Magellan Siting in Himilco?

Plenty of parking!

I caught up with Magellan -- almost -- at a place in Nautilus called "The Palace".

"The Palace" doesn't look very palatial, by contrast especially with the Citadel. In fact, the Palace looks for all the world like a mall in Paramus, NJ with plenty of parking. Bring the kids! It's here in the sim Himilco, which is named after that chemical plant where our dads used to work in NJ, where they would tell us not to go outside after it rained because we might melt.

And that's just what endears the Moles and some of the Lindens to me, because while they may aspire to hazy greatness of a Better World In Which We Can All Be Connected, draping ourselves on Ionic columns and poplar-lined shady allees leading to ancient stone piazzas, in reality, they draw their inspiration from that sort of sturdy, suburban poured-concrete and neoprene that we've all grown up with in America, and from which we all have toxic levels of PCPs in our bloodstreams.

Someone like Barnesworth, now (I think he's Naughty Mole, or maybe not? Glamorous Mole?), while he aspires to the structures of the ancient Romans and Frank Llody Wright and Bali (where they have places with names like PhuqueYu that he can endlessly chortle about), in reality, in his day-to-day immersion in real life, he is more likely to have seen the boxy atriums of the food court at the Galleria.

I dug in the ruins and found a rusted shopping cart near the Piggly Wiggly, and with a little bit more poking, found some calcified low mein at the Wok This Way. The Ancients seemed to go in for lots of low ceilings and narrow passageways.

When you find these sorts of castles on tours of Old Europe, they tell you theories about having to have time to draw a sword and blindside somebody sneaking up on you. They may have also sought privacy for cybersex before the discovery of the Door Script and the Window Tint.

Meandering around, I was rewarded by discovering, moldy but intact, the sort of tangerine throw pillow that has been quested for at ABC Carpets and Macy's 9th Floor from time immemorial. I sat in the sunny ancient Food Court not believing my good fortune, since nobody seemed to care if I plundered the site.

Wandering down one narrow passageway -- don't ask me to tell you which one -- I suddenly saw a throne. It really seemed "thrown-together", pardon the pun, and interpolated into the scene by a later civilization. It was made by Michael Linden.

And lo and behold, behind this latter-era throne was a bottle of Old Warthog, which is of course Magellan's brand. It being half full, I figured he was nearby, or coming back, but though I camped nearly most of the night, I didn't see him, nor even earn $2.

Nautilus is coming along. I persuaded that one landbaron named Gwyn-something to take down some of those huge-ass horned towers, and she substituted them with more tasteful plazas with crystals. She also put up a head shop with pot for sale and other pop cult items, which is somehow not "in theme," although I can't help thinking that the ancients at the Paramus Palace weren't above firing up a doobie now and then. I picked up a set of detoxify Clean bottles to put in the clinic at the Moth Temple, we get a lot of addicts there. We are devoted to harm reduction.

I still don't see a lot of what I would call "real people" in Nautilus. That is, there are some hardy souls putting up themed businesses, like a Crystal Cave, or Alisha from the Alaska sim who is going to put a branch store there. There's also some end users, with touching, er, Christmas themed Julia Hathor thatched cottages, which of course, the Ancients of Nautilus used to make this time of year when they left the fetid quarters of The Palace to take the sea airs before their annual Bacchanalia.

If you want to catch up on Nautilus news, drama, politics, of which there is already a certain amount, pick up the Nautilus Navigator inworld at my office in Alston or at the Iris infohub -- I started a little continent weekly newspaper, which, if it is anything like my InfoNUT, will come out monthly.

Comments

[BJ Tunwarm]

"In fact, the Palace looks for all the world like a mall in Paramus, NJ with plenty of parking."

Or some dump in Greece.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos

[Prokofy Neva]

But did they have a Chuck E. Cheese's at that Minoan thing? I think Minoa is about 20 miles past Paramus, before you get to Smyrna.

[Tammy Nowotny]

the reason the designers use that boring 18% grey color (aka Battleshio grey) all over the place is because that is the color of an unrezzed texture. That way the design still looks kinda like itself even when the textures refuse to rezz. If LL ever changes what we see when the textures doesn't rezz, those designers will all be screwed :-)

[Blaccard Burks]

Nautilus is already being gamed... people like Kaleria Heart or whatever her/his name is have money to burn just to trash the sim. She has erected huge protest towers with multiple protest signs on them already devaluing the sim. A great move on her part since by trashing the sim auction prices will drop simply because who wants to pay good money for a sim that can't enforce zoning.... I would gather that the idea behind this move is to devalue so either she can purchase more at a lower price or she is simply a fuck head...

[Prokofy Neva]

I was informed by Swashbuckler today that Kalyrra was forced to take down some of the towers, possibly because they had multiple signs on them.

The Lindens made a fatal error on not putting in convenants on these parcels, which they could have easily down, as they supposedly are planning to do on whole sims. They could have kept it very simple, saying "no builds over two storeys" which is about all you can safely have on such flat land without destroying everyone else's view.

Unfortunately, big Linden walls and big crystals and palaces make some people feel like they want a "Manhattan" look and they put up huge tall towers, even though 468 prims can't get them too far with any substantive home. However, as we all know, 468 goes an awfully long way to making a vanity tower very high with hardly any furniture in it.

I have an idea. Let's start a two-year long campaign -- three would be nice, too -- to get the Lindens to ban high towers in Nautilus. We could get 5,000 signatures, which is about all you can get in SL; we could start 40 different JIRAS; we could camp Linden office hours; we could make big signs that will be taken down from our properties even as the towers are allowed to stay; we can demonstrate; we can have actions, blogs, forums threads of 2,307 entries without a single Linden entering the thread. But I think the Lindens will be willing to work with us on this in about, oh, 2-3 years time.

[Blaccard Burks]

Yes, when I saw that I realized that now she is just doing that to grief the residents and the Lindens. So be it. If she wants to shit where she eats, let her. My dog doesn't even do that. I'm not buying or bidding on that place because of that alone. Obviously the abuse reports work but she should get her account suspended and they don't even do that.

[Prokofy Neva]

They should have suspended her back when she perpetrated the crime of spamming with ad farms and extorting. But they couldn't bring themselves to do that, ever utopian in their thinking. So naturally she is getting her revenge now because they dealt with her in only half-measures. Now they've feel like guilty liberals banning her, because she'll make it seem that it's over her protest of the openspace price hikes.