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I received a somewhat frantic IM from Justine. She said the house had shifted? Or something. So I went to check it out.

[16:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): ok, so these stairs....
[16:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): up here.
[16:50] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay.
[16:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): so this wall that i am slamming into.
[16:50] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): seems a lot closer to the up stairs and the door than it used to be.

(The wall in question.)

[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i feel like it moved.
[16:51] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It does, but....why?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): if you look at this corner....
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): see?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i don't know why.
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): why do sink holes keep appearing?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): are the two things related?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): does the build move when we terraform?
[16:51] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i don't know.
[16:51] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It shouldn't
[16:51] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): But we shouldn't get random square land pits either
[16:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): right. it shouldn't
[16:52] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I have NO idea
[16:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): so, i didn't try to move this wall back because i don't know if that's what moved?
[16:52] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay, trying a thing
[16:52] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): and what i'll break if i push it back.

(The outside of the wall section that moved.)

[16:52] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Man, cannot tell if it's supposed to move with the metal facing, or the bricks
[16:53] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): alone
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay, this is weird. I hit edit linked?
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Tap this one wall
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): It selects 150 objects
[16:54] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): right. ok.
[16:54] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): that's not unreasonable.
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I tap the curved bit? 303.
[16:54] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): ahhh. that is weird.
[16:54] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): So. I will try a thing, but yeep
[16:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): I wish I could remember what it looked like before
[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i know.
[16:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): You're right that it looks off, but--does that make it better?

(Another angle of the exterior wall.)

[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): oh!
[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): maybe we should go back to oceanpoint!
[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): and look to see what it looks like there!

Well, derp. Of course.

[16:56] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Good point.
[16:56] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): also ... my friend major has a steamopolis at his place! we could go look at that!
[16:57] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr) laughs
[16:57] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Have I met Major yet?
[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): that is for sure not to have moved, because it's brand new and he doesn't do much.
[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i think so. he used to be mojo nova?
[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): now he's major hijinx. :)

(A closer look at the wall section. It had moved, but...by a really, really small amount.)

[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i don't see him often.
[16:57] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i mean, like, once a month or something.
[16:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): The Portrait was taken in his studio.

Yes, the portrait that will haunt our dreams. Of course.

[16:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Mojo Nova strikes a faint bell.
[16:58] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Well, your opt, his version or Oceanpoint's.
[16:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): let's go see his.
[16:58] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): hold on....
[16:59] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): oh, it's gone. :) he must have changed his mind.
[16:59] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): oceanpoint it is!
[16:59] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Okay!

So off we went.

[17:00] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Oh, this is interesting
[17:00] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): So yes, but
[17:00] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): it looks exactly the same!
[17:00] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Only part of the wall

(After I thought I'd fixed it.)

[17:00] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): No, part of it is is out of alignment, but forward, not back
[17:00] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): i just never noticed how tight the space was on this landing.
[17:00] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): how odd.
[17:01] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): So we need to back the one wall section up at Gearhaven by....an inch or so
[17:01] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Yeah. I don't remember it being quite this compact either?
[17:04] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And now it matches? I think?
[17:06] Justine (justinejohndory.amethyst): thanks!

(I ported back to Oceanpoint to check, just to make sure, but yes, now the wall is where it's supposed to be.)

[17:07] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): Nope, I did one thing wrong! But I feex!
[17:09] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): And done!
[17:10] Emilly Shatner-Orr (emilly.orr): So...for whatever reason...we had two prim sets move in two different directions. *Might* have been an initial rez error we never noticed. If so, relatively small one.

I mean, on the one hand, it's an old build. A great build, but an old build. On the other hand..."weird things happen on Gearhaven" we can now say whether we're talking about the roleplay storyline, or the actual lived SL experience, and that...is kind of unsettling.