No Noru?
“Hucka D., I think I now may stay in Noru.”
Hucka D.:
Why?
bb:
The gallery is the way I want it presently. Not too big or too small. Not that laggy. Now I have 300 prims to work with through deletion of the House of Truth and E on the ground, prims to experiment with… perhaps a new Temple of TILE?? Anyway, I think I need b_hivia and I need those prims and everything else can go except for a bit of ground cover, if [necessary].
Hucka D.:
It’s still a good location. Good neighbors. Karoz would be happy. But follow through on the alternate path of buying Azure Islands homestead property… in your *mind*. Through this blog if needed. You have time to make a choice. Is there a mythology present on the Big Island?
bb:
First off, in my opinion Azure Island #1 is almost completely ruined now. My first virtual home! Forests have been deleted, void sims removed. I most *definitely* can’t go back there. The homestead land is different. I’m not sure this isn’t how SL should be: low prims per huge parcels. This could represent an ideal SL for me, or certainly more ideal than the present, mainland concept.
Hucka D.:
The other option would be for you to return to the Edwardston Station Gallery model for housing your 100 collages. Do you still need to carry that baggage *everywhere?*
bb:
You know I do.
Hucka D.:
We should work with the collages, then. Maybe that’s the solution. We’ll look at each collage again and analyze. No good if they’re just sitting in a gallery with no one looking at them, baker b.
bb:
No. Not really. I need to polish up the related documents and put them online. Beginning with Floydada.
Hucka D.:
Link them to this blog.
bb:
I need to keep working on the blog within a blog as well. Perhaps today. *We* need to.
Hucka D.:
We need to talk about Blood Dr. and Dr. Blood some more as well. This is the girl.
bb:
Yes… freaky.
*****
“Back to the Big Island or whatever, I think there may be a mythology present. A man on the south end of the island is working on a free energy concept. A man on the north side of the island calls this folly, like attempting to create a perpetual motion machine. A friend is in the middle.
Hucka D.:
This is Mythos. Arab.
bb:
Hucka D., I *could* just buy the land and live there for a couple of months. And also stay in Noru at the same time. I’d have to give up any other rent during that time. That’d save 10 dollars right there.
Hucka D.:
Finally give up Healy. I think that’s a good idea to be frank. You’ve come full circle there. Where to go further? Nowhere.
bb:
I wonder if this man on the south end of the island is instead named Solar. Like in Solar Energy…
Hucka D.:
Or Dick’s first published work. Which would make the top part of the island Archers.
bb:
Interesting.
No Noru??
Comet Archipelago in its present form. My new home base.
Playing around with mirroring the dimensions of Big Island. Hmmmm, I see bunnies.
🙂
No Noru!!
Decided to go ahead and take the plunge and buy the parcel I had my eye on offered by Azure Islands. It’s right smack in the middle of what we’re now calling, tongue in cheek, Big Island. Well, at least its the biggest island of the Comet Archipelago (that’s a coined name as well… more on that in a bit), which isn’t saying much since the second largest island covers much less than even a half sim’s worth of virtual real estate. And the area of Big Island itself, although its length and breadth spans 7 sims altogether (6 currently on the grid, with a 7th to be added soon, apparently), is little more than one sim, it appears.
I now “live” in the Chesaux sim, which contains, by far, the largest chunk of the island of the 7 in question. About 1/3rd to 1/2 of the sim makes up part of Big Island.
Below are pictures depicting what I’ve set up so far. There will be a gallery, true enough, but I’ll have to make it a non-commercial venture here, since the zoning is residential. Have already removed prices from all art within. This would be the Edwardston Station Gallery, still containing the 100 collages of the 10×10 like it did in its last incarnation in Noru. Yes, I’ll have to give up b_hivia — shame! — but I promised Edna I’d put her photographs somewhere on the property.
The Arab has already shown up. This is an important element of the island’s invented lore. Can you spot it below? (hint: it’s *smok’n*). Also present is my standard Victorian house I seem to always set up on new property and then delete. And also another AA creation in the modified Econo apt. building.
One of the really cool aspects of this parcel, besides being relatively *huge* (almost 4 times as much land as I’ve ever had to work with in one location) is the fact that it spans the entire, narrower center of the island. This means you have beach front on both the east and the west. The Arab has been positioned, as a wrecked vessel, on the longer, western beachline of my land. The Victorian house sits roughly midway between the 2 beaches, and directly faces an island off the coast to the northeast. Have to think of a name for that island as well.
So this is the island I’m talking about, the smaller one to the northeast of my land.
Let’s go ahead and bring in Hucka D., since he’s so good at helping me craft these mythologies. “Hucka D.?”
Hucka D.:
The island’s name is Chesaw. That’s where the sim’s name comes from.
bb:
The name Chesaux, I know, is from a comet’s name, as [is true for most of the] sims in this archipelago. Hence my name for it.
Hucka D.:
No. It comes from Chesaw. This article will help build up your mythologies of the place. It is a bleedthrough, as they say. Blood. Bleed.
bb:
Ok.
Hucka D.:
Chee Saw, or the equivalent, use to sell art from the island. But he had to give that up when moving to Big Island. He set up a store, true enough, but he gave everything away from that point on. Your Victorian House is on the basic site of that store now. He set it up so that he could open the front door and look directly at his old home, you see. But his name wasn’t Chee Saw, as it was in Washington. Instead it was Chesaw. And the derivative name was not Chesaw but Chesaux, [you know]. See how it builds up from a bed of truth?
bb:
Suppose. Quite interesting, Hucka D. What about Solar and Pons?
Hucka D.:
There is a man named *August* at both the southern and northern ends of Big Island. Or was. Or will be. [whatever]. To the south this has something to do with August Derleth. To the north: August Kopff.
bb:
Very interesting. I wonder how common a given name August is? I’ve never known anyone by that name. Guess I could check. Well, looks like it use to be quite common in the early 1900s, Hucka D., and then went into a lull in mid-Century and is now making a bit of a comeback. Also looks like Hucka wasn’t popular enough to make their list, Hucka D. Sorry.
Hucka D.:
I forgot to add that Chesaw renamed his old island Toroda, or maybe Adorot. This would have been after the wreck of The Arab.
bb:
I’m interested to hear about the story of that wreck!
Hucka D.:
Well… from a different dimension obviously. And not an ordinary sea faring vessel, that’s for certain! For it could fly. It was also submariny-like. It could go into space, and there have been recorded instances in history where certain astronomers mistakened it for a small comet.
bb:
Hmmmm, anyone we know from our study of the various sim names of the area? Perhaps Chesaux himself?
Hucka D.:
Might be. Probably not but you never know. We’ll keep our minds open about that possibility. The point is: this is symbolic of a landed or grounded comet.
bb:
Who was the captain, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
A man named August. There were two of him.
bb:
Clones?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Human clones. One moved to the south; the other headed north. And Chesaw, square in the middle, was able to view it all. He was friends with both; glued the two together.
bb:
Were there other people aboard The Arab when it wrecked? I assume it wrecked anyway.
Hucka D.:
There were 7, soon to be 12. For the 7th was pregnant. I was that 7th.
bb (just going along with Hucka D.’s wild tale):
You, Hucka D.? Were you that purple alien you appeared to me as one time?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Purple and quite pregnant. Quintuplets. I named them after the 5 fingers. There was Index and Ring and Pinky and…
bb:
Did the rest live — I don’t know — with Chesaw himself? Including you and your brood?
Hucka D.:
We lived in the wrecked vessel mostly. For it still contained the portal to Hell. Sorry… to Pluto.
bb:
This sounds a lot like the first goodmobile of the Mmmmmm’s, then, Hucka D. Are they related?
Hucka D.:
Pluto and beyond. New.
bb:
New Pluto?
Hucka D.:
No.
bb:
Just Pluto.
Hucka D.:
… and beyond.
bb:
Getting back to Chesaw, his story attached to Big Island as you’re laying it out sounds something like Arcadia Asylum deciding to give her creations away free of charge within the SL game structure. I assume… or can I assume there is a relationship?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Illumination.
bb:
*This* is where the illumination takes place. The place of scrubbing.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Can I get back to my 5 children because it’s a fascinating story and I loved them so much.
bb:
Maybe another night on that particular subject. Back to The Arab…
Hucka D.:
Pinky was the wee-est, you see. He was the baby. I admittedly spoiled that one. He threw a tantrum and ran off and lived on Torado — Toroda — for several months. He uncovered Chesaw’s old place there, and found the edges of the history of commercialism in SL. Well, he quickly got over his tiff with me and invited me over to the place. It was a money pit.
bb:
Like in Nova Scotia?
Hucka D.:
*Exactly* like that. Afterwards, Pinky went on and on about not wanting to be an orphan and that I was his real mommy and that he was so so sorry for running away like that and he’ll never do it again and he was so sorry for finding what he did on that island, it was so horrible to uncover. But it was fate that he did. Big Island, after that, also became known as PI. Maybe PIE. Pie. But not Pie Island, you see. Just Pie. Like in apple pie. Pie for baking and eat…
bb:
I get what you’re saying.
Hucka D.:
After that the island was divided into 3 parts, with Chesaw in the middle, as I say, and then the 2 clones, August and August, to the south and north. And we were with Chesaw most of the time. And, after that, also on Pinky’s island of Torado — Tornado — Torodo…
bb:
You said Toroda first, Hucka D. Or the reversed spelling: Adorot.
Hucka D.:
Adarat. Ararat…
bb:
What else tonight? We’re certainly fleshing out the history of the place rather quickly!
Hucka D.:
We obviously need to talk about the Money Pit more, and how Pinky fell into it and came out all crazy and apologetic. That was the start of the madness.
bb:
We’ve talked in this blog about mainland madness, Hucka D. Like Kerchal [Forest] apparently had and I suppose still has. I don’t know how Alice [sub-forest] puts up with it.
Hucka D.:
You will study this August Derleth and his Solar Pons. You will see how this is a pastiche, and how Mythos is involved.
bb:
That better be it for tonight, Hucka D. Thanks for explaining all this. Very interesting [as usual]. Goodnight.
Hucka D.:
Thank you.
Big Island, 01
A look north from the side of Arcadia’s econo apt. (modified, again) toward the Victorian house centering the property. A tangled mass of 2 prim sculpty palms lies between, along with a host of Linden palms of both the “1” (larger; greener) and “2” (smaller; beiger) variety. I’m really attracted to such views, and I’ll certain miss this island once I have to move away, kicking and screaming mind you. I know I can’t leave behind the mainland forever and the attached madness. Or *can* I? No, probably not.
Moon over Big Island. The wreck of The Arab to the right.
The then newly placed skybox roughly centering the 16320 sq meter parcel. Since deleted… more on that in another post.
Rather amazing view of the whole of Big Island, plus a number of neighboring islands, from above that now deleted skybox.
A look northeast over the parcel toward Chesaw Island (now owned by a friend!). You can also see those firey horizon clouds just beyond.
Bit of the deleted skybox seen here to the right, in another aerial view.
More palm tangles.
Big Island, 02
A fallen palm this time, next to the only knoll of the parcel. There’s at least one other palm on the ground that I can think of here.
Thought I’d head over into unspoiled ground to the south of my land to take a closer look at the island’s native vegetation. Below, Baker Bloch is standing directly in front of “Island Shrub – 10”, with a combination of 2 prim plants, apparently, just behind it, or “Island – Plant 1 L” plus “Azure – Tropic Trunked Plant 05”. Then the smaller plant to the right is another combo: “Island – Plant 4”, plus, then, “Azure – Tropic Trunked Plant 05” once more, although this is obviously a different trunk that the same named one from the second described plant here. Hmmm… maybe the descriptions won’t help us that much to determine the actual variety, or lack thereof, of native Big Island plants after all. More later on that, perhaps. Maybe I can cook up my own shorthand for the various species I find.
It does seem, though, that all parcels have the same set of plant types, that is, all the plants seem basically evenly distributed over the whole island, save for my now aberrant parcel in the island’s center.
These more yellowish ones are called “Islands – Plant 5 L” in the descriptions.
The southwest knob of Big Island. This would be the same are as the “gaggle” of red tree planters was found before. The sailing ship is still present at the same place next to the neighboring islet as well.
Actually I’m totally backed up here. This is really the first knobby area *north* of my parcel, on the western side of the island. Easy to get north and south mixed up on the island, I’ve found, when the landscapes tend to look so similar to each other away from my parcel.
The current, unfinished gap of Big Island, where I thought a sim was soon to be added. Actually, since it doesn’t show up on the SLurl map any longer, I suppose this should be included in one of the many sims that Azure Islands management has decided to delete. Hope more of my island isn’t included in future decisions like this. 😦
*Northeast* knob of the island.
It’s really cool how that little knoll I formed shows up in any long distance shot of the island if unobstructed. The palms on and around the knoll can’t be seen, but the knoll itself can be.
A neighbor on a smaller island to the northeast, just north of Chesaw Island and in the se corner of the Kopff sim, same sim Baker Bloch is standing in here and also the home of the ne Big Island knob pictured before.
A forced sunrise setting. Luvly!
The Victorian home comes within Baker’s 128 meter draw. Should mention here that since the textures are so reduced in comparison to most mainland settings, Baker can easily walked around the island using a 128 or more draw distance and not experience any unordinary lag (/w my computer, there’s always at least a *hint* of lag around, usually seen as jerky avatar movements).
Chesaw Island from the west beach again.
Big Island, 03
Baker stands in front of the only pool on the property currently, whose needed terraforming I see as a couteraction or counterbalance to that performed to create the Mole Hill (we’ll call it) on the other side of the house. Concave terraforming, then, balances convex terraforming, just as it did on the Horisme properties, for example.
I should also add that the only marine life currently on the property is found here: 4 small yellow fish swimming in a perpetual circle in the center of the small pool.
Another tangle of palms, next to the pool.
Pool through palms.
Palms around pool, but pool not in sight (in center). Baker stands on one of several rocks on the property, all located on the western beach if memory serves.
Property from Chesaw Island, now dominated by Flynn’s sand castle structure.
Overhead view of Chesaw Island. If I remember correctly, Baker Bloch specifically went there that night (which was about a week ago now) to see if he could find any evidence of a claimed “money pit” located there. None found: only tropical plants and sand.
Speaking of sand, sand, sand, here’s Sandy Hook just before the last house on the property was deleted. All three parcels making up this Sandy Hook island have since been joined and are for sale as one. About 45 dollars total to buy, but the money issue would be more in the tier, which would cost about 100 dollars a month.
View of Big Island and neighboring Chesaw Island from Sandy Hook [i]sland.
Pi I.?
“Hucka D., you were on such a roll the other night that I thought let you at it again, if you wish. Do you want to talk about Big Island again tonight?”
Hucka D.:
Within the infinite number pi there is a secret about the island. Monster. Moonshine. Moonlight.
bb:
Does this happen to be the chance collision of two otherwise separate numbers?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Time and non-time. Space and non-space. Non-void and void.
bb:
Before I forget, I think your Pinky has something to do with Pink from the movie The Wall. Does it?
Hucka D.:
Pinky was my favorite. Spoiled as I said before.
bb:
I’m thinking specifically of The Point of The Wall here, Hucka D. You’ve seen that haven’t you?
Hucka D.:
Yes, when I was in the heat of researching Tronesis. It’s part of that line from The Point of The Wall through SID’s 1st Oz and Fanatic Attic and then Tronesis.
bb:
That’s Fantastic Aspic for that 3rd one, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Right. I got that confused with a future one you don’t know about yet.
bb:
Toys in the Attic? Toy Story? Plastic?
Hucka D. (smiling):
You’ll see. Back to the island.
bb:
Back to the island. Dark Side of the Moon imagery here, backing up to pi and Pinky again.
*****
bb:
Is what we’re looking for the unspeakable name of God??
*****
bb:
Well, enough of that for now. Back to Pink and Pinky. Is this a Wall reference? Did you already answer this?
Hucka D.:
No.
bb:
Well… ? Oh, and does it have something to do with Wall Lake, Iowa? After all, Andy Williams was famous for “Moon River”. Glad Plant’s not around to croon his rendition again (smiles).
Hucka D.:
I know what you’re on about. The hole in the wall. Rat infested. Anybody in there, and such. Well…
bb:
I’ve been to the island where your Chesaw originally lived. Nothing there except plants. No sign of a money pit…
Hucka D.:
But as you’ve already speculated, the pit was not on that island, but the island acted as a pointer to where it would be. It is in the Faye sim, and on the property you originally looked at for purchasing. The bit of green there. Green, as you’ve also thought about, is rare in the archipelago. It’s worth mining for. You have no Green on your island, the big one.
bb:
No. I can see that.
Hucka D.:
No matter how much you dig down or build up, you won’t find Green. Purest Green.
bb:
But there’s some right on the ground in Faye.
Hucka D.:
Go there…
bb:
… as you like to say. You’re an action person, aren’t you?
Hucka D.:
Not really. So you know now they were looking for not Gold but Green. Chesaw had his shop set up there.
bb:
According to my map of the Comet Archipelago, there’s actually more of this “Green” to the extreme north and west. Let’s see, this would be Oterma and Tuttle, 2 more comet names I would assume.
Hucka D.:
But at the time Faye was the prime source. It’s been almost mined out. That’s why there isn’t so much. The Chesaw island points to this corner of the archipelago from your Victorian house, which was also the approx. location of Chesaw’s new, non-commercial store when he later moved to the Big Island. But Faye was the location of the Green. New Found Land. Friends as One.
bb:
So that was the actual location of what you’re calling a “money pit”.
Hucka D.:
Maybe. Go check.
bb:
Right.
*****
bb:
Faye and Green are both in this list of cities, towns and settlements of Elliot County, Kentucky, Hucka D. And, yes, Newfoundland. Sandy Hook is the county seat. The second largest island in the Comet Archipelago is now completely bare or *sandy* [without any Green whatsoever, either “mineral” or plant], and is shaped like a hook. I also believe that Kent saw a comet in the Writing 10×10 in this county, and near Newfoundland. Just as of today this “sandy hook” was formed. Yesterday, the two parcels on either side of the central parcel contained the native plants, and hadn’t been bought yet. I would assume that the owner of the central parcel bought these two parcels containing the remainder of hook-like island. This would all be in one sim, Pons, and he or she could use the prims of those parcels for the central parcel containing his [or her] house. I want to be a good neighbor, though, to this “Sandy Hook” person.
Hucka D.:
You should read that again. He camped out at Green. Sea of.
bb:
The Sandy Hook person? Oh, never mind…
Hucka D.:
You better provide a map of the Sandy Hook. A before and after picture.
bb:
Right.
INSERT PICTURES HERE.
bb:
Like I said, I want to be a good neighbor.
Hucka D.:
You have brought green, plant green, to a formerly sandy wasteland in the center of the island. The island can be built around that center. The center is the key. A key.
bb:
Are the 7 crew members of The Arab like the 7 castaways of Gilligan’s Island. An allegory?
Hucka D.:
I am the new Mary Anne.
bb:
That’s nice.
Hucka D.:
Chesaw was a native, relatively speaking. He’d been there for centuries. Maybe even dozens of years.
bb:
And The Arab came from Pluto, you say?
Hucka D.:
From Mythos. August Derleth’s Mythos, but not really. (pause) But the island is really Mythos. A Confederation.
bb:
That better be all for tonight. Thanks again.
Hucka D.:
You’re welcome.
Big Island, cont.
(in progress)
“…. We listened to Chesaw’s stories about what he thought was the then almost infinitely marvelous well that was dug, which was new at the time. But now he sees it like the temptation in the Garden [of Eden]. We listened with rapt attention; we had gone through it all ourselves, our own New Wells. Or at least I had. And now my responsibilities would soon be growing 5 fold. Thank goodness for Pinky, although that didn’t turn out too *well* in the end.”
bb:
He fell back into the well.
Hucka D.:
So marvelous he thought it was. This money pit.
bb:
He went to the mainland.
Hucka D.:
Yes. (pause) There are certain places on the mainland that are, shall we say, safer than the norm. These would include the various sinks, especially those of a dry nature. This particular aspect of “safe” would obvious include the Sunklands of Jeogeot, then. Pinky took valuable, um, information about The Arab to this area, then.
bb:
He stole the whole ship?
Hucka D.:
The green was stored on the ship for safe keeping.
bb:
Hucka D., the last thing Baker Bloch saw on the Linden Memorial Park Island before this so called drowning was a frog, perhaps a toad…
Hucka D.:
Green.
bb:
He then symbolically came to Faye and found the remainder of the green there in that northeast corner of the sim. I forgot to read the related 10×10 post on Kent and camping out in Green, Kentucky — I’ll get to that after finishing *this* post.
Hucka D.:
That wasn’t….
bb:
I know, I know. That wasn’t a post. Ok, so we’re talking about Pinky and Chesaw’s story of the money well or money pit…
Hucka D.:
Well, he told us in his house. He had many wondrous stories to tell there. Like of August and August, who both arrived on Big Island in September.
bb:
Like this is September. Like we’ve just arrived. (pause) At first I thought you were going to tell me that the money pit was on *Big Island* itself, and that Chesaw’s new house sat upon it. Perhaps he moved to this island for the Green, and then when it was mined out he *made up* the part about it being elsewhere, like on Chesaw Island out in the bay.
Hucka D.:
The Green House, then. But I think it was a new kind of green. No, I think Chesaw had found a new Green. New Well.
bb:
Is Chesaw a collective soul?
Hucka D.:
*Yes*. He is the collective soul of a unified or monopolized Chesaux sim, with the name a derivative of Chesaw, like I said [before].
bb:
Do you think he acts as a *magnet*?
Hucka D.:
As we understood later on, he is what “attracted” us to the island, and actually made us wreck as well. We were suppose to meet this Chesaw and hear his marvelous stories.
bb:
And you lived with him?
Hucka D.:
No. He graciously allowed us to live in the southeast of what is now one of the 4 parcels of the Chesaux homestead sim. We lived in a beach house just in the water off the coast. It was small but comfortable. That’s where I raised my brood, as you put it.
bb:
Hope you don’t mind me asking — did you have a husband, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
Want to talk about that more tonight?
Hucka D.:
I’ll say that the other 5 or 6 stayed on the ship and kept close to The Portal on the ship. They wanted to keep close guard on The Green.
bb:
Ahhh, is this the same as the energy source of the ship?
Hucka D.:
*Yes.*
bb:
Like the atomics you were talking about earlier?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Kind of.
bb:
Then later on, much later perhaps? [Hucka D. nods here] Pinky took the ship to Sunklands. He flew it there I assume.
Hucka D.:
He used the internal portal, but: yes.
bb:
This is after he went crazy after coming out of the well, the money pit. [Hucka D. nods again]. He knew what “pie” or “pi” was.
Hucka D.:
He knew the unknowable name.
bb:
Is Pinky the same as AA? [I got the feeling her that Hucka D. wanted me to think more about the question I was going to ask]. I’ll be back in a minute.
*****
bb:
Another thing I’m getting out of this, Hucka D., is that the people on The Arab, you and the others, came here to *forget* something. And I think this has something to do with Mythos. You wanted to forget about Mythos.
Hucka D.:
We had to hide it. Within the Confederation. We began to tell marvelous stories ourselves. Chesaw helped. Money was a turning point for us, me, as well. The — Kansas portion was uncorrupted; Oz was (Hucka D. stops here).
bb:
Mary Anne was from a farm in Kansas, Hucka D. Did she become corrupted on the island; split into 7? Or 5?
Hucka D.:
Very funny… almost insulting. But: yes once again. Painful. We were all separated after the wreck, the crash. Before we were white one.
bb:
Refracted, then.
Hucka D.:
Right.
bb:
But maybe in a good way?
Hucka D.:
Old belief systems began to break down. We began to see each other as individuals instead of a group consciousness. Instead the group consciousness was projected onto Chesaw, in the center.
bb:
Where were August and August during this time?
Hucka D.:
August was the captain of The Arab. He had The Babble with him.
bb:
The book called The Babble. You mentioned that when we were discussing the Egg Hole or Egg Hill sink of the Corsica continent. Corsica Prime.
Hucka D.:
It could cause madness. Did cause madness.
bb:
But you said it was written in Uniko. Unikese.
Hucka D.:
We couldn’t read it any longer, though. After the crash. We only had Chesaw after that and his marvelous memories, not written down. I was provided a cozy but nice beach house to the southeast of his house, where I raised the brood, including Pinky. We always were able to look at at his old island, and wonder at the stories of the Money Pit. Like you said, there is no trace left. But then…(Hucka D. pauses here)
bb:
Is Chesaw the same as Chee-Saw?
Hucka D.:
Yes. He was from Earth as well as SL.
bb:
He was given this whole sim as a reward?
Hucka D.:
You could say that.
bb:
Madness was outside it?
Hucka D.:
*Yes*.
bb:
Chesaw somehow was able to control the madness?
Hucka D.:
You know now that this control cannot be fully reinstated. All you can do is follow traces in your mind. It takes the cooperation of 2 to created the 1. It is not suppose to be controlled this time around. You know Chesaw lived on his Chesaw Island to begin with, and ran a store. He then gave up that store and moved to Big Island, on your property to live a life free of commercial concerns, without money or Green. Then The Arab arrived, causing new problems. He couldn’t live in splendid isolation. We also had something to get away from. This was all before Sunklands — or Sunklands wasn’t settled by those coming from Petemond on the Corsica continent yet. SL hadn’t truly formed yet.
bb:
Pinky went to Petemond, didn’t he?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
(to be continued?)
Loose Thoughts: Big Island
* There are legends of at least one or two giant rats in the southern part of the small island known as Big Island. A man named August lived there. Another man named August lived in the northern part of the island. It is unclear whether the two Augusts were the same person, clones or perhaps twin brothers, or separate men altogether. One of them may have been involved in the furtherment of Solar energy. Maybe free energy.
What the heck, let’s bring in Hucka. “Hucka D.?”
Hucka D.:
You’re going to ask about the rat or rats. There was one. We later found it was just August in a rat suit. He at least pretended to eat Pinky, or so Pinky claimed to lie about going to Chesaw Island one day.
bb:
You said August and August were clones. Can you now tell me that they were actually one man?
Hucka D.:
Um, one body perhaps. But not the same man at all times. Mad, as I said. Had The Babble. No one was suppose to read it, yet he did. Day after day after day after…
bb:
This book was written in Uniko?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
Where does this Babble book come from?
Hucka D.:
Peter.
bb:
Petemond Peter.
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
The one you said the true name of in front of Baker Blinker that time and got your head slapped off.
Hucka D.:
Yes. One.
bb:
Was his punishment somehow to be split in two? Is that what you’re trying to say?
Hucka D.:
Who are The Ancients?
bb:
I don’t know. I suppose the characters whose likeness I used as props more toward the beginning of this blog.
Hucka D.:
And Esbum?
bb:
I kind of see what you’re getting at… I think. Esbum was split as well.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Es-bum. You know. Two ponds in one. The Missing Piece which was first located in the Temple of TILE next to her First Chair, in the room where she lived. In the temple it was purified. Esbum stole it, though, the impossible 37th of the 36th, and took it to the Edwardston sim which we know now was actually the Alexandria sim. Being removed from the temple, it turned from transparent into its old, solid nature, with textures by Arcadia Asylulm. Within the temple, it had to be purified and made clear, so to speak, to exist half within the sacred inner chamber. This was Illumination. Illumination of AA. When Esbum stole this piece, her fate was sealed. Only bad things happened to her after that. She hid the piece in the two parts of her pond, which was herself as well. Then the Alexandria/Edwardston sim was removed from the grid almost that very night. Then she attempted to commit suicide. Again and again and again. Of course she couldn’t die within SL, though. She leaped out of the Temple of TILE and into the Pool of Death but did not split asunder. August got his wish, though.
bb:
Where is this Missing Piece now, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
Deleted from the grid along with the Edwardston/Alexandria sim. Along with Esbum now. ESBUM.
bb:
Should we bring it back an attempt to place it inside a new version of the Temple of TILE?
Hucka D.:
Ummmmm… you definitely need TILE to protect you from the chaos lurking to the north and south on your newest Big Island, away from the mainland. You better put the temple up in the air instead of the Edwardston Station Gallery. I don’t think both will fit up there.
bb:
No. Apparently not. Ok, I’ll stick with the temple.
Hucka D.:
Good. That’s what I was trying to get you to say tonight.
bb:
Redo the temple, you’re telling me?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Madness to the north and also to the south. Outside of the control of Chesaux, and even within it in part, unlike the old days. Chesaw had better control. August and August were more confined to the extreme northern and southern parts. He saved the 7 who soon became 12…
bb:
Is that a reference to musical notes, though? 7 whole notes of the scale and then 12 if you include the black keys. CHRO?
Hucka D.:
It is a reference to Oz.
*****
bb:
What is this number within the numbers of pi that has been equated with the unspeakable name of God, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
That’s the magnet. That caused the wreck of The Arab. Electromagnetic energy. [Thunder, in a way.]
bb:
Does the magnet have something to do with the free energy or solar energy aspect of your story?
Hucka D.:
Yes?
bb:
We better end.
Hucka D.:
Thank you.
bb:
Thank you.
* Before I forget, I think that Hucka D. is going to indicate that the other 6 who crashed in The Arab, or at least the other 4 or 5 outside the captain or captains (the one or two Augusts), stayed mostly in the ship so that they could keep in contact with their home base of “Pluto” through the portal within, which may be directly attached to the clean, atomic energy source. Now I’m thinking that this portal is a connection with RL, and that Hucka D., a purple and pregnant alien at the time, as has been indicated, left the ship to raise her brood because, for whatever reason, she couldn’t go back to RL. She was stuck in SL, just as Hucka D. claims he is stuck here all the time as well. How old is Hucka D.? Hucka D. and her children, including Pinky, went “native”? Maybe preceded by Chesaw himself?
Big Island S., Part 1
View from the porch of the central Victorian house toward The Arab and the western beach.
This night Baker hops a ride on an inner tube to a neighboring, unnamed island to the west. You can always tell, presently, the location of the property by that protruding, sandy knob. Nifty.
Another fallen palm, this time a Linden species.
I’m am so excited that my friend Flynn has moved to Comet Archipelago, and now owns an island in Chesaux as well. This was, briefly, her original beach house in the archipelago, on the property just below the one she now owns. And this is the spot that Hucka D. is claiming was also his home on the island when Chesaw was still around, and the two structures also resemble each other, he says.
Baker finds what might be the remains of a road leading to Hucka D.’s claimed old homestead.
Big Island S., Part 2
The next day, well night, Baker Bloch decides to fly over to one of the larger Azure Islands he is more unfamiliar with. This would be the relatively new island — let’s call it Azure Island #6 — wedged between the largest of these islands to the west, or Azure Island #1 in this blog, and the Comet Archipelago to the east. In other words, it’s between my old Azure Island homes on #1, and my new AI home, although there’s no land bridge between this newish, large island and Azure Island #1 as yet. But you can reach it directly from Comet Archipelago, which Baker accomplished this night.
Below shows a flying Baker heading away from Big Island centering his archipelago and toward Azure Island #6. You can still see that sandy knob even from several sims away. So surprising since it’s only several meters high.
Baker safe and sound on Azure Island #6, which is centered by a protected sim. I’m sure Baker will be visiting this island again in the very near future; tonight he’s just scouting around. The island, like several of the majors ones of AI, is obviously volcanic in origin.
He finds a double to his first, real SL house on the western side of the island. Inside is arranged quite differently, though. Interesting way that the owner has opened up the walls in the back.
And Baker also teleports over to Azure Islands #1 this night, just in time to see the sun rising while standing on its familiar, central mountain range. This is over the still intact forest in the Vasyutin sim. Unfortunately, most forests on the island, the ones I certainly enjoyed when I lived there, have been heavily logged, we’ll say. As I said, it’s not the same place that I knew, and I probably will not move back.
Back to my *new*, presently cheerier Azure Island home and the beachfront Hucka D. claimed he lived on. You can see that Flynn’s house is gone now, and I also wanted to show the prominent, round knoll in the water just offshore. This can act as a guiding landmark for re-finding the position of Hucka’s old haunt. Maybe this knoll even has its own story to tell.
The clump of palms, Hucka D. claims was positioned right behind his old beach house on the island. Hucka D. is now also claiming that something is buried in this mini-grove, but hasn’t clearly indicated what yet. Can’t wait.
Close up of a plant growing directly into the trunk of one of those palms.
Is this the same, possible trail that Baker Bloch found the day before? Anyway, this, again, leads away from the beach at Hucka D.’s claimed, old homestead. I wonder if he had a name for it?
Big Island S., Part 3
Perhaps another trace of a road between Chesaw’s and Hucka D.’s old locations?
Interesting quadrangle of yellow-green plants on the border of 2 sims, just in front of where Baker Bloch is standing above. Called “Island – Plant 5” in the descriptions. The right pair of plants lies in Nei, and the left 2 in Chesaux itself.
A look over at Flynn’s new house (giant sand castle), which happens to be on the same spot, according to Hucka D. once more, of Chesaw’s original archipelago home. This would also be the same as what we’ve been calling Chesaw Island in this blog. It is the northeast of 4 parcels in the Chesaux sim; I own the southwest parcel caddycorner to this, and Hucka D.’s original home, if it existed (we’ll go ahead and take Hucka D.’s word on this), would be in the southeast parcel sharing a 128 meter border with both.
Baker Bloch’s in Pons for this shot, I believe, the sim to the east of Chesaux.
Continuing east through Pons, then, Blochs reaches the easternmost part of Big Island. From here he can see the full extent of the “Sandy Hook” island mentioned elsewhere in recent posts. Totally berift of plants now, a true “sandy hook” of an island indeed. I have also noticed that all 3 parcels containing the island have been united as one parcel now, making up 3/4ths of the Pons sim (NW, NE, SE). This western point of Big Island is situated in the remaining Pons parcel (SW).
Rounding the eastern tip and heading west now on the south coast of Big Island, Baker decides to take this picture of another smaller and neighboring island. Baker now stands in Loneos, containing the very sw tip of Big Island.
And then, in Nei again, a horse! Baker attempts to be friendly and says hi while walking by, but the rider seems preoccupied with exploring.
Another shot of the horse on the western part of Big Island now. Baker takes this shot with a long distance draw.
Baker’s parcel from the underwater knoll mentioned before, just north, again, of Hucka D.’s supposed old home.
An underwater indentation this time, at the corner of 4 parcels (2 in Pons, 2 in Chesaux) and quite nearby the underwater knoll pictured above.
Heading home again.
“My new name…”
“… is Baker Beach, Hucka D.”
Hucka D.:
Inevitable, as stated. But you are truly a beach bum now. Super beach bum. Superbum. S-bum.
*****
bb:
Hucka D., I think I know where you lived.
Hucka D.:
You are exactly correct on that. I remember that grove of palms very well. We hid a vehicle in them as well.
bb:
A butt bunny?
Hucka D.:
No, a bus. VW Bus. Where’s yours?
bb:
Baker Blinker wasn’t able to find it in her inventory. So I don’t know. Maybe lost.
Hucka D.:
Find another one.
bb:
Alright.
Hucka D.:
Paint it up. Yellow Sub.
bb:
Right, I remember.
Hucka D.:
Tis time.
bb:
Ok, ok. (pause) Hucka D., maybe we should talk more about Chesaw tonight.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Good idea.
bb:
Is Azure Islands a reaction to Orion’s Vale? I mean, I chose it over the Vale, and following in the footsteps of Sachie Bade there. And Chesaw is sorta kinda a phonetic inversion of the syllables making up the name Sachie. Don’t you think?
Hucka D.:
Could be. Do you think Chesaw is Peter?
bb:
Maybe he used the butt bunny as a mode of travel.
Hucka D.:
Oh he did. He [hopped down to] our sandy house quite often in it. Took the Old Road down from his non-store store.
bb:
I’m having trouble selecting the version of the TILE Temple to put up in the sky, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
Choose the one with the wing, then delete all the high textures.
bb:
Thanks for that.
Hucka D.:
There were horses on the island then too. White ones. Wild ones. Which one’s Pink?
bb:
Is Pinky really a horse, then?
Hucka D.:
Ummm, *no*. Would you like to see a picture?
bb:
Sure.
bb:
So Pinky’s a woman?
Hucka D.:
What? Oh, sorry. Wrong picture. That’s Krayzie Fayzie from another island. Actually a man, but doesn’t he make a pretty lass indeed? No, here’s the picture. Copied the wrong one off the internet.
Hucka D.:
Dang it! That’s wrong too. That’s the giant mouse, er, rat. that supposedly ate Pinky that day he first snuck over to Chesaw Island behind my back. The mouse is real enough, see. That’s what reading too much of The Babble will do to you, baker b.
bb (correcting):
Baker Beach… aw, just keep calling me baker b. I’ll know what it means. (pause) So do we have a real picture of your Pinky or not?
Hucka D.:
Ummmm. Maybe not.
bb:
How about any of the other brood? What were they? Index, Ring?
Hucka D.:
Here’s Index for ya.
bb:
Pretty. Is that a man dressed up as a lass as well, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
No. Here’s Ring. Oh, wait, here’s a good one of Thomb.
bb:
That is a nice one. He looks sleepy. It is a he, I assume.
Hucka D.:
Thomb was the oldest. Yes, that’s a he. Thomb had trouble getting enough oxygen, like Baker Bloch’s father. Before he died and became a ghost in space, that is. Forgot Middle.
bb:
I know where that is. That’s The Jug. West Virginia. Why did you…?
Hucka D.:
That’s where we are now. We’re on an island in the middle. Of nowhere.
Don’t Call Me Jughead…?
“Hucka D.: hellow tonight.”
Hucka D.:
Hi. You want to ask about Jughead, then?
bb:
Yes. Is that what’s buried in the grove of palms behind your old home location?
Hucka D.:
Yes. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
bb:
Those would be your supposed children. 5, like fingers. 3rd is the middle. Jughead?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Sealed up long ago, though. 1950s.
bb:
Is it an old mining hole?
Hucka D.:
*Yes.*
bb:
But the hole wasn’t there when you lived there.
Hucka D.:
No. Ponys were, though. 5. Wild. Pinky’s the 5th.
bb:
So the wild ponies numbered the same as your children.
Hucka D.:
Yes. 1 for each child. They could breath underwater, though. Seahorses, then, I suppose.
bb:
Getting back to the hole, did Chesaw ever see the hole?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
Chesaw is ancient, isn’t he. An Ancient.
Hucka D.:
Old.
bb:
Chesaw attracted The Arab to the island…
Hucka D.:
True… enough. Numbers. Pi. Numbers.
bb:
Did they hear a broadcast from the island?
Hucka D.:
Could be.
bb:
Are the numbers the same as the “babble” recited from Headburro’s AMAT. An odder idea, I know, but I was trying to remember where I’d head a word that sounded like “Atom”, and that was it. AMAT. I was thinking, or picking up, that your old homestead was named something like “Atom” or Natoma.
Hucka D.:
Yes. Babble.
bb:
The islands are similar, and the way The Arab crashed here through those numbers… maybe. Something deep is here.
Hucka D.:
Deeper, anyway.
bb:
And also LOST is involved through Jughead and the numbers. Suppose we can’t deny that now.
Hucka D.:
No. (pause) Why did I decide to live over this ancient hole, then?
bb:
Chesaw put you there, I suppose. Perhaps his old home away from home?
Hucka D.:
Yes. Right. Who is Chesaw, though?
bb (ignoring Hucka D. for the moment):
Oh… and *Mythos*. Like the Cthulu Mythos of not only Lovecraft but what could be called his direct successor, August Derleth. And I think it no chance that part of Big Island is in Pons sim, since August D. created Solar Pons as a direct continuation of Sherlock Homes as well. To prove this? Well, there’s a *Holmes* sim immediately to the west of Pons sim. Yet Pons sim seems named for a comet, as are all the sims around it, including Holmes.
Hucka D.:
Not chance. Obviously. And Pons in the US figures into this as well.
bb:
I was just about to say that. Because it is next to Comet.
Hucka D.:
… and Magnet.
bb:
Let me get this straight. Or straighter if I can. The giant rat or mouse on the south side of the island… this was August just dressed up as a giant rat.
Hucka D.:
No. It was a giant rat.
bb:
Crater?
Hucka D.:
I didn’t say… wait, something is happening. Hold on. (pause) You have to look at a bigger picture, baker b. Include Sunklands. Include Orion’s Vale. Hucka D., me, flew the VW Van decked out like a yellow submarine to Sunklands. Sea of Green. There was shown… (pause)
bb:
Dark Side of the Rainbow? Kansas City Life?
*****
“I was commisioned to show these films by an initiative in Sunklands. I was recruited. By Chesaw, yes.”
bb:
Hucka D., you have claimed you are the artist Charles Nelson Blinkerton as well.
Hucka D.:
I was.
bb:
Blinkerton claimed to have lost valuable virtual art inside The Man of the Natoma sim, before it was moved from the center to the corner of this sim in the translation of SL from Alpha to Beta. Does this has something to do with the treasure buried underneath the palm grove on Big Island?
Hucka D.:
I didn’t know it at the time. But: yes. Now I see a connection.
bb:
We need to dig up whatever’s there, don’t we? I don’t think it’ll be a bomb.
Hucka D.:
That would be dangerous to do, baker b. Or so I’ve always been told.
bb:
Chesaw told you that, though.
Hucka D.:
Yes?
*****
“How about this idea, Hucka D. It’s not a VW van maybe as much as WV. West Virginia. Jug… head. Head of Jug. This is how the runny mess of Pennsylvania [Corsica Prim] is sealed up. Reversal. And the name Chesaw is indicative of this, since…
Hucka D.:
Yes, you are right (!)
bb:
All you have in your VW van are synchronicities up to and including SID’s 1st Oz.
Hucka D.:
And Tronesis. That’s the last, though.
bb:
I think this may be about Tronesis, then, Hucka D. Lamb. Peter. Cross of. 1974. Too many keywords in one pinched central region area thingie.
Hucka D.:
Tron is about a hole [to an “underworld”] that shouldn’t have been opened.
bb:
CHRO is going away as well. I’m giving up the Something to CHRO About gallery, Hucka D.
Hucka D.:
As it is written.
bb:
So we know what will be found there.
Hucka D.:
We’ll see.
(to be continued?)
Loose Thoughts…
Have now read over all the Comet Archipelago related posts on this blog and had addition insights, which I’d like to outline here before bringing in Hucka D. again…
My theories:
Pinky, supposed son (or daughter) of Hucka D. while he lived as some kind of purple Plutonian alien on Big Island in the archipelago, was the same as *Peter* of Petemond fame. The assoc. can be seen through the Tron video game found *on top* of the old hole on the island just south of the beach house where Hucka D., as this purple alien, raised her brood as he keeps calling them. The last was supposedly Pinky, which now I think may be Peter. The Tron video game is a way of creating another Second Life within Second Life, since it is a game within a game that you can be “absorbed” into as well, as Flynn from the movie Tron could tell ya. He went “native”, just as Hucka D. went “native” in SL. And of course this most likely has to do with the presence of my SL avatar friend Flynn in Chesaux now. And I also think it has to do, a bit, with my long time SL friend/avatar Headburro Antfarm. I’ll get to that in a minute.
So Peter grew up in this island — mom was the purple alien Hucka D. — and then he moved to Corsica Prime, the big island making up the majority of the Corsica continent. There he founded Petemond. Then Sunklands is involved here as well. Perhaps Peter moved to Sunklands after founding Petemond in Corsica. It is also said he stole The Arab from Chesaux and moved it to Sunklands as well.
I also think that Big Island has some kind of direct resonance with Prince Edward Island of Canada, one of the 10 Canadian provinces. First, on the surface, there’s the simlar shape of the two. Also the fact that the 2 are divided into 3 parts, with a center separating two ends. For Prince Edward Island, this would be Prince and King counties surrounding Queens county in the middle. For Big Island, it would be my property, formerly Chesaw’s property, dividing the island into center, north and south, with north and south “ruled” by the 2 split Augusts, again according to Hucka D. August, at least one of ’em, was the captain of The Arab, and had read or perhaps still possessed The Babble, which is something like the story of the Mad Arab from Lovecraft’s Cthulu Mythos and his Necronomicon. Obviously I took part of my ideas from that bank of information. Then this is where Headburro comes into the picture a bit: I originally called Big Island *Head* Island in this blog, not because of Headburro but because the top or “head” sim containing the island is named Koppf. Kopf is German for head, as I knew from college.* The name of the Kopff sim comes, though, from August Kopff and his namesake comet — as we have seen, most sim names in this archipelago come from comet names (comets are almost always named for their discoverers).
So the theory goes that one of these two Augusts, possibly both, are the same as Headburro at least in the same way that present Hucka D. is the same as the past Hucka D. who took the shape of a purple alien from the planet Pluto or beyond. This would also fit in very nicely with his Lost Journals episodes from his blog, which I just finished reading. Quite the stylist Mr. Antfarm is! These are stories worth publishing, and I luv the way Headburro uses SL locations as theatrical backgrounds for these and other of his serial tales (others which I still need to read — soon!).** But getting back to the two Augusts, so the northern one, on Big Island, is from August Kopff, with “Kopff” translating to “Head,” but then the other, “southern” August also fits into this story, since it is based on August Derleth, a kind of direct successor to Lovecraft in the development of a Cthulu Mythos. Headburro’s Lost Journals are directly inspired by Lovecraft — its main character, for example, was a professor at Miskatonic University. Similarly, Derleth directly continued Lovecraft’s ideas of mad Arabs, monsters from the interior of Earth, and so on in his own stories. But here’s the reason I’m sure that Derleth should be invoked here: the presence of a Pons sim immediately east of Chesaux, and then the presence of *Holmes* sim directly east of that — all in a row. Derleth saw his character Solar *Pons*, similarly, as a direct successor to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock *Holmes*. Yet as Hucka D. has already discussed, Pons and Holmes are also the names of comets, and thus their conjunction here in the Comet Archipelago may have nothing to do with a Derleth homage, but just one of those happy or meaningful “accidents” that seems to occur with such frequency when dealing with SL mythology. But there’s no doubt in my mind that this points to Headburro in some way.
Which brings us to the *hole*. In a Lovecraft/Derleth/Antfarm story, a deep hole is an invitation to introduce malevolent forces coming up from inner Earth, always inducing or inciting deep madness for those who are involved with its uncovering. In *our* story (Hucka D.’s and mine), my guess is that one of the two Augusts on Big Island, perhaps being only 1 August in the end, likewise discovered a hole on this island. And that hole is right beside where Hucka D. is claiming he lived on that island, or right below his old “beach house” in what’s now in the southeast corner of Chesaux sim.
Inside this hole is *Mythos*, or memories thereof. Not exactly the Lovecraft/Derleth/Antfarm Cthulu based Mythos but still the name is the same, and the crew and passengers of The Arab that crashed on the island at some point certainly wanted to forget it or bury the memories of it. Why? is the logical question. Does it have to do with subterranean monsters in this case? Not sure still, yet. Mythos was a term I came up with for a fictional planet considerably before I knew that the same word had already been applied to Lovecraft’s particular mythology (Cthulu, from the amazing short story “The Call of Cthulu”, which I need to re-read sometime).
But let’s return to the idea of Big Island as directly resonant with Canada’s Prince Edward Island. PEI, as it is often abbreviated, prides itself as being the birthplace of Canada or the birthplace of the Confederation that became Canada. This refers to the Charlottetown Conference of 1864.
The parallel with Big Island is that, when The Arab came to the island or possibly wrecked on the island, a similar “confederation” was tapped into, with the founding members deciding to forget the planet their ship was from, supposedly: *Mythos*. This confederation was formed to “bury” the memories of Mythos, and the fact that the ship and its crew/passengers were actually from there. How? I think now that Hucka D., the pregnant woman of the ship, was isolated from the others to raise a family who would purposely not be told of their mother’s origin on Mythos, nor that of any of the other crew/passengers. Instead Hucka D. declared them “mad” if they mentioned it. The portal still connecting The Arab to Mythos was certainly offlimits to these children, which we now think included Peter of Petemond, who seems to be the same as the one we’ve been referring to as Pinky. Hucka D., then, had to go “native”, just as present Hucka D. went “native” in SL when acting as the host of the Blinkerton soul who had just departed Earth.
A parallel story here would be Chesaw, a man (woman?) who already lived on the island when The Arab arrived, digging a hole at what would become Hucka D.’s hut or beach house site.**** The subsequent closing of this hole would also, similarly, represent the sealing up of Mythos somehow. A Tron videogame is placed on its top as a marker: beware those who dig here, because there is a world within a world that *will* absorb.
No coincidence, either, that Hucka D. becomes involved, early on in his SL existence, with the audiovisual synchronicity Tronesis, with music provided by the Peter Gabriel led version of Genesis. Peter/Pinky, in a way, is Peter Gabriel as well, as seen in the celestial mechanics of the Cross of the Lamb.
So there is a possibility I might rename Big Island *Pi* (or Pie) Island, or perhaps that was its name in the past, instead (still, the name can be resurrected for present purposes).***** At any rate, once the “confederation” of newcomers on the island, along with Chesaw and perhaps even the “Augusts”, was manifested, the direct association between Big Island and Prince Edward Island, PEI, became cemented.
This has to do with a lot of other things, apparently, like (perhaps) the fact that the Mole Hill convexity on the island appears as a Mountain from a distance (another WV or West Virginia idea). Speaking of which, the *sealed* hole also represents West Virginia, I think, especially The Jug region of Middle Creek Island. Perhaps we should just bring in Hucka D. now… “Hucka?”
Hucka D.:
You are going considerably further by yourself in the development of the Big Island mythos… sorry, tale. Yes, The Arab landed — maybe crashed — here, and developed the idea to forget about Mythos by separating myself from the rest and raising my 5 in conceptual isolation. The hole was covered up, my beach house was built or perhaps augmented, and I moved in. A Tron arcade (Arcadia) game was placed atop the covered hole as a warning that this is the entrance to a world within a world. This was equated with *knowledge of Mythos*. It was also known, at least by me at a certain point, that one of my children would, despite our best efforts, uncover this secret knowledge and take it to the sinks of the mainland. This would, of course, be Pinky, who you now know is Peter. He was a smart lad, and learned of the existance of the hole early on. However, he was misled about the location of the hole. Variously, he was told it was on Chesaw Island, where your friend Flynn has set up her sand castle now, or else the Faye sim to the northeast of Chesaw Island. Chesaw, of course, helped create this bed of misinformation. Yet Peter, as we, or I, knew he would all along, finally found out the secret: the hole was right in his backyard all along. Kind of a Dorothy of Oz parallel going on there as well. You have questions.
bb:
So first I thought that Chesaw might be Peter from Petemond, but it appears this is Pinky instead, although Pinky and Chesaw knew each other.
Hucka D.:
They were good friends. Chesaw… took care of me; my needs.
bb:
Did August, or one of the Augusts, dig the hole?
Hucka D.:
He, or they, studied the hole.
bb:
What about the Green energy?
Hucka D.:
The hole was an attempt to find Green on the island. Your Big Island. My Pie Island.
bb:
So you knew it as Pie Island?
Hucka D.:
It was sliced into 6 parts, [yet] actually 7. I was the 7th, but removed. Like there is an absent 7th sim to contain the present version. I did that. Peter did that.***
*****
* To take a well known example, the slang term “dummkopf” 
literally means “stupid head” (dumm + kopf).
** Tales may related to the word “head” as well, as in “heads and tails” of the island itself (the 2 Augusts). As in the phrase “Tales of the Head”? I am also reminded that a comet has a head and a tail as well. Ice.
*** The 6 sims containing Big Island are, from north to south and west to east: Kopff, Roland, Chesaux, Pons, Nei, and Loneos. The missing 7th sim would be just west of Kopff and north of Roland, thus first on our list here if it existed, or still existed. Kopff, Roland, Chesaux, Pons, and Loneos are obviously named after comets, it seems. Nei is more difficult; only thing I can guess at currently is this (COMET sponsored by NEI).
**** An alternate story, that came to me as I’m proofreading this post, is that the hole was that of a Giant Rat, perhaps also named August (after the captain of The Arab?). And I think this was or still is a sentient and quite congenial rat. Although a monster of sorts, then, this moves him well away from the standard Cthulu monster mold. August, *The* Rat (or *The* Mouse) then sealed the hole up before the arrival of The Arab (?), moving back to his native Inner Earth. Just a theory right now.
***** Very interestingly, I was thinking about shortening this to Pieland or Piland, and looked up the term Pieland to see if it had been used before. Came up with this entry from the *Uncyclopedia*, which, get this, includes a picture of a barren island from *Second Life* supposedly depicting “Old Pieland” or the original Pieland. I think. Here’s the direct link to that picture in the article. More on that soon, I suppose!
Pieland verses Pieland: Hucka D.’s thoughts
… or so Hucka D. exclaims.
Let’s take a look through Hucka D.’s don’t-call-them-goofy bee eyes at the associated UncyclopediA article, Pieland.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Pieland
Hucka D. wants to go through this material and separate the wheat from the chaff as he describes it.
First off, the Penguin Wars were [or will be] real.
He emphasizes that. The penguins wanted or will want the so-called great pies and the pieberry bushes; they have to. Furthermore, he states his belief in most everything about penguins in this article. Yes, Lord Guin and Jesus will engage in wing to hand combat with the fate of the entire Milky Way hanging in the balance, and so on.
On the other hand, Hucka D. refutes the religion of the Great Flying Hankerchief of Brett, saying it isn’t real, but shares some similarities with TILE, admittedly. I followed up on this to ask if TILE was known in Chesaw’s day even, when the hole was open. He mysteriously nodded.
He also added that Kentuckistan was basically a truth spelled out correctly in that right-as-drizzle article.
Hucka D. states his Pieland did indeed export pies, but as a source of intellectual nourishment instead of physical. This would have involved the original 7 sims dividing the island into slices once again, reduced to 6 at the same time Hucka D. claims to have “gone native”. He said this indeed could have been the same as pietanium referenced in the UncyclopediA article, a material of great value to the rest of the worlds (virtual and real) and Pieland’s greatest export, along with the pies themselves, of course. I’m taking from Hucka D. that the two are actually one and the same.
I asked Hucka D. about the cat-turtle in the article. He said he’d see what he could cook up (Another reference to pie cooking perhaps? Probably not.)
What I’m also getting out of the article is that the cat-turtle and penguin are opposites on the love-hate spectrum of Pieland’s wildlife appreciation, the cat-turtle being the national symbol for Pieland and the penguin, when found entering its waters, being immediately shot at. Hucka D. does not notably disagree with this interpretation, although he doesn’t go into detail about how the natural dichotomy could come about.
Hucka D. said he’s not sure who Rosie O’Donnel is, although he has heard of the associated, superheavy element. He’s pleased now he can put a face with this element.
Of course what struck me about UncyclopediA’s Pieland article when I first read it was their Pieland’s graphic interpretation as an island in Second Life. Obviously I had to ask Hucka D. about that. He said it’s a representation of his Pieland, but only “grossly”. The Second Life connection is the important thing to be made here, and the reference to Noobish Territories that were formerly the United States and Canada. Remember that we’ve already assoc. Big Island with Prince Edward Island, which, early in its history flirted with becoming a United States state instead of a Canadian province.
I asked Hucka D. about That One Guy, reportedly the highest ranking official of Pieland at 12 feet. Hucka D. responded by saying that this is obviously a portrait of Chesaw [“The Infinite”]. I asked him if Chesaw performed kitten huffing, and he said that the process is real, although actually illegal in his Pieland.*
I asked Hucka D. about the triangulism religion and the Triangle Temple, the first mentioned tourist spot of UncyclopediA’s Pieland. He said this was a reference to the division of his island into 3 parts as described early (north-central-south). Yes, he supposed they did worship the triangle over any other regular, geometric shape.
Then Hucka D. had a quite a bit to relate about the Pie language, although since he spoke his thoughts in this language and didn’t offer to translate, I have no idea what was said. I’ll attempt again later… sorry.
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* I thought about this a spell, and came up with a possible assoc. of at least the twin brother (?) of That One Guy, the latter who was supposedly the highest authority of the island and the same as Chesaw of Hucka D.’s Pieland days. My new thought is that the act of kitten huffing was made impossible through genetic fusion with perhaps a native turtle of the region, maybe even one with its own history of abuse. Thus was created the abuse proof cat-turtle. I’ll have to ask Hucka D. about that as well the next time we speak.
Pieland Memories…
Another shot of the Tron video game atop or, here, very near the top of the old hole just south of Hucka D.’s former island home.
Another trip to nearby Azure Island #6 for Blochs tonight. Below he visits the northwest corner of the island. Still no sign of a late night convenience store where he can pick up munchies. In fact no signs of stores atall. Baker conveniently keeps forgetting that most of Azure Islands is zoned for residential use only.
Back on Big Island, formerly Pie Island or just Pieland, pictures and objects have finally been installed in the house. Let’s head inside, then.
This is a cat-turtle, directly stolen, admittedly, from the UcyclopediA article on Pieland. To remind, *that* Pieland is not quite the same as *this* Pieland, but there are resonances still, and this is one of ’em. For Hucka D. claims the cat-turtle existed on both, and was just as important to the Comet Archipelago’s Big Island or Pieland as it was the UncyclopediA’s Pieland, which made it their national symbol. A new wrinkle in this story has unfolded: both Chesaw’s pet cat and the cat-turtle in this picture have the same name: Max. I wonder what that could mean? Pretty easy, I think, to draw a straight line between numbers 1 and 2 here.
Hucka D. states this is a picture of Chesaw, called Lord Chancellor Chesaw in the object’s description. But it too is stolen from Uncyclopedia. There it is claimed to be a picture of This Guy, a known kitten huffer and supposedly born in “Somewhere, Nowhere” — sounds a bit like Big Island.
And that’s Max he’s holding in his lap. That name’s my own twist to the story.
Looking around the room, we can also take in a picture of a pie with the 6 sim names making up Pieland around its center, and with a “7th” piece with “???” on it just being removed for eating purposes. The 7th, again, is the unknown sim that originally contained the 7th and last piece of Big Island/Pieland, since deleted from the SL grid.
And then directly in front of that we have an actual, virtual 3d pie. Take a slice while you’re there! It’s an original by the good Lord Chancellor himself, a pie making expert to say the least. Perhaps the best baked goods in the entire metaverse, according to some. Too bad they don’t make avatars with functioning taste buds like they did in the grand, pre-Linden days. The good old days. The only days where a greatly refined avatar like Lord Chancellor Chesaw could find his true element. Only the, um, shell of that remains.
Then upstairs we come across a room in more disrepair, with a picture of what looks like Lord Chancellor Chesaw with a mustache. It’s not: it’s Chancellor Lord *Saw-chee* instead, his twin brother, perhaps. Notice how he’s facing the opposite way from Chesaw just below… that’s another clue to the difference. More on C.L. Saw-chee soon.
More hobo-like objects in the upper room, all courtesy of Arcadia Asylum except for the Saw-chee portrait.
View toward Chesaw’s old place from the top/north of Big Island during darkness. You can still see the mountain-like Mole Hill.
Sunklands 
