2018 Oiling Festival – City of New Babbage

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- August 2, 2018 at 8:37 pm #9914
  Mr Tenk
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  In the early days, the Oiling Festival was sort of a spring break thing. Building techniques have changed since then, inworld building isn’t really a ‘thing’ like it once was, and it just takes more time (and off-grid isolation) to build. Yes, we all miss those late nights bonding on the platforms while pushing a prim around once every 20 minutes… but… Progress.
  
  Henceforth, Oiling Festival will be a long slow summer event. Festival opens Saturday August 4thwith the Baroque Ball. Building will cease on October 5th and judging will take place the weekend of Oct. 5-6, at which time it will be time to clean up, switch foliage and terrain to fall, and get out the punkins.
  
  This year’s categories are——
- August 2, 2018 at 8:44 pm #9915
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  1 – RALLY CARS.
  
  Prims: don’t be a dick.
  
  Yeah, we never had the bar crawl/road rally. Place your cars on the lawn in Moreaux Park (Pilgrim Hill) in Port Babbage. Cars do not have to be functional, but extra points if they are. Theme is relaxed to stretch to through the Art Deco movement. Your car should say something about you, alá Wacky Racers. If in doubt, remember this rule: We’re romantics. Contemporary is boring.
  - November 20, 2018 at 4:49 pm #10038
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    Tepic takes the purse for his Urchin Rally Car, made of planks, barrels, and some necessary hardware. Placard reads: “A non-working model of the infamous URC, powered by a sirling engine. It was banned from the City roads after the events of June Eighteen Ninety Four…”
  - November 20, 2018 at 5:08 pm #10042
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
- August 2, 2018 at 8:55 pm #9916
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  2 – BUILD REPLACEMENT: AETHER SALON
  
  Time has taken its toll on the Aether Salon and the scripts are no longer functional, and its builder sleeps amongst our honored dead. This will be the 3rd incarnation of the Aether Salon. The build straddles a sim line so that it can accommodate more avatars for special events. The lot is two 512 lots side by side, making one 1024 square lot (32×32) with a sidewalk easement. Prim allowance for the lot is 312 x 2. The lots do not share prims. What is physical in one sim is phantom in the other. Keep in mind that the Salon staff would like to have prims left over for furnishings and snacks.
  
  Place builds (full scale) on designated lots on the special platform above the Engineer’s Platform Above The Fells. A mock-up of the street will be provided.
  - November 20, 2018 at 5:24 pm #10047
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    3 entries from Martien Pontecorvo, Edda Borrelly, and Artful Hammerer.
- August 2, 2018 at 9:04 pm #9917
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  3 – HEAVY LIFTING EQUIPMENT
  
  Sponsors: Wulfie Blitzen & Lady Sumoku
  
  Prims: don’t be a dick. Iron Bay has a limited capacity.
  
  As a port city of industry, we should be able to get stuff on an off a ship with something other than than porters, right? Build some lifting equipment on the special piers provided in Iron Bay. Barge mounted machinery is also groovy. Interpret “ships” as you will.
  - November 20, 2018 at 4:58 pm #10040
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    no takers this time. will cycle it back into the tickler file for another year.
- August 2, 2018 at 9:10 pm #9918
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  4 – 2D PHOTOSHOP CHALLENGE: THE FAUNA
  
  Prims: 4
  
  Animals. Critters. Wildlife. Livestock. Show us what we got. Rez photos on designated wall in the Exhibit Hall along with a descriptive placard. Also post on the designated forum so others can discuss their own encounters with our local beasties.
  - August 2, 2018 at 9:20 pm #9920
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    Make that 5 prims.
  - December 17, 2018 at 9:06 am #10064
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    Tepic takes the entire purse for the Self Inflating Hedgehog, which brings so much immature laughter those special cab rides around town.
- August 2, 2018 at 9:19 pm #9919
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  5 – 2D: GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY
  
  Prims: 5
  
  This is the stealth storytelling category. Rez images on the designated wall in the Exhibit Hall in Wheatstone Waterways. You may include a descriptive placard. It does not have to created from an entirely in-world tableau: you can mash it up with or create entirely from other sources. Also post in the designated forum for the sake of posterity.
  
  I shouldn’t have to say this, but… we’re not looking for real world history here. This is where you get to add to the Lore.
  - December 17, 2018 at 9:00 am #10063
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    Tepic takes all with the Privy Paper Shortage of autumn 18xx. Who could forget?
    
    I will be using this category again.
- August 2, 2018 at 9:22 pm #9921
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  Hey Cyan, are we going to be able to sub-replies here? That would be cleaner. A delete post would be nice too.
  - This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Mr Tenk.
  - August 3, 2018 at 5:44 pm #9933
    Cyan Rayna
    Keymaster
    That should be a feature but I will look into it. I haven’t really used the forums much so this is all testing still XD
    - August 3, 2018 at 5:59 pm #9934
      Cyan Rayna
      Keymaster
      
      Found it XD just didn’t have it turned on for some reason.
- August 2, 2018 at 9:28 pm #9923
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  6 – SMALL BUILD: SMOKE SHOP
  
  Sponsor: The Gangplank
  
  We need more pipes, but since you insisted on the pun, we need more of the other pipes too. What are we smoking, and how do we do it? Rez items on the designated tables in the Exhibit Hall in Wheatstone Waterways. Attachables are a plus. You may set items for sale.
  - August 7, 2018 at 5:12 am #9955
    Edward Pearse
    Participant
    Been thinking of updating the Tobacconists in Clockwork Close. Might be the time for it
  - December 17, 2018 at 8:54 am #10062
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    No entries. Back into the tickler file it goes.
- August 2, 2018 at 9:33 pm #9924
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  7 – SMALL BUILD: WEATHER VANES
  
  Prims: 15
  
  You can never have enough roof hardware in this town. Make some weather vanes. It’s ok if it is not scripted. You should also absolutely put them on Marketplace. There’s lots of Very Crappy Stuff on Marketplace. You are good enough.
  
  Rez on designated tables in the Exhibit Hall in Wheatstone Waterways.
  - December 17, 2018 at 9:29 am #10065
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    Four builders stepped up to this one and might I say the entries are Fabulous. If you’re quick, you might still be able to grab one, and I do hope to see all of these listed on SL Marketplace. Yeah, it’s a pain to list, but you only have to do it once.
    
    1- Artful Hammer for his very detailed scripted weather station at 14 impact
    
    2 – Edda Borrelly for a whimsical nautical themed number at 11 impact
    
    3 – Yelly Donut’s elegant cobalt glass model, with or without lightning, at 3 impact each.
    
    HM – Joe Magarac (animats) for a classic kraken alpha-texture roof topper at 1 impact.
- August 2, 2018 at 9:40 pm #9925
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  8 – SEWER & TUNNEL KITS
  
  Look under the streets of our fair city and it’s like swiss cheese down there, and there are not enough good building kits with reasonable land impact to do everything we want to do. Guess we’ll have to provide for ourselves. Rez your demo sets on the special platform above the Engineers’ Platform Above The Fells. It’s okay to place a vendor box near by. And yes, you absolutely should put what you build for sale on Marketplace, because passive income is “verra nize.”
  - November 20, 2018 at 5:21 pm #10045
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    no takers this time.
- August 2, 2018 at 9:44 pm #9926
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  9 – HOVELS
  
  Prims: 50
  
  You’ve seen them.. though you pretend not to.. our wretched poor.. living on the streets, building their shelters where ever they think they won’t be noticed. Place your hovels in the back area of the Exhibit Hall in Wheatstone Waterways.
  - December 17, 2018 at 8:45 am #10060
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    1- Violet Solano takes first place with her excellent shanty shack weighing 26 impact.
    
    2- Bella Valoris for a solidly built fixer tiny town fixer upper at 25 impact
  - December 17, 2018 at 8:51 am #10061
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
- August 2, 2018 at 9:48 pm #9927
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  10 – PIPE KITS
  
  There’s no denying the sheer sexiness of a jumble pipes. We need pipes. Under the streets. Above the streets. Between the buildings. through the buildings. Even those arty decorative hipster pipes. We just can’t have enough pipes.
  
  Rez in designated area in the Exhibit Hall. You may also place a vendor. You should list on SL Marketplace.
  - November 20, 2018 at 9:16 pm #10048
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    no takers. back in the tickler file it goes for another year.
- August 2, 2018 at 9:57 pm #9928
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  11A – ROOF STUFF
  
  Who doesn’t love to stand on the roof in some broody anti-heroic posture… yeah yeah yeah. We know. So you must have seen a lot of stuff going on up therewhile you were at it, right? Hardware? Fans? Pigeon lofts? Really big guns? Something else? Rez it on the fake building near Center Cemetery in Babbage Square.
  
  11B- BROODY ROOF POSE
  
  Rez poseballs along the edge of the roof. You know you want to. Capes come extra.
  - November 20, 2018 at 4:39 pm #10037
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    One taker takes the entire purse: The Magnetic Lift Air Kraken Feeder by Solano Iron Works, bolts easily to the corner of any flat roof building, and the operating board is thoughtfully enclosed in a safety cage. Sheep sold separately.
    
    Congratulations to Ms Violet Solano.
  - November 20, 2018 at 5:09 pm #10043
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
- August 2, 2018 at 10:02 pm #9929
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  12 – FREESTANDING WALL & FENCE KITS
  
  I have found these to be very useful things to have in the old inventory, and they help fill up those empty spaces after you place your build on the lot without burning a lot of prims. Cityscapes need to be kept tight.
  
  Rez your kits on the designated area of the special platform above The Fells. You may also place a vendor, and do list on SL Marketplace too.
  - November 20, 2018 at 5:21 pm #10046
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    no takers on this one.
- August 2, 2018 at 10:07 pm #9930
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  13 – SCULPTING CHALLENGE: UNSPEAKABLE ELDRITCH HORROR
  
  Prims: don’t be a dick.
  
  Did you know that August is Mythos Month in New Babbage? Well, it is! Rez your horrors at the bottom of Speculation Lake with the giant slug. Don’t wake the giant slug.
  - November 20, 2018 at 5:01 pm #10041
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    looks like no takers for this one… or else the giant slug ate them all. and it’s not talking.
  - November 20, 2018 at 5:09 pm #10044
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
- August 4, 2018 at 3:53 pm #9936
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  Quick list with landmarks:
  
  1- Custom Rally Cars
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Port%20Babbage/233/252/116
  
  2 – Aether Salon Rebuild
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Fells/165/50/3203
  
  3- Cranes, Davitts, & Lifting Gear
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New%20Babbage/39/58/102
  
  4- Fauna 2D
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/168/153/108
  
  5- Historical Tableaus 2D
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/152/150/106
  
  6- Smoke Shop
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/154/173/105
  
  7- Weather Vanes
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/168/165/107
  
  8- Underground Build Kits
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Fells/171/103/3201
  
  9- Hovels & Squats
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/115/154/105
  
  10 – Pipe & Plumbing Kits
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/116/171/105
  
  11- Things That Go On Roof Tops
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Square/239/70/128
  
  12- Freestanding Wall & Fence Kits
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Fells/165/50/3203
  
  13- Unspeakable Eldritch Horrors
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Quarry%20Hill/106/120/76
- September 10, 2018 at 9:12 am #10012
  Mr Tenk
  Moderator
  14 – ICE CRAWLER
  
  The Ice Crawler is the winter version of the Water Taxi. It only operated one season and was forever lost in inventory due to a naming accident. It was a wonderfully monstrous thing and we need another one. Keep in mind the scripts will raise the impact when it is put into service, and the sim budgets assume that the trams and boats run around 35 impact.
  
  Rez in Builder’s Square
  
  http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Academy%20of%20Industry/185/109/111
  - November 20, 2018 at 4:53 pm #10039
    Mr Tenk
    Moderator
    no entries. still hoping to see an NBTA ice crawler making the rounds this winter.
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