… happened in the Confluence Place last night, Hucka D.?”
Hucka D.:
Oklahoma. Panhandler. 7th. Consciousness. Tin. 7 to Tin. Panhandle…er.
bb:
Did Carrcassonne steal the soul of Perch?
Hucka D.:
Yes! 3 into 1 and 1 into 3. Trapped. Sealed. Seal. Grey perhaps.
bb:
Is Carrcassonne an oracle?
Hucka D.:
Indeed. (pause)
bb:
I’m not finished working on the Confluence Place. Perhaps a rename is in order. Moard Ling called it a Valley Mansion. But it’s a Valley Mansion plus a Neko statue/monument.
Hucka D.:
Slash?
bb:
We know that Carrcassonne is kind of Oklahoma. 7 is, or are, the original 7 counties of Oklahoma, formed when it was still a territory. The 7th is Beaver County, which use to be the entire Oklahoma panhandle.
Hucka D.:
Handler.
bb:
The 7th here is Carrcassonnee’s new eyeball, beyond the 6 prims of the body. The body is Olive… Oklahoma. And this relates back to The Residents.
Hucka D.:
Everything does eventually.
—–
bb:
It’s essentially VWX Town’s downtown area recreated, Hucka. I like it.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Running out of prims finally, though, I’ve heard. Condensing is in order soon. You’ll see. Your neighbor helps.
bb:
How do you approach Carrcassonne? From below?
Hucka D.:
You can. Depends on what you want to ask. What do you want to ask?
bb:
Who she is. What she did to Perch.
Hucka D.:
She absorbed Perch as 6 turns to 7 and 3 into 1 slash 1 into 3. She is Perch Plus[ if you will]. Go ask her.
—–
“How’s it hanging guys?”
“Hi Carrcassonne.”
Carrcassonnee:
Hi.
Baker Bloch:
How’s it going tonight?
Carrcassonnee:
Pretty good pretty good. What’s up with you Baker Bloch?
Baker Bloch:
I’m okay. Soooo… a little birdie told me that you were an oracle. Are an oracle.
Carrcassonnee:
Okay. OK. I will only say OK from now on.
Baker Bloch:
Are you Oklahoma?
Carrcassonnee:
OK.
Baker Bloch:
Who were you before you had the eyeball?
Carrcassonnee:
I was not OK.
Baker Bloch:
Okay, good. What did you do to this Perch fellow?
Carrcassonne:
I absorbed. OK?
Baker Bloch:
Okay I guess. Was it okay?
Carrcassonnee:
It was OK. Taste like chicken (insert hearty laugh noise here).
Baker Bloch:
That’s a good one I suppose, Carrcassonnee.
Carrcassonnee:
It [the joke?] was OK.
Baker Bloch:
Should I talk to you from below? Like this?
Carrcassonnee:
Come on up. I’ll make room. Have you seen Spider?
Baker Bloch:
Who’s Spider?
Carrcassonnee:
My dog.
Baker Bloch:
I don’t think so Carrcassonnee. Does he live in Collagesity?
Carrcassonnee:
Collasi-what?
Baker Bloch:
Collagesity. That’s where we are now.
Carrcassonnee:
This is Tired Falls. Check the spoon.
Baker Bloch:
Am I dreaming?
Carrcassonnee:
OK. Yes. OK.
Baker Bloch:
I’m coming up. Just have to figure out the best way to do it.
Carrcassonnee:
Fly up the hole. But don’t fly up my bottom [hearty laugh again].
Baker Bloch:
Yes, that wouldn’t be good.
Carrcassonnee:
Have a seat.
Carrcassonne:
Let me turn on my light.
Carrcassonnee:
Ah yes… Baker Bloch. How’s your father doing?
Baker Bloch:
Space Ghost?
Carrcassonnee:
Yes. And Zorak. And Moltar. Haven’t seen those people for ages.
Baker Bloch:
I don’t remember my father.
Carrcassonnee:
That’s sad. That’s not OK.
Baker Bloch:
Do you have memories of Perch?
Carrcassonnee:
Yes.
Baker Bloch:
Who was Perch?
Carrcassonnee:
Perch was me. Me was Perch.
Baker Bloch:
But who was he? What did he do, where did he come from?
Carrcassonnee:
He came from the lower plains. Hanja. Land of Hanja. Hanjaland. He was called the Foreign One at first. He called himself this on purpose. For-eign-one. He said trees were ferns and ferns were trees. He spoke of Peter a lot. Peter SoSo.
Baker Bloch:
The mysterious Peter SoSo[ again]. Was Perch… Satan?
Carrcassonnee:
Perch rode a horse named Satan. Or was it Satin. His world revolved around that horse. He was both Indian and Cowboy to it. Try not to panic.
Baker Bloch:
Panic? Oh, right, Panic. Like the town.
Carrcassonnee:
The horse had a birthday. Perch planned and planned. He wished to build the horse a barbeque pit. Brick it was. Thick as a. But he ordered too many bricks… he ordered 10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10x10…
Baker Bloch:
So this is like the movie… A Town Called Panic.
Carrcassonnee:
What happens after that? They fall into the Earth. That is what happened here.
Baker Bloch:
I’m not really learning much about Perch. So Perch became identified with his horse, who was Satan.
Carrcassonnee:
Satin[ perhaps]. The tire was already in the falls. Orange House was there. And who lived there? Your father.
Baker Bloch:
Space Ghost.
Carrcassonnee:
Yes.
Baker Bloch:
Not sure I believe that.
Carrcassonnee:
Eventually Perch just became a head, and was mounted just like a fish perch in his old digs, which then became a restaurant. Ironically, the best dish is lemon perch.
Baker Bloch:
What about the cardinal?
Carrcassonnee (snapping “fingers”?):
That’s what I meant. Spider is my *cardinal*. I get my directions mixed up. North is South and South is North. Like 3 in one. Like Foreign One.
Baker Bloch:
So Spider is not a dog.
Carrcassonnee:
God?
Baker Bloch:
No, I wrote god by mistake there and quickly changed it to dog.
Carrcassonnee:
Og?
Baker Bloch:
No… let’s move on please.
Carrcassonnee:
Someone else approaches.
Baker Bloch:
Maybe I better leave. I’ve bothered you enough and you probably have other townspeople asking you this and that.
Carrcassonnee:
Shhhh.
Baker Bloch (much quieter):
OK.
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