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[hot_heart]

Cool, thanks! I just know that, once, I received two emails about a new chapter for someone's story but maybe they had literally deleted it and added it again, and maybe different things apply for the newest chapter.

[Ignis Mors]

This is completely unrelated, but it was something that made me laugh. 

I know it's a little blurry, but the blue thing on top of the dinosaur is Optimus Prime with his new look in Transformers 4. And, the T-rex is GRIMLOCK!

[Efvie]

Ignis Mors wrote...
Optimus Prime with his new look in Transformers 4.

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[hot_heart]

Yeah, thanks for the clarification.

Of course, I've run into a snag. I let the documents on FF.net expire, and I can't seem to copypasta the stuff there that's publically viewable...so there's no way to work off the most up-to-date version of a chapter without having to constantly check the version on the site.

[Efvie]

hot_heart wrote...

Yeah, thanks for the clarification.

Of course, I've run into a snag. I let the documents on FF.net expire, and I can't seem to copypasta the stuff there that's publically viewable...so there's no way to work off the most up-to-date version of a chapter without having to constantly check the version on the site.

From Publish > Manage Stories you can export chapters, which will at least let you edit it in place in their editor (in Doc Manager). Not sure whether you can copy-paste that to Word or wherever directly.

[hot_heart]

Oh, cool, that sounds like the ticket. I'll have to look into that tomorrow. Many thanks!

[hot_heart]

Gonna pose a question, sort of for my own research purposes, but also general discussion.

Obviously some of this will depend on your own playthrough circumstances, along with the ending, but what did you see some of the characters doing after the end of ME2? Some might be obvious, like Samara going back to Justicar duties, Legion returning to the geth (just drop him off at...uh...), but what about people like Jack, Tali or perhaps Thane? Do you think some were more eager to stay than others?

[MrStoob]

Some, we have a good idea of what they did. Tali went back to the fleet after Pilgrimage 2.0, but I think we could have worked that one out anyway. Jack approached by the EAS to be an instructor, but I don't think she would have initially been eager to stick around for anyone or anything in particular once Shep is under custody.

Legion is an interesting one though. Obviously, at some point he was hijacked and inserted into the Reaper beacon thing, but prior to that, he seemed more independent than to just go straight back to the collective in the first instance. He's like their first explorer, discovering the strange world of organics with wonder and interest (if you elaborate somewhat on the SB files).

If some like Liara (technically ME2 sqaddie) or Garrus or whoever are LI, that changes a lot. Either way, Jacob goes off and does something boring before almost doing something interesting, but it wasn't really that interesting in the end (poor Jacob).

Morinth goes off to continue the hunt and be generally sultry until the Reapers catch up with her...

After being freed from his glass prison, Spacehamster began a life of a bachelor, seeking a mate on the lower decks of the Normandy. He discovered a small conduit that emitted light and that became his god. After a Holy Crusade against the heathen cockroaches, in which many fell by his teeth, he settled to live out his life in this mortal realm before taking his place next to his god. Next thing he knew, he was suddenly whipped up into the air and returned to his glass prison. Spacehamster wept.

[YurigirlzCrush]

*squeals* I love the tale of spacehamster! epic! *grins* but you forgot the part where while weeping he hid in his little box for fear of the strange giant that imprisoned him! *nod*

actually though, I never really had questions about what any of the ME2 squad did after the suicide mission and Shep's subsequent arrest. most of them were made apparent by ME3. I wouldn't see Thane sticking around (except possibly if he was the LI, but even then perhaps not) because he was busy trying to make the galaxy brighter and find peace before he dies. Garrus went back to the Turian Heirarchy we know, and started trying to prepare his peeps for the reapers. Kasumi we can assume went back to doing thiefy stuff, Tali to her people, Legion to his, Samara returned to being a Justicar, etc., etc. I really wasn't left with any questions about the time between games. everyone had something to do. Even if one of them has the status of LI, they all had things to do and Shepard was under arrest anyway, so sticking with her wasn't really an option.

[hot_heart]

I'd actually be interested to see if anyone has written a story about an exiled Tali. Though I can't recall how long it was before the events of ME3 when the quarians recalled all their people; maybe it wasn't a significant period of time.

[fainmaca]

hot_heart wrote...

Gonna pose a question, sort of for my own research purposes, but also general discussion.

Obviously some of this will depend on your own playthrough circumstances, along with the ending, but what did you see some of the characters doing after the end of ME2? Some might be obvious, like Samara going back to Justicar duties, Legion returning to the geth (just drop him off at...uh...), but what about people like Jack, Tali or perhaps Thane? Do you think some were more eager to stay than others?

I started writing ITU in December 2010, so back then very little was known about ME3. I figured it'd make sense for Samara to return to the Justicars, but pretty much everyone else had stuck with Shepard. With the Reapers around the corner, nobody wanted to sit on the sidelines when everything kicked off.

At the start of ITU, the Normandy is assigned to attack a station they believe TIm is lurking on, at the head of an Alliance fleet while Shepard leads an Alliance strike team. Things go awry, and the Normandy is captured.

Shepard is sent to a Batarian prison that is secretly under Cerberus control. Nobody would ever think to look there. I had it in my head that, if this were the real game, the player then had the opportunity for Shepard to receive reconstructive surgery to hide his identity from the squints.
Jacob is sent to the same facility, netting TIM a sweet little bounty from Khar'Shan for what Jacob did in ME:Galaxy, and keeping the traitor under his control at the same time.
Miranda is given to her father, regaining his financial support for Cerberus. She is then subjected to a number of experiments to figure out what is causing the bodies of her and her offspring to begin breaking down (remember the SB dossier on her 'condition'?)
Mordin is turned over to a hostile Krogan clan for the bounty on an old STG scientist.
Grunt ends up in the same lab, 'samples' for Mordin's work.
Garrus escapes the ship before Cerberus truly takes over. He then goes to Omega with Zaeed, the pair continuing Archangel's work.
Kasumi escapes with Garrus and Zaeed, but parts ways, using her contacts and skills to get a number of Prothean artifacts out of the hands of various gangsters and mercenaries.
Jack ends up in a secret Cerberus lab, hidden in none other than Grissom Academy. Yeah, I was surprised when I found out where she was in the real game, too.
Thane ends up in a research facility on Illium. His advanced condition is an instrumental test bed for what ultimately becomes the cure for Keprals Syndrome.
Samara, as I said, returned to the Justicars. She is back on Illium at the time of ITU. If the player chose Morinth, then she's still hiding as a Justicar amongst the others, but her façade is starting to slip a little.
Tali was off the ship at the time of the attack, visiting the Migrant Fleet. By the time Shep breaks out of prison, she's been promoted in her Father's stead, and is in charge of a project to turn a suitable world into the first Quarian colony in three centuries. If she was exiled, she is still away when the Normandy is captured, and serves as a technical consultant to the colony, technically still fulfilling the terms of her exile.
Legion ends up in a Cerberus care, dissected and missing almost fifty of his runtimes. He doesn't like that. If he was sold to Cerberus instead of activated, he's still in this lab, just has never met Shepard.

Liara's still the Shadow Broker, although if the player didn't complete LotSB then she's badly scarred. Wrex is still Wrex, and Kaidan/Ashley is still a high ranking officer of the Alliance, serving under Anderson.

Anticipating different possibilities is hard.

[sH0tgUn jUliA]

MrStoob wrote...

After being freed from his glass prison, Spacehamster began a life of a bachelor, seeking a mate on the lower decks of the Normandy. He discovered a small conduit that emitted light and that became his god. After a Holy Crusade against the heathen cockroaches, in which many fell by his teeth, he settled to live out his life in this mortal realm before taking his place next to his god. Next thing he knew, he was suddenly whipped up into the air and returned to his glass prison. Spacehamster wept.

But then, several months later, after she was released from the hospital and returned to the Normandy. Captain Shepard poured herself a glass of bourbon, lit a cigarette, and gazed into her fish tank like she always did. Then her eyes moved to her friend, "Boo". 

[Fatiguesdualism]

@MrStoob were the words Main INboard Static Capacitor printed on this glowing conduit? (No bonus points for guessing to whom I refer!)

As for the ME2 squad prior to Arrival? Well I generally assumed the survivors would stay with the Normandy. After Arrival? Well Shep hands them-self in (sans Normandy) the others:
Miranda, EDI (for obvious reasons), Joker, and Tali stay with the Normandy as the ship is repaired with help from either the quarians or Shadow Broker Liara.
Garrus, Jacob and Kasumi start searching for a way to break Shepard out of jail (back-up plan )
Thane's illness gets worse - he's hospitalised (sorry but Terminal illness, that ain't a happy ending)
Legion goes back to the geth
Zaeed never made it (but if he did, well he just took his money and walked )
Samara was not recruited (but again went back to Justicar duties)
Grunt joins Wrex on Planet T (can't remember the spelling) - lots of things die, usually messily!
Mordin and Morinth I was never sure about (usually he died - that was annoying!) Mordin probably retired, then started experimenting on sea-shells!  Morinth well AY stuff, seducing and killing folks!

edit:  Forgot Jack!  Anyway I think she'd walk, then get herself into trouble (intentionally or not) before probably ending up somewhere a bit rougher than Grissom Academy, Illium maybe.  Basically somewhere that's not quite as regulated as a prestigious Alliance institution - but not  as anarchistic/free-going as Omega.

Modifié par Fatiguesdualism, 12 novembre 2013 - 12:40 .

[MrStoob]

Upon reflection, perhaps Samara would possibly do a Garrus. She was certainly keen to return to Omega to give those streets a good clean.

[Seracen]

hot_heart wrote...

Gonna pose a question, sort of for my own research purposes, but also general discussion.

Obviously some of this will depend on your own playthrough circumstances, along with the ending, but what did you see some of the characters doing after the end of ME2? Some might be obvious, like Samara going back to Justicar duties, Legion returning to the geth (just drop him off at...uh...), but what about people like Jack, Tali or perhaps Thane? Do you think some were more eager to stay than others?

I dunno, I never really thought about it much.

I pretty much assumed everyone had stuff to do, but I never figured that Shep would have to go out and recruit them again.  Moreover, it struck me as odd that ALL of them left.  The LI wouldn't stay away for long, or shouldn't, at any rate.

It's funny, as this makes it even worse for Jacob romancers (of which there aren't many, I imagine).  He was away from for what...a few months, before he decided to cheat on Shep?  The man takes after his father!  I imagine part of why I never considered is that I just wanted to be surprised and entertained by ME3.

Still, ME3 pretty well lined up with what I might have guessed.  There were only a few cases of me crying foul on BW with that (not counting the last 20 mins of course).

[Ignis Mors]

 This is a completely random question, but is there any mention to volus religious beliefs in the codex or dialogue?

[MrStoob]

Not so sure about 'religious beliefs' per se, but the volus in the area next to... *mind goes blank* ... what's the name of the volus broker agent from ME1? Can't believe that's eluding me right now and I might have to look it up. Quick run through alphabet. A? Hmm. B... Barla Von? Something like that anyway. The volus near Barla that we do a fetch quest for mentions at least some morally guided doctrine, so not sure if that counts.

On post-ME2. What about Mess Sergeant Rupert Gardner? I don't think he even got an email for ME3. Did the poor fella just rot in an ESA prison somewhere, no call to have him pardoned and brought back to the fold? Or maybe he re-joined Cerberus and got indoctrinated. Let's say... he's the first trooper you shoot on Mars.

Modifié par MrStoob, 12 novembre 2013 - 10:47 .

[Fatiguesdualism]

The only mention of 'religious beliefs' -sort of- that I can remember is the Book of Plenx? (not sure about spelling) in ME3.  Which is seems to be some sort of ethical/moral/religious text (importance of sharing not profiting, or some such) - I think.  Apart from that nothing really comes to mind, sorry!

On the subject of Mess Sergeant Gardner, didn't Kasumi once call him 'an evil genius' - because of his cooking?  In which case he was clearly over-qualified for re-joining the New Sith Empire, sorry Cerberus, or enlisting in Admiral 'Cargo Cult' Hackett's Alliance military left-overs. 

A question on spoken ("quote") quotations, is it acceptable/common-place to use italics for the quotation? 

eg:

“I thought you might remember those words – and where they led,” Shepard was sure Miranda was smirking.

“I’ll be there in five minutes,” The Spectre recited as he typed on the PADD, “I settle for nothing but the best.” It was Shepard’s turn to smirk, “I remembered.”

Where Shepard is quoting an earlier message from Miranda (the message itself is a repetition from ME2's 'meet me in engineering' )

Modifié par Fatiguesdualism, 12 novembre 2013 - 07:23 .

[Ignis Mors]

Fatiguesdualism wrote...

The only mention of 'religious beliefs' -sort of- that I can remember is the Book of Plenx? (not sure about spelling) in ME3.  Which is seems to be some sort of ethical/moral/religious text (importance of sharing not profiting, or some such) - I think.  Apart from that nothing really comes to mind, sorry!

On the subject of Mess Sergeant Gardner, didn't Kasumi once call him 'an evil genius' - because of his cooking?  In which case he was clearly over-qualified for re-joining the New Sith Empire, sorry Cerberus, or enlisting in Admiral 'Cargo Cult' Hackett's Alliance military left-overs. 

A question on spoken ("quote") quotations, is it acceptable/common-place to use italics for the quotation? 

eg:

“I thought you might remember those words – and where they led,” Shepard was sure Miranda was smirking.

“I’ll be there in five minutes,” The Spectre recited as he typed on the PADD, “I settle for nothing but the best.” It was Shepard’s turn to smirk, “I remembered.”

Where Shepard is quoting an earlier message from Miranda (the message itself is a repetition from ME2's 'meet me in engineering' )

Using italics in quotes is okay., at least in my personal experience. It's just a matter of personal preference. Also, thanks for the info. I was asking, because I was hoping there wasn't a big religion that most volus follow so I could include one that worships the flying spaghetti monster. Just for lols.

[Ignis Mors]

Efvie wrote...

Ignis Mors wrote...
Optimus Prime with his new look in Transformers 4.

/unfavorite

#G1Forever

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Didn't notice this when you posted it, so I'm just going to say if you want something about the new Optimus to actually hate on, look up the leader class toy for the movie. It is pathetic. Especially compared to the Rotf leader figure. That one(the rotf one, just clarifying) is Masterpiece line levels of kickass. 
Also, don't get me wrong, I love me some G1, but it wasn't exactly the best looking/most coherent transformers plot. Nor is the bayverse, but at least those animations look good. The G1 ones, have not aged well.

[Fatiguesdualism]

Ignis Mors wrote...

Using italics in quotes is okay., at least in my personal experience. It's just a matter of personal preference. Also, thanks for the info. I was asking, because I was hoping there wasn't a big religion that most volus follow so I could include one that worships the flying spaghetti monster. Just for lols.

Thank you, I seem to recall seeing italics used that way some-where - just can't remember where! (ie as an example of something NOT TO DO)

Also 'flying spaghetti monster'  ?  Could it not be something more sensible like, say, a monster who loves COOKIES? 

edit:  Actually thinking about it, don't Disney own the Cookie Monster now?  Maybe your idea is better, nobody wants to cross Disney lawyers.  Or lawyers in general (before I get accused of libelling Disney lawyers - and I've just realised I've probably libelled all lawyers everywhere, every.  Oh boy!  )

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Modifié par Fatiguesdualism, 12 novembre 2013 - 08:31 .

[Ignis Mors]

Fatiguesdualism wrote...

Ignis Mors wrote...

Using italics in quotes is okay., at least in my personal experience. It's just a matter of personal preference. Also, thanks for the info. I was asking, because I was hoping there wasn't a big religion that most volus follow so I could include one that worships the flying spaghetti monster. Just for lols.

Thank you, I seem to recall seeing italics used that way some-where - just can't remember where! (ie as an example of something NOT TO DO)

Also 'flying spaghetti monster'  ?  Could it not be something more sensible like, say, a monster who loves COOKIES? 

No no no, that's an elcor who worships the cookie monster. Also, wasn't the cookie monster turned into the veggie monster.

[Fatiguesdualism]

Ignis Mors wrote...

*snip* Also, wasn't the cookie monster turned into the veggie monster.

  Cookie monster gone...life...not worth....

[Ignis Mors]

Fatiguesdualism wrote...

Ignis Mors wrote...

*snip* Also, wasn't the cookie monster turned into the veggie monster.

  Cookie monster gone...life...not worth....

Indeed. may he rest in peace, and let us hope he went to that big cookie factory in the sky. 

[MrStoob]

Ignis Mors wrote...

Fatiguesdualism wrote...

Ignis Mors wrote...

*snip* Also, wasn't the cookie monster turned into the veggie monster.

  Cookie monster gone...life...not worth....

Indeed. may he rest in peace, and let us hope he went to that big cookie factory in the sky.