Wrex being dead ain't that bad indeed, he's dead in my game too. Isn't the first time though, killed him 2 other times.
Tianshi also did the final shopping, after this it's time for the Reaper IFF... though he still has to go to Flottila. Tianshi likes Tali, she's a good friend and was on the battlefield when Saren was defeated, but he doesn't agree one bit with how the Quarians handled the Geth.
Amy is rabidly pro-Quarian and anti-Krogan.
Tianshi found a Geth! And a sudden urge to take it to the Flotilla. Lets see how both species react.
Brooke looks pretty good. You do a good job with the face maker. Why did you grow tired of your previous Cary-Grant Shepard?
I'm trying to basically swallow the Tali romance. I just ggeeerrr the Quarian make me mad. I needed a pallet cleanser so to speak.Brooke looks pretty good. You do a good job with the face maker. Why did you grow tired of your previous Cary-Grant Shepard?
I'm trying to basically swallow the Tali romance. I just ggeeerrr the Quarian make me mad. I needed a pallet cleanser so to speak.
I'm afraid I don't understand. Tali made you mad? Or Qurians in general? What does "ggeeerrr" mean? Is that like grrr?
I'm afraid I don't understand. Tali made you mad? Or Qurians in general? What does "ggeeerrr" mean? Is that like grrr?
Is there such a thing as spoiler tags on the Bioware forum? I love seeing the pictures people are posting but it makes scrolling to new posts a pain at times.
Today though I united the geth and the quarians, even though I didn't like the path the geth picked to 'free will.'
Now I am off to Thessia. Not sure whether to take Javik or Kaidan with me though.
Anyone wanna caption this? His face looks so hilarious 
Picking up where I left off(some of these will remain quick summaries. I've got a lot of ground to cover).
John moved on to recruiting Thane. While fighting his way through the Dantius Towers, he rescued every Salarian he came across(The one who decided it was a good idea to point a gun at him received quite a head ache), made an oblivious Merc almost p*** himself(Seriously, that guy has to be a rookie if he was that oblivious to his surroundings. I, and John by extension, was sourly tempted to speed Darwinism along by shoving him out of the window), and toyed with Nassana Dantius before Thane "made an entrance."
After finding Thane a place to crash, TIM had another mission for John. Not too much to add here, other than I chose the Widow for my bonus weapon on the Collector ship. This allowed me to ROFL stomp everything that was in my way from that point on(and I'm on hardcore. Seriously, that Widow is a beast). When John found out that TIM willingly sent them into a trap, he almost blew a gasket, and TIM heard about it in the first part of the mission debriefing. Oh, and John invited Kelly up for dinner(fish feeder VI version 1.0).
A little later, Thane needed to talk to John about a personal matter. Kolyat, his son, took an assassination job on the Citadel, and Thane wanted John's help to dissuade his son from following in his footsteps. John agreed, but also had the suspicion that Garrus would bug John about his problem once they reached the Citadel. His suspicions were correct, and Garrus insisted on going with them.
Regardless, Thane's problem came first. They had a small chat with Baily and found out that Mouse was Kolyat's initial contact. When they met mouse, he was less than willing to give them the name of Kolyat's employer. When mouse refused to tell them anything, John had no choice but to "do things the hard way." After getting scared s***less, mouse told them what they needed to know. John apologized for his actions afterwards, saying that mouse didn't leave him much choice, but mouse just wanted to be left alone.
When they returned to Baily, he wasn't all that thrilled to hear that it was Kelham who put out the hit. He still agreed to help, but hinted that he didn't want Kelham to know that he was involved. During the Interrogation, John obliged(since Baily was willing to help, he wasn't going to screw him over). Unfortunately for Kelham, his egocentric attitude made John lose his patience, and recieved a good beating. Kelham's attorney tried to threaten John, and John put him in his place by pretty much saying "B**** please, I'm a Spectre." Kelham gave up and finally told him what he needed to know.
Kolyat was hired to assassinate an anti-human Turian by the name of Joram Talid. John and Thane followed Joram until Kolyat finally made his move outside of Talid's apartment(some custodian tried to stop John from passing through above the bar by Talid's apartment and ended up on his a**). John shot a lamp by Kolyat's head to distract him and incapacitated Kolyat afterwards(John thought about killing Talid himself, but didn't want to make a martyr of him either). John also convinced Baily to give Kolyat community service as well instead of actual jail time.
After helping Thane, John decided to help Garrus while he was on the Citadel. During the initial "investigation", they came across a Volus who claimed to be Fade. When Garrus insisted that he make a certain someone "undisappear", the Volus panicked and tried to get his Krogan bodyguards to protect him(they both ate bullets before they could make a move). Afterwards, the Volus told them Harkin was actually the once called Fade(interestingly enough, I didn't talk to Harkin in ME1, and the game acknowledged this when Shepard asked who Harkin was.)
They caught up with Harkin in the Factory District, and chased him until he had no where to run. During that interrogation, Garrus was a little rough(remember Garrus, he'd no use to us dead), and John prevented him from kneecapping him(besides, I've always found the headbutt to be more satisfying. I don't know why). Nonetheless, Harkin was able to set up a meeting with Sidonis.
Before taking their positions, Garrus asked John why he didn't allow him to finish off Harkin, and John responded that he wasn't worth the trouble. Garrus agreed, and thanked John for his help on this personal vendetta. John asked him if he really wanted to go through with this, and Garrus said he couldn't think of any other way to settle this. John didn't press the issue, and decided to go along with it until he met up with Sidonis. When John warned Sidonis about Garrus, he started to make excuses, and John almost allowed Garrus to have his revenge. However, John kept his cool, he didn't want Garrus to go down the same road as him. Sidonis eventually admitted that he felt like death because he betrayed his fellow teammates(he almost wished for death). John remarked this to Garrus, who replied that "10 good men are dead because of him!", to which John replied "Will killing the 11th bring them back?"(I didn't know that this line existed. Apparently, if you don't press the issue with Garrus beforehand, the dialogue option to convince Garrus to spare Sidonis becomes a Charm option, and Shepard will say this line instead of "he's not even alive anymore, there's nothing left to kill." This was a pleasant surprise, and this line fitted with how I wanted to roleplay this Shepard). Garrus finally relented, and John was thankful that he was able to prevent Garrus making the same mistake that he(John) made before.
Once back on the Normandy, Miranda bugged John about her dilemma, and John finally agreed to help her(he had to go back to Illium to recruit the Justicar anyways). During the first part of the Mission, some a**hole tried to prevent Miranda and John from reaching her sister, and he also threatened them. John noticed a large explosive crate that was above some Eclipse Mercs, and took the opportunity to kill the a**hole and the poor bastards who were under the crate.
After fighting their way through the warehouse, Miranda and John discovered that her former friend Niket was helping the Mercs kidnap her little sister. During the confrontation, Niket admitted his involvement, and also foolishly admitted that he was the only one who knew what was going on(Miri’s father was in the dark.) Miranda killed Niket to tie up loose ends(John almost stopped her, but decided that Niket wasn’t trustworthy and would probably tell Miri’s father about today’s events). Afterwards, they dealt with Enayla and her lackies and caught up with Miranda’s sister. Miranda wanted to leave before her sister saw them, but John, who lost his family back on Mindoir, encouraged Miranda to go say hi instead.
When they returned to the Normandy, Jack and Miranda got into an argument, and John sided with Jack during the confrontation(he still didn’t trust Cerberus, and he could relate more with Jack than Miranda). However, he also sided with Jack because he knew Jack was a loose cannon, and that there was really no reasoning with her once she was in that kind of mood. He told Miranda this, and that he could at least reason with her. Miranda understood, and got over it.
Once that was cleared up, John continued on to recruit the Justicar(I’ll keep this brief. Despite being a fun mission, there’s not much to say). He went towards the district that Samara was last saw in, found a crime scene, saw that everyone was nervous about the Justicar’s precense, talked to a shifty Golus Merchant and an Asari Detective, found Samara tossing Eclipse Mercs about like rag dolls, agreed to help her find a ship name, persuaded the Volus merchant to give the key card that allowed him inside the Eclipse Base, killed the Mercs(including Elnora who thought it was a good idea to draw her gun on John), found a drugged up Volus and convinced him to take a nap(this part still makes me smile), killed Wasea and got the ship name. At this point, he returned to the Police headquarters and gave Samara the info she wanted. He also gave the Detective any piece of evidence he found along the way.
After that bit of business was done, John decided to help Tali at her trial. When he found out that he would be acting as her lawyer, he told her that he would do anything in his power to help her(deep down, he wasn’t all that confident in his ability to act as a lawyer. Yet he still cared deeply about her.) During the initial stages of the trial, he kept his cool. Once Koris revealed that her father’s ship was taken over by Geth and blamed Tali, John immediately told the Admirals to f*** off, and that they had no business of waiting until the trial to reveal this kind of information to her. Still, they were able to convince the Admirals to allow them to retake the Alarei.
On the Alarei, John and Team Dextro were able to eliminate any and all Geth who got in their way without too much trouble. When they found Rael’s body, Tali broke down and cried. John empathized with her, since she lost both her mother and father like he did, and did everything he could(including a hug) to comfort her. Once she regained her composure, she found the message he left for her, which outlined some of his motivations and gave them the information they needed to stop the Geth from making more copies of themselves. The main hub was on the bridge, and after destroying the Prime that stood in their way, they disabled the remaining Geth on the Ship. They also came across another recording, which detailed Rael’s involvement in the experiements. They were building active Geth on the Alarei in order to figure out ways to hack them so they could retake the homeworld. This evidence could clear Tali’s name, but she didn’t want to reveal it in the trial because she didn’t want to ruin her father’s name. John didn’t like it, but agreed.
Once they made their way back to the trial, the Admirals asked if John found any evidence on the Alarei. He knew his hands were tied, and decided that he had nothing to lose by trying to rile the crowd against the Admirals. Veetor and Kal-Reegar stood up for Tali, and a everyone in the audience did as well. This was enough to encourage the Admrials to pardon Tali. As far as John’s opinion on attacking the Geth was concerned, he was conflicted. While he didn’t give a crap about the Geth(He has not recruited Legion yet), he thought it was foolish to start a full scale war against them at this time. He agreed with Gerrels sentiment that if the Quarians were going to take part in the war against the Reapers, they needed a place to house the noncombatents. John was just skeptical of the Quarian’s ability to win a war against the Geth.
When they returned to the Normandy, Tali thanked John for helping her. Once he returned to the Galaxy map, he didn’t hear Kelly’s remark that Samara wanted to speak with him. He was lost in his own thoughts. He didn’t want to admit it to himself, but he was starting to have feelings for Tali. Yet he was reluctant to act on these feelings because he didn’t want to go through the same pain that he felt when his family was killed and when he lost his whole unit on Akuze. Thane’s discussions concerning his wife didn’t help much either. He was afraid of getting too close to her and dealing with the pain of losing her if she died once they took the fight to the Collectors beyond the Omega 4 Relay. Still,…she awakened something in him that he had not felt in a long time, and he wanted a chance to find that kind of happiness again. “Damn It!”
And now, I’m going to take a break from all this typing. Even though I am passed this point, I’ll finish up John’s story in ME2 later on.
Tianshi, Tali and Legion went to the Flotilla:
Now Legion has something he wants Tianshi to deal with... God.. does it ever end?
Tianshi, Legion and Tali went to some Geth Heretics space station... sweet.
How does Mass Effect 2 push you into a morality again?
Uggh, the Collectors boarded the ship while Tianshi was gone taking the ships crew! There was a virus on the IFF... lucky enough, Joker and EDI saved the Normandy.
It's time to go through the Omega 4 Relay
Someone else should really post in here 
Time to finish off the Collectors
Tianshi cleared the Collector Base. The mission was not a complete succes though. (much to my own surprise!)
Mordin died... 
Oh well, guess I'll be seeing some material I haven't seen before in ME3. Also never saw the scene on the Normandy with the casket. This might be a surprising run afterall
Career Summary so far:
Name: Tianshi Shepard
Profile: Spaceborn/War Hero. Lifelong military, Alliance to the core.
Class: Adept, preference for assault rifles.
Mass Effect 1:
Plot order: Therum, Noveria, Virmire, Feros, Ilos
Main squad: Kaidan and Ashley until Virmire (preference for Alliance personnel and a slight distrust towards aliens), Garrus and Kaidan after sending Ashley with Kirrahe, Garrus and Liara after leaving Kaidan with the bomb and saving Ashley, Liara and Tali until Saren. Ashley was not used in the main squad again because Tianshi was afraid to lose her too.
Main decisions: Rachni queen killed, Tianshi wouldn't take the chance. Feros colony saved. Wrex killed by Tianshi at Virmire, he opposes a cure and thinks the Krogan can't handle themselves in a horde. Council killed in final battle.
Other things I want to mention: Shiala alive, Rhana alive, Fist alive, Helena Blake alive, Kirrahe alive, Tali given data on Geth, Udina councilor, pressuring him he should work with the aliens (to no avail)
Romance: Ashley Williams. Also lifelong military and Alliance to the core. Has a more negative outlook on aliens though, and Shepard's opinion turned around almost completely (no more distrust towards aliens, but not approving of a cure for the Genophage or approving the Quarians handling of the Geth)
Mass Effect 2:
Tianshi fed up for working with Cerberus, making sure to state at every oppertunity that he's not working for Cerberus. First picked up Zaeed and Kasumi, handled their loyalty missions (went after Vido in Zaeed's mission). After picking up Garrus last (Tianshi figured anyone who calls himself Archangel has to be a @#^$, turned out he didn't give himself that name ), Garrus and Zaeed were the squad for Horizon, but Kasumi and Zaeed were the main squad for all other recruitment missions. On Horizon Tianshi also met Ashely... it was not really good. But he loves her and he'll stay faithful.
After meeting head on with the Collectors, Shepard got serious on the mission. Distrustful of TIM, the Collectors were a real enough threat to take things seriously. He build the team and found himself mostly fixing their problems.. but anything for the missions.
Mission order (and Tianshi's opinion + any relevant decisions):
Freedom's Progress: Veetor given back to Quarians.
Kasumi's LM
Zaeed's LM: Vido dead.
Okeer: got Grunt. A tankbred Krogan. Awesome
The Professor: slighty annoying talking Salarian.. invaluable to the mission.
The Convict: crazy but extremely powerful biotic.
Archangel: my old friend Garrus! Even though he didn't like him much at first, as the First Contact war left marks on my family and so Tianshi didn't like em much, he was there on the Normandy SR1 
Horizon
Miranda's LM: (tried to get my old friend and person who took down Saren with me to join, but Alas Liara wouldn't join. While on Illium tianshi figured he could just as well help Miranda out). Oriana saved, Miranda shot Niket.
Tali: luckily the other person that was with Tianshi joined up with him to fight the Collectors. Kal Reegar alive.
The Assasin: very religious Drell. Awesome style though.
The Justicar: powerful oathbound Asari. Very sexy, very old... and said she'd might have to kill me if she hadn't been under her 3rd Oath. Wow.
Grunt's LM: Tresher Maw killed. Tuchanka hostile, Wreav power hungry and savage.
Mordin LM: Maelon killed by Mordin, data destroyed.
Collector Ship: Zaeed and Miranda in squad. Most powerful team at that moment.
Thane's LM: Turian politician killed by Tianshi.
Garrus LM: Harkin shot by Garrus, Sidonis killed by Garrus after fully hearing his story (Sidonis says 'thank you' before being killed)
Samara's LM: Morinth killed by Samara.
Jack's LM: Aresh killed by Jack. Miranda/Jack dispute solved (renegade)
Jacob's LM: Ronald Taylor left to be killed by the Hunters.
LotSB.
Overlord: David sent to Grissom Academy.
Reaper IFF: Zaeed and Thane in squad. Strongest team against organic enemies now that Thane is loyal.
Tali's LM: Legion taken to Flottila. Quarians told at every oppertunity not to go to war with the Geth. Tali exonerated (renegade)
Legion's LM: Geth rewritten Tali/Legion dispute solved (paragon)
Collector Base: Zaeed and Thane in squad. Base given to Cerberus. Tianshi doesn't trust TIM but could never destroy the base, too much knowledge would be lost. Mordin, sadly, died. (probably should've sent him back with the Normandy crew instead of Grunt.. but oh well )
I don't have Arrival.. so it's time for ME3 
I'm probably going to play ME3 for the most of my day, as I'll be going on vacation for a week tomorrow hehe 
so next to some packing I'll just be playing ME today, and maybe some Dota 2
Finally, Ashley with me again. Too bad the Reapers are also here
Tatyana Shepard danced with Doran, Kaidan, and Liara, then went to Virmire and killed Wrex.
Tianshi cleared the Collector Base. The mission was not a complete succes though. (much to my own surprise!)
Mordin died...
If you have never played with Wiks before you are in for a treat.
Well I don't have as much to post as Psychevore
Brooke was quite nice on Eden Prime.
She felt bad for Jenkins dying
She was shocked that Ashley Williams would leave her entire squad behind
For fun she punched a scientist assistant (not to be mean or anything)
She liked pointing her gun at people Once with Cole (guys in shed) Snitch or a Corpse bud your call
Powell handed over the grenades and some more toys once she pointed a shot gun at him.
With Nihlus dead she rushed to the beacon saved Kaidan and got whammed herself.
..I finally have Ashley back... then Cerberus stands in the way yet again and now she's in the hospital, great
Kaiden: Commander, we shouldn't be doing this now. Uh never mind.....
Anyone wanna caption this? His face looks so hilarious
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