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Talked to husband for two hours, educating him about each companion from Origins and DA2. Then Each country. All the organizations. And the Political positions/monarchy set up. Also, the Qun, to some extent, as I don't fully understand their setup.

I haven't even brought up Inquisition companions and main goals yet, because it's all of that information combined coming into play. So, It would be hard to describe the Companions and goals of Inquisition without understanding the religion and organizations and monarchies involved. You agree? :P

He now says he's going to have to let this information soak in before hearing any more. He's feeling overwhelmed. Hahahahaha

 

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Decided to do a PT, experimenting with mods. Yes, mods. I did say I didn't want to do it but there's a lack of exciting games at the moment so I decided to do some tomfoolery.  :D

 

So first thing, what did I search for?  HAIR!  :lol:  I didn't find anything I like. The long hair styles do not fit my perception of warriors. Couldn't find a ponytail version I like; wish I could teleport the DA2 version. The Inq face I always constructed does not compliment long flowing hair;  her face is always lean and angular. Found a couple of shorter hair crops with spiky fringes, looks nice at one angle and terrible when viewed all around. *sigh* Why didn't someone did some adjustment to the usual "spiky" hairstyle I often chose? All it needs is a hairline adjustment, shortening and gluing down the sideburns and trimming the back. I ended up picking the shaved sides with a crop on top.  :lol:  That's the vanilla version. 

 

I thought it looked ugly, reason why I never chose that style. Looking at the Inq now, I thought it kind of fit her. Can get very hot under the helmet and all that fighting.

 

I grabbed the following:

 

zero timer for war table - splendid!

no animation for looting - splendid!

Trespasser schematics readily available at stores (think it's a few armor version that have no schematics in game, I like one particular heavy armor style but it cannot be crafted. Hopefully, this mod has it.) - have not advanced far enough yet to get to those stores

 

P.S. Oh yes, and eyebrows.


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I haven't played Pike's PT in a few days, because I was busy watching Critical Role, but I thought about who I wanted to recruit/not recruit and I'm confronted with two problems:

 

  • I didn't want to recruit Bull, but CR!Pike is best friends with Grog Strongjaw, the Goliath Barbarian.
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    so I basically HAVE to recruit Bull.
  • I didn't want to recruit Viv (she adds nothing and just annoys me) but I can see Pike rebuilding the circles, to give mages a home and keep them save.

ugh  :pinched:  :unsure:


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I haven't played Pike's PT in a few days, because I was busy watching Critical Role, but I thought about who I wanted to recruit/not recruit and I'm confronted with two problems:

  • I didn't want to recruit Bull, but CR!Pike is best friends with Grog Strongjaw, the Goliath Barbarian.
    Spoiler
    so I basically HAVE to recruit Bull.
  • I didn't want to recruit Viv (she adds nothing and just annoys me) but I can see Pike rebuilding the circles, to give mages a home and keep them save.
ugh :pinched: :unsure:
The biggest realistic reason to not recruit Bull is #1 he openly admits to being a spy and #2 your fledgling inquisition is broke and can't afford a toutedly expensive mercenary company.

And any Divine comes up with a place for the Mages to be. So why can't Pike just make upgrading Skyhold a priority and make the tower into a Mage's sanctuary?

I think my next game I will not accept Michael Chevin as an agent. I personally can't stand the Cheviliers. But I've played Characters that don't know what they do to have to join, so ugh...
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Bravo! I don't think I could have summarized all that in under 2 days, let along 2 hours!

I wasn't explaining the story of the games at all, although he's been properly spoiled on the big things because I didn't know I was going to want him to play when I became obsessed in March.
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My Qun explanation was like. "Ya know the book, The Giver? That and communism. With a heavy dose of expansionism via their military. Men do the fighting, women do everything else. Arishok is the military leader. And every second class citizen in Thedas would rather join the Qun, so there is a lot of defection/converts. Unless you're a mage, because they chain you up and sew your mouth shut. Your name is your job, so Sten from Origins is called Sten because it means soldier. And the reason Sten doesn't have horns is the same reason that the Kilingons were originally depicted as Russians with a lot of facial hair."

"We don't talk about it?"

"Exactly."
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Which, I guess if you aren't a Star Trek fan, you won't get that reference from a time travel episode in Deep Space 9, but let me assure you, we laughed.

So, with explanations roughly as trimmed down as that, you get "The Big Players" of Thedas in 2 hours.

My description of some of the countries: Rivain is half run by pirates, Antiva is half run by assassins, the Anderfels is half run by Wardens. :P
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This happened while I was streaming, so glad I got it on camera.

 

https://youtu.be/MHw...H8QY?t=3h51m29s

 

ROFL. That's great, perfect timing.



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I wasn't explaining the story of the games at all, although he's been properly spoiled on the big things because I didn't know I was going to want him to play when I became obsessed in March.
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My Qun explanation was like. "Ya know the book, The Giver? That and communism. With a heavy dose of expansionism via their military. Men do the fighting, women do everything else. Arishok is the military leader. And every second class citizen in Thedas would rather join the Qun, so there is a lot of defection/converts. Unless you're a mage, because they chain you up and sew your mouth shut. Your name is your job, so Sten from Origins is called Sten because it means soldier. And the reason Sten doesn't have horns is the same reason that the Kilingons were originally depicted as Russians with a lot of facial hair."

"We don't talk about it?"

"Exactly."
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Which, I guess if you aren't a Star Trek fan, you won't get that reference from a time travel episode in Deep Space 9, but let me assure you, we laughed.

So, with explanations roughly as trimmed down as that, you get "The Big Players" of Thedas in 2 hours.

My description of some of the countries: Rivain is half run by pirates, Antiva is half run by assassins, the Anderfels is half run by Wardens. :P

 

 

Nice! Love the ST reference. Funny coincidence, I just used that exact same ST scene to answer the question, "Why do Genlocks and Deathroot look different between DAO, DA2 and DAI? Which is canon?"

 

I couldn't have short-hand summarized like that, because I'm congenitally compelled to tell all sides of the story (middle child syndrome). I couldn't say "every second class citizen wants to join the Qun" without talking about Tal-Vashoths, which would get me onto Vashoths, pros/cons, etc., etc., etc., etc.

 

I'm not saying you should! I'm just saying why I'm no good at doing summaries.


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Nice! Love the ST reference. Funny coincidence, I just used that exact same ST scene to answer the question, "Why do Genlocks and Deathroot look different between DAO, DA2 and DAI? Which is canon?"
 
I couldn't have short-hand summarized like that, because I'm congenitally compelled to tell all sides of the story (middle child syndrome). I couldn't say "every second class citizen wants to join the Qun" without talking about Tal-Vashoths, which would get me onto Vashoths, pros/cons, etc., etc., etc., etc.
 
I'm not saying you should! I'm just saying why I'm no good at doing summaries.


I probably will get into Tal Vashoth in Inquisition when I get around to Iron Bull. I know they're in DA2 but I'm focusing on Companions and where they're from not side stories. So it's not relevant within that specific frame until Iron Bull the companion appears.
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DA2 is the only game that had characters with actual motivations and clearly defined acts dammit
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The biggest realistic reason to not recruit Bull is #1 he openly admits to being a spy and #2 your fledgling inquisition is broke and can't afford a toutedly expensive mercenary company.

And any Divine comes up with a place for the Mages to be. So why can't Pike just make upgrading Skyhold a priority and make the tower into a Mage's sanctuary?

I think my next game I will not accept Michael Chevin as an agent. I personally can't stand the Cheviliers. But I've played Characters that don't know what they do to have to join, so ugh...

 

#1 doesn't that make him an honest spy? 

#2 Bull tells you when you ask him about payment, that he'll work that out with Josie. And my Inkys are never broke, they always have too much money (except after buying The Big One)

My reason to not recruit him, would be that much of his banter creeps me out. :?

 

That's true, but I have in all my other PTs NEVER done Viv's quest about restoring the Circles. Never. I've done her Wyvern heart quest, but never "Favors the First Enchanter". 

.....ugh even thinking about that gives me the creeps.  :pinched: I think I'm not gonna recruit her, but the last word has Pike.

 

 

Slightly related, I played a little and wanted to record it, but OBS didn't record any of it, so have the one pic, of the many I took from the cutscene, which I like.

 

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The journey of Warden Commander Drako Amell, The Hero of Ferelden: (DA:O, DA:A, and Witch hunt)
 
The Chronicles of Tyros Hawke, Champion of Kirkwall:
 
Where to start this... The Blight seems the best place. I was living in Highever at the time. Made a fair living with a local mercenary band. When word of the massing Darkspawn reached Highever, I dispatched a letter back to Lothering to my brother Carver to bring Mother and our sister Bethany up to stay with me until the danger had passed. A week later I received a letter from Bethany saying that Carver had run off to join the Kings men in the wilds. I should have expected as much. He has always been desperate to prove himself. I headed to Lothering that night...
 
...After reaching Lothering I spent three days trying to convince mother to leave with me. She refused to leave without Carver. On the third night a small army marched through the village. They had the crest of Gwaren on their shields. Teryne Loghain's men. They said little other than the darkspawn had over run their position and killed the King and the Grey Wardens. Mother rushed through their number frantically looking for her baby boy. He was no where to be found. One of the soldiers told her that if he wasn't here then he was likely dead on the battle field. She stopped resisting me then. Not the way I wanted to leave this place, but the Darkspawn were coming.
 
The next morning a couple of Grey Wardens came out of the wilds. This renewed her hopes for Carver. If they could survive then surely there must have been a chance for him. I had given up trying to talk her out of it. I was just going to cast a sleep spell on her and Bethany and I would carry her out in a wagon. The Darkspawn couldn't have been far behind those Wardens. We had to move. As I was about to cast my spell, Carver burst in the front door ranting about the horde. Mother was overjoyed. Bethany was just plain angry he went out there in the first place. No time for fighting. With him back it was time to run.
 
As we exited, the roars of the Darkspawn could be heard closing in on the town. Bethany and I hurled fireballs at the tree line to try and slow their approach and give the few people in town a little more time to escape. We four took off for one of the back roads until we came across a Templar and a female soldier. Wesley and Aveline. A married couple trying to flee the horde. The fact that Bethany and I were mages did not escape his notice. Made for a tense introduction. We put those matters aside for the moment as the Darkspawn were closing fast. We got cornered on a hill top. Bethany was killed. In a fit of rage, I poured all I had into a crushing prison spell and tore the beast that killed her into pieces.
 
I was exhausted afterwards and the Darkspawn were still coming. The templar was badly wounded. Aveline and Carver couldn't hold off the horde alone. I thought all was lost when suddenly a dragon appeared. It flew over and scorched the earth and wiped out the Darkspawn on the hill side. Those that she didn't kill ran off. Can't blame them. She was a fearsome monster. A monster that transformed into an old woman. A witch with powers unlike anything I had ever seen. I had never even heard of such magic. I tried to be charming. She did just save our lives after all. She even agreed to help us get to safety provided were do a favor for her. Deliver a necklace to an elf. An odd request, but we were in no position to refuse.
 
The Templar, Wesley, did not survive. He had been infected by the darkspawn.  The corruption is lethal. It is an agonizing death. I have no love of Templars, but even I know that this is no way for a good man to die. While he was still himself I... ended him. Aveline was obviously devastated. Not only did she lose her husband, but we had to leave his body behind. 
 
The Darkspawn had cut off our path to to Highever so we made our way to the waking sea to cross over to the Free Marches. The witch left our company once we were away from the Darkspawn. I can sense and eerie magic coming off this necklace, but a deals a deal. I'll get it to the elf at my first opportunity. First we had to get into Kirkwall. Mothers home town. Several boats filled with other refugees were headed there. I knew it would not be easy to get in.
 
It took us over a week to make the crossing and convince the gate guards to let us into the city. We had to sell ourselves to a local mercenary company to afford the bribes to get in. But get in we did. It's not much different than my work with the Blackstones. We'll be living in a slum, but we are safe... most of us... Bethany. I am not the religious sort, but I did pray for her soul that night. I don't know if Mages get to sit by the makers side or whatever that Chantry claptrap is all about, but I hope she finally found some peace. This life was not easy, but we found a way... That's more than many Fereldens could say.

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That's true, but I have in all my other PTs NEVER done Viv's quest about restoring the Circles. Never. I've done her Wyvern heart quest, but never "Favors the First Enchanter". 
.....ugh even thinking about that gives me the creeps.  :pinched: I think I'm not gonna recruit her, but the last word has Pike.

 

All you do in that quest is collect some books. Nothing to do with restoring the Circles. For me, I always do it because the idea of trash mobs and so-called freedom fighters destroying libraries and books makes my blood boil. :angry:


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Anyone here read any of Frederick Pohl's Gateway/Heechee series? As I was passing through eluvian after eluvian in Trespasser yesterday, that is what I was reminded of. How would you like to play a merc hired on to explore various eluvians? Depending on what you find, you can strike it rich B) or die horribly :wacko:. In fact, I imagined the thought crossing Andreia's mind as she went through the Deep Roads eluvian to the hidden wolf shrine with the titan reference: "What happens if this thing opens up underwater?" :blink:

 

Anyway....back I go to the Darvaarad


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Eshana, the Elvan Archer is currently waitng  to close the breach. after spending her time recuting the mages, finding her comapions and trying on Qunari armor. { also flirting with Solas when she can cause by the Maker I can't quit him!}

 

her brother Rinn, The Elvan Warrior is prepareing to rescue the scouts at the Fellow Mire before he bites the bullet and meets with the mages in Redcliffe.


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Finished Trespasser!

 

Had trouble with the Ataashi since I kept getting glued to one of the wheels and unable to move or let go. After a couple of reloads I finally got it to work right. Exploded myself once with the anchor meltdown, then had a nice chat with Solas. Andreia vowed to stop him.

 

Initial end decision was thumbs up (middle option) disband but it was a little too sappy/gung ho for me, so I went back and replayed as angry disband. Then I decided, since I'm unlikely to ever have Divine Vivienne again, to redo it again to keep the Inquisition intact. Sadly, all the ending slides except for Cullen's were exactly the same between disband and keep. I did notice that with both Gaspard and Briala executed, the line about who's on the throne because we put them there is accurate (Andreia said empress instead of emperor like in my other PTs). Also, not sure if I'm misremembering, but in the credits where Cass is reading from Varric's book, she mentioned Blackwall's name in the part about him, but I thought she always said "warden" before and that maybe the name is because of romancing him? Can anyone confirm?

 

Now I have close to 600 screenshots (since Crestwood :wacko:) to get uploaded, so I imagine that's what I'll be doing for the rest of the week. :lol:

 

Final game stats:

Level 27 (not maxed out)

Inq level 23 (mod to allow more than 20)

Power 299

Gold 433723

Game time 162:08 at final save before going through eluvian to talk to Solas


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All you do in that quest is collect some books. Nothing to do with restoring the Circles. For me, I always do it because the idea of trash mobs and so-called freedom fighters destroying libraries and books makes my blood boil. :angry:

 

Yeah, I get that. It's just doing that quest gives Viv points for being Divine and I def don't want her to be Divine.  :pinched:


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The drills were the same. The sounds, the roar of the drill sergeants at hapless recruits were all too familiar. Alaryn paid them no mind. Her focus was on her sparring partner; she knew better than to let her eyes wandered. Her weapons master had smitten her sides often enough to drive the lesson home. She also ignored the silent scrutiny of those waiting their turns to drill.

 

Her sparring partner was someone she had never trained with but they moved as if they had been training for years. They circled, looking for openings, advancing and retreating as if they were in a dance. She lost her sword to a move she had never seen before turning the tables on Cass with a shield pivot that left the Seeker's back vulnerable to a strike. They were evenly match though Cass had an edge on her in shield and sword work.

 

The silent awe was embarrassing when the spar ended. No matter how many times she insisted she wasn't anybody special, they kept behaving as if she was the chosen one. That she could grant their wishes. She was glad when it was decided they should go to Redcliffe and discussed the possibility of an alliance with the mages. Only to find herself facing the same regard from the mages weeks later. They were just as bad as the folk left behind in Haven. Most of them were wringing their hands over Fiona's agreement with the Tewinter mages but none of them was making any moves to try to change the situation. They expected her  to do something.

 

Then everything went sideways when Felix slipped her that note. They had gone to the meeting place to find another Tewinter mage by the name of Dorian, claiming to be once an apprentice of Alexius. The latter gave her a chilly creepy feeling, Dorian made her want to take him down a peg or two. Felix seemed like a nice fellow but she couldn't really trust anyone from Tewinter. 

 

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I have a tendency to veer toward lean faces but I've come to realise the fallacies of the DAI CC. Especially the ridiculous high hairline. I was compensating, trying to balance the high top. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't fit that face to long hair or any bobs. The former is more suitable for mages than warriors. 

 

Anyway, I noticed a small detail just now. When I opened the door of a home in the Hinterlands, I heard the sound of the wind. As the door opened, bits of dust and debris swept into the home from the door. 

 

I was changing my roaming pattern for this PT so Solas was definitely a seer when he commented on Corypheus and Venatori when the inquisitor had not even met Alexius or Cory.


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Anyone here read any of Frederick Pohl's Gateway/Heechee series? As I was passing through eluvian after eluvian in Trespasser yesterday, that is what I was reminded of. How would you like to play a merc hired on to explore various eluvians? Depending on what you find, you can strike it rich B) or die horribly :wacko:. In fact, I imagined the thought crossing Andreia's mind as she went through the Deep Roads eluvian to the hidden wolf shrine with the titan reference: "What happens if this thing opens up underwater?" :blink:


I've read them (sad, sad story). I agree, there is a similarity. We haven't seen a really fatal or even extremely dangerous situation behind an Eluvian yet, just nausea and disorientation for non-elves, but it could happen. Why not? I wouldn't want to run into Elgar'nan behind one of those mirrors. Even if he is asleep.
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Multiplayer leveling for Isabella
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Just finished Crestwood in its entirety... and while my Inquisitor waits for the mayor to be found, she was surprised by Blackwall....... lets just say I was not expecting this run to be a Blackwall romance.  Talk about getting surprised by the character role play.


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Pike finally went to the Hinterlands yesterday

 

 

today she talked to Mother Giselle. (I installed a hair mod right before I went there, love it :wub: )

 

 

Now to Val Royeaux! :D


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Another video. :) I think Pike will recruit Sera next and tell Viv that she isn't interested in her :whistle:


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Okay, Willard can be a jerk, as Hawke... I like.

(Redcliffe Castle)

 

Red Lyrium Blacwall (looks good!)

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Poor Sera, really terrified (and seems I starting to like her. But I can not promise anything yet).

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Leliana

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I created Patrick Treveleyan, good-hearted but devoutly religious archer rogue. Lets see how he handles the temptations of power!


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I've put off uploading any pics since Crestwood (eek!) so it's going to take me a while to get them all done. So far, just got Descent pics uploaded. A few highlights
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That takes care of the main story. Afterwards, I went back to do the fun stuff. :lol:
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More later (or tomorrow :unsure:) from Andreia's Wayback Machine.
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