easter-eggs

[timid solstice]

sorry its on the cuff

[coarse dagger]

Huh, that looks like it's straight from Rob.... isn't it?

Lol, I'll take another look

[timid solstice]

ok well we could start with images from tiers you think are complete

[timid solstice]

yup straight from rob, none of us could extract it

I tried here
#easter-eggs message

[timid solstice]

I'll try pitch in with b0kb after work

[coarse dagger]

Honestly basically everything up until this point I've been able to extract with a "Levels" adjustment...
Difficulty certainly started to ramp in Wallpaper_Into_The_Mystic. I feel like I need to learn better techniques...

[coarse dagger]

Alright... here's what I've got so far... huge work in progress warning... I really wasn't planning on sharing this until it was much more polished:
https://thelulzy.github.io/TF-EE-quartz-obsidian-vault/

This still has my personal notes starting in T1E.... I haven't done any proper hindsight documentation from there on yet, and I'm planning to either move my research notes into a different vault or figure out some other way to keep them from clogging up the facts, but I haven't gotten to that yet.

Early on I was citing where people had made the discoveries, but right now I'm more or less just cranking through the images and throwing them into it.

[coarse dagger]

Here's the source for anyone curious:
#easter-eggs message

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, idk about this one. Unless there's some crazy intricate techniques we're not aware of I'm thinking this might be one of those cases where we need to apply some unknown algorithm.

It just seems like it's all noise there

[coarse dagger]

I keep wondering if there's some unique kernel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_(image_processing)) which will help us, but honestly most of the useful kernels are already implemented in photoshop (filters).
Like, did Rob hide a kernel for us to use somewhere?

[timid solstice]

awesome will dive in later tonight!

[fallen jasper]

yo

anynew estereggs?

[upbeat ridge]

I think we’re looking for a date in roman numerals, time keeps coming up everywhere we look, also “FIND PSW xxxx-xx-xx”

Ruby <- july some of the other stuff you guys pointed out up there also point towards july

The romance theme / latin theme would point towards roman numerals

Now, why july? And how does space come into it (ad astra) I’m not sure

[snow walrus]

Sun:
As per astrology Gemstone ruby is associated with Sun and this planet is famous for enhancing vitality, strength, and leadership.

[elder osprey]

did we figure out where rob's ad astra image came from?

[snow walrus]

because july is ruby gemstone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthstone

[tired glade]

July was when the Apollo 11 mission flew, which was the first moon landing.

[formal moon]

Maybe moon an sun are related in some type of sun or moon eclipse

[snow walrus]

space group R3c is not only for ruby by the way, R3c is Corundum, crystalline form of aluminium oxide (Al2O3). Ruby is Al2O3:Cr

[formal moon]

Corundum is ruby cr is just a mineral contaminated that ruby sometime have

[balmy fog]

Let me know

Just send me the images + the clues

And I’ll put them into the image just like Swa did

[snow walrus]

we see triangle here and rob says ad astra
#easter-eggs message

this is the triangle
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/summer-triangle-2009-1184x630.jpg

vega - deneb - altair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Triangle

[spark hornet]

tomorrow more high lights yay

[snow walrus]

Solved Passwords:
1064
lxxix (79-Au-Gold)
5f137s2 (mendelevium orbital)
0vif0rm (egg-shaped)
cacoiii (CaCO3 - egg shell)
vit3llus
viold (gold)
evivi (egg)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASP-12b
hot-jupiter egg shaped planet

Hot **Jupiters **(sometimes called hot Saturns) are a class of gas giant exoplanets that are inferred to be physically similar to Jupiter but that have very short orbital periods (P < 10 days).[1] The close proximity to their stars and high surface-atmosphere temperatures resulted in their informal name "hot Jupiters"

[upbeat ridge]

Random thought

We’ve been looking in the past

Perhaps we need to look at the future?

A promise can indicate something in the future will happen or whatever

But its gotta be something in the future set in stone, not an event that can move like a meeting or something dum. lunar events can’t move they happen when they happen yano?

[brazen drift]

There was an earlier connection to eclipses, those have set dates right

[upbeat ridge]

Yes

Notable events?

These are all july

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

[brazen drift]

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

[elder osprey]

Betelgeuse is in the winter triangle and it's color was described in latin as "rubedo"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse

[formal moon]

Julián calendar

Julián is variant son of the family Julio in Spanish that translation could be July ?

[full token]

A date with Roman numerals?

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

[formal moon]

Idk for some reason this smells like pluto

With the ruby iron oxide

But I don't have anything to based this so.. yeah

[hasty anvil]

even tier clues are latin: primary, secondary, tertiary

[unborn pilot]

I was trying some dates of eclipses but no luck (yet). Might be something weird like that February 30th, or maybe even just New Year’s Day like “2069/01/01”. I’m sure there’s something pointing to the type of date it is.

[formal moon]

Another thing about roman number is that the 2 ways to read them

Don't remember the name but I know the rules

[hard current]

ordinal and cardinal?

[formal moon]

Yes

Like one can only have max of three of the same letter

And the other that just keep adding

Wonder of the date could be a type of initials

[pure loom]

This clue was from tier 1F, Rob confirmed it was Delta Omega Zeta Epsilon, but we never worked out its meaning. I now wonder if it meant "Change (Delta) E to 3" (for "vit3llus"). The only part of this that wouldn't make sense is the zeta because it doesn't mean "to" or "and" or "for".

[rigid magnet]

Sometimes when naming Zeta means born last, so what if it means last?

[pure loom]

maybe, but then what would the clue mean?

[turbid tinsel]

on the ring finger the 3 appears up upside down, so if you rotate it wouldnt it be "a 3"

[rigid magnet]

Im not sure, maybe we need to look at a different angle on the hands which could lead to a different sequence?

"Zeta—a mnemonic of the founders names, a symbol of the link between the creation and eternity. Omega—the last letter of the Greek alphabet, was taken to represent the end of time"

[pure loom]

If the Zeta wasn't there at all it would have been a perfect clue for change E to 3

no matter which one we decided was 3 or E

I'm actually struggling to understand how we got epsilon from III

[unborn pilot]

Didn’t he say that was the 3 stars in Orion’s Belt?

[unborn pilot]

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message and the 3 iii would be just the Roman numeral then and possibly to 3 stars

[pure loom]

except Rob confirmed it as Delta Omega Zeta Epsilon

[unborn pilot]

interesting. so double meaning? where did he confirm that.

btw. think my brother found something new

Guldenmann (Golden Man)

[pure loom]

here: #easter-eggs message

[unborn pilot]

on the Into_The_Mystic.jpg (bottom right hand side, turned sideways)

[hard current]

shit nice find

[hard current]

tie into kepler

Katharina Kepler (née: Guldenmann; 1546 – 13 April 1622) was a woman from Stuttgart, Württemberg, who was the mother of the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler. She was accused of witchcraft in 1615, but was defended by her son and released

[pure loom]

Great!

[snow walrus]

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

mother of kepler

[hard current]

so that can likely be marked complete then..? was this in tier 1C?

[unborn pilot]

T1D

[snow walrus]

everything points to space /ad astra

[pure loom]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler's_Supernova

SN 1604 - interesting it has the same numbers as password 1064

[unborn pilot]

at age nine, he observed another astronomical event, a lunar eclipse, recording that he remembered being "called outdoors" to see it and that the Moon "appeared quite red".

[pure loom]

"He [Kepler] then set about calculating the entire orbit of Mars, using the geometrical rate law and assuming an egg-shaped ovoid orbit. After approximately 40 failed attempts, in late 1604 he at last hit upon the idea of an ellipse,[67] which he had previously assumed to be too simple a solution for earlier astronomers to have overlooked.[68] "

[snow walrus]

egg shaped orbit is failed 😭

[timid solstice]

I wish they saw that when the image was released! Rob showed us after

[sharp flame]

Don't think we found it until Rob pointed it out

[sharp flame]

#easter-eggs message here!

Rob stole our thunder..

[unborn pilot]

omg

[timid solstice]

That’s what I was trying to say but my kid is stealing my crisps as I type

[unborn pilot]

haha

well darn me. i looked, but only you mentione Guldenmann once before.

[sharp flame]

Very nice find though!

I really hope we get more image clues cause we have these super analytical minds that have joined since last time

And y'all are great at finding clues

[unborn pilot]

Yeah, he actually found it on his own lol. But we got excited simply because it had "golden" in it. I wonder if it's mad important, or might be worth straching off.

[sharp flame]

I mean Kepler being in the hunt might itself be a Golden connection

[timid solstice]

The explanation was posted by rob for that tier under the image

[sharp flame]

seeing as his mom does have "golden" in surname

[sharp flame]

Yhyh but I'm just reverse engineering

like what if Rob just started with Gold/Egg and connected everything from that

[unborn pilot]

yeah mom and mars orbital mission. those things do lead to "oval" and orbit a lot that tier.

[sharp flame]

Gold -> Guldenmann
Egg -> elliptical
Therefore Rob added Kepler

[pure loom]

ha, also this on the Kepler Wikipedia page: "Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg."

[sharp flame]

Yep! Thought that was a crazy coincidence at the time..

[timid solstice]

#easter-eggs message

[sharp flame]

Especially that palace he designed based on the time periods, hours, days months

[pure loom]

yeah, I recall that coming up

[hard current]

yo I know this looks like the ramblings of a schizo but do you guys think this could hold any weight? It’s the only two connections I could identify in every single tier

#easter-eggs message

haven’t had time to actually analyze any of it since I’m at work

[sharp flame]

Latin is a recurrent theme

There are a few recurrent themes

[hard current]

and actually those numbers are wrong, should be two 0’s for 0vif0rm

[sharp flame]

we should consolidate what ARE recurrent themes and what aren't

[timid solstice]

https://asymptotia.com/2011/03/29/keplers-eggs/

[hard current]

rn only connection I made between every single tier was the latin and numbers, then 4 tiers of gold, 4 tiers of egg

[sharp flame]

Gold is a good one, Eggs are another, Asteroids/Orbits are another, Latin is one, Atomic Chem/Physics is one, Light is one

[pure loom]

odds on the entire puzzle pointing to ARC's home planet shorten (slightly)

[snow walrus]

calabretta?

[pure loom]

I think at this stage we assume Calabretta is on Earth, given that it's an Italian location

[snow walrus]

so which planet u meant here i dont get it

[timid solstice]

The ARCs planet

[pure loom]

So, I've suspected that the entire EE puzzle may link THE FINALS and ARC Raiders - and maybe we find out which planet ARC came from as part of that. All wild theory at this stage though.

[snow walrus]

we can't find any clues from ARC's images can we :d

[pure loom]

just stumbled on this: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maja-Petrovic-2/publication/273139544_Constructing_the_Egg_Curves_using_the_Golden_Ratio_of_Pentagon/links/54f9ad770cf25371374feb65/Constructing-the-Egg-Curves-using-the-Golden-Ratio-of-Pentagon.pdf

I don't know if this has been posted before during the oviform tier

[snow walrus]

how this helps

[sharp flame]

Almost forgot ARC are "aliens"

[pure loom]

it combines egg and golden ratio

[pure loom]

well, we assume they are. "ARC Raiders is an upcoming free-to-play, third-person, PvPvE extraction shooter, set in a lethal future earth, ravaged by a mysterious mechanized threat known as ARC."

ARC by Tesla

[elder osprey]

One of the euclidean eggs on that document is a golden egg.

[snow walrus]

♆ is this symbol found anywhere?

[snow walrus]

prim:24 sec:24 tert:30 quat:25 golden:8
sum of clues =111

repeated numbers everywhere

[haughty vector]

might be grasping at straws but has anyone tried to analyze frame by frame or apply filters to the actual background video on the site https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2 ?

robs most recent post about ruby got me curious about this #easter-eggs message

I tried digging through the HTML code of the site to see if I could get the mp4 or video file to analyze frame by frame but couldn't find the asset

[snow walrus]

#easter-eggs message
it is encrypted

[haughty vector]

bummer yeah i was trying to get the raw asset file by looking through the network trace or the html code but couldn't get it

[fallen jasper]

Oh I think I have the background saved

[haughty vector]

🕵️

[snow walrus]

we can give it a try if you send

but how did u get it lol

[fallen jasper]

Downloaded it when the tier went live a year ago

[snow walrus]

720p but at least a thing

[fallen jasper]

I doubt there's anything in it considering you can't download it anymore

[snow walrus]

i believe we can but its a bit hard as long as someone isnt a web dev

good luck with 170 imgs 😄

[unborn pilot]

figured i'd draw it out rather than explain

[hard current]

you’re not allowed to be this smart

[snow walrus]

but how did u figure "triangulum"

[unborn pilot]

honestly the only "right triangle constellation"

on google

[hard current]

It’s also a pythagorean triple hehe 12 13 5

or 5 12 13 more commonly

[unborn pilot]

yeah

the thought process was to use (to the stars) and find a constellation that looked like that

and somehow i ended up finding that NQ which i've been looking forever

[hard current]

I found something in the past tiers that also lead to 5 12 13 but I didn’t send a message about it and now I’m regretting that

[unborn pilot]

post it.

but also this -> #easter-eggs message

[hard current]

AH yes that’s what it was

that code that looks similar to a date

[unborn pilot]

maybe that code is related to triangle and XXXX-XX-XX isn't a date but 3 coordinates?

[snow walrus]

so NQ is Celestial Quadrant Number

[unborn pilot]

right, but specifically North like you said

NQ I, II, III, and IV

SQ I, II, III and IV

[hard current]

rob did hint once that “one of the clues is moving north now” or something similar in connection to the sky

[hard current]

III seems to be the more important one if we go by past numbers in tier passwords…

[snow walrus]

`Delineation
Quadrants are described using ordinals—for example, "1st galactic quadrant",[1] "second galactic quadrant",[2] or "third quadrant of the Galaxy".[3] Viewing from the north galactic pole with 0 degrees (°) as the ray that runs starting from the Sun and through the galactic center, the quadrants are as follows (where l is galactic longitude):

1st galactic quadrant – 0° ≤ l ≤ 90°[4]
2nd galactic quadrant – 90° ≤ l ≤ 180°[2]
3rd galactic quadrant – 180° ≤ l ≤ 270°[3]
4th galactic quadrant – 270° ≤ l ≤ 360°[1]`

[rigid magnet]

North Star?

[hard current]

thought about that but my guess is it’s tied to what cade described because of the north quadrant

[snow walrus]

NQ10= NQ2
NQ100=NQ4 as you notice

[rigid magnet]

Oh I see like the northern hemisphere?

[hard current]

yee

well

i’d have to see a map of how the stars are laid in galactic quadrants

[unborn pilot]

Andromeda (NQ1)
Aries (NQ1)
Cassiopeia (NQ1)
Orion (NQ1)
Perseus (NQ1)
Pisces (NQ1)
Taurus (NQ1)
Triangulum (NQ1)

https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-map/northern-constellations/

[unborn pilot]

yeah good eye. that's all i could think of as we can't go above 4.

[haughty vector]

on the wiki for triangulum

Visible at latitudes between +90° and −60°.
Best visible at 21:00 (9 p.m.) during the month of December.

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

[rigid magnet]

Should we look at the original greek constellations since we were getting greek letters earlier?

[snow walrus]

(+90,-60=300) == (NQ2,NQ4)

ahh wait

longtitude is different

Summer Triangle is NQ4
https://www.glyphweb.com/esky/constellations/summertriangle.html

Triangulum brightest 3 stars' names: alpha, gama, beta
Summer Triangle brightest 3 stars' names: altair, deneb, vega

[hard current]

vega -_-

[snow walrus]

which one is the one we should look 🤔

there is Winter Triangle also but that's 'Great Southern Triangle'

[hard current]

wait if the clues we're looking at are correct then it wouldn't be about this constellation specifically, it would be "what else is there in the same nq?"

i.e. treat this like a tertiary or secondary clue

[haughty vector]

this is wiki for beta trianguli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Trianguli

[hard current]

that works with the nq on the whiteboard

Triangulum belongs to the Perseus family of constellations, along with Andromeda, Auriga, Cassiopeia, Cepheus, Cetus, Lacerta, Pegasus and Perseus.

[snow walrus]

but which NQ

[hard current]

probably the same one this one is located in

nq1

August 1764
It is best observed in October. Although others may have viewed the galaxy earlier, Charles Messier was the first to catalog M33 after observing it in August 1764
M33
located inside the triangulum

well it's near triangulum, in the same quadrant

[snow walrus]

list of triangles
https://www.glyphweb.com/esky/search.html?search=triangle

[hard current]

hmm.. rob sent this message on july 28

#easter-eggs message

triangulum is best viewed in november

[snow walrus]

so we should find the one that is best viewed on summer

[hard current]

maybe

[snow walrus]

silly me lol, NQ literally selected on the image so its NQ1 definitely

[unborn pilot]

this is also next to that NQ one. now the trinagles make more sense

what if P1 & P3 are planet 1 & 3?

[haughty vector]

this might be grasping at straws but

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

70.8 × 41.7 moa is listed for the size of this galaxy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minute_and_second_of_arc rob mentioned days/date but i don't think he mentioned minutes or seconds

but this part of the whiteboard image https://imgur.com/a/yxB1O6z looks similar to the picture of minute and second arc linked above

[snow walrus]

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

18.74 kiloparsecs
1874?

[haughty vector]

below that sorry it says "apparent size"

and has moa listed there

[unborn pilot]

i can see a relation

[snow walrus]

3triangles that intersects at points, we should find intersection points

[haughty vector]

yeah no ide what the relevance is but it caught my eye

maybe we have to use this formula to find a time/date of a star but not sure

[sharp flame]

either that or it's teasing the first image of the next tier haha

[unborn pilot]

true. do you have any feelings on this NQ connection with the ruby image?

[sharp flame]

i will cry

[haughty vector]

I was also ctrl-f searching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulum_Galaxy for "red" or "ruby" and found this:

Using the Cepheid variable method, an estimate of 2,770×103 ± 130×103 ly (849 ± 40 kpc) was achieved in 2004.[27][28] In the same year, the tip of the red-giant branch (TRGB) method was used to derive a distance estimate of 2,590×103 ± 80×103 ly (794 ± 25 kpc).[29] The Triangulum Galaxy is around 750,000 light years from the Andromeda Galaxy.[30]

TRGB led me to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tip_of_the_red-giant_branch but i dont know if we've seen this type of graph or pattern before. But was trying to see if any of the graphs on the white board looked like this pattern

[faint rivet]

Maybe can relate to the 3 pyramids of Giza. Upside down. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[snow walrus]

no no that's false one. We are looking for NQ1. That wasnt for NQ1

[hard current]

but... it was the summer time that rob gave that hint about the stars...

#easter-eggs message

I geguinely think it might be vega lmfao

there's no way we just came across it and it was a coincidence.. right

[snow walrus]

others are visible too at summer

[hard current]

other triangulums?

[snow walrus]

yes

[hard current]

.... egg shape.. it's an oblate spheroid...

[unborn pilot]

not sure. kinda looking more at those triangles the base gets longer on one side while the other stays rather close.

[unborn pilot]

add some eyes and a mouth and Vega could be a namatama

[hard current]

you hear that @sharp flame

[hard current]

aye yo hold up

[hard current]

what are those from fish

[unborn pilot]

also note how the first triangle has a full line in the middle, but the 2 below it are broken up dots for a line. i just noticed that

[haughty vector]

🕵️

[coarse dagger]

Yes. Here; #official-art message

[unborn pilot]

kitt peak is Kitt Peak National Observatory?

[snow walrus]

it's Neptune

[sharp flame]

Yep! we made sense of that one back when the OG image was posted, was related to Aethusa --> 1064

[jade citrus]

oooooo

[sharp flame]

yep

[snow walrus]

what is this list

[sharp flame]

wouldn't put much thought into it

there is an asteroid for every combination of 2 letters and 2 digits

(or 3 digits)

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets:_299001–300000

here is an interesting NQ btw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NQ_Vulpeculae

Vulpeculae = "little fox"

same root word as Volpe comes from

[sharp flame]

this chart here seems like a crude drawing of one that already exists

I'm sure it's some sort of chart, galactic or otherwise

[snow walrus]

wait a minut

[snow walrus]

look the lines

one is constant line and 2 are dot dot dot

look Hamal- - - - M33 - - - Mirach

after Mirach line is constant

[unborn pilot]

why are some dots?

[snow walrus]

as on the board

[unborn pilot]

right, i mean, what makes those different? the solid lines are constellations

[hardy surge]

what about the Leo constellation

it has that same cone

[snow walrus]

M33 is the triangulum galaxy itself

[hardy surge]

ahhhh true true

[unborn pilot]

hold on

i love how here Pleidas is a ?

There are 6 naked eye visible stars arranged in a tiny question mark

https://stargazehawaii.com/seven-sisters-pleiades/ random as hell.

[snow walrus]

because pleiades is not a constellation but asterism

[turbid tinsel]

curious if there is more to cass ETA

[snow walrus]

yes it looks like question mark

Seven Sisters,[1] M45,[1] Cr 42,[1] Mel 22[1]

[unborn pilot]

i hope that's a live confirmation

[snow walrus]

Cr

42

??

there are so many"pleiades" in the channel

[coarse dagger]

Yeah, we were looking for other connections once Rob eye'd the connection to the Pleiades supercomputer (#easter-eggs message) and mentioned one of them becoming mortal (#easter-eggs message)

[snow walrus]

it is literally the question mark

[unborn pilot]

yeah i remember that too (that one also had 3 numbers given like the ruby)

Merope, youngest of the Pleiades.[19] In other mythic contexts, she married Sisyphus[20] and, becoming mortal, faded away. Merope bore Sisyphus several sons including Glaucus.[21]

[snow walrus]

Nebra sky disc

[jagged ore]

damn I finally see some good progress being done

I haven't been able to look at a lot of stuff the last week

[snow walrus]

those circled 7 dots are Pleiades

[jagged ore]

Also since we are back to the space stuff. The pleiades kinda look like a white/blue question mark. And that other ? thing that was found by the JWST looks kind of orange/golden
https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-question-mark-galaxy-photo

[snow walrus]

enable eclictip and galactic plane
https://in-the-sky.org/skymap.php?no_cookie=1&latitude=59.33&longitude=18.06&timezone=2.00&year=2023&month=8&day=29&hour=23&min=40&PLlimitmag=0&zoom=200&ra=3.79167&dec=24.10496

[jagged ore]

Eta Cassiopeiae (here Achird) also looks like it's about the same distance from the Triangulum as the pleiades are

[snow walrus]

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

[faint rivet]

Have we got any 👀 from Rob lately??

[hard current]

he hasn't given any and won't

not for this tier

[faint rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/disappointed-disappointed-fan-seriously-what-are-you-doing-judging-you-gif-17485289

[hard current]

[faint rivet]

lol

[snow walrus]

this is my speculation. The answer must be one of seven sisters imo

[turbid tinsel]

you got the original that i can re-download

[snow walrus]

#easter-eggs message

[unborn pilot]

I love this thinking

Last one makes perfect sense

[snow walrus]

alcyone threw herself into the sea and got drowned.
celaeno struck by lightning

i will search taygete tomorrow

[unborn pilot]

going through T1 E and adding all the clues

we get this exact thing once in T1 E & then again at the end of T1 F

has to be meaningful to appear twice

i was also thinking the "dot code" is like a clock starting at the top so possibly 042216142

though i suppose it could be read in any directions clockwise, starting up top where it's empty drew me to it

also that "swoosh" behind him is intersting.

[pure loom]

the frames all look pretty normal except this one which has an odd shape on the righthand side.

[unborn pilot]

looks like a spiral. not sure if 2 icicles + 1 spiral mean something together.

[lament pawn]

whered the names come from?

[unborn pilot]

oh and on this note - this number does have 4 & 2 repeating twice (like the bullets 4242 & rob's 2442 message).

i know y'all talked about most this before...but there might be something to piece these things together as they area appearing multiple times across multiple tiers.

[hard current]

9:30:15

[hard current]

father, when may I have access to the spreadsheets

[unborn pilot]

@pure loom not sure if you have a 1080p version, but this one's from the site

[unborn pilot]

you wanna edit or something else/

[pure loom]

It could also be 3:30:45 or 3:30:15 or 3:00:15 or 3:00:45 or 9:00:15 or 9:00:45 or 9:30:45

[hard current]

view:)

if I see anything new or that needs to be edited I’ll let you know

[unborn pilot]

that link is public no?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tfveK-QScK3a7dr9LxGxIuFiw89nhoUxJvbfwCkMgXU/edit?usp=sharing

[hard current]

I don’t think I ever saw the link hehe thank you

[unborn pilot]

try it. and i just noticed @sharp flame requested to edit it, so i gave him that permission

[pure loom]

Astronomer born September 30, 1945 (9:30:45): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edwin_Hills

Not much to go on in his Wikipedia entry though

[pure loom]

I think so, I used the one Kyne posted

[haughty vector]

coordinates of Triangulum galaxy https://imgur.com/a/OBNOm0T

RA 1h 33m 50s | Dec +30° 39′ 37″

[unborn pilot]

R3c = Ruby crystal structure (space group)
0.018 = Ruby dispersion value (optical property)
မိုးကုတ် = Mogok, a town in Myanmar, famous for it’s ruby mines (geographic origin)

[jade citrus]

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message lol

[unborn pilot]

so the other general thing i saw here is they point to optics, geography, and make up.

[coarse dagger]

The one Kyne posted looks to be 720p FYI

[pure loom]

OK, THANKS

https://tenor.com/view/loud-noises-anchorman-yelling-yell-gif-5294834

[pure loom]

Here's the better res version of that frame with an odd shape on the right

[hard current]

looks like part of a pipe that was broken off

[pure loom]

yeah, or the outline of an ornate mug with a handle

[coarse dagger]

It's interesting how much is going on along that edge. Like it's much more intricate than I would expect a typical break to be. It almost reminds me of the edge of a fractal

[daring bluff]

coffee stain

[coarse dagger]

I am so sure Rob is tolling us with that stain.

[daring bluff]

i still feel like we’ll figure out the coffee stain years down the line

[daring bluff]

not a chance

he’s already said it’s irrelevant at this point i believe, but it’s probably still out there because it’s not like they removed it

[coarse dagger]

"They think the coffee stain is a clueeee"

https://tenor.com/view/risa-risitas-tentado-lol-laughs-gif-14875357

[haughty vector]

🫢 guys what if they wont release the game until we solve tier 3

[quaint wing]

We're screwed.

[coarse dagger]

Seems like a great financial descision

[haughty vector]

LOL

[haughty vector]

am i crazy or does this look kinda look this https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t3-dyra282bx402xxzy/wish/2794555940

[coarse dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/i-like-you-youre-crazy-will-ferrell-i-like-you-but-gif-5858970

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/not-the-same-thing-marques-brownlee-different-things-its-not-the-same-gif-26500442

[daring bluff]

all of this sorta looks like destruction pieces

maybe we blow up a certain wall in a certain way to find another WR

who knows

that would seem crazy

[brazen drift]

game is offline anway, well never know

(until the game releases)

[brazen drift]

exactly what i was thinking

[quaint wing]

Everyone's doing great work, and there's a lot of clues being unearthed and solved, but we're just a bunch of sheep in an open field, and no dog to point us in the right direction.

One of us will get to the farm eventually, but for now, we're seeing what happens! I believe in the team.

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/sheep-shaun-the-sheep-jump-in-dive-in-lined-up-gif-17912706

[haughty vector]

not sure if this has been mentioned but:

did a google search for 0.018 astronomy

that led me to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse which is a red supergiant star

The trio measured the angular diameter of Betelgeuse at 0.047″, a figure that resulted in a diameter of 3.84×108 km (2.58 AU) based on the parallax value of 0.018″.[36] But limb darkening and measurement errors resulted in uncertainty about the accuracy of these measurements.

this also mentions parallax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax which again looks similar to this triangle diagram on the whiteboard #easter-eggs message

[haughty vector]

could just be coincidence but the parallax article ^^ also mentions EE which Rob has mentioned EE in his last couple of messages (but could be unrelated and rob just shortening easter egg to EE)

The plane of Earth’s orbit is at an angle to a line from the Sun through S. The vertices v and v' of the elliptical projection of the path of S are projections of positions of Earth E and E’ such that a line E-E’ intersects the line Sun-S at a right angle; the triangle created by points E, E’ and S is an isosceles triangle with the line Sun-S as its symmetry axis. 

it ALSO mentions arcseconds which again links back to #easter-eggs message

[pure loom]

@sharp flame @timid solstice can you guys recall how these pixel dots were decoded?

[haughty vector]

also some new images added to steam could be worth looking into to see if there are anything hidden in them https://steamdb.info/app/2073850/history/

[turbid tinsel]

Was already mentioned those weren't hiding anything last I saw.

[hard current]

rob said nothing in those 🙂

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

stack the layers and then flip horizontally

[pure loom]

oh, that's cool! Thanks

I missed that one being done

[timid solstice]

Yeah that was hard to follow at the time ngl

[full token]

I gotta just dump a lot of things that are on my mind here for the sake of my sanity. I'm also realizing i'm missing context and scope, I haven't had the time to go back and read all of the (not recent) stuff above... but yeah, idk just found some connections that might have been missed, but it could be confirmation bias because I enjoy learning physics, (both large and small scale) and cosmology, electrical engineering/comp sci background, etc. - Not trying to deter, but idk. What are we focusing on at the moment?

[full token]

Patch:

[sharp flame]

Yeah my bad 😭

[snow walrus]

Pleiades stars (7sisters)

[elder osprey]

Betegeuse caught my attention too. Its color is described as "rubedo" in Latin which sounds ruby-esque, and it's part of the winter triangle. Both sort of fit the ad Astra clue from rob

It's a little tenuous though. "Rubedo" means red or ruddy, not ruby. But it's close.

[snow walrus]

Sterope is a double/binary star (#easter-eggs message) as you can see there is X on band-aid on namatama image

[balmy fog]

I just think we’re too deep

Let’s not forget Rob initial comment, he said something like ABC DEF were obvious and final was a walk in the park

Wich, if it’s on the same level of viold evivi in type of difficulty we’re being too deep

If we were missing clues, Rob wouldn’t say it’s a walk in the park

Also, the fact Rob is not eyeing anything just indicates to me we’ve had everything we need for the password

Looking back on older images, padlets is just, well, sketchy, because Rob won’t confirm it

And the reason Rob won’t even take time to come in this chat to help/eye something is probably because we’ve had everything to solve it

Per example here’s something not too deep that could be explored:

MARK Files exists, extension .mark because turn the image into a .mark converter?

[formal moon]

if just me or for me they look like elevator like floors

[strange solstice]

Anything new folks?

[formal moon]

so lost need one one to fill me in XD

XD

or just maybe im dumb idk

[formal moon]

this sound more like pointing out a star base or a satellite

[formal moon]

Rubedo is a Latin word meaning "redness" that was adopted by alchemists to define the fourth and final major stage in their magnum opus.[1] Both gold and the philosopher's stone were associated with the color red, as rubedo signaled alchemical success, and the end of the great work.[2] Rubedo is also known by the Greek word iosis.

i want to make a hard remark of the meaning of rubedo

magnum opus

[full token]

Huh?

[formal moon]

even do i know there is a 2 exta words and 2 other are move

[formal moon]

yeah

those real/fictional satelites that have computer /supercomputers

that use infra red to scan the universe

[full token]

Idk what you’re referring to

[formal moon]

Webb Space Telescope

as a example

[full token]

What “this”?

“Per Aspera Ad Astra” - is the name of a BGM track in Pokémon Omega Ruby apparently also.

[formal moon]

yeah

[formal moon]

refering at what you type on that big text

[full token]

Idk what the pikachu Pokémon stuff had to relate to in the sheets but I remember seeing that lol.

[full token]

Yeah so there was a lot of stuff in there, what part are you referencing?

The supercomputer?

[formal moon]

i was making reference to all of it how for me points out to sound like satellite....

like Webb Space Telescope

[formal moon]

The three phases of the magnum opus: nigredo, albedo and rubedo. (from Pretiosissimum Donum Dei, published by Georges Aurach in 1475)

Interpretation
The three alchemical stages preceding rubedo were nigredo (blackness), which represented putrefaction and spiritual death; albedo (whiteness), which represented purification; and citrinitas (yellowness),** the solar dawn or awakening**.[3] Some sources describe the alchemical process as three-phased with citrinitas serving as mere extension and takes place between albedo and rubedo.[4] The rubedo stage entails the attempt of the alchemist to integrate the psychospiritual outcomes of the process into a coherent sense of self before its re-entry to the world.[5] The stage can take some time or years to complete due to the required synthesis and substantiation of insights and experiences.[5]

The symbols used in alchemical writing and art to represent this red stage can include blood, a phoenix, a rose, a crowned king, or a figure wearing red clothes.

[formal moon]

i feel there something in this one

like a sentece

guy did anyone notices they 2 cubes in the top right of this vid ?

they are noticeable different from the other and they have inner cubes inside them

[fathom sluice]

I'm just looking about the rester eggs right now , but there is many post , and dont know much what's the initial hint and ther other hint and what did you discovered already

[full token]

📌

[snow walrus]

-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! 🥚

[full token]

Ultimately trying to uncover this password.

[sweet void]

watching the youtube vidz... i discover the subjet

[formal moon]

wdym ?

[snow walrus]

in first teaser of the game we saw a car and a bike. were vehicles removed after a time or they were just for videos? Anyone knows?

[formal moon]

yeah

they was a cadillac and a bike

[elder osprey]

He talks about it in one of the podcasts. I don't remember exactly but I think the game evolved away from vehicles. Might've had something to do with making the map design work with their on-foot gameplay

[hidden sand]

any leads on release date? i remember the ospuze was meant to be the release date for first closed beta

[snow walrus]

i see

[sharp flame]

Yep. I think it was just the map worked better without them

but they will definitely add vehicles at some point/update to spice things up

[formal moon]

like hover board like in warframe...

btw

[sharp flame]

I just wanna see Bulldozers in Monaco..

[formal moon]

have found everything related to this image ?

[elder osprey]

I'm still new here but I'm pretty sure the answer will always be "no"

[sharp flame]

we haven't found everything in any image haha

BUT we have found a lot in that one

[formal moon]

lmao because i just bumped into this

[sharp flame]

https://padlet.com/kyne

[formal moon]

im just too dumb for this cant find shit

[sharp flame]

lmao that's okay

the bar isn't too high

we have 2 images and 0 clues found in either

at the moment

[formal moon]

oh btw

taking about

?

[formal moon]

@sharp flame

check this out

i found them in those cubes

[sharp flame]

is this in the background of the /tfee-level2 page

[formal moon]

yeah

[formal moon]

messy

[sharp flame]

do you have the raw video?

[formal moon]

yeah

is poor quality tho

top right

first

0.1secods

they are the only cubes that have another set of cubes inside them

because they are going too fast you can tell anything is happening inside

but if you go frame by frame or even slower

they show no once but several miniatures of different shapes and forms

[formal moon]

last it was this one.

[snow walrus]

i uploaded frame by frame if anyone wants to look close up
#easter-eggs message

[formal moon]

oh yeah that bring me to this as well...

[sharp flame]

yep they are interesting

For the EE hunt the general consensus is that sitemapping isn't allowed

since we're only really supposed to find the pages by following clues and figuring out URLs etc.

[tired shore]

ah ok that makes sense

[sharp flame]

good thing we found all those pages alr though <3, so no harm done

[tired shore]

👍

[sharp flame]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/ you can reach those pages normally by clicking on the sponsor logos in the bottom left of the website

stumbled across realnamatama on total accident too, haha using the /search page (which we also decided was out of fashion)

I'm just happy we have so many ppl joining in the hunt recently

it's gonna REALLY grow on release

[formal moon]

this image you can really tell the obsession they have with pyramids

[sharp flame]

then we can collect crazy people from all corners of the earth

[sharp flame]

they might have some actual meaning though..

[formal moon]

well i mean

as far as logic corcern me which i could wayyyy off

this is making reference to the red background of the EE

i was trying to understand this

[sharp flame]

w1 w2 and p1 here

[unborn pilot]

We think this is a star chart

[sharp flame]

oh, the triangles?

[unborn pilot]

P for planet

1 middle line solid

[unborn pilot]

Rest are dotted. It’s odd

[formal moon]

you need to solve this

[sharp flame]

❤️ 44444 ❤️

[formal moon]

or use it

[unborn pilot]

Frank

Look up how Rob wrote it with the hearts. 5 letters

So much interesting stuff on that board 😂

[sharp flame]

Angel numbers are crazy bro 💀

why did they have to say Zorro here 😭

and "message about love" with the ❤️❤️

[formal moon]

lmao zorro... fox ?

maybe F.O.X. ?

^ fox

[snow walrus]

will we get dragons 🔥 🐲 @proud minnow

[formal moon]

❤️ kitsune ❤️

[jade citrus]

let the kitsune guide you! 🦊 🤙

[sharp flame]

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

[hidden nacelle]

dont remind me

[lament pawn]

what if the fact that it’s gold is a clue on its own

like sayin there’s a clue related to gold somewhere in the image

[formal moon]

well there is a image with rob using a periodic teable

but i didnt see AU ( use for gold ) in any of it...

[proud minnow]

THE FINALS is the worlds greatest gameshow… Dragons are great, sounds like the belong in the game… ._.

[formal moon]

my man is trying to choose his word carefully so he dosent say to much have a kiwii and momo in the back doing some good PR :V

[proud minnow]

Dragons are cool… ._.

[formal moon]

i agree but you know what is better a monaco duck spitting fire as a event XD

[snow walrus]

i think they are hot but if you say cool...

[proud minnow]

haha, true.!

[proud minnow]

lol.!

[formal moon]

hey rob were i can find the name of all sponsor in the game

or they part of the EE

[proud minnow]

There are many sponsors, companies and partners in the universe of THE FINALS… I think we have mentioned 21 so far…

[proud minnow]

Some are… ._.

[formal moon]

bruh i cant find those names.... in what podcast they are...

they are not even in the wiki...

[hidden nacelle]

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Sponsors

[hasty anvil]

I need to look at the wiki more

[formal moon]

yeah the sponzor i was trying to see still dosent have name....

[formal moon]

thanks

[proud minnow]

no, in different trailers, key arts, screenshots etc… we have not released an official list… it’s only what the hunters and lore-lovers have been digging up… it’s more fun for you that way

[formal moon]

i see fair enough btw you mentioned that the first image have all the keys, what is the image you were referee to ?

this one ?

[hasty anvil]

That might be too big of a hint lol

[formal moon]

or the background theme that is in the web page

[jade citrus]

@solar glade ^^^

[proud minnow]

(and there might, potentially, most likely, with 99.99% certainty be other ones out there… on a bus, in a mall, on a banner… maybe you have seen some of them on your way to school or on your way home after a long day at work… maybe you have, maybe you have not… ._.)

[solar glade]

[jade citrus]

irl EE confirmed???? :0

[solar glade]

i'm literally making cafecito rn when i read these msg

[hasty anvil]

walk through the park after a long day at work huh...

[solar glade]

IRL advertising, inches of resting

[snow walrus]

on 34:15 iii (eye-eye-eye?) is mentioned -_-
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6h60P3VyBgVX54Fv24kTaL?si=415ba094a20c4570

[hasty anvil]

been solved it was for cacoiii

[snow walrus]

i don't think iii is just for cacoiii

iii is everywhere

or ooo 😄

[hasty anvil]

it could be

i think the podcast was released around that time

[jade citrus]

yeah it was a clue for T1E, the episode was made during that time

[hasty anvil]

The lack of hints this tier compared to last tiers lol

you guys had it eassssssy

[jade citrus]

there's another clue in a different episode where dusty mentions 825 degrees celcius

[jade citrus]

right

[hasty anvil]

trying to think of common themes i just get stuck on latin and gold eggs

[solar glade]

also ty for the ping, EE hunters are legally obliged to do it if the word "lore" is mentioned /jk

[hasty anvil]

If we can find where these clues are, we can determine if it's diamond etc clue or priamry etc clue

[elder osprey]

I was gone for like 30 minutes. What the heck happened

[jade citrus]

scroll up brother

[formal moon]

Y

[snow walrus]

an EE hunter who lives in stockholm should go to the Embark building and get the documents for us

[elder osprey]

This is a very good point. It does sort of feel like the ruby clues are for something other than the T3 password since T3 is supposed to be a walk in the park

[formal moon]

and there might, potentially, most likely, with 99.99% certainty be other ones out there… on a bus, in a mall, on a banner… maybe you have seen some of them on your way to school or on your way home after a long day at work… maybe you have, maybe you have not… ._.)

a twilight dusk dawn ?

red sky

[elder osprey]

Supported by on your way to school and after a long day. Not supported by in a mall.

[neon stream]

Hmmm 🤔

[snow walrus]

i think sponsors symbolizes irl businesses, like game studio, sportwears, energy drinks etc..

[lament pawn]

has anyone done like a thorough scrub of the embark or the finals website?

[snow walrus]

there is dewlett packard (dp) sponsor in the game already lol

[neon stream]

I'm glad I'm not the only one that calls it that 😂

[snow walrus]

probably contestants use dp VR hardwares to join the game

[neon stream]

IRL or meatspace(in-game irl)? Because I don't think we'll get IRL sponsors in-game

[solar glade]

IRL adversiting about the in-game sponsors

[snow walrus]

i didn't mean that we will get real sponsors. What i mean is they are just like real sponsorship companies to promote its brands to viewers

[neon stream]

That'd be really cool, I've seen an OSPUZE t-shirt somewhere... 😛

[neon stream]

Ohh ok 💪🏻

[quaint wing]

Let me buy merch and be the walking billboard.

[turbid tinsel]

that look like same design on the shells on accross the guys chest in the one screen shot

[sonic mantle]

So I was checking out the egg colored ? image. I used some FX on it and got it looking like this. It kind of makes me wonder if this is just supposed to represent a cracked egg...

I'm assuming that could be the case because there doesn't appear to be anything legible within all of the chaotic symbols in there.

[coarse dagger]

Was thinking about this yesterday. Could this be 83144444831? #easter-eggs message

Tried looking into that, but couldn't get anywhere with it,

[solar glade]

and i’ve seen a Nama one 🫢

[lament pawn]

i was just looking into the image strings and found this:

.z]4taE
'...noo
(A"9~Hq

[turbid tinsel]

also im farily confident there is something written above each of the shells above

[lament pawn]

maybe it just means dont look at the strings but yeah

thats like buried in the middle of it

id send a ss but i dont have image perms

[sonic mantle]

what do you mean image strings?

[quaint wing]

Take your screenshots and throw em on imgur and send the link

[lament pawn]

in stegonline

[lament pawn]

kk one sec

[quaint wing]

Until you get picture permission 😛

[lament pawn]

https://imgur.com/a/pN730bA

also later on i saw a part that said bael*

[quaint wing]

I think we've had that a few times.

[lament pawn]

googled it and found a wikipedia page about demons so idk if its rly anything

[quaint wing]

If you find out a way to make it into something, that should be nice. I don't think we've done anything with it. I'm not seeing any messages with those strings in there.

[lament pawn]

https://imgur.com/a/gj42m36

also found this after doing lsb half

looks like an egg or maybe like ying and yang? not sure

just saw another in the image that looks very similar

[jade citrus]

I'm thinking of adding an "Unsolved Clues" section to each tier page on the wiki. Thoughts?

[hasty anvil]

where is it on the image?

[snow walrus]

wasn't 44444 solved?
#easter-eggs message

[coarse dagger]

Not necessarily, it's a good connection... but I don't think that means we should stop looking at it and thinking about it

[hasty anvil]

yeah that doesnt seem solved to me, unless 7FC means something

[coarse dagger]

Wallpaper_Keep_It_Simple if you separate the color channels, then apply the "Overlay" blending mode to all of them, two red pixels stand out in a field of black.
#fb0000 at 1332, 1795
and
#d3000 at 1333, 1795

It's.... probably.... coincidence; but the "333" and year-like numbers stood out to me.

[proud minnow]

I said “YET” back then…

[sharp flame]

👀 TIME TO GO LOOKING

[hasty anvil]

what's the meatspace?

oh irl hahaha

[snow walrus]

we still can't reach yet

[quaint wing]

Will rep merch in Canada. Let the team know.

[snow walrus]

the physical world, as opposed to cyberspace or a virtual environment.

[sharp flame]

👀 probably indicates some deeper mystery to be discovered!

can't wait to dive into it

[quaint wing]

They use squarespace for the site.

[snow walrus]

i hope there is some the matrix references in the game

[jade citrus]

pretty sure the WRs are matrix references, like follow the white rabbit

[snow walrus]

isn't a the matrix reference, it is just used in the matrix also.. and many more

but i get what you mean

it would be great if a backdoor exists to exit THE FINALS 🙂

[sharp flame]

thought you said "backrooms" for a moment 😭

destructible backrooms in THE FINALS when

[coarse dagger]

Oh, even simpler. If you only look at the red colors channel and squash all the darks you're left with the 1332, 1795 pixel

[snow walrus]

404 page image is 1423x1080, any clue about 1423?

[sharp flame]

funniest wiki thumbnail 😭

also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years'_War

this is not relevant at all except it started in 1337

[coarse dagger]

Leet of 404 -> AOA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOA

Abort once around, a type of Space Shuttle abort mode

In fluid dynamics, angle of attack (AOA, α, or
alpha ) is the angle between a reference line on a body (often the chord line of an airfoil) and the vector representing the relative motion between the body and the fluid through which it is moving.

[lament pawn]

like bottom leftish

of the black background question mark

[coarse dagger]

Coefficient of Drag looks very similar to our whiteboard line....

[lament pawn]

where did the whiteboard pics come from?

[coarse dagger]

Open beta

[lament pawn]

ah

[coarse dagger]

This is from the Angle of Attack wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angle_of_attack

[neon stream]

"...Then I heard the guitar player say...'Vamos, José's on his way'..." 🎵

[coarse dagger]

We've been using bit planes from stegonline a bit in our image analysis, but haven't learned much about them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_plane

One aspect of using bit-planes is determining whether a bit-plane is random noise or contains significant information.

One method for calculating this is to compare each pixel (X, Y) to three adjacent pixels (X − 1, Y), (X, Y − 1) and (X − 1, Y − 1). If the pixel is the same as at least two of the three adjacent pixels, it is not noise. A noisy bit-plane will have 49% to 51% pixels that are noise.
I wonder if we can make use of this...

There's also this:

Some computers displayed graphics in bit-plane format, most notably PC with EGA graphics card, the Amiga and Atari ST, contrasting with the more common packed format. This allowed certain classes of image manipulation to be performed using bitwise operations (especially by a blitter chip), and parallax scrolling effects.

▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

Also it's likely Rob and/or his collogues are intimately familiar with bitplanes:

Some motion estimation algorithms can be performed using bit planes (e.g. after the application of a filter to turn salient edge features into binary values). This can sometimes provide a good enough approximation for correlation operations with minimal computational cost. This relies on an observation that the spatial information is more significant than the actual values. Convolutions may be reduced to bit shift and popcount operations, or performed in dedicated hardware.

[jade citrus]

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/CNS

[sharp flame]

honestly worth putting the "central nervous system" link in there

though I'm not sure how much Rob meant to confirm when he 👀d that

[jade citrus]

oh yeah lemme go find that

#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

woah new rob lore today

didn't know he was gonna pop in again

what the hell is meatspace

[solar glade]

that’s what they call the world outside of The Finals VR

[jade citrus]

I've been watching some videos of the old BF Easter Eggs, actually SO COOL

I noticed that most of them start by interacting/destroying certain unique objects around the map, maybe TF EEs will be similar (same devs)

[quaint wing]

Our matches are just going to be one team running around buildings looking for eggs.

[jade citrus]

throwback to me, @coarse dagger and @faint rivet last beta 😂

[faint rivet]

https://tenor.com/view/fairly-odd-parents-cosmo-wanda-gif-24673836

[quaint wing]

https://tenor.com/view/fairly-odd-parents-cosmo-wanda-gif-24673836

[elder osprey]

Remember to turn off ambient occlusion and ssr before taking pics of whiteboards!

[sonic mantle]

So iseul-t is one sponsor.

and OSPUZE is the other that was sponsoring this season as well.

Also I'm listening to the podcast and I think it's strange how Rob said to introduce him as Robbie Thunderstorm, but then says he didn't say to introduce him as such.

[turbid tinsel]

noticed that also but didnt think much of it at the time

inregards to CNS, maybe theres more to the colors referenced with the 4 lobes which are green, purple, yellow, and pink

[faint rivet]

Exit signs??
Or enter 🤷🏻‍♂️

[neon stream]

Since we're talking about CNS, lets not forget this 😅

[sonic mantle]

Btw, Rob is talking about different sponsors here that are in THE FINALS universe right?

Like saying that there are sponsors in THE FINALS that we can find irl?

[neon stream]

Yeah, that's what I understood from the message

[sonic mantle]

I hope one of the seasons is sponsored by McDonalds one time! 😂

[neon stream]

@sonic mantle ☝🏻

[faint rivet]

Or dental care or Bailbonds. Lol

[neon stream]

I don't think there will be IRL sponsors in-game

[turbid tinsel]

Something else that ive been trying to figure out, whats the reflection in the right lens in screenshot 19?

has to be significant someway right?

[sonic mantle]

Well, yeah I doubt it, but that makes his last statement confusing...

[neon stream]

how so? 🤔

I don't see how they contradict each other

[sonic mantle]

OOOHHH Do you think he's hinting to keep an eye out for banners, etc... in the game when it's released?

Like we should be able to find all of the sponsors within the game itself.

[neon stream]

Nono, I think we'll see "meatspace" sponsors (sponsors from the "in-game irl") in the real world

Like an OSPUZE ad in Times Square, or something like that 😂

[sonic mantle]

Oh, I just found this message of yours

So maybe he's confirming that they exist irl now.

[snow walrus]

u see anything?

[neon stream]

Yeah, this was his answer to that message 👀

[pure loom]

*boards flight to Stockholm...

[sonic mantle]

Yeah I saw that

[snow walrus]

looks like a silohuette dont u guys agree

[jade citrus]

it was just a joke name that someone put in

[neon stream]

🤷🏻‍♂️

Time to book a flight

[pure loom]

which image is the original?

[snow walrus]

(:

most left side

[snow walrus]

a man with a hat and someone and there are letters below

S25 S22 idk

S2E maybe

and this one, could be a set of stars

[sonic mantle]

I’m wondering If this means they have begun marketing for the game 👀

Which means release

[jade citrus]

well, yeah

max 1 month

[royal cosmos]

Is this all you people do

[sonic mantle]

You think easter eggs are hidden in their marketing irl?

[jade citrus]

in this channel, yes

it's almost as if the entire channel is dedicated to this one thing !

[royal cosmos]

I mean personally

Because this seems like alot of effort for fuckall

Like I see the amount of work that goes into it

Have you guys found much?

[jade citrus]

you have no idea

its a lot

[pure loom]

-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! 🥚

[coarse dagger]

Hobby bashing, nice!

[royal cosmos]

Mb

[coarse dagger]

We've found tons, if it was easy it would be less enjoyable and we'd be done

[royal cosmos]

I honestly think it's sick now that I look at it

I just didn't know what I was talking abt

[jade citrus]

lesson learned

[quaint wing]

We know a lot about gold, space, eggs, and Latin.

[brazen drift]

Getting educated out here

It’s like a well executed school trip

[quaint wing]

If your bus driver was Ms. Frizzle.

[jade citrus]

TFEE class field trip to Embark HQ

[coarse dagger]

I'm starting to use bit planes in ways we haven't done before (AFAIK).
So far I've selected bit planes which contribute to a hidden image, and used blending modes to combine them. You can see an example here: #1177535101463167036 message

I think up until this point we've just been looking at the individual bit planes and not combining them in any way.

[quaint wing]

You're a genius.

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

[jade citrus]

so how many bit planes does a typical EE image have?

[coarse dagger]

After selecting the relevant bit planes I think there might a better way to view things combined. Instead of just blending the binary (black/white) bit planes images, the bitplanes can be used to add color back in. But I haven't tried that yet

[coarse dagger]

Let me explain bit planes and that will have your answer

Each pixel of an RGB encoded image has 3 channels: R,G,B.
Each of these channels can be a value from 0-255 (256 different intensities of that color).
2^8 = 256, so using binary bits you have 8 bits per channel representing the channel's intensity.

These bit planes are what you get when you look at a single bit of a single color channel.

[pure loom]

Coming back around to the double ?? problem - with ? being on the same key as / - I'm still wondering if there is a path there. If we convert ?? to // this could come into play: "The double slash essentially means 'select all descendants that match this selector'." -> maybe we should replace GOLD EGG with other words that mean the same thing? I've tried the Latin "aurumovum" but maybe we should try other languages?

[coarse dagger]

So the answer to your question: there's 8 bits per channel, 3 channels, thats 24 total bit planes

[snow walrus]

who can decode that barcode?

[hard current]

may not be a bardcode, looks more like random glitch when editing

what's that from? @snow walrus

[pure loom]

I have a new idea for the possible path. And it could use a coding system that we haven't seen Rob use (yet).

?? means "a blunder" in chess annotation. What if the answer is somehow spelled in chess annotation - which would mean letters A through H and numbers 1 through 8.

Also there is an "egg opening" in chess: Play the E pawn, then the G pawn and then the G pawn again. It is a troll opening apparently. There is no advantage other than if you win from it it is humiliating for the opponent.

The chess annotation thing could be viable though.

[hard current]

yes but can it tie into latin somehow? with the hint rob gave us

[pure loom]

yeah, I'm wondering that

maybe with the numbers

using leet to make the words

[hard current]

hmmm

we haven't seen anything besides that in any tiers that clue to chess though right?

[pure loom]

correct, as far as I know - other than a crown, which would be a loose link

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/chess-steg.html

https://incoherency.co.uk/chess-steg/

[snow walrus]

Namatama v01

[pure loom]

I have no idea if this is useful or not

[snow walrus]

Decode as hex later

[pure loom]

I tried typing that string of characters in - no cigar

[snow walrus]

But Qxa5 is no go

[lament pawn]

do yall still think that rubies tie into all this? rob did give that hint a while back about rubie clues

[lament pawn]

https://discordapp.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1011929497139953744/1178849466002980964

[snow walrus]

I have no idea how all these will connect with ruby

[pure loom]

hmmm... latin became a dead language about the same time as chess started

[lament pawn]

only thing thats coming to mind is like jewelry but i dont think that gets anywhere

[snow walrus]

It should be related with space somehow

[pure loom]

maybe, or ad astra just points to Latin

[snow walrus]

The question can you reach the finals points to space

To reach

[lament pawn]

well the largest ruby out there is called la estrela (star) de fura so ruby could be a space hint as well

[snow walrus]

And the animation from ee page contains pi shape lines which i believe means light reflections

What about the logo?

Why is it like that

[hard current]

in the background?

[snow walrus]

The finals logo

[lament pawn]

also idk if anyone has discovered this alr but on https://www.reachthefinals.com if u inspect the page there are two images titled "egg 1" and "egg 2" which are the ospuze and iseul logos

[jade citrus]

@pure loom #easter-eggs message here is the meaning of the symbols on the fingers if you are still wondering

[lament pawn]

i assume its just cuz theyre kinda like easter eggs of the website since theyre fictional sponsors but yeah

[hard current]

I found that a couple weeks ago, but I don’t think it has any relevance

[pure loom]

Thank you! I missed that

[snow walrus]

I guess its rotated F

[pure loom]

Also the possible paths of teams in a tourney

[hard current]

this has already been looked at right?

could only find a few mentions of it's name in here

[gusty arrow]

there would have to be more clues to back up it being a barcode, for one its super small for a code, two I'd have to know the width of the code to determine the true amount of 1s and 0s, and this isn't accounting for potential polarities in it. I'd ignore things that look like barcodes unless you can scan them, anything else takes unreasonable amounts of know how and equipment

[snow walrus]

Triangle makes me think of the pyramid

[snow walrus]

Yea i gave up

[gusty arrow]

it was a good find tho, I looked at it with what I could just to be sure

[pure loom]

it could be a diamond

Rob gave a confirmation emoji for this (pretty much our only one for this tier). Is he saying "what" is red? In which case does this relate to the question marks?

[hard current]

if we take it literally:

a town
Burmese writing/language
A town in myanmar
where rubies were discovered and mined

[pure loom]

@fallen jasper can you please pin this seeing it is our only confirmation for this tier so far?

[hard current]

hey I was just thinking, could this have been pinned by Rob because of the phrasing

"what is..."

like jeopardy

the answer is a question

which would make sense with our images

[pure loom]

Yeah, I think this got brought up a few days ago

[coarse dagger]

Here's another way of explaining the bit planes I just thought of:
Each bit plane represents a different intensity of color, 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128. The sum of which is 256.

[pure loom]

#easter-eggs message

^ @hard current

what is goldegg?

I tried this

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

gah I don't get it

if this truly is a walk in the park then the answer is right in front of our faces

[pure loom]

That's just the player's name

[hard current]

1064
lxxix (79)
5f137s2 (51372)
0vif0rm (00)
cacoiii (3)
vit3llus (3)
viold (6)
evivi(66)

gonna take this mobile and go bang my head on a wall until I think of something

[brazen drift]

or maybe beginning like weve theorized as well

not a bad idea

beginning: initium
begin: incipiam

[unique spruce]

#easter-eggs message "some are..." some are what?

[pure loom]

I think he means some are "sponsors, companies and partners" - so some aren't which means they are more mysterious

[jade citrus]

i think he meant to reply to the question above "are they part of the EE"

[pure loom]

makes sense

[pure loom]

I've been looking at other ways that gold and egg can be combined - one is egg tempera medium painting, which often incorporates a gold ground background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempera

Tempera is Latin for Temperature

[turbid tinsel]

Circular pattern in the back ground reminds me of the lastest images we got for the open beta kinda

[pure loom]

yeah, some of the other ones have the grid pattern we have seen elsewhere

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

Interesting, gold added to stained glass can result in a ruby red colour: "Metallic gold, in very low concentrations (around 0.001%), produces a rich ruby-coloured glass ("ruby gold"); in even lower concentrations it produces a less intense red, often marketed as "cranberry glass". The colour is caused by the size and dispersion of gold particles. Ruby gold glass is usually made of lead glass with tin added." and calcium makes yellow: "The addition of sulphur, together with carbon and iron salts, is used to form iron polysulphides and produce amber glass ranging from yellowish to almost black. With calcium it yields a deep yellow colour.[17]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stained_glass

[proud minnow]

What a beautiful list..! OYE

[hard current]

Yknow I was hoping someone would appreciate my thoughts on the numbers

[proud minnow]

Yes, it’s a piece of art… but looks like you are missing something… ._.

[hard current]

I did just notice I was missing a 6 🤔

[elfin adder]

Couldn't "cacoiii" be 203?

[hard current]

what’s your thought on why?

[hard current]

wait Rob has said this before… open your eyes?

[elfin adder]

Because C is Roman 100 and there are plenty of gaps between the numbers in the others as well.

[hard current]

run with it

oh my god

that means I was right

the numbers ARE important

[brazen drift]

About…

[hard current]

that’s why Rob pointed it out

just now scroll up zaxa

[elfin adder]

I mean I don't check in often enough to know everything that's going on here lol

[brazen drift]

Cacoii?

[elfin adder]

I was just making a suggestion based on the patterns I saw right there.

[brazen drift]

Oh this

[hard current]

he pointed out specifically I was missing something, which I think was the extra 6 at the end

[brazen drift]

Hm

1064
lxxix (79)
5f137s2 (51372)
0vif0rm (00)
cacoiii (3)
vit3llus (3)
viold (6)
evivi(666)

[hard current]

he also went back and eyed this

[brazen drift]

Gold egg space Latin

I remember smth

Hold on please

Methone

[hard current]

wait latin - only use roman numerals

lxxix iii vi vivi
79 3 6 66
793666?

[brazen drift]

Reverse it if it doesn’t make sense. remember the calendar

66-63-97
Or
79 36 66

[hard current]

O$B - ascii

[brazen drift]

For…

[hard current]

nothing I can immediately tell

if it was O/B that would mean on behalf but still wouldn’t lead anywhere

[brazen drift]

I mean where did the asci get translates from

[quaint wing]

If you have ideas, give em a shot!

[hard current]

79 36 66

[brazen drift]

Cool

[hard current]

man it’s gotta be right in front of us

[brazen drift]

Try it 66 63 97

[hard current]

B?a

[brazen drift]

Before and after?

[hard current]

yes

[brazen drift]

Im just throwing ideas here

[hard current]

66 63 97 = B?a in ascii
reverse = O$B

doesn’t seem like the path hmmm

[brazen drift]

Gold space eggs

Gold is 79

79 36 66

Gold 36 66

Gold Krypton Dysprosium

GKD

[unborn pilot]

long day working. just catching up. did rob eye anything else today?

[hard current]

only those things I could see + my message about the list that wasn’t eyed but commented on

[unborn pilot]

i see he said OYE again

that was on my spreadsheet lol

[hard current]

open your eyes is what I think it is

[unborn pilot]

ah

[hard current]

he says open your eyes a few times in the discord

“open your eyes and make the connection”

[brazen drift]

OYE

[unborn pilot]

i say that when i wake up

[brazen drift]

It means listen

Or hey

[hard current]

cade you wanna include this stuff in the tier sheet?

[brazen drift]

I think the ‘listen’ might be interesting

[unborn pilot]

whatever you think is worth including yeah

[hard current]

Rob liked the list of the numbers side by side with the tier answers

he keeps eyeing and hinting at latin

he also eyed “eggs, space, gold, latin”

he also eyed “what is meatspace”

[unborn pilot]

do you have a link to those messages?

i can look up the last few

doubt too many people say "meatspace"

[hard current]

nah I’m on mobile rn but it’s a summation of the last couple days

[brazen drift]

I’ll find em

[unborn pilot]

ty. i'll look too. he said he only eyes things that are correct, not works in progress, so i dont wanna miss any lol

[brazen drift]

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

he said my list was “a piece of art”…

[brazen drift]

Hm

[hard current]

and he keeps eyeing questions that start with “what is”

[brazen drift]

The numbers connect to art soemhow?

[hard current]

eh maybe

[brazen drift]

What is art?

[hard current]

nah it wouldn’t be that

it’s gotta have latin

or at least be connected to latin

[brazen drift]

So Latin art

Somehow

[hard current]

maybe

[brazen drift]

1064
79
51372
00
3
3
6
66

106479513720033666

[hard current]

I already tried decoding and deciphering that number in a lot of different ways last night, no luck:(

it could have to do with that there are some roman numeral numbers and some not, maybe they all have to be roman numerals?

[brazen drift]

Try it

I’ll look as well

[hard current]

ah i’m on mobile it’s tough rn

[brazen drift]

Same lol

MLXIV
LXXIX(gold?)
LMCCCLXXII
(00)
III
III
VI
VIVI

MLXIVLXXIXLMCCCLXXII (00 as a space?) IIIIIIVIVIVI

[spring tusk]

What was the previous number made out of 6 and 0s rob gave us some time ago?

[brazen drift]

#easter-eggs message

[brazen drift]

I’ll go find that now

Can’t find it

[spring tusk]

what if the vi are 6? o=O e=3 For every answer

1064
lxxix (79)
5f137s2 (51372)
0vif0rm (060)
cacoiii (03)
vit3llus (63)
viold (60)
evivi(366)

[hard current]

hm that’s a really smart way of thinking about it too

[spring tusk]

V=5 in roman numerals
Same for I = 1

[hard current]

L is 50

that would still leave a sizable amount of letters that don’t translate I believe..?

[spring tusk]

Gold Egg would be

51050500 35151

[hard current]

down the rabbit hole I go

[spring tusk]

doesnt work tho

[brazen drift]

Btw, rob at one point (kind of) confirmed latins involvement in all passwords

[hard current]

nothing in ascii either

[spring tusk]

he did, multiple times

[brazen drift]

So it’s not so much of a stretch to be tunnel visioning on this

[spring tusk]

with them eyes

[hard current]

yeah I don’t doubt latin has something to do with it

the numbers mason what do they mean….

[sharp flame]

New 👀 but what does it meaan

[hard current]

he eyed “what is meatspace” as well

only common thing is “what is”

[spring tusk]

Rob doesn't only eye things for the current tier correct?

[hard current]

only things that are correct per his words

no other details afaik

[brazen drift]

What is