easter-eggs

[sharp flame]

and next to the coordinates are the letters T B

[jade citrus]

Telford ties into ICE

[sharp flame]

T B stnads for Telford Bridge on that River

[zealous junco]

What is the Telford bridge made of lol

[sharp flame]

Telford Bridge is named after the founder of ICE Thomas Telford

ICE = ice

[fallen jasper]

Yes yes

[sharp flame]

Ice = Crystalline (structure)

and therefore CaCO3?

[plush tinsel]

do all of the clues have a real world location tied to it? if so, maybe we are meant to connect the locations on the world map to form letters?

[sharp flame]

Very few of the clues do

[plush tinsel]

dang

[zealous junco]

Ok so the second part is the issue but most of the clues allude to doubles right? so would it not be another element maybe?

[sharp flame]

stone hehe

[sharp flame]

very well could be!

there are a few ways it could go

[zealous junco]

Or some sort of Latin name for a certain element

[sharp flame]

The word calcite for example is a 'doublet' with the word chalk

the crystal structure has something called 'twinning'

etc

[zealous junco]

I’m just trying to keep in mind that there was a double theme through this tier

[sharp flame]

very much, and I think we need to use that for the answer

[zealous junco]

Or maybe the idea of double is to make sure we know to find two things that make one word?

[sharp flame]

I'm looking into calcium carbonate rn to find that thing

[fallen jasper]

https://trid.trb.org/view/499324

I don't think it's connected but look at the corporate author 👀

[sharp flame]

oo

[zealous junco]

Did someone already explore the connection with penthesilea and the steroid named after her?

I noticed in the one image there was a reference to penthesilea and if we’re talking elements I think maybe there’s a hint there possibly?

[zealous junco]

Asteroids tend to have icy, rocky, or metallic bodies so maybe if ice was one clue rocky or metallic is another?

[urban sonnet]

i made a mistake looking into this easter egg

during exam season

[zealous junco]

Ok so I don’t know what has already been brought up and I might be bringing up old clues but the moon Kari is also a moon that revolves around Saturn and is a Norse group of moons and there is Norse runes all over the one image. Is this old or relevant info?

Another thing leading into space

@sharp flame

[keen hill]

Found a thing that i think is an easter egg but it can also be an bug so ill send the pick to the bug report.
But its an star baloon that looks like it has a crack in it

[zealous junco]

Wait someone was mentioning dust before right???

Outer space is not completely empty; it is a near-perfect vacuum containing a low density of particles, predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, neutrinos, dust, and cosmic rays

Dust is important because we find lots of it around young stars. In fact it helps them to form, and it is also the raw material from which planets like the Earth are formed.

Which there is a sun in one of the images???

[urban sonnet]

there is somehing with a sun king

[zealous junco]

Maybe the Space is referred to as in literal space????

DHL takes its forwarding operations from global to galactic, establishing logistics to help the ION Satellite Carrier on its journey to space...

There is something with space has to be or I’ve been mislead somehow lol

[worn badger]

is this the current clue?

Calcium carbonate is a chemical compound with the chemical formula CaCO3. It is a common substance found in rocks as the minerals calcite and aragonite, most notably in chalk and limestone, eggshells,

[sharp flame]

Yep, seems the most relevant

[zealous junco]

I have seen a reference to limestone

[worn badger]

and if we find the right word we nee dto enter it on the website? that's how we solve the clue?

[normal halo]

yes

[worn badger]

is it confirmed to be in latin?

[zealous junco]

Not confirmed but nodded to

[normal halo]

almost deffinately

[opaque slate]

Translate limestone to Latin?

[normal halo]

tried, doesnt work

[opaque slate]

Hmm

[zealous junco]

But dust was referenced in the Latin statement

[worn badger]

limestone is made out of crystals, someone talked about it earlier

[zealous junco]

And I keep seeing a lot of space related clues

[opaque slate]

Limestone dust?

[worn badger]

space rock?

[zealous junco]

I could be wrong but if you look at my rant messages there’s a lot of similarities to asteroids and cosmic dust

At least from what I saw

[worn badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium–aluminium-rich_inclusion

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolomite_(mineral)

[crimson hemlock]

UH

FRIEND MAY HAVE JUST FOUND

LOOK BEYOND THE WALLS

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011452247395283005/1120868948053852230/image.png

[zealous junco]

I mean one of the past clues was a reference to David Bowie also ziggy stardust

[obsidian chasm]

Ok can someone catch me up to why we are discussing geology in the #easter-eggs chat

[worn badger]

is the keyboard the only clue we are working on?
and what about the dhl/space thingy?

[zealous junco]

Astropulvis is Latin for stardust

[worn badger]

LHD (DHL @ keyboard)

machine used for mining

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHD_(load,_haul,_dump_machine)

[jade citrus]

look through #egg-hunt-onboarding for a full guide

and also the pinned messages

[worn badger]

in the original post rob said "crystal-clear demands"

[zealous junco]

Did anyone figure out what that chemical structure was that was drawn on the back from the keyboard picture

[worn badger]

When applied by archaeologists and stone trade professionals, the term alabaster is used not just as in geology and mineralogy, where it is reserved for a variety of gypsum; but also for a similar-looking, translucent variety of fine-grained banded deposit of calcite.[9]

[jade citrus]

#easter-eggs message

[worn badger]

the more i search about calcium carbonate the more sure i get it has seomthing to do with Aragonite

[jade citrus]

Aragonite is a crystal form of CaCO3

Some more types of calcium carbonate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_calcium_carbonate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monohydrocalcite

[worn badger]

what about ROCK CRYSTAL?
it's literally see through

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Crystal_(Fabergé_egg)

another EGG

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

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

[crimson hemlock]

this is on seoul, the facades of the buildings as seen from free cam

specifically, of the hospital

[wide verge]

is today the last day to play or do we have time tomorrow asw

[south wyvern]

@agile siren Thank you

[agile siren]

Thanks for the ping ❤️

[jade citrus]

24 hours to find 3 more WRs... ._.

[crystal gate]

Perhaps something to be found with the new basketball texture? idk just remember it being a completely black ball in CB1

[pure loom]

"sooo" could be interpreted a couple of ways: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_rotation_group

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

"Gaseous SO3 is the primary precursor to acid rain.

[sharp flame]

Bro Rob basically told us what the answer is

I don't wanna get lost again 😭

we know the answer is in Latin, and it is something related to CaCO3

we have 1 more day to check MONACO for EE SPRAYS 🙏🙏🙏

Good luck guys

[worn badger]

"._." could have a meaning too

[worn badger]

i'd love to help find some but I tried doing 2 quick play rounds without any results. trying to hide and stay alive was harder than to actual look for clues lmao

there is one ingame spray which counts your kills during that round
the numbers are drawn with chalk

chalk is made out of CaCO3

[pure loom]

Yes! “R” in Morse code hehe

[worn badger]

... ... ... ._.

for me it's # not R

SSS#
https://www.mathsisfun.com/algebra/trig-solving-sss-triangles.html

or SSSR of course

wait

translation: CCCP stands for latin letters SSSR and is russian for Союз?

the russian letters look like CaCO3

Союз is "union"

[neon stream]

We say that "... ._." at the end of Rob's messages means SR, for Saint Rob 😛

[neon stream]

I guess "... ... ... ._." could just mean Super Sacred Saint Rob 😂

@worn badger welcome btw!

[neon stream]

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Church_Of_The_Holy_Hunters

[tight horizon]

Only the first "C" stands for "Союз"

Cоюз Советских Социалистических Республик = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Союз = Union

[nocturne vapor]

Д

This one looks like a spaceship

Д for frigate class
д for corvette

[proud minnow]

Looks like I can easily take a week vacation, hihi… ._.

[sharp flame]

enjoy!

[proud minnow]

Don't worry, I will check every day, hehe... ._.

[worn badger]

okay okay I have more than 25k fame now I can fully commit to the easter egg hunt 👀

[sharp flame]

yeees

dewit

all in today

[worn badger]

is there any priority? because the CaCO³ clue is still stuck in my head 🥲

[sharp flame]

If we're talking ingame, Monaco has sprays which Rob added to give us EE hints

825C for example

and Seoul has White Rabbits

[worn badger]

what does 825C stand for

[sharp flame]

825 degrees C is the melting point of CaCO3

(in aragonite form specifically)

[worn badger]

you think i should look for more clues or look for the latin word immediately?

[sharp flame]

More clues!

the clues have a time limit

the tier does not :)

plus that 825 thing solved so much of this tier

[worn badger]

ok i'll hop on some quick cash rounds with Light class and invis

hope to find some more

[sharp flame]

heavy is better

its behind a breakable wall

[worn badger]

evvery clue?

[sharp flame]

nope

behind a bin one was

[zealous junco]

SO DO WE THINK ARAGONITE IS THE FIRST PART OF THE PASSWORD?

[timid solstice]

MAYBE

[zealous junco]

OOPS LOL

lol

[pure loom]

Molina de Aragón in Spain is the type location for Aragonite. It holds the record (−28.2 °C) for the lowest temperature measured by a meteorological station in Spain, which could tie into the ice clues. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molina_de_Aragón

The next map for THE FINALS

“There’s nothing inside the walls!” “We know, that’s the challenge!” 😂

[mild imp]

im so lost

i would like to help with easter egg hunting but i dont know where to start lol

[worn badger]

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

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

[mild imp]

im so lost guys someone catch me up

[neon stream]

Welcome! You can start by looking at #egg-hunt-onboarding

[worn badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragón_(river)

[neon stream]

You can look at Flex's summaries of the clues on the pinned messages, or if you want to go into a lot more detail, you can read his Doc with all the information from the hunt. RockhoundBlack also has videos on all the tiers

[sharp flame]

basically we need to unlock this website with a password

and we have clues to guess the password

we have discovered 4 passwords

the passwords are:

1064
lxxix
5f137s2
0vif0rm

and for context this next password is in latin

[mild imp]

so were on tier 1E and we only have a day left

it sin latin

himm

[sharp flame]

we have way more than 1 day haha

but some clues were hidden in game to help us

[mild imp]

arent some of the hints ingame though?

[sharp flame]

we have a day to find those

[neon stream]

We should be able to solve the tier with what we already have

[mild imp]

so there are sprays in monaco confrimed by rob

so what im looking at

CaCO3 aka calcium carbonate + latin = password

825c Is the melting point of CaCO3 in aragonite form.

this is all i can pick up

[neon stream]

Did you look at the pinned messages? and the info on the hunt?

[mild imp]

i did

[neon stream]

For the current tier, you can look at these summaries by Flex: #easter-eggs message

[mild imp]

right now should i be trying to figure osmething out just by using my brain or should i be trying to find sprays on monaco

[neon stream]

I guess trying to find sprays in Monaco has priority now, since the beta ends in a few hours. But you can do either one 💪🏻

[neon stream]

Doubles and crystals seem to also be important for this tier btw

[mild imp]

i cant post images

i found a spray

SR.! is what is says

maybe its something old

no clue

[neon stream]

You'll be able to post images after you level up by chatting

[mild imp]

go tit

got it

[neon stream]

Nice!

[mild imp]

the spray looks just like this one but it says SR.!

[neon stream]

Yeah, we found it a few days ago

[mild imp]

dont know what that would relate to

damn.

[neon stream]

SR means Saint Rob

[neon stream]

More info on that here: https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Church_Of_The_Holy_Hunters

😛

[mild imp]

oh man the lore goes deep

what would be the best build to hunting on ?

a light build or a heavy build

[worn badger]

maybe twin instead of double?

[neon stream]

Yeah, could be

[worn badger]

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

[sharp flame]

very much could be

[worn badger]

calcite has hexagonal twinning

If several twin crystal parts are aligned by the same twin law they are referred to as multiple or repeated twins. If these multiple twins are aligned in parallel they are called polysynthetic twins. When the multiple twins are not parallel they are cyclic twins. Albite, calcite, and pyrite often show polysynthetic twinning. Closely spaced polysynthetic twinning is often observed as striations or fine parallel lines on the crystal face. Rutile, aragonite, cerussite, and chrysoberyl often exhibit cyclic twinning, typically in a radiating pattern.

[sinful raptor]

Hi I have a question how many comments I need to rising star?

[worn badger]

35 points, check #🏆┇rank-check

[sinful raptor]

Thank you

[jade citrus]

nothing yet, but i tried combining the latin calx with crystal because crystal is sometimes abbreviated as xtal
i entered calcrys and calxtal, but nothing

[worn badger]

yeah i tried probably like 50 different workds already, all related to calcium in some way

[jade citrus]

found this on a french website

stillatitus lapis

[worn badger]

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

^ = Pink Floyd?

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/we-seem-to-be-moving-in-the-same-direction-nora-reid-the-wilds-coincidence-flirting-gif-19754247

[sharp flame]

seen this, thought it connected to the answerr

Rob can be safe on his vacation

we just have to wait until @latent peak comes online and solves this one 😭

The answer is in Latin..

Latin + Calcium Carbonate?

[worn badger]

https://tenor.com/view/pink-floyd-prism-dark-side-of-the-moon-gif-8974839

double rainbow is another clue or the same?

it's also ROCK music lmao

[timid solstice]

this was a clue in a previous tier, not sure if you saw so would be weird to have it agin be could be

[urban sonnet]

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

checks alot of boxes

has diamond, its an old french word(there was something about sungod so louis 14)

based on a latin word

[worn badger]

Aragonite/Calcium Carbonite
Pairs/Bond/Doubles/Twins/Sisters/Magnetic Poles/Similar but different/Two ends/Two Sides
Weather - Ice (snowflake) /Wind (kari) /Rain (rainbow/ Lightning (Thors Land)

is this all the same clue?

[pure loom]

prog rock - to mark the lack of our PROGression

[timid solstice]

That needs updating tbh

[neon stream]

I think the main clues are "pair" and "crystal"

[jade citrus]

found this map on a bulletin board is Seoul, any ideas? the korean at the top translates to "guide" https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/713732069817319467/1121316655746785310/image.png

also found this cool little postcard in a mailbox

[sharp flame]

Oooo investigate further

Where is this

[jade citrus]

in the residential building, ground floor

[jade citrus]

nice, how did you get it out like that?

[sharp flame]

Step back a bit

there are also more of those on the other side

if you do a 180 and look

[sharp flame]

Goodbye WRs..

[south wyvern]

goodbye

[jade citrus]

1 per CB... could be worse I guess

[normal halo]

Well good bye friends, see you next beta/release

[sick stone]

I just had a realization. Iceland spar is sometimes referred to as sunstone

Not sure if mentioned already

Could be what the images are referring to

It was also used to locate the sun when it was cloudy

Maybe a “look past the walls” kinda deal

Clouds being the “walls”

Commonly found in mines that also produce aragonite

[solemn ginkgo]

i trust this man with 100% of my being definitly not a scam 😉

[proud minnow]

They will wait for you, a quick CB2 EE summary:

• WR: 2/5
• Graffiti: 2/5
• Lore messages: 1/10
• Trailer Clues: 0/6
• In Game EE's: 1/XXX

Pretty good I must say ALMOST 20%... Really hope all of you enjoyed CB2..!

[sharp flame]

I want to cry

I'm guessing the graffiti is gone now

Trailer clues we can still get (CNS didn't count 😭😭)

Lore messages was

S Lies

Ingame EEs...

Trismegistus?

[proud minnow]

CNS hacked the stream, and wrote it in plain text 100% visible, so no, that doesn't count, hehe

[sharp flame]

yeah I get it we are not very perceptive 😭😭

[normal halo]

Damn )=

[worn badger]

i found something ingame (i can't remeber if it was on a wall or a sinkhole) the number "3301"
maybe related to Cicada 3301?

[solar glade]

will admit i did not look for lore once. this is what happens when you make a great game Rob

[normal halo]

About 13-17 seconds into the beta 2 perminant skins video

[unborn igloo]

maybe hide a rebus for release date 😮

[worn badger]

CNS

[normal halo]

These two are from the main video for CB2

At 7s

[normal halo]

It’s a bit of a stretch tho, if someone has a higher resolution programme it would be easier to make out what it says

This could also mean something

Also in the main video

At about 10-13s

[lost egret]

W

[normal halo]

Can y’all make anything out?

[unborn igloo]

After work i try to read it

[normal halo]

There was nothing of note in the audio for the CB2 best moments

[normal halo]

I feel like this stuff would be more obvious tho…. But im kinda new to how the finals ester eggs go

Because for example this is a picture of one of the minecraft sound disc Easter eggs

Then again that isn’t a promotional material that they care about ensuring seems normal unless you are really looking, which is why the music disc sounds weird AF

[timid solstice]

super hard to hunt when you are having fun

[normal halo]

Trueeeeeeeee

Should have made the game less fun ngl ;p

[cedar owl]

Rob, be nice!

[normal halo]

0_0

[cedar owl]

Not a clue, I am just yelling at him.

[normal halo]

Lol

I though n- ice

XD

More ice confirmation has been removed from the record

[mild imp]

im suprised we only got 2/5 grafitti lol

i was looking all over the map for it

[neon stream]

At this pace, we just need 3 more betas to find the rest of the WRs 😅

[waxen horizon]

I was wondering if the 3 heavies with sledgehammers ignoring the objective and destroying all the buildings is one of you guys....

[worn badger]

ngl i felt really bad to run around the map and not playing with my team/trying to win
even though it was just quick cash + a beta

[sharp flame]

Haha same

[south wyvern]

is this the one?

[worn badger]

hmm could be but from what I remember it was 3301
on monaco 100%

it was on a wall

[worn badger]

new video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAXvslekUSM&ab_channel=THEFINALS

idk if it's important but in the last AMA Rob mentioned the word "Thundestruck" at the beginning and now at the the end of the video it's kinda looking like glitched out lightning strikes

[south wyvern]

Listening AC/DC's Thunderstruck. Hard Rock.

[worn badger]

maybe frequencys of voltages?

[pure loom]

A possible linked path: https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/never-before-seen-crystal-like-matter-hidden-in-a-chunk-of-fossilized-lightning-is-probably-a-brand-new-mineral

[pure loom]

The password isn’t “fulgurite”

[jade citrus]

fulgur means lightning in latin, maybe connecting to "thor's land"

[worn badger]

where is the link for the current password again?

[jade citrus]

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

[worn badger]

ty

maybe the MD5 hash 206888 is a HEX color code?
https://color-hex.org/color/206888
it's blue

there used to be a volvo museum is torslanda it was called "The Blue Hangar"

"Pairs/Bond/Doubles/Twins/Sisters/Magnetic Poles/Similar but different/Two ends/Two Sides" :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polestar
swedish automotive brand aquired 2015 by volvo with headqurters in Torslanda

[upper nova]

Wtf is this? I just noticed it on the newest trailer. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1120806215090454559/1121572053330432200/image.png

[worn badger]

good catch!

[upper nova]

I was just theorizing about it with my friends and got told to post it here, lol

[worn badger]

but the clue has already been known

[upper nova]

Damn. Do people have theories what could it be and what does the "Seek the truth beyond the walls" mean?

[worn badger]

also the pixel in the top left corner has #1F6888 color hex (also blue)
maybe it's related to #206888

it would be almost the same blue with slightly differences

[pure loom]

It's a good idea to check out the padlet that we have going - either under #egg-hunt-onboarding or pinned messages - there you'll see a lot of the clues we have picked up and theories we have for them - including Polestar

Padlet(s) for TFEE: https://padlet.com/Kyne

[worn badger]

ok so there is a similarity in Protoporphyrin IX and Aragonite

Fluorescence

both Protoporphyrin and calcium are found in egg shells

you can proof money under uv light (20 krona bill)

__
you need to tell me if i write too much 😂

[pure loom]

See this connection that @south wyvern made with the 20 krona

#easter-eggs message

hmmm... irc lightning produces ozone

[worn badger]

maybe look behind the walls is look behind the ozone layer haha

ozone is a** colourless to pale blue** gas

it's supposed to smell like lightning

[pure loom]

From first-hand experience it smells like fermenting peaches 🤢

But maybe that's how lightning smells?

[worn badger]

"Cryogenic fuels are fuels that require storage at extremely low temperatures in order to maintain them in a liquid state. These fuels are used in machinery that operates in space (e.g. rockets and satellites) where ordinary fuel cannot be used ..."

more science/space stuff

also found this relating to DHL + space
https://www.dhl.com/de-en/home/insights-and-innovation/thought-leadership/trend-reports/space-logistics.html

https://www.dhl.com/global-en/delivered/globalization/space-logistics-satellite-transportation.html

https://inmotion.dhl/en/moon

[jade citrus]

does anyone have a higher quality version of the CB2 trailer? youtube compression is not helping

[pure loom]

I think there should be one in the press section of the website

[jade citrus]

found it, thanks!

[crystal escarp]

hang on is there a finals arg or smth?

[fickle crater]

👀

[normal halo]

I was screwing with some images.... look what i found!

[fickle crater]

🤔

[normal halo]

its seams very intentional

because there is absolutly nothing like it on the source photo'

[normal halo]

I looked at a bunch more but couldnt find anything

i thought thats some of the werid effect on the reach around that time was morse

but it was never consitstant lengths or anyhting

true

bro the finals is set in old aperture labs 0_0

[jade citrus]

condensed version: i noticed something in the trailer. whenever there is that blue glitch effect, it seems like the screen "shifts" and you can see something at the bottom of the image ('reach' frame). to me it looks like metal beams or something, like ruins of a building.
it happens on this frame too (group picture frame), at the top.
almost like the VR goggles are "slipping off" or maybe reflecting something on the outside
again here, at the bottom (seoul mall frame)
even more here on the left side, bottom, and top (black and red frame)

[jade citrus]

also there's a random cashout station in this frame

[jade citrus]

looks like this effect was in some of the other trailers too

[pure loom]

Have a look at #egg-hunt-onboarding - it's all explained there 🙂

[pure loom]

These are pigpen ciphers from Tier 1D (the previous tier) of the easter egg puzzles - again, best to check out #egg-hunt-onboarding to get a sense of where we are in all of this

[latent peak]

Haha, i lost track pretty early of this hunt and been waiting for you guys to solve it so i can join the next one. 😄

I might try to join in this weekend!

[normal halo]

Lmao

Ty for letting me knwo

[jade citrus]

Random thought: aragonite might be an anagram for a latin word/phrase

[worn badger]

ignoratae

[timid solstice]

tell us when you are on the bus, we will give you encouragement

[proud minnow]

I echo that, waiting for you guys to solve this, haha.! 💖

[timid solstice]

exspectans ?

[sharp flame]

I think we need to revisit our older clues with this added context

[fallen jasper]

i understand nothing

[sharp flame]

We still need to discover what 206888 means...

[fallen jasper]

it means the game is releasing 20th June 2888

[crude topaz]

20th June is Gemini

[worn badger]

found this about 206888 but I don't think this is what we are looking for

a lot of clues referring to blue color however

@sharp flame

[sharp flame]

Haha we actually get 206888 from a pixel of that colour

That's how we found 206888

[worn badger]

the pixel ist #1f6888 (right picture)

[sharp flame]

ahh that one

[worn badger]

yeah it would be almost the exact same colour but with very small differences if you but 206888 into an hex code

[sharp flame]

there are about 4 other pixels with 206888 colour
And one with 1f6888

[worn badger]

look at the values at the bottom of the piccure

only 1 value difference

[sharp flame]

Yep yep, we haven't quite figured it out yet

[crude topaz]

still got crosses lol

and a few more things

[worn badger]

i foud the similarity in HSV and HSL is that they share a rainbow pattern

while in RGB and CMYK you need to mix 3 or 4 colours to achieve any colour you want

sry i'm bad at explaining this but I hope you get what I mean

RGB code ist the same

"the same but not the same" ?

[sharp flame]

Off by one value

Maybe the variants of CaCO3 are like that too?

[worn badger]

CNS = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Naming_System ?

[timid solstice]

we found it changed when saving the file out again so thought it could be compression

#easter-eggs message

but its on purpose
#easter-eggs message

[worn badger]

hmmmm

so we're onto something with the different shades of blue?

[neon stream]

That clue could point to "similar but different", or to "blue", or to something else. It doesn't necessarily relate directly to the answer

[worn badger]

like turtle and tortoise

or brown and white eggs?

aligator & crocodile

firefly and lightning bug

Fireflies produce a "cold light", with no infrared or ultraviolet frequencies. The light may be yellow, green, or pale red, with wavelengths from 510 to 670 nanometers. Some species such as the dimly glowing "blue ghost" of the Eastern US may seem to emit blueish-white light from a distance and in low light conditions, but their glow is bright green when observed up close.[17] Their perceived blue tint may be due to the Purkinje effect.[18]

[gusty finch]

Plagiarism, where is your source?

[sharp flame]

Wikipedia 😎

[gusty finch]

https://tenor.com/view/thank-you-dory-gif-7550150

[sharp flame]

https://tenor.com/view/finding-dory-dory-cute-adorable-young-dory-gif-17511950

[neon stream]

We should tell Rob to add the sources to all the clues, so we can easily solve the tiers 😛

[sharp flame]

yes please!

[worn badger]

agreed

#RobRiot

https://tenor.com/view/peepo-peepo-riot-riot-protest-peepo-angry-gif-21768097

gimme clue
or i have fire for u

[sharp flame]

let rob enjoy that holiday!!

[worn badger]

of course

He's probably out there laughing at all the wrong ideas I come up with 💀

[sharp flame]

we can all relate 😭

[worn badger]

we already enjoy looking for all the clues and hints now try to imagine how the creators of all the easter eggs must feel like when they see people trying to solve their puzzles

[neon stream]

They probably feel like the kids watching Dora the Explorer, with hunters not being able to find something that's right by them 😅

But, like the kids have patience with her, Rob has patience with us 😛

[worn badger]

https://tenor.com/view/dora-dora-the-explorer-boots-oh-man-oh-mannnn-gif-5485872

[crystal escarp]

👍

[blazing horizon]

[upper mantle]

Hey people. While I don't have much time to actively sift through clues myself, I'll happily offer any input on clues or information related to graphics/rendering, as it's what I do professionally. (Just @ me as I don't monitor the channel regularly) You seem to have the puzzles under control. 🙂

[upper mantle]

The rainbow pattern mostly just functions as a colorpicker tool or visual representation of the spectrum, but is most commonly used for HSL and HSV. RGB, HSB and LAB can also use these spectrums to visualize colors.

Even though it's not applicable to the specific numbers I see so far, don't forget about Pantone.

The part about you guys having two very similar blue tones with only 1 value of difference can be attributed to compression. The source footage is almost definitely uploaded in a lossy format, and the screenshot is a png which is another layer of lossy compression.
If you want to do anything related to hex codes, I would either:
1: Sample multiple values around the area and try them all as inputs
2: Downscale the image and blur it to find an average colour sample.

Do note that with any blurring or processing on images it should be done in a linear gamma version of the sRGB space, as blurring in a non-linear space will darken or brighten the colors when blurred together.

[neon stream]

Welcome! You seem to know a lot about this, I understood half the things you said because I'm PS illiterate 😂

@upper mantle I have the perfect task for you... there's a clue that we know where it is, because Rob told us, but we don't know how to make it visible...if you could somehow make it visible, you could unlock a whole lot of clues we might be missing

[neon stream]

This is the image where the clue is at

[neon stream]

And the clue should be right there

This is the message where SR showed us the clue

[worn badger]

Maybe the current clue has something to do with STRUCTURES?

[worn badger]

Also the word „lattice“ comes up quite often

[waxen horizon]

nice "analog ticker"

[worn badger]

A lot of the clues got some type of structure

https://www.atomic-scale-physics.de/lattice/struk/caco3.html

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

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

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

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

snowflakes / ICE / rock clue(?)

“The word crystallography is derived from the Ancient Greek word κρύσταλλος (krústallos; "clear ice, rock-crystal"), with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency”

Did someone figure out the angles of the eyes by any chance? 📐

Maybe a hint

Also the white beads/pearls in the crown are shining luminescent

[worn badger]

https://lambdageeks.com/caco3-lewis-structure/?utm_content=cmp-true

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

CaCO3 is a polar compound. CaCO3 is formed by the electrostatic force of attraction between two opposite charges.

This could be very interesting:

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

[worn badger]

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

[sharp flame]

Ooh

[fallen jasper]

how is half this shit related to easter eggs lol

[wanton sundial]

Start with the video at #egg-hunt-onboarding !

[worn badger]

ICE also name for german fastest trains (Intercity express)

[midnight bronze]

Bro ur overthinking it

[wanton sundial]

Make sure to get familiar with the Egg Hunt process, nothing is overthinking it

[midnight bronze]

I mean hes linking science to it

[worn badger]

keychain = key rings = keyring?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyring_(cryptography)

[worn badger]

Penthesilea = also an asteroid
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/271_Penthesilea

[mossy finch]

have you guys been told you managed to get any correct yet, or is still a needle in a haystack kinda thing

[worn badger]

yes we got some hints. look at the pinned messages or #egg-hunt-onboarding

maybe this is it??

[slender lodge]

pluto

[timid solstice]

The closest we are is Aragonite and Latin

[upper mantle]

The word lattice can also be related to fractals

[upper mantle]

I'll give it a go! Instead of sending the image through discord, do you have a direct link to the image URL? as in the original

[upper mantle]

For the image serpenger sent me, I started out by colourpicking what SHOULD be raw colour codes - 16bit, RGB, document color profile.
(Photoshop has a tendency to apply your monitors calibration on top of it instead of picking the raw colors from the file unless you specifically instruct it to)

I doubt this will be relevant, but you never know.

Color codes from the right hand side of the image (test patterns)

-----PATTERN 1-----

White:
HSB 220, 1, 91
LAB 91, 0, -1
RGB 229, 230, 232
CMYK 9, 6, 5, 0
HEX e5e6e8

Grey:
HSB 0, 0, 50
LAB 54, 0, 0
RGB 128, 128, 128
CMYK 52, 43, 43, 8
HEX 808080

Orange:
HSB 31, 97, 94
LAB 66, 40, 71
RGB 240, 128, 8
CMYK 2, 60, 100, 0
HEX f08008

Blue:
HSB 197, 82, 77
LAB 58, -19, -34
RGB 35, 150, 197
CMYK 77, 27, 9, 0
HEX 2396c5

Green:
HSB 104, 67, 71
LAB 66, -45, 51
RGB 91, 181, 59
CMYK 68, 3, 100, 0
HEX 5bb53b

Red:
HSB 350, 85, 82
LAB 46, 67, 33
RGB 210, 31, 60
CMYK 11, 100, 79, 2
HEX d21f3c

.
-----PATTERN 2-----

Key:
HSB 270, 19, 13
LAB 10, 3, -4
RGB: 29, 26, 32
CMYK: 74, 71, 61, 75
HEX 1d1a20

Yellow:
HSB 47, 97, 94
LAB 79, 10, 80
RGB 240, 188, 8
CMYK 6, 25, 100, 0
HEX f0bc08

Magenta:
HSB 331, 65, 87
LAB 56, 61, -6
RGB 223, 78, 147
CMYK 7, 84, 6, 0
HEX df4e93

Cyan:
HSB 170, 91, 76
LAB 71, -47, 3
RGB 18, 195, 166
CMYK 71, 0, 47, 0
HEX 12c3a6

[neon stream]

Perfect, thanks! We got it through Discord, here: #official-art message

(I downloaded that, and sent it)

[upper mantle]

Again, probably useless but in case the same patterns are relevant later, now you can cross-reference values to see if they change over time.
To accurately color pick in photoshop (TO MY KNOWLEDGE, DON'T TRUST ME 100%)
In the bottom left corner, there's information about your opened document. Click the little arrow pointing to the right, and select "Document profile"

[upper mantle]

Thanks! I doubt there's any compression that will hurt the findings but just wanted to make sure

[neon stream]

Btw, if at some point you need to send an image, and you still don't have rank to do so, you can DM it to me, and I'll share it 👍🏻

[sick stone]

just from a connections pov I'd say iceland spar (Cristallus islandica in latin) is probably the most relevant..

[upper mantle]

Having just joined I don't want to spam the channel with possibly useless rabbit holes, but as anything might later become relevant I'll throw any findings in here until someone tells me to bugger off 😁

Latest long shot:
For the latest tier, the top left pixel hex code 1f6888 translates into the Pantone color 647 C, 647 degrees celcius is the melting point for Rubidium iodide

[neon stream]

All findings are welcome. Even if they are wrong, they can give us ideas for other things 😛

[upper mantle]

Following up on the above: Rubidium iodide is a salt and therefore a crystal. Possibly a clue to support the whole lattice thing? @worn badger

Crystals can also be linked to Torslanda via Volvo, who uses crystals in their gearsticks.

[pure loom]

In addition to what Serpenger has said, if you have a look in #egg-hunt-onboarding you’ll spot that we have a padlet for clues too. Kyne can allow people access to post in there, so it’s kinda gate-kept, but if you’re coming up with good paths etc he’ll provide access.

[upper mantle]

The "rainbows" in the padlet are most likely lens flare effects, maybe remotely linked to dispersion found in gemstones and specular materials. (crystals can have dispersion) That's the only connection I can think of there.

[upper mantle]

going through that now!

[worn badger]

CaCO³ (in latin)

= password

[neon stream]

I don't think this was mentioned before, great find! I guess that's the missing link with all Volvo clues

[neon stream]

@sharp flame this is new, right?

[sharp flame]

Or something related to CaCO3

[sharp flame]

The crystal gearshift is produced in partnership with Orrefors, called Crystal Eye

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

[worn badger]

"The Swedish crystal was an appreciated interior detail and when Volvo exhibited their concept car “Concept Estate” at the Geneva Motor Show in 2014 Swedish crystal was once again part of the interior. This time in the shape of a crystal gearshift from Orrefors. The stylish gearshift is now a reality as an optional feature in the new Volvo XC90 and S90 as well as in many future models."

[upper mantle]

Did I actually do something here? I'm well chuffed if so

[sharp flame]

Hahaha it's a great connection

even if it turns out to be unintentional 🤣🤣

@worn badger you gotta stop doing the same reacts as Rob 😭😭

It's already super hard scrolling through 200 messages to try and spot a Rob reaction 🤣

[upper mantle]

https://refractiveindex.info/?shelf=main&book=CaCO3&page=Ghosh-o

Some physical properties for CaCO3 if needed in the future. (Thought of it while finding correlations between lens flares, optics and Calcite (CaCO3 in optics)

[worn badger]

my bad i changed them haha

[proud minnow]

No worries, it’s not that easy to know all the ”rules” here… ._.

[sharp flame]

Pretty sure we are just improvising a lot of the time 🤣

[sharp flame]

How is your holiday Rob...

[pure loom]

I forgot to put that in my video! 😂 “Don’t pretend to be Saint Rob” 😂😂

[upper mantle]

IDK who put the polestar logo in the padlet, but their logo is similar to a coat of arms from Torslanda. "SV-102 Evert Svensson, Torslanda".

That led me down another rabbit hole, of course.
https://svensktvapenregister.se/

SV-184 Ingvar Sahlin, Göteborg ((crystals, Gothenburg(Torslanda is in Gothenburg))
SV-659 Krister Issal, Karlskrona (Salt crystal)
SV-273 Roland Sporrong, Torslanda (Torslanda)
SV-316 Jean Eriksson, Boden (snowflake)
SV-347 Sara Stehr, Bromma (snowflake)
SV-598 Johan Berne, Torslanda (Torslanda)

[worn badger]

swedish polar star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Polar_Star

[upper mantle]

So Thomas Telford (Telford bridge, those GPS coordinates) helped plan Göta canal, a famous canal running from Gothenburg to Stockholm. Maybe this was pointing us to Gothenburg and Torslanda?
https://www.gotakanal.se/en/history/thomas-telford

(For any fellow swedes, I know we don't consider it to start IN Gothenburg but let's not be pedantic)

[worn badger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XII_of_Sweden
Carl XII or "Carolus Rex" = T-Rex / King?

[upper mantle]

Thomas Telford also built Caledonian Canal, "Göta kanal's sister canal in Scotland". The bridge is right in the middle of the start and end points of the canal. Maybe this was another clue meant to be found first, but worth mentioning.
Edit: 2am grammar

[worn badger]

yes he's also the founder of ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers)

[upper mantle]

The shit you learn, this is great fun

[worn badger]

a loot of clues are reffering to ARCs

bridges, rainbows, doubles, etc

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

[upper mantle]

Do we have any existing and successfully used keywords for ciphers?

[upper mantle]

And are the colors assigned to the crosses done by us arbitrarily or the creator?

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/hang-first-time-smiles-gif-14991372

[pure loom]

No, I don't think so. Most of them have been direct cipher types like pigpen or binary to text types

[pure loom]

By us

[upper mantle]

Ah damn, okay. Thanks for answers 🙂

[pure loom]

(I thought we had marked that, sorry)

[zealous junco]

I think we are to stuck on the CaCO3 clue lol

[jade citrus]

pearls are mainly composed of aragonite --> pearl comes from the latin perna --> perna is a genus of mussels --> perna perna is a species of mussel discovered by Carl Linnaeus

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

piqued my interest because of the double name

[neon stream]

@floral axle and @strong hare are reading that as "leg_leg"

[strong hare]

Yeah

[jade citrus]

lmao

[upper mantle]

Thought of a connection while browsing old messages - I read somewhere that the canals were built using explosives. Dynamite wasn't invented yet so I'm not sure if CaCO3 would've been used as a stabilizer in 1806, but it might be worth looking up connections?

glycerin for example can be Crystallized

[worn badger]

i remember yesterday while browsing I looked something about glycerin too

there was a link with someone that either discovered it or did a lot of study about it

[worn badger]

As a food additive, glycerol is labeled as E number E422. It is added to icing (frosting) to prevent it from setting too hard.

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

however i still think we need to dive deeper into Aragonite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooid
&
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oolite

also did we ever thought about looking into the** jurassic era**?
a lot of clues are reffering to that time aswell

[upper mantle]

like the t-rex? or are there other significant ones

[proud minnow]

It's great, been biking and swimming in a lake today... tomorrow I will help a friend to chance roof on his house... . _.

[sharp flame]

Should we take this as a clue 😭
glad you're having fun

[proud minnow]

haha, no clues in these texts… ._.

[worn badger]

enjoy

[timid solstice]

From and including: Monday, 27 March 2023
To, but not including Sunday, 25 June 2023

Result: 90 days

It is 90 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date.

Or 2 months, 29 days excluding the end date.

just a gentle reminder

[upper mantle]

So it'll be a late one today, gotcha

[pure loom]

I came up with a possible link here. The mention of dynamite made me realise that the Nobel Prize (Alfred Nobel invented dynamite) hasn’t been touched on by Rob yet, which is curious seeing it’s Swedish-based and essentially the top honour in science. Anyhow, the link I came up with is that for a long time the largest producer of dynamite was a company owned by De Beers - the largest producer of diamonds. I’ll keep looking down these rabbit holes.

It uses diatomaceous earth

[daring bluff]

hey guys, followed these EEs back during the alpha but since have stopped, anything important I missed (hints at future/launch content)?

i remember seeing the seoul/city stuff in easter eggs during the alpha and wasn’t surprised when it showed up in the beta so i guess that’s why i was curious

[pure loom]

Nothing major along those lines. All the new art we get goes into #official-art anyhow

[pure loom]

“MENHIR CHAOS” could fit well with this too, as well as being a nod to Asterix and Obelix.

This RDX (Research Department eXplosive) crystal looks a bit like a diamond.

[upper mantle]

Now that's interesting.

Just as a side note, don't forget that nobel prizes exist for other categories like peace and literature. (Just so you don't disregard any connections)

[pure loom]

Nobel’s story is interesting. He read his own obituary because a French newspaper mistakenly published it when his brother passed away. They call him “The Merchant of Death” so he decided he better do something good so as not to be remembered that way. He left most of his vast fortune to establish the prizes for science, and so on. Oh, which are paid in Swedish Krona - another clue link potentially.

[pure loom]

Yes, good point.

[upper mantle]

crowns and crystals? makes me think of royals, crown jewels or chandeliers

(krona = crown)

[neon stream]

(Not sure who deleted that, but thanks 😛)

[shadow river]

It’s not easter yet

[pliant spire]

Dang he’s right

Pack it up boys

[timid solstice]

my wife tells me that all year round, it never stops me

[gusty finch]

can I put that on an engagement ring?

[pure loom]

You could try! The recipient might decline.

[worn badger]

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

Double = twin

Goddes of the RAINBOW

Argonauts =/= Aragonite

// referred to as "Cal" = Calcium (CaCO3)

Probably nothing but this has a link to the Christmas Card clue atleast

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Wind_(video_game)

(And through everything else due to north wind link)

This is also linking to the Kari (wind) clue

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

[timid solstice]

hmm calcite crystal twinning

https://www.pbase.com/hajar/calcite_twins

[sharp flame]

I don't think Rob has reacted to any of the crystal twinning posts

ever, actually

And I feel like if it were the answer he would've

I'm looking to see if he interacted with anything on birefringence

[upper mantle]

Does he always react shortly after? Or does he sometimes wait to see how things pan out?

[fallen jasper]

He leaves 👀 on messages sometimes

[cedar owl]

Our dear Rob is on a short, well-earned vacation right now, so hopefully his 👀 are not on discord too often

[hasty dove]

Hey what goes on in this channel?

[hidden nacelle]

Easter eggs and stuff 😆

[hasty dove]

Egg

[sharp flame]

No help from Rob... We gotta solve this thing

[pure loom]

#egg-hunt-onboarding

[neon stream]

Yeah, he has to rest. If we see him here before his vacation ends, I vote to temporarily ban him until he's back to work 😛

[hasty dove]

Oh dope thanks

[worn badger]

guys I think I'm addicted to this hunt

I can't stop thinking about it no matter where I go or what I do

https://tenor.com/view/shaking-twitch-phillip-j-fry-coffee-addict-gif-5758938

[neon stream]

That's good! When you start questioning your sanity is when you are at your best as a hunter 😂

You'll see the hunt everywhere 😛

[worn badger]

From being the hunter to getting hunted

https://tenor.com/view/egg-hi-im-an-egg-gif-18634550

[neon stream]

There's a reason why hunters reside at the Embark Asylum 😛

[worn badger]

haha omg

[upper mantle]

Oh I know that he's away, I meant if he reacts quickly or not during his usual schedule!

[cedar owl]

Sometimes he's quite slow

Slow to react, too

[fallen jasper]

We must have a discovery so he doesn't see that

[near narwhal]

Did you guys hear about the crane Easter egg? There’s supposedly a bird crane on top of the actual cranes on the map.

Beau even confirmed it.

[fallen jasper]

i always climbed the cranes but never saw one

[worn badger]

i just realized tama = egg in japanese

[hidden nacelle]

Yes

[worn badger]

https://tenor.com/view/exploding-brain-mind-blown-explosion-fireworks-gif-16297776

[wanton sundial]

Yes, and nakama is friend!

[worn badger]

tama nakama

[wanton sundial]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/934761175399432202/1044581558494961704/NamaTamaMyBeloved.gif

Okay, let's leave this channel to the egg hunt

[sharp flame]

Discovery™️?

[inland axle]

Anyone else seen the brief dialogue from the 2nd Beta trailer? It said "Good evening. This broadcast has been hacked by CNS. I seek the truth beyond the walls."

[hidden nacelle]

yes the hunters have seen that

[worn badger]

Center for Nanoscale Systems
https://cns1.rc.fas.harvard.edu/

Take a look behind the walls: ?
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=hcTD1ZqpsKu

you can literally walk through their whole laboratory in first person

[worn badger]

found it

[pure loom]

This is crazy! And very promising!

Lots of interesting posters - this one has diamonds thermometry and cell division on it

[worn badger]

yes I'm wandering around for a couple of minutes, there are 2 floors and there is suposed to be a metrology section somewhere with these tools:

[pure loom]

lol

[worn badger]

hahah i saw that too

nothing is censored

[pure loom]

This is a very good path, because the posters on the wall are likely conference presentations, but may not be published - so this might be the only way to see them.

[worn badger]

would be too good to be true

the intense music ... this is me on the hunt right now
https://youtu.be/TbqhoBW1pqc

[pure loom]

This seems like the most likely location

[worn badger]

this is where i took this:

[pure loom]

Yeah, but nothing really stood out

[worn badger]

i feel like i got very lucky
because no clue at all (except CNS) is reffering to harvard

corerct me if im wrong

[pure loom]

I believe so

unless we missed it (not unlikely)

[worn badger]

which artwork was the latest the devs gave to us btw?
or was is the picture in the studio

[south wyvern]

official-art: namalapis #official-art message
from Rob: IMG_CDIV.png #easter-eggs message

before his vacation: #easter-eggs message

[neon stream]

We add numbers next to the pics in the Padlet, to show the order in which they were presented

[south wyvern]

I am mad

[worn badger]

the whole clue list + padlet is still very confusung to me

too unsorted to get a good overview

[worn badger]

you think there is a picture hidden in the pattern?

and what I still don't understand is: how do we know the password is in latin?

[south wyvern]

Three hours of trying but am on break. So far, two on bottom left are 100% matched.

[south wyvern]

#easter-eggs message

[worn badger]

do you mind sending the psd file?

[flat edge]

this channel is like a season of dr.stone

keep up the work bois

[south wyvern]

Yeah of course, anyone with PS, help yourself.

[coarse dagger]

For real. I can't tell where the cross cipher came from based on the padlet

[pure loom]

Yeah, the padlet isn't very good for showing where the clues were on an image. The summary pages - also pinned, I think, show it better

[coarse dagger]

After a quick search looks like @sick stone and @pure loom have previously mentioned halite, but I'm new here and independently came up with it after seeing the rock salt in IMG_CDIV.png

Seems to me like secondary/tertiary clues are pointing to light, stones, and latin.... then Rob puts rock salt in the image?

Hmm. With the clues about light diffraction I've also been thinking about the RGB in the cross cipher. I'm thinking we should be breaking certain things into their RGB components? Perhaps the hex color codes we've been repeatedly getting? 1f6888, 206888, and any others I'm not yet aware of.

Also, breaking hex color codes into their 2 digit pairs makes me realize halite is also 6 digits characters. Perhaps HA LI TE is used somewhere somehow.

*Edit: RGB was added in post.

Wait...

Periodic table?

Hmm

There's no HA is there?

H Al I Te

Hydrogen
Aluminum
Iodine
Tellurium

H - Hydrogen - 1
Al - Aluminum - 13

I - Iodine - 53
T - Tellurium - 52

*Edit to fix typo: Tellurim -> Tellurium, Iodide -> Iodine

[pure loom]

The RGB in the cross cipher was added by us (someone really needs to fix that)

[coarse dagger]

Oof thanks

[pure loom]

sorry!

[coarse dagger]

Np

Is this telling us where to look in the laboratory walkthrough: https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=hcTD1ZqpsKu

Can someone point me toward that periodic wall you saw?

Found it

floor 1

[worn badger]

I went back to read the old messages again where rob already reacted to with a pair of 👀 .

we should focus on:

Ozone ✅
Calcium Carbonate / CaCO3 ✅
(Aragonite?)

pairs of two/double ✅

CNS = related to both the EE and the lore ✅

password in latin ✅

(briefingrence)
(nicol prism)
color reflection ~ blue ~ water

[coarse dagger]

https://imgur.com/iKhMQRc I've compiled images from H Al I Te from the lab walkthrough. Not much you can see of Iodide and Tellurium, most you can really see is the color this periodic table used to depict that class of elements.
Hydrogen - Red
Al - Blue (Cyan?)
I - Purple
Te - Blue (Cyan?)

I don't seem to have permissions to upload here and the imgur link wont seem to imbed, so the link's the best you get

I guess you can do the same thing with Aragonite as I was doing with Halite, but I'm less convinced because Aragonite already came from a chemical notation (CaCO3) and I arrived at Halite from the explicit rock salt on Rob's desk
Ar - Argon - 18
Ag - Silver - 47
O - Oxygen - 8
Ni - Nickel - 28
Te - Tellurium - 52
Or
Ar - Argon - 18
Ag - Silver - 47
O - Oxygen - 8
N - Nitrogen - 7
I - Iodine - 53
Te - Tellurium - 52
... Between the two I'm more drawn to the second because it's three pairs of two elements... but I'm still more convinced by Halite

Also less convinced because of the elemental ambiguity between Nickel / Nitrogen+Iodine. No such ambiguity exists making Halite into elements

[neon stream]

Added that note on the Padlet, I hope that helps a bit

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/comedy-waynes-world-you-are-the-master-worship-bow-gif-17398753

[worn badger]

666 ✝️

[neon stream]

The image is still in other places, so it might not be enough 😅

[worn badger]

damn it's apst 7am and i was up all night

where did the time go looking for clues

i wonder if the password is something obvious we've come across multiple times already or if it's something we just didn't make the connection to yet

[pure loom]

#📂┇the-finals-wiki message

[coarse dagger]

Can we pin everything Rob 👀'd

?

[coarse dagger]

Ehh, I wonder if rock salt was just there to get us thinking about melting ice to get us to calcium carbonate.
All 👀 point to Calcium Carbonate, so I'm thinking I was on the wrong path with Halite

[coarse dagger]

Went back to see recent 👀. Links:

#easter-eggs message
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#easter-eggs message
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More connections I want to point out which I haven't seen made:
Lapis lazuli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapis_lazuli
Johannes Vermeer used lapis lazuli paint, in the Girl with a Pearl Earring painting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring#/media/File:1665_Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring.jpg
Kynezantama seems to be an homage to Girl with a Pearl Earring.

Perhaps more tenuous, but Kynezantama's crown bares resemblance to that of Bartolomeo Cavarozzi's Virgin and Child with Angels
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Cavarozzi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolomeo_Cavarozzi#/media/File:Bartolomeo_Cavarozzi_-_Virgin_and_Child_with_Angels_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

[sick stone]

Can someone with Nitro respond to this^ message with the appropriate Byzantine emoji?

[worn badger]

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

[timid solstice]

Also that clue called IMG_CDIV.png means 404 in Roman numerals, which are a numerical system composed of seven Latin letters...

[timid solstice]

oh damn I looked past these... you might be on the exact page with the form of the answer

Ooids (from Ancient Greek ᾠόν (ōión) 'egg stone')

it would explain the Penthesilea / Amazonian clues!

[worn badger]

How didn’t I post this before

I stumbled across this multiple times already

[timid solstice]

same

you did post it a few days ago!

[worn badger]

Ok I wasn’t sure 😂

[timid solstice]

duh did post it way back but no reactions...

would OOID in numerals be 001500

Egg stone in latin is ovum lapis

[worn badger]

maybe our approaches are too easy
"look for something CaCO3 related in latin"

we might need to think outside the box

[timid solstice]

Ooids with radial crystals (such as the aragonitic ooids in the Great Salt Lake, Utah, US) grow by ions extending the lattices of the radial crystals.
interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooid#:~:text=low-magnesium calcite.-,Growth mode,-[edit]

[worn badger]

something I also thought about:

Berliner Mauer (berliner wall)
build from cement which contains calcium cabonate

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

[nimble iron]

Hows the hunt goin

[nimble iron]

I know stuff abt that

Im german

[neon stream]

Duh is always 10 steps ahead of us 😂

[neon stream]

Great observation! That makes more sense for the "lapis" clue 💪🏻

[worn badger]

me too

[nimble iron]

Great to see u make progress. Ive taken a break from the hunt and propably will for a while

[worn badger]

Maybe

The password isn’t in latin but LATIN is the key to solve a cypher?

[sick stone]

I actually thought about roman cement the other day, the recipe for making it was lost to the ages, but they did recently figure out one of the ingredients was sea water (salt). Didn't dive too deep into that rabbit hole though.

[nimble iron]

I watched a documetary abt that

They used animal blood aswell, because they thought it gave the concrete strength but the reason it could harden underwater was the sulfur in the volcanic rocks used for the mixture if i remember correctly.

[coarse dagger]

Any chance we could enable remakes on the padlet? I feel like there's a lot of connections missing and I'm struggling to keep my thoughts organized.

[coarse dagger]

Found another unmentioned connection from the crumpled papers in IMG_CDIV.

Someone pointed out Astrid Lindgren is on the 20 krona note.

There's been a lot of talk about asteroids here, well she had an asteroid named after her! Asteroid Lindgren

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Lindgren#Asteroid_Lindgren

Asteroid 3204 Lindgren, discovered in 1978 by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh, was named after her.[49] The name of the Swedish microsatellite Astrid 1, launched on 24 January 1995, was originally selected only as a common Swedish female name, but within a short time it was decided to name the payload instruments after characters in Lindgren's books: PIPPI (Prelude in Planetary Particle Imaging), EMIL (Electron Measurements – In-situ and Lightweight), and MIO (Miniature Imaging Optics).

Which also brings us back to micro/nano-imaging!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3204_Lindgren

[sharp flame]

In 1995, she was awarded the Illis quorum gold medal by the Swedish government.

illis quorum is Latin, and gold there too? Idk

[coarse dagger]

Most sources I find for the origin of the word calcium say it comes from the Latin word "calx" meaning "lime" but I found one source which differs slightly.

https://glossary.periodni.com/glossary.php?en=calcium

Calcium was discovered by Sir Humphry Davy (England) in 1808. The origin of the name comes from the Latin word calix meaning lime. It is fairly hard, silvery-white metal. Exposed surfaces form oxides and nitrides. Reacts with water and oxygen. Occurs only in compounds. Calcium is obtained from minerals like chalk, limestone and marble. Pure metal is produced by replacing the calcium in lime (CaCO3) with aluminium in hot, low pressure retorts. Used by many forms of life to make shells and bones. Virtually no use for the pure metal, however two of its compounds are, lime (CaO) and gypsum (CaSO4), are in great demand by a number of industries.

Calix, ending in "ix" like Asterix/Obelix, with the suffix meaning "king", like "rex" in T-Rex and the crown in Kynezantama.

The only odd part about this is most sources say "calx" means "lime" in Latin while "calix" means "cup"

[jade citrus]

i think calyx means eggshell in latin

[south wyvern]

Yeah, I have 'calx carbo' but dead end a couple days ago. However, 'carbo' in French version is "charcoal, coal" which I have mentioned in the past relate with Christmas card > lump of coal in the office. (IMG_CDIV.png) Added: coal did not have any Rob's eye though

[coarse dagger]

Sorry, but here's a few dumb questions from a newbie:

Where was Rob_Forest_Walk.jpg posted?

The coffee mug text from Embark | Dusty says

Not a clue 😛
Above it in the padlet. Does that mean it's unrelated to the EE hunt, or that we don't have a clue what it means?

[neon stream]

@coarse dagger this is where Rob posted that image

Dusty sent that message a while ago, by mistake, and we thought it was a clue. She later realized what happened, and told us it's not a clue. I'm stupid and I posted that in the Padlet as a joke 😛

The mug has that text on it because RockhoundBlack sent it to her as a gift 😂

[neon stream]

Also, feel free to ask any questions, no need to apologize for that 😛

Btw, welcome!

[coarse dagger]

Thanks!

[upper mantle]

it's strong because of quicklime which is rich in CaCO3

[coarse dagger]

Can I ask why that gets a Byzantine emojii? GwaPE seems to be after the Byzantine period of art

[coarse dagger]

Alright, I've found another connection:

There's a type of natural clay/cement called caliche which is bound by calcium carbonate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliche
Anyways there's this quote from the wikipedia page:

The source of the calcium in caliche may be the underlying bedrock, but caliche can form even over bedrock that is not rich in calcium. This is attributed to calcium brought in as aeolian dust.
I thought I remembered reading something about dust in the padlet, or this discord, or something, so I made a note of it.

Then I was researching @jade citrus 's comment from above:

i think calyx means eggshell in latin
I couldn't seem to confirm that directly, but it does mean "seed pod, husk, outer covering" which could certainly refer to an eggshell.
This did however point me toward the disambiguation page for Calyx:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyx

Which linked me to..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calyce_(mythology)
I quote the second bullet:

Calyce, a Thessalian princess as the daughter of King Aeolus of Aeolia and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus.
Which fired the same neuron that Aeolian Dust fired in my brain!

[shadow void]

I have a graffitied chunk of that wall in a small box that my dad brought back from deployment. A super neat little relic of history

[coarse dagger]

More connections
Aster (greek for star, ie White Star Line, star in chill wallpaper, stars from constellations, polestar)
Asterisk (As pointed out by @pure loom here #easter-eggs message)
Astérix (same as above)
Astérix satellite (named from the above)
832 Karin Asteroid (Disambiguation from Kari planet from Kari text hidden in Chill wallpaper)
271 Penthesilea Asteroid ( @worn badger #easter-eggs message)
Astrid Lindgren (From the 20 kronen note in IMG_CDIV)
3204 Lindgren (Asteroid Lindgren named after Astrid)
Astrid 1 microsatellite (Named after Astrid)
Aster flowers are also called "Michaelmas daisies" (@sick stone another Byzantine connection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelmas)
Big dipper asterism (@pure loom #easter-eggs message)
The engagement ring asterism ( @latent peak #easter-eggs message)
Golden Astor ( @slender lodge #easter-eggs message)

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To me the majority of the clues seem to point to Aster and CaCO3.
We've also gathered the password is likely in latin.

I've been trying passwords such as
astrum calix carbonatem
astrumcalixcarbonatem

astrum calix carb0natem
astrumcalixcarb0natem

astri calix carbonatem
astricalixcarbonatem

astri calix carb0natem
astricalixcarb0natem

etc.

But I still feel like something's missing from the snow/ice and the obelisk/cross

Could be different conjugations in latin I'm not trying as well

[coarse dagger]

Perhaps the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolian_mode (or diatonic scale also called the natural minor scale) is somehow related to something we need to decode?
key note, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step, half step, whole step, whole step

Hah!

An example of Aeolian mode from the wikipedia is in Pink Floyd's "Shine on you Crazy Diamond"

"You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon" - Me following Saint Rob's white rabbit down the endless rabbit hole

Snowy White performed the rhythm guitar parts on this track on the band's 1977 "In the Flesh" tour

Okay gonna stop going down the Pink Floyd path for now, but Snowy White was featured in an album a performance called "Arthur's Club-Geneve 1995"
The name Arthur is hidden in the ruby on Kynezentama

[lavish rune]

bro think he the kuudra teeth plaque🙄 (hypixel sb)

look it up

[coarse dagger]

Declension sections for latin password attempts:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/astrum
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calyx#Latin
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carbo#Latin

[coarse dagger]

aperisolve link posted by @timid solstice in the padlet doesn't seem to actually load whatever it was they were trying to show there?

Starting an obsidian notebook because I got tired with pedlet and not being able to do a pedlet remake.

Partially to see if I like obsidian notebook, partially to see if it helps organize thoughts from the EE. Can't post images yet, but if/when I can I'll post a snip of the state of my graph

Also considering doing a Python Juypter notebook to learn Juypter and steganography, as a way to show off the techniques people have used to find the hidden EEs, but we'll see if I end up doing that

[lavish rune]

padlet💀💀💀

[coarse dagger]

Brain too full of SR's riddles to remember the name of padlet

[lavish rune]

bro my history class was just usin that to look at each others presentatipons

[mild imp]

man were still on this one

definitely a difficult one

[neon stream]

Because it's right and Justinian

[neon stream]

There are no spaces on the passwords btw, for now at least

[neon stream]

If you want, you can send me the image you want to post. You should be able to post them yourself after a few more messages

[timid solstice]

it must clear after a few days

[sick stone]

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

Kynezantama

[worn badger]

do we know what DHL space stands for?

maybe there is a space in the password this time?

however:

Password Requirements:

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

[fallen jasper]

Kynezantama 🙏

[tulip matrix]

[worn badger]

the hunt keeps hunting me

[sharp flame]

Hahaha saw that

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

This comment from @south wyvern which Rob acknowledged suggests DHL space has something to do with Latin, but I couldn't figure it out after some brief googling.

[timid solstice]

well the
3 A C O - Calcium Carbonate
is also that message, so sometimes best to split messages and theoies up so we know what the eyes are for

[neon stream]

Calcite's melting point is 1339C, almost 1337 🤔

[neon stream]

And also this ☝🏻

[timid solstice]

hmmm, Romans used wax tablets not chalk

I was trying to think outside the box

[coarse dagger]

Rob had also eyed a separate message asking if the solution was in latin

Anyone know why Hannes Alfvén is on the padlet, but not connected to anything? The post was made by @tulip matrix

[subtle drum]

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

So that's why there are so many funky ducks in the sky

[pure loom]

If the solution is in latin, then the password must be something old as well

[pure loom]

The melting point of Gold is 1337.33K - surely we've noticed that before?

[neon stream]

Yeah, fish did

[pure loom]

Here's an interesting path I have:

1. I previously said this: "Pearls have an orthorhombic crystal system - three O’s" which SR 👀 'd
2. In the Orthorhombic wikipedia page, it provides three types - one of which is "Polar" (possible link to the ice clues) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorhombic_crystal_system
3. One of the examples of that type is the chemical compound Hemimorphite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemimorphite) - which also seems to display a light blue colour in some instances (geode). The formula for hemimorphite is Zn4Si2O7(OH)2·H2O <- 3 O's
4. Hemimorphite is a component of the mineral calamine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamine_(mineral)
5. The name calamine was derived from lapis calaminaris, a Latin corruption of Greek cadmia (καδμία), the old name for zinc ores in general.

I don't have a 6th point yet

[worn badger]

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

we haven't talked about this, have we?

[coarse dagger]

Don't know if I agree with that conclusion

[worn badger]

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

[pure loom]

Ah, maybe I should re-word - if the password is something modern it must be something that can be translated into latin (some modern words can't)

[coarse dagger]

Here's the post where SR eyed someone saying the password is in Latin #easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

Yeah, that looks solida to me

[coarse dagger]

I have my suspicions that it's not all in Latin, but I'll type up more on that when I get home later tonight.

[kindred hamlet]

I've never done any Easter egg hunt stuff but I've been following this and it's really interesting to watch... Where is this password entered? Sorry if this is a dumb question

[pure loom]

There's a path here where a lot of clue references seem to appear: The orthorhombic crystal system (see #easter-eggs message) > Orbifold notation (asterisk, snowflake and chirality appear) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbifold_notation > Hermann-Manguin notation (diamond structures appear, also a lot in here that is close to the geometry of the panda mask) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann–Mauguin_notation

[pure loom]

Not a dumb question! The best place to start learning about it all is here: #egg-hunt-onboarding

also pinned messages

and the password pages for the tiers are linked here: https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

[worn badger]

I feel like the latin word might be "-escent"

[pure loom]

Like we add that onto an answer? How did you come up with that?

[timid solstice]

I was just looking into byzantine crowns and came across this page, look at the background;
https://ruthjohnston.com/AllThingsMedieval/?p=1271

I wonder if the crosses puzzle are arrow-slits/loops ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowslit

[worn badger]

veni vidi ludere = I came to play
Opalescence or play of color

iridescence
adularescence
iridescence
labradorescence
aventurescence
...

The word iridescence is derived in part from the Greek word ἶρις îris (gen. ἴριδος íridos), meaning rainbow, and is combined with the Latin suffix -escent, meaning "having a tendency toward".[1] Iris in turn derives from the goddess Iris of Greek mythology, who is the personification of the rainbow and acted as a messenger of the gods. Goniochromism is derived from the Greek words gonia, meaning "angle", and chroma, meaning "colour".

also: Asterism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism_(gemology)

[timid solstice]

did you enter these?

[worn badger]

no

[jade citrus]

i think the fact that the suffix -escent is latin is a pretty good connection, i would keep exploring this path

[worn badger]

maybe rainbow = ability to change colours
not have multiple colours

[worn badger]

Pairs/Doubles/Twins/Similar but different/Two ends/Two Sides
= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bivalvia
+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perna_perna

sterna=stern=star
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteria_sterna

i think i need to do a deeper dive into pearls tomorrow

[worn badger]

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

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

[south wyvern]

#easter-eggs message Not sure about this but found 'Church key' from drink can wikipedia (Robatama) and looks like "speice" > specie was never brought up therefore I have this.

[south wyvern]

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

[worn badger]

yes, I was thinking about sepia

they can change colors, no?
also have shells (caco3)

cuttlefish

[coarse dagger]

What am I looking at? I don't see the connection

[south wyvern]

@worn badger I don't know yet however, after chromatophore, I ran into binomial nomenclature. An example, "... modern humans belong to the genus Homo and within this genus to the species Homo sapiens. Tyrannosaurus rex is likely the most widely known binomial.[3]" (Uzi's charm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_nomenclature

[coarse dagger]

Oh oh oh

I came across binomial nominclature today or yesterday as well

[south wyvern]

Nothing really, explore sharing. Basically, I'm revisiting the padlet right now

[worn badger]

what is a speice

any why the picutre of a bottle opener

[coarse dagger]

I came to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus I think from the Krona (Swedish currency)

And Linnaeus made modern taxonomy and binomical nominclature

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, from the Krona:

A 100 krona banknote (3rd design since 1898) was printed 1986–2000 with a portrait of the botanist Carl Linnaeus and on the reverse was a drawing of a bee pollinating a flower. The banknote became invalid after 31 December 2005. A more secure version with the same portrait was introduced in 2001 and became invalid after 30 June 2017.

[south wyvern]

because of my own notes: skeleton key, gold key and church key. the word 'key' probably just trolling me at this moment.

[worn badger]

or as i mentioned earlier we actually need to solve a cypher + need a key for it

[coarse dagger]

Alright, time to get started with my notes from today!

I wanted to understand the Byzantine connection, so I started with Justinian I.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I

[south wyvern]

Me everytime I see this

https://tenor.com/view/pissed-off-rage-angry-gif-16632216

[coarse dagger]

I have thoughts on that. I'll be getting to that shortly

[coarse dagger]

The Lazic war was fought under Justinian, which immediately made me think of Lazuli. Furthermore, I found this statement:

then went on to attack the Byzantine base in the small but strategically significant satellite kingdom of Lazica near the Black Sea as requested by its discontented king Gubazes

Then I found this mention of a cross in the gold currency of the time.

Following the Christian cross link gets you to this:

Remind you of something?

So then I was thinking about the cross cypher

And I realized something.

There's lots of connections to reflection.

If you divide the cross cypher in half and do a vertical reflection either the symbols match up or you're filling in a missing gap

Here's a crude drawing where I've filled in the gaps using this theory:

Now this is what has me thinking the entire password isn't in Latin

[south wyvern]

I have tried that too but weren't sure what is next. Also this from the past that I attempted with Jacob's staff and no luck. #easter-eggs message

[coarse dagger]

If the plus is Greek, and the cross is Latin, and the inverted cross is just help us get the idea of reflection, and also just represents Latin...
That leaves us with:
✝_+✝ ✝ ✝ ✝ ++✝ _✝__+

Where underlines represent portions we still do not know

[worn badger]

uuuummmm @south wyvern
i tried to convert the crosses in numbers
(521 & 114211)
when i searched for 521 it immediately lead me to Jusitinian 1!!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/521

[coarse dagger]

Sorry, I don't follow. How did you convert the crosses to numbers?

[worn badger]

Julian calendar

1sec I'll draw in paint

sry for bad quality

[south wyvern]

I'll stop here because I have not seen anyone use Julian calendar before. i'm curious what other think

[coarse dagger]

Another connection was that the Ostrogothics (triple O) were the ones who motivated the Lazic war

[coarse dagger]

I see!

[coarse dagger]

Also many referrences to orthodoxy (triple O)

And two references to the people of Constantinople: Constantinopolitans (triple O)

[south wyvern]

This was from CB2: A. 125 or B. 521

[coarse dagger]

And in Dante's Devine Comedy Justinian is represented as a spirit on the sphere of Mercury

[coarse dagger]

Just in case applying the same logic to my reflected filled in version:
114221114221

[coarse dagger]

And to the non-inverted version
114221

Interesting

The non-inverted one version is just half of the inverted one

114221-114221

Nevermind

Not interesting

Of course that would be the case

🤦‍♂️

I have more connections from today's research if y'all are ready for it.

[jade citrus]

send it !

[coarse dagger]

So a lot of the connections on the Padlet are surrounding Swedish cultural/historical figures

One of the sources of which was the 20 Krona note on the desk in IMG_CDIV

We had recognized Astrid Lindgren on the note and posted a link to things hidden on it.

Another thing on the note is Pippi Longstocking, the eponymous created by Lindgren

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

With her suitcase of gold coins, Pippi maintains an independent lifestyle without her parents

Gold coins are of course prominently featured in the EE, because of the coins in the finals.
Many of the cultural/historical figures in the clues are gold medal winners.

... an independent lifestyle without her parents: her mother died soon after her birth; her father, Captain Ephraim Longstocking, goes missing at sea, ultimately turning up as king of a South Sea island.

Lots of connections to kings and crowns in the clues

Literary inspiration for the character can be found in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, E. T. A. Hoffmann's The Strange Child, Anne of Green Gables, and Daddy Long Legs in addition to myths, fairytales, and legends.

A nice Alice in Wonderland connection as we search for our white rabbit

Pippi originates from bedside stories told for Lindgren's daughter, Karin.

[south wyvern]

Quick Note: I am not sure if you saw this #easter-eggs message

[coarse dagger]

I had not seen this

Hmm

I don't understand 67-"ozone"-P

Will research more later

But funny you would mention this

Because I had just gotten to Karin

I had previously mentioned the 832 Karin Asteroid in my post here: #easter-eggs message

[south wyvern]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Most of the hunters have gone through there so no need to worry.

[coarse dagger]

Correction. Apparently 832 Karin is a minor planet.

Correction again

It's also an S-Type asteroid

So my point stands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/832_Karin

The minor planet is named in honor of Karin Månsdotter, who was the mistress of Erik XIV of Sweden in the 16th century. In 1567, Erik married Karin, but he was pushed from his throne because of this marriage.

And the 832 Karin and Kari moon pages link to each other:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kari_(moon)

Kari or Saturn XLV is a natural satellite of Saturn.

It was named in April 2007 after Kári, son of Fornjót, the personification of wind in Norse mythology.

Have not yet researched Kári, son of Fornjót. Might be something there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornjót#Kári

There's also a satellite named Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) which I had previously come across, but for the life of me I can't remember where.
Although now looking at it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Water_and_Ocean_Topography#Mission

The primary instrument on SWOT is the Ka-band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn), which uses synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) technology, especially SAR interferometry.

The new radar system is smaller than, but similar to, the one that flew on NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), which made high-resolution measurements of Earth's land surface in 2000.

And in that wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Radar_Topography_Mission

The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) is an international research effort that obtained digital elevation models on a near-global scale from 56°S to 60°N,[2]: 4820  to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth prior to the release of the ASTER GDEM in 2009.

Always hard to tell if the space aster references are intentional clues, or if just almost everything in space is related to aster because it means star... lol

But anyways, I'm getting side tracked

Another thing on the 20 Krona note (as well as other Krona) is 3 crowns the symbol of Sweden

And Krona means Crown

Furthermore the Krona was a gold backed currency and it is subidivided into 100 öre, meaning gold

Featured on the reverse of the 1,000 Kronor note is Lapland and the Laponian area.
Was meaning to research if this is related to the Torslanda postal code. Will do that now

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Nope

Alright, back to Kronor

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

The design of the coins follows the theme of singer-songwriter Ted Gärdestad's song, "Sol, vind och vatten" (English: "Sun, wind and water"), with the designs depicting the elements on the reverse side of the coins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol,_vind_och_vatten

See something on the record?

Polar was the label that producted it

Sol, vind och vatten (Swedish: [ˈsuːl ˈvɪnːd ɔ ˈvǎtːɛn], "Sun, wind and water") is a song written by Swedish lyricist Kenneth Gärdestad and composer Ted Gärdestad

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

He participated at Melodifestivalen 1979 as a songwriter for the winning song "Satellit" performed by his brother.

Another artist named Laleh, performed (what I believe to be) a cover of *Sol, vind och vatten"

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

Laleh returned with her third effort, Me and Simon, which peaked at number two in the Swedish album chart and yielded three charting singles, "Snö", "Simon Says" and "Big City Love"

Snö of course means snow which is prominent in the clues

Furthermore, Ted Gärdestad had an album Blue Virgin Isles which...

was promoted by a guest appearance on ABBA's BBC TV special ABBA in Switzerland a.k.a. Snow Time Special

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Forgot to mention Lapland experiences polar night. Nights longer than 24 hours

Thats about it for my notes for the day

I have a few scraps remaining:
Aurum is latin for Gold. The elemental symbol for gold Au can also be used as AU - Astronomical units, which are used to measure distances to all of the celestial bodies we've been digging up.

And the Latin Empire was the successor to the Byzantine empire

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my head hurts

https://tenor.com/view/scream-crystal-groundhog-gif-13189469

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what the

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Okay, I understand all of that now except for the connection to ozone

Asteroid and comet impacts depleting the ozone layer?

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a lot of SR's messages have had 3 Os

like in a row

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

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I understand that O3 is important, just not how it relates to that Pippi Longstocking quote

Year 521 is DXXI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_D.XXI

The Fokker D.XXI was first used in combat by the Finnish Air Force during the 1939–1940 Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland.

Upon the war's outbreak, a total of 41 aircraft were in Finnish service, all powered by the Mercury VIII engine

Speaking of VIII, have any of you noticed a connection with 8, or oct in your studies? I feel like I've been noticing it a lot but haven't been tracking it thus far.

Betting a lot of our long numbers could be significant Julian days, as those are used in astronomy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day

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Just getting started with my Obsidian notebook. Still a lot of work to do, and I'm still new to Obsidian:

Anyone know if we've found snowflakes in 5. A_Space_Friend or 7. THE_FINALS_NAMALAPIS? All the other images for the tier we've found snowflakes

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault
Byzantine fault tolerance for missing data in messages?

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Just realized Kári, son of Fornjót personification of wind connects back to "Sol, vind och vatten", "Sun, wind and water"
Sun -> stars
Wind -> Kari
Water -> Snowflakes

Fornjot is also a moon of Saturn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornjot_(moon)

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@pure loom and @timid solstice You each have a post on the padlet for the consellation in the Comet dust in 5) A_Space_Friend. I think these should be combined

I believe the constellation (asterism) is Ursa Minor (Little Dipper). With the tail/handle ending in Polaris the North Star

Although I think the last one you circled RockhoundBlack might be Yildun (Delta Ursae Minoris) not Polaris

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Every time we talk about the elements I need to think about this:

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there is a move in chess called O-O-O btw

it's called "castling"

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have we tried any new passwords yet?

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Diamond star / star diamond / sunstone still on my mind..

[timid solstice]

today we are at # 96 days

same time as T-1D

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Hello can someone update me on the ee hunt? Its been quite a while for me

https://tenor.com/view/champoy-el-risitas-kek-issou-etu-gif-17837830

Anyways whats the main lead rn

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Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) + Latin = ??
#easter-eggs message

I just noticed the maps uploaded to twitter were higher res... will update the WR map

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The answer is in latin

and our main lead is Calcium Carbonate

which is the source of Eggshells, Marble, Chalk, Stalactites, Pearls etc.

and it's crystalline

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oooh thanks