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[Shadow of Light Dragon]

maxernst wrote...

Shadow of Light Dragon wrote...

But definitely don't go by the game's inventory system. Or prices. A backpack costing more than a bar of gold or flawless diamond? Yeah...wonder what the brand name is...the medieval equivalent of Gucci, perhaps?

 

What?  You mean you don't have your characters saying, "Of course, I can carry another six darkspawn shields, but a small crystal?  I'm completely overburdened!

XD

Thank goodness Ruck was a merchant, that's all I can say.

[ZerbanDaGreat1]

 Hurm, does my mage count as an arcane warrior if he simply fights with a sword? 

Anyway, I kind of glossed over the inventory thing in my fic. It's mostly implied that everyone carries food and camp supplies, and just sticks with their default equipment - the exceptions being Sten and my OC Ven, who's changed equipment a couple of times now. 

Anyway, for things I made up. The horse issue was brought up when the party stopped by Denerim to find Brother Genitivi. They tried to find some horses, but all the good ones had been appropriated for the war effort, and the ones left were terrible. 

The major thing is a piece of special Templar armour made for my OC when the party finishes Broken Circle (lol spoilers). He's an abomination, but the demon had been 'dormant' and weak. The Tranquil make armour for his right arm that suppresses the demon and his powers. Then he goes into the Fade to rescue Connor and the armour gets corrupted and he can use his powers again.

Of course, at this point in the fic Redcliffe village has been burned to the ground and the Mage Tower got its top blown off. Man I've been futzing with the setting.

[jackkel dragon]

ZerbanDaGreat1 wrote...
Of course, at this point in the fic Redcliffe village has been burned to the ground and the Mage Tower got its top blown off. Man I've been futzing with the setting.

That sounds goddamn awesome.

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I just spent the past 2 hours re-reading my 40k-50k current story to get back in the "groove" of writing Tayte. I can't shake the feeling that she seems like a blank slate.  Has anyone else run into the problem of their character's unique traits being obscured by following the plot (in a Blight fic, that is) and needed to fix it? Or is it just me?

Also, I cannot believe what I just did to Arl Eamon in the "Nightmare" chapter.  If hell is repetition, I just did something terrible to him...

[ZerbanDaGreat1]

jackkel dragon wrote...

ZerbanDaGreat1 wrote...
Of course, at this point in the fic Redcliffe village has been burned to the ground and the Mage Tower got its top blown off. Man I've been futzing with the setting.

That sounds goddamn awesome.

It wasn't awesome for Ven . Though I think the method Uldred is defeated is more awesome.


Leliana spent the last of her arrows, finding the scant few chinks in the demon's armour. Sten and Alistair hacked madly at its legs, succeeding in driving it back another step or two before being knocked aside. Elisa charged at the demon and took a massive running leap. She caught hold of the hilt of her sword, still buried in its chest. She swung herself up onto it and drove it as deep as she could, burying the enchanted sword up to the hilt. The Warden let go just before the demon swiped at her, missing her by inches. The demon staggered back, only two steps from the edge. It raised its foot to crush the life out of Elisa.

"Full-power lighting into the sword! Now!" Elisa roared. Wynne and Morrigan obliged. I felt my wind pulse with a sudden burst of power as twin bolts of bright lightning converged into one and blasted into the sword. The demon hung in the air for a split-second, on one leg, with a sword bursting at the seams with magical energy thrust through its chest.

The sword exploded. It blew a crater in the demon's chest large enough to fit through. Shards of the sword were still visible embedded in the bloody wound. The demon slowly but surely toppled head-over-heels, and over the edge. It just managed to catch the ledge with one hand. As Elisa stood up, I could see it attempting to pull itself up.

"That was my favourite sword," Elisa said as she approached the demon.

"To think that a pathetic human could have defeated me," the demon spat. Elisa smiled.

"I have one thing to say to you; something I heard a friend say," she said triumphantly.

"This is impossible. This is madness!" the demon roared. It was slipping, holding on by two taloned fingers.

"THIS. IS. FERELDEN!" Elisa roared back, equally loud, and kicked the demon in the face. This was the straw that broke the camel's back. The demon plummeted, falling God-knows-how-far down the Circle tower was tall. A few moments later there was an earth-shaking crash as the demon splattered on the ground.



Yeah, it's that kind of fic. (P.S., Warden is an F!Cousland DW Champion in a romance with Alistair)

Modifié par ZerbanDaGreat1, 03 février 2011 - 08:21 .

[Raonar]

jackkel dragon wrote...

ZerbanDaGreat1 wrote...
Of course, at this point in the fic Redcliffe village has been burned to the ground and the Mage Tower got its top blown off. Man I've been futzing with the setting.

That sounds goddamn awesome.

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I just spent the past 2 hours re-reading my 40k-50k current story to get back in the "groove" of writing Tayte. I can't shake the feeling that she seems like a blank slate.  Has anyone else run into the problem of their character's unique traits being obscured by following the plot (in a Blight fic, that is) and needed to fix it? Or is it just me?

Also, I cannot believe what I just did to Arl Eamon in the "Nightmare" chapter.  If hell is repetition, I just did something terrible to him...

I removed this problem very early on for my protagonist by severely changing the events of the dwarf noble origin. Basically, he does things that lead to a certain prince of Orzammar not really dying

And since all the wardens are characters in my tale, i made them all unique and given them relevance in certain issues.

And the main character, for all his genius, actually had a mental clash with the Archdemon at some point... when he told Urthemiel to go screw himself... to his face (well, it was a mental connection of sorts, but had the same effect). Cue Urthemiel sending an army after the surviving wardens and almost destroying the protagonist's mind about 20 chapters later (Sten had to pull a big damn heroes moment to save him... in the DN's mind, so yeah).

As for the psychological part, I actually have been investing time in character development (leading to the length of over 400,000 words that my story is now at, sigh).

It'll be a long time before I'm done. Oh well.

P.S. You just gave me the idea to start blasting things more. Too bad the deep roads aren;t all that combustible.

[ZerbanDaGreat1]

Huh. Makes me feel almost lazy for leaving the Human Noble origin as is. Then again, the warden gets infected by a werewolf in The Nature of the Beast, so there you go.

[Raonar]

Now that is just unfair! 

I was going to have something similar happen to one of my characters.

I intended for the elf mage to do it, and later manage to gain the werewolf as a shapeshifting form

But I've also been playing with the ideas of having the dalish warden suffer the curse, only I don't know how I'd have him keep the ability after the curse is broken.

EDIT

I suppose i could handwave it like some sort of midification because of the darkspawn taint.... but meh, I'll think about it...

Modifié par Raonar, 03 février 2011 - 08:40 .

[ZerbanDaGreat1]

Unfortunately, my Warden doesn't keep anything after the curse is broken apart from her eyes turning yellow when she gets angry. Rather, it's a way for my OC and Lady Cousland to become friends. One of the running things in my fic is the OC trying to win the party's approval. So far, only Leliana.



Actually, I had another thought. Has anybody brought Loghain into the party with Alistair? It just seems like such a good opportunity for banter and development. The problem is justifying it in an in-character way.

[Raonar]

Actually, it WAS supposed to be in character. There are even lines in the toolset for having them both in RTO, for example. For me, since things will progress really... weirdly come the Landsmeet, both will live. And Alistair will have to stop being a sob after the protagonist reveals just HOW Duncan got conscripted. That'll put a dent in his whole hero worship.

[Lynn01]

I couldn't bring myself to get Alistair removed *I'm so weak!* from the party, or rather to let Loghain live. In my story I'm not there as well, as I'm nearly at the Dalish. Not quite sure if that's going to happen for this story either

I can imagine how it would be like haha. Alistair trying to sneak behind Loghain all the time to kill him anyway as he feels like he still needs to face justice and getting caught as he's not as good as a rogue. rofl.

[Glorfindel709]

I'm annoyed. Ive been trying to get the first part of the first chapter done for my DN story idea for nearly a month. Woke up this afternoon and cranked out a Dalish Elf Magi origin (Dalish traders went to human town, dalish child was harassed by some shem kids and accidentally threw him across the square with a stone fist. Templars rush in, grab the kid and started off for the circle of magi before any of the clan knew what happened.) Meanwhile the DN story Ive been wanting to write for months lays barely worked on in a ditch. bleeding words demanding to be written and nothing I do will allow it.



I am annoyed. >.<

[Raonar]

Heh, listen to some music Glorf.



I just remembered, about the odd equipment thing, my Alim Surana is currently using a silver wand with an emerald tip, because it's just that much more accurate and easy to carry around... and his staff doesn't look that awesome over his black duster coat anyway. (note: Witch hunts says wands do exist in the DAO universe, though it's implied that self-respecting mages don;t use them, heh.)

[ZerbanDaGreat1]

@Raonar: Yeah, that's why I'm going to do it. I've kind of got an in-story justification ready. See, my Cousland Warden REALLY hasn't forgotten what Howe did to her. She's enraged by the mere mention of him and, at one point, my OC gets a glimpse into her mind when he mind-controls her with blood magic (don't ask). She basically boots him out in a second with a flood of Howe-related rage. Then in the Landsmeet preparation she tracks down Howe in his estate, fights him one-on-one and basically starts torturing him. Alistair manages to stop her and warn her not to let anger compromise who she is. So come Landsmeet Elisa stops him with the same line.



Then comes Return to Ostagar with Wynne, Alistair and Loghain. The hopeful outcome is 1)Loghain respects Alistair's ability to govern and 2)Alistair becomes willing overcome his anger.

[Glorfindel709]

@Rao - I always listen to music though! It's not working *twitches*

[jackkel dragon]

ZerbanDaGreat1 wrote...

Then in the Landsmeet preparation she tracks down Howe in his estate, fights him one-on-one and basically starts torturing him. Alistair manages to stop her and warn her not to let anger compromise who she is. So come Landsmeet Elisa stops him with the same line.

Ouch. At least Howe gets what he said he desereved.

Since I started writing my story months ago, I had already decided that Alistair was going to pretty much stage a coup and screw over everyone at the Landsmeet, including Eamon. Now, I feel bad for Eamon after what I'm putting him through and (with the discovery of the pre-RtO material) want to see what Loghain thinks of Alistair's rule.

Of course, I also have new material to crush Tayte's mind after I noticed that I left a character's fate undecided so far...

[Addai]

ZerbanDaGreat1 wrote...
Actually, I had another thought. Has anybody brought Loghain into the party with Alistair? It just seems like such a good opportunity for banter and development. The problem is justifying it in an in-character way.

As someone mentioned, there is banter between Alistair and Loghain.  Ellewilde has put it to animation in some videos- here, for instance.

[DreGregoire]

My story timeline is giving me fits! LOL Rewrite time or refiguring time anyways.

Modifié par DreGregoire, 03 février 2011 - 06:34 .

[jackkel dragon]

DreGregoire wrote...

My story timeline is giving me fits! LOL Rewrite time or refiguring time anyways.

That doesn't sound fun...

For me, I just have to say: Redcliffe is pain. I have a hard enough time keeping track of more than three recurring characters at a time (with my party of five) and I can't figure out how to play the Redcliffe Castle segment. With Jowan gone, there's nothing but combat and dialogue between me and the conclusion that I've been preparing for.

[Raonar]

I more or less skipped the Redcliffe night defense (the wardens reached Redcliffe too late, but found that the protagonist had gotten there sooner and had saved everyone, aided by Shale an his dog). After that, I mostly summarized the infiltration part and went on to changing the hell out of what could happen (smacking demon!connor over the head for yelling like an idiot, giving isolde a hannibal lecture for how she was refusing to assume responsibility for all that disaster).



And the main character has a soft spot for kids and gets REALLY pissed off when someone ends up hurting them, especially if said someone tries to weasel their way out.



I was careful to establish a sort of timeline early on. The Blight will be ended in late autumn. 9:31 dragon or so.

[DreGregoire]

jackkel dragon wrote...

DreGregoire wrote...

My story timeline is giving me fits! LOL Rewrite time or refiguring time anyways.

That doesn't sound fun...

For me, I just have to say: Redcliffe is pain. I have a hard enough time keeping track of more than three recurring characters at a time (with my party of five) and I can't figure out how to play the Redcliffe Castle segment. With Jowan gone, there's nothing but combat and dialogue between me and the conclusion that I've been preparing for.

Not knowing what your conclusion is it's hard to know what to say but don't forget about Owen's daughter if you didn't kill him. hahah I keep meaning to try that root but last time Alistair was like, "or not, drunk, harmless, old man... ring a bell" or something like and I was like but he wants to die and Alistair's like "puuuleease" with much sarcasm. oops see I'm rambling again. Let me start again.

You feel like your missing something? obtaining Alistairs mother amulet, stripping the treasury. What? Don't act like you all haven't done it. Searching the rooms finding the statue and going "umm is this your toy Alistair. I thought you slept in the stables." LOL. Hmmm... So searching, combat, and dialogue. That about sums it up. LOL.

[DreGregoire]

Raonar wrote...

I was careful to establish a sort of timeline early on. The Blight will be ended in late autumn. 9:31 dragon or so.

My problems is more with the timing of Awakenings, but late autumn sounds right for the archdemon defeat

[Raonar]

Lol, I just realized I totally forgot about Aistair's mother's Amulet. Hmm, that gives me an idea...

[ZerbanDaGreat1]

@Addai67: Huzzah! Thank you for that find, it'll help immensely.



I split Recliffe in half with a visit to the Circle. Still, the first half was a little boring to write. Then I changed it up with the village getting burned down accidentally .



And the amulet. I did a special Christmas/Feastday chapter and the Warden gave it to Alistair then.

[jackkel dragon]

I skipped the Redcliffe village and defense except for murdering Jowan off-screen. I finally decided to take a cop-out and say that all the demons disappear after Connor's demon sees the party, allowing me to finally continue. Now I'm stuck in Arl Eamon's room with Isolde being Exposition Girl, Connor being obsessed with gore, and a bunch of characters who have no idea what to do...



I have no idea how I'm going to get past Redcliffe while keeping everyone in-character.

[Glorfindel709]

Since my DN story so far seems to want to curl up and die, Im looking at my Dalish idea.



I was wondering, does the Lore contain any mention of specific clans? Like what the names of the different Dalish elf clans are? Also, I was pondering just how much information a child of the Dalish would know about the Dalish. I expect with how insular the clans are, he'd have an understanding of the elven language, the pantheon, dalish oath (and initial hatred towards shem'len and flat-ears) plus some things that would be expected of a child learning to be a hunter (how to track, skinning and preparing wild animals, maybe beginning to be taken out on hunts by a father or some of the other hunters)?



Im also trying to figure out what the chantry would do with a child who probably doesnt have full understanding of the Kings' Language(although none of the Dalish in the game seemed to have that problem so maybe there is no real language barrier?) and tries to practice the religion of the elven pantheon.