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  • 10.13.2009 5:27 AM PDT

Posted by: Disparil
I really suprised no one has commented on this article here, LINK TO ARTICLE, this guy has spent hours observing the mystery and mannerisms that surround the Glyphs.


This article has been mentioned at least a half a dozen times in this thread. Come say hi to him and the rest of us at the Secret Glyph Project. The more information flows between us and BNET the better!

And to whoever was asking me about the Kikowani Station glyphs: they were all regular A and B glyphs. No SI glyphs, no empty glyphs that could spawn SI glyphs like the S05 Magic Wall.

  • 10.13.2009 5:47 AM PDT

Back from out of town, had a loooong weekend. Anything big happen in the last few days? Sorry we haven't been able to update the OP, just a lot of stuff going on with school, weddings, 11 Million Firefight games, etc... You know, the usual.

  • 10.13.2009 8:50 AM PDT
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could the glyphs on kikowani station do something they point up down and at locked doors

  • 10.13.2009 8:53 AM PDT

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Hey guys nice work so far, there is definitely some redundance happening... If you want to be caught up on everything without reading through the pages, go to my renewal page.

Read at your own leisure and about whatever you want.

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I hope it helps quell people posting about the same thing over and over again.

[Edited on 10.13.2009 9:51 AM PDT]

  • 10.13.2009 9:50 AM PDT

Posted by: pitbullfathead
Hey guys nice work so far, there is definitely some redundance happening... If you want to be caught up on everything without reading through the pages, go to my renewal page.

Read at your own leisure and about whatever you want.

Link

I hope it helps quell people posting about the same thing over and over again.
It won't, sadly. You are on the internet, where if it makes sense, it is ignored.

  • 10.13.2009 10:09 AM PDT

Killer to the cause, thats all that I am...

sorry i don't :(

  • 10.13.2009 12:11 PM PDT

Ok, so I may have just found something, I'm not sure.
It may have already been found before, but maybe not.

I found something interesting in to the plaza where you find Dare's pod (but obviously when you're playing as the rookie
). (There is also another plaza identical to this one and it has the same thing I found.) It has already been discovered that there is a special glyph (Y form with SI glyphs in each sector) that can be found in both these places and that it changes when you leave. Well, on the other side of the plaza (towards where Dare's pod is) underneath the building you can find a door that is similar to the door that the special SI glyph is on. In the lower right corner of that door there is a red button that says "ACCESS".

I punched the button, shot the button, and blew up the button, but nothing seemed to happen. Nearby there are some Spike Grenades. I have no idea if they have anything to do with it or not. On the map, right behind the door (if you're in the twin plaza, not Dare's) is one of the locked areas that you can't get to.

Like I said, I have no idea if this has been found or not. If it has then I just wasted 10 minutes typing this, but whatever.

  • 10.13.2009 12:43 PM PDT

I foundeded an energy sword, but I can't pick it up...on the body of a dead white elite in Buck's first mission.

Screenies:
Uno

Two

C

It's by the believe graffiti, when Buck says, "What's with all the dead elites?"

  • 10.13.2009 1:02 PM PDT


Posted by: screwball13
I foundeded an energy sword, but I can't pick it up...on the body of a dead white elite in Buck's first mission.

Screenies:
Uno

Two

C

It's by the believe graffiti, when Buck says, "What's with all the dead elites?"


i'm pretty sure that's what started this topic...

  • 10.13.2009 1:14 PM PDT

Awesome.

/embarrased :3

  • 10.13.2009 1:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: pitbullfathead
Hey guys nice work so far, there is definitely some redundance happening... If you want to be caught up on everything without reading through the pages, go to my renewal page.

Read at your own leisure and about whatever you want.

Link

I hope it helps quell people posting about the same thing over and over again.
It won't, sadly. You are on the internet, where if it makes sense, it is ignored.


Quote for laughs!

  • 10.13.2009 1:44 PM PDT

Most important, my uniform reminds me of those who can no longer wear it.
-- SSgt. Avery Johnson

OK, things I've noticed.

There are three Stonehenges. The three of them form a triangle. In the center of that triangle is the Elite massacre (where Buck asks about the civil war.)

Where I've seen the SI signs (the Y with the Super's face), they've all been pointing down with the exception of the ones that are ON the datacenter. SI is underground.

Also, If I remember correctly (I wasn't actually playing this part, my friend's were), when you are doing Data Hive, you start pretty far north in the city and then travel under ground pretty far south. Perhaps SI's Data Center is in the center of the three stonehenges? They would be ancient Markers to what is under the Data Center which would be the Ark portal.

What's the deal with the area around Dare's Drop Pod. There are four giant stones there too but nothing in particular strikes me when I hang out near them.

Has anyone tried lighting up all of the lamps around the stonehenge area at the same time? (Using multiple people of course).

Also, I don't know if it's possible but has anybody tried having three different people at the three stonehenge sites? They seem pretty close together and especially if Bungie was trying not to break the system by having three people really far apart.

Has anyone tried lowering their weapons while in the middle of one of the stonehenges? Especially around the Engineers

I feel like I've seen the other symbols before somewhere. Perhaps in Halo 1?

EDIT:
later, while looking around Dare's crash site, there's a sign in the plaza on the left (while looking down at the pit). It's the only one working and it says "Connection Lost" or something like that. On Easy it says it on both sides while on legendary it'll say that on one side and then on the other it'll say "ACCESS DENIED - Proper Authorization Required 1.3442.9390.10"

[Edited on 10.13.2009 3:27 PM PDT]

  • 10.13.2009 2:50 PM PDT

Braaaaaaaains........

Just a thought here, someone suggested on another site that maybe the glyphs were like another IWHBYD skull. A brief history, the IWHBYD skull was meant to be the hardest skull to find. It was found by jumping through the rings on The Covenant in a certain order so that they played they Halo theme. Maybe this is supposed to be harder, but still kinda like it.

  • 10.13.2009 7:15 PM PDT

"Of course not, because that would be too conveinient!"

Posted by: ExtremePhobia
OK, things I've noticed.

There are three Stonehenges. The three of them form a triangle. In the center of that triangle is the Elite massacre (where Buck asks about the civil war.)

Where I've seen the SI signs (the Y with the Super's face), they've all been pointing down with the exception of the ones that are ON the datacenter. SI is underground.

Also, If I remember correctly (I wasn't actually playing this part, my friend's were), when you are doing Data Hive, you start pretty far north in the city and then travel under ground pretty far south. Perhaps SI's Data Center is in the center of the three stonehenges? They would be ancient Markers to what is under the Data Center which would be the Ark portal.

What's the deal with the area around Dare's Drop Pod. There are four giant stones there too but nothing in particular strikes me when I hang out near them.

Has anyone tried lighting up all of the lamps around the stonehenge area at the same time? (Using multiple people of course).

Also, I don't know if it's possible but has anybody tried having three different people at the three stonehenge sites? They seem pretty close together and especially if Bungie was trying not to break the system by having three people really far apart.

Has anyone tried lowering their weapons while in the middle of one of the stonehenges? Especially around the Engineers

I feel like I've seen the other symbols before somewhere. Perhaps in Halo 1?

EDIT:
later, while looking around Dare's crash site, there's a sign in the plaza on the left (while looking down at the pit). It's the only one working and it says "Connection Lost" or something like that. On Easy it says it on both sides while on legendary it'll say that on one side and then on the other it'll say "ACCESS DENIED - Proper Authorization Required 1.3442.9390.10"

Maybe the elites were looking for a place to dig for the SI when the brutes were given the orders to kill all elites? Is there any evidence that the elites fought back against the brutes? Did the elites know about their parting with the covenant? Also, that one (or maybe it was two) elites in the stonehenge room seemed different, and don't elites travel in groups? If I remember correctly, the dead elite had black armour, which means he was special ops.

I know I ask a lot of questions, which are all based off of speculation. I hope that the answers may lead to more questions, which will have more significant answers.

  • 10.13.2009 7:18 PM PDT

Braaaaaaaains........

I've noticed that all of the Elite's weapons that I've found are fully loaded/charged. This may mean that they were attacked quickly and silently before they could even fire their weapons or realize what was going on. However, there is evidence of a fight in a lot of areas. Could it be that some were sniper by Jackals and some were killed in fights with Brutes? Brutes are not usually the stealthy type.

  • 10.13.2009 7:33 PM PDT

Laughing At Nothing

1. "Vav" is not the Hebrew letter for Y but rather V (and sometimes W).
Okay, my mistake, however the "Y" still stands for 6. I must have heard something differently from my friend.

2. The "number of the beast" (666) is found in the book of Revelation, which is the newest book of the New Testament. This means it wasn't even originally written in Hebrew (and never has been). There is no connection there.
I admit this assumption was a bit of a stretch, but I wouldn't shoot it down as unfeasible. The "Y", again, does represent 6.The only stretch we made from this was that Since this does revolve around Dante's inferno,and that the devil is involved, we thought that these glyphs might represent him. 3 points on a Y, 3 sixes= 666.

Also, I think the date of when Revelations, and Dante's Inferno was written is very irrelevant. Things can be derived from multiple sources, you know.

3. other than the fact that Din is also a city, there isn't really a connection between it and Mombasa
This I must strongly disagree. You missed my point completely somewhere. The City of Din actually has walls which surround the 6th Circle Down. The 6th,7th,8th, and 9th circles are considered the city. The entire game takes place within a City (seeing connections?) AND, if I'm right Street Level Represents the 6th level, and that is why there are so many 6 references. I've got some hard concrete evidence for this one,read my post again, then try to prove me wrong.

4. The Si isn't rampant. It's a "dumb" AI, and unlike Cortana and other smart AI's, it can't think for itself (isn't self aware). Quoted from the Halopedia: "An A.I. literally "thinks" itself to death. Dumb A.I.s do not have this problem as they do not learn anything that is outside of their set limits of dynamic memory processing matrix".
This could stand up, but unless I specifically see "Rampancy does not affect Dumb A.I.'s" I'll hold my ground, hahaha.

In addition, the man the SI kills is no innocent. If you had gotten all 29 of the audio files, the man lives, and he goes with you. You later find out that he was responsible (under the orders of Commissioner Kinsler) for the death of Dr. Endesha, Sadie's father. You get the final (30th) audio log in the freezing part of the labs, past a locked door which is opened if you have 29 logs. From this log you find out that the freezing is caused by argon, which the police officer flooded the lab with to kill the doctor.

In fact, the SI congratulates you for killing the soldier yourself saying: "Crime doesn't pay. Good citizens do their part".


You actually proved my theory/restated stuff I covered, thank you.



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  • 10.13.2009 7:59 PM PDT

"Spartans never die?........If only that were true."

Engineers are meddlers, pehaps their is a way the engineers "can do the phrophets works" and with their skilled engineerness unlock something on stonehenge, maybe they just need a little motivation. their has to be a reason why their is two engineers around the stonehenge, they can just be hanging out could they?

stone henge: 3
engineers: 2
Elite body: 1
Lastly the Rooke: 1
adss up to:7

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Alright in the city you can see some brutes struggling to hold down an engineer and activating the charge that makes them explode. I don't know if this is something unique or not but I haven't seen it before. Anyone want to check this out and comment on if that normally happens? I was on Mombasa Streets on Easy and I do have all audio logs. Maybe if you can take the one activating the charge out quick enough the engineer won't explode anymore...?


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  • 10.13.2009 11:08 PM PDT
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yes i have it

  • 10.13.2009 11:18 PM PDT
Subject: Glyphs and treasure hunting; the truth about the Sword in ODST

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[qoute]stone henge: 3
engineers: 2
Elite body: 1
Lastly the Rooke: 1
adss up to:7[/qoute]

There are actually 4 stonehenges look on the map one is in the greyed out area.

  • 10.13.2009 11:19 PM PDT

"Spartans never die?........If only that were true."

Posted by: TheJackle123
[qoute]stone henge: 3
engineers: 2
Elite body: 1
Lastly the Rooke: 1
adss up to:7[/qoute]

There are actually 4 stonehenges look on the map one is in the greyed out area.

Ahh got ya, so do we count the dead elite then? hmm..

  • 10.14.2009 12:12 AM PDT

Posted by: L0tus Assassin
Alright watch my video and you will see some brutes struggling to hold down an engineer and activating the charge that makes them explode. I don't know if this is something unique or not but I haven't seen it before. Anyone want to check this out and comment on if that normally happens? I was on Mombasa Streets on Easy and I do have all audio logs. Maybe if you can take the one activating the charge out quick enough the engineer won't explode anymore...? Anyways if I uploaded the wrong video let me know too.
Engineer Video
EDIT: It doesn't start right at the part just watch for a bit.


Is it possible to stop the brutes from putting the bomb on the engineer? I know one time I ran into the group with a mongoose while they were in the process of doing so. I just never tried to stop them. I won't be able to play for a while so can somebody try it to see if it possible.

  • 10.14.2009 5:22 AM PDT
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToImAJXWono&feature=relate d

fast forward to the end you can eplore!!


That's actually very interesting

  • 10.14.2009 6:31 AM PDT