>>37351270
my body is ready.

>>37351356
As is mine. Where are my blue bitches?

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>>37351270

The noise of Afterlife hums around you as an ambient noise so loud it drowns out all else, and Aeson and Kal'Reegar shift nervously.

"You don't seriously think this is a good idea, do you Logan?" the turian asks. "She's Aria T'Loak's DAUGHTER for spirit's sake. I wouldn't trust her as far as I could lift her."

"It's throw," you reply, checking the heat sink on your M-11 pistol.

"What?"

"It's 'you wouldn't trust her as far as you can throw her'."

"Oh," the turian says, thinking about it. "Yeah, that makes a lot more sense actually. How do you humans keep track of all your sayings and adge's anyway?"

"We don't, we just forget the old ones and have new people say the same thing slightly different and attribute it to them instead," you remark druly.

Kal'Reegar chimes in as well.

"Gotta agree with Aeson Sir. Just because her and her mother appear to be having some kinda family dispute doesn't mean she can be trusted. Might be running some kind of con."

>WDYS?

>"I think she can be expected to be straightforward at least."

>"Noted. Now watch my back."

>>37351471
>"I think she can be expected to be straightforward at least."
>"But."
>"Noted. Now watch my back."

>>37351471
>>"Noted. Now watch my back."
we did beat her once we can do it again.

>>37351471
>"Noted. Now watch my back."

>>37351471
>>"I think she can be expected to be straightforward at least."

>>37351471
>>"Noted. Now watch my back."

>>37351471
>"Noted. Now watch my back."

>>37351471
>>"Noted. Now watch my back."

>>37351471
>"Noted. Now watch my back."

>>37351471

"Noted, soldier. I'm doing this anyway," you say firmly.

The quarian stiffens up in a military posture. "Yes Sir. Sorry Sir,"

"Don't be. Your concerns are valid. We just don't have a lot of available options at the moment. I don't think she'll try anything right now but be ready in case shit does go down," you suggest.

"Sir," Reegar nods as you follow the asari commando into the private room where she requested to meet you.

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>>37351645

The door shuts behind you and she sits on the leather couch embedded into the wall, arms lain across the top with her legs crossed. Must've learned from her mother.

"Sit down Handsome. You look tense," she smilees, as you cross your arms and level a neutral gaze at her.

>WDYS?

>"I'll stand, thanks. Get to the point."

>"Sounds like you and your mother aren't on the best of terms."

>>37351741
>>"I'll stand, thanks. Get to the point."

>>37351741
>>"Sounds like you and your mother aren't on the best of terms."

>>37351741
>"Sounds like you and your mother aren't on the best of terms."

>>37351741
>"Sounds like you and your mother aren't on the best of terms."
>Captcha suchbad
This is not a good sign...

>>37351741
> Sounds like you and your mother aren't on the best of terms

>>37351741
>"I'll stand, thanks. Get to the point."

>>37351741
Before you try this whole shindig I don't care if you go to prison, or simply walk out of here. So why don't you tell me what I need to know. Besides we both know its a small galaxy, we'll both run into each other later despite any odds. Bolting now just incentivises me to shoot you later.

>>37351741

"Family problems?" you ask, sitting across from her and laying your pistol where you can draw it fast if need be.

"You could say that," she says rubbing a hand along the back of her crest, like she's got a sore neck. "If you haven't noticed she's a little bit of a control freak. I got awfully tired of it when I got older and struck off on my own. She didn't approve."

"Not seeing how that's much different from any other asari ever," you note, remembering that asari frequently leave home once they reach a matured age.

"It's not, but like I said; control freak. I joined up with Eclipse and did merc work with them for awhile, which pissed her off of course since she's no friend to them. After they made a request of me I wouldn't do, I left. The parting was not amicable, and so I made some enemies."

"Funny," you say with a snort, shaking your head with a smile.

"What is?" she asks smiling back.

"You. You have mommy issues and to spite her you went and joined a sorority she didn't approve of and partied hard for awhile before you realized friend you buy at a sorority aren't real friends and all and then left. It's funny because I'm guessing it took you decades to run through a process a million human girls go through in four or five years tops," you say, boiling down her story to it's essential story, one that's such an Earth stereotype that it's a movie cliche.

Her unwavering cool shakes a bit. "You sure talk like you know a lot. I've been around a LOT longer then you, human. Your species barely even achieved interstellar space flight thirty years ago or so,"

"You're an unemployed soldier," you point out. "Not even that; you were part of a merc group, you don't even HAVE a professional record. I grew up here. I lived among aliens my whole life, asari included; your age doesn't impress me. Especially since I handed your ass to you back on Vendexa."

>>37351991
>shotsfired.jpg

This anon needs to get some sleep now, fellow anons please keep being awesome, and make sure to have awesome hatesex with this blue space babe and hopefully recruit her to our team.

>>37351991
Oh Damn better get some medi gel for that burn!

>>37351991
i didn't know we had incendiary rounds.

Oh hey new mass effect quest.

Logans just as snarky as ever I see. Does he ever NOT hit the big red shiny buttons to get people riled up?

>>37351991

Her cool exterior resumes and she smiles again.

"You humans are always so presumptuous and hasty. I don't remember loosing. We called a truce."

"Old human saying; truces and negotiations are the art of saying 'nice doggy' over and over while you look for the bigger stick. You truced with me because you were worried about loosing the fight, and NOW you're negotiating with me because you know you can't run and can't figure out a way to weasal out of it yet. Thankfully for you I'm willing to listen, because you're a secondary target at best for me at the moment. So let's talk business and treat each other like adults, even if only one of us actually is."

>>37352108
i see we upgraded incendiary rounds to inferno rounds.

>>37352108
Duck I love this snarky ashore

Don't we have to change heatsinks at some point with all these shots?

>>37352108

"Okay, have it your way," she says with a huff, crossing her arms. "I thought we could flirt more. Humans males are cute, and I haven't had any," she says with a smile.

"Like I said; the Catwoman thing doesn't work. I'm working and I'm very much a professional."

She sighs. "Eclipse was hired as a proxy group to blow up an Alliance frigate, which is what exploded above your colony. The commandos were also hired to assassinate key individuals in the colony, and before you ask I don't know why or by whom. Somebody wanted your colony crippled and was willing to fork over serious cash for it. I was in the neighborhood and had my own issues with them, so I decided to ruin their day. I dropped a few but then YOU came along and tried to arrest me," she explains. "So basically I was helping you and you fucked it up."

"From the story you just told you were helping YOURSELF and that just coincided with helping me. You didn't take precautions to help the colonists; you just killed Eclipse mercs."

"Po-tay-to po-tah-to," she says, brushing it off.

You raise an eyebrow.
That impresses you more then anything else she said; she actually got a human idiom right.

"My point is; we share common enemies and I can help you find and fight them, Logan. Besides, like I said; you're cute and I'd hate to have to fight over a misunderstanding."

"Now you're trying to get out of trouble by joining forces, AND you're flirting with me just to try and make me stupid."

>WDYS?

>[Agree]

>[Disagree]

>>37352275
Sorry anon we just blew out all the heat sinks with all these sick burns Logans laying down they're just too hot!

>>37352325
>>[Agree]
what could possibly go wrong?

>>37352325
>[Agree]
Hatesex inbound

>>37352325
>the Catwoman thing doesn't work
Damnit yes it does work

>[Agree]

>>37352325

Very well, I'll let you watch my back if I'll get to watch yours. And I suppose there is no reason for us to fight each other either.

Now, tell me more about who wanted to hire you and yours...

>>37352325
>>[Agree]
its working

>>37352325
While she's obviously out for her own ass wouldn't it be useful to have a powerful biotic on our side?

I'd be for this only for her combat power. Seems like she wants connections and protection from mummy and her sorority.

>>37352407
Dude no the ship couldn't handle it! Besides she's probably dipped in like 80 other guys we first met her. there is plenty of other tail besides the psychotic one to go after.

>[Agree]

>>37352325
> [Disagree] You're funny. You're going to spill everything you know about Eclipse and their operations, and then Elanus can decide what to do with you.

>>37352436
>I'd be for this only for her combat power
Well we're in this for that and we're also in this to be in her.

>>37352325
>[Disagree]

>>37352471
you are a class act i like you.

>>37352325
>[Agree]

>>37352436
>there is plenty of other tail besides the psychotic one to go after.
and that's not going to stop us from chasing them, we'll just be hatefucking this babe as well.

>>37352484
Long as its a fling I guess I don't care. If we keep up this pace of wanting to put it in everything AND get someone trying to waifu her?

I don't think there is enough space in the galaxy to hide from this ex-girlfriend's rampage.

>inb4Logan sleeps with so many women they form a rogues gallery to try and kill him while being catty as fuck to each other.

When's Wulin Hero Quest coming back?

>>37352529
that's what Sky is gonna go through.

>>37352325

"Fortunately for you," you say, standing up from your spot. "We actually DO have common goals and I trust you enough to not fuck up too much while on Omega. Plus I could use your intel on Eclipse. This is their home turf and you know it even better then I do," you note.

"Glad you could be reasonable," she says, sitting up.

"Jack Logan, ERCS Special Response Unit," you say, offering a hand.

She takes it daintily, shaking it back.
"Aleena T'Loak. Pleasure's all mine. For now anyway. It'll be fun getting to know you later," she says with a smile.

"Maybe. But later's not now. Go get dressed and meet my team out front of Afterlife. You'll give us the information then, AND you'll accompany us to the site where Eclipse is based."

"Aww, not gonna stay here and watch me get dressed?" she flirts, striking a pose.

"Pretty sure I've seen everything worth seeing on you anyway with what you've got on," you say, opening the door.

"Not worried I'll run again?"

"Not now that I know who you are. You're going to have a hard time getting off this station of I tell Aria you need to be arrested for Omega to avoid attention," you say, and you walk out without a word.

>WDYD?

>Wait with Aeson and Reegar.

>Head outside so you can report in; Reegar and Aeson can watch the room to make absolutely sure she doesn't run, and you can give the Captain updates.

>>37352666
>Wait with Aeson and Reegar.

>>37352666
>>Wait with Aeson and Reegar.

>>37352666
>Wait with Aeson and Reegar.

Does omega have surveillance system(s) Reegar could tap into?
Is he good enough to do so without attracting attention?

>>37352666
>>Wait with Aeson and Reegar.
nice trips

>>37352861
No it does not. Omega's not organized enough.

>>37352666
>Wait with Aeson and Reegar.
It should be fine, I don't think she's likely to run at this point. Meanwhile we can go chat with Aeson and Reegar about whether every species' women are this crazy, or just humans and asari.

>>37352861
>>37352870
that is to say that the eclipse merc base wont.

>>37352104
Renegade4lyfe

>>37352930
shoot your self out of an airlock because you have poor taste in morality.

>>37352988
>>37352988
It was a joke.

I actually generally play strict Paragon.

Except for that one Krogan warlord.

HE POINTS AT THE GODDAMN BUTTON.

(and I shoot that one merc bitch who plays innocent. Everyone in that gang is a murderer. Fuck 'em)

>>37353023
i seem to have missed judged you good sir you are indeed mah nigga.

>>37352666

You walk out to your squad mates and sit at a table with them.

"We're green," you say relaxing a bit.
"Green?" Reegar says, not getting it.
"Super-green," you confirm with a nod. "She'll work with us, but I want to keep an eye on her so she doesn't stab us in the back later. Afterwords who knows?"

"Seems like a hell of a risk to run Jack," Aeson notes. "An alliance with that kinda defined time limit is shaky."

"Agreed," you say with a nod. "But right now aside from wasting Eclipse mercs I can't think of a solid reason why she would betray us; she's go no goals that involve us being dead that I can tell."

"You sure you aren't just chasing her blue ass?" Aeson says with a chuckle.

>WDYS?

>"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!

>"Maybe a little."

>>37353089
>"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!
She nearly as good a biotic as I am knows the lay off the land and has intel we need. I already told her the catwoman act won't work on me. It is however, a very nice ass.

>>37353089>
"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!
...
>"Okay, Maybe a little."

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>>37353089
>>"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!

>>37353089
>"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!
>well
>"Maybe a little."

>>37353089
>"Maybe a little."

>>37353089
>"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!
We don't stick it in the crazy. At work. Maybe some time down the line, but for now, no.

>>37353089
Now, while she may have a great ass, my motives are strictly professional.

>>37353089
>>"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!

>>37353089
>"You mean to tell me you wouldn't be all over that head crest?"

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>>37353089
"I am a security professional Favious, and I resent the implication that my interests are anything but along that line," you say with a smile, folding your arms and leaning back.
"So you're saying given the opportunity you would not in fact Embrace Eternity with her?" he says with an smile.

"Pretty sure I DID have an opportunity just now," you note.

"I wouldn't trust her with it myself," Reegar says.
"Yeah, but sex between quarians is a serious thing what with your immune system stuff," Aeson notes. "Logan here hasn't shown interest in women ever since I met him."
"I don't take that sort of thing lightly Aeson," you admit. "Besides, not into asari. They're all great-looking but most of the ones you meet outside of asari space are perpetually twenty years old; flighty, unreliable. Good for flings. I don't DO flings."

"So what IS your preference then Sir?" Reegar asks, obviously curious and at home with the easy comraderie of soldiers off-duty.

"....redheads," you admit with some reluctance and a shrug.

"What, like Doctor Michel?" Aeson says, smiling more.

"No...well yeah, but not really. Longer hair. With blue eyes. Smart, you know?"

"How do you know if she's smart Boss?" Reegar asks, sounding perplexed

"I'm curious about that too," the turian says, scratching his jaw.

"Come on, what kinda question is that?"

"I mean, I thought you picked out red hair and blue eyes because of that human woman over there at the bar. You mean you didn't?" Aeson says, and Reegar nods in agreement.

You turn around in your chair to see the woman in the dress he's speaking off.

"You have got to be kidding me," you say in disbelief. "Lyna Parker?"

"Wait, you KNOW her boss?" Reegar says, surprised.

"Yeah..she...," you say, trying to process the sight of the woman you haven't seen for almost five years. "We went to school together. The Academy, she was in my biotics class!"

"Huh. Small galaxy I guess?" Aeson says.

>WDYD?

>Go over.

>Avoid her for now.

>>37353089
>>"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!
>
>>"Maybe a little."

>>37353707
>Avoid her for now.

Well now I really want to go over there, but I am on the job. Damn.

>>37353707
>>Go over.
she is here for a reason why

also logan has good taste

>>37353707
>>Go over.
could be fun possible ex-girlfriend.

>>37353707
>Go over.
Of all the bars on all the stations, we just had to walk into this one.

>>37353806
>also logan has good taste

He certainly tries to!

>>37354066
are you saying logan has had bad ex-girlfriends that may or may not be crazy.

>>37353707

go over!!!!

>>37353707
>>Go over.

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>>37353707

"Not THAT small," you mutter. "You guys wait up and watch for Aleena, I'm going to go say hi."

"You're going to hit on someone from your school days NOW?" Aeson says, sounding disbelieving.

"I don't need to hit on her. I dated her for two years," you say as you walk over to the bar.

"Yo," you say by way of greeting, unable to think of anything more articulate.

She starts and turns towards you, her left hand reaching to her side and clenching, before pausing and recognizing you.

"...Jacky?" she says in disbelief and surprise, making you wince a bit even as you smile at her usage of the nickname she gave you when you were dating.

"Luna. Nice to see you agai-" you say, unsure of what else to say when she leaps up on you and kisses you with those familiar lips of hers!

You put your arms around her and kiss her back, drinking in her familiar smell. She was your first girlfriend. Your ONLY girlfriend, you suppose, but you split up when you volunteered for the Alliance at graduation and she went back home to her home colony.

Eventually she breaks the kiss, butting her lower lip and wiping her mouth a little and trying to compose herself, one arm still around your neck

"Jacky Logan, what are you doing here? Omega isn't in Alliance space!" she says, sounding happy and confused all at once.

>WDYS?

>"Actually I'm not with the Alliance anymore."

>"Me? What about you?"

>>37354403
>>"Actually I'm not with the Alliance anymore."

>>37354403
>"Actually I'm not with the Alliance anymore."
>"Me? What about you?"
Besides you know I grew up here.

>>37354403
>"Me? What about you?"

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>>37354171
>mfw

>>37354403
>"Actually I'm not with the Alliance anymore, but what about you?"

she might be our engineer for the team.

>>37354403

"I left the Alliance actually," you admit. "Went on a tour, got heavy training. Even got N7 certified, spent some time being all I can be, all that stuff, left for private sector."

"You got N7 certification?" she says, sounding surprised. "Most Alliance special forces don't get full qualification, only 5% manage that! And then you LEFT?"

"Yeah. I wanted to see what I was made out of, see the galaxy, etc. Being a soldier isn't much of a retirement plan, even if you're a biotic specialist, so I left. Joined Elanus Risk Control Services, I'm part of a special security unit now, hired to deal with high-threat situations and stuff. Better pay too. But what about you? You said you were going back to Mindoir, helping with the reconstruction and whatnot?" you ask, curious.

"I did, for awhile. It just wasn't the same after the attack," she admits sadly. "I'm working for a private interest group now. My technical skills and other stuff from Grissom really come in handy with them, handling difficult situations and conflict resolution! It's really challenging, but rewarding too,"

"Conflict resolution in the Terminus Systems?" you say with a raised eyebrow.

"Well, sometimes I'm forced to defend myself; my biotics come into play then, hah. I wish I'd known you'd left the Alliance, I'd've tried to hire you for us. Private sector jobs DO pay better," she says with a smile.

"So you're working here, right? I mean, nobody vacations at Omega," you point out.

"Right. My employer has several direct business interests here that are in shaky straits, so I'm applying my expertise in fixing things. I have a whole team doing groundwork stuff right now actually, I'm just on break I guess you might say. How about you?"

>WDYD?

>[Truth]

>[Evasive]

>>37354974
>[Evasive]
InB4 she's with Eclipse.

>>37354974
>>[Truth]
logan only knows one form of conflict resolution.

>>37354974
>[Evasive]
Let on that we are here on business and looking for someone, no need to be more specific than she was.

>>37354974
>>[Truth]

>>37354974

truth

spill for the valentine

>>37351270
In the decades that follow all sciences and theory that didn't relate to mass effect tech was destroyed.

remember when people thought about making black hole drives..

>>37354974
>Truth

>>37353707
I just caught up and for a second there I thought you were describing default Fem Cmdr Shepard. That would have been funny.

>>37354974
>[Evasive]
Nothing particularly noteworthy, our ship was just stopping in here to refuel and we thought we'd check around the old stomping grounds. We did tell her we're from Omega, right?

>>37354974
>>[Evasive]

>>37354974

>[Truth]

"you first"
and then tell her

>>37354974
>[Evasive]

>>37355064
>I just caught up and for a second there I thought you were describing default Fem Cmdr Shepard. That would have been funny.

Actually Lyna Parker's from the colony where one of Shepard's pre-service history takes place, the one attacked by batarian slavers.

>>37354974
>>[Truth]

>>37354974
>[Truth]
The truth is right here

>>37355113
Colonist right? Spacer best IMO.
I think it would have been funny if Logan had a crush on his senpai at the academy that happened to be Shepard.

>>37355025
>>37355050
>>37355060
>>37355064
>>37355086
>>37355183
>>37355196
When we get stabbed in the back cause she's running with Eclipse I will laugh and say I told you so. FYI guys. She's obviously being evasive with her answers.

>>37355206
Yup, Colonist.
Shepard however does not exist in this timeline.

>>37354974
[Truth]

>Organization that pays the bills
>Challenging work
>Business interests in Omega

My first reaction is to say she is working for Cerberus.

>>37355220
So the girlfriend from the past will be bad, the a sari who we think is bad will be our new girlfriend and all this hoop running is going to end poorly.

>>37355231
WHAT then galaxy is a lesser place and doomed to be destroyed by reapers their is no hope.

>>37355220
We take the stabbification implement from our back and shove it through her face then.

>>37355250
You know, that makes a lot more sense to me than her being with Eclipse.

>>37355267
Anon. Logan can be that hope.

>>37355263

I hope not, asaris are not girlfriend material

>>37355274
pretty sure when she stabs us she won't actually stab us, masses of bullets are more likely.

>>37355250
That is also possible, considering we just took out their transport for some really messed up shit she might be part of the clean up team.

>>37355220
I'm on my phone but

Insert 'Snake, What could go wrong?' Pic herr

>>37355318
Use the bullets instead of the stabbification implement then.

>>37355330
Pretty sure we aren't that strong of a biotic anon. Insane and fast yes, matrix level bullshittery no.

>>37355299
i dont think he can for one reason shepard had the cypher that lead him to find out about the reapers before all of this we are fucked man.

>>37355361
We're still about a year before said cypher is even discovered. Maybe we'll be on Eden Prime when Saren attacks. I'm not sure why we'd be there, but it's a possibility. And even if we aren't, the fact that we've already encountered husk nanomachines means we'll be investigating them, means we have a chance to discover the existence of the Reapers without a plot device telling us. We're not screwed yet, give it time before you make your conclusion.

>>37355361
Its okay we can just go to the Mars Archives and accidentally find the Cruible plans four years in advance, woops.

>>37355361
Listen here soldier! The cypher was merely a plot device to get Shepherd a head start! Other plot devices and possibly Nihlus will lead us to the overall arc! Now get back to playing in this wonderful magical world!

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>>37354974
>>[Truth]

>>37355423
>>37355429
>>37355445
ok ok im calm now just had a minor panic attack since their is no god of war and death made flesh alive.

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>>37355429
>Cruible

Even though its fun speculating we probably won't get far enough for anything involving the reaper invasion since this is going to be a short quest and this also may be such an altered timeline that it doesn't come to pass in the first place.

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>>37354974

"I'm dealing with the terrorist attack on New Seattle in the Vendaxa System," you say honestly. "ERCS is contracted to protect the colony, and to figure out who'd behind it. Since the Terminus Systems aren't Council Space the Alliance can't do much either way, but we can. We're going to neutralize the threat before it can happen again," you say.

"New Seattle? Really? I...why protect some colony rather then something bigger?" she asks, clearly surprised.

"Because of you," you fully admit, telling her what you've told nobody else.

"What?"

"I remembered what you told me, about Mindoir and your parents, about how if the local security support was better yiur home might be intact and you might be alive. The Alliance has too much politics wrapped up in it, but ERCS protects the colony more directly. Some folks say we're rent-a-cops, but we have professional soldiers and we were the guys defending and responding first, and my training helped me stop the damage before it got out of control. Because I didn't want anyone else to end up like you," you say seriously.

She smiles, her blue eyes glittering and puts another arm around you.

"Jacky Logan, you're always so...so stolid," she says her voice full of warmth and fondness.

"I thought you liked stolid?"

"I do. Some girls don't, but I do. You're always trying to be my hero!"

"And succeeding in this case. N7, special security unit. I'm basically Young Starr over here," you say with a grin that you let almost no one else see but her.

She rolls her eyes. "You and that shitty comic book...,"

"Hey, Young Starr is a brilliant work of classic science fiction action born of a revival in interest of scifi,"

"Did everyone in your special forces unit know what a dork you secretly are Mister Logan?" she asks, leaning closer.

"Nah. Part of my secret identity," you confide. "They all think I'm this humorless warrior type."

>>37355568
>you might be alive.
Spooky

Alright folks, I have to break but I plan on being back and finishing the thread later!

>>37353707
>Red-head psychic woman

Well, we are technically speaking a mutant. Seems appropriate.

>>37355620
Parents, I think wulin forgot that.

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>>37355568

Daww.

inb4 she works for Cerberus

>>37355660
That's cool. I have some work I need to do, too. See you later, WS.

>>37355620, >>37355663, >>37355664
Parents are dead, supposed to read "parents might be alive".
No idea why my phone cut the word out.

Remember to ask waht's she doing too, we were honest let's see if she does the same

>>37355671
that would make more sense the her working for eclipse.

>>37355671
Because it's not much of a spoiler; yes, she is a Cerberus operative.

>>37355753
Winner winner chicken dinner, shadowrunners that called it get a free sundae.

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She fills out the uniform nicely too.

>>37355806
>>37355806
You're not convincing me she isn't Jean Gray here.

>>37355819
Class-wise she's a Sentinel, so Biotic/Tech, no mood-swinging super biotic.

Though you might meet a Jean Grey expy if I ever run the Superhero Quest idea I had, heh.

>>37355806
I like your taste in waifus, OP.

>>37355957
As a rule I don't do waifus.
I enjoy romance subplots, and character conflict of all kinds in general, which includes making at least halfway-entertaining female characters to be involved in said plots; I cannot STAND bad/uninteresting romance plots, so I spend a lot of time fleshing out both parties in the subplot.

I can see how people might assume I'm a waifu guy given the content of WULIN Hero Quest, but in that particular case I'm actually simply being true to the Wuxia genre itself, which tends to have harem antics in quite a few of it's plots.

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>>37355806
Damn son

>>37356066
TIM is a dirty old man, clearly.

Oh, the thread is archived already so no worries if it falls off /tg/.

>>37356461
I'm enjoying ME Quest very much, but when will Wulin Hero resume?

>>37357051
Ive been kind of curious myself. I dont mind the break at all, honestly, but the Mass Effect series always felt flat and boring to me. I'm sure this quest is good, but i cant really detach myself from the games enough to participate in it. I'll probably archive binge it when its over. But until then, no rush. There are other good quests to play, and everyone seems to be enjoying this one

>>37352988
>>37353023
>playing either morality completely straight
>not being sarcastic, short-tempered, and a bit of a cunt, but doing the right thing when it really counts

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>>37352529
>implying it won't be an army of their ex-boyfriends out to get us
>not objecting that "Hey man, she came on to me!" in the middle of the fight
Do you even shameless playboy?

>>37356101
Do we get to hunt him down and punch him in his smug fucking face when inevitably the whole Cerberus thing doesn't work out for her?

>>37358217
I don't see a reason we couldn't
Unless TIM was Anderson

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>>37358217
Let's not get overboard.

>>37358217
>Do we get to hunt him down and punch him in his smug fucking face

That's a long term goal, Anon.

>>37360967
Along with stealing his cigarettes and fancy booze?

>>37361020

That's the icing on the cake, spelled out to say 'Fuck You'.

>>37357051
When I'm certain I can properly QM it again.
>>37357599
Truth be told I'm certain I can keep MEQ up much longer either, as it's basic initial ideas are less formed then WHQ's are.

On the other hand, I'm not really able to reliably do WHQ, which I was starting to burn myself out on; even I'm not into wuxia 100% of the time, and in fact my genre interests are all over the place in terms of variety and style.

Perhaps once I complete or am unable to continue MEQ I can put what I do next to a vote; I have SEVERAL quest ideas, some for genres I'm much better at improving at, and others for ideas I've had in the past that involve interesting concepts at least.

>>37361563
Please give this quest a good send off if you do decide to kill it please

>>37362588
I choose the red ending!

>>37362655
I choose the Aleena ending.

>>37362837
But anon that's a subplot, we are talking about how to wrap up the main plot.

>>37361563
As someone with similarly alternating tastes I understand completely. Sometimes I'm really into samurai for a month, then it switches to sci-fi or fantasy or whatever for the next month. To the point of leaving comics, shows, and games unfinished that I was really into for the past month. As long as you intend to go back to what you started when you feel interested in it I say run whatever you feel you want to.

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I wait. I understand. I will ship the MC with the red head lack ops gal.

>>37364320
black ops*

>>37364320
>>37364354
You mean the Cerberus terrorist?

>>37365306
Ones persons Terrorist is another's soldier. As long as she is not bat shit insane I am all for it.

>>37365369
So human experimentation, abduction and various other nefarious activities are ok with you?

>>37365306
Did you want the xenos criminal princess instead? Are you a dirty xenophile?

>>37365421
No, but those don't mean we can't flip her.

>>37365423
No, I would rather the doctor.
You my friend are a heretic.

I am probably the only Nagasefag but, I am sure she has a Blaze already out there which I am okay with.

>>37365455
Did you post in the wrong thread or am I missing something?

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>>37365451
I am a loyal God Emperors fearing Imperial, you DARE question my loyalty?

>>37365473
Our pilot of our craft in this quest is Kei Nagase.

... Can we waifu the Geth collective?

>>37365482
Wanting to sleep with a heretic makes you a heretic.
Prepare to be cleansed with righteous promethium!

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>>37365770
It is not heresy if I use these! My Inquisitor and mentor told me so!

>>37365889
>My Inquisitor and mentor told me so!
Fucking radicals.

>>37364320
Nah. There are two kinds of people. Ones that are trying to build their future and ones that are trying to rebuild their past.
We aren't traumatized enough to be number two. What we had was great, but it's in the past.
And Asari... I gotta agree with Jacky on this one.

>>37365455
You are not alone, my brother.

>>37366155
It's good to not be alone, brother. I feel we will be dead last in the coming shenanigans, but perhaps that's for the best.

>>37366730
>>37366155
Hope doesn't ride alone

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>>37366730
Of course I'm weird. I find this version of Nagase potentially interesting and want to interact with her in just about any capacity. While a romantic capacity is the most desirable, just a friend is also acceptable and I won't be angry if she doesn't win the Jackybowl. As long as she doesn't get completely shunted into almost never being interacted with due to people going full waifu.
But then I think all three potential love interests are neat in their own ways. Asari Catwoman has banter, and the potential for an entertaining rivalry. Lyna/Luna (I'm not sure which of those is the typo as both work as names) provides a window into our past. Kei provides sparring and philosophical discussion (although the second might just be me nerding out because it's a chance to show off the fact that I've read both the Book of Five Rings and the Hagakure).

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>>37368155
Pretty much my opinion as well. As long as she gets some screen time now and again I am solid. In the meantime the Asari/Luna fights will be interesting to watch.

>>37353707
>Besides, not into asari.
What is this bullshit, I go to sleep right before this vote and you guys fuck it all up...

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>>37368434
We will have our glorious hatesex damnit

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>>37368497

>>37368497
Why?
No, seriously.
What benefit is there to having meaningless sex in a Quest?
It's not like you personally are getting sex out of it.
At best you're getting to spank your carnifex for a couple minutes.
There's no reason to choose empty, hollow sex over the potentially interesting character interactions that come with an actual relationship. Especially one that already existed, and was interrupted for a brief period.

>>37368571
>There's no reason to choose empty, hollow sex over the potentially interesting character interactions that come with an actual relationship
I'm not, I see the potential for an awesome rivalry between Logan and Aleena that could grow into a bit of casual fun every now and then, maybe they run into each other on a job in the future and end up in another draw and decide to settle it another way or something like that. I'm also not thinking that we'll have onetwuluv and remain completely monogamous, this is the future and the culture has changed, I'm not against pursuing other relationships that would be more stable for Logan, just as long as there is the opportunity for funtimes with Aleena.

>>37368571
>There's no reason to choose empty, hollow sex over the potentially interesting character interactions that come with an actual relationship.
>implying that's also not a form of 'actual' relationship
Speak for yourself anon, I respect all the possibilities and all the different characters merits and dynamics, and I also respect your taste in them, but that also means you have to respect mine when I say "Why not?", otherwise things turn ugly because you'd be an intolerant faggot.

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>>37368656
>>37368634
>>37368571

>>37368571
>>37368634
I can see and understand both sides here, and my stance is firmly whynotboth.jpg, that being said, it was odd and a little annoying how
>"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!
Which was clearly blustering and covering up and deflecting from our real thoughts, was turned into a flat out denial in >>37353707 and very heavily twisted the intent of the vote into something else, something that I didn't vote for when I voted for blustering professionalism. I have to say I do think that was a mistake on Sage's behalf as the intent of the vote was very clear, and then he turned it around against us which was just dickish.

>>37368634
>I see the potential for an awesome rivalry between Logan and Aleena
Okay.
>that could grow into a bit of casual fun every now and then, maybe they run into each other on a job in the future and end up in another draw and decide to settle it another way or something like that.
So you're saying you want Sage to write your masturbation material for you.
>>37368728
>Which was clearly blustering and covering up and deflecting from our real thoughts, was turned into a flat out denial in >>37353707 and very heavily twisted the intent of the vote into something else, something that I didn't vote for when I voted for blustering professionalism.
It's like you're really playing Mass Effect!

I'm sure you guys aren't locked out of anything by one decision. You'll probably have more opportunities to chase blue tail.

>>37368799
>It's like you're really playing Mass Effect!
While a funny joke, not all that funny in this context, nor is it an excuse for Sage.

>>37368799
>So you're saying you want Sage to write your masturbation material for you.
And you're doing exactly the same anon. But jokes on you because he already wrote my masturbation material, my fetish is hunky human biotic wrecking shit in combat.

>>37368817
Jacky Logan makes blue tail chase him.

>>37368817
While I'm confident that's the case, its still a shitty thing to pull, to twist the vote against the reason why it was voted for, then immediately jump into introducing the next waifubait.

>>37368850
Oh yes we do, I hope she has a ship capable of catching up with us.

>>37368728
>Which was clearly blustering and covering up and deflecting from our real thoughts
Not really. The other option was to acknowledge it. It's pretty clear from context that what Sage was giving us was the opportunity to choose whether or not it was any influence on Jack's decision.

>>37368850
Pretty sure she wasn't looking for him at all after the first meeting.

>>37368855
I feel ya, but I wouldn't worry about it.

>>37361563
Why not alternate between MEQ and WHQ or another idea, run one quest one week, the other the next?

>>37368881
Anon, it was evidently clear one vote was to come clean, the other to bluster and cover it up, not outright deny it. If you couldn't read that inflection in the vote then I'm sorry you don't fully comprehend written English.

>>37368911
That's how you chose to read it. It's not how the writer chose to write it.

I feel like he probably knew what he meant better than you did.

>>37368937
>It's not how the writer chose to write it.
With the exclamation point highlighting the rising octaves and lightened tone in the sentence, its exactly how he chose to write it anon, thus I read it that way.

I know what I read, and I know what he wrote, you don't write that way without it being deliberate, like when you are blustering and trying to deflect attention from a conversation point.

>>37368937
another anon, thats also how I read it as that seemed blatantly obvious as to why he wrote it and included
>my motives are strictly professional!
>!
If that was not WS's intention, then he should have made that clear and the vote would have been the other way conclusively, it was very annoying to have him make the vote that clear and then twist it against us.

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>>37368911
Or, it's just maybe possible, that Sage is trying not to shove Aleena down the players' throats, and you misinterpreted it as a pic related situation due to all the blood your brain needs to function instead going to your dick because "OH MY GOD BLUE TITS! THEY'RE BLUE!"
No, I don't much care for Catwoman type characters. I find them rather boring, actually.

>>37369014
That moment in Fate was awesome. Actually all the final days of HF was awesome.

>>37369014
Uninvolved anon here just popping in to say calm your tits faggot, you'r resorting to strawmanning and insults when its been pointed out several times that you were wrong...

This is exactly what I was talking about when I said if I respect your tastes and reasoning, then you have to respect mine if I say "Why not?", otherwise you shit up the place and destroy the civility we had before...

>>37369014
>I find them rather boring, actually.
And I find them rather enjoyable so stiff shit, deal with it.

>>37368155
It's Lyna.
>>37368571
>spank your carnifex
I plan to use this amusing idiom in the future.
>Pop your heat sink.
>>37368890
Because I would physically die.
But as I said before, I have a broad range of interests and I'm not always into scifi or wuxia stuff, so doing both doesn't always work.

You're mostly close to the end of this quest anyway, or at least the end of the part I have planned out. It's not always easy to write stuff for the ME setting for me.

>>37369540
>You're mostly close to the end of this quest anyway
Awwww, well I do hope you continue running this past that point then, it's been the best ME quest so far and I'm loving it.

>>37369014
Actually it was more about adding Lyna Parker's faction into an already volatile situation in an already dangerous city.
>>37369564
I might offer one of several choices for further quests, but I warn that my tastes are pretty broad.

>Esper Quest
Modern day (sorta) scifi about people with psychic powers.
Was based off an old White Wolf home brew I did years ago, and though I have quite a bit of thought put into the setting itself I don't have a definite story thought out.

>Westeros Quest
In case folks on here haven't read the later chapter of WHQ, I really like convoluted politics and morally ambiguous characters.
It has also come to my attention recently that via my gaming group that I'm rather good at making Machiavellian plotlines, and not half bad at making up ASoIaF personalities to fill them.

>Superhero Quest
Because superheroes are REALLY easy for me to do because I both love then and have more concentrated knowledge of superhero comics then Wikipedia and the Marvel and DC wiki's COMBINED.

Also, punching things is fun.

>>37369637
Eh, I'm here for the ME goodness, so those don't really appeal to me all that much.

>>37369637
>Actually it was more about adding Lyna Parker's faction into an already volatile situation in an already dangerous city.
Well it seemed like you completely twisted the intention of the vote and then jumped straight into shoving Lyna down our throats instead.

>>37369637
>Westeros Quest
I would sacrifice 100 virgins and a clown for that to happen.
I miss a song of iron and hate.

>>37369680
>Well it seemed like you completely twisted the intention of the vote and then jumped straight into shoving Lyna down our throats instead.
I felt that way as well.
>>37369637

>>37369660
The ultimate problem I always seem to have; everyone has very specific and narrow likes and dislikes, whereas I get REALLY FUCKING BORED and heavily burnt out if I have to write only one genre over and over for long periods of time.

I'm damned lucky my gaming group aren't the asshats who only ever play D&D.
>>37369680
I can understand the assumption, but the romance stuff isn't the main plot currently in MEQ, just a side thing.

Aleena was created basically as "opposite day Liara"; Liara is highly naive and more or less is sexy blue Spock in terms of personality, but she's also rather unlike most asari her age we see. Aleena T'Loak is NOT a kind and socially awkward nerdy person, but is also kinda considerably less bright (she should have "Poor Impulse Control" tattooed on her forehead) and is a straight-up commando, even though they're actually the same age.

Lyna is "what if Miranda Lawson was a nicer, sweeter person and what kind of backround would require such an individual to join Cerberus?"

Kei and Michel are not really intended to be serious romance interests; folks just assumed they were. Michel's hitting on Logan is indeed an in-joke based off of her crushing on Garrus as that one anon puzzled out quickly, who is also a scarred broody soldier who has a history with Omega done to stay internally true to the type she seems to go for in-game.

Like I said, I try to stay true to genre, and Mass Effect's military-slanted scifi is not a Dating Sim. I apologize if that wasn't obvious, I kinda assumed it was. My mistake.

>>37369830
>whereas I get REALLY FUCKING BORED and heavily burnt out if I have to write only one genre over and over for long periods of time.
So like I said in the past, why not alternate? Maybe run a chapter of one quest for a month or two, then switch back to another?

> I apologize if that wasn't obvious, I kinda assumed it was. My mistake.
Well what was obvious was the interpretation of
>"Speak for yourself, my motives are strictly professional!
to not be denying and cutting out that possibility, and instead being just blustering to cover it up, and it seems like there are at several anons who thought much the same as I did with that and voted that way and then we ended up with you essentially doing the very opposite of our intent with that vote, which raises problems unless you make amends in that regard in the future.

>>37369891
...I'm still not sure how your misinterpreting the author is the author's fault.

Like, maybe you shouldn't project your desires onto his writing, especially when there was literally a 'yes, I am interested' option right next to that.

>>37369830
Well one thing is obvious, you cocked up with that vote so now what's going to happen with that? Because it seemed like you just completely shut down that possibility based on us interpreting you writing that as a joking deflection, which it was written as, and clearly read as by many.

>>37369922
Anon, I didn't misinterpret anything, the intention of that vote was crystal clear, yet it seems Sage did not know what he was writing, and thus that vote was voted for when anons interpreted it how it was written, and not what he intended it to be, and now we're left with the majority getting shafted.

>>37369922
>>37369891
It seemed like something someone would say to pretend they are not interested.
Depending on the individual the attempt would be successful or spaghetti.

>>37369922
I could forgive you for not understanding the inflections in that vote if English was not your first language, but not otherwise, it was very obvious it was meant as blustering, otherwise you wouldn't be going full spaghetti and adding the exclamation point in.

>>37369939
>Sage did not know what he was writing

I'm pretty sure he did, given he wrote it. You misinterpreted what you read. That's your reading comprehension at work. Don't pass your failings off on someone else. You wanted something that wasn't there and now you're whining because you chose poorly?

>>37369941
Exactly, to PRETEND they are not interested, and not to utterly shut that down and cut it off.

>>37369964
See >>37369941, I chose the option to cover up our intentions, which that option was written as, and if you can't comprehend that maybe Sage didn't intent to write it like that so it would be interpreted like that, then you're blind.

>>37369960
I'll give you 'meant as a joke', because, well, it was a joke. And if you read the post that followed that vote, Jack clearly WAS joking when he said that line.

He just then clarified his views on Asari, which happened to not be the views that you wanted him to have. The post completely falls within the bounds of the chosen response - a jokey 'why I never' and then on to fucking business.

>>37369964
>You wanted something that wasn't there and now you're whining because you chose poorly?
I picked the vote to pretend we weren't interested, to joke about it jovially, as it was pretty damn evident that's what it meant. like >>37369941 and everyone else has said.

>>37369891
>I said in the past, why not alternate? Maybe run a chapter of one quest for a month or two, then switch back to another?

I plan to, but I can get bored of switching between just scifi and wuxia just as quickly as focusing on just one or the other.

>make amends in that regard in the future.

I'm not sure how I can "make amends" honestly.
Perhaps I should point out that at no point will this quest end in sex; it doesn't really fit in anywhere what I have for this so far. Aleena's romance isn't "cut off" like some videogame mechanic where your choices lock out all previous choices, and nor is his initial preference for human redheads the end of this subplot. I mean, said preference IS because he's hung up on a girl who became a terrorist after high school.

Perhaps I should explain in that Logan IS attracted to Aleena, but still seriously doubts she's anything like trustworthy.
He's smart enough and old enough to know "attraction does not equal a good idea to screw", and random flings aren't much in his character anyway.

>>37369992
>He just then clarified his views on Asari, which happened to not be the views that you wanted him to have.
No, it wen't completely against the intention of that vote.

It's like having a vote to on whether or not to kill someone and everyone votes to joke about killing them, but not do it, and then the OP goes and kills them anyway.

>>37369998
>and random flings aren't much in his character anyway.
Well they have been up until now and player interpretation and discussion was skewed towards that.

>>37369998
>Perhaps I should point out that at no point will this quest end in sex
Just have it FtB otherwise anons will keep trying for it.

>>37370007
It went against the intentions YOU had when you chose that vote. What if there were someone here, and just hear me out on this, who WASN'T interested in waifuing the pair of blue tits? Of the two options, which would THEY have chosen?

Would it maybe be the one that says 'no, I wasn't going to screw that', rather than the one that says 'YEAH I WANT IN THAT BLUE ASS'?

>>37370042
>It went against the intentions YOU had when you chose that vote.
And evidently almost everyone else except for you.

>>37370042
>Would it maybe be the one that says 'no, I wasn't going to screw that', rather than the one that says 'YEAH I WANT IN THAT BLUE ASS'?
With the way it went, probably yes.

But enough of this discussion, Sage, any idea when you'll be updating again?

>>37370056
>Three people, tops
>41 unique posters in thread
>Clearly a majority

You're a fucking math wizard.

>>37370007
Hardly so definitive or final; Aleena's romance plot and Lyna's romance plot haven't even started yet.
I mean Logan only really MET Aleena like thirty minutes ago.
>>37370023
Seeing as I never said they WERE in his character, that seems a curious assumption to make. I don't even think I've clarified yet how many times he HAS had sex as a point of fact.
>>37370041
Yeah, was never going to describe a sex scene anyway. There's other boards for that.
I don't mind it personally (to each his own), but it's not why I'm on /tg/ I suppose.
>>37370065
Not tonight; it's 12:41 where I am, and I'm wiped from work. The reason it's been so long between this thread and the last was because of my suddenly insane schedule, for which I apologize.

>>37370072
Well at least 3 people voted for that with that intent, which is half of that options voters, and combined with the voters for the other option, yeah it was the majority for that vote which means that there was at least 6 votes for blueberry tits, and less than that again, which means it had a majority, math ain't hard Mr Wizard.

>>37370056
Read the actual replies. Several of them actually immediately followed that up with 'yeah, no, we actually are a professional and are not going to fuck around at work'. Several of them also followed up by then qualifying the first answer with the second answer, also known as the 'yes, I'd like to tap that ass' response.

Seems pretty obvious to me that there were plenty of people using the first answer to mean 'no, I actually do not want to fuck that'. Because, well, some of the people in the thread didn't want to fuck that.

>>37370095
>Not tonight; it's 12:41 where I am, and I'm wiped from work. The reason it's been so long between this thread and the last was because of my suddenly insane schedule, for which I apologize.
All good bro, just let us know on twitter when you'll be running and we'll be there, though a couple hours heads up before a thread as a reminder would help.

>>37370115
I did read them, which is why I know that if you have those who voted for that and had it twisted, who would have voted for the other option if it was not presented as a bait and switch, then the majority is for 'yes, I'd like to tap that ass' with an excess of by my count 8 votes for that.

>>37370115
Seems pretty obvious to me that there were plenty more people using the first answer to mean 'yes, I'd like to tap that ass'. Because, well, most of the people in the thread want to fuck that.

>>37370141
Votes that can be interpreted as 'for':
>>37353141
>>37353355
>>37353191
>>37353253
Votes that are 'against', either specifically qualified or without qualification:
>>37353122
>>37353255
>>37353256
>>37353281
Look at that, it's damn near an even split. Maybe ONE extra vote for 'tap dat', if we assume 'pokerface.jpg' was not being entirely serious in his selection, but hardly 8 (which would be pretty fucking impressive in a pool of 9 voters)

>>37369998
I'm going to be honest WS if you can't stick to any one thing for very long maybe you shouldn't QM. I mean whats the point if you eventually have a bunch of quests that aren't finished or half assed cause you got bored?

You could go the route of that one QM, I forget his trip, but he essentially put up a strawpoll with a bunch of quest ideas and had his playerbase vote. From that he would make a 4ish thread short based on that idea.

>>37370181
>Votes that are 'against'
Except that one of those specifically states he wants to stick it in the crazy, but not at work, and the one that didn't comment was me, intending to be 'for'

>>37370192
I think he just needs to find a schedule where it allows him to switch things up and not burn out, but still come back to them and stick with his players opposed to just abandoning an idea and moving on.

>>37370192
>>37370213
I don't like to half-ass it; I plan to stop at a stopping point that concludes the section of the story when I do indeed stop telling one.

I wasn't able to do it with WHQ because your choices have changed so much of the initial story that I'm STILL having to re-write later events in accommodation for said changes, which is taking a fuckload of time since I actually have to post at work most days I do have time to post. The schedule thing is part of it I suppose; the holidays and my sudden current workload threw things out of whack for me.

I plan on having people vote for what my next quest will be after this one; I'd rather not just do one that nobody wants to play obviously.

The joy of QMing for me is entertaining people with a story that they have a say in, and if they don't enjoy the story then there's no point for me really.

>>37370115
>we actually are a professional and are not going to fuck around at work
Anon, lemme point something out.
>/tg/
>capable of playing a character who behaves in a professional manner
Pick. One.
I have been in exactly one Quest where /tg/ chose to behave in a reasonably professional manner, and that one's deader than a doornail.

>>37371140
Was it Zeonquest?