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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 20:23:27 GMT
My Noob Log is so far behind. Better start catching up... then again the longer I'll wait the more time I'll have to catch up... a sound logic right there! Anyway...
Day 26: Noob Inquisitor Log
- AAAGGHH!! AAA! The world has burned down via corrupt files! For a couple of days there, I figured I didn't make it with closing all those demon rifts. Counting my losses. Phew... Not all is lost. Hurray world! - A random monster in the cabin, which I've spent forever unlocking, was confused when I hugged him and it died of puzzlement. Ah... It's good to be alive. - Reading turns out to be a useful practice even if you're reading your jewellery. Apparently me owned bling bling doesn't match my skills, nor does it increase all skills for each class. Whoops... Will need to beat up bandits for more rings. - Right from the bridge, skipped along the bank happily collecting pebbles in the water when river demons jumped out of a rift that only needed to be plugged 27 times before I poured super glue all over it. When will I have a day when some demon won't try to eat me and my rock collection?
Approval meter: - 20 cold
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Post by cmoe on Sept 26, 2017 20:24:08 GMT
phoray Bitches love trebuchets. *gasp* DAI doesn't have Anders in it! How can it be great? cmoe Not too old I hope to stare dreamily at the above mentioned fictional characters though? >.> btw I'm totally too old for everything and I claim 100% guilty on all of it. I hope not too old for that... it's a bad habit of mine to stare dreamily at Bioware characters. But don't tell anyone.. Can't beat trebuchets and castles.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 20:47:45 GMT
phoray Bitches love trebuchets. *gasp* DAI doesn't have Anders in it! How can it be great? cmoe Not too old I hope to stare dreamily at the above mentioned fictional characters though? >.> btw I'm totally too old for everything and I claim 100% guilty on all of it. I hope not too old for that... it's a bad habit of mine to stare dreamily at Bioware characters. But don't tell anyone.. Can't beat trebuchets and castles. Your secret is safe with me.
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Post by Catilina on Sept 26, 2017 21:45:47 GMT
phoray Bitches love trebuchets. *gasp* DAI doesn't have Anders in it! How can it be great?cmoe Not too old I hope to stare dreamily at the above mentioned fictional characters though? >.> btw I'm totally too old for everything and I claim 100% guilty on all of it. Haha, it's not that simple! As I said, this is a good game, but far from DA2. And Hawke much more original hero than the Inquisitor.
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 26, 2017 22:30:40 GMT
How did you settle on your art style? i sometimes wonder when I get to really drawing, if I would draw DAO, DA2, or DAI style art Style? I don't know, I just scrabble, when I'm sad, mad or tired. "You don't settle on style, style settles on you." Or something like that
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Post by vonuber on Sept 26, 2017 22:56:44 GMT
Tonight, She talked to a few people, did some judging, opened a few more doors, met Hawke then pandered to Sera.
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Post by Curious Crow on Sept 26, 2017 23:02:02 GMT
So I think all my completed DAI saves and their screenshots are pretty much gone for good with my fickle hard drive. Which is a bummer, because there was a lot of them. On the bright side, I'm counting it as an excuse to play the game some more. And the Keep should have the general gist of how the runs went, if it can stay sober enough to keep the story straight.
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Post by NextOfQuinn on Sept 27, 2017 1:41:31 GMT
So it has been a month? I was hoping to try for every week but my schedule is so crappy. I'm either at work, at home and really tired or with the boyfriend. And we are not at the stage where we can be together yet do our own thing. Must spend all the time together!! But! I'm on anual leave from work and my holiday plans fell through so yesterday I got a bit of DA2 in and hopefully more today.
When I last left Herja she had just left Bethany behind and left for the expedition. She slaughtered her way through the deep roads and of course since no Bethany and Anders present she failed to meet Stroud - he will be the contact in DAI as both Loghain and Alistair are dead this playthrough. (Pro tip: I will choose Herja).
Herja returned very rich to find Cullen taking Bethany to the circle. She then let Sebastian join the party and she, Sebastian, Varric, and Merril ran around finding evil tomes for the acheivment. Burning every single one gave +10 rivalry with Merril every time so she is well on the way to rivalry status which is where I want her. Listening to Varric whinge about Sebastian every five minutes though was super annoying. Brought me back to the Anders vs Fenris days of my first run through. Also while hunting out a tome on Sundermount came across a stand off between Templars and elves and for the first time ever backed the Templars.
After getting the acheivment I visited everyone in their houses and then visited the mansion of the nobles who hired the Flint Company to kill Sebastian's family. Herja is now down the rivalry path with Sebastian too. Perfect.
So I've decided if I can swing it I'll aim to hand Isabela to the arishok and Fenris to Danarius - two things I've never done before.
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Post by phoray on Sept 27, 2017 2:17:34 GMT
So I've decided if I can swing it I'll aim to hand Isabela to the arishok and Fenris to Danarius - two things I've never done before. NO LIKES FOR YOU!
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Post by NextOfQuinn on Sept 27, 2017 2:43:20 GMT
So I've decided if I can swing it I'll aim to hand Isabela to the arishok and Fenris to Danarius - two things I've never done before. NO LIKES FOR YOU! Only because I've never done them before and I need to try do everything. It will hurt. Fenris was my first DA2 romance. I think next time I play through I'd rather rivalmamce him before trying to date Anders or Merril first even. The first character you romance is always important even if they dont end up your favourite.
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Post by phoray on Sept 27, 2017 2:48:11 GMT
NO LIKES FOR YOU! Only because I've never done them before and I need to try do everything. It will hurt. Fenris was my first DA2 romance. I think next time I play through I'd rather rivalmamce him before trying to date Anders or Merril first even. The first character you romance is always important even if they dont end up your favourite. It won't save you the horrible heart ache to watch it on Youtube. I did this very thing about two weeks ago. I cried off and on for like an hour. The letter that comes after may be worse than the actual scene. But I had one thing to give me solace- I hadn't actually roleplayed a person who'd done it. So it was this other universe of terrible horrible things that that terrible horrible thing happened. And ditto about those first romances. I'm scarred by Anders, no way round it. I'll probably romance him only one more time for fan fiction science, but Fenris is my go to now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 12:38:19 GMT
Still picking what to do today. I'm kinda curious about the multiplayer. Is it like regular MMPROG dungeon? Are there lots of people, especially noobs? I'm still not combat savy, so I've been avoiding it so far.
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 27, 2017 13:32:36 GMT
Still picking what to do today. I'm kinda curious about the multiplayer. Is it like regular MMPROG dungeon? Are there lots of people, especially noobs? I'm still not combat savy, so I've been avoiding it so far. You don't really need to be master in DAI combat. You get in with 4 people and, tbh, it's even less complicated than typical mmo dung. Give it a try. A match or two and you should know if it's for you.
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Post by cmoe on Sept 27, 2017 14:21:01 GMT
Only because I've never done them before and I need to try do everything. It will hurt. Fenris was my first DA2 romance. I think next time I play through I'd rather rivalmamce him before trying to date Anders or Merril first even. The first character you romance is always important even if they dont end up your favourite. It won't save you the horrible heart ache to watch it on Youtube. I did this very thing about two weeks ago. I cried off and on for like an hour. The letter that comes after may be worse than the actual scene. But I had one thing to give me solace- I hadn't actually roleplayed a person who'd done it. So it was this other universe of terrible horrible things that that terrible horrible thing happened. And ditto about those first romances. I'm scarred by Anders, no way round it. I'll probably romance him only one more time for fan fiction science, but Fenris is my go to now. I did it once just to try and RP a completely different Hawke. I ended up reloading to a previous save after reading the letter. I felt like a monster... It was so heartbreaking seeing how broken he was..Never again..
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Post by cmoe on Sept 27, 2017 14:22:49 GMT
So it has been a month? I was hoping to try for every week but my schedule is so crappy. I'm either at work, at home and really tired or with the boyfriend. And we are not at the stage where we can be together yet do our own thing. Must spend all the time together!! But! I'm on anual leave from work and my holiday plans fell through so yesterday I got a bit of DA2 in and hopefully more today. When I last left Herja she had just left Bethany behind and left for the expedition. She slaughtered her way through the deep roads and of course since no Bethany and Anders present she failed to meet Stroud - he will be the contact in DAI as both Loghain and Alistair are dead this playthrough. (Pro tip: I will choose Herja). Herja returned very rich to find Cullen taking Bethany to the circle. She then let Sebastian join the party and she, Sebastian, Varric, and Merril ran around finding evil tomes for the acheivment. Burning every single one gave +10 rivalry with Merril every time so she is well on the way to rivalry status which is where I want her. Listening to Varric whinge about Sebastian every five minutes though was super annoying. Brought me back to the Anders vs Fenris days of my first run through. Also while hunting out a tome on Sundermount came across a stand off between Templars and elves and for the first time ever backed the Templars. After getting the acheivment I visited everyone in their houses and then visited the mansion of the nobles who hired the Flint Company to kill Sebastian's family. Herja is now down the rivalry path with Sebastian too. Perfect. So I've decided if I can swing it I'll aim to hand Isabela to the arishok and Fenris to Danarius - two things I've never done before. I have to give a like under extreme protest of giving Fenris to Danarius. I like when everyone shares what they did in DA though.
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Post by cmoe on Sept 27, 2017 15:43:32 GMT
Cousland finished the deep roads and helped crown Bhelen... Also met a couple of wacky paragons.. Sided with Caridin cause Branka was raving mad.. Ah, your left, don't just stand there. He may be in love, look at that snuggling Shaking up Oghren pretty good! Big Hugs!
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Post by Psychevore on Sept 27, 2017 15:46:22 GMT
This Lavellan,.named Velriel, will visit the Hinterlands tonight.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 19:53:59 GMT
Day 27: The Noob Inquisitor Log - Got lost in a maze filled with wolves that always insist on having their eyes glow spookily green. The wolves were chewing on a pretty piece of mosaic. Woot! Woot! Drool aside, this will add nicely to my rocks and roots and shards collections! - Explored more caves and dungeons nearby to find more shinies. Companions always do the most important task of holding the veil fire while I'm getting choked by monsters. - Wheee! Because I've solved the little wolf problem the horse master says I'm cool enough to ride a pony! His crew also suggested setting up farmland watchtowers. Excellent strategy! What if an ice cream vendor rides by! - There is no reciprocation in the ranks. Funny Hat likes Commander. Commander doesn't like Funny Hat. Horny Helmet is thinking about bossy woman's tits. Bossy woman is thinking about Holy Light. What was I thinking about...? Approval meter: - 17 cold ___ Rascoth Thanks. I'll think more about it. Maybe when I like combat more. Thought this seems unlikely. My appreciation for fighting stands in order of: DAO - can do nightmare DA2 - rather ok with faster pace, but not as good with it DAI - how do I target goats again? I hope they don't improve DA4 combat further or I'll end up in easy mode and we don't want to go places where my pride gets trampled.
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Post by cmoe on Sept 27, 2017 20:16:05 GMT
- There is no reciprocation in the ranks. Funny Hat likes Commander. Commander doesn't like Funny Hat. Horny Helmet is thinking about bossy woman's tits. Bossy woman is thinking about Holy Light. What was I thinking about...? I have no clue, but I like where you were going with this!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2017 20:42:12 GMT
- There is no reciprocation in the ranks. Funny Hat likes Commander. Commander doesn't like Funny Hat. Horny Helmet is thinking about bossy woman's tits. Bossy woman is thinking about Holy Light. What was I thinking about...? I have no clue, but I like where you were going with this! And if you were to venture a wild guess?
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Post by vonuber on Sept 27, 2017 22:39:51 GMT
Calistyn returned to the Hinterlands today, with the intention of helping Solas. Instead: Rifts, More Fucking Bears and the Carta. Oh and apparently Blackwell would have liked to have been here to see this. Oh well.
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Post by phoray on Sept 27, 2017 22:48:30 GMT
Sometimes I see the pictures people take, and I think, "Why didn't Bioware just adjust their camera angle from the get go?"
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Post by melbella on Sept 28, 2017 0:32:49 GMT
adonniel If I'm playing a melee Inquisitor, I make Varric shoot the rams.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 0:39:01 GMT
adonniel If I'm playing a melee Inquisitor, I make Varric shoot the rams. I demean Vivi or Solas to doing this unkingly task. Except, once instead of a goat I've hit Cass with a full barrage spell square in the face by accident. The companions always seem to stand in the wrong spot around you. I mean what's with the targeting system in DAI? It doesn't securely lock on target after one hit and you have to adjust aim after every wack. Those rams get away 50% even when my range is after them. And then my Inq and Cass vanish in the bushes chasing after the rams that get away.
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Post by cmoe on Sept 28, 2017 1:01:40 GMT
adonniel If I'm playing a melee Inquisitor, I make Varric shoot the rams. I demean Vivi or Solas to doing this unkingly task. Except, once instead of a goat I've hit Cass with a full barrage spell square in the face by accident. The companions always seem to stand in the wrong spot around you. I mean what's with the targeting system in DAI? It doesn't securely lock on target after one hit and you have to adjust aim after every wack. Those rams get away 50% even when my range is after them. And then my Inq and Cass vanish in the bushes chasing after the rams that get away. Though those rams are crafty, running around in endless circles, I find winter's grasp helps..
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