What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

For the present PT, I don't get the white claw until the book is translated; the other quests are already done. But in other PTs, I get the white claw even without the translation. That's why this quest line is confusing. 

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I tried the HW dragon at level 16. Needless to say I got my ass handed to me or rather IB was the first one to go down. Because of him, there's not enough potions to go around.    Cass was handling it well. Solas was also pummeled but he's more hardy than IB.

I finally hear more feisty arguments between Solas and IB. I'm seriously annoyed with IB; you're just one sad robot aren't you? I don't blame you, you were brought up by the Qun, fed by the Qun and it's no wonder they led you around with a ring in your nose. Even so, you found your old role difficult to accept any more so you thought you were being loyal, faithful by having your mind twisted and because you trust the Qun. The procedure still didn't exactly kick the desire for freedom out of you but you stubbornly continued to blow the horn for the Qun, believing by doing so, you're still an old faithful branded cattle of the Qun.

One of IB's rebuttal about the Tal Vashoth was a reveal on the murder of a Tamissan (sp?) and the children under her care. He's very quick to dismiss / accuse the TV as a bunch of heartless savages. Granted, the slaughter cannot be condoned but he ought to ask himself why the TV did it.  They were all given the same care and education, the TV are not mindless, so what drove them to it? Were they reeducated? Did those "clever" reeducators remove something they shouldn't in order to get those men to fall in line such that when the men finally broke away, they were deeply scarred because of the meddling?
  

I am now done with everything in the base game! Well, everything I wanted to do, I did skip a handful of things. (Didn't go out of my way hunting for mosaic tiles or bottles, left a few of the high dragons alone and skipped two side quests. The Spoils of Desecration because there was no way my Dalish was breaking open those graves, and Letter From a Lover because I somehow failed to pick it up and couldn't be bothered hunting around the Hinterlands for the letter by the time I realized.)

Today I went to the Cradle of Sulevein for the first time ever! After failing to find directions there on my first couple of runs, I deliberately left it until I was playing an elf again so that I'd have something new to do. Another beautiful elven ruin to explore, an neat sword at the end. Glad Bull is in my party, so someone can actually use it.

All in all I've seen a surprising amount of new content this time around given that this is my eighth playthrough. New romance, new elven ruin, several conversations with NPCs that I'd somehow skipped before, and a number of war table outcomes I hadn't previously seen. Now I just need to do the DLC and see if there are any surprises waiting there ...

I played both Riya and Kaylee a bit.

Riya helped Vivienne to get the heart of a snow wyvern to save her love, but sadly, it didn't work. After that, she helped Josie to get a title for the du Paraquettes, so that they can stop the House of Riposes attempts to kill Josie. Luckily, she was more successful there´. After that, she decided to visit some elven ruins, where she had to find some runes and the body parts of an old guradian, who turned out to be a demon




And Kaylee is still in Haven. She talked a bit to the people around

Today, Elayer visited the Fallow Mire, then left soon after since she was under level-ed. Then she went again, left, went again, left, etc. With her halfhearted prodding she managed to close two rifts, light two beacons and establish one camp. And kill a few Bogfishers. So a decent run for a level 5 in a world of levels 8 and 12. She will probably prod them some more before continuing with the main story.

Breki on the other hand, established a camp near a Dragon breeding ground, closed two rifts, killed some outlaws, heard some banters and continued his debate whether to visit Redcliffe or go straight to Therinfal Redoubt. On one hand, he might spot the person responsible for the blast in Redcliffe and have his memory jogged (like happened to Drogan when he saw that Bronto, way back when) or the person might spot him and stab him in the back (like that noble hunter at the trading post did to Hvergil. He never saw her coming).
Still he is more leaning to heading out the Therinfal soon, since he figures you don't suture a wound by pouring more blood at it.

Oh and Thyriel went Ram hunting. Wasn't really planning to continue her playthrough, so she sneaked out by herself. Closed a rift while she was at it and delivered a potion to empty filled lungs. So she had fun. Also established some camps and sent out messages where she was, so Cassandra wouldn't tear her hair out in frustration.

I started another Dragon Age Inquisition playthrough ( my tenth if i'm not mistaken ) with my favorite protagonist a female Elven - Mage. And did a lot of the Hinterland side quests and made some powerful armor for her in Haven.

Played some more DA Inquisition and met corky Sera in Val Royeaux and i also met up with the Iron Bull on the Stormcoast and killed my first Giant.



That could be me in this video the only thing that i never use is that weird battle system. And i had Sera instead of the Iron Bull after that i did some more questing on the Stormcoast.

Would you believe it was neither?

I was jumping the Inq around, avoiding the tentacles and spikes, shooting all the while, while waiting for the cool down on the elemental mines. Once it was ready, I threw them at the guardian's base just as the tentacles flailed. I jumped the Inq to avoid an incoming tentacle. Somehow the combination "blasted" the Inq to the spot you see in the image. She didn't fall. She could shoot the guardian from there which was what I did.

I'm also getting a lot more funny body flopping this PT. I'm guessing it's due to IB and Cass simultaneously kicking / hitting the target / their targets that landed at a specific angle. Unfortunately I don't record PT or I'll make a funny vid.

Body flopping

* zombies flying across the screen
* two heyenas that went right and left
* lieutenant Carrol (red templar at Lion Pavilion) flew off high to the right of the screen. I was standing, trying to track his trajectory but couldn't see him. Five secs later, he dropped down from the sky to land on my left
* venatori boss mage at the tewinter ruin in WA flew left across the screen, his loot was left behind where he was originally standing


 

bsn.boards.net/thread/3262/speed-run-dai

I completed base game + Trespasser in under 75 hours. Which is not FAST but included all the story, I detailed it in there.

- I don't know, how often I had to scrape up the pieces of Sera or Varric, because they heroically jumped of the nearest cliff or something like that.

I played my mage Hawke the last days and finished DA 2 with her.

I will put the text in spoiler tags for @domi 's benefit: don't open the tags, they spoil a possible end of DA2 for you. You can look at the picks behind the second spoiler tag, they don't give away anything from the story




Here is my mage Lyra Hawke:



and more of Lyra




Now, I'm going back to my favorite class, the rogue. This is Alighiera Hawke (and of course, her dog is called Dante)





She will either end up with Fenris again (I really did grow fond of him after I couldn't stand him for a long time) or Isabella (she is such a great character to have around). I used to romance Anders, because I like his character for most of the game, but I like a bit more sanity around me nowadays

I was doing a series run. I'd JUST met Hawke and made her perfect -- and headscratched because Hawke said Sebastian was a chantry advisor, but I'd just gotten a letter from Prince Sebastian, ruler of Starkhaven -- when... My husband's PS4 corrupted Dragon Age Inquisition.

SIGH. So now my brilliant plan of playing all three Dragon Age games followed by all three Mass Effect games padded by SWTOR to psyche myself up for MEA (and keep my expectations realistic, because I loves them all very huggy much but none are perfect) is in DISARRAY. I've got about 90 hours of downloading with patches, DLC, and my comically slow internet, and during that time, I can't play SWTOR because my internet will rebel.

I joked about going back to playing Dragon Age 2 again, but my husband threatened to rebel because before I started the great Bioware march, I'd played Dragon Age 2 twice in a row, so he is thoroughly sick of watching it. So I guess Mass Effect is getting bumped up in the play order.

But now I'm thinking of my joyously grumpy male elf in Inquisition. His Venn diagram of hate intersects with everything, and he's sick of his clan, and the Inquisition, and probably walking by now. He has the sweet half-face tattoos and the glam-rock mullet, and he's gloriously growly. He's hooked to Princess/Vicountess Hawke, who mostly tried to keep her head down, earn a bit of coin, and avoid trouble. Epic fail on that last part. And my sweetest warden, my first Queen Cousland, who occasionally was a bit rude on account of noble self-importance, but otherwise pretty much a naïve idealist who wanted to save the world.

It's actually the first time that I did all three back to back... Although now I guess I STILL HAVEN'T DONE THAT. Thanks, PlayStation.

Convinced Sera to open all the locks for me underneath Haven's chantry. She's a helper.