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    • Sweeping his white hip coat back, Liara T'Soni flops down next to Jane Shepard. Looking down, she sees that the seat itself is one of the unconscious humans that had just been thrashed- 'Dragonblooded', Pria referred to them as. "So." Liara glances over to Jane. "What exactly happened?"

    Wincing, Jane glares at Karen Chakwas as the older woman dabs on disinfectant on the mass of cuts and bruises that currently form Jane's face. "You know, I can just cross my legs, concentrate and heal."

    "And if you do that I will sedate you and call it for the utter bullshit it is," Chakwas growls, "You close those wounds as they are and they will be infected, and I will then turn you over to Lawson for whatever ghoulish experiments she originally intended. And besides which, Liara asked you a question."

    Leaning back on the groaning dragonblooded, she glances down, balls her fist, and punches him in the face. The groaning stops. "So, quickly turned out that a half dozen of these guys were more than I could handle." She rolls her shoulders. A sky car speeds past behind them, sirens blaring. "So, I got'em to chase me."

    Liara glances to her side. Looking across the walkways and layered streets of the Citadel Zakera Ward. More particularly, at the small fleet of emergency response skycars, and the restaurant with the neon fish on top. Which is currently on fire.

    "And...that is where you found Javik having dinner with his daughter." She blinks. "Did we ever figure out how she is his daughter?" Jane shrugs. "Nevermind. So you found Javik, his daughter..."

    "And the Zakera Ward Kroganball team," Jane says, "Might follow that sport now."

    Swaying over, empty bottles in each hand, Pria slumps down next to Jane and throws an arm around her shoulder. "Gods damned, Shepard," she slurs, "You take me to the best places." And then she passes out on her lap.

    Omnitool chirps. Rubbing the bridge of her nose, wincing as Chakwas dabs her with more rubbing alcohol, she taps it. "Shepard. What is it, Baily?"

    "Commander, looks like it was eight, not six. Two more appeared one floor down and make a break for it. Looks like she got intercepted by one of your team, though."

    Jane narrows her eyes. "Who?"




    It was surprise that hit Mnemon Horak. Surprise at the surroundings. Surprise at the odd environment he walked in. Surprise at the smells, the sights, the sounds. Surprise at the inhabitants, the demons, and the sudden displacement.

    Surprise at the mortal who leapt down from the rafters, grabbed him in a choke hold, and proceeded to body slam the fire aspect through a flaming table. The last words he heard before passing out- from both surprise and blunt force- were something about being on the 'Vegatrain'.

    While Horak lies unconscious in a pile of kindling and table legs, James Vega has found something else to occupy his time. Still in his hardsuit, elbow against the wall, he grins as the green finger traces down the plates over his pectorals.

    "So you are really fine for eighty seven years old-" An omnitool chirps. He brings it up. "Hey, Commander. Get back to you." He closes it, smiling. "So...what you say we sow some roots?"
     
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    • Nightblade said:
    Also Ten bucks says he's flirting with Mnemon.
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    No, no. Lady was green, so Wood Aspect. If Mnemon is there, she hasn't shown up yet. Assuming Mnemon was picked up by the giant vorp vorp machine, of course.

    In which case, she may have been deposited on Elysium and has seen the monument built there in honor of Jane's actions during the Skyllian Blitz.
     
    Mnemon would have one of those "What the hell" moments seeing the monument. And then she'd understand why everyone keeps calling her Shepard.

    And I can't wait to see Mnemon and Shepard meet.
     
    I have to wonder how many times Shepard got punched in the face before she decided going at six Dragonblooded alone wasn't the best idea.
     
    Winged Knight said:
    I have to wonder how many times Shepard got punched in the face before she decided going at six Dragonblooded alone wasn't the best idea.
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    Over and over again?

    Thinking "I will succeed, I will not let them win".

    Sounds like a good attempt at leveling up. ;)
     
    Noelemahc said:
    We know nothing of Asari reproductive cycles canonically, and since she recently (Asari-time-scale-wise) got upgraded into Matronhood, maybe that comes with extra parts?
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    Jane: "Liara, you had my attention. Now, you have my interest."
     
    Aleph said:
    ... how is going from neuter/female to male an "upgrade"?

    Or a downgrade, before anyone accuses me of manhating. Or any kind of grade.
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    It may be a product of my own severely disturbed excuse for a mind, but I think the implication is that Liara has gained, but not lost, .... options.

    Edit: And suddenly, ninjas.
     
    Noelemahc said:
    Gregg, throw us a bone, are you ever definitely gonna hook Jane up with someone?
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    Between the actual Bluesid and the ghost-cum-god of the bluesid, there may have been a breathtaking amount of astrology done on the Normandy to turn it into a ftl love hotel. And even with that, both Pria and Kasumi are absolutely amazed at the complete lack of sex drive that Jane has.
     
    bobnik said:
    It may be a product of my own severely disturbed excuse for a mind, but I think the implication is that Liara has gained, but not lost, .... options.
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    ... yes? And? What's your point?

    I was asking how any sex - whether it be neuter, male, female or hermaphrodite - could be seen to be "better" than any of the others enough that transitioning between them could be considered an "upgrade". Because I really don't see it.

    However, this is off-topic, so let's drop the subject.
     
    Aleph said:
    ... yes? And? What's your point?

    I was asking how any sex - whether it be neuter, male, female or hermaphrodite - could be seen to be "better" than any of the others enough that transitioning between them could be considered an "upgrade". Because I really don't see it.

    However, this is off-topic, so let's drop the subject.
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    In this case, the upgrade isn't male genetalia. What Liara has in her matron stage is actually a beer tap.
     
    GreggHL said:
    In this case, the upgrade isn't male genetalia. What Liara has in her matron stage is actually a beer tap.
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    Forget the beer tap.

    The real upgrade for being a Matron is that she gets to go into all the rather-better-quality clubs and diners the asari don't let Maidens into because they'll just get drunk and start breaking all the furniture and shooting each other and throwing biotic powers all over the place.

    Some Maidens would say that is an unfair allegation, but honestly? From the observed behaviour of Maidens in-game, I think we have to say that the Matrons have the right idea of things.
     
    I think it is the effect of society on Shepard's mindset. She .. "indulged" while alone with the Geth in the first few chapters if I recall correctly. Thus she has hormones / a sex drive. She just doesn't sleep around by choice. From Pria's viewpoint and Kasumi's viewpoint this is like saying "one plus one equals swordfish" - something they just can't understand because it is so alien to how they view themselves, their world, and so on.
     
    Could just be that her overall sexdrive is relatively minimal then? There are a lot of people who are technically attracted to a given gender, but just not really... 'interested' for lack of better term. It's just not viewed as a priority.
     
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