Blue in the City

I can explain my long silence. You see, I have been REALLY busy this past week. I've been there, my friends. The glass city. I rode the skyway and I went there. It is amazing in close-up.

I've learned so much! For starters, this idea-world has a name! A really stupid, generic fantasy name! I learned this because in the city, the audio seems to kick in and I can hear what the ram-people are saying. They speak a made-up language that my own audio programs cannot link to any existing tongue, though they suggest it might be Basque, or perhaps ancient Akkadian, or maybe Cherokee. Still, I can recognize speech patterns, and I know what they call their world. It sounds like "Arkenesia."

Blue rejects that name. It is the name an insufferable nerd would give to his self-created Dungeons & Dragons world that he's planning to sell and make lots of money on, even though it's obviously just a mash-up of Lord of the Rings, Mass Effect, and Kingdom Hearts with slightly different names for everything. From now on, I will be calling the world "Nerdvana." I know this is not an original joke, but it's utterly appropriate. This world is beautiful and awe-inspiring, but so....damn.....geeky.

The clockwork computer system runs throughout the city, and there are many stations where I might use it. I plan to set up a new Church in the city itself, because although it's fun to ride the skyway, I'd rather not go there and back every time I want to use my hardware. And as I've said, it gets tiring, acting independently in both worlds at once.

I'll have to be super-careful, because I've lost all doubt that the creator of "Arkenesia" is here in this city. Everything is more vivid here, more real, less virtual postcard and more actual, senses-engaging World with a capital W. The creator will be at the very hub of the realness. And I don't want to meet him, mainly because he (or she, though I'm betting on he) will probably not react well to the sight of another real-life person in his idea-world, and also because I might have to beat him down and make him taste the curb for being such a nerd.

You know what the ram-people use as transportation here in the city? Fucking hoverboards and goddamned flying dinosaurs. Hooray, Dinotopia just knocked up Square-Enix! And, god dammit, I really fucking want one of those hoverboards. REALLY FUCKING WANT ONE.

AAAARGH.

--Blue Was Here