A collection of screenies from the life and times of Wavelord Dagmer Rus:
Early days; blessing a vessel
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Rus never missed a moment to disparage other gods
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Allies for the struggle against the Order
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Speaking of the Order, their seers meant we often had to sail to Gull Rocks
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Over his time, Rus collected a crazy amount of tithes, most of it offered freely and all of it given to the tides
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...and on several instances, offered by other clerics
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Broodspice
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Rus converted/initiated 10+ PCs during his tenure...unconveniently, many of them after he had already rose to power
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The cliffside shrine was often a place of various activity
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Raiding the farmlands, both in retribution, and in the hope of turning people toward the sea for sustenance
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Sacrificing people to the depths was for Rus a religious necessity, particularly if they openly opposed the Bitch Queen
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The end of a legend...
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A trip to Old Port for the devout, answering the call of the High Priest in Old Port to investigate the sacrilege of the mighty Cathedral
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A journey into the depths, aiding the Ragers in their war below the waves against the heresy of the Diluvian city
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Keeping the laymen in line...
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...and acquiring more, by force when necessary
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Well, despite ICly eventually coming to loathe her, OOCly I was always spellbound by Sicily Comnene...one of many religious chats we had...
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The Cerebus Wolfhound of the Targan Gates was one of the best PCs to play alongside, a real pleasure
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As was Iorek Nord, the few times he logged in...
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Anyone who has some cool screens of Rus, feel free to add them to the thread.
Was a blast to play, thanks to everyone involved in the journey.
Rus was cool and he drowned a lot of people. Well done.
(http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/1254/escapedfromunderda0001a.jpg)
Scary guy, when he wasn't a statue.
(http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/733/russtatue.png) (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/405/russtatue.png/)
You and Bonescreeech made the docks a scary place to live...
I appreciate the fact that almost the entire underdark crew was made from people form almost every walk of life. Very cool stuff. I wish I had more time to play with Rus, but timing is what it is.
Edit:; What head override are you using?
Hot stuff..
A sexy beast
Wish I had the opportunity to interact with him more, other than that last little skirmish towards the end of his career.
Fun character, even if Haroth only heard about most of his deeds.
He was a good antagonist. =]
Best cleric.
Made the Umberlants a faction to be feared. Well done!
Well done.
:D
A fun ally [?] and a scary oponent.
He sure did kick some ass
A pleasure to interact with too bad it ended.
Was looking forward to the coming days.
I wish some of the text in those screenshots were clearer.
Epic cleric man. Pleased I got to play alongside you for a while.
For all my IC mockery of Rus's prophecy, I still felt he was awesome. Ironically enough the best moment I had with him was on Reese, my soon-to-be Templar, who gave Rus an Umberlant helmet because she felt that it would be more proper for a worshipper of Umberlee to hold it. Rus almost thanked her but caught himself in time and gave Reese a brusque nod instead -- that's the sort of little RP detail I love! ^^
Hm, I just realized the text isn't actually readable...ugh.
When I'm not feeling as lazy as I am now I'll edit the first post.
Dagmer Rus was an exceptionally uncompromising and consistent character, not just in his personality but the PC as a concept in itself, both in theory and in practice, and also in terms of quality. I mean that as the highest praise.
His interactions with Sicily always constituted excellent RP, and were far from harmonious or simple.
I'm not a prolific screenshooter, but I happened to have the uncharacteristic presence of mind to shoot perhaps my favourite exchange between the two of them: the Drowning of Sicily.
The Drowning is an important Umberlant ritual, when an Untaken (a novice priest) is formally inducted into the clergy. In order to complete the ritual, the initiate must survive a brutal test; hence the name.
When she had finally garnered enough (grudging) respect from him, and gathered the courage to ask her new father-figure to initiate her, Sicily bade Rus perform her Drowning, an event of pivotal importance in her life and one that would come to dominate her destiny thereafter -- and spell doom for many others.
Crazy drowning action (and hot naked teen) here. (//%22http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm309/hyperborgia/44e66c37.jpg%22)
^ thanks.
Also, took some time to reload all the images so the text is viewable.
Quote from: TeufelHunden;242409He sure did kick some ass
Right up until Haroth nearly cleaved him in half *grins* Awesome final battle, though Trouble didn't get to do much besides knock out a nameless accomplice.
That was actually a double crit by 2 people.
Haha, nice...never actually got a chance to read the combat log. Whodunnit?
On a side note, I only recall seeing a few summoned sparklers, an animated chest, and Haroth fighting him.