{"id":541,"date":"2012-12-18T10:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/?p=541"},"modified":"2012-12-18T10:00:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:00:20","slug":"mark-plays-dragon-age-awakening-hour-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/2012\/12\/18\/mark-plays-dragon-age-awakening-hour-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Plays &#8216;Dragon Age: Awakening&#8217;: Hour 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the seventh hour of <em>Dragon Age: Awakening<\/em>, WHAT IS THAT THING and then YOU HAVE A CHILD??? and then NOPE NO NO NO NO and then GET AWAY FROM ME. Intrigued? Then it&#8217;s time for Mark to play <em>Dragon Age<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><!--more-->Hour Seven<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;All right!&#8221; I thought. &#8220;I got all my quests done in Knotwood, time to head back to Vigil&#8217;s Keep to get some smaller missions done, sell my stuff, get some enchanting done, and otherwise be totally prepared. Wait, what&#8217;s this? A cutscene? Well \u2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-542\" title=\"Screen Shot 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-18-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-18-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-18-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-18.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WHAT THE FUCK!<\/li>\n<li>WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-22.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-543\" title=\"Screen Shot 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-22-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-22-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-22-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-22.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OH MY GOD IS THAT THE MOTHER<\/li>\n<li>WAIT, <strong>IS THIS THE SAME PLACE WHERE <em>WITCH&#8217;S KEEP<\/em> ENDED? <\/strong>IT TOTALLY IS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-33.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-544\" title=\"Screen Shot 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-33-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-33-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-33-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-33.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>NO, WHAT OTHER TRICKS IS SHE PLANNING FOR ME?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I mean, what the hell am I supposed to do with this new information? <em>Sit here and cry, probably<\/em>. Oh, I am not excited about fighting that <em>thing<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>All right, so I <em>did<\/em> make it back to Vigil&#8217;s Keep to take care of one of the billion quests I had active. (I counted: 34 active quests <em>at once<\/em>.) I gave Master Wade some of the Ore I&#8217;d found in Kal&#8217;Hirol, and he gave me <em>another quest<\/em>. Apparently, he likes me and wants to make something ~super special~ for me. I&#8217;m not gonna deny him that opportunity.<\/li>\n<li>I also met Dworkin, that dwarf from the opening sequence who blew up a bunch of darkspawn! I&#8217;d found something new called &#8220;lyrium sand&#8221; in Kal&#8217;Hirol, and it turns out it helps him make bombs. Awesome! So now I can drop off lyrium sand with him, and he gives me these sweet bombs that I&#8217;m excited to use.<\/li>\n<li>Once I went back into the throne room, another cutscene was triggered, this one between Oghren and a new dwarf named Felsi. (At least I <em>think<\/em> she&#8217;s new, as I don&#8217;t remember her.) She was <em>very<\/em> angry at Oghren for abandoning the dwarves to join the Grey Wardens. I largely stayed out of the conversation because it wasn&#8217;t my business. Felsi huffed away, frustrated, but not before dropping a bombshell: <strong>OGHREN HAS A KID HE LEFT BEHIND. <\/strong>What the <em>fuck<\/em>, dude??? So now I&#8217;ve got a mission to &#8220;talk&#8221; with him. I tried to do it immediately, but he magically became shitfaced in the ten seconds it took me to start a conversation with him. Ah, Oghren, I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised.<\/li>\n<li>I also took some time to talk with Sigrun, and we conversed about books. It was a neat conversation! I kind of don&#8217;t want to find out what an Antivan Milk Sandwich is.<\/li>\n<li>So, off I went for adventures! I took my party (minus Nathaniel, just because I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d need an archer or a runecrafter for what I was doing next. I headed down to see what had happened after the rubble was cleared from the basement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-45.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-545\" title=\"Screen Shot 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-45-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-45-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-45-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-45.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hey, this <em>literally does not look safe at all<\/em>. You go down that ladder, Sergeant! But no, <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> the hero, so I have to climb down rickety ladders for the good of humanity. I was about to say that Roslin isn&#8217;t paid enough to do this shit, and then I remembered that I had like 280 sovereigns. HELL YEAH.<\/li>\n<li>I found that Korth offering table, and I gave it a gold statue. I got this wicked axe called Frenzy, and those creepy golems <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> wake up.<\/li>\n<li>And then shit gets <em>weird<\/em>. At one point, I read a plaque that mention someone named Avvar, and whomever fought this dude <em>hates<\/em> Avvar. Who is Avvar? What did he do???<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-546\" title=\"Screen Shot 5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-52-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-52-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-52-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-52.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WHAT IS THIS ROOM. I AM FRIGHTENED.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-62.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-547\" title=\"Screen Shot 6\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-62-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-62-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-62-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-62.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hAHA; A;A DASFK;LJ ASD; AS;DFJ <strong>I DON&#8217;T EVEN KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE THE NAME OF THIS MONSTER H E L P<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-72.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-548\" title=\"Screen Shot 7\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-72-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-72-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-72-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-72.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>YOU COULD NOT GIVE THIS THING A MORE ABSTRACT AND RIDICULOUS NAME. It&#8217;s <em>teasing<\/em> me just by existing. Like, it knows I am curious enough to do something with it, and it&#8217;s name <em>also<\/em> warns me not to do anything with it.<\/li>\n<li>OH. GREAT. I LET A WRAITH LOOSE. WHY DID I DO THIS.<\/li>\n<li>So I chased after the thing, and it led me straight into a group of darkspawn and something called an Ogre Commander. AWESOME. Oh my god, I had to Feint Death <em>again<\/em> because he wouldn&#8217;t leave me alone. (Incidentally, Oghren leveled up immediately after the Ogre died, and he got that awesome skill where he draws all enemies toward him. BAH, I NEEDED THAT JUST 30 SECONDS EARLIER.) But then we killed it!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-84.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-549\" title=\"Screen Shot 8\" src=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-84-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-84-1024x576.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-84-300x168.png 300w, http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-Shot-84.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AND IT IMMEDIATELY GOT POSSESSED BY THE WRAITH. <em>GODDAMN IT<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>But then victory! The door to the Deep Roads was sealed. WE ARE SAFE.<\/li>\n<li>I managed to get one last thing done before my hour was up. I had to hold court with Varel, which is basically me acting as a judge. I was given three cases in succession.<\/li>\n<li>First up was Alec, who stole grain in order to feed his family. I chose to spare his life and conscript him into the army so that he could work off his debt <em>and<\/em> feed his family.<\/li>\n<li>Ser Derren was next, and I took Varel&#8217;s advice to win over the nobles. Using my super high Persuasion, I told Ser Derren that while the law did not favor him, I&#8217;d make it up to him. He seemed satisfied with that.<\/li>\n<li>And then there was Ser Temmerly. It&#8217;s through this that I learned he probably killed Ser Tamra! UGH, no, <em>you bigot<\/em>. But could I just outright execute him without anything other than circumstantial evidence? I chose to throw him in jail for a &#8220;very, very, very long investigation.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s <em>still<\/em> a conspiracy against my life, but now Ser Tamra is dead, and I can&#8217;t get information from her. I guess I&#8217;ll have to go back to Amaranthine to find the Dark Wolf and talk to him. Onwards I go!<\/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; 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:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/product\/mark-reads--video\" target=\"_blank\">Video commissions are just $25! You can commission me to read, watch, or play anything for current, past, or upcoming projects right here!<\/a><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!<br \/>\n&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/2012\/11\/mark-reads-harry-potter-books-available-in-paperback\/\" target=\"_blank\">Both\u00a0<em>Mark Reads Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Half-Blood Prince<\/em>\u00a0are now available in paperback form!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the seventh hour of Dragon Age: Awakening, WHAT IS THAT THING and then YOU HAVE A CHILD??? and then NOPE NO NO NO NO and then GET AWAY FROM ME. Intrigued? Then it&#8217;s time for Mark to play Dragon &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/2012\/12\/18\/mark-plays-dragon-age-awakening-hour-7\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[63,48,31],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragon-age","tag-awakening","tag-dlc","tag-mark-plays-dragon-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markplays.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}