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[Reika]

I find it's always interesting to see how the HNO affects each character.

Edited for ToP

Modifié par Reika, 14 février 2011 - 02:48 .

[Merilsell]

[incoherent comment] Me likes, Rage  [/incoherent comment]

Edit: Reika, I'll have two different FCous even (which is a miracle for me, lol) One will be Alistair's wifey being all snotty and high brat who thinks she is above the others until well... Alistair melts her down and changes her view of that. But first she is a really calculating b*tch, lol.

And the other one will be a rebellious sort of never liked nobility much character, who will have the hots for Zevran and is running off with him in the end I love the Zevran and Cous pairing <3 ...because it is so different

Well at that rate, I will play Origin (and write about it) until I'm fourty, lol.

Modifié par Merilsell, 14 février 2011 - 02:53 .

[Lady Mimzy]

I'm so happy, my hubby bought me the PC version for Valentine's Day!!! Wedding Mod here I come. I can't wait to play with the toolset too. (Glad he took pity on me because our boys are hogging the PS3) =)

[RagingCyclone]

Thanks, Meri. It's no secret that Dan is modelled after myself. This growing up moment is very similar to my own my freshmen year of college. We all have those moments that make us grow up. I felt when playing Dan that the appropriate moment to have his was Ostagar. Where mine was learning that I didn't know everything, his hinged on his own mortality and how he effects others and their mortality. And like me it takes a woman's touch to finish the process.

Modifié par RagingCyclone, 14 février 2011 - 03:00 .

[Reika]

@Meri - Lana was a tomboy, but very much a duty-driven Cousland. The loss of her family in Howe's attack was painful, but not what destroyed her. Finding her best friend dead pushed her a little further. It was arriving at Ostagar, finding out Fergus was sent out on a scouting mission of all things (Please, the man was a 2h warrior that wore heavy armor, a scout? Really?).



Waking up to find out the area surrounding Ostagar was destroyed by the darkspawn horde, including her brother? That's what ultimately destroyed her.



Damn not-quite-templar for destroying all her angst.

[Merilsell]

Aye, I hear you. I write Lenya the same way. In the beginning she is very much a bitter, immature and rude Dalish brat with almost no ties to morality. She is doing what she thinks is right, damn the consequences. Hence her over the top- violences acts and such in the beginning.

Though this rudeness is mostly a defensive mechanism to cope with the loss of her old life, guilt and being thrown in a unknown world, it makes it difficult for others to handle her and her behavior, of course. And this is fully intended on her part. Keeping others away by rudeness is easier than to loose once more people that she holds dear. Which makes Nithius' death even more tragic, since he reminded her on Tamlen and he was the first person she opened up to. And as it cliche as it might sound, it is due to Alistair's patience (and the influence of the other companions) that she is slowly changing or rather growing if you will. Of course there are certain experiences that changes her sight on things too, but mostly it is the mutual influence the character have on each other. And that is what makes it so interesting to keep this monster of a story rocking, even after a year of starting it.



*stops to ramble about her character now*

[Giggles_Manically]

Bob did not really change that much.



Only real part where he changed was to stop imitating Leske somewhat after what happened in Orzamar when he got back.

[Reika]

@Meri - You're fine.



Lana went the cold and withdrawn route with the occasional burst of "What is wrong with you people?"

[Glorfindel709]

Glor is going down the ole "jocularity, pranks, loose women and liquor" route to keep himself from lashing out during his years at the Circle... After all, he's gotta fool the Templars into trusting him

[Giggles_Manically]

I had a high school teacher we called Glor.



Awesome guy if a bit zany.

[Reika]

lol Glor, that's one way of doing it.

[Glorfindel709]

Hey, give him the power to burn you from the inside out and it sounds like my Mahariel Mage!

[Glorfindel709]

With the other mages, he's the picture of the fun loving happy go lucky mage. Infront of the Templars, he's a loyal andrastian who believes that the job of the Templars is absolutely necessary and wishes to help them out.



All part of his master plan *cackles evilly*

[Auora]

Wow, it's so shocking to see how others play their warden.

In most games, especially like DA:O, my conscience always gets the best of me. My characters will always go our of their way to help others, and are generally very soft. They are the kind of people that try to give everyone a second chance, no matter what their previous deeds are. However, like myself they are very protective of the people they care about. Try to hurt my friends and I will slice a **** up.

Even though it's just fantasy, I could never bring myself to play a diced warden or one that is selfish. I always end up feeling guilty and reverting to last save.

Modifié par Auora, 14 février 2011 - 06:12 .

[Tigress M]

@Rage - I liked see Dan before the circumstances of his life changed him forever.

@Aurora - I am very much like you. I love playing the "Paragon", so to speak. But, the most interesting thing about my dice run was that once I got past Ostagar, Randi's decisions ceased to affect me. You really become detached and can truly look at the game as just that... a game. I found myself actually being disappointed whenever the dice had Randi choosing a "normal" line. LOL

[Maria13]

Happy Valentine's day to everyone here! <3



PS Can I post an extract from the next chapter (as yet unpublished) for the Ostagar prompt or would that be cheating?

Modifié par Maria13, 14 février 2011 - 11:36 .

[Tigress M]

Maria, feel free! I've posted a previous piece of ff once because it related perfectly to the prompt.

[Yankee23]

Derp Day! Love them grease traps!

[Maria13]

Immediate Aftermath

"My aim then was to remain alive and get to Ostagar. Find Fergus and petition the King. Surely Cailan would listen to me if only for past times’ sake if I reached him. As I put one foot in front of the other, I began to believe that this was possible, that things would sort themselves out… that the nightmare I had found myself in would come to an end. Having been given a lift by a passing carter to Kinloch Hold, it took me just over two weeks walking to get to Ostagar.

"The signs as I approached were not good. The Imperial Highway that I was now on appeared to be damaged and scorched. Cadavers were frequent. They frightened me. I would scuttle past them as fast as I could, pretending they weren’t there…

"I ignored what my intuition was telling me. The west wind brought the stench of death and decay to my nose but still I told myself that all was well, the battle must have taken place already. The showdown. Fergus would be alive. King Cailan would be victorious. The few surviving Darkspawn would have retreated to the gloomy abode from whence they had emerged in the first place.

"All would be well, all would be well, all would be well…

"That was what I was saying to myself like a prayer or a litany when I walked over the crest of the last hill and looked down at the valley below me.

"And I saw…

"Did you see the immediate aftermath of Ostagar, Alistair?”

“No.” He replied in a hushed voice. His face looked ashen, “Neriya and I were both recovering from being wounded after lighting the fire in the Tower of Ishael. It was described to me… and we went back to the battlefield a few months afterwards… It was covered in snow by then. But not the immediate aftermath, no.”

“It was like a field of flesh… There were tangles of sinews and limbs everywhere. Raw rotting meat strewn about the earth, wherever I looked. Mottled and discoloured, mounds of it… Just lying there… It was hard to believe that, not so long ago, those piles of offal had been living, moving, feeling beings… The smell was too awful for words… Sweet at first and then turning sickly, stale and putrid.

“I felt faint. I felt like turning away, going back down the hill and then walking back up again to see if anything had changed. But I knew that wouldn’t work. So I went down.

“Up until then I had been able to tell myself, unconvincingly, that this was a Darkspawn rout that Ferelden had prevailed. But as a I drew nearer there could be no doubt. Most of the eyeless, gape-mouthed, sunken-cheeked, sallow corpses were unmistakably human.

“Worse than anything was the thought that that one of those twisted bodies had once been my brother Fergus but there were so many, I did not have a hope of finding him.

“I tried though…

“A month ago, barely a month ago, I had been eating off china plates, entertaining casual lovers in my bed chamber, surrounded by a doting, caring family, never wanting for suitors or friends.

“Now as it occurred to me that Fergus would want me to live, I found myself overturning rotting cadavers, looking for him but also plundering the dead as I went, a soiled rag tied over my mouth and nose in an attempt to reduce the stench and to keep off the flies; routing among maggots and putrefaction, looking for clothes, weapons, money anything that would help me survive.

Utterly alone.”

[Tigress M]

@Yankee - Great pic! I love derp!

@Maria - That was really good. It was very interesting seeing the HN outside of the main story, so to speak. I've never thought about it until now, but regardless of what origin you play those other characters in all those other origins are going through the same things, only without the aid of Duncan. Very sad. Well done.

And since I have load of derp... guess I better get started sharing some of it!

[RagingCyclone]

Maria, that was very moving. That has every ring of a war veteran.

[rak72]

That was a very nice job, Maria!



Some Valentines lovin:

[tuppence95]

Happy Valentines Day!

[Yankee23]

Excellent Job, Maria!

[Skyl4rk]

Greetings thread! Dropping by for a Valentine's Day Ali pic spam















And last one that's highly appropriate for today: Marion doing her impression of the Creepistair