{"id":369,"date":"2012-11-21T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/?p=369"},"modified":"2012-11-14T17:36:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T01:36:08","slug":"mark-plays-dragon-age-origins-hour-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/2012\/11\/21\/mark-plays-dragon-age-origins-hour-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Plays &#8216;Dragon Age: Origins&#8217;: Hour 36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the thirty-sixth hour of <em>Dragon Age: Origins<\/em>, things went worse than I expected, then better than expected, and then I think I just convinced Alistair to marry his brother&#8217;s surviving wife. <em>what<\/em>. If you&#8217;re intrigued by this, it&#8217;s time for Mark to play <em>Dragon Age: Origins<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><!--more-->Hour Thirty-Six<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reminder: There will be no posts tomorrow or Friday. Happy Thanksgiving!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WELL, THIS DIDN&#8217;T GO AS PLANNED. That&#8217;s not to say it was a disaster. On the contrary! I think Roslin&#8217;s provided a way for there to be a definite support for Loghain&#8217;s opponent, and no one cool died! Awesome!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what happened:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-370\" title=\"Screen Shot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot1-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot1-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot1-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot1.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yeah, that doesn&#8217;t look ominous <em>at all<\/em>. Right? THIS LOOKS LIKE A BAD IDEA.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, a room of doggies! No, Mabari, I just want to pet all of you. :(<\/li>\n<li>Well, this isn&#8217;t too difficult.<\/li>\n<li>Oh my god, THE TORTURER ROOM. WHAT THE FUCK.<\/li>\n<li>Well, I freed Oswyn! Man, he was sure ripped as hell for having been tortured\/starved for so long. Was he forced to do pull-ups and push-ups for days on end??? Regardless, I have to go find his father in the hopes that he&#8217;ll support whomever I support.<\/li>\n<li>What the hell? This prisoner is basically wearing a thong, he&#8217;s babbling, and I&#8217;m confused. I ended up letting him go, and the game told me a quest was updated. What???<\/li>\n<li>OH. <em>OH<\/em>. THAT WAS REXEL FROM THE &#8220;MISSING IN ACTION&#8221; QUEST. Whoops! I forgot I had that quest still!<\/li>\n<li>Honestly, as soon as I got to that room with Arl Howe in it, I just started shouting, &#8220;I HATE YOUR FACE, I HATE IT SO MUCH, I JUST WANT TO MURDER YOU.&#8221; Ugh, please let me kill him.<\/li>\n<li>Well, that didn&#8217;t go too well. Luckily, Alistair was able to kill the last mage, but Arl Howe&#8217;s men completely annihilated the rest of my party. You know, this is a really fantastic element of gameplay. Sure, it can be overwhelming to take care of four characters at once, but that also means you basically have four lives all at once.<\/li>\n<li>I found someone named Irminric in another cell, and he was coming off of a lyrium addiction, so he wasn&#8217;t entirely coherent. Turns out he was one of the templars who went after <em>Jowan<\/em>. Yeah, remember him? Well, now I have to find his sister, Bann Alfstanna, and give her a ring. Apparently, she&#8217;ll support me in the Landsmeet if I do!<\/li>\n<li>HOLY SHIT, I FOUND A ROOM LITERALLY FULL OF TREASURE. THIS RULES. I DON&#8217;T EVEN KNOW WHICH KEY OPENED IT. I WILL NOT QUESTION THIS.<\/li>\n<li>I freed Anora! Now it&#8217;s time to try and sneak out and get back to Arl Eamon&#8217;s estate! At least Anora is in a uniform. MAX CAMOUFLAGE.<\/li>\n<li>No, don&#8217;t go that way, there are too many red dots on the map.<\/li>\n<li>No, don&#8217;t go <em>that<\/em> way either.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, this is impossible.<\/li>\n<li>No, trust me, Anora was held against her will! I swear it!<\/li>\n<li>The conversation options gave me the chance to say, &#8220;Well, ask Anora yourself since she&#8217;s here!&#8221; This seemed like a terrible, <em>terrible<\/em> idea. Yeah, let&#8217;s just expose my secret companion!<\/li>\n<li>Oh my god, I have to fight like 15 DUDES ALL AT ONCE. Bless Morrigan&#8217;s Virulent Walking Bomb. It&#8217;s a goddamn treat. I just infected one dude on either side of the room in between using Roslin to attack the mages and archers. I TOTALLY RULED.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t know if this is intentional, but every single corpse in this estate had more money <em>and<\/em> health poultices than anywhere else in the game. Awesome!<\/li>\n<li>I escaped Arl Howe&#8217;s estate, but without Anora. Yeah, so as soon as the fight started? <em>She ran away<\/em>. She gave me no indication as to where she&#8217;d be headed. JUST GONE. POOF. That&#8217;s a good strategy, Anora. Thanks. Thanks for that.<\/li>\n<li>Before heading back to Arl Eamon&#8217;s place to tell him the news, I turned in &#8220;Notice of Termination&#8221; and &#8220;Missing in Action.&#8221; HELL YEAH, MORE MONEY.<\/li>\n<li>Oh, Anora went back to Arl Eamon! That&#8217;s\u2026 convenient. Like, <em>really<\/em> convenient. Hmmm.<\/li>\n<li>All right, so, that&#8217;s it, right? I won?<\/li>\n<li>No?<\/li>\n<li>Wait, something is wrong in the Alienage? <em>My<\/em> Alienage??? What the fuck did Loghain or Howe do??? (Hey, I get to go in the Alienage! Awesome!!!)<\/li>\n<li>Wait, <em>Anora wants to rule???<\/em> I mean, yes, Alistair has zero experience ruling! The idea of a queen instead of a king is awesome! But this seems to come out of nowhere! Plus, Arl Eamon <em>really<\/em> wants Alistair to be king. Okay, this just got even more complicated than before.<\/li>\n<li>I ended up proposing a ridiculous idea: what if Alistair and Anora just got <em>married<\/em>? Even more surprising? <strong>I WAS ABLE TO CONVINCE THEM BOTH TO DO THIS IF NECESSARY<\/strong>. Oh my god, <em>how awkward<\/em>. But it&#8217;s in the name of peace! Right? <em>Right<\/em>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh, please don&#8217;t let me regret this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Character Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-14-at-5.32.43-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-371\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-11-14 at 5.32.43 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-14-at-5.32.43-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"929\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-14-at-5.32.43-PM.png 929w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-14-at-5.32.43-PM-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 929px) 100vw, 929px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Strength: 27+6<br \/>\nDexterity: 27+12<br \/>\nWillpower: 22+2<br \/>\nMagic: 14+2<br \/>\nCunning: 24+7<br \/>\nConstitution: 27+2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heroic Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kills: 629<br \/>\nDamage dealt: 147284<br \/>\nFriendly-fire: 0<br \/>\nGreatest damage dealt: 90<br \/>\nContribution to party damage: 29<br \/>\nHit rate: 87<br \/>\nMost powerful foe slain: Arl How <strong>FUCK YEAH I HOPE YOU ROT FOREVER<\/strong><br \/>\nInjuries: 27 (Ow.)<\/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!<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/category\/the-shoebox-project\/\">I\u2019ve started reading\u00a0<em>The Shoebox Project<\/em>\u00a0for Mark Reads<\/a>, the first fanfic \u201cseries\u201d I\u2019ve ever covered! 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