OSRS vs IRL: Old School RuneScape Cape Tattoos

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I had a mind blown moment when I realized that “cape” is one of the few words that appear in the title of the game, Old School RunesCAPE. No wonder there’s a cape for every skill and some other extra very important capes, like the fire cape, the infernal cape, or the imbued god capes. Other scapers figured out the importance of “cape” in RuneScape long before me, and surely enough they found enough inspiration as to wear their favourite capes right on their skin as tattoos.

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Firecape Tattoo

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This firecape tattoo is inked on the leg and it has a colourful fill as well as a thin black outline to bring on a copy of the reward for killing Jad.

Slayer Cape Tattoo

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This Slayer cape tattoo is created with black, red, white and a bit of yellow ink. It is placed on the leg accompanied by the text Slayer and 120, which is the maximum virtual level in Old School RuneScape, or the max level in RuneScape 3.

Imbued Zamorak Green Max Cape Tattoo

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This is a colourful max cape tattoo, specifically the Zamorak imbued max cape, but with a colour swap. It is realized with blocks of solid colour without an outline. This tattoo celebrates 11 years of playing OSRS.

Frog Guthix Imbued Max Cape Tattoo

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When it comes to capes in RuneScape the frog is the limit. Or was it the sky? Regardless, this scaper got a tattoo with a RuneScape frog wearing the helm of Neitiznot, a dragon dagger and an imbued Guthix Imbued Max Cape… what a weird choice of gear… The tattoo is complex, with blocks of colour and a thin black outline, some shading and loads of details.

Thieving Cape Tattoo

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Some players love getting matching tattoos. So is the case for these two who got their own thieving cape tattoos in a similar spot on the leg.

Prayer Tattoo

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This amazing prayer cape tattoo is placed on the inner forearm. You might have seen it together with other skilling tattoos. It celebrates 10 years of playing OSRS.

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Outer forearm Infernal Max Cape Tattoo

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This max infernal cape tattoo is placed on the inner forearm. The design has a great amount of details, fine lines, advanced shading, and realistic lava patterns.

Inner forearm Infernal Max Cape Tattoo

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The inner forearm seems to be a favourite rack for capes irl. This is another infernal max cape which has a different design and which uses different techniques to bring to life the same item.

Infernal Cape Tattoo

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This infernal cape tattoo is placed on the leg and it is created using bold colours like red and orange contrasted by black. The tattoo is clean and sharp with loads of details especially on the lava part.

Imbued Zamorak Max Cape Tattoo

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This tattoo is a copy of the OSRS Imbued Zamorak Max Cape. It is realized with solid colour blocks and a black outline and it is place on the shoulder.

Character with a Max Cape Tattoo

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This tattoo depicts a full OSRS scene, with a character wearing a max cape and a max hood at the center of it. While the rest of the tattoo is created using only black ink the max cape, max hood, and primordial boots stand out as they are created with black and red ink.

Black Max Cape Tattoo

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This max cape tattoo is created using only black ink and it is placed on the inner forearm. It was made to celebrate getting the max cape in game.

Woodcutting Cape Tattoo

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This is a detailed tattoo resembling the woodcutting cape. It was created to cover up a different tattoo and the scaper who got it admits: “woodcutting is my fav skill and it was my first 99 and first 120 and 200m so had to get it done. It was a cover up”.

Magic and Strength Cape Tattoo

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This scaper got not one, but two capes on their leg: the magic cape and the strength cape. Both tattoos are created using simple black lines for the outline and details, solid colours, and subtle shading.

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