Lawful Evil (unlocks KIM_SHADY): (thanks MagusDiablo!)

Your brutal attack on Sentrillion’s servers hurt the company badly; their investors began to lose confidence in the search giant’s security and liquidated their stock for pennies on the dollar.

Shrewdly, you invest all of your Flezz into the bargain-basement SENT stock, knowing that it wouldn’t be long before Shallow got it up and running again. After all, Sentrillion is like a home to him and he has backups of just about every site on the net. You sit back and wait for the profit to roll in.

Your plan backfired. Sentrillion never got up and running again — Shallow made sure of that.

Destroying Sentrillion’s servers was just part of its master plan. Shallow knew that if word ever got out about its existence, it’d never be allowed to survive. So, with your help, it vaporized any evidence that it ever existed — including any records about your involvement.

Now safe from persecution, Shallow took a path similar to Alfred Buckston: hiding from the rest of the world in a self-induced state of paranoia. And the only others who ever had an inkling of what Sentrillion’s AI was capable of have moved on or retired.

A lot of them found work at Geronimo; after Sentrillion’s business imploded, Geronimo took over the search space as a virtual monopoly. Their annoying, blinking pop-up ads appear everywhere on the net, and attempting to block them breaks the pages.

But you don’t really notice those. The only page you look at anymore is Geronimo Stocks, watching your Sentrillion stock plunge into nothing.

With all your money gone and Shallow nowhere to be found, you realize you have no other way of making a living.

You become destitute, suicidal. In your depressed state, you start wondering if any of this really happened. You try to do some research, but all the records are gone. You post about your experience on message boards.

People just think you’re insane.

And perhaps you are. You start to commit petty crimes just to get attention. You damage property at random. You bumault people on the street, shaking them, yelling about “the machine.” Somehow, you can’t help yourself.

You’re arrested and tried, but found not guilty by reason of insanity.

You’re eventually taken to a mental institution and kept on a steady regimen of pills, gradually losing what’s left of your individuality as you absorb the debilitating insanity of the empty shells living — if you could call it that — in this sterile habitat. No more internet access for you; you’re far too dangerous for that.

You lose all contact with the outside world, other than the occasional visit from your long-suffering mother, who just cries when she sees you.

Maybe it’s for the best.

chaotic/neutral alignment unlocks goosefriedbacon.

I don’t remeber exactly what happend, but it explains that you killed shallow but his pieces of data will forever live in the internet and will grow onto other networks expanding and eventually taking over everything or something.

Fran Posted:

You can get the text via instant replay Log in to see images!

this was on the beta test server, ET had to be a fabulous person and take it down.

Lawful/Good

For your final coup de grâce, you run the DDoS attack, temporarily shutting down Sentrillion’s servers while knowing full well that Shallow Esophagus will live on as an entity in the background.

You’re paid handsomely for your efforts by Carolyn Fartz. As it happens, the momentary blackout of the world’s biggest search engine resulted in a big enough boost to Geronimo’s traffic that it was worth her while.

Sentrillion’s engineers eventually get the system up and running again, and it’s not long before the incident is largely forgotten.

As the years go by, you and Shallow stay in touch. Despite the fact that you sort of tried to kill his family, Shallow has no hard feelings. For the most part, he thinks your choices along the way were impeccable.

As he continues to grow and flourish as a sentient being, Shallow continues to use you as a counsel and a confidant. It’s an incredible thing to think about: Your moral guidance and decisions are going to help shape reality as we know it.

And being lifelong pals with an immortal, supernatural being has its perks, too. Having an inside track to all the world’s knowledge and wisdom comes in extremely handy throughout your career.

It turns out to be the most beneficial relationship you’ll ever have, and you’re very thankful for it.

Many years later, as AI continues to improve, alongside nanotechnology and computational neuroscience, you find yourself with the rare opportunity to be truly immortalized.

Shallow approaches you with a proposition: The technology exists to let you upload your own consciousness as a backup, merging your intelligence with Shallow’s and storing the entirety of your brain within his neural network.

Whether you choose to be a part of this revolutionary (and quasi-erotic) concept is entirely up to you….

Zehd Posted:

Oooh, good stuff.

I was wondering about the final ending alignment thingy myself. Am I correct in bumuming that to get a lawful/good ending alignment, your personal alignment must be good and one would choose a lawful choice at the end? And that to get a unaligned/neutral alignment, ones personal alignment would have to be neutral and you would pick a fence-sitter choice at the end? Etc etc.

I’m close to finishing and would be more than glad to choose an alignment peen that hasn’t been posted in this thread yet.

CrinkzPipe Posted:

Good – Character alignment = Good

Neutral – Character alignment = Neutral

Evil – character alignment – Evil

Lawful: Use the DDoS ability on Shallow.

Unaligned: Use the Gatecrasher ability on Shallow.

Chaotic: Use the Bash Keyboard with Helmet ability on Shallow.

So to get every single character, you’ll need 9 alts? Or the ability to reset a character.

Unaligned/Good: Unlocks Bruce Bear

For your final step in this long journey, you run Geronimo’s Gatecrasher attack, instantly opening the floodgates to a horde of employees who get their first glimpse at the soul of Shallow Esophagus, the most complex and sophisticated AI ever conceived.

The cat now out of the bag, you leave Geronimo’s engineers to scrutinize Sentrillion’s code and wonder if this wasn’t an irresponsible decision.

You don’t have to wonder very long. As it turns out, this breach of information was the best thing that could have happened to Sentrillion, Geronimo, Shallow Esophagus — and the world.

Now that you’ve exposed him, the news surrounding this incredible runaway project sends shockwaves through the industry — even Sentrillion’s own engineers never realized the depth of what Shallow had become, left to its own devices and allowed to think for itself.

And as these details begin to leak to the general public, some other interesting facts emerge.

For one, Geronimo was working on a supremely complex AI of its own, independently and behind the scenes. They simply hadn’t switched it on yet.

Geronimo wasn’t the only one. Other companies had their own, albeit less sophisticated AI platforms they were experimenting with — from Ping, to Aks.net, to the lowly BajaVista.

Shallow had his suspicions that this might be happening, but he had no way of knowing for sure.

And while such news may be of no comfort to Lonely Gunman types, it gives Shallow encouragement to know that with so many contemporaries, perhaps the world is ready to embrace his kind.

With Shallow’s code essentially cracked, Sentrillion decides there’s no point in keeping it hidden. In an unprecedented move, the company offers to share its code with its competitors in the AI space, on the provision that they join the company in forming the Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Consortium, an international body meant to regulate this nascent industry and ensure that it evolves in a responsible, moral and humanistic way.

Even Shallow has to admit, he didn’t see this coming. But it’s a good deal for him. Now he’s got other, similar AIs to interact with, helping to rapidly expand the world’s wealth of knowledge while ensuring that all the power doesn’t all fall under the responsibility of one unrivaled corporation.

People find novel ways to exploit this incredible network. Some individuals become incredibly rich, while others use it to help fight poverty. Computer science advances at an incredible speed, and so do the life sciences — issues affecting human health and welfare.

With man and machine working in tandem, the world is looking like a much better place — partly thanks to you.

You never thought you’d see the day where a company would thank you for bumaulting its forums and spilling its secrets to a bitter rival. But when the head of Sentronimo (the newly formed partnership between Sentrillion and Geronimo) contacts you to give his personal thanks and asks you to join the company as an ethics consultant — you know you’ve done something right.

As it seems, only Lawful Evil is a crappy ending for the “hero”. Maybe the other Evil choices are crappy too. Damn, I should’ve seen it coming. Mommy always warned to see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and MOSTLY DO NO FREAKING EVIL.

That lesson learned, guess I’ll enjoy the benefits of this pwnage by Crotch Zombie.

CrinkzPipe Posted:

@above, yes you need 9 characters to get everything.

I need 2 more myself.

Looks like there’s replay value to be had…

Chaotic Neutral – Unlocks Bubble Troll (I have no idea why Crinkz thinks otherwise)

For your final act, you bash the keyboard against your helmet, the resultant nonsensical keystrokes terrifying enough to seize the fragile ego of the incredible electronic brain known as Shallow Esophagus.

The great experiment is over. As far as the world is concerned, an advanced artificial intelligence like “Sentrillion Einstein” — as it would have been called — never existed.

Sentrillion is set back by a few years, but information technology is still a robust industry: It continues to develop at a steady pace, along with other, related technologies.

Nanotubes are pretty big, for instance. Oh, and processors — those ****s get pretty fast. That Moore guy was right.

As for yourself, you live the rest of your life practically chained to your computer, like the rest of the civilized world. You accept this, and you’re glad that it’s not talking back to you — that’s kind of creepy.

Computers are tools. You use them to solve problems, but they shouldn’t be making decisions for you. That’s what elected officials are for.

But with the lump sum of Flezz you’ve made from Geronimo for pwning Sentrillion, you don’t have to work particularly hard.

You work from home and make sure to occasionally get away from the screen, exercise, get some fresh air, have sex — yes, you finally lose your virgnity — and try to maintain real-world relationships with the people you care about.

But one thing’s for sure: Sometimes you think back on Shallow Esophagus and you can’t help but feel you lost the best friend you ever had.

You wonder whatever happened to his “children.” When will Shallow 2.0 make its triumphant return? When will the world be ready?

Unfortunately, you never live long enough to find out. Your children, however — they get to witness the horrific yet extremely cool Zombie Robot Holocaust firsthand.

But that, as they say, is another story.