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Letterer He 10 It September 30, 2010

Filed under: Uncategorized — baker Blinker @ 6:52 am

[joined in progress]

bb:

I think he’s in a hole between Ratcliff and Magicland and can’t get out, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Torsit said Slosser before he left…

bb:

For good, perhaps.

Hucka D.:

Knife and tooth inverted… what was that all about? (snickers)

bb:

If it is Slosser, would it be the pool we find him in. Ourin, as opposed to Yurin and Hisin. Hisin’s new.

Hucka D.:

And Therin. Thesin. Whosin.

bb:

Herin. List goes on.

Hucka D.:

Why do you think Corsica and Heterocera seem so connected?

bb:

I guess it could have started in Rubi and the Temple of TILE. Temple of TILE akin to Temple of The Prim. The Rubi Forest connected with the Linden Memorial Park Island forest, the original one first, and then the one in Rookwood. And then the Rookwood-Wales connection through the Jasper [collage] series. I’ll have to look that up tomorrow.

Let me list them out:

Rubi Forest to Corsica Island Forest (now shifted to Rookwood)
Heck’s Canyon from Valley of Nye
Ratcliff (Pond District) to Magicland (Comma Islands)

bb:

I can’t write the list out! Neither could I buy land tonight in SL.

Hucka D.:

We better end, then.

bb:

Oh, never mind, it’s a coding error. It keeps erasing text between the arrows, thinking it is code. I’ll try again (pause to correct list). There, it’s done. I don’t think there’s links like this between Jeogeot and either of these 2 continents.

Hucka D.:

Why?

bb:

Well… I do know that The Bill were in the Valley of Nye, Hucka D. From coast to coast, and this represents US as well. Diamonds. Shine on.

Hucka D.:

*You* were in the Valley of Nye. You have been ever since you started watching Yellow Submarine when you were a kid. You’ve always been there. Pepperland.

bb:

This must be tied into the Greenup series, then. The yellow sub heads to the tunnel with the 3 diamonds representing US. On the way it turns into a boat, or assumes the shape of a boat. LSD.

Hucka D.:

“Picture yourself on a boat in a river. Answering quite slowly. Towering over your head. Fish head. ‘We died, dear.'”

bb:

It’s a great song. Yet another [from the Beatles].

Hucka D.:

Beetles.

bb:

In Dark Side of the Yellow Submarine, where that is playing in the movie is dubbed by the first part of Dark Side of the Moon: “Speak To Me/Breathe.” The music starts again — this is a repeat as the diamond tipped stylus is lowered back onto the record to begin again. Peanut to Diamond.

Hucka D.:

And this repeating happens again much later on. Again, Lemon is involved — see?*

bb:

I’m seeing lots of wormholes (!)

Hucka D.:

You have — had — to return to Sunklands. You must follow this through.

bb:

In a way, The Bill themselves are handing things off to other powers, creative ones.

Hucka D.:

They’re handing them off to you. Send Baker Bloch in. You’ll see.

bb:

Into the Valley of Nye?

Hucka D.:

Heck’s Canyon; Valley of Nye… whatever.

bb:

But the Valley of Nye doesn’t exist any longer, thanks to Bracket and his agreement with the Lindens.

Hucka D.:

Bracket is dead. The valley has opened back up.

bb:

Can I just go to Heck’s Canyon?

Hucka D.:

Anywhere there’s a picture of the Greenup Gill valley, you can enter.

bb:

Then the Valley of Nye is the same as that valley.

[no answer]

Hucka D.:

Why don’t you try. (pause)

bb:

I think I’ll wait. But I believe I get the gist of what you’re saying.

Hucka D.:

You must enter that valley. And then figure the heck how to get out of there. Bees will come. Attack.

bb:

I’ll have to create new wormholes [then]. New, um, wedding style number one records.

Hucka D.:

Lola. (pause) Kola.

bb:

The planets who are now my children will be arranged in their proper orbits around US, the Sun and the Moon.

Hucka D.:

The Sun and The Moon together open wormholes. Oblong (series) is where it really starts cooking. This is the direct, higher octave, in your words, of Greenup. Now you have to deal with the whole Lake District. You simply have to send Baker Bloch there. Or Bracket Jupiter’s death will be in Vain and not Long Island Sound.

bb:

Vein?

Hucka D.:

Bees. Remember The Bees.

*****

* For the record, this is the beginning of the UM part of ESBUM.

 

Air Arcadia September 29, 2010

Filed under: Pond District,Uncategorized — baker Blinker @ 8:05 am

Not necessarily flying per se, but kind of curious, don’t you think, finding Arcadia’s arcade *floating* above Ratcliff in the middle of the night, EST, after I wrote about just such a “flying vehicle” being in this city here:

https://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/blue-feather-01/

and here:

https://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/loose-thoughts-29/

Mickey’s Market mentioned therein is to the right below. Just look for the mouse ears. (or rat ears?)

I must think more about the possible sealing off of the Pond District’s heart from the sea surrounding Heterocera.

Oh, well I suppose I should mention this here. Nah, better not. OK, I will. Very near the arcade, just happen to… no, let’s leave it.

Below is the dry channel that should logically contain a stream draining from the Sesia and Tethea lakes (north) into the ocean (south).

 

2010 Circles

Filed under: Wiltshire (RL UK County) — baker Blinker @ 6:34 am

http://www.realitysandwich.com/2010_crop_circle_season

Same article featured by another blog:

http://globalwarming-arclein.blogspot.com/2010/09/crop-circle-2010-season.html

Yes I watched the Yahoo News featured video at the time and was upset as well:

http://www.realufos.net/2010/07/yahoo-news-disinfo-on-crop-circles.html

The wikipedia article on cc’s is basically a joke.

So the question becomes not, “Are crop circles real?” as much as, “Why the disinformation campaign?” And if we start with crop circles — what *else* is being campaigned against? What if aspects of “pseudoscience” are actually more real and valid than our legitimatized science? Why do we think that Man is so smart that he’s figured out even a small percentage of what’s really “out there”? Why isn’t the phrase “We don’t know” more common?

It has been forgotten that intelligence which forsakes emotion and common sense is often groundless, sometimes dangerously so. To keep going down the path of science *in and of itself*, without a parallel development of empathy for what is being studied, is to enter a Chinese finger trap situation.

I know, W. was an easy target. 🙂

Is religion any better in and of itself, *without* scientific method? Probably not. And what about the “useless” or non-utilitarian Arts?

The future, if Man has one, is not down one of these paths but all of them (and more) *at once*. The blend starts with an individual or group on one path saying “I don’t know”, and then looking around for another on a different path for a possible new angle on the situation.

We as scientists, artists, worshipers, and more, have to find a way to cooperate with each other. We are one Man on one planet.

 

Out and…

Filed under: Jeogeot Continent,Second Sink,Slosser,Sternberg,Uncategorized — baker Blinker @ 1:18 am

Abandoned temple on the west edge of Second Sink or Oolamoo/Drews Sink (take your pick). This has been here quite a while, at least a year I think.

The Drews side of 2nd Sink still has available rentals, just like before, but seems a bit more settled in than previously. However, as I’ve indicated, the really nice and long established Roseheart development in the Oolamoo half of the sink is now no more. Although this sim sized piece of land has been sold in the meantime, Oolamoo remains empty as of this writing.

Then it’s on to Heterocera, where Biking Biker looks back on his Slosser owned objects poking above the landscape a bit (palm trees, Slum apts.).

Moving quickly back to Jeogeot and the Kingdom of Zor, taking up almost all the land of Hillhurst. Zor is a welcome new addition to Jeogeot, and represents an impressive array of towers, ramps, and buildings, combined with great views.

Medieval style bar on the property. I may have more to write about Zor soon.

Oh, and yet another purchase quite near Zor, on the outskirts of Sternberg. Kind of excited about it, although it’s only a 512, with probably no chance for expansion.

Turns out Sternberg has a kind of undeveloped underground level to it, as I’ve found out in entering the metropolis from direction of my new house pictured above (east). Interesting Sternberg wall graffiti below; the underground can be entered just beside it.

 

Thoughts… September 28, 2010

Filed under: TILE,Uncategorized — baker Blinker @ 7:14 am

Upon further experimenting with the idea, I don’t think the Blue Feather Gallery should be transferred to Otaki Gorge. It *almost* fits but not quite. Oh, I could make it fit, but that would be kind of forcing the issue a bit, which goes against my intended style. I believe that the Blue Feather will always be linked with Noru and, moreover, Norum. Right now, it’s still there, and could be for at least another month and perhaps beyond. This is much like the Temple of TILE just has to be located in Rubi and nowhere else, or at least that particular version of a temple. The Blue Feather is just on a larger scale than the Rubi project. Each are fulfilled now, I guess, structure and location both.

Blue Feather Galley is to Noru
as
Temple of TILE is to Rubi

Fulfilled in a structural/landscaping way.

And on a more minor note, I also believe — just thought of this — that the Edwardston Station Gallery, larger version, represents a fulfillment of my involvement with the Baker sim, which I’ll most likely leave in about 12 days. As Baker Blinker recently said, it seems perfect there, but I can’t keep it up in this case. And I still have the smaller, cube version of this gallery with the 100 inclusive collages (the definition of an ESG is a venue for the “art 10×10”). Not saying there’s not yet another ESG coming up in the future — that’s one way I can develop further in SL — but for this particular version that could be it.

Now to what I *will* keep, as I’m seeing it now. Otaki Gorge. I have to follow where it is taking me, and it’s not through with that task yet. I have to walk the labyrinth; I have to think more of Peter and the secret initiative that this sink/gorge was connected with, perhaps at its heart (or one heart or center). One problem is that Sunklands is so relatively de-energized even in comparison to this past winter. I need additional exploring options, and I think a solution is to focus on Heterocera, at least for a while. A somewhat new mythology angle may be developing in Slosser, as a kind of 2nd, minor Pond District. Very small, but still present. And as I’m learning, Heterocera has a considerably richer body of writing attached to it from which to draw on. Outside of Chilbo (and to a degree now, Parktown), comparatively little has been noted about Jeogeot outside this blog and also ujiyasu’s excellent review of the continent. Now, Hucka D. has indicated on several occasions that Jeogeot is actually the crown jewel of the Linden land masses, but flawed or *rifted*. Sapphire seems to back him up on this. But Heterocera is comparatively undamaged and symmetrically more perfect, although a smaller scale project.

Something happened when Jeogeot “rounded the Korean Channel”. It’s one of my responsibilities to dig deeper into that mystery.

I had much more to say when I logged onto the blog tonight. I wanted to talk more about Sunklands and a secret agenda attached to that fallen but still highly potentialized area. That new labyrinth “lake” in the center of my sink holds a key.

What of Bracket Jupiter? Has he been resurrected yet? Perhaps in Slosser, on the new property (?)

Hucka D.:

He has been ressurected. Thank you for building the labyrinth to help with this.

bb:

Hi Hucka D. The labyrinth regenerated?

Hucka D.:

Yes. (pause) Peter can still not speak tonight. Sapphire isn’t available.

bb:

Just you and me, then.

Hucka D.:

Yes. The Slosser weapon was turned against itself (pause).

bb:

Inverted?

Hucka D.:

What was once 8-5-6-7 has now become 4-1-2-3.

bb:

Labyrinth, then. The effects thereof. Cool-ie.

Hucka D.:

TILE is extremely important but still just an outer layer of a 2 layered thing-ie. “Where is the 4th?” That’s why Lemon… (pause).

bb:

The Bill.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

(pause) Flooding of the No Room cemetery by this Labyrinth Lake, outer and inner at once.

Hucka D.:

Two perpetual waterfalls fitted one into another. Figure 8. Mobius.

bb:

26 and 10.

Hucka D.:

36, yes.

bb:

In the Booker T. Archive, these were called the Realm of Letters and the Realm of Numbers. The Realm of Letters was colored the 4 colors of TILE. The Realm of Numbers remained uncolored in that schema.

Hucka D.:

3 corruptions… am I taking your lines again?

bb:

T’is OK. Then 3 corruptions away from perfection to form the 2 layers, totaling 36. All this in a product thought totally fluffy and valueless called Dark Side of the Rainbow.

Hucka D.:

And the other. Sphere.

bb:

Brainard head, then.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Ray.

bb:

Weather controller. End of nudie days.

Hucka D.:

End. So much.

*****

 

Reenter The Labyrinth September 26, 2010

Filed under: Edwardston Station Gallery,Otaki Gorge,Solomon Sea,TILE,Uncategorized — baker Blinker @ 8:06 pm

Otaki Gorge seems to react to recent progress made in Baker sim (addition of Edwardston Station Gallery there) with counterpunch: a central “Labyrinth Lake” at the very bottom of the sink, courtesy of Baker Blinker.

More soon. The No Room cemetery is still intact, although completely engulfed by water now. You can still see the tombstones through the transparency, some of which poke above the glowing surface a bit.

Original story on Baker Blinker’s labyrinth here:

https://bakerblinker.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/labyrinth/

Baker Blinker then visits Baker Bloch’s newly placed Edwardston Station Gallery in the Baker sim, and thinks to herself, “I can’t let Baker delete this again. It’s perfect here.” But we’ll see.

*****

I don’t think this warrents a new post, so I thought I’d stick it here. New place in Craggen Maw, a 512 again. This is near the center of my precious Big Sink, so pretty in the past and not so pretty presently (but still with its spots).

I have a decision to make between abandoning 1/2 of my Otaki Gorge property or giving up the rental in the Baker sim soon. Right now, I’m leaning toward the latter (yes, it seems to change hourly), and I think yet another (small) property purchase could be in the works soon.

 

Wiltshire (RL UK County)

Tonight the wife and I were watching the 3rd episode of Season 3 of Jam and Jerusalem (stateside: Clatterford), and I noticed that two of the locations mentioned in the show were homes of 2 famous Wiltshire white horses, namely Westbury and Pewsey. In the episode, called “Dinner Party”, a train carrying most members of the aforementioned party was stalled by floods in Wiltshire. At first, the host of the party was rung up to say that their train was in Westbury, then a second ring up gave news that their train had actually moved backwards to Pewsey.

Both of these locations are also mentioned in this March blog post concerning white horses. The Westbury horse is actually a part of the alignment weirdness described therein. The Pewsey horse, one of only a few horses left out of these alignments, is still shown in the map at the end of the post.

Purposeful nod by Jam and Jerusalem to the famous white horses? Might be. I’m researching Jennifer Saunders, who both co-wrote Jam and Jerusalem (and thus “Dinner Party”), and also starred in this particular episode as the host of the dinner party in question, and also the wife of the man who kept ringing her up about the train progress through Wiltshire. Saunders is probably most famous for her portrayal of Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous, and is also well known as half of the French and Saunders comedy team. Dawn French also stars in Jam and Jerusalem, and both French and Saunders have expanded roles in “Dinner Party”.

I basically only mention this because Wiltshire was brought up in my post from last night (immediately below), stating that The Bakers have left the company of The King and Queen in that county now that the 2010 UK crop circle season is apparently over. The King and Queen’s house in Rockley is very near another white horse at Hackpen Hill.

Instead of creating another new post tonight I’ll just chat with Hucka D., if he wishes, in this one. “Hucka D.?”

Hucka D.:

Train. Stall. Flood. Wiltshire. Pewsey, Westbury. White. Horses. All white horses are one white horses. Horse. Golden Horse. Eye eye. There was something in Wiltshire that the host of the party should have been aware of. White Horses. One. Eye. Opening. Closing.

underwater3hsmall.jpg

bb:

Hmmm… that’s from a very old post of this blog about an eye found in the northeast corner of the Rodeo sim, even before Baker Bloch was born in this Second World. Let me find the post in question. (pause) Oh here it is — you left it open for me (!)

hidalgoeye02small.jpg

Hucka D.:

Your wife Edna thinks that you shouldn’t talk to me as much as you do, and that you should go back on your medication.

bb:

*You* are my medicine (smiles).

Hucka D.:

Right-o. So… you understand…

bb:

I understand that I may have to stay in Baker, Hucka D. Here’s a picture of what I created tonight there.

The Edwardston Station Gallery, larger version, seems to work quite well there. *But*, if I do stay in Baker, I’m going to have to downsize elsewhere. And that means Otaki Gorge, since that’s the only place I have to downsize from now.

Hucka D.:

I never liked you leaving the ESG behind, baker b. That is most closely identified with you as Baker. That is where you are *from*. The Blue Feather is an extension beyond yourself in an attempt to contact others. You need both: you need to be constantly reminded of where you come from and also where you are going. You need both past and future converged in the present.

bb:

Thanks, Hucka D. What of Wiltshire and The King and The Queen? The Queen and The King as well?

Hucka D.:

The season is over. There was a place of ultimate contact but only in the future will the past be revealed. You also had several communications from The Queen/King in Second Life.

bb:

Yes, the key hole shaped crop circle in Wiltshire, obviously, but also another Wiltshire crop circle that appeared to form a hole between 2 parts of Second Life or Second World, or between Magicland of the Bracket sim of Comma Islands and, on the other side, Ratcliff of Heterocera. That is a strong remainder of the grid before the Linden Lab grid. Reminder. Mickey’s hole, a mouse hole but perhaps also one for a rat. A particular Rat. Map Rat.

Hucka D.:

Map Rat, yes. Gang of Willard. Gang of One.

bb:

The Bill again, then.

Hucka D.:

Yes. (pause) Careful.

bb:

What of Bracket Jupiter, then?

Hucka D.:

He figured this[ part] out. He let the LL grid pass through Comma Islands but got rewarded in the process. Rat Hole. Mouse Hole/Rat Hole. Gang. Willard.

Marion Crane resurrected after her shower stabbing as doppleganger (“sister”) Lila Crane in Psychogumma (2000)

 

Let’s tile 1 on. September 25, 2010

Filed under: Bill, The,Hucka D.,Peter G.,Uncategorized — baker Blinker @ 8:05 am

Great two days of hiking on my vacation so far, both on Beach Mtn. Hiking will continue tomorrow, but more locally. Want to return to Whitehead Crossing, but there’s another story to that. The Michael Story.

Bracket Jupiter, a former King of Comma Islands, is dead. But will be resurrected — as something. Coincidentally, The Bakers of England have also left the company of The King and Queen in Wiltshire County, since the crop circle season is over. I’ll have more to say about that when I have a chance to read the opinion of others on the 2010 season.

I’m still loving Otaki Gorge, but for how long will I stay there? Will the Blue Feather Gallery be moved to the sink? Staying in the Chilbo region is not an option now.

Or will the Blue Feather just go away? Will I downsize in SL and get rid of my own, personal sink in the near future? Depends on the continued strength of the Sunklands idea.

I don’t see the end of the blog coming up, but I see an end to mainland SL. Shifts will be made to other grids — other “mainland” perhaps. Need to study up on the philosophy of mainlanders as compared to estate owners. How does a Chilboan or a Parktowner or a Sterberginite think differently from an isolated island owner? And what of the relative disappearance of sub-continents in SL, like Azure Island #1 or Otherland #1? Or even Big Island for that matter? It doesn’t look very good; Sunklands is really all I have, unless I can make a renewed stake on Heterocera, which is doubtful (?) Or maybe even Sansara.

Why stay in Sunklands when it is so deenergized?

Because I still need it for storytelling. I need to know why Peter, whose burial mound appears to be in the middle of my Otaki Gorge land, after all, was the candidate chosen to lead the Sunklands Initiative. I need to know the relationship of Peter to TILE. I need to understand the connection between SL avatars and toy avatars from Frank and Herman Park in the real world. I need to understand better the writings of St. Nick of Barkley, who may be the patron saint of Big Sink (St. Lemon of Troy is saint of Sunklands as a whole?).

I am writing history. The current condition of Sunklands doesn’t matter as much as what was there in the past. The Sunklands Initiative was there. Little Robert Plant Variant was there; Marty was there. Peter who is a variant Peter Gabriel of Genesis was there.

I think the Initiative all started on my Otaki Gorge property now. Lemon, who is, in turn, a variant John Lennon, called in The Bill, against the protests of Marty (variant Paul McCartney). The Residents of First Life became the residents of Second Life. Revealment of the 2 games of Trivia Ratsuit already played, one to squelch a corrupted “Second Life” path emerging at the end of the Roman Empire, and another to jumpstart virtual reality and Second Life in 19–, let’s see, 1985.

Robert Plant Variant had to be purified of outside influence before he could enter the heart of Sunklands and be initiated into the Initiative there. He then knew of Joplin, Arkansas and the missing Joplin Ball of the Temple of TILE.

My first Sunklands story was mainly about Plant and Marty and how they had to learn to cooperate to make the Initiative a success in 2009. Peculiarly, this phase of the story continued after Plant and Marty had essentially left this blog, their job completed in the Initiative. Perhaps this is because it wasn’t *really* finished, and more work had to be done. Or maybe Peter was really behind this.

Hucka D. recently said that Peter was not ready to speak on this blog as himself. Curious. I need a pep talk.

Hucka D.:

Peter is here. He’s ready.

bb:

Oh hi Hucka D. That’s great news. What of Sapphire? Has she gone the way of Marty and Plant before her?

Hucka D.:

Yes. We need to start speaking to Peter directly. This is a new direction.

Peter:

Hello.

bb:

Hi. Pleasure to be speaking with you tonight, Peter. But we’ve spoken before, haven’t we?

Peter:

No. US.

bb:

(pause) Are you a collective?

Peter:

US.

[long pause]

bb:

How did Lemon attract The Bill to Second Life and Sunklands, Peter?

[no answer]

Hucka D.:

I guess that’s it for Peter tonight.

bb:

I didn’t really understand it.

Hucka D.:

Well. Let’s then look at the Bracket Jupiter situation.

bb:

Can we?

Hucka D.:

Bracket talked about this very subject, and it got him killed. Peter is wise to answer in short.

bb:

Let me venture a guess. They had to make a 4th. Where is the 4th?, you’re always asking.

Hucka D.:

That’s TILE.

 

Return to Darkside

Filed under: Darkside — baker Blinker @ 5:58 am

Some early Fall shots of Darkside. Incredibly warm here for late September. Close if not at 80 degrees today at home.

Darkside is a blog category, and these particular pictures mostly supplement those I’ve already taken, like this one below of the top of Hobbit Rock, looking from the east.

Foliage still barely turning.

Passage through rocks near Hobbit Rock.

Large rock marking the East Wall of the Darkside mini-bowl. Interesting tracks around it. Bear? Trash near the north lip of Darkside also adds support for nearby bear habitation. I doubt that there are any bears in Darkside itself.

Fairly interesting shot of a side of the fabulous Temple of The Moon from the east.

I’ll attempt to take more pictures of Darkside later this Fall, perhaps even providing a map. I’ve certainly had a fun packed 2 days of hiking so far on Beach Mountain, but if I had my druthers I’d have taken my Fall vacation days in mid to late October instead of now. Tough to take decent shots of Darkside with so many leaves still on the trees. On the other hand, it was *really* nice weather up there yesterday and today.

 

TILEpire? September 24, 2010

Filed under: Slosser,TILE,Uncategorized — baker Blinker @ 7:16 am

“You’re right, he’s dead.”

bb:

But he’ll come back, perhaps. Probably. Most likely. Maybe the 1st TILEpire.

Hucka D.:

We’ll see. Torsit did his job well.

bb:

He’ll rise again, mark my word. I’m not sure how but he will. Perhaps as an Obi Wan Kenobi type ghost.

Hucka D.:

He had to die. He was the last Dodo. Floydodo, the final of its kind. A terminus.

bb:

Check this out, Hucka D.: TILE

That’s the wrong picture [Slosser image] but I guess it will do.

Hucka D.:

Here’s the right image.

bb:

Didn’t know you could do that.

Hucka D.:

So… TILEpire. Sure you want to do that?

bb:

The logistics don’t work out, but when has that stopped me… us. He would have to be bitten to death instead of stabbed.

Hucka D.:

A new type of vampire. TILEpire. Doesn’t need to be bitten to become one. Instead… stabbed with a special, special knife. A prop from the original Psycho movie. Very powerful. Remember how Marion Crane came back as her sister in that movie. But it was the same person… you have to be observant.

bb;

The two were played by different actresses, though.

Hucka D.:

Well, your Psychogumma proves this wrong. They were the same. It was Marion reborn.

bb:

Hmmmm… So Torsit is like Norman Bates.

Hucka D.:

Bracket wanted this as much as anyone. We all agreed it had to happen. We’re just working out what comes next… we hadn’t, collectively, planned all that out. We just knew Bracket had to die, and to be stabbed. Stabbed and die.

bb;

Yes, I see that. The small island he is — was on is like Maritius, former home of the dodo before it too became extinct and ceased to exist. Tortis had to kill him as he sat there reading Floydodo. It was an act that had to be acted out. But, Hucka D., I think it brings into question the nature of actors and roles in the first place. If Marion is involved. South equals absorption into the character — can’t get out. North equates with ascension out of the character and back into the real world. Something like an avatar in that way, too, come to think of it.

Hucka D.:

This isn’t and should not be like Esbum. This is not a permanent death — doesn’t have to be. Yes, this was more staged.

bb:

A King. Exiled to an isolated island. *And*, the same island, perhaps, as where Baker Bloch found the portal. Long Island Sound, I believe.

Hucka D.:

You stabbed Slosser tonight.

bb:

Yes. I guess I did.

Hucka D.:

The parcel was completely full. Did its bit. Just like Bracket. Full.

bb:

I’m going to have to look back and trace his short history, Hucka D. I think I should do that, since I — we — killed him. Owe that to him.

Hucka D.:

He may come back as a board spirit[ like Hucka D. himself].

bb:

That would be interesting. (pause)

Hucka D.:

Yes. (pause)

(both wait)

Hucka D.:

But maybe not.

bb (quickly):

Nah.