Disembodied Soul
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The Disembodied Soul is one of Bungie's many fictional characters that have started off as injokes at Bungie but turned into fan lore.
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[edit] Disembodied Soul
The Disembodied Soul dates back to 1997 when it was created to explain why 1500 Marathon Infinity CDs were colored yellow-and-black instead of the Bungie colors, a problem which Bungie team members had to rectify themselves. The birth of a legend:
| >Okay, here's simple question. Why is my Marathon Infinity CD half black and half yellow when the rest of the world's is half grey and half black?
> Sam- It was a printing mix-up. There were only about 1500 of the yellow-and-black infinity CDs printed before we burst into the CD pressing plant, captured the idiot responsible and sucked his soul into our web server, where he will answer tech support questions in his incredibly brain-dead fashion 24 hours a day for all eternity. Please feel free to torment him whenever you like. As for the CD, think of it as a limited edition.[1] | 
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The fan reaction to DS ensured that Bungie kept the legend around and alive even giving Disembodied Soul a dog, "named Ralfie, who guards the gates to the darkest depths of the bungie.net metaserver."[2]
[edit] A fate worse than death
DS was also blamed for the "pirate" incident where Marathon source code was leaked to the net. In response to this and the label incident Bungie gave DS "a fate worse than death", it was locked away on Bungie's old website and forced to answer visitors' questions (via a simple text box where the visitor could enter in any query and receive preprogrammed responses). When Bungie upgraded to their new website, the "Support" section of that site where the Soul once resided was eliminated, and thus visitors could no longer ask it questions, although fans have archived the Disembodied Soul's complete repertoire of responses which you can see here at, Ask Disembodied Soul's Clone or View the list of responses and triggers.
The Soul does live on, as Bungie has made it a ban-bot, using cookies stored on a previously banned members' computer to prevent multiple spam accounts. DS even has his own account.
[edit] Trivia
- In any Halo 3 Postgame Carnage Report on bungie.net without screenshots, a picture of the Disembodied Soul takes the thumbnail's place.
- When the Bungie website gives you an error after looking for a picture, the Disembodied Soul takes the thumbnail's place.
