Pieland Revisited… September 25, 2009

“We’re moving really, really fast on this story. Like sand is swiftly running through an hourglass.”

Hucka D.:

It is… good to point that out to us and also the reader or perhaps even readers now.

bb:

How long will I, we, live on Big Island? Should I rename this Pieland now?

Hucka D.:

No. Big Island is fine [now]. Pieland is a former name. Pie Island to Pieland, as Chesaw wanted it. And then he started baking pies, no less. Round ones. Ones with 7 slices. Ones with the writing of sim names all over them. Well, ok, not sim names. All the rest is true, though. He became a baker, Baker. On the beach there. Beaches.

bb:

And I think he invented the cat-turtle. That part of the Pieland Uncyclopedia article is true in a much narrower scope. Were there even more than the 1 cat-turtle in your Pieland, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

There were more. At least 5. Maybe 7. We need to talk about Chesaw’s ne’er-do-well twin brother Saw-chee. Or maybe not.

bb:

That’s the one with the mustache… whose picture is in the upper room now. So did you know this Saw-chee?

Hucka D.:

A coastal chap. Outer Banks of North Carolina. Chesaw’s user was from the mountains, maybe Murphy. Saw-chee was from Manteo. He was, in a way, a Virginia Dare, as you have already guessed. Yes I knew Saw-chee.

*****

Does this mean that Chesaw should be hyphenated as Chee-saw?

Hucka D.:

No. Chesaw wanted to be equally identified with [positioned between] Chee-saw *and* the Chesaux sim name. He felt that Chesaux should always represent the middle piece of pie. He would be really, really disappointed to see that that sim has been removed from the grid now. His island is “chipped”, as it were. Like a broken tooth. It needs a cap… has a cap.

bb:

What do you mean?

Hucka D.:

I am the 7th. I always will be. Always have been. Chesaw just didn’t know it at the time, or was always forgetting it.

bb:

So now I suppose we must talk about another new development. I’ve guessed that August is actually a giant rat *and* the captain of The Arab, but one arrived [the cpt.] just as the other one was departing [the rat].

Hucka D.:

Not that close together. But, yeah, there were two Augusts. And the cpt. was more assoc. with the northern part of the island, while the rat roamed the southern part more.

*****

bb:

[Saw-chee] was a kitten huffer, wasn’t he?

Hucka D.:

*Yes.* (laughs)

bb:

But Chesaw gave that up, or never started. What exactly is the story behind the cat-turtle of Pieland, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

It was, as you said, a protection from huffing, and it relates to the Non-Huffable Kitten for sure. This is the *true* non-huffable variety. And it lived here in Pieland. And, yes, Saw-chee was involved. A feud… mano-a-mano. The cat-turtle’s name was…

bb:

Max… wasn’t it?

Hucka D.:

Dern.

bb:

An Ancient, wasn’t it?

Hucka D.:

The cat was tired of being huffed [and puffed.]

bb:

And I suppose we must also talk more of the Giant Rat tonight.

Hucka D.:

Turtle-rat. (pause) Ooops.

*****

“Hmmmmm.”

Pieland Memories… September 25, 2009

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.

Pieland verses Pieland: Hucka D.’s thoughts September 24, 2009

… 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.

*****

* 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.

Loose Thoughts… September 24, 2009

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!

Don’t Call Me Jughead…? September 23, 2009

“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?)

“My new name…” September 22, 2009

“… 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.

Big Island S., Part 3 September 22, 2009

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.

Big Island S., Part 2 September 22, 2009

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 1 September 22, 2009

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.

Loose Thoughts: Big Island September 21, 2009

* 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?