Omega: Finale

Why is Aria so pissed over Diaba? It's a mystery to me too, man, but she bum rushes Afterlife, all throwin' flares everywhere and shit, until:

Okay, so, let's untrap Aria. You've got to go around Afterlife, deactivating her trap in four points. It looks much like this:

WHAT.

Okay fine it's more like this:

I am really bad at this part and die all the time.

Aria's now available to help you fight, for all the good it does.

Hey, it wasn't the Ferros image again.

When you finish:

This is the paragon ending to Omega. The renegade ending to Omega features Aria killing Petrovsky.

It also has an extra scene. Let us now borrow Eusebius Shepard.

"Hey, wait, why'd you borrow Eusebius?" Because the ending is different if your Shepard is a lady Shepard:

Aria likes ladies, what do you do.

Aria also likes rebuilding Omega. As Shepard takes Petrovsky away, Aria gives a speech. It's a nice moment. No music, no glory, just Aria's audio:

fin

Omega: Blue Team Has The Boom

Hey, let's get out of that mine!

My laptop still isn't fixed: the keyboard is utterly shot, but I can still use my drawing tablet. No more crayon for you all, aren't you relieved? My tablet actually has handwriting recognition software, which lets me type dialogue, if you were wondering.

... I'm typing THIS text on Husbando~'s computer, though, because fuck handwriting entire paragraphs.

You know, I didn't notice this when I first played it, but I did when I had to break it down for MSPixel: Omega is a very disjointed story. "Okay so here's some new aliens OH SHIT LET'S REROUTE POWER o no bombs?!????" I'd be curious to know which Bioware staffer wrote this one.

Also, why the hell would Cerberus blow up Omega? They're on Omega. I know Cerberus is kinda dim, but damn.

Sure, nice boss lady.

Let us now travel through the picturesque Omegan landscape:

Make sure you look around here to pick up an easter egg.

Enough hosing around. Aria and Shepard have a planning sesh when they get to the bombs.

Anyway, we have to deactivate all the bombs, it looks something like this:

... what. What. This sequence is just like shooting the Thorian in the nipples back in ME1. Lie to me, say I'm wrong.

Let's call Nyreen, see what's going on there.

Aria shoots out a fan for us to walk through, it's really neat:

We land straight in a lab that apparently was designing adjutants.

There's a terminal that fills you in on the creation of the adjutants. I'll save you a few minutes: the adjutants were designed as sort of a vampire species. They can bite other people and turn them into more adjutants.

Okay, but why? "Well, gee, it's so Cerberus can build an army."

Okay, but why? They can already reaperize people, they did it to Paul Grayson. They make this huge deal over how they totally could have mind controlled Shepard. Why, then, did they need to make a whole other alien that could do exactly what they already had the tech to do?! That has to be the biggest damn waste of resources I've ever heard of.

Fuck Cerberus. Let's keep playing.

Gotcha, Nyreen, catch you later.

Anyway, let us now to the steps of Afterlife.

And we shall continue down this life path on Friday.

Omega: The Reactor

That would be Petrovsky, showing up via a mass effect drone, yes. Wait, I don't think that's a mass effect, I think it's just a hologram that's colored Mass Effect blue.

As you can imagine, Aria's a huge fan.

Yeah, no, she gets so pissed off that she just rolls up and goatse's a force field. (Don't google that if you don't get that joke. I'm serious.)

At this point, Petrovsky gets pissed and sends some drones after you. Shepard and Nyreen fight them off, since Aria's a little, uh, occupied.

However, Aria starts to give out, so Nyreen helps her out.

...

Um, remember how I said I busted my laptop?

The rest of this entry is in crayon. Don't ever say I didn't do anything nice for you all.

Aria lets Shepard out of the goatse hole, and Shepard goes up a tower to the reactor controls.

This is a true story: I used to draw comics for my friends in high school. I actually got really good at lettering. When I started doing MSPixel, I realized it wasn't feasable to letter with my tablet without the images being huge, and I got kind of sad about it.

I'm out of practice, but I think the lettering on these is half decent. Anyway, holoPetrovsky shows up.

These three will continue to fight, and Petrovsky will toss some bad guy taunts in for flavor. While they're going, the game will give you some renegade interrupts so that you can push butan and kill people.

Or, you can just wait for them to all shut up and take the paragon route. Nyreen was right, we can reroute the power.

I don't know, I don't think that scene ever warranted enough tension to renegade interrupt through.

All over Omega, force fields power down.

And the Omegan people do what they do best.

... annnnnnnnd Aria and Nyreen react exactly the way you were thinking they would.