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==The | '''''Alpha Lupi''''' is the Alternate Reality Game released by [[Bungie]] prior to the public announcement of ''[[Destiny]]''. Over the course of seven days, a forum account called "Alpha Lupi" run by Bungie released several images and web pages to be decoded by the community. ''Alpha Lupi'' is likely named after the [[wikipedia:Alpha Lupi|star of the same name]]. | ||
==The account== | |||
On February 8, 2013 [[Bungie]] created an account called "Alpha Lupi" on their official website. On February 11, 2013 it made a thread titled "Something is falling towards you. Or are you falling towards it?". | On February 8, 2013 [[Bungie]] created an account called "Alpha Lupi" on their official website. On February 11, 2013 it made a thread titled "Something is falling towards you. Or are you falling towards it?". | ||
==Days== | ==Days== | ||
[[File:Alpha Lupi Day Signs.png| | [[File:Alpha Lupi Day Signs.png|thumb|All the Geomantic Figures for each Day.]] | ||
[[File:Destiny ARG Instructions.jpg|thumb|The cryptic instructions for Alpha Lupi.]] | |||
On the page http://alphalupi.bungie.net you are greeted with mysterious page that contained a Geomantic Figure with the instructions "Begin by aligning the day's pattern to the light." | On the page http://alphalupi.bungie.net you are greeted with mysterious page that contained a Geomantic Figure with the instructions "Begin by aligning the day's pattern to the light." | ||
All individual day pages contained a link to a page entitled "Instructions" with the following content: | All individual day pages contained a link to a page entitled "Instructions" with the following content: | ||
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===Day 7 - Monday=== | ===Day 7 - Monday=== | ||
[[File:Alpha Lupi Monday Result.jpg| | [[File:Alpha Lupi Monday Result.jpg|thumb|Final Result of Monday.]] | ||
Monday 11 February, 2013 was the first day of the ARG from Bungie. | Monday 11 February, 2013 was the first day of the ARG from Bungie. | ||
The final result contained the | The final result contained the following text: | ||
:''The best voices | :''The best voices voices–––voices that truly matter–––never allow themselves be heard. This lesson is worth learning again and again.'' | ||
:''Forever.'' | :''Forever.'' | ||
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===Day 6 - Tuesday=== | ===Day 6 - Tuesday=== | ||
[[File:Alpha Lupi Tuesday Result.jpg| | [[File:Alpha Lupi Tuesday Result.jpg|thumb|Final Result of Tuesday.]] | ||
Tuesday 12 February, 2013 was the second day of the ARG from Bungie. | Tuesday 12 February, 2013 was the second day of the ARG from Bungie. | ||
The final result contained the | The final result contained the following text: | ||
:''Life waits inside this world's bones.'' | :''Life waits inside this world's bones.'' | ||
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===Day 5 - Wednesday=== | ===Day 5 - Wednesday=== | ||
[[File:Alpha Lupi Wednesday Result.jpg| | [[File:Alpha Lupi Wednesday Result.jpg|thumb|Final Result of Wednesday.]] | ||
Wednesday 13 February, 2013 was the third day of the ARG from Bungie. | Wednesday 13 February, 2013 was the third day of the ARG from Bungie. | ||
The final result contained the | The final result contained the following text: | ||
:''One face is blistered, the other plunged into a brutal chill. Is this how it's always been?'' | :''One face is blistered, the other plunged into a brutal chill. Is this how it's always been?'' | ||
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===Day 4 - Thursday=== | ===Day 4 - Thursday=== | ||
[[File:Alpha Lupi Thursday Result.jpg| | [[File:Alpha Lupi Thursday Result.jpg|thumb|Final Result of Thursday.]] | ||
Thursday 14 February, 2013 was the fourth day of the ARG from Bungie. | Thursday 14 February, 2013 was the fourth day of the ARG from Bungie. | ||
The final result contained the | The final result contained the following text: | ||
:''Even the largest body lets itself be pushed where it needs to be, seduced into nice, warm loving orbits. Persistence is the key.'' | :''Even the largest body lets itself be pushed where it needs to be, seduced into nice, warm loving orbits. Persistence is the key.'' | ||
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:''You build homes of ocean laid over stone; giant and tiny, surrounding this half-born sun ripped by storms and supersonic wind.'' | :''You build homes of ocean laid over stone; giant and tiny, surrounding this half-born sun ripped by storms and supersonic wind.'' | ||
:''You deliver your last orders to an army that needs nothing | :''You deliver your last orders to an army that needs nothing anymore–––not instruction, courage or even prayers–––and then you hide again.'' | ||
:''In ecstasy they search for you, finding nothing but dense quiet dropping from the stars.'' | :''In ecstasy they search for you, finding nothing but dense quiet dropping from the stars.'' | ||
===Day 3 - Friday=== | ===Day 3 - Friday=== | ||
[[File:Alpha Lupi Friday Result.jpg| | [[File:Alpha Lupi Friday Result.jpg|thumb|Final Result of Friday.]] | ||
Friday 15 February, 2013 was the fifth day of the ARG from Bungie. | Friday 15 February, 2013 was the fifth day of the ARG from Bungie. | ||
The final result contained the | The final result contained the following text: | ||
:''You see history hidden between the barren rocks and within the high acid clouds. You see ruin emerging from where it has always been, ready to claim its birthright.'' | :''You see history hidden between the barren rocks and within the high acid clouds. You see ruin emerging from where it has always been, ready to claim its birthright.'' | ||
:''Sunlight is starved. The fierceness is chilled and thinned, made sweet again. A new ocean emerges, thick and salty and hot, from springs and geysers that drench the dead ground.'' | :''Sunlight is starved. The fierceness is chilled and thinned, made sweet again. A new ocean emerges, thick and salty and hot, from springs and geysers that drench the dead ground.'' | ||
:''You wonder: will this world | :''You wonder: will this world's second birth be its finest? You draw deep inside, seeking direction, truth...'' | ||
:''But all you have are the riddles of your own intentions.'' | :''But all you have are the riddles of your own intentions.'' | ||
===Day 2 - Saturday=== | ===Day 2 - Saturday=== | ||
[[File:Alpha Lupi Saturday Result.jpg| | [[File:Alpha Lupi Saturday Result.jpg|thumb|Final Result of Saturday.]] | ||
Saturday 16 February, 2013 was the sixth day of the ARG from Bungie. | Saturday 16 February, 2013 was the sixth day of the ARG from Bungie. | ||
The final result contained the | The final result contained the following text: | ||
:''You have been pushed to this place, for a reason.'' | :''You have been pushed to this place, for a reason.'' | ||
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===Day 1 - Sunday=== | ===Day 1 - Sunday=== | ||
[[File:Alpha Lupi Sunday Result.jpg| | [[File:Alpha Lupi Sunday Result.jpg|thumb|Final Result of Sunday.]] | ||
Sunday 17 February, 2013 was the last day of the ARG from Bungie. | Sunday 17 February, 2013 was the last day of the ARG from Bungie. | ||
The final result contained the | The final result contained the following text: | ||
:''The blaze sits inside a nest of little worlds, still too distant to share its heat but plainly staring out at you. A face emerges, drawn from plasmas and radiation...'' | :''The blaze sits inside a nest of little worlds, still too distant to share its heat but plainly staring out at you. A face emerges, drawn from plasmas and radiation...'' | ||
:''There must be meanings in its roar.'' | :''There must be meanings in its roar.'' | ||
:''You listen hard and carefully, and sometimes a lucid melody seems to rise out of random noise, pulling your mind into moments where it seems possible that answers are about to be revealed. | :''You listen hard and carefully, and sometimes a lucid melody seems to rise out of random noise, pulling your mind into moments where it seems possible that answers are about to be revealed. Joy builds, and the first hope in ages transforms you.'' | ||
:''It seems important, even critical, to tell every star from here to the black between the galaxies that your are strong again.'' | :''It seems important, even critical, to tell every star from here to the black between the galaxies that your are strong again.'' | ||
==Conclusion== | |||
[[File:Signal_received_full.jpg|thumb|The Final Result of all Images.]] | |||
Combining all results from all days and matching up the circles and lines properly like a jigsaw puzzle which give you the final result. | |||
Combining all results from all days and | |||
==Images== | ==Images== | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:The_city_wallpaper_1920.jpg| Wallpaper released as part of the promotion | File:The_city_wallpaper_1920.jpg| Wallpaper released as part of the promotion | ||
Alpha Lupi.png|The profile picture for Alpha Lupi. | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Music== | ==Music== | ||
http://alphalupi.bungie.net/images/results/eighth.mp3 | *[http://alphalupi.bungie.net/images/results/eighth.mp3 '''''Eighth''''' on Bungie.net'''] | ||
**The music bears a resemblance to the orbit music from ''[[Destiny]]'', named ''The Great Unknown''. | |||
**The track title ''Eighth'' refers to the music being an excerpt from ''[[Music of the Spheres]]'' track eight, ''The Hope.'' It can also be interpreted as an eighth in the context of a musical scale, or one full octave from the starting note. This is also in reference to ''The Hope,'' as each track in ''Music of the Spheres'' is meant to play the Lydian flat-7 scale, with ''The Hope'' returning to the starting note of C, representing an octave. | |||
***This is not the only reference to ''Music of the Spheres'' in Alpha Lupi. Some of the prose includes references to the track titles in their corresponding poems. For example, in Monday's poem, it says "The path is set." This is because Monday represents the Moon, and the piece from ''Music of the Spheres'' that represents the Moon is called ''The Path.'' | |||
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[[Category:Lore]] | |||