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Giskard
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Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 2066 Location: Chicago
[UPDATE] Pious Flea / Seeker From the puzzles thread:
Due to the hidden riddle, this page has been found. It's a "conversation" of some sorts between the princess and the Pious Flea, who likes to call himself Seeker.
Discuss.
[EDIT] Thanks for the heads up on my mistake regarding the Princess. Fixed now
_________________"They never tell you truth is subjective, they only tell you not to lie." -- Gary Jules
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:55 pm
Last edited by Giskard on Fri Aug 27, 2004 9:56 pm; edited 2 times in total
marq
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Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 47 Location: Charlotte, NC
Pious Flea I was under the assumption that the Pious Flea was a freindly agent. I now get the impression that he is an outside agent. Perhaps a trojan? Our Princess does not care for him, so he looses points in my book.
After checking the yllowbrickroad.html text again though, it looks like the Flea is trying to show here "The Truth"
Quote:
!reveal Princess:
seeker > !attach Princess
Princess >> !behold truth
She does not trust this bug!
Edit - Updated/Revised
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:04 pm
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ABoxInABox
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Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 232 Location: The Future
Does this mean that the Flea is the one making the 'computer code', not he SPDR? (If this has already been said or accepted, I apologize.)
Does this also mean the the Flea is an intelligent agent, unlike the SPDR?
[EDIT] Melissa? Looks more like the Princess to me.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:08 pm
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Zedix
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Joined: 26 Jul 2004 Posts: 93 Location: Ottawa
Quote:
It's a "conversation" of some sorts between Melissa and the Pious Flea, who likes to call himself Seeker.
Isn't it between the princess and Pious Flea ?
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:13 pm
Raveneyes
Boot
Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: NOLA
green text = princess...
where is this hidden puzzle?
~b
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:22 pm
cidkill99
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Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Up and down, not side to side or back in time
isn't the flea talking to the SP? Im certain it is, mostly because flea lables the process he is interfacing with as the princess in this little snippet:
behold:
extern proc 0
!label Princess
and from then on uses pricess instead of process, as in:
grope:
!hndshk Princess
Flea seems to be unable to send data to the Princess unless she wishes it, and the princess seems aware that Mellissa is being controlled by the flea, or at least leeched off of. Flea seems to want to do the same to SP.
_________________-Alex
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:24 pm
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The princess refers to the flea as a bug, I think this may be more than just the obvious "flea is a bug" thing, I'm thinking she knows it's foreign, and knows it's covenant and is playing with it. I honestly don't think this is an internal process like the SPDR, but is foreign code trying to either take over or find something.
Grasping, but I'm think the "truth" that the flea keeps probing for and touting so highly may be the location of earth? Just a thought.
Of course, this is only if you think this is still about Halo of course.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:33 pm
Raveneyes
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Joined: 22 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: NOLA
I don't think any sane person is still yelling that this has nothing to do with halo.
~b
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:13 pm
Roadkill
Guest
I got hung up on the "handsome prince" bit. I read it as following:
The Flea says that if the princess kiss/attach herself to the flea, he will turn into a handsome prince/cmd proc.
And the Princess obviously wants none of that booshwah.
Now, it seems he just wants to control the princess in the same way that he's controlling the queen. But apparently she's blocking it.
Also noteworthy: This is the first time the flea's been talking to someone that responds like a human, isn't it? Or at least, the princess seems to think that the flea's responding to her question.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:35 pm
matias
Guest
I'd guess either the Flea or the Princess came from the artifact Melissa picked up... possibly of the same origin as Halo.
Since the artifact is more like a casket let's call that the Princess and then assume the Flea is a Covenent virus that has taken over Melissa and will eventually broadcast Earth's position to the Covenent (after killing Dana).
That takes account of all the actors way too neatly tho' so I think it's more likely that the Princess is only nice to Dana and us becaause in the long run we threaten Melissa who, if she were in her right mind, is the only real threat to the Princess.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:58 pm
GunsmithCat
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 459
ABoxInABox wrote:
Does this mean that the Flea is the one making the 'computer code', not he SPDR? (If this has already been said or accepted, I apologize.)
Does this also mean the the Flea is an intelligent agent, unlike the SPDR?
They both use computer code. Flea generally is represented by white on white, SPDR uses white on black.
Quote:
The Flea says that if the princess kiss/attach herself to the flea, he will turn into a handsome prince/cmd proc.
My read on this was that it would be granted privs and be allowed to infest her. Flea might have used a similar tactic to infest Melissa.
Quote:
Also noteworthy: This is the first time the flea's been talking to someone that responds like a human, isn't it? Or at least, the princess seems to think that the flea's responding to her question.
Melissa talks to both SPDR and Flea in the same way (though it's unclear if she knows who she is talking to).
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:27 pm
Jade Cat
Greenhorn
Joined: 20 Aug 2004 Posts: 7
Flea sounds like a smarmy little bastard with pretty promises/words. Sort of like whomever it was they picked up that was hitting on Melissa previously.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:56 pm
Grout
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Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 105
Um sorry to be trouty or n00bish... but I've been out heating up axons all day....
um... riddle? where? how did you find this page?
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:07 pm
GunsmithCat
Unfettered
Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 459
Grout wrote:
Um sorry to be trouty or n00bish... but I've been out heating up axons all day....
um... riddle? where? how did you find this page?
from new embedded text in images.
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:16 pm
Framed
Boot
Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 60 Location: Ft. Worthish
there's a thread in Puzzles..
Spoiler (Rollover to View):
in short, all the images got new words, which when put together make a riddle, which solved formed the phrase yellowbrickroad. ppl then added .html to the end, called up the page...
viola!
Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:20 pm
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