Welcome to the 4th Annual New Babbage Oiling Festival! We hope you will have time to visit and build!
A message from Clockwinder Mosseveno Tenk, Mayor of New Babbage:
The Oiling Festival is a steampunk answer to spring cleaning, when we halt the factories to clean out the grit and grime of the previous year and perform our annual maintenance. All good citizens and visiting steamlanders are encouraged to roll up their sleeves, show their national pride, and participate! 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 for a week. The drawbridges in Wheatstone Waterways, the city tartans, naval jack, the Sea Gate, and the palettes of bricks that appear at every build site and the crates of goods on the piers are all artifacts of previous Oiling Festivals.
Festival Opens at noon, Friday, March 9th. Building stops Saturday evening, March 24th, so we all have time to clean up for the Steamfitter's Industrial Gold Themed Ball at Piermont Landing.
You may use any building techinique at your disposal, including mesh. 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, March 25th.
(To get a feel for what the Oiling Festival is all about, please enjoy this video of last year's festivities and a right nice photograph of a Big Honking Machine!)
YouTube: The Third New Babbage Oiling Festival
This years categories are:
CURRENCY
Sponsor: The First Security Bank of New Babbage
Land impact: 0
Prizes: eternal glory.
The Quatloo has been a topic of much discussion lately, as it is the coin of choice for which to make a wager. But did you know that the Quatloo is actually an archaic Imperial unit that is not in actually minted in the post-imperial New Babbage? Yes, its true, a quatloo is worth about... about....
And there's the problem. What is our currency called? The new? The old? What does it look like? Tell me a tall tale, it just might be true. The best elements presented will find thier way into an official wiki article in the Archives and become part of city lore.
Post your responses here
HAND TOOLS
Sponsor: Coffin Makers and Joiners Co-Operative Society
Land impact: 20
Prizes: 2000/1500/1000
This is New Babbage. Do I really need to explain this one? Tools should be ready-to-wear.
Place on central table in Tomonah Hall
HONKING BIG MACHINE
Sponsor: Mosseveno Tenk
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 25x25 meter platform, have a land impact of no more than 100, and must include operating instructions. 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 - Academy of Industry, Builder's Square. 3 platforms
GROUP 2 - Port Babbage waterfront. 4 platforms
GROUP 3 - Clockhaven Harbor. 3 platforms
HOUSEBOATS
Sponsor: Consolate of Europa Wulfenbach
Land impact: 117
Prizes: L$3000/2000/1000
There is a serious lack of comfortable live-aboard boats and airships that are appropriate to the Steamlands. Build a houseboat with a land impact of 117 or less. Your boat must fit inside a 16x32 or 12x32 berth. Build only in marked berths. Claim your spot by rezzing a prim. There are phantom guides under the water to help you find your perimeter. DO NOT MAKE YOUR VESSEL A DRIVEABLE VEHICLE, there have been numerous object return accidents around town with people driving high prim airships over private parcels.
At the end of the festival. the berths with the vessels on them will be auctioned off for RFL. Two week of tier will go with the berths. It is entirely up to the builder on whether or not the vessel will be transfered to the winners of the auctions.
Montrutiol Marina, Vernian Sea
IMPERIAL FLAG & SYMBOLS (REDUX)
Sponsor: The Church of the Builder
Land impact: 1
Limit: 5 per person
Prizes: L$ 2000/1000/500
As we dig into our past, we learn more and more of the Old Empire. While Babbage was not the capitol city, the Imperial era, which ended over 150 years ago, left an indelible mark on our culture. But what did the flag of the Old Empire look like? We know the primary colors were gold and red, but that is all anyone can remember. Design a flag that represents the Imperial Past, and hang it on the wall at Tomahna Hall. 1 prim. You may include a notecarder in your entry to describe your choices.
Note: this category was offered last year, but the results were mixed. Since this is such a looming component in the created backstory that has been developing over the past 5 years, I decided to postpone it to give the finalists a second shot at it, then one of them lost his harddrive. There was heavy use of the double-headed eagle in some of last years entries, which a lot of people did not like because the symbol is too closely associated with real world countries and empires. Let's have another go at it, I'm sure someone is going to hit it this time.
Place on central table in Tomonah Hall
IMPORTS/EXPORTS
Sponsor: Mosseveno Tenk
Land impact: 5
Prizes: L$ 2000/1000/500
What does the city of industry export? What do we import from the other Steamlands? Whatever it is, it should be stacked in crates and pallets along the waterfront and on the freight platforms. Make a crate or other object of export. Limit 5 prims per object. Limit 5 entries per person. Entries will be full perm and may be added to City inventory, and placed in the Engineer's freebie object giver at the close of the festival.
Place entries on the upper quaywall in front of The Porthead Tavern and Shops
LIBATIONS
Sponsor: Ahab's Bane Tavern
Land impact: 8
Prizes: 1000/500/250
Building is thirsty work, standing up on that platform all night with your best bud, pushing that prim around in circles. And where better to slip in for a drink but Ahabs? Everyone will know you've been there by the lingering odor that will get in your clothes.
Create a drink to help give Ahab's that special atmospheric touch, be it related to whaling or a specialty drink. Limit 3 entries per person.
Ahab's Bane Tavern
P-MAIL TERMINALS
Sponsor: Scottie "Baron" Melnik
Land impact: 3 or less.
Prizes: L$ 1000/500
This one is for the sculptors. We need some very low prim pneumatic delivery system terminals so people will use them. Anything that gives people an excuse to run pipes through the living room can't be a bad thing.
New Babbage Pneumatic Delivery Central Station
PARK BENCHES
Sponsor: The New Babbage Ladies' Society For The Appreciation Of All That Is Proper
Land impact: 10
Prizes: L$ 2000/1500/1000
Because everyone deserves an elegant place to sit after a long day of admiring the Oiling Festival. Entries will be judged on appearance, animations, and script time.
Rutherford Park, Academy of Industry
PERIODICALS
Sponsor: Jedburgh30 Dagger
Land impact: 2
Prizes: 2000/1000/500
What do we buy at the newstand? What professional journals do Babbagers subscribe to? In short, what is sitting on our nightstands waiting to be read? Surely we have something better to peruse than the Canal Street Snitch!
Create a cover for a book, magazine, newspaper, or other periodical. Display your 2D creation as a poster so it is easily seen. You may also rez a 3D version of the periodical nearby to show it as a realistic object.
Place on central table in Tomonah Hall
PORTRAIT: HEROIC VALVE TURNERS
Sponsor: Piermont Landing
Land impact: 6
Prizes: L$1000/700/500
This year's portrait contest is HEROIC VALVE TURNERS, which you can interpret any way you want. Mount your portrait in a fancy frame (that's why I threw in a few more prims) and put it on one of the easels on the deck at Piermont Landing.
STATUE FOR A BREWERY
Sponsor: Rookswood Brewery & Bottling Company
Land impact: 100
Max dimesions: 10x10x10
Prizes: L$1000/750/500
The brewery is based of a real one that used to reside in Baltimore MD. (http://baltimorehistorybits.blogspot.com/2011/10/john-f-weissner-sons-brewery-aka.html ). The statue that used to reside on it was one of King Gambrinus, the Patron Saint of Beer (as seen in further pictures in the link provided).
The idea for Babbage is to create a statue that represents Babbage and Beer in the same sense King Gambrinus does. Many have suggested that we create a statue of Emperor Crumb, but I am not going to even limit it to him as long as it represents what is stated above.
Winning entry will become a permanent fixture of the Brewery.
Rookwood Brewery and Bottling.
STREET SIGNS
Sponsor: Mosseveno Tenk
Land impact: 1
Limit: 5 per person
Prize: 1000/750/500
Want to know why there is no street signs? Because Mr. Tenk got tired of making them. Make a street sign, you can use any name (real or wishful) you like in your example. There are still unnamed streets here and there, so wishful signs could be noticed by the powers that be.
Mr. Tenk will pick one sample and award a contract to make new street signs. If picked, you will recieve 10,000 lindens plus upload fees.
Place on central table in Tomonah Hall
TOWERS
Sponsor: Mosseveno Tenk
Land impact: 100
Prizes: L$2000/1000/500
During the North Fells sandbox week, elegant towers appeared in the lonely expanses north of the city. Build a tower. It should probably do something, but it doesn't have to.
North Fells Build Point
WHALE OIL
Sponsor: Ahab's Revenge Whale Oil Company
Land impact: 5
Prizes: L$1000/500/250
What is an Oiling Festival without oil? Build an object related to whale oil. Whale oil, the natural resource that needs no expensive and polluting factory refining or processing. Exploit it while you can, or someone else will.
Ahab's Revenge Whale Oil Company
