What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Ooooo. See, I can never find the rune by the river and I spent like 20 minutes one day rubbing my veil fire all over the inside and outside of the ruin. Now I've always skipped it. 

Interesting. I'd never taken Frederick s bribe before. Ha! Which Meeran then refused to work with me. Cool! 4th PT and still new stuff. But bummer also. I like sparing the Fereldan friendly noble later. Probably more Bethany's preference anyway.

Wow! That's the armor a warrior gets?! So much fancier than the rogue stuff! Oh wait... Lol. His shirt is full plate but he's still shoeless, pantless, and no gloves. Hilarious,

For a split second, I thought Varric was handsome.  It was obviously too long away from Thedas. Even Bathany seems more sweet and mischeivious that I recall. Does she always suggest the break in of the estate? I guess I'd always thought it was my idea before.  I was like, huh. She's got guts. Absence does make the heart grow fonder? 

Dog! Oh Dog. I love you more than Space Hamster.

Ahhh. So good to be back. But bedtime now! Contra dancing wore me out.

This is the real charm of Dragon Age 2. It feels better after a few PT`s. I was never able to replay DA:O soon after I finished a PT but I could do it with DA2 - familiarity is the best feature of this game.
I remember really hating the DA2 demo and refusing to play the game for several months. Then I thought: "What the hell?" and bought it, played it once and it seemed ok, nothing special. But I really started to like it during the second PT ...

My guess is that many DA2 haters lost this opportunity by never trying to replay the game.

Nooooo

Apart from my Dickquisior play through I have never neglected IB before. I had no idea you had to kill him even if you left him behind. Serves me right I guess.

/sigh. So my seventh play through is now over. Varrys decided to not disband (to stay close to Cass) and told Solas to bite it.

I may get a Dalish Elf origins start in before ME:A hits, but otherwise I'll be quiet in this thread for some time. It has been great reading about everyone elses play-throughs.

I loved DA2 early on, as soon as I get out of the whole family sequence and made peace with Hawke being a boring human, but the replayability just is not there for me.

Ye gods, revelation Online went into open beta, now I have to suffer the targeted advertisement for it for a few weeks, I suppose. Why not Andromeda? Argh.

Anyway, off to Crestwood for me, hopefully I can find Stroud in under 30 minutes of trudging through the dumb wilderness.

If you're still curious to know, I'm pretty sure the keys for the wheels are. Think it's the same system in DAI too. 

4    1
5 O 2
6    3

The 0 is the wheel btw. Don't think poking it will do any good.

I'm pretty that when I took him along, I got to pick a new team after entering the mirror. So you only have to do the rest of the level with three mooks, then you can go back to 4 or less if you're into that.

I have not spent much time customizing Hawke in Sin's run, so he is not really Revel. The biggest trouble is that his lips are too protruding, so when he speaks it is very awkward. But, the armor looks right.

Figure 1. Hawke, with his mouth shut, looks Okay


After talking to Revel, I went and killed an adjacent dragon (on Casual, heh) which granted me another suit of medium armor for Sera, even less fitting for her. Then I found a quarry, and yay, finally fixed up the Courtyard (thanks goodness, another thing finished). Since the Garden went to to Healing, I turned the Courtyard into sparring Grounds.

Finally, I followed up on the Clapernia Orlais investigation. Despite much running back and forth to the Wartable, this tale was rather intriguing. Now, I feel like investigating the Temple of Dumat. I could not be bothered to search for the third Tome or do whatever ritual in the Legacy, so it will be all new to me. Also, forgive me or being droll, but I wish Dagna was available as a full romance for a Dwarven male. Heh. :)

Solas still has nothing to say to me.

Found one flaw with Dorian's VA delivery, and that him hissing out amatus. I think he was trying a breathy sigh, but it did not work. Maybe he is protesting the over the top romantic sentimentality of the word that does not go well with everything anachronistic and choleric in Dorian

But, I also know that the paired up Emerald Graves = Exalted Plain quests still need to be done.

So, I have three story-line missions now: Go with Hawke to the Western Approach; Investigate Empress Celene's Ball to prevent the attempt on her life and the Temple of Dumat. Which order should I do those three? Not sure what to do atm, so I am going go take a break. Maybe do Emerald Graves afterwards or attempt to. There is also a groove attached to Exalted Plains with an unpronounceable name. Overall though, unless three bear pelts give a huge boost of Dalish affection, I don't know if I will ever manage to please them.

I think this is a very good loking Revel! (I prefer DA2 facial expressions.)

For those of you who did MOTA in Act 1, did kissing Tallis lock out all the other romances?

My Arkady Hawke is going to get as close to sleeping with everyone that he can. (darn Sebastian being straight.) He's even gonna flirt with Aveline. But I've never kissed Tallis either.

Also, what is this N5 I see by my name?

I didn't saw any options to kiss her (I almost wrote: kill her... hehe). Perhaps because Anders/Fenris was there? Or just didn't care about it... But I know, Anders and Fenris seems jealous, if Hawke starting flirt with her.

Instead the old casual – god (or whatever) status. Depend on, how many posts you have. I think because of Mass Effect.

Quick update on the adventures of Revas, Dalish rogue archer. Finally crushed the rebel mages in Witchwood, thus ending the mage-Templar war. It was a bit of a pain, however. Revas and her team of Solas, Vivienne, and Blackwall set out fully supplied with health potions and grenades several times only to run into wandering apostates and sellswords along the way who they would have to fight, depleting their stocks and forcing them to turn back to camp to get resupplied. Revas finally learned her lesson and had her team set out from the Dusklight camp in the east. They avoided the wanderers and finally arrived at the stronghold ready to fight. A nasty fight followed. The rebels had been reinforced; all the rebels killed in Revas' first attempt on the stronghold had been replaced. Vivienne's respect towards the Storm tree helped and the mages ultimately defeated. (This fight largely on tactical mode.) This fight did reveal the weaknesses of a rogue versus mages, especially in early game. Bows and bow grips can't be given barrier breaking capability until Tier 2 schematics. Her best weapon against mages at the moment if the Jar of Bees grenade. (That, and a good support mage to cast barriers and dispel hostile magic.)

With the mage-Templar war ended, Revas finally felt the time was right to see if she could extricate the mages in Redcliffe from the chains of the Venatori. (Revas accompanied by Solas and Blackwall...with special guest star, Dorian!) With the help of Cullen and Leliana, they infiltrated Inquisition soldiers into Redcliffe Castle while Revas spoke with Magister Alexius, who revealed that the "Elder One" was behind the explosion at the conclave. Though Inquisition soldiers were able to kill the Venatori guards, Alexius cast a spell that sent Revas and Dorian one year into the future. There, they saw what the future would be like if the Elder One succeeds. It was a world where the Breach had largely swallowed the Veil and the world was overrun by demons and corrupted by Red Lyrium. The Elder One's victory was made possible by the assassination of Empress Celene and the raising of a demon army. Dorian and Revas free their now dying, blighted friends and fight their way through the ruins of Redcliffe Castle to Magister Alexius. In a fit of ill-timed anger, Leliana kills Alexius' son, Felix, and they are forced to fight Alexius to the death to get back his time travel amulet. As their blighted friends are overwhelmed by demons, Revas and Dorian use the amulet to return to their present where a distraught Alexius surrendered without a fight. Revas then recruited Fiona and her rebel mages as equal partners, much to the chagrin of Cullen and Cassandra. (Given the problem of the Breach, who wouldn't choose the mages over the Templars? In any case, the powers of Templars would be lost on a Dalish elf.)

Gamer note: Rather annoyed to see future Leliana fire her arrows against the wall during fights against the Venatori. By contrast, Lelaina and her archers actually did much of the fighting against the Pride Demon at the beginning of the game when Cass, Solas, and Varric were quickly killed off and Revas had to use Stealth just to stay alive and disrupt the rift. (It was also annoying to find her arrows could only nick away 5 points at a time against the Pride Demon using the awful level 1 bow! And they didn't even resupply health potions before the Pride Demon fight!)

As her mage allies figure out how to best address the breach, Revas will probably return to the Hinterlands to deal with the problem of bandits who supposedly have a stronghold of their own in the southern part of the Hinterlands.