30 Days of DA: Ultimate Team

Day Sixteen: Your ultimate team from all games

In terms of fighting battles and mopping the floor with the opposition, I was pretty fond of my final party from my Sereda Aeducan DA:O game -- dual-wield stealth Assassin rogue Aeducan, Templar/Champion/tank Alistair, damage mage Morrigan, support mage Wynne. Our default party in my first time through DA2 -- dual-wield rogue Marian, archer Varric, damage-and-tank Aveline, and support mage Anders -- worked really well, too.

If you're asking with whom I most enjoyed running around Thedas, it has to be the ladies of Dragon Age 2: Isabela, Merrill, and Aveline. Because Isabela largely duplicated my Marian Hawke in terms of battle skills, I didn't get to pay with this team much the first time through, but they were a great, well-balanced group in Marissa Hawke's game, and so they saw a lot of action.

But my favorite thing to do, really, was to switch people in and out as much as possible, so I could hear all the banter and get all the interactions. Every team is different, every group has its own charms. So if you're asking for my favorite party, the answer is: all of them!

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Remember when I said I was done with projects for awhile?

Yeah, so much for that.

There's a Valentine's Day exchange on Tumblr, the dragonagewomen challenge, already working on a response for ot3_promptfest (wallwalker couldn't have left better KJ-bait if she'd tried), the next round of the Porn Battle coming up at the beginning of next month, halfway through the 30 Days of Dragon Age meme, and though the response to my query about hosting a DA Kiss Battle was fairly small, those who did reply were enthusiastic enough that I'm still seriously considering doing that. Not to mention the Final Fantasy Kiss Battle, if that happens, and I hope it does because I would be all over that, and I imagine that new rounds of ff_exchange and newgameplus are on the horizon, and soon it'll be time to start thinking about megaflare_ff again, and...

And of course I have two major WIPs still in the works, too.

So I have today off work, which means this should be a great time to get some serious time in on some of these projects, right? But instead I spent the morning poking around the Internet, and now I'm half-plotting to start Alim Surana's run through either Awakening or Witch Hunt -- Witch Hunt is more important for his character, I think, but I have this weird compulsion to do these things in order, unless I decide that he washed his hands of the Wardens and decided not to take the offer to serve as Warden-Commander. But he'd probably see that as shirking his responsibility, and there's something appealing about playing Awakening with a Warden who just does. not. want. to be there...

Obsessions are fun. But maybe I can get this one out of my system if I write the ficbit that's clawing at my brain. We'll see.