Summer Block Party II: June 24th, 2017

[Tahquitz]

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Screenshots
View a Gallery of screenshots taken from the Summer Block Party by Nyghtshade!

Group Costume Contests:
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Saturday Morning Cartoons/Newspaper Comics
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Legends of Yesterday
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(Thanks to Korbian for the Photoshop work in producing these shots! :D)

Remnants of Power
Winner @strudel (Salty Strudel)
Runner Up @backneedle (Angel)

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[Tahquitz]

Prior Information:
Official Schedule:
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The Costume Contest themes for the Summer Block Party will be as follows:

Saturday Morning Cartoons/Newspaper Comics - INDIVIDUAL - Come as your favorite 60-90's Saturday Morning Cartoon before their downfall in the 2000s, or as your favorite Newspaper Comic!
Legends of Yesterday - INDIVIDUAL - Come as your primary toon, Hero, Villain, or Praetorian, and show us your best costume!  Biographies are encouraged in this contest, either to show your story, or to give an update on their lives past "the event".*

And for the first time in HERC History...

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Group Costume Contest - MULTI-INSTANCE AND MULTI-GLOBAL - We're hosting the first group costume contest in HERC at the Summer Block Party!  How it works:

First, the most important: there IS NO THEME.  You determine what the theme of your group is and make the costumes.  As long as the theme is coherent and clearly understood, you have a shot at winning.  Possibilities (this is NOT exhaustive):

• Superhero/Villain Group
• Favorite TV/Movie Cast
• Literary Fiction Cast (Comic Book, Novel, etc.)
• Historic Figures

Again, those are ideas, NOT themes.  It can be anything you want, with one exception: NO CITY OF HEROES IP.  Why?  It's too easy for a DB Edit user to hack in the Freedom Phalanx, Arachnos Leadership, Praetorian City Hall, or other built-in NPC groups.  Come up with your own original costumes for this one.

You can enter in one of two ways -

As a multiple-instance user: 
This allows you to enter a team of multiple heroes and toons into the contest!  No other teammates required.  Your only limit is your hardware capability to spawn instances without running out of RAM.

As a multiple-global team: 
Work with your friends in Paragon Chat and make a group team!  For this contest, at least two different global names must be in the team.  Bear in mind, you CAN use multiple instances with multiple-global users.

When in doubt, enter as a multiple-global team. 

Finally, we define a group costume as more than one toon entered.  That enables duos, trios, or any number higher than that.

Because of the group contest, this is 12 day's notice to get a team together, so let's see what you can do!

PLAYER-RUN GAME DEBUT: Remnants of Power!  From the mind of gamemaster CrashPositron!
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[crashpositron]

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JUNE 24th! SUMMER BLOCK PARTY!
Looks like the game will be 7:00PM EDT !

[Nyghtshade]

Nice, Crash!   :D

[Tahquitz]

CC Themes added, listed above.

Also, DJ Castor is confirmed as our emcee for the night.

[Tahquitz]

Added promo photos for the Group CC and Player-Run Mission.

[crashpositron]

SUMMER BLOCK PARTY 2017
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No, I didn't know anyone was still using film, either  :)

[Keely]

I am hoping to be there on Sat if all goes well and hangout with you all  :D

[Korbian]

Yay!  I hope you can make it, Keely!  :D

[powerzone]

When are we getting the screenshots for the winners?  :D

[Tahquitz]

Our schedules are full.  I don't know...

Does now work for you? (Look up! :D)

[powerzone]

Awesome! Great job everyone! ;D

[Nyghtshade]

Sorry to take so long.  Here's an album of General pics from the 2017 "Summer Block Party".  If anyone has trouble viewing these, let me know.

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