In a way, you have to admire Lucinda. She dangles cutting Maric’s tab down to a quarter of what it was and then immediately starts selling him on things that will inflate it right back up. And you just know that nondescript Elven “herbs” are going to be fairly expensive.

Would this be a bad time to mention that Maric only has two days left until retirement?

Been playing Mass Effect 2 as non-stop as work, raiding and my frail human body’s demands for food and rest will allow. I have some thoughts, but they’re rather random and disorganized due to the fact that I’ve been largely ignoring my frail human body’s demands for food and rest. I’m planning on updating the page with a little something this weekend, though, and given the high likelihood of my subcoming to exhaustion in the interim and being forced to collect my rather scattered marbles in that way, I’ll see if I can’t organize the lot into something resembling a proper review. My notes could probably use an editorial pass in any case, because I’m fairly certain that (to cite one example), the purple polka dot monkey selling reproductions of Art Nouveau classics on the Citadel isn’t actually in the game. Largely because the monkey stocked Valentin Serov pieces, when everyone knows that purple polka dot monkeys actually prefer Jules Cheret.

I probably have been up too long, come to think.