easter-eggs

[sharp flame]

comPR0MISEd

hahaha

except the O/0

Rob shoulda called it THE PR0MISE

but I see that spoils T1D

though he did call the Level 1 the C0MMENCE midway through T1D

not sure of the 0 in that name is actually there, or just a clue he put in that specific message

because of how slow we were being

I mean we got the clue, but we didn't get the clue

😭

[neon stream]

That's our motto 😂

"We get clues, but we don't get clues"

😂

[jade citrus]

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

[timid solstice]

hello eggs

[sharp flame]

heeello

[proud minnow]

I. know.

[sharp flame]

ouch 😭

[proud minnow]

e

[sharp flame]

Rob that is not a clue...

that is unfortunate image cropping

[timid solstice]

e

[quiet silo]

Before anyone asks no I'm not proud of myself.

[timid solstice]

wut this is actually something... ???!!

https://tenor.com/view/eeeeeeeeee-ohshootaaaaaoaaao-gif-26159816

[sharp flame]

(thanks to serp)

"protoporphyrin IX"

I'm sure it is no coincidence that the formula C34H34N4O4 has 4O4 at the end

[timid solstice]

I was looking at that yesterday and it doesnt match 100%

[sharp flame]

kk what's the difference

[timid solstice]

also doesnt on the wiki one 100%

[sharp flame]

ngl I see that as matching 100%

[timid solstice]

I dont know what im looking at though so idk

[sharp flame]

the joints without letters on them are substitutes for H and Cs

The wiki one you posted lines up

[timid solstice]

yeah no idea what that means sorry

[sharp flame]

they compressed the OH branches into CO2H

[sharp flame]

no it's fine 😭 we need skepticism

[timid solstice]

does it matter the NH and N swapped around on the wiki one to the drawing ?

as in diagonal pairs and not

[sharp flame]

if we just randomly accept the wrong compound we will get nowhere with it, or worse, we will 'find' something which unintentionally connects 😭

[sharp flame]

iirc no

since the wiki and other sites have it different

[timid solstice]

what are the 2 lines to O

on the one you just posted?

[sharp flame]

double bond, two electrons shared

[timid solstice]

so that is different to the drawing?

[sharp flame]

how so

[timid solstice]

ah nope all good

[sharp flame]

these are the same I think

[neon stream]

Afaik, the flipping of the bonds doesn't matter, as long as it shows the same amount of connections. As for the HO_2C, I think it's just an abbreviation of that last part, but represents the same thing

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/4971

That page shows the compound better

[neon stream]

After all, it's just a 2d representation of something 3d, as long as the same thing is connected to the same place, the exact position shouldn't matter

[sharp flame]

it doesn't* yepp

okay we should try and make progress with it

there is not much on it rn

[neon stream]

Hmmm are you sure? 🤔

Maybe I'm not understanding what you guys are talking about 🤔

[sharp flame]

nonono

[neon stream]

Which part is it that doesn't match?

[sharp flame]

I said it does as a generic agreement

sorry I meant it doesn't

lmfao

[neon stream]

Oh ok ok 😂

[sharp flame]

I also mean we should make progress with protoporphyrin IX

not much on it on the wiki

it could point to Iron

since it's the core of hemoglobin

Iron, Volvo logo, etc.

related things such as Hemin ^^ (CRYSTALS!)

also come from protoporphyrin IX

apart from that there is chlorophyll in leaves

that's literally it

[pure loom]

An idea derived from pairs/doubles, CNS (a three letter code, potentially standing for Cryptography and Network Security), transitions and changes of state and Titanic… When Titanic sank it was right around the years that SOS was beginning to be used for the first time, replacing “CQD”. So, initial emergency Morse code messages from Titanic read “This is Titanic. CQD. Engine room flooded” but during the sinking the radio operators switched back and forth between CQD and SOS to ensure the message of distress was clear.

More info on CQD here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQD#:~:text=This distress signal soon became,from the three individual letters.

“Land telegraphs had adopted the convention of using "CQ" ("sécu", from the French word sécurité)[2] to identify alert, or precautionary messages of interest to all stations along a telegraph line.”

[ebon perch]

hold on a minute, why is there a periodic table????

[quiet silo]

Well it's all quite elementary my dear Yasine...

[low summit]

woah the new picture seems to be overloaded with clues

[timid solstice]

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

pretty sure the answer is here

page links to;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_cubic

this reminds me of the crosses clue for some reason

that page has a link to Pole Figures

Main clues in my opinion are Bonds/Pairs and Crystals. Doubles relates to pairs but it could also still be a main clue.

We could be looking for a pair of diamonds
https://www.christies.com/features/The-worlds-most-sought-after-pear-shaped-diamonds-7778-1.asp

or a famous blue diamond

[crude topaz]

Titanic (movie) jewel is based on Hope diamond i think

[timid solstice]

yup

[pliant spire]

I swear they put all of the crazy people in the server in one place

[hidden nacelle]

https://tenor.com/view/joker-gif-19708759

[crude topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/spiderman-funny-laugh-gif-11964564

[pliant spire]

Like one day I'll check this channel and you will be talking about like the number of pixels in an image an then somehow out of that you have extrapolated out a pair of coordinates and from there started analyzing the molecular structure of diamonds

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/thats-a-great-idea-perfect-brilliant-good-idea-good-thinking-gif-14954450

[pure loom]

I found some interesting links here: Diamond is an allotrope of carbon > The concept of allotropy was originally proposed in 1840 by the Swedish scientist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779–1848). > Berzelius enrolled as a medical student at Uppsala University, from 1796 to 1801. > Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, the discoverer of tantalum, taught him chemistry during this time. > Tantalum is the element at the coordinates given by Rob on the periodic table in the IRL clue.

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

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

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

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

"The term allotropy is used for elements only, not for compounds. The more general term, used for any compound, is polymorphism, although its use is usually restricted to solid materials such as crystals."

[tulip matrix]

Interesting that he was deaf considering the whole echolocation thing

Seems like a solid connection

[pure loom]

I’ve found another possible “CNS” - one of the allotropes (mentioned above) of carbon are fullerenes (which, incidentally, can look like the panda mask), named after one of its forms, buckminsterfullerene, which, in turn, is named after American architect Buckminster Fuller. One of his ideas was Cloud Nine (Sphere). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(sphere)

[pure loom]

What clues apart from the bat related to echolocation? I think I missed it.

[tulip matrix]

just the bat lol

[south wyvern]

Submarine has echolocation too, think it's called SONAR.

[pure loom]

The crumpled paper image rotated. It looks like maybe concept art for TF

[pure loom]

I tried to bring it out a little more. Might be some other letters there too

[south wyvern]

I compress the exposure a little harder and looks like a '37' or '137'

and possibly numbers on top-right light-ring: 2843

[crystal gate]

Looks like e 41 E

? Looks like Z7414Z7..ish?

[mortal ivy]

Good day! I'm positive the marble statue enabled you to solve the tier, right? ☺️ ... Right? 😅

[sharp flame]

T1D was hard, but I have a feeling this tier is gonna take double the time ...

[crude topaz]

That big E kinda look greek-ish

[quiet silo]

Big Greek E is Sigma, small rounded one is Epsilon.

Idk if it means anything but it's based on the early Phoenician alphabet as well if there are any ties there.

[sharp flame]

This is the black and white image at the right angle

I can't make out what that is at all

but there seems to be a signature in the bottom right?

[pure loom]

I think you meant bottom right. I’ve spent quite a lot of time looking for it. It looks like it starts with an A

It also looks strangely familiar

[timid solstice]

Thats a portrait for sure

thats a shoulder

I'd say a portrait infront of a science building

[crude topaz]

painted or just known photo?

[pure loom]

A signature makes me think painted

[south wyvern]

or an architect designer, they usually wear heavily, black coat when they travels.

[pure loom]

Like game developers 😂

[south wyvern]

however, the signature is not helping. dont see any match yet...

[sharp flame]

portrait with signature?

[south wyvern]

yeah. is it 'AST'?

[pure loom]

It doesn’t look like an autograph of the subject, if it were a photo. Celebrities usually put the autograph over part of themselves.

A——d or t or l

Maybe an S towards the end

[south wyvern]

with the background, totally looks like 'back in the day' modern luxury house presented by the designer.

[sharp flame]

looks like just AS

to me

[crude topaz]

um

coold it be Albert Einstein?

[south wyvern]

for AS, he came up, Álvaro Siza, 89 y/o and still breath.

[crude topaz]

nah

[sharp flame]

yep

but I do think it's an A

[quiet silo]

I second an A to start and it does look familiar.

[south wyvern]

i went too far

[sharp flame]

that seems like the right amount of far

[proud minnow]

You can never go to Far... ._.

[sharp flame]

missing o in too...

[south wyvern]

[sharp flame]

rob changed the 'far' to 'Far'

hmmmmmmmm

[south wyvern]

@sharp flame what's that coffee stains about? they look like three islands

[timid solstice]

I think maybe they need to go easy on the coffee... ._.

[south wyvern]

to Far with a cup of rockeffee

[sharp flame]

no way they could plan that..

[sharp flame]

using capital letters from this message: YF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YF-79 ?

[sharp flame]

(yes this is Rob bait)

[proud minnow]

You might be right, but I see something completely else... ._.

[south wyvern]

[sharp flame]

hmhmhmhmhm

I need a break... :,)

[proud minnow]

Perhaps a coffee stain break..?

[sharp flame]

the one on the left loks like a footprint??

like a dino one haha

[proud minnow]

OK... even I have to admit that this is actually really hard, haha

[sharp flame]

a logo? an asteroid shape? a landmass?

or genuinely just coffee stains 😭

[sharp flame]

my brain will get revenge one day..

[proud minnow]

You are probably right, but perhaps not until the year of 2442...

[fallen jasper]

Heya Rob

[pure loom]

The dark edge of the coffee stain forms by precipitation in a similar fashion to crystal precipitation (actually, it's not really, but that's all I got )

[pure loom]

24 42 in tap code would be R.I.

NGC 2442 = the Meathook Galaxy. Sounds delightful.

[pure loom]

the name of this turtle is "Crush"

Could relate to diamonds, or the Titanic

[sharp flame]

lmao you wanna know something crazy

[sharp flame]

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/across_universe.html

[pure loom]

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

[sharp flame]

I did some math

[pure loom]

whoa. close.

[sharp flame]

SUPER close to 2442

and using different values on other websites

(since for example 186,000 mps is an estimate)

2442 is very well in that range

[pure loom]

probably within the error limit

[sharp flame]

I know it's probably nothing

but crazy how that comes up

^^ this is the message I will screenshot when we all realise how close we were to the answer 😭

anyway slightly more likely

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2442_Corbett

[pure loom]

^^ this is the message I will screenshot when we all realise how far away we were from the answer

[sharp flame]

you know what else is close to 2442

:(

[pure loom]

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

"Diamonds have a very high refractive index of 2.417."

[sharp flame]

chromatic aberration CA gets me thinkin again

yo guess what NASA's april fools picture this year was!

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230401.html

[sharp flame]

rob...

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/smack-slap-fish-face-fail-gif-4653568

[proud minnow]

carpe piscis

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_Pisana
sounds suspiciously close to this lol

also unrelated 2442

https://17jewels.info/movements/e/eta/eta-2442/

[sharp flame]

to catch fish?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_2442

also

[crude topaz]

ok, so we are analyzing coffee stains now?

[sharp flame]

we're gonna be analysing everything at some point...

[pure loom]

not sure if analyzing is the right word

[sharp flame]

I don't think anything in that image was left there on accident

not a single thing except maybe the desk

[crude topaz]

just giggling, it sounds insane

[sharp flame]

it is...

we need to get to the bottom of it though...

[sharp flame]

#easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

Dusty's pointing seemed very precise too

[sharp flame]

I mean there are deliberate finger-on-key placements

I'm sure someone has written this down

[pure loom]

Yeah, D H L -

and 3 A C O are missing keys

you can spell the word COAL from part of that

[sharp flame]

D H L - and the thumb?

[pure loom]

space?

[sharp flame]

s p a c e

why of course, that's been it all along

Space

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/what-star-trak-mr-spock-captain-kirk-gif-13632920

[sharp flame]

but why the -

[pure loom]

A hyphenated word?

[sharp flame]

also here an image appearing twice

[pure loom]

Dusty's finger is kinda pointing to the "-" press

[crude topaz]

i cant remember where they went to photgraph stuff

but that looks asian at least

[pure loom]

I tried searching for those buildings and didn't have any luck

yeah, I though Seoul as reference shots for the map

there is a sky bridge in there

[crude topaz]

pretty sure first pic is a "square" or what you guys call it

[sharp flame]

rectangle

[south wyvern]

Remember 320100 from Rob's armband, it's a postal code for Singapore

[sharp flame]

was that what we came upon?

[crude topaz]

man they got some crazy buildings in singapore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zLZUHGMJZU

hmm the air port is called "jewel" lol

[pure loom]

I'm gonna spend some time looking at the periodic table clues in that IRL image

[fallen jasper]

hi, just checking in to say i have no idea what on earth is this ARG about

[pure loom]

Hey, it's worth checking out the info in #egg-hunt-onboarding

But I might be biased on that

[fallen jasper]

oh my god there's a whole video explaining the thing

[quiet silo]

We refer to it as a sermon but yeah lol

[south wyvern]

i think so 🤔 ill have look around the buildings

[south wyvern]

Oh cool, google found this

[pure loom]

Ok, I've found a couple of things from looking at the periodic table clues. Firstly, The names of the elements marked have some interesting meanings: Lanthanum is named after ancient Greekl "lanthanein" and means "to lie hidden"; Caesium "sky-blue"; Xenon "foreign"; Tantalum the Greek God "Tantalus" (also the source of the English word tantalize); Gold "gold"; Hassium the German state of "Hesse".

Secondly, if you add up all the atomic numbers you get 426. Asteroid 426 looks like a diamond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/426_Hippo

[pure loom]

I'm wondering if this clue means "C. N. of the S." - so the PTE part is showing us the sentence structure for CNS.

[crude topaz]

im reading that like P = C , T = N , E = S . But my logic might be wrong

so mby the like the O thingy

[pure loom]

Yeah, it could be those letters being swapped out, but it would be a weird transposition imo

[crude topaz]

it says "remember" on the right if im reading it correctly, so i think its something we need to remember as we get closer

but as said, my logic might be wrong

[pure loom]

Yeah, it could be something from a long time ago.

in the EE hunt

[crude topaz]

yeah either past or future

[pure loom]

I've been looking for something "Coronal N of the Sun" - as corona means "crown" and the diamond thing could point to eclipses. No luck yet though.

[crude topaz]

hmmm

was C N S all letters that was marked on the periodic table? lol

[pure loom]

You read some odd things while searching for answers... this is definitely one of those: "With no sun, the world was totally black and in his anger, Tezcatlipoca commanded his jaguars to eat all the people."

[south wyvern]

ehh

sounds like eclipse.

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/jaguar-black-jaguar-claws-big-cats-gif-11982804

there is a gif for every occasion

[south wyvern]

+INFO: I think Double Diamonds beer is a reference to Blue Moon (Belgian-Style Wheat Ale) so another blue diamond.

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

[pure loom]

OK, I have a possible path which links quite a few clues...

• CNS could stand for Centre national d'études spatiales, which is French for The National Centre for Space Studies (CNES - The French government space agency).
• Their rocket, the Diamant (French for "diamond") was the first exclusively French expendable launch system and at the same time the first satellite launcher not built by either the United States or USSR.
• On 26 November 1965, the first Diamant rocket was fired from its launch site, the CIEES testing range, at Hammaguir, Bechar Province, Algeria.[6] This maiden flight was deemed to be a success, achieving sufficient altitude and launching French's first satellite, a 42 kg test vehicle known as Astérix.
• The satellite was named after popular French comics character Astérix
• The protagonists in the comics, the title character Asterix and his friend Obelix, have various adventures. The "-ix" ending of both names (as well as all the other pseudo-Gaulish "-ix" names in the series) alludes to the "-rix" suffix (meaning "king", like "-rex" in Latin) present in the names of many real Gaulish chieftains such as Vercingetorix, Orgetorix, and Dumnorix.
• Asterix's name comes from French: Astérix (from astérisque, meaning "asterisk", which is the typographical symbol * (like a snowflake) indicating a footnote, from the Hellenic (Greek) word ἀστήρ (aster), meaning a "star"). The asterisk (/ˈæstərɪsk/ *), from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος, asteriskos, "little star",
• Obelix's name is a pun on the French word obélisque (obelisk, an ancient Egyptian stone pillar), suggested by his rotund physique and his habit of casually carrying heavy stone monuments (Menhir) around with him. The word "obelisk" is also (in both French and English) a variant of the word obelus (obèle), a typographical mark ("†") [NOTE THE LITTLE CROSS] often found in a companion role to that of the asterisk, after which his friend Asterix is named. Obelix is noted for his obesity, the menhirs he carries around on his back and his superhuman strength.
• The Philae lander (which was referred to in a clue) is named after the Philae obelisk, which bears a bilingual inscription and was used along with the Rosetta Stone to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.

And... the HAOCSNIRHME letters which are in the IRL periodic clue spell out "MENHIR CHAOS" - Obelix always carries around a menhir on his back and uses them for squashing romans in the comic.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix_(character)

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

^ light and heavy build...

Ha! The comics included a character called Dubbelosix (a sly reference to James Bond's codename "007").

[south wyvern]

I Learn, I Note.

[sharp flame]

so it begins...

[quiet silo]

Oh boy now we're gonna have two easter egg hunts!

Twice the Clues! Twice the Hunting! Confusion is exponential so let's say Quadruple the confusion!

So in terms of the Church The Finals Hunt is our old testament right and the Arc Raiders hunt is like our new testament?

[sharp flame]

lmao

[slender lodge]

Double the Byzantine (and give it to the next person)

[neon stream]

I'm sure most of us will be in both places, so we'll remain active everywhere 😂

SR will guide us wherever we go... ._.

[quiet silo]

🕯️ 🕯️ 🇸 🇷 🙏 🇸 🇷 🕯️ 🕯️

ⁿᵒᵗ ᵃ ᶜᵘˡᵗ ᵇᵗʷ

[neon stream]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[low summit]

smol text tutorial?

or is it SR magic?

[quiet silo]

I use an online small text generator like a little plebian but I'm sure there is an actual discord formatting way to do it lol

[low summit]

tbh doubt it

has anyone looked into the ARC art yet?

[quiet silo]

To be honest I am kind of scared to, but I will when I get home from work lol

[sharp flame]

can't find anything

[tulip matrix]

Inb4 snowflake hidden in AR art

[strong hare]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

had to do it

[sharp flame]

praying

[low summit]

alr

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[strong hare]

alright, now let the EE Hunters cook

[low summit]

[spark dagger]

is this a namatama ritual

[timid solstice]

There’s an Arc discord?

[zenith crown]

-arcinfo

[spark dagger]

In #🏓┇other-games

[zenith crown]

damn

[low summit]

yess

[floral axle]

-arcinfo

[wet leaf]

arcinfo

Official ARC Raiders server

Hello, Contestants!
As we want to keep this server true to its purpose, we will only be sharing news and answering questions about THE FINALS.
Please visit the official ARC Raiders server to stay up to date with all the info about the game!

[zenith crown]

:O

[low summit]

still no link

[spark dagger]

are you everywhere beau

[floral axle]

Just click

[low summit]

oh

[spark dagger]

no the link works

[low summit]

did nate fix it

[spark dagger]

the header

it was always there

[low summit]

then the guy who Beau made the nate joke with wasn't aware as well

[floral axle]

What?

[sharp flame]

Bad reading comprehension

[timid solstice]

I guess it’s to direct people there asking about arc

[sharp flame]

by 'we' I thought that was the ARC server

[floral axle]

I don't mean it as in Flex asked a question - Its just that the text also has an invite

[sharp flame]

me stupid

sorry

[floral axle]

[timid solstice]

No, you’re a fish

[sharp flame]

:(

[timid solstice]

I just read the arc medium post, and thought “Speranza” was @neon stream

[tulip matrix]

Home of the Mate Raiders : 🧉

[south granite]

I'm sorry for looking at you in that way, please forgive me.

[spark dagger]

unauthorized posting of moolah turned them evil

[tranquil ivy]

HOLY SHIT

Dude i need that

(don't click on it)

[south wyvern]

Asterix and the Magic Cauldron is the only one that you can play on ZX Spectrum. Rob has one and he also mentioned the specific year, 1986.

[tulip matrix]

Trying to figure out the password modifier like:

[south wyvern]

For 'Veni Vidi Ludere'. I think it's about betting on your favourite gladiator(s), hope this helps.

or this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludus_latrunculorum

[pure loom]

Just an idea - and I can’t really check this at the moment - but what if the coordinates on the periodic table actually work in reverse? So we’ve been shown that 5,6 (iirc) is Tantalum - but what if we use the other crossed-out elements to get numbers via the coordinates and then decipher those numbers?

[quiet silo]

I think my brain is just fried from work today but could you give me an example of what you mean?

[south wyvern]

X is Group (Right) and Y is Period (Down). Like this?
Ceslum (Cs) - 1,6
Gold (Au) - 11,6
Xenon (Xe) - 18,5
Lanthanum (La) - 3,6

1611618536

[pure loom]

@south wyvern did it. So the coordinates for each crossed element and then assume those numbers represent a cipher

[south wyvern]

Sorry man, I left after what I posted because of errand. Anyway, I may have found something.

• It's all starts with PTE and CNS and I used the Periodic Table on them
• P for Phosphorus, however there are no T and E so I combined them into Te for Tellurium (Te is under Group 16, the same row as Oxygen (O))
• Then now CNS, C for Carbon, N for Nitrogen and last, S for Sulfur
• Still washed up and during that time, I didn't realise that I ignored the 'o'.
• Went back to (Xe) hole and thought of lava lamp.
• They could be a nice Christmas gift, I freeze, the holiday card in the office picture
• I asked google what rock that HAVE (C)(N)(S) and it was a lump of coal
• A coal contains Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur plus Hydrogen and Oxygen.
• However, it is still wasn't enough for me, dug harder! I asked google again but specifically; what has carbon nitrogen and sulfur
• Got Mike Tyson'd with 'CHON'
• "The acronym CHNOPS, which stands for carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur, represents the six most important chemical elements..."

[neon stream]

Could the red elements relate to previous Tiers, and the black one to the current one? 🤔

Gold relates to the 79 tier

Lanthanun to the Oviform one (57 was a clue)

Caesium to the periodic table tier. The element was discovered by Bunsen and Kirchhoff, the Bunsen-Kirchhoff award is a prize in the spectroscopy field, spectroscopy was a big clue then

Not sure about Xenon, if the idea is correct, iit should somehow relate to the 1064 tier, but I don't see a connection 😅

[pure loom]

Xeno is “foreign” or “stranger” so the meteorite aspect could fit.

They seem like quite loose connections though imo

Just chucking this list back up of every topic or idea that was brought up before Rob's comment and after his previous visit to the channel, which might be considered "progress" by him to see if anything connects to current paths:

Newton's Rings
The Hope, Cullinan and The Centenary Diamonds
Louis XIV (Sun King)
Kari --> Incan sun god
Van Allen belts
Torus/sphere
Penrose loops
Victor and Corona
Double Diamond beer
T-rex: Back to the Cretaceous, starring Kari Coleman
Magnetic north pole being in the south
Blue Serpent Clock Faberge egg
Kimberlites (as a source of diamonds)

I still think the “MENHIR CHAOS” anagram from all the letters underlined in the periodic table is pretty hard to ignore as being a strong clue.

[peak plume]

Did something got found between Battlefield's Trex EE and The Finals ? I've tought about that but I'm not following the channel enough to not be lost.

[neon stream]

Hmmmm I don't think so 🤔

[neon stream]

What was the BF EE?

[peak plume]

https://youtu.be/7gxVlJS_aHw (https://wiki.bfee.co/index.php?title=Battlefield_4/Dinosaur_Roar)

I'm thinking about this as Embark got ex-DICE employees..

And there's this little one too involving dinosaurs and... rubber ducks. https://youtu.be/8Aqf1-Nlx3g

[neon stream]

That's cool!

I don't think we've found any connection to those, except for the T-Rex in two of the images

[south wyvern]

but comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a rubber duck lol

[south wyvern]

If I had to switch my brain to creative and witty mode.

"A menhir (from Brittonic languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long"[1]), standing stone", a __rock__et. I remove the 's' from CHAOS; "Chao is a Spanish word meaning goodbye. Ciao is Italian meaning hello or goodbye, pronounced as chao." reminds me of the image, 'Up We go' as departing Earth for an exciting adventure. However, I ran into the chaos; "The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (STS-51-L) that occurred on January 28, 1986, marked one of the most devastating days in the history of space exploration." The same year as release date for Asterix and the Magic Cauldron [ZXSpectrum](Sept. 1986).

[sick stone]

Well, considering diamonds are relevant they do get their coloring from “foreign” elements as inclusions in the crystal lattice

Blue diamonds get it from boron as an example

[timid solstice]

Asterix & Obelix (menhir)
❄ & ⛰

[pure loom]

Yes, did you see my previous posts on Asterix?

So many clues that fit

[timid solstice]

so † could be obelix?

I dont think I saw anyone say the snowflake could mean Asterix

https://hackaday.com/2016/04/07/getting-serious-about-crystal-radios/

Crystal radios on the Titanic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500_kHz

wireless signal frequency used by the titanic

[pure loom]

Who ordered the dragon?

And two eagles

[south wyvern]

so, 500 kHz to 500000 Hz.
(Rob's armband) 320100 Hz would be 320.1 kHz
going to Boron? Where am I?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0022459688901922

[neon stream]

I did! Would you be able to Smauggle it into the US? 😛

[tender mantle]

They're about to solve the drake equation next 💀

[unkempt crypt]

Going to the US (if I read it correctly)

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/gandalf-lord-of-the-rings-fly-you-fools-idiots-gif-22861858

[pure loom]

Ha, no! I was in Wellington - home of Weta Workshop (and also Peter Jackson) for a few days. Back home now.

[timid solstice]

I saw this and had a feeling it could be connected…

[south wyvern]

That is really cool!

I think I saw a tiny pirate head in 'Beside You' image and I thought I was tripping but they had gold teeth, so that's (Au).

[sharp flame]

hehe

[south wyvern]

and i found you a new sea friend, Brittle star!

[sharp flame]

eldritch abomination

[south wyvern]

explain

[sharp flame]

its scari

[south wyvern]

aye aye

@sharp flame
I reviewed on 3/27/23; Up We Go dropped. No one talk about the panda eyes. I'm curious

[sharp flame]

panda eyes?

[south wyvern]

Double pentagons, non-regular.

[sharp flame]

aint that on the regular cosmetic

[south wyvern]

uuuhh

[sharp flame]

I think probably, but never overlook anything

if they are pentagons on purpose, what does that say?

[south wyvern]

while i was exploring, i have these.

havent look into that

Two of Pentacles or Two of Coins; (Tarot card/The Finals coins)

The Pentagon, maybe connection with the White House #

Asteriodea (sea stars), Brittle star shaped pentagon

Then later, I fell.
X = 5, Y = 6 from the office/periodic table
Pentagon = five-sides and Hexagon = six sides

[south wyvern]

If Rob really like tarot cards, he probably used it as a message to not to give up.

"The Two of Coins, or the Two of Pentacles, is a card which, when upright, means to juggle, to struggle in a positive influence, to balance, to maintain. To keep your head up but feel like you want to jump out of your skin. It symbolizes an internal mental struggle, being unsure, not knowing your path during ascension."

[pure loom]

Yeah, that was one of the connections for the Asterix and Obelix path. There are so many clues that fit. I’m just not sure where to go with it. Maybe we add “-ix” to the password? Saint Robalix

[south wyvern]

it's only thing i have at this moment

[south wyvern]

I'd definitely hold on to "-ix". Quick two cents, not sure if you knew but magic potion = el**ix**ir

[south wyvern]

@timid solstice ya or na?
Panda head is a football (black & white)
Hexagonal and Pentagonal patterns
Veni, Vidi, Ludere / I came, I saw, I play
Namalapis' bottom round-shaped.
Harpastum: The Ancient Roman Empire Ball Game
Speed (light), Agility (medium) and Physical (heavy)
We are tossing the Cash Box to another player.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpastum

[timid solstice]

We didn’t explore the Roman ‘I Play’ clue, could be something

[sharp flame]

(to play)

it has a noticeable different ending (infinitive [ludere] instead of 1st person [lusi])

[placid cape]

I came I saw to play

[sharp flame]

oui

[placid cape]

Not ringing any bells for a reference

[sharp flame]

there are a few games/acts with 'ludere' in the name

such as

(we had dice-shaped polyhedra earrings)

oh and also dice links with the board game Kari

it could be that we need to have a look at the english words which come from ludere

also the title of the image: NAMALAPIS

idk what we can really gleam from 'lapis'

looking at the cheek and there seems to be some sort of shape inside it

[pure loom]

An "L"?

50 in Roman numerals

[sharp flame]

yeah, weird curve though. looks like an oval..

it would be a pretty bendy L

[pure loom]

Looks a bit like the YSL logo

[sharp flame]

https://tenor.com/view/eye-squint-markiplier-glare-suspicious-gif-15742154

[pure loom]

or it could just be a nothing

[sharp flame]

it's never nothing

[pure loom]

[sharp flame]

but it's also never the something we think it is.. 😭

radio silence from SR :[

[timid solstice]

maybe we just use googles translation

[sharp flame]

https://tenor.com/view/side-eye-dog-suspicious-look-suspicious-doubt-dog-doubt-gif-23680990

separated

[spark dagger]

reminds me of that song

[timid solstice]

joe satriani - if i could fly ?

[south wyvern]

@timid solstice @sharp flame

[south wyvern]

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

[peak plume]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eDpH4hMW1o

[sharp flame]

Was thinking of that haha

[tulip matrix]

I see a butterfly 🦋

[timid solstice]

hmm, the last clue had Lapis and Marble, I was thinking what if we are just looking for a certain rock. Then thinking of doubles, perhaps fools gold - pyrite. no luck though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite

[timid solstice]

IMG_CDIV
Filename: CDIV means 404 in roman numerals = ❓
Metadata: &/¤”#(? C&/¤N)&S/#! C N S = Crystallography and NMR system❓
Periodic Table: C N S -> P T E = Crystallography and NMR system❓
Underlined elements: H O A C S N I R H M E = MONARCHIES / MENHIR CHAOS❓
Crossed out elements red: Xenon (Xe-54) Caesium (Cs-55) Lanthanum (La-57) Gold (Au-79) =❓
Crossed out elements black: Hassium (Hs-108) =❓
Table X = 5 Y = 6 5 across and 6 down: Tantalum (Ta-73) =❓
Paper cut-outs: 2 snowflakes / snow crystals =❓
Paper pile: 20 Krona note / screwed up artwork explosion / Portrait photo? =❓
Rock Salt: Crystals =❓
Coffee stains: ? =❓
Keyboard: 3 A C O - missing / D H L space- being pressed =❓
Buildings on screen: Seoul =❓
Shirt button: e =❓
Headphone gap: reveals m =❓
namatama x 2: Scientists looking up =❓
Writing on glass: Chemical structure Protoporphyrin IX =❓

NAMALAPIS
Filename: LAPIS = Lapis Lazuli❓
Metadata: CNS DONT TRUS*0( *** THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN COMPROMISED *** =❓
Namatama in stone: Marble =❓
Latin on marble plinth: VENI VIDI LUDERE = i came, i saw, to play❓

I hit the 4000 word limit on the pinned message continuing on this message...
so many ❓

[sharp flame]

🙏 awesome work

[south wyvern]

Namatama in stone: Marble = Carrara marble ("luna marble", 'Luna' meaning moon.) is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. Additional small info: 'Snow-white stone'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrara_marble

[south wyvern]

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

[south wyvern]

It may be an indication to the red and black marks/crosses on PT. idk yet.

Added: 'm' headphone could be a decibels per milliwatt (dB/mW).

[south wyvern]

Yep! got excited!

[timid solstice]

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

ICE on the moon?

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/ice-confirmed-at-the-moon-s-poles

[south wyvern]

It's hot in here mann

[fallen jasper]

Rob:

The bean counters told me we literally could not afford to buy seven dollars worth of moon rocks, much less seventy million. Bought 'em anyway. Ground 'em up, mixed em into a gel. And guess what? Ground up moon rocks are pure poison. I am deathly ill.

[sharp flame]

Hahahaha

'luna' marble is a funny 'coincidence'

looking into it, Carrara Marble AKA Luna Marble is named after the province Luni from which it was sourced in ancient times

have we had any Lunar references this tier?

I might have forgotten

thinking about it though the use of 'marble' to form this marble statue Namatama must have been on purpose

I think there is something about marble, or Luna Marble specifically that Rob wants us to look at maybe

(either that or its the moon Rob wants to point to)

found this, makes no sense to me though

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/portal-chel-valve-gif-25141693

[sharp flame]

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

found this, absolutely no connection, if it were last tier I would point out the 'Saturniinae' subfamily which it's in

Also found a novel, Luna (1979) and a film La Luna (1979) as well as the awesome actor Diego Luna (born 1979).. looking too deep at this point..

also we could be considering the counterpart-yness of Luna and Sol (moon and sun god)

also obviously the moon is the brightest object in the sky, (2nd place is Sirius)

[south wyvern]

not again, it's on moon rock wiki

[sharp flame]

hahaha

[south wyvern]

so

[south wyvern]

The Landing Date
The Tri-Sister Ships
The Cullinan Diamonds
and now...
The Apollos
what

[south wyvern]

okay, im going to pause here and note it down. im going to visit my grandmother in a few and maybe she MIGHT know some shets.

[sharp flame]

imagine this is how we get the answer

[pure loom]

I don't think this is a lead, but it is quite interesting: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-60328375

[sharp flame]

interesting image on the Embark site

can y'all recognise where they are?

[strong hare]

in the same place of a video showing of arc raiders

[sharp flame]

could you link that?

[strong hare]

im trying to find it

https://twitter.com/EmbarkStudios/status/1518865836869566464

Embark Studios (@EmbarkStudios)

Last week a group of media tech and engineering students from @liu_universitet swung by our studio. We talked about automating content creation, how we give "life" to creatures, and of course did some sneaky playtesting 👀

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here @sharp flame

yeah its the same place

[sharp flame]

ohh!

hahaha I was talking about in-game location

but great find!

[strong hare]

ah Kk

mb

[sharp flame]

just realised that's the only look at ARC UI we have

and also in-game footage

pretty interesting to see that too!

[strong hare]

yup!

[strong hare]

the second counting from the closest one seems to be the church

viewing it from outside

the other ones are really hard to tell

but i have a feeling of where the fisrt one is

like that contruction site

houses lined up on the left

im just guessing im not sure, its really hard to pin point

[sharp flame]

not quite sure that's the church but it seems to be Monaco

difficulty: impossible

[strong hare]

oh yeah monaco 100% and now it rly doesnt look like the church

wait... is it monaco? omg

it can be something destroyed as well

[spark dagger]

I think i have been going to the wrong university my entire life

[steel iron]

Me watching as people are doing the egg hunt knowing DAMN well I’ve got way too many classes, tests, and finals to prep for:

[wispy marsh]

egg

[sharp flame]

eggsactly

[drifting pilot]

throws egg at fish

[sharp flame]

A Seafood Omelette is crafted

[drifting pilot]

Magic

[south wyvern]

that would've been hilarious! and i got coral bleaching

[zenith crown]

@drifting pilot any ideas whats going on?

[drifting pilot]

No 😭

[zenith crown]

Dang

[neon stream]

I was wrong about this, it does matter. Not sure if that could be a clue 🤔

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

It's interesting that we got that molecule mirrored on the image...

[south wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/now-get-ready-for-this-okay-joe-dirt-david-spade-joe-dirt2-beautiful-loser-gif-17470803

After scribbled with my note, I am so scared right now and this is just a theory for 11-12-14/KLN.

(From past date discovered, numbers found in order)

1. Landing Date - docking; into the port, ISS (International Space Station)
2. Tri-Sister Ships - to sail/ship, to carry (payload/package), to cruise around the ocean/Earth
3. Cullinan Diamonds - Very tiny to small pieces and extremely expensive components
4. Apollos - an 'orbit/ing' around a star, planet, or moon; Thermosphere (confirm?)

A. The Three Diamonds nanosatellites; 3U CubeSat is a three-satellite (Blue, Green, and Red) prototype
constellation segment operated by Sky and Space Global as a pathfinder for an envisioned Low Earth Orbit
constellation of 200 nanosatellites for narrowband communications for various services including
Internet connectivity – initially providing services to the developing world and eventually expanding
to a global constellation.

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/3-diamonds.htm

https://gomspace.com/3u-(1).aspx
https://gomspace.com/sky-and-space-global.aspx (videos)

I continues to discovers orbiters and cubesats/nanosatellites relates with the moon/luna.

B. Lunar IceCube; 6U CubeSat nanosatellite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_IceCube
LunIR; collects surface spectroscopy and thermography.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LunIR

C. CAPSTONE; 12U CubeSat nanosatellite
Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPSTONE

D. ARTEMIS-THEMIS; Twin Orbiters

• Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the
  Moon's Interaction with the Sun (ARTEMIS)
• Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS)
  https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/artemis/in-depth/

E. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO); is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting
the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter

K-L-N could be radio bands under EU / NATO / US ECM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_spectrum
Flex4d posted infos about nordic-bluetooth/titanic-crystal radios/500 kHz

[south wyvern]

If some wonders what am I doing next? Not much, returning to checkpoint (Rob's spotted carrara marble/luna) and start over with moonrock/apollo etc.

[south wyvern]

Almost forgot, I think this would be, 'lunar mare' or 'lunar crater';
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_craters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_mare

[pliant spire]

https://tenor.com/view/morshu-zelda-you-will-buy-from-me-gif-16437133

[timid solstice]

good work @south wyvern

[sick stone]

I’ve actually began testing a couple of passwords written backwards

But dnomaid is not it

[jade citrus]

Quartz crystals often form chirally:

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

"In nature quartz crystals are often twinned (with twin right-handed and left-handed quartz crystals)"

[split forge]

The fucj

[south wyvern]

thank you

I hope that you haven't seen this @pure loom

[pure loom]

No, I haven't. Interesting it has the "ix" in it - like Asterix and Obelix

[south wyvern]

and the X = 5, Y = 6 for Tantalum.

[pure loom]

yeah

[south wyvern]

and maybe the password could be 'affixes'

[sharp flame]

This is a caalllllback but I was just reminded that Ammonite fossils (since they are split in half)
are both known for coming in pairs, and their iridescence

the 'iri' in the word derived from iris god of the rainbow and such

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

also interesting the involvement of the **SS Californian
** in the Titanic disaster

eye from Rob, can't see it mentioned

also missing 'e' in THIS message like this e here in this image

[crude topaz]

this seem interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birefringence

[timid solstice]

yeah I still cant believe this is something #easter-eggs message

[south wyvern]

Remember, OS__IRI__S-REx and it has spectroscopy equipment.

[sharp flame]

I think the e looks pretty clear there

[cedar owl]

@proud minnow Hey Rooob! You have been awfully quiet this week

[fallen jasper]

He's been out sightseeing too much

[proud minnow]

Oh come on.! Clues are overflowing.!

[sharp flame]

Something peculiar about the way this is stated

makes it seem like the kind of thing where you would count the letters, or take the first letter of each word or something

[pure loom]

I agree

[sharp flame]

no need to laugh at your own message Rob..

[south wyvern]

Good morning. Even Rob used an affixes vocabulary.

[pure loom]

Maybe possessing the answer is driving him mad like Gollum/Sméagol with the ring.

[sharp flame]

very much so..

[south wyvern]

my precious hehe

[pure loom]

@proud minnow Are you sure that you do not suffer needlessly? I wish to help you. Let me share your burden.

https://tenor.com/view/lord-of-the-rings-lotr-boromir-sean-bean-gif-13516196

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/samwise-sam-carry-frodo-lotr-gif-19900144

[pure loom]

Next video: “Co-founder of Embark Studios thrown into volcano (and we solved Tier 1E of the Easter Eggs)!”

[south wyvern]

[sharp flame]

[quiet silo]

And his last words before the molten rock claimed him were "Still less painful than watching you guys miss 0vif0rm for 90 days!"

[sharp flame]

we'll probably break 90 this time... :))

[neon stream]

How many days have we been on this tier so far? 😅

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/star-trek-lds-lower-decks-wrong-question-asking-gif-22127733

[sharp flame]

not enough

[neon stream]

I think the most difficult part right now is finding a time where people are active 😅

There have been many ideas mentioned that took a while to get a response, or didn't go anywhere

And we need the exchange of ideas to solve these tiers

[timid solstice]

59

[neon stream]

Oh boy 😅

So many new NamaTama emojis and still no NamateTama... 🧉 😭

[proud minnow]

WAIT WHAT.?

[timid solstice]

[neon stream]

The only real reason I see so far to buy Nitro 😂

The Discord guys have been unsuccessfuly trying to sell me Nitro for so many years, and then Duh comes with that emoji... Duhtopia has better marketing team 😂

THANK YOU SO MUCH @timid solstice

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-bow-michael-scott-the-office-gif-18616386

[crude topaz]

need baobun-namatama

[pure loom]

Didn’t we have this ages ago??

[neon stream]

We didn't, only on Duhtopia

[pure loom]

Ah! A secret Namatetama!

[neon stream]

We need it here too, so I can use it after "12am" when the Nitro spell is gone, and the horses become mice, and the external emojis become gray 😂

AM, not PM...I meant midnight 😅

[slender lodge]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1009830578545246213/1093939626122694697/damn.gif

[crude topaz]

time to pass out, peace

[low summit]

[neon stream]

[fallen jasper]

[south wyvern]

Rob....

[sharp flame]

Rob....

[strong hare]

Rob...

[jade citrus]

Rob...

[neon stream]

Rob... ._.

[south wyvern]

Rob! I activate a spell card!

https://tenor.com/view/yugioh-card-gif-10921362

[drifting pilot]

Rob...

[south wyvern]

you ready @sharp flame ?

[sharp flame]

...

[south wyvern]

this may sound wild but Apollo 17

[sharp flame]

I see the vision..

[south wyvern]

UpWeGo

few mores, let me piece them together

I had to stay outside of the box as long possible and manages these infos. Three astronauts but going to start with Eugene Andrew Cernan. He is the last human on the moon before hopping in lunar module. UpWeGo, there is only a person, the last one leaving.

VENI VIDI LUDERE. I force to remove the roman numbers: ENUERE. Looks funny, EURENE > EUGENE.

the other two are Harrison Hagan "Jack" Schmitt who is a Geologist and Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. pilot who spend all the whole time inside the Apollo with five mice.

[sharp flame]

VIVIDILD

ENUERE

Numerals does seem like an interesting idea

6 6 501 50 500

[crude topaz]

i was pretty deep in the apollo stuff also

[south wyvern]

3 A C O and space bar. Unsure about DHL.

[sharp flame]

oh my god

wait

VENI VIDI LUDERE

extracting all the numerals

V I V I D I L D

5 1 5 1 500 1 50 500

[crude topaz]

i remember the first landing site/crater had a interesting name that lead me there

[south wyvern]

yep, thats what i have

[sharp flame]

now you won't believe how close this is

!!! 😭

[south wyvern]

then i broke two more if you want

6495450

6650150500

[south wyvern]

crazy

[sharp flame]

genuinely 1 off hahaha

we have had a few clues which were 1 off

actually... like the 1f6888 and 206888

or the one image which was 2044 instead of 2048

I am not sure whether this was intentional

[south wyvern]

i gotta keep going lol

[sharp flame]

but still crazy coincidence hahaha

[south wyvern]

red marks meaning positive, four mice lived the entire Apollo 17 trips with Evans and black mark is negative, a dead mouse, died during the trip, total of five mice.

while that happens, two astronauts perform EVAs on moon. 11-12-14

[sharp flame]

11 12 14 better bring us something 🙏

[south wyvern]

me too, i was crying when i saw the fifth

[sharp flame]

its one of those risky gems of a clue hahaha

[south wyvern]

12 astronauts walked on the __L__una.

[sharp flame]

L

[south wyvern]

then __H__arrison Hagan "Jack" __S__chmitt. the black check is Hassium (Hs); "Jack" and the Beanstalk

[crude topaz]

so, did 11-12-14 ever show up in the official art, or are you just finding it over and over when looking in rabbit holes?

[south wyvern]

going back to the mice, Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey

[sharp flame]

latter

[sharp flame]

now THAT's a theory

got me in my EE spirit again

[south wyvern]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fee-fi-fo-fum

[south wyvern]

the calculator 'e' button contains all the Es stuff is how i found through apollo 17
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler

[crude topaz]

old clue thing "The crater was therefore named “West Crater” even though it appears to the east of the landing site on modern lunar maps.[3]"

[crude topaz]

good thing Apollo has been talked about since last year... cant find my own stuff lol

ah now i know why i looked at Apollo program, a crater named "Double" lol

good times

[south wyvern]

the rock salt on the left in the office could be this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_tail_of_the_Moon

@sharp flame tell me you have seen 22 halo (degree) before? "Cernan and Schmitt performed three EVAs for a total of about 22 hours of exploration of the Taurus-Littrow Valley"

[crude topaz]

46 11 94 cracked yet?

[pure loom]

If Harrison Schmitt is part of this, I’ll flip out. #hero

[south wyvern]

.... he was

[pure loom]

Maybe the menhir thing points to low lunar gravity

Where you can carry much larger rocks

[south wyvern]

are you picturing what the biggest rock that Schmitt has discovered?

[pure loom]

There’s a famous photo of a large rock from that mission.

Also the orange soil

[south wyvern]

they had lunar rover by the way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorty_(crater) updates.

Split Rock/Tracy's Rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy's_Rock

[slender lodge]

Crazy? I was crazy once 🤔

Locked me into a room I jumped out of a window and landed in the grass... grass makes me crazy...

Crazy? I was crazy once

[crude topaz]

lol

[south wyvern]

someday or sooner, i will eventually ended up like Swa...

[south wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/tezos-xtz-stakefish-calculator-computation-gif-16898252

[slender lodge]

[timid solstice]

Nope

[proud minnow]

Fish, what do we say about coincidences.?

[sharp flame]

I know I know 😭

[quaint stratus]

Watch the easter egg lead to the angry birds theme song

[south wyvern]

https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lsc/70017.pdf (largest grams)
https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lsc/74255.pdf (orange soil)

then the sample 75035 was interesting, at first I do not know what the hell they were talking about "a uniform rock type" so I found this. https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lsc/75035.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrite_(crystal)#Metal_dendrites

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/change-hairstyle-hairstyle-virtual-reality-parzival-ready-player-one-gif-11480053

im coming

[sharp flame]

Omg do you have the first key

[fallen jasper]

maby.....who knows

[south wyvern]

would you like some century egg? yum

[sharp flame]

nope

millennium egg is my thing

[south wyvern]

i swear, Google said century 😂

[jade citrus]

egg stones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolite

[south wyvern]

I was looking around Astrid Lindgren (20 Krona) and I fell...

good night hunters

[sharp flame]

that was incredibly quick

[steady merlin]

Omg its the owner of the oasis😱😱😱

[sharp flame]

lil refresher

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

things of note are the number 934 and Y#RI

as in YURI?

such as...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_language_(Amazon)

not sure about 934 though

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRI_Spica_(934)

[sharp flame]

this ship is named after the brightest star in Virgo

there is also the comet 934 Thuringia

unicode 9703 is ◧

[timid solstice]

what if it's Yuri Gagarin

[sharp flame]

ooh makes sense

with the astronaut theme of that image

[timid solstice]

oh was that meta in the space one? cool could be

[sharp flame]

yep

could always be a double meaning

yuri as in Amazon and yuri as in Astronaut

or yuri as in something completely different

or maybe y~ri is not yuri but another word

[crude topaz]

yes...

[sharp flame]

absolutely no way

i am flabbergasted

[crude topaz]

😄

[south wyvern]

I used alphabet number and almost got 'ICE' but ICD

[south wyvern]

Not much expect the 'Coffee Cave' episode which kinda remind me of coffee stains and Namabatama.

[spark dagger]

bear reference

[pearl lark]

Wow

[sharp flame]

Now wait a minute

934 - 935

why is it so close again

[sharp flame]

I wonder if that's an intended 'ICE' clue

[zenith crown]

this was posted in #🏓┇other-games if u scroll up a little! U probs missed it so thought id tell u

[pure loom]

ah, ok. I'll delete here then

[sharp flame]

Still, Marathon arg was super interesting

[pure loom]

Hopefully they continue it - it looks a bit short for the effort that went into it. I'm presuming they'll carry it on it some way

[proud minnow]

I know… when I saw this while planning this tier I actually thought to myself “hmm, are there coincidences after all, this is too good to be true”

[south wyvern]

[proud minnow]

But what about Amy..?

[pure loom]

hmmm...

As - Arsenic...

hmmm x2

As - Asterix

huh - this is interesting: "The name "Asterix" came from the asterisk symbol (*) and Obelix's from the French name for the dagger symbol (†). This was meant to be a symbolic pun, as an asterisk and obelisk are almost never seen without each other, just like the two friends."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_(mark)

[sharp flame]

oh wow...

[sharp flame]

which clue was the Asterix clue originally?

[pure loom]

ah, there were a bunch. Probably the strongest one was "menhir chaos" from the letters on the periodic table

Here's all the ones I noted: #easter-eggs message

[south wyvern]

it make sense because of fee-fi-fo-fum > Jack and the __Bean__stalk > Alan Bean > then another girl. I'm thinking why.

[pure loom]

this could definitely link with the clue of cross symbols

[sharp flame]

what does Chaos mean in this

[pure loom]

lol - of course haha

[pure loom]

I think it just refers to the comics - the Asterix comics are adventures with lots of hilarious chaotic fights with roman soldiers

[south wyvern]

Were there, Amy, in the comics book?

[pure loom]

I don't think so

[sharp flame]

I think he's just referring to the other daughter Amy

[south wyvern]

yea, three girls just like the sister ships

[pure loom]

This is more interesting

[sharp flame]

ngl I think the whole cross thing is something we made up to cope with our lack of luck on that cipher

would be the same if we started looking into the specific shapes of the pigpen cipher which made FKRAMER

[south wyvern]

so double dagger would be the normal cross, aye?

[pure loom]

yeah, possibly - just trying to keep an open mind about what it means

[south wyvern]

when Rob said But what about Amy?, its immediately felt like I left her behind. going back brb

[sharp flame]

if not a clue about that amy specifically, the also possibly a clue about sisters and siblings etc

[pure loom]

that's a good angle on doubles etc - siblings

maybe the answer is a "sibling" of something

Namatama's less famous sister

Sammytama

[sharp flame]

Amytama

[south wyvern]

hmmm

Rob is not only pointing at Amy but Yuri language

[south wyvern]

Amy Sue Bean lives in Texas Hill Country, features a number of caverns (potential some bats reside) and Texas have a common bat called, Mexican free-tailed bat or Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis). Then to Yuri language is native to Brazil, extending slightly Colombia. **[Extra, I love coffee and Brazilian beans are well-known for bold, dark and heavy tastes 💡 Devs spills some coffee stains on the desk has to be Coffee Ring Effect ** because what else these stains could be.]

[pure loom]

I guess coffee rings could be analogous to lunar craters

Which reminds me, there is at least one dual crater pair on the Moon

[south wyvern]

whoa, i think i just saw one last night hmmm

[pure loom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_(crater)

[south wyvern]

lol yep that's it...

[jade citrus]

something else that might relate twins/siblings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_city

[south wyvern]

Coffee ring maybe, but there is no Flamsteed N
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamsteed_(crater)

[pure loom]

@agile siren

[strong hare]

sry for the delay

[pure loom]

all good - I saw BaconLord was online, so pinged them instead 🙂

[floral axle]

[fallen jasper]

By the power of saint rob I compel you to vacate this space

[spark dagger]

saint rob hasn’t made an appearance for 18 days

[livid acorn]

[strong hare]

[crude topaz]

Middlefart

[proud minnow]

Åhh, Faith.! 🖤❤️🖤

[fallen jasper]

Faith? From the hit 2009 game, Mirrors Edge?

[south wyvern]

two black and a red hearts

[unkempt crypt]

Is Kyne onto it too?

[fallen jasper]

Not yet

They won't let me go to the trickster college-

[south wyvern]

'leap of faith'

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/clown-college-homer-simpson-the-simpsons-homer-gif-25911070

[unkempt crypt]

I dunno why the black and red made me think about Harley Quinn

[fallen jasper]

There's a new $125 statue that got released today

[unkempt crypt]

Of what?

[spark dagger]

Mirror’s Edge forever will be a classic

[south wyvern]

Å: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Å "overring"

[fallen jasper]

Harley

[south wyvern]

Faith used the buildings to parkour and interesting fact that I did not knew

and leap of faith, leaping on the moon like she would be leaping the buildings.

[proud minnow]

Thank you, so proud of that game.!

[sharp flame]

We've had this before right

[south wyvern]

maybe, depends how long ago thou...

[sharp flame]

It is awesome! I really love how it looks! Will always be timeless

Not gonna lie THE FINALS may have copied Mirrors Edge a little bit

[south wyvern]

yep, a lot of heights!

im figuring out the hearts part right now. poker card?

[sharp flame]

The capital F in Faith might mean something other than ME

[south wyvern]

Faith's red and black shoes found in Battlefield 3's Aftermath: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoBpVt2bGds

[south wyvern]

Remember Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey mice.

[sharp flame]

Hmmmmm that's interesting

[neon stream]

Rob was the director of art in Mirror's Edge 😛

It makes sense they look similar, same hand with the brush

[sharp flame]

Haha Rob knows I know 😂

[neon stream]

Oh 😂

[proud minnow]

❤️❤️❤️… hehe, several of us who worked on THE FINALS actually worked on the original ME… ._.

[sharp flame]

I can see the artistic roots...

what about the parkour.. hmm?? Light parkour soon???

[neon stream]

YES PLEASE

[sharp flame]

Idk

...

Might be too ambitious for Rob...

[neon stream]

You are right... I don't think these guys like challenges, they go for the easy things, right? No innovation or ambition... /s

😛

[neon stream]

Thanks Embark for making games innovative again, and forgive the sarcasm on that sentence

[proud minnow]

YES PLEASE.! (Högis & Arvid)

[sharp flame]

WAIT

oh (😯)

[spark dagger]

Absolute beauty, can see how this inspired Seoul

[proud minnow]

LOL… “If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”

[pure loom]

Another f'ing crane

[sharp flame]

It never stops...

[pure loom]

The atomic radius of Fluorine is 0.75 Ångstrom

[sharp flame]

Faith used buildings to parkour?

[pure loom]

wall running I think

[sharp flame]

impossible

next you'll be telling me that she jumps off cranes...

[pure loom]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgyrrjmavy4

[neon stream]

Never expected a video of the Tapp Brothers to be shown here 😂

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/expect-the-unexpected-unexpected-razz-prince-phone-shop-phone-gif-22386402

[south wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/cats-parkour-gif-9687218

[fallen jasper]

Cranes?

[timid solstice]

BRB ?

or
SNS

[south wyvern]

This achievement makes more sense than the other one I posted earlier (deleted).

[fallen jasper]

@cold skiff plz fix

poor guy got hacked

[south wyvern]

934 (ICD) Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator - Vladimir Seryogin
Y#URI - Yuri Gagarin @timid solstice

Later tonight, I will wrap up on Rob mentioned Amy.

[crude topaz]

Amy is Tracys sister, but i could not find a picture/painting dedicated to Amy

[south wyvern]

Little messing but Tracy and Amy made me realise there are female astronauts/cosmonauts too.

• "The __M__ercury 13 [K-11,L-12, __?,N-14] were American women who took part in a privately funded program run by William R. Lovelace II aiming to test and screen women for spaceflight. (M13 were not part of NASA's official astronaut program)
• Janet and Marion Dietrich are twin sisters and two of the thirteen women, The 13, passed the same Phase I physical examinations that the Lovelace Foundation had developed as part of NASA's astronaut selection process.
• Valentina Tereshkova: Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut, being the first woman ever to fly in space. She is known for being the first and youngest (26) woman in space, having flown a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1__963__. (clock hands) She looks like Dracula, I'm serious, she's batnama.
• Yuri Gagarin also mentioned in Mercury 13 Wikipedia under "Additional tests".
• Sally Kristen Ride: American astronaut and physicist and became the first American woman and the third woman to fly in space. She was first astronaut known to have been LGBT and the youngest have flown in space, having done so at the age of 32. rainbow hardcore.
• Gemini 9A (officially Gemini IX-A). I'm so dumb, Gemini stand for twin/two (Castor and Pollux; greek). The 9A lunar module were designed for two astronauts. (Thomas P. Stafford & Eugene A. Cernan)
• Artemis and Apollo (Greek) are twin brother and sister.
• "The Gemini spacesuit was air-cooled. As an astronaut's EVA and work load increased, he would began to sweat, and within the confined suit the cooling system would be overwhelmed and the visor would fog." Just like NamaTama's fog space helmet.

Later on, Rob threw Faith ❤️ and she had a partner named Mercury who was a runner/tracker and then you have her twin sister, Kate Connors (🖤🖤) . Sibling/duality is very strong here.

[crude topaz]

Siblings seem to be a thing mby, thers also those NASA twins

[pure loom]

Yeah, Scott and Mark Kelly. I was looking at that path the other day.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/nasas-twins-study-creates-portrait-human-body-after-year-space-180971945/

[south wyvern]

Huh, that's weird. Scott Kelly suffered from vision problems during his 1999 mission and resorted to wearing reading glasses during his 2007 mission. A while back that 'gemini' gave me an idea; gem-in-i, gem in eye like as in pupil or iris, something sparkle-sphere. However, relates with medical condition and then I ran into them: Asteriod Hyalosis and synchysis scintillans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_hyalosis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchysis_scintillans

[pure loom]

Oh, interesting. Gem-in-eye is very clever

[sharp flame]

ngl this hunt needs a little revive

we definitely have the clues, but not the big picture password

[wanton sundial]

Seems folks may be busy with school and such so I'm sure it'll pick back up

[sharp flame]

hehe I'm sure Rob can wait a few months

[spark dagger]

#official-art when

[pure loom]

I’ve not had much time for it this week - I’ve been working on a video covering extraction shooters. Once that’s done (next week) I’ll jump back in

I reckon we have enough clues, just not enough pondering

[sharp flame]

Can't wait for the vid!

[zenith crown]

Hey guyssss, Rockhound heeeeeeere

[fallen jasper]

You better not be trying to get Hazard Zone footage

You'll be working on the video for a month in that case

[sharp flame]

Extraction Shooters: the new Battle Royale!?

[fallen jasper]

Speaking of things being slow

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-finals-tfee-timeline-2l7qa8t74gbnvijy

I updated the timeline today

[neon stream]

https://hexcolorpedia.com/color/?q=206888

Could the 206888 be, among other things, a reference to "sea goddess"? 🤔

It's not the exact color

https://hexcolorpedia.com/color/216987/

That would be the exact color

[fallen jasper]

Salacia?

So the overarching theme is definitely water isn't it? Telford built lots of Canals, we've got a lot of references to Ice.

[neon stream]

Could be, I was thinking about Amphitrite, since we had poseidon in the past, but could be either one, other one, or just a reference to sea 🤷🏻‍♂️

IF, that's what it's meant to point to

[neon stream]

Yeah, it would make sense 🤔

[pure loom]

Apparently, there’s a small but dedicated HZ community. I haven’t tried though (yet). I did buy Hunt: Showdown while it’s on sale though.

[fallen jasper]

I played it when it first came out and it was alright

It was dead on arrival though considering it was attached to 2042 lmao

[pure loom]

Haven’t got a firm title yet. How about “I Got 26 Extraction Shooters And ARC Raiders Is One!” 😂

[sharp flame]

Hahahaha

short and snappy I'd say

depends if ARC is the main focus of the vid, or the genre is

[pure loom]

“Once I’m Done With All These Extraction Shooters I Can Get Back To Life Easter Eggs”

[fallen jasper]

"ARC Raiders is a Extraction Shooter now: What can we expect?"

I'm imagining you're looking at the gameplay mechanics from the other extraction shooters, what they have in common, what's different, and guessing what ARC might be considering?

[pure loom]

Something like that. But asking more if there’s currently room for AR in the genre

[fallen jasper]

Considering the ARC team spent years working on procedural animations and systems for the ARC robots, they've already got a open world, I expect that it's going to be dramatically different from every other extraction shooter on the market.

[pure loom]

Yeah, they better add NFTs to get more aligned.

[fallen jasper]

Let's goo

[pure loom]

Maybe ice is there as a nickname to diamonds.

A moniker.

That would fit with the duality thing

[fallen jasper]

Did we ever get anywhere with what was going on with the statue

Especially since it was named lapisnama but it was a marble statue of Nama lol

[pure loom]

Yeah lapis=stone

Another version

technically a “stone” is a “rock” that has been modified or specifically used for human use. Like a building stone, or a marble statue. Otherwise it’s a “rock”

[jade citrus]

The marble statue of Penthesilea is located in the Cour Carrée, which was renovated by King Louis XIV in 1668. The Cour Carrée also features a statue of the Incan sun god Inti. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cour_Carrée

[fallen jasper]

Nice

[sharp flame]

didn't we also have something 👀d about the specific marble used?

Luna Marble I think

[pure loom]

Hmmm… this just made me wonder if the Titanic is an analogy for Apollo 13? They both ended up with a hole in the side.

[timid solstice]

Yes or Italian marble