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Day Three, Where I have No Title

Nov 032010

There is something I really REALLY want to write about here. But I can’t yet. Because while it could be something really awesome, it isn’t yet. And it may not be. I’m waiting to find out. So, to keep my mind off it, I’ve been playing Dragon Age: Origins again. Trying to get through my favorite characters. I have a large amount. Some duplicates. But with Dragon Age II coming in a few months, I need to trim down my saves to my absolute favorites.

So far these are the chosen ones.

From the Mage Origin: Caislyn Amell. She’s an Arcane Warrior/Spirit Healer/Battlemage spec. We’re almost finished with Awakening right now. She’s made Alistair king, and remained his chancellor with the romance active.

There is only one Human origin, the Human Noble. I only played two, and my favorite is of course the one that defeated the blight, and married the King. She’s a rogue, specced duelist/assassin.

I’ve played both Dwarf origins, the Noble and the commoner. So far, my favorite is still my commoner. She’s badass, gritty, and tough as nails. She’s a warrior, nothing subtle about her. She has scars, a crooked nose, but I love her.

One of my nobles will have to go forward, so I’m probably going to choose the first one. I played a second to try the romance with Alistair with her. But my first one is special. I don’t have a screenshot of her, but she’s the one that I had this commission done with. She’s a sword/shield warrior.

And last but not least, my elf. A Dalish. I may do a city elf still. but Lyra turned out very well considering the Dalish origin is severely lacking in the game. It has to be almost fully filled in RP wise by the player. That makes two rogues, but Lyra is an archer, where Kasha is all daggers.

Now, most of them have all made the same choices. So it may seem odd to import each save into DA2. But Bioware is pretty good at sticking tiny details in for each origin, even though our Wardens aren’t IN this game. We can still import their world as they left it. And we all know how I am about having all my bases covered don’t we?

That Is Just Rude

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Apr 282010

I really didn’t have a blog post for today. But I was toying with Dragon Age:Origins – Awakening. I haven’t played it since I ran through the week it released. So, I dragged Kasha in. She has excellent form I must say.

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But this particular darkspawn really seems to have a gift for sign language, on top of speech. Guess that blade through his thigh ticked him off.

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Friday Film: Swooping is Good

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Apr 232010

So, last night in guild chat, we chatted a bit about Dragon Age Origins. I mentioned, how in my first playthrough, I was clueless. I did NOT know there were romance options until Alistair swooped in. We were running around, killing the bad guys left and right, and I accidently clicked on him. Usually this would just lead to a list of things I can ask him, but not this time. No. Apparently I had crossed the mystery line into “Hai! I love you!”.

The conversation is in the video below. He had asked if I’d miss the constant battle, I replied miss it, or miss you? So when he made his little confession there, I said I don’t know, it’s too soon. I panicked, I admit it. Well, of course watch the video. You’ll see what happened and I went to “No, I liked it!” real fast. Bonus here, is tmp (user name) on the DA forum thread I hang out in (300 pages and counting), made a little tiny mod JUST for this scene. We thought it would be funny if they player’s character looked like she’d just had her world rocked…

Indeed, swooping is good. This is my current rogue, being swooped.

If I ever find the link I’ll edit this post to add it.

Some Characters…

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Apr 162010

I thought maybe I’d be lazy today and show off my latest DA character creations. I’m not sure how far into the game they’ll get, it’s just fun to make the faces. Mind you I use ALOT of mods to get some of the hairstyles, effects, and armor/weapons. I linked some of them in a previous post for anyone that’s interested.

Phoenix, city elf rogue. Though she may get rerolled as a warrior, I’m not sure just yet.

Lyrria, Dalish Elf Mage (Using this mod to have that origin. Dalish mage is not a stock option in the game.) She’s using a tattoo mod from Dragon Age Nexus but I forget which one.

Left is Solarra, and right is Celeste. Both circle mages, I was pretty much just seeing how funky I could make them, but liked the Day and Night idea. Solarra is wearing The Dusk Package, and her staff is from Manolax’s Staff Collection. Celeste is wearing Wings of Velvet for her robes and staff.

Tattoo Mods Used:

The Opal Moon
PAngel
Simple Tattoos
FDB Skins

Eye Textures for the mage duo:
Eye Textures

Oh and last but not least. Kasha, the rogue who has her own fanfic (Which I’m currently blocked on)

Well Aren’t We a Tad Bitter

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Feb 262010

I’ve played a mage before, my first Dragon Age run through was as a mage. But I didn’t choose any of the smartass conversation options at the early stages. I’m finding my new one to be much for fun with some attitude.

When you start out as a mage, you are in a tower, with other mages. You’ve just passed you big test to become a full mage from apprenticehood, and your friend Jowan is whining that he hasn’t had his test yet. Now, I can’t stand Jowan. He whines through the whole Origin. And when you tell him you can’t discuss your test with him he gets in a snit “so much for friendship” he says.

THEN, he has the nerve to tell you he’s in a forbidden love affair with a chantry initiate. To explain, she’s basically a nun in training. The chantry is the church in this game. So he wants YOUR help to run away with her. But mages are not allowed out of the tower, so he knows he’s asking you to break your own vows, and risking YOUR life in fact. Yeah, friend my foot.

I refused to help, the first enchanter knew about the conversation, and asks you to help anyhow, in order to catch them both red handed. Mainly because the chantry initiate would get away with it if not caught in the act, while the mage would be punished. So, I did it.

Basically you help, you get him through the storage room, he destroys his phylactery (the only way a mage can be tracked when they escape), you lead them back to the hall and poof they’re busted and you’re exposed as helping get them in trouble.

You meet Jowan later, and my first time I apologized to him and gave him a break. THIS time however, I was less sympathetic. The conversation had me laughing out loud.

He goes on to tell him I OWE him, but the video would be too long if I included that. OWE him, yeah, right. the first enchanter wouldn’t have SUSPECTED anything if he hadn’t seen this dimwit approach you, after already observing he was acting oddly.