easter-eggs

[sharp flame]

idk I'm saying binary here

[terse ivy]

so i see

they are racist and are telling us to go for the white rabbit and not the RED herring

[sharp flame]

I've... never seen a red rabbit before

[timid solstice]

sounds russian

[terse ivy]

it prob is

[timid solstice]

this man loved his Supereggs

[terse ivy]

why does rob use fullstop before exclamation mark

ive seen it twice now

[terse ivy]

3rd time

and that face too

[latent peak]

the ... ._. is morse for SR

[terse ivy]

and elipses quite alot

sr?

the letters sr?

[timid solstice]

Saint Rob, Patron Saint of Eggs

[terse ivy]

and that is

there is a ssaint of eggs?

[terse ivy]

looks russian

[tulip matrix]

back to TimBL we go

[sharp flame]

Ahh, the memories

[sharp flame]

This was kinda significant cause it's on The Finals' 404 page

[timid solstice]

true

[latent peak]

I probably wasn't here yet : ) Was that an early hunt ?

[sharp flame]

also quick PSA for anyone who wants to try: the URLs are also ALL IN LOWERCASE

Galileo doesn't work, galileo does

[tulip matrix]

The first image from this tier. The 404 gif
Tim Berners-Lee came up with html error codes and also inventor of the World Wide Web

[sharp flame]

Okay I have a theory of sorts

The pair of messages posted are solely to lead us to a URL which will aid us

both messages refer to the codeword

[latent peak]

Oh got ya!

[sharp flame]

I wouldn't take my word for it though

[latent peak]

I don't know why he does the ".!" but he's been doing it before this tier started

[terse ivy]

last tier gon be like how many times he did that ever

[timid solstice]

This was there before there were tiers.. https://www.reachthefinals.com/404

[sharp flame]

Honestly I think we should start a document for new URL attempts

[tulip matrix]

Since before Embark existed even!

[sharp flame]

(the 404 doesn't actually do anything)

[terse ivy]

do they all start with reachthefinals the urls?

[sharp flame]

yeah

[terse ivy]

ah alr

[latent peak]

Ah got ya!

[terse ivy]

need a overnight computer typing out every single possisble url

[sharp flame]

I've been working just as hard 😭

no astronomer names like galileo yet

tried copernicus, euclid, fibonacci, brahe, cassini, huygens

aristotle too

[terse ivy]

btw where is the link u put the passwords in

[sharp flame]

reachthefinals.com/t1-d

[terse ivy]

ty

[timid solstice]

the "O o NUL" clue could be reference to 3 phase power, hence the "Electricity" symbol

"Ground Line, Null Line and Live Line"

[terse ivy]

is it true u can get the answer from just the first clue

[timid solstice]

yes, but very hard

[terse ivy]

i see

is the firsst cllue

[sharp flame]

welllll

[terse ivy]

404

gif

[sharp flame]

I don't think so 💀💀

that would be impossible

it's definitely a clue

[terse ivy]

were the previous ones possible from the start?

[sharp flame]

yes

[terse ivy]

like did u look back at it and see ohhh

ah alr

[sharp flame]

yes

[timid solstice]

well I mean was that really the first if it wasnt in Official art?

[sharp flame]

part 1 was frighteningly more simple

part 2 too

3 upped the stakes a bit

[terse ivy]

where did thiss number come from

for the previous one

[sharp flame]

configuration of Mendelevium

the element named after Mendeleev

who made the first periodic table

[terse ivy]

yes i know that

how did it link to the first clue

[timid solstice]

#easter-eggs message

[terse ivy]

was sthis the first clue for the last one

[timid solstice]

The password for tier 1c was “ 5f137s2 ” which is the electron configuration for the element “Mendelevium”. The main clues were the Luna 3 far side of the moon mission and album cover of Pink Floyd’s Dark side of the moon, hinting at spectroscopy and one of its founders Anders Ångström. Also were Angstrom units and atomic configurations, the 118 clue was for the periodic table and Dmitri Mendeleev. The morse for “F” hinted at looking at the F block in the periodic table and the element “Mendelevium” named after Mendeleev. Later clues were atomic orbitals and electron configurations, this all pointed to using the code “5f137s2”.

most of this is in that image just very hard to get the answer from it

[terse ivy]

who ever got the answer to that

i applaud you

idk what you are doing in this server and not winning a nobel prize

[hidden nacelle]

[timid solstice]

its a group effort

we all push eachother to the right (or wrong) direction!

[terse ivy]

feel like we prob passed the answer like 10 times

and from what ive seen u guys have crossed the answer quite a bit for previous ones

like 1064

how long

has this one been going on for

[timid solstice]

Well it depends, if the answer is x+ we are nowhere near, we are going y-

[timid solstice]

Level 1
/geocache (Sept 5th - 16th)

Level 2
Loading... (Oct 2 - 4, 2 days)
T1-A 1064 (Oct 6 - 11, 5 days)
T1-B lxxix (Oct 11 - 30, 19 days)
T1-C 5f137s2 (Oct 30 - Nov 17, 18 days)
T1-D ????? (Nov 18 - Dec ?)

[tulip matrix]

You see, we actually just "overlook" the password temporarily in order to get as much concept art as possible

[terse ivy]

what do you mean by x+ and y-

[terse ivy]

yes yes

u guys have a secret discord server where u just find the password but just leave it until u get enough art

[terse ivy]

oh damn nearly a month

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-wink-wink-winking-rowan-atkinson-gif-15388297

[timid solstice]

as soon as we get namatama image we pretend to "just" solve the tier in about 6 hours

[terse ivy]

i see

[latent peak]

Btw this is all we found for the last image is it ? Just making sure i havent missed any

[timid solstice]

I mean if the egg hunt progress was plotted on a Cartesian coordinate system graph we tend to go south than forward

[sharp flame]

you're a godsend🙏🙏🙏

[tulip matrix]

Looks a lot like that plotted equation oddly enough

[timid solstice]

https://padlet.com/Flex4d/a2ussq9twicy0jth

9 - a_friend_u_missed
Clue: 4O4 ❓
Hidden numbers : Two zeros 0❓

8 - 404
Symbol: Ø = Empty Set✅

7 - HappyNamaTama_2023
Saturn: Saturn✅
3 stars: Saturn as described by Galilieo❓
Letters on confetti: V I F R M A = OVIFORM✅

6 - Keep_It_Simple
Keep_It_Simple: Van Morrison Song✅
Top equation: y=±B/2√L^2-4x^2/L^2+8wx+4w^2= Formula for avian egg shape✅
Ellipse: Oval/Egg✅
Mask tag numbers: 82--48 and 48--82=❓
Sword pommel: Colosseum coin = Oval✅
Shirt numbers: 111 205 2205 = o ═ ∅❓
Gun engraving: XV = Ø = 15 is o❓
Weapon charm: X in egg shape
Finger tattoos: UNN?❓
Belt code: JA 1967.06.24 = White Rabbit song✅
Writing on box: CM 𝛑❓
Text by foot: XV
Code in footer: 1404E210DDFD 4FA5E227933D2 1A3DC =❓

5 - Beside_You
Beside_You: Van Morrison Song
Expression: x2 + [1.4^x*1.6y]2 or 1 = x2 +((1.4^x) (1.6y) )^2= Oval shape✅
Numbers: 0345351738 = ISBN 2061: Odyssey Three✅
Hidden lines: 202 456 1111 = Oval Office✅
Signature: Johannes Kepler✅
Pattern: Triangles = Sergels torg ✅
Text: Kumblehaven = Park with Piet Hein sculptures✅
Pixel squares corners: 7 18 11 21= grku “gruks” Piet Hein ✅
Small symbols in lens flares:❓

1-4 clues
#easter-eggs message

https://tinyurl.com/mr6x54t9
https://tinyurl.com/mr3sxhkr
https://tinyurl.com/yayu99hd
https://tinyurl.com/2rre583m

[terse ivy]

have we tried calling it

[sharp flame]

Lmfao

[terse ivy]

maybe they collabed with them and when we call they give us a clue

[sharp flame]

Imagine if Rob's taken control of the number

[tranquil ivy]

You get rob's home phone

[sharp flame]

"Hello, this is Joe Biden, I hear you need the name of a certain astronomer..."

[terse ivy]

we need a name of a certain astronomer?

there cant be that many gotta try them alll

[sharp flame]

absolutely made that up

but you never know

it seems like a good shout for that URL

I wonder if it's "superegg"

[terse ivy]

Marc Aaronson USA 1950 1987 His work concentrated on three fields: the determination of the Hubble constant (H0) using the Tully–Fisher relation, the study of carbon rich stars, and the velocity distribution of those stars in dwarf spheroidal galaxies.

Aaronson was one of the first astronomers to attempt to image dark matter using infrared imaging. He imaged infrared halos of unknown matter around galaxies that could be dark matter.
George Ogden Abell USA 1927 1983
Hiroshi Abe Japan 1958
Antonio Abetti Italy 1847 1928
Giorgio Abetti Italy 1882 1982
Charles Greeley Abbot USA 1872 1973
Charles Hitchcock Adams USA 1868 1951
John Couch Adams UK 1819 1892
Walter Sydney Adams USA 1876 1956
Saul Adelman USA 1944
Petrus Alphonsi Spain 1062 1110
Agrippa Greece fl. ca. 92 Agrippa observed the occultation of a part of the Pleiades by the southernmost part of the Moon.
Paul Oswald Ahnert Germany 1897 1989
Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs Germany 1912 1954
George Biddell Airy UK 1801 1892
Robert Aitken USA 1864 1951

Makio Akiyama Japan 1950
Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi Persia 903 986
Albategnius (see Al-Batani) c. 858 929
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky Russia 1891 1952
Albumasar Persia 787 886
George Alcock UK 1913 2000
Harold Alden USA 1890 1964
Hannes Alfvén Sweden 1908 1995
Lawrence H. Aller USA 1913 2003
Viktor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian Armenia 1912 1996
John August Anderson USA 1876 1959
Wilhelm Anderson Estonia 1880 1940
Marie Henri Andoyer France 1862 1929
Andronicus of Cyrrhus Greece fl. ca. 100 BC
Anders Jonas Ångström Sweden 1814 1874
Eugène Michel Antoniadi Greece-France 1870 1944
Masakatsu Aoki Japan 1957
Petrus Apianus Germany 1495 1557
François Arago France 1786 1853
Masaru Arai Japan 1952
Hiroshi Araki Japan
Sylvain Arend Belgium 1902 1992
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander Germany 1799 1875
Aristarchus of Samos Greece ca. 310 BC ca. 230 BC
Christoph Arnold Germany 1650 1695
Halton Christian Arp USA 1927 2013
Svante Arrhenius Sweden 1859 1927

[solar glade]

holy wall of text

[terse ivy]

Aryabhata India 476 550 Aryabhata correctly insisted that the earth rotates about its axis daily, and that the apparent movement of the stars is a relative motion caused by the rotation of the earth. Solar and lunar eclipses were scientifically explained by Aryabhata. Aryabhata calculated the sidereal rotation (the rotation of the earth referencing the fixed stars).³
Arzachel Spain 1028 1087
Asada Goryu Japan 1734 1799
Atsuo Asami Japan
Giuseppe Asclepi Italy 1706 1776
Joseph Ashbrook USA 1918 1980
Arthur Auwers Germany 1838 1915
Adrien Auzout France 1622 1691
David Axon England 1951 2012
Walter Baade Germany 1893 1960
Harold D. Babcock USA 1882 1968
Horace W. Babcock USA 1912 2003
Oskar Backlund Sweden 1846 1916
John N. Bahcall USA 1934 2005
Yoshiaki Banno Japan 1952 1991
Benjamin Baillaud France 1848 1934
Jules Baillaud France 1876 1960
Jean-Baptiste Baille France 1841 1918
Jean Sylvain Bailly France 1736 1793
Francis Baily UK 1774 1844
John Bainbridge UK 1582 1643
John E. Baldwin UK 1931 2010
Sallie Baliunas USA 1953
Zoltán Balog Hungary/USA 1972
Benjamin Banneker USA 1731 1806
Pietro Baracchi Italy Australia 1851 1926
Beatriz Barbuy Brazil 1950
Edward Emerson Barnard USA 1857 1923

[tranquil ivy]

Antonio Abetti?

[terse ivy]

i ssee

lets start typing them in

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

[tranquil ivy]

Antonio has 1947 next to their name

[terse ivy]

those for nerds copying 100000 words>

[timid solstice]

and the 1 6 3 7 pixels in the corners

[tranquil ivy]

1847*

[terse ivy]

itss their birth

and their death year

does the number 1847 matter?

[tranquil ivy]

I remember someone saying 47

[latent peak]

7 18 21 11 was the pixels in the corners for this picture

1637 was the previous image i think. But was discovered after we got the last image

[timid solstice]

oh really

need a confirm on that

[latent peak]

I'll check it

[terse ivy]

47 rabbit holes

[timid solstice]

yep RHB says "second" image you are right

[tranquil ivy]

yee that

[timid solstice]

seeing as 1637 was part of the image with the two (found) Descartes clues I think it does hint to the "Discourse on the Method" book the most

gn everyone happy hunting

https://tenor.com/view/elmer-fudd-very-quiet-vewy-quiet-hunting-wabbits-gif-21896551

[terse ivy]

gn

[latent peak]

gn!

[sharp flame]

The first image included the symbol for lead, (scythe) which they used during the search for the infamous Lead-Gold transformation

The LBNL lab (seen earlier) was the very first in the world to make this happen

And now if Au, symbol for gold is really in the image too

I think there's another connection

since Gold is represented by the Sun as Lead is represented by Saturn

[latent peak]

That's interesting, a good thing to keep in mind. 🤔

I must have overlooked this last time but apparently piet hein designed an astro callendar

[pure loom]

How's it all going? I've just spent the last three hours dealing with a leaking ceiling that was dripping onto my PC desk!

Fortunately nothing damaged - the leak is still leaking and I have moved my desk location. Fun times!

[pure loom]

EE-related AI art of the day: "A photograph of René Descartes wearing a suit made of easter eggs"

[neon stream]

Do one with "Hunters looking back at the Tier 1D answer, after successfully completing it" so we can see what it is we would be looking at 😛

Ez

[pure loom]

It was too horrific to post

[pure loom]

I changed this in the padlet as it was connected to the wrong image

[cedar owl]

Wow this level has Run for a long time. Don't mean to Poke fun, you are working so hard. Make sure to Pause every now and then and take care of yourselves. There is a always a New clue on the horizon. We do Not want you to burn out.

[proud minnow]

Wow Dusty, you are losing it... Sounds like something from Adventure A "I am on a mountain plateau to the north there is a cliff."... perhaps the last 47 clues were buried too deep... ._.

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/here-we-go-again-wtp-gif-25686311

♥️

[tranquil ivy]

I wish best of luck to all EE hunters on finding the answer 🫡

[sharp flame]

👀👀👀👀

[timid solstice]

some noteable parts

[sharp flame]

As well as all the capitals

[timid solstice]

R P P N N

[sharp flame]

Not sure if we should include the first letter of sentences too

[timid solstice]

yeah was thinking that too, not sure

W R D P M P T N W N

[sharp flame]

WRDPMPTNWN

Idk either it's some phrase with the vowels removed

Or RPPNN stands for something

[timid solstice]

what is Adventure A ?

I need to work, good luck all!

[sharp flame]

Adventure Academy?

only thing that pops up

[timid solstice]

yeha same

and that quote is not a direct quote either

"I am on a mountain plateau to the north there is a cliff"

its a Swedish-fied version 🙂

[sharp flame]

This sounds like a text adventure game

[sharp flame]

And the capitalized words here seem like word commands you'd type to play the game

[timid solstice]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_(1980_video_game)

"The First Easter Egg"

https://youtu.be/c_9Gh89NUWA?t=74

[solar glade]

i haven’t even served my first cafecito, but glhf

[neon stream]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_A:_Planet_of_Death

[timid solstice]

nice

[neon stream]

Part of this video:

https://youtu.be/D271sPUoF84

[boreal trench]

dont know if we should over analyse rob written stuff or not, the actual quote from the game is "I am on a mountain plateau to the north there is a STEEP cliff"

[boreal trench]

oh you already linked that lol

doesnt look like you can dig deep in the game, but their is a deep pit with a green slime man at the bottom

[sharp flame]

Heyyy it was a text adventure

"planet of death" do we know what the planet is?

[boreal trench]

just says alien planet

[sharp flame]

I wonder what happens if you use the capitalized words in Dusty's message in that order

As commands

[boreal trench]

i guess the closest would be mars, we did think mars might actually have aliens for a long time tho

[sharp flame]

Don't think they'd work though

[latent peak]

I'll download it and give it a try

Oh, you can't type in it

Android version that is

[sharp flame]

Oh shame

But Run and Poke seem like commands

"New" sounds like the thing which you'd type after "Pause"ing

"Not" I'm not too sure about

[latent peak]

True true.

[neon stream]

"R P P N N" 🤔

It's interesting that we have that last sentence. Those letters could have been formed without it, by just capitalizing "now"

[sharp flame]

One per sentence surely

[neon stream]

Hmmm makes sense, I guess ☝🏻

[neon stream]

Could the "horizon" thing on Dusty's message be a reference to this? Did we figure that one out? It even has Rob's reaction on it

It also looks like there's something there. Did we find a clue on that part of the image?

[sharp flame]

Orr the fact that New and Horizon appear in the same message

New Horizons?

[neon stream]

I hope the "/" is not the Tower of Pisa this time, or I'll be even more lost 😂

[bleak ledge]

@prisma stump @fallen jasper damn u guys made it up there

[fallen jasper]

We are community first

[bleak ledge]

congrats

[sharp flame]

"'There are no coincidences in this world' - Master Oogway" - SR

[neon stream]

Edvin Öhrström looks like Bruce Willis 🤔

(Nothing important, just me showing signs that I've gone a few rabbit holes and need to rest a bit 😛 )

[neon stream]

Piet Hein used the pseudonym "Kumbel". "Kumbel" means "tombstone". What if this should point us to Frombork, where Copernicus is buried? 🤔

[sharp flame]

The clue was Kumbelhaven right?

[neon stream]

And Gruk

[sharp flame]

Oooooh wait

The Author of Alice in Wonderland is a mathematician too

[neon stream]

And the superellipse from the roundabout in Stockholm that I'm not going to even try to spell from memory 😂

"Sergels torg", it wasn't that difficult after all 😅

[sharp flame]

https://artofmemory.com/blog/lewis-carrolls-memory-techniques/

he has his own Cipher..?

[pure loom]

My immediate thought is that Royal is the first word and the initials stand for a publication of some kind.

Also 18 16 16 14 14 are the alphabet numbers

[pure loom]

The artwork for Adventure A: Planet of Death was used 10 years later for an Amiga game called "Agony".

Adventure A: Planet of Death came with no instructions on which commands you could use!

lol

No wonder Rob likes it hahaha

[pure loom]

Rahu looks quite similar to the monster on the cover of the Adventure A: Planet of Death game.

[proud minnow]

I played that game like crazy, I still have that box somewhere in storage... ._.

[proud minnow]

hehe sorry nothing interesting this time... ._.

[hidden nacelle]

😦

[proud minnow]

just reading through to see if there has been any progress during the day... ._.

[sharp flame]

I sometimes wonder how you can play a text adventure game like crazy

[terse ivy]

... ._.

[proud minnow]

haha, I was referring to Agony on the Amiga, it is a brilliant game where you play an owl.!

[sharp flame]

ohhhh right

[proud minnow]

Adventure A is one of the first, if not THE first, game I played... ._.

[neon stream]

Sorry for letting you down, not much progress 😂

[sharp flame]

I'm just gonna say that any lack of progress is solely due to bad luck and nothing else

It's just not our day 💪💪💪

[pure loom]

My progress to reading ratio is about 1:100

[sharp flame]

100? Rookie numbers... 💪😭

[pure loom]

Somehow I have circled back to Euler at the moment...

[terse ivy]

long time writing

[sharp flame]

I spent over an hour on Arabic Geometers alone

[hidden nacelle]

https://tenor.com/view/jim-carrey-jim-carrey-typing-jim-carrey-typing-angry-jim-carrey-typing-fast-gif-22736994

embed fail 😐

[sharp flame]

And another today on Minesweeper and Microcomputers 😭

[terse ivy]

really got bamboozled like that

[sharp flame]

I miss the feeling of a connection 🥲

[proud minnow]

(I didn't understand many words since I didn't know any English back then, but it was so cool to play a real computer game on the zx81 that I borrowed from my parents friends son... it was two games, Galaxians and Adventure A)

[pure loom]

No instructions and a second language! Impressive.

[neon stream]

There probably was a Swedish version of the game, he just wanted a bigger challenge 😛

[pure loom]

That makes me feel better about these EEs. They are second language to me, and I only know how to order beer and peanuts in it

[sharp flame]

Imagine being stranded in a foreign country, except all the residents are obscure scientists and artists, and everyone speaks in science or song lyrics

and you have to find the way to your hotel 🥲

[proud minnow]

Perhaps, but at least you learned a little bit of gaming history, that something right..?

[proud minnow]

I would LOVE that, sounds FUN.!

[sharp flame]

At this point I'm learning a ton of history history too 🤣

[mortal ivy]

Imagine ending up in a foreign country and everyone talks a language you don't know. How crazy wouldn't that be?!?!

[proud minnow]

Yes, and I saw that you were talking about TBL the other day.!

[sharp flame]

I think when you're digging so much, you start to get interested in the dirt as much as the treasure

[neon stream]

I'd love to see a "Wikipedia Wrapped" of this year, after all these rabbit holes 😂

[mortal ivy]

Maybe the real treasure was all the dirt you dug through all along

[pure loom]

and all the new emojis

[sharp flame]

I mean I guess this is confirmation that we weren't expected to go that far down that hole

[tranquil ivy]

This is how people feel when they come to Australia

[cedar owl]

No sense Dwelling on the past.

[sharp flame]

...

[terse ivy]

._.

[neon stream]

It's fun how Rob stopped typing after I said that, and Dusty appeared...I'll take that as a clue. Not sure what it means 😂

[sharp flame]

okay okay just making sure I wasn't getting in the middle of a Rob-Dusty screenshot again 🤣

I mean... apparently 'Dwelling' is big enough of a hint that we should get it now

[hidden nacelle]

thats a clue!

[sharp flame]

that confuddles me

well, either D or the whole word Dwelling

[hidden nacelle]

....

[terse ivy]

._.

[sharp flame]

I mean, might be something to do with a Dwelling

[pure loom]

The "White House"?

[sharp flame]

but what I don't get is, if there are Capital letters which give us a name or place in one message

how would adding a single new one help us?

the same goes with a list of capitalized words

and the same goes with Rob adding a new missing letter every so often

just can't wrap my head around how that could work atm

[hidden nacelle]

[neon stream]

Hmmmm what if the capitalized letters are just "capital" letters, and the White House is in the Capital of the USA?

[neon stream]

Too far fetched?

[proud minnow]

1 day u will, I prmise.!

[sharp flame]

omfg 😭😭😭😭😭

[pure loom]

Is the "-" in iseul-t a missing letter?

[sharp flame]

I'm gonna go and cry

give me a second

okay done

[terse ivy]

that was quick

[sharp flame]

well I am pretty literal

[terse ivy]

fair enough

[hidden nacelle]

🤔

[sharp flame]

Rob's used 'u' instead of 'you' a few times

not sure if we should be including those

[terse ivy]

depends

[sharp flame]

also now a missing o

[neon stream]

should we include the U or the missing Y and O? 😂

[terse ivy]

rob might be feeling too tired to just spell you

[terse ivy]

good point

[sharp flame]

My theory about the second letter being missing is thrown out of the window

as well as the position of the word in the sentence

the missing letters in order don't spell anything

and if it's an anagram, then what's the point in releasing a new letter every few days

[terse ivy]

in 2 years we can spell out a sentence

so what could o mean

isnt that the 2nd time he missed an o

[sharp flame]

@pure loom no more 'steep' cliff. I guess that's one less loose end...

[terse ivy]

what if the o key is just not working on his keyboard

[sharp flame]

Third or more

[terse ivy]

damn

[mortal ivy]

Lets do a gofundme for getting rob a new keyboard

[proud minnow]

Deal.!

[terse ivy]

he accidently did speech marks instead of exclamation mark , time to note that down

[sharp flame]

and sometimes I wonder if it's grammar... or a clue

[neon stream]

At least for the last message, I think we should take "Dwelling" as the clue. I think Rob saw an opportunity to give us an additional clue, and asked Dusty to deliver it, hence the minutes in between the messages

[mortal ivy]

the sentence started with citations as well, so it's not robs own words

[terse ivy]

actually wait itss supposed to be like that

damn it

dissapointed

[sharp flame]

except additional words and messages have been happening all over

[mortal ivy]

yes, Dwelling is a clue. I have no clue about anything this tier, but Dwelling sure is.
I know a Dusty clue when I see one

[sharp flame]

but yeah it does seem like giving us 'Dwelling' is supposed to help us out here

I think we might have enough URLs to start a mini EE sub-level

[terse ivy]

its so hard to tell if something is a clue or a grammatical error

[sharp flame]

T1D.5 "the URL"

let's start a padlet 👍👍

hahaha with even the ARC stripe

[terse ivy]

fr

[neon stream]

What if the letters don't matter, but the capitalized words do? 🤔

[pure loom]

I was just about to point that out hehe

[sharp flame]

Dwelling and Not seem like such outliers though yknow

[mortal ivy]

Which keyboard do you like? I can get you this 1 star Sidougeri keyboard from amazon

[proud minnow]

I was ACTUALLY bidding on one online yesterday.!

[terse ivy]

idk at this point im starting to think when they said 47 they meant 47 red herrings and 1 real clue

[sharp flame]

wait WHAT are the odds of that

unless this EE has got Rob feeling nostalgic

actually that's probably it

[mortal ivy]

I know that keyboard has been presented before

[pure loom]

Hopefully the one real clue isn't the marks on the microphone in the first image!

[proud minnow]

"there are no coincidences in this world"

[terse ivy]

ill trade rob a piece of bubblegum for 3 clues (real)

[sharp flame]

Mic --> US Flag --> White house..?

[sharp flame]

Okay second time he's said that

[neon stream]

I'm starting to think @prisma stump is on Rob's side of the hunt now 🤔

[sharp flame]

either Oogway is actually important or Kung Fu Panda wasn't the original source of the quote

hmmm

[mortal ivy]

"Never ignore coincidence. Unless, of course, you’re busy. In which case, always ignore coincidence."

[terse ivy]

they prob hired some of us to "work on the ee hunt" and lead us in the opposite directions

[mortal ivy]

yep, I am paid to not interact 👀 (I wish)

[sharp flame]

you could say... there's an im- gets shot

[terse ivy]

yes u could say there is a imp-

never finish it

rob is always watching

always

too suspicious

[neon stream]

You went from solving clues to delivering them

[terse ivy]

2 possibilities darnoux was hired or darnoux familia is on the line

[sharp flame]

Can't trust someone on Embark's payroll...

[pure loom]

This is probably a path worth pursuing for a time, seeing as there are so many clues. So, the obvious question is "which one is the white rabbit and which ones are the red herrings?"

[sharp flame]

I say that while standing in front of the Cult of Saint Rob

[neon stream]

Shhh that's only a joke 😂

[sharp flame]

I don't think we can really deduce that until we get the URL

which will be our white rabbit

[pure loom]

It was interesting on the first image that when we found "Leith" and started looking at rivers in Scotland, Rob also looked at that and mentioned it - maybe it concerned him because Leith was the real clue?

[mortal ivy]

It's cruel by Embark really, we were only like 10 or so to begin with and then they go and headhunt two of our most talkative deteggtives

[sharp flame]

as it will be something like /brahe

or something

[terse ivy]

at this point faster to take one of them hostage to get the clues

[terse ivy]

those puns make me feel like ur with them

[sharp flame]

I... my days are numbered

[neon stream]

I think the cruel part is just that they make an animal work, poor red panda 😭

[mortal ivy]

icrievrytiem

😦

[fallen jasper]

Is Darnoux working hard or is he hardly working

We shall find out soon with the next installment of his memes

[mortal ivy]

It's time for a praying circle

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[sharp flame]

If the words themselves are important

then "Not" is really weird here

it's not a thing, or an action or anything

[fallen jasper]

In 2023 I will miss when I had the time to throw together the most useful padlet

https://padlet.com/JusticeCharity/u1vz9yeumud9hc10

It's too powerful for the embedded

[neon stream]

If NamaTama is dangerous blink twice

[timid solstice]

It’s not a cult 😉

[sharp flame]

hooooly that's cool

[terse ivy]

👁️ 👃 👁️ -> -👃- -> 👁️ 👃 👁️ -> -👃-

🫥 i did not know this was a emoji

[mortal ivy]

That's a real unicode emoji, introduced like 6 months back or something

[fallen jasper]

idk

[fallen jasper]

I started it as a joke then I realized I actually kinda wanted to do it for real.

[tranquil ivy]

🐹

[neon stream]

When was Key West mentioned? 🤔

[fallen jasper]

Click on it

[mortal ivy]

How all great obsession project starts

[fallen jasper]

You will see when it was mentioned

[sharp flame]

It's not obsession, it's passion 💪

[neon stream]

Oh! That's cool!

[mortal ivy]

How all great obsession passion project starts

[fallen jasper]

If it's purple it's a jokele

This was Darnoux's fault

I saw the baguette and wanted to add a random story from me

[sharp flame]

couldn't find the meme version 😭

[mortal ivy]

I was like: That's not true! Why isn't Barack receiving the medal from Obama?

[pure loom]

Easter egg-related AI Art for the day: One white rabbit sitting amongst 47 red herrings:

Has Cecil “Chuck” Leith been the only clue we didn't find on Wikipedia?

[tulip matrix]

[latent peak]

On the door of Rene Descartes building in Sweden, or his last Dwelling.

I think I found an ** eggplant**

There's also this part

[pure loom]

I think I have found this (if it wasn't found previously - it's showing as having no connections in the padlet)

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

[fallen jasper]

Padlet has started emailing me every time anyone adds anything to the padlet

👀

[boreal trench]

In the movie/book Misery, Paul Sheldon used the Royal typewriter model 10, which is know for missing the 1 key by design, people would just use the lower case 'l'. Also in the story the typewriter used is also missing the letter 'n'. That typewriter happens to have 47 keys total. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Typewriter_Company
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_(film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misery_(novel)

[pure loom]

I've been going back over some of our previous rabbit holes to see if we overlooked anything, or if new clues have shed any light on them. The Little Prince one you came up with, I think, is worth reexamining for a few reasons.

This is the house in which The Little Prince was written (The White House)

The Rose in The Little Prince was likely inspired by Saint-Exupéry's Salvadoran wife, Consuelo (Montreal, 1942) - look at the pattern on her top

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

I haven't uncovered anything else yet

[pure loom]

The publisher of The Little Prince, Reynal and Hitchcock, published another book called Strange Fruit - a possible eggplant reference there?

[pure loom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B612_Foundation

Named after the Little Prince’s home asteroid

[sharp flame]

The other 3 look like the pixelated outlines in the first image

also

Rob reacted when Rockhound mentioned that there was something off about the brown eyed girl's right eye

perhaps it's referring to loss of eyesight?

when I search "one-eyed mathematician", Euler is a pretty prominent one who also lost vision in his right eye

[timid solstice]

Duh posted it in relation to the crash test marker not this one #easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

but it's a whole new person which honestly I don't think I can sink another hour into

So far, double stars are coming up quite a bit, and also the Sun

Most of these mathematicians have made certain observations about the sun too

[neon stream]

😂😂😂

https://twitter.com/createplayremix/status/1603749364920639490?t=JePbI6qhIKKYydJarHWwVA&s=19

Embark's Creative Playground (@createplayremix)

#REACHTHESEMIFINALS

▶ Play video

Twitter · Dec 16, 2022, 1:50 PM

[neon stream]

One of the rabbit holes has lead me here:

https://youtu.be/kSdqLlyqZX8

I don't understand a word of it, but she has a nice voice 😂

The Sergels Torg one, the roundabout in Sweden with a superellipse shape (Piet Hein proposed that)

[mortal ivy]

Sergels torg is more famous for other stuff 👀

[cedar owl]

Hands down my fav Swedish singer! ❤️

[mortal ivy]

I'm not much for "radio music", but Veronica is really great indeed.

[cedar owl]

"Välkommen in" is my jam.

"Måndagsbarn" is also pretty great

[mortal ivy]

Her album Satan i Gatan is probably the best, imo

[neon stream]

Niiiiiice! I just listened to it and I really liked it! Loved the instruments, and loved the Italian part 😛

[cedar owl]

hehe that's the part I don't sing as confidently when I am shouting along as I do the dishes...😅

[neon stream]

I just finished listening to that one, I really liked it too! Again, loved the instruments, and her voice is really good too 🎵

"I should've learned to play the guitar..." 🎵

😛

[neon stream]

I'll have to learn Swedish now too 😅

At least at an elementary school level 😂

I was following the Italian reference of the first song, and arrived to this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_ECJvc0nnbg

That I can understand a lot better than Swedish 😂

[neon stream]

Now one of the rabbit holes has lead me to a candle holder, not nearly as fun as good music 😂

https://piethein.com/shop/3-tableserie/9-saturn-candleholder/

[pure loom]

Crash - the reason the author of The Little Prince wrote the book was because he crash landed his plane in the Libyan desert and found a meteorite at the crash site (this bit might be anecdotal only). (He also passed away in a plane crash years later).

[sharp flame]

I wonder what all the fiducial markers are for

Also, probably worth mentioning that the there is a fiducial registration mark in all of the EE images

[fallen jasper]

I really do want to ask whoever at embark is making the images what exactly all of the text on the right of their images mean and what purpose they serve

Not because it's relevant to the EE or anything, I just like learning new things

[sharp flame]

my theory is that they're there to just calibrate the printing

to see how fine the gaps between black lines can get, and if all colours print in full hue

not sure about REACH.THE.FINALS

or 00:00:00

[fallen jasper]

I have a poster printer in my office

Hmmm

should I do it

[neon stream]

YES! 😂

[sharp flame]

"there is no cost in the pursuit of truth" - Descartes, probably

[neon stream]

Are mods able to pin things? Could any of you guys pin this? @fallen jasper @prisma stump

[fallen jasper]

Hmm

[neon stream]

(And maybe unpin some of the old things, except the Byzantine Empire one, ofc)

[neon stream]

Thanks Blues!

[fallen jasper]

Yes

I just had a bruh moment and couldn't see the option right infront of me

I'm gonna unpin all of my padlet posts and make a new one

[fallen jasper]

So I finally figured out how to make admins on Padlet

So...

Here's the changes:
**1. **All of the padlets are public, so everyone can view them without needing a direct link, they'll also show up on my profile so I can just have that listed so people can revist old padlets.
**2. **You'll need approval before anything you post is visable to everyone else. You can still connect it to other posts, and do everything else. It just won't be visible.
3. Those that have been actively adding things to the Padlets have been given edit privilages on it so they can approve posts and won't have to get approval to add new posts. If you've been adding and I missed you let me know and I'll add you to the list.

List of important things for the EE hunt:

Community Resources:
Current Tier Padlet: https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1e-ohsl9b4w3ncqnvqe
Current Tier Padlet for Clues & Connections: https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1e-clues-connections-v3wvs675l9dvztxa
Previous Tier Padlets: https://padlet.com/Kyne
TFEE Timeline Guide: https://padlet.com/Kyne/2l7qa8t74gbnvijy
TFEE Documentation Page: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLzGtj2w2elVkqEdPV6NgqRiszNAxnwIANXHK-Pa1Bk/edit
TFEE_Level2 Page: https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2
THE FINALS Wiki: https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Main_Page

Tier Recaps:
T1C Recap: #easter-eggs message
T1D Recap(Will be kept up to date): #easter-eggs message

Password Requirements:
**1. ** All passwords are lower case.
**2. ** There are no spaces in the passwords.
3. Can't be any longer than 30 characters.

Previous Tier Passwords:
T1A - 1064
T1B - lxxix
T1C - 5f137s2
T1D - 0vif0rm

[neon stream]

😢

[fallen jasper]

Let me go ahead and add you lol

[neon stream]

Thanks! 😃

[fallen jasper]

You'll get aemail

That you'll need to accept but after that you should be good

[neon stream]

I'm going to approve myself 😎

[fallen jasper]

Darnoux isn't a editor

We'll have to approve his posts

I'll add you if you want

I just haven't seen you do anything besides lurking on the padlet tho

I tried to make a PDF of Tier C to share it but uh

It made a 48 page PDF

You have been added

[solar glade]

literally me rn at work

[neon stream]

I did a bit more research, and realised I made a mistake on the Cronus' World Egg thing, it was Chronus' World Egg 🤦🏻‍♂️

mea culpa

[neon stream]

(There is a Cronus and egg connection, but I doubt Rob would want us to go that way, and I'm afraid of what I might find 😅 )

[fallen jasper]

So how the search going ?

[neon stream]

We are trying to solve one of Röbinger's Easter Eggs, and what we learned is that we are both close and far away until we see the last link 😂

[neon stream]

I wonder if they are both using "Wow" on purpose 🤔

[sharp flame]

I think the 'burying deep' of the clues might be something to consider too

[neon stream]

I was thinking that the answer could be an ISBN, because of the fiducial markers and the 2061 ISBN, but I wouldn't know where to start 😂

[tranquil ivy]

What if that was the password...

[neon stream]

yeah

The barcodes encode the ISBNs, so that relates to the fiducial markers too

And also the 10s in some clues, there's ISBN-10

[sharp flame]

Maybe the position of word which is capitalized?

[neon stream]

pretty much each book that we mentioned has 1000 editions 😂

[sharp flame]

5 4 4 6 3

and then 3 for Dwelling

5th word of the first sentence, 4th of the second, etc.

54463(3)

don't think these will help much but you never know

[neon stream]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yún_(surname)

Type that character as a password and we solve the tier /s

[sharp flame]

Why am I looking at outdated Yugoslavian currency 😭

Hmmmm... Look pretty familiar ngl

[neon stream]

Oh boy, not another rabbit hole plz

[sharp flame]

Introduced Jan1st1990

wait no way 😭

[neon stream]

@sharp flame please solve it

😂

[sharp flame]

idk anymore

if Rob has even thought of this

but I'll keep looking

Monumental historical event here

[timid solstice]

???

This looks like this Mayan symbol right?

https://www.dcode.fr/mayan-numbers

[sharp flame]

Missing the bottom line but still exactly it

[timid solstice]

It means 0

Another zero

[sharp flame]

Actually super likely since it's 0

yeah

what if 0 is the key..?

[timid solstice]

Dcode.fr hinted to use this Mayan decoder when I entered 110 d631

[sharp flame]

wonder why

[timid solstice]

No idea

[sharp flame]

Apparently o was used as 0 at some point

maybe O=0=o=0 are just all symbols for... nothing?

ohhhhh

like the NULL

also means nothing?

idk I'm getting metaphorical now

[timid solstice]

There was also a 0 in the previous t1c that went no where

[sharp flame]

"The initial "N" was used as a zero symbol in a table of Roman numerals by Bede"

We had an N confirmed in this one right?!

here

[timid solstice]

I think that was then interpreted as “ W “

[sharp flame]

Was that confirmed/connected to anything?

[timid solstice]

Nope

Just kinda looked like the David Bowie makeup

[sharp flame]

Well idk if Rob reacted it probably meant we were overlooking its importance

or that we were quite behind on finding it 😭

[timid solstice]

Yeah i think confirmation that yeah it’s a clue

[sharp flame]

I wanna pursue Zero but it seems like such a vague topic

[timid solstice]

0 o nul is also 0,0,0 which is also x,y,z

[sharp flame]

Well it's not something we can really put into a URL or password, nor any form of it

But there are more connections

Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) introduced Base 10 (including the idea of the 0 numeral)

for the first time

but I think that's as far as that goes

Except for the original Chinese symbol meaning 'star'

[pure loom]

Odds on Season 1 sponsor being a palm tree?

[pure loom]

Perfect!

[boreal trench]

Dont know if many people saw my post about misery yesterday, but it had a type writer in it with a missing N.

[boreal trench]

Here

[pure loom]

To me the Royal brand and writing a book again point to The Little Prince book. Any other connections that Misery might have?

[boreal trench]

Not sure, but the 47 keys on the typewriter seemed pretty significant to me.

[sharp flame]

Wait, in the latest image

is the guy missing an eyebrow?

[pure loom]

“there are approximately 47 translated editions of The Little Prince in Korean”

[pure loom]

I think it’s just in shadow

[boreal trench]

he defiantly could be

[sharp flame]

The first girl's eye was in shadow

so we couldn't really make it out

but Rob clearly has something there

so I'm wondering if it's the same here

[pure loom]

Shady

[sharp flame]

cause when I zoom in, I can't find a single strand

just the rough uninterrupted skin texture

[pure loom]

Maybe it is missing

[sharp flame]

Idk why but it becomes a lot clearer when I turn it on its side

No eyebrow

eyebrow for reference

Have no idea what it could mean though

[pure loom]

I think I’ve exhausted all possibilities with The Little Prince. There were some good password opportunities around it too - including one that was “505” which would have been funny after the 404 page starting off the EE. So… I’ve been thinking what links all of the clues we have so far, and the geometry path seems the more obvious, specifically spheres or circles. Autolycus of Pitane was one of the first to look at spherical geometry. He also has a lunar crater named after him which is very close to Archimedes Crater (maybe a link to Rob’s “honour Archimedes” clue?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autolycus_of_Pitane

Along those lines, I wonder if the Chuck Leith clue was also (along with atmosphere) about projection of a sphere with his computer-based atmosphere animations?

[sharp flame]

Honestly I think this URL is supposed to help us most

and if we use just the clues in these last few messages

we should be able to get the word

Okay I think I found another connection

Wait surely we found this when searching "Leith" earlier right?

[sharp flame]

hmmm

[timid solstice]

No I didn’t see this name

It didn’t come up in my Leith searches

[sharp flame]

It actually wasn't mentioned I don't think

okay well there we go

a solid TBL connection

not sure what to do with it though, it's our only one

also I LOVE that all of these clues can double (or even triple) up like this

Rob is a mastermind 🧠🧠

[timid solstice]

I just double checked this list I posted on the padlet way back and can’t see the name mentioned (on mobile so hard ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_pioneers

I just re-read your messages

It’s his wife 🤯

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

Ok so the 47 or / clue is look back at www clues, right back to the start

[sharp flame]

ohhhh

damn I was hung up on the possibility of a /Url

[timid solstice]

Not a specific website url

[sharp flame]

ALL of them

or just the first ones haha

[timid solstice]

So how does this help now

It’s his wife/spouse

How does this relate to Saturn/Euclid/Descartes

[sharp flame]

It's a second thread

maybe the first ones all connect to one answer

but this thread relates to the answer in a more unexpected way

which should push away any doubt of them just being connected just cause they are

[timid solstice]

It’s so weird Virgina Leith was also connected

[sharp flame]

Or maybe this is supposed to refer to the world of the Matrix

wait how have I never realised that obviously Rob would be delving into the Matrix here

It's literally where The Finals is taking inspiration from

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/im-listening-do-tell-tell-me-more-kang-gif-22896191

[sharp flame]

(not directly)

but yknow

it pioneered the idea of virtual world inside real one

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/rjchatterton-chatterton-matrix-simulation-gif-25433886

[sharp flame]

I also did find another Leith

who was a film composer and did the soundtrack for the movie

"Destination Moon"

which, the writer says, is based on his earlier work "Rocket Ship Galileo"

[timid solstice]

Perhaps this leads the Van Morrison clue, as mentioned before his wife was Janet Planet

[sharp flame]

could you explain?

[timid solstice]

If we had found that Leith was TBL’s wife earlier it may have pointed us to look for wives of other people mentioned

[sharp flame]

Oh right but

I think I missed the Janet Planet discussion

how is she connected?

[timid solstice]

Just Planet and Saturn

[pure loom]

Yes, unfortunately.

[timid solstice]

But I dont think this is the angle

[sharp flame]

I think the / is our only confirmed lead here

now I'm not sure if all of the clues in a single message lead to the same thing

or if they're supposed to confirm these little threads that we aren't so sure about

I don't think we should be looking for a URL anymore

[timid solstice]

Van Morrison clues are bugging me

[sharp flame]

They are?

Idk I think Sputnik-1 is a good lead

[timid solstice]

The title is clear what it is, why the VM.57 or VM.67 clue

I see early band

[sharp flame]

VM.57 would be Sputnik as 57 is the year he made his first band

and named it after a satellite

which can't be a coincidence

Now, in terms of what that clue means, we either have specifically the space race and an artificial satellite

[timid solstice]

Maybe analyse the VM. Clue again, get more eyes checking if it’s a 5 or 6

[sharp flame]

or if it refers to Natural orbiters overall

since the word Sputnik refers to both

natural and artificial "satellites"

moons are satellites

most natural satellites are moons

[pure loom]

Sputnik was a metal sphere and Brown Eyed Girl was published on vinyl to continue the circle path.

[sharp flame]

there are 7 dwarf planets with natural satellites

one of them is Haumea

I hate that everything is now so connected

you can get Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Sputnik in the same section and think nothing of it at all 😭😭😭

[timid solstice]

Yeah that is too much

https://tenor.com/view/cursed-dean-winchester-jensen-ackles-supernatural-spell-gif-20357067

[sharp flame]

it's so much easier to connect things which aren't supposed to be connected

A binary system is where two things orbit each other

Making them satellites of each other

The wiki page mentions that and gives Pluto and Charon as an example

but I haven't been able to connect this Binary stuff to anything else

[pure loom]

Especially once you get down to physics or mathematics. Everything IS connected at that level

*tries password: lifetheuniverseandeverything

Just to throw a massive curve ball - what if Brown Eyed Girl isn’t referring to the song?

Sunflowers have lots of interesting mathematics associated with their form

The colours are also very similar to the light on the face of the character in the original image

And they look like an eclipse

Their taxonomic clade is Asterids - Asteroids with a missing letter 👀

[sharp flame]

I mean just cause it refers to this doesn't mean it can't refer to both

[pure loom]

Oh, definitely. But is Van Morrison a giant red herring?

[sharp flame]

That would be a twist alright 🤣

[boreal trench]

I feel like their is still a lot of Matrix links, to add to them, I noticed that Rob keeps on mentioning One or The First, also A A, which could be in reference to Neo being The One, and Thomas A. Anderson ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(The_Matrix)

[sharp flame]

Anders Angstrom 🕵️

[pure loom]

I just decided to explore the GRUK / KRUG path a little. This is the entrance to the KRUG building.

I haven’t seen anything else that relates, but hey, champagne! 😂

[pure loom]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but Brown Eyed Girls are a K-Pop group.

This is part of one of their promotional photos 👀

This is their website. The name of the site is Mystic 89. Look at the crossed circles symbol at the top of the website 👀 http://mystic89.net/artist/brown-eyed-girls

[latent peak]

Thats quite interesting

48 members and non of em named Yun 😢

[pure loom]

Aside from those elements, I can’t see anything else that relates, so far.

[hidden nacelle]

i remember kpop being mentioned

[neon stream]

I think I figured this clue, it means "ROMAS". I guess that could be "Roma's"?

We have the Colosseum which is an oval, completed by Titus
The Temple of Saturn

Thanks to a red panda with great taste of music... @prisma stump

[sharp flame]

Where did you get ROMAS?

[neon stream]

The letters from those things

RUN, POKE, PAUSE, NEW and NOT

[sharp flame]

M?

oh

wait

I see

oh shiiit

amazing find

[hidden nacelle]

would s be save no?

[neon stream]

I guess "not" was easier to use in a sentence than "save" 🤷🏻‍♂️

[sharp flame]

'not' is also written on the same key

ooooh

Romas is an physicist

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

[neon stream]

@prisma stump you posting that keyboard, and it being so useful makes me more suspicious 😂

red panda sus

[sharp flame]

Romas did Benjamin Franklin's kite experiment

Benjamin Franklin once proposed an alphabet which removed redundant letters (c, j, q, w, x, and y)

[low summit]

istg I remember darn or povich saying they got the EE clues in the embark pack

[sharp flame]

not unlike the letters missing in Rob's messages

[pure loom]

Interesting that Romas has a statue dedicated to him - I’ve wondered if the binding link between all the clues is sculpture - the “honour Archimedes” thing and probably every person/god (maybe apart from Chuck Leith) that we’ve come up with probably has a statue.

[neon stream]

I DO hope those come with clues...

[sharp flame]

interesting that the statues were destroyed and replaced

[pure loom]

That is interesting. A bit like an eclipse - disappear and reappear. Maybe the password is “magic” hehe

[sharp flame]

Romas performed Benjamin Franklin's Kite experiment

referenced by lightning bolt from earlier?

[pure loom]

This is a complex web that Rob has us in

[neon stream]

I'm here hunting EE, and finding out when 🇦🇷 or 🇫🇷 scores because my family yells 😂

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/naughty-little-fly-why-does-it-gif-15260632

[neon stream]

"It's magic you know...Never believe it's not so"

🎵

[sharp flame]

oh wait

we forgot Dwelling

[neon stream]

inb4 fish solves this tier

[sharp flame]

hahaha I wish

I just hope it's solved sooner or later

[pure loom]

The White House? (As in a White House somewhere?)

[sharp flame]

likely, cause I don't see it on the Spectrum

what else could it mean?

[pure loom]

Dwelling can also mean pondering

Maybe we just wait, and Rob solves it for us - massive plot twist

[sharp flame]

Clues in these messages:

• ROMAS - spelled from ZX Spectrum keys

• New Horizons?

• Burnout Paradise?

• Adventure A - Text adventure game on the Spectrum

• 47 == /, URL?

• Buried deep - reference to something?

Clues in these messages:

• Minefield, Minesweeper reference?

• 47 ==/, URL?

• Rabbit holes: Matrix reference?

• Follow the white rabbit - Alice in Wonderland (and then the Matrix)?

• Red Herring could be referring Mars (red planet) being a red herring?

• Missing 'o' in 'nt'

[pure loom]

It could be ROAMS too - “to move about or travel aimlessly or unsystematically, especially over a wide area.” - Rob has just described us in a clue - WE are the answer!!

[sharp flame]

Looking into the history of Easter eggs

first use of the word was after the one in Adventure (word mentioned twice now)

the first ever one was in Moonlander 👀, a game where you land an Apollo lunar module on the moon

Finally, the word Dwelling, (White House reference?)

nevemind

'not' is N

[terse ivy]

argentina winning the wc might of been a clue

[sharp flame]

on the ZX81 (first release)

so ROMAN

[neon stream]

Good catch!

[sharp flame]

makes it...

vaguer

Roman what?

[neon stream]

Numerals? 😂

[sharp flame]

if they had to spell it out for us, I guess we aren't doing so well 🤣

could be someone called Roman

Dwelling could mean Home

there is a Home key on these keyboards

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

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

@fallen jasper planning on adding a few more of the recent clue threads to the padlet. Could I have permissions?

[fallen jasper]

I already gave you permission. You should've gotten a email on whatever account you signed up to Padlet with for a invitation to edit it.

Actually

[sharp flame]

oh sorry

[fallen jasper]

I'm stupid you're invited now LOL

[sharp flame]

ah haha got it now

[timid solstice]

link to keyboard please

[sharp flame]

oh I just looked it up on images

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_A:_Planet_of_Death

[sharp flame]

you can sort through systems here ^

the wiki image for each is high enough quality to read the keys

[pure loom]

Is ROMAN missing a letter? ROB MAN?

Maybe it is like the first Easter egg. Rob is the common link?

[sharp flame]

https://tenor.com/view/it-is-all-connected-garrett-wareing-tj-morrison-josh-dallas-ben-stone-gif-16687420

Rob reveals that he was responsible for the first ever Easter Egg

[timid solstice]

Robihett ?

#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

The ZX80 was named after the Z80 processor with the 'X' meaning "the mystery ingredient"

interesting that the X in ZX just represents the 'mystery ingredient'

[fallen jasper]

Is the changes to the padlet working out for everyone?

The main reason I changed it is so we don't have to have a link to every previous padlet pinned somewhere if anyone wants to look back at it.

Now they just have to go to this https://padlet.com/Kyne

[mortal ivy]

The link works fine @fallen jasper but it's kind of confusing with that image 😂

[fallen jasper]

Yeah I can just remove the embedded

Well, I could, I'm on mobile so I can't rn lol

[sharp flame]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_P._Roman

Can't remove the embed

I think that Roman here refers to a person

[timid solstice]

or the code is Roman Numerals again

SR is watching

for reference

[sharp flame]

Roman, hmmm

Some of those Padlet threads are loooong

[timid solstice]

I was just adding Rosemary Leith to the padlet and the mayan zero and noticed it was already there...

[sharp flame]

I had a box for Rosemary Leith already but it is way too hidden

[timid solstice]

this was way before the new clue came out

[timid solstice]

I dont think it was visible, maybe needed approval?

nope found it now

[sharp flame]

Yeah just far away

Wanted to get it moderately close to TBL too

progress is probably slower than it should be, but still progress nonetheless 💪

[timid solstice]

At the rate we are going, I think I should educate my 4 year old on this egg so she can take over when I'm retired

[sharp flame]

Roman is our best lead

[timid solstice]

After this ZX81 turn, I feel like we are in ready player one, and its gone the route of Hallidays first computer the TRS-80

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80

[latent peak]

Amazing find on the Roman thing guys! 👀

I made another compilation of cluse and missing clue I though you might find usefull.

!!Leith not Lieth !!

For those with photoshop you can use it like a secondary padlet like this

[timid solstice]

just one note, its Leith not Lieth

thanks for puting that together

[latent peak]

Oh crap! ill add a notation, thanks!

[pure loom]

Or the answer in a Caesar Cipher?

I tried “iiviv” which is the chord pattern for Brown Eyed Girl in Roman numerals. No cigar.

[sharp flame]

There are lots of Roman Numeral clues here

It might be hinting that our answer is in Roman Numerals too?

hence the ROMAN ?

Roman : Belonging to the Roman / Byzantine Empire

[pure loom]

I think that would be weird to have that twice. I reckon, considering the complexity of this tier so far, that it’ll be something different to that. What though, I don’t know.

[sharp flame]

sure, sure but there is a Roman aspect here it seems

either that or it's Roman as in the Roman Space Telescope

[pure loom]

Dwelling —> MANOR

[sharp flame]

oooh

might be something to that actually

[neon stream]

Throwing a wild idea: could this be related to compasses somehow? 🤔
There are a few things that could point that way 😅

These two, for example

Or page 47 of the Descartes' La Géométrie found in Google being a translation of page 46 that seems to talk about ruler and compass construction and its properties

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straightedge_and_compass_construction
"More formally, the only permissible constructions are those granted by the first three postulates of Euclid's Elements." 🤷🏻‍♂️

And also, Copernicus monument in Warsaw (same place where Copernicus and Cronos were) has a compass and an armillary sphere, which might link to the planets too

tbh I'm not very convinced about the idea, but I think having new ideas floating around is beneficial 😂

[sharp flame]

I see it. Euclid's geometry was all about constructing shapes with only a compass

[sharp flame]

The overlapping spheres are used to construct an equilateral triangle. That's what Euclid is talking about in that part

I'm semi convinced that this is what Roman means
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telescope

one of its key features is a coronagraph used to detect exoplanets

coronagraph image of the Sun

[pure loom]

I have a question: Could the password be in Greek letters? Like, does that fit the password rules?

[sharp flame]

Ascii, so I don't think so

[pure loom]

Ok, thanks.

[sharp flame]

I mean once we get to the point where an answer is in our hands, we can probably start playing around with different forms

[pure loom]

Yeah, true.

[sharp flame]

but we kinda have to be confident in an answer for that to happen haha

and we never are

pretty sure most of these were just found cause someone happened to type it in

and not "okay, so based on this we think the answer is X"

[neon stream]

I think that, unless there's something substantial that we are missing, our biggest problem is the formatting of the answer

[sharp flame]

OOOOooh

• • • nevermind - - -

[neon stream]

ROMAN niiiice

[sharp flame]

a NASA project which identifies and tracks objects that pass close to earth

[neon stream]

Where did you find it like that? I see it with other names

[sharp flame]

I... can't find it on google though

it... doesn't exist?

wait what

[neon stream]

Dusty: "There's always a new clue on the horizon"

The clue:

GG

We couldn't complete the EE because the clue disappeared 🤷🏻‍♂️

😛

[pure loom]

Where did this come from?

The 404 line I mean

[neon stream]

da qui

here

[sharp flame]

okay gotta admit I was using ChatGPT for the ROMAN clue

it seems very sure of itself lmao

[neon stream]

tbh I think we shouldn't use these kinds of things

[sharp flame]

AI are notorious for making things up though lmao so I'm gonna discard it entirely

[pure loom]

No, where did you get that from?

[neon stream]

define "that"

[sharp flame]

the image I just posted actually

don't worry it's a false lead

[pure loom]

The 404 clue image you just posted

[sharp flame]

I reset the AI and it has no idea what the ROMAN project is at all

[neon stream]

from that url fish sent

[sharp flame]

click on the link and it takes you there

I've identified my mistake actually, nevermind

[pure loom]

Huh? The ROMAN one??

https://tenor.com/view/feelings-i-am-crazy-pills-gif-19623103

[neon stream]

oui

[sharp flame]

I asked it to imagine a fictional character doing research, therefore allowing it to make things up

anyway yeah discard that

the only real ROMAN astronomy project is the Telescope

[sharp flame]

and yeah you're right

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/the-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope

[pure loom]

I’m totally confused

[sharp flame]

looking into Coronagraph, but can't quite seem to connect it to something specific yet

"The Roman Space Telescope will have two instruments: the Wide Field Instrument and the Coronagraph Instrument."

[pure loom]

On a totally different line, I think I might have come up with a very strong path…

But not the password yet…

[sharp flame]

👀

[neon stream]

inb4 RHB solves it

[pure loom]

I searched for “Euclid MANOR,” which took me to Euclid Avenue, Cleveland - Millionaires Row. That was home to Charles F Brush, inventor of the ARC lamp https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Brush

[sharp flame]

Euclid, Ohio

[pure loom]

He was born in Euclid, Ohio.

Additionally, if you search for KRUG ARC (remember GRUK?) it is a type of jug

Arc lamps are used for projection

Arcs also make up parts of a circle

[sharp flame]

Krug **does **mean Jug in German

[pure loom]

The common link between all the geometry and light clues is the ARC

The horizon is an arc, parts of the rings etc

[sharp flame]

and circle arcs are pretty common in the Elements

[pure loom]

Oh - a Chord is an arc, for the music clues

[sharp flame]

interesting, and I wonder if we can connect this to the other pieces

[neon stream]

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

?

[sharp flame]

what about it?

[neon stream]

It's an arc, Roman, and Titus

I guess could connect some things

oh, nvm, "arch" is how is written in English, not "arc" 😭

[pure loom]

The Bowie lightning is an electrical arc

But what could the password be??

I tried arc, an arc, arcs, chord, a patent number from Mr Brush…

[sharp flame]

We should try looking for concrete connections to TBL too

the recent 47 as well as the Leith clue seem like that holds importance too

[pure loom]

Leith’s projection was of the ARCtic

[neon stream]

It would have been cool if the password was "θr", but is not 😂

[pure loom]

Hence why I asked about Greek earlier

Best answer opportunity wasted!

[sharp flame]

I wonder if this could connect to 0 O and o being circles too

[pure loom]

It’s not ARC Raiders either.

[neon stream]

I think Theta is ascii

[pure loom]

Can you try? I’m on mobile

Here’s the arc lamp info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_lamp

[fallen jasper]

Arc Lights?

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

[neon stream]

It's not the password

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/make-it-work-tim-gunn-project-runway-fashion-gif-20926832

Hehe

Dang it.

https://tenor.com/view/smells-like-victory-apocalypse-now-gif-5656800

[neon stream]

hmmm no, it might not be. I thought it could have been part of an ascii extension, but I can't seem to find it

[pure loom]

Ok, I need to go back to sleep. But I reckon this arc thing is very close. Especially with the KRUG ARC and manor in Euclid Ave both making sense

😴

[fallen jasper]

Have we tried Arc Raiding

[neon stream]

Have we tried RobPleaseRememberWeAreMereMortals?

[sharp flame]

Krug Arc seems weaker than the other two since there's not much info/branded product and the manor aspect doesn't seem to link too strongly to stuff I've been digging into so far

The Arc clues however connect pretty well with planet orbits and geometry

I think Dwelling here might be referring to the Home key?