easter-eggs

[shadow shore]

3 headed monkeys now.. that's a new one.

[pure loom]

Here's the flash location when it wasn't too bright

[hard current]

The minor planet was named in honor of the Fenno-Swedish astronomer Hugo Gyldén (1841–1896), who was a director of the Stockholm Observatory. He developed a new technique to calculate the perturbations of planets and comets. The lunar crater Gyldén is also named after the astronomer (H 80)[2]

[valid lichen]

got monaco first try

[snow walrus]

Argon maybe 🤔

[pure loom]

The flashing is complex. I'll post a clip of it at 10% speed

[unborn pilot]

We’re looking at craters or signals from the moon?

Looks like I missed a bunch in an hour haha

[tired moat]

It looks like it could be Morse code

But I don't know anything about it

[unborn pilot]

Hmm. Does it connect to any of these?

[hearty meteor]

cant hurt to give it a try, however we dont know where it starts or ends

[tired moat]

Yeah

[pure loom]

it's between D and E (closer to D)

[fresh quiver]

Found it with a connection to gylden

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincaré_and_the_Three-Body_Problem

The three-body problem concerns the motion of three bodies interacting under Newton's law of universal gravitation, and the existence of orbits for those three bodies that remain stable over long periods of time

[unborn pilot]

These were all the ones named after folks in tier a-d like Angstrom, Newton, etc

[turbid tinsel]

by any chance, could the guy threepwood reference be related to c-3PO since the game was made by lucasarts? which would give us our space reference?

c-3po is essentially a gold shell

[pure loom]

Maybe they were pointing to Gyldén? (or possible Hipparchus) - interesting how close Gyldén is to Golden...

[turbid tinsel]

like that cant be to crazy can it?

[earnest wagon]

Open thought process to hopefully get some ideas around these flowing:

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

Captain suggests someone on a ship or spacecraft.

This clue seems to have been followed up with these additional hints:

#easter-eggs message
"Really, really thirsty now. If only I could have a small drink of fresh water"

Supports the lost Captain theme.

Really, really thirsty = parched / dehydrated
Fresh water = potable / spring
Small drink = sip / shot

#easter-eggs message
"But I know there is nothing but ocean"

More likely the Captain in question is one of a seafaring ship.

A distinction from the previous clue? The description seems to depict someone lost at sea, marooned perhaps. There's plenty of water, but none of it fresh.

#easter-eggs message
(everything Guybrush wants is right in front of him... if he only looked, OYE...)

Guybrush is a sailor (a mighty pirate) - Right in front of him would be off the bow, or forward. What he wants, is fame and treasure.

Given the language, I don't believe OYE means Open Your Eyes - Otherwise it would say something like "if only someone said to him, OYE"

[solar glade]

🧍

[grand panther]

what a coincidence that I am here

[hard forge]

what do we say about coincidence?

[crisp glen]

I would love to go on ee hunts with ppl here <3

[hearty meteor]

you can always go as a squad into a bankit game

but yes custom games would be cool

[grand panther]

Also this goes with the pirate theme “excursions” as in a journey on the ocean

[hearty meteor]

eggscursion

[grand panther]

Maybe like a captains room because it is private

[pulsar mason]

Stupid thought I just had but can’t check right now, what if you turn around as soon as you spawn at the start of a game (after jumping through the logo) and see if you can see something behind you

[valid lichen]

lol

[hearty meteor]

my brain is filled with nama tama

[valid lichen]

is that the full video?

[valid lichen]

namatamanamatamanamatama

[earnest wagon]

On Your Entrance

[pure loom]

No, it's longer, but I'm limited by file size here. I'll try to create a low res version

[snow walrus]

i guess nearest point is D but not that near

[valid lichen]

alr

[rich grove]

@pure loom I posted some stuff on the moon flash a while ago- it seemed like constant flashing but changed rate depending on where you were looking. the place didnt seem to match anything significant, a ridge. I initially thought it had to do with the reflectors but the location wasnt close enough. the flashing changed position on maps where the moon was rotated differently.

[fresh quiver]

Doesn’t Monaco have ships? Even when they are not reachable?

[unborn pilot]

its def Gylden on the map

[valid lichen]

looks very confusing so far dont think its morse

[fresh quiver]

Another thought:

Didn’t some pirates used sextants?

[civic trellis]

Maybe it speeds up when you’re closer?

[valid lichen]

if you can send the full video ill try putting it in an editing software and overlaying the full thing with a flash when it flashing to make it easier to see.

or you can if you want

[hasty anvil]

Maybe the moon has a pulsar effect

[rich grove]

#easter-eggs message monaco moon
#easter-eggs message Seoul moon
#easter-eggs message vegas moon
@pure loom

[snow walrus]

This is the flashing point

[grand panther]

what if you shot the blinking thing

[rich grove]

shooting moon did nothing for me

[unborn pilot]

that's using these coordinates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyldén_(crater)

[grand panther]

Hey maybe the faster it blinks the closer you get to where you want to go

[fallen jasper]

I don't give hints. (If I did it would be a little bit more obvious than that). I just know you guys have actually just been circling around the answer for a few months now

Don't know what it is either mind, I just know we're close.

[hard forge]

We have been close since December Nate.

[earnest wagon]

Don't mind me, I've just become conditioned to read into everything, seeing clues at every turn. Ignoring small details like whose message I'm reading, or what discord server I'm in.

[rich grove]

ptsd when you see 👀 ?

[crisp glen]

is this a namatama in a window on Monaco?

[hearty meteor]

holy shit

[fallen jasper]

Uhh

[hearty meteor]

is it actually

[valid lichen]

i cant even tell anymore

im crazy

[hearty meteor]

crazy?

i was crazy once

[valid lichen]

noooo

[crisp glen]

It doesnt look like any of the other textures

[hearty meteor]

they locked me in vegas

[valid lichen]

lmao

[hearty meteor]

a vegas with a nama tama

[snow walrus]

Have some respect on her/his privacy..

[hearty meteor]

nama tamas?

i hate nama tamas

they make me crazy

[pure loom]

Where about is that on the map?

[grand panther]

I think it’s on pocket park because you can see the top of the apartment building in the grey area

[fresh quiver]

could be right sight of the park. in the bushes, and then just look into the outside of the map from the map perspective east i think

[crisp glen]

here I think

I had to jump on the yellow box to see over the wall

[earnest wagon]

Can you look with Spectate?

[pure loom]

Ok, thanks - we can try and confirm

[hard forge]

A necessary sacrifice

[hearty meteor]

i was about to go to sleep

well

[earnest wagon]

In my case, an inevitable one.

[crisp glen]

ima go shower, ill be back to help look into it, and keep looking for the monkey hehe

[hearty meteor]

[hard forge]

steam maintenance

[hearty meteor]

wpdowijeiduehe

ok i think i will come back next morning

hopefully they will let me out of vegas

[fresh quiver]

will do the same for now.
night hunters. wish you a good hunt in the meantime

[earnest wagon]

Got Monaco first try!... It's foggy.

[timid solstice]

Good night

And remember

[pure loom]

Aren't GN and OYE mutually exclusive? haha

[daring bluff]

#easter-eggs message
perhaps Rob is talking about The Strat, the famous tall tower in Vegas. you can’t explore it in-game of course, but maybe he’s not talking about in-game…

[snow walrus]

OYE in dreams

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-leonardo-dicaprio-inception-wake-up-gif-19107281

[gloomy anvil]

tbf I've solved the password in at least 2 dreams now

[turbid tinsel]

from the messages its gotta be 3

lol

[snow walrus]

Anyway gn to me as well

[grand panther]

I’m gonna look for the 3 monkey heads

[earnest wagon]

I tried looking in each of the windows through a scope. It was foggy, but still nothing stood out. I even used a goo canister to get right up to the wall to see even more windows and got nothing unfortunately.

[pure loom]

I managed to see the same thing, but I think it's just a random colour blob like a lot of the windows have

It can be seen by looking through this gap in the LED signage

at Pocket Park

other examples of colour in the windows

[hasty anvil]

looks like a world map in that one

[pure loom]

does a bit

[hasty anvil]

Maybe Arc or meatspace related, kind of like 2 sides of the world at war

[pure loom]

another example of the colours in windows

[unborn pilot]

That looks like 78 and 63 in the bottom two little windows

[pure loom]

I reckon we can probably rule it out as being a Nama

[earnest wagon]

Was there ever anything worked out for the roses in the practice range?

[shadow shore]

I'll never get Monaco or Vegas, it's all Seoul now 🥲 ... so we looking for a 3 headed monkey or a constellation that'll help find the monkey? Is that right

[jade citrus]

The Glamora building in Vegas has the symbol for the north star on the front

[solar glade]

thought that was known

[hasty anvil]

we've still got 2 WR to find, there's something on every map

[jade citrus]

rob recently mentioned something about a constellation on Vegas

[turbid tinsel]

i can not que monacco for the life of me

[pulsar mason]

I like this idea, has anyone tried it?

[shadow shore]

This is true, but I've hit a standstill on where I can look for the WRs... feel like I've tried in a lot of places

[earnest wagon]

Last thing for the night - I hopped into the practice range for a bit to test a theory (didn't pan out) but I did get drawn to the sign on the building again.

"32 bis".

The flag out the back (and general decor) put the test building in Monaco. The 32 bis address would be for a building on a street where there's already a number 32. Perhaps a repetition of 32, or 3232 or something is important?

[hasty anvil]

I got glitched in spectator mode on solo bank, never got kicked for inactivity haha

but still couldn't find anything

[daring bluff]

literally 1984. everyone has telescreens playing the same things

[gloomy anvil]

hmm if a constellation would be anywhere I'd put my bet on those lights representing stars

[valid lichen]

is there anything to find in skyway?

[jade citrus]

rob hinted that there is

[valid lichen]

ok

[hasty anvil]

A lot of stars on the Argon sphere

[valid lichen]

oh truuueee

[shadow shore]

I like this, any stand out or a lot more bold than others?

[hasty anvil]

errr i wouldn't know, stars make my brain hurt

nothing stood out immediately though

Does anyone know the real life location of the Vegas map? (Fremont street, easy google search -_-)

[valid lichen]

hmmm

vegas

[hasty anvil]

Fremont street

[valid lichen]

jk jk

yeah

[pulsar mason]

I wish I was smarter to know about constellations 😭

[opal marten]

does HR764580 mean anything to anyone?

[hasty anvil]

solo bank it isnt kicking me from spectating anymore very nice

[valid lichen]

yay

i got vegas with trips and turrets so ill try disabling all of em to see if anything happens

[opal marten]

Another thing that im sure probably doesnt mean anything but

all the gambling chips in game have numbers on them that are out of order

[hasty anvil]

yeah i bet (lol) those numbers will mean something later on

[opal marten]

yea...

645132

clockwise

[hasty anvil]

the names of the machines are intersting too

ohh those

that's normal for poker chips

google it and you'll see

[turbid tinsel]

opposite sides all add up to 7 if im not mistaken on the layout

[hasty anvil]

haha very nice, you're the constellation guy now

[opal marten]

its so weird that every gun in game has a serial number

its such a small detail

but every serial number is visible

[turbid tinsel]

easiest way to identify it in a vr/ar game

[opal marten]

yea but you dont see CoD or anybody else doing it

[valid lichen]

nothing happens

[turbid tinsel]

those arent vr/ar in lore itself i dont think either

[opal marten]

well yea

but they def didnt need to add serial numbers

i feel like there could be something there

[pure loom]

there's the full recording I have of it

full speed though

[valid lichen]

thanks

[crisp glen]

Darn, thanks for looking at it closer though

[pure loom]

(I tried cloaking during it, so hopefully that doesn't affect it)

[hasty anvil]

these lights are only visible monaco night, the last picture lights seem to flash a lot quicker

and only visible with sniper

7 NE side, maybe 4-5 NW side, NW side flashes faster

now that i think of it maybe same speed as holtow red dot

[shadow shore]

There's a Vega star in the LYRA constellation, not sure if that means anything to anyone. Brightest star in the Northern constellation

[shadow shore]

Do they appear only when you zoom in?

[hasty anvil]

the ones NW you can see without zooming in, NE need to zoom in

maybe it's just a rendering thing, or just the lights for planes design

Anyone know where the 's lies' graffiti is on skyway? haven't seen it for myself yet

[shadow shore]

Under the crane I thought??

[hasty anvil]

monaco side or seoul side?

[shadow shore]

No idea

[pure loom]

Is there an "S LIES" on Skyway as well as Monaco? I didn't know that

[shadow shore]

I've not seen it at all apart from here, what I thought was under a crane

[hasty anvil]

#easter-eggs message

This is the clip of someone finding it

Maybe it was Monaco i might be getting confused

[shadow shore]

Yeah looks like it from the clip

[hasty anvil]

Yeah Monaco

so there's 2 EE's in the construction area

[unique spruce]

Tesla believed that the numbers 3, 6, and 9 represent the non-physical frequency, vibration, and energy of physical objects in the third dimension, making them divine codes to the universe.

[solar glade]

there is?

[hasty anvil]

No i got confused

[shadow shore]

Just reading about the captain's log now, woah

There was a Guybrush and Mancomb on that monkey island that's all I know of

[hasty anvil]

https://monkeyisland.fandom.com/wiki/Three_Headed_Monkey#Trivia

might help finding the 3 headed monkey

[pure loom]

apparently not

[graceful coral]

Any update? I saw the pins but not sure where yall got it from

[shadow shore]

Says it appears in-game in a hut, but I'd say it'd be different for us

[valid lichen]

ok so unless they are writing an entire essay it doesnt look like morse

wayyy to many flashes

unless its looping

possible

[pure loom]

maybe numbers then?

[valid lichen]

this is how many flashes its had in the first few seconds

i did slow it down allot

and it might of messed with the flashing when adding frames or whatever

ill try again full speed

anybody know any other blinking light codes

it is interesting that allot of blinks are different sizes

what is all this electric stuff? @pure loom

cloaking device?

[pure loom]

Yeah, I briefly tried cloaking to see what it did - sorry if that didn't help

[valid lichen]

all good

so far im just getting IUEHEIH from it

if it is morse

that is

I'm not too good with this type of decoding so I might just be wrong.

[pure loom]

I found a Nama outside the Seoul map

In a weird location

It has a steamrollers logo under it

shows the location a bit better

[south wyvern]

Never seen that one before, what the nama doing?

[shadow shore]

Looks like an inflatable

[jade citrus]

#easter-eggs message

[fallen jasper]

Smashel do you just have a hotdial to every post anyone has ever made

[pure loom]

haha of course it would be @tulip matrix hahaha

[pure loom]

yeah, it could be one of those with something on it I guess

[jade citrus]

No but I have ur mom on hotdial

[shadow shore]

constellation

• a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.
• a group of associated or similar people or things.
  "no two patients ever show exactly the same constellation of symptoms"

May have been referring to the 2nd meaning also

[south wyvern]

Maybe. will check Vegas' BJ tables
#easter-eggs message
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 11, 7, 6, 3, 9, 2, 4, 3, 7, 11, 5, 3, 1, 11
A-2, 3-4, 5-6, 6-7, A-7, 6-3, 9-2, 4-3, 7-A, 5-3, A-A
A2, A7, 7A and AA, so that's another five (A)

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

[opal marten]

so would the code for the website be the name of a constellation corresponding with these numbers?

also i missed the part when we connected this to constellations

why are we thinking constellations

[shadow shore]

Rob said:
"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)"

[opal marten]

right right

okay thank you

have we checked the map boundaries? (Obvious probably)

i mean i think stars and i think sky

but i assume. that its the glowing dome shit in that one building

[opal marten]

this

[shadow shore]

There are stars, in the night variant of the map. But nothing really jumps out, and Rob's clues aren't always literal so

[opal marten]

it would be insane for the constellation to be in the actual skybox

1. so do you think we're looking for an actual constellation on the map?
2. do we think this constellation's name could be the password?

[pure loom]

I think 1 is the most likely

[fallen jasper]

https://tenor.com/view/by-the-nine-im-tweakin-elder-scrolls-skyrim-gif-25519944

[shadow shore]

Hmm Rob also said the phrase "there to guide you" twice

[pure loom]

Has anyone looked at the fire alarms on Skyway before? They spark a lot when you shoot them

[warm lantern]

https://tenor.com/view/dream-devil-dream-evil-dream-devil-dream-snapchat-gif-27606409

rooooooooouuuuuuuuuggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

epic embed fail !!!!11!!!1!!!!

[warm lantern]

yeah i thought that was intentional

[turbid tinsel]

I don't think it's this, I'm already seeing duplicate lights/stars showing in 2 spots

[pulsar mason]

Perhaps referring to the roulette wheel missing numbers

[cloud wyvern]

it is because we are all stars when in vegas 🥲

[tired moat]

I saw something on Vegas but I can't post it here, and I'm not sure if it's been mentioned before

[turbid tinsel]

Dm

[shadow shore]

Yeah maybe?

Haven't seen much of the roulette wheel yet

[pure loom]

do you mean the changes to it?

I posted about it a week or so ago

[shadow shore]

Like I haven't noticed the roulette wheel or anything at all

Reading up on the posts now

[pure loom]

no worries, 31 is replaced with a 13 and the 26 (iirc) is missing altogether - this is on the Lewis Gun roulette wheel skin

[shadow shore]

Oh right I was about to look on the table in Vegas. That's interesting

[crimson ledge]

[pure loom]

also the roulette wheel numbers usually add up to 666 - but on the lewis it's 622

I noticed there are some white dots on this grate on the Vegas map - probably supposed to be bird poo, but could be stars, I suppose

probably a bit of a reach haha

[cloud wyvern]

3 Headed monkey on Monaco, there are cannons you can fire off scattered around the map. monkey island has a gag where you can sink your ship by firing at cannon at it.

are there any cannons on the map that point towards the water

[shadow shore]

Well this wheel thing I have says to stand facing North, and then hold it up and spin the wheel to the date. So maybe to navigate/find the constellation, we need to use the compass at the top of the map 🧭

[shadow shore]

Yeah Im pretty sure there's one facing out of the map - maybe towards the water. It's near the end of the park area, not sure what direction off the top of my head

[shadow shore]

This is the one I'm thinking of

[cloud wyvern]

pointed towards a buncha boats

wonder if there is a certain time to use it

[shadow shore]

Also noticed this on a lamp post. Haven't seen any more of them, but there could be others. Might tie in to the crest on the gold shaped egg too

[rotund elbow]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_Arms_of_Prince_Charles_III_of_Monaco_(Supreme_Order_of_Christ).svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Monaco

[hard current]

late night thinking

the earth is an oblate spheroid

630 geo

earth

just some.. thinking

[shadow shore]

I don't know enough about shapes or words to dispute this

[rich grove]

The earth has gold and eggs and latin and rob, there's no way the earth isn't the answer!

[slender sedge]

hi everyone! I'm new hehe
the game has easter eggs??

[shadow shore]

Yep, check out the egg hunt info page!

[slender sedge]

oh my oh my

[long dome]

they are incredibly complex lol, but a fun lil thing for the community

[pulsar mason]

-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! 🥚

[pulsar mason]

It’s more an ARG that takes autism to a whole new level, buckle in 😊

[slender sedge]

sounds fun

I gotta go investigate haha

thanks!

[long dome]

this is what was recently figured out: https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/TFEE_T2DEF and this is what were puzzling right now: https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/TFEE_T3

[shadow shore]

Yeah join our decent into madness

[pulsar mason]

No worries mate!

[long dome]

i literally dont know what to make of the question mark pics, anyone know where the list of eye'd messages are?

[slender sedge]

omg that looks complicated wow

has anybody tried to put them together in Photoshop or smth? like filtered layer for example

(do we discuss it here? or everybody does things on their own?)

[pulsar mason]

Yeah so everything gets discussed here but if the chat gets too bombarded with random conversations sometimes we create a thread to focus on specific rabbit holes

[pulsar mason]

The question marks, ques and tion do overlap but not perfectly. The white ? doesn’t fit perfectly inside the gold. We aren’t sure why yet

The best current threads we have to go on are potential constellations in the Vegas map (might not be stars but could be things representing stars), the VVV namatama egg which apparently has a hidden clue we haven’t discovered yet, and weirdly Monkey Island?

[shadow shore]

I was thinking about Rob's fresh water clue and had a look at the MI wiki, and in the game there's a waterfall: "When searching for a part of the map to Big Whoop, Guybrush Threepwood used Jojo as literal monkey wrench on the valve in order to stop the water and reveal the secret passage".

Only water I can think of in Monaco is in the fountains

[slender sedge]

um, sorry for silly question, but who is Rob? 👉🏻👈🏻

[long dome]

the organizer of this game/egg hunt, he is active in this chat and puts alot of hints here

[slender sedge]

oh thx

[long dome]

also check out this padlet that contains everything we know rn about tier 3 if your interested in hunting https://padlet.com/Kyne/the-promise-t3-dyra282bx402xxzy

[shadow shore]

Search some of his messages in here, a lot of them contain cryptic clues to what we're doing

[slender sedge]

uhh.. what's his nickname?

[shadow shore]

I just type in embark rob

[slender sedge]

also thank you all for answering all the questions

i know I must be not the first (and probably not the last) person to ask allthethings

[long dome]

yea, im fairly new too and its not easy to keep up with the progress. so many cryptic rabbit holes. good luck

[slender sedge]

gl to you too!

[pulsar mason]

The more hunters the better! We have been on this tier for ages so fresh eyes are appreciated 😅

[slender sedge]

👀

[shadow shore]

I'm wailing on the fountains with a bat and nothing... I'm all out of ideas

[slender sedge]

and where do people try passwords?

[shadow shore]

TFEE Lvl2 Page: https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

[slender sedge]

thank you!

[shadow shore]

T3, the top link. Also check out the "tried passwords" thread - might save you some time

[shadow shore]

No worries

[vale igloo]

what’s with the holtow quote dot thing?

[fallen jasper]

Wiki might be a little out of date. Haven't updated the pages with the new discoveries yet. Maybe Smashel did but not entirely sure.

[shadow shore]

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

[slender sedge]

so just a thought / direction
I went with the Philosopher's stone idea, as it may turn things into gold, and as I understood eggs were used to get gold too

Medieval Alchemists called the Star [of David] the “Philosopher’s stone”

The Star of David is an ancient symbol. It is composed of two triangles on top of each other, one with a point up, the other with the point down.

I've seen there were triangles on the whiteboard?..

looking at the sheets, from NOV 27, "ad astra (text + image posted fully in red) (triangle in image) -> Stars, Triangle, Red

stone is red

[naive rover]

Also, there was some speculation about some constellation in Vegas, what if it has something to do with a game of poker or something

[slender sedge]

I connected the constellations and "ad astra" as a clue to a star, but I have no idea where to go with The Star of David goes next

maybe that's a wrong direction

[shadow shore]

Hmm good thought, are there any constellations in gambling terminology?

[naive rover]

Don't know, I am only a kid

[shadow shore]

One of us noticed that the symbol on one of the casinos is a big star, can't remember which one. But I'll try find it

[slender sedge]

good idea

[pulsar mason]

Interesting thought, my only hesitation with going down the Star of David route is that we haven’t really had anything else point us in that direction. We’ve also discussed alchemy and the philosophers stone to great length without any eyes 😔

[shadow shore]

@slender sedge

[naive rover]

I am in a match, I will see if I can get Vegas
(Not a kid, more teenager)

[slender sedge]

yeah, I was uploading the screenshot to send a link of it hehe

[shadow shore]

flick any images to one of us in a DM and we can post it here if you like

[slender sedge]

yeah.. same, I have no idea where to navigate next

[slender sedge]

oh, will do next time, thx! but yes, that was the star I found in a video review of the map

[naive rover]

Now to figure out what game has a constellation of cards

[slender sedge]

speaking of constellations, North Star is in constellation of Ursa Minor

do we have bears in the game? 😄

[naive rover]

Intresting

[naive rover]

Now to reasearch

[shadow shore]

I haven't seen any/ any statues etc, why bears?

[pulsar mason]

Ursa Minor is a bear

[pulsar mason]

Negative, besides the panda bear outfit

[shadow shore]

Ahh right 🐻

[slender sedge]

oh oh oh, there are 4 casinos standing there, right? like stars in the constellation, there are 7 of them there, but 4 of them make a rectangle

oh damn.. the North star is not in the rectangle uh

I tried lol

[pulsar mason]

Loving these ideas, keep em coming

[naive rover]

No set of cards is called a constellation, but there is a game called Orion stars

[naive rover]

Hahaha that’s a mobile app sorry

[shadow shore]

The constellation with the star Vega jumped out at me a little, I think that name has been talked about in here

[pulsar mason]

Yeah it’s been heavily looked into with no eyes, pretty sure it’s a dead end

[shadow shore]

Ah damn

[long dome]

i tried to look around las vegas argon casino for clues but my lobbies are so sweaty i ended up being chased and having to fight the entire time

[naive rover]

What else, I am a bit stuck. What if we bounce random things back and forth continuing other clues, maybe we might get somewhere

[long dome]

well rob eyed up the fact that you can pick up 5 roses in the practice range, and his refernce to hamlet relates to ophilia's referencing of flowers

[pulsar mason]

Does anyone know if this has been looked into before?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_(Fabergé_egg)

Looks similar to the globe in the Vegas casino, it’s a golden egg faberge called constellation

[long dome]

i think the flower rabbit hole is a good lead

[slender sedge]

just some numbers in case this is relevant to any previous clues I might be missing

Polaris is a yellow supergiant star shining with the luminosity of 1,260 suns

[pulsar mason]

Negative, I pointed it out and he replied saying that it does have a purpose but isn’t related to this ee hunt

[long dome]

ah rip. weird addition to the practice range then

[pulsar mason]

Yeah it does have a point though, we just aren’t sure what yet. Something non Easter egg related

[vale igloo]

ive got absolutely no clue about being what's spoken about, but I heard the word poker, and could this be related to the lewis gun roulette skin? any sort of easter egg on there?

[pulsar mason]

There is a clue on that gun, we don’t know why but some numbers are missing from the roulette and replaced with others

[shadow shore]

This could be something

[slender sedge]

thought the same but about the knives skin

[long dome]

theres chips that come out instead of shells, maybe there is a sequence to those chips?

[pulsar mason]

#easter-eggs message

Here

[slender sedge]

on the knives skin which is cards, the ace looks like Fleur-de-lis - the Royal Lily

[shadow shore]

We've looked at the "52 pickup" knives skin too, checked to see if there was any sequences after you throw them. And yeah nothing unfortunately

[vale igloo]

are there any maps in the game based in the year 2015 or 2025? I've been thinking about the name of the gif on the holtow.com webite

5.15.25

mm/dd/yy

[hearty meteor]

only monaco 2014

[long dome]

2014*

[naive rover]

Rob said he liked the crosswords on 11/6/2015

[slender sedge]

on fler-de-lis thought
"In 1679 Augustin Royer used these stars for his constellation Lilium (the Lily, representing the fleur-de-lis and in honour of his patron, King Louis XIV)."

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

just a brain dump

[vale igloo]

nyt crosswords?

[slender sedge]

wordle?

[vale igloo]

wordle did not exist in 2015

[slender sedge]

yeah, true

[long dome]

the lewis gun drops 11 black chips, then 12 green, red and white chips in sequence. probably not a clue lol

[vale igloo]

May 25th, 2015

[naive rover]

Dunno

[pulsar mason]

Yeah the New York Times crossword was used to get Aesop as a clue, leading to pulsars

The pulsar clues didn’t really go anywhere after that

[naive rover]

In 1943 the gps got made

[vale igloo]

I'm looking at NYT crosswords for that date, and poker coming up like 3 times in the past 5 minutes doesn't seem like a concidence lol

[naive rover]

That is no coincidence

Anything on Seoul

[vale igloo]

there is also 18 down - Small egg : OVULE

i saw us talking about eggs before

[slender sedge]

anything related to gold?

[vale igloo]

not that i can see but there is like 60 answers to skim thru so give me a sec

there is also 49 down, Grab : SEIZE

[pulsar mason]

If you guys want a great look at where we have investigated clues check the padlet

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

[vale igloo]

here is the direct link for y'all to look at

https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=5/25/2015

[slender sedge]

wait, why May 25, if "Rob said he liked the crosswords on 11/6/2015"?

[long dome]

the holtow.com website that comes from the holtow qr sticker in game references that date

[vale igloo]

it's a very similar date to what you can make of the holtow gif name

not exactly

but like within a few days possibly

it depends if what format you look at the date in

[vale igloo]

i had a look at that date, there is something about golden eggs

Who told "The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs" : AESOP

[slender sedge]

oooh

[vale igloo]

Leader at the Battle of Alesia : CAESAR

[pulsar mason]

Yeah I linked that before

#easter-eggs message

That’s how we found Aesop leading to pulsars

It was also confirmed by rob

[vale igloo]

how'd you guys get pulsars?

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175206999802249307

[long dome]

the caesar image has a date which is the birthdate of jocelyn bell who is the first to discover pulsars

[pulsar mason]

Yep sorry I got confused with dates, we got pulsars from the VVV namatama

It’s on the padlet

[vale igloo]

padlet is so annoying why cant you drag it round its pissing me off lol

can only scroll

[long dome]

i was just pissed off about that too lol

[slender sedge]

it the article about pulsars I found this

" AESOP (Anti-Electron Sub Orbital Payload)-Lite, an instrument capable of distinguishing electrons from positrons, their antiparticles"

https://inquiry.ucsc.edu/2021-22/particles-from-space/

[pulsar mason]

Oh shit wait up

[vale igloo]

the red dot could be from space? maybe

i saw an image of red stars here before

[pulsar mason]

I think that’s new

[vale igloo]

like in game

aint no way i might've helped

how does rob talk? is the stuff not in brackets, like actually pertaining to easter eggs, but everything in brackets should be ignored?

or it's like him talking normally

not easter egg related

i’m looking for a monkey on monaco because i want a mousepad

[naive rover]

Same

[slender sedge]

what's the monkey in monaco?

[pulsar mason]

#easter-eggs message

[slender sedge]

lol that's cool!

[shadow shore]

The most solid lead we have is related to the old game the Curse of Monkey Island

[vale igloo]

did i understand this right?

[slender sedge]

speaking of Vegas and constellatons, one of the Casinos name is Argon, could be connected to Argo Navis?

or maybe not. Argon is a colourless, odourless gas that is totally inert to other substances, number 18 in the table

[long dome]

three headed monkey... maybe relates to three wise monkeys: hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil

[slender sedge]

is this monkey related to this ee?

[pulsar mason]

I don’t think so, but maybe 😅

[slender sedge]

thought so too.. or maybe just a reference to Monkey Island (there was a three-headed monkey, according to google)

[pulsar mason]

Yeah that’s the one we were looking into. Rob started posting quotes from Monkey Island, which led to him mentioning the hidden monkey in game

[long dome]

its possibly a red herring, but i dont know why he would send people on a hunt for this three headed monkey whilst referencing that game. i feel like it plays into the easter egg but it doesnt connect with any current discoveries

[timid solstice]

Ha I was saying goodnight too and just reminding the others awake

[vale igloo]

my teammates got quite pissed at me but the closest thing i’ve found is a statue of what looks like 4 monkeys on monaco

[shadow shore]

Interesting, did you get a screenshot of it? Solo bank it is great for EE hunting

[vale igloo]

There is also quite a few telescopes around the map if that is anything

Also quite an alarming amount of statutes of naked woman i didn’t even realize were there

[shadow shore]

There are a few of those fountains around the map. It has writing on the top block too, I was told it's the name of the fella who built the fountain irl from memory

[shadow shore]

That's the one

[vale igloo]

What’s it say?

i’m pretty much blind lol

[pulsar mason]

It’s the architects name, just a nice attention to detail

[vale igloo]

What’s the name of the architect

[shadow shore]

More here

[ocean basin]

@proud minnow hello i need help

[pulsar mason]

Stop

[velvet narwhal]

Was anything new found in the last 10h?

[vale igloo]

i think i’ve found this monkey but just gotta redo it all with a sniper so i can get a better view lol

[velvet narwhal]

I think this 'special' version is just the gun with the sticker. Could be a selection bug.

[velvet narwhal]

The 3 headed monkey on monaco?

[vale igloo]

yessir

i could be wrong don’t hold your breath

it looked promising

[slender sedge]

if changing letters to ther number in lphabet, we get
gold egg = 715124566 = 32 (sumed all numbers)
aurum ovum (in latin) = 12118211315222113 = 33

i don't know what I'm doing

[pulsar mason]

Join the club haha 😂

[slender sedge]

lol

[shadow shore]

The suspense

[pulsar mason]

Post it?

I’m excited

[shadow shore]

Have you read about the five truths that link each tier together?

[slender sedge]

also I had a though regarding constellations in Vegas (since Rob mentioned there's one constellation in Vegas). We have a North star logo on one of the casinos, but what if it is not the star itself, but just a direction?

so there's Ursa Minor and Ursa Major
Ursa Major is usually pretty visible for those who live in the Northen Hemisphere. And if you want to find a Polar star, you can easily find Ursa major, find the right side of the rectangle of it and extend this line up - and you will find a bright star which is Polar star in the tail of Ursa Minor.

What if the 4 casinos are the rectangle of Ursa Major, and Glamora casino is not the Polar star itself, but just gives us a direction to the star? so we could extend the line from Argon to Glamor and further to find North Star?

(does it make sense or a picture is needed?)

I fell like I'm that man from the meme with red threads

[slender sedge]

I've seen mentions of five truths, but didn't dive into that, where should I look?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7DjJ3r4XG0E/maxresdefault.jpg <- Ursas image

[shadow shore]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1194001777452929154

This thread is probably your best bet

[pulsar mason]

It’s a hell of a theory, why don’t you try jumping into Vegas and having a look to see if you find something

[slender sedge]

launching already

[shadow shore]

I'm wondering if the middle section plays a part ... like where the hologram is

[shadow shore]

Did it end up being the monkey cerberus we've been looking for?

[slender sedge]

um.. silly question, but I can't pre-select a map, right?

[shadow shore]

Neg

[slender sedge]

sad

but if I drop out of the game - will I have to wait for it to end? or is there any punishment for that? never done it lol

[shadow shore]

Nope

[slender sedge]

noice

ty

[pulsar mason]

Unless it’s ranked I think you’re fine

[slender sedge]

nah going to ranked to find ee is badass haha

[long dome]

ive gotten vegas 3 times in a row trying to get monaco. i finally get monaco and its foggy at night. awesome!!!!!

[pulsar mason]

It’s such a flex

[slender sedge]

I'm trying to get to Vegas, but got to sunny Monaco 😄

[slender sedge]

i feel like that's a crazy theory and it's just too much to be true

[pulsar mason]

True but if it was true then you’d become a hero

[long dome]

YES!!! i got sunny monaco time to hunt

[shadow shore]

Is there anything on Skyway that we know of yet? That's the only map I dodge atm haha

[slender sedge]

nah, that'd be even more crazy, considering I just joined the hunt today

uh it keeps giving me Monaco 😥

[vale igloo]

I haven’t been able to get the map again

i’ve been trying non stop

my luck man

[fresh quiver]

sup hunters.
anything found or else found while i was alseep? 😄

[shadow shore]

Nothing yettttt

[fresh quiver]

"buuuut" 😂😂

these messages just haunt us all.... u directly knew what i meant haha

[long dome]

this tier is so confusing. I wonder how many of the leads are red herrings. rob has said that we already have everything we need for the password.

[shadow shore]

Honourable mentions for new possible leads though:

#easter-eggs message
and
#easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

thought about Faberge Eggs sometimes too. But Faberge was never eyed. So i crossed that out for me.

the AESOP thing. need to read into it. glad im at work and can do that

[shell stone]

What’s easter egg rewards

[half bolt]

any closer to cracking it guys

[shell stone]

How can I see

[fresh quiver]

we dont know if there will be a reward or not.
Also we are just at Level 2 from Level 5 iirc.

[fresh quiver]

-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! 🥚

[shell stone]

Ahh ty

[fresh quiver]

well. there is a reward. for another small easteregg that rob hid in Monaco.
Somewhere in Monaco is a Three-headed monkey. and rob said the first who will find it will get a free mousepad 😄

#game-announcements message

dunno if that could be smth on one of the new skins

[shadow shore]

Well we're currently chasing a 3 headed monkey, so I think that's progress right

[half bolt]

barcodes are always nice

also 3 headed monkey

3 players on a team

also casino

[slender sedge]

anybody investigated Vegas slot machines if they have all the same images/combinations?

[slender sedge]

220123 - could it be 22 Jan 2023?

[gloomy anvil]

M 220123 230421 C

oh it's the same numbers as the urban explorer's jacket,

[shadow shore]

A few of us have had a bit of a look, some play a tune similar to zelda and sound effects like street fighter. And others say "government bail out" and "milk daddy"

[fresh quiver]

also the skins have the same number sequence as the Jacket.

but thats everything i found in the video

[fresh quiver]

thank you 🙂

[gloomy anvil]

still G=6

[shell stone]

g

[slender sedge]

but the combinations are all the same? so far I managed to check Argon - all the machines seem to be the same in terms of combinations. (btw Argon is full of stars in its design). In Glamor machines seem to be in different combinations, but I couldn't find anything useful

I also found stickers on the monitors, but they seem to be the same (I've seen 2 out of 3 having all the three stickers)

@shadow shore can I send you the images?

[sand girder]

have the guns always said THE FINALS: DISCOVERY TECH ?

[fresh quiver]

i think yes. or atleast some#

[pulsar mason]

Anyone getting anything from the patchnotes?

[fresh quiver]

didnt found anything in the patchnotes

[gloomy anvil]

Neither

[pulsar mason]

Send through to one of us!

[slender sedge]

already sent to @shadow shore , looks like nothing new, it was already posted here haha

[pulsar mason]

Ah damn haha

[slender sedge]

another interesting thig is why keyboards in Vegas were English-Korean

[pulsar mason]

Nice spotting, we are 99% sure it’s just a reused keyboard texture from the Seoul map though

[slender sedge]

nothing elso so far

except that Argon is also full of stars (as of Glamore - only the polar star)

[fresh quiver]

rob always refers to the white rabbits as WR...

"Just a coincidence"
The asteroid "AESOP" has also the name "1978 WR13"

[earnest wagon]

Ooh... I've linked to the Aesop asteroid, but hadn't noticed that yet.

[fresh quiver]

yeah. just noticed it due to the native language site in wikipedia for me.
in English it redirects to List of minor planets.

Thats how i saw it 😅

https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=12608
headline there it is

[vale igloo]

bars and spaces sticker

mean anything?

[fresh quiver]

spaces sticker?

[long dome]

bars AND spaces

[gloomy anvil]

Can anybody get a super high quality screenshot of this sticker?

It might be the same as holtow though, too long to fit any barcode standards.

[long dome]

im on 1080, and i cant scan it. probably too short

[final glacier]

if u scan is a number :06399027

[gloomy anvil]

are you scanning a clearer version? 👀

[final glacier]

on the yt video

[gloomy anvil]

could you send/DM the picture you're using? I can't find a frame that scans yet

[earnest wagon]

Is it me, or are there actual constellations in the Argon sphere?

#easter-eggs message

[slender sedge]

thought of it too, but couldn't find anything that would catch an eye

[snow walrus]

yea i was thinking this sphere last night when Rob mentioned the constellation in Vegas

[earnest wagon]

I'd have to take a look at it in-game, but it looks like there's layers to this sphere, perhaps making some of them appear brighter.

Might be easier to tell in-game, but I reckon you can make out Orion in a few places.

[fresh quiver]

try something real quick

[earnest wagon]

I used to enjoy the odd bit of stargazing as a kid, and other than the North Star, it was always Orions belt that I'd spot first.

Somewhat related - there's a band called Argon Sphere.

[fresh quiver]

Nope not working even with a barcode scanner itself

[long dome]

maybe get a 4k screenshot, that ss is 1080p and i could see the jaggedness in the lines when taking it.

crazy that u got a scanner on hand tho 😭

[snow walrus]

E009328

[earnest wagon]

Argon Sphere:

[willow goblet]

putting those work resources to good use i see 😆

[fresh quiver]

at work right now. 😄
working in internal IT and our warehouse uses them. So we have some laying around here too 🤣

[gloomy anvil]

this is the best quality I can get

[earnest wagon]

MC
Morse Code
Thin lines are dots, thick ones are dashes.

[shadow shore]

Printing it out and using a barcode scanner is next level, well done haha

[gloomy anvil]

next time @rich grove is online we could request an 8K screenshot maybe

[fresh quiver]

needed to make a point that the barcode is not working 😂

[final glacier]

is a little strange i cant scan again

and change the number

[gloomy anvil]

This is the Holtow barcode, it looks very similar, maybe it's being reused for this bundle?

numbers are different of course

[long dome]

yep thats it forsure

[willow goblet]

might help, they're called UPC-A barcodes.. but it's suppose to be only 12 digits including the 2 in the sides

and the 2 on the side are suppose to be single digits, not letters

[earnest wagon]

That's why I think the letters are a clue.

[snow walrus]

if it is Morse Code we need to make binary

[worldly cairn]

I haven't checked in in a while, anything new in the past week or so?

[snow walrus]

0011 0101 1011 1101 1011 || 0011 1000 0100 0001 0101

[fresh quiver]

#1198659083587297350

[earnest wagon]

This is a useful reference for anyone else trying to decode this:

[fresh quiver]

Also some comments from rob etc. you should look them up or search for them

[rotund egret]

im not persee a easter egg person, but i did wanna let u guys know that if u go to the training range at the lil forest area, there is a bench with some roses on there, maybe u guys could find something in there, good luck ❤️

[earnest wagon]

The Number System Character and Check Digit are letters, rather than numbers - which seems like a clue.

I reckon we also ignore the guard and centre bars.

[earnest wagon]

We've not found anything we can do with them yet - but it's possible they aren't a clue - just an easter egg of sorts for dev reasons.

[rotund egret]

maybe its related to a romance in the game, or something to do with valentines day?

[earnest wagon]

Quite possibly, I did make a note to check it out on valentines day, just in case.

Reckon it's worth starting a thread on the Bars and Spaces sticker?

[rotund egret]

yeahh i think it would be so cool if there is like a progressing story or smt, imagine that someone has a little crush on our super star

https://tenor.com/view/albedo-gif-19864304

[snow walrus]

Argon sphere is not a whole constellation map i think

same images but different positions

[earnest wagon]

Yeah, it's a repeated texture, but I wonder if that means it has specific constellations in it. The only one I can possibly make out is Orion, but the others were always harder to spot anyhow for me.

[hearty meteor]

anything in the video?

[earnest wagon]

Bars and Spaces

[snow walrus]

maybe it's a date: DDMMYY:HHMMSS

[earnest wagon]

We've been looking at dates, but hadn't considered the time as well.

[gloomy anvil]

I tried morse with the odd/even number pattern but results weren't convincing

[earnest wagon]

I'm wondering if the thicker bars could be parsed some other way, like word separators.

[slender sedge]

if first and last symbols are numbers in Roman, that would be 1000 and 100

[slender sedge]

if following this logic

I also tried checking wordle words if those numbers are dates

the second one is a bit early for wordle

first wordle was on June 19, 2021

meh

[earnest wagon]

Good thought though. I forgot to check there.

[slender sedge]

yeah

was following the crossword thingy

hehe

also took a look at the crossword by those dates

[earnest wagon]

It could be that the bars themselves mean nothing, and the clues are just the letters and numbers.

[slender sedge]

I don't think it is it

although there was something about "what is blue" - "sky" for the frst date

and something about othello

[slender sedge]

yeah

is it new?

i don't remember if it's from BP or smth

brain fog already lol

also sorry for posting it here and not in the related thread

i don't seem to have access to post there

is it opening on lvl 3?

omg it is (I just got lvl 3 LOL)

[earnest wagon]

It's new. Just dropped in the store.

Wild Guess, but I wonder if MC is a nod towards NASA's MagCon mission...

[snow walrus]

made it like a spaceview to see easily

[shadow shore]

Also dropped a HST shirt, for those with culture

[earnest wagon]

Damn, that's really helpful. Good work!

I can definitely see Orion in that now.

[snow walrus]

now it's obvius that is a repeated texture

this is more smooth version, u can use however u want

[earnest wagon]

It's so difficult to pinpoint what might be a constellation in it, but on the other hand he did say it would be really, really hard.

[snow walrus]

its hard to detect -_-

[slender sedge]

what kind of constellations are we looking for?

so far we got Orion and Ursa Major/Minor?

there's also Rabbit (Hare) constellation https://cdn2.vectorstock.com/i/1000x1000/90/01/constellation-of-lepus-star-forming-rabbit-shape-vector-45339001.jpg

[snow walrus]

probably the one in NQ1

[slender sedge]

wait

also Virgo constellation (Maiden in Latin)

VM maybe?

but honestly I don't see any of those there 😅

[earnest wagon]

At the end of all this (presuming there is one) I need an Oceans 11-style montage flashback documentary where we get to see Rob setting all of this up.

It starts small, sketches on whiteboards, but quickly picks up speed - animated boardroom meetings, flights out to other countries to adjust signage. Eventually he invents a time machine and starts sweet-talking historical figures into including obscure details in their texts.

[shadow shore]

Rob also said:
"(I wonder where the best place to find a constellation in Vegas is... hmm)"

[earnest wagon]

Vegas has a planetarium doesn't it?

Yup, Illuminarium. https://www.illuminarium.com/lasvegas

Road trip, anyone?

[fresh quiver]

you pay the flight? 😄

or maybe rob does 😂

[earnest wagon]

If nothing else, I'm intrigued by what the difference is between these two shows:

Presumably there's some 18+ material out there I'm not aware of.

Sexy constellations.

[shadow shore]

Woah that place looks wild

[lofty basalt]

Vulpecula also maybe?

[shadow shore]

Also one of the pictures looks like a room in one of the Vegas casinos, but the game version is blue

[pulsar mason]

All constellations are sexy to me ❤️

[earnest wagon]

Perhaps there's tickets pinned to the mousepad he offered?

[slender sedge]

could that be about the sphere they recently built?

so probably Argon's sphere is the right place to look?

[earnest wagon]

They do show constellations on that sphere... https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/item/248480395-msg-sphere-4k-constellation

[shadow shore]

Didn't even know they just built one, I'm looking at it now!

[slender sedge]

maybe we are on the right track

[shadow shore]

Yeah wow

[acoustic canyon]

The Vegas sphere is visible from the map

[earnest wagon]

I wonder if the name Argon comes into play with it somehow too.

[earnest wagon]

Yeah, it has an advertisement on it for The Finals doesn't it?

Don't think I've seen it change from that.

[acoustic canyon]

I think so, yeah

[slender sedge]

my thought was either Argo Navis or Argonauts

or Argon is a gas that might be related to stars

[earnest wagon]

Argon has been spotted in the Crab Nebula

[slender sedge]

yup, have seen that article today haha

[earnest wagon]

The band Argon Sphere has a song called Trippycat - it's not a clue, but it's a fun name.

More seriously, they have one called Morning Star, but it seems like a dead end still.

[shadow shore]

Anyone looked at the star sphere with thermal? I doubt it'd be that easy tho

[earnest wagon]

Damn good idea though. That's a nice trick to remember when scouring the maps for clues.

[timid solstice]

could these be dates?

22nd jan 2023 or 23rd jan 2022

and

23rd april 2021 or 21st april 2023

[earnest wagon]

We had a prod at them in them here: #easter-eggs message

[shadow shore]

Haha I finally got Vegas but chose Medium rip. But I got the thought when I looked at it with recon senses

[timid solstice]

22nd jan 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11661173/Radio-signal-sent-galaxy-nearly-nine-billion-light-years-away-received-scientist-earth.html

[earnest wagon]

Hmm, didn't catch that - but it's hard to see when this actually happened, rather than the reported date.

Although the diagram explaining gravitational lensing does remind me of the image with the three circles.

[timid solstice]

added to that thread

[earnest wagon]

If we presume those dates are in the 20's do they relate to the game directly in any way?

Probably not, Closed Beta was a couple of months after the later date.

They're going to be the birthdates of an artists kids aren't they?

[shadow shore]

Can't be certain, but yes

[hard forge]

Not convincing enough to me. Sorry

[hard current]

hm, yeah it looks to me like it’s either only part of orion or it’s not a match

[hard forge]

I am under the impression that connected things should be obvious and should follow a flow/path.

[grand panther]

Finally queued into monaco after like 5 mins

[hard forge]

Like in previous Tiers

Only cyphers should be not obvious bc if they were it would be too easy for us to reverse google search.

[earnest wagon]

Agreed. Most of my efforts have been trying to tie together some of the more disparate threads.

[grand panther]

I’m just trying to find the monkey

I feel like maybe you have to shoot all the cannons

[earnest wagon]

For instance we know the Trismegistus clue is concrete, and it's obscure enough that it can't really point at anything other than Hermes Trismegistus.

By extension, I think that puts Alchemy / The Philospher's Stone out there as a semi-reliable 'clue'.

These lines of thought must tie together at some point. All of the other solutions have been a singular answer.

[hard forge]

I agree

[earnest wagon]

I'd say we're looking at:

1. Gold + Egg
2. Alchemy / Philospher's Stone
3. Pulsar / CP1919

Everything else seems like a sub clue, a signpost to another piece of the puzzle.

Looking for ties between those three, I've detailed how the Philospher's stone was meant to be able to turn base metals into gold, and Hermes used something called the Philospher's Egg to do so.

I've been searching for a way to bring the third part into the mix, as I believe that might be what we're missing.

It's likely the Caesartama clue and others are guiding us, but there's multiple ways to solve puzzles like this, and spotting the commonalities is definitely one of them.

[gloomy anvil]

I agree it probably wouldn't be exactly the same as the Monkey Island game, but there is a strange little hut in Monaco

[shadow shore]

Hmm okay, where is it?

[hard current]

imo one guess I had is that it’ll be hidden in the cathedral

either as artwork or a statue maybe

[shadow shore]

Is it the little brick hut/shack thing with the interactable door??

[gloomy anvil]

Yes, I'd never noticed it before today for some reason

[valid lichen]

Good morning

What did I miss?

[grand panther]

I looked in the shack and didnt see anything

[shadow shore]

There's a few of em

[hard current]

yeah there’s a few scattered around the edges of the map

[fresh quiver]

how many? u know that? not that there is a easteregg where a player needs to be in every shack 😄

[shadow shore]

So the Guybrush captain's log is relating to the 3 headed monkey. Main points of the captains log seems to be

1. Lost in the hunt/ don't fall in old holes
2. Thirsty for 'fresh water'
3. Only ocean
4. If he only 'looked' OYE

So Rob might be referencing the EE hunt, and warns not to get stuck on any old rabbit holes we may fall into. Only "fresh" water seems to be in the fountains or when it's raining. Nothing but ocean, well there's a harbour beyond the map limits... and if he only looked and OYE - I have no clue

[hard current]

iirc at least 3

[shadow shore]

Well I took the Log as pointing to the 3 headed monkey anyway, could be very wrong haha

[hard current]

also new barcode?

[earnest wagon]

I've been looking into those, there's one on each of the skins in that pack I believe.

They don't seem to add up to anything, but again the one on the flamethrower (the one I could make out the most via video) has the first six digits that look awfully similar to a date within the last year or so.

Can't be 100% certain, but I think those ones are just decorative.

[valid lichen]

Fair enough.

[hot rock]

there are some discrepancies in the cathedral from what i've found. i can't post any images yet bc i haven't texted much so i'll have to describe them and can send screenshots to someone if interested.

there are four candle holders in the cathedral, 2 on each entrance. the main entrance has 4 pedestals, with only the 2 middle ones being used, the other side has only 2 pedestals.

there is a singular candle holder attached to one of the pillars in one of the corridors on the upper floor, the other side doesn't have a candle holder.

no idea if these mean anything, they just seemed unusual to me :>

[grand panther]

Someone try firing all the cannons then getting people to stand in every brick hut and go to the fountain and it might appear

(The cannons are because pirates)

yar har har

[fresh quiver]

feel free to message one of the commons here that one of us can send the pictures in here for you.

[earnest wagon]

Roman Numerals in the flash on the 1.5.5 trailer?

This is at 0:04

The logo in the top right jumps at that moment too.

Actually it does that twice more, with other flashes. Is that normal for the trailers?

Has there ever been anything found in the blue arcing lights?

[fresh quiver]

pictures are from @hot rock

[hot rock]

i'll get some better ones in a sec

[shadow shore]

Very nice. They're all definitely something to note I'd say

[hasty anvil]

I've seen these before too, picking up the candles reveal a little slot in the pedestals too

like a coin slot maybe

but nothing came from it

[hot rock]

oh also the blocked windows on the 3rd and 4th are not on the other side of the cathedral, no windows at all there

[hot rock]

exactly

[hasty anvil]

I definitely think there's something hidden in the cathedral

[fresh quiver]

still credits to @hot rock

One side of the cathedrals have a candle holder. The other side not

[shadow shore]

Hmm I just had a thought...

Aside from the previous Tiers and levels of TFEE site...how many EEs have we solved/triggered in-game?

[valid lichen]

like 1

[shadow shore]

Which one?

[valid lichen]

wasnt there a hidden code behind some wall

oh wait that was from before

[shadow shore]

Because what if...all these EEs aren't actually activated until we complete Tier 3?

I hope it isn't true though haha

[valid lichen]

That is an interesting idea lol

hopefully not

[shadow shore]

We have so many leads

[valid lichen]

Is it just me or do you feel like rob is trying to throw us off the real goal here

Like will the 3 headed monkey really help us with the code?

[shadow shore]

I was thinking maybe he's hinting us with things to come, but it's not actually active yet... I dunno though

[valid lichen]

True

Has anything came from the new image/trailer out?

[hot rock]

maybe the cathedral stuff could be related to this message

[earnest wagon]

I tried analysing it a little earlier. I can see patterns in the blue arc, but not sure if they're just part of the effect.

[gloomy anvil]

Just the barcode numbers so far, which might not be related to TFEE

[valid lichen]

Alr

[earnest wagon]

#easter-eggs message

[hot rock]

also there is a dummy in the practice range hidden behind a yellow wall in the building in the middle

[fresh quiver]

so. Work is over for today. finally can drive home and search ingame 😄

@hot rock if there are still more pictures you want to send in the next 30-60min. maybe ask @hasty anvil or @earnest wagon 🙂

[hot rock]

alrighty thank you :>

[tired moat]

I've tried taking a look at the flash, but I can't get a good look at them

[earnest wagon]

Ok... this is weird.

[valid lichen]

Whats up

[earnest wagon]

I was looking at some of the number / letter clues we have.

S LIES has been sat on my notepad for a while.

Funny thing about those letters, is that if you invert them, they all turn into numbers.

5317 5

[fresh quiver]

lol

[earnest wagon]

Did a quick search and nobody has mentioned that number yet, so I took it to google, and came across two things:

1. It's a postcode in Bonn Germany

[hearty meteor]

i'll go take a look /j

[earnest wagon]

2. A webpage I'd already opened and immediately dismissed.

https://www.hargloperformance.com/kymco-pulsar-ii-front-brake-lever---black-53175-lef1-c10-69928-p.asp

I frustratingly kept coming across this brake lever when looking into pulsars combined with other clues.

By some coincidence the part number matches up.

[hearty meteor]

is it a coincidence?

[earnest wagon]

I think this means I've been around the whole internet and come back to where I started now.

[earnest wagon]

I can't see how it relates to the EE, so it's probably a coincidence, but a pretty crazy one.

I'm not dimissing the 53175 possibility though.

[valid lichen]

So what your saying is.... we need to put a brake lever into the chicken caesar salad

[hearty meteor]

and add some haribo because there is a haribo shop in 53175

also i dont think embark hid anything there lmao

there is a park with fountains but i'd rather not take a day off and go search an entire park

[earnest wagon]

At first glance I thought that was the main Haribo factory.

[hearty meteor]

nah lol

[valid lichen]

I had a theory that the hidden monkey would be hidden in the fountain in the water and you just have to keep spamming interact to pick it up because its under the water.

I hope not because that would be very annoying to do.

[earnest wagon]

Just need Rob to come in with a cryptic message:

"Kids and grown-ups do love it so... ._."

[hearty meteor]

does this look like some sort of shape

dont think so

[hearty meteor]

lmao

[lofty basalt]

In case you end up needing people to inspect the haribo shop... I volunteer as a tribute 👀

[hearty meteor]

if you can give me a reason to take one day off work i'll go there

[lofty basalt]

Wasn't there a sound effect of "I am under the water" playing somewhere ? xD

[valid lichen]

This egg hunt is going to give me nama trauma 🥁

[hearty meteor]

i will never eat eggs again

[tired moat]

There is also a gold watch with the reference number of 5317-5

[hearty meteor]

gold watch?

[lofty basalt]

^
roll the alternate voiceline on top of the fountain and it may open the chamber of secrets
Whoops, wrong anime

[valid lichen]

call the clock watch

[tired moat]

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/raymond-weil-5317-gents-18k-467522789

[hearty meteor]

the gold watch in game looks a bit different

[earnest wagon]

Three Headed Monkey:

• In the game there's a strong running joke of "Look behind you, a three headed monkey!" (Not sure how that could be a clue)

• You can actually see the Three Headed Monkey in the cannibal village while trying to pull of this trick. You have to try, and when it inevitably fails the monkey appears, only for them not to believe you when you try to point it out again.

Could point to huts, or needing to look multiple times in the same place, perhaps?

[hearty meteor]

also i think we are swaying a bit

i'll try to roll monaco

if we get three people online rn we could do a bankit game

[silver rock]

makes me wonder if there are actions we have to do to find the monkey

[tired moat]

Fire the cannons at the same time?

[gloomy anvil]

Rob mentioned a while ago that he was trying to "activate an easter egg" in-game but kept dying.

[valid lichen]

I like the idea of that but at the same time without any hints we would just be brute forcing it

[hearty meteor]

how many cannons are there

[hearty meteor]

was that yesterday

[gloomy anvil]

months ago

[hearty meteor]

did he mention monaco

[silver rock]

last I checked there were three

[hearty meteor]

ok how about we get a squad

[valid lichen]

Waaaaaait can't you move the cannons with goo or hitting them with heavy? What if you point it toward one of the pillars in the crowd and it breaks and reveals the monkey or something like that?

[gloomy anvil]

I don't think so, here's the conversation, it was actually only one month ago (after release) #easter-eggs message

[hearty meteor]

i'll try this

[valid lichen]

[civic trellis]

Back

Anything new?

[silver rock]

also try to fire all the cannons at the same time with a full squad

[hearty meteor]

well

[tired moat]

Yeah that's what I was thinking

[hearty meteor]

i need a full squad lmao

where is the cannon near the statue

park?

[gloomy anvil]

I wonder if there's a wall or similar somewhere that only a cannon can break, not explosives.

[hearty meteor]

i have tons on boom boom equipped so i'll see

[silver rock]

try one of the screens towards the edges of the map?

[valid lichen]

Yeah

[gloomy anvil]

I shot a cannon at a building today and a third of it disappeared lol

[valid lichen]

Or that one unbreakable statue

Idk if it is only one but i know that there is one at least

[tired moat]

What statue?

[hearty meteor]

wasnt there a map

in this chat somewhere

[valid lichen]

Idk its of 2 people hugging or kissing or something

[hearty meteor]

wait did we find info on that map

since its embark official

[sharp flame]

in monaco yeah

it's not unbreakable I don't think

[valid lichen]

I tried hitting it with the sledgehammer and rpg for a couple minutes

[hearty meteor]

how do i aim the cannon

[valid lichen]

Try punching it or moving it with the goo gun

[hearty meteor]

does hammer work

[valid lichen]

maybe

[silver rock]

damn I keep getting other maps lol

[hearty meteor]

are you playing rn

i assume yes

anyone esle

[silver rock]

yeah I am

thankfully game crashed when loading in so I'm relaunching

[valid lichen]

Im launching the game rn

[hearty meteor]

yay

[silver rock]

lets hope I get monaco

[hearty meteor]

whats your ign

both of you

[silver rock]

do you want my steam name or embark id

[hearty meteor]

emabrk

[silver rock]

JUSTCOLOURMEPINK#6638

[valid lichen]

Skreentime#0037

[hearty meteor]

sent

wait i played with you recently?

[silver rock]

I can only do one game for now since I have something in 30 mins

[hearty meteor]

oh we queued into the same match jsut know lmfao

oh ok

now we pray

[valid lichen]

oh my this is my first time on the new update what is this cheese set

lol

[hearty meteor]

chees

surely you guys wanna search for rabbits

[silver rock]

since we're in seoul, should we look for white rabbits

[valid lichen]

ok

[hearty meteor]

sure

just jump off map i assume

or blow up

[valid lichen]

no wait

[hearty meteor]

hm?

[valid lichen]

it will auto respawn us because of team wipe

[hearty meteor]

oh right

[valid lichen]

ill stay alive and search

[hearty meteor]

i'll stay alive

or you

you do

[valid lichen]

no wait

[hearty meteor]

we cant spec

lmfao

[valid lichen]

yeah

uhh

[silver rock]

oh shoot right

[valid lichen]

guess we just stay alive

[silver rock]

guess we just gotta search on foot

[hearty meteor]

we are lil dum dums

[silver rock]

egg-brains

[hearty meteor]

namatamanamatamanamatama

[grand panther]

Spam the brick hut doors on monaco open and closed

[hearty meteor]

behind barrels?

[valid lichen]

lol

lag

[hearty meteor]

foudn this

planning to blow this up

[valid lichen]

do it

[hearty meteor]

sad

[valid lichen]

rip

[hearty meteor]

fuck

[sharp flame]

where tf

[hearty meteor]

outside of the seoul hospital

using goo gun to go around

[rich grove]

1-24-24 new skins screenshots hq

[hearty meteor]

it was nothing tho

jakofwaoefjaw

i'll just self rez

sad

we could go pretty far down tho

[valid lichen]

no rabbit

[valid lichen]

yeah

i was thinking maybe under the bridge

[hearty meteor]

can you go again pink?

[hearty meteor]

good one

rip pinkl

guess we'll do solo for now

[silver rock]

unfortunately I cannot

maybe later though

[valid lichen]

sure

got vegas

[hearty meteor]

same

i dont wanna search for nama