Back to Mass Effect... With A Twist

Good morning everyone,

Got some writing done yesterday on one of the two commission requests I have on deck, focusing on events of Mass Effect 3. I do plan to continue working on this story today, mostly because the client who commissioned it often is very quick on making the payment... as opposed to the one who commissioned the WWE story often making me wait upwards of a week.

Of course last night's stream saw us start up the original Mass Effect, but this time there is a challenge, with it being a forced Paragon run, and an engineer run in order to get achievements associated with both those settings, combine that with also only using Alenko and Williams as the squad mates. Needless to say it's going to be difficult considering I prefer and are very familiar with the build I go with when using soldier, and a lot of the best choices for Shepard to say are when going Renegade.

That said, we covered everything possible to do on Citadel during the first visit, which meant a lot of the side quests were tackled, and we made sure to go get Liara first... even though for this run it would make sense because we're not going to even consider using her on the ground squad. Mostly because it would've made things funny to rescue her last to get her delusional reaction for being trapped for so long.

Still, Mass Effect will be placed into the Thursday night slot, for two reasons, one when work picks back up (or if I get a new job), it'll keep me from doing more playing 4.5 hours, because I love to take my time with Mass Effect and do every dialog option. The other reason is, if I don't have work slated for Friday, I can do a longer stream. So it works both ways.

For the raid we dropped in on TracyDoll over at twitch.tv/tracydoll as they were playing Dead by Daylight 

Of course for tonight's stream we're playing Overwatch 2, with the goal being to level up the battle pass as much as possible, see if we can pick up a title.

There was another mass shooting... and to which I say, when are the elected officials who are Republicans and Conservatives are going to wake up? The answer will be when they start being the ones being the victims of these horrible incidents.

Messed around a bit with The Adventures of Elena Temple, a game that does claim to be the earliest video game with a female protagonist... but in reality it's a pretty modern game released with the gimmick being that it looks like a game made in the early 1980s. It certainly has a charm to it, but not really something I would consider playing on a stream unless I need to fill in some time.

The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition Achievements

• High five!: [Chalice of the Gods] Collected your first 5 gold coins.
• Oooh, shiny!: [Chalice of the Gods] Collected your first gem.
• Flying shooter: [Chalice of the Gods] Shot a certain button while in the air to avoid falling to your death.
• That's where you were!: [Chalice of the Gods] Collected the Scroll of Treasures.

There is a chance my Aunt Hillary and her family will be coming down next Sunday afternoon, which means I'll have to make sure I get any writing or side projects I want to do on that day done by Saturdays.

So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden