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[Leonia]

Hip quiver? Hmm, it's an odd angle to carry something in.

[Xewaka]

It's obviously a thermostatic case to keep an emergency bottle of fine wine appropiately cooled.

[Anarya]

It'd have to be like a test-tube shaped bottle of wine. Or some tiny arrows.

[namedforthemoon]

Dave of Canada wrote...

namedforthemoon wrote...

Is that Bethany in the second, serious picture?


...I'll KILL her!!

The gauntlet makes it seem like Hawke.

Whoops. I was so busy seething over Bethany-look-a-like getting intimate with my man that I totally missed the gauntlet.


...My bad.

[Anarya]

ahuevocabron wrote...

so whats the point to this thread??? besides somemone who's clearly obssesed with the character... and his chest hair?????

Does there have to be a point?

[namedforthemoon]

ahuevocabron wrote...

so whats the point to this thread??? besides somemone who's clearly obssesed with the character... and his chest hair?????

If you haven't figured out that mystery, then you are not yet enlightened enough to know, grasshoppah.

[Leonia]

Compared to a lot of other threads, I'd say ours has a very obvious point.

[Elrena]

leonia42 wrote...

Compared to a lot of other threads, I'd say ours has a very obvious point.

...we support stimulating Kirkwall's economy?

[GameBoyish]

ahuevocabron wrote...

so whats the point to this thread??? besides somemone who's clearly obssesed with the character... and his chest hair?????

Point: Updates on Varric by Mary Kirby and gang.

You: How do you pronounce "somemone"?

EDIT: yes we are all prone to typos...

Modifié par TriviaAeducan, 19 octobre 2010 - 11:08 .

[Xewaka]

Anarya wrote...

It'd have to be like a test-tube shaped bottle of wine. Or some tiny arrows.

Best things in life come in small packages.

Modifié par Xewaka, 19 octobre 2010 - 12:35 .

[Pseudo the Mustachioed]

Anarya wrote...
So what could it be? Something smallish and cylindrical obviously, but a scroll? Map? Spyglass? Flute? I wonder if it's significant to the plot. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING IN THERE, MASTER TETHRAS?!?

Looks like a map case to me. Not much else that could fit in there. Maybe Varric is like that one guy in everyone's life who knows where EVERYTHING is. Which gives me an idea...

Hawke: Are we there yet?
Varric: No.
Hawke: Are we there yet?
Varric: No.
Hawke: Are we there yet?
Varric: No.
Hawke: Are we there yet?
Varric: I have no qualms about giving you a papercut with this thing.
Hawke: ...      ;~;
Varric: /sigh. Yes we're almost there.
Hawke: 8D

Actually while we're asking Mary questions, I've been wondering how the writers keep track of what dialogue leads to what, what lines they have to write, etc. I can't imagine it's a word document. Is there some special custom made program that works like, I dunno, a phylogenetic tree or something?

Modifié par Pseudocognition, 19 octobre 2010 - 01:25 .

[MachineMaiden]

You know I'm not against him being a LI, far from it, seeing as how I wanted to romance Gorim a lot and Oghren sometimes but I mean exactly how will we be able to with Varric? I mean, seeing how he will be the narrirator and all it just doesn't seem possible to me.

[Herr Uhl]

Anarya wrote...

Hm, y'know, I was just looking at the other, less-popular concept art again, and I was wondering...just what exactly is in that case he's got hanging off his belt? Observe:

So what could it be? Something smallish and cylindrical obviously, but a scroll? Map? Spyglass? Flute? I wonder if it's significant to the plot. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING IN THERE, MASTER TETHRAS?!?

Care to chime in, Mary, if it's not a spoiler?

His chronicles of Hawke, the future bestseller.

Cassandra is basically Annie Wilkes.

[Calla S]

MachineMaiden wrote...
You know I'm not against him being a LI, far from it, seeing as how I wanted to romance Gorim a lot and Oghren sometimes but I mean exactly how will we be able to with Varric? I mean, seeing how he will be the narrirator and all it just doesn't seem possible to me.

Well, David Gaider has said on a few occasions that the narration changes depending on the character and their relationship with Varric. I assume this means whether he likes them or hates them, but it could certainly adapt to if he was an LI. Plus, I don't think it was confirmed that he was the only narrator.

[Leonia]

Sort of off-topic-ish.. but, does Varric strike anyone else as an old-fashioned pipe smoker? He just seems like the kinda guy who needs to keep his hands busy and he probably smells nice.

[Thandal N'Lyman]

Calla S wrote...

MachineMaiden wrote...
You know I'm not against him being a LI, far from it, seeing as how I wanted to romance Gorim a lot and Oghren sometimes but I mean exactly how will we be able to with Varric? I mean, seeing how he will be the narrirator and all it just doesn't seem possible to me.

Well, David Gaider has said on a few occasions that the narration changes depending on the character and their relationship with Varric. I assume this means whether he likes them or hates them, but it could certainly adapt to if he was an LI. Plus, I don't think it was confirmed that he was the only narrator.

I always picture a: "So there we were, surrounded by... " set-up line that dissovles into the action as narrated. 

Then there's another stretch of game play before Hawke (or someone else) accomplishes a plot-related task that triggers a dissolve back to Varric and Cassandra, "... and that's how we accidently destroyed the Alka-Seltzer Chalice."
[sheepish grin]
[shoulder shrug]
[knowing smirk]
 

Modifié par Thandal NLyman, 19 octobre 2010 - 04:16 .

[MachineMaiden]

But then also wouldn't he be with Hawke at the end of the story? Wouldn't Hawke (I know I would) want that delicious little gumdrop next to them as they reign as the Champion of Kirkwall? The area in the screenshot sorta seems like Varric is hiding or in a secluded place.

[Apollo Starflare]

Anarya wrote...

Hm, y'know, I was just looking at the other, less-popular concept art again, and I was wondering...just what exactly is in that case he's got hanging off his belt? Observe:



So what could it be? Something smallish and cylindrical obviously, but a scroll? Map? Spyglass? Flute? I wonder if it's significant to the plot. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING IN THERE, MASTER TETHRAS?!?

Care to chime in, Mary, if it's not a spoiler?

I've always presumed that it was a map and/or scroll case, with which he recorded the events and such.

[Pseudo the Mustachioed]

if he's not an LI and even if he is I suspect someone, somewhere, is going to ship him with Cass. Not to say it will be me of course, /shifty eyes, but they seem like they might be great foils of each other, in that Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch kind of way. I get the impression that Cass is younger, overly proud of her status like "ooh look at my great big important first job", deadly serious but out of naivety (why Varric can jerk her around), and generally putting on a show of being what she only THINKS being a professional means... which would explain the excessively severe hairstyle. She gets so caught up in acting like an authority that she doesn't quite catch on immediately when Varric starts with the BS. Meanwhile Varric actually knows what he's doing from the experience of age, might be the kind who can read people like books, and probably doesn't take things too seriously. And enjoys toying with young women pretending like their authority is somehow unquestionable.

So uh in this example, Varric is Dr. Girlfriend, if you couldn't tell. Now I have to draw Cass doing a big musical number against the moonlit sky on a giant flying chantry seeker symbol.

Just a theory I've had rolling around my head for a while. It helps that what Mary has divulged of Varric so far reminds me of an uncle I have haha. I'm excited to see what they're actually like

Modifié par Pseudocognition, 19 octobre 2010 - 04:35 .

[namedforthemoon]

Pseudocognition wrote...


Actually while we're asking Mary questions, I've been wondering how the writers keep track of what dialogue leads to what, what lines they have to write, etc. I can't imagine it's a word document. Is there some special custom made program that works like, I dunno, a phylogenetic tree or something?

My guess is that they use color coding. Any response is a certain color, and then that particular "storyline" is in the same color.

That, or lots and lots of notes and string.

[bsbcaer]

Anarya wrote...

Hm, y'know, I was just looking at the other, less-popular concept art again, and I was wondering...just what exactly is in that case he's got hanging off his belt? Observe:



So what could it be? Something smallish and cylindrical obviously, but a scroll? Map? Spyglass? Flute? I wonder if it's significant to the plot. WHAT ARE YOU HIDING IN THERE, MASTER TETHRAS?!?

Care to chime in, Mary, if it's not a spoiler?

It is his BOOMSTICK!!!  On a completely unrelated note, Im happy with Brian Bloom doing the VO, but can you imagine Bruce Campbell doing Varric?

[bsbcaer]

MachineMaiden wrote...

But then also wouldn't he be with Hawke at the end of the story? Wouldn't Hawke (I know I would) want that delicious little gumdrop next to them as they reign as the Champion of Kirkwall? The area in the screenshot sorta seems like Varric is hiding or in a secluded place.

From what I gathered, Cassandra is interrogating Varric, so it's not really his choice of where he is at the moment of narration...

[Pseudo the Mustachioed]

bsbcaer wrote...
Im happy with Brian Bloom doing the VO, but can you imagine Bruce Campbell doing Varric?

Holy crap on a stick it would generate a veritable tempest of memes.

Modifié par Pseudocognition, 19 octobre 2010 - 07:37 .

[Mary Kirby]

Pseudocognition wrote...

Actually while we're asking Mary questions, I've been wondering how the writers keep track of what dialogue leads to what, what lines they have to write, etc. I can't imagine it's a word document. Is there some special custom made program that works like, I dunno, a phylogenetic tree or something?

If you have ever opened up the DA or NWN toolset, we have a dialogue editor. I could never do this job with a regular word document, I would lose my mind.

In the tools, a dialogue file looks sort of like... (well, we'll see if the BB code lets me do this *crosses fingers*)

Root
+(SCRIPTING COMMENT) This is the final conversation about pie.
+(SCRIPTING COMMENT) This is the second conversation about pie.
-(SCRIPTING COMMENT) This is the first conversation about pie.
_____-(VARRIC)  Hey, Hawke, did I ever ask you your thoughts on pie?
____________+(Choice #1)  I hate pie.
____________+(Choice #2)  Pie's okay. I'm more of a cake fan, though.
____________-(Choice #3) PIE IS TEH BEST!!!!
_____________________(VARRIC)  Woah! I mean, I knew everyone liked pie, but that's a little... much, don't you think?


So... clicking on any of the plus signs opens up that branch.  Green lines (In my tools, because I swtich the colors) are NPC lines, and blue ones are player lines.

EDIT: Colors aren't cooperating, but you get the idea. Probably.

Modifié par Mary Kirby, 19 octobre 2010 - 07:43 .