easter-eggs

[shadow shore]

Hmm just weird that I hit that one "off" pixel, and the numbers change. But if I actually click the numbers themselves, the whole background changes

But yeah I'm not sure how this all works though!

[timid solstice]

Sofia (Petronelle) Lies?

[hasty anvil]

graffiti could also be 'writing is on the walls'

[dusk swan]

anybody else hear the kill bill riff in the steal the spotlight video?

[pure loom]

Yeah, either this or graffiti in the Las Vegas alleyway

[dusk swan]

kill bill inspired battlepass next season would be lit

[pure loom]

I guess as a group we should decide if we're going to examine/use the video leak

[dusk swan]

whats the video leak?

[coarse dagger]

@fallen jasper said we could talk about it, but never responded whether we're allowed to post it here

[gloomy anvil]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1202387725366603856

[fallen jasper]

I just was told I don't need to stop people talking about it

[pure loom]

Someone datamined the latest update and found what is very clearly a lore/EE video

[fallen jasper]

If it's in the files it'll rpobably be used

Up to you guys if you want to start looking into it (I would wait)

[sharp flame]

Waiting 👀

[hasty anvil]

Maybe it was intentional to be found in game files, if Rob wants us to look deeper, and it's a theme of hacking, but obviously we would need clarification on that

would be cool if we were the CNS hackers

[sharp flame]

Lmao THAT would be a twist for the ages

The EE hunters were CNS all along

[coarse dagger]

I'd be really suprised if it was there without the intention of being found TBH

[hasty anvil]

It seems really accessable too, i'm finding a few sources of people finding it

We can wait until Rob confirms it was meant to be found now or not

[pure loom]

Yeah, I reckon we should hold off. I'm not a fan of the devs losing their chance to present things to us the way they wanted.

Hopefully we don't have to wait too long because there'll probably be people bringing it up in here without knowing our "rules"

[turbid tinsel]

you can also you color exchange as well in gimp, how i was able to find the word "egg" around the left eye in the skull girl official art recently messing around

[pure loom]

OBS is great for screen recording (and gameplay) - it's free, and there are a ton of YT tutorials about how to use it

[valid lichen]

YESS

[lethal sand]

idk if its any kind of easter egg or something but does anyone here know what the random shooting is in the practice range? ITS NOT THE DUMMIES it appears up top even and you can see the bullet holes from it, i never noticed it before, if you want to test yourself go put the walls up between the shooting dummies and watch/listen, could be nothing but i found it strange

[pulsar mason]

Oh shit really? Can you get a video or a screenshot of it happening?

[light walrus]

The background of tfee_ques.jpg (the gold question mark) isn't all one color
The majority is RGB 6,6,6 but the bottom right corner has 3 bands of different colors
7,5,6 then 7,5,8 then back to 6,6,6 then 7,5,6 again
you can see the bands clearly if you crank the chroma
not sure if that's been identified yet

[pure loom]

People have worked out how to glitch through the wall of the PR and then snipe at players in neighbouring PRs (there is more than one active when you load into the PR)

[pulsar mason]

wtf

[shell vale]

f

[lethal sand]

wtf really?

[hard forge]

Wait you don't know about the "otherside"?

[pulsar mason]

I demand vengeance

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/this-is-why-we-can-have-nice-things-once-upon-a-time-why-we-can-have-nice-things-gif-12072978

[lethal sand]

i didnt either, after the video that was found today of the "look beyond the walls" i was looking around seeing if i could find anything in practice range

[hard forge]

It all started after RHB's date in the practice range

[shadow shore]

Haha that's when it alll went downhill

[coarse dagger]

"Seek truth beyond the walls" was found way back in the CB2 trailer

[sharp flame]

I only hit them for fun, never killed anyone 😭😭

But on a serious note the shooting up top is the dummies

[lethal sand]

gotcha, was just snooping around since that file was added today, didnt know if there was anything new

[sharp flame]

they aim at you on occasion

[hard forge]

What?

[crisp glen]

she says on the walls in the leaks anyway

[hard current]

yeah the dummies have a crazy far aim sometimes

[lethal sand]

i wasnt up top when it happened, its random shots going off even after i put the walls up and just stand on the other side of hte house

[sharp flame]

Yhyh the dummies shot up there for me too

not sure why they do that

[crisp glen]

oh you mean the hacked text. right

[lethal sand]

the gun sound you hear isnt even the same as what the dummies have and the shots are much faster

[hard forge]

The dummies are players from Scotty's time who lost.

[sharp flame]

it's definitely not sniper though since it's happened in multiple Practice Ranges

Plus it can't be a sniper since they weren't shooting at you, but instead up near the ceiling

plus the shots are faster apparently

[lone wave]

It sounds like a sniper though

I mean the bullet impact sounds like it’s coming from one

[lethal sand]

idk man lol i just thought it was weird and thought i would ask

[lone wave]

Well I’m glad you did because that surprised me too when it happened to me. But I brushed it off when I told myself it was probably a bullet ricochet

[lethal sand]

thats what i thought, i thought it was the dummies but then i seen the shots going off on the screen side of the house and was like wtf was that and where did it come from

after that happened i went and put up the walls so the dummies couldnt shoot and just sat there watching and listening and it was still happening with no dummies shooting

[slender lodge]

whatsup with holtow? scotty talks about it in the lore video, and the 10 new rewards we get for career progression are all holtow

[hard forge]

Holtow is watching everything.

⏺️

[slender lodge]

[burnt pagoda]

Do you ever think about the character we are actually playing as? I know the obvious answer is us playing in a game about playing in a game, but what if there is someone we are playing as? Like what if there was a campaign, that we may get?

[lone wave]

Video wasn’t in the game files before the latest update ?

[coarse dagger]

Correct

[lone wave]

This is so fucking cool man

[lone wave]

Idk but I hope this is gonna get very dark and they actually make us hate the game show and what it represents once we learn it’s all part of a horrible dystopia

[rotund elbow]

Should we ask for an easter eggs VC to hang out and chat EEH?

[hard current]

@fallen jasper now that we have game vc’s?;)

well hang on I foresee issues enforcing that actually

[wide briar]

no everyone is happy and life is perfectly normal there are no walls there is no dystopia

[hard current]

if we have an ee hunt vc that’s large enough to accommodate more than 3 people then others will be abusing it for sure

[fallen jasper]

I love you EE peeps but unfortunately I cannot randomly create channels for you

[hard forge]

how about only for greens?

[coarse dagger]

Speaking of, just a reminder to check on Thread contribution permissions for all roles

[rotund elbow]

bet you can pass on the request if people think its a good idea...

[fallen jasper]

Oh I keep passing it on

I've been yelling for a in game EE channel or a fourm for a bit. It is on the list... eventually... I think

[rotund elbow]

well it could only be fore Rising stars and above?

[snow walrus]

I woke up to pee and leaving again

[rotund elbow]

I could see Rob dropping in when we are having a brainstorming session going...."hmmmm intresting" then leaving

[proud minnow]

What is on the list, what is on the list..?

[hasty anvil]

speaking of :0

[coarse dagger]

Rob, are we supposed to look at the lore video which is in the game files?

#1202387725366603856

[cloud wyvern]

rob do you think i am handsome

[coarse dagger]

(I haven't watched yet)

[proud minnow]

I love dogs, but to be honest I'm more of a cat person... ._.

[jade citrus]

hihi rob

[fallen jasper]

You making me reply on another account

The list is just "Rob give clues to the aimless hunters" written a couple hundred times.

[hard current]

hi Rob! aren't gravitational waves neat?

[proud minnow]

We knew that people probably would go through the files and find it, we said that we hope people won't since it will ruin the experience a bit... but we said, rather put it in this patch and if you find it before we trigger it, that's OK... ._.

[light walrus]

Damn, roasted

[hard current]

imo in that case we should wait for the lore video before looking at it

don't want to muddy up our hunt for tier 3

[light walrus]

that man had a family

[hard forge]

agreed

[coarse dagger]

Thanks for the clarification! I'll hold off till you reveal it then!

[hard current]

hey rob did you perchance see our potential findings for the numbers in the corner of the new nama? #1198659083587297350 message

[solar pier]

Alright then I'm waiting until they trigger it it'll be worth it

[hard forge]

Any clues related to E.T. ?

[fallen jasper]

Rob's name technically could be an anagram for ET if you remove most of the letters.

[hard current]

https://tenor.com/view/calculation-math-hangover-allen-zach-galifianakis-gif-6219070

[fallen jasper]

He's also probably an alien

[turbid tinsel]

im still trying to find out if the number 25 is significant here as im finding it everywhere

[light walrus]

Now we're truly sounding like conspiracy theorists

[fallen jasper]

That's the only way I can explain this hunt.

[solar pier]

Nono, keep typing rob

[hard forge]

Little Green Man

[hard current]

weren't you orange earlier? what happened?

[light walrus]

I dont know

[unborn pilot]

Can whoever started that video thread delete it or not possible?

[proud minnow]

Love them... back in the mid 90's I read another book that blowed my mind... I was a teenager spending all my time in front of my Amiga "working" on games... I read Wrinkles in time by George Smoot... that almost made me abandon my game-dev plans... super old book, but omg that book completely changed how I thought about the universe... so if you are into gravitational waves, find that book and read about how it all started... (yeah yeah, Einstein ofc predicted it many years before...)

[coarse dagger]

Not possible for a regular user

[unborn pilot]

Figured maybe a CM then. Feel bad cause the video is in there

[hard current]

I am, the concept of gravitational waves (and "time traveling" through light speed/near light speed movement) is incredible

[solar pier]

Hunters..... overanalyze this message..

[shadow shore]

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

[hard current]

if you got to the edge of a black hole you would watch the universe grow and expand and end

[coarse dagger]

I think I read that in 5th grade 😭 I don't remember it well enough

[solar pier]

The almighty rob is typing

[timid solstice]

rob just said its ok, and its on reddit meaning people will keep coming into the main chat with it, so at least we can keep chat in that thread

[hard current]

it almost made you abandon your game dev plans? in what way, like you wanted to study time and space and gravity instead?

[unborn pilot]

Cool. Ty flex

[proud minnow]

YES, that is correct, it is the good old Text on 9 keys..!

[timid solstice]

best to either embrace and try to down play it rather than control it unless a cm monitors this chat 24/7 removing posts

[hard current]

thank you @light walrus good find 🙂

[turbid tinsel]

is the number 25 significant at all in this hunt by chance?

[light walrus]

Shout out to my old flip phone!

[gloomy anvil]

yesssss

[unborn pilot]

sad no eyeballs 😦

or does Rob mean that it is T9? lol

[hard current]

no eyeballs but, it's correct, so it's a way forward!!

[coarse dagger]

Rob we subsist mainly on a diet of eyeballs, please endulge us

[gloomy anvil]

maybe some eyeballs in this direction? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO

[gloomy anvil]

and namatamas, mostly for breakfast

[hard current]

both of our clues now have lead to gravity/pulsars/neutron stars/space, even if it's not eyed I believe it's too much of a coincidence to pass up this somewhat clear direction we're being lead

[gloomy anvil]

https://tenor.com/view/transformers-wheeljack-time-to-research-research-researching-gif-23672426

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/albert-einstein-national-space-day-gravitational-waves-theory-by-einstein-einstein-theory-gif-22058634

[proud minnow]

Yes, I studied chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology and geography for several years at the university... but I was making art on the side to pay my rent (and I was active on the demo/cracking scene all this time... then DICE called me and I started to work there instead, hehe)

[timid solstice]

https://tenor.com/view/gravitational-waves-are-ripples-in-the-space-time-continuum-national-space-day-gravitational-waves-curvature-of-spacetime-theory-by-einstein-gif-22058638

[shadow shore]

I think I still have my old Nokia 3310 somewhere. That things bulletproof

[hard current]

glad you built some of my all time favorite bf titles, but maybe now it's time to crack the secrets of the universe

you guys

you got your eyes

#1198659083587297350

[coarse dagger]

And on LIGO

[hard current]

YEAHHHH BABY

[shadow shore]

@light walrus Coming in clutch, well done!

[gloomy anvil]

(LIGO wasn't the only observatory to discover GW170817 on August 17th, the Virgo observatory did too)

[hard current]

yeah, and other detectors found the gamma bursts as well

gravity waves, pulsars, neutron stars

they first announced the collision of 2 black holes

[light walrus]

Thanks

[hard current]

and then announces they detected the collision of 2 neutron stars

[proud minnow]

Just so maaaaaaany texts to scroll through... ._.

(and sometimes I've been scrolling for like 134 messages, then BAM discord automatically jumps back to the latest message, then I have to start scolling up AGAIN, some night it can take over an hour to just read through this channel and going through your messages... ._.)

[coarse dagger]

I ocassionally make a checkpoint by clicking "Reply" on a message.

Then if I lose my spot I can click the "Replying to ...." button to get back to approximately where I was

But yeah, since release it's been a lot to keep track of this channel

[timid solstice]

Maybe we make a "Rob submission box"
for rob to review end of day 😄

[hard current]

gravitational waves from binary systems

maybe we're looking for a binary system of neutron stars

based on the mirror clue and now this that is

[unborn pilot]

I cannot imagine. I assume you maybe try and search to see if we said some "key" words, but scrolling through our rabbit holes is a job in itself

[snow walrus]

We should really have our off topic convos in #1201288968562552863 then -_-

[hasty anvil]

Fresh eyes always coming in clutch

[proud minnow]

Time to sleep, 02:35 here and there is a lot of fun things happening at work tomorrow... I didn't manage to scroll through all the messages tonight, haha

[hard current]

that's ok rob, have fun at work tomorrow get some sleep!

[silver rock]

sleep tight, don't let the namatama bite

[coarse dagger]

Thanks!

Sleep well!

[gloomy anvil]

[timid solstice]

theme here of first discoveries;

LIGO : This occured on August 17, 2017 and represents the first time a cosmic event was observed with both gravitational waves and light.

Jocelyn Bell : discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967

[proud minnow]

yes I always start doing that, but THX for the suggestion.

[spark gazelle]

Heelloooooo

[hard current]

https://tenor.com/view/hasbulla-hello-hasbyhi-gif-25332764

[unborn pilot]

maybe more flamingos will show up

[gloomy anvil]

soooo LIGO is confirmed, where do we go from there?

[hard current]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulse–Taylor_pulsar

I'm going to look into binary pulsars

we got pulsars

[shadow shore]

And that book

Wrinkles

[hard current]

and LIGO that detects gravity waves from the collisions of binary systems

so, binary pulsars

this was the first one

[unborn pilot]

well i would assume these clues are Rob trying to help us solve the final password, so trying to tie in any previous clues leading to these things could help

[jade citrus]

Jocelyn Bell Burnell and LIGO both have the** Nobel Prize in Physics** in common

[timid solstice]

the theme from both clues is its the first time something was detected or observed

[hard current]

ah correct

[jade citrus]

which is a medal made of gold

[hard current]

smashel you smart smart man

[turbid tinsel]

more eyes from rob

[gloomy anvil]

woah

[hasty anvil]

sooo many eyes from Smashel :0

[unborn pilot]

smashel keep typing

[shadow shore]

When it rains it pours

[unborn pilot]

anything else on your mind

[gloomy anvil]

I was thinking nobel prize, but that seemed more like a supplementary clue

[jade citrus]

well the award is swedish, so is Embark lol

[hard current]

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

[hasty anvil]

Also eyes

[hard current]

oof 224 people as of 2023

[coarse dagger]

Just had a thought, what if the "Clean House" emote could clear something off the ground to reveal an EE, like this confetti for instance?

[gloomy anvil]

AND eyes on this

[cloud wyvern]

gold is considered a noble metal

[unborn pilot]

lol. try it.

[coarse dagger]

I don't own it currently

[shadow shore]

What about John Stewart Bell, he was a big dog in physics too

[coarse dagger]

Debating whether it's worth buying on a whim

[proud minnow]

Please just write the next password when you are on the roll, so we can move on to future levels, haha... ._.

[hard current]

rob you've been so patient with us

[cyan snow]

sup

[turbid tinsel]

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

info on medal itself

[timid solstice]

Nobel Egg?

Golden Egg ??

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

[fallen jasper]

Hmm

[timid solstice]

We had ALOT of snowflake clues

[hard current]

hey didn't we have electron spectroscopy before?

there's a swedish nobel winner for it

Kai Siegbahn

[turbid tinsel]

i think everything is supposed to lead to the medal at this point

based on commonalities

[hard current]

fair, I mean two great space discoveries, two nobel winners

but then why eye the binary collisions message?

[hard forge]

another clue

[turbid tinsel]

2 sides to a medal maybe

[hard current]

we've had everything since the start with our list of passwords... how can this fit in hm

[solar glade]

or a coin

[unborn pilot]

That’s what I’m trying to figure out as well. Finding new stuff is great. But connecting it to what we have from before should lead us toward a path of sorts.

[coarse dagger]

For some reason I thought we had known Nobel prizes were connected in the past...

But it looks like we haven't actually talked about it much.

Clifford Shull was a potential past Nobel winner connection:
#easter-eggs message

[hard forge]

Padlets will help in connecting the dots

[hard current]

viold
evivi
vit3llus
cacoiii
0vif0rm
5f137s2
lxxix
1064

gold
egg
latin
space

pulsars - > ligo - > binary systems -> nobel winners -> nobel medal -> gold

[shadow shore]

Chapter 14 of Wrinkles in Time..."Toward the Ultimate Question"

[coarse dagger]

I have this in my notes:

Electrum was used as early as the third millennium BC in Old Kingdom of Egypt, sometimes as an exterior coating to the pyramidions atop ancient Egyptian Pyramids and Obelisks. It was also used in the making of ancient drinking vessels. The first known metal coins] made were of electrum, dating back to the end of the 7th century or the beginning of the 6th century BC. For several decades, the medals awarded with the Nobel Prize have been made of gold-plated green gold.

[hard current]

hmmmm

[unborn pilot]

This is an awesome connection. Has Rob ever eyed anything “faberge” related?

[hard current]

not that we've ever seen... tbh @unborn pilot might be time to run the script soon? see if there's anything we missed that rob eyed..

[unborn pilot]

Will do. But feels like Faberge won’t be the connection. We’ve had so many cool things lead to it but nothing confirms we need them for this.

[timid solstice]

we did for Mendeleev, he was never awarded one

[coarse dagger]

Some day I want to automate that process and generate a word cloud, because Rob seems to subtly use important words a lot.

I need to figure out how to automate it w/o getting my Discord account in trouble though...

[unborn pilot]

Feels like we’re going back towards space, spectography, physics, people direction

[hard current]

it'd be funny if nobel medal -> noble metal

[pure loom]

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/australian-scientist-wins-ig-nobel-prize-for-uncooking-an-egg-20150918-gjpq12.html

[gloomy anvil]

there's so much more red on the padlet... it's beautiful

[coarse dagger]

And I have Corentin Louis Kervan in my Alchemy notes:

In 1993, Kervran was awarded a parodic Ig Nobel prize in Physics due to his "improbable research" in biological transmutation. The award description called him an "ardent admirer of Alchemy."

[hard current]

what are you gonna do, unscramble my eggs?

[pure loom]

I don't have any connections to that article, but it was too good not to post

[coarse dagger]

Lol I didn't notice you posted an Ig Nobel right before me

[cloud wyvern]

caeser wasn't considered a noble was he

[hard current]

https://tenor.com/view/forehead-slap-slapping-forehead-oh-my-god-gif-13308042

[timid solstice]

we need to type less haha, so rob can see these

[vale igloo]

the video leaked on reddit has this message

"THIS BROADCAST HAS

BEEN HACKED BY CNS

ONE NIGHT THREE DAWNS

SEE THE SIGNS

SEEK THE TRUTH

BEYOND THE WALLS"

The one night three dawns bit seems similar to the one monkey three heads thing that rob teased on Monaco. Could it be more of an analogy than an actual three headed monkey?

[coarse dagger]

Please keep leaked video discussion to #1202387725366603856

[unborn pilot]

So do we consider the numbers on Nama now solved? Numbers -> T9 -> LIGO XVII

[hard current]

we're gonna try and keep this to #1202387725366603856 due to the nature of it technically not being public yet 🙂

[hard current]

I would assume so

[unborn pilot]

👍

[jade citrus]

nobel prize winners are called laureates

[turbid tinsel]

i was just going to share this

[hard current]

flex 😭

[vale igloo]

bet

[timid solstice]

sorry

[fallen jasper]

[unborn pilot]

Until Rob tells there’s a trippple meaning

[vale igloo]

this is the only channel with no slowmode. its a miracle

[turbid tinsel]

caesar reference on it as well

[hard current]

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

[hasty anvil]

Padlet eyes updated (almost)

[jade citrus]

ahh i see it

[unborn pilot]

We don’t need it. Everyone’s respectful and doesn’t spam.

[gloomy anvil]

Reminds me of Caesar's Comet (Star of Caesar) that was imprinted into Roman Gold coins, but I don't think that's immediately relevant

[timid solstice]

Civic Crown?

[hard forge]

please make a rob submission thread

[coarse dagger]

Laurels

[hard current]

the laurels

[coarse dagger]

Idk man that kinda just sounds like another thing for Rob to read 😅

[turbid tinsel]

yo maybe the 25 i was seeing everywhere was related to the 25 organizations that have received the noble prize

[vale igloo]

I just saw this, could it just mean simply, "Scotty Lies"?

[fallen jasper]

[hard current]

laurels are made from laurus nobilis

[gloomy anvil]

everything is connecting hahaha

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/youre-already-in-it-alia-true-to-the-game3-youre-already-a-part-of-it-youre-an-accomplice-gif-26196830

[jade citrus]

ok soooo whats the psw

[turbid tinsel]

there was also a james joyce who was snubbed for a nobel prize

[hasty anvil]

And also, what connects these things to 5 truths

[open raven]

Something interesting I wanna go check out is this, got the new twitch drop and am just curious as to whats in this room now

[hard current]

leads to a room of lockboxes iirc

but I couldn't find anything

[open raven]

Ahh gotcha, wasnt sure if anyone had spotted this yet or if anyone even tries for twitch drops

[jade citrus]

https://twitter.com/EmbarkEEs/status/1752853635959046418

EmbarkEasterEggs (@EmbarkEEs) on X

Here's a closer look at one of the new Twitch drops... it's a floor plan for Casino Eastwood in Las Vegas. Hunters are already exploring the X that is marked on the map, but haven't found anything yet.

The initials "F.L." can be seen in the bottom right corner of the blueprint.

Twitter · Feb 1, 2024, 12:37 AM

[hard current]

ok so we got to laureates/laurels

but why?

[hasty anvil]

Actually, the pathing is very odd, the 'S' part especially

[turbid tinsel]

probably need to do something with all of the machines on that path and then something happens in the room

[jade citrus]

wait

5 truths?

[turbid tinsel]

was ceasar supposed to lead us to laureates and then the nobel prize

[hard current]

maybe...?

[turbid tinsel]

or the other way around

[hard current]

it seems everything in that image points to nobel

besides the mirror

[shadow shore]

Yeah hmm, a truth for each nobel prize? 😂

[acoustic canyon]

physics chemistry medicine/physiology literature and peace

[hard forge]

5 subjects

#easter-eggs message

[acoustic canyon]

do we have to norton it?

[turbid tinsel]

there was a group that discovered a planet that lead to a nobel prize. https://www.space.com/how-nobel-winning-alien-planet-found.html

it was a pulsar

[shadow shore]

Holy what.. you're right haha

[hard current]

wait

there's a swedish academy

[turbid tinsel]

gotta be the nobel prize but whats the key to entering it

[hard current]

that picks laureates for literature

and rob frequently brings up books

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

However, it was not until 1914 that the academy gained permanent use of the upper floor as their own. It is here that the academy meets and, amongst other business, announces the names of Nobel Prize laureates.

[jade citrus]

i gotta go sleep

when i wake up it better be solved

[gloomy anvil]

same, and same

[hard forge]

Likewise

[timid solstice]

gn 🛌

[gloomy anvil]

[hasty anvil]

A lot of good leads to explore tomorrow

[turbid tinsel]

question also is, is there a key to entering the password here or is it simply a word.

[light walrus]

I was thinking before the link between gold egg and acheivments in physics is the philosophers stone. Which is made by completing the 'magnum opus' but magnum opus is also used to refer to someones greatest acheivment. So a Nobel Prize would be considered a magnum opus

[turbid tinsel]

just tried, no dice lol

[solar pier]

Should we look into any other 2017 nobel prize winners? Since LIGO is one of them

[turbid tinsel]

maybe, hard to tell if its the prize itself or something deeper.

but everything points here.

and rob pretty much told us to enter the password already lol.

[solar pier]

Lol

I wish there was a show password button because I forget what I'm typing half the time

[turbid tinsel]

lol i usually type on a notepad and copy and paste to make sure when trying different combinations lol

but the other thing i just thought of, the gold question mark pic we got could be related to the medal but do we have anything related the the white question mark yet?

unless the white one is supposed to reference dirt/sand in some way, and alfred nobel inventing dynamite which was used to get gold

[light walrus]

I think the gold question mark is representative of 'the golden question"

[median island]

physics chemistry medicine/physiology literature and peace... Rob said five subjects earlier, chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology and geography. The only matching one between the two lists is chemistry (and medicine/physiology if you count that as biology)

[vale igloo]

when did he say this? sorry just curious

[acoustic canyon]

#easter-eggs message

[vale igloo]

i might spend an hour or so just trying thing from this channel, maybe there's a prize if I'm the one to enter the password hehe

[turbid tinsel]

yea a pat on the back and hype from all of us

lol

[pure loom]

There's a little label on the rear of the bank safe charm - too small to read anything though

[gloomy anvil]

"and perhaps you hear a bell in the distance" - Might have been a Nobel reference as well as JBB

[acoustic canyon]

my first thought was an intel sticker until i realized it was a safe

[pure loom]

he should have said "and you don't hear a bell..." no bel...

[turbid tinsel]

yea maybe the reference was there is no-bell = nobel

https://www.nobelprize.org/ curious if the circles on the opening page are the ones used the the x marks the spot

also about 70% confident the image inlayed in some of the circles was used in some of the images.

[gloomy anvil]

Quick little tangent

Erik Lindberg, designer of the Nobel prize medal, also designed the medals for the 1912 Summer Olympic Games in Stockholm, the last Olympics to hand out solid gold medals.

[shadow shore]

Far out

[gloomy anvil]

Yeah

[hard current]

so then why would everything lead to nobel...

alfred nobel, swedish guy

invented dynamite...

synthetic element nobelium named after him

[solar pier]

Noblean dynamite🥲

[vale igloo]

Dice means EA Games. No nobel prize winners who work there, from what I've seen so far. I think the answer is:

A nobel prize winner who studided/excelled in chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology and geography, and then proceeded to work at EA.

I can't really find anyone who fits that criteria.

[shadow shore]

5 truths two threads combine them all to get the answer... now with the nobel prize clue

...nob3lprize

Nah I have no clue

[solar pier]

Gold, egg, nobel?

No idea

[shadow shore]

Joycelyn Egg Nobel

Im considering visiting the library around the corner to see if they have that book, I really wanna know what the ultimate question chapter was on about

[solar pier]

Tried it, no luck 😔

[gloomy anvil]

Could somebody look up line 666 from book 6 of the Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil.

[hard current]

hm

[vale igloo]

I think I've found something, maybeeeeeeee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Smith_(game_designer)

[gloomy anvil]

] It is inscribed "Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes" ("It is beneficial to have improved (human) life through discovered arts") an adaptation of "Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes" from line 663 from book 6 of the Aeneid by the Roman poet Virgil.

663 is egg (366) backwards if we're reallyyyy stretching things

But it gets me thinking about 666 again

[cloud wyvern]

i think the password being backwards is a good possibility given the mirror

[shadow shore]

Where did we get 666 from again?

[gloomy anvil]

Tfee_ques.jpg RGB value
6x666 image

[hard current]

nobelium is right next to mendelevium...

[gloomy anvil]

The Golden Bough is one of the episodic tales written in the epic Aeneid, book VI, by the Roman poet Virgil (70–19 BC)

I'm going down a mad rabbit hole sorry

[solar pier]

Maybe these are 4 of the 5

Gold, space, eggs, latin, nobel prizes?

[shadow shore]

So Rob mentioned the 5 subjects and a book (Wrinkles), and the the old phone number pad (T9 I think it was called) being correct, and of course the Nobel Prize confirmation.... Anything else stand out to anybody?

[cloud wyvern]

i just searched the chat and i dont think this was specifically mentioned but correct me if i am wrong

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/10/16/16464716/ligo-gravitational-wave-neutron-star-merger-gold-alchemy

"Gravitational waves just led us to the incredible origin of gold in the universe

LIGO kick-started an astronomical treasure hunt that ended with colliding neutron stars and gold."

[shadow shore]

Hmm at the very least, that's an interesting read haha

[solar pier]

Gives us more "gold"

[cloud wyvern]

i mean "the origin of gold" seems p. significant

if a bit sensationalized

[shadow shore]

I thought "kilonova" (two neutron stars colliding. I think), but alas, no dice.

[shadow shore]

So if they are the truths, what two things tie them all together...?

Or maybe Nobel prizes are a thread, who knows haha

[solar pier]

For one we have no idea what any of them mean 😭

[alpine whale]

Is the video found in the game files known?

[acoustic canyon]

https://discordapp.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1202387725366603856

[solar pier]

I really want to see the vid but I want to do it as embark intended so we gotta hurry up with this hunt 😭

[unborn pilot]

there's also 2 cross ciphers in 2 older images that led to 666

[light walrus]

anyone have all the tier 2 answers available or know where i can find them?

im sorry, level 2 not tier 2

[acoustic canyon]

all of the passwords are visible on the level 2 website

[light walrus]

thanks

[limpid yarrow]

i dowonderr if maybe its a ending for the sts event

or maybe its on a tv somewhere in a level

[white heart]

any1 know how to turn the hud off?

[cloud wyvern]

try F12 if you are on PC

[white heart]

thx, idky why i asked this here 😭

[lapis hull]

You guys see the reflection on the back of the "Bars and Spaces" tag in "Tidy Inventory Set" in the store?

[vestal oxide]

Hey I’m new here does someone mind surmising exactly where we’re at with the easter egg(s) in this game?

[polar vortex]

Im in the same situation, Is there a summary made of everything found?

[shadow shore]

-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! 🥚

[shadow shore]

We're on T3 Lvl2 Password on the site, multiple threads made for other things found on this channel

Tier 3*

[polar vortex]

Ok thanks

[shadow shore]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1100745453206786078

Great place to start off. A lot of info, so chip away at it when you can haha

[shadow shore]

#easter-eggs message

• 3 headed monkey in Monaco - find it and get a free finals mousepad from Rob
• golden namatama (egg mascot) in Vegas that's been there since launch - find it and gain the respect and admiration of us all here
• 3/5 white rabbit images have been found in Seoul
• 2/5 graffiti has also been found in Monaco

Other things here and there too but yeah that's a basic run-down really

[cloud wyvern]

i cannot believe we can't find those WRs

[shadow shore]

Especially since the others are in pretty open and visible places haha

[solar pier]

I gotta find that 3 headed monkey now

I want my mouse pad (I have no space for it and I don't have a pc)

[shadow shore]

Do you have a mouse?

[solar pier]

Yeah for a laptop

[shadow shore]

Same haha

[vale igloo]

Is that golden egg really an easter egg?? I swear i saw it the other day in the roulette room

in vegas

[shadow shore]

Apparently

If you see it again get pics

[frozen idol]

does this number mean anything?

[frozen idol]

it was in this room if you break one of the breakers

[median island]

Browsin' through Wrinkles in Time since Rob name dropped it. SOME PRETTY INTERESTING STUFF IN HERE. Notably:

• Searching for "question"... it shows up many times in the book but the most interesting mention I've found so far is on marked page 58. Which has a couple of interesting things...
• The question on page 58 is actually in reference to the formation of elements during the big bang, and how the distribution of the elements came to be. The (partial) answer to this question is Lemaitre's big bang theory
• In the same paragraph as the "partial answer to the question", it mentions Ernest Rutherford arrived at Cambridge "just in time to witness J. J. Thomson discover the electron. Rutherford began the study of radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize in 1908 for his work. Using a radioactive source to bombard a thin sheet of gold foil, Rutherford discovered the nucleus in 1910, and so pioneered subatomic physics.
• Ultra tin-foil hat time... the listed page number is 58. BUT, if you count from the actual first page of the book (where it has the full title and authors)... the page number is 66.

It's on the internet archive if anyone else wants to take a look, im goin to bed lol. Here's the page I'm looking at: https://archive.org/details/GeorgeSmootKeayDavidsonWrinklesInTimeHarperPerennial1994_201610/page/n67/mode/2up?q=question

[solar pier]

God this seems so "👀" worthy but robs asleep 😔

[median island]

im hoping im blessed come tomorrow, but we'll see

[neon cradle]

How does that mousepad looks

[solar pier]

I wonder

[vale igloo]

Found it! Definitely the right thing haha she’s wearing a golden hat too

will send a pic after this game

[hasty anvil]

That third bullet point sounds interesting. Nobel prize, radioactivity, gold, nucleus (yolk?)

[median island]

i was also thinking nucleus -> yolk or egg related

[vale igloo]

There’s actually tons of them. People must’ve overlooked the most obvious place lol

Where’s this respect and admiration? I clearly found a gold nama tama in the vegas map

[hasty anvil]

Unfortunately that’s not it

[shadow shore]

Hahah yeah

[vale igloo]

Huhhhhh?????

has this been bought up before lol

[hasty anvil]

#1198659083587297350 message

Looking for something like this

[vale igloo]

i clearly found a gold nama tama in the vegas map i refuse to believe this

[shadow shore]

I think certain conditions/criterias need to be met then it'll come out of the middle of the map where the hologram is. But that's my theory haha

[vale igloo]

i’ll have another look haha

just realized, steal the spotlight is perfect for this

i’m gonna keep searching because i needa do my 12 rounds anyway

[hasty anvil]

We got the image from a website from a QR code, and we needed the png to find other clues, so I think it’s more likely a qr code in game

[shadow shore]

Never thought of that haha

[frozen idol]

i found him

[hasty anvil]

The hologram idea would be cool though, like if the hologram showed the QR

[shadow shore]

Yeah each light points to a casino, and there's like what looks like a hatch in the middle of it

from memory anyway

[limpid yarrow]

Didn't rob hint it may not have been in qr form

[proper kindle]

If yall seen the new trailer here are some SS from it

Hidden messages in it

Would love to hear thoughts

[limpid yarrow]

I think this is simpler to past ones there maybe a thread talking about it a bit more but not sure I've been out the loop due to uni

[last dragon]

Just in case it comes in handy

[last dragon]

Might only be see-able at dawn, or where you can line the suns up with something.
It mentions three dawns, meaning it might be three spots?

[last dragon]

Truth behind walls might reference an area beyond the game border, meaning you may have so keep your eyes searching for things outside the map

However, sky arena has three zones (biomes almost) to it, might be something in each of those

[median island]

Okay it's really bed time. Just to follow up on this with some more thoughts on this stuff from Wrinkles in Time,

• Rutherford's experiment shot alpha particles through a Lead screen towards a Gold foil. They were then detected using a Zinc Sulfide sheet, which scintillates (lights up) when an Alpha particle hits it. Lead, Gold, Zinc, Sulfur... Pb Au Zn S
• From the pic of the periodic table, NO GOLD. So nix Au.
• Also from the periodic table, P -> C, T -> N, S -> E, so Cb Zn E. Ehh feels like we're missing something.
• ALSO from the periodic table, x=5 y=6, which is Tantalum, or Ta, and T->N, so Cb Zn E Na

Unfortunately, that doesn't make a word lol. But all the elements chosen from Rutherford's experiment (plus Tantalum) use all three of the PTE -> CNS. One of y'all might have a better idea.

[shadow shore]

Maybe, we're only on Lvl 2 of 3

[median island]

Oh, and the x=5 y=6 on the periodic table makes me want to treat it like a graph with axes. Interestingly, Tantalum (5,6), Zinc, and Sulfur lie in a pretty straight line together. FWIW Zinc is (12,4) and Sulfur is (16,3).

I decided to graph these points as a last effort for tonight, and included a mirrored version. I'm a scrub and can't post pictures, but the equations are:

NORMAL (Ta -> Zn -> S)
y = -0.2742x + 7.3495 (with an R^2 of 0.9988)

MIRRORED (@ x=16, this matches the line you would physically draw on the table)
y = 0.2742x - 1.4247 (same R^2 obviously)

[runic barn]

No. I can't say much but it is Sofia Lies.

[median island]

Wait CNS? The periodic table picture has CNS written on it, and the lines point to PTE (first letter of Periodic Table of Elements).

CNS
| | |
PTE

It's circled and a buncha arrows point to it

And it says Remember

[south wyvern]

Short video here for those who are curious.

[vapid holly]

Are we still on the final level of the Easter egg hunt?

[placid dagger]

Did u destroy entire vault or smash below the surface?

[cloud wyvern]

i may have found something we missed:

so because a lot of us are American brained we see the date of 11/6/2015 as November 6th, 2015. which led to the NYT crossword puzzle discovery.

but if you swap the date to June 11th, 2015, there happens to be an article about a certain someone being awarded a Golden Medal for her role in the discovery of pulsars. can you guess who it was?

http://www.epsnews.eu/2015/07/csic-golden-medal-awarded-to-professor-dame-jocelyn-bell-burnell/

the URL of whydidntanyonefindme-aminotimportant probably refers to the fact that this flipped date was overlooked, hence why her birthday was hidden in the mirror of vvv.png.

[shadow shore]

Nice catch!!

[cloud wyvern]

why rob dropped the hint of "ringing bells" before having to go overt with the namatama

i think i finally actually made a real discovery

someone mail me my ribbon

[shadow shore]

Well if it isn't a discovery, it's a hell of coincidence

[cloud wyvern]

i did as many queries as i could into search and couldn't find any mention of any of this

aint no way its a coincidence

i'm standing firm on this one

[shadow shore]

Yeah I believe in it too, Joce Bell Burnell says it all. But how'd we get that date ? I don't remember or didn't see it

[fresh quiver]

look in the metadata of ques.png & tion.png

[cloud wyvern]

^

"The medal was presented by the President of CSIC, Emilio Lora-Tamayo. The ceremony took place at the main hall of CSIC in Madrid (Spain) and was followed by the conference “Reflections on the discovery of pulsars” presented by Professor Bell."

[light walrus]

Gents, any guesses on where all the GOLD in the universe comes from?

Its too heavy to be formed via fusion in stars. Iron is the last element stars form

You guessed it (as i stare into my empty crowd at 1 am) colliding neutron stars!

https://www.astronomy.com/science/does-all-the-gold-in-the-universe-come-from-stars/

This article sets off every alarm bell in my brain relating to this hunt

[cloud wyvern]

i linked something similar earlier as well.

i'm feeling like the answer is in the ballpark of the birth of gold, since eggs are not only for eating but also for fertilizing embryos!

[light walrus]

This article has everything
Gold
Philosophers stone
LIGO
Astronomy
etc..

[cloud wyvern]

not that i would ever eat an egg, namatama

[shadow shore]

I think it's called a kilonova and yeah we tried that earlier but I think that's definitely on the right track

[shadow shore]

I'll have a read when I get the chance

Sounds promising

[light walrus]

I think maybe the egg relates by being a reference to birth or creation. The creation of gold

[cloud wyvern]

so also flipping the date for tion.jpg and doing egg related news searches for june 11th 2015, there are news stories about bird flu causing egg prices to go up.

don't think there is really much there

[strong mesa]

I've noticed in the blackout map there's people talking in the one corner of the map with the garages by the road

Only place I've found that has any kind of music or voices

It's the one covered in graffiti

[vale igloo]

The password is soming to do with the Nobel Prize I just cant figure out what ajiofejoifpjew

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message

probably this

[vale igloo]

DICE = Electronic Arts

I'm assuming we need to find a nobel prize winner who studied chemistry, biology, astronomy, geology and geography.

But no nobel prize winner has ever worked for EA so I've hit a road block.

[wild sky]

i dont know if im tripping but when on top of the tall buildings on steal the spotlight the moon has some blinking lights from time to time. im not sure if it is only when i move a little in a certain spot tho

just thought you guys might want to know

[vale igloo]

I think this was bought up awhile ago, but never went anywhere, might just be a graphical glitch

[wild sky]

ah k

[rich grove]

2/1/24 new skins HQ screenshots

[solar pier]

Anybody have an index of all of the typing techniques we have to use for the password?

[cloud wyvern]

hunt and peck otherwise it's not valid

[fresh quiver]

we are not even sure which techniques really should be used. it can be converted numerals to latin. but it also could be a plain text password. number substitution could be in it. but also could not be in it

[cloud wyvern]

i think rob said there will never be uppercase letters?

just so it makes things easy

[vale igloo]

that's correct

[fresh quiver]

also we are not sure for what the holtow sticker hunt is used for. havent connected it yet to the main hunt. some suspect holtow sticker may have something to do with TEH

[spiral basin]

didnt think there was eater eggs

[misty raven]

i agree

[vale igloo]

More than you can imagine, it's a brainfuck

[misty raven]

seems like a wild vioose chase

[fresh quiver]

atleast you already got it 😄

[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! 🥚

[fresh quiver]

have fun ;D

[misty raven]

I'm catching up lol

[spiral basin]

wait so we have to find eggs?

[junior basin]

I was just reading and watching most of the previous stuff, man so much work put into this. Wonder how y'all still sane haha

[fresh quiver]

what is sanity? we don't know that here

[light walrus]

Nah, just gotta find the anser to the golden question

[misty raven]

which came first??

[junior basin]

Hope we find the answer to that at the end of this hunt

[vale igloo]

my dumbass realized that rob was talking in person before

he was talking about himself going to university and working for ea

bruajfkopewjfiopwejfoipewjfopwe

i been chasing a deadend for like an hour

[light walrus]

We dont even know the question yet, much less the answer lol. Welcome to insanity. Ive been here like 12 minutes and have already lost my mind

[vale igloo]

@proud minnow sorry for the ping but this is just a genuine questions I need clarfication on, how are we able to know whether you're talking about the egghunt and providing clues, or just like actually chilling out and talking, I'm getting so confused

[rich grove]

part of that is intuition and part of that is he uses familiar words/punctuation when hes talking about EE

[vale igloo]

Nevermind figured it out. If it ends with "… ._." it's actually related to the egghunt, otherwise just regular chat

[vale igloo]

Yeaaahhh I just saw lol

I just spent an hour basically searching up this mans personal life because I thought it was part of the egg hunt 😭

[fresh quiver]

even with that, it dont need to be related to the EE hunt.
things we definitely can trust are eyed 👀 messages

some things are clue, some things aren't

[vale igloo]

I guess it's part of the fun trying to figure out what is what

[fresh quiver]

a phrase i mostly use is:

"There are no Easter-Eggs, until you find/solve the Easter-Eggs"

[rich grove]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1202528273167548477 finished with screenshots for now. lmk if any0ne needs/wants a different angle for max texture 8k screenshot

[vale igloo]

everytime I try a password and it takes slightly longer than usual to tell me it's wrong I get hyped up

[misty raven]

where are you entering the passwords?

[vale igloo]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/t3-f

[misty raven]

🙏

[vale igloo]

I think the right thing is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_M._Ghez

[cloud wyvern]

im absolutely asking rob to 👀 my discovery when hes on again

[vale igloo]

She discovered the black hole which was the first ever black hole photograpphed. lots of the new cosmetics are astronmy based

[cloud wyvern]

i'm gonna demand it

[vale igloo]

just guessing here, but the password is something easily typed and short

someone needs to hack the finals server and give me the password

[vale igloo]

Could the number 134 mean something? Oddly specific. BAM and AGAIN are captalized kinda weridly.

the number 134 is actually ringing bells in my head for some reason but I got no clue why

[misty raven]

William Ramsay was a nobel prize winner who discovered Argon, one of the casinos in Vegas

[vale igloo]

Was he a winner in Physics?

[misty raven]

think so why?

[fresh quiver]

why excplicit physics nobel prize?

[misty raven]

nah chemistry sorry

[fresh quiver]

I think nobel prize at all and not just a explicit nobel prize that what meant

[vale igloo]

There was a connection found earlier between a few things and specifically the physics one. This guy was friends with the guy who discovered Argon, but got a prize in physics. It's mentioned up top on his wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Strutt,_3rd_Baron_Rayleigh

"In 1904 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics "for his investigations of the densities of the most important gases and for his discovery of argon in connection with these studies"."

[misty raven]

ohh interesting

[fresh quiver]

can you link that messages here?

[vale igloo]

here

[fresh quiver]

okay. yeah. that let to physics nobel prize. but not that much leads to rayleigh imo

[misty raven]

yeah just argon

last arg I participated was the ready player one movie one

still on fucking golden eggs

[vale igloo]

on roblox??!!

[misty raven]

noo?!

[vale igloo]

oh lmaoooo

there was a roblox one awhile ago

[misty raven]

sounds dope lol

[vale igloo]

i was the first person to figure it out and now I got a really rare item

[misty raven]

niceee

[vale igloo]

wait it might've been top 10

i dont really remember

it was like 6 years ago now

I remember I kept getting death threats because people were jealous lmaoooo

[misty raven]

the one i did ran out of funding and was super lame

[vale igloo]

this one! https://roblox.fandom.com/wiki/Ready_Player_Two The Meta Star is the item I have, only the first 77 people to complete the ARG got it

[misty raven]

ohhh it was for the book

that makes sense

[cloud wyvern]

just a reminder before i head to bed, rob said that the answer to solve every level can be found in the first image (or in this case, the two question mark images). so if you feel like you are in the weeds i would suggest heading back to those original images and seeing what you can figure out. it's how i found the JBB news story.

i think JBB is a big piece of the puzzle and her not getting the nobel prize is what is significant about it.

[misty raven]

which came first the golden chicken or the golden egg?

[vale igloo]

where to find these images

[cloud wyvern]

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

[solar pier]

Password site delayed a little and my heart stopped lmao

[misty raven]

Have people gone down the path of the golden goose awards?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Goose_Award#cite_note-8

[solar pier]

Very interesting

Someone ping me when all the hunters wake up from hibernation

[misty raven]

I can't believe ya'll been doing this in the background the whole time

[solar pier]

This is where all the intellectuals go 😭

[misty raven]

[shadow shore]

https://www.nobelprize.org/

Pretty good resource for Nobel prize info

[main pagoda]

Anyone closer to the password for 3e tier?

[shadow shore]

https://www.internationalegg.com/our-work/awards/the-golden-egg-award-for-marketing-excellence/golden-egg-award-winners/

There's a golden egg award haha

[shadow shore]

We had some new tips earlier but most of the hive brain are asleep I think

[timid solstice]

sorry what

[misty raven]

they asked us goldenegg? as if that had an answer lol

[main pagoda]

https://tenor.com/view/crycat-crying-cat-crying-cat-thumbs-up-thumbs-up-ok-gif-22851318

[shadow shore]

If the password turns out to be "eggcellent" then I'm going to throw myself down a flight of stairs

Its not phewww

[civic hornet]

what was rob saying this morning? did we get any 👀

[shadow shore]

He did eye a few new things - maybe more, I haven't gone too far back

[timid solstice]

yup they are added to the T3 padlet at the bottom

[earnest wagon]

Holy crap. I pointed that out too!

#1175202375070384208 message

[proven jewel]

a thought that crossed my mind is that the password might be t9 numbers of the answer

[hard forge]

Well done mayor

[earnest wagon]

The solution is supposedly solvable by the first clues only. So if a method or substitution is introduced later it likely isn't going to play a part in the final password.

[alpine whale]

i love how i occasionally look into this chat and this is the first message i see lol

i really wanna join in but there is nothing i can contribute lol

[earnest wagon]

Huh, there was a pseudo sixth Nobel Prize added in 1968. The 'Nobel Prize in Economics'. Never knew that.

Observations so far with the new info:

• George Smoot (Author of Wrinkles in Time, Einstein and LIGO were all awared the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell was snubbed for the same prize, her mentor/boss/co-worker getting it instead.

• They are all astronomers, or have otherwise postulated theories or made discoveries to do with gravitational waves
• Einstein has a theory on gravitational waves, his general relativity and special relativity also come into play (bit long to explain)
• Jocelyn Bell Burnel discovered the first pulsar
• LIGO detects gravitational waves
• George Smoot's book covers these too I believe (I'm still digging)

[alpine whale]

Remember how you talked about Brutus with the "why can anyone find me?", maybe this is a connection with that involving whats the true side of the achievement

it was on the mirror of the cesear wasnt it?

[earnest wagon]

Yeah it was. And the mirror in Julius Caesar was given to Brutus.

[civic hornet]

maybe we need to look at Nobel Prize snubs?

[earnest wagon]

I did start looking through a list of those that had either:

• refused the prize
• couldn't collect the prize
• posthumously awarded the prize
• nominated multiple times but never awarded the prize

Nothing so far.

[hard forge]

Maybe we get our next lead if we look for the Golden Medals in these subjects.

Like the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (which Bell got too)

And we also have the Mendeleev Golden Medal clue which the Russian Academy of Sciences has occasionally awarded a since 1965.

[earnest wagon]

I've had a theory cooking as to what 'The Question' is, and for a while a few of my guesses have sat pretty near the bottom of the list. Recently though, two of the outlandish ones seem suprisingly probable:

1. What came before the Big Bang? How did the universe start?

2. Is there life out there?

[civic hornet]

definitely fits with the alien theme of season 1

[earnest wagon]

Early detections of gravitational waves, soft gamma repeaters etc. had to be dismissed as being signs of intelligent life, or somehow projected from Earth. Jocelyn Bell Burnel even noted down peculiarities as 'Little Green Men' and I'm still digging through it, but I think there's discussion about disproving similar stuff in Wrinkles in Time.

[hard forge]

i asked Rob about ET. no eye

#easter-eggs message

[earnest wagon]

Ah good, that was the one that had the least support, theory-wise.

[hard forge]

Or maybe he didn't eyed it because it was out of the blue

[earnest wagon]

There's plenty tying in the birth/life/death of the universe when digging into gravitational waves. The grand nature of the topic means it's easy to slip into things like the potential for time travel, but I've got a few eccentric stabs at things that seem to be constantly on the periphary.

[hard forge]

• Jocelyn Bell and LGM(little green men) are connected
• The 10 mil image had "ET" written on it.
• And of course, the in game alien theme and cosmetics.

[earnest wagon]

For one - the precursor to the Big Bang theory was this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_egg

[hard forge]

Any thoughts on this?

[earnest wagon]

It's worth checking, but I think we'll find it difficult to point to something else from there - it opens up so many more recipients, discoveries, fields of science etc.

JBB is the only person we have that's notably (as in, it's been pointed out to us) received a golden medal other than the Nobel Prize, and Rob has already drawn a connection between her and the Nobel via not receiving it.

I suspect the Nobel Prize in Physics is either:

• The closest piece to the answer we have
• A common connection between the named people (JBB, Einstein, Smoot, LIGO) and we're looking for another common connection

[hard forge]

We also have this eyed.
#easter-eggs message

[earnest wagon]

Yup - that's what made me think the second of those two options is true.

The work that LIGO was doing was important to the answer, not just the fact it was award worthy.

[alpine whale]

this could be interesting, but it doesnt seem lo lead towards anything ive seen, from both the promotional material and the egg photos we have

[earnest wagon]

Yeah, it's really outlandish - but I think in a similar vein to what we're looking for - Theoretical Universe Stuff.

[hard forge]

this has been heavily discussed

[alpine whale]

it seems like everything has already been heavily discussed lol

[hearty meteor]

i was thinking “who received a golden medal?” as the question

physicist was not the answer tho

[earnest wagon]

Annoyingly, I've attributed quite a few findings to the diamond clue rather than T3, but I suspect they might have related themes.

For instance, I believe the burrw site, holtow gif etc. are examples of something like gamma ray repeaters and redshift.

[keen reef]

fellas

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1ag8z6i/pt_2_lore_credits_scene_complete_scroll_text/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I play on XBox, so didn't join the TF Discord on my PC. Idk if you have already talked about the Tristan and Iseult theory

[earnest wagon]

I read the first part last night, thanks for sharing.

[keen reef]

Ty, I'm the author, trying to figure out things more than playin' these days hahaha

[earnest wagon]

I get it, sometimes I forget there's a game underneath all this.

[fresh quiver]

there is a game? I thought THE FINALS were just an ARG 😮

[gloomy anvil]

Any new breakthroughs?

[earnest wagon]

It's just a really elaborate ARG for Arc Raiders - I'm sticking to this theory.

[earnest wagon]

Cool, had a read through and it's an interesting connection. The Tristran and Iseult story is one I know reasonably well (I was nearly named Tristran!) and so I was gutted when I realised I hadn't noticed that 'Iseult' was in there too. I need to spend more time looking at the company lore.

The credits more likely refer to this:

#easter-eggs message

The leading theory is that 'S' is Sofia Petronelle, CEO of OSPUZE.

Well, personal opinion coming into play there.

But it's her or Scotty if the text is to be taken literally.

[hard forge]

The interesting thing is he also got the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in geophysics in 1985.

[civic hornet]

could it not be Scotty? would have more to work off it is. Is there a list of all voice lines in the game?

[earnest wagon]

I imagine that this particular Easter Egg isn't 'solvable' yet, and is part of a wider lore that will get dropped throughout the seasons.

Again, just personal opinion and guesswork.

[solar glade]

there isn't. there's probably hundreds if not thousands of voicelines

randomly triggered by a multitude of in-game events so

[hard forge]

Jocelyn Bell got the gold in 2021 (when Rob was creating the ARG)

She got it in Astronomy

[shadow shore]

The password isn't Geophysics, and it also isn't Geodude sadly

[earnest wagon]

The secret of OSPUZE is obvious though, although I've never seen it mentioned actually.

[shadow shore]

Is there a namatama for every field of Nobel prize? Is that a thing

I know there's a chemistry one in this level...

[alpine whale]

the secret?

[earnest wagon]

OSPUZE is gamer pee.

[alpine whale]

[earnest wagon]

Let's assess the facts:

[hearty meteor]

https://tenor.com/view/ospuze-the-finals-screaming-scream-finals-gif-17563181895444885133

hgsdgougkou

why do my embeds not work????

i have image perms…

[civic hornet]

oh god, ive had the drinking ospuze emote equipped as my intro this whole time...

[earnest wagon]

OSPUZE:

• "known for its signature yellow color"
• "Pro juice" (literally, the juice of pros)
• "Let it breathe" (a common saying after leaving a bathroom)
• "Who. Needs. Water?" (The Pros do, to make more OSPUZE)
• CEO is Sophia Petronella, and she has her own logo - what might that be?

[earnest wagon]

That's right. Pee Pee.

Soylent Green is People.
OSPUZE is Pee.

[civic hornet]

would love if that was the entire reveal of the ARG

[earnest wagon]

Someone should let Geoff Keighley know...

[shadow shore]

Need to be red for gifs I believe

[earnest wagon]

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1732795757454041345

Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) on X

I don’t drink coffee, but def need an energy drink for the day ahead! #TheGameAwards

Twitter · Dec 7, 2023, 4:14 PM

[shadow shore]

TL;DR, Archimedes calculated pie and weighed a gold crown then went streaking

Anyway

[earnest wagon]

It was a simpler time. It was a better time.

[shadow shore]

I tried eureka

[hearty meteor]

we need to keep in mind that there is a question we have to ask

[shadow shore]

Or are we being asked the question?

[hearty meteor]

hmm

i’d assume it leads to the answer

[civic hornet]

does Robb like Jeopardy?

[shadow shore]

Reminds me of this:

https://youtu.be/aboZctrHfK8?si=qTPFSjYr0KQ2O6jR

[civic hornet]

Who is Jocelyn Bell Burnell?

etc

[alpine whale]

An astrologist, whose birthday was written on the mirror or the most recent Nama Tama photo

she made a discovery about gravitational waves but was snubbed the Nobel Prize by her tutor/college

[civic hornet]

I know, I was saying it llike the show Jeopardy

[earnest wagon]

Slightly off topic, but I've never understood the Jeopardy format.

[shadow shore]

Isn't that a gameshow or some such

[earnest wagon]

I don't know how posing something as a question makes it harder, more interesting, or otherwise different than just asking it as a question and receiving an answer.

It's a grammatical nightmare.

It irks me.

[civic hornet]

same

honestly dont get any American quiz shows

/game shows

[shadow shore]

?

[valid lichen]

The new take the call emote has Scotty / June asking to sponsor or something

And they say they are calling on behalf of Sophia / Mackenzie

Dont know if this has been mentioned yet

[earnest wagon]

I've read a script from it somewhere.

Can't find it at the moment though.

It was either here or reddit though.

#easter-eggs message

Oh, that was easy.

[hard current]

alright continuing from last night: everything leads to nobel/nobel medal/physics/alfred nobel?

[valid lichen]

[earnest wagon]

Possibly - another connection I'm working on is that all of the mentioned scientists that have either won the prize or been snubbed for it were working in very similar fields.

[hard current]

physics?

[earnest wagon]

Yup, but beyond that.

[hard current]

I’m basing the above message based on robs eyed messages right before he got off last night

[earnest wagon]

Gravitational Waves is my current best guess.

That or Black-bodies.

Binary (and possibly Triple) Star systems are up there too.

There's a few connections to each of these, I'm just trying to sift through them without going too deep in any one direction.

Electromagnetic Radiation might be a better avenue though -

Let's walk through it, because I'm missing something here (going to annoyingly split this into different messages in case anything substantial is eye-worthy).

Rob has eyed or drawn attention to the following:

• Jocelyn Bell-Burnell (JBB) was snubbed for the Nobel Prize in Physics (NPP)
• Einstein got it
• George Smoot (author of Wrinkles in Time) got it
• LIGO got it

• JBB discovered the first pulsar
• Einstein had his theory of relativity and special relativity
• George Smoot's work on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE - AKA Explorer 66 - E66 - Egg?) investigated background radiation
• LIGO detected gravitational waves

There's a trail between these things - Cosmology.

The study of physics in the universe - the timeline of our universe.

I believe each of these discoveries relates to one another beyond 'things detected in space'.

Einstein's theory of general relativity was provided massive evidence to support it by LIGO's discovery for instance.

[vale igloo]

Have we got any idea on what the password would look like? would it just be one simple word like space or nobel? or could it be spacenobelcosmology or some bullshit

[earnest wagon]

George Smoot et al's work on COBE provided evidence that supported scientific theory of the life of the universe.

Perhaps the question is the question.

[fresh quiver]

the question is: what is the question?

[earnest wagon]

The Ultimate Question, to Life, the Universe and Everything.

[vale igloo]

47 - 5 = 42

[earnest wagon]

Close enough.

[vale igloo]

LMAOOOO I fucked that up

someone should try the password 43

42******

I mean, it’s the answer to everything

[fresh quiver]

i think i already tried 42 etc.

[earnest wagon]

Science breakdown:

• Pulsars emit electromagnetic waves, light, x-rays and gamma rays
• COBE studied cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR)
• LIGO studies gravitational waves
• Einstein predicted gravitational waves

Pulsars can be used to measure gravitational waves

[hard current]

and time

[fresh quiver]

can we somehow include this into photoshop? Might also be a way to decode the rest that is hidden in VVV. But i wouldnt know how

[hard current]

they’re more accurate than atomic clocks in timekeeping iirc

[earnest wagon]

I thought they were less accurate?

[vale igloo]

where is vvv

[hard current]

let me check…

[fresh quiver]

#1198659083587297350

[vale igloo]

thx

[hard current]

oh ok I see nevermind

[earnest wagon]

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

[hard current]

they rival atomic clocks, are the most accurate natural timekeeper

[vale igloo]

I have just made a shocking discovery omg

VVV is a picture of nama tama wearing a cute ass hat

[hearty meteor]

huh

[vale igloo]

that is my discovery

[fresh quiver]

isnt helpful

[hard current]

hm? what do you mean

[vale igloo]

damnit

[earnest wagon]

Yup, that's my understanding - I think there's still some pulsar clocks out there.

[fresh quiver]

and to be correct it is a civic crown and not a hat 😅

[earnest wagon]

Ok, I'm reasonably certain that the common link is gravitational waves.

• JBB discovered the first pulsar, which can be used to measure them.
• Einstein predicted them
• LIGO confirmed it
• Smoot / COBE further studied them

[vale igloo]

i think the correct terminology is a tiara

[vale igloo]

What are we trying to link to these? i’m so confused

[earnest wagon]

That's pretty normal around here.

[vale igloo]

I mean rob literally said we had to password we just need to figure out what it is and enter it, so i don’t get why we’re looking at new crap when we have it

[fresh quiver]

you even looked at that mirror correctly?
Its definitely not a tiara. you clearly can see that it is a civic crown as used in the roman empire from Caesar

[vale igloo]

no offense

[hard current]

Sirius is a binary star system

[fresh quiver]

where does he said that we have the password?
We have everything to solve the tier. not that we have the password

[hard current]

he didn’t say that…

[earnest wagon]

Feel free to head to https://www.reachthefinals.com/t3-f and type in as many as you can think of.

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message
just to have the link ready for you

[ember owl]

Hm

[hearty meteor]

why is the link t3-f i know this was mentioned somewhere but i forgor

[earnest wagon]

This looks familiar:

[earnest wagon]

I don't think we know. The links for Tier 2 are weird too.

[ember owl]

Black hole sun

[fresh quiver]

think was talked about also already somewhere. i already saw that someone posted the picture 😄

[hard current]

we were on a really good role last night, rob basically said we’re.. almost there

#easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

we should get back to nobel prize etc. just go back to the last things he said

[hard current]

that’s why I went the alfred nobel route because he’s also swedish

[vale igloo]

There is a nobel prize winner in physics who is responsible for discovering this black hole that was photographed

Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery that Sagittarius A* is a supermassive compact object, for which a black hole was the only plausible explanation at the time.

[earnest wagon]

Pretty sure that was Charles Messier, and he never received the Nobel Prize. - This is Messier 87.

[fresh quiver]

i think 2020 would be too "new." iirc rob planned this ARG in 2019ish?

[vale igloo]

oh they look like really similar holes

[fresh quiver]

btw didnt we had 134 anywhere before?
#easter-eggs message

and why does he wrote AGAIN in capitals again.

[vale igloo]

I bought this up last night and everyone ignored me if this is a shocking discovery i take credit

[earnest wagon]

The main source of gravitational waves are two compact objects combining. i.e. black holes, neutron stars etc.

[vale igloo]

why are we even thinking about 134 right now? does it link to something yall just said

[fresh quiver]

ques & tion
two objects haha

[earnest wagon]

Oh, good thought!

[fresh quiver]

because i just looked back at robs messages from the night? as i was already asleep there.
and thats why im asking if we had 134 anywhere before. think i remember this number from somewhere.

[vale igloo]

sorry i didn’t mean to sound rude im just curious lol

134 is also strangely familiar to me

[fresh quiver]

we now know in which direction the password might be going. just not exactly the password

134 is just too short to search for it in dc

[vale igloo]

searched messages this is the only previous mention that makes sense

#1185727960980922488 message

maybe he’s trying to hint we need to think about the holtow sticker “AGAIN”

[hearty meteor]

#easter-eggs message @fresh quiver

are you sure

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message

funny that he don't even want to name that book. as it could also be a clue 🤔

[earnest wagon]

Possibly related:

1974 - Russel Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr discovered the Hulse-Taylor pulsar (PSR 1913+16) the first binary pulsar.

They were both awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1993 "for the discovery of a new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation".

Continued observation of this system has been carried out as a test of Einstein's general theory of relativity.

[hard current]

this is what I was doing

currently looking through all physics nobel winners

that have to do with what we’ve done

and that’s the only one I found that makes sense

[heavy dawn]

maybe the page 134 in the book " Wrinkles in time"

[valid cape]

Can anyone run me back on what y’all have discovered

[fresh quiver]

depends from when to when we discovered things?

[valid cape]

Since I last posted

[hard current]

check the padlet in #egg-hunt-onboarding that’s most up to date:))

[fresh quiver]

Hm. if I would buy that book just to try solve this easteregg.

you guys think i could try to send the invoice to rob afterwards? 😂

[civic hornet]

1934, no physics prize awarded

[heavy dawn]

https://archive.org/details/wrinklesintime00geor/page/134/mode/1up?q=134

[earnest wagon]

There's a fair few years that no prize was awarded.

[civic hornet]

Marie Curie, who died in 1934 and was a nobel prize winner, her eldest daughter was nomiated in 1934 for the physics prize but was not awarded it

The existence of neutron stars was first proposed by Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky in 1934

just spitballing here

but the exactness of 134 is weird

[civic hornet]

oooh

[subtle glen]

Anyone tried following the route in the new sticker for Twitch drops?

[civic hornet]

maybe there are 134 clues to be found?

[hard forge]

Posting this because I think there is something similar in Jocelyn Bell and Tier 1C

[heavy dawn]

Page 134 in Wrinkles in Time is called "a different Universe"

[civic hornet]

didnt @earnest wagon have some clues about multiverses?

[civic hornet]

is it just that page or the chapter?

[heavy dawn]

The Chapter , https://archive.org/details/wrinklesintime00geor/page/134/mode/1up?q=134

[proven jewel]

yes this and bunch more earlier
#easter-eggs message

[solar pier]

Maybe the lore vid will show up here? #server-announcements message

[civic hornet]

this def seems important seeing as the chapter starts on that page

good find

[heavy dawn]

thx

[solar pier]

At least I hope so because I'm impatient

[civic hornet]

definitely worth tuning in for

[civic hornet]

just tried A Different Universe and adifferentuniverse as passwords. Neither worked

[high moat]

Can y'all do sth with this?

its from twitch drops

[fresh quiver]

#1202362203920150610

[hasty anvil]

Rob mentioned Wrinkles in time, Einstein and LIGO last night

[hasty anvil]

I also thought this, that maybe the egg '?' symbolises the beginning, The Big Bang. Also someone said earlier Gold comes from colliding neutron stars

[civic hornet]

not sure if you saw the discussion earlier but Rob said he couldn't get to all messages as he scrolls through about 134 a minute (very specific) @heavy dawn discovered that page 134 of a Wrinkle in Time is the first page of the chapter "A Different Universe"

[fresh quiver]

the BAM from rob is also like a BANG 😄
#easter-eggs message

[civic hornet]

I think this could be related to the universe outside The Finals, possibly Ark Raiders, the "big bang" could be the release date for Ark Raiders

a new universe, a different universe

[fresh quiver]

release ark raiders when we solved Level 5 😄

we will never get to play Ark Raiders

[hasty anvil]

I just finished catching up all the messages haha

[hasty anvil]

hmmm

[civic hornet]

Surely gotta be a connection there

[hasty anvil]

I don't remember anything else in past tiers being linked to a multiverse

[civic hornet]

@earnest wagon had some interesting hypothesis' about multiverse but I can't remember them

[earnest wagon]

Erm, I don't remember them either.

[civic hornet]

Lol

Maybe I'm misremembering

[earnest wagon]

I think gravitational waves are the biggest connection - possibly linked to black holes - spacetime etc.

We're a stone's throw from multiverse stuff.

I think I've pretty much proven that OSPUZE is gamer pee.

[civic hornet]

Well I'm just taking that as fact at this point

[earnest wagon]

I'm working tonight, but I might be back in time to see it get eyes.

[civic hornet]

fully expecting to wake up tomorrow for the password being discovered

[fresh quiver]

thought that after this night too. But nope. wasnt true 😄
hoping for tonight 🔥

[wind olive]

.

[gloomy anvil]

Currently we have a few leads pointing to the Nobel Prize in Physics, as well as the medal itself.

• On the back of the medal is inscribed "Inventas vitam iuvat excoluisse per artes"
• This is lifted from line 663 of Book VI (6) of the Aeneid, by Roman poet Virgil

The references to 666, as well as the 6x666 image in particular, could've pointed to line 666 of book VI (6). I wanted this line to be some miracle connection, but unfortunately it doesn't appear relevant. Still, if anyone needs a rabbit hole to dig down, there ya go.

[earnest wagon]

I believe the back of the medal differs.

[fresh quiver]

@hard forge new account?

[gloomy anvil]

hm every pic I've seen of the Physics medal has the same back

[earnest wagon]

That's pretty likely. I think it differed either on which field it was for, or who was presenting it (the peace price comes from Norway, not Sweden).

Yeah, it's the symbols that change, the wording remains the same.

For the science ones at least.

[jagged ore]

What's up guys? I haven't checked this channel in a while. Which Tier are you guys in now?

Last thing I remember was Tier 3 and we looked at meta data and crossword puzzles😅. Did that ever lead anywhere?

[civic hornet]

still on Tier 3

current rabbit hole is physics and the nobel physics prize

[jagged ore]

Oh god😅

The first thing that comes to mind is that the nobel prize medals used to be made out of gold

[hearty meteor]

wait they arent anymore?

[gloomy anvil]

Rob eyed this last night 👀 it's still a fresh lead so right now we're poking our heads in every door, so to say.

[jagged ore]

Only until 1980 apparently

[earnest wagon]

They're still plated in 24 carat gold, but they have a green gold centre.

[civic hornet]

is there a way to see all 👀 reactions? Not a big discord guy

[hearty meteor]

there is a documentation of those

dk how up to date it is

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tfveK-QScK3a7dr9LxGxIuFiw89nhoUxJvbfwCkMgXU/edit?pli=1#gid=411951774

[alpine whale]

Im looking into the new sticker pathway and x but nothing, which is weird but theres a reason that room was chosen over the other vault rooms in vegas

ima keep looking

[jagged ore]

Ohhh I see

[alpine whale]

when does rob wake?

[hearty meteor]

its 5pm for him

prob at work still

[slate dagger]

also for me

[fallen jasper]

cant find any

[gloomy anvil]

@rapid mango guy's been posting this all around the server

[rapid mango]

[cloud wyvern]

haha yeah when i was doing my searches to see if this had been brought up before, i saw that the flipped date should be considered and i was like, “oh man they were so close”

[gloomy anvil]

Nice! time to draw one hell of a long line across the padlet

[cloud wyvern]

i would be honored

june date is off by about 10 years

:v

[gloomy anvil]

oops

fixed

[cloud wyvern]

time is relative anyway

[gloomy anvil]

2031 is closer than 2016 🫠

[hard forge]

TF what

[hearty meteor]

[cloud wyvern]

don’t worry it only moves faster as you get older ha ha

[sharp flame]

worst easter egg ever

[earnest wagon]

I went back to my original notes, and I realise now why it was bothering me so much that I queried it.

1. When presented with the NYT Crossword Rob only commented on what a nice date it was.

2. He said this: #easter-eggs message

I've got it noted as 'Time: Format?'. I thought if we weren't looking for something with precise measurements, we were looking for something with a specific format. Shortly after I started querying all the dates we had.

[cloud wyvern]

i've been trying to think how she would have been discovered with just the original images.

because this is def a hindsight 20/20 etc

[earnest wagon]

That's the thing - when I looked up the other date there wasn't anything that leapt out at me.

I'm busy tonight, but I'm slowly working backwards from where we are now, pulling out any threads that lead from the NYT crossword, and asking the difficult question:

What do QUES and TION have to do with this?

I still suspect there's more to those images.

[cloud wyvern]

QUES is latin (duh) but i think that because it is differentiated from Quest might mean something.

despite that they are basically the same word when it comes to definintion

[earnest wagon]

TION backwards is Noit - Night

There's weird shading on TION I don't have the skills/tools to analyse further.

I've been checking the weird shapes we got a sneak peek of on VVV against every scientists signature and every graphical readout I've stumbled across.

[gloomy anvil]

Where is the night from?

[earnest wagon]

Nuit - Old French

[gloomy anvil]

ah ok

[earnest wagon]

It's flimsy though - just working on the premise that if something works for one half, it ought to work for the other - and that's the best I've got on a first pass.

[cloud wyvern]

at some point last night i was lookin like Coraline's dad at his computer while trying to find a connection to Joy Division

[earnest wagon]

I call it Odd's Law of Puzzle Equilibrium:

"Nothing says it has to, but it would be better if it did."

[cloud wyvern]

and my brain kept playing on repeat over and over "no bel for bell"

(because she didn't get the nobel prize)

but to repeat what was said last night, i'm leaning towards the theory right now that the answer we are looking for is in the ballpark of The Birth of Gold.

[civic hornet]

Has anyone researched Bells theorem? I just came across it, maybe were looking at JBB too litterally?

[cloud wyvern]

JBB's and LIGO's research both shed light on Kilonovas which is where gold is born in our universe.

Eggs represent fertility, birth, life, etc

[earnest wagon]

I tried a bunch of 'k1l0n0v4' passwords, no luck.

[cloud wyvern]

i think that the password is going to involve both variations or elements of the words gold and egg

[civic hornet]

Pillars of Creation been tried?

[earnest wagon]

I've not done a sweep of this board yet, but here's the connections I've made with the Nobel Prize.

[hard forge]

in stars?

[outer scroll]

hi impervious!

[earnest wagon]

https://padlet.com/suitablyodd/tfee-tier-3-ywpaq697vit7rc6s

I think the four links are:

Einstein
JBB
George Smoot
LIGO

And the specific connection is gravitational waves.

Or to be more precise, Gravitational Wave Astronomy.

[hard forge]

Hi bunny
hop! How are you??

We are still stuck at T3

[outer scroll]

i’m well! so i’ve gathered. been thinking, still dead empty. how’s it going here? progress? don’t drink the ospuze!

[earnest wagon]

OSPUZE is Gamer Pee.

[cloud wyvern]

the red string and corkboard grows

[outer scroll]

cute dog i love dog they should make more of those

[earnest wagon]

Spread the word.

[cloud wyvern]

more dogs? i agree.

[hard forge]

A little progress (it's on the Padlet)

[outer scroll]

i’ll have to take a look when i’ve got the chance. very interested.

[hardy roost]

is it just random that the fall damige has change from infinite to 32...