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Baker Bloch asked that Edwardston Resident join him in a special event: the launching of a rocket from the Norris Building that would take him all the way to *The Moon*. And Edwardston gets to hang with his new friend, once more! Notice from the below picture that, from Edwardston’s viewpoint of the meeting this time, his actual appearance was not altered. Baker Bloch remained grayed out, true, but this was a one step improvement from their first interaction. Unfortunately, Baker Bloch still only saw Edwardston as a white mist.

Baker enters the Norris Building, telling Edwardston to stay put and keep looking up. Less than a minute later Baker was in the air (!)

About 10 minutes later, Edwardston, still looking skyward as Baker requested, saw his friend, arms and legs flailing, return to virtual Earth in a crash, sans rocket. “What happened, what happened??” Edwardston implored. Baker just wiped himself off and headed back toward the Norris Building. “I gotta try that again,” he said to Edwardston while walking away. “Just keep looking up. And keep taking your photos!”

It was while he was snapping photographs of this second, witnessed launch that something more surprising happened. Edwardston must have touched the rocket in the wrong way, because, suddenly, *he* was riding in the launched pod alongside Baker Bloch! He looked over at Baker, whose appearance was strangely flickering and even contracting in certain places like the face as the elevation increased. He managed to take some pictures.

At one point, Baker even lost his glasses and armbands. Only a hat topped, faceted gray mass remained. Thankfully, it was only a brief effect.

Shortly they crash landed on The Moon itself, unharmed. They’d made it!

After looking around at some of the craters and staring at the star speckled sky, they found that the ship was irreparably damaged and would not make a return trip. They’d have to teleport home instead. What fun nevertheless!!

Appearing shortly after Edwardston Resident’s return.

Celebration?

The 7th spire of the Castle of the 7th Spire may be highlighted by the 2 differently colored crystal clusters.

Rezzer rocks, shorter than their cousins and a brighter green than the other green crystals.

The crystals, both green and pink, are most certainly from The Moon. Baker Bloch’s been there, and so can you Second Life viewer. He walks toward the recently installed launcher at the Norris Building. Let the countdown begin.

… may be gone, Hucka D.”

Hucka D.:

2 in 1. Foreign 1. Four in One. Gone.

bb:

Left on his ship.

Hucka D.:

Yes. The cat scared him. He was too close to Catman from Camp Rubi. Barrel House gone. Catman. Blocked at Bloch Hill. Now it’s all Baker Bloch’s again. And The Residents.

bb:

That’s a shame. I liked Edwardston Resident.

Hucka D.:

He may show up again.

bb:

What next?

Hucka D.:

Build.

First, a SL photograph I “repinned” from Marianne McCann’s Snapzilla submissions depicting a dancing red skeleton at the accursed Falmouth Hotel in Bay City, a Linden Lab urban showcase. Two synchy things about this, perhaps. First is the presence of a red skeleton, like the foreman of the recent toy happening at Philo, Herman Park. Second is the involved name of the hotel (and also encompassing sim): Falmouth, which is also the name of another Frank Park location that just happened to play host to the last toy happening *before* Philo. Interesting juxtaposition, and worth a mention in this blog.

We return to VWX Town for the remainder of the shots in this blog post. We now have two what could be call “slanty” buildings in town. We’ve already discuss the first some: the now cat topped City Hall that’s also grown a story since its inception several days back. Then just yesterday I decided to insert another composite Moard Ling structure on the extreme eastern side of the community…

… and move the Norris Building formerly occupying that space to the west side of town, next to Edward’s Stream. There’s still basically nothing within either of these structures, however.

The Wall of Eyes south of the newly positioned Norris Building has been deleted, and a huge stone elephant effigy has taken its place.

Baker Bloch experiences the majesty of VWX Town’s newest slanty building from beneath. I believe I’ll simply call this the Marble Tower for now.

There are now a good number of what I’d call composite buildings in the community, including the two structures already mentioned, and also, as of several days ago, the Confluence Place. It represents a mashup of two different Moard Ling builds, in contrast to the single structure used as as a base module for both the City Hall (5 stacked modules) and the Marble Tower (3 stacked modules). The two involved structures employed in the Confluence Place are “ML Statue of Nekoty” and “Valley Mansion”, a newer Ling offering.

Interesting proximity of the Piepodt pod at the end of the surface aspect of Edward’s Stream (aka 1st Stream) and nuclear smokestack imported from the opposite side of town along with the Norris Building. They seem matched in relation to the back of the Table House behind them.

Current VWX Town skyline from what might be Baker Bloch’s new office in the attic of The Table House.

… does this new development, these — *Residents* — mean, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

They are your Residents. They are the center of an illness.

bb:

It’s going to freak Edwardston out.

Hucka D.:

You better find out his reaction.

bb:

Right.

—–

This day Edwardston Resident makes the decision that he’s going to use the teleporter again to see more of VWX Town.

A female voice behind him: “Residents.”

“Did you *say* something… er (checking title of object again)… Wyn??”

But the conversation, if you can call it that, appeared to be over. “Residents?” Edwardston then thinks, walking toward the teleporter. “Is that me and this Wyn?” The idea flitted through Edwardston’s mind that they were destined to marry and share the last name. Indeed, when he found the woman cutout in his inventory several days back, he thought that maybe Baker Bloch had placed it there to give him an Eve to his Adam, a perfect soulmate. He had even talked to her sometimes, but never had she spoken back. Is the object instead channeling another soul?

“How about you, Philip Linden?” Edwardston asked the other figure in the room. “Do you want to say something this morning as well?” But Philip remained silent.

Big Head Philip.

After checking outside the house for anything new (and seeing nothing) he uses the teleporter to head toward the City Hall again. He didn’t specifically remember the teleport option labelled “City Hall 05” from yesterday’s travels — he remembers “City Hall 01-04” options instead. Maybe it was just bad memory. He’s still very new, he said to himself in his mind. Maybe Baker Bloch relabelled the floors while he was asleep, he then thought. Maybe the bottom floor was now “City Hall 00” instead of “City Hall 01”. He’d read about that numbering problem somewhere — what to name a ground floor.

He takes a deep breath, selects “City Hall 05” from his options, and hits the teleport button…

“OMG, what *is* that way up here?”

Then he recognizes the object and quickly teleports back to his home, breath all panicy now. “That *cat*!!”

—–

Hucka D.:

See?

bb:

And if that cat’s way up there on top of the new 5th floor of the City Hall, then he’s going to start asking himself what took the place of the cat on the Confluence Place. It’s actually the very same cat moved directly up, but let’s not bother with that now.

Hucka D.:

Let’s not bother now with that.

bb:

He’s going to find The Residents.

Hucka D.:

And think Baker Bloch is insane — mentally ill — at the core of it.

bb:

*Is* he?

Hucka D.:

Of course not. (pause) I don’t think. But, anyway, the conglomeration of *eyeball* objects is suppose to represent insanity. The Residents directly took the place of The Cat.

bb:

Edwardston *must* simply enter the east side of VWX Town now.

Hucka D.:

Simply *must*.

bb:

Tonight?

Hucka D.:

Let us talk about this [ instead]. The City Hall has been extended up a floor, and topped with the same cat that use to lie directly below on the Confluence Place. The Confluence Place has been remodelled, enlarged. It is a place of *memory*. A third stream now comes from within and not from without.

bb:

The backing waterfall.

Hucka D.:

Right. Confluence Place has everything it needs in itself now. It doesn’t need Edwardston Resident.

bb:

Not sure I follow you, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

It already has Residents.

bb:

But I think we spoke before…

Hucka D.:

… before spoke…

bb:

… about The Table House the City Hall now completely arches over to reach the space of Confluence Place.

—–

Edwardston walks out of the house toward the Confluence Place to look for the cat. Something else is there for sure.

The cat is not even within Edwardston’s vision range atop the City Hall’s new, 5th floor. “Could it have, I don’t know, *flown* away??” he asks himself. But, no, it’s still there. Invisible to him, but there.

“Blocked from going in!!”

—–

“Even if he wished to,” Hucka D. added.

TEXT SOON.

Stranger do’ins in VWX Town lately. Edwardston Resident is going to be surprised. Explanations soon!

Feeling lonely again, Edwardston Resident copies a version of Carrcassonne from the pool before going to bed, and rezzes it in his room. Certainly too large for the room, but still he lets it remain. “One day he’ll be able to talk to this being, this entity,” he thinks before falling to sleep.

The next “morning” he awakes and dashes to the window, taking another look at “Catman”. The illusion is still there, but not as marked as before. Edwardston notices that if he turns a certain way the backwards figure illusion becomes more clear, and with a slight adjustment to the viewing angle the Catman illusion becomes more distinct while the former illusion fades. This seems to convince him that the two illusions are actually part of one, larger illusion, along with the symmetrical eyes from the day before. He can either bravely suck it up (once more) and head into the cat topped building or turn away from it in fear. This is the primary gate he faces, a decision. This becomes conscious to him at this point in our yarn.

Up front and in person, the area where the illusion takes place from his upstairs window looses some of its essence. Here is Carrcassonne, as usual, staring back at him in wordless communication. She will not talk in person, he realizes.

Here is the guarding cactuses…

…and the accompanying large ape.

He’s not afraid to even pet the ape.

He explores other parts of west VWX Town this morning, including the Temple of TILE. He decides that he must focus more on it, and the harbored labyrinth of many colors. He still does not know what it means or how to walk it. I would show him shortly.

Edwardston heads into the Great Rubi Forest again.