Bay City’s Fairground Breaks Ground!

A recent call from Marianne McCann sent me dashing over to North Channel, the region between Nova Albion & Bay City to see the latest exciting development in Bay City’s exciting short life – following a meeting of the Bay City Alliance, Michael Linden was hard at work on raising an island to house a fairground! I TPed over and found the access route shut off…

Pressing ahead I could clearly see just how hard Michael was working – he had a barge set up and the Alliance’s plans set out so he knew exactly where to dredge and where to drop.

I had to leave but when I came back a few days later, the land mass was all but finished! Next stop, add the rides!

(That’s the ‘burbs of Shermville at the top and the Grignano region of Nova Albion to the right)

I can’t wait to see how these plans turn out!

 

Steelhead St Helens Tour, Part 2

Now that more folks have moved into St Helens and got down & dirty with their prims, I thought it was time to get out on Frank and take a few pics for you, dear reader. For a start, I’ve pretty much finished my forest and campsite and my 3ksqm has moved from this…

Through this…

To this…

So early one morning, when people were still in bed and less likely to see me and point & stare, Frank and I headed through the foothills of Mount St Helens and around Spirit Lake. Lunar’s place still looks as lovely as ever:

The properties just north of Spirit Lake are still there (see part 1 of the tour for those) but this time I wanted to point out a small patch of common ground which had some very odd looking boulders on them. What are they? What is the ground for?

Towards the north western border with Boomtown there are lots of lovely little plots (and a goodly few still available to rent – see the end of this post) including Mari Moonbeams wee cabin:

A curious bunny tent from Katsu Catnap:

And Anna Darwinian’s cottage:

Crossing the bridge I saw Mara Razor’s new watermill. I’m hoping to contact Miss Razor about the regular purchase of supplies from her mill and animals as that would save me a trip into town where the scamps stare and call names behind my back.

A little way past the mill I came across a water tower…

… and meadow:

They belonged to Bobbijo Jonson who’s created a very colourful nature paradise!

Behind her land and next to Maxim’s retreat (see part 1 of the tour for a pic) is a paddock belonging to Riven Homewood – I can’t wait for spring when she moves some ponies in there!

Down by the water Mari Moonbeam’s farm and Frequency Picnic’s cabin are looking great:

Frank & I were at the end of the tour on this side of the river and so retraced our steps and headed back over the mountain and through our forest to see the two new properties on our side of the water. The first is a grand Victorian mansion belonging to Vain Adder – how the hell he got all the wood and supplies all the way out here in the wilderness I’ll never know!

Beyond him Autopilotpatty Poppy has hollowed out two of the biggest redwood stump I’ve ever seen and is busy turning them into a very cost looking home!

This, dear reader, brings me to the end of my second St Helens Tour. As more folks move in and as builds change and evolve, I’ll bring you more pics, but in the meantime if my reports and pictures have led you to think you’d like to move in, then you’re in luck! There are a few 512sqm & 1024sqm plots left – some in the SW corner (where I am):

And some are over in the NW corner near the borders of Boomtown & Shanghai:

You can read more about renting in Steelhead here. The rates and prim allocations (as of 5th Jan 2010 and subject to change by management, of course) are:

• Land Fee or Buy in Price: 6144L$
• Monthly Rental: 1800L$
• Weekly: 450L$
• Most lots are double prim 234 some sims offer more than double prims at an additional fee if available

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A Tour of Steelhead St Helens (Part 1*)

I know you know I’m living in St Helens, right? I mean I know I’ve been all quiet and shy about it I know, but I’m sure I’ve mentioned it in passing once or twice. Anyhoo, a couple of weeks ago when it was all new and near-neked I went a-wandering to take some pics of what people had done and to show you, my dearest reader, that there was still land available for renting should you be tempted by the delights of life in wild west wilderness of 1890s Oregon.

Here’s Lunar great build – I’m not sure what it is, sort of a train station crossed with a power plant, I’ll have to ask him once he’s less busy – as seen from across Spirit Lake:

Behind that you’ll find Maev Ceawlin’s balloon air tours:

Which is next to Elegia Underwood’s newly relocated Dragon’s Leap Inn:

Fogwoman Gray has a charming wee cabin nestled at the base of the mountain:

Which is in the shadow of a very rundown looking watermill on the border of St Helens & Shanghai:

There’s even a wee hidden cave buried inton the moutain if you can find it. And if you can, let sleeping bears sleep eh?

Across the water from me, Mari Moonbeam has a lovely place:

As does Frequency Picnic:

And let’s not forget Maxim place on the eastern Boomtown border!

The whole place is rooted firmly in rough, rustic frontier life and the builds reflect just how much people have taken that to heart. Lunar has done a great job making the whole place look wild and old and, well, green

* More parts to come as some pictures never appeared in my flickr so I’ll need to take them again and since I took the ones that did make it more people have moved in and places have changed. There’s still a few plots left though – come along and see for yourself!

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Moving into St Helens – EXTRA!

If you’re visiting, be sure to look out for Ol’ Glory

 

Moving into St Helens

Steelhead’s latest sim opened this week and I ditched Left4Dead2 and Borderlands double quick to get back in-world so I could check out my neked, virgin slice of volcano

I’ve had a plan formulating for a while now – a lumber mill! After all, it’s just what a bustling boomtown like Steelhead needs and good quality sawn timber will be at a premium when everybody will be building new houses. But first I’d need a forest…

I’m going to play it along the lines of coming out of Caledon Regency Hospital burnt and looking for solitude. I’ll ‘discover’ the land and decide to camp there through winter whilst building a log cabin from the trees. Eventually I’ll build the saw mill by the water… oooo, I’m all excited

After a few evenings of tinkering, the first round is all but done:

I’ve added a cave (you may recognise it from here) that I hope a bear will move into, a Vlad Bjornson stream and some lovely snowy Rustica trees. I’ve got quite a few bits and bobs to add to bring it alive, but it’s on its way!

Come and see it all here.