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[Prokaryotic-Cell]

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[CorWhy]

One winner

[krystyn]

Whoever said that this board is not chaotic is ON something.

Can I have some?

[voipme]

I think the second best part is going to look back on the wav files (most likely a month or 2 from now) and saying "OHHHHHHHHHHH! NOW I GET IT." The best part is actually seeing the puzzles in action. Rock on.

[Kender]

For me the big reward on the 24th was the new clues: The Game Has Not Ended Yet!

I was so afraid that something, anything would happen that would end the experience that I was overjoyed with the reward of the wav files.

_{Spec: The next phase will require us to answer melissa's questions about the wavs}

[Varin]

[vidstudent]

[SPEC]I'm betting on something...soon.

[violentvixen]

I was wondering... what happens at the end of most ARGs? I've looked at what people said about Beast, but it doesn't seem like there was a sudden announcement that the game was done, the credits rolled and then all the info was erased. Obviously there were discussions with PMs afterwards, but it doesn't seem like most games where everything is suddenly just done.

Early on, I thought Aug. 24th would be the end of the game. I figured that by then we would have figured out how to help the Operator leave and the game would be over, so personally I'm quite pleased.

But I definitely understand how Aug. 24th could be unfulfilling. I expected the pace to pick up a bit more, new wavs daily or something like that.

[QBKooky]

Well, I'm not going to lie and say that I would like more (a) puzzles and (b) websites... but as far as rewards on a whole go, I think this story and the writing is amazing. I mean, I thought the plot and characters were well expressed BEFORE we got over twenty minutes of interesting, well-scripted and well-acted audio content.

Meta: I stand by my speculation that the payphones were decided upon by the PMs only because we suggested it so much, and it was plausible. If that's true, than this content (or at least -how- we got it) is an afterthought by the PMs. I don't know... I'm just thinking / HOPING that there's more to come. I mean... look at it this way...

If the original list of coordinates was left up rather than -adjusting- the puzzle, the event on August 24th might've been totally different. ...okay I have no idea where I'm going with this. But from someone who strongly suspected nothing would happen on Tuesday, I'm not disappointed.

[Dragonrider]

Take pride in what's been done.

[Anonymousless]

We were just given a large chunk of information to digest. We need some time to toy with that information. By know we've pretty much got all the factual evidence that we can out of the .wav files, but there is still plenty of room for speculation and possible connections between this material and other information that we may have missed. I think we have a little longer to wait for the next part, either because we have to figure out how to queue the next part or because the schedule has some time built in for us to ponder the audio files. Either way, there will be more information forthcoming at some point. Bungie has never once in it's lifetime as a company produced something I didn't wholly appreciate, but it always, always, took some patience and a lot of effort by a whole community of people to figure out everything.

That being said, I don't think that we will ever know everything. Bungie will no doubt have a satisfactory closing to this particular part of the story, but there will always be room for more interpretation. Take a look at the Marathon Story page for example. Even now, after almost a decade, people are still coming up with ideas, speculations, related information. The volume may have decreased, but these games now 10 years old still have life in them. The saga of the Operator will no doubt be of interest in the search for the Tru7h of the Marathon/Halo universe many years to come.

So you have my impassioned plea, be patient, take heart, and enjoy dabbling in the mystery that is available now, with an open curiosity to what is still to come. If you are looking for things to do, read everything here. Read everything at every level of iteration of the game. Read everyone's speculation, their theories, their interpretations of the facts. Reassemble the bits of information we do have, remind yourselves of some of the older things that have been discovered. You never know, you might just find the clue that leads to something major. You also might not. Exercise your powers of reasoning and thought. We don't know why we must be made to wait, but yet we must wait.

[Knight Hawk]

I have to definitely agree that this is for sure an ARG. I'd love to participate and flex my speculation skills but unfortunately I don't have the time nor patience, nor can I contribute anything that hasn't already been said, so I will reitierate. This is an ARG because there are puzzles to solve. With the letters the letters were just sent, that was it. THere was no interaction, there was no puzzle solving (like the SP's message to yellowbrickroad.html) and no phones to pick up. If this just was a Bungie ad and not an ARG then ther would have been no interaction between the characters and ourselves. Especially not on this scale.

[Dark Spartan]

Re: One winner

[Knight Hawk]

I have a funny feeling the reasoning behind Bungie having a playable version of Halo 2 at all these industry expos but still not putting the game out till november 9th may mean that all this will get mention somehow in the game. Sort of how Jeanine Salla mentioned the cloudmakers in the beast.