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fenris warmup ft his cat, dave, from my old "merry band of cat rescuers" au

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Don't know if it's been done, but it's been done now! 🤭

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here's a funny bit of official concept art that shows spite pouring hot coffee on a sleeping lucanis.

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I love chain lightening what a classic spell. fuck you and you and you and you and you and

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Last night I sat up in bed so fast because I remembered an incorrect quote that fit this tweet from Mary Kirby.

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It hurts because Lucanis still cares for Illario and always will, but Illario is so far gone in his jealousy and greed that it blinds him...

He wanted so badly to be Caterina's favorite, that he couldn't see he was Lucanis' favorite 😭

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Veilguard Gothic

you have endangered thedas by unleasing blighted gods upon the world. you are rewarded with a promotion.

a demon-possessed assassin joins the veilguard. he is on cooking duty.

you feel a sudden urge to leap from the top of the lighthouse. as if you will be rewarded.

taash gives a flat, one-word answer after your careful attempt to flirt. they will soon pin you to a wall.

a grey warden joins the veilguard. he would like it if you punched his boss.

someone let harding cook again.

the grey warden brought his pet griffin. he always has one ear up. he is perfect.

you arrive at the lighthouse to find someone changed all the decor to giant skeletons. emmrich feels less homesick.

you gather the veilguard together for a mission debrief. instead, you all gossip about solas before he was corporeal.

bellara is already writing fan fiction of your adventures.

someone let neve make coffee again.

manfred is undefeated at rock, paper, scissors. it brings him almost as much joy as tea. he is perfect.

you finally leap from the top of the lighthouse. nothing happens. yet you can't shake the feeling of achievement.

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as much as i love assan i think he was way too much involved in davrin's story and writing. like yeah. i like the little guy. but why am i not learning more about davrin. why is assan so focused in most of if not all of davrin's quests. i am here for my buddy, not my buddy's bird-cat.

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Can I just say how much I admire Neve's commitment to the whole jaded noir detective bit despite literally nothing else about this game being even remotely noir. She doesn't give a fuck. Just brings the vibe along with her. We should all be aspire to be like her honestly

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One of my big issues with Veilguard actually comes down to how In Your Face the UI is.

It's incredibly immersion breaking when I compare it to any other game I've loved. The UI is there to tell you not only which dialogue choices Matter with a capital M (which imo really cheapens the Harding vs. Davrin, Neve vs. Bellara choices towards the end) but also to pat itself on the back whenever a decision you made previously is affecting the storyline. It's constantly in the corner telling me how Lucanis will remember I like chocolate rather than just letting me find out in a future dialogue that Lucanis bought me some.

It's also just definitely a shortcut sometimes. It would pop up and tell me things where happening when those things weren't. When it said 'Neve will fight hard for the city' towards the end of her quest I was like...oh shit is she gonna die? But she just. Fights a normal battle. She doesn't even get hurt! I wouldn't have known that was supposed to be a consequence if it hadn't told me which is baaaaad writing.

And the way it makes the companion quests feel like chores...I've spoken about this before but it's like. Inquisition changed the tarot cards themselves when you'd completed a companion quest/romanced someone and that felt like a nice compromise but Veilguard is out there putting a special little symbol on people and giving them brand new armour and it all feels a little too much like finish this task so we can defeat the gods rather than explore this characters story because they're a companion and they're interesting.

I got so excited when I found out hardening mechanics were in this game but they're really just there for show. Nothing demonstrably seems to change between hardened Neve and unhardened Neve in the long run, it's just a change to how she functions in the party.

Idk I think it's a very tell don't show game because of the UI.

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I got some emmrich art cooking in my head, as soon as I'm done with work, I'm going nuts with it For now this shall suffice

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You want me to look at myself in the mirror? The thing that killed Tamlen in Dragon Age Origins?

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running off to italy and letting minrathous get destroyed by a big dragon like this is for you Fenris 🫡🫡🫡

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Most beautiful woman on my screen in 2024

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It's difficult to concentrate on spell casting when there's an Antivan short king behind you, gushing over your kills and tossing out compliments left and right...

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If Solas isn't at least a little queer then why is his name Pride 🤔