Forgive my greyed photographs as the lag got the best of me and many as we attended the inauguration of the new Mayor of New Babbage, officiated by Commodore O'Toole...

[13:04] Hotspur Otoole: I (state your name)
[13:04] Mosseveno Tenk: I, Mosseveno Tenk
[13:06] Mosseveno Tenk: do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Great City of New Babbage against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
[13:06] Mosseveno Tenk: that I will bear true faith and allegieance to the same
[13:07] Mosseveno Tenk: that I take this obligation of Clockwinder freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;
[13:08] Mosseveno Tenk: that I will keep her gears oiled, her mainsprings wound, and her steam engines stoked with coal,
[13:08] Mosseveno Tenk: and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of Clockwinder on which I am
[13:08] Mosseveno Tenk: So help me God.
And with those words, the Clockwinder Mayor of New Babbage was sworn in...

You were expecting a Bible, were you?

Mayor Tenk then declared Mr Aeolus Cleanslate First Engineer and presented him with a ceremonial artifact of the city...
[13:12] Mosseveno Tenk: The Mace of Olaf, First Defender of Babbage
[13:16] Mosseveno Tenk: And like Olaf the carpenter of old, I charger you to kep Babbage safe from enemies
[13:16] Mosseveno Tenk: and Tyrants,

Afterwards, a group of us gathered at Ruby's for great coversation...