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SpghEddy · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 88

[META/SPEC/ 10/19 spoilers] Is this really over in 2 weeks?

skilletaudio · Unfettered Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 515

Spoiler tag maybe?

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:12 am

mtb_man · Boot Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 38 Location: Tasmania

According to an interview with one of the PM's, this thing will end and will lead right into the beginning of Halo 2. i.e Hear the last set of wavs and then go play the game and stuff should just follow on.

As for how they're going to acheive this, I'm not sure. I agree Rani's section of story is the most promising for bringing a big ending. Fingers crossed...

Big problem is that I'll get the game nearly a day before the final wavs come out, due to timezones. On the plus side, I'll be playing Halo 2 before pretty much all of you suckers Razz

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 4:21 am

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I wonder how many of melissa's crew are bug halo fans...

I get scared that some of the final axons wont go hot because people are home playing halo 2...

As for how they'll tie it up? I have no idea.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 5:47 am

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**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 7:24 am

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**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 9:39 am

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**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:31 am

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grimcat · Veteran Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 83 Location: Boston,MA

[LUDICROUS SPEC] Oh wait! The axons are our XBoxes on XBox Live! [/LUDICROUS SPEC]

*dusts the crack off his phone receiver*

Creepy PM's!

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:51 am

daboking

Kamal seems likely as the one to tell about to Durga.... remember SP going on as perdita about how she could see her family when hmrpita led her home? Seems a bit of forshadowing to me that SP will also be reunited with family.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:02 am

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I really don't see how things can wrap itself up in the sound files either. I suppose Halo 2 could be what wraps it up.

Grimcat, that spec is pretty wild, although it would be really cool if somehow it was.

For Bungie to make up a game this awesome, they had to have been on something at some point. Maybe I should send them some pot brownies... *laughs*

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:29 pm

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no brownie points here, hyacynthe. hehehe

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:31 pm

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*snaps my fingers* Dang...

And I was hoping they would give me some inside info in their drug induced state. Laughing

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:45 pm

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Re: [META/SPEC/ 10/19 spoilers] Is this really over in 2 wee

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:59 pm

Shadowkiller · Veteran Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 125 Location: Spokane

Some of this weeks axons had enough direct calls to crew that they never really needed someone to go out and get a payphone. Maybe they'll eventually make the payphones less and less necessary. They have to know that a lot of the people here are Halo fans and might put this on hold once the game is out. But then maybe the PMs are hoping everybody will be interested in how the story ends to keep them involved.

I am almost certain this ends on the 9th, unless they stop people from have to go out to payphones.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:03 pm

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The Adam · Boot Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 61

I'm not sure if the goal of this ARG is to give us a story to follow that leads into Halo 2, or if it's an attempt to get us to think about some of the themes underlying the story. One one hand, we have a game that features the ulitimate in military technology saving our home planet by defeating the nameless hordes bent on its destruction.
On the other hand, we have the culmination of a military program that relied on the kidnapping of young children, turning them into virtual machines for the advancement of military ops.
This ARG heavily concerns the fallout from the Spartan program, something that wasn't presented in the first Halo game, and I'd spec isn't going to be in the second one, either.
I don't think any of our characters are going to show up in the game, but our knowledge of their existence in the alternate reality allows us a greater investment in the Master Chief's actions. For those who aren't really interested in playing Halo 2, there's still the enjoyment of a uniquely crafted narrative and its themes of moral relativism.
I'd predict that Kamal finds the truth about his sister shortly and gets to meet Durga shortly before Jersey gets the navy to take her down. Jan and her 'family' help with the resistance against the Covenant, probably with Jan realizing that if she wants to protect her home, she's going to have to start being able to kill. Rani perhaps will be the key to some backstory behind the artifact that will expand on whatever explanation is provided in-game as to how the Covenant ultimately located Earth.
Oh, and my prediction for the last week's .wavs: At least one of them is going to end just like Herzog's, giving us the added goal of vengeance against the Covenant.
And there's my Wild, Wild Spec.

The Adam, getting the salt shaker ready

**Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:36 pm