easter-eggs

[gleaming notch]

tried with night vision ?

[fallen jasper]

I have never really used the spray mechanic.. you guys think it's a specific spray or just any of them?

[gleaming notch]

could be a stretch idk dead -> ghosts at night -> night vision (probably a stretch)

[slate dagger]

maybe shining a light on the wall reveals something

[rain comet]

Also why is monaco sometinmes mirrored?

[gloomy anvil]

I just stumbled upon this myself while looking for notable laureates

In 1993, Hulse and Taylor shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the first binary pulsar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Alan_Hulse

It certainly catches the eye

[crystal salmon]

My money's on heat signatures, considering the use of the word dead

[rain comet]

Also the skyway stadium depics a mirror

[ruby nymph]

isnt there a holotov spray

[alpine junco]

skyway stadium also has no "walls" since it's a simulation

[rain comet]

you can touch the edge of the map

[shut sentinel]

Just wanna say we're playing las vegas and at the back of small building(border) there was weird humming like the barrier was weak

[rain comet]

sometimes on monaco sun shines from the north instead of the south

[hearty meteor]

i couldnt use discord search to see if this was mentioned already: the big letters on seoul that once said YOU have now been replaced by the new video

[fallen jasper]

The video plays on the map??

[hearty meteor]

no, its when you load into the map

shouldve specified

[sharp flame]

when did they say YOU?

[lapis moat]

new so idk how to send the image but

[snow walrus]

video? you mean a scene?

says PRE-BETA footage

[hearty meteor]

pretty sure they always did

[sharp flame]

oh but the new video?

[sharp flame]

damn, can we get a screenshot of the new one?

[lapis moat]

that's the old one still

[hearty meteor]

ok i should be more specific lmao, its like the first frame of the new vid

[sharp flame]

for documentation, wiki, etc

[gloomy anvil]

isn't that from the "CAN YOU REACH THE FINALS" animated text? It's in the trailers

[hearty meteor]

i'll get one soon™️

[sharp flame]

tbf it didn't say you, it played the whole video

[solar glade]

have Seoul's ad videos been changed to the new lore vignette?

[sharp flame]

that's what it apparently is, going in to check now

[lapis moat]

is there a doc where we're collecting all the steal the spotlight stuff together?

[rain comet]

i thinnk the stuff white board drawing with question mark is a place on monaco

[hard forge]

what?

[rain comet]

i mean the map gets flipped

i might be bit disoriented

[solar glade]

so Rob's msg about when the game is set got me thinking, and i have some things to point out

• i saw this frame in the new lore vignette with the number 2095, which is is around 75 years in the future and roughly in the year 2100. or more specifically, it's 75 years after 2020 (the year Embark publicly announced they had begun developing THE FINALS)
• 2095 is the central time period for the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) album TIME (1981), a concept album about a man from the 1980s in a twilight state who is taken to the year 2095, where he is confronted by the dichotomy between technological advancement and a longing for past romance
• this album was also published by Polar Studios, which has been referenced before in EE, and it followed the album Discovery released in June 1979 (Project Discovery = THE FINALS)
• curiously enough, TIME was also followed by the album Secret Messages, littered with hidden messages in the form of backmasking, some obvious and others less so
• the album's cover (front and back) has secret messages in the form of stickers, anagrams of the band members' names and a string of Morse Code for ELO
• and it goes without saying that ELO had a previous album called Eldorado, about a character who journeys into fantasy worlds via dreams, to escape the disillusionment of his mundane reality

[rain comet]

monaco|ocanom

[torpid karma]

i found a easter egg

[alpine junco]

egyptian namatama

[valid lichen]

Sophia lies or Scotty lies? Have we figured that out yet

[jade citrus]

no

[sharp flame]

no idea.. but it's probably Scotty

[alpine junco]

the death rhodent poster has code on it

[sharp flame]

and he's probably lying about the former contestant thing.. because he is surely an AI!!

[teal quiver]

He DOESNT drink ospuze!?

[alpine junco]

cant forget some symbolism

[sharp flame]

interesting that they would say Scotty lies instead of both Scotty and June

[gloomy anvil]

"she's [sophia] got enough on her plate with the recent hacks"

Either

• OSPUZE is being hacked as well
• or the hacks are targeting Sophia (e.g. S Lies)

[teal quiver]

I didnt see it posted but do we know if the contestants around the arena on the walls are official chars we know

[hearty meteor]

doesnt the video imply that the whole show is ran by sofia

[valid lichen]

There is more evidence to it being Scotty but then again it seems a bit too obvious

[sharp flame]

well they're not trying to be cryptic

they're trying to send a message, so making it hard-to-understand would not help

[gloomy anvil]

"so I asked Mackenzie for a pre-release version"

[solar glade]

i vouch for Scotty. he has ties with both Sofia (OSPUZE) and Mackenzie (VOLPE)

[valid lichen]

Fair

[sharp flame]

pre-release version of the new map?

[solar glade]

Scotty is also the front-facing character of THE FINALS for both Contestants and viewers

[vale igloo]

it’s 2095 I think, that number just seems vaguely familiar to me I might’ve seen in on the map

[sharp flame]

It's just interesting that it's Scotty and not June, unless of course, we find a J Lies somewhere else in another map 👀?

I have several more ideas for where these things might be hidden btw

[rain comet]

Why every map except skyway stadium has a year listed on it

[sharp flame]

skyway stadium isn't based on a real place

[solar glade]

because they are based on IRL locations and Skyway is made in VR. the dates are relevant for lore and EE

[sharp flame]

Also there are lots of walls which break and reveal a 2nd wall behind them, that's where I'm starting

[solar glade]

yes, usually in the foundation or lower levels

[sharp flame]

Seoul hospital has 100 of those breakable ceilings

[vale igloo]

sophia is likely just a large part of the finals, that’s why she’s worried. ospuze is quite clearly the biggest sponsor they have, if there is a scandal it’s likely going to fuck over ospuze too

[sharp flame]

would be evil to hide something behind those but still

and also there are these 🟦 windows which break to reveal a wall behind them

to the left of the skybridge for example

[jade citrus]

casino eastwood has a ton of these type of floors

[jade citrus]

yeah i've checked most of those

[sharp flame]

also the backside of the hospital has loads of windows which actually just lead to walls

[alpine junco]

anyone decipher the bottom?

[jade citrus]

that reminds me, i actually noticed there are default Unreal Engine textures under some of these floors, but i didn't take a pic or anything

[alpine junco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4ScflpEnkc

death by rhodent and you mentioned goats

[jade citrus]

there's no need to ping rob, he reads through the chat regularly

[alpine junco]

:3

[hard current]

hi all:))

I saw last night we got a few eyes? maybe another direction to go? could someone summarize things reallllly quick for me? if not I’ll scroll no worries:))

[acoustic canyon]

i would say just read through robs messages

[hard current]

I see.. eclipses, a random string of numbers from rob..

[acoustic canyon]

there were quite a lot and the eyes were mostly about a valentines ee

[hard current]

CCLXIX

so the valentines ee ties into the roses, likely?

[acoustic canyon]

yeah

[jade citrus]

valentines ee?

[hard current]

ah ok, is CCLXIX likely for the roses too then?

[acoustic canyon]

CCLXIX is 269 which is the year saint valentine died

[hard current]

ahhh so we made some headway on some sort of other easter egg but not quite our tier

[hard current]

that’s what they’re calling it with the eyed valentines messages rob gave yesterday

[vale igloo]

Most likely sophia***

[alpine junco]

valentines day is probably the next namatama

[hard current]

wait, am I dumb or this is new

[solar glade]

we don't know...

[acoustic canyon]

rob hinted towards a massive ee to do with the roses and saint valentine in the realm of his old megalodon ee

[fresh quiver]

rob? can we use sitemaps?

[hard current]

has.. anyone tried to get out of the barriers surrounding the maps #easter-eggs message

[rain comet]

yes

Tried to get out of skyway by riding the crane

[alpine junco]

also three locations where namatama can be found

[rain comet]

5 roses and 6 statues in the tutorial

[gloomy anvil]

Rob didn't eye this? 😧 maybe the hulse-taylor puslar was just another clue towards Nobel, and not the other way around

[sharp flame]

I mean maybe.. do you wanna explain?

[balmy moat]

Has anyone taken a look at the Take the Call emote? I listened to both variants but don't know if they bare any significance

[rain comet]

when i tried to climb the tree, dummies in the practice range shot me

[fresh quiver]

We could also try to get the second hidden clue in burrw.gif

[alpine junco]

the generator in the tutroial explodes orange

[hard forge]

#easter-eggs message

"But I played the same map before and it was not this one it was just the logo on the same screen"

[gloomy anvil]

1149 + 635 = 1784, publication date of the essay "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" by Immanuel Kant.

dooon't think it's important but hey

[hard forge]

Old hunter, is commodore 64 related?

[gloomy anvil]

only C64 thing I've found is this https://csdb.dk/release/?id=167351

[hard current]

pulsar, julius caesar, commodore 64, INSANE coincidences

[alpine junco]

CS? data base? cs like the sword initial?

[hard forge]

has Rob seen this?

[gloomy anvil]

I never posted it before, seemed more like a coincidence. Not sure if anybody else did.

[jade citrus]

yes, rob references the c64 a lot

[hard forge]

now let me share my findings.

[jade citrus]

more of a general, overarching theme in the hunt

[alpine junco]

but the sega saturn was also referenced with the ymf292 chip

[hard forge]

Commodore 64 Vocally album from a Swedish group

https://www.livet.se/visa/download_friend/Visa_Roster_-_Commodore_64_Vocally/

[unborn ledge]

Leads to this:
https://pulsar.scoopex.org/history.html

[jade citrus]

and the zx spectrum is also mentioned multiple times

[snow walrus]

This man's every word is a clue lol
#easter-eggs message

Cracking/demo

[unborn ledge]

Pulsar was a cracking and demo group, founded in the UK in 1988
on the Commodore 64 by Mik (who was a former member of Nato)
and several members of Sub-Zero.
In 1989 the group became international, when several members of
the Austrian group Sega joined in.
When Ikari had a break in 1989, Pulsar became number 1 cracking group
on the c64 (refer charts of several disk magazines from this period).
In the middle of 1989 more members arrived!
Wido from the Nederlands and the groups Thanatos (from Denmark)
and The Suppliers (from Norway) joined our forces.
After that the UK section left to join DCS (cracking group from the UK),
Wido quit the scene, so did the Norwaygian members

(the last thing we heard was, that they sold their c64's to buy snowboards:)
TMB in Austria and Bimz in Denmark took over the care of the group.
New members arrived from Finland, France and Germany.
The Danish and the German section have been active on the c64 till 1992,
that's the year when Pulsar quit c64 activities to focus other terretories...

Embark | rob — 01/29/2024 10:00 PM
you are right actually, I was hanging out with my sisters kids… ._.
(trying to make them artists, go snowboarding, become pro-gamers etc…)

[snow walrus]

Crack

Cracking the golden egg

[alpine junco]

what are the 5 roses for?

[gloomy anvil]

I've been sitting on that C64 game for weeks it can't have been relevant this whole time 😭

[jade citrus]

rob seems to be typing messages in the ENGLISH language. This MUST be a reference to the BYZANTINE EMPIRE 👀

[gloomy anvil]

(days feel like weeks)

[alpine junco]

was the spooky png ever solved?

[fresh quiver]

the last thing is also weird in a way.

Pulsar PC

who knows, maybe it comes true 😉

[turbid tinsel]

if we were to flip this upside down and then mirror wouldnt we get 695?

[hard forge]

adding to this https://csdb.dk/scener/?id=8138

Einstein III by sega

[alpine junco]

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

[upper onyx]

hello everyone! anything new about https://www.holtow.com/ after update?

[alpine junco]

yeah wtf, it's glithced

[gloomy anvil]

woahhh

[jade citrus]

HOLTOW GOT HACKED TOO

[gloomy anvil]

I missed that

also can we lower the slow mode in here (pretty please)

[alpine junco]

--_

[hard forge]

we all did

[upper onyx]

holy shit i checked it 10 mins ago!

[alpine junco]

if you save it theres morse

[gloomy anvil]

a
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6575a0eafa56381d6129675f/86e53b52-add6-440b-94aa-c233c4419416/_-_-_.gif

[verbal tundra]

only happened a few minutes ago

[hard forge]

thanks

[upper onyx]

it was red dot

[rain comet]

ospuze down?

[gloomy anvil]

_-_-_.gif

[jade citrus]

C-N-S.gif maybe?

[alpine junco]

TEK

or TN

[jade citrus]

explain?

[alpine junco]

morse code

[jade citrus]

ah

[alpine junco]

wait now i got TETET

[lapis moat]

I also checked it maybe 20 minutes ago and it was still the dot

[gloomy anvil]

108 gif frames in total

[acoustic canyon]

heres it converted to mp4

[alpine junco]

slowed down

[lapis moat]

face at the end

[rain comet]

thersd hidden word in the left side

[alpine junco]

number 2 upside down

[verbal tundra]

ready

[balmy moat]

from one of the screen shots I got it says >READY for the left side

[sharp flame]

something here

[jade citrus]

I SEE IT

[lapis moat]

yeah that frame's where I've got it exactly, nuts

[verbal tundra]

i saw a cursive l in there too

[turbid tinsel]

ready in a new spot 2 frames later

[deft oasis]

sad ash

[gloomy anvil]

get ready
https://mywikis-eu-wiki-media.s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/thefinals/T2_ready_.gif

[sharp flame]

!!

[verbal tundra]

i have an idea-

[jade citrus]

similar marks

[jade citrus]

WE ARE

[deft oasis]

ready

[sharp flame]

^^!!

[acoustic canyon]

faint lines there for a single frame than gone

[turbid tinsel]

weird c or something in this frame and the next in the bottom left

[sharp flame]

is the name actually this? --> _-_-_

[gloomy anvil]

yes

[sharp flame]

hmmmmm

[shadow river]

yes

[snow walrus]

Create new thread?

[acoustic canyon]

i mean this is still holtow.com

[deft oasis]

quotations and 8 1

[sharp flame]

Holtow Gif, yeah

[alpine junco]

here are the layers

[sharp flame]

I don't think we'll ever get back to T3 of The Epic Hunt 😭

[snow walrus]

Or we can go over the same

[alpine junco]

each ss has a new image in them

[sharp flame]

go over the same?

[alpine junco]

maybe except the last screenshot but the others connect

[gloomy anvil]

Does this match a known sponsor's logo? I'll check the wiki in a sec

[snow walrus]

#1185727960980922488 we have already holtow thread i mean

[verbal tundra]

the red logo of some kind? in the center

[sharp flame]

anyway to rename threads?

[sharp flame]

@unborn pilot Can you rename the Holtow thread to just "Holtow Thread" or something similar?

[turbid tinsel]

Anyone see the "we are " yet in the gif?

[sharp flame]

also hey guys this is exactly what was in the "tion" image

[gloomy anvil]

Yeah

[sharp flame]

see the grid pattern?? ^

[acoustic canyon]

overlay them?

[sharp flame]

wait

what if the corruption in the "tion" image was also referring to this hack??

like some sort of teaser?

[snow walrus]

There are letters at top, mirror the image

[sharp flame]

this one is really peculiar (CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE SHAPE)

[verbal tundra]

more red markings

[unborn ledge]

so moments after we go snooping around in an ancient pulsar cracking group website, holtow gets "hacked"... coincidences...

[sharp flame]

see this?

[snow walrus]

I see Soundwaves forms

[verbal tundra]

yeah i saw that too

[acoustic canyon]

yeah its only there for one frame of that scene

[gloomy anvil]

hmm

[sharp flame]

the corner patterns from the Nama image are back!

[snow walrus]

Looks like an arcade game from 70-80s

[gloomy anvil]

? wild guess

[alpine junco]

i have all the frames if anyone wants them xd

[sharp flame]

my first thought was something like the gamma yeah

[unborn pilot]

Sure. Lemme see if I can change it.

[verbal tundra]

bottom left, there's something over two frames

[acoustic canyon]

this being transparent really messes with my dark mode discord

[jade citrus]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1011929497139953744/1155602125515128912/NonDesistasNonExieris.gif

[ornate sapphire]

Has anyone tried to overlay some images?👀

I know with the glitches it'd be hard to

[verbal tundra]

i see the WE ARE now

[alpine junco]

barcodes?

[alpine junco]

there are two frames with ready

[snow walrus]

I think similar frames is in lore video

[jade citrus]

what frame?

[acoustic canyon]

56, 55, maybe 54

[verbal tundra]

on mine it's 80 nevermind, wrong thing

[inner heart]

i see it

[verbal tundra]

yeah, 55-56

[alpine junco]

okay this might be a big stretch but CS stands for Chuck Swirsky

[verbal tundra]

94-95 has those symbols in the corner

[acoustic canyon]

i think its there in 54 but its just VERY faint

[gloomy anvil]

@ornate sapphire could you use a reaction that isn't 👀 since Rob uses that to confirm correct theories 😅

[verbal tundra]

102, top left

[ornate sapphire]

Oh lol no problem

[sharp flame]

my best attempt at the shape

[verbal tundra]

107, center right

[upper onyx]

anyone checked night vegas map on new event? room with safes?

[jade citrus]

#easter-eggs message

[verbal tundra]

ahh, my bad

i was just screenshotting anything funky frame by frame

[sharp flame]

these pixels are interesting but I can't see a correlation

[urban pond]

fanf 2 mini game

[sharp flame]

very specific colours used though

[gloomy anvil]

I was looking for a gif to post this 😭

[alpine junco]

hex code for each color?

[acoustic canyon]

commodore 64 color palet?

[snow walrus]

Is that a vampire or smth like that at behind

[sharp flame]

ohHHHHH!

[jade citrus]

another weird shape

[snow walrus]

Tetris?

[verbal tundra]

that looks to be a similar loop to the one we saw earlier

[sharp flame]

you fit them together

[hard current]

holy crap you guys

[shadow river]

On frame 46 there is a "K"
On frame 13 there is an "L"(?)
On frame 68 there is a "c" or "r"
On frame 107 there is a "t"(?)

[sharp flame]

😭😭?

[hard current]

you found that symbol that rob teased

[alpine junco]

i literally said overlay the frames with the colors

[turbid tinsel]

pretty sure certain frames need to be cut and overlayed on other frames

[jade citrus]

so are you gonna explain at all or just drop that here randomly

[alpine junco]

max headroom tv hack

[jade citrus]

so if you could put that all in one message it would help reduce clutter and confusion in the channel

[alpine junco]

it was one message

[snow walrus]

Without sufficient explanation

[fallen jasper]

Assuming everyone in here, mostly kids, would get a max headroom reference is kinda wild lol

[unborn pilot]

Load,8,1 is also Commodore 64 https://dfarq.homeip.net/load-81-means/

[worn flame]

whatever Rob did he hid it DEEP! Not sure i am able to crack this so sorry.

Do you know what all people have tried? He said advance PS so im wondering if its that only or some sort of stenography or something

[alpine junco]

assuming all kids here grew up with an ipad in their hands they should

[hard current]

dos command to load directory?

[jade citrus]

YES RCADE GET IN HERE

[hard current]

hey guys weird theory, would this imply that the finals is run off of.. a commodore 64?

[rain comet]

commodore 128?

[hard current]

in which case, the game is set in the 80’s?😂

[gloomy anvil]

CNS are very underfunded

[alpine junco]

any easy way to overlay 107 frames?

[worn flame]

trying that in PS now

[urban pond]

btw i know this is random but have we found what the line from june means "the writings on the wall, literally"?

[alpine junco]

wait computer space makes way more sense for CS

[upper onyx]

commodore 64? base64 encoding?

[jade citrus]

we're not 100% sure, but it might be the message on the wall that was found during CB2

according to Rob, its a "lore message"

[alpine junco]

but rob did mention dead walls, literally

[snow walrus]

Commodore graphics characters

[urban pond]

i mean maybe S stands for sophie the ceo of holtow (i think) (also yall might have already found this)

[jade citrus]

ok what's your point?

[jade citrus]

yep, we think that S either stands for Scotty or Sofia (CEO of OSPUZE)

[sharp flame]

that's about the graffiti iirc

[sly spindle]

Where do you find the mini game

[snow walrus]

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

[urban pond]

it has to be sophia cuz june is saying that to scotty so i dont think that she would say something like that right infront of his face

[gloomy anvil]

wow it took me until now to realize the > READY is also C64

[hard current]

that’s why I asked if anyone had tried to get out of the barrier wall surrounding the maps

[alpine junco]

that was already done

[worn flame]

Any specific frames from the glitch worth noting? Just jumping into them.

[gloomy anvil]

Yeah, I mean it was originally a clue in T2ABC

[hard current]

check #1185727960980922488

[alpine junco]

i tried and couldnt

[jade citrus]

we have a list going #1185727960980922488 message

[unborn pilot]

The first 3px on the left of the entire gif are different than the rest of each frame it seems

[sly spindle]

Someone tell me where the mini game is?

[jade citrus]

what minigame

[sly spindle]

I thought I saw someone say something about a hidden mini game

[acoustic canyon]

someone mentioned the fnaf 2 minigame because it looked similar to the frame in the glitch gif

[turbid tinsel]

there seems to be more hidden in the glitch if you watch the gif zoomed out, more stands out

[jade citrus]

there's no minigame that we know about

[snow walrus]

So many letters there

[inner heart]

looks like the mask

[fallen jasper]

bit of a reach

[fallen jasper]

wait does the game have an ARG

[inner heart]

im trying im not good at this 😭

[lapis moat]

the game is an ARG

[fallen jasper]

no way 😭

I did an ARG a while back on tiktok and figured out most of the story but the guy got banned

never have I been so upset

[sly spindle]

Thank you

[sharp flame]

not sure if it's supposed to be a signature or a cursive word

maybe we should trace them so it's easier to see

[fallen jasper]

trace it then google image it to detect the language? or is that cheating

[shadow river]

looks like a signature

[fallen jasper]

fucksake Im gonna end up getting sucked into this theres my weekend gone

[unborn ledge]

and next line after ready is
load " * " , 8, 1

https://imgur.com/a/Ya36dwP

[fallen jasper]

right so what do we know so far is there like a google doc of chronological info?

maybe you'll figure out the symbols by looking back at some stuff

[jade citrus]

-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! 🥚

[jade citrus]

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Easter_Eggs is also a good resource

[fallen jasper]

so its called the promise?

[gloomy anvil]

That's just level 2 of TFEE. Holtow might not be related to it since it's part of the larger EE (TEH)

[fallen jasper]

Level one was The Commence, Level 2 is The Promise

[jade citrus]

Level Three is ||never gonna happen||

[alpine junco]

there is a tiny red dot top mid left

[fallen jasper]

I cant send images smh can someone send a picture for me

[jade citrus]

sure dm to me

via @fallen jasper

[fallen jasper]

thats all I can make out from the cursive maybe shit
green lines an inference based on some glitches
reds what I can clearly see

If I was to guess the first thing kind of looks like an R and then connects to an L, but the last but I've got no clue

[eternal violet]

looks like Kler

[rain comet]

maybe upside down iseult?

[fallen jasper]

I doubt it that 2nd letter is 100% an L

[alpine junco]

klein?

[fallen jasper]

@jade citrus need another image sent the kler thing might be valid

[fallen jasper]

compare that to the inference actually kind of looks like it

[shadow river]

its definitely an K and L.

[fallen jasper]

100%

but that last letter being an R has some value to it

[shadow river]

the 3rd letter looks like a "C" to me

[fallen jasper]

'This use of で to emphasize people as the means of doing an activity can be used to emphasize who will do something, and who will not do something.' if we include the side bits of that letter its recognised as looking similar to this

like the final letter

[rain comet]

If we shift it using caesar by 9 letter it turns into tuna

[fallen jasper]

😭

[verbal tundra]

In the thread I posted a red isolated version of that, it definitely looks like a K

[fallen jasper]

repost here pls

[gloomy anvil]

Whenever you're looking for geometric shapes, keep these in mind

[snow walrus]

If you find "1541" tag me pls

[turbid tinsel]

pretty sure the top section is spectral lines to a planet from the wiki

[fallen jasper]

yeah that matches with the drawing 100% a K to an l

any relevant words or people that start with Kl?

[verbal tundra]

There’s a bit of an e on the end, so yeah I reckon Smashel was on the money

Might be missing some overlays tho

[jade citrus]

that image was from @fallen jasper btw

[fallen jasper]

woww I see how it is

[verbal tundra]

ah! My apologies

[fallen jasper]

Yeah I put above aswell google images recognised that e symbol thing as で

[shut sentinel]

i know we probably did but did we try turning red flashing cube into morse code?

[fallen jasper]

wikipedia says the kanji means either an indication of a location where something happens, indicating the means by or with which something happens or indicating the containing by something

[verbal tundra]

Not entirely sure it’s that symbol, but I do see the similarity

[turbid tinsel]

the password is in the glitch gif somehow, im seeing alot of stuff from the latest official art in this as well as ques and tion

[fallen jasper]

good chance it isnt but I dont want to rule out the fact the glitchy overlay could have morphed it into something similar

[unborn pilot]

the name of the gif reminds me of the FIND PSW: XXXX-XX-XX. ?-?-? could imply it's a date, replace ? with _

no clue how to fix Discord chaning underscores lol

[fallen jasper]

wheres the og gif?

[gloomy anvil]

was FIND PSW ever solved btw?

[hasty anvil]

There's so many possibilities for a date

[unborn pilot]

don't think so. i was convinvced for a while it was what we needed for this password, but nope never got anywhere at all.

[hasty anvil]

Actually, XXXX-XX-XX is mirrored date

maybe that's the mirror clue. Going by EU it should be DD-MM-YEAR

[unborn pilot]

the X thing we're talking about was a clue was in an old image. the gif is the new one that is on holtow.com today

[eternal violet]

YYYY-MM-DD is ISO 8601, the superior format

[verbal tundra]

this is just leading me back to my Aphrodite theory all over again

[unborn pilot]

hehe, yeah. Also ISO 8601 was a main clue in Level 1

[shut sentinel]

Was there any clue hiden in a actuall game ? or could be?

they say "seek the truth behind the walls" maybe there is some message behind the barrier just barely out of reach

[upper onyx]

new hat in new bundle has "shu.ti.fu.ra 74" on it

[fallen jasper]

the aspect ratio is 1111:804 for the gif

seems a pretty odd number for an aspect ratio

[fallen jasper]

STHR 74

if you google shutifura the hat bundle does come up 🤷‍♂️

loads of weird shit comes up in images aswell, sahure, caesura, shaffron if that means anything

[hasty anvil]

Caresura is interesting

[fallen jasper]

I wish I had image perms so I could post all this shit 😭

[acoustic canyon]

ceaser and saffron?

[hasty anvil]

Latin links, we’ve had ‘//‘ I think and loosely related the Caesar

[verbal tundra]

The amount of times the references loop back into each other is getting awfully suspicious
That bundle seems to be one of the only recent ones to have a description?
“Trace your future in the northern sky (and may your stars never set)”
Again, leading back to the constellations

[hasty anvil]

Northern lights was eyed too

[fallen jasper]

dms

[upper onyx]

anyone checked nightsky on night vegas?

[alpine junco]

I took a ss of the galaxy but nothing special unless you want to identify them

[hasty anvil]

From @fallen jasper

[verbal tundra]

Yeah I was following that lead for a bit too, that’s what led me down the Greek/Roman gods rabbit hole (northern lights reference)

[upper onyx]

also free ps+ volpe skin pack!

[fallen jasper]

sahure pops up before the 2nd finals picture might mean something?

[fallen jasper]

give me some key words to look for in the sahure wiki

[urban wedge]

Does the dark knight refer to, the Black Knight, per chance?

King Mark was portrayed in this movie, and he's the father of Isolde in the Celtic Legend, the King Midas stuff.

[fallen jasper]

big up ratfish

[verbal tundra]

Anser
Eros
Astraea
Eos
Justitia
Boreas
Aphrodite
Venus

[timid solstice]

we are
frame 57

#easter-eggs message

[verbal tundra]

For this

[upper onyx]

whoa

[fallen jasper]

whats after that?

[odd crater]

god damm what are the easter egg guy are coking today 👀

[verbal tundra]

welp, i need sleep, I’ll catch up in 5 hours or so
o7

[upper onyx]

guys, search that chat for 57. Maybe we have another clues to frame numbers?

[fallen jasper]

57 - CAESAR - We literally have a Caesar Namatama

was the answer to a crossword

[humble beacon]

Slightly off topic question: do we know what the significance of the blinking dot turning blue on the Holtow website is?

[alpine junco]

#1185727960980922488

[gloomy anvil]

"We are" is in two frames, not just 57

[fallen jasper]

which other frame

[gloomy anvil]

56 or 58

[humble beacon]

thank you

[fallen jasper]

so its up for 2 frames then disappears

[elfin atlas]

Hey just a quick question. At the moment theres a theory about going out of map on vegas right?

[rain comet]

yea

[gloomy anvil]

from @fallen jasper, stood out to them

[fallen jasper]

I thought it kind of looks like symbols

too coincidental to have a 3x3 grid looking thing of symbols within the glitches

[acoustic canyon]

its in 54 55 and 56

[alpine junco]

could be something with additional layers

[elfin atlas]

I saw something maybe thats interesting or maybe somebody already tried it but in the season pass you can get a head pattern called ODILIA and the description says that you can be odilia „who dances between virtual reality and illusion“ maybe its only possible to leave the mapborder with the head of odilia?

[acoustic canyon]

just barely visible in 54 though

[spice lark]

The bottom left corner looks like an A. It could be possible that we have to resort the grid like a puzzle.

[fallen jasper]

there might be a chance that theres multiple phrases scattered throughout the whole gif that we can find, decode and then we use the frame numbers to order them as a password?

[gloomy anvil]

making gifs that display the symbols a bit clearer

[fallen jasper]

I kind of feel like theres more room for an extra letter the word isnt centred

[fallen jasper]

we are kler?

[crisp glen]

maybe its just CNS asking "are you ready? we are."

[fallen jasper]

they pranked us

[elfin atlas]

Can somebody tell me if anyone tried that out yet?

[alpine junco]

letters on top/

[crisp glen]

we dont think you need to buy anything to advance an ee

[elfin atlas]

Yeah for sure that only makes sense. Sorry

[desert breach]

the red moon isnt new right

[spice lark]

@desert breach have you tried sniping it?

[desert breach]

no you think that would do something?

im guessing its nothing new i just havent noticed a big ass red moon

nor have i heard of it in any videos yet

it was like daytime too it was rlly weird

[crystal salmon]

Has anybody translated the guy broadcasting some kind of message in Skyway Stadium? I just heard it in a ranked match

no idea what language it was

[somber lava]

These frames remind me of a slow-scan television waveform.

[crystal salmon]

The whole rest of my team left while waiting for the next round, so I was just hiding under some stairs for the match ._.

[crisp glen]

And you heard audio of a guy talking in another language?

what stairs?

[alpine junco]

korean?

[crystal salmon]

Could be.

[alpine junco]

skyway stadium has 3 languages i think

[crystal salmon]

Northwestern staircase of the north building. Bottom floor

[crisp glen]

was it the white building or the black one

[crystal salmon]

North one, white

[crisp glen]

okay thanks, ill go poke around

[crystal salmon]

Just had to go back to check haha

It was right at the start of the match too, after the announcers introduced the round. Caught me off guard

[crisp glen]

ohh you may be talking about the arena announcer

theres like a hype man that talks over the loud speaker sometimes

[crystal salmon]

Wasn't English though, and the tone of the voice was more like a public service announcement than anything else

[crisp glen]

hmm alright ill go check anyway

[crystal salmon]

Yeah I'll try to capture it too, but gotta leave soon

[alpine junco]

found a frame with a single orange pixel

[hard current]

hey this is robs signature I’m pretty sure

lol I lied

[crisp glen]

Yeah its just the hype man speaking in korean I think

[nocturne marten]

Hey guys! New to the hunt because I heard something weird. In Steal The Spotlight, I heard punk rock music coming from one of the alleyways. I haven't experienced that in the normal Vegas map. No lyrics far as I could hear, but I did notice a bunch of graffiti near there, behind the barrier.

[alpine junco]

already known

[nocturne marten]

Sorry to clog then! Tried to check before hand, but didn't spot anything in the logs, sorry.

[rugged wyvern]

There is a door on the edge there with no blue boundry around it why is that?

[acoustic urchin]

Okay- this is probably old news to most, but when I booted up my game I took off my headphones to talk to my wife, and when I looked back Scotty and June were talking about the hacked messages that people have mentioned (Scotty called them “glitches” but June said they were “writings on the wall”) tried to boot again but didn’t get the message again. I wished I had clipped it ):
Scotty also said at one point that “Holtow wasn’t worried about it”

[acoustic canyon]

you can find the video at the top of https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1202387725366603856

[acoustic urchin]

Thanks bc it really tripped me up, my bad

[velvet verge]

whats up boys, any new developments overnight?

[alpine junco]

holtow.com

[hidden nacelle]

reminds me of the taurus symbol

[velvet verge]

oooooooooooooooooo
that was just the red dot before right?

[alpine junco]

these big chunks have the same texture

[brisk hearth]

any similarity here?

[brisk hearth]

p?

or t

[velvet verge]

the bottom right matches pretty closely.

[alpine junco]

going off the caeser egg i dont think K is in the gif

also the gif could have everything rotated so its gonna take until all images are right way up

[finite shale]

guys i think we need to shoot the walls

[pure loom]

This looks a bit like an absorption spectrum

[alpine junco]

there are several like that

im still speculating this is something

[light walrus]

Has anyone tried gold egg combinations in binary? Binary star systems keep popping up.

[alpine junco]

vegas golden eggs on the slot machines eternal rest

[light walrus]

Maybe the binary is the important part

[turbid tinsel]

im starting to feel pretty confident Johannesburg is relevant.

[brisk hearth]

why?

[verbal hazel]

Is there anything in out of bounds area at skyway stadium or Seoul?

[alpine junco]

maybe the fountains and canons on monaco have something?

[turbid tinsel]

ive literally been looking over the last 2 relevant images. and im like 90% certain.

[worn flame]

Maybe the gold statues?

[turbid tinsel]

but ive been wrong before

[finite shale]

has anyone decrypted this already ?
https://imgur.com/a/zvYKvQs

we need someone to do a rundown of everything done and to do

[alpine junco]

where is it from?

[finite shale]

from a QR code found in a loading screen i believe

Get you to this website
https://www.reachthefinals.com/rival-1

[alpine junco]

https://www.kaksikitaraa.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ErbMLwMy4

[finite shale]

easter egg aside the song goes hard

[alpine junco]

right?

[acoustic canyon]

weve seen the record but we never found a connection with it afaik

[pallid sorrel]

any significance in date 1993-01-01

[alpine junco]

Rq6waHp

[turbid tinsel]

nelson mandela i think may be relevant as well

[finite shale]

https://www.discogs.com/release/21706327-Malte-Johnsons-Orkester-Raija-Mannerla-High-Society-Kaksi-Kitaraa-

[sharp flame]

We did find it

[acoustic canyon]

ah ok

[sharp flame]

"Kari" was the keyword, and "twin" was a secondary reference

[odd crater]

you search somenting about finland and northerm lights?

[hard current]

yeah rob eyed northern lights last night didn't he?

[odd crater]

yes and he was talking about finland

and the music disc is from there

[finite shale]

the vinyl is from Finland (yes)

[odd crater]

and the nortern lights?

[finite shale]

There were three QR codes, right?

can't find the other two

[alpine junco]

and goats

[hard current]

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

nominated for the nobel prize seven times, did work involving atmospheric electrical current and the aurora

[odd crater]

Norwegian Polar Expedition conducted from 1899 to 1900

[hard current]

The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition 1902–1903... north star again

[alpine junco]

Birkeland's theory of the aurora was eventually confirmed and accepted as correct.

[hard current]

The book on the 1902–1903 expedition contains chapters on magnetic storms on the Earth and their relationship to the Sun, the origin of the Sun itself, Halley's comet, and the rings of Saturn... saturn again

[pallid sorrel]

has anyone scanned the guitar hammer skin ?

[paper sail]

Has anyone found the tunnel?

[sullen pawn]

I just went into a steal the spotlight game, when looking around outside the map if you stand in the north-east corner and look north there are some purple lights on a building that kind of resemble the northern lights.

[hard current]

what tunnel?

[hard current]

do you have a pic or video? if so, you can share it with me if you want until you rank up and can send it in here

[paper sail]

I clipped through the map on monaco and found a tunnel with cars driving though it

[hard current]

oh lol that's interesting heh, no nobody has seen that

[paper sail]

imma try to get a video

[nocturne marten]

I just found a distorted Holtow Logo in the GIF

[civic trellis]

There’s a twitch drop

It’s the blueprint of the eastwood casino with marks on it

[acoustic canyon]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1202362203920150610

[civic trellis]

Thanks

[solar glade]

i think it’s part of the overall level design. below the plaza there is a parking space and different tunnels IRL. but should be fun to see it

[alpine junco]

Huh

[paper sail]

yeah I did some research on it last night, there is a tunnel in monacco that looks exactly like it

[storm cliff]

;jj

[alpine junco]

Anyone wanna hop into a lobby and explore the maps together

[odd crater]

the problem is we dont know what direction are we taking

[paper sail]

yep

[alpine junco]

I feel monaco is holding a lot we dont know

[paper sail]

imma try to clip under monacco again

[odd crater]

yes but rob say things from northern lights , goats and findland idk if monaco have clue

[alpine junco]

monaco has a 3 headed monkey somewhere xd

[paper sail]

funny enough the teaser for the finals had a car in it

[short creek]

1902 the day a child was bron

[paper sail]

on the Monaco map

[alpine junco]

similar symbol on vegas

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

[pure wren]

how are my favorite internet schizos doing

[short creek]

KANYE WEST

[paper sail]

Anyone know a good way to clip though the map on monaco?

[acoustic canyon]

the only clip weve found is in the practice range

[alpine junco]

what do the roses in tutorial mean?

[acoustic canyon]

rob said they arent part of the main ee but hinted towards them being a part of a valentines ee around the same magnitude of his megalodon ee in bf

[odd crater]

im braind dead

idk why i found this

[turbid tinsel]

Nelson mandela has received a nobel prize, the Augusto "César" Sandino award, and also served as a lawyer in Johannesburg- otherwise known as the city of gold where the language spoken there is Khoekhoe, otherwise known as nama language. Might not be relevant for the tier but might be somewhere sometime.

[pallid sorrel]

i noticed the name was missing here it should be RAIJA MANNERLA

[proud minnow]

yesterday it was our amazing neighbors in the west, and today we send some love to our friends to the east… I know we have already shard a lot of love to our neighbors in the south, haha

[alpine junco]

According to Scotty, "scrambled" is one of their trigger words.

[mild grove]

only chanel without a 15 min chat thing, but i cant reconnect to a ranked match, but i get peneltyed if i leave, should i just keep trying or wait the 5-10 min of penelty

[fallen jasper]

Everything yall say in here sounds like code 🤣

[mild grove]

Nvm it says that i abbandoned so i have a 10 min ban

[proud minnow]

haha that was actually no code… ._.

[gloomy anvil]

This is for easter eggs, use #⚡┇the-finals-chat please

[opaque thistle]

...south... s lies...

[mild grove]

i tryed but someone sent me to a outside of discord page and a bot that is weid to use

[short creek]

HAHAH

[pallid sorrel]

maybe he's hinting we are on the right path

[opaque thistle]

WAIT ITS BECAUSE OF DENMARK

SO SNEAKY ROB SO SNEAKY

[alpine junco]

#1185727960980922488

[opaque thistle]

yeah that was more of a joke

[odd crater]

russia?

[opaque thistle]

SOUTH OF SWEDEN IS DENMARK THOUGH LIKE HOW IN HAMLET HE'S THE PRINCE OF DENMARK 👀

[odd crater]

wait... Winter War?

[pure loom]

Almost everywhere is south of Sweden haha

[opaque thistle]

yeahhh but south of sweden directly though 😩 literally one down

[pure loom]

Poland, Germany, Denmark

[opaque thistle]

they're like practically touching

[odd crater]

@proud minnow the goat , norther light and finland is for T3 right becase thats some problem whit the hints and other ee 💀

[paper sail]

Rob should shed some light on the tunnel

[odd crater]

i came for a 8ball charm and the only thing i got is
aneurysm

[fresh quiver]

the past, the present, the future?

[opaque thistle]

Norway, Denmark, Finland, and then for the northern lights the artic?

[hushed beacon]

rod said the 8 ball is coming iin season 2 😭

[opaque thistle]

WAIT IS THAT WHERE NAMATAMA WANTS TO VACATION?? ARE THE THREE PLACES NORWAY DENMARK AND FINLAND??

[odd crater]

and the 8 ball skin for Frag Grenade 😢

[opaque thistle]

😩 I dont know

[hushed beacon]

ROB!!!!!!!! i know your here face me 👁️

[sharp flame]

Face you?😭

[hushed beacon]

im about to become kratos

[opaque thistle]

Rob you evil genuis

[misty raven]

Hey hey get this. What is a golden egg? Tough to crack!!

[opaque thistle]

wait.. NORDVEST-SPITSBERGEN NATIONAL PARK?

[hushed beacon]

ZUES (rob) IS THIS HOW YOU FACE ME

[opaque thistle]

or one of the parks on svalbard??

[remote basin]

Monaco, Vegas, souel?

[hard current]

hey rob if you’re still here, you may want to take a look at #1185727960980922488 hehe

[sharp flame]

Yep! I think we found one of the messages in that thing

[remote basin]

https://tenor.com/view/the-finals-thefinals-the-finals-cashout-thefinals-cashout-cashout-finals-gif-1196825798537681595

[odd crater]

Estonia,sweden,russia?

[sand girder]

probably a stupid question but u guys already know about the iseult site right?

[opaque thistle]

[pure loom]

I'm puzzled about the difference in the Tier 1B X - seems odd that it would be different in size and its font too

[sharp flame]

B is the Best

[sand girder]

love your videos man keep it up

[pure loom]

Thanks!

working on one at the moment

[gloomy anvil]

also still curious about C and D having that alternate background

[snow walrus]

some eyes are waiting to be given R0b

[hard forge]

👆ROB

[snow walrus]

#1185727960980922488 message

[tranquil minnow]

have we found out why Holtow is specifically mentioned in the new 1.6.1 clip

[turbid tinsel]

that would fit everything found on that last official art, that patternt is all over the background letters

[finite shale]

cartoon network hacked the game

[turbid tinsel]

and alot of that text for an l

[cold vault]

(Sending it in the right channel this time) So in the new cutscene that the new update added there is a hidden messages wich says "been hacked by cns, one night three daws see the signs" and "seek the truth beyond the walls" and on the wiki I found an unamed sponsor's logo that looks like it could belong to CNS. (can't post images in the server so i have to use a imgur link sorry) https://imgur.com/a/BlM2922

[tranquil minnow]

do we know what CNS stands for tho?

[jagged junco]

hey guys, can someone update me about everything we found for the yesterday cutscene ?

[tranquil minnow]

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

[tranquil minnow]

Try here ^^^

[snow walrus]

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

[tranquil minnow]

preciate it. Only recently started hunting and im loving the support from the community so far! feels like the Hunt for Halliday's Easteregg

[snow walrus]

Don't hesitate to ask questions new Hunters Just before that make sure to check the wiki if the answer is already there
We always need more hunters!

[fluid sandal]

methinks i begin to hunt as well
used to be a big into ARGs but stopped

[gleaming notch]

quick question

[weary coyote]

we dont do quick here

[gleaming notch]

forgot slow mode whats the deal with CNS and table of elements ?

[dawn coral]

ok, so i've been looking at some of the CNS stuff, and the periodic table one has PTE circles in red, with arrows all pointing to CNS.

is it possible PTE stands for Posttraumatic epilepsy, and CNS stands for Central Nervous System? are we in a coma, and CNS is trying to wake us up, but someone is trying to keep us in the simulation?

[runic wren]

Hmm
PS: RTX - off
https://imgur.com/a/HUDdmVG
https://imgur.com/a/3Yrvmcq

[snow walrus]

#easter-eggs message

[gleaming notch]

icic ty

[finite shale]

i think this was just for this banger of a song ngl

[snow walrus]

weird. How the wall became like this

[tranquil minnow]

i mean any theory helps!

[snow walrus]

good one if your message gets 👀 that means you are in a right path

[sharp flame]

Central Nervous System was my guess, and Rob kinda(?) confirmed that

[worldly dust]

interesting

[pure loom]

well that for the servers/internet - it's a bit open-ended

[worldly dust]

i thought cns was an american news station but i think thats cbs

[sharp flame]

yeah I was just considering the origin of the name

[fluid sandal]

could be a dystopian future so something like "Central News Station" or something like that

[pure loom]

I think we're in the ballpark for it

[worldly dust]

perhaps but why would they be hacking broadcasts

[fluid sandal]

thats a good question

central news station could be a cover-up

[sharp flame]

but they are news

[fluid sandal]

nah i mean like
cns actually means something else but operates under the guise of a news station

[sharp flame]

so why would they need to announce who they are, "We are CNS"?

[fluid sandal]

I dunno

[worldly dust]

or "this broadcast has been hacked by CNS"

[fluid sandal]

maybe it goes nowhere; I'm just thinking in the line of "corporate overlords" dystopian future since that is a pretty common trope

[sharp flame]

I think News Station is a common abbreviation so we should defo keep that in mind

[worldly dust]

i think CNS is good

[fluid sandal]

one that i believe some of these devs have worked with in the past

[worldly dust]

as in not evil

[opaque thistle]

I've seen some other stuff referencing that and I already think that the coma theory is well on the right track to being confirmed considering the amount of "coincidences" surrounding vegas with machines named day dream, eternal sleep, etc. and the sponsors with how there's several references to us being asleep and of ospuze and iseult's mottos being very concerning when looked at through that lens with things like "Let it breathe" which I don't see linking in with a drink company at all.

[gleaming notch]

hey about CNS and table of the elements, anything to see on Carbon-Nitrogen-Sulfur ? book about human interference apparently

[fluid sandal]

what if some way some how
and hear me out
I read what rob said and

[alpine junco]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHNOPS#:~:text=1 Description-,Description,of these elements are nonmetals.&text=Found in carbohydrates%2C lipids%2C nucleic acids%2C and proteins.

[worldly dust]

i was just reading that

[alpine junco]

CHNOPS and CHON are mnemonic acronyms for the most common elements in living organisms. "CHON" stands for carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, which together make up more than 95 percent of the mass of biological systems.[1] "CHNOPS" adds phosphorus and sulfur.

and there is C N/H S in the holtow glitch

[fluid sandal]

the finals' contestants are people with comas / brain injuries from the past
LOL
it sounds dumb as hell but im taking what he said at face value:
people from the future use those from the past in comas as their contestants in game shows

it is probably silly but thats a train of thought

[worldly dust]

what if they are placed in a coma. maybe illegaly

[pallid sorrel]

CNS might be something different

[fluid sandal]

or since its the future, everyone is like in a forced sleep due to events such as interstellar travel and this is what they do to pass the time

[worldly dust]

and their conciousness is being uploaded into the finals, putting them into coma

[opaque thistle]

It's all training for ARC

They came from the future to put us into stasis and have to train so we can become stronger soldiers in the future (or it just is arc already and we're in the future fighting wars using virtual overlays and robots while we're in a coma forced to kill them without even knowing it ?)

[finite shale]

this change EVERYTHING

[worldly dust]

hmm we could be cooking

cns almost definetly stands for Cental Nervous System

[fluid sandal]

watch this all end up being a sombra arg type thing to reveal the tier 100 contestant for next season

[opaque thistle]

^

[velvet narwhal]

Good morning/afternoon/night guys!

[pallid sorrel]

how does this make sense?

[opaque thistle]

Good afternoon... ._.

[worldly dust]

the tier 100 contestant this season HAS to mean something, why put a likeness/ memorial of a real person in a virtual game

[worldly dust]

rob basically confirmed it with a 👀 emoji

[fluid sandal]

so the cns in a human is the brain & spinal cord
what if CNS
Is an all-powerful AI controlling the world or something in the future
and someway somehow the finals is getting out-of-line so CNS is trying to stop it

[tranquil minnow]

yo i did noth think me just asking if we truly know what CNS stands for would lead to all this now 😅

[worldly dust]

maybe its cental NETWORK system

instead of nervous

super ai activities

[opaque thistle]

okay so there is no cooking here got it

[worldly dust]

low levels of cooking

[pallid sorrel]

fish might be on to something but not quite right and it must be related to recent hacks/glitches nervous system makes no sense

[opaque thistle]

the heat... is off

[worldly dust]

computer networks are sometimes referenced as nervous systems

[gloomy anvil]

Central Neural/Neuron System - AI in control and gone rogue.

[tranquil minnow]

welp we tried

[worldly dust]

network its gotta be cental network

[opaque thistle]

central neutron star

[sharp flame]

okay I thought I made sense but it seems like more guesses are coming

[opaque thistle]

[pallid sorrel]

found this might be close as the whole point of game is stealing money
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cns.asp

[worldly dust]

i think u are cooking something here

[gloomy anvil]

I just want my AI theory to be true 😆

[pallid sorrel]

@sharp flame

[alpine junco]

"CNS stands for Construction, Navigation and Surveying. It is a field of civil engineering that focuses on the construction of new structures, the navigation of water vessels, and the surveying of land and water boundaries."

[worldly dust]

INSURANCE - holtow insurance

[opaque thistle]

"The main advantage of CNS is that it minimizes the exchange of securities between counterparties."

[velvet narwhal]

I also think that CNS is an AGI

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_nervous_system here is the idea I was talking about. It seems people aren't super familiar

When the term CNS is used normally it most often refers to Central Nervous System. That's the common meaning anyways.

[tranquil minnow]

nah you were thinking in line with me. there's definitly something about CNS we don't know that is probably key about this whole level or at least a clue. That's why I asked about it in the first place. glad it got picked up

[worldly dust]

do we have a time limit to work this stuff out or no

[tranquil minnow]

dont think so

[sharp flame]

I wish

[finite shale]

i think they add more and more things as time passes

[worldly dust]

ah alright it ends when we know the answers ig

[tranquil minnow]

yep

[sharp flame]

#easter-eggs message This here is why we could not have a time limit

[fluid sandal]

has anyone tried combining the two images on our current tier like thru photoshop or smthn

[misty raven]

Sorry seems like y'all cooking. We know that the Nobel prize is awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences right?

[opaque thistle]

ye

[tranquil minnow]

i definitly think this could be something. cant believe we didn't at least mention it sooner

[fluid sandal]

itd be really funny if the password for tier 3 was just cns

[worldly dust]

wait im sort of new to the hunt how does the noble prize link in

[sharp flame]

September 2023 was the original message actually hehe

this was the speculation

[tranquil minnow]

been swimming around that idea for a while then! just happy that the conversation sparked up again

[sharp flame]

I didn't even consider that.. the Royal Academy is alr confirmed to be connected so this is good 🙏

[misty raven]

Oh yah!

[snow walrus]

everything is connected somehow

[misty raven]

But surely this should be close to the password specifically

[tranquil minnow]

we could never know until we try it tbh

[opaque thistle]

we've been told by Rob that password for tier three was related to 5 truths, when put together they'd make an answer. Hamlet = Ophelia = The five truths, we've also gotten some confirmation about the five truths with rob 👀 ing Gold, Goose, latin. but he also eyed someone saying "latin AND"

[sharp flame]

oh by the way
CNS is not connected to the answer of the Hunt

[gloomy anvil]

The only truths Rob has eyed are

• Gold
• Egg
• Latin
• Space

[opaque thistle]

yeah it seems more haltow

[sharp flame]

CNS is lore sided, unrelated to the password we need atm

[fluid sandal]

ahh ok

[tranquil minnow]

[finite shale]

what's the password about btw is there a website ?

[weary coyote]

or is it!

[fluid sandal]

so is stuff related to the hunt more gonna be in the holtow channel?

[sharp flame]

NO JOHANNES

[tranquil minnow]

https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

[worldly dust]

what was the name of the giant that had the goose that laid golden eggs?

[tranquil minnow]

dont be doin this please

[fluid sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/face-change-reaction-gif-26159977

[tranquil minnow]

i need sleep

[gloomy anvil]

The Giant is from Jack and the Beanstalk, the original Fable by Aesop refers to a regular man I believe

[sharp flame]

Johannes..

https://tenor.com/view/thousand-yard-stare-1000-yard-stare-war-funny-face-gif-3289092973375245123

[finite shale]

ty

[worldly dust]

what was the mans name lemme check

[weary coyote]

just asking questions

[worldly dust]

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

[sharp flame]

johannes you don't even know the password stop confusing these poor people

[snow walrus]

the mighty embarker is trying to make some mud

[worldly dust]

gold . egg

[fluid sandal]

what if instead of this story its the brothers grimm story the golden goose

[tranquil minnow]

...that lead to our downward mental spiral over obsessing over things we don't need to 😭

[weary coyote]

or do i

[merry nimbus]

Heard rock music while loading in steal the spotlight

[sharp flame]

:(

[gloomy anvil]

we have a bunch of clues connecting to Gold, but only around 3 for egg, and afaik none of them have Nobel Prize connections either, odd.

Makes me think Nobel isn't our final destination

[pallid sorrel]

how to pin this

[gloomy anvil]

Important stuff is on the padlet linked in #egg-hunt-onboarding

[lament linden]

I had this one word in mind for the longest time

Try lightyear as a password

[tranquil minnow]

dunno but it's on the padlet when you look for Rob's posts

[pallid sorrel]

oka

[snow walrus]

EE page:
https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

[gloomy anvil]

For any first time Padlet users I recommend zooming out to like 60% at least

[worldly dust]

do capital letter matter for password

[gloomy anvil]

all lowercase, only letters and numbers.

[worldly dust]

right ok

[misty raven]

I am so sorry to do this but I cant open the game currently. Does someone have a screenshot of the mansion on skyway stadium? I can't find one online anywhere

[tranquil minnow]

fish left :((

[pallid sorrel]

@gloomy anvil is stegnography allowed?

[tranquil minnow]

what angle?

[misty raven]

Front

[snow walrus]

-egghunt

[wet leaf]

New to the hunt?

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

[tranquil minnow]

i'll see if i can find it

[misty raven]

Legend 🙏

[pallid sorrel]

just say no

[snow walrus]

the answer is yes but if you say so:
NO

[pallid sorrel]

ten say yes bruh

[snow walrus]

i think you should check #egg-hunt-onboarding

[misty raven]

Could you also grab a pic of the statue behind the mansion if you can?

[tranquil minnow]

sure, if i'm able to find it for ya

[lament linden]

There's a statue?-

[sharp flame]

in the lowered park

[lament linden]

Ah right

[worldly dust]

im losing my mind

[snow walrus]

this one?
#easter-eggs message

[tranquil minnow]

i kinda wish that the main hunters, like our good friend @sharp flame or other reputable hunters have access to freecam of maps so that it wouldn't be so hard to find stuff in game without yk, disruupting the game for regular players

[sharp flame]

Custom Games coming at some point I think. Or at least Rob hinted at it

[tranquil minnow]

pretty sure that's it yeah.

[fluid sandal]

I just saw the padlet and yeah the 60% zoom is helping xP

[misty raven]

I was referring to the bust by the edge of the map but that is also cool

[lament linden]

I feel like they added a solo event for a reason

[merry nimbus]

I mean I feel like casual games aren't all that important

[tranquil minnow]

some people play for k/d ratio

[snow walrus]

i bet that's in the channel somewhere also 😄

[odd crater]

That sad

[merry nimbus]

You have a point

[worldly dust]

embark give us free roam of the maps

[tranquil minnow]

yeah, just dont wanna ruin anyone elses fun yk. that actually want teamates that arent looking arounf for clues

[sand hornet]

Agreed

[tranquil minnow]

YO I GOT SKYWAY

[worldly dust]

awesomee

[tranquil minnow]

@misty raven pics on its way

[misty raven]

I think it MIGHT be a bust of Alfred Nobel, similar to the one located at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. ALSO I think the mansion looks similar to the academy

[fluid sandal]

just queue up with two other hunters ez

[sand hornet]

Wait can someone update me on what we have figured out already (I’m kinda new)

[misty raven]

Bless you 🙏

[teal quiver]

wonder if the masterplan markup is based on the cameras

[misty raven]

Your first task is to catch up

[sand hornet]

lol

[sharp flame]

about the Main Hunt (with passwords) or the Lore?

[misty raven]

It is a research puzzle after all

[sand hornet]

Both… but I’m more interested in the lore

[lament linden]

[chrome trail]

Hey not sure if anyone has talked about it yet but the Holtow site updated from the red blinking dot

[sharp flame]

#1185727960980922488 there you go

[chrome trail]

Ty my bad!

[misty raven]

Nah wait that's crazy though

[alpine junco]

GELS

[sharp flame]

from monaco, right?

[fluid sandal]

where the hair care sponsor at

[tranquil minnow]

skyway stadium monaco aint it?

[misty raven]

Looks like I was off but thanks for the effort anyway!!

[snow walrus]

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/In-Game_Easter_Eggs#Monaco

[worldly dust]

LEGS😎

[misty raven]

Looks a bit like Alfred Nobel though

[merry nimbus]

By the way, do we know where skyway stadium is located. Like region wise

[sharp flame]

Fully Virtual. Doesn't exist. Based off of Monaco and Seoul

[tranquil minnow]

np, here statue outfront

[merry nimbus]

Ahh ok

[sand hornet]

Why are the statues important?

[misty raven]

I wonder who that is. Isis?

[snow walrus]

that's common statue, is in Monaco too

[tropic sierra]

Anyone find anything about the glitch intro?

[sand hornet]

I think we should be more focused on the death by rodent stuff (or have you already… idk I’m new)

[finite shale]

did anyone made a rundown on how every password were found ?

[sand hornet]

Yeah I says 1 night 3 dawns (which hints toward the Las Vegas map which has one night and three dawns) then it says something about looking outside the walls so that’s what we’re doing I think (like I said earlier… I’m new)

[tropic sierra]

@sand hornet Thx

[sand hornet]

Other people might have found other stuff that’s just what I found

[worldly dust]

maybe using a sniper to look outside the walls could be useful

[fluid sandal]

assuming you have 4/5 things (truths) for the password and the last one is either a number or a letter couldnt you just brute force it

[lament linden]

Brute forcing is not allowed

[fluid sandal]

fair enough

[lament linden]

Noone can stop you but it ruins the hunt

[sand hornet]

Where do you find the Easter egg images

[fluid sandal]

check out #egg-hunt-onboarding , im looking at the padlet page right now

[opaque thistle]

I had been thinking it might refer to the Brothers Grimm golden goose rather than jack and the beanstalk. It lines up a lot better with the other stories we've had referenced to us, Hamlet, Midas, The golden goose, and Tristan and iseult (which all have been referenced to us, hamlet was 👀 'd by rob, Midas was mentioned in the Death by rodent audio, gold goose was found in cyphers/clues, and tristan and iseult has also been possibly mentioned in death by rodent (unsure if it's king midas or markus) and across the maps as a sponsor. And all have a theme following the princess and the royal families when we look at the brother grimm version it's much better aligned with how eventually the king passes away and leaves his kingdom and his daughter to the boy "simpleton" who we follow. In hamlet aswell as tristan and iseult theres a very clear similarity in how the deaths and marriages are nearly opposites of eachother. The prince Hamlet gets revenge on his uncle for killing his father, the king, to try to marry his wife, the Queen driving Ophelia who was meant to marry hamlet to drown herself. In tristan and iseult the escort tristan is the nephew of the king mark who is to bring iseult to marry mark but ends up drinking a love potion and falls for iseult himself. Then iseult cheats on the king with tristan and they are set to be killed/exiled for this (opposite of the uncle trying to kill the king to marry the queen, iseult cheats on the current king who is also the uncle and as a result he sets out to kill his nephew [who would've been the prince were it hamlet]) and then after tristan and iseult run away together eventually he gives iseult back to mark for their peace and then marries off to another iseult before being struck by an arrow and calling for the original iseult to heal him but is too late and dies thinking she didn't come for him then she passes away on his body (opposite of how ophelia runs away from Hamlet due to the madness of all the killings and ends up drowning herself to be away from it all. Tristan was already away to brittany and calls for iseult wanting to be with his original love and fighting to live, also theres an overarching inversion of the marriages and murders in general). So that creates our link between Hamlet and tristan and iseult (aswell as just the sponsor names and previous references with Death by Rodent), but also a starting point of the relation of the princess which was already directly referenced by rob with the Hamlet = Ophelia = Five truths statement which is supposed to solve for the password. And in the other stories the princess is similarly important, with King midas's daughter, the princess, being killed by his own curse turning her to gold and making him realize his errors and needing to wash his hands of his greed to get her back. And in the Golden Goose story by Brother's Grimm it involves the boy simpleton being open and kind and not greedy in the first place in which he is rewarded by the man he shares his food with, with a golden goose and eventually even meets the king because his daughter laughed when seeing the girls chasing after Simpleton and wanted to be with him, but the king was having none of that and asked him to bring a man who could drink a whole keg of wine, then a whole mountain of bread, then a ship which could move on land and sea, and when asked each of these things everytime he brings the same man who he originally shared his food with who was always hungry and thirsty and who apparently could make ships because he made that shit. And after this the King passes on his daughter to the boy who now becomes the prince and when the king passes away simpleton becomes the new king with the princess now gone and at his side as the Queen. There's also possible references to this in the constellations with Cepheus the king constellations being directly next to the Swan constallation referencing the Kings and golden goose

Which makes sense even moreso considering that one of the Eye'd things referenced to the truth is Space

[fluid sandal]

thats what i was saying before
just in way less words

[sharp flame]

oh my words

[lyric moat]

im not reading all that 😭

[sand hornet]

God dam

[opaque thistle]

dam I didn't see that anywhere lol I'd thought of that and mentioned it a couple days ago tho 😅

[fluid sandal]

I said it like 20/30 mins ago and got eyebrow raised in response 😭
your response was really in depth tho i gotta look thru this

[opaque thistle]

:3

[fluid sandal]

mind if i like try to put this into a more readable form rq

[hidden nacelle]

https://tenor.com/view/shocked-football-black-man-jump-jumping-gif-27706312

[lament linden]

Wow, that's a lot of words... Too bad I'm not readin em /j

[opaque thistle]

I am the king of making mfs read way too damn much

[lament linden]

Boutta make me read more than my Czech teacher fr

[opaque thistle]

Ay imagine how rough it was to write that shi though 🤣

[opaque thistle]

this is facts

[opaque thistle]

oh fuckin please yeah I just take information in huge chunks and am dogshit and making it into something people can actually conceptualize so like if you could make it normal words then that would be perfect lmfaooo

Hmmm maybe it just means he wants us looking into greek mythology w/the constellations?

[misty raven]

When the research and investigation puzzle involves reading

[dawn coral]

a friend found a piece of grafitti with 3 concentric circles, 3 dawns??

[opaque thistle]

👀

[solar pier]

Ooo

[opaque thistle]

show?

[sharp flame]

can you dm me the image so I can post it here?

[merry nimbus]

[opaque thistle]

Cepheus is a king of Aethiopia in mythology and his constellation would tie in neatly with the astronomer Ptolemy who's been mentioned in here plenty earlier with the "Egg's promise" and some constellations that are referenced in game with the Dragon Constellation Studio...

^

[misty raven]

The relevance of Iseult (Iseul-t) is burning pretty bright

[timid solstice]

78 days so far on Teir 3

[dawn coral]

done, looking for it's location now.

[sharp flame]

ah the framed art yeah, here

[nocturne sphinx]

has anyone brought up the the tristan+iseult->King Mark-> King Midas->suicide by drinking "bull's blood" which was high in arsenic-> also used as a rodent-cide? not sure if drinking arsenic and OSPUZE have anything in comon. sorry if discussed trying to catch up

[opaque thistle]

that's actually kinda interestingg.. especially with death by rodent being the ones who mention midas/markus

[odd crater]

Midas from fortnite 👀

[opaque thistle]

https://tenor.com/view/britney-gun-britney-gun-gif-13727881202575810451

[odd crater]

[nocturne sphinx]

that's my dead end though at least on the tristan and iseult path

[quick dove]

There’s a bunch of these in the same “style”, a few of multiple people (one a woman and a man together.. Adam and Eve?) kinda felt like they were lore significant but haven’t been paying a ton of attention

[nocturne sphinx]

In the event there is an alcove in one corner where the boundary shimmering seems both horizontal and vertical and has a bunch of grafiti that has the Space, the rat and then a crown symbol over the word "PSOO". the alcove is inside the boundary but you can't walk into it

[pallid sorrel]

@proud minnow seeking the truth

[odd crater]

Dont call him now. His working in my 8 ball charm

[pallid sorrel]

ok

[misty raven]

I want that mousepad so bad dude

[alpine junco]

go find the 3 headed monkey

[misty raven]

I'm trying but I keep getting fucking skyway stadium!!

[sharp flame]

https://tenor.com/view/captain-america-marvel-avengers-gif-14328153

Dusty don't scroll up, Rob didn't say anything today, I PROMISE

[alpine junco]

coincidence?>

[odd crater]

He say he hate you 😱

[sharp flame]

yes, pretty sure those are actual devs 🤣

[jade citrus]

yes

[alpine junco]

i know im just saying

[sharp flame]

me too I was just answering

[misty raven]

You telling me this guy is responsible for making the egg gold??!

[snow walrus]

Thats the only coincidence in this channel

[jagged junco]

hey guys, have we found this password already ?
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t3-f

[sharp flame]

You're telling me an egg fried this rice?

[jade citrus]

you're telling me a shrimp fried this rice???

[pure loom]

damn, it's almost lunch time

[snow walrus]

Click and learn

[timid solstice]

no, we've been on it for 78 days

[snow walrus]

And bad news: everyday it goes higher

[misty raven]

Yep is "goldegg?" Pretty straight forward in the end haha ：）

[fluid sandal]

idk if text document messages are allowed here but it didnt fit all in one message (EXPAND THIS)

i made the wall of text easier to read

[sharp flame]

thanks

[gloomy anvil]

18 days until T3 becomes the longest tier so far

[jade citrus]

we cant let that happen

[fresh quiver]

but "t3 is a walk in the park" 😄

[misty raven]

I'm going a bit mad. This morning I was contemplating whether the clue was "question" as in "to question", therefore referring to either philosophy or the scientific method or something

[gloomy anvil]

A royal park :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Swedish_Academy_of_Sciences
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_National_City_Park

[tranquil minnow]

The 1.6.1 patch was really just a patch for us hunters wasn't it? They really trying to help us out 😭

[pallid sorrel]

ques- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "seek; seek the truth beyond the wall

[fresh quiver]

so should noble be close to the answer 🤔

[tranquil minnow]

We all waiting for Dusty to finish typing right?