Friday, January 25, 2013

Inthane in the Membrane

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As Shepard goes along, she keeps finding rooms full of Salarian workers hiding from all the chaos.

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So anyway, let's go get to Nasana Dantius, and by extension, Thane.

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Shepard and pals have to cross this windy bridge, and I think it's supposed to affect gameplay? Maybe if you're a sniper person. Vanguard overhere don't notice a difference.

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Nasana lives in this big ass tower, and rolling up to it is not at all like rolling up to the final castle in a fantasy game. Don't forget Bioware's roots, kids. I mean, look, there was a drawbridge and everything!

You know, Mario can eat it, when I think of The Final Level of a video game, I always think of Pete's castle at the end of The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse. That was a HELL of a game, you all ought to take an afternoon to play it. That was the first game I ever bought with my own money. And beat! The sequel was pretty good too. What was that one called, The Great Circus Mystery or something? It was spectacular, go play it. It's two player co-op, too, which PS WHY didn't Mass Effect 3 have?

That is a hell of a derail, good thing no one ever reads the text!

I think you're supposed to take cover and shoot the mercs down off the balcony, but like I said, vanguard. Those mercs can eat area pull.

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Some one will argue that I should have gone for heavy pull, but I love area pull ever so much.

And now, finally, Shep and the Shepettes come to Nasana, who is frantically fighting for her life.

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Meanwhile, in the vents:

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WELL! Mr. Krios can take care of his own shit, that's for sure!

(I know you can tell from my delicate renderings that look exactly like they were carved scrimshaw, but just in case, Thane is a drell. You can probably figure out where this is about to go.)

Thane lays Nasana out on her desk.

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Well then!

We're going to have to air this out right here: I've got no beef with Thane personally, but you've already figured out that I didn't plan on doing him. He's the third romance option, and you can totally do him, by the way. I guess if you're going to do an alien, he's not awful looking? Then, I wouldn't have sex with a turian either, so.

I don't do Thane's romance path because ... okay, when people blink they look like --, right? Thane does this thing where he blinks, and his eyes shut like ||. It freaks me out so badly that I couldn't have Shepard flirt with him if I wanted to. Sorry, I know there's people out there who are big Thane fans.

More for Tali I guess.

Every character, once recruited, gets a lovely scene in the conference room where Shepard welcomes them to the Sex Boat Normandy. It serves as a solemn reminder that I can't draw the conference room.

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Horny ass game.

NEXT TIME: A little bit of T and A. You know, like always.

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Chitikka and Garrick

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The cake is a lie, so on.

"Someday I'll learn to draw sandwiches that have more than lettuce on them," and other lies Bean has told.

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This is actually a throw away gag with Mordin, but let's expand.

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Good thing the game doesn't make any sort of assertion as to who this mysterious varren fucker could be!

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So anyway, we've only got one guy left to grab before, welp, ME3, so let's go after Thane Krios. Hey, random detective on Ilos, hook us up!

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Nasana Dantius does Buisness with Buisness People on Illium. Maybe the game explains it more, but I seriously didn't pay attention. Anyway, our Bro Thane was hired to off her. The task now becomes making sure Thane survives. Nasana surviving? Enh, Shepard's kind of either-way on that one.

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Actually, engineers can summon their own combat drones. I have a friend who named hers Combie. Combie is kind of a big deal. Hey, yo, Tali, what'd you name yours?

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The combat drone -- sorry, Chitikka is pretty handy, because she can float around the battle field and shoot shit for you.

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God, I know you all just can't wait for my art week after week. Look at that drone. Look at him. DaVinci don't got shit on me.

And also explode and kill folk.

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Tali's actually a good one to have around on this mission, because she can also cast AI Hacking and take control of the robots.

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Hopefully this doesn't cause dissension in the ranks.

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Fun rainy activity: start up a game of multiplayer with your friend who likes to use sniper rifles, play vanguard, charge everything, listen to your friend bitch.

As we go through the tower, we come to a famous Mass Effect NPC, the random Elcipse dude.

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... bahahaha, I just pissed some of you way the hell off. I'm the only person on the damn planet who takes the paragon path. What could the renegade path possibly be?

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No one fucks with Chitikka. No one.

There's too many images for one week, we'll have to divide this entry in two.

Next time: actually Thane!