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Subject: Halo ARG causes 300+ calls to unwitting college
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Halo ARG causes 300+ calls to unwitting college
It's all fun and games until someone gets 300 cell phone calls in a
matter of days. That's what your mom might say about the story of
Michael VanderZand, an innocent bystander who's cell phone got
accidentally drawn into an alternate reality game promoting Halo 3.
It all started when ARG followers came across what looked like a cell
phone number template in the Xbox Live motto for a mysterious Bungie.net
user called Adjutant Reflex. The number led followers to VanderZand's
cell phone which, coincidentally, had a Red vs. Blue audio clip as his
voice mail message. The message set off alarm bells for callers, and the
number was soon being passed around message boards and ARG sites all
over the 'net.
In actuality, VanderZand is just a Halo fan and a business and marketing
student from Michigan who has nothing to do with the game (Or is that
just what he wants us to think? No. It's true). In an interview with
Hushed Casket, VanderZand seemed mostly bemused, especially with some of
the more nervous callers. "Most of you wouldn't even respond when you
got a live person on the phone. ... How do you expect to get anywhere if
you don't even have the balls to respond?" he asked. We bet these same
people don't even have the guts to ask Jenny for a good time when they
call 867-5309.
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