MrWentworth

Jack Benny had a famous skit in which he was held up by a mugger with the typical line, "Your money or your life!" Jack stood around for a long pause until the bandit tried to hurry him up, "I said your money or your life...", at which point Jack bursts out, "I'm thinking! I'm thinking!" The character he portrayed was notoriously stingy. Your concept reminded me of this.

I'm actually on my way to the post office this morning, so I'll take a few extra letters. Having a community of such passionate and well-reasoned players has made SaveCOH an amazing effort. I'm proud to do my part and participate. As I have learned through the Real World Hero charity drive, small actions really can add up to an amazing outcome!

The ChipIn website has gone down for unknown reasons. If you are attempting to make a donation via the Real World Hero website (http://realworldhero.com), please do keep trying. We'll post an update when the service is restored or if we are able to learn more. Thank you!

UPDATE: We're back in action. The donation widgets are working again!

We're adding another event to the schedule... We are working on some ideas to help make our final hours in-game a time to remember.

• To Be Continued... Rally
  • Date: Friday, November 30th, 2012
  • Time: From 6:00pm PST until the servers are turned off!
  • Location: Atlas Park 33 on Virtue and anywhere heroes and villains gather to share final moments
  • In the hours leading up to midnight, please drop by and share some time with friends. (Additional event details to come. We will do our best to make it worth your while.)

We're going to gather in AP33 Virtue to countdown the end of auction bidding this Saturday, November 10th, from 7:00-9:00pm PST. Hope you can swing by to join us and have a little fun.

Hi all! Mrs. W and I are indeed still around on the boards. I had been planning to make a nice big post for Real World Hero this evening, but saw that Llydia had beaten me to it. Thank you! I would have done so sooner, but we spent a good part of last week making sure that some good friends were getting some support after Hurricane Sandy and that put us behind in our RWH promotion efforts. Not to worry! With such great help from everyone in the community things just have a way of getting done around here. Right?

So, Llydia, you are now the defacto thread updater and I know we can count on you.

Things are a little different this year, naturally, but we are determined to continue on and have felt the support of quite a number of our fellow heroes. The auction is indeed underway and has over $200 in bids with 6 days remaining before bidding closes. We are indeed working on additional revelry to share time with you in game and promote Real World Hero to any friends who have not yet heard of what it is.

Most importantly, we want everyone to know that the charity drive is not ending on November 30th when the servers go dark for City of Heroes. As terribly sad and upsetting as it is, we hope the Real World Hero charity drive can continue on and do good for a long time to come. Bring Real World Hero with you into whatever game or community you may find yourself and let us know where you are. We hope to find welcome among the broader world of gamers and invite them to take part.

Let's make this a really great time of fun, good works, and community! We won't have spiffy gold titles anymore, but we will always consider you all to be Real World Heroes! (with a little invisible title floating just above your heads.)

What we are being asked to do is very much like what we have already been doing. We have been speaking out to anyone and everywhere possible that we have loved this game, loved this development team, loved this community. That we still love it. Now we can tell three more people, Mr. Taek-Jin Kim, Dr. Song-Yee Yoon, and Mr. Dong-Il Kim about this vibrant community. Tell them so much that it makes them proud of what City of Heroes is, that they see what we value so much.

I have been inspired throughout my time in City of Heroes. I have added to my life. With others by my side, I have created a charity drive. I raise my children to value service to those in need. I have come to know and respect a multitude of friends from around the world. They are the ones that have inspired me. I can't think of a good reason not to tell anyone, even these three persons, about my experience. I will write and tell them. Will they take pride in who I am. Perhaps they will find their own inspiration...

I'd go with Roderick's suggestion to contact Zwillinger and Black Pebble first. If there is no objection from Paragon Studios, then we'd be happy to find out how we can work with you to use them to benefit the next Real World Hero charity drive. Please PM me if you'd like to talk about the possibility.

Thanks for thinking of Real World Hero!

You will be immeasurably missed, Avatea! You have always been so kind, supportive, and generous to us over the years. Bless you and your husband in your next adventure and in all things.

With love and friendship,
@Mr. Wentworth

Hey folks!

We're at it again this year with our Real World Hero charity drive and have posted an event thread in the City Life forum here. If you have never heard of Real World Hero, please do check it out. This annual event makes me proud to play CoH with all of you. I've been on Infinity since the CoV beta and have come to know a bunch of you personally. The rest of you are very cool, too.

Tonight, for the opening of the Ski Chalet, we're throwing a Winter/Holiday themed costume contest on my home server Infinity! Join us at 7pm PST (10pm EST) at the bottom of the ski slopes for fun, prizes and flagrant charity promotion.

Hope to see you there! Hit me up for a candy cane and I'll know you read this thread.

Best regards,
@Mr. Wentworth