Category Archives: Rubi

Overhead shot of the 5/8ths sim sized Rubi Forest, a protected Linden Lab property. There are 3 types of trees within the forest: eucalyptuses, brown cypresses and green cypresses, with the brown cypresses normal larger than the green ones. In the below photo, the 3 types of trees can rather clearly be discerned from each other, esp the 2 variations of cypresses. The eucalyptus trees, larger than the green cypresses even, are a little harder to pinpoint in this snapshot, since their foliage is both closer to the color of the ground and spread out a bit more.

There are several varieties of “twinned” trees in the forest, this example being a merger of a eucalyptus and a green cypress. I believe this occurs in the north central part of the forest, not far from Robin Loop running parallel to its entire upper border.

This is a fusion of eucalyptus and brown cypress, closer to VWX Town and the woods’ southern limit.

Intertwined branches of same.

Hucka D. has indicated to me that this is a forest feature called The Notch, made up of 6 brown cypresses sprouting in a “V” shape in its southwest area. The Notch can be clearly seen in the overhead photo above. Hucka D. has also recently indicated to me that other forest features have been named in the past but haven’t been revealed to me yet. All in good time, he recites.

Looking into The Notch from the west.

Uprooted tree, with only the barest of a point touching the ground, even. There may be examples of totally uprooted or “floating” trees in the forest as well — hafta check soon. I’d also like to talk about the grass in the forest shortly.

Eucalpytus trees. These 1 prim linden trees are a remarkable product. All the linden trees and plants have their merit, and of course you run across them all over the place inworld. Not as much as you should in my humble opinion but they can be called ubiquitous still.

Baker Bloch thinks a path may have laterally run through the center of the forest at one time, judging by the green, open area he’s standing in below. Personally I’m not convinced of this.

Baker also likes to often reduce his viewing range while within the forest to make it appear larger and also more misty and mysterious seeming.

New structures since last map created approx. 1 month ago:

34. Bodega Market
35. Marble Tower (replaced 32)
36. Unnamed structure (replaced 26 and 28)
37. Elephant effigy (replaced 19)
38. Fal Mouth Moon (replaced 20, 21 kind of)
39. VWX Tower (replaced 15 kind of)

Deleted but not replaced:

8, 9

This is the Blue Feather Gallery and Blue Feather Gallery Annex.

Other thoughts:

City Hall remains, but it has been greatly enlarged. It has stolen the cat sculpture from nearby Confluence Place, itself enlarged and modified in the same process. The Confluence Place cat was moved *directly up* and repositioned atop the 5 story City Hall, which now arches over The Table House toward the more southern building. VWX Tower is based on the same module, but it, in turn, represents another type of enlargement of the new City Hall. And although I claim above that VWX Tower replaces the Power Tower Gowlery (kind of), the Fal Mouth Moon (former hotel) just to the east of this recently derezzed structure, represents more of an actual replacement, since it is now the home of the Gilatona-Lis collage series formerly exhibited in PTG. I believe the FMM now becomes the centerpiece of the town, along with perhaps the directly attached and nearby structures The Table House, Confluence Place, and also both the similar City Hall and VWX Tower arching over all.

Hucka D.:

If Confluence Place is part of the center, then so is the Castle of the 7th Spire. And also the Church of The Diagonal. And how about the Church of the Damned? Or The Hole in the Wall, which I would suggest you re-name The Watering Hole or Ye Ole Watering Hole or something like that? See what’s happening there tonight.

… I’m going to be able to give up my Rubi property in the next several days. Set it up for sale? I could make my money back on a sale, but I have to weigh continued creative value (including value to this blog, of course) with giving it up and shifting to other emphases.

Check out the map of the Rubi sim above: The VWX Tower can be seen spanning the entire length of my town/property there, [over] 2/3rds of a sim long, but probably [considerably] over a sim’s length walking it from top to bottom. Interesting fun fact: You can’t walk it in reverse. But one thing I noticed on the map is that the [cat topped] City Hall lies almost precisely halfway down the length of VWX Tower, making a right angle with it.

Hucka D.:

1996. It was a good year for crop circles. You have two on your property now. Well, not crop circles. Glyph art. Composites. VWX Tower is a tile uniting audio and video. What is the audiovideo tile referred to?

bb:

It’s a towering tile, whatever.

Hucka D.:

Think.

Edwardston R. discovers the former, fuller Rosieri urban area.

Dueling borg cubes, 2009 (Rubi Forest front left).

Baker Bloch plays the keyboards at the Norris Building. He understands the generated microcosm. *I* want to play the keyboards. Purchasing commencing soon! But will it help spell the demise of VWX Town? Neither Baker Bloch nor his user know yet. But in the meantime, I decided to play around with the City Hall module and create another town tower, a really, really high one. And *long* — 2/3rds of a sim long. Almost a sim high. I call it the VWX Tower.

VWX Tower arching above the cat topped City Hall. Yeah, it’s way up there.

VWX Tower bottom, behind Edwardston’s house (Home o’ Fibs). Wonder if Edwardston will approve of the new structure, since I had to delete his small gallery to make room for it? Baker Bloch enters.

VWX Tower top: Baker teleports directly into The Giant Rotating Head of Bob’s pipe. Smoke’n!

Baker begins to walk back down. The trek starts out on relatively level ground and becomes progressively steeper.

“A game, eh?” Baker’s up for the challenge.

Passing a hooded figure (angel of doom?), Baker offers a friendly hello. No answer back.

A precariously perched Lt. Pepper encountered at the next green space.

Bottom sighted! Getting really steep now.

Will he make it?

“And here is the 2nd temple, Edwardston. This would start in June 2010, or a little before Pietmond that September. The construction of this second, more accurate temple then eventually created the big black hole linking Heterocera and its Pond District with Corsica and its Comma Islands. Bracket will have more information about that soon.”

Edwardston Resident:

I can’t wait!

Baker Bloch:

We thought…

Edwardston Resident:

I thought *I* could create the history of Heterocera, in tandem with Bracket or working with Bracket.

Baker Bloch:

It’s all centered around [Rubi], this place. This is the center. The Pond District is attached to this center. The HEC Canyon is attached to this center. Heterocera’s more recently discovered continental Diagonal is based on this center, most likely.

Edwardston Resident:

How about, what do you call it… the community with the virtual Chelsea Hotel?

Baker Bloch:

VHC Town I’ve been calling it. But let’s call it VHC *City*, because it is considerably larger than our VWX *Town*.

Edwardston R.:

I am excited to be a part of this project. And if I do this, you’ll keep me around in December, and the town.

Baker Bloch:

Maybe. We still might have to move back to Philudoria. But you can write the Heterocera history [based] there.

Edwardston R.:

Maybe. I have my house here, however. I gain inspiration by walking around VWX Town, and the Rubi Woods. And I like the neighborhood as well.

Baker Bloch:

Maybe we should just take a trip to Philudoria and see what you think.

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(45 minutes later)

“How about you, Bracket? Edwardston is cool with moving to Philudoria now he sees how close it is to VHC [City].”

Bracket Jupiter:

I can work from anywhere, as long as I have a small base on Corsica. And I do now (Asha and House Greenup), thanks to you. You are trying to make up for past mistakes. You haven’t *quite* made up for them, because I had to die and be reborn, after all. But I will admit now that you are trying. I will keep reading the piecemeal history of the Corsica continent from the Baker Blinker Blog. I’m up to Asha, actually.

Baker Bloch:

I think the house there might be safe for a considerable time. My guess is that the avatars there are themselves privy to an illegal build way up in the sky somewhere. As I said before, I’ve been up about 2000 meters, and didn’t see anything. But since the avatars are obviously in that space (judging by the green dots on the world map), the skybox must be further up, and, importantly, further away from the ground and your house there. I hear you’ve also been talking to Cardboard Derek Jones about House Greenup.

Bracket Jupiter:

Yes, he’s pretty excited about it being set up in the, um, in its most natural spot… beside Greentop. He wants to visit soon as well.

Baker Bloch:

So you think that CD Jones is okay with us moving back to Philudoria, despite not having near the amount of land as before?

Bracket Jupiter (nodding head):

I think so.

Baker Bloch:

How about Carrcassonne? You’ve been talking to her recently as well.

Bracket Jupiter:

Yes, the other day we chatted at her pool. We discussed Corsica in the way that Carrcassonnee can discuss, well, anything. Wholistic she is. She agrees that Corsica is an elephant.