Hishoa
10-22-2012, 01:45 AM
WP Thread (https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst123507_-EVILAWAKENS----343i-s-ARG.aspx) -- I will try and keep this thread updated with note-worthy speculative posts as well for those too lazy to read through the entire WP thread ;)
Here's another thread on the WP forums trying to work through the ARG: link (https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst121232_Hidden-Forerunner-Symbols------UPDATE-10-21.aspx)
Video 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76QgnZcgI4
Video 2
Gallagher - YouTube
Video 3
Butterfly - YouTube
CLUES:
Glacier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76QgnZcgI4)
Gallagher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXPaBUrnk7A&feature=plcp)
Butterfly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QlL2Vbd0-M&feature=g-u-u)Although some of you think that the ReadyUpLive video, Glacier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76QgnZcgI4), and TheHaloCouncil video, Gallagher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXPaBUrnk7A) are just coincidences, they are not.
Upon completing the google search "glacier gallagher (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=glacier+gallagher&l=1#)", the first page that comes up is this: Gallagher's Glacier (http://www.amazon.com/Gallaghers-Glacier-Walt-Leigh-Richmond/dp/0441272363), a book for sale on Amazon.
As you'll notice by the cover of the book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0441272363/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books): "HE FOUGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF SPACE -- AND ALL MANKIND." Now, who does that sound like to you?
It's evident that these two worked together on this. In my opinion, it's likely that 343i or microsoft probably gave them some cash to do it. Also, for those who haven't seen, Microsoft's facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/xbox?fref=ts) has also been taken over by the Didact along with ReadyUpLive's youtube channel.
Could the 05 mean the page number of the book?...
Don't know , but the Author only wrote 5 books.
And this book was released on 5/5/55. I think they're trying to tell us something.
Wow, I missed that....
So, something about 5. Maybe something happening in 5 days?
The books cover. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/0441272363/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all)
5 book review. (http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton/aced71.htm)
Well one little thing I find interesting is the description for another of the books the author wrote...
"The other stories include "M'Lord is the Shepherd" (3100 words, If, September 1965), in which aliens monitoring Earth try to promote human development in order to help defend against another encroaching alien race, but (surprise!) get more than they bargain for when humans prove even more dangerous than the original enemy."
Might not be relevant but it does seem interesting.
Forerunner build up Humanity to fight the Precursors, only to find that Humanity ends up being the greater threat.
Reclaimers indeed.
Alright Waypoint. It appears it is time to team up and figure this out!
Here's some other quotes as the thread gets going:
343i did not make these videos. Do you think 343i would of created the second vid lol? defo readyuplive created these. Also look at the description. Thats the thing.
While 343i may not have directly made them, we have no evidence. They could be working secretly with ReadyUpLive. Just like there are with IGN.
Whatever it is, the Didact is apparently taking over a lot of things. It might be a way of them hyping up the game, its definetly plausible. IGN, RUL, Facebook, etc. Did they come out and tell us at first about the earlier ARGs?
With all of the stuff going on, secret terminal letters and codes, Didact takeovers... it seems 343i is doing something. Hype, ARG, whatever.
This is what we've been waiting for... we've gotta get a team together, just like the Master Terminals thread in Anniversary.
What the hell is going on in the second one?
Gallagher is a comedian from the 80's, whose big schtick was the 'Sledge-O-Matic'. In a parody of old infomercials, he'd bring out a huge -Yoink!- wooden mallet and smash things with it, most famously, watermelons.
As for what it has to do with the ARG, dunno yet, other than the fact that music from Halo 4 was playing in the background, and both clips so far, 'Glacier' and 'Gallager' start with 'G'.The secret terminal letter stands for 'C'.
Getting tricky, perhaps. We might be passing things up. Anything useful in those secret messages in the Bulletin? Recurring letters?
So far we have 'C', '3', 'K', and 'G', yeah? I might have missed one though, or be off.
Motherf ....
Anyone else notice the Forerunner character for '8' hidden in the lower left hand corner?
Well would ya look at that... another piece of the puzzle
Where can I got to learn the Forerunner texts?
[URL]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/325/3/2/fr_legend_by_funkyskull-d4gwba9.jpg (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151247584606023&set=a.10150575545216023.434660.16547831022&type=1&theater)
Go nuts.
Unity's been taken over as well! (http://halounity.com/?section=home)
I think I might have found something. At the end of the BTS for the multiplayer, there is another Forerunner symbol, right?
http://imgur.com/J0q1c
http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b486/olanmills64/symbol_zpsdd5ad9bc.jpg
And this one from the weekly bulletin ...
http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/577085_10151247584606023_1278088392_n.jpg
And the one in the lower left hand corner here ...
Now, don't worry about the symbols themselves for a second, and look at the boxes they are in. It's like a puzzle. It looks like putting them in the right order depends on the shape of the box, with the one from the facebook picture being the last character in the sequence.
If anyone one else has other characters they have found, or caps of them, we need to get them in one place, put them together, and I am guessing put them into the Terminal keyboard on Waypoint.
Here's another thread on the WP forums trying to work through the ARG: link (https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postst121232_Hidden-Forerunner-Symbols------UPDATE-10-21.aspx)
Video 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76QgnZcgI4
Video 2
Gallagher - YouTube
Video 3
Butterfly - YouTube
CLUES:
Glacier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76QgnZcgI4)
Gallagher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXPaBUrnk7A&feature=plcp)
Butterfly (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QlL2Vbd0-M&feature=g-u-u)Although some of you think that the ReadyUpLive video, Glacier (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B76QgnZcgI4), and TheHaloCouncil video, Gallagher (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXPaBUrnk7A) are just coincidences, they are not.
Upon completing the google search "glacier gallagher (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=glacier+gallagher&l=1#)", the first page that comes up is this: Gallagher's Glacier (http://www.amazon.com/Gallaghers-Glacier-Walt-Leigh-Richmond/dp/0441272363), a book for sale on Amazon.
As you'll notice by the cover of the book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/0441272363/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books): "HE FOUGHT FOR THE FREEDOM OF SPACE -- AND ALL MANKIND." Now, who does that sound like to you?
It's evident that these two worked together on this. In my opinion, it's likely that 343i or microsoft probably gave them some cash to do it. Also, for those who haven't seen, Microsoft's facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/xbox?fref=ts) has also been taken over by the Didact along with ReadyUpLive's youtube channel.
Could the 05 mean the page number of the book?...
Don't know , but the Author only wrote 5 books.
And this book was released on 5/5/55. I think they're trying to tell us something.
Wow, I missed that....
So, something about 5. Maybe something happening in 5 days?
The books cover. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/0441272363/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all)
5 book review. (http://www.sff.net/people/richard.horton/aced71.htm)
Well one little thing I find interesting is the description for another of the books the author wrote...
"The other stories include "M'Lord is the Shepherd" (3100 words, If, September 1965), in which aliens monitoring Earth try to promote human development in order to help defend against another encroaching alien race, but (surprise!) get more than they bargain for when humans prove even more dangerous than the original enemy."
Might not be relevant but it does seem interesting.
Forerunner build up Humanity to fight the Precursors, only to find that Humanity ends up being the greater threat.
Reclaimers indeed.
Alright Waypoint. It appears it is time to team up and figure this out!
Here's some other quotes as the thread gets going:
343i did not make these videos. Do you think 343i would of created the second vid lol? defo readyuplive created these. Also look at the description. Thats the thing.
While 343i may not have directly made them, we have no evidence. They could be working secretly with ReadyUpLive. Just like there are with IGN.
Whatever it is, the Didact is apparently taking over a lot of things. It might be a way of them hyping up the game, its definetly plausible. IGN, RUL, Facebook, etc. Did they come out and tell us at first about the earlier ARGs?
With all of the stuff going on, secret terminal letters and codes, Didact takeovers... it seems 343i is doing something. Hype, ARG, whatever.
This is what we've been waiting for... we've gotta get a team together, just like the Master Terminals thread in Anniversary.
What the hell is going on in the second one?
Gallagher is a comedian from the 80's, whose big schtick was the 'Sledge-O-Matic'. In a parody of old infomercials, he'd bring out a huge -Yoink!- wooden mallet and smash things with it, most famously, watermelons.
As for what it has to do with the ARG, dunno yet, other than the fact that music from Halo 4 was playing in the background, and both clips so far, 'Glacier' and 'Gallager' start with 'G'.The secret terminal letter stands for 'C'.
Getting tricky, perhaps. We might be passing things up. Anything useful in those secret messages in the Bulletin? Recurring letters?
So far we have 'C', '3', 'K', and 'G', yeah? I might have missed one though, or be off.
Motherf ....
Anyone else notice the Forerunner character for '8' hidden in the lower left hand corner?
Well would ya look at that... another piece of the puzzle
Where can I got to learn the Forerunner texts?
[URL]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/325/3/2/fr_legend_by_funkyskull-d4gwba9.jpg (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151247584606023&set=a.10150575545216023.434660.16547831022&type=1&theater)
Go nuts.
Unity's been taken over as well! (http://halounity.com/?section=home)
I think I might have found something. At the end of the BTS for the multiplayer, there is another Forerunner symbol, right?
http://imgur.com/J0q1c
http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b486/olanmills64/symbol_zpsdd5ad9bc.jpg
And this one from the weekly bulletin ...
http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/577085_10151247584606023_1278088392_n.jpg
And the one in the lower left hand corner here ...
Now, don't worry about the symbols themselves for a second, and look at the boxes they are in. It's like a puzzle. It looks like putting them in the right order depends on the shape of the box, with the one from the facebook picture being the last character in the sequence.
If anyone one else has other characters they have found, or caps of them, we need to get them in one place, put them together, and I am guessing put them into the Terminal keyboard on Waypoint.