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[MrStoob]

I'd imagine the YMIR is made of modern light weight materials and they're not that big really.  Bigger than a man yea, but not hugely so.  A few tons sounds about right to me.

 

And here's some ponderings I never used.

...

 

“But I was only in an administration role!” the tall mousy-blonde woman protests at the security desk.

“You're on our Cerberus watch list, ma'am. You'll have to come with us.” the officer replies, now beckoning his detail.

Samantha Traynor passes this exchange on her way back to the Normandy from the Silver Sun Strip.

“Please! I left all that!” the woman protests again.

Samantha stops a moment to look. That voice. She cannot resist investigating and approaches the desk.

“Specialist Sam Traynor, Earth Systems Alliance. What's going on here, officer?” she asks the desk officer.

“What? Oh. This 'lady' is on a Cerberus watch list. We're about to bring her in for questioning.”

“Where will you be taking her?”

“Might I ask your interest, 'Specialist Traynor'.” the officer asks quite patronisingly.

“My orders are to fight this war, 'officer'. Cerberus operatives are of interest to my operation and to my superior, the Spectre, Commander Shepard. Unless of course you'd rather the Commander herself came down here in person...”

“No, no, no! Please, that's not necessary. Jeez, we only just got fixed up after her krogan 'friend' tore up the place.”

“Give me one minute, please, officer.” Traynor says then brings up her omni-tool to make a call. A few moments later she returns to the desk.

“I think you'll find that your files have been updated and Miss...?” she prompts.

“Miss Del Ingles. Eleena Del Ingles.”

“Really?” Samantha frowns.

“What?”

“Never mind. Anyway, Miss Del Ingles is under Commander Shepard's custody now, in her capacity as Spectre. I am now under orders to escort her to the Normandy.”

“What?” both the officer and Eleena say.

“I believe you need me to authorise something?” Samantha says.

“Uhh... Oh!” the officer says, looking at his console, “Yea. If you can just...” he offers a datapad and Samantha registers her ID.

“Good! So! You're with me. Do I need to use cuffs?” she says to Eleena.

“At least wait until I've formulated my evil plan to kill you and make my escape.” Eleena replies.

Sam stands open mouthed a moment, until Eleena continues, “That was-”

“A joke. Got it.” Samantha smiles.

[Aerialight]

Finally posted the second part of Necropolis after a long wait-

 

Dialogue annoys me so. Not what the characters are saying, but I always struggle with ending it. "Blah blah blah" Said Blah. "Woof woof" Dog replied

 

Anyone have any preferred ways of dealing with text that goes around quotes? I've tried adding action in, but there's only so much of "as he set down his beer" that you can throw in before it gets redundant, and if there is more than two characters then just doing the quotes and nothing else can be confusing because you don't know who is saying what

[MrStoob]

Finally posted the second part of Necropolis after a long wait-

 

Dialogue annoys me so. Not what the characters are saying, but I always struggle with ending it. "Blah blah blah" Said Blah. "Woof woof" Dog replied

 

Anyone have any preferred ways of dealing with text that goes around quotes? I've tried adding action in, but there's only so much of "as he set down his beer" that you can throw in before it gets redundant, and if there is more than two characters then just doing the quotes and nothing else can be confusing because you don't know who is saying what

There was a quote from one of the great writers (don't ask which one, their quotes get bandied about a lot on the writers circle), that one should generally only use say/said.  While I'd say such 'rules' shouldn't be obeyed in all circumstance without question, it does make things read more easily/concisely.  At times and apart from indicated emoting, the only reason I put in 'Dave said' or whatever is when there's more than two people in the conversation.  While adverbs are good for newer characters, I'd also say that established characters shouldn't need it so much as their dialogue should tell the reader what they're feeling/thinking.

 

I would say though, that if there's three or more in a conversation, their character should come out in their dialogue to some extent but when there's a statement/line that could be attributed to any of the participants, then just use 'Dave said' as required.

[Jehuty]

I'm looking for feedback on my story, Universal: Reignited Volume I. 

http://forum.bioware...sion-crossover/

 

If anyone could take the time and read the first two chapters then offer feedback, I would gladly appreciate it. Please leave your feedback in the thread if you guys would be so kind.

 

Thanks,

 

Impulse. 

[Seracen]

Hello again gang!  Nice to see some of the old guard showing up again!  I too have been deep in the bowels of Witcher 3, and have just emerged from a 2nd playthrough, lol!  Hope all is well, and hopefully I'll be able to get back to my writing one more!

 

@ Yuri: I get what you mean about Witcher vision.  Try pulsing it and figuring out the general path.  I also kept my vision focused on the map whenever I used it.  There should be an option to remove blur in the settings (there is one, but it doesn't affect Witcher Vision, IIRC), as I found it annoying as well!

 

@ Impulse: Welcome to the thread!

[Obsidian Gryphon]

I'm still plodding away. However, I've more time on my hands now so hopefully I'll have the fanfic tie up this year. Sometimes I feel as if I'm using too many ridiculous military acronyms but unfortunately, I don't think I can leave them out when writing a section on a military operation.

[MrStoob]

With the recent announcement for Fallout 4, and that there will be a vocal protagonist, had to check who the female voice was going to be: Courtney Taylor (Jack).  Maybe you can enjoy this one, Yuri.  

[YurigirlzCrush]

*grins* Well, having never played Fallout 1-3, I'm unlikely to go for this one. I don't tend to jump into many series on the later installments. I guess it would depend on how much the previous games interacted with the current story, and what sort of game it actually is. But after Witcher 3 I'm going to have to be a bit more careful about what I buy. No more preorders from me. And no buying games I haven't tried first. I need to rent games and try them or download a demo before I drop $60 on them. That whole thing with the Witcher Vision is still making me mad. If it were possible to get refunds based on game filters inducing nausea, I'd be all over it. I've tried to limit my use of Witcher vision and play it a bit more, but it's not worth playing when it literally makes me feel ill after 30 minutes. *sigh*

 

But it's good to see you, your Stoobness! *grins* I was just going to come in here and dust and douse the place with buckets of pine sol this morning. It's definitely summer, what with the two-week break between posts and stuff.

[MrStoob]

Yea, the only pre-order I've ever bought was ME3, just so on day 1, hour 1, I could be playing it.  With the recent announcements from Steam about a refund policy (which is working well apparently) and the Batman debacle, poorly made games being released at full price will become less.

 

There's some Fallout 'lore' you might miss out on if you jump in at FO4, but usually it's a fresh story each time, though the opposing factions of the piece (New Californian Republic, Caesar's Legion, Brotherhood of Steel, etc) are pretty constant.  While not as character heavy as BioWare titles, Bethesda do a grand job of creating vast worlds to explore at your own leisure.  I'm wondering now though, after what they did with Skyrim, whether there will be any romance/marriage/partner options?  Hmmm.

[aoibhealfae]

I'm on Day 3 of CampNaNo but my cabin don't know anything about Mass Effect so I don't have anyone to talk to

 

So my story began a few days after the destruction of the Collector's base and after Shepard decided to surrender herself and the ship to the Alliance. Most of the Cerberus crew were gone including most of her squad. But things didn't go all the way she planned. 

 

But its generally about these two...

Although it was less like a full-blown romance in ME3 but more of a continuation to their forbidden romance arc in ME1. I wanted a better explanation on why Commander Alenko became Major in span of a few months after Horizon and why they behave they way they are in ME3.... and what better ways than to have a Spectre candidate apprehending a rogue Spectre.

 

And I wanted a proper side-story with my Colonist/Sole Survivor Shep and to smooth out inconsistency with her characterization between ME2 and ME3 and additional stuff like Miranda's dealings with the Alliance, Jack becoming an instructor with Grissom Academy, Tali and Garrus blossoming romance etc. I want Corporal Toombs to return and try to kill Shepard for joining up with Cerberus. I want her to have a long lost twin brother who was kidnapped by the Batarians and later became a mercenary named Carver who had beef with Shepard's anti-merc activities in ME2. And more drama.. lalala..

 

Current total WC : 2997 (although I'm still unsure about posting my chapters since I want to finish it first before I start editing and publishing them online)

[Seracen]

*grins* Well, having never played Fallout 1-3, I'm unlikely to go for this one. I don't tend to jump into many series on the later installments. I guess it would depend on how much the previous games interacted with the current story, and what sort of game it actually is. But after Witcher 3 I'm going to have to be a bit more careful about what I buy. No more preorders from me. And no buying games I haven't tried first. I need to rent games and try them or download a demo before I drop $60 on them. That whole thing with the Witcher Vision is still making me mad. If it were possible to get refunds based on game filters inducing nausea, I'd be all over it. I've tried to limit my use of Witcher vision and play it a bit more, but it's not worth playing when it literally makes me feel ill after 30 minutes. *sigh*

 

But it's good to see you, your Stoobness! *grins* I was just going to come in here and dust and douse the place with buckets of pine sol this morning. It's definitely summer, what with the two-week break between posts and stuff.

 

 

Yea, the only pre-order I've ever bought was ME3, just so on day 1, hour 1, I could be playing it.  With the recent announcements from Steam about a refund policy (which is working well apparently) and the Batman debacle, poorly made games being released at full price will become less.

 

There's some Fallout 'lore' you might miss out on if you jump in at FO4, but usually it's a fresh story each time, though the opposing factions of the piece (New Californian Republic, Caesar's Legion, Brotherhood of Steel, etc) are pretty constant.  While not as character heavy as BioWare titles, Bethesda do a grand job of creating vast worlds to explore at your own leisure.  I'm wondering now though, after what they did with Skyrim, whether there will be any romance/marriage/partner options?  Hmmm.

 

My understanding is that the various Fallout games are far enough removed from each other that continuity isn't that big of an issue.  Moreover, it seems as if this new iteration actually goes back to just before the nuclear wars, so as to provide contrast.  It'll be interesting to see.  Thus far, I'd always maintained that Fallout was far too depressing to play for a large length of time, but this new game seems to have lots of vibrant colors.  I'm more excited for the modding capabilities than anything else.

 

But I agree about the whole pre-order thing.  It takes a special game/circumstance for me to bother.  Mass Effect was why I bought my 360, but it's worth getting on PC as well, despite Origin.  I also loved getting Witcher 3 at discount!  The only other game I intend to preorder this year is Persona 5, but that was my 2nd favorite series of the PS2 era (behind Shadow Hearts, or just ahead, depending on my mood), so yeah...

 

I'm on Day 3 of CampNaNo but my cabin don't know anything about Mass Effect so I don't have anyone to talk to

 

So my story began a few days after the destruction of the Collector's base and after Shepard decided to surrender herself and the ship to the Alliance. Most of the Cerberus crew were gone including most of her squad. But things didn't go all the way she planned. 

 

[snip]

 

Although it was less like a full-blown romance in ME3 but more of a continuation to their forbidden romance arc in ME1. I wanted a better explanation on why Commander Alenko became Major in span of a few months after Horizon and why they behave they way they are in ME3.... and what better ways than to have a Spectre candidate apprehending a rogue Spectre.

 

And I wanted a proper side-story with my Colonist/Sole Survivor Shep and to smooth out inconsistency with her characterization between ME2 and ME3 and additional stuff like Miranda's dealings with the Alliance, Jack becoming an instructor with Grissom Academy, Tali and Garrus blossoming romance etc. I want Corporal Toombs to return and try to kill Shepard for joining up with Cerberus. I want her to have a long lost twin brother who was kidnapped by the Batarians and later became a mercenary named Carver who had beef with Shepard's anti-merc activities in ME2. And more drama.. lalala..

 

Current total WC : 2997 (although I'm still unsure about posting my chapters since I want to finish it first before I start editing and publishing them online)

 

Welcome to the forum!  As for the relationships from ME1 to ME3...yeah, there was a bit of a narrative jump in certain key places.  I won't get into it, lest I get on my soapbox, haha!  Best of luck on your story!  

 

I really have to get back to writing my stories at some point.  I was listening to "Galaxy Map" remixes on the drive today, and was inspired to write ME fiction again.  Alas, I'm already involved in other stories.  Moreover, it's difficult to imagine WHAT I'd write, considering I've already created 3 monstrous projects in the ME universe, haha!

[MrStoob]

You're probably right about the lore not being overly important.  I jumped in at FO3 and it didn't feel particularly jarring; the character wasn't supposed to know who these people are anyway and from the looks of things, that'll be true of FO4.  And indeed, as you say Seracen, we appear to be getting some 'prequel' like content regarding the whole depressing scenario, so that should set the scene if nothing else.

[Obsidian Gryphon]

Looks like there are only a few of the old crew still hanging around here. I'm sorry to see that so many have moved on to other places, but happy to see that the thread hasn't died yet. Greetings to those of you who are keeping the thread alive.

 

Wish I could say I was going to be around regularly to offer some sort of contribution to the continuity of the thread, but unfortunately this is not the case. Money is tight. Way too tight to even think about restarting my internet service or replacing my computer yet. But on the rare occasions I'm somewhere with an internet connection and a computer or laptop I can borrow, I still like to haunt my old hangouts. I trust that everyone here is managing to enjoy their summer. It's good to see that a few of you are still writing. If writing stories out longhand in notebooks counts, then so am I. It'll just be a question of transcribing them to a computer once I have one of my own.

 

I'll stop in to say hello when I can. Until my next visit, stay excellent.

 

Looks like only three are constant in this thread. The YSS / SSY / SYS (whichever) gang.   I swing by when the odd moon rises. wooooooooooo! And I'm still struggling to reach the finishing line for fan fic. Sometimes, music helps. Like this one, the great visuals is a plus too.

 

 

Not playing many games at the moment, I've got ten years of reading to catch up. Wore out DAI, waiting for episodic updates for Life Is Strange, really hoping for one this month. Dreamfall Chapters which I'm really not enjoying as much as I thought I would be since the devs sideline the original protagonist into a secondary role in Dreamfall and then she's totally not in DFC. In fact, I don't recognise the whole damn universe of the story now, it's like everything in Longest Journey is irrelevant.

 

Still at ME3 MP, this one is pretty much mindless horde mode shooting I can do for a few hours, if only to hear asari voices calling "For Thessia!", turians go "BleedingOut!" and the Volus go pop and say PAYDAY!   Styx is a pretty good clone of Thief and Assassin's Creed.

Awaiting for Dishonored 2, hoping Tomb Raider sequel will eventually go PC, SWTOR's expansion in Oct and the introduction of the togrutan PC this month.

 

MEA, afraid I'm not waiting with bated breath for it. I know the PC is not a N7 char but it is still human which is a mistake, imo. Distance, Bioware, as far as possible from the ME trilogy. Dragging players all the way to Andromeda is not going to do that. Do not put in another human protagonist. Given the premise of MEA, it'd be better to put humans secondary / companions but I seriously doubt they'll do that.

[YurigirlzCrush]

*waves* hello everyone! *grins* for those of you in the states, happy Independence Day!

 

obsidian: episode 4 of Life is Strange should be out around the middle of this month. last I heard, their eight-week release plan is still on schedule. although I admit that I was disappointed with the direction it went last chapter. still a good story, don't get me wrong. I'm enjoying it and very anxious to see where it goes next. but if you've ever seen the butterfly effect, there were an insane number of similarities there with the new direction of max's abilities. I kind of feel like I'm playing a butterfly effect reboot in game form now.

 

and are you sure the protagonist of the new ME game is human? I heard that the footage made the character look human (I, as usual, am trying to avoid any and all spoilers so I haven't watched it myself), but keep in mind that they did the same thing with DAI and yet you could choose your race. maybe there will be a choice of race for the new ME too. we can hope. *smiles* DAI proved that you could have different races with a voiced protagonist and make it work. maybe a little more difficult with turians or drell because their voices are different, but even if they just let you choose between like human, asari, quarians or krogan, it would be something. heck, they could limit it to just asari or quarians and I would be 1000034% satisfied. because those are the two best races, obvi.

 

I wish I could game on PC. but that's way way beyond my finances. unless someone knows where I can get a brand new, factory sealed, top of the line PC for around the cost of $0? if so, tell me! because my laptop gets worse with every passing day. it even blue-screened on me yesterday, which I know is not good.

[aoibhealfae]

Day 5 of CampNaNo.... and I'm stuck at 3.6k.... today's wordcount at 8k... sigh. I knew it. I shouldn't do this during ramadhan months and did I listen? nope. 

[Seracen]

Looks like only three are constant in this thread. The YSS / SSY / SYS (whichever) gang.   I swing by when the odd moon rises. wooooooooooo! And I'm still struggling to reach the finishing line for fan fic. Sometimes, music helps. Like this one, the great visuals is a plus too. [snip]

 

Not playing many games at the moment, I've got ten years of reading to catch up. Wore out DAI, waiting for episodic updates for Life Is Strange, really hoping for one this month. Dreamfall Chapters which I'm really not enjoying as much as I thought I would be since the devs sideline the original protagonist into a secondary role in Dreamfall and then she's totally not in DFC. In fact, I don't recognise the whole damn universe of the story now, it's like everything in Longest Journey is irrelevant.

 

[snip]

 

 

Good luck on the writing!  If you need feedback, lemme know, b/c I want to read the finished product, lol!

 

As for DFC, that's distressing.  I bought the Season Pass for Dreamfall on a summer sale, b/c I wanted to finish the story (have yet to play it).  I barely connected with Maya and Aidan (?), but the story was compelling.  However, I cannot approve of moving April Ryan to the periphery, ah well.  I am right there with you on the reading, haha!

 

*waves* hello everyone! *grins* for those of you in the states, happy Independence Day!

 

obsidian: episode 4 of Life is Strange should be out around the middle of this month. last I heard, their eight-week release plan is still on schedule. although I admit that I was disappointed with the direction it went last chapter. still a good story, don't get me wrong. I'm enjoying it and very anxious to see where it goes next. but if you've ever seen the butterfly effect, there were an insane number of similarities there with the new direction of max's abilities. I kind of feel like I'm playing a butterfly effect reboot in game form now.

 

and are you sure the protagonist of the new ME game is human? [snip] PC for around the cost of $0? if so, tell me! because my laptop gets worse with every passing day. it even blue-screened on me yesterday, which I know is not good.

 

Need to try Life is Strange, but I'll wait until a season pass goes on sale, or the full game comes out.  From what I understand, it's a human PC in ME:A.  I want to be excited for the new ME game, but I am unsure.  Firstly, I'm not interested in prequels for this franchise, and I'm still uncertain WHEN this takes place.  Also, how does one follow up a story like the Reaper War?  If they pull another "Forerunner" plot (a la Halo), I will probably roll my eyes in disbelief.

 

Hope your PC issue resolves itself.  You may try a system recovery, if it's software related.

 

Day 5 of CampNaNo.... and I'm stuck at 3.6k.... today's wordcount at 8k... sigh. I knew it. I shouldn't do this during ramadhan months and did I listen? nope. 

 

Best of luck!  And Ramadan Mubarak!  I feel your pain, lol.  Waking up at 3:30 to make breakfast, then going out to play basketball/soccer later in the day is a killer (mostly b/c I'm participating in a camp for my nephews, so at least it isn't me exerting myself all day).

[YurigirlzCrush]

Need to try Life is Strange, but I'll wait until a season pass goes on sale, or the full game comes out.  From what I understand, it's a human PC in ME:A.  I want to be excited for the new ME game, but I am unsure.  Firstly, I'm not interested in prequels for this franchise, and I'm still uncertain WHEN this takes place.  Also, how does one follow up a story like the Reaper War?  If they pull another "Forerunner" plot (a la Halo), I will probably roll my eyes in disbelief.

 

Hope your PC issue resolves itself.  You may try a system recovery, if it's software related.

 

I got Life is Strange when the season pass was on sale. when I first found the game it was one of those buy the season pass get one episode free type of deals. so $5 off basically.

 

and I think they're cheating their way out of the reaper war for the next ME. isn't Andromeda a whole other galaxy? like... outside the milky way? if so, they can basically take mass effect and set it in a whole new galaxy with all new problems and no knowledge of the reaper war. this is just me guessing, mind you, because like I said I'm doing my best to avoid spoilers. but the next game is called Andromeda, right?
 

[Obsidian Gryphon]

@Yuri, I've never played any butterfly effect theme game so LIS is a first for me so I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Yeah, I heard it's another human PC for MEA.

 

@ Seracen, that's just my opinion on DFC. The other players seem to be enjoying it. Without spoilers, because it's episodic, it's really slow. And dissatisfying to me, not because of the pace but due to the way certain aspects of the story is up in the air and very confusing right now. There's just too many variables flying around. And of course. April Ryan is just not there. While Zoe of DF is not horrible, April Ryan is the one I journeyed with on her path of discoveries.

 

On my fanfic.   It's at chapter 94, end in sight? Trying. Even if I finish it, I'll be revising and tidying up the whole thing. I can see a bunch of mistakes, grammar, etc to correct.

 

On MEA. I heard it's supposedly to be like 200 years after the events of ME with the new frontier in Andromeda. If they offer other alien races as protagonist, I would view it in a better light. From the noises made about gameplay, it reminds me of what was said about DAI.

[BronzTrooper]

Don't have any internet atm (on here via wifi hotspot) and to make things worse, my flashdrive is missing and I've got everything for my fanfics on it.  

 

On the upside, I should have internet back on Monday, but I still haven't found my flashdrive and it's been missing for the past several days.  * sighs *  If it isn't one thing, it's something else.....

 

Anyway, I just got back from a 4th of July fireworks show not that long ago.  Could've been better (cops apparently couldn't be bothered to direct traffic despite them being at the park for several hours beforehand....), but it also could've been worse, so meh.

 

As for ME:A, I'm just excited that we seem to be getting jetpacks.     Disappointed that we're only playing as a human protag, but hopefully the rest of the game will make up for it.  Main thing I want to see is snarky dialogue options.  I felt like it was a big thing that ME has lacked, though...... maybe I've been spoiled on DA...  

[Obsidian Gryphon]

@Gamer072196, hope you'll get that flashdrive back. Bummer to lose it. I always make at least backups on two different drives for my fanfic; I don't want to tear my hair out from losing one.

 

I'll most likely buy MEA when price drops but will not pre-order. I did so for  DAI, because I still have some faith in the DA dev team. The ME team lost mine.

[MrStoob]

@Gamer072196, hope you'll get that flashdrive back. Bummer to lose it. I always make at least backups on two different drives for my fanfic; I don't want to tear my hair out from losing one.

 

I'll most likely buy MEA when price drops but will not pre-order. I did so for  DAI, because I still have some faith in the DA dev team. The ME team lost mine.

Most of my work is highly at risk lol.  I should do something about that really.

 

A bit torn on the whole Andromeda thing.  While I'm certainly not pre-ordering, I will still have a morbid fascination and no doubt get at the first 'sale'.  Will it be stalker fetch quests?  I've still got GTA5 to play and I'm waiting for an appropriate Steam sale for that - the summer sale wasn't very good for my personal wants - so yea, I feel less of the need to be in at day one.  Unless it's TES:VI.  

[YurigirlzCrush]

*waves* Hope everyone is having a great weekend/holiday!

 

I have a hard time not preordering when a game gets me excited because very few games excite me before I have a chance to play them. I know it's easy to get burned with preorders, but for the one game in a hundred where I'm anxiously counting the days until I get to play, it's hard not to cave and buy it to play on day one.

 

*grins* the one thing I heard from E3 that really got me excited though was that one of the games or companies (I heard it second-hand so I can't remember which) was working to make mods available on the Xbox one! which was super awesome to hear. that's the only thing really about gaming on PC that sounds any better than consoles to me is the ability to use the mods. so if they can get mods to work on the xbox one for more games, that's win!

 

now, an on-topic question!

 

ready? *grins*

 

what's a good way to describe the sound of a turian/drell's voice. there's got to be a word for that weird double-voice sound that turians have, or that like... static sound for drell, right? but I'm trying so hard to think of one and I can't come up with a good and concise way to describe it. I guess it's not critical, but as I may have said before, I like description. it's what makes stories interesting to me. (although there is definitely a point where it's too much, obvi).

[Seracen]

*waves* Hope everyone is having a great weekend/holiday!

 

[snip]

 

what's a good way to describe the sound of a turian/drell's voice. there's got to be a word for that weird double-voice sound that turians have, or that like... static sound for drell, right? but I'm trying so hard to think of one and I can't come up with a good and concise way to describe it. I guess it's not critical, but as I may have said before, I like description. it's what makes stories interesting to me. (although there is definitely a point where it's too much, obvi).

 

You could say his voice is a "raspy reverb/echo."  For a female drell, I'd say "husky/throaty" instead of "raspy," and still keep the 2ndary description of "reverb/echo."

[MrStoob]

Certainly 'gravelly' I'd say.  'Gravelly layers'?  I think it's difficult to describe because it's actual audio effects, rather than anything organic (apart from Brendan's(?) original recordings ofc).  That's why us guitarists have ended up with pedals named things like 'flanger', 'wah-wah', and more boringly, 'envelope filter' lol.

 

Friend: "What's the flanger do?"

Guitarist: "Well... it flanges!"

*hits chord*

neeeeeeeeeoooooooowwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnngnnnnnnnwwwwwwwwwooooon

Friend: "Oh, I see!"

Guitarist: "Yea.  Flange."

 

And if we're going to talk about Garrus' voice...

 

Edit: Sry, drell.  
Their secondary layer seems like an ever so slightly (not chipmunk levels) higher register than the base recording by the sound of it, and it sounds slightly broken up (probably some kind of minor 'distortion' to make it a little less even and a little more organic).  I think it gives them a more throaty sound, which would make sense with the amphibian thing ('ribbet').

"You humans are all racist."

[Obsidian Gryphon]

I always use "flange" for turians if I want to convey the difference. Otherwise it's "said". Drells, afraid they don't feature much in the fic.