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[18:51] Connecting to in-world Voice Chat…
[18:51] Connected
[18:56] Terra Mk.V Teleporter Beam whispers: Teleporting edwardston Resident to City Hall 05.
[18:57] Terra Mk.V Teleporter Beam whispers: Teleporting edwardston Resident to City Hall 01.
[18:58] Kiosk.Net Greeter: Welcome edwardston Resident! Enjoy your visit.
[18:59] baker Bloch is Online

[19:00] edwardston Resident: How is it that I can only see you, Baker Bloch?
[19:01] baker Bloch: And I can’t see you.
[19:01] edwardston Resident: Been to The Moon lately?
[19:01] baker Bloch: Nah. You?
[19:02] edwardston Resident: No. Not since yesterday. So what’s you up to tonight?
[19:02] baker Bloch: Thought I’d down a beer and head to bed.
[19:02] edwardston Resident: Karl here doesn’t talk much does he?
[19:02] baker Bloch: Nah.
[19:03] edwardston Resident: Get lost!
[19:03] edwardston Resident: Boo!
[19:03] edwardston Resident: Boo!
[19:03] edwardston Resident: Boo!
[19:05] baker Bloch: You okay?

[19:05] edwardston Resident: Yeah sorry. Just testing out some gestures.
[19:06] baker Bloch: I think the computer’s going to beat me again. Karl, you going to serve me or not?
[19:07] Furry Karl: Hey you talking to me? You talking to *me*?

[19:07] baker Bloch: Aren’t you suppose to be helping the customers instead of criticizing or threatening them?
[19:08] Furry Carl: Touched.
[19:08] Furry Carl: Touched.
[19:08] Furry Carl: Touched.
[19:10] baker Bloch: Never mind Karl. I got it myself.
[19:11] baker Bloch: So Karl?
[19:11] Furry Karl: Merry fucking Winter?
[19:11] baker Bloch: Do you have a wife? Kids? Where do you live? Tell me about yourself. Make some small talk. Practice small talk.
[19:12] Furry Karl: Beer?
[19:12] baker Bloch: I’ve got a beer Karl, but thank you.
[19:12] baker Bloch: How about you Edwardston? Where do you hail from? Hell? Heehee.
[19:13] edwardston Resident: I’m from Mythos. The planet Mythos. I come from… well, my memory is scrambled a bit.
[19:13] baker Bloch: I saw your ship land about a week ago. What do you call that thing? Looks like a ship ship. A seagoing ship.
[19:14] edwardston Resident: If you mean the spaceship it’s The Arab. Also The Foreign One. Or 4 in 1. That’s because it’s 4 ships in 1. Like in the Verne story.
[19:14] edwardston Resident: You know, Jules Verne. The one set in Morganton, North Carolina. That’s where I’m from.
[19:14] baker Bloch: Is that Mythos, then?
[19:14] edwardston Resident: Yes.
[19:14] baker Bloch: Interesting. Do you know we probably have the same maker?
[19:14] edwardston Resident: No.
[19:16] baker Bloch: Well, we probably do. He’s got the same first name as me. That’s probably why I know more about him than you. Plus you just arrived here and all.
[19:17] baker Bloch: What’s shaking down or up in Mythos my new friend? My new bro.
[19:17] edwardston Resident: I live next to you in Mythos. Your maker I mean.
[19:18] baker Bloch: Nah, not possible. But I’ve heard you know a real life Edwardston. Or maybe Edward. Do you know?
[19:18] edwardston Resident: I know I’m Edward. I know Edwardston because it’s me.
[19:18] baker Bloch: You have an orange dog.
[19:18] edwardston Resident: Yes.
[19:19] baker Bloch: Nah, couldn’t be. I’ll have to talk to baker b. about this.
[19:19] edwardston Resident: That the user?
[19:19] baker Bloch: Yeah. baker b. I can talk to him sometimes.
[19:19] edwardston Resident: Tell me about him. I mean I know him differently. I remember him from childhood. I know him better than you but further back. You know him more recently.
[19:20] Furry Carl: Touched.
[19:21] baker Bloch: He created VWX Town where we are. He’s lived here before. This is the Sylver Forest, or the remnant of the Sylver Forest. He’s lived around here 4 or 5 times. He lived in that sinkhole you can see from the top of the cat. You been up there?

[19:21] edwardston Resident: I don’t like cats. Like dogs, though.
[19:22] baker Bloch: No, you’re suppose to be Edward but not this Mythos Edward I don’t think.
[19:22] edwardston Resident: I am ill defined.
[19:22] baker Bloch: Appears so. But if you are this other Edward….
[19:22] edwardston Resident: Yeah?
[19:23] baker Bloch: Then where is your dog?
[19:23] edwardston Resident: I’ve seen my dog. It’s in the montages over on the west side of town.
[19:23] baker Bloch: The dingo.
[19:23] edwardston Resident: Yeah. That made me remember about the Edward part. I am Edward.
[19:24] baker Bloch: Let’s go look.
[19:24] edwardston Resident: Okay.

bb:

How long have you lived in VWX Town, Bracket?

BJ:

I keep going to the sun. Three score… no three years. thirty three years.

bb:

You died on the… well, you tell me where you died.

BJ:

I was like the Dodo. Trusting. With the guy with the huge arms. He killed me. This was on the island of Mauritius.

bb:

Yes, that’s where the dodo birds were found, I believe. But that’s not the island where you died.

BJ:

Yes. It is.

bb:

As I recall, you were reading the book Floydodo.

BJ:

Yes, and I noticed it was still in my inventory. But I was unable to rezz it in my new apartment. Is it my new apartment?

bb:

I think it might be, Bracket. I’ll add you to the Blue Feather group as soon as possible and take care of that problem.

BJ:

I desire the ability to create.

bb:

Yes, we’ll take care of it. But you came back from your death — a resurrection. Supposedly you came back as the first TILEpyre. (baker b. spells this out for Bracket)

BJ:

I don’t quite remember that. I remember death. I remember a white light. Mist. I am still dead.

bb:

No you are resurrected. The judgement bugle has sounded. You live here in the paradisiacal VWX Town now, Bracket. Maybe.

BJ:

Humm. Do I?

bb:

Yes, again. If you wish.

BJ:

If so, I want to study avatar ensoulment. Like the character Norman Bates and the character Marion Crane from Psychogumma. I wish to study Psychogumma where Marion came back or was resurrected as her sister. (pause) And it was Long Island. Or a long island. That’s where I was killed. And Torsit — yes, Torsit — was the stabber, the murderer. Sort it.

But it was also *you*, in a way, that killed me baker b. You *sent* me to that long island. You banished me, exiled me. Because I talked of Billfork. And now in this blog, as I understand, as I’m sensing, as I know intuitively, you talk of Billfork once more and are *not* punished.

bb:

I talk of Billfork the toy happening in Herman Park[ however].

BJ:

Then that is where I wish to live. In this Billfork.

bb:

That’s not possible[ right now]. VWX Town is kind of sort of the virtual version of Billfork. A bit.

BJ:

Bite?

—–

bb:

I just remembered it was called the Blake Sea. That’s where we sent you.

BJ:

*You* sent me. Because of The Bill and that circle where I chatted about it. A *bit*.

bb:

I can understand the *bit*terness. Sorry.

BJ:

I’ll return soon.

—–

http://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/category/corsica-continent/comma-islands/

Edwardston was back in eastern VWX Town, sitting outside the Hole in the Wall bar and staring at the nearby structures, including this still unnamed building whose windows cyclical change spectral colors.

Cat topped City Hall again. Edwardston has no fear in this spot.

He enters the bar and notices the white mist, same as how he appears to Baker Bloch perhaps.

But it isn’t Baker Bloch this go around. Instead we have a video playing, beer sipping Bracket Jupiter in the bar with Edwardston, who also sees the only other figure there as mist. Contrast this to Baker Bloch, who Edwardston can actually see, albeit in a grayed out manner. Interesting.

Since no, true interaction can take place this time, Bracket leaves the bar with his beer without speaking to Edwardston or even knowing who Edwardston is. But I believe Bracket knows Baker Bloch.

He arrives home at the apartment he’s started to rent above the Bodega market near the east end of town.

“No beer drinking my pale, thin ass!”

Bracket has a big chip on his shoulder and intends to speak to blogmaster baker b. about it asap.

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.