easter-eggs

[unborn pilot]

hehe. i was on that too a week before Kyoto was revealed. #1243224234675802135 message

[unkempt dune]

It could be a huge coincidence, but I found the Trinity in The Hunt you guys #1204475718747029535 message

[lone wave]

I know you’re not lying. Because when I saw that sand part I was like « I don’t think we’re gonna get a Japanese map soon since Sys Horizon might already be one » lol

[unkempt dune]

I guess nobody has really mentioned it, but Las Vegas is known as Sin City

Seven (1995), the movie, is about robbing a casino in Las Vegas. However, it gets its name from the 7 cardinal sins (Seven Deadly Sins)

During this movie, the people performing the heist cut the power and when the power comes back, it looks as though the heist has already been completed (even though it's not).

I found this very interesting and thought I'd share since I watched it last month and it could relate to Las Vegas

Who knows, maybe there's something like this in-game as an easter egg?

It reminds me of cops and robbers, the game kids tend to play.

Interestingly, the 9th commandment is for lies

Sorry for the bump, but this is a good find! It's an interesting coincidence how that starts with O for an oval medal with 2 hearts and 14 stars. I find the M and t linked together to be very... interesting to say the least.

[alpine junco]

Steal the spotlight?

[unkempt dune]

Good point! Maybe that's why it shows up on Kyoto

That reminds me of how they turned off the power and "stole the spotlight" from the owner of the casino

wait..

didn't we get this Masterplan Markup spray as a twitch drop back around that time?

maybe it really is a clue for something like that?

[snow walrus]

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

[hard forge]

Rob said the code only appears on certain conditions in dolphin charm thread. One of them is sunset most probably.

[unkempt dune]

Yup

[hard forge]

you never explained how Rob lies

[fresh quiver]

rob just gives contradictory infos sometimes

[hard forge]

#1204475718747029535 message

Trinity is part of the hunt and was established earlier.
explain why 3HM is related to that. I understand 3HM disappears when you look at it. Other than that?

[unkempt dune]

That's the only reason.. they're like ghosts

[rugged breach]

Also good to note the X is in the eastwood vault room. Ever since rob eye'd a message saying the casinos have an order to them, and also the golden flamingos are "something" I've been theorising there's a circuit to run in a specific path going through all the casinos and ending up in the vault room where one of the lockboxes could open revealing so and so. Thinking of a small golden egg with a lore photo, maybe some text on it, hinting at something else, but that's completely arbitrary

[fresh quiver]

golden egg is not far off.

we are still searching the golden nametama 😄

[rugged breach]

The black circles on the ground could have a role in this, maybe crossing them all once (?) but no clue on what "rules" the path would follow and if we take the sticker to be the ending path, what makes that special and the one to follow

[hard forge]

Didn't we establish that Rob won't give us red herring early in the hunt?

Rob lies, SR lies was jokingly said before too.

All the contradictory info we got that i remember were for in-game EE which he somehow made ez for us.

[rugged breach]

Yeah it would make the most sense for it to be in the lockbox, I've been calling the potential vegas interactable ee "The gold egg heist" in my head

[hard forge]

Did he lie in BF Easter eggs too?

[unkempt dune]

So either it's a few crazy coincidences or.. maybe not? Essentially while I was trying to understand the dolphin charm trigger, I learned about operations I could perform on clues. After thinking I figured it out, I decided to see if I could apply it elsewhere, like SYS$HORIZON's name. It turns out I could get 357 from the name. Remember what SYS$ is used for? It's for looking up a memory address. In other words, the map tells us "look at the horizon". Like what we did with the dolphin platforms at sunset. A little afterwards I discovered a Sextant, a tool used in games like Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, can also be connected to 357 in a very simple way. The tool works by using the Horizon of the Earth plus whatever reference point you're using.. maybe the Sun?

Sun = 3 letters
Earth = 5 letters
Horizon = 7 letters

And that's the order that you could say the tool is used. No clue, could be a big coincidence that the tool also relates directly to everything we see in Level 3's image besides the Black Knight Nama Tama.

[fresh quiver]

i had in mind that he gave us 2 infos for the dolphin charm

1. only working in public games, not in Private.
2. can be done in private.

but thats probably only because hard vs. eazy mode

[hard forge]

I agree with this.

[unkempt dune]

I need to go soon here because I have something to do this morning, but I got 357 from SYS$HORIZON using stuff we've done in the past:

SYS = 3 letters
$ = can be 5 in leet
HORIZON = 7 letters

I don't believe I did the dolphin charm trigger and I'm under the impression that rob intentionally triggered it himself for some reason. Remember how I thought it could have been Rockhound and I? It's possible the "dolphin charm trigger" is not the same as the trinity trigger. It could be that the dolphin charm is only activated by rob once he sees that someone sees what he wants people to see. In this case, it could be the trinity trigger. However, from the view of the people trying to perform what they believe to be the "dolphin charm trigger," they would feel very close to solving it and they would think it was them that triggered it. And from here, they'll try to explain why they're not crazy and they are not a conspiracy theorist by activating the dolphins again with the trigger method they tried to prove it. However, since the trinity trigger is not the same as the dolphin charm being activated, nothing will happen when they try to prove it. How in the world can they prove it? Rob asked for the trigger to be explained for a reason. He said if someone can explain it, he wouldn't reuses it. He didn't say he would confirm if it's correct or not. #1243224234675802135 message

I think he wants anyone who believes the trinity trigger to find and show the evidence

and keep in mind, all of this has led me to everything I've been saying since last night.. and it connects to stuff inside the game too?

Like rob said: #easter-eggs message

[hard forge]

respectfully, it is not convincing.

[unkempt dune]

And that's okay, it just means I need more

I see the signs, I just need to get the evidence necessary to prove that they're a part of Level 3

[hard forge]

he said 7 people needed to use specific loadout under certain conditions

so there are/were clues out there to use specific Loadout

[unkempt dune]

It's entirely possible that using the correct trinity loadout with 7 people gives you something..

since that would mean you convinced 7 people to work with you

and who knows, maybe that's another piece of evidence?

[unkempt dune]

The weird part is that I only came across this spray after having a thought about a possible EE from the trinity trigger. And from that, I saw the name was "Masterplan Markup"

that could be a coincidence too..

[hard forge]

there CAN be coincidences

[unkempt dune]

Yup, and that depends on perspective

one of the things I learned from the trinity trigger

#1243224234675802135 message

[unkempt dune]

Exactly, he'd be shocked if 7 people, who didn't know anything about the trinity trigger, did it by accident

The last part is about perspective like I mentioned just a second ago

It's one of his "signs" to anyone who knows the trinity trigger

You how people are taught about interpreting literature? This is what rob wants us to do, but with his trinity trigger

This is his artwork

What fun is there if there's no meaning? I don't have the answer to that question at the moment.

Cops and robbers has the concept of good guys and bad guys.

good and evil

since the map from Masterplan Markup has a casino robbery plan, you could say it has the concept of good and evil in turn

Another thing I believe the hunt is supposed to be about is sharing knowledge. Like how I'm sharing what I think rob is planning for hunters and relating it to the game, quotes, and past thoughts by other hunters

[sharp flame]

the name does make me believe it's Big Whoop related

[lyric stratus]

i got if rom the SteelSeries gift drops

[tough bloom]

if you check the twitch drop history on the fandom wiki it might be there

[fallen jasper]

huh

[dull marsh]

Justice waking up from his powernap

[cold heart]

the problem messages were deleted

[inner shoal]

Any one know if the code for the dolphin charm still works?

[fresh quiver]

it should be still active. As I think Rob does not have intentions to make it only timebased available But permanent

but you could try it out and tell us here afterwards if it still works 🙂

[inner shoal]

Well I had tried it and it didn’t work maybe I put it in wrong?

[fresh quiver]

maybe you copied accidently a space with it ?

where you got the code from? RHBs Video?

[inner shoal]

What is that Reddit highlight?

If so then yes

[fresh quiver]

try this once more

913aeef8-023d-41fd-8993-f114a8f915d7

Redeem it here: https://id.embark.games/id/giveaway

watch out to not copy any spaces with it

[inner shoal]

Ok y’all it still works but none of the letters can be capitalized

Thank you for your help @fresh quiver

[fresh quiver]

you're welcome 🙂

[fallow agate]

Any s4 stuff?

[rigid adder]

Till now it’s pretty mysterious

[pure loom]

I just found a random possible link to Henry Rowland. The new Gladys Rattus pet rat could be named after physicist Gladys Anslow, who used the Rowland grating spectrograph to research the emission spectra of radium, resulting in Anslow's thesis "Spectroscopic Evidence for the Electron Theory of Matter". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_Anslow

An alternative, is that Gladys Rattus could be named after a character in The Lost World, which has a couple of possible connections to the hunt - dinosaurs, diamonds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World_(Doyle_novel)

[tidal thistle]

Guys... light class tripped and died (150 hp couldn't save him from the fall)

[unborn pilot]

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

8 letters hidden in MultiCo gif spell out ABISHEMU

@pure loom does that look familiar?

The letters are in the bottom right hand corner

[pure loom]

Oh, interesting! I didn't know about that!

[unborn pilot]

I missed Rob posting the gif completely

Its titled MultiCo_2008

ill post the full gif in #1244010150420021340 message

[pure loom]

I'm currently looking at ways that @unkempt dune's trinity path can link to other clues. And, as an example, the Abishemu obelisk could be pointing us to the Egyptian obelisks Wiki page linked from it, which has this on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_obelisk

Having stood in the same location in Rome since c.40 AD, it was moved almost 800 feet at the behest of Pope Sixtus V in a single day on September 10, 1586. Interesting that the year it was moved is the same as the Kyoto map year with two numbers swapped 1568 -> 1586

[unborn pilot]

Good find. So are all obelisks Egyptian ones, but they're now in different places in the world?

[pure loom]

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

I think there will definitely be non-Egyptian ones, but I was thinking - "ok, Rob has given us a clue - it's probably a quaternary clue, or something like that, so where can we jump to from this?"

[unborn pilot]

seems like Romans, Byzantine too, but what i'm reading is they're all based on Egyptian ones.

this map on that page is pretty interesting too

[dull marsh]

Yeah I think there are 13 obelisks in Rome, and 5 which were made in Egypt for Rome specifically

A lot of those relate to Heliopolis and the Temple of Ra

There's Cleopatra's needle in London which could relate to Caesar imo

[unborn pilot]

I'm wondering if the 15 locations/numbers MultiCo had in the document are obelisks.

[dull marsh]

Or they could be VR world coordinates?

[unborn pilot]

Zaraby, Abishemu, Giza,

[unborn pilot]

that fits better than anything tbh

[dull marsh]

We know that most people spend most of their time in VR and not in the meatspace, and this VR world may have coordinates like on earth, but only 2D I guess (and not a spherical projection)

[unborn pilot]

It def fits with MultiCo being the game developer

in that new lore video they refer MultiCo Marcel as being "from corporate"

[dull marsh]

Merciless Marcel hehe

[unborn pilot]

lol you know what i mean

from multico merciless marcel 🙂

[spring thistle]

What's 2d vr even like?

[dull marsh]

Ooooh I see so the MultiCo video leads us to an obelisk??

[unborn pilot]

yeah that lil gif

[dull marsh]

That's very interesting 🤔

[unborn pilot]

its very bizarre and interesting

[dull marsh]

Gonna have to go back into my notes, sounds like this might be the next area to explore for level 3

Or it's lore related, idk

[unborn pilot]

could go either way, but do let me know if you see anything that connects in your notes.

that gif was posted 9 days ago

so it's probably not a dolphin or 3hm clue

[alpine junco]

#easter-eggs message

[austere bridge]

hey yall just wondering what's happening with the monkey hunt it hasn't been complete yet right

[unborn pilot]

Monkey was solved, the password after it was solved and now we’re on Level 3 actually.

[austere bridge]

nice

glad to hear that havent been keeping up with it

just curious

[unborn pilot]

That’s life 🙂 Rockhounds videos on YT are probably the best ways to catch up to the last week or so. Otherwise lots of scrolling thru Discord

[austere bridge]

ty ill check them out

[unborn pilot]

And don’t forget to claim the dolphin charm we unlocked

[austere bridge]

been getting bored with grinding so i started getting participating in the ee hunts agian

i did thanks

what is the last eater egg we need?

the dolphin the monkeys and the what

[unborn pilot]

Rabbits but we had those for a long time

[austere bridge]

oh yeah

now i remember thanks

was just looking at those lol

sorry for asking so many questions but what is the third level or have we not figured that out yer

yet*

[unborn pilot]

It’s in the pins here

Yeah. Here #easter-eggs message

[swift bluff]

anyone here got a copy of the last video when logging in, played with freinds so missed it

[thin perch]

It's been awhile since I checked in on the ee hunt but how are things going with 3hm?

[unborn pilot]

It’s on YouTube, can’t remember the title but it was posted here somewhere

[unborn pilot]

Check pins and scroll up. I literally just explained it to someone else who asked the same thing 🙂

[thin perch]

Oh I see sorry

[unborn pilot]

All good. Just pointing you to the right place. It’s nice to see people coming back as we get to S4

[thin perch]

No I mean I've been here this season just haven't been following the Easter egg hunt since the 3hm discovery. I saw that the dolphin charm was finally found so it piqued my interest again.

[unborn pilot]

Funny how that works. I think that was part of Rob’s plan all along right the charm. It’s a bit of a mystery how we got it besides that it had to do with various classes & loadouts interacting to see the dolphin.

[thin perch]

Yeah I watched rockhoundblack's video on it. Hopefully the people who did it get recognized at some point.

[unborn pilot]

Well I think the shoutouts go to anyone who tried 1 time or 100 times. It sounds like it was made easier so we could finish it so it could have been anyone even by accident.

[thin perch]

I'm just glad that I get my little pixel dolphin on my sledgehammer

[austere bridge]

Thanks

[rugged breach]

Teammates left during wt so had some time to skulk about skyway, anyone recognise what location the purple sticky note with the map is referencing?
Also can't tell what the yellow one is

On a non-sticky note, weird interaction with this sign here, growing an outline when you get close but with the letters disappearing, I wanna say 65-70% sure it's a weird LoD glitch

(Also looks like it's time to find a new gif recorder 🥲 )

[unborn pilot]

Yellow one is the Embark logo. The purple one theory is some sort of overhead map maybe

[rugged breach]

You're right! I see it now

As for the map, it's weird, can't think of any of the existing ones with that configuration of buildings/street, tried some parts that I thought may be it but nothing quite fits

This message lives rent free in my brain ever since 🥲
#easter-eggs message

[unborn pilot]

For some reason from that second pic I can’t unsee like a robot/alien with two eyes

Ah yes that’s it.

For anyone who remembers that cartoon 😂

[rugged breach]

https://tenor.com/view/so-real-real-will-you-snail-shelly-shelly-real-gif-12223845741358812507

[floral kraken]

"Ahhhh! Real Monsters!"? Oh my god, that was my least favorite cartoon when I was around 10 years old. In retrospect it wasn't bad but not to my tastes (for some reason the jokes all fall flat). I think I probably disliked it because the only episode I ever saw (Edit: As in, as a child, not years later) was when they played reruns of it instead of Dexter's Lab on YTV.

Also, just FYI, nice username. Only reason I mention it aside from that is my brother is working on a project and one of the villains in his "Ready Player One but not crappy" novel is named "R-Kade". I figure I should be upfront about that coincidence, he isn't stealing your name or anything and doesn't know about you. If anyone thinks that's an awesome project and wants to know more, you could PM him (PM me for his Discord name) but I'm not here to solicit anything so that's all I'll say for now.

Question. Does anyone know if the Seoul map is based on a real section of Seoul?

[unborn pilot]

I was in Seoul for a few weeks and I kinda think it’s around this area https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeouido

But man the city is so massive and has so many different vibes it’s amazing

[floral kraken]

Oh, nice. Thanks!

[unborn pilot]

I can’t say I know the show or watched it much cause it was super weird but the characters and art stuck in my head forever

[floral kraken]

To be fair, it did have a very memorable art style.

Well, character designs, anyway.

[tardy drum]

I may be late, but any chance the new chanting from the audience is alluding to anything in particular? Anything Egyptian related?

[fresh quiver]

some people are suspecting that it might hints toward something like a sports theme / stadium.

[tardy drum]

Stadium or coliseum 🤔

[unborn pilot]

Tigers confirmed

Appears to be for heavy class though

[rigid adder]

I’m sorry what ?

[hard forge]

Great find by R.cade #1244010150420021340 message

[unkempt dune]

On the 3-in-1 concept, We have black and white. In-between is grey. Without black we cannot have grey. Without white we cannot have grey. Without grey we cannot have a connection for black and white.

Grey matter (or gray matter depending on where you're from) is a major component of our Central Nervous System (CNS) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_matter

white matter reminds me of white rabbits

[sharp flame]

@pure loom very interesting way of looking at it, is the CNS like that in the other track names?

[pure loom]

yeah it is, so maybe it's coincid...

[sharp flame]

wouldn't put it past Rob to name them like that for this sole clue though

[pure loom]

to make us doubt the first one is a clue

https://tenor.com/view/gollum-sneaky-little-hobbitses-lotr-hobbit-sneaky-gif-3537314

[sweet thistle]

I remember the RHB foot EE

[sharp flame]

the what

[sweet thistle]

I'm scared he'll nuke me if I send this again lol

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/milk-missile-missile-soviet-missile-homie-dimension-soviet-gif-27348463

[fresh quiver]

thinking again.

We have 3 MW.Areas with each 3x MMA1-3.
Either MW.Area or MMA maybe something todo with the horizon?
3 passwords, 3 dawns?

[rigid adder]

What’s your predictions of S4’s theme ?

[pure loom]

"Gameshow theme" pretty much

[late bison]

Guys, I recently noticed this on a flash grenade, has it always been like this or has it changed?

[pure loom]

I'm about to publish a vid on it

[rigid adder]

Nice! Love your videos

[solar glade]

waiting

[fresh quiver]

[pure loom]

I uploaded it before and it came out at 5 mins instead of 17 mins

trying again shortly

[late bison]

Thank you, I'm really looking forward to it

[rigid adder]

Are you one of embark’s team ?

[fresh quiver]

then SPEAR would be blue 😄

its something like

RHB = EE Video Dude
SPEAR = Lore Video Dude

[solar glade]

i’m flattered, but no

[solar glade]

ye i only focus on lore and maps. gonna try and see if i can finish a lore script today. i miss making those

[fresh quiver]

maybe you should wait until wednesday? I suspect they might push some Store Items again. which could lead us to more hints about 😄

[solar glade]

it’s just the script tho, i can add whatever comes on Wednesday if it pertains to it

but it would be odd to get another vignette imo

[torn swallow]

What did you notice

[late bison]

part of the grenade looks like lightning, but I just double-checked on the wiki, it turns out that it always was, sorry)

[opal pond]

Do you mean the lightning bolt? Thats always been there

[late bison]

Yes, now I will know)

[fresh quiver]

Just thinking. The description
"Keep ann eye on everything from a distance. Just like CEO Sal Scoria."

Same bundle has "Eggy Exposure"

maybe one ingame namatama is only visible through the sniper scope?

[velvet narwhal]

Rob once eyed this message about this skin #easter-eggs message

[alpine junco]

Good morning

[hard forge]

wrong chat

[dull marsh]

If I had to guess, that would point at the sun's coronae:
F/11 = 11 = 11 years cycle = sun
Red dot = sun/solar eclipse
Ring around the red sun should be the coronae

[alpine junco]

Im pretty sure im in the right chat

Good afternoon to EU as well

[velvet narwhal]

Greetings are more fitting in the off topic ee chat

[alpine junco]

😔

[fresh quiver]

have we ever included the LIGO in our L3 hunt?

[dull marsh]

I haven't seen links to it yet tbh (or I forgot)

[fresh quiver]

as of now me neither. But how did we implemented JBB, LIGO etc. in T3?
I am slightly convinced it might be still unused to a point. and that it might were already clues for L3?

[fresh quiver]

mma might really stand for multimessenger astronomy/Astrophysics
https://www.ego-gw.it/tools-alerts-multimessenger-astrophysics/

This website also mentions LIGO/Virgo

[dull marsh]

Oh I had not really looked into Multimessenger Astrophysics/Astronomy...

That seems pretty spot-on tbh

I was thinking this morning that the idea of "twins" was pretty fitting within the hunt, about people, the idea of mirror image, binarity and binary, etc.

Ooooooooh interesting, solar flares DO qualify as MMA 🤔

Along with Supernovas and Neutron star mergers, hmmmmmmm...

[fresh quiver]

not only that. havent looked more into it yet too. Except sometimes a quick glance.

Apparently under MMA would also fall gravitational waves, neutrinos, photons, cosmic rays

[dull marsh]

It's funny how the stuff that is mentioned among the first ideas are usually the correct ones lol

[fresh quiver]

occams razor at its best again

[dull marsh]

It's always plain obvious and then we just blind ourselves with weird stuff

So yeah then I guess MW = Milky Way huh

[fresh quiver]

normally we should have learned this already to not do this. but we fell for it everytime 😄

[dull marsh]

I can't shake off the idea that this level is all about making a map

Pulsar are famous for serving as "lighthouses" at the scale of the universe

Since each has it's own fingerprint, you should be able to use them to know where you are in the universe

(big emphasis on "should")

About the Milky Way

Galileo Galilei first resolved the band of light into individual stars with his telescope in 1610
Back to the beginning?

[fresh quiver]

might be

[dull marsh]

The Milky Way, or "milk circle", was just one of 11 "circles" the Greeks identified in the sky, others being the zodiac, the meridian, the horizon, the equator, the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic Circle and the Antarctic Circle, and two colure circles passing through both poles.
I like seeing 11 🤔

[fresh quiver]

Hendecagon? we had this. 11 is good

[dull marsh]

Yeah, 11 years cycle of the sun, Iridium constellation (although this one is more of a secondary thing)

But I also like seeing "zodiac" and "horizon" here

[fresh quiver]

also more things I like seeing here: Grav waves, LIGO/Virgo, etc.

[haughty juniper]

what's up with the singing in the maps

[dull marsh]

For now it's believed to be inspired from football chants to increase gameshow feeling

[haughty juniper]

ohhh

yeah i thought it sounded like football chants

[dull marsh]

There might be some EE in there but afaik we haven't really stumbled on anything yet

[haughty juniper]

like the american one

[dull marsh]

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

The Kraken galaxy is a hypothetical galaxy that is proposed to have collided and merged with the Milky Way around 11 billion years ago. The Kraken contributed at least 13 (9%) of the surviving 150 globular clusters to the Milky Way.

The Kraken has been part of OSPUZE branding, could be related

[spring thistle]

Gives me octopus vibes tbh

[silk bolt]

until now the sponsor is still isuel-t and not holtow🤔

[unkempt dune]

Btw, Level 2's real name is The Lie

[fresh quiver]

?

[unkempt dune]

that poor buddy never respawned

.! = SR

[fresh quiver]

yeah. that rob wrote that 404 is known for a long time 😄

[dull marsh]

No it's The Disco Party

[fresh quiver]

that would be a COINCIDENCE 😂 but. there are no.

[unkempt dune]

Well 8 = X in The Hunt

and Scotty is a part of this

Not sure if there's more

[fresh quiver]

I think we might need to scratch that Kraken Galaxy
Its existence was first proposed in 2020.[1][2]

but it could be that he still worked at the big whoop at that time and may be valid

[dull marsh]

True

I think it could be an additional clue added afterwards, as the brands were probably not really set in stone back then but I agree it shouldn't be a main clue

(if it is one at all)

[fresh quiver]

whats with Galaxy X? When we already had Planet X? 😄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_X_(galaxy)

can we somehow put the coordinates here?

VVV JXXXXXXX, JXXXXXXX

im digging this out again too

[alpine junco]

#1270882064249520198 message

[fresh quiver]

yes. I know you said that. we just ramped up to it again

[fresh quiver]

but when trying to link the source comment. you should link the correct one 🙂
#1270882064249520198 message

[unkempt dune]

Level 1 - The Commence
Level 2 - The Lie (The Promise)
Level 3 Activation - Aha! I see the lies!
Level 3 - The Hunt

Basically what does this telling us is that we're looking for ghosts.. aka EEs

in-game

and yes, it's the three original maps

there's a link between them

Yes, it's where S Lies is found

all maps have that

not S Lies, but the location it's found on Monaco

behind a wall

Seek the truth beyond the walls has more than one meaning

since this is lore.. Reality vs VR

[unkempt dune]

the original maps at least, Kyoto and Las Vegas are different in some way

SYS$HORIZON even has a Loading...

Yes, it's probably EE-related

The three dots are a dead giveaway for me, plus it's the direction I was looking for the dolphin charm

Ever wonder why we don't have the official maps for two of the maps in-game? Ever wonder why Skyway Stadium is a mix between Monaco and Seoul which are two real life locations in a virtual arena?

The maps are missing because you need to recreate the maps to gain clues of where things are located. That's why the glitches existed during Season 2. To get us to mark stuff and look at the maps more thoroughly. They're the only reason why I made the maps for Skyway and Las Vegas.

[fresh quiver]

why are the 3 dots a dead giveaway?

[unkempt dune]

... = CNS which hides EEs

Scotty doesn't hide them because he doesn't know about them

.! = Scotty

remember how CNS just wants to change the game and have fun?

[fresh quiver]

But it is also completely normal for things where Loading stands to have 3 dots. common in combination with loading

[unkempt dune]

once you get in a certain mindset for The Hunt, you can't unsee suspicious things

like the lover statue

or the trees on monaco with lights

or the 4 candle sticks in the cathedral

or the name of cashout stations and how many cashout boxes you can have at once

[fresh quiver]

you are too much in. you see it as dead giveaway. not even a slight of "could not be".

yes it could. but it could also not be

[unkempt dune]

and what the cashout boxes represent with the F and VV in one for THE FINALS

[unkempt dune]

it's a form of "construction"

[opal pond]

What do you mean with F and VV?

[unkempt dune]

if you look at the logo for THE FINALS it's two Vs strokes in the shape of an F

VV = W = 3

it's the different perspective stuff

[fresh quiver]

you are still to 100% sure. which you shouldnt. 50/50 or 70/30 or 90/10 would also be that it slightly couldnt be.
But you are completely sure.

How many times we were all 100% confident and it was dead wrong? a few times

[opal pond]

Ohh I thought it was just a slanted stylized F. Didnt even realize it could be a V

[coarse terrace]

Most likely it's a bug, but just in case...

[unkempt dune]

Yeah, this is my theory that I believe in

my conspiracy theory

[opal pond]

Thats the dash/jumppad effect. 100% a bug

[unkempt dune]

I've already see a clue on Skyway

[coarse terrace]

body

[unkempt dune]

actually.. it might not be one

we'd need to find where rob said it was

[opal pond]

Yeah thats the dash effect on someones body

[naive kernel]

A few months ago I posted something similar, it was 100% a dash effect happening at the same moment as they die

I even have a video of it iirc

Definitely a bug

[unkempt dune]

get this

[opal pond]

If someone dies the second they dash the effect stays

[opal pond]

Yeah

[unkempt dune]

CNS hides clues in "bugs".. glitches in the matrix

[naive kernel]

#easter-eggs message Here's original post 👍 (was still a lil baby with no rank to post myself)

[opal pond]

Monaco’s ghost found

[lyric stratus]

bro napping

[unkempt dune]

ex. there's a message somewhere on discord where SR.! replies to someone talking about the defib bug when loading into an existing match.. that's not a bug because Scotty, who knows nothing about the EEs, replied and said it was a bug

[naive kernel]

#⚡┇the-finals-chat message

It very much sounds like a bug and not intended #⚡┇the-finals-chat message

[unkempt dune]

I will admit the signs on those messages are a bit tough to understand, let me find a better example

btw, I have no clue if 4 dots mean something different than 3 dots yet

#easter-eggs message

but hey, if you guys are suspicious of what I believe, that's okay

[fresh quiver]

thats the wrong bug. That was the bug where i think @snow walrus got banned accidently?

[alpine junco]

heck yeah!

[snow walrus]

yes

[unkempt dune]

kind of funny that I've always wondered what these were for and I think I finally get it to some degree

[alpine junco]

i always saw those as VVV but they just point to the jump pads BUT they could also be part of something

[unkempt dune]

if you want me to tell you the clue from above the map, construction on the map has an 8 = X

they point to Hospital, from Seoul

well, one does

the others.. I believe are for the jump pad leading the Monaco

first Seoul, second Monaco?

Skyway Stadium has the blood moon, which you learn about from 1 Night 3 Dawns and Draco from Las Vegas

Dragon Constellation Studios, on Skyway Stadium, is the only unique building (in terms of new props and modular pieces) on the map which has clues for this hunt

Imagine if there was a point during or after a trigger where all the QRs on the map led somewhere else and you couldn't tell because they look the same as before

[alpine junco]

and the red moon variant is for a reason, right?

[unkempt dune]

Yup

no clue what the sky line bridge thing is yet

[clever lily]

Any1 still finding Monaco Graffitis

[alpine junco]

i dont think rob has stated anything about it either

[unkempt dune]

that's why lore and EEs are mixed

the more we solve, the more we'll learn

and it's a group effort

involving sharing knowledge

even if it's just "bugs"!

[alpine junco]

there is a skyway bridge irl

[unkempt dune]

ahh.. Florida

like Monkey Island, Florida

[dull marsh]

What do we do with all the legitimate bugs? Do they also fit in the hunt? Do they all have a pre-planned meaning?

[unkempt dune]

hopefully, the signs are very clear about that

but yes, you need to be cautious

[dull marsh]

But how can an unplanned thing have a pre-planned meaning lol

[unkempt dune]

because you may interpret the clue incorrectly

that's the thing, not all of them are unplanned

if CNS says it's a bug, then it's probably a bug unless they say "bug" or something in quotation marks while talking about it

How could an AI entity hide clues in a video game without getting caught?

[solar glade]

whatchu guys going on about?

[unkempt dune]

these nasty bugs that keep getting brought up over and over

[dull marsh]

That's the whole concept of an AI tho, it's a blackbox

[unkempt dune]

MultiCo is doing a bad job at QA testing is what I'll say

[alpine junco]

the usual

[unkempt dune]

lore

[solar glade]

i mean, we know there's a lot of crossover between the in-game lore and Embark as a studio, but there is a line either way

[solar glade]

sounds good, have a nice day

[unkempt dune]

Not sure if we need to get anything out of this besides Sunshine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_Skyway_Bridge

It looks like 2 pyramids

like the S3 trailer's cutting board

[unkempt dune]

because 1 Night 3 Dawns is the process of a blood moon going away and the sun rising

so the next point being sunshine would make sense

wait, maybe Skyway doesn't have the EEs needed. Maybe Area 1 is Las Vegas

Area 2 is Seoul

and Area 3 is Monaco?

because Skyway Stadium points to Seoul first and then Monaco

but Las Vegas is the start of the hunt

I haven't seen EE clues for skyway specifically yet

CE2029 was probably a few clues for the name Skyway Stadium

and fire engine red as well

[alpine junco]

skyway "is an elevated type of pedway connecting two or more buildings in an urban area, or connecting elevated points within mountainous recreational zones." so the connection of seoul and monaco has to lead somewhere

[alpine junco]

the courtyard and mansion is also new

[unkempt dune]

true

I was looking at it with Rockhound the other day

[fresh quiver]

how do you get from #CE2029 to skyway stadium? "as name".
because the moon is red?

[unkempt dune]

2029 has a blood moon

and Ludo found Monkey Island, Florida within view of it

2029 eclipse: #1211002564015824906 message

[fresh quiver]

then you should take this one #1204475718747029535 message

[unkempt dune]

True, I remembered wrong and forgot that wig pointed out the Monkey Island fact

[fresh quiver]

@marsh wolf please try to not reply to messages in #1204475718747029535
This Thread is not for discussions neither Comments mostly. It's only there to have a Channel for rob to see some things easier.

That would be great. thank you in advance

[marsh wolf]

my b

[unkempt dune]

Rob was also excited about Monkey Island, Florida #1204475718747029535 message

[alpine junco]

Homosassa (Monkey Island) is derived from a Seminole Indian name meaning either "river of fishes" or "pepper ridge"

[waxen sinew]

were on a pattern rn with maps, I like where THiiXY goes in his video also apparently "if you like Monaco you'll like the new map"
here's the video:
https://youtu.be/VkH932T7ETg?si=1gCEbsk4Gm9UfaRJ

he talks about how we get a real world place for a map then a fantasy one ( a place made by devs) and we just got Kyoto which is a real place

[sharp flame]

wait, so what does this mean for the next map?

[fresh quiver]

nothing. I saw the video earlier too. I wasn't sure why it felt off for me. but after rewatching i know what felt off for myself.

THiiXYs theory was cycling between reallife locations & dev made locations.

But he is missing Monaco in his theory completely. he just goes off: Seoul (CB) -> Skyway Stadium (OB) -> Las Vegas(S1) -> SYS$Horizon (S2) -> Kyoto (S3) -> Dev-made location (S4)

But Apparently Embark said at last twitchcon "If you like monaco, you're gonna love the new map"

[sharp flame]

S1 was Vegas wdym

[fresh quiver]

mb. changed it.

[sharp flame]

the order goes Monaco, Seoul, Skyway Stadium, Vegas, SYS$Horizon, Kyoto, New Map

[fresh quiver]

yes. and he didnt even mentioned monaco. because then his theory wouldnt be valid

[sharp flame]

It would make sense if the future cycle of maps was City - Non-city - City - Non-city

it's not like they hang this up as a rule at Embark HQ

it just means they started the cycle in S1

when the actual map creation cycle started

which still makes it hold up

if next Season is a Non-city then I can expect a city in S5 for sure

[naive kernel]

Also consider that in S3 we were meant to get a modern day(?) Kyoto, not a much older one, it's entirely possible next one is a more modern version using the same types of structures or even a fantasy version of it

[waxen sinew]

ah okay mb yall

[red charm]

!!! IMPORTANT POSSIBLE EVIDENCE!!!

For a VERY long time now, I have a theory based on other evidence that the new map will be in rome or greece or something like that. heres something interesting: one of the stickers translates to Cotrinitia, so idk if it means something but theres that

an alternative is machine trinity tho

[sharp flame]

Unfortunately that's a mistranslation, which only takes into account 7 of the characters!

[red charm]

im looking at various OCR translators

[sharp flame]

when sounded out, it does in fact say Machine Trinity

[red charm]

mb

[sharp flame]

Even if you sound out the Japanese haha

and these letters line up!

[red charm]

yeahhh mb i used a shitty OCR translator

[sharp flame]

but I think looking for Rule of 3 clues could still prove useful!

I am keeping the biblical Trinity as an option, but seeing as Level 3 has 3 sections, with 3 Passwords each, THREE is a big player here

[red charm]

yeah

[sharp flame]

I am just wondering how many of the "3" clues were from Level 2

because 3 was a clue in one of the passwords.. 3 = E

[red charm]

has this been released yet? just a quick question.

[glacial path]

Yeah

[red charm]

ok

[glacial path]

It’s unavailable now was part of the world tour quests

[red charm]

ty its been a hot minute since playing

[glacial path]

Yeah I’ve only just gotten really into the finals

Had it since season 3 tho

2

[red charm]

ive been here since day one 😩

took months of a break bc of a house flood

[glacial path]

Niceeeee I only got the shirt and shorts tho

[glacial path]

What happened?

If you don’t mind saying

[red charm]

just a septic system thing the dude reversed the filter

[glacial path]

Oh sounds rather nasty

[red charm]

yep it was a literal shitshow in the basement

[glacial path]

I don’t have a basement 😭

Probably cos I’m not in America or somet cos i think it’s mainly America what has them

Or atleast highly popularised

[fresh quiver]

guys. it would be great if you could move your conversation over to either #⚡┇the-finals-chat or #🥚┇off-topic

that would be great

[glacial path]

Yep sorry our bad

[red charm]

yeah im done rn sry im looking through some stuff

[fresh quiver]

no problem. just a friendly reminder. nothing more

[glacial path]

Ok that’s fine I’ve got a different server if you want just cos otherwise could be like annoying ppl like anytime not rn if it’s bad it’s basically this but on a smaller scale of finals active players

[glacial path]

How do I rank up

As in like in this server to a better rank

[red charm]

hey can someone tell me what the last password to the next level was

[sharp flame]

game files

the background of that image is so clean and pretty

wish they would publish it without the characters

[red charm]

what was the password 😩

[fresh quiver]

just write some messages in some chats 🙂 but dont spam the channels or post everything the same.
to rank up the first time to get access as example to our Easter Egg Threads you need to write 35messages total

[fresh quiver]

sliescetaceaasconce

[red charm]

what was the one before

just more lowercase stuff?

[fresh quiver]

what do you mean before?
For Level 2 you can check all passwords for yourself. they are visible there.
https://reachthefinals.com/tfee-level2

[red charm]

ty

[glacial path]

Do you know how close I am yet samras? Or do I have to wait half hour for the rank thing chat

Thanks

Does that mean I have to send 5 more messages or just I gives me one for every few

Oh also sorry for just asking you questions and stuff but for my own server how do I go as of setting up the thing where you pick your roles because I have role locked chats but I have to manually give people them and it takes ages so if you know how or know who to ask it would be greatly appreciated

[red charm]

you need a bot for that

unless you mean the welcome setup

[glacial path]

Yeah I think

The welcome set up I think

Where you tick which you want to be in like medium light or heavy

I’m orange 😱❤️

[sharp flame]

this one

E = 3, 3 was all over

[unkempt dune]

I think I need a miro board

but I'll say what I think about where the story of THE FINALS might go and how we end up at ARC Raiders

not in too much detail, but at a top level

Essentially, the good AI will go rogue and become evil due to the greed of the sponsors. It'll have control over the technology and resources these companies have. From this, we enter a doomsday scenario because the sponsors went too close to the sun like Icarus. And that's where ARC Raiders comes in. The aftermath of the whole story we'll learn about in THE FINALS.

Icarus is a keyword in this theory and so is Faith

If you know where those came from, you'll understand rob and the video games he's worked on

If these are really are his final video games, I can see why they would be

It's like one final love letter

[rugged breach]

#📕┇lore

[unkempt dune]

Yes, this is very much lore

but lore and EEs are not separate

people here need to hear this the most because they need it to continue with The Hunt

Level 1 - The Commence
Level 2 - The Promise (The Lie)
Level 3 Activation - Aha! I see the lies!
Level 3 - The Hunt (for the truth)

The Hunt connects to life, yes, but it's about Rob's life

Iracus from Mirror's Edge is like a virtual reflection of himself

Project Icarus is in the first Mirror's Edge too

[solar glade]

i'll be very disappointed if that's the case tbh

[unkempt dune]

same, it'd be a good story

[solar glade]

no, i mean i don't like that story path

[unkempt dune]

ohh

and even though it's a generic theme of good vs bad like all stories most of the time

it has a lot put into it

[fresh quiver]

not much confidence in this theory

[unkempt dune]

and that's okay!

[solar glade]

if the whole THE FINALS x ARC Raiders happens, i'll just enjoy how we get there and i hope any hints towards that theory remain extremely subtle and ambiguous

[unkempt dune]

it's only a theory

[unkempt dune]

I cannot prove it

because it's based on things that have not happened yet

like conspiracy theories

[fresh quiver]

yeah. about conspiracy 😅
CNS = conspiracy xD

and thats not even a joke lol.
there is a demogroup called conspiracy (CNS)

R.Cade and me disassembled a little bit robs mentions of his usernames & demogroups

[unkempt dune]

#easter-eggs message

I think those are how you solve The Hunt and their passwords.. through links in-game

after solving EEs

he planted that seed for QR codes on Skyway Stadium

and here in Discord

[hard forge]

i don't want Arc x finals

both need to be separate

[dull marsh]

Ngl I'd be pretty disappointed if they're not in the same universe

[unborn pilot]

did anyone notice the dice charm "rerolls" the numbers? i thought it was just having that weird gravity effect and i was crazy, but you can see the corner it hangs from changes, 362 with 5 on the bottom, then i got 456, then 145, etc.

[rugged breach]

Isn't that already confirmed to be the case? I swear we saw dissun's logo in one of the early AR reveals

[fresh quiver]

could mean nothing.

[opal pond]

Thats a cool detail

Does it reroll everytime you re-equip the item its on?

[unborn pilot]

Yeah or in menu can keep pushing inspect. It throws the dice and when it’s back the numbers change.

[solar glade]

the duality of hunters

[unique spruce]

https://tenor.com/view/jacksparrow-johnnydepp-pirate-spooky-magic-gif-11075885606474700306

[unkempt dune]

Behind the Walls

[pure loom]

I'll be disappointed if they're both in the same universe and not. Schrödinger's storyline.

[fresh quiver]

I think i have looked enough at demogroups for today. 💤

Good Night

[river jolt]

I’ve been thinking recently that cns means code name Scotty… I was watching some lore videos high asf and was connecting some dots

1.)cns is a person/group not a sponsor
2.)they want to interrupt the games
3.)Scotty was a former contestant and he says he was good
4.) butttttt there always voice lines eluding that Scotty is lying about something
5.) also during trailers he seemed to know the most about what was happening

Ik it’s supppppper far fetched but lmk wht you guys think.

[unborn pilot]

Great finds. Get rest hunter.

[fresh quiver]

u2. we had some spree today after days of not finding things

[alpine junco]

My turn, just woke up from a nap

[hard forge]

i think it's far fetched

[hard forge]

good luck

[cobalt bone]

went through all of the published arts with binwalk

nothing interesting

[rapid willow]

Scotty did seem to dismiss the hacks as “glitches”

Wonder where his training came from?

[spring thistle]

I still think the hosts are up to no good

They can't be trusted.

The only person I would trust is the arena guy

[alpine junco]

every time i hear him he reminds me of Scooter from the borderlands series

[elder agate]

I cant tell if the whole bean thing is a joke

[tardy drum]

Speaking of joke

Dead Go Boom
Coming back for S4 since there’s more melee weapons now?

[austere bridge]

same

i was so confused

[acoustic raven]

I have heard a wolf howling in two of my games? Does this mean Halloween next season with a wolf skin?

[pure loom]

is it the Haunting Howl sound (expression)?

[alpine junco]

There are new stadium chants

[sweet thistle]

I mean I swear I heard ducks during a crowd reaction. Not sure what's going on

[fresh quiver]

you found something? after you said your turn? 😄

[fresh quiver]

@pure loom

you know if we shouldnt use it or should try?
Havent saw a translation of it.
#easter-eggs message

[ashen vault]

Yeah you and I thought same one

[fresh quiver]

please ellaborate. just posting a picture might just give us questionsmarks without explaining 😄
the orange spot?

@unkempt dune i know its part of your theory. But lon 0 lat 0 is explainable because you mirrored all of them. and where does it get mirrored? 0,0

keep going

yeah.wrong thread and that

[unkempt dune]

yup, I know

[ashen vault]

I tried to look for this ans I can't find where is here

[snow walrus]

terminal?

[ashen vault]

Does TA has game event in it? like low gravity.

[ashen vault]

He said that bright orange part is strange but I think that is more suspicious

[snow walrus]

i think the layout is kinda similar

[hushed walrus]

it's craezy no one is seeing those

[ashen vault]

But where is the location?

[hushed walrus]

its everywhere like little bits it'es movinh

[ashen vault]

what mode?

[hushed walrus]

wt

[fresh quiver]

@unkempt dune for your theory. dont know if it it might help. But the last image you posted.
WRIST could also be read as WR | ST. White Rabbit | Saint

[unkempt dune]

it's entirely possible

and that in itself could be an EE that you'd only know about if you can see it

but yeah, that's the kind of mindset you need when doing this part

make connections wherever you can and whenever you can

[acoustic raven]

Sounds like a werewolf

[torn swallow]

The orange is the light reflection

[gray silo]

Its a crocodile mouth

[opal pond]

If you can please try to clip it

And on what map(s) and variant of it did you hear it

[alpine junco]

Mmmmmm kinda not really

[keen ravine]

have we found anything on skyway?

[wispy whale]

any cool easter eggs

[fresh quiver]

I think the fantails are cool.

[fresh quiver]

I think we haven’t found things on skyway for a long time

[keen ravine]

okay thanks, last thing I know was looked at was the skybox a good while ago. Didnt know if anything since then

[plucky kettle]

idk if said before but this sign now flashes

[fresh quiver]

you have a recording of it?

[marsh wolf]

sorry i just had to point this one out again

[wild vapor]

Has anyone else heard new cheering from the digital crowds around the arena me and another person have heard these new distinctive sounds several times does it mean anything?

It’s at the end

This

[graceful yoke]

Any Japanese texts found that needs to be translated?

I can help

[delicate arch]

I felt the pain of the door/revive
I've heard the new chants as well
Also flamethrower user = W

[unkempt dune]

Anything is possible. I do find it interesting that the chant ends after you go outside.

I actually haven't played a match since the last update, so I haven't heard them yet.

[ancient tendon]

Have you guys seen this in Monaco?

[opal pond]

Thats a coincidence, I heard it alot outside

[unkempt dune]

Yeah, but what does it mean? Also, what is the symbol on the left and right?

Is that two 4s or is it a lightning bolt?

[opal pond]

A lightning bolt, its an electrical box

[unkempt dune]

Essentially I want to point out that you can make simple observations what that number is connected to

and from those simple observations you can do research

Like you could try to discover why two triangles for a lightning bolt. Is there a reason? Maybe. Surely there's another reason besides the fact that it looks like a lightning bolt.

[elder agate]

Are all Easter eggs viewable at the lowest video settings? Or do you need to have them high resolution to see in game?

My thought it perhaps if some parts are blurry but the Easter eggs are not it may make them stand out more 🤔

[opal pond]

They should all be visible on all setting quality

We had cases where it was only on a certain setting quality level but that got fixed after

If people are interested in the shirt cipher go to this thread

[fresh quiver]

they should be. y es

[dull marsh]

Pretty confident this is just a scan, this is an electrical box, that's how they look around there

[cold heart]

thanks for sharing this

[fresh quiver]

we've never found this. did we? #easter-eggs message

[winged tartan]

Is this a bug

[fresh quiver]

maybe interesting for Atsu for his cooking or at all interesting.

Vegas Golden Knights. (franchise) is owned by "Black Knight Sports and Entertainment"

[snow walrus]

they are like 7segment display characters

[fresh quiver]

idk. but for me it kinda looks like a sun with sunglasses on

[rugged breach]

Hard to tell with the saturation, I think that may be the thermal bore particle getting stuck on something, seen it happen a few times lately

[spring thistle]

Most likely. I've been seeing them since the recent patch

I think they appear after stuff lights on fire

[sleek stratus]

At the same time with the holtow ad dropping this patch which had a large focus on the sun maybe it does have something to do with the new arena? i could be wrong though..

Also another note if it is a easter egg of sorts in the clip it looks like its a night variant of the arenas which factors more so into as the sun disappearing ad and it being a sun easter egg maybe?

[unkempt dune]

Black Knight can also be taken as a "dark knight" or "night time" or "pitch black"

kind of fun to think of all the different ways you could say it

[fresh quiver]

Black nite
Blacknite

Blacknite seems to be a mineral or something. just found this in quickly https://www.toprocks.com/de/collections/mineral-type-quartz-blacknite
Which also would involve quartz which we already had

[plucky kettle]

nope but it wasnt a code, it was just flashing in and out and was at the begining of the match

[fresh quiver]

LOOOOOOL.

Found "Black Nite Crash" is a single by English shoegazing band "ride"
Title no.4 is named A Trip Down Ronnie Lane

Does it appear familiar? yes. rob said sometime iirc "Going down the memory lane"

[sharp flame]

Batman was a confirmed clue.. maybe that's connected too haha

although it was only a small reference

[hard forge]

interesting

[fresh quiver]

actually the song isnt even that bad. #1201288968562552863 message

[gaunt forge]

From Waterdance stream 😉

[dusk veldt]

Thaank you for sharing, he really is everywhere these days ._.

Another goat statement...

He said the same thing to me in main a while back

[snow walrus]

which is

[dusk veldt]

Related to Death By Rodent

[sharp flame]

oh is he in there RIGHT NOW

[dusk veldt]

YES

[fresh quiver]

EE hunter Raid!

[dusk veldt]

Even Rob agrees....

[fresh quiver]

#1201288968562552863 message 😂

[snow walrus]

this why we shouldn't create many threads...

[snow walrus]

i was about to 😂

[fresh quiver]

said a long time ago we should just put important stuff in threads we already discussed in main. Discussions in threads makes it even more impossible.

all other here.

We just had this redirect everything from #easter-eggs to the threads BECAUSE of the first lore videos that dropped and the flood of people that came here

[snow walrus]

we don't have much discussions going on here anymore so we can discuss here and then link important messages to related threads

[fresh quiver]

^this

[dusk veldt]

#1201288968562552863 message #⚡┇the-finals-chat message #easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

but we need to prevail it.

[dusk veldt]

There is something here, lore related that he wants us to find

Especially with the death by rodent bundle that was recently added

[snow walrus]

with that way anyone can keep up whatever thread wants to follow up without clutters

[dusk veldt]

Mostly what I did with the #1247320886646804550 thread. Just made a big wall of text linking back to everything we discussed here

[fresh quiver]

we need to tidy everything up 😭 that will be hard work haha

[snow walrus]

or we should exclude rob from some threads

[fresh quiver]

im thinking if this might be worth to let it pin for the next days.

[dusk veldt]

That will never happen sadly, theres so much to go through

[snow walrus]

if hunters agree

[fresh quiver]

don't mind me. pinging some. @sharp flame @hard forge @dull marsh @unkempt dune @sweet thistle @cold heart

[sharp flame]

I can't quite make out what is being asked

lay it out in very few words pls, to give context

[fresh quiver]

going back to

"we discuss everything here. only important things goes into threads"

"we don't have much discussions going on here anymore so we can discuss here and then link important messages to related threads"

we only had made the change to discuss everything in threads because of the first Lore videos that dropped. and everything was flooded the first week with new hunters.

We changed to work in threads because we dont had not any quiet minute to work in the normal EE chat

--> if we should pin the plan for the next days <--

[rugged breach]

While not ping squad, I do love some organised threads, +1 on that

[fresh quiver]

Everyone can share their opinion about this with us. 👍
I only pinged a few I had in mind.

[dull marsh]

Question: was that person outline ever picked up on this door? It's drawn as a negative space with the white-ish paint in the top part of the image

[hard forge]

wow i never noticed it

[dull marsh]

I just checked an old screenshot and it was there already

[fresh quiver]

las vegas?

[dull marsh]

Yes at the concert in the street

[hard forge]

@unborn pilot @velvet narwhal @rugged breach

and everyone else

[dull marsh]

I just tried to do the horn sign in front of the concert for the whole match, didn't do anything, but it would connect pretty well with the "goat" comment from Rob, and he does that symbol A LOT lol

[fresh quiver]

whats your opinion?

[dull marsh]

We just need forum-based EE channels lol

[fresh quiver]

time to ping @fallen jasper again for this to get a status update

[dull marsh]

"it's in progress... at a null speed"

[fresh quiver]

but even with forum based EE Channels. What is this much different compared to threads? it would be too many to rob have a clear oversight

[hard forge]

If you ask me, we work with what we have for lvl 3 then try to connect with things others are working on.

In upcoming weeks we will have lore EEs for season 4 and then we all will be working on that.

[rugged breach]

He does also call us rockstars a lot... Maybe the interactable ee on vegas is more related to getting the correct things on stage to "perform" rather than a heist at eastwood's vault like the sticker suggests... I believe the golden flamingos were also eye'd to be "something" at one point

[dull marsh]

Also I don't know if it's just me but... that box looks SUSPICIOUS 🤔

[fresh quiver]

yeah. working on the things is clear. just that we should work here in easter-eggs instead of in the threads

[hard forge]

yes i agree

[velvet narwhal]

Has this always been there?

[snow walrus]

I think forum is more manageable and easier to track recent activities bcs you dont need to follow threads

[dull marsh]

Looks like it yes, at least in may

[dull marsh]

Plus the first message remains visible, which allows to collect essentials instead of pins

[snow walrus]

And we can pin important threads

[velvet narwhal]

I agree with mainly talking in this chat, but we need to make sure to cross post.

[fresh quiver]

yep. with cross-posting we are already tidying up some things a bit i guess

[velvet narwhal]

It does look sus. You can surely open that somehow

[snow walrus]

Like make your comments here but dump informations there

[fresh quiver]

was the box ever there? 😮 But agreed that it looks more suspicous

it looks "too clean" for only an asset

[dull marsh]

Also it has a lock and looks pretty out of place 🤔

I've never seen a box like that IRL

[fresh quiver]

I can't even remember that box.

The guy on the door? yeah I might have seen it. but the box?

[dull marsh]

That's a screenshot from May 27

[fresh quiver]

If the namatama might be in there. I swear.....

[rugged breach]

You can hust about see it in the corner of the picture used for the grafitti in the ee map

[unborn pilot]

Yeah he’s been there. I have a bunch of screenshots. It’s in multiple spots.

[dull marsh]

But to go back to the "goat" stuff I think that using the "horns" symbol ("Rock On" gesture) would fit best for an EE at this point

🤘

Rob has insisted too much now for it to not be important in some way

[unborn pilot]

Hard to say what we should do. The threads seem to be helping clutter main chat a lot less.

[fallen jasper]

it's in progress... at a null speed

[fresh quiver]

100pts for ludonope 🎉

[alpine junco]

also now realizing all the graffiti are demo groups
Virtual was a demo group based in Sweden, likely formed sometime in 1991 - since their first productions saw the light of day this year.

They are considered disbanded, having not made any releases since 1994.

[fallow agate]

Any S4 stuff?

[daring bluff]

is the box breakable?

[spring thistle]

@odd copper wanted me to post this video but I completely missed it so it has been sitting in my dms for a hot minute. I'm sorry 😭
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1281730504021905510/1281730674000138302/789ff5f4-99f8-4558-ba51-ae5f6d5ae50a.mov?ex=66e20e36&is=66e0bcb6&hm=c45cb65578363ae2b42fa8147c82500f5e89234472d11c9f3c5abb0f4d748ede&

"Sounds like knocking, a siren, then someone talking. It begins as soon as Scotty starts to speak"

[odd copper]

All cool. Found out it was actually another Easter egg related to the in game band “death by rodents”

[spring thistle]

Yep.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1201288968562552863/1283235132962111518/image.png?ex=66e24159&is=66e0efd9&hm=b926206cf6656359842e45e177f6f63660e1567f7f28528e4e537a0f58d50629&

Sofia Petronelle, OSPUZE CEO

S lies = Sofia lies
What is she lying about?

S = Sofia pretty much confirmed

Rob knows Sofia (I don't know if he himself exists in the lore)

Is Ospuze not all power?

Is the no sugar claim false?

[alpine junco]

you know when something is sugar free they add something else

[daring bluff]

I believe there is a difference between S and Sofia

They've always been talked about separately

[spring thistle]

Well yeah, but I was talking about it being actually sugar

[alpine junco]

maybe some other performance enhancing crystalline structure

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rolling-under-the-sea-scientists-gave-octopuses-ecstasy-to-study-social-behavior/ example

[spring thistle]

Yes but it's strange that rob specifically mentioned talking to "s" to change the ospuze slogan. The only S who's connected to ospuze is Sofia. She's also the CEO, so she most likely has the power to do so. The cns hate the sponsors, and ospuze is a sponsor of the finals.

Another option for S would be Scotty. However, I don't think he has the power to change the official slogan

But we do know that he loves Ospuze

I vaguely remember there being a lore vignette where Sofia is mentioned. Might have to rewatch all of them to figure things out

[unkempt dune]

Well, from my perspective, the S could be for the S in CNS

[spring thistle]

I believe slies is a message from the cns

The earliest messages they were able to get in before they were able to completely hack the show

[alpine junco]

system lies

[opaque juniper]

yall think we will get a new named face for s4, i only just realised s3’s one (the anime one) was kinda just a non “named” face but we got odilia in s1 and ariad in s2, possibly a scotty/sofia face in s4 ? Just bored and wanna know your thoughts on it

[spring thistle]

I doubt they'll reveal the hosts like that

Tried looking through the miro board on my phone. It's overheating now

[floral kraken]

So, I know there's lore for this game, but having gone through the game itself normally and not finding anything beyond basic stuff, can I ask exactly how deep the lore is for this? Is there some whole world of iceberg I'm missing out on or is the lore less of a hard science and more about the intro things they put on youtube and in the startup sequence?

[unkempt dune]

It's a deep rabbit hole. One that's pretty tough to go down. You can read this theory I came up with if you're interested: #1282815551944659104 message

[odd copper]

In highschool I had ISS for a month and since I couldn’t go to gym class I had to write papers on physical health. Turns out that aspartame (found in many diet drinks) causes chronic depression and many other health issues

[floral kraken]

Oh my god. It's just a hunch but... Could "S" in "S LIES" refer to the season number being reset? If the Finals dates back to the 90s but is only on season 3-4 right now... Well, it doesn't add up. Not unless there's a subtraction we didn't think about.

[eternal violet]

This might be a hot take, but organization is good. We are the ones trying to solve EEs so we should do whatever is best for us. Also, rob already said that our training is done and from lvl 3 onwards we are on our own.

[hard forge]

agreed

[hard forge]

this question is more fitted for #📕┇lore

[fresh quiver]

As Impervious stated its more a #lore question.
But we with finding clues for the Easter-Eggs we sometimes (often) find clues towards lore.

As Example: Have you known that CNS already appeared during Beta? They put their signature into the EXIF Data of some of the official art images.

[fresh quiver]

Havent we already had Iliad?

The idea of shapeshifting is found in the oldest forms of totemism and shamanism, as well as the oldest existent literature and epic poems such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad.

[cobalt bone]

Who's KN then?

[solar glade]

we don't know, i theorized a long time ago that they might've been CNS' insider in MultiCo

[sharp flame]

Charlestown, St Kitts and Nevis

we know it's a location identifier

because all of the official Sponsor website are registered from KN

maybe it's the signature of a MultiCo insider from KN

or they go by KN because it's significant to them somehow

[solar glade]

ye i know

[sharp flame]

for the information of the other guy!! sry to tag you lol

[vale igloo]

S04 Teaser Trailer

[sharp flame]

for those who don't happen to open the thread: https://youtu.be/Ba0l5QMmSH8?si=wWiiFMPswcQHhr2D

[fallow agate]

LETS GOOOOOOOO

[fresh quiver]

Where did we got KN from again?

[sharp flame]

KN was in the metadata of one of the early EE images: Don't trust them? - KN

and also the Place ID which registered all of the Finals Sponsor sites

Charlestown, KN

[fresh quiver]

Then it’s one of the few I might have forgotten.

[sharp flame]

very very early on

one of the forgotten EEs

[hard forge]

this was before our time.

[fresh quiver]

Sometime in T3 I checked every image we had with aperi 😂

[rigid adder]

https://x.com/thefinalslatest/status/1833888047374520433?s=46&t=JzotyUNSdUgU_8hRG7MVEg

THE FINALS - Latest News (@TheFinalsLatest) on X

The thumbnail reveals a Season 4 sponsor: IVADA

Twitter · Sep 11, 2024, 3:19 PM

[blazing nexus]

any idea on this image?? or just branding choices

ivada sounds like a fancy name for a space program

[alpine whale]

i think its purely branding choices

then again i was certian S3wouldnt be japan

[blazing nexus]

kinda similar no?

[alpine junco]

no

[sharp flame]

not at all 😭

[blazing nexus]

i think it looks identical

[sharp flame]

two As in the name tbf

[alpine junco]

IVADA: An Interactive Visualization Approach to Data Analysis and Its Application on Microarray Data

[sharp flame]

AIVADAIAMD

your AI is broken

try not using ChatGPT next time brotha

[blazing nexus]

the image on the right looks like a slightly different coloured version of earths upper atmosphere

i think im just sleep deprived

sorry

[sharp flame]

kinda see it

[alpine junco]

yeah that

[cobalt bone]

It's not only the one of the early, it's exactly the first one of the CNS(-related?) interceptions in the files' metadata, all previous were only like cheering and wishing the best from embark, went through all of the files myself

[sharp flame]

exactly, it has a deeper meaning

[cobalt bone]

https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/Ba0l5QMmSH8/maxresdefault.webp?v=66e1ad8b
The cleaner version of the image

[fresh quiver]

If so. take the Twitter/X image. higher res.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GXNDTJtXgAEOCjc?format=jpg&name=large

[ocean dagger]

is there any clue about the menu ee?

[cold heart]

has this been said yet?.. kinda reminds me of the abstract ISEUL-T screens we see on some maps

i feel like ive seen it be pink before too, but cant find a good image

[lone wave]

The colors match so well @cold heart nice one

[unborn pilot]

I posted the CNS timeline here with all metadata a few days ago. It was definitely the first #1204573219894468648 message

[waxen sinew]

let's go s4 stuff rolling in! I will try my best to help and figure things out!

[unborn pilot]

Lots of ghosting in the image and it’s stretched and you have to rotate 124 degrees. But I’m pretty sure it’s an arm holding a new gun

The text looks like Pierce or something

[elder agate]

In the black and white photo the white at the all the way right looks like a nose/face. Maybe like a blow dart?

[rigid adder]

Did you guys find anything today on the S4 teaser’s photo ?

[unborn pilot]

Yeah there’s a screenshot or possible several layers of screenshots from the trailer in the top right corner.

[haughty juniper]

https://youtu.be/A5TS9SiH7rw

[fresh quiver]

the sliding? probably a bug. but dunno

[haughty juniper]

the last part, the body

[alpine junco]

bug

[unkempt dune]

Working on a map for the practice range right now.. I'll have it done hopefully by the end of the week

[opal pond]

Just throwing this out there, The numbers are missing on the balls. Could be done to simplify it but it might be a code or something?

[fallow agate]

Looks like a Vandel💀

[alpine junco]

5 2 12 11 8 6 1 3 15 10 7 14 9 4 13

right to left top to bottom

[crisp eagle]

That’s also an incorrect way to rack. The one ball should always be at the front

In the new video today the contestant’s grenades changed number. I don’t know if anyone else pointed it out. 8,9,4,15

[rugged breach]

Two things of note as well,

1. The orientation of where the ball is facing could be significant. Reminds me of the noita eye cipher (which unfortunately's not been soled to draw comparrisons to the method)

2. Each ball has a set base that repeats with different colours, except the red ball at row 4 position 2, going top to bottom, or 2,2 bottom to top

Another orientation thing I noticed with the latest shop drop, top left (facing us) or top right (facing away) part of the barrel is broken, though may be nitpicking at this point, it's a cool design

[unkempt dune]

Actually.. look at the shapes

ovals and circles

Like on the balls

[cold heart]

the "broken part", is just the slant brake

every AKM skin has this 😅 its really common on AKs IRL

[unkempt dune]

wonder why it's like that on AKMs

like IRL

what's the IRL reason for having it be that way

[cold heart]

it helps reduce recoil

[unkempt dune]

interesting

[rugged breach]

There's more uniquely oriented balls than I initially caught (though to be fair I was mid wt ;w;), all blue ones are unique

Much less confident in them being a subtle hint now. I'm leaning more towards having 3-4 set ball rotations making it look too stiff so the artist added some extra ones to break up the repetition

[cold heart]

visualised

[fallen jasper]

Anything season 4 related leaked from the Livestream?

[runic furnace]

What's this from

[snow sapphire]

its the sticker that comes with the new pool ball grenade skin

[runic furnace]

Thought so thx

[snow sapphire]

🫡

[crisp eagle]

7 and 2 look like they are looking right at each other if they were eyes. none of the others seem to do that

[neon basin]

Shoutout to all the Easter eggers, you guys are awesome

[inner sand]

Ignore him he’s xp farming!

[fallen jasper]

Still thinking about how we don’t know what S Lies means

[fallen jasper]

Scotty

[austere bridge]

scotty lies might mean something

like what if cns is the good guys, its dumb but it can work

[fallen jasper]

Unreliable narrator situation

[ashen vault]

scotty lies about ospuze

[junior thicket]

It's like Krusty the Klown, acts like he loves the product, but spits it out right after the shoot...
Clearly the sponsors are dirty companies.

[spring thistle]

Sofia lies

[fresh quiver]

we don't know for sure. It's a theory

[spring thistle]

So is scotty

[tidal ferry]

@lone steeple

[lone steeple]

Yo look what I found https://imgur.com/fmaCHC1 is it part of an easter egg?

[lone steeple]

Thanks!

[tidal ferry]

#easter-eggs message

[lone steeple]

Ah I see a lot of players are saying its a bug thanks for the certification

[tidal ferry]

[pulsar badge]

Did anyone see a like a 8 bit floppy disk appear in Kyoto at all yesterday.

Saw it pop up and rotate and then disappear during a terminal attack game in the warmup but didn’t get a picture of it

[hearty meteor]

#1252315342328565760

[vale igloo]

S LIES
S = Saint
SR = Saint Rob

Rob Lies

[dull marsh]

If you think Rob lies then he would probably be disappointed

[solar glade]

[fresh quiver]

had we ever figured out why they are the same?

except the bottom one has some additions. its 1:1 the same base-shape

[velvet narwhal]

I'd cry if he's been leading us into wrong rabbit holes all this time 😢

[dull marsh]

Historically we have been the ones doing so, not rob haha

[vale igloo]

hey, can someone look in to this? i cant check the video properly myself but during the S2 trailer around the 35 second mark the "WELCOME" sign flashes for a few seconds and it might also show WWELCOW for a frame or two, i can't be sure by that's what it looks like

[sharp flame]

just checked, it says WELCOME every frame!

might be disorienting because it mirrors for a split second on one frame!

but it does say WELCOME the whole time

[vale igloo]

ahh yeah thanks, this must have been what i saw

[unkempt dune]

but it does show the sign 🤔

almost as if.. the sign being different for others and not consistent was intentional

I do get the sign now though

it's 3 threes in one sign... if you have a different perspective

[sharp flame]

make it quick

where are the 3s

[unkempt dune]

what's the text again

the really random one people see

[vale igloo]

WWELCOW

[unkempt dune]

W = 3

turn it like the sail for a boat from the dolphin charm trigger

[hard forge]

S LIES
was Elvis right?

S could also be a person who lies
OR
a place which lies somewhere.

we have coordinates in the hunt too

S(something or place) lies ( at? somewhere?)

Secret Lies at xxxx?

[unkempt dune]

very true

there's probably more than one meaning for S Lies

[unkempt dune]

one of the observations made for WWELCOW was that it was the same piece of text, but some letters were shifted and rotated #easter-eggs message

I know people pointed this out before me I believe

Necrobump, but you're right that it's actually pretty close to binary. I do think binary is a theme/concept in this hunt.

[dusk veldt]

@dull marsh there is a big conspiracy theory in Sweden regarding the football world cup of 1958. This kinda reminded me of it #1204475718747029535 message

Might be interesting

[dull marsh]

I was looking at 1957 since one clue was VM.57 so it could definitely be related to that

[dusk veldt]

It goes by ”Konspiration 58” and ”KSP58”

Link to the conspiracy group forum (obviously in Swedish) https://konspiration58.se/intro.php

[vale igloo]

related-ish does anyone know what song from the OST the S2 trailer uses?

[vale igloo]

ahh it's a mix of Ceratop and Syntax

[fallow agate]

No idea

[vale igloo]

i figured it out

[spring thistle]

https://youtu.be/Ba0l5QMmSH8

[alpine junco]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba0l5QMmSH8

[plucky kettle]

HOLTOW ARENA

[alpine junco]

ISEULT ARENA

[odd copper]

WE GOT DUAL WIELD PISTOLS

[rugged breach]

Engimo mentioned

[tranquil minnow]

Sponsor faces

[slate dagger]

gus

[carmine trench]

There's a screen with the new sponsor

I can't read the logo

But it's like ISCUIT

[odd copper]

Looks like light is getting a semi auto shotgun, medium is getting a dmr, and heavy is getting dual desert eagles

[dusk veldt]

Where are these from? :O

[sharp flame]

#game-announcements

[plucky kettle]

Holtow CEO

[dusk veldt]

NOOOO NOT MORE THREADS AGHH

[plucky kettle]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1283806484953829527 for holtow stuff I gess

[dusk veldt]

Why not put that in #1185727960980922488

[plucky kettle]

shit

[dusk veldt]

We just had a debate on this Frenchy

[plucky kettle]

good point

[plucky kettle]

did we ???

[dusk veldt]

Well it was a short one ._.

[plucky kettle]

Isul-t CEO

[crisp eagle]

I’m getting a “factions” vibe from that teaser

[dusk veldt]

Why not "Sponsor CEO's" ._.

OOOR

[plucky kettle]

thanks admin btw

[dusk veldt]

S4 Teaser Trailer

[rugged breach]

Same, that's mega exciting. Crime we've not been able to choose who we're sponsored by

[fresh quiver]

@dusk veldt why a new one?

we already have one?

[dusk veldt]

I give up, I give up

[dusk veldt]

My bad I didnt know, Closed it ._.

[fresh quiver]

#1283444562416631878

[plucky kettle]

WOW

[crisp eagle]

Haha I knew you’d pick up on that too 🫡 all the Holtow stuff everywhere in the arena then a team of all Holtow geared out contestants. Then it did the same with all Iseul-T

[plucky kettle]

STOP MAKING NOT NEEDED THREADS

jkjk

[odd copper]

Can somebody post a SS of the team holding the 3 new weapons?

[eternal violet]

3 new threads from 26 second teaser new record lets goooooo 👏

[plucky kettle]

dw

[plucky kettle]

there will be a new one again

[odd copper]

Thanks. Forgot to take one while watching

[hard forge]

Purge all this threads

[odd copper]

New light shotgun is either gonna be god tier or absolute trash. No in between

[alpine junco]

Add the photos to #1283444562416631878

[carmine trench]

ah didn't know that there was a thread for this

[alpine junco]

#⚡┇the-finals-chat already has em too