What did you do today in ME?

She's still going to be mostly Paragon. Only few Renegade options and interrupts from time to time. And this is IF it works out. I may change my mind.

- Elly sat in detention when she was fetched by James. Then everything went fast. She met Anderson, spoke in front of the committee, then the Reapers came down on them. The day long dreaded, finally here. The Normandy picked Elly up, Anderson stayed. Elly, Kaidan and James were ordered to go to the Mars Archives.
- After quite a bit of hassle with Cerberus, a Cerberus bot, stolen data, a shuttle crash and Kaidan being hurt, Liara too was back on the Normandy and they had some data on some sort of weapon the Protheans tried to built to defeat the Reapers. They went to present their findings about the weapon to the Council, but not before Elly paid Kaidan a visit. She was deeply distressed about seeing him like that. But no time to dwell on that now. Bumped into Dr. Chakwas as well who is now back on the Normandy.
- The Council meeting didn't go as Elly hoped, but the turian Councilor at least proposed to get their primarch off of Palaven's moon for a summit between various races. The primarch was dead, but they found the successor, met Garrus along the way and now Elly has two Turians on board. And EDI in a robot body.
- Another new crew addition, Samantha Traynor, caught something suspicious. Elly went to inspect it right away and thanks to this, they were able to evacuate lots of students and Kahlee Sanders from Grissom Academy before Cerberus could get them all. Elly is appalled by what the Illusive Man is doing. At least she could also save David Archer once more, who seems to be doing very well since he was rescued from that horrifying experiment on Aite.
- Elly could've used a drink right now, but Kaidan had been awake and she returned to the Citadel to take care of some business there and to see Kaidan. She met Thane in the hospital. He doesn't have that long anymore, but Elly is glad he seems to be doing alright. Just like Kaidan did. They had a really nice talk and Elly was glad there might even be a future for them. If not for the Reapers oblitering people right now, Elly would be over the moon.
- Afterwards, she briefly caught up with Miranda, then went to help a salarian spectre take down an indoctrinated hanar, which all tied to Kasumi leaking information from Keiji's graybox. Elly dangled a carrot in front of Kasumi and now she helps out with the Crucible. Elly also delivered some things she found along the way and bumped into Kelly Chambers. She was still deeply traumatised to what had happened to her, but Elly was glad she found something that kept her busy. She still told her to change her identity. Better play it safe with this Cerberus scum.
- After everything was taken care of, Elly followed James's proposal to meet up at the bar. Finally some drinks.

Mars/Citadel business

Grissom

More Citadel business


It's super interesting that despite the game saying that Elly romanced Jacob in ME2, Kaidan didn't accuse her of cheating. I was really surprised about that and it's kinda cool there's another small branching path there if you don't go through with the love scene in ME2
Also, I still really like Grissom Academy without Jack. Sometimes it's hard because I love Jack as well, but the atmosphere is so different with her not around. It's sad that Prangley dies though no matter what. Could've maybe made a tiny choice which either lets him live or die at the end ("No you idiot, don't go for Rodriguez!" *RENEGADE INTERRUPT*).
My build is coming along nicely and I can't remember any deaths... I am going for another Multiplayer inspired build, Female Quarian Engineer with Incinerate, Cryo Blast and the Turret Too bad I can't have Disruptor Ammo for this (which I always used in MP), but since later taking Kaidan and possibly EDI with me there's no shortage of Overload action Now only to get the Carnifex asap...

Looks awesome, so much so I think I am too intimidated by it. 

Did you start with a clean slate, that is did you delete all your old mods and start again checking them against the MODS requirements etc. or did you just remove any that it said was incompatible? The reason I ask is mainly was it a lot of work before installing it?

Cheers, not sure when my next MELE run will be but maybe like you I'll do an ME3 run by itself. 

- The summit ended with some surprise. In order for the krogan to help the turians, Wrex demanded nothing more than to cure the genophage. Elly is not opposed, but damn, what a demand. However, the chance to make it happen was within reach. The salarians held female krogan from Maelon's experiments that were immune to the genophage. Elly was tasked to get them out safely. Of course it all went a bit different, but successful either way.
- Only one of the females was still alive when they arrived, and Elly met Kirrahe and Mordin again, nice surprises! Bad surprise that Cerberus wanted that last krogan. But Elly and her team made sure they wouldn't succeed. Lots of dead Cerberus goons later, the female krogan "Eve" and Mordin were aboard the Normandy so Mordin could create a cure with her.
- Wrex told Shepard about a possible problem with rachni and Elly couldn't believe the queen she let go would cause trouble now. They went to check it out and the queen had been used by the Reapers. Elly decided to free her once more. They also had met Grunt on this mission and he barely made it out alive, but he's a tough one. By the time they were back, Mordin had the cure prepared.
- After another short stop at the Citadel (Kaidan is a Spectre now), Elly and her friends went to disperse the cure on Tuchanka. She witnessed traces of a once beautiful planet, a thrasher maw taking down a Reaper, and Mordin losing his life to cure the krogan, but he died content. Wrex and Eve were relieved, and Elly felt good about what they had just accomplished.
Unfortunately, something was brewing elsewhere, tied to Udina. Elly decided to check it out and she was glad she did, because she stopped a Cerberus coup staged by Udina in the process. Kaidan was with him and the rest of the Council, Elly and him having a standoff. Kaidan decided to trust Elly, but Udina attacked the asari Councilor. Seconds later he was dead. Elly felt nothing but hate for him and it felt a bit like justice when she put him down. He couldn't hurt anybody anymore. Traitor.
Unfortunately, Thane had been fatally wounded while trying to stop an assassin, so Elly went to the hospital right away. Kolyat said some prayers and his father passed away. For quite some time, Elly just stood by the window where Thane used to sit. She hated this day. She wasn't even that close to Thane, but everything happening affected her deeply. She wanted nothing more than to get to her cabin and have a drink. Or two.
- Before she could however, Kaidan was waiting for her in the docking bay. They had a good talk, and talked some more aboard the Normandy after Elly took some time for herself. She was glad to have him back. And after taking care of more business on the Citadel, she and Kaidan grabbed a bite. And talked some more. About them. Now they're back together and Elly feels grateful to have him back in her life. She had really missed him.

Sur'Kesh/Cure business


Citadel business


Elly is my first FemShep to cure the genophage for real! About time I guess
Couple deaths now... Those damn Ravagers sometimes on the rachni mission
And the coup was actually mean in the Phantom section, was the first time playing MELE I died there Also one time at the beginning.

- Elly went to rescue some scientists that wanted to cut ties with Cerberus. She wanted them badly for the Crucible, if they were trustworthy. When she saw that Jacob was involved, she knew they were. Elly was surprised to see him, and she did notice there was going on more between him and one of the scientists there, but Elly didn't ask. It had been too awkward, especially since she was back together with Kaidan. They just gracefully didn't touch on the subject of what had been between them and instead focused on getting these people out.
- Afterwards, Elly snagged an actual Prothean from Cerberus on Eden Prime. Lots of memories there for both Elly and Kaidan, but they had to focus on the mission. The Prothean called himself Javik and was definitely not how everyone had pictured his race, but at least he was friendly and joined the fight against the Reapers. This would be interesting.
- Elly beat Cerberus on a few more occasions. She rescued civilians on Benning from them, took over a fighting squadron facility, raided a Cerberus lab, all the while leaving a trail of dead Cerberus goons. Elly couldn't help but feel torn about it. On one hand, she was glad they were stopped. On the other hand, notes she found in the lab suggested all people Cerberus took or joined them willingly were... altered. Used. Those were some dark times for sure. Catching some breath in her cabin, Elly played around with some dog tags she found on Benning. She would avenge everyone. The Illusive Man wouldn't be able to hide forever.
- Next stop, Citadel, where Elly took care of some more things. And had some meet-ups with old friends. Miranda, Zaeed, Jacob... who now told her he got Dr. Cole pregnant. Elly was truly happy for him. He'd be a better father than his was, and Elly was so glad he found someone that was better suited for him. Everything just fell into place. It also turns out Conrad Verner is actually a smart person, when he isn't full of dumb ideas. EDI and Joker hit the dance floor and Elly had a good time drinking with Cortez. A little dancing might have occurred afterwards. What better way to end this visit than to go to forbidden places with her friend Garrus to shoot some bottles?
- Elly finally found some time to take care of a crashed turian platoon on Tuchanka that Primarch Victus had asked her to do. She wished she had gotten there sooner, because while she did get many turian soldiers out, she only began to understand the scope of this mission now. Cerberus had a bomb somewhere on Tuchanka, and this platoon, led by none other than Victus's son, had been sent to disable it. Instead, Elly now had to lend a hand and hope they get there in time. They did, they stopped Cerberus, stopped the bomb. But the primarch's son was dead. It was sad, but his sacrifice ensured that the fragile turian-krogan alliance held up. And Elly and her team kicked Cerberus off the planet for good after taking some old krogan cannons from their hands.

Scientist business

Eden Prime

Other stuff


Finally got the Carnifex . I loooove this gun!
I also managed to finally bust open an Atlas to climb in and got my last trophy, now the Legendary Edition is 100% everywhere I wish I could do it over and over
I've been having some fun deaths by turrets The game tells me I'm not invincible, if only I would be smart about it and remember that

I installed MELE on my Xbox Series S (it's the only next-gen console with a 30fps mode), and started a "test/dummy" Shep in ME2. Do you know how long it's been since I played ME2 on an Xbox? 13 years, back in 2010, the year I played both ME1 & ME2 (played ME2 first, then ME1 several months later) for the first time, on the Xbox 360. Yeah...

I really like a lot of the new looks the characters have but not a fan of Jack's hairstyle. Is that something you can change?

Kelly looks like she is still in school.   

Cheers.