Historical Hunts, Ltd. presents STEAM X. Steam: The Dream. 1-31 March 2015
The only Victorian Steampunk-themed grid-wide hunt in SecondLife is produced by Historical Hunts. This is our fifth year contributing and this year we’re stop 95.
We always do a mini-hunt: this one may be the best one ever!
We have nine gifts staged throughout our Visitor’s Center 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:
2015 Souvenir Calendar
Dreaming of Steam Orb
Prison Sphere ~ Sidhe Trap
NeoVictoria’s Steamy Dreamboat
Prison Sphere ~ Nyx Trap
NeoVictoria’s Steamy Dreamboat ~ Pirate Edition
Steampunk Covered Seat
Prison Sphere ~ Loam Trap
and the NeoVictoria Toast and Drink HUD Steam X Special Edition with mesh wine glass.
Every year, we do a commemorative calendar for the Steam Hunt that fits its theme. This year’s is packed with dreamy images from our Steampunk storyworld.This mesmerizing prop contains a simple meditation sit, perfect for the conjurer, dreaming worlds.Magical traps to keep the fae at bay; one for the Sidhe, one for the Nyx and one for the Loam. The trick is getting them into the traps …but that is for you to roleplay.This charming vessel can roam the land or the seas! Rezz, then sit. The avatar on the chest at back drives, but there are sits for all, including a tiny sit on the treasure chest.This pirate vessel can roam the land or the seas! Rezz, then sit. The avatar on the chest at back drives, but there are sits for all, including a tiny sit on the treasure chest.In the NeoVictoria storyworld, magic and technology come together to serve the needs of the citizenry. Rather than harnessing the powers of oil or the atom, they have devised a way to capture the essence of a creature (some might call it the spirit or soul) to use as an energy source. Here in this covered seat, a captive soul within a crystal container is used to make light in the covering above the seat.Welcome to the NeoVictoria Steam X Drinking and Toast HUD! This device was initially made as a roleplay aid, but can also be used to easily animate your avatar while holding unscripted drinks! Includes an unscripted, modifiable mesh wine glass!
Credits: As always, the items were built by members of our community. Thanks to Tarquin Evermore for the boats and the dream orb; to Vic Titanium for the scripts that drive the boats; to QuarkZen for the covered seat; to OhDearMe and Jhaesoph Foxdale for the HUD; to Asil Ares for the traps and calendar; and to Myomy for the mesh wine glass. Special mention to MadMechaMessiah & DarlaDoll for crafting the hints!
The NeoVictoria Project & Brightest Day Productions proudly present . . .
BILLI & THE STEAMERS!!!
In concert this Friday, at the NeoVictoria SkyClub in Machinima SIM!
Get your Steampunk on as Billi & The Steamers bring you an exciting show of Suffragette Rock-rousing tunes by female artists and bands from Cyndi Lauper and Pattie Smith to Vixen and Heart! Don your best goggles, clockwork coats and steam-powered boots, and get ready to rock to an electrifying, Tesla-coil-driven, steamy performance! Billi & the Steamers are BilliAnn Bravin, Corolla Korobase, Christine Ballyhoo, and JKL7008 Trevellion, and they are ready to rock you for the new year!
Time: Friday, 16 January 2015 from 6:30 pm to 8:15 pm, SL-Time
Location: The NeoVictoria Skyclub in Machinima SIM in Second Life
Steampunk Suffragette Rock band, Billi & the Steamers.
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 the 2014 Photo Contest
Contest runs the entire month of December.
Calling all SecondLife Photographers!
We had such fun doing photo contests in previous years, we’re doing it again this December! The contest is about capturing the spirit of NeoVictoria’s roleplay for a 2015 calendar.
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 9 January through 16 January 2015 and will be located in the NeoVictoria SkyClub in Machinima SIM. Winners will be announced on 20 January at a special party in the SkyClub.
Gloria Silverstone’s “Big Top” won first prize in the 2012 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.
About the Roleplay: 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 that characters often 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 roleplay chat. The item is free and available in the out-of-character skymall.
Players do not have to be a member of our group to roleplay here; we 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.]
About Our Storyworld: in the Neo’Verse, the Sidhe (fae) never faded, but worked with … some would say ruled over …their human charges until the Sidhe Empire spanned the known universe. So many races exist: faeries, demons and clockwerk constructs (powered by gears and magic), humans, vampires, werebeasts and celestials. All held against the ravages of time by magic, intrigue and human ingenuity.
Planet NeoVictoria (where our characters play) is a small planet, nestled in the VICO III galaxy, its citizenry cling to the land and sky, for its vast oceans are home to forces that do not heed the crown. But some are loyal to the Sidhe queen who sits on her throne billions of light-years away. Alexandrina Victoria Tuatha Dé Danann, Queen of Earth, Empress of the Void: one tap of her tiny foot on the Stone of Scone sets the worlds to shake. It’s 2130 and Pax Britannica has held sway for more than three thousand years.
a Clockwerk Gala to Honor the Veterans of the Sidhe Empire
An evening of roleplay, celebrating the Sidhe empire’s clockwerk warriors!
This Tuesday, we have an exciting event scheduled: our first ever clockwerk ball!
Time: Tuesday, 11 November 2014 from 6pm to 9pm, SL-time Location: Cathedral of Air & Darkness, NeoLondon [NeoVictoria SIM] Event Type: in-character party (known, and unknown, characters welcome) Organized By: Kitiarafox & Fianah Mistwood SLUrl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/NeoVictoria/17/128/1004
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; it’s held in Buckingham Slithen and all the Court attends. Here the most valiant of the year’s warriors are awarded the Sidhe Cross.
Kitiara Fox; sidhe and housekeeper for Miss Tickta at the tenement.
The NeoLondoners are planning one evening of celebration, in the nave of the great Cathedral. All clockwerks are welcome. Miss Tikta and Miss Kit are hosting, with all proceeds going to the local veteran’s association. [This is roleplay; no actual money is being raised.]
Miss Tickta, proprietress of the NeoLondon tenement
and Strand Constructs (golems of pure machine consciousness).
To learn more about how to play a clockwerk character in the Neo’Verse, read the excerpt on the Cyborg Concordance on this site and join in the fun!
About the Roleplay: 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 that characters often 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 roleplay chat. The item is free and available in the out-of-character skymall.
Players do not have to be a member of our group to roleplay here; we 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.]
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
3 November 2014
The NeoVictoria Project presents a Bonfire Night Masquerade.
A Guide for Tourists and Townsfolk
An evening of non-stop roleplay, marking the NeoVictoria Project’s Second Guy Fawkes Celebration!
This Wednesday we have a very special event scheduled: our second 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 into the Neo-verse.
Time: Wednesday, 5 November 2014 from 6pm to 9pm, SL-time Location: NeoLondon Town Hall [NeoVictoria SIM] Event Type: in-character party (known, and unknown, characters welcome) Organized By: Myomy Resident and Asil Karu SLUrl: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/NeoVictoria/17/128/1004
Our in-character event promises to be great fun, with characters in masks and costumes, with an unveiling at Midnight (9 PM, SL-time) and fireworks!
If you’d like to dress your character like the Guy, the SL marketplace has some very affordable costumes on sale:
About the Roleplay: 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 that characters often 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 roleplay chat. The item is free and available in the out-of-character skymall.
Players do not have to be a member of our group to roleplay here; we 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.]
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.
About Our Storyworld: in the Neo’Verse, the Sidhe (fae) never faded, but worked with … some would say ruled over …their human charges until the Sidhe Empire spanned the known universe. So many races exist: faeries, demons and clockwerk constructs (powered by gears and magic), humans, vampires, werebeasts and celestials. All held against the ravages of time by magic, intrigue and human ingenuity.
Planet NeoVictoria (where our characters play) is a small planet, nestled in the VICO III galaxy, its citizenry cling to the land and sky, for its vast oceans are home to forces that do not heed the crown. But some are loyal to the Sidhe queen who sits on her throne billions of light-years away. Alexandrina Victoria Tuatha Dé Danann, Queen of Earth, Empress of the Void: one tap of her tiny foot on the Stone of Scone sets the worlds to shake. It’s 2130 and Pax Britannica has held sway for more than three thousand years
Art for “Bonfire Night Masquerade”.
Remember, Remember the 5th of November Gunpowder, Treason and Plot We see no reason, why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
21 September 2014
The NeoVictoria Project presents “Wild Hunt for a Bad Robot”.
Five evenings of non-stop roleplay, marking the NeoVictoria Project’s fourth year in Second Life!
This series of roleplay events begin on Monday, 22 September 2014, with a call-to-arms that all NeoVictorians find, subdue and bring to justice mad Professor Timmon’s creation. We conclude with a celebratory party on Friday, 26 September 2014.
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 that characters often 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 roleplay chat. The item is free and available in the out-of-character skymall.
Players do not have to be a member of our group to roleplay here; we 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.]
Have you seen this robot?
SCHEDULE FOR THE SIM-WIDE
Bad Robot: The Hunt Begins
Time: Monday, September 22, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm, SL-time
Location: Marketplace, NeoLondon [NeoVictoria SIM]
Organized By: Asil Karu
Event Description: The healer bring the townfolk together to hunt the robot down.
Bad Robot: Cerridwen and the Angry Motes
Time: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 from 6:30pm to 9pm
Location: Cerridwen’s Chamber, NeoLondon Cathedral [NeoVictoria SIM]
Organized By: Asil Karu
Event Description: Cerridwen has cast thousands of runes since her systems were infected; has she finally found a permanent solution to the mote infestation?
Bad Robot: The Scrambler
Time: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 from 6:30pm to 9pm
Location: The Cathedral of Air & Darkness [NeoVictoria SIM]
Organized By: Jhaesoph Foxdale
Event Description: Timmons has said his goodbyes to the robot he made, and has come up with a solution to neutralize its damaged intelligence. Will the hunting party be able to deliver it before the robot’s borrowed motes create a disaster?
Bad Robot: The Hunt Concludes
Time: Thursday, September 25, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: Marketplace, NeoLondon [NeoVictoria SIM]
Organized By: Val Adler
Event Description: Armed with a way to subdue the robot, the NeoVictorians again take to the streets and sewers to hunt the creature down.
Bad Robot: A Celebratory Event
Time: Friday, September 26, 2014 from 6pm to 9pm
Location: Tavern [NeoVictoria SIM]
Organized By: Myomy
Event Description: The NeoLondon Times will sponsor a celebratory party when the robot is re-captured.
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.
A bit about our storyworld: in the Neo’Verse, the Sidhe (fae) never faded, but worked with … some would say ruled over …their human charges until the Sidhe Empire spanned the known universe. So many races exist: faeries, demons and clockwerk constructs (powered by gears and magic), humans, vampires, werebeasts and celestials. All held against the ravages of time by magic, intrigue and human ingenuity.
Planet NeoVictoria (where our characters play) is a small planet, nestled in the VICO III galaxy, its citizenry cling to the land and sky, for its vast oceans are home to forces that do not heed the crown. But some are loyal to the Sidhe queen who sits on her throne billions of light-years away. Alexandrina Victoria Tuatha Dé Danann, Queen of Earth, Empress of the Void: one tap of her tiny foot on the Stone of Scone sets the worlds to shake. It’s 2130 and Pax Britannica has held sway for more than three thousand years
Celestials you will find and other servants of the Light. But always, there is the balance. So gentle traveler, as you walk the streets of NeoLondon, be wary …for the sky is dark and the fair queen is far away.
Art for “Wild Hunt for a Bad Robot”.
Wild Hunt for a Bad Robot Five evenings of roleplay fun, beginning Monday, 22 September 2014Wild Hunt for a Bad Robot Five evenings of roleplay fun, beginning Monday, 22 September 2014
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
12 September 2014
Radio Riel & the NeoVictoria Project present “Talk Like a Pirate!”
A celebration marking the NeoVictoria Project’s fourth 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 Friday, 19 September 2014 and also marks the fourth 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, gift cards …and possibly, an airship! 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, 2014
Radio Riel & the NeoVictoria Project present “Talk Like a Pirate!” on 19 September 2014 in the NeoVictoria SkyClub in Machinima SIM in SecondLifeRadio Riel & the NeoVictoria Project present “Talk Like a Pirate!” on 19 September 2014 in the NeoVictoria SkyClub in Machinima SIM in SecondLifeRadio Riel & the NeoVictoria Project present “Talk Like a Pirate!” on 19 September 2014 in the NeoVictoria SkyClub in Machinima SIM in SecondLife
This is your first year sponsoring Fantasy Faire. What made you decide to become a sponsor?
Asil Ares as “The Synthetic” One of the major arcana in the Steampunk Tarot.
Asil Ares: Virtual worlds fascinate me and I find Second Life™ particularly compelling, because its content is created by its players …SL doesn’t have to be a creatively passive user experience. But, the grid is vast and it can be difficult for people to find their niche. Big well-run events, like Fantasy Faire or Burning Man or the Second Life™ Birthday Community Celebrations, are ways to bring like-minded people together and help them find connection.
What makes Fantasy Faire especially compelling is that it is fund-raising for a really important cause: Relay for Life and the fight against cancer. Every year I go to the Faire and every year, it just gets better. Last year was one of the best SL events I’d ever seen; I was determined to get involved. The members of the NeoVictoria Roleplay Group agreed, so we decided to sponsor one of the steampunk fairylands.
How did you begin roleplaying in Second Life? How did NeoVictoria come into existence?
The NeoVictoria Project …a steampunk experiment in machinima and dark roleplay
There are all kinds of roleplay communities in SL, and yes …the ones that get most of the press are salacious. However, the one that first caught my attention was created around a unique post-apocalyptic world replete with demons, angels, vampires and the occasional human. I’m writing about The City of Lost Angels, created by Suzanna Soyinka.
I stumbled upon this immersive storyworld and its addictive combat meter via an article on open sourcing; I loved playing RPGs in school, so decided to check it out. It took about three months to totally reel me in!
“Kwekwe Turned” A machinima by Asil Ares
It amazed me, how much time and energy the residents of these communities invested in their characters and roleplays. As is often the way, I found myself joining several clans (or factions) in different subscribing SIMs. I became very close with some of the players, including my dear roleplay “cousin” Kwekwe Karu, who wrote a wonderful short story about how our characters met. This backstory became the source material for my first serious machinima, “Kwekwe Turned”.
Mask’d Ball at the Castle
After that, it was only a matter of time before I learned I needed the technical control of a full SIM to shoot machinima the way I wanted to make it. And then, the desire to expand that vision into a community began to take hold. That’s how NeoVictoria, as a SL simulation, formed in my mind. I’ve always loved Steampunk, so when I dreamed about creating a world, it was those kinds of images that came to me. And I loved the possibility of a community whose roleplay isn’t lost once the scene is over. The NeoVictoria Project™ is very much a mixing of those themes and desires.
What can we expect of NeoVictoria during the Faire? Will you be roleplaying in Asperatus? Are the visitors welcome to join in or is it more a performance?
Poster for “The Revenge of Professor Timmons”
Visitors can expect some nice gifts to be found in Mrs. Chickenstalker’s Apothecary and Dry Goods Emporium (that’s the name of our store on Asperatus). And they can look forward to some exciting and engaging roleplay, which they are most welcome to join!
The story NeoVictoria will play at the Fantasy Faire is called “The Revenge of Professor Timmons.” In it, the professor has built a treacherous robot, which damages our town’s power center. They then make their escape to Asperatus. We townsfolk chase after these miscreants, so there will be lots of excitement, fighting in the streets, and general mayhem going on. In the end, we will capture the bad guys, and there will be a great big celebration on Friday, 9 May (with Gabrielle Riel of Radio Riel fame as our live DJ). After which, we will return the evil doers to NeoVictoria to receive their just desserts.
For those interested in keeping abreast of developments, or who plan to join us in roleplay, we’ll be posting alerts and daily updates to our page on the Fantasy Faire website.
What calls you to fantasy and steampunk? When was the first time you encountered the genres and realized you enjoyed them?
Asil Karu and Cabbage in Sidhe Park
I fell in love with fantasy when I learned to read. My grandmother had all the Andrew Lang fairy books and one of my earliest memories is turning the pages of those ancient books to wonder at the pictures. As for Steampunk, I think I always was one, though I didn’t really understand it as a movement until I read Bruce Sterling‘s excellent essay, “The User’s Guide to Steampunk“.
Do you have a favorite Faire memory? What are you looking forward to most this year?
I don’t remember what year it was, I just remember it was the first place I saw the work of Elicio Emberand it both amazed and delighted me. As a roleplayer, I’m most looking forward to “The Revenge of Professor Timmons“, but as a visitor, it’s The Faery Court that I plan to see as soon as the gates open.
The NeoVictoria Roleplay Group presents “The Revenge of Professor Timmons“, a roleplay adventure produced exclusively for Fantasy Faire 2014.
The Story | A renegade aristocrat and an evil scientist with revenge on their minds are using illicit Strand-world technology to create a murderous clockwerk automaton. After damaging the power-center of the NeoLondon Cathedral, they decamp to Planet Asperatus and the NeoVictorians follow to bring them to justice!
Your Invitation | Please join us, the NeoVictoria Roleplay Group, for this very special series of roleplay events. Beginning on 1 May 2014 in NeoVictoria SIM, we’ll be bringing the story to the Fairylands on Monday, 5 May, when our intrepid band of roleplayers land in the sky-city of the Fairylands: Asperatus! Roleplayers …look for the group tag “NeoVictoria@Asperatu” if you want to roleplay with us in the Fairylands and bookmark this webpage for daily updates as the story progresses.
About The NeoVictoria Project® | Avatars, steampunk, roleplay and machinima; that’s the NeoVictoria Project in a nut-shell. A unique dark roleplay environment crafted with a Steampunk aesthetic, we welcome mature people searching for a supportive and collaborative community. The goal of The NeoVictoria Project® is to create a virtuous circle where roleplay becomes filmed story.
In our unique storyworld, the Sidhe (fae) never faded, but worked with … some would say ruled over …their human charges until the Sidhe Empire spanned the known universe. So many races exist: faeries, demons and clockwerk constructs (powered by gears and magic), humans, vampires, werebeasts and celestials. All held against the ravages of time by magic, intrigue and human ingenuity. Intriqued? Visit our public website for more!
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