The NeoVictoria Project presents the 2021 Photo Contest
Calling all Second Life Photographers!
We are hosting a photo contest to celebrate the project’s eleven (11) years in Second Life! The contest is about capturing the spirit of NeoVictoria’s roleplay.
Dates: 15 October to 15 November 2021
Location: The NeoVictoria Estate in Second Life (that’s NeoVictoria and Machinima SIMs).
Abigale Heron with her picture “The game of nothingness”.
The main criteria are the image is related to our storyworld and must be captured during the contest period on the land level of the Machinima SIM or the NeoVictoria SIM in Second Life.
The first round of judging will be by the NeoVictoria community via the Internet. We’ll present the top 15 images in-world for a final vote to determine the twelve winners. In-world voting will be from 7 December to 20 December and will be located in the NeoVictoria SkyClub in Machinima SIM.
Winners will be celebrated in late December at a special party in the NeoLondon SkyClub, date and time to be determined based on the schedules of the winners.
About the Project
About The NeoVictoria Project: NeoVictoria is a unique dark roleplay platform that brings creative people together in a supportive and collaborative environment. Built with a Steampunk aesthetic, 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.
Please join us for an out-of-character town hall. We’ll be discussing the state of the project. We are doing two townhalls, the first for folks in the UK and EU, and the latter for the folks in the Americas.
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
20 September 2021
We are Eleven Years Old!
September 2021 marks the NeoVictoria Project’s tenth anniversary. Over the years, we have transcribed more than two-thousand roleplays to our community website, produced almost one hundred machinimas, sponsored nine Fantasy Faires, and welcomed hundreds of players into our community.
For the next two months, we celebrate this success with a mixture of roleplay and out-of-character events. Everyone is invited, and everyone is welcome. Come and celebrate with us!
Play a victim or play to find a cure!
The NeoVictoria Project presents “The Nightmare“
Ten days of non-stop roleplay! This series begins on Monday, 20 September 2021, when a deadly green fog makes its appearance in the sewers under the city. Everyone is invited to roleplay with us!
SCHEDULE FOR THE SIM-WIDE
Monday, 20 September: Beginnings
Start: 10 AM, SL-time
A green fog appears in certain spots in the NeoLondon sewers. Townfolk begin to feel its effects.
We now have a full flung pandemic, with characters in different stages of the disease. The healer gets caught up.
Location: Apothecary [NeoVictoria SIM]
Saturday, 25 September: Bodies Pile
Start: Noon, SL-Time
The town healer has found a way to stop the progression of the disease by putting the infected into stasis chambers. The main nave of the cathedral becomes the impromptu holding area.
Location: Cathedral of Air and Darkness [NeoVictoria SIM]
Monday, 27 September: Solutions
Start: 10 AM, SL-time
A possible cause it reveals and the search for Doctor Akai commences.
Location: Apothecary [NeoVictoria SIM]
Tuesday, 28 September: Breakthrough
Start: Noon, SL-time
The loci of the infection is revived. Doctor Akai and the mortician contrive a way to revive the townpeople in stasis.
Location: Marketplace [NeoVictoria SIM]
Thursday, 30 September: Wrap Up
Start: 3 PM, SL-time
The treatment is applied to the remaining infected and the fog fades from the sewers.
Location: Cathedral of Air and Darkness [NeoVictoria SIM]
In NeoVictoria, we do free-form roleplay. This means there is no script; scenes evolve out of real-time character interactions. Dark roleplay means characters may act in aggressive, predatory, criminal, and plain uncomfortable ways.
We use a simple dice-based wearable HUD called the NeoVictoria Roleplay Tool; avatars must wear this to see the roleplay chat. The item is free and available in our Visitor Center and various locations on our out-of-character SkyMall.
Players don’t have to be a member of our group to roleplay here; we ask newcomers to 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.]
NeoVictoria’s 2021 Photo Contest
We will use Flickr for submissions. Winners to be announced at a special party at the end of November.
Include your picture in the NeoVictoria Group and the SL Pic of the day Flickr groups.
One picture per avatar.
Runs 15 October to 15 November.
Spend a spooky night in the skyclub.
Halloween Extravaganza 12
NeoVictoria will have a Halloween Costume bash to celebrate one of our favorite holidays. Radio Nightingale will broadcast the event on both Radio Riel Main and Radio Nightingale Steampunk.
Dress your avatar in scary Steampunk, Victorian, Mecha, or Goth style and join us in Machinima SIM. The party is not a formal roleplay event and is open to all adult Second Life residents; however, child avatars are not permitted.
Saturday, 31 October 2020
Time: 6 PM to 9 PM, SL-time (aka Pacific)
Gabrielle Riel to disc jockey.
MadMechaMessiah to host.
There will be prizes for best in male and female costumes!
Henry Fuseli’s “The Nightmare” was created in 1781 and became of the artist’s best known works. He recreated it on several occasions. It suggests what the sleeper feels, not what they see. When planning this SIM-wide, this painting was one of our inspirations.
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
17 September 2021
Radio Nightingale & the NeoVictoria Project present 2021’s “Talk Like a Pirate!” Event!
The skyclub is ready for this year’s Talk Like a Pirate event!
A celebration marking the NeoVictoria Project’s Eleventh Year in Second Life!
This live radio event, broadcast on Radio Nightingales’ Steampunk channel, will celebrate “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”. Gabrielle Riel Morningstar to Disc Jockey. There will be prizes for best costumes! Argh!!!
This year, International Talk Like A Pirate Day is Sunday, 19 September 2021. That date also marks the eleventh 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.
The lucky winners of our “best in” costume contests will receive Lindens!
The music starts at 6 PM, SL-time, with contest voting after 7 PM.
Our “Talk Like a Pirate” party is open to all adult Second Life residents and is not a formal roleplay event.
About Radio Nightingale: Radio Nightingale (formerly known as Radio Riel) is an Internet-based public radio station supported by listeners and sponsors. They produce six audio streams which provide 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.
Contact: 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.
Contact: Asil Ares.
The simulations in Second Life reach almost 5,000 meters. Since the SL viewer has a maximum draw distance of 512 meters, that gives makers the option to create skyplatforms. Last year, the Lab added the ability to change the environmental settings at different elevations. For the project, that meant that we were able to create new planets at different elevations, or new locations to our characters’ homeworld of planet NeoVictoria.
Below are the current platforms and a little about each location. All are 360-degree panorama (equirectangular) snapshots were taken using SL Viewer 6.4.23.563579 – Second Life Project 360 Capture.
The pictures are currently hosted on the Flickr platform because it has the ability to support the 360-degree effect. Click the photo to open a new tab that allows an interactive engagement.
The Visitor Center and Skymall
Here are the first places players visit when they teleport to the estate. It’s out-of-character (OOC) and offers information on what folks need to begin roleplaying with us.
The Port City of NeoLondon [the landlevel]
This is the main roleplay area. We have made a lot of additions to create the effect of a port city surrounded by rolling hills. On this planet, the light is cast by the moon. It is a twilight world. The NeoVictoria SIM has free character rentals and the Machinima SIM has pay-for rentals.
NeoLondon Junkyard and Skyship Port
This is the shipyard, Skyport, and junkyard for NeoLondon.
NeoLondon Fairgrounds and Forest
A favorite place to celebrate the solstices, this location also has extensive forests, secret caves, and sacred trees.
Letwick, Planet NeoEdinburgh
Colonized by people from the highlands of Scotland on Old Earth, NeoEdinburgh is an ocean world with few large landmasses, but thousands of tiny islands.
Strand War Memorial, Planet Greenwell
This planet was almost completely destroyed at the end of the Strand War. This sector of the city has been left as it was at the end of the war and now acts as a museum and memorial to the struggle.
We have exciting events planned for the coming months! Some are in-character (IC) roleplay events, while others are out-of-character (OOC) parties.
Everyone is invited! If you have questions or want to learn more, send us a note via this website or IM Asil Ares in-world.
A Search in New Ledwick (IC)
The captain and the soul-caster lead the NeoLondoners on a search for a missing soul cage. Come play a townsfolk! We are roleplaying this through the end of August.
Talk Like a Pirate! (OOC)
Saturday, 19 September 2021 at 6 PM
A celebration marking the NeoVictoria Project’s eleventh year in Second Life! This live radio event, broadcast on Radio Nightingale’s Steampunk channel, will celebrate “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”. There will be prizes for best in male and female costumes! Argh!!!
Play a victim or play to find a cure!
The Nightmare (IC)
20 September to 30 September
Every year we do a special roleplay cycle to celebrate our anniversary. This year, we’ll be ELEVEN years old! Look for many days of roleplay revolving around a terrible sickness that starts in the mind and ends …well, join us and see!
Photo Contest (OOC)
Begins 15 October and ends 15 November
Open to everyone in Second Life, images must be created in the NeoVictoria estate and relate to our storyworld. The top ten photographers will receive Lindens! The winners will be announced on Halloween.
Spend a spooky night in the skyclub.
Halloween Extravaganza 11 (OOC)
31 October
In association with Radio Nightingale, NeoVictoria is having a Halloween Costume bash to celebrate one of our favorite holidays. Radio Nightingale will broadcast the event over their main channel and we’ll have a costume party in the NeoVictoria Skyclub with a steampunk theme. Dress your avatar in scary Steampunk, Victorian, Mecha, or Goth style and join us in Machinima SIM.
Bonfire Night Masquerade 8 (IC)
5 November
To celebrate the 533rd anniversary of Guy Fawkes Day, the city of NeoLondon plans a gala event. Mr. Fawkes was a famous shapeshifter who used his skills to amass gunpowder (and it was rumored there were other fell objects) beneath the parliament building in 1605. In imitation of Guy, don masks, change your shape and hair, disguise your voice (or rp style) and join in the frivolity.
Clockwerk Gala 6 (IC)
11 November
Often sponsored by local veteran associations, “Clockwerk Galas” are very popular affairs, serving as fund-raisers and recruitment. The most amazing is held every Fall in Old London on Old Earth, it runs a fortnight with the oldest houses vying to raise the most money with fantastical parties and auctions. The “Royal Clockwerk Ball” closes the festivities; its held in Buckingham Slithen and all the Court attends. Here the most valiant of the year’s warriors are awarded the Sidhe Cross.
Yuletide Ball 8 (IC)
21 December
Our traditional end-of-year IC celebration. As ever, tied to the actual Winter solstice!
Lots of roleplay happens that’s not planned, or only planned a week in advance, so join our in-world group or public announcer for as-it-happens alerts!
Please join us for an out-of-character town hall tomorrow (Friday, 20 August 2021)! We’ll be discussing the September anniversary events and the state of the project. We are doing two townhalls, the first for folks in the UK and EU, and the latter for the folks in the Americas.
This is the NeoVictoria Project’s eighth year sponsoring the faire; this year, we’re sponsoring the Fairelands Junction, which is the heart of the faire and the jump-point to all the other regions! All monies raised are donated to the American Cancer Society as part of their Relay for Life fundraiser!
These are out-of-character events where players from the NeoVictoria community will be available to discuss the project, the story-world and how to get involved. [There will even be a stage where folks can practice role-playing!]
From 6 pm to 8 pm, SL-Time (or Pacific-time) Hosted by Asil Ares
The NeoVictoria Project invites all citizens and wanderers of the Fairelands to join us for our Meet-and-Greet in our home on the Somniatoris Arx SIM.
We’ll be chatting with folks about the storyworld, what it’s like to roleplay in NeoVictoria, and how to get involved. These events are Out-of-Character (OOC), so no pressure to roleplay! Also, gifts and games.
From 6 pm to 8 pm, SL-Time (or Pacific-time)
Hosted by Asil Ares
And our LIVE DJ!! Bring your steampunk and dark Victorian fineness. We’ll figure out a clever way to do a contest with the winners benefiting RFL.
From 1 pm to 3 pm, SL-Time (or Pacific-time)
Hosted by MadMechaMessiah
Our gifts to this year’s Relay for Life Vendors!
Neo Victoria – steampunk wall clock – Somniatoris ArxNeo Victoria – Mens T Shirt – Somniatoris ArxNeo victoria – women’s hooded robe – Somniatoris Arx
Another great RFL gift, perfect for your vintage decor.
The only Victorian Steampunk-themed grid-wide hunt in SecondLife is produced by Historical Hunts. This is our 11th year contributing and this year we’re stop 82!
We usually do a mini-hunt: this one features lovely, pirate themed props and accessories!
We have eight gifts staged throughout our Pirate Lair (created exclusively for this hunt!) on the skylevel of NeoVictoria SIM.
Our skylevel is always out-of-character (OOC), so hunters won’t disrupt the roleplay.
Here’s the list:
Large “Wooden” Mesh BeamsUse it as a prop: add sits or place for visual appeal. Perfect to a pirate’s lair or a warehouse picnic.A magical sphere with a pulsing heart. Perfect as a beacon to guide friendlies to your private lair or resize to use a desk lSix barrels of ale stacked on a wooden base. Perfect as décor for your pirate bar or dock.Based on the historic streetlamps of Brighton England, this original mesh creation is perfect for your Victorian or Steampunk builds!The finest ale, barrel sized. Perfect for your pirate ship or bar.Comes in standard mesh sizes, fits mesh bodies with the use of alpha hud.The NeoVictoria Steamhunt Commemorative Calendar returns!
A special thank you to MadMechMessiah and Paisley Dawes for producing this event, and to contributors Studio Yue and Ava Bloodrose Delaney for their generous gifts!
![NeoLondon Junkyard [NeoVictoria SIM]](https://i0.wp.com/live.staticflickr.com/65535/51441387359_ef4933b181_k.jpg?resize=474%2C237&ssl=1)
![NeoLondon Fairegrounds [NeoVictoria SIM]](https://i0.wp.com/live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439946342_529c271b4d_k.jpg?resize=474%2C237&ssl=1)
![Letwick, NeoEdinburgh [NeoVictoria SIM]](https://i0.wp.com/live.staticflickr.com/65535/51439783242_cf39dd842e_k.jpg?resize=474%2C237&ssl=1)
![Planet Greenwell [NeoVictoria SIM]](https://i0.wp.com/live.staticflickr.com/65535/51440837908_cdbe331701_k.jpg?resize=474%2C237&ssl=1)
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