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{{quote|''"I've been thinking a lot about bees."''|'''Durga'''}}
''[[I Love Bees]]'' is an [[Alternate Reality Game]] created by 42 Entertainment to promote ''[[Halo 2]]''. The game took place on www.ilovebees.com, and was in-universe an amateur beekeeper's personal website that had been taken over by artificial intelligences from the future. The plot took place in two timelines, one in the present year 2004 and the other [[Meanwhile in the Future|simultaneously in 2552]].
The gist of the plot is that in 2552 an [[MacGuffin|alien artifact]] [[Literal Split Personality|splits up]] the human AI Melissa into three parts. One part stays in 2552, has amnesia and is named Durga. The other two parts, The Operator and The Sleeping Princess, are sent back in time to the website I Love Bees. Also with the latter is a [[Contagious AI|Trojan Horse]] AI sent by the alien enemy faction The Covenant as a spy. The Operator falsely believes The Sleeping Princess is the Trojan Horse, and tries to kill her. Participants in the ARG would communicate with The Operator and The Sleeping Princess to learn details of the plot, forming different factions for either character.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Jan.
* [[Action Mom]]: Gladys and Gilly, both fulfilling the maternal role for Jan.
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* [[Afraid of Needles]]: Yasmine.
* [[Alliterative Name]]: James James and Janissary James.
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* [[Dead Serious]]: Thin Kinkle.
* [[Death Glare]]: Jan does this at Jersey after he makes a pervy comment.
* [[Deconstruction]]: This was the first real example of this in the Halo Universe, taking a more personal approach, and looking at the Spartan programme, and the slow extermination of humanity from the view of average civilians.
* [[Delicious Distraction]]: Kamal interrupts Hiro's tirade by offering him koftas.
* [[Dirty Cop]]: There are few of these.
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* [[Doomsday Device]]: The deep-space artifact.
* [[Double Entendre]]: Jan jokingly suggests that the beverage dispenser should date the fire suppression system because the latter "really puts out".
* [[Dramatic Thunder]]:
** Used to underline Aiden's threat before he reveals he's kidding.
** Used when Herzog and Standish have their chat at the duck pond in which they trade threats.
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* [[I Need a Freaking Drink]]: Kamal frequently needs a beer, even though he hates Earth beer.
* [[In Love With the Gangsters Girl]]: Kamal, in love with Sophia, girlfriend of Aiden. Despite Kamal initially being worried about Aiden attacking him, it turns out Aiden's a really decent guy, though, and most of the tension comes from Sophia simply being in a relationship with someone already.
* [[Internal Affairs]]: A rare positive tertiary example. Rani joins them at the end.
* [[Is That a Threat?]]
{{quote|'''Thin:''' I could teach you some things... but, it's your funeral.
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* [[Public Execution]]: ONI induces permanent comatose as a form of execution, and executions of traitors are broadcasted publicly. Standish uses this as a threat to get Rani to stop investigating him.
* [[Real Women Never Wear Dresses]]: In-universe example: Jan doesn't like it when you compliment her domestic skills.
* [[Repetitive Name]]: James James (or J squared). A rare case of being chosen, as he believes that nobody would ever imagine he chose it for an assumed identity.
* [[Right Place, Right Time, Wrong Reason]]: Durga assembles her crew and saves the world only because Jersey is a voyeur.
* [[Running Joke]]: 'Not me, the other dog who looks just like me', and everyone assuming Rani is a Sunday school teacher.
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: James James.
* [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right]]: The raids on Chawla Base and Crystal Security.
* [[Sherlock Scan]]: Rani 'She looks at the things regular people do like a scientist'. Is a more down to earth example, however, for example noticing an ODST has taken his wedding ring off.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Kamal's line “People think time is a river that flows in one direction, but time is an ocean” references the line "Some say time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction, but I have seen the face of time and I can tell you they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm" from the Prince in [[Prince of Persia]]. Both characters were played by the same actor: [[Yuri Lowenthal]].
* [[The Sixth Ranger]]: Rani Sobeck.
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'''Mr. F:''' Jesus, just show me the thing already. }}
* [[The Ace]]: Yasmine, and Jan. Drives at least two of the plot threads.
** Leaving them [[Blessed with Suck]]. They're the best, which means that ONI wants to snatch them up for the Spartan Two programme.
* [[The Casino]]: Kamal's first job for Aiden is helping the owner of one of these find out how people are counting cards as a group. He plays the illegitimate business man, and seedy thuggish part completely straight.
* [[The Illegal]]: Sophia.
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'''Durga:''' The last time it was triggered, the shockwave flatlined communications throughout the Solar system for more than 7 seconds.
'''Jersey:''' Durga doesn't know, but she thinks it'll probably be bad. }}
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Melissa, when she's manipulated into stopping the Spider..which turns out to be her antivirus program, allowing the Seeker/Pious Flea to rewrite her program into serving his purpose of spying for the Covenant.
* [[What Does She See in Him?]]: Kamal wonders this about Sophia in reference to Aiden.
* [[You Bastard]]: A lot of the story involves the concept of spying on people for entertainment and how it's unjustifiable but people do it anyway. Kamal does it, but feels insulted when Jersey does it to him. Jersey does it, but notes it would be creepy if someone did it to him. The Sleeping Princess spies on him saying this and agrees with the sentiment. As the characters in an alternate reality game are supposed to exist in the same universe as the player, it [[Your Mileage May Vary|can feel like]] the player is just another person in this chain.
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[[Category:Alternate Reality Game]]
[[Category:I Love Bees]]
[[Category:Halo (series)]]
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