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Oiling Festival is our version of Spring Cleaning. A time when we shut down the factories for maintenance and fix what needs fixing. All residents of the Steamlands are invited to visit… and BUILD!
Place entries by MIDNIGHT, JULY 10th, for judging on Sunday July 11th. (edited – ending on a holiday weekend was a bad idea). Sponsors are responsible for judging. Mr Tenk can forward a purse as needed.
This year’s categories are:
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PHOTOGRAPHY (2D)
sponsor – Vic Mornington & Brunel Hall
prizes – 2000/1000/500 Linden cash
In support of Mr Mornington’s Project to update our Destination Guide entrie(s), we will need some fresh photos of the city.
To enter, pick up a frame in the back room of the exhibit hall and hang your entries on that wall, using that frame.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/122/149/105
Entries must be 1024 x 768 px format
Image has to be a “wide” view of the city, think street view or airborne citywide view
No photoshopping or text, image must be from “viewer only”
Fancy environmental settings are permitted.
Two entries per person.
Winning entry will be used in the updated Destination Guide listing for New Babbage.
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MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS
sponsor – Galactic Baroque & Baroquen Ethic Building Textures
prizes – 3000/2000/1000/500
Land Impact – no more than 25
I can never have enough monuments. Some of the monuments around town still got sculpts in them. It is understood that entries may be added to Henry’s inventory and will need to be at least mod/trans (mod because anchor linking).
Bonus if you provide a additional winterized version of your piece.
Bonus if your piece provides a bit of historical insight to the city (that means make it up).
Absolutely no sculptie prims.
Rez in the back room of the Exhbit Hall (where the bar is)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/111/167/105
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ADVERTISING (2D)
sponsor – Fauve Aeon
prizes – 3000/2000/1000/500
land impact – 1
When you look at old photographs of urban environs, there is advertising pasted on nearly every available surface. From hand painted signage fading into the bricks, to mass printed handbills covering a street pole, we don’t have enough of it.
Rez your ads in the front room of the Exhibit Hall, south wall. I want to see that wall plastered.
Load your prim with the texture so folks can have one to use in their builds. Remember that textures are USELESS if they are not full perms.
No limit on entries per person.
Bonus for ads that reference local/steamland products.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/162/151/105
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Beq Janus sweeps the category with a stunningly detailed set of hand tools that anyone would want on their bench. Because you do have a tool bench. Don’t you? DON’T YOU?
The monkey wrench almost makes me wanto replace my vintage Ordinal Malaprop special I wear on my belt. She takes the purse, and my own personal copy of the US Navy Training Manual Tools and Their Uses, which has my greasy bilge-stained younger fingerprints all over it.
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GOODS, WARES, & COMESTIBLES
sponsor – Jaz Beverly & The Beverly Shipping and Mercantile Company
land impact – 10 max
prizes – 3000/2000/1000/500 + free shipping from Beverly docks for a year
This one is wide open. Local products, foodstuffs, souvenirs, if you could find it in a local store, that’s what we’re looking for here.
Rez objects on the tables in the front room of the Exhibit Hall, north side, 2nd alcove.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/154/170/105
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HONKIN’ BIG MACHINES
sponsor – Aberdon Enigma
land impact – 100
prizes – 3000/2000/1000/500
There’s something about watching giant machines go through their paces, ain’t there? Go build some. They should have moving parts and be LOUD.
Inworld building is encouraged. Rez on the circular pads in Builders Square. Base must fit on pad. Will rez more pads in Stonehammer as needed.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Academy%20of%20Industry/243/115/111
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Ms Rusalka Writer takes the purse for this category with her great-grandfather’s recollection of the fires during the time of the great out-gassings, back when the Wheatstone district was still an undeveloped marshland. Scroll down this thread to see the story.
Congratulations Ms W, and we will be revisiting this category again next year.
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bonus category
NEW BLOOMAGE REDUX
sponsor – Mrs. Reginald Trentwhistle & The New Babbage Ladies’ Civic Beautification Committee
prizes – stick it to the Man, man! free land!
Those busy-bodies and their beautification committee managed to get a gardening ordinance past city hall when Mr Tenk wasn’t looking. Until that order can be lawfully rescinded, you may turn any vacant lot into a park. Vacant lots are always deeded to Engineers group and may or may not have a salvage wagon near by.
This is open to Engineers group only. Stay within lot prim allowance.
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A clever soul might notice where the autoreturn hasn’t been turned on yet, like near where those old city hall buildings mysteriously returned. one of them even brought its old trees with it.
(We keep a separate group for those holding land for admin reasons – which makes the place is easy to lock down during squatter season. it’s no fun to have to keep building off all the time like some estates do.)
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Several takers on the stealth gardening, but many were derezzed due to land transfers. Mr Mornington did manage to find the largest of the vacant lots and got busy, enlisting every urchin in town to haul fresh peat compost and a whole lotta greenery.
I’m sure I haven’t found all of the gardens yet. Do I dare look in the sewers?
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GIFTING
sponsor: Fauve Aeon & The Yule Goat
prizes: Boiler Elf Immunity at this year’s Steam Santa Ball
Ms Aeon needs gifts made for her winter gifting calendar project. Send your gifties to Fauve.
Gifting perms are tricky – it might be better to send full perm and have her change the perms when she loads them into the calendar.
Then, so we can see how the project is progressing, place a faux gift box next to the straw yule goat in the back room of the Exhibit Hall, near the bar.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wheatstone%20Waterways/112/174/105
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CURRENCY (2D)
sponsor: Junie Ginsburg & The Gangplank
prizes: nerdy bragging rights + an undisclosed amount of Tenkers (Cardano wallet required)
We know about the Imperial Quatloo that is still used to count wagers, the New Babbage Mark, Fobs, Sprockets, and the ten mark bill commonly call a tenker, right?
This isn’t a joke – Tenkers are also a cryptocurrency on the Cardano blockchain. No, it wasn’t my idea, but it was minted this year by someone here in town. The powers that be in crypto world have asked for a logo, but one has designed it yet. Final designs should be submitted in png format and look good in circle format. It might need a motto while you’re at it.
Sounds like another get quick rich scheme from those reprobates at the Gangplank to me, but there it is.
Rez coins on the picnic table in the back room of the Exhibit Hall.
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MINING HEADFRAME
sponsor: Vic Mornington
land impact: 70 max
prizes: 3500/2000/1000
Headframe for Fells mining operations.
I’m opening this one up to builders!
Platforms are here… http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Blackberry%20Fields/189/156/94
Rules.
1: Must be under 70LI (each)
2: Max footprint of 10m, max height of 20m
3: Two must be built of the same “style”. One should be a “clean” mining headframe, in other words it looks like it’s just been built. The second one should be a wrecked headframe, parts missing etc.
The “Clean” headframe will be used somewhere on the back of the region to make it look like mining is still going on. The wrecked headframe will be placed at an angle on the slope leading down to the lake at the back, or maybe even in the lake with just the top sticking out.
The winner will have both versions of their headframe used at the back of Blackberry Fields.
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