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Another oldschool PKer, apparently a mage from what is seen of him. Has been mostly sidelined since the developers introduced limb loss into the game - apparently, he got so many kills that when someone finally got him, all that was left was his nose! Now, he's carried around in a jar and uses
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Paladins for their overpowered invincibility and wields a giant wooden hammer. In late 2009 this was replaced with a spring-loaded, steel "ranged melee" hammer won from the server's top PK guild. At one point, Fred the Dread mentions that Your Name Here is from
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Outcasts. At one point, almost kill the main protagonist, before realizing that said main protagonist knows the location of the RPers' town. Later remarks that "We were PKing in Pong!" Apparently, he's unbeatable since 1992, when he kept getting
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