Sunklands

He just wanted a place to sleep away from work. Hucka Doobie’s his new landlord, but Hucka’s set him up pretty good now (!)

Meanwhile Spider has been “penned in” on the top level of the Confluence Place just next door. Baker Bloch is devising a ramp system so that the mutt can move freely between the apartment penthouse and the Confluence Place. Later this same ramp system would be used for something else. Something else entirely.

Baker Bloch’s rounded up some friends to keep Spider company…

… and renamed the top floor in the process: Dogpatch. But not Dogpatch, USA. That’s different.

“It wasn’t just a dream!”

Starbucanneer Barista and he agree to enter together.

Then forget afterwards if needed.

It could be needed.

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Meanwhile Carrcassonnee appears to be even more absent as the town diner’s Head of Perch acquires 2 eyes again. The lasting influence of the former seems to be her protective and shielding olive encasement, which townspeople simply call The Olive or, more recently, just “Olive”. “Yes, that’s the head of Carrcassonnee still there,” they also state if asked. Most of them have visited the large green being for oracle-type advise. Most have learned their past roles — nay, past *lives* in Tired Falls, and about the mass acre. “There was a battle between the Grays and the Browns,” says newer town resident Furry Karl, who visited Carrcassonnee on his birthday via a gift certificate purchased by his Uncle Bob. “A slaughter occurred, yes. I was there.” Ranger Johns is even more forthcoming. “They stabbed me with a giant fork. You’ve seen the spoon down at the diner, right? Well, it was like that.” I asked him if he was dreaming at the time. “I wish!” came the response. Dona and twin spirit Flower were likewise frank. “Perch had his bowling alley, and they just came from the North and started eating people right and left, just scooping them up like they were food for thought or discussion instead of food period.” Rodin’s 2 dimensional Thinker was also present. “I was just sitting there minding my own business when one of them came up and ask me the time of day. I thought about it some and he just whacked me over the head with a bowling pin. Then, well, then he ate part of my head. I didn’t think as well afterward.” I asked Rodin’s 2 dimensional Thinker if they ate and killed everyone in town. “No just 3. There were only 18 of us.” He didn’t seem to want to speak about it further. Ranger Johns said he saw it all from Drunk Man’s Ridge, where he was hiding out under a rock as a child. Biker Jones said he was vacationing in Italy at the time, and missed the whole thing. “I came back and basically nothing was left except the falls and Perch’s store and the bowling alley and the Kidd Tower. Oh, and Orange Home… that’s where your father lived, Baker Bloch. Sorry about your father.” Later I learned that the buildings he listed as being saved were, if fact, the only ones ever in the village anyway, and that no structures were harmed… only people… avatars. Most also remember when Perch first came riding into town on his dog Spider. A few said that’s nonsense and that he was riding his horse. A horse named Spider. One even remembers the story as Perch riding a giant spider named Horse, or Horsie to be more precise. While I was talking to the village people I also snuck in a few remarks about the upcoming mayoral election. “Who you gonna vote for?” Most didn’t like me combining politics and tragedy. Lesson learned. My head still hurts from one of the bowling pins.

“Maybe this Chilbo related painting will keep Head of Perch away,” the perpetually beer guzzling Baker Bloch thinks hopefully. Little does he know the wheels already set in motion this day.

A most logical place to put a certain protesting gnome in Collageisty: underneath the BOB gallery sign. Get it? Of course you do. But I actually didn’t really plan the conjunction — once more. I believe there’s a strong possibility that the gnome’s name is Bob as well, or at least that’s what he will claim. But please don’t call him Bob Resident or you’ll probably get whacked on the shin by his sign.

Rodin’s The Thinker, also a new town, um (whispers), “resident”, perhaps ponders the meaning of a blue bike in both Collagesity *and* collaged Stonethwaite in the Fal Mouth Moon gallery. Food for thought fer sure.

Baker Bloch outfitted a single room apartment in the back of BOB so that Edwardston Resident could live in Collagesity as well. But he likes it so much he’s thinking of staying there himself instead. Then where will *Edwardston* stay? Will he be blocked from coming back because of this? Is it fair to Edwardston? But, after all, Baker Bloch is Lord Town Mayor. For now (more on that soon).

Certainly an interesting view through that semi-transparent wall up to Drunk Man’s Ridge from the room. And I think that’s what Baker likes most about it, along with the increased privacy in comparison to House Orange. I’m not totally certain, but I have this feeling that Head of Perch may pay a visit to this room soon. Baker, are you *sure* you want to be the one in it at the time?

Oh, I forgot to mention that Baker has found Carrcassonnee’s dog Spider (!) Unfortunately, Carrcassonnee has now disappeared in turn. Baker is asking townspeople for help in taking care of the canine until Big C’s return. Or maybe he can just turn over this particular chore to Edwardston (?).