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[Eldrid]

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lol you probably got the same Divine I did on my first playthrough.

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I aggressively campaigned for Cassandra, but probably messed something up by being too nice to Leliana, ending up stuck with Vivienne. On subsequent playthroughs I made sure to tell Leliana "you'd make a terrible Divine" so there'd be no shadow of doubt that I don't want her there, despite my siding with Celene, so the game wouldn't get mixed signals and ninja Vivienne on me.

 

 

Wahhhhhh. I do not want this! ^^^^^

 

 

Nuuuu, I am not on that part yet but I'd probably be upset that did happen.

 

[Annarl]

Has anybody seen what Cullen does when you break-up with him? It turns out, the most EVILEST thing you can do to him is friend-zone him! You have to watch the very end of this video to see the look on his face when you tell him you just wanna be fwends.... >_< 

 

https://www.youtube....h?v=AI2hJcylPWc

 

Don't know how to embed videos in posts--sorry! 

wow that is a rough watch...

Must go load game and hug him 

[Sifr]

The only bug I noticed was that for some reason, I never got the dance option in Halamshiral. It's supposed to have the person who comes upto you after talking to Morrigan be your LI, yet I was aggressively romancing Cass, but I had Josie show up instead?

 

Was she trying to ninjamance me and Cassandra was currently busy being tied up in the broom closet?

 

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

The only bug I noticed was that for some reason, I never got the dance option in Halamshiral. It's supposed to have the person who comes upto you after talking to Morrigan be your LI, yet I was aggressively romancing Cass, but I had Josie show up instead?

 

Was she trying to ninjamance me and Cassandra was currently busy being tied up in the broom closet?

 

 

Did you get the option to dance with Josephine? 

[Sifr]

Did you get the option to dance with Josephine? 

 

I did get the option, but I didn't want to cheat on Cass... nor did I dare to!

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

I did get the option, but I didn't want to cheat on Cass... nor did I dare to!

 

Lol, Cass would snap you in half over her knee.

 

That is so weird. Josephine has just gone from the Disney princess of the game to the girl from that movie Swimfan.   

[Sensenmensch]

I've read elsewhere that Josie is simply the default for the scene, so you get her if you aren't far enough along in the romance with your chosen LI (or didn't bring them to the ball).

[Xeyska]

I AM DYING!!!!

 

 

Well, now I know who took Cullen's underwear during the Wicked Grace scene.

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

Well, she was beneath the table the whole time. 

[Monica21]

Also... totally random, but I just noticed for the first time in my next Keep import that the Warden and Hawke I chose both have the same first name. LOL I'm so unoriginal!!

 

Hah, I do that too. I love the name Fiona and that was my canon Warden's name, but all before I'd read The Calling. And now I can't name anyone that. I try to stick with Gaelic or Celtic names for DA games.

 

 

Also... not sure if other folks were as baffled as I was about the Divine choice at the end. It honestly kinda p issed me off who I ended up with. But there's a thread that talks about how it's influenced. Not what I expected. At all. In fact... not sure I would even call it a "choice" the way it's represented.

 

http://forum.bioware...rst-post-12314/

 

In part I love that Bioware did it this way, because there are so many little things that can impact the outcome. And not just in that, but in everything else. It feels like "game management" is actually a big part of the game. But in part it's super annoying because there doesn't seem to be a set way to make sure <spoiler> is the Divine. I have a notebook that I have to write stuff down in as far as advisors and how the war table missions branch. I have yet to decide how much I enjoy that part, mostly because it's an aspect I'm not used to.

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

Eh, I have been trying to decide on how I am going to start my Cullen/Trev fic and the answer has been alluding me. I was messing around with the idea of opening with a letter from mumma and poppa Trev becuase I was kind of disappointed that we got feuding distant relatives getting in contact with us but nothing from the folks. Any who, here is the letter, unedited because it is nearly 4 in the morning. Yay or nay?

 

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Dear Laurel,

 

I apologise, I have been selfish. I should have written sooner. Things have been—well, confusing. Your brother’s are lost to us and my heart aches for them yet through all the pain I feel gloriously happy because the Maker thought not to take you from us as well. Do I mourn the loss of my sons or do I celebrate the life of my daughter? That is the question I have been asking myself and as soon as I put quill to vellum to pen this letter, I found my answer—I choose to celebrate your life, Laurel. Maker have mercy on your father and me for you are all we have left.

 

I was going to demand your return home but thought better of it. The truth is if you have not already walked through our doors then you have made the decision to stay. You have always been a wilful girl, past experiences of going head-to-head with you has taught me that such a request would only result in a waste of ink.

 

I know what they say of you. “The Herald of Andraste” is spoken in hushed tones as I take my morning walk around the markets. Their eyes are always averted when I try to meet them, as if they are not worthy of looking upon the mother of the woman who has been touched by our lady. I do not know if what they speak is true and I do not know of what dangers you face, but I beg of you, be as safe as possible.

 

I pray for you every day and I have faith that they will be answered.

 

I leave you with my heart.

 

 

 

Laurel,

 

Your mother may not ask it of you but I will—please come home. 

[Tishina]

Lol, best thing ever! Our boy has got some exhibitionist kink going on there!   

 

Edit: He totes went for the boob in that last one! 

OK, that's even better than the open door to the battlements

 

Yes, and he was feeling some sideboob from the other side with the regular cam too. Direct approach indeed!    

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

OK, that's even better than the open door to the battlements

 

Yes, and he was feeling some sideboob from the other side with the regular cam too. Direct approach indeed!  

 

I like that he is going for what he wants. 

[R2s Muse]

lol you probably got the same Divine I did on my first playthrough.

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I aggressively campaigned for Cassandra, but probably messed something up by being too nice to Leliana, ending up stuck with Vivienne. On subsequent playthroughs I made sure to tell Leliana "you'd make a terrible Divine" so there'd be no shadow of doubt that I don't want her there, despite my siding with Celene, so the game wouldn't get mixed signals and ninja Vivienne on me.

That's what annoys me. I *did* do that...

 

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with Leliana. 

 

What I don't understand, still, is why I got an actual actual choice in game for Lel (i.e., game's paraphrase warns me officiall "You will now support Leliana for Divine", to which I said, "no."), but no one else. With Cass, I told her repeatedly she'd make a good Divine, but it was never an official choice to support her. Grrr. So freakin' Vivienne??  Worse. Choice. EVER. Almost annoying enough to reload... except that apparently it takes me whole freakin playthrough to determine it. Vexing, to say the least.  

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

That's what annoys me. I *did* do that...

 

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with Leliana. 

 

What I don't understand, still, is why I got an actual actual choice in game for Lel (i.e., game's paraphrase warns me officiall "You will now support Leliana for Divine", to which I said, "no."), but no one else. With Cass, I told her repeatedly she'd make a good Divine, but it was never an official choice to support her. Grrr. So freakin' Vivienne??  Worse. Choice. EVER. Almost annoying enough to reload... except that apparently it takes me whole freakin playthrough to determine it. Vexing, to say the least.  

 

I am so afraid of this happening. For me it would be a wasted play-through. 

[Tishina]

Eh, I have been trying to decide on how I am going to start my Cullen/Trev fic and the answer has been alluding me. I was messing around with the idea of opening with a letter from mumma and poppa Trev becuase I was kind of disappointed that we got feuding distant relatives getting in contact with us but nothing from the folks. Any who, here is the letter, unedited because it is nearly 4 in the morning. Yay or nay?

 

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Dear Laurel,

 

I apologise, I have been selfish. I should have written sooner. Things have been—well, confusing. Your brother’s are lost to us and my heart aches for them yet through all the pain I feel gloriously happy because the Maker thought not to take you from us as well. Do I mourn the loss of my sons or do I celebrate the life of my daughter? That is the question I have been asking myself and as soon as I put quill to vellum to pen this letter, I found my answer—I choose to celebrate your life, Laurel. Maker have mercy on your father and me for you are all we have left.

 

I was going to demand your return home but thought better of it. The truth is if you have not already walked through our doors then you have made the decision to stay. You have always been a wilful girl, past experiences of going head-to-head with you has taught me that such a request would only result in a waste of ink.

 

I know what they say of you. “The Herald of Andraste” is spoken in hushed tones as I take my morning walk around the markets. Their eyes are always averted when I try to meet them, as if they are not worthy of looking upon the mother of the woman who has been touched by our lady. I do not know if what they speak is true and I do not know of what dangers you face, but I beg of you, be as safe as possible.

 

I pray for you every day and I have faith that they will be answered.

 

I leave you with my heart.

 

 

 

Laurel,

 

Your mother may not ask it of you but I will—please come home. 

I like that! But

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I'm not sure I'd head cannon a Trev as the only survivor of her siblings (and honestly, why would the oldest and heir have been at the peace summit?). An only child suddenly becomes heir and who she marries becomes a lot more important. Unless you like the idea of putting Cullen through that sort of struggle with her family

However, a letter suddenly gives me an idea for how to add a transition to my story... (no, I have a deadline tomorrow, no story writing until I'm done )

[riverbanks]

.... there doesn't seem to be a set way to make sure <spoiler> is the Divine.

There are some sure fire ways to avoid the one you absolutely don't want, such as

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freeing the mages guarantees you won't get Cass and freely allying with the Templars guarantees you won't get Leliana.

 

The problem is that once you've ruled out the one you don't want, the choice between the one you're aiming for and the ninja Divine gets muddled with other choices that you either don't foresee will have much of an impact (such as being heavily pro or anti-Chantry), or other unrelated choices you may not feel comfortable changing, such as ruler of Orlais. I will not put Gaspard on the throne, no matter what, so that shoots my favorite Divine candidate's chances at the knees, and I have to carefully navigate around the rest of smaller choices to make sure they weight out in her favor and don't accidentally tip the scales too much to the ninja's side.

 

This is worst than min/maxing the outcome of the Landsmeet.

[R2s Muse]

You should never not patch your game, as a general rule. There's always ciritical fixes in a patch, even if we don't see everything it does. This last one fixed a lot of performance issues and adressed a bunch of little broken coding things, and the hotfix did away with the shiny hair bug, so there's no reason not to patch.

Weeellll, I don't think you can say this definitely if patching your game is known to introduce new, not-yet-constrained variables that for some have created new problems. If the patch is perfect, then, sure, of course patch and improve your game. But only if it actually improves. A bandaid on top of a bandaid is not confidence inspiring.

 

That being said, I'm frakked anyway. I can't import from the Keep with Origin Offline. Which means I can't start a new PT til I patch anyway. *big annoyed sigh* I guess here goes nothin. 

[FFZero]

Hmm I seem to be in a minority then. I loved the whole system around who gets picked for divine. It actually responds to your choices, if you do things that promote changing everything and making a more equal society you get leliana, if you just want reform you get Cass and if you want to maintain the status quo and make no changes at all you get viv. It feels more realistic, I like that certain decisions within the games universe are out of your control to a degree and are dictated by your actions not a one off choice. 

[Boomshakalakalakaboom]

I like that! But

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I'm not sure I'd head cannon a Trev as the only survivor of her siblings (and honestly, why would the oldest and heir have been at the peace summit?). An only child suddenly becomes heir and who she marries becomes a lot more important. Unless you like the idea of putting Cullen through that sort of struggle with her family

However, a letter suddenly gives me an idea for how to add a transition to my story... (no, I have a deadline tomorrow, no story writing until I'm done )

 

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Well, I have head-cannoned her father as being a bit of a soft touch when it comes to his only daughter as to why she has been able to get away with toeing the line thus far. I do have a work around for her being the heir but I still don't know which way I am going to go with it. Her mother is totally going to suggest Sebastian as the perfect match now that she is in a more prominent position (when she becomes quizzy, that is).  

 

[LolaLei]

Weeellll, I don't think you can say this definitely if patching your game is known to introduce new, not-yet-constrained variables that for some have created new problems. If the patch is perfect, then, sure, of course patch and improve your game. But only if it actually improves. A bandaid on top of a bandaid is not confidence inspiring.

 

That being said, I'm frakked anyway. I can't import from the Keep with Origin Offline. Which means I can't start a new PT til I patch anyway. *big annoyed sigh* I guess here goes nothin. 

 

It's made more ambient dialogue pop for me, and the hotfix solved the shiny hair problem. That aside the game is still uber buggy.

[R2s Muse]

Hmm I seem to be in a minority then. I loved the whole system around who gets picked for divine. It actually responds to your choices, if you do things that promote changing everything and making a more equal society you get leliana, if you just want reform you get Cass and if you want to maintain the status quo and make no changes at all you get viv. It feels more realistic, I like that certain decisions within the games universe are out of your control to a degree and are dictated by your actions not a one off choice. 

In theory, I agree. However, in practice... I felt I was making reform choices. Pfft. I guess part of it is definitional. 

[CENIC]

There are some sure fire ways to avoid the one you absolutely don't want, such as

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freeing the mages guarantees you won't get Cass and freely allying with the Templars guarantees you won't get Leliana.

I can confirm that I was able to wrangle

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Cassandra as Divine despite allying with the mages

In dialogue I supported Chantry reform, and when options came up to support her for Divine, I took them (I also agreed with one of the other candidates in dialogue where she said my choice would be the best option)
The only war table support mission I unlocked was for the candidate I had been supporting from the start.

As for the third candidate:

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I outright refused to support Leliana when the option came up despite feeling like a OOC jerk because I'd heard how that can mess up your plans

[R2s Muse]

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Well, I have head-cannoned her father as being a bit of a soft touch when it comes to his only daughter as to why she has been able to get away with toeing the line thus far. I do have a work around for her being the heir but I still don't know which way I am going to go with it. Her mother is totally going to suggest Sebastian as the perfect match now that she is in a more prominent position (when she becomes quizzy, that is).

 

On Boom's story

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FWIW, I loved the Father part. Maybe doesn't hurt to let there be an heir somewhere who isn't her? I always headcanon that Seb is Thedas's most eligible bachelor. LOL

[Elessie]

There are some sure fire ways to avoid the one you absolutely don't want, such as

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freeing the mages guarantees you won't get Cass and freely allying with the Templars guarantees you won't get Leliana.

 

 

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I had Cass with mages as full allies.  Unless freeing means something else?  If so I missed something in my playthrough.