Paragon Mysteries: The Slender Man
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Posted on: 2011-07-10 24:43 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Or you can add a dash and he becomes the super hero: Slender-Man!
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Originally Posted by Jophiel
If you take away the space in his name, you get the Slenderman who sounds more like a tax attorney than a supernatural child-snatcher. Suddenly he's a lot less scary... unless you're deliquent in your filings.
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Has anyone ever seen the Slender Man and Null the Gull at the same time? They both seem to have shown up at around the same time...
Just sayin'.
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That was actually an edit I made with MS Paint. Who knew that junk software could be so creepy?|
Originally Posted by Winterminal
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Originally Posted by Aggelakis
I like that all of these are your own characters. Nice demoedit/Photoshop.
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Though how did you--... have you been stalking my CIT page or something? D-:
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Oh... duh.
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Originally Posted by Beastyle
Sorry guys, that was just me. I was dancing out there. Hope I didn't alarm anyone!
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Originally Posted by Zaloopa
Or you can add a dash and he becomes the super hero: Slender-Man!
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Originally Posted by Shadowclone
You didn't see him because only children can see him. He doesn't actually take the players character... as you might notice it doesn't happen EVERY trial, it only occurs when there is actually a child playing... And the slender man appears for him...
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Originally Posted by Beastyle
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Bad choice of emote there
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I think it sounds like the name for one of those thermal belts to wrap around your gut while exercising.
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Originally Posted by Jophiel
If you take away the space in his name, you get the Slenderman who sounds more like a tax attorney than a supernatural child-snatcher.
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I disagree. I think it is very Beastyle! What a party-hound ... er ... party-cat? ;-).|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Bad choice of emote there
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I mean in the context of the post it followed |
Originally Posted by Freitag
I disagree. I think it is very Beastyle! What a party-hound ... er ... party-cat? ;-).
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I think horror is still possible in a super environment if it is sufficiently alien and/or invasive to what you consider your safe zone. A hero dealing with an entity that has no discernable motive, no truly set form or list of capabilities, that can appear in any location (no matter how private) at any time while remaining largely unnoticed, and that doesn't even seem interested in the entire hero-villain conflict at all would be troubling. Having massive powers or a personal connection to the supernatural could make a super even more vulnerable to fear when something that doesn't fall into their genre passes through, taking something of value and only leaving some telltale clue that it ever was there. All your powers and knowledge reduced to triviality by something that may not even realise you exist, and probably wouldn't even care if it did...
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Originally Posted by Zikar
Not to criticize you or anything, just lamenting the problems of horror when confronted with people in spandex.
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It lies within a hyperbaric chamber waiting to rise and go prey upon children once more.|
Originally Posted by Premonitions
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So far, First Ward looks like it's going to have a pretty strong horror vibe to it.
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See "In Our Darkest Hour" by Steven Graham in Cthulhu Unbound for a pretty good superhero/horror crossover story. Some parts of the 'Wild Cards' anthology series would probably qualify as well.
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Originally Posted by Serpine
I think horror is still possible in a super environment if it is sufficiently alien and/or invasive to what you consider your safe zone. A hero dealing with an entity that has no discernable motive, no truly set form or list of capabilities, that can appear in any location (no matter how private) at any time while remaining largely unnoticed, and that doesn't even seem interested in the entire hero-villain conflict at all would be troubling. Having massive powers or a personal connection to the supernatural could make a super even more vulnerable to fear when something that doesn't fall into their genre passes through, taking something of value and only leaving some telltale clue that it ever was there. All your powers and knowledge reduced to triviality by something that may not even realise you exist, and probably wouldn't even care if it did...
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And so Slenderman did become a 'hero' unto the denizens of the Isles... Soon they would ask if he could do the same to Lord Recluse and his stupid Arachnos organization.
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Originally Posted by Equation
It was a quiet day in Mercy Island, the streets oddly still. Matthew Burke was not seen ever again... |
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
The grainy/blurry image was intentional, but the edit became a bit hard to see. This is what it was before I put it through the distortion filters:
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Originally Posted by LISAR
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Slender ... Pony?
Naaaa can't be. I'm calling BS on this one, Slender Pony is a phony.
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In all the times I've ever played City of Heroes, I think there's only been one time that I was actually scared. It was in one of the Praetorian missions when you're going to find information on the leader of the Carnival. You know the one.|
Originally Posted by Serpine
I think horror is still possible in a super environment if it is sufficiently alien and/or invasive to what you consider your safe zone. A hero dealing with an entity that has no discernable motive, no truly set form or list of capabilities, that can appear in any location (no matter how private) at any time while remaining largely unnoticed, and that doesn't even seem interested in the entire hero-villain conflict at all would be troubling. Having massive powers or a personal connection to the supernatural could make a super even more vulnerable to fear when something that doesn't fall into their genre passes through, taking something of value and only leaving some telltale clue that it ever was there. All your powers and knowledge reduced to triviality by something that may not even realise you exist, and probably wouldn't even care if it did...
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I wasn't scared out of my mind or anything, but it made me jump a bit, kinda like something in the game was actively watching or hunting me. It was pervasive and realistically, apart from abandoning the mission there's nothing you can do to stop it. I wouldn't call it horrific, and as scariness goes it's low-grade...but I think it was just about right for an occasional jolt of fear (almost wish that Halloween offered an occasional spook like that.)
Horror stories definitely have a long history in comics. I'd welcome one or two horrific elements...but I don't know if I'd want it in a safe-zone, except perhaps possibly as an easter egg that first-time players won't find. You wouldn't want to sacrifice the "I can do anything!" feeling of the super hero genre just for a few horror-movie thrills.
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Originally Posted by GuyPerfect
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Though how did you--... have you been stalking my CIT page or something? D-: EDIT: Oh... duh. |
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Pastels, huh? That's how you knew it was me?
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If you take away the space in his name, you get the Slenderman who sounds more like a tax attorney than a supernatural child-snatcher. Suddenly he's a lot less scary... unless you're deliquent in your filings.