What did you do today in ME?

Yeah Gil does, he asks Ryder if he has ever eaten space cow tongue!!!!!! 

Same sex romance mod, though the author says it may work with them after all.

Owen Shepard:

Utukku, the planet where Wrex's scouts went messing. There were rumors of rachni, though nothing substantiated. James thought it was crazy that Faith had let the rachni queen go. I said it was the right call, that genocide didn't make sense. When we landed, the first krogan we encountered, the leader of Aralakh Company, was none other than Grunt. My baby boy, who I'd hatched fresh out of his tank and then helped through his puberty ritual on Tuchanka, was now leading a team of krogan.


We fell. The building on the edge of a cave in collapse with us inside. Grunt and his team followed along from above while me and mine went into the tunnels. Found a gun that shoots fire like those vorcha are always running around with. Came in useful in burning down that strange webbing which would otherwise block our way. Then we found these...pods...eggs? Something like that. Creepy as hell.


They seemed to have some kind of metal tubing around them. Also, they explode when you get near them. What the hell kind of egg explodes? Definitely found coils on the ground that looked like Reaper tech. That could explain the metal tubes. If the Reapers somehow transformed the rachni like they had humans, turians and krogan...I really feared for what we might find. There were rachni, heavily modified. Then there was this, which damn well looked like a Reaper.


Fought our way through husks, cannibals, ravagers, swarmers and Reaper tech to get to the central chamber. There we found the rachni queen that Faith had released a few years ago. She was chained by the Reapers and her children were transformed into monsters. It was no different than what was done to other races. She wanted to be freed, promising to aid us in the fight. I thought back to Faith - she hated aliens, she was cold, she would do whatever it took, sacrificing anyone in her way. Faith took a chance on the rachni queen. Could I do any different? Yes, it might cost us to set her free but I believed it would be worth it in the end.


Getting away wasn't going to be easy. There was no way it was going to happen without someone running interference. That someone was Grunt. I thought this might be his last stand and I can't tell you how sorry I felt about that.


When we came above ground, I felt sadness as I approached the shuttle. There was no one but my squad in evidence. I was about to board the shuttle when I heard something. I turned around and found a tired, bloody and barely standing krogan. Grunt had survived! Like I said, he was my boy. I was his krantt. Nothing was going to change that.


Back on the Normandy, Mordin said the cure was complete. All that was needed was a way to distribute it to all of the krogan on Tuchanka. That was going to take some thought. Meanwhile, I still had that mission Victus wanted me to do. If Mordin spent some time thinking on the solution I'd be able to take care of this.

I stopped to check out some Cerberus activity on Benning. The reports went from Cerberus was recruiting to taking civilians against their will to gunning civilians down in the streets. Cerberus claimed it wasn't them. Hackett believed that story. I didn't. After all I'd seen Cerberus to do other humans, what was a little massacre to them?

Landed on Tuchanka to rescue Victus's squad. Turned out there was some kind of big bomb in the hands of Cerberus. It was set to go off in a highly populated area. Still had no idea what was really going on and the primarch wasn't talking. After consulting with Hackett, he suggested trying to find out the truth. On the shuttle back down, Lt. Victus revealed that it was a turian bomb planted on Tuchanka centuries ago after the Krogan Rebellions. Cerberus had found out about it and wanted to use it to destroy the krogan/turian alliance. Can't figure out the why of it. That just helps the Reapers win. Then we found the bomb. That motherfucker was big.


Lt. Victus had to attempt to disarm the bomb while we fought off Cerberus troops. Unfortunately, Cerberus had made sure the bomb couldn't be turned off so easily. It required manually separating the trigger from the bomb. In the end, he sacrificed his own life to prevent that bomb from going off.


Back on the Normandy I had to keep the peace between Wrex and Victus. I pointed out that Wrex would have done the same thing had their roles been reversed and that the primarch's son died making it right. They both got the point.

Now, there was one more thing before attending to the genophage cure. Cerberus was up to something else on Tuchanka and I needed to stop whatever it was. They were trying to take control of some old krogan cannons. We put a stop to them. This worked in our favor since now the krogan could use those cannons against their enemies.

Met with Steve near the Normandy dock on the Citadel. I'd been telling him to take some downtime. Didn't want to see him worn out. He was still suffering from the loss of his husband. I wanted him to move on, not just because there was a war, or for me, but because he deserved better. He was considering putting the audio recording of Robert's last words on the memorial wall in the Holding Docks.


Okay, now it was time to cure the genophage. Piece of cake. Well, except for that Reaper that parked itself next to the Shroud that we were using to release the genophage cure. A Reaper than was releasing toxic gases into the air. To make this happen, a human (me) managed to convince a krogan, a turian and a salarian to combine forces. Mortal enemies, all of them, and now working together. Nothing like extinction to bring us together. Of course, the dalatrass tried to convince me to stab the krogan in the back - my friend, Wrex, and my baby boy, Grunt. If me and my sister were willing to unleash the rachni on the galaxy why not the krogan? The offer was the full support of the salarians for the Crucible and their fleets. Nah, I was going to pass. This thing also threatened Mordin if I were to try to stop him. I guess all the spying and backstabbing salarians do makes them forget that some people are loyal to one another. They'd all given me their loyalty and I wasn't about to forget it.

We hit the ground fighting. There were husks but they went down fairly easy, especially with multiple krogan on the scene. It was when the fight ended that the problems began. Wreav, half-brother of Wrex, complained about the presence of a salarian. Wrex headbutted him for that but it was Eve that got through to them. When she talked, every male krogan got quiet. She talked about fighting the enemy they were born to defeat, the Reapers, so that they could build a new future for their people. That rallied them like nothing else.


We got moving. Artimec Wing, turian fighters, were to attack from the air while the rest of us fought on the ground. Problem was the road was destroyed and we couldn't easily get through. They were trying to rig something with the tanks when a fighter crashed into the ground. I told them to get out with Eve while my squad entered into an underground tunnel. Even said it was the City of the Ancients and that no map of it existed. Found some interesting artwork. Liara suggested that the krogan had once had artists among them. It just shows what they could be when given the chance.


We'd felt serious tremors but Wrex wasn't experiencing them. Eve said that it was rumored that Kalros, the mother of all thresher maws, lived down here. When we saw artwork of what we guessed was Kalros we knew the threat was real. No idea if she's the literal mother of all thresher maws or just the biggest one around.


[Damn, first death, I think. Sigh.]

Got our first glimpse of Kalros when she tore apart our bridge. I'd killed several thresher maws in my time but I don't think all of them combined were as big as Kalros. We managed to meet up with Wrex but Wreav's truck was destroyed by Kalros. Wrex declared him dead. When we got near the Shroud, they told me of a plan to sic Kalros on the Reaper. It required activating two hammers. They were, of course, just a few yards from the Reaper. It seemed like our only chance. Before I took off, Wrex stopped me. He said for what I'd done, I was his brother, a champion of the krogan and my name would me "hero" to their people. And the dalatrass expected me to throw that away? Guess she doesn't know anything about friendship.


As we ran TOWARD the Reaper, the remnants of Artimec Wing showed up to distract it. Just what we needed so we could get to those maw hammers. Kalros showed up, just as Eve had said. She fought that damn Reaper, taking it down. It did not get up again.


Made it to the Shroud. The place was falling apart because there was so much destruction. Mordin would have to go to the top of the Shroud to deploy the cure. He knew he wouldn't come back. I didn't want him to go. He was my friend. He was also a hero, willing to die for what he believed in. Just shows how far he'd come from when we first met. I was going to miss him.


The release of the genophage was interesting, to say the least. Hope was falling from the sky like snowflakes. Eve told me her true name, Bakara. Wrex said that he was immediately sending troops to Palaven. He also said, when the time came, he'd be right by my side on Earth. Like I said, he was my friend. Couldn't, wouldn't, stab him in the back. Victus also said he's be sending support for Earth.


Garrus urged me to get some rest but I'm not sure that's what it really was. It was that nightmare again about the boy I'd seen on Earth. Again, he died in flames. This time I heard the voices of the dead. Faith was the one that most bothered me. I also talked to the salarian Councilor. He had a suspicion that Udina was up to something and asked to meet with me.

Glad I'm not the only one who views it this way.

MegaIllusiveMan: Sad to say that very lovely scar will not make it into ME2. I guess reconstructing his body did away with it.

I saw a mod for ME2 that lets you put those scars on CC. I'll try out and see the best I can do to get this same scar back. Looking forward to playing ME2

MegaIllusiveMan: Sorry, it's hard to comment on select pictures. It's easier to tag you.

I do think Wrex gives the most detail of his past of any of the non-human squadmates. Going into what he does in ME2 makes sense. Wrex was something of a thinker who wanted better for his people. As Bakara later says, "he's a mutant" in that regard.

For the geth, yes, what Tali talks about is the very reason the quarians tried to destroy them. It wasn't because they were AI. They sort of always knew they were. Instead, it was because they were asking questions about their existence, questions typically only asked by living beings of themselves. This was a step beyond AI. A step the only other AI we saw (EDI) also made. This was the difference between standard AI and these synthetic beings who questioned their place in the universe. It's why I like the geth, even though my Shepard's don't like them at all until meeting Legion. Tali has always know, on some level, that the quarians were wrong. She definitely knew it in ME2.

Hey dmc1001 if you don't mind instead of posting for William yesterday I am just going to say I did what you did if that's OK 

All good. I just like to talk. This is the written version of that.