Back… March 19, 2010

Baker Bloch:

I have more information.

Baker Blinker:

Yes, Honey?

Baker Bloch:

Don’t call me that. Hucka Doobie, you must take to the air soon. Plains to see.

Hucka Doobie:

Right-o. But should we talk as well as Hucka D. and baker b.?

*****

bb:

So we’ve jumped out of the Wiltshire virtual reality now, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Nice to be discorporate again. Nice to be both actually. Alternating between the two, I mean. How was your trip to Bluebells? Why didn’t you want Baker Blinker to know about it?

bb:

I am Baker Blinker. Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker together. I both went to Bluebells and didn’t go and stayed behind at the Crescent House. I was waiter and waitee at once. I am bb.

Hucka D.:

Anyway, what did you find there? You as Baker Bloch I mean?

bb:

Two statues, one solar and straight, one lunar and crooked and falling in. I think it stands for the great oaks in Savernake Forest, Hucka D. It both stands for the King Oak, solar, and Queen Oak, lunar obviously, but also life and death, which these trees verge upon, as I understand it. They were in the water channel of Nascera extending below the older Bluebells sim. The new part, but that’s all that was in it, civilization-wise, except for the ruins of another ship beside the one holding the yellow ball. A part of (that particular statue is) called “she holds the sun”, reinforcing the solar interpretation.

Hucka D.:

God work, baker b. Then you went back to Bluebells and then found yourself back in the Savernake Forest, as I understand.

bb:

No, it was back in West Woods (west of Savernake), but the bluebells were gone now. It’s March 19th, 2010 now. The bluebells haven’t arrived yet.

Hucka D.:

Why don’t we return to the conversation between the two of you inside yourself[, then].

bb:

Why not.

*****

Baker Bloch:

So the Mr. Blue Skies UFO just sucked him up, like a white horse or white castle.

Baker Blinker:

Yes. I was sitting on the couch watching him approach with yet another martini, and it just poked through the ceiling and sucked and then was gone, in a blink. I didn’t even get a chance. Hucka Doobie then casually went over and took up the martini he had just set on the table beside the small tv. Strange: the tv showed the same ufo, now over the Alton Barnes white horse. Both Hucka Doobie and I understood that the owner of this house and the white horse were somehow the same.

Baker Bloch:

So you saw it on the tv too, Hucka Doobie?

Hucka Doobie:

Yo. (sips)

Baker Bloch:

This just happened before I walked in the door?

Hucka Doobie:

It happened 9 months ago. But: yes.

Baker Bloch:

That the same martini from 9 months ago, then, Hucka Doobie?

Hucka Doobie:

Almost. It’s a sip lower now.

(Hucka Doobie sits the martini back down on the table and walks to the window, once more staring at the Cherhill white horse the window faces. All stare with him.)

Hucka Doobie:

How did you get from the Bluebells Forest back to here, baker b.? Did you walk around Silbury Hole?

Baker Bloch:

I believe I did. Isn’t that the hole in the ground below Avebury?

Hucka Doobie (quickly):

No.

*****

Hucka D.:

Perhaps that should be enough for tonight. Say goodnight to Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker for me, baker b.

bb:

I’ll do that. Thank the one of you as well.

Bluebells & Back

In the middle of the Bluebells Forest properly known as West Woods in Wiltshire County, England, Baker Bloch indeed unlocked a portal connecting First Life back to Second Life. When he opened the crate with the skeleton within, left there by ever practical jokers Hucka Doobie and Baker Blinker (Hucka Doobie was the real mastermind), he was frightened all the way back to that more comfortable, much less texture heavy virtual reality. Merging with a beech within the forest itself — for he was indeed baker Beach, my true name — he then found himself in the middle of a larger, “expanded” skeleton: the skeleton of a ship in the very center of Bluebells sim, Second Life, a place visited a number of times by Baker Bloch this past winter.

But Hucka Doobie, who was one and the same as Hucka D. and not split in two (Baker Bloch and Baker Blinker) like myself, knew what he was doing all along, apparently, for there were now other things Blochs needed to see in the newer parts of the same channel to the south. Like yet another water goddess statue, this one having a quite particular name unlike the others: “She Holds The Sun.”

Another skeleton wreck lies nearby. This would be in the Catoblepas sim now, about 400 meters south by southeast of the Bluebells water goddess statue.

Then another 350-400 meters south by southwest, in Igneoushalla, we find this second goddess statue in the new, southern part of the channel, this one having sunk into the ocean floor a bit and leaning, and also holding a white orb instead of a yellow one. Baker Bloch instantly recognized that this is, in all likelihood, a lunar counterpart to the solar goddess just to the north. The name of the object is more generic this time: “Mythic Corroded Sea Goddess”. Another thing to note is that the water considerably shallower now than before, with the channel’s floor rising 10 meters in the passage between the 2 statues in question. The webbed tail of the “lunar” goddess, even though she is leaning, manages to just touch the top of the water, only 10 meters deep here as opposed to the previous 20.

Having scanned all of the channel below Bluebells, he now returns to his starting point to compare new finds with the basically duplicate statue in that sim.

First off, it’s called a “Mythic River Goddess” here and not a “Mythic (Corroded) Sea Goddess”, like the one holding the white orb in Igneoushalla. Is the channel a part of a sea or part of a river, then? Also, as described before in this December post, the orb the goddess holds is bluish now. I should also mention that this one and the one in Catoblepas (solar goddess) have jeweled eyes whose color matches the orb they hold. The one further south in Igneoushalla holding the white orb has no such jeweled eyes.

While reexamining the curious courtyard once more behind the statue here…

… Baker Bloch suddenly finds himself back in the West Woods of Wiltshire, his “spell” apparently having worn off.

He needed to find the rest of the family and tell them what just happened!