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It's that time of year again, where I feel a little older. XD
My birthday is actually falling on my Friday stream day this year, and as usual I'll be doing a Jackbox hangout that day. At the end of the stream, I'll be giving away three Steam gift cards ($10, $15, and $25) to three people randomly selected from those who have come to hang out over the course of the stream. :D
You'll be able to catch me at http://www.twitch.tv/blackjack_kent from 9pm-12am US Central Time on June 5!
Would love to see y'all there to help me celebrate 37 years on this wild old planet. :D <3
James, you're fabulous, but you are not allowed to steal Kaidan's spot for the hey-I-really-don't-like-this-plan conversation with Rae.
That was really bizarre. Got James for the first part where he was the one to walk over to the mech and then got Kaidan's worried line a little later like normal. Wonder if I need to update the community patch. Or briefly uninstall the community patch.
Got briefly invisible Kaidan on the first mission and briefly invisible James here (fortunately he reappeared in time to disapprove about the whole mech thing.)
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Please don’t include huge spoilers for the specifics of the endings, and it would also make me happy if people don’t use this to talk about the shows whose endings they hated
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hello to one of my favorite James scenes in the entire game
James: I'm gonna be right here.
Yes, excellent, good looking out for Ann. She does not say much other than "Okay, I'm ready" but presumably it IS comforting to have a friendly space marine next to her. Something to consider even when Leviathan takes over and everything is terrifying. (Unfortunately, Rae does not have friendly company when she's stuck at the bottom of the ocean and Leviathan's messing with her brain and everyone else is up above).
I always like to take James along for the previous mission, partly because the bridge control kicking is funny and partly so Ann has the context of "oh it's one of those guys who helped rescue me" instead of just "that's one of Shepard's crew."
Mission let-Leviathan-take-over-Ann is a go and she almost immediately starts flailing around, so it's really good that James was there.
Rae switched to her I'm-talking-to-a-Reaper-like-creature-that-I-want-answers-from-and-frankly-don't-trust tone.
Shepard: Listen to me. I found you. And the Reapers are right behind me.
Leviathan: You have brought them. YOU ARE A THREAT.
Shepard: So are you. I've seen what you can do. The war needs you.
Leviathan: THERE IS NO WAR. THERE IS ONLY THE HARVEST.
I was a little dubious of the reasoning behind "we need the creature that can control people's minds to fight the other monsters that can control people's minds" but then I remembered that nobody knows that there's a destroy-all-Reapers-and-hopefully-also-Leviathan option so I can accept that Rae and co. are grasping at straws.
Rae checked in with EDI - who was in charge of tracking the signal - and EDI got a partial lock.
James: You heard her. We got enough. I'm hitting the shield.
Partial lock is definitely good enough for Rae, who told him to go for it.
Lots of anxious huddling around Ann, aw, and asking her if she's all right (she thinks she is).
Ann: Commander, I sensed something else. Anger.
Rae was not particularly worried about that ("It knows we're getting close").
Ann: I think it wants to kill you.
Squadmates presumably do hear about this part (if nothing else, James tells Cortez about the whole thing with Ann, as Cortez mentions later) so that's a fun additional worry later for the guys (poor Kaidan) on top of the whole "what do you MEAN you're diving a mech underwater by yourself" factor.
Rae gave Ann a pat on the shoulder and said, "Come on, let's get you some help."
I have decided that the destroy-all-Reapers beam DOES go ahead and kill Leviathan too and all its creepy artifacts and therefore Ann doesn't have to worry about running into any more of those/Leviathan ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL again.
It's that time of year again, where I feel a little older. XD
My birthday is actually falling on my Friday stream day this year, and as usual I'll be doing a Jackbox hangout that day. At the end of the stream, I'll be giving away three Steam gift cards ($10, $15, and $25) to three people randomly selected from those who have come to hang out over the course of the stream. :D
You'll be able to catch me at http://www.twitch.tv/blackjack_kent from 9pm-12am US Central Time on June 5!
Would love to see y'all there to help me celebrate 37 years on this wild old planet. :D <3
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Fiddled with dialogue to see what James says if he's the one talking to Shepard in the mech and alas, no "Lola," only "Whoa...Hey, Commander. Are you really serious about this plan?"
And no "I'll be fine" from Shepard because that's a romance thing but aw, Cortez did say, "Take care down there, Commander."
Fiddled some more and romanced/friend Liara both have the same first I'm-not-happy-about-this line, so I'm guessing that's the case for all the romances.
Ann was insistent about her let-the-artifact-control-me plan ("It's my call, not yours. You said I'm your last chance to find this thing"), and stuck to her guns despite Rae saying things like "We have no idea what will happen."
Ann: You're looking for something to fight the Reapers, Commander. I'm looking for the monster that murdered my father.
Rae was really not winning that argument and eventually gave up (except for asking Ann one more time if she was sure) but was not happy about it.
James was also not happy and said it was dangerous (correct!).
Nobody comments on it, but I am amused that Ann's initial reaction to being told that Leviathan took control of her was "Leviathan itself? That's incredible." She and Liara should become scientist friends. XD
Oh, the conversation with Ann about her dad was not fun for Rae (whose own dad died when she was sixteen).
(Oddly enough, Kaidan has no dialogue about his dad afterwards; you'd think that'd be a painful reminder. Entirely possible that he's Not Thinking About It. Ash *does* have dialogue, but it's odd dialogue I choose to ignore because it doesn't mesh with her own dad having died, even if it was apparently some years ago.)
Ann was not picking up at Rae's attempts to explain that she has bad news - and busy speculating about Leviathan - until Rae finally got down in front of her at eye level.
Shepard: Ann, you need to listen to me, okay? Your father is dead. I'm sorry.
Ann: He's...what, dead? He can't be dead.
:(
Rae is absolutely being too hard on herself about not being able to stop Bryson's assistant, because "guy who has not been around unshielded Reaper tech suddenly getting possessed by a Reaper-like creature" is not even remotely a scenario she could have planned for. Little bit like Ash beating herself up about the geth on Eden Prime.
Ann wanted to see her dad's office, so off to the Citadel.
EDI commented on the ship that she'd "formulated a psych profile for Dr. Ann Bryson. She is not used to death, but she might be quite capable under stress." Correct!
Poor Ann. :(
Rae - who was very much refusing to think about her own dad right then - asked Ann how she was doing.
Ann: My father and I didn't leave things in a great state.
Shepard: An argument?
Ann: Yes. It was trivial. A disagreement over how to file some of the specimens.
Ann: I was mad about something else. I don't even remember what. I took it out on him. So stupid.
This was followed by Ann elaborating on her complicated relationship with her father and saying things like "Sometimes I felt the same way [that I didn't get a chance to know him]. He was a great man. A pioneer. I felt like an inconvenience growing up."
Rae: *genuinely sympathetic but also silently going "Oh no. Oh, this sounds like me and my mom" at that
Shepard: You sound angry.
Ann: I was angry. Still am, I guess.
Ann: But sometimes he was so full of stories he nearly burst. I loved that about him. It's why I signed up for this work.
Ann: I can't believe he's gone.
:(
They talked a little more about how Rae needs her help and Ann wants to find what's on the other side of the artifact; Rae asked her if she was sure she was up for this.
Ann: Yes.
Ann: When Leviathan took control of me, I remember being somewhere cold and dark.
Ann: But my father taught me to never be afraid of the dark.
Go, Ann, go!
More chatter on the way into the lab - Ann's father thought her dissertation on the rachni was a waste of time 😬 (She and Liara SHOULD be science friends!).
More chatting by the artifact:
Ann: Unless it needs something, Leviathan doesn't bother communicating.
Ann: I guess it and my father had something in common.
I like to think that Shepard shows Ann her father's log about keeping the decryption key from earlier "close to my heart" and that it's on nine-year-old Ann's drawing of her father; maybe that will help a bit.
So Rae ended up lying on the couch that evening staring at the ceiling with her legs across Kaidan's lap and was all "aside from everything else, Ann said some things about her dad today that really sounded like my mom and I." Hoo boy. (Hannah really did try her best and they both love each other but ohhh it is complicated).
I love how Shepard treats Ann, particularly if you go Paragon all the time. So many good bits.
Kneeling/crouching down (automatically!) to get on roughly eye level to tell her about her dad is a nice touch.
Saying "It's all right. I can come back" during the lab conversation when Ann's distraught and starting to leave and put off the whole Leviathan hunt in favor of giving Ann some time, yesss, and then asking her if she's sure she's up for this when Ann decides to help anyway.
Initially dismissing Ann's let-the-artifact-control-me plan as too dangerous and being visibly unhappy about it and asking her if she's sure about going through with it.
More automatic crouching in front of Ann and asking if she's all right, aw.
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