cyrano | Dragon Age--Zombie Castle II (Reply)

The castle was rough. I never hit anything as unpleasant as that first room in the Tower at Ostagar, but yay for between-fights regeneration. I brought out Leilana and re-tried the back up archer thing, which went better than most fights with her, but she still went down like a sack of wet mice three or four times. (Her list of battle scars was prodigious.) At least she's not 'hostile' toward me though. The toughest battle was the kennels--I think I had total PK three times, and I'm not exactly certain what I did differently the fourth time.

I leveled up after discovering the door whose lock mocked me, so of course I took another level of lock picking and grabbed everything. So of course there was another door that we couldn't unlock later on. I don't think it's because I wasn't skilled enough though. Most of the castle was a zombie grind, and once we hit the courtyard things went pretty easily all in all. I stealthed over to the gates to let in the knights who promised they'd be waiting, and we beat the crap out of the Revenant while Sten climbed the steps and took out the archers and Leilani went down like a sack of wet mice.

Then we all charged into the great hall where I was shocked (shocked!) to discover that Connor was possessed by a demon, and Bann Teagan was under his thrall! I was a little sad about having to kill Teagan but the fella needed killin'. Luckily, it didn't hurt him. Getting killed is an excellent way to thwart thralldom, apparently. Anyway, Connor ran away because demons don't like violence. (I... what?) And after the fight, I tried to slap the crazy out of Isolde. I don't think it did any good.

We decided the best plan was to have the assassin blood mage cast a spell that would kill Isolde and send Morrigan into the Fade to attack the demon. Why not? The worst that could happen is she survives and then she hates me. We did some mopping up in the castle (pretty much anything we could think of to do besides send Morrigan into the Fade). I got schooled by a room full of empty suits of armor (Really? Does that go with the 'zombie' decor you've got going on?), took the zombie Castellan's key, and found Alistair's mother's amulet.

And then there was nothing really left to do but send Morrigan into the Fade. Good luck!