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[pure loom]

The first use of parallax to measure a star’s distance.

[fallen jasper]

Yeap

I think henderson is a really good launching point

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/agree-gif-21806821

[fallen jasper]

So Henderson was a friend of Thomas Young who I can best describe as having a finger in every pie on the planet lmao

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)

[sharp flame]

The Great January Comet of 1910 seems interesting then

[sharp flame]

Oh I've looked way too much at this guy

[fallen jasper]

Foreign Member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences hmm

[sharp flame]

irregular rotation of the earth... Hmmmm

remember Rob saying "further out from the centre"

[fallen jasper]

Hmm

[pure loom]

The top of Mt Everest is mostly… wait for it… calcium carbonate 😂

[sharp flame]

😭

[pure loom]

But also… Mount Chimborazo's peak is the furthest point on Earth from Earth's center. The summit is over 6,800 feet [2,072 meters] farther from Earth's center than Mount Everest's summit

[coarse dagger]

Ahhhh I bet that's one of the connections we were supposed to get from ice and snowflakes.

[restive ferry]

Theire is a "Moon Tree" in Indianapolis 46204. Really close to the Oval shaped park. Rob "REALLY, really close but no 👀"
A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.
That would be a obscure clue leading to space.

Aside from that Rob mentioned “took me some time Fish, but yes there in one obscure clue in that area…. ._. (tertiary)”.
A tertiary sector consists of the provision of services instead of end products.

[coarse dagger]

Our clues are often described as primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, etc dependent on how far they are from the password.

See the video in https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1100745453206786078

Those parentheticals are Rob telling us how close to the password we are with particular clues

[coarse dagger]

HAH!
I just found a connection while going about my life not looking for one!

[sharp flame]

ooh?

[coarse dagger]

Was watching this video from Steve Mould, a content producer I like:
https://youtu.be/DWzXF9B68nQ

And he mentioned the Kock snowflake!
A snowflake made of fractals!
Fractals are closely related to the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence.

Haven't even finished watching the video. Had to come tell you guys!

[sharp flame]

definitely a deeper link

golden ratio seems like something that'll come back to haunt us haha

[coarse dagger]

HAH!
The video also mentions the Celtic Labyrinth!

Here's Rob mentioning a Maze (note, mazes and labyrinths are not the same thing, but similar and closely related)
#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

for sure the maze is somewhere a link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth perhaps this might be relevant

the Labyrinth containing the Minotaur

[timid solstice]

ooo

I just thought of a gold connection

"Goldilocks Zone"

Proxima b is a 1.3 Earth mass planet orbiting its star at about 1/20th of the Sun-Earth distance, which places it well within the so-called Habitable (Goldilocks) Zone.

[sharp flame]

Goldilocks could be for other stuff too

maybe worth looking into

yknow how scientists are always talking about a 'twin' earth

[timid solstice]

Goldilocks worlds: just right for life? Of the 1,780 confirmed planets beyond our solar system, as many as 16 are located in their star's habitable zone, where conditions are neither too hot nor too cold to support life.

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

Prox Cen b

[coarse dagger]

Yep, and thus Minos

[neon stream]

All those planets have password-like names 😂

[sharp flame]

should we try and make sense of the background pattern?

also "scratch the surface of the maze"

interesting wording

[coarse dagger]

Background pattern is a moire as far as I'm concerned unless someone finds something new connected to it.

Unless you're talking about the circles.

[sharp flame]

Could you explain why its moire?

thought that moire would produce curved patterning

and not a regular grid pattern

[coarse dagger]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moiré_pattern#/media/File%3AMoiré_grid.svg

Moires can produce a lot of interference patterns.
I guess I could've been thinking more of the "screen door" effect, but the two concepts are related

[jade citrus]

just a thought, putting it here for later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_hardness

[pure loom]

GOLDILOCKS ZONE = “INCUBATOR”

Remember from Rob’s comment in MTM?

[timid solstice]

I havent listened yet

think I need to

[sharp flame]

yees

[pure loom]

Yeah, it’s a great listen. It gets a bit emotional too!

[sharp flame]

my question made it!

[pure loom]

I just bought Mirror’s Edge as a result

[sharp flame]

for the first time?? you were missing out..

[pure loom]

I know! Ha

[sharp flame]

enjoy the environments..

[timid solstice]

ah man

to play that again for the first time

[coarse dagger]

Alright, I am home, am now unemployed (thanks Rob), and taking a break from packing, so its time to start putting notes into Obsidian while I mention them here.

Actually, let me do another quick look at the notes I entered yesterday to see if I added any connections that I need to mention here

Alright, looks like I didn't add to much new stuff yesterday, and most of what I did will come up as I add and discuss new notes today!

[sharp flame]

Wait WHAT

[coarse dagger]

Lol, today was my final day because Em and I are moving cross country for her career! Just a little joke at Rob for how much time I've been spending on this

So lets begin!
Here's a little playlist I've been working on (very much a work in progress) if you'd like to listen while you follow along.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLav8vP1j1Hn1MOlFK8ou5tuUf0Tj4kO2m&feature=share

[sharp flame]

Oooooooo

[coarse dagger]

I'll probably be going much slower than usual because I'm going to try to give notes here while I update in Obsidian, while previously I did them one after another

So I had previously mentioned Mai Mai Miracle #easter-eggs message
and System 7 #easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

Haha don't feel obliged

I gotta catch up with everything you posted brb

[coarse dagger]

Well one of System 7's singles is called... "Miracle" (1991)

Also, their eponymous first album "System 7" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7_(album)
has a song called "Mia".... which isn't "Mai"... but it... might be a connection?

A somewhat different version was released in the United States as 777 by 777. The running order is different, there are different mixes of two tracks (taken from the " #Miracle " single), and it has two tracks from the "Freedom Fighters" single – "Depth Disco" and "Mia". Just to confuse matters, 777 was also the title of System 7's second UK album, with completely different music.

#easter-eggs message
Mentioned Otohime from the game miamia...

I've been seening a bit of stuff related to seasons

Was wondering if Otohime is supposed to be Autumn...

I had mentioned the album Planet 7 by System 7 and how it samples a song with "Love" in the title

#easter-eggs message

Well that album also has another song called "Teotihuacan (Pyramid of the Sun)"

We already have countless sun connections, and a few Pyramid connections. I'll have more Pyramid connections going forward, but I don't know if I have any others in my notes so far. Searching in the discord it looks like y'all have already noted some, so I'll have to add your stuff as well.

While we're onto samples let's go back to the band "The Orb": #easter-eggs message

Throughout 1989, The Orb, along with Martin "Youth" Glover, developed the musical genre of ambient house through use of a diverse array of samples and recordings. The culmination of their musical work came when The Orb recorded a session for John Peel on BBC Radio 1. The track, then known as "Loving You", was largely improvisational; it included sound effects and samples from science fiction radio plays, nature sounds, and Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You". For its release as a single on record label Big Life, The Orb changed the title to "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld"
Another sample of a "Love" song
And when I saw the song name "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld" I couldn't help but think that that's what we're all traversing in this EE hunt!
#easter-eggs message

[coarse dagger]

The song is on the album Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orb's_Adventures_Beyond_the_Ultraworld which features a well connected set of songs!

Little Fluffy Clouds <- Jupiter's clouds & clouds hidden in the back of the Couples image

Earth (Gaia)

Back Side of the Moon

Perpetual Dawn <- Just search "Dawn in: easter-eggs" in the discord

Star 6 & 7 8 9

[pure loom]

Hey @coarse dagger, I love that you have so many ideas, however sometimes I find it difficult to work out the context for your paths - like here you’re talking about “mai mai miracle” but I can’t work out where this came from in the first place. Could you please add more connections into these so we can trace them back to the original clue it refers to?

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, it looks like I did a bad job explaining it because I was doing it in the order I discovered things.

I went from Golden Ratio

to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_designed_with_the_golden_ratio

The last reference on that page:

With few exceptions, numerators for the meter signatures (over 100) in Karlheinz Stockhausen's Klavierstück IX are either Fibonacci or Lucas numbers.

[pure loom]

Do we have that as a clue (forgive me if I missed that!)?

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

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

Karlheinz Stockhausen; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_22

[pure loom]

Ok, great. So that’s the start of the context that’s helpful. And is that last bit related to Mai Mai miracle?

[coarse dagger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimai_(video_game_series)

Otohime
Born on August 22 (age 18)
Voiced by: Yu Asakawa
Height: 152 cm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimai <- Disambiguation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai_Mai_Miracle

[pure loom]

Ok, I follow that now, thanks. Do we have any other possible clue connection to it?

[coarse dagger]

And the reason I really focused in on August 22nd is:
We've previously had connection to Debussy (search discord), and he was born on the same day as Stockhausen (#easter-eggs message) and Stockhausen analyzed Debussy:

In the 1950s and early 1960s, Stockhausen published a series of articles that established his importance in the area of music theory. Although these include analyses of music by Mozart, Debussy, Bartók, Stravinsky, Goeyvaerts, Boulez, Nono, Johannes Fritsch, Michael von Biel, and, especially, Webern

[pure loom]

Debussy was for a previous tier though and I don’t think it was confirmed. Generally clues won’t span different tiers, unless related to diamond clues (not saying there might not be exceptions though - T-Rex for instance).

[coarse dagger]

I've got a lot of T-Rex connections coming up

[pure loom]

I want to re-listen to Rob’s comments in MTM though, because I vaguely recall him saying “my my” but it could have just been a second language thing.

[coarse dagger]

Generally clues won’t span different tiers, unless related to diamond clues
I don't know if this is true or we just haven't noticed them yet

Or it's possible I'm on the diamond path

[pure loom]

Yeah, it’s probably more that it’s a “proceed with caution” thing - so adding the context if it’s spanning tiers is really important otherwise we’ll be like “how does this connect at all?” 😂

[coarse dagger]

I went back and looked at tiers B-D (because I started on E) and the research I've been doing connects all the tiers

[pure loom]

There is a diamond clue padlet that those ideas could be shown in

[coarse dagger]

I've seen that, I just don't know enough about the diamond clues to know what belongs in it or what doesn't...

My theory is that Rob has one big cloud/brain/tree/family/flower/solar-system/mythos of clues that are interwoven, and certain tiers focus on certain parts of that... web, but there are little spindly connections which interweave every little corner of that web in every tier. I think by thinking of each tier separately we are doing ourselves a disservice and we miss connections that may be more obvious if we look at the bigger picture.
But I don't know where the diamond clues fit into that.

[pure loom]

I do agree. And Rob has talked about the “cipher keys” that aren’t really clues but are more themes that transcend the whole thing.

Slightly unrelated - Someone posted a website a while back that’s like padlet but better - does anyone remember what that was?

[coarse dagger]

I posted Obsidian Notes which is where I'm taking notes now. It's not a website, but you can pay to host a collaborative note vault which acts as the "Master notes" which people can pull from, make their own notes, then push to... but it's less user friendly less approachable and none of us are familiar with the collaborative part of it yet.

I'm hoping I'll have time to try to get a free open source version of the collaborative piece (which interacts directly with Obsidian Notes) this weekend so I can better share what I've been working on.
But we're moving and still have a lot to pack, so it's probably not feasable

Alright back to my notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orb's_Adventures_Beyond_the_Ultraworld

[pure loom]

Ok thanks!

[coarse dagger]

Instrumentation and samples
"Outlands"
"Love Without Sound" by White Noise
"Blackboard Jungle Dub" by Lee "Scratch" Perry
"A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones" by Rickie Lee Jones, an interview from a promotional CD which came with some copies of her album Flying Cowboys. This sample was the subject of litigation.
"Some Love" by New Age Steppers
"Hot Tip" by Prince Django
"Europe Endless" by Kraftwerk.
An organ sound patch from a Casio CZ-101 synthesizer

Lots of love going on in Tier F w/ the couples

The album Space by Jimmy Cauty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_(Jimmy_Cauty_album)
has connections to all of the interwoven KLF, The Orb, Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld, etc
and of course the space theme connects all of our tiers

Track listing:
"Mercury" – 1:39
"Venus" – 2:00
"Mars" – 8:47
"Jupiter" – 6:34
"Saturn" – 2:44
"Uranus" – 2:57
"Neptune" – 10.28
"Pluto" – 3:10

Idk how best to explain this all. Maybe it would be better for me to just put it into Obsidian Notes and then try to get a site up with it

I guess I'll just mention a few big themes here so if people stumble across them in their research it will reaffirm them. And if y'all want an explaination for something because you feel it's important you can always ask

Proteus

Alchemy

The number 12 and December

Apollo

Philosopher's stone

Phoenix

Magnum Opus

Chaos

White noise

Occult

Secret Chiefs

Tree of Life

Parkes Observatory

Mittwoch aus Licht

Brian Echo

I'll try to get my notes up to snuff, then give some more context

There's one more thing which I didn't include but I'm really excited about and want to research more first

Oh, and throw Egypt/Pyramids on that list too

@nimble iron Do you or your Obsidan Notes friend have any suggestion for tracking occurances of numbers in your obsidian notes vault? I tried making tags like #Num8, but that's really clogging up my graph view and I want to still have tags on my graph, and would love for the number tracking to be automated....

[nimble iron]

Hmm

Lemme think

I dont have my laptop with me rn so it might be difficult to get u an answer rn

[coarse dagger]

No problem, I can search around as well

Because the EE hunt has numbers in different formats I was trying to do something like this:

[nimble iron]

Let me get it clear first. U wanna greate notes on the graph that have automated nubers?

[coarse dagger]

Not necessarily

I think it would be better to have one page which automatically looks at all my other notes and compiles a table of descending counts of numbers in my vault.

[sharp flame]

What are the odds that this is image #2....

[coarse dagger]

Then I could look at that page and say: "Oh look at that! The number 125 has come up 7 times."

"Time to make a separate page for it!"

[nimble iron]

Wdym with a number appearing more than once

U mean as a name or in a doc

[coarse dagger]

Either

[sharp flame]

like 79 appearing lots

[nimble iron]

Ol

[sharp flame]

In Wikipedia I guess

[nimble iron]

Ok

Lemme think

There might be something on the workshop called doc/note scanner.

Wair

[coarse dagger]

That would be quite the computational task to do for all of wikipedia. I'll settle for just the stuff I've copied to my notes for now 😅

[nimble iron]

Wait

[proud minnow]

👋

[nimble iron]

Can u just use ctrl f?

It tells u the instances right?

[coarse dagger]

ctrl-f works great, but I'd love to not have to do that every time I see a new number (that basically happens constantly)

[nimble iron]

Ohhhh

[sharp flame]

Robbb go to sleep

[nimble iron]

Ok i get the usefulness now

[proud minnow]

have to keep up to date… ._.

[nimble iron]

Idk if that exists man

[coarse dagger]

yesyesyesyesyes

[nimble iron]

Hey rob do u have experience with obsidian notes?

[proud minnow]

You keep me busy… ._.

[coarse dagger]

Probably not, I'll look around... I've got too much to do to try to learn to make an Obsidian plugin right now 😅

[nimble iron]

U can write ur own script

Goes ctrl f thru all numbers from 1 to 1000 and notes stuff down

Then sort it from occourances

Like a massive array

If u have any experience in coding

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, I'm a software engineer. Perhaps some day I'll add a plugin, but that will have to wait a bit for me

[nimble iron]

I already know how to get that to work. The sorting and storing array

But i havent worked with "ctrl f integration"

But yeah sorry to not be too much of a help

[proud minnow]

I tried it a bit late last year, but I can’t say I have much experience… (I prefer CygnusED… ._.)

[coarse dagger]

HAH

WHERE'S AMIGA IN MY NOTES?!

[jade citrus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygnus_(constellation)

[nimble iron]

Obsidian is like vscode. The extentions are the bread and butter

[coarse dagger]

ROB YOU'RE POINTING RIGHT TO IT

I SEE YOU

[nimble iron]

Am i too lost to get whats goin on rn

?

[coarse dagger]

He's telling me I'm looking in the right direction

That's what's happening

[nimble iron]

How ???

Bru im so lost

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

Oh

Ohhhhh

Ooohhhhhjjhhh

Ok

The constellation

Bruh

[jade citrus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CygnusEd also this

[coarse dagger]

Guys I need to get my notes into Obsidian

[nimble iron]

Yeah thank god i asked that question in the first place xD

[coarse dagger]

But Rob has just told me that I don't need to go to an insane asylum

[fallen jasper]

We don't have insane asylums

[nimble iron]

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

[nimble iron]

Bro that exists?

Bruh

[fallen jasper]

It's where I'm at

[nimble iron]

Its where everyones at

Ong

Fr

[coarse dagger]

All this talk of open source software really summoned you, didn't it @proud minnow ?

[neon stream]

It's where we all reside 😛

[proud minnow]

Yes, I love open source... ._.

[neon stream]

Godot 4 > UE5 😛

inb4 Embark's games are ported to Godot

[timid solstice]

A 5% royalty is due only if you are distributing an off-the-shelf product that incorporates Unreal Engine code (such as a game). Provided that you notify us on time using the Release Form, you will only owe royalties once the lifetime gross revenue from that product exceeds $1 million USD; in other words, the first $1 million will be royalty-exempt.

kinda open source

just dont make money

[proud minnow]

haha, but I installed Godot 4 a couple of weeks ago to try it out at least... ._.

[coarse dagger]

Guys I promise to share more info later but I need to get organized and the movers come Monday and we still have SO MUCH TO PACK, and this stuff is NOT quick to explain. Like that clarification on stuff for RhB took so long and was only page 1 of 18 of my notes from yesterday (albiet very small pages, they were taken in a 3"x5" notebook)

And I'm trying to actually do a good job and cite sources for connections in obsidian now (which I was not doing when I started using Obsidian in Tier E), and I'm adding aliases to things so you can refer to the same note using various names. So everything is slowing down a lot now in obsidian but should be easier to follow if I can figure out a good way to share these notes.

[proud minnow]

Ohh, interesting........ ._.

[sharp flame]

Wait.....

[timid solstice]

Robbie 'mega troll' Thunderstorm

[coarse dagger]

Can you elaborate on this? I don't know what you mean

[sharp flame]

If the next batch of clues are in that image haha

Clue image #2

[coarse dagger]

Ohhhhh

[coarse dagger]

Wait, is it called that somewhere? It seems to be called "THE_FINALS_CB2_Stats.png" for me

[sharp flame]

Game announcements haha

[coarse dagger]

I confus

[coarse dagger]

Clue image #2
?

[sharp flame]

#game-announcements

Sorry sorry

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, I see it there

[sharp flame]

For each tier we get "clue images" (what I call it)

which is just art packed with clues

[coarse dagger]

Gotcha gotcha! Sounds plausible based on our clue release time estimates and Rob's acknowledgement

[fallen jasper]

When can we expect coach nama on the press drive @proud minnow

The Nama Collection grows evermore

[timid solstice]

CLIPBOARD NAMES

KELSIE E
JAMES P J
CHARLIE S
GIL B
DEREK B
JULIA C
JOHN E T

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/867045850622722058/1127026042272489482/image.png

[proud minnow]

Yes but these are always posted by me in official art... that said there might be some small clues in other images too, hehe...

[sharp flame]

James P J https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule ?

[neon stream]

Nice catch! 💪🏻

[coarse dagger]

Currently I see no connection between any of those names an my notes.

[coarse dagger]

So much to do!

[proud minnow]

Happy to be able to entertain you, hihi

[coarse dagger]

You entertain me very well Rob

[coarse dagger]

By the way, this may help someone else. I've found this useful for copying Wikipedia data:
https://superuser.com/questions/324214/how-can-we-copy-text-from-wikipedia-without-the-citation-parts-1-2-3

A better bookmarklet could be made to also remove edit buttons, but it's good enough for me at the moment

[coarse dagger]

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

For anyone looking for a connection to explore. I have not researched this yet, but notice how Rob spelled MiDAS

And a quick glance lets me know we should look here as well

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-Imaging_Dust_Analysis_System

And here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Integrated_Data_Acquisition_System

[pure loom]

Was the Robbie Thunderstorm story an elaborate way to present a clue??

https://tenor.com/view/i-dont-think-we-should-trust-anyone-i-dont-think-we-can-trust-anyone-we-have-to-be-careful-who-we-trust-we-cant-be-trusting-just-anyone-laura-linney-gif-16973275

[coarse dagger]

Zeus?

[pure loom]

I actually meant the MiDAS clue, but that’s a possibility too.

[tulip matrix]

mood

[peak plume]

Anyone ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas

[timid solstice]

Ok theory for the clip board names

they are composers

KELSIE E :
JAMES P J : James P. Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Johnson
CHARLIE S : Charlie Sheen ( Composer in Two and a Half men ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Sheen
GIL B :
DEREK B :
JULIA C : Julia Chatterton https://www.dcmmedals.co.uk/julia-chatterton-a-forgotten-female-composer-and-musician/
JOHN E T : John Williams ( E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Williams

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Teeple

[south wyvern]

saw the EEs last night

https://tenor.com/view/bert-sesame-street-man-fainting-falling-faint-puppet-faints-gif-18818014

[sharp flame]

7 names...

[south wyvern]

Just in case for note: names from alphabet to number

11 5 12 19 9 5 5
10 1 13 5 19 16 10
3 8 1 18 12 9 5 19
7 9 12 2
4 5 18 5 11 2
10 21 12 9 1 3
10 15 8 14 5 20

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

[sharp flame]

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

[south wyvern]

No, altogether from latest official art lol

[sharp flame]

ohhhh hahaha

good thing we haven't found too much

[south wyvern]

Oh good good! I was away for celebration. Gah!

[coarse dagger]

anyone been to Boda Borg? Rob?

[south wyvern]

I don't see any Wikipedia from him, not a composer but this instead (Derek B Scott). Could be like 'S Lies' from CB2 though.
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/music/staff/451/professor-derek-b-scott

[proud minnow]

Do you think the connection between them is too obvious....?

[timid solstice]

between them hmm

[sharp flame]

"Connection" might be something

[coarse dagger]

At an eclectic restaurant and can't help but see clues everywhere.

Saturn Devours his Son anyone?

[south wyvern]

Hi Rob I only scroll to see how deep it was but thanks for the heads up! will review in the morning with coffeee... ._.

[sharp flame]

We still have that list of names

wondering what could possibly link them

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

[south wyvern]

I was curious what's going with Venus (love) in AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius was mentioned in the past. "The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 destroyed the Roman cities, etc. The eruption ejected a cloud of stones, ashes and volcanic gases to a height of 33 km. I am not even half way there yet jeez, but Oort Cloud could be the between Sun/Earth and a-Centauri. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

[tranquil flint]

O

[proud minnow]

7 names and 0 connections…. hope you wake up tomorrow curious and tons of energy…! ._.

[sharp flame]

I almost feel bad for not finding anything 😭

[proud minnow]

…yes I can understand that… ._.

[timid solstice]

JAMES P J = James P. Joule ?

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Johnson
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Prescott_Joule

I think James P Joule is more likely

[worn badger]

hey, what did I miss? 👀

[timid solstice]

nothing

[worn badger]

i'm quite busy spending time with family and also trying to build a small business but I hope I can help again soon™

[coarse dagger]

Busy packing 😭🫠

[jade citrus]

tons of energy... 🤔

[jade citrus]

I think I found Gil B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Bellows

In 2014 Bellows starred with Tricia Helfer in the Syfy miniseries Ascension, a retro space opera / murder mystery about the 600-person crew of the USS Ascension, an Orion-class nuclear pulse propulsion spaceship, on its secret 100-year journey to** Proxima Centauri**, having been launched in 1963 by President Kennedy.

[sharp flame]

Thanks

[dark leaf]

🤔

[timid solstice]

Ok so what if the list is not to find a connection of those names but a connection of 7 ?

https://earthsky.org/favorite-star-patterns/pleiades-star-cluster-enjoys-worldwide-renown/

[sharp flame]

I think the names mean something..

[timid solstice]

The Pleiades star cluster – famously known as the Seven Sisters or, to some, M45 – is visible from virtually every part of the globe. It’s seen from as far north as the North Pole and farther south than the southernmost tip of South America. It looks like a tiny misty dipper of stars

[sharp flame]

Kelsie E seems like a unique name

[timid solstice]

if we cant find connections between those names then the clue could be ' a connection between 7 names '

[sharp flame]

Also possible

[wind mantle]

Is there a location where we can get up to speed on all this?

[sharp flame]

The EE info channel should be a good start

if you want the current tier, then https://padlet.com/kyne has Tier F

[wind mantle]

I read all that, but upon scrolling this chat, I'm seeing things about planets and galaxies and also music or random clipboard names and I just have no idea what any of it is, but I am interested to read and/or help if things need to be discovered

[sharp flame]

The padlet has what we're working with currently then

[mortal ivy]

That's just how the wind blows 😂 Attacking it from all angles, throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks

[wind mantle]

I think the answer is "Peanut Butter"

So essentially, this is like an ARG, correct?

[mortal ivy]

Yep, clues hidden within images that all point toward the same thing, which forms the password to unlock the new tier

[wind mantle]

Nice. I shall dig.

[wind mantle]

Has anyone looked into the 4.2465 on the magazine?

On 4/24/65 a song called "Game of Love" came out by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders and the 33rd word is "Play"

[sharp flame]

In terms of galaxies we were discussing Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri

Because when you search 4.2465 up you get the exact distance Proxima Centauri is away from earth (in light years)

[wind mantle]

Right, and those stars form Centaurus, but that number translated into a date falls inside the Taurus zodiac sign. Could that be a relationship at all?

[neon stream]

Good idea! I just checked the birthdate of some of the people listed on the clipboard to see if they were Taurus, but they were born in February... my theory fell to pisces pieces

[timid solstice]

You should be cancer cancelled

[sharp flame]

my buddy had a fake eyeball made of Ruby

guess you could call that gemini 👁️

[upper mantle]

get out

[pure loom]

my buddy in the army had two eyeballs in one socket
they called him eye-eye Captain.

[south wyvern]

My. Back. &. Still. No. Connection.

https://tenor.com/view/sad-blackish-anthony-anderson-tears-upset-gif-19249032

[pure loom]

That’s interesting. Good possibility.

[pure loom]

I agree

[pure loom]

This would also fit with Rob’s “tons of energy” comment

[sharp flame]

oooh

could also be sorta saying 'tons' but in an 'energy' sense

so Joules

[pure loom]

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

Could be Charlie S. - the atomic bomb would fit the energy path

[south wyvern]

I've tried the athletics names because of Coach Nama Tama being like "PE teacher with clipboard". No luck.

This one is when I bought up the word 'coffeee' then a reply from Rob's 'tons of energy'.

[polar turret]

???\

do[ctor in the house??

[pure loom]

[fallen jasper]

I don't come bearing any new discoveries

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Level_One:_THE_COMMENCE Instead I come with a redo of the wiki page for the first level

[sharp flame]

awesome work!

[fallen jasper]

I'm intending to try to separate out the levels and tiers

We'll see how it goes

As a result I have no clue where to put the Church of the Holy Hunters

[fallen jasper]

Trying to make everything work

Not sure how I feel about the organization here

[fallen jasper]

Did some work on a page which hasn't had any work on it since November. Turned it from this to this.

[pure loom]

@fallen jasper do you reckon it will be useful to have a page that covers the history of the development - so just a short summary of when the playtests took place, and maybe some brief key points about each one?

oh, I see https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Pre-Release is kinda that, but it just needs the development section added to

probs I should have posted this in #📂┇the-finals-wiki

[neon stream]

We can make it the main page of the wiki, and just redirect to the other pages from there 😛

[pure loom]

Do you think this could be a Proxima Centauri clue?

Also, I'm suspicious of this number. It's honestly hard to believe! Could 392 be a clue?

[pure loom]

Has any looked at this green line? It seems odd

(on the bottom of the "couple" image)

[south wyvern]

I'm glad that I am not the only one.

I can't recall if flower pot is one kill instant, a confirmation?

[timid solstice]

They match 100% another tier image but we were told are not an error

[timid solstice]

#easter-eggs message

[proud minnow]

It is actually true... almost 400 players got coined by flowerpots (almost 0 players got coined by Dusty, hehe...).!

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/oof-meme-gif-25793745

[sharp flame]

Hahaha Damnnn

Almost 0... I'm guessing the 1 was Rob..

[proud minnow]

That would be the day... ._.

[sharp flame]

1v1.. you vs dusty, on top of crane..

[sharp flame]

GUYS

new image right

THE_FINALS_CB2_Guns_and_Namas.png

[hidden nacelle]

👀

[sharp flame]

red and blue

[neon stream]

Beta

[sharp flame]

3 glints

gun, nama, and bullet

[sharp flame]

right next to it @neon stream

I'll measure these

19x10

77x10

6x10

18x10

19 77 6 18 ?

Mammalia Ferae Felis. ------------ (4)?
R|2 or R12

[solar glade]

on M60

[sharp flame]

Mabu

Kik-?

[solar glade]

tried to post this

[sharp flame]

I mean it IS rambling

but rambling on purpose...

[solar glade]

you get the point haha

[sharp flame]

...CNS - SLIES...CNS - SLIES etc.

and the name is OPEN YOUR EYES

if for some reason I need to search for that message in text form

How many times does it repeat?

maybe that means something

[solar glade]

bottom right corner

[sharp flame]

seems to be the mirror of last time

[sharp flame]

I forgot the name for the blue-red effect thingy

Chromatic Aberration?

[solar glade]

yes

next to the beta

[jade citrus]

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

In 1758 the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus placed all carnivorans known at the time into the group** Ferae** (not to be confused with the modern concept of Ferae which also includes pangolins) in the tenth edition of his book Systema Naturae. He recognized six genera: Canis (canids and hyaenids), Phoca (pinnipeds), Felis (felids), Viverra (viverrids, herpestids, and mephitids), Mustela (non-badger mustelids), Ursus (ursids, large species of mustelids, and procyonids).

[sharp flame]

I think its a descending classification thingy

so we're looking for a specific species

[jade citrus]

this is as far as i got with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferae

[sharp flame]

there's more writing

[jade citrus]

couldnt find felis

[sharp flame]

I just cant fish it out

carries out on the right

[pure loom]

My interpretation of the bullets is: the left hand one is the Sun, the trio on the right are A,B and Proxima Centauri and the two lying down point to something else. Bernard’s Star?

I think location-wise it (Bernard’s) would be pretty accurate, but maybe a little too close to the Sun.

Hmmm… unless the golden Nama is part of the arrangement. If that’s the case, I don’t know what it represents. The layout looks deliberate though (when isn’t it? )

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnard's_Star

[worn badger]

new art

Cexito

[pure loom]

= EXOTIC

[sharp flame]

Weird how it's capitalised

[worn badger]

Mabu

[pure loom]

Maybe just made to look like a brand name?

[tulip matrix]

bizarrely similar crease pattern

[sharp flame]

It's not an exact match which means I think it's intentional

[pure loom]

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

[sharp flame]

found this.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_Shorthair

[pure loom]

He has an album called Double M’s - the legs of the characters in the first image form an M shape

[sharp flame]

household cats are 'felis catus'

[pure loom]

Reminds me of Felix sapiens - the character ‘Cat’ from the Red Dwarf series.

[worn badger]

ß.

[pure loom]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(Red_Dwarf)

[worn badger]

there is also something in the black box at the sniper shaft but i cant figure out how to make it visible

star/spark/explosion

[tulip matrix]

meow?

[south wyvern]

Small glass crack/ophthalmology (open your eyes) maybe.

[timid solstice]

OPEN YOUR EYES

[jade citrus]

Possible connection between Mabu and Beta Centauri:

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

Mabu is used for endurance training as well as strengthening the back and leg muscles, tendon strength, and overall feeling and understanding of "feeling grounded".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Centauri
β Centauri (Latinised to Beta Centauri) is the star system's Bayer designation.
It bore the traditional names Hadar and Agena. Hadar comes from the Arabic حضار (the root's meaning is "to be present" or "on the ground" or "settled, civilized area"
Also horse stance -> centaurs -> Beta Centauri

[timid solstice]

right lower

lower left
pixel height - 19 77 6 18

[proud minnow]

[timid solstice]

I think people are busy watching Mission Impossible...

above the finals logo
MAMMALIA FERÆ Felis ||
R|2
https://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/categories/prints-and-maps-by-subject/landscapes-seascapes/product/mammalia-ferae-seal-wolf-jackal-lion-tiger-civet-bear-badger-kangaroo-mole-1830/P-6-045089~P-6-045089
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/867045850622722058/1128760961306722454/image.png

bipod foot
cexito
anagrams - exotic

[south wyvern]

another 302?

[timid solstice]

lmg rifle
Mabu ?

sniper stock
𝛽.
MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL BETA
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/β
https://util.unicode.org/UnicodeJsps/character.jsp?a=1D6FD

sniper stock
Cresent Moon

[timid solstice]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felis_(constellation)

[worn badger]

there is a , or . next to the beta letter

[timid solstice]

THE_FINALS_CB2_Guns_and_Namas.png
https://www.gunsandammo.com/

[sharp flame]

Guns and Roses no?

I assume is the reference

[south wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/slash-guitar-musician-gif-4671343

Found another b but capital with .

[neon stream]

Hmmm could either be a B or a capital Beta 🤔

[south wyvern]

BB gun

[timid solstice]

Nice, what do you do to reveal that?

[south wyvern]

PS with Black & White. I have a thing for B&W lol

[timid solstice]

I flipped the THE_FINALS_Wallpaper_Keep_It_Simple_2160x2880.png horizontal and overlayed it and it matches again 100%.....

[sharp flame]

Meaning there might be a message right

[timid solstice]

text on ak

[sharp flame]

357478

wonder if that's on the regular gun lol

[timid solstice]

could be

[sharp flame]

Hey I'm on mobile rn

but am I seeing a green pixel near the top of the AK?

[south wyvern]

@sharp flame

Top-left: f0fad1
Top-right: f0fbd3
Bottem-left: f0f9cd
Bottom-right: f0f9do

[timid solstice]

made it clearer

[solar glade]

it's on the regular skin

[sharp flame]

thanks

[pure loom]

Inb4 THE FINALS Closed Gamma announced

[pure loom]

Could be related to the green pixel?

Periodic table could be: 35= Br, 74 = W, 78 = Pt

Doesn’t seem like a likely path. The colour looks possible

[sharp flame]

Spear says its on the regular gun

so I should probably retract that 'clue'

[pure loom]

Could still be a clue though that IS on the regular gun

maybe we don't discount it completely

[sharp flame]

hehe it's a 6 digit code

they totally coulda hidden something

[worn badger]

Closed Gamma for EE Hunters only

[pure loom]

I'm actually kinda sad they didn't call Closed Beta 2 the Closed Gamma #missedopportunity

[sharp flame]

Closed Delta 🙏

[unkempt crypt]

Wait.. wiki delivers coffee tables?

https://tenor.com/view/yes-nod-animated-yup-gif-7410283

I joke, carry on!

[timid solstice]

sorry for reposting clues, my discord opened on duh's post of the image and I thought it was the first post

need coffee

[sharp flame]

dont we all

[south wyvern]

coffeee is love ._.

[timid solstice]

19 77 6 18
https://www.onthisday.com/date/1977/june/18

[south wyvern]

Gemini, Pearl, Moonstone & Rose are all pointing toward June.

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/lmfao-laughing-gif-25145562

[south wyvern]

A little better this time 🤞

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pappus_(botany)

[sharp flame]

oooh dandelion

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

[timid solstice]

ah its a seed !

im more and more coming round to rhb's baby idea

[pure loom]

Great find!

[pure loom]

But where do we go from here?

Rob's "incubator" comment coming back here maybe - perhaps we should consider something egg-related now?

[neon stream]

Rock saying "where do we go from here?" 😂

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

I'm stupid, I know 😂

literally the first line of the song

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/dace-gif-25608746

[wind mantle]

yall are so dep into this

[south wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/insane-in-the-membrane-crazy-gif-21442827

aye tomorrow hunters

[fringe trench]

theres another one on the rear end of the AKs dust cover

[south granite]

Did we figure out the passcode for that website? maybe this is something to look into if we havn't figured that out yet

Also just throwing it out here, the 00:00:00 might just be a space filler but thought it might be something to throw in here anyway. 00:00:00 is midnight so maybe that has something to do with anything.

Havn't looked in this channel for some time so you guys might have already coverd this 😅

[hidden nacelle]

That’s on all the art

[sharp flame]

But it also could totally be a clue

Or mean something later

probably not relevant to us now though

[fallen jasper]

I'm gonna have most of Level 1 and T1A-T1B done here in a bit

If anyone wants to go over it and edit it I'll let you know when It's done.

[fallen jasper]

hmm

[fallen jasper]

It's done https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Level_Two:_THE_PROMISE

[neon stream]

Great work! One step closer at completing the wiki! 💪🏻

[sick stone]

exotic,

[sick stone]

wild, catlike beast

[sick stone]

lion

[sick stone]

or sicle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_(constellation)

[neon stream]

🤔

[sharp flame]

ooooooh

like Ferae

Mammalia

[sick stone]

SR eyed it

[sharp flame]

haha yeah what serp said

gotta revisit that

[sick stone]

ferae translates to "wild beasts"

[sharp flame]

sea lions are a little bit possible?

but yeah I'm being dumb

Carnivora is contained in FERAE

meaning Lions are in FERAE

so...

Leo?

[sick stone]

#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

hahaha what you said

[sick stone]

what do you think about the sickle idea though?

[sharp flame]

it does look more like a crescent moon

(as thick)

I'll see if I can image-manipulate out a handle for the sickle though

[sick stone]

yh, I've not been following this level to closely, so idk if moons are central :p

[sharp flame]

guys..

[sharp flame]

Haha we only have like 3 leads

Alpha and Proxima Centauri was the main thing we got from the first image, and this is the second image hehe

[sick stone]

oh, huh, guess I'm not too far out of the loop then after all

[sharp flame]

Hehe check the padlet

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1f-e13p6j3z8rtoabls

all the 👀 are what we know

[neon stream]

Interesting page, many things that connect (even to other tiers 😅)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_359

[sharp flame]

I can guess this page is posted here a lot hahaha

#easter-eggs message

[neon stream]

Ohhh mb, I didn't see it. Great find!

[sharp flame]

not a find yet.. just a crackpot theory! 😭

[neon stream]

Discord tricked me 😂

[neon stream]

Those are the best kinds of theories 😛

[pure loom]

“The star Wolf 359 (CN Leonis), one of the nearest stars to Earth at 7.8 light-years away, is in Leo. Wolf 359 is a red dwarf of magnitude 13.5; it periodically brightens by one magnitude or less because it is a flare star.” Another close red dwarf Edit: @neon stream I see you posted this above already

[pure loom]

These are our only kinds of theories

[pure loom]

Here’s another previous tier connection: Titanic -> -> Leo -> Lion

I didn’t know there were still lions in India

[pure loom]

I reckon you should use Rob, Dusty and Esbjörn’s full names - it seems a bit casual just having their first names.

[fallen jasper]

For the intro?

[pure loom]

Yeah

[fallen jasper]

I can do it for the intro but I figure saying their full names every time- year I'll go ahead and do that

Do you know what Esbjorn's full name is

[pure loom]

Esbjörn the Lion Tamer

I could be wrong

[fallen jasper]

[pure loom]

It could be Nord - unless there are two Embark Esbjörns

[neon stream]

Found another one:

Aethusa->Poseidon->Percy Jackson->Alexandra Daddario->True Detective->Matthew McConaughey->Interstellar->Christopher Nolan->Inception->Leonardo DiCaprio->Leo->Lion

😛

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/you-see-it-is-part-plan-explain-gif-20448886

[sharp flame]

of course...

[south wyvern]

heading back to arts to find more ._.

[sick stone]

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

Regulus (translating to “prince” or “little king (as in rex)) is a quadruple star system in the constellation Leo the brightest of which has the designation alpha which lies approximately 79 ly from our sun

[south wyvern]

Since we have no Rob's eye for these seven names so an idea.

KELSIE E : ? Note: Kelsie is a gender-neutral name.

• #easter-eggs message
  JAMES P J : In 1944, James P. Johnson and Willie 'The Lion' Smith participated in stride piano contests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Johnson
  CHARLIE S : Charlie Sanders, TE (Tight End), for NFL Team's Detroit Lions.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Sanders
  GIL B : Gil Birmingham, an actor in 'Hell or High Water' distributed by Liongate film.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_or_High_Water_(film)
  DEREK B : ? master of the lion ?

JULIA C : Julia Charlotte L. Davis, an actress in Four Lions is a 2010 British political satire black comedy film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Davis
JOHN E T : Single and song composer: 'Circle of Life', The Lion King by __E__l__t__on John
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_Life

[neon stream]

Good idea trying to find a lion connection for each name 💪🏻

[sick stone]

Denebola or “Beta Leonis” is the beta to the regulus alpha. It is also part of the asterism known as The Great Diamond https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Diamond

[pure loom]

I found a graduate student Kelsie E with this in their notes: “Kelsie recently presented at the 5th Workshop on Gender and Methodology in the Ancient Near East in Helsinki. The project involved an exploration of the association of dogs with hegemonic and complicit masculinities in textual and artistic depictions of the Neo-Assyrian royal lion hunt and the baby-stealing demon Lamaštu.”

[south wyvern]

Ooo this is better than what I have: "Meet Keeper Kelsie who works with sea lions and the animals in the Rocky Shores / Arctic Tundra habitats" but her last name letter is unknown.

[pure loom]

And we can probably presume that the dandelion seed is pointing to lion as well

[pure loom]

Do the seed and baby paths, combined with the lion path, point to "cub"?

[sick stone]

I was thinking about this earlier considering Regulus translates to "prince" or "little king"

as in "king of the jungle"

[pure loom]

"Simba" is not the password

https://tenor.com/view/hakuna-matata-gif-19766885

[pure loom]

This was a clue in a previous tier iirc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Prince

[neon stream]

Great catch! That must be the connection! 💪🏻

[pure loom]

Oh, and also this - his alias is “Dandy Lion”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowardly_Lion

[coarse dagger]

Leonardo DiCaprio also connected into my mess (which I'm currently trying to document) via the band Orbital
#easter-eggs message

TRYING TO DOCUMENT

[flat edge]

keep up the good work boys!

[neon stream]

I was kidding with my connection, sorry. But yours could be correct 💪🏻

[pure loom]

Just a thought - Rob’s “incubator” comment could also refer to “cub”

In cub a tor = in a lion is a rock

(As a tor is a rock that sticks up out of the landscape)

Taking it even further - a lion tor could refer to the Sphinx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza

And that reminds me of the angle between the three circles in the first image and, therefore, this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_correlation_theory

Also… I think it was the Egyptians that invented egg incubators

[pure loom]

This would also fit well with “lapis” appearing again

[wind mantle]

Man I just spinfoiled so hard

I went charlie day on my comment then realized it was so wring

[sharp flame]

brb looking up 'spinfoiling'

[sick stone]

I think it's destiny 2 talk for tinfoil hat activities

[wind mantle]

I don't think it's destiny 2 related specifically

I just think it's a regional thing where I am

[sick stone]

You are right, I just confused spinmetal for spinfoil as I’ve not heard the term before 💩

[south wyvern]

No Rob's eye though. #easter-eggs message

Not sure about this one but 'between'

https://betweenthelions.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_33:_The_Good_Seed

[pure loom]

Yeah, although he doesn't always confirm every path we get right. Nonetheless, I think we should explore other possible paths too

[south wyvern]

Sometimes I thought about 7 names is that if we all get them correct, he will eye it but not individually, don't know.
Indeed, explore different paths. Right now, I am unsure what to do with these two Bs...
#easter-eggs message #easter-eggs message

[timid solstice]

hmm not sure, I was watching trinity test vids today and thought about beat beta decay
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_decay

[pure loom]

"beat decay"

https://tenor.com/view/monkey-stick-hit-man-getting-gif-25806535

[pure loom]

I've just booked tickets for Oppenheimer which opens here in a few days. I can't wait!

@timid solstice that's a great "oof" emoji

[pure loom]

I just noticed in the MTM with Gustav and Matt, when discussing the game lore, that Gustav says "What's the labyrinth? That's a question that you can ask yourself."

[wind mantle]

Labyrinth, minotaur, mythology, that's all part of that Centaurus path. Bull of Minos type stuff.

[pure loom]

True - although, I don't know if Gustav's comment about THE FINALS lore has a direct bearing on this particular tier - but interesting that it's not too far from the paths we're looking at here.

[wind mantle]

I wonder how deep that path is worth investigating. I was digging around on Theseus and Daedalus but couldn't seem to get anywhere with it

[pure loom]

I always think that there should be some direct connection you can have with each step in a path - finding where paths can link is where the breakthroughs come from.

[wind mantle]

Well with that section, assuming "labyrinth" is relevant to this particular tier, Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth, is presumed the father of Iapyx (lapis). No idea if that's anywhere close to anything substantial though.

[pure loom]

yeah, you could consider that a possible path link - I wouldn't rule it out anyway

[wind mantle]

And considering Iapyx was considered a favored healer by Apollo, the god of music, art, and poetry, we may have the link.

Cracked the case. Apollo is also linked to celestial stuff.

[coarse dagger]

Apollo is linked in countless ways.

[coarse dagger]

Still on the road to Reno. Stopped to visit the Henry Doorly Omaha Zoo today.

Decided to get a photo for EE hunt research while I was there:

[tulip matrix]

same energy

[gusty finch]

I got this for the Easter egg hunt as well

[coarse dagger]

🤔

[pure loom]

@fallen jasper hey, these are in your timeline as being part of Tier 1E, but they were just between 1D and 1E, right?

[fallen jasper]

Yeah I need to do... something... with them

[pure loom]

I reckon just relabel them as "official art between T1D and T1E" or something like that

[fallen jasper]

Not entirely sure what to label them, T1E Started on the 27th

I forgot to erase my ranting before I renamed them and sent that

[pure loom]

27th of March though, right? So they were well before that

Wait a goddam minute...

https://tenor.com/view/matthew-mc-conaughey-dallas-buyers-club-coincidence-focus15-gif-8603942

[pure loom]

Possibly not related to the current tier, but I did discover the name of this statue that is seen in the Monaco map - it is 'Invitation' and was created by Kees Verkade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kees_Verkade

[south wyvern]

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

Rainier III (Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi), Prince of Monaco and he ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years (House of Grimaldi). Added - "Princess Grace Rose Garden: The rose garden was created in 1984 as a memorial to Grace Kelly, wife of Prince Rainier III. Princess Grace is commemorated in a statue by Kees Verkade in the rose garden, which features 4,000 roses."

[timid solstice]

@fallen jasper dont forget the ospuse had the start date of T-1E hidden in it, so its almost a teaser

and the other other has the corrupted message in the metadata and pixel message

THE_FINALS_Wallpaper_Ingame_Heavy_Yellow_2880x1620

Hi dear EE-hunters.!
Hope y}u are d%i€g... DON’T TRUST THEM? - KN ...$reat, h\ve a nice day.! From Embark with love.!

Hidden pixel gaps prime number code: 2 67 2 7 23 67 71 2 43 71 - ASADISTANT

[pure loom]

That explains the roses 🌹 in the practice range!

[fallen jasper]

Ahhh

[boreal snow]

not sure if relevant 32 bullets on the floor related to the ymf292's 32 sound generators?

[ancient gyro]

I wanted to help in the Easter eggs and watched videos. Tis is some Einstein type level stuff

[pure loom]

We need all the help we can get! You’re right, these puzzles ain’t easy though.

[pure loom]

I think they recounted them as 33 #easter-eggs message

[ancient gyro]

I'll rewatch the videos on try to get a little knowledge of how this damn Sherlock ahh holmes type Easter eggs works

[pure loom]

This might be useful on the 33 bullets front - the Virgin Mary makes another appearance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_(number)

[coarse dagger]

Tonight is the last night in the cross country road trip before we reach our destination! I've been working on compiling my notes while I'm not driving and think I'm finally caught up.

I finally downloaded some open source software I think Rob hid something using. Unfortunately it doesn't look like this is going to be as easy as I hoped.
I'm now digging through all of the PNGs posted in T1 to look for the string "M.K." (4d 2e 4b 2e) in the bytes, but not finding what I'm looking for.

I wonder if I need to filter the bytes of the image somehow first... but there's just too many ways I could do that.

Fibonacci bytes?

X-ORing images?

Low/Hi pass filters?

I might be at a temporary dead end with this path.

While I was downloading images from this tier I noticed a connection from T1B to some of my research.

#official-art message From OSPUZE_Candiii

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A∴A∴

Came across A∴A∴ through connections to the occult I was running into

The double "therefore" sign "∴" on the bullet bag caught my eye

In OSPUZE_Candiii

[coarse dagger]

Getting caught up on everyone's research on Guns and Namas now

MAMMALIA FERÆ Felis
Of the cats I think the most likely to investigate are:
Felis lunensis (lune -> luna -> moon)
Felis chaus (chaus -> chaos)
and possibly
Felis silvestris (silvestris -> silver)

I think the Æ is significant as well.
A while back I was looking into Latin/Greek combination letters for the EE hunt but I can't remember why at the moment

[coarse dagger]

What did you mean by "carries out to the right"?

[sharp flame]

There is what seems to be the end of some text on the right side of the image

[fallen jasper]

can someone just

explain

what this channel even is

i just constantly see 2013 youtube level conspiracy theories here

[timid solstice]

we noticed things were hidden in some artworks posted on twitter, turns out it was a url..
more artworks gave us new urls to unlock, we are now on Level 2 Tier 1 F https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

more info on how to get involved is in #egg-hunt-onboarding

[fallen jasper]

ooah

[slate hinge]

welcome to ee hunt!

[coarse dagger]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game#:~:text=An alternate reality game (ARG,by%20players'%20ideas%20or%20actions.

[fallen jasper]

is there an actual ARG?

[fallen jasper]

so... do we need to use just the images here? or do you need images from elsewhere too. like the official twitter account

orb orb orb orb

i just looked at the pings

oh god

Incomprehensible have a nice day ✌️

[pure loom]

Usually it's just the images that are posted in #official-art but Rob might drop clues, or even the odd photo into this channel as well

[pure loom]

That background almost looks like a human face, with an eye on either side of the characters in the image

[fallen jasper]

no way Hannibal skin confirmed for the finals

anti aliasing my beloved :)

the only interesting things i found on the latest stuff is this silly minigun wordsgrwh

Rockhound what have you done to me

[pure loom]

You can view the other clues we've found in the images in the Padlet we have for the puzzle: https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1f-e13p6j3z8rtoabls I'll add that "Cexito" as we found that previously but it wasn't added to the Padlet

[fallen jasper]

yippee

[pure loom]

Hey @timid solstice are you able to add the current padlet to the pinned messages - it looks like we only have the last tier in there

[fallen jasper]

there it be

this is kind of a useless thing to note but the blur was added after the abberation.. so thats kinda cool i guess

here i tried to remove the abberation.. just because

[pure loom]

Yeah, we think it might be an anagram for "EXOTIC"

[fallen jasper]

hidden beta in the sniper stock

hey how can i add something to the padlet?

[pure loom]

I think there's an alpha too

[timid solstice]

Level 2 - Tier 1F Padlet
https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t1f-e13p6j3z8rtoabls

What could the key clues be for this tier?

Yellow / Yellowstone / Sulfur / Yolk
Li ion Batteries / Lion
Binary Stars / Α α Β β
3's / eee
Latin

Clues Image Timestamps
Image 1 — 03/07/2023 19:12 THE_FINALS_CB2_Couple #easter-eggs message
.
Bonus image — 07/07/2023 23:45 THE_FINALS_CB2_Stats #easter-eggs message
.
Image 2 — 12/07/2023 16:23 THE_FINALS_CB2_Guns_and_Namas #easter-eggs message
.
Image 3 — 21/07/2023 12:48 THE_FINALS_SHHH #easter-eggs message
.
Image 4 — 09/08/2023 09:08 THE_FINALS_NeverOddOrEven #easter-eggs message
.
Image 5 — 23/08/2023 14:30 THE_FINALS_1YA #easter-eggs message
.

Image 6 — 12/09/2023 19:37 THE_FINALS_this_Is_the

@fallen jasper can you pin please?

[fallen jasper]

i have the link i just dont know how to use padlet 😅

[pure loom]

@timid solstice will need to give you permission - we have it gate kept so no one comes in and just messes it all up

[timid solstice]

ty

[fallen jasper]

What's your padlet name?

[coral wing]

I am just getting caught up with this since i saw you mention the channel in gen @fallen jasper the amount of depth this has is insane to me

and now i am fully invested

[fallen jasper]

ahh, yeah thats fair, thanks in advance Flex4, hope i can be of help

I've got it set to only approved users

So I'll need to go in and change it

[timid solstice]

kyne has padlet perms

[pure loom]

ok, soz

[coral wing]

considering there is space involved especially with T1f, even more interested lmao

[fallen jasper]

awh, okay anyways my name on there is just Explo too

[fallen jasper]

Not seeing you :c

[sharp flame]

Hello hunters!

[fallen jasper]

i should be on there right now

[south wyvern]

I've never dive into 'mabu', later when I do but for starter: "A persevering and hard working person. Mabu is Baby Boy name. The Rashi/Zodiac of Name Mabu is Simha/Leo (M, TT)"
https://drlogy.com/baby-names/meaning-of-mabu

[timid solstice]

Theres alot of things already found btw, just not added yet

[fallen jasper]

Can you send me your account link

I think Explo is so generic I can't see it

[fallen jasper]

https://padlet.com/Explo

[fallen jasper]

but im that explo-

smh smh

lmao

sobbing

[pure loom]

We might be able to convert the colours in this blue line to numbers and then to text

[fallen jasper]

oh god

rob is going to murder my brain

[timid solstice]

also its mirrored from before

that in itself could be a clue

[pure loom]

Interesting that one of the lightest squares goes around the corner. Maybe that represents zero or something like that

[fallen jasper]

another snowflake right above embark logo

[pure loom]

did the previous one have the square around the corner?

[pure loom]

it's a dandelion seed, I need to add that to the padlet too

[south wyvern]

#easter-eggs message

[fallen jasper]

its pretty reasonable to assume thats the default,

Its also the brightest one im pretty sure

[fallen jasper]

you people are insane @,@

[timid solstice]

it had them going up yeah

I flipped the THE_FINALS_Wallpaper_Keep_It_Simple_2160x2880.png horizontal and overlayed it and it matches again 100%.....

[fallen jasper]

Why cant it put the accurate name first

WEB DEVELOPERS

yippee

[timid solstice]

if you are up for it... can you start here and add what was found
#easter-eggs message

[fallen jasper]

might aswell

[timid solstice]

also....

if you spot any observations that has a react from rob 👀 or

not sure if you scrolled down on the padlet

[fallen jasper]

it means its confirmed as a clue?

[coral wing]

i didnt scroll that far until now 🤣

[timid solstice]

haha

[pure loom]

yeah, usually

[timid solstice]

yes, the maybe not 100% but its an observation

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/its-complicated-difficult-hard-to-explain-ricky-gervais-tony-gif-17047383

[timid solstice]

[south wyvern]

Another way I see Rob's eyes would be like a "checkpoint"

[fallen jasper]

okay

this text on the rifle doesnt actually seem important? it just has the standard finals date and OSPUZE branding

Kyne pretty please

unreadable

[fallen jasper]

I cannot add you lol

Can't see you

WHY AM I INVISIBLE-

See if you can't change your padlet name to ThatExplo

okay a

[pure loom]

I'll go through the colours in that line and see I can get any numbers out of them that might make up a cipher

[fallen jasper]

username or name

username or name

[fallen jasper]

PadletShotMe6TimesInTheChestAndThenBurriedMe

[timid solstice]

Spear said these are on the regular gun, the other lines to the right not shown here im not sure

[fallen jasper]

35747

[timid solstice]

maybe try revealing these

[fallen jasper]

they seem a bit too low resolution but i can try

my brain is melting

lucky nama has no text on her, wont get murdered for clues

The AK actually has two green pixels on it

[timid solstice]

yep was mentioned just not screen shotted #easter-eggs message

maybe theres a 3rd somewhere?

[fallen jasper]

mayhaps. definitely not on the AK though..... unless its hidden

[timid solstice]

S Lies / CNS SLIES

[fallen jasper]

Rob really loves his space doesn't he pfsh

[pure loom]

Don't search for "CNS - SLIES" with the exact phrase, it bought up a single website which Bitdefender immediately panicked about

[fallen jasper]

[pure loom]

Looked like some casino site

[fallen jasper]

I'm getting nervous system things here. dont think thats it

[pure loom]

Also Center for Nanostructures (CNS)

https://www.scu.edu/engineering/labs--research/labs/center-for-nanostructures/

This isn't morse is it? Looks a little like it

[fallen jasper]

could be. lemme throw it in rq

[pure loom]

I get T R N T R E O

[fallen jasper]

im not sure about the middle.. very blurry

[pure loom]

an anagram for "TORRENT"

hmmm... correction T R E N T R E O

[fallen jasper]

nice work

[hidden nacelle]

Trento is a city in italy,

[pure loom]

It's also an anagram for "ROTTENER"

[fallen jasper]

we have a theme of disgrace with this silly lion star here

and with that silly observation i go to bed

its 4am for crying out loud

[pure loom]

GN!

[pure loom]

"Exotic" is a song by rapper Lil Baby, so maybe a continuation of the baby theme.

[opaque kiln]

what are you guys tryna figure out?

[coarse dagger]

Rob's brain

[opaque kiln]

LMAO

[pure loom]

#egg-hunt-onboarding

That channel kinda fills you in if you're new to it all

[opaque kiln]

ohh ok

you sound like your from new zealand on your yt

i love the accent there

[pure loom]

You are correct!

[opaque kiln]

but im aussie so im a bit diff

hope ill see you in a game when it releases 🙂

[pure loom]

And you're an Aussie! You are rare

[opaque kiln]

xD

[proud minnow]

Hi all EE-hunters, how is it going...?

[fallen jasper]

hi Rob
i just awoke

[spark dagger]

saint rob

[proud minnow]

I was wondering if it was time for some new art, but looking at the padlet... you have a lot of things to discover still, hehe

[fallen jasper]

[sharp flame]

Rob give us time....

I was taking a little break from EE hunting personally, and that break is ending pretty soon

[proud minnow]

Missing you fish, but take the time you need to relax and recharge your batteries...!

[proud minnow]

Just as long as time doesn´t make you fall down yet another hole 1,560 light-years away... ._.

[sharp flame]

It's okay... I am beginning to feel bad for the other guys...

might have a go this weekend 😭

closest black hole...

[fallen jasper]

Incomprehensible have a nice day

[sharp flame]

Okay so we have closest black hole and closest galaxy

[cunning breach]

Easter

[spark dagger]

#official-art #official-art #official-art #official-art

[sharp flame]

OH DAMNNN

[spark dagger]

this is the help i give from my end, adios

delta 3 7, and something that looks like rockhound’s avatar

[fallen jasper]

new art new art

weird mark on the forehead

[spark dagger]

looks like some japanese/chineese letter?

[fallen jasper]

silly blud image just dissapeared

[fallen jasper]

hmm. why'd ko be flipped?

[spark dagger]

these are the most common chineese letters, nothing comes even close to what we have here

also there is nothing close to this in 2 types of japanese writing (kanji and hiragana)

[fallen jasper]

im not a linguist so ill just try to cut into the rest of the image for now

good luck ozzi

[spark dagger]

thank you bingo

[fallen jasper]

pfsh

[fallen jasper]

Oh check this out

at the bottom

[spark dagger]

holy

[fallen jasper]

here's a clearer version

[spark dagger]

okay this is Chinese

I think

[fallen jasper]

this looks to just be some goofy smoke

[fallen jasper]

stylized chineese, so good luck

[fallen jasper]

resembles a goat... thing. though

[spark dagger]

we got em

[fallen jasper]

ooh nice work

[spark dagger]

this was used in ancient south asia

[fallen jasper]

three of the teeth are glowing

2-3 seems to be a common thing this season

two glowin eyes three glowing teeth?

[spark dagger]

Ackshually

it’s all Chinese

[spark dagger]

any Chinese yolk

[fallen jasper]

who slashed my enclosure

[spark dagger]

there are over a 100k chinese symbols

[slender lodge]

Oh shit radicals

Some of these characters are cut off thi

Like the upside down 5

五

[fallen jasper]

oh god

[slender lodge]

Maybe it's not supposed to be translated? Not sure tho

[spark dagger]

kinda looks like a dragon?

[slender lodge]

Good luck.. wèi and kôu look the same lmao

Wrong accent /

[fallen jasper]

i think im blind. havent found anything else

[rugged geode]

isn't one of the characters this but upside down

[spark dagger]

does it mean adult now

[rugged geode]

don't think chinese characters work that way

[fallen jasper]

appears so

[spark dagger]

was joking yeah, it probably means child but the art just has the characters spread out

[sharp flame]

metadata

"THE_FINALS_SHHH.png"

SHHH

[fallen jasper]

ooo

lore

[sharp flame]

those symbols... could spell out something right?

40 44 83 86 67 70 83 41 45 49

also the lit teeth means something

[fallen jasper]

2 - 3 seems to be a common thing across these

probably a part of the code

[plain garnet]

the easter egg is i just peed myself

[near narwhal]

I just saw the new image and thought “ooo I wonder what #easter-eggs is up to”

of course you guys have already figured out what language the other symbol is in 😂

[near narwhal]

Maybe we should be focusing on the inverse of the lit teeth.

[fallen jasper]

that'd make 17

[spark dagger]

Ok so, so far the new art has a lot of chinese things going on
• this smoke resembles a Chinese dragon like those you see in festivals #easter-eggs message

• The symbols here #easter-eggs message and here #easter-eggs message are Chinese and here is an image of the most used Chinese symbols #easter-eggs message (note that there are 100 thousand + chinese symbols)

• Also there are 4 symbols on each finger here: (delta, 3, 7 and a fourth one I don’t seem to know) #easter-eggs message

• Only three lit teeth #easter-eggs message

• Numbers #easter-eggs message

[rugged geode]

one of said chinese symbols literally being child

upside down

[spark dagger]

we need to find the others for it to make a bit more sense

also the fact that mandarin has a lot of symbols that look quite identical

[placid cape]

that last one looks like that pokemon

[sharp flame]

definitely on the right track!

[sharp mango]

good luck

this one got me headache

[sharp flame]

do you have the file?

[sharp flame]

like the photoshop file

so I can move the pieces around

[rugged geode]

isn't that still upside down

[sharp mango]

yeah just download that one and use wizard wand

[sharp flame]

kk

[coarse dagger]

New (?) eyes

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

[timid solstice]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/torrente

[sharp flame]

no 👀

I am gonna double check none of the . are _