easter-eggs

[jade citrus]

don't think we've made any progress tho

[coarse dagger]

I feel like I just made a substantial connection between one of our few clues in T2ABC and T1A

[jade citrus]

that's true, i guess we'll see what rob thinks

[coarse dagger]

Bruh

I just found another connection between tiers

Alkyóne originally is written with a smooth breathing mark, but this false origin beginning with a rough breathing mark (transliterated as the letter H) led to the common misspellings halkyón (ἁλκυών) and Halkyóne (Ἁλκυόνη), and thus the name of one of the kingfisher bird genus' in English Halcyon.

#easter-eggs message

CNS and Halcion/Halcyon were T1F

BRUH THIS IS THE AREA WHERE I WENT SO DEEP, AND ROB NEVER EYED ANY OF IT BUT GAVE A VAGUE CONFIRMATION WITH HIS "Cygnus Ed" post

So I'm going to bluntly ask a really weird question which I only hinted at previously....

This is going to sound a bit out of left field...

Are any of the PNG files we've been provided secretly also another file type? Perhaps a MOD file?

and/or was the software Protracker used to hide anything in this hunt?

I've asked this here and there, but if you ever find the string "M.K." (or the bytes 4d 2e 4b 2e) hidden ANYWHERE. Please let me know

Just noticed Rob used the word "Unknown" twice in one day, like an hour apart:
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message

A common misconception is that the magic number "M.K." in the 0x438 offset of MOD files are the initials of Mahoney and Kaktus, two prominent Amiga demomakers at the time, who played an important part in the popularity of the format. They in fact stand for the initials of Michael Kleps a.k.a. Unknown / DOC, another developer of the format.

Rob it's happening again. You're once again pulling me into the hole of madness which I was convinced never came of anything!

Good thing is I have really good notes of this area

[balmy fog]

Wrong channel, please delete your post and re-post it in #🔴┇media-chat, this isn't the appropriate channel!

[worldly mural]

Tama means tamago aka egg in Japanese

[jade citrus]

yep! its also in the wiki here: https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Mascots

[turbid tinsel]

i do rememebr rob making a comment about a good mod for a game before

in the early c64 dives

[undone socket]

it was about that soundtrack i belive

[balmy fog]

GN Hunters!

[coarse dagger]

It was an odd phrasing. He was referring to a song demo someone made in C64.
#easter-eggs message

[coarse dagger]

@slender lodge ???

[slender lodge]

When tf did I add that lmao

[coarse dagger]

T1B, it's not connected to anything 🤣

[quaint wing]

Ahhahahaha

[coarse dagger]

Haven't found any connections other than the name, but just found this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Pléiades

And a potential connection between Beethoven (T1B) and Halcyon:
https://tidal.com/browse/artist/6965763

T1B padlet doesn't connect anything back to the password

Gonna take this and work backward from there

Did we ever figure out what was up with this music???

[coarse dagger]

Google doc explains it better:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLzGtj2w2elVkqEdPV6NgqRiszNAxnwIANXHK-Pa1Bk/edit?usp=sharing

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/watch-game-of-thrones-jon-snow-watch-ended-gif-5445395

[coarse dagger]

This has been pointed out before but... Alpha Centauri:

The pair orbit around a common centre with an orbital period of 79 years.

Connection between T1B and T1F

[raw panther]

good morning

[coarse dagger]

Was Rob 👀ing posts back during T1B? I'm not seeing any in the channel back then.
I guess things were simpler back then

[fallen jasper]

Tartar is goated with fishsticks

[balmy fog]

Probably the only thing you can eat with it

[fallen jasper]

Yeah for sure

[vivid wind]

Okay so....I think this is the teaser of new map easter egg

[jagged ore]

Nice

[balmy fog]

Good job!

[jagged ore]

I'm no musician but does it make any sense to play those notes with the cords we might have from this tier?

Also we didn't get any eyes on any of the PETSCII or the C64 colors from yesterday right?

[balmy fog]

Annette said it was just a recurring thing from the glitch transitions

So these aren’t clues

This is still valid tho

I will look into it today

[jagged ore]

I see

[balmy fog]

Or actually I’ll probably wait to see if Rob eyes it

Then I’ll work on it

Good job @coarse dagger for the refresh

[jagged ore]

Also the 2 could also be a z in leet right?

[balmy fog]

Yep

I use the same method you’ve seen but I’ve actually perfected it @jagged ore

[timid solstice]

can you please let me know the frame number for the top left

[balmy fog]

Im just posting it for further check once the times come but, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Box these were a series of games for the C64, might lead to nothing but if someone wants to check it out, who knows!

I didn't see myself nothing interesting

The only letters we know are

F=6

G=6

right?

alright

Here me out

I know I might be going crazy

Rob has confirmed 6000666

So I've placed the 6 on the G on the C64

and recreated the pattern

Then he kinda confirmed that

6000666 = GOLDEGG

so we have the pattern for the 6000666

So knowing that, maybe use that keysets to type in the password?

As we know it'll probably be gold related

Time has been mentionned by Rob multiple times

The ''time is ticking'' might be related to a BPM (for music) hence the link with the guitar chords

A G6 chords is mostly played in jazz according to the internet wich might be why Rob said and I quote; I realize it almost looks like you are a bit stuck, time is ticking, but I guess we are not really in a hurry, Jazz ballades play at around 60-80bpm on average according to the internet

again, the F6 chords is mostly also played in Jazz see screenshot below It says ''This voicing for F6 is commonly used in the jazz genre. The root note is located on the fifth string.''

https://freemusiclessons4u.com/Guitar/Chords/Ma6/exer_C6-F6-G6_chords_R.htm Here is an interesting page on C6-F6-G6 chords progression

[vivid wind]

that was 331 frame, checked at premiere pro

[balmy fog]

Here's a few rabbit holes , from this ss, https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Unknown_3 wich leads to https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VII and the premisce of FFVII is ''..to help fight the mega-corporation Shinra Electric Power Company, who attempts to drain the planet's lifeblood as an energy source to further their profits.''

[quaint wing]

There was also 18/3, which could be a time signature or a date

[balmy fog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acTprlcZ8HE

also fits more @proud minnow type of music ? I think

[proven zinc]

holyyyy

[quaint wing]

WHERE ARE THE EYES ROB?!

[turbid tinsel]

I put crazy hours into ff7, not sure I see how it relates other than maybe being made by square soft and the square cashout boxes or a golden chocobo

[balmy fog]

Ok good, we can scrath this off

I think the 18/3 was more of 18th of March

[turbid tinsel]

I mean unless he wants us looking for a golden bird

[balmy fog]

Wouldn't a golden bird lay down golden egg?

[turbid tinsel]

Not exactly.

[balmy fog]

I mean, until we get eyes I dont recommend going thru it

As we'll prob lose time

[turbid tinsel]

Like maybe it's a reference to search for a golden bird that lays eggs like a golden chicken or the golden phoenix

Or maybe a song bird lol

[balmy fog]

Actually

Let's stop looking for clues

I just realised, Rob told us they we had basically everything we needed

he said this just moments before

then made the allusion for the gold

basically saying, we've got everything we need to find T2ABC (url t1-f-1) (gold related)

[hasty anvil]

struck gold, gold miner?

or g minor?

[drifting chasm]

what is the egg mascots name?

[hidden nacelle]

namatama

[neon stream]

That's what I've been saying 😭

[balmy fog]

Rob didn't say our work here is done, SPEAR said it

[balmy fog]

Im just curious okkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

Can't help me-self

[neon stream]

That's great! You need curiosity here! 💪🏻

[ember aurora]

Please tell me we have tried the lost city of gold or el doroto

[ember aurora]

And rob responded to it

[neon stream]

Yeah, sometimes it's difficult not to go into rabbit holes, but we have to step back and make connections too

[drifting chasm]

is there potential for easter egg info to be hidden in the egg pictures as well

[neon stream]

Yeah, there have been clues there too

[drifting chasm]

i probably should look at the dates they were posted

i thought it might still be relevent

[neon stream]

This one, for example

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011929497139953744/1094267899310522388/Clues_Robatama.png

[balmy fog]

The story of this movie is ''Three Indians are murdered. Each was wearing a medallion when he died. Together the medallions form a puzzle whose solution points to gold.''

Im not gonna lie, that, kinda looks like the actual easter-egg

'' Together the medallions form a puzzle whose solution points to gold.''

[quaint wing]

Puzzle pieces was 👀

[ember aurora]

Bruh…

[balmy fog]

?

[ember aurora]

I an going to laugh if thats been staring us in the face this whole time

[ember aurora]

@proud minnow please I need a react if this chain is at all related, I have been awake for 24 hours and could use a nap.

[balmy fog]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lone_Ranger_and_the_Lost_City_of_Gold the page is low on infos tho

I see the connection but

I dont see how we can use it

[hasty anvil]

this conversation is gold and time related

a gold 'something' related to time

[turbid tinsel]

maybe its a reference to time is money

probably not related, but what if it was coin related.

Since the intro to every one of their videos says insert coin

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

[quaint wing]

Minted gold coin?

[turbid tinsel]

maybe, im just spitballing. idk how or if any of it relates to eyes we already got

[hasty anvil]

we need to use the stuff we have now lol

[turbid tinsel]

easier said than done lol

[quaint wing]

Yup. Go through the padlet and look at what we didn't connect maybe. I tried doing that the other day, but wasn't here from the start so I've got blurred lines

[hasty anvil]

im going through robs messages atm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Giana_Sisters popular c64 soundtrack

the company is time warp production

[neon stream]

Nice find! That's almost definitely why he said it 💪🏻

[hasty anvil]

the publisher includes softgold

im trying to find how to play the soundtrack

its a 2 player game

[quaint wing]

https://youtu.be/YwUBu4VLD58?si=mS4bSZE0_c7BZznX

Full ost

[balmy fog]

Palm trees in arizona

note that the film was partially shot on location in Tucson, Arizona

https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/53585

''The Tucson Gold Rush in the Santa Catalina Mountains is still going on! There is still some gold left in the Santa Catalina Mountains.

The search for gold in the Cañada del Oro (Canyon of Gold), north of Tucson, Arizona, may have started as early as the 1500s with the expedition of Coronado.

The arrival of the Spaniards in the 1700s also contributed to the legends of lost Spanish Jesuit mines with tales of bullions of gold treasure still buried in the Santa Catalina Mountains.''

THIS MIGHT BE A REACH also found this 18/3

[turbid tinsel]

now how does all of it relate to commodore 64 and egg in some way

[ember aurora]

I know we are still on the c64, did we ever discuss gilligan’s gold/bagman?

[balmy fog]

@coarse dagger Pretty sure we found the link to the Washingtonia

[hasty anvil]

this game had a lawsuit against nintendo and had to stop being produced, then in 1996 (which rob said) a cracked version for the c64 was released

https://csdb.dk/release/?id=55062

[turbid tinsel]

i like it

it just makes me think of namatama or humpty dumpty though

like eggs crack

nama has one in every image

[hasty anvil]

humpty dumpty i can see, putting the puzzle pieces together

[turbid tinsel]

and in the movie with puss and boots he turned out to be a gold egg lol

[hasty anvil]

haha i havent seen it

[turbid tinsel]

but this game was in development before that 2nd one released

[hasty anvil]

this game has a lot of links with clocks, bombs and easter eggs

i say bombs because we have had the 'time is ticking'

[balmy fog]

This might be a reach

but weren't bomb used in gold mining?

like actual T.N.T?

[hasty anvil]

im not sure

or maybe theres a game with that mechanic

[balmy fog]

''First, miners drill a pattern of holes, which they then fill with explosives. Next, they detonate the explosives to break up the ground so it can be loaded into ...''

[hasty anvil]

c64 and christmas?

[turbid tinsel]

theres something in the background here but idk how to pull it out

[balmy fog]

where?

[turbid tinsel]

the left side, i dont want to assume but the blue almost appears to seem like the outline of the number 3, but then gets lost by the remining red

playing with the saturation frequency and the light frequency alters how the background looks alot depending on how the hue is set

[balmy fog]

No idea

I'll stop focusing on new clues tho

Imma be on at <t:1700002800:t>, really re-watching everything we've done in the past

If anybody wants to be there with me!

It'll be a good time for new hunters that want to learn !

[lone wave]

Yes

[hasty anvil]

based from this message, im trying to think of what our themes are. so far i can think of: -gold -time -binary -c64 (keys) -chords (f6, g6)

are there any other themes?

im starting to think eta cass was meant to tell us binary

that the password is binary

and a lot of clues are binary

• keys can be either chord or 64 related

6000666, in binary as 1000111 is G

more relations to G and 6

[neon stream]

Another great find! You're on fire today 💪🏻

[hasty anvil]

haha thanks

we have all the clues its bugging me 🥲

[quaint wing]

I'm trying to go through the B/C padlets and seeing what didn't lead to anything, or what might help connect some dots.

I wasn't here for any of it, so I have no idea how people got where they did in any of it. It's said to be easy, and everything there is what we need for ABC, I'm trying to figure out what puzzle pieces exist that can go together somehow!

[hasty anvil]

G, in binary, in terms of 6 is 6000666. F, in binary, in terms of 6 is 06000660.

i joined in i think after eta cass was found i was late too haha

the person that solved 1F was very very new it looks like in this chat

[quaint wing]

1F was also egg related, right?

[hasty anvil]

yeah it was

[quaint wing]

And I'm pretty sure ABC = Gold, DEF=Egg

[hasty anvil]

this summarises how they got it

[neon stream]

Three people solved that tier at once

[quaint wing]

I also read up on the pins on this channel

[neon stream]

They all worked together to find the answer

[hasty anvil]

ahhh i see

[neon stream]

Roman, fish and Flex

[quaint wing]

Someone had summarized everything that we currently had. It's a pin

[hasty anvil]

i think our themes are: 6, keys, gold, time and binary

[neon stream]

Yeah, 100%

That's why I think we just need to figure out the format of the password for this tier, the theme is just "gold"

[hasty anvil]

binary links are eta cass, g=6 clue, 'for ONE second' and '6000666' i think

[neon stream]

It's like level 1, where we had three Xs that were related to geocache, and the password was just "geocache"

Now we have three Xs related to gold, the password is probably "gold" in some weird format

[hasty anvil]

exactly, im trying to think tertiary, secondary clues and that too

gold links to another secondary clue i think

for example, a gold key maybe

[quaint wing]

You cracked it. It's the willy wonka chocolate ticket.

[hasty anvil]

this is one big wonka promo haha

[quaint wing]

I KNEW IT

[hasty anvil]

rob=wonka is password

[turbid tinsel]

yo did we ever look into ascii art?

[quaint wing]

March 18th, 1968.

Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.

[hasty anvil]

i dont think so

[quaint wing]

Because as far as I'm aware, no one has done anything with the 18/3 yet that was given to us. If it's not a time signature for a song, and it is a date, that's the closest thing I've found to gold using that date.

1690 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764) - This too. Only links to March 18th Gold I can find quickly. Will have to dig more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_18

[hasty anvil]

is this wiki page?

[quaint wing]

Yup. Just posted the whole page. Those two things are the only mentions of gold on the page. Three pages link to the first one about the US congress gold standard, and one for the mathmatition

Unless that's just supposed to be a nudge to remind people it was gold.

[hasty anvil]

it could be that

we have the clues i think

he thought we could solve it a while ago

[quaint wing]

And that was back in September, lol

[hasty anvil]

the only thing we have because of f=6 is A=1 b=2 etc

otherwise f and 6 we havent had anything else about

[quaint wing]

We also have G=6

[hasty anvil]

g=6 we can get from 6000666, the binary g=6 and g6 chord

theres more connections there

f=6 is all we have for f

new video btw in https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1009830123463266365

[quaint wing]

Annnnnnnd my withdrawls are back.

[turbid tinsel]

yo what if its not supposed to be F=6 but F+6

[quaint wing]

F=6 was eyed though

[turbid tinsel]

techincally it got eyed but what if it got eyed due to the Shift command on that key

f+6

In music, "f + 6" is a notation that indicates the note "F" raised by 6 semitones. This means that the note "F" is raised by 6 half steps, resulting in the note "G". So, "f + 6" in music notation would represent the note "G".

[hasty anvil]

i like this more

maybe f=6 was just to say were close to g=6

i see what you mean that makes sense

[quaint wing]

Everything leads back to G=6

I mean, we could type out gold egg, with A=0

[hasty anvil]

weve only had f=6 eyed and nothing relates to f=6

i think someones tried that

[quaint wing]

Boo 😦

[neon stream]

f=6 was eyed? 🤔

hmmm

what was the message exactly?

[turbid tinsel]

idk if what i found was correct

disregard that

[quaint wing]

#easter-eggs message F=6 with the eyes

[hasty anvil]

this

[neon stream]

hmmm

[hasty anvil]

we dont have offical art clue or anything for it, just this message

[neon stream]

Could it be some kind of two part key?
like G in leet is 6, and the 6th letter is F? 🤔

Not sure how the rest would be 🤔

[quaint wing]

One could be the actual code, then we convert to leet

[hasty anvil]

i think the code is in binary we have a lot of binary clues

[turbid tinsel]

what if the f and g are related to gforces or Gravitational constants

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

but he specifically said g chord so then again idk if this is right

[hasty anvil]

we have the clues i think

its just piecing it together

[swift thorn]

👍

[quaint wing]

I'm reading through the google doc too.

See if there's anything in there. Goes over the history of all the hunts so far.

[turbid tinsel]

i was just putting that into perspective just because low gravity is a thing in the game and we were pushed to stars where gravity is relevant

but i keep coming back to van morrisons brown eyed girl using the g chord which has been used in the past

he also recorded the song in a single take

exactly 1

and the song plays into a romance which was also used in previous clues

i feel like this song is where we need to look personally but hard to tell with no eyes. assuming robs been a busy man to look into dropping eyes here

since they are supposed to be releasing the game this year

[hasty anvil]

he said he only eyes confirmed things not WIPs to not confuse us

which makes me think we have everything we need

and it shouldnt be too complicated

[quaint wing]

I have been reading this google doc too long, lmao

[turbid tinsel]

is it complicated/wip if we already had these clues previously?

[quaint wing]

Probably. They've already seen how hard we spiral at the sheer mention of gold

[hidden sand]

Egg

[pure loom]

I thought I'd post a link to this convo #discord-feedback message in here, because it's probably something we need to sort out if this channel is to actually work better than it currently is.

[timid solstice]

I’m sorry

We had no idea that other tiers would take so long

[quaint wing]

To piggyback off of rockhound, you could start threads for rabbit holes on specific topics. Keep everything confined to one little area.

It's not perfect, but it helps with clutter

[balmy fog]

Nice find!!!!!

[hasty anvil]

thank you 😁

[turbid tinsel]

Eta Cassiopeiae is located in the vicinity of the open cluster M103, also known as the Christmas Tree Cluster. While not physically associated with the cluster, the star is often mentioned in the context of observations of M103.

rob had mentioned christmas in hints before

[balmy fog]

@hasty anvil could you do GOLD in binary? And replace the 1s with 6s?

[jagged ore]

That would be 01000111 01001111 01001100 01000100 in binary and 06000666 06006666 06006600 06000600 with sixes

[balmy fog]

Wasn’t G in binary 1000111?

[jagged ore]

the first 0 was missing

[balmy fog]

Ok

[jagged ore]

6000666 is only 7 digits

[balmy fog]

Right

I misread that

My bad

[jagged ore]

No worry I double checked as well 😅

but what if we drop all of the first 0s as they are only used for extended ascii

[balmy fog]

I’ll be home in 1 hour and I’ll stream, everybody is welcomed it’s gonna be a dump show trying to solve this case once and for all

[jagged ore]

6000666 6006666 6006600 6000600

[balmy fog]

Not going to study new clues tonight, I’ll really try to focus on clues we have

Rob clearly said we have everything to find the password

[turbid tinsel]

yet has still given us clues like cass eta

and g6

[balmy fog]

I really feel like once we have the password we will be mad because of how easy it was

Sometimes when it’s too obvious we tend to overlook it

[pure loom]

Yeah, that's why I think some modification of GOLDEGG is probably it, or very close to it.

[balmy fog]

Yeah I think so too

[pure loom]

It would also seem like a good way to bookend that part of the EE puzzles

[balmy fog]

Yep

[swift thorn]

lol

[balmy fog]

I think Rob said t1-f-1 password was gold related and def was egg related right?

[pure loom]

not sure if he said anything, but we definitely got a confirmation for GOLDEGG

[quaint wing]

ABC = GOLD
DEF = EGG

It was the commonalities among those passwords

Unless I misread all of the other stuff. I've been going through the padlet and Google doc trying to find things today.

[balmy fog]

So t1-f-1 is gold in my opinion, DEF is egg and level 2 will be GOLDEGG?

[swift thorn]

👍

[quaint wing]

That makes sense logically

And these are supposed to be obvious. Apparently.

[neon stream]

I'll post it again, in case there are different opinions now 🤷🏻‍♂️

[quaint wing]

Threads/forum here would work. I can't start a thread on here, so I think it's disabled right now

[pure loom]

I still reckon within the same discord is best, if we can

[balmy fog]

I think an official thread with eyed clues and links posted then a text channel for dump and ideas would also be good

[quaint wing]

That's basically the padlet. Lol. But being able to start threads in here at minimum would probably help with clutter. It's been posted in the discord feedback

[balmy fog]

On an other organized server it makes it less engaging for new comers, they need to see the hunt is active! Also need to see it is structured

[pure loom]

yeah, I think having a place where each idea path can stand alone and be discussed is what we need, because we don't have that at all at the moment

[coarse dagger]

IMO 18/3 was just... 6? We've had a lot of 6 related clues recently

[hasty anvil]

hahaha it is

i bet thats what it is

[quaint wing]

The password at this point is just going to be 6.

[jagged ore]

G = 71 in the c64 manual there. Didn't this picture from @undone socket have 71 on the small diagram on top?

[pure loom]

I tried converting GOLDEGG to all those numbers - no luck

[neon stream]

I think at some point we'll eventually need more EE channels, for in-game and this hunt, for tutorials, for discussion of tools (like Photoshop), for programming (like the pixel-pattern algorithms Rob mentioned a while ago), etc. IF they can accommodate us here with that, that's great, but a separate server might be a good option too 🤷🏻‍♂️

[hasty anvil]

the 110110 is 6 again, the 71 is g. so g and 6 again lol

[pure loom]

I also just tried converting GOLDEGG to the numbers then converting the numbers to elements: so GOLDEGG -> 71797668697171 -> luauosertmlulu

also no luck

[jagged ore]

man this is blowing my head

[pure loom]

this is normal

haha

[coarse dagger]

Like periodic elements?

[jagged ore]

It's the numbers and letters from the c64 manual

[balmy fog]

Maybe use leet afterwards ?

[pure loom]

you forgot the EE-therapy channel

[quaint wing]

Pixel therapy for b0kb

[coarse dagger]

No, the last step

[balmy fog]

Fuck no

Lmao

[pure loom]

yeah, so GOLDEGG to the C64 numbers, then those number to each element

[spring tusk]

All I've had in my head in the past days is : Like a G6 🎶

[balmy fog]

Hahahahahahaha

https://tenor.com/view/likeag6-fareastmovement-jeffreestar-gif-19871133

[undone socket]

I saw an @ and got really excited we found something

[pure loom]

G = 71 for the C64 and G6 seem at odds

[undone socket]

hmmm

[jagged ore]

sorry 🥲

[undone socket]

I'm at work rn so can't rly help, just popping in lol

[balmy fog]

I definitely think we’re using the c64 the right way!!!

[undone socket]

time to waveform analysis the g6 chord and math something with the results lmao

[coarse dagger]

I don't think it's really G = 71
I think that graph on the board is G6 once again.
71 -> G
110110 -> 6
G6

[balmy fog]

Maybe figure out an alternate way to use it

[jagged ore]

leet on those numbers just gives me this titgtggbggtiti

[balmy fog]

Tit

https://tenor.com/view/dumb-huh-stupid-idiot-gif-5042504

[jagged ore]

[coarse dagger]

Oop

I meant to say:
Guys I think the first character of the T2ABC password is probably 6

[jagged ore]

us when rob reacts with a 👀

[undone socket]

6old

ok so something to do with gold as abc and egg as def

are we sure it's not golden? instead of gold?

[coarse dagger]

Like imagine us having a thread or forum post with just password attemps for the tier

[undone socket]

not a terrible idea

anyone know Excel?

[neon stream]

No, it could be "golden" too

[undone socket]

[neon stream]

I lean towards gold, but we shouldn't assume is not "golden" 😂

[coarse dagger]

Rob eyed so many GOLDEGG, GOLD + EGG posts

[undone socket]

scrambled egg

[neon stream]

I would remove the "egg" part for this tier, I think that'll be for the next two

[sonic mantle]

This seems like some kind of clue that Rob is trying to give…

[undone socket]

clues could point to both passwords tho

[neon stream]

yeah, we might be solving both Tier2ABC and Tier2DEF concurrently

[undone socket]

mhm

[sonic mantle]

I think it’s also interesting that he spelled it as Contestent instead of correctly Contestant

[coarse dagger]

It's possible in order to solve T2ABC and T2DEF you need to solve one thing, and break it apart, then potentially use the URLs to modify the pieces

6 old
Hexa is classical Greek for "six"

THE_FINALS_SpOooOOooOOoooky.jpg
Three hexagons

[undone socket]

anyways back to regular boring work, see y'all tonight

[neon stream]

hmmmm

what if the 6 clue means hex?

as in... hexadecimal format...?

[coarse dagger]

Was thinking the same

[neon stream]

Thanks for the idea

Gold in hex? 🤔

what's the hex code for the gold color in the c64? 😂

😅

[jagged ore]

text to hex is 47 4F 4C 44

wait that's five 4s

didn't we have that on one of the whiteboards as well

[coarse dagger]

Could explain F = 6 as well

[neon stream]

nvm, I think I tried that as a password before 😂

[coarse dagger]

F in hex is 15, the highest hex digit.
F = 6 = hex = 15

[neon stream]

YOU'RE 100% RIGHT!

I'm sure that's it

It's a very Rob clue

[quaint wing]

I shake with anticipation

[neon stream]

I feel like we're about to solve this

[hasty anvil]

you guys sound very close

[coarse dagger]

Password thoughts/attempts:
47 4F 4C 44
474f4c44

47464c44 (replace F with 6)

47464344 (Replace C with 3)

4741541244 (replace letters with hex values)

[sharp flame]

7 dots in each..

7 7 7 ?

[quaint wing]

Convert from hex to binary?

[jagged ore]

the hex with leet is atafacaa btw so that seems unrelated

[coarse dagger]

I mean there's multiple ways to do this, you ignored all the single digit atomic numbers.

[neon stream]

I'm going to post this here just in case 😂

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(color)

[sharp flame]

that's assuming the word goldegg is the exact word we need

[neon stream]

There are many hex codes for gold 😅

[coarse dagger]

Really... odd... that this put me so centered on an... unnamed (?) monument

[turbid tinsel]

got a link?

[coarse dagger]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7WaarAFQDgwdkoFS8

I think this is probably not the way to go. But thought it was worth posting

[balmy fog]

Good find gannnng!!!! I’m about to be home

Keep going 🫶🫶

[jagged ore]

I looked at it on open street map and even bing maps and they both don't have anything there at all lol

I feel like I'm going full conspiracy mode

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, I don't think this is a reliable find

[timid pebble]

ЖАРЫ УЛЫ ДӘУЛЕТАЛЫ = THE HUSBAND IS A POISON in Kazakh

[balmy fog]

Foldegg

[hasty anvil]

im trying to think how t1-f-1 ties in

[coarse dagger]

Like we were saying before, we might need to start with the whole GOLDEGG as well

GOLDEGG -> 47 4F 4C 44 45 47 47

[hasty anvil]

could it be a safe dial combination?

like 00-00-00

[jagged ore]

that's three 7s

[coarse dagger]

Although that breaks down the 5 fours, which we were excited about

[balmy fog]

T1-f-1 is imo only gold related

[summer flare]

What is this chat

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, but....
#easter-eggs message

It's possible in order to solve T2ABC and T2DEF you need to solve one thing, and break it apart, then potentially use the URLs to modify the pieces

[coarse dagger]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1100745453206786078

[turbid tinsel]

they have a crazy pyramid in kazakhstan though

not sure if that is supposed to be what the board was referencing or not

[balmy fog]

Oh it is!

I wish I could stream directly into discord man

So y'all could send messages here

[summer flare]

It just popped up at the top of my discord

[pure loom]

true, at least we know it's important with the confirmation from Rob

[sonic mantle]

It’s a place for grasping at straws and making conspiracy theories about the Finals!

[summer flare]

I love it

And no cooldown

[jagged ore]

I also went back to the 44444 as postal code and there seems to be a place in sweden as well with it

[sonic mantle]

https://tenor.com/view/conspiracy-charlie-day-crazy-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-qanon-gif-23738584

[summer flare]

Thoughts on the next map?

It will be cool if they did like a town down Los Angeles sorta thing

[sonic mantle]

I hope they have more Easter eggs hidden there is what I’m hoping

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

[jagged ore]

E6 highway 🤔 E=6 as well? 😂

[coarse dagger]

Southwestern / Hispanic / Spanish kinda setting

[sonic mantle]

Wait, where was this image scraped from?

[coarse dagger]

OB trailer

[sonic mantle]

Ah I see. Was it like 1 frame?

[coarse dagger]

A composite of many frames

[summer flare]

That would be cool. What kinda Easter eggs have you found in this game so far

[sonic mantle]

Interesting. Do you guys think they hid anything in the highlight reel they just posted?

[hasty anvil]

and we were almost getting somewhere..

[sonic mantle]

Check the pins. There’s a whole lot.

[coarse dagger]

Too much to list, look in #egg-hunt-onboarding , the pins, and especially the Padlets

[quaint wing]

Check the Google doc in the pin. It shows everything

[neon stream]

What was the original message that was eyed? Because the confirmation might be that Tier 3 is Gold egg

[sonic mantle]

Is there a way to search for someone’s reaction? I haven’t been able to find one.

[summer flare]

Crazy how a arena shooter goes this hard with the Easter eggs

[neon stream]

The games are just excuses for Saint Rob to create the Easter Egg hunts

[turbid tinsel]

the lore of the finals is centered around the EE and vice versa

[sonic mantle]

Nvm found a way

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message

[summer flare]

I would be low key mad though if I was playing comp and my partner was Easter egg hunting

[coarse dagger]

HOW?

[timid solstice]

👀

[neon stream]

Thanks! That's what I thought! It only confirms that Tier2ABC is gold, Tier2DEF is egg and Tier 3 Gold Egg

[coarse dagger]

We'll check it, but we're a bit distracted with our most recent train of thought at the moment 😅

[neon stream]

Flex...I'm waiting for the invite

Dm me

[coarse dagger]

I'm... conflicted

[timid solstice]

hehe
I do think its best to stay here

but as time goes on we will need more channels for sure

btw I asked how many members BFEE have... 48K...
imagine over time they migrate

[coarse dagger]

Flex out here trying to blackmail strongarm the mods and embark for more #easter-eggs channel features 🤣

[neon stream]

Still, send me a dm with an invite 😂

[jagged ore]

I agree with both. We should stay here so that rob can see what we are doing but we need more separation for each clue to not clutter everything up

[quaint wing]

Threads at a minimum

[jagged ore]

We want threads or we are not looking at pixels for 12h with no break anymore 😤

[coarse dagger]

Y'all
Go give your thoughts on discord threads/forums for the channel in #discord-feedback. It'll keep us from clogging this chat with meta EE stuff, and it'll show the stakeholders how much we want it

[timid solstice]

unless we have a rule to "search threads before posting anything"

we will constantly be linking threads ha

[quaint wing]

Better than nothing!

[coarse dagger]

We're already constantly linking posts, so I think it's still an improvement

[quaint wing]

We have at least 4 rabbit holes present at any given moment

And b0kb stressing about the 13 pixels seen in a transition in a discord video

[coarse dagger]

#discord-feedback y'all

Anywayyssssss
If we're on the right track with the hex I think it's likely we have to find something based on one of these four:

474f4c44
4741541244

474F4C44454747
4741541244454747

[hasty anvil]

just to be clear, this says g6= 110110 (binary) + 71 (chr$). do we think this is showing us how to find g6, or how we make the password?

[coarse dagger]

I think it's another hidden location of G6

[hasty anvil]

sorry, just dont want to rush and make sure this clue is cleared

[sonic mantle]

Hmm Bing lied to me...

[coarse dagger]

Best place to see Rob's eyes then is the bottom of the T2ABC padlet

[hasty anvil]

so it means g being with 6 specifically is important

[sonic mantle]

Right, but who updates that? How do we know if they've caught all of them you know?

[coarse dagger]

Basically just me! It's a lot of work and I don't love Padlet, but it's the best we've got.

[jagged ore]

Apparently there is a PET keyboard that shows the PETSCII more clearly as well. It's on the PETSCII wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PETSCII

[sonic mantle]

what if GOLDEGG is actually all lowercase though goldegg? Then you get 67 6f 6c 64 65 67 67 instead.

[timid solstice]

youre a star

[coarse dagger]

Good point.
Again it kills our 44444 excitement though 😅

[hasty anvil]

thats better though

this has 6

[jagged ore]

lol

[coarse dagger]

Just another thought
Xg Y6
or
gX 6Y

[coarse dagger]

😅 there's only 5 on the whiteboard though

[hasty anvil]

ohhhhhhh ffs haha

[jagged ore]

Wait what about the hearts in petscii?

[hasty anvil]

d=3 maybe?

considering ABC is caps, GOLDEGG is probably caps too

[coarse dagger]

Commodore 64
❤
211₁₀
D3₁₆
Shift-S

[balmy fog]

ttv/b0kb

If anyone wants to join in the search

We solving this tonight boisssssss

[jagged ore]

hmm interesting in b0bk's picture of the manual it's 115 though instead of 211

[river flame]

i think we've delve too far

you're losing me

and this is supposed to be simple

[hasty anvil]

yeah we cant stray too far

[coarse dagger]

Wait, 1 sec.

It's both???

https://sta.c64.org/cbm64petkey.html

[jagged ore]

wait what

[timid solstice]

just checked and its frame_000422

[coarse dagger]

But the only one that has a key combo to make the first one I posted

These two sections are identical but only one can be entered directly from the keyboard

[neon stream]

Yeah, that's what I've been saying 😂

[hasty anvil]

abc is gold, we need to forget egg and def for now haha

[coarse dagger]

I feel like a broken record...
#easter-eggs message

[hasty anvil]

i know i know lol

[jagged ore]

I am lost now. I don't know where to go from this now

The fact that there is 2 is weird. Like why do they have different dec and hex values

[hasty anvil]

we need 2 parts, the password format and the actual password

format could be hex, petscii, binary related

[jagged ore]

speaking of the petscii ❤️ here. not the gold egg or gold + egg or goldegg discussion

[balmy fog]

Wait

Am I stupid

I dont understand

How did we go from 47 4F 4C 44 to C64

[coarse dagger]

I think it might be so you can re-program the untypable set to be whatever you want. It's just extras

[quaint wing]

GOLD = 47 4F 4C 44 in Hex. Then the though to to convert hex to C64 popped up.

[coarse dagger]

five fours
#easter-eggs message
Then the hearts
Then someone brought up the PETSCII hearts

[jagged ore]

GOLD -> 47 4F 4C 44 in hex -> five 4s -> whiteboard -> ❤️ 44444 ❤️ -> c64 petscii

[balmy fog]

Ok

Thanks ❤️

We solving this bois

so if I understand correctly

❤️ 444444 ❤️ = 115 52 52 52 52 52 115

[jagged ore]

ohh nice thought

[quaint wing]

If converted straight to C64, yes. The connection is that on the whiteboard you see ❤️ 44444 ❤️ , and when you convert GOLD to hex, you get 47 4F 4C 44, which is 44444.

[hasty anvil]

where does g6 come into play

we need to consider

and eta cass

[balmy fog]

also GOLD is 71797668

in the format I've sent

[turbid tinsel]

guys are we sure c64 is related? other than him sharing the tiny gif, he never eyed anyone's comments mentioning it

[balmy fog]

C64 keys

[turbid tinsel]

ok but he eyed a keyboard comment as well

not c64 related

which also has keys on it

[jagged ore]

we had another g6 mention on the whiteboard somehwere along here #easter-eggs message

[hasty anvil]

yeah i said this haha

[jagged ore]

yeah so I guess it is related

[balmy fog]

Keyboard had the G switched with 6

[hasty anvil]

i mean the password needs to be g6 related too, weve had lots of g6 clues

[coarse dagger]

And all the cursor stuff with LOADING -> READY
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message

[hasty anvil]

yeah so im not sure if its which type of keyboard, or keys. keys can relate to chords

[coarse dagger]

AH! On the num pad, IDK why I never saw that when you kept saying it

[quaint wing]

Ohhh. Now you understand! lol

[river flame]

@balmy fog new Hampshire

[quaint wing]

I'm just glad someone else understands what I was talking about now.

[balmy fog]

Wym?

[hasty anvil]

its so hard to see lol

[quaint wing]

If you look at that keyboard, the G key and the 6 key on the numpad are swapped.

[hasty anvil]

but we know g is 6 now in lots of ways 😭

[quaint wing]

Lulz highlighted it.

[balmy fog]

Yeah we knew that

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, I just kept looking at the number line thinking... "What are they talking about?"

[balmy fog]

thats why I did the C64 G swap today

[coarse dagger]

I still think when looking at PETSCII values 193-223 are more likey than values 97-127, because they represent the same thing but the later ones can actually be entered with the keyboard.

[timid solstice]

OK so what we had on the left is actually the right! but then the gun is offset so I tried flipping the whole image.
It also looks like a second player with the revolver, and that should be in the right hand
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/867045850622722058/1174141225138409562/OB-V2.png
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/867045850622722058/1174140949752979507/OB-V2-flipped.png

[coarse dagger]

LOOKIN' GREAT!

[timid solstice]

the could still be 2 parts left for the side

[coarse dagger]

@vivid wind

[vivid wind]

Oh nice!!

[balmy fog]

also

this is looking like it points 137.5

[timid solstice]

hard to tell with perspective

[quaint wing]

It was said that everything released during this stage could be used to sovle all parts of the stage, right?

[coarse dagger]

I don't recall anything with that phrasing or sentiment.

By all parts of the stage you mean all of T2? T2ABC and T2DEF?

I think it's likely what we're being given is to solve both, because we have access to both password fields.

But Rob's eyes have suggested the stuff we're being given this Tier is just little nudges and the stuff from the previous tiers should get us most of the way there

#easter-eggs message

[quaint wing]

#easter-eggs message - Check this one and the two above it for context.

There's a chance I'm misreading that entirely.

[coarse dagger]

That was a year ago... Idk if that applies to T2 because of the post I linked just above

[quaint wing]

HOLY SHIT I THOUGHT THAT WAS 2023. I'll delete my existence.

[timid pebble]

@balmy fog https://imgur.com/TjcYUXT Ive tried to solve the official art puzzle another way than you did, by trying to merge the island together istead of trying to turn them into binary. To me it looks like a bunch of 4's, am I crazy?

[balmy fog]

I've seen it

Tried it, it is random a lot

You can piece up any pieces together how you really feel

[timid pebble]

Ive updated it but it's hard to get much more clearer lol

Thing is, ive learned about the 4's after starting to piece it together so its a weird coincidence

[coarse dagger]

This is how I've felt too.... unless we figure out a way to get very concrete definitive starting pieces there's just way too much noise to have a deterministic way of assembling them.

[timid pebble]

Wondering something.

#easter-eggs message On this msg

He says copy previous image flip them and overlay them. Anyone was able to recreate this cross?

[coarse dagger]

Recreate? Idk what you mean.
That was T1F btw

[timid pebble]

He explained how to get the clue, but i still can't manage to understand where the X come froms.

Understanding how Rob is building clues could help me trying to understand how some other stuff is hidden

[coarse dagger]

Ah, there were hidden A, α, B, and β in the image

[swift thorn]

lol

[timid pebble]

Perhaps, maybe in some other official art there's dots we can connect and do the same process to get a clue.

[timid solstice]

awesome, this is HARD

[coarse dagger]

Are you seeing the 4s in the positive (white), or the negative (black)?

It's so wishy washy that now that you've incepted the idea of fours in my brain I can see hints of them in either 😅

[timid pebble]

Kinda see them in the negative, but like you said it probably doesn't mean anything, It would probably best if I start over and see if I get something different

[balmy fog]

Back to the hex

47 4F 4C 44

Did we find anything out of it?

[turbid tinsel]

i dove down goldstar awile ago

like a long time ago

[coarse dagger]

Ever find one of these map images for Skyway Stadium?

[balmy fog]

Nope

[coarse dagger]

@jade citrus where did you get these? Found it, see below
https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/File:Monacooverview.png
https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/File:Seouloverview_720.png

[coarse dagger]

Found it:
https://twitter.com/reachthefinals/status/1669000104747970562

@spare steppe Y'all plan on sharing these images for all the maps?

[balmy fog]

Rob said we have everything we need to solve it

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, I just want map layouts so I can try to organize our in-game hunting next time the game goes live.

[timid solstice]

I uploaded the hi-res on the wiki

from those twitter posts

[coarse dagger]

Lol, is your wiki name Smashel?

[timid solstice]

no, originally the ones posted to discord that were lower res got added to the wiki, those are the old media links

[balmy fog]

Did we know there were G class suns?

Per example

Achird (Eta Cassiopeiae) is a yellow-white class G hydrogen-fusing dwarf (variously G0 to G3, we adopt the latter)

[river flame]

binary star system

[balmy fog]

also just dumping this but did we know this?

[coarse dagger]

Groups are periodic table columns

[balmy fog]

We're just connecting clues at this point

the 44444

Gold

time

[hasty anvil]

6th coloumn btw

[balmy fog]

''BUT to make sure you don't lose your sanity... you are on the right path... just need to open your eyes, see the big picture, connect the dots.. ''

[hasty anvil]

just to reference this again, i think were looking for themes

binary, g6, c64, gold, time etc

[undone socket]

I will scrounge around for all the clues

[coarse dagger]

It was honestly really difficult trying to find people who wanted to hunt during OB1

[balmy fog]

Themes;
Guitar Chords
Lots of 6's (G6-F6) (6000666) (18/3)
C64 (Commodore 64) (?maybe type password on C64 keyboard)
Time (mentionned by Rob a couple of times ;))
Gold
Star (Eta Cassiopeiae)

Clues;
44444 might link to HEX → 474F4C44

Older passwords;
1064 was the asteroid → gold melting point
79 was the eruption → atomic number of gold
5f¹³ 7s² was Mendelevium (Highly radioactive and obtained by bombarding) → 137.5 is the golden angle

[hasty anvil]

also keys/keyboard

[balmy fog]

Did we know about the C64G?

''The Commodore 64G (also C64G, C=64G, C 64 G) is an 8-bit home computer produced by Commodore Business Machines since 1987. It is a particular version of the Commodore 64, intended for the German market''

G was for Germany

[turbid tinsel]

yea there was also an all in one keyboard computer designed off the c64

[neon stream]

Amazing find! 💪🏻

[river flame]

https://archive.org/details/d64_Music_Maker_1984_Commodore

Maybe someone will find useful

[turbid tinsel]

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

[hasty anvil]

i just thought

g=6

is telling us that the inverse of g is 6

like g upside down

you can type inverse on c64, so password is inversed

[pure loom]

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

Possible leet reference

[turbid tinsel]

has biff been mentioned anywhere by chance?

was one of the common examples of leet referring to c64 on the leet page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)

[balmy fog]

also this

Rob never said that t1-f-1 was gold related

[turbid tinsel]

just looked at this graph earlier lol

[balmy fog]

''Eta Cassiopeiae's two components are orbiting around each other over a period of 480 years.[10] Based on an estimated semi-major axis of 12″ and a parallax of 0.168″, the two stars are separated by an average distance of 71 AU''

[turbid tinsel]

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

maybe we need a g chord on a lute

lol

you actually can play a gchord on the lute

[balmy fog]

''the two stars are separated by an average distance of 71 AU'' Au = Gold also,
Largest orbital eccentricity of 0.497 means that their periapsis (closest approach) is as small as 36 Au. The apoapsis is about 106Au (longest distance)

@coarse dagger said ''He thereby discovered that the cluster contains many stars too dim to be seen with the naked eye. He published his observations, including a sketch of the Pleiades showing 36 stars, in his treatise Sidereus Nuncius in March 1610.''

[spring tusk]

@balmy fog 36 stars?

[hasty anvil]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsis this is interesting (@balmy fog found)

[undone socket]

I gotchu

[tame bone]

First time ever checking this channel, yall are nuts. i love it

[balmy fog]

You can come watch the screen we're discussing the ideas

[river flame]

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

[pure loom]

We started off normal

[river flame]

parallax of one second = parsec

[tame bone]

I'm just watching one of your videos LMAO

[river flame]

@balmy fog is this helpful?

[balmy fog]

There's a lot of connections in Eta Cassiopeiae;

The Au (Gold) used to measure the average distance
Eta cassiopeia is 101% (Mendelevium) of the Sun's radius
Eta Cassiopeia two-components (2 passwords)
Based upon parallax measurements. Eta Cassiopeia distance to this system is 19.42 light-years (5.95 parsecs) The retail of the C64 was 595$US
Eta Cassiopeia is classed has a stellar classification of** G**-type main sequence
Eta Cassiopeiae itself is 王良三 (Wáng Liáng sān, English: the Third Star of Wang Liang → Wangliang is the name of a malevolent spirit in Chinese mythology and folklore (?link to the destructions of the other passwords?)
Eta Cassiopeiae has a parallax
Eta Cassiopeiae are orbiting around each other for over 480 years. Golden age of Athens started around 480bce

[turbid tinsel]

its also made up of 3 stars, Cassiopeiae a b and c

[balmy fog]

This is probably a reach but Archird (Eta Cassiopeia) is right next to the Pac Man Nebula

Pacman was a C64 games (if thats even related lol)

[turbid tinsel]

Eta Cassiopeiae is a variable star, meaning its brightness changes over time. The system's brightness is thought to be affected by the eclipsing of one star by another as they orbit each other.

pretty sure eclipse was used in previous tiers

[faint rivet]

Every time I feel like I get close to something, just doing my own little theories, I get lost. Lol

[fresh sphinx]

This is deep

[faint rivet]

For reals. Doing my own thing, I was going deep too like this EE. Lol

[swift thorn]

...

[faint rivet]

Sooo if we’re still talking about the G6 clue, I found this: “Soprano is typically the highest range for a female voice. A soprano's highest note may be anywhere between C6 and G6, which is really high!”

[swift thorn]

yeah

[faint rivet]

Also if my findings are nothing, just let me know so I can delete it. I don’t wanna clutter this place cuz damn! Lol

[hidden sand]

so is there only 1 location teased so far that hasnt been in beta? i found a screenshot of a new map being teased but cant find any other

[undone socket]

good to know the pacman nebula is a thing

[balmy fog]

😂

[undone socket]

was there anything hidden in the new video?

[river flame]

I think 2abc might only deal with t1 f

[river flame]

I don't know if anyone has checked

[undone socket]

[quaint wing]

Everyone knew we had what we needed and didn't want to add fuel to fires they didn't start yet.

[coarse dagger]

The fact that it's T2ABC makes us think it's derived from T1 ABC which are gold related

[faint rivet]

This is just a curiosity thing, I wonder if the movie Ready Player One would be part of this EE hunt because ||When you die in The Finals, you turn into coins, just like how the avatars did in the movie. And in the end of the movie, there’s an actual golden egg as the EE key. ||

[faint rivet]

You know, just a thought, A & B is related to the element of gold but C wasn’t. Just the word GOLD is the thing in common with the others, but all 3 passwords were on the Periodic table. B was just in a different form.

[faint rivet]

Omg. Great minds think alike. Lol

[coarse dagger]

Melting points aren't typically on the periodic table, unless you're just saying that Gold, Gold again, and Mendelevium are on the periodic table?

[faint rivet]

I was gonna mention that some periodic table doesn’t have all the info. I just google it and there was one I’ve seen that had almost every info of the elements. I guess it depends which image your looking at

[coarse dagger]

Melting point though?

I guess there are some if I google with confirmation bias 😅

[faint rivet]

Yea. It was a huge periodic table. I guess the basic PT doesn’t have those info

I was looking into the Golden Ratio and it did provide lots of info that maybe Rob could’ve used. And the letters they used for mathematics examples almost looks the pixelated symbols we were trying to solve the pass few days. There was even graphs that almost looked like the whiteboard in the game.

But yea. Like I said a few comments above, I was just doing my own little research on the side to figure all this out. Lol

There was one thing that caught my eye though, Ellipse. Cuz the whiteboard had a similar graph and it said that Ellipse is also used in Astronomy. And I know some of the clues were astronomical thing…?
I’ll keep looking things here n there. Maybe get better at Photoshop to reveal more clues in the pics (if there still some in there) 👌🏼

[jagged ore]

Man I really thought we were going places yesterday but no eyes anywhere

[summer flare]

bro i thought i was in the no mans sky discord for a sec

[south wyvern]

my brain is an ape... unfinished business but bedtime. Rob's two 'screens' #easter-eggs message

https://www.commodore.ca/manuals/c64_users_guide/c64-users_guide-05-advanced_color_graphic_commands.pdf

[timid solstice]

Screen space is y across?

[south wyvern]

X = Column, Y = Row

[coarse dagger]

😅 What am I looking at. Wait let me figure it out.
You took T1A password 1064 (which was also discovered to be gold's melting point) and used the T2B 79 password as offset coordinates x=7, y=9.
Then you looked up the color memory map and compared it to the T2C password.

Wow

This is huge dude

[quaint wing]

It also looks like where the point on the whiteboard stops.

[coarse dagger]

I was thinking the same thing

[timid solstice]

That’s why I asked about the y

[quaint wing]

Please. I need this before I go to bed.

[timid solstice]

Because the whiteboard has y across

[quaint wing]

Give me that sweet sweet dopamine hit.

[coarse dagger]

Looks like it's 12 off from 56136

[south wyvern]

mhm. It took me a while to understand them

[south wyvern]

huh, fill me in that one. i cant think right now ha

[quaint wing]

#easter-eggs message - This is the whiteboard.

[coarse dagger]

I bet if we figure out the meaning of s2 it will explain the offset

[south wyvern]

That board, duh me. Thank you

[quaint wing]

There's been a lot to process the last little bit. I have a bunch stored in my head for the right use. I may not be able to figure it out, but I can recall stuff from the padlet.

[south wyvern]

s2 is where im stuck right now, maybe 's' stand for 'heart'. let upload video real quick

[coarse dagger]

Lets see...
56136 is where we want to be 55656 is where we are
56136-55656 = 480

What is that?

Like I know it's a c64 emulator, but what's happening 😅

[quaint wing]

The main source of hearts we know of is on the other whiteboard. ❤️ 44444 ❤️

[south wyvern]

Commodore 64 upper and lower case shifting

[coarse dagger]

OH! I see ❤️ to S?

That's this again:

[quaint wing]

Didn't we have two sets for that?

[coarse dagger]

Fine, but I don't like this other one

[quaint wing]

It's for completionists sake!

[south wyvern]

This is what I have from Screen Display Codes:

[quaint wing]

If one heart is S, and we have S2, would that mean 44444, since it's the number we have between 2 hearts, or two s's?

[quaint wing]

If that came off stupid, I can try to reword it.

[coarse dagger]

That makes sense to me

[quaint wing]

That woul be a literal translation instead of us praying it was the hex for GOLD. lol

What would we be missing if that was the case?

[coarse dagger]

Oh I see, the number which represents S is 83, the ones I posted are for representing the heart

[south wyvern]

it's interesting that we shared three different hearts

[coarse dagger]

Here's what I've always been referencing for PETSCII:
https://sta.c64.org/cbm64petkey.html

[south wyvern]

JOSH! go to bed... sorry hunters, good night 🥲

[coarse dagger]

OUTSTANDING WORK

[quaint wing]

You did great

[quaint wing]

Someone's going to pair that well when the other group wakes up

[south wyvern]

oh by the way, 1391 is not the password

[quaint wing]

You're not going to make it to bed. Your mind is racing. Lol Gotta keep coming back to try more shit.

#easter-eggs message - To make sure this doesn't get lost, and when people wake up and look here they can have a good understand of what was provided.

[jagged ore]

For real. I'm so tired because I kept checking again and again if anyone was able to continue our train of thought yesterday

[quaint wing]

I checked this channel in the middle of a date because I was emotionally invested.

[coarse dagger]

I don't think you can change the 1024 in this equation.

I don't think you can start from 1064 like that

[quaint wing]

Something might have to be a decimal

[coarse dagger]

you always start from the upper left (1024)

[quaint wing]

137.5?

[coarse dagger]

Ummm could that be 79... not 71?

[quaint wing]

I originally thought 79, but 71 seemed more plausable

Can always plug it in and see what happens

[coarse dagger]

What about G6 as 99?

[quaint wing]

Throw all the shit at the wall, something's bound to stick.

Good luck!

[coarse dagger]

Fairly certain I understand the T1C / Screen Color now.

Still working up thoughts for the other two tiers and the character code screen memory map

Here's my most fleshed out thought for the character screen.
*EDIT: The below image is incorrect. I was using the PETSCII character codes reference (https://sta.c64.org/cbm64petkey.html), when I should've been using the screen codes reference (https://sta.c64.org/cbm64scr.html)
a couple posts down I post a corrected version

Soooooo...
Column 0, Row 1 -> O
Column 2, Row 21 -> Red #880000 (PETSCII code 28)

01O22128?

01O221880000?

Hmm

I don't get an O when I do poke 1064,79
You can see that that second line character is in position 1064...

Got it, PETSCII codes are different than screen codes? I don't understand why that would be but here's the correct reference:
https://sta.c64.org/cbm64scr.html

[coarse dagger]

Here's my corrected version:

[fleet cove]

These easter eggs are too hard

[coarse dagger]

Here's a demo of my interpretation!

The second poke is just to put something on screen in the correct spot so I can turn it red!

[coarse dagger]

Here's why. Don't really understand it yet though:

For the C64, there's a simple reason (probably among others): Control characters vs. reverse video.

There are two character sets of 256 characters and two fonts of 256 glyphs. Both have the following in common:

The font has 128 glyphs twice, in normal and reversed display
The character set on the other hand has quite a few "control characters", like clear screen, issue newline, change color, and also enable/disable reverse video
Therefore, a 1:1 mapping simply isn't possible.

The system is however designed in a way enabling you to use your own font, and you can encode it however you like -- a while back, I created a font using the IBM CP-437 encoding, this is quite nice for e.g. on-screen docs.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/8686

[jagged ore]

I'm not sure I understand anything that you guys are cooking up here but it looks sick so keep going:)

[river flame]

Is there a broken heart?

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/hangover-math-mathematics-equation-lol-gif-5822639

Good morning

Why u do dis to me @coarse dagger

[river flame]

https://www.sermoncentral.com/sermon-illustrations/83012/the-egg-promise-by-perry-greene

https://www.beliefnet.com/inspiration/angels/2010/04/the-eggs-promise-ptolemy-tompkins.aspx

I think it might have something to do with the first one

t1-f-1(dollar)

f is the third egg related password

third egg would cost a dollar

[balmy fog]

I don’t think we there yet lime but keep it in mind

I don’t understand what’s going on with that board @coarse dagger @timid solstice @south wyvern

[mortal juniper]

Where did I got pinged ?

[balmy fog]

Me I’m sorry wrong name

[mortal juniper]

Oh okay, no worries

[fleet cove]

Fr

[balmy fog]

😭

Ok ill try to understand it

[balmy fog]

Good and bad, probably because we simply have all the clues to find the answers

[river flame]

👀

[swift thorn]

🤟

[river flame]

"... indigo was often referred to as blue gold"

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

[quaint wing]

Brief overview: #easter-eggs message

I'm not fully awake, but that was the closest to sense we you. The whole thing reminds me at least of the white board from the OB. The one with the graph on it

I'll be awake again soon. Lol

[balmy fog]

Yeah I understand it now

lol

I don't see how we can solve 1104 tho

1064,79 made sense (1064 + 79 atomic gold) but, 1104?

[balmy fog]

The 1064,79 symbol can also be done by hitting shift + O then the commodore key

so maybe, if we get symbols from the Commodore 64 screen codes, we can then translate the symbol back to the PETSCII codes that should give us letters?

[balmy fog]

Also, here's a small dump

GOLD is 71797668 (screen codes)

71→Lutetium on periodic table (Lute can play gchord on lute from iTk)? Also 71 on white board
79→Gold on periodic table
76→Osmium on periodic table has a lots of gold mentions in his Wikipedia documents
68→Erbium→Found in Ytterby (Sweden) found by @pure loom 09/04/2023

I dont think there's connections but, just posting it for the CTRL+F ref

also found this btw

https://petscii.krissz.hu/

I think it'll be easier to use

As it basically tells you everything you have to know, the X the Y the color, the actual screen code #, the HEX and the Shift+? method

You can draw @coarse dagger

[jagged ore]

71 also was G in PETSCII #easter-eggs message

[neon stream]

Btw, looking at the ASCII table I realised that upper and lower case letters have almost the same binary value except for one bit, so you can convert from one to the other by flipping one bit, that's cool

[jagged ore]

Ah wait I'm dumb. That's literally what your message said

[jagged ore]

Yeah it's pretty neat

[balmy fog]

Quick note altough I dont think there's any correlation, but im looking at lxxix if you translate it numbers per numbers (50 10 10 1 10) and take the 01010110 it gives you V

@neon stream Any ideas ?

[neon stream]

Not really 😂

It's weird that we seem to have both the word (gold) and the key (G = 6), but we still can't get the password 😅

Maybe some part of the key is still missing? 🤔

[balmy fog]

well

G=6 O=0 L=50?

[neon stream]

hmmm

and D = 500

6050500 would've been a good password 😂

I tried a similar one in the past, and so did Duh 😅

[tulip matrix]

[neon stream]

The name of the emoji 😂

[tulip matrix]

I'll be honest

I was just looking for an excuse to use it

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/blah-eye-roll-annoyed-face-gif-26916741

[neon stream]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[balmy fog]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

https://tenor.com/view/spongebob-squarepants-begging-pretty-please-beg-on-your-knees-pray-for-mercy-gif-26344462

[neon stream]

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

[tulip matrix]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1011929497139953744/1095166200016810004/SaintRobSaysGIF_4.gif

[neon stream]

I disagree SR 😭

[balmy fog]

Crying in hell

[sharp flame]

[balmy fog]

I'm officially lost

[jade citrus]

this emote is so good lmao

[balmy fog]

Any potential ideas? @sharp flame

[jade citrus]

I have a theory: ||I think we have to find what the password is||

[sharp flame]

We got to the bottom of that binary string yet?

[balmy fog]

No

[jade citrus]

maybe f=6 means the F6 key on the keyboard

@balmy fog ?

[turbid tinsel]

did we ever look into why rob shared this #easter-eggs message

[balmy fog]

Yeah?

[jade citrus]

what does the joy emoji mean

[balmy fog]

Laughing

[balmy fog]

I think he said it wasn’t EE related

[jade citrus]

y tho

[balmy fog]

Because I thought it was funny?

[turbid tinsel]

we have f = 6 and g =6. is this related to extra function keys? my keyboard has extra g keys where they correspond to the f keys of the same numbers.

maybe we need to look into macro keys or something

[jade citrus]

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

[timid solstice]

good news

I got eyes

[hasty anvil]

?

[hasty anvil]

ughhhhh

[swift thorn]

hahaa

[jade citrus]

I just checked the last few days of messages and no eyes

:(

[balmy fog]

Yep

Pretty sure that means we basically have what we need to find password

[jade citrus]

I wonder if Rob is able to see what password attempts we put in

[balmy fog]

I don’t think that feature is a thing in squarespace pages

[hasty anvil]

maybe we have the meaning of G=6 wrong

it's always been specifically G not g

[regal swallow]

Here's an egg

[turbid tinsel]

when rob referred to it he did refer to it in a capital

#easter-eggs message

[hasty anvil]

if you replace EGG to E66, you get æ=E66 in hexa

maybe that tells us reflection or rotation

yeah the capital G is significant

[pure loom]

Which is odd because all passwords are lowercase

[sharp flame]

but he wasn't referring to it as a password so no clash

[pure loom]

Correct, but it still doesn’t answer the question - why a capital?

[sharp flame]

cause it's a capital in music ??

it's called G6 irl

[pure loom]

Making leet obvious?

[sharp flame]

either way G6 is what the chord is called in regular terms, not g6

so it's not abnormal at all

[hasty anvil]

the binary code we got from the frame was specifically G=6, so that messes with it

why give us G6 and G=6 its confusing

[balmy fog]

True that

[sharp flame]

G6 meant G=6

simple as that

[hasty anvil]

otherwise they would give us G6

[sharp flame]

it's like 3E or 0O

[hasty anvil]

yeah so the G=6 is the message

[sharp flame]

yep

hidden in the form of a G6 chord

looking into music theory or G6 deeper than that is not gonna get anywhere 😭

and I don't think G=6 is too crazy when we had O=0

[hasty anvil]

Rob might've seen we were looking too deep in G6 chord, so gave us G=6 haha

have we had any other clues before like G=6. 3=E and 0=O?

the G, E and O can be used in GOLD EGG

like 60LD 366