The Ethereal Writer Redux wrote...
"Yes Elthina, the Maker does exist. He's going click-click, click-click, click-click on me and it's really ****ing annoying."
Orsino: We need a distraction.
Hawke: What do you want me to do, dress in drag and do the hula?!"
Varric: Okay, so I embellished on Orsino. He didn't actually betray us. But come on Seeker, it sounds much better!
Hawke: You know Arishok, for a great general you didn't exactly make the most of Hightown's defendable stairways. For shame.
Marethari: The demon would've used the Eluvian to escape into our world. You would've been his first victim.
Hawke: Wait a minute... how the hell do you know that? From what Merrill tells me you haven't even studied the Eluvians because they've been so "bad".
Marethari: The demon told me. And he had to have been telling the truth.
Merrill: But Keeper, you said that he was trapped for centuries in that statue and could never escape. And you preached to me about not trusting demons, yet you trust him when you've become an Abomination?
Marethari: .....****.
Marethari: Many of the clan think you'll bring back the Blight disease.
Merrill: And where would they get an idea like that?
Marethari: I told them. It was my duty to warn the clan. Come back to us, da'len. It is not too late.
Hawke: ....great logic there ******. If she did have the taint, ceasing contact with the mirror wouldn't keep the taint from contracting.
Merrill: Not to mention I cleansed it, Keeper. As I've said before.
Marethari: *looks nervous and is speechless at being proven to be an idiot*
All very good ideas.
Here's an idea: if they were going to bring in a Mass Effect-style conversation wheel for Dragon Age 2, then why not bring in the Interrupts from ME 2 as well? Having a Paragon Interrupt to hug Merrill (as many others have suggested), or a Renegade one to tell off Anders or Fenris would be great, and would work well in adding a bit of dynamism to the conversation system in this game. Not that I mind the conversation wheel, but if they were going to do it, why not do it all the way?
Anyways, some dialogue suggestions: (Btw, with some of the companions' dialogue, I'll be paraphrasing, as I don't have the specific lines in front of me at the moment)
Anders: Are you sure about Merrill? She may seem like a sweet girl, but she'll never choose you over her demon.
Hawke: Just like you'll never choose someone over your cause?
Anders: That's different.
Hawke: Isn't it? That's why you left the Wardens, right? Not because of your cat, or the fact that you don't like the Deep Roads, it's that they stood for something other than what you were devoted to.
Anders: The Wardens have nothing to do with this.
Hawke: They have everything to do with this. The Wardens gave you a home, a family, and you abandoned them all the same. Whatever Merrill's faults, whatever are disagreements, I trust that she wouldn't betray me.
Anders: You don't know that.
Hawke: I don't. That's what trust is, and whatever else, Merrill has earned it.
(Obviously, this would be a bit different if Merrill betrayed you in the Fade, but the core of it is there)
Elthina: We must trust in the Maker, and hope that he helps them come to an understanding.
Hawke: With all due respect, Your Grace, that attitude helped nothing when the Qunari were here, and it's not going to help everything now.
Elthina: I beg your pardon?
Hawke: This...this blithe assumption that the Maker will set everything right if we just sit back and cool our heels. The Maker abandoned us, Your Grace. Every week, you and your fellow sisters of the Chantry come up here and tell us that He's gone, and we all need to repent and be good little boys and girls if we ever want Him to pay attention to us again, and now you're suggesting that we let Him solve the problem?
Elthina: So you think that taking sides is better?
Hawke: I think stopping Meredith from Tranquilizing mages who have already passed their Harrowing for petty infractions is better. I think forcing her to give her power over this city back into the hands of its people so they might be represented is better. I think using your own authority to actively mediate and resolve disputes between the Circle and templars instead of resorting to condescending assurances is better. War is coming to Kirkwall, Your Grace, and if you won't help to stop it, I mean
really help to stop it, then you're worse than useless and we have no need of you.
(Variations of this would occur depending on Hawke's personality, as well as dialog options indicating their own devoutness and respect for the Chantry.)
Arishok: But for all your might, you are no different than these
bas. You do not see.
Hawke: I see that you're a cretin, Arishok. I see that you're a spoiled little child who's brought war and death to this city all because Isabela took your stupid book. And I see you've murdered one of the few men who was trying to keep the peace, who tried his best to appease you, and cared more about Saemus than you ever did. So, yes, mighty Arishok, I see quite well; enough to know you need to be stopped, here and now.
Fenris: I feel like it's very presence has corrupted me. What has magic touched that it hasn't spoiled?
Hawke: My sister. My kind and sweet and beautiful and amazing sister, Fenris, who would not be pleased to hear you speaking in such a fashion.
Fenris: Hawke, I-
Hawke: Bethany is wonderful, Fenris, and nothing will ever change that, not age or time or magic or serving with the Wardens. So be silent and take your mage-hating bigotry with you, I'm tired of hearing it.
Cullen: Champion. It seems you have become less of a friend to the templars as time has gone on.
Hawke: Well, seeing you and your brethren running roughshod over Kirkwall in an attempt to catch mages will do that to you. The city belongs to the people, not the Templar Order, and it's long past time that Meredith understood that.
Cullen: This is just a temporary measure to en-
Hawke: Ensure Kirkwall's safety, yes, I've heard this before. From everything I've heard, Teryn Loghain said as much to justify his betrayal and tyranny, and the Hero of Fereldan chopped his head off with Starfang all the same.
Cullen: The teryn was not serving the Maker. Our intentions are in accordance with the Chantry's will.
Hawke: That doesn't make it right, Cullen, and you don't have a reputation as the Hero of River Dane to fall back on. Remember that.
(Of course, a variation would occur if the Hero is a mage; ie, "The Hero of Fereldan still ripped him apart with great demon-hands from the Fade," etc.)
And since I felt the Diplomatic!Hawke speech when defending the mages during the Last Straw was a bit weak, here's an alternative.
Hawke: Meredith thinks she has us trapped here. She thinks that she can just march in here and butcher an innocent group of men, women and children for a crime they did not commit, and she thinks she can do so without anyone opposing her. Well, she thought wrong.
I will oppose her. I will oppose her now, I will keep on opposing her, and all those like her, no matter the odds and no matter the consequences. If that means our death, our damnation, then so be it, for I will not allow her crimes to go unpunished, and I will not permit the innocent to suffer while I still have the strength to defend them.
So, come on! Let's give the Templars the fight they're asking for. Let's show them that tyrants will always be denied, no matter what emblem they wear or cause they invoke. Let's show them that we will not let fear compromise us and what we hold dear. Let's show them that not even the Maker Himself will keep us from doing the right thing, and that even He will tremble at our names before this night is done. For Kirkwall, for freedom, for the future;
we will deny them.
Modifié par ThePhoenixKing, 22 juillet 2011 - 06:49 .
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