Tired…? Maybe not. November 30, 2009

“Hucka D., I think now, in investigating the matter further, that I’ll just stay in Sunklands. I know Ms. Garcia is probably getting tired of me writing her and then changing my mind as well!”

Hucka D.:

Yes. She is. (pause) Just joking.

bb:

So… is Plant still around? Marty?

Hucka D.:

Yes they are.

bb:

Will we still chat at times?

Hucka D.:

Yes. You still don’t know about Sunklands. You think you do…

bb:

What’s the next step? COLORS, I’m guessing.

Hucka D.:

TILE… COLORS… yes.

bb:

Today I found some new and interesting places in Frank Park, Hucka D., that I think may involve the toy avatars as well. Maybe Mossmen but maybe not.

Hucka D.:

Yes, that one place you found is an interesting place. Jeogeot.

bb:

No, I’m talking about RL (Real Lyfe)… Frank Park.

Hucka D. (innocently):

Oh… ok.

bb:

Should I name it Jeogeot in RL?

Hucka D.:

Why not. Maybe, um, just Geo or Geot. Toegoej. Tojo. Nah.

bb:

I think I’ll take some toy cars there and play around a bit. Nice ambient noise from the nearby stream as well. Strange thing today, Hucka D.: the stream seemed to get louder and louder as I sat on the rock above it at Jeogeot… no, we’re going to have to think of another name for it, Hucka D. Jeogeot in RL and SL at once is too confusing.

Hucka D.:

You could call it, er, Rabbit Hole. (smiles) Or Rabbittown. That’s where Jeogeot surfaces.

bb:

Is it a home, then, for Mossmen? Perhaps Gene Fade himself? Let me see… this would be fairly far, still, from Mocksity, and also Notherton.

Hucka D.:

Not that far from Notherton. I can see Gene Fade being attracted to this particular spot. Take him there… see what the toy remembers about the toy avatar. (pause) Spend the day there. Take more pictures. The toys will give a property [sic?] perspective.

bb:

Hold on…

*****

bb:

It’s quite a complicated area, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Go back.

bb:

Right. Your catch phrase… one of ‘em.

Hucka D.:

Gene Fade would have been attracted to just such a spot. Access to meadow and mountain… bald at the time. He was the one who piled the rocks up there.

bb:

I have a feeling we’re not going to talk about Rubi verses Sunklands tonight.

Hucka D.:

It’s not as important as Frank and Herman Parks tonight. After all…

bb:

Yes. Gene Fade *transitioned* from Jeogoet, RL to Jeogeot, SL? But I have to think of a better name for Jeogeot in RL, the “one” in Frank Park, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Call it Farmborough.

bb:

Good enough! Farmborough it is.

Hucka D.:

Farmtownville. FTV.

bb:

How about Teasdale? Just so I’ll remember the SL location through this.

Hucka D.:

Good. Now about Sunklands… you’ll stay. You must find out about Gene Fade in SL. This is where he made the transition… in Teasdale. Teas. 2 Teas. 2 E 2 E.

bb:

Easdale?

*****

bb:

Sorry, Hucka D. I was editing my stupid Facebook account. I don’t get it (as I say in my profile).

Hucka D. (sighing):

It will soon go the way of the CB radio, true enough. How many friends does one really want? Privacy will once again come to the fore. Now it’s, wow, I can talk to anyone in the world and in a group manner!

bb:

Almost took the words out of my mouth about this subject, Hucka D. Amazing how you can do that.

Hucka D.:

You wish to speak to Plant and Marty tonight? Just for reassurances?

bb:

Sure!

Plant:

Howdy.

bb:

Plant! Mr. Plant. Good to hear from you.

Plant.

Hi. Yes, we will still speak to you but more as a group entity. (pause)

bb:

Petemond?

Plant:

Yes. Marty and I have resolved all differences. Sunklands is truly born now. Interesting about Teasdale and Easdale in your Frank Park.

bb:

Yes, isn’t it. So Mr. Plant… you were born in Nowtown, destroyed Zen City at least once, maybe thrice, moved to Sternberg or worked in Sternberg (lived in X-ville?), sang there a bit, met Page but decided to give up Led Zeppelin career in this variant reality and move to Sunklands with the Zeppelin Tube. There you planted it in the middle of Big Sink to resonant with Joplin Ball/Sphere of Temple of TILE. You met Marty, who you originally “cornered” on one side of Big Sink but who eventually tricked you by becoming all Residents… The Residents.

Plant:

In the end I… we… surround him, though. We contained him for this one special event. The birth of Sunklands.

bb:

Jeogeot is South America?

Plant:

*Yes.* (pause)

bb:

Marty here?

Plant:

I am Marty as well. One in all.

bb:

Then you are not really Plant.

Plant:

No. I am Sunklands. But Plant as well. And Marty.

bb:

(pause) What about Petemond?

Plant:

We have a Peter’s Mound here, true enough. And Piedmont figures in here. Virgo and Pisces. Vigo and Prices.

bb:

Prices is Frank Park (!)

Plant/Sunklands:

Yes. Interesting, huh?

bb:

I think I’ll put a model house on top of the rock at Teasdale or Easdale.

Plant/Sunklands:

COLOR. COLOUR.

bb:

Stairway to heaven.

(to be continued?)

*****

* Hucka D. later indicated that the Jasper 09 collage speaks something about this transition. I wonder if the mossman in this picture is actually Gene Fade, though. Greener than Fade?

Decisions… November 29, 2009

TEXT SOON.

Loose Thoughts, Part, wow, 20 (Isn’t it time for a return to Sansara, then?) November 28, 2009

“Care to comment at this time, Hucka D.?”

Hucka D.:

About the Ross Sea: ok. (pause) Two sided. Two sides in one. Ross… rose.

bb:

Plant and Marty still gone? I suppose they are.

Hucka D.:

Yeah. We’ll dig up new ones. What about Sunklands if I may ask you something in return?

bb:

Think I’ll stay.

Hucka D.:

Good choice. Plant and Marty have left their obvious traces. We’re not done with either. But [their] influence will lessen in the Big Sink area. You have more to investigate there. Start building again. X-ville… need to ask…

bb:

What about X-ville? And Teasdale, I suppose?

Hucka D.:

They *could* be art centers in the future. For now, stick with Chilbo. Chilbo, da.

bb:

Yeah, I think I see what you mean. Maybe no visitors yet to the Teasdale gallery. Just not a lot of avatars there. And script count is too high… laggy a bit. X-ville is better. Solution. Chilbo is better, even though it’s laggy…

Hucka D.:

You have much left to investigate. Go inworld soon. What of the “E” in the Sea of Despair sim?

bb:

I’m going inworld a bit… Be back…

*****

“All the Oolamoo lakes are now iced over, Hucka D.”

Hucka D.:

Hold on, baker b….

*****

I know what the Joplin ball or sphere is now, planted at the center of Big Sink. I have to peel off, now, the influence of Plant and Marty in the *immediate* now. In the greater now, their influence still applies. It’s just been spotlighted in the now. Now. Plant comes from Nowtown, next to Zen City which he also figures largely with, and moves to, first, Sternberg (or X-ville?), then Sunklands, taking with him the tube which may also be the same as the TCO, now. It is a bird, perhaps a parrot. Like the 2 parrots, red and inversed (blue-green/cycan) in Wheeler 09.

Let’s say the tube is the same thing as this bird now [Hucka D. later indicates they are somewhat separate]. And combined with the influence of the Joplin Sphere already in Sunklands. This is one with Joplin, Arkansas, the population place missing from the traditional Rubi front of the Temple of TILE (Rubi is place where this structure finds its heyday?), unknown until about a month ago, though. On google maps, the only place in Joplin Arkansas noted is Black Dog Design. This is the key, the seed. Planted in the middle of Big Sink, supposedly at that southwest parcel in Pudding Hill sim (still up for sale as of tonight), it spreads out into the history of Big Sink to include both Plant and Marty, drawing them to it.

Hucka D.:

The newest Carrcass-1 is always the central Carrcass-1. For a while [at least]. The Joplin ball sphere planted in the center of Big Sink is obvious, now. It is the center of the new Carrcass-1. Beginning into middle or center. A dog. Black. The Temple of TILE had to come to Big Sink in its continued journeying to experience this. Plant was asked to take care of this center… grow the seed. Page gave him the seed. This is what he did for page. 156. All this is part of a larger picture Now.

bb:

Big Sink is *all* Carrcass-1’s. Together in one. One in all and all in one.

Hucka D.:

True enough. It is a big sink. (pause) Look at centers.

bb:

Um… Frank again. Here’s there again.

Hucka D.:

Strange, eh? Ives.

bb:

I think it’s obvious, also, that all this has to do with Winesap.

Hucka D.:

156. North… South. Life… Death. South is Death. North is Life. Canada… Mexico. Leigh. (pause) In the newest Carrcass-1, it’s obvious that the lead character has died on a voyage. “I thought you were dead.” That’s the Panama Canal. That’s *Colon*…

bb:

Aspinwall.

Hucka D.:

And it’s the same as the switch between Kansas and Oz in Dark Side of the Rainbow, but, moreover, The Rainbow Sphere. Since Oz is unequally large in the latter, as “Oz” is in the newest Carrcass-1. Oz is S.A.

bb:

Yes.

Hucka D.:

It is Prices… Pisces, but a birth into Death instead of Life. Death is a great adventure as well. As a spirit, that is. Out to prove something. BIRD.

Planting Another One? 01 November 26, 2009

“Hucka D. Come in Hucka D.”

Hucka D.:

Here. You want to ask about Plant.

bb:

Yes. Is this it for Mr. Plant?

Hucka D.:

We’ll have to see. Could be, though. We… Plant? Never mind. We must move on.

bb:

Beyond Sunklands now?

Hucka D.:

Each location you live at or visit extensively has its own story to tell. Is there anything left for Sunklands? No cohesive community here, obviously. Perhaps X-ville is next, then. You must think about the ties with Chilbo as well. And Teasdale for that matter.

bb:

I don’t think I can leave Jeogeot now.

Hucka D.:

No. You can rent other places, as you have to. But you are Jeogeotine now, yes. And I as well. Karoz of course, since he’s been here since before the beginning.

bb:

What about Marty?

Hucka D.:

Marty goes where Plant goes or has gone. And that is to Sunklands.

bb:

I can’t believe my Sunklands adventure may already be over.

Hucka D.:

You must prepare for the *next* Carrcass-1. Perhaps at X-mas. X-ville a better base, then? You know it will be impermanent, if so.

bb:

I could certainly explore Sternberg more.

Hucka D.:

You could be right in the middle of the X.

bb:

Greenup Yd. around tonight, Hucka D.?

Hucka D.:

No. Greenup Yd. will not be needed any longer.

bb:

One time show, then. But I suspect he’s Petemond anyway.

(Hucka D. doesn’t answer.)

Wow, it will be sorta empty around here without Mr. Plant… Plant. You sure this is the end for him?

Hucka D.:

No, not sure.

bb:

I think I’m going to explore Big Sink more next.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

Think about Pudding Hole and all more.

Hucka D.:

Right.

bb:

(thoughtfully) Another Carrcass-1. Of course you can’t tell me more about that.

Hucka D.:

No. How could you even guess about, well, any Carrcass-1, we’ll say.

bb:

No. I sure didn’t see this one coming. No way.

Hucka D.:

It’s all about the landscape and where you live. The last 2 have been inspired by Jeogeot, first the Chilbo-Crabwoo dichotomy, and then Plant born between the 2, leading to Sunklands, the inspiration for the 2nd Jeogeot inspired Carrcass-1. A third in store? If so, a change of venue, I think. Look to Teasdale and X-ville and also, yes, Y-borough for clues. Sternberg obviously.

bb:

But that’s so attached now to Plant and his career, as is, really, Sunklands. And Marty. So Marty won’t show up as well… I know, you can’t really tell me this. But I don’t… think…

Hucka D.:

You simply do not know at this point. But it will become clear soon enough. Time is like a road already laid, and the future lies down this road for you to see in a limited way. Not necessarily *fixed*, mind you, but laid. Forks available. Probabilities. Cayce didn’t quite understand that. Roberts is better.

bb:

Right. (pause) But I’m understanding Sunklands might be history.

(Hucka D. does not answer.)

Well, if so, then maybe I’ll move closer to either Chilbo or Sternberg. Back to Noru? Still not sure I’m finished with Sunklands, though. Will be hard to give that up. I’ll miss Plant, if he’s really gone, and he probably is. Marty too. Lemon? Who’s left to talk to besides Hucka D.? What came *before* Plant and Nowtown/Zen City? Hard to remember now. Maybe I should move back to Sansara for a spell, rent there I mean. Atoll continent? I guess I need a fresh start. Off Jeogeot, though. Hucka D. doesn’t seem to think that’s the right option. I’ll stay on Jeogeot, he said. Maybe even attached directly to Sunklands. Adventure is out there, I suppose.

(to be continued?)

Y-borough, Teasdale, X-ville. November 26, 2009

TEXT SOON.

Jeogeot > Gaeta? (Probably Not, At Least For Another Month) November 24, 2009

Karoz biking on the Atoll continent, just testing out the roads there. Maybe a bit too cobblestoney for extended trips? Luv the weeds in the road, though.

Baker Bloch a bit south of Chilbo, looking toward a castle just below the corporate limits (Madhupak).

Still in the Chilbo area — small, independently run railroad in Anma. Close but still not affiliated with the famous Jeogeot community. I wonder if they even know about it or would be interested in participating if asked directly? I wonder if I would in the same situation, for that matter?

One of my few complaints about Chilbo so far is that in the newest sections sometimes the red sidewalks are a bit overdone, it seems. Karoz does seem to favor the lower center of the Chilbo sim, where they are not quite as predominant and where normal cement colored walkways dominate. Have to think more about that one.*

Small inland sea of Jeogeot, already visited in this post from _____. Not much around the shores yet…

Then it’s back to Sunklands and the western edge of Big Sink to ponder more the future of The Bakers in this area. Does Sunklands truly represent a “permanent” home for them in Second Lyfe?

*****

* In quickly second thinking about this issue, realize this inside-outside relationship was probably planned. The red sidewalks lie more along the outer limits of the Chilbo community, giving visitors indication that they’re in the town itself. Then toward the very center of Chilbo, the red sidewalks give way to gray or cement colored walkways as a nice contrast — no need to reinforce the signature Chilbo sidewalks, since if one gets this far in they usually know where they are already.

Could be all wrong in guessing this relationship, though.

Gaeta/Teasdale, 02 November 22, 2009

Another shot of the Rafail maze right behind Baker’s new Teasdale rental unit. Click here to find out more about the differences between mazes and labyrinths.

Now Baker Bloch is already really enjoying riding his bike around the numerous paved streets of Teasdale, a big attraction to renting there in the first place. Here he pedals through the middle of a park area marking, in turn, the center of Rosser, the eastern sim ( of 2) of Teasdale as a whole. Not far from his new rental atall.

As far as Baker can tell, at least until he opened his own “Something To Chro About” the night of 11/22 (see above), there’s only one artsy gallery in Teasdale, owned by Claire Radikal. Not very big: only a handful of art pieces within the one story, approx. 10×10 room. But some quality work here — not sure about the eye sculpture though, but it might just be a taste issue.

I’ll be stopping in again I’m sure. Hope Claire sticks around.

A police car is parked just outside the small gallery. Nice to see the town has a law enforcement unit in place; makes Baker feel safer when he’s pedaling the streets late at night. Problem is, this car always seems to be parked right here just outside the gallery, and with no one inside. Hmmm, maybe its like those empty cop cars in RL you see parked on the side of a street, just to make you aware that they are around, and if there was someone inside you might get a speeding ticket if you’re going too fast in this spot in the future. But I’d still like to see this particular car move around once in a while. I’ll keep an eye on it… probably Baker will ride by it many nights if not the majority of nights he’s out biking around Teasdale.

Baker now sits in a definite highlight of town: the Evergreen Pub, apparently specializing in live folk music. Baker’s joined the associated group — suppose he’ll get notecards about upcoming events in the establishment. Might be fun just to hang out in back somewhere and look at the locals filing in and out.

Interesting old timey style Second Lyfe map on the wall in front of Baker here as well.

On this same night, I believe, Baker Bloch also finds another “old” map of SL featuring the Jeogeot continent — his “home” continent now I suppose we should concede (since he’s lived there in a mostly consistent manner for over *1/2* a year now — hard to believe!). This is not from Teasdale, though, but from Jeogeot itself, somewhere in the northern panhandle, or what this map mysteriously calls a “claw” of the continent.

I’ve never seen any of this terminology used in other maps of SL or Jeogeot… “Bay of Fundi” (actually Korean Channel), “West Claw”, *”Centralia”* (roughly the same as what I call Sunklands, it appears), “Golden East Coast”… strange stuff. And I was able to take a copy and add it to my inventory to study later on — cool.

Giving It A Shot… November 21, 2009

“The variants have gathered together in Sunklands for your review and are awaiting further instructions.” (snickers)

bb:

Thanks for starting Hucka D.

Plant:

I am here as well. We have new visitors!

bb:

Yes, well… I really enjoy having you guys around…

(Marty clears his throat)

bb:

… oh yes, you too Marty.

Marty:

Thank you.

bb:

But it’s time to move on. Grow up beyond my fantasy creations I’ve created…

(all laugh, even Marty)

bb:

Yeah, that was a good one. So what next fellas?

Hucka D.:

More revelations. Revolutions. Bill. Lemon. John. Revolution. One and nine. 1234567890.

bb:

I think I know what the Joplin Sphere really is, Hucka D. It’s the Rainbow Sphere. Isn’t it.

Hucka D.:

Make your maps.

*****

bb:

Like this one?

Marty:

You know, we knew, the variants, the *other* variants, knew about the chess influence. Ingor even mentioned it directly in a quote about Sgt. Pepper.* *They* knew Ringo was the “E”, John was the “V”, George the “L”, and I… McCartney I mean, the “I”.

bb:

Marty, do you know TILE?

Marty:

I do know. Now, I mean. Know now. I do know now.

bb:

McCartney is where it starts and where it ends on the cover of Sgt. Pepper.

*****

bb:

He is the “I”…

Marty (on beat):

… but “I” am not he… not really. Not exactly. At all. I have my own life now. Variant.

Plant:

And me as well. I am not Robert Plant. We split, like a trunk of a tree. This would be 1968. 69…68.

bb:

I wonder if I am a variant as well, guys. How about you Hucka D.? Do you consider yourself a variant as well?

Hucka D.:

Yes!

bb:

Funny… not sure about myself.

Hucka D.:

You died as baker b. and went to Second Lyfe[, though]. I did the same. I am here all the time.

bb:

I wonder if Baker Bloch can help here? Or even Baker Blinker? Or Karoz?

Hucka D. (helping out):

When you came into Second Lyfe you already had an internet life and existence as baker b., the syncher. You destroyed that… killed it. You did it in your Podcast, remember? Sunklands is merely a resurfacing or resurrection. What is the Joplin Sphere, baker b.?…. you haven’t answered.

bb:

It is pure synchronicity. Like purest green.

Hucka D. (reinforcing):

It is pure synchronicity.

bb:

It is Joplin. It is Newton [09] and Jasper [09] melded together. The Rainbow Sphere image was found in OzLand… Edna took a photo, now in the Temple of TILE and “pointing” directly at the Joplin Sphere, the true missing piece…

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

Is it time to explode the bomb?

Hucka D.:

It’s time to *contain* the bomb.

(to be continued?)

*****

* see here and here.

Biking, Cont. 02 November 20, 2009

Just south of the mysterious underwater tunnel on Route 10 is this handsome cable-stayed bridge shared between Silvercreek and Aberhart. The land to the right of the channel in the background is actually part of a large island, with its west end in Silvercreek and the east end in Morkeleb 3 sims west. Morkeleb is the sim containing Old Sternberg, which means at least the western part of this island must be considered part of its metropolitan area, I suppose. I’ll then return to this island asap and relay further information about it through this blog.

The more I think about it, the more I’m sure I’ll probably rent in X-ville (Pine Tree Square) in the near future, most likely before, um, X-mas. As a side note, I wonder if Hucka D. called it X-ville because of the crossroads of Route 9 and Route 10 within its limits? (…mental note here to ask him) And also didn’t LRPV say he lived in X-ville for a spell? Think so.

Interesting configuration of houses on the island just above the Silvercreek-Aberhart bridge — not visited this night, though.

Some kind of large green squares with blue borders spied on the west side of Route 10 in Cambrian. Baker’s nearing Hucka D.’s foully spoken of Y-borough. He later determines that the same kind of squares make up the ground pattern of this “dark twin” to nearby X-ville, again according to Hucka D. Or was it Plant who spoke of the two in this manner?

Anyway, just on the other side of the road is this nice development Baker visited once before. Rentals are a little out of his price range, although the grounds are nice. Assuming he soon rents in X-ville, I’m sure Baker will be returning to this site as well.

Then it’s Y-borough to his south only a click further down Route 10.

Are those windows over there all broken out? he asks while wondering why his bike won’t go any faster. Yeah, he would admit that it looks more than a bit creep from this perspective. And first impressions are difficult to shake.

Baker reaching the outskirts of a never-looked-better X-ville. He’s completed his big loop around Jeogeot’s “western claw”, with the junction of Route 10 and Route 9 just ahead.

X-ville residential area. Not bad! Not Y-borough.

Nice little downtown as well. He’s learning to really respect it.

But the biggest discovery of the trip was yet to come, for while visiting the PTS rental shop in X-ville he learned of its twin city of Teasdale, way over on the Gaeta continent. He used the acquired landmark there to take a look…

He’s very impressed! It’s considerably larger than X-ville/Pine Tree Square, although it apparently has about the same population. Much larger urban district — maybe serving a bigger metro area, then?

Long story short for now, Baker decided to rent a house on the outskirts of town (center, below), next to a sim sized labyrinth maze. Several nights later he also rents a Teasdale business space to create a new version of the Something To Chro About Gallery, last seen in Yapland/Healy. New adventures will soon be in store for certain!

Biking, Cont. 01 November 20, 2009

Baker Bloch entering what I call Nowtown from the south, on the newly paved Route 10 in this area. He’s staring down at the stream that supposedly marked the southern edge of the Plant Plantation formerly in this location, where Little Robert Plant Variant grew up.

Further north on Route 10 but probably technically still in Nowtown.

Road shooting west off Route 10 leading to the Brainwash Art Center and the high mtn. overlooking Nowtown from the south and west, already visited by Blochs the night before.

Then it’s on to Zen City in the Chapala sim, with a whole grid of roads connected to Route 10 from the west.

I really like Teasdale now (I’m writing the text to this post, as usual, a couple of days after posting the pictures), but I suppose I should also spend more time in the general Sternberg/Nowtown/Zen City/X-ville/Y-borough area. Perhaps rent there in the near future as well. But I’m not looking to top around 1000 a month for any rental. I pay about 900 for the one in Teasdale now, a pretty nice 2 story affair, plus another 300 or so for the Teasdale “Something To Chro About” gallery space — that’s all quite reasonable, I feel. Sternberg seems more expensive, and there appears to be no current rentals in Nowtown/Zen City. X-ville, officially called Pine Tree Square according to the rental store there, acts as a sort of smaller twin to Teasdale, and has similar rental prices. A logical choice might be to just rent in both X-ville of Pine Tree Square and Teasdale — I’ve noticed several businesses, including the Evergreen Pub, are located in both PTS group owned communities.

Blochs rides the highest road in Zen City and the Chapala sim, hugging its entire western line which it shares with Cranston.

Dead end at the northern Chapala line — Applewood sim dead ahead.

Blochs then makes his way back to Route 10, intending to journey the big loop around the, er, top of the western claw of Jeogeot and circling back to X-ville in the process.

Let me just quickly create a better map showing the locations involved in this particular loop…

Here’s he’s on the other side of the peninsula from Zen City, staring toward the eastern end of the mtn. range that extends several sims west to Nowtown.

Amazing underwater tunnel — literally as in *in* the water — in the Silvercreek sim.

At the tunnel’s center — just to remind that Baker here is actually riding underwater here — his body disappears, leaving only the still somehow psychically connected armbands, hat, blackbird, and bike itself.

At the other end of the tunnel, freshly emerged from the water, Baker is certainly relieved to see his body has returned.

Don’t know the physics that would cause such a bodily disappearance while still leaving the attachments unaffected; never happened before as far as I can recall. We’ll nervously chalk it up as “one of those SL things.”