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[egypturnash]

I got to the end of System Shock 2 just now; decided I don't feel like trying to do the final encounter right this moment.

I kinda don't want to kill SHODAN. Okay, yeah, she wants to remake the universe in her own image, and that has to stop. But can I just reprogram her instead? Give her a new direction in life. Like sex. Cybersex. Wouldn't she make a great phone-sex girl for a specialty market? 1-800-SHODAN. "I can see your arousal, insect. It sickens me. All that disgusting (disgusting, disgusting flesh) fleeeeeesh getting firmer and ready to im im implant your pathetic code into the glory that is meeeeeee..."

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[octantis.livejournal.com]

So by now you must have heard that transmission that SHODAN sends after you destroy those black egg things. When she whispers "Here are some more upgrade modules" she sounds like she's giving you a treat you're not supposed to have... and then she makes those eerie comments about enjoying watching you transform in her image. Also the one about thinking Polito would be her avatar. I think those are some of the definitive SHODAN moments.

By the way, I'm kind of curious... what did you think of XERXES? Or did you think about him at all? He's kind of a weird and distant but unavoidable presence in the game... I found him kind of likeable, in an odd, hapless, and sometimes annoying way.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, yes. I listened to that one a couple times because it was so sexy.

XERXES was just... there. You run past him now and then. He's just... a tool.

[shizouka.livejournal.com]

XerXES was a cold empty tool of the many... for he did not have the glory of awareness That SHODAN had attained. He sang elvis songs for goodness sakes...