Chapter 112: This One’s for All the Marbles

=== Summary ===
Shepard and Garrus attend a carefully screened gathering of many different groups that wish for the Normandy crew’s endorsement and licensing. The party is quite the success, including Ariake Technologies developing a Vakarian line of visors, and Jormangund Technology building sniper rifles and hardsuits bearing their names.
The next day is the final Armax match and the team discovers to Shepard’s horror that not only will they be fighting VI simulations of themselves (including squad members that are dead), but the Armax team technicians want to utilize a pilot program that will accurately transmit pain to them from any virtual injury they take. Shepard is on the warpath as a result, and demands to know who’s hairbrained idea it was. The technician who drew the short straw to talk to an angry Commander Shepard stutters out Dr. Mordin Solus. The idea is to gather such data for use in medical treatments, and for rehabilitation therapy.
Hearing Mordin’s name takes the fury out of Shepard, who tells the technicians they may run their pilot ONLY on volunteers.
The final match is fifteen people versus nineteen VIs in a battle royale. The fight is long and fierce, but it comes down to Shepard and Garrus and their VI counterparts. The VIs are too uncanny, causing Shepard to hesitate to kill the program that looks too much like her fiance. The real Garrus takes out his VI look-alike right before VI Shepard strikes him down with an omniblade. The sounds he makes are too real and Shepard turns with sub-zero inhumanity on the projection that took out her bondmate. She stalks towards her prey as an unstoppable force, eventually stabbing not-so empty air. Her double’s tactical cloak fails before Shepard double-taps the VI out of existence. Her rage is palpable as the lights go out.
=== Title Meaning ===
=== Easter Eggs ===
==== Discord Highlights ====
Surprise live readings, the stuffed toys in Vi's crib, and whether Garrus keeps the visor on in bed.