What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

I think the name that auto fills for male Aeducan is Duran? So husband just doubled for funsies.

Let's try the DA2, from bottom to top and perhaps back to the bottom...

I have not run into manga with elf like chars, I think. No, wait, there was one with a elf like char but that's because he has pointed ears. Otherwise, he's human looking. I'm not a fan of long ears like a donkey's. They look ridiculous.




I cannot say if you would enjoy it. For me, I do because I like stealth gameplay. As supernatural powers are involved, there're several ways for the player to decide / plan how to go against mobs and move about the map. As I do not like to kill unnecessarily, not even for the fun of it in games (it's all pretend, most would say. RP you're a cold blooded monarch), it's a challenge.

They have made a few improvements to the game so you're going to reap the benefits:

* Bonecharms can now be carried over to another PT. Bonecharms are crafted. The best is a four trait bonecharm without any corruption.

* Corvo's and Emily's supernatural skills can now be crossed over. Meaning if you play Emily, you could use Corvo's skills as well. That was the last update that I read but have not tried yet. I'm not sure if both chars have to be played at least once in order to activate it.

* They have implemented game difficulty.

Gameplay depends on the choice you will have to make in the beginning. If you do not accept the Outsider's offer, you play without supernatural skills. I tried this once and found it difficult. Along with the skills, you can use equipment but you have to buy them with the money looted or gear picked up along the way. The gold is not enough to sustain the perpetual use of equipment which means that if you go on this route, you're choosing to play a blood letting PT. Outright confrontation, no going around.

If you play Dishonored II, play both chars at least once. Jessamine have different things to say to her lover and daughter. Both chars also offer different viewpoints.




Solas, tact? Try sleeping for several hundred years, thinking you have saved the People and wake up finding you have done the opposite. You wouldn't be in any mood for tact. This is why I admire Solas for his control / will. I'm pretty sure he has despaired, felt depression, etc but he managed to re-direct it into action which he hoped would repair his error rather than moped about eternally.

I doubt I would be liking Sera. I tolerate her, treating her as a child with a flapping tongue who wants to do good but has yet to learn that there is more to the pond she is swimming in. I pretend her words are like the farts she likes to let off.

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I  flirted with Solas, kissed him at fade haven but chose to break it off. I can't help but find it amusing when she pointed out that he started it first.    Anyway, saved his friend at EP and had the dialogue when he returned to Skyhold. I'm a little confused he didn't finish with the typical thank you. He ended with ; You mattered. 

erm, ok. I can't recall whether he said this too to the Inq that romanced him previously. 

How can an Aeducan do otherwise?  Bhelen is responsible for murdering Trian and framing middle brother for the crime!  Truth be told, unless you metagame, who, besides the Dwarf Commoner, would choose Behlen?  All the quests Behlen sends you on involve treachery.  The only pro-Behlen information an outsider can find is the one merchant who insists Behlen is better for business by opening Orzammar to more trade with the surface.

And yes, Duran Duran is funny!  (And anyone who can see through that weasel Anders is an upstanding guy in my book! )

There are a couple reasons I can think of. If you have Zevran with you when meeting their seconds, he'll point out how wishy-washy Harrowmont seems. For a Warden who wants strong allies, Bhelen does present himself as the better choice. Also, while I haven't actually played an Aeducan yet myself, I can think of at least one reason, based on hearsay, to side with him despite everything else:

My biggest hangup is that I really hate not playing Rogues, but Aeducan just feels like s/he "should" be a Warrior.

Played some more DA I and set foot in my second most beautiful place.



Because the most beautiful place is yet to come and is sadly part of a main quest. I just love the Emerald Graves it's breathtaking beautiful there. Closed some rifts and killed that bear in the picture as part of a side quest. I also killed a few giants and i had to be careful not to draw in to many Bronto's.

The most beautiful place at least to me is the first part of the Arbor Wilds ( part of What Pride Had Wrought ) that place is just sooooo breathtaking beautiful. It will take me at least 2 hours before i go through that long corridor where the next part of the quest starts. But yes i love the Hissing Waste to very much and also what you say the "nighttime vibe" yeah beautiful. But if i had to choose between the two i would choose the Emerald Graves.

You think haha 7354943 giants that is uh quite a lot of Giants Aneira haha.  Yes the Brontos can be quite annoying when you only want to fight a Giant. If i can i lure those Giants as much as possible away from those Brontos but that does not happen all the time. 

Revel took a sip of his ale, and cringed. You did not go to the Hanged Man to savor fine vintages, and the aftertaste of the noxious gas he’d inhaled earlier in the day did nothing for the bouquet. His drinking buddy, Guardsman Donnic, leaned across the table.

“Look, Revel, thanks for the drinks, but I’m going to call it a night. And a piece of advice. If you want to get it on with Aveline, just talk to her. Who need a go in between? It’s just crazy.”

“Uh-huh,” Revel said with a sage nod and watched Donnic leave the tavern. He did not move an inch, waiting for Aveline to stride to his side from the dark corner she lurked in all night.

“The silver lining,” Revel told her in a way of a greeting, “is that now Donnic thinks, that I am trying to use him to get to you. Perhaps this perceived rivalry will make him notice you. As good a plan as any you’ve had so far.”

The love-sick Captain of the Guard blushed in the devastating manner the redheads do. Instead of running right after Donnic, as Revel thought she might, Aveline started talking about the patrols and how it’s hard to get a tête-à-tête while fighting bandits. Revel took the hint. “All right, Aveline, I will clear the bandits on your route, so you have a nature backdrop and nothing to do but talk about your feelings. Unless you are into bird-watching.”

Aveline rose to leave, and when he made no sign of vacating his chair, gave him a quizzical look: “Staying, Revel?”

Revel nodded towards the bar, where a loud group of patrons was celebrating something. “Have a business proposition to discuss.”

Aveline sighed: “You are back at it, Revel. Well, I better go before I have to restrain you in the name of the law.”

Revel gave her a few moment to clear the scene, signaled to his men scattered around the tavern to stay sharp, then crossed to the bar and tapped a huge red-haired man on the shoulder (two red-heads in a night, was he lucky, or what?). “Tell me who hired you to dispatch the Quinary embassy, friend,” Revel said quietly, “and nobody needs to get hurt.”

Alas, the burly man had his own ideas, and Revel had to hurt him some to get the story… not much of a story, but a troubling one. Another anti-Quinary provocation, and this one leading to the Chantry's high and mighty… he had his hands full. Again.

Instead of feeling bone tired, Revel felt energized. His day started before dawn, confronting a n Orlesian blood mage over a score of matron murders; he chased down a dwarf who was by a decoy for a crazed elf, and then he fought the said elf amidst the poisonous fumes. To top it up, he had to chit-chat with Quinary about it, which never fails to make a man’s head hurt. As the night was falling, he’d done some sanguine inquiries after the murders, and ended up playing a part in the most bizarre courtship he’d ever witnessed.

But the night was young. Revel caught Ander’s pleading gaze. Pretty eyes. “Anders, seems to me the hour is dark enough to see about those Templars unlawfully invoking the Right of Tranquility. Unless you need to catch some sleep?” Anders shook his head in a “no”. If anything, the mage looked more awake than he’d felt. Might be the fumes had a secondary effect… might be he’ll never sleep again.

Revel grinned. Yes, Aveline, I am back.

@patricia

I also agree that the Arbor Wilds is the most beautiful place. It's too bad we can't go back to visit.

I'm also rather fond of the Frostback Basin. Just wish I could walk along the river without running into constant spiders. But the beach is quite lovely ^^

I played with my rogue Aylin for a while - I really love her. I think, I will do the Cullen romance with her (I started that romance once with a human mage, but I accidently erased that playthrough and it was only the first lovescene so far, so Cullen is one of the romances, I didn't do yet) - I like how she is a carefree wild thing and he is always so careful and full of worries - they can learn a lot from each other.

She went to Redcliffe to see, what Fiona has to offer and found a nasty Tevinter surprise. But first, she met Connor and gave him some advice (not the niecest thing to say, but then, she is as tactful as Solas, I guess. And she hasn't the excuse of having slept for millenias and missed all the interesting stuff )



Felix gets 'sick' (I so loved that character, if I could have saved him, I would)



The gang meets Felix and Dorian in the church



Aylin is amused by Dorians jokes

DA2 does have a more personal, "gritty" feel to it.  Perhaps because it takes place almost wholly in one large city.  It would be interesting to see what a game centered in Val Royeux would be like?  You'd definitely get a feel for "the Game!"

DA2 companions and Hawke is my favorites, but personally I hate the "Game", I prefer more direct solutions. I don't like Val Royeaux : too fancy. Kirkwall is much nicer: monumental, but cleaner design.