Heroes: Name a crappy town after yourself
April 30th, 2009 | 
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The Austin Browncoats have teamed with QMx to auction off the right to name some cities of the 'verse in the upcoming QMx Serenity Atlas:
Quantum Mechanix (QMx) is sponsoring the "Name the Crappy Town Where You’re a Hero" charity auction. Starting on April 20th, 50 town names will be auctioned via eBay with all proceeds supporting Equality Now. If you win an auction, your name will be submitted, and pending studio approval, will be used in the upcoming official Atlas of the 'Verse, Volume One: The Trader's Guild Guide to the New Canaan Run made by our favorite mild-manner graphic designer, Ben Mund.
The auctions have begun! Head to austinbrowncoats.com/crappytowns.php and click on the planet of your choice to start settling your own crappy town. Statues of yourself are not included.
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Just a quick note – more than $2,000 for Equality Now has been raised, with 46 of the 50 cities gone, and 6 of the 8 planets full. Thanks to all, and get your crappy town before the final four go!
We have one town left to be named.
49 towns have been bid on. It's truly amazing.
Can't wait to read all of the names chosen.
Thanks for the support,
Beth Nelson
Austin Browncoats
QMx
Shiny, got mine, thanks very much for the heads up on this great idea and very worthy cause!
Ben, Beth: I added my town's name (on Persephone) into a note along with my payment, was that the right thing to do, or have I pre-empted another way of doing it?
Hi Tim,
Thanks very much for supporting Equality Now! I'm not sure how the names are supposed to be coming to us, but I'm sure the Austin Browncoats and / or Beth will let everyone know the proper process.
I hope so – maybe it's because of the weekend, the time difference or my mail filter but I still don't appear to have received anything (even though I've also mailed both Beth and the Austin Browncoats twice). There doesn't seem to be any info on their homepage either.
Sorry if I'm stressing overly, Beth, just keen and excitable!