our date got crashed but it was fine

and now I'm talking to Taash about...actually, what they brought up, about building up a personal relationship in their head and then feeling betrayed when it's not like that in reality, and about rage being overwhelming until it feels like it's all they are

sounds like what I've heard people with BPD describe

also I love Taash going "Dragon King is a STUPID name because OBVIOUSLY dragons would have QUEENS" they're just like me fr

I too cannot stop myself from explaining why animal idiom makes no sense based on animal behaviors

god I do NOT know how to unlock the crossroads Shadow Dragons shop

I have four shops in that area: three normal wisps and one humanoid spirit

I missed Neve's first companion quest, but I did her second one

I've done every Dock Town quest I could find except Desperation because I kept dying

I've seen shadow dragons in the crossroads talking about moving messages and goods through

I am politely refraining from telling Taash's mom where to get off, because I think that would make them feel worse

that's for them to do

(I spent half an hour getting like 20% of desperation's health off before I died and just said fuck it and cranked all the difficulty settings to minimum, killed it in under a minute, then turned then back to where I had them and carried on with my life. fuck that fight.)

(so many...adds? things? idefk)

(yeah and the sub-boss thingies kept like, healing each other??? so I made NO headway)

Hadassah goes for "I'm sorry that didn't go the way you wanted" because. yeah. she feels that way. but over this issue especially, she doesn't want to tell Taash how to feel, or lead them into feeling one way or the other

even if when they were out of the room she had to strongly suppress the urge to punch Shathann in the face

finding out the griffon backstory is

yeah. that was always going to be what had happened.

why did all the griffons die, all at once?

what would make a warden so pissed they Just Did Not Stop?

well, being ordered to - internal debate as to whether griffons count as genocide - do that sure would

okay guys? what you need to do with this village, especially if you're about to be attacked, is move the villagers into one place

preferably a building with stone walls

the cursed fucking manor, maybe, it should be safe now

that gives you one place, limited entry points, to defend with your limited numbers

that is what the stone castle is for

it sucks, and long-term you'll run out of supplies, but...this is what a castle is

this is what it does

a Grey Warden fights darkspawn, and a castle allows few to defend against many

no one in video games (or movies) knows how anything works, which is why battle scenes all involve combatants breaking ranks and running full-out at each other

as the first action

I just. you'd have a DAMN SIGHT BETTER CHANCE of holding Lavendel if MORE OF IT WAS BEHIND YOU

Evka you are shaming dwarfkind

the stone! works! are there! to hide behind!

what a surprise, the sentries with a dwarf commander are the only ones who are WHERE THEY SHOULD BE

(manning the stoneworks)

do I want to encourage Emmrich and Taash to learn more about each others' hyperfixations, or to find a third thing to talk about?

either is a terrifying prospect tbh

genuinely hung here bc I don't know what's right

three autistics in a room

as the camera struggles to get everyone's face more or less in frame

I'm going to encourage them to SHARE THE INTEREST because I love sharing mine and also love it when people share theirs even if I don't get it

GODDAMMIT EMMRICH of course you want to become a lich!

you can take the necromancer out of the lichyard but you can't take the lich out of the necromancer

it's funny, hearing Emmrich talk, how much he sounds like Solas sometimes

about how vulnerable spirits are, how the way you treat them matters so

but also how different

how readily he shares his emotions

--LMAO

"And of course, time to read all of one's books" they will keep printing more, Emmrich. immortality cannot save you from the TBR pile.

I have contemplated this thoroughly.

Emmrich...he could call his parents, but what if they don't know him? so he doesn't

now I'm in a sad assassin mindscape

Rook: nah this seems like a normal kind of mind

trauma does this

I'm ending up picking all purple/laughmask options here

wonder what that says

about him, or about me and what I find helpful when I'm ruminating

it's like. 1. emphasize that he has choices. 2. don't take the doom brain too seriously that's what it wants. 3. say she'll love him anyway.

everyone is pronouncing ossuary wrong and it hurts

his demon is more literal than mine, but

yeah. living after trauma is scary and there's no easy answer for how.

"I was lost in thought" eheheheh

>Save Caterina

and then I'm gonna introduce Spite to "the best revenge is living well"

bc sometimes spite really can get you through

I know there were times when what kept me going was "if you die, they win"

aww Assan brought the sick halla food! because that's what Dad did, so it must be the Thing To Do

like I really don't think - there's no need to get super mystical about it?

he's learning how to behave in new situations from watching His Adults

as young animals do

(and young humans)

he's a smart, social animal, which we already knew

fun fact: you CAN beat the Heart of Corruption with a three-mage party

if you try hard and believe in yourself

girls' night in the fade blight

it sure is. something. that the ring Andraste's Will buffs...your Burning

looped back w Taash and Lace to wreck Desperation at last