What did you do today in ME?

Postponed last night before Virmire.

Been trying to play a Renegade playthrough, but not using intimidation/charm points (at least not this first playthrough). It's funny... it's hard to get a decent Renegade score without it. If I don't kill rachni and Wrex, I'll end up being more Paragade. edit: I basically have to play similar to Failshep to get what I want. lol

Shawna Shepard avenged Admiral Kahoku by raiding the last Cerberus base and killing everyone she found there. She also took down a Thresher Maw that was in her way.

Jonathan Shepard:

1. After recruiting Tali, I brought her on board to be welcomed by Jacob. She mentioned her displeasure with Cerberus and willingness to help me blow them up. Jacob then threw in something about introducing herself to the ship's AI. Yeah, moving from distrust to outright dislike of this guy. Given quarian history with the geth, how could he say something like that?

2. Destroyed, of all things, a geth climate changing device. The geth don't need to breathe so their decision to change the climate of a planet is baffling - unless it's to make it uninhabitable for organic life.

3. Stopped a geth plot to have the MSV Broken Arrow crash into the Fargone colony.

4. Saved Patriarch for Aria T'Loak. Let everyone think his krantt was fighting for his honor.

5. Went after Morinth with Samara. She was tough. Very persuasive. Had I not known what she really was it would have been hard to turn her down. But I did know and so helped Samara kill her.

6. Rescued a quarian from a pack of varren.

7. More of the Firewalker project led me to a giant prothean, like the one I'd come across while hunting Saren. Unlike that older one that instilled a vision in me, this one glowed when I touched it before shrinking down to the size of a ball. It's now sitting in my quarters. I have no idea of what to do with it. Wish Liara were around. A later message said that it sent out a burst of data that offered more insight into biotics.

8. Destroyed a Blood Pack base. Can't do enough of that.

9. Spoke for Tali at her trial. They accused her of bringing active geth to the Migrant Fleet. The thing is, her main accuser is a believer in trying to make peace with the geth, a worthy goal. Too bad he drew Tali into his political maneuvering. In any case, we retook the Alarei from the geth. We found evidence that Tali's father intentionally brought the geth online and then lost control of them. Tali asked me to keep this information from the admirals. Against my better judgment, I did as she asked. I instead used her past heroism as a defense, which thankfully worked. Tali then returned with me to the Normandy.

10. Firewalker - found atmospheric data. Unclear on the relationship between this and the prothean data.

11. Project Overlord: An attempt to interface a human with a geth to control the synthetics. Not happy about this. Dr. Gavin Archer should be happy I didn't put a bullet in his brain. David Archer has been sent to Grissom Academy.

12. Went with Jacob to rescue his father. Brought Miranda along. Guy turned out to be a real winner. He fed his people food that took away their ability to think clearly and set himself up as a king. He's basically been raping the female crew for 10 years and been responsible for many deaths. I convinced Jacob to send the guy to prison rather the kill him, but mostly because I think that was the resolution that would keep him in the best mind set. Really wish I'd left him behind to let the victims handle it but removing them all to safety ended up restoring their minds.

13. Found an ExoGeni archaeological dig overrun by the Blue Suns. Took them out and came across a prothean video log. It gave me a vision of the Collectors but it was difficult to understand.

Daily log of events!

--Finished doing rachni and thorian creeper cleanup
--BDtS: Balak released, all missing team members found
--Finally got a heavy armor upgrade.
--Finished Virmire, sent Kaidan and kept the STG team alive.
--I still get a lump in my throat when I see that nuke blow.

Next time!

--Last minute shopping.
--Helping a drug addict
--Keith David knocking out a pompous ass.

Count of renegade points so far:

+4=Bitchy with the Council twice. Once was just after Virmire.
+9=Rana. Worth it every time
+2=Taking out the indoctrinated salaraians
Edit: +2=Merely accepting Helena Blake's quest.

Current total: 15 17 Renegade. Watch out, we've got a real badass motherfucker up in here!

Edit: Whoops, missed two more points for taking Helena Blake's quest.  I still went paragon for the result.

Don't know what happened to them, but I would guess they survived the reapers war since Patrick Weekes says a lot of folks on the Citadel survived


I like renegade playthroughs.

If interested, this is what Shepard is capable of doing

Playing as a paragon can lead to a worst playthrough than playing as a renegade depending on what the player chooses to do.  I know. I've done it. haha

I pretty much always play paragon and Shepard always lives at the end of ME3.  The only time I run into problems is when I randomly decide to do a fresh ME2 or ME3.  BioWare always makes the worst happen.  On a clean run it's always fine.

I usually save Rana, even on Renegades. 1) Her acting is good lol. She really begs for her life... I can't help but feel sorry for her. 2) It's Mark Meer's wife. Seems appropriate Oh and 3) Okeer's mission seems a little better with her in there.

Started ME2.. I think I'm just gonna follow the questline or achievement list closely. Which is good, it seems I'll recruit Jack first. She's my favorite character, but funnily I usually recruit her next to last. So I never play with her at Omega getting Garrus or Mordin. Needs to be rectified.

Finished Mass Effect 1. Ilos looks a lot cooler without needing to use the viewmode command. However, I did run into a harmless but creepy music glitch. Out of nowhere, as I'm getting ready to open the door to the bunker, the music slowed down to half speed. Everything else was just fine, only the music was bugged. A quick save/reload took care of that one. It happened briefly in the plaza just before getting into the Mako.

"In the end, what does it matter? Your survival depends upon stopping them, not in understanding them."--Vigil

Thus the seeds for ultimately Destroying the Reapers have been planted.

Final Stats:

Name: Natashina
Age: 29
Level: 50
Subclass: Shock Trooper
Alignment: Max Paragon, 17 Renegade
Romance: Kaidan

Primary Weapon: HMVA VII Assault Rifle
Mods: Frictionless Materials IX; Combat Optics X; Sledgehammer VIII
Secondary Weapon: Razer X Pistol
Mods: Frictionless Materials IX; Kientic Coil VIII; Snowblind Rounds VIII

Armor: Colossus VIII
Mods; Energized Plating IX; Kinetic Exoskeleton X
Final Team: Kaidan and Liara

Most Used Party Members: Garrus, Wrex, Kaidan

Wrex: Alive with family armor
Tali: Geth data found
Garrus: Dr. Saleon killed, Paragon outcome
Council: Saved
Ambadassdor: Anderson.  Because fuck Udina.

I'll give some of my final thoughts regarding ME1 in general later on. This poor Kindle needs charged for a bit.

After LotSB crashed in more than one spot, I got tired of trying to figure out how to make it work. I used gibbed to make the came finished with everyone surviving. Then I imported Jonathan Shepard into ME3. Saved on Earth before running after Anderson. Modded that to complete LotSB and Arival. I also used it to complete Grunt and Mordin's missions successfully. Saved Maelon's data. 12 people survived the suicide mission. Oddly enough, I turned the Collector base over to TIM. Not something I normally do but that's what I said during the import process. Just seeing that I saved Kaidan and that I romanced him prior to ME2 made me happy enough not to care. So, on with the show.

Jonathan Shepard, Soldier, Space, War Hero:

1. Under house arrest for a) working with Cerberus and killing 300,000 batarians. Both were for a good cause. Stripped of my rank and ship, I was given hot food and a soft bed. Not happy but it could be much worse. Watched a kid playing outside.

2. Lt. James Vega told me the Defense Committee wanted to see me. Ran into Kaidan Alenko in the hall. He'd been promoted to major. It was the first I was hearing about it but I was glad to run into him.

3. Defense Committee wanted me to tell them what was going on regarding a large fleet headed our way. I told them what they already knew: it was the Reapers. Destroying the Alpha Relay, which resulted in those 300,000 deaths, was a delaying tactic to give us time to prepare for the Reapers. Naturally, they wasted that time by locking me up. Unfortunately, the Reapers made their way to Earth and began their attack. The entire Defense Committee was killed. The only people in the room to survive were myself and Anderson.

4. Followed Anderson on a dangerous trek to reach the Normandy. I had turned it over to the Alliance when I turned myself in after destroying the Alpha Relay. Had to fight husks and a new kind of reaper we later called cannibals. They eat corpses to gain strength.

5. I boarded the Normandy but Anderson said he was staying behind. He ordered me to the Citadel to beg the Council for help. I refused until he pulled out my dog tags, threw them at me and told me I was reinstated. He must have been holding onto them, waiting for the opportunity to give them back to me.

6. The boy I'd seen playing earlier had gotten aboard a rescue shuttle. As the Normandy was leaving, I watched in horror as a Reaper blew it out of the sky. I'd thought he was safe inside that shuttle but that just shows me that nowhere on Earth is safe.

7. Kaidan and James were aboard the Normandy. Joker was piloting it, which is some kind of crazy miracle given that he has also been with Cerberus. EDI was also still present, which meant that the Alliance probably thought she was a VI instead of an AI.

8. Orders came from Admiral Hackett, telling me to go to the Mars Archives (where we'd first found the technology to make use of mass relays). He also told me Liara T'Soni was there and had discovered a possible means of destroying the Reapers.

9. When we arrived at Mars we saw evidence of Alliance soldiers having been shot with no resistance. Then we heard gunfire and saw an Alliance soldier on his knees with his hands on the back of his head being executed by Cerberus. We killed all of the Cerberus people we found but not in time to save any of our soldiers.

10. Kaidan kept asking me what Cerberus was doing. I told him I had no idea. Finally, James said that I was under constant observation and that there's no way I could have had any contact with Cerberus after returning to Earth. And this from a guy who says he loves me.

11. Liara told us about a Prothean device that, when built, could destroy the Reapers. We would have to travel to another part of the Archives to get the blueprints. Sent Vega back to the shuttle so our exit was covered. Then we fought some more Cerberus agents. We found the controls to the pedway and prepared to leave.

Kasumi was my second. I saved at her mission earlier. Got tired for now.

I mean, I went to the Citadel to see Anderson, after Jack. Jack has some of the best comments there.