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themill · Boot Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 38

[QUESTION/SPEC] What do bees have to do with it, anyway?

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:54 pm

Nightmare Tony

Sure. Its a McGuffin.

A plot device to get us going.

Remember this all began on an innocent website about bees.

And then...

"We are back at the foot of the great narrative tree, where sgtories can go . . . anywhere

-Roger Sale, "Fairy Tales & After"

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:59 pm

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RyoShin · Boot Joined: 23 Jul 2004 Posts: 27

Actually, from reading my latest issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly, there's a new species, Drones (called Buggers by UNSC,) who are bug-like things that work together. I can't remember if they are with the Covenant or not.

Bees that work for the queen are often called Drone Bees, so it could be a tip towards that.

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:08 pm

skyhawk0000

http://ilb.extrasonic.com/index.php/October_29_Princess_Monologue

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I think that all the bee references May stem from this fractured last memory. references to halsey as having a "queenly" smile and the injection of the yellow, venom colored liquid. this last memory could have been warped into bees, then a general obsession with them

or.. err.. someone at bungie came up with it nearly randomly, or its completly plain to Them, but not us

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:22 pm

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"A bee dies when it stings you, but it can also sting you after it's dead."

I think this is the fundamental theme of ILB. Things return. Things can come back and get you when you're not paying attention. Or I'm just making this up without any coherent thought process.

"What's bees got to do with it
Got to do with it.
What's bees but a second-hand emotion?
What's bees got to do with it
Got to do with it.
You take you bees and your 'a pawn dot wave.'"

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porq · Veteran Joined: 11 Sep 2004 Posts: 72 Location: Penge

It's all a matter of simple quantam physics. If we take x to be Durga, and y to be Sleeping Princess, then the logical answer is of course, bricks!

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:20 pm

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Nola · Unfettered Joined: 27 Jul 2004 Posts: 675

The real question... is who Fedex'd the bottles of honey?

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:35 pm

d.mauro · Boot Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 24

I agree that there is more importance to the bees theme than we realize. Probably my strongest evidence for this is that when Durga was "attacked" by the artifact, she started saying "I love bees." So it is unclear if something about the artifact has to do with bees, or if it is the childhood memory of yasmine's when she was stung by a bee resurfacing because she is reminded of it by the EMP spike that caused the module core hemorrhage. Perhaps the flea's 114 broadcast will shed some light on the matter, but my guess is this is one of the puzzles that will remain open for us to discuss until our tongues fall out (or hands fall off as the case may be).

**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:46 pm

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**Posted:** Tue Nov 02, 2004 11:20 pm

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