Getting ready… January 27, 2010

Newly created SID’s Place on Yd Island.

Measuring things again…

“I didn’t mind my p’s and q’s enough when counting the number of Jeogeot continent sims. It’s actually 776. 1 from 777. But at least my total for Maebaleia (678) was correct. (pause) Hucka D.?”

Sapphire:

Good that you started exploring Yd Island again and found the house/gallery. I am Sapphire. I was born in the Micro-Hole you probed tonight as well. The Micro-Hole was formed to counter the intense gravity of the Macro-Hole, or what most people knew as just The Hole. The Micro-Hole was a sort of hidden project, although not overtly. You must think about Yd Island and TILE now, baker b. Baker Beach. And the Mmmmmm’s again.

Hucka D.:

Yes, Sapphire is right, baker b. Pudding Hill is a center now, but you must keep Yd Island in the mix. And now you have yet another new structure to deal with. The mythology of Yd Island can even be sharpened now that you are in the heart of Sunklands for real. You must give up Aotearoa. Sorry. Ideally, you would keep everything… (pause)

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They may be gone.

Hucka D.:

We’re over here.

Sapphire:

Yd. Island will be needed more in the spring and fall, countered by the winter-summer axis of Sunklands. No… (pause)

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“Glop people, Hucka D. What were they in Second Life?”

Hucka D.:

They were never here. They were in your Sharon.

bb:

One of my problems is how to convey through writing the emotions of exploring that region while living in Mythopolis. Sharon was an independent country from Wazob at one time, like Texas from the US before the Mexican War.

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bb:

Let’s get this done with tonight as well, Hucka D., and Sapphire. The comparison of ancient Wazob with more modern Jeogeot. Then maybe we can determine some bleedthroughs…

Hucka D.:

There is no parallel to Bridee, your mother’s house, unless you want to count the new finds in Eunhaeng, as you probably should.

bb:

If so, then, it’s split in two in Jeogeot, a night side and a day side. But the same structure.

Hucka D.:

If so, again, then the dry waterfall on the Emerald Center properties with the obvious parallel to the Sampson’s Stones must also be factored in. That’s the province of Emerald, which is, or was, just beyond the central Q province — Zircon, wasn’t it?

bb:

Yes. And this seems to apply, or backed up, by the fact that (Chip) Sampson was a star forward for the Emerald basketball team, its greatest star, perhaps, before (John) Raphael showed up in about 1970.* So, yeah, I think this would *have* to represent the Emerald province of Wazob. Or, I mean, there’s a direct resonance going on between it and Second Life — and the Lake District of England as well. The house: books that can’t be read on one side, night side, and books that can on the day side.

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bb:

Jeogeot is about 6 miles wide and 7 miles high, Hucka D. Let’s see, Wazob is maybe 4 miles high and 4 miles wide or so. Not an exact match, but not incomparable. But one of the things I see is the relation of Sunklands to the traditional Sharon country, or what later became the Chrysoberyl province. Now Nick Barkley was a star forward for both the Chrysoberl college basketball team and then the Chrysoberyl pro basketball team. Nick Barkley is a charater in Big Valley (a tv show), which reminds me of that old poem…

Big valley, huge valley
Side for you, side for me

Hucka D.:

That’s your poem. I like “Lucky Penguins Stupid Penguins” better.

bb:

Thanks for that. But it sounds like Big Sink, though. Maybe St. Nick is the patron saint of Sunklands, not St. Lemon. St. Nick is of course Santa Claus to us. Bringing us toys when we were small.

Hucka D.:

Smaller.

bb:

Right (smiles). So, Hucka D. are there any other comparisons to make here?

Hucka D.:

You seem to have covered the major ones. No real parallel to Chilbo, for instance.

bb:

Oh, I guess the Korean Channel would have to be a substitute for Silver Creek, the spine of Wazob. (pause) Before I forget, Hucka D., I think the Corsica continent may have been purposely planned as a type of Russian/Siberia thing, forming slowly west to east across a large breadth. It’s the longest SL continent.

Hucka D.:

But instead of Russia you get Pennsylvania — unplanned.

bb:

Yeah, to emphasize the Egg Hill sink as a center, and some other stuff. Getting back to the Wazob-Jeogeot link, Sunklands must parallel Sharon.

Hucka D.:

Think of your mother’s house, Bridee, and the 2 structures that are so different in Eunheung but yet the same. Underneath is an old map of Second Life, almost from its beginning. Not chance it’s there. Like your old maps of Mythos, or Wazob. *Beanstalk* — food for thought. We better end.

bb:

Thank you.

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* Chip Sampson and John Raphael played for a number of years (1970 – 1975) on the Emerald pro basketball team and were considered one of the best, if not the best forward tandem in the league they played (Wazobian Basketball Association, or WBA). They won two championships while playing together. Now all this is imaginary, but a number of years later while attending college (about 1980 or 1981) I met two actual people who were named *Chip and Raphael* I often saw hanging around together. Both were campers who lived in tents at the time. And to add to the oddity, another friend knew this same duo by two totally different names: *John* and Fred respectively.

Yd Island Again, 03

Revisiting the Land of What-If in Glocker, a little below the Micro-Hole in the same sim. 8 rocks again surrounding a portal at the very center of this 1/4th sim sized parcel… hmmmm.

And at the southeast corner of parcel Blochs finds this spherical diamond that wasn’t there in December when he also passed through this very spot.

Revisiting land owned by artist Weston Graves beside the Land of What-If. The whole garden spot (called “A Picture Garden” in the land’s description) is surrounded by these spherical bushes of unnamed species. More spheres.

Some of Weston’s excellent artwork, most set up between 2 pillars of small “Roman Ruins” scattered about the garden.

Baker then teleports to Weston Graves’ other gallery in Rossyln on Sansara, found in his profile picks. The industrial style structure impresses him…

… and he is happy to find that it is offered as a freebie, which he immediately takes advantage of, setting up one for himself on the Villeneuve property and slightly modifing it to fit a square 1024 parcel. He now has plans for this structure (see above!).

Yd Island Again, 02

Baker in the lower part of the Micro-Hole, elevation-wise, having flown over the top of the huge wall (64 meters top to bottom in places). This bit of green, covered with some tall grass and surrounded by a number of of Linden cypresses, represents the flattest part of the 8192 square meter “hole”.

The Micro-Hole can logically be divided into 3 distinct parts according to outside wall megaprims. In this overhead shot from an earlier post re the subject, we can see the whole of the Micro-Hole with the 3 distinct megaprims. The two lowest in the picture (and also lowest in elevation) are actually hollowed out, cut cubes having original dimensions of 32 meters x 64 meters x 64 meters. The top megaprim is also a hollow, cut cube, but twice as large: 64x64x64.

So Baker stands within the first wall megaprim above, which, on the ground, covers 2048 square meters, as does the second. Below he stands in this determined second region, with a very different topography than the first or the third. Mounds abound, one could say; in contrast, the first and third region of the Micro-Hole, while containing steeper slopes, are much smoother.

Baker looks back at the slope he just climbed essentially dividing regions 1 and 2 of the Micro-Hole. Elevation at the bottom of region 1 (see 1st picture above): 76 meters. Elevation of the highest point of region 2: 105 meters. While differing in topography, the first two regions of the Micro-Hole share the same kind of vegetation: Linden tall grass, Linden cypresses, and Linden eucalyptuses.

Baker standing on the tallest mound of region 2, at the 105 elevation mentioned before. Actually in checking my map, this mound lies a bit into region 3, since it would be enclosed by an uncut version of the 64x64x64 wall megaprim instead. But it’s close to the border between the two — only a few meters inside this 3rd region.

Then beyond this tallest mound the jagged landscape abruptly becomes very smooth and non-moundy again, although more steeply sloped. The northwest corner of the Micro-Hole also represents its highest point, at 134 meters, almost a full 60 meters higher than its lowest point. Also perhaps interesting is the introduction of some new Linden plants in this highest and largest region besides the ones already covered, namely a number of plumeria trees and also a couple tuffs of beach grass. Oh, and 1 prim of Liden eel grass — didn’t notice that until studying the below photo closer (eel grass sprig is right center).*

Baker also finds the odd remains of a modern home still present just south of the central part of the Micro-Hole. The color controlling remote he uncovered before is still there as well, and he changes the setting to purple…

… and forces a midnight environment to produce the below shading of the Micro-Hole’s center. Very nice.

to be continued…

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* Baker later returns and finds that there are two eel grass sprigs in the Micro-Hole, both in its region 3.

Yd Island Again, 01

Baker decides to take a break from Pudding Hill tonight and heads over to Yd Island instead for some biking fun. Here he pauses at the now well documented Rabbit Head in Ratzenberger, once more…

… before heading up the ridge toward the odd protuberance jutting up from near its top, maybe 200 meters away from Rabbit Head and clearly visible from it.

There are actually 2 distinct protuberances next to each other here, but the one clearly visible from Rabbit Head is considerably larger and taller than the other. Baker stands on the lesser of the two…

… before moving to the larger one, which has got to be 20 feet high, maybe a bit more.

Relation betwen larger protuberance (gotta get a proper name for it, I suppose) and the huge wall completely surrounding what we’ve been lately calling the Micro-Hole in this blog, at the top of Glocker. See here for my original thoughts on yet another seemingly queer site in the immediate area of Ratzenberger and the Rabbit Hole — a complex of queer sites, if you will.

to be continued…