easter-eggs

[pure loom]

noting that ? and / are on the same keyboard key

[hidden nacelle]

ah

[pure loom]

and that a slash was the first EE clue we ever got

[balmy fog]

@pure loom Could you maybe check the 4 corners colours, just making sure I haven't done anything stupid

[pure loom]

the colours you mean?

[balmy fog]

Yep #

for me

also weird enough, this image background color is

RGB: 666

its not entirely black

Yes

[pure loom]

dang it

soz

I'll re-do

[hard current]

there’s no wayyyyy that’s not a coincidence bro

is white pure white?

[balmy fog]

no

[hard current]

nvm I see

[pure loom]

top left: f0f0f0
top right: e0e0e0
bottom left: ececec
bottom right: d9d9d9

[balmy fog]

Why so many 3's

[pure loom]

the first letter of each one spells "feed" - Rob is reminding us to eat hahaha

[balmy fog]

**So wait let me recap in one post:

White image corners are;
Top left is #f0f0f0 wich is not pure white
Bottom left is #ececec
Bottom right is #d9d9d9
Top right is #e0e0e0

Black image background is:
#060606 (wich is not pure black) and is 6=R 6=G B=6

? is $3F in C64 Screen Codes
? is ASCII Code 63 (0x3F hexadecimal)
? is Unicode code-point U+003F
� is U+FFFD
T3-F**

@timid solstice I think you were right

[balmy fog]

If that's not a solid thing to look at

Idk what else is

lol

what if that is it

the only thing I can think of is 3 letter word passwords

[pure loom]

WTF

[balmy fog]

🤣

tried it

sadly didn't work

[pure loom]

WTF

[balmy fog]

so many 3's links tho

could be like YES in ASCII or something idk

[pure loom]

I tried "gah" - long termers will get that one

[quaint wing]

ggwp

[balmy fog]

does rob utilize any 3 letters word?

[pure loom]

gah

when things go wrong

pretty rare

[balmy fog]

Eye

TEH

Im dead

Good night hunters!!!

Keep in mind the 3x links

[jade citrus]

'ovo' and 'oro' are both 3 letters, they mean 'egg' and 'gold' respectively in French (?)

rob like to say OYE

(open your eyes)

[quaint wing]

uwu?

[coarse dagger]

Just a reminder for everyone.
vi vi vi from tier 2 -> 666

[tribal oar]

UwU

[sonic mantle]

You know eye in Spanish is ojo

And ovo and oro are both Spanish btw

[daring bluff]

I'm on the edge of my seat here!

[hard current]

ques… tion.. 3/3F… gold… eggs… nytimes… image noise.. dates… hours… months… years… I think I’m gonna dream about this and see if dream me has any luck

[pure loom]

Search for gah. You’ll find Rob pretty quick 😂

[daring bluff]

haha oh yeah I understood the Rob reference… been in this server since it was originally opened.!

I’m pretty sure that’s a Scotty line in game- “Gah! I’m on the edge of my seat here!”

[coarse dagger]

Code:

import numpy as np
import PIL
from PIL import Image

img = Image.open('tfee_tion.jpg')
print(img.mode)
r,g,b = img.split()
print(r==g)
print(g==b)

Output:

RGB
True
True

The three color channels are perfectly identical in tfee_tion.jpg

[coarse dagger]

Basically it's a black and white image despite actually being a color image.

[river flame]

colors used in each image

[sharp flame]

this tier has got to be a culmination of some sort

if this password completes the whole of LVL2

[bitter mauve]

whats up gamers

was busy these couple of weeks

nice to see abcdef was solved

[bitter mauve]

yup was able to find these somewhat clear common symbol in the photo with "Fresco filter"

I think the reason why we have those diagonal line it's because the background has a very very subtle gradient color

[balmy fog]

Gold in french is Or, not Oro and Egg is Oeuf, not Ovo

[flat thunder]

@whole geyser

[bitter mauve]

was able to some what separate those weird pcb like lines with other filter

that subtle gradient really make it hard to show stuff in the bottom right corner

[sharp flame]

it wouldn't explain the varied diagonals here

unless there were multiple light sources, but I'm not sure they would create that

[bitter mauve]

yeah it just an educated guess that the background is gradient since every filter I mess around with always shows the bottom right corner darker than the top left corner

[sharp flame]

the diagonal lines look to be about 48 degrees from the vertical

[bitter mauve]

I can't even tell if those lines are actual clues or just artifact from the gradient anymore lmao

[sharp flame]

the more vertical diagonal lines look to be about 60 degrees

[bitter mauve]

some of the line do kinna random tho

[sharp flame]

how did you make it look like that 😭

watercolour filter?

[bitter mauve]

Sumi-e filter from filter gallery

[balmy fog]

there's binary along the symbols, by rotating it all the 90 degrees possible you can tell

I don't see a way to compile all of it

Here's an other example, of an other spot 180 degrees flipped

[odd sequoia]

Good morning all! So, I love Easter eggs been hunting gta v chiliad for years (crazy I know lol) but I’m new to all of this here. Why is the question mark seeming to be the main focus?

[bitter mauve]

hard to tell since it's basically pixel art

[balmy fog]

That's the clue we got from solving the past 2 levels

2 images with ?

[bitter mauve]

you can check out #egg-hunt-onboarding to start out

[quaint wing]

These are the pictures we were given when we solved the last tier. Check #egg-hunt-onboarding and the pins

[odd sequoia]

I’ll go start there, thank you guys! ☺️ I’ll be back once I’m caught up.

[quaint wing]

Glad you're still driving yourself mad with pixels. I can see where you're going with it

[balmy fog]

I am pretty sure looking at the symbols is great, but, I think the symbols are the layer in front of texts, you can clearly tell there's letters behind those symbols

for example

[bitter mauve]

amogus

[balmy fog]

you can tell on the bottom left side of the A the opacity is doubled on where the lines should be

here's an other example of a mirrored F

an E

TH

Rob probably typed in the letters then put the symbols pattern in front of it

[bitter mauve]

I think we having the same problem with this and the screenshot 15 thing again

[balmy fog]

This is 1/8th of the picture, but basically, it's full of letters

[bitter mauve]

even if we find all the letter we still don't know the order of things

[balmy fog]

this is also WIP there's way more

This might be a reach, but Lulz said it yesterday, pretty sure it spells Can you reach the finals

I am not sure yet so plz don't go down that rabbit hole y'all

but yeah

[bitter mauve]

oh yeah did you guys find anything in the dark gold question mark

[timid pebble]

There was a date in the meta data that refered to two things. A easter egg in Black Ops and also a Crossword puzzle where there was gold themed questions.

[balmy fog]

Yeah

[timid pebble]

Speaking of which. This is probably also a rabbit hole. BUT.
Jason Blundell was responsible of the Black Ops impossible easter egg, and a double question mark in chess (??) is called a Blunder.
Not so far away from his family name 😆

[balmy fog]

The # of colours

[balmy fog]

White image corners are;
Top left is #f0f0f0 wich is not pure white
Bottom left is #ececec
Bottom right is #d9d9d9
Top right is #e0e0e0

Black image background is:
#060606 (wich is not pure black) and is 6=R 6=G B=6

? is $3F in C64 Screen Codes
? is ASCII Code 63 (0x3F hexadecimal)
? is Unicode code-point U+003F
� is U+FFFD
T3-F

black used in ? black background

I don't see a reason to not having it pure black

as they normally do with their fonts

[odd sequoia]

So I went and caught myself up a bit. I see the most recent challenge is a password protected site. But the challenge before that with the question mark. Seems to be complete? (By the red X’s?) so what’s the current target that may contain the site password?

[sharp flame]

is it 060606 the whole way through?

[balmy fog]

Yep

solid background

No gradient

the white is gradient but always XYXYXY

[sharp flame]

probably a clue for T1-def then

[sharp flame]

well yeah, no colour whatsoever

[balmy fog]

Pure black and white is XYXYXY yep

[sharp flame]

I was hoping to devise some code to find if ANY of the pixels in the image don't have matching XYZ

but my code sucks and doesn't work

it shouldn't be that hard a task though

[balmy fog]

mhmmm

Hold on

You can generate color palettes online I'll do it for you

[bitter mauve]

yes the completed one unlocks the clue to the next tier so tier 2abc and 2def was solved and it unlocks the clue to tier 3 which is the question mark picture (you can view the picture by clicking the red X)

[balmy fog]

this is for black image

you can zoom in and see % of the pictures wearing the colors

[odd sequoia]

Ok got it, just wanted to make sure I was in the right place lol. Thank you!

[balmy fog]

this is the white one

Per example

#f3f3f3 is used 0.03% times in the whole image

[bitter mauve]

so f=3? rob did say that it shouldn't that hard so I think don't have to overthink it too much

[balmy fog]

Meh idk

there's lots of F

etc...

F is the color range for Black and white images

pure white is #ffffff tho

[balmy fog]

it is also not being used once in the black and white image

[balmy fog]

Black and white image there's this one

[ripe axle]

Sorry for asking the usual question you already answered 500 times but did anyone look into the PSDs from the press kit yet as every single one has layers named by rob

[sharp flame]

we did look into it a long time ago

[sharp flame]

but since we found nothing we probably missed something.. feel free to have a look!

[ripe axle]

One weird thing is that all files are duplicated, but half of them are renamed to "panda" because half of them should feature the panda character instead of the woman. So maybe we don't even have all the puzzle pieces due to this issue.

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/tumbleweeds-desert-hot-dry-drought-gif-21341711

[river flame]

I think we're close

[sharp flame]

very possibly

[coarse dagger]

from PIL import Image

def rgb2hex(r, g, b):
    return '#{:02x}{:02x}{:02x}'.format(r, g, b)

img = Image.open('tfee_tion.jpg')
print(f'Image mode: {img.mode}')

color_counts = img.getcolors()
print(f'number of colors {len(color_counts)}\n')
print('Decimal RGB color counts. FORMAT: (count, (r, g, b))')
print('\n'.join([str(col) for col in color_counts]))
hex_col_counts = [(count, rgb2hex(r,g,b)) for (count, (r,g,b)) in color_counts]
print('\nHexidecimal RGB color counts. FORMAT: (count, hex code)')
print('\n'.join([str(col) for col in hex_col_counts]))

Output:

[hard current]

what are you thinkin?

[sharp flame]

any of them without the 3 RBG values being the same?

if not, then not worth worrying too much

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

from PIL import Image

def rgb2hex(r, g, b):
    return '#{:02x}{:02x}{:02x}'.format(r, g, b)

img = Image.open('tfee_tion.jpg')

color_counts = img.getcolors()
hex_col_counts = [(count, rgb2hex(r,g,b)) for (count, (r,g,b)) in color_counts]

hex_colors = [color for (_, color) in hex_col_counts]
unique_channel_hex_colors = [hex_col[1:3] for hex_col in hex_colors]
print(unique_channel_hex_colors)

Output:

['fb', 'f9', 'f7', 'f5', 'f3', 'f1', 'ef', 'ed', 'eb', 'e9', 'e7', 'e5', 'e3', 'e1', 'df', 'dd', 'db', 'd9', 'd7', 'd5', 'd3', 'd1', 'cf', 'cd', 'cb', 'c9', 'c7', 'c5', 'c3', 'c1', 'bf', 'bd', 'bb', 'b9', 'b7', 'b5', 'b3', 'b1', 'af', 'ad', 'ab', 'a9', 'a7', 'a5', 'a3', 'a1', '9f', '9d', '9b', '99', '97', '95', '93', '91', 'fa', 'f8', 'f6', 'f4', 'f2', 'f0', 'ee', 'ec', 'ea', 'e8', 'e6', 'e4', 'e2', 'e0', 'de', 'dc', 'da', 'd8', 'd6', 'd4', 'd2', 'd0', 'ce', 'cc', 'ca', 'c8', 'c6', 'c4', 'c2', 'c0', 'be', 'bc', 'ba', 'b8', 'b6', 'b4', 'b2', 'b0', 'ae', 'ac', 'aa', 'a8', 'a6', 'a4', 'a2', 'a0', '9e', '9c', '9a', '98', '96', '94', '92']

Joined output:

fbf9f7f5f3f1efedebe9e7e5e3e1dfdddbd9d7d5d3d1cfcdcbc9c7c5c3c1bfbdbbb9b7b5b3b1afadaba9a7a5a3a19f9d9b9997959391faf8f6f4f2f0eeeceae8e6e4e2e0dedcdad8d6d4d2d0cecccac8c6c4c2c0bebcbab8b6b4b2b0aeacaaa8a6a4a2a09e9c9a98969492

[coarse dagger]

There's such limited color information something could be encoded in it for us.

[hard current]

I think the problem we have rn is we’re coming up with great theories, but we’re missing anything to run it against

i.e. a key needs a lock, a code needs an algorithm to decrypt etc

feels like we keep getting a key with no lock or a lock with no key

[coarse dagger]

More often than not that's how we figure things out in this hunt though...
Find a datapoint -> figure out how to mold that datapoint using other clues

[quaint wing]

Then figure out how it pertains to space.

Can't forget about space.

[sharp flame]

it's okay

after a while you kinda get used to how it all connects (or doesn't 😭)

[coarse dagger]

@fallen jasper user @tribal oar is spamming in this channel and deleting posts to farm server level

[sharp flame]

@tribal oar you'll probably get in trouble for that 💀

[coarse dagger]

Oops, sorry for the reply there @river flame

[sharp flame]

haha you were in the middle of replying for Lime there lool

[sonic mantle]

Easy way to get banned

[tribal oar]

sowwy

[sharp flame]

just go talk about your pets in that channel

[royal cosmos]

YIP YAP YIPPER

[timid pebble]

Find the EE password and you will be forgiven.

[sharp flame]

yo the party last week was sick bro, can't wait for next years' one when you turn 14 💪

[coarse dagger]

Just want to point out that this post is inaccurate/incomplete.
There are 21702 colors in tfee_ques.jpg
and 107 colors in tfee_tion.jpg

[royal cosmos]

Erm actually I'm 16 buckeroo

[sharp flame]

oh okay, that's fine mb

you're just acting 2 years below your age 💀

[royal cosmos]

Wheewhaw

[sharp flame]

I think if we're looking at colours then tfee_tion the one to go to

but even then I don't think we'll fish out much there

perhaps the dimension of the images hold some info

[timid pebble]

Another rabbit hole, https://www.agriddle.com/departure/egg
Someone found a easter egg on the date we got from the meta data.
11/6/2015

Alessa Starseeker

[balmy fog]

That's an heartstone card lmao

[timid pebble]

You can also play the card version in the normal game and the effect is to shuffle a card named : Map to The Golden Monkey in ur deck ahah

LINKS EVERYWHERE

[coarse dagger]

They don't share any factors other than 1, so if there's a grid of symbols, they're either not equal width, or some of the symbols are cut off around the edges.
1149 factors: 1, 3, 383, 1149
635 factors: 1, 5, 127, 635

[balmy fog]

What if all the Three connections we have means Tree

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1149_Volga

Volga hmm

named after the largest river in Europe

[timid pebble]

What I don't understand is how we should approach the latest password. Should o's be 0's? should e be 3's? should g's be vi's? All of those, some of those, none of those rules?

Because I got ideas for passwords, but there's like 100 ways to type them.

[balmy fog]

that river was a trade route

[sharp flame]

I swear all rivers are trade routes

[balmy fog]

The powerful Volga Bulgars (cousins of today's Balkan Bulgarians) formed a seminomadic confederation and traded through the Volga river with Viking people of Rus' and Scandinavia (Swedes, Danes, Norwegians) and with the southern Byzantine Empire (Eastern Roman Empire)[3] Furthermore, Volga Bulgaria, with its two cities Bulgar and Suvar east of what is today Moscow, traded with Russians and the fur-selling Ugrians

[silver finch]

thinking about the Gaz Volga and the folklore behind it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ_Volga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Volga

probably nothing tho just wanted to add and feel special :3

[thin wraith]

^ i was thinking the same but what would there be any connection ykno

[coarse dagger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1149

July 15 – The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is consecrated, after reconstruction.

That part in bold.... the link is purple for me... I KNOW I saw it recently... this tier I think.

Let me see if I can figure out why I was looking at it

[balmy fog]

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

It actually links to the Bolsheviks, they're the one that stole Tsar Nicholas II Fabergé Eggs

[balmy fog]

Battle for Volga River Port

[coarse dagger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre#Status_Quo

STATUS QUO

1149 and STATUS QUO LINKED

[balmy fog]

I went thru it in https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175257406838677514

What was the statu quo link again? @coarse dagger

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

Matchstick Men

[balmy fog]

Right, thanks!

Nice find @coarse dagger

@sharp flame take a look at this

[coarse dagger]

Going to document this in #1175483856179179601

[sharp flame]

yeah it's a good one

obviously it doesn't mean anything to us at all yet, but maybe something will come of it

[jade citrus]

LMAO

[sharp flame]

also obviously Virgin Mary is mentioned in these pages but.. like.. christianity
it's bound to appear

[hard current]

aye yo wait there’s a link there that’s crazy

[balmy fog]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promised_Land ?

[sharp flame]

There's a lotta links between Year No.s and religious terms

but this one does seem poignant

[river flame]

🙂

[sharp flame]

mainly cause 1149 was the year the Sepulchre Church was finished iirc

and 1064 was the beginning of Pisa Cathedral, the one that started the whole thing

[hard current]

ok so hows with the sepulchre church fit in hmmm

[sharp flame]

so idk.. maybe this link is worth it

but I'm just warning y'all that numerical links are everywhere

I mean EVERYWHERE

[hard current]

hold up wiki says rebuilt in 1048

demolished in 1009

[sharp flame]

if we can fit it into the context of current clues then we can make something of it

but if the numbers line up and we struggle with it for days with no Rob confirmation then I'd suggest turning our attention again

like here, look at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine–Hungarian_War_(1149–1155)

wasn't so hard to find Status Quo again in 1149

and THIS one is Byzantine!!

I wonder how many hunters remember that phase 😭

[hard current]

so.. Status Quo has come up, what twice now? three times?

ah ok

[coarse dagger]

IMO seems like the most direct link we've found yet this tier. Doesn't seem spurious to me...
Matchstick Men -> Pictures of Matchstick Men -> The Status Quo -> Church of the Holy Sepulchre

[sharp flame]

Matchstick Men -> Pictures of Matchstick Men -> The Status Quo -> Byzantine-Hungarian War

both have links, the difference is we just want the first one to fit

[balmy fog]

maybe look into the church of the holy sepulchure

if there's other links

what could 635 be

[hard current]

31.7785° N,
35.2296° E
coordinates of the church in case anyone can see any relevance with this:)

[sharp flame]

already am, there's plenty of links to gold and otherwise

[sharp flame]

I can already see the Rabbit hole 😭

[coarse dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/red89z-gif-22986425

[balmy fog]

What if it was both?

[hard current]

I’m jumping

[balmy fog]

Technically speaking, we have 2 photos

maybe those 2 links up together?

[sharp flame]

There have been enough times where it's actually been none of the possibilities cause we just didn't have more clues to put it into context

[coarse dagger]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/635

Byzantine Empire
Emperor Heraclius makes an alliance with Kubrat, ruler (khagan) of Great Bulgaria, to break the power of the Avars on the Balkan Peninsula.

[sharp flame]

oh btw the Byzantine Empire was a red herring

that's why it's a running joke 😭

[hard current]

[sharp flame]

cause we kept finding "links" and Rob just watched us spiral

[balmy fog]

The Holy Sepulchure is the tomb of Jesus tho

This is kinda major in Christianity

[sharp flame]

he even made a beautiful Namtama to commemorate it

[balmy fog]

This could fit well into the ''lore'' of Level 2

[balmy fog]

Being the end of Level 2

[sharp flame]

we did have Christianity pop up before, Rob confirmed there was ONE other path with the Virgin Mary

and also obviously Pisa Cathedral

[balmy fog]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_Quo_(Jerusalem_and_Bethlehem)

[coarse dagger]

Or we just don't know what it's connected to... There've been multiple connections to Byzantine throughout the tiers and in-game...
It could be diamond clue related, TEH connected...

I don't think we can just say "Rob's just making fun of us for time spent looking into Byzantine" and then discount any further connections to Byzantine...

[balmy fog]

''Controlled by the Roman Empire and then, following its division, by the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire''

[sharp flame]

we asked Rob to make the Byzantine Nama lol

[balmy fog]

Status quo from Jerusalem and Bethlehem is kinda connected to Byzantine Empire tho

If it's such a meme, wouldn't not be fun to actually end it with Byzantine?

Didn't Rob said you were going to laugh @sharp flame ?

[coarse dagger]

Rob confirmed there was ONE other path with the Virgin Mary
Could you dig up a source on this? This is the first I'd heard of this. In T1F I was taking LOTS of notes, and noticed multiple connections to the Virgin Mary, but decided not to go there because I feared it would connect to too much other stuff....

[sharp flame]

I laugh lots hehe

[sharp flame]

#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

yeah about gold watch

maybe I would laugh because gold egg was close

[balmy fog]

The status quo (Jerusalem and Bethlehem) links to this tho;

-The church 1149,
-Byzantine Empire,
-Tsar Nicholas I (Father of Nicholas II who created the Faberge Eggs)

[hard current]

how connect to tsar nicholas?

[balmy fog]

''Napoleon III of France pressured the sultan to invalidate the 1757 status quo in favor of the Catholic church, leading in part to Nicholas I of Russia declaring war in favor of the Orthodox church's rights''

[balmy fog]

#easter-eggs message

[balmy fog]

So, Christianity carry a high symbolism regarding the Eggs

Rob also talked a lot about time / years

He said YEARS in caps a lot

All the clues we've been finding where based on one thing combined, the whole YEAR system we used is based off on Jesus/Christianity

AD/BC is Jesus related

[hard current]

status quo… eggs.. could it be that the password is some connection, and it has to be entered in with all of the same ways we had to enter past passwords

i.e. numeral, G = 6, 0 = o = 0 = O etc

[balmy fog]

At this point we've touched everything, could be Leet, could be roman numerals, could be ASCII,PETSCII, could be a Caesar cypher, could be anything

[hard current]

damn true

I’m talking about the “status quo” of entering the passwords though

i.e. the status quo has been it’s never just a plain old english language answer

[balmy fog]

Yeah it never was pure english

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Three_Kings could this be a link to all the 3x links we have?

[balmy fog]

The first, referred to in the carol 'We Three Kings', interprets the gifts as symbolising three aspects of Christ's future life: gold representing kingship, frankincense (worship) and myrrh (death and mourning).

also ''Gold is not just a beautiful metal; it signifies God's eternity and Jesus's True Presence in the form of bread and wine''

Christianity is full of gold mentions, as we all know

[balmy fog]

In 2018, medieval scholar Michael McCormick nominated year 536 as "the worst year to be alive" because of the volcanic winter of 536 caused by a volcanic eruption early in the year, causing average temperatures in Europe and China to decline and resulting in crop failures and famine for well over a year.

635 flipped is 536

Yellow = Gold
Yolk = Egg
Mirrored/Flipped = No idea maybe 635 going 536 hinting at the ''worst year to be alive''
Latin = Vitellum, Oviform (maybe links to Christianity) By the way, Vatican official language is Latin
Three = 3's everywhere from the ? ASCII, C64 screen codes, hex, + the backgrounds colors being X-Y-X-Y-X-Y

also this

The 536 event and ensuing famine have been suggested as an explanation for the deposition of hoards of gold by Scandinavian elites at the end of the Migration Period. The gold was possibly a sacrifice to appease the gods and get the sunlight back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/536

@coarse dagger @sharp flame

[sharp flame]

I mean rearranged it's also 365, which fits very snugly in the time theme

[balmy fog]

Yeah but 365 isnt mirrored nor flipped

it's rearranged

536 is mirrored/flipped

[sharp flame]

you had to put that into a website 😭?

haha

[balmy fog]

just in case im dumb

[hard current]

me when I do 2+2 on the calculator to make sure it’s 4 still

[coarse dagger]

I don't necessarily see a huge "3" connection this tier (yet), but for those that do:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary#Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre

In 333, the author of the Itinerarium Burdigalense, entering from the east, described the result:

On the left hand is the little hill of Golgotha where the Lord was crucified. About a stone's throw from thence is a vault [crypta] wherein his body was laid, and rose again on the third day. There, at present, by the command of the Emperor Constantine, has been built a basilica; that is to say, a church of wondrous beauty.

And a connection back to T1A:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary#Temple_to_Aphrodite
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message

And connection to Calcium Carbonate T1E:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvary#Rockface

During 1973–1978 restoration works and excavations inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and under the nearby Muristan, it was found that the area was originally a quarry, from which white Meleke limestone was struck;

[hard current]

has anyone with photoshop tried "dying" the egg picture

like how people dye eggs on easter?

I'm pretty sure nothing would appear but, maybe worth a shot to mess with tints and color overlays?

[fallen jasper]

Hello yolks

How goes the hunt?

[coarse dagger]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[turbid tinsel]

has anyone noticed the edge of the gold question mark has rivets in spots like a quarter or coin? unless the lines are for something else

[jade citrus]

you should update Embark Bulletin with the new tier

[fallen jasper]

That is a good idea :kek

[jade citrus]

:kek indeed

minor spelling mistake

[pliant owl]

Has anyone with photoshop already tried to only enable a single color channel before applying the filter that revealed all the C64-like symbols in the "?" images?

@balmy fog perhaps?

Maybe the different layers can be isolated because they all have a slightly different color (tint) or something?

I dont have photoshop and even if I had it I wouldn't know how to use it 🫣

[timid pebble]

I tried that but got no great result out of it

[pliant owl]

Hmm too bad

[timid pebble]

On another note. Another reference to golden eggs, who knows... "Traditionally, the eggs were wrapped in onion skins and boiled to give them a mottled, gold appearance"

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

Did anyone tried the easter date for this year? 😅

[turbid tinsel]

The 1901 Gatchina Palace egg, which Nicholas II gave to his mother Maria Feodorovna, has a pearl-encrusted shell of gold, enamel, silver-gilt, portrait diamonds and rock crystal. It opens to reveal a faithful rendering of the palace Maria called home.

[coarse dagger]

As I've been saying, the color channels are all identical... so you won't get anything from that

[turbid tinsel]

Has a weird wavy background underneath it.

[pliant owl]

Oh I hadn't seen that 😅

Or I forgor 💀

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message

[turbid tinsel]

maybe the real question is about how the colors are applied, ones shiney and the other almost looks like a matte finish

there is an egg shell paint you can use

https://gcipaint.com/shop/product-basic/eggshell

[river flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Serpent_Clock_(Fabergé_egg)

located in Monte-Carlo

same place

like the name suggests features a serpent

s lies could mean serpent lies

serpent tells the time

[turbid tinsel]

some of the cassipeiae are refered to as the serpent

In Chinese, 螣蛇 (Téng Shé), meaning Flying Serpent, refers to an asterism consisting of λ Andromedae, α Lacertae, 4 Lacertae, π2 Cygni, π1 Cygni, HD 206267, ε Cephei, β Lacertae, σ Cassiopeiae, ρ Cassiopeiae, τ Cassiopeiae, AR Cassiopeiae, 9 Lacertae, 3 Andromedae, 7 Andromedae, 8 Andromedae, κ Andromedae, ι Andromedae, and ψ Andromedae. Consequently, the Chinese name for λ Andromedae itself is 螣蛇十九 (Téng Shé shíjiǔ, English: the Nineteenth Star of Flying Serpent).[14]

[turbid tinsel]

or slithers in an s shape

or lies in an s shape

[upbeat ridge]

@hard current has anyone posted any photoshopped analysis of the question marks yet?

[hard current]

not explicitly but everyones looked enough to think there's not much to it currently

[upbeat ridge]

with the lines of light around the edges of at least the golden one, could it be binary or hex?

[hard current]

try it

[upbeat ridge]

@hard current did you say that 1496 was an important number that keeps popping up?

[hard current]

no someone found 1409, why what did you get

also:

[upbeat ridge]

I was reading up on when the question mark was first invented

[hard current]

when rob said little, and ONE in his first messages regarding this tier, I thought about analyzing the picture from the last open beta. It's titled as episode 1

[timid pebble]

What if the answer is omelette

[hard current]

edit: dead end

[upbeat ridge]

where does little come into play here?

[hard current]

#easter-eggs message

[upbeat ridge]

yeah but how does little imply this image?

[hard current]

I'm not sure

[turbid tinsel]

just because he says little doesnt simply mean that we are looking for something little imo

[hard current]

for all I know it wasn't a hint, and I've misinterpreted it 🙂

but he said little three times... to be fair though the text I found is very little

[turbid tinsel]

and that image other than myself im aware of wasnt checked out

[upbeat ridge]

I think if little is said that many times in one message it might be

[turbid tinsel]

image itself seems to have clouds in the background like shes on a mountain

[turbid tinsel]

he also talked about painting images in c64 using koala painter and used a christmas reference we never pieced together

[hard current]

didn't I tell you to go educate yourself on the hunt so far (this is my twin brother guys it's fine, beat him up)

[upbeat ridge]

I watched half the video 😎

consider me educated

also I can't send images so all I could really see out of that image was
S ? U N I Y

? I can't makeout the character

[hard current]

I'm gonna keep looking at this, did anyone analyze the open beta already? I'm wondering if there may be hidden frames that have potential clues

[river flame]

It says the finals

it's upside down

[upbeat ridge]

https://tenor.com/view/breaking-bad-right-youre-right-gif-15444576

[hard current]

mannnnn

[upbeat ridge]

You're right

[hard current]

nevermind consider me silly, gonna keep looking elsewhere on the image to see if anything pops up

[turbid tinsel]

something is written in between the gap in the finals logo, in the thanks for playing open beta image

There is also something etched on the barrel of the gun that i cant get out either

Also possibly number inside the squares of the cone

honestly thing this image is worth being looked into since were kinda at a dead end atm

[turbid tinsel]

is this supposed to be an " " = 8 reference?

[hard current]

i saw this one but wasn’t sure if it was random markings or not

[turbid tinsel]

nah thats too random imo

[hard current]

this one is crazy

I’m w the ol ball and chain rn but will take a look in an hour or so

[coarse dagger]

Sorry... What are we seeing here that isn't plainly visible in the unedited image?

[turbid tinsel]

does that not look like the = sign and the outline of an 8?

[coarse dagger]

I could see it. Was just making sure I wasn't missing something because you can see it unedited as well.

[turbid tinsel]

regardless if thats nothing, theres something etched on the barrel and something inbetween the gap on the finals logo for sure

[hard current]

ALIVE??

it looks like it says ALIVE? or ALIVE??

[turbid tinsel]

im not seeing it unless you have something better

not saying its not possible. just not seeing that on my images atm

[hard current]

I definitely see an ALI at the start… could just be me tho

also what’d you do to create that image

[turbid tinsel]

maybe, maybe someone with better software can pull something better

[turbid tinsel]

https://www.aperisolve.com/

Possibly something written in the stock in the gap, underneath where it says the finals.

[upbeat ridge]

I feel like the clue should be in the question mark images, especially if it’s supposed to be a “walk in the park”

[balmy fog]

Doesn't work because we only have 1 layer, if we had 2 layers it would've surely worked

We're kinda stuck with all the symbols over the text

I'm pretty sure the text says Can you reach the Finals but I haven't 100% decoded it, it's not sentence following letters, it's bunch of letters thrown in

sometimes you can see ''You'' or ''Can'' or ''ls''

[upbeat ridge]

Which image?

[hard current]

L + ur my brother

[balmy fog]

bunch of F, H, E, A etc.

[upbeat ridge]

L + 2 images given and not a SINGLE clue in them?

[balmy fog]

Yes

there is

We just haven't completely decoded it

[balmy fog]

First there's the actual pixels size of the image, it fits to dates, secondly the 3F's, background colors that fits with the ATSCII of ?, then there's also the date in the metadata that lead to the crossword rabbit hole

[hard current]

don’t you have work tomorrow

[upbeat ridge]

Yeah:) dev wanna invite me to those threads so I can read em?

[balmy fog]

If you want to get into the hunt I'd recommend you watching the @pure loom video, and also #egg-hunt-onboarding

Before even getting into the threads

[hard current]

@upbeat ridge wait until you’re next level #🏆┇rank-check and get to rising star so that you can read and participate in them

[turbid tinsel]

if were assuming its park related why not go back and look at Yellowstone national park. not sure if its related or not personally but who knows

[balmy fog]

I dont know... Rob just said ''...should be a walk in the park''

Knowing Rob it could be related

but damn

there's lots of parks

[turbid tinsel]

personally feel like it was a reference to it should be easy but who knows. i feel like were starting to over analyze everything he says.

[balmy fog]

Rob hasn't eyed anything in the past like 1 week or so

Maybe we truly have everything we need to solve it

Maybe it is indeed as simple as viold evivi was

Anybody tried yes in other languages?

[river flame]

i think the answer has to deal with 6

f is the only clue we have

f=6

[balmy fog]

When ?

Nothing pointed to F=6 if I remember correctly

[river flame]

I think this is worthy enough

[balmy fog]

welp that's weird odds

by following the F=6;

A1
B2
C3
D4
E5
F6
G7
H8
I9
J10
K11
L12
M13
N14
O15
P16
Q17
R18
S19
T20
U21
V22
W23
X24
Y25
Z26

If you type

Yes

25 03 19

It is the Greek Independence Day

25th of march

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

[hard current]

couldn’t rob have eyed F=6 as a way to show how close you all were with G=6?

or would he not do that

[balmy fog]

Nah

G=6 was eyed before F=6

he wouldn't have hide a false clue

march 25th is also Waffle day in Sweden, as we know Embark is in Sweden but I doubt there's link there

[turbid tinsel]

im not sure its related to can you reach the finals. just because the finals in game is tier 4 or game 4 in the tournament and were only on tier 2

[balmy fog]

Yeah

I just tought it was odd

[turbid tinsel]

i personally think you should look over the open beta thank you image. Since your good at photoshop

[hard current]

yeah that’s got some crazy looking stuff

[balmy fog]

Can you send it here

Im lazy af

lol

[balmy fog]

thanks

[hard current]

you said writing between here

right?

i’m about to take a look as well

[unborn pilot]

I looked at that last week and noticed a moon looking symbol in one of the letters

[balmy fog]

there's that weird thing

also this weird text when I analyze it:

[hard current]

do you recall which layer this is in i.e. green or blue or red #

[balmy fog]

I only see him use ._.

[unborn pilot]

and yeah i see something in between on my end now too

looks like a 2 and a 0

[balmy fog]

this could be artifacts

but this is what I see between the logo

[unborn pilot]

oh and there's an F inside the U

lol

[hard current]

F in "To all of you"?

[unborn pilot]

lol

moon symbol inside 0, F looking thing in the letter U

[balmy fog]

nah

[unborn pilot]

ill post the picture

when i have the ability to

[balmy fog]

you mean this?

[unborn pilot]

check your messages for both

i see it without any effects on

[balmy fog]

yeah that could also be an A

this is also odd

[unborn pilot]

true

yeah i it is

i was making a note for myself

[balmy fog]

time for me to go to bed

good night hunters

[unborn pilot]

me too soon. good nite

[hard current]

goodnight homies

I'll be awake a while longer

[balmy fog]

we'll get it soon bois

Just a matter of time

[unborn pilot]

it'll be a walk in the park

[hard current]

is there a reason this is named this way

https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-f-1

https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-def
but the other image is still named as expected?

[jade citrus]

we never got anything from rob regarding those names

[hard current]

ah that stinks

[jade citrus]

still not sure if it's a typo or intended

[hard current]

strange it wouldn't just be abc

that's a major typo if so

[balmy fog]

We never found it

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

Pretty sure that's why

[hard current]

wait was it originally t1-g or you're theorie is that it should be treated as such

[coarse dagger]

No, it was always t1-f-1.
But the solution was replacing the Gs

I think f-1 -> G

Nevermind... that doesn't make any sense... 😅

[hard current]

no worries I was questioning it but content to figure it out myself hehe;)

either way... it seems purposeful to name it that way rather than abc to match def

I'm confused though... def are clearly egg related, abc as far as I can tell don't have any relation to gold...

[jade citrus]

check pins for gold connections in ABC

[coarse dagger]

In case anyone's interested in looking at the colors in tfee_tion.jpg one at a time...
Lets see if I'm allowed to upload a zip file:

Here's each color extracted to its own image with the rest transparent. All 107 colors. Great for looking at individual colors or specific colors together in Photoshop (or similar)

Don't worry, I wrote a script to do this

Just found this article on how to load an entire folder of photos into photoshop as individual layers:
https://www.photoshopessentials.com/basics/open-multiple-images-as-layers-in-photoshop/

[jade citrus]

do you guys pay for PS or do you have a "free" version

[coarse dagger]

I pay for the entire creative cloud (using a student email address I still have access to -- despite not being a student anymore -- in order to get a hefty discount).

[jade citrus]

hmmm...I'll have to check the pricing for my student account, I've just been using free software called Krita for everything (it's not great)

[hard current]

try gimp

[pliant owl]

I tried latin, also with replacing letters for numbers

[pliant owl]

Oh I misread, I tried gold egg in latin for the hell of it

Is nama tama just a name or does it mean anything in another language?

[hard current]

it's combination of two things

It's in the wiki

egg friend I think

[pliant owl]

Oh snap

[hard current]

nama is short for egg

tama I think for friend

[coarse dagger]

Like Tamagotchi!

[jade citrus]

could be a good path...
nama tama is a combination of 2 words
nama tama is an egg with a golden yolk

[hard current]

I tried jumping down there but couldn't think of anything a couple days ago 😦

[coarse dagger]

And both are 4 letters! Like ques and tion!

Seems so obvious! 🤦‍♂️

[hard current]

it was in front of us this whole time 😦

[coarse dagger]

I don't think we've had any clues which substitute any of those letters though...
Except Roman numeral M for 1000

[jade citrus]

the gold yolk thing is kind of a stretch tho i feel like

[quaint wing]

The URL is T3-F. The one before this for ABC was T1-F-1. What if this one is gold related?

[coarse dagger]

Could be, but T1-F was egg related sooooo ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[quaint wing]

You're absolutely right. I'm an idiot. lmao

Been trying random passwords throughout that could be "easy" to figure out. I even tried all of the OG ones just to see what would happen. No luck

[hard current]

rob said this would be a walk in the park, he didn't tell me it'd be in the middle of a hurricane in a wave pool park:(

[quaint wing]

In his defense...We're the reason it's a goddamn hurricane

[hard current]

oh I'm sure the boat is right in front of me I just have so much water in my eyes

[quaint wing]

Yeah. We do that.

[coarse dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/it-aint-that-deep-what-over-thinking-looks-like-cry-help-funny-gif-15932130

[quaint wing]

I have such a stupid idea.

Nevermind. I was too hopeful.

[hard current]

DAMN I was hopeful too 😦

I feel like all my ideas have been stupid

[quaint wing]

Rob said walk in the park, we have QUESTION

The main question I can think of is can you reach the finals?

However...in all of the branding it's CAN YOU REACH THE FINALS.?!

So I tried the extra punctuation and prayed

LULZ. I NEED YOU TO DO SOMETHING

Can you check the white picture using ONLY the finals colours?

And seeing what comes up with just the white, or just the black in each image.

If you don't mind ❤️

[coarse dagger]

There aren't any.
All the colors in tfee_tion.jpg have identical R, G, and B color channels.
Meaning in hex they're all:
#xyxyxy
In RGB they're all (X,X,X)

[quaint wing]

Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodamnit

[hard current]

I wonder how often robs check on this and laughs

"haha silly fellas made it too deep again!"

[coarse dagger]

Here's where I established that:
#easter-eggs message

[quaint wing]

I saw your list and script, I should've checked your colour values first

[hard current]

I've spent the last couple hours trying to decipher the footer from the old tier

but man is it impossible to tell what it says

no matter what I do

[quaint wing]

b0kb spent A LOT of time trying to figure that one out.

20+ hours easy. lol

Did you download the 4k version of that screenshot before messing with it?

[hard current]

oh wait there's a 4k version?!

[quaint wing]

Yuuuup, lmao. One sec.

[hard current]

I just grabbed this off discord lmao

[quaint wing]

DM'd it to you.

[coarse dagger]

As long as your image is 3840x2160 you should have the best version. If you ever try to get an image from discord, click open link, then delete everything after the file extension from the URL to ensure Discord's not trying to serve you a lower resolution image.

The file in #official-art is indeed 3840x2160, but Discord may or may not try to serve you a smaller version

[quaint wing]

In most cases you'll get the right one, but juuuuuuuuuuust in case

[hard current]

yeah looks like the one off discord was 3kb lower than the one via showed me

obviously that little of a change won't make a difference but thank you guys for the heads up 🙂

so.. the only true path we still have is.. egg and gold

[jagged ore]

Damn I looked back at the padlet after I didn't hunt over the weekend and it's still basically empty

[hard current]

hey I've been here all weekend, our brains have turned into shriveled raisins

some theories

[quaint wing]

Lmao. We're doing our best but just like last time...Rabbit holes.

[hard current]

but nothing anyone has all felt confident in, check the threads if you want!

[quaint wing]

No new discoveries, just guesses.

We've been trying a shitload of passwords though. So that's something.

I'm reading through the branding guide since it was updated just before Halloween.

[coarse dagger]

I'd say the best lead we have on a clue so far is:
Matchstick Men -> Pictures of Matchstick Men -> The Status Quo -> Church of the Holy Sepulchre AND/OR Byzantine-Hungarian War -> 1149 -> tfee_ques/tion.jpg width

I also found a lot of past connections to 1982, which happens to be a song by The Status Quo:
#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

good finds 🙂

[coarse dagger]

Matchstick men came from a comment from Rob:
#easter-eggs message

Let me add that to the Rob comms padlet row

[quaint wing]

We know the main question is CAN YOU REACH THE FINALS.?!

I'm gonna be so mad if that's the answer, it's just a matter of encoding

[hard current]

https://tenor.com/view/give-me-a-sign-samie-de-leon-bigyan-nyo-ako-ng-senyales-senyales-give-me-a-hint-gif-20757832

[coarse dagger]

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

Karl Marx viewed organized religion as a means for the bourgeoisie to keep the proletariat content with an unequal status quo
Karl Marx ... 2 four letter words again?

[hard current]

cat steppped on my keyboard, can confirm the password isn't an insane number of T's

[quaint wing]

I've tried a bunch of variations of canyoureachthefinals and nothing so far. I feel like that would be a walk in the park

[hard current]

lulz typing a short story

[coarse dagger]

C64 representations of question mark:

PETSCII code:
63₁₀
3F₁₆
Shift-/

Screen code:
63₁₀
3F₁₆

Reverse screen code:
191₁₀
BF₁₆

I guess the black and white images could be alluding to "reverse", connecting to the screen code and the reverse screen code

But I would think the images would be clearer inverses if that were the case?

[quaint wing]

Could try inverting colours on each, layer em, and see if that helps at all?

[coarse dagger]

Wouldn't reveal anything more than just viewing them however you layered them (i.e. opacity/blending modes)
... other than differences between human color perception and colorspace, although I think we've modified the image enough that human color perception isn't hiding anything.

[hard current]

yeah I think both question marks have been edited to hell and back

and as far as I can tell, nobody saw anything

just through photo editing and using things like stegonline and forensically

[quaint wing]

I feel like the white one at least has multiple colour layers to it.

Just overlapping each other to cause noise

[coarse dagger]

If you'd like to look at individual colors I've broken them out here:
#easter-eggs message

That's not going to help if there were multiple layers overlapped or blended to result in a final "composite" color, but could help tease out some meaning where colors didn't blend.

I took a quick look through all of them, and nothing really jumped out other than the "noise" grid.

I also tried looking at some layer combinations. Such as all color layers for a color code starting with A , all color layers for a color code containing A, all color layers for a color code starting with F, but again, nothing jumped out

I think this is probably overkill for this tier, but I'm doing this more to just have some new tools in the toolbelt going forward.

[hard current]

I think at this point anything and nothing is valuable until we get somewhere I appreciate all the hard work and I’m sure everyone else does too🙂

[pliant owl]

Has anyone tried "Egg friend" in latin or something?

It's a stretch but maybe worth a try

Also, did every tier have clues that had nothing to do with the tier's password?

iirc the C64 and Eta Cas clues didn't have anything to do with "gold egg" right?

Maybe we're supposed to combine all the unrelated clues from every other tier?

[quaint wing]

All of the clues were related to gold/egg. Last tier, every clue we ended up finding kept being some variation of g=6, which was all we needed to do to the gold/egg passwords.

The Roman numeral swap wasn't tried until the very end when it worked. Lol. Hopefully we get a little nudge in the right direction!

[unborn pilot]

Yeah there’s a lot of those.

There’s a number in a post where Rob mentioned a walk in the park I’ve been looking at. And those letters that were above the perdiodic table that said remember

[quaint wing]

#easter-eggs message - here's the OG walk in the park comment

[unborn pilot]

There’s one with the egg lamp and the number 086111064. Not sure if that’s connected

Or if it’s just to point to gold as well.

[coarse dagger]

We know what that is. A clue in T1A we never found. Don't focus on it

[balmy fog]

Let’s use our big brains today and solve this

Let’s actually use the small links we have

And maybe try to find something

[ember aurora]

Looking at the jagged edges I see numbers

[balmy fog]

I see a face 😢

lmao

[ember aurora]

I see at least 32 - 8 - 23 not sure if that means anything at all to anyone

[timid solstice]

?

[balmy fog]

What was mirrored in T1_F? @timid solstice

[balmy fog]

Vivi in Latin = Alive in english

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

Esperanto

@neon stream

[pure loom]

Vi is force in latin, so vi vivi is “I live by force”

[balmy fog]

correction, it is the present passive infinitive of vīvō wich means to live, to be alive, to reside in

me watching this

https://tenor.com/view/toddlers-and-tiaras-big-grin-excited-girl-giddy-smile-gif-25584914

[fallen jasper]

Hey all! We've set up a command to help guide new hunters get up to date with the TFEE 🙂
If someone new comes in you should now be able to use "-egghunt"

-egghunt

[wet leaf]

New to the hunt?

Check out #egg-hunt-onboarding
Catch up with this great summary: https://youtu.be/XaU6Fo2utBY
Follow the ongoing progress through Padlet: https://padlet.com/Kyne
Good hunting! 🥚

[fallen jasper]

:)

[balmy fog]

Oh gossssssssssssh

Thanks

but damn

I expected something else

😢

[fallen jasper]

Haha sorry to disappoint 🙏

[balmy fog]

Give us clue Zeke

[fallen jasper]

The EE hunt is just Rob's brainchild

[balmy fog]

just a small one

we won't tell rob

[balmy fog]

Yeahhhhhhhhhh I know I know

[fallen jasper]

Don't think rob is showing everyone in the office the giant web of clues he's got

Well he probably does knowing Rob, but still.

[fallen jasper]

Ain't got a clue homie 🙇

[timid solstice]

I dont actually remember one direct clue to mirror/flipped. But there were many "doubles/pairs/couples" clues

[balmy fog]

@proud minnow Since you love searching, I got something for you 897985QVJF_412050535943484f-.../..-/ЛОВЕ ЫОУ-//.--/.////

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/give-them-a-taste-of-their-own-medicine-saturday-night-live-lets-do-it-like-how-they-do-it-treat-them-like-how-they-treat-others-kenan-thompson-gif-21568045

[balmy fog]

You'll see, walk in the park Rob, walk in the park

''Mark is a common male given name and is related to the Latin word Mars. It means "consecrated to the god Mars", and also may mean "God of war"'

[neon stream]

@balmy fog this is the mirror clue that I remember

[balmy fog]

OH

This is weird

So I was looking thru the name Mark

Found this

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

[balmy fog]

lead me to the famous gospel he wrote

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

then led me to this;

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

[balmy fog]

Christianity related, it is a hypothetical written collection of primarily Jesus' sayings

[balmy fog]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark's_Basilica This is his dedicated Basilica

It all links with Christianity

If that's the path we want to take @coarse dagger

-egghunt

[wet leaf]

New to the hunt?

Check out #egg-hunt-onboarding
Catch up with this great summary: https://youtu.be/XaU6Fo2utBY
Follow the ongoing progress through Padlet: https://padlet.com/Kyne
Good hunting! 🥚

[balmy fog]

This is cool

Thank you @fallen jasper

[fallen jasper]

[quaint gulch]

Venice confirmed new map

[balmy fog]

No

[quaint gulch]

Yes

[balmy fog]

[plush harbor]

"ЛОВЕ-ЫОУ" sounds like "love you"

[naive mulch]

is there any clues as to where the map could be like idk based on the architecture of that photo

[balmy fog]

Please this is not #⚡┇the-finals-chat we keep things EE related here

Nothing else about the photo

[quaint gulch]

Why would I say something related to Easter eggs in the finals, be serious

[balmy fog]

Because this is the Easter-Egg channel where we dig up the whole Easter-Egg around The Finals

[quaint gulch]

Yes ?

[balmy fog]

We don't talk about ''Venice confirmed new map'' in here, that's all there is to it my guy

[quaint gulch]

That's directly related to St. Mark's basilica

[balmy fog]

It is not a confirmed clue

It's speculations

Plus it wouldn't lead to a map reveal

It would lead to christianity

anyways

[naive mulch]

what?

[quaint gulch]

The finals new Christian Denomination confirmed

[neon stream]

He'll be dead, but you'll be able to play, so no worries

don't spam the EE channel

[neon stream]

(Thanks for cleaning up the spam, but now I sound like an a-hole without the context 😂)

[quaint gulch]

@balmy fogok but explain how you got specifically to mark from all the marks

also why you went to the myth of the q source to the basilica instead of straight to the basilica

[neon stream]

I'm waiting for your joke about this 😂

[tulip matrix]

Too late. You are labeled a monster forever

[tulip matrix]

Bahahaha

Dang I've become predictable

Not enough ee-hunt in my life

[balmy fog]

Naaaaaaaaah I'm good my guy

If you want to join the hunt

-egghunt

[wet leaf]

New to the hunt?

Check out #egg-hunt-onboarding
Catch up with this great summary: https://youtu.be/XaU6Fo2utBY
Follow the ongoing progress through Padlet: https://padlet.com/Kyne
Good hunting! 🥚

[balmy fog]

Till then

https://tenor.com/view/bye-goodbye-pocahontas-dinsey-native-american-gif-11017148

[quaint gulch]

But you just speculated

[balmy fog]

Yup

[quaint gulch]

Hypocrisy very nice

[balmy fog]

@fallen jasper Is there something to do with this guy or

[fallen jasper]

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/gold-star-succession-gif-27712928

[jade citrus]

@balmy fog #discord-feedback message you got it letsgooooooo

[quaint wing]

Just here to give some encouragement. You guys will break something today, hopefully it's the password

I'll try more passwords when I can

[hasty anvil]

ive missed a few days recently, is the padlet up to date?

[balmy fog]

Yesssssssssir

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/i-will-my-very-best-bricky-i-will-try-my-best-i-will-make-a-supreme-effort-gif-20585948

[quaint wing]

Lots of theories, nothing confirmed yet

[balmy fog]

^^

Sad but true

[quaint wing]

Everyone had something they believe, but Saint Rob hasn't given us the eyes

[balmy fog]

Yep

Wich once again, probably tells us we have everything we need to find it, just like last time

[quaint wing]

I really do believe it's some variation of "can you reach the finals.?!"

[balmy fog]

wich makes it even harder because sometimes obvious is extremely hard

[quaint wing]

Obvious is very hard because we all over think it. Lol

[pliant owl]

I tried egghunt but that wasn't it 😂

Worth a shot

[hasty anvil]

Maybe we started theories too early. The first thing we figured out last tier was abc+def= gold egg

So this tier could be gold+egg= tier 3 or level 3

Tier 3 has to lead on from past tiers

[timid pebble]

I also think the answer might be one of the many golden eggs we found while on the hunt.
Some of them include:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabergé_egg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRAS_17163−3907
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_that_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs
Namatama
etc.

I doubt the culmination of all tiers will only result in us typing Golden Egg once again. I feel like we need to find something else.

To me what's unclear is not really what can we answer, but much more, with which syntax/language/type of rules should we type it?

[hasty anvil]

unless its using all the rules we have

roman numerials, g6 e3 o0

its like what is the overall answer to T2

[balmy fog]

Wich would make sense since we're at the last level

[balmy fog]

That's what I also think, a gold question mark and a white question mark = gold egg

maybe its not about the question but more of the combination of these 2

[hasty anvil]

its supposed to be an easy tier lol

and we're not given enough clues to start new theories

[balmy fog]

I think the same

Altough I love going down rabbit holes, im pretty aware that the password is probably simpler than viold evivi

[pure loom]

“A walk in the park” - maybe it’s a big overgrown park

[hasty anvil]

save the rabbit holes for tier 3 haha we need them

[balmy fog]

very easy

[timid pebble]

I'm so dumb i even tried ScrambledEggs 😆
Looks golden to me.

[balmy fog]

Foldegg

lol

[pure loom]

Yeah, I’ve been trying to think of ways we can use the two images together

Not really getting anywhere though

It’s early here, have there been any good theories overnight?

[balmy fog]

I haven't fully read it but I don't think so

Maybe some far-fetched holes

But nothing official

[hasty anvil]

What’s the bridge between T2 and T3

[pure loom]

Still GOLD and EGG

Roman numerals

[balmy fog]

ABC were all numbers

[hasty anvil]

the last 2 passwords was a combination of the word and number

[balmy fog]

while DEF was all Latin

Just a repost from the pins

T1A = 1064 : 1064 is the melting point of Gold
T1B = lxxix : 79 is the atomic No. of Gold
T1C = 5f137s2 : 137(.5) is the Golden angle

T1D = 0vif0rm : Oviform is egg-shaped in Latin
T1E = cacoiii : CaCO3 is egg-shell → CaCO3 was found by Gaius Plinius Secundus, Ancient Rome (latin)
T1F = vit3llum : Vitellum is egg-yolk in Latin

[balmy fog]

All numbers

[balmy fog]

All Latin

The only thing that connects them both (other than gold-egg), is roman numerals

wich was used for the passwords

viold evivi

[hasty anvil]

i still cant believe how easy viold and evivi was lol

and this level is supposed to be easier

[balmy fog]

Vivi is latin for ''to live, to be alive''

[hasty anvil]

thats interesting

kind of like an egg hatching

[balmy fog]

Maybe use this

viold evivi

Oh it might just be viold evivi but re-spelled

since vivi is Latin

[hasty anvil]

@balmy fog green name haha

[balmy fog]

Something like this

[hasty anvil]

yeah i can see it

im still confused why t2abc url was t1-f-1

tier 3 url is t3-f

with header as 'secure'

[quaint wing]

Secure the finals

[sharp flame]

3F is hex for "?"

t1-f-1 was probably somehow pointing at G - 6

not sure how but we know where it was supposed to go now

[jade citrus]

every tier has that header before it is solved

[hasty anvil]

ahh i never noticed

[jade citrus]

this password is just going to be GOLD + EGG somehow

no other rabbit holes to explore

i was thinking 'gold egg' might be a metaphor for the Cashbox

[balmy fog]

aurum ovico

[river flame]

take it to the cashout?

[balmy fog]

can someone try aurumovico

I cant open the website at my work

[jade citrus]

nothin

[balmy fog]

aurumogco

[jade citrus]

nothin

[balmy fog]

thats latin for goldegg

[pliant owl]

I should've paid more attention to Latin classes back in high school 🤔

[balmy fog]

aurum ovum

[pliant owl]

I tried ovumaurum as well

[balmy fog]

79rumovum

maybe

[river flame]

[balmy fog]

So we've tried Goldegg in;

Leet

We've tried roman numerals?

[quaint wing]

Pretty sure we've tried a good portion of the goldegg variations we could come up with

Everything we tried before + a few extras sprinkled in there.

[balmy fog]

goldegg in C64 screen codes?

[quaint wing]

Yeah, first set of passwords by Lulz was a lot of goldegg stuff, swapping out everything too.

Don't know about the C64 codes. Doesn't look like it

[balmy fog]

https://sta.c64.org/cbm64scr.html

71797668697171 if somebody can try this

ASCII codes

[hasty anvil]

tried it

[balmy fog]

me out of idea

also damn im green

[river flame]

weird

[quaint wing]

It's a thanks for all the pixel watching

[hasty anvil]

the padlet looks so empty

[balmy fog]

Right!?! Rob hasn't eyed anything in like a whole week

I miss that feeling

Rob could you please eye this if you still read us

[turbid tinsel]

the question is now, is a cumulation of previous password in a way.

[hasty anvil]

we had 83 clues in 1 padlet now we have 0 haha

[balmy fog]

It's been radio silence from Rob

So either we're missing the big picture, or, we have everything and just need to assemble it

guldägg

[timid pebble]

CONNECT THE DOTS

[balmy fog]

OUI BRU OUIOUI

[river flame]

quantus

[balmy fog]

a lot

https://tenor.com/view/thinking-mysterion-the-sentimentalists-canadas-got-talent-brainstorming-gif-25318758

[pure loom]

He might be busy too

Preparing for…

The Embark Christmas Party

[balmy fog]

https://tenor.com/view/pog-u-gif-19132797

[sharp flame]

we need to soooooolve

[jade citrus]

thanks fish

[turbid tinsel]

im pretty sure the game is releasing really soon which i would imagine why hes been pretty silent. my guess on dec 7th

[jade citrus]

yeah he probably has a lot of dev stuff to do after the beta ended

[balmy fog]

I think December 7th they will announce the release date at the event

[turbid tinsel]

my theory is they are going to either release it or announce release date at the VGA's

[balmy fog]

Wich will probably be like 1 week after

[turbid tinsel]

since they were still on track to release it this year

[balmy fog]

you are the legend

[turbid tinsel]

What if the double question mark was supposed to be less of a question but more towards anticipation or excitement. Which is normally portrayed with 2 (?'s)

[sharp flame]

thanks ig 🤣

[sharp flame]

We have 2.5 weeks let's do thiiiiiis

Gold + Egg

[balmy fog]

Me trying to boost your confidence u know

[sharp flame]

UNLESS it isn't

[balmy fog]

As a fellow teammate

[sharp flame]

what if the answer is neither gold nor egg

[balmy fog]

be the carry we'll heal u

[sharp flame]

but actually a culmination of EVERYTHING

[balmy fog]

then we not solving this shit in 2 weeks

[turbid tinsel]

bet

lol

what do eggs and gold have in common

[balmy fog]

actually

[turbid tinsel]

other than it being a color and an egg

[balmy fog]

nothing

[sharp flame]

well if we reconsolidate, take into account ALL the answers, maybe a NEW theme will pop up

right?

[turbid tinsel]

thats my new hole

[balmy fog]

right but it could be a big ass rabbit hole

[sharp flame]

not exactly

it wasn't too hard to get to Gold, or Egg

[balmy fog]

I mean it would be straight forward

[sharp flame]

what if it's VEGA

bro, I've been holding onto that connection for a while

Vega has connections to multiple of the answers

[balmy fog]

Vegata

[hasty anvil]

also, he said we'd laugh at gold watch, but nothings come of that yet

[balmy fog]

Nah we were gonna laugh at ''Or something''

Altough we already knew it was Gold Egg

[balmy fog]

Could you do a quick re-post

Just so we're on the same page

I think I missed the Vega parts, I wasn't here between June and October

[sharp flame]

I will just go over it again

[balmy fog]

We listening chief

You are talking about the star, right?

[sharp flame]

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

[nimble iron]

vegas?

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

jkjk

[balmy fog]

I might be dumb, but I dont see any connections, I might not be the brightest (do you get it?)

[sharp flame]

I will begin to explain just give me a sec

• Vega was the northern pole star around 12,000 BCE and will be so again around the year 13,727

• In 1879, William Huggins used photographs of the spectra of Vega and similar stars to identify a set of twelve "very strong lines" that were common to this stellar category. Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as one of the stable anchor points by which other stars are classified.

• Vega became the first star (other than the Sun) to be photographed, Henry Draper took a photograph of Vega's spectrum

[balmy fog]

Vega also shaped like an egg

[hasty anvil]

the black background of gold ? could represent space

[sharp flame]

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

• Polaris discovered in 1779 by Herschel

• Polaris is 137 light years away

[balmy fog]

The two smaller companions are Polaris B, a 1.39 M☉ **F3 (3F) **main-sequence star orbiting at a distance of 2,400 astronomical units (AU),[17] and Polaris Ab (or P), a very close F6 main-sequence star with a mass of 1.26 M☉

[sharp flame]

Vega became the first solitary main-sequence star beyond the Sun known to be an X-ray emitter when in 1979 it was observed from an imaging X-ray telescope

[river flame]

? i don't see it

[jade citrus]

so that could be our 3F and F=6

[balmy fog]

Yeah, just might be a coincidence tho

[sharp flame]

don't think F=6 was actually a clue more than me being close to G=6

ik I was the one to get it "confirmed" but I'm disowning it 😭

[balmy fog]

Yeah nothing lead us to F=6, because if F=6 is right viold evivi wouldn't have work

foldeff

[sharp flame]

okay onto Halley's Comet

[balmy fog]

There's more 😮?

[sharp flame]

Halley's Comet has a period of 79 years, Oval orbit, appeared in 325, link to 2061 (Rob's old clue)

Halley's Comet is confirmed

• **__Vega __**was the name of the mission to Halley's Comet

[balmy fog]

Ok so

They all link to gold

Gold 79 or golden angle

[sharp flame]

now onto Vega again

Zorro is also confirmed, came up before

Zorro's real name was Don Diego de la Vega

[river flame]

so what's the word

[sharp flame]

Zorro also links to batman (confirmed) but that's for another time

[balmy fog]

So we have bunch of gold clues

and Don Diego de la Vega