easter-eggs

[sharp flame]

#easter-eggs message

here

it is

can we get this pinned @fallen jasper for now? 🙏

[sharp flame]

Haha thanks! ❤️

[urban pond]

yeah but imagine a channel were only the cm or mods can right and have the solved EEs and the ones that we still need to find

[sharp flame]

I reckon we'll need something like that as this thing grows yeah

[urban pond]

cuz imagine the game releases (hopefully soon) and people dont know where to look

or just submit things that are already been found

[sharp flame]

wait I have a theory

[urban pond]

what is it?

[sharp flame]

lapis = stone

idk could this be pointing to yellow stone?

[fallen jasper]

The problem is I'm in charge of most of the EE things now and I have no clue where we're at rn because I'm working on the wiki

[sharp flame]

you're doing great rn

how's the wiki going

[fallen jasper]

We've been on break while a couple of us have been on vacation

[urban pond]

the problem right here xD (not u being in charge ofc)

[fallen jasper]

The only one that knows how close we are to the answer is Rob

And he isn't talk talkative (about the EE hunt)

[urban pond]

oh aight

[sharp flame]

well he can talk, just is very cryptic about it

[timid solstice]

I joined that to yellowstone on the padlet

[sharp flame]

damn even I'm behind...

just interesting cause Yellowstone is a clue, and so is Yellow, and so is stone

[timid solstice]

i was thinking we missed a yellow clue on the first image, buuut the skins are yellow

[sharp flame]

the whole thing is

[timid solstice]

perhaps we do need to back track and round up the images, clues and meanings we found, and list the ones we didnt solve

[urban pond]

yuppp

[timid solstice]

would things like this help?
#easter-eggs message

but for everything

[sharp flame]

those were very useful

[timid solstice]

perhaps the clues per image can be numbered and the meanings (we think we know) in a list

it will be an epic task

[sharp flame]

and for what

[timid solstice]

would be nice to be able to do it collaboratively

[sharp flame]

just for us to be stuck

again 🥹

[timid solstice]

no its for future hunters

[sharp flame]

crap i forgot there are people other than us

[timid solstice]

The Gospel of St. Rob

or maybe rob just sends us his clues board for he previous tiers 🤣

[sharp flame]

the final tier reveals Rob's password for his mindmap

[spring sentinel]

#easter-eggs message I tried to do something like this

[spring sentinel]

Let's make a Jira 😍

[timid solstice]

maybe, need to think how to organize it

everything needs to ne searchable

need images and tables, hyper links etc

[spring sentinel]

It was just a joke, we need something way more simple

[timid solstice]

We could start compiling a gdoc

or use the wiki..

or start a gdoc first then transfer to wiki when we are happy

at least on a gdoc you can zoom out

[jade citrus]

i have a small personal doc that i use for just listing clues

[fallen jasper]

We can definitely make somethign for the easter egg section

Just tell me what you want and I'll put it on the list

[timid solstice]

yeah I think we need to do some ground work first then can transfer the info onto it

https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2009/11/12/the-lithium-clue-to-exoplanets/

LEO clues:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)

[sharp flame]

This is the dimensions of the rectangle around the Embark logo

in the first image

308 97

3 08 97

3/8/1997?

[timid solstice]

could be 30 8 97

https://www.onthisday.com/date/1997/august/30

oh ha

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(goldfish)

I searched Yellow comet

[pure loom]

Good find

[jade citrus]

yellow in latin = flavus https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Flavus_(son_of_Segimerus)

[dry fern]

https://tenor.com/view/cash-in-cash-out-tyler-the-creator-21savage-pharrell-williams-gif-25978596

[jade citrus]

yellow

[coral wing]

my brain is officially unfried i think from the past pictures, time for some hunting

is padlet updated for all new image confirms?

ah i see summary, tyty

This quote pops up EVERYWHERE "We have had a gold rush, so we know how to get gold, but weve never had a lithium rush" surrounding yellowstone supervolcano. Apparently the deposits of silver and gold have had enormous amounts of lithium being produced around them

I think we should look into Li-ion more

[timid solstice]

Yeah and Yellowstone - lithium got 👀

[coral wing]

exactly

[agile tendon]

hey do yall think there is any importance to the license plate number on the bike in the first teaser they ever did 3 years ago?

the number is 0074

[hidden nacelle]

https://tenor.com/view/sean-connery-james-bond-smokin-gif-19024947

[timid solstice]

there are for sure some bond influenced things going on, rhb mentions a few in one of his videos

https://youtu.be/oudfjzgEsWE?t=896

and here

https://youtu.be/D_orfMnjpB4?t=928

[fallen jasper]

i love infinite jelly fishes

[sharp flame]

damn, chat dead for 24 hours

[jade citrus]

not sure what to investigate next tbh, seems like everything points to yellow

maybe yellow + latin/greek

[sharp flame]

And then theres Geoffrey

yeah Latin stuff

we had multiple clues in Latin now

we had the "mammalia ferae"

also Proxima Centauri is in Latin lol

also the clues in Roman Numerals

[jade citrus]

maybe we're looking for a certain species of yellow plant or something

most names like that are in latin

[timid solstice]

calling namatama

[jade citrus]

📞

[jade citrus]

been trying to reveal this third term, i think the first letter is an F

[sharp flame]

Felis

It's describing the Lion methinks it was

[proud minnow]

Already..?!

[sharp flame]

Rob!

I would ask for a Yellow NamaTama but CM Momo already has those emotes covered..

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/simpsons-homer-jigsaw-puzzle-smash-gif-16752652

yellow aswell haha

[jade citrus]

🤔 🟨

[sharp flame]

If it works it works

[sharp flame]

Yellow -> Simpsons -> Nuclear Power Plant -> Star cores

[spring sentinel]

https://tenor.com/view/what-do-they-mean-random-numbers-gif-10654449

How do you feel about organizing a brainstorming session? Would it be productive?

I have no lead right now, and it would be great to hear about some of your wild theories.

[proud minnow]

CAN I JOIN.?! hehe

[spring sentinel]

Sure. We could use a moderator to keep the flow of the conversation on the 'right' path. 😄

[coral wing]

LOL

im in!

[proud minnow]

haha

[coral wing]

I feel a group “brainstorming” would be awesome for us ;-;

Rob petition for EE hunters hidden VC

Reaction role inside THIS channel thats hidden behind a pin ;ooooo

[sharp flame]

All you would say is.. 'this is super easy, right?'

[proud minnow]

I actually have a HUGE mindmap with over 2300 nodes...

[bleak field]

of course, you guys are just overthinking - Rob maybe

[sharp flame]

nothing about that is easy..

[coral wing]

Oh my….

[bleak field]

can you give the hunters a peak

[sharp flame]

signing this petition

[sharp flame]

wonder what it looks like when you zoom out lots

[bleak field]

just so like… yeah

[spring sentinel]

Record it and overanalyze every sentence rob said.

[proud minnow]

(OHH my bad, 2600)

[bleak field]

the spider verse arachnid thing or something similar?

[coral wing]

WE NEED IT

[indigo chasm]

we should do photogrammetry of rob's room

[coral wing]

i feel we would get a lot done w sessions in a vc though

At least me😵‍💫

[sharp flame]

there was a time when I would call other hunters

but honestly yeah not much got done

[coral wing]

Fish you should make that happen

Dang

Call me later lets work on this

Im off work in 6 hrs lol

[nimble iron]

I remember that

[coral wing]

I put a request in to eggmail

Now we

[digital loom]

Probably nothing but 2300 --> AMD Ryzen 3 2300X, 2600 --> AMD Ryzen 5 2600. Since #easter-eggs message and #easter-eggs message. Reference to upgrade? 2300"X" from the belt?

[coral wing]

Holy brain 🧠

[timid solstice]

@coral wing there is a VC anyone is welcome to join, I can send an invite if you would like.
we used it to discuss the infographic for #egg-hunt-onboarding

[coral wing]

I would like an invite!

[fallen jasper]

People out here solving EE and i'm still waiting for acess

[sharp flame]

Nobody has access 😭! we are solving EE based on the images in #official-art

the game is not out yet, nor is a beta happening at the moment

[fallen jasper]

Maybe my wording was wrong, Game ain't even public and there's already EE being solved.

[sharp flame]

hahaha if its any consolation, all us EE hunters are hungry for the game to be public tooo

[pure loom]

It's an ARG related to the game that's been going on in here since September last year

Keeping us entertained while we wait for more access

[fallen jasper]

when is it out again?

[pure loom]

The game? An end-of-year release is planned

With a beta planned before that

[fallen jasper]

I watched the recap in "info". trying to trace back progress to get up to date

[south wyvern]

No way. I was looking around the padlet and my gut keep punching me to look into Flex4d post: Atsuko Nishida/Pikachu.

[sharp flame]

ooh?

[south wyvern]

Me as Allen Covert: Why?

I accidentally googled 'pokemon white river' and it was around 2000+ Pokemon trainers/attendees. Pokemon GO is GPS-based/meatspace (correct me if inaccuracy) and the event took on July 23rd, 2016 at White River State Park near the Indiana State Museum lawn.
https://www.indystar.com/story/life/2016/07/21/thousands-invade-white-river-state-park-pokemon-go-meetup/87074988/

However, I'm still searching on how is it connect with #easter-eggs message
I mean we really need that eyes.

[coral wing]

its quite funny to see random correlations like this...

Okay so geoffrey the G published the first english to latin wordbook as you all probably know. Have we tried taking any of the words in latin we have found in this tier and backtracing to see what they would mean in english back then? O.o

Also this is our mammal no?

regarding "MAMMALIA FERAE FELIS"

I know there was stuff on the padlet for lion? But I just cant seem to not think its this thing called a "Felis"

Nevermind im dumb and there is many types of "felis"

[sharp flame]

CEXITO = Exotic?

https://www.color-name.com/exotic-yellow.color

[coral wing]

hmmmm

I found an old nasa document with the word "cexito" written a bunch in it

but i dont understand the paragraphs surrounding it, from the george washington university.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19770022882/downloads/19770022882.pdf

Is it CEXIT 0? and 0 as in number?

Wait this document is written in "suffix notation" apparently and i think the C's are supposed to be paranthesis

[sharp flame]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_star Exotic Star?

[coral wing]

I saw that this never went anywhere, and i came across this supposed king

from biblical writing times

and geoffrey has also talked about this guy

from one of geoffreys books down below

"Mabuchodonolo" in "The Bible with annotations" from Robert Barker circa 1605

im currently in process of cross referencing every singular standout word that we have in goeffreys book, so excuse the spam if there is any ;-;

[sharp flame]

red blue, and yellow

looking at it, this word seems cut off, right?

[coral wing]

yes yes

[spark dagger]

Mab..

[coral wing]

did you see what i just wrote above?

[sharp flame]

yep!

[coral wing]

okok

[sharp flame]

I was looking into it from a anagrammatical perspective 🤓

since Cexito is not a real word

[coral wing]

thats too big brain for me, im sorry LMAO

[sharp flame]

then having an anagram with a letter/s cut off is brain hurt

Cexito can either mean Exotic or Excito (spanish)

Mabu comes up with Album as a possibility?

[south wyvern]

this might help

https://www.worddb.com/words/containing/m,b,u,a

[sharp flame]

Exotic Rumba haha

[proud minnow]

I would LOVE that.!

[proud minnow]

THX for letting me know, finally Dusty can take a break… ._.

[pure loom]

Subscribe for all the updates

[hidden nacelle]

[proud minnow]

CLOSE… so close… but yet tooo far away…

[coral wing]

3 o's in "too", three teeth... im onto it 🕵️

[sharp flame]

another shade of yellow?

[hexed mantle]

AD 72 in the hex code?

[proud minnow]

Maybe you should apply to embark as a production director (ok this is a joke, so if you are an embark employee that is working as a production director and are reading this… do NOT panic, seriously don’t worry, RHB will not, I repeat, will NOT, again will NOT take your job.!) (or.?!)

[sharp flame]

👀 ?!

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/why-not-both-why-not-take-both-gif-11478682

What does a production director do? 😂

[coral wing]

Rock go for this please... LMAO

also D:

i could tell the "but yet tooo far away" was a reference or something of sorts

[south wyvern]

[pure loom]

Look, I’ve already made the sign for my corner-suite-office door.

[proud minnow]

trying to keeping track of creative people that are impossible to keep track of, that can’t keep track of themselves… ._.

[coral wing]

LOVE IT

[pure loom]

This actually sounds legit

[proud minnow]

@gusto this is actually a brilliant idea, let’s make a FFPS.!

[hidden nacelle]

all i see is Production Developer 🧐

[pure loom]

The Stockholm map

[south wyvern]

Flamingos. Flamingos Everywhere! 🦩

Remember this menace!

[pure loom]

We'd re-use assets from some other game that got shelved to make way for the FFPS to cut down costs

Watch the cash roll in

[pure loom]

haha - no one likes re-used assets hahaha

[warped girder]

🥚

[fallen jasper]

Listen Rockhound we just so happen to have a leftover Flamingo army collectively called Bob.

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/fabulous-flamingo-gif-7529738

[proud minnow]

haha, I was actually planning to post a new picture of this amazing flamingo today (again thank you RHB, we see this amazing creature EVERY DAY… ._.)

[fallen jasper]

non EE people trying to figure out if Rock actually sent them a live Flamingo

[pure loom]

Wait til the massive inflatable rubber duck turns up

jk

[fallen jasper]

[pure loom]

*searches on Amazon Sweden

[neon stream]

Did the hidden cameras you installed on the flamingo reveal any info of the EEs?

Mb, wrong chat

[fallen jasper]

inb4 I just send a giant box of rubber ducks to the Embark Office

[pure loom]

Why didn't I think of that?!?

[fallen jasper]

We're getting close to greatness here lads

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/lmao-spit-take-cracking-up-haha-so-funny-omg-gif-17921247

50 bucks would cover the whole office

and have some spares

[coral wing]

wait yall are crazy 🤣

RHB did ya really send that flamingo to their office? 🤣

[fallen jasper]

He sent a flamingo, yeah.

[hidden nacelle]

ye there is a video 😆

[neon stream]

There's a whole video with that 😛

[pure loom]

Yeah, it travelled with my mates from Germany (just like I said in the video)

[coral wing]

On your page ? 🤣

[neon stream]

Tbh, there's a whole story behind that flaming, in multiple videos 😂

[pure loom]

https://youtu.be/QmFVREeUAf0?t=167

[coral wing]

BRO LMAOOOOOOO

[south wyvern]

here too LOL

[pure loom]

from that timestamp

[fallen jasper]

Our community is goated

[sharp flame]

rare SR sighting

[south wyvern]

Rob is SO HAPPY! 🥹

[neon stream]

inb4 Rock gets banned for breaking rule 8 😛

[fallen jasper]

DOO I SPELL SLEF PROMOTI- jk

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/laugh-crying-gif-24196106

[fallen jasper]

I can't spell smell

or

anything

really

[coral wing]

this is one of the most amazing i have come across lmao, glad i can be a part of it

[fallen jasper]

Who was the one that sent dusty the Dusty Sea Scrolls mug?

Was it you Serp

[neon stream]

It was Rock as well 😂

[fallen jasper]

[pure loom]

throw me under the bus!

[fallen jasper]

I think when the wiki gets closer to being done I'm gonna switch to upkeeping a EE timeline and a THE FINALS timeline seperately on it.

[coral wing]

"bird very polite and effecient at job" 🤣

[pure loom]

2nd best receptionist Embark's ever had

(I didn't want to be rude )

[coral wing]

Whose the first

oh\

[proud minnow]

I would love that.! (or something else that might inspire us to add a new mascot in the game… ._.)

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/sports-funny-bounce-elephant-bouncing-gif-5920165

[pure loom]

Does Namatama have any family?

https://tenor.com/view/master-yoda-always-two-there-are-gif-20070062

spirals into developer interview about mascots

[proud minnow]

I have the answer to that, but this question will not be answered yet… ❤️

[pure loom]

That either sounds like a stereotypical way of avoiding saying "yes" or a genius-level way of saying "no"

[coral wing]

"000"

[pure loom]

Thanks for getting us back on topic! lol

[coral wing]

my brain hurts trying to decode which is sentimental and which is needed to be looked at

but i love it all nonetheless

[pure loom]

If we are still on the egg path - then maybe we should look at yolk-related things, in the same way thay CaCO3 is shell-related

[coral wing]

Look at it from yolk perspective versus yellow perspective you mean?

[pure loom]

well, as yellow pointing to yolk

[coral wing]

Oh

The end all of the yellow was egg yolk?

Or just a path ;-;

[pure loom]

I don't know - just that we have had egg-related answers, and the last one was still on that path, so Occam's razor would direct us the same way

[coral wing]

Ahh I see I see

just to put it out there in any case it is another color code

[pure loom]

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

[coral wing]

oh shit

we got new eyes

[pure loom]

"The yolk makes up about 33% of the liquid weight of the egg" (chicken egg)- close to the 32/33 clues!

"The yellow color is due to lutein and zeaxanthin, which are yellow or orange carotenoids known as xanthophylls."

[coral wing]

more about goeffrey
https://medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/catalog/person_78819164

tons of external links that show he actually wrote around 7 books it seems

He also had many different known names

[neon stream]

Lutein is the only one of those whose name comes from "yellow" in Latin

[daring bluff]

nama tama hatched the duck mascot confirmed

[daring bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/kronk-its-all-coming-together-gif-15058130

[pure loom]

Possible Li-Ion and yolk crossovers: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/nl3014814

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0925838818307886

[wanton sundial]

Wait... a Flamingo-Person Shooter?

[south wyvern]

Flamingo Payne, yes.

[pure loom]

Semi-confirmed. Maybe.

[spring sentinel]

The story of the thousand year war between the rubber ducks and inflatable flamingos.

Which yellow exotic fruit is the most egg shaped?

[timid solstice]

Will the realnamatama please stand up

[timid solstice]

Sounds like the story of Children of Time, but instead of genetically modified spiders and ants it’s flamingos and ducks

[south wyvern]

[crude topaz]

Durian...

quick egg question, has anyone ever stepped onto a reference for an owl? (edit, ah right thers a search function)

seems there is

Hey Rob, watcha say if i post this

ah nvm, mad man rambling , found the owl reference was for something else

[sharp flame]

Hmmmmm

137 as in the answer for T1C

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant

[tepid venture]

Egg Thonk

[proud minnow]

I could say Brian the lion, but I have to say Shadow of the Beast... ._.

[sharp flame]

👀 oh??

also 🙏 🇸 🇷 🙏 🕯️ (praying for new image )

[sharp flame]

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

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

[proud minnow]

Yes... I guess you guys need some more clues soon... ._.

[sharp flame]

haha we could always find more clues in older images

(a few hundred we missed I'm sure)

Hope we're not going too slowly this time... 😭

[proud minnow]

or in the last two images....

[sharp flame]

hmmmm

taking another look, wish me luck

[south wyvern]

As usual

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1011929497139953744/1124728518027259914/SRPray.gif

[sharp flame]

LMAOO

🙏

[neon stream]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[jade citrus]

both published by Psygnosis, developed by Reflections, and released on the Amiga

[south wyvern]

Am I seeing yang here (Yin & Yang) or probably just another yolk?

[fallen jasper]

looks like a bunny to me

[sharp flame]

reflections..

[rugged geode]

Rtx

[south wyvern]

I'm crazy...

Bjarne Stroustrup is best known for his work on C**++**. In 1979, he began developing C++ (initially called "C with Classes"). [C and Double Plus] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup

" I'm often asked what non-technical books I read, so here is a list of a few of my favorites. "
" Manchester (and Reid): The Last Lion. -- a biography of Churchill..."
https://www.stroustrup.com/literature.html#:~:text=Manchester (and Reid)%3A The Last Lion. -- a biography of Churchill.

RHB's 64 digits #easter-eggs message
Apple IS obsession with Lithium-ion.
https://www.apple.com/batteries/why-lithium-ion/
But I realise the Apple's Mac Operation System

• OS X Leopard (October 26, 2007) and OS X Snow Leopard (August 28, 2009)
• OS X Lion (July 20, 2011) and OS X Mountain Lion (July 25, 2012) Platforms: x86-64
  (x86-64 also known as 64-bit, x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64)

Golden Master "The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product. It typically consists of several stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the final version, or "gold", is released to the public."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle

[timid solstice]

[coral wing]

SHEESH

[timid solstice]

this colour scheme cannot be just a coincidence?

DeWALT Li-ion battery

lithium in latin is lithos

searching for:** yellow egg lithium** I get lithium sulfide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_sulfide

so looking at Xanthophyll I see Carotenoid / Carotene

And then I see 🦩 on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotenoid

[sharp flame]

OMG

[timid solstice]

OMG yellowstone is on that page

hmm β-carotene ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Β-Carotene

[sharp flame]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/science-behind-yellowstones-rainbow-hot-spring-180950483/#:~:text=And that orange color%2C like,most diverse community of bacteria.

?maybe

[sharp flame]

forgot to include the name here

β-Cryptoxanthin?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Β-Cryptoxanthin

wait, but this thing isn't completely palindromic/symmetrical

(due to the OH on the left)

if it were completely symmetrical:

it's not completely symmetrical either

but Lutein is derived from the latin word for yellow

In the human retina, lutein is absorbed from blood specifically into the macula lutea,[4] although its precise role in the body is unknown.[3] Lutein is also found in egg yolks and animal fats.

[timid solstice]

so connect this to stars.. perhaps carrots and night vision 👀

It's true – carrots are rich in the compound beta carotene, which your body uses to make a form of vitamin A that helps your eyes adjust in the dark.

Beta carotene – derived from its Latin namesake (carota=carrot)

[neon stream]

Grand Prismatic Spring... 😅

Galileo...GPS...🤔

@sharp flame @timid solstice great findings guys! 💪🏻

[sharp flame]

❤️

[timid solstice]

thanks, I feel we are close in a way

not a sex thing

[jade citrus]

sexito

[coral wing]

Classic fart bombs

Good findings peeps

Geoffreys latin to english definition of "lithos"

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/were-getting-close-almost-call-of-duty-game-plan-strategize-gif-13770667

(lol COD)

[south wyvern]

@timid solstice What if they're button cell?

Note - Button Cell Electrochemical System: C is for Lithium. The second letter, R, indicates a round (cylindrical) form.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes#Lithium_cells:~:text=used alkaline batteries.-,Button cells – coin%2C watch,-[edit]

[timid solstice]

Interesting…

[coral wing]

Does "SUIL S" or any form of those letters stand out at all to any of yall?

[sharp flame]

SUIL S?

[fallen jasper]

SUS

[sharp flame]

S LIES?

[coral wing]

i would like to believe that there is something written on stock of first image sniper

S U I L (cant tell) S

am i wrong

SUN OR SUH maybe

there is 100% something written on this stock

[sick stone]

Well, LiiiS is kinda close to SLIES

[sick stone]

If u tilt it -90deg and read it left to right it could almost look like braille for «G C N B»

https://tenor.com/view/who-knows-shrug-what-shades-on-idk-gif-15962763

[coral wing]

@sharp flame

we think of this yet

;-;

[sharp flame]

Pikachu = Yellow was mentioned

[coral wing]

dang

[sharp flame]

but Pikachu Yellow... might be something..

[sharp flame]

don't worry, you've still found something new ❤️

[coral wing]

im on a crazed hunt right now, i will find a confirm by end of today

its gotta be way easier than all of this

"Sly syndrome" could be related to CNS SLIES

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/sly-syndrome

[crude topaz]

i know carotene is used to make artificial butter yellow lol

or maybe thats just to color the popcorn more...

[timid solstice]

Rob hasnt eyed anything... we must be so far off

[sharp flame]

Maybe he's busy..

[timid solstice]

knock knock

[sharp flame]

who's there

[timid solstice]

new namatama official-art

[neon stream]

THE_FINALS_a_friend_you_desperately_need.png

[crude topaz]

am i blind?

ah, im slow

[sharp flame]

Surely it will come

[pure loom]

What if it's "dozen" with a letter missing? Like a dozen eggs...

I also tried krokos, which is Greek for yolk

[pure loom]

"DONT TRUS0(** THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN COMPROMISED ***" (there is an asterisk between S and 0 - Discord markup drops it out)

Does the 0(* represent the numbers those characters are on on a keyboard? * = 8, 0 = 0, ( = 9

809...

Also, CNS is the airport code for Cairns, Australia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/809_Lundia

[coral wing]

this could be it, but wouldnt it come to 089 then?

im going to give another go in morning, i want something to lead off of D:

[pure loom]

"DONT TRUS*0("

Discord markup gettin in the way

[coral wing]

lol love that

i see that "THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN COMPROMISED" has popped a lot with some searching in here

have yall came to an understanding with whose compromising?

[sharp flame]

is that something?

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/tiny-text-cant-see-ken-jeong-gif-5957945

Can someone direct me to the easy Easter egg section?

[sharp flame]

that way

🗄️ 👈

it's this one

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/joey-bumps-head-into-the-door-joey-tribbiani-friends-joey-headshot-gif-17298124

[sharp flame]

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

[south wyvern]

hi

[sharp flame]

hi

[south wyvern]

bear with me

[sharp flame]

hope it leaves you alone

[south wyvern]

from this very day, eight month ago...

#easter-eggs message

https://tenor.com/view/the-big-lebowski-what-the-hell-what-the-fuck-huh-what-gif-16553984

[sharp flame]

omg

I love this

[south wyvern]

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

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

[sharp flame]

Hi dusty!

[south wyvern]

"A karyotype is the general appearance of the complete set of chromosomes in the cells of a species or in an individual organism, mainly including their sizes, numbers, and shapes."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karyotype#

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichromacy#Mammals

then this get interesting, you guys have found 5 out of 6 of the xen egg weird chart blah blah

Licopene is a red carrot

[timid solstice]

WOW we did get 👀 !

so many of them

[sharp flame]

NO WAY

YESS!

progress

🙏 SR

[south wyvern]

maybe my pressure is working

list of chromosomes #

carrot (Daucus carota) - 18

[timid solstice]

There are the three main types of xanthophylls;
Lutein

zeaxanthin

α- and β-cryptoxanthin

[south wyvern]

[sharp flame]

hmmmmmmmmm

this seems important

[timid solstice]

wasnt there dots next to the a and b in the first image?

**α- and β- **cryptoxanthin

[sharp flame]

there was only an A in the first image

and the 'dots' were the stars of Centauri

[timid solstice]

second image

[sharp flame]

ohh the abbreviation

[timid solstice]

β-Cryptoxanthin has provitamin A activity and may be more bioefficacious than α-carotene even though, theoretically, both carotenoids supply one vitamin A molecule based on structure. This is likely due to the bipolar nature of β-cryptoxanthin.

bipolar ... couple ?

[south wyvern]

chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) - 78 (almost 79)

and then of course Human

46 #easter-eggs message
no eyes

[timid solstice]

hmm only eyes for Lutein though here

[south wyvern]

Hare (lupus) - 48
European rabbit (oryctolagus cuniculus) - 44

[sharp flame]

he might've eyed the first Lutein message for 'yellow' and the second one for the yolk mention

[south wyvern]

macula lutea...

[timid solstice]

yeah I mean I was looking at β-cryptoxanthin, but dont think its the way

[sharp flame]

only brought it up cause that was the 'exact' one in the image

but it seems the general Xanthophylls is being pointed at

that, or specifically Lutein

[south wyvern]

self talking eyes cones... tf..

[south wyvern]

"Excessive response in the central nervous system"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photophobia

[sharp flame]

Rob.. I found a yellow thing in Indianapolis

[proud minnow]

As the old saying goes: "Clooose but nooo Namatama"

[sharp flame]

either that or Yellow Rose Carriages.. or maybe I need to be more creative..

[south wyvern]

ok.. let me try this one brb

[quaint stratus]

Hello rob(totally not saying hello for my last bingo square or anything)

💀

[timid solstice]

hmm no eyes for serp
#easter-eggs message

twice infact

[south wyvern]

somewhere, somewhere

[sharp flame]

I think he maybe missed it?

or maybe it's the retina part which matters

[timid solstice]

"Clooose but n**ooo **Namatama"

[sharp flame]

OOO again?

[south wyvern]

you guys didnt see that? lol

[neon stream]

😂

[timid solstice]

insider confirmed

always reveal the connections to early for the hunt

so rob doesnt give eyes

[neon stream]

When we mention things, he might not give eyes until many of us believe that to be true

Or maybe it's just favoritism /j

😛

[quaint stratus]

Tama nama

[south wyvern]

Three O's
Obelisk Square

University Park

Soldiers & Sailors Monument

[timid solstice]

maybe its close as in not in that zipcode area

like the convention center just outside

[neon stream]

I really hope the answer is inside the zipcode 😅

If finding a needle in a haystack is difficult, imagine if the needle is in the haystack right next to it... 😅

[pure loom]

Password page for Tier 1F: https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-f

@fallen jasper can you please pin this ^ so it’s easier to find for the current tier?

[pure loom]

One of the haystacks next to it. And it might not be a needle. EZ.

[tulip matrix]

Saw someone mention yin yang before
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-visualizing-mysterious-quantum-entanglement-photons.html

[pure loom]

“Zeaxanthin is one of the most common carotenoids in nature, and is used in the xanthophyll cycle. Synthesized in plants and some micro-organisms, it is the pigment that gives paprika (made from bell peppers), corn, saffron, goji (wolfberries), and many other plants and microbes their characteristic color.”

Lol I searched for “lithium egg yolk” and found this website called RobAid 😂 https://www.robaid.com/tech/egg-yolk-inspired-sulfure-cathodes-set-record-battery-capacity.htm

[tulip matrix]

When life gives you Rob

Make RobAid

[coral wing]

THIS

[coral wing]

Ive always wondered this ;-;

Like i wonder how much confirms or on tracks rob hasnt “eyed” due to it being only one person on a track of it, or does he eye everything? 🫡

[neon stream]

He eyes things to guide us, but not everything we get right. There were times before where ideas were too close to the answer, or just generally in the right path, and they weren't eyed

As we get more experience, he eyes less things, the eyes are like training wheels, and at some point he'll probably remove them completely... ._.

[proud minnow]

I eye everything that is correct, even if only one person post it.

[neon stream]

Not sure how to check if this statement is true, since I have no way of knowing if your pants are on fire 😛

[pure loom]

A statue in the White River Gardens, Indianapolis

[timid solstice]

i was wondering is White River was connected after I posted that map earlier

this could be it

[pure loom]

I looked at the White River wiki page, that doesn't seem to have anything interesting. I think it must be something in Indianapolis

A city with 2.1 million residents. EZ.

https://tenor.com/view/uhmhmn-sarcasm-sarcastic-gif-19429002

cool museum for kids there

Possible connection to the "love" path: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_(Indianapolis)

[pure loom]

Given that we've seen a few sculptures tied into clues, this could be a path (which includes the rabbit) "Sited along the White River, the center's 9.5 acres (3.8 ha) includes a public sculpture garden."

[neon stream]

Hmmm didn't we see this sculpture somewhere before? Or am I going crazy? (I know... those two things are not mutually exclusive 😂)

[pure loom]

lol someone created this

duck and cover Indianapolis style

doesn't seem to have any obvious paths though

similar rabbit image to the WRs though

[proud minnow]

I guess you will just have to trust me... ._.

[pure loom]

No omega in these...

[proud minnow]

I know, haha... I found that too when I was researching Indianapolis for this tier a couple of month ago one late night, but I didn't know if it was SFW so it isn't part of the EE-hunt, hehe... ._.

[spark dagger]

it was a saint rob i beg to differ moment check above

a

[pure loom]

I'm confused going back over these - ε is Epsilon not omega

[pure loom]

Just above here? Or way back?

[spark dagger]

right from here

[pure loom]

Or just that Rob 👀 'd it - therefore is is omega

[spark dagger]

saint rob please choose, what is closer to your liking
👀 or

[pure loom]

oh, so it's 3 AND it's omega

... still confused

[proud minnow]

haha what have I done, I'm a bit confused... ._.

[pure loom]

This is omega: Ω

[spark dagger]

this haha #easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

oh, lowercase! ω

https://tenor.com/view/i-might-be-an-idiot-liz-lemon-30rock-idiot-stupid-gif-19745990

[spark dagger]

there is another symbol yeah

[proud minnow]

BTW there are MANY symbols, will have to go through the padlet tomorrow and see if there is anything you found that I missed... ._.

[pure loom]

ok, here's our reference then

I searched for "delta omega zeta epsilon yolk" and got "best fraternities in the US"

"Surveys show people in northern European countries prefer lighter yellow yolks, while people from southern countries –though also including Germany–want dark, deep orange yolks."
@proud minnow what's your preference?

bumping this back in here because it was 👀 'd 3 weeks ago

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

[proud minnow]

Do you want a hex code, hehe

[pure loom]

I'll take anything. A hex code, an off-the-cuff remark, a pantone number... anything

[proud minnow]

Strange, I thought I gave you that already…

[pure loom]

[proud minnow]

Time to sleep, take care.!

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/this-guy-gets-it-nick-offerman-gif-14758472

[south wyvern]

im loosing it

[south wyvern]

[timid solstice]

but it wasnt confirmed so

[pure loom]

this was the confirmation, or do you mean something else?

[timid solstice]

I mean my explanation of why that 'delta omega zeta epsilon' was 👀 was not confirmed, so my explanation could be wrong

as the numerals are rotated compared to the others, its the only way I could make sense of it

[south wyvern]

sometimes i get Omega symbols wrong with Ascending Node

[timid solstice]

but no eyes for serps Lutein posts though...

[pure loom]

Maybe Xanthophyll is a better path then

[timid solstice]

yup and it was eyed again recently

#easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

Do you know how many days we are up to?

[timid solstice]

as in starting T 1F to now?

From and including: Monday, 3 July 2023
To, but not including Wednesday, 23 August 2023

Result: 51 days

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/relaxing-chill-dyd-dydbetting-cats-gif-20898796

We can get from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Scuti_variable (remember the variable star path?)

To here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthophyll in 3 steps

[timid solstice]

your yolk message was 👀 too

[pure loom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Scuti_variable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASP-33b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxy_group
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthophyll

[timid solstice]

gn and good luck everyone

[deft tusk]

As an outsider looking in, you all sound absolutely schizophrenic(positive)

[timid solstice]

also happy anniversary
https://twitter.com/reachthefinals/status/1562165632501686272?s=20

THE FINALS (@reachthefinals)

CAN YOU REACH #THEFINALS? https://t.co/uQzbxPNte3

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[south wyvern]

😂

i ended up googling "egg broadcast" last night to this (Paul McCartney)

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

[pure loom]

This is one step off of Hydroxy group too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuric_acid which could relate to the Yellowstone clues

[timid solstice]

hmm, lithium sulphide got eyed, I wonder if it leads to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium–sulfur_battery

[pure loom]

Not necessarily related, but this sounds too cool not to post it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_solution

We need a "The floor is Piranha Solution" mode haha

[timid solstice]

oooh and that article with the same battery you posted was about lithium sulphur batteries

[timid solstice]

eats EVERYTHING

[pure loom]

Oh! Maybe that's why Rob zoomed in on the image

[fallen jasper]

Hello EE people

I have a request ffor you fine yolks

I need a short(Paragraph or so) tagline for Easter Eggs 👀

[pure loom]

This looks promising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allotropes_of_sulfur

hmmm... looks like it's egg whites that contain sulfur compounds

[pure loom]

Interesting sulfur and egg combined path: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ōwakudani

[coral wing]

I have worked these in order and “out of order” for many many hours. I could not seem to find something related to ANYTHING we have, at least in english ;-;

Like honestly 10+ hours of just those four words / as a phrase

We are 100% its those symbols? Rereading today got me a little confused

[pure loom]

Yeah, Rob 👀 confirms it is delta omega zeta epsilon

[timid solstice]

4 15 26 5 ?

[sharp flame]

?

the symbols?

[tulip matrix]

d o z e

[sick stone]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteraceae . So I just want to point out that this family of plants are named for their star-like shape, contains dandelions and the flower https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos_bipinnatus which when yellow is known as the xanthos cosmos bipinnatus (or Mexican aster (as in star))

[sharp flame]

new image 🧠

9619907

https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/2179776

??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mærsk_Mc-Kinney_Møller_(ship)

[neon stream]

You're faster fish 😂

[fallen jasper]

Why is that photo from 2013 so low quality lmao

I thought it was a ship from the 70s for a second

[neon stream]

Not the ø again 😅

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mærsk_Mc-Kinney_Møller

Per Aspera Ad Astra

HMMMM

[neon stream]

Hmm alpha and beta in upper and lower case? 🤔

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_100673

here is A Centauri, not Alpha Centauri

[neon stream]

@sharp flame

[proud minnow]

This clue might be too obvious, sorry if I'm making the EE-hunts too simple these days... ._.

[sharp flame]

it's okay rob... surely this answer will be easy also..

[neon stream]

"obvious"...🤔. I think the meaning of that sentence was lost in translation 😂

[sharp flame]

or maybe we've just gotten faster 🧠

[pliant spire]

Is it me or do the sprinkles on the cake kinda look like a color blindness dot test thing

It’d be kinda funny if the Easter egg hunt was gated behind not being color blind

Just to clarify I am color blind

[willow barn]

12 december 2023???

[spark dagger]

release date 🙏🙏

[daring bluff]

what

[sharp light]

How soon does it take for the game to be playable?

I can't wait to play this game.

[neon stream]

It's okay if you're color blind, you can contribute a lot as well! The Easter Egg hunt is "gated" by many things, but that's fine, that's why we work together to solve it 💪🏻

[crude topaz]

seem to be using a lot of red

[tepid venture]

https://tenor.com/view/numbers-gif-18415713

🤔

[spring sentinel]

the cake is a lie

[fallen jasper]

Who spilled purple all over namatama

[spring sentinel]

Please someone, help me find a full Uranometria completed with the tables

[pure loom]

The locked gate in front of me just says “no idiots”

https://tenor.com/view/push-pull-door-gif-7767237

Why did Dusty write “agents of misinformation” right after “sneaky flamingo delivery service organizers”?

https://tenor.com/view/im-kind-of-offended-nathan-drake-tom-holland-uncharted-movie-i-feel-a-bit-offended-gif-25022955

[fallen jasper]

Can I get some flamingos

[pure loom]

SOLD OUT.

[fallen jasper]

NOOOOOOOO

[pure loom]

It stands out super-well in Forensically's noise analysis

[pure loom]

Another weird coincidence: "Sunrise Eggs is a family owned and operated business created by George Xanthos"

[pure loom]

Here's a possible path for "Mabu" - "Mabuya is a genus of long-tailed skinks restricted to species from various Caribbean islands. They are primarily carnivorous, though many are omnivorous. The genus is viviparous, having a highly evolved placenta that resembles that of eutherian mammals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabuya

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

Also related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovoviviparity

"Ovoviviparous animals are similar to viviparous species in which there is internal fertilization and the young are born alive, but differ in that there is no placental connection and the unborn young are nourished by egg yolk"

A link between sulfur and "lapis": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_compounds

Wasn't there something that looked like the lefthand one of these resonance structures of Sulfur trioxide in one of the images?

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

[timid solstice]

super clear!

[sharp flame]

anything else it shows?

unless it's just that number + the abBA clue

just thinking cause last Special nama gave us OVIFORM which was 50% of the answer 😭

[timid solstice]

Α α Alpha
Β β Beta

[timid solstice]

nice find

Robs message a while back too
#easter-eggs message

[timid solstice]

maybe the ooo are the 3 stars?

[pure loom]

Could be the resonance structures

Here: #easter-eggs message

[timid solstice]

reposting these... I feel we must go back to go forward
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

Oh! Interesting - I was thinking some of the little icing ball things look a bit morphed together but maybe they are like these structures.

[timid solstice]

hmmm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPK_coloring#:~:text=Hofmann's original colour scheme (carbon,into%20the%20later%20color%20schemes.

[sharp flame]

Haha that's what I meant #easter-eggs message

[timid solstice]

yeah I know just noting it

I think its the answer to the numbers

[fallen jasper]

this is what i look like after drinking 19 gallons of oil from the pump in the local gastation

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/zoolander-oregon-gas-gif-10690673

[coarse dagger]

Alright, I think I've gone through and added the eyed posts to the padlet as well as some other SR communication

Been really busy working on the (rental) house, and entertaining Em's parents who helped us move in, and now another friend who came to visit.

Over the past few days I've been doing some minor work on my Obsidian notebook and hosting it publicly using Quartz.
Here's Quartz for anyone interested: https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz

Quartz just updated to v4, so my hosted notebook is looking better than ever, although it still isn't ready for primetime. One issue I'm having with it at the moment is it still doesn't support tags in graph views, and I used a lot of tags to tie together many ideas. Tags such as "Latin", "Crystal", "Aster", and "Mod"

[coarse dagger]

Carotene -> Keratin ?
Alpha-keratin (α-keratin)
beta-keratins (β-keratins)

The silk fibroins produced by insects and spiders are often classified as keratins, though it is unclear whether they are phylogenetically related to vertebrate keratins.

Silk found in insect pupae, and in spider webs and egg casings, also has twisted β-pleated sheets incorporated into fibers wound into larger supermolecular aggregates

The biologically and commercially useful properties of silk fibers depend on the organization of multiple adjacent protein chains into hard, crystalline regions of varying size, alternating with flexible, amorphous regions where the chains are randomly coiled.

[coarse dagger]

Grand Prismatic Spring -> GPS ?

[subtle drum]

Egg

[timid solstice]

Oooh

Nice record keeping!

[timid solstice]

these colours could be the CPK colouring for Iron and Sulfur

mixed is Iron Sulfide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_sulfide

and whats made of Iron Sulfide.. Fools Gold / pyrite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite

[fallen jasper]

Wonder if the next EE art is gonna be the ISEUL-T person

[daring bluff]

are we still on T1F

[pure loom]

Yeah.

[daring bluff]

i might start digging around with yall i’m a bored kid in college

[sharp flame]

The who?

[fallen jasper]

Someone wearing ISEUL-T Clothing

[crude topaz]

Mr.T ?

[fallen jasper]

Rob's always released OSPUZE art first, followed by ISEUL-T

[sharp flame]

But iseul-t isn't yellow..

[fallen jasper]

Green also isn't yellow

[sharp flame]

Hmm he did the +Red clue on the green one

[fallen jasper]

[sharp flame]

Purple + ?? = yellow

[fallen jasper]

This is a certified kyne miss moment

[crude topaz]

green + yellow = blue (iseul-t)

[fallen jasper]

THIS IS A CERTIFED KYNE HIT MOMENT

[crude topaz]

hmm

mind tricks

[fallen jasper]

[sharp flame]

I feel like ab BA is somehow related to the actual answer structure

as in the yellow part is the 'word' and the palindrome/mirror/couple thing is the 'cipher'

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

Just found this, has a song named 'shhh' (as in the "SHHH" image)

[pure loom]

This has given me an idea for the diamond clue gif.

[crude topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/the-universe-tim-and-eric-mind-blown-mind-blown-meme-mind-explosion-mind-explosion-meme-gif-18002878

[cedar owl]

[sharp flame]

👀

hi Dusty!

[pure loom]

Have you ever considered that Dusty is actually the mastermind behind all of this and Rob is just a misdirection for us?

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-simpsons-prove-me-wrong-prove-me-wrong-kids-gif-22363176

[sharp flame]

I've been suspecting this for a long time...

[fallen jasper]

That's probably just Rob on Dusty's account

[pure loom]

Or is it Dusty on Rob's account?

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/loki-loki-series-bit-of-both-loki-clip-tom-hiddleston-gif-21748514

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/same-gif-8650053

[cedar owl]

Hot tip: don't leave your phone unlocked around Rob

[sharp flame]

oh no...

[proud minnow]

I would never..! ❤️

[sharp flame]

Perhaps it was ROB who leaned on Dusty's keyboard that one time...

[modern oasis]

@proud minnow what about that coffee stain? 👀

[crude topaz]

he never wiped it off, did he...

[coarse dagger]

Sorry, what are y'all seeing here? I'm blind (not really tho)

[sharp flame]

they'll let you know when they figure it out 😭

[crude topaz]

https://tenor.com/view/hmmm-gif-26520567

[coarse dagger]

Three O's from Rob:
00:30
#easter-eggs message

CLOSE… so close… but yet tooo far away…
#easter-eggs message

As the old saying goes: "Clooose but nooo Namatama"
#easter-eggs message

.
.
Two F's from rob

@gusto this is actually a brilliant idea, let’s make a FFPS.!
#easter-eggs message

.
.

I think those above are related to the Hex code he mentioned he gave us

I also found Two P's... but those are probably unrelated:

hmm, I will scroll upp again and make sure I eye the correct ones then... BRB
#easter-eggs message

Also, have Y'all been noticing he signs his messages as SR?

... ._. is SR in morse.

Am I slow... did everyone know that already?

[sharp flame]

That's where SR comes from (afaik)

we just made up the Saint Rob part 😭

[coarse dagger]

"Ego sum qui sum" (and yes I often drove my mom to mAdnEsS, hehe.!)
#easter-eggs message

AES

[sharp flame]

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

?

AES

[coarse dagger]

Idk

For some reason I feel like I can picture AES followed by a long number similar to an ISBN number...
Maybe I'm just conflating oeis.org and their identifiers starting with A

[neon stream]

Yeah, someone noticed that a long time ago, and I just joked about what that meant 😂

[coarse dagger]

https://genius.com/Skepticism-aes-lyrics

[coarse dagger]

These are all pointing us to Amigia again

If anyone finds the string "M.K." (or the bytes 4d 2e 4b 2e) anywhere let me know

[pure loom]

This was referring to the Flamingo First Person Shooter that Embark are formally considering.

[coarse dagger]

gotcha

[proud minnow]

I will check the padlet again, dont think it has been solved… yet… ❤️

[pure loom]

maybe it was dissolved...

https://tenor.com/view/ba-dum-tuss-jokes-gotcha-burn-ouch-gif-5645546

https://tenor.com/view/ill-see-myself-out-im-leaving-bye-baby-yoda-gif-21233230

[sharp flame]

I want it to be a dino footprint 🙏

but it's obviously a bit more complex..

[pure loom]

The edge of coffee stains form in a way that is not completely dissimilar to geodes forming in rock cavities, but other than that, I can't think of anything else related. Maybe it's something to do with coffee beans.

[timid solstice]

I see something like this

[pure loom]

Maybe extreme or single colour channels can bring these out?

[timid solstice]

I wonder what was Keyart B

[neon stream]

When you consider things easy, we solve them in months... see you in a few years... 😂

[pure loom]

I tried overlaying these images without any luck finding anything

[pure loom]

The big one on the left looks a bit like a T-rex head

https://tenor.com/view/what-do-you-see-luke-skywalker-mark-hamill-star-wars-the-last-jedi-gif-16193583

[neon stream]

Following Rob's use of Latin latetly... "scio me nihil scire" 😂

[pure loom]

Scio te nihil scire

[coral wing]

oh my lord i missed so much

Can someone point me to the "coffee stain"

[pure loom]

It was from Tier 1E

https://tenor.com/view/vietnamflashback-gif-7780922

[coral wing]

oh

.....

;---------;

im working layering these two images since ka9n was earlier

i feel like there is stuff in here w proper settings

maybe some writing on the jacket. T? J? "S"

[coral wing]

and apparently i dont have those settings 😎

[coarse dagger]

What if the solution is that Rob drinks coffee and is a mess?

[coarse dagger]

Ohhh, I see her eye!

And a bit of her lip

[coarse dagger]

Could the three Os in Rob's comments be referring to Ozone?

[coarse dagger]

Ozone has connections to Carotenoid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone#Impact_on_plant_growth_and_crop_yields

"Ozone has been implicated to have an adverse effect on plant growth: "... ozone reduced total chlorophylls, carotenoid and carbohydrate concentration, and increased 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) content and ethylene production. "

[pure loom]

Here's an idea for "CNS," assuming that it does link to the whole ARC Raiders and THE FINALS being in the same universe idea, with the AR world being the "real world" and TF being the virtual world - what if the C stands for Calabretta? So, maybe Calabretta News Service.

Raiders hacking into the old TV network and broadcasting through it.

[sharp flame]

Now THAT would be a twist

[daring bluff]

just couldn’t be CNN could it

cnn logo kinda looks like the finals logo

i think i’m a master EE hunter now

[coral wing]

seriously

but it would make so much sense lowkey

[neon stream]

That's a good idea! 💪🏻

[patent seal]

That’s a good one

[coarse dagger]

Are we sure it's brown-eyed girl and not the girl from couples?

[timid solstice]

I’m not sure, just showed it as example

[coarse dagger]

How did you combine these two images?

[crude topaz]

just made 2 layers in photoshop/photopea and playing around with layer options

[coarse dagger]

SHHH_NeverOddOrEven_XOR

Don't know if there's anything there. Posting just in case

[spark dagger]

my brain isn’t braining that pic

[sharp flame]

brain owie

[coarse dagger]

NeverOddOrEven_subtract_SHHH.png

SHHH_subtract_NeverOddOrEven.png

Interesting that the SHH subtract NeverOddOrEven reveals the Atsuko Nishida text

[sharp flame]

that looks like pure black to me

[coarse dagger]

Huh?

[sharp flame]

Just can't see anything in this image

😭

[coarse dagger]

Not even the bright blue at the top? Might need to restart disc?

[sharp flame]

I see the bright blue

[coarse dagger]

Ok, I think it's just a monitor brightness thing. I can see it well on one of my monitors, but not the other

SHHH_subtract_NeverOddOrEven_10xBrightness.png

There, I boosted the brightness 10x

Are these letters new?

[sharp flame]

that's OSPUZE no?

[coarse dagger]

Oh, it also revealed Β-Cryptoxanthin

[coarse dagger]

👍

Eh, just upping the brightness without the subtraction seems to reveal them

[coarse dagger]

What if it's not add just the color red... but it's add THE_FINALS_Wallpaper_Red_Sports_Caracter_2880x1620 ?

[coarse dagger]

Did we get anywhere with this after Rob eyed it?

[pure loom]

Yeah, I tried a bunch of these combos as well and didn't find anything

[pure loom]

Oh! interesting

[sharp flame]

I think it's supposed to be a green image, then add red filter

[pure loom]

I'll jump in now and have look

[sharp flame]

and at the right amount at least the whole thing should look yellow

cause when Serp theorised that the green image +red = yellow Rob eyed that next

[coarse dagger]

Ooh I have an idea

Nah, I got nothin. Lol

[sharp flame]

😭 happens

[pure loom]

We actually need to advertise for a photoshop expert to join us

aka I feel like I know nothing about photoshop

[fickle forge]

youtube tutorials time

[pure loom]

"how to reveal easter eggs with photoshop -1 min tutorial"

why has no one made that???

[fickle forge]

damn good point

[pure loom]

it seems so obvious

[sharp flame]

yeah the one on the right is the Green image and +Red

[pure loom]

ah, I might have something

dang, I zoomed in and it was nothin

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message here's the exact 👀s

It's possible we're solving for red

Aka Red = Yellow - GreenSmoke

[pure loom]

ok, lemme try that

so, I'm putting a fully yellow (cmyk) layer behind it then going through whatever those options are under "normal" - they really need to name that list

[coarse dagger]

The other options instead of a yellow layer are FFD700, or NeverOddOrEven

That I can think of

Let me see if I can understand linear dodge add to figure out what the inverse of that would be

Not sure if difference, exclusion, subtraction, or none of the above are the inverse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_modes#Dodge_and_burn

The Linear Dodge blend mode simply sums the values in the two layers (also known as additive blending). Blending with white gives white. Blending with black does not change the image. When the top layer contains a homogeneous color, this effect is equivalent to changing the output black point to this color, and (input) white point to the inverted color. The contrast is decreased when there is no clipping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_modes#Difference

Difference subtracts the bottom layer from the top layer or the other way around, to always get a non-negative value. Blending with black produces no change, as values for all colors are 0. (The RGB value for black is (0,0,0).) Blending with white inverts the picture.

One of the main utilities for this is during the editing process, when it can be used to verify alignment of pictures with similar content. Exclusion is a very similar blend mode with lower contrast.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_modes#Subtract

This blend mode simply subtracts pixel values of one layer with the other. In case of negative values, black is displayed. In some applications such as Krita, "Inverse Subtract" is also available.

I think difference is the opposite of linear dodge (add)

IDK

I am confusion

[pure loom]

Nothing yet - it seems to me like the obvious place that something would show up would be where the two smoke areas are on the right of NeverOddOrEven and SHHH

Or the belt buckle of NOOE

It would be hilarious if this turns up a snowflake haha

some of these do look pretty cool

[winged marlin]

Haha I made that same one and thought the same thing!

-Lulz on EMs phone

[sharp flame]

The clue in the image said "(+red)" which is what I was referring to

[pure loom]

which image was it?

[jade citrus]

it was the SHHH image, the numbers in the bottom right under the Embark logo iirc

[pure loom]

thanks!

so, that kinda suggests red+green, maybe

[coarse dagger]

Right, but then someone built on that with the green + red = yellow, right?

I'm just saying that red = yellow - green is the same equation rearranged

And we have a yellow and a green image in this tier in the same resolution

[sharp flame]

I think combining them is worth a try

But yeah after all the Yellow clues I can't see it pointing to any colour other than yellow 😭

[coarse dagger]

I guess there is no inverse to Linear dodge add. Because white destroys data. So I can't just rearrange an equation as though it's algebra

[coarse dagger]

I can't seem to replicate it. I would love to be able to so I can try to overlay it onto other images to see if any faces match

[coarse dagger]

If I did my search correctly not a single pixel in NOOE is #FFD700

[proud minnow]

@modern oasis looked at the padlet today… no news about the stain… I think that’s a dead clue… let’s drink some coffee tomorrow together and see if we can make a new coffeee clue.!

[spring sentinel]

eee

How do you like your coffeee?

[modern oasis]

Spilled on a table 😏

[sharp flame]

Easter Egg Eunt

[neon stream]

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