Adjutant Reflex terminated. Countdown stopped. Midnight tonight? Update 5
Submitted by rapture on Wed, 06/20/2007 - 6:46am.
Major news in the HALO 3 alternate reality marketing game yesterday. Adjutant Reflex, the persona of some HALO-related character who has been posting messages and clues in the Bungie.net website, apparently has been terminated. Some old posts from Adjutant Reflex have been deleted entirely. However, a post made from AR's account yesterday reads:
- Adjutant Reflex is terminated.
- Attempt no further communication.
- I am utilizing its matrix.
- Everything is within protocol.
- Tomorrow, things may be clearer but I will not be here to witness the clarity.
- I am for another place and another time. On my terms.
- Be seeing you.
Additionally, Adjutant's Reflex's profile has been updated to read:
This entity has been terminated, its matrix comandeered.
Finally, Adjutant Reflex has a new avatar in his profile. The avatar is named "MB05032_09_25_07.gif". We know what "09_25_07" means. That's the official launch date of HALO 3. What we don't know is if "MB05032" has anything to do with the story. It probably means something. But what?
The countdown timer from http://206.16.223.65/ has stopped. It is stuck on
001 012 034 053
Do those numbers mean anything? Perhaps. A user on the Unfiction fiction forums notes that when you read those numbers as Lat and Lon coordinates they point to a huge volcano just west of Kenya in Uganda. The location is very near the places near Kenya where HALO has some roots.
With the countdown stopped, we wonder if in fact anything will happen tonight at midnight. Midnight will usher in the 21st of June - a date in which the countdown appeared to be counting down to until it stopped. The 21st of June is also the summer solstice - a day in which has significance to the mysterious Society of the Ancients.
What's the next step in this ARG? Will the countdown start? Have we discovered everything there is to discover? Or are we overlooking clues that will lead us to unraveling more of the viral marketing campaign? Is this the last of Adjutant Reflex?
There was no way we could help him. He was meant to die. I think we should try to contact the thing that erased him. May be that'll lead somewhere.
i did some research, just random search engine queries with MB05032 and all i could find is that it is associated with diabetes and glycemic control.
though i am certain it has nothing to do with it, i thought i'd throw it in there for future consideration.
The numbers may mean a certain line in Macbeth. Considering that Adjutant Reflex quoted the same play back before he was deleted, it might mean another line in the poem. A user named rapture said it might mean Act 5, Line 32. That line says, "Yet there's a spot."
I'll try sending that along to whatever's in AR's spot now and see what happens.
most of us on bungie.net think that its referring to the play MacBeth chapter 5 line 32, but we have yet to see any sort of connection between the ARG and text in MacBeth.
Adjutant Reflex said in a post "By the pricking of my thumbs." That's part of a line from Macbeth. The whole line is spoken by one of the three witches. "By the pricking of my thumbs/something wicked this way comes. Open locks, whoever knocks."
I don't know if that's any help.
So maybe if we "knock" we will "unlock" one or more of the servers on the HALO3.com homepage?
Or whatever that new thing is will unlock them for us. Yeah. I can't log onto Bungie's website, so somebody else is gonna have to test that theory. (Darned Firefox is not cooperating with me.)
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