What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

Made a new Hawke today. A mage named Jyoti. She is a bit on the wild side and she will have problems with Anders and Merrill, because she is of the opinion that people like those two give mages their bad reputation (getting possessed and becoming an abomination and fiddling with blood magic). My Hawkes noramlly try to come up with some excuses for both Anders and Merrill and always end up helping them. I have played Hawkes who rivaled Fenris, gave Isabella to the Arishok, let Varric keep the idol, not getting Aveline and Donnic together and always denied Sebastian revenge. It is time, that Anders and Merrill get some hard times too. I might even try to send Anders away in act 2. In that case, my Hawke doesn't have to be totally clueless when she helps him finding his ingredients for the bomb.
Apart from her zero tolerancy for the idiocy ofsome fellow mages, she is pro mage, easy going and more the funny type.

This is Jyoti

Everything is funnier with Merrill. Some of her banter is just /facepalm.

Delightfully crazy, I'd say  

I bring Aveline. I like her dialogue. Its too bad Hawke doesn't say anything if Isabela is Hawke's LI.

He is Osama with the voice of a spoiled child

I wanted to let him live just to see Justice driving him mad and he slowly becomes a horrifying abomination while suffering great pain, but if he lives Sebastian attacks Kirkwall and Aveline is left to defend it. I didn't want that to happen

Don't need to kill him, just send Cullen to save Kirkwall. Sebastian will retreat.

And so it comes to an end. I've bought the GotY edition of Inquisition and it's now installing. Wonder what the new adventure will bring. Think I'll try not to go too crazy with the mods this time. Some of them kinda ruined affected my experience (the whole "not being able to redesign my Hawke's face" problem comes to mind).

Poor Meredith. I sided with the mages, but still, her death was ghastly. What a bad way to go. I blame it on the idol. Also, I felt like Hawke needed a stronger reaction when Meredith pulled out that lyrium sword. Like, "Are you f-ing insane?! Get away from that thing now!"

Meredith's fight was also incredibly easy compared to what's come before in the DLCs (*cough*Legacy*cough). I probably would still not play on Nightmare though.

Hazel Trevelyan, DW rogue:

Attended a meeting in Orlais with Josephine and "Comte Boisvert" to try and help sort out the problems with her family's merchant business, only to find out the trouble is a result of a 100 year old assassination contract on her family. Decided to back Josie's plan to reinstate the rival family as nobles and have them annul the contract.

Then went to the Emerald Graves and met with Fairbanks. Tracked down and defeated Sister Cousteau and freed the civilians she was holding captive.

Did a bit of multiplayer as well, with characters I haven't played much (Avvar and Elementalist).

Just a weird feeling I'm having. When MEA was in the works, the Old DA Guard stood sentry faithfully over a quiet forum while the action went on at the ME forum. Now that MEA is out and over, the ODAG stand down when threads start popping up all over here.

There are a few mods that imo make experience far less painful. The one that makes all Wartable missions complete instantly, and the one that allows you to unlock whatever perk you want without doing prerequisites. Oh, insta-loot as well. I also pick mods basically for all male companions appearances, 'cause they are less terribly looking that way. But all mods better uninstalled before starting Trespasser. Darn things crashes (sigh).

As for me, I fought my way through to the end of Act 2 and did all the talky missions in the beginning of Act 3.

Bad: I did not got enough rivalry to Isabela to come back for me to hand her over to Arishok. Well, Ebon shall do it, after sweettalking her into friendship then.  

Good: I was surprised when Fenris did come to talk to Hawke about Leandra's death. I can't recall if Anders did.  

Figure 1. Hawke's family tragedy. Surprisingly, Gamlen is actually more of a comfort than Fenris.



Yeah, Fenris romance worked out fine, he's now committed to Blaze and yada-yada-yada. Meh. On the other hand...

Figure 2. Oh, that's who Stroud is? And, wow, Carver, you look glorious and talk tough.



Now I am facing the same dilemma as described in few posts above: 2H Brother or Lover for Legacy? 

Oh, I've actually been able to flirt with Sebastian anyway, but his responses remind me Quinn's so much, I just want to leave the man to his chosen carrier. F!Hawke comes across as something on the verge of inappropriate in the scenes. Is that the same if you have never flirted with anyone else or chose to push him to be the Prince rather than the Priest? Or does Sebastian always do a tactfully polite: "Maker, is she dense or what? How should I put it to not offend her, but to get her to figure it out?!"

Figure 3. Oh, Maker, what part of "I took a vow of chastity" you did not get, Hawke?



And, finally, by whatever reason I did not commit to either Orsino or Meredith in the beginning of Act 3. They are both not my favorite people. And I am still heart-broken over Anders. But Sebastian is actually that counterpoint to Anders I missed in my first game, so that's pretty neat. Seb also interjects a fair bit, so he is certainly my rogue pick. 

So, yep, I guess, Act 3 then. Looking forward to seeing the last part of the Sebastian quest, apparently, there is Leliana in it. Why the heck they made it into DLC, who knows...