What did you do today in ME?

I do much the same thing sometimes.  I save all the drunken moments in ME2 for just after the Horizon meeting (if the VS is my LI) and then doing the same sort of pattern in ME3 (after I have to shoot the VS).  It's the ME2 LI that "saves" me from falling totally and that does it again in ME3... leading to a happy ending that way (i.e. going into the final push with a clear head).

No mods. However, i did use the command console to hide the UI. Otherwise, it's just a regular lift-throw combos-- several on the colossus.

Lilith Shepard had to postpone a bit saving again the galaxy, as my new computer is here! so, instead of killing reapers (or Cerberus), I had to deal with windows / drivers / software install, and, worst of all, trying to put back the mods and moving content. Everything is now working as intended, and had time yesterday to complete Tuchanka.

My poor Lilith is a bit confused about how the things turned out, so she has no power to put her thoughts on the paper...website.
She left Normandy convinced that she can have both krogans and salarians in the same boat, working for the Crucible. Instead, her icy heart melted when Wrex named her "his sister". Mordin wasn't helpful as well. He insisted it was his duty to cure the genophage. She had no other choice than to watch him die, and see the cure pouring from the sky. Literally.



On the bright side, she kind of likes thresher maws now. And Javik was happy to see a reaper fall.

She confessed to Garrus about Dalatrass' offer and how she was so tempted to take it.

Anyway, she needs a bit time to recover before resuming her "Commander" stance, so it's time to help Aria retake Omega from Cerberus. As advised, she'll ensure her "company" (especially the one in her bed, who used to go by the name of "Archangel") stays on Normandy. Safer this way.

Have reverted, for now, to a PT of ME2 that I never completed. Jarec Shepard, Vanguard, Earthborn, Butcher of Torfan. At this point in the game, my only squadmates are Miranda, Jacob, Kasumi, Zaeed and Mordin. Kasumi's loyalty has already been secured.

Today:

- Found special ingredients for Rupert Gardner. Complaints about the food decreased significantly.
- Told the krogan the truth about fish on the Citadel.
- Went on Zaeed's loyalty mission. He didn't get his way but was convinced to stay with me. New outfit unlocked.
- Found prototype M-44 Hammerhead and uncovered data on Project Firewalker.
- Recovered data about Dr. Cayce from a research station in a volcano. Just barely escaped when the volcano went active.
- Purchased T6-FBA couplings for engineering.
- Convinced Harrot to stop leaning on a quarian in pilgrimage.
- Recruited Archangel, who was none other than Garrus Vakarian gone vigilante. Took out 2/3 of the merc gangs before a biotic charge stuck me in a wall.

I was unaware of this option.  What happens with the Paragon interrupt here?

Jarec Shepard from ME2:

- Archangel recruitment mission complete, including a damn ugly scar for Garrus.
- Helena Blake is doing good works. Unexpected. Really unexpected.
- Helped Patriarch by allowing him to go out in a blaze of glory rather than remain Aria's pet.

Well, it also affects how much Aria likes you and you don't have to listen to Petrovsky go on and on about how you're never going to get it to work. 

Karen Shepard, Soldier, ME2:

Normandy

Shepard went to see how the the crew was doing following the recent mission on Horizon. She wasn't the only one who suspected the encounter with Ashley on Horizon “was probably a setup or something”, as Joker had the same idea. He was still bickering with EDI, and the AI seemed to be enjoying egging him on.

Jacob revealed that he'd received intel about a private frigate his father had served on, missing for a decade, and he wanted Shepard's help to investigate. There was something fishy about it - it didn't come through normal channels, and there was a significant delay between the ship going missing and the distress call being received. He hadn't had a great relationship with his father, but still wanted to get to the bottom of it. Shepard agreed.

Jack was sick of talking, told Shepard to come back later. Kasumi seemed to be planning to fix up Gabby and Ken. Garrus was busy calibrating the weapons.
Miranda asked for help keeping her twin sister away from their father. Cerberus had set up new identities for Oriana and her adoptive parents, but Miranda wanted to oversee the move on Illium in case her her father tried to get to them in transit. Shepard agreed to help.

Emails - a transmission from Admiral Hackett came in, and he and Shepard discussed a mission he had for her to break an Alliance agent out of a batarian prison. It would have to wait until the Collectors were dealt with. The wife of one of Garrus' squad emailed, telling Shepard that here husband was proud of the work he had done and that Garrus shouldn't blame himself for what happened. Shepard was pretty sure Garrus did blame himself, and it might be tough to help him get over that. She would try, though. A colonist from Horizon emailed, begging for help finding her abducted loved ones. Shepard would do everything she could, but she feared the worst for the people taken. Cerberus had intel for Liara, a lead on the Shadow Broker.

Far Rim: Haestrom - Recruit Tali

After Horizon, TIM had told Shepard she should put her past relationships behind her. A few seconds later, he provided a dossier on a new recruit - Tali'Zorah vas Neema (nar Rayya), a former colleague and the woman Shepard considered her best friend in the galaxy. So much for that idea.

The Normandy travelled to Haestrom in the Far Rim, deep in geth space. On Freedom's Progress, Tali had mentioned a dangerous mission behind geth lines. This was it. Not only did they have the geth to contend with, but radiation from the sun damaged their shields, so they had to try and stay in shaded areas.
Shepard, Jack and Kasumi found an outpost near the landing zone, but no surviving quarians, just a log entry detailing the importance of finding Tali and the scientific data she was there to retrieve.

They made their way toward Tali's location, finding lots of geth but still no quarians. Eventually, they overheard a radio transmission from quarian squad leader attempting to contact his troops. None of his squad had made it, so Shepard made contact to offer the support of the Normandy. The quarian commander, Kal'Reegar, gave them an update on the situation and info on how to get through to him and Tali. The quarians had tried to sneak into the complex quietly, but had been ambushed by the geth. Tali was secure for the time being, but geth were trying to break into the lab she was in. Reegar was fighting geth outside the door.

Shepard and her squad made their way to the quarian base camp. None of the quarian marines their had survived either, but they were able to make contact with Tali via a communications terminal. She had found the data she needed, but she could still hear Reegar and whatever was left of the marines fighting outside her door. Shepard promised to get to them and do what she could to rescue the marines.

The three Normandy crew members battled their way through to Reegar's location, but he wasn't alone - a heck of a lot of geth, including a Colossus, were between them and the lab where Tali was. The geth hadn't gotten through to her yet, because “it's hard to hack a door when someones firing rockets at you.” Shepard had to suppress a smile - Reegar was obviously a marine through-and-through.

He was wounded, but still wanted to help Shepard take down the Colossus. Shepard felt her and her team could take care of it themselves, however, and didn't want him taking any more risks. The fact that he had held out off this long was an achievement, and Shepard wanted to make sure he made it.

Shepard, Jack and Kasumi, fought through the geth forces and got close enough to the Colossus to get a shot at it. It had a special repair protocol, but a few shots from the Arc Projector took care of that. Despite everything between her and Cerberus, Shepard had to grudgingly admit that the front companies developing weapons for them were top notch, the Arc Projector obliterated the geth shields.

They mopped up, checked on Reegar (he was fine), and went to find Tali. She was in a room with a bunch of geth bodies, downloading the last of the data. She was glad Reegar had made it, but upset that the rest of the squad had perished over some scientific data wanted by the Admiralty Board (something about dark energy destabilizing Haestrom's sun). She'd know the mission would be dangerous, and that's why she had refused to join up on Freedom's Progress, she couldn't let anyone take her place (and Shepard knew there were few better at fighting geth than Tali).

Tali was free to join up now, however, so Reegar returned to the Migrant Fleet with the scientific data, and Tali joined the Normandy crew. Back on the ship, Tali and Jacob had a bit of a argument over an incident between Cerberus and the Fleet some time ago. Jacob wanted to move past it, but Tali wasn't willing to forgive. She had reservations about working with Cerberus, but was willing to give Shepard the benefit of the doubt (barely). Jacob's casual mention of the ship having an AI on board didn't improve her mood any.

Lilith Shepard, Infiltrator, ME3

Omega Part 1
After my epic fail in sabotaging the genophage cure, triggered by 2 words spoken by Wrex, I decided I need to clear my mind before planning the next steps in our fight again reapers. I took the opportunity to meet with Aria's fleet and proceeded to liberate Omega.

General Petrovsky, I guy I've never heard of, is the mastermind behind Omega's invasion. Initial conversation reveals a strong, capable leader and I have the feeling this mission will prove extremely interesting. Turns out that Aria adopted a kamikaze-like strategy which had me worried for a moment - I experienced already death by ship destruction and being spaced, and it was enough. Luckily, this time I got in time to the escape pod. Crashed somewhere on Omega in the middle of Cerberus troops; took them down easily and Aria and I made our way to her secret bunker cutting through hundreds of Cerberus soldiers. Encountered some upgraded mechs, tougher and faster, but the're no match for my hacking skills. Surprise of the day was Nyreen, a former Aria's lover, whom we met along the way to the bunker.

Planning next moves with Aria, and we decided to go and get the Talons, a new gang emerged after my little Archangel rescue mission, to follow us in the fight. Meanwhile, we learn that 4 eyes are not enough to keep Nyreen under control - she vanished just under Bray's eyes.

We made our way to Talons' base and again, Nyreen surprises us. She's the Talons' leader, with the only mission to keep Omega people safe. In the end, after a bit of master handling by Aria, she agrees to help us retake Omega.

We're off tomorrow to take down these strange and deadly force fields installed by Cerberus. And maybe check what's with these adjutants that scare so much Nyreen and her gang.

Ali Shepard:

1. Followed the coordinates given to me by Garrus to track down Dr. Saleon. Found a ship with a bunch of zombie-like creatures. Killed the creatures and found Dr. Saleon. He tried running away and Garrus shot him.

2. Hackett wanted me to go find an very old probe that had just reported in to the Alliance after years of silence. Seems the probe was booby-trapped with a nuke. the signal was coming from inside a mine, a clear sign that someone had moved it. That someone was a pirate named Eliad Hallat, who caused a cave-in, trapping me in the mine. Turns out that bastard was also responsible for the attack on Elysium all those years ago. Hallat was overjoyed that it was me he caught; killing me was good revenge for holding off the blitz until Alliance help arrived. I disarmed the nuke, then managed to get out of the mine safely (the cave-in failed to cover up a back entrance/exit). I emerged on the surface, overlooking Hallat's camp. Me and my squad rushed down and made short work of the pirates. Seems it was me that finally got revenge after all those years.

3. Admiral Kahoku found out that some group named Cerberus was resposible for his dead marines, and he gave me coordinates to some Cerberus bases. I went and raided the bases. Cerberus was studying some Rachni and some creatures called 'Thorian Creepers'. They looked like the zombies Dr. Saleon had on his ship. We also found Kahoku's dead body and the location of a Cerberus base on another planet. We went to the other planet and took revenge for Kahoku, even managing to get some Cerberus files. Then an agent of the Shadow Broker called and asked for the files since that was his deal with Kahoku. I honored the deal and gave the files to the Shadow Broker. (I made sure to keep a copy for the Alliance as well.)

4. I went to investigate the last known location of a Dr. Wayne, the last surviving member of a group of now-murdered scientists. I found his location at a base overrun by mercs. I killed the mercs then found Dr. Wayne at the mercy of an Alliance soldier named Corporal Toombs. According to Toombs, Dr. Wayne was a part of Cerberus (those guys again!) that had unleashed Tresher Maws on his old unit, then captured him and tortured him with sick experiments. I managed to convince Toombs to not kill Dr. Wayne, and instead send him to the Alliance for questioning. Toombs would also seek professional help.

5. I went to go find some data module from another crashed probe, but it had been taken by some monkey into a mine. Not sure how the monkeys managed to make it into a mine, but I found the module just as the Geth attacked. I destroyed the Geth then got out of there. I also found an ancient Prothean sphere-thingy that accepted the trinket I got from the Asari consort. Trippy.

6. I went to Feros, only to come under attack by the Geth. Seems the Geth had been attacking the colony for a while and the colony was barely hanging around. I took the fight to the Geth, chasing them out of a tower, then rooted them out of some tunnels. I also destroyed a Geth transmitter guarded by Krogan, and also killed a bunch of Varren. I then tracked down the Geth to an old Prothean building repurposed by Exogeni, where I discovered that Exogeni was studying an ancient plant that was controlling the colonists with spores. The plant was also turning out those Thorian creeper thingies and making the colonists fight me. Also, it was underground, big, and creating Asari clones as well. Full disclosure: this mission made me wish I had never become an Alliance marine; some really crazy stuff in this galaxy, hoo boy!

Anyway, long story short: Saren had made a deal with the Thorian to obtain the cipher -- a Prothean perspective -- to understand the Beacon, in exchange for the colonists. then Saren sent the Geth to kill the colonists. The Thorian then decided not to trust anyone and tried to kill me. So I killed it by dropping it down a large shaft. Then I met an Asari who gave me the cipher.

Back on the ship, Liara then helped me try to understand the vision, but it still did not make any sense. I spoke with the crew some more, including Liara. We agreed we both had feelings for each other, but Liara wanted to slow down so I backed off. I think I may have inadvertently ended our relationship before it really began.

From the Personal Logs of the SSV Normandy: