What did you do today in ME?

Grab what you think has some real value and bring it on over. We'll need all the resources we can get. Fextra can't do it alone.

You could at least take your time to do it if you want to continue The whole forum has been copied to fextralife, so it should all be there and you would have no time pressure to get it done until the official BW forums get taken down.

Continued ME1 last night!

File#02
Personal Notes
I have been made a Spectre. Which is very good, as I can do pretty much anything the way I want it now. Isn't it amazing what you can achieve with hard work ethics and a good reputation? First human Spectre. I love the ring of it.
And we will go after this Saren...
After first seeing the Council on the Citadel without sufficient evidence about Saren, we were able to get exactly that from a quarian we got wind of.
Alenko, Williams and I helped her out of a precarious situation and she helped us in return by showing the Council an audio file she had extracted from a geth, incriminating both Saren and an asari matriarch.
Their time will come to an end.
People on the Citadel like and respect me, and I helped out some. Definitely might come in handy if I ever need some favours.
The quarian now has joined the crew. I'm not too keen on it, but she is a geth expert. I hope she keeps her hands off my ship.
A turian also made his case when he asked to come along. He was investigating Saren already when we arrived, so he might have some more insights.
Captain Anderson was relieved of command and I am now in command of the Normandy. Not that I don't feel a little bad for the captain, but now I have more freedom about how to run things. My ship, my crew, my rules.
I decided we first go to Feros, following up on some geth attacking a colony there. Might be a link to Saren.

Screenies:


I can't believe I got through all fights without dying, especially the assassins. But of course, a biotic class is pretty good for fights in general

Replaying the trilogy with man shep for the first time. Got to Peak 15 today and have been having all the Rachni feels.. such a shame we don't get to learn more about them, pre-extinction more so. Baffles me that we don't hear anything about Council backlash too, surely they wouldn't just ignore the not-extinction of the Rachni and just leave the Queen be..

Also, his happened at Port Hanshan.

Currently replaying Feros to bring the renegade total at the end of it to 278... we'll see if it unlocks there.  If it does, I'm tempted to say I've made a mistake somewhere earlier in the game and just didn't get 2 renegade points that I thought I had.  I'll let you know tomorrow... haven't got much Xbox time today so probably won't get through this replay of Feros today.  If they did make the change to 275 on the Xbox, the Paragon quest should still unlock just before Ilos.  If they didn't and BDtS comes into play, I now won't have the 306 points required to unlock it (per the Wiki) before Ilos... so it just won't unlock.  So, the new plan is - If Negotiation unlocks here after Feros (at 278), I'll juggle my choices to hit as close to 275 Paragon after Virmire (rather than the 305 my previously planned choices would garner me).  Since the renegade option did not unlock at 261, I think it is very likely that they did make the PC change on the Xbox as well... so, I'm anticipating that Vance Shepard is just going to be somewhat more renegade now that I originally planned.

Vance Shepard (cont'd)

Personal Log: It's been an exhausting few days since I last made an entry. I've not been sleeping too well... I can't decide if it's just paranoia about a potentially lovesick Krogan beating in my door or wondering if Ashley is going to ever talk to me again... or the worry that something far, far worse than Saren is looming out there is space somewhere.

Mission Log: Port Hanshan - Landed on Noveria during a blizzard and a very unfriendly welcome. I did find out that Benezia had passed through Port Hanshan and was likely at Binary Helix's facility on Peak 15. It took quite a bit of double dealing, however, to get permission to leave Port Hanshan. In the process of securing a pass, I managed to help an internal affairs investigator with her investigation of the port's corrupt administrator - only after securing a garage pass for myself and my team from the administrator himself, of course. I deemed that our mission was too important to risk obtaining a pass from any source other than the administrator himself... even if it involved a little dirty wet work to get to that point. At any rate, we did encounter a large number of geth while enroute to Peak 15. We had been told that Benezia had arrived at Port Hanshan with a group of Asari commandos and several large crates. I believe the geth we encountered were what was probably packed in those crates.

Mission Log: Peak 15 - When we arrived at Peak 15, the power was out, the VI was offline, and the tram system blocked by a number of arachnid-like creatures we later learned were Rachni. We made repairs and continued to Rift Station, which was essentially under siege by the rachni. A number of staff had also been infected with a biological toxin they were experimenting with. The Rachni were alao found to be the result of their own attempts to raise their own Rachni army gone wrong. We retrieved the cure from their labs, purged the facility of many young rachni, and fought our way through Benezia's security forces to finally get to her. She appeared to be under some sort of mind control from Saren, but managed to break the control long enough to give us the coordinates of the Mu Relay (information she had extracted from the Rachni queen's mind and forwarded to Saren only moments before we got there). Unfortunately, she was unable to stay free of his influence for long and we were forced to kill her as well. I interrogated the Rachni queen and determined that she herself was not a threat. Killing her would have meant likely annihilating her entire species... something I just could not bring myself to do. I let her go with her promise that she would not threaten any of the other species in the galaxy.

Personal Log: I'm tired of taking all this crap from the Council and from Udina on the Citadel over just doing what it takes to get the job done... and not annihilating entire species in the process. Well, at least Ashley is talking to me again. It seems she was thinking I had some interest in Liara. Things finally came to a head in the comms room after Noveria and I was able to get Liara to back off... although I felt I was crushing her little naive schoolgirl heart. Ash and I will still have to wait until all this is over, though... dang regs. But... maybe if I can make it good as Spectre, I'll eventually be able to retire from the Alliance and have a relationship with her without jeopardizing both our careers.

Mission Log: Feros - The colony was completely overrun with geth when we arrived, although the geth attacks did not seem sufficient explanation for the strange behavior of the colonist. It took some doing, but we removed the geth threat only to discover that the colonists were falling under the mind control of an ancient plant=being called the Thorian. The Thorian's control was causing the colonists to attack the docked ship, so we returned to the port area with an untested nerve agent to neutralize, but not kill the colonists. I was reluctant to use the nerve agent and opted to punch each one unconscious instead. After rendering all colonists unconscious, we confronted the Thorian who had also enthralled one of Benezia's commandos. She was released after we killed the Thorian and provided us with some information on Saren and Benezia. However, she could not tell us anything about the Conduit, although she did transfer a cipher into my mind (through some sort of melding process) that, she said, would help me understand the vision from the Eden Prime beacon in time. Unfortunately, I felt I could not trust her to stay loyal to any side for very long since she seemed to be inclined to change sides with very little provocation. The colonists are recovering, however, and the colony seems poised to begin flourishing again.

Personal Log: Upon opening up the Galaxy Map to continue with our pursuit of Saren, Hackett resumed his apparent tactic to frustrate my efforts. He now wants me to enter into some sort of negotiation with a crime boss leader named Darius. I tried to tell him I thought it was a really bad joke to send me on this sort of mission, but he simply would not take "No" for an answer. I'm so tired... perhaps tonight I'll get some sleep. "To sleep, perchance to dream... Gah, Ash has got me reciting poetry now!"

Karen Shepard (soldier) cont'd:

While Udina prepared to present Tali's evidence to the Council, Shepard decided to take care of a few "loose ends" left over from her dealings on the Citadel:

1. A man named Samesh Bhatia asked for Shepard's help to obtain his wife's remains so he could arrange her funeral. Bhatia's wife, Nirali, had been a member of Ashley's unit on Eden Prime and had been killed during Saren's attack. A diplomat, Bosker, told him that the Alliance was keeping her body but wouldn't reveal why.

Clerk Bosker claimed that they needed the remains for testing purposes, to help design better defenses against "Geth attacks". Shepard was on Eden Prime, and knew that "Geth attacks" weren't all that different from any other attacks, and wasn't willing to let the Alliance military-industrial complex make money by exploiting dead alliance soldiers and there families. If they wanted to run tests so badly, they could recover weapons from all the Geth Shepard killed on Eden Prime and fire them at themselves.

Bosker was clearly a decent enough guy who hated what Samesh ws going through almost as much as Shepard did, and quickly agreed to release the remains. Samesh was grateful for the assistance.

2. Shepard delivered Fist's data files to reporter Emily Wong, who was thrilled at the amount information into corruption and organized crime on the Citadel that the files provided. The two arranged for an exclusive interview, to be given once Shepard's work was completed.

3. An employee at the Flux nightclub in the Wards, Rita, was concerned for the safety of her sister Jenna, who had been working under cover at Chora's den. Shepard eventually found out that a C-Sec detective named Chellick was using Jenna to obtain info on weapons smugglers. Shepard convinced Chellick to pull Jenna out; in exchange, Shepard offered her own assistance to get intel on the smuggling ring. Chellick had Shepard pose as a buyer of illegal weapons mods; the exchange went off without a hitch, and Chellick got the evidence he needed.

4. Kaidan detected a strange signal from one of the gambling machines at Flux. The team tracked the signal to the back of the Emporium on the Presidium. An artificial intelligence that had been designed to steal money from the machines had turned on its creator, and now that it was discovered was threatening to self-destruct and take Shepard and friends with it. Attempts to reason with the AI failed, but Shepard was able to shut down the self-destruct before any harm was done.

5. Dr Michel, who had given Shepard and Garrus the information that lead to Tali's rescue, was being blackmailed for something that happened at her previous employer. Shepard investigated and found that a Krogan was behind the blackmail attempt, but he was working for someone named "Banes". Shepard turned on the "charm", and persuaded the Krogan that threatening medical clinics was a bad idea - what if he had some sort of "accident" and found himself needing medical attention. The Krogan got the message, and backed off. Dr Michel suspected that "Banes" was a reference to Armistan Banes, who last she heard was doing some "research" for the Alliance in the Attican Traverse. Kaidan suggested asking Anderson about him.

6. At C-Sec headquarters, a Volus named Jahleed asked for Shepard's help to protect him from his business partner, who Jahleed claimed was trying to kill him. (C-Sec refused to help him without further details, and Jahleed wasn't talking). It turned out that the "business partner" was in fact Chorban, the Salarian who had Shepard scanning the Keepers. From discussions with both of them, Shepard determined that they had stolen the scanning tech from their employer, had some sort of falling out, and now accusations and threats were flying back and forth between the two of them.

Shepard wanted to get the Keepers scanned and the data analyzed - she found it baffling that races that had been on the Citadel for centuries didn't know anything about them, and even worse, didn't seem to care - but she couldn't do that with Chorban and Jahleed fighting, and she sure as hell couldn't do it if C-Sec started poking around. Shepard convinced the two that she was happy to continue with the project if they would settle their differences. Shepard agreed to continue scanning, Chorban and Jahleed promised to conduct the analysis.

Been snowing here, so I actually had time to play as much ME as I could stand.

I mostly just played MP, because it activated my OCD big time. I got my Engi to level 20, promoted him... to level 1. Played Adept to 12, did not like it that much, went back to engi and levelled to 8. I got my second species card in the packs, much good it did me. I now have a Krogan Warlord and Asari Vanguard. I wish there was some sort of trade program to swap kits with other players. 'Cause melee and I are not particularly friendly.

In the single player, I went and saved Liara, flying past the battle that made me weep first time around. So, I am setting the difficulty to normal, because casual is now boring. I am back to really liking Liara, I guess I just really was into her ME1 version. Tali, on the opposite, I like far less. Actually, don't mind Ashley this time around.

Good times!

That TV needs adjustment.
Here's another place where the Wiki begs for an update: I've never seen the extra destroyer and Juggernaut promised in this "tower" section, and I'm practicing an insanity run where Feros is the 3rd story mission done, so I definitely should qualify for extra enemies.

Shawna Shepard:
1. Went to sunny Tuchanka because Wreav wanted the genophage cured before he would commit troops to helping the Turians on Palaven. Discovered that a Reaper was guarding the Shroud (the means to distribute the cure) and poisoning Tuchanka's atmosphere. Came up with a plan to deal with the Reaper. Took a call from the Salarian Dalatrass who suggested sabotaging the cure instead.

2. Made it to the Shroud and activated some Maw Hammers which summoned a giant Thresher Maw to The Shroud. It took out the Reaper. Met with Mordin who informed Shawna that Eve was dead, leaving Wreav in sole charge of the Krogan. Convinced Mordin to sabotage the cure.

3. Took some rest, had a another bad dream.

4. Raided a Cerberus air base on Noveria, took some of its fighters as reward.

5. Went to the Citadel to meet the Salarian Councilor about Udina, but wound up in the middle of attempted coup by Cerberus. Rescued Bailey and hurried off to go find the Salarian Councilor. Found the councilor, but she was attacked by some Asian dude. (Is that racist? I think that's racist.

Let's try that again: Found the councilor, but she was attacked by some ninja-wannabe. Kirrahe took a bullet to save the councilor. The Wannabe ran away. Shawna gave chase in a shuttle but somehow The Wannabe stabbed the shuttle causing it to crash. Shawna gave chase on foot.

6. Took an elevator up to go save the rest of the council. Ashley tried to protect the council (how cute), but Shepard reminded her that you don't mess with Shepard, so Ashley stepped aside. Udina pulled out a gun and Shawna shot him.

I loaded up an old save with my Engineer and also played that part on Insanity. Only a Destroyer appeared with some Shock Troopers. I had not completed Virmire yet, so maybe if Feros is the very last mission the Juggernaut appears? I will test this on my next run if I don't forget.

Also I continued a bit. Side quests, here I come!

File#04
Subject: Eletania Mission Report
Located the downed probe with Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko and geth expert Tali'Zorah nar Rayya on Eletania, but the data module was not present.
Successfully tracked down and retrieved the lost module inside a structure. Ambushed by geth afterwards, but cleared the threat.

File#05
Subject: Armstrong Cluster Mission Report
Successfully driven the geth out of the Armstrong Cluster, namely from Casbin, Maji, Antibaar and Rayingri. Located the main base of the geth on Solcrum and eliminated all of the present geth with Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko and Tali'Zorah nar Rayya. Found and downloaded geth data files from a terminal (attached to report).

File#06
Subject: Nodacrux Mission Report
Followed a distress call to a research facility on Nodacrux with Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko and Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams. The generic distress call was sent out by a group of ExoGeni scientists that conducted experiments on the Thorian Creepers and successfully turned them into docile creatures until the Thorian died. The scientists were reluctant to be taken into custody and attacked. My squad and I had to eliminate them in self-defense. No other survivors were present.

File#07
Subject: Chasca Mission Report
Followed a lead from Feros and investigated an abandoned colony on Chasca with Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko and Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams. Took out several husks around the civilian structures and found the source of origin inside a science facility. Intel from a terminal suggested that an organisation called Cerberus infected the pioneer team on Chasca (attached to report).

File#08
Subject: MSV Cornucopia Mission Report
Boarded the drifting freighter MSV Cornucopia in an asteroid belt in the Caspian system with Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko and Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams. The crew seems to have been transformed into husks, possibly by geth, and sent back into human space, perhaps as a warning. All husks aboard have been eliminated.


These insubordination talks with Ash are hilarious! Loving it to play an ass (who'd have ever thought that it can be so much fun).
Died once during the data module mission, when I was almost done. Sniper got me because I got stuck somewhere, ahaha. Also died once during the Socrum mission. The Juggernaut from above got me after a couple minutes... I shouldn't have turned my back on him
Then I got a nice bug. My journal says I got the trinket from Sha'ira, but I couldn't use it on Eletania. That sucks

Shawna Shepard:
1. Visited Anderson's apartment. Anderson called and gave the apartment to Shawna.

2. Met with Joker for lunch. An alliance intelligence officer named Brooks stopped by and said someone was trying to kill Shawna. Mercs stopped by and tried to kill Shawna.

3. Shawna escaped the ambush and made her way to a skycar lot where she met Liara and James who helped her hold off another ambush until Joker could get her out of there.

4. Liara found a connection between the mercs and a casino owner. Went to the casino and tried to have a chat with the owner. Trying to have a meaningful conversation with a dead man is impossible.

5. The team discovered that someone was breaking into the Citadel Archives. The team broke in as well. The team discovered that Shepard had a clone that was behind the attacks and the clone was trying to kill her.

6. Shawna chased after the clone, but was trapped in a vault by the clone. Brooks was also a traitor working for the clone.

7. Shawna escaped the vault and hurried to the Normandy, managing to sneak on board before it took off.

8. Shawna confronted the clone and remaining merc horde before finally killing the clone by literally kicking her off the ship. Then she killed Brooks when Brooks tried to make a run for it.

9. Joker suggested throwing a party. Shawna wants to go spend some time in the simulator.

Shawna Shepard finished playing in the combat simulator on the Silversun Strip. She also met a lot of squadmates on the strip that wanted to spend time with her.

Now that I have got that out of the way, I will probably help Aria re-take Omega next. Not sure if I will do that today or later this week.