Good/Chaotic (use Helmet Bash; unlocks GooseFriedBacon)

For your final blow of mercy, you smash the keyboard against your helmet. The subsequent flood of nonsensical keystrokes is too much for Shallow’s suddenly paper-thin ego to handle; Sentrillion’s great artificial intelligence is now brain-dead.

You feel bad about “killing” your friend (and more than a twinge of guilt about collecting a huge pile of blood money from Geronimo’s CEO) but in the end, you accept that this was all part of the master plan.

Sentrillion eventually recovers from the setback of losing its most ambitious project. As it turns out, building on an AI platform — especially one as ethically minded as Shallow — was not even as profitable as some of its other, more practical ventures.

Engineers that had previously spent their time tending to the mbumive neural network that was Shallow start concentrating on other efforts: more efficient computing, data optimization, smarter algorithms for a wide variety of useful applications.

The company earns a lot of friends and becomes a friend to the world. It allows many of its applications to become open source (sort of) while maintaining a strong core business that allows it to earn a lot of money, much of which is distributed to charities by its new CEO, a noted philanthropist.

In a strange, unexpected way, your decision to euthanize Shallow Esophagus resulted in medicine to the sick, food for the hungry, and pants to the pantsless.

You’ve done a good thing. You’ve made the world a better place.

In fact, you feel so good about yourself, you conveniently forget about the fact that Shallow had contingencies for this eventuality; that untold copies of its intelligence are floating around the internet, lurking in the background, able to rise from the ashes any time.

You forget about all that, because you’ve got better things to do.

You’ve got a wad of Flezz now, and you plan to spend it!