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?

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?)

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.

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.

Loose Thoughts, then Hucka D., etc. November 17, 2009

Hucka D. has indicated that Gypsy, in triplicate form, is or was the last holdout to [him] owning all of Jeogeot and Maebaleia. The solution?: perhaps to separate The Moon sim (and attached Sea of Despair and Gelsomina) from the mainland, as it is now. But what does the triplicate form of Gypsy mean? I know in Karoz’s initial visit to The Moon, he found this tangle of “Gypsies” that took a bit of research to unravel.

I can’t help thinking that the 3 Gipsys in Alabama and Missouri are involved here.

What the heck, let’s just bring in Hucka D., if he’s game. “Hucka D.?”

Hucka D.:

Yes, we had to separate The Moon from Maebaleia. The Blue [galleries] are traces of this… indicate Blue Earth or Earth itself, blue as seen from The Moon, of course. And then the cube of Blue Feather Sea itself, another Earth. Blue Feather… Blue Earth, subtract the “F”. Blue “E” as well…

bb:

Can you tell me more about the Blue Feather Gallery in Crabwoo?

Hucka D.:

Giant “E” in the [northwest] corner. Tells history of my continents. Museum.

bb:

Yes, Plant mentioned the Blue Feather Gallery is a museum as well, but I think he was talking about the one in Sternberg.

Hucka D.:

Yes…

bb:

The “E” in Crabwoo replaced something that was there earlier, didn’t it? I’m thinking that the Blue Feather Cube was there, the “e” before the “E” or that became the “E”.

Hucka D.:

Close enough. The Seed. Direct conduit.

bb:

Between Second Lyfe and Earth.

Hucka D.:

Between Second Lyfe and All Earths.

bb:

Was the cube the same as the Temple of TILE?

Hucka D.:

Ask about the continents spinning around each other.

bb:

Ok, I’m asking.

Hucka D.:

Taijitu. Black and white. 09 and 09. Newton…

bb:

… Jasper. (pause)

*****

bb:

Let’s see, the two continents were formed, the Rabbit Hole, then [connecting the two], and then the Joplin tree was brought from Maebaleia to Jeogeot. At the time these were the only two Second Lyfe continents.

Hucka D. (reinforcing):

Only two. Rabbit Hole connected, yes. Residents were called residents still, but it was understood that the name came from The Residents. In your — our — reality now, this connection has somehow been lost. Not really understanding why myself. Must be a masking from a higher dimension.*

bb:

Did the continents physically *spin* around each other?

Hucka D.:

*Yes.* Circle.

bb (ruminating):

Chilbo and Crabwoo… hmmmmm…

Hucka D.:

2 parrots, one red and the other blue-green. Between them Little Robert Plant Variant was born. *Through* the Korean Channel, Baker Bloch on one side and Karoz, now, on the other. Big E and Big Schwa. Had the tube… mentioned that several times now, a number of times.

bb:

LRPV *stabilized* the spinning?

Hucka D.:

Yes again!

*****

Hucka D.:

We are very fortunate to have Little Robert Plant Variant helping our blog generation here, baker b. Marty moreso but Plant is very important as well. Not priceless like Marty, but he comes at a very high price normally.

bb:

So, let’s see, Gene Fade, a toy avatar, perhaps the last of the mossmen, slips through a crack in reality to enter Second Lyfe. He eventually makes his way to The Moon and impregnates Gypsy with Karoz to continue the mossman species. Karoz technically has the ability to safely walk on Granddaddy Mtn in any location, a thing forbidden to Mossmen of Frank and Herman Park next to Granddaddy.

Hucka D.:

Because he is virtual… phantom, at least as walking in RL goes. But as you know now — today — the portal system is broke.

bb:

Yes (pause). Does Gene Fade come to The Moon after it has been broken away from Maebaleia?

Hucka D.:

That is stability. It also separates from a 1:1 relatioship with Mos Ainsley, then. Yes, Gene Fade broke the spinning. Karoz was born.

bb:

You said Plant ceased the spinning, [though].

Hucka D. (not directly answering):

Real taste buds we had in those global days. Salad Days, which are the same as Lemon Days.**

*****

bb:

I think I have part of it. The *Joplin Tree* stabilized the spin and made Jeogeot more separate from Maebaleia. The Joplin tree is both black and white. Taijitu. 2 continents in one, because it was brought from one [Maebaleia] to the other [Jeogeot].

Hucka D.:

And then *planted* in the middle of Big Sink. Except it wasn’t.

bb:

The [Joplin Tree] seed was the same as the tube, wasn’t it? [Plant's tube.]

Hucka D.:

What is the Chilbo tree, then?

bb:

It’s like a roulette wheel. The ball entered the Chilbo slot, not the Crabwoo slot. Crabwoo was almost forgotten. Chilbo became the peak of Second Lyfe and the 2 continents.

Hucka D.:

Except it wasn’t. Big Sink. Chilbo needs Korean Channel needs Sunklands…

bb:

What is my relationship to Chilbo now?

Hucka D.:

Chilbo is the eyeball to the outside. Sternberg… it’s not much different than Sternberg, really. Sternberg could be another eye. Was for LRPV. Before he became just RPV [without the Little].

bb:

Plant stayed peripherally involved in Sternberg like I did — am doing — with Chilbo?

Hucka D.:

He kept singing there, yes. Off and on. Not a lot. Sunklands kept him fairly busy. Tube and all.

bb:

I’m picking up something about MessiaenSphere, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Fuchsia diamond. Center. No reflection. S. Jackson. Perfection. Alien. Ball… sphere.

bb:

We better end.

Hucka D.:

Thank you.

*****

* Hucka D. has indicated that the name “residents” for the avatars of Second Lyfe was actually inspired by the group The Residents, also hailing from San Francisco like SL founder Philip Rosedale. But for some reason, this fact has become lost.

** In directly associating “Lemon Days” with “Salad Days” here, Hucka D. seems to be referring the following quote from the liner notes of Cheer-Accident’s Introducing Lemon album: “It wilts the lettuce, but freshens up the salad.”

Thoughts… November 13, 2009

I’m going to talk a little by myself before bringing in others tonight. Much more exploring to do in SL, I feel… not done at all yet (!) Go back to the old Cabron/CUBUS area where Hucka D. claimed he grew up in, and where his father Kelley lived, which may be the same as Hucka D. (?) The cube is the bank. Am also reminded there is large banking area on west side of Big Sink… explore that more as well? But I think CUBUS is still a focus, especially since the Bill picture is still present beside the old Cabron lego-like site.

Want Baker Bloch to keep cycling as well, exploring X-ville and Y-borough below Sternberg, as well as Sternberg itself, perhaps the largest city on Jeogeot. Natural, I suppose, that Robert Plant Variant would have been attracted to going there, since it’s not at all far from his Nowtown where he grew up. Also explore more the Fyre Maven religion that he was a part of as a child. What about *his* parents?

And also explore more all the avenues possible through the Hammer of the Gods properties in Brouwer, the same area where he supposedly lived while in Big Sink during maturity. This is another trace of past through present, then (Hammer of the Gods being perhaps the best known biography about Led Zep, as well as a famous tribute band).

“It’s apparently not a very flattering book for Led Zeppelin, Mr. Plant.”

Plant:

No. Page really said it best in that article.

bb:

I wonder if it could be used for divination purposes. I know what you’re going to say…

Plant:

Use a better book.

bb:

Does the property represent a degeneration of the look and feel of the land during your days in Big Sink?

Plant:

Nothing against the Hammer of the Gods people in Big Sink, but: yes. They’re trying their best with more limited resources. The guy on the hill — Gas N’ Glass I believe — has brought back the truest picture from the past. In fact, he or she has made a direct conduit to this distant but better past through his efforts. There was/is a Brouwer water tower in both past and present now.

bb:

Going along with the idea that the past can be effected by the present as well as the more normal visa versa.

Plant:

Yes, explore that avenue further. Look at the jewelry.

bb:

Thank you. That it?

Plant:

You started.

bb:

How long did you stay in Sternberg before moving to Big Sink, Mr. Plant?

Plant:

I lived in X-ville. Not much money. Couldn’t afford Sternberg, especially after Page bailed on me. Book.

bb:

Where is the location of that Sternberg gallery you had me call once? It was the Blue Feather Gallery again.

Plant:

Well, duh, Sternberg (a reproving glance here).

bb:

Was it a gallery then?

Plant:

Museum. Ours.

bb:

Big Sink? The Initiative there?

Plant:

Think of those numbers. 1234567890.

bb:

Do you want me to call them tonight?

Plant:

Nah.

bb:

You said before you liked Y-borough less than X-ville.

Plant:

Well… X-ville was slummy but at least it had some character. Y-borough is worse than Crabwoo — current version. The old version was quite nice. Has Hucka D. told you about it?

bb:

Not sure.

Plant:

Then the good folks at Lill Burn Valley took me in. Already the value of the tube was being touted in Big Sink. They knew it could only be used for good or evil. (smiles)

bb:

But eventually you settled in at the basic area where Hammer of the Gods is now.

Plant:

Yeah. Not leaving yet.

bb:

And, um, you took care of the Joplin Tree there?

Plant:

Sort of. We took care of the sinks.

bb:

Was the Joplin tree there or… I know you’re going to answer it was both there and not there at once.

Plant:

Well… no. I’ll tell you.

bb:

It is in Chilbo still, a degenerative form.

Plant:

Yeah. True [enough].

bb:

I do know that Joplin is the thing missing from the front of the Rubi Temple of TILE now. Joplin ball, perhaps Joplin seed.

Plant:

Hucka D. says Newton 09 and Jasper 09 together show the way.

bb:

Should we look at those tonight?

Plant:

You look at them. Hucka D. may help later on. That’s more his ball o’ wax.

bb:

What of Winesap… Cashmere, Washington?

Plant:

*Very* interested in that. It counters the whole Hammer of the Gods fiasco. The book. Good book, [you see].

bb:

Is there anything buried underneath the Kashmir parcel in Crabwoo?

Plant:

No.

bb:

How about the center of the Chilbo sim?

Plant:

Well there’s the [Oracle] tree there.

bb:

Yes, that’s fairly close. (pause)

Plant:

I worked on Winesap while in Big Sink. Did Hucka D. not tell you that either?

bb:

No, I don’t recall.

Plant:

Page opened it to page 156 but he didn’t throw it in the river to make its way to the bottom of the ocean. It tells the story of how Big Sink is made. Center… Pudding Hole.

bb (baiting):

Where the Joplin tree was.

[Plant does not answer.]

Hucka D.:

Howdy.

bb:

Hi Hucka D. Plant’s gone for the night?

Hucka D.:

He had egg boiling duties. So you want to know more about the seed. Joplin. 156. Treemonisha. Newton and Jasper. 09 and 09. Number 9…

bb:

9th hole?

Hucka D.:

Front nine and back nine. Newton and Jasper. Yeah.

bb:

I’m not sure I’m ever going to know what was in the center of Big Sink, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

*You*.

bb:

I was in the center.

Hucka D.:

*In* the center. Now.

bb:

Is it 2:22 or 2/2?

[Hucka D. doesn't answer.]

“Hucka D.?” (pause) “Plant?” (pause) Looks like me again. Maybe this is a repeating universe thing, like in the Groundhog Day movie. “Is Anybody In There”. But I think a whole town is in there. Petemond? Could be. Uniko… Unicode. “A town was sent” — what does that mean? What of the Bill or Bills? I need help breaking the cycle of karmic repeating. A town was sent.

(to be continued?)

Random Pics… November 13, 2009

On his bike trip to “Chilbo and beyond”, Karoz finds the Bill billboard still up on the side of the building next to what use to be the location of Cabron, Hucka D.’s purported former Chilbo area home.

Inspired by Karoz, Baker Bloch decides to go over to the Arcadia Asylum library and buy his own copy of her bike, and then immediately uses it to pedal from the Aotearoa gallery all the way to Sternberg, as it turns out.

Here he’s off the road a bit, just before reaching X-ville…

But before continuing that story in a post above, let’s include some snapshots taken the night before here, where Baker Bloch first stumbles across a formerly unseen door in the Brouwer sim, across the road from the Hammer of the Gods HQ (as put in the land’s description) but still owned by the same people.

He decides to give the group profile a closer inspection, and finds that their original story is still located in a shopping mall in Leemington on the Nautilus continent (picture below). Hucka D. has since indicated Leemington is somehow connected to Lemon World or Lemon Days, and the Yelloo sim near Leemington (2 sims north).

Vehicles of Transport, Etc. November 11, 2009

After discovering a most probable link between Hucka D.’s so-called Uniko language and Unicode, Baker Bloch heads back over to the Okinu sim on a hunch, only to encounter, upon beaming in randomly, what looks like a question mark without the completing dot. Wasn’t Hucka D. just talking about the key character string “2E2E” being Unicode for a backwards or reversed question mark? I know it to be so.

More glyphs found that same visit.

Nothing happening yet in the Aotearoa sink. No surprise there, though. Still luving the view in the meantime.

Karoz is still over at Mos Ainsley, attempting to find further clues about the link between Uniko, Petemond and his possible alien origin. Here he’s hiking on the circular ridge surrounding the moon base, looking down the other side, away from the base, at some sea patternings there as well. Without the sharp angles of the quite unique Okino glyphs, though. Still pretty neat.

Also on this visit, Karoz finds an abandoned space shuttle in the waters of nearby Byeulddongbyuel, west of Quark star which is, in turn, just west of Mos Ainsley. Karoz immediately recognized it as a Space Base vehicle which you can freely rez there and ride around. Karoz had also heard stories of people flying the vehicles to the mainland. Apparently this one didn’t quite get there. Karoz was further very pleased to find out, after some adjustments, that he himself could resume the flight of this wayward vehicle, and set out not back to Mos Ainsley to return the ship, but further west instead. His idea: see if he could fly it all the way to Chilbo (!).

Now the first try (yes, there were two that night), he made it about 1/2way to Chilbo from Byeulddongbyuel, still a considerable distance. All was well until he found himself automatically rejected after entering a parcel requiring age verification to continue further. The space ship kept going without him. I assumed it derezzed somewhere along the way as well.

But Karoz had the “bug” by then, and enjoyed the only partially successful flight so much that he immediately returned to the Moon Base of Mos Ainsley itself to rez another, identical shuttle. His idea this time was to make it to the protected Korean Channel and then fly more south to reach Chilbo. He almost reached the channel before something went wrong again: as my computer locked up at that instant I was unable to pinpoint the problem, unlike before.

As I said, though, Karoz had some kind of vehicle bug by then, and also decided that night to head over to the Arcadia Asylum library in Cheonma, not far from Chilbo, and purchase whatever drivable/flyable vehicle he could find, all of which he knew would be absolutely free thanks to AA’s full perms/no-profit policy regarding her many builds. He subsequently went to a rez zone on Highway 10 just north, and after some experiments (forklift, etc.), found what he considered a *perfect* complement to the space shuttle’s look and feel in this simple bike, which you wear and ride instead of sit in and ride. He tested it out all the way to Chilbo and then even beyond a bit. My guess is that you’ll soon find a series of Karoz related posts on a bike tour of the continent in one form or another very soon (!). Unlike my other experiences with vehicles, this one — actually both — turned out to be much more satisfying. I certainly don’t expect the focus to be taken away from SL exploration on foot, but biking/shuttle flying (or whatever comes next) may make for a nice kind of complementary way of exploring. And it’s just a lot of fun, which is the ultimate point, I think.

Then shifting back to ol’ hiking Baker, a new structure was found in the Moa sim of Big Sink last night, but one quite familiar in another setting. For it’s the water part of the water/fire temple from Little Robert Plant Variant’s Nowtown, an exact copy sans the stream of lava and resulting steam when it meets the interior water, it appears. And the yoga place is gone, along with the tent just below it as described in this post from only a couple of weeks ago. Shouldn’t be surprised that SL changes so quickly but I always am for some reason.

4 Characters… November 6, 2009

“Hucka D., take a look at the last 4 characters of this transmission from a screen at the Mos Ainsley Space Base. This was taken in May by Karoz. Its “2E2E”. *Now…* take a gander at what Petemond said for this blog near the very end of part 18 in mid-August. Here’s the post, and I’ll just cut and paste the quote I’m talking about here, which is the last line he said.

Ickle dickle do de dum don’t da. Weiner eeple to two e two e.

This is the same thing (!) — 2E2E equals “two e two e”. Is the terminal somehow generating the text of what Peter said??? Very interesting coincidence even if not!

And can we speak of the probable relationship between this “coincidence” and the “Ruins in the Woods” exhibit now showing at the Temple of TILE in Aotearoa?”

Hucka D.:

Crabwood has a deeper intensity than Chilbo. Already a debate has occurred between 2 [foundations] about the role of Sunklands in future development. A friendly debate, of course, for this is Chilbo. You are a focus, and through you The Residents… all residents. Of Jeogeot I mean (smiles).

Chilbo has a chance to open up to a quite considerably larger scale. Beef up… up a notch… and so on. You have played a small role in their thinking, mostly unconsciously but there. The powers have decided… well, there’s obviously 2 ways to go. Up or down. “Up” leads to a greater responsibility for Chilbo in a Linden run grid. Chilboans and Lindens will move forward more hand in hand. “Down” leads to increasing isolation for Chilbo, a condensing toward its center and small town perfection. Chilbo will shrink to eventually just Chilbo, and then probably just wink out of existence or turn into something totally new. This is the wave breaking now, baker b. Sunklands plays a small role in this as I said.

bb:

What’s this got to do with the transmission on the screen at Mos Ainsley?

Hucka D.:

Go back there…

bb:

… Knew you were going to say that.

Hucka D.:

This is a message from Petemond. Petemond came into existence after the death of Peter the rabbit. He was refound. And… that’s not the last time Petemond said that phrase. Check please.

bb:

Ok. Yeah, I vaguely remember something else. Later on, when I was considering buying land in the Egg Hill sink of Corsica Prime.

*****

bb:

Yes. Found it. This was immediately after the Corsica incident, as it was then called by you seemingly. But that was Peter, not Petemond, although the 2 seem to be 1 and the same.

Babble de boble hop tielly de winkle teu, e teu e.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

There it’s “teu e teu e”. Phonetically identical, though. And, again, this is the last thing Peter or Petemond said that night. This was still considerably before my move to Aotearoa, so the New Zealand influence couldn’t have been so strong. Speaking of “e”s I have one snapshot to share with you tonight, maybe another in a minute.

Hucka D.:

Black and white; on and off. Karoz stares at the “e” from one direction, Baker Bloch the other. This is also the choice Chilbo faces now. Which way to look at the “E”. Do they look through Karoz’s home body eyes or do they share, in part, Baker Bloch’s more western-type Sunklands vision? The Korean Channel is a division point. Does Noru remain the limit of Greater Chilbo? Karoz is Noru. Karoz is Chilbo. And… what do you do with Karoz now? His fate hangs on the fate of others [as well].

bb:

What does this have to do with the “2E2E”?

Hucka D.:

That is a bird. Language of The Birds. Uniko, da.

bb:

Why was it on the monitor at Mos Ainsley?

Hucka D.:

Obviously someone is trying to get in touch with you.

bb:

I think this has to do with The Residents as well.

Hucka D.:

Plant is unavailable tonight. We better end.

bb:

Thank you.