What did you do today in ME?

Finally finished with all side quests

- Got tasked by Hackett to save some drugged researchers from biotic terrorists. Despite trying his best to save everyone, there were some casualties unfortunately.
- Cleaned out a husk-infested colony, everyone once human, on Chasca. Seems that this Cerberus group had to do something with this, showing only once more they're into some real nasty stuff.
- Followed a distress call to an ExoGeni facility, only to learn that they tried to make Thorian Creepers docile. Shepard would have liked to say they deserved what they got, but a lot of people died there. Even more since the scientists refused to be taken in.
- Put an end to a husk infestation on a derelict freighter and then stopped a geth incursion in a cluster before it got out of hand. Gave Tali a copy of the data gathered from their main outpost.
- Helped Lt. Durand and her team, and purged a rachni infestation within the Styx Theta cluster, then followed a lead to a ship in the Gorgon system and took care of the rachni there as well. Another thing Cerberus was responsible for (as usual, Ashley developing amnesia in regards to Cerberus).

Rorik sat down for a moment on top of the pyramid, the view breathtaking. His gaze wandered along the seemingly endless mountains, the beautiful sun, turning the sky into all kinds of pretty colours.
He wished his dad was around to see all this, hear his son tell him the stories about chasing Saren, about working with aliens. All the amazing things he had seen.
Rorik missed his dad on many occasions, but today was harder. As always on this day. He would have been 55.
Rorik caught a glimpse of Ashley down below, looking up to him. He hesitantly waved at her, but she turned away in an instant. All it took to destroy whatever they had was a stupid joke, and he had hurt her. Maybe she could forgive him one day.
He sighed and got up.
"Happy Birthday, Dad", Rorik muttered, shooting one more glance at the horizon before rejoining his team down below.

Pics


Got the Onyx X armor now, weee! I also have the Katana X and even despite not being the most damage-dealing shotgun this thing is a beast. I look so forward to ME2, too bad I have to wait until the Collector ship again for Shottie training

Karen Shepard (Sentinel, ME3LE):
1. Reapers started reaping. Karen went to Mars. Recovered Prothean plans for an anti-Reaper weapon, an Asari, a broken robot, and an injured squadmate (Kaiden). Presented the plans to the council, who did nothing.

2. Traveled to Eden Prime to pick up a Prothean relic. Had to fight off some Cerberus vultures to get it. The relic was some frozen Prothean soldier. He's a bit grumpy.

3. Went to Palaven and recovered the new Turian Primarch. (Had to reload an autosave mid-mission because a husk got stuck somewhere.)

4. Citadel chores.

5. Rescured the students from Grissom Academy.

6. Met with diplomats for a war summit. Extracted a Krogan female from a Salarian STG facility. Wreav is an ass. Mordin is still an eccentric genius.

7. Wrested control of a giant cannon from Cerberus hands.

8. Extracted a Turian platoon from Tuchanka, then helped them finish their mission to defuse a giant bomb.

9. Rescued some civilians from being abducted by Cerberus.

Karen Shepard (Sentinel, ME3LE):
1. Raided a Cerberus lab and recovered some Reaper artifacts.

2. The Dalatrass offered full Salarian support in exchange for sabotaging the cure. Took the deal, and convinced Mordin to accept the deal as well.

3. Attacked a Cerberus base and took all their fighters.

4. Caught up with Aralakh Company. Destroyed a Rachni nest and a fake Rachni Queen. Dagg died.
My first (or maybe second?) time doing this mission post-Shroud, so I got to hear some different early-mission dialogue.

5. Searched for Dr. Garneau at a mining facility on an asteroid. Garneau was dead and Leviathan was not there.

6. Helped Aria take back Omega from Cerberus. She choked out Petrovsky.

7. Stopped Cerberus from taking over the Citadel. Kirrahe took a bullet for the Salarian Councilor.

8. Citadel chores. Got another lead on Leviathan. Joker saluted me because Kaiden took off or something (I never got the scene with Kaiden because I went to the Normandy from Bryson's office I guess?)

9. Galaxy scans. Back to the Citadel for more chores. This time took the proper exit, talked with Kaiden and invited him back on board the Normandy (not that he will ever be used since Liara and Javik are better).

- Headed to Virmire at last. Good they arrived when they did, as Saren wanted to breed an army of krogan. Things got a little heated with Wrex, but he trusted the Commander, so Wrex, Shepard and Garrus infiltrated the facility. Unfortunately, Shepard was put into a position to make a grave choice at the end of the mission. He headed back to the bomb site to make sure the geth pouring in there wouldn't interfere with their goal to blast this place into oblivion.
He still believed he could save Ashley too afterwards, but there was not enough time.
- Frustrated by the events on Virmire and the Council and Udina grounding the Normandy afterwards, Shepard moped around by his locker as Liara came by to comfort him. He snapped at her, but he appreciated she was there for him and apologised. Liara helped him up, almost pulling him into a kiss. They had flirted a little here and there, but Shepard was somewhat glad Joker interrupted them. He had enough on his plate, and Ashley's death was still raw.
- After a short interlude at the Citadel where Shepard kindly told a Terra Firma politician he won't ever support them and convinced an addicted negotiator to get help, he met Anderson at Flux. The Captain had the bold plan to release the Normandy, and Shepard told him to try Udina's office.
- Stole the Normandy and headed to Ilos. Liara came by, surprisingly wanting to spend the night with Shepard, but with everything on his mind and her never having done this before, nothing about this felt remotely right. He sent Liara away and got ready to stop Saren instead.
- Chased the rogue Spectre through Ilos and the Citadel, until Shepard caught up to him in the Council chambers. Shepard talked Saren into suicide and saved the day for the Citadel, the Council and actually the whole galaxy by preventing a Reaper invasion.

Rorik carried Kaidan into the Normandy's cargo bay and helped him sit down on the floor, the exhausted biotic insisting he was fine. Wrex and Garrus closed in while Rorik yelled at an approaching crew man to get Dr. Chakwas and something to eat.
"Commander, look!"
Rorik turned his head to see Garrus point outside, to a group of salarians racing for the cargo bay. He jumped off his feet and ordered Joker to wait for them, throwing his pilot's warnings about having to leave in the wind.
Rorik recognised Captain Kirrahe and his eyes frantically darted over the rest of the men, in hope to see her, a naïve wish harbouring inside him.
But she was not there.
He ran his hands over his face, stopping at his open mouth, and exhaled as it sank in that Ash was really gone.
Even though things didn't end well between them, he still cared for her. And he deeply regretted that he never got the chance to apologise.
Rorik swallowed the lump in his throat, telling his team with a firm voice to assemble in the comm room in half an hour.

Pic dump (gonna break it up a little):
Virmire


Stealing a ship!


End game


Yaaay, all done! Had a blast with this Shepard so far and can't wait for ME2 now
The scenes with Liara also turned out really well, it fit quite nicely with what I had in mind, so that was a fun experiment
I was also really surprised she shared she was a virgin in the pre-Ilos scene, as I deliberately skipped her talk about that earlier. Cool to see there are even more dialogue variations out there, it's just crazy! (might have to try that with other romances now, argh, though I think this might rather have to do with Liara's bugged ninjamance, but now I wanna knooooow )
Gameplay-wise I had such fun again with Engineer, it's definitely one of my favourite classes. I don't think I could ever decide between Adept and Engineer, I really love them both a lot

Karen Shepard (Sentinel, ME3LE):
1. Visited Anderson's apartment. Had lunch with Joker. Got attacked by mercs. Went to a casino, then the Citadel archives. Met my clone. Got trapped by the clone. Escaped from the trap. Clone tried to steal the Normandy. Beat the crap out of the clone then literally kicked her off the ship.

2. Spent time crewmates at the apartment and the Silver Sun Strip.

3. Completed challenges in the Armax Arsenal Arena.

I really struggled with the final Unusual Scores mission (Fatal Error). I kept dying on the final wave. Not really sure why. I am just glad that is done.

Geth Primes will be distracted by the Combat Drone. The ME2 Combat Drone is your best friend. The Praetorians will be confused by the drone, occasionally swiveling around to laser it, but they are the only enemy that will not be reliably distracted by the orange ball of awesome.

My favorite class ever is ME2 Engineer with Drone, AI Hacking, and Dominate absolutely distracting and controlling everyone.

Welcome back stranger!!!! 

Yeah so do I I normally  put at leas ta couple of my early points while on Eden Prime points into Parago/Renegad et oge tme started so I can talk m yway out o fthos emoments. It's useful i fyou plan on playing a moer peaceful paragon Shep. Did that in my recent playthrough in fact.