What an incredible story this has been. Thank you to all of the dozens, if not hundreds, of awesome characters that I've had the pleasure of interacting with on this long journey from a simple necromancer to an evil ideologue to a power-hungry yet desperate and dying old man.
I created a Raymon with the hope of making an evil character who was active and visible with fellow evil folks but without putting them at immediate risk (although I constantly pestered my fellow evil folks to come out of the closet, so to speak!), and with the Vaunted Disciples my core group achieved this awesome task. I never expected to expand this idea so profoundly with the curious test that became the Black Parish. Although I would not call it a full success, it was definitely fun and went much further than I ever thought it would. My last group, House Coolidge, I hope that I put you guys on an interesting path to conclude in a way you see fitting. To all three, again, I thank you all individually for uniquely changing Raymon into a deeper and more interesting character through our ample roleplayed relationships.
To the DMs that ran the various evil rituals for me, I thank you deeply. Those little experiences really helped to bring the different cabals of evil folks together. And thanks too for the innumerable other awesome interactions that led Raymon to morph his goals and opinions on the wide range of subjects (flayer halflings and H'bala in particular-- you know who you are).
My only regret for Raymon is that I didn't have more time as a player to devote towards propelling the countless awesome plots and schemes that seemed to hover around.
I did not get enough screenshots to truly tell the tale, but below is a sampling of the good (er, evil) times rolling on.
This character was created on Friday, February 12th, 2010 at 08:45:11 PM.
Since creation, this character has logged on and off 256 times.
The character has spent 16 days, 12 hours, 54 minutes, and 50 seconds online.Notes on pictures are above the image.
Lookin' Fly
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Raymon giving Victor Gamen animation lessons. He did this for innumerable PCs.
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Here are two pictures from the great battle in the sewers between the Vaunted Disciples + loyal animates against the goblin hordes. It was just a regular Goblins 2 quest, but we used 8+ animates. It took about 20 minutes just to plan out how to have enough spells for the living and unliving troops. This led to enormous and terrifying spawns, but we had one HELL of a time in the fighting.
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Lol, silly paladins. I think Raymon ended up collecting somewhere around 4 to 6 paladin and goodly characters' bodies in his career. All were put to good use.
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Two pics of the ritual to "save" Ashara Ssambra and desecrate the staff that was turning her towards good.
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Here is the quest to get revenge on the druids for murdering his partner, Caliphar Hanzou Akamatsu.
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A shot from a terrifying but awesome DM quest that we literally walked right into. We ended up battling everything you see here, surrounded, with zero preparation. Classic clusterfuck. We actually won.
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Undeadification? Success?
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Whoa, lichdom? Did he finally do it and save his wretched soul from death? (Sadly, this was just an illusion.)
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Raymon was dying. I had planned this event several times, but things kept me from making it happen. Finally, I decided that it was time to go. Raymon died of old age amongst the best of company and in the sweetest of ironies.
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There is no way for me to possibly remember everyone that made this character so much fun, so please forgive if I miss you. Special thanks to Ebok, BoneScreech, RwG, Capricious Fate, diz-e, diz-e's everpresent fanboi club (y'all know who you are), Nightshadow, OWN, the Haters Club in the Conclave (also, you know who you are), whoever played Yekal and Orgeribbit, Bateson, Bearic, Decimate_The_Weak, and so many more.
Sweet character. I like the death scene, very cool.
Fun guy; even after death people were fighting over him. ^_^
Micheal actually thought he was a good man too; his last words still right confuse him. =]
Sick, sick PC. Many good times were had. Remember when your crew was getting a spiced flayers run, and we were getting a spiced long flayers run, and the flayers made you guys gank us? Aww yeah.
At first I thought I wasn't mentioned, and then I saw "diz-e's everpresent fanboi club" :D
Brilliant and interesting pc, IMO exactly what the server needed at the time of the black parish. Good job.
Ulfrin was in awe of him. She didn't a moment think he was a nice guy but she felt he was so good at being bad that she had better stay on his good side. Besides, they could use each other.
Awesome character!
I didn't know him as well as i might have liked but i hope to have a char that is as memorable one day
Farewell, mr. Mayor!
The question here is, how did you get Mist Body...roflmao.
In other news, I was glad I could assist with your death scene.
Also his zombie is sorta badass. Loved the char, keep rocking.
Too early a death for Iceargh, Prophet of the Mist. A good run and sweet character, much kudos and good luck with your next one!
Well done Garem. Tip of the cap to you sir.
Good job. though I never got to play as an ally... it was fun when we did play. Looking forward to the next one.
SB