Citadel: Ey Yo

This is your daily reminder that Mass Effect is the horniest game ever printed on disc.

Anyway, we're still booking through dem archives.

Always a good sign.

"Wow, Bean, that's weird that they keep including scenes where Shepard has to scan her hand to verify her credentials, and it's weird that you keep including every single one of those scenes." It sure is.

I love Shepard. You know what Shepard tries to do next?

Just ... that makes total sense to her. "Huh. Unwinnable scenario. Time for pistol!"

OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT OH NO SHE --

Yeah, no, the Mass Effect Foundations series? Totally spoils that plot point. Today's fun activity corner is going back through the MSPixeled Foundations comics and seeing where I wrote Brooks out.

Another fun fact about Brooks:

So let us consult the dialogue wheel as to what to do next.

That's really in the game, PS.

Brooks has a lovely cutscene outlining why she's the bad guy: she stole Shepard's spectre codes at the sushi restaurant, she shot the casino owner before we had a chance to see him, so on, so on.

OG Shep best Shep, but Clone Shep is not a bad Shep. Anyone who agrees with me about EDI is good people.

Clone Shepard walks over to a console.

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Clone Shepard speeds off, and the, uh, capsule thing Shep et all are trapped in zips off and locks itself in a vault. The vault is visually stunning, allow myself to shit it down my leg.

The umbrella line may be my favorite line in the game, but "Nobody steals my ship, not even me!" might be a good second.

Party In The Citadel Archives

In the Citadel archives, they've got big ass holograms full of Mass Effect history.

Most of them are glitched out, so I don't even know what the fuck we're doing here.

Some of them display important events in Mass Effect history.

Wait, hold on.

The thing is, if you're an avid MSPixel reader, or even if you paid a piss amount of attention during the series, you're probably familiar with the information in the holograms. They're not that interesting.

It would have been cool to have a few holograms from the books, but the holograms are all supposed to be moments in Citadel history. Not much happens in the books on the Citadel.

Anyway, let's shoot the fuck out of some guys.

You remember when I said the archive holograms were uninteresting? I mostly just lied. There's one that's kind of cool.

I never understood why the council was so hellbent on covering up what happened in the Battle of the Citadel when everyone literally saw it with their own eyes.

Hey, here's one for you. Why is all of this data stored on hologram? You need a spectre code to even get in here, it's not like it's a museum.

Shit, where'd the clone go? We need to talk to Glyph.

That's the best drawing I can do of Glyph going through a door.

... hey, can Glyph go through doors? Can holograms just pass through walls like that?

News Break

I am so completely slammed this week that I'd like a little extra time to draw. So. E3's coming up, you want to see what the rumor mill is coming up with ala Mass Effect 4?

Good news, there is none! Sort of. Bioware's got their mouth so shut, since like I said, E3 is nigh. I actually dug up this tweet that's been causing a buzz. It's a picture of the mocap set! That's all it is!

Apparently there was some sort of survey about Mass Effect 4? Honestly, I remember taking a survey, I'm wondering if I'm thinking of the same one. People have derived some plot details, you can go look at the Internet's wild guesswork here.

... I think the new rumored plot looks badass. I was scared to death ME4 was going to be open world and plotless. How in the fuck was I going to MSPaint that?

This article gives a few more plot details, and discusses the idea of seeing old trilogy characters. My guess is that Liara, Garrus and the rest of the crew won't come up any more than maybe an easter egg or two. ("Oh man, did you all ever hear about this old bastard named Archangel?" That sort of thing.)

... I'm still looking for a YouTube video of that Citadel audio I promised. If you know where it is, point me to it!

Citadel: Chase That Clone!

Gurl you did not just threaten our fucking ship.

Something I've always wondered: why didn't Shepard just block Clone Shepard's call? Unless maybe all the jokes I've made over the years about Shepard not even being able to check her own email weren't really jokes.

All right, Vega, even though you're the worst squadmate, we'll all go chase after Clone Shepard.

This mission is the opposite of Arrival. Not only do you have everyone with you (Shepard divides them up into Team Mako and Team Hammerhead), but no one, at any point, shuts up for any reason at all.

I briefly considered making this entire entry twenty images of everyone slinging shit at each other, but I wasn't actually sure how enjoyable it would have been.

It's actually hard to catch all the audio on this level, as well as, you know, not die. I'm sure someone on YouTube has done it, I'll look into it.

Meanwhile, let's roll up to the archives proper.

omg you guys synthetic life is the best and totally worth saving

Make sure you look at the set as you walk around the level. You should be able to catch the other squadmates running around.

Ey, who didn't forget Sonic this time? This bitch.

Shit! We gotta go fast!

Shepard rolls up on Team Mako ... Hammerhead ... um, I get them mixed up, I think it's Hammerhead that needs rescuing. Shepard gets everyone out and safe.

... aww, fuck, what the hell are we supposed to --