easter-eggs

[slender lodge]

Yeah lol

[neon stream]

I might have given away our strategy before, sorry

[sharp flame]

hahaha

[deep wraith]

tasty

[neon stream]

Wild theory: What if this is meant to be read as "bag and egg", which kind of sounds like "bagatelle", which is "a short piece of music, typically for the piano, and usually of a light, mellow character" 🤔

Bagatelle No. 25 is Fur Elise... 🤔

[slender lodge]

ooh

OOH

wait that makes it even more confusing lmao

[neon stream]

I know. I just found it weird Rob saying "...candies in the bag", thinking it might have been a clue. And I was trying to connect Beethoven to the first image, so...

[mortal ivy]

bagatell in swedish means "no big deal" / "small and simple"

[neon stream]

I'm trying to find a connection from the first image to Beethoven/Sonata 25, so far that wild theory is the only thing I have 😂

That HAS to be the final link we are missing to solve this

[timid solstice]

When did he say this?

Oh

Hi there.!
Looks like OSPUZE had some extra candy in the bag.!!!

[neon stream]

Yeah, there

[timid solstice]

So it’s a candy bag?

[neon stream]

hmmm

could be

[timid solstice]

Could just be Halloween themed

Giving us more treats

[neon stream]

Yeah, that's probably it. But I'm trying to find connections to the first image 😂

[timid solstice]

“kind of mentioned the actual password” 💀

[neon stream]

Yeah, I just want someone here to figure out the answer so I can see what Rob means by "kind of" 😂

[timid solstice]

[neon stream]

Welcome, may Rob guide you

[timid solstice]

🕯️ SR 🕯️

[neon stream]

By the way, if somebody ever asks: The fourth generation Hyundai Sonata curb weight starts at 1315 kg ... don't ask how I know that... ._.

[mortal ivy]

◾ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

almost :/ fixed

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/really-oh-gif-20339203

[neon stream]

Yeah, I also found this 😂

[tulip matrix]

hahhahahaah

[timid solstice]

7 and 9 … 79 A.D movie?

[tulip matrix]

HONOM

means him in swedish

[neon stream]

Hmmmmm you are right, I forgot about that! Could be!

[timid solstice]

It’s quite in our faces.. twice in fact

Rivets and tally + alt code

[tulip matrix]

Ignazio Dolce was in that one 😅

[timid solstice]

I do feel this is when the password was kind of mentioned #easter-eggs message

[slender lodge]

hallo

we're so close

there aint no way

[timid solstice]

Evening

[mortal ivy]

79ad has been tested quite some time I believe 😅

[mortal ivy]

That is Him indeed.

https://giphy.com/gifs/queue-him-powerpuff-girls-PZTKHMjvBKF6E

[timid solstice]

Who was the actor? Were they one of the ten gladiators?

[timid solstice]

The rivets on the pouch used to be 11 and 6, now they are 7 and 9. Changed like the 32 to 34 on the mac-10 to give us a clue.

[neon stream]

So... I just realised... Sharona -> Monk. Monk -> Priest. Prayer beads? 🤔

[tulip matrix]

Looks like another C hangin out back there

[timid solstice]

I think we need to crack that code

The Sharona code

[slender lodge]

whats the sharona code

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/monk-adrian-monk-monk-sick-sick-monk-in-bed-gif-23263765

m-m-m-m-myyyy sharona

[timid solstice]

1908 01 18 15 14 01

Hope the exam was 👌🏼

Oh that was yesterday #easter-eggs message

I’ve been back and forth in the channel too much

23 hours passed just like that

[tulip matrix]

So I was wondering what might be in those bags behind the M60
Looked up Concrete
There's a Swedish band called The Concretes
They have two compilations called:
Boyoubetterunow
and
Layourbattleaxedown
Kind of like the way Rob and Dusty were talking before

[timid solstice]

You think concrete like to repair all the destruction in the game?

So they have a concrete sponsor lol

[tulip matrix]

Makes sense

haha

[neon stream]

SR, do you like that famous song my The Knack...? @proud minnow 😇

just a random question 😇

a mini-AMA

[tulip matrix]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbr60I0u2Ng

[neon stream]

I was going for a walk... but now I have to listen to the song 😂

[tulip matrix]

now you can walk and vibe

[pure loom]

More flour for all the spaghetti I’ve watched?

I’m halfway through A Few Dollars More with The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly to go, then I’ll probably watch Yojimbo. Quite enjoying being sent on this movie journey.

[tulip matrix]

Same, I've just been watching random westerns that have nothing to do with the hunt because they've invaded my recommended feed 😅

[pure loom]

The Fistful of Dollars trilogy is really good.

I’ve actually bought it now to watch it again some time

[tulip matrix]

Lee Van Cleef is in a lot of westerns

[pure loom]

I want to make a video inspired by it once we have gameplay I can use

[pure loom]

Yeah, he’s in A Few Dollars More

With Eastwood

A great combo

Should we treat Holtow in the background as a clue?

I mean, why not?

[tulip matrix]

You saw this?
#easter-eggs message

[neon stream]

You could try looking at what time in the trailer it was mentioned, or which number of sponsor it was

[pure loom]

No! Gotta go, back in a couple of hours

[timid solstice]

When I see Lee Van Cleef it reminds me of the code name they used for a character of Enfys Nest gang in Solo Starwars. They always codenames.That movie was heavily inspired by spaghetti westerns.

[tranquil ivy]

Can someone send me the link to the passcode area? Like where we enter the passcode

[tulip matrix]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-b

[tranquil ivy]

thank you

I'm just putting this here so I can look at it

[timid solstice]

It’s pinned

[south meadow]

#official-art

[neon stream]

So...I've been thinking during the walk about this... the Beethoven clues pointed us to the "Presto alla tedesca" part of the song... and that means something like "fast in german style" (or something like that), I Googled and it refers to a German waltz... and waltz, apart from being a dance, is also a last name... could that be a connection to Kommissar X/FKramer/Spaghetti westerns? Some actor with that last name? Christoph Waltz comes to mind... and he worked on Django 🤔

[pure loom]

I like the way you think

He plays King Schultz in Django Unchained. Schultz is a German surname derived from Schultheiß, meaning village headman or constable/sheriff in the medieval sense (akin to today's office of mayor).

Also, on a completely different tangent. He (as a bounty hunter) masquerades as a dentist in that movie. Teeth could be considered ‘Weapons’ for pasta.

Neither teeth or Schultz is the password

Klaus Kinsky was another German actor in spaghetti westerns.

[tulip matrix]

Phi

[steady bough]

alt 57?

[tulip matrix]

yeah it's alt code for the number 9

[steady bough]

sorry if this has all been found, havent been keeping up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYMlxmtCJ0M

[neon stream]

We have a musicalized Padlet now 🎵

[slender lodge]

[neon stream]

I guess today was the calm before the storm...the password is lxxix

Saint Rob, thank you for the guidance... ._.

[slender lodge]

wheres this from

[slender lodge]

ooh did you get the pasword?

[neon stream]

yep, but I'm actually not sure if I can share it. I had to send an email

[slender lodge]

oh wys that

[neon stream]

Do we have any mod/dev awake now?

But yeah, we solved it guys! 💪🏻

[slender lodge]

it is like 4am in Sweden so maybe not

im glad 😌 all this hardwork from everyone

and we (apart from serp) still dunno the password bahaha

firefox lessgo

im surprised u dont have any bookmarks

[neon stream]

@proud minnow @cedar owl Am I allowed to share the password?

[slender lodge]

did you get it in a way which might not be legal?

[neon stream]

no

[slender lodge]

sussy

[neon stream]

😂

Nah, it's not fun that way 😂

[slender lodge]

haha i know you wouldnt do it like that but im curious how else you got it where you are confused if u can share or not

[neon stream]

I'm confused because last time I didn't have to click a button to verify the password and send an email 😅

[reef trench]

👀

[slender lodge]

oh verifying password button makes u send an email?

[neon stream]

Yeah

[slender lodge]

lol wut

well i think if u found the password then it must be sharable?

[neon stream]

I honestly don't know what to do 😂

This is the email that they automatically write when you click the button

I'm guessing it's so people can't brute force the password

[slender lodge]

fuck guess ill stay awake until i find out the password

[fallen jasper]

👀

I was here (possibly)

[tranquil ivy]

I was here too

[slender lodge]

wait i got it too

it was THAT?

[neon stream]

niiiiiiiiice

[slender lodge]

i see what u mean

[neon stream]

Yeah, right? it looks weird

[slender lodge]

u know whats weirder

i actually just took that screenshot from ur image

im trolling

i didnt get it

lmfao

[neon stream]

OH 😅

[slender lodge]

XD

serpenger ur gonna enrage the inpatience in me hahhaha

[tranquil ivy]

Wait sooo now what?

[neon stream]

In the meantime you guys can add the "SR |" in the name so Saint Rob, Patron Saint of Easter Egg hunters and Lost Time, guides you

🙏🏻

[tranquil ivy]

Did we get a clue for the next level?

[fallen jasper]

We wait until Dusty or Rob wake up lol

[neon stream]

No, it was just that NamaTama image I posted earlier

[tranquil ivy]

Ahhh ok

[slender lodge]

ima give them a quick call

[fallen jasper]

Hunters to Embark. We need guidance urgently

[neon stream]

I sent a pm to Rob just in case with the password and an explanation on how I arrived to it, so he can check

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/internet-simpsons-gif-11288919

Can't wait for the password to just be robiscool

@slender lodge @neon stream I'm looking for a way to mark the padlet down with the right pathway any suggestions?

[slender lodge]

one distinct color that contrasts the other

that goes down the right pathway?

like green

[fallen jasper]

The only color we aren't using is Black, and also Purple.

[neon stream]

Black and Purple are not being used right now. That and using the arrows with names should work

[neon stream]

Yeah, that

[fallen jasper]

[slender lodge]

duh hiding his own easter egg in the padlet hahah

[fallen jasper]

It begins again

[slender lodge]

😌

link it haha

lets make progress

before we even know anything tho 😂

[neon stream]

Whatever, I guess they would have said if we can't share the password

The password is lxxix

[reef trench]

[fallen jasper]

What

[slender lodge]

how'd you get to that loll

[reef trench]

it's 79

[neon stream]

Beethoven -> Sonata 25 -> opus 79
Frank Kramer -> Gianfranco Parolini -> one of the films in 1962 -> 79 AD
All those 7s and 9s in the images -> 79

AD 79 = LXXIX

OHHHHHHH My Sharona is from 1979!!!!

[crisp scarab]

so.. we don’t have a new image untill they activate it??

[neon stream]

Yeah, not sure how that works now

[neon stream]

I just realised that 😂

I thought it was from the 80s 😅

[neon stream]

I guess now I understand why SR didn't answer that question 😂

[slender lodge]

79AD lmaoo we knew it here

[neon stream]

I never would had tried it in Roman numerals if it weren't for the Wikipedia page of AD 79 😂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_79

I guess numbers can be lowercase after all 😅

[slender lodge]

XDD

[slender lodge]

ohhhhh wow

so there were multiple clues leading to the same thing

and we got so confused trying to find connections between them

thats awesome! @neon stream congratulations on finding the password 😄 ❤️‍🔥

[neon stream]

Thanks! But it was a team effort! 💪🏻 And also Saint Rob working in mysterious ways... ._.

[pure loom]

What’s happening? Did someone get it??

https://tenor.com/view/dont-say-no-tina-templeton-the-boss-baby-family-business-dont-refuse-please-say-yes-gif-22838143

I see someone did. Well done @neon stream

You are fast becoming a grandmaster at this

https://tenor.com/view/celebration-f1-champagne-puma-shoey-gif-13461174

[slender lodge]

lklmooaoo

[pure loom]

Now we await new art!

https://tenor.com/view/bring-in-the-next-contestant-next-competitor-next-contender-next-participant-next-gif-17444056

[neon stream]

Thanks! 😃

[pure loom]

It would have been next to impossible to guess that from the first image

[neon stream]

It's the guidance from SR 😛

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-darkside-star-wars-evil-innerme-gif-13048146

[neon stream]

Yeah, unless there was something we missed that pointed us to that particular movie, but otherwise...

[pure loom]

Which movie?

[neon stream]

79 AD

[pure loom]

Oh, yes, true

[neon stream]

At first I thought the password related to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 😅

I still wish the Dante path would have been correct 😭

[slender lodge]

i literally became religious for that

[pure loom]

With all the Akira Kurosawa clues, I was sure it was related to him. But I think that was actually just pointing us to Beethoven, not the other way around.

[neon stream]

Yeah, it's so difficult to tell when you are on the right path 😅

[slender lodge]

I guess they were tryna disguise B as 8 and A as 4

they even look the same

[pure loom]

That Yakuza A and Sharona combo clue is next level

[slender lodge]

hahahah ikkr 😂

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/not-worthy-waynes-world-bow-praise-gif-4881098

[neon stream]

The crazy thing on how this things are built is that, once you see the password, you know it is the one before you even hit enter 😂

[slender lodge]

on the 12th or something, Giriko was talking about AD 79 lmao

[pure loom]

I wouldn’t know.

https://tenor.com/view/friends-joey-tribbiani-matt-le-blanc-wink-gif-15694137

[slender lodge]

well but because of all of this, now we know better how to search

we also know that the first image itself can lead to the answer

i used to think we just wait for more images lmao

[neon stream]

You'll get a future one and you'll remember this, trust me 😂

[pure loom]

Yes, but in this case that would have been blind luck almost

Well, just trying every movie title (and guessing Roman numerals)

[neon stream]

Same. I think we learned many things in this hunt that will help in the future

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/vietnamflashback-gif-7780922

[slender lodge]

yeah nothign led to roman numerals i think so that woulda been a bit blind luck for sure

cuz im sure someone tried '79' or 'AD79' back then lmao

[slender lodge]

yessss

this one took like 18 days hah

tier 1a took 4 i think

[neon stream]

I guess NamaTama dressed as a Legionary was meant to do that. It didn't help 😂

[pure loom]

Only 7 levels to go…

[fallen jasper]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/cry-sad-tears-gif-16761643

[fallen jasper]

Oh for fuck sake how did I not rememeber that

[neon stream]

I was seeing if there's a connection between 79 and 1064, to see if my theory held. I couldn't find one 😅

[slender lodge]

i woulda never guessed hahahha

[fallen jasper]

It would've made a bit more sense that it was hinting at date and not a object or anything

[pure loom]

I’m so relieved this one is over, but am actually looking forward to the next one. This was good training.

[fallen jasper]

Onto more pain

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/liar-liar-fletcher-reede-jim-carrey-movie-liar-liar-movie-gif-16827986

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/no-pain-no-gain-workout-rat-getting-fit-gif-10458198

[fallen jasper]

That being said I am joking it is pretty fun

Welll folks

[pure loom]

Duh is asleep. Imagine if we get the next art soon and solve it quickly - how much would that mess with his head hahahahaha

[neon stream]

Poor Duh 😂

[slender lodge]

but whats 79

lxxix

does it actually mean anything

[neon stream]

LXXIX

LXX = 70
IX = 9

LXXIX = 79

[slender lodge]

no like what does it mean tho lol

[neon stream]

seventy nine?

[slender lodge]

relevance wise

[neon stream]

😛

no idea

[pure loom]

Hahaha

[neon stream]

That's why I was trying to link it with 1064

[slender lodge]

😂

[neon stream]

I think we'll need 1064, 79 and ___ for tier 2ABC

[fallen jasper]

https://padlet.com/JusticeCharity/vdxdc9hmjexfjsa7

[pure loom]

It means “no more pain” in Rob-speak

[slender lodge]

hahaah

[fallen jasper]

The Padlet has been made

[slender lodge]

i think ur missing a few characters there

for it to be 'Rob-speak'

[reef trench]

looks like 1C might be another number

[pure loom]

Why do you say that?

[reef trench]

1A and 1B both being numbers, albeit in different systems

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/falcon-sam-wilson-outta-line-but-gif-22091662

[pure loom]

Maybe the next one will be a time?

[slender lodge]

1c is gonna be numbers in letters

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/sam-jackson-tick-tock-mother-gif-25353417

[slender lodge]

"threehundredandfourtythousanddecimalpointthreetwosixnine"

[slender lodge]

hahahah

[neon stream]

"eightsixsevenfivethreeonine"

[reef trench]

☝️✊✌️✋

nah emojis

[slender lodge]

BAHHAHA how do we write that tho

can only write password on phone 💀

or by using this

[reef trench]

my phone keyboard has emojis

or just copy paste it

[slender lodge]

:point_up::fist::v::raised_hand:

[slender lodge]

[reef trench]

[pure loom]

You know what would be really funny? If they next art Rob gives us actually has no EEs in it. Imagine how much we would work on that to find something hahaha

[slender lodge]

id cri

[fallen jasper]

Find the egg

[slender lodge]

art department is probs exhausted making 10 clue images for us bc we couldnt find the password lmao

so for the next tier, Rob will rely on stock images (unlicensed)

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/taking-a-bow-meeting-applause-clapping-good-meeting-gif-13664369

“Generic business meeting with congratulations”

[slender lodge]

bro whattt 😂

so cursed

[cedar owl]

Woo hoo! nice work SR and team! 🙌

[mortal ivy]

I am very much feeling torment of the mind.

I knew it had to do with the sword and sandal movied of F Kramer, it was the only thing that made sense… 😞

But why would we look for the code in roman numerals?

And also, roman years are always uppercase? Are they not?

Enough ango!
Time to move on

[slender lodge]

this tier really left me angebatur

[mortal ivy]

@neon stream once again swoops in with mega brain to find the passwords that been solved days (weeks) ago but no one knew

Have we made any progress on 1c?

Yes

It was 79AD but in roman numeral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_79

Not sure, still on my phone. Just woke up and took my dog for a walk

[reef trench]

No new image yet

[mortal ivy]

Thanks for confirming Dwarf

[reef trench]

It led to a button which prompted you to send an email to verify the clue

[mortal ivy]

Might have been because someone mentioned that they bruteforced every number combination between 0 and 1 mil

[timid solstice]

Good morning and congrats all!

[slender lodge]

goodmorning:D

[timid solstice]

So my hunch was right, giriko “kinda” mentioned the actual password!

SR guided us! 🙏

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, that’s probably why rob tagged me. I just thought it was about the password/passcode conversation I had with him 😅

[timid solstice]

Oh ahahahaa passcode lol

I can close the padlet tab on my pc yay

[mortal ivy]

Btw, the "verify clue" button creates an email to send to "[e-mail]"

[timid solstice]

Ok I’m going to do a round up in the doc. 79ad was in 1962 so that’s cleared up. I’m guessing the X was the only clue for Roman numerals

[mortal ivy]

But their domain is embark-studios.com so I emailed [e-mail] as well

[timid solstice]

Oh good idea

Dusty saw though so should be ok

I like it this way, stops it just being brute forced gives us a break between

I think I could use a day haha

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, it's good for our mental health with a pause that we can't push. Just like when we solved Geocaching

[pure loom]

I have a wild theory. The very first Easter egg (Geocache) related to finding treasure, which you have to do in the game. Tier 1A related to asteroids, which occur in the game as a meteor shower. Tier 1B related to a year where a major volcanic eruption occurs. Now we haven’t seen that in game, but perhaps the Easter Eggs are telling us that it might?

[slender lodge]

2F58R hmm

i feel like that can actually be some clue hahaha

[timid solstice]

Hmm maybe a map could be near a volcano yes!

[mortal ivy]

Sounds plausible 🤔

[pure loom]

Naples could be a map. That’s right next to Vesuvius.

[timid solstice]

Unless each tier is related to the special destruction event

The fireballs from a volcano eruption could be like meteors

[pure loom]

Yes, exactly. Or it could be both - an indicator of events and maps. 9 Tiers right? 9 maps would be a solid number at release…

Maybe just something to keep in the back of our minds while solving these.

[fallen jasper]

Well Congrats guys :3

[timid solstice]

For sure

[wintry lantern]

u guys got it?

[mortal ivy]

we live, this image is only 1000x562 🤔

[slender lodge]

woahh

[mortal ivy]

thanks rob

the image in official art is real size

<rdf:li photoshop:LayerName="Finally..." photoshop:LayerText="...some brand new candy for you... GLHF.!"/> </rdf:Bag> </photoshop:TextLayers>

[slender lodge]

very few pixels to work with this time

[mortal ivy]

this is 118

BC

[slender lodge]

bros speedrunning this tier eh haha

[mortal ivy]

still the blurry thingy

[slender lodge]

holy shit

you guys are so fast

[slender lodge]

😂

E-2A

[timid solstice]

that is some sexy candy

[slender lodge]

bro i downloaded the wrong sized photo 😭

i was like why cant i see any of this

it was like 1/3rd the size

[mortal ivy]

yep the one on 1b was only 1000x565 then rob gave us the real one

[slender lodge]

are those primer marks?

[slender lodge]

ohhhh gotcha 😂

idk if this is me but they got these green stains

ikr such cool colors :d

[timid solstice]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-c

T1-C

Candy
LMG pouch: Pink triangle = Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon 1973 album ✅
LMG stock label: E-2A No.1 = Luna 3 codename ✅
LMG stock label: AAИ = 118 elements on periodic table❓
LMG stock label: . . _ . F = F Block periodic table ✅
LMG stock: Å = Anders Ångström ✅
LMG stock bullet strip code:1-5-1-3❓
LMG Logo: Mod triangle = Pink Floyd ✅
LMG Ammo pouch: ЛУНА III = Luna 3 ✅
SMG body: 118 = Elements on the periodic table ✅
AK Magazine : X-x = Angstrom unit ✅
AK Grip clasp: 460 = Democritus birth date / atomic theory ✅
AK Near the sight: Å = Anders Ångström ✅
AK Stock clasp: BC = Democritus birth date / atomic theory ✅

Candy_2
AK charm: A = Anders Ångström ✅
AK body: 2.75 3.26 = 2.75-3.26 eV violet light ✅
AK stock label: 29.9N 41.6W = Angström crater ✅
AK stock: Αβδηρος = Abderus Greek hero ✅
Acrylic scratches: 1869 in Cistercian = Date periodic table was published by Mendeleev ✅
Acrylic edge: barcode❓
Acrylic prism: Pink Floyd album/Spectroscopy ✅

Candy_3
LMG pouch: Iris Sibirica ✅
LMG sight label: KAROL artist of the Mendeleev monument ✅
LMG body: Sp PL:39 (1753) = Iris Sibirica Plant ✅
BG text: 92+ = Transuranic elements ✅
BG morse: .-.. .- -.-. -.- --- LACKO = artist of the Mendeleev monument ✅

Candy_4
SMG body strap: 1s 2s = Atomic Electron Configurations ✅
SMG body strap clip: 114 102 116 114 = LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ✅
SMG body: 32+❓
SMG body: 680384 = hex code for purple❓
SMG body: 10-31 = date when Periodic Table was first mentioned❓
SMG stock: Atomic Orbitals❓
SMG handle: 0❓
SMG mag: 5 or 28¬❓
SMG mag zip: 9TE = 9th Transuranic Element Mendelevium ✅
BG: Mendeleev medal ✅

https://tinyurl.com/5n74uzcv
https://tinyurl.com/bdxzfyr7
https://tinyurl.com/3xjw6kce
https://tinyurl.com/fv3rj4ry

[mortal ivy]

ЛУНА III (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_(Cyrillic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_(Cyrillic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_(Cyrillic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(Cyrillic))

[slender lodge]

i remember duh was messing around with cryllic for last tier

[mortal ivy]

AAИ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(Cyrillic) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(Cyrillic)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_(Cyrillic) )

[proud minnow]

Hi all.!
Congratulations solving Tier 1B, AMAZiNG.!

(FYI we thought you were going to figure out that the password was going to be in Roman numerals first thing, since we planted so many clues in Roman, hehe... BTW looking at my board, it looks like we have hidden almost 80 clues for you to find during T1B)

Perhaps my favorite clue so far, haha…

[slender lodge]

80 clues woww

[mortal ivy]

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Луна-3

NYHA 3

[slender lodge]

[mortal ivy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_3 in english

[slender lodge]

i was about to ask

:p

Giriko is hunting in 2x playback speed 😂

Lunaa

ask your dog rn

whats the password

[mortal ivy]

This image is also about Luna 3

[mortal ivy]

E-2A No.1 is the number for it

[slender lodge]

it replied 'incorrect password' in doggo language

[tranquil ivy]

noooooooo

[slender lodge]

ohhhh

[tranquil ivy]

It's just a reskinnn

[proud minnow]

only lowercase, hehe

[slender lodge]

ʷᵒᵒᶠ

i almost forgot about that actually.. thanks for the reminder

[mortal ivy]

but roman numerals are only written as lowercase when they are pages in a book, years are written in upper D:

[reef trench]

is BC a hint in a similar vein to AD from the last puzzle?

[mortal ivy]

the clues related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_3 so far

[slender lodge]

@mortal ivy so.. do we take 1000x585 as a hint or was that a mistake

[mortal ivy]

the candiii image was also uploaded in a weird format in offical art before it was removed, no idea 🤔

[slender lodge]

hmmmm

[mortal ivy]

I would say so

[proud minnow]

Yes we know, but since there were confusion about upper/lower weeks ago we told you "OK, lets's stick to lower to make it simpler"... ._.

[slender lodge]

round that to 2 decimal places B)

[mortal ivy]

It's ok, I'm just confused 🥹

[slender lodge]

mannnn who made this image tho i cant even search for clues my eyes are just salivating at how visually pleasing this looks

[mortal ivy]

This looks annoying

[slender lodge]

extra grip

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, iseul-t is the goat, ospuze has nothing on it

[slender lodge]

fr fr

iseultuze

[mortal ivy]

Uncomfortable and weird haha

[slender lodge]

whys there shoelace

last time it was prayer beads

[mortal ivy]

i thought it was like one of those elastic straps you have on a bike

to hold packages in place

[slender lodge]

ohhh hahaha

but i dont think they come in striped

ive only seen black

[mortal ivy]

i have one in stripes like those, but it's yellow with black strips

[slender lodge]

😮

[timid solstice]

its because of the formatting on the t1-b page

[slender lodge]

ohhh thats where u got it from

i just yoinkjed it from here lol

[timid solstice]

so much for a break!

lets crack this in 10 days !

[mortal ivy]

Found:
ЛУНА III
E-2ANo1

Still open season:
AAИ
A
BC
A
x_X

This might say 460 or it just an illusion like 1315

[slender lodge]

its 460 for sure

[mortal ivy]

Everyone was "sure" about the 1315 i found as well, and I dont think that had anything to do with anything 🤷

We humans suffers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia

Seeing patterns where there is none, faces on unanimated objects etc

[slender lodge]

SMG: 118, shoelace
LMG stock: E-2A (Luna 3)
Mag on the ground: xX
LMG stock + AK near the sight: two A's
AK strap on stock: BC
AK: 460 on another strap
Ammo pouch: ЛУНА III
White patch on top rifle: AAИ

[mortal ivy]

The A is on the rifles, one on the shoulder thingy and the other right at the barrel begins (on the blue part)

[slender lodge]

yrpp just updated it ❤️

[mortal ivy]

ЛУНА III is on the ammo pouch

[slender lodge]

its crazy to think that only this image can give us the password

[mortal ivy]

i will not look at any other images

i still stay true to this one, and disregard the crazy theories of the chat haha

[slender lodge]

XDDD

these scratches bug me out

looks like 3 5 3 2

[mortal ivy]

isn't it only welding marks?

[slender lodge]

ooh

[mortal ivy]

not sure how real uzis looks though

[slender lodge]

right hahahha

idk tbh

i think yeah they're welding marks

[mortal ivy]

@proud minnow BTW! Was the email to "[e-mail]" wrong by purpose?

Your domain is embark-studios.com so 🤷

[slender lodge]

mailguessr

[timid solstice]

dusty reacted btw - 😅

[mortal ivy]

Ah, I see that now. Seems like a typo then

[mortal ivy]

still missing: AAИ from the white patch from the top rifle

[slender lodge]

added

some of these have dark base

some dont

0000111110101100

0 = light 1 = dark

[mortal ivy]

if you swap them into 1111000001010011 it outputs "S" 🤷

11110000 01010011 = � S

[slender lodge]

hmm how does that work, the number is massive tho

[mortal ivy]

yeah, only the second part is S, the first is nothing

[slender lodge]

ahhhh 😂

00001111 10101100 is 4012

15, 172

[wintry lantern]

new image

[slender lodge]

ill add that here incase i find it again in the future

[slender lodge]

15+172 = 187 which is slang for 'crime' or 'murder'

in cali

theres something above E-2A but i cant read it

like before the finals logo

i see a heart lmao

[wintry lantern]

the finals

[slender lodge]

hmmm but i dont think it fits 2 words there

[mortal ivy]

According to https://www.binarytranslator.com 1111000001010011 = ðS

it only says The Finals and the logo before it

[slender lodge]

i cant make it out hahhaa

[mortal ivy]

And then its the logo in the blue as well

It's clear as day for me

[slender lodge]

yeah

the logo but the finals not so much

[mortal ivy]

A bit curious if we are meant to be able to read this

[slender lodge]

..-.?

Rob is that you

F or Q (..-. // --.-)

[timid solstice]

Just realised candiii meant candy 3 in numerals 🤦🏻

[slender lodge]

i thought it looked like .._.

if you read the highest opaque pixel haha

im going too deep into it 😭

[mortal ivy]

I really hope that it isnt a clue, and just some random scribbles to make the image feel more alive

it's unreadable

[slender lodge]

its the doctors prescriptions

yeah

worth a shot so i tried

.!

[mortal ivy]

We should all make sure to get shaved by occam as much as possible

No more wild theories haha

[wintry lantern]

x-X

xd

[slender lodge]

just you wait

[mortal ivy]

😵

[wintry lantern]

why there is so many A's

[slender lodge]

thats gonna be us in 5 days when we cant find the answer:

"AAAAAAAA"

[mortal ivy]

do we have a new padlet? or we waiting for justice with their purchased one?

[slender lodge]

https://padlet.com/JusticeCharity/vdxdc9hmjexfjsa7

[wintry lantern]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/460_BC

[slender lodge]

best of luck for the EE hunt 👋 ima head to bed its 6am

[wintry lantern]

good night

or good morning idk xd

[slender lodge]

bahhaha good morning/night

[mortal ivy]

good sleep

[mortal ivy]

AAИ = 1 1 8
BC = 2 200
Cyrillic numerals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_numerals

Tap code also has a Cyrillic version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_code

AAИ = 11.11.23
BC = 31.35

[shell shoal]

anyone close to getting the code?

[mortal ivy]

We solved 1b (OSPUZE weapons), we are now working on 1c (Iseult Weapons)

[shell shoal]

wow when?

[mortal ivy]

This night. It was just the roman numerals of 79 ad, LXXIX, that was the password (in lowercase lxxix). So it was cracked on the 12th of october, but no one ever tried to use the roman numerals until tonight

[shell shoal]

woow soo cool

[mortal ivy]

https://padlet.com/JusticeCharity/vdxdc9hmjexfjsa7 Here's the padlet with the current clues for the new image

[shell shoal]

good work

what was the password link?

[shell shoal]

tanks

[timid solstice]

Just finished updating the doc... hindsight is powerful hehe

[shell shoal]

u have the link på the password site?

[timid solstice]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

[shell shoal]

thanks

they shuld have pinned the link

[timid solstice]

it is long ago, just scroll down

#easter-eggs message

my short summery for the answer;

Tier 1B - lxxix
The password for tier 1b was “ lxxix ”which is lowercase LXXIX - Roman numerals for the date AD 79. The main clues were the movie " 79 A.D. " which was released in 1962 and directed by Frank Kramer; searching for this date shows it in Roman numerals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_79.

[shell shoal]

why is this easter egg so hard?

[south wyvern]

I go out for one night and these mfs solve the tier?

https://tenor.com/view/farthyun-capybara-gif-21041188

Do we need enhancing on some clues? Lemme know

[neon stream]

Yeah, I noticed that too and emailed both 😂

[neon stream]

No, he said it was a mistake, it should be fixed now

[hidden nacelle]

[neon stream]

I wonder if that's a clue to something 🤔

AMAZiNG.!

[floral plover]

👀 80 clues.. jesus.. they wanted to make sure you guys figured it out. Curious what the end will be

[timid solstice]

80 clues and we found probably 70, just couldnt get it over the line

[floral plover]

🤔 judging by the current ending of each level. I think we will get the full list of sponsors??? or a bunch of cosmetic concept art

[timid solstice]

Things to note;

The Luna 3 mission was to photograph the far side of the moon.

An "Atlas of the Far Side of the Moon" was created in 1960 published by Akademiëiìa Nauk Sssr.; Barabashov, N. P. (nikolaæi Pavlovich).

Launch was on a rocket called Luna 8K72 which took place 4 October 1959.

The camera took 29 pictures over 40 minutes on 7 October 1959.

The temperature-resistant and radiation-hardened film used was recovered from US spy balloons from Project Genetrix.

"The Dark Side of the Moon" is a 1973 album by Pink Floyd.

[floral plover]

You are like a thesaurus

[timid solstice]

haha no just read some wikis

[neon stream]

Just a wild idea, because we have nothing that connects this to Jupiter. But the Luna 3 made me think of the moons of Jupiter for some reason (which there are 80, the number Rob said), and that the four major ones are called the Galilean moons (because they were discovered by Galileo). The moons are: Io (Jupiter I), Europa (Jupiter II), Ganymede (Jupiter III), and Callisto (Jupiter IV). Maybe it relates to Ganymede in some way? 🤔

But we don't have a connection to Jupiter, so it doesn't really fit

[fallen jasper]

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

https://padlet.com/JusticeCharity/vdxdc9hmjexfjsa7

[fallen jasper]

@cold forum Can we get this pinned?

[timid solstice]

worth thinking about and posting.

[cold forum]

yessir

[fallen jasper]

Thanks Wooper ❤️

[neon stream]

Ok, I'll add them to the Padlet then 👍🏻

I also added the most vital part of the Padlet 😛

[wary swallow]

https://tenor.com/view/praying-mateo-superstore-sign-of-the-cross-prier-gif-9684878

[fallen jasper]

So I highlighted the (shortest) path to the right answer on the T1B Padlet

https://padlet.com/JusticeCharity/6rm15bnzz7zu9mvs

[timid solstice]

4 padlets to the "kind of" answer 🤣

[fallen jasper]

(shortest) path

[timid solstice]

need to highlight 1962

[fallen jasper]

Where is that at

Oh

[timid solstice]

yeah it gave the movie list

[fallen jasper]

It has been hilioghted

[shell spear]

YOU GUYS DID IT? IM SO PROUD OF YOU

[timid solstice]

Project Genetrix... kind of like The Finals balloons

[shell spear]

ILL WORK ON THE VIDEO GREAT JOB GUYS <33

[tulip matrix]

Oh boy. This tier is going to have us all on a list somewhere.
Looking up cold war era Russian rocket tech.

[solar glade]

yooooo

lesgoooooo

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/soviet-cat-sovicat-soviet-ussr-cat-gif-21826197

[solar glade]

that was some insane clue management

[mortal ivy]

I think the lesson learned from t-1b is that the simplest solution is the correct one. Do not make unnecessary assumptions or stray away from the topic

The sword and sandals movies tied together nicely with everything we had previously solved (italy, greek gods and more) whereas the Spaghetti westerns were just willed into being from relying to heavily on OSPUZE being from Argentina and the potential flour bag.

Iseul-t is a korean company, or at least their CEO has a korean name, but we should still keep ourselves in the previously explored areas (minus spaghetti westerns) and not dig deep into korean folklore

[solar glade]

i'm assuming the new image has been devoured already

[hidden nacelle]

ye

[pure loom]

Of everything I’ve seen so far, this reminds me of something…

[fallen jasper]

If it's Morse code then it's nonsense

Well it's F

[mortal ivy]

#easter-eggs message started to post all the findings here. I think everything has been moved over to the padlet already https://padlet.com/JusticeCharity/vdxdc9hmjexfjsa7

Have gone through the image with stegonline, fotoforensic and forensically and haven't found anything hidden to the eye.

This is how it looks on 133%

Hmmm 🤔 The logo on this shoe is backwards

[pure loom]

It reminded me of this

[mortal ivy]

ufos?

[south wyvern]

Could be unrelated, Nike has some shoes that have the inverted swoosh

[pure loom]

Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 prior to it impacting Jupiter

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker–Levy_9

[neon stream]

I missed this! I guess that makes Saint Rob (SR) official now that Dusty recognises him 😂

[mortal ivy]

on the patch on the LMG(?)

right above the AAN

[pure loom]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_(mythology)

[mortal ivy]

here

[mortal ivy]

Amazing catch if it turns out to be intended haha! At least the wiki page mentions the Galileo spacecraft

[pure loom]

I think it’s good to throw first impressions out there and see what sticks

The blanket looks like an image from an interplanetary mission - line by line style image.

Yeah, like I said, just throwing first impressions out there. It could be totally wrong.

[mortal ivy]

Help me out, since I'm colorblind, the colored part of this t is not the same color as the rest of the image

[neon stream]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Explorer 🤔

It would connect to what I said earlier

[timid solstice]

it could be that the shoes share the same texture and the model is mirrored and so is the texture

[mortal ivy]

The only place where the logo is red instead of pink, to my knowledge, is on the little button on reachthefinals.com leading you to the iseul-t page

[mortal ivy]

seems like a good guess. Or as someone else said, nike sometimes has mirrored logo on the left shoe as well.

[solar glade]

the bullet primer were already discussed right?

[timid solstice]

yeah maybe is long binary

from here #easter-eggs message

[solar glade]

cool

[timid solstice]

but if you can reveal more please do

[solar glade]

i just wanna know why there's a weird shadow here haha

[mortal ivy]

I can't see anything, I'm afraid @prisma stump

[timid solstice]

I see a 2 yes

[neon stream]

Did anyone try to do a difference between the OSPUZE and the iseul-t images? they are quite similar 🤔

Like you photoshop wizards did to get the griffin

[timid solstice]

need the same res images

will try

[mortal ivy]

What flex said

They are different resolutions, but they are only similar, not the same

[neon stream]

hmmmm ok, at least we know it leads nowhere 😂

[neon stream]

Thanks!

[mortal ivy]

No worries ☺️

[timid solstice]

did a higher res get added to the gdrive?

[mortal ivy]

no activity there since the 8th of oct

either way, the 2s are copied

[south wyvern]

Higher contrast if you want

[pure loom]

The Pink Triangle symbol has a mixed history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle

[timid solstice]

different shape though, equilateral not right angle like the main logo and all the others

[pure loom]

The barrel looks like a fairly early colour astronomy photo.

[mortal ivy]

the triangle on the little bag/pouch is equilateral, is it not? The triangle in the logo is the one that follows pythagoras theorem

[timid solstice]

yes exactly, its different

[mortal ivy]

Oh, i see that you were responding to darnoux and not rhb now

I believe that the bottom rifle is the most interesting one, and not the barrel on the LMG (as we already got Luna 3 from it)

we got A, BC, potentially 460 and then the Xx on the mag

[pure loom]

The blanket reminds me a little of this image: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot

[timid solstice]

T1-C ISEULT Candy Observations (Updated from Swa's list)

LMG Barrel scratches: 2 8 2
LMG Pouch charm: Equilateral pink triangle
LMG stock white label: E-2A (Luna 3 codename)
LMG stock white label: AAИ = 118
LMG stock: A
LMG stock: Bullet strip code

LMG Ammo pouch: ЛУНА III = Luna 3

SMG body: 118
SMG handle: Shoelace

AK Magazine : x-X
AK Clip on grip: 460
AK Near the sight: A
AK Clip on stock: BC

[pure loom]

The straps etc all look like Soviet-era space don’t they?

[mortal ivy]

I think they look like future/hypermodern "functional" clothing items

[mortal ivy]

this part *E-2A No1 (Luna 3 codename) * is also on the white patch

labeled a LMG stock in Swa's post

[timid solstice]

yea thats there I just added the part in ()

[tulip matrix]

I was just basing it off of all the cyrillic and the fact that Luna 3 is a Soviet space probe haha

[timid solstice]

its all spacesuit themed

the LMG white label is like a wrist band, the pouch is all padded, its on heavy material, clips and buckles space suit like

[tulip matrix]

I just assumed it was jeans because of the fashion sponsor but maybe it's actually kevlar or another type of aramid fabric, which is used in spacesuits

[neon stream]

It wasn't explicitly said, but that's what sent me into the moons of Jupiter direction. I guess I should have mention that luna=moon 😅

Yeah, sorry. Just as a random fact, the sun is also named after a god (Sol) 😛

[mortal ivy]

sol is sun in swedish as well

[neon stream]

Many celestial objects are 😛

[neon stream]

really? that's cool!

[mortal ivy]

yep 🙂

[timid solstice]

is this anything?

[solar glade]

i checked it earlier but didn't post 'cuz assumed it had been discussed

[timid solstice]

it may have

[pure loom]

Just continuing on the space-based path (which could be wrong), but a rotating object (like an asteroid or satellite) will leave ‘marks’ like that on a long exposure photograph, as it moves through the photo, if parts of it are not reflective.

[mortal ivy]

My guess is that it’s unreadable digits that might be visible on the ingame skin but without any deeper meaning

[fallen jasper]

I think it's just light reflecting off of it

For the record I don't think the art department is struggling over this. For the most part it seems like it's just concept renders or just straight concept art that's been altered to have some EEs in them.

Obviously I might be wrong and these are being custom made but either they've already made most of them, or Rob and some concept artists that have already done most of the concept art for the game are working together so it gives them something to do until post launch.

[timid solstice]

I think the colours background ones for sure, the Extra ones could have been new to hide more clues in

[fallen jasper]

Luckily I don't think it would take more than a couple days to throw together a new Nama Tama clue.

It helps if you have the model in house already

[mortal ivy]

A fun little coincidence(?), the diameter of Mare Ingenii is 282 km https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_Ingenii

Mare Ingenii is one of the few lunar mare features on the far side of the Moon. Most exists on the visible side.

• Luna 3 was the first mission to photograph the far side of the moon

Mare Ingenii means "Sea of Cleverness" which seems pretty fitting for our little group of deteggtives

[timid solstice]

Luna 3 mission to photograph the far side of the moon - The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd

[fallen jasper]

Most of the dark spots on the moon are named seas

Sea of Tranquility for example

[mortal ivy]

It’s because they were believed to be seas until they could examine them better and it was discovered that it was sub-surface lava

[fallen jasper]

Yeah

[mortal ivy]

That is a good one 🤔👍

[timid solstice]

https://youtu.be/cpbbuaIA3Ds

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-jam-nod-pet-kitty-gif-17932554

[fallen jasper]

It's kinda weird to think that 2/4 best selling albums of all time are rock albums

[slender lodge]

[mortal ivy]

Papa!

[pure loom]

I like the Pink Floyd idea. Here’s where the name comes from: The name is derived from the given names of two blues musicians whose Piedmont blues records Barrett had in his collection, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.

[slender lodge]

[mortal ivy]

I’m too old to understand that emoji 😅🫠

[slender lodge]

the character's name is loid

thats all 😂

and he's... pink

[mortal ivy]

I know Spy x Family

[slender lodge]

ohhh the emote

i honestly have no idea what means

[mortal ivy]

I had no clue about Ice in my Veins, thought it was a heroin thing

[slender lodge]

LMAOOOOO

ohhhhhhh

ok that makes sense now 😂

explain this one now

its got the same name lmfaooo

[fallen jasper]

No

[mortal ivy]

I know about knowyourmeme, it’s how I try to keep up with gen zs. But I’m putting my son to sleep rn haha

[mortal ivy]

This is someone biting back horniness after seeing a 10 do something arousing. Obviously

[slender lodge]

😼

[slender lodge]

hahahah yeah

i just wanted to hear it from you

[mortal ivy]

Ok, yw then I guess 🤓

[slender lodge]

[fallen jasper]

[tulip matrix]

[neon stream]

Good music sells 💪🏻

shhh you didn't see that

[tulip matrix]

Oh snap yeah sorry 🤫

https://tenor.com/view/private-skipper-rico-penguins-of-madagascar-smile-and-wave-gif-15715831

[mortal ivy]

I saw it 👀 (or did I? 🤔)

[neon stream]

shhhh no, you didn't 🤫

[neon stream]

btw, that's an album to listen from beginning to end without interruptions. It's kind of like an experience rather than a bunch of songs combined into a disc 😛

[timid solstice]

can any image analyser gurus check the bullet primers again please #easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

From those images it looks like maybe we should count the non primed ones, seeing as there’s a 1 to start those off (ASSUMING IT’S A YEAR)

1-5-1-3?

[timid solstice]

yeah between the 5 and 1 im not sure

[pure loom]

I’m on phone so can’t check until tonight

[timid solstice]

hello spear?

is your cat typing?

[solar glade]

nvm

haha

[timid solstice]

okee

[slender lodge]

reminiscing to 1315

[solar glade]

was just thinking about the 282 and found this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-282

[mortal ivy]

good night, see you on the far side

[sharp flame]

Wait we solved it?

[timid solstice]

t1b solved yep

[sharp flame]

79 AD right

[mortal ivy]

We are on t1c

[sharp flame]

okay imma need a lil breakdown of the first 1B

cause how were we supposed to get numerals from just the first image

[timid solstice]

X on the badge is my guess

hes my shortcut version;

The password for tier 1b was “ lxxix ”which is lowercase LXXIX - Roman numerals for the date AD 79. The main clues were the movie “ 79 A.D. ” which was released in 1962 and directed by Frank Kramer; searching for this date shows it in Roman numerals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AD_79.

FKRAMER = Frank Kramer
mmissar X = Kommissar X (Directed by Frank Kramer)
Flour + Egg = Spaghetti Western (FK reference)
Bullet Primer Dots = 1962 (Date movie 79 A.D. was released)
X on Badge = Roman numeral for 10

[sharp flame]

okay I see

1962 from the dots? How did that happen

[timid solstice]

#easter-eggs message

[hidden nacelle]

primers on the bullets

[sharp flame]

I know you can't see it but I'm facepalming right now

[timid solstice]

i tried anno79 / 79ad etc etc

the doc is fully up to date and has all the probable clue meanings on there for every artwork

[sharp flame]

having a look

also, I absolutely love that we were bickering over whether it was a word or numbers

when it was both 😭 😭 😭

[timid solstice]

yes haha

B or 8

oh wait you mena the answer itself

[sharp flame]

the answer yeah

"since you kind of mentioned the actual password (or is it a passcode .?!)"

wait a damn minute

is that what he meant?

[timid solstice]

ha maybe, and it was to giriko that mentioned 79 A.D in chat first

[sharp flame]

in hindsight, it was probably intentional

also in hindsight, Rob was right about how simple it was 🥹

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that 1C will also be a year..?

have we seen this

[solar glade]

we've pretty much seen everything on the new image ye

[timid solstice]

yeah scroll down in the doc and check the padlet too

all observations are in the pinned full res image message

[tulip matrix]

Actual footage of us trying to figure out tier 1B
https://youtu.be/-E3YMTZfZ9M

[slender lodge]

guys i think Akira Kurosawa leads to something here

[sharp flame]

there are so many clues in the 'Candy' series of images

I'm wondering if they'll help

this triangle is purposely equilateral for sure

The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

[timid solstice]

yep

thats as far as weve got

@sharp flame did you think that too or see it in the padlet or message further above?

[sharp flame]

saw it in the padlet too

didn't know if the name of the band had come up

[timid solstice]

ok cool, ill take that as we are going the right direction if you thought of it too

#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

it's just the only equilateral triangle I can think of

and it's pink

and moon

[neon stream]

Yeah, this seems like the right direction

[timid solstice]

thinking about this again it was probably this - X on Badge = Roman numeral for 10 (“The 10 Gladiators” directed by Frank Kramer)

[sharp flame]

that's a very solid idea

now we just have to clear up the other 3 images

[timid solstice]

i actually mentioned this 🤦🏻‍♂️

[sharp flame]

we need a NamaTama facepalm emote

we're gonna be using it a lot

[timid solstice]

i stopped facepalming and now I am again

[sharp flame]

this.. can't be an error

am I tripping? edit-yes

[timid solstice]

I think I already did in the doc

but time to move on now

[sharp flame]

yeah, like the missing e

I have no idea what it could mean

[slender lodge]

yeah its so weird

its like a resume button

[sharp flame]

youtube play button

[slender lodge]

ye lmao

[sharp flame]

E-2AN51

[timid solstice]

no its E-2A No.1

[sharp flame]

just saying what I see

[timid solstice]

yeah no worries

[sharp flame]

on second look, yeah it's No.1

[timid solstice]

keep going

[sharp flame]

better to have a range of interpretations ig

[timid solstice]

for sure

[timid solstice]

it does look odd

[sharp flame]

there's no way that's legible at all

wait is it morse

..-.

[timid solstice]

so blurry yeah hard to know

[sharp flame]

that really looks like . . _ .

which is 'F' in morse

and back to the 2A No.1

could that be referring to a previous tier/stage?

[timid solstice]

its in the pin - LMG stock white label: E-2A No.1 (Luna 3 codename)

[sharp flame]

ah

[timid solstice]

np

[sharp flame]

yeah removing all doubt that it isn't 'no.1'

probably shoulda known that

[timid solstice]

I think it is all there

[sharp flame]

yep just my eyes

I think the 'dark side of the moon' connection is pretty strong

since there are 2 references to Luna 3, which is made to capture exactly that

and also the triangle symbol which is notorious for the album named the very same

[timid solstice]

yes like the other tier 2 clues reaffirming each other (fkramer and ommissar X)

[sharp flame]

very subtle but I think this is new?

[timid solstice]

thats on the smg right? kinda just looked like scratches

[sharp flame]

yeah

very subtle, again, but they are positioned as a word would be

[timid solstice]

mirrored Cyrillic ?

end looks like ЭЯ mirrored

[pure loom]

I bet those laces are something specific. I thought maybe detonation cord, but couldn’t find anything that matches. Maybe some sort of specific wire?

[sharp flame]

they seem to be laces for decoration/as an accessory

(since they have aglets)

love using that word

[timid solstice]

unless its part of the actual skin im not sure if they would add it for a clue, 3d geometry is a bit different than adding hidden codes but who knows at this point

[sharp flame]

what about the Aethusa plant that was growing in Take Cover

[timid solstice]

it was photoshopped (i could be wrong about that)

[sharp flame]

makes sense actually

but I think the Discovery Corp etchings are 3d

[timid solstice]

you can emboss in photoshop too but they could edit the actual textures i guess

[pure loom]

The question is, is this a pointer to the Moon (or other space stuff), Pink Floyd, the album’s subject matters (e.g. mental health, the human condition), or something else?

[sharp flame]

I think the other clues would circle round to at least one of these (to know for sure)

I assume Pink Floyd is the one we can look at now, because they have multiple pieces of work under their name (similar to FKramer)

[pure loom]

Interestingly, following on from 79 AD and the Vesuvius eruption, I’ve heard Roger Waters describe the album as “a creative eruption” in an interview.

[sharp flame]

I think it's weird that Luna 3 is mentioned 2 times in separate namings in the image

has that happened with any other clue?

[timid solstice]

yes, Aethusa on the plinth and Ae thu sa in pieces (in greek ofc)

[sharp flame]

weren't they both in Greek?

[timid solstice]

yes, so not separate namings though

[tawny mural]

I am wondering if we are looking for something specific on the far side of the moon

https://cseligman.com/text/moons/moonfar.htm

There's a lot of named sites, but I think we may need to wait for more clues to reference to

[boreal trench]

Hey im new here, was looking to get involved, have read through the google document, and looked through the padlet, decided to see if their was a anything to do with candy in space, and I found this https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/rich-and-flavorful-history-chocolate-space-180954160/ apparently the first person to eat candy in space was a Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin (also the first human in outer space), which links to the other russian space things you guys have found. No idea if this is the the type of direction that the easter eggs have been going in so far, but thought id post it anyway.

[icy juniper]

hey what step are we on the easter egg map

?

[crisp scarab]

im sure someone already said this but the statue of apollo was built in 460 bc

which i guess points to the moon more

[hidden nacelle]

c

[icy juniper]

C out of what?

[boreal trench]

i think its called t1-c, here is the doc with everything so far, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLzGtj2w2elVkqEdPV6NgqRiszNAxnwIANXHK-Pa1Bk/edit, and here is the padlet https://padlet.com/JusticeCharity/vdxdc9hmjexfjsa7

[hidden nacelle]

tier 1c out of tier 3

https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

all the tiers ^

[lilac charm]

Apollo is also a giant crater on the dark side of the moon. And Apollo 8 mission was the first crewed spacecraft to observe the far side 🤔

[crisp scarab]

hm

[pure loom]

Welcome! We need all the help we can get 👋

[pure loom]

I think there are 9 tiers in total

We are onto the 3rd

[boreal trench]

glad to be here, I remember when overwatch had an arg back in like 2016 for sombra, and that was a lot of fun, so when I saw that there was one for this game, I wanted to try and get involved, hopefully i can add something before the end 🙂

[pure loom]

Based on how fast we’re going so far, my grandkids might contribute

[neon stream]

We need to convince Rob to write an autobiography, buy it, read it multiple times, understand how he thinks, and then solve every remaining Easter Egg in seconds

... ._.

[tulip matrix]

The trick of course is that in order to read his autobiography you need to find the encryption key to the enigma machine that is geocached on the dark side of the moon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(Pink_Floyd_box_set)

[tawny mural]

It seems something related to the moon/Apollo is our current lead. If we are trying to relate to previous clues, Aethusa and Apollo did have a son https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleuther

[mortal ivy]

Actually three times: the fools parsley was also aethusa

[mortal ivy]

I think we need to find how this ties back into the overall theme of the EEs as a whole. (I mentioned that in my first comment about 79ad as a reason why I thought the sword and sandals movies were more plausible than spaghetti westerns)

So the question is how can we tie cyrillic, moon/dark side and pfloyd (potentially) to Greek Gods/Galileo/Italy

[boreal trench]

selene is the greek personification of the moon

[mortal ivy]

Yep, was just reading that put wasn’t at a computer to piece it all together nicely.

I remember that I saw something about SELENE yesterday while reading about the spacecrafts as well. So it caught my eye

[slender lodge]

is the second pinned message updated

or are there newly found things

[mortal ivy]

Seems like it’s up to date

There’s a lunar orbiter spacecraft (just like Luna3) called SELENE.
It’s from Japan tho, and many many years after Luna. Not sure how relevant it is
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SELENE

There’s also minor planet orbiting the sun called 580 Selene (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/580_Selene)

[slender lodge]

[boreal trench]

to the right of the lower shoe does anyone else see the numbers 335? id upload an image but i dont think i have permissions.

[tawdry jungle]

congrats on finishing 1b!

[mortal ivy]

Thank you Blue 🥲

[mortal ivy]

You need to post 55 messages in the discord to get image rights. Either upload to imgur or message me and I’ll post it ☺️

[mortal ivy]

Have you painted on the numbers, or above them? @boreal trench

[boreal trench]

above the red numbers

[mortal ivy]

Oh yeah, I see somthing now

[timid solstice]

Morning everyone!

With my blurry eyes I can see 3 8 8

8 8 is most clear

[boreal trench]

looking more, if you ignore the first 3, i now see 358 with a 8 right the of the 5... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.358_Winchester

[timid solstice]

Adjusting the image, it does also look like a 3

[mortal ivy]

I believe it's 3 8 as well

[slender lodge]

yeah 3 8

[mortal ivy]

There is a distinct lack of lines to close the 3 into an 8 in the top left part

[timid solstice]

From ritka - "i also think i can see numbers in the negative space here under the shoe, i wanna say its like 22*3535"

[mortal ivy]

Unsure, cant zoom well on my work mac.

[wintry lantern]

i only see 5 and 3 there

[mortal ivy]

But it seems a bit too much, the clues so far haven't been that hard to find. Especially since this is a 2880x1620 image, if it isn't more or less visible it might just be artefacts

I'll say it again. Utilize Occam's razor. The simpelest solution, with the least assumptions, is probably the correct one.

[wintry lantern]

could this be smth?

since we have pink floyd

[slender lodge]

became violet floyd 💀

[wintry lantern]

lol

[neon stream]

Harpalus and Meton of Athens were two astronomers that lived around 460 BC. Neither has a good Wikipedia page, so they might not be linked to this. But the second one is known for the Metonic cycle, which is "a period of almost exactly 19 years after which the lunar phases recur at the same time of the year.", so I'd thought I'd mention it 😂

[zenith crown]

u guys solved it yet?

[solar glade]

definitely some numbers there

resolution is killing us this time around

[digital blade]

looks like it says booksticks

but thats probably the sleep deprivation

[solar glade]

ye there's numbers there

[mortal ivy]

It’s one of the highest quality images we’ve gotten so far though 🤔

[solar glade]

true, i just mean for this type of clue

[mortal ivy]

Does anyone know how we landed on this:
LMG stock: Bullet strip code = 1-5-1-3 ?
I remember me and Swa talking about the bullets, but I only got it to say ¬ or ðS depending on which represents 1 and 0s

[pure loom]

That was from me counting the primer marks that had been posted - but this time counting the bullets that did not have primer marks.

[timid solstice]

back here #easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

So the opposite of the weapons image.

[timid solstice]

just on the vertical strip too right?

[pure loom]

Ah, whatever the images were just above that comment you just linked.

I think I started with the horizontal one because that gave a 1 first - ASSUMING a year beginning with a 1 (big assumption)

[mortal ivy]

Did you count them binary, or numbers of bullets before the next mark or?

[pure loom]

Number of bullets without a mark, and ignored the primer mark ones.

So treated primer marks as a gap.

[mortal ivy]

oh I see, got it

Was under the assumption binary was involved and couldn't figure out how it came to 1 5 1 3

[pure loom]

So the same way as the weapons image but no primer mark vs having one

[wintry lantern]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbjqkLay7Q Moire Pattern optical illusions maybe?

[pure loom]

The horizontal section in this looks a bit like a seismograph drum.

The regular ticks on a seismograph are time marks

But they usually form a vertical series, not angled like the fabric in the image.

Seismometers were also placed on the Moon, if this is a correct ‘clue-path’

[sharp flame]

AAИ