“Octopus jar?” exclaimed Baker Blinker the next morning to Baker Bloch while they shared coffee at Perch.
“Another portal,” he said, and sat back.
“I’ve been a baaad Santa this year. Let me tell you about it, Mr. Bloch.”
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Anton
“So this is another one of your disguises Wheeler.”
“Yes. Baker Bloch,” she answered. “But call me Wilson (when I’m like this). Or Wheeler — whatever. So… you have information about Doreena.”
“She is called Doflia now,” states Keat Owens. “Reborn on January 15th of this year. She has Mad Max hair, (and) Apocalyptic Female top, shorts and boots.”
“She has turned into a monster,” Wheeler-as-Wilson speculates.
“Not really. Come to the map with me. “We can teleport through the pin.
—–
“Not there,” states Keat Owens. “Let’s check Yvonnee.”
—–
“Often right here, but it’s late in the night, almost dawn. To quote Billy Corgan: ‘They only come out at night.'”
“Close enough. Speaking of which,” says Wheeler. “I must begin preparing for the next Table meeting.”
“So you’re going with the forward Pumpkintwisters direction?” Wheeler nods. “Over the backwards Billfork direction?” Wheeler keeps nodding. Keat Owens reapplies one of his hands to his chin in a thoughtful manner. “There’s one more avatar we’re keeping an eye on, only known as Anton. I don’t have a direct landmark yet but he’s in Anson. Obviously another one named for their inhabiting sim. We’ll have to approximate (the landmark).”
—–
Not what they were expecting.
—–
Afterwards:
“Damn! Crashed again.”
Just after that:
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VW(X)
“Yes come in. Quickly, quickly,” another Keat Owens implored from within the fairy house. “There’s mysteries to solve. No doddling dear — there’s been enough of that. Well, come in,” he said again. “Leave the golf club outside, yes.”
Old Mabel goes up the stairs and then leans the iron gently against the house just outside its railing. Taking one last glance over at Keat Owens Joker, she passes through the door she just opened.
—–
“Yes, well…?” a similarly rushed Baker Bloch asks later at the Joker’s Wild Bar. Furry Karl was still under the weather. Rhoda remained the bartender for now.
“We stared at the Nautilus City map for a while. The position of Doreena, Yvonne, and, um, this new person or entity we haven’t heard about before named Anton, were marked with red pins. Keat Owens Jack, as we’ll call him…”
“… because his suit is like Jack’s across the way…”
“Right, Baker Bloch. So this Keat Owens Jack then says Doreena has unexpectedly changed her name and appearance, and that this is more work of Mid Hazel the witch. Her “do’n’s” is how he put it. And Spider was in the corner of the small room beside us; forgot to mention that. He’s still spouting out or uttering or speaking those 4 numbers over and over, like you described before when he was with Carrcassonnee.”
“Slightly before your time here in Collagesity, yes. Interesting. When did you wake up?”
“I was just staring at the pin representing Anton — more at my eye level — and a picture of what you call a Volkswagen Beatle at the bottom of the sea entered my mind. I stared at the completely algae covered car for quite some time. It was sad. Then I was jolted back to reality by the start of ‘Revolution No. 1’ on my player. That’s from the ‘White Album’. The more graceful ‘Long Long Long’ precedes it there. Then afterwards we have ‘Honey Pie’ and the horn laden ‘Savoy Truffle’.”
Old Mabel’s really getting into this Beetles research, Baker then thinks. Too absorbed? Well, she’s preparing for the next Table meeting, which is scheduled for tomorrow night if Wheeler can pry herself away from her new infatuation — her New Island. That seems to be a danger: Wheeler may be imprisoned by this new threat named Mid Hazel forever and ever on that island. Baker then noticed Old Mabel is staring at him.
“Thinking about other things?” she asks.
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Further Alignments
Wilson dubs this location in the southeast corner of von Spee Bone Knoll. One skull with loosened jawbone is discovered to go along with a piscine rib cage.
Interesting line of circles formed by its spine protruding from the surface. The school of small dark fish seem to know more than they let on.
Returning to Yvonni in the same sim, she always seems to be oriented almost directly west.
Could she be looking at something? Un-rendnering the water and shortening distance seems to provide a clue. Might it be the buried (King) Poseidon statue again?? LINK
Buried King (von Spee) and Queen (Dybur).
Yvonni and Bücker Jungmann biplane again.
Interesting angle toward the biplane. Almost seems to be on a runway.
The *two* von Spee biplanes, past (lower right) and present (upper left).
Returning to Bone Knoll, Baker finds an additional skull — jawbone still intact this time — to go with the first. They are about equidistant from the central rib cage with its interesting line of circles.
Side note: Maximilian von Spee’s two sons were killed with him during the same battle that sank the Scharnhost. LINK
The eastern half of two rows of 9 columns near the southern boundary of the sim is aligned with the west side of the rib cage and its 10 ribs. Careful about that shark, Wilson!
Crisis averted. The other row is similarly aligned with the eastern part of the Jungmann biplane.
Interesting alignment of the two von Spree biplanes with Dybur’s large pinkish purple crystal cluster and buried Queen.
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Nautilus Waters 04
Marble-like rocks in Rodel of the far western seas.
The lighthouse dominated island they are located off of.
Sunked sub.
Moving north and east brings Baker into the Coontz sim, which is a bit different. Much hillier for one thing…
… and filled with many mysteries Baker can only touch upon during his brief sojourn this night.
Returning to von Spee, Baker (or is it Wilson?) finds an olive green vase near the base of the hill containing the partially buried Queen statue of the sim.
Another vase occupies a corner of a structure also near the southeast corner of von Spee as a whole (background).
Yvonni and biplane.
Sim’s namesake:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximilian_von_Spee
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Nautilus Waters 03
Experimenting with shadows.
Lone red octopus.
Jefferson Airplane? No, it’s a Bücker Jungmann biplane used by the German Luftwaffe during WWII. Now how it got here in the central waters of von Spee and *remains* is the mystery at hand. Because objects are supposed to be derezzed after 15 minutes in this sim. Yet von Spee is somehow under the impression that the 45 prim object is still “sat upon”, thus keeping it from being derezzed and returned to the owner’s Lost and Found folder.
Wilson likes the way the colors of the airplane exactly match those of her armbands. Is this a plane made for Wilson? Or are they suppose to be identified with each other 1:1? Bücker is similar to Baker. Is this Baker Bloch’s plane instead?
Von Spee is turning out to hold many mysteries. There’s a Queen statue buried up to her chest in sand…
… and then there’s that headless King ensconced up to his waist in same. Both are positioned on small hills.
The King almost directly faces the more intact of the two Poseidon statues guarding Nautilus City’s inner harbor. Double faces double. Is this Wilson as well? Wilson and Baker Bloch? This also mirrors the earlier discovered alignment of a Dybur Queen statue with the other Poseidon statue of the harbor. But the King-King alignment here is a bit more exact.
At any rate, Baker Bloch takes over for Wilson for the remainder of this post’s pictures. He discovers a statue of 3 dolphins in Mysehi of the northern waters…
… and another Queen on a hill in same.
This one has no arms.
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Nautilus Waters 02
Wilson goes back to Hipper to take a closer look at the sword that perhaps killed Doreena long ago. It makes her think of the differences between herself and Baker Bloch. Wilson’s decides to call the summit the sunken ship is positioned upon The Hill of Skulls and Bones…
… because there’s not one skull but two there. She doesn’t think the second skull is that of Cerdunk, however. And she’s starting to theorize that Doreena and Cerdunk are not lovers but perhaps siblings, kind of like Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker. A lot of possibilities are suddenly manifesting.
The two circles of 4 fish above the ship’s skull and sword — same grey color as the ship and sword — form a rough vesica piscis, with one centered on the sword. The ring next to the skull is also a circle.
The vesica piscis itself is directly associated with fish.
More color coordination between Nautilus sea fauna: pink fish with pink squids.
A “Queen” statue in Dybur almost directly faces the more disrepaired of the two Poseidon statues fronting the Nautilus City harbor about 200 meters to her south. But this is not the only alignment we’ll find in this specific area, and also not the most exact of ’em. More to come!
A row of vases just off the Nautilus City island coast.
Meet Yvonne, another Nautilus ocean ghost for certain like her cousins Doreena and Cerdunk from up north. What water sim is the ghost haunting this time? Well, its *von* Spee — Y*von*ne of *von* Spee. So we’re starting to see a pattern, and it’s leading us to conclude that the names of the ghosts in these 3 sims *can’t* be an accident. They must be named for the sims they haunt/inhabit. Yet why? Why why why? Yvonne’s hair is yet another Alli and Ali Designs product, aligning her with Cerdunk. In appearance and pose she more resembles Doreena — each have no animation override and simple stand in place when manifested, not moving an inch. Cerdunk at least fidgets around in his spot. And he’s an older avatar, first rezzed in mid-2014. Doreena and Yvonne come from Jan and Feb 2015 respectively.
Yvonne’s profile contains absolutely no information beyond the 2015 birthdate. No groups, no picks, no bio, nutt’n.
Tired from his day of fantastic finds, Baker decides to check out rental land in Nautilus City and soon runs across a home owned by his friend Kedar in the raised, central part of the city, called The Citadel. Judging by our correspondence, I assume Kedar is the same as Quito from Jorondip. He’s really done a nice job designing the place, and certainly tows the line of the island’s nautical theme. That tree outside reminds Baker of the Queen, hmm. But no more deep pondering tonight.
In Kolchak, Baker finds two 3 eyed fish, pink and blue, circling around a toxic waste dump. Cute!
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Cer Big
Old Dor again.
And now… introducing Cer Big. Yes, we get our first real look at the man behind the woman (!). He just showed up today as a full avatar — no longer a mist being like before.
His profile picture with different hair looks suspiciously like Wheeler.
His listed groups suspiciously contain the string “alli” over and over, first in Alli and Ali (Designs), then Harper (G*alli*)’s Midnight Mania Shoppers, then TE3K *Alli*ance of Serenity. That leaves only the key “Queendom of Gaia” group to finish the list, one he shares with “soulmate” Doreena over in the next sim. In fact, that’s Doreena’s lone listed group.
His interesting, stand-out hair is an Alli and Ali Designs product.
He has a big sword. That may be important too for theories to come.
This is his t-shirt. I have yet to identify the creature depicted thereon.
Wheeler thinks he may be a mad hatter.
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Nautilus Waters 01
‘Nother Poseidon statue, this one sans head and buried up to his navel in sand.
Amazing jellyfish habitat in the Nautilus sea’s western regions (de Ruyter).
Several small, grassy islands of the western region.
We move to the South Sea for this picture of a more substantial island hosting a small campfire and little else. Nonetheless, it represents the second largest island of the Nautilus Seas excepting the city island itself. I’d estimate the size at about 7500 square meters. This would be in the Howe sim. Interesting place; go visit sometime!
Not the least because of this stunning underwater cave just off its north tip.
Cave seen from a distance.
Array of hilltop objects (bones, kelp, rib cage), with shadow of shark.
Multiple schools of fish in a coral reed, also from the South Sea.
Same kind of fish, 3 different colors.
More fish.
We return to the North Sea for the next couple of pics. Wilson has theorized that the below skull and proximate ring may be none other than that of Doreena the Princess Warrior herself, slaughtered in a battle with an unknown foe.
Perhaps with this sword. I’ll get into more of that unexpected development asap.
Avatar sitting on a prim depicting two bird shooting motorcyclists. This is, of course, a still from the legendary British sci fi comedy series Red Dwarf. You did know that, didn’t you? It’s cleverly positioned within the Hipper rez zone of the North Sea. The avatar merely rezzed the prim and then sat on it to keep it from derezzing. He can sit there as long as he likes. However, upon standing up the prim would instantly vanish.
2 fallen Poseidon statues in Sicorathi of the western seas. Impressive, once more.
Standing Poseidons guarding the Nautilus City harbor about 3 sims east. These are about 2x the height of the ones in Sicorathi.
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Sunklands 
