The NeoLondoners, and any out-of-town visitors, gather in the town’s marketplace and town hall to enjoy harvest festival activities (including a moon ride and a corn maze. The evening ends with a tour of the haunted location in NeoLondon, led by one of our citizens.
Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.
– Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Event Description
Mateys …it wer a great success, this coming-together of scurvy dogs and knife-wielding lasses! Capt’n Pearse rolled the pirate tunes on to Radio Riel’s airways, and lessoned the crew on their history. Miss Myomy ran a tight ship, what with all the vote-counting and refusing of bribes. And those dead what could attend, left some rum for the living! Until next year, weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
16 September 2014
Radio Riel & the NeoVictoria Project present 2015’s “Talk Like a Pirate!”
A celebration marking the NeoVictoria Project’s fifth year in Second Life!
This live radio event, broadcast on Radio Riel’s Steampunk channel, will celebrate “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”. Mr. Edward Pearse to Disc Jockey. There will be prizes for best in male and female costumes! Argh!!!
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is Saturday, 20 September 2015 and also marks the fifth anniversary of the NeoVictoria Project in Second Life! To celebrate we’re having a costume party in the NeoVictoria Skyclub and it’s a pirate theme. Radio Riel will broadcast the event over their Steampunk channel with Mr. Edward Pearce as our disc jockey. The lucky he and she to win the “best in” will each receive Lindens! Party starts at 6 PM, SL-time. [The “Talk Like a Pirate” party is open to all adult Second Life residents and is not a formal roleplay event.]
About Radio Riel: An Internet-based public radio station supported by listeners and sponsors, Radio Riel produces six audio streams providing a unique selection of music, spoken-word, drama and additional programming to inform, educate and entertain, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
Website: http://radioriel.org/. Contact for Radio Riel: Gabrielle Riel.
About The NeoVictoria Project: NeoVictoria is a unique dark roleplay platform that brings creative people together in a supportive and collaborative environment. The goal of The NeoVictoria Project is to create a virtuous circle where roleplay becomes filmed story.
Website: http://www.neovictoria.net. Contact for NeoVictoria: Asil Ares.
Art for “Talk Like a Pirate” Party, 2015
Bring your best pirate to the event this Saturday!
A dull thud on the doorstep in the early morning announces the newspaper delivery automaton making his rounds. Its reed-and-brass voice box calls out in the pre-dawn silence, echoing down the cobblestone streets. “Wake up to the News in the Times! Advertisements and Entertainment, too!”
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
5 September 2015
The NeoVictoria Project presents “The Bewitched Carnival”.
Five evenings of non-stop roleplay, celebrating the NeoVictoria Project’s fifth year in Second Life!
This series of roleplay events begins on Monday, 21 September 2015, with a harvest festival that will feature a traveling carnival of the mostly-dead, and a very traditional wickerman. Everyone is invited to roleplay with us!
In NeoVictoria, we do free-form dark roleplay. Free-form means there is no script; scenes evolve out of real-time character interactions. Dark roleplay means characters may act in aggressive, predatory, criminal and/or plain uncomfortable ways. We use a simple dice-based wearable HUD called the Jade Kreations Role Play Tool Suite; avatars must wear this to see the roleplay chat. The item is free and available in our Visitor Center, various locations on our out-of-character skymall, and the SecondLife Marketplace.
Players don’t have to be a member of our group to roleplay here; we do ask newcomers take a tour of the Visitor Center in NeoVictoria SIM to learn about the storyworld before joining in the roleplay. [Observer tags are also available for players who want to visit the land level, but not roleplay.]
SCHEDULE FOR THE SIM-WIDE
Bewitched Carnival: The Harvest Festival Begins
Time: Monday, 21 September 2015 from 6pm to 9pm Location: Marketplace [NeoVictoria SIM] Organized By: Asil Karu Event Description: The NeoLondoners, and any out-of-town visitors, gather in the town’s marketplace (newly outfitted) to enjoy harvest festival activities. The evening ends with a haunted hearse tour, led by one of our citizens.
Bewitched Carnival: The Harvest Festival Welcomes the Carnival
Time: Tuesday, 22 September 2015 from 6pm to 9pm Location: Marketplace [NeoVictoria SIM] Organized By: Asil Karu Event Description: The NeoLondoners, and any out-of-town visitors, gather in the town’s marketplace (newly outfitted) to enjoy harvest festival activities. The evening ends with the arrival of the Bewitched Carnival (a troupe of zombies led by a mysterious ringmaster).
Bewitched Carnival: First Night
Time: Wednesday, 23 September 2015 from 6pm to 9pm Location: Marketplace [NeoVictoria SIM] Organized By: myomy Resident Event Description: The NeoLondoners, and any out-of-town visitors, gather in the town’s marketplace to enjoy an evening of entertainments, performed by the zombie members of the “Carnival of the Bewitched”.
Bewitched Carnival: Second Night
Time: Thursday, 24 September 2015 from 6pm to 9pm Location: Marketplace [NeoVictoria SIM] Organized By: myomy Resident Event Description: The NeoLondoners, and any out-of-town visitors, gather in the town’s marketplace to enjoy an evening of entertainments, performed by the zombie members of the carnival.
Bewitched Carnival: The WickerMan
Time: Friday, 25 September 2015 from 6pm to 9pm Location: Marketplace [NeoVictoria SIM] Organized By: Asil Karu Event Description: Doctor Seito performs a séance and discovers a disturbing secret about the ringmaster that leads to ancient justice.
Art for “The Bewitched Carnival”.
The Bewitched Carnival; the NeoVictoria Project’s series of roleplay events to celebrate our fifth year in SecondLife! [512×512]The Bewitched Carnival; the NeoVictoria Project’s series of roleplay events to celebrate our fifth year in SecondLife! [1024×1024]
Back in 2008, the GOGBOT Festival focused on Steampunk, and for their website Bruce Sterling wrote a landmark thought-piece on what Steampunk is.
Poster from the 2008 GOGBOT Event
That post very much informed Asil’s thinking, when they were developing The NeoVictoria Project. Here’s one of their favorite sections:
“Frankly, the heaviest guys in the steampunk scene are not really all that into “steam.” Instead, they are into punk. Specifically, punk’s do-it-yourself aspects and its determination to take the means of production away from big, mind-deadening companies who want to package and sell shrink-wrapped cultural product.”
GOGBOT recently took their 2008 site off-line, which was a loss to the project, as we would direct people to that essay when they asked us “what kind of Steampunk” we believed in. So, we reached out to Professor Sterling for permission to re-post it here. And, very graciously, he gave us the nod. Thank you, Professor!
We have the repost set as a page on the main side-bar of this site. Here’s the direct link: http://neovictoria.tv/main/steampunk/the-users-guide-to-steampunk/. If you’ve never read it, this is your chance. If it’s been awhile, enjoy a re-read. We’ll leave you with a final quote:
The past is a kind of future that has already happened.
Cyril Wermers’ photo of ‘The Time Cruiser’ from GOGBOT 2008.
A transport dirigible dropped a crate full of mirrors and books, and a magic portrait of the Queen. The portrait broke. Now its magic has escaped, causing the land to lift, and the mirrors to capture some of the recordings the portrait had made.
Players
The NeoVictorians: AsilBindle Resident, Asil Karu, Asil Serpente, GhostFacedKiller Resident, Hmmmph Stenvaag, MadMechaMessiah Resident, NataliaDArtigo Resident, and peacelynxtree Resident.
Credits
This machinima documents the build created for the SLB12 Birthday celebration.
Build by Fianah Mistwood; textures and machinima by Asil Ares.
NeoVictoria made the splash page for the guide this year!
The celebration begins tomorrow; join the fun!
The NeoVictoria Project
Welcome to dark role-play with steampunk style! NeoVictoria is a small community of artists working together to bring their stories out of SL and into the world. The goal is to create a self-sustaining cycle where roleplay becomes filmed story.
Every year, players in Second Life get together to celebrate its birthday: this year, Second Life is twelve years old and the celebration begins on 21 June 2015.
The NeoVictoria Project is honored to be included in the official celebration. Please visit us on SL12B Wonderous, click the link for the SLUrl to our parcel!
About NeoVictoria’s Exhibit
The NeoVictoria Project with its live action simulation on the Second Life platform is a unique dark roleplay environment crafted with a Steampunk aesthetic. The goal of the project is to create a self-sustaining cycle where roleplay becomes filmed story.
The build is based on a plot from our roleplay. Miss Ticka, the proprietress of the tavern, has sent her magic portrait of the Sidhe queen back to Old Earth for servicing. During transport, negligent portal imps dropped its crate from their dirigible. It crashed to ground, along with a crate of mirrors and books; now the magic has escaped, causing the land to lift and the mirrors to capture some of the recordings the portrait had made.
Credits: Fianah Mistwood built the set. Asil Ares and Crosswired Deanimator created some of the textures. Fianah Mistwood made “{BHC} The Queens Mirror” gift. myomy Resident and Jhaesoph Foxdale made the “NeoVictoria Greeting HUD SL12B Edition FP” gift.
In human mythology, worlds are lost (or won) through acts of cowardice and valor. And failures may be overcome through acts of atonement.
In the Neo’verse, there is one race whose actions led to the destruction of the ancient order. Those who remain now do eternal penance for their perceived malfeasance. If there were angels in the Neo’Verse, they would these creatures.
In the Sidhe Empire, we find three kinds of Celestials.
The Ophanim (wandering warriors and scribes),
The Fylgjur (parents and guardians),
and the Nephilim (hybrids).
To learn more about our winged humanoids read the abridged version of “The Celestial Concordance“ posted to this site, join the community website or wander the Visitor’s Center in-world for a wearable book.
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