Welcome to Steelhead City!

History

Nestled in the Coastal Pacific Northwest of the Oregon/Washington territories sits the small growing town of Steelhead City. Steelhead was founded in 1854 after an unexpected tidal wave wiped out the small mining community known as Ambertown, leaving it a ghost town. Out of the dust a few intrepid pioneers considered this to be a good prospective settlement. Steelhead has grown in size since the completion of the railroad into a bustling port town to the Northwest Territories, shipping imports to the surrounding regions.

Steelhead Cities

- Steelhead Capital City: Founded August 1854 (2006) built on the tail end of Puget Sound on top of the old ruined city of Ambertown rebuilt from a rustic old western town to an elegant Victorian themed style community. Capital City is based on both Olympia Washington and Portland Oregon concept. Capital City is the first city of Steelhead and the meeting/gathering point for the community.

Steelhead Station; Steelhead Grand Ballroom; Steelhead Saloon; Steelhead Colonial Theatre; Kokopelli Stage; Steelhead Gardens; Steelhead Memorial; Steelhead City Hall.

Founded by Kattryn Severine.

- Steelhead Harborside: Founded December 24th (2007) sits to the North end of Steelhead Capital City. Steelhead Harborside is based around the Kitsap Penninsula north of Tacoma Narrows Washington. Mostly residential, the sim is quiet and elegant. Surrounded by mostly water Harborside is a good spot to bring a boat and explore Geoduck Inlet.
Steelhead Narrows Bridge, Based on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge the Steelhead Narrows Bridge stands at over 60 meters tall and spanks 50 meters across to brave the harsh winds of the narrows and rushing sea below.

Founded by TotalLunar Eclipse & Tensai Hilra

- Steelhead Boomtown: fastest growing town in Steelhead City hence its name. Boomtown is based on the mining community in the pacific northwest united states oregon territories circa 1890's with a hint of rustic American steampunk.

Bridge of the Gods, a steampunk bridge connecting the two peninsulas; various abandoned excavated mountains; a romantic steampunk garden; a unique steampunk danceclub; many stores exclusive to Steelhead from clothing, accessories and gardening; Mt. Hood and the Columbia River Gorge.

Founded by TotalLunar Eclipse & Tensai Hilra

- Steelhead Port Harbor: Industrial Steampunk themed sim based on various port cities such as Monterrey California 1890’s, Tacoma city & Narrows and Puget Sound industrial ports. Beautifully crafted concept buildings, intricate pier & bridges build the fantasy theme of Steampunk. Port Harbor is more industrial so railroad and factories with smokestacks will be present in the commercially zoned areas.

Founded by TotalLunar Eclipse & Tensai Hilra

More information regarding sights of Steelhead found in the ‘Walking Guide to Steelhead’ by Steadman Kondor.

• Community, Rules & Personal Conduct

By entering into Steelhead and any of its sistering sims you agree to the rules of the city and personal conduct.

Steelhead boasts a tight knit community of fine folks, mad scientists, girl geniuses, mad builders, mad furries, mad librarians, mad Timelords and sweet kittens among the very least of our society. (We're not literally mad, more just crazy mad) From humans to elves, to wolves and dragons Steelhead hosts a wide variety of demographic citizens.

Please be respectful to your fellow neighbors, if there are any conflicts that must be resolved please resolve it quickly and swiftly in a courteous manner outside of public displays such as events, gatherings and in group chatter. Management will not interfere with private conflicts unless it becomes a public manner the manner of resolution for this will be instant moderation from speaking in group channels until it becomes resolved. We're adults here, we may disagree but we can always agree to disagree and everyone has their right to personal opinion, and personal RP if it does not violate TOS.

Steelhead is a themed community we do not enforce role play of any sort nor do we allow others visiting or residing here to force role play upon each other whether they be visitors or residents. We lightly role play the era in which we live in (late 1800’s Oregon Territories with heavy Victorian with light emphasis on clockpunk and Steampunk) and we welcome other forms of role play into the community whether it be group or personal. From Dragon’s to Timelords, Girl Genius, fantasy, Teachers, lawyer’s and Librarians and others we welcome a variety of different RP communities together into one using Steelhead as a platform for them to expand themselves. Being said we also wish for residents and visitors to respect each other’s role play.

Although Steelhead is rated mature there will be NO nudity on the streets or in public as well as lewd behavior and offensive objects displayed OR sold in public. Nude artwork *if tastefully done* is acceptable, if there are any questions regarding this or what would be considered 'tasteful' please ask management.

We do not discriminate against any race, sex, size, species or sexual preference. If you are a child avatar we expect you to act like one, and thus you will be treated as one. *We do not allow underage persons of any kind piloting avatars as per SecondLife TOS rules* If you are Gorean you are not allowed to keep your servants or slaves unclothed while on the streets. What happens behind closed doors of your home is no one’s concern as long as it does not violate TOS agreements, if it does immediate termination of citizenship and all lands will be reclaimed without refund or transferred to anyone and instantaneous action will be taken.

To reiterate: There will be no violations of TOS agreements or you will be banned from Steelhead without warning and your name will be given to Linden Labs. Don’t risk it.

The Link: (http://secondlife.com/corporate/tos.php)

• Buildings & Land Rules in Steelhead

By entering into Steelhead and any of its sistering cities you are immediately agreeing to the theme of the cities and any buildings placed must stay in that theme as well as abiding to the city’s seasonal changes, group ownership rights, auto return etc…

- Seasonal: Ground textures will change to dead leaves in the fall, snow in the winter months and grass in the spring summer seasons according to the Pacific Northwest regions of the United States. If you have blooming flowers in the middle of winter non native to that time you will be asked to replant them either inside your home or elsewhere.

- Land Group Ownership: All land in Steelhead is and will remain Group Owned by Steelhead Citizens Group. This is completely different from our Caledon friends. There are reasons to this madness. Land management is easily done if all lots are set to group, sim scanners, huds and other scripted items such as vehicles and airplanes will be able to traverse freely in the skies, also you can purchase more prims per parcel (in some sims only). If you have any questions regarding Group Ownership retention please contact Tensai Hilra.

Those who purchase land in Steelhead will be given special rights in the group to edit land (if allowed in set region), set items to group (such as media devices that have to be group owned to the land in order to work), set media to their land and other vital functions of land management such as parcel bans.

*If you want to grant land management access to others please write your name, write their name exactly how its spelled on a notecard and drop on TotalLunar Eclipse*

- Merchants: Show place in Search (L30/week) is disabled for a reason. That's because the owners of the land end up paying for it. (ie me) Our comprimise to this is having you pay the rental pole 30L a week for the search advertisment that way you're not stuck paying other group fees and its just your portion of the bigger whole. Drop me a notecard with your name, and classification and I will set this up for you as well as reprogram your box for the extra 30L a week. (send to Lunar please)

Due to CPU 'temp rezzers' are not allowed or must be evaluated for stress testing. Holo-vendors, mannequins, etc will be evaluated on a case per case basis. Room rezzers that do not use 'temp' mode may be considered on request. Contact Tensai Hilra VIA IM if you have questions, not Lunar... Tensai.

- Autoreturn: All lots are automatically set to autoreturn objects not set to group, if you should change this it is *your* responsiblity to pick up stray prims if a visitor should leave something on your lawn or customers leaving empty boxes in your storefront.

- Ban Lines/special Access lines: There will be ABSOLUTELY NO ban lines/special access lines allowed although you can ban certain individuals off your parcels if they become a nuisance. All estate bans are handled by Management, if you feel someone should be estate banned, please IM management.

- Building styles/themes: Western Victorian, Gothic Victorian, Steampunk/clockpunk and some fantasy mixed in with above styles. We do allow and encourage airships as long as they keep to those building styles and stay within parcel boundaries. (Note really do make sure the airship is in theme some say steampunk but are really modern) No massive gothic spiral tower in a residential community. If you want to use your parcel for storefront as well as homefront please be respectful to your neighbors with the style of your store. If you have a question as to what is allowed or not please please PLEASE IM management.

Note: Management reserves the right to deny buildings that we feel are not in theme to Steelhead.

No no styles include: MODERN! GRRR NO MODERN HOUSES THIS ISNT MAINLAND! NO Gorean and no techno (unless it’s mad scientist lab Victorian Steampunk)

- Airships or skyboxen: In theme are allowed ground to 3096 meters. Please make sure your airships or skyboxen are not off your parcel. If you need parcel markers please IM Tensai Hilra and specify the height you would like to rezz your building out.

All airships or skyboxen NOT in theme must be floated between 1024 meters not higher than 3096 meters. In theme means an airship or plausible flying capabilities even if it’s a thousand swallows holding your house up with strings by the husk. An in theme skyboxen can be from ground not higher than 3096 meters. Also if you do purchase land and only wish to rezz out a skybox I would like to see something on the ground such as trees and such.

- Height restrictions: Building shall not stand taller than the spire of the Ballroom in Main Steelhead City (60 meters) without approval of Management (steampunk tower OK). If you have the slightest inkling it may not be approved ask before you buy, we'll be happy to check it out. A note to builders: please build within your parcel lines and there will be NO PLYWOOD BUILDS on ground floor for over four days. All builds must be floated above 1024 meters to be worked upon.

- A note to those who sublease land: It is your responsibility to inform your tenants of group ownership, setting objects to group, media and covenant agreements. Management isn't responsible for subtenants, setting up subtenant rental boxes and keeping track of their monies. Upon evaluation normal renter group rights will be considered. IM management for more information. *Update* Due to recent events all subleases must be approved by management otherwise prims not belonging to Steelhead settlers on their parcels will be returned.
Some lots have commercial buildings on the historical register and cannot be taken down. If you rent a lot that comes with a mandatory building the building’s prims will not go against your prim count.

• Rates for Steelhead Estates

Commercial usage and cost for existing buildings under 512 sq. meter sized: Varies depending on size of lots and amount of prims used. Contact TotalLunar Eclipse for Details and openings.

Residential and Commercial lots sized 512sq. m:

512 lot, 234 prims (double prim) : $L 6144 land fee, $L 450/week $L 1800/month

1024 lot, 468 prims (double prim) : $L 12288 land fee, $L 900/week $L 3600/month

2048 lot, 976 prims (double prim) : $L 24576 land fee, $L 1800/week $L 7200/month

Land Fee & first month’s rent is payable within a few days of reservation for prebooking. To gain a lot in a sim already existing, payboxes will be unlocked as soon as land fee is paid. If you are purchasing a lot from another renter management will transfer the paybox to the buyer as soon as seller notifies management of sale.

• Purchasing extra prims per lot

You can purchase more prim usage per lot. Because of the manner in which Steelhead is set up (keeping land in group ownership) you can purchase excess prim usage.

117 extra prims for 900/month

234 extra prims for 1800/month

*only if excess prims are available in the sim contact TotalLunar Eclipse for details*

All rental monies are directly paid to your corresponding rental boxes which come in the form of numbered lampposts. Another person can pay your boxen for you, all boxes are set up to take weekly payments up to 24 weeks in advance.

If tier is unpaid and owner has not contacted management within one week either in SL or via email management will reclaim the lands and return objects to owner. Land fee is non refundable, no exceptions.

If there are any inquiries/requests/reservation needs please contact TotalLunar Eclipse or Tensai Hilra (active estate management) via a notecard or email since IM’s fill up. I’ll be happy to explain anything to the best of my knowledge.

Stop in the town hall for maps and available locations.

Thank you on behalf of Steelhead Management,

TotalLunar Eclipse -Estate Manager and main builder to Steelhead City lunareclipse@steelheadcity.us

Tensai Hilra - Estate Manager and technical support to Steelhead City tensai@steelheadcity.us

Kattryn Severine - First Lady of Steelhead, Owner of Main Steelhead City

Fuzzball Oretga - Sheriff of Steelhead Districts