The Leslie Anne Levine - by Jonesy
07/09/2006
1 steam engine
4 wooden propellors
3 balloon envelopes
alloy zeppelin frame
The Leslie Anne Levine was built entirely by one Lord Quentin Cavendish Levine, combining his master carpentry skills with a few freshly-out-of-fashion French balloons he acquired from a second cousin for farthings on the pound. He plunged into obsession while building his beloved dirigible, spending days on end in his barn-cum-hangar. Lord Levine's then-pregnant wife, Lady Constance Grace Chastity Levine, spent her days pining away for him a few hundred feet away in their stately manor. The very night Lord Levine finished his airship, his lady and daughter both died in childbirth. He christened the ship the name of his stillborn daughter, Leslie Anne, and her maiden voyage was in service of the double funeral. Lord Levine took to drinking heavily while flying his airship, and one evening he fell overboard altogether, falling directly onto a cow belonging to one of his serfs. The cow survived, but never gave milk the rest of its days. The dirigible remained adrift until a quick-thinking monk in the belfry of a cathedral in a neighboring town lassoed it with his rope belt, which until then had made him the subject of derision for being ridiculously long. The Leslie Anne Levine was returned to the only remaining family member, the young Master Percival Hephaestus Levine who was home from boarding school from the first time since infancy. Master Levine sold it for a carriage and a team of horses to an industrious merchant who currently uses the vessel for trade. ~ I started this ship at Fradel's at Brickfest '05 entirely between the hours of 1 AM and 4 AM. Then I built it with my parts. ~ An Addendum: Incredible kudos to Bram for coding up his enormously useful "bramsphere" generator. I couldn't have done it without him!
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