– I Think We’re Taking It Up A Notch – or Seven? –

-Thursday, June 25th, 2020 —> +27˚C / +81˚F @ 6:15 pm —> Sigh — I been Bad and so caught up in trying to undo some Catastrophic messes – I missed telling too many wonderful people that they shouldn’t just have one happy day a year because it’s their birthday – { Hanging my head in shame – feeling like a marionette with cut strings? And an aching neck —> So many wonderful, lovable people out there who deserve to be reminded how wonderful they are … and so little time ? }  Ack!

– After we thought we’d fixed all the irritating little problems that exploded into our world after one nano-second of clicking on the wrong thing and then pounding control-z hard enough to knock Bill Gates out of his bed wherever he’s hiding out –

— This is what a disaster looks like – W fixed this once already and then when we fixed something else the ‘link’ between two areas unfixed itself. All that black area between the mountain on the left and the hills and green grass on the right? —> That’s not supposed to be there. The tower and other buildings levitated above the blackness? – They’re part of the territory to the right. That bright cube beneath the tower closest to us? That’s a light that should be shining either on  the docks to the left or near the guarded gate that would be part of the land to the right. Several buildings almost dead center? They Belong in line with darkened buildings that stayed with half of the harbor’s docks to the right – when the other half floated, what?-  thirty yards to the left? Something like that.

— I think the above mess happened because we missed one ‘Seamless Link’ That we should have removed before we began moving all our ‘Used-to-be-linked-together-areas’ back together and gluing them in place. Duct tape and wire hangars might have been prettier… and might have lasted better. But anyway —>

– The closest I got to “Read Skies At Night” { which delighted sailors because that meant the storms were chronologically behind them – } Was purple clouds and fog near sunset – But this wasn’t purple – Was it? –

— Elise – The barefoot Hippie builder planted and nurtured some flowers after working all night helping Volffe set up several lamp posts and watching the lamplighter do his thing – I might get around to working on the screen shot of Elise’s garden next time.

— One reason I never tried for a red sunset was the messages in U2’s “Red Skies at Night” and “Sunday, Bloody Sunday” – One big reason I’m building this game world is to give people who don’t want to kill everything in sight a place to hang out and hopefully see some amazingly beautiful landscapes. The hackers and slashers will have their own areas to set each other on fire and spill blood all over the place, but a lot of areas will have either ‘Divine Protection’ or Big ugly protectors scaring the living cement out of the bad guys. — But the red skies last night on my wonderful gaming monitor came close to having me wonder, – Gee, maybe red isn’t such a bloody awful colour after all –

— One “Quirk” with this 3D stuff is – you get to see some characters from a slightly different angle and it looks like you took a photograph with a weird wide angle lens that makes people look like they do in fun house mirrors. Not so much in this screen shot as in one that might be next.

– “Nikki and Volffe in a Birkenport Morning -“

— Okay – This might have been the game day before Volffe and Elise knocked themselves out putting lamp posts in place.

— Remember I said something about weird effects – Nikki’s face is almost twice its normal width in this shot – and her ears are probably – um, 4 inches farther apart than they really are?  And Volffe’s face is thinner here that it really is. — Can’t chalk it up to lens aberrations…

– As a result of several ‘Earthquakes’ – we brought the sea bed for the ‘Enchanted Sea’ and ‘Enchanted Inlet’ down a bit. Zealandir was part of the working party – ‘Casting Magick Spells’ to mend the broken land? { no- actually using ‘slope smoothing’ tools to bring the Dark Dirt slopes down to meet the sandy slope rising to meet it – }

— Looks like a weird dream of buildings floating or falling in a pink and purple sky while Poor Zealandir looks like he’s trying hard to believe that if he doesn’t turn around and look at it, it might not be real.

– Daerrikk and Volffe staring at the beacon near the top of Mont San Michel on Isle San Michel in the inland sea –

— Some of these darker scenes might not show up all that great – but this one doesn’t look bad – and this is not on the Gaming Monitor… There’s a fairly bright bluish light way up near the top of ‘Mont San Michel’ on Isle San Michel { Locals who want bragging rights to the highest mountain in the inland sea argue which Mountains are mountains and which are mere hills. I don’t take sides. }

– Ya don’t want to see this guy comin at ya with a bad attitude in a dark alley – “Don’t argue Religion with a DelVahrian – it ain’t healthy -“

— DelVahrians are Hard Workers, Hard Drinkers, and have been known to have some monumental fist fights over finer points of religious dogma…. Here, this guy is looking for leaks in the dry sea bed of the Enchanted Sea – Which is actually a ‘dog legged’ inlet of the Inland Sea. —> And it has a reputation for being haunted as buildings and huge boulders and sometimes screaming people fall from the sky –

– Here – one more shot of the Crimson sunset in Birkenport – maybe not as impressive as the first shot, but it held Volffe entranced –

— Ack! I’ve been at this all day, fixing worlds and gritting my teeth – And this ‘posting’ or ‘article’ is the wrap up –

— Have a good Life….

~~~~~ Jim