easter-eggs

[fallen jasper]

Sorry that me when u come anoying me when i search

[timid cedar]

What are you saying to me

[fallen jasper]

u say u used when u getting hit with an rpg and i laughing at you cuz when i search and someone come for killing me i shot the man with rpg before dash on him ^^

its just a joke 🙂

[timid cedar]

I knew it was a joke but i did not understand any of it
English is my second language

[fallen jasper]

Not for me ahahaha im french and my english is so freakin bad ^^ sorry bout that

[gentle socket]

Lookin good

[timid cedar]

Sorry THAT'S me when u come... That makes sense

[fallen jasper]

yhea ... im pretty bad i know :/

[zealous folio]

The full image came out #official-art message

[coarse dagger]

#1204573219894468648

[quasi spire]

Assuming y’all already found the equation in the second to most recent #official-art

[coarse dagger]

#1204573219894468648

[quasi spire]

Thx

[coarse dagger]

Anyone know if the name Captain Saucerian is a reference to an IRL famous captain?

#easter-eggs message
Is this sword his in-game? (I know it's based on an IRL sword)

[gloomy geyser]

oi, ive been thinking about what Rob said earlier, #easter-eggs message idk if someone said somehting after but does anyone think it might have something to do with "Pocket Park" on Monaco?

[quasi spire]

I think there was a magazine called the saucerian

Digital collections.uwyo.edu/ahcpublic/UFO/ah09554_5_3.pdf

[coarse dagger]

Rob has basically confirmed the walk in the park is referring to the practice range:
#easter-eggs message

[fallen jasper]

So for the park we need to go into the practice range?

[gloomy geyser]

hmm, im just tryna make sence of when he described the park as normal-sized, and that maybe we are tiny.

[hidden nacelle]

its for another ee not the main one

[fallen jasper]

Yup i know i checked the pinned message 🙂

but im interesting for this one too it's still an Easter egg :p

[rain peak]

yo

[dull marsh]

Hey, on Las Vegas under the large central dome there is a "snake"-ish shape on the ground and there are 10 weird black circles, here is a stiched image with the snake and the circles highlighted, in case that interests anyone 🙂

Those circles seems to be pretty arbitrarily placed so it's making us pretty curious in the constellation search

[late girder]

Season 2 sponsor?

[gloomy geyser]

There are designs on the front of the garbage cans that are kinda similar. Idk, if they go together, just throin ideas.

[marsh marsh]

Where is there a park in the practice range???????????

[pulsar mason]

To your right when you enter it

[unborn pilot]

Umm. Walk straight 25 steps then look to the entire right area

[unique spruce]

my game crashed and i reconnected within 30 seconds and yet i still just got a 10 minute suspension. wtf.

[hard current]

I'll be honest guys... I'm kinda running out of steam, over two and a half months now and my ass can't seem to figure out what this is all getting at... space, gold, eggs, latin, mirror... it's clear we have to latinize and mirror something but for the life of me, I'm out of ideas, and I can't separate anymore what is for this tier, and what's for the next level, and what's for the lore

[true iris]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35818311 This has 2015, eggs, and nobel prize in it

[fallen jasper]

Take a little break to see from another angle 😉

[acoustic canyon]

This doesnt have to be your life take a break if you need to (well let you know if we need you back or if we solve it)

[hard current]

I think my brain is just very frustrated that I'm not able to help anymore lol

[shadow vapor]

We've all seen you busting ass lately, dude.

If you need some time, we all respect it.

But I guarantee as well, we appreciate the work you've been putting in.

[hard current]

thanks gang, haven't done much tbh lol I mostly just try to keep yall on track cause I'm completely out of ideas

[marsh marsh]

We’re so used to instant gratification. Sometimes you have to sleep on something

[acoustic canyon]

most of us are at that point, its been SuitablyOdd doing most of the work for the past month

[dull marsh]

I spent a few games to manage to put a spotlight in each one of the 10 circles, but sadly nothing happened 🥲

[shadow vapor]

Well, we definitely need someone to keep us on track. Haha

I know I've spun out into weird threads all week.

[marsh marsh]

I assume the EE is being tied into the lore, so they will want us to solve it before season 2

They’ll drop hints accordingly

[acoustic canyon]

you also did a great job keeping everyone on track with all the newcomers from the lore video (i think we might still be on the roses without you)

[hard current]

I guess the bright side is how much I've simply learned participating lmao

[acoustic canyon]

rob expected us to be done with this tier by summer 2023 #easter-eggs message

[marsh marsh]

Oh lol okay nvm

[shadow vapor]

Same, only here will you get baroque composers, and theoretical physics, all while trying to piece together a clue of an egg wearing a laurel wreath.

Truly, this shall be our education.

[fallen jasper]

So f*ckn true ahaha and what a pleasure to see the ideas of other EE hunter too

[acoustic canyon]

coming from the 3 hour marathon arg bungie did to this has been a major shock. everything else ive participated in has been a single password being cracked within 3-4 hours

[dull marsh]

I found what the weird purple and orange reflections are on Las Vegas, it's part of the environment used for reflections (the big blue and orange areas)

[fallen jasper]

that seems to be seoul on the reflection ^^

The orange light made me think about this map ^^

[hard current]

between december 5 2023, and november 30 2023, we did not hear from rob.

Then, on December 5, presumably after scrolling back to read what we said between november 30 and December 5, he said this:
#easter-eggs message
I got a little bit panic here and thought "Gah, what if I wrote the wrong password.?!"... I just tried it... phew the password was correct... ._.

#easter-eggs message
well maybe not "REALLY"... but close for sure, hihi

^^ in response to someone saying "someone must've been really close then"

so sometime in there, someone said something that was... close

[shadow vapor]

I went looking through messages last night based on that link.

I didn't catch anything specific.
But I think it really is the best clue we've got.

[true iris]

I looked through those messages and thought it was kind of wierd that he didnt count space as one of the common threads

[hard current]

I was thinking, given gold egg, latin space mirror, what if we have to take the latin passwords from gold, the latin passwords from egg, and mirror and combine?

in that case we would have,
vit3llus
cacoiii?
0vif0rm
lxxix

but.. that may also include viold and evivi for their roman numerals... but if we're speaking strictly latin... it would just be vit3llus and 0vif0rm

[shadow vapor]

I'm also thinking Dread was on to something.

#easter-eggs message

[gloomy geyser]

Did 1.7 just come out? Or did it come out earlier today?

[hard current]

yeah I've tried a ton of variations of ovum aurum, no dice 😦

hmm... gold + egg, latin + mirror... part of me has started to wonder if the last component, space is something we'll find out after we've used something from below, work our way backwards

gold
viold (6)
5f137s2 (51372)
lxxix (79)
1064

egg
evivi (66)
vit3llus (3)
cacoiii (3?)
0vif0rm (00)

add gold
6+51372+79+1064 = 52521

add egg
66 + 3 + 3 = 72

goldenegg (combination?)
52521+72, maybe 52521*72?
52593 and 3781512 respectively

[gloomy geyser]

There are weapon skins in the store with this in 1.7 update

Plus a "Voices of Yore" caset tape charm

[shadow vapor]

I know we've ran it into the ground but all of that screams the "orphic egg" at me.

[lone wave]

What’s the amount of damage you take when you fall of the map ? I remember it’s always the same number

[rain comet]

32768

[lone wave]

I wonder if it could help

[valid lichen]

Not relevant sorry

[fallen jasper]

Vegas and the constellation easter egg gonna kill me 😢

[valid lichen]

Pretty sure at least (sorry if I’m wrong)😑

[lone wave]

I’ve been wondering why they chose that specific amount of damage

[valid lichen]

I think it’s the highest number of some coding thing. I’m not %100 sure why but I’m sure someone else does

[latent peak]

#easter-eggs message

Correct : )

[lone wave]

So cool, thanks!

[late girder]

yes, but do you think this brand will be a new sponsor in the next season?

[solid jay]

This is just the maximum negative value of a 16-bit signed integer, it's likely just an overlooked part of their code.

[lone wave]

Overlooked or left out on purpose because the game is meant to be taken as a game and either way it’s cool haha. You learn a lot of things on that EE hunt ffs

[solid jay]

It's probably to do with the logic for falling off the map they just set the damage to the max value

[lone wave]

Maybe it’s also made to destroy the parts of the buildings that may also fall idk. Anyway I don’t want to flood that thread lol. But that’s definitely interesting

[solid jay]

Ya for sure! I just feel as though it's unrelated.

[lone wave]

Definitely lol

[gloomy geyser]

Definitely an interesting idea. Idk, if they'll become like, the MAIN sponsor for next season as there are already a bunch of other in game sponsors, But its also not, not a possibility. Im curious if there's anything to the cassette tape.

[hard current]

#easter-eggs message

we already had a good direction... hmmm

[solid jay]

feel like its right there we just might be overthinking it now

[worn flame]

But apparently not enough hahah lol

[hard current]

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

looks familiar..

[tiny oracle]

(new here) Is there someone who can tell me or show me what is current and what is old

[fallen jasper]

Check pinned message 🙂

[fallen jasper]

and go here too https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1100745453206786078

[solid jay]

eggs conform to the golden ratio, should we look at voyager 1 and the golden disc?

[gloomy geyser]

@proud minnow Did you have a cassette tape growing up? Just curious.

[shadow vapor]

Impervious linked to the Rome prize medal.

#1201288968562552863 message

It's a mirrored head,gold medallion.

Edit* brought up because Rob linked coordinates to Samuel Barber's home, who won that prize.

[hard current]

#easter-eggs message

A, B and C originally didn’t have a direct link to gold. 1064 was the asteroid, mendelevium was just an element and 79 was 79BC (the year Vesuvius erupted). But together they relate to gold. DEF were more directly related to eggs. It’s possible DEF have a secondary meaning we haven’t realised yet.

hear me out, based on this, what if we're not looking for an egg, we're looking for a star or stars

robs past eyed messages included stellar classification, of which III (cacoiii) ties into

a yellow star, (vit3llus) and something to do with 3?

[solid jay]

okay okay

[hard current]

and 0vif0rm, a binary star system (00)

[solid jay]

so a place where a star may be born?

something to do with Nebulas?

[hard current]

no... I think a binary star/star system

a binary star system that has class III stars, yellow, and are binary.. but then gold comes into play

[true iris]

https://tech.hindustantimes.com/amp/tech/news/unique-and-stunning-amazing-gold-star-found-in-the-milky-way-galaxy-71652434610468.html here is a gold star formed from neutron mergers

[worn flame]

Sorry. Has it been confirmed that gold is part of the password? What if it’s just a hint?

[hard current]

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

[shadow vapor]

I've toyed with the idea of our sun/Solaris.

Cosmic egg sort of thing.

But with Rob's sunny snippet picture, #easter-eggs message

I'm actually thinking about our sun again.

[hard current]

anyone good with braille
#easter-eggs message
edit jk think this was solved

[solid jay]

a mirrored binary star system could potentially mean binary black hole

[hard current]

hm.. maybe

[fallen jasper]

i post that here

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.06506 maybe a link with Nebula visible from vegas in game..

the LMC see from vegas but its probably a dead end i tell just some idea i got ^^

[true iris]

There are also golden binaries

[dull marsh]

We also mentionned yesterdays EGGs, which is an acronym for some types of gas clouds/nebulas, such as the Pillars of Creation

[true iris]

I feel like one of these leads would be eyed if they were correct

[rain comet]

If they are mentioning nebulas, does it mean that we have to use noise on the pics?

[hard current]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_observation_of_gravitational_waves golden binaries leads back here again :/

[solid jay]

"It was also the first observation of a binary black hole merger, demonstrating both the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems and the fact that such mergers could occur within the current age of the universe."

Probably just seeing the truth I want to see lol

[rain comet]

was gauss mentioned in the clues?

[fallen jasper]

What make u think about that?

[rain comet]

It is just basicly bunch of gas scattered around like a noise

[fallen jasper]

Oh ok 🙂 so mb

[dull marsh]

The wave kinda looks like the shape of those dots on Vegas (if you flip the image) 🤔

And there are two spirals toward the middle, which has a big black circle for some reason

[solid jay]

kind of reminds me of an eclipse

[gloomy geyser]

really reaching here, but could those dots be mirrored to stars in the sky?

[dull marsh]

Not reaching at all, we looked into that but didn't find any good matching constellation, closest one would be Hydra but it's not really identical

[solid jay]

Also it's a bit of stretch but earlier Rob mentioned this instead of scaling up have we thought about scaling down?
#easter-eggs message

[twilit forge]

He did only post 4 pixels in the mirror pic the other day

[solid jay]

link?

[twilit forge]

Might take a minute, on mobile and slow

[solid jay]

Just to continue down the star/space route some more
https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0717/King-Midas-in-space-Rare-star-collision-produces-gold

[hard current]

hold up where did these dots come from?

we’ve been looking for a constellation in vegas to guide us, maybe that’s these represent

[dull marsh]

Ok so if he suggested to scale down then maybe we need to think of elements, like hydrogen, helium, gold, etc.
The letter e might be a reference to the electron too

[dull marsh]

There are 10 weird black circles under the central dome on Vegas (both event and regular map)
Not sure if it means anything but it seems suspicious
#1204968975881216110 message

[marsh marsh]

I think the letter E is a reference to Exactotron

[twilit forge]

#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

incredible observation, I would see if it’s a constellation

[marsh marsh]

Could it relate to Centaurus constellation?

[hard current]

any chance you could draw lines between the dots? I’m on mobile rn:(( @dull marsh

[marsh marsh]

Where there’s the planet with 3 suns

Ptolemy?

[dull marsh]

We checked but couln't find any identical, closest one would be Hydra

Can't immediatly draw the lines

[gloomy geyser]

ok, good to know. Actually being apart of a EE hunting group is a new thing to me as of 4 days ago 😆 and I looove EE in games, since I was a kid.

[dull marsh]

Yeah we go full on conspiracy theorists, except we KNOW there is a conspiracy lol

[gloomy geyser]

Now im seeing just how far down the rabbit hole goes.....

[solid jay]

https://tenor.com/view/morpheus-believe-neo-beginning-to-believe-gif-5399492

[storm leaf]

i do like this idea. maybe if we scale down a picture to a certain size using the nearest neighbor algorithm, something might emerge
something like this pic (that i cant embed ;-;): https://i.stack.imgur.com/CbXZj.png

[fallow dew]

Is there somewhere I can look at findings?

[solid jay]

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

[solid jay]

I think if we were to focus on binary stars in the Cygnus constellation it might narrow things down? Cygnus being the home of the Egg Nebula?

[paper prism]

https://tenor.com/view/the-truth-is-out-there-xfiles-i-want-to-believe-stay-woke-believe-gif-4861962

[rugged lotus]

I will say as a Vegas local you can’t see stars here lol
Buuut it’s a game and stuff of course

[marsh marsh]

What if we all collectively gave up and waved the white flag and refused to keep searching. He would have to reveal it eventually

[dawn coral]

Yeah it genuinely impressive how extensive the padlets are

Been amazing to lurk in here the last few days

[fresh quiver]

The clues in the past weeks are exactly that already ._.

[fresh quiver]

You saw the google doc documentation yet?

[dawn coral]

I think I saw one with just the stuff Rob had eye emoji on

[dull marsh]

Nah he wouldn't, he'd just be sad no one's interested by his easter egg anymore

[fresh quiver]

That’s the clue sheet

[marsh marsh]

Maybe we can figure out where he lives and secretly track him. We’ll honey pot him like James O’Keefe and record all the secrets while he’s out at a bar

[fresh quiver]

This here

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLzGtj2w2elVkqEdPV6NgqRiszNAxnwIANXHK-Pa1Bk/edit

[dawn coral]

Oh my lordy. I love this so much. Guess I got some reading to do lol

[dull marsh]

yes officier, this person right there 👉

[junior brook]

is the new nama tama attachment anything lore related?

[gloomy geyser]

Thats what I was wondering

Or even the cassette tape

[junior brook]

yeah

it had a name on it

maybe a new sponsor

maybe one of the hackers

[gloomy geyser]

ooooh

[quaint stream]

Not sure if the swirls or the circles is what Rob was eyeing, but these are in vegas too

[dull marsh]

Yeah I spotted those a bit earlier, I'm not aware of him eyeing that kind of stuff but I might have missed it

There are SO MANY circle things on the ground on this map, many of them seems very randomly (or carefully) placed without following specific patterns

There are also many many drain covers all around, much more than what should be necessary

[quaint stream]

I've tried putting the spotlights in the circles and notthing is really happening lol but man there are a lot of spots to do it for alone lol

[dull marsh]

That looks like text, right?! On Vegas, in the small room at the edge of the map on top of the parking

Oh okay it's everywhere lol, my bad

[quaint stream]

Still curious obviously

[dull marsh]

Yeah it looks like something but it's repeated on each slabs so it's probably just the texture itself

[placid hill]

What setting do I have to make medium to see the rabbits on Seoul? I can’t run things too high or I’ll miss them

[gloomy geyser]

are you able to see the first 3 that have been found?

[placid hill]

Yes

But only when I go to medium

[gloomy geyser]

There hasnt been any more that have been found as far as I know.

[placid hill]

I was searching for them with I friend and I want to be able to see them without going to 30 fps

[junior swan]

If you need a 3rd, I'm in

[ebon heron]

just a quick question about the WB. Do you guy think it is approachable by character or most likely by camera after death

[gloomy geyser]

both?

[fresh quiver]

wb? or am i dumb rn

[ebon heron]

white bunnies

[gloomy geyser]

or wr?

[fresh quiver]

WR

White Rabbits

[ebon heron]

mb

[junior swan]

Since Rob said that the rabbit is "hidden behind some barrels" I think this one must be approachable by character

[fresh quiver]

the rabbits will get visible when you are approx 15m away from them and alive.
when you revealed them its also possible to look with the freecam afterwards.
But its not possible to find them in the freecam when you were not in the near of them yet

#1197268508623515849

[quaint stream]

What Iv'e seen people use the death camera though

[gloomy geyser]

You'd think so. there have been people turning every barrel over on that map.

SO people started looking at the double barrel shotgun for the light class.

[quaint stream]

sts feels like maybe if more people destroyed the map we could reveal more >:C

[ebon heron]

alright. Barrels huh

[gloomy geyser]

My buddies and I had a couple games with the hospital part of the map untouched and searched high and low.

[dull marsh]

I'm not too much into WR, are they just painted white somewhere? And how many are there vs how many we found?

(I looked at the thread but can't figure those questions)

[gloomy geyser]

yea, basically. 3 have been found, theres supose to be 5

[ebon heron]

have we tried anything with thermal vision as a light

[dull marsh]

damn these seems hard

anyone teaming up right now for those?

[gloomy geyser]

I did for a little bit and didnt find anything. But I didnt check every nook and cranny

[fresh quiver]

yes but there is possibility that they are not visible yet then. When you were not near it when alive, it will not show up when dead.

[quaint stream]

Oooh shiiiit

[gloomy geyser]

you think theres a possibility one of them might only be visible by being a certain distance plus away?

[quaint stream]

I didn't know you could blow up this sky bridge thing in vegas

[junior swan]

I would like to, but only if it's a full squad. I don't feel so good about the random teammate ):

[dull marsh]

Yeah I discovered the same a bit earlier, pretty useless but still a valid information 😄

[dull marsh]

Haha yeah I get it, well if there is anyone else 😉

[fresh quiver]

im not thinking that. but that will be visible when you was once within 15m from it.

But it could be a possibilty that the 2 last will just get visible on a certain distance.

[placid hill]

I’m getting me feet checked rn so sadly I can’t

[latent peak]

Rob hinted that one is shy and might be hiding behind some barrels

[placid hill]

Also I found the right colour it likes in the hostpital on a cleaning thing

Only one and I think we could follow the spray bottle directions

[sand rune]

Something new since 10hours? 😍

[ebon heron]

We have to define what barrels are. Or it would simply mean to check on the fire barrels

[latent peak]

I'd be keen if u need more people

[sand rune]

Are we talking about the rabbits again?

[latent peak]

Yes

[dull marsh]

Sadly I'm struggling to play rn, the game has been telling me I'm cheating regularly and forces me to relaunch 🥲

[fresh quiver]

yes...

but i would like to focus on L2 Tier 3 again..
that should be atleast the mainfocus until we solved it ._.

[dull marsh]

I'm just moving from one EE to another, else my brain will just get fried and I'll give up all of them

[sand rune]

I joined in the middle of this tier, it’s pretty hard for me to follow up

[gloomy geyser]

I would help on this but im so far behind XD. I know the password has something to do with gold, latin, mirroring, and space egg?

[fresh quiver]

i joined also in the middle of the tier. mid of december. u will get used to it. It just takes some times. read the padlets, the google doc documentation and just searched for robs messages to see what he wrote.
With that its relative easy to catch up

[fresh quiver]

probably yes.! thats right.
Dont know if you read the pinned messages yet? specially the Checklist for new hunters?

[sand rune]

This tier is holding you already since months? 😳😳

[gloomy geyser]

same, it would also be so much better if there was private lobbies

[fresh quiver]

november 17th 🙂

[sand rune]

😭💀

[fresh quiver]

guess why we try to get that level done

[gloomy geyser]

Kinda skimed through it

[opaque thistle]

Honestly it had almost made me wonder about the barrelsbarrelsbarrles image from before, expecially with the fact that he said they hide around fire truck red which is a similar color to the red barrels there

I've seen it mentioned that the white rabbits are a bit of a nod to the matrix so there might be a bit more involved with them than just finding them around the map like the other ones...

[dawn coral]

ok, so i'm so inexperienced at this, but here's my crack at it lol.

is it possible SR is using the word Barrel, not literally, for example: google translate is showing "Tong" to be the Korean translation of Barrel, and the word Tong is related to Chinese organised crime, which also has a link to "Kkangpae" which is a "romanization of the Korean word that is commonly translated to 'gangster' or 'thug'. The term is commonly used to refer to members of unorganized street gangs."

is it possible we have a rabbit like, behind someone/thing at street level?

[gloomy geyser]

Unless they are on another map, possibly

On Seol we cannot get down to street level

[dawn coral]

but can we see down to it, scopes and all?

[gloomy geyser]

Yes, I was about to say that

Tis' a possibility

[gloomy geyser]

I actuslly did not see this

[ancient mist]

Hi i was thinking about elixir. In the dark age it was used to convert other metals to gold. It also plays a role in the story of hamlet and orphelia. Also e=3 and XI=11 could connect it to latin and number conversion🤓

[fresh quiver]

rob messing around with metadata/exif dates again ._.
#official-art message when he posted it...

actual metadata date of the image

[dawn coral]

my thought with it's link to the matrix, is checking each of the cubicle rooms on the external of the map lol. it's tiring

[junior swan]

I even thought like it's behind the mall because it's name is Petronelle (or something like that), like in petroleum haha

[opaque thistle]

oooo interesting connection

[opaque thistle]

oof

[gloomy geyser]

And that's where my bdluddies and I ended up 😆

[dawn coral]

i've been checking everything with thermals aswell, i'm adamant they're gonna be needed for something.

[ebon heron]

Tmrw am going to be counting the barrels or anything that looks like barrels. I’ve been up for a whole day lmao

[quaint stream]

Wondering if the VVV had anything to do with the slot machines also

[gloomy geyser]

Also anything "firetruck red"

[ebon heron]

555

Will do. Anything else to add?

[gloomy geyser]

Nun, I might be on all weekend hunting for wabbits now.

[coarse dagger]

Heads up y'all we have a #1197268508623515849 thread! Keep WR discussion and coordination there!

[opaque thistle]

yeahh I'd been thinkin bout that ong

[dull marsh]

Vintage Velvet does contain 3 Vs

[weary gyro]

rob already eyed ""vedi vidi vici"

[quaint stream]

Yeah just interesting though lol

[dawn coral]

how do i get permission to speak in there?

[ebon heron]

Just level up

[velvet narwhal]

Yep you only need to get to level 1

[chrome sand]

What else do levels unlock? Does it show somewhere?

[pure loom]

OYE might not mean “Open Your Eyes” - “Oye cómo va” in Spanish means “LISTEN to how”

[velvet narwhal]

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[ebon heron]

“Oye” can also mean “hey”

“Oye como va” is also very popular song by Carlos Santana

[pure loom]

Yeah, I’ve seen it noted as “Latin Gold” in a few places (Santana covered and rearranged it)

[ebon heron]

“Listen how it goes” is how I remember the lyrics

I speak Latin Spanish.

[quaint stream]

I've been using light and the heat vision to see reflection of things.

[hallow pilot]

Looks like a measurement. 4 feet 7⅛ inches and 'ZZ' or 'TL' maybe?)

[brisk hearth]

ZZ can be sometimes used a variable name (zz = 123)

[velvet narwhal]

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/In-Game_Easter_Eggs#Parking_Garage_Numbers We also found another one

[velvet narwhal]

there could be more hidden in parking garage

[pure loom]

Something that I’ve puzzled over since the first time I played THE FINALS, and something that could be related to the EE - and involves listening - is why when the game starts up and THE FINALS logo is shown, is there a noise that sounds like the mechanism of a grandfather clock ticking as it’s pendulum moves. A lot of the early clues like Galileo and Huygens can be linked to pendulums.

[brisk hearth]

z could also mean z-axis

[fresh quiver]

could try to record that later on and throw it into a spectrogram.

[pure loom]

I think it’s a good idea. It is a sound that is incongruent with other elements in the game. It’s so odd.

[velvet narwhal]

I also sometimes hear weird sounds when i am running through a door

[brisk hearth]

i believe thats a reference to bad company 2 that had a chicken sound trigger occasionaly when opening doors

[quaint stream]

We mentioned Tarot Cards before right?

Ah damn. Welp

[pure loom]

A chicken?

That’s a Battlefield 1 EE that they threw in. I need to remember to mention that in a vid sometime.

[brisk hearth]

ah oops, bf1

[velvet narwhal]

Yeah that. It confuses me everytime i get it

[quaint stream]

Since cards mirror I'm curious if the roses have anything like in Alice in Wonderland having the roses painted red

[brisk hearth]

back to the roses X_X

https://tenor.com/view/dnxx-round-and-round-cute-yellow-fluffy-gif-15071877

[fresh quiver]

write that down! write that down! 😄

[pure loom]

The Airy disk, which looks a lot like the Burrw Diamond clue gif, can also be tied to pendulums through George Airy - “In 1826 British astronomer George Airy proved this; specifically, he proved that a pendulum that is driven by a drive impulse that is symmetrical about its bottom equilibrium position is isochronous for different drive forces, ignoring friction, and that the deadbeat escapement approximately satisfies this condition.”

[fresh quiver]

we should not consider the roses in the practice range for the main EE hunt of TIer 3 right now

[quaint stream]

Oh thank god.

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

also interesting about that:
#easter-eggs message
the roses may can trigger something bigger then the megalodon out of Battlefield

But as of now we should focus on the Level 2 Tier 3

[quaint stream]

So straight and mostly narrow, it's latin, mirror, gold, egg, and ??? as far as we know

[pure loom]

Maybe space. History (of science especially) is another thing that features a lot, but then that features in anything really.

[quaint stream]

And nothing with the Omnia Nightclub in Caesar's Palace in Vegas?

[pure loom]

The other weird thing about that ticking noise is that it doesn’t happen every second, it’s very slow.

[fresh quiver]

thats really weird then

[dull marsh]

Some observation scopes on Monaco, look a bit old fashion

[velvet narwhal]

They are IRL too

[dull marsh]

Oh 😆

[ancient mist]

Hi i was thinking about elixir. In the dark age it was used to convert other metals to gold. It also plays a role in the story of hamlet and orphelia. Also e=3 and XI=11 could connect it to latin and number conversion. It also connect to astrophysics (http://www.iap.fr/elixir/)

[fresh quiver]

the ingame observation scopes looks brass colored 🤔

[coarse dagger]

Found this while reading about Shakespeare:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volpone

[dull marsh]

Damn, same idea of death and the pile of coins, could be related to Volpes

[brisk hearth]

this channel

[dull marsh]

We will pull on EVERY thread we can pick

[brisk hearth]

there are no threads when youve entered the void

[dull marsh]

hehehe, then we'll pull apart the fabric of time and space itself

[quaint stream]

Volpe means fox and fox eat hens which LAY EGGS oh yeah I'm looking into this

[brisk hearth]

greatness at all costs

[coarse dagger]

Honestly other than Shakespeare, the name, and the image I don't see any other good connections

[dull marsh]

Yeah that's been mentioned before and led to the idea of the associated constellation, without further findings for now

[fresh quiver]

did he ever eyed volpe/volpecula?

[brisk hearth]

vulpecula is on the padlet

[velvet narwhal]

I also once found an interesting book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon's_Egg
The author is a scientist that contributed to gravitational wave detection

[velvet narwhal]

afaik no

[fresh quiver]

the autor is named robert

if rob would love a "bookshelf" thread

[quaint stream]

A short-lived 1964 Broadway musical adaptation entitled Foxy moved the play's setting to the Yukon during the gold rush of 1898. an adaption of Volpone

[dull marsh]

These blue/red blinking lights on Skyway could be interesting, not unique tho

[quaint stream]

Act I
"Prologue"
"Many Ways to Skin a Cat"
"Rollin' in Gold"
"My Weight in Gold"
"Money Isn't Everything"
"Larceny and Love"
"Ebenezer McAfee III"
"Talk to Me, Baby"
"This is My Night to Howl"
"Bon Vivant"

Act II
"It's Easy When You Know How"
"Run, Run, Run Cinderella"
"Talk to Me, Baby" (Reprise)
"I'm Way Ahead of the Game"
"A Case of R"
"In Loving Memory"

[quaint stream]

Oh yeah it has Red and Blue gonna get a fat pair of eyes

[velvet narwhal]

cool idea

[dull marsh]

"Please do not lean" upside down on the window lol

[vague flume]

if blue = 1 and red = 0 it translates to S5

[alpine junco]

55 days left until we crack the code

[vague flume]

S5 = Season 5. It's time when we'll crack it

[dull marsh]

Is this Monaco map? 🤔

This is the logo of Skyway's hospital, looks interesting

[ancient mist]

L=X

[quaint stream]

sponsor for THE FINALS

Has Rob ever said anything like us being in the right area but unfortunately just not close enough to get a reaction? Because yeah I get golden egg and embryo being pretty vague still

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message

[velvet narwhal]

#1204475718747029535 message @fresh quiver Did we get any good brass connections?

[fresh quiver]

no. thats just a hope. after i had this idea in burrw
#1178137622359593043 message

[velvet narwhal]

ah ok

[quaint stream]

Like I am trying to wrap my head around the passwords and so I'm googling things with those 4 ideas in mind and I just come across Hinduism, sanskrit and atman

but I just really have a rough time wondering where I should be putting numbers or roman numerals in the password lol

[ancient mist]

origin, originis, satus, gamete, germ we can also exclude right?

[alpine junco]

On the wiki

[quaint stream]

Can someone help me figure out what the opposite of nama tama would be

I don't think he'd wanna hurt me but

[quaint stream]

Deviled eggs oooohh

"The deviled egg can be traced back to ancient Rome, where boiled eggs were seasoned with spicy sauces and served as a starter meal during gatherings and feasts. Serving eggs while entertaining guests was so common for wealthy Romans, they even had a saying for it, "ab ovo usque ad mala", meaning "from eggs to apples", or from the beginning of a meal to the end."

[civic hornet]

just tried putting the japanese word for egg in backwards and you get Kodama which is a tree spirit, totally useless information but hey, kinda cool

Namatama backwards in Japanese is Intermediate Tree Spirit, completely usless hahaha

[quaint stream]

Ig Nobel which is a joke nobel prize that's interesting

vice versa

[ancient mist]

"writings of Plato in particular serve as prominent inspirations for the game's story. For instance, it was the Greek philosopher's suggestion that the fabled city was comprised of three concentric circles, a visual that the game uses prevalently, such as in the three stone disc keys which, configured the right way on a pedestal, grants access to the city" concerning fate of atlantis

[quaint stream]

how would I put in vice versa as a password lol

[junior moon]

i do this too 😄 i always knew i was a roman at fart

[quaint stream]

you can make silver eggs with soot and putting it in water

[earnest wagon]

I'm playing catch-up with last night, but I unfortunately don't have as much time to spend sleuthin' today (got a busy workload) however something has already come to mind that I think has some interesting possibilities...

The light spot on the helmet in the most recent article appears to be a bright circle, but on closer inspection looks like it might actually be an ovoid.

Thinking about the connections to Euler last night, I believe we're missing a piece - a clear connection, and may have worked something out.

[ancient mist]

indiana jones ...and.. sofia hapgood.. sofia is also knowledge in greek

[quaint stream]

Someone said volcano and I'll just throw in pompeii

Vesuvius

[earnest wagon]

I think Euler's work on waves is what's important, and how his mathmatical theorems and notation methods are applied to various sciences - I've previous linked to multiple 'wave'-focused sciences - Radiation, Light, Gravitational etc. and I'm beginning to think 'Waves' is a connecting link that we were missing something futher on.

Enter - the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler–Heisenberg_Lagrangian

[quaint stream]

I was talking about that last night but with the lorenz factor stuff

And Euler's disk and so on

[earnest wagon]

Now, I'm not going to pretend to understand all of this, but it's use with protons, gamma rays, dark matter, magnetic fields and photon splitting all seem pretty on the mark.

But there's more...

[quaint stream]

Oh yeah baby tinfoil time

[warm mesa]

foill time

[earnest wagon]

Circular Dichroism - Visible light being split up into it's individual waves. Much like it appears most of the recent Euler links were found by looking at specific colours within the image I believe dichroisim plays a part. This principle uses the Euler-Heisenbery Lagrangian.

But wait, not done yet...

[junior moon]

its objectively very funny that euler would wind up getting cataracts while his work goes into studying stuff like dichroism

[fresh quiver]

whats with the Schwinger effect?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwinger_effect

[earnest wagon]

When circularly polarised light hits matter (remember, we don't see light - just what it hits) that absorbs it, the light beam causes both electrical and magnetic alterations to the moledules charge.

Here's the page on electric dipoles - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_dipole_moment

Anything look familiar?

[fresh quiver]

that would be straight connection to the 2x2 pixel. if it gets eyed or commented from rob

[quaint stream]

Do go on, I just wanna say Hall Effect

[fresh quiver]

@earnest wagon from something called "uehling potential"
"a single photon can briefly form a virtual particle-antiparticle pair, that influences the point charge. This effect is called vacuum polarization,"

"but it allows to calculate the spectral lines of hydrogen-like atoms with high precision."

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

[earnest wagon]

I've got a lot to dig through and unfortunately less time than I'd like, but hopefully it helps anyone else making connections.

[hushed beacon]

hollow purple??

[severe zealot]

dude im learning so much from this hunt, school is nothing compared with this

[earnest wagon]

I think a lot of people are looking at purple form the 4 pixel clue. Could be it's that simple!

[earnest wagon]

I'm no scientist, but my browser history and the paperwork on my desk would suggest otherwise.

[severe zealot]

would the CIA have a seperate watch list marked EE hunters with all the random things we look up

[earnest wagon]

There's one lurking in this channel at all times. They recruit the best of us and bump off anyone that gets too close. They hide in plain sight.

CM = Covert Meddler

Don't believe their lies.

[sand rune]

where is the message from rob mentioning the wr?

[twilit sail]

has anyone looked at the new image in :offical art" with the squares in the top right and bottom left then a cursor middle left

[sand rune]

"One might be a bit more shy and are hiding behind some barrels… ._."

I dont think that it has something to do with the explosion barrels everyone is talking about

I dont know who started with the "red barrels" - rob wasnt talking about color, just the barrels

[shadow shore]

"it's a bit shy, and hiding behind some barrels", that's what I remember him saying

[sand rune]

yeah, I pasted it some msgs ago

[shadow shore]

Oh nice, didn't see that!

[sand rune]

Shy means imo, that the rabit must be hiddent somewhere difficult to reach

[hard forge]

Suitably Odd. Can you come aside for a min?

[earnest wagon]

Damn, got the CIA, CNS and OSPUZE after me... this can't end well.

[acoustic canyon]

Later on Rob replied to someone asking if the bunnies liked blue and he says they prefer #CE2029 (fire engine red) but that was during the time where he got hacked and was just replying to random messages so I don't 100% agree with that theory

[hard forge]

15 x odds

[earnest wagon]

Are there any coconuts on any of the maps?

[hard forge]

Hey wait a min! Any Die hard movie references?

[sand rune]

he was fr getting hacked?

[acoustic canyon]

"hacked" by cns

[sand rune]

ah okey

[earnest wagon]

I think we might need to take 'barrel' and possibly 'shy' less directly.

[sand rune]

"No, if they have to chose, the will go for CE2029" he wrote

[sand rune]

Shy means imo a place, where players arent noramly going to while playing the game

Places where are no cashouts and vault for example

[earnest wagon]

A shy can also mean a short, quick throw. Hence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_shy

Coconuts are just hairy eggs that have toughened with age.

[acoustic canyon]

This is... an interesting thought

[quaint stream]

Being schizo again but there is a Toyota Matrix and Rob has worked on NASCAR games so maybe we have car related ee

[hard forge]

@earnest wagon

#1201288968562552863 message

15x

[earnest wagon]

Of all the things I've written here, this is the one I most want to get eyes.

[acoustic canyon]

Not the gamer pee theory?

[sand rune]

the juice is gamer pee..

lmao

[earnest wagon]

No, I'm working up the courage to find a mole in Embark that will send me a can for clinical testing instead.

[acoustic canyon]

#📕┇lore message here's the link to @earnest wagon gamer pee theory board

[acoustic canyon]

I think Johaness is your guy

[sand rune]

lmao

[earnest wagon]

Hmm... I guess I need to approach this the right way. See where they buy their morning coffee, what day of the week they do their dry-cleaning etc. This could take some time... In the meantime the evidence against OSPUZE continues to pile (or should I say pool) up.

[acoustic canyon]

Move to Sweden and stalk the embark offices 🤔

[quaint stream]

Drives me crazy doppler and moire ain't part of the sauce but is our biggest wall right now just password entry or is the last truth still out there and truly that big and strong of a pillar for the password

Also just use recon sense irl

[earnest wagon]

The Five Truths thing still really bothers me. It constantly gets brought up as a sort of five piece jigsaw that we have four parts of and only need to work out the fifth in order to solve everything, but take a look at where that stems from: #easter-eggs message

[sand rune]

we are very close I think

[earnest wagon]

There's two statements here:

1. Hamlet = Ophelia = Five Truths
2. There are five things that have been true this entire level

This has been conflated into the 'There are Five Truths' but I think we're still missing something key from the original clue.

Trace back the origin of the Hamlet thread, and you find this: #easter-eggs message

Moments before, he was giving us a clue that may well have pointed to Euler: #easter-eggs message

@hasty anvil pointed out that the quote Rob gave was from Hamlet: #easter-eggs message

Then later on Rob brought up his Hamlet = Ophelia = Five Truths... #easter-eggs message

So, was Rob's intended chain of clues literally laid out for us?

1. He provides a quote from Hamlet
2. We link that to the character Ophelia (it's her who the quote is from in the play)
3. This links to the Natonal Theatre productions - Five Truths covering five versions of Ophelias madness taken partially from the same act/scene - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DE67813461897E6

All to get Five Truths?

Now I pick through it, that might actually be what happened - the first clue was designed to end up at Five Truths, but instead people (myself included) dug too deep into Hamlet, or widened the connection to Shakespeare rather than honing it down via the actual quotation and ending up at Five Truths. It would make sense that he would spell out his logic for us to bring us back on track.

But, look at the timestamps. There wasn't days/weeks between the initial clue and the explanation, there was 47 minutes.

[quaint stream]

So to be or not to be, that is the question. Well I'll dig into more hmmm

[civic hornet]

i think perhaps weve done that with many of the clues

[quaint stream]

2b=/=2b

[earnest wagon]

It does seem like this was his intended path, but he gave up on us in under an hour... I think we still spent weeks chasing wider Shakespeare clues too.

[civic hornet]

Have we ever decided on what the 5 truths are?

Gold/Egg/Latin/Pulsar/Nobel/Mirror

[earnest wagon]

Truths is such a weird way of putting this too...

Five themes might make better sense, especially if we were to guess this format via clues.

Five Truths suggests there's more to each one.

I'm almost certainly wrong on that, I reckon it's just personal preference for words coming into play there.

[civic hornet]

Probably was formatted that way to create the Shakepsear link?

[earnest wagon]

But then the Shakespeare link only existed to point to that right? If I had Five Themes and wanted to lead people to that discovery, I would find something with Five Themes as the answer and riddle a path towards that instead. Five Truths isn't an incorrect way of putting it, but it's certainly a choice.

[quaint stream]

The final act maybe?

Theater, setting the stage, stealing the spotlight

This

[earnest wagon]

Ophelia's madness takes place in Act 4 Scene 5 and 7 I believe. She's gone by Act 5 (spoilers!)

[earnest wagon]

No idea how that was done, but that certainly looks like text on the bottom.

[civic hornet]

Have we investigated Roman theatre?

[shadow vapor]

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

My thoughts on possible text.

*Edit
Plus this one #easter-eggs message

[earnest wagon]

I did a deep-dive on Julius Caesar for the VVV clue.

[civic hornet]

But of Roman Theatre in specific?

[earnest wagon]

No, don't think that's come up.

[quaint stream]

Yeah a Roman theater had fights too apparently

[civic hornet]

The Finals is a gladitorial arena tbf

[earnest wagon]

Hmm, I wonder if some squishing/mirroring etc. can be done to make anything much clearer, but these seem like interesting guesses.

[hard current]

@earnest wagon thanks for all the cool connections and possible paths forward you discover

[earnest wagon]

No problem, hopefully one of them proves fruitful one day.

[shadow vapor]

I was thinking the same thing.
I'm still on mobile so I can't do much image manipulation.

But I definitely think something is there.

[quaint stream]

We can eat deviled eggs ab ovo or whatever

[hard current]

the dipole thing is crazy similar to the pixel rob sent… gonna investigate debye and see what awards he’s won…

[quaint stream]

I tried squishing it two days ago

[shadow vapor]

Also forgot this one.

What I thought could be a "D" could possibly be an "O".

Making "and" into "Ano" (year in Latin).

#easter-eggs message

[solid jay]

I did mention last night that we maybe needed to shrink things down so I kinda liked the light wave theory you mentioned earlier. Light can be a particle or a wave depending on how you observe it. Proven with the double slit experiment.

[dry ginkgo]

does anyone have a screenshot where on LV map the winner shows at the end of "steal the spotlight"?

[dry ginkgo]

i'm pretty sure the event has clues in the beggining and ending words of the casters. like "contestant stole the spotlight", "contestant standing in the spotlight"

[earnest wagon]

Ah, my sleep paralysis demon!

[solid jay]

I woke up and cracked an egg for breakfast as retribution.

[quaint stream]

Apparently looking into the Roman theater they had mimes which to me is mirroring

[pallid sorrel]

mirror could be about reflexion

[earnest wagon]

Like a "Think about what you've done!" kind of reflection...

[solid jay]

So something you might do at a church.

[quaint stream]

Is the one weird mask in the finals that's white a pantomime mask

[shadow vapor]

Fun fact, Latin has no direct translation for reflect, but it does for reflection. (cogitationis)

[quaint stream]

pantomimus wore various masks, which identified the characters but precluded the actor’s use of facial expressions. Thus the art of the pantomimus was primarily one of posture and gesture, in which hand movements were particularly expressive and important.

Hey is this why we have the rock on, Spock, heart hand emotes

[muted osprey]

the mask you unlocked playing steal the spotlight is covered in little mirrors, no?

[solid jay]

Ya like a disco ball

[pallid sorrel]

Squid games?

[quaint stream]

Hmmm and greatest works is called magnum opus and that's also tied to being call a swan song

[jaunty delta]

Have all five bunnies been found on the Seoul map?

[quaint stream]

Nope not yet!

[jaunty delta]

okay

[quaint stream]

The classical legend that the swan sings at death was incorporated into one of Aesop's Fables

Oh man what are you DOING to me Rob

[opaque thistle]

the skins from this new bundle come from that sponser again..

[fresh quiver]

I lost myself again in the philosophers/hermes egg ._.

[quaint stream]

I don't know but this is also now officially my first wtf moment

[civic hornet]

What is? What have you found?

[quaint stream]

When Gabriele Faerno versified the fable as Cygnus et Anser (the swan and the goose)

[junior moon]

where's phanes when you need him..

[fresh quiver]

rabbit hole again for me
https://www.bookofthrees.com/philosophers-egg/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180112235926/http://www.nachtkabarett.com:80/SmashingPumpkins/Machina/StandInsideYourLove

[quaint stream]

That's an aesop fable which I found by wondering where swan song even came from because I read magnum opus after looking Roman Theater

[fresh quiver]

?

[solid jay]

I was pulling on Cygnus threads last night. The egg nebula exists in the constellation of Cygnus.

[civic hornet]

I beleive Aespos tales have been looked into

Not sure what came of it

[quaint stream]

This is wild and makes me think Rob has tarot cards at the ready

[quaint stream]

It was also in the nyt crossword right?

And I'm saying it's important because of 'anser'

And it all ties back to Hamlet because actual smart boys brought up theater and Roman theater

[junior moon]

orphic creationism reference regarding the world egg & the source of matter (hamlet references matter in the material sense more than any of his plays). small joke for the alchemy theme rn

[fresh quiver]

just don't go the tarots card rabbit hole down. Was looked into. never was eyed :c

[marble tree]

In the past 8 hours have we got anything with Vegas or the screenshots I was eepy so I eeped

A summary or the last finding is fine

[muted osprey]

and the egg nebula is also known as RAFGL2688 or CRL2688 which both feel very passwordy but i know none of the passwords have been that straightforward

[quaint stream]

No but I did try more.stuff in the map because of you. No luck. D:

[marble tree]

Womp, but it seems like there’s more speculation ideas

So not nothing

[gloomy geyser]

Any new major leads on anything? Within the past 8 hours?

[junior moon]

in times like this ^^ 🙂

[fresh quiver]

when we would be able to solve it just through 2 Questionmark images ._.

[quaint stream]

The Secular or Saecular Games (Ludi Saeculares) was an ancient Roman religious celebration involving sacrifices, theatrical performances, and public games and it lasted 3 days. That's neat and scary

[storm cliff]

any easter eggs in this game?

[quaint stream]

Nope

[fresh quiver]

yes 🙂
but not found yet

[muted osprey]

@quaint stream multiple dates, multiple locations (maps), played for specific deities (sponsors), and sacrifices made (maybe the players?) just saying there might be something there

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message

[quaint stream]

It's all there I just don't know what to type in.

[storm cliff]

duh, but what kinds? i havent noticed any

[gloomy geyser]

All kinds

[muted osprey]

i'm gonna keep reading up on this and see if i can make any specific connections beyond just what feels like a common overarching theme

[storm cliff]

like?

[solid jay]

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

See for yourself.

[fresh quiver]

wrong link.
yes. onboarding is right. but its not listing any eggs itself

[fresh quiver]

everything what is listed in the message i redirected you to 🙂

[solid jay]

Fair enough, but it's where you start lol

[gloomy geyser]

Rabbits

And generators

And a 3 headed monkey

[fresh quiver]

I mostly redirect to #easter-eggs message
as it is better explained there then in onboarding imho

[solid jay]

Ah alright. I just jumped into the padlet link and started sleuthing lol

[fresh quiver]

thats the spirit 🙂
hope you had a look also at both google documents yet

[solid jay]

Which ones are you referring to? I skimmed one last night before bed.

[fresh quiver]

the google sheet with every eyed message of rob and messages he posted 🙂 😅
The other is a written documentation from Level 1 up to Level 2 Tier 1E i think

[solid jay]

Ya I've seen both then

[fresh quiver]

good! 😄

[muted osprey]

the locations of the secular games are all just specific areas/hills in rome. "campus martius" also keeps giving me a park in detroit but without a detroit map in the game that feels like a dead end

[solid jay]

I'm keen on the Cygnus thread and the Wave theory thread.

[solid jay]

There are parks in the game though

[gloomy geyser]

Can I get a link to the doc?

[fresh quiver]

Finals_Clues_Themes
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tfveK-QScK3a7dr9LxGxIuFiw89nhoUxJvbfwCkMgXU/edit#gid=1143525351
The Finals Easter Egg Document
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CLzGtj2w2elVkqEdPV6NgqRiszNAxnwIANXHK-Pa1Bk/edit
Padlets
https://padlet.com/Kyne

[muted osprey]

@solid jay i need to stop doing research at work so i can actually cross reference stuff with the game lmao. maybe there's something in the parks in the game worth seeing

[fresh quiver]

there you go

[gloomy geyser]

Thank ya

[fresh quiver]

the document might have over 300 pages. 😄 but its nice to read

[gloomy geyser]

Heh heh better start reading.....

[fresh quiver]

happy reading

[marble tree]

I’ll probably put in some work later today I’m doing exams like all day 😭

[zealous breach]

What about the aurora skins

What if the Spot the spotlight is giving clues to the weapons that matter for the EEs

The heavy shotty + lewis gun

[gloomy geyser]

Did anyone take look at the cosmetics from the event?

[opaque thistle]

Kinda interestinggg, I was thinking about those skins already cuz of the northern lights connection hmmm

[zealous breach]

And the lewis gun is the ony gun with a casino skin

The casino skin is the only non vanilla skins to begin with for the lewis gun

[opaque thistle]

truee

[zealous breach]

Did you catch up on the BF EEs?

[opaque thistle]

Not rllyy honestlyy seemed like a lotta stuff fr 😩 I looked into a couple thoughh

[opaque thistle]

I found a interesting little 007 EE on the background of the BP page for it too which I still dont rlly know where it goes

[zealous breach]

easter egg 7?

[opaque thistle]

there was a lil 007 on the inside of the lewis' roulette wheel on the background image

[zealous breach]

ohhhh

Combination?

[opaque thistle]

james bond reference

[zealous breach]

What if it is both

[opaque thistle]

could bee

[zealous breach]

how could james bond relate to casinos

Or roulettes in that matter

[fresh quiver]

so fish? can we please talk about that again what rob said afterwards? and them I remind myself of vvv

[zealous breach]

Also on one of the screens on Seoul I saw one of the advertisements of Ospuze have tenticales that are wrapping around the can, they look a lot like the kraken tenticles

[sharp flame]

Yeah, weird, with his 11 steps and all

Hard to know what is or isn't intentional 😞

[fresh quiver]

and didn't rob said everything is Easter Egg related in this channel? ._.

[opaque thistle]

waiiitt 007 nama tama?

[zealous breach]

mhhhm

[opaque thistle]

I mean theres pleeennttyyy of casinos in james bond films

[earnest wagon]

No Mr. Namatama, I expect you to fry.

[dry ginkgo]

my name is Tama. Nama tama.

[zealous breach]

There is something known as the james bond roulette strategy

[fresh quiver]

a constellation can be also pattern.. and the pattern may be casinos then?

[earnest wagon]

Casino Royale is the first James Bond novel.

[zealous breach]

Yeah very interesting just caught up on that

There is also a thing called diamonds are forever

And we do have the diamonds skins in the game

It is both a novel and movie

[opaque thistle]

"European roulette wheel but las vegas has the american roulette wheel" The James Bond strategy is also meant for European Roulette but Vegas has american... butttt the roulette wheel on the Lewis gun is European

[zealous breach]

huh

That can't be a mistake lol

[opaque thistle]

ong

[zealous breach]

Which BF ees were you able to get familiar with?

I feel the most important ones are the DICe LA camo, phantom program and that one BF1 invisible platforms one

Hardline had a start of some good ones too
But the game likely died before they got far with it

[opaque thistle]

I didn't quite get into any, but I took a little look at the La camo and Phantom program ones, I still don't know much about how we got to them at all though honestly 😩

[earnest wagon]

Careful with this line - #1201288968562552863 message

The Lewis Gun's main feature is that it is missing pockets (numbers) the only difference between the European and American versions of Roulette is that the European version is missing the '00'. Given that we know the Lewis Gun is missing other numbers, the fact it's missing this one too may not be important - just a by-product of the changes made.

[zealous breach]

I think looking at how people ended up at them could give us direction what we should do here

Unless someone wanna go recruit the BF EErs cuz rob is in the finals now

[zealous breach]

Is it missing a 7

[earnest wagon]

31 has been switched to 13 and the 26 is missing.

[zealous breach]

13 is half of 26

[earnest wagon]

Meaning it has two 13's too.

[fresh quiver]

the golden egg?

[zealous breach]

Why would the 26 be missing that's interesting

did anyone ever do anything with the numbers from the lewis gun? Like were they ever put down into writing reading from left to right

[earnest wagon]

The total on a roulette wheel ought to be 666, but the lewis gun has a total of 622. On a YouTube comment on one of RockhoundBlack's videos discussing, Rob leaves a clue that has been translated to indicate that this number (622) and the difference between them (44) are important in some way.

#1201288968562552863 message

[zealous breach]

[earnest wagon]

The comment itself also draws attention to Xenon, which given the context of the clue, may be related.

[zealous breach]

Xenon?

[earnest wagon]

Yup, the noble gas.

[hard forge]

to what prize?

[zealous breach]

Ah interesting

Also also, the lewis gun in the BP images has a ball

[muted osprey]

element 44 is "ruthenium" if that helps. 622 obviously way too high of a number

[earnest wagon]

Hmm... or is it?

A reoccuring clue has been various video game console processors...

The CPU in the Xbox 360 was called Xenon... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_(processor)

[hard forge]

https://tenor.com/view/vsause-michael-michael-vsause-vsause-michael-gif-25125732

[zealous breach]

This is the guy who discovered it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ernst_Claus

[plucky venture]

yea, but there are just so many processors....

[muted osprey]

@zealous breach and here is a possible connetion to all the latin we've been dealing with: In 1844, he discovered a new chemical element, which he named ruthenium, after Ruthenia, the latinised name for Russia and the Latin name of Rus', by which Сlaus meant the Russian Empire and Russia in particular.

[plucky venture]

!!!

[zealous breach]

Yeep!
The abbreviation is also Ru which is standard when referring to anything russian

[zealous breach]

Henry J. Waternoose III (voiced by James Coburn) is a spider-like monster with five eyes, seven claws on each hand, six crab-like legs, who wears a business suit. He is the former company president and the CEO of Monsters, Inc.

[earnest wagon]

Actually, I hadn't made this connection until now. But I looked up Ruthenium first, not realising it was discovered by the same guy that discovered Xenon.

Ruthenium is Atomic Number 44

[plucky venture]

ah...

[zealous breach]

still interesting that the cpu was named after the character

[pallid sorrel]

What was the exact comment on RHB

[plucky venture]

btw, just checking, any new clues discovered on tfee t3 lately?

[pallid sorrel]

He mentioned some date

[earnest wagon]

#1201288968562552863 message

[muted osprey]

didn't realize yall meant waternoose and were instead implying the processor was named after xenon: girl of the 21st century

[plucky venture]

iml, is he a fan of monsters inc? lol

[zealous breach]

Gold is the only atomically recognized number in the game

Having a full sticker of the entire thing

[plucky venture]

yup

[zealous breach]

No idea sadly
Dunno about Robs personal preferences

[plucky venture]

again, just wanna ask if there are any new breakthroughs in tfee

[earnest wagon]

Ruthenium is being increasingly used in light absorbtion (possible link to Euler stuff I've mentioned).

[muted osprey]

i still don't think i can post pics but would like to point out similarities in how diagrams for multi-core processors kind of look like that diagram we were given (3 into 1, 2 into 1, 2 into 1, the rectangles)

will send a PM with the photo i'm looking at if anyone wants to see it

[zealous breach]

Wouldn't this look like a CPU too

[earnest wagon]

Ruthenium based catalysts were used to assist the addition of hydrogen atoms to another compound, which earned the scientist behind it a Nobel Prize in chemistry.

[zealous breach]

What's the other compound

[earnest wagon]

There's fewer slot machines in a CPU, but the idea it might represent something other than a floor plan is interesting. We haven't found anything in that room yet.

[earnest wagon]

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

[zealous breach]

olefin metathesis

[dry ginkgo]

the closest I found

But AMD's processors go back to 1975, when AMD introduced the Am2901. This chip was a type of processor called a bit-slice processor: each chip processed just 4 bits, but multiple chips were combined to produce a larger word size. This approach was used in the 1970s and 1980s to create a 16-bit, 36-bit, or 64-bit processor (for example), when the whole processor couldn't fit on a single fast chip.

[zealous breach]

This initial ruthenium catalyst was followed in 1995 by what is now known as the first-generation Grubbs catalyst.

[muted osprey]

"Grubbs, together with Richard R. Schrock and Yves Chauvin, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of their contributions to the development of olefin metathesis. " we very much have discussed nobel prize winners

[zealous breach]

If you take into account that there is a square border around what is shown on the map it is a square similarish to that

[dry ginkgo]

yup, and a cut corner. so it must be modern

[zealous breach]

Didn't even fully take that into account

[zealous breach]

Would any chip be equivallent to that? Cuz where the X is that's where all the safes are
What is also a "safe?" A cache

Any processors where the cache was in that bottom right area?

[dry ginkgo]

hehe amd x3d cache

[solid jay]

Xenon light bulbs are common in medical lighting applications, film projection, medical, surgical, microscopic, endoscopic, scientific lighting could mean a clue is in the hospital

[zealous breach]

Yooo..

[muted osprey]

"Xenon has a minimum alveolar concentration (MAC) of 72% at age 40, making it 44% more potent than N2O as an anesthetic" the only time the number 44 appears on the wiki page for xenon is talking about its use as an anesthetic. another hospital connection?

[solid jay]

this heavily reminds me of a CPU yes

[lapis sparrow]

any updates?

[zealous breach]

Ruthenium demand is rising: the metal find use in the electronic industry (50%) and the chemical industry (40%), with smaller amounts being used in alloying. In electronics it used to be used mainly for electrical contacts but most now goes into chip resistors. In the chemical industry it is used in the anodes for chlorine production in electrochemical cells.

[muted osprey]

if you google images "multi core cpu," check out those diagrams. they all bear some resemblance to the one we've seen

[zealous breach]

Chip resistors

[solid jay]

Tetraxenonogold(II) - It was the first description of a compound between a noble gas and a noble metal.

[zealous breach]

And that's
Rutheium? Which is also light reflective/immesive

No my bad lol

[gloomy anvil]

12 days left

[dry ginkgo]

Its being said that we already have everything to solve the EE. Gold, egg, latin, 5 truths, the writing on the board in the hospital shows how you need to get 5 words from previous levels. I did not see any attempts of combining 5 words in "tried password list".

[zealous breach]

The thing is that as far as I know we've not solved all of those 5 previous words

[spice lark]

Which ones haven't we solved?

[zealous breach]

Gold and Xenon combined~

[fresh quiver]

dcode reacts weirdly when ceasar shifting Am2901

[dry ginkgo]

they are the answers for the previous levels, no?

[alpine junco]

is there a thread for the new art?

[solid jay]

ya not sure it means anything but it was my first thought because Noble Gases aren't really reactive

Xenon has a blue glow when excited by an electric discharge

[alpine junco]

anything in this?

[pallid sorrel]

xenon xylophone is a song by to kin anh

[solid jay]

Don't the generators all have a different colours when they are destroyed?

[zealous breach]

Not sure~

[zealous breach]

Yes it is a good find:>

[zealous breach]

When you huffed too much of that Xenon gold gas

[gloomy geyser]

If we're adding the numbers it's 133 which is caesium

[zealous breach]

What importance to anything in the finals could caesium have? :o

[solid jay]

The most common use for caesium compounds is as a drilling fluid. They are also used to make special optical glass, as a catalyst promoter, in vacuum tubes and in radiation monitoring equipment. One of its most important uses is in the 'caesium clock' (atomic clock).

we found a clock like image in one of the artworks the other day

[zealous breach]

Catalyst promoter? Where

We've seen that ruthenium is used in catalyst requiring things

If caesium and ruthenium are used in the same process, perhaps that could be good to look into

[opaque thistle]

Ayo

[solid jay]

It is used to remove oxygen from light bulbs and vacuum tubes.

[zealous breach]

I'm not just outside the box

I'm outside the boxing of the boxes

[solid jay]

shooting from the hip here but Vegas is known for Neon lights

[dry ginkgo]

ryzen 7 doesn't have cache in the same place 😛

[solid jay]

Recommended processors for the game are the AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or Intel i5 9600K

[zealous breach]

yeps

[earnest wagon]

Nothing's striking any chords here. It's in the Medieval Illumination style. My partner thought the pose was similar to some constellations, but after a browse through them it doesn't seem to match up (gets close though). I tried to look to see if it was a depiction of an actual illumination but no luck there either.

Probably just a cool sticker.

[zealous breach]

Xenon creates a gray/blue light

[dry ginkgo]

its basically the same

[lone wave]

Could be a hint for the next map? That would be confirming suspicions since the discovery of the knight Nama Tama

[alpine junco]

also all the latin

[zealous breach]

A very old map teaser could be it

[zealous breach]

If you flip it up
Where the OID is on the top half
The caches align with the chips

[fallen jasper]

hi guys what's new since yesterday?

[dry ginkgo]

the only thing I aligned was the left lower cut corner and the X on cache lol

[zealous breach]

We tackling ruthenium

[zealous breach]

yeah I see!

[fallen jasper]

Ruthenium? ^^

[zealous breach]

here

[maiden plume]

ruthenium is a platinum metal, and it could be used in foil

is there something hidden in either the foil hat or goo gun skins?

[zealous breach]

o shit

[dry ginkgo]

you can align the walls of the casino with the CPU but it doesn't look that good now

[zealous breach]

What if you also include the part at the botton, where thee text and stuff are

[dry ginkgo]

like this?

[zealous breach]

yuup

Also

Rutheium is used in electrical contacts

Wouldn't that look like an electrical contact diagram?

Or an electrical trace diagram

[dry ginkgo]

🤔

[zealous breach]

...yo

That looks like a casino floor plan fr 😂

[zealous breach]

Diagrams of the very first xenon chips?

[dry ginkgo]

they are xeon though..

[zealous breach]

oh oops lol

[solid jay]

theres a Xenon chip as well though isn't there?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon_(processor)

[dry ginkgo]

didn't know those exist lol

https://www.xenonwiki.com/XCPU there are pics in the gallery..

[zealous breach]

o fuck
Transparent lol

Un related to anything but

This is a diagram of a a four-stage, gallium arsenide (GaAs), pseudomorphic high electron mobility transfer (pHEMT), monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC)

[zealous breach]

Perhaps this map is also something similar to that

Something that uses Xenon or/and gold or/and caseuim?

Or ruthenium

[spice lark]

Where did this lead originate? It feels a bit convoluted on the surface

[zealous breach]

Lewis gun + gold

[dry ginkgo]

cpu's are def gold related - golden pins.. still feels off.

[solid jay]

Various processors being mentioned as well

[zealous breach]

However CPUs are made outta silicon

[dry ginkgo]

The metals contained in PC's commonly include aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, gold, iron, lead, manganese, mercury, palladium, platinum, selenium, silver, and zinc.

Valuable & Precious metals – where they are in Computers:

Gold – Printed Circuit Boards, Computer Chips (CPU), connectors / fingers
Silver – Printed Circuit Boards, Computer Chips, keyboard membranes, some capacitors
Platinum – Hard Drives, Circuit board components
Palladium – Hard Drives, Circuit board components (capacitors)
Copper – CPU heat sinks, wiring and cables, Printed Circuit Boards, Computer Chips
Nickel – Circuit board components
Tantalum – Circuit board components (some capacitors)
Cobalt – Hard Drives
Aluminum – Printed Circuit Boards, Computer Chips, Hard Drives, CPU heat sinks
Tin – Printed Circuit Boards, Computer Chips
Zinc – Printed Circuit Boards
Neodymium – Hard Drives (magnets)

[turbid tinsel]

roman numerals would be considered latin no?

[zealous breach]

Ruthenium can be mixed with either platinum or palladium to form alloys used to make jewelry.

Ruthenium is also used in solar panels, and it is interesting that such a game does not have any solar panels lol

[earnest wagon]

A useful analogy to solving puzzles:

We're on one side of a chasm, the solution is on another. There are the remains of a bridge on this side, and some people have already done some promising work to build upon them, stretching out over the chasm, but have yet to reach the other side.

You're equipped with planks of wood that can be stretched between two points. For reasons best left unexplained there are invisible pillars out there that your planks can propped up on, but finding them isn't easy. Each connection you make is a plank of wood being put down.

There are three common pitfalls when trying to cross the chasm:

• If you have to nail six pieces of wood to reach a pillar, or even the other side, it's unlikely going to hold your weight when you try to cross.
  Make sure your connections are supported by other pillars, not just your own line of reasoning.

• Using an extremely long piece of wood is enticing because it gets you to the other side quicker, but it's likely to break easily under pressure.
  If you have to squint, say things like "it kinda sounds like", it's likely too long a gap you're trying to bridge.

• Some of those invisible pillars are actually pretty wide, but they're right in the middle of the chasm. They're definitely part of the intended path across, but if you keep linking back to them you never actually cross the chasm, just loop out and back to the middle.
  Just because something can be linked to a main pillar, it doesn't mean it's one of the intended pieces. Those main pillars are very common and won't always be a helpful connection, especially as it leads you right back to the place you already were.

[zealous breach]

Alrighty so what if the missing 44 from the lewis gun is a year

But.. so much happened in 1944

[fallen jasper]

didn't rob say we had everything we needed to solve tier 3?

[zealous breach]

I would not be sure

[fallen jasper]

who got the gdoc with all the replies about rob pls ? 🙂

[solid jay]

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

[fallen jasper]

Tysm

[gloomy anvil]

Yes, we've had everything we need since November

[zealous breach]

So what's been the block?

[fallen jasper]

I thought I'd read that somewhere

So just need to dive into the padlet and the clue we got what more easier than this ? 😂

[dry ginkgo]

no one ended up with correct 5 latin words that are connected to gold, space, egg, northern lights, hamlet ophelia

they should correlate with this picture, but I dunno did this pic already solve anything previously

[solid jay]

Just this #1175257406838677514 message

[dry ginkgo]

but the pic seems incorrect - why does gold have 3 components when its 2 on the whiteboard?

[coarse dagger]

Other discussion about keywords (server, light, switch, binary, 1010011, 1001010):
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message
#easter-eggs message

[valid lichen]

so 2 for egg and 3 for gold (or other way around) both connecting and making gold egg

im not up to date with the whiteboard sorrrryy

[dry ginkgo]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1175257406838677514 there needs to be a revisit - discussions are quite old

[valid lichen]

[coarse dagger]

While it's on the Sponsors URL of the wiki, it's under the "All featured brands" section, so it's not necessarily a sponsor, potentially not existing out of VR.

[cloud wyvern]

rob talking about amiga yesterday so i did some googling and found this:

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

he's toying with us

[solid jay]

I'm really keen on the whole Cygnus/Swan/Amiga/Binary Star/Black Hole thread

[coarse dagger]

This reminds me of the results @violet dirge concluded were de-interlacing artifacts here:
#1205252969348595753 message

I think we need a better understanding of what "fattat et a. 2002" in GIMP is before we start looking too deeply into these.

[fallen jasper]

i know its already posted but for the new one's comming maybe recheck here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_that_Laid_the_Golden_Eggs idk ^^

[violet dirge]

Maybe. Its not quite the same.

[coarse dagger]

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

[strong cloak]

anyone have the rabbit map for seoul? im tryna get a friend invested in the ee hunt

[gloomy anvil]

I've seen connections throughout this tier to Roman poets, particularly Horace, Virgil, and Ovid

These are considered the Three Canonical Poets of Latin Literature

It's a term I wasn't familiar with yet and it connects those three nicely. As for how it related to other clues, not sure. Might dive down this rabbit hole for a bit.

[coarse dagger]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1202528273167548477
And lots of people asking about the text on the sleeve of Spotlighter Garb outside of the thread

[solid jay]

Do any of the poets discuss swans/geese etc?

[zealous breach]

Or ducks

[solid jay]

Try using this for the overlay on the casino map it's from the Amiga computer system
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Motorola_68000_die.JPG

[zealous breach]

Holy fuck lol

[coarse dagger]

It's quite variable based on the images @hard current posted and this message:
#easter-eggs message

this is with ques on top and tion on bottom... when I adjust the beta, the lines move..

[violet dirge]

Ok yeah that seems more similar to what I found. Something to remember but maybe not take as seriously.

[dry ginkgo]

Just posting not to forget:
Constellation faberge egg >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constellation_(Fabergé_egg)

The globe was to be decorated with a diamond studded engraving of the constellations under which Tsarevitch Alexei was born >
Alexei was born 12 August [O.S. 30 July] 1904 >
Planetary phenomena for July 1904 >
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?bibcode=1904PASP...16..141M&db_key=AST&page_ind=0&data_type=GIF&type=SCREEN_VIEW&classic=YES
For some reason this constellation falls for 1904:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Astronomy_for_amateurs_(1904)_(14597168058).jpg

[ebon heron]

Have you guys seen it from a different angle? Like it could spell something out 😂😂

[solid jay]

CygnusEd is a text editor for the AmigaOS and MorphOS. It was first developed in 1986-1987 by Bruce Dawson, Colin Fox and Steve LaRocque who were working for CygnusSoft Software.

Don't think this the same company but it has to do with Augmented Reality
https://www.cygnussoftwares.com/

[dry ginkgo]

dunno what to expect?

[solid jay]

ya kinda just a shot in the dark

[coarse dagger]

The CPU (or more generally: circuit board) theory for Vegas could explain the "random" circles people are finding around:
#1204968975881216110 message

They could be screw mount holes, or plated-through-vias/plated through holes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_(electronics)#In_printed_circuit_boards

[coarse dagger]

If you have to squint, say things like "it kinda sounds like", it's likely too long a gap you're trying to bridge.

I think we do this far too often when looking for (among other things) text in images 😅

[coarse dagger]

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

[fallen jasper]

im gonna check the eastwood casino after with the blue map looking for circles

[turbid tinsel]

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message

#easter-eggs message
I think this is all relevant, and with the equation we have, we may have to do some counting and then put the equivalent into roman numerals and mirror it somehow. might need a Latin phrase or word as well, but based on #easter-eggs message and #easter-eggs message
and #easter-eggs message
someone was already relatively close in a sense. and roman numerals are all over the latest arts as well as rob throwing them at us also

[spice lark]

If G = 6 then might A = 0, B = 1, C = 2, etc? Could it be possible that we have GOLD = 614113 or 34 (addition) or 2772 (multiplication) and EGG = 466 or 16 (addition) or 144 (multiplication). Do any of these numbers stand out to anyone from recent clues or hints?

[shrewd fog]

put those numbners in the password

[coarse dagger]

It's hard to take one rule and generalize it like that because we have rules which can conflict when doing so:
e=3 for example

[dry ginkgo]

PW should be a word though: #easter-eggs message

[coarse dagger]

I don't follow

[dry ginkgo]

The resulting password should be a word not just numbers...

[coarse dagger]

I think that that's a possibility, but I don't know how you came to that conclusion from Robs message 😅

[dry ginkgo]

the context. it was around the time he hinted that its egg gold and latin, dunno if latin would be numbers only.. but that's just my "feelings". or at least replace 6 with vi, etc...

[turbid tinsel]

i agree here, or whatever we spell one way mirrored uses the opposite, 1st 3-2nd e 1st 6-2nd g and vice versa

[coarse dagger]

From @solid jay:

Hey I can't post images yet but i found a basic overview of the entirety of the vegas map

if we can overlay where the dots are onto it the circuit board theory might hold a bit more water

[gloomy anvil]

I crossed 1000 password attempts 🫣

[dry ginkgo]

there is an input treshold?

[gloomy anvil]

no lol I just keep track

[fallen jasper]

THANKS A LOT i search for this thing since 3 days ahahaha

[zealous breach]

Yooooo
This actually looks like it

[coarse dagger]

Like what?

[zealous breach]

A circuit board or die cut of something

Also makes me think
Anyone ever try to overlay that map across the whole of vegas?

[dry ginkgo]

does the stickman resemble anything?

also the hands - one is fist, other is open...

is it medieval ziplining????

[zealous breach]

There are also literal stars a top of their head

[coarse dagger]

https://tenor.com/view/stick-bug-gif-18910704

[solar sparrow]

as far as i'm aware there haven't been in game clues to the EE?

[fallen jasper]

i jump into easwood casino for putting circles on the blue map rn 🙂

[umbral shell]

Rob said g= 6 & o=0

[umbral shell]

Or rather it was found out maybe not stated

[solar sparrow]

these are true for a couple previous passwords

[turbid tinsel]

3=iii and E=3

[fallen jasper]

No circles at the fisrt floor of eastwood casino...

but im pretty sure there's some circles on argon casino and maybe glamora

[ashen swift]

In reference to the roses, has anyone gone down the rabbit hole of the building in the training ground? The plaque on the outside labels it as the Monaco Courthouse, and there’s a smaller plaque that reads “32 BIS”. I feel like it could be significant.

[coarse dagger]

vvv.png ( see #1198659083587297350 ) is hidden somewhere in Vegas

[umbral shell]

60ld3n366

[velvet narwhal]

Do we know for sure that it's in Vegas?

[solar sparrow]

so that would be the first?

[fallen jasper]

I never seen this image since i walk around in vegas...

[solar sparrow]

also why would that help when this level was expected to be solved before the game released

[coarse dagger]

Took me a bit to find, but here's Rob's mention of us being able to find vvv.png in game:
#easter-eggs message

Not this QR, but you it has been possible to find this Nama in the game since the day we went live... BUT today I started to feel sorry for you so I gave you a LITTLE bit extra help...

I think we assume it's in Vegas because the map was a new addition on game launch.

[ashen swift]

Talking to myself here, but it appears there is a school in Monaco at the address “32 BIS…bd de belgique” called “Ecol du Parc” or “The Park School”

Is this the walk in the park (parc)?

[solar sparrow]

interesting find

[light walrus]

Rob started feeling sorry for us awhile ago lol

[solar sparrow]

maybe the roses need to be placed in the house somewhere

[coarse dagger]

#easter-eggs message

Hasn't Rob all but confirmed the walk in the park is in the practice range?
He eyed the following message:
#easter-eggs message

hmm practice range has a park, that's where we started in a way?

[ashen swift]

I’m looking into the schools history to see if roses are mentioned. There’s also a famous ball called “The Rose Ball” that happens in Monaco. Going down that rabbit hole now.

[coarse dagger]

32 BIS is on the building in the practice range though.
Although it's also on most Monaco style buildings

[ashen swift]

He may have. I’m late to the game as far as hints and clues, so please correct me if I’m wrong. But the roses are in the practice range. The building is in the practice range. The park could be referencing the school.

[velvet narwhal]

These are new messages where rob talked about the park if anyone missed them

#easter-eggs message

...or it's a pretty normal-sized park, and you guys are super tiny... ._.
#easter-eggs message
I don't know it's a simulation after all...

[coarse dagger]

Oh yeah, I brought this up a long time ago!
#easter-eggs message

I found a matching 32 BIS plaque at École du Parc in Monaco. Based on my search I suspect there aren't many such plaques https://maps.app.goo.gl/sw3ToYaSmg1nzPzn7

It was the only plaque I found which actually matches stylisticly

Spent a loooonnnngggg time looking on Google maps too

[ashen swift]

I think it has to be referencing this. It’s in Monaco. It’s called “the park school” and it’s referenced in the practice arena with the roses.

[ashen swift]

Haha I believe it

[fallen jasper]

someone good a gimp can merge these 2 images pls ?thanks

[solar sparrow]

you should report your findings in the practice range roses thread

[velvet narwhal]

after he gets to level 1

[coarse dagger]

Wonder if the postcode could be a clue? 98000 is Monte Carlo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo

"Monte Carlo" is used both a bunch in culture and science:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_(disambiguation)

For example the Monte Carlo method is common in computer science modeling problems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method

It's also the name of a Casino (in Monte Carlo, Monaco)

[ashen swift]

I’m also new to discord. How do I do that.

[solar sparrow]

you gotta level up by talking a bunch first, but there's threads within channels. several in this channel about specific topics with the EE

[pallid sorrel]

Isn't Monte Carlo method is a type of Reinforcement learning method

[ashen swift]

Gotcha. Thank you! I’ll keep yapping and get my level up lol. Appreciate it

[solar sparrow]

i linked your messages in there already, just to spread the info

[ashen swift]

Perfect. Thank you. Also, I’m reading the cafe menu in the back of the building and at the bottom they reference “Restaurant Doina” which is a place in Paris. Trying to see if there’s one in Monaco.

[solar sparrow]

just so that you're aware, the roses are part of a separate in game EE that won't bring about any clues to the current level/tier

but i am just as interested in finding out what it is 😭

[ashen swift]

I did figure that out yesterday, but I don’t have the mental capacity to help with the larger Easter egg. The roses are tangible, so I can help with it haha. I’ll leave the other stuff to the geniuses in here.

[quaint stream]

Anything happen if we put the trail from master plan over the ques or tion?

Makes me think of Ed edd n Eddy and their treasure map episode lol

[ashen swift]

If you don’t mind linking this to the Rose thread. It seems the The Rose Ball started in honor of Grace Kelly, former princess of Monaco. She loved roses and has a rose garden in Fontvielle Park, which looks a lot like the park in the Monaco map. So maybe Grace Kelly is significant.

[summer wave]

dont know if anyone noticed but the building in practicerange has a tablet on the side which mention kernal bellando de castro

[ashen swift]

Yep! I just found that and I’m going down the rabbit hole now. The colonel is who wrote the national anthem of Monaco I think. The address leads to the courthouse

[solar sparrow]

i did. you're finding some compelling stuff

[hard forge]

what are those red dots?

[ashen swift]

Also, looks like the rose garden was created in 1984 as a memorial to grace. It was re-dedicated in 2014 (Monaco 2014???)

[solid jay]

Kernal you say... 🧐

[solar sparrow]

lmao bruh. you really might have found something

[fallen jasper]

Circles outside in main alley not found same anywhere but in zaraby casino they'r some circles too but not the same as those outside and maybe argon too i need to recheck argon and glamora

[coarse dagger]

Don't forget to use Discord search
#easter-eggs message

More Colonel Bellando De Castro plaque discussion
#easter-eggs message

Irl sign location:
#easter-eggs message

[ashen swift]

Haha I hope so. I’ll keep going until I stop finding breadcrumbs.

[hard forge]

@velvet narwhal can you help them?

[summer wave]

Has anyone actualy found a wiki page for colonel bellando de castro because when i chekked it takes me to Théophile Bellando de Castro's wiki page

[velvet narwhal]

I'm not very good at photo editing but I can try

[fallen jasper]

U are 100% better than me i never used gimp before 😂 but tysm

[hard forge]

Thanks Nova.

[olive imp]

Any good Finals lore videos people would recommend?

[fallen jasper]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1204741064800338000

not videos but if u search some answer maybe u found here 😉

[olive imp]

Bonk, wrong chat haha Thank you @fallen jasper

[fallen jasper]

Np

[ashen swift]

That’s all I found

[hard current]

just remembered, argon is a noble gas… robs way of pointing to that part of vegas with xenon?

[fallen jasper]

Idk but we see they'r a lot a hexagonal furnitures or decoration too

and 3 weird painting

[solid jay]

Ya meant to mention this before I went for lunch actually lol

[hard current]

but the thing is we don’t need anything else in game to solve this…

[spice lark]

I just want to point out that from the previous tiers rob mentioned that there are still clues hidden away that we haven't found which contain hints for other tiers. Maybe we should go back and try to isolate all of these other hints that we don't know of yet? He even told us which clues aren't needed anymore so that's helpful too.

[fallen jasper]

'bout vegas constellation?

[spice lark]

I can merge them for you... do you mean just mask one over the other?

[hard forge]

it there to guide us. We can still find the password without it. But finding it would help us to marrow it down

[velvet narwhal]

Is this good enough?

[fallen jasper]

Yup u can check my try with paint for making 10000% better than me ahaha #1204968975881216110 message

[fallen jasper]

Too small the circles in center dosent fit i think ... expend more but stil good try tysm for this

[quaint stream]

Just being weird again but 'actully' and 'trough'?
Missing an "a" in actually and "h" in through?

Regardless I still don't understand how Hamlet=Ophelia like what the huh

[fallen jasper]

Yhea that why im still searching on vegas but we got no one clue very solid, maybe the thing about the cirlces and the link with processor#easter-eggs message but not sure 'bout that way... :/

[velvet narwhal]

Is this better?

[fallen jasper]

Much ! 🙂

if u don't want try anymore its ok tysm for these 2 try

[velvet narwhal]

Can you paint in where the skybridges are supposed to be?

[quaint stream]

Oh boy am I not ready to help make an Ariel view of Vegas map lol

[fallen jasper]

I think just slide little bit the screen of the main alley to the south and we're good 🙂

[quaint stream]

Now I'll really stitching like the james.webb

[fallen jasper]

cuz the redpoint in front on stage is in reality just on the right side on the stage not on the front 🙂

[surreal pelican]

any one been hearing a random chicken buhkawk ever once in a while during games?

[ashen swift]

Any idea how long it takes to level up? I want to participate in the rose specific thread but I don’t want to spam messaging just to level up.

[velvet narwhal]

You can check your progress here: https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1009841693593440367

[spice lark]

@fallen jasper hopefully one of these is what you were hoping for?

[fallen jasper]

Yes this one ! https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1011929497139953744/1205624084583555172/plan_vegas_overlay2.png?ex=65d90bed&is=65c696ed&hm=a101170d0d5e25f006ed66f0b86e5278684214f380f05a99e226c2bbd011c380&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=683&height=671

[ashen swift]

Thank you!

[fallen jasper]

tysm 🙂 but a dot is missing at the bottom but its very cool stuff ! 🙂

Good start now im gonnna check other circles in argon zaraby and glamora i see nothing in eastwood casino

[velvet thicket]

cheeks im in the same position as you. @silver rock The 45 seconds is only doable one time too. shooting the generator after the lights turn on will turn the lights off permanently

[silver rock]

Yep, exactly

[velvet thicket]

i cant tell if thats toward or against intentional design

[silver rock]

yeah I have no idea

[velvet thicket]

i wonder if identical generators perform the same way

[silver rock]

I checked the lights that are by the building and the only ones that turn off are the ones in the park.

[ashen swift]

Glad you’re messing around with it. I feel like the generator has to be a timer. It’s just about figuring out to what at this point.

[ashen swift]

Does the 4 bulb standing light in the house turn off? I feel like it does. Don’t remember though.

[silver rock]

We know that the roses have to be a part of it somehow

[silver rock]

I'll check

[velvet thicket]

i just did

they are on, whilst the park lights are all permanently off for me

[ashen swift]

I’m going to keep researching Grace Kelly. The Rose Ball. The “parc” school. Etc.

[zealous breach]

Doesn't... that look like a constalation

[silver rock]

okay wait wait, I just did it and almost all of the lights in the building turned off

[zealous breach]

Wiat what
What did you do

[fallen jasper]

No we try to fit with some constellation can fit more but nothing solid ...

[ashen swift]

In 2015 an organization called Les Amis de la Roseraie princesse grace de monaco was established. It’s President is Yves Piaget, an heir to the Swiss watch maker Piaget SA. I only bring it up because the finals loves giving us watch options in the shop, which I always thought was funny. Probably nothing, but figured I’d mention it.

[silver rock]

There's a generator next to the roses in the practice room that can be deactivated, the first time you do it it will turn the lights off in the park for 45 seconds

[fallen jasper]

but we found some casino got circles inside too and its maybe a link with this #easter-eggs message

[velvet thicket]

you are so right, i just watched them turn on

[ashen swift]

You can also shoot the individual lightbulbs out of the lamps. Gotta be something with the generator and the lights.

[zealous breach]

Ah I see~

[velvet thicket]

honestly thats a bummer, unless its hinting toward the lightbulbs/dummys around the house

[silver rock]

however only two lights in the building stay on:

[ashen swift]

The dummy behind the yellow wall is suspicious

[velvet thicket]

thats weird maybe theyre battery powered lol

[fossil valley]

Roses still not part of the main EE, right?

[ashen swift]

Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s involved

[silver rock]

those ones that stay on can be picked up though

[solid jay]

so we are told

[ashen swift]

As far as I know. We’re discussing in here because we can’t post in the rose specific thread. Sorry about that.

[dry ginkgo]

they are, you carry them around, but so far did not light up anything...

[fallen jasper]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1203859365610922036 u just need level up on the discord 😉

[ashen swift]

You can carry the lights on the ground?

[velvet thicket]

absolutely, im only interested in helping with the roses but i cant even communicate about it

[ashen swift]

Haha working on it!

[dry ginkgo]

yes, those on the picture

[ashen swift]

Interesting

[fossil valley]

np ❤️

[dry ginkgo]

that was the thing we did with "literally stealing the spotlight", carrying them around vegas trying to light up something..

[ashen swift]

Great idea. I’ll mess around with shadows in that room. Maybe that’s what we need to do with the dummy behind the yellow wall.

[fallen jasper]

we try to drop one light on each circles in main alley @dull marsh do this and nothing happen...

[dry ginkgo]

maybe we need to find all the spotlights there are on a map? how many are there on vegas?

[gloomy geyser]

I was gonna start going down this rabbit hole to. There seems to be some memorial like statues on the map. I was also thinking about football and the rose bowl for college since the football skins came out as well. Idk if they are related at all tho 😆

[fallen jasper]

10 minimum @dull marsh make all the job for this

maybe more but 10 at least 100% sure

[velvet narwhal]

Is this right? This panorama image is very confusing...

[ashen swift]

I think the garden on the Monaco map is definitely the Grace Kelly Rose Garden/Fontvieille Park. I need to spend more time in there looking for clues.

[fallen jasper]

Seems very accuracy ! 🙂

[shadow shore]

What are the red dots?

[fallen jasper]

circles outside finding only on the ground of the main alley

tysm @velvet narwhal for your job !

[shadow shore]

Alright cool, just woke up. Got some reading to do then haha

[fallen jasper]

Np ahaha

[velvet narwhal]

Here you can see the circles a bit

[solid jay]

The large circle platform in the middle looks like an eclipse or an event horizon as seen through infrared