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Official announcements with detailed information about activities in NeoVictoria or major changes in the project.

Activities & Announcements, SkyClub Events

Radio Riel and the NeoVictoria Project present the 2017 “Talk Like a Pirate!” Event!

17 September 2017 Asil Ares Leave a comment

PRESS RELEASE
 For Immediate Release
 17 September 2017

Radio Riel & the NeoVictoria Project present 2017’s “Talk Like a Pirate!”

A celebration marking the NeoVictoria Project’s seventh 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!!!

Date: Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Time: 6:30 pm to 9 pm, Pacific-time (Second Life-time)
Location: The NeoVictoria SkyClub in Second Life [Machinima SIM]
SLUrl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Machinima/98/127/703

International Talk Like A Pirate Day is Tuesday, 19 September 2017 and also marks the seventh 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 main channel and their Steampunk channel with Miss Gabrielle Riel as our disc jockey. The lucky he and she to win the “best in” costume contest will each receive Lindens! The music starts at 7 PM, SL-time, with contest voting after 8 PM. [Our“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, 2017

Activities & Announcements, SkyClub Events

Invitation to the NeoVictoria 2016 Photo Contest

1 December 2016 Asil Ares Leave a comment

For Immediate Release
Thursday, 1 December 2016

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).

SLUrl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Machinima/95/127/704

Prizes:

1st Place – L$5000
2nd Place – L$3000
3rd Place – L$2000
4rd Place – L$1000
5th Place through 12thPlace – L$250 each

“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.

To read the official rules, visit the NeoVictoria 2016 Photo Contest discussion in our Koin-Up group.

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 — 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.

Art for NeoVictoria 2016 Photo Contest

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Activities & Announcements, Roleplays

Invitation to the 2016 Bonfire Night Masquerade

4 November 2016 Asil Ares Leave a comment

The NeoVictoria Project presents a Bonfire Night Masquerade.

GuyFawkes Poster — 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.

Time: Saturday, 5 November 2016 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, SL-time
Location: Victoria Tavern [NeoVictoria SIM]
Event Type: in-character party (known, and unknown, characters welcome)
Organized By: Lucinda Jane Strathmore Resident
DJ: Lilith Vinciolo
SLUrl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/NeoVictoria/144/218/28

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:

We’re inviting new players to this event and we’re hoping to get a large crowd of regulars together for some IC fun.

Times15_Pg06 — Page six of the NeoLondon Times, volume 15.

Here’s more in-character history for the event.

http://neovictoria.tv/neo-verse-storyworld/who-is-guy-fawkes/

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Activities & Announcements, SkyClub Events

Radio Riel and the NeoVictoria Project present a 2016 Halloween Event!

30 October 2016 Asil Ares Leave a comment

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!

Date: Monday, 31 October 2016
Time: 6 pm to 9 pm, Pacific-time (Second Life-time)
Location: The NeoVictoria SkyClub in Second Life [Machinima SIM]
SLUrl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Machinima/72/127/703

2016 Halloween advert — Join us in the skyclub

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.

Radio Riel will broadcast the event over their Main channel with Gabrielle Riel and Prudence Jekyll as our Disc Jockeys.

The lucky he and she to win the “best in” will each receive Lindens! Party starts at 6 PM, SL-time.

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Roleplays

The NeoVictoria Project presents “The Return of the Fishmen”

20 September 2016 Asil Ares 1 Comment

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!

SLUrl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/NeoVictoria/134/202/752

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.

Art for “Return of the Fishmen”.

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Activities & Announcements, SkyClub Events

Radio Riel and the NeoVictoria Project present the 2016 “Talk Like a Pirate!” Event!

16 September 2016 Asil Ares 1 Comment

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!

Date: Monday, 19 September 2016
Time: 6 pm to 9 pm, Pacific-time (Second Life-time)
Location: The NeoVictoria SkyClub in Second Life [Machinima SIM]
SLUrl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Machinima/98/127/703

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.]

Art for “Talk Like a Pirate” Party, 2016

Activities & Announcements

Our Gifts for SLB13

Image 17 June 2016 Asil Ares Leave a comment

Our Gift for this Year’s Big Hunt!

This year, Tarquin Evermore made some really nifty decorative gears …just perfect for your steampunk lifestyles! They have resizer scripts and the center is scripted so the texture moves and flashes. [It’s very dramatic.] We have then staged at the corners of our build in SLB13 Electrify. Happy hunting!

To learn more about this year’s hunt, visit the official SLB 13 website; here’s the link. And, if you see Rosamoo Mendelsohn in-world, give them a hug and shout-out, ’cause producing a hunt this big is a tremendous labor of love. Thanks, Rosamoo!

When you see this texture in-world, it means that parcel is participating in the hunt.

Activities & Announcements

Happy 13th Birthday, Second Life!

14 June 2016 Asil Ares Leave a comment

About NeoVictoria’s Exhibit

This year our build is a Steampunk-styled cinema, the lower level is open so folks who walk by can see information about the kinds of creatures who live in our storyworld, and the upper-level is the cinema itself, streaming five of the many machinima-movies we’ve made over the years.

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.

We’re So Pleased to be Included in SLB13!

Every year, players in Second Life get together to celebrate its birthday: this year, Second Life is thirteen years old and the celebration begins on Sunday, 19 June 2016.

The NeoVictoria Project is honored to be included in the official celebration. Please visit us on SL13B Electrify, click the link for the SLUrl to our parcel!

Credits: Asil Ares built the set. Asil and Fianah Mistwood made some of the textures. Tarquin Evermore made the hunt gifts.

Want more? Please visit us in-world or check out public website at http://www.neovictoria.net.

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Activities & Announcements, FantasyFaire

A Fantasy Faire Thank You for 2016

9 May 2016 Asil Ares Leave a comment

Crom Dubh Rides to Victory in FF Serenity

FantasyFaire2016 ended last Sunday: it raised almost eight million Lindens (that’s more than US$30,000) for Relay-For-Life and the fight against cancer.

This amazing number only happened because people cared enough to volunteer hundreds of hours of time to create content which drew players from all of Second Life.

This year, NeoVictoria sponsored the Serenity SIM and produced a new roleplay cycle. We’re taking a moment to publicly thank the people in our community who worked so hard to make “The Sidhe and the Soul-Eater” such a spectacular success!

Studio Yue stayed up late too many nights, making the machinimas that tracked our roleplay in almost real-time. Watch all of them here. This is the third year they have made these really special chronicles of the story! [And, they also made some lovely steampunky Relay-for-Life gifts.]

JulianEastman brought a sense of whimsy to Sir Karl Twinewood, the Sidhe Automaton, which made the loss of that character even more heartbreaking.

LurkingNightTerror took the idea of the mythological dullagan to make their Crom Dubh a formidable soul-caster within the confines of our storyworld. It is always wonderful to watch people build the lore!

thefireoflife Resident as the Soul-Eater developed a very powerful, very frightening character that was amazing to roleplay with. “She was greeted by his voice …broken whispers layered one over another …sickeningly sweet, nearly alluring, but for the taunts it made …the promising threats of what it could do to her body and her spirit.”

Hmmmph Stenvaag created a special edition of the NeoLondon Times, so we had an in-character prop to give to faire-goers during our time in Serenity. If you haven’t read it, here’s the link.

Jhaesoph Foxdale made the shadow-imp avatar; these were great roleplay foils and one of our Relay-for-Life gifts, so any of the fairegoers could join the fun!

Tarquin Evermore crafted a beautiful mesh & prim fantasy skirt, fit for a steampunk queen, as one our Relay-for-Life gift.

Fianah Mistwood created spectacular “mirrors” for each of the races in our storyworld; they were the highlight of the information section in our build in Serenity!

Our Roleplay Cycle for Fantasy Faire 2016

And, all of these players joined in the roleplays, that became the movies, that was “The Sidhe and the Soul-Eater“:

abigalekirin Resident as Kotter Keen;
Akai Scorpio as Doctor Seito Akai;
AlyssTheMenace Resident as Prelate Leonora Blackmore;
Asil Ares as a shadow-imp;
Asil Karu as Healer Asil Karu and Cerridwen~in~chains;
Belial Darwinian as Belial (an agent of Chaos);
GhostFacedKiller Resident as a shadow-imp;
Hmmmph Stenvaag as a shadow-imp;
Jhaesoph Foxdale as Toymaker Foxdale;
JulianEastman as Sir Karl Twinewood (the Sidhe automaton);
LucindaJaneStrathmore Resident as Lucinda Strathmore;
LurkingNightTerror Resident as Crom Dubh;
MadMechaMessiah Resident as Rampart Haskell Faustus;
Marchioness Resident as Marchioness Honoria Wallingford;
Ogawa Resident as Theodore Wraithwood;
peacelynxtree Resident as Lynx Tree and several shadow-imps;
SteampunkGreis Resident as Greis Ironhart;
Tarquin Evermore as Samuel Bellamy and several shadow-imps;
thefireoflife Resident as the Soul-Eater;
Treyhem Whitfield as Captain Treyhem Sleipnerson;
ValentineAdler Resident as Auditor Valentine ‘Val’ Adler; and
Xiuhcohtl Balazic as Anya “Ginger” Greer.

Congratulations everyone for a job well done; you are some of the most generous people I have known; you make The NeoVictoria Project one of the best roleplay environment in Second Life!

Activities & Announcements, FantasyFaire

Our Relay-for-Life Gifts for Fantasy Faire 2016

Gallery 24 April 2016 Asil Ares Leave a comment

For the third year in a row, the NeoVictoria Project is proud to sponsor a SIM for Fantasy Faire. This year, we’re sponsoring the Serenity SIM.

In addition to sponsoring the cost of the SIM, members of our community also made some very special items just for the Faire!

Purchase them at the Relay-for-Life vendors on the second level in our build on Serenity.

Come join in the chaos in Serenity! Comes with optional built-in, bump-driven health meter.