What did you do today in ME?

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This thread is for the trilogy. Andromeda has its own thread in the spoiler forum: bsn.boards.net/thread/5797/today-andromeda

dragontartare

I was so much of a paragon, the game didn't even give me the choice between Morinth and Samara, and auto chose me to help Samara. Why I was so confused about folks saying she could be a squadmate.

Melody Shepard, Colonist/Sole Survivor/Infiltrator, ME1 Hardcore:

Citadel: Melody went shopping to upgrade her shotgun and sniper rifle to level X Spectre models. She heard a news item about Conrad Verner's involvement in an altercation with some turians, removing himself from the gene pool in the process.

Virmire, Sentry Omega cluster: no time to admire the beautiful scenery; Melody, Liara and Kaidan took the Mako through geth-controlled territory to disable anti-aircraft guns, stopping along the way to neutralize the killbots on foot. Well, Melody did most of the neutralizing because her comrades were too busy facetanking rockets. She may also have driven the Mako into the water on one occasion, but denies all knowledge of any such mess-up.

With the AA guns offline, Melody rendezvoused with the Normandy and STG team at the salarian camp, learning that Saren had a covert facility nearby where he was breeding a krogan army.

 I must know where you got these.

Since I did not feel like playing Mass Effect: Andromeda last night (I still have not played it*) and it was late and I miss posting in this thread, I popped in Mass Effect 3 and loaded up some old Vanguard saves.

First Dominic took on the Geth Dreadnaught. I died a couple of times. Once when I charged and just... died. Not sure what happened. Probably due to shieldgate and healthgate being down and then getting hit with a lucky shot somewhere. The other time I died was when a Geth Prime killed me because the game would not let me charge (stupid stunlock).

Then Dominic found himself on a shipwreck with a Reaper dropping in troops. This went better until I charged blindly at a Brute and he slammed me into the ground. Whoops. I shut the game off because I was tired and needed sleep.

One of my controller shoulder buttons is not working very well, so it was causing some problems. I may have to try cleaning my controller or chuck it out.



* So I did start Mass Effect: Andromeda once. Then it froze. Not the best start to my migration away from consoles into PC gaming.

Yeah, so apparently my PC is unable to run Mass Effect: Andromeda because I am a cheap-ass when it comes to buying electronics. So it looks like I will be playing more Mass Effect 1 -3 in the future until I actually buy a gaming-ready PC.

I am an idiot. (Everybody now: "RedCaesar, you are an idiot!")

I finished my ME3 playthrough I started just before MEA was released.

I painted a reaper on Rannoch. Painted it blue with yellow polka dots

Went to a chapel on Thessia. When the asari saw Javik, they bowed before him and said, "Embrace Javik"

Went to Sanctuary. Not a nice place to visit.

Had a fight with Kai Leng. I tried to convince the guy to play chess, since my skills have improved, at least that's what Traynor told me. Instead Leng wanted a fight to the death. He lost.

Look at Earth. Its sad seeing it on fire. Landed in London. It took time for me to hail cab to take me to the beam. I gave the driver a nice tip since he ran over some uglies on the way.

Here we are. Me. The Anderson guy. And the smoker. What to do? We sit at a table to play poker to decide the fate of the reapers. Long story short, I won.

I take the elevator up to.....an empty room. What's this? A note? It says if I walk to the right, I can destroy the reapers. If I walk straight ahead, nothing will happen. If I walk to the left, I will walk into an invisible wall. Ok. Is this some kind of joke? Ok. I walk to the right. I see. A bright red light appears. Then it shoots outward. My job is done.

I started a NG+ playthrough in ME3 with Nicole Shepard, an honorary Female Quarian Engineer (Turret, Cryo Blast, and Incinerate, with AP Ammo and the High Lord Claymore).

Nicole survived a Reaper invasion on Earth, then hoofed it to Mars. On Mars, she encountered Cerberus, ran into Liara, and stopped a crazy robot assassin from stealing Prothean data. Ashley got injured.

The council was not much help, so she went to Palaven to recruit a Turian Primarch. Well, that Primarch was dead, so she rescued another instead, with Garrus helping her along the way.

EDI got herself a robot body and can now physically help Shepard on ground missions.

* * *

In real life, I am still mad at myself for buying a PC that cannot play Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Well, now I'm curious. What did you buy?

I'm still playing MEA and intend to see it through, but I definitely like MET much more and will keep coming back to it   I'm really glad I played it in the first place, after having avoided it. These games brought me one of my favorite protagonists.

Karen Shepard, Soldier, ME2 cont'd:

Normandy

Kelly expressed surprise at Thane's spiritual side, but seemed equally drawn to his “bad boy” reputation. She asked Shepard what her “type” was, and the two of them ended up sitting down for a friendly dinner and talking for hours. Kelly also noticed the aquarium in Shepard's quarters and offered to feed the fish while Shepard was away on missions.

Joker was thrilled that “another dangerous alien” was on board, and suggested Shepard might want to consider stamp collecting instead.

Emails - Admiral Xen found some of Rael'Zorah's research on the Alarei, and promised to “complete what he started.” It sounded like the quarians who favoured war were winning the PR battle on the Flotilla.

Zaeed had some more stories. The moral - don't underestimate Hanar, and avoid Batarian prisons. Words to live by.

Ken reassured a nervous Gabby that they would make it through the mission just fine. He could be a real sweetheart when he wanted to be. Maybe Kasumi was right about them making a good couple.

Tali was suffering from a bit of a fever after messing up during some suit repairs. She described some of the difficulties of suit life and the challenges quarians would face trying to settle a planet. She also talked about linking suit environments, which seemed to make her a bit nervous for some reason.
Kasumi was spreading gossip about the “date” Shepard had with Kelly. Classic Kasumi.

Thane passed on some research tech to help improve the Normandy's storage capacity for resource probes. Shepard asked him about Drell spirituality, and their relationship with the Hanar. Thane told her about his disease, called Kepral's syndrome. It was terminal, and Thane believed he had eight to twelve months left. Shepard asked if there was anything that could be done, but there was no cure.

Samara told Shepard she valued her friendship, and promised to come to Shepard's aid whenever needed.

Illium

Tali and Samara returned to Nos Astra. They said hi to Liara, and tracked down the Salarian who was looking for the Kirosa family data. He was grateful to get it back, as the consequences of the loss of the data would have been devastating for his family.

They went to see Seryna to update her on what happened at Dantius towers, but she was gone. Her colleague Tana passed on an audio message Seryna had left - she had taking a job off-world, but had heard about Nassana's death and wasn't the slightest bit upset about it.

Nubian Expanse: Pragia - Subject Zero

Joker brought the Normandy to the planet Pragia, in the Nubian Expanse, the site of the Cerberus facility - called Teltin - where Jack says she was tortured and experimented on as a child. Tali accompanied Jack and Shepard to the surface, and they began to investigate the now abandoned research centre. Jack seemed antsy during the shuttle ride down - she tried to act tough, but whatever happened there seemed to have affected her deeply.

Just inside the entrance they found a log entry featuring a discussion between two Cerberus employees. They claimed that TIM was “suspicious” of whatever they were up to at the facility, with one reassuring the other that “he won't find out.” It seemed to imply that Teltin went rogue. Since Shepard trusted Cerberus logs about as far as she could throw Grunt on Dekunna, she took it with a grain of salt. She didn't discount the possibility that they could be faked.

They came upon an area that looked like a little arena. Jack claimed Cerberus drugged her and had her fight other children, shocking her if she refused. To this day she experienced pleasure from violence.

They found a security console with log entry from a guard reporting that the children had rioted and worrying that Jack could get out. He claimed that all other subjects were “expendable” but Jack must be saved. Another log talked about experiments on children who died from the procedures, with the scientist concluding that those treatments couldn't be tried on Jack. Jack countered that she had been the one that started the riot by escaping. She was upset by the implication that other children suffered and died to keep her safe. Shepard didn't dispute her side of it, but did point out that she was just a child at the time and that there was likely a lot going on that she wasn't aware of.

Blood Pack mercenaries were in the facility, evidently hired by someone named Aresh. As the team neared Jack's old cell, they had to fight their way past 3 krogan and a number of vorcha. They confronted Aresh, who turned out to be a former child prisoner at the facility at the same time as Jack. He'd hired the mercs as part of some crazy plan to restart the facility, to find the answers that Cerberus had been looking for, the reasons they had done those terrible things to all of those kids. Like Jack, he was trying to close the book on that painful part of his past.

Jack threatened to kill Aresh, but Shepard intervened and convinced her that he was in the same place she was and there was nothing to be gained by it. Jack let him go, and showed Shepard the cell she had been kept in. It was heartbreaking to hear about what she experienced there.

The team returned to the shuttle, and as they departed Jack remotely detonated the explosives they had set. Shepard hoped it would help her move on.