{"id":296,"date":"2012-11-02T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/?p=296"},"modified":"2012-10-31T23:54:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T06:54:28","slug":"mark-plays-dragon-age-origins-hour-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/2012\/11\/02\/mark-plays-dragon-age-origins-hour-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Plays &#8216;Dragon Age: Origins&#8217;: Hour 23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the twenty-third hour of <em>Dragon Age: Origins<\/em>, I win a Bully trophy, become an assassin, yell at a bigot, win a Lord&#8217;s favor, and basically rule everything. Intrigued? Then it&#8217;s time for Mark to play <em>Dragon Age: Origins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><!--more-->Hour Twenty-Three<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You know, I don&#8217;t know that I have all that much to relay to you aside from a list of my stunning accomplishments. After all the frustrations I&#8217;d been having with difficult bosses, fighting my own party, confronting evil cultists, and generally getting my ass kicked, this entire hour in Orzammar was shockingly easy. Perhaps I should have come here first! Wait, let me finish every mission here <em>before<\/em> I say that. Something else could totally destroy me with awfulness, so perhaps I should embarrass myself in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I had a great time with the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because I gave Morrigan that mirror piece, she gave me a special skill point, which I decided to use for the Assassin Skill Tree. THIS POWER IS ALREADY INCREDIBLE. I cannot wait to build it up more.<\/li>\n<li>So, I was tasked with getting both Baizyl and Gwiddon to agree to fight in the Proving for Lord Harrowmont. In Gwiddon&#8217;s case, I had to either convince Myaja not to blackmail him or get his love letters back. She <em>clearly<\/em> wasn&#8217;t going to budge, so I used my stellar lock picking skills to simply go into her room and steal the letters. Interestingly enough, no one in my party objected. Oh, now you&#8217;re all cool with being illegal and immoral. F U ALL.<\/li>\n<li>Gwiddon was super easy to convince. I lied to him about something Lord Harrowmont said, AND I WAS AWARDED THE BULLY TROPHY IN THE PS3 SYSTEM. Look, <em>how am I bullying him at all<\/em>? I will bully <em>you<\/em>, trophy system.<\/li>\n<li>So, with Gwiddon and Baizyl on my side, I was prepared to fight in the Proving! Things started off well when the Proving Master told me that my elven name was &#8220;too difficult to say,&#8221; so he&#8217;d just be calling me Roslin. <em>You fucking bigot<\/em>, it&#8217;s two syllables. I WILL NEVER LEARN YOUR NAME JUST TO SPITE YOU. Actually, even worse, I&#8217;ll just constantly call you the wrong name. How are things going today, Steve? Are you ready to start the Proving, Cristopher? What did you have for breakfast, Heather? <em>How does it feel now?<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Wow, I utterly DESTROYED at the Proving. Like, I was <em>shocked<\/em> at how easy it was to massacre everything thrown at me. And when my whole party got to fight, we annihilated Bhelen&#8217;s men. TAKE THAT. I don&#8217;t even know that much about Bhelen, and I already don&#8217;t like him.<\/li>\n<li>Lord Harrowmont, your beard is <em>majestic<\/em>. I&#8217;m jealous. Me, I mean, not Roslin. She doesn&#8217;t care. She&#8217;s busy trying to romance Wynne.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, now I <em>really<\/em> hate Bhelen. His &#8220;fanatics&#8221; tried to murder me in the Commons! Oh, I am 100% done with you, and I will support Harrowmont solely on the basis that his followers <em>didn&#8217;t try to massacre me and my friends. <\/em>Also, his beard. Sweet hell, did you <em>see<\/em> that thing?<\/li>\n<li>Dust Town. Y&#8217;all <em>barely<\/em> tried when naming this part of Orzammar, didn&#8217;t you? Why didn&#8217;t you just name it &#8220;We Hate Poor People and Think They&#8217;re Worth Nothing&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>That being said, I&#8217;m kind of in love with the way this place is designed. Bravo, Bioware.<\/li>\n<li>Nadezda, thank you for basically telling me how to find Jarvia. You rule. I love that I also confronted some of Jarvia&#8217;s followers and they wanted mercy, so I killed them. Wynne approved +3 because apparently she&#8217;s totally into murdering criminals? Awesome.<\/li>\n<li>I didn&#8217;t get very far in Jarvia&#8217;s ~secret lair~, but I did use Stealth to trick the few guards hanging out behind the tripwire traps. Stealth is SO MUCH FUN.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thankfully, I wasn&#8217;t cliffhanger&#8217;d this time. That has happened to me a lot in this game, but such is to be expected when I set a timer for an hour and force myself to stop. I&#8217;m eager to kill Jarvia. Oh, and I need to go find Rogek&#8217;s contact at the Circle of Mages so I can make a sweet profit off of lyrium. Onwards, I go!<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Character Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-10-25-at-2.21.38-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-10-25 at 2.21.38 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-10-25-at-2.21.38-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"925\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-10-25-at-2.21.38-PM.png 925w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-Shot-2012-10-25-at-2.21.38-PM-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 925px) 100vw, 925px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strength: 26+2<br \/>\nDexterity: 25+6<br \/>\nWillpower: 20<br \/>\nMagic: 14<br \/>\nCunning: 18<br \/>\nConstitution: 24<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heroic Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kills: 391<br \/>\nDamage dealt: 77316<br \/>\nFriendly fire: 0<br \/>\nGreatest damage dealt: 90<br \/>\nContribution to party damage: 35<br \/>\nHit rate: 84<br \/>\nMost powerful foe slain: Piotin<br \/>\nInjuries: 8<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Links Stuff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; You can follow me on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/markdoesstuff\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0for any updates and live commentary on upcoming reviews I\u2019m writing.<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/product\/mark-reads--video\">Mark Plays video commissions are only $25!<\/a>\u00a0You can provide me with map locations or directions of what you want to see me do as long as you don&#8217;t spoil plot points for me!<br \/>\n&#8211; You should read this\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/10\/hello-mark-does-stuff-community-lets-discuss-things\/\"><strong>very important post<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0about supporting Mark Does Stuff!<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/10\/mark-reads-harry-potter-and-the-half-blood-prince-is-available-for-purchase\/\">I have just released\u00a0<em>Mark Reads Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince<\/em>\u00a0for $4.99!<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/product\/mark-reads--video\">You can commission a Mark Plays video for just $25!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the twenty-third hour of Dragon Age: Origins, I win a Bully trophy, become an assassin, yell at a bigot, win a Lord&#8217;s favor, and basically rule everything. 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