What did you do today in DA? [Spoilers]

My Hawke has now spent a year in Kirkwall smuggling things and wants in on Bertrand's expedition....because as Carver puts it, her Templars might start to ask questions.

"Need money. Send help."

Currentl yworking throug the Adamant mission atm just landed in the Fade s oabou tt owork through that now.

Didn't get much done of note at least in the normal play time but then was able to push on through.

Main objective for the day getting the specializations going. I decided to not do a lot of chatting with people at Skyhold but then talking with all the specialization masters, even if I know what I am going to go for, still counted.

With that done it was off to Crestwood in order to do Still Waters and start working on getting the first part of the stuff with the Specialization done.

Crestwood is another really nice area and Still Waters is actually a pretty descent multiple story objective and is quite a bit of a long winding road. Especially consider somehow I think I got a little lost...twice. First time somehow I fell down the hole in the world and sort of did a parachute drop right into the rage demon for the Command Spirit. Did a good deal of damage but I was able to solve the spirit issue with little to no real problem. Then I somehow got turned around in my map, like for some reason the objective marker wasn't on the mini map anymore so I had to stumble around blindly for a hot minute. Stumbled onto the idea that maybe the spirits that I saw down there were leading me to the destination so I followed them out and up again...back to the beginning of the map. Then after rereading the map I decided to do a parachute drop back down and that put me almost right where I wanted to be. Then got lost again trying to get out of the cave so I decided to go back the way I came, so I missed the really cool sequence where you come out of the cave into the dawn and deal with the rift. I naturally just realized I dealt with that rift later. After that I swept through and got all three of the weapon tokens I need for the Murder Knife.

One of the interesting side effects of how I play this game is I take the 'A' Team out to new areas each time and the main story missions, thinking of dropping the system for Veilguard but we'll see. Anyways though since I have been going to a lot of new areas recently that has left me with taking out the A team a lot of time. Just after the impkication of it being a day decided to swap out the party, at least mostly. Got Cole in for the first time ever and Blackwall for the first time in a while. So was able to get them levelled up and continuing to muse on how to continue to build them and build them via crafting because they also have their specializations up. Continuing to level Dorian through the storm tree, for instance.

On that note to bit annoyed to this point I hadn't gotten any FTMs and maybe a little worried. Well I got three. Walking Fortress, less mana/ stamina on cast, and something else that I think might have been a little on the worthless side. Oh yeah half a chance to revive on dying. Maybe something for Bull honestly. Still gotta decide. Mana/ Stamina seemed obvious, that went to Dorian. Was going to put Walking Fortress on Blackwall but then occured to me that he already had in the Champion Spec...so went into it to see what it was about for him and decided it wasn't worth double dipping on him but it would make a nice little upgrade for Cassandra. So Cass is getting new armor soon.

Kind of been forgetting to talk about the War Table Adventures. Ah yes it was the Serpent of Nevarra. And given things Cullen and Leiliana was very risky and very blood thirsty, so since I already had Josephine on a mission...she just wanted to warn the King about the threat...I decided to leave it there.

Wow that got me motivated!!!! 

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Hawke has a new little sister: Merrill.

We also continued to play guard duty. Dealt with a serial killer. Have Tal-Vashoth added to the list and we still haven't been to night patrol yet.

Some mercenary work also turned into part ownership of a mine. Hawke is now a businesswoman too.

My quest log has grown a lot.

First up...well I guess the next part of the mood has bitten me officially. Which is a bit hard for me to justify and do...but thinking about my pre Veilguard 'origin story' and actually commiting it to paper as a full on story. Now the hem and haw is still kind of working on multiple writing projects, past, rpresent, and future, which also makes it hard because I get into a death spiral where I am doing a lot of writing but not a lot of...actually working on getting stuff published. But the mood has bit me and I have lost some steam on one of the future projects. Part of the thing to is I have basically decided to cut out the pre story and then the post story...obviously Oliver isn't going to go off and join the Crows now and just stay in Tevinter, so to save some space and time, also going to cut out him being a soldier. So the story starts with him getting back to Minrathous. Thinking of if I get it that hard posting links here or in the hype thread, so hopefully I am not blowing stuff out my own butt too much and who knows if I will even maintain momentum on this.

Anywhoo I went around to the Western Approach and picked up the Deathroot I needed to get the Assassin spec all finished up...which I did. So Kara is now an Assassin. Odd thing happened the first rift in the Western Approach also bugged out on me and wouldn't actually spawn any demons. So that happened. Also got a lot more crafting matts gathered for the future things I will be doing soon.

On the companion front actually feeling weirdly overwhelemed in this regard...but talked with Varric about Cassandra. Talked with Cullen about his Lyrium adiction. And thus the game begins of trying to time the Dorian-Cullen-Kara romance triangle.

Really like the Assasin tree. Makes it worth it for Mark of Death but was reading through the passives and do have to remember things. Also thought subterfuge had auto crit on stealth but seems it is just armor penetration...either way though. ANd the Focus ability is worthless so won't have to waste a point on it.

Due to the Lady of the Woods showing more skin than other characters in the game, I won't be able to post those images. It sucks since a few of them show the dialogue I chose

How to kill an unconscious elf. excellent


Isn't that cute. An elf turned to a furry. Death will fix that


Get a load of this guy. Too much crazy here. I will heal your craziness by killing you.


A tree talks. Impressive.


GO AHEAD> MAKE MY DAY!!!!!


My leg. SOMEONE HELP ME. I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE. I WANT MY MOMMY


I meet the leader of the furries, Lady of the Woods. I like her. She has the same color as me except not as green. Let's go kill the elves

Hey melbella I see you are still using imgur, I swapped to post images a while back after all the terrible changes to imgur and I can wholly recommend it now that I am used to the change.

It is far easier to upload and post and the site is far faster. I am not usually one to recommend stuff like this but worth giving a try if you want to.

I tried to play DAO, after 10+ attempts where the game failed at launch went back to an older save losing almost an hour of gameplay. Got to Denerim for the first time did about 30 minutes of stuff and the game crashed again going in a door FFS.

Game would not launch again so I am giving up, I had no problems playing two times in a row I think earlier this year but maybe late last year.

Am downloading DA2, will see how that goes.