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In the cut content section of da2 I found this

Which is good bc in no way would I allow my man Orsino to die a monster

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hey uh. so Meredith and Orsino both had to like. take the ferry to the Gallows during the last straw to like. get in place before the real fighting started I guess. what. do you think that ride was like. did they take the same boat. did they take separate boats at the same time and just glare at each other on the way over. did they get to the docks and there was only one boat so they rock-paper-scissored over who got to go first

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When you’re a city elf and you get to the alienage quest

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(these are both Flemeth talking) It's interesting that she would capitalize the "He" when referring to the Archdemon. And I think this would have been the first part of the game where it's really confirmed to you that the darkspawn are people.

I'm fascinated that they included every edited version of every line they wrote, so you can see the whole process from beginning to end. I think I remember a Bioware video or podcast where they talked about how they almost scientifically determined what the best line length was, and they said that like... an NPC should say 3 lines max in a row before giving you back control to make a decision. I wish I remembered which video that was so I could rewatch it.

At any rate, when reading through these, the edited lines are always 1000% better. It's just wild how few words you need, and how ideas are easier to process when they come one at a time. I can also kind of understand better why the writers always are so humble about it being a team effort because, yeah, that's way more editing than I thought.

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DAI if the Warden was in it

Warden, seeing a tear in a veil: I'm gonna stab it

Inquisitor with their hand halfway up: please don't

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The coolest part of the DAO Toolkit are these comments that the writers made for how the lines should be delivered. This is about Morrigan reacting to Alistair hearing all the people died. He apparently cried like a baby... ;o; ;o; ;o;

there are so many notes like this. I don't remember the same kind of notes for lines in the Inquisition files, but those were so hard to look at in comparison that maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough?

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(shakes Flemeth) TELL ME WHAT YOU KNOW

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anders was right anders was wrong whatever. can we talk about how he made that big of an explosion from piss crystals and some rocks

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the trials of being married to a ranger with his animal bffs and his shapeshifting sometimes-gf

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I’m sorry vhenan

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she will be famous forever

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you have a wound that will never heal? me too! actually it's gradually widening and expanding, consuming more of me with each passing day [props my chin in my hands and smiles at you] at what point do you think i'll become the wound itself and not simply the bearer?

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this would pull me too because i’ve been really into hot salsas lately and i need to talk to someone about it

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howe would piss aeducan the fuck off but for all the wrong reasons. the gang is horrified to discover he's keeping a bann's son prisoner and torturing him for good measure and aeducan is like oh he needs to die. every self-respecting noble i know would have this as plan C at most and this fucker leads with that? embarassing. if an honor proving is out of the question here at the very least start by going after some distant cousin damn