easter-eggs

[proud minnow]

I know, it’s really impressive, probably the strongest EE-hunters in the industry.!

[sick stone]

#easter-eggs message maybe the ship and waves on the crest point towards water as well

[mortal ivy]

And I apologize for my previous comment about Torslanda airport, the airport in Gothenburg is called Landvetter. Not sure how I got that mixed up, was busy with work I guess 🤷

The entire 432 00 to 423 63 is all zipcodes for Torslanda, so thats why they belong together

[neon stream]

Oh, that makes more sense 😂

[nimble iron]

how long will the final password be?

[sick stone]

So brrw…. It was a diamond clue, so maybe it works here as well?

It had a wave-like nature to it as well

[mortal ivy]

I'm curious about the snowflake, that seems like a neat find!

[sick stone]

https://youtu.be/ao2Jfm35XeE might be relevant, might not

[neon stream]

Apart from being a clue, I hope it's a hint to snow being in the game 🤞🏻

[mortal ivy]

Perhaps that will enable me to see the enemies, as it will be a stark contrast haha

[sick stone]

Snowy weather modifier. Making you slide all over the place. “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature”

[mortal ivy]

Nice!

[tiny haven]

hail weather modifier when

take damage when outside

[mortal ivy]

Monaco church chaos

[slender lodge]

snow modifier but every snowflake has to reflect and refract with rtx to ultra max

[sharp flame]

YESSS

I need a snowy environment

the arenas in different seasons would be amazing for game-feel

[neon stream]

I won't even try to run that, my PC might explode 😂

[slender lodge]

XD

That's a great idea though fishcakes

[sharp flame]

mainly winter

[slender lodge]

Seeing Monaco in spring and winter would be awesome

[sharp flame]

Monaco and Seoul in winter daytime though

I mean

I would love that so much

[slender lodge]

Daytime?! bro imagine nighttime 😭 with northern lights maybe

[sharp flame]

nah I hate Monaco Nighttime

😈

[slender lodge]

oh 🥹

[sharp flame]

needs better lighting

[slender lodge]

i feel like it needs to be darker

with better lighting

[sharp flame]

yeah this

[crude topaz]

vega?

[sharp flame]

when I shoot out the generator to disable the lights (and hopefully next time the lifts and barriers too), it's still super visible

[low summit]

sooo time is up?

[sharp flame]

Vega

[sharp flame]

Vega

[slender lodge]

Vega

[sharp flame]

Vega

[slender lodge]

vega

[mortal ivy]

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

[sharp flame]

there were.. a few connections last tier

[slender lodge]

https://myvega.ca/

[mortal ivy]

Vega is polestar / north star?

[sick stone]

Vega

[nimble iron]

titanfall xD

[sick stone]

Map idea: https://www.icehotel.com

[crude topaz]

Vega was the northern pole star around 12,000 BCE and will be so again around the year 13,727

[sharp flame]

yep.. it will.. be

in the year

[nimble iron]

there is a song called vega

[sharp flame]

13700 AD

13700

[crude topaz]

1337

[sharp flame]

as in the answer to C and also the golden angle

137

[sick stone]

1333333333….

[mortal ivy]

Ah, Vega is not Polaris, but it might be.... IN THE FUTURE

[proud minnow]

That’s my absolute favorite setting, plays so different from all standard ToD’s… ._.

[nimble iron]

the golden ratio? i did way too much research into that thing lol

not ee related tho

[sharp flame]

hahaha you have to make it play MORE different!! make it darker in those alleys

[nimble iron]

math related

[tiny haven]

they fr gonna have to add a flashlight ability

[sharp flame]

if the lights go out.. they should go OUT

it should be harder to see people

[neon stream]

...and add flashlights to weapons... 😇

[sharp flame]

haha

[slender lodge]

I liked Rust (game)'s idea of nighttime where it's almost pitch black but the ambient lighting can be so useful and it's so pretty sometimes because they place it strategically in critical areas

[sick stone]

“jUSt GeT hDR”

[tiny haven]

just turn brightness settings up guys

[slender lodge]

Just flashbang yourself at night to see better

https://tenor.com/bLr2u.gif

[sharp flame]

honestly it was really cool that I could depower all the lights by breaking the generator

[sick stone]

Strategically placed moon

[slender lodge]

PFFT HAHAHA

[sharp flame]

but yeah, could still see really well in the dark

you gotta add like a slight fog

very slight

[nimble iron]

@slender lodge off topic: theres a good liquid dnb song called vega https://youtu.be/Y8dIhzfLnIE

[slender lodge]

I had an idea @sharp flame that when it's nighttime and storming, make it so the lightning in the sky casts light into the arena for a couple seconds before flashing out

Imagine you're trying to hide and then lightning strikes and reveals your location

[slender lodge]

checking it out!

[sharp flame]

Modifier, lightning storm: ALL power goes out, lightning strikes unroofed metallic objects every few seconds

would be so cool

[slender lodge]

OOOOOOOH

LIKE FLICKERS

🥶

[nimble iron]

the only use for thermal lol

jk

[slender lodge]

it is true lol

[sick stone]

It’s a good idea cuz now you have the additional challenge of having to try and not get a seizure as well

[sharp flame]

nah imagine you're stealing the cashout and then it gets struck by lightning and kills you

[slender lodge]

thermal isnt as useful right now there are so many other gadgets id rather use up than thermal

[nimble iron]

but i still use it (to catch those ratty invis players)

[slender lodge]

so dancy! i love it

[sick stone]

Would be better if turrets did more damage, but had lower health

Ok

[nimble iron]

another masterpiece by logistics

[sick stone]

We have gotten sidetracked I believe

[nimble iron]

nah. maybe only in a burst fire

[sharp flame]

it's more defence though, I always get killed by turrets from the side/behind

[sick stone]

I’m talking specifically about thermal being able to see it through walls

[sharp flame]

you said upping damage

[crude topaz]

btw Embark, this is not good lol

[sharp flame]

that would mean being caught by surprise would be deadly

[nimble iron]

xray sniper op

[mortal ivy]

RHB previously said something about binary in the fabric of the sweatshirt. Did anyone look into it?

[sharp flame]

what is not good lol

[mortal ivy]

Their office is located next to the liquor store

[fallen jasper]

I'm just gonna say I doubt any of the easter eggs in game are related to this tier.

[sharp flame]

yes, the pattern seems regular and has no discernible irregularity tbf

[fallen jasper]

It would be way too easy for us to miss things in the game

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, thats what I thought as well. Good to know

[sharp flame]

are we talkin about easter eggs in the game??

[sharp flame]

however we always miss this stuff

[nimble iron]

theyre gonna need it xD

jk mods

yooooo

[sharp flame]

remember Rob's Mars Rover tracks??

[sick stone]

And lowering its health, increasing the need to know where they are up front while also making it easier to deal with if you know where it is without having to peek first, making the intel from thermal more valuable for the whole team

[nimble iron]

the split second smirk

[sharp flame]

yeah, actually does make sense.. they should try it out. obv would make Turrets more OP against teams without this stuff however

[tulip matrix]

Did you guys find the password yet?

[fallen jasper]

Yeah

[slender lodge]

Lowering its health will also stop people from randomly placing it down and actually think about placement

[slender lodge]

Ye it's 1064

[sharp flame]

yes! 0vif0rm.. now we are on tier E 🗿

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, as usual I'm already done and just letting the kiddos play

[fallen jasper]

If I had to take a guess Level 3(if it exists) is going to be the one that takes place in game and out of game. Level 2 is just out of game.

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-yas-winning-clutch-fist-pump-gif-11737306

[sharp flame]

I think this, yeah

[slender lodge]

lmfao

[neon stream]

We've only gotten one image so far, so we are going to wait until we have a few more before we say it

[sharp flame]

obviously due to our.. pace.. there will be a large overlap between game release and Level 2...

hahaha

so we might find things which can't really help us at all

in game

when it's out

[mortal ivy]

I'm not sure if it's been so long since I last participated, but it feels like this one has less converging clues that previous first images

[nimble iron]

and maybe even put us off 😭

[neon stream]

I think this is Rob turning the difficulty up 😅

SR... ._. 😅

[sharp flame]

If we genuinely take water.. then they do connect..

[sick stone]

Team game should require team play

[sharp flame]

tell that to my teammates...

the harder it is to "solo" the harder it is to play at all

like imagine your teammates are dead

[sick stone]

https://tenor.com/view/bruce-lee-be-water-my-friend-gif-10055468

[sharp flame]

or even just far away

[mortal ivy]

Ah, I like how you think 🧠 Rainbow, Snowflakes, Torslanda close to water 🤔

[sharp flame]

torslanda is probably something else to be fair

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, but lets pretend for a lil bit

[sick stone]

If you are light you’d have 3 abilities to help you scamper off

[sharp flame]

I think Vega comes into play this tier

I doubt it's some big overarching Diamond clue

[mortal ivy]

This is one of my favorite clues so far. It's so puzzling

[tulip matrix]

Are you implying it was supposed to be easy before?

[sharp flame]

there could be a cipher that exists somewhere with this..

[sharp flame]

could also be a variation of an existing cipher

don't think Rob has come up with any new ones so far

[mortal ivy]

👀

Don't go give him ideas

[nimble iron]

👀

[sharp flame]

I think they're supposed to be read in pairs

[nimble iron]

no plz dont

[sharp flame]

left to right

one column at a time

[mortal ivy]

Now im off to eat chips! Good luck ❤️

[nimble iron]

cya!

[sharp flame]

but I don't then understand why that final symbol is so far away...

that's like 2 spaces between that one and the symbol before it

[sharp flame]

I'm sorry WHAT is that emote called

[nimble iron]

the epty spacec could be 0

[nimble iron]

https://tenor.com/view/puppet-awkward-looking-what-side-eye-gif-15476992

[tulip matrix]

gottem

[sick stone]

https://tenor.com/view/rainn-wilson-shh-secret-prank-gif-17131726

[neon stream]

This one will be difficult-er 😂

[nimble iron]

now that i think about it i never thought id like this community so much. thank you all and the devs for the game.❤️

[sharp flame]

looking up snowflake related content rn

wish the slang term didn't exist lol

[nimble iron]

https://tenor.com/view/shut-up-man-fullmoon-gif-18662479

https://tenor.com/view/the-rock-eyebrow-flipped-horizontally-gif-24025048

[sharp flame]

okay so y'all know this thing?

[nimble iron]

finally somthing i can say shit abt

math

[tulip matrix]

an intricate web of pain clues as Rob would say

[sharp flame]

you have quite the large number in your name...

[tulip matrix]

fractal?

[sick stone]

What in the Sierpinski are you on about?

[sharp flame]

a.k.a the Koch Snowflake

[nimble iron]

its this recursive pattern/ fractal also reffered to as snowflake sometimes

[sharp flame]

a.k.a. the Koch star

[sick stone]

Nono, you said Kock and I refuse to let it be forgotten

[tulip matrix]

The WHAT

[nimble iron]

https://tenor.com/view/swedish-chef-muppets-the-muppet-show-gif-22720860

[sharp flame]

look

you guys are lucky I avoided the autocorrect on my screen

[nimble iron]

koch=cook in geman

[tulip matrix]

geman

[sharp flame]

GMAN??

[tulip matrix]

kek

he lives

[sharp flame]

https://tenor.com/view/g-man-gif-24299916

[tulip matrix]

[sick stone]

What is kock in German?

[sharp flame]

cause I was just thinking about how Snowflakes and Stars have the same general shape.. right?

(the flare that a star has when viewed)

not the actual shape which is just a sphere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2264

[sick stone]

Lens flare. Is lens flare your point?

[sharp flame]

^ Snowflake Cluster

closest thing to snowflake star

[slender lodge]

damn he is a nice koch

[sharp flame]

nono just that the cartoon image of a star resembles a snowflake

kinda

[slender lodge]

JJ Abrams im tellin gu

[sharp flame]

(obviously not enough for a clue)

but I was thinking maybe a star would be called 'the snowflake'

yknow

[slender lodge]

maybe its a hidden star, which only appears in the darkness

[tulip matrix]

hmmmm
James Webb produces six pointed flares

[slender lodge]

just like a snowflake which you normally can't see if its too bright or too dark

[sick stone]

Ahh, so all of them

[slender lodge]

[tulip matrix]

You're all hidden stars 🤩

[nimble iron]

ima go out on a limb but snowflake->koch star->cook in german->swedish chef->sweden. i know this is way too complicated just thought it might be interesting.

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/swedish-chef-donut-gif-18530456

[crude topaz]

was there a clue pointed to scotland?

[sick stone]

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-what-wha-whoa-puppet-gif-9472963

[sick stone]

Yes

It was like

[nimble iron]

https://tenor.com/view/scotland-gif-22018078

[sick stone]

👉🏼Scotland

[fallen jasper]

Think it pointed somewhere around here

[sharp flame]

there was an image with 2 ends of the river Moriston

which Rob eyed

[nimble iron]

hmmm

[fallen jasper]

So more like this

[sharp flame]

these points

[fallen jasper]

My paint skills are amazing

[sharp flame]

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

plant known as 'snowflake'

[crude topaz]

yeah i looked at that before

[nimble iron]

in german its knotenblume xD

[slender lodge]

this tier is slightly reminiscing of the devoncrossing

[nimble iron]

it means knot flower

tf is that?

[crude topaz]

now im looking at this lol : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLV_Pole_Star

[slender lodge]

tbh... i do knot know

[sharp flame]

it is?

[nimble iron]

all i think about when the north star is mentioned is titanfall xD

[slender lodge]

i mean ya since we're going back to google maps and in the last few tiers we've mostly been working from the images themselves

[sharp flame]

Leucojum is a compound of Greek λευκος, leukos "white" and ἰόν, ion "violet"

violet tbf did come up last tier

[fallen jasper]

This might just be a tagent but there is a flower that came from China, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viburnum_plicatum. It was most likely brought over by a Scottish botanist, among other plants, in the mid 1800s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fortune

[sharp flame]

Tagent

[fallen jasper]

I love tagents

[crude topaz]

the NLV Polestar weighs ...1373 Tonnes

[fallen jasper]

[slender lodge]

Taghebt

[fallen jasper]

Hmm

I'm gonna keep running into tagents. So at Invermoriston it's main attraction is a bridge made by Thomas Telford. He did a bunch of civil engineering projects across Scotland, Wales, and England. He also did a canal in Sweden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göta_Canal

[nimble iron]

btw what were the techniques used to solve the last few images? because i dont wanna go too crazy with methods

[slender lodge]

pls, go crazy

[nimble iron]

nah no one wants that, trust me

[slender lodge]

as long as ur not digging into game files ur probs godo

and spydering

and bruteforce password

[nimble iron]

i go on the grates tangents that lead to nothing

[slender lodge]

tagents are good honestly

just make sure they're at least losely typing back to the main topic

[nimble iron]

so im trying to find the solutions to the encrypted stuff first

[slender lodge]

i seee

this tier is much harder than the previous ones imo

started off by simply deserting us with information that we can't even get a proper image of

Rob did say the more we do these, the less he'll help us and support us and will end up just letting us do all the stuff with no help

[nimble iron]

im used to more weird stuff.

[nimble iron]

for example cicada 3301 type shit

[slender lodge]

ooh 👀

just lemmino

[fallen jasper]

We haven't had anything that difficult, as in encrypted things.

I think the one we had that I can remember off the top of my head is the one in the brand guide to get your own Nama Tama.

[nimble iron]

im not a genius i can tell u that. what i mean is the meaning hidden in encryption

[fallen jasper]

Yeah

[slender lodge]

Yeah it's more about referencing things and making connections till you get the final answer which is still narrowed down by NamaTama images

[nimble iron]

ive worked a bit with it

[nimble iron]

ahhh ok that clears it up a bit

nama tama images?

what do we have so far

?

[slender lodge]

That comes at the end haha

[nimble iron]

alright

[fallen jasper]

This is one of the Nama Tamas we had

[slender lodge]

It just narrows down our findings even more until we spend the last few days just searching for the last few connections to get the password

[nimble iron]

oh thats nice, so no "u dont know it; you dont solve it" type of experience

[crude topaz]

Gaia

[slender lodge]

it is certainly a shared-knowledge type of activity so if you're just starting off in the middle of a tier you're gonna have to read A LOT of chats to see what's been explored and what is still out in the wild, and if there's anything Rob has said or reacted with an eye emote on

but right now's the best time

[tulip matrix]

Hey, me too haha

[sick stone]

Wdym? U ‘bout to terra some shit up?

[sick stone]

I remember spending sooo many hours doing this last tier when I was about to join in

[slender lodge]

Yepp 😭

Did you go full padlet mode?

[sick stone]

Wdym? I read everything I could find

Padlets, google docs, chats

[slender lodge]

jesus christ

[sharp flame]

there must have been a lot

[nimble iron]

a vc to talk about this stuff would be nice

[crude topaz]

man ive ended up at "Gaia" 2 times now. Cant even remember how i got here lol now im reading the "Gaia hypothesis"

[nimble iron]

https://tenor.com/view/suffering-pain-kruglik-are-we-suffering-swag-gif-21495600

[crude topaz]

wich is evolotion of life , back to water again lol

[sharp flame]

We did do a bit of chatting in the Beta period

had our own little nook for it too

[nimble iron]

https://tenor.com/view/kermit-the-frog-kermit-kermit-meme-kermit-water-kermit-waterfall-gif-24226895

[sharp flame]

what could be nice is group brainstorm sessions basically

[nimble iron]

yes!

[sharp flame]

where we just arrange times to sit in the VC and discuss how strong possible connections could be

would be more suitable once we have more clues to discuss

haha

[nimble iron]

that would be kinda difficult if people are all around the world

[sharp flame]

Yeah but I am a pretty nocturnal creature

haha

[nimble iron]

but what if everyone is nocturnal? then what?

[sharp flame]

I reckon it can work

[timid solstice]

ok im home, and caught up

I saw a rob react

I think we punish anyone else that uses these eyes

[tulip matrix]

Here I made the perfect wallpaper for EE hunters

[timid solstice]

you are trying passwords already??

what are you thinking?

[slender lodge]

is that a wallpaper or u trying haha

[tulip matrix]

I'm thinking I need to catch up because I've been at work all day haha

I'm not really trying passwords yet lol

i put 123456

just for the error message

so 123456 confirmed not the passwaord

just fyi

[fallen jasper]

Rob didn't react to the message about Gota Canal or Thomas Telford so I guess it isn't related to that?

[timid solstice]

Roderick MacKenzie was the son of an Edinburgh goldsmith
gold...

[fallen jasper]

I know I'm looking at some weird wikipedia pages once it gets to being only a couple of paragraphs long and it starts describing random medical accidents

[timid solstice]

eesh

[fallen jasper]

So Loch Claunie is a reservoir that feeds into Moriston.

On 31 August 2021, the Scotland Charity Air Ambulance landed at Loch Cluanie to the west of Cluanie Dam, to assist with a male who had fallen on rocks and sustained head and back injuries.

[nimble iron]

so the usual i guess lmao

[timid solstice]

Some links to investigate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Moriston
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Telford

[nimble iron]

embed gone???

[fallen jasper]

No source on the guy falling on rocks. I believe the Wikipedia editor might be that man.

We try to get rid of embeddeds to not clutter up the chat

[timid solstice]

yeah dont need clutter

[fallen jasper]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göta_Canal Thomas made a canal in Sweden.

[timid solstice]

I see thats the connection to the canal

[nimble iron]

how did you get to the river anyways, can someone fill me in???

[fallen jasper]

Coordinates in the new image

[nimble iron]

ok and the canal?

[timid solstice]

Thomas Telford designed the bridge over the river Moriston and the canal in sweden

[fallen jasper]

Thomas is a civil engineer who made a lot of bridges, tunnels, and canals. He made a bridge over the river and the-

[nimble iron]

and why is the canal in sweden important, is it in torslanda

?

[timid solstice]

Embark is in Sweden

[nimble iron]

yeah i get that

[timid solstice]

Previous tiers had Swedish scientists

[nimble iron]

ah ok makes more sense

[timid solstice]

at this point anything could be important

or not

[fallen jasper]

It isn't but the Canal runs from Gothenburg to Söderköping

[nimble iron]

ok ty

[fallen jasper]

torslanda is right next to Gothenburg so it might be connected

[sick stone]

Aqueducts maybe?

[timid solstice]

I would like to know what 44 12 is related to the River

[nimble iron]

4412 why is it important?

[fallen jasper]

Dalchreichart had a primary school, but it was mothballed in 2002 after the school roll dropped to just two pupils, then formally closed in 2006. In April 2013 the community voted to enter into 1-year lease of the School with an option to purchase it from the Highlands Council within that time. Various projects are now being developed to benefit local community. New houses are being developed in Dalchreichart and the fish farm to the south is expanding to accommodate increasing demand for young salmon. Wildlife is abundant around the area with house martins, red squirrels and buzzards seen regularly, as well as the wandering sheep and deer of course!

[timid solstice]

its at the end of the hidden code with the 2 coordinates

[fallen jasper]

It is fun looking at the wikipedia pages for small towns where it's very obvious someone from the town wrote it

[timid solstice]

Some alt codes;
, Alt+44 Comma
♀ Alt+12 Female Sign

[nimble iron]

oh those numbers

[crude topaz]

i made a wiki page once. it was a local sea monster, i described it as brown and smelled like poop. It lasted for 2 days...

[sharp flame]

Do we think it's the river or the road?

[sharp flame]

I think Telford is our guy...

[fallen jasper]

Yeah

[sharp flame]

Rob brought up that the Academy of Sciences is a connection

he said that the other guy was connected because he went to that place

so we surely gotta use that as an indicator

if Telford went there..

[crude topaz]

oh

[sharp flame]

might connect to the rainbows...

[crude topaz]

i found some guy who went there, but i cant remember what i was looking into

[sharp flame]

Was it Telford?

[timid solstice]

is this a spider?

[sharp flame]

Also, if we find any Colossus of Rhodes connections we'll be able to link them to Telford

as he's known as the Colossus of Roads, lol

[timid solstice]

SPIDER WARNING

[sharp flame]

Telford was also the first president of ICE

(institution of civil engineers)

but also, snowflake --> ice?

[fallen jasper]

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

Hmm

[sharp flame]

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

[timid solstice]

lul

[fallen jasper]

watch in real time and me and fish lose it together

[sharp flame]

if someone else comes up who received the medal I'm sure we'll be aware

but honestly we can't take that one much further

we gotta find somemore clues 😭

[timid solstice]

we have *solve * some

[sharp flame]

let's just say it'll probably take less time just trying to find a new clue 😭

[fallen jasper]

Of the** 43** churches originally planned, 32 were eventually built around the Scottish highlands and islands (the other **11 **were achieved by redoing existing buildings). The last of these churches was built in 1830.
It isn't it but I find it funny that Telford made a bunch of churches across Scotland and the numbers are off by one.

[sharp flame]

unless someone recognises those cross shapes

or at least a cipher with 3 different symbols

(4 if you count the empty as one)

[timid solstice]

I asked around a few places

no luck yet

[sharp flame]

it can't be substitution

or really binary

even if we took it as 1 column = 1 character

there is 4 permutations on top and 4 on bottom

so 16 permutations per column

not enough for an alphabet

[crude topaz]

Telford seems to have worked for this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Chambers_(architect) Born in gothenburg

[fallen jasper]

Hmmmmm

[sick stone]

Is there anything that resembles morse, but with 4 different symbols instead of 2 out there?

[timid solstice]

yes keep going

[sharp flame]

!!

[fallen jasper]

He was also a founding member of the Royal Aca-

!!

[sharp flame]

what is Knight of the Polar Star

hmm

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

[latent peak]

Good morning! Just finished reading through the channel.

T-Rex got confirmed by Rob

[sharp flame]

"This is to represent that Sweden is as constant as a never setting star. "

interesting that the polar star 'represents' Sweden

probably means nothing

[timid solstice]

do you think that is what the snow flake represents>?

[crude topaz]

im sorry but does not this look like a snow flake

[spice belfry]

oh pog more dino EEs

[latent peak]

Ah i missed that, thx!

[timid solstice]

did he?

that was eoin

Oh i see

I thought you meant 'responded under the image with the t-rex charm' as in under fish's message somewhere

[sharp flame]

wonder if it connects as strongly as it would've last time

[timid solstice]

was the string at the bottom finallised as to a few possible versions

E or F 's

[sharp flame]

we have everything except Es and Fs

I wonder if we can discern them now

and even if we did, we still have to find out what it even could mean...

our last parlay didn't turn out so well

[timid solstice]

haha]

[sharp flame]

1404E210DDFD was a pain to even attempt

[fallen jasper]

Yes

https://wiki.bfee.co/index.php?title=Battlefield_4/Dinosaur_Roar

[timid solstice]

chompy ?

[fallen jasper]

Yeah

There's a t-rex in nearly every game in some way shape or form

[sharp flame]

if it weren't for Rob explicitly telling us that if was connected and how many connections there were, I'd've brushed it off as just a fun reference

[timid solstice]

could be a tertiary clue

[spice belfry]

i knew there was gonna be a t rex easter egg

called it

[crude topaz]

thers a museum with dinosaur in gothernberg

[sick stone]

mmmmwater

[nimble iron]

or the bottom stuff

the only problem there still is is the E/F issue. the rest is clear

[timid solstice]

[sharp flame]

I was gonna say that the Colosseum is also kinda named after Colossus Solis (/of Nero)

[fringe trench]

Have we figured out anything to do with that long code? It might just be a matter of spamming variants until we get the one

[sharp flame]

so not quite the same statue as Colossus of Rhodes

but of the same god (helios)

[sharp flame]

yeah well the thing is spamming variants into what?

[nimble iron]

64 possible solutions
dies

[sharp flame]

and also we'd have to spam all 64 combos in..

[slender lodge]

theres a lot of interpretive stuff haha

[fringe trench]

Well we might get to that point later

[sharp flame]

haha 'get the one' requires us to know how to translate it

[nimble iron]

im gonna say it again, pentadecimal exists. we can potentially ignore the Fs and just make them Es

[timid solstice]

EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129

FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129

[sharp flame]

we'd have to try multiple decoding methods on every single combo

[nimble iron]

there might be a clue hinting to 15 later 🤔

[timid solstice]

we can solve this

its 90% there

[fringe trench]

I think some of the Es and Fs are pretty clear, there are just a few that are hard to see. Also im not convinced the double 1s are 1s

[slender lodge]

i wonder if its leet code

[nimble iron]

im not convinced on e/f but 11 is kinda confirmad

confirmed*

[slender lodge]

32 bit number too i wonder if we can do smth with it

[sharp flame]

if it were Js then all hexa/pentadecimal clues are out of the window

[nimble iron]

can u see?

[sharp flame]

J would be much further down the alphabet than the other letters which appear

[slender lodge]

32 numbers, going from 1-0/A-F, i dont see why J would be there tho if it does, it would be the highlight

[fringe trench]

The other 1 has a different font tho

[sharp flame]

it's just obscured by light I think

[sharp flame]

can you post the pic that you are referencing?

(to discern the fonts)

[nimble iron]

u mean this?

[fringe trench]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011929497139953744/1089904966069657650/image.png

I think u might be right, the right one looks like a 1 and the left one looks kinda like a 1

[timid solstice]

what font is that?

that you used?

[sharp flame]

yeah honestly that viewing method is decently misleading as the highlights are influenced by lens flaring and stuff which isn't visible in that mode

try viewing it in photopea/photoshop

[hidden nacelle]

how do we know that they are E's and not F's?

[slender lodge]

the second 'J' looks like a 1 100% but the 1st J is arguable

[sharp flame]

we do not

[fringe trench]

Hard to tell coz the circular pattern next to the left one is lining up with the curve of the font.

[timid solstice]

yes you can

[fringe trench]

I made it in photoshop

[timid solstice]

F mid line is shorter

by like a pixel

[sharp flame]

same could be said about E

what if that's shorter lol

what if they actually are the same

and it's just pixel discrepancies

[fringe trench]

Generally id say the F is shorter

[timid solstice]

what font did you try?

[fringe trench]

Microsoft sans serif im pretty sure

Tried all the default photoshop ones and couldn't match it

[nimble iron]

that is sans serif

the f should have a shorter middle line

but it kinda doesnt in the pic

[latent peak]

I think the main difference between the E and F is the angel of the top line

[sharp flame]

oooh

[nimble iron]

trueeee

[sharp flame]

interesting

[nimble iron]

oh

nice

[sharp flame]

why can't it be E though

with the slant

[latent peak]

It can be either i think.
Im getting these numbers
EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129
FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129

[timid solstice]

this one is also slanted

[sharp flame]

yeah I mean I'd call this an E then

not sure about this one though

[slender lodge]

literally counting pixels

[nimble iron]

this tool makes it ez

[sharp flame]

yeah idkk

[slender lodge]

wtf

opposite slant lmao

[nimble iron]

https://tenor.com/view/cqt-viralhog-pet-upside-down-relax-gif-20241835

[slender lodge]

plot twist that one's an A

[latent peak]

There's 3 different ones??

[nimble iron]

or a 4

[nimble iron]

wdym

[fringe trench]

what if theye all Es or Fs, there arent both

[nimble iron]

im using this flashbang of a pic

[latent peak]

Top slant, middle slant, and straight

[nimble iron]

i think its just light issues lmao

[fringe trench]

z

another view

[latent peak]

ah yea, could be, hope so!

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/star-wars-impossible-out-of-hand-gif-16945967

[nimble iron]

wait...

this could be a 4

[timid solstice]

could be

[nimble iron]

baut nah it looks like 1

[slender lodge]

for it to be a four it would need to havce the left slnt visible too

[nimble iron]

its getting late, might go soon sry

[nimble iron]

tru

got shit to do tmrw

[timid solstice]

almost

[nimble iron]

ill be home 13 GMT 14CEST

[fringe trench]

maybe we move on lol. the image just isnt clear enough to get a solid answer

[nimble iron]

yeah but thats the part thats fun for me. i like the encrypting shit

[sharp flame]

could ya check what 1 and etc. look like in these fonts?

[nimble iron]

in this case decrypting

[sharp flame]

but yeah ^^ we might as well focus our efforts someplace else

[fringe trench]

yeah but there doesnt seem to be a reasonable way to find the truth, other than finding the font and trying to replicate it. if we had the font, you can overlay it exactly over the top and also tell whats correct by the character spacing

[sharp flame]

I mean, if we can figure out in what format this string needs to be in..

[nimble iron]

yeah

[sharp flame]

idk, maybe we can kinda get a general idea of what we need

[nimble iron]

true

[sharp flame]

perhaps we have enough characters here to really get a big picture of what we need, too..

[nimble iron]

atleast we know the number in the back. looks kinda like a phone number

[sharp flame]

looks like an identifier

does someone have the string ?

[nimble iron]

the whole one?

EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129

FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129

[sharp flame]

possible to split this into two digit chunks

EA 3E E3 CA A8 D4 59 1D 2E 11 EC 8E 08 69 21 29

and now on average we will have 3 correct and 3 wrong E/Fs

[fringe trench]

that kind of formatting looks familiar

[nimble iron]

its hex in a gamefile

[sharp flame]

hex

me believes

[sharp flame]

hey wait

there are 32 characters here

[sharp flame]

and these are 32 characters long per hex

[slender lodge]

i said that 😭

[sharp flame]

EA 3E E3 CA A8 D4 59 1D 2E 11 EC 8E 08 69 21 29

[nimble iron]

on it dw

rn

[sharp flame]

ngl I missed it 😭

wait

so this gets us a 0x____

[slender lodge]

haha im kidding we were overwhelmed anywyas

ye

[sharp flame]

then we get 4 digits we can use

(/characters)

[slender lodge]

the 'x' as well damn

[sharp flame]

and if we're lucky the 4 digits will be 1996 or something haha

[sick stone]

Are we gonna get an address of some sort?

[fallen jasper]

4412?

[slender lodge]

year 4412

[sharp flame]

hopefully..

[slender lodge]

2144

[sharp flame]

by the way can someone explain why/how they are split up into those chunks?

of XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX

and even what they are called, lol

[nimble iron]

hex.

its a gemfile format

[slender lodge]

hex is just a short binary using A-F values instead of 1's and 0's

works base 16 instead of base 2

so you can store 15 values in 1 digit (easy to read, takes less space)

[nimble iron]

umm

[slender lodge]

they're not split up they're just written that way ig

FF = 11111111

[fringe trench]

so they were Es

[slender lodge]

oh wait

wtf where did u get that from

[sick stone]

Is there a standard data address where characters are stored in memory? I can see that being 4bit format

Just a guess though

[fringe trench]

from the image?

[sharp flame]

okay well replace that first E with an F real quick

[slender lodge]

oh the meta data?

[sharp flame]

see watcha get

[slender lodge]

ill change the image too :

no more questionable accuracy

[sharp flame]

did the questionability change?

haha

[slender lodge]

ya now im questioning myself xD

[fringe trench]

what file is that from? and can u share the text next to it?

[nimble iron]

corrected version

[timid solstice]

Using HxD

[nimble iron]

im creating my own hex file lol

using a hex editor

[fringe trench]

ooh, and youre seeing what the output

[nimble iron]

i have these things just lying around

[nimble iron]

yeyeye

[sharp flame]

what are the dots?

[timid solstice]

i have it too for some reason lol

[sharp flame]

like at A8, 59, 08, 21

[nimble iron]

empty bits/no recorded letter value

[sharp flame]

and those aren't even E/F holders

doesn't that mean it's already unreadable

[nimble iron]

yeah

[latent peak]

Btw if the slant of the E F is an indicator it should be like this one instead.

EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129

FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129

[sharp flame]

so is it not hex?

[slender lodge]

wait wdym

i confuse

[sharp flame]

some of the XX values don't translate to letters

so basically splitting it and trying to translate directly ain't exactly working

[nimble iron]

but 08 doesnt translate lo;

lol*

which is weird

[slender lodge]

wait which ones dont

[timid solstice]

1D 11 08

[slender lodge]

to letters?

oh lik hex to ascii

but they do to numbers no?

just regular dec

[sharp flame]

must be different methods

computer brain weird

[nimble iron]

maybe the epty ones are important???

[crude topaz]

man 9/0 are kinda sketchy

[nimble iron]

or is that tooo complex

[sharp flame]

or maybe we gotta try other methods

[nimble iron]

true

[sharp flame]

..hmm

[timid solstice]

it all looks giberish to me

[crude topaz]

but yeah it reminds of hex

[sharp flame]

it does..

the last 3 digits kinda work

[nimble iron]

the start says omega > pi ???

[sharp flame]

i!)

[crude topaz]

playing around i got EA3EE3CAA8D4501D2E11EC8E08602120

[sharp flame]

can you try all Fs and replicate this screenshot?

[nimble iron]

gotchu

oops sry

my bat wrong line

[spice belfry]

reading this chat makes my head hurt

[crude topaz]

um

dont know where i read 137?

[crude topaz]

and im stupid but: "How to convert from hex to decimal

A regular decimal number is the sum of the digits multiplied with power of 10.

137 in base 10 is equal to each digit multiplied with its corresponding power of 10"

[nimble iron]

ive seen 206888 somewhere before

[timid solstice]

ha you saw that lol

[nimble iron]

use a calculator lol

[nimble iron]

yeah basically a 10 is 16

in binary a 10 is 2

[crude topaz]

as said im stupid and old lol, i had 1 class in this 20 years ago lol

[fringe trench]

idk if anyones mentioned it yet, but the river connects straight into the lach ness river. maybe the dino is a reference to the lock ness monster since theyre both thought to be dinosaurs

[sharp flame]

top left

pixel

[sharp flame]

1f6888

[slender lodge]

how awkward would it be if someone from here lived in that street

[spice belfry]

in leet speak 206888 is ROGBBB idk if thats helpful lol\

[slender lodge]

close enough to robbb

[spice belfry]

thats what i was thinking lol

[sharp flame]

wait how

tf

did they get that

[nimble iron]

its decrypting shit

[slender lodge]

isnt 206888 close to the hex color of the pixel

[nimble iron]

dont worry

[spice belfry]

yeah i asked chatgp to decrypt it and it didnt know

[nimble iron]

hashes and stuff

[timid solstice]

I reached out, they are here now but cant post here

[sharp flame]

I mean I know shy

md5 outputs in 16 characters of hex

but

[nimble iron]

it isnt the smartes entity in the world

[sharp flame]

just what decoder they used

and how I might use it

[spice belfry]

yeah i know but was worth a shot

[nimble iron]

wait guy i got it

how he did it

[sharp flame]

... 👀

[nimble iron]

the 2nd e/f was always different, by a few pixels

so it was the outlier

[timid solstice]

im asking

[nimble iron]

now just try those two mirrored e/f versions in a md5hash decoder and poof

[nimble iron]

it always bothered me

thats how i realized

[sharp flame]

okay okay!

the last 4 digits lining up is very coincidental

[nimble iron]

yeah

[crude topaz]

https://www.color-hex.com/color/206888

[spice belfry]

oh wait ROGBBB is norwegion for robbbb

[nimble iron]

lol

[slender lodge]

oh??

[sick stone]

wtf. no

haha

[timid solstice]

yess!

[spice belfry]

idk thats what google translates sayin lol

[nimble iron]

wtf lol

[sharp flame]

that would be funny

[sick stone]

No
-a Norwegian guy

[crude topaz]

rogbbb means nothing...

[slender lodge]

xD

damn so close

137

[timid solstice]

from Aroktyoe:
if 206888 is rogbbb in leet, it could be red orange green blue blue blue

[fallen jasper]

Ant updates?

[sharp flame]

wait

[slender lodge]

No just cockroaches

[fallen jasper]

Damn

[sharp flame]

1f6888 and 206888 are 1 apart

[slender lodge]

1f and 20

[nimble iron]

yes

[sharp flame]

hmm!

[slender lodge]

just 1 off eh

[nimble iron]

maybe we got the pixel at the top wrong

[sharp flame]

hmmm

[fringe trench]

no its correct, i just checked

[crude topaz]

can rgb values be used as coordinates?

[timid solstice]

@sharp flame
Aroktyoe generated all combos, and ran it through https://hashcat.net/hashcat/
XA3XX3CAA8D4591D2X11XC8X08692129

EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129 EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8F08692129 EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129 EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8F08692129 EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8E08692129 EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129 EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8E08692129 EA3EE3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129 EA3EF3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129 EA3EF3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8F08692129 EA3EF3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129 EA3EF3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8F08692129 EA3EF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8E08692129 EA3EF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129 EA3EF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8E08692129 EA3EF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129 EA3FE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129 EA3FE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8F08692129 EA3FE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129 EA3FE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8F08692129 EA3FE3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8E08692129 EA3FE3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129 EA3FE3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8E08692129 EA3FE3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129 EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129 EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8F08692129 EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129 EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8F08692129 EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8E08692129 EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129 EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8E08692129 EA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129 FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129 FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8F08692129 FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129 FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8F08692129 FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8E08692129 FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129 FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8E08692129 FA3EE3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129 FA3EF3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129 FA3EF3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8F08692129 FA3EF3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129 FA3EF3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8F08692129 FA3EF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8E08692129 FA3EF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129 FA3EF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8E08692129 FA3EF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129 FA3FE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129 FA3FE3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8F08692129 FA3FE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129 FA3FE3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8F08692129 FA3FE3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8E08692129 FA3FE3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129 FA3FE3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8E08692129 FA3FE3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129 FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8E08692129 FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2E11EC8F08692129 FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8E08692129 FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2E11FC8F08692129 FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8E08692129 FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11EC8F08692129 FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8E08692129 FA3FF3CAA8D4591D2F11FC8F08692129

[slender lodge]

colors can change a bit when they render out

[nimble iron]

1f6888

[sharp flame]

legend

[slender lodge]

huh

it is... 1f6888

[nimble iron]

yes

???

[sharp flame]

it is

1f6888

[timid solstice]

what is

[nimble iron]

the pixel

its off by 1

[nimble iron]

1f +1 =20

[sharp flame]

that pixel

[latent peak]

It's the same thing, though

[timid solstice]

its the same?

[slender lodge]

wait im confused lmfao nvm

[sharp flame]

it's not..

[slender lodge]

1f6888 vs 206888

[sharp flame]

206888 and 1f6888 are slightly different

and trying to decode 1f6888 gives something completely off

our string

[timid solstice]

ok I see where you are going

[latent peak]

Ah yeah...

[sharp flame]

so that pixel is definitely 1F6888, and our string equates to 206888

which is just 1 red value apart

[slender lodge]

can someone send the correct string of text

[fringe trench]

if we convert 1f6888 back to the hex string, whats the difference

[sick stone]

ohh

hey

"redshift"

[slender lodge]

:0

[sick stone]

It is slightly redshifted

[fringe trench]

is redshift a reference to something?

[slender lodge]

could be

[sick stone]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift#:~:text=In physics%2C a redshift is an increase in,is known as a negative redshift%2C or blueshift.

[sharp flame]

hmm... could be

[slender lodge]

the 2 rainbows too

[fringe trench]

yeah i was wondering what clues it relates to

[sick stone]

The hex colors

[sharp flame]

he means

other than how we found it

[sick stone]

I know it technically isn't red shifted. But it kind of is

[nimble iron]

first one is 20 second is 1f version

[sick stone]

ohh, early days. Who knows?

[nimble iron]

1 red off

so redshift???

could be

hmmm

[slender lodge]

136 is 1 away from 137

[sharp flame]

I wonder if we can now cross both these clues off as "knowing what they are"

[nimble iron]

but that is blue and why 137???

[slender lodge]

also could someone send me the whole string as a text

[slender lodge]

previous tier clues thats all

[sharp flame]

honestly props to @wintry sun , an awesome help

[nimble iron]

ea3fe3caa8d4591d2e11ec8e08692129

[slender lodge]

thanks dev!

[sick stone]

Redshift is just a very literal interpretation as the red value is "shifted" by 1.

which is not the same as actual redshift

[nimble iron]

yeah wouldnt ahve gone to hashes in a while with the description u gave of more looking in wikipedia

[crude topaz]

what kin d of blue is this btw? : https://www.reachthefinals.com/iseul-t

[sharp flame]

just a webpage

[fringe trench]

2496c5

[sharp flame]

promo etc. looks cool

[nimble iron]

#2496c5

oof beat me to it

[fringe trench]

its pretty far off

close tho

[sick stone]

It's one of those at most

[nimble iron]

206888=cagiii or = b fhhh in letters

[pure loom]

Oh, by the way, I think the practice range showed its time as 12:00pm night, but 12:00pm is lunchtime. It should be 12:00am.

[nimble iron]

wait did anyone work at that uni where that bridge architect came from that has something to do with redshift?

[sharp flame]

reminded me how awkward I felt when he came in and said this 😭

hahaha

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-donkey-you-should-be-ashamed-of-yourself-shame-on-you-how-dare-you-gif-22125188

[nimble iron]

but we can update the pinned post!!!

[pure loom]

[nimble iron]

the hash is solved

[spice belfry]

👆

[sharp flame]

I will say it looks AMAZING in places

[sharp flame]

we think

[fallen jasper]

Thomas didn't have any university education, but one of his colleagues came from Sweden and founded the Royal Science Academy

[sharp flame]

I mean odds are it's 100% solved

but can't 1 md5 hash decode into multiple possible inputs?

[nimble iron]

ye ok. does anything youve come across on your journey get close to redshift?

[nimble iron]

not really

then a password would have different solutions

[slender lodge]

https://www.iflscience.com/dinosaurs-saw-the-world-in-shades-of-red-37190

tried to find some conection but idk

[fallen jasper]

I've been laying in bed listening to ceilings so not really doing anything

[sharp flame]

hmmm

[crude topaz]

https://metanumbers.com/206888

[nimble iron]

lmao but u said in that science academy were some people that might be interesting

[sharp flame]

a few sources say that md5 is one way

I just wanna know how it works

[fallen jasper]

That was from what I was doing before I was in bed

[spice belfry]

i was lookin at that website too i couldn't find anything on there

[latent peak]

Heres my result trying twice to save 1 pixel as #206888 in the Up_We_Go jpg.

Maybe the same thing happend to Rob

[sharp flame]

wdym 'save'

[nimble iron]

it says the same input will always produce the **same **

output

[sick stone]

poutput

[sharp flame]

that would be true if multiple inputs produced the same output too no?

[sick stone]

https://tenor.com/view/pout-hmph-cute-gif-21444650

[nimble iron]

again not really...

[sharp flame]

why would it not be true 😭 my brain

[nimble iron]

hashes are weird, yes

just look into it a bit

[latent peak]

Open the wallpaper . Add one pixel of #206888 and save, reopen the file

[sharp flame]

hmm

[sharp flame]

just did

[fringe trench]

are you saving it as a jpg?

[sharp flame]

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

[nimble iron]

i gotta go its 00:47 and ive got stuff to do early. im only gettin 7 hours of sleep now so bye bye!

[spice belfry]

if true then 216888 is RIGBBB in leet

[fringe trench]

jpgs have compression, which unusally involves shift colours around

[sharp flame]

nvm

question and answer

[latent peak]

yes, the picture rob posted is a jpg

[leaden dock]

this looks fun, where's the arg start?

[fringe trench]

no i mean are YOU saving it as a jpg. i think rob would check to see if the compression changed the value

[nimble iron]

https://tenor.com/view/goodnight-kitty-gif-25767528

cya!

[fringe trench]

https://tenor.com/view/goodnight-sleepwell-gif-25200931

[sharp flame]

damnn good find

it does change the value!!

so if Rob did try and put 206888 in that corner, it reads 1f6888 on our end

damn

[timid solstice]

#easter-eggs message
best to read this post

[sharp flame]

unless he knew this

[latent peak]

Yes, im saying he might have overlooked it

[sharp flame]

to be fair if you paint the pixel yourself, why (after inserting the other 20 clues into the image) are you gonna export the finished image and then recheck to see if the pixel had changed

also

[timid solstice]

so what do we do with this new info

[sharp flame]

no matter how many times Rob rechecked, if he was rechecking his photoshop file, it would be the same 206888

anyway

[timid solstice]

what is this in? what website?

[leaden dock]

wait i had no idea this was a thing thats so cool

[sharp flame]

we have numerical and more proof that it's 206888

and not 1f6888

either way it's safer to assume 206888

[fringe trench]

@latent peak is correct, i just checked. set the corner pixel to 206888, saved as jpg at quality 12 (max quality), reopened it and it went back to 1f6888

[sharp flame]

at 100% quality for me it also changes

[timid solstice]

was the original file a jpg or png @latent peak

[sharp flame]

wonder if Rob knows this

[fringe trench]

jpg

its in #official-art

[sharp flame]

@proud minnow your top left #206888 pixel has been converted to a #1f6888 coloured pixel when you exported the image! (this is just in case you didn't know). Now the pixel and the md5 clue do not line up..

wait

what if this is on purpose

and part of the puzzle 🧠

hmm

the corner pixel was (in contrast) a very easy find... right?

[timid solstice]

no i mean the original before that one

[fringe trench]

there was one before that?

[timid solstice]

there was one before

with the sharper zip code text

[sharp flame]

why put it in twice? use valuable clue space to write a much longer version of the same number?

especially if the first one is so easy..

[latent peak]

Oh right, yeah that was also a jpg

[fringe trench]

oh right, i was using that one the other day... not sure where its from, im not on the same pc so i cant get it either. i do remember having a png version of the image tho

[timid solstice]

what do you mean?

[sharp flame]

206888

if the corner pixel had read 206888

[timid solstice]

I dont think its reversible no?

[sharp flame]

then it would've been easy and invalidated the newer clue

[timid solstice]

we cant get ea3fe3caa8d4591d2e11ec8e08692129 from 206888

[timid solstice]

thankyou!

[sharp flame]

(we can lol)

[timid solstice]

show me plz

[sharp flame]

md5 encoding is much much easier

than decoding

https://elmah.io/tools/md5-encoder/

it's instant

[timid solstice]

https://www.md5hashgenerator.com/

I see

[sharp flame]

but that's not what I was saying

[solar glade]

encoding with any code is easier than decoding

[fallen jasper]

[sharp flame]

it was more that maybe Rob intended us to find the pixel easily

[timid solstice]

https://hashes.com/en/decrypt/hash this works great; ea3fe3caa8d4591d2e11ec8e08692129 to 206888

[sharp flame]

but that it wouldn't exactly lead anywhere

[fringe trench]

yeah. the pixel must be the important part

[sharp flame]

and then we decode the long string

to find that it's 1 off

and then we also realise that that's what the pixel is intended to be

you could call that a red herring!

[fallen jasper]

[sharp flame]

otherwise, again, the pixel is much more visible in comparison to the md5

[fallen jasper]

I don't wanna get lost in the burrws again

[sharp flame]

and there's no reason to hide 2

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/stick-figure-do-something-gif-14811013

can we solve the crosses puzzle now

[solar glade]

on the first day? nah

[sharp flame]

hmmm, the first step is to turn it into characters..

[crude topaz]

have they put in red herrings before ?

[timid solstice]

cursed af

[timid solstice]

yes

url dead ends

[sharp flame]

the only thing that comes up

[timid solstice]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/devoncrossing
https://www.reachthefinals.com/ocb
https://www.reachthefinals.com/galileo

All related to geocache but not the url we were looking for
https://www.reachthefinals.com/geocache

[sharp flame]

wish they had things like that now..

they served more as waypoints..

[timid solstice]

0 0000112
2 1222211 0 1

a aaaabbc
c bccccbb a b

[north crag]

this channel scares me

[sharp flame]

#easter-eggs message

[leaden dock]

which image is this pixel in, and where was this string found if i may ask?