Another incoming wall of text(I really should give less sporadic updates, and I wouldn’t have this problem. Yet alas, I’d rather play than type and therefore put this off)
After recruiting Jack and wondering what the hell he was thinking when he let her on his ship, John finally went back to Omega to recruit Mordin. Talked with Aria to gain some background information. Based on how she talked about him, John wondered if he ever had the chance to…er..break the number 1 rule on Omega
Ehem, anyways, John headed towards the Quarantine Zone and ran into a woman arguing with one of Aria’s thugs(you turians are all racist!). The turian tried to tell John that he couldn’t enter the Quarantine Zone, but quickly reconsidered when John gave him that look that said “try to stop me.”
Upon entering the plague infested streets and smelling the charred flesh of burning bodies, Grunt asked if anyone else was hungry and John had to hold back his chortling. In an effort to find something else to preoccupy his mind, he went towards a locked apartment door to see if anyone was trapped in there. He wasn’t familiar with his surroundings and wanted to find out where Mordin’s clinic was. Inside, he found two dead turians and some recordings. One of the turians recorded his time being locked in his apartment, and while listening to the recordings, John learned what symptoms accompanied this plague. Severe bouts of coughing and difficulty breathing are the initial symptoms, followed by irritability. The infected eventually become paranoid and start to hallucinate. Apparently, this plague is a lot like a severe case of the flu, except it kill everyone who catches it. At this point, John continued on and saw a Batarian sitting on the ground who looked like he was about to keel over. Having the colonist background, John initially ignored him. As they were walking by the sick Batarian, Grunt started to have a bad cough. John needed to find Mordin’s clinic ASAP. He ran across another locked apartment and hacked his way inside, hoping to find someone alive who could tell him where to go. He found another Batarian, but this one was dead. He also left some recordings before he died. The poor bastard didn’t have the plague, but was locked in his apartment anyways and died of starvation. Time was running out, and John needed to get some directions. He remembered the frail looking Batarian that he passed earlier, and wondered if he could get any information out of him. After having an internal debate with himself and thinking God d*** it, John finally decided to help that sick Batarian if only to get the needed information. The Batarian had all the symptoms of the plague(cough: check, irritability: check, paranoia: check), and started to blame John and all humans for his problems. John almost let him die, but saved him instead because he wanted to know more about Mordin and where he could find him. John told the Batarian just that when he asked why John helped him. After asking his questions, John got the desired information(really? The clinic is that easy to find? Well…f***), and learned more about Mordin. Apparently, Mordin is much more than a Doctor and Vorcha are tearing up the place.
John fought his way through the plague zone, ran across a scared couple who locked themselves in their apartment, told them that they were being stupid and that his old friend Wrex would have ate them if they didn’t head towards Mordin Clinic, found some looters in a turians apartment and threatened to kill them if they didn’t stop(they obliged), and finally came across Mordin’s clinic.
Upon meeting Mordin, John was both taken aback and amused when Mordin tried to determine who John was and what he wanted. John asked if he was ok and if he ever took any breaths while speaking. While they were talking(the conversation was pretty one sided), the ventilation in the whole neighborhood stopped working. Mordin quickly surmised that the Vorcha were behind it and asked if John could deal with them. Before leaving, Mordin also asked John to find and help his assistant and gave him the Carnifex pistol.
As John headed towards the environmental controls, he came across Mordin’s assistant. A few Batarians were accusing him of spreading the plague. John tried to kill them before they had a chance to hurt the assistant, but the Batarians killed him before John got a shot off. John experienced the human equivalent of the Krogan blood rage and killed them in short order. Any Vorcha and Krogan who tried to keep John from spreading the cure through the ventilation from this point forward met the same fate(their heads popped like zits).
John returned to the clinic and discovered that the couple who he talked to earlier at least found their way to the clinic(Huh, I forgot to tell Mordin about that sick Batarian…Oh well, he’ll be fine now anyways). Mordin was sad to hear that his assistant didn’t make it, but agreed to join John on his mission.
(Almost done, kind of.)
Back on the Normandy, TIM told John that the Collectors were about to hit Horizon, and that Kaidan was also on the colony. John became instantly suspicious, and had the feeling that TIM was holding something back. However, he decided to hold back his suspicions and headed towards Horizon to stop the collectors.
As they were heading towards Horizon, Mordin was able to come up with a countermeasure for the seeker swarms(Kelly was right, he was like a hamster on coffee. He came up with this counter measure in a short amount of time). On Horizon, John discovered how the Collectors were able to apprehend the Colonists without leaving a trace, and this Collector General sounded a lot like Sovereign(but more trollish).
After routing the Collectors on Horizon and killing some large armored bug-like thing called a praetorian, EDI got the defense turrets online and the Collector Ship bugged out. Kaidan found John not too long afterwards. The meeting did not go as well as John hoped, and Kaidan pretty much called John a traitor to the Alliance. This meeting, along with the fact that the Collectors made off with a large number of colonists, put John in a sour mood. The post-mission debriefing with TIM didn’t help matters, but at least John got the whole story this time.
(There is more, but I’ll post it later to give your eyes a break.)