Jesus Christ Hissrad they’re minerals
September 21, 2015
2:55 am
Today was my birthday so I celebrated with Dragon Age DLC I’ve been putting off forever and then I cooked food for like 30 of my friends and then I drew this.
Kudos to Jaws of Hakkon for making a temple where your characters are literally freezing to death and wasting time causes actual in-game penalty, I’m sorry it still wasn’t enough to make me stop wasting time and picking up every shiny rock I could find.
I’ve long thought the reason behind the meteoric rise to prominence and global respect of Bioware protagonists is that they have the power to make time wait for them while they durdle back and forth through the kingdom/galaxy harvesting plant roots, delivering books, racing horses and everything else anyone could possibly think for them to do.
Wow happy birthday Coela.
And now I’m beginning to want to play Dragon Age.
There’s a temple in the Jaws of Hakkon DLC that DOES have a time limit on how long you can tolerate the cold before you start freezing to death and you have to run from fire pit to fire pit to keep warm, but even the promise of virtual hypothermia wasn’t enough to stop me from stopping to pick up all the collectibles.
Ah, you’re a gamer after my own heart. Happy birthday.
Collectables are important if you want the cool looking custom gear. If the companions complain just ask the mages why they’re not heating things up with magic fire, you know, as mages do.
It made sense for me at least because the only Mage I brought was Vivienne and she’s my Knight Enchanter Ice Queen.
I did that with my Vivienne as well. It just suits her so well.
I’ve always felt the best indicator of how well you do in a game is how much gold and loot you have at the end. If you’ve not filled up all of your inventory and storage containers, you’re doing it wrong!
That’s the great game of capitalism, my friend! Whoever dies with the most stuff wins!
I like how, even when he’s freezing to death, Varric refuses to button up his shirt.
With chest hair like that, he can afford to.
The shirt actually makes him colder than just exposing his chest hair. True story.
Happy birthday, Senpai!
Birthday.
Happy.
I bestow wishes of a clear correlation between these two words for you.
(sorry, get overly formal when I’m sleepy)
Also it’s your birthday, and you’re giving us comic treats.
Shot!
Happy Birthday! And thanks for birthday comics :D
And here I was thinking my country was the only crazy one were the birthday guy has to make the party and food just as mothers cook for everyone on mother’s day weird shit like that.
Oh yeah, congratulations Kelly, did you know you share birthday with GEARS OF WAR 3?
Squeeee! Happy birthday! =D
Also Squeeee! Dragon Age! =D
Happy Birthday!
And folks from Siberia and Nunavut call Bullater a wuss.
“*Blackwall* wouldn’t be complaining here, Iron Bull.”
“Blackwall wears padding as casual wear!”
Hey, you know if they’d help you mine / gather, then it wouldn’t take nearly so long. ;)
Btw, happy birthday! This comic is my favorite thing about Mondays. ^^
It might also help them keep warm :P
That was always a fun use of micromanaging in Origins; there’s something wonderful about assigning each character to loot something different and watching them scatter.
Couldn’t they just bring along some fire-enchanted goats Dagna made? They’re the new season’s craze when it comes to keeping warm and attacking dragons.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
happy birthday, hope you had a lot of fun!
Gotta love the Breaking Bad reference in the title!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY and awesome comic today!!!
I picture your Qunari as this silver fox older man who Bull is very smitten by but also still…y’know…Bull in charge of everything I guess (ok ok I’ve only just FINALLY started playing da:i)
Ahahahha I always think of him as like mid-30’s-ish stumbling his way though a soldier of fortune career until all that inquisition business happened.
Happy belated birthday, your comic is amazing.
“I played Dragon Age. Then I cooked. Then I drew a comic.”
Seriously? Slow down, you’re making the rest of us look bad!
But happy birthday, hope it was a good one :D
Srsly. Cooked for 30 people AND drew a comic. All on your birthday. I wish there was a way to bake you a cake and shove it through the screen into your kitchen.
Happy Birthday!! Thanks for all the comics!
A comic about collecting valuable objects in a freezing cave, I might add.
When you look at all of those things as a whole, you realize that it’s all about priorities.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday! May you continue to cover us with all this fun you know how to deliver.
Guy in second panel looks more like he’s confessing to his senpai than freezing to death. So moe~
You know, trying to keep a jovial attitude while you breathe on your hands to keep them from freezing off.
I-It’s not like I WANT you to be my Kadan or anything… Q-qalaba.
Happy birthday, and thank you for another wonderful comic-y treat!
Happy birthday, Coelasquid :)
Is it strange that such a cold comic makes me feel all warm and fuzzy ?
No you don’t understand, he craves that mineral.
‘I’d brave going into a dragon’s lair if only he’d warm my toes.’ Flint Fireforge.
That’s…kind of what I did on all of the DLCs.
” THE WORLD IS IN IMMEDIATE DANGER!” “Yea, hold on while I gather these minerals.”
Happy Birthday! You are a member of the illustrious few who celebrate this day of birth including Bill Murray, Steven King, HG Wells, and myself. You lucky person you!
Ahahaha a day late, mine’s the 20th :P
cool, been a long while since i played dragon age, also, happy birthday! i hope you enjoyed it
I so understand this, I was constantly going “I don’t need these minerals any more, but god damnit it annoys me when searching the pings saying they found something and not pinging is not an option. Only option remaining, loot every material.”
I can’t take it honestly, Bull is adorable in that first panel.
I’m guilty of the same thing in the Hyrule Warriors. I *could* go and save my allies from getting monstered to death, ooooor I could keep farming the bad guys spawning in this keep to unlock my weapon skills slightly faster…
Yay! I was really hoping you’d do more DA:I comics! I’m especially eager to hear your opinions on Trespasser, given your feelings for Bull and Solas respectively.
Never played DA:I (or any DA past the first couple hours of Origins)…but I relate to this comic so much… I’ve even played out basically this conversation with NPCs in my head (although with ‘the bad guy’s escaping!’ or ‘the world’s not getting any more saved’ instead of ‘we’re freezing to death’…)…
The best part of this comic is of course the roaring fire in the background. Come on, Inquisitor, it’s right there.
It was a mechanic in the dungeon this is referencing, you had to hustle from fire pit to fire pit to keep warm or you would start taking freezing-to-death penalties. When you fight against the final boss he can freeze over the fire pits so you have to dispose of him ASAP before your characters die.
There’s actually one fire pit he’ll never turn off. It seriously confines your fighting space, but you can still get toasty ^^.
That said I had a seriously hard time beating the guy on nightmare nearly reaching the point where I wanted to reduce the difficulty. Thank god I got a bit closer every attempt making me feel like I could handle it.
Woah dayum, managed to go through all the pages in 2 days :0
Bapbap bip beep boop boo! (Ahem.). Uh, I mean, Happy Birthday!
They crave that mineral: http://i.imgur.com/CvnzXcn.png