Powerforge

Thanks a ton Alex! Psilocin looks great!

Best wished to your family this holiday! Thanks for all you've given away to the community too.

I see wut u did there!

Volley 11

Holy Smokes! That looks great!

Hi Alex,

Truly hope you're Grandpa gets better soon. Take care.

You're the best Alex! Gratz to your Gpa on level 98!

Psilocin

Bio:

1941:

Roger Stevens wasn't too bright but he loved his country. When WWII began all Stevens wanted was to serve the USA in it's battle against the Nazis.

At 17 he faked his way into the army in an attempt to aid the US.

A small division of the service was tasked with seeking out new recruits who showed unusual potential and unlocking said potential for military use. Surprisingly the armies psychics identified Roger as a possibility.

After volunteering for the extensive treatment he was deemed unsuccessful. But the money was spent. The hero was needed. Told that his power would manifest when he needed it most Roger, newly christened "The American Man" was sent into action with his 12 year old sidekick "Rascal".

The disaster that followed was almost totally expunged from military databases and only recently became public knowledge over 60 years later.

Captured on his first mission by the 5th column, America's Greatest Patriot watched in horror as Rascal was murdered before his eyes. The 5th column had plans of their own for Roger. Their scientists also identified him as having great untapped potential.

The lead scientist was a man name Dr. Oktober. His methods of unlocking Roger's potential were cruel at best and torturous at worst. What happened to Roger during the following 7 months has never been disclosed.

When Allied forces finally located Roger what they found shocked them. Stevens was a cripple, physically and mentally, but his assailants were all dead or worse. The survivors had literally no mind. Their psyches burnt to ash. Dr. Oktober was nowhere to be found.

Stevens was given an honorable discharge and admitted to Riverside hospital for ongoing Psychic evaluation and physical therapy. He was released after 4 years.


2008:

The American Man, now age 83, lives a life of near poverty in King's Row. Quiet and forgotten Roger looks surprisingly well for all he experienced in his youth. His few acquaintances say he doesn't look a day over 50.

The sudden appearance of the costumed villain Dr. October in King's Row coincides with the arrival of the vigilante Psilocin.


Roger, however is completely unaware of this.


At least while he is awake.

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Hard to say. The cathedral does stand out in the second one, but you lose the ghost. You should do a layer mask and fade out the area around the cathedral only. That way you keep both.

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I can do both definitely. I was thinking that the skeleton was competing for attention with the main figure so I dropped it's opacity a bit. Here it is brought back up.

Psilocin 1.3

OK, this is a very slight tweak. I felt that the detail of the cathedral in the background was pretty much lost in the spiral blur. I lowered the transparency of that layer to allow a little more of the cathedral to show though as well as lowering the transparency of the skeleton. This also had the effect of allowing a bit more color into the image as well.

I think I like this version better but would welcome any critiques. Which one do you folks like better?

Psilocin 1.2

The difference may be too marginal to notice much anyway. Lemme know and thanks for looking.

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Interesting backstory. I like the hint that both Dr. October and Psilocin are manifestations of his nightmares.

Spelling note: "There psyche burnt to ash," should be, "Their psyches burnt to ash."

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Thanks brutha. Spelling corrected.

Hello Heroes!

Well Psilocin gets his paper today. Hit level 40 and I am still having a good time with this guy. Highest I have ever made it with a blaster. He just might see 50!

Psilocin was my attempt to create a hero that I personally found scary. While comics abound with the mysterious heroes that are supposed to inspire fear in the bad guys most of them really don't seem to scary to me. That's all subjective of course, what scares me most likely won't scare someone else.

Creating a wallpaper for this toon was a challenge to me. I have seen a ton of stuff to draw inspiration from on DA. I was trying to create something that felt twisted from reality. I have seen plenty of collage type wallpapers that mix a lot of scary images together and it always looked really hard to do to me. I am happy with the results of my first effort in this though. Nothing seems to dominate which is what I wanted. The skeletal figure is easy to see but that's ok.

Here's Psi's bio if you're interested. He is a Psi/Ice blaster.

1941:

Roger Stevens wasn't too bright but he loved his country. When WWII began all Stevens wanted was to serve the USA in it's battle against the Nazis.

At 17 he faked his way into the army in an attempt to aid the US.

A small division of the service was tasked with seeking out new recruits who showed unusual potential and unlocking said potential for military use. Surprisingly the armies psychics identified Roger as a possibility.

After volunteering for the extensive treatment he was deemed unsuccessful. But the money was spent. The hero was needed. Told that his power would manifest when he needed it most Roger, newly christened "The American Man" was sent into action with his 12 year old sidekick "Rascal".

The disaster that followed was almost totally expunged from military databases and only recently became public knowledge over 60 years later.

Captured on his first mission by the 5th column, America's Greatest Patriot watched in horror as Rascal was murdered before his eyes. The 5th column had plans of their own for Roger. Their scientists also identified him as having great untapped potential.

The lead scientist was a man name Dr. Oktober. His methods of unlocking Roger's potential were cruel at best and torturous at worst. What happened to Roger during the following 7 months has never been disclosed.

When Allied forces finally located Roger what they found shocked them. Stevens was a cripple, physically and mentally, but his assailants were all dead or worse. The survivors had literally no mind. Their psyches burnt to ash. Dr. Oktober was nowhere to be found.

Stevens was given an honorable discharge and admitted to Riverside hospital for ongoing Psychic evaluation and physical therapy. He was released after 4 years.


2008:

The American Man, now age 83, lives a life of near poverty in King's Row. Quiet and forgotten Roger looks surprisingly well for all he experienced in his youth. His few acquaintances say he doesn't look a day over 50.

The sudden appearance of the costumed villain Dr. October in King's Row coincides with the arrival of the vigilante Psilocin.


Roger, however is completely unaware of this.


At least while he is awake.


Psilocin



This may see some modification in a few days, you know me.

Thanks for looking!

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I can't let this thread continue any longer without posting this one again.

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Lol Oh welll, Since we're getting naughty...

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This one was taken by my fellow Legendary Cursed Cricket.

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Feed me Seymor!

Seriously though. That is some very nice work and some very sharp looking heroes you have there!

Keep up the good work!

Dear Shinobu Dragonheart,

My name is Powerforge and I am in love with you. Will you please marry me.

Love Powerforge.

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Aaaand that's that! All new level 1 shields added. I really like what's been made and it is making me even antsier to get my hands onto I13!

Redid the previous portrait picture I made into something a little more simpler and in-style with the game:
Shadow Knight

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This really is an elegant mix of various costume pieces. Definately conveys the Shadow warrior/Elven look. Well done pn blending those pieces together.

I'm lovin' shields as well! Hopefully the set will perform well for scrappers who like to solo.

US Aegis

Pretty obvious where I drew inspiration from but wth it IS shields after all.

Thanks for looking.

Damn that's sharp! Very clean lines. Love the face!

Visually very appealing. Looks more current so to speak. The only complaint I have is the navigation menu on the left. Because there is nothing under the menu it feels off balance with the right side. I guess I just want a symmetrical design. Personally I would prefer the menu across the top.

That's just a small nitpick on my part. Looks MUCH improved.

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Here is the toon I get the most "creepy" tells about. He's really not such a bad guy...

Twitch the Clown

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Fantastic! I love that right there. Everyone has great stuff. Very fun to look at. Can we get another pic of Twicth please?

Creepy yet.... HAWT!

Hey! Not bad at all. The eyes are the ticket. Reminds me of the bad guy in Hellboy with the knives a bit. I also commend you on your unconventional color choices. Works well.

Here is a quick draft of Psilocin's bio. I'm sure many of you may notice certain parallels to another hero.

1941:

Roger Stevens wasn't too bright but he loved his country. When WWII began all Stevens wanted was to serve the USA in it's battle against the Nazis. At 17 he faked his way into the army in an attempt to aid the US.

A small division of the service was tasked with seeking out new recruits who showed unusual potential and unlocking said potential for military use. Surprisingly the armies psychics identified Roger as a possibility. After volunteering for the extensive treatment he was deemed unsuccessful. But the money was spent. The hero was needed. More importantly the propaganda was needed. Told that his power would manifest when he needed it most Roger, newly christened "The American Man" was sent into action with his 12 year old sidekick "Rascal".

The disaster that followed was almost totally expunged from military databases and only recently became public knowledge over 60 years later.

Captured on his first mission by the 5th column, America's Greatest Patriot watched in horror as Rascal was murdered before his eyes. The 5th column had plans of their own for Roger. Their scientists also identified him as having great untapped potential.

The lead scientist was a man name Dr. Oktober. His methods of unlocking Roger's potential were cruel at best and torturous at worst. What happened to Roger during the following 7 months has never been disclosed.

When Allied forces finally located Roger what they found shocked them. Stevens was a cripple, physically and mentally, but his assailants were all dead or worse. The survivors had literally no mind. Their psyche burnt to ash. Dr. Oktober was nowhere to be found.

Stevens was given an honorable discharge and admitted to Riverside hospital for ongoing Psychic evaluation and physical therapy. He was released after 4 years.


2008:

The American Man, now age 83, lives a life of near poverty in King's Row. Quiet and forgotten Roger looks surprisingly well for all he experienced in his youth. His few acquaintances say he doesn't look a day over 50.

The sudden appearance of the costumed villain Dr. October in King's Row coincides with the arrival of the vigilante Psilocin.


Roger, however is completely unaware of this.

lol the titles totally make that!

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Insanity scares you, huh?

Heh heh.

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I'll be huddled in the corner babbling if you need meh.

About a week ago I woke up with an idea for a new character. My idea came complete with a catchy name and theme. I have no idea why I was apparently thinking about this in my sleep (ADDICTION!).

In any event.,this character was decidely creepy. Now what's creepy to me may not be creepy to you. Standard scary really doesn't get to me too much. I'm sure if I woke up in the middle of the night and the power was out and the lightningz were flashing and a vampire was sitting on my bed I most likely [censored] the bed. But in the bright morning sunlight, not so much.

I prefer disturbing. Things that make me look twice or even three times because somethings not right and it feels menacing.

My idea was to roll a Psi blaster who was either a mental patient or perhaps a spirit of madness etc. I know that's nothing new, I do however still find the thought of insanity scarier than werewolves and if done right it can be very scary to me. That sense of things not being what they are supposed to be but also the loss of control. This place is wrong and I don't understand and I can't change it or get away and what if it's only me!

So my name was Apsilum, or Apsylum maybe depending on what was taken. Well I'm sure you know how that went. Three days of hard searching on the net and I got Psilocin. Psilocin is a haalucinogenic compound and I get the nifty Psi play on words for free as that's the actual spelling!

So here's the result.

Psilocin Black
Psilocin White

I can tell you if I woke up in broad daylight with all the lights on and that was sitting on my bed I'd still [censored] the bed.


So I got to thinking. It would really be fun to see what the rest of our commumity would create to be scary. In the spirit of the season please post your scariest/creepiest here. I almost made this into a contest but I really don't have much to offer in way of prizes etc so let's just do it for fun.

Scare me if you can Paragon!

Hello Heroes!

I'm happy with this one! The whole thing came together pretty well. I have done the TV monitor effect before but this time I really liked it. This is also my submission to the COH Costume Contest.

Katanatech!


Front
Side
Rear

Sneaky



Thanks for looking!