Jessica Urquhart Interview at The Unforgotten Realms
Posted Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 19:47 CET by Mollusken

Jessica Urquhart is the PR manager of Black Isle, and at The Unforgotten Realms she answers a few questions about herself.

Besides being the “Goddess of Public Relations”, and having to put up with a pushy bastard like me, what is your role at Black Isle?

Goddess of Public Relations, hahahah I love it!!! I’m sensing a new title and some spiffy new business cards to accompany said title in the not so distant future! My role here at Black Isle varies from day to day, however primarily I’m responsible for designing and maintaining all of Black Isle’s websites, processing PR requests as they come in and basically making sure that there is plenty of information about out there about all of our titles! As a function of this I basically get to harass the producers from day to day to make sure that all of the outstanding interviews and other miscellaneous PR requests are processed and completed on time and get back to their rightful owners. In fact, I’ve become so good at constantly bugging my co-workers with all sorts of kooky requests these past few months that they’ve installed an electrical fence around my cube curtailing my harassment activities to a limited number of hours per day!

Are you a gamer? Meaning, do you play the games that BlackIsle produces?

In all honesty I am not a giant CRPGer, however this will probably change as since I’ve been here at the Isle I’ve developed quite a fondness for certain Multiplayer First Person Shooters, so it is still entirely possible that I will throw down with the best of them at some point in the near future. I did get quite a kick out of our first console title Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance as any time that I can play a green haired chick causing chaos/wasting monsters with a massive sword I’m in!