After 7 months of this deployment, I’ve realized it’s the stupidest things I am just sick to death of having to do.
1. taking the dogs out. Yeah I know I can make the kids do that, but when the dog weighs more than the kids and goes nuts when he sees the dog next door who the neighbors leave in their yard all day behind a flimsy fence, it’s too risky.
2. Making the coffee. I never seem to get it to taste as good as it does when HE makes the coffee. I either get it too strong, or too weak.
3. mommy I need…Mommy can I…mommy we’re out of…Mommy Mommy mommy
4. I miss Man tv…mainly because I’m subjected to teen tv 8 hours a day.
Notice anything? Maybe not if you haven’t spent any time in the Character Creator, but she definitely differs from the norm. But why?
Because I found some very handy little mods for the game. Much like WoW uses plugins. DA has precious few choices for hair style and color, the same with eye color. So eventually every character kind of looks the same. I stumbled upon Dragon Age Nexus over the weekend when I was trying to create my mage and was frustrated with the limited hairstyles. I found four mods I actually liked.
CC Extra Tints and Tones – adds hair colors, skin tones and eye colors (also adds Morrigan’s hairstyle and Duncan and Ohgren beards).
Chargen Package- adds more presets to the character creation menu.
and lastly, Friendly Fire to make the above all work nicely together. All come with instructions for installation.
Also, some of you on your second or third playthrough may have noticed, Alistair tends to talk like he’s king even when you don’t make him king, this mod fixes that little annoyance.
You also may have noticed, if you’ve managed to tempt any party members into your tent, you only get the cut scene the first time. Afterwards when you choose “Let’s go to sleep” (That’s for Alistair, not sure about what Leliana, Morrigan, or Zev say) you get a kiss, a black screen and that’s it. If you would rather see your little love scene this is the mod for you.
If you haven’t played DA: Origins past the Landsmeet and seen Morrigan’s proposal, then this video MIGHT contain spoilers. So don’t read further if that worries you. I don’t really think it does, you have a bunch of options to take and may get different results.
Anyhow, this is what happens if you’re a female gray warden, I believe it happens whether or not you romance Alistair, after Morrigan gives you the option of her dark ritual. It kinda cracked me up, and I promised Llanion I’d post it, so here it is.
note: no he isn’t their king, I got the glitch where he still reacts as king when he wasn’t chosen…lol
It’s been 7 months now since I last saw my husband. I have less than a month until I finally get two weeks with him. But of course the closer that gets, the slower the time goes. I’m trying everything to absorb my time, and my mind, and somtimes it works. We’re back to not getting to talk all that much, that isn’t helping. So far I have…
* Gotten my “nook” from Barnes and Noble. I added several books to it this week such as Rhett Butler’s People, Twenties Girl, The Blind Side, The Lovely Bones, The Last Song (Nicholas Sparks), and Dragon Keeper. I started with Rhett Butler (shocking right?) and so far I’m enjoying it. Reading on this thing is awesome. I really can’t explain why. Aside from carrying a purse sized library around, and not having to turn pages or worry about losing my place.
*Played through Dragon Age: Origins yet again. But this time I wrote (well I’m still writing) my character’s story. I even gave it it’s own blog. That way, if I want to do it again with my next playthrough, or continue it with the expansion, I’m not flooding this blog with it.
Between the reading, playing and writing the days do seem to go faster. But after seven months…just not fast enough.
I know I posted a screenshot of the Ogre killing in Dragon Age: Origins. But it just doesn’t do it justice. So today while I was playing, I took a quick video. If WoW could do this (or if their ogres looked, you know scary as opposed to tweedle dee and tweedle dum like) I’d enjoy it so much more.
