The NeoVictoria Project presents the 2016 Photo Contest
Calling all SecondLife Photographers!
Every year, we host a photo contest and every year, people create the most extraordinary images! As ever, the contest is about capturing the spirit of NeoVictoria’s roleplay for a 2017 calendar.
Dates: 1 December to 31 December 2016
Location: The NeoVictoria Estate in Second Life (that’s NeoVictoria and Machinima SIMs).
“I Aim to Misbehave” by Abigale Heron took 3rd Place in the 2015 NeoVictoria Photo Contest
The main criteria are the image is related to our storyworld and must be captured 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 8 January through 18 January 2017 and will be located in the NeoVictoria SkyClub in Machinima SIM. Winners will be announced on 21 January at a special party in the SkyClub.
corcosman voom’s “Rooftop View” was a finalist in the 2015 Contest!
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.
The NeoVictoria Project presents a Bonfire Night Masquerade.
Remember, Remember the 5th of November Gunpowder, Treason and Plot We see no reason, why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot
An evening of non-stop roleplay, marking the NeoVictoria Project’s Fourth Guy Fawkes Celebration!
This Saturday we have a very special event scheduled: our fourth ever Guy Fawkes Day celebration! To keep the event in-character (I/C), we’ve given the familiar tale a slight retelling, to better fit the Neo-verse.
Our in-character event promises to be great fun, with characters in masks and costumes, the fabulous Lilith spinning tunes, and an unveiling at 11:30 PM (8:30 PM, SL-time) with fireworks!
Forgetting the mask covering the face, Ormolu aims a friendly smile at him. “Is the wine a good vintage, sir? And would you recommend the cake or the little heart pastries?”
If you’d like to dress your character like the Guy, the SL marketplace has some very affordable costumes on sale:
“There is a child in every one of us who is still a trick-or-treater looking for a brightly-lit front porch.”
― Robert Brault
Event Description
We had great fun in the skyclub last night. Gabrielle Riel and Prudence Jekyll brought an eclectic mix of Steampunk, Dark Cabaret, Halloween and Harvest tunes to the Radio Riel airways. Folks brought great costumes and we danced the night away! Special thanks to LucindaJaneStrathmore for managing the event.
T’was spooky fun!
Winners of the Best Female Costume
Janus Rhiadra
LucindaJaneStrathmore Resident
Iliana Cerise
Iliana Cerise
Winners of the “Best in Whatever You Want to Be Contest”
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
30 October 2016
Radio Riel & the NeoVictoria Project present a 2016 Halloween Event
A celebration marking All Hallows’ Eve in Second Life!
This live radio event, broadcast on Radio Riel’s Main channel, will celebrate all things spooky and scary. Gabrielle Riel and Prudence Jekyll will Disc Jockey. There will be prizes for best in male and female costumes!
Halloween is Monday, 31 October 2016 and will be celebrated all around the world with costume parties, bonfires, divination, haunted attractions and trick-or-treating! We’re having a costume party in the NeoVictoria Skyclub and it’s a steampunk theme. Dress your avatar in scary Steampunk, Victorian, Mecha or Goth styles and join us in Machinima SIM. The party is not a roleplay event and is open to all adult Second Life residents, however, child avatars are not permitted.
The lucky he and she to win the “best in” will each receive Lindens! Party starts at 6 PM, SL-time.
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.
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
20 September 2016
The NeoVictoria Project presents “The Return of the Fishmen”.
Four days of non-stop roleplay, celebrating the NeoVictoria Project’s sixth year in Second Life!
This series of roleplay events begins on Tuesday, 20 September 2016, with a terrible explosion that floods the town. 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 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 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
Return of the Fishmen: The Flood
Time: Tuesday, 20 September from 6 pm. Location: White Mansion [NeoVictoria SIM] Event Description: The fishmen steal explosives from Sam’s ship, blow up the white mansion and in the ensuing mayhem, the town is flooded.
Return of the Fishmen: Preparations
Time: Wednesday, 21 September from 6 pm. Location: Marketplace [NeoVictoria SIM]
Event Description: The fishmen start swimming the sewers and get their gear in place under the apothecary, while the townfolk continue to deal with the flood and destruction
Return of the Fishmen: The Mer
Time: Thursday, 24 September from 4 pm. Location: Sewers of NeoLondon [NeoVictoria SIM] Event Description: Mer appear and warn the townfolk of the fishmen’s plans.
Return of the Fishmen: War
Time: Friday, 25 September from 6 pm/ Location: Marketplace Sewers [NeoVictoria SIM] Event Description: The townsfolk, with the help of the Mer, oust the Fishmen and regain control of the town. The waters recede.
The 2016 “Talk Like a Pirate” Party in the Skyclub in Machinima SIM.
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
The Party Was Hopping!
Event Description
Mateys …it wer a great success, this coming-together of scurvy dogs and knife-wielding lasses! Miss Gabrielle Riel rolled the shanty tunes on Radio Riel’s airways, and brought pirates and scallywags from across the Steamlands to the festooned skyclub in Machinima SIM. And those what could attend, left some rum for the latecomers! Until next year, weigh anchor and hoist the mizzen!
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
17 September 2014
Radio Riel & the NeoVictoria Project present 2016’s “Talk Like a Pirate!”
A celebration marking the NeoVictoria Project’s sixth year in Second Life!
This live radio event, broadcast on Radio Riel’s Steampunk channel, will celebrate “International Talk Like A Pirate Day”. Miss Gabrielle Riel to Disc Jockey. There will be prizes for best in male and female costumes! Argh!!!
International Talk Like A Pirate Day is Monday, 19 September 2016 and also marks the sixth 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 Miss Gabrielle Riel as our disc jockey. The lucky he and she to win the “best in” will each receive Lindens! The music starts at 6 PM, SL-time, with contest voting after 8 PM. [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.
A pale jewel drifting through the void, this is the planet Tarlec. A still-glowing ember of the once great Imaja Empire. This reclusive race of self-made, practically immortal, animal-headed humanoids shaped in the likeness of Egyptian deities, were once feared and worshiped as gods across a multitude of worlds for more than a hundred millennia. Now they are a reclusive order of scientists and scholars, observing the ruins of their once vast domain from distant towers within the timeless capitol of Asherat. Forgotten by most, having outlived their subjects and enemies alike, they live in reflection and regret.
Tarlec was settled by the Imaja roughly 60,000 years ago, in the middle of their Imperial Era. The planet had no native inhabitants, being at the time an entirely lifeless world. Imaja technology terra-formed enough so that life could survive. It was chosen to serve as a monastery for the Imaja; designated as a place to purify self and soul of the corrupting influences of the opulent lifestyle they enjoyed elsewhere. The Imaja Empire fell around 2000 B.C., following a cataclysmic war with an unnamed enemy (their name quite literally cannot be found in any records), all of the other Imaja worlds were destroyed, including Irtyu (their home-world), leaving Tarlec as their only remaining planet.
Desert Planet [Credits: Araxes SIM]Tarlec is a small, Mars-sized planet that orbits a red dwarf star, shrouded in veils of interstellar dust, far out on the frontier of the Sidhe Empire. Covered in a yellow-orange coating of sand and silt, interrupted occasionally by vast mountain ranges of dense gray stone, it is an inhospitable place. It has no open bodies of water, no glaciers at its poles, and nothing green grows there. Its days are hot and its nights are terribly cold.
The few ancient cities that can be found are nestled amidst the mountains or lie within craters, usually covered by force-domes to keep out the dust stirred by the frequent, massive sandstorms which rage across the plains. The cities are inhabited almost exclusively by the Imaja. As their sole remaining world, it houses their vast libraries, as well as the deeply buried necropolises which preserve their dead in eternal sleep. All of their crops and livestock are grown within greenhouses contained in the cities. The largest city on the planet is its capitol, Asherat. From there, the planet and its people are ruled by the theocratic council of nine Hierarchs, near-godlike beings who see themselves as the living embodiment of heavenly order and perfection.
Dr. Seito At The Gates [Credits: Araxes SIM]There are some settlements populated by other species; they are buried deep in valleys dotted with caves that lead down to strata where groundwater can be tapped and at some crops grown. These include humans, djinn, naga, and the rare, hardy thereanthrope. It is through these communities that most of the trading is done with other worlds, and those traders, in turn, sell items of interest to the Imaja. Sometimes direct trade with the Order is possible, but only through carefully negotiated terms, as they generally do not communicate directly with outsiders.
Tarlec is difficult to reach by ship, the routes leading there being full of navigational hazards, and its system is still patrolled by ancient automated sentinels which will attack unauthorized ships. Portals can be arranged for safer and more direct travel, but only with the approval of the Imaja or one of their chosen ambassadors.
Dr. Seito Watches [Credits: Araxes SIM]Their planet’s remote location and formidable defenses make it a costly and impractical target for the Sidhe Empire, so an uneasy truce has been in place for the past century since the sidhe became aware of it.
