easter-eggs

[slender lodge]

galileo or trick 🥴

[pure loom]

There are chocolate liquor ice candies called "bullets"

[tulip matrix]

Interesting pattern of stars on that logo

[fallen jasper]

So I was playing a game for 7 hours straight what's up

[tulip matrix]

New image

#easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

Yes!

14 stars!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidal_Golosinas

Founded in 1963 👌

[slender lodge]

1 year off

[pure loom]

embark logo hidden in the Vidal history - Easter egg inception strikes again

[steady bough]

damn

3 pictures and still cant figure it out

[mortal ivy]

Good morning, time to find everything that's already been found and repost it like a dummy! 😄

[wintry lantern]

[mortal ivy]

oh it changed! 😮

[slender lodge]

does this mean anything?

its like a cool design

probs happened coincidentally

[mortal ivy]

the logo looks like that

The floor looks weird behind the footer

Might just be an effect of the footer though

[mortal ivy]

to me it looks like a small f, e, i capital S small r and then a letter that I'm not sure of (y / g / z) maybe

[timid solstice]

Morning! That looks good, we didn’t see the second as an e, could be…

[slender lodge]

i think i cracked it (it was Galileo)

[slender lodge]

Thank you dusty!!

[tranquil ivy]

Thanks Dusty!

[sharp flame]

hey all!

[tranquil ivy]

Hi Fish!!

[mortal ivy]

Good morning

I forgot to post the stills of my gif, will do that later when I have the chance

[sharp flame]

the second-last letter doesn't dip below the line

that's a scratch I think

[mortal ivy]

Good catch, didn’t really think of that. It still largely resembles a cursive lowercase r

[sharp flame]

leisnig?

that's a town

[mortal ivy]

I made the dot over the second last letter a different color because I wasn’t sure wheter it is the background or not

[sharp flame]

the writing is a distinct grey

there's definitely one/two above that dot

[mortal ivy]

No color is ever distinct to me, so I can't always make stuff like that out
(I'm colorblind 😅)

[sharp flame]

yeah my eyes are hurting to be fair

[neon stream]

I tried enhancing the signature a bit, going against my advice... 😅

[neon stream]

I think I might be losing my sanity 😂

It looked similar from memory, but yeah... not when actually looking at it 😅

[lime snow]

It does look slightly similar

[wintry lantern]

another A

[shell spear]

w

[mortal ivy]

Damn, someone loves their asymmetrical, smudgy As

[shell spear]

💀

fr

[wintry lantern]

A

[shell spear]

a b c d

https://tenor.com/view/letter-i-gif-9063753

https://tenor.com/view/k-discord-discord-k-orange-k-spinning-k-k0r8z-gif-22812675

https://tenor.com/view/letter-z-gif-9063770

https://tenor.com/view/kek-kekwait-gif-24161687

[wintry lantern]

[sharp flame]

I feel like we're supposed to be doing some solving right now

but I'm kinda stuck

[wintry lantern]

we got a lot of numbers
190b 01 1b151a01
1962
1315
26
11-XXV
33
44 43
32 34

[zenith crown]

XXV is a music album by robbie williams

[wintry lantern]

ye

[zenith crown]

also 25

[wintry lantern]

and it stands for 25

[zenith crown]

Ha! said it first

muahahahaha

[wintry lantern]

[zenith crown]

nuuuuu

[wintry lantern]

[zenith crown]

[sharp flame]

weren't there numbers appearing in that first Tier?

what were those used for?

[zenith crown]

those were used to figure out some god person thing

maybe

which lead to a meteor

which was the password

[sharp flame]

I meant way back in Tier 1

[zenith crown]

u mean level 1?

[sharp flame]

ah shoot yeah

getting the levels mixed up

Lvl 1 Tier 1 Part A

[zenith crown]

[sharp flame]

we are now on
Lvl 2 Tier 1 Part B

[zenith crown]

yeah

[sharp flame]

currently hardstuck on B, and we still have C, D, E and F

of Tier 1

out of 3 or more

[zenith crown]

lmaooo trueee

[sharp flame]

out of level 2

[zenith crown]

out of who knows how many levels

[sharp flame]

which is most likely not the final level, or the second final level

[zenith crown]

probs 3

[wintry lantern]

[sharp flame]

they did say there would still be easter eggs after the game releases

[zenith crown]

true

[sharp flame]

so Level 3 might be that

I think Level 2 will last us up to release

if we look at its length

unless we were supposed to have blitzed A-F by now already 😭

[zenith crown]

i think they overestimated how smart we are

[sharp flame]

maybe.. or maybe we can do this

[zenith crown]

https://tenor.com/view/vergil-motivated-dmc-help-me-moment-gif-20814122

[sharp flame]

has someone figured out what this equates to?

[wintry lantern]

11-25

[sharp flame]

huh, it looks to me like the '11' is joined at the bottom

but that might just be the janky scratchings

[zenith crown]

John 11:25
New International Version
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die;

from the bible

[agile goblet]

Toast

[zenith crown]

apparently the bible is important for some reason

[wintry lantern]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xu71i89xvs

11 25 1962?

[zenith crown]

11-XXV is Nov 25 11

the year 11

where did u get 1962 from??

[wintry lantern]

first photo

[agile goblet]

Primer marks

On bullets

[zenith crown]

well the only thing i can help with is the bible thing

[sharp flame]

if it's not an 11, this is as close as I could get

[wintry lantern]

[zenith crown]

if it is a U, it goes to a road in the usa

[sharp flame]

I want to think it's a U, because of how closely it resembles one

but latin doesn't use U

however, it could be a mix of lettering

U-XXV

= U-25

as in:

[zenith crown]

damn

cant say what i wanted to

[sharp flame]

second pass, almost definitely relative to the submarine

They used numerals as identifiers

There's not much stated about this specific submarine though

[agile goblet]

U 125 is also a sub

[tulip matrix]

Submarine in a still from Kommisar X film So Darling So Deadly

aka Kommissar X - In den Klauen des goldenen Drachen

[zenith crown]

Bro that guy having the time of his life

[pure loom]

What happens at 13:15 in that movie?

Also, if Dusty hinted about the clue being musical, maybe we should look at the music or dancing scenes in that movie?

[tulip matrix]

https://youtu.be/IfXr6lwJfuY?t=13m15s

There is a tune that begins shortly after

Personally I'm still not convinced of the 1315 clue tho

Mladen Gutesha is the composer

[slender lodge]

the text on the hat?

[fickle forge]

So uh, how many got solved so far boys and girls?

[neon stream]

Depending on how you count them, I guess. But I'd say 2

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLzGtj2w2elVkqEdPV6NgqRiszNAxnwIANXHK-Pa1Bk/edit

[neon stream]

Here are more details

[granite walrus]

So what do you think is going to be revealed at the end of this easter egg?

[fallen jasper]

Rob personally unvealing the Nama Tama Plushie

[slender lodge]

Dunno, but I think it's gonna be a never-ending EE hunt

When you remember that there will also be in-game EE's

I wonder if there's something we'll find out at the end of T3

[granite walrus]

Yeah in game EE with certain cosmetics, or a weapon like phantom bow would be cool. I feel like you guys are doing all this complicated EE hunt, and there doesn't seem to be a reward yet.

[mortal ivy]

I think these OSPUZE images aren’t real clues. Embark is just trying to teach us digits and the alphabet 🤷

[slender lodge]

But it's all we have right now..

Do you think the password doesn't lie within these clues?

[tranquil ivy]

Mr Rob

[mortal ivy]

🛫 the joke
🦝 Swa*

[slender lodge]

I'll take the raccoon tho haha

[mortal ivy]

Of course there are clues in there. They are just hard to crack as we haven’t found the common denominator yet

[slender lodge]

yeyeye

[steady bough]

what if it went right over our head again

[slender lodge]

hahaha theres probs a lot of clues that went over our head

or maybe we said it, explored it and got really close but then ignored it

I kinda wanna reinforce my theory on October 25

Just like how 9/29 (from OSPUZE flipped) was actually the playtest date

I think that the 10/25 logo might mean that something happens on the 25th of this month

[steady bough]

new picture xD

[slender lodge]

https://tenor.com/bhV7w.gif

[steady bough]

LUL

i mean a lot of things did point to the byzantine empire

[slender lodge]

The handsome bald man

Moneyrain

from the side its a '10'

from the front its a ...oh its a 52

well flip that and its 25

im a lil

[mortal ivy]

oh wow, i've not seen the 52 before now

[steady bough]

looks like intestines

[slender lodge]

Well, only way to tell

[mortal ivy]

I think the safest bet to solve all of this is to solve what the signature says

[steady bough]

signature?

[mortal ivy]

1. It's probably a name, either for a person or a place.
2. It's probably related to music
3. All the numbers can probably be related to it in some way or another

[mortal ivy]

Down in the right corner, just above the footer, there is a signature

[steady bough]

is there a better picture of it?

no offense

[mortal ivy]

I did a gif the other day, but im not sure if i have the letters correct

[wintry lantern]

foisiy

[mortal ivy]

i can try to manipulate the image a bit, but didn't get a good result yesterday when I tried

Nope, the plain unedited version results in a lot of floor patterns and the traced over just shows a bunch of random signatures, non that match

An attempt to make the letters more prominent

[slender lodge]

well at least we know there's an F, I, S, Y

second letter could be o/a
5th/6th r/ri/

[mortal ivy]

the second letter is an e

[steady bough]

last 3 look like Sry

[slender lodge]

could be that too

[mortal ivy]

f e i S r y

[slender lodge]

but its merged with the crack

so idk if its an e/a or o

[steady bough]

first one has a dot, could be jle'sry

[pure loom]

Or J Ce’Sry or something like that

[steady bough]

unles the ' is a . for an i

[mortal ivy]

the last letter is hard, as no cursive letter should look like that, but it's common in handwriting to be a bit sloppy with g, y etc

[slender lodge]

i think g and y come the closest

unfinished cursive

oh you said its g or y

i gotta get my brain checked

[wintry lantern]

2nd could be r right?

[slender lodge]

what do you think of the second last letter(s)

[wintry lantern]

i dont think its e

[slender lodge]

could you trace it out how you're visualizing it

[wintry lantern]

aight just a sec

[mortal ivy]

It really looks like f e i S r (and then something)

reference, this is pretty standard for cursive

[slender lodge]

ye

[mortal ivy]

Arguably, it could start with a captial J, which would make more sense, but it looks more like an F

[slender lodge]

hmmmm i see

idk i cant see 2nd being a u but

true

i only think it's an F cuz thats how i write my F's

but if its a name wouldn't it be capital first letter

[mortal ivy]

Yes, but the signature looks very standard

[steady bough]

look for western signatures?

i tried all the hollywood western ones and nothing was similar

[mortal ivy]

Posibility: The signature is a scrambled anagram. The only clearly capital letter is S, so maybe that is the first letter of the name.

[steady bough]

of last name

or

[slender lodge]

[wintry lantern]

idk why the game and the EE give me ready player one movie vibes

[slender lodge]

lol like the easter eggs in it?

[wintry lantern]

yes

[slender lodge]

put the pedal to the medal or smth lol

[wintry lantern]

xd

[steady bough]

First letter has to be a J

[wintry lantern]

yes

celebrity

[slender lodge]

Gianfranco Parolini's signature?

cant find name without signature cant find signature without name lol

[wintry lantern]

https://artistssignatures.com/artistsbyname.php?page=1&letter=f

[slender lodge]

😮

signature database thats so cool

[wintry lantern]

u have to signup to see the signatures

[slender lodge]

time to make accounts

[wintry lantern]

[slender lodge]

thats a good idea haha

i usually just use my main even tho i have more than 4 spare

well all the best for the hunt ima head to bed 👋

awwwww

saved instantly

https://tenor.com/view/sleep-time-gif-25989080

[wintry lantern]

gn!

is there smth behind the signature

[mortal ivy]

Regarding the email stuff @prisma stump and @slender lodge : You can just have one gmail account and add +nameofsite after your mail, but before the @. Like this
[e-mail] or [e-mail].
([e-mail] being the real email and the others is what you sign up with)

This way, it’s easy to see what is spamming you and just filter away all emails incoming to that +variation

😊❤️

[zenith crown]

sheeesh

[peak quiver]

Also a great way to find when a company is selling your email. You'll get spam on that +variation

[fallen jasper]

How goes the easter egg hunt

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/community-chaos-chaotic-fire-gif-17636558

[fallen jasper]

Sounds about right

[pure loom]

Just need to add more smoke and some mirrors to the room

Rob is the pizza guy, bringing fresh clues

[tulip matrix]

Box full of spaghetti

[mortal ivy]

Deleted, as i just remembered I searched for 11 nov, instead of 25 nov.... 😅

This might be promising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étude_Op._25,_No._11_(Chopin)

Insane piece https://youtu.be/4JGzS9pteBs?t=16

[pure loom]

Galileo mentioned in the wiki for Dante’s Divine Comedy, which was begun in 1308 and finished in 1320, so encompasses 1315.

[slender lodge]

:0 that's cool! I'm gonna do that 😼

[floral plover]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/779009833398435840/1028855712039829534/facekicking_time.gif

[dense minnow]

Jan 15th release date confirmed lol

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-lol-rofl-laughing-ketawa-gif-10164703

[shell spear]

https://tenor.com/view/kekw-kek-bttv-twitch-emote-gif-15123134

[tulip matrix]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perdita_(moon)?wprov=sfla1

Satellite of Uranus categorized as U XXV

[solar glade]

did a little observation of the image on PS, couldn't lift anything new up

top of the week for you, hunters

[shell spear]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-kiss-gif-26475633

im delaying my video of tier 1b until we get the answer because it just doesn't make sense **

[mortal ivy]

Rob really went all out for this tier haha 😂 Three actual images and we haven’t been able to either cement or reject any guesses made from the first image yet 😅

[tender leaf]

how is the hunt going?

[fallen jasper]

Painfully

[unkempt crypt]

its the life we chose

[mortal ivy]

As well as you might expect from an easter egg hunt in October 😅😂

[neon stream]

The clues and the answer for this tier are in opposite corners on Rob's board 😂

This is where we'll end up after completing this tier. Not to be confused with the Arkham Asylum 😛

[mortal ivy]

We just need to figure out how it all connects to Galileo and Devon 😎

Nice one! 🎉

[fallen jasper]

Not again

[tender leaf]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/982939485660659734/1034131895874764820/unknown.png

it's me or this shell casing looks different?

[pure loom]

Yes, they do. Also, we discovered a Spanish candy maker that makes bullet candy, the logo for which looks very much like the gold coins seen in THE FINALS Gamescom teaser.

We should probably investigate that path more

[mortal ivy]

Can the candy be traced to Galileo or Greek gods?

[pure loom]

The bullets are placed in the new image in a way that makes them look like ships or submarines scattered through an archipelago. Perhaps something else to look at.

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/not-yet-mr-miyagi-pat-morita-the-karate-kid-ii-not-so-far-gif-24816259

[solar glade]

hmmm a date from all the numbers could point to a historic naval battle or mission

[timid solstice]

Is it me of does this track slightly sound like the music notes https://youtu.be/oE4MW2HNluw?t=161

Its by the composer Ennio Morricone

and the sound of the Mule noises is like the weird bass notes

[tender leaf]

Im italian so for any stuff that need translated ask me for that

[tulip matrix]

You know what happened in 1962 that involved submarines?

Cuban Missile Crisis

Which coincidentally happened in October

[pure loom]

I doesn’t really sound like it to me. The melody is like a rolling scale in this, but it doesn’t sound like that in the piece we have. I’m guessing if the Easter egg were to include a piece of music from westerns that it wouldn’t be from Morricone, it seems a bit too obvious - he is the most well-known composer for westerns.

[pure loom]

Oh, interesting. I was reading about the Bay of Pigs invasion the other day when I was looking for 1962 events, but didn’t link anything for that.

[fallen jasper]

Here's the list of ships that were involved in the Blockade

Witek, Sellers, McCaffery, Summers, Leary, Pierce, Steinaker, Dewey, MacDonough, Greene, Gearing, Lawe, and Essex

[tulip matrix]

New playtest Nov. 1st?

[fallen jasper]

USS Essex was involved in the Bay of Pigs and the missile crisis.

[tulip matrix]

I guess technically it wasn't over until Nov. 20th

[pure loom]

3-week-long playtest confirmed

[neon stream]

A playtest on the week of Thanksgiving would be cool, so I have time to play 😅

[tulip matrix]

[pure loom]

Has that name come up previously?

[fallen jasper]

No

[tender leaf]

idk if matters or not, but the "central mark line" are not aligned to the center, but are more on the left side

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/982939485660659734/1034162927189643284/unknown.png?width=1170&height=671
here, i was playing a bit with the exposure in the meanwhile

[mortal ivy]

What do you mean? How can the central marker be off-center?

nvm, i see it now

Great find Ndria! Don't think anyone has noticed it previously

Not sure what it means, or how it can help, but good find nonetheless!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_third

[fallen jasper]

Non threatening musical notation

🙏

[mortal ivy]

V V
| |
O O

•       *
  

\..__/

[slender lodge]

When music does the UwU

[steady bough]

VuV

[proud minnow]

._.

[shell spear]

rob!!!!

[solar glade]

Rob.! ._.

[shell spear]

@proud minnow check this out ;))

[proud minnow]

haha

[shell spear]

glad you like it :))

[proud minnow]

brilliant.!

[shell spear]

im cooking up some more dw 👀

[proud minnow]

GREAT.!

[slender lodge]

Its about wooper?

Or about OSPUZE

[shell spear]

we gotta collab soon 👀

[slender lodge]

Sznoux

[shell spear]

https://tenor.com/view/kek-cat-kek-cat-laugh-laughing-gif-25202548

[slender lodge]

Hahaha alrightt

I'll wait.. impatiently

[tulip matrix]

Even if we never solve this completely, at least I can say I learned a thing or two along the way.
Today I learned that Shakespeare's play, The Alchemist, was the first publication to use the word dildo.

[slender lodge]

Bahahhahahahah

what's the meaning of dildo there

[tender leaf]

Ahahahahha amazing

[tulip matrix]

It meant the same thing back then

[slender lodge]

Bahhaha

Welll

[pure loom]

Have you tried it?

As a password…

[tulip matrix]

nope

be my guest

[pure loom]

I put it in. It said “please try again”

[slender lodge]

Ripp

It woulda been so funny

Imagine the padlet

Password:

[digital blade]

🐴

[slender lodge]

🐦

[neon stream]

What am I reading? 😂

[slender lodge]

The answer to life

[proven niche]

lol

[tulip matrix]

[slender lodge]

HAHHAHA

lets gooo

time for tier 1c

[neon stream]

Rob: "...And this is why we had to stop making the Easter Eggs"

[tulip matrix]

[neon stream]

D+I+L+D+O = 4+9+12+4+15 = 44 🤔

It's a clue, confirmed 😂

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/spit-take-laughing-lmao-gif-9271317

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/piglet-you-good-you-good-bro-gif-20327309

[fallen jasper]

Rob Checking The Chat Later Today:

https://tenor.com/view/james-franco-wait-what-wut-wtf-nani-gif-25479769

[mortal ivy]

I see that you have made some rock solid progress!

[tulip matrix]

From this angle it kinda looks like a couple of UFO hieroglyphics 🛸

[tawdry jungle]

#official-art 😉

[zenith crown]

dont have permissions to view ;-;

[tawdry jungle]

that's my bad! it should be good now

[zenith crown]

is anything posted in there rn?

[tawdry jungle]

can you not see images?

[zenith crown]

nope

[fallen jasper]

You fixed it now but everyone can talk in it.

[tawdry jungle]

should be good now

[fallen jasper]

Nvm

Yeah it's good

[zenith crown]

i still cant see the images in it

[tawdry jungle]

maybe reload discord?

or reopen your browser/app

[zenith crown]

still nothing

oh welllll

its fineeeee

[fallen jasper]

That's odd

[tawdry jungle]

anyone else have the same issue?

[fallen jasper]

Maybe for some reason it's taking the permissions from the CC role instead of the contestant or rising star role?

[tawdry jungle]

the everyone role overwrites that though?

[fallen jasper]

It should

@unkempt crypt can you see #official-art

[unkempt crypt]

Oh hi

Yes I can

[zenith crown]

its ok guys, im not worthy of viewing such images

[fallen jasper]

Okay so the Finalists can see it, and one of the Contestants saw it.

[tawdry jungle]

seems like it's limited to Dash, maybe if you clear your cache?

[zenith crown]

i restared my pc and i can see now

I have become worthy

[tawdry jungle]

great!

[fallen jasper]

Yee

[timid solstice]

@tawdry jungle Official art channel is missing the Weapons image

[reef trench]

the images seem to be the same

[pure loom]

I had a similar issue on my phone where it said there were no pinned posts or images in this channel.

Restarting Discord resolved it.

[cold forum]

Discord likes to be a little tricksy sometimes...just a little jokester

[tender leaf]

Btw, we need special permission to load image on this channel?

[cold forum]

You need to chat for the server level roles!

[tender leaf]

Oh, now i understand

[cold forum]

The image permissions are tied to server level, so you'll just have to talk and send some more messages, yup 🙂

[tender leaf]

Thx! 🙂

[mortal ivy]

finally a place to have notifications turned on, so i dont miss out on image drops ahha

Rob dropping new hints <t:1666715332:R>

[neon stream]

Hmmm could that be meant as a hint? 🤔

[cold forum]

It was not 😆

a hint that we sometimes forgor maybe

hint: your CMs are human and don't remember everything all of the time

(not an actual hint)

[neon stream]

"not an actual hint" that's what someone giving a hint would say /j

[neon stream]

Lets say that you WERE to give an actual hint... what would it be...? 😇

[cold forum]

I don't know anything about this level, sorry 😦

I genuinely do not have any hints for you!

[neon stream]

... ._.

[neon stream]

@cold forum I don't know if you can answer this, but: Do you know if we should be able to solve the Easter Eggs with just the first image that we get, or we'll actually need the other images as well to find the solution?

[mortal ivy]

rip, I was wrong 😢

[neon stream]

@proud minnow hear our prayers... ._.

[cold forum]

I actually don't know!

[neon stream]

Join us in our prayers then 😛

[mortal ivy]

Wooper is NA and a Community mod, not working from Embark office in Stockholm haha. They would need to install spy cameras behind rob's desk

[main zodiac]

12-20-22

[cold forum]

My extendo-eyes

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/futurama-bender-eyes-gif-25647365

[steady bough]

i heard Wooper knows the answer but likes to see us suffer

[tender leaf]

eheheh boi

https://tenor.com/view/evil-laugh-gif-22378372

[proud minnow]

Hi.!
Yes you CAN solve every EE (and level) with the first image, but, it’s hard… but the answer is there.! For every new image (or dusty text, hehe) we give you it becomes easier, and easier, and easier to solve each level… BTW you were actually really close already with the first image, I first thought TIER 1B was way too easy since you kind of mentioned the actual password (or is it a passcode @mortal ivy .?!) buuut then for some reason it went south… ._.

[steady bough]

"easier" he says

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[mortal ivy]

I have accepted your use of "password" for digit-only phrases @proud minnow. (But yes, it was a passcode 🥲)

Follow up question: Can you solve any level with any given image? Or would OSPUZE_Candy not be able to solve the level without OSPUZE_Weapons? 🤔

[solar glade]

inch RESTing

[proud minnow]

Short answer is "No, the images released during one level/tier are used to solve that level/tier". However that said, there might be (and often are) clues and hints that potentially can (or will) be very useful (or obvious when you see the full picture in the end (or is it really the end, or perhaps just a new beginning))...

[mortal ivy]

Oh of course not, I see now what I wrote haha. I mean can you solve any level with any of the pictures FOR THE SPECIFIC level.

Sorry 😅

[proud minnow]

Yes, you can... ._.

[mortal ivy]

Thank you, Saint Rob 🙏

[tranquil ivy]

._.

[steady bough]

again "easier"

[slender lodge]

Thank you for the answers Rob ;)

[neon stream]

Thanks for answering our prayers SR! ... ._.

[slender lodge]

We should try and speedrun one sub tier 😂 I wonder what we can get as the shortest time haha

[cedar owl]

Compose yourselves, my friends! We fixed the whole passcode/password snafu for this tier, right Rob? Though our methods may leave people feeling a little "angebatur"...

Thanks for answering about these clues so our beloved deteggtives don't spend another week in the circles of hell!

[proud minnow]

YesthatisabsolutelycorrectDusty.!Wedonotwanttoconfuseourdeareastereggfriends.!!

[steady bough]

no spaces in "passwords"

[slender lodge]

Space

Maybe referring to actual space

Galileo

[neon stream]

I'm in class right now so I can't try passwords, but I think the answer is in Dante's 9 Circles of Hell, and that the answer doesn't contain spaces

[slender lodge]

Jupiter moons

[steady bough]

also angebatur is latin xD

[slender lodge]

[neon stream]

Someone try Inferno and other things related to that

[tulip matrix]

no beans

[mortal ivy]

@pure loom it seems you were something on the tracks

[slender lodge]

"with every image (or dusty text)'

[slender lodge]

So this one is Def a clue

[neon stream]

Yeah,I'm guessing the answer is in latin and relates to Dante's work

[slender lodge]

Why his work

[mortal ivy]

You can have spaces in passwords

[slender lodge]

Ooh

[neon stream]

Try things so when I get home it's solved 😂

[mortal ivy]

It's probably something with Canto XXV

[steady bough]

i did find this, dont know if it has anything to do with anything but the Inferno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrapasso_(Westworld)

[mortal ivy]

https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/inferno/inferno-25/
Check [32] [34] [43] [44]

34 speaks about griffins

[steady bough]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c977QdbTImU&t=25s

[mortal ivy]

There's a symphony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Symphony

[pure loom]

I'm not sure if I'm more or less confused now haha! Did some people think we could put spaces in passwords?

[mortal ivy]

I think it's about my question whether a four digit passcode can be called a passWORD or not 😆
But Dusty ended the message with "circles of hell", which you pointed out about the uzi

[pure loom]

Oh, I just assumed the password meant letters or numbers

I think we go onto Dante's circles of hell through a Padua Italy clue - ah, maybe part of the university

lemme see again

Is it possible to zoom out in the padlet?

[neon stream]

I just said it looked similar to something that Duh posted, but we didn't find any actual connection

[timid solstice]

Evening everyone

[neon stream]

It's on the Padlet, it was something aboht death if I remember correctly

[pure loom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical_Theatre_of_Padua

[neon stream]

Yeah! That!

[mortal ivy]

I just want to point out that the egg + milk* is a clue to Dante

[timid solstice]

They said dont go down that path haha

[mortal ivy]

https://www.lacucinaitaliana.com/trends/events/dante-recipe-from-the-14th-century?refresh_ce=

I was just on the wrong country here: #easter-eggs message Everyone was talking about argentina and ospuze

[neon stream]

Did you guys try "divinacommedia" as a password?

[mortal ivy]

https://www1.kramerav.com/product//fc-404net Kramer Fc-404 "4x4 Dante Interface"

[steady bough]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[timid solstice]

Dante is audio over ethernet

[mortal ivy]

Made by Kramer

[timid solstice]

i think that must be coincidence that Site being called Kramer AV

[pure loom]

Yes, the connection was: Frank Kramer films in 1962 all starred Brad Harris who was born in St Anthony, Idaho -> St Anthony was from Padua, Italy, where Galileo lectured at the university and that's where that Anatomical Theatre is - it was inaugurated in the same year as the Pisa Cathedral.

https://tenor.com/view/irma-hurricane-fail-water-gif-9733935

^ me trying to organize clues in my head

[mortal ivy]

1315 - Dante moves to Verona as a guest of Cangrande della Scala. Works on Purgatorio and Paradiso, and composes the Questio de acque et terra.

[neon stream]

But how does it connect with Dante's 9 Circles? I only said it looked like it, but was there any real connection? Or was just yhat the connection?

[tender leaf]

Lol I talked about Dante interface with a guy (that was the manager of an audio service) not so long ago

[timid solstice]

Dusty said dont go down the the circles of hell though...

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, because its Dante related, not the circles

[steady bough]

i dont see it

[pure loom]

Yeah, I agree. Maybe Dante is the wrong path. We should probably focus on composers or compositions, as per Dusty

[timid solstice]

And also that the passcode could be more than one word without spaces

the answer is probably on the Padlet ><

[pure loom]

I've been thinking about the bullets in the images - in the last one they definitely look like ships in a sea with islands. We also have the link to the spanish candy - maybe them looking like boats also points us to Spain with the Spanish Armada? Perhaps it's a Spanish composer?

[steady bough]

https://tenor.com/view/spanish-monty-python-expects-unexpected-sass-gif-5284798

[wintry lantern]

1962 - kommissar x - spaghetti western - fkramer

[pure loom]

Some spaghetti westerns were made in Spain

[wintry lantern]

yes

[steady bough]

there wer also some Latin Westerns

or Westerns that contained Latin phrases idk

[wintry lantern]

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) spaghetti western movie
it has a scene in spain

[pure loom]

There were actually loads of them - A Fistful Of Dollars - probably the greatest western of all time - was filmed there.

[timid solstice]

and best music score Ive listened to recently imo

[tender leaf]

i feel so lost lol

[wintry lantern]

same

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/hang-first-time-smiles-gif-14991372

[timid solstice]

I really find one message interesting.. the tier can be solved just from one image, such as just the Candy image or the Extra Candy image

[steady bough]

whats 10-10x10+10= just wanna see the answers people have xD

[timid solstice]

And Latin must still be a clue

[steady bough]

nice

so many people before would say 100 and id be so confused to how they got it xD

[mortal ivy]

10-10x10+10= 10 - 100 + 10 = - 80

[steady bough]

yesyesyes

just glad people here know how to do basic math xD

[timid solstice]

Latin words for Spaghetti could be = spacelli or spacellus ? related to the spaces clue?

trying to relate latin and music to spaghetti = "Etymology
Plural of spaghetto, diminutive of spago (“cord, string”), from Latin spacus (“string”)."

[tulip matrix]

Dorothy L. Sayers wrote a translation of Dante's Divine Comedy in 1962. She is also the author of 11 short stories about Montague Egg, a fictional amateur detective.

[neon stream]

What's her signature?

remember the signature guys, that should point you to the final clue

[timid solstice]

i posted and deleted

looks nothing like it

[tender leaf]

there are also spanish versions of spaghetti western and they are called chorizo-western or paella-wester

[tulip matrix]

in japan they are macaroni western

[tender leaf]

japanese made also a parody about it and it's called noodles-western lol

im just reading the italian wiki about spaghetti western

[timid solstice]

same!

[tender leaf]

about the notes we have no news about that?

RIP ahaha XD

I remembered about a music box that works with a paper punched with holes

[pure loom]

Just looking at the corner of the Extra Candy image, it looks like there is more pencil writing that is part of the same document the signature is on (and superimposed on the floor boards/tabletop) - here it looks like it could be an "ES" which could point to Spain again.

[steady bough]

like one of these

[tender leaf]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HjBhO9iqEc0/maxresdefault.jpg

yeagh

[neon stream]

A Symphony to Dante's Divine Comedy, S.109, or simply the "Dante Symphony".
I thought s109 was the password for a second 😂

[timid solstice]

theres other things in that shade of grey too

[pure loom]

Yeah, it definitely looks like some sort of document which is signed in the lower right

[mortal ivy]

https://www.wetheitalians.com/single_post/naples-celebrates-dante-giant-easter-egg

(Sorry, didnt saw I still had reply marked D:)

[tender leaf]

to me looks more ATX than AEX or 0TX/OTX

[steady bough]

egg

[timid solstice]

B.F.E

[tender leaf]

https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/799px-international_telegraph_alphabet_21.jpg

The Baudot Code

what do you think?

[mortal ivy]

Never managed to connect the dots, sadly

(pun intended)

[pure loom]

Which image does this relate to?

Or part of an image

[tender leaf]

Candy_01 (the one with the ak only) the bottom hidden hole code

[neon stream]

I just found this on the Wikipedia page you sent on the Anatomical Theatre of Padua:

"Furthermore, anatomy lessons were the only form of practice lessons in the study of medicine, and the theatre made them look like a real ceremony.[27] The theatre is also linked to the number seven. Its rings, seven in number, can be connected to the seven skies of Empireum, or the seven pits of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy."

I guess it is connected after all 🤔

[pure loom]

I think that's almost definitely music notation because it plays a decent tune when played out - whereas if it was letters making words, we'd expect it to be all over the place when used as music

[pure loom]

Yes, those two are, but I think Dusty was pointing us away from that with the music clues (twice)

[neon stream]

Hmmm yeah, makes sense

[mortal ivy]

Good night, going to dream of Dante and his egg

[timid solstice]

GN!

[pure loom]

gn!

[neon stream]

Good night!

[tender leaf]

i think the same

[neon stream]

Good luck solving the Easter Egg guys, I have other things to do now, hopefully it's solved by tomorrow! 💪🏻

[pure loom]

We'll try!

[tulip matrix]

[timid solstice]

I feel like we should get it from the Extra candy image, 3 obvious clues ( 33 11-XXV Signature) plus the filename Extra Candy and the arrangement of items in the image...

[sharp flame]

I really feel like it's U-XXV

[pure loom]

I think so too, but it could be either

[tender leaf]

a odd way to write a U

[pure loom]

These two marks are not seen on the other mags

[tulip matrix]

maybe it is both

[sharp flame]

with the serifs on the tips?

[tender leaf]

yeah the XXV are sanserif

[sharp flame]

The first X does have a few, but I see your point. There is a difference between them

I only bring up the U, because the U-25 is a real thing

and they used Numerals in submarine naming

and also the hyphen, which is notably different from a slash or other punctuation

I take my hyphen point back

(variation of Roman date)

[pure loom]

Note how the bullets only appear on the white part of the floor - they look very much like boats in the water - if it was a map, this looks a lot like the Croatian coastline, but I haven't been able to match anything - I think if it was a specific map we would be able to line it up.

[tender leaf]

makes sense

[sharp flame]

that.. would be quite the coincidence if not true

not sure how any living ship's position could be represented by these bullets

maybe.. these are shipwrecks?

[pure loom]

Or it could just be a general pointer to something relating to ships and water

[sharp flame]

more probable, yeah

[timid solstice]

the other mags are flipped over, hard to tell

[pure loom]

I'm going to spend more time going back over concepts we tried previously (again )

[slender lodge]

Lmaooo

[pure loom]

true that!

[slender lodge]

Yeah I'm going back to the first image

I think one thing we sometimes miss is going back to older images in the same tier

Cuz clues are everywhere

[sharp flame]

wait what was this

[timid solstice]

same on the first image

[timid solstice]

I put all important messages in the doc

easier to read though in one go

[sharp flame]

ty

'way too easy'

[timid solstice]

I guess you missed Robs answer to Serp

[sharp flame]

I feel like the answer is spaghetti or something 😭

wait, but didn't Dusty say we had quite a way to go?

[pure loom]

Rob's comment from earlier today - we were close and didn't get it

https://tenor.com/view/so-close-basketball-thomas-morris-gif-18086098

[sharp flame]

I'm not sure I follow

I can't tell if we're close or far now 😭

[timid solstice]

We were close 12 days ago

[pure loom]

Rob said, effectively, we (or one of us) previously discussed the correct answer, but we never put the password in

[sharp flame]

here

[timid solstice]

no on the first image

[sharp flame]

so are they saying that we did a U turn and we went way off

[timid solstice]

went "south"

[pure loom]

Maybe got close, but changed tack

[sharp flame]

okay, so I think we should be able to solve it relatively quickly with that info

if we trace our path to the last solid thread

[sharp flame]

spaghetti westerns

[pure loom]

I did a run through from the start a few days ago, wondering this, and didn't get it. 3rd time is a charm, maybe...

[sharp flame]

western (theme), and spaghetti (flour + egg..?), and F Kramer (director known for them)

add them together and we have spaghetti westerns

also am I correct in assuming it's a word?

(by his phrasing at least)

I don't want us to be stuck again 🥹

okay.. we have to think simple

we went too far off track

1A was pretty easy in hindsight

1B will probably be the same

[timid solstice]

well its hard as they say, but we were very close

[sharp flame]

One clue was the word Aethusa
a meteor is called 1064 Aethusa
the password was 1064

Rob thinks 1B is 'way too easy'

[timid solstice]

"But its hard"

from just the first image that is

[sharp flame]

all I know is we'll be kicking ourselves once we find the answer 😭

[tender leaf]

Spaghetti are just flour and water

[sharp flame]

yeah, you're right. usually spaghetti is just flour and water. 'Spaghetti Western' did seem like a really clear connection though

[tender leaf]

So fresh pasta is usually made with eggs, but spaghetti is a dry pasta which it's extruded and then dried.
But there is an exception "Spaghetti alla Chitarra" (Guitar Spaghetti) Is a fresh version of it (made with flour+eggs) thicker for sure, tasty also ahah

[sharp flame]

okay, all I know is within the first/second image, we literally mentioned the password already

now we can either **1) **input every keyword which we've said so far, or 2) use the new clues to form an actual connection

[agile goblet]

new clue?

Where new clue

What if there is no password?
And it's more like, u can't find everything yourself

[sharp flame]

"I first thought 1B was too easy since you kind of mentioned the actual password.."

"You were actually really close already with the first image"

[slender lodge]

before we went into a tangent

so lets try to roll back

[sharp flame]

we never really made any real connections with the Candy images

so I assume it's the first image

[pure loom]

"In these muddy waters many men found death at the Battle of Montecatini in 1315. It is thought that Dante Alighieri participated in this battle." Dante just won't quit.

[slender lodge]

Dante stop believing

[sharp flame]

I honestly think the reason that the egg is there in the egg + "flour" = spaghetti equation is that.. eggs are a part of the game

[agile goblet]

This is new, imma try everything again tomorrow

[sharp flame]

so when they get the opportunity for an egg appearance they use it

I mean, if we assume spaghetti is the intended answer, then putting flour + water is pretty generic

we'd probably go "orange juice" or something haha

[crisp scarab]

we went from dildo to spaghetti in a day, love this community

[slender lodge]

whats that

[sharp flame]

just a crude drawing I made

[slender lodge]

ahhhh

yeah might be good to go back to spagetti stuff

my prof was talking about spagetti western yesterday haha

[sharp flame]

idk how successfully they'd be able to do flour + water (to mean spaghetti)

[slender lodge]

just mentioned it

[sharp flame]

your professor is an Embark agent 🕵️

[slender lodge]

nhaahahahah

ill ask him tomorrow whats the password

[tender leaf]

Talking about spaghetti, there is a famous old Italian film called "un americano a Roma" there is a pretty famous scene where he eats spaghetti.

https://it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un_americano_a_Roma#/media/File%3AAlberto_Sordi_-_scena_degli_spaghetti_-_Un_americano_a_Roma_(1954).jpg

[sharp flame]

gonna head to sleep now, but I really wish you guys the best!

[pure loom]

gn!

[pure loom]

A possible path from Kommissar X and music and 1962 - Kommissar X was influenced by James Bond. The James Bond theme was composed (mostly) by Monty Norman in 1962. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Norman

[neon stream]

@timid solstice You can remove the "SR |" if you want, I only use it so Saint Rob guides me on these Easter Eggs hunts 😂

Could that be "II-XXV"? 🤔

[pure loom]

Yeah, this was spotted when the image first came out. It could also be U-XXV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-25_(1936)

[neon stream]

Yeah, I remember that. But I don't remember it being considered a 2 in roman numerals, just an 11 or a U

[pure loom]

Oh, right

Sorry, I missed that

[neon stream]

I was looking at Canto II, that's when I got that idea. I still think Dante's got something to do with this 😂

It seems weird to me that she mentioned the circles of hell, when we never spent that much time on that, it was almost a passing comment. I don't see why she would would mention it so we DON'T take a look at it

But of course, I might be wrong, and she was actually trying to point us away from it 😂

[mortal ivy]

I’m with serpenger ^

[neon stream]

https://youtu.be/qbwqlfKeZ7w?t=67

[pure loom]

I typed in the name of the the Kommissar-X 1315 book and its author, and "Once Upon A Time in the West" (1968 Sergio Leone western) is included in the search results - no idea why that would be... looking now...

[neon stream]

Might have something to do with your cookies, I tried it in incognito and I don't get that in imdb

And the only things I get with the title of the Kommissar X 1315 book is this:

[pure loom]

I wondered that.

Yeah, I think so.

[wintry lantern]

http://www.romanhefte-info.de/d_weitere_kommissarx_1300.html

[pure loom]

Yeah, it’s a good list eh. Still not giving us any breakthroughs though.

I’ve trawled through loads of composers from these and the spaghetti westerns and not found anything.

[mortal ivy]

Re-reading robs message with post-sleep clarity makes me think like this:

1. We had it figured out before Candy dropped
2. It has been written in chat already
3. It’s digits we are looking for, hence the password/passcode comment.

[slender lodge]

Why digits

[mortal ivy]

[…] BTW you were actually really close already with the first image, I first thought TIER 1B was way too easy since you kind of mentioned the actual password (or is it a *passcode *@mortal ivy .?!) buuut then for some reason it went south… ._.

I feel like him bringing up ”or is it really a passcode” when it was only digits last time, is a way to let us know that we are looking for a numerical code

[slender lodge]

Oooh

Are passcodes digits only

I'm not a native English speaker so I get confused in the nuances haha

[mortal ivy]

Neither am I 😅 I would say that it really depends. For many password and passcode is synonyms. But there isn’t a true clear answer.

However, when you create a passcode on a modern device, that is only digits. Whereas passwords allow all characters

Secondly, due to their lack of complexity passcodes are natively less secure than passwords

Here's an easy visual example: 8 lowercase random letters or 8 random digits.

Since there are 26 letters in the english alphabet, there is 26 different options for every character in the password.

But since there only exists 10 digits (0-9), an eight digit long code only has 10 possibilities on any given character.

I'm too lazy and not great at traditional math, so I'm unsure what that equals in "power of" language but whatever 🤷

[slender lodge]

Hmmm

I dunno about if complexity changes is it's digits or letters on the EE itself

[slender lodge]

But this makes sense

Imagine password is just 13151901

[mortal ivy]

it's easier to find a 4-6 digit long code than a random word/phrase

[slender lodge]

Ye

[mortal ivy]

like 1064 from aethusa, could have been guessed manually, but no one would get aethusa from just typing random letters

[slender lodge]

Right

But if it was aethuda it woulda been the same

No one woulda guessed aethuda BC we had to come to it

S*

I'm jus tryna confirm if it's letters or numbers

I think I'm just misunderstanding here lol

Sorry

[mortal ivy]

I don't think we can confirm anything, but I would guess based on robs choice of words that we are looking for a numerical code again. As that is much easier to just see and try to type in. But that doesn't mean that it cant be letters

My thoughts is just this:
If we notice that Dante's Day is on March 25 and something about that is the correct password:

1. How would we know whether it's dantesday dantes-day march25 etc
2. If it's digits, then we just try what makes sense like 0325, 2503 and so forth

And on that note, I find it peculiar that Dante's Day and the Pisan New year share the same day

Here is when I discovered hidden stuff in the Weapon image (11th oct) #easter-eggs message

-- The answer lies somewhere between here --

And here is when rob dropped Candy (14th oct)
#easter-eggs message

rob said that at first we spoke of it, but then we went south. I would assume that means that spagetthi western is when it went south.. But that's just my two cents 🤷

[slender lodge]

Hahaha samee

[slender lodge]

This makes sense

I'm with you on that it's probably digits

Darnoux knows the answer haha

[tender leaf]

We also have a XXV on the table which is 25

[south wyvern]

Not really... A single word password is tougher than a 4 digit pin code but weaker than a 6 digit one

4 numbers pin code combinations: 10.000
6 numbers pin code combinations: 1.000.000
single word passwords: +150.000 words in the english alphabet, but with a dictionary attack you start with the most common ones and with a minimum characters, i tried something below

I downloaded a file with a total of 333.333 words in it
Excluded the ones that are less than 4 characters long and kept the most used ones
There are about 30.000 words left that fit this criteria
The less common ones in this list are still pretty much rare in our life

newham
energie
radiographic
kinematics
errol
vagabond
otabletest
isobaric
gratuitos
innd
eads
personalise
consecrated
oscillating
patenting
reciprocating```

(least common in the 30.000 words left)

I'm not taking into account capitalization though

[tulip matrix]

Good morning divine comedians!

[tawdry jungle]

[tulip matrix]

or should I say lost souls?

One of many

[pure loom]

[tulip matrix]

Been looking into Dante's Inferno the videogame

no beans

[pure loom]

Was there a composer for the music?

[tulip matrix]

A couple of them yeah

Didn't go down that path yet

There's a Dante's Inferno easter egg in CS:GO which is fittingly in a map called Inferno

There's a programming language called Malbolge based on the eighth circle of hell, which is intentionally designed to be painful to code with.

One of the images there is nine bullets. Maybe referencing the nine circles of hell. In the other image there is seven bullets, which I would assume is a reference to Paradiso (the seven spheres of heaven)

Maybe the archipelago you mentioned is actually clouds in heaven?

And perhaps in the other image, the wood grain is actually the topology of hell

or something like that

I'm gonna go down this path for a while
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradiso_(Dante)?wprov=sfla1

Apparently there are actually 10 circles of heaven

I don't know where I got seven from

[pure loom]

Here’s a list of Italian films made in 1962. Maybe we should look at the composers from all of these? I feel like we need to try some new paths with the clues we have. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Italian_films_of_1962

[neon stream]

The Wikipedia page of the Anatomical Theatre of Padua says:

"The theatre is also linked to the number seven. Its rings, seven in number, can be connected to the seven skies of Empireum, or the seven pits of Hell in Dante's Divine Comedy.". Why seven? Aren't there ten and nine respectively?

[tulip matrix]

Oh haha yeah maybe that's where I got it 😅

Thanks Serp!

Yeah it's a bit odd that article says seven

Surely an article on Wikipedia wouldn't have incorrect information

[neon stream]

Rob probably changed it to mess with us 😛

[tulip matrix]

Next he'll end a sentence without any dots

One interesting bit is that the circles of heaven are named after celestial bodies

[pure loom]

I’m still checking out the 1962 Italian film list, but these might be useful: https://interlude.hk/twinkle-twinkle/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets_named_after_people

[tulip matrix]

https://planetariasoundsystem.bandcamp.com/album/spaghetti-junction

Cash Out

[mortal cobalt]

Ah i see where this is going

[tulip matrix]

Green spaghetti

[mortal cobalt]

bruh

[mortal ivy]

I went through all messages from when we unlocked 1b until end of day 12th october and tried any kind of apparent password guess to no avail 🤷

[timid solstice]

good work

does this remind anyone else of the pixel art of the "flour" and egg...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlaw_(video_game)

[neon stream]

Not sure if it's a coincidence, but: Rob sent the second image the same day that Duh and I talked about Dante's Circles of Hell. We pretty much dismissed that as a clue back then, but maybe Rob sending the second image was to guide us to it? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[proud minnow]

So it's come to this... ._.

[unkempt crypt]

SPQR

D:

Maybe something to do with the frankish realms

[plucky phoenix]

clearly one of the films directed by frank Kramer that is gladiator based. like "the ten gladiators"

rob literally said we almost solved it initially, we need to go back and follow those clues and stop bringing in new things

[unkempt crypt]

79 A.D. (1962)
The Old Testament (1962)
The Ten Gladiators (I dieci gladiatori) (1963)

Roma. L'antica chiave dei sensi (1984) - Senator Lucius

thisi s probably all that has to do with the roman empire of Frank Kramer's work

[mortal ivy]

Sorry we failed you 🫠

[sharp flame]

man now I feel bad

but.. cool new render 🥲

[solar glade]

photoshop:LayerName="Hi there.!" photoshop:LayerText="I might look dangerous, but I’m not.!"

[wintry lantern]

many languages has Ä

[mortal ivy]

Ä is swedish ô is not

I would say that Äô has replaced a ” ’ ” in this case

When using a CSV file in Datamerge, all characters like ' & !£$%^&*) come out as weird text like "‚äô"

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/data-merge-csv-weird-character-conversion-äô-solved/td-p/9308790

There's even an UD entry on it haha https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=’

[solar glade]

metada most times mistakes symbols

pretty sure it's I'm

[slender lodge]

The disappointment

[solar glade]

it doesn't recognize the quotation mark

[slender lodge]

Yeah

Lmao

Anyone know what angebatur means

In a sentence I mean

;-;

[timid solstice]

New clue!

[slender lodge]

Yee :>

[timid solstice]

I’m traveling for 3 hours, let’s solve this !

[slender lodge]

Let's go back

[timid solstice]

So does Brad Harris play a Roman soldier?

[slender lodge]

Rob said we actually mentioned the passcode when we only had 1 image. There's only a few clues there to go to and solve it

[timid solstice]

So this last one had Roman numerals

They were a clue themselves too

[slender lodge]

Yeah

Flex

Is this the b tier first image

Alright 😊

[timid solstice]

Yes the one pinned

#easter-eggs message

[shell spear]

👤

[tranquil ivy]

5715?

[slender lodge]

Thank you ☺️☺️

[tranquil ivy]

The Kramar Asteriod

Just looking at the padlet

[timid solstice]

OSPUZE Weapons
FKRAMER = Frank Kramer
mmissar X = Kommissar X
Flour? + Egg = Spaghetti Western?
Hat number = 1315?
Bullet dots = 1962?
Sheriff Badge X
Dots on belt = "P" or 80 in decimal
Prayer beads
OSPUZE Candy
Gun markings = 190B / 01 / 1B151A01
Hidden dots = Music notes?

Big MUSIC clue

OSPUZE Extra Candy
33
11-XXV
Signature - foisiy ?

[slender lodge]

What does 11xxv translate to

[timid solstice]

Friendly Roman Soldier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ten_Gladiators

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/79_A.D.

[south wyvern]

XXV is 25 in roman numerals

[timid solstice]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Testament_(film)

[slender lodge]

Ahh so 11-25

November 25?

I went back to find older messages

These caught me eye

[south wyvern]

If the password/pincode is a date... Which format should it follow? DDMMYYYY?

[timid solstice]

ISO 8601 most likely

[mortal ivy]

YYYYMMDD, iso8601 as flex said

[slender lodge]

My urge right now to go back to the SpongeBob fandom be like

Sorry ❤️

[shell spear]

im so confused

[mortal ivy]

this is from the 10 gladiators, it feels like the best bet. But I can't figure out anything that is accepted by the website

[timid solstice]

As there are prayer beads 📿 and 1962, roman clue I’m thinking the Old Testament

But we can narrow it down for sure to a connection to these films

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/seinfeld-kramer-gif-19387189

[tender leaf]

Hello, any news? I got back from work just now

[mortal ivy]

It really is 🤯 The spartan NamaTama and us solving it before the 14th october (when candy dropped)

Helped us nothing*

[timid solstice]

New clue, Roman Soldier

[mortal ivy]

And it will hurt us

[tender leaf]

Oh nice ahahah

[mortal ivy]

So it's going to be something so painfully simple/obvious and we are going to feel torment (of the mind)

[south wyvern]

Rob is probably laughing his ass off already

[mortal ivy]

He's been doing that for the last two week. Now he is stressed that we aren't keeping the schedule with solving clues

[timid solstice]

Does the X on sherif badge stand for 10 as in Ten Gladiators 🤔

[south wyvern]

I'm sure it's simpler than it looks, but getting in late like i did isn't helping. I can't really wrap my head around all the clues

[mortal ivy]

rob said that we had it solved before the second image was released, and then we went the wrong direction. So it was something that we wrote in chat between 11th oct and 14th, and tied to the yellow OSPUZE_Weapon image

If you wish to try to get some kind of chance of catching up

[unkempt crypt]

the old testament isn't an option.. its not related to the roman empire

[timid solstice]

Ok good to know

[south wyvern]

Yeah, i've read that, i'm also reading the google doc

[unkempt crypt]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087023/

this might be a little too erotic

but Frank Kramer was an actor in this one

so.. let's just say.. i doubt it 😉

[timid solstice]

Worth checking for research purposes

[unkempt crypt]

yeha I can't find much about it.. and I'm pretty sure that the box art on IMDB tells me why

I'm pretty sure its banned in one way or another haha.. a movie from 1984 shouldn't disappear that easily

[timid solstice]

Looks like Conan

Some weird scenes in that

[slender lodge]

IM WATCHIN GIT

to- to figure out the EE

[unkempt crypt]

Haha have fun? Seeing how family friendly the discord is I have a hard time imagining it, but if you find it I’ll gladly be considered a contributor for once haha

[timid solstice]

1962, 10 gladiators was 1963…

[mortal ivy]

I couldn't post a picture of the Aphrodite statue, and I tried to mention the Adolf guy by his last name, but got block from that too 😆

I found NamaTamas helm if someone wanna purchase one https://www.celticwebmerchant.com/en/roman-toy-helmet-with-red-crest.html

[neon stream]

I went to donate blood, expecting that the EE would be solved by now, but we are still lost? 😂

[timid solstice]

What was mentioned between 11th and 14th related to these movies

[tender leaf]

Lmao 🤣

[pure loom]

Gianfranco Parolini was born and died in Rome too. So, it could be someone he worked closely with or knew.

There is a small X on the rope that attaches NamaTama’s spearhead to the handle.

[slender lodge]

what if the spear means that its something that SPEAR wrote llol

[tulip matrix]

11th line of Canto XXV
"To burn thyself to ashes, since thou hast"

[timid solstice]

Has anyone investigated/analysed the new image

[solar glade]

i haven't really said much, just helped with images

[timid solstice]

I’m done travelling now so can jump on laptop and inspect

[pure loom]

Looking back through previous comments, one thing that did relate to Rome is that @tulip matrix mentioned a Caesar cipher while working with FKRAMER, before we worked out Frank Kramer.

[timid solstice]

Hey RHB

Crack this please ok thanks

[slender lodge]

nahh you've done a lot

[south wyvern]

tried this stuff in case someone wanted to try it too

 // Caesar box cipher
    "fkramer",
    "frmrkae",
    "farkmre",
    "fmkerra",
    "fekrram",
    "frkrame",
    
    // ROT13 with 5715 shift
    "fmvhzm",
    "afmvhzm",

    // ROT13 with 1315 shift
    "uzgpbtg",
    "zgpbtg"
    
    // Parolini related dates
    "1925-02-20",
    "19250220",
    "2018-04-26",
    "20180426",

    // Asteroid 5715 Kramer
    "5715kramer",
    "kramer5715",

[slender lodge]

i looked back at ur images

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/juno-cool-i-try-really-hard-actually-michael-cera-gif-15194769

[slender lodge]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaUzhc9_6io&ab_channel=Superseven%2FSandraWest%26More!

13:15 on this shows '330-1'

^ from Duh's message

[south wyvern]

This is a great tool btw https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef

[solar glade]

ye, we have it listed on the EE doc

[south wyvern]

f

[pure loom]

In 330 AD Constantine was the Roman emperor. He is not the password.

[south wyvern]

sorry, jumped on the EE hunt these past few days

[solar glade]

no worries, you good!

[slender lodge]

;-;;

theres not many things we talked about between 11th and 14th

theres gotta be smth we're missing

[pure loom]

The answer?

[tulip matrix]

Today I learned that 'caco' means 'shit' in Italian

[south wyvern]

Not exactly

[solar glade]

that's not what it means in Spanish, at least Caribbean Spanish

[south wyvern]

"caco" is a less used form of the verb "cago" which means "taking a shit", "io cago" translates to "i shit"

It's also a fruit (the kaki)

[slender lodge]

im slowly coming to that conclusion haha

[tulip matrix]

Can't wait to say "io cago" next time I get up to use the bathroom and someone asks where I'm going 😂

[south wyvern]

i suggest "vado a cagare", it's a better form ahahahha
We also use a lot "vai a cagare" to tell someone to go f*ck themselves

[tulip matrix]

Well now I'm going to get them confused

"Where are you going?"

Me: "Vai a cagare!"

[south wyvern]

https://conjugator.reverso.net/conjugation-italian-verb-andare.html

Vado = first person singular
Vai = second person singular
Va = third person singular
Andiamo = first person plural
Andate = second person plural
Vanno = third person plural

This is the present form of the verb "andare" (to go)

add "a cagare" to them based on who's your target

To add to the EE hunt discussion, based on the fact that there is a lot of clues that point towards Italian stuff, if you need help with something in Italian feel free to ping me

[tulip matrix]

So the reason I brought it up is because I found this

La materia della Divina commedia di Dante Alighieri, dichiarata in VI tavole, by Michelangelo Caetani (1804–1882)

Plate II
Next to number XXV

[south wyvern]

Ohhh, okay. Caco in this case is one of the damned that are assigned to that specific Bolgia (the "section" of hell) and where they're found inside the Divina Commedia (the "Canto" behing the "chapter")
In this case it's not used as a verb, it's the name of the character

https://divinacommedia.weebly.com/caco.html

[tulip matrix]

haha oh

Sorry Caco

[south wyvern]

near Caco there are a lot of other characters that Dante encounters during his journey, some actually existed, and some come from fantasy/mythology

Maybe there is someone in the list that we encountered in another clue?

I feel like Dante's inferno it's not really relevant to the hunt, seems a bit too far fetched based on the padlet i'm looking at

[neon stream]

I thought that was "vaffanculo" 😂

Ho studiato Italiano nella scuola per due anni, non parlo molto, ma capisco cuando altri persone parlano

(Not sure how correct that is 😂 )

[pure loom]

One thing we touched on during the time Rob said we missed the answer - and didn’t go into really - was The Great Famine of 1315. Someone also mentioned the Hunger Games, which is a confirmed influence on the game. The author of The Hunger Games also drew influence from Roman gladiators. I’ve just tried several passwords around this without success.

[south wyvern]

Vaffanculo is short for "vai a fare in culo", basically the same

[neon stream]

Yeah, I knew that. I didn't know that "vai a cagare" was also used

[south wyvern]

It's pretty good for being only two years of learning, even more if it's not in an environment where it's spoken daily

[neon stream]

Thanks! I speak Spanish, so that helps 😛

[south wyvern]

1315 is surely important, we just gotta figure out where to use it

[neon stream]

Plus, I was born in Argentina, so we get a lot of things from you guys 😂

[south wyvern]

Oh yeah, Argentina has a lot of Italian descendants! I would love to visit, maybe one day

[neon stream]

Yeah, most of us have Italian ancestry. I'm 50% Italian, for instance 😂 '

[south wyvern]

I do believe you ahahaha

[timid solstice]

could it be...