easter-eggs

[snow walrus]

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

[gloomy anvil]

Like Ludo said there are both here are some more straightforward ones https://thefinals.wiki/wiki/In-Game_Easter_Eggs

[fresh quiver]

Vladimir Nabokov alluded to the game using the name "word golf" in the novel Pale Fire, in which the narrator says 'some of my records are: hate—love in three, lass—male in four, and live—dead in five (with "lend" in the middle).'[1]

Word ladders are often featured in the New York Times crossword puzzle

word ladders might sound good

[snow walrus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints'_Church,_Daresbury#Gallery

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Three_Sunsets_and_Other_Poems

Alternative link
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/35497/35497-h/35497-h.htm

[pure loom]

A link between Alice in Wonderland and the Vesica Piscis and Euclidian geometry: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391-600-alices-adventures-in-algebra-wonderland-solved/

[pure loom]

Just dropping this in here as a reference between AIW and the history of personal computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Dormouse_Said

[pure loom]

Here's an interesting link - Freddie Mercury appeared in a few previous lines of investigation. His ashes and Alice in Wonderland's illustrator, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tenniel are both in Kensal Green Cemetery

[dull marsh]

There is quite a few things to dig into as these books are kinda written in the same way Rob gives us riddles

A lot of stuff has double/triple meaning and link to scientific/historical/linguistic stuff

[pure loom]

Yeah, he likes to obscure things by volume of clues

This guy is buried there too - a member of the band 1960s band T. rex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Peregrin_Took

And Charles Babbage, who originated the concept of a digital programmable computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage

[fresh quiver]

The Grave of Andrew Duncrow.. has a sphinx (or similar)
Its also on Kensal Green Cemetery

[pure loom]

These Megaloceros giganteus sculptures at Crystal Palace look quite similar to the deer display on the SYS$HORIZON map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace_Dinosaurs

[dull marsh]

I was talking about that a bit ago in relation to the carpet pattern 😄

[pure loom]

not the same, but similar

[dull marsh]

Even more interesting that we both stumble on that uncoordinated

[pure loom]

shows you how many clues there are in this web

[fresh quiver]

some thousand 🥲

[pure loom]

https://tenor.com/view/sweaty-nervous-dog-gif-10253137

[fresh quiver]

hope you guys might find 1 or 2 more connections tonight. Counting on it. gn8

[dull marsh]

Mostly hope Rob checks those 😅

[gloomy anvil]

I hope everyone is trying passwords too

very easy to keep looking for that one magical connection that will solve everything, even if we already have what we need

[pure loom]

A link between the Crystal Palace dinosaurs and Central Park NYC through this sculptor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Waterhouse_Hawkins

[fresh quiver]

If we go after our list. we havent tried passwords since 22nd August 😄
#1226677330689261631 message

[dull marsh]

I have tried quite a few in the past few days, but no success

[fresh quiver]

then you might wanna put then in there 😄

might be the wrong channel?

@fallen jasper wake up 😄 he spams this apparently in every channel on the discord

[gloomy anvil]

would be a lot easier if we knew what "MW.AREA" means and wouldn't need to try the same passwords on 9 different pages

If there were a "starting" password, I'd assume it's MW.AREA #1 mma1-a

[dull marsh]

I have mastered copy pasting into 9 tabs now: Ctrl+PgDown, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+V, Enter and start over

[fresh quiver]

we might want to focus on things that were there already in Season 1.
As one of the passwords is available to us in a form since S1

[gloomy anvil]

Rob probably expected T3 to be solved before S1 launched, and thus included *more* Level 3 clues in S1 content

[fresh quiver]

time to write a AHK script for it. that you just need to CTRL+C and AHK does the rest

[dull marsh]

That's kinda as fast once you have the muscle memory, takes me like 10-15s to try password 9 times

If not less

[fresh quiver]

just please do it some seconds slower. or we have another @gloomy anvil incident 😂

[dull marsh]

I have good internet

[pure loom]

I just spotted this "2:18" from Rob from back in December 2022 - does it stand for "BIR"? And, if so, what does that stand for? #easter-eggs message

[dull marsh]

Yeah I thought about that earlier, Rob has given many timestamps, maybe quite a few do mean something that way 😄

Or it could stand for BEER, as .. = i or . . = ee

This is most definitely a clue imo 🍺

[crisp eagle]

I vote beer

Didn’t Rob say one of the passwords is 4 letters and it’s displayed somehow on Vegas?

Possibly “4 letters…plus 2”

[fresh quiver]

Yes, I can literally fly around I have 13 seconds on this map I'm standing here [???] I can uh read. [???] three (3) letters- four (4) letters. [???] a combination, that is a password, that unlock one of the ma- [???]

and iirc they were on Vegas at the time. So yea. we might need to search vegas

[eternal violet]

Inb4 it's one of those indecipherable graffiti lol

[fringe creek]

“47 to” is bolded.
4=d
7=g
To=2

dg2 is a Sega file format. Didn’t see that mentioned anywhere. That info courtesy of @chilly seal

[fresh quiver]

found the message you mean.
#easter-eggs message

Dusty also did a AiW reference in the comment 😭 😂

He's a bit of a mad hatter if you ask me.

[gloomy anvil]

This was originally a burrw clue, hence the missing "o"

[dull marsh]

I mean that was related to burrw

[fresh quiver]

ahhhhhh

[crisp eagle]

I was about to comment on the mad hatter part haha my brain hurts

[gloomy anvil]

I couldn't find a DG2 Sega format but I did find a DGT2

Sega Saturn, relevant to YMF292 from the burrw gif itself

[fringe creek]

DGT2 files are .dg2

[fresh quiver]

back to dustys burrw clue.
Dusty mentioned 47 in it.

rob mentioned 47 not that long ago for the burrw gif again.

#1178137622359593043 message

correct but what about 47.?

[gloomy anvil]

ah yea you're right, thanks

[crisp eagle]

Man I forgot about Sega Saturn. Now I’m even more stuck on SYS being heavily Sega themed. The rings around the apples. Saturn has rings. Stop doing this to me!

[lone wave]

What if the mad hatter is actually Rob? Cryptic messages, talking about time and reminiscing about the past, wears hats, a bit eccentric in his own way…

[gloomy anvil]

haha https://www.twitch.tv/waterdance/clip/AssiduousSucculentLadiesDuDudu-gz8f16_q3_IJObVT

[lone wave]

There’s no way I forgot about that? I watched it like yesterday… sorry haha

[fresh quiver]

"Through the looking glass" would fit with number 47.
https://www.lastdodo.de/de/items/3138011-alice-in-wonderland

[lone wave]

And so Rob is poisoned by mercury like all mad hatters

Omg save him

[gloomy anvil]

I recommend posting in #1204475718747029535 and mentioning the Sega Saturn specifically too

[fresh quiver]

@fallen jasper could you please remove that? (sorry for tagging again ._.)

[night river]

oh no

[hard forge]

good work

[gloomy anvil]

worth noting that "47 to" is only bolded on the wiki and not in Dusty's message #easter-eggs message

but Rob did point out the 47 in a later conversation

[night river]

sorry if it bothered you .
people in the finals chat told me to send it here, saying that you will like it.

[fringe creek]

Clue 93 was the file name that gave the m/b clue. 47 clues too many could mean 93-47=46. +46 is the Sweden country code when calling.

[gloomy anvil]

Was "Clue_93.gif" ever solved? it was one of the burrw clues that led to the URL and gif.

[gloomy anvil]

oh funny timing

[pure loom]

in Through The Looking Glass, chapter VI (previously important clue) is titled "Humpty Dumpty" - so a possible Nama Tama reference there

[fringe creek]

Any connection investigate with The Matrix? Follow the white rabbit and other Alice in wonderland references

[pure loom]

yeah, we have considered some of these before, although it could be worth looking at them again

[lone wave]

During Waterdance’s stream, Rob mentioned Carolux Rex -> Charles XII, King of Sweden.
So I went on Wikipedia and dug a bit. And then I’ve found this « Apart from being a monarch, the King's interests included mathematics, and anything that would be beneficial to his warlike purposes. He is credited with having invented an octal numeral system, as well as a more elaborate one with the base 64, which he considered more suitable for war purposes because all the boxes used for materials such as gunpowder were cubic. »
Funny how our dear Rob, mentions a king who supposedly invented an octal numeral system while playing on SYS$HORIZON, RIGHT?

[fresh quiver]

Let’s just say. Don’t take the word of #⚡┇the-finals-chat

„Sh*t posting“ here in this channel is bad. And CMs take care of it fast in the EE channels.

[dull marsh]

Sega Pluto was a variant of Sega Saturn that was cancelled... F https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Pluto

One of the two surviving prototypes was obtained in the late 1990s by Roger Vega
Maybe that's how we get to Vega? 😄

[gloomy anvil]

I looked into humpty dumpty a little bit recently #easter-eggs message

[lone wave]

Damn he REALLY insisted on that king during the stream actually, he looked up his era on the web after mentioning him

[pure loom]

ok, an interesting connection here:

"Apart from being a monarch, the King's interests included mathematics, and anything that would be beneficial to his warlike purposes. He is credited with having invented an octal numeral system, as well as a more elaborate one with the base 64, which he considered more suitable for war purposes because all the boxes used for materials such as gunpowder were cubic. According to a report by contemporary scientist Emanuel Swedenborg, the King had sketched a model of his thoughts on a piece of paper and handed it to him at their meeting in Lund in 1716. The paper was reportedly still in existence a hundred years later but has since been lost."

Emanuel Swedenborg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg): "In 1724, he was offered the chair of mathematics at Uppsala University, but he declined and said that he had dealt mainly with geometry, chemistry and metallurgy during his career. He also said that he did not have the gift of eloquent speech because of a stutter, as recognized by many of his acquaintances; it forced him to speak slowly and carefully, and there are no known occurrences of his speaking in public.[27] The Swedish critic Olof Lagerkrantz proposed that Swedenborg compensated for his impediment by extensive argumentation in writing."

Remember Rob stuttering his name in Waterdance's stream?

[dull marsh]

Truuuuuue!!

[night river]

Lesson learned I guess

[lone wave]

Woooow good one! Teamwork baby

[dull marsh]

Also Lewis Carrolls published a paper called "The Alphabet Cipher" which is basically describing the Vigenere cipher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alphabet_Cipher

We've had something that looked like a cryptographic key, and Alice is a very common name used in cryptography with "Alice & Bob"

Oh yes at the beginning of Through The Looking Glass the red king talks about a "volcano", but it's actually the chimney and he's small (01:23 btw)

[gloomy anvil]

Knave

• A common alternate name for a Jack playing card. This name is used in Alice in Wonderland for the Knave (Jack) of Hearts character. Recall the S1 Black Knight NamaTama was on a Jack of Clubs.
• In "Knights and Knaves" logic puzzles, a knave is a person who always lies. (S Lies ?)

• The Knave of Hearts was a silent film released in July 1919

that one is less strong

[ebon wind]

i have a question
there's a Eye in the trailer for enigmo right? and there was a eye for one of the battle pass stickers maybe its tyring to say that we need to use Thermal vision since i think the eye looks similar im about to go double check really quick

but i think it might be interesting

i cant send the photo right now since i yet lack the perms

but i will say its Super similar to the icon of Thermal

[pure loom]

Interesting that Jack, as in Jack and the Beanstalk, is linked from the Jack playing card page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(playing_card) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_(hero)

[ebon wind]

do i need to talk a bit more to get perms for photos?

[hard forge]

eye of Providence?

[ebon wind]

im not quite familiar

i just wanted to connect similarities that I seen noticed

cuzz i seen a few things this season that have somethign to do with an EYE

[hard forge]

yes, but you can use Imgur for now. upload on Imgur and post links.

[ebon wind]

imgur imma go check

[hard forge]

yeah that's what I thought too
that maybe knave = black knight

[ebon wind]

https://imgur.com/a/a6jBp8j

this is what i meant

[hard forge]

this has been solved

[ebon wind]

a lot of eye things this season maybe we have to use the Eye skill to find something out

are you talking about the sticker cuzz im aware of the golden egg

im just saying there's a lot of eye references in this season maybe we should try using thermals to look for stuff
it might be nothing i will try to see some stuff

out of curiosity

[hard forge]

i agree.

but no one is looking because of lack of more clues

we have other things going on rn.

like at this moment

[ebon wind]

interesting like what im not super in tuned with this chat but i'd like to know

[hard forge]

right now the discussions are about ARG hunt level 3.
people have recently solved some old clues

[ebon wind]

oh that blue site with the cords

[gloomy anvil]

There are tons of easter eggs we haven't found yet, so it's always worth a look!

[ebon wind]

haha yeah ive read that the channel says no idea is a bad idea i just wanted to throw my hat in here too im not much of a easter egg finder haha
thank you!

[hard forge]

50% of findings are from new eyes like you 🙂

please keep on reporting whatever you find/think

[ebon wind]

❤️

[woeful cipher]

https://tenor.com/view/nights-into-dreams-koosh-is-cool-flying-gif-18316396

[dull marsh]

So recently on stream Rob has been playing a bit (wayyyy tooo much) with his "mute button" on his mic

And digging a little I saw that DICE had been founded by ancient members of demogroup The Silents

So then I went on Rob's profile to dig a bit https://demozoo.org/sceners/334/

He has been in 4 groups, and the only one that still has an active website is iNSANE

That would explain why he's always typing with lowercase i in uppercase words

Also why the letter "i" is so important

And a good connection to Alice, with the "mad hatter", and the cat that tells her "I'm mad, you're mad"

Then in one of the demos Rob contributed to, there is that visual with "iNSANE" being abbreviated "iNS"

Very very reminiscent of CNS

And in another demo where he also contributed, there is "sweet dreams"

This is iNSANE's website, and it's relatively up to date https://insane.demoscene.se/

And since we know that there are some CNS documents out there on "some website", and that there are on an "old website" and not one of the sponsors, I feel like this is probably the best place to search!

Also in iNSANE there is sLASH, which could be a connection to all our "slash /" clues

[gloomy anvil]

burrw specifically too #1178137622359593043 message

[burnt sun]

atleast we now know where the credit scenes have its origin :P

[dull marsh]

Ok so I have done a bit more digging and got onto a weird "coincidence"

So we have burrw that seems to be about a sound chip, and 1997something

It's a red pulse, and we've had holtow's red dot, related to the red moon, etc.

So I decided to search for "red" demos in 1997 and found this one https://demozoo.org/music/165847/

By Jabberwock!! Which is the name of the creature from the nonsensical poem from Through The Looking-Glass, and is a movie made by Terry Gilliam who directed Monty Python Holy Grail, and has a verse of the poem on Central Park's sculpture

And it's a music, which would explain why we had a sound chip in burrw

Then the ID of this music in the URL is 165847

The fact that it ends by 47 caught my eye, given it's a clue and we've had "47 too many", so I focused on 1658 instead

In 1658, Sweden's King Charles X Gustav (X marks the spot) started the "March Accross the Belts"

This is part of the Second Northern War

3 years earlier, on 18 November 1655 the Swedes invested the fortress-monastery of Częstochowa! This is the place in Poland where there is the armor of the "Black Knight" and was related to some clues from CNS

[dull marsh]

And even tho it says that music was published on April 5, in the files it's dated to April 04, aka 404

Also Contract group shortname is CNT, literally 1 away from CNS

[gloomy anvil]

I'm sure this is common in the demo scene, but Contract's file_id.diz style is quite reminiscent of CNS

[dull marsh]

Looking at their archives, I also saw cnt_geza.zip, which is interesting as GEZA are the 4 letters of the casinos on Vegas

Didn't find anything specific to it, but still 🤔

There is a punk artist called Geza X, which built and owns Satellite Park Recordings in Malibu

(just thinking there are multiple ideas linking here but it's probably nothing)

Lol, GEZA can be interpreted as 6324, which can be June 3 2024, which was National Egg Day 😂

[fresh quiver]

CNS documents?

Wasn’t it MultiCO documents? Or it’s still too early for me

[outer portal]

the throwing card skin are different cards each time you throw them. anyone have a picture of the Jack?

[fresh quiver]

jack or joker? I guess jack?

Looking at one video the whole time.
Only cards i have seen of now are Ace, Joker, Queen, 5

[gloomy anvil]

I find some of the detective bundle descriptions interesting. (ignore the quality)

May every clue lead to your next victory, and every mystery end at your feet.

Equipped with extra deep pockets for secrets and a silhouette that slips through shadows.

Stay (at least) two steps ahead of the suspect.

The Wizard of Oz was a sort of "mystery" that "ended" at Dorothy's feet by her wearing the ruby slippers and tapping her heels. Not saying that's a connection, just using it as an example.

There could be something relevant it's a reference to.

[dull marsh]

Yes yes, I mean leaked by CNS

[fresh quiver]

i need to make myself some timers. And count the time i spent on different topics & websites while researching for the hunt.

i mean. i spent "some time (a lot) looking at insane & co. but its possible i missed something.

For this both lists? I probably dig 3-4 hours alongside @unborn pilot
#1247320886646804550 message

@dull marsh rob planned this hunt in 2018/2019 right?

[dull marsh]

Yes but the other day on stream he said that during COVID, he spent 3-4h a day working on it, aka 2020, so I wonder if those 2019 comments were only for Level 2, or if he only used stuff that already existed in 2019

[fresh quiver]

robs mobygame link was deleted in 2020 as seen in edit logs.
I suspect he has requested it.

maybe because of the hunt?

[dull marsh]

I think that's the same person that edited Red Moon Machine page

[fresh quiver]

red moon machine page? I missed something?

here is btw the edit history https://demozoo.org/sceners/334/history/

[dull marsh]

That thing

[fresh quiver]

i see

[dull marsh]

Ok I mean this person does... a lot of edits... They have 17k pages of edits on demozoo, and I think it's 50 edits per page 💀

[fresh quiver]

he is one of the admins. ofcourse.
https://demozoo.org/groups/71085/

But just saw / found a production that also says "SCROLLER RESTARTING IN 3... 2... 1..." like our scroll texts

[dull marsh]

Last WebArchive of his mobygames page is march 2023.. there might have been relevant stuff in there 🤔

(suspecting he may have requested deletion)

[fresh quiver]

TMX - HEY MAN! HOW ARE THINGS GOING WITH EMBARK STUDIOS? LOVE YOUR LOGOS, ESPECIALLY THE ONE USED FOR THE APRIL DEMO! TAKE CARE AND STAY SAFE!

[dull marsh]

Where is that from?

[fresh quiver]

http://janeway.exotica.org.uk/file.php?id=162245

somewhere along 2/3 of the text 🤣 have fun

[worn rivet]

Think that background means something?

[young belfry]

No

[gloomy anvil]

did you get a screenshot of the Joker?

[unkempt dune]

No way!

oh shoot, I thought that was IRL for a second 😂

[hearty meteor]

same

[gloomy anvil]

• The Joker card originates from the game Euchre. The game previously used Jacks as wild cards, prior to the Joker's introduction.
• The concept of a "wild card" in Euchre may have come from the earlier game Brag, as is surmised by Phil R Neill in https://hobbylark.com/card-games/The-History-of-the-Joker-Card
• The card that Brag used as a wild card was the Jack of Clubs.
• When asked about Nama on the Jack of Clubs in the S1 trailer, Rob mentioned "that Joker" #1282815551944659104 message

[unkempt dune]

Wild Card is also a term used in American Football

it's used in games/sports a lot

[gloomy anvil]

If the 52 Pickup skin is a level 3 clue (which I think it is), that combination could be relevant in some way

Queen, Ace, Joker, 5

specifically Queen of Hearts, Ace of Spades, Joker (no suit), 5 of Diamonds

[ornate ice]

how do you get metadata

[hearty meteor]

we dont need it for the hunt

[gloomy anvil]

I wonder if the design is an original by the art team or a reference to something

[ornate ice]

im entering the coordinates from the level 3 page into google maps. the first one took me somewhere in a sea near russia.

the second one took me near the border of chad and sudan

the 3rd one took me somewhere in libya.

the 4th one took me near a set of islands called svalbard.

the 5th one took me to the border of the aktobe and atrayu regions in kazakhstan.

something of note is that, in the malayam language, "atrayu" means "attractive". this could be connected to isuel-t?

[main acorn]

I noticed that the new face options we got look very similar to the ones from “Old” concept art

[ornate ice]

uh

this is season 4

[main acorn]

Yeah

[ornate ice]

its supposed to be a callback to season 1

[main acorn]

Yeah but the concepts are from Alpha

[ornate ice]

also uh

could you tell me how the coordinates are connected

[main acorn]

Do you think they're the same faces ?

[main acorn]

I don't know

[ornate ice]

yes but higher res

[gloomy anvil]

You can check all the coordinates here: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1gTEAYxRe-rnCRTUCKRYY9WClHLtpnho&usp=sharing

4/5 of the NE coordinates have connections to "Kara", those are marked with stars

[ornate ice]

thanks

@proud minnow

also @gloomy anvil

i just added the info to the wiki

wait

kara

burrow

fall

UNDERTALE?!

[dull marsh]

Also about yesterday and burrw clue 47

47 is ASCII value for / which was hinting at a url

[ornate ice]

reachthefinals.com/undertale leads to a 404 page...

a finals x undertale crossover would be crazy

[dull marsh]

Thats... not happening

[ornate ice]

i know

snowdin town 20xx lol

[crisp eagle]

Man that looks like Maleficent a little bit

[burnt sun]

it heavily reminds me of an even older disney character, but I can't get the connection

[fresh quiver]

As of now we don’t know if it it really connected to „kara“ just that there is the possibility. It was not confirmed yet.

[fresh quiver]

That’s a great idea. Might be.
Is the joker always appearing together with the 5? I think not. Not home yet to check

[gloomy anvil]

I don't think so, I've seen different combinations

[crisp eagle]

Yea I was thinking the 1959 version of her in the cartoon. Still doesn’t feel quite there for me either though

[gloomy anvil]

Joker, Queen, Ace -> J, Q, A could be unsorted initials. John Quincy Adams comes to mind first although I don't know where the 5 of Diamonds would fit there.

Alternatively you could caesar shift J,Q,A by 5 (of diamonds) to become O,V,F. Reminds me of oviform / 0vif0rm. But worth noting we don't know what order J, Q, A, or O, V, F, would actually be in.

[latent harness]

Hey I may be really late the party here! But I was using Gas Grenades in game the other day and my character said "I've got the poison but not the remedy" and I'm pretty sure this is a link to Prodigys song Poison! I just wondered if anyone else had come across this?

[gloomy anvil]

Just looked up the lyrics and wow, innovative stuff

on a serious note, good spot!

[latent harness]

Thanks! I wasn't sure the first time but I heard it more than once and my mind went straight to that song! Didn't know if it was just my 90s upbringing and ADHD kicking in lol

[snow sorrel]

Has anyone looked into the latest Season 4 Highlights video? The end bit is very glitchy, even compared to the S3 counterpart

[gloomy anvil]

https://www.twitch.tv/waterdance/clip/EndearingNimbleStapleBleedPurple-rr7DClC9EW09_Hst

This changed my perspective a bit, "unlocked anything on level 3", like each X on the level 3 page is a buried treasure that has its own password to access, and each corresponds to an instance of "X marks the spot"

but idk

[alpine junco]

which means we dont have everything we need

[dull marsh]

So Goo is egg white huh

[fresh quiver]

did he said "was just checking today if Level 3 is working with the seventh trigger

[gloomy anvil]

"if level 3 was working because they haven't uh- haven't unlocked anything on level 3"

[fresh quiver]

no he said something directly after If Level 3 was working... there are 2-3 other words before he says "they havent unlocked anything"

around second 37-39 i guess?

[gloomy anvil]

I don't hear it

[fresh quiver]

pretty sure i understood seventh trigger.

[fresh quiver]

the the beginning of the clip might also be interesting. Rob destroyed one of the computers intentionally with the orbital

[crisp eagle]

To me it sounds like he said “I checked to see if level 3 was working because they haven’t eh..uh…they haven’t unlocked anything” almost like he just stutters

[fresh quiver]

he says it a bit quick. in between.

[crisp eagle]

Buuuut I’m also in steel fabrication shop trying to hear it on my phone haha

[fresh quiver]

rob: "Im just. I'm just checking if it is working. okay. uhm. 
waterdance: "aha"
rob: "it's working... dup dup dup. But we don't have Easteregg Hunters anymore. They are  like. yeah. old and retired these days."
waterdance: "what"
thixx: "what. that's crazy. no way."
waterdance: "he's bluffing. "
rob: "nah. ofcourse not. yeah. Today i actually went to check if Level 3 was working ??with the seventh trigger??... They haven't unlocked anything on Level 3"
waterdance: "is it? was it just not turned on?"
rob: "no no. it was working perfect"```

At our hunters:
would be great if some more people watch the clip from Raid and checking the transcription in the meantime. im pretty sure about the "seventh trigger"

[hearty meteor]

i also hear “seventh”, idk about trigger

[burnt sun]

exactly what I wanted to say xD

could also be seventh dagger

[crisp eagle]

Man that could be why he sounds like he almost mumbles it and stops. Like he caught himself saying something he didn’t mean to give away.

[dull marsh]

Yeah can't hear if he's actually saying "seven triggers" or not, he's almost mumbling or speaking with a swedish accent which makes it hard 🤔

[alpine junco]

I think he was clearing his throat

[gloomy anvil]

I'm quite sure he just says "because they haven't eu-uh- (stuttering) ... (pause) haven't unlocked anything"

[sly quest]

Rob just teasing the EE community at this point

[dusk veldt]

https://clips.twitch.tv/ApatheticCrackyHummingbirdCharlieBitMe-UKneV9pm2ZnDoglM

[hasty anvil]

'You can fill in the following codes on level 3: XYRR1X2'

[burnt sun]

x y r r 1 x 2

[pure loom]

do we assume it's a cipher?

[hasty anvil]

One of the coordinates is 81.75162

[fresh quiver]

it has rr in the middle. thats what rob said

[hasty anvil]

the 1 and 2 placements line up but thats all

[gloomy anvil]

X = ?
Y = ?

XYRR1X2

but Rob implied it wasn't simple

[hasty anvil]

'If you look at the password its not hard to figure out, it has 'rr' in the middle'
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[dull marsh]

Rob talked in his "hometown dialect" and insisted a bit on that

He comes from Falkensberg, and the dialect should be Halländska

[ornate ice]

h?

in the cipher?

[dull marsh]

The capital of Halland is Halmstad

[ornate ice]

h=r?

[hasty anvil]

I tried xyrr1x2 in all passwords

[fresh quiver]

i think we all did

[ornate ice]

nothing

[fresh quiver]

atleast he got the machines (us) rumbling again

[dull marsh]

Interestingly, Halmstad and the whole region went from being Danish to Swedish in 1658, which is VERY weird as I was investigating that date last night

[ornate ice]

rob please just give us the answer the year is almost over just tell us shu.ti.fu.ra is cns

[dull marsh]

Rob also keeps showing hearts again and again and again

In Halmstad there is an area called Kärleken, which translates to "The Love"

And this is Halmstad coat of arms

[dull marsh]

Bruh that's the opposite of what this game is, if he just gives the answer then there is no point in playing at all

[ornate ice]

i put heart in the passwords

no luck

WAIT

i HAVE A THEORY

THE 4 LETTERS IN LAS VEGAS STAGE

THEY COULD CORRESPOND TO THE CIPHER

GET ONLINE GANG

[hearty meteor]

?

[snow walrus]

#1292576119849095210

[fresh quiver]

@pure loom did a little "pay to egg" and rob gave us a code(s) for Level3

[pure loom]

well, a clue haha

[fresh quiver]

a code/clue we need to change in some way

[snow walrus]

Could it be xyrrx2

[alpine junco]

x y r r 1 x 2
X Y R R A X B
or
X Y R R B X C

[hearty meteor]

i meant it more like “elaborate?”

[gloomy anvil]

This is probably what Rob's earlier clue was about, when he said

Not everything [I say is a clue] but I said like um "hey my name is Karl Robert R-r-r-r-r-rupertius" [???]

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[alpine junco]

Do we have anything from #official-art thats related?

Or from Nama Knight?

[snow walrus]

ROT13(xyrr1x2) = klee1k2

[pure loom]

Paul Klee?

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

[hasty anvil]

Klee 1002 maybe

[fresh quiver]

not again klee 😂

[desert glacier]

Why did I get shadow pinged

[fresh quiver]

from who?

[dull marsh]

Object number 1002 https://www.phillipscollection.org/collection/young-moe

[hasty anvil]

Yeah i got that too

Called ' The way to the citadel'

[dull marsh]

No it's Young Moe

The Way to the citadel is 1001

[ornate ice]

put it into every one of the password places

didnt work

[fresh quiver]

already done

[dull marsh]

And this collection is interesting:

We look forward to welcoming you to America’s First Museum of Modern Art.

Museum of Modern Art - MMA

[fresh quiver]

but you know. better multiple people test that password... In case someones internet messes up cough

[pure loom]

does anyone have the L3 coordinates handy?

nvm - found them

[gloomy anvil]

72.58514 64.02630
15.70363 23.22150
27.86234 12.98314
81.75162 37.16174
46.69812 55.09871

[pure loom]

ok, I just wanted to check that the art piece sizes wasn't a thing -it isn't

[fresh quiver]

but anyway. If you find something interesting or even the password. feel free to ping me. then im seeing this directly in the morning.
Imma head out

[pure loom]

yeah, this looks like a good lead

money well spent haha

[ornate ice]

put this theory on the wiki

[fresh quiver]

no. please do not

[hasty anvil]

He did say we can put the codes xyrr1x2 into level 3 and the password has rr in the middle

[dull marsh]

Looking up "Klee 1064" I get Twittering Machine which is in New York's MoMA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twittering_Machine

[ornate ice]

twitter?

[gloomy anvil]

The wiki is only for confirmed or very likely theories. Unconfirmed theories go on Miro or just in Discord

[dull marsh]

Potentially this is a good indication that we need to use ROT13 cipher to at least one of the password

[ornate ice]

so we have "klee" and "kara" as clues so far.

[dull marsh]

Kara is unconfirmed

Klee has already been a clue in the hunt so it's likely in this case

[fresh quiver]

If you go after this to put unconfirmed theories onto wiki... you could copy the whole miro board to the wiki 😅

[snow walrus]

Could the numbers be roman?
xyrrixii

[dull marsh]

Uh huh

[ornate ice]

TWO THEORIES

?!

[dull marsh]

I'm seeing that there is another interesting Klee: Victor Klee, mathematician

Klee wrote more than 240 research papers. He proposed Klee's measure problem and the art gallery problem

[fresh quiver]

tried. nothing

[snow walrus]

But why he did point "rr"

[fresh quiver]

btw. 01:23

[dull marsh]

rr or r² maybe?

[ornate ice]

pi r squared?

[snow walrus]

Let's interpret "Double r"

[ornate ice]

they call me mr finals theories

[snow walrus]

xy Double r One x 2

Xy could be the coordinate plane

[ornate ice]

hmm

[alpine junco]

could be xy = rr 1x2

[ornate ice]

radius squared (1 times 2)?

[fresh quiver]

@dull marsh astro stuff?

The double r-iteration method is a fairly recent technique that determines the orbit with a large spread of data (often over several revolutions or from multiple observing locations) and is therefore a good general-purpose method for orbit determination.

[ornate ice]

3 THEORIES?!

[fresh quiver]

X theories. give Ludo 1 week and he will give you approx 30 theories on this case

[ornate ice]

we have the paul klee theory, the kara theory, and the astronomy theory.

[ornate ice]

and we still have not found any one of the 9 passwords.

[dull marsh]

Good one, Embark_Reverend obviously

[fresh quiver]

yup. since exactly let me check

[gloomy anvil]

blackknight has a double R in the middle if you caesar shift by 7 - (X marks 7 in burrw.gif)

[ornate ice]

i want the Right Reverend theory to be true.

[hasty anvil]

https://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/RR

[dull marsh]

There are the Kleetope, which is is you take some sort of shape, and replace each facets by pyramids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleetope

[ornate ice]

8 THEORIES?!

[alpine junco]

we also have YMF292 and 1997122

[ornate ice]

10 THEORIES?!

[dull marsh]

Given all the Klee and math clues, I think Victor Klee is a safe lead

[fresh quiver]

since exactly 103 days

[ornate ice]

1 theory

[dull marsh]

You can't just blurt stuff out like that and expect it to lead anywhere lmao

[ornate ice]

input "victorklee"

[dull marsh]

?

[gloomy anvil]

catch me up here

[ornate ice]

as a password

[dull marsh]

This dude Victor Klee, mathematician, created the "art gallery problem" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Klee

[ornate ice]

WERE ON TO SOMETHING KEEP IT UP

[fresh quiver]

Why u writing in caps most of the time?

[ornate ice]

uh

[hasty anvil]

Rob said the apple on horizon was important recently didnt he?

[gloomy anvil]

kinda feels like we're spending more time branching out for external connections than applying what Rob said to the connections and theories we already have

that's what got us in T3

[fresh quiver]

Well…. 😂

[gloomy anvil]

for all but the last 2 weeks of T3

[ornate ice]

Theory: This could link to that one painting with the person with the apple obscuring his face.

xyrr1x2 + kara = ?

[fresh quiver]

Yeah. And in the beginning we were just to dumb to change o to 0. that got us there

[ornate ice]

@gloomy anvil

xyrr1x2 + kara

put them together raid

[fresh quiver]

Kara is not confirmed. As we have no connection to Kara with the 5th. Coordinate

[hasty anvil]

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Wow this is a cool link with the apple, links with alice in wonderland syndome and perception

[gloomy anvil]

With the apple, Rob specifically pointed out the shapes around the objects. He said the bitten apple was interesting (it has a square), and then RHB mentioned the whole apple (it has a circle) to which Rob responded: "but why is there a ring around it?" - so we're not looking at just the objects themselves

[ornate ice]

this could connect to the math thing

[spiral meadow]

For the sponsor Iseul-t is their logo a t minus? Or a bird ? 🕊️ anybody else notice this? Also when looking at the name iseul-t with that font it almost looks like (it’s a cult). Subliminally. Is iseul- t connected to Illuminati secret 🤫 society?

[ornate ice]

these could connect

[pure loom]

I found this: “the work pays homage to Albert “Moe” Moeschinger, professor of music theory at the conservatory of Bern from 1937 to 1943, who had dedicated three compositions to Klee in 1935.”

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

[dull marsh]

Based on today's Rob comments, I suspect we are getting close, as he made similar comments back on T3

(such as him going to test if it worked, meaning we already have the answer, he just wanna make sure there's no issue)

[hasty anvil]

rr= Red roses (alice in wonderland - painting the roses red reference)
also they're painted by the Ace, 2 and 3 cards ( 0123?)

[fresh quiver]

Might is an idea.
So we maybe need to cross-reference the clue now with AiW in some or another way?

[dull marsh]

Isn't it 2, 5 and 7?

[hasty anvil]

Looking at a fandom wiki so it could be

trying to confirm it

[gloomy anvil]

yes, in Tenniel's illustration

#easter-eggs message

[hasty anvil]

https://youtu.be/ANLh1wo5g2I?si=PIqKrVpc54oUrXND

In the 1951 disney version its ace 2 and 3

[dull marsh]

Oh I see, not the book tho

[hasty anvil]

maybe just good to keep in mind

[gloomy anvil]

The only 2,5,7 connection I identified was 7/25 - July 25th - from the July 25, 2008 dates of The X Files, The Dark Knight, Kara's Rock U, and the MultiCo gif named "2008"

[hasty anvil]

Rob's heart emote he did led me to Queen of hearts so i went down AIW more

[gloomy anvil]

which emote?

[dull marsh]

He always put some heart emote or spray on stream, like, ALWAYS

[hasty anvil]

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[dull marsh]

(way too much for it to be a random thing)

In AiW the Chapter X is the most related to the hunt with Gryphon, porpoise (CETACEA), askance (3HM) and White Rabbit

(basically Level 3 activation)

[fresh quiver]

Also the orbital laser destroying the computer. This was intentional. I bet.

[dull marsh]

The laser not fully sure, the computer yes

[crisp eagle]

i found it odd that he said "just checking if the computer is working" then blew up another one and said "yep it's working"

[gloomy anvil]

The only thing we technically saw Rob do was stand still in front of the computer. That triggered the orbital laser, but for all we know he would have done that even if orbital lasers weren't active.

[fresh quiver]

exactly

[gloomy anvil]

*would've

[crisp eagle]

yea that's true

[pure loom]

it could be an EE though, where we have to destroy all the PCs with the orbital laser

[fresh quiver]

The other one he blew up with a nade iirc?

[gloomy anvil]

yes he might've been taking the opportunity of the lasers

[ruby prawn]

what do u think that would unlock?

[pure loom]

no it was a laser

I just watched it again now

[dull marsh]

Who knows except Rob? lol

[pure loom]

I have no idea - but it's worth trying for sure

[ruby prawn]

im guessing it has something to do with the secret room in sys horizon

[pure loom]

true - but it seems like a nice link - you know, like hardware getting fried in a thunderstorm

[fresh quiver]

He wouldn’t give us this so easy Imho.

[dusk veldt]

Hmm, not so sure ab that

[crisp eagle]

I've got a half-bit idea about the apples on SYS. the full apple has a ring and the bitten apple has the square, right?

[pure loom]

correct

[ruby prawn]

damn, has he said before that it wont be easy or?

[pure loom]

apparently on a PS controller, the square is supposed to represent a piece of paper

[fresh quiver]

You have any experience with the bigger battlefield eastereggs?

[crisp eagle]

What about "squaring the circle." Greeks (and others throughout time) were obsessed with trying to make that happen. could be some kind of nod to that. and the bite taken out since it's technically impossible.

[pure loom]

yeah, probably right, but an orbital laser EE would be a good one - maybe he's hinting to using them on something else. We should probably cross the PCs off the list though

[ruby prawn]

i remember the bf4 phantom program yeah, it had something to do with collecting dogtags and triggering an elevator with a specific keypass n shit. It was wild

[dull marsh]

Well this was probably somewhat simple compared to some of THE FINALS EEs 😄

[fresh quiver]

Main lead was JJJU.
Supported by Rob 🙂
Also Rob did the big bf1 & bf5 EE

But I would LOVE some Ingame morsecode as hints. Atleast this would be someway easier 😂

[ruby prawn]

yea no doubt, im just thinking about the fact that rob said some easter eggs are much simpler than others

[gloomy anvil]

managing a Miro web is tricky 😅 how do I connect two things on opposite ends without it looking ugly

[crisp eagle]

it was also believed that if someone could figure out how to square the circle they could reach a new level of consciousness. kinda like Adam and Eve when they ate the apple. (I keep going back to that concept haha)

[hasty anvil]

#easter-eggs message
At first I thought this was Maleficent but the crown was different.
#easter-eggs message
'I spontaneously start laughing when i think of that Joker...' ( in reference the the medieval jack playing card )

Maybe this Joker is based on a character that can force people to laugh in some way...
(could also just be the joker from batman with spontaneous laughing but maybe double meaning)
The mad hatter?

[pure loom]

so XYRR1X2 could be decoded as XY = male, RR = Rob Runesson and 1X2 = ?

[pure loom]

Nitrous oxide?

[hasty anvil]

1x2 could be like season 1 episode 2 but idk

[gloomy anvil]

This is reversed but S2 E1 of the X Files was the "Little Green Men" episode

I think that might be looking too into it though

[hasty anvil]

Mirroring is very much on the table lol

[pure loom]

kinda bugs me how connected this is with previously having Paul Klee in the puzzle and there being some of his work in the The Museum of Modern Art (MMA) - seems too solid a connection to ignore

Plus the MoMA being MMA is good because it removes the "o" like we've had before

[hasty anvil]

Image searching this on google leads to (in game joker playing card);

Track number 2...

oh wait has this been done?

[pure loom]

Look at this cool piece in room 404 of MoMA: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80071

[crisp eagle]

it still looks so much like Maleficent to me from Sleeping Beauty. someone named Clyde Geronimi was a director of Sleeping Beauty (1959) and Alice in Wonderland (1951)

[pure loom]

very EE-like

[hasty anvil]

Searching all of that artists work it's... eerie

[gloomy anvil]

Noted this earlier with the klee1k2 conversion, I wouldn't bet on its importance but still sharing
https://www.saatchiart.com/en-gb/art/Drawing-Sgraffito-1002-HOMAGE-TO-PAUL-KLEE/44552/4266932/view

[ornate ice]

let's try to make a connection between these theories.

alice + klee + apple images + math = ?

[shy oracle]

= the mind of the eccentric Lewis Carroll

[hasty anvil]

'if you look at the password it has 'RR' in the middle'
From an art perspective, looking at a piece of work has 'RR' in the centre
otherwise the literal password has rr in the middle/centre

[dull marsh]

I captured one of the screens, not sure if it's a full loop, but should be better than nothing, in case anyone wanna dig into it

It kinda looks like there is some pixel-pattern on top of it, there could even be a QR code in there tbh

The fact that we didn't dig very deep into these screens would be a good reason for calling us "old and retired" (on top of probably being a clue too)

[alpine junco]

the amount of times i tried to record this, this is better than whatever i got

[dull marsh]

Easy: lower your FOV to the minimum, that way it zooms a lot directly 😄

[dusk veldt]

There seems to be some spanish (hard to see), swedish and german letters in there

We know Rob speaks german fluently so

[dull marsh]

I... didn't know that lol

[dusk veldt]

Really? Given how much german hes spoken in the past, his roadtrip in Germany oh and the fact that its written on his LinkedIn page hehe

[dull marsh]

I don't speak german so whenever he speaks a foreign language I just assume it's Swedish lol

[dusk veldt]

Ah, I see (im mostly joking, I dont think most knew). Good to know though

[dusk veldt]

I can see the Æ letter in there too, so now im even more confused. Seems to just be all the special letters from different languages in there (also the common general ones)

[dull marsh]

@dusk veldt do you know how people from Göteborg are called?

Cuz he keeps saying "I love goats" but I suspect it might actually be "I love gots" or something like that 🤔

[burnt sun]

Ive never heard him speaking german

I wish he did more often

[dusk veldt]

Not really, we call them Göteborgare or just reference the general area Skåne. So it might be more of a connection to the gothic people, which we call Götar https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Götar (translate page)

[dull marsh]

I see, gotcha

[dusk veldt]

Some do call Göteborg Götet but I doubt its what he meant

[dull marsh]

I mean Gothenburg is named after goths if I'm not mistaken, so it could still be a link, especially as he went to univ there

[dusk veldt]

Oh yk what im dumb, Gothenburg is actually part of götaland "land of the gothic people". Im tired

So yeah, it might be

@dull marsh Might be worth to look in to it

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Västra_Götalands_län

[wide linden]

it says "season 5 contestant"on emerald xp. I think is this somekind of a hint, maybe?

[unkempt dune]

that's really interesting

it definitely could be a clue

either that, or they swapped emerald rewards and forgot to the change the number

[wide linden]

lol that's possible

[eternal violet]

I don't understand how you all are hearing the first x in xyrr1x2, watched the clip 50 times

[fresh quiver]

its overlapped with something waterdance said. its a bit harder to hear

[gloomy anvil]

I only just remembered both "burrow" and "warren" have double R in the middle

[silk bolt]

it says the same thing on different weapons, not new

S2 platinum xp-54 for example

[wide linden]

ooh

[fresh quiver]

@wanton sundial 🙂

[wanton sundial]

Thanks!

[fresh quiver]

[gloomy anvil]

Just noting, there's a place called Warren in Cheshire, the English county Lewis Carroll is from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Cheshire

[opal pond]

Message him immediately...

Pretty sure that was an AI for some reason thats a thing now

[fresh quiver]

yeah. he replied weird quick with tagging me. was just weird. and just posting in EE channel and ask to send them a DM.

[gloomy anvil]

Rob refers to the white rabbits as "WRs" (White Rabbits). I was just reminded that Warren Robinett shares those initials. #easter-eggs message

Just in case anybody isn't aware, Warren Robinett created Adventure (1980). He hid his own name in the game, which massively popularized and effectively originated the concept of the "video-game easter egg".

As pointed out before, a warren is an interconnected network of burrows, used by rabbits. Rob specifically used the WRs and "burrow" as the AiW clue examples on Waterdance's stream, and "warren" has a double R in its center.

[eternal violet]

tried inputing carrack, carract, carrect, carrick, carroch, correct, currach, hurrahs, lorrell, marrams, marrums, murrams, terrets, territs, tirrits, torrets, turrets
conclusion: XYRR1X2 1st and 6th letters arent the same

[ornate ice]

WR also stands for “world record” (scotty reference?).

[hard forge]

i feel the same

[white kindle]

I watched it too, and this is what I heard: ROB: You can fill in the following codes of level 3 xy(doubleR)1x2

[opal pond]

Now you're a hunter too

[jade citrus]

new map tease?

from https://youtu.be/ZoraoYX2CLA

[unkempt dune]

best tour 🤌

[fresh quiver]

could also be locations where things are hidden?

bands normaly write only the city on it 😄 not the exact location/district imo

[opal pond]

Guitar has the C.S. Autograph

[jade citrus]

the last location looks like ??????? - Theatre

[crisp eagle]

What the heck is smudged at the bottom

[jade citrus]

could be S5 map

[crisp eagle]

Looks like the last letter of the “city” is A. With the period. Kinda like three letters. B.F.A.?

[velvet narwhal]

What is the Warehouse in LV?

[jade citrus]

i think that's outside the map where you can hear the band playing

[fresh quiver]

isnt it the same location where the "weird(er)" looking Electric box is standing?

[crisp eagle]

Have we ever had band member names for Rodent?

[velvet narwhal]

I think the smudged map is 4 or 5 letters long

[velvet narwhal]

Could also be a 4.

Maybe it's a technical naming similar to Sys$Horizon

Could mean that CNS is gonna make the next map again

[snow walrus]

i was going to type this

[velvet narwhal]

Yeah I agree with the Theatre

[crisp eagle]

I also agree Theatre haha

[crisp eagle]

Paris confirmed haha

[fresh quiver]

either something like the Eifeltower or a Bridge?

[spice kernel]

yeah it does says theatre

[crisp eagle]

I also find it interesting that Seoul is left out

[velvet narwhal]

Could the arena name be some asian characters?

[spice kernel]

I think that's an S?

[sharp mango]

something something BE

[spice kernel]

gladys rattus / gladiator

a map with a theatre

theatres originate from old greece

maybe next season is themed arround greece in the roman era?

but everything hits at something related to greece/roman empire

[snow walrus]

Dec 19 20 21

last year posters

[spice kernel]

the dates on posters are interesting

is that dec 13? that would be the release of S5 if that's dec 13

[spice kernel]

it might be too low quality bit I think that's dec 13 20 21/27

[snow walrus]

Dec 19 20 21 we had other screenshots i remember

[spice kernel]

where is this on vegas?

[rancid sand]

Has anyone checked if there's anything new added to the locations on those maps?

[spice kernel]

nvm they added the poster as a spray going to check it now

it does says 19

[snow walrus]

C.S = Carl Strandberg ofc.. 😄

[spice kernel]

maybe death by rhodents might be related to the black death

just making more hints to europe themed season 5

[rancid sand]

I think the map name might be in kanji.

[late bison]

I see last word "theatre"
First word Rome

S5 map - Rome

Mb

[sharp mango]

i think it's longer than just 4 letters

[spice kernel]

yea same, I also think the first letter is S

[crisp eagle]

C.S. Lewis. We going to Narnia!

[sharp flame]

maybe it says amphitheatre?

[spice kernel]

might be Y T L ?

[sharp mango]

guys i think embark just tryna say that next season gonna be new map thats all lol

[spice kernel]

you might be onto something

[sharp mango]

i'm serious. look at this, you arent suppose to read this

[crisp eagle]

Well they always do a new map and typically give hints as to what it is

[sharp mango]

oh maybe it's a seoul but death by rhodents change their minds lol

[crisp eagle]

Making things difficult to read or understand is part of EE’s

[atomic rock]

I think that last one’s Seoul because it’s not on the list and maybe it’s getting a map rework

[spice kernel]

the second part says 100% theatre

[snow walrus]

tickets www.reachthefinals.com

probably Rob hid it

[rancid sand]

I'm 99% sure the first word is in Kanji or some other Asian script. I can't upload, but I tried cleaning up the screenshot a little and it definitely doesn't look like it's in English.

[sharp mango]

wait you guys might be onto something

[sharp flame]

that's what I see

[spice kernel]

damn this is my roman empire now

[hard forge]

The last 2 letters look like RE or BE

[sharp flame]

definitely TRE

can't be BE since the letter before wouldn't work

[hard forge]

make sense

[sharp flame]

maybe the first word is PORTUGAL

[tranquil minnow]

I read Theatre

[lament nexus]

Yes, and the community wanted something medieval, but greece can be similar to it and so we can have weapons from Roman Empire and etc/.

[spice kernel]

idk if the first letter is S or Y on the first part, but the next 2 ones are def T and L

[crisp eagle]

Yea and that first “T” looks just like the last “T.” It’s gotta be THEATRE

[lament nexus]

the word is short, so it could be Greece

[tranquil minnow]

Yeah Theatre looking like a winner to me

[hard forge]

the first word is unreadable

(to me)

[spice kernel]

don't think so, theres no T or L in greece

[blazing isle]

Im not sure, but could it be Bristol? Though it might be too long

[spice kernel]

this is a T and an L

[tranquil minnow]

I see a Val lmao

[sharp flame]

where?

[tranquil minnow]

The last bit of the first word

Guess everyone sees something different

[spice kernel]

might be a little off from greece/rome

close enough tho

italy

O SHIT

IT MIGHT SAY ITALY

Italy something or something related to it

[blazing isle]

Wouldnt a country name be to much for one location? all the other are rather specific locations

[spice kernel]

might be, let me search about italy places

[blazing isle]

Also first letter might be a B

[sharp sentinel]

Might be too greece-minded now, but I see the last letter of the first word as an e with the top erased

[spice kernel]

I'm between S or Y

[blazing isle]

It looks rathe big to me, so G,B,R or similar

[alpine junco]

These are oddly specific locations

[alpine junco]

It says THEATRE

[fresh quiver]

my thought. why not only giving the city, but much more precise locations

[gusty timber]

Was -just- about to say that damn haha

[spice kernel]

we might take in account that some locations in the shirt don't have the full name, like SKYWAY / FORTUNE

[gusty timber]

I'm 99% sure its 'THEATRE'

[spice kernel]

so words like STADIUM and such might be omitted

[sharp flame]

wait

WAREHOUSE in Vegas? which building is that??

[alpine junco]

The one behind the stage?

[gusty timber]

Just a 'Hail Mary' guess- could it be 'Broadway - Theatre'?

[fresh quiver]

we suspect it might be the corner where you are hearing the Death by Rhodent music

[sharp flame]

Ahhhhhh

[gusty timber]

considering all the NYC connections RHB brought up

[rancid sand]

First word doesn't look like it's more than 5-6 characters long.

[gusty timber]

first letter looks like a B

[fresh quiver]

but isnt it the same corner as the weird looking electric box?

[spice kernel]

the theme seems to be more related to europe/italy/greece/rome

[sharp flame]

agreed. annotating it now

[spice kernel]

bc of death by rhodents (black death), theatres being from old greece/rome and italy

[crisp eagle]

Yea I keep thinking the “city” is going to be an abbreviation. Like NYC

[tranquil minnow]

First letter looks like 2 on top of eachother. Super smudged

[spice kernel]

black death was a plague that hit europe, it was carried by black rats

[rancid sand]

"Orbital"? Space map, maybe?

[spice kernel]

it went thru constantinople silicy and the italian peninsula

and it might be the plague that has the most death count in human history

death by rhodent

[crisp eagle]

Also off current topic but I never really thought about Death By Rhodent being a nod to Black Death like y’all are pointing out. That could also be a Monty Python Holy Grail nod

[atomic rock]

Could be, they definitely have their theatres there, I would’ve expected a Times Square though

But also they already have a map from US you think they’d do another?

Especially with WORLD tour

[crisp eagle]

I didn’t mean specifically thinking it’s NYC. Just using that as an example of cities we usually abbreviate haha

[hard forge]

Death by Rodents is a real bad.

[blazing isle]

doubt italy as amap since monac is quite similar in style

[crisp eagle]

Oh I didn’t know that

[atomic rock]

might be Athens, I’m pretty sure they’re a big theatre city

[spice kernel]

just bc monaco is literally between france and rome

but we are talking about old rome/greece

[fresh quiver]

for me its clearly an A. and not an N 😄

[sharp sentinel]

Also, Thiixy theory: maps go real, fake, old
vegas (real)
sys (fake)
kyoto (old)

[spice kernel]

fortune (fake)

[sharp sentinel]

missed a real 😔 he wasn't real for that

[spice kernel]

lmao

[fresh quiver]

last video i saw from Thiixy his theory only was real, fake, real, fake

[gusty timber]

I think a better way of looking at it is:
(Real)
(Arena/Fake)
(Real)
(Arena/Fake)

[sharp sentinel]

oh yeah, I remember now

[sharp flame]

It seems like the shortest map name so far?

[atomic rock]

Seoul

[spice kernel]

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

[atomic rock]

Is seoul being taken out of rotation, since it’s not in here

[crisp eagle]

Haha not only do we not get a new map, they taking one away

[sharp flame]

maybe there's an EE on those 6 maps TBF

[blazing isle]

We dont know what the letters BDFJQX and the numbers 0,2,4,7,9 look like in the Font the Citys are written in

[sharp flame]

The font is Saira Condensed

[spice kernel]

you might be onto something, we should search the places on the shirt

[blazing isle]

oh didnt know that

[sharp flame]

no worries! Embark loves using Saira

[spice kernel]

specific locations, those locations might have something

[sharp flame]

The final location, btw, seems to have a different font/squash/size anyways..

we know THEATRE, but that has 7 letters

[spice kernel]

why do you have 2 EU roles

[sharp flame]

SECTOR 3 also has 7 letters

[atomic rock]

That last map could also be Seoul

[sharp flame]

and yet THEATRE and SECTOR 3 are clearly different lengths

so maybe the last word is in a different font?

[atomic rock]

It might just be getting a rework

[sharp flame]

to be fair, Fortune Stadium is literally Seoul 2.0

[atomic rock]

Kinda yeah lol

[sharp flame]

so it would make sense if Seoul was the first to go out of rotation temporarily

[woeful cipher]

Pretty much yeah

[crisp eagle]

Maybe they are adding a theatre to Seoul?

[atomic rock]

Or rework, it has been here since the beginning

[gusty timber]

I think its just that the word is blurred which makes it look smaller

[fresh quiver]

then i'm waiting for rob to makes his spiel "you cant get the EE anymore after S4 for a while"

as there is atleast one triggable EE on Seoul

[crisp eagle]

I would not be mad about a Seoul reword as the “new map”

[sharp flame]

let me repost the image

There is no possible way THEATRE and SECTOR 3 are the same length (including the 3!)

blur or not

either that word is not THEATRE, or there is a serious font-size difference, or even a new font

[rancid sand]

There's a diamond bullet separating the map from the landmark on all but the last, which looks like it's separated by a hyphen. I wonder if that's relevant.

[sharp flame]

seems to have been added in post, using a different font

probably unintentional

[hasty anvil]

was thinking this too, 6 diamonds could be playing card related

[hard forge]

DBR does really perform in the warehouse in Las Vegas (which is out of bounds)

[hasty anvil]

Rob spoke of an EE that had have multiple activations in different maps right? maybe to do with this

[sharp flame]

I was wrong

the font is not Saira Condensed, or Saira at all

[tranquil minnow]

If discord randomly sends a video here I apologise. Just @ me and I'll delete it

[atomic rock]

So the T could be an i

[sharp flame]

sorry! was wrong about this one

[blazing isle]

no worries it happens

[sharp flame]

ohhh oops I misread

[atomic rock]

lol

[sharp flame]

super possible!

[hard forge]

Just stating the obvious:

• The first column contains Map name.
• The second column contains specific areas in that map.
• Seoul is not mentioned.

[fresh quiver]

T | I.

dont see the differences xD /j /s

[atomic rock]

https://tenor.com/view/letter-i-gif-9063753

[sharp flame]

One possibility

[atomic rock]

Agreed

[sharp flame]

First letter does look like an S, to be fair

and that last letter is 100% an L

[atomic rock]

Everything is an S

SSSSSS SSSSSS is the new map

[hard forge]

could be, but then idk any landmark ending with "tre" or "be" in Seoul

[limber lotus]

Amphi Theatre then the I maybe spelled with a roman numeral?

[granite bough]

it says Kyoto 1658.
Kyoto 1568 is the name of the map. Is this a bug?

[sharp flame]

hmm

[safe latch]

could be yeah fish

[hard forge]

omg you are right!

[gloomy anvil]

isn't this that year Ludo was looking at?

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message yup

[sharp flame]

is there a Season 5 map thread?

[alpine junco]

bring out the glitch clusters 🗣️

[alpine junco]

i made this one #1276097345657897012 😅

[hard forge]

nope

that I know off

[sharp flame]

should we make one?

[bold pine]

Sydney? Opera house?

[hard forge]

but are we sure it's a map clue and not something else?

[idle atlas]

i could see the theatre not being anywhere fancy

[fringe creek]

Seems plausible. Sydney Theatre could make a lot of sense.

[idle atlas]

or obvious at the very least

[sharp flame]

haha that's why people say Greece

[bold pine]

Other locations with either 5 or 6 letters with very famous theaters that I know of:

-Paris
-Milan
-Rome
-Geneva
-Berlin

[idle atlas]

greece sounds very plausible, just because a greek theatre wouldnt JUST be the theatre, like a sydney map would.

[bold pine]

I dont think it says "greece"... Every other location is the name of a city.

[sharp flame]

hehe

[hard forge]

This is the finals, everything is possible

[sharp flame]

for sure 👀

[gusty timber]

• London & Athens?

[hard forge]

don't mind me I was using the Socrates method. hehe

[blazing isle]

im doubting anything too close to Monaco, since the maps would be aesthetically too similiar. Rome, Milan and maybe Paris too

[bold pine]

So my pick is either Geneva or Syndey tbh.

First letter looks like a G or S.

[hard forge]

that's a good argument

[idle atlas]

Berlin would make sense, cuz rammstein is metal band

[gusty timber]

I think that's not much of a reason to not do a location since they could easily shift the time period like Seoul and Kyoto

[blazing isle]

Berlin sound plausible

[bold pine]

Berlin is also known for a lot of underground night clubs.

[blazing isle]

yes but we dont see a year at after the name

[alpine junco]

here we go again

[blazing isle]

maybe but kinda hoping not

[sharp flame]

this totally translates into SOMETHING

[idle atlas]

have ppl taken a closer look at the sticker?

[fringe creek]

The poster for the band in Vegas had tour dates of Dec 19, 20, and 21. Any significance?

Lmao. Your timing is impeccable

[bold pine]

We should listen to the Death By Roden music in Vegas again they might be mentionning their tour.

Maybe the whole tour is a step by step clue.

[sharp flame]

wait

[alpine junco]

im gonna host a private lobby for fortune stadium if anyone would like to join GPY7

[idle atlas]

thats when s5 starts (ish)

[bold pine]

Coming.

[fringe creek]

401 is a service type identifier (STID) in the Intelligent Mail barcode system that indicates bound printed matter with no services.

[hard forge]

4 weeks from now

[sharp flame]

Wait

[fringe creek]

Thursday Friday Saturday

[bold pine]

What are we looking for exactly?

[alpine junco]

imagine we only have 3 days for a death by rhodent easter egg

[alpine junco]

sector 3

[bold pine]

👍

[alpine junco]

gonna go to each location on the band tee

[sharp flame]

the 401st asteroid is called Odilia

[blazing isle]

colonge is Köln in german

[sharp flame]

!

[alpine junco]

https://tenor.com/view/charlie-day-always-sunny-in-philadelphia-crazy-pepe-silvia-gif-27373442

[bold pine]

Wait isn't Odilia the last tier skin of Season 1

[sharp flame]

yes

and she's the saint.. of good eyesight.. 👀

OYE

[hard forge]

open your eyes

https://tenor.com/view/illuminati-eye-of-horus-eye-of-providence-masonic-freemason-gif-12198412168153686325

[blazing isle]

in colonge a music theatere is underground in the city centre -> theatre

[sharp flame]

there's more

[hearty meteor]

@blazing isle what does this have to do with cologne

[blazing isle]

meant to link another post

[hearty meteor]

ah i see

[sharp flame]

Her full name is Odilia (Sol Dei)

(Sun of God) <-- connection to Sun

[hearty meteor]

sol badguy

[fringe creek]

Tried my luck at getting that barcode scanned and hasn’t worked yet.

[bold pine]

Found a texture bug but idk.

[alpine junco]

this is funny

[bold pine]

Engimo what are you doing here.

[sharp flame]

there's even more

the Delphinum "Dolphin" plant genus is connected to St. Odilia

[bold pine]

Nothing in sight on sector 3.

[sharp flame]

it's also connected to eyesight, might be a possibility on OYE

[alpine junco]

yup

[bold pine]

Vegas next?

[bold pine]

Wait so there's more to the campus in sys?

[alpine junco]

this lead me to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licinia_Eudoxia

[crisp eagle]

@dull marsh #easter-eggs message sorry for the ping. Didn’t want you to miss this

[dull marsh]

Aha!! 1658 comes back again!

[bold pine]

Dumb thought but what if I defib you right at the door?

[sharp flame]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A440_(pitch_standard) A439 also appears here, as an obscure music standard

[dull marsh]

A439 is also a road that leads to Shakespeare hometown

[sick latch]

Anything been found at these stops? I was about to hit a private lobby and see what I could turn up

[hard forge]

how did you know that

[sick latch]

I was thinking globe theatre Shakespeare times

[past karma]

I found something interesting about the barcode. First of all, it appears to be a binary barcode with only two types of bars: thin and thick. HOWEVER, there also seem to be two types of spaces: narrow and wide. I'm not sure if the spaces have any significance. Typically, barcodes use four types of bars, not just two.

Additionally, if I understood correctly, barcodes with separators ( https://imgur.com/a/nNLiWoM ) must have the separator exactly in the middle. However, in our case, the separator is on the left side of the barcode, not centered.

If we take the simplest approach and interpret the barcode as Morse code, we get the following sequence:

--. .. .-. .. .--- .- --. .. .-. .. .--- .- --. .. .-. .. .--- .-

This translates to:

GIRIJAGIRIJAGIRIJA

A quick search provides this information:

Derived from Sanskrit, this name is a combination of two words: giri meaning mountain and ja meaning born of or coming from. Thus, Girija symbolizes a person who is born or has roots in the mountains.

And

Girija (गिरिज) is another name (synonym) for Karbudāra, which is the Sanskrit word for Bauhinia variegata (orchid tree)

[dull marsh]

Because I looked it up and posted it like 2 weeks ago

[hard forge]

i think that bad code is fake and the output you got is gibberish

[past karma]

Might be, might be

[hard forge]

401st Kilowatt is related to IVADA

and qm.co. means it Military

Quartermaster

[fallow agate]

Weird question. Were you by any chance playing WT last night?

[hard forge]

401st company

[past karma]

While looking, I found this:

https://www.scribd.com/document/585877732/401st-quartermaster-detachment
https://www.history.army.mil/html/forcestruc/lineages/branches/trans/0401trco.htm

[dull marsh]

I think Swedish military history is a good lead, we have barely any swedish stuff in the hunt

And 1658 was the height of the Swedish Empire

[hard forge]

R.cade connected it to ready Kilowatt a long time ago.
idk how and it was never confirmed

[dull marsh]

And the year Rob's homeland became Swedish

[fallow agate]

Lewis gun pyro mine?

[alpine junco]

hmm

[hard forge]

the same year louis 14 made sun symbol as his personal emblem

[fallow agate]

I think I might have gone against you twice

[dull marsh]

#1201288968562552863 people 🙃

[pliant garden]

Hey fellas youre all smarter than me so you prolly already done this but in case you didnt it might be a good idea to check the spots mentioned in this shirt

[dusk veldt]

Reminder, there is a hidden rock song on Vegas #easter-eggs message

[dull marsh]

Is that the same CS as on the sword?

[sharp flame]

ooo you might be right

or a signature of a dev

it's got a skull with heart eyes, if that means anything

[dusk veldt]

I thought that was for Carl Strandberg

[bold pine]

Eiffel tower.

[dull marsh]

I mean one of the devs might be part of the group, and thus lore 😀

[dull marsh]

Probably

[pliant garden]

Wait a minute,you mind if DM you ?

[sick latch]

That signature? I thought so too

[dusk veldt]

@dull marsh the goat thing #easter-eggs message

[bold pine]

What do you need?

[alpine junco]

imagine theres an EE where you have to have specific FOV, mouse, and keyboard/controller settings

[dull marsh]

Yeah I've tried making the horn sign in the alley, didn't do anything

[dusk veldt]

I do wonder ab the hidden rock song

[dull marsh]

I think he was just talking about Death by Rhodent tho? Which is "hidden" to some extent

[pliant garden]

Can i ?

[sharp flame]

you don't know about the song in the alley?

the Death by Rhodent one?

[dusk veldt]

No I mean there is a hidden one, yet to be found

[unkempt dune]

stop spoiling it smh /s

[dull marsh]

I don't interpret it that way

[sharp flame]

why would he say that

if there is already a hidden one

in the alley

he says "hidden" because it's not really hidden

[dusk veldt]

Oh yk you two are right my bad, I just read the "hidden" thing

[sharp flame]

and he says 'the' because it's the only one

haha

[sharp flame]

Odilia 🙏

[hard forge]

the trickster

[dusk veldt]

I had the linked saved as hidden and not "hidden" in my notes so yeah

[sharp flame]

I'm going to pray to Odilia for good eyesight every time Rob says OYE now

Saint Rob and Saint Odilia lol

[queen rain]

isnt there graffiti of rats or something on egas?

[sharp flame]

There are posters of the band, not sure about graffiti, but probably

[dull marsh]

Yes there are a couple graffitis of a rat 🐀

[unkempt dune]

the last word is definitely THEATRE

we have Shakespeare

we're in a game show #1282815551944659104 message

we have a green room reference from that baked beans charm #1282815551944659104 message

lots of stuff going back to plays and shows

essentially Shakespeare is huge in the hunt because of Romeo and Juliette #1282815551944659104 message

their story involves two families who are... not best friends 🤣

and it all ends in tragedy

[bold pine]

First word looks like it starts with an S, G or... &

My picks are Sydney and Geneva.

[unkempt dune]

I don't even know if the first part makes sense

if anything, the last letter could be L

[opaque thistle]

[opal canyon]

yes

[glass zinc]

and KYOTO's name is misspelled

[glass zinc]

and Theatre is an area in the map

[granite bough]

I'm guessing 'SEOUL - THEATER', but there is no theater on the Seoul map.
Will it be added?

[glass zinc]

This looks like a "B" to me

[opal canyon]

Boston? Berlin

my bet is on berlin

[unkempt dune]

Seoul is the new map every season from now on

[pliant garden]

Maybe if you go to the locations mentioned on the shirt theres some hints toward whats coming ?

[unkempt dune]

I have an idea...

but I need to think some more about it

but yes, the locations are important

[pure cypress]

hello

[granite bough]

If it's “city with a famous theater”, it could be Berlin, but this seems unlikely given that the last letter is guessed to be an L

[sharp flame]

famous city with a theater =/= city with a famous theater

every city has a theater

in fact, every single city in the game has a theater nowadays

[granite bough]

oh my bad
you are right

[sharp flame]

N doesn't seem like the last letter to me

I agree it looks like a B

though I said it could also be an S, or R

and that final letter is either an E or an L imo

[woeful cipher]

&

[sharp flame]

but Berlin is a good one

it's got the amount of letters we need

and I can kinda see where you'd get an N at the end

[sharp flame]

could be akin to SYS$HORIZON having the $

[granite bough]

Brazil?

[glass zinc]

I think yeah Brazil is a option too

[silk bolt]

There's something on death by rottens jacket back

[daring walrus]

Yo you guys think the new update has some bugs?

[granite bough]

However, it is unlikely that a country is a name, as most maps are named cities or specific neighborhoods.

[opal canyon]

My bets are on this :

Berlin
Batna (city in algeria)
Benin (a jungle type map? with a theatre ?)

[hard forge]

sound bugs #game-announcements

[glass zinc]

Monaco sitting in a corner

[woeful cipher]

yeah Brazil why not

[silk bolt]

Could be the last one there's a jungle map we haven't seen from beta trailer

[fallen jasper]

what if theres new easter eggs at these map locations

thatd be rad

[opal canyon]

where is plaza in monaco?!

[unkempt dune]

so I've look at this in the past, but I've always found the music sound artifacts a bit weird at Glamora https://streamable.com/fbe883

[opal canyon]

wait, the music bug happening today could be related this

[unkempt dune]

you might be onto something

maybe the no music bug is a clue

maybe we need to mute the music while playing or vice versa

[opal canyon]

also the todays trailer was in vegas