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[Roc]

Except that a 'surgery' block of commands without a corresponding 'network' block of attach act | drops is quite unusual.

We might interpret that whole block as being:

[Theq629]

[guest]

Roc, I believe your interpretation is much more accurate than the original comparison. However, I suggest these changes:

When she had made sure of her tools,
net:
!attach
act | drop
!attach
act | drop
!attach
act | drop
!route
proc attach proc net
!route
proc attach proc grope
!route
proc attach proc sur
Note: Configuring tools.


she opened her eyes and found herself in Hell, which was a dark place where no birds sang. Other than the Widow, two alone had escaped destruction.
net:
!scan
null - which was a dark place
!listen
null - where no birds sang
!attach
act | drop

!extern 2 - two alone had escaped destruction


To tend her, the widow would need light to work by. Studying the fireflies, she found she could fit many more inside her lantern, and this she did.
net:
!attach
act | drop
!attach
act | drop
!attach
act | drop
!packet analysis - Studying the fireflies
chatter protocol ancestor
!parse packet
analysis complete - she found she could fit many more inside her lantern
!route
proc attach proc store - and this she did
Note: The store cmd/proc is used from this point on in the story.


My theory is that this:
!attach
act | drop recurse

!extern proc 0
log accessed
IS the Sleeping Princess accessing the SPDR's log (we already believe "extern proc 0" to be the Sleeping Princess). Note from Killer 1 "Before I woke up I dreamed what the Widow said in processing mode", and the beginning of the Widow's Journey "Everything died, and I died with it, but after a timeless time I began to dream, and this is what I dreamed". Apart from the obvious "dreaming" references, this attributes both the Widow's Journey AND the Killer.jpg texts (or at least Killer 1) to the Sleeping Princess.

[Noir]

[Roc]

my problem with

[Guest]

I suppose sharper people than I have noticed that the same commands and command structures that tell the widow's story of repairing the queen (surg, dmg, grope, etc.) seem to be the same structure of commands that allow us to visit the quarantine sites at http://www.ilovebees.com/surg.!store.primary.sector.mem.dmg.0.(0-4).html. Perhaps the PMs expect us to use the commands from the story to find hidden pages deeper in ILB? Maybe some variation of //www.ilovebees.com/surg.store.secondary... I don't have enough experience with web coding, but I do know they wouldn't give us the quarantined pages and their locations unless it furthered the game.

And anyway, we're 10 days from metastatizing. No way we've found all there is to find in this stage of the game.

[Guest]

What I'm asking is, Is there anyone on this board, familiar with the computer text and what it means, who is willing to try playing with the commands in an adress bar? Is there any command in the log text that could be used to communicate?

[Theq629]

Stage one and url commands

[Roc]

Gotcha. I confirmed the phase1 !dsc commands, and am back to thinking that dsc is 'discard'; as the !dsc commands correspond to the sapphire and the 'cobbles' that the Widow notably does not !label, as she did the fragment of ruby.

I've updated my alternate analysis on the wiki following the great insights here.

Also, yeah, I have played with the URL, noting the command similarities between the new !store URLs, and the rest of the code. But I've been unable to find anything in particular.

Also, the Queen is almost certainly not considered an external process. Also, in the correspondance between the extern proc 0 statements and the Sleeping Princess descriptions it seems fairly clear that the Sleeping Princess is extern proc 0.

[Nightmare Tony]

1. am thinking that the memory fragments located within the ILoveBees are exactly that: FRAGMENTs. We all may have to find a way to fit them together int he proper order, since this is a basic memory dump of an AI. Ibnteresting how the commands seem to mirror the story in there, that and the other stories may tell us how to fit it all together correctly...

2. might be a trout, but could the Queen refer to a mothership, real or metaphorical or a carrier of some kind rather than an entity?

[Roc]

[Nightmare Tony]

back after journeying through search and the wikis onto one hypothesis now. Skip the last one, and thanks ont he sharpener.

TENDING

She walked through the empty corridors of the Keep searching for her Queen, past the bodies of her servants and subjects that lay dead or enchanted.

The Queen was gone, and in her place lay only an empty crown. By great enchantment she had been mazed in mirrors, and lay upon a lodestone floor amongst only her reflections. Long and long the Widow stood in thought. Then she raised her bony staff and speaking a spell, beheld herself within the mirrors: and beholding herself, was within them. And there, with the crown still upon her brow, lay the Queen.


The bodies of other servants, being other programs or the scattered fragments, dead pieces of code wihch we see all over ilovebees.

MAZED IN MIRRORS: Here's the kicker. On the Apple ][ GS we call it Shadow Memory or a MEMORY MIRROR. This is where certain memory is mirrored or copied to another for processing. To me, this means that
there is another copy of the Queen's code somewhere, but where?
What other memory is being referenced, where did the program find it from? Maybe the original Queen's code is the hidden data within the sound file? There is reported to be a MASSIVE overlay of data, maybe pluggiing in the commands or trying to get those out is a starting point there?

[Roc]

Seeing as how the SPDR expected the Queen to be resident in memory and running, I think any copy on the magnetic disc could be interpreted as a 'reflection' mazed in the mirrors (platter) of the drive.
Also she's still scattered about quite a bit, so I don't know that the pluralizing suggests duplicate copies. Particularly given that she's so incredibly massive in memory terms, I think any additional copies are pretty much out of the question.

That said, there is still quite likely information in those wavs and in the probably stegged bee2_margaretphoto.jpg

Though 'massive' would be only a relative quantity, all 3 files are quite small, and as they're mostly intact, any hidden data is probably on the order of 1% of the total filesize. But that's heading off topic.

[Nightmare Tony]

How do we know how big is said magnetic media? It could refer to the net as a whole which can be interpreted to a memory resident entity as a single lodestone type. Remember that servers tend to have mucho more memory than the websites alone which reside on them. And a mirrored memory is a duplicate memory, in computer terms, so I can see a complete and more intact duplicate to be found...

(and since it was researched through search and wiki, this hypothesis isnt trout, and since I have yet to get a trout, have to give it to myself, does it count?

[Aelith]

this newb doesn't understand about quarantine pages. There is something that hasn't been accessed yet? Does it have anything to do with the archive phase I that is accessed through the little bee icon on the upper left of each ILB page? Click on it and it links to pages labled in a black box with this:
QUARANTINE - FRAGMENTED MEMORY
RESTORATION PHASE: 0

not ment to be trout but request for clarification.