easter-eggs

[jade citrus]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steganography

[jagged ore]

Also he did kind of mention writing scripts for the pixel patterns

[coarse dagger]

The abstract of this paper is basically a checklist of techniques we can try to utilize. https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=77648

3. Image Preprocessing Techniques
   3.1. Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)
   3.2. Vector Rank M-Type L Filter (VRML)
   3.3. Successive Mean Quantization Transform (SMQT)
   3.4. Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT)
   3.5. Anisotropic Diffusion (AD)
   3.6. Chirp Z-Transform (CZT)
   3.7. Other Filters

4. Feature Extraction Techniques
   4.1. Relative Auto Decorrelation (RAD)
   4.2. Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)
   4.3. Gabor Wavelet Transform
   4.4. Spectrum Based Feature Extraction
   4.5. Perturbed Quantization (PQ)
   4.6. Non-Sampled Contourlet Transform (NSCT)

This section is probably a good baseline, but these have honestly likely been interated on quite heavily since the paper was released:

5. Machine Learning Based Classification Techniques
   5.1. Ensemble Classifier
   5.2. Ensemble Based Extreme Learning Machine (EN-ELM) Classifier
   5.3. Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) Classifier
   5.4. Differential Evolution (DE) Based ELM Classifier
   5.5. Cognitive Ensemble ELM Classifier
   5.6. Support Vector Machine (SVM) Classifier
   5.7. Bayesian Ensemble Classifier

[coarse dagger]

Man, I wish I had seen these messages before. I started out doing my image editing in Python, but then decided to learn more about what I was trying to do in Photoshop

[jade citrus]

I'm downloading some sketchy steg program

let's see what happens

[jagged ore]

I mean it makes sense to try doing anything by hand first before jumping into programming though. Programming might take up a lot of time without knowing if it will work at all

[sharp flame]

don't think Rob is gonna be able to scroll through this chat nowadays with all these rabbit holes 😭

[quaint wing]

There's been some reaches. He's just gonna come back with a picture, give us some 4k resolution with something obvious that says "You figured it out a month ago, go find the message I edited"

[timid pebble]

Since we found nothing in the gif somebody might wanna try this out? https://github.com/CalderWhite/gif-msg

[hidden nacelle]

what is this

[balmy fog]

boys

i think

imma get it

[quaint wing]

An aneurism?

[balmy fog]

@coarse dagger can you send me

the psd

and everything you have

[sharp flame]

okay just keep it shorter 😭

[balmy fog]

im actually

wait

[sharp flame]

if I wake up with 300+ new messages and nothing found I'm quitting the hunt

[jagged ore]

looks like this is only for encoding though right?

[hidden nacelle]

i dont even know what it is

[quaint wing]

It's only for hiding the message, not giving it back to you

[hidden nacelle]

if it was giving it back to you, that would be bruteforcing no?

[timid pebble]

No there's also a decode function: command The command to be run (encode/decode)

[quaint wing]

Brute forcing would be us using a big ol' password list and slamming the site nonstop until we got in.

[coarse dagger]

It can decode, but you need the key that was used to encode. Unless we have a very very very clear idea of the exact key and the exact algorithm the key was used with we'll NEVER decode something hidden with key based encryption.

[coarse dagger]

It's too big to send, and honestly I don't want to encourage you to work with it more. 😅
Not much has changed since the last layers I sent you

[balmy fog]

Got it

[quaint wing]

https://tenor.com/view/charlie-day-gif-18564553

[balmy fog]

yeah

im clueless

yup still nothing

sorry bois

[quaint wing]

Oh no.

#easter-eggs message - You mentioned 1984 before.

[spark whale]

Alright that video in the social update bounds to surely have an easter egg in it

It has the glitchy thingy half way through it

[hidden nacelle]

it was solved

[spark whale]

Huh

[hasty anvil]

the new one?

[spark whale]

Already

[hasty anvil]

i dont think so

the montage one

we havent really looked at

[hidden nacelle]

the binary numbers right?

[hasty anvil]

no the next video

[quaint wing]

I think they're talking about the highlights.

That wasn't posted in here. It was posted on youtube and twitter.

[spark whale]

The very new update in #social-updates1

[hidden nacelle]

ye that was solved

[spark whale]

Ah

What did it say

[hidden nacelle]

i think it was g=6

[hasty anvil]

that was the 7.5m thank you

new one is highlights video

[spark whale]

Ye

[hasty anvil]

ohhh sorry game announcements

[neon stream]

https://tenor.com/view/big-brother1984-1984-big-brother-big-brother-is-watching-you-george-orwell-gif-24454773

[hasty anvil]

the newest video is in

my bad

[hidden nacelle]

#social-updates1 message this

[hasty anvil]

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

this video

sorry i said wrong channel

[quaint wing]

If there was something for us to find in that, I feel like they would've given us an easier way to find it. The only access we have would be hella compressed.

[spark whale]

Ah so nothing

Sad

[quaint wing]

We have everything we need, we're just not sure how to put eveything together. Then we say something, which triggers a straight up ADHD train that takes 37 stops to get to where we thought we were going in the first place, and we now know everything about the the universe that starts with the letter G

[spark whale]

@solar glade

We need help

[solar glade]

with what?

[spark whale]

Theres apperantly more stuff to go through

[jade citrus]

wait what

[spark whale]

Uhhhhh

[jagged ore]

I can't get "like a g6🎵 " out of my head anymore. Everytime I read g6 I hear it

[jade citrus]

now I'm feeling so fly...

[hidden nacelle]

https://tenor.com/view/venom-gif-27487650

[spark whale]

This is me every morning i wake up knowing i can't play the finals

[solar glade]

what stuff?

[jade citrus]

bro pinged Spear for no reason

lmao

[solar glade]

i haven't worked on the EE hunt for a minute

[spark whale]

I dunno

Im lost

[solar glade]

all good

[hasty anvil]

password T1D, T1E and T1F are all components of an egg. its shell, shape and yolk. so DEF might be all components put together, a whole egg

5f137s2 password still confuses me lol

[balmy fog]

update this isn't binary 1,0's

[hasty anvil]

what is it?

[balmy fog]

we've been wrong

idk

im redoing it

[jade citrus]

yeah this has been our main idea for a while now

[jade citrus]

it's the electron configuration for Mendelevium

[balmy fog]

i see something like this ''ABCDEFGH010100101001'' → I just typed dumb shit

[hasty anvil]

how does mendelevium link to gold?

[balmy fog]

golden angle

137.5

137s2 = 137.5

[hasty anvil]

and the 5f?

is F=5?

[balmy fog]

F=5 isn't rly confirmed

per Fish

and I trust Fish

[hasty anvil]

its weird to only take half the password though

[quaint wing]

I feel like those pieces need to be stacked nicely to get something resembling a password.

[jagged ore]

wasn't it f=6 just like g=6?

[hasty anvil]

g=6 , f=6 was eyed but we had no image clues for f=6

[quaint wing]

Both can technically be true.

F=6 when counting letters

G=6 for leet

[hasty anvil]

weve only had image clues for g=6, f=6 wasnt mentioned in any hint apart from fish's eyes

[coarse dagger]

The electron configuration connects to the golden angle which connects to gold.
The gold connection was found after the fact.

[hasty anvil]

ahhh i see

what came first, the gold or the egg? 🤔

[sharp flame]

A few ways. But we didn't reach mendelevium through gold

[hasty anvil]

im trying to understand its padlet lol

[sharp flame]

Mendelevium came first with Periodic Table clues and Mendeleev clues

Spectroscopy clues too

They all pointed to Mendelevium being the password

nothing to do with the golden angle

we just "discovered" that the 137 in 5f137s2 was the golden angle "by chance" (or by design)

[hasty anvil]

haha that seems so odd to me cause the other passwords have much clearer connections to gold and egg

[balmy fog]

yup nvm im clueless

[pure loom]

Maybe the answer could be a blend - so letters that are easily leet, like G = 6, are, and others are the numbers for the letters like D = 4

[quaint wing]

Lemme make a quick chart

[hasty anvil]

i cant think of when we woule need f-6, apart from to work out a cypher

was this ever solved?

i cant find the answers to the number anywhere haha

the last 2 eggs seem important to me

[pure loom]

interesting that there is a clock mention on the Leet wiki page

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

[coarse dagger]

I don't believe so

[hasty anvil]

could this be the message?

[coarse dagger]

The message?

[hasty anvil]

idk a message haha

[quaint wing]

Converted every letter to it's number + the leet equivilent

[coarse dagger]

I don't understand the nature of the question. It is 100% a message. It's very easily and clearly extracted from the image

[hasty anvil]

ignore me haha, i just meant if we need a cipher from g=6, and we havent worked out this number yet, it could be what we need the cipher on

[quaint wing]

That's the clearest I've seen that. Did you move pixels to set them up, or just change colour values?

[balmy fog]

im move them

again i dont know how accurate this is

[quaint wing]

Appreciate the work regardless

[jagged ore]

is that top one with your numbers overlayed already or is that just from moving pixels?

[balmy fog]

Overlayed in dissolved fusion mode

[pure loom]

This got 👀 way back in April. I don't know if we ever made any connections with it.

[jagged ore]

ah okay it almost looked to good to be true haha

[balmy fog]

This is without

this is 3%

[jagged ore]

not bad either tbh

really nice work

[quaint wing]

When did stage 2 start?

[balmy fog]

Allright break night for me bois

We need it I think ❤️

Have fun

[quaint wing]

Enjoy the little sanity you get back

[pure loom]

The first part is 01011000 = X

The second part might be 00100110 = &

there's a fuzzy bit between them

[balmy fog]

True!

it fits better

[pure loom]

X &

*not X & Elon lol

[balmy fog]

Initial tought was X&Y

[pure loom]

I think we might have made a little progress

[balmy fog]

or Y&X

[pure loom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%26Y

Surely even Rob wouldn't stoop as low as Coldplay

[pure loom]

yeah, could be a good path

[hasty anvil]

if its x & y, were given x as 110110 (6) and y as 71 (g)

[spring tusk]

is it written mobo ❤️ ?

[balmy fog]

Sad moment if I realize all this work would be for G6

[jagged ore]

have we ever tried to actually figure out how the mathematical function for this looks like?

[pure loom]

whoa... "The artwork for X&Y was designed by graphic design duo Tappin Gofton, formed by Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton; Mark Tappin had previously worked for Coldplay on the covers for Parachutes and its associated singles. The image, which is visualised through a combination of colours and blocks, is a graphical representation of the Baudot code, an early form of telegraph communication using a series of ones and zeros to communicate. The code was developed by Frenchman Émile Baudot in the 1870s, and was a widely used method of terrestrial and telegraph communication."

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

[timid solstice]

Level 2 - Status : Loading

On Oct 2nd 2022, Rob an Embark developer posted an image of half a QR code and also a message with many OOOOOO’s (edited to 407 to be exact).
This was confirmed to be the start of Level 2 of The Finals Easter Egg. A URL was decoded https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee_level2 with an image of the newly named Nama Tama egg decorated as an Easter egg holding a magnifying glass with the caption “LOADING LEVEL 2 - THE PROMISE”.

[quaint wing]

Right, should've known that. It was in the doc.

[jagged ore]

btw so I just tired to find out how big the step size between each tick on the y and x axis are. I'm counting the end one as well
For the x-axis we assume it ends at 6 so max6/6ticks = 1
For the y-axis we assume it ends at 71 so max71/11 = 6.454545...

[jade citrus]

T1F: and it was all yellow...

[pure loom]

[hasty anvil]

to add to the whiteboard, when y=0 x is low, and i assume G=6 is along that line

[jagged ore]

oh wait

what if instead o a=1 b=2 and so on it will be exponetial

[pure loom]

yeah, I reckon this is a better path

[balmy fog]

wym

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/chrischrismartin-coldplay-gif-18429832

[balmy fog]

G is probably the origion, your starting point from Y

[hasty anvil]

yeah the alphabet increases expon.

[balmy fog]

So it would be something like

y=ax+6

y=ax+b

b being your origin

origin here isn't 0

because it's a curve

[hasty anvil]

i havent done this in too long haha

[jagged ore]

what if f and g are functions
f(something) = 6
g(something) = 6

[balmy fog]

well

♠

[hasty anvil]

isnt the curve a quadratic?

[balmy fog]

This is Alt+6

♠

idk if this helps

G alt71 is G

[hasty anvil]

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

looks more like this

mx + c is for straight lines

[jagged ore]

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

it could also be something with a function composition

[hasty anvil]

ohhhhh yeah could be

[worldly shore]

you guys are way to smart for me

holy

[hasty anvil]

if this ee was 5 years ago i could solve this so quick haha

[worldly shore]

tried helping but this is on some smart typebeat

[quaint wing]

You guys made me re-learn binary and hex.

[jagged ore]

same lol

it would make sense to try to get the inverse function of whatever it is on the whiteboard since x and y are swapped

[hasty anvil]

i think x=6 and y=g is one point

[balmy fog]

got it

x=15 and y=1.5 something

[hasty anvil]

wait it is inverse!!

isnt x-axis along the bottom line

[balmy fog]

Supposed

[hasty anvil]

we have y along the bottom line

its flipped

[balmy fog]

Oh

[hasty anvil]

yeah it should be that

[balmy fog]

I might be reaching

but

does it not look like

[quaint wing]

This whole chat is reaching. Spread your arms.

[balmy fog]

a solar system

lmao

[toxic geyser]

hey if i want to help with this what should i read throught/ get to know before i try?

[quaint wing]

#egg-hunt-onboarding and the pins to this channel!

[jagged ore]

you lost me there lol. Hwo does it look like a solar system?

[hasty anvil]

to me it looks like a part of the egg shape haha

yeah solar system lost me too lol

[jagged ore]

image if we line it up with one of these and calculate the size based on that

[jagged ore]

ahh

[hasty anvil]

yeah what im thinking

[balmy fog]

or something launching

idk

what year was the c64 again

[toxic geyser]

thanks!

[hasty anvil]

The fact the graph is inverse feels like a big clue to me

[jagged ore]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithm
It definitely looks like a logarithmic function

[balmy fog]

1982

[quaint wing]

"I'm gonna take a break"
"Here's 13 more screenshots I found in the 12 seconds I left"

[pure loom]

Jan 1982

[jagged ore]

"I am not addicted. I can stop any time I want"

[hasty anvil]

log works with this if we know x=1

that would prove it

[hasty anvil]

You can inverse log can’t you?

We can’t ignore the inverse

[balmy fog]

wym inverse log

This is also funny

[jagged ore]

we reached log because of the inverse of exponetial function

[balmy fog]

We know the distance from A to B

But we don't from A to C

A→B is 15

[jagged ore]

why are they making us do middle school math

[balmy fog]

A→C

[pure loom]

punishment for taking too long to find the password

[balmy fog]

Welp

A→B is 15 wich is easy

[turbid tinsel]

Theres a baudot code cypher

https://www.dcode.fr/baudot-code

[jagged ore]

This is probably dumb but the small unintelligible thing could be 0.133333...

[balmy fog]

it's 1.5y

not 75

[hasty anvil]

can we make a log graph using G=71 and 6 from A=0 alphabet to spell GOLD is what im thinking

/trying

[balmy fog]

Tried it

[hasty anvil]

oh rip

[balmy fog]

haven't tried it in reverse but I doubt so

Oh I got it!

Look

Erase

the reaction

lol

never do that

[quaint wing]

Ahhaha

Don't tell me to look

[jagged ore]

bro gave him hopes lol

[quaint wing]

You still told us to look. We're waiting!

[toxic geyser]

what numbers are yall looking at?

[quaint wing]

Right now, theorizing based on a whiteboard that was in the open beta

[toxic geyser]

also is this still relevant?

[balmy fog]

Not eyes, we don't know

[quaint wing]

That's the best part, we're not 100% sure. We're learning.

[toxic geyser]

okay

[quaint wing]

We have been throwing theories at the wall and nothing's gotten eyes

[woven crater]

Why is this chat doing math?

[toxic geyser]

can someone send the numbers/info from the this?

[hasty anvil]

this

[quaint wing]

#easter-eggs message - This is one of them.

[toxic geyser]

thanks

[quaint wing]

If you check the padlet out, there's a bunch of others screenshots and things that have been worked on.

[jagged ore]

oh not bad

[quaint wing]

That also looks like it'd be perfect if it was flipped.

[hasty anvil]

i dont think this is it, ours crosses x axis, this crosses y axis

[jade citrus]

it looks like the x-intercept is > 0

[river flame]

Did we solve this?

[balmy fog]

Wait

hold on guys

jesus

[quaint wing]

I thought you were providing the end, now showing your work. Sorry 😦

[hasty anvil]

One definite co ordinate we have is (6,71)

[woven crater]

Wait what are we trying to solve?

Can someone send the original problem?

[balmy fog]

Doesn't matter, same equation

[balmy fog]

This would be way too long to explain lol

#egg-hunt-onboarding g

[quaint wing]

Pins for this channel too.

[woven crater]

Cus if it's math my 2 years as an Engineer student might actually be useful

[hasty anvil]

might help, what graph is this? #easter-eggs message haha

[balmy fog]

Basically

We need to find the value of C, that way we can calculate Y

[river flame]

This is handwriting

[jagged ore]

can you add the small coordinate system with the 6 and 71 as well?

[jade citrus]

1.5y = 3; y = 2
and then c = 0.75

[hasty anvil]

yeah this would help

[balmy fog]

Like this?

[toxic geyser]

where is the 6 coming from? i thought the number was 110110 (which is 54 in binary)

[hasty anvil]

no you know the 110110 and 71 mini graph thing?

[toxic geyser]

yes

[balmy fog]

this?

[hasty anvil]

yeahhhh

[toxic geyser]

yeah

[hasty anvil]

add that pls

y=6

cause its G=6

[jade citrus]

unless the axes are still swapped

[balmy fog]

these values doesn't matter truly to solve this

[hasty anvil]

110110 is 6

[quaint wing]

what.

[jagged ore]

110110 is 6 converting to ascii

[hasty anvil]

y is still 71

[balmy fog]

Pause

everybody

pause

[toxic geyser]

okay

[toxic geyser]

okay

[balmy fog]

from there

please

everybody the same version

lol

[hasty anvil]

x=6, y=71

thats all we mean lol

[balmy fog]

Doesn't make any sense

does it?

[river flame]

When is algebra synonymous with the word "simple"

[balmy fog]

ok

so

x=6 and y=71?

[hasty anvil]

this, 110110=6 , 71=G

[toxic geyser]

does it say 1.5y = J?

[jade citrus]

(5, 10) is a point on the graph

[balmy fog]

Is this good?

lol

[hasty anvil]

thats lost me lol

[jade citrus]

5 tick marks on the x axis, 10 tick marks on the y axis

[balmy fog]

Does everybody agree that the SS is good?

[hasty anvil]

ohh i see

[jagged ore]

maybe we should square the image first based on the diagram

[hasty anvil]

my issue is 71 and 6 we dont know if theyre max values

[jade citrus]

what

[hasty anvil]

too quick hold on haha

[balmy fog]

I understand what he means

[toxic geyser]

on the bit with the two A's with the lines to the right does it say that 1.5y = J?

[woven crater]

I've looked thru the pins but can't find the graph that you guys are trying to solve, where is it?

[river flame]

I thought the equation was a(x)^2

[hasty anvil]

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t2abc-8cpusy9qx4ectl24 in this

[quaint wing]

On the padlet. Look along the top at the whiteboards.

[woven crater]

thnx!

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/no-no-no-simon-cowell-britain's-got-talent-no-way-nope-gif-8916880067680298198

[coarse dagger]

Y'all I think we need to be very... cautious directing our research based on anything assembled from the footer puzzle pieces without first getting acknowledgement from Rob regarding what we found there.
So far we've been able to assemble them in lots of different ways with lots of different outcomes...

[pure loom]

yeah, this is a good point. It'd be good to have him 👀 "X &"

[balmy fog]

Agreed, until then Im not focusing on it

[hasty anvil]

i dont think we've had a good look at the graph yet either

[coarse dagger]

I think people got really excited based on how clear this image looks... without realizing that @balmy fog superimposed letters with lowered opacity onto it...

[hasty anvil]

yeah we have moved away from this for now lol

[balmy fog]

Yep, quick reminder, this is without nothing on it

and this is with 2%

[pure loom]

interestingly "&" can be used as leet for "E" and "G" so EGG could be "&&&"

[jade citrus]

so the fretboards on the whiteboards were colored red, and it pointed us to G=6, maybe since the graph is red it relates the this tier as well

so the stuff in black is ignored

[hasty anvil]

unpause

[jade citrus]

play

[hasty anvil]

i agree i think the wb is colour coded

[jade citrus]

its the same?

[hasty anvil]

might be true yeah

so y=71

[pure loom]

"Use of the -& suffix
Words ending in -and, -anned, -ant, or a similar sound can sometimes be spelled with an ampersand (&) to express the ending sound (e.g. "This is the s&box", "I'm sorry, you've been b&", "&hill/&farm"). It is most commonly used with the word banned. An alternative form of "B&" is "B7", as the ampersand is with the "7" key on the standard US keyboard. It is often seen in the abbreviation "IBB7" (in before banned), which indicates that the poster believes that a previous poster will soon be banned from the site, channel, or board on which they are posting."

[jade citrus]

oh

[toxic geyser]

just a quick heads up this function doesn't work unless the graph is translated

sqrtx has a domain of [0, inf) and a range of [0,inf)

but the picture has negitave y values

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/laughing-out-loud-gif-22910989

[jagged ore]

I don't think it is meant to be that accurate considering it is supposed to be hand drawn. But it is a good point

[toxic geyser]

log (x) is asymptotic at 0 but does have negitave y values

[hasty anvil]

yeah i didnt think the y=arootx thing was right

[toxic geyser]

i mean yes but then why also extend the y axis the same ammount?

[jade citrus]

no it doesnt lmao, there's no negative y axis even there

[hasty anvil]

#easter-eggs message this has negative Y

[toxic geyser]

it 100% does if we assume the intersection of the x and y axis to be (0,0)

[jade citrus]

oh you mean this little piece?

[hasty anvil]

we're complicating this too much haha

[jagged ore]

like I said I wouldn't consider this as "has negtive" since it's hand drawn

the graph literally has bumps and all

[toxic geyser]

idk, its not that hard to start the marker on the line

[balmy fog]

okkkkkkkkkkk plz

[toxic geyser]

especially considering the axis is also extended

[jade citrus]

nvm it says "mobo ❤️ "

??

[jagged ore]

nevermind I forgot that we switched back

yeah but I don't know about that

mathematically that is correct

but we are looking at an intentionally hand drawn graph. I would draw it like that too

anyway I think I'm gonna go sleep. it's 3 am

[jade citrus]

i just realized those A and B values are from the other whiteboard

might not even be related

is this Rob

[pure loom]

even looks like he has a wrist band

[jade citrus]

LOL I see it

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/ken-jeong-community-too-small-to-read-read-reading-gif-5494204

[hidden nacelle]

yes

😆

[jade citrus]

this is just borderline misinformation

[balmy fog]

Alright i'll delete everything

[jade citrus]

didnt want to be mean or anything but you cant just erase a vital piece of the image 😆

[balmy fog]

Wym erase a vital piece of an image?

What have I erased?

[jade citrus]

in the image you deleted you erased the tick marks and replaced them with your own lol

[balmy fog]

Yes because tick marks were handdrawn, I've put 71 tick marcks as the X and 6 tickmarcks as the Y since this was the value we've decided to put onto it

on the original photo, tickmarks were 5-Y and 10-X

[jade citrus]

ok but to be fair the ENTIRE GRAPH is handdrawn

[balmy fog]

It's whatever

I'll do it on my side

[jade citrus]

👍

[balmy fog]

Both are from different boards but same color

[tulip matrix]

Can of OSPUZE in one hand and his Iseul-t briefcase in the other

[pure loom]

true that

[timid pebble]

Don't remember anyone linking that, but one constellation is named Horologium. Thought it might be fitting the time and constellation clues? 🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horologium_(constellation)

[coarse dagger]

I've got DWT working in python. Don't think it really helps us in this stage, but it's effectively horizontal, vertical, and diagonal feature extraction.

[fading wing]

looks like viold ... gold , 6old and just since t1-f was vit3llus I tried vi instead of 6.

[unborn pilot]

yeah that works lol

i can't post a photo

but solution is viold

sorry, hi y'all. that's my brother and I typing to each other. we've been lurking trying to solve it

the next photo is a giant ?

[quick spruce]

and evivi 🤔

[unborn pilot]

yeah apears to be

ABC = viold, DEF = evivi

[fading wing]

so the biggest clue was g=6=vi

[unborn pilot]

well, let's see what these two "activations" do 🙂

btw for those that need the final connection. G6 Chord is usually written as G vi.

[coarse dagger]

BRUH

[unborn pilot]

activate it!

[coarse dagger]

Did you'll already send the activation email?

[turbid tinsel]

im so confused

[unborn pilot]

yeah.

[coarse dagger]

File name tfee_ques.jpg

[unborn pilot]

but why not do it 3-4 times 🙂

nothing's happened yet so maybe the magic number is 6 (or when Rob wakes up)

[coarse dagger]

No need to spam Rob

[turbid tinsel]

where did the questionmark come from?

[unborn pilot]

yeah i wasn't sure if it's going to a person, or it needs something else to activate.

[coarse dagger]

Entering the password

[unborn pilot]

i was not around for the others

[coarse dagger]

Filename tfee_tion.jpg

[unborn pilot]

so if this is new lmk

ques & tion = question

[turbid tinsel]

do you have link?

[unborn pilot]

go to the main puzzle page and type in the answers to see them

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

[turbid tinsel]

what is the answers?

[unborn pilot]

ABC = viold, DEF = evivi

[quaint wing]

HOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

[turbid tinsel]

im just so confused, this guys has 22 comments on the whole discord and just instantly comes in and drops the password instantly without a single post trying to solve it. seems super sus not gonna lie

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

[turbid tinsel]

that still seems sus, idk. like cool we moved on and solved it but just seems odd

[quaint wing]

I was fucking right to an extent. Now I'm annoyed I didn't follow up with it, lmao

Great work guys

[unborn pilot]

what's sus about being here but not talking until i have something to say?

i dont like spreading shit but Rob gets an activation email for every minute of sleep I lost over this 😊

[turbid tinsel]

how was the password found im just curious i guess?

[unborn pilot]

he was so right it's crazy

me telling me brother about this for weeks, and then him randomly being like, dude g=6=vi

[coarse dagger]

They explained

Rob told us it was simple, and we were just in too deep

[unborn pilot]

we were just joking how it needed to be something to not over think it and he tried it, it worked lol

[coarse dagger]

gg!

[turbid tinsel]

wild, good job. sorry didnt see the full explanation

[unborn pilot]

no good job to all of you

[quaint wing]

All we needed was VI=6, lmfao

[unborn pilot]

if it wasn't for all these pins and padlets we'd never been able to follow along.

[river flame]

soooo

Tier 3

[unborn pilot]

is it active now?

[river flame]

I don't think

[unborn pilot]

i was already overlaying "ques" with "tion" in photoshop looking for stuff lol

[quaint wing]

I think it'll be active when others wakeup

[river flame]

42

[coarse dagger]

It's 8AM Stockholm time. It'll take Rob a bit to get things going

[river flame]

I'm going with 42 right now

[quaint wing]

Found the or something.

I can see now why everything makes sense. Gold + EGG. All we needed was G=6, and think of 6=VI and that would've been game.

[unborn pilot]

props to the Rob. We both got into this easter egg even more when we saw the C64 stuff. My brother and I grew up on it. I have a feeling that's gonna be a big part of t3.

[quaint wing]

Thank god we learned about the solar system.

Which is great, because everyone learned all the things about it! Lol

[coarse dagger]

I'm hoping Rob has a clue to help us learn how to get a better look at the puzzle pieces in the footer

[quaint wing]

Hopefully. Poor b0kb has been looking at those pixels for a week

[coarse dagger]

The 'noise' in tfee_tion.jpg is... interesting

[quaint wing]

I don't like it.

[unborn pilot]

i think you're on the right track with those puzzle pieces in the footer. they just might not be in right order yet. i was having a hard time figuring out where it starts and ends, but there is that one very long piece that i think is the formation of the whole code.

[coarse dagger]

I'm worried it might be a puzzle...

[quaint wing]

We can worry about that later.

For now, we can relish in the fact that we went down so many rabbit holes, that poor Rob probably facepalmed so hard, he's been recovering from cluster headaches.

5 stages of grief will be dealt with tomorrow. I'm sure everyone's going to need some counseling after that. Just means we learned something about how passwords can be done, and another thing to look out for with em 🙂

[turbid tinsel]

theres a new signature in the black and gold

[quaint wing]

Where at?

[coarse dagger]

For example. Here I've taken threshold 230

Here I've highlighted some matching patterns

[spring tusk]

So you're telling the answer was viold? Are you kidding

So not the password since we're not getting our red x?

[quaint wing]

It's not activated yet since they're sleeping

[coarse dagger]

Yes it is the answer. No we're not kidding.

[quaint wing]

But yes. It was viold. All we needed to do was put the last little spin on it.

ABC, all that we were missing was a roman numeral.

[coarse dagger]

Honestly as soon as we had G=6 we should've solved it

[quaint wing]

GOLD EGG was right, G=6 was everything, that's why we kept getting it, but no one thought to take 6 and use the roman numerals.

[unborn pilot]

ABC = viold, DEF = evivi. both ended up following the exact same format

i honestly thought DEF was gonna be harder

[quaint wing]

On the bright side. Everyone learned a bunch of skills that are 100% going to be useful down the line, and maybe even IRL, lol

and we now know that when trying passwords we think have numbers in them, roman numerals are being used. I even tried the full thing in roman numerals today

[spring tusk]

We need more people to think simply like you

[quaint wing]

Every time we'd say "OBVIOUS" We'd end up in 7 different rabbit holes. lmao

It's not about the passwords, it's about the teammates we made along the way.

@coarse dagger How's this getting added to the padlette? Just a bunch of lines from everything to 6=VI!

[turbid tinsel]

idk how cass eta relates to it

[drifting chasm]

I only really visit the finals discord because it's so fun watching you guys slowly go crazy over this

[quaint wing]

Ahhahaha. Glad we provide entertainment ❤️

Cass eta was quite literally all about gold. Everything related to gold in some way.

Everything we looked at was technically right/fine, but everyone went overboard with theories trying to make things appear. G=6 came up so often, that we knew it needed to be 6, but no one ever thought to make JUST G a roman numeral, and we tried to leet everything.

[river flame]

η cas = eta cas (latin)

gold = viold

latin

[spring tusk]

I tried aurum cause i saw the latin connection but that certainly wasn't it in the end 😂

Gg for this one guys, this was worth waking up for 😴

[unborn pilot]

i was trying aurum for days as well as aureus. i thought that was the connection to f-1

[quaint wing]

I was trying all roman numerals, all leet, all numbers

I'm glad we did it. Was all in good fun. Looking forward to either making enemies on release, or good teammates 😛

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

so g = VI
2 weeks ago

[spring tusk]

Its just like cacoiii in the end, just one part

[unborn pilot]

what got my brother to think that too was cause i was trying "6050500" for G=6, o=0, L=50, and D=500

but it was way more simple haha

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

G=6=vi
O=0=0
L=11=xi
D=3=iii
5 days ago

[quaint wing]

So you're telling me

That we HAD the answer

But, no eyes made it overlooked, lmfao

[quaint wing]

That cheeky bastard

[unborn pilot]

he sure had the "major" part of the vi right.

[quaint wing]

He KNEW we'd be looking for eyes

[spring tusk]

And at that moment, he knew, he f up

[unborn pilot]

haha

[quaint wing]

Wigs gonna have a field day later

[unborn pilot]

well there was a big clue. the latest photo was the clearest one.

a 6 chord is written as vi. G=6=vi right there

[quaint wing]

It's blantatly obvious to us now, and I can see why no one had thought of using G as VI. No eyes on that clue means no one would've taken it seriously.

[unborn pilot]

can't depend on eyes all the time. Rob's a busy man i bet. but then again he eyed so much gold,egg,g6 stuff

[coarse dagger]

Rob gave us more than enough to work with

[quaint wing]

100%, but we're all ADHD trains.

We start one place, and we gotta go EVERYWHERE to make sure we get to our destination.

[coarse dagger]

I need to resolve to spend more time entering passwords

[spring tusk]

So now what we have is a gold ? And an egg shell ? . Exciting to finally move on to another step 🙂

[quaint wing]

Yeah. And it looks like we'll have a pretty solid group to push through it!

Bunch of us to start it off. Everyone's got their own special talents that'll help push through

[unborn pilot]

Did the other tiers have an activation email like this?

[coarse dagger]

Rob's here!

Welome back Rob!

[quaint wing]

👀

[proud minnow]

CONGRATULATIONS.!
AMAZING work, so happy to see that you (finally) cracked it.!

FINALLY WE CAN GET READY FOR THE NEXT STEP..!

Only ONE little tier left, then the real hunt begins and we are ready to wrap this first little EE-hunt… Thank you for being part of this little adventure.!

[coarse dagger]

Any tips for the footer?

[proud minnow]

Yes it is me, with my bad posture, my laptop, cap, energy drink and wristband..!

[sharp flame]

WAIT WHAT???

[unborn pilot]

i think i saw that guy on the whiteboard once

[quaint wing]

Welcome Fish. I hope you enjoyed everything.

[sharp flame]

WHYYYY

[quaint wing]

and yup. That was a whiteboard drawing!

[sharp flame]

do I always miss this 😭

omg

It was actually so obvious

[coarse dagger]

No way this was a coincidence right? Josh is just ahead of the game?

[sharp flame]

I kept writing 79 instead of lxxix

Like a total dummy

Totally ignoring THAT cipher

[quaint wing]

We all did things that were close.

[coarse dagger]

The amount of times 6old was typed in this chat

[quaint wing]

Yup. We had all the right combinations, but not the RIGHT combination.

We did one or the other, but never thought to combine the right ones. We did our best!

[spring tusk]

Yes

[sharp flame]

@unborn pilot amazing job!

it's so so helpful to have a fresh perspective anyways

the people in here get too stuck in Rabbit Holes..

[spring tusk]

Now for T3 lets remember that it's a walk in the park -Rob

[quaint wing]

He did say "One LITTLE tier left" before the big ones start.

[sonic mantle]

Wow I can’t believe it was solved! Way to go guys! I can’t believe it was actually so simple lol

[sharp flame]

this history of that tfee-ques image

no idea if accurate.. but 2015?!!

[sonic mantle]

Huh, that's strange.
I also just looked at the bit map for the 2nd image. It looks like there are a lot of symbols in the background. I'm wondering if they're from that c64 keyboard thing we were looking at.

[sharp flame]

never thought about it like that

thought they were artefacts at first but they have very distinct patterns

[quaint wing]

I'm gonna wake up to so much more shit. Lol

[sonic mantle]

Yeah I saw that when you click on the pictures. Idk if that’s a clue or just a notification to whoever maintains the site that they need to update the website lol

[sharp flame]

?

[hasty anvil]

I don’t believe it

Good job haha

[sonic mantle]

Gold Egg was in front of us the whole time and G=6 was the only clue we needed lol

[sharp flame]

it's like I was sayiiiiiiiin

[sonic mantle]

Though idk if there was a hint about using Roman numerals at some point that we just missed…

[sharp flame]

1064, lxxix, 5f137s2

the 2nd Tier was all about Roman Numerals

[hasty anvil]

Time clues were probably about Roman

[sharp flame]

also the password was in roman numerals

anyways yeah really interesting pattern

[sonic mantle]

Idk if that means anything though. It just looked pixelated

[sharp flame]

It's in a perfect grid shape

and there are shapes which repeat

we might just need to document each shape, correlate each of them to 1 character

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, doesn't look like typical noise to me

[sharp flame]

the problem is deciphering them..

and the fact that there is a varying gradient on the background 😭

[sonic mantle]

It’s also good to note that the first image doesn’t appear to have any of this

[coarse dagger]

There is a decent bit of similar looking "noise" in the footer we were trying to work out

[sharp flame]

it's even in the "white" of the question mark

Also I think we've mentioned that T1ABC question mark is Gold, and T1DEF question mark is kinda like egg-white/eggshell

The two images seem to be counterparts, do we overlay them?

[sonic mantle]

Hmm maybe. They are connected after all

[sharp flame]

also a very faint repeating grid pattern here

[quick spruce]

that's heavily suggested by the name imo.. I wanna put ques & tion together somehow. the QUESTION is how 😭

[sharp flame]

the same thing we did for the Pisa Griffin at the very start

[coarse dagger]

Tried that already, didn't see anything interesting

[sharp flame]

how about differencing them

[sonic mantle]

Hmm is the egg question mark file smaller in size compared to the gold? I just imported the files into Gimp and that appears to be the case.

No yeah it definitely is smaller.

[sharp flame]

The gold has a large bevel too

not sure if you remove it if they become the same size

[sonic mantle]

Yeah, it's like the egg would only fit within the inner part of the character.

If you scale it up that is.

[sharp flame]

Gold shell with white yolk in the middle 🧠

[sonic mantle]

exactly.

I scaled it up and it seems like it almost fits perfectly.

This is with the gold layer at 27% opacity

[sharp flame]

Anyway the background of the white Question Mark is the only lead we have

[sonic mantle]

Yeah, until we get more art to look into lol.

[sharp flame]

Also "Question"

or "question mark"

seems to be a lead here

[sonic mantle]

Oh yeah that too. ques and tion being from both of these files. It kind of suggests to me that they should be combined.

[sharp flame]

Since > ? < Was in the metadata for both images

[sonic mantle]

tfee I think just stands for The Finals Easter Egg.

[sharp flame]

Yep

[sonic mantle]

Oh, it wasn't the c64 keyboard that i thought it looks like. I think it kind of looks like PETSCII like we were looking at before...

[sharp flame]

Very similar to petscii yeah

I think it's supposed to be read left to right top to bottom in the image

but that doesn't help us much

[faint rivet]

Congratz to everyone.

I’m just curious of how we would get the G clue if Rob never put up those 2 recent pics

[jagged ore]

Wait wtf we solved it?

[coarse dagger]

Upper left corner, threshold 239. If it's PETSCII the top is either cut off 1 pixel or they're squashed by 1 pixel.

That's a comparison to actual PETSCII spade

[jagged ore]

Now I'm confused why we had so many other clues that were confirmed that we didn't use at all

[coarse dagger]

The one that stumps me is 'F=6'

[jagged ore]

I mean everything that didn't connect to g=6 was basically useless then

[coarse dagger]

Note that thresholding probably won't perfectly extract these if they are PETSCII due to the gradient

If there is PETSCII I don't think it's all PETSCII

I wonder how many pieces we're finding that are part of TEH, and thus Rob's not eying them 🤔

Bruh why is it so difficult to find a to scale image with all the C64 PETSCII... I don't want to have to do tons of preprocessing to get all the symbols 😢

heeerrreeee we go:
https://dustlayer.com/vic-ii/2013/4/23/vic-ii-for-beginners-part-2-to-have-or-to-not-have-character

[sharp flame]

There was nearly nothing which wasn't G=6 or gold+egg

[jagged ore]

idk the whole space stuff seemed completely unrelated for example

[coarse dagger]

To preface, I doubt any of it was useless, but:
C64, time, "1779, 34.76, 5.95", Pleiades, Eta Cassiopeiae, 6000666, "hour, month, day, year", THE_FINALS_SpOooOOooOOoooky.jpg, Contestent#UnKnown3

Quickly whipped this up to show the boundaries of the PETSCII characters. I'm planning on extracting each to it's own image later, probably using some homegrown code to make it a bit easier:

[jagged ore]

yeah I am not saying useless. I just don't see how it connected to the actual answer at the end of the day

[jagged ore]

I tried to extract and remove the gradient with division. Maybe it's easier to see the right side like this. Here is also a levels adjusted version

the lines in the background come from the removal of the gradient btw

[balmy fog]

So mad

GG!!!!!

We finally got it

But Jesus I feel dumb

[jagged ore]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2015_November_6 this is the day that the files got created

[jagged ore]

yeah same here lol. Honestly the whole pixel thing might have also just come out to G=6

[balmy fog]

We were, in facts, searching too deep

[sharp flame]

Yep

it's okay, at least you had fun in the rabbit holes 🤣

Also I found the next tier

[balmy fog]

What?

Bro

Fish

[sharp flame]

https://reachthefinals.com/t3-f

[balmy fog]

I’m waking up

Let me grab coffee

[sharp flame]

weird that it's f again

[balmy fog]

We solving it today?

Rob said it was pretty easy right?

[sharp flame]

both t1-f-1 and t1-def had f

now t3-f

[jagged ore]

F=7

[sharp flame]

no way goldegg is the answer this time

that would be too easy

[balmy fog]

Man

At this point

We never know

[jagged ore]

what if instead of egg related it's cow related this time

[balmy fog]

Lmao

What are the clues we have for T3?

[coarse dagger]

hmm vit3llus
vi -> 6
6t3llus?

[balmy fog]

Do we have any assembled clues or

[jagged ore]

we basically only have the two pictures from the solved 2abc and 2def sites

[balmy fog]

Ok

Found nothing inside ? @coarse dagger

[jagged ore]

And it's weird that their creation date is in on 2015/11/6

[coarse dagger]

Just the grid of 'noise'

[balmy fog]

The file was created 2015/11/6?

[jagged ore]

ques: https://www.metadata2go.com/result#j=5b491ff2-9c09-405e-96ae-67fdce9da64b
tion: https://www.metadata2go.com/result#j=cd0314eb-9674-414b-ac9b-8921da4c9465
look at the History when

[coarse dagger]

"hour, day, month, year"
Bet this is where we use that

[jagged ore]

I gues the time clue might really come into play now actually

yeah exactly

[coarse dagger]

02 06 11 2015

[jagged ore]

also they are both created at the same exact second. that's kind of odd too

[balmy fog]

Perhaps maybe in c64 screen codes?

[coarse dagger]

0206112015
02061115

[sharp flame]

Probably copies of the same file though

Since they seem to be variations

[jagged ore]

oh that makes sense actually

[sharp flame]

This is on all the images though

maybe the timestamp on last tiers' might've helped us

[coarse dagger]

This date?

[sharp flame]

no, others

[jagged ore]

also I have no idea if the +7 time zone is from the website or another clue

[balmy fog]

Prob Sweden time

2015:11:06 02:25

[jagged ore]

wait actually they last got modified in +2 timezone

[coarse dagger]

None that early AFAIK

[jagged ore]

so they got created in another time zone then they got last modified in

[coarse dagger]

The fact that it's such an outlier makes this one seem like a clue

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

[balmy fog]

Could it be
02 25 06 11 20 15 ?

C64 screen codes

[jagged ore]

sweden can be +2
+7 is is somewhere in asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B07:00

[balmy fog]

The odds of this would be insane

Rob would’ve had to time this in 2015

[jagged ore]

I mean he could change the time and date of his computer to create it right?

[coarse dagger]

PETSCII from creation time hour, day, month, year
BFKTO
or
BFKO (if truncating 2015 to '15)

[balmy fog]

It was created in +7 modified in +2

[sharp flame]

Gotcha

I think the time clues were for last tier personally

[balmy fog]

Should we still consider the board clues?

[sharp flame]

board?

[balmy fog]

Also, this might just be me as a graphic designer but still

Both images are opposites in my opinion

One is modern, minimalist, white on white with a shadow, the other is gold on black with a huge bevel, wich, btw, bevels aren't used a lot today, but back in the days we're used way more

potentially something

? = $3F

The url is t3-f

[coarse dagger]

Hmm. St. Petersburg doesn't fall into those regions so it can't linking to where the Fabergé eggs were created, but perhaps it's linking to a region where the giftee of a specific egg lived? And the other regions represent when the egg changed hands?

[spark whale]

any easter eggs about a possible release date

[coarse dagger]

Seems a bit far east for this theory

[balmy fog]

@coarse dagger

so, viold and evivi

C64 wasn't used at all

neither Eta Cassiopeia

[coarse dagger]

So t1-f-1 was just t1-g

A clue to get us to think about G hidden in the T2ABC url

[balmy fog]

What if all the clues/eyes on the padlets is for this tier right here

[coarse dagger]

t3-f URL differs from our t2-abc and t2-def URLs, as the tier number doesn't refer back to a previous tier.
This is how the t1 urls worked, the only thing special this time is that f is present.

This makes me think maybe we don't need any of the past passwords to solve this one... but maybe we need to apply some of the same logic as in t1-f, or the f has a completely different meaning in this context.

[balmy fog]

if F6 is true, then it wasn't used in ABCDEF at all

[spark whale]

may i ask as to what is going on

[coarse dagger]

T2 solved, starting brainstorm on T3

[spark whale]

huh

[coarse dagger]

I mean.... F is 6 in the c64 screen codes...

[spark whale]

i have no idea what this means

[balmy fog]

#egg-hunt-onboarding

Well the only brainstorm idea I have is

Polar opposites from the ? Images

[coarse dagger]

Ques and tion may have other interpretations as well?

“Tion” may also refer to:
A cross between a male tiger and a lioness

T1F used lion to connect us to yellow to connect us to yolk to connect us to vit3llus

[balmy fog]

What about ques

[fallen jasper]

CONGRATS GUYS!

I present you: yippie

https://tenor.com/view/yippee-happy-celebration-joy-confetti-gif-25557730

[balmy fog]

And where is rob man damn we’ve find it!!!!!! Common Robbie

[spark whale]

huh

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

[balmy fog]

Walk in the park huh

[balmy fog]

Oops lol

[proud minnow]

pssst... here we go.!

[proud minnow]

Months ahead of you, months... scratch that... years.

[balmy fog]

Again with the time huh

[neon stream]

Congrats @fading wing and @quick spruce for finding the answers! 💪🏻

[balmy fog]

I know Bevels were popular in 2015 @proud minnow but damn you Bevelled the shit out of that “?”

[neon stream]

And @unborn pilot too! I just read the messages 😂

[balmy fog]

I feel dumb because I’ve tried 6old and e66 we all tried it

I can’t believe no one thought about viold and evivi

😂🥲

Really good job

[neon stream]

Yeah, it's always been like this, that's why it's a community effort in the end. We couldn't do this by ourselves, we need the different ideas flowing

[balmy fog]

Can we do something with that pssst

[neon stream]

Are you guys able to go to the Tier3 page? 🤔

[hidden nacelle]

what was the password

[neon stream]

viold and evivi

g=vi

Rob using Acient Rome's leet 😛

[hidden nacelle]

congratulations

[balmy fog]

t3-f

[neon stream]

Thanks!

[neon stream]

@proud minnow not sure if intended, but that's missing from https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

[neon stream]

How did you guys get there?

[balmy fog]

@coarse dagger

No idea I woke up to all of this

[hidden nacelle]

how many clues have we missed 😆

[sharp flame]

I think finding it was part of the puzzle

[neon stream]

But how did you guys find it?

(And if it was part of the puzzle, since we solved it, it'd be great to have easy access there tbh)

[sharp flame]

I found that page earlier today

[neon stream]

how?

[spark whale]

what would tier 3 be

[sharp flame]

cause I was wondering about t1-f-1 and t2-def

It was literally by chance

the first thing I typed in was t3-f

(also cause the latest images were "_F" I guess)

I have good intuition I guess

[neon stream]

At least we found it 😂

[fallen jasper]

Let us into Tier 3 already rob

https://tenor.com/view/banging-the-door-wolf-banging-door-banging-door-gif-10562850290842427459

[sharp flame]

https://reachthefinals.com/t3-f

we just need the password..

[fallen jasper]

Damn it

[sharp flame]

Since the password page is no longer accessible through the tfee-level2 page can we just pin the new psw page later

Tier 3 password page: https://reachthefinals.com/t3-f

[solar glade]

congrats on the find, hunters

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/weekend-party-champagne-gif-18280013

Sooooo I guess no more rabbit holes???

Seeing how easy it was to solve it, Rob mentionned it was as easy right?

[sharp flame]

Yep

rabbit holes haven't gotten us anywhere yet anyways

I remember when I had my Vega phase... still waiting for that to come back

[balmy fog]

Pulsar fish, pulsar.....

Told you Pulsar was the answer

[sharp flame]

Or Rob had just found the most naturally occurring numbers that appear everywhere

[neon stream]

Btw, all these 6 reminded me of this...
We got viold and evivi

666...

[sharp flame]

Do we have any info on T3?

[balmy fog]

Welp, Rob said it was a walk in the park

That is about the only pure information we've had concerning T3 from Rob

Also said this this morning ''Months ahead of you, months... scratch that... years.'' I dont know if its related tho

[fallen jasper]

T3 needs to be solved by 2023

T4 needs to be solved by 2024

T5 nee-

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/byuntear-baby-cry-crying-gif-25019897

[sharp flame]

T3 should be ez

If we solve the clues in the images

[balmy fog]

that's a lie

[neon stream]

It's fun that we technically knew the answer for T2ABC since like T1B (without the modifier ofc) 😂

[balmy fog]

It this not zero again?

[sharp flame]

Did you overlay them or something?

[balmy fog]

no

It's luminescence

https://29a.ch/photo-forensics/#luminance-gradient

upload gold/black

and use Luminance Gradient

[sharp flame]

The white Questionmark is full of background symbols

[balmy fog]

Yeah you've seen that too

I'm watching this right now

talking about this? @sharp flame

[sharp flame]

yep

Although at that level some detail is removed

[true talon]

wow

[jagged ore]

Honestly though I feel like it would be way too much data to translate each symbol

[balmy fog]

At first I tought it was C64 symbols, but it is not

[jagged ore]

Maybe it's just which ones appear at all

[true talon]

what does this mean

[true talon]

interesting

[jagged ore]

I figured it out. The day of creation has to be about national nachos day😂

[balmy fog]

This is the string attached to the black ?

T12:3 is the only thing I got while watching this

[neon stream]

Do you have the string for the other image?

The layer name for this one is ?

[balmy fog]

this is the white ?:

[true talon]

any decent finds in this chat?

[neon stream]

Define "decent" 😂

[balmy fog]

We've been solving a lot, recently solved password T1ABC and DEF

This a new start so

[true talon]

passwords for what?

[balmy fog]

Please read this #egg-hunt-onboarding , the padlets and watch @pure loom video

[balmy fog]

Wait I dont know if that a link or whatever but the 6th line is saying 1999/02/22

[true talon]

long video but ill assume its some sort of puzzle game the devs set for you guys

[balmy fog]

Yep

[spring tusk]

We're not really supposed to look into metadata for clues anyway, but 1999/02/22 is there for every picture he posted. I assume it's bound to adobe

[pure loom]

CONGRATS everyone - great work!! GOLD EGG with a modifier… who woulda thought!

[true talon]

does anyone know if there is a reward for discovering the end of the easteregG?

[neon stream]

Satisfaction

[true talon]

real

[pure loom]

A lifetime of therapy

[neon stream]

Real Satisfaction

[true talon]

this usually applies midway no?

[neon stream]

Free admission to Embark Asylum 😂

[pure loom]

PTEESD

[true talon]

how far in are you guys

[pure loom]

These one-way doors are annoying

[neon stream]

We don't know, probably not very far

[true talon]

sad, maybe i should help

[neon stream]

All help's welcome! 💪🏻

[pure loom]

There is a giant 0 across this image. Do you see it?

[balmy fog]

I've never been a study kind of guy neither school kind of guy, but I couldn't tell you the last time I learned so much about shit normal human beings doesn't give a shit

[pure loom]

I’m on my phone but tried to mark it up a bit

[balmy fog]

I can now tell you how gold was made, how it was made, what's a Pulsar, what's a C64, the creators, the PETSCII, hex, Algebra, fucking golden angle and latin... All these informations i've gathered while looking for clues, maybe one day it'll be useful in a discussion around a glass of wine, who knows, so I am thankful to the devs, that's my pleasure, yeah I want to know whats the end but at the same time, I'm fine with just learning new stuff

[balmy fog]

Mhmmm maybe but that looks like a reach, this is probably the white ? with the shadows, hence it looks like a zero

I'll try the black one @pure loom

[neon stream]

Objection: leading!
You clearly want us to see a Golden Egg 😂

[true talon]

its such a deep rabbit hole

[balmy fog]

Indeed, but, it's fun and past time a lot until the release 😄

[pure loom]

But the ? Is fully enclosed by it

[balmy fog]

What's the option you used on the right side

[pure loom]

Option? I’m not sure what you mean

[neon stream]

@balmy fog he was using this as a reference

[pure loom]

It was @coarse dagger image

[true talon]

im definitely no gonna start this easteregg

[balmy fog]

Done the same thing with the black ? one

[neon stream]

Did anyone try the Pisa Griffin magic already?

[neon stream]

@balmy fog you asked me the other day which clues I liked, I forgot that one! 💪🏻

[spring tusk]

What questions do we have related to the finals/the EE?

Can you reach the finals?

I don't think there are any clues hidden in there since it's a walk in the park. It might only be some mental work again

[balmy fog]

I see what you mean

[pure loom]

What @neon stream means is overlaying the two images and using the “difference” screen in photoshop

[balmy fog]

Rob said ''You are ready'' too

[balmy fog]

Doing that rn

[neon stream]

"Pisa Griffin magic" for the PS ignorants 😂

I think I might be able to open PS, and...that's pretty much it

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/magic-confetti-awesome-gif-11884906