- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Quick analysis before I go off to bed.
Thanks to your friends, I found a few new cubby holes in this place. Some spiffy tools were lying about in there, too, left behind by the previous owners. (Moving in is so much faster with a few helping hands, isn't it?) I can't begin to describe how much those have helped me brighten up the place.
So now it's obvious that E. has found some automatons (sentinels?) to help him do whatever he's doing. Tools, but also helping hands? Sounds like a robot to me. They were also left behind by the previous owners, meaning that in order to control them, E. must now have access to some of the Forerunner network.
It's really starting to feel like home in here. Nothing like a change of venue to make you feel like a new man. Oh, that's right, you don't consider me a man. Maybe you're right. I wouldn't fit inside skin anymore, anyway.
Obviously this means that E. is talking. The whole thing about "fitting inside the skin", though... makes me think if maybe E.'s designers made him to be another AI that piggybacked along with a Spartan, but never got the chance. I don't know, really. Or maybe what he means by "skin" is not literal, but more figurative, with "man" meaning something that fellows humans of that time would recognize as something manmade - meaning he's become more than he originally was, something hybrid or advanced beyond human (as AIs go).
Anyhow, your playmates outside are really frosting me. They keep trying to pry into my place, peeking in the windows and making a nuisance of themselves. They're not very good at it, though, for all their prating. They keep ranting that this place should be theirs, but finders-keepers, right? I squatted here first. Tough luck for them and their holy rollers.
Okay, this is without a doubt confirmation that JD's "friends" are the Covenant, trying to get into the installation. The whole "ranting" and "holy-rollers" thing should make this clear to everyone.
Come to think of it, it's tough luck for you too isn't it? Don't worry though. You always land on your feet. Even when I push you.
Like now.
You want to get the door? That knocking should be your friends, and I'm a little busy taking care of unfinished business here.
Go on now! Get that door! Scat!
These last few lines are a bit chilling. Mainly because we see here that E. is willing to possibly put JD in danger in order to get something done - in other words, he's using his control and command of the place to manipulate things for his own designs, whatever they may be.
Obviously, E. is using JD to do things around the installation, much like 343 GS did with MC without telling him what he was REALLY doing. My question is, what is this "unfinished business" that he is referring to? Probably something that we'll see or hear about later, I guess.
As for the nature of what E. is, I have another hypothesis - maybe E. has, as an artificial consciousness, fragmented into two or more parts. They are all sympathetic (relatively) to JD and his fellow soldiers, but different parts control at different times. I bring this up because I am left scratching my head as to why the Covenant transmission would have, in simple steganography, the phrase "ENKIDU LIVES!" Perhaps it is the small, original facet of E. that is trying to let JD know that it is still in the system and alive, but wholly overwhelmed by the other fragments of AI consciousness that are running the show (which derive their power from the Forerunner network and code used to patch up E.).
Just an idea...
As for the content search, I think Bungie is on to us...
meta name="keywords" content="Marathon, Halo, Bungie, Enkidu, fanfic, crude extended metaphor, juvenilebehaviour"
What's more, look at the title of the window: "If you thought I was a pain before..."
That's it for me tonight - I'll check back in tomorrow, and see what all have to say.