blinker exclaims. “You couldn’t even bother!”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Rubi
BF Halloween Party 02
“Sorry, I had to log out and back on there, Hucka Doobie. I couldn’t even see the picture up [on the wall] to change the texture. But I’ve decided on what to put there. Better do it while Wheeler is away.” He inserts the texture, then adjusts the picture, changing it from a vertical to horizontal crookedness. “What do you think?”
“Interesting,” responds Hucka Doobie. “Using a bit of spontaneous synchronicity, are we?”
“Of course,” says the headless Baker. “Wouldn’t have it any other way.”
“Nor would I,” replies Hucka. “Remember all those good times we had in the White Palace. So much theorizing!”
“Theorizing that won’t be wasted,” Baker then adds. “Our user is going to start working on a proper front to back presentation for both the blogs.”
“Wonderful,” Hucka Doobie says. He thinks of “Octopus” and Tic Toc with swinging arms all around — the Octopus “ride”. Defeating the wheelers, he then realizes. Hmmm, maybe Baker has more up his sleeve than he’s letting on.
The album’s title came about as a result of co-producer David Gilmour mishearing a line from this song (“Well, the mad cat laughed at the man on the border…” – although the word “madcap” does figure in another of the song’s lyrics, “To a madcap galloping chase”). “Octopus” is known for being Barrett’s only single as a solo artist. It was released on 14 November 1969, two months before the release of The Madcap Laughs.[9] In France, the single gained a picture sleeve, which had the drawing of an octopus on it.[10]
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Rubi
BF Halloween Party 01
Baker Bloch and Wheeler were the first to arrive. Baker came as Steptoe Butte, the only “costume” he owned besides the Space Ghost one, which he thought would be too obvious. Wheeler came as… well, let’s just tune into the conversation, shall we?
“I’ll cut you off at the Bowie picture, Wheeler.”
“Well… what are you going to put there, then? You can’t leave it blank for the party. What’ll it be, old crook Hayes or new crook Nixon? You’re wrong about Hayes, by the way. It was Grant who was the real asshole. Hayes is the one who ended all that asshole-i-ness. The great 3-n-1 he is. At least in the dimension I prefer to view him… attached to.” She tried to think of a better way to put that and became silent.
“Ahh, Hucka Doobie my old man. Er, woman,” Baker calls as he turns to the door. You came as yourself in the past, I see.”
“Lest anyone forget,” she said. “I was bee through and through at the beginning.”
“Along those lines, I have a surprise for you a bit later in the party, Hucka Doobie,” Wheeler offered. “And — welcome as well. But first I have to run over to BoB to take some pictures of myself. I’ll be back shortly.” Wheeler vanishes.
“Greetings Syd Barrett,” Hucka Doobie, says upon meeting the flattie at the line between the old Edwardston Building and Small Gothic Castle. “See you’re still a man on the border, eh?”
“Hold out your right hand,” a non-amused Syd Barrett Gothic responds blankly, then stamps it with a blue feather.
“Thanks Syd.” She walks over to Baker.
“So I see we’re going to have some action tonight,” she says, staring with Baker at what town residents have begun calling the Squared Circle.
“Yup. It’s the contest for Collagesity as a whole.”
“Again,” Hucka Doobie tags on.
“Yup.”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Rubi
Sunklands 