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Post by opuspace on Aug 8, 2016 4:55:05 GMT
Thinking back on those personal stories each Inquisitor can tell at Varric's Wicked Grace game, it left me wanting more of how each story went. What little we know is: -A rabbit was involved in each of them. -A noble Trevelyan attended an opera with an aunt and caused such a scandal that said relative refused to speak with them for 3 months -A mage Trevelyan was undergoing their Harrowing and did something that went down in the Ostwick records as shocking. -An Adaar was on a job in Southern Nevarra with a donkey -A Cadash was in the middle of a shakedown of an elderly lady who surprised them -A Lavellan was camped near some ruins with their clan at night, ending with a human couple running out naked. -Josephine says that each of these stories would ruin the Inquisition's reputation if anyone knew. That's about as much as I know so feel free to correct me on anything I got wrong or add in anything I missed.
As for the stories themselves, here's how I think Cadash's story went:
Cadash: So here I was on a job collecting protection money with Dasher. Nothing unusual goes on until we come up to this old house. S'far as we know, the old lady that lived there kept to herself. I tell Dasher to go up first 'cause no way in all the Deep roads am I harrassin' an old maid. He goes to the door, knocks on it. Nothing. He knocks again, this time more impatiently. 'Hey, open up! It's time to pay your rent to the Carta!' I sigh, tell Dasher not to scare old ladies outta their wits and I go in to try to do damage control. It's dark inside, filled with nothin' but animals, the kind you see in the homes of nobles as stiff and stuffed as the animals they display after a hunt. I figure the old lady makes a livin' off these things. I strike a light and nearly have the biggest fit of apoplexy when I see a stuffed rabbit hangin' off a bunch of strings from the ceiling just a knife's length from my face. It's posed in a mid-leap starin' at me with the most unnatural red eyes. And then it smiled at me. I run outta there faster than a nug from a deep mushroom bake. Dasher looks back, wonderin' why I'm not keen on collectin' our money when all of a sudden he turns around and sees that all the other animals have started walkin' at him. He screams and starts runnin'. Dorian: Wait, you're telling us that this lady was a Mortalitasi? Cadash: I don't know whether that old lady was a retired Necromancer or just a friggin' terror demon, but she was cacklin' her head off as we ran, yellin' things like, "Fly, my pretties! Fly!" I swear I thought I saw a monkey with wings sewn onto its back! The Templars we contacted went to investigate and came back saying that old lady was a professional marionette crafter. Anyway, ever since then, the Carta never bothered her again and Dasher still goes pale whenever that old lady is mentioned.
I'll type more stories later as time goes on... Meanwhile, how do you think your Inquisitor's story went? What crazy antics did they do that went down in Thedas' history as most appalling?
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Post by Nightscrawl on Aug 8, 2016 6:04:54 GMT
That's why I never take that option in the scene. My Trev Inquisitor was a good boy and didn't get up to a lot of mischief, so that crazy aunt thing wouldn't have happened for him.
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Post by opuspace on Aug 8, 2016 6:10:43 GMT
That's why I never take that option in the scene. My Trev Inquisitor was a good boy and didn't get up to a lot of mischief, so that crazy aunt thing wouldn't have happened for him. That's fine! Some things don't fit the character we roleplay so we do what we must to be true to their story.
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Post by melbella on Aug 9, 2016 1:34:04 GMT
Sadly, I have no imagination for such a thing.
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Post by opuspace on Aug 9, 2016 3:40:32 GMT
Sadly, I have no imagination for such a thing. No harm in trying! People have awesome headcanons all the time and I love reading how they see their Inquisitor's personalities and experience shaped them! The Cadash story's been stewing in the back of my head for a long time so there's been a chance to give it a long winded length.
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Post by opuspace on Aug 9, 2016 4:32:13 GMT
Lavellan's story:
Lavellan: The clan camped outside some ruins late at night. The Keeper swore up and down that it was safe, but the hunters still kept a late night watch. Things stayed quiet, a welcome change for once. Until we started hearing noises coming from the ruins. They immediately woke everyone up and we started packing the children into the Aravels. We were almost ready to move until one of the young one's pet rabbit escaped and ran towards the ruins. Normally, we wouldn't have gone after a rabbit, but Serani guilt tripped us by asking if we'd abandon one of the Halla because they were an inconvenience. So, two hunters and I decide to go scout and see what was making the noise and to see if we could retrieve Serani's rabbit. It was dark, dark enough to make it hard even for us to see easily. Agarel and Ferand were tense. All of a sudden, we heard the noise again. It sounded like a wounded animal crying for help but wrong. As we got closer, the noises sped up. When we turned a corner, we saw what was making the noise. It was a human couple, using the ruins as a place for a tryst. And there was Serani's rabbit off in a corner, nibbling on nearby elfroot. Agarel turns and says to me that she's not going anywhere near that over a rabbit. Ferand just shrugs and wonders if the humans would notice them sneaking past. Whatever the plan was going to be, the couple looked up at that moment and saw the three of us arguing. They both screamed, and the woman started accusing the man that he should have listened to her warning that the ruins were haunted, and they both ran out, bare asses shining in the moonlight!
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Post by Reznore on Aug 9, 2016 17:26:19 GMT
I never know what to pick , I like hearing Varric talks about Hawke , but I also like when my Dalish Inqui talks about Dalish stuff.
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Post by opuspace on Aug 10, 2016 5:03:05 GMT
I never know what to pick , I like hearing Varric talks about Hawke , but I also like when my Dalish Inqui talks about Dalish stuff. I'd love to hear what kinds of Dalish stuff your Inquisitor talks about!
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Post by opuspace on Aug 10, 2016 6:19:24 GMT
Drat, I've found a few more details on tumblr that I got incorrect. If anyone knows the exact phrasing of how each race's story began and ended, I'd very much appreciate it.
So far, what I've found was: -Inquisitor Adaar tells a story about job their mercenary band completed in Southern Nevarra with donkeys. -Inquisitor Noble Trevelyan spins a tale about their aunt making the family attend an Antivan Opera, which led to them shaming their aunt and having her refuse to speak with them for 3 months. -Inquisitor Mage Trevelyan will talk about how their Harrowing got them put in the Ostwick history book and the event was never spoken of again. -Inquisitor Lavellan will tell the story of their clan camping near a well and hearing noises, ending with humans running back to their village bare naked. -Cadash Inquisitor will tell them about the time they were collecting Carta protection money and ultimately had to deal with this old seamstress.
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Post by opuspace on Aug 11, 2016 3:09:19 GMT
Ok, let's take a whack at Noble Trevelyan:
Firstly, my aunt is known across the Free Marchers for her love of Antivan Opera. So when "The Murder of Lady Madrigal" is playing, of course she drags all of us to see it. There I was, a foolish youth looking for a way to get out of this. While we were waiting, I noticed that some of the actors and actresses had gathered nearby and were chatting off in the distance. As they're about ready to go back in, I slip in with them before aunt Lucille notices and pretend that I'm part of the troupe. Problem was, was that no one else knew I didn't belong there. Between the chaos of the actors getting everything prepared and dressed, I got dragged in with the crew and booted onto the stage for the first act. Now, it went well more or less as I was placed in a background servant role up until thirty minutes in, I get expectant looks from everyone. Stage fright kicks in, so I start trying to improvise an act that I never fully read about. The whole thing ended with half the stage blown up because I tripped over the fireworks hidden under a footrest, most of the audience panicking and running, and me, sitting on the floor with a panicked rabbit trying to burrow into my underclothes for safety. My aunt refused to speak with me for three months straight. On the up side, I was never asked to attend another opera again.
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Post by Bronztrooper on Aug 11, 2016 22:04:43 GMT
Drat, I've found a few more details on tumblr that I got incorrect. If anyone knows the exact phrasing of how each race's story began and ended, I'd very much appreciate it. So far, what I've found was: -Inquisitor Adaar tells a story about job their mercenary band completed in Southern Nevarra with donkeys. I could've sworn that it was in the Vimmark Mountains, which are in the Free Marches, iirc. Anyway, I do a DA RP with some friends on another forum and we had part where our characters were telling stories and I had it where my character (named Deyren) had a job that lined up with the job that Adaar talks about. Here it is (this is from my character's POV and it's from a while ago): POV: Deyren Ooh, a flashback! Interesting... Ah, right, have to set the scene. Alright, so I'm on a ship to Kirkwall from Amaranthine. Already two and a half days into the three-day journey. Damn ship's crowded below deck, so I'm staying up top for fresh air. Took a job from some noble in Denerim who wanted me to keep an eye on some mercs who were supposed to be watching a caravan for him. Nobles hiring mercs to watch other mercs... yep, that makes sense... Really, I don't get why he didn't just send one of his own to watch over the caravan and the escort, but then again, he was paying quite a lot for me to do this, so should I be complaining? Well, I'm not complaining, exactly. It just makes no sense to me. He's probably spending more on protecting the caravan than the caravan itself is worth. Meh, I'll never understand nobles. What was the name of the merc company that was doing the escort? Something Qunari, I know that. Vah-Low Cats, or something along those lines. Those Qunari words are so damn hard to pronounce. Now, this was a couple years after the Qunari got kicked out of Kirkwall, so the people there were more worried about the mages and Templars than a merc company of Tal-Vashoth (that's probably the only Qunari term I can pronounce) marching around. The noble said that there would be a mix of human and elf guards with the caravan so I wouldn't stand out much. I found that disappointing, but at least it made some sense. After a few hours, I met up with the caravan and the qunari company outside the city. Turns out that the caravan was actually dozens of donkeys! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (UNRELATED TO THE STORY ITSELF, SO I REMOVED IT) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, where was I? Oh, right. The donkeys. Alright, so we headed off to take the donkeys to Starkhaven, which was about a week away. A day or two in and we were crossing through some mountains, and unfortunately, I, along with most of the other guards were downwind of the herd. Most of us were keeping our mouths and noses covered, but that didn't keep the smell out of our noses completely. I went to look at one of the qunari who was the leader of the company- Shokra-something- and I just had to comment on the smell. "Smells like a lot of ass, doesn't it?" Of course, he started laughing, but then he started breathing in the entirety of the stench and started coughing and choking on it! That's when we all repeated the exact same sequence of reactions! I'm pretty sure it went through our group in a wave before we were all coughing and choking on the smell. The day after, we were almost out of the mountains. One of the qunari apparently saw a rabbit and ran off after it and he almost started a damned stampede! Though, then again, I'm not really sure if donkeys can stampede, but I sure as hell don't want to test it. We camped at the base of the mountains and I went off to take a piss, and find something to fight. The whole trip was really boring. I eventually found a bear and killed it. You remember that I came back with a bear pelt on my back, right? Well, that's where I get the pelt. Anyway, when I finally got back, half of the herd was gone, several qunari were sleeping on the ground stomach-first, some with their pants around their knees- don't ask.... no, seriously, don't, I've got no fucking clue what happened-, and that Shokra-guy saying to one of the donkeys, "We shall never speak of this again." The donkey he was talking to just turned around and left. When I finally got back to that noble in Denerim and told him what happened, he just sat there with his jaw hanging open. I managed to get him to pay me more than what he originally promised since he was so shocked!--- -------------------------------------------------------------- Don't judge me >_>
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Post by opuspace on Aug 12, 2016 3:04:54 GMT
@bronzetrooper THANK YOU!!! That was an amazing story! Loved reading every bit of it! Also, thanks a lot for the correction, the feedback is really helpful!
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