Where In The World Is Magellan Linden?

I can only imagine! I didn't check the coordinates, but I think I found the dolphin temple that Argos mentioned. It is indeed an amazing place, worth spending some time at. There are lots of surprises to be found there-- including some signs that this wasn't entirely a peaceful civilization!

The city (if a city it is) is really lovely... the style of the houses reminds me a bit of the seaside village in Cowell. And those glowing crystals are all over-- a power source of some sort? I can't wait to see what else turns up here!

/me blinks. Wow! This is like 50 regions!!

Interesting division of land on the big island. The next Bay City?

edit: there's a slideshow in the bore machine!

edit edit: actually, there's a bunch of things you can poke at inside. The chair is sittable, which makes it easier to look around in there.

And the big red candy-like button....

it's the self-destruct system it's beent urn off apperntly megellan is planing to return to reuse the borer later,that or he lost contril of the ship to somebody else and they surfaced thee not Magellan and he's still sub-terain

Were you able to hold out? Could you hold out?

Somewhat unstable... I'm afraid it's much worse. That whole block of gridded regions is experiencing multiple spatial and temporal distortions of varying degree and magnitude. I'm surprised it's even possible to port there, let alone walk around and explore the area.

I ported to that floating platform you described and took some readings of my own. That platform is not just bobbing about on top of the waves... it's also bobbing about on some interdimensional ripples. The platform remains solid for a spell and then goes phantom on a regular basis. It's very unstable, as is the immediate area around it.

I skirted the island to the west and took some preliminary readings. It's not good. Some areas in those regions seem to coincide with our own space/time, or I should say, the space/time normally associated with the rest of the Mainland and most of the Grid. But many of the areas there are either not registering on my gini or are registering with a different temporal signature. And it fluctuates. Sometimes the same area will register as both and flip back and forth... sort of like how Bodega was flipping back and forth when Mari and I were looking in to that situation a while back. I think the Lindens have taken their time travel experimentation to the next level. And I don't think they've taken very many precautions with it. I wouldn't spend too much time there unless you were wearing some sort of protective suit... something to counteract the distortions, spatial tuning and time dilations.



My initial readings seem to indicate that continual exposure to this new area could cause one to become disconnected from our Grid and, possibly, displaced to another grid or an alternate period in our Grid. I urge explorers to take all necessary precautions when venturing into this newly gridded area. Keep a digital tether of sorts at the ready when you are looking around the area. Keep an IM window open, blog about your experiences while you are looking around, or send photos via the internet from the places you are exploring. The more lines of communication you have open, the more likely that your connection to this Grid will remain strong. If those actions are not taken, it may be possible to get lost in the Void if you experience an exceptionally strong temporal or spatial distortion.

I'm going to go back and look at the area more in depth after I've made some preparations (and gotten fitted for my own protective suit.) Maybe it would be good to have another meeting at the Explorers' Base and see if there are any others who might want to go to?

I think the rippled seabed is caused by this distortion you are talking about.

Okay, this is something I just gotta see... I think it's wonderful that there are amazing things of this magnitude 'out there' for people to discover.

I want more!

Ut oh...

Sounds like even Linden Lab can't find 'em now!

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Nautilus_City_investigation

I'm with Mister Jack. We gotta gotta meet up an go over this new information!

I've spent a very pleasant time this afternoon scuba diving off the coast of Nautilus. I highly recommend the Fairchang scuba gear which propelled me very fast over the ocean. There's *lots* to see!
Cali

I think this talk of dangerous conditions are not ill-founded.

I just met Michael Linden there


and...


He was wearing a space-suit!!!

ZOMG. I hold my breath. Don't inhale!!

Michael Linden: Checking out the regions Magellan found.
(I had to lip-read through the glass of his helmey)

I found an old partially primitar suit in my inventory that Lumiere Noir had made years ago. He had called it the "Trilobite" suit and, in hindsight, pretty apropos for exploring in this new region of the Nautilus continent.



The seal on the helmet is a bit wonky but I think I'll be okay if I don't fiddle with it too much. This will do until I can get a more up-to-date suit with specific void-enhanced protection. I won't spend too much time in any one place, but I do want to look around a bit more and see if I can scout out areas of particular instability. Wish me luck!

I was checking things out at Magellan's Atomic Boring Machine, in Nautilus - Mysehi, when I noticed a green dot quite close on my mini-map. It was just north of me in the water near the shore. I ran over and spied Silent Mole looking over in my direction... only it wasn't the same mole I had seen in Silent's profile.



This mole was half fish. A mermole! Something is happening to folks who linger too long in these regions unprotected. I am even more convinced now that this area is not safe.

Wow... I wonder if this is an isolated incident, or has it happened before? If it's happened to others, I'd be worried that perhaps the land is trying to somehow reclaim-- or remake-- the population that disappeared.

Looking spiffy in that protective suit, Salazar!

Field Notes - Marianne McCann - Age six

"...The borer appears to be in working and intact condition. which is kinda unusual for someting of Magellan's. It seems clear, too, that he did not stay here long. Not like the squall crash site. I wonder what that red button does..."

"...Someting ain't right here. An earlier report mentioned a rusted trolly not far from the borer's launch vehicle, but while my own huntin' about uncovered a great many nifty artifacts an stuff, I found no trolly in the water anywhere near there. An lets face it, a rusted trolly sounds unusual as it is!

It would seem, to me, that this place is very different from the last places we've seen Magellan. In Heterocera, he found ruins of an ancient civilization -- but the places in Nautilus are not ruins at all. They appear untarnished, with fires still blasing on the lighthouses, and unfinished -- but not aged -- boats in dock. Only a few places show signs of disrepair

While there are signs of some fighting an stuff, there's nothing that seems like the citidel was overtaken or sacked. The homes are empty, but undamaged...

This is what I noticed, too... the city isn't a ruin, it's as if everyone just left suddenly with no explaination. That, combined with Salazar's sighting of the 'mermole,' makes me nervous. It's as if something unexplained happened to the population, and they all disappeared at once... and now something about the land is trying to reclaim the lost people by transforming unwary travelers. I wonder if all those glowing crystals all over the place could be causing this?

There are a number of houses underwater on the eastern side of the area. Not ones that look like they're supposed to be underwater, either.

Maybe some (super-)natural disaster hit the eastern region hard and the rest of the population fled rather than risk staying for round 2..

I knew the old Kahruvel crowd would be on top of things. I see you have found what you believe to be the Mole Tank. Please compare to these pre-launch photos I've recently obtained:

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Nautilus_City_investigation#Mole_Tank

I hope Magellan survived this journey unscathed.

With regard to Salazar Jack's misgivings on the possible metamorphic fields around the island (mermoles and all), I can only state this evidence:

Our instruments detect no harmful or metamorphic radiation in the new lands. The disturbances in the water regions surrounding NC (visible from the main map) are a transient effect. The various crystals found on the island are being studied. They radiate, but show no cross section for interaction with physical objects or avatars. Resident explorers have been visiting the new land since its emergence, and no ill effects have yet been reported.

Awesome! Sounds like the perfect vacation getaway spot. I am so there!

Very cool I went today to check it out didnt have alot of time but there is sure alot of peeps pokin around gonna go back later

It's still there. Here's the slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Doria/213/162/1

EXPLORE WHILE YOU CAN!!!
There's already some auction IDs in place.

I'd be interested to know how you obtained those photos, Periapse. It was very reassuring that some residents actually encountered Magellan at his Squall camp site on Gaeta. I've heard no reports of Magellan-sightings in this new series of regions though and that is a bit troubling, in spite of his obvious hand at the floating platform off the coast of Nautilus City and the coastal location where his mole tank/atomic borer surfaced. He has been known to move on when the Lindens move in to claim areas he has discovered, so perhaps that's not so unusual. It's too bad that his vehicles seem to have such a short shelf life. I wonder what has happened to the makeshift airship he made when he left Gaeta?



I'm glad, though a bit surprised, to hear that you're not detecting anything out-of-the-ordinary. Where can one see these instruments or examine the data readings you speak of? I'm surprised because the wiki entry you made started out with a troubling announcement:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Nautilus_City_investigation

"On Friday, 17 October, at 7 pm SLT, about eighty new regions suddenly erupted from the Void in the area formerly known as the Nautilus Lacuna. This unplanned manifestation mystified residents of South Nautilus and land management Lindens alike. I was asked to investigate, and this represents my hasty collage of evidence. I will stress that there does not appear to be any danger to either Nautilus residents or the Grid itself."

and later in the article:

"Land management Lindens have long acknowledged the odd gap in South Nautilus. The Nautilus and Satori continents link on the west with water regions. For rest of the border, everywhere east of Pan Suong and Giranzo, there was only the Uncrossable. The Void separating the two continents is only two sims thick for most of the length, raising questions as to why the intervening Ocean regions were not rezzed. Jack Linden replied "Well that's just it -- we believed that we *had* gridded the open spaces between Nautilus and Satori. All our instruments showed that the Nautilus Lacuna was filled, but we could never teleport there, and nothing ever showed on the map."

With all due respect, it seems your instruments can't be counted on for accurate readings and I must assume, until further investigations show otherwise, that the area is replete with unknown, possibly dangerous, phenomena and should be approached with utmost caution. The area erupted (!) just a FEW DAYS AGO, not gridded normally, and the Lab is already opening it up to resident auction and occupation in just four days. Doesn't that concern you at all? How can you assure the new residents of Nautilus City that their island won't collapse beneath the waves or be erased by a voidflare or Grid distortion in a similarly short period of time? I strongly encourage you and the rest of the Lab to postpone putting these regions up for auction until more investigation can be done.

You're not kidding... I was just looking around on an island in Howe, near the main Nautilus continent, and it was so laggy that I could barely move at all. It felt really unstable... I didn't dare stay very long. I have to wonder if the population of this continent disappeared as a result of something like the Great Erase? Maybe the continent was unstable even then!

I spoke with HeadBurro earlier today as I was scouting out the new island the Lindens have dubbed "Nautilus City." We discussed the immediate need for another Explorers meeting in light of the Lindens' announcement to release the regions of Nautilus City for public auction this Friday, 24 October, 2008. Many of the folks who have been following Magellan's explorations have been voicing concern about the manner in which the new area suddenly appeared and that more in-depth scrutiny is required. The first investigational wave will commence at the Bodega Explorers' Base at 1:00pm SLT this Thursday, 23 October. We'll meet up, have a general briefing and then immediate port to Magellan's mole tank/borer site to begin a comprehensive sweep of the new regions. We'll regroup periodically, at 4:00pm and at 7:00pm SLT, at the Explorers' Base to debrief, resupply, transfer data to the base servers, welcome additional explorers and give a send off to those going off duty. Then port back to Nautilus City to continue our efforts. Folks are welcome to join and leave, as need be, throughout the expedition. The main goal is to get some solid evidence and answers to the mysterious appearance of the island and the ongoing effects it may or may not be experiencing.



I found a few interesting items while I was looking about briefly this afternoon. I had headed east from Magellan's landing area and found the dolphin temple area that a few folks had been reporting about. Very strange to see such a mix of familiar and strange artifacts. Most notable was the small dock and staging area just inside and below the main crystal chamber. It looks much more a recent addition than the stone structure that surrounds it.



Just outside, near the water, is one of the clumps of power crystals that have been reported elsewhere. Only this one lies beneath a pile of rubble and appears damaged. I wonder if that plays a role in the strange readings I've been recording? Did Magellan have anything to do with this island appearing so suddenly? Did his suburtahran voyage in that trans-void borer cause some sort of dimensional crossover? Did this island get "moved" into our reality somehow?



An interesting aspect of this particular new island, there is a lot of underwater life that appeared along with these new regions. Not so much onshore, though I have seen some moth-encircled lanterns here and there. But below water, the coasts of this island are teaming with wildlife. Were those displaced along with the island? There is a lot of evidence of structures below the water's surface. And that business with Silent Mole... was that just Silent changing av's for the day or is it indicative of something else going on? Could this be one of the places where the Mahra lived?

http://www.sluniverse.com/pics/pic.aspx?id=318705

Some have been speculating that it proves that sea levels were lower in ancient times. Sea levels were actually a bit higher prior to the Erase, but there was evidence then, as now, that levels were much lower thousands of years ago.

Periapse Linden reported on the wiki about an old map from Magellan's desk showing the new island and indicating that it had existed before.



Who is Capt. Elias Reedbuck and where did Magellan got that map from?

p.s. I received a response from Silent Mole this evening in reply to my message sent this afternoon:

"[19:19] Salazar Jack: Silent, hello. I saw you earlier today while I was taking readings near Magellan's mole tank in the new Nautilus region. You appeared to be half mole and half fish. This is concerning me as I have been detecting strange fluctuations in the Grid fields in that area and want to make sure that you have not been affected by any sort of unknown phenomena. Is your half fish appearance a result of your own device or are there other forces at work in the new Nautilus City?"

Silent said that many of the moles think the fins are proof that they naturally adjust to their environments and that they were testing that theory out on each other. I'm not sure how or even if that is what is truly happening. Silent also offered, out-of-the blue, that it couldn't have anything to do with extended naps in a vault next to some "pretty crystals." Hmm...

My daddy jes said it was ni ni time f'r me, but I did a bit of lookin around too tonight. I was super careful though, cuz someting about this land is jes not quite right. But I need to write about the submarine I seen -- an I hope Mr Hawks will mention th' thing he spotted in th' throne room, too!