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Wahisietel
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Wahisietel

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It looked like Mah's arm because Jagex don't care enough about quests to make new models for them.

Same reason Captain Donnie's ship The Inebriated is Sarim's Revenge, why the pirates invade with a Dwarf Multicannon, and why all Barrelchests are identical, making their chatheads look stupid and the whole reason we meet the zombie head make no sense. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

19-Mar-2018 21:58:04 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2018 21:59:53 by Wahisietel

Hguoh

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Goldmage162 said :
Or perhaps it could have had Guthix been better at wielding it...who knows?

He hit it hard enough to shatter Renmark. He broke a plane and the corruption just went on its merry way across the universe. Even if we consider that the blade wasn't being wielded at its full power, surviving a blow strong enough to break a plane indicates some amazing survivability.

19-Mar-2018 22:21:52

Handkerchief

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I missed talking to space kitty on the ship before we fight the kraken dude - what did it say at that point?

That door we can't open in the temple is driving me nuts . You know they just did that to fuck with us. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Continual disappointment is the spice of life.

19-Mar-2018 22:28:16

Hguoh

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Handkerchief said :
I missed talking to space kitty on the ship before we fight the kraken dude - what did it say at that point?

That door we can't open in the temple is driving me nuts . You know they just did that to fuck with us. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

I can't remember what exactly it said, but it foreshadowed the impending Kraken attack.

19-Mar-2018 22:46:32

Handkerchief

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The cutscenes with the frolicking kiddy-widdies made me chuckle, then when it was the same two scenes repeated I felt a bit cheated, but when third kiddy-widdy with his cute liddle hat rose up I got some major chills. That was really well done. Continual disappointment is the spice of life.

20-Mar-2018 01:24:53

Wahisietel
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Didn't even include the Rum Deal kitten cutscene (despite it using current cat graphics unlike The Great Brain Robbery one), 0/10. You never were our brightest star, Khazard. 'Vermin slaughtered like lambs'? What does that even mean?

20-Mar-2018 01:38:06

Kikizosan
Jun Member 2006

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Wahisietel said :
It looked like Mah's arm because Jagex don't care enough about quests to make new models for them.

It's a different model. They wouldn't have gone through the time to make something new at all if what you're accusing them of were the case, they would just have used Mah's arm model.

20-Mar-2018 09:01:18

Uncle Harper
Jul Member 2015

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Its definitely a new model. It only has 3 fingers and a thumb. Mah had one more digit. I have seen the dark universe yawning, where the black planets roll without aim;
Where they roll in their horror unheeded, without knowledge or lustre or name.

20-Mar-2018 16:37:51

Half Centaur
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I think Xau-Tak is the unnamed 6th elder god.

The thing that bothers me about the underwater temple, is it seems in the first mural, a dragonkin used the ritual to create the drain portal- before Xau-tak attacked/corrupted his company.

The dragonkin have shown nothing but disdain for other gods though, so why would they call on any god, even a tier 2, to fix their curse when it was put in place by the elder gods and no other god would be able to help them?

My bet is that this dragonkin saw this 6th elder god as in opposition to the others, and because of this, hoped it would help them.

The drain portal got closed by the dragonkin in the ensuing conflict, and likely sunk as well, to keep anyone foolish enough from trying to mess with Xau-tak again. Then in time Rabid Jack discovered hints to its existence in some cursed treasure, perhaps left by some dragonkin survivors. Or maybe his treasure was something that would zombify him, and he happened to float into the wreckage, where Xau-Tak reached out to him, sensing his hatred, and used him to further his plans.

The drain portal worked in the 5th age since it predated and superseded the edicts, though it still couldn't let Xau-tak entirely through. "We call it being a hero"
"That's interesting, we call it utter stupidity"

21-Mar-2018 00:39:56

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