What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

adrianbc, good fic!

It's a very good look at Varric's background and how he had the pull that he did. It also set up Bartrand's personality and explain the exchanges between Varric and Bianca regarding him. *thumbs up*

If the fic is long, it can always be cut up and put in a few posts. Spacing is definitely needed between paragraphs and conversations if it is long. I always separate them when different chars are talking. I also put my occasional itch to scribble in short bursts of focus, limiting it to a few hundred words though I could have written more / put in more details. I have in mind a short DA fic for FFN but it's not feasible since I have a second ME fic on-going at the moment. However, I still want to dabble a bit with DA so I'm dribbling a ball around here.   

The text was fully formatted in MS Word, with spacing between paragraphs. It ended up a continuous mass when I pasted it. I planned to post it on this thread in its initial form, so I wanted it to be just a message long.
I intend to open a DA fanfic thread for such stories and to post it there once finished. I imagined that this Varric story is part of Hawke`s memoires about his time in Kirkwall during the DA2 events.

Did you find any plot weak points? Is the story easy to read and follow?

Well, that's nice. Hopefully that wartable stuff works out. I need to go snoop and see where I can find different companions, to go with the different horse.

I just save it all for exactly before final mission. Craft them all at once. Hand over Master/Grandmaster runes to NPCs. Equip what I like of what's left. Go beat the final bad guys.


Trying to do it as you go would be tedius. With lots of money and waiting to the end, you're good. 10 minutes of clicking? 

You could try notepad, there's less of a gluey mass during pasting. I tend to write directly into the post creation box when posting short snippets in the DA thread, not in a word processing program. For posting chapters on FFN, I always use notepad.

The mods might open a fic subforum but I'm not holding out for that one. Be prepared to have the fic thread disappeared somewhere in the mass of mods postings, etc.

The plot is fine. You just need better spacing for the paragraphs, dialogues.

Hard not to notice her when she's meshed up against mother Giselle during conversations. As to why she's wearing that. *shrug* Maybe she's rebelling against something or it could be a dev foul up. Some of their world item placements are not that great.

I just created "The Dragon Age Fanfiction Thread" here at Dragon Age Inquisition General Discussion, and posted the complete version of the Varric story. I only added some comments from Garrett Hawke.

Very brief update on my first play through...

As I write my party are halting activity for the day in a cave called the Ash Warriors Refuge, Hinterlands.

In the by and by at Skyhold my character, Duds Barnham has started to pursue a thing with Cassandra. Varric has written the next chapter in the series that Cassandra really enjoys and that whole thing was a fun bit of down time.

I've been to the Storm Coast and back and have sat in judgement in the throne at Skyhold over a couple of cases. Before pushing on with the main story I'm clearing up tasks in the Hinterlands; helping Blackwell retrieve artifacts and securing caches from rogue mages. It's good to be back in this part of the world. The wider events have helped give the Hinterlands new appeal.

Duds Barnham has given up on Lelianna for the time being to see how things go with Cassandra. It feels weird though trying to bust a few moves with the Seeker whilst bloody Iron Bull stands close by watching it all! Give us some room you bloody great big Quanari face, stop cramping Duds' game!!

I'm not sure about Cole. Despite his creepiness, there is something disturbing about him. I've been advised to run him off but I haven't done so. I hope this doesn't come back against me to ruinous effect. Then again, for the sake of the people, maybe I should turn him loose and kick him out for good??

After an utterly unremarkable quest with Solas in a tiny cave with four shades or whatever, and another elf who was there by some unknown reason -maybe an Easter egg I have missed- I went to Court of Avitane, or Val de Royuex, where everyone pretends to be French, but with Venetian influences. Very pretty. Had a plot important banter, and recruited a cool Mage that does not approve of mages' freedom and tried to make my Quanary feel guilty about supporting it. Then I followed a silly trail of red handkerchiefs to find the most unpleasant little sister perky rogue girl to date in BioWare's games. Told her to get lost, because every word out of her mouth was threatening my sanity. Good riddance!

Finally, the two more quests opened up, one to find Blackwall, the other -the Iron Bull. Went to meet Blackwall. Again, after the trials of finding your way to the quest location, the quest itself is just so... short. Anyway, the mod took, Blackwall is really good looking. But I was hoping for a gravelly voice, and nope... not really a pleasant voice at all. so, Solas it is then. I did like how Blackwall perked up when my Qunari flirted with him, though.

Anyway, Varric wants me to find 12 lyrium samples or some such, so I guess I will have to wait till I can use Vivienne. Hopefully, the lirium is not scattered all over the place, but is also located in a small, easily accessible dungeon.

After which I need to step on it with the plot to be able to unlock the specialization, because I guess, I need a Skyhold... or some such.

Just posted "The Cat Gambit" on The Dragon Age Fanfiction Thread. 

It`s about Anders, Ser Pounce-a-lot and a certain Which ...