Welcome to the 8th Annual New Babbage Oiling Festival, our version of Spring Cleaning. We hope you will have time to visit.. and build!
The original Oiling Festival was held in 2009 to add needed items to the city inventory and invite the greater steamlands to experience the Babbage way of life. All good citizens and visiting steamlanders are encouraged to roll up their sleeves, show their national pride, and participate!
The Festival is now open. Building stops at midnight on APRIL 2nd.
You may use any building technique at your disposal, althought sculpts will be barred from categories that are intended to be added to city inventory.. I encourage building in place to encourage sharing information and techniques, it helps everyone become a better builder.
And don’t forget to put what you build on Marketplace so we can all enjoy it for years to come. (Not to mention that sales help you stay on your land, which keeps the city rezzed! you only have to list it once!)
Judging and walk around to admire the results will take place on Sunday, APRIL 3rd..
This years categories are:
CITY HALL MODELS
sponsor: Mosseveno Tenk
land impact: 100. Don’t prim the dang sim out. You know who you are.
prizes: L$ 5000/4000/3000
City Halls have an average lifespan of 2 years. The foundations of the standing build have been found to be unstable so it is time for a new one before the old one collapses under its own weight. Use the provided 1/10 scale mockup of the lot to build a model on. Finished full size build should be around 500 prims, so it can be lavishly furnished. There’s a lot of memrobilia to display.
So that there is not the usual argument about textures, the interior should be done in the gold metals and rich browntones. Use a steampunkesque palette. Absolutely not blue tones. If you know what the inside of a really big reduction gear looks like, that’s the color.
If you are SERIOUS about actually building a new city hall in a timely manner, should your model be chosen, color the base BLUE. If you are just messing around and having fun with it, color the base of your model RED. We miss having a working city hall.
Rez on lower rampart plaza in Quarry Hill
It needs some rugs for unicorns and other unusually sized folk to sit on.
You would not believe how many splinters the floor has in the Bucket, and the smell! I think people die in there. *nods*
We really need more comfortable sitting arangements for our meetings.
Had an email question about poses.
Generally poses are a bad idea as all the creature avatars use different animations. This is only going to get worse as we bring in project Bento.
We all have our own sit animations on huds so just need a space that is large enough with a good physical platform so we do not sink or float. Consideration should be given to access, can you walk there without crushing people or lag jumping about the room, that sort of thing.
Hope this helps. ^_^
This is actually turning into a thing in its own right. ^_^
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1st -Jimmy Branagh
2nd -Elizabeth Jarvinen
Tough call on the top 2. I had to stare at them a while to find a deciding factor. In this case, it was a negative one. Lizzy’s building had a distinctly mosque-like profile from a distance. Not that I have anything against muslims, but every building tells a story and it’s telling the wrong one. It would have been a fun building to explore! I would like to see some more height on Jimmy’s building, the central clocktower may need to be raised so it stands out in the skyline, and it might also make a good airship mooring point.
3rd – Nathaniel Lorefield. Good solid design, and although the interior wasn’t finished, looked like there would be a large central area, keeping the galleries to the side as in Cleanslate’s city hall. Would have made an interesting dispay area for large exhibits and inventions.
HM – William H. Greymoon, M.D.
GRAVESTONES & MEMORIALS
sponsor:
land impact: 10 or less
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
Seriously, have you ever gone shopping for cemetery furnishings on Marketplace? Let’s fix that. Bonus points if you can actually apply a name to the stone without sticking an extra prim on it. Now that we have mesh, that shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.
Rez inside Babbage Square Central Cemetery, back lot. Not Silas Merlin’s lot, which is also a cemetery.
1st – Dee Wells-Dagger for the incredibly detailed set of headstones and celtic cross. Excellent mesh work!
2nd – Myrtil Igaly for the elaborate headstone with chains and planter. Very appropriate for the era.
3rd – Miko & Edward Pearse for the family mauseleum. Not sure how to call this, since it wasn’t placed by the builder, but it is an impressive piece.
HM – Jaiden Magic for the scripted fate. Sorry Jaiden, it didn’t do anything when I touched it.
Mayor’s Choice for Humor – Kimika Ying for the dead parrot.
HOME REMEDIES
sponsor:
land impact: 10 or less
prizes: L$3000/2000/1500
What ails us? What do we do about it?
Rez on designated tables in the exhibit hall in Port Babbage, where the Porthead was.
1st – Tepic for the Steam Chair, designed to toughen up the lungs of our wee ones early. Very nice description.
2nd – Arconus Arkright for the Razor Weed Soup recipe
3rd – Captain Killian for St Oilyphant’s Miracle Ointment.
HM – Mytil Igaly for the Snatchitae Digestivus digestive and bowel disorder powder.
very nice selection all around.
HONKING BIG MACHINE
sponsor:
land impact 100
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
There’s a certain sense of awe one gets when watching a monumental engine go through its paces – whether it’s the massive pistons of an ocean liner’s engine room or the elegant, massive power of a beam engine pumping water. So build one – it does’t matter what it does, but it should move, be noisy, and be huge. An HBM will fit on a 25×25 meter platform and have a land impact of no more than 100. Entry limited to platforms available. One entry per person. Build only on city provided platform, rez prim on platform to claim. IM Mosseveno Tenk if you need more platforms.
GROUP 1 – Builders Square Sandbox in front of the Academy of Industry (3 platforms)
GROUP 2 – Clockhaven Harbor (4 platforms)
1st – Buckminster Solo for the The Psionic Breeze Municipal Soot Extractor.
The Psionic Breeze Municipal Soot Extractor. Air Purification of the most efficient variety! Break deep and easy the freshest of air, clear of bothersome and unhealthy particulate matter by the science of ELECTROMAGNETIC ~ and a giant mutant badger brain, its city-destroing energies brilliantly harness by the gentleman researchers of the SIMCo Biologics. SIMCo Biologics. It’s only playing God if you think you’re playing.
2nd: Jimmy Branagh for the Worthington/Treves Teslatic Excess Population Reducer
3rd: Kaylee Frye for the HBM Crane
How is the new city hall to be powered? SIMCo is having a sale on giant mutant badger brains. Lightly used. Only one previous owner.
LIGHTHOUSE
sponsor:
land impact: 25
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
The old lighthouse in Clockhaven harbor is stupidly primmy. Build a new one that will fit at the end of the breakwater. Selected entry will be added to city inventory.
Rez in wet dock where the Rookswood Brewery used to be in Port Babbage. There is a copy of the current lighthouse base nearby so you can check your scale.
Bugger this is a hard one. These were all good, and only 2 made it under the prim guidance, but since mesh has entered Oiling Festival the prim allowances are more goals to shoot for rather than hard rules.
1st -Myrtil Igaly. What I really liked was the entrance. She took the existing foundations an breakwater into consideration and incorporated it into the design so it should be a seamless replacement for Rip Wirefly’s original lighthouse, but now we’ll be able to climb the inside. I would prefer that the light cones be removed, those look silly to me considering how far we’ve come in what we can build now.
2nd -Nathaniel Lorefield. This solid grungy number reminds me of some of the offshore lights on the Chesapeake Bay. Very credible design, though not decorative enough the old harbor.
3rd – Dee Wells-Dagger. A very elegant shape with a slow rotating light. I found the textures on the main body of the tower to be a little strange, but I’m guessing that’s the trade off for the intersting shape of it. And yes, I know I did goad you into building it at the last minute.
HM – Momoe. Sorry Momoe, but at 65 impact I can’t place this one higher. This is an absolutely gorgeous piece of building and you should finish it!
There are people out there that really like lighthouses. You should put these on marketplace, all of you!
MONEY
sponsor:
land impact: 3
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
Show me the money! There are two currencies in New Babbage, new and old. The old Quat is still used to record all legal wagers. The exchange rate to new currency often causes street fights. Paper currency preferred.
Rez on designated table in the exhibit hall in Port Babbage.
1st – Otenth Paderborn
2nd -Tepic Harlequin
3rd – Dee Wells-Dagger
HM- Jaiden Magic
Another very nice selection.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
sponsor: Fr. Juris Pizzaro
land impact: 20
prizes: L$3000/2000/1000
Do your worst. Bonus if items have sit poses or posed for wearable, depending on what it is.
Rez in designated area in exhibit hall in Port Babbage.
1st – Myrtil for the Steam Goatar
2nd – MacKnight Culdesac for the Brass Band Backpack
PADDLEBOAT
sponsor:
land impact: 30 (with understanding that impact may increase due to vehicle script)
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
This year’s vehicle category is for paddleboats. No, we’re not talking about an elegant steamer plying the mighty Mississippi, we’re talking about those things you rent in the park to take your date out on the pond. Doesn’t have to look like a duck.
Speculation Lake shore, north of city wall near the west tower.
1st place to Myrtil Igaly
2nd place to Kimika Ying for the death machine. little higher and you could have a rampart wall dismount.
no other entries, winners split the 3rd place purse.
PATRON SAINTS
sponsor: Fr. Juris Pizzaro
land impact: 2 (icons) or 10 (statues)
Prizes: L$3000/2000/1000
For the storytelling category this year, tell us about our patron saints. Bonus if you can provide an illustration, icon, or statuary to go with it.
Post stories on the BAR as comments to this thread:
http://cityofnewbabbage.com/reader/node/9649
Rez objects (if you made one) in the designated area in the exhibit hall in Port Babbage. Objects can give notecards or whisper if desired.
Saints don’t have to be specific to the cult of the Builder. there’s a few other flavors floating around this town.
1st – Capt Killian for Saints Oilyphant and Valvolina
2nd -Cleetus for St. Jimothy
3rd -Myrtil Igaly for Saints Fiach and Sidach
HM -tie: Ashiko Kuroe for St. Herbert, Bookworm Hienrichs for St. Hubert. Hmmmm….
Mayor’s Choice – Wulfie Blitzen, for the uncommonly beautiful icon of St. Barbara of Mortal Peril with candles.
No Hmmm… necessary. My saint’s name was chosen specifically because it could be shortened to Hube, which sounds like another name…
Which you can probably figure out if you remember that aurum is Latin for gold…
Thank you for those comments, Mr. Tenk, it brightened up an otherwise grey and miserable day. And congratulations to Capt Killian! There were some lovely entries there :)
And thank you, Mr. Blitzen, for the congrats. When I saw the other beautiful entries I really didn’t know which way the contest would go. Any one could have been a winner. Great job to all who entered, and my congratulations to all.
POSTERS
sponsor: Canal Street Printing House
land impact: 1
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
Open 2D category for posters. Because you can never have enough posters to plaster all over town.
Rez in designated are in exhibit hall in Port Babbage.
1st – Skusting Dagger for Aunt Emily’s Closet Companion
2nd – Chronobelle for “Oiling Festival – Beware Spies” because.. I never thought of that before. There’s a story in there.
3rd – Dee Wells-Dagger for the les Champignons de Archon Mushrooms, grown under Clockhaven so you know they’re perfectly safe for consumption.
HM – Edward Pearse for the Gearweasel Engineering Racing Tractor Engines.
RAMPART DEFENSES
sponsor:
land impact: 5 (mesh) or 25 (prim)
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
Jeanne Dibou’s original tesla gun armaments up on the city wall are sculpted items with way too heavy of a land impact. Time to make new ones. Bonus if posed with sits. Selected items may be added to city inventory.
Rez on the rampart walk in Quarry Hill between signs.
1st – Doctor Robolensky, but we couldn’t figure out how the tracking worked, and on whom, but it was fun to play with.
2nd – Kaylee Faulkner
3rd – Kikio Ironweb
HM – Tepic Harlequin. Excellent shape, but the textures didn’t look finished.
SHEET MUSIC
sponsor: Canal Street Printing House
land impact: 1
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
We need some music to go with those musical instruments. Check google for inspiration from when sheet music was like going to the record store. Wait, are there record stores anymore???
Rez in designated are in exhibit hall in Port Babbage.
Just the covers, folks. If you don’t understand this one, google image for “antique sheet music covers”
Like this! (putting this under the right post this time)
Wow. Tough one to call!
1st – Edward Pearse for The Chimney Sweep’s Waltz
2nd – Wulfie Blitzen for O! Fair Babbage! O’er Kraken Hunts!
3rd – MacKnight Culdesac for What are you Building?
HM – Dee Wells for Our Sentinels at Sea
And a tip of the toque to Chronobelle for making me wonder just how romantic a Klaxophone could sound.
STACKS AND CHIMNEYS
sponsor: Mosseveno Tenk
land impact: 10
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
New Babbage needs as many stacks and chims as we can get, and most of what is standing is sculpts. They gotta go. I expect this to be a mesh build. High LOD is expected so as not to degrade the skyline.
Rez on roof of old chandlery in Babbage Square and adjacent land on the north side towards the cemetery.
1st – Jimmy Branagh for his twin stack with support girders
2nd – Dee Wells for the long tapered number. Textures were a little wierd but so is the shape and i’m sure it didn’t map easily.
3rd – Kimika Ying for the modestly sized octagonal stack
And lastly, young Tepic needs a proper name for his “urchin smuggling center.” Post here for the fame it will bring you.
Yup! What was the Smuggling Centre (smuggling goods, not urchins….) is now a set of slums, low rent housing (so low it’s not set yet…). They need a name, a name suited to the entepernurial spirit in which they were built, that also reflects the care and attention that was put into building them…. Have fun!
The Grey Water Market? :)
Foxden Housings
Stacktub Row.
Oddsen End
Some nice ideas already, looking forward to more! Once the name is decided, it will be put up on the buildings…. for as long as they stand…. errr…. yes… well….
Mos Alley (A hive of scum and urchinry)
Rickety Row
Bricklayer Lane
The Flea Market
Pauper’s End
Charity Street (Still quite close to the Church)
Crumb Town
The Quarters
The Canal Squares
Fecker’s Bend.
Dribble Street. (Or Dribbling Street)
The Lament.
Fox Pocket.
North Shabby. (change compass designation as needed, or often to confuse.)
ROBOT SENTINELS
sponsor: Steadman Kondor and the Quarry Hill School of Mines & Industries.
land impact: 10 or less
prizes: L$ 6000 to be shared with top 3 entries
The old clockwork sentinels at the city gate are primmy old sculpts, and when you link one to a mesh block to see what the true accounting of it is, well, it’s just too high. And they’re starting to look mushy. Build us some new ones that are not so prohibitively expensive to rez so we can display more of them, make official or civilian models for home and business. Bonus if they come with a texture set to change the colors & costumes. Selected items may be added to city inventory.
Rez in designated area of exhibit hall in Port Babbage.
Correction: This is not a L6000 prize pool where one winning entry gets the entire loot. L3000, L2000, L1000 prizes are awarded for 1st, 2nd, 3rd entries. If the top three entries are of similar wonderful merit, however, judges reserve the right to award equal prize money to all three… ie. L2000. If there is only one wonderful entry, then only the 1st prize may be awarded. Thank you :)
We had three entries though one was withdrawn – a charming prim build that was over the limit. We do wish the creator had allowed it to remain!
1st prize went to Tepic Harlequin for the versatile set of weaponed sentinels
2nd prize went to Kaylee Frye for the charming steampunk robot
Thank you both for your excellent and inspired entries!
The creator is a friend and associate of mine and while he did not intend to remove the submission, its disappearance somewhat puzzling to him as it was located on the bottom of the harbor, he is quite delighted and touched to have been awarded a ribbon for the effort. He is honored and accepts the compliment, considering it was substantially over the prim limit. It is a sentimental piece, his first building effort, created for one of Doc O’s old Christmas Tree competition as a children’s toy a long time ago…
Plebbyside Downs
I got invited to a picnic tomorrow, so one more week on Oiling Festival. Finish those projects!
Yay! So many plans, so little actually finished. Got some sheet music up but nothing else done. Another week is a boon.
Enjoy the picnic.