What did you do today in ME?

After she left the moon, Lillith Shepard headed to Earth, where Admiral Hackett would detail what the Alliance spy drone had discovered before crashing onto Eletania. A Geth Incursion force had been discovered in the Armstrong Nebula, where it would threaten human colonies and military installations in the Traverse.

Shepards job would be to find four Geth outposts containing protected AI servers, and destroy them, paving the way for Alliance fleets to destroy the main Geth bases. However, the Normandy would have to be filled with supplies for the long operations in the far end of the Traverse, so Shepard first went to the Citadel.

While there, Lillith visited the Citadel to inform Garoth of what happened to his brother. Admiral Kahoku was also told about his missing team. Kahoku was angry when he heard they had been set up.

Two days later on the Normandy, Shepard received a call. It was Kahoku, who informed Lillith that Cerberus were behind the trap. As a black-ops cell, Cerberus had done top secret work for the Alliance, but they were rogue, performing horrifying experiments for there own gain. It seemed Shepard had another stop to make.

Binthu was one giant wasteland, a sickly yellow light shone down on the dull, uninteresting ground. A small bunker lay to the North, and the Mako headed towards it.

Once inside, the team saw a blue energy field, with a bunch of tiny green bugs crawling inside. Suddenly, gunfire came from an armed and armoured figure on the far end of the room. Shepard turned and threw out a hand, and the assailant tumbled backwards. All hell had broken loose, as a group of Cerberus commandos had appeared, firing their assailt rifles. A couple of shotgun blasts brought down the commandos, who had scattered. A few moments later, silence returned as the last of the commandos breathed his last and slumped into a corner.

In the next bunker, Lillith was prepared. A technician was huddled into a corner, operating a medical station. He crumpled, paralysed, to the ground, as Kaidan pointed his omni-tool. A number of commandos were also killed, as Shepard and Garrus fired their sniper rifles. Two large creatures crawled around inside the repulsion field.

The third and final base also held a number of Cerberus personnel. However, there were no animals in here. Just a man, face down on the ground, a syringe stuck in his right arm, a small datapad wrapped in his cold, dead fingers.

(I really liked the mournful music that played at that point, as you read the text box that talks about the needle)

Jenna went to defend Tali, who was accused of treason by the quarian admiralty board (interesting take on what's to come for Shepard, I've never seen it like that before). Tali's father was involved in some fairly iffy science, but not on a Cerberus scale,not that it mattered since the whole affair was an excuse for the admirals to grandstand. Tali begged Jenna not to let the truth about her father's experiments get out, and Jenna respected her wishes. It didn't matter anyway since Jen used her awesome powers of persuasive shouting to convince the admiralty board that convicting Tali would be a huge travesty.

I wasn't paying a lot of attention, as reading this message board at the same time, but after finding Rael'Zorah's body, i noticed you couldn't see Tali's eyes or nose behind her visor any more. Had Tali turned up the the opacity on her helmet because of her puffy eyes? Or because she was afraid to show emotion infront of Shep and the Admirals? Also noticed Garrus sitting on the top step, after returning from the Alarei. Do all companions do this or just Garrus? Last time I took Legion (probably took Garrus on previous outings, i can't remember, I usually take Garrus everywhere.),it seems a little casual considering your friend and comrade is on trial.

Carter finished the main story today and visited the Lair of the Shadow Broker.
He also smiled, which I hope will never happen again.

Anyways. He's about ready for ME3, just debating whether to do Arrival or skip it.
Also played a bit with Kirstin, she did the loyalty missions for Tali, Garrus and Thane and recruited Zaeed. She also spotted Garrus sitting down on the stairs, probably needed the rest after all the kicking the geth gave him. Now she is having a grand old time with Harby and friends. Ugh. But she can use shotguns now, so that's good. 
She got out and managed to seduce Kelly into feeding her fish.

Finish Horizon, recruited Tali, did Jack's loyalty... now on Illium.. ready to do Miranda's loyalty then LotSB.

I think this a good way for Shep to remind themselves of Cerberus (not that that's hard for the player, but if I were to write the story in a book or something). Liara's revelation and Tela Vasir's condemnation is a good way to remind you to stick with Ash or Kaidan and what they said on Horizon. Or if you romanced Liara, a good way to dump her and go with Tali/Garrus/Jack/Thane. lol. I also like Jack's indirect presence in LotSB.. like Vasir calls you out on Pragia and Akuze and there's that big Wanted Poster of Jack, all while you're supposed to have some big reunion with Liara. Jack and Liara make for an awesome team though.

<sigh> So ME3 is downloaded and installed, finally. I've got the two weapon packs in. Javik is about done downloading, with Citadel, Leviathan and the EC all in queue. Then I shut the PS3 down for awhile and let it rest. I'll knock out some laundry, then back to ME2. If my installs for ME3 go without issue, I'll probably have most if not all of ME2 done by the end of the night.

Download start time: 8pm Mountain
Download end time: 3:20am Mountain

Download list: ME3, Citadel, Leviathan, the EC, From Ashes and both of the weapon packs.

That's how long it took me to download the ~20 gigs for ME3. The poor thing has been running the whole time, so I'm giving it a bit of a break. Thank the gods that the weapon packs took literally 3 minutes for both of them to install. I did take the time to find a really nice face code that requires no mods to look good. I'll admit, I'm going to miss gibbed for the makeup and hair mods.

I'm going to try to get Legion tonight, but it's looking less likely that I'll get a chance to do anything else until after I wake up this afternoon.

I'm pretty late into my "final" trilogy run at this point, and I probably should have started posting in this thread sooner.

So, today I wrapped up Tuchanka, cured a sterility plague, lost the very model of a scientist salarian, and waded through a terrorist group's attack on the Citadel.

Also stopped by Noveria to take out a fighter base, in addition to the compulsive war asset scanning.

Finished Collector Ship... saved back at Illium to recruit Thane and Samara later.

Went soldier with a Widow... almost tempted to go Revenant.

Krogan in ME1 deserve facepalm, even without problems some squaddies have with them

I gotta say, I feel that ME2 is doing a fine job immersing you in the lore after the info dumps in the first one. It really starting to come together.

I went to the Migrant Fleet with Tali. I liked the Quoran backstory and the character in the first part, but never really managed to fit her in a group. Her companion quest was great this time, and the migrant fleet is a pretty cool IP. Would love to do more with that. If I get a chance, I'd like to give Garrus a bit of a holiday and pair up Thane with Tali. Hope the game's not too short for it!

I have also did a boatload of research and debriefing talks with the companions. Am even more hopeful in respect to Thane's romance!

I am all cleared for Tuchanka missions now. Feels good to finally do Mordin's quest, I sure owe him that, lol. Just don't really like having to bring Grunt along because I am playing a soldier.

Also, starting to have the impulses towards playing other classes, mostly Engineer or Sentinel.

You don't have to bring Grunt on Mordin's loyalty mission even if you're doing Tuchanka without returning to the Normandy.  The game gives you the opportunity to select a new squad at the beginning of each of the two missions without returning to the ship.