I have now conquered .hack//Infection. Completely. There is absolutely nothing else in the game I can possibly do that I haven't done.

I have everyone at level 33-34, which is quite a trick in //Infection since there are no monsters past level 30. I have multiples of all the rare weapons in the game. I have all three known Grunty types. Affection for all members (except Orca, obviously) is maxxed at 250. Everyone has their rare weapons equipped. Killed Skeith. Killed Parasite Dragon, though I wonder how much exp it would have given if I hadn't data drained it. Got every unlockable item from the Ryu Books possible. I even have that damned Aromatic Grass that Mia keeps begging for.

So, uhh... yeah. Probably won't play .hack again until the next part comes out. I'm probably way overleveled for it, too. So, what did I do after all that? I decided to see this dreaded "SYSTEM ERROR" symptom of a failed Data Drain.

It took an hour to get.

I mean, I must have Data Drained 70+ consecutive enemies before it finally happened. I had to jump from one area to another because I ran out of portals in the one I was in. I like how it first flashes WARNING in big pulsating letters, and later turns to DANGER as the graph turns all red except for Kite's left leg. I had all sorts of random crap happen - I lost 1000 exp (twice), everyone got confused, everyone got paralyzed, everyone got HP and SP recovered, everyone got HP and SP reduced to 1, I had items vanish from my inventory completely, I got a shitload of weapons I already had plenty of... when it finally happened, it just showed up as a standard "Data drain out of control!" side effect... I was hoping for big red letters or something. Amusingly, for crashing the system, I earned a Lincoln Green, and it asked if I wanted to exchange it for another item from my inventory before the system went down. Basically, after all that, I just got a standard Game Over sequence, with my party standing up.

Hrm... yeah... maybe I'll go back and try to get Ultima Weapon in KHFM now...