The "Royal Ladies' & Gentlemans' Experimental Madness Society" (also known as the RL&GEMS) is a prolific and active Steampunk artist collective based in Chicago and founded by The Lord Baron Joseph C.R. Vourteque IV and The Rev. Captain Samuel Flint in 2008. It currently boasts an inner membership of roughly six and an extended membership of almost twenty. The RL&GEMS also founded the Blog "The Compass Points to M", which was merged into the web magazine "SteampunkChicago.com" in Jan of 2010.