Kintsugi Plays Dragon Age 2 (a winner is me!)

Lava lighting #confirmed

(triumphant music)

The Deep Roads: unsurprisingly, full of darkspawn?

And my goddamn rogue still can't open a standard chest.

WHAT'S BEHIND DOOR NUMBER ONE?

DARKSPAWN!!

And a spooky darkspawn wizard, at that. (Some of these models are actually quite creepy! But I usually don't see them up close, because of my fight strategy of standing thirty feet away at all times except when charging in to use cone of cold.)

BEHIND DOOR NUMBER TWO IS - oh, it's locked.

Behold: weird lyrium trees

This is a non-suspicious, non-spiderwebby little valley, huh?

(TRIUMPHANT MUSIC)


OH COME ON.

 

An EVEN BIGGER SPIDER! Still not as big as the one's in @LadyNighteyes ' favorite giant spider franchise, but it is "monstrous."

AAA

MOVE YOUR GIANT ARACHNID ASS OUT OF THE WAY, VARRIC AND I WANT TO GET BACK TO THE FIGHT

The spiders' deaths mysteriously unlocked this door.

Yay, now Carver can do an appreciable amount of damage! (muffled Carver voice in the background: hey!!)
At this point I became concerned about my 36/50 inventory capacity and ran back to camp. There wasn't anything I could do about my inventory at camp (I should have planned this better), but I did witness this humorous banter between two of the hirelings:

 

Hawke, did your backpack just get bigger?

I haven't the faintest idea what you might mean, Varric.

...

Have just realized that the carrying capacity you described the Champion as having was not enough?

...

 

Everybody's favorite thing: more darkspawn!!

Hey, lay off my squishy mage >:T

(triumphant music)

the darkspawn came out of this doooor why can't i go in it











Context from DA:O, for the curious:

Spoiler

In Origins, you can recruit Bodahn and his son Sandal (who only ever says "Enchantment?") to follow you around where you camp and sell you things (and enchant things for you, on Sandal's part). Then in the long, long final battle sequence, immediately before the boss fight, you find Sandal surrounded by dead darkspawn, and he says "Enchantment!" triumphantly.

>_?

 

> Good job!

 

TEAM SIBLINGS WHO HATE EACH OTHER (and Anders)

What did we do that got +10 from Carver? Bring him along?

 

Also re: giant spiders, that one's at least approaching the right scale. That size spider could be a baby RH spider. :::PPP

 

Theoretically we should have got ten approval for bringing him and ten approval for agreeing to find Sandal, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

>Good job!








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get ready for so many images

 

Oh boy! Are terrible things happening to Team SWHEOaA? :::DDD

 

(triumphant music)

I imagine we're trying to get over there.

Spoiler: Codex - The Deep Roads

There isn't a dwarf alive who remembers the Deep Roads as they once were. They were the network of tunnels that joined the thaigstogether. To be honest, it isn't even right to give them such a simple term as "tunnels": They are works of art, with centuries of planning demonstrated in the geometry of their walls, with the statues of the Paragons that watch over travelers, with the flow of lava that keeps the Deep Roads lit and warm. The cloudgazers up on the surface talk of the Imperial Highway built by the magistersof old, a raised walkway that crossed thousands of miles, something that could only have been built by magic. Perhaps it is comparable to the Deep Roads, although we dwarves didn't need magic.

I suppose it doesn't matter any more. The darkspawn rule the Deep Roads now. When Orzammar sealed off the entrances to the Deep Roads, abandoning everything that lay out there, we handed over the kingdom-that-was to those black bastards forever. To think that there are genlocks crawling over Bownammar now, tearing down our statues and defiling our greatest works! Corruption covers everything we built out there. Every dwarf who goes out and comes back says that it gets worse with each passing year, the foulness spread a little further.

And the cloudgazers think the darkspawn are gone just because they aren't spilling out onto the surface? Huh. One day, when Orzammar is gone for good, they'll find out differently. Those darkspawn won't have anywhere else to go but up, and they'll do it. The surface folk will have themselves a Blight that will never end.

—Transcript of a conversation with a member of the dwarven Mining Caste, 8:90 Blessed

@golems please don't attack me please don't attack me

please don't attack me please

AAA SOMETHING'S ATTACKING ME

oh thank god it's just darkspawn.

THROW ALL YOUR CREEPY POINTY-FINGERED BASTARDS AT ME, I'M FINE AS LONG AS THE GOLEMS STAY PUT



(triumphant music!)

Yay, gear to give to our pirate friend when we get home :D

BTW check my new staff. It's, like, Three Moon Stick


HEY BUDDY

... his horns got stuck in the wall. My hand to God.

 

God, there is SO MUCH LAVA down here (is it magma? it's exposed to air, so it's lava, I think??). @Wiwaxia please explain how the hell the geology of the Deep Roads work

A big room! I love big rooms.

nevermind no i don't

badass SWHEO (as per @LadyNighteyes) shot, though.

Me this entire fight: Carver. Carver please stop standing in front of the dragon. Can you please stand next to it? Carver.

I remembered we have a dog! She is pictured in the lower right, being a potato. (In my heart all my mabari are girls, canon can fuck off)


more gear for our buds at home :D

 

varric's precious face

 

There are two sets of SWHEO, though. Only one set in that shot. :::PPP

 

Oh, right! Duh. I appreciate your joke even more now that I actually get it. :P

 

>_?

 

> Haven't dwarves changed?

 

>Haven't dwarves changed?







Hey guys!



He was around, like, two corners.

Hello, Sandal!


This keeps happening to you, Bodahn.
>_?

 

>Glad to help.