I have an embedded journalist on board my ship now! We'll see how that works out.
A Keeper just walked into me and literally pushed me a couple feet before stopping. Now it's a test of wills! Who will move aside to let the other pass first? Who will...aw who am I kidding, you win, bug.
Huh, I'm at the hospital and there's this asari psych patient with PTSD. I'll run by her and her doctor a few more times to see if they say anything interesting without noticing I'm eavesdropping.
I'm watching a newscast (that's how you know the people designing the game world really did their jobs, when you want to stop playing the game and passively watch the world around you for a while instead because it is that interesting), and the reporter is saying that the entire Batarian Hegemony has been wiped out! Holy fuckrats! I know I fought what the codex says are husked batarians on Earth before I escaped, but I had no idea.
And Illium is being attacked too. Fuck.
I stop the damn Reapers from coming through the Citadel mass relay in the first game, and it doesn't really matter because two years and change later, they arrive in our space under their own power. I stop the Collectors in the second game, and it doesn't matter, because mere months later their masters have arrived.
As my Shepard said to Anderson earlier, it sucks when you're doing everything you can and you're still unable to make a real difference.
I just bought a bottle of Peruvian whiskey! (They're selling booze in the hospital. That's something they do in the 22nd century, apparently.) One of these days I will take a trip to Peru, and I will sample their whiskey, and see if it truly is as legendarily good as I have been told (by this game).*
Oh, here's Dr. Chakwas, talking with Dr. Michel. Chakwas, why weren't you on the ship? I thought you said you liked being a ship's doctor and patching up soldiers and flying around the galaxy more than you liked staying in one place all the time. Well, let's chat with you and find out. I just remembered that Chakwas had been treating Kaidan in the first game for L2 implant-related headaches, so at least Kaidan has somebody who's familiar with his medical history (not to mention damned competent and somebody I would totally romance if I could) working on him...
Yes! Turns out Chakwas was champing at the bit (which I was once told was the correct expression, rather than "chomping" at the bit, no, I don't know why) to get back on board the Normandy, and I just recruited her! Although I hope that this isn't one of those cases where I'm actually doing something wrong by doing something that seems right, like if she's needed more in this place than she will be aboard the ship.
Aw man, this poor asari soldier's story seems to be really horrible the more I hear of it. Her friend got turned into a Banshee? Damn.
There's some Ho Yay in Shepard's Paragon speech to the unconscious Kaidan. "The Alliance could sure use you. I could use you."
That story being told by the asari with PTSD just gets worse and worse every time I walk by and hear more of it.
At the embassies now. Hey, that volus ambassador says his people want to help with the fight against the Reapers. Good for them. Got a mission out of listening to him, too.
Oh, there's Khalisah! I haven't actually punched her with either of my Shepards, not as far as continuity goes anyway; I quicksave, punch her to see what happens, and then load and use my words instead. That's what I'll do here too, both of those things.
In the Spectre area now, and this terminal I'm looking at has intel on the quarians. It says that they seem to be preparing to go to war with the geth! YOU IDIOTS! YOU SHOULD BE TALKING PEACE WITH THEM! I TOLD YOU TO MAKE PEACE WITH THEM IN THE LAST GAME! I BROUGHT AN ACTUAL, TALKING GETH ONTO YOUR STUPID RAYYA SHIP WHO IS STILL FUNCTIONAL AND WHO YOU COULD BE DISCUSSING PEACE WITH RIGHT THIS VERY SECOND!
What jackasses, except for guys like Koris. If you create something and it becomes sentient, you don't try to kill it. And if you do try to kill it, and then spend hundreds or thousands of years talking about how you were right to try to kill it, then your head needs to be examined.
Okay, I just used my still-a-Spectre-because-I-didn't-kill-the-Council-in-the-first-game status to authorize that the poor asari with PTSD gets that gun she feels vulnerable without. Hopefully she'll just use it as a Security Blanket and not go shooting up the Citadel. Some of my favourite things are on this Citadel, lady. Please do not shoot my favourite things. Part of the reason they are my favourite things is because they do not have bullets in them.
Huh, how about that? The entire Council, even the turian asshole and the asshole named Udina, is being reasonable. (For them.) And Udina, why would you begin dyeing your hair now?
This is getting so long that I think I'll just post what I've written so far and split my time on the Citadel into two or more parts...
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