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BREAKING NEWS:

The famous Commander Shepard has attempted to draw the left eye eyeliner exactly like the right. 4 injured 11 dead.

[kuraiummei]

Drum roll please! 🥁🥁🥁

I am thrilled to share my new fic with you, made for the 2022 Mass Effect Big Bang!

Summary: A super massive vessel appears at the edge of known space, offering advanced technologies in exchange for emergency aid... but the data proves harder to retrieve than anyone could have expected. While deep in the digital world of the alien servers, a multinational tactical group gets more than they bargained for when a virus turns reality into fairy tale.

Read it on Ao3:

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Announcement on MEBB blog:

[BREAKING NEWS: Alien AI-Controlled Ship Makes Contact in Salarian Space!]“Alarms rang throughout the system of Antilin yesterday when an al

2bfrank has created several inspired art pieces for the fic, bringing to life the 'fairy tales in the matrix' vibes with stunning lighting effects and that sexy title banner featured above.

A big thank you to the MEBB team for organizing this event, and my fellow authors and artists for their hard work creating new fanfiction for us to enjoy. Check out their entries as the rest of the works are revealed this month! 🤗

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Avitus: So let me get this straight. Nihlus, you were worried about Saren because he was acting weird... and Saren, you were acting weird because you could sense that Nihlus was distressed, but couldn't figure out what... turns out that it was because he knew something was wrong with you.. and that something was that you knew Nihlus was hiding something... which was him hiding his feelings to spare you from worrying about him?

Saren: ... Yes, that sums it up.

Nihlus: uh. yeah? yeah. i think so.

Avitus: I'm turning in vacation requests for both of you. For fucks sake, go talk.

Nihlus: ...talk...?

Saren: About what, precisely?

Avitus, disgusted: Ughhhh.

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Saren, on holocall to the Council: "I have tried calling the local embassy here nine times. They either do not answer, or do not listen to a word I say. We have made no progress on the myriad issues in this sector."

Councilor Valern: "The Hegemony's agents in this area can be both aggressive and elusive. You may have to approach them directly. Their dismissive behavior is a cultural power game. It is important to take precautionary measures if- "

Saren, lighting up his biotic aura and pulling out a handcanon the size of a baby krogan: "That. is. IT. I am done playing games."

Nihlus, taking his spot on the vidcall screen: "soooo... he hasn't slept in two days... and we spent all of yesterday walking through a swamp only to find the ambassador was a no show. also they've insulted his brother, his face, all of you, me, and his ship just about every conversation."

Tevos: "Oh dear."

Valern: "Kryik, go stop him!"

Nihlus: "... how?"

Spraratus, having already processed the stages of grief, prepared his formal apology to the Batarians, and is now contemplating lunch: "Mmn. Do your best."

Nihlus: "uhhh, copy that."

*explosion noises in background*

Nihlus: "gotta go, bye!"

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Nihlus: i hate drinking alone because i'm such a bad influence on me.

Shepard: *nods sympathetically* I guess we'll just have to get trashed together.

Nihlus, pouring a glass and toasting: to killing slavers, pissing off the terminus lords, and to my new spectre rookie!

Shepard, lifting the entire bottle: To less paperwork, better guns, and never answering to alliance brass again!

Them: Cheers!

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Saren: What. are you doing. Don't do it that way, it's wildly inefficient.

Nihlus: let me live my life.

Saren: I do. It's tragic.

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Nihlus: i never make the same mistake twice.

Saren: Because you repeat it four or five times just to be sure.