One for Mr. Tenk

Come home soon, my friend. I'll take you here if we go to Dragoncon.

Yellow Pollen time

No one believes the stories of yellow pollen season unless you have to live in it. I caught this photo this morning while taking advantage of "texture weather." The yellow blotch on the water is the pollen run off after last night's rain.

New Machinima from New Babbage

Blakopal Galacia joins the increasing rolls of Babbage machinimists with her offering of the weekend the Carnivale D'Arcane came to town. The only trouble is trying to tell the carnies from the townies, Babbagés are a colorful lot.

Seraph City Landfall

Seraph City landed in the wee hours of the night. Congratulations to boss Pumpkin Tripsa. Your second life will never be the same again.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seraph%20City/180/176/106

Seraph City first look

The most difficult estates to build in Second Life are cohesive, believable cities.



Seraph City, a new diesel era sim, is showing a lot of potential. Set in the 1920's to 1940's, between the World Wars if the early 20th century, an era also shared with New Toulouse and Miskatonic Valley. The demo platform in Rafail already looks ready for gangster plots and pulp adventures, do go take a look. If you like what you see, contact Pumpkin Tripsa and reserve a lot right now.



Pumpkin & Tesla Tripsa and Kaylee Frye, lead builders.
Vehicles by Pumpkin Tripsa and Jenne Dibou.
Supporting prefabs by Four Winds.



Don't forget to jump into the power lines.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rafail/119/115/1704

Gaslight Emporium closes

After nearly 3 years in New Babbage, Gaslight Emporium has closed its doors. Its commanding presence in Port Babbage with its air mast, docked airship, and viewing platform is sorely missed.

On the other hand, this does bring a rare opportunity for an up and coming merchant. The vacant lot is one of the most visible pieces of commercial real estate in all the Steamlands. Aspiring merchants are advised to contact Mayor Mosseveno Tenk immediately.

Announcing the New Babbage News Digest

At the promptings of Mr. Tenk to make myself useful, I've taken the wiki project up.

The Task: turn the bewildering swirl of storytelling in New Babbage into one continuous story.

I fully sympathize with those who choose not to read the Ning or sift through twitters and bloggers.

Sadly, it is the nature of our environment that only a handful of people may participate or witness events that are of interest to a much larger group of people. When the stories are good, the events are buried in the Ning as fast as they are posted, and a person who is a away for even a few days can completely loose track of a story he was following.

I will not pretend to be interested in all of your stories, some are so far outside of my interests that I have trouble reading the entries. I would hope people would get into the habit of updating signifigant events, even with a simple line item statement of an event which happened in world that was interesting or propels a plot. If you have used the blogs or forums to further flesh out the event, if you would be so good as to include a link to further reading, we would all appreciate it.

The Current Events page of the Wiki is now organized into a news digest so everyone may read it without the onerous task of mining the Ning. Tenk spent a couple hours indexing the past week of blogs, the volume was more than he expected. Hopefully others will follow up with maintaining their stories on the News Digest.

http://cityofnewbabbage.com/records/index.php?title=Current_events