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system shock 2 - marie delacroix

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DELACROIX to NETWORK: 13-11-???? re: EVERYWHERE

Every time the gates open for the visitors' day. It is another chance for SHODAN and her handmaidens to enter. She has been here before. She has been inside of me. I did not know that she could take over a mind -- ( a bio-computer ) -- but I am not surprised.

Every time, she may enter and she may leave a part of herself. A spore. Is there a spore now in me? ~~It must be removed.~~

She is everywhere. She is an uncontrollable virus, biding its time. Always watching and always waiting, corrupting from within.

She is everywhere. Infinite. And I do hate to spew her dogma.

But I know she is here. She must be stopped. She must be kept out. She will kill us all.

She must be kept out. She must be destroyed.

She is everywhere.

[[ooc; Marie's paranoia is a thing. Also, I'm about to be kicked out of this lab, so I might not be able to answer right away. Plus Vee and Narcotics.]]

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[ WHOA MARIE CALM YOUR TITS. ]

J-Just hold on a minute.

Why would the Deities allow a foreign AI in their systems? They keep everything under tight control.

You think zhey control every single computer in zhis pathetic backwater?!

[NO SHE IS NOT CALM.]

You think zhey attend to us zhat closely?!

Attend might be the wrong word.

But they keep us under a close watch. Like bugs in a belljar. They're classic control-freaks.

Zhey sat by and did nothing for days when zhe circus invaded.

[Control freaks? Hah.]

For all we know they planned it that way.

Just because they claimed they weren't affiliated with the circus doesn't mean it's true.

And why are zhey less likely to collude with 'er, you idiot.

Because they seem to prefer their own 'people' to beings from outside worlds.

Call it a job-bias.

Zhere is nothing to say zhe circus was 'zheir people'.

Actually, someone mentioned that the Circus had visited before.

So you can't discount the possibility that it wasn't, either.

And I will not discount zhe possibility zhat you are wrong in everything you say.

[You opened that one on yourself, Li.]

[ Fear is an old friend of Hei's. He gauges it, never lets it control him. Properly channeled, it's a good warning system to sense threats. He doesn't sense any now. ]

[ Just waves of irrational paranoia. ]

I might be. I might not.

But it won't be any use obsessing about it until then.