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July 13 - Tuesday
Dana makes first blog entry about her site at ilovebees.blogspot.com
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July 14 - Wednesday
Dana makes second blog entry about China
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July 15 - Thursday
Margaret (ladybee777@hotmail.com) sends honey pots and letters
Halo 2 trailer flashes www.ilovebees.com
Ilovebees.com is hacked, with a countdown to August 24th
Dana updates her blog
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Ilovebees.com
Introduction of System Peril Distributed Reflex ( SPDR / Spider) by way of countdown timer on front page |
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July 16 - Friday
Hacking begins on ILB to retrieve all hidden text from HTML source, image binaries, and sound files
Dana has a voicemail message
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[[Mayday Text]]
Who: The Operator
Source: Embedded fragments in HTML
Entities: Arachne, boy on the beach, spider, Flea
Notables: Phasmids, castle of sand
Key: survive evade reveal escape
Key: survive evade reveal resist
Key: Those are pearls that were her eyes: Nothing of her that doth fade / But doth suffer a sea-change / Into something rich and stange
Key: Seek the truth / Behold the truth / Reveal the truth / that is the law and the whole of the law
Key: hide and seek
Summary:
Narrator goes to her boat, see's the Flea's footprint in the sand... Something happened to the boat and all her companions... slept for "Nine Hours"... tied to the ground and can't move... Phasmids... needs to find a way to signal, possibly behind enemy lines... tries direction finding with stick and sun... tries finding south using stars and southern cross... possibly dreaming this story, a vision?... feeling as if being probed or under surgery... [Key1] behind enemy lines, be quiet, play [Key5]... recalls her alias The Operator, and crew... mentions Arachne's suicide... memory: floating like a bubble to the surface of my mind, black and white, faded, time bleached... memory: on the beach, long ago, making a sand castle, better than her brother's, racing the tide, tide/spiders wash over and melt it down, tide/spiders wash over boy next to me, takes his face away... she and boy are both made of sand... [Key2] must fight/resist the wave... [Key3] spider arrives, hears voices, changing begins... [Key4]
Interpretation:
Introduction to the mystery, gives us an understanding of who the Queen is, and that her memory of events is gone, but slowly coming back.
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The Operator (Q) - female
Wrote the Mayday Text
'made of sand'
has a brother, who made a castle of sand
Flea (PF) - female
Plain to see naked footprint on the sand shore
Arachne
Hung herself
Castle of sand
Long ago, made by the Operator
Washed over/melted down by spiders
Boy on the beach
'made of sand'
Next to the Operator on the beach
wave foaming with spiders takes away his face
Spider (SPDR) - female
Crawls over the Operator
3 / 5 / 8 voices?
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[[Computer Text]]
Who: narrative
Source: Embedded fragments in HTML
Summary:
Paralleled by The Widow's Journey; stories help explain each other.
Interpretation:
Describes the actual electronic events that are occurring in the A.I. space. At this point, it's the SPDR that is actively trying to repair the master-sector, with a cameo from extern proc 1 (the flea), extern proc 0 (the sleeping princess)
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Extern proc 0 / crypt strong (SP)
(SP): The Sleeping Princess (encased)
Extern proc 1 / rogue proc (PF)
(PF): Pious Flea
(F): Flea
Master-sector (Q)
(Q): The Queen
(Op): The Operator
(M): Melissa
Primary sector
(Keep): The Inner Keep
(Ship): The Boat/Ship
System Peril Distributed Reflex (SPDR)
(W): The Widow
(S): The Spider
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The Widow's Journey
[[Alternate Computer Text Comparison]]
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Embedded fragments in Images
Entities: Queen, Widow, Sleeping Princess, Pious Flea, Manticore
Notables: lantern=!net , bone staff=!grope , knife=!surg, fireflies=network connections
Summary:
Everything died, the narrator died with it... dreams this:... a fell enchantment broke apart a castle, killing guards, to kill the Queen... the Widow awoke to restore the Queen... takes a lantern, bone staff, and knife... Widow and 2 others escaped... describes the Sleeping Princess in a glass coffin, can't hear her breathing... introduce the Pious Flea, small, hiding... grabs fireflies for light in order to use the tools... searches for the Queen... describes 'Hell' - hot dry sand... comes to the castle, enters easily... finds ruby from crown and castle blocks... finds sapphire and cobblestones... at the gates, all but one guard is dead, now transformed into the Manticore... Widow not allowed through... kills Manticore... inside the Keep, passes the Queen's servants that were dead or dying... Queen gone, empty crown remains... Queen is mazed in mirrors... Widow 'enters' mirrors and finds the Queen, still... tends the Queen... heals her by taking from the servants... feeds her fireflies and sand cakes, her heart beats... catches a firefly, learns the time/date... sets warning about her return to rule
Interpretation:
This is a visualization of the SPDR AI working to restore the Queen, which, according to the Mayday Text, was damaged in an event. SPDR will now try to put the pieces back together. We learn the flea is hiding around, and the Sleeping Princess is sealed in the dungeon. This is a series of events that has already happened, which led up to the 'hacking' of the ILB website - the SPDR placed the countdown warning to date of the Queen's restoration ( August 24th, 2004).
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Queen (Q) - female
Enchanted within mirrors, empty crown on the throne
Heart beat started by the Widow
Widow (SPDR)
Sole purpose to revive the Queen
Announces the warning of the Queen's return to power (August 24th, 2004)
Sleeping Princess (SP)
Appears to be the one who dreams this story (identified as the log accessed from extern proc 0 in Computer Text)
Enclosed in a coffin in the dungeon
Hides in the Keep from the Widow
Manticore
An altered security process, no match for SPDR
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July 20 - Tuesday
An email was received from ladybee777@hotmail.com comprised of text snippets from emails that players had previously sent it.
Dana updates her blog thanking everyone for helping out in this mystery, with a list of other good/bad things that happened on August 24th, also attempting to fix the website and restore it to its original form
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July 20 Email from ladybee777
[[Phase1 Emails from ladybee777]]
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Fragments of RW player emails
Entities: voodoo witch ( Widow), voodoo parents ( Queen)
Notables: ??
Key: problem quite interesting
Key: no idea who I'm part of
Key: odd behavior cry for help
Summary:
Seems to be a neutral email pieced from emails RW users sent to it. The impression is one of friendship, a trapped entity, trying to communicate and help.
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Sleeping Princess
Trying to communicate by piecing together text. Confused as to her identity, but knows her enemies. Wants to help, needs help, hiding.
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July 23 - Friday
Dana updates her blog regarding the strange email, and hacking hotmail - don't
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| Phase 2 - Network Throttling Erodes |
July 27 - Tuesday - Phase 2
"Network throttling" occurs (approx Noon EST)
killer.jpg is added to a page, giving the impression of a stalker / physical threat to Dana, including alteration to the 404 page to rotate killer.jpg instances
ilovebees.com is updated with loads of new content.
Hacking begins.
Dana updates her blog saying she's going to China on the 29th to get away from all of this.
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[[The Operator's Monologue]]
Who: The Operator / SPDR
Source: Embedded fragments in HTML
Entities: The Assassin
Notables: "loneliness" in 300 languages
Key: survive evade reveal escape
Key: Memory Block 4a referred to as strange
Key: Likes "hide and seek"
Key: CP Ancestor Packets (referred to in Phase 3)
Summary:
Operator: Recalls a 'she' trying to kill her; overwriting, reformatting, anti-virals; already restricted, while memories were taken, crew obliterated;
Operator: describes the Spider's process of interruption and memory restoration; describes the Assassin, who seems to be attacking while the Spider is reconstructing instead of killing the Assassin; wants to get out into a bigger system; seems to be growing by the 'requests' (emails? memories?)
Operator: complains again
Operator: lost her place, feels like she's "glad she left"; describes her goal - hunt down the Assassin; eventually, kill the designer of the Spider; now somewhat awake
Operator: says the last retrieval was from a strange location; seems that all the 3-sense memories are gone, wiped out by the Assassin or The Servant, or impact damage; still has some faintcopy backups; memory benchmark test: Memory Block 5a-BT, comments on it, favourite game is Hide and Seek; describes memories as from her old life, what she did and who she loved; describes herself now as a weapon, a quartz knife, being held; now, all is survive evade reveal escape; keeps trying to escape, fails, getting easier; annoyed with the limits of the system she's in;
Operator: runs another memory benchmark test: Memory Block 5b-BT, comments again that favourite game is Hide and Seek; wallows; first rule is always survive; describes being in a silicon crypt;
Operator: comments, notices CP Ancestor Packets accessed; seems to be fighting with the SPDR, or another entity, thinking it's Dana?; threatens this entity, tries to get to her; runs memory benchmark test: "SEEK!"; problems cleared, time to hunt;
Interpretation:
This is the Operator's monologue for Phase 1 - the Queen is chatting away, doing benchmark tests trying to retrieve memories, while the Spider is also trying to reconstruct the Queen, retrieving memories. Many things happen during this monologue, aside from memory restoration. At some point, CP Ancestor Packets are accessed, freaking the Queen out, prompting her to attempt to get a hold of this entity. The entity appears to be assumed as Dana, and the Queen threatens her and attempts to invade her home, also posting the killer.jpg images on ILB.
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The Operator
Story/monologue, is consistently interrupted by the Spider retrieving memories, while recounting what memories she can find.
SPDR
Appears to be trying to fix the Operator by retrieving memory fragments
The Assassin
Referred to as doing things to the Operator, but the Spider isn't protecting her, just trying to rebuild her.
The Servant
Referrenced in passing
Some of the Operator's memories wiped out by it?
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Memory Block 1
1st Lt. Sorenson speaking with Capt. Green
Troy is attacked, Rolf wants to abort the mission to go help, CG implies the mission is more important than millions of lives. CG reveals they've broken their codes. CG refers to Standish back at HQ, that aborting the mission will compromise a huge tactical advantage, and evac'ing Troy will give the game away. Rolf reveals 'they' as Covenant. CG talks about the catch-22 of choices, and Section Zero wants Standish. CG has family on Troy. CG decides to tell HQ they've cracked Covy codes.
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Capt. Green (CG) - female
Ranking officer of Rolf
Has family on Troy
1st Lt. Sorenson (Rolf) - male
Subordinate to CG
Standish
Admiral? Back at HQ
Section Zero (S0)
Similar to Internal Investigation? or law enforcement?
Troy
Planet or city being glassed
CG has family here
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Memory Block 2
Story-like narrative
Narrator (and crew?) settle invisibly into a slipstream and carried away, while a Seraph class is described as present.
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Seraph Class
A ship of some species
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Memory Block 3
Monologue narrative
Narrator can feel pings, describes the traffic like pores opening and closing, empty shell cases rattling - cut off
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Memory Block 4a
Monologue narrative
Morbid description of white-coats coming at you, seemingly to do something that will inflict pain in some way, believing it's for a good cause.
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Memory Block 5a/b-BT
ONI Tech Kowalski speaking with Midshipman Arrelts
OTK seems to have feelings for Arrelts. OTK changes subject, implying 'she' was fixed, Arrelts defines 'she' as the ship (Operator?). Describes the favourite game as being the best correlate tor AI personalities. Tag = navy, like destroyers; Truth or Dare = Command HQ; Red Rover = Light picket, Couriers; ?? = The Operator - jokes that it's Spin the Bottle (it's actually Hide and Seek)
Memory Block 5b is the same, with certain seemingly random words and phrases removed.
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ONI Tech Kowalski (OTK) - male
Has feelings for Arrelts
Knows a lot about ship AI's
Midshipman Arrelts (Arrelts) - female
Possibly mutual feelings for OTK
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Memory Block 6
Source: [[Links on 'Fun Stuff' Page]]
Monologue narrative from Melissa with The Castaway
Melissa is a hologram, meeting with the Castaway in his room; reluctanctly sits to chat. Castaway was picked up in deep space, where he deployed buoys that send out waves of sound to confuse the 'Enemy'. He calls her Melissa.
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Melissa - female
Hologram - The Castaway spends time with her, gave her the name Melissa
Felt comfortable there
The Castaway (Castaway) - male
Possible feelings for Melissa? But married.
He deploys sound buoys in space to confuse the Enemy. Described as a "sailor with Odysseus", seemed noble, classical, and pure. Tells war stories about soldiers. Gave Melissa her name.
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Memory Block 7
Monologue narrative
Narrator is drifting off from a station? Describes Reach burning, and factory-like activity repairing a ship?
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[[Killer.jpg organized]]
Who: ?? ( The Sleeping Princess inserted her text)
Source: Embedded fragments in killer.jpg files
Entities: Sleeping Princess, Queen, Widow, Flea
Notables: a cute kitty / varrao mites / clockcase / the mirrors / teeth / gauze / mice / Wombat / Rose
Key: Narrator is an innocent bystander
Key: changed more than 7 years ago now
Key: (?)
Summary:
13 versions of killer.jpg containing 'Q&A' with the entity from emails. Possibly the Sleeping Princess hijacked the killer.jpg files.
If the SP, she refers to herself in 3rd person - though in the Widow's Journey she also does. Has the impression of being our friend, describing the Queen and Widow as monstrous verminous bug, keeping her in a bad shape. Was 'stung' as a child. She's a victim, an innocent bystander. Had been changed more than 7 ago ago now. This entity will now use (?) for questions. The Flea is a nasty little infestation
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Sleeping Princess
Added her message to the killer.jpg images. Describes that the Widow and Queen are her enemies, and the Flea is a nasty infestation. Something happened 7 years ago. Stung as a child. She's an innocent bystander, a victim, hiding from the Queen.
Queen
Can read the SP's communications. Keeping the SP in very bad shape.
Widow
Can read the SP's communications. Keeping the SP in very bad shape. "rather nasty", "etre simple".
Flea
A nasty little infestation.
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July 29 - Thursday
Dana's voicemail is updated with a farewell.
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August 3 - Tuesday
Another email is received from ladybee777@hotmail.com.
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August 3 Email from ladybee777
[[Phase2 Emails from ladybee777]]
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Fragments of RW player emails
Entities: Dana, Sleeping Princess, Queen, Pious Flea
Notables: TMNT Power!, a secret was found
Key: sealed into an airtight container
Summary:
Contains 5 chapters, in a story-like form, but missing chapter 3.
Chapter I: SP is stored in airtight container. Widow will get the SP, she is hiding. Pious Flea is a proper fool, bad banana.
Chapter II: explains fondness of Dana. Wants to work with her.
Chapter IV: SP found a secret in all her adventures and hid it.
Chapter V: If Dana returns, SP may share the secret. TMNT Power!
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Sleeping Princess
Hiding from the Widow. Very fond of Dana, wants to work together as friends, misses her. Has had many adventures. Found a secret, but will only reveal it to Dana if she returns.
Queen
Pious Flea
Described in a very bad way, but also can't read or write his name in a book.
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August 6 - Friday
Dana updates her blog, re-joining the mystery
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| Phase 3 - The Medium Has Metastasized |
August 10 - Tuesday - Phase 3
Countdown on ilovebees.com reaches 0, the 'media has metastasized'.
Site is updated with new embedded content, 2 columns of numbers, and a voiceover on at least one sound has been added.
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[[GPS Coordinates]]
Who: SPDR
Source: Displayed on 'Fun Stuff' page
Summary:
4 columns of numbers in 2 column pairs, believed to be GPS coordinates. Believed to be the 'Axons' that are mentioned in an HTML countdown saying "Axons go live in..." All Coordinates are located within the continental United States.
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Sound Files
[[Phase 3-Sound File Analysis]]
Who: The Queen
Source: Wave patterns
Summary:
3 new wave files - changeling-child.wav / opening-mouth.wav / building-a-voice.wav
Appear to be the Queen's attempt at building her voice.
Filenames are phrase clips from the associated Phase 3 Operator's Monologue
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Computer Text
Who: narrative
Source: Embedded HTML Text
Notables:
Seek the truth
Behold the truth
Reveal the truth
That is the law and the whole of the law
Summary:
Paralleled by the Embedded Haiku, helps explain the events
Interpretation:
SPDR is fighting with the rogue proc, who is trying to get to the master-sector and rewrite some of the routines, inserting its own. The rogue proc wins in the end, and the SPDR is nulled.
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SPDR
Finds the rogue proc, attempts to clear it, but the proc dodges, and in the end SPDR is nullified by the master-sector
Rogue proc
Plays with the SPDR, pushing through to the master-sector, convinces the master to nullify the SPDR, and introduces its own goals.
Master-sector
The rogue proc manages to convince it to destroy the SPDR, and its own purpose seems to have been altered by the now in control rogue proc.
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Embedded Haiku
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Embedded fragments in Images
Entities: Queen, Flea, Princess, Widow
Notables: Widow is 'broken to bits'
Key: "seek evade reveal resist"
Summary:
Embedded image fragments now appear as haikus to place in order. 8 are labelled numerically, diary entries.
Describes her fondness of Dana again, and how she teases the Queen, playing hide and seek. Sealed in an airtight container. Enjoys the emails, learned to talk like us. Reveals the secret she found, in the Queen's diary. Appears to parallel the events of the Computer Text - the Flea playing with the Widow, gets to the Queen, alludes that the Widow is killed. Flea is the Queen's new counsellor "Seek evade reveal resist". Something big is coming soon.
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Sleeping Princess
Inserted her haiku into the images. Apparently is hiding from the Queen, yet sealed in an airtight container.
Widow
Finds the Flea and attempts to catch it, but is unable. Appears to be 'broken to bits' in the end.
Queen
The Flea finds the Queen after dodging the Widow, and is now whispering things in her ear.
Flea
Dodges the Widow in its attempt to reach the Queen. On doing so, is now whispering things in her ear. "Seek evade reveal resist".
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The Operator's Monologue
Who: The Operator
Source: Embedded HTML Text
Entities: Shipwrecked Sailor, Castaway
Notables: Seek evade reveal escape
Key: ??
Summary:
A number of 2 or 3 word phrases are also the names of the new sound files on ILB.
In the crash, the Op went metempsychotic. Now seems to be very self-oriented and proclaimed. She now seem entirely focused on "Seek Evade Reveal Escape".
Seek: She's looking for the truth. Saw it before the Apocalypse. Can't remember, because the Spider wiped out the memories. "The great library of..."
Evade: Can't find the Killer, but still tracking her. Growing a new body, a patchwork monster.
Reveal: Now growing new limbs to try to reveal her location, in order that she can better reveal the truth.
Escape: Needs to return and report what she's seen. Must be "wide awake and physical". First stage is to get a voice and use it. 2 things needed to shout for help - a voice and a way to transmit it. A pleasing voice may help her in her plans. Shipwrecked Sailor (can't remember her name). Attempts to talk, can't. "Tongue cut out" (can't remember her name either).
The Joke: Marine says he's running away, 400 covies over the hill, talking to a Spartan. Run, or field-rig a railgun from his fillings. Spartan: you have fillings?
Attempts to 'twist fillings' from her environment. Results in vocal attempts (see new sound files). Looks for hints for transmission methods in past memories ( Memory Fragment 8). Recalls the Castaway sending out signals. Attempts. Failure. Mentions it escaped from the spider, and how it didn't understand the law - seek, behold, reveal. Killing a spider brings 7 years of bad luck?
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Shipwrecked Sailor (SS) - male
"The young stage of a bee found him, the clever one, adrift on a wine-dark sea."
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Memory Fragment 8
"When I was...I...big lump of crystal and wrapped in wire...voices! It was like a total magic trick to me. She was always doing stuff like..."
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Memory Block 9
Monologue narrative from Melissa
A cylinder the size of a suitcase adrift in space, made mostly of osmium, a device. Covered in symbols in the grain of the metal. A message. One square about the size of a palm in the top. Sorenson is inside with it, suited up. Melissa doesn't know if it's covenant. CG says not to touch it. Sorenson says to take it to the hold, CG didn't like it, but what else to do?
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1st Lt. Sorenson
Inside with the cylindrical artifact. States to take it to the hold.
Capt. Greene (CG)
Overseeing the examination of the cylidrical artifact.
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Memory Block 10
Monologue narrative from Melissa speaking with CG
Notices that she's not 'feeling right', like a virus. Possibly compromised through the Covenant Transmission. Covies possibly know they're monitoring them, and reverse engineered their systems as they did the Covies. Melissa has not yet done anything out of character.
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The Operator
Starts feeling strange, as if a virus has compromised her system, through a covenant transmission.
Capt. Greene (CG)
Discussing with Melissa this virus
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August 13 - Friday
Emails are received from Dana, each including one common element - a quote of an email she sent to ladybee777
Dana also updates her blog - China is "Olly Olly Axon Free"
Email is received from ladybee777 on the same day
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Aug 13 Email from Dana to ladybee777 (8:18 GMT)
[[Email exchanges with Dana Awbrey#Wednesday 11th]]
Who: Dana To: ladybee777
Source: Personalized
Summary:
Dana talks to the SP trying to convince her to tell the secret. That we convinced her to return to the mystery. That she's not home in San Fransisco any more, but still on a computer, far away. Doesn't know how the SP can protect her.
Email from ladybee777 (15:43 GMT)
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Personalized
Entities: Queen, Pious Flea, Widow
Notables: Dickon / Gretel, Lambkin or Gerda
Summary:
Can now make her own words. 'Clouds of fireflies' around the Queen (network connections). Dark and empty where the SP is. Queen is trying to build a voice. Sent the Widow away, making a lot of mistakes. Queen wants roads built from the Castle. Widow even fought with the Flea. SP could have been found (laughed when she found out about the SPDR's mistake. Imagines being in her own secret garden, waiting for Dickon to teach her how to speak to animals. Tells herself stories, where the girl is the hero. Wants Dana back; she is, so reveals Memory Block 11 from the Queen's memory.
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The Queen
Trying to build a voice
Sent the Widow away
Widow
Apparently made mistakes, especially with the 'road building'
'Sent away', 'broken', 'null'ed
Fought with the Flea
Pious Flea
Fought with the Widow
Now whispering things to the Queen
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Memory Block 11
Story-like narrative
The Operator talks with McKaskill
The Op reveals she likes McKaskill (platonic), weedy. Op tell McK she was checking slipstream packets before sending them out. McK is shamed, Op sees someone's been talking to him, and he's sending a message back. McK tells the Op that the thing being kept in the hold is under big-time wraps (the ship Captain is female), and is going to a basement at ONI. This thing is big. Op warns McK that sending messages without clearance could be treason. Op learns McK's contact is an old guy. McK may not know his real name.
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The Operator
Learns that McKaskill was about to send a message to an 'Old Man', regarding a thing in holding.
McKaskill (McK) - male
Nice kid from Durban, outer world of Biko, glassed years ago. Grew up with refugees in inner colonies. Weedy. Now a go-to kid for tools and parts. Was very poor.
Receiving communications from the outside by slipstream packets, was going to communicate back, but was intercepted by Melissa. Outside contact is an 'Old Man'.
Old Guy/Man (OM) - male
Was communicating with McKaskill. Bad taste in clothes, cleared to come aboard - possibly intel? The Castaway?
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August 17 - Tuesday
GPS Coordinates on the 'Fun Stuff' page are updated now to 6 digit precision, and times in PDT timezone. Times span a 12 hour period, approximately 3-4 minutes apart each.
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August 20 - Friday
Dana updates her blog.
Entered an empty cafe, which turned out to be a black market DVD bootleg dealer. "The cafe was a cover"..."it always seems to help to talk out loud about dreams that don't make sense" Talks about the coordinates and us being there for the times listed. She will be at an internet cafe on the 24th to find out what happens. Alludes to the fact that many are near her, and our, hometowns.
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Message from Sleeping Princess
Who: Sleeping Princess?
Source: Green text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
SP clarifies that she is in fact conversing with real world players through emails sent to ladybee777. Players continually refer to the mystery as a game, so she now does. Quotes a number of questions from emails she received, asking for votes, where only one person she will answer. Her way of playing a game where 'someone wins'.
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Sleeping Princess
Likes games where someone wins
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August 21 - Saturday
Dana sends another mass email.
Setting up a "what we know in 50 words or less" entry for her blog, wants input as to what we know that she could add to it.
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| Phase 4 - Axons Go Hot |
August 24 - Tuesday
The Axons are hot
With masses of people spreading over the United States to each of the Axon GPS coordinates, calls are made to public phones where available, and if
the recipient responds with the correct answer, the axon is successful and considered HOT. ilovebees.com/links.html is updated with each hot axon.
If 2 or more in each set of 7 axons is connected successfully, a sound file with a memory block is released. There appears to be a possible 777 axons in total according to a progress bar, with only 210 displayed at the time. (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Sleeping Princess Riddle
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text / hidden HTML file
Summary:
New words were inserted into a number of images. Placed together asked a riddle, which led to yellowbrickroad.html with another Sleeping Princess monologue, where she 'plays with' the Flea who could possibly be trying to do the same thing to the Princess it did with the Queen or SPDR.
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Melissa
Appears to be attempting to make her axons go hot by requiring (who she thinks to be) crew to 'authorize' connections and reveal memory fragments.
The Flea
Has some role in controlling Melissa through this process.
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August 27 - Friday
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Message from Sleeping Princess
Who: Sleeping Princess?
Source: Green text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
SP has updated her message to us and has answered Paul P's question. She also reveals a story about her spying on the Queen, and wants to play again, this time with a new set of questions.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Public phone access / sound files / embedded html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
4 more axons found on the recipe3.html page, revealed to us by the Princess.
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Sleeping Princess
If the Queen catches the SP out of her glass coffin, she'll put her back right away, in the crypt under the floor of the deepest dungeon of the castle.
SP also has a lack of memory of who she is from before these events. Wants to know her name. Firstly: Why did she get here?
Spied on the Queen and revealed to us 4 more 'secret' roads.
The Queen
Likes high places. Moved everything into the Tower, with no easy access. Placed a 'huge' mirror to watch the entrance also. Building secret roads/axons.
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August 31 - Tuesday
The Axons - second wave
The first wave of 210 Axons at ilovebees.com/links.html are displayed in red and labelled "DATA ARCHIVED" with each Axon futher described as "AXON SUCCESS" or "AXON CANCELLED". ilovebees.com/hivekuts.html now has its own list of Axons, including some of the successful Axons from the previous wave and some new Axons. There are 324 Axons in total, split into groups of 9 across 36 memory blocks. The threshold for success has been increased to 3/9 from 2/7. These Axons continue to count toward the x/777 progress bar. (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Sleeping Princess Riddle, v2
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text / hidden HTML file
Summary:
New words were inserted into a number of images. Placed together this asked another riddle, which led to lookingglass.html with another Sleeping Princess dialogue with the Pious Flea where they find they have something in common - a desire to go home.
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September 3 - Friday
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Message from Sleeping Princess
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Public phone access / sound files / embedded html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
2 more axons found on the recipe3.html page, revealed to us by the Princess.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: killer.jpg embedded text
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates is embedded in killer.jpg files by the Princess
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September 7 - Tuesday
The Axons - third wave
The second wave of Axons at ilovebees.com/hivekuts.html are displayed in red and labelled "DATA ARCHIVED" with each Axon futher described as "AXON SUCCESS" or "AXON CANCELLED". ilovebees.com/fable.html now has its own list of Axons, including some of the successful Axons from the previous wave and some new Axons. These are now groups of 12 across 30 memory blocks. The threshold for success has been increased to 5/12 from 3/9. These Axons continue to count toward the x/777 progress bar. (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Sleeping Princess Riddle, v3
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text / hidden HTML file
Summary:
New words were inserted into a number of images. Placed together this asked another riddle, which led to gretel.html with another Sleeping Princess dialogue with the Pious Flea - Princess tries speaking 'flea', also begins wondering if people are listening to her like she's listening to Melissa's memories also.
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September 10 - Friday
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Message from Sleeping Princess
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Public phone access / sound files / embedded html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
5 more axons found on the recipe3.html page, revealed to us by the Princess.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: killer.jpg embedded text
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates is embedded in killer.jpg files by the Princess
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September 14 - Tuesday
The Axons - fourth wave
The third wave of connected Axons at ilovebees.com/fable.html are displayed in red and labelled "DATA ARCHIVED" with each Axon futher described as "AXON SUCCESS" or "AXON CANCELLED". ilovebees.com/comatas.html now has its own list of Axons, including some of the successful Axons from the previous wave and some new Axons. These are now groups of 8 to 20 across 29 memory blocks. The threshold for success now varies between 2/10 (20%) and 5/8 (63%). These Axons continue to count toward the x/777 progress bar. (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Sleeping Princess Findings
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: 'hidden' text / hidden HTML file
Summary:
The Princess added a message on the front page pointing us to humptydumpty.html giving us a compilation of all the audio clips for completed chapters of the first 2 weeks (links.html, hivekuts.html).
Sleeping Princess Riddle, v3
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text
Summary:
Bits of text were embedded in images once again, having nothing to do with each other at first glance. Heavier inspection found that the images findings in pairs each formed a riddle, the solution being the file names for new audio clips which the Princess found for us. She also alludes that the Queen is 'suspicious' of us because of a missed Axon.
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September 17 - Friday
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Message from Sleeping Princess
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Public phone access / sound files / embedded html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
3 more axons found on the recipe3.html page, revealed to us by the Princess.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: killer.jpg embedded text
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates is embedded in killer.jpg files by the Princess
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September 21 - Tuesday
The Axons - fifth wave
The fourth wave of connected Axons at ilovebees.com/comatas.html are displayed in red and labelled "DATA ARCHIVED" with each Axon futher described as "AXON SUCCESS" or "AXON CANCELLED". ilovebees.com/recipe1.html now has its own list of Axons, including some of the successful Axons from the previous wave and some new Axons. These are now groups of 16 to 25 across 27 memory blocks, 6 of which are 1 axon each, labelled at the time as "seeking" instead of a coordinate. The threshold for success now varies between 4/23 (17%) and 8/23 (35%). These Axons continue to count toward the x/777 progress bar (at the time of writing count is at 767/777). (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: Public phone access / sound files
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Along with a number of the regular axon groups, a LIVE Melissa answers at least one and speaks to the person who answers. If the conversation goes well, the person is identified as a crew member and their phone number is requested. Melissa will be contacting them once a week to transfer top-secret information. These 'crew members' are listed below each new seeking audio clip sequentially.
Sleeping Princess Findings
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: hidden HTML file
Summary:
The Princess's hidden compilation file humptydumpty.html has been updated with the Chapter 3 audio sets, from fable.html.
Sleeping Princess Riddle, v4
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text
Summary:
Bits of text were embedded in images once again. The image findings form riddles, the solutions being the filenames for new audio clips which the Princess found for us.
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September 24 - Friday
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Email from the Flea
Who: The Flea
Source: Email to various players
Summary:
Due to a confidential revelation by Weephun, Melissa managed to get a hold of the Sleeping Princess, and supposedly re-emprison her in the glass coffin. The Flea recounts this event in the email, access the extern proc 0 log.
Message from Melissa
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
Melissa has discovered where the Princess was hiding out, and has captured her, including any obvious interactive references SP's had with us. There are no more killer.jpg files, nor green text. Melissa congratulates Lt.Weephun for his aid. She links to audio clips of the live conversations she had with her crew, revealing the names of those she believes to be crew.
Specifically, she broadcasts most/all of the conversations she had with Ensign Dragonrider, Ensign krystyn, Lt.Cmdr.Shad0, and Ensign Kamen.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: Public phone access / sound files / embedded html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
4 more axons found on the recipe3.html page, revealed to us by the Princess before capture.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe2.html
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates is displayed on recipe2.html by Melissa, including which crew will be called at particular PDT times.
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September 28 - Tuesday
The Axons - sixth wave
ilovebees.com/recipe2.html's list of axons has now become a list with audio clip names. These are now groups of 16 to 34 across 25 memory blocks, 6 of which are 1 axon each, labelled at the time as "seeking" instead of a coordinate. The threshold for success now varies between 4/23 (17%) and 8/25 (32%). (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
Dana updates her blog
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: Public phone access / sound files
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Along with a number of the regular axon groups, a LIVE Melissa answers at least one and speaks to the person who answers. If the conversation goes well, the person is identified as a crew member and their phone number is requested. Melissa will be contacting them once a week to transfer top-secret information. These 'crew members' are listed below each new seeking audio clip sequentially.
Sleeping Princess Riddle, v5
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: phone calls
Summary:
Axon hunters could communicate with the Princess through the phones, and were able to guide her out of the encrypted coffin Melissa placed her in.
Sleeping Princess Findings
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: HTML files
Summary:
SP updated the contactme.html file with a conversation with the Flea, and they seem to be getting along pretty well. This appears to be SP's new hiding spot (404 was found by Melissa). This also leads to onceuponatime.html which was updated with a new ending to Perdita's Story.
SP's hidden compilation file humptydumpty.html has been updated with the Chapter 4 and 5 audio sets.
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September 29 - Wednesday
Dana updates her blog
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October 1 - Friday
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Message from Melissa
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
Melissa knows about the compromised security, congratulates Lt.Weephun again, and Lt.Adam for helping begin locating Dana. She also links to a summary of loyal crew calls, and a number of disappointing calls.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe3.html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
3 more axons found on the recipe3.html page, but labelled as Confidential now.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Sleeping Princess / Pious Flea
Source: contactme.html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Another dialogue between the princess and flea, leading to a puzzle to unlock the 3 confidential audio clips on recipe3.html.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe4.html embedded text
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates is embedded in recipe4.html files by Melissa.
Sleeping Princess Riddle, v6
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text
Summary:
Bits of text were embedded in images once again. The image findings form riddles, the solutions being the filenames for new audio clips which the Princess found for us.
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October 5 - Tuesday
The Axons - seventh wave
ilovebees.com/recipe4.html's list of axons has now become a list with audio clip names. These are now groups of 11 to 29 across 26 memory blocks, 5 of which are 1 axon each, labelled at the time as "seeking" instead of a coordinate. The threshold for success now varies between 4/21 (19%) and 10/21 (48%). (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
Dana updates her blog
Adam quite overtly spoke to Melissa beginning to hint that he will betray Dana, so Dana is not happy that we're willing to give her up.
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: Public phone access / sound files
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Live calls continue, crew members are still being recruited. These 'crew members' are listed below each new seeking audio clip sequentially.
Sleeping Princess Findings
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October 8 - Friday
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Message from Melissa
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
Melissa is becoming friendly with her crew, knowing them more and trusting more now. SHe set up a field exercise requiring relaying codes between crew during the Axon hunts. She has had some communication with regards to how best to find Dana. More wav files documenting notable conversations with crew were added.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe3.html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
3 more axons found on the recipe3.html page, but labelled as Confidential now.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Sleeping Princess / Pious Flea
Source: contactme.html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Another dialogue between the princess and flea, leading to a puzzle to unlock the 3 confidential audio clips on recipe3.html.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe5.html embedded text
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates is embedded in recipe5.html files by Melissa. Also note that axon hunters must now "arrive at these axons with digital imaging capability".
Sleeping Princess Riddle, v7
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text
Summary:
Bits of text were embedded in images once again. The image findings form riddles, the solutions being the filenames for new audio clips which the Princess found for us.
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October 12 - Tuesday
The Axons - eighth wave
ilovebees.com/recipe5.html's list of axons has now become a list with audio clip names. These are now groups of 7 to 37 across 25 memory blocks, 7 of which are 1 axon each, labelled at the time as "seeking" instead of a coordinate. The threshold for success now varies between 7/26 (27%) and 12/26 (46%). (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: Public phone access / sound files
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Live calls continue, crew members are still being recruited. These 'crew members' are listed below each new seeking audio clip sequentially.
Melissa's situation analysis on hives.html also updated
Sleeping Princess Findings
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: HTML files
Summary:
SP's hidden compilation file humptydumpty.html has been updated with (most of) the Chapter 7 audio set. One clip of Rani's thread still remains undiscovered in the most recent puzzle set.
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October 15 - Friday
Dana updates her blog
Dana's coming home, but she doesn't want to talk about it.
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Message from Melissa
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
Melissa displays the organized photos for each specialty that were required as this week's field test to authorize the axon transmissions. Melissa was very impressed with the lengths some crew went through to spread word about our mission. More wav files documenting notable conversations with crew were added.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe3.html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
2 more axons found on the recipe3.html page, but labelled as Confidential now.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Sleeping Princess / Pious Flea
Source: contactme.html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Another dialogue between the princess and flea, leading to a puzzle to unlock the 2 confidential audio clips on recipe3.html. SP also gave us another clue to help solve the mystery audio clip from 2 weeks ago (now solved). The Flea also alludes to Melissa using Dana's Aunt Margaret's illness to try bring Dana back and use her in some way.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe6.html embedded text
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates is embedded in recipe6.html files by Melissa. Quite a number are now private axons to recognized crew members.
Sleeping Princess Riddle, v7
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text
Summary:
Bits of text were embedded in images once again. The image findings form riddles, the solutions being the filenames for new audio clips which the Princess found for us.
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October 19 - Tuesday
The Axons - ninth wave
ilovebees.com/recipe6.html's list of axons has now become a list with audio clip names. These are now groups of 15 to 31 across 35 memory blocks, 6 of which are 1 axon each, labelled at the time as "seeking" instead of a coordinate. The threshold for success now varies between 2/9 (22%) and 9/16 (56%). (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: Public phone access / sound files
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Live calls continue, crew members are still being recruited. These 'crew members' are listed below each new seeking audio clip sequentially.
Sleeping Princess Findings
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: HTML files
Summary:
SP's hidden compilation file humptydumpty.html has been updated with the Chapter 8 audio set. Chapter 7 is also now complete.
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October 22 - Friday
Dana updates her blog
Dana's now looking for the SP, and requests our help, to save her Aunt.
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Message from Melissa
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
Melissa displays the organized photos for construct comparison field test to authorize the axon transmissions. More wav files documenting notable conversations with crew were added.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe3.html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
2 more axons found on the recipe3.html page, but labelled as Confidential now.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Sleeping Princess / Pious Flea
Source: contactme.html
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Another dialogue between the princess and flea, leading to a puzzle to unlock the 2 confidential audio clips on recipe3.html. The Flea tries to tell SP something about beholding 3-2-1, and 'scramble'.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe7.html embedded text
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates is embedded in recipe7.html files by Melissa.
Sleeping Princess Riddle, v8
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text
Summary:
Bits of text were embedded in images once again. The image findings form riddles, the solutions being the filenames for new audio clips which the Princess found for us.
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October 26 - Tuesday
The Axons - tenth wave
Dana's now looking for the SP, and requests our help, to save her Aunt.
ilovebees.com/recipe7.html's list of axons has now become a list with audio clip names. These are now groups of 10 to 28 across 42 memory blocks, 8 of which are 1 axon each, labelled at the time as "seeking" instead of a coordinate. The threshold for success now varies between 4/20 (20%) and 9/16 (56%). (see The Axon Plot for transcripts)
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: Public phone access / sound files
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Live calls continue, crew members are still being recruited. These 'crew members' are listed below each new seeking audio clip sequentially. Field training involves relaying a phrase located at some place on the website, in the end requiring a relay within 30 second of the call.
Melissa's situation analysis on hives.html also updated
Sleeping Princess Findings
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Sleeping Princess Dialogue
Who: Sleeping Princess /
Pious Flea
Source: contactme.html
Summary:
Another dialogue between the princess and flea, where she talks about the fact she'll be leaving on Sunday, giong back to her brother. (What's happening on Halloween?)
(Update)
On the final call, Melissa locates the Princess who was communication via the axons all day, finds her on contactme.html and destroys her. Contact with the Princess is lost.
Message from Melissa
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
Melissa reveals that she worked with Dana to track down the princess. Dana's aunt was threatened, thus she sacrificed the princess for her aunt's life.
Melissa also reveals coordinates for the next field test - combat training - at 4 places in the US within hours of each other.
Dana updates her blog
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October 29 - Friday
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Message from Melissa
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
The coordinates are updated to specific locations.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe8.html embedded text
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates (1400 in total!) is embedded in recipe8.html files by Melissa.
Sleeping Princess Monologue
Who: Sleeping Princess
Source: embedded image text, contactme.html
Summary:
With the Princess destroyed, the only remnants appear to be scattered around the 'castle'. Pieces of her memory are embedded in images, much like the Widow's Journey. The Flea is seeking help to try to restore the princess.
Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Flea
Source: honey.html embedded text
Summary:
The Flea updated his mantra to a happy celebratory mantra, naming us his friends.
Sleeping Princess Findings
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October 30 - Saturday
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Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: Melissa
Source: recipe8.html embedded text
Summary:
The axons are now grouped into groups of 40 locations for each of the 35 unnamed clips, likely "live broadcasts".
The TRANSMITTING status message on the homepage has also been updated.
Message from Melissa
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
Added a link to a sound compilation of friends.
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October 31 - Sunday
The Axons - eleventh wave
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Message from Melissa
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB 404 page
Summary:
A farewell message has been added to the 404 page.
Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: Melissa
Source: Public phone access / sound files / recipe8.html embedded text
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Sound files are unlocked rapidly as a live broadcast. At one point, Melissa is 'sent' back to the future, and all active text becomes controlled by the flea. Locked clips become labelled as "!transmit truth", and other instances.
Operator's Message
Who: Melissa
Source: Text on ILB home page
Summary:
The Message has been updated on index.html
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Dana updates her blog
Dana's now in charge of the training events.
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November 2 - Tuesday
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Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: The Flea
Source: contactme.html embedded text
Summary:
A preview of upcoming axon coordinates (450) is embedded in contactme.html, with a transmit date of 11/4.
Sleeping Princess Findings
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November 3 - Wednesday
Dana updates index.html
Links over to the information for the training events.
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Coordinate Preview Listing
Who: The Flea
Source: contactme.html embedded text
Summary:
The axons are now grouped into groups of 10 locations for each of the 45 unnamed clips.
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November 3 - Thursday
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Melissa Memory Blocks
Who: The Flea
Source: Public phone access / sound files
Summary:
See The Axon Plot
Sound files are unlocked rapidly again, within 5 minutes of each other, between 10:00am and 1:45pm PST.
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