Sorry I didnt get around to this earlier. I changed GIMP a while back and I couldn't access most of the screenshots I took.
Anyhow, here are a few facts you might not have known about Outis:
Outis was an ascetic, which is a pretty miserable class, really. OP defensively, especially in PvE, but weak offensively. Imbalance aside, they are just rather mechanically dull to play. Not many buttons to push! That having been said, I loved the character, and stuck it out. And it was fun to solo huge packs of low level mobs.
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Outis had a vow of poverty that mean he never carried more than fifty coins. I threw so much money in the trash or left it behind at explorables. Literally tens of thousands must have gone to waste. He was also a pacifist, here he is pictured making a sit in protest against an Abala "Feast" event.
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Outis was originally going to be an artist, but getting people to do art for him was much harder than I expected. I was creating the art, and all they needed to do was say IC they were doing it..., but so few people were keen. Not manly enough, I guess.
This was my favourite piece of art.
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Outis had zero search. Yet, despite this, everyone was convinced the blind guy was really good at searching for some reason. He was gifted so much search loot that he actually became the teams searcher for his main ring running group. At the end he could hit 23 search if he put everything on!
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Outis was invited to join three noble houses, and he joined one, where he was granted the extremely awkward title of Sir Saint Outis. He also knighted two other characters in an unrelated event.
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Outis sat on giant rat rugs with lots of people. For a while I kept a folder just filled with all the different people and places he had sat down with rat rugs. Then I was like, who the hell wants to look at that? So here is the most interesting of the set.
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Outis ran two Ponds events, both duelling, but with an anarchic, changeling vibe. They were modest successes, I thought.
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Outis was preternaturally upbeat and morally indomitable. In the face of adversity and loss, he was supposed to pick himself up and keep going. This turned out to be the hardest element of the character for me to RP, because I am a sad old goth, and I was sad when all his friends died over and over!
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Outis starred neutral, but was very almost evil, he came one alignment tick off evil really early on. I wonder how different his story arc would have been if he had got one more evil tick.
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I started off with a mystical, religious character, but it didn't seem to thrill anyone, least of all me. Eventually I added finding the truth of the module into his religion, and I got on with trying to piece together the server lore. I got quite far, I think. Here Outis discovered that the City of Rings is actually part of a continent called "Middle Earth"! Huge twist.
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Outis had a shadow clone. I considered apping to play the clone, but I think the world had seen enough of Outis.
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Loot! Two items, both awesome in their own way.
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Edit: I forgot to add the vanity pic.
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Outis was an important anchor for Genovalio for a big part of the character's career. He never fully understood Outis, but respected that he had cultivated his own wise perspective of the world. It's funny to hear he was almost evil, as Geno thought he lived up to the 'Saint' part quite well.
Excellent character!
The most unlikely of Glitt friends.
He was a great PC to just hang around with and theorize with for hours. He definitely put together many puzzles that had been on my mind.
Good work!
One of my favorite rp moments still is when we were talking in the refuge about ~spoiler~ stuff and there was that spooky moment that only I saw.
You always do well Scrappa and I look forward to more.
Easily one of my favorite characters. His death was felt hard. Sitting for ages and ages just talking philosophy or puzzling over the City of Rings was some of my most enjoyable time on the server. Saint Outis was someone I was always excited to see at the campfire. Thanks for playing such an outstanding character and being a super cool dude OOCly! :D
Outis was a gem in the rough for sure. Over the various characters and interactions I've had through various PCs he was always a joy. I remember so many fond little adventures.
Through most recently I enjoyed the little brawl event.
An A++ character and an A++ player. Amazing work.
We had an interesting and contentious relationship when I was playing Squirrel, as we went from being opposed to united over the course of her life. Outis, along with a small group of other PC's, really helped characterize the Ponds for me. A shame our ringrunning group never got off the ground, but taking Jo to the Scarabi tunnels to discuss and debate ideas very much helped direct her journey down the path she would walk to its end.
I liked Outis. The wise, old, blind hermit in the middle of the Ponds was a nice touch and made it all the cooler when he actually held all the answers needed.
The mysticism he promoted was sweet. It's a bummer he's gone.
Outis felt like such an institution of the City, a constant that you could expect to interact with on all your PCs to have some hard questions asked and insight offered. The server won't be the same without him.
Cheers to an amazing PC.
I enjoyed how running into Outis was always a very different experience on all my characters, from Eryeth eternally mad that the crazy swamp man kept ruining her cushions with his muddy damp-ness, to Thraz determined to watch the Berzerker's combat styles. As someone said above, a character that became a small but persistent part of the setting itself. Things will be different after Outis, and I hope you have a lot of fun on your next character!
I had two real conversations with Outis and enjoyed both immensely. One was the introduction to Caesinirthos and Velastra confiding her parental fears in him, the other was the philosophical discussion about the nature of the King that Eupraxia had with him in the Drips. It's a shame there won't be any more of these.
It was also hilarious to watch Clyde's reaction to Outis's presence. That detail about the search gear is amusing, the Tears of Blood basically did the same thing to Clyde.
So many hours spent sitting on those rat furs discussing philosophy, reality, the Realm, the cosmos, and the Truth - and I enjoyed every single one of them.
Saint Outis was THE mainstay as a conspirator of Aethelwine's in engagement of the setting's lore. Nobody had before nor since shown such enthusiasm for a good chat about all things and Nothing too.
I would have enjoyed seeing all the shots of random locations and people with whom Saint Outis held counsel upon his trademark rat fur! Also, this one gives your most interesting of the set a run for it's money:
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