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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 18, 2020 21:38:09 GMT
So as I said earlier on this page, I'm doing a re-run of my Tabris' playthrough (most of it thanks to Buckeldemon who made me a new fancy crossbow that works like a charm )
Anyways... First Raelyn is woken up by cousin Shianni who tells her that her betrothed has arrived early. Raelyn wasn't very happy about getting an arranged match, but hey...if that's tradition, so be it. Papa Tabris warned her not to tell her betrothed about her combat training which she'd received from mama Tabris.
Went outside and talked to some party guests, got some coin as a gift. Raelyn helped a family who'd lost their home with a few silvers so they'd be able to go to Highever (then again neither outcome of either going to Highever or Ostagar would've been a good thing, and given what later happens in the Alienage itself none of the options seem really that promising) Talked with some kids and told them a story about the noble thief Tathas (I still hate you can't tell them about Garahel, especially since according to lore all elven children know the tale)
Then met with her other cousin Soris who was also going to get married that day. Pickpocketed the angry elf lady who called Raelyn a wench for getting a nice match for a husband (b*tch deserves it )
Got to meet with the douche-bag of a local lord who Raelyn politely asked to leave...he got angry so Shianni bottled him across the head. Yeah, kid should've learned some manners from papa . Anyways, once he and his equally douchy friends were gone we got to meet Soris' betrothed Valora and Raelyn's betrothed Nelaros. Guy wasn't hard on the eyes and even seemed kind and genuine. (Raelyn approved)
Then met with Duncan, who Raelyn also tried to get to leave politely but he decided to test her patience and refused. Eventually Raelyn got tired of being nice and said she'd clobber him with bare hands. Thankfully the local elder Valendrian stepped in before she could break Duncan's nose. Duncan told her he'd tried to recruit Raelyn's mother about twenty years ago (does that make Tabris about 20? Hm...guess so). He also told her some things about the Wardens.
Cue wedding, but before said wedding could begin lord douche-bag mcgee decided to return and kidnap Raelyn and the other girls (including Shianni and Valora), Raelyn tried to get him to just kidnap her and leave the others but he said "it wouldn't be much of a party" that way.
Woke up in the Arl's estate with one hell of a headache and a burning temper, which only got worse when the guards killed one of her friends and dragged of the rest. guard: be nice and we won't hurt you Raelyn: sure, come closer...I'll bite off all your fingers and poke out your eyes!
Soris arrived with some weapons (also brought her favorite crossbow), then chaos ensued...Raelyn somewhat got into a blood craze and decided to just slaughter her way through the estate to find her cousin and the other girls (as well as Nelaros who'd accompanied Soris to try and safe them). Sadly Nelaros also didn't make it and was killed by the same guard who'd killed Raelyn's friend. Said guard died quickly...with a lot of bolts sticking from his body Made her way to Vaughn's chamber who'd evidently done something very nasty to her cousin. Then he tried to bribe/threaten Raelyn and Raelyn once again turned him into a giant quiver. Raelyn and Soris got everyone home safe and Duncan conscripted Raelyn to safe her from the noose. Raelyn said goodbye to her family and friends (papa Tabris was very sad she had to leave) -- Fast forward a few days or so later and Raelyn and Duncan arrived at Ostagar, meeting with King Cailan on arrival. Cailan: how's the alienage? Raelyn: I killed the arl's son for raping my cousin Cailan: [ surprised pikachu meme] wait...what? Walked around Ostagar and met with a bunch of people, among them Wynne...Loghain, some Ash Warriors A highly annoying Chantry priestess who got very angry at Raelyn (Raelyn proceeded to pickpocket her), helped out a hungry deserter and bought him some food, and helped the dog handler by muzzling a doggo who'd gotten sick (she later got the flower to cure him) Met with Alistair who Raelyn liked from the start, and also met with Daveth and Jory Raelyn: you're a strange human...I like you Alistair: aww thanks Went into the Korcari Wilds, killed a bunch of darkspawn, some wolves...a demon, helped the wounded soldier by bandaging his wounds, and found the lockbox which Raelyn will be giving to Jetta later then met with a highly unusual lady who called herself Morrigan, who brought them to her mom who had the Warden treaties Got back to Ostagar, gave Duncan the treaties and the darkspawn blood then proceeded through the Joining, choked on some blood and passed out (Daveth and Jory didn't make it out alive ) Tomorrow I'll be heading into a war meeting, and get betrayed at Ostagar...again
After that it's off to Lothering and all other shenanigans
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Post by phoray on Sept 18, 2020 23:00:18 GMT
Rewatched Dragon Age 4 Trailer Forced hubs to talk to me about what he wanted to have in DA4 (conclusion, the battle mechanics of Origins and the heart of DA2) Watched videos talking about Dragon Age 4.
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Sept 19, 2020 8:49:16 GMT
Thomas Hawke decided he needed a rest, and headed home to get one. While he was there, he handed Merrill a wooden ring of obvious Dalish make that he'd picked up on Sundermount. Merrill asked if he knew what it was. He responded that he'd thought he had, but that Merrill's response made him wonder if he'd missed something. He had. It turned out that the ring was made of a super-rare wood: even rarer than diamond. (Well, I've heard that diamonds aren't actually rare, they're just controlled by a supercorporation that keeps prices up through artificial scarcity... but I'm probably not supposed to talk about that in a thread dedicated to gaming, and anyway mining them's hard enough that they probably are hard to come by in Thedas. Especially given the risk of darkspawn.) Merril also said that the ring had carvings on it that represented the Dalish myth of how their gods were tricked into irrelevance... Long ago, there were two clans of gods: the Creators helped the Elvhen, and the Forgotten Ones preyed upon them. All of the gods save one fit neatly into that dichotomy. That one was Fen'Harel, the Dread Wolf, kin to the Creators, but not truly one of them. And the Forgotten Ones considered him one of theirs for reasons Merrill did not specify. Fen'Harel often helped the Creators in their war against the Forgotten Ones. (How he did that without losing the Forgotten Ones' tolerance, Merrill didn't say.) Thomas guessed that one day, Fen'Harel got tired of helping, and Merrill said that he'd guessed correctly. On that day, Fen'Harel secretly approached each clan of gods and told them the other was building an irresistible weapon meant to destroy them: the Creators were led to believe the Forgotten Ones were building it in the heavens, and the Forgotten Ones were led to believe the Creators were building it in The Abyss. Each pantheon invaded the location they were warned of, in force... and Fen'Harel slammed the exits shut behind them. He is now the only elven god who can still influence events in the mortal world. (That is a kickass story. I wish Bioware would write a whole game around the elven pantheon, because we freaking need one.) Thomas worried that giving Merrill a ring with a story about betrayal on it was sending a less romantic message than he'd hoped. But Merrill said that no, she liked the message he'd unintentionally sent... because rings of this sort are made for the Dalish Keepers, whose job it is to protect the clan from the Dread Wolf. So, that worked out. (You know what we need in that game I described? A Keeper or three who now serve the Dread Wolf.) Anyway, Thomas checked his writing desk next. He got a letter from Orsino thanking him for his support... and with mage robes enclosed. Not the most useful thing for a rogue whose companions don't let him pick their armor. He also found a letter by a nobleman whose daughter had been kidnapped by bandits and dragged to the Wounded Coast. He was afraid that the gang of bandits were going to gang-rape her, and that that would make it impossible for her to find a husband. (He was also afraid that Thomas wouldn't help if he didn't specify that last bit, for some reason. At least, I can't think why else he would bother specifying it. ) Thomas immediately sent for Aveline and Anders, and those two plus Thomas and Merrill set out to rescue the girl. His first thought was to check the peninsula where Evets Marauders and the Winters had camped all those years ago, since nothing else important had happened there all year and he figured it was due for some action. But nothing happened. Then he checked the Tal'Vashoth camp, and only the apostate merchant was there. He checked the outlaw camp where Aveline and Donnic had patrolled three years ago... and finally found the girl surrounded by the corpses of the men who had attacked her. She... must have rescued herself? And a good thing considering that she was in literally the last place Thomas checked. They'd have had plenty of time to traumatize the hell out of her if she hadn't saved herself. Amazing how much blood she didn't get on her clothes in the process, though. Her first thought was to ask if her love... Feynriel?... had sent them to collect her. It came out that no, she hadn't done this herself. Feynriel had visited her when she fainted in fear, and forced all of the bandits to fight each other to the death. From all the way in Tevinter. That's actually kind of scary. Thomas told her that her father had sent him, and that Thomas didn't know where Fenynriel was. (I assume he didn't mention Tevinter because he was creeped out by this whole situation and didn't want to involve himself in it any further.) The woman declared that she was going to walk back to Kirkwall, partially in order to tire herself out and fall back to sleep. I'd like to think Feynriel didn't brainwash her, either on purpose or accidentally... but it would explain her situation pretty well. Well, Thomas was running out of other things to do, other than Meredith's quest. So he headed back to Merrill's to see if she'd ask any big favors of him, and she didn't. He switched Aveline out for Isabela at the summoning horn, figuring Isabela would be more likely to annoy Meredith than Aveline would. Then Thomas took Isabela and the two apostates to the Gallows to see what Meredith wanted. Meredith met him in her office, and he swept in and said how grand it was to see her, and how great she looked in that armor. She said that she didn't wear it for looks, and he said that that was too bad given what it accomplished for her looks. Meredith shut down the conversation before it could get any weirder and forced the meeting to get around to business. She first said that she was moderately surprised that Thomas had come to hear her out after their argument in the courtyard beneath the Chantry. Well, Thomas was so surprised to get the letter that he felt obligated to do so, but that doesn't imply obligation to do what he's asked. To the meat of the matter: there had been an escape from the Gallows recently. A couple of templars had apparently gotten cold feet about templaring and smashed a couple of phylacteries to help some mages escape. Most of the mages just went back to their family's home for some family time, and didn't resist when the templars came to recapture them... but three were still at large. Meredith claimed that their familes were refusing to talk to her men, but that she was hoping Thomas would be able to get their cooperation. Thomas agreed to do so without Meredith needing to apply any pressure. Three factors went into that decision. For one, she was Bethany's jailer. He didn't think he was going to win her any extra privileges by cooperating with Meredith, but he didn't trust Meredith not to make her life appreciably harder if he didn't toe the line. The second factor was that he didn't trust Meredith's story about why she was asking for his help. It didn't contradict anything he knew to be true... but Meredith very plainly knew he wasn't on her side. He'd spoken out against her in public, flanked by two apostates. She reminded him of that decision, which proved she hadn't forgotten it. Here he was in her office flanked by those same two apostates. So Thomas was pondering the idea that Meredith was deliberately sending him against the worst mages in the lot, hoping that reminding him of the dangers magic posed might change his mind. That plan was never going to work, because Thomas knew of those dangers. He doubted that these mages were any worse than Quentin, and Quentin hadn't changed his mind, because even before Quentin, Thomas had known mages were dangerous. It was just that he didn't think that was any reason to throw aside his usual principles and advocate for locking them up... but Meredith might think to try this anyway. But getting to the actual point: if he was right about Meredith's plan, then Thomas absolutely needed to bring these mages down before they could hurt innocent people. That wasn't the same as admitting that mages in general needed to be oppressed. It's only about mages in general to Meredith: to Thomas, it's about these mages. The third factor influencing his choice of words... was that words are cheap. Thomas was only saying he was going to bring Meredith's apostates back to her. If he felt the need to abstain from doing so, he wouldn't lose a minute of sleep over breaking his word. Meredith told Thomas to talk to her Tranquil assistant Elsa: she had all the information the templars could give Thomas. Elsa told Thomas that one of them was named Evelina, and that she could be found in Darktown. Elsa claimed that she was considered the most dangerous of the three. One of them was named Emile de Launcet, and he was the fifth son of the Comte de Launcet, who had claimed not to know where he was. (Also, Thomas could swear he'd heard that combination of name and title before... maybe from Gamlen?) The third was named Huon, and had been taken from Kirkwall's Alienage long enough ago that the templars figured most of the elves wouldn't know who he was. His wife Nyssa said she hadn't seen him since he had been taken. Meredith's rationale for recruiting Hawke, assuming it could be trusted, suggested that she thought that Nyssa and the Comte de Launcet were lying. Thomas headed out, thankful that none of his companions had made a scene. (Although he'd hoped they would annoy Meredith a bit more than they had.) Thomas stopped by Darktown first, since the briefing suggested the most dangerous apostate could be found there. He quickly found two young male humans, whose ages seemed to be close to the dividing line between "young man" and "boy." One seemed to be at most a few years above the dividing line, and the other seemed to be a few years at most below it. The two asked if Thomas had come for them. Thomas responded that neither of them looked like an "Evelina" to him, and they responded that she was their adoptive mother. She'd turned herself in to the templars hoping that, as a religious organization, they would feel charitable to her adoptive sons. But unfortunately, the Chantry doesn't have as many paladins as it has templars. Thomas had heard enough. He asked the boys/men where their mother was, because he wanted to help her... but they responded that nobody could help her: she'd "changed" when the templars came for her last. Oh, shit.The boy claimed she'd run into the sewers, and the man told him off for telling Thomas that: it would apparently make her mad. The boy panicked and ran off. Thomas followed them into the sewers, and promptly ran smack into a rage demon and its army of shades. Yeah, the odds of this ending happily are approaching zero. Thomas and Company (minus any viable tank) slaughtered their way through shades, traps, and the occasional rage demon... and eventually came to the two young men? How'd they get past the demons and traps? They said that they'd thought Evelina wouldn't be as angry if they warned her Thomas was coming. It didn't work. The boys tried, to flee, but Evelina walked in at just that moment... and Thomas realized he knew her. He'd seen her begging in Darktown a few times during the business three years ago. He'd even given her some silver. Evelina said that fleeing was against the rules. Thomas said that in his house, fleeing dangerous madwomen wasn't punishable. Evelina responded that she didn't feel like accepting the judgment of someone who sat in Hightown while his own people starved. Such gratitude. Evelina transformed into an obvious abomination and declared that soon her children would have a whole city to play in. And then the fun started. The gang immediately started pounding on her, and she vanished into thin air as more demons appeared. She reappeared soon afterwards, tranformed into the shape of a rage demon, only to vanish shortly thereafter and reappear as a shade. She vanished and reappeared as a desire demon shortly after that... and that's the form she died in. She transformed into the typical abomination shape after she'd died. The boys were horrified: they'd though Evelina loved them. And Thomas told them that she had. They hadn't seen and heard Evelina during that last battle: it had been the demon. He told them to try to remember the real Evelina. The boys said that they didn't know what to do from here... and since Thomas realized that silver hadn't done enough, he gave them five sovereigns. He told them to spend it wisely... even though he feared that five sovereigns, even spent wisely, wouldn't last long. The boys headed off to the market with it; some of their adopted brothers apparently hadn't eaten in too long. Thomas looted everything the boys thought unimportant enough to leave behind... and found a design for a weapon rune? How'd they get that? Did Evelina design it?
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Post by azarhal on Sept 19, 2020 16:07:36 GMT
Arys had gathered the 50 sovereigns for the expedition twice...and both time she went on a shopping spree. Making that mount of money and keeping it was going to be hard. More mercenary work was needed. That's fine, she still had a lots of contacts and Varric was good at point to things that might result in good pay.
She decided to go at the Gallows, she had found a letter for a certain Ser Trasks in a previous job and she still had to ask Macha's brother Templars friends about his whereabout. Trask's letter was from his late magical daughter, Arys assured him his secret was safe with her. She wouldn't want Bethany's name to be muddied just because she didn't want to join the crazy Templars...and going by what Arys had see so far, for every Trasks, there was 20 evil bastards.
After the short talk with Ser Trasks, she went to see the friends Macha talked about. They didn't want to talk at first, under orders apparently, but they loosed out eventually. Keran wasn't the only recruit missing and one of the missing one came back earlier that day. He went away and a Knight-Captain went after him. And then Arys and her little girl party went after them too. She stumbled on the Knight-Captain beating up the recruit...who then turned into an abomination and summoned more abominations (how is that possible?) and demons. After cleaning the area of these evil doers, Arys had a chat with the Knight-Captain Cullen. It appears the recruits disappear after a night at the Blooming Rose...and the Knight-Captain didn't have much luck with the ladies when he tried to ask questions. Arys said she had no problem going there and asking questions.
But before spending the night at the Rose, Arys was going to do that little job for Athenril at the docks. She also had to find where the cargo of Isabela's friend was and getting the port authority manifest was the easiest, and cheapest, way. Athenril new recruit turned out to be a little boy and the whole "job" looked to be a setup. Arys told him to run off with the goods and find a nice farm for him and his sister, she would deal with Athenril.
Next: Blooming Rose
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Post by Nyx on Sept 19, 2020 17:02:43 GMT
Kellan managed to rescue Feynriel from the slavers on the Wounded Coast, with a little help from Varric. Man, Tevinter slavers were super gullible. Kellan then sent Feynriel off to live with the Dalish. What's the worst that could happen, right? On their way to the Wounded Coast, Kellan and friends managed to rescue a dwarf being attacked by giant spiders. Instead of rewarding them, the dwarf offered them another job: kill a bunch of Qunari Tal-Vashoth, and they would all be richly rewarded. Kellan wasn't so sure that this plan would work out but coin was coin. So after rescuing Feynriel, he absolutely massacred a bunch of Qunari deserters. They were in the area after all. One of the Qunari warned them about the Tal-Vashoth but refused to fight them himself. Hawke would never understand Qunari. There was one last thing that needed doing on the Wounded Coast. The Viscount had misplaced his son Seamus, and it was time to rescue him too. Kellan thought maybe he should start his own business at this rate. There was an oddly high amount of people in the Kirkwall area that needed to be rescued. Anyway, the mercenary company the Winters had beat Hawke and co. to Seamus, but they were not very good at rescuing so Hawke decided to eliminate his competition. That handled it was back to the Viscount's keep where it got real awkward, real fast. Kellan noped out of there as fast as he could. He realized he still hadn't helped the Grey Warden mage with his rescue mission so it was time for rescue mission #3. This one didn't go so hot though. Karl had already been made Tranquil, and it turned out to be a trap. After murdering some Templars in the Chantry itself (if the Maker existed, no doubt Kellan Hawke was on his naughty list), Kellan encouraged Anders to put his friend out of his misery. Being Tranquil sounded pretty horrible, in his opinion. Back at the clinic, Anders reveals that he is actually an abomination. Somehow Hawke is not surprised by this, because he never gets to meet anyone normal. Kellan decides to unwind at the Hanged Man later that night, but there's no rest for the wicked because a sexy pirate lady has a job for him. At least this time it isn't a rescue. In fact, it's the opposite of rescuing so that's a nice change of pace. He still complains, asking her why no on in Kirkwall can handle their own problems, and she quips that it must be something in the water. He thinks the two of them will probably get along very well. Very well. After wading through a bunch of guardsman pretenders (seriously, what was it with Kirkwall and its damn gangs?!), they make it to the Chantry. Wait, wasn't Kellan just here? Did he have to commit more murder in the Chantry? That was just great. Before he even knew what was happening, Isabela threw one of her huge daggers right at a hapless goon, and it was time to fight. After the massacre, Isabela explained about the relic, and Kellan reassured her he would help her find it. He didn't have anything better to do anyway. Isabela joined the team and the party immediately. Following up a tip from Meeran, his old boss, Kellan headed to Lowtown to meet a dwarf named Anso. His product had gone missing, and it needed to be retrieved. Not technically a rescue. Kellan managed to squeeze the fact that the product was lyrium out of the slippery dwarf, because of course it was. Oh well, he had already crossed the Templars already, and this would technically be helping them so...Except there ended up not being any lyrium in the alienage hovel. Nope, just a bunch of Tevinter slavers. Surprise! An angry Tevinter slaver was about to chew them out but then a white-haired elf stuck his hand through his chest and he died. Nothing weird about that at all or the fact that his elf apparently had lyrium tattoos. "Hi, I'm an angsty slave," said Fenris, basically. "I need help killing my master." "Cool, let's do it," said Kellan. So off to Hightown they went. They didn't find the magister, just a bunch of demons, and Fenris became very moody and started complaining about magic, to which Kellan pointedly asked him if he was going to have a problem with his companions. He was very protective of the only sibling he had left after all. Fenris said that he would be all right, but Kellan had an inkling this would not be the last time Fenris bitched about magic. As a fellow two-handed warrior, Kellan figured he already had the macho warrior slot covered in his adventuring band so there probably wouldn't be a lot of need to drag Fenris along. It was probably just as well. The next day while Kellan was passing by the Chantry where a lot of people had been murdered recently, the Grand Cleric exclaiming "This is murder!" definitely caught his attention. But luckily she wasn't referring to Hawke. She was referring to a guy in white armor with a bow and a weird accent who then literally shot an arrow toward the Grand Cleric?! It thunked into the Chanter's Board, and Kellan decided to go have a peek. It was a contract to kill a bunch of mercenaries. Kellan was very good at killing many things at this point so he decided to take the job. His coin purse was getting heavier every day. Pretty soon he would have enough to finally go on the Deep Roads Expedetion. But there was one more job that he was curious about. Apparently rich Orlesian guy Hubert was having problems with his mine, which was ridiculously and sinisterly named the Bone Pit. Hawke agreed to check it out and when he arrived found it had already been overrun by looters. Except the looters were avoiding one of the mines. "Maybe they know something we don't," offered Isabela. Probably but YOLO thought Kellan as he dragged his friends into the ominous mine.
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Post by azarhal on Sept 19, 2020 19:47:49 GMT
"Iduna The Exotic Wonder of the East", that's a mouthful. Arys went to the Blooming Rose to discover any information that might lead her to the missing Templar recruits. She ended up being pointed to that tramp from Darktown. A tramp who can do blood magic, luckily for Arys her sister was about and saved her from cutting her own throat.
Once Iduna realized she wasn't the only mage in the room the mood the changed a little bit and Arys got the information she wanted and left a corpse behind. Nobody minded. The next steps were in Darktown to find the hideout of a certain Tarohne. Then Arys remembered that Emeric, the Templar looking into Ninette's disappearance...clearly Kirkwall had a problem with that...was also investigating in Darktown. First, they went and saved Emeric from thug, the old templar wasn't much of a fighter anymore. He gave Arys his information, looks like more than one woman was now mysteriously gone and the others also received lilies. Emeric last trail lead to a foundry, Arys tried to remember to check it out later.
But for now, lets clear out a blood mage hideout. Bethany wasn't too much of a fan, but they still managed. And then they found the leader. She was positively barmy. They were putting demons inside of the Templar recruits. Hawke managed to save Keran and kill all the blood mages. Then they returned to the Gallows to inform Cullen. During the return conversation Arys wanted to punch Cullen in the face, not all mages were evil. She managed to convince that Keran was clean of demons so he could stay as a recruit. Merrill did check his blood out and she kinda knows her blood magic...
After that Arys decided to do a trip to the Wounded Coast...then she remember she was supposed to go save the Viscount Son. Oups. It's been days and she haven't heard anything about him being back. Hopefully the Winters haven't murdered everyone yet. At the coast, the party stumbled on Dalish elves who were bullying a poor man the Dalish then turned on Arys and unfortunately had to be killed. There was also some bandits after some Grey Warden letters, lots of spiders and mages training spiders...Why would mage train spiders? Also, some of the mercenaries part of the bounty for the Vael family.
And then Arys found the Viscount's on, Seamus. And the Winters too. Arys was too late, well not too late to save Seamus from the Winters. Lots of Winters. It was quite the lucrative business actually. The Winters had quite a bit of golds on them. She then returned the boy to his father and left the personal boy-father conversation. Arys hopped she had scored some nice point with the Viscount.
A few days later, she returned to the coast to deal with the Tal-Vashoth she had a bounty on. They had a big operation there. Stealing from caravan and travelers. She meet a Qunari who warned her about it, he was weird, Isabela agreed saying their brain was twisted by their horns probably. There was also a slaver cave nearby, where the boy Feynriel should be. He was promptly rescued with the help of Arys trusted murder knife, it comes with a black blade and glowy ruins, very handy. Despite being saved, Feynriel didn't appear that happy about it. He didn't want to join the Circle, Arys totally understood him. He then suggested the Dalish, he was in luck, Arys was somewhat friend with the Keeper of the clan near town. ----- There is so many things to do in Act I...
Also, I'm liking my party of Merrill (Entropy), Bethany (healing + some primal), Isabella (Stealth + Dual Wield + Spec) and my Shadow Rogue. Normal enemies are basically stunned/disoriented/sleeping/paralyzed 80% of the time. Too bad I'm going to lose Bethany after Act 1, I'm going to have to bring Anders along instead...Oh well, he's complains as much as a girl do, he'll fit right in.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 19, 2020 21:45:15 GMT
Today Raelyn attended a war meeting with Duncan, Cailan, Loghain and a few other people King Cailan wanted her and Alistair to go to some tower to make sure a beacon was lit for Loghain's men to know when to charge. Raelyn: aww...I don't get to fight...how sad some dude in robes said the beacon wouldn't be needed if the Circle of Magi was allowed to help, but the Revered mother wouldn't let him, something tells me this guy will show up again soon
After the meeting she and Duncan met up with Alistair to go over the plan, and he wasn't all that happy to be left out of the main battle away from his Warden brothers. Raelyn kinda agreed with him, making Alistair comment if the King ever would ask him to wear a dress he'd draw the line, darkspawn or no
Raelyn: I dunno...could be a great distraction Alistair: only if it's a pretty dress Duncan: ...*sigh*
Anyways, after that it was party time! Err...I mean, massive slaughter and lots of deaths. Ostagar became overrun with darkspawn, so did the Tower of Ishal.
With help from a guard and a circle mage Raelyn and Alistair made their way up the tower where a huge ogre awaited them. After defeating it they lit the tower beacon and then...nothing. The pair could only watch from the high windows as nothing happened, no charge...nothing but the distant shouting of men and women dying and yelling in confusion. More darkspawn entered the tower, and though they fought bravely they were overwhelmed.
Raelyn awoke a few days later in a small hut, the strange lady from the Wilds standing over her as she was bandaging Raelyn's wounds. She reintroduced herself as Morrigan, and said her mother had saved both Raelyn and Alistair from the tower. Morrigan told her that her mother wished to see her as well so Raelyn got dressed and went to her. The woman introduced herself as Flemeth, and slightly but cleverly gave them leads to stop the Blight, before sending them of she entrusted them Morrigan, who didn't seem so keen to go with them.
The trio made their way toward a small village north of the Wilds, but along the way they were ambushed by some darkspawn...but warned by the mabari hound Raelyn had saved in Ostagar. After dispatching the darkspawn Raelyn decided to bring the mabari along, naming him Fuzzball (Fuzzball: [happy bark!]) Outside the village they were accosted by some bandits, the group whooped their ass and Raelyn chewed them out. First she told them their operation was soddy, then made them turn over their stolen goods, answer some questions and then run for the hills (good times).
Inside the local inn they met with some of Loghain's men (whooped their ass too), and a strange chantry sister named Leliana who decided to tag along Leliana seemed surprised Raelyn was an elf and said "I suppose elves must want the Blight defeated as much as humans"...I'm sorry, you want me to let them destroy the world? I mean, I can do that too you know.
Went around the village doing some other stuff (talked down a merchant, got some potions to the local elder...made some poisons and traps, that kind of thing) and met with Sten in his cage (going to break him out tomorrow). Also helped a lost kid (gave him some coin), and a robbed elven family (gave them some coin to and told them where they could look for their stolen things)
So tomorrow I'm going to clean things up in Lothering, and then move on our way to Redcliffe after making a stop at camp and Honnleath to recruit Shale (also Raelyn pickpocketed some chantry people today...such fun)
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Post by phoray on Sept 19, 2020 22:10:18 GMT
Watched DA fan theory video by Jackdaw. Watched and shared all the cinematic trailers for Origins, 2, and Inquisition with my Indian lover. Discussed for nearly an hour which single gameplay mechanic we would keep from each game to carry into DA4.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 19, 2020 23:12:59 GMT
So as I said earlier on this page, I'm doing a re-run of my Tabris' playthrough (most of it thanks to Buckeldemon who made me a new fancy crossbow that works like a charm ) Hush... not so loud. That reminds me... seems as if someone else downloaded it as well, except these were all yours. Shall I take it down? also Raelyn pickpocketed some chantry people today...such fun) Did the RM had anything useful? I vaguely remember trying this out with Lels once, and the old hag had nothing in her pockets. So Thomas was pondering the idea that Meredith was deliberately sending him against the worst mages in the lot, hoping that reminding him of the dangers magic posed might change his mind.
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Post by azarhal on Sept 20, 2020 1:29:27 GMT
After saving kidnapped half-elves, templar recruits, elves...Arys decided it was time to go find the missing Ninette. Taking a look at the foundry Ser Emeric talked about. She went there at night, she was breaking in...with Aveline, but still breaking in. Once inside, she briefly spotted someone who looked like a mage, but she couldn't pursue him. Shades and demons came to say hi. Yes, this sounded very much like another crazy blood mage hideout. Arys was starting to wonder if there was a Blood Mage Association in Kirkwall that Merrill failed to mention. After killing all the things, Hawke found a bloody bag with bones and a severed hand that still had a ring on it. Merrill, always very positive, suggested that a severed hand didn't mean the person was dead. Arys didn't want to kill her cheerful disposition and didn't comment about the bones. On their way back, Arys stumbled on her old acquaintance Athenril who came to collect for letting Pryce run off with her goods. See Hawke had made herself wealthy and Athenril wanted interest. Arys pointed out to her that she made her wealth by carving up half of Kirkwall...didn't see to phase her. Arys wondered who had to clear up the corpse right in front of the Blooming Rose before going to bed that night. The next day, they went back to Ghyslain and gave him the ring. It was Ninette's wedding ring. Once he learned where it was found, the severed hand, he gave it back to Arys. He didn't want to be associated to his wife's murder. After that, they went to Emeric and to show him the bones. Arys was a bit insensitive...twice. Bethany scowled her. Emeric said he was going to bring the matter to the guards, Aveline approved. Matter solved, money acquired. Once the serial killer matter was resolved, Arys went to the Qunari compound to meet the dwarf who asked her to kill the Tal-Vashoth to get some explosive in exchange from the Arishok. That didn't go too well, the dwarf was an idiot clearly, he created himself a task hoping the Arishock would reward him. All the time standing there, Arys only asked for her paycheck, which she finally received from the Arishok who then told her to leave. Arys didn't think the guy who like her jokes. Cold fellow. She then went to spend some time at the Hangman. Later in the nigh, a lady offered an easy job: listen to some ship captains at the docks and kill them all. See easy. Looks like some Kirkwall port official wanted raiders to attack Amaranthine ships. Hopefully, no war was brewing. While leaving the Hangman after receiving her reward, she stumbled on a poor Chantry sister who was about to be mugged. Arys went to help her out. After killing all the thugs, the whole thing turned out to be a job interview. Arys was a bit warry of a Sister who would "hire" thugs to find "competent heroes" to help her out. But she was offering a reward and Arys loved money. Once at Sister Petrice's hideout, the job started to sound like a awful idea. Getting a Qunari mage out of Kirkwall, without being seen...to give him freedom? And it's not like he could talk to ask for freedom, the guy had his mouth sewed. Sewed! Merrill and Bethany were both appealed. Arys was really thinking something bad was afoot too. She also just go paid for killing a lots of Tal-Vashoth a few days ago and now she was going to help one escape. On top of it, they had to go through the Undercity warrens. That's like the sewers of the sewers. Everyone would have to take double baths once the job is over. ---- I'm coming close to having to decide what to do with Bethany. I have seen all the options and I usually put her in the Chantry, so I'm itching to try something else, but...tragedy or extra tragedy. Like no middle ground here. I kinda want to do a "piss off the Arishok" playthrougth, but I think my "be a merc who doesn't hide she is a merc" for Arys is just going to be make honorable because I don't lie about my motives.
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Post by melbella on Sept 20, 2020 4:58:00 GMT
Back to DAI after 2 weeks. I was unexpectedly out of town last weekend so couldn't play.
Headed to the temple of Dumat that Samson was using as a base. He wasn't there, and had left instructions for the tranquil Maddox to torch the place. Maddox poisoned himself so was of little help but Lukas found some tools that Dagna was able to use to create a special red lyrium rune that will, so she says, weaken Samson's armor enough to make it possible to defeat him. One more step taken on the road to stopping Corypheus.
On the way back from the temple, Lukas stopped in Val Royeaux to chat with Josephine about the assassins no longer going after her. It will be party time in Antiva if he ever heads that way.
Then back to Skyhold to plan the trip to Halamshiral. It wasn't actually too bad this time, surprisingly. And, for the first time in 12? 13? PT's I finally collected all the caprice coins and all the secrets (with a little wiki help). Found all the blackmail material and forced the 3 stooges to work together. Duchess Florianne was taken into custody, and she will be judged at some point in the future.
Talked to Leliana about the Divine-ship but will probably avoid talking to Cass just in case that helps her case. I am hoping for murder pope Leliana this PT and don't want to mess it up.
Talked to Blackwall and once again heard his horrible dog story.
Bianca is still waiting in the creepy cave so I guess it's probably about time to go tie up that loose end. With Samson's base destroyed and Cory's plans for Orlais foiled, stopping that second source of red lyrium is now a priority.
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 20, 2020 9:50:13 GMT
After dressing up Morrigan (I caved in and installed mod that covers her up a bit more, I'm not letting her walk around half naked anymore, not with children around *covers Cole's eyes*), it was time to make post-WEWH rounds. Got Vivienne her wyvern heart (the right one), stopped Leliana from becoming murder Pope and let Blackwall-Rainier go. Seems like Blackwall is benched for last 2 items for Memories of the Grey... can't wait for his "Would have liked to see that" Emprise du Lion time. The usual sweep, with occassional slope sliding. After reaching Bone Tower I had to make the hardest decision in EdL. Quarry or Suledin Keep first? Went with quarry, because Ardent Blossom can't wait any longer. Area cleared, letters for Cullen collected and Sahrnia people rescued, it was time to hit the Keep. Giants. With boulders. Ugh When confronting Imshael I didn't let him speak too much this time. Just Stonefist to the face. I bet Cassandra approved. Keep captured and Judicael's Crossing marked, it was time to go back to Skyhold. Shrine of Dumat. Red Templars were not a problem. Area in a middle of the Shrine was. I maaaaaay have Fade Stepped into it and lost all of my guard and health Maddox met his sad fate (Aien told Cullen to make sure he gets proper funeral), but the tools he left behind helped create rune to weaken Samson's armor. Then Cradle of Sulevin. And creepy altars. So of course we disturbed creepy altars! Inquisitor delivered collected parts to Dagna. I bet she was happy, having two big projects like that back to back. Then back to EdL to clear the area accessible via Judicael's Crossing. Cole took a nap in interesting place during the fight with Highland Ravager. He looked so peaceful... then Dorian ressurected him, she started flapping her wings and poor Cole was down again. It's moments like this that I feel bad for not properly taking care of companions gear. Oh well, I'll get them something better. Eventually. What Pride Had Wrought. There are a lot of things Morrigan says during that quest that irks me, but her calling Temple elves "creatures" is probably the worst offender That's why I usually bring Solas along, just so there's someone, anyone, arguing with her. Anyway, didn't miss Fiona this time. It's hilariously obvious they stuck her head on human female body. Couldn't they just give her different armor? After questioning Fiona's wardrobe choices, party proceeded to the Temple. When facing the choice of just jumping after Samson or completing rituals, Aien went with rituals. Cassandra wasn't too happy about it. Shhh, I'm dealing with your Maker bullshit on daily basis, you can deal with mine for a moment. Luckily following Petitioner's Path enabled the alliance with Sentinels. In the end Aien drank from the Well, pissing off his two elven friends, for completely different reasons. Should I be proud of them that they actually disapprove of the same thing or what... Post-WPHW stuff included talking with companions, judging Samson, dealing with two displeased elves and summoning Mythal. Once again butt flaps were sacrificed, this time not only Aien's, but also Varric's and Dorian's. Mythal is more and more demanding, huh? Let's hope our new dragon friend is worth this great sacrifice. Quick sidenote, I love the fact that Flemeth looks right at us (players) when she starts talking about being Mythal. Next, the great desert trip, aka Hissing Wastes and Forbidden Oasis. They'll get sand stuck in all the wrong places, won't they?
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Sept 20, 2020 10:36:56 GMT
I didn't give that possibility as much thought as I should have. One detail that gives that theory some credibility is that she does this whether or not Hawke supports her: it makes sense for her to try to get them killed either way. Hawke is the single best candidate for the Big Seat, and she wants to keep it empty so that she can make her own office eclipse it. (She wouldn't be the first strongman to backstab a supporter who was getting too powerful, and anyway she tries to take Hawke down in the endgame whether or not Hawke supports her.) ---- Anyway, by the time Thomas Hawke got out of the tunnels, night had fallen. Elsa had told Thomas that the de Launcets would be out on the town all day and back at night, so Thomas figured this was as good a time as any to get a talk with them. The Comtesse de Launcet met Thomas at the door and called for a servant to bring refreshments. Thomas noted she was oddly cheerful for a woman whose son was wanted by the templars, and she responded that she had no cause for worry: while she hadn't seen her son since he was six, she had every confidence he was a good boy and would turn himself in soon. The Comte came in shortly afterwards and asked his wife why the hell she'd given their son money when he came by earlier. Dulci tried to hint to her husband that maybe it wasn't wise to contradict the story she was trying to spin to Thomas, and Guillaume completely refused to play ball: he outright told both Dulci and Thomas that Emile was screwing around in Lowtown taverns spending all the money he'd told his mother he wanted to start a new life with. Thomas tried to calm them down, and assure them he was their son's best chance at mercy from the Templars. (He didn't know whether or not it was safe to tell them that he was considering hiding their son from the templars.) Guillaume told Thomas that whatever he might have heard, his son wasn't a blood mage, and asked him to please be gentle with him. Dulci hadn't heard that there was any question about what sort of magic Emile used, and clearly didn't like hearing it. Thomas joked that the idea might kill her. Guillaume admitted that his wife was "high-strung," and told Thomas that if he went right to the Hanged Man, he might still catch Emile. Telling his wife that their son was in that filthy place was too much. Guillaume had to take his wife upstairs so that she could pass out on a bed instead of the floor. Isabela watched as they left and commented on how Orlesian they were. Time was of the essence... so naturally, Thomas looted the estate (picking up a Qunari sword that the de Launcets had for some reason) and went back home to get some sleep and add runes to Isabela's and Fenris's armor. (Isabela now has a defense rune and Fenris's armor now gives him fire resistance.) Then, since time was still of the essence, he sent for Fenris and Anders, and they and Merrill... went to the Viscount's Keep to see how Aveline was doing. She seemed to have turned the guards around pretty well: they knew their duties and were making sure the recruits learned theirs. She said she might ask a favor of Hawke, but only later. Then she immediately contradicted herself by saying nothing was wrong, and that if there was, Thomas would be the first to know. (Aveline is vast. She contains multitudes.) So Thomas figured the only thing left to do was head to Lowtown to catch Emile (if he was still there) and talk to Nyssa. The Hanged Man was closer than the Alienage, so Thomas figured why not go there first? He found Emile de Launcet, still drinking his mother's money away, and Thomas told him that he was hunting for a mage called Emile de Launcet. Emile thought that Thomas must be here because he was hunting Emile as a blood mage... but I don't remember Meredith accusing him of being anything more than an apostate? I'm pretty sure the first Thomas heard of that rumor was from the Comte. Anyway, Emile assured them the rumors were false: he'd started them to make himself sound more dangerous and suave. Anders immediately asked if he was out of his mind to start a rumor like that: anyone who grew up in the Circle knew what the templars would do if they believed it. Emile responded that he'd only told people in the tavern, and only women. Which helps, but there's still way too high a chance that'll get back to someone who would kill him over it. Emile asked that if Thomas was going to kill him, he do it right then. He'd rather die drunk. Thomas assured him this wouldn't an issue. Emile asked if he could just have one night before he went back to the Circle: he'd never had the chance to cook for himself, or stand out in the rain... or kiss a girl, much less go farther. He'd given a woman his signet ring in exchange for making him a man (Merrill quite typically asked how she'd go about changing his anatomy like that) and asked to be allowed to go through with it. (Maker, he should have just gone to the Blooming Rose and gotten it cheaper, then pawned the ring and come to the Hanged Man with that much more coin.) Anders opined that it was too late for Emile: he had so little life experience that he could never survive outside the Circle. Thomas considered letting him go anyway... but no, that wouldn't be right. If even Anders thinks it's a bad idea to let a certain mage go apostate... Thomas did the kind thing and let Emile have one day of freedom before he went back. (Also, he decided to shelve the idea that Meredith was trying to manipulate him by sending him after terrible mages: she'd probably have done her fact checking to make sure he wouldn't wind up going after a complete loser whose status as a complete loser was probably mostly the Circle's fault.) Two down, one to go. Thomas headed up to Martin's shop (such as it was) and Martin asked if he was there for something for "that special someone." Martin, Kirkwall isn't Liberty and Hawke's last name isn't Bellic. Just drop the ironic euphemisms and let Tommy sell you his vendor trash. With Vercetti's Hawke's pockets significantly lightened, the party headed to the Alienage and greeted Nyssa in the street. Nyssa recognized Merrill and asked what she was doing there, and Merrill said they were there about Huon. Nyssa said that she had told the templars the truth when they asked: she hadn't seen her husband since he'd been taken... at the time they asked.He'd been there just yesterday, and tried to take her away. He'd told her that he'd learned what the elves were capable of, and that he was going to bring back their peoples' glory. (Sound like anyone we know? Like, anyone Thomas knows on a nightly basis, I mean?) But Nyssa had sent her husband packing: she'd seen that her husband had lost his mind, and didn't want to deal with crazy in her life. But Huon said he'd be back that night. Thomas assured her he was probably just going to conjure a horse and whisk her away into the moonlight. Nyssa implied that if she thought that was the plan, she'd have been up for it. But she was pretty sure the actual plan was a bit less romantic. Nyssa probably should have gone to the templars... but no, she just asked Thomas to be back there that night just in case. Thomas walked into Merrill's eluvian storehouse, and decided to see if she was feeling talkative. But she wasn't, so the gang waited there until nightfall. They probably should have stepped out a minute or so earlier: Huon had already sacrificed his wife when they came out. Thomas said that it'd be great to go just one week without meeting a crazy mage. Huon proceeded to prove Hawke's point by ranting about the power in his wife's elven blood: power she'd been afraid to use. Unless he's saying she was a mage, I'm pretty sure using the power in her blood would have required her to let her nutjob husband cut her up. So yeah, I see where she might have been afraid of that. Huon covered himself with his wife's blood and summoned two shades. Thomas responded by pinning him to the ground with an arrow and helping the rest of the gang slaughter the shades. Huon summoned more just as the first two went down, but the party ignored them and just rounded on Huon. Merrill hit him with Horror, Thomas hit him with Mark of Death, and he was barely holding on by the time he managed to teleport away. He managed to paralyze Thomas and Anders, but didn't manage to hurt them much. Just as well. Being killed by Fenris and Merrill probably hurt more. The party finished up with the last few shades and started looting. Thomas found a pair of boots that matched the armor set he was assembling, and headed home to have Sandal enchant them. He went with a Fire Resistance rune, and decided to switch the Fire Resistance rune already in his gloves for an attribute boosting one. Then he headed to the Black Emporium to sell his old boots. (He must not have stopped for any sleep, since it was still night. Well, like I said earlier, Thomas can probably hibernate at the end of the year.)
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 20, 2020 10:50:15 GMT
So as I said earlier on this page, I'm doing a re-run of my Tabris' playthrough (most of it thanks to Buckeldemon who made me a new fancy crossbow that works like a charm ) 1) Hush... not so loud. That reminds me... seems as if someone else downloaded it as well, except these were all yours. Shall I take it down? also Raelyn pickpocketed some chantry people today...such fun) 2) Did the RM had anything useful? I vaguely remember trying this out with Lels once, and the old hag had nothing in her pockets. 1) hm, I don't really mind, but if you wish to take it down that's alright (I have the file saved to my computer anyway)
2) just some minor coin, and got a Surveyor ring from a templar (which I gave to Leliana) I've yet to pickpocket the revered mother...I mean, I plan on lockpicking Sten's cage so no real use talking to her anyway I do think I'll spare Ser Bryant from pickpocketing as well though...he seems like a nice templar (plus he also seems like one of the smarter ones)
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Post by azarhal on Sept 20, 2020 15:39:26 GMT
The Undercity turned out to be a spider nest. Arys Hawke was starting to wonder if Kirkwall had a secret Spider Association on top of a Blood mage one. There was also a few thugs who managed to rill up the Qunari mage. Thugs complaining people like the Hawkes were pushing them down in the sewers. Arys was pretty neither her or Bethany did anything to push people down. She never event meet them before! Once the fight was over, Arys told the Qunari to not use his powers again, or at least not until they are out of the city, well undercity.
Once out, they were greeted by more Qunari, both dead and alive. The group Ketojan was part off was littering the ground and another group was investigating what happened. They accused Arys of the deed, but she told them she just got there...mentally cursing Sister Petrice for the setup. The Qunari wanted their Saarebas back and he wanted to go back. Arys took the opportunity to ask some question about how they threated mages in the Qun. Turns out they are worst than the Chantry. They totally fear them. Once Arys mentioned her sister was a mage, all hell broke loose. Qunari do not like mage to have siblings it seems. Luckily Arys didn't say he father was one... Once they were all dead, the Saarebas immolated himself and told Arys she would fit great in the Qun. Hawke didn't share his opinion on that matter.
Leaving all the Qunari corpse on the edge of the city, the group made it back to Sister Petrice. She was busy telling her Templar-pet to clean-up the place and surprised to see the Hawkes show up. She promised to use only faithful next time and Arys promised she would kill her next time. And despite all that she was very generous with her pay. Maybe the blood mages aren't the only crazy people in Kirkwall.
Speaking of blood mages. The Hawkes encounters more of them. Ser Thrask send a letter requesting help to find escaped mages from the now burned Starkhaven Circle. They were holding up in a cavern and the templars hunting them had a bad reputation of kill first, give excuses later. Arys was good with going into the cavern to see what was happening there. She stumbled on a mage who wanted to go back to the Chantry...and lots of walking corpses. Looks like their leader turned into another crazy blood mage. He had to be put down, but all the mages who didn't attack seemed fine. They asked Arys to kill the templars, but she had a better idea. She coined them into believe she had killed all the blood mages and the few remaining had fled toward the coast. Hopefully, those mages would find shelter and keep out of troubles and blood magic.
Later that night, Hawke talked a bit with her mother and uncle. Looks like Leandra managed to get a meeting with the Viscount, but it wouldn't be until the expedition had left. She was also very sad over what happened to Carver, even blaming herself for it now. Arys tried to recomfort her mother as best she could. She also got a message from a dwarf named Dougal. He was offering to pay the 50 sovereigns for the expedition in exchange of double interests after returning. Arys liked shady deals. She also liked having others pay things for her. This looked like a win-win opportunity. Now all that was left was to give Bartrand the map and decide who was coming in the expedition.
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Post by azarhal on Sept 20, 2020 18:41:23 GMT
The meeting with Bartrand went well, until Arys and Bethany's mother showed up. She didn't want Bethany to go. Argued a long time about it. Bethany wanted to to join the expedition. Darkspawns could at least be fought. Arys really wanted her sister to come along. She would have been the only woman around otherwise. It's not that she didn't like Varric and Anders, but she had a special connection with her sister.
Once everything was settled, the expedition did the one week trip in the Deep Road to be stopped by a cave-in...and Sandal running away. Arys told Bartrand it was a good thing she wasn't a scout and she would find a side passage to reach the place they wanted to go. They fought a few darkspawns down there and spiders and shades. Only thugs where missing from the normal Kirkwall fauna. Sandal's boy didn't need rescuing either, the boy was just exploring and somehow managed to freeze an Ogre. Varric said he was a smart boy, Arys wondered if he wasn't a abomination. A Kirkwall classic you know. They eventually found a side passages to their destination.
The "thaig" looked strange event to Bartrand. No darkspawns there and Varric's brother was sure it pre-dated the first Blight. But there was no Paragons or anything Bartrand was expecting. Varric and Arrys decided to take the party deeper to try to find some valuables. They found something: a lyrium idol. Anders suggested it was magical and not of the good kind. They still took it and once it was in Bartrand's hands he ran off locking them inside a room. Bastard!
Hawke decided to try to find an exit the other way. The rest of the thaig was filled with shades and something that call themselves Profanes. They eat lyrium. Totally obsessed with it according to a hunger demon. He was quite informative before Hawke had him destroyed, he mention a possible exit. Finally Hawke found the vault and its guardian. An ancient Rock-Wraith. After destroying it, Varric kept complaining those were legends, not real. Arys didn't care, it was guarding a pile of golds and trinkets. Riches! There was also a key to the nearby exit, not that Hawke cared that much, she was sure she could lockpick it.
5 days later, they had found their way back...and then Bethany fell sick. Like Aveline's husband. She had contacted the taint, a sure death. Anders proposed to bring her to the Grey Wardens. He could sense them not that far away. There was some arguing and darkspawn fighting to get them to take Bethany. Arys didn't exactly know how she would tell mom about it. It would destroy her. Once back on the surface, it took months before they got knew that Bethany survived. In that time, Hawke got a mansion in High Town and joined the ranks of Nobles. She was getting noticed now.
So noticed that the Viscount asked for her because the Arishok asked for her. He was complaining about everyone, Meredith, Orsino, the Qunari, the Chantry. Arys was starting to think she was living in a powderkeg. Profits would be made, she was sure of it. But first, while being at the Keep, she might as well check-in on Aveline.
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Post by azarhal on Sept 20, 2020 20:41:11 GMT
Aveline, now Captain of the Guards was doing was all Ferelden do best: complaining. She had fixed the guards, lowered injuries but increased the budget. She had some issues with the Viscount and his accountant over the "overspending". Hawke simply encouraged her, she loved the challenge. Before parting, Aveline said she was bored and could come along on some adventure once in a while.
As she was leaving the Keep, Bodahn ran off to Arys. A dwarf named Dougal wanted to talk to her. Hawke was a bit pissed, she had kept to her part of the bargain. Her mother was too nice to let everyone come into the mansion. She even let Sandal and Bodahn live there now. Once at the mansion, Aveline came over to talk about the old Templar Emeric. Arys facepalmed and wondered why she didn't brought it up when she went to talk to her a few hours earlier. Seems like Emeric was still on that serial killer investigation...after 3 years. Aveline just wanted him to shut up. Not dead shut up of course, but still shut up.
After talking to Aveline, Arys went to the study to chit-chat with Dougal who didn't hide he was there to steal her stuff via threats. Arys told him to piss off. She wasn't afraid of him. She was sure her body count was way higher than his. Once he was gone, she talked a bit with her mother and read her correspondences. Bethany wrote a lot. As did a few people in needs Arys helped before. Nobody could do anything in Kirkwall really.
Arys decided to go check on her friends. Fenris was bored that his former master haven't showed up in 3 years. He didn't really know what to do with himself really, lost memories and all. Anders was still hiding from Templars while running his clinic and probably creating some anti-Templar associations in his free time. Arys spotted the Seneschal there, that might be useful for later. Isabela was still looking for her relic and drinking in the exact same spot at the Hangman. While Varric was still the same old Varric.
Arys also bought gifts for her friends, armors upgrades. Super important if she wanted them to survive all their future adventures. Althought, it might not be needed where she was going next: the Fade. The boy Feynriel had apparently been trapped in a dream by demons and the Dalish Keeper needed someone he trusted to get him back: Hawke. Isabela said it sound fun. Anders had experience with Fade entities and might be useful...and Merrill wanted to see the ritual. What could go wrong?
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Sept 20, 2020 20:45:04 GMT
It was day before Thomas Hawke got out of the tunnels and into the open air. Strangely short, that night was. Either that, or Thomas got lost in the tunnels.
Thomas headed to Hightown to hand Taarbas the Qunari blade he'd picked up from the de Launcet estate. The Qunari soldier declared that his task was done, and that it would be noted in the records Thomas had helped. And despite the fact that Thomas hadn't asked for a reward (or maybe because of it) the Qunari handed him an awesome Qunari-made bow. Thomas put it on his back in place of the Mariner Longbow he had wielded for the last week or so, and sold the Mariner bow at the robe shop.
With that accomplished, nothing to do but report to Meredith. He did so, and she'd already heard that Evelina and Huon were dead. She said it was an "unfortunate necessity," and seemed to mean it too. She also said that Emile had turned himself in, and said that she wanted to execute him, but that his father had asked for mercy. She asked Thomas if he thought Emile was dangerous... and Thomas opined that Emile was an idiot, and that that can be dangerous. Meredith said that the Comte had admitted as much, and said that she would watch and wait rather than skip straight to the beheading.
Thomas said that Meredith was to some degree responsible for all of this: Evelina had only done what she'd done because the Chantry had failed its duty to her children, Emile wouldn't have gone so far to get drunk and laid if Meredith had just laid off the Circle a bit, and Huon... was probably the system's fault? Nyssa assured Thomas that Huon had been sane last time she'd seen him.
There's probably counterarguments that Meredith could have made, but we're never going to know what they are or how convincing they are: she just said she was tired of hearing those arguments, and told Thomas she wasn't going to bother. She turned her back, and Thomas got a good look at the sword stuck to her back.
The detailing on the hilt looks slightly familiar? Almost like the smith had broken a magical artifact Thomas had only seen once into pieces and used one of those pieces to forge the hilt.
Thomas left, and headed to the Hanged Man. When he was there, Varric told Thomas he had a problem: the buyer he'd found for Bartrand's mansion said the place was haunted.
Thomas asked why Varric hadn't tried to sell that as a positive, and Varric responded that the loonies who might want that wouldn't have the kind of money Varric wanted. He'd managed to talk a minor Rivaini nobleman into buying the place without needing to take a look at it, and now the guy felt like he'd been conned for some reason. Imagine that.
Varric figured that the problem was probably some sort of artifact that Bartrand had brought back from the Deep Roads, and that smashing it would probably solve the problem... but that he figured Thomas might know how to fix the problem if it didn't.
Thomas didn't, but he figured Merrill or Anders would.
Varric said that if he didn't figure out how to solve the problem, the buyer might call on the seneschal and ask that fraud charges be brought up... or he might call on the Antivan Crows. So, no pressure, huh?
The party headed back to Hightown, and it was night again by the time they arrived. The party arrived at Bartrand's mansion, and Aveline left so that Varric could take her spot.
The group explored the mansion, and weird stuff kept happening. Things levitated, most of the doors were locked so tightly that Thomas couldn't get through them even though he'd mastered the art of lockpicking, and there were... apparently voices only Varric could hear.
Oooh boy.
Varric decided, on the basis of no evidence whatsoever, that the idol both Bartrand and his steward said he'd sold must still be there, and must be responsible for this. Thomas certainly had to agree that the idol's magic was insane enough, and that he didn't know anything else that was.
They got to the end of the course the sealed doors had railroaded them into, and Varric realized they were in a room full of his brother's things... most of which he'd brought up from Orzammar. He reminisced about one time he'd accidentally broken a plate that was spun from clay from a subterranean river.
Then they turned around; they had to, since they'd reached a dead-end... but doors started unsealing themselves.
They managed to get into the main hall... and eventually ran into a servant in what had been Bartrand's study. Varric interrogated her, in an uncharacteristically rough fashion, about the idol's whereabouts. She said she had no idea what he was talking about, and rather than consider that the idol might be hidden, or that he might be mistaken about what was causing this, he immediately (and roughly) accused her of lying.
She fled in fear... and was crushed by a translucent golem that had appeared behind the party?
It was about this time that Thomas realized he hadn't brought anybody capable of taking a punch. Oh, boy.
Thomas and Merrill immediately hit the golem with Hex of Torment and Mark of Death, and Anders cast Haste to increase everyone's pain output. The idea was that if they just shaved enough chips off of it quickly enough it wouldn't matter that they couldn't withstand it doing the same to them.
But the golem vanished rather than going down, and a small army of shades appeared in its place.
The party handled the shades by funneling them into a single stairwell, then having Merrill use Cone of Cold to freeze the lot and Walking Bomb to blow them all up. The shades didn't last very long, and soon the golem reappeared.
Varric was right next to it when it reappeared. It went right for him... but he was fast enough that it couldn't catch him, and everyone else used the opening this gave them to throw hell at the thing.
It revanished soon enough, and more shades appeared. The party handled them, and soon had the golem back. It reappeared near Varric... but ignored him, and headed up the stairs to attack the rest of the party. It landed a few punches on Anders, and he went down hard. It rounded on Thomas, and did some damage to him... but the damage done to it added up before it could have Thomas down.
Varric found a piece of the idol in the center of the room, where the golem had appeared, and insisted on keeping it. Thomas and Anders both tried pointing out that that was a horrible idea, but Varric insisted that it could help him cure his brother, and that it was too small to effect him. (I'd say he was completely ignoring the fact that it clearly was effecting him, if I thought he was capable of noticing it at all.)
After a very long pause, Thomas agreed to let Varric keep the piece of the idol. (I'm not sure what Thomas was doing during that long pause. One thing's for sure: he couldn't have spent it looking up the Dragon Age Keep to see what happened in my other World-State where Jeeves Tabris is the Hero Of Ferelden, in order to do the exact opposite of what that universe's Hawke had done.)
He was very much afraid he'd regret this.
Thomas headed to the Hanged Man with the rest of the party, and had a conversation with Varric where Varric accused Thomas of not trusting him with the idol, and promised to be careful with it. Immediately afterwards, they had one where Varric said that it had been six years to the day since they'd met, and that Varric was proud to know Thomas. Thomas asked what had brought this on, and Varric just said that he thought it needed to be said.
Next thing on the agenda... figure out what's next on the agenda.
Thomas decided he might as well head to Sundermount to try reading that scroll that probably served as the key to a demon's prison. He got there... and realized he'd accidentally brought Varric instead of either of his meatshields.
That would be a really short fight.
Thomas went back to Merrill's place, since there was no companion-summoning horn on Sundermount as far as he knew, and switched Varric out for Aveline. Then he went back... and somehow, the sun hasn't gone down despite all the time that would have taken.
He's currently stopped in front of the scroll.
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Post by Norstaera on Sept 20, 2020 21:17:33 GMT
Excerpt from JASMINE’S JOURNAL:
Celebrating the End of the Breach
We did it! Praise the Maker and Andraste, we did it! The Breach is closed. I’ll go outside and join the singing and dancing in a minute, after I put my thoughts down. I don’t think I’ll believe it until then.
Is it wrong of me to laugh when I think of Cullen’s reaction to Cole? Probably, but his face when Cole appeared out of thin air . . . I’m glad I was able to stop him from killing the boy, spirit, boy-spirit. Cullen will just have to trust me that I know what I’m doing, at least in this. Then when I argued with him that I want our new allies to be well-rested before attempting to seal the breach . . . He looked just like my brother did when the kitten he was petting turned around and scratched him when he squeezed a little too hard. I, I am fond of Cullen but I am not going to be his obedient pet. |
While Ser Barris and the other templars made their way to Haven and regained their strength I worked to better my new skills. This means I found a rift, killed the demons, and closed the rift. Again and again and again. When I went through my Harrowing I was fascinated by how the Fade around me changed with my will. One of the demons I met was quite clever and witty, though I obviously didn’t fall for any of its tricks otherwise I wouldn’t be here. I never imagined that fighting demons would be boring. I wonder, thrust out of the Fade by the rifts, are they damaged somehow? Or do they just not bother trying to be tricky?
That moment in front of the Breach, I’ll never forget it. I felt so insignificant and yet so powerful next to the pulsating column of Fade energy. When all those templars knelt and concentrated on sharing their will with me, sharing their power, I was truly humbled by their belief and let their power fill me. When I lifted my mark I could almost feel each individual templar in my soul as I focused our combined will through the mark on my hand. I still feel a little tingly.
When the Breach finally closed, I admit that I fell to my knees drained of energy. Cullen rushed to my side, concerned, and helped me to my feet. He escorted me to my room and never let go of my arm. He smiled and told me to rest. For a minute I thought he was going to say more but I couldn’t hold back a yawn. He smiled again and closed the door. I so badly wanted to sleep but first I needed to give thanks to the Maker. Without His strength to support me and Andraste’s blessing to encourage me I don’t know if I would have succeeded.
Well, enough of that. It’s time to join the celebration. Maybe I can convince Cullen to dance with me. I love to dance but I’ve never had much opportunity. The music is getting louder, though I think somebody has had too much to drink. Those bells don’t harmonize with . . . no! They sound like the alarm . . . I must
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Sept 20, 2020 21:38:34 GMT
Raelyn continued on her merry way pick-pocketing chantry folks (I left out Ser Bryant ('cause he's a nice guy) and the Revered Mother ('cause she had nothing on her person that could be pick-pocketed) solved a few more quests and found a peculiar giant of a man in a cage, after some conversing and finding out who and what he was...Raelyn decided to just break him out (he introduced himself as Sten). Left the village and ran into a pair of dwarves who were under attack from darkspawn and saved their hides. The pair was thankful and offered to tag along, Raelyn stated that was probably not a very good idea given her current occupation, the dwarves agreed.
Set up camp later that evening and got her first dose of darkspawn induced nightmare fuel, thankfully Alistair was there to calm her down. She then made a round around the camp to get to know her companions a bit, though Sten was a bit standoffish. Raelyn also re-met the dwarves she'd rescued who had apparently followed them after all and offered their services as a merchant and enchanter (that'll be handy). And met with some guy who called himself Levi Dryden, who asked Raelyn to help him reclaim some dusty old family honor and a Warden base...why the hell not?
The next day the group went on their merry way and came across a merchant who gave her the control rod for a golem, and told her said golem was in a village overrun by darkspawn. Yay...Anyways, the group made their way down to the village, killed some more darkspawn and met the son of the former owner of the golem. The guy said he'd tell Raelyn the correct command phrase to activate said golem (apparently the merchant had received the wrong one, figures) if she'd safe his daughter who'd ran into his father's laboratory.
Easy peasy right? Wrong! Said laboratory was overrun by demons...one such demon had apparently taken possession of a cat who had enthralled the guy's daughter. At any rate, after doing some puzzles they unlocked the way out and the demon tried to possess the girl, though Raelyn wouldn't let it. On the way back they dispatched some more demons and after arriving back the guy thankfully held up his part of the bargain and gave her the command phrase. Back outside Raelyn activated the golem but apparently the rod no longer worked (good thing we didn't pay for it), though the golem -who introduced itself as Shale- decided to tag along, yay!
Made a short stop at camp to put away and sell some loot, and talked to Sten was very confused about Raelyn. Apparently according to him she couldn't be a woman because she was fighting. She pointed out to him that though she wasn't a man, she was still fighting because she had to, and that people can make a choice about what they want to do. Raelyn also talked to Alistair about Duncan a bit, sharing in his mourning and promising to travel to Highever with him if he planned to go there (after all...Nelaros was from Highever as well)
The party then made their way toward Redcliffe where Alistair revealed he was apparently a royal bastard...and late King Cailan's half-brother. Raelyn wasn't sure how she had to react to that, but decided to just tease him with it for now.
Raelyn: as you say...my prince
Alistair: ...*sigh* I'm going to regret this aren't I? Of course as always nothing is as easy as it seems and the village was under attack from undead...Raelyn decided to stick around and help Bann Teagan to defend the village against the new attack (also basically did all the side stuff, found Bevin, returned the sword later...gave Bella money, rescued Owen's daughter, blah blah blah) that'd arrive that very night. The next morning Teagan said he had a way inside the castle to find the source of the attacks (convenient), but they were interrupted by Lady Isolde...Eamon's wife (Raelyn:...she'd hiding something, I just know it)
Teagan went to the castle with Isolde, and Raelyn plus party snuck in through the windmill (Leliana: ooh...crafty (makes notes for future reference) Fought through some undead, found a blood mage (Raelyn released him), killed even more undead...a few starved mabari (aww )...and some more demons. Turns out the demons were the doing of Connor, Eamon's son...who'd inadvertently summoned a demon who was now using the kid as a puppet. Raelyn decided to fight the demon in the castle which devastated Isolde and Leliana. Raelyn and party dispatched some more undead and battled with the demon, weakening it. Though before she could kill it Isolde burst into the room begging for a way to safe her son. However Isolde killed her own son in the end after learning there was no way to safe him. Eamon was still alive thankfully, but still comatose. Isolde said there was a way to safe Eamon however...with the Urn of Sacred ashes, guess who has to go get that thing? Yeah...it's me...naturally.
Back from the castle Alistair decided it was a grand idea to tell Raelyn she'd been very mean for killing Connor ( Raelyn: *sharp inhale* )
After that I got the Zevran cut scene, but will be recruiting him tomorrow, and then it's off to Denerim to get the Sacred Ashes quest and some other side quests
-- I'm also currently pondering a bit about the identity of my Hawke...wondering whether to switch my canon Hawke out for a rogue or keep her as a mage I love dual wield rogue in DA2, but also like being a mage...plus with Sebastian it'd mean having a rogue overdose in my party...then again in Origins you have a warrior overdose (Shale, Oghren, Alistair/Loghain and Sten...plus Dog if you count him as well)
I guess I could also go with warrior, but I don't really like how they play in the Dragon Age games
ah well, I'll decide on that once I've finished this current playthrough
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Post by azarhal on Sept 21, 2020 0:46:54 GMT
I'm also currently pondering a bit about the identity of my Hawke...wondering whether to switch my canon Hawke out for a rogue or keep her as a mage I love dual wield rogue in DA2, but also like being a mage...plus with Sebastian it'd mean having a rogue overdose in my party...then again in Origins you have a warrior overdose (Shale, Oghren, Alistair/Loghain and Sten...plus Dog if you count him as well)
I guess I could also go with warrior, but I don't really like how they play in the Dragon Age games ah well, I'll decide on that once I've finished this current playthrough
Advice: play what you like ------------------ So what could go wrong in the Fade? First, Anders wasn't Anders but his body-sharing friend Justice. At least, he was already a spirit so that means no risk of him turning against the main goal: saving the boy. Second, there was a Sloth demon around. Arys guessed being a demon of laziness cames with laziness, he didn't put up much of a fight. Third, Isabela likes big boat. Arys just rolled her eyes. Fourth, Merrill was easily convinced by a Pride demon. Way too easily. Arys would have to talk about it with her after. Hawke managed to get Feynriel to get out of his dream after talking to him a bit without demon interference. He decided to run off to Tevinter to learn to control his power. His mother was a bit distressed about it but the Keeper approved. Arys got an old Dalish book as a reward, it was indiscriminately pawned. It was worth a lot. After, she had some chit-chat with Isabela and Merrill over the whole thing. She forgave both, it was entertaining, but warned Merrill about the blood-magic. The Elf said she would more careful from now on. Hopefully she was being honest there. The next day, they went to the Chantry, Sebastian Vael requested some more help. Looks like he found who killed his family and wanted to "ask them why". Arys was a bit "why me again?", but accepted the job. More money, you know. Also, prince money. Could be useful one day. In Hight Town, Hawke was also accosted by an older dwarf. He was angry at her and Arys had no idea why. Apparently, his sons decided to go find the old thaig they discovered 3 years ago. That was sure to not end well. Arys told the old man she would find his boys. She also picked up a few other jobs around town: some things to help apostates, finding more exotic ingredients for the Herbalist and finding who killed a Qunari squad as Arys was being blamed for their death. And she still had to talk to the Arishok too.
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Post by Buckeldemon on Sept 21, 2020 2:34:39 GMT
1) Area cleared, letters for Cullen collected and Sahrnia people rescued, it was time to hit the Keep. Giants. With boulders. Ugh 2) What Pride Had Wrought. There are a lot of things Morrigan says during that quest that irks me, but her calling Temple elves "creatures" is probably the worst offender That's why I usually bring Solas along, just so there's someone, anyone, arguing with her. Anyway, didn't miss Fiona this time. It's hilariously obvious they stuck her head on human female body. 1) I hate that point. It is right up there with the boss crystal in Sha-Brytol land and Saarath. Once the random bug generator of DAI just made one of the oafs flip up in the air and disappear. I never found it again. Yes, Arisho(n)k, I was grateful. 2)... and I should be grateful not to remember that line (or the translators just changing it). *Morrigan's "mighty whitey" level just increased by 1*
I did not remember that abomination wearing Fiona's head from my playthroughs, but saw it on the web recently. Ugh. Could just have kept her ugly circle robe instead. I hated that robe ever since Bethany had to wear it, but still better than this. I wonder why it never got patched, but then there was this one crossover of female (?) dwarf and human male in EdL who observes the red lyrium growth.
Thomas said that it'd be great to go just one week without meeting a crazy mage. Huon proceeded to prove Hawke's point by ranting about the power in his wife's elven blood: power she'd been afraid to use. That line always kinda struck me as a bit dumb for mage Hawke, but then I realised that purpleHawke would qualify themselves anyway, so no rest from "crazy". 2) just some minor coin, and got a Surveyor ring from a templar (which I gave to Leliana) I've yet to pickpocket the revered mother...I mean, I plan on lockpicking Sten's cage so no real use talking to her anyway I do think I'll spare Ser Bryant from pickpocketing as well though...he seems like a nice templar (plus he also seems like one of the smarter ones)
2) Ah, bummer. She must be hiding all the donations she's asking for somewhere else. I never got that ring anywhere except via console. The wiki says it is supposed to be on the bandit leader at the Highway. Never dropped for me. Random madness.
I cannot really say anything about DA2 (you know what I think of teleporting knife-nuts ), but if you want to exchange daggers for weapons which look like other melee weapons but are still daggers gameplay-wise (a.k.a. Arishok style), I could make some of these. It is just a quick model ID switch.
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Post by melbella on Sept 21, 2020 3:31:58 GMT
Finally met up with Bianca in the creepy cave. She must have been waiting there for a month at least, maybe longer. Sent Lord Woolsley back home to One Eyed Jimmy Made an appearance at the wedding of Celeste and Jacin. Madame Matchmaker greatly disapproved.
Took Cass to hunt down 2 more of her targets. The only one left is way out in the Western Approach. Not sure who he's going to harm out there....might just leave him to the beasties.
Explored Din'an Hanin and took the account of Red Crossing to Keeper Hawen.
Tracked down Blackwall in Val Royeaux, who turned out to not be Blackwall at all but a (former) Capt. Thom Rainier. Snuck him out of prison and sentenced him to join the Wardens once Coryface is dead.
Met Leliana in Valence. Triggered the first stage of future murder pope. Ah, poor Natalie. Lukas was a little bloodthirsty himself on this mission.
On the WT: sent Sebastian running back to Starkhaven.
Next up will probably be Arbor Wilds. I haven't decided if Lukas will drink the well or not. So far only my elven mages have done so but he might get it in his head that ancient elfy magic could be useful.
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Post by Sokemis on Sept 21, 2020 3:35:32 GMT
I'm also currently pondering a bit about the identity of my Hawke...wondering whether to switch my canon Hawke out for a rogue or keep her as a mage I love dual wield rogue in DA2, but also like being a mage...plus with Sebastian it'd mean having a rogue overdose in my party...then again in Origins you have a warrior overdose (Shale, Oghren, Alistair/Loghain and Sten...plus Dog if you count him as well)
I guess I could also go with warrior, but I don't really like how they play in the Dragon Age games ah well, I'll decide on that once I've finished this current playthrough
Advice: play what you like If all else fails, and you still can't decide if rogue or mage fits that Hawke better: ask yourself then who fits that Hawke's storyline better, Bethany or Carver?
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 21, 2020 6:00:51 GMT
2)... and I should be grateful not to remember that line (or the translators just changing it). *Morrigan's "mighty whitey" level just increased by 1* The exact line is: "Perhaps these creatures are the reason few return from the Arbor Wilds", after first encounter with Temple elves It's dwarf female with dwarf male's head stuck on her, but yep, still there. At least in that case we can blame it on red lyrium.
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