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==Latest News==
 
==Latest News==
 
''(below is a quick recent summary - detail can be found at [[Outline]])''
 
''(below is a quick recent summary - detail can be found at [[Outline]])''
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Revision as of 17:20, 26 July 2007

Welcome to the Iris (Halo 3 ARG) Wiki


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Read first: Frequently Asked Questions
- A quick summary overview

Find out the most commonly asked questions, and get a foothold into what this is all about

Outline: The story so far

It all began with AdjutantReflex, likely an A.I., posting cryptic messages in a forum...

Of Interest: The hive mind at work

What are people's interpretations of the discoveries and events taking place? Puzzles, research, reference...

Web Reference: Resources, Websites, Communities

Trying to separate the signal from the noise... where's the best place to get involved?

Characters: Who? What?

Get to know them... they'll become your life

Theories: Why? How?

There are enough of these.

Thanks to Silent_Shadow900 and FauxHammer for supplying the FAQ and initial summary

Latest News

(below is a quick recent summary - detail can be found at Outline)

(July 26)
  • At ~1:59, Server 3 on Halo3.com was updated with the label "Pending".
(July 25)
  • While nothing has happened in Iris to further the 'spiral campaign' portion, numerous Halo 3 downloads have been made available over the course of the campaign - digital swag, as it were. Because of its 'meta' status pertaining to the campaign, please place info about downloads on that page - at least until anything in particular is shown directly connected to the furthering of Iris.
(July 10)
  • The message on the flood containment control (see for audio and transcription) call number has been updated. The new recording completes part 2, and hints for people to go visit halo3.com/5467k - a map of the US with red dots in every state on video game carrying stores. The page title says '3463 5467k', which when punched in a cell spells 'FIND KIOSK'. When viewing the red dots, each location contains a code:
KltfvbljclecwuqlYnmerwvqhrplavyjantz 
xtmespdtsttgyseviBceyntfvvatrwzgwwub 
olwifmvbgcztatsVwxbxexiwgzswnfepVtkn 
njzgdctpwvhKgefqcekqvqyfbetxvhbgznhp 
rlavdecrqihJokstwcxahxxwitchsjrptaau 
nansTmbxwhihyfthAtlxIvsdbQtpaBjrVrss 
oDwc
  • When visiting the locations, people found a new display on Xbox 360 kiosks (youtube video, thanks atomicfire001). In a 'hidden menu' (see flood containment control), they found a quote from Blaise de Vigenère:
    "There is no malicious intent. Only the single minded goal of survival"
    This tells us the code is a vigenere cipher. Using the quote as the key, the quote can be decoded to:
Report 206:
Every sixteen hours another planet is taken. The numbers being lost are astronomical.
Report 223:
Host world raised. Correct concentration to point sixty five.

Fleet losing control falling back. Rendezvous at Nine Bravo Kilo Two Romeo Six.

  • (note the bold text) Seeing numbers encoded in the quote, it decodes to a transmission log page: 206.16.223.65/9BK2R6, which leads to the new Bounce Path Control page where visitors were prompted to enter a verification code (image). The first 100 people to enter this code were presented with the key entry page again, with a new voice message.
    The MP3 narrative says:
Transcription:
Failure is for those who don't know the sound of darkness
Those so blinded that they lose all diverging paths
And make no mistake, progress can blind you
Just like now the pieces seem to be coming together-
Bit by bit, slice by surgical slice
Then, all of a sudden, endless calm
There is a lack of... a failure in judgement
You must understand- not all life deserves a chance
Even that artifice passing as my own
Now there is a lesson to spend millennia lingering upon
Waiting for a redemptive hand to turn the keys
Leading to the symbiotic relationship which benefits both our futures
I will guide your movements and you will lead me toward atonement
  • Once all 100 keys were received, "the server's content" became unlocked, and the transmission log began redirecting to "Server Open" (direct link). The second server ('episode') shown on halo3.com is now unocked and displays the Forerunner entity.


(-- Read more in the outline --)

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