Chatting… July 18, 2008
“What up Hucka D. my main bro?”
Hucka D.:
Nothing.
bb:
Why did S-Bum do that?
Hucka D.:
The piece you mean.
bb:
A singular point?
Hucka D.:
M and N. Broken. One remains. Which one?
bb:
Why Edwardston?
Hucka D.:
This actually came before your Edwardston. Or in tandem with it.
bb:
She’s going to live in that pond.
Hucka D.:
No. She is the pond.
Esbum’s Pond July 18, 2008
Thought I’d throw in a more high definition photo this time of what Hucka D. is calling Esbum’s Pond now. The two parts of the pond appear to be of about equal area. Hucka D. thinks this is meaningful. More soon on that.
Then back to my regular resolution shots. Some interesting photos of the pond and S-Bum with camera constraints disabled. Through the photo below you can get a good idea of the two parts of the pond and the size and depth of each. S-Bum sits on a platform that lies below the surface of one side of the pond, complete with a fire and also 2 rocks to sit on and admire it from.
Up through the lily pads.
Is S-Bum getting younger?? Maybe it’s just the effects of the pond.
On the other side of the pond now looking up as S-Bum looks down at us.
But then to the task at hand. The Missing Piece is magically broken in two…
….and reduced to a singular point accompanied by a dance of ghostly lights.
– To Edwardston! (2) July 18, 2008
Views of the lush vegetation from the central sim of the archipelago…
S-Bum Finds Victorian House Gone, But No Time For That Now — To Edwardston! July 18, 2008
S-Bum wakes up to the view of the almost transparent “Missing Piece” and the waterfall behind it. She sits in First Chair a bit studying the scenery before heading back to Edwardston again. She has something specific in mind tonight (!)
But first down to the ground level of the property to view all that’s left of the Victorian house. S-Bum never even went in the place; no attachments will be missed there.
The pool underneath the house remains for now, inside the still standing foundation walls.
S-Bum revisits the only ground structure now left on my properties, which is Hidalgo Gallery. She looks out the east window to the now Victorian House-less view. Then south toward the empty sim again. S-Bum, like all the avatars of the Blink Or It’s Over group, enjoy occassionally sitting in the gallery and looking out these windows.
Then it’s off to Edwardston…
A view up from what Hucka D. is now calling Esbum’s Pond. More on that in a post above…
(to be continued)
Just Chatting Again… July 17, 2008
“Hucka D., I wish to talk tonight about S-Bum’s increasing infatuation with the Afar related sims. What should we call these?
Hucka D.:
They are LMNOP.
bb:
Ok. What exactly does that mean?
Hucka D.:
L… M and N… O… and then, P.
bb:
P being Afar?
Hucka D.:
Yeah, why not.
bb:
M and N being Edwardston?
Hucka D.:
Sure.
bb:
Is this, then, the missing piece?
Hucka D.:
What do you think?
bb:
She has found the campsite with the Arcadia Asylum creations: the tent, the campfire, the food and drink.
Hucka D.:
Moon and Pluto.
bb:
It happens in that wilderness area, doesn’t it?
Hucka D.:
Yes.
bb:
*That’s* where they landed (!)
Hucka D.:
Indeed.
bb:
In the past, but it hasn’t happened yet.
Hucka D.:
You’re right on here.
bb:
There were 4 of ‘em, and Baker Bloch was the 5th, the P.
Hucka D.:
That’s what S-Bum will find out. A lab may be necessary for study.
bb:
How about your original beehive, Hucka D.?
Hucka D.:
Design something that corresponds to the landscape below. Start with the skywalk. Teleporter.
bb:
We need still to talk about that invisible skywalk.
Hucka D.:
It is the Asylum energy transformed and made invisible and clear and pure. Rings like a bell. Put it in the sky. Sky-walk. That’s the link between ToT and LMNOP, or the M and N. That’s where it all starts. That’s why S-Bum is attracted to the area, and why the Skywalk just happened to be set up right beside her room. At first she didn’t see it; she saw the waterfall through it and was distracted. Rez it; put it in the sky.
bb:
Anything else?
Hucka D.:
Get some sleep.
(to be continued?)
S-Bum Wanderings Again — Edwardston, 1 July 17, 2008
S-Bum then moves into the next sim over from Afar, also a part of the [delete name] Archipelago. This quickly becomes her favorite of the 3 sims included in this particular grouping. This is Edwardston.
In the inlet pictured below is one of the two locations I know of in the archipelago to find the aforementioned Starax goldfish. A number of varieties of these goldfish are presently swimming around there.
Those rocks S-Bum is standing on date from August, 2007, making them one of the latest owner creations I’ve found in the area.
Moving inland into the dense forest…
Where’d you go S-Bum?
Another mysterious flying machine owned by the Afar group. S-Bum doesn’t dare to attempt to fly it, though.
A beautiful little two section pond in the north center of the sim. S-Bum thinks: “Hucka D. has his pond in the area; perhaps this is *my* pond.”
View of pointy mtn. in the distance from near the pond.
Then on the west edge of the sim S-Bum comes across this tent and campfire, a discovery touched upon in the Bliss Gardens related post below this one. The tent is an Arcadia Asylum creation and so are several other objects in the area, including the campfire itself. S-Bum thinks to herself that she has found a home away from home (temple).
(Holy Howl’s Moving Castle!)
Bliss Gardens… July 17, 2008
This has got to be one of the most impressive places in SL (!) Waterfallpalooza!
It’s impossible to convey in a picture how high the below waterfall actually is. You just have to see it to experience the magnitude. And all of this within the 4 sim cave itself, although the roof of the cave is a bit beyond the range of Blochs’ draw distance here.
Outside the cave there are many more Bliss owned sims worth the time of exploring.
Damn, there’s some beavers! (sorry)
I don’t know what these little dragons are drinking but I think I want some.
Weird moment: Baker Bloch didn’t know this very night that S-Bum would find her own hobo or bum related tent in the Afar area, another Arcadia Asylum creation. The tent Blochs finds is not an Asylum creation, but it is certainly related in spirit.
Big Falls, Skywalk, New Front Of Temple July 17, 2008
I experimented with a lot of textures before settling on this particular one to cover the “front” of the temple. You like? It’s a temple of tile, after all, so why not cover it with tile? Makes sense.
Then we go with Baker Bloch inside to look at the bottom of what Hucka D. is calling, simply enough, Big Falls. Appropriate name, since the falls span the complete vertical height of the temple, making a total of 30 meters. 10 meters are seen here in this lower part of the falls. I also like the logic of the water of the falls emptying into Bag Pool (just out of sight near Baker Bloch’s feet in below photo). Perhaps Hucka D. should think about renaming them *Bag* Falls. Maybe not.
Then it’s up to Floor 3 to view the remaining 20 meter drop… this is actually a pretty impressive sight, one of the finest in the temple.
From the bottom of the top drop…
Then up the stairs we go again to get a view from nearer the top of the falls. I wanted to say here that you can just make out the 90% transparent circle that we’re calling the Sky Walk. Can you see it? I thought you could.
And actually you can see it still here in this shot, just below the waterfall’s top. Blochs is standing on a corner of Floor 6 again for this photo.
A longer view of the new tile exterior of the temple’s front. I also changed the texture of the other sides to a kind of scratched metal type thingie. You dig more? Thought so.
