Today I came home to a strange looking box. It was wrapped in a paper bag style wrap, as well as a cellophane cover. The return address was someone I knew, so I decided to avoid calling the CDC and dive in to find just what the depths held.
Upon opening the box, I was greeted with the smell of the farm. I had spent some time with horses as a lad with some friends who often traveled to upstate New York in order to tend to a farmhouse and land. There was a small oval container within, nestled within hay.
I removed the small box and noticed two other items down below. One was a letter, sealed with an old fashioned wax impression. The other was a crudly wrapped rectangle, also sealed with wax. Opening up the oval container revealed a small vial filled with red liquid and yet another note, sealed with wax.
Breaking the wax seal first on the smaller note, I read the following:
Each Grey Warden must drink
of that which would destroy us.
Some master the blood
of the darkspawn, some perish.
Will you test your strength
against corruption itself?
The letter was next:
You are a Grey Warden,
and the only one who can save this world.
Your order has stood, time and again,
against the endless hordes of the blight
and theArchdemon that leads them.
If there is to be victory, it will have to be wrested
from the squabbling lords whose petty ambitions
have shattered the land.
We must stand united, whatever the cost.
Friends and lovers may fall.
Noble people may die so that others might live.
Hard decisions, yet you must make them,
and you must bear the weight of the consequences.
Yet it's not important how you will be remembered.
What's important is that there is
a world left to remember at all.
The final package was clear at this point... Dragon Age: Origins. Looks like I've got some work to do.
My review copy came with an actual dragon egg that promptly hatched. Thing's pretty cute, snorts out flames when it sneezes and snaps at flies for fun. I think you got screwed ;P
Also..not sure why people bother arguing with teecakes... I sincerely believe now that he is a bot built by Sony and unleashed on small community sites.
My review copy came with an actual dragon egg that promptly hatched. Thing's pretty cute, snorts out flames when it sneezes and snaps at flies for fun. I think you got screwed ;P
Oh you think he's cute now... but just you wait. He'll grow up and get bigger, then mom'll flush him down the toilet when he eats your cat. Then he'll keep growing in the sewers of your town and the next thing you know... they're making movies about the error of your way.
I like those quite a bit, and everyone I've ever dealt with a Mana has been cool. Good company, solid product. I'll stop now, I'm sounding like a shill.
