The TILE Clown waited patiently in the last remaining bit of Mystenopolis for the return of Spongeberg the Destroyer.
But, really, there was no one left here.
Tillie had gone to the wrong location.
Spongeberg now lives in the woods.
Category Archives: Lower Austra
movement
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0013, 0115, Frank Park, Lower Austra, Nautilus, Rubi, Whitehead Crossing
Gaston Terri
The Musician tries to remember where his studio apartment is in this maze of streets, stairs and alleyways.
Eight, nine… He believes his was 5.
Squalor. He thinks for the thousandth time that he must remove himself from this environment. But he’s been inspired (!). The Musician has some new songs. “Terri,” for one, a love ballad.
He found it. Down by the harbour.
How’d he get so lucky?
But he’s got his eyes on this 2 story yellow house 2 doors down. The place remains unlocked, and sometimes he and Terri meet here and jam.
Yesterday he received a telephone call from Wheeler. They caught up. Wheeler said she’s probably heading back to Collagesity in a month or 2, and that some things remain to be tied up in Olde Lapara Towne. He, in turn, tells how he got to Gaston from VHC City. It was pleasant talking to her again. Afterwards he thought of the good times back in their Safe Plaza, where they first met up. The Ear Bar. Yes…
He looks for the landmark. Takes him a while…
Key shop… close enough.
There it is. The Musician almost forgot how to find it.
Ear.
Bar.
His favorite pinball machine inside — still broken.
“Howdy Percolator,” The Musician calls toward the bar counter. Percolator is a sentient clown machine.
The red doors across the way were no longer locked. Underground open to all. No OD needed!
He could still stay here. Crash on the upper floor’s couch just like old times.
But there was Terri to think about now. He imagines him sitting in the chair next to the couch, his twin sister Chroma illuminated in the background.
Chroma wishes to be a mathematician, but is limited because she only likes group theory. “0 1 4 9 4 1”, she might randomly say. He can’t recall any other of her rows right off. Chroma’s graphs she calls them in total. She’s red for a reason.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0006, 0101, Gaston+, Heterocera, Lower Austra, Nautilus, Upper Austra, VHC City
World, The
“No, she just prefers Nautilus to here. Nautilus is her, eh, *natural* environment. That’s why she wanted to move Collagesity. Nothing against Heterocera or Rubi or The Woods.”
“That’s reassuring,” confessed Baker Bloch. “She is a dancer.”
“She is *The World,*” John Lockfry 02 reassured him. “She [through Nautilus] is the endpoint of the alchemical process, the philosopher’s stone. Red Violin and Golden Sphere. What is World reversed, then? Well, it is here. Collagesity. That’s what Karoz was talking about.”
“What’s the correct choice going forward?”
“Associate her directly with Nautilus moving forward. BoB, but all of Nautilus really. It’s World of Lemon moving forward. Boxed and ready for motion.”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Lower Austra, Middletown, Nautilus, Rubi
BoBeymoon
Baker Blinker was emphatic. “We’re not getting married in a garage.”
“It’s not *in* the garage,” countered Karoz. “The machine is just outside.” Karoz’s frown expands. “You said you didn’t want to wait until Christmas and that you wanted to get hitched as soon as possible. I’m outlining a solution for you in a most logical manner.”
Baker sighed. “Okay, let’s do it. But I’m not *sleeping* in that garage.”
But they ended up doing just that. They moved around Jorondip several times during the first week of their honeymoon stay in Nautilus’ BoB. Then they came across this place in Gormthoog on the morning of Day 7 while biking up Highway 14.
“Could it be, Baker Blinker?” Karoz excitedly asks.
“Well whatta ya know.”
“And full permissions on rezzing as I’m checking now.”
“Pop out that old bed again Blinks!”
Baker sighed. And so went their second week. Awesome again. For Karoz.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Lower Austra, Nautilus, Rubi
Wedding Prep 01
Karoz examines the mystery center of Collagesity and thinks about his new theory regarding quantum computers… **
… before heading over to Jorondip, a strong honeymoon destination possibility for Baker Blinker and himself, he feels. It’s my new friend Quito’s Doggerland Garage again, now packaged with quickie wedding vending machine (called a Wed-O-Matic) and lots of other marriage related stuff.
“Baker Bloch warned me that other things could have changed since the family’s last visit,” Karoz says to himself when teleporting into Jorondip’s exact center. “Quito is quite active in the sim. I’ve got to keep my gauging eyes peeled.”
“Baker Bloch didn’t tell me about these weights. A plus… Baker Blinker likes to work out a lot now to keep up with Wheeler.”
“Punching bag and exercise mat: check.”
“Trashiness of the place might be a negative. Does Baker Blinker really want to honeymoon in a garage?” It was unfortunately a thought he didn’t consider frequently enough today.
“Ahhh, the vending machine. And, awww, a just married couple I’m assuming. How’d the ceremony go guys?” No answer.
Just props.
Wedding photos… a must!
“Did that trash can make a noise?”
And lastly, the honeymoon bed.
“Awesome.”
He can’t wait to get back to Collagesity and tell Baker Blinker about his finds here. He’s sure she’ll be super pleased!
—–
** From Karoz’s facebook page today:
My conclusion (for now) about quantum computers is that they’ll come ever so close to working but never be fully functional. Errors will always crop up that ruin an output. A hairline away from complete revolution, but about the same distance as that inner core is from absolute zero.
You cannot practically reconcile two universes in the same precise space.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Lower Austra, Nautilus, Rubi
Jordondip Changes
Ch-ch-changes (sorry) at the epicenter of the Jorondip sim once more. My new friend Quito has given me a present! I wonder if he noticed the pictorial similarity between Quantum Cat and Starman David Bowie seen on the sides of his namesake arcade game? He probably did. They’re even about the same size.
This is new as well: a can of Tiger Brand motor oil.
Starman details.
Baker has a bit of a lie down on a handy, nearby bed before heading outside for some refreshing exercise at Quito’s fitness corner again.
Schultz the Cat. There are now a good number of such named animals in Jorondip and BoB in general.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Lower Austra, Nautilus
Wheels
Wheeler really wishes to live in Gormthoog. Will she get her desire?
The “Wheeler anomaly” in Boss, MO
“Hi Blinks!”
“Hello? Hello over there?”
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Lower Austra, Nautilus, Rubi
Bumm’n Around
My new artsy neighbor Art is cooking up something on her property next to Collagesity. I’ll get back to that…
Baker’s still pondering what to do with his empty parcel on the opposite side of town, the Friends of the Rubi Forest one. Interesting balance.
Then it’s over to BoB again to pose with a mental patient. Halloween isn’t far away! I love that holiday.
BoB’s Crescent House is officially outta here, replaced with this similarly sized rectangular structure. The involved parcel has been bought. So much for Collagesity in BoB, it seems.
Baker was hopping around land parcels for sale through Lama Estates (as he sometimes does) and logs out right after encountering this blue cube in Varano on the Nautilus continent which appears very much like the one in Lynch’s Mulholland Drive movie. To reinforce its presence, when I log him back in the next time, the cube looms before Baker as he manifests. This *must* mean something, he rationalizes.
It’s actually more of a box than a cube, but Baker couldn’t originally tell this from his position below it.
I aid him by digging up online pics of the Mulholland Drive cube. The similarity is obvious. What was found inside? More BoB stuff, but the parcel was banned.
As Baker is looking at it again for the purposes of writing this text, it appears the doubling of the Mulholland Dr. cube’s keyhole is completely accidental, involving a projection of the back of a slightly off-angle tv screen within. I think this fact may be odder than if someone did the effect on purpose. Just look at the similarity! SIGN. You can check the thing out here if you wish (look east).
Back to BoB for this picture of Baker Bloch posing between two blue women figures. But of course this could be Wilson again instead. And in reality, it is.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Lower Austra, Nautilus, Rubi
Notes 01
Not that it was ever really in play anyhoot, but I think the move of Collagesity to Gormthoog is now a non-threat. The “Crescent House” property bordering ocean water is off the market.
I wonder what it would have looked like had it been realized?
http://www.appstate.edu/~brittanma/britainx3/blochengland05.html
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Lower Austra, Nautilus
Wheeler
Baker rezzes at home base once more, and pauses to take a look around. The Falmouth Gallery looms impressively from this angle.
Carrcassonnee’s fire is on. She’s in. But Baker resists going inside quite yet.
He keeps just turning around in his tracks. Lockfry’s old trailer. Wonder if he’ll ever return to Collagesity? Not John Lockfry 02, but the red guy, the one that was buds with Karoz at one time over in Crabwoo on the Maebaleia continent. Or so they said.
And then in the fourth and final direction comes Baker’s Home Orange, an old and now new center. Baker Bloch’s father Space Ghost has returned and is planted inside, I believe. Space Ghost wants to become one with his son, and I think that can happen now.
He keeps poking around Collagesity, visiting the never finished town museum with its lone hanging collage: the theoretical start of the Bogota series. Never really focused in, just like this picture never seems to focus in for Baker. Defective texture? Must be.
Baker glances west to the Tower of TILE, technically kind of part of Collagesity as well. He again ponders rezzing (another?) Gloomy Gus structure there.
He zooms in on the forest and its many trees, exactly 199 in number. Or is that 200 now with Unch? Is Unch real?
Has he neglected the mysteries of the forest? Is there a whole parallel universe not taken where many advances have come in that direction?
As he just scans around the forest in zoom mode, he sees, well he sees what appears to be himself sitting in a lawn chair on the parcel with the Tower of TILE.
But then the birdie winks out. It’s Wilson. Phew! Tit for tat, I suppose.
Baker forgets about Wilson for a moment as he decides to head over to Jorondip and BoB in general just to check that whole scene out as well tonight. He eventually lands in Gormthoog, staring at the giant green faune statue over purchasable land. Could this possibly be his new home? A new Collagesity location? Couldn’t be, could it?
Then it was back to the actual Collagesity next to the Rubi Woods. Wilson was still there sitting in his chair. Baker approaches…
… to find a strange girl-boy. This must be Wheeler, he surmises. She/he spoke.
“I’m looking for a facelight tonight… heading back over to BoB. Wanna come? Well, you actually have no choice. Let’s go!”
Later on, Baker gains a facelight but loses a hat. He has become the bald headed seal for real.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Lower Austra, Nautilus, Rubi
Sunklands 