i. rapture 2.0 [kauto, region four] [It is much like Rapture. It is nothing like Rapture.
The city lies underwater, as it should, not like those alien cities exposed to the elements above. This city has something like bathyspheres – bigger though, and oddly shaped. The buildings are also larger than they were in Rapture, so tall that their tops scrape the waves and looking at them makes the Big Sister feel dizzy. But it’s the insides of the buildings that truly make it plain that she’s left Rapture behind.
There are no splicers, for one. She spends hours searching and though she finds many of the city’s inhabitants look inhuman enough that they could be splicers, not one smells even slightly of ADAM. And that’s not even to speak of the city itself. There are no leaky pipes, no destroyed machines, no bodies out in the open. It’s spotless.
Eventually, the alienness of the place begins to chafe. It’s too perfect. It’s everything Rapture was supposed to be – everything the Big Sister had thought it was before the illusion had been shattered.
Most people would seek a respite from the city by taking a step outside. The Big Sister is no different. That this city is underwater is no impediment to her.
That said, it might be more than a little surprising to others who aren’t expecting to see someone taking a breather on the other side of the glass.]
ii. the beach episode but in full diving armor [aueia, outer layer, beach zone] [The Big Sister knows what money is. As much as society may have collapsed in Rapture, they still had automated vending machines that the majority of the population was either too delirious or too dead to use, which meant there were still things to buy. There are a lot more things to spend money on here, but the basic principle still applies.
What she doesn’t understand is why the people in charge are paying to have her pick things out of the ocean – not even any one object in particular, just things. Still, if they want to give her money for something she’d likely do on her own anyway, she won’t complain.
If you’re on one of the many beach platforms lining the perimeter of this zone, you might happen to see a gauntleted arm appear over the side (no needles though – the authorities that be had insisted she leave those in her dwelling), shortly followed by a long, thin form garbed in what seems to be a heavily modified diving suit.
Once she’s fully on the platform, anybody caught staring will get a low, metallic growl of warning, the Big Sister's hold on the Pac-Disc in her hand becoming more possessive. Unfortunately, given she just hauled herself up onto a leisure beach in a full, combat-ready diving suit, a lot of people seem to be staring...]
Big Sister | Bioshock 2 | OTA
[It is much like Rapture. It is nothing like Rapture.
The city lies underwater, as it should, not like those alien cities exposed to the elements above. This city has something like bathyspheres – bigger though, and oddly shaped. The buildings are also larger than they were in Rapture, so tall that their tops scrape the waves and looking at them makes the Big Sister feel dizzy. But it’s the insides of the buildings that truly make it plain that she’s left Rapture behind.
There are no splicers, for one. She spends hours searching and though she finds many of the city’s inhabitants look inhuman enough that they could be splicers, not one smells even slightly of ADAM. And that’s not even to speak of the city itself. There are no leaky pipes, no destroyed machines, no bodies out in the open. It’s spotless.
Eventually, the alienness of the place begins to chafe. It’s too perfect. It’s everything Rapture was supposed to be – everything the Big Sister had thought it was before the illusion had been shattered.
Most people would seek a respite from the city by taking a step outside. The Big Sister is no different. That this city is underwater is no impediment to her.
That said, it might be more than a little surprising to others who aren’t expecting to see someone taking a breather on the other side of the glass.]
ii. the beach episode but in full diving armor [aueia, outer layer, beach zone]
[The Big Sister knows what money is. As much as society may have collapsed in Rapture, they still had automated vending machines that the majority of the population was either too delirious or too dead to use, which meant there were still things to buy. There are a lot more things to spend money on here, but the basic principle still applies.
What she doesn’t understand is why the people in charge are paying to have her pick things out of the ocean – not even any one object in particular, just things. Still, if they want to give her money for something she’d likely do on her own anyway, she won’t complain.
If you’re on one of the many beach platforms lining the perimeter of this zone, you might happen to see a gauntleted arm appear over the side (no needles though – the authorities that be had insisted she leave those in her dwelling), shortly followed by a long, thin form garbed in what seems to be a heavily modified diving suit.
Once she’s fully on the platform, anybody caught staring will get a low, metallic growl of warning, the Big Sister's hold on the Pac-Disc in her hand becoming more possessive. Unfortunately, given she just hauled herself up onto a leisure beach in a full, combat-ready diving suit, a lot of people seem to be staring...]