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The rundown of the top 3 for the DG Guide Image
3rd Place: Glaubrius Valeska with a dark foreboding image of the Port Babbage docks.
2nd Place: Mavromichali Szondi with a wide angle shot towards Port and Canals that looks as if the sky is on fire…or you are having an acid trip…
1st Place: Oriana (msladyjewel.zsigmond) with a close up over the wall shot of the far end of Clockhaven with a storm brewing in the horizon.
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.
A “Close”, or “Wynd” is old scots for a small lane or small street between two buildings…
Rookit Close (Rookit = no money)
Smiddy Wynd (Smiddy = slang for Blacksmiths)
Coopers Close
Heckling Wynd (nope, not that type of heckling, old slang for a flax spinner)
It wasn’t a good day for Mornington. Late arrivals at the Port, plus a crate of Bourbon going missing and to top it all off, suddenly, for no known reason, City Hall officials had decided to halt his progress on the renovations of the cavernous cellars below the hotel.
“What?! You mean you lost the only spare key to the main gate for the sewer network?”
The tired Port hand gazed up at Mornington and nodded…
“Yessir!”
“Get out! Go make yourself useful at the lighthouse dock…now I’ll need to go get another damn key cut…”
An hour later, Mornington met up with Charlie and the tall blonde woman, and all three gazed at a pile of newly rolled iron sheeting and iron brace holder that had been delivered to the main cave directly below the lift shaft going up into the hotel’s bar…
Charlie was the first to speak…
“Ok boss, I give up, da hell is all this for?”
Mornington grinned and beckoned the other two to follow him.
“All that steel and sheeting is going to be installed here…”
Both the blonde woman and Charlie’s jaw dropped.
“You mean… you are going to cover the entrance to the main cellars in sheet steel?! Isn’t that a bit overboard?”
“Charlie, Charlie, Charlie…” said Mornington as he tutted…
“NOTHING is overboard when it comes to Ginsburg being back in town. With her back in town it means the Gangplank is back in business. With the Gangplank back in business it means she’ll try and stir up trouble with the port boys, with the port boys being swayed it means no more cut cost delivery…and it also means Sir Sir Lord Duke Sir Lighthouse will come scurrying back.”
Mornington tapped out his ornate ivory pipe…
The blonde woman turned around and looked at Vic…
“…but hold on…these back cellars only hold the Chivas…you are going overboard with steel plate to stop folks gaining access to the Chivas?”
Mornington grinned…
“Not folks… just one particular person…”
I’m suddenly glad my lighthouse is out at sea in Vernan, and the hotel is a good distance away from Quarry…
