What did you do today in ME?

- Headed to Illium, got a message from the rachni queen and surprised Liara, who shared an awkward kiss with Shepard and exchanged a few pleasantries before getting on with business. He would definitely have to talk to her soon about... them. Everything had changed, but it was not the right time yet.
- First Shepard helped Miranda with her sister, where she unfortunately lost a good friend at the end. He had betrayed her, but did see reason before an asari killed him off. She paid for that and Miranda's sister was safe. Shepard respected her wish to stay out of Oriana's life.
- Bumped into Conrad while helping Liara with some personal stuff before also bringing together an asari with a krogan again and spending a fortune on upgrades, fish and ship models. Upon returning to Liara, learned more about her chasing the Shadow Broker and Shepard wanted to help his friend, so they made plans to meet up at Liara's apartment later.
- Delivered a locket to an asari on the way back to the Normandy, where Shepard prepared for Liara's plan, talked to his crew mates and shared an innocent moment with Miranda, though she made it clear the mission was more important than anything.
- Headed to Illium's cab area and first helped Shiala before initiating the hunt for the Shadow Broker. It was a long chase with lots of dead mercs, and a dead Spectre, but Liara was able to rescue her friend and found a new place for herself. As the new Broker. Shepard left her alone so she could collect herself and deal with her emotions first before talking about whatever was left between them.
- Took care of some more business on Illium, finally recruiting both a seemingly kind assassin and a badass justicar for his team (and leaving a trail of dead mercs again!). Shepard was excited to learn about them, their history and customs aboard the Normandy. He felt incredibly lucky to meet and work with so many unique people. One of which he grew a lot closer now. During another talk with Miranda, Shepard went on the offensive, which she obviously liked, yet was still hesitant. She had a great deal to think about, but Shepard was positive they were meant to get together sooner or later.
- Before heading to the Citadel to help Garrus and Thane, Shepard visited Liara to come clean before things with Miranda got more serious. They remained friends and promised to have a drink the next time they met.

Miranda tore her lingering gaze away from her sister and headed off, trying to hold back the tears forming in her eyes. Rorik and Jack exchanged a look, both seemingly unsure what to do. They followed the black-haired woman, usually of proud composure, now a picture of misery. Rorik looked at Jack once more as they joined their teammate in the elevator, but she only shrugged.
Rorik fought the urge to comfort Miranda, to just pull her into his arms and tell her everything will be alright. He usually wasn't at a loss for words, or deeds for that matter, but it was different this time. Miranda was not exactly an easy person to read, and whatever he decided to do could end up being the wrong move in this moment.
He breathed in and did nothing. Nothing except giving her the time - and space - she may need. And if the time came for her to be ready to talk about it, he would gladly sit down and listen.

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I died like a gazillion times during Miri's LM and a few times during Thane's RM. This time I didn't have issues with ammo not dropping during Thane's RM, must have been all that reloading
LotSB and Samara's RM went super smooth though, no deaths at all during Samara's mission and I didn't even have problems with the parking lot in LotSB Surprising!
Romance progresses nicely too, and so far I really like it! It's so funny to think back to when I played ME for the first time and I HATED Miranda with a passion. Good thing I came around and I like her quite a lot now
This time I want to delay Parasini's dialogue to see if it differs when the Suicide Mission is over, but I don't think it will (in case anyone knows already, let me know ).