easter-eggs

[balmy fog]

the 2 images with difference

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/we-each-have-our-individual-strengths-everybody-is-good-at-something-specialty-ink-master-gif-16682771

[neon stream]

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" 😂

[spring tusk]

Also, do we know why this tier is called the promise?

[pure loom]

*Tries to disprove this with iPhone

[neon stream]

Rob likes good music

https://youtu.be/5HI_xFQWiYU?feature=shared

😛

[pure loom]

Looks like nothing. Maybe just check each of the other screen options to rule them out.

I’m not at my PC so can’t do it soz

[balmy fog]

I just did, didn't see nothing different

[pure loom]

Coolio

[neon stream]

I'm guessing we'll find out later, the first level was called "the commence", but that one's name makes more sense

[balmy fog]

Well if its a walk in the park

and so far nothing ''easy'' has been found in the ? pictures

I doubt that there is actually something hidden in both of them

Could it just be the meaning?

[neon stream]

I'm guessing the answer this time will be a combination of "gold" and "egg", with some modifier 😅

[balmy fog]

the DEF? is white, wich reminds me of the colour of an Egg shell, the ABC? is gold wich well, is the theme of the ABC

[pure loom]

If there is a giant 0 over that image “nulla” is Latin for none. There’s no Roman numeral zero.

[spring tusk]

I think all we have from these are
Ques - Gold - ?
Tion - Egg - ?

[balmy fog]

Yeah basically

Never had nothing about Yolk ?

[true talon]

oh thats cool so rn yall are cracking a language based code

[balmy fog]

Egg yolk would be a funny answer

[spring tusk]

I mean t1f was about the yolk but unrelated to DEF's answer

[pure loom]

Tion immediately makes me think of Li-ion

[neon stream]

I missed this, where did we get the "ques" and "tion"?

[balmy fog]

Names of the jpg

[spring tusk]

? File names

[neon stream]

Oh thx

[balmy fog]

Rob said it was rly easy

i tought about polar opposites

[neon stream]

I'm guessing that's meant to show that we have to combine the two tiers 🤔

[balmy fog]

but I think that's a reach

[pure loom]

Maybe it’s finally saying combine the two words somehow

GOLDEGG that is

[balmy fog]

wait

plz

did anybody try

violdevivi

[neon stream]

Yeah

[balmy fog]

This in french is so wrong btw

[pure loom]

Vivivi? 666 has been a clue previously

[spring tusk]

Poor vivi

[balmy fog]

it says Rap3 of Vivi

[neon stream]

I tried vivivi, olde, eold, and things like that too 😂

@pure loom I'm glad we arrived to the same idea

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/the-falcon-and-the-winter-soldier-tfatws-marvel-disney-wyatt-russell-gif-22246594

[balmy fog]

again, rob said this this morning ''Months ahead of you, months... scratch that... years. ''

Idk if its EE related

[neon stream]

With Rob, everything is EE related 😂

[pure loom]

Rob plays a long and broad game

[balmy fog]

First Hen

is the fabergé egg

[neon stream]

Hmmm there are some fabergé eggs with clocks too

[balmy fog]

''It is made of gold completely coated with opaque white enamel to look like a real egg''

[pure loom]

If gold egg is the question, what is the answer? Golden Goose?

Sounds like drunk Shakespeare

[balmy fog]

I laughed way too hard at this

[proven ocean]

thought we already were ther

[balmy fog]

Just trying to find the obvious connection between a gold ? and a white ?

that is gold egg related

[spring tusk]

Which one came first

[proven ocean]

idk there is like 20 different fabrage eggs with a theme

[pure loom]

The obvious thing GOLD and EGG have in common is the O in gold looks like an egg

[fallen jasper]

Rob himself was hatched fully grown out of a golden egg 18km outside of Stockholm

[balmy fog]

Drawing graffitis inside the shell

https://tenor.com/view/exit-through-the-gift-shop-banksy-independent-documentary-british-gif-22947218

[pure loom]

Gold came first (super nova), then the egg (reptiles) then the goose (top gun) 😂

[neon stream]

You mean 13.37km outside of Stockholm, right? 😂

[fallen jasper]

Yes

[balmy fog]

Sorry this is all the complete First Hen

[spring tusk]

The little hen is so cute

[balmy fog]

Contains;
1x egg shell
1x gold ball (yolk that opens)
1x crown
1x One hen
2x ruby pendants

[pure loom]

What are the red things? Earrings?

[balmy fog]

Oh yeap

Me listening to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekt0hRuOK4 this while watching Fabergé Egg is insane

[spring tusk]

Pink pearls, but the gold hoop does not seem to have an opening like earrings would

[balmy fog]

''This yolk itself opens to reveal a varicolored gold hen set with ruby eyes.''

''and a tiny ruby pendant that was suspended within it on a chain, both of which are now lost''

it is not earrings but pendants, sorry

Looking how easy ABCDEF

The fabergé egg does seem too much of a reach

[turbid tinsel]

what if both images have to be laid ontop of each other

[balmy fog]

Did that already

[turbid tinsel]

ahh

[pure loom]

Have you tried violdevivi?

At least we rule out the obvious

[balmy fog]

Every time I see this my heart goes wack

In french Violdevivi = Rap3 of Vivi

😢

[neon stream]

Yeah

[pure loom]

I speak as much French as a Scotsman. “A oui bit”

https://tenor.com/view/teambestb-gif-20183486

[balmy fog]

@spring tusk

[neon stream]

Now I understand this 😅

[balmy fog]

Lmao yep

[turbid tinsel]

looks like an s or dollar sign in the start of the question mark. not sure what is in the middle though

[neon stream]

I read it as Rap-three 🤦🏻‍♂️
I failed the leet class

[balmy fog]

My pixels eyes don't see shit 😢

[balmy fog]

Lmaooooooo

[pure loom]

Same. I was like “is this some gangsta talk us kiwis don’t know about?”

[balmy fog]

correllation between gold and white maybe?

got it bois

big brain moment

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/johny-gif-27696534

[spring tusk]

White/gold team

[balmy fog]

oh

White gold???

[pure loom]

Get out and take that mauve dress with you

[spring tusk]

Dont tell me you see this black and blue criss

[balmy fog]

Let's not start the caliss de dress debate plz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colored_gold#White_gold

I need to go, if anybody wants to go down this

Could be a link between white ? and gold ?

White gold

[pure loom]

Ques tion could be - “ask Tritium ion” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium

Previously, though, the names of the images haven’t held that much weight

Maybe it’s just a way of saying they’re a pair

[neon stream]

Hmmm it might be important that both T2ABC and T2DEF use the same key, otherwise Rob would probably use another modifier 🤔

Why would he "need" to use the same modifier...? 🤔

[pure loom]

“Little” also seems to be a clue

Three “little”s

[neon stream]

Good catch!

[pure loom]

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

[drifting chasm]

this feels like a rabbit hole you're about to go down

[pure loom]

I was just about to type that hahaha

Step away from the fable, sir

[drifting chasm]

same could also be said about the tritium as well

[pure loom]

Yeah. Agreed

Just doing that early phase mind dump really

[neon stream]

reminded me of this 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtffv9bpB-U

[timid pebble]

We have this fable in Quebec city:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hen_That_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs#:~:text=The Hen That Laid the Golden Eggs (French%3A%20La%20poule,that%20Laid%20the%20Golden%20Eggs.

[drifting chasm]

what were the solutions to lvl2 abc and def by thw way?

[pure loom]

viold and evivi

vi = 6

6 = G

GOLD EGG

[timid solstice]

it was solved?

[pure loom]

YEAH!

[timid solstice]

nice!

EZ

lol

[pure loom]

Hahaha

[drifting chasm]

oh those are answers, i thought those where the usernames of the people who solved it

[pure loom]

@timid solstice we have two new images: a gold question mark named “ques” and a white (or eggshell) one named “tion”

[timid solstice]

cool, I'll catch up after work

[neon stream]

Rob fixed this already 💪🏻

Thanks!

[hidden nacelle]

ye you can click the X now

[turbid tinsel]

man there are alot of changes happening on the finals steamDB. I'm guessing something spicy is coming in the next couple weeks.

[jagged ore]

I'm still surprised we found a random monument in Kazakhstan from random coordinates we got from text. That's gotta be a huge coincidence 💀

[neon stream]

Not sure if it was mentioned before, but:

T1A: 1064 -> 6
T1B: lxxix -> 3 Xs
T1C: 5f137s2 -> 3
T1D: 0vif0rm -> vi = 6
T1E: cacoiii -> iii = 3
T1F: vit3llus -> vi = 6 and 3
T2ABC: viold -> vi = 6
T2DEF: evivi -> vivi = 66

[spring tusk]

So we have
e=3=iii
g=6=vi

Possibly f=6 eventually

[timid solstice]

First thoughts are, (without reading the chat properly yet)
Ques tion

well what's the question exactly?

CAN YOU REACH THE FINALS

[drifting chasm]

unfortunately yes is not the answer

[jagged ore]

What if the last password is "finals" or something like that since it is the last one for now?

Then we would have an f

[drifting chasm]

why would f be 6?

[jagged ore]

It got eyes last tier and wasn't used at all yet

[neon stream]

A=1, B=2, ... , F=6

[drifting chasm]

yes but g is 6

using that logic e should be 5

[neon stream]

☝🏻

[drifting chasm]

what if f = 9

[jagged ore]

That's just how we got to F=6 and it got confirmed

[drifting chasm]

oh

is eyes just for confirmed correct or is it also for on the right track?

[neon stream]

Correct things

[timid solstice]

I think he was eyed that the method was correct

substitute letter for number

it was part of the whole lead up

[neon stream]

I think he's trying to "standarize" that 😂

but yeah... SR works in mysterios ways 😂

[timid solstice]

so the other clues we had were about time

so Question Time ?

also where did C64 fit in with the answer

[neon stream]

☝🏻

😂

It might be part of a future level

[balmy fog]

Wait @timid pebble is quebecois?

@spring tusk ????

[spring tusk]

Yesss

Bru introduced me to the discord ee hunt

[balmy fog]

vive le quebec libre tabarnak rip karl

[balmy fog]

No idea

[timid pebble]

Eta Cassiopeia - Les Étoiles Filantes - Karl is a clue confirmed.

[balmy fog]

What if the question is Can you reach the Finals

and rob said it's a walk in the park

so the password is simply Yes

[spring tusk]

Its not

Sadly

[sonic mantle]

There was also the F at the end of the last two official art file names.

[balmy fog]

I knew you would've tried this.........

[spring tusk]

My first tries were
canyoureachthefinals
yes
y3s

[jagged ore]

the only correlation to c64 that I rember was that G was 71 in petscii. And the diagram on the white board had 110110 and 71 and therfore was a g=6 as well

[balmy fog]

Oh so it had technically speaking a correllation to C64

[neon stream]

Hmmm yes and no, it could also be ASCII tbh

[balmy fog]

Surely the answer is as easy as it probably is

Im out here looking for Palladium, but I swear it's easier than that

Palladium was used to bleach gold to create White Gold

''Palladium and nickel act as primary bleaching agents for gold; zinc acts as a secondary bleaching agent to attenuate the color of copper.''

But seeing how easy and dumb the passwords of ABCDEF was, im pretty sure I'm too deep again

[river flame]

I don't think they're related since t3 is in the url

[timid pebble]

Also Shift+6 = ? 6's everywhere!

[jagged ore]

watch it being something like f1n4ls 💀

[neon stream]

Hmmm that would depend on the keyboard 🤔

[balmy fog]

Everything has been qwerty so far tho?

[balmy fog]

Well this is interesting

[neon stream]

Yeah, but not all qwerty keyboards have the same layout for the special keys

depends on the language

or region, I guess

[spring tusk]

CAD layout is shift 6 yeah

[balmy fog]

Oh ok mb

[neon stream]

US has shift 6 to be ^

and ARG has shift 6 to be & 😂

[balmy fog]

Ya ok nvm

lmao

[jagged ore]

It is kind of interesting though that the files were not just created in 2015 but also with a 2015 photoshop version

[neon stream]

Are you sure they were created in 2015? Embark was founded in 2018 😅

But with Rob, we never know 😅

[balmy fog]

The question mark ? (also known as interrogation point, query, or eroteme in journalism[1])

Maybe look into Query and Eroteme?

[jagged ore]

the file metadata says so

I think it was done by just changing the date on the computer though but it is weird

[drifting chasm]

not related to the easter egg at all but found an empty page on the reach the finals website
https://www.reachthefinals.com/realnamatama

[balmy fog]

Question mark could be associated with Inquiry. It says ''An inquiry (also spelled as enquiry in British English)[a] is any process that has the aim of augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or solving a problem''

In Inquiry wikipedia page → ''if B is the middle term of A and C, in proving by means of C that A applies to B; for this is how we effect inductions'' -Aristotle
Cicero's description of Aristotle's literary style as "a river of gold"

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

[timid solstice]

? Alt+63 Question Mark

Unicode Character “?” (U+003F)

3F !!!!

[balmy fog]

yep

and $3F = ?

C64

[timid pebble]

This is probably not it. But if we split Nama and Tama like with the Ques - Tion, it translate to First Name in indenosian.

[balmy fog]

Also History = The Greek word was borrowed into Classical Latin as historia, meaning "investigation, inquiry...''

[jagged ore]

Maybe F=3?

3inals

[balmy fog]

why would F=3?

63 is the decimal value of ''?''

Lots of 6's and 3's bois

Jesus

[neon stream]

Hmmm the password for T1A could technically point to 1063 too, so we have a 63 there as well

[jagged ore]

was just a thought because of the hex being 3F

also "?" is 00111111 in binary

that's six 1's

[timid solstice]

this reason why I !!!!
the URL;
https://reachthefinals.com/t3-f

[balmy fog]

wdym

[jagged ore]

good point. The hex of "?" is 3F and we are trying to solve tier 3F

[timid solstice]

Unicode Character “?” (U+003F)
U+003F
t3-F

[balmy fog]

oh

I get it

[neon stream]

Interesting that our biggest clues start with G and E...6old and 3gg...63...😅

[timid solstice]

ah yes
Alt+63

[balmy fog]

JavaFX Script used to be called F3 for Form Follows Function. → CTRL F reference don't get into that rabbit hole

So that's a lots of 6's and 3's

[jagged ore]

also the images were created at this unix timestamp 1446801946

[balmy fog]

I don't think we're suppose to metadata

[timid solstice]

we should 100% focus on the character

?

[balmy fog]

Yep

I think that's all there is to it

[jagged ore]

hex: 563C721A
bin: 1010110001111000111001000011010

[balmy fog]

too deep, rabbit hole for sure

this is supposedly a walk in the park

so it's entirely focused on the ?

[jagged ore]

but why would it be a modified date that is before embark even existed

[river flame]

Which came first: the chicken or the egg?

[jagged ore]

that's gotta be on purpose

[balmy fog]

xmp:CreateDate2015-11-06T02:25:46+07:00</xmp:CreateDate>

Image was created 2015-11-06

[jagged ore]

yes that's what I'm talking about

[balmy fog]

xmp:ModifyDate2023-09-22T12:31:12+02:00</xmp:ModifyDate>

I've checked the 2015 date already, it leads to nothing

Maybe he just opened an old .psd file he had and modified it

[jagged ore]

also you don't need to look deep to find the creation date. the windows properties also show it

[balmy fog]

Pretty sure the answer is around ?

wait

96dpi is dumb tho

As a graphic designer

There's no interesting ways to have it at 96

[jade citrus]

WE SOLVED IT WHAT

I AM SO FAR BEHIND

[balmy fog]

low quality images are 72dpi, normal are 150 and high is 300dpi

I've actually studied this

[timid solstice]

size is odd
1149 x 635

[jagged ore]

for tion.jpg

[balmy fog]

96 dpi doesn't make sense

[jagged ore]

it's the same for both

[balmy fog]

Nevermind

96 is low quality

I've just sent a message to my teacher lmao

[jagged ore]

also what's the aspect ratio of 1000x553 ?

[timid solstice]

thats not the full image

[jagged ore]

oh okay

[balmy fog]

Whats the size of the actual image?

[timid solstice]

intrinsic size
1149 x 635

[balmy fog]

mhm

[balmy fog]

kinda looks like 1280x720

[dusty cedar]

D:

[balmy fog]

but missing

[timid solstice]

Question mark native size images

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/c5cbc5e0-0ca2-4754-85e2-efc99c654666/tfee_ques.jpg
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/bb76d1e5-f37b-47f1-b38a-4ad7faebfef0/tfee_tion.jpg

[balmy fog]

1280x720 is 16:9

Indeed this is weird because it's not even 16:9

If you scale it up you have bars top&down

[jagged ore]

is this any standard ratio?

[balmy fog]

Never seen it

[timid solstice]

btw not sure if mentioned but the metadata text layers are
?
?

[neon stream]

Imagine if the answer was just "2bor!2b"...since that is the question 😛

[sharp flame]

Saw earlier

wondering why though

[balmy fog]

It's because of the name

Hold on

The actual layer is not named ''Text'' it will be name whatever text you input

[sharp flame]

You mean 3F?

[balmy fog]

like this

[jagged ore]

I mean that's probably just the big ? in the image

[balmy fog]

Are you talking about this? @timid solstice photoshop:LayerName?</photoshop:LayerName>

[timid solstice]

yes

[balmy fog]

Yeah thats just the SS i sent before

[timid solstice]

its a common thing rob does though

[jagged ore]

I'll try

[timid solstice]

lets keep investigating anything with this character

[neon stream]

Hamlet's Second Quarto was published in 1604 😅

2bro2b is not the answer either 😂

[jagged ore]

Hmm I didn't get any of those text layers at all. Idk if I did it wrong though

[timid solstice]

how are you saving? because say quick export to png doesnt keep them

[balmy fog]

In computing, the question mark character is represented by ASCII code 63 (0x3F hexadecimal), and is located at Unicode code-point U+003F ? QUESTION MARK (?). The full-width (double-byte) equivalent (？), is located at code-point U+FF1F ？ FULLWIDTH QUESTION MARK.[24]

[jagged ore]

I'm exporting as jpeg in photoshop

[balmy fog]

&quest huh

[timid solstice]

is there such thing as a double question mark?

[balmy fog]

The JavaScript double question mark (??) operator is called the nullish coalescing operator and it provides a default value when a variable or an expression evaluates to null or undefined.

kinda links with the Java thing earlier (3F)

But idk where you are going with ??

[jagged ore]

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%3F%3F#Translingual

[balmy fog]

?? (two question marks), also written as U+2047 ⁇

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message
Hah! Called it!

[jagged ore]

⁇

That's that character

[sharp flame]

Oh did we find anything?!

[balmy fog]

''In certain implementations of the BASIC programming language, the ? character may be used as a shorthand for the "print" function''

[coarse dagger]

No, just Rob's message. I just woke up

[sharp flame]

Oh haha gotcha

yeah Robs' time clues are still going

last time they lead us to a URL

Maybe the same thing this time

[balmy fog]

boys

U+FFFD = �

3F

[jagged ore]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/?
idk if this is standard web behavior but this is the standard https://www.reachthefinals.com site but it doesn't lead to a 404 like any other unknown ending would

bruh it removes the ? from the first url

so nevermind. I guess that is normal

[jagged ore]

back to the ⁇ it indicates a blunder in chess

[balmy fog]

rob talking about time might just mean the password is numeral

[tulip matrix]

One white ? And one gold ?
Maybe white gold aka silver gold or nickel gold

[balmy fog]

Yeah I've looked into it a little bit earlier

It has a Palladium link, Palladium is used to bleach the gold

[tulip matrix]

ques tion
ans wer
solu tion

[jagged ore]

Back to space stuff. There is a cosmic question mark
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-question-mark-galaxy-photo

[balmy fog]

erup tion → volcano 79
reac tion → Mendevelium

[balmy fog]

Watched that already, also linked it, you can CTRL+F

I think your thinking too deep @jagged ore this password is a walk in the park, just like the 2 before were simply gold and egg, we probably have everything we need to solve it

Clues-wise

#easter-eggs message

Wait

Did anybody check the park in Monaco during the OB?

[hidden nacelle]

are we waiting for a new image or are these question marks it? 🤔

[balmy fog]

thats it

two images of ?
one gold with bevels and black background
one white with shadows on white background

[coarse dagger]

Hmmm. My memory wanted to say this number is important in Hermeticism and Hermeticism and Alchemy could link eggs and gold... but my mind had an off-by-one error.
777 is the number I was thinking of in Hermeticism.

Although I guess you can go 666 -> mark of the beast -> Babalon -> hermeticism -> alchemy -> gold/egg.
But I don't think the connections are strong enough

[ebon oyster]

That is so far fetched that it can't even be seen by the James Webb telescope fam

[coarse dagger]

I love it when people's first contribution to the hunt is criticism 🙃

[balmy fog]

Wanna see far reached?

Look at this

¿ is Alt+168
? is Alt+63

If you addition 1+6+8 = 15
If you addition 6+3 = 9
15-9 = 6

https://tenor.com/view/math-calculations-thinking-lemme-check-late-night-with-conan-o-brien-gif-11725775

[ebon oyster]

It was joke men ❤️

[timid pebble]

Maybe we need to link gold & egg to the game. In this case gold could be Vault/Coin/Money and Egg is 100% Namatama

[sharp flame]

😭bro

hahahaha I promise it makes sense

[balmy fog]

still passive aggressive I see @jade citrus

[sharp flame]

he wrote "2" 😭😭😭😭

[jade citrus]

it looked like a 2 bro idk what to say 😭

[balmy fog]

👍

[tulip matrix]

Here, y'all need some love

and maybe jesus

[balmy fog]

Do you see these ligns @tulip matrix ?

[tulip matrix]

I did see the lines

I'm going to assume it's another case of a compression algorithm sent by the celestial beings of the universe to trick us into seeing things that are not really there

[timid pebble]

im also thinking since he split up Ques and Tion

[tulip matrix]

especially after my space invaders fiasco

[timid pebble]

Maybe we need the 3rd word, which would be Mark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_mark_(1871)
The mark was on the gold standard from 1871 to 1914, but like most nations during World War I, the German Empire removed the gold backing in August 1914, and gold[1] coins ceased to circulate.

Not related to eggs tho 😢

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

😆

https://www.naturaldiamonds.com/celebrities/are-cleopatras-eggs-in-red-notice-based-on-real-artifacts/
The opening scene of Red Notice, the Netflix’s caper starring Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot, goes back in time to ancient Egypt and unspools a tale about three bejeweled golden eggs. According to the legend presented in a news clip, the treasures were a wedding gift from the Roman general Mark Antony to his true love the Egyptian queen Cleopatra.

[tulip matrix]

The beginning of a new chapter

[hidden nacelle]

windows 11 ew

[coarse dagger]

Part 1?!?!
This is at least Part 9

[jagged ore]

https://fotoforensics.com/ btw this website might be helpful. I don't understand all tools there yet but it might be good

[tulip matrix]

That's the previous series

[jade citrus]

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/TFEE_T2ABC

[jagged ore]

I got this from the ELA (error level analysis)
This might be the cleanest version of the background yet that we have

[coarse dagger]

Looks fine for examining meta data, but there's not much else to the site AFAIK

[jagged ore]

this is the other one with ELA

[jagged ore]

yeah true. only the ELA thing seemed interesting

[tulip matrix]

I get the feeling that we're not going to find much, if anything, hidden in these images
I think it's another case of using the information we already have to find the answer

[coarse dagger]

I'd be careful with ELA. It basically introduces artifacts based on the entered level of expected compression. AFAIK we've never found anything useful using it.

[tulip matrix]

Not to discourage anyone from looking anyway. Just my 2 cents

[sonic mantle]

There’s nothing very obvious hidden in these images…

[jade citrus]

my first thought was that one was gold and one was white like an egg. so it's just referencing the previous tier

[tulip matrix]

that's a good connection

[jade citrus]

the gold is 'ques', the white is 'tion'. I think its just telling us to combine the passwords

[turbid tinsel]

appears to be something written along the outside here

[quaint wing]

The question, simple. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[coarse dagger]

@fallen jasper Could we get a padlet?

[fallen jasper]

Yeah

What tier are we on now?

[coarse dagger]

T3

You can probably delete the T2DEF one as well, and rename the T2ABC to T2ABD/DEF

[neon stream]

Level 4 Tier 2Z

[fallen jasper]

What

[pure loom]

Odd that one is embossed and the other isn’t

[fallen jasper]

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t3-dyra282bx402xxzy

[pure loom]

I guess the gold one is supposed to look like a gold bar

[fallen jasper]

I see people already found it since I copied it from the last one

[pure loom]

Looks a little like 0s along the right side. Maybe binary again.

[hasty anvil]

anyone noticed the tab name for for T3 is 'secure'?

[coarse dagger]

Wait, I'm confused... your statement and image are conflicting

[timid pebble]

We might be looking for a date now.
In games, after the Alpha and the Beta are released, the next version is often called the Gold release.

Maybe the latest easter egg password tier is the launch date.

[coarse dagger]

Everyone always wants it to be the release date 😅
Rob has been planning this for so long... if any of the previous stuff found is clues for this tier it is highly unlikely a release date is what we're looking for IMO.

[coarse dagger]

Sorry, just realized I had the Password Attempts google doc set to view only, should be good to go for editing now.

[jagged ore]

What do you mean? That is the UTC+7 time zone in the picture

[coarse dagger]

Gotcha! Sorry I thought the image had both +2 and +7

and thought... that doesn't have Sweden???

[jagged ore]

Ah okay. Yeah no it's just the +7

[coarse dagger]

I guess I should've realized by the 5 hour difference and the little change in longitude in the image

[tulip matrix]

Discovery Corp. thinking they finally made a web page secure from CNS hackers lol

[timid pebble]

Didn't we have a ? on one of the whiteboards

[tulip matrix]

Oh shid.. Are we CNS?

[coarse dagger]

On a piece of rubble

[timid solstice]

checked in the closed betas

[unborn pilot]

I think that’s referring to the puzzle

I can’t post photos yet but one of the pieces has a ? on it too

[coarse dagger]

The "noise" grid in tfee_tion.jpg, or the footer puzzle in THE_FINALS_Screenshot_015_3840x2160_F.jpg?

[timid solstice]

#easter-eggs message

[unborn pilot]

The footer one with the 0s & 1s

When I get home in a few I can message you the piece I saw. It was in the negative space.

[jade citrus]

#📂┇the-finals-wiki message

[quaint wing]

I'm never using the letter G again. G is now VI from here on out.

[hasty anvil]

need to change your name

hahaha

[quaint wing]

One step ahead of you boo

[turbid tinsel]

odd looking pattern at the top there.

[pure loom]

Confused Nonsensical Subjects?

[tulip matrix]

"Subjects" 😂 Implying that this is some sort of social experiment

[cold haven]

[pure loom]

“Implying”

[timid pebble]

We need a Gold Egg emote now.

:BananaTama:

HOW

[quaint wing]

My guess is own server, lol

[balmy fog]

Anything new bois?

[neon stream]

Duhtopia

[hidden sand]

egg

[jade citrus]

[coarse dagger]

Here's the image from @unborn pilot

[balmy fog]

wait

when

[coarse dagger]

DM

[balmy fog]

are we still watching those pixels?

[turbid tinsel]

looks like something possibly written in the middle there

[hard current]

hey awful question, is there anywhere I can go to kind of see the steps that have been taken since this all started?

[balmy fog]

#egg-hunt-onboarding and @pure loom video 😄

[hard current]

awesome thank you, I loveeeee doing stuff like this

[balmy fog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaU6Fo2utBY&list=PLL-wKrN8gfB63sFVlnFSLj_hbyqlk4ck1

[balmy fog]

This is 40 minutes but you can watch it while eating, super good stuff

[hard current]

and this mostly catches me up to the current status?

[neon stream]

You also have videos for the different tiers we solved

[neon stream]

The current status is everchanging, so the best way is to read the chat tbh 😂

We can answer any questions that you may have

[pure loom]

Which is what I’m about to start on! 😃

[hard current]

thanks guys:) I’m pretty techy with shit like cyber forensics and steganography and ciphers thanks to my degree but that’s about it, hope I can help eventually:)

[coarse dagger]

I've been going to back to previous tiers I missed and trying to reproduce everything we've found. I unintentionally reproduced almost this exact image. Glad to know my processes make sense to someone else too 😅

[balmy fog]

Yessir, more than welcome, plus its a new tier we just started and from what we heard it's a ''walk in the park''

[hard current]

as in someone has already completed it, or the devs said it should be easy?

one last question, do the tiers depend on each other or can I jump into the new tier and still be helpful

[coarse dagger]

Not yet completed

[coarse dagger]

Yes, and no.
The last tier HEAVILY depended on previous tiers. It's hard to say with this tier. I'd say we have fewer indications it will depend on the previous... however this is the last tier of the level, so it wouldn't be suprising if it iterated heavily on what we've already done.

[hard current]

so then to my understanding there are levels

levels
tiers within levels

so what level is this currently then?

[balmy fog]

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

[neon stream]

Level 2, tier 3

[hard current]

thanks for answering all my questions, appreciate y’all

[balmy fog]

We're here for that, you'll prob have more, don't hesitate to ask

The one important thing is

Dont react to msg with 👀

[coarse dagger]

Because Rob uses that to tell us we're on to something, so it makes our spidey senses tingle

[hard current]

lmao they’re teases 😭😂

[vapid jewel]

i'm mad how obvious it was in hindsight, but at least we got it

[balmy fog]

Is there any possibility that the actual password is an answer to a question, hence the ?

Like, what is gold egg?

[quaint wing]

We're Jeopardy now.

[jade citrus]

possibly, Flex mentioned the "Can you reach THE FINALS?"

[balmy fog]

Talent show, fish winning everything

[balmy fog]

Can you reach the finals doesn't really fits with the gold scheme

then again, all those time mentions weren't useful for violdevivi

[jagged ore]

Also the gold question mark reminded me of the ? blocks from mario. They got both colors actually

also you get coins from them

kinda like the cash boxes

[quaint wing]

What's the name of the cube you pick up in the finals? Not the vault you take it from, the actual block itself

Nevermind. Same thought.

[balmy fog]

Cashbox

[hard current]

was it cash box

[tulip matrix]

I have tried these passwords
goldegg
6olde66
violdevivi
601d366
601500366
vioidiiivivi
vi0idiiivivi
aurumovum
4urum0vum
aucaco3
4uc4c03
ivucivc0iii

[balmy fog]

Ill add them to the padlets

[tulip matrix]

Oh did I miss new padlet?

[balmy fog]

https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t3-dyra282bx402xxzy

[jagged ore]

https://mario.fandom.com/wiki/%3F_Block

[quaint wing]

I was trying passwords related to December 7th, because something was calling to me.

dec72023, 1272023, 7122023

[balmy fog]

what's december 7

Oh

the ''release date''

lmao

[quaint wing]

A calling in my head saying "It's releasing"

That was me trying to work off the time comment left my Rob

[jagged ore]

of course the question will be "when does the game release" and we need to answer that 😂

[balmy fog]

Nah

[jagged ore]

impossible challange

[balmy fog]

I wouldn't expect announcements coming out of the EE

[jagged ore]

yeah nah it was just a joke

[coarse dagger]

Bruh, just learned about smart objects and how to apply adjustments as smart filters instead of layers in Photoshop.
This would've helped me a lot 😭

[balmy fog]

''pleasant''

That's a tad laughable Rob don't you think

[quaint wing]

I mean it would've been, but everyone was so focused on space that we forgot to look at the roman empire.

[timid pebble]

How many times a day do you think about the roman empire? 🫠

[hard current]

thinking about it rn

what have yall done with the two images of the question marks so far?

[balmy fog]

No he's saying T3 (what we're doing right now) is a walk in the park

[quaint wing]

We'll see!

[balmy fog]

Truly, nothing really came out of it, I personnally tried to find clues in photoshop on it, but you are more than welcome to check

[hard current]

little... years.. the numbers mason what the hell do they mean

[jagged ore]

I can't find anything that stands out to me other than it kind of looking like a cash box and it having coins or items inside. But now I can't unsee it when looking at the question mark pictures anymore

[timid pebble]

Do you guys feel like the answer is gonna be a variant of GoldEgg written in a other way, or a different word that refers to it?

Since we had 3 words to guess gold, and 3 to guess Egg. I'm feeling like we should guess what refers to Gold Egg, and the answer won't just be the combination of the two this time.

[jagged ore]

https://www.mariowiki.com/Gold_Egg
Although I did just find another gold egg lmao. It's probably unrelated though

[balmy fog]

also 2 ? might hint us at two questions correllated to the themes

Don't know, just saying

[timid pebble]

WHAT gold WHAT egg

😆

[balmy fog]

long ass password

[neon stream]

I think the answer will be Gold + egg with some modifier 😅

[balmy fog]

with all those time talking about Rob I feel like its gonna be numerals

also all the damn 6's and 3's connections

[hard current]

you guys think this one may tie back to old tiers? shit I do have to watch that vid don't I lmao

[neon stream]

Yes and yes 😂

[timid pebble]

Surely does, we got a yellow question mark for gold and a white one for egg! And those are the clues for the tier 3 password

[balmy fog]

Pretty sure as we don't have any major clues

[hard current]

hmmm

one little question

[balmy fog]

Walk in the park probably means we already have the clues related to the password

[balmy fog]

I think more of, what correllates White and Gold

[neon stream]

Yeah, if Rob thinks the answer is going to be easier than the last two tiers, it should be REALLY obvious

[hard current]

I keep coming back to what he's been saying

[balmy fog]

what is white on the periodic table?

[hard current]

ONE little

and there's only one question

so one little question

idk man I'm throwing shit at the wall until it sticks

[neon stream]

The paper that's printed on /s

(no idea)

[coarse dagger]

Why do we keep focusing on walk in the park for this tier?

[balmy fog]

Rob said T3 was a Walk in the park

[tulip matrix]

Megnesium?

[hard current]

I don't think walk in the park is gonna correllate to the password imo, it just means it's supposed to be easy

[balmy fog]

Im trying to piece what is white and gold and comes in numerals (as numerals would fit with all those time clues)

first thing that came to mind is 79something

[coarse dagger]

Ah, here:
#easter-eggs message

[balmy fog]

79 is gold periodic table number

[river flame]

I think we should focus on f

[hard current]

he talks about time
uses little
ONE
ques - tion

[coarse dagger]

One thing I've been thinking
violdevivi

The last ivi kind of looks like an M

[hard current]

hm I'll keep thinkin on it 🙂

[hard current]

where'd this come from

[coarse dagger]

T2

[hard current]

did you guys already find relevance for it

[jagged ore]

CoD BO3 was released on the creation day of the pictures

[hard current]

oh wait you're right

in the metadata

11/6/2015 2:25 AM

[quaint wing]

Any hour, day, month, year now...

[hard current]

that's gotta be part of it yeah?

[balmy fog]

What's the ? connection

[quaint wing]

#easter-eggs message - Unless this has zero cooralation with what we're currently looking at.

[hard current]

but then how do the two question marks come into play

[hard current]

has he lead you guys astray purposefully before?

[quaint wing]

I don't think on purpose. We typically do that to ourselves.

[solar glade]

PS ftw

[hard current]

probas not helpful but as of rn it's been 2933 days since then

the metadata has to be relevant, why else would it be have been intentionally altered to say 11/6/2015 2:25 am

[jagged ore]

I'm just looking for anything that happened on the creation day because there is no way he made purposely it a different date 8 years in the past for no reason

[hard current]

#1 song on the charts was The HIlls by The Weekend

surely this is important

[unborn pilot]

For real thank you all here. Couldn’t have figured anything out without all the connections you guys made in the past.

[hard current]

both pics have the exact same date and time btw if anyone checked

[timid pebble]

Using a cracked version of psd since then 😆

Rob printing clues on his cereal box photshop cs6 version

[hard current]

he said months... scratch that years ahead of you

we're years ahead of the creation date of those images

[coarse dagger]

https://www.thegamer.com/call-of-duty-zombies-shadows-of-evil-impossible-easter-egg/

Here we are, nearly eight years on, and the community has rocked up to Blundell's door asking the question, "What's the impossible Easter Egg?" Granted, eight full years haven't passed just yet, as it launched on November 6, 2015, but we're in the right year. The problem is Blundell left Treyarch in 2020, then his new studio Deviation last year, and has little in the way of social media presence, so it might be tough to hold him to his promise.

[hard current]

so an impossible easter egg launched on november 6 2015?

in COD?

[unborn pilot]

He also had a post where he said “little” over and over.

[balmy fog]

Devia tion

lol

[jagged ore]

I also found a lot of mentions of a Dimension 63. I have never really played much COD though so idk if it is relevant

We did have a lot of 6 and 3 realted things though

[hard current]

0
2015:11:06 02:25:46+07:00
1
2015:11:06 02:33:47+07:00
2
2023:09:22 12:31:12+02:00
3
2023:09:22 12:31:12+02:00

ran one of the images through a metadata scanner

[neon stream]

That's what this hunt is about: teamwork to solve the tiers 💪🏻

[hard current]

my only question, is how is this relevant to COD, any devs from other FPS worked on battlefield right? It is intriguing that the "impossible" cod easter egg also started on the date these images were apparently created however

[unborn pilot]

So is this the final level? If so should the “diamond” clues be the main ones to potentially used.

[neon stream]

No, we know there's at least...2? more

[balmy fog]

We know the next one supposedly harder

[unborn pilot]

Aha okay. Makes sense why he keeps saying this ones easy and the final one is hard as hell

[neon stream]

Yeah, we know there's a level 4 at least

[quaint wing]

Are we gonna talk about two different time zones?

[unborn pilot]

Exciting! I wonder if the final one is more likely to take place in game

[neon stream]

I think there are at least 5, since he mentioned a level 4 AND a final level

[hard current]

I just noticed that as well

[neon stream]

With Rob... it could even take place irl... 👀

[timid solstice]

More of a Byzantine person

[jagged ore]

I already mentioned it here #easter-eggs message

[quaint wing]

Right right. I saw that and forgot

[jagged ore]

haha no worries

[hard current]

Ok to summarize

metadata looks manipulated in the two question mark images
created on 11/6/2015 2:25 AM (possible relation to the impossible COD easter egg that came with the game on the same date? metadata identical for both images)

rob mentioned months ahead of you, months... scratch that... years

rob mentioned the word "little" and "ONE" in a hint (unsure of relevancy, "one little question?")

we have two images that together create one "question" (named ques and tion)

[unborn pilot]

Is metadata manipulated on both of them identically or just one?

[hard current]

identical

[timid solstice]

Will RTF become the new PTFO

[balmy fog]

Mhmm

We’ve already tried rtf answers tho

[timid solstice]

RTF before 00:00:00

[balmy fog]

Wait

[timid solstice]

That’s been in every artwork

[jagged ore]

both of them the same

[balmy fog]

How long were games

In open beta

[spring tusk]

Does a mix between Au and Caco3 exist?

[balmy fog]

Aucaco3

[quaint wing]

15 minutes for Bank It

[balmy fog]

Tournament

[jagged ore]

That depends on what happens in the game. It can be extended when a cash box is inserted into a cashout for example

[spring tusk]

Cacauo 🤝 🍫

[balmy fog]

Can you reach the finals is the tournament question

[hard current]

yes and it would seem deceptively easy if it was that... like a walk in the park lmao

[unborn pilot]

Idk if image dimensions matter but these seem to be missing a couple pixels at the bottom. 1149x635 doesn’t translate to 1920x1080 perfectly.

[balmy fog]

It’s 1:18:1 ratio

We’ve talked about it earlier

[unborn pilot]

Aha.

[balmy fog]

I can only think of one question and it’s Can you reach the finals

[jagged ore]

a forum or threads would be really helpful right now

[hard current]

yeah i wish we had threads

hey @rapid mango wanna enable threads in here? 🙂 pretty please?

[jagged ore]

Yeah I also haven't found any other realted question yet

[neon stream]

@rapid mango since we ping you... congrats about yesterday's match... 😛

(inside joke)

[hard current]

gd I'm reading through the old tiers and that shit was complicated

[balmy fog]

Lmao yeah we learned a lot for an easy password

[hard current]

it can't be that easy this time around then can it lmao

[balmy fog]

I think it’s easier

Rob said ABCDEF was straightforward and T3 was a walk in the park so

[hard current]

I just can't figure out how the hell the metadata, time, and the two images connect to a question

[balmy fog]

Rabbit holes

[rapid mango]

It's actually something I'll pitch to the team, we might end up enabling it

[jagged ore]

To reiterate on this. This question is basically the main ending of the trailer

[balmy fog]

It’s been the question forever

Which would actually make sense to end it on that note

Close the chapter

[jagged ore]

yeah it's the main thing

[balmy fog]

Level 2 name is the promise

Don’t forget that

[turbid tinsel]

promising the finals 2023 lol

[hard current]

yeah I've tried putting that question into the password field in a variety of ways, no dice 😦

and it wouldn't explain the whole time thing rob keep's saying...

[jagged ore]

do we have any good picture of the cash boxes? I still feel like they look really similar to the mario "?" blocks

[balmy fog]

Answers could be in hex, binary, leet, hex, c64 screen codes, petscii, etc

[hard current]

I haven't seen anything that would lead me to pick any of those over another, but good to keep in mind you're right

[balmy fog]

Other tiers

[hard current]

oh yes I meant relevant to this tier

could the question be a date and time?

not the metadata

but something else listed as a date and time?

[balmy fog]

Doubt it

[sharp flame]

Either ? -> 3F
or
3F -> ?

[hard current]

why 3F?

[balmy fog]

Lots of leads for 3F

CTRL+F 3F in here you will see @hard current

[balmy fog]

I agree

@sharp flame

What about 18/3

😉

18=3F

Would mean F = 4

If we get down that rabbit hole

[jagged ore]

I still keep connecting these in my head but I don't know where it's supposed to lead. They just seem so similar

[balmy fog]

Pretty sure 18/3 was simply for us to have xi

[balmy fog]

IMO that’s a rabbit hole but if you want to keep digging

[sharp flame]

Yep, but weird to put it into date format

[quaint wing]

We'll be here with a ladder if you find nothing.

[balmy fog]

Mhm indeed

[jagged ore]

Actually it could just reinforce the question "Can you reach the finals" as the question mark on the cash box is the finals logo

[sharp flame]

We just need to find a single clue in those Question Mark images 😭

The background cipher is probably something to pour lots of effort into, but I don't think I'll have time for that until Sunday

[balmy fog]

All I see is C64 symbols

[river flame]

what

f would equal 6

[balmy fog]

No

18=3F

Wait

Yes

I’m dumb

lol

My bad

Your right

[river flame]

ha

[balmy fog]

So then that isn’t a link to follow as it doesn’t work

Question might be What is 3F

[river flame]

vivivi

XVIII

[unborn pilot]

Nov 6, 2015 had a NY Times crossword with the question “who told the goose that laid the golden eggs”

https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=11/6/2015

Could be unrelated but also very random that it’s that day

Answer was Aesop

[jagged ore]

wait maybe you're onto something

it was question 6

[quaint wing]

Goddamnit. Here we go with 6 again.

[jade citrus]

goose --> vioose?

[quaint wing]

Negative

[jade citrus]

like golden goose

[hard current]

aye yo hol up golden egg on that day

after all the other egg and gold stuff

[jagged ore]

question 3 has something to do with time:
3 French date, often : AMIE

or date I guess

[balmy fog]

What?

What’s the question I’m French I can answer lol

[jagged ore]

no no that's the question already

French date, often
Answer: AMIE

[balmy fog]

Wtf

Amie is Friend

Girl friend specifically asked

Oh makes sense

[jagged ore]

yeah idk how people complete these crossword puzzles. Some of these seem kinda weird. Even for us EE hunters 😂

these are the question on that crossword puzzle btw

[balmy fog]

Thinking about it

What do you potentially see in a park?

Geese

[jagged ore]

oh true

[faint rivet]

Golden Mystery Snails' shells are a bright and cheery golden yellow color. Their bodies are pearly white with iridescent markings that are truly breathtaking when they catch the light.

Just a thought 🤷🏻‍♂️

[rapid mango]

Opened thread creation for anyone Rising Star or above. Will monitor this throughout today and tomorrow to see if it's all good

[balmy fog]

How does it work?

[quaint wing]

Right click > create thread

these are the question on that crossword

You now have a thread with all the tangents leading from that crossword puzzle we found.

[unborn pilot]

How many posts do I need to get to that status?

[quaint wing]

If there's a specific thread you're trying to make, let us know and we can start one until you get your role, lol

[rapid mango]

I don't recall if Rising Star is 3 or 5, but it's either 115 or 355 messages. I think it's 3 = 115 tho

[unborn pilot]

It was so hard solving it but not being able to post last night lol

Ok cool

[jagged ore]

Let's go we got threads

[balmy fog]

Actually how should we use the threads?

I’d let the OG hunters decide

[jagged ore]

Yeah makes sense

[balmy fog]

@timid solstice @sharp flame @coarse dagger @jade citrus @tulip matrix @pure loom

[sharp flame]

Kiwii can you pin this for a day or two so ppl are more aware

[sharp flame]

Thanks kindly

I'll try use the threads tmrw morning

[neon stream]

🥲

😂

jk 😛

[jagged ore]

Although for now I guess it would make sense to have one thread for the 2015/11/6 date from the meta data and another one for everything "?" and "Can you reach the finals" realted

[jade citrus]

My name among legends...

[timid solstice]

BYZANTINE THREAD

[jagged ore]

But maybe we could have one of those neat little summary messages that someone always creates for any new thread that is started now

[sharp flame]

I'm a legend? Omg

[timid solstice]

🕯️ 🕯️ THE CHURCH OF HOLY HUNTERS RETREAT THREAD 🕯️ 🕯️

[coarse dagger]

T3 tried passwords:

[sharp flame]

Tried passwords is v. useful

Can we also start a thread for the White ? "Cipher"

[timid solstice]

ok thats enough threads now we can close them

[tulip matrix]

I thread for each new image (in this case, pair of images) would be good

[timid solstice]

oh btw - NonDesistasNonExieris
latin duh!

6 = VI = ||sex||

[sharp flame]

brain

big brain even

okay I'm gonna try and set some "rules" up for these threads

for now we can discuss everything in here (for visibility)

if we get the ball rolling on any single Clue then we can turn it into a thread

[timid solstice]

sad serp

[sharp flame]

so the main chat doesn't just fill with possible directions for a single clue

[balmy fog]

Omg I forgot u I’m sorry

[timid solstice]

I really really do not like the threads btw

[sharp flame]

and if any progress is made with a clue, you can put it in here

[timid solstice]

its a very BAD idea

[sharp flame]

either that or we need to cut down on the theorycrafting in this channel 😭

[neon stream]

It was a joke, don't worry 😂
There are many of us out there, you couldn't include us all 😛

[timid solstice]

how are we supposed to keep track of multiple threads, being contributed to at different times

its impossible

[sharp flame]

We only have about 2-3 active at once

[balmy fog]

For it to work it must be organized

Let’s not have 50 threads

[sharp flame]

password attempts for example is a good thread

[balmy fog]

I’ll make a thread rule of posting

[jade citrus]

it will be the same amount of messages, just better organized

[sharp flame]

so is trying to figure out a major clue like the "crosses puzzle"

[unborn pilot]

That’s a great solution. Only have a couple active.

[sharp flame]

And right now

We have like 2 clues, so threads are kinda unnecessary for clues

[timid solstice]

I have limited time now days, so can read a chat quickly, but threads might be hard just saying

[neon stream]

Gold clues thread

[sharp flame]

but more than 3 clue threads becomes a hindrance more than anything

[coarse dagger]

I'm with Smash... it looks daunting but it's really the same just with org

[neon stream]

Egg clues thread

[jade citrus]

BTW there's a threads button at the top right so you can easily look through everything

[sharp flame]

Serp I'm gonna be honest

[neon stream]

There you go 😂

[sharp flame]

that's exactly what I was saying we shouldn't do 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[neon stream]

oh

mb

[sharp flame]

ain't nobody gonna open that and scroll that separately unless they have to

[timid solstice]

and new messages will show up?

[sharp flame]

threads themselves are quite out-of-the-way

[timid solstice]

do threads auto archive?

[neon stream]

There you go, threads closed 💪🏻

[quaint wing]

Yes. Threads can also be closed.

Whoever started it opens the thread, clicks the three dots, and clicks close thread.

[coarse dagger]

Paradigm shift y'all

[jade citrus]

it has the red line indicator for new messages if that's what you mean

[coarse dagger]

You can also join threads

[sharp flame]

I know this is just my personal opinion but yeah I feel like in terms of Rabbit Holes we are suffering 😭

[timid solstice]

someone send a messge in the thread so I can see plz 🙂

[quaint wing]

Think of it like a study session. We learn lots, and at the end of it all, we get a little archived thread of everything, lol

[neon stream]

Should we make a thread to talk about the threads? 😂

Otherwise Rob will hate us... and with good reason 😂

[sharp flame]

I will say though, that the beginning, end, and any developments for any clues should be brought up here

if any progress is made, or thing confirmed

because Rob probably will NOT backread these threads

and that's something you guys should keep in mind

[coarse dagger]

Its a paradigm shift. It'll take a little bit of learning for everyone

[balmy fog]

Should I make a thread titled:

⚠️ Thread rules of creation ⚠️

Hi there, welcome to the Threads, here you can find all the confirmed paths and/or paths to be explored. The threads are useful if well organised so please, before creating a thread, talk about it in general and ask if it's a good idea. You can also refer to older hunters, they will suggest you into creating one or not.

Good luck Hunters!

[sharp flame]

Okay hear me out here

[balmy fog]

Or its non-necessary

[sharp flame]

The threads should be used for things that are NOT correct or necessary

[balmy fog]

Oh I get it, ok

[neon stream]

For real, I think we should talk about the threads outside of the main channel... 😅
https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175209969113641110

[unborn pilot]

I can’t type in threads either until I get my higher rank. It’s probably same for anyone else new who comes in

[neon stream]

There are no mods, but lets move the conversation there

[coarse dagger]

Oh, that was not made clear

[tulip matrix]

[quaint wing]

Think of it this way. Use the threads to keep track of information on specific things.

Keep doing what we're doing, and threads will make it easier to get back to inforamtion we've found.

[jagged ore]

Oh I thought it's just that you guys can't create a thread

[sharp flame]

nvm nvm

[unborn pilot]

Might juts be a default setting thing

[balmy fog]

Should I make a thread titled:

⚠️ Thread rules of creation ⚠️

Hi there, welcome to the Threads, here you can find all the potential paths to be explored or therefore were already explored. Keep the #easter-eggs chat related to all the confirmed clues and the actual paths (for future CTRL+F references). The threads are useful if well organised so please, before creating a thread, talk about it in general and ask if it's a good idea. You can also refer to older hunters, they will suggest you into creating one or not.

Good luck Hunters!

This is better @sharp flame ?

[timid solstice]

pins said create

[coarse dagger]

Did you intend for thread contribution to be locked behind role as well?

@rapid mango

[sharp flame]

I don't think people will go too crazy with creating threads, so we'll bring this up if that's ever a problem 👍

Okay anyways, basically here's the deal

if this is something that Rob WONT 👀, then yeah it can go in a thread

but yeah if you make any progress or connection just keep it here

any password talk can stay here as well

any speculation on themes, connections can go here too

[jagged ore]

Yeah we might actually want to know what Rob has to say about the threads. If he doesn't like them we should remove them again

[quaint wing]

Post breakthroughs, talk about things, post findings together in a thread. Everything can be refined as we go and try to incorporate it into our strategies

[balmy fog]

I think it's actually gonna be easier for Rob to see what's going on in our brains

As he can indepently follow threads

[sharp flame]

Just as long as we don't go on for TOO long

and also he can't just scroll back a day or two on every thread just hoping we make a breakthrough

[balmy fog]

500+ messages in 3 hours

[sharp flame]

or even a correct guess

we should really keep things brief

anyways rn we don't need the threads

there is like 2 clues we have

[balmy fog]

Have you seen the crossword fish?

[quaint wing]

#1175202375070384208 message - because I didn't post it here like an idiot.

[sharp flame]

And yeah speculation dealing with spacetime and the fabric of the universe probably won't take us anywhere atm

[sharp flame]

So yeah for things like that you report in main chat if something comes of it, but otherwise confine it to the thread

[jade citrus]

are you sure??? lets make a thread real quick....

[quaint wing]

I was posting instructions on how to edit the thread and how the other bits work!

[jagged ore]

what about that random khazak monument that we found at complexly unrelated coordinates from gold egg😭 😂

[sharp flame]

All I'm saying is that there is no way there is room for any rabbit holes at this point in the hunt

[quaint wing]

So people know. You can edit the threads and mark how long until they get hidden. You can still find them, but they won't show at the top in the active part of the list. I posted it in the crossword thread on accident.

[sharp flame]

and the only way there would be a rabbit hole is if we solve these two images and get a new piece of info

but otherwise all we have are the passwords and their ciphers

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-sir-agree-okay-sir-salute-gif-2121110194460118449

[coarse dagger]

We'll seeeeee 😅

[sharp flame]

I'm just going off the fact that we've been overcomplicating things for a while

and while the clues do have crazy links by Rob, they always lead to a simple conclusion

like all the tiers ABCDEF weren't crazy terrible

I do wonder if this tier is a combining of Gold and Egg

the nature of the Question Mark images lead me to believe so

Ques and Tion being two counterparts

One Gold, the other Egg/White

anyone with me on that?

[quaint wing]

I see where you're coming from.

The whole tree is singular, until it split up for ABC/DEF, and now it's back together.

[jade citrus]

yeah 100%

just gotta figure out the format

[sharp flame]

For now if we just focus on what we have we'll definitely push forward with this tier

For example, figuring out if Question Mark means 3F, or if the 3F naming is another pointer to ?

The 3F wiki page lists the Question Mark under it

[pure loom]

Maybe we should actually focus on question marks as a path. Keep it as simple as possible

Two different question marks, both in italics

[sharp flame]

Question Marks or 3F, either has a lot to dig into anyways

The only reason I think it may be 3F is because Question Marks are super obvious

[quaint wing]

A walk in the park would be obvious though, right?

[sharp flame]

like they appear 4 times in the later names, they are on both images, and the images are called "Ques"tion"

[balmy fog]

Indeed

[pure loom]

“Italicize and italics come from the Latin word for "Italian," italicus. This print style was named in honor of the Italian printer credited as the first to use it.”

[sharp flame]

What's interesting is the naming is only called "question", minus the mark

so maybe it's the term "question" that is the key

[balmy fog]

The whole inquiry path I did here wasn't bad but again it was a little bit of rabbit hole #easter-eggs message

Question is Inquiry

[pure loom]

What is the question? Maybe it’s like Jeopardy - we have the answer, what is the question?

[balmy fog]

That's what I basically tought, we need to find the question this time, wich will then lead us to the obvious answer

Did we ever figure out why Level 2 was named The Promise?

[sharp flame]

PR0MISE with a 0 iirc

[jagged ore]

#easter-eggs message this is what I connected with the question marks and the colors

[timid solstice]

i think it was the promise for more of the EE, the new level was the Promise

[balmy fog]

Add to that, ? = is also (?)

[sharp flame]

Promise was also a point towards the 404 page of the website perhaps

during that whole 0vif0rm fiasco

[balmy fog]

Could it have a link to an obvious question?

[sharp flame]

where the whole tier DEF was centred around Namatama

[sharp flame]

Wdym by obvious

[jade citrus]

what is the password?

[balmy fog]

Well a question related to the Promise

and the whole gold and white scheme

[jagged ore]

The main question from the trailers and the website is always "Can you reach THE FINALS?"

[sharp flame]

yesicanreachthefinals

ez password done

[balmy fog]

Walk in the park

[timid solstice]

we already tried that

dont trick us fish

[jagged ore]

n0Imn00b

[sharp flame]

I don't think Rob expected us to solve it instantly though

We probably need to actually solve ONE clue this tier at least

[balmy fog]

Agreed

[timid solstice]

what clue

[sharp flame]

I keep saying that White background cipher is our only real lead

but I'm certain the Gold image holds at least one clue in it too

and it is probably on the rim of that gold

[timid solstice]

which?

[sharp flame]

The grid of symbols that appears when you zoom and change some exposure

if only we had a thread on it

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/jungkook-greedytaegi-jungkook-scratching-head-scratching-head-greedytaegi-jungkook-gif-14174644148729555894

[balmy fog]

This

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/no-pixels-cant-see-ben-chang-community-ken-jeong-gif-17361588

[jade citrus]

it definitly looks like a grid or something

[timid solstice]

Open Beta Trailer Hidden Image

[jade citrus]

it could just be the method that Rob used to get the "rough" texture

[jagged ore]

the grid could just be to get to a crossword puzzle as those are basically grids with some cells being completely filled out

[hard current]

wait is this a qr code possibly?

[jade citrus]

it covers the entire image

[pure loom]

Definitely some background features

[hard current]

ah ok nvm

[jade citrus]

Maybe the direction of the shadows is a clue

like what time of day would create shadows like that

like a sundial

[hard current]

past 12pm

... if we assume left is rising and right is setting

I personally don't think that'll play into the answer

[coarse dagger]

Can't really sundial without a globe and orbitals

[pure loom]

Rob previously said Tier 3 is a "walk in the park" plus we have his strange use of the word "little" 3 times recently

"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.!"

[hard current]

I thought it was hinting at

"ONE little question"

as in the answer is just a question

ques is tying back to gold, tion is tying back to egg based on the properties of the images

the one thing I can't understand is the time that rob keeps hinting at.. hours, days, months, years... we found the metadata of the images looks clearly altered to be a date and time in 2015 but I have no idea how it ties together

[timid solstice]

im trying unicodes

Unicode Character “🜚” (U+1F71A)
Alchemical Symbol For Gold
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F71A