Where In The World Is Magellan Linden?

I'll bring me some Kool-Aid.



Well, that definitely dun sound good.

Well this is certainly is an interesting turn of events!

I'm relieved to see Magellan alive and well - and as always his discoveries are wondrous sights to behold! But most curious is this new phenomena that has come to light... The discovery of this invisibility shield that can outwardly mimic the grid barriers and conceal an area in what appears to be a shroud of voidspace.

The Lindens seem to have that same ability although it may manifest in a different form. They have the ability to hide gridded regions from view and had even, in recent times, provided that same ability to island owners (though that ability was later revoked). But this seems to be different.

Jack Linden was quoted on the Nautilus City Investigation wiki page: "...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."

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

This was something that caught them by surprise. This "invisibility shield" is something that they don't seem to have the ability to penetrate. What if this isn't the only one? What else is out there that is going to catch them, and all of us, unawares?

Or the lesser spotted farting fish, shoals of which have been known to sink ships by reducing the buoyancy of the surrounding water and freshness of the surrounding air.

…and for a minute there I was starting to believe everything being said in this thread!

Sir and/or Madam! How very dare you cast asspersions upon my theory (for without adequate evidence it remains resolutely just a theory) that the lesser spotted farting fish (Flatulus Hippoglossus) could be the cause of the bubbles spotted. I shall be writing to the editor of Nature to express my shock (and, indeed, awe) at such a counter-claim but in the meantime may I direct you to this report which is correct in every detail apart from the scandalous removal of the most salient fact of all: to wit, it wos the fish wot done it.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s973492.htm

Yours in litigation,
Dr Headonious Burroffski-Antfarmous,
c/o Blackpool Sealife & Rock Shoppe.
***********************************

How would this shield have steered folk around the land-mass? If people couldn't see it but could feel it, it would be of no use. Is it possible that some form of 'confusion field' was also at work to befuddle travellers until they had sailed past or around? Or maybe some form of teleportation technology unlike anthing LL have developed was used?

There is a 'technology' used by the Good_People/Wee_Folk/Faeries in Ireland that is somewhat like a 'confusion field'.
It is called a "Seachran Si" = 'faery wandering'
When caught in this, the victim can wander for eternity and never find their way out of a locality.
It's not *quite* the same. It's 'stuck inside' rather than 'stuck outside', but the shielding of 'the other side' is the same.

The way out of a Seachran Si is to wear clothing inside-out. This breaks the spell.

Perhaps people would like to try this when they suspect that something is being shielded from them.
There is probably an Advanced/Debug option for 'Wear Clothes Inside-Out'. Something like CTRL/SHIFT/F9/W.
Worth a try perhaps.


or not

I don't get this whole Magellan thing, can someone explain it to me? Is it some sort of oldbie injoke? I went to Nautilus and didn't get that either. There were lots of empty houses and what looked like an empty mall. Are these gonna be auctioned off or filled with stuff? It was really laggy and I didn't see much else on the map. I heard this whole thing is like a quest or game, but at the moment I don't get it. Can someone do a 'Magellan Hunt for Dummies' post please? I feel like I'm missing out on something big.

This is the Magellan Hunt post for dummies, start at the beginning and read through, all will be answered, or not.

I've been talking with my folks about this whole situation and learned some very interesting things about the Lindens' Nautilus Lacuna/Nautilus Island City regions. It seems that before the Erase, that whole area was open sea that was very difficult to navigate. It was known as the Sea of Eternal Torment and was known to have constant storms and tempests for as long as anyone could remember. Grandpa Baysklef said that most sailors and fishermen would simply circumnavigate the area to avoid having to sail through the rough seas. Some brave souls would attempt to sail straight through, but not all would make it. He said that many ships had been lost over the years and that, occasionally, the storms would come ashore for a short spell only to return to the area between the larger islands. (He can't bring himself to call them "continents" like the Lindens do. Don't get him started.) Both he and Grandma Baysklef spoke of ancient Islefen legends about islands in the sea with expansive cities, both above and below the water. They also said that every once in a great while, a Mahran was sighted there but would disappear before anyone got too close.

Now the really interesting part of all this was what my great grandma, Cessadia Thetan, had to say. When I told her about the map that Periapse Linden found on Magellan's desk she asked to see it right away. I pulled up the Nautilus City wiki page for her and scrolled down to the map image. She began to nod and got that look in her eye that I've seen her get when she's puzzling something out. She actually swore, which is something she never does! 'Well, I'll be damned," she said. I kid you not. Anyway, she said that Elias Reedbuck was the captain of a ship that had disappeared into the Sea of Eternal Torment a couple of centuries before her time. The map itself wasn't familiar to her (she had seen quite a few in her day), but the notation "parallel of Kleisser" was. I guess that was part of the old system of latitude and longitude lines before the Erase. She went on to say that rescue parties, by sea and air, tried to locate his ship but abandoned their search after months of unsuccessful efforts. No one heard from him or any of his crew ever again.

I asked Grandma Thetan what she thought about the region being navigable, somewhat, before the Erase and the fact that it was impassable when the Lindens tried to grid it. She theorized that the island's purported* invisibility shield and the Lindens' Grid technology may have interacted in such as way as to cause a malfunction in the normal Linden gridding process. She went on to say, "Although one could see the sea in the adjoining grid square, one could not crossover to it nor see any of the land masses contained therein. Much like regions on the outer edge of the Mainland or the interior void spaces before the Lindens gridded them into navigable water. The difference here was the Lindens were expecting their gridding procedures to work like they always have... and they did not."

That malfunction was rendered moot for some reason, maybe by the hand of our friend, Magellan. Needless to say, she is very interested in seeing the data we will be gathering later today.

*"Purported" because she thinks there is much more to this shield, if that indeed is what it is, than just invisibility. SJ

Hi there, Georgette! If you can make it to the Explorers Meeting today at 1pm, 4pm or 7pm SLT in the Bodega region there will be a whole bunch of folks to help answer your questions and point you to other sources for info to get up to speed. We will be heading over to the Nautilus City Island to gather information on region stability and to try to find out more about this "invisibility shield" and whether or not Magellan Linden was involved in some way with the island's sudden appearance as noted in this new wiki page:

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

Please send me an IM if you need some help inworld. - Salazar Jack

Your wish is my command

http://headburroantfarm.wordpress.com/the-magellan-files/

I'll be gettin' there a bit after 4, m'self

Wow thanks everyone! Esp to HeadBurro.

GOOD LUCK TODAY ! Everyone!
I know I am new to this. Most don't know me but some do.
Just feel this is a big day for the search and I am sending all the magic I have to all!
~Lisa~

oh im gonna try and make one of those meetings

/me sends best wishes to the first batch of folks headin' out, and waits very impatiently to catch up later.

I was on the first shift from the Bodega's Explorer's Base and it was an exciting trip I can tell you. I've written it all up on my blog here: http://headburroantfarm.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/the-hunt-for-magellan-exploring-nautilus/ but watch out for the time dilation tremors at the temple if you are going over - and get a safety suit from Salazar too

I thought I'd put a few snapshots from last night's late shift up:



I hope one of these is in the marketplace freebies, because this one wouldn't move. It was almost like they knew I was coming.



Jellyfish!



Someone made a mess here, and it wasn't me. At least not that anyone can prove.

i don't see anyone inworld at this time. Mari just left. I don't know if it means anything or is it just me? Ya know when you open your MAP sometimes and it's all grey'd out? Why is Nautalus all grey now but all the other sims visible?
Also...how is it I am standing on land that was not here 2 hours ago? New sims north of BC...all Open space. Is it just me? Did i blink? What'd i miss?

Several people are reporting the trouble with the Nautilus section of the map graying out. Not sure there has every been an explanation.

I saw the grey out also today, chalked it up to livin by the ocean and the fog rolled in lol

LOL!

That or the ancient civilization is about to get their shield up and working again.

It's unclear to me, after reading all 47 pages of this thread whether Magellan has or has not been found. Most of it seems to be arbitrary speculation interspersed with rhetoric and mild doses of conjecture.

So where in the world *is* Magellan Linden?