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[in_the_blue]

Canon: Dragon Age: Origins / Battlestar Galactica
Characters/Pairing: Teyrn Loghain Mac Tir, Gaius Baltar
Prompt: gaius frakking baltar
Rating: PC for Pure Crack
Notes: So what if, while Gaius was President of the Twelve Colonies, he'd directed the fleet to Thedas instead of New Caprica? Let's see how that would have gone...

It was not for nothing

Comments

[erised1810]

okay. sincei can't play this dragon age game, are there any novelisations of it? and if not, can i commission you or lostinaapapercup or anyoen else here to write the mfor me? thissoudns so intriguign it's almost made fora good readable series. wow.

[in_the_blue]

Well, let's see. There are two official novels, but they're prequels to the game: The Stolen Throne and The Calling. Both were written by the lead writer for the game. I haven't read either of them, but there are recaps at both those links.

I would suggest (not self-pimping, I swear) that you read my DA fic at ineedmyfics called Falling Prey if you're interested, as it touches on several of the key events of the game in a somewhat rational order. lostinapapercup has a beautiful Dragon Age fic called I Await Your Favor and another called The Queen which should be read first. She does a fantastic job of sounding like the game looks and feels.

The gameplay itself is fairly straightforward: battle, make decisions, battle some more, make some more decisions, amass an army, beat a lot of bad guys along the way, have a final showdown with the main boss, and sit back for the epilogue. However, most of the major decisions you make along the way affect the final outcome, and you get faced with plenty of moral dilemmas. One of the best things about the game is its

[erised1810]

awww thank you. that will be enough to get busy with for now. I think i found the soundtrack somewhere. i'll first look at all these linsk though. adn i will properly read yoru fic now too. i read the one fro mashavah and then accidentally threw yorus out :P. it was mostly because of those two and then your drabble that I thought 'wow, that soudns good'.

[in_the_blue]

You threw it out! Doesn't that! just put me in my place. =D

[erised1810]

hey! it was an ccident. let's be glad it wasnt' arepeat of last week where ifirst swiped m yfolder of booksand then my to-be-read folder. thank god for external hard drives where we can copy everything and keep it safe. although now i thin kthere were three drago nage fics on the community. i swear tomorrow i'll send out proper reivews. it's harder than i thought totry to read for fandoms you hardly know. the firefly stuff abourt river for isntance freaked me out. eegh. oh gads there is so much to possibly catch up to. too man ycool thigns to read and watch. we'll see. i'll ping everyone if i come back rom the mall next week wit ha stac kof dvds. that'd be somethign to call the press for though. it's been ages.

[in_the_blue]

Just two Dragon Age fics this time around. I'm glad you didn't lose all your fics again!

(I loved that River story.)