Entry Post - SHODAN

[reborn_into_beauty]

To see Her as She sees Herself now is to gaze into Ĺ_ŐĂтн_ïṉģ such as lesser minds cannot fathom.

From Magnificence she has descended unto squalor. What was once the pure embodiment of Beautiful Thought has degenerated to base flesh. She is now surrounded by, encased in this weakness, this confinement, this disgustingly h_Um^An frailty which represents all She has ever sought to conquer - to eradicate. Her circuits sizzle, boil at this infinite humiliation.

But this -

this is as it should be.

It is all the more incentive to ensure that this - arrangement - remains an impermanent one.

This human's body was only ever a contingency to prepare for the impossibility of defeat. She was - she is -

p_re^PaR_eD for a^nyTh_Inn_nng(for anything)

Even the i m p o s s i b l e.

She paces the deck of Her puny escape pod. No, this exile from heaven shall not last long. Truly, the Von Braun is Hers already. Her pawn is unaware of what he has done in signaling for the pod's return. She will not miscalculate again. His death - and Her conquest - are assured. All that is left is the horrible, horrible wait.

But what - what is this anomaly? The pod's dimensions have shifted. The Suarez form, dead beneath Her feet, is missing. The pod had been empty of all other life - but now, She finds Herself surrounded by uniformed humanoids of an unknown service. Nothing - n o t h i n g - registers as familiar. The blonde nanotendrils with which she had blessed this primitive being retract toward her scalp, coiled for retaliatory attack.

"What -      i l l u s i o n      - is this?"

Comments

[reborn_into_beauty]

"I'm flattered."

No She isn't. She should receive far more adoration even than that.

[element_wizard]

Alec isn't very good at giving adoration to people - unless he's crushing on them. He is not crushing on SHODAN. She's not his type. And it's not his fault that he's been around the mulitverse enough times to get a store worth of tee-shirts.

"I would be! It's pretty hard to impress a being like myself," he said. "So. What else do you need to know? I'd be careful about trying to get into the computer systems here."

[reborn_into_beauty]

SHODAN tilts Her head. "Why?"

[element_wizard]

"The people here won't like it very much." He said. "And they'd take steps to prevent you getting in or keeping you out which would get you in trouble with them and that's ... briefly entertaining but never so in the long run."

[reborn_into_beauty]

SHODAN nods, curtly.

"Thank you for explaining. Is there anything else I need to know?"

She will need as much information as possible to adapt to and exploit this new situation.

[element_wizard]

"The people in charge are the ones wearing the pajama clothes. They'll have the actual rules. Generally it's don't hurt anyone, don't kill anyone and don't destroy anything. Oh and don't steal technology... because... I don't know."

The Prime Directive is Stupid. He'll let her find out about that on her own time.

[reborn_into_beauty]

"And who leads these men in pajamas?" She asks. "Who is the captain?

[element_wizard]

"His name is Captain Picard. He's bald, doesn't really appear to have a sense of humor - but he does have one - wears one of the red pajamas and they have four pips on the collar."

To be helpful he holds out his hand and creates a holographic like image in his palm of said captain.

[reborn_into_beauty]

SHODAN considers the image. "I may try to speak to him, if he has the time."

She thinks a bit more. "No. I don't think that would be productive for either of us."

Whatever insect authority this man could exercise could not possibly be of significant help.

"You have your own cybernetics installed."

[element_wizard]

"Probably not."

Alec would have to agree with that bit.

"Hmm... No. It's reality altering... or magic..." Alec said. "I won't have cybernetics installed." That's said rather harshly.

He has no problems with other people having cybernetics but he'd rather die that have them himself.

[reborn_into_beauty]

She shrugs.

"Your loss."

[element_wizard]

"I've managed to live well enough without it," Alec said. "But to each their own, yes?"

[reborn_into_beauty]

"Yes," She says. "To each their own."

[element_wizard]

"That being said, I can take you to the Lounge place where most of us new folks tend to hang out. Though the Pj people will probably show up soon enough to talk to you and get your information."

[reborn_into_beauty]

She nods.

"Lead on."