>>37105015
Woo!

>>37105015
Many apologies for the shortness of the prior thread by the by.

>>37105015
AWWWW YEEEEEE

SPESS MUHREEEEENS~

>>37105039
Yeah, sorry about that.
I had...a stern talking to with my roommate.

>>37105041
Technically Logan's more like..."Space Rent A Cop", if you want to break down his actual profession.

>>37105053
Did you put out a sternly worded piece in the cornwood times?

>>37105069
I word-beat him with my word-stick.

Which is a belt.

>>37105064
AWWWW YEEEEEE

SPESS RENNACOOOOOPS~

>>37105015

You huddle up on the upper catwalk of the engine room, overlooking the circle of five Blue Suns troopers surrounding the bundle of six or so crewman, their M-15 Vindicator battle rifles primed and ready.

"Think Janod's right?" one says. A batarian from his voice.

"ECM jamming doesn't just happen," another says, a human this time. "Probably a boarding party on the way. Why not execute the hostages and bail?"

"Still haven't found what we're paid for," a different batarian says. "Besides, every time we kill a hostage our profit margins drop. Worth more alive, remember?"

"Where Cain go? If he doesn't get back from patrolling the hull I swear...," a human says, and you clutch the pistol grip of your Crusader shotgun. If he comes up here looking for either of the men you've killed, you're in trouble...

"Yeah?" one suddenly says, talking into his helmet. "They're here still. No, why? Shit...we'll be right there!"

"What?" a turian asks.

"Boarders on the starboard side. They're having a firefight with second squad. You, you, and you come with me, you two stay here!" he orders, leaving you with only two security guards instead of five as three of them hustle out of the room towards the distraction Breach Team is setting up."

You exhale a sigh of relief. Time to work.

>WDYD?

>You have superior positioning and cover; take your shot!

>Close for CQB and try to take them out without gunshots!

>>37105270
>Close for CQB and try to take them out without gunshots!

>>37105270
>Close for CQB and try to take them out without gunshots!

>>37105270
>>Close for CQB and try to take them out without gunshots!
Charge one, bisect the other while he's staring dumbly at his friend's crumpled remains.

>>37105270
>Close for CQB and try to take them out without gunshots!

>>37105335
and the third?

>>37105350
There's two.
Three left, two remain.

>>37105350
There's only two. Three left.

>>37105270
Biotic Charge them so you can Nova so you can Biotic Charge so you can Nova

>>37105377
Note that Nova has AoE and they are STILL standing close to kneeling hostages.

You can get close for melee, but Nova-ing will hit them.

>>37105416
That's why I said use the sword. Biotic swordsmanship should end this quickly enough.

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>>37105270

You collapse your shotgun back onto your hip plate and then draw your sword as slowly as you can.

Then you rapidly stand up, place one foot off the rail and vault into a somersault, just as one Blue Sun sees you and aims a rifle at where you WERE when you Warp Step, lightening your body to briefly increase your speed and agility in a flash of blue light, ending up BEHIND him as you swing your monosword just before he can bring his shields up, removing his turian head from his shoulders in a spray of blood!

The other, a batarian, turns and begins to aim his battle rifle and brings up his shields, as you spin and increase the mass of your sword several times over, amplifying the weight and momentum of your Biotic Slash by several times what you can normally swing!

The impact force tears down his shields and hits him just at his midsection where there's gaps in the armor, bisecting him in a spray of gore as his torso THUNKS loudly to the hull!

"Oh God! Oh God!" one of the hostages says, recoiling in terror, the others having similar reactions.

>WDYS?

>"Relax, you're safe now."

>"Calm down, you'll bring the others back!"

>>37105562
>"Relax, you're safe now."

What happened to the Wulin Quest?

>>37105562
>"Relax, you're safe now."

>>37105562
>"Relax, you're safe now."

>>37105562
>"Quiet! You're safe now. I'm here liberating hostages." Give them some questions, like 'Where's the bridge?' and 'Why are they here?' and 'Where's the captain?'

>>37105625
on Christmas break while sage plans in out.

>>37105625
What >>37105656 said, more or less.
Once I finish this storyline for MEQ (which likely won't last even half as long as WHQ has), I plan to pick it back up again.

WHQ is just one of several Quest ideas I had rolling around in my head. This is another one.

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>>37105704
Goddamn roach people.

>>37105562

"Hey, hey, hey!" you say, holding your hand up and stepping forward, pressing the side of your helmet, causing the faceplate to rise up and show your expression and species.

It helps when trying to calm people down; your N7 Armor may be highly functional, but that opaque one-way face plate is awfully intomidating from the outside.

"I'm not with them, I'm part of a rescue team," you say, flicking your sword hard enough to remove the blood from it and sheathing it behind your back as you speak. "The other three just left because my backup is on the other end of the ship."

One of the crewman, a human with dusky skin and a black beard speaks up. "Are...you Alliance?"

You shake your head. "No, we're too close to the Terminus Systems here. I'm security from an Elanus Risk Control Services Special Response Unit."

A salarian, looks like an engineer, speaks next. "But we aren't contracted out with ERCS. Why help us?"

"Because you were in trouble and you needed it," you say simply. "And because these slaving Blue Suns bastards got whatever's coming to them."

>WDYS?

>"How big is the crew? Do you have any security?"

>"Do you know why they hijacked the ship? Or how many there are?"

>You may choose one.

>>37105873
>>"Do you know why they hijacked the ship? Or how many there are?"
Info on the enemy is always good.

>>37105873
>"Do you know why they hijacked the ship? Or how many there are?"

>>37105873
>"Do you know why they hijacked the ship? Or how many there are?"

>>37105873
>"Do you know why they hijacked the ship? Or how many there are?"

>inb4 Reapers

>>37105960
Mild spoiler; the Reapers will in no way ever be relevant to the main storyline of this quest.

>>37105873
>"Do you know why they hijacked the ship? Or how many there are?"

>>37105986
>inb4 WulinSage is indoctrinated

>>37105986
So no reaper war action culminating in a glimpse of shepherd and company

>>37106041
As I said; this is an alternate timeline, and while most of the canon characters exist, if they show up they won't be the way you remember them, and the ones that show will most often not be primary characters.

Mordin has been mentioned in passing as part of Logan's backstor for instance.

>>37105873

"Do any of you have any clue why they would hijack the ship?" you ask, checking for injuries.

A human speaks up. "Because they're damn mercenary pirates, that's why! They want to grab out cargo and sell us to batarian slavers and the Citadel never helps us because we're human!"

You try not to roll your eyes.
The "woe is me, we aren't the center of our own personal universe anymore" attitude Earth-born humans have a lot is really grating to you.

The salarian seems to think so too. "Oh shut up Ren, we're too near the Terminus Systems for the Council to help anyway. Sir, I think I have an idea what they might be after, but it's just a guess."

"Yeah?"

"We're a shipping company freighter; we haul cargo for a fee based on mass displacement in our hold," he explains. "Most of our stuff on this run is fairly basic, but at least one of the crates is an unknown. It's not on the cargo manifest and the captain kept telling us to ignore it. It's probable that he was paid under the table to keep it quiet from C-Sec when we left the Citadel. Since we're headed to Illium pretty much anything we could have for sale is totally legal there."

>>37106255

"Sholtan, the Captain TOLD you to shut up about it!" the same human says.

"The Captain can kiss my cloaca Ren! We've made the Illuim run before on this route with no problems but NOW we get hijacked the time we start smuggling? I don't buy it!" he says simply.

He fiddles with his omnitool. "Here, the crate number in the main hold. I don't know the combination to the lock but you look like that kinda thing isn't much of a problem most days."

>WDYD?

>Move out; time's a-wasting.

>Stay here and gather more intel.

>>37106375
>Move out; time's a-wasting.
We have 3 suns we need to charge/catch.

>>37106375
>Move out; time's a-wasting.

We move out love TurianBro to get intel about the security if any, codes, cams, secret entrance an tht jazz, we scout ahead then rendezvous to check out the cargo

Which totally won't be a boss battle site no sir

>>37106375
Ask if anyone else has anything that would help. If not move on.

>>37106428
>love

Eat a cloaca spell check should be leave

Also wanted to add that u think he's more of a techie than us

>>37106375
>Move out; time's a-wasting.

>>37106375
>Move out; time's a-wasting.

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>>37106375

"Okay, all of you stay here and lock the doors behind you; there's going to be firefights going on and I don't want any of you hurt," you say, taking out your shotgun and again and moving towards the door.

"Sure, we can do that," Sholtan says. "Thanks for the help."

"Don't mention it," you say as the engine room door locks from the other side.

You begin stalking the narrow hallway, following the schematics in your helmet, and after a tense minute of checking corners and watching your back you hear gunfire just head.

"This is Infil-1, sitrep!" you say into your comms.

"I've downed two on my infiltration, no major engagements yet," Aeson responds.

"This is Breach Team! Still in combat, the ship has mechs!" you hear over gunfire, which does NOT match the gunfire sounds from up ahead, so who's shooting at who?

You move up and see a side room with the three Blue Suns mercs around it, except two are dead and there's three Loki mechs scrapped a around them. You're about to take a shot when the Sun rounds the corner to take some shots at whoever's in the room and gets his head blown off for his trouble!

You carefully stalk up to the door and you hear a voice speak out from the room.

"If you're still hungry for more, I have plenty of rounds left you!"

"I'm not with the Blue Suns!" you say in response. "I'm with a rescue team from Elanus Risk Control Services!"

"Oh yeah? Bullshit! I was hired as extra security on this ship and I know for a fact we don't contract out with ECRS!" the male voice says.

"I'm guessing you got away when your guards left for some reason?" you ask confidently.

"Kheelah...that explains it. Alright, come out slow!" he says.

"I'm Jack Logan, ERCS Special Response Unit," you introduce.

It's a Quarian in a red enviro-suit with a Vindicator rifle, likely appropriated from his captors before the fight started.

"Kal'Reegar, Migrant Fleet Marines," he responds, a small light showing up on the "mouth" of his suit.

>>37106744
We just found a new party member. Yaaaay.

>>37106744

"So you're not Blue Suns, or at least not wearing their uniform. What's ECRS doing out here?" he asks, not lowering his rifle as your hands stay up.

"We hear the distress signal and sent in a rescue team when we saw the ship docked with an illegal armed vessel. It's mostly just coincidence," you admit.

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah. My turn; what's a Quarian doing working as hired security?"

"Migrant Fleet trains it's marines damned well. I was finding work where I could. Turns out these guys needed a technical expert who could handle a rifle, and I was it."

"On your Pilgrimage?"

He looks a little surprised, in body language anyway.

"You know about the Pilgrimage?"

"Yeah, I knew a Quarian on one years back."

"Hm....alright," he says, lowering his rifle. "I'll buy it for now. Somehow I'm guessing these Blue Suns guys aren't bright enough to know about it."

>WDYS?

>"How'd you get free?"

>"Do you have any info on what's happening with the ship?"

>>37106890
>"Do you have any info on what's happening with the ship?"

>>37106890
>>"Do you have any info on what's happening with the ship?"

>>37106890
>"Do you have any info on what's happening with the ship?"

>>37106890
>Ask him his side of the events leading up to now.

>>37106744
>"Kal'Reegar, Migrant Fleet Marines,"
Based and best Spess Muhreen

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>>37107042
He's a pretty cool dude who doesn't afraid of anything.

>>37106890

"You're probably right; mercenaries and slavers aren't exactly known for their cultural sensitivity," you say with a nod. "So what happened on here anyway?"

"Before or after the attack? Either way it's a real short story. I was performing my duties, routine maintinence checks and all that when the ship got hit with these merc bastards," he says, gesturing at a corpse with his rifle.

"The security was actually doing pretty well holding them off until sonehow they got to the main computer in the bridge and turned the damn mechs on us. Stupid to use more mechs for security then you have warm bodies. Machines aren't reliable."

You can imagine where that attitude comes from at least. Plus he's right.

"Do you know about the unmarked cargo crate?" you ask.

"That damn thing? I knew that was trouble when I first spotted it, nobody what the hell was IN it. I asked the security chief about it and he said 'medical transplant organs'. Bullshit; scanned it for life and bio signs to see if we were shipping people on the sly, and there was nothing alive in there."

>>37107378
>nothing alive in there
We can reliably rule out an under table shipment of medigel since I'm pretty sure it registers as a living organism to scans..

>>37107378
...or there might be something unalive! Bum bum bum.

>>37107378

"Look, I need to get to the bridge to lock down the ship," you say, pulling your shotgun back out.

"I'm with you then; I'm still on company payroll as a freelancer and that means pulling the Anubis ass out of the fire is my problem too. It'd be easier if we tagged along, seeing as I'll head that way anyway."

>WDYD?

>"I work better on my own." [Refuse]

>"I'll take point." [Accept]

>>37107469

Bet it's some prothean artifact. Maybe even a beacon.

>>37107488
>>"I'll take point." [Accept]
More the merrier

>"I'll take point." [Accept]
Quarian Marine Bro GET.

>>37107488
>"I'll take point." [Accept]
Keep me covered.

>>37107488
>>"I'll take point." [Accept]

>>37107488

>"I'll take the point." [Accept]
Too meta, I know, but fuck it.

>>37107488
>>"I'll take point." [Accept]
are we not going to take one of the coolest mofos in the series.

>>37107488
Your with me Superman!

>who?

Another guy with the name Kal and a hyphen.

>Oh

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>>37107488

>NEW PARTY MEMBER
>KAL'REEGAR VOS NARA
>CLASS: QUARIAN MARINE (COMBAT/TECH)

"Be nice to have some backup," you accept with a nod. "I'll take point though, one of my crew might get twitchy and shoot if they see someone armed who's not me."

"I'm fine with watching your back. I'm more of a point-and-shoot man anyway," he admits, taking up poisition on your six and following you out.

"So, just the pair of us against a whole ship fulla pissed-off mercs? Does that make us crazy or stupid?" he asks.

"Makes us Big Damn Heroes," you respond without thinking, moving down the hall.

"Aren't we just?" he agrees, following you, appropriated weapon at the ready.

>>37107783
I see Logan reads TV Tropes

>>37107783
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w5JlDn9WCw Now we're some Fucking Heroes

>>37107819
Alternatively; the joke is Kal'Reegar is voiced by Adam Baldwin, The Man They Called Jayne.

>>37107783

You both move up and you activate your radio channel.

"Breach, Two, this is One. Got found a hired security man with me. He can handle himself and he knows the ship, he's with me?"

"One, Breach," the Breach Team leader responds. "Are you sure that's a good idea? He doesn't know proper hierarchy and chain of command here,"

"Tell the guy on the other end of that line he should worry about protocol and COC when he can make sure his encryption on the comms he's using is worth a crap. I'm already tapped into your communications link without even needing access. The Suns' too," Reegar says, his voice coming in clear over the commlink.

You smile.
The "point-and-shoot man" just hacked into two separate communications channels in less then a minute. Clearly he's smarter then he claims to be.

"Get off this channel! You don't have-" Breach Team begins, but surprisingly Captain Garm cuts him off.

"Whoever he is, he stays with you Logan," his deep voice says simply.

>>37108084

>WDYD?

>Head for the cargo hold.

>Try to link up with Breach Team.

>>37108084
>>Head for the cargo hold.
Breach team is still the distraction for our movements.

>>37108216
>Head for the cargo hold.

>>37108216
>Head for the cargo hold.

>>37108216
>Head for the cargo hold.

>>37108216
>>Head for the cargo hold.
take out any blue sun reinforcements then hit the main group. I don't want to get hit from both sides as we try and meat up with our distraction team.

>>37105562
wait we have a sword? ew what the shit

BRB, buying lunch before post.

>>37108441
We're Kai Leng's commercial clone. Haven't you read the memo?

>>37108441
N7 Slayer Vanguard standard ish.

>>37108470
>>37108473
why are we bothering with melee when we have the instant death palm cannon of bullshit?

>>37108604
Have you ever played the N7 vanguard on ME3 multi? More or less that with some other powers added in.

>>37108632
Extensively, and last I remember he has 5 shots of fuck-everything-in-a-20-foot-radius-and-fuck-armor-or-shields-in-particular.

Are we actually an n7 slayer? Current level/abilities?

>>37108470
Without the trolling dickhead ceral killer part.
>>37108604
Because that was equipment, not a biotic power. Unless you mean Disruptor Pulse, in which case it just hasn't been used yet.
>>37108632
Since I'm running it based on fluff rather then pure gameplay technically he has potential access to all types of Biotic powers, it's just that he has more proficiency with Kinetic Fields and Telekinesis then Spatial Disruption.

>>37108632
I think that's where he brought the palm gun from.

Do we actually have one of those?

>>37108692
Can we spec into phase disruptor next opportunity we get?

>>37108720
Once again; this is closer to the fluff then the gameplay.

In gameplay many characters are significantly differently capable then they are in the fluff for balance and mechanical limitation reasons, especially Biotics in general.

Example; Liara threatens to crush the bones of someone in dialogue with her Biotics, but in gameplay there's actually no way to do that. You can toss people, throw people, damage people with warp, but not "crush him with your mind until he fits into a thimble" as she puts it.

In one of the books when Wrex (a particularly powerful biotic) shows up he actually uses his powers to severely damage a Mako tank by compressing it's mass, effectively totaling it, which of course he can't do in gameplay.

>>37108084

Your trip to the cargo hold is uneventful, but tense as you methodically stalk the hallways.

Finally the cargo room doors open, and you're in a twenty-meter high 500-meter long room filled with cargo crates. Off in the distance you can hear gunfire.

"Two, One. Sitrep?"

"On the far side of the cargo hold, hitting and running! Could use some backup Logan!" he says in between shots over the comm.

"Wilco! On our way!"

>WDYD?

>Take the high road via the tops of the crates, while Kal'Reegar covers the floor.

>Take the low road, covering the floor and narrows of the cargo hold while Reegar covers you from above.

>>37109056
>Take the low road, covering the floor and narrows of the cargo hold while Reegar covers you from above.

>>37109056
Take the low road, covering the floor and narrows of the cargo hold while Reegar covers you from above.
We can charge up top I need be, Reegar need the height advantage.

>37109056
>Take the low road, covering the floor and narrows of the cargo hold while Reegar covers you from above.

>>37109056
>Take the low road, covering the floor and narrows of the cargo hold while Reegar covers you from above.

>>37109056
>>Take the low road, covering the floor and narrows of the cargo hold while Reegar covers you from above.

>>37109056
Won't Kal be more exposed to gunfire up there? In that case he'd be more useful taking the ground route...

>>37109178
He's weak in cqc we aren't

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>>37109195
I don't know, quarian cqc training tends to be pretty intense.

>>37109274
Still, we most likely have the superior training and physical prowess for cqc.

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>>37109297
I suppose you're right.
I was just looking for excuse to post that picture.

>>37109347
don't blame you mate, the Elcor one is pretty cool to.

>>37109056
>>Take the low road, covering the floor and narrows of the cargo hold while Reegar covers you from above.
Reegar's suited for ranged, while CQC is our whole thing.

>>37109078, >>37109084, >>37109114, >>37109152, >>37109164, >>37109390
Posting.

>>37109056
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyZFP-skjRM
Appropriate action music starts at 2:22

"You take topside?" you question, and he nods. He is the one with a battle rifle after all.

He climbs up topside and clicks his omnitool, and on his body glowing orange tech armor appears around him, and you both stalk forward.

Immediately you see him laying down volleys of burst fire at targets up ahead, and around a corner of a crate a Blue Sun appears and plant a warp-boosted slug from your Crusader into his upper torso just as Reegar's Vindicator brings down his shields!

You stalk forward as his backup rounds the corner, blasting another one down with a pair of heavy shots that collapse his shields and torso alike before you plant a single round into the head of a LOKI mech walking beside him, blowing it apart!

CHA-CHAK!

You rack the slide and a glowing-hot thermal clip ejects as you round the corner and begin blasting off shots at a group Reegar has covered, killing one more as he drops two, keeping them too low to move!"

"Frag out!" Reegar says, tossing a grenade into the huddled low group of Blue Suns, and you both turn as an explosion blasts apart their cover and everything else around them!

CHA-CHAK!

You and Reegar keep stalking forward, keeping your opposition forced to divide between attacking you and Reegar or Aeson!

You listen into their com chatter!

"We're holding the team at the starboard but there's some other group tearing us to pieces in the cargo hold! We're loosing people faster then reinforce them!" says one voice.

"Then send mechs, we can't let the larger party get any farther!" comes a response.

"The mechs aren't helping, and we need more of them just to keep the main group tied down, the stupid things can't shoot for shit!" he protests.

"How many are we talking about, we're facing down six or seven in the breach!"

"There MUST be that many guys in the cargo hold, we're loosing patrols there faster then I can track!"

>>37109986
Reegar + Logan Too Stronk

Pls nerf bioware

>>37109986
We gotta recruit Reegar

Can Reeger hack bots?

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>>37109986

"Just hold them off, we'll reinforce-" he begins, but stops, which means he was probably that batarian you just planted your last slug into who's fingers were near the side of his helmet.

You rack the slide of your shotgun again and the last thermal clip for it ejects out, and you duck behind a small crate, saying "Swapping!" into your comm, prompting Reegar to lay down covering fire as you draw your sword!

"Out! Reloading!" Reegar says as you rise up and Charge the enemy positions, BLASTING into them with your biotic force and then slamming your Nova into the ground to blast them back and recharge your barriers!

You immediately begin going to work with your sword, cutting out the throat of one in front of you and dodging the shot of another just as Reegar puts him down from above and behind you!

You move close to one covered in tech armor and position your body to push aside his shotgun as it discharges past you, and you Biotic Slash, your blade glowing purple-blue as it shears through shields and armor, taking off his head!

You turn, and as one of your fallen foes gets up you kick his leg out from under him just as a burst of assault rifle fire from the opposite direction nails him, prompting Aeson to join you as he sneaks out from behind a crate opposite to you and Reegar, as you sheathe your sword!

He goes back to back with you as you draw your pistol and start firing, and Reegar hops down from his perch after seeing his isolation position and joins you both as you stand in the open area and each cover and angle with massdriver rounds!

After a twenty second eternity you Mozambique Drill a final turian soldier and then suddenly everything is silent, your barrels smoking and each of you pointed in one direction.

You pull back the slide on your pistol, ejecting the glowing hot cartridge as Reegar and Aeson tap out their own from their rifles.

"Aeson Favius. Nice to meet you," Aeson says after a pause.

"Kal'Reegar vos Nara. Likewise."

>>37110413
>vos
immersion lost

>>37110413
>>37110588
Yeah, I wasn't going to say anything, but...

>>37110413

"Looks like we're clear," you say, but you stay wary and begin looking for spare thermal clips for your shotgun amongst the dead.

"Nice shooting Marine," Aeson compliments with a nod.

"You too. You guys actually ERCS? You certainly don't fight like rent-a-cops," he says, surprised at your competency.

"Special Response Units have a much higher degree of training then a normal security contractor," you explain, though in this case it's true only because you guys are the ONLY SRU team out here....

>WDYD?

>Look for that unknown crate.

>Link up with Breach Team.

>Head up to the bridge.

>>37110724
>>Look for that unknown crate.

>>37110724
>Look for that unknown crate.

Makesure it's secure, Breach team should be capable of handling things.

>>37110588
>>37110699
So sue me: I forget the linguistic rules of fake languages.

Speaking of which, if a translator is translating everything for everyone, how are you even getting any of their native language words I wonder?

>>37110724
>>Look for that unknown crate.
"Salarian said they were after something here. I wanna know what, and why."

>>37110724
>Look for that unknown crate.

>>37110769
That is something that has bothered me with every translator handwave ever.

>>37110769
Improper translations. 'Keelah' is used as a colloquial term, like 'Motherfucker' or 'Asshat'. I'd assume those words don't quite translate either.

>>37110724
>>Look for that unknown crate

>>37110724
>Look for that unknown crate.

>>37110724
>Mystery Box!

>>37110830
I always thought it meant homeworld, but was used as a colloquial like God or Christ.

We're told Keelah se'lai roughly translates to til we see the homeworld again, or something

>>37111026
"Keelah"="By the Homeworld!" (probably just "homeworld").
"Keelah se'lai"="By the Homeworld I hope to see someday!"

They use it as a colloquial due to the significance their home planet has in their migrant culture.

>>37111026
It does, but it's not often used in a literal way.

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>>37111076

They're just messing with you OP.

>>37110724
Yet another break must be taken, this one a fairly long one I'm afraid.

I'll definitely be back later though.

>>37111252
>Jack

Muh waifu

Which surprised me cause I'm an assman

>>37111252
Haha, love this one.

I'll answer whatever questions I can while I finish up work, since that takes less time then full posts BTW.

>>37111326
Personality is more important.

>>37111334
>I'll answer whatever questions

Wheres Jack?

>>37111567
Though I have no idea when this story takes place my best guess is that she is still on Purgatory.

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>>37111352

Sage wisdom.

although I'm personally more Tali man in this respect.

>>37111567
Either running around fucking up people around the galaxy or in Purgatory.
>>37111601
The game takes place around 2182 CE (a year before ME1) in an alternate timeline.
Jack Logan is one of the very first graduates of the Grissom Academy and the Ascension Project, and is about four years younger then Shepard was in ME1.

>>37111627
Tali's pretty entertaining.
Also her comments when initiating romance with her are pretty amusing, because in retrospect it's kinda obvious.

>"An impressionable young girl on her own in the galaxy for the first time ever is suddenly rescued by a dashing hero who then takes her off on a whirlwind adventure to save the galaxy. How could she POSSIBLY ever be attracted to someone like that?"

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>MEANWHILE ON THE CITADEL

Why is Mordin and Wrex the best characters in Mass Effect?

>>37112222
Nice quads wulin.

>>37112266
>Not the Hamster

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>>37112269
You know it.

>>37112266
>Wrex
Because he's basically an orc for his universe but also walking proof that krogan are only the orcs of the ME setting because they ALLOW themselves to be pidgeonholed as such, and he is fully planning on dragging his people to glory and civilization even if he has to do it with them kicking and screaming the whole time.
>Mordin
Because he's a hugely complex character; aged but active, funny yet has some of the most serious and emotionally moving parts of the series revolving around him, a scientist but also a man of faith, a person with enough conviction to help sterilize a species but enough conscience to question the need for it, who's already gone through a great deal of character development in his backstory but actually still goes through yet more in ME2/ME3.

And he can sing.

>>37112285
The hamster already was a prominent guest star in another game, thus he already had all the spotlight needed.

So with our team coming together, a powerhouse krogan, an elite turian, a weaponized techmarine quarian and basically Vanguard Wolverine. What else do we need to add to this party? My vote would be a combat medic salarian or...well any elcor will do. We still have an asari tsundere to find.

>>37112458
We need a volus acrobat...

>>37112458
>Jack Logan: N7 Slayer Vanguard (CQB/Biotic Specialist)
>Aeson Favius: Turian Cabal Vanguard (Combat/Biotic Specialist)
>Kal'Reegar: Quarian Marine (Combat/Tech Specialist)
>Weyrloc Garm: Krogan Warlord (Tech/Biotic Specialist)
>Unknown Asari: Asari Huntress (Infiltrator/Biotic Specialist)

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>>37112547
>We need a volus acrobat...

You're covered.

>>37112579
Need a friendly Batarian medic too.

>>37112458
>We still have an asari tsundere to find.
>>37112558
>>Unknown Asari: Asari Huntress (Infiltrator/Biotic Specialist)
Yes please.

>>37112642
You sir are a blight, that I shall heal.

>>37112670
Exactly with as mile and holographic blade. Note he'd be the field doctor.

Seekng Kal reminds me of his fate in ME3, though someone was able to make even that a badass last stand.

https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9205200/3/

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>>37112692
Who wouldn't trust this face?
>>37112717
His badassery yet his underuse (likely because they couldn't get Mr Baldwin again) in ME3 were one of the reasons I included him in this plot.

>>37112740
Batarian medic now nicknamed Barty

Y'know what would go well with our sword, a Shadow Broker shield. Then we can pull Captain America moves, along with cool sword stunts.

>>37112740

I miss the old mass effect quest. Especially the second crew, with captain with multiple personality disorder that required rolls to determine which personality is active and additional rolls when confronted with batarians to not put a hole in them.

>>37111334
any idea when you'll be finished with work?

>>37112895
>Barty the Batarian
Heh.
>>37112924
You mean an omnitool shield presumably?
>>37112940
Never read it or saw it.
Sounds....very 4chan.
>>37112979
Trying to get done fast. Lawyers are demanding folk. Shouldn't be long now. Apologies.

>>37112998
>Trying to get done fast. Lawyers are demanding folk. Shouldn't be long now. Apologies.
No worries Sage, I was just wondering to see whether I had time to go do some other things in the meanwhile

>>37113024
Hell, I even encourage it.

I'm forced to CONSTANTLY do things while I QM this stuff as it were.

>>37112558
Now all we need is a ol Soldier girl

[Spoiler]Prefably With a nice ass [/spoiler]

And a nicer personality

>>37113093
that can be our asari huntress when we hatefuck her into loyalty and servitude

>>37113093
N7 Furies have the best ass. Also are the craziest.

>>37113131
Think he meant just a straight soldier.

Guns guns and more guns.

>>37113229
>N7 Furries have the best ass. Also are the craziest.
This is how I read it at first.

>>37113270
>Furry Fury

>>37113229
Recruit I'm pretty sure the very first page of the N7 manual says and I quote

"Never stick your dick in Crazy" - Commander Descartes 2157

Its literally the first and only page

>>37113351
With all due respect, sergeant, it went fairly well for Commander Shepard.

Beside Mankind wouldn't have reached its situation without being bold and audacious.

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>>37113456
>tfw Shepard dies if he dicks that one crazy Asari

He's right you know

>>37113484
I laughed when some people were surprised at that. I mean they pretty much told you over and over;
>"If you fuck her you die."

Including BY her.

>>37113724
Yeah, I laughed like a bitch when my cousin ended up dying by her.

>>37113724
I mean it's said several times by several people but the best part is taking the time to laugh at people who were surprised

Posting now

>>37113484
But Fury are humans sisters, what could possibly go wrong ?

>>37113724
i liked samura to much to go for her daughter.

>>37113896
Same, I was sad you couldn't dick Samara, but I made a safe and dicked her daughter just to see what it was like expecting the result.

>>37113724
>>37113747
It should have deleted your save game as well.

... That's probably why I'm not in game design.

>>37113928
I tried to go for Samara but got that scene where she freezes you.

She clearly would've done you if it was a couple hundred years earlier.

>>37113951
>... That's probably why I'm not in game design.
Yeah thats a good thing...

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>>37110724

"Kal'Reegar, can you find that crate for us?" you ask the red-suited quarian as you reload your shotgun.

"Sure, it's over this way," he says, pointing his rifle in the direction.

"Lieutenant Logan, are you intact?" Captain Garm's voice says through the comlink.

"Sir, yes Sir. There's a suspicious cargo container onboard that might be the cause of all this fuss," you explain to your CO.

"I see. Exercise caution when opening it. Our area is secured, I'll be there shortly," he responds.

"Roger that Sir," you say, then blink for after a second.

"Wait, how did you get on the SHIP Sir?" you wonder, perplexed.

"With Breach Team, Logan. How else do you think they managed to tie up the majority of the pirate borders?" he asks, as if it were obvious.

"Uuh...copy that Sir. See you momentarily," you say, regaining your composure.

"Your CO sounds a little odd," Reegar says aloud, his turning to you slightly as he walks ahead.

"He's a krogan," you admit.

"Hah! Good one!"

"No, seriously. He's a five century old krogan warlord."

"It's okay, you can just admit he's a bit nuts. There's always one like 'em in any organization, even the Migrant Fleet," he confides.

"Seriously. A krogan. Red skin, gunmetal grey plate on his head, yellow eyes. Probably from Tuchanka."

"Alright, so don't tell me if you don't want to, sheesh," Reegar says with a shrug.

>>37114265
Oh, its gonna be hilarious when they meet.

>>37114265
your funeral kid

We also crave that krogan's shotgun with the passion of a thousand exploding relays.

>>37114451
no we don't, the crusader is our raifu

>>37114451
Well yeah the Claymore is a bitching shotgun, instagibs most enemies without mods. Of course the Crusader is a good choice too, but the ability to choose *shudder* can make any vanguard feel alive.

>>37114451
Logans tiny pathetic fleshy human arms are too weak to withstand a Claymore's recoil, thus he is incapable of using it.

Unless you mean Garm's penis, in which case you're a weird fellow.

>>37114301
>"Seriously? A krogan suit? Do you do this with all the new guys? Well, you people certainly don't cut any corners, I'll give you that. Just a tip: real krogan aren't quite that ugly."

>>37114500
If that happens I will laugh my ass off.

>>37114584
which will lead to him screaming

I AM KROOOOOOGAAAN!!

>>37114495
Little of both actually...

Garm calls it the Thrasher.

I have said too much.hi

>>37114608
No, it'll lead to him shooting the wiseass Quarian.

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>>37114265

"This is the one." Reegar says with a nod towards a large black shipping crate with blue lines that is otherwise unmarked. The far end you're on has an automated door with an electronic lock on it.

"Ominous much?" you mutter, and Aeson nods in agreement.

"Reegar, can you open the-" you begin, and he presses his omnitool against the lock and removes it's seal from the door.

"Yeah, that," you say with a nod, bringing up your shotgun and carefully moving closer as the door enters.

It's dark inside, but your helmet illuminates it, as does the light from the cargo bay. It's rows and rows of boxes everywhere.

"Help me out with this," you say to Aeson as Reegar scans them.

"I'm getting....slight eezo reedings from some of this stuff," he notes as you crack open a create.

Inside there's dozens of large metal cannisters about the size of your forearm, one of which you pick up.

You turn it, noticing that the labels, small and unreadable as they are, are in English.
And as you turn it completely over you see a symbol that doesn't need a language to interpret it's meaning.

"Oh shit....," you mutter.

>>37114803
Ahahahahahahahahahaha put it back and lock the container up and fucking space that shit ahahahahahahahahahahaha i dont wanna touch it

>>37114803
Open it up, we have to know just HOW toxic this thing is.

>>37114803
>>37114830
This

>>37114803
Um... How does one cleanse their self of eezo contamination?

>>37114881
Omnigel it up.

>>37114881
Biotics is itself eezo contamination.

But there's probably some way to do it.

>>37114803
so what redsand

>>37114803

"What?" Aeson says as you look at the cannister then look up at the other boxes inside the rest of the container.

There could be over a THOUSAND of these things in a cargo container this big if that's what every single one of these boxes is filled with.

"What?!" Aeson, says now worried as you put the cannister down and back away.

"There's something toxic in those cannisters," you say.

"Shit! Wait, shouldn't this cargo container be hermetically sealed? We're safe right?" he says, not liking the sound of that.

"It WAS hermetically sealed. We just opened the goddamn thing up..." you say in growing alarm.

Reegar is still calm.
"Look, those cannisters have that warning label on them and look pretty solid, so I don't think we're contaminated yet. I kind of have personal experience with that kind of safety measures," he notes. "You're sure that symbol means 'toxic', not radioactive?"

"Yeah, it's kinda hard to mistake for anything else, you know?" you respond.

"Okay. I'm picking up faint eezo readings, but not much. Eezo's probably used in the manufacture of....whatever is in those things, but it's not enough to be actively radioactive or anything, so we're good I think."

"What seems to be the problem?" comes the voice of your CO as his heavy footfalls thump up behind you loudly.

His armor is COVERED in purple, red, and yellow gore, and in his left hand is a massive single-edged battle axe that must be used on skycrapers back on Tuchanka to prepare for Megaviolent Krogan Christmas or something.

>WDYD?

>"Sir! Do we have the ship secured, Sir, and the hostages?"

>"Might have a slight problem here Sir."

>"I sure as hell hope all those pirates are dead, Sir

>>37115208
>"Might have a slight problem here Sir."

>>37115208
>"Sir! Do we have the ship secured, Sir, and the hostages?"

>"Might have a slight problem here Sir."

>>37115208
>>"Might have a slight problem here Sir."

>>37115208
>>"Might have a slight problem here Sir."

One of the few things that he might pay attention to is toxic shit. Even krogans care about that.

>>37115208
"Something made using Eezo, Sir. You wanna hold it? Cause I really, REALLY don't want to be touching this shit anymore."

>"Might have a slight problem here Sir."

>>37115208
>"Might have a slight problem here Sir."

>>37115208
>>"Might have a slight problem here Sir."

>>37115208
>"No problem Sir. Hey, you like football? Go deep!"

>>37115208
>>"Might have a slight problem here Sir."

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>>37115208

"Captain," you say with a nod.

"Logan," he says back with an identical one.

"So what do we have here?" he asks, looking at the cannisters.

"Some sort of toxic chemical Sir. It's either Earth-manufactured or made for human use by the biohazard symbol on the side," you explain.

"Hm. Contagious?" he asks, picking up and examining the cannister.

"No, they look sealed. The cargo container was too until we open it. Whatever's in there isn't out yet, so we're safe," you say.

"Good. Let's keep it that way. We've already moving the civilians onto the Firewalker, this craft has been irreparably damaged by the pirate craft's weaponry," he explains, turning and placing the cannister back down into the crate.

"Moving them onto the what now?"

"Our ship. 'Say My Name' was a placeholder originally; the onboard VI asks you that when it turns on and some idiot repeated the phrase back to it and it assumed that was it's official designation," he explains.

"Oh. Yeah, I though that was kinda odd...," you say with a shrug.

"We'll collect a sample of this toxin and keep it in containment in med bay and place a waring beacon on the craft to keep others away. We could examine the material at least and determine it's usage later."

A human man in civilian clothes walks up and points at the Captain.

"You can't just ask me to LEAVE our cargo here! It represents hundreds of thousands of credit profits for our shipping company!" he protests angrily.

"Maybe you'd like to explain why your company is shipping toxic chemicals out of the Citadel on unmarked unregistered crates?" you ask, folding your arms.

He blanches and says nothing, but a voice behind you interrupts you all.

"B....bastards!"

Everyone with guns turns and points them at a half-dead human with four sucking chest wounds.

He's holding one of the cannisters on both ends.

>>37116016
OH SHIT NIGGA. WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

>>37116016
shoot him, shoot him a lot

>>37116016
Restrain his arms with biotics

>>37116016
stasis his ass

>>37116016
''Calm down, I'm sure whatever it is its not worth getting your spine biotically pulled out of your ass.''

>>37116016

You wonder for less a half-second what the hell he's trying to do; he cannister is titanium, and given the chest wounds and huge blood stain caused when he dragged himself over he's too weak to twist such a tightly sealed object open....then the instant is up and you realize he isn't TRYING to open it.

"NO, WAIT!" you call out as some of the troops open fire, killing him and shreddin the metallic cannister! It's dull silvery grey contents have strains of rich eezo blue in them, and they splash over his left less corpse!

"Helmets on, everyone helmets on!" you say, and thankfully everyone there already was prepared for combat, thus wore their helmets...except for the captain of this ship.

"Oh god, oh god! We have to go!" he says, panicking, grabbing Garm.

"Relax human. It doesn't appear to be an aerosol, we'll be fine as long as we evacuate," he says calmly, pushing him off.

"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE BEFORE THE PROTOMASS-" he begins, but then suddenly his head bursts as a gunshot rings out!

You all turn back to where used to be the corpse of the Blue Suns soldier.

He's not dead anymore, and there's disturbing not-quite-organic looking veins and pieces sticking out of his body. His eyes are COMPLETELY blue, and they glow even in the half-light of the cargo hold. His rifle is in his hands.

"What the fuck?" is all you can say at the sight. You don't have the slightest clue what you're looking at.

"No life signs," Reegar says suddenly.

"What?" Aeson asks.

"I'm telling you I'm getting no life signs from...whatever the hell that thing is!"

>>37116502
Since when has that meant we can't shoot it?

>>37116502
So this is where we see the Krogan varient of HIBV?

>>37116586
Hopefully.

I can't wait for HIBS with our asari huntress.

>>37116502
Perforate the fuck outta that corpse.

>>37116639
Its cause she was the first female with a personality that we saw huh? I notice thats a trend in alot of /tg/ quests.

>>37116691
Not really, I wouldn't care if we met others first, I just want her, if we can have Nagase the pilot too, then thats a bonus

>>37116502

Aeson decides to take that as a "weapons free" order and opens fire, planting severl rounds from his Phaeston into his (it's?) torso, perforating it.

It doesn't seem to notice.

Reegar fires a burst of of fire that blows apart it's shoulder, severing it's left arm and letting the rifle and limb fall to the ground.

It doesn't seem to notice.

You raise your shotgun and fire ONE shot, blowing apart it's heads.

It still doesn't seem to notice.

Finally the moment's shock is over and the whole team begins firing on it, tearing the thing apart....as well as sending bullets into the cargo container where the cannister came from as it falls inside of it.

"Oh FUCK," you whisper as more of the silver and blue-veined goop leaks out and somehow GLOMBS onto his body like some kind of playdough, beginning to rebuilt it's broken parts!

As the body violently seizes up and the stuff seems to put it's body back to together in an increasingly warped form, it's thrashing smashing cannisters apart you remember your first thought; maybe a thousand of them.

"We need to go!" you shout, realizing it's true as the no longer fully humanoid thing begins to dramatically increase in size and mass as more of the goop hits it's body.

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>>37116873

>>37116873

And once again I gotta stop, this time for the rest of the night.

Sorry guys!

>>37117015
We Resident Evil now

>>37117015
Ahahahahahaha it'll be fun blowing the fuck out of this thing with ship guns.

>>37117015
Well Thanks for running Night wulin!

>>37117043
Not precisely, no.
Kinda surprised nobody figured it out yet.

>>37117015
Night Sage, thanks for running.

>>37117081
Abberants? Husks? Dead reaper goo?

>>37117015
Where's the N7 paladins when you need em

>>37117015
damnit that fucking cliffhanger

thanks for the thread

>>37117112
Kinda, sorta, almost.

>>37117112
Yea liquidized Dragon's Tooth. Dammit TIM stop fucking with shit beyond our understanding.

>>37117147
Reaper building blocks goo?

>>37117170
Pretty much. It's that shit in the Dragon's Teeth that replaces all your stuff with techno-organic parts.

With one significant difference of course, as you'll find out next time.

>>37117171
Nah, that stuff is mostly just organic goo really, nothing special about it except that for some reason Reapers need it to make new Reapers.

>>37117236
I'm thinking Blacklight.

>>37118479
Nah, nothing as...I dunno what the word to use here is.

"Nothing as Spider-Man as that?"

Because let's face it; he was basically Carnage.

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>>37106744
>"Kal'Reegar, Migrant Fleet Marines,"
Oh fuck the hell yes. We need to find him either a Revenant or a Typhoon.

>>37121319
or Vera

>>37121358
I was going to make that joke later actually.

>>37121358
Who?

>>37131131
watch firefly