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Post by Catilina on Sept 17, 2018 23:38:46 GMT
I hardened Alistair. And saved some blood mages' family.
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Post by Sokemis on Sept 17, 2018 23:51:11 GMT
I heard Sebastian's infamous "Maker no! Elthina no!" for the first time. People think it is funny, but I rather found it annoying. Like Anora annoying. I agree about Sebastian, but why Anora's annoying? I don't know if it's what Iddy is referring to, but Anora's final battle speech made me want to desert....
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Post by Catilina on Sept 17, 2018 23:52:33 GMT
I agree about Sebastian, but why Anora's annoying? I don't know if it's what Iddy is referring to, but Anora's final battle speech made me want to desert.... I can't remember on that. Mostly Alistair is the King in my worlds. Only one exception.
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Post by dazk on Sept 18, 2018 1:27:05 GMT
I agree about Sebastian, but why Anora's annoying? I don't know if it's what Iddy is referring to, but Anora's final battle speech made me want to desert.... I do remember that being a bit cringe worthy!!!!! Doesn't she interrupt Alistair if they are getting married?
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Post by riverdaleswhiteflash on Sept 18, 2018 10:47:41 GMT
In my last post I said that Weeper and Belwether had done all of the stories on the War Table and just used it to collect resources, but... shortly after posting it I discovered that neither of them had done "The Arcanist and the Fade." Which of course meant that neither of them had done "Mind Your Mentor."
So I completed Mind Your Mentor as all three of my Inquisitors today.
Edit: And I also realized that Belwether had never found Tyrdda Bright-"Axe's" not-at-all-an-axe, either. Josephine's putting together a coalition of lesser nobles to hunt for it. (Saar'Kata has Josephine doing the same thing. I think Weeper's already found it, partially because I found the last landmark for Saar'Kata by looking on Weeper's Quest Map.)
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Post by Iddy on Sept 18, 2018 14:18:38 GMT
Reading The Stolen Throne, also known as "Babysitting the king".
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 17:37:54 GMT
YAAAAAAAAS!!! Who killed Harvester Nightmare mode? I killed Harvester Nightmare mode. The Grim Reaper Achievement is mine! And I only needed a year.
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Post by Finvola on Sept 18, 2018 18:27:53 GMT
Congratulations! That was the very last DAO achievement I had to get and man, it wasn't easy! I don't recall how many days/hours/reloads it took when I finally did it, but it was a lot.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2018 20:08:27 GMT
Congratulations! That was the very last DAO achievement I had to get and man, it wasn't easy! I don't recall how many days/hours/reloads it took when I finally did it, but it was a lot.
Thank you so much.
My first attempt was complete failure. Prior to doing GoA, I tried all the other sequels, which are actually easier than the main game. I thought this one would be too, so, not only did I not load my DAO warden, but I've created a pure healer mage (nope no arcane spec) of Orlesian origins since I haven't tried Orlesian one before. Although I was playing on normal, it was horrible to even reach the Harvester room never mind the Harvester himself. That room with 6 golems that use hurl every minute must have killed me twenty times. Then I finally reached the boss. I didn't know the blasted creature had two lives either. After a billion attempts, I made it to stage 2 and then got buried by 6 skeletons spawning with it. Gave up at that point.
When I thought about loading my DAO Warden and trying to do Harv, I felt extremely lazy about going through all those super hard rooms prior to the boss again. My second attempt must have been about half a year later if not more. It was with Arcane warrior. I've intentionally bought every single book available in game, even fed Connor to the demon to get more power, and built her for a super hard fight. Plus engaged in pain in the rear Awakening crafting (haven't encountered a worse craft system in any other game) to forge paragon runes for her. I tried normal mode again and she sliced through all rooms without me getting frustrated. The fight with Harvester lasted a while, but she took him out (can't remember if it was 1st or 2nd attempt). I was like omg arc war is a beast. I also screwed up in the maze and my already useless golem didn't have group heal so lol. My Arcane is spirit healer hybrid though so I got around that bit, but still doh.
Anyway, I got encouraged by beating him relatively untroubled and cranked it up to nightmare only to have Harvy spawn 6 broodmotherfokin' ORANGE skeletons in one go. Got buried under the pile of bones. Also, Arcane Warrior for all their worth doesn't dish strong enough damage and she does take a long time per fight to get it done. With Harvester the longer you spend hitting it, the more skells he'll have time to summon and with a higher rank each time. Anyway, the Harvester pwned me on nightmare lots and I had to wait a few more months with another go.
Since I figured Harvy needs to get stabbed fast before he summons a horde of skells, and wardens needs high survival, I went in with dual wield warrior. Chopped through all the rooms like salad and then pounced on Harvester. She's fast dd, but not fast enough. Got killed A LOT again and every time at stage 2. Then for some reason switched back to trying with my Arcane Warrior.
I get to slap my head and go doh because after spending 15 years playing mmprg I've neglected the simplest kite on your tank trick. Well, I had tried that before, except I had the tank wrong. I was tanking with my warden and I should have just respecced Jarik as archer and equipped staff on warden for range damage. Then used bronto to kite and heal him with my warden when she wasn't doing the damage. Didn't have to change my warden for this fight either, which is a lot of work. Kept her with build she used during the Awakening and the whole game.
That fight is 80% luck though. I got lucky that he only summoned one orange skell. Then the switch appeared a second before stage two, so I wiped all the skells. My whole party was alive at this point. Then Harvester got gang banged before he could pull more skells out of his butt.
Once again this specific strategy got it done in 1 try. Though at some point I thought I was fooked because bronto died in stage 1 mid fight and it was chaotic moment where lots of summoned skells returned from various directions. Luckily they left Jarrik alone (or what's his name) to let him re-summon and went after my arcane warrior. Then the switch appeared.
Anyway, omgbbq. This is a really hard fight. Woooho about getting it done.
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Post by MarilynRobert on Sept 18, 2018 20:59:44 GMT
Didn't really do anything new, just figuring out what I had done up to the point of my last hard save after last weekends mix up, and uploading the screen caps from it... Broke up a fight between the Dalish and some Templars. Charming lady that Templar. Luckily the hunters in the clan get sarcasm and didn't call my bluff when I talked the templars into leaving. <iframe width="22.22" height="22.2" id="MoatPxIOPT0_10722140" scrolling="no" style="border-style: none; left: 91px; top: 66px; width: 22.22px; height: 22.2px; position: absolute; z-index: -9999;"></iframe> <iframe width="22.22" height="22.2" id="MoatPxIOPT0_31528207" scrolling="no" style="border-style: none; left: 1128px; top: 66px; width: 22.22px; height: 22.2px; position: absolute; z-index: -9999;"></iframe> <iframe width="22.22" height="22.2" id="MoatPxIOPT0_25290388" scrolling="no" style="border-style: none; left: 91px; top: 1105px; width: 22.22px; height: 22.2px; position: absolute; z-index: -9999;"></iframe> <iframe width="22.22" height="22.2" id="MoatPxIOPT0_73899998" scrolling="no" style="border-style: none; left: 1128px; top: 1105px; width: 22.22px; height: 22.2px; position: absolute; z-index: -9999;"></iframe> Visited the Fade to save Feynriel, got betrayed by some friends - but it's okay they apologized later. (I did this quest while Fenris' story about the Fog Warriors was still fresh in my brain. I think Fenris betraying you, and his thoughts on it, gives more insight into another part of why he leaves after "A Bitter Pill" - he's not only worried about Danarius hurting Hawke to get to him, but he's worried about he himself hurting Hawke). Who needs a desire demon when you have Sexy Torpor? I'm already regretting this.... Yes I realize that Fenris and Merrill can't both get tempted (and the Fenris is tempted by the pride demon) - but I had somehow ended up going into the Fade twice, and must have deleted Isabella and Aveline's screencaps. So for the sake of story and images I stuck Fenris with the desire demon (he's one that I think would have made sense with either demon actually). {Oh, and piece of advice: don't take either of your warriors into the Fade unless you (a) like reloading fights or ( plan on disarming them of weapons and jewelry before the fight. Aveline and Fenris both kicked my ass a few times before I beat them >.<} Did Blackpowder Curtesy, managed to keep at least the entire city from being poisoned. Reported back to the Viscount, of course as soon as one problem is solved, another pops up. Turns out a delegation of Qunari has gone missing, and of course he wants me to help find them. While we were at the Keep, went to talk to Aveline and somehow got involved in her (attempt at a) love life. Ended up agreeing to get Donnic to go to the Hanged Man tonight to she could talk with him. I love how not even Merrill had to think twice about the answer to that question, lol We have met, haven't we I think poor Aveline has been out of the dating game a little too long Highly suggest taking Isabella along when starting this quest I love Aveline and Isabella's relationship - they are more like sisters than either of them would ever admit. As much as they may go at each other, I have no doubt they would each take down anyone that tried to hurt the other Met up at the Hanged Man, was ready to kill Aveline after that awkward drink with Donnic, but she made up for it by entertaining us by threatening the Guardsman responsible for letting the Qunari delegation get kidnapped. Also found out Varric's brother is back in town... Varric and I took Fenris and Sebastian with us when we went to visit Bartrand (Fenris wanted to "catch up" as well), then to check out this Dupuis character for Emeric. {After poking around in everyone else's mansions, I'm very disappointed in how little of the Hawke-Amell estate we actually get to explore } I felt a little like an ass giving Fenris a book as a gift, didn't even think about the fact that he may have never learned to read. At least he was gracious about it and accepted when I offered to teach him. I guess this means we'll get to spend more downtime together And some random images: Okay guys, easy on the foreshadowing there.... Love these "home-wear" mods by Valesmod Do you want to tell her or shall I? At least she's smiling, so I guess she approves? And now I think I'm just going to leave poor Emeric's body in that Lowtown back alley until I'm actually ready to trigger "All That Remains" this time.... DA2 is my favorite game and this makes me want to play it again. I just love this gang of companions and all of Hawke's convo choices.
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Post by MarilynRobert on Sept 18, 2018 21:06:02 GMT
Ok so after a 3 days forced break due to RL, managed to play about 45 minutes of DAI yesterday. Karaas created more armour and now everyone that I have recruited has their own armour except for Solas who I like making look weird in some weird Griffon Mage Armour. Also created weapons for everyone except Vivienne cause she ain't going to get many opportunities to use it. snip Viv is my coat rack that never goes anywhere
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Post by Rascoth on Sept 18, 2018 21:51:05 GMT
YAAAAAAAAS!!! Who killed Harvester Nightmare mode? I killed Harvester Nightmare mode. The Grim Reaper Achievement is mine! And I only needed a year. Gz! The achievement I tackled last. It took a few tries, but it was worth it
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Post by dazk on Sept 18, 2018 22:18:22 GMT
Ok so after a 3 days forced break due to RL, managed to play about 45 minutes of DAI yesterday. Karaas created more armour and now everyone that I have recruited has their own armour except for Solas who I like making look weird in some weird Griffon Mage Armour. Also created weapons for everyone except Vivienne cause she ain't going to get many opportunities to use it. snip Viv is my coat rack that never goes anywhere
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Post by Catilina on Sept 18, 2018 23:41:02 GMT
Today just added some miscellaneous to Ralph Hawke's character sheet (still under construction)
(His "What did you today in DA" story)
9.41 Dragon – Herald Rest, Skyhold:
"Thin little boy with a puppy. They are coming! I'm not afraid. Never! Nevermore! I will not run away! I will not give him to you! You will not hurt him!" –
"Shut up!"
"I was a coward, COWARD! I ran, he suffered. ... COWARD!" –
"Shut the fucking up!"
"But. I'm. No. Longer. A COWARD! I'll face you! Just come here! ... Anger. Heat. Red. Take it! Heat. My hands are flaming! How? They're flaming! Screams! Gone. Peace. They will not hurt you anymore! I will not run anymore. I am strong." –
"It was an accident..."
"I know... Mother cries. Why are you crying? Try to hug her. She turns away. Her face... sad. Cold." –
"She blamed me..."
"As always, yes? Father coming. Angry? No... It's... different... I don't understand. I did nothing wrong... they wanted to hurt him! Again! I couldn't... let... them! Tears. I don't cry! I..." –
"What do you want, spirit?"
"I want to help... it still hurt you. You're not coward. Not murderer. They're gone... but..."
"Yes, not my fault. Nothing's my fault. Now leave me, I want to drink my beer. ALONE!" ... "Spirit! Cole! Wait..." ... Fuck..."
His jug has been emptied. „One more... or two!” yelled.
***
Memories drifted into his brain. Again.
9.13 – A farm, near to Redcliffe, Ferelden
It's been a long time since. He didn't tell anyone. Sometimes they caught him, beaten him, took away his coins – it was not so hard. They were two, and much stronger than him. They threatened him, they'll catch his mabari. He once saw what they did to a cat. And he ran away and hid when he saw them. And he felt deep shame.
He did not want his father to see his fear, so just went to "play" as usual, but avoided the place where he met them. He felt like a coward. He was sitting under a tree and the puppy ran around him. He fell asleep and dreamed. In his dream, he was big and strong – like the heroes, in Mother's tales. They begged for their lives...
Suddenly he woke up and saw them – his dog in their hands, disgusting smile on their face. He was terribly afraid but stood up. He can't let again! He must face them! Suddenly he felt like in his dream. He felt, he to have grown. His eyes were feverish, his hands flared up. He stepped toward them, no longer felt fear.
The guys stopped, the dog was released, jumped down, and looking for shelter at his feet. "You will not hurt anymore! You will not hurt anyone anymore!", hissed. His fury exploded, burning the guys. They burned like a torch, their scream was terrible. Then everything suddenly became silent. It's over. He was strong. Invincible. Like in his dream!
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Mother and Father approached.
"You see, I'm strong, can protect myself!" He ran to her, and tried to hug her – but Mother turned around. "Mom, why do you cry? No problem...", It was something he had not seen before in her eyes. Fear. Coldness.
"I've defended ourselves", he explained to Father. But Malcolm was not proud. And he was not angry. That was different. It was sad.
"Do not be angry! I did..." A tear rolled over his face. No. He's not crying. He's strong.
"Come on, boy, we'll go home. Everything will be okay", Father said. But his stomach clenched. And he didn't know, why.
"What happened to me?"
"Do not be afraid! You are a mage just like me."
"But you do not live in the Tower you live with us ... I know, the mages live in the Tower. Are you a Mali...ficiarum?", whispered. "You did not hurt anyone! Am I a Malificiarum?", shuddered.
"I'm not a Maleficarum, you either. You're my son and a mage. Where did you hear that word?
"When we were in Chantry. An old woman said. It sounded bad. I was glad I'm not ... like that... But you did not do that like me... your hand never flared."
"You shouldn't do it either. You have to learn to hide it. You're my smart son. You know what they say about those who have the Gift."
"But what kind of Gift is this, if I can not use it?" He asked disappointedly.
"You can use it. I'll teach you how. But you have to learn not to use it. You have to learn to defend yourself without it. You do not want it to happen again. "
"No," he said and lowered his head. He was not entirely honest.
The next day they collected their belongings and moved away.
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Post by Iddy on Sept 19, 2018 11:53:05 GMT
I'm reading the Stolen Throne and I must say, I absolutely hate love triangles.
In most of them the person in the middle has a clear preference for one of the candidates, so it is nothing but fake drama. Even when there isn't a preference, I don't think it is right to keep playing with their feelings. If you don't know what you want, STAY AWAY from both of them until you make up your mind.
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Post by Sokemis on Sept 20, 2018 2:04:42 GMT
Needed to get out of the city to clear my head a little. Merrill asked me to go with her to retrieve an artifact from her clan to help fix her creepy, possibly possessed mirror. Sounded like as good an excuse as any, so grabbed Isabela and Sebastian and headed up Sundermount. I may not approve of Merrill's use of blood magic, but I know she would never use it to hurt anyone (okay, maybe some of the gangs - but in all fairness they were trying to kill us first), so I gave her the Arulin'Holm. Sebastian greatly disapproved. Oh darn..... Oh and I also fought a dragon. In hindsight I probably should have gone back down the mountain as soon as I ran into the first dragonlings. {Nobody ever accused Hawke of making good/rational choices when upset}. Ended up getting the side of my face and hair burned - guess that's what I get for taking on a dragon with three rogues and a mage... oops... Anders was able to heal the burns without any scars, but couldn't save the charred hair. Isabela helped give me a new haircut until it grows back in. Mother accused me of fighting a dragon and having to shave my hair just to avoid meeting the young men at the De Launcet's party tonight. "Yes mother, I let myself get charbroiled just to avoid some stuffy party" . Wait, that does sound like something I would do. Dropped Merrill off at home with the her Dalish tool thingy and her mirror. Picked Varric up from the Hanged Man on the way back to Hightown to head out with Aveline on her patrol with Donnic (hopefully this one goes better than last time). Dropped Sebastian off at the chantry on the way and had a nice little chat with Sister Mother Petrice about the missing qunari. why am I not surprised to find out she was involved. Aveline agreed to go with Isabela, Anders, and I tonight to "talk" with Varnell. After this afternoon's patrol she owes me. Asked Fenris to come along when meeting with the Arishok, well actually I chickened out and had Varric ask him for me. Was still a little awkward, but he knows the Qunari better than any of us and to be honest I feel safer going into the compound knowing he has my back. Especially with how upset the Arishok is bound to be. .... Well that better than I thought it would. I don't know if I should be happy or worried that he took the news about his envoy as well and calmly as he did... And a couple random pics: Me too Aveline, me too.
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Post by dazk on Sept 20, 2018 4:28:47 GMT
So I have decided after much wasted time to stop playing DAI. I got a new PC and after installing and reinstalling DAI 6 times for various reasons including my own stupidity I now cannot get the mods I was using working. When I set the PC up it automatically installed all the files on onedrive because I used my email address attached to my Microsoft account. It took me much time and much ranting to figure that out and this caused me problems with DAI and MEA because the game was looking for files in C:\Documents\User but there were no such files on the C drive they were all on onedrive. Set up a new account on the PC and sorted that issue out but encountered other issues that over the past two days I had been working through and solved. Then all of today and most of yesterday I have been trying to get the mods working with Frosty Mod Manager. The process is so simple it is infuriating that it won't work, especially as to start with just like MEA all I did was copy the folders across from my old PC and FMM for MEA works fine. With DAI I have now tried 4 different .RAR exctractors as that was the only thing I could think would be the problem because the folder names when extracted had % signs all through them. Alas none have worked and I just keep getting the same error from FMM saying the Mod is from an older patch version or some such rubbish which it isn't it is exactly the same file I imported previously and that worked. FMM launches and DAI runs in the background but it doesn't launch. So just to top my frustration off after deciding to go back and finish my partly completed MEA game my speakers decided to die. I thought it was something to do with the new PC so got a guy to come look at it and paid him $140 to tell me the speakers had died. He was very nice and fixed some other stuff up though so not a total loss. I am now waiting for my online order for new speakers to process and hopefully I'll have them tomorrow but no gaming as it just so weird trying to play with just sound from the monitor!!!!! Anyway sorry for the long whinge but I needed to vent and also hope someone else may have experienced a similar problem and have a solution.
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Dragon Age Keep, keeps crumbling even more over the years. Just tried making a new world template with my latest warden and the warden isn't available at the keep. New DA2 Hawke wasn't in either, but I've logged out and logged back in, which made him appear about an hour later. No such luck with Origins. I have all the older wardens, but this one is a no show. Also, can't connect to my player account from the game, it leads to some broken page.
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Post by wickedcool on Sept 20, 2018 15:12:10 GMT
Started tinkering with trials for dai in my existing mage playthrough. Loving it so much that I started a brand new rogue playthrough with same trials
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Post by Finvola on Sept 21, 2018 3:49:53 GMT
I am currently doing the Descent on Nightmare and the length of time it takes just to kill ordinary darkspawn (hurlocks, deepstalkers) makes me want to scream. I got to the part where you have to clear a massive amount of darkspawn in the warrens and Cass ended up getting stuck in a hole somewhere and everybody started to die because she was busy being stuck in a hole. I managed to get her out. I thought about reloading and I was like "Nah" because I had already spent a fair amount of time on the fight and I didn't want to start over again. When I got her out of the hole, I had her retreat to an area so I could revive all the downed party members in a safer place. Then Vivienne fell down the hole. I had to retreat again and I think it reset that area of darkspawn and I had to kill those groups again. Then for some reason I was unable to claim a desperately needed supply cache. I managed to get through it but I swear it probably took an hour to finish the fight. My head hurts, lol.
Cass in the hole:
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Post by Finvola on Sept 21, 2018 7:32:03 GMT
Just about finished up with Descent. The Titan fight didn't go nearly as disastrously as I had imagined, and I had also forgotten to bring lifeward amulets from storage in Skyhold. I only had to reload once! I have never done a nightmare run with daggers before so I wasn't sure how I was going to go about it. As I mentioned before, I was away from DAI for about 18 months until recently but I think I only did nightmare runs as a mage or archer, so I've only ever fought the Titan on this difficulty at range. Up close and personal made things a little more tricky. On the reload, it seemed like I got it down to half health pretty quickly but when I got to the stage where it was nearly finished off, things got pretty messy and everybody started to die. Viv was the only one standing and thankfully her one revival spell brought all 3 back to life and I was able to kill the Titan. One reload was much better than I had expected. I thought i was going to be at it for much longer than that. Now I'm going back to unlock areas and search for gears. When I tried to do it earlier, it ended up being a real pain in the ass because at that stage I had Renn and Valta in tow and they would either block my path or push me over the edge of the rocks to my death while I was trying to balance on a ledge to be able to jump down to collect gears. I got pretty sick and tired of them knocking me over the edge, so I figured I'd go back and do that once they were gone.
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Post by Iddy on Sept 21, 2018 10:59:59 GMT
When Janeka tells Hawke she wants to use and control Corypheus, Merrill says "If she can control him, I don't see the harm." It seems that stupid girl will never learn her lesson.
Now, I should have taken a picture of this because Merrill says that line with the creepiest fucking smile. It's really wide and the present subject is nothing to be jolly about. Moreover, there is almost no lighting in that place which made Merrill's face look dark and even creepier.
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Post by fylimar on Sept 21, 2018 18:08:16 GMT
I'm reading the Stolen Throne and I must say, I absolutely hate love triangles. In most of them the person in the middle has a clear preference for one of the candidates, so it is nothing but fake drama. Even when there isn't a preference, I don't think it is right to keep playing with their feelings. If you don't know what you want, STAY AWAY from both of them until you make up your mind. I hate love triangles too and somehow writers, screenplay writers and game developers seem to love to throw them at us in every turn. The worst lt I remember was Lost - Jack, Sawyer and Whatshername. I love Lost, but I nearly stopped watching in the first season,
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Post by fylimar on Sept 21, 2018 18:13:07 GMT
Played Emily Hawke a bit more. She is trying to get Aveline and Donnic together, which is made harder by Avelines stupid behavior . Varric has a lead on his brother and Anders just needed to be stopped from killing a mage girl. He really needs a cat... Now Emily is investigating a missing Qunari entourage and of course the trail leads to Petrice again.
Talking to Varric
Oi, I can be very discret - promise Trouble in the Hanged Man again - Anders looks good in teh Admirals Coat (maybe he will get a ship before Isabella )
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 19:32:01 GMT
lol Found out today what happens to Sophia Dryden if your Warden lets her go. Your Hawke gets great satisfaction in killing her at the wounded coast where she's brainwashing thugs and turning them into abominations.
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