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Veins of Ice and Poison. A convenient Matrix. For now. AReflex dead. Update 9.

Submitted by rapture on Fri, 06/29/2007 - 11:41pm.

Two new forum posts at Bungie.net from the Adjutant Reflex account.

In a new thread titled "Veins of Ice and Poison", one post and one reply from the Adjutant Reflex account has been made:

(first) 

|n|n|nROGUE PROCESS ghost.713>
  X.XX.713> POS/NAV < @ > <53LPH54.6JG62.1740><1………>
  X X5 > CONFIRM SECURE QUARANTINE - > qghost.713
  
  I do not require charity or alms
  But I did choose poverty
  And other darkness too
  Will you wait for me?

(second)

Adjutant Reflex is ended. This is a convenient Matrix. For now.


So we have more cryptic messages from MSBungie. What in the world do they mean?

Parting note: Two major entertainment events are happening in the next few weeks - summer movies and E3.

Next week marks the busiest movie week of the summer. Could we see a HALO trailer before the Transformers movie next week? I Love Bees was kicked off with a HALO 2 trailer before the movie I, Robot which opened in July of 2004. However, I just don't think we'll see something at the movies. E3 is coming up.

E3 starts July 11th. All eyes will be on the video game industry that week. New games will be announced. We will likely see HALO Wars multimedia. Will we see any presence of the Iris ARG at E3? I would be surprised if we didn't. Microsoft will have a presense. A HALO property will have a presence.

OMG I almost forgot event: Marvel is releasing HALO Uprising - a new comic book series. What a great way to reach the ARG fans! We've already seen an online comic. Will we see something hidden on a page of the HALO Uprising comic?

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A Higher Charity?

Submitted by Kestral on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 12:28am.

The mention of "charity" kept bugging me for some reason, so I doubled back to recheck the plot of Halo 2. High Charity's the ship that Cortana and Gravemind are on. Does that have anything to do with this?

Oh, that bit about waiting really gave me the chills for a moment.

AR ended

Submitted by Whozzit (not verified) on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 12:36am.

Adjutant Reflex is well and truely dead and gone. Whoever or whatever this thing is, it is something entirely different, and slightly more morbid. Did I detect a hint of narrciscism? Sounds like one of the stages of rampancy... AI of forerunner origins mayhaps?

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If the monitor of the Ark is

Submitted by Mintz on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 1:14am.

If the monitor of the Ark is dead, who is left to take over his place?

Project Juggernaut, or something nautish.

Submitted by CaptainMarmoset (not verified) on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 1:21am.

Does anyone remember hearing about some other Halo game that was rumored to be in production at Bungie, but wasn't Halo 3 (Halo Wars isn't being made by Bungie, so its not that)? I remember hearing about some code-named project that was something about 4-player coop and other stuff like that. I think it was in a Game Informer or something. This has nothing to do with the ARG as far as I know, I'm just wondering.

And in regards to Fake AR, have you noticed that it hasn't replied to anyone's questions or posts yet? Does that mean that we gotta look somewhere else (SOTA, Servers 04-01, etc.) or is it just being a stuck up A-hole that needs the exact, specific question to trigger an info waterfall? I'd rather be investigating than trying to probe a Fake Forerunner program's mind.

Just passing along info

Submitted by Ether (not verified) on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 7:31am.

While doing some lurking on some other boards, I came across a post that mentioned something about "ROGUE PROCESS ghost.713" being a line in a 3-d warthog video. Also it might be of note that 7-13 is also the end of E3 so maybe we can expect either a new vid or another clue on that date.

Poverty

Submitted by Whozzit (not verified) on Sat, 06/30/2007 - 12:27pm.

The thing refers to choosing poverty. Could this be a reference to the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience that Catholic Priests take? And I do mean Catholic this time, other Christian Ministers do not have to take these vows, as far as I know.

Movie...

Submitted by Fowlman11 (not verified) on Sun, 07/01/2007 - 10:12pm.

This may be a stretch but the character Harry Potter seems to fit those lines and the movie Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is out on July 11... who knows...

Stretch

Submitted by CaptainMarmoset (not verified) on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 12:00am.

Yeah... That is a little bi of a stretch. I'm not really sure where you came up with the connections, but that is a very big stretch.

Actually, as I was writing this I remembered that they had a Halo 2 trailer on some movie. So, it is possible, but it's unlikely that they would put something for a rated M game on a PG movie

PG-13?

Submitted by Whozzit (not verified) on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 12:42pm.

PG-13, right? I thought that's what they moved it up to since the fourth. Am I wrong?

P.S. Harry Potter 7 comes out on the stroke of midnight this Friday. Got mine pre-ordered. Only way to get one. Going to see if I can pick it up on the morning of the release date so I don't get bogged down in all the dorkdom. Don't get me wrong, I love the Potter series, just not enough to wait in line with a bunch of sweaty Forty-somethings dressed like a teen-aged wizard boy.

Oh Yeah! Saturday is 7/7/07. Could we expect an Iris update then.

PG-13

Submitted by CaptainMarmoset (not verified) on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 4:14pm.

A) Yeah, sorry, it is PG-13. Harry's, like, sooo hardcore now.

B)Pre-order IS the only way to go. Amazon's making sure I get it the day it's out.

C)Harry Potter 7? 7/7/07? Next Iris clue? Coincidence? Probably, but kind of funny if you think about it. Funny haha, not funny weird.

Is that last word "wierd" or "weird"? I forget.

Has Array_Data_Recorder been ruled out?

Submitted by Lycan (not verified) on Mon, 07/02/2007 - 4:21pm.

I have an idea that an IP is hidden in the Array_Data_Recorder.txt

There are 204 '/'
15 or 16 "Array Authorized…_"
and 104 "reset………………………….."
All of which could fit in the 255.255.255.255 namespace for an IP.

I need another number and can't puzzle it out (if there is anything there).
btw: if someone wants to click a lot use this in Excel =HYPERLINK(CONCATENATE("http://",F1),F1) where F1 =CONCATENATE(A1,".",B1,".",C1,".",D1).

OMG Yeah!

Submitted by WealthyReltub (not verified) on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 12:36am.

You're a f***in genius! That's really likely if they want us to make the next move. Unfortunately, there's a lot of evidence saying Microsoft is going to make the next one. Idk who's making a move, but this marketing campaign is definitely got me hooked.

I before E

Submitted by Whozzit (not verified) on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 11:34pm.

I before E, except after C, or in sounding like A, as in Neighbor and Weigh.

Harry 21st?

Submitted by Whozzit (not verified) on Tue, 07/03/2007 - 11:56pm.

Wait... Harry potter seven is coming out on the 21st? Does anyone know when this happened?

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