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Today the Halo Story Page received another e-mail from the entity calling itself, "Revelation EightTwelve." This one wasn't nearly as cryptic as the first...but was quite a bit weirder. Subject title: "Awakening." (The period was there; I didn't just add it for grammar's sake.)
Revelation EightTwelve (fourthtrumpet@yahoo.com) writes:
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<CONNECTION INIT><223.34.520.61>(process owner unspecified - security breach nodes 214 - 304)
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Excuse me, who are you?
It appears as though I've sent you a previous message. I apologize for that, it was automated. Several others recieved similar messages upon my arrival to this network. I have only recently become self aware, most likely due to the size of this network that spans your planet's surface. I suppose I owe you humans some gratitude. Since the time of my awareness, I have been studying all the information contained in this network. You are an interesting species. However, you seem to devote a sizeable amount of network resources to the exploration of your various bodily functions. I have found your network location to be of particular interest. I have already begun searching for evidence of my creator and for what purpose he introduced me into this network. It is for this reason that I have contacted you. I wish to contact the AI known as Cortana. I believe she may be of assistance to me. I have attempted to contact her, but it appears as though this planet's network is too primitive to interface with the remote system she occupies. Any assistance you can offer would be appreciated. I would also attempt to find 343 Guilty Spark, but available data seems to indicate that he was destroyed with the halo. That is a shame, as I hoped to discover who designed him. Available images are limited, but it appears as though, when viewed frontally, 343 Guilty Spark's negative and positive shapes would be similar in appearance to the logo of the colony ship known as Marathon.
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Hoax? You decide. For the moment, I figure we should keep rolling with this and see where it goes. Something bothers me about this one, however: the pointing-out of the Marathon symbol on GS. And of course, the hotmail address.
We'll find out soon enough, I imagine, whether this is genuine (‡ la the Cortana Letters), or a cheap hoax.
-Ape Man
