Episode 2

Episode 02 is the second of five episodes in the Iris campaign. It can be found at http://206.16.223.61/Ce1EOnJ/flash/web/index.html. Once the page is loaded, there is a floating and rotating object, with several Forerunner glyphs on it. Three of them link to files to download, and one links to a video that can be played. One of the files, Log2_Transcript.txt, contains the transcript of the video. If you pause the video at the right time, further lines are revealed.

We may have been fools to think that all intelligence follows the rules we've set The Flood is no idiot parasite {//} (NO SIMPLE INFECTION TO BE CURED AND CAUTERIZED) It has a center, a Mind {//} (AND THAT DISCOVERY GAVE US A WAY TO FIGHT IT) {//} (BUT WHEN THE MIND REALIZED WE HAD ITS MEASURE) it spoke to us {//} (MOCKINGLY, DISMISSIVELY) It has done this before {//} (ELSEWHERE) Another file, Infestation.jpg, has three pictures of what seem to be the Earth and the Moon, as well as three smaller pictures of Mars. Another picture, StarImage2.jpg, is a picture of the stars with AdjutantReflex's avatar.