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[LOCKED] [TRAILHEAD] Halo 3 ARG (a real one, not ILB2 again)
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Arkavus
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 		Actually I don't think people have to worry about sharing emails. The codes reference to their "account" so to speak. So its probably only there to serve as a way to call up that specific email you were sent from their servers. That way they don't have to make a new web page for every new email the send out.

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Nola
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DoItForTheLuulz wrote:
Ok guys we have a small problem.

The e-mails sent out all have different links in them.

Anyone who gets their own e-mail later must NOT share it with anyone. We don't know what will happen yet.


Was there anything written in the e-mail you received asking you to not share? Have you received a follow up e-mail?

I see no reason to not share information, unless it was specifically requested. Sharing and collaborating is the engine that drives an ARG, so I see little reason to inhibit the behavior.

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AgentGroove
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 		Just checked the Halo Wars site and tried to find any tidbit of info on the Halo movie, but so far nothing out of the ordinary.

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HaloJloo25
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AgentGroove wrote:
I hope I'm wrong, and I'm sure I'm gonna be eating these words later, but we might have to accept the fact that those emails were the end all be all here. That it was nothing more than a advertisement in ARG clothing that was created only in a feeble attempt to lure more people to Halo3.com and have them tell their friends to watch it. As I said... i hope I'm wrong.


i don't think so, i mean the end of the email "look for the signs, the keepers of the flame." to me that sounds like more than just and advertisement

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Bob_13_13
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 		27.com
part of this
I think this is part of a halo 3 ARG. Some have found that like Ilovebees in halo two, that once they play a game on one of the different websites AR has posted on they recieved an email that just said 3^3. three to the third exponent is 27. 27.com is a girl named katie's homepage but it has a very strange background image (behind the green). has anyone checked out the code in these images? I've found the words ducky and adobe so far. I believe that there are also a few random equations spralled throughout. Sorry if this has been said before but I have trouble searching for things. (I did a search for 27.com and came up with nothing....) thanks...
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 		Re: 27.com
part of this
Bob_13_13 wrote:
I think this is part of a halo 3 ARG. Some have found that like Ilovebees in halo two, that once they play a game on one of the different websites AR has posted on they recieved an email that just said 3^3. three to the third exponent is 27. 27.com is a girl named katie's homepage but it has a very strange background image (behind the green). has anyone checked out the code in these images? I've found the words ducky and adobe so far. I believe that there are also a few random equations spralled throughout. Sorry if this has been said before but I have trouble searching for things. (I did a search for 27.com and came up with nothing....) thanks...


Think Bungie said it was fake. Everyone is treating it as such.

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 		Re: 27.com
part of this
Bob_13_13 wrote:
I think this is part of a halo 3 ARG. Some have found that like Ilovebees in halo two, that once they play a game on one of the different websites AR has posted on they recieved an email that just said 3^3. three to the third exponent is 27. 27.com is a girl named katie's homepage but it has a very strange background image (behind the green). has anyone checked out the code in these images? I've found the words ducky and adobe so far. I believe that there are also a few random equations spralled throughout. Sorry if this has been said before but I have trouble searching for things. (I did a search for 27.com and came up with nothing....) thanks...


I think this was debunked. It was something to do with Top Cola, IIRC. Before tonight, there were no emails sent out regarding this ARG. Tonight was first contact via something other than the bungie.net forums (and for a very short time, halo.bungie.org forums, but no longer, due to bandwidth issues).

Any other form of contact, including the various AIM, MSN, Xbox Live chats, etc. aren't likely to be legit. AR itself has said it would remain at the bungie.net forums, and that it had only tried one other method of communication (the HBO forums).
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 		@ 27.com: in chat, people said that 27.com is fake and predates this ARG by a long-shot. I believe it predates ILB and was rumored to be connected to that, too.

Now the reason I came to post. My roommate and I were looking at the images and realized that the one posted to IRC and the one posted here are slightly different. One has bigger font and it changes the word wrapping of one line.

"Waves of an army march this way in unison,
Suffering and corruption..."

vs

"Waves of an army march this way in unison, Suffering and
corruption..."

Earlier when we pulled "USJ" out of the needlessly capitalized words it seems like the capitals at the beginning of lines were ignored. Having Suffering sometimes on the beginning of a line and sometimes not points either to capitals being the wrong path, or it not mattering where the needless capitals are located.

... that's all I've got.

Are there any other differences in the emails that aren't being shared over fear of your URL mattering somehow?
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 		well... if 27.com is truelly unrelated to this... then all I have to say is that there is a girl named katie out there that really has some odd tastes for background images....
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Arkavus
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 		I've got a theory.

I'll start off slow...

There seems to be several people in this game so far. Adjutant Reflex, The "Messenger" (person or entity which sent the emails - " But for the grim tidings this messenger bears"), the "enemy", and the Keepers of the Flame.

Now for a deeper look at AR. It says he is a "Compound Intelligence" or maybe the intelligence of a compound (some say the Ark) but none of the Forerunner installations so far have been given a title such as Compound. They all tie into Installations or Facilities. What if AR is actually trying to deceive us? Maybe he's not a friend. He certainly has used nefarious ways to gain attention, with his "hacking" of the bungie site to deliver his messages.

AdjutantReflex wrote:
You're wrong. This time, no one will be ready.


This is, I believe, referencing the last time the Halo's had to be fired. But if AR wanted to help us he surely wouldn't put such threatening messages out there. Not to mention if you navigate on the halo3.com website to the information about Gravemind you get "The thing was stopped once before by the Forerunner activation of the Halo weapon, but it will not be stopped this time by a weak alliance of humanity or the deluded obsessions of the Prophet of Truth". Almost like he wants Gravemind to succeed in his goal of "absorbing every thinking creature in the Galaxy."

AdjutantReflex wrote:
I have no requirements. I am a facilitator. The Array requirements are paramount.

AdjutantReflex wrote:
Facilitation of Array requirements. Pay attention.


Could AdjutantReflex be a facilitator to the events that will ultimately trigger the Halo Installations?

This however leads to, what is AR really? Could he be an old Forerunner AI "infected" by the old Gravemind? (Note Cortana and the connection with the Gravemind from the game)


On to the "messenger".

There is absolutely no one way to tell who this is at the moment. It can be assumed however that since the "messenger" is lumping himself in together with us (The enemy is almost upon us) that he is perhaps a person. It should also be noted that whoever/whatever this is has experienced this before. Perhaps the last time the rings were activated?


The "enemy".

The flood plain and simple.

Forerunner Email wrote:

Closing in from all sides,
Moving faster than the light
it snuffs with its passage,
Time echoes with the news of destruction.
History winding back upon itself.

Waves of an army march this way in unison, Suffering and corruption are its battle cries.
For I have known this darkness
and felt its embrace once before-
Horror best laid to rest



The Keepers of the Flame

We are the Keepers of the Flame. Humanity as a whole, that is. When the "messenger" says look for signs he is actually addressing us as the Keepers of the Flame. This is reinforced when he uses "you" in the second line. Whether the Flame is metaphorical for the continuation of the Forerunner (which if that were true then Humans would have to be the forerunner, it would make sense) or the Flame is the Ark. I'm thinking its more metaphorical though.



Well that is my current theory on the whole thing so far. I think its pretty plausible, though theres really only one way to tell and thats going to take time as we will have to wait for it to be given to us. If anyone has anything to add or anything they want to say about it, you are obviously very much encouraged to do so.

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 		I believe that the whole poem was left by the forerunners and is just a warning to any future beings of the flood's destructive power.

edit: though this is just one theory and it's coming from me.... an individual notorious for being wrong. I just like the fact that in this forum I can discuss this with people that aren't busy being... idiots... like when I'm at the bungie forums. (not all of them are idiots... just alot) "OMG you're STUUUUPID! It's not real idiots!!! LOLZORS!!!!" and so on...
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Arkavus wrote:
I've got a theory.

I'll start off slow...

There seems to be several people in this game so far. Adjutant Reflex, The "Messenger" (person or entity which sent the emails - " But for the grim tidings this messenger bears"), the "enemy", and the Keepers of the Flame.

Now for a deeper look at AR. It says he is a "Compound Intelligence" or maybe the intelligence of a compound (some say the Ark) but none of the Forerunner installations so far have been given a title such as Compound. They all tie into Installations or Facilities. What if AR is actually trying to deceive us? Maybe he's not a friend. He certainly has used nefarious ways to gain attention, with his "hacking" of the bungie site to deliver his messages.

AdjutantReflex wrote:
You're wrong. This time, no one will be ready.


This is, I believe, referencing the last time the Halo's had to be fired. But if AR wanted to help us he surely wouldn't put such threatening messages out there. Not to mention if you navigate on the halo3.com website to the information about Gravemind you get "The thing was stopped once before by the Forerunner activation of the Halo weapon, but it will not be stopped this time by a weak alliance of humanity or the deluded obsessions of the Prophet of Truth". Almost like he wants Gravemind to succeed in his goal of "absorbing every thinking creature in the Galaxy."

AdjutantReflex wrote:
I have no requirements. I am a facilitator. The Array requirements are paramount.

AdjutantReflex wrote:
Facilitation of Array requirements. Pay attention.


Could AdjutantReflex be a facilitator to the events that will ultimately trigger the Halo Installations?

This however leads to, what is AR really? Could he be an old Forerunner AI "infected" by the old Gravemind? (Note Cortana and the connection with the Gravemind from the game)


On to the "messenger".

There is absolutely no one way to tell who this is at the moment. It can be assumed however that since the "messenger" is lumping himself in together with us (The enemy is almost upon us) that he is perhaps a person. It should also be noted that whoever/whatever this is has experienced this before. Perhaps the last time the rings were activated?


The "enemy".

The flood plain and simple.

Forerunner Email wrote:

Closing in from all sides,
Moving faster than the light
it snuffs with its passage,
Time echoes with the news of destruction.
History winding back upon itself.

Waves of an army march this way in unison, Suffering and corruption are its battle cries.
For I have known this darkness
and felt its embrace once before-
Horror best laid to rest



The Keepers of the Flame

We are the Keepers of the Flame. Humanity as a whole, that is. When the "messenger" says look for signs he is actually addressing us as the Keepers of the Flame. This is reinforced when he uses "you" in the second line. Whether the Flame is metaphorical for the continuation of the Forerunner (which if that were true then Humans would have to be the forerunner, it would make sense) or the Flame is the Ark. I'm thinking its more metaphorical though.



Well that is my current theory on the whole thing so far. I think its pretty plausible, though theres really only one way to tell and thats going to take time as we will have to wait for it to be given to us. If anyone has anything to add or anything they want to say about it, you are obviously very much encouraged to do so.


I agree, The Array Needs Something that he is to provide, and it is paramount the array gets it? Assuming the Array is the installations. What could they want?

The Arrays' objectives are to fire. like a bomb they are designed with a function; a purpose. ARCI has a purpose to fulfil as does the array?

Does this make any sense....never mind?

Regards


Camperman

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Arkavus
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Camperman wrote:
*snip*

I agree, The Array Needs Smothing that he is to provide, and it is paramount the array gets it? Assumeing the Array in the installations. What could they want?

The Arrays objective is to fire. like a bob they are design with a fuction a purpose. ARCI has a purpose to fulfill as does the array?

Does this make any sense....never mind?

Regards


Camperman


AR's purpose, I believe, is to somehow release the flood because of its possible influence from the old Gravemind. By sending the Covenant there the Flood would then have sentient beings to take over. Then eventually a new Gravemind to form. The Forerunner during the first time the Halo's were activated obviously had prior knowledge of the Flood. However the Humans and Covenant had not, relating back to the "no one will be ready." line.

Dunno, wild speculation flying everywhere but until there's more information its always fun to theorize.

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Nola
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Camperman wrote:
The Arrays' objectives are to fire. like a bomb they are designed with a function; a purpose. ARCI has a purpose to fulfil as does the array?


Well then all we need to do is tell it to play tic tac toe by itself, and it'll realize that the only winning move, is not to play!

OK, I'm not helping.

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 		I woud have to argue against some of the points you made Arkavus. You need to consider the forerunners and their constructs as a 4th side in this whole mess. Theres the humans, covenant, flood and the forerunners. The forerunner's main concern, and that of the AIs they have made, is to stop the flood thread through the use of Halo. So just because AR might seem hostile to us in no way does it mean that its in league with the gravemind.

Oh also old gravemind is extremely unlikely, to do anything it would need to be located on earth, in the ark, and i find that very hard to believe.

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