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[archon]

So... I'm a guy, but it doesn't mean I'm gay if I want pics (+divx) of angelo, RITE?

[hungrygaijin]

[archon]

[SuperJerms]

It is fairly aggrivating to hear individuals try and explain the behavior of a group of people that he or she did not observe. First realize that your responses are based on faulty inferences of limited information. Then stop. Not that I actually want to lend creedance to that discussion, but make a thread for that other conversation if you really think you are contributing anything aside from flamebaiting.

Unless I'm confused, this is a thread for reports from those who actually went to the events, not discussions of canonicity or whether someone can be a Halo nut and a ARG'er.

Archon, clayfoot posted several pics earlier in this thread. Look for the goddess squad picture that features angelo. He's the guy that isn't named Chuck.

[darkmoonz]

Re: Phaedra, reporting in...

[maskdmirag]

I just got home from san fran. (I'm centered in los angeles). I had a great time up there, meeting everyone I saw posting here, and meeting the pms. I mostly talked to kristin and sean, I was involved in the economics of args talk mazian mentioned.

So many great moments that night so many in jokes shared, lots of general nerdiness.

One of the best moments was when I drove weephun and the boise crew to get thier bags in san fran. I have a navigation system in my car, which happens to have a female voice. So when it said "Right turn ahead" One of the boise crew proceeded to mention how much it reminded him of melissa, and how funny it would be if my car suddenyl said "Crewmember! turn right now". Classic.

I'm sure I'll think of more when my head clears from the drive .

(Speaking of driving, whow as it who drove down from seattle again???? Major props man!)

[Scumbag]

[darkmoonz]

[Nova]

I'm as impressed by Scumbag's assertion that the Halo 2 players who heard about the event on Gamespot, turned up, and alternated between asking "What the hell is I Love Bees?", snapping DVDs in half and playing Halo 2 are "ILBers" as anyone else here - you fight the power, buddy - but can we not let this thread get back onto its original topic?

[Checksum]

You know, I was going to just speak in generality, but the more I read, the more I see that Scumbag is the one individual who keeps harping on this. So much so that I feel like he's being intentionally antagonistic about this whole issue. It seems to me that he feels some personal need for everything to be about Halo 2, that nothing could ever be done for the sake only of ARG players. All this despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. (My list of evidence that this event was intended for the ARG players is detailed a few pages ago.)

Then, a page or so ago Scumbag wrote,

[rufo]

I attended the NYC one... as others have said, it was rather poorly organized overall. I don't have a problem with non-ILB fans going, I just have a problem with the fact that I played and followed ILB from the beginning, and yet because my Amtrak train was delayed an hour and a half I didn't get to play Halo 2. I would've been happier with a random drawing type thing at the least, if not some sort of recognition and opportunity to play first due to being a crew member (not saying there aren't more deserving crewmembers out there, just that I thought that beekeepers should've had the right to play first). I also didn't understand why we had to wait outside in the rain when the movie theater had plenty of space inside.

That being said, it was rather fun to watch Halo 2 on the big screen, it had sort of a sporting event feel to it. That being said, afterwards I got the chance to meet up with Siege88, Digitallyl33t, Beowulf, bagsbee, and AnthraX and we got involved in some pretty great conversations, which definitely made the trip worth it.

So, yeah - a little disappointed that I didn't get to play but in the grand scheme of things I couldn't care less. Besides, on Monday at midnight Halo 2 will be mine, yes, my precioussss....

[drseuss90]

[Kronus]

I think the answer to the question of whether this was an ILB thing, which made the participants ILB people lies in whether the training exercizes were in game. Yes, there was the up/puck/ellipse/sew puzzle which signifies that it was in game, but there were the PMs and Halo2MP! I consider the curtain being dropped and the truth being revealed an indicator that the game is over. However, one could also argue that the people working on solving the puzzles were huddled in a corner, away from the Halo fanboys playing H2MP. This would make the original crewmembers who were trying to solve the puzzle the "ILB people" and all the rest "people who came there to play H2MP", and not ILB people. Then again, some people aren't good with puzzles, and maybe they were crewmembers, but just decided not to get in the way of the other crewmembers solving the puzzle... I don't know, I wasn't there...

[Digitally l33t]

I ran over to Penn station at 6:30 and met up with Siege88, Beowulf, INCyr, and a few new recruits. We walked over together, where I met up with AnthraX, MarkHawk, rufo (AgentMunroe) and bagsbee. I briefly caught a glimpse of Meta, and apparently Rose and maybe even XStryker were there, though I didn't see them.

I got to the theatre pretty early, so I ended up sitting in the 4th (3rd, technically, the 1st was for 1v1 players) of the theatre.

When they played the audioclips, I almost wept. It was so beautiful, and I felt so much pity for all the people there that had no idea of the experience we shared, and didn't even know how the clip was relevent to Halo.

We scrambled collectively for pens and bare arms when our passcode played, the equation.

We cheered collectively when we first saw the giant Halo 2 logo.


About midway through the night, I got a call from Buzzkill247 (total surprise because I'd only spoken to him once. Apparently he got the rec from Angelo), asking for the passcode.
After a brief scramble, check, and doublecheck with my crewmates, we passed it on.

A moment later, he calls back saying that the equation was for an ellipse, and passed on to me the other 3 codes for consideration.

And so the night continued. I must say, playing my 10 minutes in a 1v1 slayer match was the best thing I could have possibly asked for. Being a HaloMAC player, I was positive I was going to die on X-Box, but somehow my Vidmaster blood proved true, and I won the match.

Near the end of the night, I get a second call from Buzz, informing me that PM contact HAD been made in SF, and that we had received crucial information as to the ultimate purpose of the codes. He said that there was a decent chance that there may be a PM at each location.
So I went into mission-mode and, pausing long enough to get the rest of the crew excited, proceeded to seek out every staff member I could find and ask if they had information for me regarding the puzzle.

As it turned out, it was the LAST person I approached, at the end of the event, that turned to me with a sly smile and asked "What puzzle?"

And, well, the rest is history.
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=102921#102921
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=103180#103180

[Nova]