easter-eggs

[turbid tinsel]

#1198659083587297350 message

[valid lichen]

Maybe we de activate all the turrets in the turrets and tripwires mode

I like that idea of it spawning in the middle though

[shadow shore]

Maybe, worth a shot

[valid lichen]

I would try rn but I’m going to bed

I’ll try in morning

[shadow shore]

No worries

[valid lichen]

[shadow shore]

Noticed a very bright light in the reflection of the cashier window, Eastwood casino. There's no direct light source to create it from what I saw either - just thinking on reflections/mirrors. Odd that it creates such a visible 'halo' around the screen too... but only the colours red and green?

[pulsar mason]

Were you able to recreate this?

[shadow shore]

Like is it always there?

Just got vegas again I'll go check

I did the usual thing and shot at it breaking the glass, so I couldn't check it out further

[shadow shore]

Okay Spawned like right at it, this time I was Light class....and not there?

[rotund elbow]

instead of shooting it, try going closer to it and seeing if you can see anything else from all angles in the reflection.

[shadow shore]

Yeah if I see it again I'll check it out more

[rotund elbow]

I know in the practise arena the refection on the wall with "the finals" on it has the beta trophies and skins, so there could be something hidden in the reflections that isn't actually in the game

sent you an image of it.

[shadow shore]

sweet

Reflections from @rotund elbow

[rotund elbow]

only the beta trophies lit up and the skins refection was definitely different, so maybe it can only be seen in a refection

[rotund elbow]

thanks

[shadow shore]

Got Vegas again during the day and went Medium...nothing again 👎

[pulsar mason]

Hmm maybe it was just a weird visual bug, I’ve had it before looking at the sky and it filled my whole screen with a red light

[shadow shore]

Yeah might have been. Maybe we should all just keep a look out and in the off chance it's seen again, we can confirm it reoccurs

[naive rover]

They did

[shadow shore]

It's back...

I'll share a clip. Went behind outside to see if it was the sun coming through and didn't see much

[full bay]

[warm lantern]

did yall know about the holtow qr

like the weapon sticker

[shadow shore]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1185727960980922488

[warm lantern]

ahhhh awesome

[sand girder]

maybe a reach but whats with this ridiculous name?? APG stand for something???

[warm lantern]

i mean it IS a literal description of the item

[shadow shore]

Never noticed that name

[sand girder]

yeah but there are a million ways to word that better, also its the only item in the set without a description

[warm lantern]

of course, and tbf with the devs consistent demonstration of their attention to detail it has to mean something at least

[long dome]

I think whoever named that is just nuts

looks like a placeholder name

[warm lantern]

that would have been the original pc name yeah

for ease of access in files

[civic trellis]

When you are on top of the stairs in the practice range the black roof reflects light in a very wired way

Its like it reflects your perspective

[tacit phoenix]

Looks to me like they just used a static reflections cubemap for the practice arena, take that with a grain of salt though - not very knowledgeable on that

[shadow shore]

Flick me the image as a DM and I'll post it if you like

[jagged axle]

or AV P GC ... since it does seem odd with no spaces

[civic trellis]

Not home right now

[mighty heart]

snap

[warm lantern]

whereabouts

in range

[velvet narwhal]

I think i know what you mean. Could be just the reflection technique they used.

[civic trellis]

The metal walk high up

[warm lantern]

oh yeah i see

like you see 1st person reflections

[civic trellis]

Yeah

[warm lantern]

that is odd, likely just the reflections tho

ill post the clip one sec

[civic trellis]

And you see your gun reflected

[warm lantern]

yeah it shows everything reflected upside down, with your weapon as a grey overlay

the clip

anyone know what reflections embark used? cmap, ssr etc

ik light is ddgi

and it definitely has ray tracing bc of the nvidia promo

to be fair this could be a bug

[civic trellis]

Maybe

Thanks for posting btw

[warm lantern]

allg

[shadow shore]

In-game reflections may play a role for something, but the mirror could also be referencing the way the puzzle on the Caesar image is solved. Either way keep at it, never know what you'll uncover

[warm lantern]

actually your player model doesn't seem to reflect at all

[warm lantern]

that I will

[long dome]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/realnamatama this sub-page is completely blank for me

[warm lantern]

If this hasn't already been found, in the local files ( path: steamapps > common > TF > Engine > Content > Slatedebug > Fonts ) there is a .ttf and .tps for a font named "last resort", yes it is an existing font, described as "A special-purpose font whose glyphs represent the type of each Unicode character."

The name/font choice might mean something

It's also designed by Apple which is kinda odd

It's likely used for characters like the alien symbol/other odd symbols as stated in the description

This is what you get after a quick google

However this is what is shown within the local files

(this stretches on for AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGESSSSSS and theres no bottom bar lol)

[civic trellis]

The arabic one says “ bn “

[warm lantern]

yeah the top image is just from google

Btw the 'basic latin' thing means ascii

the top line of that conversion sheet is the range

U+0000 to U+007F

Quote "The first Unicode character in this block is Null, the last is Delete."

[warm lantern]

They also have an Apple ProRes folder in the files, idk if all of these apple product usages mean anything tho lmaooo

[warm lantern]

same

btw, is the "caesar image" you guys talk about the namatama webpage thing?

anyway back to reflections

[shadow shore]

This is the caesar image. If the image is altered it reveals numbers in the corners and a date on the back of the mirror. I think that's all that's been found within it so far though

[warm lantern]

Yeah thats the one I was on about here

[warm lantern]

altered in what tho?

[shadow shore]

Oh right

[shadow shore]

I just use the suggested webpages on the egg hunt info page image really. But sometimes use other image editing programs - I don't have much knowledge using them though

[warm lantern]

imma take a look in illustrator, then in n++

[shadow shore]

try this site:

https://29a.ch/photo-forensics/#forensic-magnifier

[warm lantern]

yeah this has prolly all been found

on that site I see the numbers

[rancid ocean]

the files called vvv - 555?

[warm lantern]

truuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeee

and

the numbers are 444 4

i dont see the date in the mirror, i see a face

a guy screaming and reaching out

[rancid ocean]

its

top left: 555 99
top right: 444 888
bottom left: 666 444
bottom right: 444 44

[warm lantern]

yeah

[shadow shore]

rip

[warm lantern]

u dont need to change anything to see the numbers tho

[fresh quiver]

u dont need to. but its way more visible.

[warm lantern]

true

[fresh quiver]

also check out #1198659083587297350 for things we already tried or trying on it

[warm lantern]

sweet cheers

[fresh quiver]

birth date of Joecelyn Bell Burnell

just to get this up in mind again 🙂

[shadow shore]

Yeah I was showing wormwinna the date you guys found!

[fresh quiver]

think its helpful to directly mention the connection we found and were confirmed by rob (eyes).
Thats why I just posted the name again

[shadow shore]

Yep. Have we figured the link to Joecelyn Bell Burnell

??

[rancid ocean]

from wikipedia

`July 15, 1943 (Thursday)

Renzo Chierici, the Chief of Police for the Italian-occupied area of France, agreed to a demand by the German authorities to turn over all German Jews who had fled across the border.[37]
The Tule Lake Segregation Center in California was created by order of the U.S. Department of War, renamed from the Tule Lake Relocation Center, one of ten internment camps for U.S. citizens with Japanese ancestry. The "Segregation Center" was selected to house those Japanese-Americans "who by their acts have indicated that their loyalties lie with Japan during the present hostilities".[38] The internees who were classified as disloyal would be transferred to Tule Lake from the other nine camps. Included were any who had formally asked for repatriation to Japan and had not retracted their applications before July 1, 1943; persons who had failed to answer or declined to agree to serve in the U.S. armed forces if called; and any other persons who were, in the opinion of a camp director, not loyal to the United States.
The German submarines U-135, U-509 and U-759 were lost to enemy action.
Born:
    Jocelyn Bell Burnell, U.K. astrophysicist and radio astronomer; in Belfast, Northern Ireland
    The Diligenti quintuplets (Franco, Carlos Alberto, Maria Ester, Maria Fernanda and Maria Cristina); in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They were the second group of quintuplets to all survive childbirth, the Dionne quintuplets having been the first, in 1934.[39] In 2013, all five celebrated their 70th birthday together in Argentina.[40]`

[fresh quiver]

only birth date. Could be something with Pulsars

[earnest wagon]

I think her work on Pulsars was the link that got eyed.

[fresh quiver]

known. as said. its Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

[rancid ocean]

copy

[shadow shore]

Woops I accidently hit create a thread, not sure if it's still there my bad lol. True, I'll read up on pulsars

[fresh quiver]

just when u type in a thread name and hit enter i guess. hapenned a few times for me.

[fresh quiver]

would have another astronomy connection for the date of the crossword. 2015-11-06

[shadow shore]

I haven't looked at the crossword at all, what is it about and is it a strong lead?

[warm lantern]

numbers prolly have something to do with astronomy

[earnest wagon]

Looking specifically at the first pulsar detected (by Jocelyn Bell) I came up with the following thread of thoughts: #easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

it was a lead for another tier i think. also there were the question who wrote the poem about the goose with the golden eggs. answer was AESOP.

In #1175202375070384208 rob said he likes the date.

Same date: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151106.html

a picture of NGC 3169

[shadow shore]

Alright sweet, cheers I'll take a look

[warm lantern]

This might be of importance

Quote "Figure 6.1: The pulsar CP1919 (for Cambridge Pulsar at right ascension α=19h 19m
) first appeared as “scruff” barely distinguishable from interference on a scintillation survey chart record (top). On a higher-speed chart recording of CP1919 (bottom), dips in the upper trace spaced by P≈1.3s
showed that the “scruff” was actually a series of periodic pulses. Image credit: Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish."

6th Aug 1967

another date, the date of this record

There are also a LOT of formulas surrounding pulsars, that could be what the numbers are for

[civic trellis]

Btw you don’t need to alter it

Just crank up the brightness

[shadow shore]

Yeah I mean like alter the levels, brightness, exposure etc

[sick kayak]

whoah that's cool

[warm lantern]

you see the face? or no?

[shadow shore]

I can't really tbh, the clues are very obvious

[warm lantern]

yeah, that is a great point

also, is all the caeser image stuff related to the main hunt? or is this side stuff?

[timid solstice]

its related to Tier 3

[shadow shore]

As far as I know it may help with the T3 password

[timid solstice]

rob added the image in game to help us, but we never found it in game

so he created a qr on an official art image that led us to that nama on the website instead

[warm lantern]

okay cool

[magic coral]

العبو

[long dome]

the reachthefinals.com sitemap doesnt show the caesar image's url, which means there is probably more hidden urls to find. idk if anyone has attempted to scour the site but I may try tomorrow. not easy with a squarespace site but I will see if theres any methods to finding hidden urls

[sand girder]

not sure if this has been said already but: ceasars palace in vegas?

[warm lantern]

it has

[warm lantern]

will try tonight

[fresh quiver]

@warm lantern L2 T3 Facts we use it just for things that are certainly true and confirmed. The pulsar is not a fact that is kind of confirmed. We try to keep this thread a little bit clean

[warm lantern]

oh mb

a lot of that thread is speculation, thats why i put it there

[fresh quiver]

because we had number substitution and went with that. and now there are new clues that may not relate to substitution aqnymore

[timid solstice]

please read #egg-hunt-onboarding
we dont need to dig around for urls

[long dome]

I assumed the caesar image was found because someone found the hidden url that it is contained on. if you dont mind, how did that url get found?

[fresh quiver]

I think mostly we communicated here and waited for 1-2 responses if we should cross-post it to L2 T3 facts.
atleast thats what im doing normally.

[timid solstice]

#1198659083587297350 message

check here, you will see the offical art has a hidden qr broken into 4 parts

[fresh quiver]

can anyone add the QR finding + Caesar namatama to the padlet later on?

[warm lantern]

I'll follow this

[fresh quiver]

@timid solstice I just hope that rob didnt meant kung fu panda as a clue 😅😂

but there are no coincidences 😄

[shadow shore]

All the crazy findings happen when I'm asleep lmao, I've missed a bit. But I'll stay up a little later tonight

[fresh quiver]

dont do that. did that a few times. just a bad idea 😂 I have UTC+1 here... rob writes mostly at 2300-0000 for me. and after that i fall into a rabbit hole for 2-3h. lack of sleep is greeting

[shadow shore]

Well it's 10:15pm right now, so I still have a bit of time without going silly

[fresh quiver]

PM 😮 utc+10?

[shadow shore]

AEST

🦘

[warm lantern]

satyupallnightstayupneversleepneversleepneversleepneversleep

[warm lantern]

gang

[fresh quiver]

thought that 😄
no kangaroos in austria 😂

[warm lantern]

waaaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitttttttttttttt

am i aest

im 11:17pm rn

[fresh quiver]

aedt i guess

[warm lantern]

yep

[shadow shore]

What's the future like?

[timid solstice]

added what i can for now

[warm lantern]

No better

No worse

im not real tho

this is a discord bot

[fresh quiver]

future still dont have the password? :c

[warm lantern]

its "password"

[shadow shore]

So Ai take over the world in an hour. Sweet

[warm lantern]

padlet?

[warm lantern]

yes sir

[earnest wagon]

Have you got a link to the padlet? I keep forgetting to bookmark it and this pinned message is out of date: #easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

yes.

[warm lantern]

where

[fresh quiver]

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

[earnest wagon]

Thanks!

[warm lantern]

thank you kind sir

[fresh quiver]

right side of it are the new additions

[earnest wagon]

To add to the details on Hermes Trismegistus on the padlet: #easter-eggs message

The use of something called Herme's Egg / The Philospher's Egg was part of the process of making the Stone.

The Ripley Scrolls that depict it also heavily use the gold and white as seen in the two QUES TION images.

[warm lantern]

you don't think that the password might be in greek?

as an unrelated note

[fresh quiver]

nope. was ruled out afaik. let me search it

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message

[warm lantern]

awwwwwwwwwwwww

https://padlet.com/waitimgoated880/the-promise-t3-spec-m9o3mgynwzmvjbnf

link to a less organised padlet for more speculative stuff

@earnest wagon @fresh quiver dm me padlet usernames, i'll add as collaborators

https://padlet.com/waitimgoated880/submission-request/47wMbp968mnzrBm6

[timid solstice]

might be better to create a thread for speculative stuff, then request access from kyne to be able to add good paths on the main padlet

[warm lantern]

That's the submission link

Theres so many threads for speculative stuff already, not really any reason to make more

this is just to organise less relevant stuff or speculative findings

also for all the things that arent on the main

[timid solstice]

I think narrowing focus is good yeah, but dont spend too much time organising far out threads

[fresh quiver]

Interesting quiote of Jocelyn Bell Burnell imo

"Occasionally there would be something I didn’t recognise and I’d record it with a question mark or, as a joke, LGM for Little Green Men."

[timid solstice]

or you end up like Duh in dante's 9 circles of hell

[warm lantern]

no i mean like for all the JBB/astronomy stuff, as well as all the images etc all in one spot

because kynes dont really have much

just some major points

i mean theres a lot of messages

string extraction of ques.jpg

and of tion.jpg

also have we already touched on NASA's discovery of the dark matter question mark thing?

this fella

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2023/131/01H5315VKBVDDBTBBM49YJ3PVN

^^^^^ full webb image

was discovered on July 26th if that matches any dates

yoo

look what i found

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1116633624

Bell Burnell originally recorded the signal from the pulsar with a ?

Quote "the first detection of radio signals from CP1919 was on 6 August 1967, although the pulsed nature was not suspected at this time. The first observation of pulses was on 28 November 1967."

Cp1919 is the pulsar btw

[warm lantern]

Unless it's already been thought of, considering rob eyed the space stuff i feel like this has a lot of relevance

[shadow shore]

Well according to the wiki I'm reading, the first pulsar was "observed by Bell with a radio telescope she helped to build. Bell and Hewish (her supervisor), used a fast strip chart recorder to resolve the signal as a series of pulses evenly spaced every 1.337 seconds". That's about as much as I've read so far

[warm lantern]

I feel like the webb image is a lot more important

[earnest wagon]

Could be a coincidence, but in relation to this clue: #easter-eggs message

Jessy Randall wrote poems about women in science, including one on Jocelyn Bell Burnell:

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943)

I walked three miles of data,
a spiral spun out of the telescope
I helped build,

and saw a shape repeating.
Like a pulse. Like a period.
Like the circle of an egg, like something
alive, being born. Something I myself
could bear, like a baby,

My eyes. My brain. My child.
Stolen away in a typical
kidnapping. We were all minions.
I didn’t fight it. What mattered
was the science, the growing.

The baby is not the final thing.
It’s only the beginning.
The pulsar only goes so far.
It’s not a remnant. It’s a relative.```

[long dome]

i stg of the password has “leet” in it

[hard forge]

if it was taken in or after 2019, then it is not relevant

[warm lantern]

how come?

[hard forge]

Rob made this level in 2018 IIRC

[warm lantern]

fr?

[lofty basalt]

Has leet been considered as one of the five truth? It kinds of loops back to o=0, g=6 and e=3

[warm lantern]

he eyed a message talking about a 47 and /

the webb image is in relation to/of Herbig-Haro 46/47 forming

[warm lantern]

what is that code?

i missed that part

[lofty basalt]

From the earlier steps / passwords

[hard forge]

ok just checked ...it was released in June 2023....and we were supposed to solve it before summer 2023 🥲 according to Rob

[warm lantern]

so the webb image is likely relevant

[warm lantern]

ah i see

[hard forge]

Please make it happen 🥹

[hazy jackal]

What

[hard forge]

#easter-eggs message

Something about "Bell"....🤔

[hazy jackal]

Spear?

As in the graphic designer?

[earnest wagon]

I'd recommend organising threads into component parts, the base of which is a confirmed or otherwise certain clue.

For instance, I've got lines on the following:

Trismegistus
Caesar
Aesop / The Goose that laid the golden egg

At the moment it's easy to forget about or lose sight of important lines of thought.

[hazy jackal]

Hence why I suggested the second padlet

[shadow shore]

So is Bell relating to the diamond clue or is it a clue to help us on the T3 password?

[hazy jackal]

Surely relating to Jocelyn?

[shadow shore]

I'm confusion

[shadow shore]

Yeah Jocelyn Bell

Is she a nod toward helping our T3 password or to the diamond pulse clue is what I mean

[hazy jackal]

wtf is the diamond clue

Because probably that

[earnest wagon]

Presumably towards the T3, because Rob added the QR code that took us to the Caesartama that had the date on the mirror that pointed to her.

[hazy jackal]

Pulsars do be pulsing doe

Yeah but pulsar

and pulse

they be pulsin

[timid solstice]

as in @solar glade LORE MASTER

[earnest wagon]

Anyone timed the diamond clue with CP1919?

[hazy jackal]

who up pulsin rn

[hazy jackal]

Yeah try match the intervals

Whatever this diamond clue is

[hazy jackal]

spear the goat

I remember spear from ape sex design

[timid solstice]

erm!~?

[shadow shore]

In the padlet the pulse looking frequency

[hazy jackal]

Apesex legling

[hazy jackal]

oh yeah surely in relation to that

pulsars pulse

it’s probably a pulsar frequency or smthn

[earnest wagon]

CP1919 Pulsar sound - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2_3RgX-RIY

[hazy jackal]

it could also have something to do with the holtow website maybe

[earnest wagon]

It's slower than the Holtow pulse

[hazy jackal]

Joy division album cover????????

[solar glade]

the one and only

[hard forge]

we have more than 10 unsolved cyphers as of now

[hazy jackal]

Awww

[timid solstice]

make wut?

[earnest wagon]

Yup, among other things

[hazy jackal]

hey pooks

lmaooooo

Joy division moment

[earnest wagon]

I did some theorising here: #easter-eggs message

[hard forge]

Ultimate hunt drawing for theories and their progress. unsolved clues and links

[earnest wagon]

Only thing I haven't done, is head into Vegas with settings on high to see if the hotel rooms have numbers - I've been relying on memory and possibly lower graphic footage on YouTube to suggest they don't.

[hazy jackal]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aRvZe73O89w&pp=ygUGQ3AxOTE5

[hazy jackal]

Heyyy good point

I’ll check tmrw if it hasn’t already been looked at

[earnest wagon]

Something else I keep meaning to correct - I've been refering to this pulsar as CP1919, but it was renamed as B1919+21. Letter and number jumbles can always come into play.

[hazy jackal]

ah I see

[earnest wagon]

Can't find the link to the diamond clue page - was going to check the pulse on that.

[valid lichen]

was thinking a namatama could be in one of those vaults

[hazy jackal]

Yeah how do I see this diamond thing

[shadow shore]

They didn't appear interactable unless there's a process to open them 🤔

[valid lichen]

yeah

i was looking inside of them with spectate

[hazy jackal]

Alr who’s gonna make the video essay when we finish tfee

That’s the real question mark

[fresh quiver]

too new. he planned the hunt atleast over 2 years ago.

[hard forge]

@pure loom

[hazy jackal]

Touché

[hazy jackal]

Oh cool they’re oce

w creator

[fresh quiver]

or spear 😄

[hazy jackal]

I love spear

Apesex spear

heyyyy wormwinnaalt has rights now

[solar glade]

RHB is the one covering EEs here

[hazy jackal]

I just looked at his channel, I can’t disagree

[valid lichen]

yeah his video got me into the hunt

[hazy jackal]

haha cool

Apesex spear got me into the hunt

I got kidnapped

please help me

[shadow shore]

Have we worked out the frequency of the diamond clue pulse?

[fresh quiver]

spear lurking again 😄

[hazy jackal]

5P34R hz

[gloomy anvil]

the gif consists of only one pulse and it's 0.57 seconds long iirc

[fresh quiver]

0.5 iirc

[shadow shore]

Okay cool

[earnest wagon]

That doesn't match with the pulsar then.

[lofty basalt]

@earnest wagon cannot react in the thread or post pictures yet, but about the slight border inset on the namatama image. There was also a top-left corner inset when superposing the images of the two question marks from T3

[earnest wagon]

Hmm, there's two lines down the side.

Hard to make out, but here's TION:

The background to that isn't a perfect colour either, and seems a little heavier patterned towards the right side.

Very thin line at the top, where it looks like the pattern has stopped.

Same at the bottom too.

Harder to see, but the left of QUES looks to be the same but in reverse.

Slight white fade in.

Wait... I found something?

In the top left of TION, I turned the contrast right down and there's definitely something with sharp edges.

Oh... ignore me - it could just be because it's a pattern and it's artefacting like crazy.

It does more clearly show how it's darker on the right though:

[earnest wagon]

I merged both images together, 50% blend of each, and there's definitely a border around the edge.

Or maybe not - I'm getting mixed results depending on what tool I use.

[unique spruce]

J1913.1+1946. might there be another like this that is something +1943? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_221009A

[lofty basalt]

Apparently this could also have to do with the fact that both pictures are 1149 x 635 JPEGs, but the jpeg algorithm segments over 8x8 pixel grids so 3 x 5 pixels are actually hidden beyond the render scope of the images.

Because all values in a JPEG grid impact all other values in the same grid, simply padding with "black" will likely distort the outer edge by introducing a high-contrast edge between the visible and hidden pixels.

Different JPEG encoding systems use different approaches for padding the hidden JPEG grid.
^ This last sentence would explain the mixed result

[earnest wagon]

That does seem to explain it.

Merging the two only seems to exasperate the issue - and given there's nothing that seems measurable or peculiar about the result - it's likely nothing.

I imagine the same might be true for the VVV image then.

[earnest wagon]

If nothing else, this is evocative of both the Holtow page and the Diamond clue.

[lofty basalt]

Only the VVV image is a proper PNG of size 2048x2048 iirc, so it wouldn't really have that unless it was put there on purpose 🤔

But I agree that right now there's nothing much to it as of now 😵‍💫

[unique spruce]

i got nothin, but these 2 look alike: GRB 221009A

[hazy jackal]

have you checked also with some of the previous clues to reference

[tacit wedge]

an atom maybe?

or a galaxy

2nd picture looks a lot like an atom

just as an example, it might be another element

4,0,0 is very similar though

[unborn ledge]

This pulsar discussion reminds me that I posted this last week:
"Hot-Handed" (flaming balls emote) description says - "Send a signal that your game is on fire". Sounds like the emote could be sending some kind of a signal.
https://streamable.com/0zux2n

[hard forge]

got anything?

[earnest wagon]

Breaks out the morse decoder

I've slowed it down, and it doesn't look like there's enough of a difference between a dot and dash.

The left flame in particular seems to have flashes that are all the same length, if at irregular timings.

This does fall in line with my Caesar/Mirror idea though - exactly the kind of thing I imagined could exist. Something in-game you can't see yourself without the aid of a reflection or someone else.

[fresh quiver]

need to correct myself. it IS 0.57

[pure loom]

Spear-RHB collab when?

[hasty anvil]

I'm diving the Pulsar rabbit hole and see i've met others on the voyager golden record haha

[pure loom]

“How THE FINALS fakes post-modern Easter Eggs”

[hasty anvil]

#easter-eggs message Clamp had a whole Pulsar summary here which has a lot of connections

There's a Pulsar clock, we had the 'gold clock or something' clue before

[valid lichen]

Haha

[unborn pilot]

We got those new images so I did not look back at the old ones in depth.

[solar glade]

Rob’s gonna claim clickbait on us!

[pure loom]

Only after he’s watched it hahaha

[hard current]

hey all, fever is finally broken but still pretty sick, anything crazy I’ve missed out on?:)

[fresh quiver]

dont worry. after he watched he will tell you we missed about 30% of the clues 😄

[turbid tinsel]

nothing significant i unless im missing something

[gloomy anvil]

When you look back at all the previous tiers' clues, the passwords seem reallyyy obvious (in hindsight)

so it's frustrating not having super solid obvious connections between every clue we've received in T3

[earnest wagon]

I dug into him a bit, but nothing stood out.

[hasty anvil]

Yeah didn't want to wiki dump so i deleted, just searched some people have looked into him

I'm not sure how deep we have to dive into Burnell as she's a 'bonus clue'

To it's basics it could just be an astrophysics clue, but it also has connections to; 'the lighthouse effect', supernovas, neutron stars, pulses/ quasars, '?' , discs and radiowaves, lightwaves, x-rays and gamma rays

[earnest wagon]

I think Pulsar is what we need to be taking from that clue.

I dug into the specific pulsar she spotted a bit, but nothing has attracted any eyes, or had any profound revelations.

[fresh quiver]

Same. think Pulsar may be the way to go.
As @earnest wagon also said that 0.57 from burrw.gif is connected to pulsars

[hasty anvil]

there's a list of significant pulsars on wiki, but nothing stood out to me

[gloomy anvil]

I'm still interested in the album cover you found. I must've misremembered its popularity but it's certainly an interesting connection.

and 1.337 is of course notable

[earnest wagon]

The Joy Division one? Yeah - that's some profound trivia level stuff.

[hard forge]

The 3 triangles on the whiteboard could be
summer, autumn and winter triangles

imo

[hasty anvil]

I've also been thinking of triangular numbers too, 666 is a triangular number, or the 36th triangle number

[hard forge]

#easter-eggs message

[hard forge]

this led to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification#Spectral_types:~:text=5%2C200–6%2C000 K-,yellow,-yellowish white

vega-relative chromatocity

[fallen jasper]

Add me to it. "How THE FINALS Wiki fakes post-modern Easter Eggs"

[pure loom]

Haha perfect!

[fresh quiver]

interesting

II bright giants
III normal giants
IV subgiants
V main-sequence-stars
VI subdwarfs
VII white dwarfs

[snow walrus]

we are all together in this journey hehe
"How THE FINALS Wiki fakes post-modern Easter Eggs and EE-Hunters unveils them?"

[fresh quiver]

LOL

f? = " N IV 4058Å is stronger than the N III 4634Å, 4640Å, & 4642Å lines[35]"

There is the angstrom sign

[hard forge]

search class g on that link. it's more interesting

[fresh quiver]

Element symbol = "Abnormally strong spectral lines of the specified element(s)"

[hard forge]

Our sun is G type, also Alpha centauri

Temperature range is yellow color

[fresh quiver]

Stellars & Pulsars we have:

-Element symbol Abnormally strong spectral lines of the specified element(s)
-f? C III 4647–4650–4652Å emission lines with comparable strength to the N III line (Angstrom Character) (f?)
-G6V Mass 0.97 / Radius 0.949 / Luminosity 0.79 / Effective temperature(K) 5,600 / Color index 0.70

[proud minnow]

hehe yes, buuuut I think (hope this has been discovered already… ._.)

[fresh quiver]

too many coincidences

[hasty anvil]

Yeah someone has posted classification of G type stars before i think

[hard forge]

I m gonna cry

[hasty anvil]

wasn't eta cass linked to g-types?

[fresh quiver]

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151106.html

its still the same date as the date in the ques.png & tion.png pictures.
"coincidence" 😂

[hasty anvil]

found it, Rob eyed this before

[hard forge]

yes

[hasty anvil]

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

mentions the star regulus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulus

[hasty anvil]

"The Roman numeral III stands for giant star in the Yerkes spectral classification scheme." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification RHB message was eyed

[hasty anvil]

haha yeah same link has been eyed, so you are correct

Rob's turning us into astronmers my brain can't handle this

[hard forge]

Clamp #easter-eggs message

[hard forge]

Aim for the stars

[snow walrus]

ad astra

[fresh quiver]

Star Regulus also have a oblate shape ["...which causes it to have a highly oblate shape."]

[hasty anvil]

So how do we connect Pulsars and Stellar classification to the ee

[hard forge]

yellow

[fresh quiver]

somewhere was found a 320 on a picture.
Regulus equator roates at about 320 kilometres per second

[valid lichen]

"How THE FINALS Wiki fakes post-modern Easter Eggs and EE-Hunters unveils them while Rob watches👀 "

[hard forge]

mastermind*

[fresh quiver]

rob would just sit in the background while they record the video, just eating popcorn

[valid lichen]

yep

[hard forge]

and laughing (hehe)

[hasty anvil]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_spectroscopy#stellar_spectrum this links stellar classification and Pulsars

[fresh quiver]

some numbers that are stood out for me here
https://grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?4,748178,748178#msg-748178

[hasty anvil]

that's a good 666 reference

but also a lot of greek

[fresh quiver]

it also has 888.
and theoretically 999 (142984000 m /137.035__999__11^2 = 7614.09 m = 24657 photon feet

[hasty anvil]

144.4 too, maybe a 444 connection

[fresh quiver]

i think he may just mean the password may be no greek things

[hasty anvil]

I'm really confused what it's about though

[hard forge]

i think rob wouldn't use a non wiki link for EE

[hasty anvil]

yeah he said he didn't want to mix greek/latin as it's too confusing, so i'm trying to steer clear of greek

[fresh quiver]

same. i dont even know how i got to this

just found it

[obtuse quest]

U always take 32768 damage by falling

[fresh quiver]

known.
Its the max 16bit integer possible

[hard forge]

back to stars

spectrum Å

classes

[hasty anvil]

This is just information overload haha

[obtuse quest]

oh

[fresh quiver]

It just feels we ran in circles the whole time. Just to got back to stars/pulsars

LOL. Finally red

[hasty anvil]

maybe g=6 was a reminder to get back to G6 Star class

G6 + Burnell clues fit together

[hard forge]

and he gave us Å, and a picture of stars with "bells".

[hasty anvil]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextant#:~:text=Traditional sextants have a half,and as clear as possible. connections to mirrors, space, angles, 6, the sun

[hard forge]

an egg shaped star with yellow spectrum?

golden egg?

[fresh quiver]

„The star and its shells resemble an egg white around a yolky centre, leading the astronomers to nickname the object the Fried Egg Nebula.“

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1136/#:~:text=The star and its shells,times bigger than our Sun.

[hard forge]

i would suggest against using non wiki links.

[gloomy anvil]

How's it going?

I see star stuff

[hard forge]

Oviform

[gloomy anvil]

:confused_nama:

[fresh quiver]

Better?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRAS_17163−3907

[hasty anvil]

I remember someone posted this about parallaxes, but i can't remember if it got eyed

[turbid tinsel]

i feel no closer to the answer, keep coming across what i feel like are 2's and 5's lately but nothing seems solid off those numbers

[hard forge]

but how did we reach here ? 🥲

[hard forge]

non other than clamp

[turbid tinsel]

i do not think so

i did not enjoy that hole

[fresh quiver]

Just googled yellow egg shaped star 😂 cooking rn and just throwing things in here in the meantime

[hasty anvil]

Astronomy, parallax and AU are good links, but it's becoming a headache

[turbid tinsel]

although i get the feeling instead of using vi were now supposed to be using iv

[hard forge]

hmm ..so if there is a path to that star from the eyed links....then we got a solid lead.

[turbid tinsel]

as roman numerals

[hard forge]

we need a second padlet

[hasty anvil]

Even that will begin to get messy at a point

[fresh quiver]

Another thread for this maybe?

[hard forge]

we keep deleting holes and pursue the most linked leads

[gloomy anvil]

I'm so lost lol

[fresh quiver]

We are all

[hard forge]

TLDR:

Someone found a link today which was eyed a month ago and rob kind of gave a nod today so we are running in circles but this time we think we are on the right path.

[idle dagger]

the new pics look like recoil of lewis gun

maybe thats something

[hard forge]

Light a candle and the stars should guide you...( i seriously really hope)

[turbid tinsel]

which one?

[hard forge]

this one

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message

[rotund elbow]

I think the t3 password isn't that deep
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message
I think its directly connected to gold, egg and the different rules of changing, leet, roman numerals and mirroring
But all this is probably useful to explore to find dimond clues

[hard forge]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-type_main-sequence_star

[fresh quiver]

„I hope it was found“

Robs words….

[hard forge]

"buuut"

[hasty anvil]

Googling astronomy and candle leads to 'Cosmic Distance ladder' , the standard candle, luminosity, parallax, astronomical units (AU), angles, 'inverse-square law',

[hasty anvil]

We've tried all of this for over 2 months lol

[hard forge]

G6V luminosity 79

[hasty anvil]

A Rob 'walk in the park' can mean anything

[hard forge]

The password should be a walk in the park...but we are lost.

[rotund elbow]

I feel like this is why hes checking it

Maybe we should organise a methodical way to do this, like selecting some words and then select how each volenter will attept all the different edits to a word

[hasty anvil]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175206999802249307 not sure if you can see this thread, but we have tried soooo many variations

[turbid tinsel]

pretty sure that was used in the g=6 but i could be wrong

[rotund elbow]

I totally understand but if there is one veriation in the middle of all those that got missed, or wrongly reported as tried due to a typo, we are sitting on the answer

[hasty anvil]

It was and wasn't, it has links to both tiers, and it's weird he commented on it again

[hard forge]

this link was never mentioned here

[turbid tinsel]

i went down that whole awhile ago and swear nothing came from it

[hard forge]

which one?

[turbid tinsel]

this was back when we got eta cass eyes and trying to find a link

the g sequence star

[hard forge]

ohh

[hard current]

i see we had a rob moment

G class star?

[hard forge]

i see #easter-eggs message

[turbid tinsel]

#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

what link was it that rob eyed

[hasty anvil]

#easter-eggs message edit avoid confusion

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message
he commented it

[hard forge]

A 0Va - vega (ova)

[hasty anvil]

#easter-eggs message Impervious put this link, but RHB put it before and it got eyed

[hard current]

thank you guys

sorry I know it’s annoying to ask so many questions lol

I’m invested but this flu has put me on my ass

[hard forge]

it's okay devx. We got you.

[hasty anvil]

Nah you're good, we flooded the chat a bit so it's easily lost

[fresh quiver]

"a bit"

[hasty anvil]

basically, pulsars and stellar classification

ee solved

[hard forge]

Ok then. I leave it to you.

[fresh quiver]

didnt the question pictures had a pixel width or heigth of 1149?

MACS J1149 Lensed Star 1

[hard forge]

Finally the L2 T3 to save #1194001777452929154 message

[fresh quiver]

finally it had a reason for us to make it hahaha

[hard forge]

1064, 2015 AU

[hard current]

Summary of Recent Events:

• New image -> caesar nama -> jocelyn bell -> pulsars (also lead to reconfirmation that vega is in the same cluster where this pulsar was found)

• stellar classification again (G6)

• confirmation that the numbers in #1198659083587297350 is something new to us, something rob hasn’t seen before, but will be obvious when we solve it #1198659083587297350 message

• #1175202375070384208 has many crossovers noted by @earnest wagon

anything else?

[fresh quiver]

date of ques.png & tion.png (date of the crossword) is also the date of https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151106.html
"NGC 3169 is also known to shine across the spectrum from radio to X-rays,"

dont know if this is useful. but i keep repeating it sometimes

funny. the name of the author is also Rob(ert) 😂

[hard forge]

I must stop before I start digging a rabbit hole.

[fresh quiver]

too late.

[hard current]

it seems to all be revolving around something in space…

[hard forge]

and what happened to 5 truths ?😅

[pure loom]

Isn't it interesting? I keep thinking about how it's this weird blend of space and historical culture and science - which kinda reminds me of the scene in the movie Contact when they resolve the TV transmission being beamed back at Earth (which was about WWII, but made sense for the plot).

I also keep thinking how this could be ARC somehow interpreting Earth's culture and science

[hard current]

hmmmm

A yellow-white G class star

[hard forge]

I see it every DAY

[pure loom]

If anyone is in-game - please let me know if you see the orange lights on Skyway again - I was in there a couple of times and did not see them, so I'm wondering if it was a bug that was fixed.

[hasty anvil]

was it here?

[hasty anvil]

.

[hard forge]

Hey...every NIGHT (stars) Rob used to try password

[pure loom]

No, these were sort of glowing orbs that were floating - not part of a building or anything

One was near the construction area and I think another in the Monaco section just over from construction

[unborn pilot]

Could be nothing but there is a VVV star and it has Hotlow dot vibes

https://www.sci.news/astronomy/vvv-wit-08-giant-blinking-star-09752.html

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

I got to it thinking 555 88 is VVV 88 for 88 constellations

Exploring the idea that only some of those numbers are Roman numerals not all

[hard current]

maybe what we’re looking for is a G0VI star

or…

G3VI

hmm no it needs to have all of geo in it

[hasty anvil]

ahh i'm not to sure sorry

[unborn pilot]

Unless 0 is null

[hasty anvil]

it's a ranked game i'm in still in so if we wipe let me know where i'll try to look

[hard current]

wait

In the MK system, a luminosity class is added to the spectral class using Roman numerals. This is based on the width of certain absorption lines in the star's spectrum, which vary with the density of the atmosphere and so distinguish giant stars from dwarfs. Luminosity class 0 or Ia+ is used for hypergiants

so a G class star with temperatures ranked around 3 and a luminosity of 0

G3O

or, g = 6, e = 3, o = 0

[pure loom]

all good. I'm not sure who recorded them previously. I searched for "orange" but mostly found an orange cat emoji

[hard current]

or even better, a yellow hyper giant

[hard forge]

**JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR and for Padlets **

Today Rob commented #easter-eggs message
on this image #easter-eggs message
which was from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-type_main-sequence_star
He also reacted to "coincidence"

The above Wikipedia page was found through RHB's message #easter-eggs message which was eyed.

[hard current]

G type star with temperatures 3 and luminosity of 0

[fresh quiver]

or a yellow supergiant 😄

"The neutral oxygen lines, such as the 777.3 nm triplet, have also been used since they are extremely sensitive to luminosity across a wide range of spectral types."

"This means they can be used as standard candles for determining the"....

[hard current]

the comment rob left on that pic is confusing

[turbid tinsel]

i dont think its that relevant imo

usually rob will re-eye something

[timid solstice]

yeah the holtow one is 0.5 secs

[turbid tinsel]

like how we kept saying gold and egg trying to solve the last tiers and he eyed almost every post saying that

[hard forge]

you got a point

[timid solstice]

and burrw frequency is 0.03sec
19 frames / 0.57sec

I think that technically the burrw one is missing a frame, it shows when you blend them all

[hard current]

hear me out:

oye -> eoy
geo -> oeg -> O3G?
O class stars eventually result in supernovae or neutron stars (pulsars)

[fresh quiver]

doesnt the voyager golden record has pulsars in it?

[gloomy anvil]

yes

[turbid tinsel]

its never gotten eyes

was shared while back

like novemberish old i think if im not mistaken

[hard forge]

🕯️🕯️

[proud minnow]

No but it is a good theory, but nooooot reeeeeally correct...

[fresh quiver]

not really correct, but maybe a connection? 🤔

[turbid tinsel]

i guess im more curious if we are looking for something particular or if its around the same concept as how the passwords were for the last 2 tiers and now we gotta mirror it or something

[proud minnow]

"now we gotta mirror"...?

[fresh quiver]

oh ffs 😂

mirror goldenegg and do something else too with it?

[turbid tinsel]

idk if that is a question or a hint lol

[hard forge]

The highs and lows I am feeling today 😂

[hard current]

my guess is you’re onto something but he’s not gonna spell it out for us hehe

[proud minnow]

What about this classic..?

[gloomy anvil]

yolk

[fresh quiver]

cross mirror?

left top to right bottom, right top to left bottom

[turbid tinsel]

before my time but i have been currious on the old X marks the spot

[hard current]

that was before my time as well, @pure loom any idea?

[hasty anvil]

damn i mentioned this the other day

[silver rock]

now I'm wondering if any of the smaller corner numbers in vvv are referencing angles

[hard forge]

and the Nambatama

[turbid tinsel]

he mentioned before how that was used, ill grab the comment

[silver rock]

oh cool thanks

[pure loom]

It was something that has been part of the EE from the beginning - although we don't know how significant it is. It could just be a nod to treasure hunting, for instance.

[snow walrus]

mirror one word

and combind?

[hasty anvil]

can we mirror the caesartama numbers like that?

[naive rover]

What if, seeing that the level is called promise and that we have leads on the night sky. That the password is something along the lines of I wish apon a falling star

[turbid tinsel]

#easter-eggs message

[gloomy anvil]

not that it's relevant, but I just noticed this is a ring/halo nama that isn't golden

[turbid tinsel]

#easter-eggs message

[paper prism]

The dual question marks are egg white and yolk yellow.

The picture Rob shared is mirrored backwards.

[turbid tinsel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011929497139953744/1152989231107551344/image.png?ex=65bface6&is=65ad37e6&hm=8a1ad6ac0c57abbaa68a39f13036a0badea99f350cba7c7eda2a8e79b055a4c2&

[proud minnow]

You were here back then... do you ever figure out the tripple meaning of these filled circles...?

[hard forge]

dice?

[silver rock]

they make me think about moons

[gloomy anvil]

that's an orion's belt if I've ever seen one (I haven't)

[timid solstice]

pretty sure you explained that one

[pure loom]

I don't think so. We had the Alpha Centauri triple star path. And just the number 3.

[hard current]

yeah wasn’t it to do with the radii of the circles

[timid solstice]

the pixel diameter of the circles

[hard forge]

we join the tangents in cross pattern?

[pure loom]

Oh that's right the diameter!

EE info overflows my cup haha

[hard current]

did we.. ever flip and mirror ques + tion?

[snow walrus]

i havent touched question images for a month

[pure loom]

Yes!

https://tenor.com/view/dances-with-wolves-gif-22525987

[timid solstice]

"it was all yellow"

[snow walrus]

could be more than one clue??

[hard forge]

"tripple meaning"?

3 clues

[fresh quiver]

tion+ques and then mirror?

[pure loom]

If Rob ever makes an actual typo, we are doomed haha

[proud minnow]

Love going back and look at the board at old tiers and images, there is so many things still uncovered... ._.

[fresh quiver]

seuq-noit

[timid solstice]

please god no

[hard current]

oh no

[turbid tinsel]

man i feel like were about to make more holes

[fresh quiver]

oh god

[gloomy anvil]

things relevant to T3?

[fresh quiver]

to all Tiers

[proud minnow]

Yes, Yellowstone (Kevin Costner) was 1... ._.

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/leave-the-past-in-the-past-dont-worry-about-the-past-let-bygones-be-bygones-never-look-back-its-over-gif-17517596

[hard current]

yes there are lol at the beginning of this tier when we were lost we tried going back and @unborn pilot solved lots of old clues

[hasty anvil]

We had looked back at a few tiers in some threads

[fresh quiver]

i think threads mostly never got eyes except once iirc

[timid solstice]

maybe we need to look into mirrors

https://tenor.com/view/mirror-the-rock-angry-dwayne-johnson-gif-16479897

[proud minnow]

Yes... OYE

[fresh quiver]

that damn OYE again

[hasty anvil]

One year earlier?

[fresh quiver]

mirror of OYE, EYO?

[pure loom]

Overcook Your Eggs...

[fresh quiver]

nope. thats not helping. I just saw a despairing EE hunter in the mirror

[silver rock]

Orangish-yellow egg...

[proud minnow]

But perhaps we should add a "private game mode" in THE FINALS... so you can host EE-excursions... ._.

[paper prism]

https://tenor.com/view/mr-bean-rowan-atkinson-bean-bean-movie-working-title-films-gif-15034595

[hard current]

PLEASE ROB

[gloomy anvil]

I thought OYE was just for TEH not TFEE, but hey what do I know lol

or I should just open my eyes

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/right-now-eric-cartman-craig-tucker-lola-south-park-gif-22863637

[silver rock]

please... I've been going into solo bank it so I'm not ruining my teams

[hushed beacon]

i concur

[hard current]

ok so there’s something in game revolving around what robs just said

[silver rock]

there's tons in the game that we haven't found I bet

[hard forge]

In the night

dark

[silver rock]

I keep looking at that one whiteboard with all the writing on it

[turbid tinsel]

man i barley know what i need to look for outside of the game for the password let alone what i should look for in the game for the password

lol

[silver rock]

and maybe there's some reference to Yellowstone/kevin costner in the game somewhere? or something adjacent

[hard forge]

I really want to know the backstory of that whiteboard

[hard current]

not likely directly to those, those were hints for older tiers

[fresh quiver]

555 444
99 888

   444                 444

666 4

cross mirror:

4 666
444 444

   888               99

444 555

[hard current]

he’s saying there are two other meanings from those circles we didn’t find

[pure loom]

We had this angle between the circles too, but never took it anywhere

[hasty linden]

yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees

[gloomy anvil]

did anybody check the area (or other measurements) of the triangle those points would create?

[snow walrus]

VR looking(playing) the game through mirrors

[silver rock]

There's definitely some references to how they built the game... In the top left of it there's that little diagram showing how they built the destruction models based on the normal directions of the faces of fractured game assets, but I think that's just a nod to developers rather than an EE

[timid solstice]

is rob saying OYE
Open your eyes

look up to the skies and see

(I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy)

[fallen jasper]

I wish I could tell padlet they legally cannot charge me $10 a month

[pure loom]

555 + 444 = 999 (666 upside down...)

[fallen jasper]

Why is their company name wellwisher

[silver rock]

have people asked about the fact that when you can see the moon in the arena it's red?

[gloomy anvil]

I have a whole rabbit hole about it haha #1185727960980922488 message

[silver rock]

haha fantastic

just thought about it with the whole "open your eyes" stuff

[hard forge]

🕯️🕯️🕯️

[pure loom]

these ideas are easy come, easy go

[velvet narwhal]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesper_Christensen
Jesper Christensen was born on the 16th May, 1948

[hard current]

little high little low

[silver rock]

A lot of this really gives off "allegory of the cave" vibes

[hard current]

I refuse to get off track

stars, pulsars, stellar classifications, gold, eggs, numbers, latin

that’s where I’m staying

[silver rock]

I feel like I'm staring at a wall with a bunch of shadows and Rob is forcing me to stare at them

[timid solstice]

when rob is typing for 2 minutes then stops

[pure loom]

that's a crazy coincidence

[fresh quiver]

the question i have for myself.
How close were we? did we already had passwords close to it or almost had the idea we need. thats what we should ask ourselves. even when we dont know the answer

[hard current]

closer than we have been the last two months probably

[proud minnow]

Captain's Log: Lost in the hunt for months now, remember to not fall down in old holes.

[hard forge]

He has to dumb it down for us.

[fresh quiver]

bet we were closer to the password of T3 in previous tiers as now

[proud minnow]

hehe no I was on the phone

[fresh quiver]

so down in old holes again. understood the assignment 😄

[hard current]

captains log: sarcasm is hard to detect over virtual interfaces

[fresh quiver]

good. its a indirect answer 😄

[silver rock]

we gotta keep pushing at the doors in front of us rather than the ones we've already opened, gotcha

[pure loom]

Captain's Log: yeah, right.

[fresh quiver]

captains log: i got the answer i wanted. Its not in old holes we went down 😄

[hard current]

captains log: my fever may be broken but I’m getting delirious

anyways.. back to the hunt hehe

[silver rock]

Captain's Log: there are no holes in space

[velvet narwhal]

Captains Log: Why is everyone flooding the Captains Log with chat messages?

[fresh quiver]

thats a lie

[paper prism]

Captain's Log: Healthy

[hard forge]

A literal Black hole dammit

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/hi-portal2-game-space-float-gif-16181612

[silver rock]

Dammit

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/alice-in-wonderland-black-hole-falling-bye-gif-13915543

[silver rock]

brain fried

[hard current]

Black holes and pulsars are both astronomical objects that are formed from the remnants of massive stars

[turbid tinsel]

so is he referring blackholes being old or old easter eggs at this point

[hard current]

hm

[timid solstice]

ah Messier 87

[hard current]

my guess is he is genuinely trying to keep us from getting lost in old holes that didn’t end up revealing anything?

[hard forge]

coincidence ? 😂

[fallen jasper]

Can you please put in a drain plug so they stop circling around the answer for the next 3 months

[hard forge]

this

[gloomy anvil]

so the old unsolved clues are relevant, but old rabbit holes, aren't?

[fresh quiver]

you know... even when he plugs it. we will still find a way to go down the holes again

[hard current]

https://tenor.com/view/fez-that70sshow-wilmer-valderrama-i-can-do-whatever-i-want-sassy-gif-6091950

[hard forge]

The exit condition is to find the password,
Or let the loop run.

[turbid tinsel]

reminds me of the time i thought the clues were related to lionel richie and the gold commodore album based of c64 being a clue lol

[fresh quiver]

"circling around the answer" 😄

[hard forge]

And I dug out Thomas Norton 💀

We were soo desperate.

[hard current]

are

[proud minnow]

OK that might have been a bit too tricky... "Really, really thirsty now. If only I could have a small drink of fresh water"

[fallen jasper]

Much better

[gloomy anvil]

https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/The_Memoirs_of_Guybrush_Threepwood

oops

[proud minnow]

"But I know there is nothing but ocean"

[proud minnow]

YES

[fresh quiver]

is there a specific star mentioned in kung fu panda maybe?

[velvet narwhal]

"Mmmmmm... maybe some bananas..."

[hard current]

wth is going on

[proud minnow]

(everything Guybrush wants is right in front of him... if he only looked, OYE...)

[turbid tinsel]

based on everything said,

im thinking blackhole

[gloomy anvil]

pretty sure Monkey Island has been a running theme, or at least was referenced before lol, I'm too new

[turbid tinsel]

worm hole

or whirlpool

[civic trellis]

Back, what did i miss?

[fresh quiver]

rob

[velvet narwhal]

I always have to think of the german word 'oje' when i read OYE. It's 'oh dear' in english...

[turbid tinsel]

where something drains or leads to somewhere else

[fresh quiver]

oje? whats oje? i know boje 😂😂

[proud minnow]

Brilliant game, The Curse of Monkey Island is one of the best games I played... ._.

[fresh quiver]

oje oje. i forgot

[velvet narwhal]

ojemine

[fresh quiver]

yep. just thought about that 😄

[civic trellis]

Did he eye?

[snow walrus]

Carribean?

[fresh quiver]

no. but he writes 😄

[snow walrus]

Guybrush 3pwood

[proud minnow]

In riddles, haha... ._.

[hard current]

you guys, rob is telling us the answer is right in front of us, it’s not going to actually be the password lol

[fresh quiver]

thats game three of monkey island right?

[hard current]

guess that means the answer is the sun

[proud minnow]

Yes.!

[hard current]

[fresh quiver]

3!

[rotund elbow]

who can i send a pic to?

[valid lichen]

screen

[fresh quiver]

can send it to me

[snow walrus]

okay so the password is repeated 3times word that contains mirrored words

i gues..........

[hard current]

that’s a hefty jump lad

[civic trellis]

Has to do with rome

[snow walrus]

i use my 99% of my brain rn

[sharp flame]

I get so distracted.. trying to win the objective...

[velvet narwhal]

i dont think its repeated 3 times but 3 is surely important

[fresh quiver]

@rotund elbow there you go

[silver rock]

the first chapter of The Secret of Monkey Island is called "The Three Trials"

[fresh quiver]

oh god

[rotund elbow]

gold ovel on white marble

[hard forge]

OYEEYOOYE

[hard current]

everything we want is right in front of us if only we looked…

[rotund elbow]

can anyone see if anything shows up in the gold

[rotund elbow]

dont call it private match, call it easter egg hunt

[turbid tinsel]

maybe a painting would be relevant here

[proud minnow]

There is also a three-headed monkey hidden in Monaco....
(I will personally send a THE FINALS mouse pad to the first one who finds it...)

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/what-wut-pepe-the-frog-shocked-surprised-gif-17558983

[fresh quiver]

WHAT

[hard current]

is the answer in game then? right in front of us? we just have to look? or is it in the passwords… gah

[turbid tinsel]

Guybrush appears in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II as "Guybrush Threepkiller" – a playable skin for Starkiller

[hard forge]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/monkeyisland/images/8/81/3headmonkey-somi.gif/revision/latest?cb=20120421180334

[fresh quiver]

let me give you a perfect rob answer:
in the clues 😄

[silver rock]

OH OKAY

[velvet narwhal]

3 words for the password?

or 3 letter

[silver rock]

pack up yolks, we're headed to monaco

[hearty meteor]

so i spent a night in vegas for nothing

sadness

[fallen jasper]

I'm sure there's eggs in every map that are worth looking for

[south wyvern]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-driver-edgar-wright-ansel-elgort-workingtitlefilms-fast-car-gif-15230041

[fresh quiver]

Guybrush has used the phrase 'Look out! A three-headed monkey!' To divert the attention of one of another character.

but i know rob wont divert us. right?

[proud minnow]

There is a constellation in Vegas to guide you too, but that is really, really, really hard to find... but it is there to guide you... ._.
(I wonder where the best place to find a constellation in Vegas is... hmm)

[civic trellis]

Bruh

[hearty meteor]

[gloomy anvil]

these must be realllyyy hidden

[hard forge]

He is so proud about how well he has hidden it.

[timid solstice]

rob hitting us with everything

[gloomy anvil]

unless it's in one of the bedroom paintings

[fallen jasper]

Dragon Constellation Studio?

[hard forge]

theater

[south wyvern]

i've been looking and looking for this tiny white furry in the hospital jeez

[pure loom]

Glamora has a star logo

[silver rock]

I had this thought when I was taking screenshots of every bit of text in the game the other day:

"Surely Embark wouldn't be putting easter eggs literally everywhere, right?"

[fallen jasper]

You don't know Rob enough then

[fresh quiver]

think he mentioned he thinks about hiding easter eggs in reallife too ._.

[gloomy anvil]

meatspace

[hearty meteor]

that’d be kinda cool tho

[pure loom]

For all we know, THE FINALS could just be an Easter Egg for ARC Raiders

[hard forge]

I was taking SS when they Shadow Launched it in the Game Awards

[fallen jasper]

Damn elaborate ARC Raiders EE

[silver rock]

ARG inception

[proud minnow]

We love making games and have fun, for us this is not just a work, it is a lifestyle, and we want to add passion and love in everything we do... that makes everything more fun... ._.

[silver rock]

oh absolutely, I totally understand! I'm an environment artist haha

[fallen jasper]

When did you speculate ARC was going to have a beta back in 2022? Was it March?

[hearty meteor]

we need to find coordinates and unbury a vr headset with a copy of the finals

[hasty anvil]

Embark is really the best

[hearty meteor]

and then rob takes a yellow baseball bat and bonks us

[pure loom]

you mean before the games were swapped?

[fallen jasper]

Yeah

[proud minnow]

(starting the game now... time for me to find some EE's while playing... see you in the arena.!)

[hearty meteor]

hmmm

[civic trellis]

Stream snipe him

Lol

[hard forge]

You can feel the love they put in their work.

[pure loom]

oof. I'd have to go watch my vids on it, it's been a while

[gloomy anvil]

I just need to know why this exists if not to hide a namatama

[hearty meteor]

where was that

[fresh quiver]

WRs in Seoul,
Three-headed monkey in Monaco
Namatama in Vegas?

[fresh quiver]

u tried to "light it"

[velvet narwhal]

I also think theres something hidden in the chimneys of buildings

[silver rock]

what does WRs mean?

[hearty meteor]

white rabbit

[gloomy anvil]

Vegas

[hard forge]

[fresh quiver]

White Rabbits.
Rob refers to them as WRs
#1197268508623515849

[hearty meteor]

yes but where exactly

[silver rock]

oh gotcha

[proud minnow]

AND in Skyway...?

[gloomy anvil]

#easter-eggs message

[timid solstice]

was gunna say

[pure loom]

A place of serenity?

[fresh quiver]

idk. were the generators in skyway too?

[velvet narwhal]

Yep

[hearty meteor]

do you not remember

[pure loom]

And don't forget the flashing light on the Moon

[fresh quiver]

oh I also forgot.
roses in practice range 😄

[velvet narwhal]

And the blood moon

[civic trellis]

Where?

[hard forge]

sos from captain

[fresh quiver]

in the park of the practice range are roses near the bench.
Its an easteregg. but we dont know how or what it does

[pure loom]

I got a good recording of it yesterday, I'll clip it and post it to see if we can do something with it

[civic trellis]

Orhx

[gloomy anvil]

I wish I could get on and search for that three headed monkey now

[hearty meteor]

any clue where thatis

i’ll take a look in a few

[hasty anvil]

the trees?

[hearty meteor]

i know its in monaco

the monke

[hard forge]

roses - romeo-Shakespeare

[silver rock]

I'm in vegas on a clear night right now, gonna see if I can figure out anything related to the constellations

[hasty anvil]

the highest point on night time maybe?

I wonder if game settings make a difference, my poor potato

[proud minnow]

one day you will figure this out, at least I hope you will, don't want another great mega-ee-thing be forever lost...

(playing on Monaco now)

[scenic python]

I complain about leavers in games and what do I do? I leave the parties to find an unfortunate three-headed monkey nowhere to be found. 🤡

[hard current]

weird question but is there a way to die by the roses

[gloomy anvil]

queue sniping Rob rn to follow him around and find every EE

[snow walrus]

quick cash?

[civic trellis]

True ee hunting

[fresh quiver]

solo bank it?

[hearty meteor]

upscaling may have an impact

[snow walrus]

can we 12 ee-hunters solo bank it in a same server? lol

[hard current]

… someone should try to kill someone with a rose lol

[gloomy anvil]

do projectiles do damage?... 🤔

the vault does (or used to) do damage, at least judging by the trailers

[hearty meteor]

how

[velvet narwhal]

ANOTHER?!

[hearty meteor]

all throwables do damage iirc

[hard forge]

That's what I am thinking!

[pure loom]

Here's the flashing Moon in Monaco. The sequence could be longer than this, but I'm close to max file size to post here.

[hearty meteor]

you can upload it as an unlisted video on youtube

[velvet narwhal]

If its true that we missed a cool ee in an old game and now the servers are down imma cry

[hearty meteor]

also that doesnt seem like a morse code

[pure loom]

Yeah, maybe just a straight number count

[snow walrus]

uhh?

[fresh quiver]

reallife artist who makes these statues

[earnest wagon]

I was only gone what felt like a couple of hours, and I see we stray further still from the Chicken Caesar Salad theory.

[hasty anvil]

We never stray too far from the salad

[timid solstice]

they do 20% of the dummies each

you can destroy the dummy with the 5 if you are fast enough

[hard forge]

do we know if the light is coming from the exact same point?

[pure loom]

I think it might change, if I recall the previous footage I saw of it

[civic trellis]

The cashbox still does there’s an achievement for it

[hard forge]

Dont get coined

[pure loom]

This flash is coming from just below Mare Vaporum

[pure loom]

Actually that's slightly wrong. I'll find the correct location

[jade citrus]

rob's really just spilling the beans today isnt he

[south wyvern]

yes he is

[earnest wagon]

And we're all scrabbling to arrange spilled lentils into something meaningful.

[hearty meteor]

beans

[remote basin]

i can't find the monkey😔

[hard current]

yes but they still all just look like beans 😭

[jade citrus]

i think it's hidden

[remote basin]

😱

[hard forge]

SR is giving away the finals mousepad personally to the first person who finds the monkey.

[snow walrus]

im not sure 3headed monkey is a photo or some kind of object,statue etc

[jade citrus]

Monkey Island was actually one of the first games I ever played. I remember being so young when I played it that my older brother had to help me read the dialogue.

[silver rock]

The fact that the game has been out for more than a month and the monkey hasn’t been found yet gives me hope but also worries me

[hard forge]

#easter-eggs message

[earnest wagon]

That seems like cheating though.

[remote basin]

i was thinking a photo but i couldn;t find any so ima look at the banners

[turbid tinsel]

being at sea, and justice's comment on the stop spinning, maybe messier 51? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlpool_Galaxy

Three supernovae have been observed in the Whirlpool Galaxy

[earnest wagon]

Ok, time to spitball some ideas based on recent clues...

#easter-eggs message

"stop circling around the answer"

Perhaps this is a matter of geometry.

[hasty anvil]

The fine print in Vegas is very fine

[earnest wagon]

Perhaps we should be literally drawing circles.

[hasty anvil]

CM's don't give hints

[hushed beacon]

i will be the first to fin it

[civic trellis]

We also have the constellation

The sky in seuol also has stars btw

[hasty anvil]

i didn't see the bounty Rob put on the monkey haha

[earnest wagon]

#easter-eggs message seems to be further clarified with #easter-eggs message, suggesting they both point to the same thing.

[pure loom]

Ok, I think I've pinpointed the location of the flashing light on the Moon. It is very close to Gyldén Crater

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

[gloomy anvil]

pulling an IOI and employing every one of my teammates to search for a three-headed monkey

[hearty meteor]

how did you

what

[pure loom]

I found a decent Lunar map - which wasn't that easy to be fair

The flash is also just left of Hipparchus crater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus_(lunar_crater)

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

But closer to Gyldén if it came down to it

[jade citrus]

CMs aren't part of the hunt

[shadow shore]

Alright what's new ??

[pure loom]

The fact he was Finnish-Swedish, makes me think it might be more likely to be him

[fresh quiver]

es

[gloomy anvil]

Yeah

In 1871 he was called by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to be its astronomer and head of the Stockholm Observatory.

[shadow shore]

We on the moon now, nice haha. I have some reading to do it seems

[valid lichen]

hes getting tired of watching us fail

[hasty anvil]

only a tiny bit