A request for Seattle/Puget Sound residents

Today I sent a story pitch to KING 5's _Evening Magazine_ about City of Heroes. I think that there are several interesting local angles to the story as well as human interest (which is really the core of the show) and I emailed them with some ideas of what I thought those were.

On the off-chance that they looked into the idea, I would like to be able to put them in touch with some players local to the Greater Puget Sound area.

If you would be willing to talk to a reporter from KING 5 about City of Heroes, please PM me with your name, email address, and if you're comfortable doing so, a telephone number that you can be reached at.

Thanks.

Scott Schultz aka Slickriptide

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PM sent

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Chernozem-50 (Ice/MM, Emp/Ice, MA/Regen) - KGB SS8
Wila-50 (Dark/Arch) - KGB SS8
Also: Krassivy Mechtayu-50 (Ill/Rad) - KGB SS8; Ms. Hypatia-50 (Dark/Regen)

Intriguing idea (I might be willing), but what would make the story of particular interest to this region? I'm most likely missing something obvious.

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Please try MA arc ID 351455, "Shard Stories: Scavenger's Hunt." Originally created for the Dr. Aeon contest, it explores the wild potential of one of the City's most concept-rich but content-poor settings: the Shadow Shard.

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Siberian Spring-50 (Cold/Rad, Rad/Ice, Ice/Rad, Sh/Ice) - KGB SS8
Chernozem-50 (Ice/MM, Emp/Ice, MA/Regen) - KGB SS8
Wila-50 (Dark/Arch) - KGB SS8
Also: Krassivy Mechtayu-50 (Ill/Rad) - KGB SS8; Ms. Hypatia-50 (Dark/Regen)

PM sent.

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We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)

I'm not sure that I want to bring Phoenix Jones into things. He's already a bit of local color that would be, let's say, a different sort of coverage than what Paragon Studios needs.

Local angles included NCSoft West and ArenaNet being local companies, the base of local players including, from a human interest standpoint, Gothess and her new husband who were married two days after the announcement. Dark_Respite and her movie-making empire live here, of course and other players as well. Then there's RealWorldHero and its connections to Child's Play and even Cimaron, the past mascot of Protector Server. (Cimaron's sponsorship fund seems to have dried up last year, though, unfortunately.)

Pax can be tied into it and while Scott Kurtz isn't terribly "pro save-CoH", I can't imagine that he'd be all "anti save-CoH" either if he was interviewed about it, while Gabe and Tycho are CoH-friendly even if they are also likely to take the more pragmatic view of things.

Mostly, I just pitched them on the idea of covering how a community develops around something like CoH and how it is affected by a "disaster" like the one that has hit us, as well as the ripples that are made as a result such as, for instance, the continued existence of Real World Hero and its contributions to various charitable causes.

I could even see them pulling in some talking head from the University of Washington to talk about online communities, though I didn't suggest that specifically.

*shrug* I figured there's no harm in pitching the idea to them. They must need some ideas, because they were asking on facebook for some ideas to toss around at today's pitch meeting, heh.

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