I Love Bees: Difference between revisions

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''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]].

''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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** 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.

* [[Entry Point]]: ARG fans who had participated in 42 Entertainment's previous ARG ''The Beast'' were sent jars of honey containing letters that spelled out "I Love Bees". The ARG was marketed to ''Halo'' fans when the URL briefly appeared in a ''Halo 2'' theatrical ad that played before ''[[I Robot (~~Film~~)|I Robot]]''.

* [[Entry Point]]: ARG fans who had participated in 42 Entertainment's previous ARG ''The Beast'' were sent jars of honey containing letters that spelled out "I Love Bees". The ARG was marketed to ''Halo'' fans when the URL briefly appeared in a ''Halo 2'' theatrical ad that played before ''[[I, Robot (film)|I Robot]]''.

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Played with in regard to Aiden and his ponytail.

* [[Everything's Worse ~~With~~ Bees]]: The Operator hates bees and has horrific hallucinations of being covered with them. They stem from her last human memory: a doctor approaching her with a black-striped syringe full of yellow liquid and promising that it would be "just a little sting".

* [[Everything's Worse with Bees]]: The Operator hates bees and has horrific hallucinations of being covered with them. They stem from her last human memory: a doctor approaching her with a black-striped syringe full of yellow liquid and promising that it would be "just a little sting".

* [[Expy]]: Standish is very similar to Colonel Ackerson.

* [[Fantastic Slurs]]: “Refue”, for refugees. Plural is “refuse”.

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* [[Foreshadowing]]: Repeatedly, but most obvious with the corrupt cop attempting to renegotiate with Aiden, and Jan's 'there's always a bigger dog' speech.

* [[Friendly Target]]: Jan discusses this as a reason not to get romantically involved with Jersey.

* [[Fun ~~With~~ Acronyms]]: System Peril Distributive Reflex or SPDR is pronounced "spider".

* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: System Peril Distributive Reflex or SPDR is pronounced "spider".

* [[Future Food Is Artificial]]: ''I Love Bees'' features a scene at a restaurant, where a character gawks at how the menu has ''real'' tuna, instead of what is implied to be this. Further implications of human society relying on this includes a mention of how Customs Agents were bribed with four ''goats''.

* [[Future Slang]]: "Ghosting", "refuse", "flash" etc.

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* [[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]]

* [[Is That a Threat?]]

{{quote| '''Thin:''' I could teach you some things... but, it's your funeral.<br />

'''Jan:''' Not yet.<br />

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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.

** 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.