Someday I'll stop posting about Mass Effect
As I think I've mentioned off-handedly, though maybe not on this blog, Coralie Shepard began her life as an expy of a Dark Heresy character I didn't think I'd have the opportunity to play: Coralie "Calamity" Keynes, a street tough from Sancour tagged on this blog as Curst, as the church stripped her of her name and property for crimes against.
While Coralie Shepard was mothballed, Kurze and I ended up writing an adventure with her and one Inquisitor Edrick Von Hemel. It's workable backstory if I ever do get to play her at this point—but Kurze would have to be DMing, and Von Hemel would have to be directing the cell, I imagine.
Anyway, in the course of events at one point Calamity had asked him about his regrets, and he had a few to mention: a city he'd bombed off the map; the innocent lives he'd damaged to destroy the guilty. Later he expressed doubt that Calamity had the ability to work with him in the long term, given his deceptive and occasionally extreme methods. She's too straight-up-and-down for the Inquisition.
He might have a point about Coralie Keynes. Coralie Shepard, though …
11:21:38 AM castellankurze: so
11:21:55 AM castellankurze: I saw that you massacred the geth and destroyed Legion's legacy.
11:21:58 AM castellankurze: A+
11:22:03 AM starcunning: SHUT UP
11:22:09 AM starcunning: you fuck!
11:22:09 AM castellankurze: medals all around
11:24:26 AM starcunning: listen.
11:24:49 AM starcunning: I spent three years of my life working toward one goal: destroy the Reapers.
11:25:20 AM starcunning: Yes, the cost of doing so was higher than anticipated, and yes, some of that damage may never be repaired.
11:26:10 AM starcunning: What Legion did was great and noble, and what the geth did was all the more heroic for the bloody history written at Eden Prime and in the Morning War.
11:26:51 AM starcunning: Don't think I don't know what this means for the galaxy. Don't think I don't know what this means for the quarians, who were relying on their new allies to help them rebuild on Rannoch.
11:27:54 AM starcunning: The death of the geth was regrettable. I do regret it, as I mourn the loss of EDI. I know that even if they are rebuilt—if all of them, if any of them are rebuilt—this will change things.
11:28:35 AM starcunning: But they knew that was a possibility when they rallied to my banner, against those that would control them.
11:28:52 AM starcunning: I will miss them. I will mourn them.
11:29:10 AM starcunning: But I think they would agree this was the best course of action.
11:29:16 AM castellankurze: All very well said..
11:29:19 AM castellankurze: Just one question.
11:29:27 AM starcunning: (and you said Lee didn't have the grit to work with the Inquisition.)
11:31:24 AM castellankurze: How's it feel to trade places with Von Hemel? ;p
11:31:34 AM starcunning: RIGHT?