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[Zaphon]

I found this on the yellorbrickroad2.html page.

[Zaph]

Strangeness

[Crash]

yeah, we all know... that is their 404 page... lots of do their own "page not found" and this is very old news but... eh

[Elmo]

More Stuff

[The_Ear]

[Shower Cap]

Something is amiss at the san-diego-zoo

[Trynian]

Pardon a newbie for wrenching the topic back to its original subject, but now that we've got the Princess v. Flea conversation, I'd like to take a stab at translating the flea's remarks. All of this is speculation, but most I'm fairly confident of (otherwise, I'll say "I'm guessing" or something like that).


Hooray! You've come to the end of the yellow brick road! Well played!
Lots of people have asked me about the Flea, which is like ewwwwwww. But since you guys were clever enough to figure out my little riddle, I recorded the last conversation I had with that nasty guy so you could see how basically sneaky and gross he is and yuck.

seek
seek
seek
behold:
!extern proc 0

>>> The flea is looking around, and discovers ("beholds") an "external procedure" -- the Princess whom we know and love. <<<

Ack! I hate it when you sneak up on me like that!

grope:
!probe extern proc 0

>>> The flea uses the "grope" command to find out more about this "external proc" <<<

Hands to yourself, mister!

behold:
extern proc 0
!label Princess

>>> Through the information gained from the "grope" command, the flea realizes that the external proc is none other than the Princess. He either knows this from some prior knowledge of her or encounter with her, or learns this from the "grope" command. <<<

Seek the truth
Behold the truth
Reveal the truth
That is the law and the whole of the law

>>> This is the flea's credo that we've come to know and love. <<<

grope:
!hndshk Princess

>>> The flea attempts to initiate some kind of basic communication protocol with the Princess. <<<

Bug off before I step on you.

fail

reveal:
!label seeker

>>> This fails. However, the flea reveals that it calls itself the Seeker. New information, as was mentioned earlier in this thread. <<<

Mind if I just call you Buggy?

reveal:
!label seeker

>>> It mindlessly repeats what it just said. <<<

Hey, call yourself whatever you like, you're still the Pious Flea to me. So, what's with all the roads?

reveal
reveal
reveal
that is the law

>>> In answer to her question, it replies that its sole purpose is to reveal information. Oddly enough, this is similar to the Durga's "I think I like to find things...I think I like to find things *out*" statement in jersey.wav. Not to mention it jives with the Operator's purpose ("my favorite game is HIDE AND SEEK!"). But I think that's just an odd coincidence. I'm guessing the Flea might actually be an insidious Covenant equivalent to the Operator, with the same purpose (intelligence gathering) but with radically different methods...but that's besides the point. <<<

Keep your raincoat closed, buddy! I don't need to see ANTYTHING you want revealed. And what does that have to do with roads?

grope:
!seek transmit proc
fail
fail
fail

behold:
master sector

grope:
!attach > master-sector
reveal:
!law master-sector

>>> I can't help but chuckle at the Princess's response to such a cryptic commentary. Basically, it seems that the flea was attempting to find a way to transmit ("reveal") the intelligence it had gathered, and couldn't...until it found the Queen (the Operator). It then attached itself to her and incorporated its programming ("Seek the truth Behold the truth Reveal the truth") into hers. I agree with the Princess -- that's pretty gross. <<<

Yeah - she's still got like hickey marks on her neck. Gross.

reveal:
!law master-sector
master-sector:deploy:
seek
behold
reveal
master-sector:grope:
!hndshk extern
!seek transmit proc
master sector:
surg:
!triage transmit proc

>>> Princess pretty much translates this: the Queen, under her new programming, created a suitable "transmit procedure" of the sort the flea was looking for earlier. <<<

So you got her to build stuff for you! You honey-tongued little bloodsucker, you.

grope:
!attach Princess

>>> The flea attempts to attach to the princess. <<<

Ewwwwww! Kiss you? GROSS.

fail

!reveal Princess:
seeker > !attach Princess
Princess >> !behold truth

>>> The flea basically says (a "reveal" statement indicates that the flea is sharing information) "If I attach to you, you will behold the truth."

I bet you say that to all the girls. Listen, Hoppy, I know what happens to the girls you kiss. As far as I'm concerned, you can kiss your -

!reveal Princess:
Princess > !attach seeker
seeker >> cmd proc

>>> The flea also says "If you attach to me, I will become a "command procedure". I assume this means he would become a powerful entity in the system, perhaps rivalling the Queen. <<<

I've heard the Handsome Prince line before. What you're REALLY about to turn into is a splotch mark on the floor, that's what.


GROSS
evade
evade
evade

>>> The "GROSS" line puzzles me. This is not something the flea has said in the past...it's more characteristic of the Princess. But the next few lines are obvious -- the flea runs away from the now-threatening Princess. <<<
I look forward to more dialogue like this -- I think it's hysterical!

Oh, and here's another interesting coincidence -- with the addition of the new .wav files, we now have another character who speaks in a similar fashion to that of the Princess ("like, totally"): the teenage Janissary James...who like the Princess is extraordinarily adept at intelligence gathering. Perhaps somehow she was incorporated into an AI? The Princess is the most human computer construct that we have yet to encounter in the game, much more so than the Spider, the Operator, the Flea, or Durga...I am willing to believe that this is because she is at least in part human.


[shrunk the font, removed spaces, and bolded for clarity - sapagoo]

[guest]

if this is old news sorry but i havent seen this picture posted yet
http://www.ilovebees.com/killer3.jpg

[guest]

nvm about that one, the picture changed from what i got what i typed in the link. i got some green picture that has really nothing that can be seen clearly.

[sherpa]

Hi Guest,

The killer.jpg files change all the time and we have covered this in Phase 2 (i.e. about 4 weeks ago). Sorry, but it's old news!

[crypykeepr]

noone still has yet to respond

[Kenko]

I'm going back to hopefully activate the last Pillow axon tonight. 16:39 PDT
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[will_bushman]

thank you Trynian, back on topic, I also think GROSS is noteworthy, the flea seems to absorb elements of the AI's around it, the procedural code of SPDR, and now words the SP uses, or maybe it is just starting a Get Rid Of Slimy girlS routine.

[Guest]

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[Framed]