What did you do today in ME?

I've replayed the opening of ME3 about 6 or 7 times. I can't settle on NG or NG+, Sentinel or Infiltrator, etc... I was indecisive at the beginning of ME2, as well.

I miss having all of the assorted Firepack weapons to begin ME3. Now, in MELE, they're mostly overpriced specialty weapons. Even if I decide to buy them, I can't do so right away. It limits my desired gameplay loop, to a degree.

Oops!

Dimitri Shepard (Soldier, ME3):
1. Picked up a Primarch.

2. Citadel stuff and system scanning.

I screwed up the Hanar/Jondum Bau quest; I meant to save the Hanar homeworld and let Bau die, but I accidentally hit the Renegade prompt and saved Bau. It was the last task I was doing on the Citadel and the last save pre-quest was the start of the Citadel, so I was not going to do everything again. Oh well.

More pointless waffling for me, today. I'm almost embarrassed to say that I replayed Earth > Mars > Citadel twice, yet again. I also started a new ME1 playthrough, but I really want to be playing ME3.

The frustration comes from two things. First, I don't have the precise world state I want to play. Secondly, I get annoyed that I have to wait to get the Lancer, and have to play the silly clone adventure to get it.

I really need to use a save editor to handle those gripes. The problem there is that opening PS5 saves apparently requires particular software for which the creator charges $59.99. I don't begrudge him his earnings, and don't even find fault with his chose price. I don't think it's worth that much to me, though. I would likely only use it on MELE.

So, I may need to restart from ME1 if I'm truly hung up on playing the particular world state. I'm not sure I'm in the mood for that right now. Alternatively, I could quit being so annoyed by petty details and just enjoy one of the ME2 imports I have on hand.

For anyone curious, the import I'm wishing I had, at present, is:

Kaidan alive
Wrex not recruited
Saved the Council
Destroyed Maelon's data
No ME1 romance, Miranda in ME2

I just haven't rebuilt that one, yet, for MELE. I'm only off on one story point with the ME2 Engineer I just finished, but it's a big one: Wrex is alive and well, and Maelon's data is with Mordin. I don't want to cure the genophage, so... meh.

That price is insane! Wow.

- Headed for the Citadel for some smexytime with Miranda (that is, after she stopped talking about wanting a control chip back in ME2 ), spoke to Samara, let Javik have his walk among the young, danced with Jack and had an innocent little flirt with Cortez, toasting to friendship.
- Work called in the form of investigating a thing called Leviathan with Dr. Bryson. Who got killed by his assistant, who wasn't all there in his head anymore, and the team tracked down another researcher called Garneau in a mining facility. Who wasn't Garneau because the real one was dead. Leviathan has some creepy ability!
- Headed out to find Bryson's daughter Ann on a Harvester-infested planet. God they are annoying Ann helped locate Leviathan with some crazy idea of hers.
- Scanned some stuff to actually track down Leviathan and crash-landed on Despoina. The way home was through more Reaper forces and then a longass dive into the depths of the ocean. Leviathan appeared at last and it eventually agreed to join the fight.
- On the way back to the Citadel some Ex-Cerberus scientists were rescued, Jacob and Dr. Archer being among them. Then delivered some things, had a chat with Liara and sat down for a friendly dinner with Kaidan.
- Went to see Aria next and she was eager to take back Omega from General Petrovsky. Shepard didn't like having to do this alone with her, but it went alright. Used a neat Engineer interrupt. Sad to see a pretty cool turian named Nyreen go, but after Aria's little rage fit, she even spared Petrovsky. Shepard scared him a little once, but then delivered him into Alliance hands.
- Returned to the Citadel and caught up with Jacob a bit before meeting the asari Councilor.

"Alright, gotta run", Jack said after the song had ended, and Rorik turned to his dance partner while a bright smile formed on his lips.
"It was so good to see you. And you with the students, it was really sweet."
"Yeah, yeah, just let it go already", Jack playfully scoffed and returned his smile. Rorik moved in to hug her and she hesitantly returned the gesture, patting the taller man on the back.
"Shit, you reek of her perfume", Jack said as she pulled out of their embrace, crossing her arms. "So, the cheerleader and you are still a thing, huh."
"Very much so", Rorik smirked and couldn't suppress a chuckle.
"Ugh, Shepard, that's disgusting", the biotic grimaced, but then her facial features softened. "Well, that's good I guess", she muttered, quickly adding "for your sake, I mean."
"Thanks", Rorik replied gently as they headed down the stairs and Jack set out to leave.
"Hey, Jack! Please be careful, okay?" the blond man called after her.
"Yeah. You too, Shepard."

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Leviathan DLC stole all my money and medi-gel! I died but the enemies died too, so an autosave was created that fucked up everything. Loading the quick-save prior to that worked, and lucky I noticed in the first place
Finally Omega out of the way as well. Used to loathe it, and still think it is the weakest DLC (in all 3 games, maybe on par with Arrival though...). But now I am quite used to it and it was even going fairly well with an Engineer. I will never tire of those lovely fire explosions It takes down mooks so fast even on Insanity

Dimitri Shepard (Soldier, ME3):
1. Helped Aria retake Omega.
2. Rescued some ex-Cerberus scientists.

Dimitri Shepard (Soldier, ME3):
1. Searched for Dr. Garneau. Found him dead.
2. Searched for Ann Bryson. Found her alive.
3. Searched for Leviathan. Found a bunch of them alive.
4. Rescued a Turian platoon.
5. Disarmed a bomb.

Finished up yesterday, weee!

- Had some great shore leave and was a huge busy bee; accompanied Javik to a movie set, watched Traynor decimate an arrogant asari, played Claw with Zaeed, listened to Liara playing the piano, then left her to work and got on a fun shuttle ride with Cortez. EDI came by to buy presents and James showed off his new tattoo, then Shepard spent a lovely evening with Miranda until she had to leave, ending up organising a date for Garrus.
- Next morning Grunt apologised to a turian, Jack and Shepard blew up some shit at the CombatSim, Jacob was able to show off in front of some kids, Traynor took a bath, Samara made up stories. Afterwards Mom called for a couple minutes, Kaidan cooked some dinner, and James and Cortez came by for a biotiball game and some drinks. Shepard then went on an exciting casino date with Miranda to spend the evening with her - just the two of them.
- Held a memorial service for Thane, met Jack's new pet, and convinced her and Miranda to join him in the CombatSim - just like old times! Returned to the Casino to pick up the party supplies and bumped into Kasumi and listened to Joker's very heroic story.
- Had a loud and fun party, everyone having a good time with drinking, dancing and laughing. Perfect, really! (couldn't have said it better, Miri )
- Raided the Cerberus HQ and finally found out what the Catalyst is. As a bonus, Kai Leng got stabbed and finally died.
- Earth was calling, where Shepard talked to his crew at the FOB before fighting some more through war-torn streets with James and Kaidan, doing the impossible. Surviving till the end, Shepard pressed on, shooting the Illusive Man, destroying the Reapers once and for all, and bringing a time of peace to all his allies.

Rorik approached Miranda, a fancy cocktail for each of them in his hands.
He stopped briefly, looking at her. She wore a bikini and a light tunic wrapped around her body, revealing her shoulders and bare legs. Her gaze was set out to sea and the breeze gently tugged at her jet-black hair.
She was stunning, and she meant everything to him.
He heard the waves gently collide with the thick stakes of the jetty as he closed in on her.
"Hey gorgeous, here's your drink."
"Why thank you, kind mister", Miranda purred while she took the glass and lifted her sunglasses to push them up her hair.
Her blue eyes rested intently on Rorik, her smile warm, delicate. He pulled her waist in and found her lips.
Miranda hummed into their kiss before she broke away and took a sip from her glass.
"I'm glad we came here. I kind of needed the break."
They set their drinks aside on the railing and enjoyed the beautiful view for a few seconds before Rorik replied.
"I know. I'm glad you listened to me."
"This time anyway", Miranda smirked, her eyes challenging her partner to come up with a witty line. It wasn't what he had planned, but he played along.
"Now now, Miss Lawson, behave", Rorik chuckled and paused briefly, "or I might have to call you other names."
"Other names? I'm sure I can live with your petty teasing", Miranda mused and snickered, "...once in a while."
"Who said anything about teasing?"
Rorik smiled knowingly as he casually slipped inside the pocket of his swimming trunks, his hand gripping tightly at the small box.
His heart beat fast as he took it out and slowly dropped down on his knee. Asking her to become his wife.
Miranda's eyes widened in surprise and she gasped before dropping down to him. She cupped Rorik's face and pulled him in, their foreheads gently touching.
"Yes! Damn it, yes!" she cried out in joy. He put the ring on her finger and they got up, locked in a tight embrace.
Being with her still made him feel like the luckiest man alive.

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Ah, it was such fun to see the Jack/Miranda scene at the party again, it has been AGES! While I really like them both, one of them also often dies in my runs to change things up, and I think they were rarely alive together. The last two times they were I had a quiet party
And I can never stop laughing at Grunt, best doorman.
So sad it's over again, and I still haven't made up my mind if I play some more ME or other games. Maybe both! And tinkering a bit with the character creator can't hurt, right? Riiiight?! (plus I still have some videos from this run I wanna look over, so there's that, ha)

Miri's romance was quite good in general and fit this Shepard perfectly, it was a lot of fun! But that means too much post-game headcanon again, apologies

Dimitri Shepard (Soldier, ME3):
1. Took some shore leave, and got ambushed almost immediately. Followed that up by hunting down and killing my clone.

During the clone fight, managed to get a Critical Mission Failure during the mid-fight cutscene because I died as the cutscene started.

2. Some Silver Sun Strip meetups, claw game for mods, then completed all the simulator missions.

3. Met with Quarian admirals, then took down a Geth dreadnaught. Picked up Legion.

4. Shut down a Geth server, then rescued Admiral Korris.

5. Assaulted a Geth base, killed a Reaper Destroyer, then talked the Quarians into making peace with the Geth.

6. Restarted a fuel reactor.

7. Some Citadel and Silver Sun Strip stuff.

8. Went to go recover an artifact from an Asari temple, but got out-plot-armored by Kai Lame.

9. Went to Sanctuary and uncovered a hidden Cerberus lab.

10. Recovered some data from a communications hub.