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[Astald]

My spec on communication with the Queen, is that if she does eventually "metastisize" onto other sites, if we are still even using that term now, one may be a blogger or some other site that would let us share information that way. But I am not so sure we will ever communicate with her, so far the only characters we can communicate with are Dana and the Sleeping Princess. It is already too late to communicate with the Spider, if that was even possible considering she was just a program. The Flea also seems to be more or less a program, so there is little point communicating with him, other than possibly trying to stop him from further corruption of Melissa(yes GunsmithCat, I am starting to believe he is an evil character, but I'm not yet convinced). I think right now the Sleeping Princess is basically a narrator character, trying to explain the things we can't see going on inside the "Castle" or server, or whatever. Dana would be our middleman, capable of making changes if we somehow do find a way to alter the situation on ILB. Even though she is in China, she could probably still contact Margaret.
Back to the point, we can communicate with the Sleeping Princess, and she has commented that she likes to play tricks on the Queen. So if we wanted to distract her, we have to further build trust with SP and maybe she will be willing to help. Then we can have Dana apply whatever change need be.

[Tru7h]

I think, as great as that would be, that we are running out of time to gain additional trust with SP. So, as of now, I would have to agree that contact with the queen of any real helpfullness is probably out of the question. Any other ideas then?

[chaotic_mind]

I'm not sure. I think the Princess may trust us. After all, we brought back her beloved Dana.

[Shad0]

Re: [NEW UPDATE] Dana's blog

[chaotic_mind]

[Tru7h]

Yeah, left that out before. When I said "additional trust" I had meant to go on to say that that was fine because it seems she pretty much trusts us enough already.

But who's the right guy to throw the question to her? Surely if 50 people ask her about talking to the queen, we're in trouble.

Oh, and SPEC- Do you guys actually think Dana might be tragically killed? As attached as we are, I might just have to laugh at that...

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[Astald]

I think it would fit in good with the story line to have the Queen axe Dana, or maybe even Margaret, if she can't get her hands on Dana.

[chaotic_mind]

[jellyfish_green]

I'm of two minds as to what we should do, or ask Dana to do.

1. Hold up a big sign in front of the webcam, "Date: 2004, Place: Earth, Status: Not at war. Sorry about the attempt to delete you. Can we start over?"
Or post such a message to the website. Mind you there's no indication the Queen ever reads the site, unless that's what she means by re-reading old log files. And this might just play into the Flea's hands, if it really is a tool to find Earth.

2. Delete the Queen and, out of curiosity and good intentions, wake the Princess. Can Dana administer the site remotely? Someone went off on the "pig-like snort" phrase and directed us to www.snort.org, a toolkit for monitoring Apache network intrusion detection. ("I heard you had a 'strong intrusive inclination' problem...") Would such a tool in Dana's hands be capable of distinguishing Queen from Princess, and, I dunno, copying "extern proc 0" to "master sector proc"?

Hmm. If I was sitting at the console, how would I phrase that?

extern proc 1->null
master sector proc->null
extend extern proc 0->master sector
kindle extern proc 0

That can't be quite right. But we have a lot of SPDR code to work out the correct phrasing. And THAT would be worth sending to Dana.

[Jacqueline]

Everyone's been talking about killing the Queen, but is that really what we want to happen? The Operator technically isn't evil, she's only reacting to what she perceived as an attack by a hacker or traitor.

[clamatius]

[Jacqueline]

Er...is the blog down now, or what? I just typed a pretty lengthy comment and then lost it due to an Internal Server error. And now for some reason it looks like the link to post a new one is gone.

I just really hope the folks over at Bungie haven't done something because of all the trolls an OT discussion...may just be my browser though.

[Shad0]

Re: [UPDATE] Dana's blog

[Jacqueline]

Annnd, it seems to be working now. Though I refreshed it several time before and it never showed up. Weird.

Oh well, I'm not going to sit here and retype my comment at 2:30 in the morning; I get the feeling most of the people there aren't too serious about the game anyway...

[Jacqueline]

On another note, I was a little disappointed there wasn't an update today (seeing as it's a Tuesday and all...). I really wish we'd hear more from Dana; everyone here is going crazy losing sleep over those coordinates, but she's just traisping around in China and not letting us know much.

I mean, seriously, look at all the people out there who sit around and blog endlessly about whatever stupid thing just happened in their boring life; and then we have Dana, who is being hunted by an AI *from the future* for God's sake, and she can only find things to say like once every handful of days?

Of course it's not like I expect the characters to do any work on the puzzles or anything, but in this case the whole point is that she's *supposed* to want help figuring this stuff out. It's not like she would have to give any actual information, I just think it would be a nice touch (and more realistic) to have her post a couple messages now and then, even if there just of the 'freaked out and confused' variety.