easter-eggs

[turbid tinsel]

you should try being productive in other chats and leave nonsense out of here. please and thanks

[fossil axle]

[eternal violet]

Officerft just doing officerft things. I really don't understand why is he still here

[turbid tinsel]

lmao is it really him?

[eternal violet]

99%

[turbid tinsel]

i blocked him last time and forgot he was banned.

[fallen jasper]

Meanwhile

[eternal violet]

This is like his 3rd alt

[unkempt dune]

definitely other players in the tutorial

just saw someone leave the tutorial and their coins collided with the road out of bounds

which means it does have some kind of collision

[turbid tinsel]

cringe.

[dull marsh]

I've been suspicious of anyone that joined recently and starts spamming or not contributing to the conversation lol

[vale igloo]

this actually makes cents, maybe a whole dollar

[vale igloo]

i think that should be looked in to actually

him disappearing 10 days ago is almost perfectly on time when with vaiiya was revealed to be an anti-virus company

and his (ee) messages are confirmed to be coming outside the finals

probably cns

[cold heart]

feels like a massive stretch imo
causation does not imply correlation

[vale igloo]

ehhhh

not really

i guess only time will tell

[vale igloo]

that's a lot of big words, too bad I'm not reading them

it's a meme don't worry lol

[cold heart]

ight

hilarious ig >.>

[blazing kestrel]

I guess randomly , may three head monkey is in a church in Monaco?

After all, that church is symmetrical

qwq

[dusk veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-gif-24533171

[blazing kestrel]

can i share my guess about eggs in there?(although it may not right)

[cold heart]

i mean you can noones stopping you... but dont take it personally if its something we've heard before/debunk

[snow walrus]

this is the right place for that

[blazing kestrel]

okay!

[snow walrus]

throw your speculation

[cold heart]

yeah sorry i didnt mean to discourage, speculation is good lol, go right ahead.. just we get a lot of random shots in the dark

[snow walrus]

and if it's a fact you may get a 👀 from a special person after days

[blazing kestrel]

I'll try my best(by the way I am not proficient in using English)

[drifting spruce]

shoot in the dark to scare the moneky to appear behind you

🤯

[blazing kestrel]

what is that mean？

[hearty meteor]

@rancid rapids spam

[snow walrus]

that was not a response to you. It's about the ongoing easter egg thing

-egghunt

[wet leaf]

New to the hunt?

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

[blazing kestrel]

sorry😢

[snow walrus]

don't be, you are good

[blazing kestrel]

So far, what clues have Rob provided？

i think that is interesting lol

[fallow radish]

Check out the pinned messages in this channel! There are a ton of resources there, as well as links to google sheets where we've compiled Rob's messages, and the messages that he's eye-reacted to!

[blazing kestrel]

thanks!

[cold heart]

it might be best to tell us a summary what you already know first? there is a lot...
but you can find a lot of information in #egg-hunt-onboarding by yourself, including the various threads and pinned comments like @fallow radish said

[blazing kestrel]

okay,Easter eggs are much harder than I imagined...

[cold heart]

thats half the fun!

[sharp sentinel]

Lot of catching up to do...

[cold heart]

i mean its not that bad now that dolphins and WRs are done and dusted for the most part

[sharp sentinel]

But for full recap on past tiers

When monkey is done and it gets to password time

[cold heart]

yeah thats fair, its not something you needa know though rn.. all the previous tiers

[cold heart]

hm yeah, thatll be interesting

[sharp sentinel]

I think violets = linneaus appeared before, and its being called back with the violet skins, so things from previous passwords may still be needed

[hard current]

man no word from rob for quite a while…

guess the connection here must be insanely obvious

[gloomy anvil]

password will be 4nim4ls

and before you ask, yes I tried it

[hard forge]

mirror it

plants

[drifting spruce]

3nim4ls*

bc 3 animals

[snow walrus]

From Modern Latin Mammalia, coined 1758 by Linnaeus for the class of mammals, from neuter plural of Late Latin mammalis (“of the breast”), from Latin mamma (“breast”), perhaps cognate with mamma (mother).

[twilit forge]

Have we found like any of the numerous Easter eggs Rob said were in 2.4?

I've been lurking, haven't seen any updates on any of the ones he says are here now

[hard forge]

no

[sharp lynx]

pc

helo

[fresh quiver]

hello, please don't spam the chat 🙂

[plucky kettle]

we need rob to guide us

[mint umbra]

Stupid idea

but change

not change but Chang'e

[fresh quiver]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[dusk veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/sad-crying-gif-25739306

[white heron]

how many parks are there in monaco

so the areas with trees

was it 3 or 4

[cold heart]

i mean it depends on what youre calling a park... 2?

[shrewd fog]

hopefully we get single player private matches soon, would be a lot easier to search

[white heron]

ok what trees (if u know) are in park, pocket park, forest and clifside

[cold heart]

like species of tree? wdym

[white heron]

this is all part of the 3 headed monkey thing

[white heron]

common ideally if u know the name

[cold heart]

no idea

[white heron]

im just thinking if there would be 1 monkey in park pocket park and forest then pin point somewhere of a triangle

so you make a triangle of where the monkeys are

[shrewd fog]

this must've been pointed out at some point, but i just realized there's three elements in the name "Monaco"
Mo: Molybdenum (42 atomic number)
Na: Sodium (11)
Co: Cobalt (27)

[white heron]

well does that link with anything?

[shrewd fog]

it does, just need to open your eyes

[white heron]

find the middle of the triangle and do something like the dolphin ee in syshorizon

ideally in the cathedral, residential district or construction

but the text under a platform on the bottom floor i forgot what it is called

wait so if we triangle pin point with the monkeys go to the middle

where construction is

the text is in the middle

so do the triangle then that makes us figure what the text is

im not sure but i did this as a idea

[shrewd fog]

interesting thing about 9 and monkeys (although this is from Urban Dictionary lol):

Monkey Circle (also known as Monkey Nonagon depending on how many people are in the group) is a commonly used expression when defining the country Netherlands. Monkey Nonagon backwards is Netherlands, they use this quite often in their chants. If you are ever able to survive the Monkey Circle initiation(which less than 1% do) you will be promoted to a "Monkey". A "Monkey" is the lowest rank you can have in the Monkey Circle / Monkey Nonagon.

~~from https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Monkey+Circle+%2F+Monkey+Nonagon~~

[white heron]

ah

[shrewd fog]

i'm going to delete that, i think it's made up

[white heron]

no

i mean if it has a circle we can use that to pin point the middle

so change the triangle to a circle

only if it is true

[shrewd fog]

i can't find anything else on it, pretty sure its made up

[white heron]

yea

but a good try

[dusk veldt]

anybody can add any definition to Urban dictionary i believe so

[white heron]

yea

[shrewd fog]

back to my day job

[dusk veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/reality-back-to-reality-waking-up-dreaming-tired-gif-12232938

[white heron]

1 more thing

i had searched 3 headed monkey and it said on an image "look behind you. A 3-headed monkey" would that mean looking outside of the map?

just a idea

[shrewd fog]

the dolphins EE are seen outside the map, but triggered by standing on platforms inside the map, so maybe 🤷‍♂️

[white heron]

yea

use the pin point thing and do the same as the dolphin ee

something might happen

[shrewd fog]

i'm just going to focus on how you could find something only when you're not looking for it, and mirror 🫠

[white heron]

wdym

[fallow radish]

Has the skybox in Skyway always had a giant half of a Halo ring extending from the moon like this?

[unkempt dune]

yes #easter-eggs message

[fallen summit]

This form is intended for all members of THE FINALS discord server who are active in the Easter Egg channel, regardless of whether they took part in the tournament.
https://forms.gle/3FmWAEKX8mgNC6Et6

feed back form for the TFEE hunters tournament a few weeks back.

this is to improve the tournament for the next times we do them.

thread for the tournament is here:https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1227704786544230420

also gonna go see ya!

[tired bridge]

is this a trustworthy link

[stray elm]

It's just a normal Google Forms link. It leads you to... Google Forms.

[dusk veldt]

Its a url bomb

[alpine junco]

heyooo

[dusk veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/heyo-hey-girl-nice-niceone-gif-7349800

[buoyant nymph]

I am freshly back to easter egg hunting as my hobby uwu

Is it all still ingame?

[hard forge]

Rn we are trying to find 3 headed monkey/s in Monaco
(the one from the monkey Island game)

we know what it looks like as it was revealed to on password page.

The discussions are here #1211002564015824906

[buoyant nymph]

I remember Rob saying the three headed monkey was a spinoff

So to speak

Like the ingame aspect was tertiary

SYS$HORIZON seems simple made complicated

[fair charm]

Does anyone one know what the funny words on this are?

I might be able to get another photo with a sniper if I re roll the map...

[unkempt dune]

it's just a list of assets used for that diorama

[buoyant nymph]

Meth heads

Try to interpret it as nue

[buoyant nymph]

Good luck bro's

[dull marsh]

There are similar ones for each sector, we didn't find any special meaning to them for now. As far as I'm aware there could be some meaning, we have no info on that.

[sharp lynx]

30

[grizzled meadow]

I didn't know those writings were even there

[unkempt dune]

reminds me of SYS$Horizon a tiny bit, but I don't think it's close enough

University of California, Riverside

[dull marsh]

I may have been there once 🤔

But tbf many California university share a lot of similarities from an architecture point of view

At least for "normal" buildings

[unkempt dune]

that building is probably the closest one I've seen at a university so far

[velvet narwhal]

They don't have a museum right?

[dull marsh]

Yeah with the edge on the sides

[velvet narwhal]

We'd need to look for a university with art gallery and museum

[alpine junco]

I still have the feeling that the last two official art havent been 100% solved

[dull marsh]

Grid architecture would point toward North America or Asian place

[velvet narwhal]

It gives me more asian vibes, but I also have no idea about architecture...

Spear probably already knows where it is

[unkempt dune]

there's nothing on the map that makes me think asia

[cold heart]

im not super convinced we can guess region based off of the architecture but its not a bad place to start

my college was SUPER modern/minimalist, whilst the university i attended was basically a cathederal/castle with 70s office blocks stuck to it

[dull marsh]

I mean the grid-city architecture would kinda rule out most european cities

[alpine junco]

System horizon is giving more of New York

[cold heart]

I do the body of water might be something though? but ig it depends how much artistic liberty they took with it

[cold heart]

thats true... ig the skyscrapers are the biggest tell too

Karlstad University felt a little promising.. but doesnt fit the bill

[velvet narwhal]

hmmm it would make sense for a swedish studio to use a uni close to them

[dull marsh]

Yeah but at the same time they seem to like places that have some significance

But it's true that one of their universities would make some sense

[velvet narwhal]

and sweden has a lot of woter

But I don't know if they have that many skyscrapers. The map could be set in the future though

[cold heart]

not any of the ones ive looked at...

[cold heart]

NY does have alot of water

[dull marsh]

Singapor maybe?

[hard forge]

what are we discussing?

[alpine junco]

Where SYS horizon is located

[dull marsh]

But there is much more interesting architecture in singapor than just a bunch of random buildings

[alpine junco]

Watch it be Dubai

[dull marsh]

Yeah NY is the most obvious answer that comes to mind

[cold heart]

Nova re-earthed this comment by a Dev about Sys$Horizon #🌍┇maps message

[dull marsh]

But you're not supposed to be able to see the sunset over the ocean in NY 🤔

[hard forge]

I spent a huge amount of time on Google Earth trying to figure this out.

But back then i didn't know much about the SYS horizon map.

I will try again.

#📂┇the-finals-wiki message

Color coded map

[cold heart]

thread time?

[hard forge]

there was one already

#1217764142572765245

[snow walrus]

reminding again

[lapis moat]

Alright it's been a few more days and still nothing. Not complaining:

I believe our beloved Rob to be trapped in the computer. It is genuinely uncanny that he was so excited and then stopped posting suddenly on the same day the Anti-Virus skin and VAIIYA Contracts rolled out, for two weeks. Unheard of even, he's been active as anyone in here for three months. It is intentional, he's more excited than ever. Pretty sure tomorrow is event-day too so we could be in for something neat.

could just be a vacation too, maybe both, but thematically too coincidental

[lapis moat]

last time I posted about VAIIYA my 3 replies were the word "is" 7 times in a row as different messages, someone saying it's ark raiders, and someone saying we should give up on the hunt entirely. Any input that isn't those 3 things is welcome. Seems completely fully wild that everyone in here is just accepting Rob stopped posting "for no reason"

[lime kindle]

Hmm....

[eternal violet]

not "no reason", he's busy

[lapis moat]

yeah I agree

[lime kindle]

You think he pulled the 3HM move himself?

[lapis moat]

I think the skins and contracts both being explicitly "Anti-Virus" and our discord/CNS explicitly being "Virus" make a compelling reason for us not to hear from him for a bit

[eternal violet]

well I meant "he's busy" as in he's just busy, no lore reasons attached

[lapis moat]

You think it's impossible that Rob tried to cheekily tell us he'd be back in a few weeks? Two weeks ago I'd have said that him going silent for two weeks was impossible.

[hard current]

things have slowed down in here huh?

I wish I could help out more but reallly hard for me to be in game during work😭

If we had the 3HM and whatever it brings to the table I could be more helpful with finding a connection

[cold heart]

Pretty sure tomorrow is event-day too so we could be in for something neat.

Im pretty sure it ISNT.. Dusty commented that this week isnt getting a regular update and will only see regular store updates, due to them working on bigger things right now that will release in a few weeks
#game-announcements message

[cold heart]

yeah youre right, its not for no reason... he is most likely just bloody busy, its not like he hasnt been gone for a week at a time before

granted he has been gone for a while, but he also has a lot of responsibilities at Embark...
just be patient, no need to keep tin foil hatting and question why noone else is

.
I personally think its uncanny connecting Embark releasing a skin they have planned for months, with Rob most likely just doing other things rn.... not to mention it wasnt even on the same day anyways 😅

[cold heart]

for the record, id love you to be right the lore in this game is really cool and we have so much to learn, but that theory people keep saying feels like a stretch

[inland hemlock]

she's Moolah Certified, i trust her

[cold heart]

if he is trapped by VAIIYA, ya better get your EE huntin socks on 😎

[wise iris]

monkey takes priority

[sacred bane]

Rob is Guy Threepwood. We're the cannibals. We shoved him in the hut where he just stole the banana from us.

[gloomy anvil]

sometimes I can't tell if "WR" is just a handy abbreviation or actually important. It got me thinking about other interpretations (e.g. World Record) and the 3HM connection to Secret of Monkey Island. Might be good brain food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0mso2jW6Jc

hm

(2019 though...)

[cold heart]

World Record
Wide Receiver
World Rugby
Warm Regards
Wedding Ring

... and TIL, Women Respecter

any WRs in chat? 😆 😭

that is a point though... we dont have an abbreviation for the dolphins

[unkempt dune]

pretty sure WR is an important abbreviation

[cold heart]

did we actually get an official name for the dolphin EE?

because that was some how "related to but not Ecco"

(just thinking out loud, but made me realise its the one EE in this trio that isnt an acronym afawk)

[lapis moat]

I absolutely have NONE ire at Rob and love him whether he dropped a hint or not, if I’m frustrated it’s at people being lame in here, none to Rob at all. We got stuff to figure out!

father will return

[gloomy anvil]

I don't think 3HM is an official acronym in the same way as WR

but Rob uses WR / white rabbit interchangeably as well

[cold heart]

ic thanks

[gloomy anvil]

really baffled at what the "obvious connection" could be

• Seoul WRs
• Rabbits
• White Rabbits (popular in media)
• "WR"
• "S LIES"
• Horizon Dolphins
• Dolphins
• Cetacea
• Sunset
• Horizon
• Three-Headed Monkey
• Monkeys
• The Secret of Monkey Island (video game)

[cold heart]

i went down a hole looking at Æsop's fables, (the greek guy who wrote "the hare and the tortoise"), and im howling at some of these names 😆
https://read.gov/aesop/001.html

[copper sequoia]

They're all mammals?

[cold heart]

got here because of the one called "the monkey and the dolphin" but i dont think its relevant... none of the other fables related rabbits, dolphins, or monkeys together

[fair charm]

hmm ok 👍

[fair charm]

It does include a school zone area I think If you look at the floating names of buildings. One is called office space and another campus I think

[sharp lynx]

Who wants to play?

[hard current]

maybe this truly is the obvious connection

we have linnaeus

mammals

[cold heart]

its not obvious what that tells us though..

[hard forge]

maybe someone who wrote books about rabbit, dolphin and monkey.

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

[cold heart]

oooh hes from Cardiff, nice

[hard forge]

1979: Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. David & Charles: Newton Abbot.

co authored by Ronald Lockley

[cold heart]

and yeah thats not a bad shout... i dont really read though lol, but am still looking into authors

[hard forge]

CETACEA ^

can't find a monkey reference tho

[copper sequoia]

Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals.
The infraorder for rabbits and hares is called "Lepus." Lepus is also a Constellation? Perhaps one we can find on Vegas?
Monkeys belong to the infraorder of **Simiiformes **or Simian.
Though it would feel like the white rabbits would present a clue of their own beyond us just finding them which would help us in connecting them in the "obvious way". That or we find the 3HM and work on connecting Cetacea to whatever clue the 3HM presents.

[cold heart]

inspect of the new Model '87 skin is another "Moist Man" title

Moist Man('s?) Revenge

sorry for quality, its a screenshot taken from a live stream (i dont plan on buying it myself)

[gloomy anvil]

MultiCo logo bottom left too

can't remember if that was visible on Moist Man Reloaded

[cold heart]

not that i can see

never noticed the numbers before, but i also just dont use the M11 though

132378273 ?

[dull marsh]

Not sure about some of the 3 and 8, but yeah it's interesting 🤔

[gloomy anvil]

182878273

[velvet narwhal]

could also be 182978273

[dull marsh]

Some characters could be 3/8/9/6, the shapes are pretty blurry honestly

[cold heart]

thanks for bringing this to my/our attention @velvet narwhal #1201288968562552863 message

you can press, ctrl + z on the new gun charm... you DONT need to own it, or be in a game to see this: https://streamable.com/up642f

i guess that means there can be input/system locked EEs, if you can call it that..?

[velvet narwhal]

nope

He once talked about a pc EE but didn't do it because it'd be unfair:
#1178137622359593043 message

(but it wouldn't be fair to the console players so I skipped this... BUT happy that you found this..!!! )

[cold heart]

oooh interesting, cheers

[gloomy anvil]

I mean, this new charm is effectively an EE that's limited to keyboards, so I wouldn't rule it out completely.

[dull marsh]

Sure, but it's a very tiny EE

It looks like it doesn't hold any meaning other than "hey when I press that on my keyboard it does it ingame too"

And many charms are somewhat dynamic, the watches displaying the real time, I don't necessarily see that as an EE per say

More like an interesting attention to details

[cold heart]

WAIT WHAT

clicking WASD also effects the joystick charm

[turbid tinsel]

yea lol

[silk bolt]

182078273

[fallen jasper]

182878273*

Sam Minich (unknown - 1973)

[gloomy anvil]

damn, so close

[solar glade]

noted

[cold heart]

So i caved and brought it

the quality of this one isnt as good as the Reloaded game...

it does say MultiCo though and also

This Tide It's Personal

[gaunt inlet]

Based moved by devs to gatekeep Easter eggs behind the shop 😎😎😎

[cold heart]

there is something in the bottom right but cannot read it

[gloomy anvil]

If anybody can get a 4K or 8K screenshot that'd be great

[cold heart]

eh, i mean the reason i got it in the end was so i could spam ctrl + z, but i like the skin for the most part anyways

[gaunt inlet]

Real asf for that. Not a bad skin tho. I bought it too right away 😭😭

[cold heart]

can other players see your weapon inspects? maybe we could see the backside too

[gaunt inlet]

Yes. There’s a animation from a 3rd person aspect as well

[cold heart]

im thinking that maybe they are unrelated movie references

the 3rd 4th Jaws film was called "Jaws: The Revenge" and had the tag-line "This time its personal"

[gloomy anvil]

Good catch

Might Lurkfin La Goon be a reference to anything? https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1009830578545246213/1230591660103172259/IMG_0110.png?ex=6629fd8b&is=6628ac0b&hm=9f76a6808ec2b4fdef1d1c4eaba4d5736e9dc1093aab1eb4796c729675504c29&

[gaunt inlet]

The only thing I could thing of was that old school swamp monster movie

[fallow radish]

old greg 100% (/j)

[cold heart]

i think its more "Gill-man" than "Swamp Thing"

[gaunt inlet]

The creature from the black lagoon was what I was thinking

[cold heart]

yeah i was about to say, i think its that 👆

[gaunt inlet]

It was made it 1954

[night hedge]

Lurkfin looks like a fashnacht mask from fallout 76 / Appalachian culture

[cold heart]

oh oh, the 2nd one of that was also called "Revenge of the Creature"

[gaunt inlet]

Yeah I noticed there was a sequel to it too

[night hedge]

Somewhere between sculpted and paper mache

[gaunt inlet]

What was the description for the mask again?

[cold heart]

Perfect for contestants who want to channel the murky leviathans of lore

[gaunt inlet]

Merky leviathans?

Hmm

I wonder if there’s any connection. I’m thinking it just might be word play here

[cold heart]

yeah i wonder if there is more to it.. or if its just cute references

[gaunt inlet]

All I know is leviathan is another term for sea monster

And sea monsters are typically deep. Kinda like this games lore and Easter eggs lol

Especially for a free game

Maybe I’ll give the black lagoon a watch

[sacred bane]

Watership Down is absolutely incredible. Everyone should read it.

[gaunt inlet]

There’s 3 creature movies

With one of them being the revenge

[runic furnace]

hey guy how's the hunt going

[hard forge]

ded

[runic furnace]

💀

[hard forge]

https://tenor.com/view/king-ghidorah-kaiju-monster-the-cross-gif-14287394

[runic furnace]

Think I should look in the wiki or the padlet first

To catch up

[hard forge]

there is nothing in the Padlet

just read the pinned message here.

[runic furnace]

Oh okay

[hard forge]

#1225868357509578823
#1211002564015824906

[runic furnace]

Into the rabbit hole I go

[hard forge]

https://tenor.com/view/rabbit-hole-alice-in-wonderland-fall-roll-gif-9377042879026695800

weeeeeee

[gaunt inlet]

Good luck guy

[fallen jasper]

Has anything decent been found since launch?

[inland hemlock]

well, yeah, alot

depends on your definition of decent https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1100745453206786078

[dusk veldt]

I just remembered something from the teaser intro. Scotty said ”A little change? They said they’re here to change the game? A new arena and a bunch of new equipment? Who knows what’s next?” Maybe the unhacking of Syshorizon is whats going to happen?

Oh i just realized the context but my theory is still steadfast🤓☝️

[fallen jasper]

Too many rabbit holes and no chatgpt6 :c

[cold heart]

In addition, using chat programs such as Chat-GPT or Bard to figure out connections, passwords, decoding, etc. is not allowed.

(sorry) 🙈

[dull marsh]

Don't be sorry, a good reminder doesn't hurt

[fallen jasper]

I know xD

[fallen jasper]

That's a good idea about the newer map would be nice to see it without the "hacking"

[cold heart]

if there is, im betting/ hoping that its a modifier

i think one of the main reasons i find sys$horizon boring at times is because its almost always night.. and it only has a 'Standard Issue'

meanwhile the other maps have atleast two

atleast three (if you count turret and tripwires for Vegas)

[unkempt dune]

let's say there is a lagoon monster ee in-game

what are the odds it's on SYS$Horizon?

[dull marsh]

Hmmm idk, it already has the dolphins 🤔

[unkempt dune]

A cosmetic from today has a charm(?) with SYS$Horizon on it

[snow walrus]

Loch Ness monster in SYSHorizon's sea

[velvet narwhal]

Sticker. It's part of the bundle with the moist man shotgun

[unkempt dune]

even more suspicious if that's the case

Moist Man and SYS$Horizon in the same bundle

lagoon monsters are typically night-time creatures, right?

[cold heart]

the sticker in Q, for those not in game rn

[lime kindle]

I'll see if I find something if I get onto SYS$Horizon today, first thought is floppy disk, so old pc.

[dull marsh]

I know zero Lagoon monster lore lol

[unkempt dune]

it is true SYS$Horizon has a bunch of old PCs

[cold heart]

yeah im pretty sure ive seen floppy disk slots in the PCs on that map

[unkempt dune]

I never paid attention to see if they had a floppy disk drive

[cold heart]

maybe one of the PCs has one in it 🤔

[lime kindle]

What's interesting is that we have the entire SYS$Horizon and CNS theme which is pretty neon, hacking, glitches, yet the skins and other items we get are very retro featuring diskettes, floppy disks and 8-bit.

[unkempt dune]

get this, 79 minutes is the runtime for Creature from the Black Lagoon

[cold heart]

i mean not really (the neon hacker space stuff with retro tech)... neon sci-fi was huge in the '80s just look at Tron, Blade Runner etc... yanno when this tech was revolutionized (and now retro), and the future tech was fantasize

its probably a nod to that/ the nostalgia, and the fact that trends that die tend to repeat themselves

im super into CRTs, id hope someone in 100 years still would still think its cool too 🫠

[tired bridge]

i swear i heard an unfamiliar chime in monaco

i have no footage however

[cold heart]

maybe CNS fantasize about past tech 🤭

[wise iris]

maybe next week will see

[lime kindle]

Maybe maybe

[lime kindle]

You're one of the people Rob mentioned....he's a time traveler

[nimble forge]

Has anyone thought to check out puddles on Monaco during the rainy weather?

It sounds pedestrian I know, but it's the only thing I could find with a reflection

[cold heart]

a lot, we havent found anything from it though (yet)... but thanks for the input

[nimble forge]

Gotcha

[snow walrus]

could be something

[fresh spruce]

anyone recognize the floppy? https://i.postimg.cc/7PTH0SKJ/image.png
edit: nevermind, it's in the animation

[snow walrus]

moist man

[fresh spruce]

Moist Man's Revenge
This Tide It's Personal
MultiCo? https://postimg.cc/zyRchqZd

[sharp sentinel]

The key command charm does work on console, pressing left stick pushes ctrl
Can't find a button that pushes z though

So in terms of "easter eggs are entirely cross platform" its a kinda maybe something from me

And in case people didn't know, the analog joystick works too, it moves where your left stick moves, full 360° and all

[cold heart]

oh thats cool, we can only do it at 45deg angles.. so it kinda feels like one of those old gated/octagon arcade sticks

[sharp sentinel]

And I have tried the Konami code on it before... nada

[fresh quiver]

N64 & Gamecube had z trigger s / z buttons

[heady sail]

I can't send a picture of it because the powers at be hate me
but do you think there's anything in the reflection of the spoon?

it might just be a default, kind of ripped from the internet thing but it looks like some kind of warehouse

[cold heart]

you need to level up to post images, but you could always upload it to imgur n paste the link

[heady sail]

I know I just though it was funny

[opaque thistle]

ramt

[hard forge]

?

[opaque thistle]

rat

[hard forge]

there is a rat pet coming soon

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

[opaque thistle]

😭

[opaque thistle]

I'm gonna feed you to them

a rat pet actually sounds cool asf tho ngl

we've already got a bunch of cheese

[lime kindle]

I second this

A rat would be neat, I'm upset I didn't level enough to the crow cuz I'm not the biggest fan of the conspirakitty

[opaque thistle]

i got all the pets rn myself

[lime kindle]

I bought the pass but didn't play as much, joining the server for the EE hunt is what really motivated me to play the game way more

but that happened in Season 2

[nimble forge]

A rat would be so good 😭

[sacred bane]

I've been thinking about the connection of rabbits, dolphins, and monkeys. They're all often used in scientific research... Maybe we're all test subjects in the arena and these are hints to the f'd up lore that's unraveling.

We're an experiment.

[loud shuttle]

What's up with the reflection on the spoon? Is the reflection a office?

[acoustic delta]

That’s interesting. All of the players trapped in some type of Matrix VR contraption.

[tired bridge]

blood moon in seoul?

cant post images because i need more levels in the server, but seoul has a blood moon?

[fallow radish]

upload it to imgur or send it to me and I can post for ya

[tired bridge]

https://medal.tv/games/the-finals/clips/29iooNJKdwZA_i/d1337OBkW2zm?invite=cr-MSxkb24sMjA2NTQwMzQ0LA

got this medal clip of it

[cold heart]

thats uh, skyway stadium

[tired bridge]

not playing this game without it

[tired bridge]

oh my bad

[cold heart]

we already know about that ehhe, but ty

[tired bridge]

thought it was seoul

whoops

[cold heart]

i think it happens pretty regular

[tired bridge]

i somehow confuse the two

might be the tall buildings

[cold heart]

skyway is a mix of Seoul and Monaco assets, so i can see how youd get confused ^^ no worries

we still dont know what it means though... the moon on that map is weird to say the least

and there is an EE about it i think

[junior thicket]

Yeehaw

[cold heart]

ok.

[tired bridge]

what if it in and of itself is the easter egg

[copper sequoia]

I don't necessarily think it's an easter egg since it is a map variant. Though, perhaps an easter egg could be performed or found under this type of map variant. With the dolphins as an example, it was accessible under the sunset variant of Horizon.

[autumn barn]

I don't thinks its anything, but has anyone looked at the album cover for the s2 soundtrack? i havent seen anything suspicous, but just wondering if something could be hiding there.

[silk basin]

I had a random thought playing the other day while I was beating a water fountain to death.
Has anyone died while in the fountain so gold coins drop into it?
Or is there an emote like the sweeping one that would drop coins in it?

[main tapir]

those bunny gave me fear of playing the finals at 3 am omg

[dull marsh]

Wouldn't be surprised if Rob put a thing or two in there, I don't remember anyone digging much into it

[velvet narwhal]

Have we ever done an EE hunt on skyway?

We know there's an EE but I've never really looked for it

[cold heart]

yeah ive been wanting to look at skyway for a while, but the EE hunts sessions seem to have dried up as of late

way later tonight or tomorrow im happy to just spend like hours looking at stuff if people want ^^ just been a little busy recently to sink hours

[velvet narwhal]

I'm going hiking for the next 2 days, but I'm available after it for some hunting

[fresh quiver]

remember robs real life easter egg when hiking 😂

Or atleast take a geocaching app with you

[dull marsh]

We can hunt tonight, just need someone to start it

[cold heart]

hows your sleep schedual recently? 🙃

im happ to stay up

[dull marsh]

It's pretty normal!

So I'm more down to play end of afternoon/evening

[snow walrus]

CEST normal or CEST+5 normal?

[shadow shore]

i'll hunt for tings whenever

[velvet narwhal]

hmmm, we're only hunting EEs. You'll have to look somewhere else if you wanna hunt tings

[shadow shore]

i'll hunt for the EE tings*

[wise iris]

I can hunt in like 4h if you need me

[rigid sandal]

What we huntin'?

[wise iris]

Idk

[snow walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/hunt-hunting-on-the-hunt-elmer-fudd-looney-tunes-gif-4712571

[fresh quiver]

monkeys

[sharp flame]

[dull marsh]

CEST+0

[dull marsh]

#egg-hunt-onboarding

[sand crest]

monke season

[autumn barn]

That’s an interesting thought, I don’t know if anyone has tried that yet.

[cold heart]

ROBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

(and Dusty)

[short bear]

bouncing off that it could also be something with using players dead statue

[limpid yarrow]

what are the main easter egss we are looking for now ?

[short bear]

#egg-hunt-onboarding message

[limpid yarrow]

im not new

i was asking mainly so i know what to focus on

[short bear]

I think mainly the 3HM since its directly a part of level 3, but its assumed that its in the game.

[limpid yarrow]

got it il look througth the thread now

[snow walrus]

a wild Rob appears

[wise iris]

i mean at this point soo many thing have been tried so worth trying

[cold heart]

This Rob has been saying the last few hours in #⚡┇the-finals-chat (will be updating)

Randomly the letter T: #⚡┇the-finals-chat message

T

"LOOOOOOL" in relation to someone commenting it meant Taco Bell: #⚡┇the-finals-chat message

LOOOOOOL

The following binary, when Dusty asking for no more letters: #⚡┇the-finals-chat message

101010

He drempt about us finding the 3HM (after i asked for 3HM clues): #⚡┇the-finals-chat message

I woke up yesterday and was 100% sure that they had found one, I spent 20 minutes going through the EE-channel... then I realized it must have been in a dream I had...

Saying "Respect" in l33t a in responce to hacking on behalf of CNS: #⚡┇the-finals-chat message

I said it before and I will say it again... you guys are skilled... CNS is a really talented hacking group, that's for sure... r35p3(7

[cold heart]

101010 (bin) = 42 (dec) = 2A (hex)
= * (ascii using dec) or B (ascii using dec as hex)

[snow walrus]

ascii in decimal value

[cold heart]

oh i see what you mean

[unkempt dune]

T - random
A - taco bell
* - no more letters

[dull marsh]

You know you don't need to convert to decimal and then hexadecimal before going for ASCII XD

[cold heart]

im covering my bases 😭

[unkempt dune]

I will mention he did say LOOOOOOL, which is one extra 0 than 1000001 for A

[cold heart]

it wasnt bin => dex => ascii, i was just being a nerd 🫠

cos i havent done this by hand in a while

[hard forge]

As @inner sand said...maybe TAG

[gloomy anvil]

I think Rob was just chatting, but... I'll leave you to it 😅

[wise iris]

when rob says one message and everyone become crazy

[dull marsh]

Just in case, I've seen people doing those conversions thinking it's part of the "process" lol

[cold heart]

oooh lmao

[wise iris]

did he emoji something in the chanels ?

[inner sand]

[cold heart]

i also just think the amount of times the number 42 comes up in life is interesting

[unkempt dune]

or TAB

[dull marsh]

Can say the same with many numbers

[snow walrus]

what is * called other than asterisk

[unkempt dune]

TAB
TAG
TAP

[sharp sentinel]

Yeah, its not one thing leads to another, its just that they're all the same as each other

[dull marsh]

"star" I guess

[snow walrus]

TAS
TAC

[hard forge]

maybe the monkey is hiding in the scoreboard

[cold heart]

its called "wildcard" a lot in queries..

[sharp sentinel]

Seems like a bit of a stretch to just say "yeah, let's remove an O to make this nicer to solve"

[unkempt dune]

* definitely could be S

Take a Shot

would fit with TAS

[dull marsh]

That's a lot of stretches to get there

[cold heart]

also TQ something?

[unkempt dune]

he may have just accidently added an extra O without counting

[dull marsh]

Then it wouldn't mean anything

Cuz if it mattered he would have been careful

[hard forge]

6 O = 6 players.

3v3
"3 mins"

[dull marsh]

We really are starving huh

[unkempt dune]

maybe it's intentional then

[hard forge]

common, he won't give us straight up leak of the new mode. Just bits of it here and there. We can only speculate.

[sour needle]

i think it has something to do with statues cause *TÜ=statue

[dull marsh]

That's my point, the idea of that message meaning something AND that he would have made a genuine mistake are pretty incompatible, and if it doesn't mean anything then it can't really be a mistake in the first place

[unkempt dune]

mistakes do happen

even if you're not trying to make them

[snow walrus]

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

[unkempt dune]

there have been plenty of times where I have proofread something and have still made mistakes

[snow walrus]

NOOOOOO

HE DELETED AGAIN

it was cns_cns

[dull marsh]

I'm just saying it's pretty unlikely if it's an important message

[dull marsh]

WHAT

[hard forge]

again

[unkempt dune]

but it's a possibility

[snow walrus]

We are CNS, embrace the.. somethin somethin

[dull marsh]

I stole that screenshot, not mine

[hard forge]

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

[snow walrus]

i copied the link instead taking a ss

fool me

[dull marsh]

(weird that Rob disappeared a few minutes before that was posted... 🤔 )

And pretty interesting that CNS activity starts again

[hard forge]

@marsh wolf thanks

[dull marsh]

Some content must be coming next week!

[snow walrus]

CNS strikes back

[hard forge]

ee i e

[dull marsh]

REMEMBER: up to this point, CNS leaks were only teasing content, not clues for EE hunt

[marsh wolf]

yw bbg

[hard forge]

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

this was the message they replied to

[unkempt dune]

::...../we are CNS //eMBRACe the iNEVITABLe\we are CNS.....::

that's the text form of the CNS message

[hard forge]

The CNS is under embark's basement.

[snow walrus]

VAIIYA employers are getting paid for nothing

[dull marsh]

Nah, VAIIYA are doing their jobs, it's just that CNS are REALLY good

[sharp sentinel]

Yeah, VAIIYA are making great cosmetics!
...
Is that what they're being paid to do?

[snow walrus]

or there are some moles in the background

[dull marsh]

We know that some CNS people are infiltrated at Embark, we've seen video proofs of that

[gloomy anvil]

I sure hope Volpe isn't anywhere near involved

[dull marsh]

Even tripping on a förging stool

[carmine trench]

Where is this video proof?

[snow walrus]

trailers

and CNS posts

[wise iris]

rob X Cns confirmed ?

[hard forge]

If S LIES was hidden in Monaco as a hint for WR, which are in Seoul. Then there could be clues hidden in some other maps for 3HM / 🐬.

But we know that the clues related to 3HM were gone with 2.4.0

Just thinking out loud

[wise iris]

have you checked vegas constelation ?

that exactly what u looking for

[cold heart]

i mean we know A (one) clue was removed... but he also added 9 "things" right?

i still think looking at other maps is valid

[hard forge]

maybe vegas constellation was cetus

[unkempt dune]

could be

it's of a sea monster.. just like moist man

although maybe moist man is a pond monster

[alpine junco]

Burrow burrw brrw brw rw w

[dull marsh]

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

Rob: who am i..? (24601.?!)

[quiet night]

Jean Valjean's convict number was 24601.

[dull marsh]

Hmmmmmm 🤔

[quiet night]

Nickname is Monsieur Leblanc or Mr White:

[wise iris]

WALTER ?

[quiet night]

Mister White is interesting because it works for Walter White but also the James Bond villain: Friedrich König

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Mr._White

[wise iris]

we need to cook jessie

[dull marsh]

Technically "Leblanc" is "Thewhite", not just "White"

But it could work

[wise iris]

victor hugo reference

[snow walrus]

RAGOI ?

maybe it's leet

[hard current]

rob lives!!!

[snow walrus]

in a basement

[dull marsh]

No

Well, probably actually

[snow walrus]

he said it himself??

[dull marsh]

Oh

[cursive jewel]

,

,

,

,

,

.I.

[cursive jewel]

nuh uh

[snow walrus]

are u sure?

[dull marsh]

Fast lane to banland

[snow walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/tuskin-raider-sandpeople-starwars-lets-get-him-gif-14234025660803459291

[dull marsh]

Lmao, almost did 5 dailies in 1 game of quick cash XD

[fresh quiver]

so i was eating out one time and CNS & rob appeared in some way? hah

[dull marsh]

ALERT ROB IS COMING BACK

hehe, I've been letting you hunters be alone for a while... perhaps it's time for me to come back soon...

[proud minnow]

pfff their "ASCII-art" is so bad... perhaps I should start freelancing as a CNS-artist..!?

[sacred bane]

The boys in monkey town are dying here, Rob. Any new eyes lately?

[dull marsh]

They ain't ready to see you pull out some PETSCII art, that's for sure

[wise iris]

im confused are you with CNS or against

[fresh quiver]

r35p3(t for rob doing CNS artist work in the future 😄

[dull marsh]

Apparently CNS aren't bad, they just wanna change the game

[wise iris]

ho

thats cool

btw rob don't be worried that u dreamt about us finding monkey we dream about it too

[unkempt dune]

they love the finals

[snow walrus]

They should have posted a job ad when they took over Embark Linkedin account

[wise iris]

maybe they know where the monkeys are ?

[unkempt dune]

they probably wouldn't spoil it for us

[wise iris]

how nice of them lol

[unkempt dune]

too bad the moon doesn't have anything related to monkeys and dolphins

I wanted to bring back up the white rabbit on the moon

[cold heart]

mom said its CNSs turn on the xbox The Finals and they want to play [REDACTED]

[unkempt dune]

Dolphins (M. C. Escher, aka Maurits Cornelis Escher) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphins_(M._C._Escher)

[fallen jasper]

What

[paper comet]

In the store look at the spoon and look at the reflection. It's in a room with a light and a window

[fallen jasper]

Oh yeah I was mesmerized by how wrong we were about the area where the objects are illuminated (viewed) xD

[proud minnow]

haha true I just did an ASCII in one of the fanworks-channels... working pro bono, hehe

[sour needle]

the window kinda looks like the light a lamp makes that you van pick up from monaco

[snow walrus]

Don't search hunters, here:
#1230233937281024110 message

[cold heart]

@proud minnow sorry to be a pain, but its been a while... did you ever validate if the Tutorial EEs where active?

[wise iris]

https://tenor.com/view/out-disappear-bye-vanished-gif-4932063

[proud minnow]

I don't think I have confirmed or denied that, hehe

[wise iris]

down the rabit hole we go then

[cold heart]

you did confirm (kinda?), but you said you would check 😭 but is ok
#1217498821563514951 message
#easter-eggs message

[bleak palm]

Anyone heard that the voice line at the end of power shift has slightly changed? It's scotty's normal voice that gets CNS glitched and then an entirely different voice takes it over. I'm certain of it. To make it more confusing it's a voice line I've heard a million times already and this one time it was different. Hope i'm not being crazy hehe. Also hope that this is the right channel for that?

[dull marsh]

He just didn't yet... 😭

[proud minnow]

Ahh, yes I checked that, and they are turned on..!

[dull marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/plongus-mcnyale-cat-dance-party-gif-7935997735376414818

https://tenor.com/view/plongus-mcnyale-cat-party-rave-gif-15169123526728331276

[proud minnow]

(sorry for not reporting back, I checked and they were working, and then I moved on... MY BAD)

[cold heart]

All forgiven, thankyou thankyou thankyou 😁

[wise iris]

TIME TO HUNTT

WE GOTA HUNT IT ALL

[cyan bridge]

ee is tutorial??

is it the roses or did they do more,,,?

[cold heart]

tutorial is not the same as practice range

[cyan bridge]

OH WHA

[cold heart]

this is old ehhe, they made a proper tutorial mode like a couple months ago iirc

[wise iris]

why all the box in the tutorial are in the ground

when you collide with them

they come out

[dusk veldt]

So there are ee in the tutorial that Rob forgot to activate

[dull marsh]

Just a bug, happens ingame too sometimes

[wise iris]

k

[cold heart]

he just said it is ^^ so go crazy on the tutorial ig

[snow walrus]

MONKEY UPDATE #1211002564015824906 message

[dusk veldt]

By the way Rob, could we maybe get something else to go on regarding the Bean easter egg?👀

Okay, i love goats is lore related #1201288968562552863 message

[dull marsh]

Today is a great day for EE hunters

[wise iris]

yep

[dusk veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/2019-brasil-volta-jesus-igreja-gif-13539680

Literally what has happened

[copper sequoia]

Thank you Rob for giving the hunters some juice today

[wise iris]

tomorow after school gonna be hunting for HOURS

[lime kindle]

Same hereeee

[dull marsh]

Is it normal to have like a quick emergency alarm in the cabin of the crane when the ball falls off? 🤔

[thorny gorge]

possible lore with whats in the reflection?

[plucky kettle]

@ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob @ rob

[dusk veldt]

Maybe like a disarm the bomb kinda like mode perhaps?

[dull marsh]

I hate when you do that

It looks so ugly

[plucky kettle]

so are you 🙂

[dusk veldt]

Guys stop spamming move to off topic

Ive been thinking, the next update might contain something akin to the following: so Vaiyya security tries to dehack the map and we(cns) try to stop em

And perhaps we get a new map variation

(Rob this is the part where you interject something)

[bright ruin]

That sounds more lore related than EE

[proud minnow]

I'm just like you...I get happy and get sad...Just like you...I win battles and I lose them too...

[cold heart]

yeah ive heard this before, think its normal

[bright ruin]

Piece of the Puzzle by Trisha Denise

[dull marsh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOdmCaok0-Q

[dull marsh]

A future map?

Or what SYS$HORIZON is supposed to look like

[bright ruin]

I'm not entirely sure what that is pointing to, should it be a clue but

the album art is a reflection btw

[dull marsh]

And it was a question about reflection 🤔

[proud minnow]

clever right...?

[dull marsh]

So we ARE looking for reflections...

Well not necessarily

It's a mirror

[snow walrus]

reflection or shadow

[dull marsh]

Reflection doesn't have to be light reflecting

Can be symmetry

[bright ruin]

Basically, we've been at this too long and Rob is telling us to take a long look in the mirror and reevaluate our life choices

[snow walrus]

i constantly think we are in virtual world and mirrors have virtual side you know. If we are in virtual side that means mirrors other side belongs to the real part

imaginary line of mirrors

[dull marsh]

I thought last time WR could also mean "Water Reflection" 🤔

[bright ruin]

I'm not 100% sure if I read that correctly but

What it sounds like you're saying is a mirror is a potential traversal tool?

Alice through the looking glass

[snow walrus]

DUSTY Graffiti
#1201288968562552863 message

[proud minnow]

BTW we Örf-fans have a surprise on the horizon... ._.

[fallen jasper]

Now that's a great random surprise thanks :3

[tranquil minnow]

Might sound super dumb here, but what's Örf? Google ain't much help

[sharp flame]

YAY!

[grave bridge]

its the mascot from the battlepass

[sharp flame]

I always keep the ORF pins on

[fallen jasper]

Same xD

[tranquil minnow]

The glitched guy?

[grave bridge]

no its the pink.. animal thingy

[cold heart]

its the lil cat cartoon mascot

[tranquil minnow]

Ohhh

Mb

[grave bridge]

is it even pink or am i thinking of another one

[tranquil minnow]

Mb

I know what you mean

Was so confused for a second

[sharp flame]

See.. what if the Events were even more themed?!

What if we had an örf event?

[dull marsh]

On the... HORIZON

[dull marsh]

Örf course!

[fallen jasper]

Map :V

[sharp flame]

Örf Plushie

[tranquil minnow]

Rob you wouldn't have a favourite Monkey Island game would you?

(Correct answer is LeChucks Revenge btw)

(With secret in close second)

[cold heart]

BTW we Örf-fans have a surprise on the

[inland hemlock]

the only big body of water i could find is this one:

[proud minnow]

It IS but... The Curse of Monkey Island is ALSO REALLY GOOD..!

[grave bridge]

that fountain is mirrored in 2 directions 🤔

[tranquil minnow]

Can't argue with you there!

[snow walrus]

First 2 games are the actual games...

and then Ron Gilbert leaves..

[tranquil minnow]

Yep

However

Gilbert has mentioned, relcutantly perhaps that the other games are cannon

And he did reference them in Return to MI

When he came back to end his story (very poorly I might add)

What a way to end a 30 year old mystery

Sure the ending was symbolic in a way but fealt a bit dry and rushed ultimately

[inland hemlock]

i hope we are not meant to use this kind of reflections

[empty plaza]

Can someone help me figure out if this is morse code?

[fossil oasis]

literally just ascii art

[empty plaza]

rob can be cheeky, you never know

In American Morse it says:
laaakmmee

Note sure if that's a cypher

@proud minnow Am I just being paranoid?

[snow walrus]

Lore

[dull marsh]

We only tag Rob for very important stuff 😉

[sharp flame]

"leak me"

frfr

[inland hemlock]

lick me? do we have to lick our screens for the monkeys to show up?

[sharp flame]

Hi

The quest for the 9 Monaco monkeys has begun

[hard forge]

@sharp flame you cannot rename kleen to fish face!

[hard current]

wait what

[hard forge]

this is a fish face

[sharp flame]

@cedar owl knows

[cedar owl]

It's the face fish always uses when he is annoyed with me. It is the Fishface!

[sharp flame]

Never annoyances! Just small obstacles to me appreciating you even more <3

but sometimes Dusty I hate u

[sharp flame]

I need to make THIS the new fishface

[cedar owl]

https://tenor.com/view/fish-knife-cooking-anime-gif-18558532

[hard forge]

that is why Rob is scared of Dusty.

[snow walrus]

U better behave fish

[sharp flame]

Sometimes she threatens me for no reason

its scary

[snow walrus]

We cant help u if bad things happen

[alpine junco]

hello

[hard forge]

hi

[alpine junco]

anyone na

lol

[copper sequoia]

hi

[runic furnace]

Eye am

[sour swallow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2IMPABwwNs

[blissful venture]

idk if anyone has said anything about this yet but what is in the reflection of the broth bruiser skin (big spoon)

[blissful venture]

it looks like a room of some type

[dull marsh]

No bad things will ever happen to fish, only "accidents"

[proper ermine]

Mmmm
Fish
Fried fish
Fried fish with lemon and mayonnaise

[fresh spruce]

noticed yesterday as well, but there are other skins that provide that reflection. instantly thought of "mirrors" clue, but couldn't figure out which map or location that is. kinda seemed like skyway open office part, but couldn't be sure.

thought maybe it marks a location on the map where there's something, but could be completely random as well.

[inland hemlock]

i'd inspect the new gas mask and old ones first

[blissful venture]

maybe, i dont really know anything about the easter egg hunt so i was just putting the idea out there for the "proffesional" hunters

[inland hemlock]

will do that once i hop on

[proper ermine]

It appears underneath you

So someone has to see it, while being the floor below you

Try something to do with that

[blissful venture]

it also reminds me of the construction areas though

[silk basin]

I know the water sounds like a great idea but the mirror in MI was part of a window. Do we need to suss the window reflections?
Also I love the idea of a geometric reflection, whoever mentioned that.
Like stand in a certain spot to create the image by lining up buildings lol

[cold heart]

given the fact there are so many 3HMs, and more are being added every season... I'm feeling like it cant be symmetrical locations, i cant imagine there would be THAT many places to use if it were

[silk basin]

I agree especially as 3HM is seemingly time based but maybe an idea for a future EE 🙂

[wise iris]

There are alot of window so matbe then

[bleak palm]

has anyone tried to look for where the location of the reflection of the gas mask is?

[sharp sentinel]

The mi mirror being a part of a window is new and very interesting.
But we thought to rule out windows as they're also on the practice range, and the practice range has no mirrors,* right?*
Are windows back on the mirror menu?

[silk basin]

Ahh dang. Nah you correct. Ah well least we don't need to look in 1 million windows lol

[eternal violet]

havent tried looking, but on first glance looks like that first floor hospital part in skyway stadium

oop, im talking about the spoon reflection, but i think the mask is using the same image?

[sharp sentinel]

I think all reflections in the main menu use the same image

[bleak palm]

yeah starting to believe that

[wise iris]

but what is it ?

[cold heart]

all items use the same cubemap, you can see it in quite a few items... just the more recent ones its easier to tell, esspecially on higher settings

im praying we get the item zoom feature, because the mask shows it clear as day
from what i can tell, there is a large circular (ring) skylight window with segments.. and then a large segmented window to your POV back right

it does give me Seoul or Skyway vibes.. but neither has a skylight

[eternal violet]

i dont see a skylight tbh, only 2 segmented windows to the sides with hospital light above

[cold heart]

the more i look, idek anymore lol

i thought last i looked that the 2nd image (the circle with lines coming from it) was like skylight, but it it also looks like it connects to the floor

[eternal violet]

now I see, the 2nd image does looks like skylights

[cold heart]

there are defo multiple wall windows, youre right

the image for this though in the store is like REALLY clear

[eternal violet]

tbh that skylight looks like light coming from the windows to me

[dull marsh]

I strongly believe that this is the cubemap for a place in a new map 🤔

[cold heart]

look at the backside of the spoon, the image is flipped if you look at it from the front

also that light in the middle is between the wall window, and what im calling the "skylight" one.. even though i have my doubts

[eternal violet]

to me the backside looks flipped 😄

[cold heart]

fair enough lol i forget if convex or concave flips images from memory tbh

[dull marsh]

Inside of the spoon flips the image

Cuz after bouncing they cross each other

[cold heart]

ta, my hunch was right ^^

filing cabinets?

[drifting spruce]

to store the clothes

[dull marsh]

Or are we outside and that's a building?

[inland hemlock]

jockoflorian uses the same cubemap

[dull marsh]

Nice zoom tho

[cold heart]

i havent found an item that doesnt

[inland hemlock]

so we know it's been there for a long time

even on skill.e.d racer damn

[bleak palm]

yeah I was looking at the different reflections for cosmetics, but still it really feels like an ingame location. I don't think it's entirely unimpotant unless rob wants to let us know we're on a wild egg chase

[inland hemlock]

anyway i'll go back to the tutorial

[cold heart]

its a shame you cant view the gadget pads from the inventory, you just see the level up rewards... i was looking into this forever ago, but the items at the time didnt show much detail

.
kinda obvious if you have the spoon, but worth noting for those that dont... I dont think the main menu has anything outside of the two (maybe more) spotlights

[drifting spruce]

the finlsa

[eternal violet]

All https://www.reachthefinals.com EE pages for future reference:

https://www.reachthefinals.com/iseul-t
https://www.reachthefinals.com/ospuze
https://www.reachthefinals.com/devoncrossing
https://www.reachthefinals.com/geocache
https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2
https://www.reachthefinals.com/galileo
https://www.reachthefinals.com/ocb
https://www.reachthefinals.com/gooooooooooooooooo
https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfee (redirects to tfee_level2)
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-a
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-b
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-c
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-d
https://www.reachthefinals.com/level_3 (redirects to tfeeactivationlvl3)
https://www.reachthefinals.com/burrw
https://www.reachthefinals.com/rival-1
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-e
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-f
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-f-1
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t1-def
https://www.reachthefinals.com/t3-f
https://www.reachthefinals.com/wefundapage-butwehavenoclue
https://www.reachthefinals.com/whydidntanyonefindme-aminotimportant
https://www.reachthefinals.com/tfeeactivationlvl3

https://www.reachthefinals.com/realnamatama (404 but wasn't before?)

[ashen tusk]

Hey guys, any easter egg savvy man could lend a hand checking something?

[cold heart]

depends... could a woman? >.>

[ashen tusk]

ofc!

So we had this chat with a certain rob man in the community brands section and he shared us a very odd looking ascii

thought i'd bring this to light here because frankly i am not the guy to dig.

[sharp sentinel]

If you have a picture you can dm a light orange name

(Light orange means image perms)

[cold heart]

do you mean either of these...? We where talking about it a bit last night already, but didnt get too much/ too far

#1230233937281024110 message
#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

[ashen tusk]

yea, we had some explanations but who knows maybe a hidden morse code or smt

[silk basin]

I can't load a picture up in here but I thought about this picture and was playing around in tutorial and the shield backing shows some weird reflection of a surface near the edges of most windows.
Not sure it's anything but the weird reflection is not blurry like the rest of the reflections.

[fallen jasper]

Spoon 🥄 might have the reflecting answer xD

[alpine junco]

And many more

[eternal violet]

suggestions are welcome, these are all from this channel

[alpine junco]

I mean there are websites that havent been found yet

[eternal violet]

obviously

[alpine junco]

There is one for a high res burrw gif

The one we have is low res

[cold heart]

if you have any links.. please share lol, this is a WIP list of what we have SO FAR

that we can pin or somethin or put here: #1231616408270405762

[eternal violet]

sure, I can paste it there

[dull marsh]

Yup #1225868357509578823 message

[warped jay]

New post CNS on reddit

[cold heart]

Rob bullying 😆 https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1217870476664373288
also tattoo teaser? 🤔

[fallow radish]

Here's the new image:

[cold heart]

i think we already have a thread for these 🥲

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1213500600117891122

maybe move it to here? (idm either way)

[sharp flame]

It's a smashed revive statue

Is this a hint for next week?

[warped jay]

Maybe this is a one-life mode?

[wise iris]

the gif on the website has 240_C as a name

[cold heart]

how is 240_C relevant rn? >.< sorry

[wise iris]

idk maybe somoene knows

i looked apart from temp nothing comes out

[dull marsh]

240 is for patch 2.4.0, as for the C we don't know

[wise iris]

ho ok ty

[dull marsh]

#1225868357509578823 message

[snow walrus]

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

[dull marsh]

Photo posted by Rob (for reability)

[cold heart]

(before he sent that he sent this)
#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

I'm back... let's see if I have the highest level again... I took a picture of the screen during reboot... do you think I can post that here now...?

[dull marsh]

Posting stuff with multiple zeros again... #⚡┇the-finals-chat message

I WIN... Dusty - ROB : 0 -1000000

[cold heart]

oh no, Robs gone mad with power 😆

[daring bluff]

VAIIYALINK just sounds so cool for some reason

[sharp flame]

?👀

It fits very well

[hard forge]

yeah!!

[sour needle]

rob did spell statue in the posts in the main chat yesterday (*TÜ=statue)

[alpine junco]

statue and a boquet?

[cold heart]

oh interesting, it feels like a stretch, that is f*cking amazing if it was intentional

[sour needle]

i think its intentional cause why would he else post some hidden letters

[fallen jasper]

So much happened x.x

Is it that chaotic every time?

Kinda funny how Rob asked if he could post the sc #⚡┇the-finals-chat message

[cold heart]

ofc ^^

[fallen jasper]

Then I'm glad I joined discord 😂

[fallen jasper]

Looks like the console for anti-cyberattacks from CNS xD
x86 which is good

[cold heart]

supprised they are still on x86 in the year 2100 (though i adore the aesthetic)

[hard forge]

I was wondering about it too XD

[cold heart]

true true... maybe its like how people still use COBOL today, because it works

or they cant be arsed to use something else

[inland hemlock]

it's realistic to be honest

[fallen jasper]

I also like the aesthetic I even downloaded it when I saw it xD

It's like a console within a console {[]}

[dull marsh]

Oh god

[rich grove]

more like- the people who wrote this code are long since gone, and its cheaper to use the old code and hardware than redo the whole system

[fallen jasper]

That's pretty much how the real world works lol

[hard forge]

Maybe Project Finals was also started in 70s or 80s

[fallen jasper]

Having x86 takes it to out time-line maybe just a reference that from ingame lore started in our lifetime.

Also "vaiiya" might just be the local security forces enforcing old parameters to go against CNS new attacks.

Superficial assessment nothing much.

[pseudo sage]

was bored in practice range then my gf and I noticed something we realized that the dummy hidden behind the wall is true north from the lights on the second floor weve heard a good deal of speculation about the roses but with all the stories weve brought up and lore associated theres a true north dummy just up behind two instances of ivy on the building ivy represents commitment and devotion think of romeo and juliet in climbing to the window and on the otherside if the wall is destroyed will be our hidden dummy go out the window next to it and hook a left towards true west and youll be shot by the dummy (possibly our running thru a rose bush connection) before the only instances of hydrangeas in practice range which can represent either arrogance and vanity or emotion regret and apology im thinking the latter

directly from it go south and youll see the only other instance of ivy and the only one covering the size of a wall and its partiall obscured by a small tree

they are all true directions from eachother

[alpine junco]

🤯

[hard forge]

ELI5

[fallen jasper]

Someone been cooking

[alpine junco]

🤔

what house is that on monaco

skyway?

[cold heart]

its been a discussion people have asked a few times so i dove pretty deep into it again this morning
just scroll down a bit from here: #easter-eggs message

if you can think of/find more stuff out please let me know though ^^

[cold heart]

i dont think its something that exists in game, atleast anywhere that i know of... i reckon it might be a future teaser

[lime kindle]

I'm 90% positive it's the same as the spoon

[cold heart]

it is, its the same as every item

you could see it in S1, just barely anything.. the more items they add, the easier it has been to see whats there

[alpine junco]

ah i see

i havent been catching up much in the chat so

[cold heart]

no worries!

[lime kindle]

It is quite a lot to read, and despite not "as many" people participating in the hunt, it does feel like many ideas get repeated quite often x)

[fallen jasper]

It's a specific time paradox thing here

[cold heart]

i dont think its a bad thing (sorry if i gave that impression) - im more than happy for people to repeat questions, and re-explain stuff or point to a previous discussion (to avoid clutter)

not everyone is as terminally online as others >.< n the more people involved the better imo

[fallen jasper]

I got red

Or is it just me (?

[cold heart]

😭 you got red?! im happy for you lmao but holy

[fallen jasper]

I got sponsors

[lime kindle]

I need to type more in chats where you can collect xp...

[nimble forge]

I lurk to much xD

[cold heart]

i have 6x your messages, and only just got red today lmao is pain

i think you get it around 800 messages if youre just in channels? meanwhile i was on 3k..

[lime kindle]

I want to embed gifs damn it ;-;

[dusk veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/embed-no-no-embed-megamind-megamind-meme-gif-25261934

[cold heart]

i dont really care much for it.. i just google gifs honestly, you can still copy the image

[lime kindle]

I know but still

[cold heart]

being able to embed my videos is going to be nice though, cos you cant just copy those

[lime kindle]

I got quite a lot of saved gifs

[dusk veldt]

Oh wait this isnt #🥚┇off-topic , lets move it boys and girls

[lime kindle]

Well videos can be posted like images anyways, or what kind of videos are you talking about?

[cold heart]

(no more file bombs @dusk veldt 😏 ) also yes yes #1201288968562552863

[sharp flame]

hiii

9 Monkeys.. 3 more and we'll be time travelling..

[fallen jasper]

Explain yourself

[wise iris]

MONKEY TRAVEl

[sharp flame]

12 Monkeys is a cool show 😭

Though if you want a time travel show watch Dark. It's like the best one. Ever

[fallen jasper]

Can't say no to a dark promotion 😹

[sharp flame]

EE off-topic-channel is gonna love it too

Haha

Do we have any indication where the monkeys are?

From Rob talking this week

[fresh quiver]

1 should be in the open. that we maybe find at least one...

[fresh quiver]

#1211002564015824906 message

[wise iris]

funny embark drawings

how drew them

[acoustic hemlock]

Where did u found that?

[cold heart]

they are stuck to various monitors on various maps (its not only in 1 location)

[acoustic hemlock]

Probably a common skybox for all this kind of skins reflects?

[cold heart]

i remember a few on Vegas reception computers, and in a few of the office cubicles in Skyway from memeory

[alpine junco]

Yeah i saw

Im seeing nature

Touching grass

Havent spent much time in here

[acoustic hemlock]

I love las Vegas map, I like how the sound of the machines and is funny to use jump pad when sand storm comes

[acoustic hemlock]

I don't trust u 😛

[alpine junco]

Oh yeah?

Today

[acoustic hemlock]

AI

JK xD

[acoustic hemlock]

Where is that, country I mean

[alpine junco]

Canada

[acoustic hemlock]

Oh pretty country, only bad thing theres french people 🥖

[alpine junco]

Thats in Quebec

[acoustic hemlock]

Idk is just a meme here, u have to hate frenchs , why when I write French autocorrect to 🍟🥖 xD french fries and baguette

[alpine junco]

@dull marsh

[dull marsh]

Hello

My bad, BONJOUR

[alpine junco]

lol

[acoustic hemlock]

🥖😡

Wait

Nah

XD

I was thinking ö was German but I remembered that trouble with ö useless accent

[cold heart]

Goedemiddag!

[wise iris]

bonsoir

[bleak palm]

Stop ermee

[alpine junco]

anyone NA wanna hunt

i like how scotty says that contestants are doing their job because it is their job