Going down to the refugee area, I find a documentary maker whom I agree to help out by taking shots of the refugees' plight, and Steve getting ready to put the picture of his late husband on the memorial to the fallen.
I take a picture of a crate, which is not a very interesting subject according to the filmmaker guy, and give Steve some encouragement before moving on.
Ghorek the batarian terrorist reacts to my presence by blaming me for the destroyed relay in Arrival that killed all those batarians, which, yeah, I do feel guilty about, and say so. He asks me to unplug his machine if I'm really remorseful, so he can join his family. Well, the people I first heard about him from want him to die, he wants to die, I personally do not believe in keeping somebody alive against their will in real life, so
I'm gonna unplug him, but let's see if the game considers this the Paragon thing to do.
It actually does. Okay, good. I also got credits for that, and I'm not complaining since I was literally down to my last hundred credits after a spending spree, but how did I get them?
On the other hand, I get the same amount for shooting footage of the refugee camp, which does make sense.
It's Jack! Jack's in Purgatory! I completely expect her to mention the name being the same as the prison, but hopefully that's not all we'll end up talking about.
JACK: Shepard! Everybody knows you can't dance!
Yeah, not how I would have chosen to spend time with her before she shipped back out with her biotic squad. Oh well, maybe we didn't spend much time on the dance floor before discreetly going somewhere to fuck.
I just enlisted the help of Balak, of all people. The batarian who tried to destroy the Terra Nova colony in DLC for the first game. Like I said in an earlier post: all the help we can get, no matter who it is.
I just told Joker to see if things can work with him and EDI. Hope it isn't bad advice or anything. And holy crap, Joker is actually dancing! While EDI is...standing in front of him. Good to see that I'm not the worst dancer on the Normandy crew.
Hey, I never noticed that there was another bar up on the dancefloor, and that asari bartender has got some nice moves!
Heading back to the ship, Kaidan's waiting for me and after a conversation is ready to rejoin the crew. Then comes a call with Anderson and Hackett, wherein Anderson reveals that not only does he know Kai Leng, but that he fought him along with Kahlee Sanders back in the day. Really? The guy didn't seem that old. I wonder if this means anything. Then again, Sanders doesn't look like she's the same age as Anderson either. Could just be clean living.
Meanwhile, the quarians are interested in talking but there are apparently still tensions with the geth, the asari and salarians are finally helping with the Crucible, and Liara is telling me that there's a distress call from an asari colony.
The asari colony is my next stop. This may be the place where the story involving Samara that I have read a few things about happens. But first, I'll go around the ship talking to people and seeing if they have anything new and interesting to say. Dr. Chakwas, for one, would like to see me.
God, Ken's always good for a laugh. I picked up some part that Adams wanted for the ship, and he's been assigned to crawl through the ducts and install it, and then he asked if it was true that all the Normandy was EDI.
Because he's inside her right now, you see. Don't tell Joker; he'll get jealous.
Javik has some comments about what they used to do to traitors in his time, the less about which is said the better.
Chakwas has learned that the refugees at the Citadel need the kinds of supplies we have in excess, and they have some stuff that would be more useful to military types, so we might be able to make a trade that leaves everybody a winner. That will have to wait until I'm back on the Citadel, of course.
Kaidan's in the very-well-furnished starboard cargo area. Well-furnished for a cargo area, I mean. I remember having death-sex with Morinth in there. That was fun for at least one of us.
Speaking of Ardat-Yakshi, yes, this is the world with the monastery where they are kept. The description of the planet from orbit makes it clear why Morinth would have wanted to go somewhere else, since it seems like a depressing place to live.
Liara says that Morinth chose to be a killer, unlike the Ardat-Yakshi here. But then she says that the urge to feed is extremely powerful. If you live with an urge that powerful, then how much of a choice do you have really? It's like I've written before: just because some people are able to resist giving in to temptation does not mean you should expect everybody to similarly resist, because not all of us are the same. That's why some of us are alcoholics in real life and other people are not. And when an alcohlic falls off the wagon, I think it would be insensitive to say "He chose to start drinking again."
Spooky place here.
LOL, a student left a message about a smuggled-in copy of Vaenia, and they were planning to watch it later. She also told the recipient to delete the message after listening to it, which I'm sure she totally remembered to do and then it magically undeleted itself. ;)
Yeah, so I'm reading a message about the rules in this place and...it sucks. No extranet? Really?
Well, here's Samara, who says I'm a most welcome sight. I cannot say the same.
She says it's been centuries since she last saw her daughters. Look, I'm sorry, but I do not see how she's gonna win Mother Of The Year or anything. That's like a human going twenty years without visiting her children, by choice.
Then I meet my first Banshee.
After a cutscene wherein I meet Falere, who tells of the Reaper attack and that they have her sister Rila, and in which when she gets angry about the commandos trying to blow them all up without helping them and Samara scolds her for getting angry about it because Samara is a bitch, I explore some more and fight some Cannibals and a Marauder. Reading a console, there's something here about a Justicar Phora using what seems to be excessive force to drag Ardat-Yakshi here. The Matriarch would like to put a stop to it, but I'm sure the Code says it's all fine. From what I saw in the second game it looked like there was little or no oversight of justicars, and even if there is then their Code is fucked up enough that they can still get away with far too much.
All right, at least some people get supervised visits to Thessia, so it isn't as bad as I thought.
Kaidan thinks that sending commandos in to blow the fucking place up was overkill. Thank you, Alenko.
Shit, poor Rila. At least she died fighting the Reapers.
And then Samara kills herself. Good riddance. I mean, I'm sorry that Falere has to deal with the grief, but Liara make the first statement I've agreed with since this mission began, which is that Samara made her choice.
She could have let her daughter go. Instead, she followed her Code, which demanded that somebody die, without considering that maybe the damned Code should not be followed blindly and for that matter that maybe she never should have sworn it in the first place.
I've left Falere there, at her request. She implies she'll soon kill herself too.
What I said about taking everybody we can to fight the Reapers? I can't bring myself to take Samara. I just can't. This is a woman who has executed people in cold blood. This is a woman who vowed she would kill an entire police station full of cops if they continued to hold her due to her being a danger to others which, may I add, she was. This is a woman who, before I even met her, I was warned might kill me for my actions, and who had killed other asari for things that wouldn't merit death in our society.
Samara didn't even have a genetic disorder as an excuse. And every time she killed she was doing so with the full backing of the asari government.
I think the war effort can manage just fine with one less biotic.
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