So, yes, Champions Online is still active, and still doing regular costume contests... and the latest one naturally had the theme of 'scare the devs'. In amongst the joke entries of 'Copyright Lawyer', I decided to go with something a little different, so I dressed Skunkworks up as 'The Ghost in the Machine', going with a deliberately spooky-looking armoured figure. There were a few fun costume pieces to make this work, like the 'Cosmic Knight' setup that gave me the ability to replace the head with a mask and glowing energy behind it, and a 'binary' skin which covered the figure with flickering 0s and 1s, which led to some nice ghostly effects when placed on top of something that already had a 'glass' or 'ice' material to already be semi-transparent. (That's how I got the vaguely glowing shapes around the mechanical skeleton.) Pictured here inside the ice cave base.

Didn't win anything, but it's still fun to play around with the costume designer to see what you can really pull off with it.