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[EternalSeekerX9]

Today in priority earth final push, shepard defended against waves of banshe by smashing them using the power smash and literally smashing them using charge+annihilation field+nova. He also unleashed nothingness/nonexistence O.o by detonating a flare on a harvester with brutes and banshees around it and killed them all. He then met Marauder shields who kicked his ass but he finally killed him...later to realize some star child brat standing in his way...chose to destroy the reapers and somehow survived. Now this save will move onto a new game+ where shepard will get upgraded weaponary and a higher difficulty (a mixture of spectre mod a platinum mp difficulty damage model)

 

Maybe even a lets play will be recorded (though I am no professional "you!!!!!!!" tuber.)  

[RedCaesar97]

Admiral Hackett wants John Shepard to go meet with the Quarians and recruit them for the war effort. But John did not feel like doing that right away so he hooked up with Aria to go retake Omega from Cerberus. And then the following happened;

 

1. Aria had a good plan for infiltrating Omega. She had stolen a Cerberus cruiser and was going to initiate a sneak attack. So far so good. John told the pilot to get in as close as he could... and then Aria got impatient and had him fire way too early. Not that it probably mattered; Cerberus had upgraded Omega's defenses and was blasting Aria's ships. Some of the fleet, including John, had to escape on Life Pods and crashed into Omega.

 

2. John and Aria shot their way through Cerberus to get to the control room where they shut down the outer defenses so the remains of her fleet could land. They then headed off to a secret underground bunker, killing more Cerberus along the way and recruiting some Turian named Nyreen that Aria happens to know. Cerberus did not put up much of fight; or maybe John Shepard is just that good.

 

3. At the bunker, the Turian they had picked up snuck off when no one was looking. No matter. Aria and John headed off to go recruit a local gang called the Talons to help in the war for Omega. They did not run into too many Cerberus troops since Cerberus was busy fighting the Talons. Turns out that the Talon leader was Nyreen, the Turian they met earlier. John was not surprised; "Happy Coincidence" is his middle name after all (right next to "Accidental Diplomat", "Ally Magnet", and "Everything I touch seems to explode").

 

4. John, Nyreen, and Aria made their way to the Talon base. Aria made a speech that got everyone on Omega fired up (and Petrovsky riled up), and then they repelled a Cerberus attack. Nyreen agreed to join Aria.

 

And on a personal note, I managed to take a Hydra Missile Launcher from the first Atlas fight all the way to the last Atlas fight in the section. Woo!

 

5. John, Aria, and Nyreen travelled through Omega's eezo mines to go shut off a Reactor that was powering up force fields all over Omega. They ran into some Adjutants. Nyreen was afraid of Adjutants, but John was not all that impressed; they explode just like everything else in this messed up galaxy. Petrovsky lured them into a trap, but Aria got Shepard out and then he shut down the Reactor.

 

Petrovsky tried to talk Shepard out of overloading the reactor. Or maybe he was trying to talk Shepard into overloading the reactor? I can never tell what he is trying to do while Shepard fiddles with the reactor. Maybe he just likes the sound of his own voice? I think he is trying to convince Shepard to leave Aria, but since the only way off Omega is by beating Cerberus, that speech just comes off as pointless. Good try, good effort.

 

6. John and Aria went to go assault Afterlife from one direction, while Nyreen and the Talons assaulted Afterlife from another direction. But then Cerberus planted bombs that John had to disarm. And then they ran into the Adjutant creation facility where they were creating Adjutants (obviously).

 

Good note: I actually got the Aria dialogue at the Gozu district where she mentions she misses Mordin. I am not sure what is needed to trigger that line; it must be some flag that is set in ME2 since I rarely get it. 

 

7. Nyreen ended up running ahead and then killed herself in order to kill some Adjutants, a pointless death that could have been avoided had she actually waited for Aria and Shepard. Such a shame. For a moment she had actually seemed like a smart person. Oh well.

 

8. Aria and John kicked the crap out of Cerberus in Afterlife and captured the Petrovsky. Petrovksy was sent to the Alliance as a prisoner of war. Aria sent his chess set to Shepard as a gift. Shepard plans to give it to Traynor since he sucks a chess. 

[themikefest]

From the cage of Furball, The Space Hamster

 

My owner informed me she talked with the dark haired woman, I mean Ashley, and wants her back on the ship. Don't do it owner. The only way I will let her on the ship is if she apologizes for trying to hurt me. My owner will take care of that. You better.

 

What's going on? My owner rescued some turians, but has to go back and deal with a bomb. A bomb? Can I used that to stop the dark haired woman from getting back on the ship. hahaha. That might not be a good idea. Maybe later.

 

Why is my owner walking to the front? Everybody to the war room. Crap. Ok. Time to use turbo speed. Ok. What's that in the middle? A reaper? It looks like a giant tick. I've killed a lot of the little buggers. Ok owner. I will take command of the ship while you go do your thing or whatever you want to call it.

 

This is the life. Sitting down relaxing. Having a glass of wine, some sunflower seeds and swiss cheese. Maybe I talk my owner in getting me a cigar. That would be cool. I could act like I'm in the Mafia. hahaha. Oh crap she's back.

 

I look at her terminal to see what she puts in her report. She didn't cure the genophage. No idea what that is. Mordin will be helping with the crucible. Is that the thingy that will stop the reapers? She looks at me with a smile. Hey. She gives me a high five. For me it was a high five.  She walks over to her bed to take a nap. Don't worry owner, I'll keep watch. Squeak, squeak

 

Who's knocking on the door? Its that blue thing Liara. What does she want? The councilor wants to talk with my owner. Leave her be. She needs her rest. Oh I see. Just leave me without telling me. Yeah. Don't let the door hit you on the backside.

 

That was quick. We're heading back to the Citadel. She puts in a movie. Cool. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I like this movie. It would be better if space hamsters were in it

[olnorton]

This Citadel is A M A Z I N G.
I had to go back to Chora's Den to do a favour for my good friend, the consort. (I call her Sha'ira)
I found the Turian General she was talking about & told him to get his act together.
He then said I could do him a favour, seems he'd been spreading lies about Sha'ira to an Elcor at the Embassy.
I said I'd look into it if I was over that way. He thought I might make a good General myself one day.
While I was there I thought I'd have alook around and take in the sights.
I found a data drive in Fisk's office, he must have dropped it when Wrex shot him. I'll go through it later.

Spoiler

I spoke with Xeltan at the embassy and set him straight. Now back to Sha'ira for my reward.
OK, a trinket. Not exactly what I had in mind. Maybe I shouldn't have taken the Krogen in with me.
After having done a personal favour for the consort, I'm sure Nelyna will bump me up the queue for her "specialty"
I guessed wrong. I'll come back in 3 months.

Spoiler

I think I'll go back and see that docter with the French accent.
I'll tell the aliens to make themselves scarce while I, you know, show her my rash or something.
When we get there she is being threatened by someone on the phone. I can never resist a damsel in distress. ( or one not in distress.)

Spoiler

On our way to the markets to sort out Dr Michelle's little problem, this gorgeous little thing calls out my name.
I'm sure I would have remembered her if we had um...
She is apparently a reporter and was looking into Fisk.
I gave her the data drive I found in Fisk's office & asked if there was anything else I could do for her. wink wink.
She thought there might be and she slipped me a few creds ( I don't know if I'm that good, but alright)

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We went down and put the screws on the shady Salarian that was blackmailing Dr Michelle.
He could see I meant business and soon dropped his tough act, then a Krogen came out of nowhere.
He said something about Banes, before Wrex shot him.

Spoiler

We checked out the markets while we were there.
This Volus said the other Volus was the cheapest place on the Citadel for upgrades.
Yeah right, He must think all humans came down in the last meteor shower.

Spoiler

After we had picked up a few upgrades, a bloke at the top of the stairs called out my name.
Well when your a big war hero like I am, everyone wants your autograph, so I humoured him and made his day.

Spoiler

I took the wrong exit getting back to Dr Michelle's and ran into a Csec officer, he'd heard of my explots on Elysium, and we chatted a bit.
He told me about Flux, this wild club in the upper wards, I said I'd check it out.

Spoiler

[KotorEffect3]

Tonight Sandra saved the council and defeated Sovereign.  I'd post pictures but my phone's camera died.

[olnorton]

Tonight Sandra saved the council and defeated Sovereign.  I'd post pictures but my phone's camera died.

Yeah right, No pictures, it didn't happen.


Eddie was right, this place is full of babes.
I showed them a few of my moves on the dance floor.
Tali was more interested in taking the music back to the flotilla
Wrex was wondering if there were fish in the lake. Aliens.
I might come back here when they're not cramping my style.
The barmaid was hot, so I layed on the old Shepard charm.
Her name was Rita & she said she was worried about her sister Jenna who was working undercover in Chora's Den.
I told her that sounded dangerous, and as a special favour to her, I would go and have a word with Jenna.
I could tell she wanted me, she was undressing me with those eyes.

Spoiler

We went back to Chora's Den.
How had I not noticed this barmaid before, she gave me the eye, so I brought a drink and asked her about, what's her name's sister.
She played coy and pretended not to know what I was talking about.
I figured her girlfriend was probably watching her & I'd come back later.

Spoiler

On the way out this drunken Turian bumped into me, I think he thought I was Jenna and was trying to cop a feel,
but Tali thought we should go to Csec and check it out.
I'm not sure what she was on about, but we go anyway.

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Turns out the Turian worked for Csec and was only pretending to be drunk (How did Tali work that out?)
He said if I want to get Jenna out, I would have to go undercover and bust the illegal mod ring.
So we headed back to the markets to meet with this Jax.
The Krogan was too dumb to see through my cunning disguise and sold me the mods.

Spoiler

We took the mods back to detective Chellick, he was pretty impressed & said I could keep one of the mods,
and that he would release Jenna from her job at Chora's Den (I hope they let her keep the outfit)
It was getting late, so I thought we had better get Tali's evidence to the counsel.
The Turian admitted that the evidence against Saren was irrefutable, and Councillor Tevos recognised the other voice as Matriarch Benezia.
But they didn't want to send the counsel fleet into the Attican Traverse, so I said to send me.
The others were reluctant at first, but I think Tevos fancy's me, & she talked them into making me a Spectre.
Admiral Anderson was pretty chuffed and shook my hand. Udina was his usual self.

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[gottaloveme]

The question isn't what I was doing, but WTF Bioware. What have you created?

Spoiler

 

[RedCaesar97]

Today, John Shepard met with Quarian Admirals only to find out they started a war with the Geth because of course they did. (Shepard has lots of good luck to stay alive in all the situations his incredibly bad luck puts him in.)

 

The Quarians wanted Shepard's help in disabling a Geth Dreadnaught that was wreaking havoc on the Quarian fleet. So Shepard, Kaidan, and Tali stealthily boarded the dreadnaught. Kaidan and Tali argued over whether the Nexus or Logic Arrest omni tool was better; John thought they were both stupid since the Serrice Council omni tool was clearly superior in every way.

 

Once on board the dreadnaught, they destroyed a bunch of geth mobile platforms on their way to the central processing unit to shut down the Reaper signal. Once there, they found the Reapers were using Legion to broadcast the signal. They freed Legion who then disabled the central drive core. Quarian Admiral Han Gerrel then took the opportunity to try and destroy the dreadnaught while they were still on board. They barely escaped before the dreadnaught was destroyed. John Shepard then punched Gerrel when he got back on board the Normandy.

 

John Shepard then entered the geth concensus to stop geth fighters from swarming the Quarians. Legion took the opportunity to convince some geth to oppose the Reapers and downloaded their programs in the Geth Prime platforms. Good, they can stunlock Reaper forces for a change.

[themikefest]

From the cage of Furball, The Space Hamster

 

Who are these two guys? Are they real? That guy said Kai Leng. He killed the councilor? Looks like a job for Assassin Hamster. Don't worry. I'll get hold of Assassin to track that Leng down. The other guy says to talk with the quarians. Going to get more help owner? She tells me Ashley is on the Observation deck. Ok. I'll talk with her

 

She sees me. She bends down and puts out her hand. I smell a trap. I climb on her hand knowing if something were to happen to me, my owner would hurt her. She smiles at me and says she's still upset I bit her foot. Squeak, squeak. We talk. She tells me her sister's husband died in combat. Sad. I leave and head back to the cabin.

 

What's this? Why is the smelly woman up here? Wait a minute. Why are they both smiling? Hmm. This could be a problem. The smelly woman leaves. My owner got me some cigars. That's not funny. Those cigars are bigger than me. Aha. She fooled me. She got the mini-me cigars for me. Yes. Now my life is complete.

 

Why is the lumpy guy here? Take it somewhere else owner. I'm trying to relax. Lumpy guy, known as James, talks about a mission he was on. A lot of people died. He wants to know if he should be an N7. My owner is an N7. Forget that pal. Join the SHSF(Space Hamster Special Forces). I don't think he could handle the training.

 

What bomb mission are you going on? Didn't you go on one however long ago? Fine. I'll stay here and hold the fort. Its like I got nothing better to do. But i do have something better to do. Sit back in my chair smoking my cigar, drinking wine and eating cheese. I should update my status on facebook. I'm sure a lot of Hmasters are wondering what I've been up to.

 

My owner stop the bomb from exploding. She invivted the smelly woman up to the cabin to play chess. I guess I'll watch. Maybe I can play the winner. It will be a long trip to Eden Prime

[NKnight7]

I'm thinking by next year, closer to the release date of Andromeda, I'll do another playthrough of the Trilogy. Probably a FemShep, Infiltrator class, and maybe Garrus if I want to romance anyone. Doing that will get me excited for Andromeda, and because I just love the Trilogy in general.

[Derecho79]

Intermission between Rannoch and Thessia. Completed the main mission of The Citadel DLC (plus any side quests remaining in this period) and just soaking up the credits in the Armax Arena to maximize weapon upgrades (on second playthrough). Taking a long while to do that, unfortunately, but enjoy terrorizing the fake-Cerberus on super elite level.

[RedCaesar97]

I am noticing some recurring themes in themikefest's playthroughs:

• Joker is a joke
• Hackett is a joke
• Anderson is a joke
• Shepard loves Traynor

But I have the feeling that is not the full list.

 

(For the record, I am not complaining. I just find it interesting how themikefest continues to make the same themes interesting by wrapping it in different narratives.)

[themikefest]

From the cage of Furball, The Space Hamster

 

Aha. I beat the smelly woman at chess. I mean Samantha. She didn't like me calling her that. Come to find out she's really cool. She taught me to play chess well enough that I can beat her. She enjoys smoking a cigar with me and when she picks me up I don't have to activate my armor since she has soft hands. You know. If my owner were to catch us smoking cigars and playing chess instead of being on duty, she would most likely have us shot. Maybe not me. I asked Samantha why she smells? She didn't like that question. Boy oh boy. Humans sure are touchy when asked a question. Anyways. She uses perfume called Chanel No. 5

 

The owner is back. Samantha heads back to her station and I raom the ship to find my owner. What....is....is? I've never seen anything like that. It grabs my owner by the arms. Leave her alone ugly thing. He senses. Senses what? Hmmm. He tells about the time his species fought the reapers. He's a Prothean. He doesn't sound happy about being alive. I might feel the same if I was the last space hamster.  His name is Javik.

 

My owner heads out on another mission. The smell...ah Samantha says she will stay at her station to work. She doesn't want to get in trouble playing chess with a hamster. Hold on. Its SPACE HAMSTER. Get it right human.

 

I go back to the Javik. He likes washing his hands a lot. What's he doing? Oh no. He knows I'm here. Crap. Crap. Time to activate turbo speed. Whew. That was close. Note to self. Avoid the Javik.

 

I watch the lumpy guy lift things. He seems very fascinated with his arms. He bends his arm and a lump gets bigger. Let me try that. Nothing. Maybe he's not human, but only looks human. Yeah. That gotta be it. Here's my owner back from a mission. Garrus and Ashley talk about  Rachni. What's a Rachni? Ashley says she needs to clean the goo off her armor from killing the bugs. Bugs? What? You were fighting the collectors? I thought they were wiped out. Wait a minute. She calls them c**kroaches. So no collectors.

 

I head back to my cage. I go online to see what these c**kroaches are. Ok I see now. This seems like a job for the 82nd Airborne unit to take care. No. Not those guys at Fort Bragg. I'm talking about the unit in the Space Hamster Army. I'll send an email to my friend that they need to deploy to where these c**kroaches are and wipe them out. My owner would like that. Ok. Email sent. Squeak, squeak

 

My owner says she will meet with the quarians. It will be  a long trip. Cool. I sit back reading the articles from Playboy Space Hamster. Ah heck. Who I'm I kidding? I just look at the pictures.

[RedCaesar97]

Some of the Quarian Admirals wanted John Shepard to rescue another Quarian Admiral who was shot down on Rannoch. Being a nice guy and wanting to help -- he took a shuttle too go see if he could find one Admiral Korris. But first he had to destroy a Geth jamming tower to find him, which was protected by Anti-Aircraft guns. So, shut down Anti-Aircraft guns > destroy a Geth jamming tower > find and rescue Admiral Korris. Sure, sounds easy.

 

Cradling his trusty sniper rifle, John went in slow and methodically because Geth stunlock is not fun, but he eventually managed to disable the AA towers. Okay, okay, so it was James and Kaidan who disabled the towers. Geez, just because Shepard takes credit for killing Sovereign and the Tuchanka Reaper does not mean he takes credit for everything, right? RIGHT?

 

Then Steve Cortez flew in and destroyed the jamming tower (Shepard was mad he could not take credit for that one), and they managed to contact Korris, who wanted them to save his crew instead. But Shepard managed to convince Korris he was more vital and they rescued him, but at the expense of his downed crew. Ruthless calculus.

 

With no other important tasks left to do, it was time to head to the Geth base on Rannoch and shut down the Reaper signal. As a whole, the Geth have been on the up-and-up, but while Legion has done good work, it has been less than fully truthful with Shepard. John is not sure he fully trusts the Geth. Tali made a big to-do about some rock; Shepard smiled, nodded, then grabbed his guns and started shooting his way through the Geth resistance. Shepard is glad the Geth stopped using sniper units years ago; they were a pain in the ass (and chest, and legs, and arms, and head...).

 

Whoops. Turns out the machine sending the Reaper signal was an actual Reaper. Without any Thresher Maws on Rannoch -- and no one to build that Thresher Maw gun that Joker suggested they build (Shepard misses Mordin) -- they beat a hasty retreat until the Quarian fleet pounded the Reaper with some artillery. After a few more airstrikes, the Reaper fell, and John discussed galactic politics with the Reaper until it finally died.

 

John then kindly yelled at the Quarians until they stopped fighting the Geth and made peace. John may not fully trust the Geth, but he needs the numbers. Ruthless calculus. Legion worked some space magic and dessiminated his newly-formed personality to give all Geth true Artificial Intelligence because that's how space magic works kids. Tali then officially re-joined the Normandy, where John set her to work cleaning toilets because Engineer Adams is doing just fine by himself thanks.

 

John and company then made a quick trip around the galaxy looking for loot, and made a quick pitstop at a Fuel Reactor to get it back up and running. Then it was back to the Citadel to deliver some junk to people that seem to like galactic junk.

 

John is tired and ready for some shore leave.

[themikefest]

I am noticing some recurring themes in themikefest's playthroughs:

• Joker is a joke
• Hackett is a joke
• Anderson is a joke
• Shepard loves Traynor

But I have the feeling that is not the full list.

 

(For the record, I am not complaining. I just find it interesting how themikefest continues to make the same themes interesting by wrapping it in different narratives.)

Imagine how different the trilogy would be if I was the lead writer, especially for ME3. hahaha

[Melbella]

Imagine how different the trilogy would be if I was the lead writer, especially for ME3. hahaha

I'm really enjoying the Furball perspective.  Keep it up!

[gottaloveme]

Imagine how different the trilogy would be if I was the lead writer, especially for ME3. hahaha

 

That is a scary thought

[themikefest]

From the cage of Furball, The Space Hamster

 

Its the quarians. My owner will help them. There's Tali. She's ok. Just don't like the mask thing. You guys go do whatever. I need to some posting on SHSN.

 

I will start a new thread. I will call it "What did you do today in The Hamster Effect trilogy". I'm sure my fellow forumnites will like that. Look at that. I have 5 friend requests. I like that guy. Nice looking avatar and plus he always likes my posts. Yes to all. I see some have quoted me. Haha. Ain't that the truth, HamsterMasterRace. I see some new threads. Interesting. A poster named IHateReapers is taking bets on when the reapers will be defeated. Since I have the owner who will defeat them, I'll wager a pound of cheese they'll be defeated in 44 days from now. Lets see how many will take me up on that bet.

 

What is that flashing, walking thing? The quarians seem upset about having it on the ship. Tell me about it. My owner seems to let anybody onboard. Go figure.

 

Bye owner. She's going to rescue some Admiral. Have fun. I do my daily walk around the ship. The Joker is flying the ship like he's suppose to. He says something about all systems are good. It Dr.Chakwas. She looks at me and gives me wink. Sorry. You're not my type. I go to the forward battery to see Garrus. That's right. He went with my owner on that mission. That lumpy guy went as well. The blue one calls the floating ball Glyph. It sees me. I'm outta here. Bypass with the Javik is. That guy scares me. This is Adams. What's he doing? Making sure all the readings are correct. If you say so.

 

I decide to sit in a corner watching the Samantha. My owner has returned. What? Say that again. You did not say what I think you said? Tell me what you said isn't true owner? So you're going to take the....the...Samantha to Vancouver for drinks when this is over. That's absurd. You told me that you would take me back to my homeworld, The Ball of Fur, where I was going to introduce you to my friends. I need some time to process this. You wounded me owner. You haven't heard the last of me human.

 

With my owner gone on a mission, I will plot my revenge. Hahaha. That's my evil laugh. Hahaha. No more squeak, squeak. There's the Samantha. What's she doing in the cabin? No you can't see what I'm doing. Get lost.

 

Ha. Its my owner. Prepare yourself. We stand about 6 feet away from each other. Who will draw first? I spit in the spittoon to let her know I mean business. She's laughing. Draw you weapon owner.  What's she doing? What's that in her hand? Cheese. She hit my weak spot. She apologizes. She will take me to my homeworld when the reapers are defeated before she goes to Vancouver. Yeah were good. I caved in too easily. I should've demanded more than the cheese she gave. The crap I have to put up with. She's off to the reaper base.

 

It looks like the quarians will help us. My owner is happy about that. She's heading down to deck 3 to see the Ashley. Why is she lying on the floor? Cough. Cough. Her mouth stinks. Yuck. She's been drinking. You know the Ashley, its never good to drink on an empty stomach.  She'll get plenty of rest. It will take us a long time to get back to the Citadel. My owner has to see the asari councilor.

[RedCaesar97]

...

My owner seems to let anybody onboard.

 

From ME2:

 

"You called stray cats as a kid? Because we really needed a mega krogan, so thanks for bring him on board."

 

"Oh. another dangerous alien aboard, Commander. Thanks. Why can't you collect coins or commemorative plates or something?"

 

"So, Commander, even your Asari are trained killers? You get everyone at the same store or something?"

[RedCaesar97]

Deciding the crew needed a break and the Normandy needed some maintenance, John Shepard decided to take some shore leave (per Hackett's orders). He decided to check out Anderson's apartment. Anderson then called Shepard and gave him the apartment. Shepard felt bad about taking the apartment, and felt even worse at taking shore leave while Anderson was still fighting on Earth. John Shepard did not have much time to dwell on it however, as he got a message from Joker inviting him to lunch. Sure, why not?

 

Shepard met Joker for lunch, but the lunch was cut short when a slighty nervous Alliance officer named Brooks showed up and informed them someone was trying to steal Shepard's identity. The chat was cut short when some mercs showed up and shot up the place and then John fell through a fish tank floor (which was rather dumb to begin with) and barely survived the fall. He then had to sneak shoot his way through more mercs before Kaidan finally showed up to help. A C-Sec shuttle arrived, but it was filled with more mercs until Wrex showed up and beat everyone senseless. They escaped on another shuttle.

 

Liara managed to track down an arms dealer that sold the mercs the guns. The dealer was also a casino owner, so John and friends paid the owner a visit, but not before someone else had paid him a visit and shot him dead. 

 

When someone started using Shepard's ID to access the Citadel Archives, everyone went to the archives to confront him. That him turned out to be a clone of Shepard. (James: "This gig just keeps getting weirder by the day.") They chased after the clone, but the clone had lured them into another trap, sealing them inside some vaults. And then Brooks revealed herself to be working for the clone. But Shepard quickly escaped and chased after the clone before he could steal the Normandy; Joker's vintage porn collection could be worth millions some day.

 

With Traynor's help, they managed to board the Normandy before it took off. After a difficult fight with the clone in the Normandy cargo bay (I died a few time here... GRENADES EVERYWHERE!), Shepard managed to defeat the clone. He tried saving the clone's life at the end, but then clone refused his help and committed suicide. Shepard managed to convince Brooks to go to prison without any trouble.

 

 

And now John Shepard will meet up with a few people on the Citadel before grinding waves in the combat simulator so he can upgrade all his weapons to level X. It is going to be a lot of grinding. I am probably going to be grinding waves all week.

[von uber]

Tonight I did this:

 

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• This mission really shows up the pacing problems with ME2. So far I have done 4 recruitments and 2 loyalty missions and I already have to do this mission; as a result I am offered the IFF mission (and we all know what timer that starts). In theory I have another 2 recruitments and 6 loyalty missions to do (so roughly the same amount again before I was forced to do the collector ship) before doing the IFF. It's no wonder the central plot feels so inconsequential - if I do Overlord, LotSB, Arrival and Firewalker as well as all the side missions then it's a long, long time before we get back to it. Of course the solution is to do IFF> Legions loyalty > Suicide Mission, but then that would be with a really reduced crew and a lot of content to do afterwards (and why would people suddenly need to be loyal?)
• The music is great during this mission, really makes you keep pushing forward
• Which is, of course, completely ruined by having to hunt around for thermal clips
• Miranda's breathing mask looks ridiculous with an armoured Shep and Tali wandering around. Still, much better than her default catsuit
• Surely Shep should be questioning the appearance of the Protheans given Ilos. A satisfactory retcon could have been Edi explaining that they were just the statues of some god or something
• The initial exploration of the ship is good, even though the actual ship itself makes no sense whatsoever. Who the hell designed it like that? What possible purpose could those spinning platforms serve?
• The line about attacking Earth never stops being funny and clearly ridiculous
• Harbinger's taunts are really cheesily bad, make him seem much less threatening than say a Praetorian
• Being able to argue with TIM is nice; but it's still odd that even at this point you can't break away from him
• It's a shame they didn't even do a 30s scene of Shep and varren girl having dinner
• A more general issue for me is the really bad port that ME2 is. You can see how consolefied it is form the mission summary screen: I have all this screen-estate to play with, and yet still have to scroll down these bloody tiny boxes to read anything. Bonkers. Don't even get me started on the default textures1

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[Dantriges]

You could explain the Ilos statues as stuff remaining from the Inusannon era or so. Ok it would be a ridiculously resilient material but ah well 50k years more, who cares. But IIRC the image was also used in the visions, but I am not sure.

[gottaloveme]

This is my new guy - Michael Shepard. My first full soldier. No biotics (biting finger nails).

 

Don't mess with Shepard.

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Some other stuff

 

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Excellent! Sorry did I say that out loud. You can trust me, I'm Shepard

 

Relaxed enough with himself to be goofy

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Yessir - you do have beautiful eyes. I just don't know which ones to look into.

 

 

If you're happy and you know it clap your hands

 

 

 

 

tough SOB

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Honey - sweet and simple

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[KotorEffect3]

Sandra let Grunt out of his tank and purchased a few upgrades at the citadel.

[gottaloveme]

From the cage of Furball, The Space Hamster

 

 

this is for you Mike - enjoy