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(Halo 3 ARG) Adjutant Reflex is dead (Don't call it ilovebees2)
FyreWulff
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Adjutant Reflex
Adjutant Reflex is some sort of "Compound Intelligence" that started mysteriously posting on Bungie.net. After hacking into their forums, he has started talking about even more mysterious things.
Key Sites (will be updated)
http://args.bungie.org
HBO's discussion forums for this. Lots of information being collected over there. Search this forum for anything you think you might have discovered
http://unscdf.planethalo.gamespy.com/?Features:An_Adjutant_Reflex
This is the most up-to-date transcript of everything he says. Only the things here are confirmed true.
http://www.halo3.com
6 locked servers?
http://www.halo3.com/comic
A short comic that had clues that led to the next site..
http://www.societyoftheancients.com
Which led to the next site..
http://206.16.223.65/
Which has a mysterious countdown of some sort.
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Adjutant Reflex is some sort of "Compound Intelligence" that started mysteriously posting on Bungie.net. After hacking into their forums, he has started talking about even more mysterious things.
Key Sites (will be updated)
http://args.bungie.org
HBO's discussion forums for this. Lots of information being collected over there. Search this forum for anything you think you might have discovered
http://unscdf.planethalo.gamespy.com/?Features:An_Adjutant_Reflex
This is the most up-to-date transcript of everything he says. Only the things here are confirmed true.
http://www.halo3.com
6 locked servers?
http://www.halo3.com/comic
A short comic that had clues that led to the next site..
http://www.societyoftheancients.com
Which led to the next site..
http://206.16.223.65/
Which has a mysterious countdown of some sort.
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Link between the box art and the comic? (probably not)
Awesome, will track this.
I still have to get that most recent book...
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
It's like that show lost where they just throw totally random bullshit at you until you are forced to buy into the series.
gotta hand it to bungie though, they know how to tease thier fanboys.
I need to read Ghosts of Onyx as well. I have it but am waiting to read it on a flight to Alabama. Awfully tempting though.
Ghosts of Onyx is pretty good. You should enjoy it.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
http://www.societyoftheancients.com/evidence.html
next to Stonehenge:
"Point – Notice the shape. The Round nature with counterpoints seems to bee an ancient theme."
Also "The Ancients In Eastern Africa"
Isn't the game supposed to take place in Africa?
yes
You win this round, ARG!
Well, I'm looking at this, and I noticed something weird happen.
It's set up as 4 sets of 3 numbers (currently: 004 006 014 XXX; call them 1st to 4th sets going left to right) with the rightmost counting down seconds from 113 including a full second pause on 000. As the third set of numbers counted down from 020, it skipped to 016 instead of 019.
I'll keep a rough eye on it, see if there's any other jumps and what the 3rd set jumps to after hitting 000. Then we can get a rough idea of what the countdown deadline is real world time. Of course, I'm sure I'm reproducing what someone else has done, but I don't see it anywhere and it's an amusing way to participate.
And apparently great minds think alike, I just have more time to waste
The last digit of the third and fourth sets is base 7 (i.e. counts down from 6 to 0) except when changing all three digits (i.e. from 000, in which case it goes 000-113). I originally toyed with figuring out the base of each number, but it changes for different situations, so I think that rules that idea out.
We're about to get a big change, so let's see how it pans out.
Edit: Aha. It changed from 004 010 000 000 to 004 006 113 113. So the rules for the fourth set carry over to the third set. Pretty soon, we'll get to see the latter 9 digits change at once; I'm a little too excited to see if it's consistent or not.
By maximum, I mean that it went from 000 to 032.
edit: Wow, I suck at this. How did I not catch that for the last two digits? That'll teach me to assume things.
Judging from this, it sounds like the maximum number (base 10) for the second set would 7*3+2 = 23, which would be like the "99" of that set, so it has a total of 24 states.
...so it's just an hour countdown, assuming that the maximum numbers of the third and fourth sets are 59.
So, next Friday at 1 AM.
Sure? That's not what I would guess on.
Any way, it seems it's just a fancy way of doing days:hours:minutes:seconds. The last one has 60 different values (duh), and I'd guesss number 3 is the same.
Math may be a little off, but it's somewhere near there.
Yeah, my idea was right. 113 in this moon language number system is 59 in decimal. So yeah, it analogous to our own clocks in that our clocks are in base 10, and have the limit 23 : 59 : 59, whereas there's is in base 7 with the same limit, just translated, so it's 32 : 113 : 113.
I assume if there were more than 7 days left, the first set would follow the same rule but with an upper limit equivalent to a month or a year.
Edit: Hey, a really easy visual. Think of the last two sets as two digits: instead of 000, look at it like 00 0. So, if you're counting up from 06 6, it changes to 7 for the first number and zero for the second number, or 10 0. So the highest state is 11 3, or 1*7^2 + 1*7 + 3 = 49 + 7 + 3 = 59.
I can see where you're going, but I don't think it's just 32 hours straight. I think the 32 actually means 23.
It's all over people! We don't have a prayer!
Let the looting begin??
http://DocumentingLaziness.blogspot.com/
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I wonder what it's a placeholder for.
And you're in...which timezone? Is it 5:20 there? :P
*checks clock*
Yep.
So my math was correct, then. :P
I was wrong with the date, though. It ends on Thursday at Midnight. Thursday, the 14th?
They should've waited a month and did this on the 14th of next month. 07/14/07.
DUN DUN DUUUUUNNN....
This is getting confusing.
http://206.16.223.65/css/styles.css
The style sheet that the thing uses. The only thing I could get out of it was the following image:
http://206.16.223.65/images/page-bg.jpg
Which is quite simply the background. Nothing of importance, whatsoever.
EDIT: direct link to the countdown: http://206.16.223.65/clock.swf
That background image looks a lot like a certain section of the Bungie video that plays when you start up Halo 2.
Whoops. I was looking at the wrong week.
Thursday the 21st. EVEN MORE SINISTER.