Xenosaga Freaks Xeno Komi FAQ
ぜのコミ 初版 (zenoKomi shohan - Xeno Komi First Edition)
by Princess Artemis
Version .85 11/25/2007 -- Need to finish summaries.
Version 1.0 12/07/2007 -- Finished summaries, updated credits section.
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Introduction:
Xenosaga Freaks is a Japanese only game
This is not intended to be a full walkthrough, though who knows, perhaps one
day I'll go a little crazy and make one. This is a short guide so that when
you play the Xeno Komi portion of Xenosaga Freaks you have a good chance of
seeing all there is to see. I have provided summaries for each story; I don't
know enough Japanese to translate them properly, but I can give a general
idea about what is happening in each story.
Since this is primarily a FAQ for people who don't know much or any Japanese,
I am including the Japanese character and location names and some other
Japanese that will help a player figure out what each option does. I have also
included a very short list of words that will help in understanding who is
talking about who and how they are addressing them, since some characters don't
call the others by name, and the way they address each other can give some
insight into their relationships or personality. This aspect is not so easy
to see clearly in English, though much of it is not hard to infer.
Of course, a person who knows Japanese can always use the FAQ for the basic
controls and Boost Quiz answers. And then they can laugh at me for getting
the summaries wrong :)
Xeno Komi is a collection of mostly humorous interrelated stories for the
main characters of Xenosaga Episode I. Each story starts out on an ordinary
day, or so it would seem; it becomes rapidly apparent that something is wrong
and as each character, you will play through their adventures trying to stop
(or possibly start!) trouble. It is not known when in the Xenosaga timeline
Xeno Komi occurs; all that is certain is it *seems* to occur sometime during
Episode I when the Durandal is docked at the Kukai Foundation and the Elsa is
docked with the Durandal, allowing characters to move freely between all three
locations. The Xenosaga Episode III database has several entries related to
the events in Xeno Komi, so it is canon.
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Table of contents:
You may use the Find function to skip directly to a section.
Controls -------------------------------------------------------------- [XSF01]
Initial Xenosaga Freaks menu (so you can get to Xeno Komi!) ----------- [XSF02]
Initial Xeno Komi menu ------------------------------------------------ [XSF03]
Story Select menu ----------------------------------------------------- [XSF04]
Playing Xeno Komi (in-game menu, layout, how the game works) ---------- [XSF05]
Words to Know (Japanese suffixes and special character names) --------- [XSF06]
Japanese: words and phrases commonly encountered in menus ------------- [XSF07]
Boost Quiz answers ---------------------------------------------------- [XSF08]
Story summaries (including where Boost Quizzes occur; general spoilers) [XSF09]
Shion's story ----------------------------------------------------- [XSFSH]
KOS-MOS' story ---------------------------------------------------- [XSFKO]
Jr.'s story ------------------------------------------------------- [XSFJR]
MOMO's story ------------------------------------------------------ [XSFMO]
Ziggy's story ----------------------------------------------------- [XSFZI]
chaos' story ------------------------------------------------------ [XSFCH]
Allen's story ----------------------------------------------------- [XSFAL]
Credits, disclaimers, copyright --------------------------------------- [XSF10]
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Xenosaga Freaks basic controls:
These are specifically for Xeno Komi, but the controls are generally the same
for all parts of Xenosaga Freaks.
The circle button confirms a choice, X cancels, and triangle opens the menu.
The D pad or the left analog stick can be used to cycle through menus.
For Boost Quizzes, pressing R1 will give you a one-time hint.
Xenosaga Freaks uses the memory card in slot one only.
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Initial Xenosaga Freaks menu:
These are the options you will see when you first start the game.
ぜのコミ - Xeno Komi (Press circle to choose this).
ぜのぴったん - Xeno-pittan (A word game--there's no way back to this menu once
Xeno-pittan has been started.)
エンサイクロペディア - Encyclopedia. Contains many entries on Episode I topics.
ゼノサーガ エピソード II [善悪の彼岸] -体験版- Xenosaga Episode II demo.
オプション - Options. Change the sound settings, load games, etc.
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Initial Xeno Komi menu:
はじめから - Begin - Start a new game. You can play each character's story
as many times as you like; when you complete one, a small Bunnie will be shown
in the corner of the character portrait in the story select menu.
つづきから - Continue - Load a previously saved game.
CG鑑賞 - CG Appreciation - As soon as you have played enough of Xeno Komi to
have seen one of the special 'cut scenes', they will be available to view
here. There are 30 scenes in all.
オプション - Options - Allows you to change the volume for music, sound
effects, voices, as well as a couple other things.
トップメニューに戻る - Return to Top Menu - Takes you back to the Xenosaga
Freaks menu.
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Story Select Menu:
Initially, you will have access to Shion, KOS-MOS, Jr., MOMO, Ziggy, and chaos.
The portraits are labled in English. Chosing one will bring up a dialogue
confirming that you wish to start a story with that character. Chose "Yes" or
"No" to start a story or pick a different character.
The game will automatically save after finishing a story; this doesn't
over-write any individual saves you might have.
Playing through all six initial stories will unlock Allen's story; playing
through all seven stories will unlock many new encyclopedia entries in the top
menu for Xenosaga Freaks.
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Playing Xeno Komi:
Action in Xeno Komi is done primarily through menus. Essentially, Xeno
Komi is an illustrated and voiced text adventure. The screen is divided
into sections: the lower half is dominated by a text box; all speech,
thoughts, and naration are shown here. On the left hand side of the text
box is your current character icon. Your character will change expressions
often. Slightly above the text box on the left is a reminder that pressing
triangle will bring up the in-game menu. In the main part of the screen you
will see the room you are in and usually one or two characters. Your
character's current location will be described in the upper right hand of
the screen by a Japanese description and a picture of the Elsa, Durandal,
or Kukai Foundation.
In-Game menu options:
セーブ - Save - Will take you to a save screen. Be sure you have a memory
card in Slot 1. If you're saving over a game, it will ask you if you are
sure you wish to do so. Confirm or deny with "Yes" or "No".
ロード - Load - Load a previous save. It will ask if you're sure you want
to load over the game you're playing.
プション - Options - Lets you set the volume level for music, voice, effects,
text speed, set steror or mono, toggle rumble, and adjust the screen in case
it's not centered..
ゲーム終了 - Quit - The game will ask you if you're sure you wish to quit.
If you quit, you will go back to the Xeno Komi main menu.
You can exit the menu by pressing X.
Text in the text boxes is divided into three types: dialogue, which will
be white with the name of the speaker above it in purple and will be
surrounded by brackets; internal thoughts which will be purple with
quotation marks; and narration, which will simply be white. Only dialogue
has voice-over.
Pressing circle will advance the text in the text box and possibly cut short
the voice-over. It is very rare for text to advance on its own.
The menu for the current choices available to you take up the center of the
screen above the text box. Highlight and choose what you want the character to
do. It's a very simple game.
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Words to know:
These words will help you to know who is talking about who, since not
everyone calls each other by name. I'm also listing some Japanese
suffixes since they can give some insight into the characters and
relationships based on how they are used. In Xeno Komi, most of the suffixes
are used for people, but occasionally a character might use one on an object.
Sometimes a character will change how they normally use suffixes to show
contextual change in attitude--for instance, Shion usually calls Allen
"Allen-kun", but she said "Allen-san" once to Hammer to show Allen more
respect. On the other hand, though it's not in the text box, Jr., who normally
doesn't use suffixes, sing-songs "Allen-kun." There's every indication he was
Up To Something and when mischevious people start acting respectable... :)
Suffixes can't really be translated into English, so it's interesting to see
who uses what suffix when.
Suffixes:
さん - -san. A general suffix. Mainly a polite way to address someone.
ちゃん - -chan. A familiar suffix, usually used for girls or young women.
Sometimes used to show affection. Most characters use this for MOMO.
君 - -kun. A familiar suffix, usually used for boys or young men.
様 - -sama. A very polite suffix. Shelley apparently uses it for everyone.
Not using a suffix does not indicate a lack of respect. It depends on the
character...some of them just aren't terribly polite, while others may
not see the need. Sometimes it indicates extreme familiarity, while other
times it really is a lack of respect. There are many reasons why characters
use or don't use suffixes the way they do.
Special names:
おうさん - ou-san. This is what Jr. calls Ziggy. Ou means "old man"; Jr.
has added -san to it to show respect.
ちび様 - chibi-sama. This is what the Durandal crew call Jr. Means
"Little Master".
ちび旦那 - chibi-danna. This is what the Elsa crew calls Jr. Means "Little
Master". As you can see, they both call him Little Master, but chibi-sama has
more of a sense of 'Little Sir' while chibi-danna has more of a sense of a real
master who is little, 'Little Boss'.
主任 - shunin. This is what Allen calls Shion. It means person in
charge. Basically, "Chief".
副主任 - hukushunin. Some people call Allen this. Means second person in
charge, "Vice-Chief".
ママ - Mama. Means "Mama", a pet name Jr. has for the Durandal's motherframe.
う-くん - u-kun. The name for Bunnie in Japanese. Short for "rabbit" in
Japanese with the -kun suffix.
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Here is a guide for the most common menu options you will have while playing
Xeno Komi:
Names commonly encountered:
シオン - Shion
ケイオス - chaos
KOS-MOS
Jr.
ヅギー - Ziggy
モモ - MOMO
アレン - Allen
マシューズ - Matthews
トニー - Tony
ハマー - Hammer
メリィ - Mary
シェリィ - Shelley
百式 - 100-Series Realian
ハカセ - Professor (Hakase--means doctorate or PhD in Japanese; Haksheen as
Professor's real name was possibly a mistake in translation.)
スコットクン - Assistant Scott (Scottkun--possibly means he's been called
Scott-kun so long by Professor that he considers it his name now.)
Usually the names will be followed by と話す. For example, ヅギーと話す.
Choosing that option will start a conversation with Ziggy.
Destinations commonly encountered:
ブリッジ - Bridge
キャビン - Cabin
デュランダル - Durandal
下層廊下 - Lower corridor of the Elsa
KOS-MOS調整室 - KOS-MOS' maintenance room
ヅギー調整室 - Ziggy's maintenance room
格納庫 - Elsa's AGWS hangar
居住区廊下 - Elsa's residential area (Most of the time, this is where you
will need to be to reach the Durandal)
エルザ - Elsa
隔離格納庫 - Durandal's Zohar Isolation area
居住区廊 - Durandal's residential area
ドック - Durandal's dock (this is the central hub for the Durandal)
ファウンデーション - Kukai Foundation
ロボットアカデミー - Robot Academy
Usually locations will be followed by へ移動. For example, ドックへ移動.
Choosing that option will move the character to the Durandal's dock.
Choosing デュランダルへ移動, エルザへ移動, and ファウンデーションへ移動 will
prompt you to confirm that you wish to move to the Durandal, Elsa, or Kukai
Foundation. Confirm with はい, decline with いいえ. From the Elsa you can
reach the Durandal, from the Durandal you may go to the Elsa or the Kukai
Foundation, and from the Kukai Foundation you can reach the Durandal.
Other common menu options:
調べる - Examine a room. (This is also part of options to examine specific
things like Ziggy's maintenance chair or KOS-MOS' adjustment pod.)
考える - Think for a moment.
町人と話す - Speak with merchants at the Kukai Foundation.
話す - This option only shows up for chaos. Choosing it will cause him to
talk to himself. Unlike the other characters, chaos rarely has options to
think or examine rooms; instead, he talks to himself (or rather, he talks to
you!)
There will be several context-specific options to choose. When they show
up as options, you should pick them if you are done speaking to people
or examining a room.
Generally speaking, you will see the most each story has to offer if you
choose the second option and then go down the list before choosing the
first option on the menu, since in almost all cases the first option is
to leave the room. Sometimes you will see more if you don't go in this order,
but it seems it's common to work this way. Watch for デュランダル, エルザ, and
ファウンデーション in a menu option; usually they're the last option when they
are available, but sometimes they aren't and you may not wish to travel just
yet. Sometimes you will need to speak to the people in a room many times in
a row before moving on. The game will sometimes direct you by having the
character think to themselves when you choose an option that is unavailable
to the character for one reason or another. It is possible to miss some
parts of a story depending on what you chose to do, but you can't miss the
major points in each story.
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Answers for Boost Quizzes--each question has four options as a possible
answer; the correct option for each character is listed under the question
number:
Question | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
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Shion | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4
KOS-MOS | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3
Jr. | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 3
MOMO | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1
Ziggy | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2
chaos | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4
All characters except Allen have a Boost Quiz. Each question is posed by
Bunnie and you have 10 seconds to answer. You will hear a chime if you
answered correctly and a buzzer if you answered incorrectly. Use R1
to "boost" for a one-time hint in the form of a previous scene or an
encyclopedia entry. Successfully answering all five questions in a Boost Quiz
will unlock one of the CG 'cut scenes' at the end of each story. You have
infinite chances to correctly answer a Boost Quiz question, but unlocking the
CG scene requires getting all five right in one go. Each question is related in
some way to the current Xeno Komi story (for example, chaos' Boost Quiz has
questions related to what he has agreed to buy for different characters on his
shopping trip) or to events and information in Episode I (for example, the
university Allen attended or what disease Virgil suffered from). All of the
information for the non-Xeno Komi related questions is in the Xenosaga Freaks
encyclopedia. The questions are always the same for each story.
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Here follows a short summary of each story. I've tried to describe where
Boost Quizzes occur so that you can save the game before them in case you get
an answer wrong. The dialogue is the same regardless.
The summaries have basic spoilers, though not specific spoilers. That's
partly based on how I wrote them and partly based on how little Japanese I
know. Since I can't understand most of what is said, I can't give too many
details away!
Of course, this means that I can't be entirely sure of the accuracy of the
summaries; in fact, I know they are innacurate in places, but I'm reasonably
confident that they are accurate enough to help players better understand what
is happening in the game. I'm also reasonably confident that a person reading
this FAQ who doesn't have access to Xenosaga Freaks will get the gist of what
occurs in Xeno Komi, which is something that is very hard to find. In that
sense the summaries act somewhat like a game script--not at all the same as
playing the game for oneself, but much more information than is usually
available, even from the Xenosaga Episode III database entries that describe
the events of Xeno Komi. The vast majority of the Episode III database entries
concerning Xeno Komi describe the facts revealed in Allen's story, but not much
of how it all went down.
Because these are summaries and not translations, if you rely on them for
anything, let it be for the general flow of the story and not the very specific
details.
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Shion's story:
Shion begins in KOS-MOS' maintenance room on the Elsa. She talks to KOS-MOS
for a while, then chaos comes in and asks them both if there's anything they'd
like for him to pick up on his shopping trip. She asks for curry ingredients.
KOS-MOS talks to chaos and something she says bothers Shion a bit. chaos
leaves and Shion talks for a bit longer to KOS-MOS. An alarm goes off, and
KOS-MOS explains something about a system link with the Durandal motherframe.
Shion leaves and visits Ziggy's room, where she talks to MOMO about the
Durandal motherframe and has a short talk with Ziggy. Then she heads to the
bridge and discusses the Durandal motherframe with Matthews, Tony, and Hammer.
To further investigate, she goes to the Durandal bridge looking for Jr. She
discusses the matter with Shelley, Mary, and two 100-Series Realians. She
learns that the motherframe had been hacked and that the inhibitor on the Zohar
Emulators is putting out more energy than usual. When she goes to check the
isolation hangar, it's locked.
Back at the Elsa, she talks to KOS-MOS about the motherframe hacking. Then she
stops in to see Ziggy, who is counting. He tells her that Matthews asked MOMO
to go to the bridge, so Shion goes to the bridge. She talks to people there,
then leaves.
She goes back to the Durandal's bridge and talks to everyone there, then she
goes to take a break in her room on the Durandal. She takes a shower, when
KOS-MOS calls her on her Connection Gear to tell her that scans indicated an
UNKNOWN2 was in her cabin. After getting dressed and leaving her room, she
runs into an irritated Allen complaining about talking to someone. As soon as
he sees Shion, he freaks out, reduced to a stuttering mess. They talk a bit,
then he runs off with a hasty apology. KOS-MOS calls her again for a brief
exchange.
She returns to the Elsa and runs into Jr. He asks about Allen, they talk about
some other things, then he leaves. She goes to the bridge and asks about
Allen, and gets various silly responses. She gets irritated at Hammer. MOMO
tells her Allen's in KOS-MOS' control room. When Shion tries to go down to the
lower level, the elevator isn't working. She goes to the bridge to see what's
wrong--apparently the Elsa mainframe is down. She also finds out MOMO fainted
and chaos took her to his cabin. So she goes to chaos' cabin and tries to talk
to MOMO, but MOMO is still out. chaos talks about the hacking and the
nanovirus that MOMO caught, then the elevator and KOS-MOS.
Shion goes to the bridge to ask about the elevator; Hammer tells her that chaos
fixed it, so she goes down to see KOS-MOS, but she's not there. Asking at the
bridge gets Matthews calling her extremely rude names. Talking to chaos gets
Shion side-tracked on MOMO, and she ends up doing an unsupervised Encephalon
dive into MOMO's subconscious domain. There, MOMO acts strangely and insults
Shion while meowing. When Shion encounters MOMO with white cat ears, you
should save the game so that if you miss a question in the Boost Quiz, you can
easily reload.
After the dive is over, MOMO is better. She talks about the mainframe and
KOS-MOS. Shion goes to the bridge to hear more about KOS-MOS. She then goes
to find her, and the hunt is on! First she finds Ziggy's chair wrecked. She
finds MOMO and Jr. in the room; Jr. sadly tells her that KOS-MOS attacked
Ziggy, then both MOMO and Jr. yell about it.
Shion follows the path of destruction to the Durandal, where she finds the dock
destroyed and gets royally chewed out by Mary. Then the Durandal bridge, which
is also wrecked...but Shelley is nicer about it. When she gets back to the
Elsa, Hammer is trying to get the elevator working again. The Elsa bridge has
been destroyed, too. Matthews yells at Shion, too. Out near the elevator, the
ship shakes and Hammer cries out. He tells her that MOMO, Ziggy, and Jr. are
down there, then mentions the frieght hatch. Shion uses it to get to the
Elsa's lower deck. Once there, she goes to the hangar which is also wrecked.
KOS-MOS is there, a tad singed. She explains about a cat she was chasing.
Then Jr. shows up with his guns drawn and he and KOS-MOS face off, about to
shoot each other. Shion tries to intervene, but something happens and she
falls. Allen helps her up, and then Shion tries to reason with KOS-MOS and Jr.
to no avail. Just when it looks like nothing can stop them, MOMO shows up and
smacks Jr. and KOS-MOS with her frying pan, knocking them out.
Later, Shion and KOS-MOS thank MOMO for helping KOS-MOS with the program that
caused the nanovirus. They discuss Allen, whom seems to be the person
responsible for the whole problem.
Shortly thereafter, Shion is surprised to see Jr. and Allen in the Elsa,
looking chummy. She talks to them, and when Allen tries to leave, he drops a
disk that plays some sort of video. Shion is very upset to see the contents,
and slaps both Jr. and Allen. If you won the Boost Quiz, you will see Shion
slap Jr. and Allen.
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KOS-MOS' story:
KOS-MOS begins in her maintenance room. Shion and chaos come visit her,
then she scans the area several times, locating people. One time when she
scans, she locates two UNKNOWN people, one of them close to Shion, so she
calls Shion to tell her about UNKNOWN2. Later, Allen comes in and has her
shut down. Static is heard while "???" speaks too low to be understood.
When she reactivates, she talks to Allen, but all Allen can say is cat
sounds! Allen leaves, and then KOS-MOS goes out into the hallway. She
bumps into Jr. and ends up sitting on him. She has black cat ears.
Jr. meows at her, and KOS-MOS tries talking to him, but all he does is
meow. Then she sees a small gray cat and follows it into the hangar.
She tries to shoot the cat, but it escapes. Allen sees this and meows
at her, while KOS-MOS again tries to talk to him. She thinks there is some
communication problem because Allen runs away from her (and the smoking,
fire filled hangar) making scared cat sounds. KOS-MOS chases the cat
around, shooting at it. One time she tries talking to the cat by meowing,
but it doesn't seem to listen. She asks chaos about her communication
problems, and he can speak normally to her. She continues hunting
down the cat, seriously damaging the Elsa and Durandal in the process by
using R-CANNON on everything.
Every person she talks to except chaos meows at her.
When she sees the cat on Ziggy, she pounces on him and ends up knocking him
out. Later, she runs into MOMO in the lower hallway, and while she is about to
shoot her with R-CANNON, MOMO apparently activates the Hilbert Effect. This
doesn't help with everyone meowing at her. She chases the cat into the hanger
again and really lets go on it. chaos telepathically tells her to use the
Hilbert Effect, and this time it works because KOS-MOS' is much stronger than
MOMO's. Shion comes in and demands to know what's going on, and KOS-MOS
tells her all about the cat. Then Jr. comes in with his guns drawn,
ready to fight KOS-MOS. Shion and Allen try to reason with them to
no avail. Before KOS-MOS and Jr. can really start fighting, MOMO shows
up and hits them both in the head with a Bunnie frying pan. KOS-MOS
falls and sees nothing but red static. She later thanks MOMO for fixing
the nanovirus she had. Save the game during this scene.
Later, she goes shopping with chaos at the Kukai Foundation and sees a white
cat. She comments on it. KOS-MOS' Boost Quiz is here at the end of her story.
Getting it all right will let you see KOS-MOS and chaos carrying newly
bought items from her shopping trip.
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Jr.'s story:
Jr. begins on the Durandal's bridge. Almost immediately, an alarm goes off and
Shelley reports that Pieta, the Durandal motherframe, has been hacked. Jr.
asks his crew about it and they report that whatever it was, it caused the
inhibitors in the Zohar Isolation hangar to increase output by 130%. Later,
after the alarms shut down, chaos shows up and asks if anyone needs anything
from the Kukai Foundation. Jr. asks for a Bunnie and insists it's for MOMO,
not him. Mary says something about the Bunnie after chaos leaves. Jr. then
goes to the Elsa and talks to KOS-MOS, who tells him that Shion is on the
Durandal. He then goes to Ziggy's room and talks to Ziggy and MOMO for a bit.
Then he heads to the bridge for a chat with the Elsa bridge crew. Hammer tells
him something about a bypass for the motherframe. He goes back to the Durandal
bridge, and apparently gets annoyed when everyone talks the present for MOMO.
When he heads for the Zohar Isolation hangar, he runs into a startled Allen
just outside. Jr. sounds suspicious when Allen says things about KOS-MOS and
Vector, but Allen runs off before Jr. can ask him more questions. He then goes
into the Zohar room and Mary calls him and talks to him. Before he leaves, he
figures Allen must have done something in there. He talks to everyone on the
bridge about the motherframe again, then he goes back to the Elsa to ask
KOS-MOS about Allen. She tells him he's in Shion's room on the Durandal. Jr.
did not expect to hear that but finds it very amusing.
Jr. then visits Ziggy, who is counting. While talking to him about various
subjects, he tries to mess up Ziggy's count. After one last attempt, Ziggy
yells at him as Jr. leaves the room. Then he goes to the Elsa bridge and asks
about Allen, and gets various silly answers.
Perhaps on his way to confirm what KOS-MOS said for himself, Allen bumps into
Jr. as he's quickly leaving the Durandal residential area. He talks to Allen,
trying to weasle details out of him, but Allen "plays dumb", so Jr. talks about
the hacking...then something about Gaignun, which scares Allen off. Jr. gets
mad about it and has Mary trace him. He goes to the bridge and continues
tracking Allen while talking about some other things. Shelley mentions
something about the Vector Chief's security. He's told Allen's on the Elsa, so
he goes to the Elsa.
Once there, he runs into Shion and starts talking to her about Allen. Then he
tries to get into KOS-MOS' room, but it's locked. He asks after Allen on the
bridge of the Elsa, then goes back to the Durandal and grouches about Allen.
An alarm goes off, apparently because the Elsa's frieght hatch locked. He
contacts Shelley, then goes to the bridge and discusses KOS-MOS, then a
100-Series Realian apparently colapses. They discuss the motherframe and
KOS-MOS more, then another 100-Series starts acting strangely.
Back on the Elsa's bridge, the crew tells Jr. about the mainframe and that
chaos took a colapsed MOMO back to his cabin. He goes to talk to chaos, who
tells him about the nanovirus. As soon as he exits the elevator to the lower
deck of the Elsa, KOS-MOS with her cat ears bumps into him and sits on him. He
tries to talk to her, but can't get through. Save the game before going into
Ziggy's room. When she leaves, he goes to talk to Ziggy, telling him that
apparently the Durandal motherframe and Elsa mainframe have affected two out of
three 100-Series and also MOMO. He also tells him about KOS-MOS. Then he
tries to fix Ziggy's maintenance chair Jr.'s Boost Quiz occurs in Ziggy's room
as he attempts to fix something on Ziggy's chair.
Almost as soon as he finishes, KOS-MOS comes in and attacks Ziggy. She
apparently hits Jr. twice trying to get at Ziggy. When KOS-MOS leaves, MOMO
comes in and they talk a bit. Jr. is very upset that Ziggy has been hurt.
MOMO manages to get his chair fixed and Ziggy woke up. After discussing Allen
and KOS-MOS and where they are, they help Ziggy to get to the Durandal by
having Ziggy bash open the frieght dock for the Elsa.
On the Durandal, they part ways and Jr. talks to Mary in the ruined dock.
After that, he goes to the ruined Durandal bridge and talks to Shelley. He
finds out that all the 100-Series are feeling better. Another alarm goes off
and a 100-Series confirms the problem is aboard the Elsa. He meets Hammer on
the Elsa, who tells him KOS-MOS wrecked the bridge. On the wrecked bridge,
Matthews is understandably upset. Jr. goes to the Durandal to make sure the
Zohars are safe, and once he's made sure they are, he gets to the lower deck of
the Elsa through the freight dock, and heads for the hangar for a final
showdown with KOS-MOS. Much yelling goes on between KOS-MOS, Shion, ans
Jr.--Jr.'s angry because of everything he knows KOS-MOS has done.
Jr. pulls his guns first, then KOS-MOS gets ready to shoot him with R-CANNON.
Jr. does something that damages the stability of the hangar, putting Shion in
danger. Allen rushes out of nowhere to help Shion. Then KOS-MOS switches to
her gattling guns. Jr. doesn't back down at all, even though both Shion and
Allen try to reason with him. MOMO and her frying pan have had enough though,
and she whacks them both in the head with it, knocking them out.
Jr. wakes up on the repaired bridge of the Durandal. He talks to Mary and
Shelley a bit, then goes to the Elsa and torments Allen. While he's doing
that, he runs into Shion, and somehow Allen drops a disk of some sort that
shows something Shion doesn't like, so she growls, halls off and slaps them
both. Completing Jr.'s Boost Quiz will let you see three 100-Series Realians
hold Jr. down and try to cover the slap mark on his face with make-up while
Mary and Shelley look on in amusement. While they do that on the Durandal, Jr.
tries to fight them off and Mary runs color commentary.
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MOMO's story:
MOMO begins in Ziggy's maintenance room. She stays there talking to Ziggy for
a while while people come and go visiting her and Ziggy. chaos visits first,
and MOMO asks him to get her a frying pan, possibly because Shion told her she
would teach her to cook. Shion is next, talking about the Durandal
motherframe. Then Jr. visits for a bit. Matthews calls and asks MOMO to come
to the bridge, so she leaves Ziggy's room. On the bridge, Matthews asks her to
work with the sensors. MOMO talks to them all, and apparently something Hammer
says gets him kicked by Matthews. She does as Matthews asked and reports her
findings. He tells her to go to the Durandal bridge, so she leaves, but makes
a stop to check on KOS-MOS before she goes. She asks about Shion, and KOS-MOS
tells her that Shion is with Allen on the Durandal, but not to bother them
because Jr. advised that it was not a good idea. She then tells Ziggy she's
leaving, but promises to come back soon.
When she arrives on the Durandal, Professor bumps into her and she introduces
herself then talks to him and Scott for a short time. They're in a hurry and
leave soon. She saw a disk with them, but doesn't have time to think about it,
since she's needed on the bridge. She's about to go to Shion's room on the
Durandal, but remembers that KOS-MOS told her not to bother her there. But she
does listen in! After eavesdropping, she goes to the bridge and talks about
the motherframe.
When she gets back to the Elsa, she catches a glimpse of Allen on his way down
to the lower deck. She sounds confused because she thought Allen was with
Shion. Then she goes to the Elsa bridge to report on the hacking. She does
some more work on the bridge, then an alarm goes off because the Elsa mainframe
is being hacked. Much quick action and yelling back and forth goes on, then
MOMO colapses.
In her mind, she sees a gray cat being held by a mysterious girl. She tries to
introduce herself to the girl by saying she's a prototype 100-Series named
MOMO, but the girl doesn't respond. She follows the girl into the house, where
she sees Rubedo, who asks about Sakura. Then she wakes up in chaos' cabin with
a worried Shion asking if she's OK. She tells Shion about KOS-MOS and the
nanovirus. Because she sensed KOS-MOS in Ziggy's room, she goes there only to
find Ziggy's chair wrecked and Jr. upset. MOMO helps get Ziggy up, and they
all discuss KOS-MOS, a little of Allen, and Shion thrown in for flavor. Then
they go to take Ziggy to the Durandal. MOMO stays behind and meets with
KOS-MOS in the halway. After a short exchange, MOMO tries to use the Hilbert
Effect to cure KOS-MOS of her nanovirus, but it doesn't work. It keeps her
from getting shot, though.
Ziggy calls and MOMO talks to him for a bit. Then she tries to get into the
hangar, but it's locked. She manages to unlock the hangar but sees nothing
there. She goes into KOS-MOS' room and looks around...while she's there, an
explosion rocks the Elsa and MOMO's frying pan falls and hits MOMO on the head.
Something falls out of her pocket, and she finds it was a disk that Professor
must have planted on her when he bumped into her earlier. Save the game
somewhere around here. Armed with the disk and the program for the nanovirus,
she tries to fix KOS-MOS' pod so that it will remove it. MOMO's Boost Quiz
happens in KOS-MOS' maintenance room after her frying pan hits her on the head.
Successful in her attempt, MOMO takes her frying pan into the hanger, where Jr.
and KOS-MOS are about to shoot each other. MOMO beats the fight out of Jr. and
KOS-MOS with her pan. She apologizes to KOS-MOS for hitting her, but the only
response she gets from Jr. is a groan.
In KOS-MOS' room, KOS-MOS thanks her for her help with the nanovirus. They
talk for a bit, then MOMO goes with KOS-MOS to see Jr. on the Durandal bridge.
She recieves her giant stuffed Bunnie there and thanks Jr. for it. Then she
talks to Jr. for a bit, apparently revealing that there are people hiding from
him. He yells for them to come out...
Finishing MOMO's Boost Quiz will let you see the very large stuffed Bunnie Jr.
bought for her.
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Ziggy's story.
Ziggy's story begins in Ziggy's maintenance room. For a long time he stays
there, possibly because he's not feeling well. Several people come in to talk
to him and MOMO. When MOMO leaves to go the the Elsa bridge, Ziggy apparently
gets bored and starts counting. People visit again while he's counting, and
Jr. tries to make him miss his count while talking to him. Just when Ziggy
thinks Jr. is finished trying to mess with him, he runs back in and shouts
another number, succeeding in making Ziggy lose his count. Much later
(according to Ziggy's count), Ziggy senses that something's wrong with the
mainframe on the Elsa. Jr. comes back and tries to fix Ziggy's maintenance
chair. Eventually KOS-MOS with cat ears comes in. Jr. tries to protect Ziggy,
but she attacks Ziggy, knocking him unconscious. While out, he has a nightmare
about his murdered wife and son, Joaquin and Sharon Rozas. When he wakes up, he
talks to Jr. and MOMO about various things. MOMO fixes his ruined chair enough
to get him on his feet. In the lower hallway, Jr., MOMO, and Ziggy discuss
some things, mainly KOS-MOS and the non-functional elevator. MOMO suggests the
frieght dock, but it's locked, so Ziggy opens it with force.
Jr. takes him to the Durandal, where Ziggy wonders at the mess KOS-MOS has made
of the dock. He seems to know Allen is involved somehow and talks to Jr about
it for a bit. Then he explains to Mary that he's a cyborg, not a robot. He
goes back to the Elsa and talks to MOMO about Allen, then heads back to the
Durandal then the Kukai Foundation, looking for Allen. He gets a call from
MOMO, who talks to him about KOS-MOS, explaining she has a nanovirus.
He then travels to the Robot Academy where he finds and confronts Allen,
wondering what the heck is going on. He gets mad at Allen when Allen mentions
MOMO. Somehow, he trips. This would be a good place to save the game. Ziggy's
Boost Quiz occurs after he gets up from tripping and breaking things in the
Robot Academy. Allen panicks about Ziggy tripping and wrecking the Robot
Academy, but Ziggy seems confused. Allen hollers about the system apparently
going nuts, and Ziggy shuts it down, but gets a bit scorched in the process.
Professor comes in yelling, then Ziggy talks to him and Scott for a moment.
Then they do something that Ziggy doesn't like...whatever it was, it apparently
didn't do Ziggy any favors.
Getting all of Ziggy's Boost Quiz questions right gives you a scene of Ziggy
sitting with MOMO. During this scene, he talks to MOMO.
[XSFCH]------------------------------------------------------------------------
chaos' story:
chaos starts out in the cabin abord the Elsa. He spends a lot of time
narrating his story. He decides he wants to go shopping at the Kukai
Foundation, so he travels around, asking everyone if there is anything they
need while he's there. MOMO asks for a frying pan, Tony wants tobbaco,
Matthews wants sake, and Shion wants some curry making ingredients. When he
gets to the Durandal, he hears an alarm and goes to the bridge to ask about it.
Then he asks if anyone there wants him to buy anything. Jr. asks chaos to buy
a stuffed Bunnie. chaos teases him about it and Jr. angrily insists the Bunnie
is for MOMO. He goes back to the Elsa to talk to people a bit more, and when
he talks to KOS-MOS, she replays their conversation mimicking voices. He
laughs and thanks her for it. Before heading to the Kukai Foundation, save the
game. chaos' Boost Quiz occurs as soon as he reaches the Kukai Foundation,
while he looks over his shopping list.
Once he's done shopping, he says he should return to the Elsa. On the way,
when he reaches the Durandal, he talks about MOMO, Professor, and a disk. Then
he goes to the Elsa and checks in with everyone, then tells people he's brought
back the stuff they wanted him to buy. On the bridge, an alarm goes off and
Hammer reports that there's hacking in the mainframe, then something about
KOS-MOS. After this, MOMO faints and chaos carries her back to his cabin. As
soon as he gets to his cabin, Shion shows up asking after MOMO. He tells her
about the hacking and the nanovirus. He asks if KOS-MOS is all right, and
Shion leaves to check. Then Allen comes in and gets upset about what happened
to MOMO bacause of the hacking. They talk for a bit, then Allen leaves.
Shortly thereafter, Shion comes back and performs an unsupported Encephalon
Dive on MOMO. chaos leaves while Shion does this.
Now he goes around planting items and suggesting things to people in order to
help them with the problems to come. First, he puts MOMO's frying pan in
KOS-MOS' room where she'll find it when she needs it. He thinks to go to the
Kukai Foundation, but stops and sees Mary talking to Shion. They don't notice
him there, and he passes by to go to the Kukai Foundation. Before he does
that, he puts his hands on part of the Durandal and makes them glow. At the
Foundation, he talks about Allen and Ziggy before he goes to the Robot
Academy...it seems he knows what's going to happen before it does, or is
telling the player the story after it happened...
In the Robot Academy, he watches Ziggy and Allen talking, unnoticed. He knows
that Ziggy is going to cause trouble on accident, and apparently helps him fix
it without Ziggy noticing. In the Robot Academy, he tells KOS-MOS to use the
Hilbert Effect, but she's no where near--chaos tells her telepathically. He
then goes back to the Elsa so that he's there to help in the final showdown
with KOS-MOS and Jr. The only one who sees him there is Allen. chaos tells
Allen that Shion's in danger and Allen goes to help her.
chaos goes back to his cabin after helping Allen, then tells the player all
about his adventure, then says goodbye. All correct with chaos' Boost Quiz
lets you see chaos sitting calmly in his cabin while he talks about his day.
[XSFAL]------------------------------------------------------------------------
Allen's story:
Allen's story begins in the Durandal dock. He is almost immediately accosted
by Scott and then the Professor. After speaking with them for a few minutes,
Allen apparently wants nothing to do with them and attempts to leave. They stop
him from going several places, and they both follow him where ever he goes,
pestering him and causing problems. On the way to the Zohar Isolation room,
apparently one of them tasers him and he wakes up in the Zohar Isolation room,
only to argue with the two more while they press buttons. Allen gets so upset
he talks in incoherent symbols! After more yelling, carrying on, and Professor
and Scott messing with the Zohar Emulator system, an alarm goes off, so
Professor and Scott leave, forcing Allen to fix the problem. He runs into a
suspicious Jr. as he leaves. Still trying to escape Professor and Scott, he
runs into them again near Shion's room on the Durandal. Again they run off,
leaving him to look nervous and silly as if he were stalking Shion. He runs
into Jr. again, who tells him about hacking on the Durandal, and Allen runs
off. Eventually, curiosity about what Professor and Scott are up to apparently
gets the better of him and he goes to the Robot Academy. He immediatly
discovers to his dismay that he's now Assistant #2.
A good deal of back and forth and yelling occurs between Proffesor, Scott, and
Allen. He gets so upset at one point about something to do with Shion that he
apparently faints. Then even more discussion, yelling, and hysterics goes on
while Professor and Scott rope Allen into doing what they want, which is to
take them onto the Elsa with a disk of some kind.
He takes them to the Elsa, where KOS-MOS is declared to be Assistant #3. Scott
and Professor hide when MOMO shows up, but Allen runs off to the Elsa lower
section before they can talk much. He convinces KOS-MOS to shut down so that
Professor and Scott can do whatever they planned to do. This is the first
Allen hears about the Schroedinger AI program and the cat ear antennae they
plan to install in KOS-MOS. Allen gets upset about this, but can't stop them
since they're already doing it. Scott and Professor leave when they finish.
Shortly thereafter, KOS-MOS wakes up with her new cat ears and starts meowing.
She apparently tells Allen she needs to protect things from a dangerous cat
she's detected. Allen tries to stop her, but he can't. Instead, he runs out
of the room when KOS-MOS prepares to target this cat that Allen can't see. He
goes back to the Robot Academy to find out just what the heck Professor and
Scott did. They think it's funny, and Allen yells at them for laughing about
it. They talk some more and Allen starts panicking. Apparently Professor hits
Allen on the way out of the Academy.
When he goes back to the Elsa, he checks KOS-MOS' room, but finding her
missing, he goes to bridge where everyone is yelling about trouble with the
mainframe. Allen runs back out, slowly but surely realizing just how much
trouble he's caused by letting Professor and Scott railroad him. He talks to
chaos, where he finds out that MOMO has been caught up in the trouble. He gets
upset about this and chaos talks to him about it for a bit, then tells him
Shion's coming soon. Allen leaves and goes to the hangar, where he finds
KOS-MOS shooting the place up. After trying to talk to KOS-MOS again, he runs
back out, scared. (No wonder, KOS-MOS is shooting at nothing!)
He boards the Durandal, where he finds the dock all wrecked and Mary yelling at
Shion. He hides out of sight while this goes on, upset that Shion's getting
yelled at for something that's ultimately his fault. Professor calls him and
apparently tells him to come back to the Robot Academy, and won't listen when
Allen tells him about what KOS-MOS is doing. So he goes back to the Academy
where he talks to Professor and Scott for a moment, then they both leave.
Suddenly Ziggy shows up and wonders what's going on. They talk, and Allen
mentions MOMO, which really upsets Ziggy. Then Ziggy trips and wrecks the
Robot Academy, making Allen upset and yell at a confused Ziggy.
Allen leaves the Robot Academy only to run into Professor and Scott outside.
Then he runs back to the Durandal, yells at himself, then tries to get to the
Elsa. The regular way is locked, and Hammer tells him about the freight hatch.
Allen goes back through the freight hatch, and goes to the wrecked hangar. He
meets chaos there, who tells him what's going on with Jr. and KOS-MOS, and then
tells him that Shion's in danger, so Allen goes to rescue her. He gets mixed
up in the final confrontation between Jr. and KOS-MOS, but manages to keep
Shion safe. He witnesses MOMO's frying pan solution to the problem, talks to
Shion a moment, then flees to the wrecked Robot Academy. He yells a bit, meets
Professor and Scott, who run off again, then talks to himself some more before
returning to the Elsa. He talks to himself some more, then Jr. comes up behind
him and they discuss things for a bit...then Shion shows up, and while Allen
tries to make good his escape, he drops the disk...and it gets both Jr. and
Allen slapped by Shion.
Back at the Robot Academy, Scott and Professor talk to Allen a bit, with
distinctly mischevious looks on their faces. Then they both laugh.
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Credits:
Angela from
http://xenokomi.stardew.net/ kindly allowed me to use her
Boost Quiz answers in making this FAQ. Thank you!
Glenn Rosenthal for JWPce, which easily allowed me to write this FAQ with
Japanese in it.
Jim Breen, who seems to be a major contributer to every Japanese program I've
ever used extensively. His work is invaluable.
Monolithsoft and Namco for making Xenosaga Freaks.
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