easter-eggs

[solid jay]

I kind of can see what you're saying a bit better now, but it's a bit of a stretch

[full token]

I'm not saying it's that guy, just that there's 100% something in the kneepad of the skin.

[random bramble]

Just want to mention it could be Paredolia, it gets everyone in here eventually

[solid jay]

ya i get that but it could paredolia ya

love that i learned that word today lmao

[random bramble]

You're going to see it everywhere now

Welcome to the Frequency Illusion (the original name is named after a group of terrorists so not gonna use that any more)

[solid jay]

that's pretty meta

[random bramble]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion Once you become aware of this you notice the effect itself as well, like a self fulfilling prophecy

[solid jay]

Lmao this is basically what "clairvoyant" people abuse

[full token]

And cold reading techniques; So was there any ever marketing material for the Spec Ops skin?

something higher res and non moving? lol

[feral sparrow]

The many different audios between rounds, yet to clip the one with the man and woman fighting, with the girl crying, but here are some of the things I've clipped:

Alien? audio and door closing

[turbid tinsel]

you sure its not open mic from teammates between rounds?

[feral sparrow]

Woman panting

Man laughing/talking

[solid jay]

Ya the frequency at which these posts are happening and with different sounds kinda leads me to believe there are fabricated in game glitches

[full token]

that was from the Rhodent EE, not sure about the panting

[solid jay]

you sure that sounds different than the drunk crowd
nvm listened again

[feral sparrow]

Theres one with a man and woman arguing, and girl crying, it is the most definitive one of being an easteregg, but since I've only been clipping for today havent got it yet

[solid jay]

just keep at it you'll get it eventually if it exists

[feral sparrow]

Where can I find rhodent EE/game audios?

[hearty glen]

😂

[hearty glen]

Hmm

[full token]

Uhh it's in the back of one of the buildings, I forget which. Easiest place to readily listen to it would be in (the 2nd most recent?) RHB video

[feral sparrow]

Wait what

[full token]

Only found one image so far, but it's waist up. - If anyone bought that skin, feel free to DM me

[random bramble]

The Death Rhodent audio is in an alleyway behind one of the casinos (can't remember which one), and it's in one of RockhoundBlack's youtube videos

[dull marsh]

It's behind Zaraby Casino, behind the indoor stage area

[full token]

Here, it's timestamped. (removed embed for spacing) https://youtu.be/E9qVi3fPBX4?si=-a5MvjMT9-f-TZ3-&t=30

Tbf, it's not when he's announcing "Dominate" to the crowd before they play it, so it's probably just before or after in their setlist.

[viscid goblet]

https://youtu.be/jzuHPl-aW2U?t=65 idk what that was

[dull marsh]

Sounds like voice chat from the rest of the lobby, in your clip as soon as you leave the voice chat it stops

[mental matrix]

Yesterday my game glitched a lot of time. I promised to share you guys screenshots but I totally forget because instead I started a live stream to show to everyone, but now I would like to share what happened

How can I share images here?

The game has changed my crosshair, changed the teams and in the finals (last round) instead of a 1v1, I got a free look on the map. I was looking around with some viewers but we haven’t see anything

The third round we was playing against only one team but there was like 8 more empty teams. It wasn’t metter who put the cash because the money collector collectid both of the team’s money so but of us won the 3nd round

[fresh quiver]

its possible that you dont have the permissions yet to post images due to your rank.
You can either upload them to a service like Imgur to post them here. Or send it to one of the regulars that they can post it here for you

[mental matrix]

https://imgur.com/gallery/g6UWUFU

Can you guys see it now?

It’s 3 image

[twilit forge]

I got a 404 error

So no, unfortunately 😢

[mental matrix]

When I hold the lh1, look the teams on the top left corner, also the crosshair (normaly it’s just the green parts)

Sorry, try this link

https://i.imgur.com/bUcKLHW.jpeg

So this is the crosshair and the team in the top left

Doesn’t metter who put the money because it was for all the teams and everyone won after this glitched game

Crosshair was always changing, once it was in the top left corner

By the way I asked my friend who was in the lobby if he can see the same and he confirmed he saw exactly the same so the glitch is looks like lobby based

https://i.imgur.com/rOq1fNC.jpeg

Here you can see the teams, once again it’s the third round of a ranked match

https://i.imgur.com/XfD9cxb.jpeg

And this is the last image where I spectate a teammate who hold the vault, look at the screen, it has black screen lines

Same as what we seen in the short game start trailer

Right after this round we won but it said the game is looking for players but it never started and for like an hour I was able to free look on the map

The map was exactly the same where we was in tha same format. It was seoul, when the middle building is black and not able to climb, also it was after our game, so the bridge for example was destroyed, I saw jump pads etc..

The free camp part I was streaming, you can find it here if you are interested:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2063546657

But it’s borring, I wasn’t able to find anything

In the freecam the screen was also glitchy and maybe one kinda interesting thing is that the wr sticker on the text (on “I”) was barelly visible, it was kinda faded

Also in the first image, check the top left corner, it says “knockout zone”

Hopefuly it helps for someone and I’m not just wasting your time guys 😅 I don’t feel myself that special, I’m sure not I’m the only one who noticed this things

[storm lion]

Does anyone have all the audio triggers we found too that might be related? The Woman crying, The People Arguing, The Death metal band

and i'm still waiting for someone to verify my claim of a man that could've been mumbling and a weird high frequency sound

[random bramble]

largest 16bit integer

not random, but also not EE related

[fresh quiver]

16bit.

[random bramble]

oop

[fresh quiver]

32bit would be 65535/65536

[plucky kettle]

i quickly read the last sentence and it isnt linked to the main ee search

i dont know what else you put but all i saw was it could make a shape

[cold heart]

Sorry in advance, I would mention this in the ⁠The Big WR Hunt but I don't have permissions...
I've been lurking here the best half of a week now, and been super interested in the EE and specifically finding the last two one WR locations.

I want to start with a question on what do we know about WR? I am under the impression that one of these is suppose to be shy and behind barrels (could have been the on Speary found last night)?
Do we know anything else to why its here, or what the end is?

I was going to mention this yesterday but was too tired, but after the one found in Data Center it confirms my suspicions, what if the locations draw a shape? I feel like it could be the cancer constellation...

[plucky kettle]

i see where you are coming from but I dont think so

ill just overlay them rq

[coarse dagger]

The behind the scenes of the WRs:
#easter-eggs message

Dusty draw that on my birthday card, I thought it was cute so I added it to the game to honor Dusty… ._.

Dusty = Dede = @cedar owl

[velvet narwhal]

Interesting theory that it could be a constellation. But I don't think that it's cancer since the cancer constellation has 6 stars and we have only 5 WRs. It could be a 5 star constellation.

[sharp flame]

Been looking in the wrong places this whole time 😭 that new WR stumped me

[plucky kettle]

https://imgur.com/a/bWOMDRh

doesnt seem to be (I tried different rotations)

[cold heart]

You're right it is usually drawn with 6 stars, was just a feeling that it could be that kind of path... Thanks all 🙏

[velvet narwhal]

Yeah, when I saw that its in data center again I just wanted to stay in bed and cry...

[plucky kettle]

now we know there is one in the hospital tho

in each location but the hospital

[dull marsh]

Gotta remember tho that the last one might still be in the hospital area 💀

[dull marsh]

well no, we thought there would be one per area, so only hospital and construction remained, which is wrong

[plucky kettle]

i meant in the normal map variant, sorry

[sharp flame]

Do we really know that tho

[plucky kettle]

no, but imo sorta implied

[fiery lance]

How do I get the permit to write in the wr hunt thread?

[sharp flame]

You need some experience chatting in other channels

[fiery lance]

gulp

okok

[velvet narwhal]

You can check your progrees here: https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1009841693593440367
You just need to get to Level 1

[plucky kettle]

say it here, we can read this channel aswell

[fresh quiver]

Main channel is here.
But mostly everyone who talks in the threads are talking here too.

We just outsource these things to threads to have a better overview and can focus on particular things

[sand rune]

I don’t think, that there is a specific pattern on the map where we found the white rabbits

IMO it’s just random placed

[plucky kettle]

i kinda think that too, but I think that he didnt place them too close to eachother

[sand rune]

Maybe he wants you to think that?

[plucky kettle]

look on the bottom of the light on the appartament

[sand rune]

What?

[plucky kettle]

it was a joke

[crude tulip]

32 bit signed integer's value range is -2147483648~2147483647

[fresh quiver]

yep. your right there. just dont thought in the second.

[crude tulip]

[silk flax]

Hol up I been gone for a min, we found another WR?!

[hard current]

#1197268508623515849

[sand crest]

maybe instead of Nobel prizes, we could also look at Ig (egg) Nobel Prizes? Has this been mentioned before or..?

edit: nevermind, it has been mentioned already.

[plucky kettle]

Does anyone have any ideas what we would need to be finding in skyarena

[fresh quiver]

Nope. Just the word that there is something probably

[solid jay]

The scary part is it's a mix of all other arenas so could be anything lol

[plucky kettle]

OK, nice. Is there anything like an egg maybe than we can expect? Or is it 100% darkness

[plucky kettle]

On that, are the wr from seoul in that too?

[lone sentinel]

why do we need to serch for rabbits?

[plucky kettle]

Fun

[lone sentinel]

got u)

[plucky kettle]

What I was talking about might have connections to other stuff tho, not sure

[clever condor]

hey im looking to get into EE hunting can anyone explain how i could start.

[velvet narwhal]

Heres a good starting point https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1100745453206786078

[clever condor]

when thru that already still not sure also the videos there are old

[solid jay]

yeah that's the starting point, you are only ankle deep into the ocean

all the links in onboarding will get you caught up

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/THE_FINALS_Easter_Egg_Hunt is a good way to see what has worked so far

[clever condor]

how can i help rn

[timid solstice]

old? last one was 12 days ago

[solid jay]

you really can't without being appropriately caught up, you'll just drown

[hard forge]

everything this is connected

[clever condor]

9 months

old

[solid jay]

it's still relevant

[clever condor]

yes

[timid solstice]

the hunt is 17 months old

[hard forge]

gone through the padlets?

[clever condor]

yes idk whats going on tho

in it

[hard forge]

#easter-eggs message

[solid jay]

In short for the main EE; We are looking for clues, secrets, and whatever else is given to us in order to solve a password. That will unlock the next tier of "the game". Not everything you find will be a connection so you have to filter through the information to find what is actually useful.

[clever condor]

ok👍

[fiery lance]

someone already noticed that the jet trails on monaco change color every time?

[solid jay]

Furthermore, not all easter eggs are tied to the main easter egg. Please make sure to use the discord search feature before posting something to make sure it hasn't been discussed already. If you have something new to add to that discussion make sure you are referencing it by either replying to that message or preferably by linking to that message. Once you level up in Discord you will be able to also post in specific threads for each topic.

[clever condor]

👍

[timid solstice]

its a lot to get started on, but do your best to get caught up. any questions that dont have answers by discord search dont worry about asking we are friendly

always great to have new people help

[solid jay]

This hasn't been mentioned as far as I know, but why is it relevant?

[solid jay]

and yeah we appreciate all new/fresh sets of eyes, pretty friendly around these parts.

[fiery lance]

could be a code

[solid jay]

Can you get a screen shot? or video clip? Impossible to know if it's anything without seeing some evidence.

[opaque thistle]

I think rob locked me in purgatory?????

wtf is this

[solid jay]

hey i was grooving to that lol

[solid jay]

when did this happen?

[opaque thistle]

after I died

no wait actually, in between ranked matches

i was clicking to trigger the switch between each scene btw

[solid jay]

There has been a few reports now of a potentially real bug, or possibly fabricated "glitch" happening to players where they are locked in a post round screen. Yesterday we had a guy who died end of round and was in spectator cam on Seoul looking for WRs. Similar situation, unsure of what triggers it other than maybe death at EoR.

and it appears to be happening in tournaments only

[opaque thistle]

I mean it seems real considering you can see a weird lady moving around in the background and explicitely a nama tama charm switching from a heart to broken eggshell and none of it being stuff that I had on previously lol

[solid jay]

gratz on 🔴 btw

[opaque thistle]

:3

[solid jay]

Ya it's real for sure, but is it intentional?

[opaque thistle]

I meant real as intentional lul

it very much seems like it

I've seen a couple of these on other maps aswell but didn't have as much time to catch them like this

[solid jay]

Your clip is very compelling.

[opaque thistle]

I think it might relate to the offline thing.. Getting killed EoR to go into a special place, almost like parzival in ready player one needing to drive backwards we needed to go off? lol

[solid jay]

The shadow figure kinda just looks like another player perhaps experiencing the same thing? But could be the character Odilia?

[opaque thistle]

Could it be grace kelly lmao

[solid jay]

back from the grave? lol

[opaque thistle]

also died sept 14th

another 14th

and it's all on monaco

[solid jay]

what other 14ths have been relevant? i've only looked into 8 and 17

[opaque thistle]

A couple of saints' feasts and other relevent people have had things fall on the 14th including Saint Valentine and Saint Odilia

[solid jay]

okay cool was unaware of that def sounds very Monaco EE

[opaque thistle]

I mean if you look close it seems like a woman with blonde hair

[solid jay]

My skepticism toward the shadowy figure is that there was another report of one on Vegas, and they were out of bounds and moving quickly.

but no video evidence of that one

#easter-eggs message

[fiery lance]

is there a document on the image manipulations done to get the clues so far?

[opaque thistle]

I mean I doubt it can be a coincidence myself, literally went from staring at a weird shadow woman with the nama tama on both images and not even the same nama tama + all the skins shifted to something specific, directly into being in a brick room staring at the corner.. it seems so sus to me, plus it pretty much kicked everyone in the lobby and made them rejoin and lasted for agessss. It seems hella intentional

[solid jay]

Not sure if there is an exact document, but so far it's been separating colour values and changing contrast and stuff to reveal stuff burried in the images.

[solid jay]

Ya your video is extremely solid proof of something. I'm wondering if there is a specific way to trigger it though? Because if that's commonly happening in ranked play people would be losing their minds.

[alpine junco]

confetti on monaco

[solid jay]

To me it's a big hurdle to get over that an EE would directly impact gameplay outcomes like that, especially in ranked.

[plucky kettle]

what could the confetti be from? or is it there in general

[solid jay]

i don't think this is new?

[alpine junco]

first time seeing confetti

during night time

is it with the fireworks?

[opaque thistle]

I've seen it a few times but it often shows up as tiny frame long clips instead of actually letting you into the whole thing, idrk why it showed up like all the way like this ong

I might've done smth to make it happen tho not sure

[opaque thistle]

It didn't impact gameplay tho it was between rounds after winning

[solid jay]

https://tenor.com/view/morfeo-matrix-the-matrix-real-the-construct-gif-21089246

[opaque thistle]

it just delayed a match slightly

plus it doesn't seem like a coincdence that all of this show's up after the valentine's day update which sounds like it would be directly related to the roses lol

[solid jay]

Yeah the coincidence of it all is peculiar. It's just hard to imagine something directly impacting gameplay like this is something they would do.

[opaque thistle]

hmmmm

I mean I doubt the nama tama's literally being themed could be coincidence

plus the chances of all that weird shit going on and a lady is just there across from us moving around and we're staring right at them

it doesn't seem like it could be

[solid jay]

what were you doing to get it to "shift" like that? movement?

[hard current]

It won’t play for me:((

[solid jay]

i'm not entirely convinced the lady is anything but another idle player, they aren't really moving

[opaque thistle]

it happened anytime I left clicked

[arctic dragon]

ive had it where ive had that grey lined effect on the screen showing the post-match results for the tournament round

like you see the leaderboard and the players at the bottom but it has that filter

[solid jay]

i'm wondering if it's just some weird graphical error because of the game state?

[opaque thistle]

I mean it just doesn't make sense for it to be so thematic and interactable and consistant though

every time I clicked it would switch between them

and it explicitely showed the nama tama switching between a heart and cracked eggshell

[arctic dragon]

we need rob 😩

[opaque thistle]

and both the characters had completely different skins on

[solid jay]

ya the scan lines are new on this update which is partially why i'm entertaining this line of thought because we know the "glitches" are going to get worse accoring to scotty and june

[opaque thistle]

it just seems like it has to be somethinggg

[solid jay]

if it happens again somehow, try more button combinations and see what happens if you hold down LMB

[solid jay]

this for me is the most compelling thing

[solid jay]

i'll grab you some screens one sec

[opaque thistle]

^^^

[arctic dragon]

just curious, were the clothing pieces and the scar skin and the gun stickers/charm chosen by you or was it random

[opaque thistle]

all random, I was playing tats and fcar but they were different

[opaque thistle]

and then in the switch they changed to a different skin set anyways

[arctic dragon]

so the first one was your loadout but teh second one wasnt?

[sand rune]

its just a visual bug

[opaque thistle]

nahhhh the skin and the charm and sticker all weren't what i had selected

[sand rune]

nothing more

[arctic dragon]

i see

strange

[opaque thistle]

cappp

[sand rune]

Sure it is, the match was over and he was stuck in spectating

[arctic dragon]

was your teammate also using a scar?

[opaque thistle]

idk

[sand rune]

look in the vid you made

[solid jay]

ya don't be so quick to dismiss, i'm skeptical too, but i'm wondering if it was swapping to a teammate in spectator

[sand rune]

his mates where also mediums

[arctic dragon]

he was only swapping between 2 of them which is odd

unless one of his teammates also had the tattoos which confused him into thinking it was his loadout, but that would explain the different gun skin and charm

[opaque thistle]

yeah but I was stuck in spectating on a whole different map, with like a whole different loadout, and it selected specifically a nama tama, and it let me switch back and forth between the two scenes at will (I was kinda spamming my mouse, but LMB was doing it) and it didn't have my skins on at all, and showed a lady in the background in the park

like it just seems like a lot going on

[arctic dragon]

is this the lady?

[solid jay]

one could have immediately tried to alt+f4 if something was bugging out

[solid jay]

ya thats the shadowy figure in question, to me that's just another player though looks like they are holding a cannister

[opaque thistle]

yah

[opaque thistle]

I was thinkin roses

[solid jay]

I wouldn't put too much weight on this. The fact that it just looks like a player idling and that LMB was being clicked to me screams game engine bug which I believe is common in Unreal.

def just a graphical bug @hard forge

Might need to update drivers lol

[near knoll]

honestly been seeing a lot of monkeys in the game.

easter eggs>

[hard forge]

huh?

where?

[near knoll]

there's always 12 on each map

[snow sapphire]

lmao

[opaque thistle]

It happened again, I only caught part of it tho

I think it was just spec'ing my teammates

but it looked hella suss that one time my god

[solid jay]

https://tenor.com/view/breno-bruhzil-monkey-oozaro-gif-22109243

[opaque thistle]

this time my teammates body had been infront of a fire that spread all the way to their body and then their mouse moved just a bit and then i switched between them again and it finally let me out of the bodies and fully into spectator mode

[solid jay]

ya it's a real bug then, but there's def SOMETHING going on since the valentines patch, so stay frosty

[solid jay]

ya we had a guy on Seoul experience the exact same bug yesterday

[hard forge]

🪲

[opaque thistle]

^

[hard forge]

creepy

[solid jay]

Ya for real, which is why I actually allowed it to hold water for a minute lol

The egg charm going from to is what made me take pause.

[opaque thistle]

I still think it's sus

[opaque thistle]

^^^

This bruhh

[solid jay]

It might be somewhat intentional still? Maybe as a way to let people explore the maps since we don't have private matches yet, but it's unlikely they'd interrupt gameplay loops for every player.

[opaque thistle]

it seems like it's happening almost every match for me now lol

[solid jay]

if you get Seoul look for WRs

[opaque thistle]

I would but it's mad hard to even go around anywhere w/it

u don't get to move the mouse

so it jusst kinda sucks

[solid jay]

Weird, guy yesterday had full control.

its a game engine camera though so maybe try middle click to rotate and stuff lol

[opaque thistle]

Hmm

[regal jackal]

Sorry might sound stupid but what is "wr"? like what does the acronym mean

[sand rune]

white rabbit

[solid jay]

White Rabbithttps://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1197268508623515849

[regal jackal]

aahhhh

[solid jay]

@hard forge @earnest wagon Just a general thought, but I thought was an interesting angle. What if CNS isn't real? What if CNS is actually our own Central Nervous System trying to wake us up from this simulation we are stuck in for reasons unknown, and that's why we keep getting told to open our eyes.

[solid jay]

what's this supposed to be?

[opaque thistle]

the buildings

[sand rune]

what wrong with the buildings?

[solid jay]

is that playable space?

[sand rune]

no

[opaque thistle]

no

[solid jay]

then its just low res shaders

[long plaza]

Maybe 1917 is pointing to Faberge eggs

In 1917, the Russian Revolution brought an abrupt end to the Romanov dynasty, and to the House of Fabergé. The company was nationalised, all production closed down and Peter Carl Fabergé and his family fled Russia.

The Constellation egg is an unfinished 1917 Easter egg designed under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé for the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, as an Easter gift to his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. It was the last Imperial Fabergé egg designed.

[solid jay]

You should use search to check and make sure this hasn't been discussed already. Faberge eggs have come up a few times.

[opaque thistle]

mmm one set is shaped strangely like a nine, but also that larger building looks similar to some stuff I've seen in an image I've seen pulled out from one of the glitchy video's we've seen

[solid jay]

this feels like a large stretch and nothing concrete.

[fervent moat]

yuh

[opaque thistle]

I meann it looked reallyy fuckin similar to that building, I just need to find it and compare, it's the pic where the jets are flying overtop of the building and there's what looks to be an alien tractor beam or big ahh nuke mushroom cloud coming from it

yeahh nah I found it they don't look too alike nvm

[solid jay]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1207832851026939976
you should go through this thread from yesterday

[opaque thistle]

weird building to have out there still tho

ong this is prolly better for off topic anyways

I've looked thru all that already tho

[solid jay]

it's not off topic, its just Pareidolia

You are looking for things, and your brain is trying to make sense of them so it looks for links and connections that don't hold any real weight.

[opaque thistle]

hmmmm

[hasty anvil]

90% of stuff in here 🥲

[solid jay]

https://tenor.com/view/sadgecry-sadge-cry-gif-18423674

[hasty anvil]

#1201288968562552863 message
Following this conversation
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_and_prograde_motion

It kind of links space, magnetism, orbit, etc

It could be part of password, but also keep new ideas too

[solid jay]

Honestly black holes too as they would influence the orbits of everything around them

[hasty anvil]

That’s true, has other connections too

Retrograde and prograde maybe binary connection, 2 different states

[solid jay]

Well we also know that neutron star mergers form black holes. So binary neutron stars in orbital decay would bring us to black holes as well.

[hasty anvil]

I would think black holes would have been discussed before

So it should’ve got eyes, or were not 100% correct

[solid jay]

Fair, I'm feeding off of this: #1207832851026939976 message from yesterday a bit

[hasty anvil]

Ahh I see, so key theme but we need something more specific linked to it

[solid jay]

Yeah

And Binary Neutron stars are quite rare

[hasty anvil]

Just found a CNS, retrograde, and gold connection,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_tracing#:~:text=Fluoro-Gold%2C also known as,via fluorescent microscopy or immunohistochemistry.

[sand crest]

is it too far fetched to conclude that since 2 neutron stars merging produces a black hole, 2 eggs merging produces a tasty omelet? I am hungry though so maybe im not being objective

[solid jay]

AMAZING, I was looking for a neuroscience link earlier

[hasty anvil]

One of the techniques uses Fluro-gold

[solid jay]

I mention my logic theory here: #easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

it directly mentions "eye" as example ._. coincidences as we love them 😄

[solid jay]

now the mirror of Retrograde tracing would be Anterograde

I have to go shovel snow, but keep cooking.

[dull marsh]

Wouldn't it be prograde tho?

[solid jay]

it's in the article

[dull marsh]

Weird flex, but okay

[solid jay]

one traces to the other traces from

[dull marsh]

My bad, I'm in the middle of a game, didn't read it yet 😄

[solid jay]

np

[full token]

Those events don’t 100% always create black holes though. That’s one of 4 possibilities, depending on the mass of both objects, amongst other things.

I’ll make a thread in a bit and explain so we don’t have to keep repeating, but I do think it is relevant.

[dull marsh]

Those two kinda look like they have horizontal barcodes

[sand crest]

they also look like they have another colour inside, a lighter red shape

[coarse dagger]

Here I'm working on documenting the EE hunt visually and descriptively. It's still a work in progress, but if the padlets and wiki don't float your boat this might help:

https://thelulzy.github.io/TF-EE-quartz-obsidian-vault/

[coarse dagger]

Next time it happens to you hold down right click. That will let you pan your camera.

[coarse dagger]

Pretty sure you're just switching between player perspectives like when spectating.

[alpine junco]

first thought too

[solid jay]

I like this format more than the conspiracy web lmao

[plucky venture]

GUYS ROB IS IN OFF TOPIC EE CHAT!

#1201288968562552863 message#1201288968562552863 message#1201288968562552863 message#1201288968562552863 message

[coarse dagger]

Thanks!

[hasty anvil]

#1201288968562552863 message
Newest eyes 👀

[timid solstice]

I think that confirms that an egg in game relates to that

[velvet narwhal]

Yeah I think so too.
#1201288968562552863 message

(but there is a T17 EE in the game, but just a tribute, not connected to the big whoop…)

[random bramble]

As long as it doesn't mean Tier Seventeen!

[full token]

wait, T17?

[fresh quiver]

Team17
#1201288968562552863 message

[full token]

OHH. lol ty

[final pewter]

[velvet narwhal]

#1178137622359593043 message
#1201288968562552863 message
#1201288968562552863 message
#1201288968562552863 message
New eyed messages

[quaint stream]

I really don't like that Off topic chat is allowed to get eyes but at this point I'll take it

[twilit forge]

#1201288968562552863 message Just spitballing, could this mean that we are close and need to just one part of electromagnetism?
electricity, or magnetism?

[cursive star]

COFFEE STAIN !!! 🫡

[hard forge]

France?

[velvet narwhal]

Yeah we should be more careful to keep deep EE conversations from offtopic.

[twilit forge]

Could the coffee stains be an overlay to some image? some of the coffee stains look like shards of namatama from the 404 image, but can't seem to get any of them to line up

or "hey look at this section of this image that it lines up with"?

[cursive star]

Maybe...

[random bramble]

Alternative thought, Coffee Stain is a developer/publisher based in Sweden, what if it's a shoutout to Goat Simulator/Deep Rock Galactic/Valheim developers?

[hasty anvil]

That slies connection to wr is crazy nice

[solid jay]

makes sense since it was hidden as well

[umbral shell]

Speaking of S, has this been spoken on at all?

[random bramble]

That S means Safe on the AK

The gun is currently in FUN mode

[umbral shell]

Oh okay heard

[alpine junco]

LMAO

[proud minnow]

Great people, and we actually laughed a bit and said, “if anyone see this as a tribute Coffee Stain Studios in Skövde, well then it is.!”

[snow walrus]

Skövde is mentioned again 🤔

[proud minnow]

I guess this will make zero sense for everyone in here… but for me ti give credits to anything in Skövde is a big thing… it hurts… FALKÖPING 4 LiFE.!

[random bramble]

Odds on a collab with Deep Rock Galactic Devs? I NEED BEARDS ROB. Also this would be a cool Flamethrower skin:

[plucky kettle]

Petition to put the coffee stain in the season 2 new map

[alpine junco]

Coffee stain t shirt

[cursive star]

Coffee stain coffee mug

[alpine junco]

Wait

COFFEE MUG CHARM

:3

[cursive star]

:3

[alpine junco]

Robs Beans

[random bramble]

You're from Falkoping and Skovde are a rival football team?

[alpine junco]

Freshly Roasted

[plucky kettle]

coffee stain sticker season 2 to put all over the map

[proud minnow]

Falköping is a small little town in Sweden where I grew up… there were not much to do but skateboarding, making art and spend thousands of hours in front of the C64 and the Amiga… Skövde is only 30 minutes away, they were the “big city”… they were much cooler and had a MCD… hehe

[brisk hearth]

weve got rob here and i dont even know what to ask anymore T_T

[plucky kettle]

The answers

[brisk hearth]

my brain is fried, like an egg

[proud minnow]

You have all the answers… no more questions needed for the next tier…

[proud minnow]

we are only getting started.!

[brisk hearth]

we have too many answers!!!

[hard forge]

what about the current tier? XD

[brisk hearth]

have you seen the padlet Rob?

[proud minnow]

you have it all… 0Y3

[acoustic canyon]

O=0 E=3

[proud minnow]

Yes, but it is so hard to navigate (or zoom)

Keep up the good work, time for me to go home and play THE FINALS

[random bramble]

Need a teammate? >.> My ping might be ass from NZ

[plucky kettle]

Hope you enjoyed your food lol, we sorta interrupted that one

He needs to be paid more

[hard forge]

G=6

[umbral shell]

Are there any other letter=numbers other than those 3 that we know?

[earnest wagon]

LUTT5A5

[hard forge]

Golden Egg

[snow walrus]

YOU CRACKED!

[brisk hearth]

EZ

[earnest wagon]

A common track in the analysis done yesterday(?) was neutron star mergers.

[alpine junco]

he typed 0 Y 3

[earnest wagon]

Perhaps merging viold and evivi in a specific manner is the key?

[umbral shell]

Literally just thinking that

[pure loom]

maybe viold should be in the middle like yolk?

[umbral shell]

Possibly it ends with 3 or “iii”

[hard forge]

e vivivi old

[earnest wagon]

With gold on the outside as the shell.

[alpine junco]

what would Y =

[brisk hearth]

you mean exactly like he wrote oye? with the (y)olk in between the numbers?

[earnest wagon]

Y = Upsilon

[hard forge]

gold yolk

[pure loom]

I was thinking the colour of gold is analogous to the yellow of yolk

[alpine junco]

Υʹ has a value of 400

[earnest wagon]

Yeah, good point. Then perhaps we have to build our golden egg. Shell on the outside, golden yolk in the middle

[hard forge]

which is backed by #easter-eggs message

[earnest wagon]

Y =ϒ?

[hard forge]

VVV guys? Vi Vi Vi

[umbral shell]

Or vvviii?

[random bramble]

evenividivici?

[plucky kettle]

you found it?

damn

[earnest wagon]

Also the gold hue on the valentines namatama.

[snow walrus]

i would cry if that be so easy

[pure loom]

that would cover most of the themes - gold and egg combined, viold and evivi already have Latin - the combo itself is the space part (neutron star analogy) - what are we missing?

[fallen jasper]

Hello

[plucky kettle]

nah, it was someone who said they cracked it...it was refering to an egg

[plucky kettle]

hello

[acoustic canyon]

mirror it?

[pure loom]

ah, yes!

[fallen jasper]

How are you🤏

[earnest wagon]

viold + evivi = evioldvi (the gold yolk is now in the egg)
evioldvi = 3violdvi
ivdloiv3 (mirrored)

Trouble is there's a lot of ways to interpret that.

[pure loom]

ohhh... because we have viold evivi would could put the word "love" in the middle, which would cover that theme - and both of those letter orders would be mirrored!

[hard forge]

veni vidi veci

[plucky kettle]

Love...roses...st Valentine?

[brisk hearth]

cant be that easy...

[earnest wagon]

Mergers require two of something, so maybe it's something like 3violdvivdloiv3, where the text is mirrored on itself using the last letter as a common mid.

[hard forge]

I am thinking out loud.

vivivi
eviviviold

[jade citrus]

all these new threads are making it so fucking impossible to keep up with everything. even the "off topic" EE chat has clues and eyes being thrown around in it

[fallen jasper]

Got the finals

[pure loom]

ivilovedvi - or something like that

[hard forge]

will discuss it after Level 2

GOLDENEGG
violdevivi

[umbral shell]

Vi0ld3vivi

[snow walrus]

LEVEL2-THEPROMISE
/t1-a
/t1-b
.
.
/t1-f
/t1-f-1 (TIER2 ABC)?
/t1-def (TIER2 DEF)?
/t3-f

[snow walrus]

why tier2 links are weird

[pure loom]

I tried "ilovevivid" - no luck

[earnest wagon]

I reckon the gap between level 2 and 3 (provided we get one) is an opportunity to:

• Establish a policy on thread creation / naming
• Rework Level 2's Padlets so that there's a 'clean' solution version for each with a link to an archived 'working' version
• A common list of unsolved clues
• Tidy up any guidance for new EE hunters, as I imagine more CNS shenanigans will bring more waves of fresh victims sleuths

[pure loom]

yeah, I agree - as our numbers are increasing we need better organisation

[earnest wagon]

I'm happy to throw my hat into the ring and do what I can (time permitting) towards that too btw. Not just making demands and walking off.

[hard forge]

We gotta do some corpo things

[hard forge]

I am onboard

[hard forge]

soo are this #easter-eggs message

[timid solstice]

I stopped reading every message 2 weeks ago now

[pure loom]

*sells the EE group for $50 and a bucket of chicken wings

[timid solstice]

Too hard to follow

[plucky kettle]

I'd do it for just the chicken wings

[hasty anvil]

We had EOY - OYE eyed, 30Y-0Y3

[hasty anvil]

Imagine if all the thread convos happened at the same time, in one chat though..

[plucky kettle]

We should trial that

[timid solstice]

Its ok, people need to speculate

[earnest wagon]

It's actually a little stressful missing a day due to real life. I reckon one of the things that might help combat that is a daily summary post that covers concrete finds, new clues, and eyes.

[hard forge]

I was a pro daily summary board since day 1. But I thought I would wait for this tier to end.

[pure loom]

maybe part of the password should actually merge (like gold forming in neutron star collisions) - like the d from viold and e from evivi to give us the number 8, which would also then mean every number has been used in the passwords so far.

[acoustic canyon]

This might also be a good thing to point newcomers to when they ask what new things have been found.

[timid solstice]

I used to catchup on the dog walk, impossible now but I still catch the important stuff

[hard forge]

also helps in timelines and Rob

[earnest wagon]

Getting ahead of myself though. We need to confetti shotgun a bunch more words with too many v's and 3's into the password box before we need to worry about switching things up.

[timid solstice]

Would be great if we solve this by next week

Or we beat our record

Then everyone new will see how painfully obvious it probably is

And tell their wives and family how close they were

For them to say it’s not Easter yet

[hard forge]

• GOLDENEGG was literally given to us in patch notes.

• G=6 was found in the 10 mill image by RHB

• OYE, OY3, 0FC

• Mirror, Latin, Space

• Pulsar

• X

• VVV

• t3-f

• #easter-eggs message

• ❓❔

[acoustic canyon]

isnt X more focused towards burrw?

[storm lion]

We crazy for trying to solve this but I’m for it now no backing out

[timid solstice]

X has been in a lot of t2 images

[snow walrus]

Its Diamond clue after all

[timid solstice]

Were diamond clues meant to point to end of t3? I got confused about all that

[random bramble]

Diamond clues apparently point to the end of the Egg Hunt but they're stupid hard

[acoustic canyon]

#easter-eggs message

[hard forge]

We have, 3f = ? = 63.
But g=6 and e=3.
Therefore, G and E must be adjacent in the password.

[hard current]

so a few eyes from rob concerning the WR's today

that's all to report right or did I miss something hehe

[valid lichen]

Somebody found a WR

[random bramble]

the fifth one?

[valid lichen]

no

i mean the 4th

was talking about devx

[hard forge]

what do you think?

[valid lichen]

didnt know if they didnt realise

[random bramble]

Ah cool turns out I can't read :L

[valid lichen]

all good

[fallen jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDEYaI9Po9Q

Golden Players .....would hint at gold again 🤔 🧐

[solid jay]

needs to share more links with everything though

[solid jay]

where did the 3f come from again?

nvm question mark unicode

[hard forge]

website url (#easter-eggs message)

Also ? is 3f in hex which is 63 in decimal

[solid jay]

f is also between e & g

3f6?

[pure loom]

that could be the merger

[hard current]

didn’t rob once eye “F = 6”

[pure loom]

yes

[hard forge]

yes

[solid jay]

3-63-6

[hard current]

so.. fold eff

[pure loom]

goldfg

[acoustic canyon]

#easter-eggs message

[hard current]

but if f=6 wouldn’t we logically replace vi with f?

[acoustic canyon]

was it g=6 or 6=g?

[hard current]

did we ever overlay these two images?

[solid jay]

f0ld eff, i'm dead

[solid jay]

Danielle Bunten Berry - Press F #1178137622359593043 message

[hard forge]

f0ld3ff

[hard forge]

yeah right!!

[hard current]

she was a “pioneer” in the industry.. should look for her “firsts”

[solid jay]

and her finals

BUT

F is inbetween

so

🤷‍♂️

Seven Cities of Gold was the 6th game of her career and she had 6 more after. It was released in 1984

So that's the game in the middle of her career. Her first was Wheeler Dealers (1978) and final game was Warsport (1997) about a year before her death on July 3rd, 1998.

[solid jay]

known for the 1983 game M.U.L.E. known as one of the first influential multiplayer video games, and 1984's The Seven Cities of Gold.

[solid jay]

The game (M.U.L.E) setting was inspired by the novel Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein.

[earnest wagon]

Oooh, I played the C64 port of this. Never owned an Atari unfortunately.

"Set on the fictional planet Irata (Atari backward)" - I can barely remember the game, let alone what the planet was called, but I can guarantee I never noticed that at the time - I was pretty young and the game had been out quite a while by then.

[gloomy anvil]

I've been away today, anything exciting?

[twilit forge]

#easter-eggs message

[bronze wolf]

new WR found on seoul as well, not sure if you saw that

[twilit forge]

#easter-eggs message a lot of rob messages, another confirmation we have everything we need... 0Y3

[stray chasm]

There’s that one class changing station in the practice range which isn’t aligned with the surrounding environment like the others which seems interesting to me

[lone wave]

And a floating tree once you melee every foliage. (It’s probably nothing)

[turbid tinsel]

Does G25 mean or relate to anything we have?

Ques+tion when messing with it begins to morph the question mark itself to form a word

[lone wave]

Could you show that ?

[lone wave]

Liquid air canisters can be called G25 apparently

[turbid tinsel]

might not be exactly g25 but definitely looks like a "G" to start. Ive not had much luck getting others to see what i can so take it for what it is.

was mostly trying to get whats in the background more revealing and noticed it

[timid solstice]

golden egg

Some part mirrored

Some part Latin

o = 0

e = 3

#easter-eggs message

Latin first?
Mirrored next?

Like 0000ff then ff0000

[gloomy anvil]

g = 6 too from the keyarts

[timid solstice]

The thing is what if they just decided to keep it in the art even if it was meant for t 2abc and 2def

Because it’s in the new videos too

[lone wave]

Refleggtion

I’ll see myself out

[fallen jasper]

Oi hurry up

[gloomy anvil]

I've also been thinking this but I feel like Rob just wouldn't let that happen.

Since we sort of got 3 and 0 confirmed today it seems more likely to be intentional imo

[fallen jasper]

So these hints aren't just in the official art but the ingame videos?

That's what you're saying?

[solid jay]

https://tenor.com/view/truth-conspiracy-theory-gif-12846713

[fallen jasper]

Hmm

If a part of the password is 366

Mirrored egg

Then change to Latin numeral form

IIIVIVI

[lone wave]

But you also have to include gold

[timid solstice]

In the patch notes videos yeah

[lone wave]

effigies ovum means « the egg’s reflection »

366i6i3s 0vum

But gold needs to be in the password, right ?

Wait technically effigies contains egg when you replace with numbers

If f=6 and g=6

So maybe try effigies aureum

[turbid tinsel]

When did we get the coffee stain image so i can see whats been found? in the padlet that is

theres a message hidden in the periodic table on it and in a bunch of otther spots. Trying to bring some out now.

[lone wave]

#easter-eggs message

The furthest mention I could find. Hope that can help

[solid jay]

got you one sec

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011929497139953744/1206715107627900978/IMG_CDIV.png?ex=65dd0405&is=65ca8f05&hm=e1893ebaff9fe14a414e7dc49157176acb2897fec7220802e1cc998f3f428f17&

[forest perch]

Did we ever find the 3rd white bunny

[mint flame]

There are 5 and 4 are found

[forest perch]

where was the 4th found

[mint flame]

Check wr thread

It was found today

[forest perch]

wr?

[copper sequoia]

White Rabbit

[forest perch]

I don't see the thread

[mint flame]

Im sorry i dunno how to tag it

Im new to discord

Its called the The big WR hunt

[alpine junco]

#1197268508623515849

[shrewd fog]

mirror mirror on the wall, who's the eggliest of them all

[naive rover]

Damn

Good one

[brisk hearth]

have we ever considered combining any of these images together in some manner?

[coarse dagger]

Jeopardy?

[coarse dagger]

I disagree, it's all the same stuff as before, just easier to compartmentalize now.

[marsh marsh]

Idk if anyone noticed but with the gold AK when you reload if you completely empty your clip it makes a satisfying CHACHING

[mystic spade]

Dont make me spend moneyyyyy

[marsh marsh]

I’ve used it since the game came out and I just got the valentines skin and was confused why it wasn’t making that noise. Always cool when there’s secret things like that you don’t know until you use the skin

Like the gun that prints the receipts with the names of people you kill

[fast heron]

you guys already see this? I know you guys saw some coordinates and obviously this relates to gold, space and orbits (egg shape): https://www.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/golds-birds-eye-reveals-dynamics-in-earths-interface-to-space/#:~:text=GOLD is in geostationary orbit,upper atmosphere can't do.

[turbid tinsel]

is it possible rob is saying X marks the spot because technically with every previous password we could count to 9 based off roman numers ect and X would be the last one we need?

[tawdry tulip]

Meow

[fallen jasper]

you got excited 😂

[turbid tinsel]

eyes should be refrained from being used as rob uses them to let us know if we are right in a sense

[fallen jasper]

exactly

[turbid tinsel]

go troll a different chanel

[fallen jasper]

it was indeed intentional

omg

im jk

first and last time im doing this aight

thought you'd find it funny

yeah i still havent found that goddamn three headed monke

althought it's finda pointless EE wise ey?

[misty raven]

The first clue was a question mark. So if the answer isn't a question...

[turbid tinsel]

rob also gave us cclxix #easter-eggs message which have all been used in previous password. is it possible we have to use eulers formula or something with previous passwords to get the password and it spells something backwards in latin?

or repeat somwhat of the pattern that he gave us

[misty raven]

yeah that seems more likely than crazy history rabbit holes. as fun as those are

[fallen jasper]

@fickle holly

[fickle holly]

Hmm

Guess we’ll never know

[fresh quiver]

Almost forgot the CCLDIX

Maybe we should gather all Roman number sequences he gave us.

CCLDIX in chat
CDIV as image-name
Do we have more?

[turbid tinsel]

it was cclxix, unless im missing something?

[misty raven]

stuff like numbers and shapes are gonna be relevant too

[fallen jasper]

What was the talk about golden egg?

Mirrors Latin...

[misty raven]

it'll probably involve v, vi, 0, 3, iii, etc

[turbid tinsel]

thats why i was wondering if counting to 10 was a possibility. because he also gave us #easter-eggs message

or using roman numerals 1-10 in the password or something

because im not sure how 15 fits

[misty raven]

yeah I just looked up to my sticky note wall with the same thought

[plucky kettle]

Like investigators in movies but in IRL?

[fickle holly]

Might not help but I know ppl used to have numbers correspond to individual letters || like a is 1 and b is 2|| so it might spelling something instead of just numbers

^prob wrong as I have no clue what you guys are saying 😂

[misty raven]

investigators are real

:p

[plucky kettle]

Ik, but the overused stereotype that they have a huge board with string and post it notes all over

[fickle holly]

https://tenor.com/view/louie-duck-ducktales-ducktales2017-louies-eleven-scheming-gif-20544670

[plucky kettle]

That is what I'm on about

I think we need of a comparison if osh and the ducks post it note board

[fallen jasper]

I'm telling y'all buy Rob a steak sandwich for a clue or the answer

[fickle holly]

U could use a group organizer app/ website

[plucky kettle]

Odds?

[fallen jasper]

Make a Microsoft teams

😂

[plucky kettle]

Yeah, ik. It was a joke

[plucky kettle]

Nah, Skype group chat for the win

[fallen jasper]

Do it to organise this shee

It's too chaotic here

[plucky kettle]

Agree

[fickle holly]

Fr u guys need like a closed group to pull up a mural.co page 😂

[plucky kettle]

Or we make our own ee discord server and have separate channels in it

[fallen jasper]

And we need a seperate channel for ingame stuff and artwork ee

Robbo better make a goddamn TF2 Easter egg
This game reminds me too much of TF2 😂

MEDIC HEAVY COMBO

[misty raven]

Lol my board is noob sheesh

Just the previous passwords and the main aspects comprising them

[fresh quiver]

nah. my bad. Just woke up not even 30min ago 😄

but the image for sure was CDIV

[chrome blade]

@plucky kettle what is rick Astley doing in your profile picture

[plucky kettle]

he never gave me up

[fast frigate]

anyone noticed blue smoke ingame?

[hard forge]

DCLXVI

666

[plucky kettle]

where?

[fast frigate]

On seoul map. In the mall. I think ground floor, at the back. At one of the counters

[plucky kettle]

@dull marsh

[fast frigate]

yes, really. I will ss it next time I see it.

I've been trying to get seoul since past 2 matches lol (I saw it in a quick match)

The smoke was this colour of blue

[hard forge]

GOLDEN EGG

VIOLD3NEG6 (g=vi, g=6, e=3 once)
V LIGO D3NE6 (rearranged)

[eternal violet]

GOLDEGG
VIOLDEGG
LIGO VDEG
LIGO V+D+E+G
LIGO 5+D(4th letter, hex 44)+3+6
LIGO 18 oops

[hard forge]

Yes!!!

[fast frigate]

nvm, forgot to check out the onboarding thread

[alpine junco]

what does this even say

[snow walrus]

GOOD QUESTION 😂

i would love to hear the right answer

[alpine junco]

also this

[plucky kettle]

i neeed to get my level up to be able to post images

[alpine junco]

this one says CNS but has 3 letters behind it

adobes photoshop 2000

[winter estuary]

I think it is something like ‘CLG ANF finals logo’

[plucky kettle]

i see that

[velvet narwhal]

These are from vegas right? Can you repost them here: https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1182955042416893984

[plucky kettle]

yes

[alpine junco]

done

[fast frigate]

Probably finals, with the finals logo at the end

[fiery lance]

Someone knows if Namatama has some meaning in any language?

Given that the main theme is eggs it may help

[gloomy anvil]

The name "Nama Tama" is a combination of the Japanese words nakama (meaning "friend") and tama (meaning "egg.")
https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Mascots

[vale igloo]

Could this be EE related? Creepy ambience in vegas. Always makes me shit myself playing the game at night. I’ve only heard it once or twice so might be rare ish

#💥┇spawn-point message

[fast frigate]

I heard stuff like this. I thought that was just ambient sound effects.

[alpine junco]

it's the band that plays in the alleyway

death by rhodent

[vale igloo]

I cannot find anything on this band

[solid jay]

They are fictional. It's just an in game EE. Might tie into something. Use discord search to see previous discussion.

[solid jay]

I like this keep cooking. Yesterday we thought maybe having gold in the middle as a yolk was a good angle.

Maybe something like viold366vi3tillusviold366

[chilly shell]

I wanna get into the EE

[vale igloo]

yall mfs going insane that is not the password

[solid jay]

Check out the Easter egg on boarding channel above this one. Read the wiki to get up to speed.

[chilly shell]

Im already ahead of you on that one. Thanks!

[solid jay]

We don't know what it is, and based on evidence we have it could be something like that. Why are you so quick to dismiss this line of thought when previous passwords have had a similar technique to decrypt them.

[vale igloo]

I mean you’re welcome to try, and of course we don’t know what it is or we would’ve put in the password by now.

We have received a couple hints that the password is shortish and that we’re close. I really doubt it’s going to be as long as your suggestion. Although I could be proved wrong.

[solid jay]

Where is the hint that the password is short? Please link to that clue.

[fallen jasper]

THE FALL DAMAGE IS NOT RANDOM 32768 is the amount of times a quartze crystal vibrated inside a watch !!!

[lapis moat]

we know

[fallen jasper]

dang ok

[chilly shell]

Could the password have special characters in it?

[solid jay]

It's not random it's because it's the max negative value of a 16 bit signed integer

It's just a comp sci value lol

[solid jay]

Only ASCII

[queen axle]

Uhh, there's easter eggs?

[plucky kettle]

many many many easter eggs

[queen axle]

Oh, didn't know that

[plucky kettle]

in evey map, most items, skins and more

trailers, images and the list goes on

[gloomy anvil]

Not a new point but, g=6, e=3, o=0 (GEO) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEO600

In November 2005, it was announced that the LIGO and GEO instruments began an extended joint science run.

#easter-eggs message Rob Jan 12th:

Memory lane, almost like we are back where we started, I wonder why, but I guess William would be proud.

William and Geo being heavily involved in Level 1.

[sand crest]

can anyone tell me how Paul Klee is related to anything? Is it even his signature in vvv?

[solid jay]

Also you should check your sources.

Quick Google search showed me this:
"When quartz is electrically stimulated it can vibrate millions of times a second. Since timepieces use a vibrating body to keep up time, incredibly fast vibration of a quartz crystal--up to 4,194,304 beats a second opened a new horizon in accuracy."

[solid jay]

His art works are very egg based and touch on themes of creation and the universe.

[fallen jasper]

"The oscillator is set up so the quartz vibrates exactly 32768 times a second. But now remember the normal piezoelectric effect: when a piece of quartz vibrates, it generates an electrical voltage. The second circuit on the microchip detects this "output voltage" (fluctuating 32768 times a second) and divides its frequency to produce once-a-second pulses that drive the motor powering the gears. In a watch with a digital display"

[sand crest]

egg based as in he used egg yolk as a binder for a matte finish? could have been anyone from any time then.. Maybe we're supposed to look for titles containing gold? Quick google search found "the goldfish" and the "goldfish wife".

[eternal violet]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ab_ovo_(painting)

[solid jay]

Awesome thanks for providing more detail. We like that here.

[fiery lance]

Guys get ready i have a very promising lead

What if the password is related to the easter equinox? The connections are a LOT:

(Relation to 5 thruths)
Thruth #1: connection to Namatama Caesar/Latin word

1. Traditionally, before Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, the year for the romans (and many other cultures) begun the dawn of the spring equinox (ab ovo -> a new beginning)
2. The new calendar (the new beginning) was first introduced the year 46 BC ( the same year Caesar said the quote "Vidi vini Vici" -> vvv!!!!!!)
3. Caesar also had the title of Pontifex Maximus which had the important role of keeping the calendar updated and correct making its connection to the year and the stars even stronger

Thruth #2: connection to astronomy (previous stages, ligo, JBB etc)
4. Easter day (->easter egg !!!!) is the first sunday after the vernal equinox
5. In astronomy the spring equinox is commonly reffered to as Vernal Equinox (-> vernal meaning spring, a relatively short latin word like a lot of previos solutions, the password might be a variation of this like v3rnal or something like equinox , 3quin0x etc)
6. Rob said many times to look at the sky, he also said the 17 November that we are months away from the solution (march is really months away) #easter-eggs message
+. Gold is made inside starts, the sun is a star

Thruth #3: Mirrors
7. The Vernal equinox is when the day and its reflection (the night) are identical, like your image in a mirror.

Thruth #4 and #5: Gold and egg, Quest+tion (Two question mark images)
8. What is golden? What is an egg(/0v0id)? The sun!
9. Not really a new idea, for exemple if you like Game of Thrones you might remember that Doreah tells Daenarys that in her culture the sun is the egg of a dragon.

[solid jay]

Unsure about his choice of art supplies 😂 but ab ovo is the primary one we have looked at

[solid jay]

This is really good work. Keep it up.

If the sun is an egg perhaps the next logical step would be to look at reactions within the sun's core.

[fiery lance]

what are the letter substitutions we saw so far? g=6 o=0 l=1 5=v
I was thinking soemthing in the style of
53rna1
53rn41
v3rna1

[solid jay]

G=6=VI
E=3
O=0

[valid lichen]

Any updates on the password?

[solid jay]

Nothing directly. We've had a few more eyes from Rob for various EE though. We also know what he ate for dinner yesterday. Now we just need to find out who his hair dresser is.

[valid lichen]

[solid jay]

I'll get in contact with the CIA

[valid lichen]

lmao

[dusk crescent]

in wich tier we are rn?

[solid jay]

Check this out please:
https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1100745453206786078

[plucky kettle]

damn

[dusk crescent]

oki, ty

[solid jay]

Follow the links (the wiki in particular) to get mostly caught up.

[dusk crescent]

okey ty

[solid jay]

Yesterday we were talking about organizing this discord for the next tier.

IMO, It would kind of be great if we had this channel locked behind the onboarding channel as a prerequisite. So people would have to go through that before hand and could only access this channel after meeting that prerequisite.

[dusk crescent]

This may be nonsense, but couldn't the diamond clue have something related to radio waves too?

[hard forge]

like?

[dusk crescent]

I think I heard somewhere that radio waves can be read by their frequency, because of the shape was thinking it could be disassembled to check its frequency and see if it transmits any message

or something like that

maybe it's just nonsense

[solid jay]

Sound/radio waves do have a frequency that they transmit on but I think you are referring to wave forms

[dusk crescent]

maybe

let me check it out

[hard forge]

#1178137622359593043 message

someone has worked this out

[solid jay]

Ya do your research, use discord search to see if it's been discussed before. If you have new information to add post it in the burrw thread.

[dusk crescent]

oh ok ok

mb then

[dusk crescent]

k k

[hard forge]

we didn't find anything...but you could try.

[solid jay]

All good! Appreciate your help.

[dusk crescent]

I've looked at what they talked about and it's exactly what I was referring to.

[solid jay]

Ya a lot has been discussed already. We technically have everything we need for the password, but we are really circling the drain right now.

[dusk crescent]

why?

any password matches?

[solid jay]

We just can't seem to quite get over that final hurdle. Possibly we are missing some key element that links everything exactly.

[ancient mist]

hi you can visit this. By the way hannover is a nice city. defintely it was on robs list. But i dont see the connection to gold

[hard forge]

we have the ingredients but missing the recipe

[dusk crescent]

oh

i see

[solid jay]

Ya look into the clues Rob has left with the 👀 emoji. It's how he lets us know if we are onto something.

[dusk crescent]

cool then

[hard forge]

@dusk crescent I hope you read this #easter-eggs message

[dusk crescent]

i just only read #egg-hunt-onboarding

i read it now

ty

well and the wiki too

[solid jay]

I linked that into the SuitablyOdd thread from the other day that I created just for future ease of access.

[plucky kettle]

could the grafiti also have the letters of the stuff its on spell something out?

at the moment all we have is a bridge esque thing and a wall

[dusk crescent]

I don't think this has anything to do with it, but there is another gravitational wave detector called "TAMA 300" maybe it has something related

I say this in case you find it could be useful.

[dull marsh]

Would be a bit surprising, for now it's only on hard walls

Could be interesting to note that the 2 known are only found on indestructible walls

[dull marsh]

GEO can also be Geostationnary Earth Orbit, at an altitude of 36'000km

[plucky kettle]

did note that already

ludonope is typing...

[dull marsh]

I found that the satellite I mentioned the other day with the EGG instrument was used to measure the shape of the geoid, basically how strong gravity is on each point of the surface, as it varies slightly

The most famous models of the geoid are EGM84 (1984) and EGM96 (1996)

• 1984 is seen often in the clues

• EGM could be 36M, mirrored it's M63, 63 being unicode for "?"

• M63 is a galaxy called the sunflower galaxy

• Sunflower is yellow and is the same family as the dandelion (which has been in the clues before)

• The sunflower flower has a spiral that respects the golden number

• This EGM model is to measure the geoid, which reminds me of ovoid

• The actual shape of earth is kinda flatten, maybe like an ovoid a bit

We could try to see if there is a link between all the scientists we saw and that

[plucky kettle]

damn, I see why it was so long

[dull marsh]

Hehe, I'm keeping them separate so that rob can eye a specific thing, instead of dismissing it all

[plucky kettle]

yeah, I guessed thats why I deleted that message

[dull marsh]

Hahahaha

[solid jay]

good call

[dull marsh]

Also the galaxy M63 is also call NGC 5055

• NGC 5055 could be written N63 V0VV, with 3 Vs

[quaint wing]

Keep in mind we had everything we needed for this password before release of the game. Jumping down rabbit holes is great to learn, but may cause more delays for yourself!

[dull marsh]

😢

Then we really need to go monke mode and try as many combinations of stuff we've tried before as we might have missed it by very little

[quaint wing]

Eyes also mean we're on the right track for EE related content, not specifically the password! 🙂

We have tried A LOT of combinations

[dull marsh]

The issue is that we are still missing something that obviously links all those clues together, so we probably need to keep digging until we get the spark

[quaint wing]

Technically we have everything, it's just a matter of how we put it together.

I thought I had the five truths down two months ago, but none of it panned out 😦

[silk flax]

Pain

[quaint wing]

Someone will stumble in and see the "walk in the park" this password is supposed to be

[solid jay]

Eggs are kind of simple at a base level. We should maybe consider simplifying our view point.

[quaint wing]

ABC/DEF was GOLDEGG
G=6=VI was how we unlocked it

viold, evivi

[solid jay]

And we have mirroring involved now so I'm wondering if it's as simple as a palindrome

[quaint wing]

ivivedloiv has been tried a couple times

[solid jay]

what if it was mirrored twice or something?

and also vertically not just horizontally?

[acoustic canyon]

remember we also have o = 0 and e = 3 and no confirmation that 6 = vi for this tier. just g = 6

[dull marsh]

Yeah but we know about latin which has been one of the 5 truths, and for most passwords it was about having roman numerals

[solid jay]

ya 6 and 3 has been replaced by numerals in previous passwords which is why Latin is a truth

the problem truly feels like we need to get the leet speak right lol

[hard forge]

Cooking again:

• HEX 66 is f in ASCII
• HEX 3f is ? in ASCII

EGG > 366 > 3f > ?

[earnest wagon]

In line with this, I was thinking the Area of the Hexagon clue was simply a nod towards HEX.

[hard current]

hm, this looks good… rob has eyes before “F=6”

[dull marsh]

Holy moly, that shounds so obvious

[plucky kettle]

have we anylised robs pfp (joke)

[hard current]

dumb question, has anyone taken all of the numbers in the prior passwords and put them through hex?

[fiery lance]

Someone used in any way the size of the question mark images?

[hard forge]

If egg can be reduced to "?"
Then I would reckon that gold/golden should also get reduced to "?" which would be our two ❓❔

[gloomy anvil]

They are 1149x635, we haven't found a connection yet

[fiery lance]

Also a very strange thing, why the white question mark link ends with t1-def while the golden one with t1-f-1? (It's from section t1 abc so I'd expect t1-abc using the same logic of the white one)

[gloomy anvil]

then combine those two results / methods for a password? 🤔

[hard forge]

just pointing to it again. LIGO can me arranged from golden egg
#easter-eggs message

[regal dew]

EGG

[earnest wagon]

I'm busy working atm, but something else to throw out there.

Ever find it weird that for 'Egg' we had the following:

• Shape of the Egg
• Egg Shell
• Egg Yolk

Something obvious is missing, and I was expecting it to come up when reviewing earlier Tiers (it's possible I missed it or forgot about it though).

The Egg White.

Or to give it it's Latin name - Albumen.

It's also known as glaire

[thin gate]

sweet

[dull marsh]

Yum

[earnest wagon]

Doesn't connect to anything, but figured it's worth saying out loud in case someone else has a connection I haven't seen.

[solid jay]

need to remember when following this thread that uppercase and lowercase have different codes in ASCII

[gloomy anvil]

Has this been found before? I feel like 1149 and 635 could be the original mirror clue

Ascii to text, 1149 = } 635 = {

[solid jay]

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

[gloomy anvil]

is this forehead-slap worthy in a bad way or a good way? 😭

[fiery lance]

wow makes sense

[solid jay]

a good way but also in a "how did we miss this" way lol

[hard forge]

Wow

[dull marsh]

Anyone has the link to the wiki with the detailed explanation of each password?

[solid jay]

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

its in there

[hard forge]

https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/THE_FINALS_Easter_Egg_Hunt

[dull marsh]

Oh my bad, I didn't remember it was on the main wiki 😄

Thanks

[solid jay]

lol np

[hard forge]

I am surprised that no one thought of this till now.

[hard forge]

thanks to you we now know what it meant.

[hard current]

hold up we can’t assume that

it’s a good idea, and may very well be what it was getting at, but we can’t outright confirm that

[fiery lance]

[hard forge]

ah.. right. It's not okay to jump to conclusions. (my brain just wants it solved already)

[solid jay]

entirely reasonable but also X marks the spot too lol

maybe a hint that those images need to be mirrored or inverted as well to get more info out of them

[slow wraith]

guys the game isnt dying right?

[hard forge]

Again think out loud.

0000ff and ff0000

• HEX
• ff > 6363

Goldenegg

6old3n366 (g=6, and e=3)
6oldn 6363 (arranging 6 and 3)
6oldn ff

[gloomy geyser]

Never! This game is pure gold! People who think it's dying are cod players and will never understand just how good TF really us.

[fiery lance]

also am i crazy or the golden question mark and the white one have different sizes?!

the golden one seems to be 1000x553

[solid jay]

Don't respond to these types of message

[fiery lance]

on the padlet it says they are the same size but that is not true

[gloomy geyser]

Sorry had to get it out

[gloomy anvil]

They are the same size, when you open an image in a new tab it applies a width modifier.

The originals are 1149

[unborn pilot]

I’m not sure what this is doing. ASCII is text already. Google ASCII 1149 or ASCII 635 and let me know if you have any luck finding } or {

That’s for @gloomy anvil

[fiery lance]

are you 100% sure? i got that resolution from the file properties

[sand crest]

when you open up the network tab, even when u change the width modifier, the image comes from cache

[gloomy anvil]

Yes, the image presented at https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-f-1 is using the modifier 1000w

You need to grab the source URL without the modifier for their real dimensions, that is https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62d66fa29e72c560f8efc020/c5cbc5e0-0ca2-4754-85e2-efc99c654666/tfee_ques.jpg

[hard forge]

oh wait...you are right. there is nothing like ASCII to text.

[fiery lance]

okok i understand now thanks

[unkempt dune]

I think the website loops numbers with a modulus operator. For example:

1149 % 128 -> 125 -> }
635 % 128 -> 123 -> {

128 being the number of ascii codes

[unborn pilot]

Ah that makes sense.

[unkempt dune]

It'd be quite the coincidence if it wasn't the intended clue

[fallen jasper]

Why can't we choose what map to play? Makes it harder to search for ee

[hard forge]

we don't need in game EE as of now anyways.

[fallen jasper]

As of now?

Meaning future levels will?

[hard forge]

I think. (I am not so sure tho)

[lone wave]

For the WR hunt yes! But yeah not related to the T3 password I agree

[livid cosmos]

does the number that you see when elimnated by hazard mean anything ? seems like a random number to put

[gloomy anvil]

It's the maximum 16 bit integer (negative / sparing one bit)

[livid cosmos]

okay thank you 🙂

[solid jay]

Hey! That's my line.😅

[gloomy anvil]

https://tenor.com/view/snoop-dogg-drop-it-like-its-hot-4number-four-fingers-calvin-broadus-jr-gif-26215289

[pure loom]

Ha, I was just starting to read about Parzival

[opaque thistle]

😏 peep what I said in Off topic a lil bit ago

Parcival seemin madd importanntt for the future/roses or sumn on god

[pure loom]

Plus the RPO being “coined” connection

[hard current]

1064
lxxix (79)
5f137s2 (51372)
0vif0rm (00)
cacoiii (3)
vit3llus (3)
viold (6)
evivi(66)

it's all gotta come back to this somehow 😦

[gloomy anvil]

This intrigues me #1201288968562552863 message

[solid jay]

It sounds like an elliptical orbit

i mentioned something about it earlier #1207832851026939976 message

Lead to some discussion about things that could influence the orbit of an object

[gloomy anvil]

Like binary stars?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Orbit5.gif

[solid jay]

Ya we talked about a bunch of stuff, Binary stars, Neutron star mergers, black holes

[gloomy anvil]

Yeah I've got a lot of money on neutron star mergers haha

[solid jay]

if you go smaller though you could influence the orbit of electrons

we linked to Neuroscience somewhere in there too

#easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

About hexagons what rob said..

There is a constellation named winter hexagon

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

[solid jay]

My overall theory about the lore of the game that might help with the EE
#easter-eggs message

which is why i started thinking smaller instead of larger

[gloomy anvil]

I don't know how likely it is but I like that take, it would be really interesting

[solid jay]

Ya not the most solid of ground to stand on, but a really cool angle to look at things from.

[coarse dagger]

Looking at the actual patent that source references shows a different number:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3863436

An amplifier 26 cooperates with external circuit elements later to be described, via terminals 27, to provide a high frequency oscillator vibrating at 32,896 Hz, controlled by a piezoelectric quartz crystal.

Although I don't understand how 32896 works with the binary divider...

[solid jay]

-32768

so it's not the exact number~~?~~

[turbid tinsel]

have the question mark images always been lower case? Because i have 2 of them one tfee_tion and Tfee_tion and i dont remember saving an edit? but the site now shows them as lowercase

[bronze wolf]

So I've been trying to follow SuitablyOdd's steps/suggestions lately and going back to the clues we were first given and working from there, trying to keep connections as close as possible to threads we have and I noticed something that reinforces something we're already kind of assuming

In the NYT crossword - 29 across
Weighted weapon used by the Inca army : BOLA

Immediately made me think of neutron star or black hole mergers, which is a major thread we have. The bola has two weighted ends that spin in towards each other and collide when wrapping around the target

[turbid tinsel]

and i have a png of the question mark images as well as a jpg and i dont remember saving them differently.

[bronze wolf]

Next thread of thought:

Jocelyn Bell > Pulsars > Neutron Stars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star

In particular, the picture of PSR B1509-58 caught my eye as there is a very vivid gold pouring out of the pulsar (like a yolk spilling from an egg...) and this is made visible from X-Rays (x marks the spot?).

The next part I've searched through the discord and I don't think I've seen this talked about, so here we go.

The Chandra X-Ray Observatory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra_X-ray_Observatory

Chandra was sensitive to X-ray sources 100 times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope, enabled by the high angular resolution of its mirrors

The telescope is named after the Nobel Prize-winning Indian-American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

He worked on alot of relevant fields to our hunt, but the one that really stuck out is a concept named after him

The Chandrasekhar limit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar_limit

• Consequently, a white dwarf with a mass greater than the limit is subject to further gravitational collapse, evolving into a different type of stellar remnant, such as a neutron star or black hole.

not sure what to do with this info tbh, but it seemed quite relevant, so here ya go EE hunters

[unborn pilot]

Might have found something on purple VVV. Most images have these print marks, and the crosshair one is ALWAYS perfectly centered

but on VVV it's not

1027+952 comes out to 1979 funny enough

also on every other image we have the corner lines are always black/grey. but on VVV they're not all equal

bottom right corner is a pitch black 1px line, the corners are greenish and 2 px wide

[bronze wolf]

thought to look up 1979 in science just out of curiosity, and this is probably coincidence, but have to mention it

• March 7 – The largest magnetar (soft gamma repeater) event is recorded.
• A magnetar is a type of neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field

This would make a nice connection to the comment Rob made about "Andre being proud" as this would tie electromagnetism into neutron stars - André-Marie Ampère
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André-Marie_Ampère

[hasty anvil]

Crosshairs on either Keep It Simple or Couples is also misaligned

[unborn pilot]

also the matching line for this one is missing at the bottom.

[unborn pilot]

good to know

[hard forge]

i agree

[unborn pilot]

not seeing it on those two. they're both identical 1349 from each side

VVV is the only one that's 1027 & 952

[hasty anvil]

Hmm, laying one over the over half opacity shows they misaligned

[unborn pilot]

ah, you're talking about it being 1px off from the left edge

[hasty anvil]

Ohhhhh

Yes 🥲

I put my PS beginner skills to bed now haha

[unborn pilot]

yeah, Keep It Simple has a 1px line along the left edge so the crosshair is just slightly off

i'm saying this one is not centered on the page at all 🙂

[hasty anvil]

Yeah I forgot about the pixel gap on the edge, maybe he gained inspiration from that idea lol

[hasty anvil]

Yep I see it too

Could also be 1027-952, which is 75. Ascii =K. K is known as the constant in maths and science

Or potassium maybe

Or Kelvin

[twilit forge]

I didn't think anything of it at the time, but I noticed that the KIS background is kinda close to #00FFCC (0FC #easter-eggs message). If you take KIS and select the pixels with color #00FFCC, there are a few that it selects. if you brighten them you can get a better picture. Working on something else atm, but if you have it open should be quick

[turbid tinsel]

i think we just need to figure out what d and l =

[twilit forge]

From this A=0 clue (#easter-eggs message) and G=6, I tried d=4 and l=11 to no avail

[turbid tinsel]

never got eyes so can we actually confirm that?

for A anyways

[twilit forge]

No I guess I assumed with the mannerla connections

[hard current]

we've had rob eye F=6, but using an A=0 cipher would mean that things are all off by 1

but yeah A = 0 hasn't been present anywhere else

5f137s2... 56137s2?

[turbid tinsel]

also is it possible we may need to overlap/merge all images that are the same sizes?

since rob has referenced we should do that in the past?

screenshot 15,18,and 24vvv are all the same size

[hard current]

no planet has a perfect circular orbit, earth itself has an elliptical orbit

[solid jay]

Ya that's why I was leaning toward things that influence orbits.

[bronze wolf]

just found a VERY interesting thread that links to the VVV pic I think was overlooked as I can't find mention of it

• In Italy, the laurea is the main post-secondary academic degree. The name originally referred literally to the laurel wreath
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurea#Former_status_of_the_Laurea_degree

I went down an X-Ray rabbit hole and ended up learning about this fellow: Riccardo Giacconi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riccardo_Giacconi

• Riccardo was awarded the share of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002 for his work leading to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources

• He was also the principal investigator for the Chandra Deep Field-South Project (I made relevant links earlier today you can search)

• He received his Laurea from the Physics Dept of University of Milan (this is how I learned of the connection)

• Nobel prize winners such as Enrico Fermi, Emilio Segrè, Giulio Natta, Carlo Rubbia and Giorgio Parisi held it (Laurea) as their highest degree.

[fallen jasper]

Hello hello chat. Quick question: the only brand related guns as far as I'm aware that we have at the moment are:

• M11 Holtow Fine Print
• M11 Opsuze Poppin'
• M60 Ospuze Performin'
• AKM Ospuze Pourin'

Did I miss any?

[fallen jasper]

If I can help regarding Italian matters let me know, I've lived here for the past 9 years of my life. Painful but true

[gloomy anvil]

The Revolver has an OSPUZE skin, there might be more from the betas I'm forgetting too

[fallen jasper]

It's from OB yeah, was a twitch drop

Someone else also reminded me there's the Volpe set, a PlayStation exclusive

[worthy sandal]

There also the Volpe skins for PS +

[fallen jasper]