Squishy Mages Are Not Meant to be Alone

[inquartata]

Whereupon my mage!Hawke tries to rivalmance Merrill, gets kicked out of her house, and then mauled to death on the streets of a nighttime Lowtown just trying to get home. And spoilers behind the cut.

(edit: and mods, please to tag? apparently I can't tag correctly.)

Okay, here's the more full explanation. I did the Mirror Image quest and totally didn't give Merril the arulin'holm. She calls my Hawke a shemlen and gives him the silent treatment. I empty out his party before I go to have him talk to Merrill at her house because it's weird when two other people just watch and even sometimes BUTT IN. Anders, Fenris, I'm SO looking at you two.

Anyway. There's an argument, and then another argument. My Hawke is trying to save her and she's all Not Having Any Of That. And so she tells Hawke to get out of her house. Partyless. Squishy mage. At night (even if you go in the daytime, it's night outside when she gives you the boot). Without having cleared out any of the bandit denizens of the area. The game actually does kick you out of the house. I tried to make a go of it (before I tried to go back into Merrill's house after a reload) but it didn't go very well. He tries to run, but just keeps spawning new groups while the old ones don't go away or GIVE UP.

I probably could've survived everything I'd really tried. Most likely would've used all my potions and would've taken an hour. But I didn't bother trying and went for the reload instead.

But, man, when Hawke died, I was all... wow. Merrill will be so guilt stricken. And probably loot the arulin'holm off of Hawke's dead body. Maybe.

HOLY MAKER ALL THE BAD GUYS!

Comments

[darkrose]

Tagged, correctly I hope.

This was made of awesome, especially with your additional commentary. I know exactly where you're coming from, too--I had that problem with Merrill and my mage!Hawke, even though he wasn't romancing her.

[twist_shimmy]

*giggles so hard*

[onemorealtmer]

OMG that's beautiful. XD

[withoutportals]

Oh, man. Look what your careless hands have wrought, Merrill. D8 Killing your clan's got nothin' on this one. Wow she would be so guilty.

That was hilarious.

[valiasedai]

Oh man, you poor thing. She kicked my Hawke out, but I think I'd cleared that end of Lowtown by then. Then again, this is why I went fire/ice because XD I suck at staying out of combat with a tank, a damage dealer warrior and a rogue. On my own I'll run up to people just to use cone of cold.

I can empathize with the red dots - near the end of Act 2 I had almost 2 dozen qunari chasing my mage through the streets of Hightown. It would have been funny if I hadn't been panicking so desperately XD

[magnolia]

Omg so jealous, even with the squishy mage. ;_; I wish my game ran that smoothly.

[zute]

Spoilerish... highlight to read (if I did it right)

It's funny though, after all the squalling and carrying on, she gets over it. But THEN it seems like after you've ensured she CANNOT fix the mirror, she begs your help to go get the demon's help, as if you never denied her the tool she needed. I just don't get that.

[ailoveyou]

LOL!

It's one thing for Hawke to get shot down by rival!Merrill but then that mob...
Poor guy *hugs* xD

[andorin]

Lol, this was epic. Lone mage and lots of red dots. And they multiplied when you ran!

[scarylady]

I like the ending. Six savage mabari surrounding him and he's saying 'Can't we talk about this?' :D