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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 19, 2019 19:39:54 GMT
So I've finally made my new Hawke's appearance, yay
here are a few screenshots of her glaring down templars and with bro Carver Her name is Ailith (like my previous Hawke), she's a mage (obviously, 'cause else we wouldn't have baby Carver ) I'll be going with Force Mage as her specialization
So far Ailith has arrived in Kirkwall and made a few new friends, among who Aveline and Varric she's also met with Isabela (I use the Isabela ASAP mod to get her scene to trigger as soon as you enter the Hanged Man for the first time, instead of after Anders' recruitment quest), and promised to help her with a little problem she has
I've also made a start for Carver's companion quest Birthright, and Aveline's companion quest as well...oh and took out the first group for Sebastian's quest as well
at present I've arrived at Sundermount, where we'll be recruiting Merrill, after that I'll be heading back to Kirkwall, get the second part of Aveline's quest, then go into night mode and take out some gangs, and perhaps also finish Isabela's recruitment quest.
Tomorrow I think we'll head over to Darktown to finish Carver's companion quest, as well as recruit Anders and Fenris
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Post by Catilina on Jun 19, 2019 19:44:55 GMT
So I've finally made my new Hawke's appearance, yay
here are a few screenshots of her glaring down templars and with bro Carver Her name is Ailith (like my previous Hawke), she's a mage (obviously, 'cause else we wouldn't have baby Carver ) I'll be going with Force Mage as her specialization
So far Ailith has arrived in Kirkwall and made a few new friends, among who Aveline and Varric she's also met with Isabela (I use the Isabela ASAP mod to get her scene to trigger as soon as you enter the Hanged Man for the first time, instead of after Anders' recruitment quest), and promised to help her with a little problem she has
I've also made a start for Carver's companion quest Birthright, and Aveline's companion quest as well...oh and took out the first group for Sebastian's quest as well
at present I've arrived at Sundermount, where we'll be recruiting Merrill, after that I'll be heading back to Kirkwall, get the second part of Aveline's quest, then go into night mode and take out some gangs, and perhaps also finish Isabela's recruitment quest.
Tomorrow I think we'll head over to Darktown to finish Carver's companion quest, as well as recruit Anders and Fenris She's good looking and original. Her personality?
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 19, 2019 19:58:05 GMT
She's good looking and original. Her personality? thank you
She has the Diplomatic personality
though she sometimes slips into purple and red as well, I personally think a character shouldn't stick to one tone all the time, having different reactions to certain situations is more interesting imo.
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Post by Catilina on Jun 19, 2019 20:21:17 GMT
She's good looking and original. Her personality? thank you
She has the Diplomatic personality
though she sometimes slips into purple and red as well, I personally think a character shouldn't stick to one tone all the time, having different reactions to certain situations is more interesting imo. I always felt, it not really lifelike/believable, if Hawke reacts similarly to everything. My Hawke's have one main-personality, but they react differently, depends on what happened, or whom... My red!Hawke can be soft, and my purple!Hawke not really fun, not always...
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 19, 2019 20:46:09 GMT
thank you
She has the Diplomatic personality
though she sometimes slips into purple and red as well, I personally think a character shouldn't stick to one tone all the time, having different reactions to certain situations is more interesting imo. I always felt, it not really lifelike/believable, if Hawke reacts similarly to everything. My Hawke's have one main-personality, but they react differently, depends on what happened, or whom... My red!Hawke can be soft, and my purple!Hawke not really fun, not always... real people don't react to all situations in the same way either, so I tend to put that in my characters as well
sometimes certain lines for Hawke sound even better in certain colors, for example when Stroud recruits Carver in the Deep Roads if using the purple line when Stroud makes a comment about 'not recruiting out of pity', Hawke says something along the lines of 'no pity required, and Carver happens to be an excellent swordsman, you'd be a fool not to recruit him' I like that sort of thing
Narah (my Warden) was generally very respectful to people, but could be easily triggered when people made certain claims or comments...or if they were being idiots (like Alistair in the Fade...she tried saving his ass and he preferred hanging with his 'sister'...I mean, really? )
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Post by Catilina on Jun 19, 2019 20:53:25 GMT
I always felt, it not really lifelike/believable, if Hawke reacts similarly to everything. My Hawke's have one main-personality, but they react differently, depends on what happened, or whom... My red!Hawke can be soft, and my purple!Hawke not really fun, not always... real people don't react to all situations in the same way either, so I tend to put that in my characters as well
sometimes certain lines for Hawke sound even better in certain colors, for example when Stroud recruits Carver in the Deep Roads if using the purple line when Stroud makes a comment about 'not recruiting out of pity', Hawke says something along the lines of 'no pity required, and Carver happens to be an excellent swordsman, you'd be a fool not to recruit him' I like that sort of thing
Narah (my Warden) was generally very respectful to people, but could be easily triggered when people made certain claims or comments...or if they were being idiots (like Alistair in the Fade...she tried saving his ass and he preferred hanging with his 'sister'...I mean, really? ) Yes. One of my red!Hawke's soft moment (I love it): There are others too, but he's mostly red or purple rather.
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Post by Sokemis on Jun 19, 2019 23:00:24 GMT
I did see a really nice new mod some little while back that adds a custom and unique armor for Zevran link it's based on his artwork from the World of Thedas book How did I not see this armor Zev is so getting an armor upgrade some point this playthrough The nice thing about Hawke (and Cousland) is Mom's gray hair. I don't think it says anywhere what their hair colors were when they were younger, so you can always say Hawke/Cousland got their hair color from mom. (Also the genetics you already talked about above). Wow, no one is playing DA any more? I may stop for a bit after this game. I still play DA, just don't have much time lately to do more than a few minutes here and there. Therefore I haven't been posting until I get enough done to make it worth it.
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Post by House Targaryen on Jun 20, 2019 3:46:24 GMT
Wow, no one is playing DA any more? I may stop for a bit after this game. Don't know what I'll play next. Perhaps Skyrim, its been a while. *inconspicuous whistling while looking at previous post*
I'm currently playing the DA trilogy in tandem with the Mass Effect trilogy, alternating between the two once I finish a game (ME1 > DAO+A > ME2 > DA2...etc.)
though, I'm also working on installing Skyrim (and mods...trying to limit my mods...I have way to many) and at present of writing this, upgrading my Fallout 4 to include all dlc so I can use certain mods ('cause of course certain ones require all the dlc *sigh* )
any ideas yet what you'll play in Skyrim? (once I get the trilogies done I plan on starting up Skyrim myself...probably gonna play my canon Altmer (the irony of saving Nords with the one race they hate the most)
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Skyrim I'll have to check to see what mods are out there. Haven't played the game in at least over a year. Probably play as a Nord, one of the few times where I'll play as a human. The elves of the Elder Scrolls are ugly, graphic wise and I don't like the elves of that game world. Can't stand their my shit don't stink attitude.
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Post by House Targaryen on Jun 20, 2019 4:09:12 GMT
Started Trespasser. Getting close to having a 100 hours invested into this game. Takes forever to do the meet and greet, catching up on what everyone has been doing for the past two years. Going to get started with the Exalted Council. Really don't want the game to end. Make me a countess, Varric? What are you up to? Someone left their floating cheese wheel. I'm going to eat it! Married, Cassandra? Well, kinda, sorta did.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 20, 2019 5:39:26 GMT
Well before you posted it was almost a week since anyone other than me posted in this topic. Usually this topic is an everyday thing.
Skyrim I'll have to check to see what mods are out there. Haven't played the game in at least over a year. Probably play as a Nord, one of the few times where I'll play as a human. The elves of the Elder Scrolls are ugly, graphic wise and I don't like the elves of that game world. Can't stand their my shit don't stink attitude.
I was just teasing
you are right though, but I suspect it's mostly due to the weather (most people play less games when the weather is nice) I expect a swarm when either the weather turns foul or we get new information on DA4
yeah, I'm generally not a fan of the Elder Scrolls elves either, same as you with the graphics (that's why I install mods to make them look better) my 'canon' Dragonborn as I said, is an Altmer...but I made her the complete opposite of the race's stereotype, gave her heavy armor and a big sword, no magic aside from some potions for healing for the elves I tend to use this mod link it makes them a lot more pleasing to look at while still somewhat holding true to the original looks
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 20, 2019 5:44:22 GMT
I did see a really nice new mod some little while back that adds a custom and unique armor for Zevran link it's based on his artwork from the World of Thedas book How did I not see this armor Zev is so getting an armor upgrade some point this playthrough The nice thing about Hawke (and Cousland) is Mom's gray hair. I don't think it says anywhere what their hair colors were when they were younger, so you can always say Hawke/Cousland got their hair color from mom. (Also the genetics you already talked about above). Wow, no one is playing DA any more? I may stop for a bit after this game. I still play DA, just don't have much time lately to do more than a few minutes here and there. Therefore I haven't been posting until I get enough done to make it worth it. you're welcome
you're right about the gray hair, papa Cousland also has gray hair...but I suspect one of them at least has darker hair due to Fergus having dark colored hair as well (same with Oren) but sometimes it's still hard to think of something interesting character creation wise (which is why I sometimes prefer the Origins where you have no parents (Mahariel and Amell/Surana to name a few), it makes it easier to think of something
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Post by House Targaryen on Jun 20, 2019 16:13:10 GMT
Started the Exalted Council and found ourselves in far off elfy lands. These ungrateful sh!ts. This is making my head hurt. So it begins. I'm not going to screw around with the Qunari. I revamped my armor and staff. Pull of the Abyss and Veilstrike works wonders in disorganizing enemies to the point its hard for them to attack you when they are getting moved around or punched down. My party has neat abilities also for their equipment.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 20, 2019 19:50:50 GMT
So today Ailith got some more quests done recruited Isabela, Anders and Fenris...I had hoped to have recruited Isabela last night but I was to tired so we did that today I've also made the first start in Ailith's romance with Anders...I really want to give his romance a proper try, since his is the only one I haven't finished a game with (I've done playthroughs the others in the past, including Sebastian) though it does feel a bit odd since I've only romanced Fenris in the past, so I guess we'll see how far we'll get
Ailith also made some peace with Carver
I still wish he didn't start out which 50 points in rivalry though, almost makes it impossible to cap his friendship unless you play a pro-templar during Act 1 or use cheats
anyway, tomorrow I think we'll start with some main quests...likely Blackpowder Promise and Wayward Son...maybe some of the others as well still need to do the last part of Sebastian's quest as well (I'll need to head for the Wounded Coast for that)
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Post by Catilina on Jun 20, 2019 21:31:52 GMT
So today Ailith got some more quests done recruited Isabela, Anders and Fenris...I had hoped to have recruited Isabela last night but I was to tired so we did that today I've also made the first start in Ailith's romance with Anders...I really want to give his romance a proper try, since his is the only one I haven't finished a game with (I've done playthroughs the others in the past, including Sebastian) though it does feel a bit odd since I've only romanced Fenris in the past, so I guess we'll see how far we'll get Ailith also made some peace with Carver
I still wish he didn't start out which 50 points in rivalry though, almost makes it impossible to cap his friendship unless you play a pro-templar during Act 1 or use cheats <img text=" " alt=" " src="//storage.proboards.com/6576594/images/uJDSFxTaceXHJgvOKqTG.png"> anyway, tomorrow I think we'll start with some main quests...likely Blackpowder Promise and Wayward Son...maybe some of the others as well
still need to do the last part of Sebastian's quest as well (I'll need to head for the Wounded Coast for that)
Carver is very interesting. He tries to protect his sister/brother, not really pro-Templar. I didn't care abouthis friendship at the beginning, but he got more than I expected without any pro-Templar decision. And he become a Grey Warden. I loved that slowly they become friends. I didn't achieve the 100%, just at 40-50? But it was great still. I can imagine as a blue Hawke he can be disappointing, but with a red one, it was perfect. (I love the end scene with Warden Carver at the Gallows! I don't know, how much different the full friendship or the full rivalry.)
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Post by fylimar on Jun 21, 2019 8:35:05 GMT
I played Emily Hawke a bit more. She did get an invitation from Duke Prosper to attend a hunt and a banquet. She wasn't going to go, but then, an elf approached her and made her curious about, whta is going on. So off they did go on a hunting trip.
I managed to do the Skycult fight this time and after three or four trys, I managed to kill the Sky Horror and his cultists. A proud gaming moment.
IN DAO, my mage Miya is looking into disappearances in the alienage, which might have something to do with the Tevinter being there.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 21, 2019 9:23:22 GMT
Carver is very interesting. He tries to protect his sister/brother, not really pro-Templar. I didn't care abouthis friendship at the beginning, but he got more than I expected without any pro-Templar decision. And he become a Grey Warden. I loved that slowly they become friends. I didn't achieve the 100%, just at 40-50? But it was great still. I can imagine as a blue Hawke he can be disappointing, but with a red one, it was perfect. (I love the end scene with Warden Carver at the Gallows! I don't know, how much different the full friendship or the full rivalry.) I love the part after Fenris' recruitment quest where Carver goes instant protection mode when Fenris more or less threatens Hawke Carver: if you have a problem with my sister/brother, you have a problem with me
and I think I love the dynamic between a purple!Hawke and Carver the most , to quote Tv-Tropes Some of the characters are quite easy to gain friendship with, and I love Carver as a Grey Warden, he gets to be someone special and as he states 'step outside of your shadow' plus I think it makes Cassandra's comment make more sense if Carver is a Warden
Cassandra: so the champion's brother was a Grey Warden Varric: yes, but that's not the connection you're looking for Cassandra: isn't it? The involvement of the Wardens makes perfect sense ^ and given about what happens in Inquisition
I've only had Carver on full friendship once (by using cheats) to get his friendship party dialogues during the dlc's, but for some reason my banters somehow glitch for both siblings if I take Fenris as the third party member, because all party banters between him and the sibling somehow default to the rivalry ones thankfully Anders only has a few banters with the sibling during that dlc, and given how much Carver loves Anders their party banter makes sense regardless of friendship or rivalry
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Post by Catilina on Jun 21, 2019 9:50:56 GMT
Carver is very interesting. He tries to protect his sister/brother, not really pro-Templar. I didn't care abouthis friendship at the beginning, but he got more than I expected without any pro-Templar decision. And he become a Grey Warden. I loved that slowly they become friends. I didn't achieve the 100%, just at 40-50? But it was great still. I can imagine as a blue Hawke he can be disappointing, but with a red one, it was perfect. (I love the end scene with Warden Carver at the Gallows! I don't know, how much different the full friendship or the full rivalry.) I love the part after Fenris' recruitment quest where Carver goes instant protection mode when Fenris more or less threatens Hawke Carver: if you have a problem with my sister/brother, you have a problem with me
and I think I love the dynamic between a purple!Hawke and Carver the most , to quote Tv-Tropes Some of the characters are quite easy to gain friendship with, and I love Carver as a Grey Warden, he gets to be someone special and as he states 'step outside of your shadow' plus I think it makes Cassandra's comment make more sense if Carver is a Warden
Cassandra: so the champion's brother was a Grey Warden Varric: yes, but that's not the connection you're looking for Cassandra: isn't it? The involvement of the Wardens makes perfect sense ^ and given about what happens in Inquisition
I've only had Carver on full friendship once (by using cheats) to get his friendship party dialogues during the dlc's, but for some reason my banters somehow glitch for both siblings if I take Fenris as the third party member, because all party banters between him and the sibling somehow default to the rivalry ones thankfully Anders only has a few banters with the sibling during that dlc, and given how much Carver loves Anders their party banter makes sense regardless of friendship or rivalry That conversation with Fenris is great: shows, how he loves his sister/brother, despite their rivalry. Carver has many good line ( like when he recognizes, he sounds like Gamlen!). And when they speak with Templars, and Hawke too provocative, he says: "this is a blighted Templar!", and at Cullen: "great, more attention!" He wants to protect Hawke. Purple Hawke rather laugh at him (at least as he sees that), red Hawke doesn't care about his worries – but as I see s/he secretly appreciates that: they're similar (it's just my opinion, based on my red Hawke's feeling). Templar Carver hostile with Anders, Warden Carver not that hostile. Carver considers Anders a danger – and not without reason. The interesting point that everyone is a jerk toward Carver except Merrill and Anders. (Anders at least try to be nice toward him at first.)
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Post by House Targaryen on Jun 21, 2019 17:43:26 GMT
This is the party for the end. I usually take Cass at the end game, but decided to give her a rest this game. Scary elf is starting to go psychotic. Everyone who gets in her way to Solas will burn. Its funny watching the Qunari getting whipped around the screen from Pull of the Abyss or get flatten down from Veilstrike every time they hit me or I hit them.
I'll have to finish the big fighting in the elfy lands later when I get home from work
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Post by Sokemis on Jun 22, 2019 15:11:30 GMT
Our group made it to Redcliffe. As if the Arl being sick doesn't already put a kink in their plans, apparently there are undead to deal with before they can even see him. Oh, and Alistair is not only a bastard, but a royal bastard Alistair is not amused with Teagan's flirting with Lora. Sten is not amused with fighting undead instead of darkspawn. Naliea not amused with half the village. Naliea seems so much angrier than when I played her before. Maybe her character has evolved more in my mind and her anger/hate/resentment/fear (fear that often manifests as anger/bitchyness) has become more a part of who she is. Or maybe it's just the fact that this time around I'm not "playing for points", so I'm a little freer with how she acts. Probably a combo of the two. Hopefully the Circle (I like to think of the Fade as Naliea and Lora's "get-along shirt"), and Zev's increased influence (teaching her to take the good with the bad and focus more on the good) will help mellow her out a little. She'll probably always be my little angry ball of fluff, but she can afford to tone it down just a notch... Lora returned Jetta's husband's things to her, and Naliea promised to keep an eye out for a young boy that was missing. With two main people to talk with about fortifications for the village, our co-captains co-wardens decided to save time and split up the job. They agreed to meet at the tavern afterwards. Naliea took Zevran, Sten, Morrigan, and Cahir to go talk with the mayor; while Lora, Alistair, Leliana, and Moria went to see Ser Perth. Only been with the group a couple weeks and already protective of his Warden Also threatened a seasoned warrior into helping the militia fight. Sten approved, Morrigan was amused, and Zevran was a little turned on. (Seriously though - I think Naliea, Zevran, Sten, and Morrigan is my favorite Origins team ) Lora agreed with Leliana, but Alistair talked her into taking the amulets. (Upon further review, maybe it wasn't the most effective to have the ones in full armor traipsing up and down the hill all day...oops) Got the kid to come out of hiding, while Sten did. Say what you will about his methods - they are effective, lol. damn little kids might be the key to breaking down her walls after all. After Lora delivered the amulets to Ser Perth and Naliea and friends got some help for the milita, the group meets up at the tavern. Naliea, Zevran, and Leliana's instincts have them instantly zeroing in on a shifty looking elf at the corner table (with Naliea promptly picking his pocket). I can just imagine with those three on his case, poor Berwick didn't stand a chance. Since nobody has been able to successfully leave the village alive, told him he had two choices: he could either help defend the village, or he could stay in the chantry, with Teagan. " Of course we can't, in good conscious, not tell Teagan that someone potentially involved in poisoning his brother was staying in the chantry." Berwick decided it was safer to stay outside and fight undead. Lora, meanwhile, went to talk with some of the militia men to see if there was anything else they needed. To be fair, I'd want at least a few drinks before facing undead too... After talking with the barmaid Bella, Naliea went to talk to Lloyd. As you can expect the two got off to a great start. Hey, direct threats worked on the dwarf and veiled threats worked on the elf - let's see which works better on the shem Noticing the turn in the conversation, Lora came over to see what was going on. She may have taken a different approach, but she agreed with Naliea. (Is it just me, or is Lloyd one of those characters it's fun to threaten? ) I love how Bella is just like "Lloyd will hate it, let's do it!" All that's left now is to wait for sundown and the appearance of the undead. Randomness: This was the first time I took Zev to Redcliffe (usually I didn't have him yet) and he made a good point, that using the oil is a good idea as long as it actually kills the undead instead of just having undead still running around - but now while on fire. It made me think of the Walking Dead episode, "The Grove", with the charbroiled walkers and am now starting to second guess this whole "light our defenses on fire as a battle tactic" idea... lol. Luckily for them, Lora was the one to talk with Ser Perth in this worldstate, and she nixed the idea of using the oil.
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Post by House Targaryen on Jun 22, 2019 16:10:33 GMT
Our group made it to Redcliffe. As if the Arl being sick doesn't already put a kink in their plans, apparently there are undead to deal with before they can even see him. Oh, and Alistair is not only a bastard, but a royal bastard Alistair is not amused with Teagan's flirting with Lora. Sten is not amused with fighting undead instead of darkspawn. Naliea not amused with half the village. Naliea seems so much angrier than when I played her before. Maybe her character has evolved more in my mind and her anger/hate/resentment/fear (fear that often manifests as anger/bitchyness) has become more a part of who she is. Or maybe it's just the fact that this time around I'm not "playing for points", so I'm a little freer with how she acts. Probably a combo of the two. Hopefully the Circle (I like to think of the Fade as Naliea and Lora's "get-along shirt"), and Zev's increased influence (teaching her to take the good with the bad and focus more on the good) will help mellow her out a little. She'll probably always be my little angry ball of fluff, but she can afford to tone it down just a notch... Lora returned Jetta's husband's things to her, and Naliea promised to keep an eye out for a young boy that was missing. With two main people to talk with about fortifications for the village, our co-captains co-wardens decided to save time and split up the job. They agreed to meet at the tavern afterwards. Naliea took Zevran, Sten, Morrigan, and Cahir to go talk with the mayor; while Lora, Alistair, Leliana, and Moria went to see Ser Perth. Only been with the group a couple weeks and already protective of his Warden Also threatened a seasoned warrior into helping the militia fight. Sten approved, Morrigan was amused, and Zevran was a little turned on. (Seriously though - I think Naliea, Zevran, Sten, and Morrigan is my favorite Origins team ) Lora agreed with Leliana, but Alistair talked her into taking the amulets. (Upon further review, maybe it wasn't the most effective to have the ones in full armor traipsing up and down the hill all day...oops) Got the kid to come out of hiding, while Sten did. Say what you will about his methods - they are effective, lol. damn little kids might be the key to breaking down her walls after all. After Lora delivered the amulets to Ser Perth and Naliea and friends got some help for the milita, the group meets up at the tavern. Naliea, Zevran, and Leliana's instincts have them instantly zeroing in on a shifty looking elf at the corner table (with Naliea promptly picking his pocket). I can just imagine with those three on his case, poor Berwick didn't stand a chance. Since nobody has been able to successfully leave the village alive, told him he had two choices: he could either help defend the village, or he could stay in the chantry, with Teagan. " Of course we can't, in good conscious, not tell Teagan that someone potentially involved in poisoning his brother was staying in the chantry." Berwick decided it was safer to stay outside and fight undead. Lora, meanwhile, went to talk with some of the militia men to see if there was anything else they needed. To be fair, I'd want at least a few drinks before facing undead too... After talking with the barmaid Bella, Naliea went to talk to Lloyd. As you can expect the two got off to a great start. Hey, direct threats worked on the dwarf and veiled threats worked on the elf - let's see which works better on the shem Noticing the turn in the conversation, Lora came over to see what was going on. She may have taken a different approach, but she agreed with Naliea. (Is it just me, or is Lloyd one of those characters it's fun to threaten? ) I love how Bella is just like "Lloyd will hate it, let's do it!" All that's left now is to wait for sundown and the appearance of the undead. Randomness: This was the first time I took Zev to Redcliffe (usually I didn't have him yet) and he made a good point, that using the oil is a good idea as long as it actually kills the undead instead of just having undead still running around - but now while on fire. It made me think of the Walking Dead episode, "The Grove", with the charbroiled walkers and am now starting to second guess this whole "light our defenses on fire as a battle tactic" idea... lol. Luckily for them, Lora was the one to talk with Ser Perth in this worldstate, and she nixed the idea of using the oil. Redcliffe sure has changed over the years up to the start of Inquisition.
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Post by House Targaryen on Jun 22, 2019 16:29:48 GMT
The end. Started off hating Solas but in the end he convinced Mel to join him. Went back to the Exalted Council and told them to shove it up their ass if they think my Inquisition is disbanding. We'll be the Divine's personal body guard. I got my best armor bloodied to get to you! Bloodied!!! You're making me angry, Solas. You know what happens to those who make me angry. Hey, Teagan, up yours, pal!
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Post by Sokemis on Jun 22, 2019 16:48:56 GMT
Redcliffe sure has changed over the years up to the start of Inquisition. Maybe, but it definitely aged better than Teagan did...
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 23, 2019 19:11:15 GMT
Did some more quests on Ailith today took a little break over the past few days, dubbing whether liked where things were going, or whether or not I'd re-roll her as a warrior instead, in the end I kept what I had so far finished today with doing Wayward son, sending Feynriel to the Circle should take me another day or so to finish up Act 1
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Post by amalthea on Jun 24, 2019 15:00:02 GMT
Early this morning, while helping Cassandra scout a castle ruins, Amalthea came across this beautiful view.
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Post by LadyofNemesis on Jun 25, 2019 20:44:19 GMT
So...the other day I found out that 1) I didn't like the current course my Hawke was taking and 2) Fenris' voice is like some sort of pull string, seriously...he descends those stairs, opens his mouth and I'm just...well...sh*t, there go my plans
so anyway...I remade my Hawke with the original set up I tend to have, a mage romancing Fenris I may or may not end up giving another try to Anders' romance somewhere in the future...once I...you know...work up the courage to actually descend into his romance arc don't get me wrong, I love Anders...but something about him rubs me the wrong way...maybe if I'd romanced him in my first playthrough without knowledge of the ending of the game I might've done it then... but these days, eh...the fact he and Justice go more or less coo coo and do the big kaboom...yeah...no (plus there's the part where he refuses to tell Hawke what he's up to and ends up making them an accessory for his actions, admittedly it's him 'protecting' them, but still)
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I've taken to writing down all quests I've done or am doing, and today I ended up doing quite a bit I've done 26 quests in total, with an additional 15 more in my current quest log, about 5 of those are at the 'turn in' part, and 5 of them are fetch quests which I've yet to deliver
naturally due to having restarted (again), I also had to remake my Hawke...and turns out that my initial love for giving Hawke dark hair is very strong as well she actually look a lot like when I previously made Ailith a rogue, aside from her hairstyle and eye color (these days with hair styles (especially modded ones) I look if they look good (some have weird areas or bald patches on some of the presets) and if they don't clip, thankfully the one above doesn't )
also during this playthrough I've started to wonder a few things 1) during the quest Dark Epiphany (only available if you spared Avernus during DAO), you're set upon by bandits/mercenaries who want to keep Hawke from delivering the letters from the messenger. Who send those bandits/mercenaries, and why do they want to keep the Wardens from receiving whatever it is that Avernus found out?
2) when meeting Fenris, he asks 'what was in the chest they kept in the house?', when Hawke replies 'it was empty', he says he expected something else inside...we never do find out what he hoped to find, so...what did he think was inside that chest?
3) during that same quest, Fenris examines the bounty hunter he just killed and says 'my master has come to the city', but...how does he know? is there some sort of symbol on the bounty hunter clothes that Fenris recognizes as that of Danarius? The same odd oversight occurs when he's taken along on Aveline's quest to rescue Donnic, if he is the one making the 'seal of the Viscount' comment...during that part of the game he can't read yet, he only learns to do so when Hawke offers to help with it during Act 2, so how does he know?
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