The wrong one moves forward, surprising me.
On Old Cannon Road. He scans to the west.
He scans to the east.
Then enters the bar, forgetting his mission or who he is.
“What’ll it be, Baker Bloch?” a now animated Rhoda asks. “Put down that gun!”
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Which 01
“So go try it again, Wilson,” Baker suggests.
“Wake up Wilson.”
“Should I change this time?” he asks.
“Wouldn’t hurt,” Baker replies.
“Just go into the bar again the front way?”
“Sure.”
“Which one of us is which again?”
“Umm…”
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Stoned Talk
(joined in progress)
Carr.:
There are 3 major stones and 7 minor stones or just stones, unnamed and non-nomenclatured. One of the 3 major stones is called Major itself. This would be the one outside your father’s place. How’s Space Ghost holding up? Hopefully he’s not drinking again since he has that new bar and all. Is he?
BBloch:
I don’t think so. I haven’t seen him lately, actually. Might try to find him later tonight. And: He never drank.
Carr.:
Where is he sleeping? Since the whole house is now a bar.
BBloch:
Dunno.
Carr.:
Answer: There’s a portal in the back of the bar. Walk behind the bar, go down the passage. You’ll find a second Collagesity with a second set of objects. Different from the first. Backwards. Bass ackwards.
BBloch:
Hmmm. I’ll check that out Carrcassonnee.
Carr.:
Do that. Don’t forget. Any more on the stones?
BBloch (reviewing):
The 3 major stones: one is called Major Stone itself and that’s in front of my dad’s bar, next to the orange door…
(Carrcassonnee nods here?)
… then Big Stone just outside your gazebo here…
(nodding?)
… and then Hunger or Thick or Think Stone in front of the Collagesity Diner. What’s the relationship, especially of Hunger (etc.) and Big?
Carr.:
When you go to the parallel town you’ll find that out. You better go check.
(unjoined in progress)
—–
The 3 “major stones” brightened for highlighting purposes.
Major Stone and Space Ghost’s new bar bars from Gallery Jack.
“Is this the passageway behind the bar Carrcassonnee speaks of?” Turns out it’s not. Wrong bar.
“Hey Furry Karl! Long time no see.” Karl doesn’t speak, and Baker continues. “Let’s see, Karl, I’ll have a, uh, let’s see, a, um, uh… a Heineken.” Baker Bloch waits for Karl’s response. “Hmm, still not animated, just like Starbuccaneer.”
He admires the high view here before teleporting down to the second bar in the house. There’s Big Stone, he thinks. No, that’s the other stone. What was the name. Baked Stone? He suddenly can’t remember. Has he been gassed? Has the whole town been gassed? “Some view, eh Karl. Bet you’re enjoying that.” No answer.
“And then there’s Rhoda. Hi Rhoda!” Baker Bloch is not surprised when the orbed being doesn’t reply.
He still talks to him, however. “Rhoda, I understand there’s a passageway that leads to another dimension ’round here. I can’t find it. Any ideas?” Rhoda remains silent and still. “None?” Baker Bloch waits again. “Still none?”
Baker then spies the rocks of Old Cannon Road projecting through the floor on the north side of the bar. He takes a closer look…
… and finds the passageway. The Exit.
“Doesn’t look *too* different” (but it was).
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Talk
“Is that suppose to be Donald Trump over there, Carrcassonnee?” Wheeler asks in the awkward silence after sitting down in her special chair.
“I don’t know. Is it?”
“I don’t know neither. Either?”
“Why don’t you just try to gauge my eye out again, Wheels? Can I call you Wheels? Wheeler the Wheelie.”
“Baker Blinker is protecting you now. We made a pact, a deal. Part of that deal is that you and I have to get along. So I’m here. Talking to you.”
“What do you dislike about me, Wheels? Wheelie? Which do you prefer? Gauger, perhaps.”
“I am you. I don’t like the myself I use to be. With Perch. Perch riding around on Spider. Spider use to be a horse. That’s in the collages. You have to send her back in. You know so little. It irritates me sometimes, is all. I get impatient.”
“I know a *lot* woman.”
“Not as much as you think. Not at all. I’ve been in those collages myself. I’ve been to Stonethwaite, to Tungaske — that’s in Canada and not Russia by the way. I’ve been to those special places that make up the nexus. *We* operate from that nexus. Whitehead Crossing. Do you remember Whitehead Crossing, Carrcassonnee?”
“Of course. Kind of. And: not really. No, I don’t know that place atall.”
“That’s where I’m from. I’m from all of those places. That’s where I met Spongeberg. We had a thing going on back in the wild wooly 70’s. Ever heard of Jagger Juice?”
“No.”
“Tommy Tums? Richard Rechts? Bizarronator? Those were my clan.”
“Sounds like an evil superhero alliance.”
“It was! We had a number of eyes laying around we would huff on back then. Your mama.”
“What?”
“I said, your mama.”
Carr. (calling through the door):
Baker Blinker!! A little help!
—–
BBlinker:
She’s just pulling your leg. Go ahead Wheeler. Admit you were pulling Carrcassonnee’s leg. You don’t know her mother.
Wheeler:
The heck I don’t. Huffing and puffing on her. All night long.
BBlinker:
Alright let’s just end it at that. Now just *look* at what you did to Carrcassonnee again!
(after a pause)
Wheeler:
I can’t believe you have to call in Baker Bloch again to change Carrcassonee ’round. He needs to give everything over to you. Just deed it over. The whole town, the part that’s not yours. 98 percent?
BBlinker (admitting):
About.
Wheeler (standing):
I even have to get up for this charade?
BBlinker:
Yeah. Sorry. (pause) We’re done.
Wheeler:
She’s still got a little greenish glow around her belly.
BBlinker:
The night marches on. We must end soon. We can’t look at every detail.
Wheeler:
I didn’t think the mama joke would affect her like this. Change her over again.
BBlinker (looking at the script and reading):
It will take — sorry — it will take many episodes of 12 Oz Mouse to revive her again. Perhaps even 13.
Wheeler:
Nice. Why don’t you just remove her eye now. While she’s away like this. It would be easy. Then we could go to Muff-Birmingham. I’ve shown you pictures. It’s beautiful. We could get a place somewhere way up in the air. Buy a whole wrestling arena before we leave and take it with us. Then when we get back we just rent. Rent somewhere else. Away from here.
—–
“That eye would take us far.”
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Collagesity Ruminations
Baker Bloch admires the jagged Collagesity skyline and thinks, “this could be it. This is where the buck stops.”
—–
That night he heads over again to Carrcassonnee’s place for needed guidance after a fairly rough day. But Carr. herself has had a choppy spell recently. What’s going on? Interface is what’s going on. Collagesity is being affected by those that observe from the outside. So I think they need to talk — this most representative of representatives for myself, the chief artist of Collagesity, and then the chief deity of the town whose very existence has been threatened.
BBloch:
How are you holding up Carrcassonnee?
Carr.:
Baker Blinker took care of the problem. That’s all I’m going to say about it. I’m not going to rattle on so that you can put my inner hopes and fears on the blog for all these people to look at and dissect. I’m not like you.
BBloch:
Oh sure you are. You *are* me.
Carr.:
You’re going to have to get up soon when Baker Blinker arrives. That’s one of her special privileges now. She gets to sit in *that* seat. She’s such a beauty. She’s helped me so much recently. You are lucky to have her as a sidekick. You should just let her take over, eh? Just let her sit in your seat, acquire your friends, your memories. She is the male inside the female, a better balance. She has changed since entering Your Second Lyfe. My Second Lyfe. Look at you.
BBloch:
I know. I haven’t changed much. I did remove my mask about 6 years back. It was scaring the kids. But what of you? You don’t change.
Carr.:
I’m changing all the time, however. I am you. I am [ delete name]. I am Fitz. I am Lisa. I’m a lot of people you don’t know about yet.
BBloch:
What *did* happened between you and Wheeler?
(Baker Blinker enters)
Carr.:
Good. Now we can start in earnest. Get up Other Baker, for that is what you’ll always be now.
BBloch:
Alright, good enough.
—–
Carr.:
Good *evening* Baker Blinker. My special friend. I thank you so much for just being here. For helping me. I haven’t had this much help since another special friend Dr. Horace P. Blood left the scene. He or she knew my peculiar ins and outs. I’ve kind of been lost without her all these months. I was at wits end to be frank. I *allowed* a vulnerability. Wheeler slipped in. But it’s good you two guys are still buds.
BBlinker:
We are. She’s under control, Carrcassonnee. She’s sorry it happened. She got carried away. She *is* powerful. But I’m strong too. I took care of the problem.
Carr.:
Just as I was telling Baker Bloch over there.
BBloch:
What *did* happen? I know you won the wrestling contest.
Carr.:
Listen close Baker Bloch. Listen to what real change does to a person. Increases their mettle. Makes them tough.
BBlinker (to BBloch):
It wasn’t much. Well, it *was* scary. I almost lost. I turned it around in the end. I thought of Karoz, and how he cares for me so much. That pulled me through to the end. The marriage is still on.
Carr.:
Oh it has to be. I’m marrying you! Right here. Right where these chairs are now. ‘Cept Karoz will be in Baker Bloch’s place. He’s secondary too. He doesn’t change neither.
BBlinker:
He’s trying.
Carr.:
He’s so transparent he’s basically grass. His ass is grass, as they say. Barney Rubles?
BBlinker:
Wheeler also wants to talk to you Carrcassonnee.
Carr.:
Don’t let that *bitch* back in here.
BBlinker:
Now now, it wasn’t that bad.
Carr.:
Baker Blinker, with all due respect, it *was* that bad.
BBlinker:
Now I think you’re overreacting Carrcassonnee Cazzcark.
Carr.:
My full name as well. You must be convinced of this. Well… go on.
BBlinker:
Wheeler was doing what Wheeler was suppose to do. She *can* take over the town. Destroy it even. If we didn’t have a central core, a central fire. And it can’t be just you, just me, just Karoz, just Baker Bloch, just Hucka Doobie. It has to be all of us, working together. Working as one.
Carr.:
The old one for all thing. I’m buying.
BBlinker (finishing):
*And*, it has to be Wheeler too. You and she must make amends. We’ll leave you alone. Get up Other Baker (she laughs and waves Baker Bloch up).
Carr.:
*No*, you can’t take advantage of my relative immobility. You *know* I can’t… oh… hello Wheeler.
Wheeler:
Hello Carrcassonnee.
BBlinker:
We’ll be right outside Carrcassonnee.
(Baker Blinker and Baker Bloch leave the gazebo)
—–
“You can stop running now Baker Bloch.”
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Collagesity’s Future
Hucka Doobie heard from Baker Blinker heard from Karoz Blogger heard from someone over in BoB about a rumor going around that Collagesity is in imminent danger of being dismantled. I can understand the worries, given that just yesterday I put almost all of my Minoa land up for sale at 2 lindens per square meter. But I fairly quickly retracted the offer. Here’s the deal now with Collagesity: it’s going to stay pat as is through at least November 8th. At that time I *might* be making a choice between two locations for the town, the other of which I’ll withhold for now but it’s been mentioned a number of times in the blog already throughout the summer.
And here’s the deal with Wheeler. Last night, Baker Blinker and Wheeler decided to settle their personal differences about the direction of the town via a wrestling match, which Baker *barely* won. As she put it to me afterwards, although about equal in physical abilities, she felt she maintained a certain edge over Wheeler at the end due to her bond with Karoz Blogger. They truly love each other, I’m sure of it. That kept her going and pushing the limits. So she swung a tough match around and won, with the deal struck outlined above. And the best news is that no hard feelings came out of it between the two. They just had differences, and they charted a course to resolve those differences in a logical way by attempting to beat the pulp out of each other. Actually they make a good team because they instinctively understand their limits and how to keep from really and truly hurting each other.
Other things have come out of this Battle for Collagesity. Baker Blinker has earned certain rights which I’ll get into detail more later. Wheeler admitted to Baker that she intended to separate Carrcassonnee from Perch (her “eye”) and use the latter as a super-generator for a space launch beyond the Second Lyfe solar system. Now my regular readers (or reader) will recall that Karoz Blogger has already gone to Second Lyfe’s Moon and back last spring. Stories have surfaced that he’s built a more powerful rocketship in the meantime and went as far as (Le)Mars and perhaps Neptune. But — again — there’s confusion about a trans-solar journey to a distant planet called Muff-Birmingham. This has definitely not occurred yet. The event hides as well within a strong probable future — with masking abilities.
I should also explain that Wheeler is a time traveler of sorts. That’s how she personally knows Perch from the past, when he was just an ordinary man with an extra-ordinary horse named Spider. She’s part of a secret organization named R110 within certain time streams. And connected with that, she’s sometimes seen hanging out in Real Lyfe at a United States where Rutherford “Booger” Hayes was the last president before the formation of The Triumvirate. Wheeler’s seen a lot.
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Family We Are.
Baker Bloch couldn’t find any Asprind up at the Bodega marketplace. He and Karoz Blogger, who was playing Clerk this night, even looked in his upstairs apartment above the market. Then they sat down in the two chairs there and started talking about Karoz’s woes with Baker Blinker. Baker Bloch lost track of time a bit before Karoz mentioned Wheeler, making him jump out of his seat.
“Man, I almost forgot about Carrcassonnee. Just give me some regular aspirin. I have to get back. Wheeler was acting… strange tonight. Stranger.”
“Baker Blinker seems to like her well enough. She can crush an olive with her mind.”
“Hold on to that thought, Karoz, and we’ll get back to it.”
Baker Bloch rushed back to the gazebo, but everyone was gone now. He heard sounds coming from what he thought might be Collagesity Heights. He returned to the Bodega marketplace and used the teleporter beside the door to reach it. Karoz went with him.
They found Carrcassonnee in a bad place: upside down, turned around, and very dull and red-violet now, the opposite of her usual, healthy chartreuse glowiness. A 12 Oz Mouse clip was playing in a loop where Shark offers Fitz the Mouse some Asprind.
“Yeah, I suppose that’s the only thing that will really cure her,” Baker Bloch said upon viewing the spectacle. They both sat down and watched as well.
Carrcassonnee’s gonna be all right.
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Are We Family?
“Where’d your pupil go?”
Wheeler:
Ah, there you are. Perch. How have you been Perch my old friend?
Carr (shaken):
I… I’m not Perch any more.
Wheeler:
I know. The whole assimilation thing. So you want to know about Jorondip, eh?
Carr.:
I didn’t say that.
Wheeler:
On and off. Black and white. I took over. I simply took over. And I took over the thing taken over. I’m just that powerful. Do you know who I am?
Carr.:
Um, you said you were me.
Wheeler:
You’re scared, huh? ‘Fraid I’ll take over *you*?
Carr. (meek; lying):
No.
Wheeler:
Well I can. I *will*. But not just yet. When Spider talks then that’s the End of Days. BoBylon realized. You understand me Perch?
Carr.:
I can’t reach those memories.
Wheeler:
I’ll have that eye and I’ll have you and everything else in this town.
Carr. (grasping):
Spongeberg. Spongeberg can stop you.
Wheeler:
No. Not even Spongeberg The Destroyer can stop me. I’m him as well!
Carr.:
No. Need… Asprind.
Wheeler (more of a whisper):
I’m even… this town. I’m Second Lyfe itself now. My Second Lyfe. *My* Second Lyfe.
(Carrcassonnee has no answer. “DEMON,” she thinks)
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Family Are We?
“I believe you’re looking for me Carrcassonnee. Get up Baker.”
Carr:
What happened to Wilson? Did you kill him?
Wheeler (w/ sarcasm):
Yes I killed him. Get up Baker. That’s my seat from now on. You sit over here. (sarcastically imitating Baker Bloch): Oooh, I’ll bring in Wilson. I’ll show Carrcassonnee. (end of imitation) But it’s always *this* seat. Where he can’t see me well.
Carr.:
I can see you.
Wheeler:
But not well.
Carr. (admitting):
No.
Wheeler:
How about now?
Carr. (seeing clearly):
Who *are* you?
BBloch:
Yeah Wheeler. Tell us about yourself. Here, I’ll get up. I get the hint. You’re taking over, etc. etc.
Wheeler:
I sure am.
(Baker stands and offers his chair to Wheeler)
In a moment bud. I’ll stand too. You stand and I’ll stand. You sit and I’ll sit. That’s the rules from now on. Right Carrcassonnee?
Carr.:
I don’t know. My brain hurts. Need Asprind. Run up to the marketplace Wilson and get me some Asprind.
Wheeler:
Cure for rabies? (she laughs)
BBloch:
I’ll go get them. Be back in a flash. Are you okay here alone with Carrcassonnee Wheeler?
Wheeler:
Why wouldn’t I be? We’re *the same*.
Carr.:
We *ARE*?
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We Are Family.
Carr.:
Come on out Wilson. I know you’re in there. Come on.
BBloch:
I’m not Wilson. Anyway, I think you want Wheeler. Wheeler is in Wilson. The Wilson-Wheeler dichotomy. Who came first? What came second? Etc.
Carr. (thoughtful):
You’re not Wilson.
BBloch:
No. I came to ask about the collages. There’s a rumor around town that Spider will be let loose within them again.
Carr.:
Not Wilson?
BBloch:
No again. This happened once before LINK. Remember? (turning to Spider) Remember Spider?
Carr.:
Spider will talk one day but not today. Maybe tomorrow.
BBloch:
Are the rumors true?
Carr.:
Who told you this? Wilson?
BBloch:
Not everything revolves around Wilson, Carrcassonnee. *We’re* here. Baker Blinker, Karoz, Hucka Doobie, myself. We’re permanent. The permanent family members.
Carr.:
Do me a favor Wilson. Make a list of permanent and impermanent residents of this town. My town. I can’t move around well enough to do so. Census, perhaps. Yes, a census. Can you do that? Go to each house. Knock on each door of each house. Make a count. Ask pertinent questions. Report back to me. Go.
BBloch:
Alright I’ll do that later but there’s not many residences in town, actually. A lot of galleries, a number of so called businesses supported by the galleries…
Carr.:
You do this for me, I’ll send Spider into the collages. What specifics do you need from my end for the entrance?
BBloch:
I don’t know. What are your ideas about it? Do you have ideas?
Carr. (roaring):
OF COURSE.
BBloch:
O-KAY. (an obviously irritated Baker Bloch looks around for his blown off hat)
Carr.:
I will not argue with you again.
BBloch:
I-I don’t remember arguing before.
Carr.:
This has happened too often. Bring out Wheeler.
—–
BBloch:
Okay, we’re both here now. Just to confuse you more, hehe. So *there’s* Wheeler. Wilson and Wheeler. Two headed girl boy. (Baker Bloch looks at Wilson)
Carr.:
But…
BBloch:
Hold on hold on. I’m going to do a trick. Hold on to your hat Carrcassonnee! I’m going to revolve you around. Let’s see how this goes. Ready… go.
Carr.:
I didn’t feel much.
BBloch (after seeing it wouldn’t work):
No. The radius is too big. I was going to attempt to merge with Wilson.
Carr.:
That would be catastrophic! NEVER try that again. EVER.
BBloch:
Jesus Christ Carrcassonnee.
Filed under **VIRTUAL SL, 0002, Heterocera, Rubi
Sunklands 