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Google Searched:

Cuckoo Clock

angel with halo

bungee

general

green apple painting

banana phone

Most of which were pretty easy to spot - might be able to assume those were the same search terms used for finding these images if the phrasing of the images helps make any connections. Except the Cuckoo Clock - which is weird the cuckoo part must mean something. Also stumbled across this: Neat little throwback whilst doing a search for Cuckoo's and Bungie.

Edit: It was weird because I had to look pretty far down the page to find that image, almost like it was specifically selected over all of the perfectly good Cuckoo Clocks before it. Also I feel that the fact that it was a Cuckoo clock and not simply a everyday wall clock bears some significance.


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  • 09.14.2012 11:03 PM PDT

Also just going to throw it out there that ilovebees

  • 09.14.2012 11:09 PM PDT

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Posted by: forecep
what about the sevens steps to world domination, the first four are easy, but I'm studk on the last three


Which picture are you associating with Step 4 (Acquire strangely addictive chinese food company)?

I searched the forums, but the name of said company was never revealed. However, there's one chinese restaurant within walking distance of Bungie's old address (434 Kirkland Ave, Kirkland WA) named "I Luv Teriyaki" (ha! sounds like I Luv Bees!) that's got good reviews. But I don't see that any of the pictures relate...

If this is the right track, then connecting the dots for steps 1 (Bungie), 2 (Apple) and 3 (Halo) yields: "STA"

There's a 6, a 5 and a D that are "glancingly" hit by the connecting lines, but only "STA" get solidly shot through.

Not sure if this is the right track, esp. if the later World Domination steps aren't represented. And, I'm sure folks have tried connecting the dots and tossing the hit letters into the Anagram Server...?




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  • 09.14.2012 11:39 PM PDT

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Maybe the General picture is suppose to mean The Marty Army?

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  • 09.15.2012 12:04 AM PDT

Good sack.

The challenge picture is crazy, good luck to everyone trying to figure that out.

  • 09.15.2012 12:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: Verachi
Maybe the General picture is suppose to mean The Marty Army?
Well it could be Bungie, General Marty and The Septagon but other than that I've got nothing.

New York? Webmaster on Customer Service duty? Blame Stosh that a clock was cut in Half?

  • 09.15.2012 2:47 AM PDT

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  • 09.15.2012 2:53 AM PDT
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Posted by: Verachi
Maybe the General picture is suppose to mean The Marty Army?
Well it could be Bungie, General Marty and The Septagon but other than that I've got nothing.

New York? Webmaster on Customer Service duty? Blame Stosh that a clock was cut in Half?
The Marty Army is plausible - are there any other private groups we could link to the pictures?

  • 09.15.2012 3:02 AM PDT

Do you know what kind of hat I'm wearing?

A party hat; you don't get one. An honor will this party be, a party in your honor, for your honor. Some of Tfear's personal guards are going to be there. You'll be introduced shortly.

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Posted by: MURDUR 587
Posted by: Verachi
Maybe the General picture is suppose to mean The Marty Army?
Well it could be Bungie, General Marty and The Septagon but other than that I've got nothing.

New York? Webmaster on Customer Service duty? Blame Stosh that a clock was cut in Half?
The Marty Army is plausible - are there any other private groups we could link to the pictures?

The angel could be 'Brothers in Christ'
The clock could be 'team timeout'
The bungie cord could be 'bungle'?

Here are quite a few more groups.

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Could the '4' be related to a number of awards?

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What about putting the pictures in chronological order?
So when the webmaster first appeared, when Marty joined Bungie, when Apple supported them etc. try the years and the dates - it might get us something to work with?

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Bungie formed in 1991.
Marty was contracted inbetween, but was hired in 1999.
Apple backed Halo in 1999.
Halo CE was released in 2001.

If we can draw up what the clock means, the relevance of the number four and when the webmaster first appeared, we could be onto something.

At the moment I'm leaning towards the idea that if we read this in the right way, the letters and numbers will produce something to work with.
I could be totally wrong!

  • 09.15.2012 4:08 AM PDT

Do you know what kind of hat I'm wearing?

A party hat; you don't get one. An honor will this party be, a party in your honor, for your honor. Some of Tfear's personal guards are going to be there. You'll be introduced shortly.

Prepare to die.

Posted by: Kalriq
If we can draw up what the clock means, the relevance of the number four and when the webmaster first appeared, we could be onto something.

At the moment I'm leaning towards the idea that if we read this in the right way, the letters and numbers will produce something to work with.
I could be totally wrong!

"Letters to the Webmaster" began in april 1996.
And could the clock be a reference to the giant countdown clock that was active during the halo 3 development in 2007?
A clock counting down to "Content Complete" (the quotes are undeniably appropriate, here) kept watch over the 434 building's vanguard, until a suspicious and still-unsolved incident with only days "left" before "content complete" shattered the clock's face, ensuring that this truly was its final countdown. Had Studio Manager Harold Ryan shattered the clock over his knee? Was the clock used in a hacky sack midnight battle? Or was something more nefarious at play? We'll never know or tell.

  • 09.15.2012 4:44 AM PDT
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I'm gonna finish it. Just like Jigga did to the pyramid.

by connecting all the dots together I made a cool shape

  • 09.15.2012 4:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: Kalriq
If we can draw up what the clock means, the relevance of the number four and when the webmaster first appeared, we could be onto something.

At the moment I'm leaning towards the idea that if we read this in the right way, the letters and numbers will produce something to work with.
I could be totally wrong!

"Letters to the Webmaster" began in april 1996.
And could the clock be a reference to the giant countdown clock that was active during the halo 3 development in 2007?
A clock counting down to "Content Complete" (the quotes are undeniably appropriate, here) kept watch over the 434 building's vanguard, until a suspicious and still-unsolved incident with only days "left" before "content complete" shattered the clock's face, ensuring that this truly was its final countdown. Had Studio Manager Harold Ryan shattered the clock over his knee? Was the clock used in a hacky sack midnight battle? Or was something more nefarious at play? We'll never know or tell.
That works, unless the 'Half time' reading of it is still around.

  • 09.15.2012 5:47 AM PDT

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A good Mail Sack, always makes me smile that I got a response, even if the response is a confusing quote about spiders.

I have no idea how to solve that puzzle at all...

  • 09.15.2012 5:55 AM PDT

That shape is a seven pointed star, the shame shape that the 4 in the top is inside of. I also thought that the somewhat random placement of character meant there had to be a pattern to connect them all, So connect the dot came to mind. Due to the 7 points which correspond to a picture it made sense to me to create a seven pointed star. I haven't checked if the lines cross any key numbers or letters.

Another idea was to expand the 6 rectangles of the septagon so that they're congruent to the top rectangle and see which number/letters are isolated because it should create a 7 sided shape somewhere in the middle because 7 rectangles crossing each other in the middle = 7 sided shape. I have a feeling this puzzle has to do with connecting the dots or geometric shapes.

This is all guesses though and I'm far too busy to go and look into my thoughts, but if anyone wants to try this be my guest.

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  • 09.15.2012 7:07 AM PDT

allbeginswithyou = Community?

Four Half Clock Angel Bungie General Notes/Music Apple Phone

4 - Fantastic 4 released 1994?
Half Clock - Half Day light is all I could find
Angel - Guardian Angel film released in 1994?
Bungie - Marathon - 1994 (set in 2794)
General Music - Jungle music broke out in 1994
Apple - 1994 marked the 10th anniversary of the Macintosh
Bananaphone - 1994

Yeah er.. maybe I went off track?

  • 09.15.2012 7:16 AM PDT
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Whoo.

Ok so now it's time for a very weakly threaded analysis.

"It all begins with you"
Referencing the "U"s in the picture, there are 4 Us, so it begins with "4".
There's a 4 at the top in cased in a septagon (us).

Regardless of the clues I was going to assume that was the starting point I'm simply tying it into the line of reasoning that fits in the best with the clue.

Ok now naturally we'll go clockwise, because I dunno, that's what we do with circular objects.


Now the first clue is a clock with the right half cut off, which means in a clock face of that description you would have to go counter clock wise because of the lack of numbers.
Which means we were going the wrong way.


Banana phone, webmaster phone, the webmaster used the phone to call Apple. In regarding a general of music, Marty and a Bungie, the company.

The webmaster called apple to hire Marty to Bungie so he could make angelic music?

No, that doesn't make sense.


Perhaps the clock means there's two separate messages and you're only supposed to decipher one side of the clock at the time, or maybe you're supposed to go the other way and go to the banana phone.


Perhaps the banana phone means you're supposed to look at the base message and ignore the exccentracies, so the banana phone isn't supposed to be a banana phone but just a phone, it's not supposed to be half a clock but a clock, etc.

Either that or we shouldn't be going left or right in the image but look at connections through numbers, are there six sevens? Perhaps the seven that connects one image to another is the direction you're meant to go.

  • 09.15.2012 7:29 AM PDT

The banana phone is trying to tell me something. A cry fro help, perhaps? I must investigate further.

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Posted by: MURDUR 587
Ok so now it's time for a very weakly threaded analysis.

"It all begins with you"
Referencing the "U"s in the picture, there are 4 Us, so it begins with "4".
There's a 4 at the top in cased in a septagon (us).

Regardless of the clues I was going to assume that was the starting point I'm simply tying it into the line of reasoning that fits in the best with the clue.

Ok now naturally we'll go clockwise, because I dunno, that's what we do with circular objects.


Now the first clue is a clock with the right half cut off, which means in a clock face of that description you would have to go counter clock wise because of the lack of numbers.
Which means we were going the wrong way.


Banana phone, webmaster phone, the webmaster used the phone to call Apple. In regarding a general of music, Marty and a Bungie, the company.

The webmaster called apple to hire Marty to Bungie so he could make angelic music?

No, that doesn't make sense.


Perhaps the clock means there's two separate messages and you're only supposed to decipher one side of the clock at the time, or maybe you're supposed to go the other way and go to the banana phone.


Perhaps the banana phone means you're supposed to look at the base message and ignore the exccentracies, so the banana phone isn't supposed to be a banana phone but just a phone, it's not supposed to be half a clock but a clock, etc.

Either that or we shouldn't be going left or right in the image but look at connections through numbers, are there six sevens? Perhaps the seven that connects one image to another is the direction you're meant to go.
SO MUCH COUNTERACTING LOGIC.

  • 09.15.2012 7:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: Kalriq
SO MUCH COUNTERACTING LOGIC.
YOU LOVE IT REALLY.

Another theory I had was that "4" = 7 and you need to follow the 6s to get to image 6 and the 5s to get to image 5, etc. But that didn't pan out.

Maybe "4" is number 1.

  • 09.15.2012 7:38 AM PDT

Key

Maybe the answer to the riddle is a song, and the outsidey bits are clues like cut-time. Then the name of the song is somehow extractable from the interior letters and numbers

  • 09.15.2012 8:00 AM PDT
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Whoo.

Guys, I think I got it.

  • 09.15.2012 8:02 AM PDT