[HMDS] The Island is Just About Finished
The lakes by the volcano are now in place and the three globes are being tested in their floating position. Three are made in preparation for heavy usage. The platforms by the globes are the work spaces for the Magicians, as they need somewhere to talk, leave their tools, and work.
I could not imagine what those green and red sticks could be. They were spinning on some invisible point, like hands on a watch. It turned out that since the Earth Chair and Globe would need to communicate within a certain distance, these spinning hands were design tools, marking the acceptable spaces to place the two.
Everything is starting to come together and I can finally see what they imagined all a long. It is everything we could have wanted, and more so. Smoke rises out of the volcano and the lava pours over the edge. Tropical trees populate the area around the lakes, swaying as if in a strong wind. A river separates the area, accessible by two bridges.
I bathe in the lava pools until my wife tells me to get out (as they are making her nervous).
I have to laugh when I recall how concerned I was, just days earlier, that the island would look too cartoonish in its design. Notice here how the lava produces smoke and the unfortunate trees are on fire, burning eternally. I did not know that this level of detail was possible, nor that the Magicians would pay such exquisite attention to it.
I love looking down at the volcano from above. It looks amazing, with the smoke rising and the lava flowing down. Compared with the raised lump of land from just a few days earlier, I can only marvel at the mastery of the team I was so lucky to find.
January has come to a close. In seven days we have to move the island from the main grid to the teen grid, for use by the teens, something no one has done before. Everything would have to be in place, tested again and again to make sure it works just right.
But of course, before the entire island becomes inaccessible to the main grid, we would need to invite in the adults and have a slamming farewell party!
Could it all be done in time?
