What did you do today in ME?

Loaded up Jack today and together with Liara and Garrus they went to meet some Rachni. Was sure he had spared them, but apparently he did not. He didn't spare them here either. But one day.
They then nabbed some civilians off Benning, shot some cannons on Tuchanka and finished some minor mission around the Galaxy. Back on the Normandy, Jack got to hear Mordins rendition of "I am a Pirate King" at the urging of Eve. Should visit them more often, in case Mordin starts putting up full blown musicals down there. Then Jack finished up some business on the Citadel, so he's now ready to hit Tuchanka in the next session.

In general things, managed to fix Benjamin's face. Was sure I had checked that the game hadn't cooked up a new face-code, but apparently not. Fixed that so he'll get to keep his smiling baby face in the next game. Yay.

So after failing to survive the Citadel DLC ambush as Jackie Shepard last night, I managed to do it first time tonight because of course I did.

Then I managed to do it again, this time as Kim Shepard. Kim was a little easier since she is a Vanguard, although I did die once. I actually forgot I had Biotic Charge for the first half. charging in the second half made it easier of course.

So Jackie, Kim, Erin, and Jen Shepard have now all survived the ambush. Next time they will infiltrate a casino.

Or maybe not. I can't get over the horrible character creator. Why would you bother making your own character if literally all of them look the same?

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One day there will be a plot twist and it will be Khan who will be taken and analyzed. And in their office, the mystery enemy will crush their glass of scotch and shout his name in anger. Just you wait.
Did not do much playing, but loaded up Michael for kicks and got him off the Illusive Mans platform (where he had been holding up his calls for four years) and got him to Omega to chat to the Queen of the Trash heap. Have finished his run once before, but was a massive moron and restarted the save, planning to change some decisions, changed my mind but accidentally deleted the original save. It was glorious. Maybe he'll have some better luck this time around.

Soldier FemShep, cont'd:

The Normandy arrived in the Attican Beta cluster, and once again Admiral Hackett contacted Shepard with a job for her. This time, it was to retrieve a downed spy probe on Eletania, that had been used to track geth activity in the cluster. The geth would, naturally, also be looking for the probe, trying to prevent the data getting back into Alliance hands.

Shepard, Tali, and Liara landed on Eletania and started looking around. While searching for the probe, they came across Prothean ruins containing a strange, spherical artifact. Shepard noticed a small opening on the underside of the artifact; it seemed to be the same size and shape of the unusual trinket that Sha'ira the Consort had given her back on the Citadel.

Shepard placed the trinket into the artifact, and was immediately knocked out by a flash of white light. Evidently the artifact was a data recorder, and Shepard experienced a remarkable vision of life as a primitive human that had been implanted by the Protheans, who were observing Earth from their base on Mars. She came to a few minutes later, to the relief of her friends (who were unaffected by the artifact).

They resumed the search, and eventually found the crashed probe. The vital data module, however, was gone - it appeared to have been taken by one of the monkey-like creatures native to Eletania. The party searched various locations, looking for the "space monkey" that had the module (Shepard wondered if anyone else in the Alliance ever had days like this), finally retrieving it in an underground mine shaft. Exiting the mine, they were ambushed by the geth. Once again, Tali's AI hacking skills, and Liara's ability to send enemies flying into walls and ceilings, made the fight relatively easy, despite being heavily outnumbered. They returned to the Normandy with the module, as well as the location of a couple of mineral deposits for the Alliance, and some salvage.

Miriam Shepard helped Mordin and Jacob...

Still on Tuchanka, asked their chief scout for leads about Maelon, Mordin's former colleague who had gone missing. Scout provided intel that he had been captured by Clan Weyrloc, founders of the Blood Pack. Weyrloc were holed up at a disused hospital nearby.

Travelled to hospital with Mordin and Urdnot Grunt. Encountered wild varren, insectoid klixen, and light resistance from Blood Pack troops. Recovered a combustion manifold from a pile of wreckage that Urdnot's mechanic had requested to repair a tank.

Entered hospital, found human corpses showing evidence of experimentation. Mordin deduced Maelon being coerced into researching genophage cure, using humans as test subjects due to genetic diversity. Mordin horrified by experimentation on sentient species.

Encountered Weyrloc "clan-speaker": made speech about Weyrloc's destiny of conquest; issued threats. Unfortunately for him, he made the mistake of standing above an exposed gas main.

Found dead krogan females, apparent test subjects for cure. Spoke at length with Mordin about his work, the genophage, and medical ethics. He seems convinced that genophage was right; but also conflicted, clearly deeply affected by his work. Fascinating conversations; he is a complex individual.

Discovered an imprisoned Urdnot scout, brainwashed into being willing test subject. Convinced him to return to the Urdnot camp.

Encountered and neutralized Weyrloc chief Guld and his personal guard.

Met Maelon in a lab deep in the hospital; immediately apparent that he was working of his own volition, having come to the conclusion that genophage was wrong. Mordin became enraged and tried to kill him; persuaded him to stand down and let Maelon go. After discussion, Mordin agreed not to destroy Maelon's research. Perhaps some good can come of it.

Thanks to Wrex's enlightened leadership, Urdnot adopted the remnants of Weyrloc, mostly civilians.

Ordered the Normandy to the planet Aeia in the Rosetta Nebula. Jacob had received intel about a distress call from the freighter on which his father had served. Went planetside with Jacob and Zaeed; beautiful scenery, but no time for sightseeing. Found the ship derelict and the crew suffering from neural decay caused by eating the local flora. Jacob's father had kept the ship's stores for himself, ruling over the incapacitated crew with absolute authority, only signalling for help when some turned on him. Sent a message to Alliance HQ to pick him up and put him on trial.

Stuck around in the Rosetta Nebula, detected Blue Suns communications from an archaeological dig site on the planet Joab. Investigated with Mordin and Kasumi. Neutralized resistance, recovered Prothean artefact and evidence of Blue Suns interest in a vessel called Strontium Mule in the Omega Nebula.

[Knowing that I'd encounter many charging krogan, I took the Firestorm on Mordin's mission. It trivialized the krogan encounters, including the battle with Guld. It's even cheesier than ME3's Reegar Carbine! I won't use it again, I do prefer to do at least a little work in combat

The outcome was the same as in my first playthrough, didn't see fit to take the other option because I know that it'll get me the result I want in ME3.

Jacob's mission was mostly shoot-from-cover due to constant automatic weapon fire, though Charge was useful for mobility in the battle at the end.]

Erin Shepard:
1. Investigated a break-in at the Citadel Archives. Discovered she had a clone. Brooks revealed herself to be a traitor and tried trapping her in the vaults.

2. Boarded the Normandy before it took off. Fought the clone. Kicked the clone off the ship.


Jackie Shepard:
1. Investigated a break-in at the Citadel Archives. Discovered she had a clone. Brooks revealed herself to be a traitor and tried trapping her in the vaults.

2. Boarded the Normandy before it took off.

3. Currently fighting the clone. (I kept dying so I shut the game off. I don't feel like dealing with this crap tonight. Thing is, I am pretty sure I had Jackie beat the clone on the first try in the previous playthrough. No idea what changed this playthrough. Maybe I'm too tired right now.)

I did the Citadel DLC last night and it was pretty good. Was not expecting "Shepard" to pop up like that. Guy's a headcase. The party was good too. Some very amusing conversations with certain guests.