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Subject: ILB's Message in a Bottle (S.O.S.)
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Hello,

We members of the Unfiction Unforums, in relation to the Ilovebees.com (ILB) mystery, are here to ask for your assistance. This Alternate Reality Game (or ARG) is starting to require more man power than we can muster so any help would be appreciated.

Already, many of us have taken hours (if not days) off from work and the excuses for why we need every Tuesday off have run dry. Believe us, telling your Boss that you need to go answer a phone call sent by an A.I. from the future just doesn't cut it.

To explain what we are asking, let me sum up our current situation.

The fictional story of ILB takes place in two distinct timeframes. Part of the story takes place now, in 2004. These events take place in realtime and allow us to interact with them.

The other part is in the Halo universe and appears to take place sometime between Halo and Halo2. These events are presented to us in pre-recorded .wav files that we must unlock through the previously mentioned interaction.

In the future a human, military class, space vessel, the Apocolypso, is on the outskirts of colonization. Among the many occupants of this ship are a Castaway, an A.I., and a possible Covenant virus. During routine flight a strange object is detected and brought on board. It is small, locked, and might be of either Covenant or Forerunner origin.

Shortly after, the Apocolypso comes bursting out of slipstream (warp) outside of Earth's atmosphere and crashes onto the planet.

The reason for this is unknown and seems to be hidden away in the locked .wav files.

We do know however that somehow the crash causes an odd time anomoly. The shipboard A.I. is somehow transported into our time onto ILB, but due to the accident has limited functionality and has suffered a loss of memory.

At this point in the game, the A.I. (who believes that we are it's crew) is in contact with a counterpart in the Halo/Halo2 timeframe and is receiving the aforementioned .wav files. In turn, with hopes that we will be able to help understand them, it is transmitting these files to us in multiple pieces.

We started receiving these files on August 24th in the form of longitude and latitude coordinates with very specific times. These coords were grouped into about 30 sets and all represent the location of payphones all across the U.S.

The first sets required us to correctly answer 2/7 telephones before the .wav was unlocked. The second, 3/9. The third, 5/12.

The third and most current is moving along slowly but is almost finished. Next Tuesday (9/14), however, would appear to be the fourth, last, and most difficult, most likely requiring 8 or 9 out of 12 or 13 correctly answered telephones. This will probably total around 200-240 separate locations out of 408 total. As these calls all range from 6a.m. to 7p.m., you can see where our problem lies.

If unsuccessfull, these calls do repeat themselves everyday at the same location and time.

If anyone has any interest in giving us a helping hand, here is a comprehensive list of all locations, times, maps and instructions on how to correctly answer these calls.

Locations/Times/Instructions-
http://www.argn.com/ilbmirrors/princess2-coords.html
NOTE: The times listed are Pacific Daylight Time.

Answered/Unanswered Phones (9/14)-
http://ilovebees.com/comatas.html

Here are the .wav files that we have pieced together so far.
http://www.argn.com/archives/ilb/ (pieces/merged)
http://ilovebees.com/humptydumpty.html (6 of 15 stories merged)

Thank you,
Beekeepers

  • 09.14.2004 2:36 PM PDT

We're keeping ILB posts in New Mombasa.

  • 09.14.2004 2:40 PM PDT