Welcome to the 7th 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 4th.
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.
Judging and walk around to admire the results will take place on Sunday, APRIL 5th.
This years categories are:
BRIDGE
sponsor: Mosseveno Tenk
land impact: 10 or less
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
The old copper and iron bridges in Babbage Square/Babbage Canals are part of the original build. They weigh in at 32 prims and are made of intersecting torus shapes that are hard on sim performance. It is time for them to go. Winning entry will not necessarily be the entry selected to be added to city inventory. LOD will be a heavy consideration in selection. Bridges should be mildly stretchable and root prim should be to the center of the canal. Please ensure all uploads are full perm.
Stora Canal, behind Capalini Fine Furnishings, between tracks
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Canals/119/130/105
Standard bridge clearance is minimum 4 meters from waterline.
waterline at is 100m except in quarry hill, palisades, and academy of industry, where it is lower.
Wow. great turn out, hotly contested between Lizzy and Myrtil.
1st – Elizabeth Jarvinen
2nd – Myrtil Igaly
3rd – Lady Sumoku
HM – Zantyago Mannonen, who did not disappoint with his penchant for playing with geometry
Lizzy’s bridges will be replacing most of the ones in Babbage Canals. Myrtil’s bridge i have asked to be placed over Grand Canal at Jefferson Way, where we go to watch the fireworks, and i’ve asked for a LOD increase for the sake of the lamps. I may also be requesting Lady and Zan to place their bridges, but not sure where yet. I’ll be getting Henry in after i’m done with my taxes to start pulling out the old stuff.
Tepic will also be receiving a guaranteed letter or recommendation when he comes of age to go to the Academy of Industry for his bridge.
BOOKS
sponsor:
land impact: 10 or less
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
The spines on a bookshelf say a lot about the person who owns them. What do our books say about us? Please do put your entries for sale so folks can add them to their own shelves. You should be able to find mesh book blanks on marketplace if you cannot create your own. Enter early and often, we’ve got a lot of voracious readers here.
Tomanah Hall, rez on center tables
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Square/15/214/106
How much are we meant to sell the books for?
Ah! If you set an object to sale in the properties for 0 Lindens, people can pick the object up by buying it for that sum! Good, quick way of making things available. Course, urchins often pick up the odd trifle that is just lying about, there are so many people who are good to urchins like that, such as leaving fresh pies on their windowsills for any hungry passerby. Tend to be a bit hot though, they should warn people, cus it’s easy ter burn yerself on them fruit pies…….
1st – aÅŸtridh of Ñ’ulya, for her Spiritualist Reference Set
2nd – Dr. Henry Jekyll, for Zombie Attack and other Scientific Oddities of New Babbage
3rd – Steadman Kondor, for the set of books with Clockwork titles
HM- Myrtil Igaly, for The Adventures of Jimmy & Myrtil comicbook
Mayor’s Choice for Humor – Camden McAndrews, for Steampunks of Gor
Please set books for sale so folks can collect them for their shelves (put perms as appropriate for your comfort level). I would encourage everyone to put their stuff on marketplace as perms allow, becuase you never know what people will buy.
I am honoured to recive second place, Mr. Tenk. I’ll make sure the book goes on sale to the general public shortly…
Wait a minute, who’s been defacing my book?
– Dr. Henry Jekyll
FIRE BRIGADE VEHICLES
land impact: 30 (with the understanding that scripts may make it higher)
prizes: L$3000/2000/1500
After the Porthead Fire debacle, it became painfully apparent that our fire brigade is in need of updating. They got new uniforms and equipment, but they still need vehicles that will transport them and their stuff in a timely manner. Vehicles can be designed for land, air, or sea, or a combination of those. Serafina Puchkina may request entries taken in the fire brigade inventory at the end of Oiling Festival.
Clockhaven docks – rez land vehicles on the piers.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Clockhaven/167/91/103
1st – Violet Solano’s fire truck was the clear winner for this one.
2nd – Cody’s fine airship may have done better if not for the untextured pancake prims on the side of the envelope
no third entry, 3rd place purse distributed to winners.
GROCERIES
land impact: 10 per item max
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
Ah, the cuisine of our city. It’s more than just wiggyfish casseroles and beer you know. Why there’s… errrrr…. um…. hmm…..
Show me your groceries! Enter early and often, we’re hungry.
Tomanah Hall, rez on tables on the east side or on wall
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Square/15/214/106
1st – aÅŸtridh of Ñ’ulya for the pots of honey, by a wide margin too!
2nd – Jimmy for the Sootella! mmmm, sootella.
3rd – Chrono Cogshine for the imported fruit from Mondrago, although i am not convinced it is real fruit because it certainly does not taste like the fruit that comes out of cans.
HONKING BIG MACHINE
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, 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 (3 platforms)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Academy%20of%20Industry/185/107/111
GROUP 2 – Port Babbage Waterfront (5 platforms)
1st – The Cabbits, Zaros and Kea, for their Transdimensional Disposal Device. Because you gotta get rid of things.
2nd – Elizabeth Jardin for the municipal air scrubber. Very noble, but we’ll just have to raise production to keep the stacks smoking
3rd – Buckminster Solo for his Automated SIMCONITE Refinery
Honorable Mention to Steadman Kondor for his scary Septopus urchin catcher. That’s one way to get them back to work.
LEGAL DOCUMENTS
land impact: 3
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
Oh dear, that bloody paperwork. No wonder someone keeps burning down the archives. Show me the documents!
Tomanah Hall, rez on tables on the west side or on wall
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Square/15/214/106
1st – Emerson Lighthouse, by a landslide. The Adoption Certificate was the most popular of the set. Very good example of storytelling.
2nd – Dee Wells for the packet of documents from the law firm of D. Vide & Conker
3rd – Tepic Harlequin’s apprenticeship papers
HM – Bun for Mary MacDonald’s prison record
Since I won, that certifies all documents as legitimate, right?
((Thank you))
Congrats Sir, not since Bleak House had legalities provided such wonderful amusement :)
LONG DISTANCE SIGNAL TOWER
sponsor: Central Messenger Depot
land impact: 30
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
Before modern telegraph communication equipment, the only way to relay a message quickly over the mountains was by large impractical signal towers. Many a Babbager who started in the messenger corps fondly remembers the complex codes required, and the thrill (and tedium) of manning remote towers on their own. How can we deny these life building experiences to the youth of today? Rebuild the tower that used to be on the north city wall.
Rampart Wall in Academy of Industry sim
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Academy%20of%20Industry/101/167/117
oh my, it’s like christmas morning up on the rampart wall!
1st – Wulfie
2nd – Myrtil
3rd – MacKnight Culdesac
HM – Tepic, for ingenuity
Wulfie and Myrtil were tied, but Myrtil’s Clack tower was overprim, so i used that as the breaker. Everyone wanted a special recognition to Mr Culdesac for his amazing script that let one input a message into the tower to be flashed across the fells.
Myrtil’s tower will be given a permanent home on the rampart wall, and maybe one out in the fells too to show the begining of the relay chain. i’ll be counting prims tonight to see what we can afford.
they were all great, and you should put them on marketplace. because there’s not enough cool in era builds on marketplace!
MONUMENTS
sponsor: Fr. Juris Pizzaro
land impact: 15
prizes: L$3000/2000/1000
Father Pizzaro, he’s been living here since before the Great Fire, you know, but he’s not as sharp as he used to be. Still, he remembers a lot quite clearly from his younger days, as you would know if you’d ever had tea with him. How much history will we loose with that generation? We better make some monuments, quick!
I am interested in memorials to events that took place in the history of the city (why yes, we really do just make this stuff up), as that gets people talking about the back story and helps introduce new roleplayers to the larger story. Storytelling aspect will have an impact on judging.
Mureaux Park
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Port%20Babbage/232/243/116
1st – Jimmy Branagh for the fabulous dancing goat. You owe the archives the backstory.
2nd – Edward Pearse, for Titus O’Drum, first clockmaker. This will return to where the original monument was derezzed in Clockhaven.
A tie. The of the wreath textures on Mr. Pearse’s monument was flickering, so I used as it the tiebreaker. The wreaths and the inscription would be better burned into the stone as a texture, rather than top placement, as the where not adding an addition 3d element to the object.
I thought I’d fixed the flicker. Never mind. I’ll redo to the base texture before you put it out in Clockhaven.
NATIONAL FLOWER
land impact: 2
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
What does the flora look like? And our national flower, is it even extant in all this pollution? Make a drawing, litho, painting, etc, along with some information about it.
Tomanah Hall, rez on back wall
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Square/15/214/106
Close one!
1st – Myrtil Igaly for the Chymifying Snatchroot (Snatchitae digestivus). The detailed description of the plant turned out to be the tiebreaker.
2nd – Reverend Clarity for the oozing image of the Castor Oil Plant. Very imaginative execution!
Myrtil owes the archives an article about her flower.
Thank you!!!
And here is the article :
http://cityofnewbabbage.com/records/index.php?title=National_Flower
Well done Myrtil! I hope we get mesh flowers blooming and feeding and burping soon :)
POPPET HEAD MINESHAFT
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
While Quarry is now an upmarket residential corner of the City, it was once heavily mined for coal to power the steam machinery. Many of these mines were closed but a few shafts have been kept for display a historical artifact.
For the oiling festival, build a poppet head structure and mineshaft with wince turned by man, animal or engine. We suggest a historically realistic model with a touch of whimsy and working parts.
You are also required to complete a miniature display only model for the Quarry Hill information centre.
Rez on the Fells
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Fells/111/113/112
I have decided to change the land impact limit to 30 , to encourage more details and WOW factor. Looking forward to your builds, citizens!
Only one entry – Jimmy Branagh! Please contact Steadman Kondor about placement of object to final location
PRACTICAL HATS
sponsor: The Cabbits & The NB Guild of Technology, Science, and The Arts
land impact: up to 100
Prizes: L$5000/2000/1000
A practical hat is not only fashionable, it does something useful. You many submit multiple entries, but your total land impact cannot exceed 100.
Rez hats on designated stands.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Square/29/195/106
The winners of the Practical Hat Competition are:
Joint First – Bun for The Van Gogh Teapot Hat and Garnet​ for The ‘Progress’ Crowd Displacement Hat.
Second – Jon Chen for the Gentlemen’s Smoking Fez.
Third – Loki Alphaville for The Engineers Clock Hat.
Congratulations all, the entries were marvelous!
I’m honoured. These were fun entries, so well done all round :o)
Well done Bun and Miss Garnet ! We hope the hats will be available soon!
TAXIDERMY
sponsor: Bone’s Butchery
land impact: 12 or less
prizes: L$ 3000/2000/1000
What does the fauna look like? Kill it, skin it, and mount it, (or if it’s already extinct, steal it) and provide a placard to tell us a little about the beastie. Extra prims will be allowed if you need to put it on some sort of pedestal.
Tomanah Hall – center floor.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Square/16/217/106
Oy! i’m a resident, not fauna! Keep off New Bababge foxes!
1st – Satu Moreau for the museum quality mermaid
2nd – Jimmy for the Giant Wiggyfish
3rd – Chrono Cogshire for the very popluar Dormant Gelatinous Prim
HM – Pumpkin Trisa for the air kraken, though i’m not sure if everyone saw it (look up!)
Mayor’s Choice for Humor – April for Salud! to the rats of NB Sewers, a miniature of two rats sitting down at table to feast on a cockroach
The Mermaid, Wiggyfish, the crow, and Air Kraken deserve to be housed in a museum. I am going to derez the men’s boarding house RFL relic in port babbage have have a RP walk through museum built on that site (who builds fast, hint hint. i’ll pay you), to support whatever Bookworm chooses for her welcome center (Bookworm, tell us what needs to go in there!)