I like my fiction like I like my coffee – covered in bees!

I do love bees.

This is the most fascinating thing I’ve seen online in a very long time.

I’m curious as to who of you might start clicking, and I don’t want to say much, but essentially all signs point to a marketing ploy for Halo 2 set to “go off” tomorrow, early. Gut reaction is that they’re building a plot about artificial intelligence. Most people are saying it is “ingenius”, but after Blair Witch and a number of other “grass roots” setups, I’d say it’s just more detailed a scheme than anyone has attempted before.

– atdt1991, August 23rd, 2004

The word of the day is “enhottenated”

So I’m at an axon last night with SK, who bemusedly tolerates such things because she’s a geek groupie (if you can believe in such holy grails), and another beekeeper is there as well.

After the mighty phonecall (which we answered successfully), he calls his wife. I’m about to ask him if she’s our sort of geek as well, when he says to her, “… yes, bee stuff. … It was on the way home!”

SK smirks, knowingly.

– atdt1991, September 4th, 2004

“Some keys to understanding the graphic: Axons are GPS coordinates with payphones at the end, and at a particular time, they ring, and the “Axon” is made “hot” by repeating a passphrase. A clue is spoken over the phone to the listener (or “Axon Hunter,” if you will), who, if he/she is nice, will say “Repeat” at the end so everyone else can have a gander. Feel free to scan my geekery.” link

Okay, everyone, group hug! (heh)

~ by Skennedy on August 24, 2005.

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15 Responses to “I like my fiction like I like my coffee – covered in bees!”

  1. Yay!

    entelein said this on August 24, 2005 at 3:14 pm

  2. I haven’t the foggiest clue about any of what you just said, but I wanted you to know that the Izzard reference brought a big grin to my face. :)

    jadesfire55 said this on August 24, 2005 at 3:26 pm

    • *grins* It’s very difficult to explain, but I’ll give it a quick shot.

      There was a mystery involving a flash of a website on a movie trailer, a simple beekeeper’s website that appeared to be hacked, a blog by the “creator” of the website (the beekeeper’s niece), and some mysterious coordinates. It turns out to be an Alternate Reality Game, or ARG, which has ties to a game that was to come out in November, that being Halo 2.

      However, the story was incredibly compelling and didn’t have much to do with Halo until the very end, and it brought together hundreds of people across the country and the world to solve puzzles, answer payphones, dress up funny, and gather together for some amazing experiences.

      Our rewards for correctly answering payphones and solving other puzzles were audio clips from what is essentially a radio play. A professionally produced, exciting, tear-stained radio play that is five hours long, altogether, piecing together a puzzle we struggled with for 4 months, every week another chapter.

      It was an amazing experience, and those of us who were a part of it keep in regular touch, meet together occasionally, and play together online. :) In fact, I’m talking to two beekeepers online right now, and I have the forum we use open in another tab as we speak. I don’t use IRC at work, or I’d probably be keeping up with them there, too. ;)

      atdt1991 said this on August 24, 2005 at 3:46 pm

      • Thanks! That pieces together with the bits that I’ve learned from and it all makes a lot more sense now.

        It sounds…engrossing.

        jadesfire55 said this on August 24, 2005 at 4:30 pm

      • Y’know, I think that’s the best capsule description of ILB I’ve ever seen. I may have to steal borrow from it when asked about ILB myself.

        — Steve’s had tons of trouble explaining it in the past to non-Internet people.

        anton_p_nym said this on August 24, 2005 at 7:42 pm

  3. I heart bees, too. pollen-spreading, plant-fertilizing bees.

    My mom and dad have several bee hives that they bought many years ago to help pollinate our fruit trees and berry bushes and veggie gardens with. The bees are so sweet and I’ve never been stung by one, even when I accidentally put my lawn chair right underneath them. They just swarmed around me and were all screaming “get the freaking frack out of our territory, bizznatch.” I ran like a short-distance sprinter straight into our hot tub and stayed under water until I thought my lungs were going to completely explode. When I came back out, all the bees were gone, and life was as it should be.

    fieldsofseaweed said this on August 24, 2005 at 5:08 pm

    • Re: I heart bees, too. pollen-spreading, plant-fertilizing bees.

      Heh :) Sarah Kate’s grandfather was a true beekeeper. She’s thinking of starting it up again.

      atdt1991 said this on August 24, 2005 at 5:12 pm

  4. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
    GROUP HUG!!!!
    whooooooo

    coffeejedi said this on August 24, 2005 at 11:33 pm

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