Where In The World Is Magellan Linden?

According to Magellan's blog, when he was hired to explore the Heterocera Atoll, he was approached by a group he referred to as "LIER:"

http://secondlife.blogs.com/magellan/2005/02/1028_am.html

"February 10, 2005
10:28 AM

I opened the newspaper this morning and saw that I was working again. Jerks. This is why I disconnected the phone.

Perimeter motion sensors are picking up activity. Probably the Linden Inhabitable Environment Reconstructionists. Back in the old days Exploring was just a way to get girls, now it is all Rendered Destiny and "More Land, Young Man." What fun is it to find exotic locales just so everyone else can see them?

Ah, they made it to the door. So much for the passive defense system. Chin up, might as well give in with dignity.

Mood: Annoyed.
Music: Komeda, "Nonsense""

Later on, after he'd been on the new continent for about a month and a half, he spoke of "extended "negotiations" with LIER:"

"March 22, 2005
Two if by Sea

Been too busy to write lately - extended "negotiations" with LIER. They want to allow settlers to come here already - and I'm not done exploring yet!

I can't stop them, but I can slow them down. They will let us keep exploring, but make available the land we have already explored. Otherwise, I will tell the world about LIER's past as a barber shop quartet (Ryan is a lovely tenor).

*sigh*
When everyone is Exploring, where is the room for Explorers?

The floodgates open today."

A quartet. Sounds like the Lindens he worked with then were a group of four, Ryan Linden included. Perhaps LIER has remained a small cell, if it still exists.

p.s. Definitely some conflict there. Wheeling, dealing, threats... the stuff that great adventures are made of. I just hope he didn't bite off more than he could chew.

Hmmmm...very strange indeed Sal

I just did a search in People, All, and All (old) and was unable to get any signal from him at all. Perhaps he is so deep in the void atm that his signal is only reaching the main grid sporratically. I am hoping that my crash site surveys will bear fruit. I have just received the final piece I need to complete my equipment repairs and will be heading out at first light.

On a side note there have been a couple of additions to the Magellan package dispersed by the kiosks. Nicole Linden has provided us with pieces from the old Linden Collector Card package that was dispersed back in 2006; his collector card, a couple of tshirts and a mug.

She seems genuine enough, but I am unsure as yet whether or not this may be a sub-plot to throw us off the scent. Perhaps it's just not rezzing for me, but his actual card is blurred to the point of illegibility...even under my magnifying glass *hmph*

It seems almost as if the pixels are even covering up his history and whereabouts. Well off to sleep to prepare for the journey. Be well!

I just checked this myself.... I didn't find anything under People or All (old), but I did find his profile under All. The only group he's shown as a member of is Basket Weavers, which seems to be a closed Linden test group, so no help there. It is hopeful that he still appears, though.

Field notes, Marianne McCann, age 5 1/2 (excerpt)

"...after stopping there, I decided to fly over the area an see if there aren't any new bears about. I wasn't prepared for the next thing I saw: two huge columns with Magellan's face on it!

Here's a piccie I took of her home in the Linden Village extension. What a sight!

http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?id=269796

I guess Nicole Linden got ahold of some of the Magellan items I gave to Zara, and really wants to see him back. I did't pry into her reasons, but I did help her get a proper kiosk..."

I would imagine that Magellan is as hampered by the Grid's performance ebb and flow as we are. And he is potentially much more affected when he is off in the Void, beyond the Grid boundary. His advanced and enhanced primitar suit probably provides him with extra protection for extended Void-walks, but all tech has it's limits.

Good luck at the crash site. I hope to have some computer server and desktop equipment set up at the base soon so we can upload research material, process and archive it. If you need a place to set up or store equipment there is ample space in the control room or the storage bay directly beneath.

That goes for anyone involved in the search as well.

Salazar


p.s. We should examine the new items, just to be safe. Make sure there are no hidden bug or remote monitoring scripts in them. It may be that she is legitimately concerned as well and has no ulterior motive.

Still searching in my own private-investigative way. No results yet, but turning over a lot of rocks in the process!

I firmly believe that the search will dig up *something*... we have not even yet begun, really!

Here, here!

Just a couple of comments, after having read back over Magellan's log and visited the crash site.

First of all, there's been lots of talk about Ben Linden being the "genius" behind the Malamute; I'm not so sure. Of course he delivered it to Magellan, but the plans have Xenon Linden's signature, and if you check the wreckage in Columbia, Xenon is the creator of the prims used in the Malamute. Looks to me like Xenon may have been the brains behind the Malamute and Ben the "public face". If that's the case, it makes me wonder what Ben was doing trying to "tune up" the Malamute after the delivery.

Along those same lines, anyone know who was the designer and/or builder of Magellan's suit?

Second, reading through Magellan's notes, he mentions (in 2005) about having lost an eye due to a space rock, but the photos of him at the anniversary show him with two good eyes. Are we SURE that was the REAL Magellan at the celebration? Perhaps his "drunk and grumpy" demeanor was a ruse to hide behind, used by an impostor, knowing that any "odd" behavior or lapses in memory could be put down to being drunk.

...

He may be wearing a prim eye.

Yes, we are sure.

Okay, good to know.

Were (are?) Xenon and Ben part of LIER? Magellan's mention of the deal he struck with LIER at the end of his blog seemed to indicate that LIER was made up of four Lindens, a "quartet." And it sounds like Ryan Linden was one of the four. Who are the other three? Who sang bass and who sang tenor? I hope that all of our digging doesn't turn this into an episode of The Sopranos!

If it does, at least there is somewhere to bury the bodies.

I would assume Ben and Xenon -- due to their involvement in the Malmute -- Ryan, an Jeska. I dunno if there's ever been anythign conclusive on dat.

I SAW MAGELLAN LINDEN!!! Just several minutes ago...

I'm so excited I can hardly type I was visiting Gaeta - for the second time since it stopped being shadow land. For the first time it was completely abandoned, which was kind of impressive when you set up draw distance to maximum... today there were trees on the beach. I teleported near the first green spot, it was Guy Linden. I stayed in a different sim, not sure what to do - coming to him and asking "Hi, we are looking for Magellan Linden, haven't you seen him recently" just seemed stupid at that moment. I TP away and after a while I just tried look at the map again - and there were two green spots. I TP'd near the second one - and it was Magellan Linden!!! He was in a busy mode, terraforming or building or whatever... And I ofcourse absolutelly didn't know what to do. I was just trying to set up my snapshots to capture interface and names, when he dissapeared, apparently noticed me... But I managed to do one photography! I just have to find out how to upload it here...

So good new is he is alive and probably alright... not so good new is he dissapeared after he spotted me... but he doesn't know me after all, maybe Salazar or Osprey should try to contact him?

Excellent news!!! I'll come in world now and see for myself!

ZOMG!!!

You best not be hoaxing us.. This isn't like an Elvis sighting, is it?? (RL Elvis sighting anyway.. there _is_ an SL Elvis Presley and he's partnered with Priscilla Presley)

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No one there now...

I'm there now - a green dot keeps appearing and disappearing around me but I see no one...

Dis could be the big break we've been lookin' for -- an in Gaeta!

Curious about the appearanc an disappearance. Lends itself to th' stuck in the void theory, dun it? I hope the compass I gave him can help him navigate out!

/me dances about, and wants to be where she can log in



He's on my friends list, an it always throws me a bit when I see 'em log in or out.

I'm being buzzed here - toyed with... the dot appears, I beam to it, see no one and the dot beams to another sim before vanishing for a bit... maybe he's trying to break through!

The dots are our own echos... damn...

Osprey, Natasha and I were lookign around - Nat had to log, but then Os and I found Magellan's campsite at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Gaeta_5_reg4/202/152/22