ilovebees.com speculation here

[MackDiesel2010]

Halo2 is a multiplayer only beta, if your gamertag is not in the "allow" list for this beta you just can't use the game... the far you can go is to change some options and settings but nothing else... :p

Oh. Well they have to beta the sp to some group.

[Spartan_X]

Oh. Well they have to beta the sp to some group.

that's a bungie only test, not even a beta AFAIK. cuz all the images of the game are stored on secure servers at bungie. :ninja:

[stanley porkchop]

that's a bungie only test, not even a beta AFAIK. cuz all the images of the game are stored on secure servers at bungie. :ninja:

If it's not the finished game, I'm pretty sure it's just the beta :p

But yeah. I don't think Bungie is going to let anyone else even smell the single player game until November 9th.

[Spartan_X]

If it's not the finished game, I'm pretty sure it's just the beta  :p

right, thats not the final game, just the images of the daily build of the game. they have different variations of the same code to test different scanarios. :yes:

But yeah. I don't think Bungie is going to let anyone else even smell the single player game until November 9th.

well... that's not necessarily true cuz it's all about the connections (if you know what I mean)... :shifty:

[stanley porkchop]

well... that's not necessarily true cuz it's all about the connections (if you know what I mean)... :shifty:

I dunno :p

Those guys seem to be keeping the campaign pretty secret. It's like they don't want anyone to know the story before the rest of the world.

[Spartan_X]

I dunno  :p

Those guys seem to be keeping the campaign pretty secret. It's like they don't want anyone to know the story before the rest of the world.

for very obvious reasos my dear O'... :p

all I can say is... do you remember the final battle in SW: the clone wars?... if yes, then you know what I'm talking about. if no, go get the DVD and watch the movie :ninja:

Edited September 16, 2004 by Blizzard_X

[Eli]

I don't know if this has been posted but this has been found at the 'Whatever.wte" extension.

Whew! THAT was exciting.

Thanks to everyone who kept the Queen distracted! There are too many to name all of you, 'cept I have to say especially thanks to HitsHerMark because I like that name, and Mr Beefy because his name is funny, and Ceantari because if she has the hindquarters of a horse people probably tease her, and Rowan because she has been my friend from the veriest beginning.

Because of you all, I found where the Queen had hidden those other stories. I hope you don't mind that I played a few games with you about finding them. I love to play games, but I haven't had very many people to play with. I've thought of trying to teach the Pious Flea to play checkers, but he is a Bug of Very Little Brain, and I am not hopeful.

I also found the Queen's secret roads for this time, and if you like knowing what is in them, you should thank Sara, who sent me a very funny story, 'cuz she made a game out of my game. AND she taught me that this is what I do when I laugh out loud, :D

Here is her story:

When I put on my formal_wear, complete with commissary_shoes, my_landlady thought I was bound for domestic_bliss. But she didn't know that I was really so_mean. I had a_secret_life, with a really old desktop_model that worked better as a doorstopper. One day she found out and told me I had better relocate before she got out her knockout_gas. I hoped a flower_delivery would make her change her mind, but guess_not. So I went down the street, where a cow_even would hate.

I don't quite know what the end means. I guess it's Modern Art. ;-)

I have to tell you, talking to you means so much to me. It's nice to think there is a world beside this one where I am all alone in buzzing, flickering darkness. I like to imagine I had that kind of life, once upon a time.

Well.

No point moping here feeling sad and lonely. That's not me. I'm a survivor. Since Sara was nice enough to write me a story, I will work extra hard to finish my story for you.

Perdita's Story

Chapter 3: Scraps

Together Perdita and the Clockwork Rat set out to travel the city together. The Rat promised he would show Perdita the way home, and at first the little girl's heart jumped for joy.

But although the Rat was true to its word about finding safe dark holes to hide in, and scraps to eat of things almost like food, somehow they never seemed to find the humble tin-cutter's cottage.

And the night never ended.

And the day never broke.

And the line of red balloons behind Perdita grew long and long.

At last Perdita had to stop and sleep again, so the Clockwork Rat showed her a special hidden spot behind in a ball-bearing factory that looked strangely like the one her mother worked in, only this one had been abandoned for years and years. He covered her up in sawdust and bits of old packing tape, and Perdita fell asleep to the sound of her new friend clicking and clattering through the gloom with a sound like faraway pennies sliding across a concrete floor.

It was still dark when she woke up, and she felt a throbbing pain in her hand. When she looked down, she found one of her thumbs was missing. In its place was the head of a pair of needle-nose pliers. She looked around for the Clockwork Rat. He was perched on the edge of a rusting barrel full of rain water, furiously washing something off his little scissor claws.

"Hey!" Perdita shouted, so loudly that the Clockwork Rat squeaked with alarm and tumbled into the water. Perdita ran over and stuck her hand into the barrel and fished around until she clamped the Rat's rubber tail in the grips of her new metal thumb and pulled him out.

"My thumb is gone!" Perdita said. "And something feels funny about my right eye, too!"

The Clockwork Rat spluttered and shook itself with a sound like marbles dropping into an empty can. "Are you worried that you aren't pretty any more, and your family won't want you if they find you?"

"No!" Perdita cried. But she bit her lip, in the exquisitely fetching manner she did when perplexed., and was careful not to look at her reflection in the barrel of rain water. And as they walked through the city that day (or rather, night, for still the dawn would not come) she looked away from all the windows.

The night stretched on much as the last one hand. They had now walked so far that if it hadn't been for the trail of balloons, Perdita would have given up all hope of ever being found. When finally she fell asleep again, the sound of tin-snips followed her into her dreams.

When she woke up, there was a small electric iron at the bottom of her right leg instead of a foot, and something felt strange about her hair.

"Rat! Rat!" she cried. "What is happening to me?"

"What happens to all lost children," said the Clockwork Rat. He gave a little shrug that sounded like the squeak of a rusting tricycle wheel. "But as long as you can keep from seeing your own reflection, there is still a chance your family might rescue you before it is too late."

Perdita forced herself not to cry, because she was a brave girl, and full of pluck. "Today we will find my home," she said.

But they didn't.

Chapter 4: The Looking-Glass

The next time Perdita woke up, she found an egg-beater where her left hand used to be, and when she bit her lip she found her teeth had gone all thin and flat and sharp as tin.

"Clockwork Rat! Clockwork Rat!" Perdita said, as tears of bright oil began to leak from her eyes. "What if I'm not beautiful any more? Why hasn't my family come to look for me? Am I so hideous they wouldn't take me back?"

But the Clockwork Rat said, "I do not know."

With a cry, Perdita turned and ran for the nearest shop window. "Don't!" the Rat cried, but it was too late. Standing in the wicked yellow light of the streetlamp, Perdita stared full at her own reflection, and wept at what she saw.

There was a scrabble of claws behind her. "I told you not to do that," the Clockwork Rat said, with a voice like shell casings rattling on a steel floor. Whirling around in dismay, Perdita saw that the Rat had climbed to the top of the phone boot where Perdita had tied her last red balloon. As the little girl watched, the Rat flexed its paws and put its little hooked scissor claws around the string.

"No!" Perdita cried.

But the Rat laughed with a sound like scalpels bouncing on a metal tray, and cut the string, and the red balloon went drifting up, up, up into the night sky.

And that's the end.

The end.

The end.

I'm sorry.

I wanted to make the story come out happy, but it didn't.

They don't sometimes.

I think I need to go now.

love,

Once upon a time...

http://www.ilovebees.com/onceuponatime.html also appears.

[Dark_INk]

whatever you do don't download anything- i mean anything (which means avoid visiting the site)

this is big.

[Dark_INk]

"The reverse side also has a reverse side" Japanese Proverb

[mzkhadir]

Holy mother of mother. We have reached 777/777. Check it out. Axons unlocking.

[GNRambo]

Holy mother of mother. We have reached 777/777. Check it out. Axons unlocking.

what? somone 15 second fill me in, i dont wanna read the whole thread again :$

[stanley porkchop]

Well, we got confirmation James was a Spartan... but what else have we found out?

I haven't noticed anything new besides more axons since we hit 777.

[Alpha2004]

Well, we got confirmation James was a Spartan... but what else have we found out?

I haven't noticed anything new besides more axons since we hit 777.

ive lost most of my interest in ilovebees...

[mzkhadir]

A real operator is calling some axons and verifying information. People have been assigned as master chief, sgt and other posts. check the recipe1.html for more info and read the blog. A new post has been made.

[JiveMasterT]

ok... this is getting ghey now. nothing seems to relate to halo and its just ****ing me off. i dont want to read this stuff anymore and think about it.

[stanley porkchop]

ok... this is getting ghey now. nothing seems to relate to halo and its just ****ing me off. i dont want to read this stuff anymore and think about it.

You haven't actually listened to any of the .wavs, have you? :huh:

They mention the Spartan project- one character is definitely a Spartan, while his daughter is also a "super soldier". They go to visit another one. Reach has been destroyed, and there's quite a bit of talk about other areas related to Halo, especially if you've read the books. Sigma Octanus IV? It's in there. It's related to Halo. That's not even questionable.

[JiveMasterT]

You haven't actually listened to any of the .wavs, have you? :huh:

They mention the Spartan project- one character is definitely a Spartan, while his daughter is also a "super soldier". They go to visit another one. Reach has been destroyed, and there's quite a bit of talk about other areas related to Halo, especially if you've read the books. Sigma Octanus IV? It's in there. It's related to Halo. That's not even questionable.

ok ok, thats fine. the weird crap on the website is so cryptic that its annoying now. i give up. ill just wait patiently for halo2 to be released.

[stanley porkchop]

So the Spartans in the ilovebees timeline are 1.0s....?

And the second versions are hardly human? But isn't the timeline after the fall of Reach?? Wow, that's confusing. So.... mehbleh. Is John a version 1 or 2?

Edit:

I see now. This timeline takes place immediately following the fall of Reach. If I remember correctly, Master Chief was on Halo for two weeks. Since these are different planets and everything, it might have taken about that time for the news of Reach's destruction to get to James and Jan. Also, sometime in the third book, since the Spartans disrupt the Covenant armada, won't it take the aliens another month to reach Earth? So it would make sense that the .wavs take place during the events between First Strike and Halo 2. Therefore, James, Jan, and Gilly aren't the same Spartans as the ones who are fighting in the war. They were prototypes, before the Mark VI MJOLNIR-wearing ones were finalized. And that would mean they might have been in the books, albeit with different names.

And that would mean there's an accident somewhere during that time as well, where the humans discover a Forerunner artifact they believe is of Covenant origin.... maybe the time/space distorting rock that was found on Reach? I remember pieces of it were discovered by the Covenant after that one guy kills himself over it. But that might not make sense, since that rock shattered into tiny pieces, and the object discovered on ilovebees is roughly the size of a suitcase. That is the most probable cause of The Operator's accident and subsequent malfunction.

But if all that is true... then ilovebees must be leading into something very big for the game. And that means people who are following it will have a deeper understanding of what's going on in Halo 2's timeline. That is, if it isn't all explained in the next book.

Names to watch for:

Apocolypso, Jan, James, Gilly, Durga, Kamal, Jersey, Standish, Melissa, etc. etc.

Edited September 22, 2004 by O'Connor's a Nub

[Alpha2004]

i received this from her via email:

Uh-oh. How did?Tell her to go away!

Tell her not to look! Make her not see me, you dumb bug! Please, I'm begging you, I'm begging you, I'm beg?

I believe that shockingly excessive force is the best deterrent.

Keep looking for me! Tell them, they can talk to me whenever she falls apart! Tell them to call my name! Tell them it?s the only?NO!

not back there not back there I'm never going back I'm nev

Sometimes a mistake is the last thing you make.