Announcing "Off the Cape"! A CoH/CoV Podcast!

What is Off the Cape?


Off the Cape is a City of Heroes/City of Villains Podcast hosted by long time players Megumi Yamato and Plasma Warrior. We chose the name “Off the Cape” in hopes of making it a fun and relaxed place to be, where you can hang your cape (or trench-coat, or wings, or scarf, or waist tails) up and just talk with or listen to your fellow players banter about important and inane things. We hope that our conversations and our guests will entertain you, and if we're lucky, accidentally inform you of something you didn't know or hadn't thought of.


Who are you guys?

Plas and Meg (or Adam and Shin as they are known out of game) have been playing since Issue 3 and Issue 4 respectively. Both are seasoned veterans in the arts of dramatic voice work, podcasting, and the playing mechanics of City of Heroes. Thankfully, none of those skills will be even remotely involved in this project. Shin has been training diligently since HeroCon, doing his best to forget everything he thinks he knows about anything so that he might have the chance to truly learn. Adam is an unstoppable engine of sarcasm and wit, designed by cutting edge science to seek and destroy our most pointed and dramatic moments. Plas is the gold one with the cape, while Meg is the redhead with the scarf. Both are currently single & living it up, and this particular venture will likely only lengthen that status.

Backing us up on this little jaunt and playing the role of producer and mute-button pusher is our friend Brian, who plays the blazing, combustible, warm and fiery fire tanker Gargadon. Brian has been playing since Issue 9 when I coaxed him away form a certain other MMO to join our merry little band. Brian is not single, but happily married. How this came about is a mystery to all of us, and is a subject we hope to bring up on the show at some point down the road.


Why should I listen?

You know, you ask a lot of questions. Well, because you should try something at least once before you decide you don't like it! Because according to Milan, podcasts are the new black! Because your sensitive, elven ears are BORED! Because your parents' basement needs EXCITEMENT! And on top of that, we'll be giving away prizes starting in our next release! Furthermore, this podcast is done by fellow players, not a giant media company that asks generic questions in a bland setting. We will be active in the game and on the forums trying to make your own personal playing experience better! You are welcome and encouraged to recommend topics that YOU think we should talk about on the show, and submit questions that YOU want our guests to answer! That means that the voices in your head will be given a new voice for everyone to hear, in the form of our voice! Pretty cool, eh?

Our hope, nay, our VISION is that one day the collective thoughts and dreams of our fellow players will help to evolve the show into a gigantic semi-sentient hyper-intelligent multimedia construct capable of doing the show without us.


How can I listen?

You can browse our current (somewhat limited) library and listen directly from our main page at http://offthecape.com, as well as subscribing to our iTunes or Zune Marketplace feeds. Currently, Issue 0 (The “Proto-Cast”) and Issue 1 (“Dualing” with P.E.R.C.) are online, with new content to be released every other week. We highly recommend browsers such as FireFox, Chrome, and Safari to maximize your listening ability (by actually letting you listen)and enjoyment (we hope!). Shin assumes no responsibility for issue 0 and wishes to remind listeners that the content in it may be revisited at any point since it was not recorded with the intent of release. Adam thinks the whole thing is funny and wants more “not intended for release” stuff to be released, or at least whatever is allowed by Federal Guidelines. Our Esteemed Producer, the Mighty Gargadon decided that “More Content = More Good!” and so he edited it and made it into a Special Edition Show. “Special” would be the operative word there.


What else do you have?

We are currently dangling shiny objects outside of the Paragon Studios main offices in hopes of luring out a developer or two and then trapping them (humanely!) and making them talk for an hour or two before releasing them back into the wild. We know that Mr. Ocho, Miss Avatea, and possibly Mr. Brawler have a fondness for baubles on dangling strings! And we won't talk regular shop, mind you, but AwesomeShop! With Lasers! And Ninjas!!

We also have a rather lackluster but still cute & fun Twitter Feed if you care to follow our exploits (and hax). Find us at http://twitter.com/offthecape!


And?

Thanks to Rizerax for doing our cover art, you can find her at http://rizerax.deviantart.com. Take a look at her “City of Heroes” folder to see more of her amazing talent! Her commission status as of this post is: OPEN!

Thanks also to EMpulse for her advice and answering some questions we had!

And thanks to the Caution4 Media Network for help in coding the site and generally being awesome! http://www.caution4.com

Feel free to email or Adam or myself (I will also answer PM's as quickly as possible) at:

Shin@offthecape.com
and
Adam@offthecape.com

Suggestions for the show can be sent to:

Show@offthecape.com

Thank you for your attention, and I hope that we can fall short of everybody's grounded and fully reasonable expectations, while still managing to meet and exceed the unreasonably lofty ones. We're Heroes (and Villains!), that's what we do!


That's it?

Fine. Here, have more art! =D

Originally Posted by Daemodand CoHP was a quality podcast, so they're going to be one tough act to follow. Good luck with the new show.

Originally Posted by Daemodand Subscribed.

Originally Posted by Daemodand P.S. Here's hoping you're more open to redside play than the previous podcast (that was one of that show's few flaws). CoHP was downright redsidephobic.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite But gratz on taking up the mantle for podcasting! If you can, especially for your 'not meant to be aired' segments, get Plas to start doing his Bob Dylan impressions. They were a screaming riot when he carpooled to HeroCon with me and hubby. Better yet, have him read some of the in-game dialogue as Bob Dylan!