Call to Action: Masks and Capes!

Cross-posted on the Titan Network forums

Hey everyone, it's time for our next Call to Action! For this one, I'm going to defer to @Maressa, one of our own loyal community members in Ireland who proposed it to me. (So she knows a thing or two about having good luck!) When she told me this idea, I immediately thought that it's brilliant, that it's an awesome way to show NCsoft that we are heroes, that this is what we do.

So with my full backing and support, I'm going to let her give the details of our next Call to Action!

Hi folks, first off I want to thank TonyV for all the hard work he has put into this campaign so far. And of course a huge thank you to all of you in the community. Tony and I couldn’t do this without your support. Now, I know there have been calls for people to send cakes, and dolls and all sorts of things. Well that’s what this is. Except, cakes aren’t really all that relevant to City of Heroes, and dolls…well they can be a bit expensive. So, we have come up with a cheap way to get the attention of NCSoft. By sending them in Capes and Masks.

Thankfully Halloween is coming up so there are a lot of online stores out there selling Capes and Masks. I have picked a Cape and Mask that are cheap and plain enough that they aren’t clearly one character or another.

http://www.costumeexpress.com/Red-Su...uctDetail.aspx

http://www.costumeexpress.com/Superh...uctDetail.aspx

Now, by no means do you have to use these two. These are just what I found in a few minutes of searching. You may even find something at your local dollar/euro/pound store.

Edit: @Sith Rose has been kind enough to offer her cape making services for players overseas. She is offering to make capes at the cost of the materials and ship them for you! These are normally $40 for she is making a special deal for City of Heroes players and offering them for $15. To take advantage of this she's set up a page on Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/10923890...o-help-savecoh Thank you so much for being so awesome!

Another option, one I plan to be doing is printing out our own masks to be decorated. I’ve found a couple and thanks to my team had them laid out for you so you can print several out without wasting paper. Even if you aren’t artistic you can get involved. Write messages on them, but keep it polite and clean.

Templates: http://imgur.com/9cU9B

Some messages mine have:

#SaveCoH
We are Heroes. This is what we do.
We are Villains. What’s ours is ours.
My Global Name
My Character’s names
My Character’s powersets
What Server I’m on
Phrases my Characters Say



What you put on them is up to you.

Once they’re decorated, or the mask/cape is bought you need somewhere to send them! We’re asking everyone to send them to one of three places:

NCsoft Corporation
157-37 Samsung-dong
Kangnamu-gu, Seoul 135-090
KOREA

NCSoft Seattle
1501 4th Avenue, Suite 2050
Seattle, WA 98101
UNITED STATES

NCsoft Austin
6801 N Capital of Texas Hwy.
Building 1, Suite # 102
Austin, TX 78731

And, if you’d like to send in a picture of your masks to Tony and I, we would love to see them. Send the pictures to masks@cohtitan.com and we will include them as part of our press package.

Thank you all for your huge support. Start sending out those Masks & Capes!

Maressa

Ah, I was wondering. Fantastic, Maressa; thank you. I'll print out a few dozen this week.

So what's the policy on this? Send as much as we can or is it like petitions where it's more 'legit' to send one per person?

This isn't a petition, it's a campaign. Send lots -- but the best thing to do would be to space them out, like sending one every day or few days.

Or send a box a day. That'd be good too.

I have a cheapo costume shop to stop by tomorrow.

Good Idea We show them, by sending them a message.

This is a great idea.

I love this idea!

If I send someone a design for a Doctor Leo mask, will they do me the favor of printing and mailing it? International mail is extremely unreliable down here.

Thanks, Philly!

Well I am an Commercial Artist, I can draw and design my own Mask if that is ok with you guys.

I love this idea. Is there a person or P.O. box that we can mail our masks to as to make a large shipment to NCsoft instead of trickles? Maybe a mass shipment from a unified front followed by a steady stream of individual masks/capes from everyone? Basically, hit them with your nuke, then a steady cascade of DoT. Just a thought.

This wasn't what I expected. I was expecting an event that ends up on a "news of the weird" segment about a group of people dressed as superheroes doing a sit in at a game company in Seattle.

I like the idea, but having just browsed Amazon I'm sorely tempted to send them this.

This is what I am going to do....I am going to make one of these for every one of my characters, print them and then send.


here is the plain cape if anyone wants to use it, too.

Might want to update either the second post or the OP with the appropriate mailing destination.

Also: Stamps, man. How do you mail stuff to Korea?

Edit #2, I missed the address in the second post.

But still.. Stamps. How will this work? And do the US branches of NCSoft have anything at all to do with their decision making that would have killed our game?

That's a good question. I'd rather send stuff to where it matters. I don't want to flood the GW2 studio with capes or something like that.

Hi guys, we picked these three offices specifically because of their involvement with City of Heroes.

As for the question about mailing to Korea I would suggest going to your local post office and standing in line. There will be no one universal answer I can give beyond that.

Personally I have printed out 50 masks and plan to divide them between the three offices. I may also buy a cape or two to send in.

Thank you all for your efforts. If you have any further questions post them here or give me a poke in game.

Maressa, if I run into you anywhere, you will *not* escape the bearhug.