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Low Approval: Punching Down

Sera (male PC): So, you’re being a shit. There. Said it. Sera (female PC): So, you’re being a bitch. There. Said it.

General: I’m sorry, what? PC: What is— ㅤㅤ ㅤ
General: That’s sudden. PC: What brought— ㅤㅤ ㅤ
General: What’s your point? PC: Who asked—

Sera: No, don’t bother. I don’t care about your words. People say all kinds of words. Fun, fair, but you’re acting like a right arse. You were supposed to be different. So stop it, or I’ll have to… something!

Dialogue options:

General: How can I fix this? [1]
General: I’m just doing my job. [2]
General: What’s wrong now? [3]

1 - General: How can I fix this? PC: What do you need, Sera? Sera: I need you to be who you were. [4]

2 - General: I’m just doing my job. PC: Saving the world isn’t easy. I have to do whatever it takes. Sera: Said every shitheel ever. [4]

3 - General: What’s wrong now? PC: What are you going on about now? Sera: You, and the shite you get away with. [4]

4 - Scene continues.

Sera: You’re punching down, hurting people. You’ve got power, but so’s the baddie. Plus, if you make it all about you, how will I play? How will things get back to normal? I need it normal.

Dialogue options:

Others need you to stay. (Sera stays as an ally.) [5] +Sera greatly approves
Then just leave. (Sera leaves forever.) [6]
Start running, traitor. (Sera leaves forever.) [7]

5 - Others need you to stay. PC: So you don’t like me. Stay for them. You know, the people you wanted to help? Sera: Not fair. I don’t care. I’m not supposed to care. Frig. Frig! Fine! Just for that pisshead Coryphenis. Just! I am so stupid. Scene ends.

6 - Then just leave. PC: Don’t like it, there’s the gate. Sera: Just like that? Knew it. Knew what you were. Good luck, Inquisitor. Good luck not being worse than losing. Sera leaves the Inquisition.

7 - Start running, traitor. PC: You think you can walk away? If you’re not the archer, you’re the target. Sera: What is that, I don’t even… ? PC: Get your treacherous face out of my sight! Now! Sera leaves the Inquisition.

Warm Approval: Pranks

Sera: You have a problem. That, over there, is a full tavern, but everyone’s drinking alone. They’re all up their own arses about the Inquisition. I can’t have fun with everybody whinging. And they’ll fall on their swords before Coryphenus can push them. I’m thinking pranks.

Sera (romanced): Just you and me, messing around in people’s stuff. You know, to start. Sera (not romanced): Set a few up. Knock a few down. You in or not?

Dialogue options:

General: I want them at their best. [1]
General: Should the Inquisitor do this? [2]
General: How will that help? [3]

1 - General: I want them at their best. PC: You have an odd idea of preparation. I need to keep them at their best. Sera: What’s “best,” then? Mopey? Constantly ready for death to fall from the gaping hole up there? I know people. Pissed off and fired up is better than dreary bleary. Come on! [4]

2 - General: Should the Inquisitor do this? PC: But I’m the Inquisitor. You know, the leader? Sera: Right, they’ll never suspect you. What, titles are only for getting away with bad stuff? Let’s do something fun. Come on! [4]

3 - General: How will that help? PC: I don’t understand how annoying my people will help. Sera: Look, you have experts for everything. And I know a bunch of tight-arsed people when I see them. Oh, sure, they’ll complain. But they’ll really mean, “Thank you for distracting me from the end of the stupid world.” Come on! [4]

4 - Dialogue options:

General: No, grow up. [5] -Sera disapproves
General: You go ahead without me. [6]
General: Yes, I’m in. [7] +Sera slightly approves
Flirt: Time with you sounds like fun. [8] +Sera slightly approves (female Dalish/human PC) +Sera approves (female Qunari/dwarf PC)

5 - General: No, grow up. PC: I’m running a serious organization here. Stop fooling around. Sera: The baddie you’re fighting has been all serious for, what, a thousand years? You can’t win that contest. Ugh, fine. I’ll try to find someone not pouting in their ale. Good frigging luck to me. Scene ends.

6 - General: You go ahead without me. PC: I get what you’re trying to do, but it’s not for me. You go ahead. Sera: Permission feels weird, but fine. You go not have fun. Way too much of that “not having fun” around here. I’m going to hide a snake somewhere ruffley. Scene ends.

7 - General: Yes, I’m in. PC: Lead the way. Sera: What, really? PC: Really. Sera: (Giggles.) I knew you were different. Let’s go. [9]

8 - Flirt: Time with you sounds like fun. PC: Just you and me? You know, I would like that.

Sera (male PC): Eh, don’t get excited, you’re not my thing. Your thing is not my thing. You still coming or not? [back to 4]

Sera (female Qunari PC): Oh! Yes, please. Let’s go. [9] Sera (female dwarf PC): Oh, you’re so twee! Let’s go. [9] Sera (female Dalish PC): Sure, that could work. Maybe. Let’s go. [9] Sera (female human PC): I like the sound of that. Let’s go. [9]

9 - Scene continues.

They enter Cullen’s office.

Sera: Right, General Uptight is gone. Have a search about. Find something to mess with and give your soldiers a laugh.

The PC looks at the desk.

Sera: What, the desk? Oh, yes! Centre of the empire and all that. What to do, what to do…

General: I won’t diminish my general. [10] -Sera slightly disapproves
General: Great, so what do we do? [11] +Sera slightly approves

10 - General: I won’t diminish my general. PC: This was to lower tensions, not undercut my general. Sera: What, two minutes of slightly-less-than-perfect will destroy everything? You have to make sure people don’t hate the ones in charge, by reminding them people are people all the way up. Fine, never mind. Let’s just keep moving. [12]

11 - General: Great, so what do we do? PC: All right, Sera. What do you want to do? Sera: Thing looks heavy. Don’t want to move or break it.

PC (if romancing Cullen): Oh, it’s sturdy.

Sera: I got it! Easy one! Just a slip of something under here. Sera puts something near the corner. Sera: There! Won’t notice much, but it’s just that little bit wonky. He’s so in control, that’ll piss him royally. I tell one of the soldiers, and boom! The general seems like people. And since he works for you, you seem like people. Come on, next one! [12]

12 - Scene continues.

They enter Josephine’s office.

Sera: Right. Little Lady Prissypants. Have a look for something she likes too much.

The PC investigates the door.

Sera: What, just the door? Where she greets every important idiot! Yes!

Dialogue options:

General: I can’t mock my diplomat. [13] -Sera slightly disapproves
General: All right, what do we do? [14] +Sera slightly approves

13 - General: I can’t mock my diplomat. PC: Sera, I can’t pull a prank on the chief representative of my Inquisition. Sera: Oh, of course not. Can’t risk appearances. That would be ever so common. Fine, be serious. Let’s go. [15]

14 - General: All right, what do we do? PC: Well, Sera, what do you have in mind? Sera: Hmm. (Giggles.) Get a bucket. She hangs a bucket over the door. Sera: Classic, yeah? Five minutes of sloppy boss gets you weeks of happy kitchen staff. Except for the one who cleans it up, I suppose. But whatever! Next stop! [15]

15 - Scene continues.

They enter the rookery.

Sera: Right, something to get our Shadow of Birds loosened up. Gotta be something. Have a search.

The PC finds a box.

Sera: What’s that? A locked… no, leave that. Not interested in her hidden things. Not for just a bit of fun. Maybe… feed her messengers something gassy? No, birds don’t parp. But they flap, and… uh. Huh.

Solas: Who is up there?

Dialogue options:

General: It’s the Inquisitor and Sera. [16] -Sera slightly disapproves
General: Run! [17] +Sera slightly approves

16 - General: It’s the Inquisitor and Sera. PC: Nothing to worry about, Solas. It’s just me and Sera. Solas: Well. All right, then. Sera: Ugh, what fun is that? Let’s go. [18]

17 - General: Run! PC: Go! Sera: Pfft! (Laughing.) They run off. [18]

18 - Scene continues.

PC did no pranks Sera: You’re not much fun, you know? I suppose you think that’s the job, being all serious? I mean, if that’s what you want, fine. But if someone said that’s what you “should be,” maybe tell them to piss up a rope.

PC did some pranks Sera: You’re fun. Sometimes, anyway. Better than most. Makes you seem normal.

PC did all the pranks Sera: That was fun. An Inquisitor of the people, still remembering you’re one of them. If all they got was the Herald stuff, the serious bit, you’d start to sound pretty scary. That works, but not for long.

Dialogue options:

General (did no pranks): It’s just not me. [19]
General (did all pranks): Anything to keep us inspired. [20] +Sera slightly approves
General: I should appear respectable. [21]
General: You don’t make a lot of sense. [22]

19 - General: It’s just not me. PC: Sorry, that just isn’t something I feel I can be. Sera: Fine, be that way. I suppose it doesn’t matter. Just remember: from down here, everyone up top sort of looks the same. [23]

20 - General: Anything to keep us inspired. PC: Whatever it takes. I’d start throwing pies if it kept people inspired. Sera: Pies is so good. And Coryphenus would never do that. Good thing for you, innit? Because from the bottom, everyone up top sort of seems the same. [23]

21 - General: I should appear respectable. PC: I should be someone they can look up to and respect. Sera: You their leader or their [daddy/mummy]?Maybe some of them want that, I suppose. Up to you, oh Herald of everything. [23]

22 - General: You don’t make a lot of sense. PC: I… think you’re off the mark… by a lot. Sera: Oh, probably. But it works on me, and everyone I know, so I’m right. Same reason everyone else thinks they’re right. It’s all bull, so pick the advice you like, I guess. [23]

23 - Scene continues.

PC did no pranks Sera: Doesn’t always have to be so boring. Cheers anyway, Inquisitor. Try to have some fun. Sera stands and leaves. Scene ends.

PC did some/all pranks Sera (female PC flirted before): It was fun chasing you, Inquisitor. Nice view. Sera: Anyway, fun time, Inquisitor.

If Josephine was pranked Josephine: You! Josephine storm into the Herald’s Rest. Sera: Oh, frig! You did it. (Laughing.) Sera runs off. Scene ends.

If Josephine was not pranked Sera: Cheers to living before you die, yeah? Sera stands and leaves. Scene ends.

High Approval: Inquisition Cookies

Sera: Hey, you! You have time? It’s not a question, let’s go. I’ve got something I want to do for you. Just come, you won’t need your gear and stuff.

Dialogue options:

Flirt: I’m ready for anything. [1] +Sera slightly approves (female Dalish/human PC) +Sera approves (female Qunari/dwarf PC)
General: What are you getting me into? [2]
General: I don’t have time for games. [3]

1 - Flirt: I’m ready for anything. PC: With you, I’ll do anything. Sera: I bet, yeah. Come on, let’s do it. [4]

2 - General: What are you getting me into? PC:Sera? Explain? Sera: Ugh, just come on, will you? I haven’t wanted to do this with anyone for a long time. [4]

3 - General: I don’t have time for games. PC: Whatever it is, it better not waste my time. Too much does that now. Sera: You can spare a few minutes, oh mighty Inquisitor. And you’ve never done this. [4]

4 - Scene continues.

Sera takes the PC out onto the roof.

PC: We’re eating. On a roof.

Sera: They’re horrible, right? And raisins, ugh! I frigging still hate cookies!

Dialogue options:

General: They’re fine, but this is odd. PC: No, no, it’s just that this is all a little confusing. ㅤㅤ ㅤ
General: This is not what I expected. PC: You know, this is about as far from what I expected as we could get. ㅤㅤ ㅤ
General: Why are we eating cookies? PC: Why am I sitting on a roof eating awful baked goods?

Sera: I got caught stealing when I was little, yeah? You get alienage or worse for that, but the “Lady Emmald” took me in. She was sick and couldn’t have children. I had no parents. It worked out. Anyway, she gets a year sicker, so I ask about her cookies. Because mums make cookies. I can pass that down, or something. Turns out, she couldn’t cook. She missed that talk with her mum. The ones she “made” she bought and pretended. Aw, right? Well, no, she was a bitch. She hid buying them by keeping me away from the baker. She did that by lying that he didn’t like me, didn’t like elves. She let me hate so she could protect her pride. I hated him so much, and I hated…

Sera pauses and looks away.

Sera: Well, she died, and I hate pride. “Pride cookies.”

Sera (if female PC flirted before): But! This is great. You’re great. So I thought maybe, me and you could make some… I don’t know, “us cookies”? Sera: But! This Inquisition thing is working out. So I figured I could make some… “Inquisition cookies”?

Sera: Because then I could like them again? Ugh, it’s stupid.

5 - Dialogue options:

Investigate: Emmald was nice. Why hate her? [6]
Confused: Baking sounds nice, but here? [7]
Pleased: I like you, but not cookies. [8]
Pleased: I think that’s a great idea. [9]
Angry: That is stupid, and immature! [10]

6 - Investigate: Emmald was nice. Why hate her? PC: I don’t understand. This Lady Emmald was just trying to be good to you. Sera: She hurt people. PC: It was just cookies. Sera: It was not just cookies! Lie to herself? Fair play, only hurts her. But she made me think there was something wrong with me! And the baker! I made his life shit. Why not? It seemed like he deserved it. I mean, “if you don’t give a child a cookie because of appearances, you’re a monster.” Stupid, pride-whore noble. I know, I said it was stupid. That’s why I want to get rid of it. I want to make better cookies.

7 - Confused: Baking sounds nice, but here? PC: This is grand, but why here instead of, I don’t know, somewhere with an oven?

Sera (romanced): Because I wanted us to be alone, so I could see how you reacted. In case, I don’t know, you laughed. [15]

Sera (not romanced): Because it feels weird to do this and I didn’t want anyone around, you know, laughing. Plus if they were bad, we could throw them at people? These are really bad. Frigging raisins.

Dialogue options:

General: I am laughing, but it’s good. [11] +Sera slightly approves
General: Throwing them sounds like fun! [12] +Sera approves
General: You don’t need this. Nor do I. [13]

11 - General: I am laughing, but it’s good. PC: It’s ridiculous but great. I’m glad you’re happy. Can we get off the roof now? Sera: Oh, yes, please. Smells like bird and dank. This part, not a good idea. Thanks, yeah? Feels good, this. Scene ends. ㅤㅤ ㅤ 12 - General: Throwing them sounds like fun! PC: Now you’re talking. Best two out of three on the well? Sera: (Laughs.) Knew I liked you. Bonus for bouncing off helmets. There’s a shout as the screen fades to black. Sera: Cassandra! You did it. Scene ends. ㅤㅤ ㅤ 13 - General: You don’t need this. Nor do I. PC: You’re happy you belong, I get it. You don’t need to drag me places for dubious baked goods. Sera: Well, fine. Thought it’d be fun. Stupid cookies. Thanks anyway. Seems like the rest of this could work out. Maybe. Scene ends.

8 - Pleased: I like you, but not cookies. PC: While I’m glad you want this, I’m afraid I don’t really like cookies. Sera: Really? They should be good, all sugar and… stuff. Doesn’t need to be cookies. [14]

9 - Pleased: I think that’s a great idea. PC: You know what? That would be great. Sera: See, I knew… wait, really? Because it seemed frigging daft every step to me. [14]

14 - Choice dependent dialogue:

Romanced [15]
Not romanced [16]

15 - Romanced Sera: Pissballs! I could have made a whole dirty thing about your biscuit! Or muffins! Muffins on the… on the roof. Because tits?

Dialogue options:

General: You’re wonderful and silly. [17]
General: Crude, but I still like you. [18] +Sera slightly approves
General: Not funny. [19]

17 - General: You’re wonderful and silly. PC: (Laughs.) Sera, this is silly, wonderful fun. Just like you. Sera: That’s good, right? Because the roof was a really bad idea. Can’t do it on the roof. [26] ㅤㅤ ㅤ 18 - General: Crude, but I still like you. PC: I wouldn’t have put it as crudely, but this was still a nice thing to do. Can we get off the roof now? Sera: Oh, yes, please. Smells like bird and dank. This part, not a good idea. Thanks, yeah? Feels good, this. Scene ends. ㅤㅤ ㅤ 19 - General: Not funny. PC: No, that’s too much. I’m not laughing. Sera: Well, fine. Thought it’d be fun. Stupid cookies. Thanks anyway. Seems like the rest of this could work out. Maybe. Scene ends.

16 - Not romanced Sera: Suppose it’s not really about them. I hate learning lessons. Makes my stomach hurt. Anyway, I’ll throw this rubbish away. Next time will be better, yeah?

Dialogue options:

General: I look forward to it. [20] +Sera approves
General: Once was enough. [21]

20 - General: I look forward to it. PC: Sera? Anytime. Can we get off the roof now? Sera: Oh, yes, please. Smells like bird and dank. This part, not a good idea. Thanks, yeah? Feels good, this. Scene ends. ㅤㅤ ㅤ 21 - General: Once was enough. PC: I think this was enough to get the gist. Sera: Well, fine. Thought it’d be fun. Stupid cookies. Thanks anyway. Seems like the rest of this could work out. Maybe. Scene ends.

10 - Angry: That is stupid, and immature! PC: It is stupid. You dragged me here to bad-mouth a sad, dead woman. Sera: It’s not about that. Feelings are hard, all right? PC: Not for an adult!

Choice dependent dialogue:

Romanced [22]
Not romanced [23]

22 - Romanced Sera: I just thought you’d want to know that I think you’re pretty great! That I made you shitty cookies!

Dialogue options:

Flirt: Then this is dumb but great! [24]
End Romance: Next time, spare me! [25] -Sera disapproves

24 - Flirt: Then this is dumb but great! PC: Well, I think this is dumb, but you’re great, too! Sera: Well, that’s just grand, then! PC: Then why are we still yelling? Sera: Because we can’t do it on a roof!

26 - Dialogue options:

General: Yes, we can, and should. [27] +Sera slightly approves
General: So let’s do it somewhere else. [28] +Sera slightly approves
General: No sex, but thanks for this. [29] +Sera slightly approves

27 - General: Yes, we can, and should. PC: My roof, my rules. Sera: Oh, I am going to break both. (Laughs.) Scene ends.

28 - General: So let’s do it somewhere else. PC: Then let’s get off this roof and have fun somewhere else. Sera: (Laughs.) “Get off.” You better start running. Scene ends.

29 - General: No sex, but thanks for this. PC: Let’s save that for another time. This was weird but nice? Can we get off the roof now? Sera: Oh, yes, please. Smells like bird and dank. This part, not a good idea. Thanks, yeah? Feels good, this. Scene ends.

25 - End Romance: Next time, spare me! PC: I have enough on my mind. I don’t need a brat wasting my time! Sera: Don’t worry, I won’t! PC: Good! Sera: Fine! PC: Watch your step! Sera: I will! Goodnight! Scene ends.

23 - Not romanced Sera: Bullshit! And I’m trying to say I like it here! I thought you’d want to know that, and eat my shitty cookies!

Dialogue options:

General: I’m annoyed but also grateful! [30] +Sera slightly approves
General: Hold on, let’s calm down! [31] +Sera slightly approves
General: I need allies, not brats! [32] -Sera disapproves

30 - General: I’m annoyed but also grateful! PC: I’m glad you’re here and I’m glad to have them! It’s still stupid! Sera: I know! PC: Good! Sera: (Laughs.) Pfft, knew this was a dumb idea. Come on, I need a drink. Should have just said thanks, yeah? So stupid. Scene ends.

31 - General: Hold on, let’s calm down! PC: Wait, why are we yelling? Sera: Because we’re friends now! PC: Well, then… Can we get off the roof now? Sera: Oh, yes, please. Smells like bird and dank. This part, not a good idea. Thanks, yeah? Feels good, this. Scene ends.

32 - General: I need allies, not brats! PC: Stay, find your place, but don’t waste my time! Sera: Don’t worry, I won’t! PC: Good! Sera: Fine! PC: Watch your step! Sera: I will! Goodnight! Scene ends.