Latest On The Dahlia Linden Rocks

 

 By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Last month, there was a mystery afoot on the Second Life mainland after strange rocks with glowing blue symbols were discovered at the Bay City Airport, and two other locations far away near the main road.  Dahlia Linden, the person involved whose notes were clues to what was going on, stated that something would happen on March 18. So there was nothing else to do but wait.

 

The week was a busy one with the Sunweaver Air show having just happened, St. Patrick's Day, a new Linden, the VWBPE conference, and more. But on Thursday March 18, I went back to the Bay City Airport, and back to the hill with the boulder. The rock and glyph were still there, and the flowers looked a little brighter than I remembered. 

 

There was also a note, and I took a closer look. It turned out to be two notes, one on top of the other. 

 

 Log 0003

Upon arriving at this location today, the flowers reached such a grand luminosity! 

What could they possibly be doing? And this strange humming sort of sound…Hm, and what does–


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Log 0004

My god! The entire earth just shook! It felt like the highest magnitude of an earthquake I have ever experienced in my lifetime! 

Something is rising upwards from the land on the horizon!


I have to go! To whomever may find this, head for these coordinates!

 

Region: New Bloom Mountain

Something is there!

-Dahlia

 

 I clicked on the note, and ended up at New Bloom Mountain (254/239/89). Getting a bearing of my surroundings, nearby was one of those blue flowers and yellow "anomaly" signs. There was also a larger green sign.

 

WARNING: This region is currently under review by Land Operations.

 

Please tread carefully.

 

Normality will return on March 25th. 

 

And there was one of Dahlia's notes. 

 

Nothing could prepare me for anything like this!

A full-scale mountain has been lifted directly up from the earth from seemingly nowhere!

How? How did this structure appear so abruptly, and yet I can see various flora and fauna thriving on the surface. It is as if the environment on the mountain had always existed.

Was the land already developing ever since those rocks sprouted from the earth?

 I must go higher. I shall record my findings at the summit, and hopefully unravel the mystery behind this development!

-Dahlia

 

And so, I began walking up the mountain. Fortunately, there were enough inclines and even a natural walkway curling around the mountain, so I didn't have to do any actual climbing. I slowly made my way up. 

 

 Finally, I reached the top. And it was a beautiful sight. The mountaintop was covered in grass, and many many more of those bright blue flowers. Not just a few more, more like hundreds more. 

 

I also saw another of the boulders with a bright blue glyphs, and in front of it one of the blue flowers in a pot, and another of Dahlia Linden's notes.  

 

 

My goodness! The flowers! They are...they are everywhere!

Not even a day ago, this mountain sprang up from the earth's surface in mere seconds! And despite this, here at the peak, a small field of those strange flowers are already thriving! Such a curious phenomenon, seeing that they were just born.

The flower's behavior is also intriguing. It is as if they were searching for their true habitat, and somehow manifested it! I find it hard to believe something so small has the ability to create such an incredible phenomenon. How remarkable!

Now that I am aware that the flowers are able to survive here, I should be able to transport one to my lodgings to study and observe it further. While waiting for the next phase in this anomaly, I developed a special planter that I hoped would allow me to transport one of the flowers away from the strange stones. However, I postponed the extraction fearing that I could risk losing one of those flowers in the process.

With a proper soil sample and now having an abundant source of flowers, I can ease my fears. I will leave one of my planters here in the event that I need to acquire more samples. One planter should be sufficient for safe transporting.

Curiously though, I am still picking up faint readings of more energy anomalies in the land. My intuition tells me that this won’t be the last anomaly that manifests in the world. Till then, I will be on the hunt for whatever comes next.

Until the next change,

-Dahlia 

 

Exactly how this mountain and the flower sprung up so fast, that's something we may not be privileged to know. What happens to the mountain on March 25th? That's going to require a trip over to find out. 

 

As for the flowers, there's now enough to ensure their survival, unless something happens to the mountaintop. Curiously, when I moved the flower in the pot, somehow another appeared in it's place. Some strange power of the blue crystal sigils?  To better ensure the survival of the species, as well as get a souvenir of my travels, I took one of the planters with me back to the Newser office in HV Community. 

 

That's all on the mystery of the Dahlia rocks for now,

 

Bixyl Shuftan