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What I did today
Today contained two main accomplishments: I finished a complete draft of my Adventure Zone fic (about 15k words, the longest I've written in quite awhile), and I played a good chuck of Dragon Age 2.
I don't think I've said much or maybe even anything about my current DA activity. This is the long-delayed continuation of my Mahariel's universe -- delayed mostly by Inquisition, which I played three times, beginning to end, between its release and July 2017. I actually took a break from my Qunari mage, Nazlin Adaar, to finish Loral Maharial's canon, and then a little while later spent a little while starting up the DA2 run that follows. A few weeks ago, I picked the game back up again, and today I got to the point of triggering the final battle of Act 2.
In this universe, Hawke is named Sylvie, and she's a snarky mage with a side of aggression. About the only person she's consistently nice to is Merrill, who she sees as the little sister she didn't adequately protect and support the first time. More often, she's a gleeful anarchist, out for her own profit and freedom and power -- and, okay, she also helps people sometimes. My main goals for this playthrough were to romance Isabela for the first time (so far, so good), and to get two of the companion paths I'd never seen before: friend Merrill, rival Aveline. Getting Aveline into rival territory was surprisingly easy; befriending Merrill took a little more work, but it seems to have succeeded -- to the point that, without my having ever taken a single flirt option, I got the scene where Merrill shows up at Hawke's mansion. (Sylvie let Merrill down gently -- or at least, gently for Sylvie.)
If the pattern holds, by the end of the game I will have successfully friended every DA companion, and rivaled everyone except Varric and Isabela. My Garrett Hawke should probably have rivaled Isabela, but it never quite gelled that way, and if even HE couldn't be too much of a stick-in-the-mud for her, I'm not sure I can ever make it work. Marissa, my best beloved red mage, started out down the rivalry path with Varric, but it was so disturbing to me that I walked it back, and they wound up as BFF. A Hawke who would rival either of those folks is probably not a Hawke I would want to play, and that's all right with me.
Such a wonderful series of games. I don't know that I'll ever truly be done with them. Next up after this would be my Dalish Inquisitor; I'll probably pull the same trick I did with DA:O and play a male, so I can hit one of the gender gated romances (I'll let him decide whether he wants Dorian or Cassandra). I look forward to seeing what happens.
I don't think I've said much or maybe even anything about my current DA activity. This is the long-delayed continuation of my Mahariel's universe -- delayed mostly by Inquisition, which I played three times, beginning to end, between its release and July 2017. I actually took a break from my Qunari mage, Nazlin Adaar, to finish Loral Maharial's canon, and then a little while later spent a little while starting up the DA2 run that follows. A few weeks ago, I picked the game back up again, and today I got to the point of triggering the final battle of Act 2.
In this universe, Hawke is named Sylvie, and she's a snarky mage with a side of aggression. About the only person she's consistently nice to is Merrill, who she sees as the little sister she didn't adequately protect and support the first time. More often, she's a gleeful anarchist, out for her own profit and freedom and power -- and, okay, she also helps people sometimes. My main goals for this playthrough were to romance Isabela for the first time (so far, so good), and to get two of the companion paths I'd never seen before: friend Merrill, rival Aveline. Getting Aveline into rival territory was surprisingly easy; befriending Merrill took a little more work, but it seems to have succeeded -- to the point that, without my having ever taken a single flirt option, I got the scene where Merrill shows up at Hawke's mansion. (Sylvie let Merrill down gently -- or at least, gently for Sylvie.)
If the pattern holds, by the end of the game I will have successfully friended every DA companion, and rivaled everyone except Varric and Isabela. My Garrett Hawke should probably have rivaled Isabela, but it never quite gelled that way, and if even HE couldn't be too much of a stick-in-the-mud for her, I'm not sure I can ever make it work. Marissa, my best beloved red mage, started out down the rivalry path with Varric, but it was so disturbing to me that I walked it back, and they wound up as BFF. A Hawke who would rival either of those folks is probably not a Hawke I would want to play, and that's all right with me.
Such a wonderful series of games. I don't know that I'll ever truly be done with them. Next up after this would be my Dalish Inquisitor; I'll probably pull the same trick I did with DA:O and play a male, so I can hit one of the gender gated romances (I'll let him decide whether he wants Dorian or Cassandra). I look forward to seeing what happens.
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