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Stoned Talk

(joined in progress)

Carr.:

There are 3 major stones and 7 minor stones or just stones, unnamed and non-nomenclatured. One of the 3 major stones is called Major itself. This would be the one outside your father’s place. How’s Space Ghost holding up? Hopefully he’s not drinking again since he has that new bar and all. Is he?

BBloch:

I don’t think so. I haven’t seen him lately, actually. Might try to find him later tonight. And: He never drank.

Carr.:

Where is he sleeping? Since the whole house is now a bar.

BBloch:

Dunno.

Carr.:

Answer: There’s a portal in the back of the bar. Walk behind the bar, go down the passage. You’ll find a second Collagesity with a second set of objects. Different from the first. Backwards. Bass ackwards.

BBloch:

Hmmm. I’ll check that out Carrcassonnee.

Carr.:

Do that. Don’t forget. Any more on the stones?

BBloch (reviewing):

The 3 major stones: one is called Major Stone itself and that’s in front of my dad’s bar, next to the orange door…

(Carrcassonnee nods here?)

… then Big Stone just outside your gazebo here…

(nodding?)

… and then Hunger or Thick or Think Stone in front of the Collagesity Diner. What’s the relationship, especially of Hunger (etc.) and Big?

Carr.:

When you go to the parallel town you’ll find that out. You better go check.

(unjoined in progress)

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The 3 “major stones” brightened for highlighting purposes.

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Major Stone and Space Ghost’s new bar bars from Gallery Jack.

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“Is this the passageway behind the bar Carrcassonnee speaks of?” Turns out it’s not. Wrong bar.

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“Hey Furry Karl! Long time no see.” Karl doesn’t speak, and Baker continues. “Let’s see, Karl, I’ll have a, uh, let’s see, a, um, uh… a Heineken.” Baker Bloch waits for Karl’s response. “Hmm, still not animated, just like Starbuccaneer.”

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He admires the high view here before teleporting down to the second bar in the house. There’s Big Stone, he thinks. No, that’s the other stone. What was the name. Baked Stone? He suddenly can’t remember. Has he been gassed? Has the whole town been gassed? “Some view, eh Karl. Bet you’re enjoying that.” No answer.

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“And then there’s Rhoda. Hi Rhoda!” Baker Bloch is not surprised when the orbed being doesn’t reply.

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He still talks to him, however. “Rhoda, I understand there’s a passageway that leads to another dimension ’round here. I can’t find it. Any ideas?” Rhoda remains silent and still. “None?” Baker Bloch waits again. “Still none?”

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Baker then spies the rocks of Old Cannon Road projecting through the floor on the north side of the bar. He takes a closer look…

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… and finds the passageway. The Exit.

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“Doesn’t look *too* different” (but it was).

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Collagesity Visitors

Newton and Jasper?

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But how?

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Collagesity Gets Stoned 02

We move to the second set of 5 stones, this time aligned on the northern side of town, and basically following the route of Old Cannon Road. They are numbered west to east in this case.

Stone 06 is in front of a store (Lafayette Grocery and Dairy), just like Stone 03 (Bodega Market).

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Baker Bloch looks down the ancient roadway toward stones 07 and 08.

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Stone 07 (w/ Stone 06 in the background).

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Stone 08. This one’s called Major Stone? Tall Stone? Lean Stone?

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Stone 09, or Hunger Stone, one of the largest like Big Stone before it. It shares other similarities with Big Stone.

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Hunger Stone may also be known as Think Stone for obvious reasons. This may be a corruption of Thick Stone.

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Stone 10 is the only one not found in Collagesity proper. Instead it lies within the Rubi Woods, and offers important clues to their origins. We know that Hector on the opposite side of these same woods once contained its own alignment of very similar rocks (One Two). We’ll have to study this matter further before commenting in full. But are the stones from the woods?

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Stone 06 was then turned around to close out Baker Bloch’s rocky night.

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Collagesity Gets Stoned 01

As of yesterday, 10 large stones with Celtic type designs on ’em have arrived in Collagesity, practically dividable into 2 sets of 5. Stones within each set are basically aligned with one another east to west across the town, 5 on the north side and 5 to the south. Successive rocks are also approximately equidistant to each other in both sets.

We start with the last stone placed by Baker Bloch yesterday, which turns out to be Stone 01 according to town terminology. This would be near the bottom center of Castle Jack in the southwest corner of Collagesity. We already learn much from this placement. Before Castle Jack, this site might have held a traditional 7 circuit labyrinth, such as we’ve seen in the Temple of TILE before, as well as on Second Lyfe’s Moon of the Moon. The rock and its own depiction of said labyrinth commemorates this history — according to town legends again.

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The spinning Tyle Cube is perched on top.

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Stone 02 fronts Carrcassonnee’s Gazebo Temple, about at the same place the burning Lennon lemon was before. It’s one of the bigger of the 10, and might be individually named Big Stone or Major Stone (Biggie?). We’ll see.

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All that remains of the firey lemon is its containing dish or bowl.

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Baker walks toward Stone 03 and Stone 04.

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Stone 03 (front of Bodega Market).

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Stone 04 (center of town “plaza”).

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Stone 05 is placed on the eastern edge of town next to SoSo, near the border of Art Oluja’s land.

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Stones 03, 04, and 05 in a row across Collagesity East.

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Collagesity Films (several!)

Recent films made in Collagesity.

First up is the art collective called cybertwigs, who meshed various Collagesity images with the song “Strange & Beautiful (I’ll Put A Spell On You)” by Aqualung. Truly a marvelous, polished creation, and I love that they attempted to grok my thought processes when making these works. Maybe they can illuminate me when they figure it out! The video is obviously a masterful collage in itself, representing a tight sync between audio and video. I’ll be studying it more in coming days and weeks for certain.

Pearl Grey’s slightly more neoclassic take on Collagesity is up next. She captures images not found in the first video, like zooming into the forbidden bowels of haunted Castle Jack. I also love the way she moves up through the numerous floors of the Fal Mouth Moon, scanning around the walls at each stop. It was a lot of fun creating and then hanging successive Falmouth series collages in that building back in Winter/Spring 2014. The gallery definitely helped shape the art.

The two almost equally long films make for a good balance in my eyes. And people do seem inspired by those sky tunnels.:) Excellent work guys! I’m truly, deeply touched.

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Return 01

“Starbuccaneer, my old nemesis, hehe. I’ll take 4 shots of expresso over ice in a venti cup.”

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He calls toward Karoz already seated at the far table. “You sure you won’t have anything?”

“Positive. Just going over my notes.”

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Baker Bloch turns back to the barista and lowers his voice a bit. “So how’ve you been Star? Long time no see.”

“2130,” came a robotic answer. “2130, 2130, 2130, 2130, 2130.” Starbuccaneer Barista’s eyes then turned pitch black for a moment.

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“Hmmm,” says Baker. He calls back to Karoz. “Well, that’s probably for the best. Doesn’t look like they’re really open for business yet.” And I was really looking forward to that 4 shot latte, he then thinks to himself while watching Starbuccaneer’s eyes revert back to normal, but still staring blankly ahead. Possessed, he feels. “What do you think Blackie?” he queries his pet shoulder bird. “Possessed?”

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“P’ssessed,” the bird echoes back in a small tweet.

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—–

“Well Karoz, tell me all about your adventures in BoB. The whole honeymoon!”

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“Oh it was wonderful, Baker Bloch. And I apologize again for not inviting you to the wedding. You see, it was Baker Blinker’s idea. She said she just couldn’t wait and that Collagesity needed us wedded as soon as possible for protection.”

“What does that mean?”

“I tried a couple of times to get her to spill more details, but no go. Plus we were busy doing, ahem, other things.”

“Like biking.” Baker Bloch laughs, and Karoz smiles broadly.

“How’s Jorondip? You said you stayed in the garage two nights, wasn’t it?”

“Three, actually. Then we moved just up the hill to what appeared to be an abandoned cottage. Then we moved up to a much larger house above that. The one with the blue quantum mechanics book. Have I told you about my new theory concerning quantum computers?”

Baker shakes his head and Karoz tells him. LINK

“Fascinating. You could be right. But what does that say about Collagesity? On and off? Black and white? Jasper and Newton?”

“It means a door to reality,” Karoz states bluntly. “A way out of here.”

“Hmph.” Baker speaks to his bird again. “Whattaya say Blackie? A way to reality?”

“Real-ty,” the bird squeaked.

“Since when did you start talking to your shoulder pet, Baker Bloch?”

“I don’t know. Just started. What do you think Blackie? Good idea?” The bird didn’t answer this time.

“Well anyway, it was great, Baker Bloch. The second week we stayed — get this — it was a duplicate of my Bodega market apartment. And we could rezz anything we wanted to there within a 61 prim cushion! So that finished it off. I’ll show you the pictures of the whole thing later. Maybe invite the town to a slide show. Yeah, that would be a morale booster.”

“Is the town down in the dumps?” Baker Bloch asked.

“Well, you know the whole Carrcassonnee turning red and dull several times. We need the eye strong to protect us.”

“What about Wheeler?”

“Oh she had to go with us.”

“She did??” Baker Bloch stares at Karoz and imagines his eyes turning black. But they didn’t.

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New Town Map

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Too much had changed all of a sudden, so I felt I needed to go ahead and do this.

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Starbuccaneer Coffee in Collagesity?

Interesting possibility! I like the deck over Confluence Pool fer sure.

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Entrance in the back of Gallery Jack.

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Baker getting comfy, and wishing he had a fishing pole.

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4:24 PM EST:

More changes. Baker Bloch’s father just sold his house! But I’ll have to get to all that in another post.

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5:20:

Changes! Developing fast. I believe the Boos gallery will be shifted from south to north Collagesity very soon.

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6:15:

The Boos gallery has been shifted!

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What seems to be happening — or is happening — is a positioning of all galleries along one ancient road that may still be called Cannon Street or the Old Cannon Road or something. This would be on the north side of town basically. The south side is becoming more residential in nature, it seems. Or park-like. We’ll see how it goes from here!

And 171 prims still left over as I write this. I’m not sure how.

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BoBeymoon

Baker Blinker was emphatic. “We’re not getting married in a garage.”

“It’s not *in* the garage,” countered Karoz. “The machine is just outside.” Karoz’s frown expands. “You said you didn’t want to wait until Christmas and that you wanted to get hitched as soon as possible. I’m outlining a solution for you in a most logical manner.”

Baker sighed. “Okay, let’s do it. But I’m not *sleeping* in that garage.”

But they ended up doing just that. They moved around Jorondip several times during the first week of their honeymoon stay in Nautilus’ BoB. Then they came across this place in Gormthoog on the morning of Day 7 while biking up Highway 14.

“Could it be, Baker Blinker?” Karoz excitedly asks.

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“Well whatta ya know.”

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“And full permissions on rezzing as I’m checking now.”

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“Pop out that old bed again Blinks!”

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Baker sighed. And so went their second week. Awesome again. For Karoz.

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A Central Collagesity Mystery

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3:44 EST:

Well, Jack is back.

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210 prims left for development. Not bad.

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Down to 206… 205… 206…

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