Thursday's Costume Contest: Apocalyptic Survivor

Tomorrow night's costume contest theme is Apocalyptic Survivor. I wanted to give a little background on the theme of this contest, so you can get a sense of where it is coming from.

My first day in the game I spent well over an hour in the costume creator, and finally came up with a costume I was really proud of. I finally logged into the tutorial and landed smack next to someone in a much better costume, depicting someone who had survived a nuclear apocalypse. I immediately logged out and tried to replicate that costume, but I couldn't get it quite right. In fact, I have spent years trying to get that costume to look right off and on, but have never gotten it to look as good.

While the costume itself was compelling, and told a story at a glance, the Apocalyptic Survivor theme is really compelling, too. Super-powered characters are the ultimate in survivors, and you don't have to be a tank to be capable of survival against all odds: it is equally impressive to survive by your wits or by main force or by enlisting the aid of others. And you certainly don't have to be a heroic survivor, fiction is full of evil -- or at least self-interested --survivors as well.

And of course not all apocalypses are nuclear. Apocalyptic events can come in many forms, from nuclear incidents to magical rips in the dimensional fabric to good old fashioned conventional warfare.

We look forward to seeing your best costume-crafting on display tomorrow night, Thursday, September 15th, at 5:00 PM PDT (8:00 Eastern) on the Exalted Server in Pocket D. We'll be judging the costumes aesthetically, but also whether they tell a story.

Would making a costume to look like Zwillinger after the UStream marathon yesterday count?

GG got the FPARNWNIR (first post after red name whose name isn't red). Walking is disguise amongst the common people?

Would like to take part in these but the timings are against EU players. Oh well.

[QUOTE= We look forward to seeing your best costume-crafting on display tomorrow night, Thursday, September 15th, at 5:00 PM PDT (8:00 Eastern) on the Exalted Server in Pocket D. We'll be judging the costumes aesthetically, but also whether they tell a story.[/QUOTE]

No time posted for the EU players, is that a hint??
I guess we EU players will mostly be asleep anyway

Here are a few screenshots of our semi finalists and winners for the "Apocalyptical Survivor" Costume contest!

Semi Finalists:







And our top three winners!

Our 1st Prize Winner - Captain Wasteland:



Our 2nd Prize Winner - Wastelander-13:



Our 3rd Prize Winner - Ruin:



Well done to all our contest participants once again, we hope you had fun devising your costume, we certainly had a lot of fun seeing them!