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14th Anniversary Celebration of the City of Heroes
MEDIA
Photos -- Official Winners of the Costume Contests are available as an album on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/gp/142485775@N05/38BvN1)! (Thanks Korbian for the hard work!) Nyghtshade has a gallery of photos (https://flic.kr/s/aHskxbuw3T) available for the public.
Videos --
Massively Overpowered toured Atlas Park (http://massivelyop.com/2018/04/28/the-stream-team-partying-in-paragon-chat-to-celebrate-city-of-heroes-anniversary/) for their OPTV stream this year as well. You can see the recording on YouTube.
Raspcard also streamed the experience he had (https://www.twitch.tv/videos/255483355) on Twitch.TV as well (time-limited video: expires next week.)
ATTENDANCE
We've learned our lesson: HERC can't go toe-to-toe with Marvel. (But we already knew that. :D) We had a 30.6% drop in attendance from last year, with 148 users in attendance. The good news: more players stayed longer through the whole event.
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RAW RESULTS - EVENT CLOSE:
SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY/WARSHADE
@Mesektet Doctor Robinson WINNER
@lycantropus Cold Case SECOND
@undeadslayer69 Human Circuitboard THIRD
MUTANTS
@undeadslayer69 Energy Mite WINNER
@Raspcard Raspcard SECOND
@swashbucklerdc Lady Bamf THIRD
MAGIC
@electronic boy Ascended Zombie WINNER
@Mesektet Mesektet SECOND
@doctormobius Doctor Mobius THIRD
COSTUME RACE #1 - CLASH OF THE TITANS!
@Golden.Avenger Poseidon WINNER
@raspcard Raspcard SECOND
@KK Amaterasu THIRD
TO PROTECT AND SERV
First Place: Kimberly Kool
Second Place: Kid Dynamo
NATURAL - PEACEBRINGERS AND ARACHNOS
@ClockworkGeode UFO WINNER
@Golden.Avenger Katipo SECOND
@Xyzandra Arachne THIRD
COSTUME RACE #2 - WINGS AND BLING
@xyzandra Holy Diver WINNER
@KK Kimberly Kool SECOND
@wreck Spicy Fairy THIRD
BIOGRAPHY
@Bitters Bullette WINNER
@monsoon Miss Tell SECOND
@sylph knight Sylph Knight THIRD
Sylph:
"Will I even be a memory?"
These words flashed through Kyia's mind as she stood before the Dimension Eater. To destroy it would be her final act against the Coming Storm that wrought destruction throughout space and time.
But doing so would mean the erasure of the time distortion which brought the physics-warping Reingard Helmet into her hands during the first Rikti War, and that she would instead die that day as the existence of the Sylph Knight would be less than a memory.
It meant that Tanya Tyler might fall into the clutches of the Devouring Earth, that Rikti Drop Ships may never know defeat to an army of organized heroes, and that a girl named Krys could never admire the brusque heroine who had protected her family.
Kyia defiantly approached the machine that would obliterate the universe, and with bitter resolve she doubled her fist to ready her signature Megaton Punch one last time...
And remembered.
Monsoon:
Upon her fusion with a Kheldian refugee, Lorna Tell found that she kept hearing odd voices. Voices that would say things that made no sense, yet they would always call her by name. She'd hear something like "On my way" or "Attack that Hellion" followed shortly by "Sorry, Miss Tell." She hopes to one day track down the source of these voices and make them stop.
In the meantime, her 5th grade class at Paragon Public School 261 thinks it's "Way cool" that their teacher is a superhero.
Bitters:
When called upon to do great deeds, some people shy away while others rise to greatness.
Amanda Adams was seen neither as shy nor brave, being but a teacher of poetry at a local college, until the day her world stopped moving. Spending endless days and nights at the graves of her murdered family led to her realization that though man has been through the age of enlightenment, not all men are enlightened.
As with many other heroes, tragedy was to be the impetus of creation, and something in her snapped. In the words of her favorite poet Robert Browning, "I was ever a fighter, so---one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore, And bade me creep past. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers The heroes of old."
BEST IN SHOW
@Golden.Avenger Poseidon T3 D3 - WINNER
@ClockworkGeode UFO N3 - 2nd Place
@xyzandra Holy Diver N1 - 3rd Place
Prior Content --
Preparation: Costume Contest Themes this Year
This year, we'll have themes based on the five origins of Heroes, Villains & Praetorians.
Science/Technology (Despite being 8 hours, there's only so much room for contests.)
Magic
Mutant
Natural (This INCLUDES Peacebringers and Warshades, as well as Soldiers and Widows of Arachnos.)
Yes, Incarnate is an origin, but it wasn't made available to players from the onset. Also, the character you create DOES NOT have to have the correct origin picked when the character is made, as long as the costume fits the theme. (Bringing a Peacebringer to a mutant contest, for example, won't win that event.) So don't worry if your toon didn't have the right origin picked on creation if your favorite toon wants to enter.
Also returning from last year, we'll have a Costume Contest Biography competition, where players write the best biography in 1,024 characters or less. Simply write the biography in the ID screen when you make your character, or edit it using the Menu at any time before the event.
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