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Post by Catilina on May 20, 2018 21:24:56 GMT
Wasn't too hard, I could probably go farther. Wonder what the max level is? lol Anyway, y'all are welcome. I begrudgingly sit in the back with alistair and mope. I, too, happen to think being a Grey Warden is more of an honor than punishment and it's a way to redeem yourself which Loghain does not deserve. He better hope he doesn't survive the archdemon! He had some good moments before. When he was Ferelden's hero. And his cameo is great in the Inquisition. This is just a postponed execution, constant fight, taint and some nightmares. He's an excellent sacrifice material. And I think, everyone deserves a chance.
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Post by gervaise21 on May 21, 2018 6:50:42 GMT
All right guys. Reed did all the work. So, I will accept this scenario of Ali + Anora marriage. Adonniel, credit where it is due, Pela got to level 13 with Bard first.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 13:35:44 GMT
Adonniel, credit where it is due, Pela got to level 13 with Bard first. ugh By 'all' I meant that Reed captured 3/3 screenshots, not that nobody else did anything; as in maximum quantity a single person can do. Sorry Pela. I didn't mean to discredit you! You've done the best job getting the hardest character to lvl 13 when it looked like the others were struggling and you spent all night doing that. That's completely awesome and you were trying to help other players by leaving two easier characters to get to lvl 13 for them. Alistair should call you to go on a date for valiantly trying to save him!
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 13:40:28 GMT
Current Votes: Catilina 3 votes Moonae 1 vote
Still to Vote: nada
The voting closes TODAY as soon as I get around to it.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 15:13:02 GMT
"See and you had doubts. You haven't put on the crown yet and there is fanmail waiting for you already. Bann Reed and Arless Pela are among the first to declare their support."
"I'll be sure to invite them to dinner... providing there will be dinner."
Ellisa sensed there was truth in her decision, yet, the distance between her and Alistair was a hard price to pay.
"About Loghain..."
"About the traitor who should have been executed and the person closest to me from whom I've hardly expected betrayal..."
"I'm sorry you feel that way."
This wasn't how either of them envisioned parting.
"Woof!"
There was a sloppy pitter-patter of feet an instance before she was ran over by lots of hefty pounds of slobbery affection. Not minding at all, Ellisa laughed and ruffled the dog's fur.
"I thought I'd lost you! Where did you come from?"
The Mabari titled his head saying how unlike certain someone's he never lost her. A thoroughly drooled over leather glove was dropped into her lap. So, the assassin was still here, teasing the Crows right in one of their nests, taking pride in defying them. Somehow this made her feel better for the city's fate.
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Alistair +45 Zevran +30 HoF's Mabari +25
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Post by romice on May 21, 2018 15:53:56 GMT
Yay Doggy and Zevran! So much happiness! And of course Ali, being Ali is whining over everything
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 16:11:59 GMT
And of course Ali, being Ali is whining over everythingWhen I was playing the game for the first time I didn't cheat with google, so, I had no idea about the hardened requirement. I thought I was doing a good job because I got Anora and Alistair to agree to marry in conversations prior to Landsmeet and then he threw this huge temper tantrum when my Warden decided to spare Loghain. I thought this would leave Ali as exiled Grey Warden and thought he'd be happy since he didn't want to be King anyway. My Warden a noble person giving everyone who was sorry for their deeds a chance, so, it was completely in character for him to allow Loghain the same courtesy. I remember feeling very bitter/dissatisfied about the ending, like Alistair had messed it all up, when he ended up as a drunk. I'm in the player camp who likes Alistair a lot and having him happy at the end was important. It seems there are lots of scenarios where Alistair ends up unhappy though.
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Post by romice on May 21, 2018 16:24:53 GMT
It seems there are lots of scenarios where Alistair ends up unhappy though. That's true. The only real happy option for him is to let Anora rule and keep him with you. Alternatively, a female Cousland can be a queen with him and that seems to make him happy-ish. So I'm real lucky not to like him all that much My only save with an Alistair romance is my "do everything the other way" save. So a human-noble-warrior-templar-supporter-borderline-religious-zealot.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 16:45:10 GMT
My only save with an Alistair romance is my "do everything the other way" save. What do you mean do everything the other way?
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Post by Space Cowboy on May 21, 2018 17:16:14 GMT
My only save with an Alistair romance is my "do everything the other way" save. What do you mean do everything the other way? I think I can relate to her playstyle, so I'll say to me it would mean she played through once making one set of decisions, and second time did everything the opposite/another way.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 17:21:18 GMT
I think I can relate to her playstyle, so I'll say to me it would mean she played through once making one set of decisions, and second time did everything the opposite/another way. Ah gocha. I guess I tried something similar by making an 'evil' playthrough. Though, each game ends up with a different set of decisions.
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Post by romice on May 21, 2018 17:27:14 GMT
What do you mean do everything the other way? Like Space said, I made completely opposite choices to what I normally do. An anti-canon gamesave, pretty much. I think I can relate to her playstyle, so I'll say to me it would mean she played through once making one set of decisions, and second time did everything the opposite/another way. More like fourth of fifth time (I lost count), but yes, that's exactly what happened. I usually make very similar choices in games during different playthroughs, because I'm boring I get attached to them. So lately, I forced myself to make different ones and for that I needed a character I completely can't relate to and don't really like as a person. I find her more villan'y then Loghain sometimes
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 17:43:14 GMT
I find her more villan'y then Loghain sometimes When I was done with my Dwarf commoner who pretty much broke the word and I sacrificed him, his eulogy began with the words, "When Archdemon ended the Blight..."
I'm the same way. I keep wanting to make the same choices because they're good. Have to make myself change something.
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Post by Catilina on May 21, 2018 17:49:56 GMT
Hah! I'm terrible at RP, I suppose. Even if I imagine my characters' personality in different ways, their decisions are similar...
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Post by romice on May 21, 2018 18:00:19 GMT
Hah! I'm terrible at RP, I suppose. Even if I imagine my characters' personality in different ways, their decisions are similar... Well, my first playthrough is always my accurate in-game alter ego and the next are... slightly altered, wiki informed alter egos
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Post by sgtreed24 on May 21, 2018 18:16:31 GMT
I always play as a "what I would do" the first time I play a new game, which ends up being the boring goody goody story because I have a conscience and feel bad. So after that, I play with all the crazy decisions I can (unless there's something I really don't like... like Loghain. He's never once survived a DAO playthrough and never will).
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 18:38:40 GMT
He's never once survived a DAO playthrough and never will). I have some things I wouldn't be able to do. I am still working up courage on feeding Alistair to AD one day and uncertain if that should be done via romantic or hate path.
Right now I'm doing the city elf path and couldn't help falling for Alistair again. That would be my most dramatic character, after your failed luck with getting married 1st time to lose the romanced person again.
DA2 can't ever give Fenris to his slave driver master. Can't give Redcliffe to zombies. Stuff like that.
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Post by gervaise21 on May 21, 2018 18:49:29 GMT
I don't really like playing an evil character but my male Cousland was a slightly amoral, highly ambitious charmer. He was working to the book of love he was reading at the beginning and slept/flirted with practically everyone he could. He had little respect for Alistair after the latter showed nil sympathy for the fact he had lost his entire family except for his brother and was naturally concerned for him rather than dead Duncan who he had watched slaughter Jory in cold blood. (I thought that was heartless and unnecessary on Duncan's part and always worried about what became of his pregnant wife). Then when Alistair seemed unwilling to lead he stepped up and shouldered the responsibility, so when it transpired that Alistair didn't really want to be king, my guy was entirely in agreement that he was not a suitable candidate, so stepped in and wooed Anora, put her on the throne with him at her side, spared Loghain but also persuaded Anora to spare Alistair. Loghain had already volunteered to sacrifice himself before Morrigan's offer but he did consult with Loghain, who begged him not to ask him to do the deed, before refusing her. Then Loghain happily went to his death saying that he thought Ferelden was in safe hands. Apart from Morrigan who had stormed off, his other lovers still adored him at the end, so he could have had either Leliana or Zevran as his official lover but opted for Zevran as he thought that would create less problems with Anora. By the end of Awakening it seemed that Anora was genuinely fond of him and they made an excellent power couple, until apparently he went off chasing a cure for the taint. He wasn't exactly my favourite Warden but I did find it interesting playing him.
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Post by Catilina on May 21, 2018 18:55:10 GMT
I don't really like playing an evil character but my male Cousland was a slightly amoral, highly ambitious charmer. He was working to the book of love he was reading at the beginning and slept/flirted with practically everyone he could. He had little respect for Alistair after the latter showed nil sympathy for the fact he had lost his entire family except for his brother and was naturally concerned for him rather than dead Duncan who he had watched slaughter Jory in cold blood. (I thought that was heartless and unnecessary on Duncan's part and always worried about what became of his pregnant wife). Then when Alistair seemed unwilling to lead he stepped up and shouldered the responsibility, so when it transpired that Alistair didn't really want to be king, my guy was entirely in agreement that he was not a suitable candidate, so stepped in and wooed Anora, put her on the throne with him at her side, spared Loghain but also persuaded Anora to spare Alistair. Loghain had already volunteered to sacrifice himself before Morrigan's offer but he did consult with Loghain, who begged him not to ask him to do the deed, before refusing her. Then Loghain happily went to his death saying that he thought Ferelden was in safe hands. Apart from Morrigan who had stormed off, his other lovers still adored him at the end, so he could have had either Leliana or Zevran as his official lover but opted for Zevran as he thought that would create less problems with Anora. By the end of Awakening it seemed that Anora was genuinely fond of him and they made an excellent power couple, until apparently he went off chasing a cure for the taint. He wasn't exactly my favourite Warden but I did find it interesting playing him. I have similar Cousland. He's one of my favourites. He married Anora for the throne, kept Zevran as the lover, and spared Loghain for the wedding gift (and because he sees that as a noble revenge). But he didn't want to sacrifice himself. He performed the Dark Ritual. Amoral, but not evil. (I love to use his world as a background.)
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Post by gervaise21 on May 21, 2018 18:59:12 GMT
I am still working up courage on feeding Alistair to AD one day and uncertain if that should be done via romantic or hate path.
Strangely enough I did this on my very first playthrough out of friendship. I had fully decided to sacrifice myself, having absolutely turned down Morrigan, guessing it would likely lead to my death. I always knew Riordan wouldn't make it through to the end but when you see him go down and the Warden looks dejected I really felt it because from that point onwards I thought I was fighting my way towards my death. Then right at the end Alistair turns to me and says how he'd be a rotten king when it comes to ruling but there is one thing he can do well and asks me to let him sacrifice himself for me as his friend and I realised how much he had been forced into a role against his will, so as a true friend I let him do what he wanted to do. It was a total surprise to me that I did it but it felt right and it was very emotional. I then went back to see what would have happened if I'd refused him and when I saw Zevran's face at the funeral and read that he never loved again out of loyalty to my memory, I felt I had definitely done the right thing in letting Alistair have his way, for everyone's sake.
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2018 20:38:56 GMT
I felt I had definitely done the right thing in letting Alistair have his way, for everyone's sake. That's also a way to roleplay the situation. Unhardened he isn't happy at all as a king. Zev has a strong sense of loyalty. My asshole dwarf used the line on him before AD fight, 'if you had been a better assassin...' and he said he loved cruelty about him and then never loved again. I was like Nooo Zev he's not worth it. If you are in romance with Alistair, you do not get a choice. Alistair sacrifices himself without the agreement from your Warden.
I also tend to build a lot of world templates around romances.
That's me all right. The selfless warden, saving the world for the smooches.
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Post by pelassarias on May 21, 2018 21:05:06 GMT
I typically play as morally grey characters (My Hawke and my Dragonborn), or characters that are generally good but have some sort of flaw that either puts most people off or they have a hard time overcoming/ they struggle with throughout the story (My Shep, My Surana, My Adaar). So although my Surana was Good and made the Good Choices throughout Origins, she started off as immature, really guarded, reckless , and a bit conceited/cocky. She does evolve into a more compassionate and less guarded person towards the end of the game though. But at the very start of the game, she was typically rude to most people except for Jowan. But after the events of Ostagar, she does decide to "play nice" and listen to the companions' problems, given the situation she's in. Much to her chagrin however, she does wind up caring about/loving most of the companions towards the middle of the game. My main issue though is whenever I play role-playing games with choices and character customization, I typically get attached to my character to the point where I can't imagine playing any other way or another character. I'm currently thinking that maybe if I set up an AU where my characters are still alive, but just not the protagonist, I can possibly play differently as another character. It's worth trying anyhow in Dragon Age, because there are different choices I do want to try out sometime.
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Post by fylimar on May 21, 2018 23:39:44 GMT
Just a short popin. I'm still at the festival with wonky internet.
Yay for Zevran and Mabari, my two favorite companions
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2018 0:50:07 GMT
The dominating cry was not as much external as it came from inside, burned under her skin in the veins as the Archedemon swooped from above. They all jumped, flailing at the debris to avoid falling into the fiery abyss of the crumbling bridge. With the Redcliffe knights on the other side through the flames she saw the mage, cut off from the group.
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Post by Space Cowboy on May 22, 2018 1:09:42 GMT
Well darn, sorry Cati.
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