Interesting aside, I have not done a single 'plot' mission yet and am already level 30:

Interesting aside, I have not done a single 'plot' mission yet and am already level 30:

I just developed Nova fully and enjoyed the discovery of Novacharges while on Eden Prime and Palaven's moon (lots of fun with Husks!). They may be overused by today's standarts, but they're new for me, so I'll enjoy it while I can ![]()
Interesting aside, I have not done a single 'plot' mission yet and am already level 30:
Not only that, you have apparently not earned a single paragon point. Amy must be a real jerk.
Not only that, you have apparently not earned a single paragon point. Amy must be a real jerk.
Not really; it's surpriingly easy to do without being a jerk. You can always chose the neutral option (which I have). I've had quite a few paragon responses, but things like killing the C-Sec smuggling contact make your renegade go up a lot. There is the faintest sliver of blue if you look closely..
My PC MainShep is Lv 40 and with 1/2 Paragon and 1/5 Renegade
. Goin' Paragade I guess. Can't avoid it! (except in a NG+ ME3, where Renegade starts powering up)
Arwen Shepard imported 180 paragon points and 190 renegade points into ME2. Right now she has 3 bars of Paragon and 3 bars of Renegade. Nemesis evolution. Even with the Bastion evolution I could not pass Morinth's test, not that it mattered. But I had both the renegade and paragon options available in the Jack/Miranda dispute. Surprised me. I thought I would only be able to get the renegade option. Arwen used the renegade option.
Arwen Shepard helped track down Samara's daughter and kill her. There was nothing in particular to note about this mission except that Shepard has become convinced the Miranda screwed up somehow when she put Shepard back together. Before she died Shepard was a pretty good dancer. Now she couldn't dance if her life depended on it. I'm glad Doran can't see us now.
While on Omega we also picked up one more team member, a mercenary named Zaeed Massani. At least he doesn't seem to have any family issues, although he does want our help in finishing off a contract he took before signing up with Cerberus.
Before we got to that, however, TIM forwarded information to Shepard about the location of the Shadow Broker that he thought we should pass on to Liara. So it was back to Illium. Shepard became rather perturbed after giving Liara TIM's info because she started carrying on about some Drell named Feron. I suppose that after two years one might expect one's former lover to move on with their life. Still, for Shepard it had only been a couple of months since she had last been with Liara. Nevetheless, Shepard agreed to help Liara track down the Shadow Broker and rescue this Feron dude. She would stifle whatever jealousy she felt for the sake of the woman she loved, even if that love was no longer requited.
When she got to Liara's apartment, however, she found out someone had tried to kill her. Another Spectre, an Asari name Tela Vasir, was there and told us what had happened. We helped her find out where Liara had gone and took off to track her down. Just as we got there, however, the building she was supposed to be in blew up. Shadow Broker assassins were seemingly desperate to get to Liara before we could. Well, we fought through a bunch of agents to reach the person Liara was supposed to be meeting with but he was already dead. No surprise there. What was surprising was Liara's sudden appearance and her revelation that the Spectre Vasir was working for the Shadow Broker. She had been using us to track down Liara and the data on the Shadow Broker's location. So we fought through another gaggle of Shadow Broker agents chasing after Vasir who had the data. We finally chased her to an adult entertainment complex where we killed her.
We then set off to get to the Shadow Broker's base before he realized we were no longer on Illium. Not that it did much good because when we got there we were faced with even more opposition. It took some hard fighting, but we eventually found Feron and then went to confront the Shadow Broker in person. Needless to say, it didn't end well for him. It did end up well for Shepard, however. In the heat of the moment following our fight with the Shadow Broker Liara's old love for Shepard flared back to life. Shepard and Liara have arranged a "date" for Liara to visit the Normandy and become reacquainted with her old flame.
But first there is still the crew's "issues" that need to be dealt with.
Why do people bother writing this stuff?
We all played the game. We know what happens.
Everyone has their own feelings and perspective on what went down. They express it through their writing, either directly or indirectly.
Today I overcame the control of the Illusive Man and shot him down.
Sadly it was not before he shot Admiral Anderson.
Why do people bother writing this stuff?
We all played the game. We know what happens.
The BSN doesn't revolve around you David. Despite earnest attempts to try otherwise, the world doesn't either. You're more than free to leave forever if you feel your time is wasted.
Why do people bother writing this stuff?
We all played the game. We know what happens.
For the same reason I made a thread about things that people may have overlooked even after years of playing.
Because it chafes your nethers something fierce.
The BSN doesn't revolve around you David. Despite earnest attempts to try otherwise, the world doesn't either. You're more than free to leave forever if you feel your time is wasted.
I have a feeling the moderators may soon be making that decision for him (again).
I wouldn't tolerate it, myself.
Anyway, tonight I did my sidequests and Bring Down the Sky!
Let Balek go. Just couldn't let the others die.
My future RacistShep is definitely going to take any chance to put down a batarian though, screw the collateral damage. He's such a jerk.
I have a feeling the moderators may soon be making that decision for him (again).
I really hope it happens. Granted, when he comes back as Max From IT (and Jed From PR after that), it'll be hilarious how he complains about his time being wasted on here is an issue and that everyone is incredibly stupid, childish, simple, or weak yet keeps making new accounts to come back again and again. I take it he's going to keep changing his IP Address. There's not much more they can do accept investigate his actual appearances and ban him as they come. You think eventually, he'd learn not to stick his nose in a fire.
I'm placing my bets on Bill from Custodial Management myself.
Why do people bother writing this stuff?
We all played the game. We know what happens.
Wow, you must be a real delight at the parties.
I'm placing my bets on Bill from Custodial Management myself.
Would that be Bill Gardner, or maybe Rupert?
We made our rendezvous with the quarian envoy and invited the admirals on-board. It was good to see Tali again, but after listening to the rest of them bicker and argue for awhile, I knew it was going to be a long day. Tali told me once that quarians liked to debate, but after an hour of geth this and reapers that it was all just noise. Grunt dared me to reach out, casual-like, and pull off one of their visors just to see what would happen. The quarians were potential allies, but I was seriously considering it.
I couldn't listen to any more so I interrupted them and volunteered to board the giant dreadnought and cut the reapers' puppet strings if I could. I could tell Tali wanted to get out of there too, so I invited her along. I decided to troll Javik for a change and told him we were going to throw someone out the airlock and that he should meet us there. It was a bumpy ride to the dreadnought after Joker tried to crack his knuckles and broke all his fingers. I knew EDI was playing a joke on us when she said the only docking tube she could find was all shot to hell.
Finally we were onboard the dreadnought. Tali showed me the new pistol Xen had made for her. Impressive. I offered her a geth shotgun in trade and she fell for it. She's so gullible. Javik just looked nervous. He just kept repeating, "Zha'til, The sky is full of them," and flinching at every little sound. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to bring him on this mission.
We encountered our first geth. I found myself wishing they were more like the ones we met on Eden Prime. Those guys charged headlong right into our line-of-fire. But these guys were crafty. In the end they were no match for all the drones Tali and I could throw at them. Javik came to his senses, at least for a while, and helped us in the fight. I still wanted his particle rifle. I wondered if he'd take this arc pistol for it. Hmm...
Things went pretty smoothly until we discovered the only way to the control centre was through the main battery. The active main battery. Yikes. When the geth attacked, Javik panicked and wouldn't get behind cover. He just stood there and was cut down by a cloaked geth Hunter. It was alright though. Tali's got a real knack for hacking synthetics and we slowly progressed to the control room, where it turned out that my old buddy Legion was being used to boost the reaper signal to all the geth. Maybe I could get him to teach them all to dance.
As soon as we disabled the signal and freed Legion the quarians opened fire on the dreadnought. Sigh. Quarians. Who's mask was I gonna pull off first? Then the geth sent the heavy hitters after us and we. got. swarmed. They were everywhere and led by a couple of Primes. Tough bastards. One of them blasted Javik when he panicked again and rushed headlong at the thing. Mental note: Prothean no like robots. I couldn't wait to let him know that I killed the Prime who killed him... with a drone. Heh.
After what seemed like forever, Legion carjacked a geth fighter and we made our escape from the dreadnought safely. Number of reloads: 0. Close though, I almost died twice myself finishing off those primes. Back on the Normandy I punched Admiral Gerrel and kicked him off my ship. Resisted shooting his shuttle down. Felt pretty good about that.
Busy day for Tianshi.
I traveled to Noveria. When I entered the port there was a little standoff with the local security forces. It was quickly confirmed I was a Spectre though, so it's all good. I was then welcomed by some chick named Parassini.


Got up the elevator and agreed to smuggle for some Hanar. Picked up the package but didn't bring it to him, instead I forced him to tell me the recipient. This money's going in my pocket. Stupid jelly fish, trying to use my Spectre status for smuggle.
I then figured it was time to talk to one of the big shots here, turns out to be some Salarian guy. Not a very nice and forthcoming guy, not so fond of Spacers apparantly, and wouldn't let me go to Peak 15 to find Benezia. Pff. Parassini told me to go look for some Turian guy in the hotels though, so that's my next stop.

In the hotels some Assari tries to let me spy on a human. Hah, the nerve. I tell him she's spying on him and then tell lie to her I did the job. That'll teach her, later.
Before talking to Lorik Qu'inn I look for Inamorrda, the recipient of the package I picked up earlier. He claims to have been able to snap my neck before I could get my gun, but because my negotiation tactics remind him of his father, we make a deal. Big talker, hah.
Lorik Qu'inn tells me the Salarian has goons ransacking his office cause Lorik has evidence on him. He wants me to pick it up. I bluff my way through the first guard then kill the rest before picking up the data. Then I take care of one of the guards who stopped me upon arrival before leaving. Parassini's waiting for me though, wants me to get Lorik to testify and she'll get me a garage pass. I proceed to do so by yelling at him. I do this a lot. The Salarian's arrested and I get a pass.


In the garage Geth are ambushing me. They die fast,and I set out in the Mako (which for some completely unkown reason is parked in the garage......). After killing droves of Geth I arrive at the station, which is in a very bad state. I fix the powerlines, the VI and the tram lines, and set out for the research facility... meet some bug things along the way. As I reach the survivors in the facility, turns out they are Rachni.
I synthesise a cure there for the sick people, and the doctor tells me about some other locked off area. I break in there and kill all the guards, including Ventralis. Don't trust the guy anymore.
We reach Benezia, who's not willing to talk. Her Asari Commando and Geth helpers die fast, as does she. She talks about Indoctrination and the Mu Relay, and I get the coordinates. She then attacks again, and I kill her. She says she sees no light. Too bad she had to day.. what a MILF.

Then some really peculiar stuff starts happening. One of the dead Asari Commando's walks around... apparantly controlled by the Rachni Queen! I talk with the Queen for a bit, but I don't trust her. I kill her. Kaidan seems to disagree, but Ashely approves.

I then go to the Hot Labs, and meet some Russian guy there. He tells me to purge the place, which I do.
Back on the Normandy we decide not to go the Mu Relay immediatly, we don't know where to go yet.. I then walk around and talk with all my crew and decide it's time for sleep.
