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More Glyphs of The Measure

The Slash, another unique glyph of the sim.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Measure/220/94/1

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The Slash with Double L’s in background.

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The Forked Tongue.

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The Flag.

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The Slash, The Forked Tongue, The Flag (Double Squares in the background).

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Combined perhaps, they point to the Forked or Swallowtail Flag?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swallowtail_%28flag%29

Detail of Double Squares. They’re not exact duplicates of each other. Lisa V. speculates they might stand for Second Life sims.

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The Double Triangles (upper) &

The Double Dots (lower).

The Double Triangles and The Double Dots are about the same distance and angle apart from each other, as emphasized by their closeness. The Double Triangles appear to be half-squares each. The Double Dots represent no dimension atall. So you can assign descending numeric value as follows:

Double Square: 1 + 1 = 2
Double Triangles: 1/2 + 1/2 = 1
Double Dots (or Double Periods): 0 + 0 = 0.

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Relationship between Double Squares (top left corner) and Double Triangles/Double Dots (bottom left corner).

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A) The Pony, B) The Nebulous Horsie, C) The Closed Coffin, D) The Open Coffin, E) The Double Squares.

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The “head” of The Nebulous Horsie even appears to have an eye (!). One up on the namesake actual nebula, then.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsehead_Nebula

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulae_in_fiction#Horsehead_Nebula

“The Impossible Planet” and “The Satan Pit” (2006), episodes of the television series Doctor Who written by Matt Jones and directed by James Strong; “Planet of the Ood” (2008), episode written by Keith Temple and directed by Graeme Harper. In the first two episodes the Doctor is visiting a strange world orbiting a black hole, whose normally passive slave race, the Ood, have been psychically possessed by an evil entity imprisoned in the center of the planet: the Beast. In the end both Beast and maddened Ood fall into the singularity and perish. In the later episode, the Doctor visits the Ood homeworld, the Ood-Sphere (see graphic), and liberates the fundamentally decent race from a permanent state of servitude to the trafficking Ood Operations corporation. The Ood-Sphere is a barren, icy planet with vast mountains and caves, and with two moons and a greyish-pink Saturnlike planet in its heavens. The world lies in Mutter’s Spiral in the midst of the Horsehead Nebula, close to the Sense-Sphere. This planet is the home of the telepathic Sensorites, visited by the First Doctor in The Sensorites.[30]

Backing up a bit: The Face, next to the Double L’s.

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The Face with possible “mouth” and “eye” highlighted. Toggle between the above photo to see the effect. The face stares with his small round eye and slanty mouth at the L’s, but the second larger L is possibly blocked by the first from his angle. More theories by Lisa V. She’s now convinced the L’s stand for Lemon and Lime (Labs), perhaps through several different ways even.

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The larger L shape seems unique in The Measure. However, the smaller L is more or less repeated in at least 2 other locations on the sim’s sea floor.

First, this is the floor scene below the Double Triangles/Double Dots. Another dot is found here (left of sitting Baker Bloch), along with two dashes (upper left & center right) which might effectively be called “1/2 L’s” in the grand scheme of things (as each of the Double Triangles represent 1/2 Squares).

Several other, similar dashes are found in The Measure’s Eastern Hemisphere, 2 to my current counting. One lies approx. 20 meters directly east of the Double L’s themselves. There are other dot glyphs as well in the east.

The other glyph I should point out here is The Four in front of Baker Bloch. We’ll see it again too.

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Then continuing to move down, we encounter the second “L” of the eastern hemisphere, about the same size as the smaller of the two making up the Double L’s above it…

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… and stared at from the right by what could be taken as another prominent nosed face, larger in scale this time. The eye or eyes of the face are not as distinguished. He (or she) appears to be wearing a cap so I’ll just call the formation The Cap Dude (or Capped Dude). But actually if you look closely you can see not one but two of the same human-like eyes that appear on the Nebulous Horsie’s head. Can you make them out with your own two eyes?

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I’ll highlight, then (enlarge to truly *see*).

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The right one of the two can then be said to be worn on the wrist of Smoking Bear, the backside of Cap Dude and forming a duplicitous face. Pretty obvious name association, I feel. Looks quite like what it says it is.

Relationship to famed firefighter Smokey the Bear? An evil twin?

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Wrist eye of evil Alex from Clockwork Orange.

Walking duplex faced Smoking Bear/Cap Dude, forming a whole glyph continent unto itself. Appears to be strolling away from the “L” while taking a backwards glance at the same time.

6/24/15 update: Hucka D. has stated a desire to call this formation “Clubfoot”, because of the shape of its feet. Lisa V. and Wappo Jack have agreed to the term.

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Where’s it heading?

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Measuring The Measure 01

The elected deities of Mystenopolis have divided up The Measure into 8 parts of 8190 square meters each for further analysis and probing. 1st place vote getter Lisa the Vegetarian receives the plum southeast region with the landmark glyph called The Question Mark…

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Measure 01 (Southern & Eastern Hemisphere)

…as well as the Double L’s and more. She has a lot of work ahead of her.

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Measure 02 (Southern & Eastern Hemisphere)

Runner up vote procurer Wappo Jack then selects the northeast region with some additional interesting glyphs.

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Measure 03 (Northern & Eastern Hemisphere)

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Measure 04 (Northern & Eastern Hemisphere)

2nd runner up Jesus of Nazareth takes the northwest region with lots of glyphs, if most less distinct than in the eastern hemisphere inherited by Lisa V. and W. Jack.

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Measure 05 (Northern & Western Hemisphere)

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Measure 06 (Northern & Western Hemisphere)

And then last place “winner” Piet Mond is stuck with the much more vacant southeast quadrant. Oh well, he can help out neighboring Lisa the Vegetarian figure out stuff in her much more interesting region if needed.

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Measure 07 (Southern & Western Hemisphere)

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Measure 08 (Southern & Western Hemisphere)

The 4 deities take the yellow submarine to The Measure for a closer look at their winnings. At the sight of the Double L glyph, Lisa V. begins to cry in joy and astonishment as Wappo Jack continues to sneeze and Jesus of Nazareth stifles another yawn and Piet Mond stares blankly at the walls and ceiling. It’s clear who the true Lleader is here.

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Offering.

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Around Mysten 01

I first published pictures of some of these Mysten Underhill locations way back in January 2012, but didn’t ever get around to generating the accompanying text. At the time I was calling the community Happy.

Actually as I’m checking now through those old 2012 posts, I named the Mysten Parva community Happy, with the ajoined Mysten Underhill neighborhood having an as yet undetermined appelation. Did I get them backwards?

This seemingly out-of-place cottage acts as the southernmost of 11 official Mysten Underhill buildings (as I had Baker Bloch count them off a second ago).

We start in the front room of 2, and a picture touting the personhood of the Undead. The whole house gives off a vibe of Halloween, starting with the interactive witch greeting you near the front door named Esme Weatherwax, *which* is the name of a fictional character from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series.

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An I Ching Coin dominates a central table. You can touch it to open a web page and receive an instant I Ching reading. As I’m using it now through Baker Bloch, I was given hexagram 45:

http://www.rightreading.com/yi-jing/yi-jing-pages/45.htm

Come together. The ruler is in his palace. Schedule an audience. Make an offering. Take a stand and the result will be good.

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Within the bedroom are found more vaguely pagan or occult paraphenalia such as a broom, a mortar and pestle, a Vesta’s blessing bowl, an Egyptian chest of drawers, a crow on a perch, and, perhaps most telling, a human skull. You can meditate on the “zafu cushion”, as Baker Bloch is demonstrating below.

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Esme Weatherwax stands tall over all. The ruler of the palace? Here’s a web site on this powerful witch:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_Weatherwax*

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Looking out the bedroom window toward the Church of the Silicon Soul. Does church leader psimagus Hax approve of having a witch live so close to his sanctuary?

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The Mysten Underhill stream curls around the cottage, as if protecting it or separating it from the rest of the community.

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Jesus towering above the cottage and village. We now know this statue is the same size… well, I’ll save that surprise for a later post.

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Looking back toward Mysten Underhill from beside the Church of the Silicon Soul located in neighboring sim Goremoor. We’ll also talk soon about a perceived separation of the sims Mysten and Goremoor, perhaps purposely enacted by Hax. If so, it seems that the sim name Siliconicus might also be involved. Perhaps even others in the general area (Fumb?).

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Curious metallic sculpture called “Twisty (Sculpt Prim Example)” at the front of the church. The sculpture lies in Mysten, the church in Goremoor. The statue stands at the lower right corner of the church, as Esme Weatherwax stands at the lower right corner of what appears to be her cottage. Purposeful mirroring?

Okay, more curiousities here (!). The sculture is actually positioned right on the line between Mysten to the west and Goremoor to the east. Exactly 1/2 lies in each; this had to be done on purpose. And when Baker Bloch touched the shiny object to see what would happen, he found an object inside called “Diana The Huntress”, another sculpture and one that had existed in Collagesity in both its Noru and Rubi incarnations. He promptly rezzed and positioned it inside Spongeberg’s Magic 12×12, “collaging it in” at a most logical spot: directly behind the ladder leading up to The Snug. All this seems most peculiar. Curiouser and curiouser I might even add.

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The “Twist” in front of The Church of the Silicon Soul.

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* Especially interesting to me as I’m reading down the text currently is this description of her personality:

Granny Weatherwax has a near-unshakeable belief in her own abilities, which has thus far proved accurate, and an extreme distrust of stories. She was intended by nature to be a “wicked witch” but, at an early age, realised she had to be “the good one” to balance her sister, Lily (Lilith). Ironically Lily, who became a fairy godmother, was convinced she was the good one, because she gave people what she thought they should want. Granny Weatherwax, however, gives people what she knows they really need. Witches themselves seem hesitant to use “bad” or “good” as descriptors, especially when discussing very powerful witches; as Pratchett would put it: being Good (with a capital G) and Right (with a capital R) doesn’t necessarily make one Nice (with a capital N), and Granny isn’t (Nice, that is). Granny prefers to be respected, and if that is tinged with an element of fear, so be it. And except for those who know her well, such as Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick, Agnes Nitt, and Tiffany Aching, people do respect and/or fear her rather than like her. However, very young children seem unintimidated by her because of a reputation that she won’t intentionally harm them. People in Lancre know that she will always come when they need her and do her best for them, because that is Right (with a capital R).

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Another depiction of Esme or Granny Weatherwax.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_question_and_exclamation_marks

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Nautilus Seas 02

Baker Bloch teleported into a heart shaped glyph in The Measure sim. Strongly reminds him of visiting a very similar phenomenon in Okinu, before its remodeling into a non-glyph producing sim sometime between November 2009 and September 2010. After that Okinu and The Measure parted ways, with the latter taking the baton from the former, seemingly.

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The various brown continents of The Measure, as I’ll dub them. This is the whole sim as seen through transparent water, although the resolution is low for the glyphs themselves at this altitude.

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Zoom in to the sea floor and we can start to see what all the excitement could be about. Baker Bloch found a new glyph this day, which was quickly and logically dubbed The Question Mark. The dot of the punctuation mark is a little off to the right, but the effect seems obvious still. This punctuation point lies at exactly 240/52/1 within the sim, or 52 meters down from the upper boundary and 16 meters east of the western border. Put in other words, the point lies exactly 1/16th the way across the east-west expansion of the square 256 meter wide sim, and 13/64th down the sim measuring south to north..

Wow, I forgot Baker Bloch found a question mark shaped glyph in Okinu, November 2009. The new one, complete with a dot, is even more convincing, however. Go and see it for yourself!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Measure/240/52/1

Moreover, Okinu backwards spells Uniko, very similar to Unicode, “a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world’s writing systems,” and containing over 120, 000 characters presently. The question mark is represented in Unicode by the code point U+003F, and the capital letter “L” as code point U+004C.

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A nearby phenomenon I call the “Double L”. Again, this same thing was found in Okinu, and, again, the new effect is more convincing. Baker Bloch interpreted the Okinu “Double L”as a possible psychic pointer to “Linden Labs”, the creators of Second Life itself. But now I think another layer might be added to this. I believe it could actually stand for opposing Lemon Lab and Lime Lab, both traditionally and historically strong in this region of Nautilus. More on that soon, then.

SLURL:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Measure/233/79/1

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The Question Mark, The Double L, and another formation I’ve named The Double Squares (lower center) in one overhead shot.

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The Double Squares.

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This photo highlights the contrast between the sharp, geometric glyphs within The Measure to the south, and the fuzzier, blurred glyphs of Donuhue to the north.

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Indeed, it seems that The Measure is unique among sims of the area in this respect, although all except the 10 central ones added later on to highlight The Leviathan Skeleton (discussed previously) have the same basic type and color of patterns.

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Many more interesting pockets of underwater creativity are found within Linden protected Nautilus continent seas. But The Measure seems measurably special still.

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“The Measure of a Metaverse”:

http://metaversing.com/2014/03/31/the-measure-of-a-metaverse/

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Nautilus Seas 01

I was just poking around the eastern fringes of the Nautilus continent seas when I spied one of those spiffy Yava script touring pods and decided to hitch a ride. In the below photo you can spot me-as-Baker-Bloch in the background, heading in the opposite direction from the “Demoversion” boat in front. I was speeding along so fast I didn’t have time to investigate the boat and its strange crew further. Perhaps later.

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The pod instructed Baker Bloch that we were now going to turn west to visit a very interesting inland sea destination. I had already guess what it was from the direction we were headed: the impressively huge Leviathan Skeleton extending across the whole sim of Ahab’s Haunt in the center of a large, Linden protected inland sea. So I readied my camera, knowing this would likely be a prime photo op moment.

The Leviathan Skeleton was create by Linden moles in early 2010, along with 10 accompanying sims in what was formerly a void hole in the middle of this inland sea. I remember the official announcement on one of their forums because I realized at the time that our own blog spirit Hucka D. had, shortly before, predicted or warned about its sudden appearance withing this void hole. In Fall 2008 Hucka D. has similarly foreseen the rising of the nearby Nautilus Island. If you’re not a bit spooked by his prescient ways by now, blog reader, then you simply haven’t been paying attention. 🙂

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Baker Bloch boats pass the head. I can’t imagine running up against this monster face to face while he or she was still alive. I think the virtual version of me would be frightened all the way back to real life, never to return.

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There were many boaters in the large inland sea this day.

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A sim rather obliquely dubbed The Measure lies along the southern edge of this sea. Since he was in the area, Baker Bloch decided to prematurely end his pod tour and revisit the sim, known about before as a potential mystery spot. He wasn’t disappointed: the strange, geometric markings found back in December 2009 were still present all along most of its sea floor, brown on beige.

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As I was taking overhead pictures of the strange glyphs a sailboat passed directly over top of the brown continent, as we’ll call it, that contains the central point of the sim, where you teleport into when typing and then selecting “The Measure” in the world map search box. I thought it might be sending me a message of some sort about this central shape. Maybe not, but here’s the photo anyway for the archives.

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Greyed Out Ends

We might be down to 4 contestants in the Mystenopolis deity election, and possibly even 4 winners: Lisa The Vegetarian, [Little] Wappo Jack, Jesus of Nazareth, and Piet Mond. Eliminated are temple bookends Master “Didn’t Even Try” Shake and Boxy Brown. Carrcassonnee was also written out due to a technicality (now too big to fit into the temple). Fellow former Collagesity contestants The Bobs have already seen exteriorization through Artie J. Spongeberg, who is out and roaming about Mystenopolis already, particularly focusing on an area we’ve been calling the 12×12 in recent posts. He’s not in the temple any longer. What I mean is…

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“What you mean is that he is already a winner, back in Collagesity. Carrcassonnee too. Big C passed her crown on to Spongeberg when she went on her honeymoon trip to the Kerchal Forest region, which also doubled as a peacekeeping mission to dissuade the forest spirit from invading Rubi and Collagesity. Now it’s kaput anyway, or the town is (note: I still own 5120 square meters of land there, down from 8704 during Collagesity days however). You have 4 newcomers who have all won won all. Oh, and Jesus of Bethlehem, the only one remaining from the original deity contest.”

bb:

I believe he prefers (the name) Jesus of Nazareth.

Hucka D.:

Whatever. Wappo Jack has a giant form as well that probably wouldn’t fit into the temple. So it’s technically Little Wappo Jack that won the election. Contest. Whatever.

bb:

What is the meaning of all this? Townspeople have a choice of deities to worship. But there’s not really a town.

Hucka D. (correcting):

Mystenopolis. The 4 deities must confer with each other and find bridges. They must take the yellow submarine out to the Nautilus nether-regions to discover Bob Too, Leemington, Yelloo and more. They have tickets to ride. To Nowhereland.

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Trouble

“We cannot talk to anyone in the town until a deity is selected. I vote for Carrcassonnee (to return).”

bb:

But it’s not a town, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

No. But they want it to be.

bb:

The townspeople… who don’t know that they don’t live in a town.

Hucka D.:

Yeah. The residents of Mysten Collages and Mysten Beliefs.

bb:

There’s not any houses.

Hucka D.:

There are houses on the stream.

bb:

Tiny houses?

Hucka D.:

No. In Mysten Underhill.

bb:

But that’s not…

Hucka D.:

No.

bb:

What of Mystenopolis? That’s a town.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

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Mysten Underhill calls those White Falls. Not Blue Falls.

Preacher rents in Mysten Fieldton. Reverend White.

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Mysten Underhill has trouble enough. Allen. Martin. Martin wishes to know about Winesburg. He’ll listen. When Martin changes to Allen then Allen changes to Martin. Listen to Martin. Set up an underground base. 12×12. Spongeberg. Place of Safety. 5.5 years.

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The Stream.

Nasty Medicine Falls, aka Green Falls or High Falls. Stream has begun.

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High Cy(an).

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Blue Falls or Wide Falls…

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… into Crystal Pool, sometimes also called Blue Pool or simply The Pool.

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Low Cy or The Narrows beside the Red Umbrella.

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Confluence Place; cave mouth to underground Mysten Underhill (“Underhill Mysten”) on left. Stream has ended.

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End Rock.

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The Stream.

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Start again?

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Who’s your deity?


It’s time for the people of Mystenopolis to help choose their deity. Send your votes in today! I’ll talk about my preferences as I go along.

First up is Boxy Brown, one of the candidates for chief Collagesity deity filled by Carrcassonnee back in February. Now in the new contest the parameters were broadened a bit. Candidates can choose up to 6 objects to aid their cause. So while retaining the simple “Head Trip” psychedelic poster backdrop from the first contest, this go around Boxy Brown has also enlisted X-Files co-stars Dana Scully and Fox Mulder to help pitch his message, along with Perch’s cousin Pincushion Head hovering menacingly above them all. Filling out the 6 objects from Boxy, we have a version of the Mmmmmm’s King Bill to his right here, along with a painting called “Son of Man” by surrealist Rene Magritte. Awesome.

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Next comes a newcomer: Wappo Jack, who was around in 2014-15 Collagesity but didn’t have designs on becoming a deity at the time. That’s changed, as he’s cooked up a collage of spiffy associations. Jack now identifies with the Jack Nicholson character of The Shining, who, in turn, is also called Jack — Jack Torrance, a name carried over from Steven King’s source book. Wappo Jack poses as Jack from the movie in a 1921 photograph famously zoomed into at the end. A computer monitor by his side displays perhaps the most iconic shot from the film: Jack Torrance’s head poking through a door panel he’s just axed away, and announcing, “Heeere’s Johnny!”. Brilliant, and a line Jack Nicholson reportedly improvised on the spot. The Hollywood table sign reflects the Hollywood movie, or how The Shining both adheres to an industry code for horror movies and shatters it at the same time. Director Stanley Kubrick purposely inserted a seemingly countless number of what appear to be continuity errors on the surface, but are obviously not, or at least the great majority aren’t. Floor Shine Man (“shining” again) and Philip Linden inspired pop art complete Wappo Jack’s tableau.

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Across the temple’s aisle we have another newcomer. This setup is the concoction of Lisa Simpson of The Simpsons, or who has chosen here to be known as Lisa The Vegetarian, per one of her more thoughtful characteristics in the long running animation. Lisa converts to a non-meat way of life during the namesake episode Lisa The Vegetarian from the 7th season. The last 2 episodes from that season are Lemon of Troy and Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 1, which Lisa has decided to combine through a burning lemon making up the central part of her display. On the wall behind the lemon is a Medieval painting of St. Lemon of Troy, patron saint of Sunklands. Marvelous. The water urn toting ballerina to the right indicates a solution to the burning, with the 3 blue rings surrounding her representing the 2 major streams of Mythenopolis along with a hypothetical common confluence, a central Mysten mystery pool if you will. To Lisa’s left is a Tron arcade game, symbolizing the beginning cue of Carrcass-2 which prominently features the Simpsons episode Lisa The Vegetarian. More on that connection soon, perhaps. Old Man Baby and an oil drum to the right complete the deal. I think this is a wonder display, and probably should have won Lisa the title of town deity. But it didn’t.

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I should pause here and announce the judges of the contest. We have Norubi Turtle walking past Lisa The Vegetarian’s display in the above photo. Cardboard Derek Jones and Starbuccanneer Barista are also circling around the contestants’ spaces this morning, taking it all in. Accompaning Starbucanner presently, as I’m eyeballing the scene through Baker Bloch, are the small pink Mooninite Er along with the tall Plutonian Emory, both from Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie. And lastly there’s Queen Maria from The Life 2.0 Movie Fan Club just appearing at the door. I think that’s it.

Woops. Hucka Doobie has just rung me up to say that the Mooninite and Plutonian are *not* judges, as one of their own is part of the contest (Master Shake, also of Aqua Teen Hunger Force). They’re just accompanying friend Starbuccanneer this morning after a long night of partying with her.


Moving to the 3 displays on the other side of the temple, we first come to Jesus of Nazareth, who like Master Shake to his left and also Boxy Brown at the other end was a candidate in the Collagesity deity contest. The most holy Jesus has chosen to completely make over his former arrangement, here paired with who appears to be Mary Magdalene inside a blackened grotto. Painfully green Boss Moss seems to be elucidating the story of the famous foot washing scene involving the two. Gears spin behind Jesus’ head — his holy machinations? Three masks of red, yellow and blue top everything off. A masterful upgrade from the Prince of Peace.

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Such is not the case with Master Shake, unfortunately, whose true, selfish colors have seemingly been exposed and made clear in the new contest. Shake blatently stole the Big Fire of Lisa The Vegetarian, reporting saying to her in a jealous rage something to the effect of, “You think that’s a fire, I’ll *show* you a fire!”. He is truly engulfed in a massive flaming, and takes with him a group of innocent butterflies, stolen from the display to his left (Piet Mond). I won’t say any more about his tableau as I don’t think it is worth wasting blog space on.

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So we move to Piet Mond, yet another new candidate for town deity. The clown being assumes a virile pose in front of a 3 part room screen with design based on the artwork of Dutchman Piet Mondrian, famous for making geometric tri-color paintings. Red, yellow, blue — just like the masks displayed in the Jesus exhibit right across the aisle. I’m not sure whose is a reaction to whose, or if the repetition of theme is mere chance. Anyway, it would be good to know, since it will affect the judging in a positive or negative way. Behind the screen appears another jester or buffoon, holding a rock with the engraving, “Nothing is etched in stone.” Irony — always a plus to the judges. And the ladder leads to the orange butterflies we’ve just seen burning in Shake’s display. As I said before, Shake stole them from Piet Mond, however. It’s like he didn’t even try hard in the new contest. Undermining?

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Then the final display in the temple comes from robot “It’s Alive”, but was later seen to be just a ruse of Carrcassonnee waiting outside with a huge surprise.

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Now when Baker Bloch finished up inside the temple and went outside and spied Carrcassonnee way up in the sky staring down at him, he was sure she’d win. This was the topper, as much as he liked Lisa The Vegetarian’s display, along with a strong showing from Jesus, Wappo Jack and maybe Piet Mond. But then after about 5 minutes she disappeared — gone in a wink.

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He then wasn’t so sure. And as he thought about it later, he became more concerned about that lack of eyeball within her head. Something wasn’t prepared to the fullest in the ambitious yet perhaps overreaching attempt.

More results and speculation soon!

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Mysten Mystiques

Nasty Medicine Falls.

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Temple The.

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Awaiting a deity.

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Confluence influence.

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11:30pm:

Quite a crowd assembled at Mysten’s newly rezzed TILE Temple tonight. Everyone appears to be jostling for position, like in a horse race. Except this seems to be shaping up as another one of those deity races. Much too early for guesses about a winner yet. Incumbent Carrcassonnee obviously will have her chance.

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