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Subject: secret of the skulls - an ARG? a NEW theory about their purpose.
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when i say new i mean that this has, to the best of my info, never been thought of before.

Also this is NOT another TSHGTBCAS thread, i'm not thrying to 'crack' them but if i'm right the whole skull community will forever be changed.


Rember I Love Bees? (if you don't, look it up or leave.)
What most peopole don't realize is that ILB was a huge publicity stunt that gave people an insider entrence into the Halo 2 multiplayer Test. in the summer of '04 the site of ILB was [advertised] in the Halo 2 theatracle traliers. when people went there they would fine a complex challange involving people finding payphones at GPS points and getting to them at a specific time to awnser them - unlocking the audio files on the website today and giving them an inside pass that would eventually would lead to them playing the Halo 2 multiplayer before it's release. this game of I love Bees is refered to a an Altertinitive Reality Game (ARG)

well what does theis have to do with the skulls?

Just work with me here for a moment.
What is the skulls were the first part of an ARG for Halo 3? what if solving them yould leed to an other ILB so to speak that would get us into some special halo 3 event?

Here's what i think:

ILB was, at it's core an experiment to see if ARGs would work with the bungie fanbase. after seeing that many fans would follow the breadcrumbs they decided to make one for Halo 3, makeing this one more difficult because of the growth in population. ( to keep the number of peopole that solved it relitivly small.) Only we haven't 'cracked the skulls yet. this - i think - is due to the fact that we have not realized that the skulls are part of the Halo3 ARG. it also seems as though Bungie had planned for using ARGs when they designed the halo series, refering to 'the path' and 'the great journey' several times.

It is my belief that if the criptic message in the skulls were to be solved (and soon!) we could "Find the path' .

please comment, critize and agree.

  • 05.26.2007 9:53 PM PDT
Subject: secret of the skulls - an ARG? a NEW theory about their purpose.

I'd Rather Be A Smartass Than A Dumbass

I would be more inclined to believe you may be onto something here sir. If there were not already a Halo 3 Beta. The idea of some hidden secret allowing us to do something Halo 3 related seems pointless when you can already play the game now.

  • 05.27.2007 12:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: Xiahou Dun
I would be more inclined to believe you may be onto something here sir. If there were not already a Halo 3 Beta. The idea of some hidden secret allowing us to do something Halo 3 related seems pointless when you can already play the game now.

yeas but the the Beta was not a gift form bungie, it was to gain feedback for the Halo 3 multiplayer. the ILBs event happened just before Halo2's release. and who's to say that the prize will be a preplay of the multiplayer? it could be anything!

Oh, and: don't call me sir, i work for a livng.



[Edited on 05.27.2007 10:49 AM PDT]

  • 05.27.2007 8:20 AM PDT

I'd Rather Be A Smartass Than A Dumbass

But indeed what sir?

Even a shiny halo hat is out of the question as we get one in the legendary edition if you see my point.

  • 05.27.2007 9:12 AM PDT
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Not to be a wet blanket, but, does it really matter what the path leads to?
if it is so nessicary, then i could come up with a lsit of items that it would lead to. waht i am trying to get at is that the skulls are part of something MUCH much bigger than we had orgionaly belevied. Bungie has done this before and paralellism has always been a part of their mythos.

you would think by now we would've cracked the sulls and moved on but it is clear that we have either over looked something or are trying to solve this in the wrong fassion/order.

  • 05.27.2007 11:20 AM PDT