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[LupusYondergirl]

Galagraphia wrote...

 Up the thread with DonnaAnna's ridiculous dancing Anders.
Be careful with your coffee!

I am... highly disturbed. Amused, yet disturbed.
Well, at least he has the legs for that outfit...

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 03 septembre 2010 - 03:50 .

[Galagraphia]

LupusYondergirl wrote...
I am... highly disturbed. Amused, yet disturbed.
Well, at least he has the legs for that outfit...

Lol, it was my first reaction ))))
But... I can imagine Anders changing into lady's outfit to escape or to hide from the templars who are chasing him... No way he could be happy about it, but still I think he could do it for his freedom

[Wedger]

Spicy Anders ummm shimmy?

[Galagraphia]

Wedger wrote...




Spicy Anders ummm shimmy?

'twas Remigold, according to the author of the picture. Don't know why Anders is fulfilling Alistair's promise though... But she shows us his awesome legs and I' m happy ^______^

[Avilia]

I should try to remember to remove the staff before conversations. It looks like an object growing out of his head ;-)

[SurelyForth]

Avilia wrote...

I should try to remember to remove the staff before conversations. It looks like an object growing out of his head ;-)

That works when it's the Lamppost in Wnter and it just adds to the overall awesomeness of a picture:



I just got out of a four hour meeting where my meeting partner was gay Anders. He had short hair, but everything else was the same.

[LupusYondergirl]

I always give him that one on my non-mage playthroughs. I say it's because it's the most powerful. But really, the gold looks good against his hair.



I just wish there was some sort of means by which they stayed in place. The hovering staves are kind of distracting. Even if a leather strap appeared on your body when your weapon was put away...

Eh, my overall annoyance with the staves is well-documented.

[SurelyForth]

I'm a weirdo who prefers the stick staves to any others, although Lamppost does grab me because of the joke and the pointyness.

I actually got in a brief conversation with a modder about weapon/staff carry positions (mostly because I respecced a PC at one point as a two-hander and couldn't stand how Ageless clipped her ankles when she ran). My suggestion was to angle them, which would help with clipping but would require toolset skillz that I do not possess. I assume the same sorts of expertise would be required to move weapons and staves closer to the character mesh.

I wish it was something I could mod, though. It's at the top of my list of game annoyances (also, the oversized, undertextured goblets in the game).

Modifié par SurelyForth, 03 septembre 2010 - 05:02 .

[Galagraphia]

I've seen in old woodcuts that two-handed swords were not supposed to be placed on a warrior's back, they usually hold the hilt in their arms with the blade placed on their shoulder. And I always thought a mage must use his staff as a walking stick, like Gendalf did. And you can hit genlocks in their heads with it As I recall mages in Baldurs Gate did it when they were out of spells.

[SurelyForth]

Wow, the site has been active today! Anders has nearly been forced to the second page.



Is anyone else a bit stumped on this week's prompt? I have a few ideas, but nothing that's really leapt out at me as something I can make work.

[Sarah1281]

SurelyForth wrote...

Wow, the site has been active today! Anders has nearly been forced to the second page.

Is anyone else a bit stumped on this week's prompt? I have a few ideas, but nothing that's really leapt out at me as something I can make work.

I'm in the process of doing it right now. I kind of got sidetracted earlier trying to come up with a name for that Templar that always chases Anders down.

[Dean_the_Young]

I do take pride in my ability to confuse and confound the most creative of writers.

[LupusYondergirl]

RE: the magical floating weapons:  It's even worse on female mages, I think, since the default human body in robes has such a severe curve from the lower back to the butt.

@Gala- I've thought the same thing, and I remember that in both baulder's gate games. I wish they hadn't taken it out!

I've seen people at SCA events wear a claymore at their hip on a belt, but I don't think you'd be ABLE to wear a sword like that on your back with a baldric. Most adults just wouldn't have the arm length to pull a sword with a four and a half foot long blade over their shoulder and clear the end of the scabbard. It would almost certainly have to be drawn across the front of the body.

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 03 septembre 2010 - 09:04 .

[Avilia]

SurelyForth wrote...

Avilia wrote...

I should try to remember to remove the staff before conversations. It looks like an object growing out of his head ;-)

That works when it's the Lamppost in Wnter and it just adds to the overall awesomeness of a picture:



I just got out of a four hour meeting where my meeting partner was gay Anders. He had short hair, but everything else was the same.

Ahh the Lampost is an exception....


Re the Prompt - are we doing Dean's prompt - I wasn't sure tbh.  Got confused  - not hard for me I'll admit.

[LupusYondergirl]

Sarah1281 wrote...

SurelyForth wrote...

Wow, the site has been active today! Anders has nearly been forced to the second page.

Is anyone else a bit stumped on this week's prompt? I have a few ideas, but nothing that's really leapt out at me as something I can make work.

I'm in the process of doing it right now. I kind of got sidetracted earlier trying to come up with a name for that Templar that always chases Anders down.

You mean Ser Rylock?  I always figured that's who he was talking about.

[Sarah1281]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

SurelyForth wrote...

Wow, the site has been active today! Anders has nearly been forced to the second page.

Is anyone else a bit stumped on this week's prompt? I have a few ideas, but nothing that's really leapt out at me as something I can make work.

I'm in the process of doing it right now. I kind of got sidetracted earlier trying to come up with a name for that Templar that always chases Anders down.

You mean Ser Rylock?  I always figured that's who he was talking about.

I don't think she's pretty enough to be the one he was talking about so I just created a new Templar.

[LupusYondergirl]

I didn't think she was, either, but... she did seem to take his latest escape very personally. She actually looked kind of old. Maybe it was just something odd about her eyes, though.

(I didn't think much of Namaya, either. Could be Anders just has really low standards.)

[Sarah1281]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I didn't think she was, either, but... she did seem to take his latest escape very personally. She actually looked kind of old. Maybe it was just something odd about her eyes, though.
(I didn't think much of Namaya, either. Could be Anders just has really low standards.)

And that there's only a handful of female Templars so he'd take what he can get.

I always chalked her freaking out about him up to her being outraged that he'd kill two Templars and her being kind of a fanatic. I thought if Rylock was the female Templar in question then during one of his banters or something he'd mention it...but then, Awakening has a lot of holes.

[Avilia]

Sarah1281 wrote...

LupusYondergirl wrote...

I didn't think she was, either, but... she did seem to take his latest escape very personally. She actually looked kind of old. Maybe it was just something odd about her eyes, though.
(I didn't think much of Namaya, either. Could be Anders just has really low standards.)

And that there's only a handful of female Templars so he'd take what he can get.

I always chalked her freaking out about him up to her being outraged that he'd kill two Templars and her being kind of a fanatic. I thought if Rylock was the female Templar in question then during one of his banters or something he'd mention it...but then, Awakening has a lot of holes.

Related question - I wonder how Rylock knows those Templars are dead.  Or does she assume they are?

[LupusYondergirl]

maybe she assumes they are since he wouldn't be walking around free otherwise.

[Sarah1281]

Dean_the_Young wrote...

I do take pride in my ability to confuse and confound the most creative of writers.

That you did but, for better or for worse, here's mine:


When Aeife showed up at the tavern she had finally managed to track the Circle Tower’s biggest flight risk to, Anders looked less than impressed. He was wearing a reasonably convincing fake beard and mustache and clad in the clothes of a commoner while surrounded by four very attractive women – one of them an elf even – who were giggling flirtatiously and eying the escaped mage in a downright indecent manner.
 
“I ordered you a drink,” Anders told her, nodding towards a mug of ale. “Of course, you took so long that it’s probably warm by now so you might want to get a fresh one.”
 
Aeife raised an eyebrow as she cleansed the area around Anders. This was hardly the first time she had been sent after Anders. In fact, she had been there for each of his escape attempts so this made it her fourth time tracking the blonde attempted apostate down. One would think that since he clearly had no regard for the Circle and showed no signs of agreeing to stay put that he would just be executed by now but apparently he couldn’t be made Tranquil since he had passed his Harrowing and he was so vociferously anti-blood magic that the Greagoir and the other high-ranking Templars were unwilling to have him executed as a maleficar. Some of the other Templars suggested that she just kill him herself and claim that it was unavoidable but he always surrendered – reluctantly, of course, but sensibly – whenever they caught up to him and so to kill him would be outright murder and she didn’t want his completely unnecessary death on her conscience. Even if he did feel the need to blatantly flirt with her in blatant disregard for her Templar oaths of chastity. “You were waiting for me? If you knew I was coming I would have thought you’d take the opportunity to flee.”
 
Anders shrugged. “I would have but I knew I would never be able to get out of the city before you caught up to me and this place has the best ale in town.” He flashed a smile at one of the girls. “Not to mention the best company by far. I’ve got to say, I am rather disappointed in you, dear Aeife.”
 
She pointed ignored the endearment. “Oh really? Why would that be? If anything, the fact that you’ve escaped again is cause for me to be disappointed in you. Greagoir and Irving have been talking about putting you in solitary confinement, you know. Sure, it’s a waste of resources but not quite as much of a waste as your chronic escape attempts are beginning to be.”
 
Anders held up his hands. “My dear lady, I would love to stop escaping from the Tower, I really would.”
 
“Really,” Aeife said skeptically.
 
“Oh yes,” Anders said earnestly. “And the minute I stop being placed back in a situation that warrants escaping, I will gladly cease and desist.”
 
“You know the law, Anders,” Aeife told him bluntly. “You’re a mage and, as such, must remain in the Tower when not given permission to leave it.”
 
“Is it really my fault if no one ever seems inclined to grant me ‘permission’ for the same basic freedom that literally everybody that the Chantry isn’t enslaving takes for granted?” Anders demanded.
 
“Yes,” Aeife replied promptly. “You keep escaping so no one can trust you. And we’re not ‘enslaving’ you. It’s for your own good as well as everyone else’s. Mages are dangerous when untrained or unwatched and well-meaning but misinformed commoners can…react badly to the discovery of a mage.”
 
“You never think for yourself, do you?” Anders said, shaking his head pityingly. “It’s lucky that you’re gorgeous or I would be much more put-out by our association. And to answer your question, I’m disappointed with your performance here.”
 
Aeife narrowed her eyes. She knew that she was considered very attractive with her long dark hair and bright blue eyes but that didn’t matter in the slightest as she was a Templar and had no need to attract anyone, let alone a particularly troublesome mage. “My performance? What do you mean?”
 
“Well, you’ve come here alone, for one thing,” Anders pointed out.
 
“One Templar is all that there need be to shut down a mage,” Aeife countered.
 
Anders shook his head. “You don’t know that. What if I managed to get some supporters? It’s been nearly a month since I got out after all. If it were another mage then you might be able to shut them down as well but there’s no guarantee that you could be quick enough or that I wouldn’t have non-mage backup.”
 
“You don’t appear to,” Aeife said confidently after surreptitiously checking the other people in the tavern.
 
“Well, no,” Anders admitted. “But that doesn’t make your failure to be prepared for that possibility any less negligent. And then, of course, there’s always the chance that I’ll have learned how to fight sans magic and so instead of being my worst nightmare you’ll just be a girl with a sword.”
 
“A girl who has trained for years with a sword,” Aeife shot back. “As compared to the mere weeks of instruction you could have possibly received.”
 
“There is that, I suppose,” Anders conceded. “But I could get lucky or be some kind of prodigy so you still lose points for that.”
 
“Points?” Aeife repeated incredulously. “What, is this some sort of examination now?”
 
To her surprise, Anders nodded. “As someone who has now been apprehended by Templars four times, I would consider myself something of an expert on procedure right now. Comparing this performance to my previous experiences…well, it’s just not looking very good for you.”
 
“Because you could have done two different things that you clearly didn’t?” Aeife asked dubiously.
 
“There’s that,” Anders confirmed, “and while they may not actually be the case – this time – that doesn’t mean they weren’t still possibilities so you still lose some points. Every little bit counts. Then, of course, there is the fact that you took almost a month to find me. I could be halfway to Par Vollen by this point.”
 
Aeife smirked at him. “You want to go to Par Vollen? Make my day. I hear they keep their mages tongue-less and on leashes there.”
 
Anders quickly rallied. “The Tevinter then.”
 
“I could find you even there,” Aeife said a little threateningly.
 
Anders grinned at her. “See! You do care! Although I’ve got to say, allowing me to waste all this time instead of immediately taking me in…just think of all the opportunities I had to escape.”
 
“You didn’t take them so they’re moot,” Aeife said flatly.
 
“Still, it’s very sloppy, Aeife dear, and you need to be more careful or a big bad apostate might take advantage of that kind of opening one day and then who knows what will happen?” Anders said, his eyes theatrically wide.
 
“Good point,” Aeife told him, holding out an arm. “Let’s go.”
 
“Finally getting around to this part huh?” Anders asked as his wrists were bound together. “It’s a bit too late to try and salvage the situation, isn’t it? You’re still only getting a six.”

[LupusYondergirl]

I like that! And he makes some very good points. (I'd almost love to see a templar try and apprehend someone in Tevinter, though. I suspect it wouldn't end well for them)

[Avilia]

Tough one.  This is the best I could manage - its a mite short but hopefully you guys will like it




"Rylock was enthusiastic but her technique was a little rusty. Didn't use her body enough."

"I believe that. She looked a little stiff."

"Very. No real follow through, all in the hips."

"Boring." Buntie put her hands behind her head and stared up a the ceiling. "Just the women?"

"No the men too. They were better at it. Must be all the early training." Anders grinned when Buntie chuckled. "They were rougher."

"I bet they got down to it faster. I always found the men quicker."

"Agreed.  They'd sometimes do it in groups. Take turns as it were."

"Ew." Considering that she frowned. "Didn't they get in each other's way?"

"Sometimes. I remember there was this one Templar, very young, probably his first time out, he seemed
shocked by it all."

"Poor thing. I almost feel sorry for him."

"Oh don't. He joined in enthusiastically enough."

"Hmpf." They were quiet for a while, thinking about the Templars. "You told Valenna the Chantry sent women after you? Is that true?"

"Some women. There aren't many you know."

"I'd never seen one before Rylock. She was a little. Tense."

"More than a little. I'm happy to say that I was able to relax her. My one good deed you could say."

"Heh.  Did she ever bring any other women with her?"

"Once. They were all very enthusiastic I must say. I'm sure the Chantry locking them up makes them go a bit wild when they're outside."

"Heh. Probably."

Anders rolled to his side so he could see her better. "You know Commander, for an authority figure you're not bad."

"I know."

They both laughed at her joke.

"No seriously, I like you."

"I like you too."

"That's good." Leaning over he kissed her nose.

Buntie shot upright. "Don't you." Eyes narrowed she glared. "Don't you start with that Anders!"

"No ma'am."

"You know very well my man is in Antiva."

"Yes ma'am."

"Hmpf. Just remember it."

"I will. Promise."

Nate opened his door and stopped, one foot almost on Anders' head. "Why are you lying in the hallway? Outside my room?"

Buntie blinked up at Nate. "We were having a quiet drink. You know, in the dining room."

"We felt tired during the long walk back to our rooms. So we stopped for a rest."

"Ah. I see." Nate crossed his arms. "And then?"

"We starting talking, about the people who've beaten us up during our lives. Anders was telling me about the Templars and which ones he rated the best at it."

"I. Have no idea what to say to that."

"Sit down and join us! Tell us your stories."

Modifié par Avilia, 03 septembre 2010 - 11:07 .

[Avilia]

I just want to say I hate these forums and their cursed formatting

Edit - just in case its not clear - Buntie and Anders are drunk in the above snippet.  Very drunk.

Modifié par Avilia, 03 septembre 2010 - 11:31 .

[Miri1984]

Loved both of these! Perfect Anders characterisations. Avila, have you written any longer Buntie stories? I'm getting a girl crush on her!