What did you do today in ME?

I like The Revenant in MEA but in ME2 and 3 it doesn't fire tight enough for me, just tends to spray bullets all over the place. I ended up just using The Avenger for almost the whole of ME3 until I got the M99-Saber.

Yeah me either, as I said it was a completely random action I joked to my son about doing it and the finger reflexively twitched!!!!!  It was a good shot to as he was quite a bit away from me. 

He gets quite cranky at you and in an angry voice says something like:

Love taking them down. All I have in response is this video:

Owen Shepard:

As directed, I headed to Anderson's apartment. File this under: Things I Never Knew About Anderson. I doubt he could have afforded this place as an admiral. Had to be from his days as a Councilor.

Got a message from Joker to meet for lunch at Ryuusei Sushi Bar. One of the swankiest places on the Citadel. I was hear because of a message from him but he said I'd sent him a message to meet there. Something was up and we figured it out pretty quickly. Mercs of a type I'd never before seen, just moments after getting a warning from Staff Analyst Maya Brooks. I sent Joker for help while fighting them off with a pistol one of them had. Got to be the best pistol I've ever used. Though I took most of them out, some managed to shoot through the fish tank floor and I dropped...far. I don't know if it was whatever Miranda did to me a couple years back or I'm just that good but I survived the fall.


Brooks contacted me from a secure channel. She said she was sending a C-Sec shuttle for a pick up. Kaidan also reached out. Eventually I found him, more than holding his own against these mercs. We fought more mercs before heading to the LZ. When the shuttle opened, there were more mercs there. I just managed to push Kaidan out of the way and get to cover before Wrex dropped down on the shuttle and kicked the shit out of them, sending them on a one way trip way down below.


Back at the apartment we decided to analyze that sweet pistol. Liara walked in and set Glyph to find out more. That's when more of my squad walked in, with Joker and Cortez. As Joker put it, they were people who liked to be shot at. Also, my friends, something I'd never really had before during my time in the Alliance. Liara and Brooks traced the pistol to casino owner Elijah Kahn, who was suspected of smuggling weapons onto the Citadel. There was also something Liara dug up linking Khan to these specific pistols and mentioning that he didn't like weapons he sold showing up on the news.

Our way in was a party to raise money for war refugees. Khan was likely in a safe room assuming I'd be seeking revenge. I was hoping maybe he'd help us out by giving us the identity of the buyer. First we'd have to get to him and that required sneaking into his panic room. Also needed a tech but little in the way of technology. Brooks was in and my date was obviously going to be Kaidan. I think our entrance arm-in-arm gave away our relationship but I was long past caring.

This is where I am, too. Just got to Silversun Casino. After I'm done with the Citadel DLC, it's off to Cronus Station and then Earth.

Owen Shepard:

Checking out the Silver Coast Casino. Liara advised blending in. I saw the asari consort here. I remember getting *ahem* a thing or two from her back in the day. She did give me some useful advice back then. Today? Her advice was "Win".

Then I hear from Brooks. She's at the vent (damn familiar, like when Jacob stupidly offered to go in them on the Collector Base). Eventually, we stopped all the security cams, hacked all the alarms and made our way to Elijah Kahn's panic room. Problem was that he was dead. Someone had also deleted the terminal but not the comms, meaning we might be able to track the killer through them. We were able to call the killer, though a scrambler get "his" identity a secret. There was some trash talking on the end of the OP but it was all lame. We took the wiped drives just in case EDI could find something. I spoke with my friends while she did her thing. Finally, a breakthrough came. The discovery came that a lot of weapons and mechs had been purchased and those could be tracked. It led straight to the Citadel Archives.

I needed a squad with my, though everyone was on this mission. Kaidan was with me, of course, but also Tali. I don't think I'd given her enough attention for her liking. We fought some CAT-6 mercs (which stood for category 6, which were disgraced soldiers). They weren't so rough until someone my mysterious figure held a gun to Brook's head up above. No idea how she even got up there. Once his mercs disarmed me the MF threw her down. I said not to hide but face me. The voice was female, familiar. When she jumped down I saw why. She said she was Commander Shepard and that she never hid. This was my sister, Faith, saying I wasn't the only one Cerberus had saved from death. I thought back the the Lazarus Project. I knew it was too big to be about me given I was only severely injured rather than dead.

She said she'd been in a coma until six months ago and had to relearn everything she'd known. I didn't want to fight her. This was my twin sister! I suddenly knew exactly how Kaidan felt when I disappeared and suddenly showed up over a year later on Horizon and with Cerberus. I tried to tell her we didn't have to fight but she said she was picking up where she's left off and she would fly the Normandy to glory while I died. There was a lot of bitterness in her voice, feeling betrayed because her allies were with me but more so over Kaidan. When Faith had last been alive, she and Kaidan were lovers. After her death, things changed. We started something but my undercover work against Cerberus got in the way until our recent reconciliation. I suppose it might have felt quite so bad if it weren't me Kaidan was with. Faith stole my command codes for the Normandy and it looked like she was going to find her way to the ship.

One thing was she kept referring to my allies as the "Cult of Shepard". They didn't follow me for nothing. I'd earned their respect over time. I ran with Tali, Garrus and Wrex while Faith was still in her anti-alien phase. Three years had passed since the destruction of the original Normandy. These people had become my friends.

Faith tried to have his mercs take us out but it wasn't that easy. I grabbed a pistol on the ground and shot down the Citadel model overheard, sending it crashing into the mercs. Then we took off after Faith into the Citadel Archives. It required authorization to enter but Spectre codes handled that. If I had to guess, no one had ever deactivated Faith's codes and she was now using them to go where she pleased. I split us all into teams, with Team Mako and Team Hammerhead. When things were looking kind of bleak, I got more than a glimpse of the friendships I'd made. I got a hell of a lot of guns.


The Archives held some interesting things. First human contact with turian soldiers that was not going well. Another was an attack by a vengeful krogan on the Council (which was then only asari and salarian) for not giving them planets to colonize after winning the Rachni Wars for them. Some ancient AI that looked like LOKI mechs sought to petition the Council for the right to exist. C-Sec terminated them before they got the chance to ask. Reminds me of the geth and how their attacks were simply to survive rather than to turn on their creators. Then there was the more interesting thing. A record of the Battle of the Citadel against Sovereign. Classified information was unlocked due to Kaidan and I being Spectres. It outright said that Sovereign was suspected of being a Reaper. So why all the bullshit and denial over the years?

Glyph was kind of annoying, especially while trying to track down Faith. What I did like was his shit talking the mercs. Oh, I know it wasn't capable of that - intentionally - but I loved hearing him tell the mercs they should stop due to having only a 0.4% chance of winning.

More history. The deployment of the genophage by a turian. The salarians were actually opposed to it despite having invented it. Similarly, some other turians called it genocide. Definitely a different take than what I'd heard before. The appointment of the first Spectre, a salarian, by the asari Councilor. Then there was an "early Earth religious artifact". Seemed like it might be the so-called "Ark of the Covenant" made between God and man. The discovery of the Citadel by the asari, which I now know was something the Reapers had planned all along. Finally, the discussion about making Faith the first human Spectre though, as it turned out, I had equally been under consideration. No wonder they made it so after taking down all the Cerberus facilities I could find.

After losing contact with Mako and Hammerhead I received a message that she needed help. Curious. Something similar happened when this all began when her communication was supposed to be secure when know one else's was. Then we hit a snag where we were trapped inside of an iridium field. Faith showed herself but the reveal came when Brooks said she had never worked for the Alliance. She had also compiled the dossiers on the squad I had leading to the Collector base. Thing was, she knew that TIM was indoctrinated and disagreed that a pro-human group should work with aliens. Finally, she woke Faith, never really very pro-alien, and had her join the cause to remove me and have Faith fight the war.

We were sealed in a vault. Tali thought I didn't seem to worried and she was right. Glyph was still out there and freed us. Once outside, Joker showed up with a shuttle but there was only room for me and two squadmates. Kaidan and Wrex were with me. We stormed the Normandy only to see Traynor exiting. She'd been kicked off the ship but was able to grab her very expensive toothbrush. The only way it was an emergency escape hatch designed to open outward. It would require a mass effect field to open but even with three biotics present none of us had to fine tune control to make it happen. That toothbrush was another story and that's how we got in.


We traveled underneath the CIC to get inside. Took out the mercs there but then I saw the most appalling thing. Sure, my models, my books and my medals were all there for disposal but they were replaceable. My space hamster, though? That little guy survived on the Normandy for six months while I sat in a detention cell. I found him when I got back on board and put him back in the safety of my cabin. Only now Faith was getting rid of him like week old garbage. Damn her!

I have to tell you fighting Faith was work. Not just because she was my sister, either. No, it was the Vanguard thing. She was my match, even though Biotic Charge hadn't even been discovered before she died. It went on for a while until Faith and I found ourselves handing off the edge of the Normandy shuttle bay. She wanted to know why I was so special. Then it became obvious. Kaidan and Wrex pulled me up. Brooks, however, looked her in the eye and backed off. No loyalty there. Despite it all, I wanted to save her. She was my sister. She had other ideas, though, and let herself fall. In some ways it was worse than the first time.

Brooks tried to play on my better nature, talking like she was innocent and stupid. She actually thought I'd miss her. When she uncuffed herself and tried to run I made sure I didn't miss.

FYI, surprised at the number of Renegade decisions on made in the Citadel DLC since my Shepard is mostly Paragon.

It's there but it flickers in and out of sight.  It's one of the ones that are "broken".

Well damn I have never seen that either, only ever had Glyph bang on about the ancient Elcor mating totem!!!!! 

Owen Shepard:

Had a bunch of messages from my squad and crew asking to see me, or so EDI said. The first on the list was Miranda. I invited her over, asked if she knew anything about Faith - especially since she worked on Lazarus Station. She said she'd only heard rumors but had crossed paths with Brooks under a different name. She also suggested that the galaxy might not survive the havoc Faith and I could inflict on it. Still, I'd rather she were alive and by my side than dead.

Next up is Kaidan. He wants us to be a "normal" couple, at least for one night. Hard to say no to that. I wanted to go out but Kaidan insisted on making dinner. Despite my jabs, I was impressed. Then I decided we needed to find a way to burn off the calories, and I was in no way hinting that we should go for a jog.

James had something to show me. After some chit chat he took off his shirt and turned away. On his back was a new tattoo with the "N7" designation. He might be slow to it but he said once he committed to something he became very serious about it. He also wanted me to beat his pull-up contest but, honestly, there were a lot more interesting things to do.


Played a bit in the Armax Arsenal Arena since I had a complimentary pass. People sure did like watching me. Lots of messages sent my way from fans.

Header over to Silver Coast Casino to buy some party supplies. Then I noticed a strange device. A few moments later Kasumi walked in with a few friends. I talked to her. She was robbing this place to help out those who couldn't make it to the Citadel. I could see the appeal and told her not to get caught.

Next, Garrus wanted to meet me at the bar. When he showed up in civilian year, I noticed a female turian checking him out. I decided they needed to meet. It was a disaster. He had no idea how to make small talk and she was about to leave. Then another turian walked by with two beers in his hand and I grabbed one from him. Placing it in Garrus's hand, he suddenly felt capable and the two hit it off.


That's it for now. More entertain my crew and throwing a party tomorrow!