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[UPDATE] Halo3.com poem posted on Halo Insider page
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afrokaze
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 		[UPDATE] Halo3.com poem posted on Halo Insider page
Alright, under the Halo Insider header on Halo3.com, a new poem was found:

When We Two Parted
<<overwrite>>
<<content>>

When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-heart ed,
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy ki ss;
Truly th at hour foretold
Sorro w to this!

The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow;
It felt like the w arning
Of what I feel now.
Th y vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken
And share in its shame.

They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'e r me -
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee
Who knew thee too well:
Long, long shall I rue thee
Too deepl y to tell.

In secret we met:
In silence I grie ve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee? -
With silence and tears.

And find you away,
Mistaken in jungle?
My heart labors stayed?
Long weeks though were hidden.
In Amazon's folds;
The formula's secrets,
Love's story now told.

The letters where the gaps are in the poem spell out:
CASTAWAYTHEORYVOLMAN

Now, using this clue and the clue "In Amazon's folds", a search on Amazon.com brought this up: Link

The book's cover has the same equation as the Modus 108 file, so this is definitely a major clue to Server 4!!!

Also, the book's ISBN number, 2-061-62236-5, is the IP address for Server 1 (206.16.223.65), and a quick search shows that it is a fake book, so this has to be a clue.

A lot of work is going on right now in other forums, so let's get to it!


edit: renamed/tagged -thebruce

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afrokaze
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 		Mods, I realize that this has already been mentioned in the other topic, but there is a lot of new info here and it deserves its own topic, so can we keep this thread open?

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 		Excerpt of book Page 3
Link above...click picture of book at top of page where is says "Search Inside"

Excerpt on left side links...page over to 3

This page has an illustration that looks an awful lot like the glyph...

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 		Anybody else notice the pulisher? "Golden Wing Books". Google turns up no hits.

"On whose golden wings shall we fly from here to there?..." Smile

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 		I was just about to post it, so of course it'll stay open. Wink

The thread at ABO has taken off with researching...
http://args.bungie.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1007

Lots of connection to Halo to ensure people know it's in-game... but nothing much more found for further leads.
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 		Image from the book excerpt feature on amazon



Look familiar to any one?

Also the background on the cover....Looks like a picture of the stars in a night sky.
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 		Under Sean Richard's amazon profile, this image can be found:




The formula has the caption "Image from server 3"
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 		Also, to be clearer - the extra spaces are placed before letters, and actually spell out THECASTAWAYTHEORYVOLMAN (you missed 'the' Wink)

I'm just happy to have found that code Smile, even though my initial interpretation was waaaaay off haha
though enticingly mysterious... the disappearance of Amelia Earheart, and an organization much like SOTA... but alas, it was not to be! hehe
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 		As long as I get a mention in the wiki, I'm good Laughing

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jjmfdl
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 		Same here, I apparently found the glyph >.>
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rush
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 		There is a guy posting on the Amazon forums who appears to be ingame: Edward W. Avila.


Click here

Here's an excerpt from another guy:

Quote:
Thomas Sanatos says:
It's been over a year and a half! Not much time in the cosmic scheme of things, I know, but it feels like forever.
Joanne and I lit a candle for you the other night. It's become a tradition every time we make Sunday evening pasta. We miss having you over for dinner, there are too many leftovers now! LOL

I don't know what happened to all the other notes that used to be in this area. I guess when the book sold-out everyone's comments got deleted. Don't worry though, no one has forgotten about you.
Stay strong Jonas, wherever you are.

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rush wrote:
There is a guy posting on the Amazon forums who appears to be ingame: Edward W. Avila.


Click here

I think that's oog -- just an ARG "player" posting messages.

There are two other forums of interest, though:
Quote:

Thomas Sanatos says:
It's been over a year and a half! Not much time in the cosmic scheme of things, I know, but it feels like forever.
Joanne and I lit a candle for you the other night. It's become a tradition every time we make Sunday evening pasta. We miss having you over for dinner, there are too many leftovers now! LOL

I don't know what happened to all the other notes that used to be in this area. I guess when the book sold-out everyone's comments got deleted. Don't worry though, no one has forgotten about you.
Stay strong Jonas, wherever you are.

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Quote:
Thomas Sanatos says:
A letter arrived for you from Golden Wing. Don't be upset but I opened the envelope. Most of what it said had to do with optional self-funded printing- Bla bla bla.

At the bottom of the letter was a small handwritten note from your editor. She mentioned that your reemergence would start a windfall of press that would revive book sales. I think she was attempting to be funny but it makes sense.


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 		guys, sorry to break the bubble, but the first posting of the poem find was at ABO in another thread (at least, of the IRC/UF/ABO sources I was watching). there wasn't anything at uf for a while Wink

Ed Avila is a recent poster. Only Sanatos was the original poster of comments there... anything after should be taken with a grain of salt because they're after the book was discovered, thus after anybody can post. The PMs would be dumb to release in-game info in a chaotic mess of OOG/meta player posts.
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 		Not knowing anything about Amazons Search Inside, are the numbers in the url randomly generated or is there something to them.

002-2044068-2900868#reader-link

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 		I've noticed two things in the beginning of the book:

1. The captions under the chapters in the ToC sound very Flood related.
2. Isn't it illegal to post a fake copyright? I've searched the US Copyright Office and can't find anything under Jonas Volman.
3. The link to the last page "Publisher has denied access" is titled "Surprise Me!".
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