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[revan11exile]

Maria Caliban wrote...

revan11exile wrote...

Salt and Tar is that bad or something

When I lived in Michigan, the summers were hot and humid while the winters were ice cold, so they covered the roads with tar instead of asphalt. During June, my entire neighborhood smelled of it. I recall you could comfortably walk barefoot along it because it was fairly squishy but it always stained the bottom of my feet black.

Unless it's fresh, tar isn't a harsh scent, but I would never consider it the sort of thing you'd want to smell on a lover.

crimzontearz wrote...

it SADDENS me.....I do not mind a romance being "easy" to get I just to not want it to become a casual thing, I know an Isabela-romance will be more than capable of depth and even sappiness or at least deep meaning.

but I get the feeling it's just gonna be another casual encounter......groans

Nothing suggests to me that Isabela is limited to a fling, but we know she's an optional companion who you don't have to recruit or even meet.

Thanks Maria for the info so it is not as bad as i thought 

[Maria Caliban]

Atakuma wrote...

So... I took that tar bath for nothing?

I decided to wiki tar, and it seems 'wood tar' is considered to have a pleasant scent.

I think it means you now have a pine scent?

[Atakuma]

Maria Caliban wrote...

Atakuma wrote...

So... I took that tar bath for nothing?

I decided to wiki tar, and it seems 'wood tar' is considered to have a pleasant scent.

I think it means you now have a pine scent?

I smell like a sexy tree.

Modifié par Atakuma, 29 novembre 2010 - 04:30 .

[Apollo Starflare]

This thread has taken an interesting turn. Continue.

[Atakuma]

Apollo Starflare wrote...

This thread has taken an interesting turn. Continue.

After the whole "sexy tree" thing i've got nothing.

[Crimson Invictus]

Atakuma wrote...
After the whole "sexy tree" thing i've got nothing.

You can take comfort in your ability to freshen a car.

[Atakuma]

Liana Nighthawk wrote...

Atakuma wrote...
After the whole "sexy tree" thing i've got nothing.

You can take comfort in your ability to freshen a car.

This pleases me.

[Ulicus]

Did someone say sexy trees?

The caption cracks me up every time.

[The Ethereal Writer]

dan107 wrote...

The Lesser Evil wrote...
The Warden sleeping with someone they just met 5 minutes ago in a seedy tavern, suggesting their love interest join them and then accepting Isabela's suggestion of another one of the Warden's companions (Zevran) joining in says much more about the Warden than it says about Isabela. Remember, Isabela's not the one to initiate any intimacy, and the Warden needs high coercion to convince her to join.

Considering that you can persuade party members that exterminating the Circle mages or the Dalish Elves is the right thing to do, I really don't think convincing a liberal minded woman to engage in sexual acticity with three attractive young people is really something to fault Isabela for.

I'm not. I'm not even saying that it was objectively wrong. I'm just saying that it makes her unattractive as a romance prospect. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't be too thrilled to be with a girl who I know got double teamed in the back of a seedy tavern by strangers.

Edit: Oh, I'm sorry, she got Persuaded to do so. That absolves her of all responsibility.

question: Did you romance Leliana? leliana was more or less the first Isabela in the Dragon Age series. As a bard, she used her womanly wiles to seduce all kinds of men, yet she can fall for you. If you did romance her, you're kinda being a hypocrite, saying that seducing a woman who has sex a lot isn't your choice of a romance, yet you have already done so. That's only if you did. IF.

[The Ethereal Writer]

Sheryl Chee wrote...

KhorinShizucor wrote...
PLEASE NO. I so hate that character. Sheryl Chee, please tell us Jack Sparrow isn't an inspiration.

Well, they both drink a lot, and wear earrings and bandanas. But I think the similarities end there? 

I watched more Firefly and Star Wars (Original Flavor) while writing her plan, rather than Pirates of the Carribean.

they also both enjoy having sex a LOT. so, bandanas, earrings, rum, sex, rum, sex, rum, more rum and sex, throw in some sex, maybe some witty banter, some rum, and to top it off, some more sex and rum and you have yourself a female Jack Sparrow!

[The Ethereal Writer]

Pseudocognition wrote...

Bruddajakka wrote...

....Actually...

Hawke: [to foe] Now you die!
Isabela: Wait, wait!
Hawke, Foe: ??
Isbela: I simply must have him before he dies.
Foe: !!! 
Hawke: o___o ... Isabela-- I thought we went over this...
Isabela: "Ssssssssshhhh" Turns back to the enemy and walks over to him all slinky like running her hands down her body seductively. The Foe quickly becoming enraptured.
Hawke:
Isabela: When she reaches the enemy she appears to lean in to kiss him all only to drive her dagger up into his stomach snarling as she does, she turns back to a blinking Hawke, and grins licking her lips "Sorry about that...bastard cheated me out of ten sovereigns in a card game a couple of months back
Varric: I love that woman.

That seems to be taking it a bit too far into, uh, psychosis territory.

to quote a status I made on Facebook a while back (one that was liked by many a friend of mine) "We're all ****ed up in our own little ****ed up ways"

Everyone is a little psychotic in some way(s).

[crimzontearz]

That's the point Maria....you may never even "meet" her. I am VERY afraid she might be a watered down romance....I hope not....there is a lot of potential for it to be SO rewarding

[Ammonite]

crimzontearz wrote...

That's the point Maria....you may never even "meet" her. I am VERY afraid she might be a watered down romance....I hope not....there is a lot of potential for it to be SO rewarding

Was it possible to miss Leliana btw? Like, not head into that tavern at all and never meet her? If Isabela's romance is a short fling and not a full-blown LI-type romance (that is available for femHawke) I will be so disappointed.

Also, I wish we had some concept art of Isabela. The style of Aveline and Varric's concept arts makes me want to see the Isabela one.

[Maria Caliban]

Ammonite wrote...

Was it possible to miss Leliana btw?

Yes.

[upsettingshorts]

Don't go in the tavern in Lothering, yup.

[Shepard Lives]

In before "the developers are NEVER EVER going to include content that SOMEONE might miss".

[upsettingshorts]

So I just stumbled across Belit, of Conan fame. And now I really need to read "The Queen of the Black Coast."

More accurately, I've got this massive centennial collection of Howard's work that I've only barely dented, and I should read it in its entirety. By Crom, I spend too much time on BSN. Must read more Howard.

[Maria Caliban]

"She turned toward Conan, her bosom heaving, her eyes flashing. Fierce fingers of wonder caught at his heart. She was slender, yet formed like a goddess: at once lithe and voluptuous. Her only garment was a broad silken girdle. Her white ivory limbs and the ivory globes of her breasts drove a beat of fierce passion through the Cimmerian's pulse, even in the panting fury of battle. Her rich black hair, black as a Stygian night, fell in rippling burnished clusters down her supple back. Her dark eyes burned on the Cimmerian."

Howard did set the standard for bardic language in fantasy.

It's a pity that most heroic fantasy today is written with the same rhythms and language as standard, middle-class conversation. Interestingly enough, I've noticed that science fiction authors tailor their words to the setting more than their fantasy counterparts in spite of the genre's aversion to stylistic matters.

[upsettingshorts]

I am sadly very green in terms of exposure to the literal aspects of the genre. I mean, I've read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but that's about it. I've read more, but not a ton, of science fiction. Generally I read nonfiction and historical fiction like the Aubrey-Maturin series - which explains my interest in the nature of Isabela's pirate ship - and Sherlock Holmes, but one of these days - heck maybe even today - I'll start a serious effort to finish this massive Howard book I've got and see where it goes from there.

Most of what I know of Howard and Conan lore comes from Age of Conan and not anything Howard or any later authors actually wrote in the universe.

Modifié par Upsettingshorts, 29 novembre 2010 - 06:14 .

[crimzontearz]

shepard_lives wrote...

In before "the developers are NEVER EVER going to include content that SOMEONE might miss".

Your egsageration is founded on truth tho. Devs are far less likely to flesh out content that is optional




And that is why you know deep inside you are getting a whole new squad in ME3 while everyone else is getting cameos

[upsettingshorts]

crimzontearz wrote...

And that is why you know deep inside you are getting a whole new squad in ME3 while everyone else is getting cameos

I will rage like 1000 CoS Sarah Jinstars when that is announced.   Retroactively ruin ME2 that will.

[Shepard Lives]

If the ME2 squad gets sh*tcanned in Mass Effect 3, I will not buy Mass Effect 3. It's that simple.



And Shorts... one thousand Jinstars? That's a lot of condescension and elitism. It'd be a serious hazard to your health (and to mine upon reading it).

[Maria Caliban]

No need to bring Sarah into the conversation.

[upsettingshorts]

Maria Caliban wrote...

No need to bring Sarah into the conversation.

In my gratuitous indulgence into hyperbole, I couldn't think of a better metric.  I could have said, "I will become even more of an obnoxious ass hole than usual" - and in hindsight that probably would have been funnier.

Modifié par Upsettingshorts, 29 novembre 2010 - 06:45 .

[Shepard Lives]

Maria Caliban wrote...

No need to bring Sarah into the conversation.

I suppose you're right.