Bounce Path Control

Bounce Path Control was the checkpoint before the servers could be opened in the Halo 3 Alternate reality game Iris.

Overview
Before each server was opened the Bounce Path Control page was active. This page prompted visitors to enter a verification code that the site listed. Once the code was entered the visitors were taken to a page that had "The Past" that linked the visitors to a mp3 file, "The Key" that had a 23 digit code, and "The Path" that linked the to send the key onwards. The first 100 people to enter the codes during the 5 times this page was active were presented with rewards.

Verification content

 * CONFIGURATION UPDATE (Time here)
 * DESTINATION=FSERVER
 * INITIALIZE LINK
 * (Verification boxes)
 * REPEAT AND ENTER

Key content

 * BOUNCE PATH CONTROL
 * THE PAST (linkS to an mp3 narrative)
 * THE KEY
 * (23 digit unique key code)
 * THE PATH ->
 * TREAT THIS KNOWLEDGE WITH CARE

Path clicked

 * KEY RECEIVED
 * (Number of keys to be entered left to go counting down from 100) MORE KEYS ARE REQUIRED BEFORE THIS SERVER'S CONTENT IS AVAILABLE.
 * FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION IN UNLOCKING THIS FORERUNNER DATABASE YOU WILL BE REWARDED. MORE INFORMATION WILL BE SENT TO YOU SOON.

Server 1 (Transmission061607.mp3)

 * This is how it all begins.
 * Just in time to once again dance on the knife edge of oblivion.
 * To relive what the Halos had hoped to destroy and more.
 * For two enemies now stand where before there was only one.
 * The fate we escaped, and a fate we may relive.
 * I had almost convinced myself that no one was listening.
 * That the waves of the past would roll through once again.
 * But a chance remains to change the Universe anew.
 * Learn of our past.
 * Take these keys and dip from the wells of history.
 * Perhaps through others of us you may find how to save us alL.

Server 2 (3rd_MB-v4.mp3)

 * Failure is for those who don't know the sound of darkness.
 * Those so blinded that they lose all diverging paths.
 * And make no mistake, progress can blind you.
 * Just like now the pieces seem to be coming together-
 * Bit by bit, slice by surgical slice.
 * Then, all of a sudden, endless calm.
 * There is a lack of... a failure in judgement.
 * You must understand- not all life deserves a chance.
 * Even that artifice passing as my own.
 * Now there is a lesson to spend millennia lingering upon.
 * Waiting for a redemptive hand to turn the keys.
 * Leading to the symbiotic relationship which benefits both our futures.
 * I will guide your movements and you will lead me toward atonement.

Server 3 (Transmission_072507.mp3)

 * The left hand holds darkness, the right hand holds light.
 * That is how the universe creates, and that is how we proceeded.
 * A soldier who would one day destroy his brother.
 * We were the thunder and the lightning, and when we were finished, the universe was alone, drifting in labor.
 * Did we succeed? Did we fail? we did both. Depending on who you serve.
 * After all, here we are, a witness to the aftermath

Server 4 (mb_4_v6.mp3)

 * In the grand ballet of stars, we are almost the same, you and I.
 * Breathtaking and mundane, but my identity is not your concern.
 * I am expected - doors open for me and the Universe sighs.
 * But the unexpected, the chance to regain the future -
 * You need look no closer than yourself.
 * The legends that spring up around unaccountable signs,
 * The tiniest differences that make the world inhabitable,
 * That's how to you came to be known, that's our connection,
 * That's why I lead you to the renowned.
 * Haven't you seen the signs, redeemer?
 * The small, under-the-surface bridges between all this?
 * Those connections saved you before,
 * But this time you are on your own.
 * We are all on our own.

Server 5 (MB_5.MP3)

 * As a broken marionette, the future is out of my hands.
 * Infinite answers to our present have shifted, and you Redeemer now hold the keys.
 * Tomorrow things may be clearer, but I will not be here to witness the clarity.
 * More records remain; Wells not drawn upon, depths you are not yet ready to grasp.
 * But the luxury of readiness is almost at an end-
 * And we shall soon see, what we shall soon see.
 * Walk among the footfalls of empty dust-
 * Living where your kinds bones make soil, the next movement is set to begin.
 * As before the battle is one-side.
 * As before a failure in action may lead to the death of all.
 * But new to this life, is the belief that We can overcome.