easter-eggs

[neon stream]

It's from that image, in case that tells us something

[sharp flame]

also look the Board Game has a counterpart, a second!

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

as a direct sequel to his 1951 board game Afrikan tähti.

'Inkan aarre is mostly similar to Afrikan tähti'... 'picking up tokens in search for the famous treasure of the Inca:
a golden sun god statue.

^^^

Louis --> Apollo
Kari --> Incan sun god (Inti)

[neon stream]

The only connection I can see is star, and I guess that points to the sun, too 🤔

[fallen jasper]

The timeline and Clues & Connection page has been updated with the new image btw

[sage bramble]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/rival-1

Scanned the qr code

[hidden nacelle]

#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

looked into it, the page definitely has more info in it

[quiet silo]

Nothing jumped out at me in the source

[crude topaz]

what are you pointing out here?

[sharp flame]

Newton's Rings

[crude topaz]

i mean whats the big square in the center

or center-ish

[nimble iron]

accident

[mortal ivy]

Hi eggies! Just noticed that a new image dropped. The QR code was painfully obvious 🥹

[nimble iron]

just a sreenshot

[mortal ivy]

Rob really has no faith in us ❤️

[sharp flame]

damn okay 😭

[sharp flame]

he's being nice okay..

I assume there are still PLENTY of clues yet to be found

[crude topaz]

or is it a clue...

lol

[nimble iron]

f

we are kinda stuck, like the last hurdle

[sharp flame]

no way we are on the last hurdle hehehe

[sharp flame]

I actually think so!

the window part seems peculiar

seems like a clue

[nimble iron]

i think for this teir

[neon stream]

I wonder why the url is /rival**-1**. I wonder if that RL 5 means Rival 5, and if that's the case, if he wants us to look at Rival 1. Tbh, I don't see how RL 1 would help us 😂

[mortal ivy]

is this some drawn out text?

[sharp flame]

possible?

[nimble iron]

tf is dat

[crude topaz]

i guess its the tiles with lines

[mortal ivy]

Oh yeah it is, haha got lost in the filters and didn't think to look at the original

[crude topaz]

but still the lined tiles are sus

im back tracking so im having another look at panda pic

[mortal ivy]

Also, what is this weird hand(?) thing

[placid cape]

people discussed it earlier, thinking it was an iceberg

[mortal ivy]

Makes sense, but my head just thinks it's a hand with all the fingertips touching, but there's no space between the fingers 🤷

[placid cape]

#easter-eggs message

it's easier to see greyscaled

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, i just saw it by zooming the original now. The top part make it an iceberg 100%

[crude topaz]

iceberg ahs been posted 4 times by now

[mortal ivy]

eh, I always repost found stuff, sue me 🥹

[crude topaz]

think Swa is making an summary

@sharp flame do you have link to updated padlet?

[crude topaz]

im so lost i cant find the link anymore

[fallen jasper]

#easter-eggs message

[crude topaz]

ty

[tulip matrix]

It's an Italian iceberg

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/mando-way-this-is-the-way-mandalorian-star-wars-gif-18467370

Can you also add the new find, blue pixel in kynezantine
#easter-eggs message
And the top of the can on Robotama
#easter-eggs message

[mortal ivy]

I'm sure this has been posted before as well, but it's the rainbows again ?

it's a sun with a face

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/woody-woody-toy-story-sora-kh3-kh-gif-27223516

but yeah see what you find then check the padlet
https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1e-ohsl9b4w3ncqnvqe

[mortal ivy]

Thank you, been out of the game for so long so forgot about padlets

But no one has mentioned the double/full circle rainbow for this one yet? Or was it just not interesting

[tulip matrix]

Oh glory 🙏
Thy Nama in heaven
Bless this hunt and grant us swift resolution!
Deliver in us the wisdom 🧠 and the courage 💟 to prevail!
Exorcise these clues from grips of SR 🕯️ himself if thy must!
Hallelujah 🙌

In Jesus toast, Omelette

[mortal ivy]

Also, was all of these smaller pixel squares connected to the QR code, or?

[crude topaz]

i was looking at the pixelated tiles erlier but cant make sense of it

i mean its very deliberate as with the lined ones

[mortal ivy]

yep 🤔

[sick stone]

#easter-eggs message

maybe

[crude topaz]

The power of SR eggspels you!

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, that looks very close to it, especially the description:
"When viewed with monochromatic light, Newton's rings appear as a series of concentric, alternating bright and dark rings centered at the point of contact between the two surfaces. When viewed with white light, it forms a concentric ring pattern of rainbow colors because the different wavelengths of light interfere at different thicknesses of the air layer between the surfaces. "

nvm, seems like it was artefacts moving around

[crude topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/fearandloathing-batcountry-fly-swat-gif-12837116

[pure loom]

Stig Holm sounds Swedish

[mortal ivy]

Yes, it would be very normal name for someone born 1920-1950 ish

[pure loom]

il gelato del terrore

The Gelato of Terror

[tulip matrix]

I'm scared but I'm hungry! Aaaah!

horrified slurping noises

[pure loom]

Scargry

[mortal ivy]

This footer static looks like it means something

[pure loom]

It says Made In Finland at the bottom so there is that

[crude topaz]

This is probl nothing, but center has a square

[mortal ivy]

All the names on it are extremely finnish and "kaksi" means two in finnish as well

[pure loom]

Kaksi kitaraa - Two Guitars - you can listen to various versions on Spotify

[crude topaz]

the disc also has 2 sides ....

[mortal ivy]

yeah, you are right. First side looks like this

Track Artist Title Composer Arranger
A Malte Johnson Orkesteri High Society Cole Porter
B Raija Mannerla Kaksi Kitaraa (Two Guitars) Traditional, Aaro Jalkanen Olli Häme

The record label Rival has produced four 2-sided discs: https://www.45cat.com/label/rival-fi
(But I guess they have done 5? as they are called RL1, 2, 4, 5. RL3 seems to be missing)

Raija Mannerla also appeared on RL4 with "Ensikerran (Come Prima)"

[tulip matrix]

Makes me think of how the Titanic's lower compartments are labeled A thru P but they skip I for some reason

[mortal ivy]

I survived the Titanic 👀

[crude topaz]

?

[tulip matrix]

nIce one

A real Whorlwind of ideas in this hunt

[tulip matrix]

That one looks like a sea donut 🛟

[mortal ivy]

I think the middle might just have fell off, so only the outer one survived

[crude topaz]

lol iStock

[magic field]

what r u talking abt

[mortal ivy]

There's a lot of smaller squares, like the ones you see in the QR code, scattered about on the walls. But they are smallers than the QR blocks and doesn't really form anything.

Like this part

[pure loom]

Or the Van Allen belts, just coming back to poles/magnets etc

[tulip matrix]

spaaaaace donut

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-homer-simpson-donut-hungry-food-gif-3854709

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/krispy-kreme-donut-doughtnut-flying-space-gif-16699938

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/eddie-van-halen-guitarist-hanging-gif-14370409

(That's what I read)

[magic field]

i see

[fickle forge]

don't tempt me

[sick stone]

Ohh god

I just had a realization

[rancid crown]

hi

[hidden nacelle]

hi

[sick stone]

In-game easter events will bring back a lot of traumatic flashbacks from this hunt

hi

[nimble iron]

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

[hidden nacelle]

indeed they will

[rancid crown]

https://tenor.com/view/breakdown-stressed-spongebob-nervous-meltdown-gif-20600009

me waiting for any announcements

[sharp flame]

the only announcements here will be super enciphered 😭

[slender lodge]

0++ap

[sharp flame]

exactly 😎

[hollow stirrup]

https://tenor.com/view/torus-flower-of-life-floweroflife-gif-26057117

[pure loom]

slice that at an angle and you get an oval...

[sharp flame]

infinitesmally small hole

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/ah-shit-here-we-go-again-ah-shit-cj-gta-gta-san-andreas-gif-13933485

I'm not sure if Rob is obsessed with geometry, or we are

[pure loom]

hahaha - this will live on forever

[latent peak]

Hi guys!
Did we solve this part ?

[timid solstice]

Yup

[sharp flame]

it reads Kari!

[latent peak]

Cool thanks!

[timid solstice]

Keep looking and asking though

We might have missed something

[latent peak]

Will do 🫡

[timid solstice]

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1e-ohsl9b4w3ncqnvqe

Bottom right I added what was mentioned yesterday

Apart from the circles

Perhaps fish you can added that? If you are at pc?

[hollow stirrup]

Technically one-sided toroid, with an inflection point.

[sharp flame]

topologically the same as a sphere

[hollow stirrup]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/sphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere not exactly

[sharp flame]

the one sided

or one-faced

[hollow stirrup]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Hypersphere.gif

[hollow stirrup]

If the axis of revolution passes through the center of the circle, the surface is a degenerate torus, a double-covered sphere. I see this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Clifford-torus.gif

[quiet silo]

Went down the donut hole on this one and got stuck in a penrose loop send help

[sharp flame]

donut holes aren't actually that deep 🧠

[quiet silo]

Yeah I hit the penrose thing pretty much right away

https://tenor.com/view/illusion-loop-falling-down-stairs-moebius-loop-forever-gif-5511820

Me rn

[vague flax]

How ya'll finding these types of clues out of nooowhere whaaaat

[hidden nacelle]

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1e-ohsl9b4w3ncqnvqe

[sharp flame]

Technically the donut/torus we just made up

but the rest is real I swear

[hollow stirrup]

No, they're spheres!

[pure loom]

Hey, I need some PS help - who knows how the Pisa griffin was revealed from the two fire images? (Tier 1B)

some sort of compare tool?

[fringe trench]

there were two "identical" images, so i put both on top of each other in PS and set one of their blend modes to "difference" and it resulted in a "black image". i used the levels tool to brighten image and then it revealed the pisa griffin

[pure loom]

great! Thanks!!

[neon stream]

writes down "buunuu did some magic"

[pure loom]

I'm trying to figure out if there could be clues hidden like that in a single image

so you'd need to duplicate the image - then say invert one of them and compare them then, or something like that

[neon stream]

I guess if you had reference points, to make them the same size, and know where the overlap would be, you could

[fringe trench]

basically one of the images had a slightly transparent overlay of the griffin, and so it required the identical non-modified image to reveal it because it was so transparent

[neon stream]

What about the squares, could those be overlapped to show something?

[pure loom]

what if this were done so the inverted version of the same image provided the same thing - so the difference was right around the 50% mark (halfway between inverted and not inverted) or something like that?

[fringe trench]

one idea i had was if its a png, it could be hidden in the transparency of the image. ive tried it on some images but never found anything. not sure if a tiny amount of transparency would be obvious or not (since photoshop has that checkerboard pattern)

[fringe trench]

mmm unlikely since you kinda need an identical image

[neon stream]

Hmmm but could sections of the image be "identical"? 🤔

[fringe trench]

mmm maybe? though i feel like no

[neon stream]

As in, if I place the two images that reveal the Pisa Griffin side by side, to make one big image. Could someone just split them, and do that PS magic?

[fringe trench]

the thing that hid the pisa griffin was all the noise in the image (the fire and stuff. aka it wasnt a flat colour). if it was a flat colour, it would be ez pz to find the image as it would be the same as most other clues, where you just adjust the levels to give the image more contrast so the clue is more visible

[neon stream]

Ohhh, I see

Thanks for the info! 💪🏻

[pure loom]

hmmm, what if clues were hidden with like a single colour difference (as in the HEX colour is one value different) - how would we bring that up?

contrast wouldn't be enough, right?

[neon stream]

You can do that with an algorithm, just comparing pixel values

[fringe trench]

hmmmm that might be possible?

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/no-please-no-god-no-stop-please-stop-gif-17190431

[neon stream]

(If I understand what you mean, as in difference in color between consecutive pixels)

[fringe trench]

yeah i think you can do this

[neon stream]

Or you can do it by hand, but I'm lazy 😂

[pure loom]

yeah, so an area that looks pretty unform, but there's writing hidden there by changing the pixels ultra-subtly

[neon stream]

Then yeah

[fringe trench]

if it was uniform, youd do the levels. but if its on a noisy area of the image, i think its possible to hide a clue with a single colour difference

and also reveal it

[pure loom]

Or an area with slight variation, but the clue is all the same pixel colour, but you can't see it because the variation is so small around it

[neon stream]

I think our PS wizards already do that

[pure loom]

I think Rob might be wizzy-er than us. I want extra wiz

https://tenor.com/view/gandalf-the-party-wizard-nod-nodding-laugh-gif-17827071

[tulip matrix]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_World_(The_Carpenters_song)

"In 1974, the Swedish dansband Vikingarna had a Svensktoppen hit with a Swedish version by Benny Borg, "På världens tak (On the roof of the world)", which was the first Vikingarna song to chart on the Svensktoppen."

Born in Gothenburg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Borg

Danced to in pairs
Foxtrot music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dansband

[tulip matrix]

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

"Corona is the patroness of causes involving money, such as gambling and treasure hunting..."

" Corona or Stephanie (or Stefania or Stephana, from Greek στέφᾰνος, stéphanos, "crown", the Greek version of her Latin name, which also means "crown")"

[tulip matrix]

The sun sure is noisy

It just occurred to me that Ice is a slang term for diamonds

" 'Ice' is a slang term for diamonds and expensive jewelry. Someone with an excessive amount of diamonds would be “dripping” in ice, and an “iceburg” is an even greater amount of diamonds."

This is too deep

[timid solstice]

https://www.retrowow.co.uk/retro_britain/keg_bitter/double_diamond.php

[unkempt crypt]

the real question is.. is it good though

[tulip matrix]

Crouun Jeuuels

Double double u

HA

[sharp flame]

damn I did miss that

[sharp flame]

and that 🤯

[tulip matrix]

boom 👊

So Kings and Queens are just Royal iceburgs

kek

A royal pain in my side as the Titanic might say

[neon stream]

Niiiiice

The snowflake was confirmed #easter-eggs message

[unkempt crypt]

Moolah is not an EE? disappointed!

[fringe trench]

big props to swa for making these, it took me a while lmao

[sharp flame]

I think 'Louis XIV' in the description of 'Sun King' could be helpful too

[sharp flame]

Petition to get Moolahtama at some point?!!!

[timid solstice]

nice work!
the hex of the the blue pixel should be #206888

[sharp flame]

that hex is wayy off 😭

[fringe trench]

oh yes youre right, i had the glow from the dotted lines on top shifting the colour lmao

😬

updated

[slender lodge]

Sorry wasn't able to finish in time got kinda demotivated in between

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/wait-a-minute-who-are-you-confused-gif-20600566

jk

[sharp flame]

it's okay Swa ❤️

we still love you

[slender lodge]

🥹

[slender lodge]

😭

It has spread

[tulip matrix]

Starring Kari Coleman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Rex%3A_Back_to_the_Cretaceous?wprov=sfla1

[sharp flame]

what a read

some interesting Pisa Griffin info btw

(Pliny being the 79AD vesuvius guy)

[tulip matrix]

Poetry I know haha

Gotta love edutainment

[sharp flame]

I love the diagram that pops up when you hover over it

lol

[tulip matrix]

Oh I'm on mobile so I don't see that lol

Oh this haha
e g g s

[tulip matrix]

Pliny strikes again

That dude is a vampire or something

he has to be

That dude is probably in the fossil record next to some dinosaurs

[tulip matrix]

Oh shid
EE = Entertainment-Education

https://www.geni.com/people/King-Kari-Wind-of-Kvenland/6000000001669620081

[pure loom]

How did you find this?

[tulip matrix]

I just googled 'Kari t rex' 😂

[pure loom]

Ha! I do that sort of thing a lot

[tulip matrix]

Because I thought the stretched out Kari clue looked kinda like trex upside down

"...the Viking compass had a 45 degree rotation of cardinal points..."

Like the center circle on that record

[tulip matrix]

borrowing this

The gaps point at a 45° rotation with one of them capped off like it could be North on a compass

[sharp flame]

it's in the OG image though

[tulip matrix]

Free clue for Rob then

[pure loom]

I’ve just realised Rob’s mention of “Försvunna Diamanten” = “The Lost Diamond” could be pointing us to a Diamond clue. Or at least referencing one.

[sharp flame]

we only have found 1 diamond site and we haven't found the clue there yet 😭

[pure loom]

We found the clue, but don’t know what it means, right?

The hidden characters

[sharp flame]

we found 1 primary clue (YMF292)

but the 'Final Level' clue has yet to be found

[pure loom]

How do we know it’s a primary clue?

[sharp flame]

cause it connects to the tier

haha

[pure loom]

What was the connection, I forget?

[sharp flame]

YMF292

is the soundchip for Sega Saturn

and Sega Titan

but there is more in the GIF

I just can't really turn it into letters

[pure loom]

It could be a secondary to quaternary clue for that final level though. There’s no way to know if it’s a primary clue for that.

[sharp flame]

hmm.. possibly

At some point we're gonna have to dig into the GIF again

I think there is still something to be found

[pure loom]

And it didn’t seem to have any secondary connection to tier 1D - I guess diamond clues are unlikely to have any connection to current tiers.

[neon stream]

Hmmm the GIF was full of ovals 🤔

[sharp flame]

I reckon we would be thinking differently if we could fully connect that Titan path

[neon stream]

(I'll try to type a bit more now, so I can earn more XP and make @unkempt crypt happy 😂 )

[pure loom]

True that

So could be considered one of the two primary clues for tier 1D

[neon stream]

Maybe there's a hidden diamond clue per tier, that gives a clue to both that tier and the final level

[sharp flame]

yeah

[neon stream]

That means... we are missing quite a few

[pure loom]

Makes sense.

[neon stream]

Doesn't surprise me

[sharp flame]

but I think they are two separate strings

[neon stream]

(see what I did there? I split the messages, so I get more XP. I'm an expert at this 😎 )

[unkempt crypt]

I am getting happier

but am I happy enough?

that is...

the question.

[neon stream]

I have to

start typing

like that

so I can

earn more XP

Sorry for the spam, I'll stop

[sick stone]

stahp it

[sharp flame]

now I'm worrying if we'll need all the diamond clues

[neon stream]

No need to worry: we won't 😂

[pure loom]

This comment was after we had already found the first diamond clue.

[sharp flame]

it's funny how much more this relates apparently to this tier than that one

[neon stream]

hmmmm. What if it was a bit of foreshadowing from Rob...? 🤔

[sharp flame]

hrmm

[pure loom]

He said it just a few days after the first diamond clue was found

[sharp flame]

maybe these are timed and release regardless of whether we solved the tier or not 😭

[sick stone]

ohhh

I think I get it

[sick stone]

take the train up to the magnetic north

which is in the south

[pure loom]

Curious that Dusty talks about it being up north though

[sick stone]

but..

I just said...

the magnetic north pole of earth is in the southern hemisphere

so taking the train up north would mean taking the trains south

perhaps to Africa

[sharp flame]

again that would take us forward a tier haha

must be foreshadowing then

[sharp flame]

also thanks for the new fact

[sick stone]

In that case then the animation from brrw might point to newton's rings as well

[sharp flame]

*burrw 🤓

[sick stone]

oopsie

my bad

[pure loom]

I kinda knew this - but if you search for the reasoning behind it, all the answers are circular. They all say the north end of a magnet points north, if free to move like a compass, but that assumes the poles of earth are known. Then they say a marked magnet’s North Pole will point north, therefore the magnetic North Pole is south. Totally circular argument. How do they determine that the north magnetic pole is south or the poles of a marked magnet to start with?

[sharp flame]

They picked one

hehe

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/no-please-no-god-no-stop-please-stop-gif-17190431

There must be some other way to determine polarity

[tulip matrix]

The lost diamond like the one Old Rose dropped into the sea in The Titanic?

[pure loom]

I thought that was a sapphire. Bluest diamond I’ve ever seen.

[slender lodge]

el wikigoblino

[pure loom]

Huh. Based on the Hope Diamond

[tulip matrix]

Ayy

Sir Penger mentioned that before

Only reason I know tbf

[pure loom]

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

Blue due to boron

[neon stream]

I think this has to do with the magnetic flux flow. The north magnetic pole is on the south because the magnetic flux goes from north to south poles of magnets (I guess that what you call "north" or "south" is just a convention). And then magnets just point to the North Pole, because that's the one with the south polarity. But I'm no expert on this, so I might be wrong

[sick stone]

Well, magnets have a north and a south, northern poles repel other northern poles and attract southern magnetic poles. A compass needle is essentially a small magnet, so when the north pole of the compass needle itself points north that means it is attracted to the magnetic south of earth which then must be in the northern hemisphere. It does in fact align with the magnetic field lines of earth, thus - since the concentration of them grow towards the poles in either direction - some compasses created for the southern hemisphere won't work properly up north since the magnetic field technically pulls one end of the needle slightly downwards which has to be accounted for in the weighting of the ends. Magnetic field lines point from North to South, or in the case of a charged particle pair, from positive to negative. As for why it is named the way it is is simply because we had to names the poles of a magnet something and north and south was what english speaking countries landed on I guess

As for why the north pole of earth is named the north pole is probably because the north part of a compass needle pointed in that general direction. therefore it has nothing to do with the magnetic north of earth itself, but more so the name of the part of the compass needle

[sick stone]

The magnetic field lines you mean?

magnetic flux is something else

[pure loom]

This could make sense. But how is the flux measured then?

[sick stone]

It doesn't

Magnetic flux - in simplified terms - is in a way the amount of magnetic field lines intersecting a surface that is positioned within the magnetic field of a corresponding magnet

[neon stream]

Oh, yeah, that thing. Again, not an expert 😂

I thought flux was like flow 😂

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/the-flux-capacitor-energy-time-travel-excited-dr-emmet-brown-gif-16482144

[sick stone]

It's not

[pure loom]

But that’s the circular argument - because if you Google how magnet poles are determined, they all say it’s done using the earth’s magnetic field.

[tulip matrix]

It'll help your solder flow

[pure loom]

Where are all the physics majors when we need them?

[sick stone]

It isn't, and the only circular bit about it boils down to how whomever named magnetic poles decided on north being north and south being south

[tulip matrix]

I'mma explore the Frozen Fanpedia to find this tier's equivalent to SpongeBob clues

[pure loom]

Yes, correct.

Hopefully it doesn’t say “they used a magnet”

[sick stone]

it just boils down to how magnets (including compasses) align with the surrounding magnetic field (ex. earth)

[pure loom]

I understand that. I’ll go Google how poles were named.

[neon stream]

@sick stone thanks for all the info on magnets! 💪🏻

[pure loom]

FFS - this gets worse the more you try and find an answer.

[sick stone]

I gotcha, one sec

[tulip matrix]

I think
the answer is
Corona

[pure loom]

This is the problem though. That is completely circular.

[sick stone]

the nomenclature is very wishywashy, but that should explain it

[sick stone]

it's just the naming that is weird

[pure loom]

To put it in perspective, the reverse argument, which is equally valid (until we find the real answer) is that you could just say that the north magnetic pole IS north and all the magnets need relabelling. There’s no way to dispute that because the reasoning is circular.

[sick stone]

it is called "magnetic south pole" because it is in the south, but it is - for historical reasons - a magnetic north pole even though it's naming wouldn't suggest that

[sick stone]

you could say that, yes

[pure loom]

So there must have been a way to originally determine it.

[sick stone]

but because how we describe electricity, magnetism, electric fields, compasses, etc. is too closely connected to avoid it being too massive an undertaking to attempt to rename it

[sick stone]

wdym?

like, it is a magnetic north, but it is called The magnetic South Pole

it's just the naming

if anything the most reasonable renaming should be of earths poles/hemispheres

[neon stream]

I think it makes sense once you put the nomenclature aside, and just look at earth as a big magnet, and where compasses point to

[sick stone]

You got it

It's just weird naming

[pure loom]

What I mean is there must be a way to differentiate the poles of a magnet. Otherwise, the north magnetic pole of the Earth could just be said to be north - AH! But then all the north labels on magnets would point south. Bingo

It was easier to say the earth was the other way around because it’s not labeled

[tulip matrix]

Have you guys explored the Faberge Egg path yet?

[pure loom]

Extensively

[tulip matrix]

There's one walled Winter and another one is Nobel Ice. After that Nobel guy

[pure loom]

During the last tier

[pure loom]

Dynamite dude

[neon stream]

Yeah. We probably call north, "north", because that's the magnet side that points to the "northern hemisphere", which is where the south pole of the "big magnet earth" is at

[tulip matrix]

There's also the Papal crown thing which is very eggy

I should get back to work 😂

[sick stone]

yeah, it's also extensively engraved in electronics nomenclature, as well as physics in general, so switching all the names, formulas, and labels would be a big hassle. It's literally just a quirk of historical naming

[pure loom]

We need to go put a massive north magnetic pole label down south. One day someone will be there going “wtf”

[pure loom]

Easier to throw Mother Nature under the bus instead

[tulip matrix]

So many polar opposites. Sheesh.

[sick stone]

So to summarize: True North and The Magnetic North are in the northern hemisphere, but the actual magnet-wise magnetic North is in the southern hemisphere

[pure loom]

Next question: why is Poland… jk

[neon stream]

I looked into Fabergé Eggs last tier. I'll mention this, in case it becomes relevant: The prince of Monaco has one of those
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Serpent_Clock_(Fabergé_egg)

[sick stone]

https://tenor.com/view/the-more-you-know-gif-26317296

[tulip matrix]

That's a good question. Why is Poland?

[sick stone]

why Poland

[tulip matrix]

Why P

[sick stone]

P

[tulip matrix]

[pure loom]

We’re going to use this to expose Big Physics for what they are.

[tulip matrix]

illegal

Straight to jail

[pure loom]

“The name Poland, or Polska in Polish, derives from Slavic tribe of Polans who build Polish state, thus it means: "The State of Polans".”

Anyway, back to the Easter Eggs…

*finds his way back using a compass

[neon stream]

Use this type of compass, so there are no more questions about magnetism 😂

[pure loom]

Which point is the left side?

[tulip matrix]

Whichever one doesn't feel right

[pure loom]

You should have left that joke alone.

[neon stream]

Are you saying he had no right to make that comment?

[pure loom]

Hey, I thought you’d left!

[neon stream]

Been right here the whole time 😂

[pure loom]

Ok.

[neon stream]

I'm sorry for everyone here who has to read the stupid things we say 😂

[pure loom]

I just had came up with a possible burrow-diamond connection.

Diamonds are brought to the surface of the earth from depths of around 160km+ (100 miles) in Kimberlite. This is a volcanic rock that travels rapidly up a narrow “pipe” in the Earth’s crust - the result is a Kimberlite pipe which is what gets mined for diamonds (although they can be eroded out of the pipe at the surface too). Kimberlite pipe mines are like a burrow into the Earth. They are usually pretty narrow and very steep.

There’s never (thankfully) been a Kimberlite eruption in recorded history.

Most of them are very old geologically.

[crude topaz]

is this the day shift of EE?

[pure loom]

A kimberlite mine

[fallen jasper]

Kimberlites themselves are best described as “carrot-shaped,” where they widen at the top and narrow at...

I want off of the rabbithole

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/bugs-bunny-looney-tunes-cartoons-gif-25067683

/carrt is not a url

Carrots = carats

[fallen jasper]

Did rob say there were diamond clues or just this is a diamond clue

[pure loom]

He said there are multiple diamond clues

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/blank-stare-homelander-antony-starr-the-boys-dead-inside-gif-25853869

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/nervous-scared-hands-shaking-shivering-gif-18714091

[tulip matrix]

I'm not

[crude topaz]

humor level: dad

[timid solstice]

I'm working in Nice wed-sat... It's very close to Monaco..
Rob let me know it you need something found... or a photogrammetry scan hehe

[tulip matrix]

I'mma need 69 pushups in front of the welcome sign of Nice

[timid solstice]

5 years ago maybe

[mortal ivy]

Hi hello deteggtives

[tulip matrix]

Eh just pose for the photo and say you did then

[tulip matrix]

Hey howdy

[mortal ivy]

How goes it? Dancing to some finnish polka maybe?

[timid solstice]

hey hey

[neon stream]

@timid solstice I guess you could try to find that 🤔

And also, a picture of the "minecraft zombi", just so we have the irl version 😛

[tulip matrix]

Finna finish this tier soon I hope

[sick stone]

Which north?

[crude topaz]

wasnt that post regarding vega station

[timid solstice]

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7301392,7.4239747,3a,83.1y,312.13h,86.54t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipO2sSWnpyVNjIfhFbNe7YdDUTju3FKZxkSVjoWu!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipO2sSWnpyVNjIfhFbNe7YdDUTju3FKZxkSVjoWu%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya71.63268-ro-0-fo100!7i6000!8i3000

[tulip matrix]

Oh heyllo there Gal and Hal
What're ye doin O'er there
Ohthere of Hålogaland
What're ye doin O'er there
Up on yer halo of land

[neon stream]

Yeah, but a closer version 😛

[sick stone]

After Louis XIV showed up, as well as the Cullinan diamond has got me questioning that

[proud minnow]

Hi.! How are we doing today.?

[sharp flame]

Well!

👀 🙏

[proud minnow]

(I have some reading to do in the channel at least… ._.)

[sharp flame]

See you in 6 hours😂😂

[proud minnow]

haha.!

[pure loom]

Hey, @proud minnow got any carats for us today?

[tulip matrix]

Maybe he can reveal the secret ingredient in WR Candy

[proud minnow]

Still reading through your progress

[pure loom]

He called it “progress” - encouraging!

[unkempt crypt]

haha I was about to say the same haha

[hidden nacelle]

😆

[tulip matrix]

He must have meant progression into madness

[pure loom]

Yeah! Ha regress not progress

[timid solstice]

I read that as:

https://tenor.com/view/no-regret-tattoo-ragret-gif-10665365

[proud minnow]

I actually wrote ”progress” first, haha

[pure loom]

Uh oh.

[proud minnow]

BUT the I saw a couple of things so I deleted the “”

[neon stream]

Thanks to Tim, we learned a few things about magnetism today. (Just don't bring the topic back, or we'll have another long discussion about nomenclatures 😛)

[proud minnow]

Yes, I’m actually planning to read more about magnetism later tonight, thanks to Tim.!

[pure loom]

I’ll translate this - “guys, don’t waste any more time on magnetism, as I barely looked at it myself”

[proud minnow]

not on this tier at least… ._.

(it is a super interesting area to dig deep in… ._.)

[neon stream]

hmmm

[pure loom]

I’m attracted to it…

[neon stream]

"deep"... 🤔

The Hope Diamond's double, from the Titanic film...

[pure loom]

Or the kimberlite path?

[neon stream]

true

Or both 😂

[pure loom]

Titanic seems more clued though

[neon stream]

Or just Rob not being able to say anything without us looking for a second meaning to it 😂

[pure loom]

Remember 666

Maybe we should interpret more not less

Rob speaks fluent Egglish

[crude topaz]

dig deep in...

[neon stream]

Maybe this whole thing was just Rob trying to say there was room for 2

[proud minnow]

haha I don’t, but THX RHB I take that as a compliment.!

I think I read through everything from yesterday, still a couple of clues you haven’t found… so I guess I can chill for another couple of evenings before you actually need more nuggets of information.

[neon stream]

hehehe

"chill"

[timid solstice]

nugs

[crude topaz]

yeah Leo should have fit, and the ending credit song should have been "Just the 2 of us" Groover Washington

[neon stream]

We should look at the T-rex again 😛

[timid solstice]

@proud minnow you need any thing from Monaco? anything interesting to look at...

[neon stream]

TIL what "nug" means 😂

[pure loom]

Possible mining hint after all

[crude topaz]

Tyr is the Norse version of Mars. "Tyr"annosaur"

[proud minnow]

hehe, there is… ._.

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/owl-boo-scary-creepy-head-turn-gif-5002123

[fallen jasper]

I was looking at Semaphore telegraphy, (unreleated to the EE hunt) kinda interesting how something fairly common for the time got completely and utterly forogtten within a few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

[crude topaz]

inb4 this ARG just turned into IRL stuff

[fallen jasper]

Sweden actually had the second most extensive system compared to France

[crude topaz]

oh i looked at that wiki, cant remember how i got there heh

People looked anything at earths core before magnetic poles?

[pure loom]

Do you mean us, or scientists?

[crude topaz]

I mean this group, but you can as well call yourselves scientists at this point anyway

[unkempt crypt]

science is a social construct

'

[pure loom]

*wishes we had stuck to magnetic poles conversation 😂

[pure loom]

One person could, in theory, discover the scientific method on their own. Does that make it a social construct?

[unkempt crypt]

the government is watching this EE hunt

[crude topaz]

was looking at climate change yesterday, fits the whole ice, sun and poles theme along with extinction

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/kto-lbow-hi-hello-hi-there-gif-25347432

[unkempt crypt]

jk I'm just trolling (sorry FBI agent)

[crude topaz]

also the "Arctic temperatures are increasing at over twice the rate of the rest of the world."

[slender lodge]

here to motivate

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/who-who-the-wtf-wtf-is-you-owl-gif-17264001

Sorry for the swear swa

But I found this funny

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/who-are-you-drums-drumming-gif-4763479

[slender lodge]

😭 😂

[sharp flame]

looked into 'window'

perhaps too deep

[tulip matrix]

"In ISO 8666 for small boats, there is a definition of LOH, or length of hull."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length_overall

[pure loom]

I think I might have discovered who this is

https://muzea.malopolska.pl/en/objects-list/2260

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

[neon stream]

Niiiiiiiiice! Great find!! 💪🏻

Hmmm, and what does he have to do with Monaco...? 🤔

[pure loom]

Look! As an artist he captured a 3v3v3v3 fight over a cashout station in 1878!

[neon stream]

That guy rethinking all his decisions in life 😂

[pure loom]

He's like "I could have been at home with a nice cup of tea"

[full cypress]

pov youre a light with heat vision and sword

[pure loom]

This is a good question

[sick stone]

“They said unpaid internship was a great way to get your foot in the door”

[sharp flame]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer_Copernicus,_or_Conversations_with_God

maybe?

Great find btw

(not Monaco but idk)

[neon stream]

Maybe it was a clue for last tier, or maybe Copernicus connects again in the future

it could also be the beginning of another hunt

OR, one of those "locks" that open when you take something to that place. Rob already mentioned puzzles like that

[sharp flame]

Could it be

A Diamond clue?

[sharp flame]

Might have been for last tier

[neon stream]

The thing about it being from last tier, is that we had solved the tier by then, Rob could've easily removed it. It would also be weird to point to Copernicus AGAIN, at the end of last tier 🤔

Do we know if it was on the alpha? 🤔

[crude topaz]

hmm

bad info

nope, just seem like my google maps is freaking out

[pure loom]

Has anyone been able to uncover this WH clue in Photoshop?

I have tried lots of things but had no luck. If we can figure out the method required, we might find other clues we've previously missed

[crude topaz]

can you link the original?

[dark leaf]

I've heard there's more 🧐

[mortal ivy]

More hints than what's presented in the image? 🤔

[dark leaf]

That's what I heard 👀

[sick stone]

Churchill had a replica of the Cullinan diamond

[tulip matrix]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-line_element_set?wprov=sfla1

[timid solstice]

#easter-eggs message

I tried here

No luck

[tulip matrix]

Man I'm just tryna do my job

The clues are everywhere

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/burn-it-torch-it-burn-it-down-ablaze-light-it-up-gif-15195566

[tulip matrix]

It's a case of detergent so maybe not 😅

[fringe trench]

does anyone have an image of the original outfit from in-game?

[fallen jasper]

@slender lodge Do you know who had screenshots from all of the beta Rewards?

[fringe trench]

found it

[fallen jasper]

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Level_Two:_THE_PROMISE

Does T1A look alright on this?

[fringe trench]

i found another clue 👁️

[fallen jasper]

👀

[fringe trench]

vertically, bottom right of the image

[timid solstice]

awesome

looks greek

[timid solstice]

will have to read it later, looks good at a glance

[neon stream]

We might need to buy Rob a new mouse. There's been a few clues already that he tries to place and end up going outside the image, and we get cut text... 😅

[timid solstice]

maybe his monitor is 4:3

[unkempt crypt]

dude is using proper old school tech

infinite refresharate

[neon stream]

Did you found a way to reveal the image, or are you overlapping what Rob sent? 🤔

[timid solstice]

i can just make out the O

thats it

I seperated the red cahnnel and added levels

[fringe trench]

ΠΕΝΘΕΣΙΔΕΙΔ
https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Πενθεσίλεια
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penthesilea

[tulip matrix]

Damn EZ lol good job

[timid solstice]

we should have seen it, but i doubt could have read it

[timid solstice]

awesome X 2

Penthesilea - Amazonian!

Volvo Amazon

[fallen jasper]

I was gonna laugh if the password was 271

[nimble iron]

yoyoyo! whats goin on hunters?!

[crude topaz]

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

[neon stream]

I didn't understand a thing, but thanks for sharing! Good song! 💪🏻

I'm listening to "Folköl Och Dunkadunka" now, and I'm liking that song too

I don't know what that means, and I'm afraid to ask 😂

[crude topaz]

lol pls just dont listen to epadunk..

[neon stream]

Not sure what that is 😂

[crude topaz]

"Peoplebeer and untz untz"

Beer that has like 2,8% alcohol

[neon stream]

I had to google what "untz untz" was 😂

[crude topaz]

bass beat kinda

[neon stream]

I like their music style, it's strange, but in a good way

[proud minnow]

OH NO WHAT HAVE I DONE.!?
(and here I am sitting and singing "Allting har blitt så dyrt här i Sverige..." gah...)

[pure loom]

What is this? As in how does it relate to the Tier?

[neon stream]

@pure loom ☝🏻

[pure loom]

Yeah, I think I almost got that far where I can see there might be something there. There must be another step required to bring it out fully.

[pure loom]

Ok, thanks.

[neon stream]

You have to kill a Balrog and level up your wizard powers before you can do that PS magic

[quiet silo]

Flex4d the Grey, Wielder of the Flame of Adobe.

[pure loom]

Any other ways?

[sharp flame]

She is the Daughter of Mars btw

AKA Ares

[pure loom]

I’m still working on my video guide to finding and solving these EEs, but one thing I’ve kinda worked out, or taught myself, while making it is that if we assume a clue like this is a tertiary or quaternary clue, then the best thing we can do is see how quickly we can move away from it in a direct path in Wikipedia. For instance, a viable path might be the asteroid named after her which leads to Berlin or the discoverer. Or possibly Amazon, but that seems too broad. Then we look for interesting paths off those things. Rather than looking closely at her story so much.

[sharp flame]

AKA Iron and AKA Volvo

[pure loom]

That’s a possible path too, although it requires a larger leap of knowledge between Ares and Volvo. But it definitely gives us a third path to explore.

[sharp flame]

I mean if you wanted to simplify it

You would say that the Volvo logo has her father's symbol

sounds more direct when you put it that way I guess

[pure loom]

Yes, that’s good.

Because it moves us away from her clearly.

[sharp flame]

Haha I suppose that's helpful

but yeah I'd recommend we honestly stay out of the mythology stuff

Unless they are connected 1-blood deep (parent/sibling)

[pure loom]

I think it is. It’s pretty much how all the tertiary and quaternary clues seem to work. For instance in tier 1D: Book number xxxx > Arthur C Clarke book > Halley’s Comet > orbits > oval is a viable path that moves away from the book quickly and leads to one of 1D’s two primary clues.

So it could be Penthesilea > Amazonian > Volvo Amazon > Sweden > Abba 😉

[quiet silo]

It feels like smaller details lead to wider concepts that feel like they are the primary clues. Which works in reverse to the way my brain is wired as it sees smaller finer details as more close to the answer despite the fact that the larger concepts are often the clues to expose the answer.

[quiet silo]

Gimme Gimme Gimme ᵃ ᶜˡᵘᵉ after midnight.

[crude topaz]

feels like everything is leading to space, and i dont know anything about space coordinates lol

[pure loom]

Yes, it’s easy to dive into the details of each clue but what’s better is to go “how quickly can I get from this to something I’ve seen elsewhere?”

[crude topaz]

that or mythology

and then bam Titanic...

[pure loom]

I think Rob definitely uses those as the tertiary and quaternary “pools” but they’re probably just the outer clues, not the primary

[quiet silo]

The titanic is almost modern mythology in it's own honestly lol

I got one more meeting today, and then I just have to wait for another team to finish work for me, so I'm gonna use the downtime to catch up here.

[pure loom]

Jan Wilsgaard designed the Volvo Amazon - “Wilsgaard is said to have remarked "It might be because the car is a little square and sluggish, just like the Swedes themselves."” 😂

[tulip matrix]

How about Epicycle?

[pure loom]

As a contraction of Epic Cycle?

[tulip matrix]

yup

or Epicycloid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicycloid?wprov=sfla1

A plain cycloid makes a curve like a rainbow

A nephroid touches two poles of a circle

[timid solstice]

Rob Amazonian btw

Incase others missed it

[quiet silo]

nephroid seems very interesting given our clues about poles

[sharp flame]

Amazon River?

Like the River Moriston?

that makes 2...

[limber oxide]

I commend all of you for not loosing you mind while investigating these riddles. I might join y'all once exams are over

[sharp flame]

who needs to wait until they are over hehe

[timid solstice]

Our minds were cracked

And glued back together

Some pieces missing

[neon stream]

Welcome! 💪🏻

[neon stream]

We do lose our minds in the process. Questioning our own sanity is quite common for us 😂

[sick stone]

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

[placid cape]

same lmao, though I can't give much except good vibes

[neon stream]

Moral support is always welcomed! But don't be afraid to contribute to the hunt by analyzing things too, or coming up with wild theories

[placid cape]

I probably need to familiarise myself with the train of thought before hand to get an idea of what we're working towards

[mortal ivy]

It's not good..... 👀

[mortal ivy]

Whats this? Is it from the current tier?

[neon stream]

No, it's from las tier. We are trying to figure out how to get that clue from the image

SR posted that there was a clue there, but we haven't found a way to make it visible

Well... "we"... I mean the PS wizards... I haven't even tried because my PS skills are really bad 😂

[mortal ivy]

So we have the clue, but no one knows how to ACTUALLY make it appear? or?

[neon stream]

Yeah, that

We want to figure out how to make it appear, because other clues might be hidden that way

[mortal ivy]

Oh fun, Imma give it a go just because I have no clue what's going on with the current tier 🤷

[timid solstice]

Yes if you find some thing that works let us know!

[quiet silo]

Whenever I get stuck like this on any problem I like to take a second and think on what my biggest leads are to solving it. What do you guys each personally think is our strongest hints right now? Personally I keep going back to Light/Refraction, Ice and Snow, and Gems which might just have to more to do with refraction. Is there anything that really is tickling your brain right now, I feel like I need to adjust my lense.

[placid cape]

what if it's a gemstone thing related to ice

[timid solstice]

https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/bust-of-jan-matejko-by-jan-tombinski-d6203c12328743ee9b75ec32843fb089
they must have downloaded it

[fallen jasper]

Nice find

[quiet silo]

Ohhh that's neato

[crude topaz]

You could work on the muff on this pic, its the current tier. From what i can see the text is hidden the same way:

[mortal ivy]

oh, that hasn't been uncovered yet? I did some work on it earlier, but only came to the same conclusion as previous people, but I'll look into it tomorrow 👍

[crude topaz]

i got like j20 and j08 out of that but the text in between has so much clutter

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/punisher-no-no-no-tanklorde-gif-25785566

[pure loom]

Yeah, I found it through at Artstation post where it was a free download

[pure loom]

Probably the museum reference number

[tulip matrix]

There are no coincidences ...

[pure loom]

Ice is an interesting one because it was excluded from being a mineral for no obvious reason. I think that might have swayed back again but not sure.

[placid cape]

well you know that idea that crystals have energy and stuff?

[tulip matrix]

Maybe water Ice is the lost diamond

[pure loom]

You left the word “silly” out in front of “idea”

[pure loom]

You can hide diamonds in water right?

[sharp flame]

https://tenor.com/view/iced-out-bvdcat-webvd-shine-gif-27530759

[placid cape]

that would bring it back to the titanic reference

[pure loom]

Maybe

[tulip matrix]

Well why the hell not? If I grow calcite in a cup on my counter it's still a mineral is it not?

[quiet silo]

We gotta ask the bigger questions. What if my refrigerator was outside with the door open and the ice just so happened to build up in the freezer.

Is it mineral ice or non mineral ice

[pure loom]

This is one of the best questions I have ever read

[placid cape]

so clear quartz is apparently nicknamed the "ice crystal"

[pure loom]

I wish we could award posts in here 🥇

[quiet silo]

I will wear my unofficial Digital Award with Pride!

[pure loom]

I’ve never heard that used before

[placid cape]

it's related to crystal healing..

it's a stretch

[pure loom]

How would Volvo fit in to this?

The iron symbol doesn’t seem that closely related

[pure loom]

I reckon we should explore this a bit

Volvo Amazon?

[quiet silo]

This reads like one of those "How do you get an elephant into a can?" riddles.

Didn't we have a sibling game to the African Diamond game that took place in the south american continent? What was the objective treasure in that one?

[placid cape]

wasn't it aztec gold?

or smth

[pure loom]

Africa. Or was there a follow up game?

[pure loom]

Oh. I see what you mean. My bad

[quiet silo]

It was the Golden Sun Boy according to google's hastily translated finnish

Didn't we have a sun with a face on it?

[pure loom]

The sun disk image beside the diamond clue could point to that

[pure loom]

Yes next to the diamond

[quiet silo]

Amazon river in the game is counted as a sea route

[pure loom]

That’s interesting. Could this all relate to Africa and South America splitting geologically? And Titanic is just an Atlantic clue?

[quiet silo]

Travels between the cities, Iquitos, Manaus, and finally Macapa from west to east. Any of those names ring any bells?

Oh and btw if anyone else wants to dig into this the south american version of African Tahti is Inkan Aare

Objective of the game was to get the "Golden Sun Boy" (probably a bad translation) to Machu Picchu

My god the face on this golden sun coin in the game lmao

Homie is staring into my SOUL

He's seen my worst moments I can just tell

Here is the full box art if anything jumps out at someone

[sharp flame]

the sequel hehe

Statue of the Sun God

[quiet silo]

That makes much more sense

[sharp flame]

here

[quiet silo]

Also here have this absolute meme gold that was on the finnish subreddit lol

[pure loom]

That also fits with the doubles/twins clues

[pure loom]

Throwing this in here now for reference in case it’s down this path: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondwana

[timid solstice]

not sure if you saw the chat but the car under the snow posted by rob was confirmed to be a Volvo amazon

[pure loom]

Oh! Great!

[quiet silo]

A lot of points to Gothernburg a lot of points to amazon and south america opposite hemispheres, lots of hints at poles, lots of hints to similar but different/twins/doubles.

[pure loom]

Titanic could also be a double clue - Atlantic Ocean between Africa and South America and a change to state > Gondwana to current continents

[quiet silo]

Where did we pull Gondwana from I missed that bit

[pure loom]

I’m thinking Gothenburg points to Volvo Amazon

[quiet silo]

In relation to gemstones and amazon there is also Amazonite a sub category of feldspar

[pure loom]

I’m taking it as a possible next step from the two games pointing to both Africa and South America. Also the magnetism clues would fit here with paleomagnetism

[quiet silo]

Gotcha that makes sense then. This is the first I've heard of the super continent landmasses naming convention that is very interesting.

[pure loom]

Are there any clues that could rule the split of Gondwana out as being in the “password zone”?

T. Rex definitely fits in there ok

[crude topaz]

Hmm are we missing something about stockholm? Remember the STOCKHOLM posts?

[pure loom]

Was he directing us to Gothenburg with that?

The Volvo Amazon is a pretty strong clue

[crude topaz]

The first Torslanda clue kinda led to Gothenburg/Göta Canal (Along with Thelford) and Volvo. Volvo was set in Stone after the Volvo Amazon picture posted

But Rob and Dusty went on some day typing it was snowing in STOCKHOLM

[pure loom]

Yes. Curious.

[quiet silo]

I keep getting wrapped between, Amazon (Mythical Warrior Women), Amazon (Largest Rainforest), Amazon (2nd largest river, happening to be in the largest rainforest.), Amazon (Volvo Car).

[crude topaz]

inb4 jeff bezos

[quiet silo]

And idk which way to look. I can't help but feel like Inkan Aarre confirms rainforest or river but at the same time I am painfully aware of my confirmation bias lol.

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/jeff-bezos-arrin-gif-24097240

[pure loom]

My gut says these things are at secondary to tertiary level. And they all point to something else

[quiet silo]

You are probably right, many hints at the same thing usually point us at finding something else. I'm gonna make dinner and ruminate lol.

[pure loom]

Food for thought!

[crude topaz]

Looking at amazons/jeff´s space program lol....

[pure loom]

Assuming for a moment that the clues point to Gondwana, the doubles/twins clues could also mean Laurasia is a possible path: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurasia

That could cover “STOCKHOLM”

[fringe trench]

https://open.spotify.com/track/3ae3LLSfACJ1iK3oygDRjy?si=5ae3c415b1cd409e

[mortal ivy]

I'm on this side

[unkempt crypt]

WAS IST DAS!?

[mortal ivy]

It's one of my favorite childhood games

And probably the same game as the meme Ralliden posted, but just the modern swedish version of the box

[quiet silo]

#easter-eggs message I have no idea what black magic went into this but I have given that image to every single person I know that knows how to use photoshop and no one has been able to pull that text out that clearly.

Does anyone know how this is done?

[sharp flame]

Might be a one-way kinda process

[quiet silo]

I am convinced the same could be use to pull the text off the robatama bracelet

[sharp flame]

like it was visible to Rob but supposed to be hard for us

and we'd have to spend some time on the letters

[timid solstice]

The image “explainer” that was given was about double the size of the resolution we get

[quiet silo]

Ahhhh that makes more sense why the text is coming off grainy from the original image.

I've gotten people who can kind of get the text out but it always comes out looking more compressed than the explanation gif.

[north crag]

https://tenor.com/view/thinking-batman-hmm-chin-rub-maybe-gif-6206616

[unkempt crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/what-surprised-gif-25739412

[unkempt crypt]

https://tenor.com/view/sneezing-sniffles-irritated-allergic-sensitive-gif-16073531

[north crag]

https://tenor.com/view/think-emoji-thinking-in-thought-rotate-gif-8083088

[tulip matrix]

very random

Looks like a crossword

[sharp flame]

all the 1-letter words: 😭

[tulip matrix]

y u cry

could beeeee
random number generator

Monte Carlo method

Speaking of Mante Carlo
I should change the antifreeze in my car 🚫❄️

Wouldn't want the Internal Combustion Engine to have problems cycling

Good thing she's an ottomatic
I'm no good at shifting that pole thingy
Wouldn't want the gears to revolve out of sync

[mortal ivy]

I can kinda see the text without manipulating even, but it’s only October and no matter or altering helps make it readable.
I am really curious what the process would be

[crude topaz]

thats it, im calling Tom Hanks, cant make the damn text clear

[quiet silo]

You consult Hanks I'll get Cage

[mortal ivy]

Also, I can of course only even kinda make out that it says October because I've seen the explanation... otherwise it would just be letters

[quiet silo]

Clearest I could get it which is not clear at all lol

[tulip matrix]

I still think it's up side down

What that look like

[mortal ivy]

There are more squares above the u, t and in the bottom right corner

[sick stone]

I don’t know, but my guess would be histogram based segmentation

[mortal ivy]

Isn't it a it weird that the sun emblem is from a reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/od9nxo/french_royalist_flag_using_an_emblem_of_louis_xiv/ and has no other image search results at all 👀

[tulip matrix]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nec_pluribus_impar#/media/File:Nec_Pluribus_Impar.jpg

[sharp flame]

is it the exact one?

[mortal ivy]

Yep

Or.... lemme double check 😅

I'd say so

[sharp flame]

yep yep

very interesting

if he means anything by the source

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

[tulip matrix]

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

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

[mortal ivy]

That's the inverted louvre pyramid in the middle 🤔

[mortal ivy]

Yeah, that is very similar, especially with that square in the middle

[tulip matrix]

Oui

[crude topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/baguette-cat-gif-20043384

[tulip matrix]

Hopefully we can solve this one before le next révolution

[crude topaz]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFOLZTVle6w

[sharp flame]

guys?

https://www.reachthefinals.com/rival-1

[placid cape]

Quarter turn?

[quiet silo]

eighth right? Turned half way to a quarter

[tulip matrix]

ayyy 45 degree turn skrrt skrrt

[quiet silo]

I feel like we are getting what seem like such minor clues because we are literally sitting on top of the answer again but missing it just like 0vif0rm

[tulip matrix]

you think it turns every six hours?

[quiet silo]

Maybe? would be hard to tell since we have no clue when this one turned hahaha

[sharp flame]

difference

800 is pic 1

750 is pic 2

[quiet silo]

Someone set up a 24 hour stream with the page set to auto refresh on 5 second intervals so we can watch the vod for exact times of rotation

[tulip matrix]

oh shid it's shrinking

50px/6hr until poof

or is it being compressed?

like a diamond

[sharp flame]

no perceptible difference

centre of image 1

image 2

much better to look at

same image though

[sick stone]

Twins are often depicted with special powers. This applies to both mortal and immortal sets of twins, and often is related to power over the weather.

[sharp flame]

👀 💪

[sick stone]

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divanno

Only managed to find a German version and ran it through google translate. They’re a pair of twins identified with the Roman god Mars

But they’re Celtic gods that was mostly worshiped along the north-Atlantic coast(?)

[pure loom]

I think it's a bit too open for a crossword - normally they have more black sections

[tulip matrix]

Looks like a crossword ** designed by Rob

[pure loom]

All white with no numbers and no grid

[pure loom]

Looks a little bit like a line of longitude on a globe (quite a tilted globe though)

[tulip matrix]

hahahaa

[tulip matrix]

45 degree tilt?

[crude topaz]

Think their called "Divine twins" in english

[pure loom]

hmmm, the bottom of it is not far from the pole though - maybe it isn't at all

[tulip matrix]

ok you can cry now Rock

[pure loom]

[crude topaz]

Hmm is the tilt exactly 45? Trying to figure out if thers a planet with the same tilt....

[sick stone]

They are a pair of Divine twins, but not “the Devine twins”

[pure loom]

I think it is actually more like the Earth's tilt (23.5 iirc), but it's just that the line is near the limb of the globe so it looks more tilted

[sick stone]

Divine twins is just a common designation

[crude topaz]

its tilted 46 degrees CW

[sharp flame]

yep

thought it should've been 45 but didn't line up

[crude topaz]

lmao why not 45...

[tulip matrix]

Rob:

https://tenor.com/view/dave-chappelle-chappelle-show-pop-copy-why-cause-fuck-em-gif-15886017

[crude topaz]

haha

[sharp flame]

46 ASCII is .

[sick stone]

anyone else had horses show up a lot?

[crude topaz]

hmm? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palladium

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Pallas

[crude topaz]

like a record baby

ofc Pallas (Titan) somewhat leads to Byzantine

[sharp flame]

no rabbit holes 🛑

[tulip matrix]

https://tenor.com/view/highfive-police-fail-stop-nope-gif-7551329

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/rabbit-island-japan-rabbits-bunnies-run-gif-3531854

[tulip matrix]

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

it was first created—as an item of jewelry—by the smith Kari Erlands from western Dalarna

[north crag]

this place is cursed

[quiet silo]

Actually now that we have a troll cross in it it's officially not

In Sweden, as well as Norway, a trollkors or troll cross is a bent piece of iron worn as an amulet to ward off malevolent magic,

It wards off curses

[neon stream]

We can use it to ward off the curse of the Hope Diamond 😛

[pure loom]

Is Rob trolling us?

[quiet silo]

He hasn't posted since we posted the Troll Cross

[tulip matrix]

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/wake-up-dog-doggy-hooman-get-up-gif-20608008

[pure loom]

I just recalled you mentioning Doggerland previously. The clues that might point to plate tectonics and the Titanic sinking could relate to this. And it's not too far from Gothenburg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

[tulip matrix]

Ah yeah and it's named after Dogger's which is a type of boat

also the Orkney Islands are on it's west border

[tulip matrix]

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

JUICE

PRO JUICE

[crude topaz]

justice

[neon stream]

Charity?

[mortal ivy]

Worth noting is that it’s literally made in 1990s, so it holds no historical value

But why did the disc turn 👀

[unkempt crypt]

how I imagine EE password guessing is

[tulip matrix]

As a thirty something I am deeply offended by this statement

[quiet silo]

Yeah hold on, I don't hold any historical value YET

[unkempt crypt]

Thats a weird flag for France…

[tulip matrix]

Sorry the colors are inverted because of Opera's dark mode feature lol

[unkempt crypt]

Thats.. one way to introduce darkmode haha

[frozen moat]

"i really dont like these coordinates, they're french"

[sharp flame]

😭 what about any/all images? inverted too?

[tulip matrix]

Only certain images are inverted lol
Not many

Maybe it depends on the file format

[neon stream]

maybe svgs get inverted?

[tulip matrix]

yeah could be

[sharp flame]

guys I have found something

[quiet silo]

👀

[sharp flame]

woooooah

https://www.reachthefinals.com/rival-1

just another switch

[quiet silo]

Slightly LESS rotation

[tulip matrix]

tilting

[sharp flame]

I think the degrees might give us a word or something

anyway I was going to say something else too

also I fear we have missed some of these

I only check these every few days

[placid cape]

maybe it's a part of a song?

[quiet silo]

Maybe it's making full rotations through out the day. Less likely in my mind. Or it's indicating something based on the rotation amount

[sharp flame]

I just wanted to point out a quick little thing but I have to pull it out

let me post something first

hopefully you can switch left and right with arrow keys to see the differences between the images

it is very clearly the same image

but with a few touchups

[quiet silo]

Only differences I see are the blemish on the r in rival is removed and raija is removed from the artists name correct?

[sharp flame]

correct

in that way it's not a perfect fit with what imma post rn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_ICE#ICE

but it does pertain to 'scanned' images

like this one

[quiet silo]

Ooooo alright I see this.

[sharp flame]

"The general concept is locate scratches and dust on the RGB image and mask them."

not like the R at all

but I can't help but think that type of scan that this was could point to it\

this is why that one looks likeit's gone

it was selected with the white when Rob recoloured

[tulip matrix]

That reminds me of another type of "cleaning"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_cleaning

[sharp flame]

it.. does?

[tulip matrix]

yeah

[crude topaz]

"delicate surfaces"

[tulip matrix]

CO2 ICE or Snow cleaning

[sharp flame]

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

Ammonia reference ^^

[sharp flame]

shoot

does anyone have the rival 46 degree image

I didn't get the chance to save

anyone? 🙏