easter-eggs

[worn rivet]

They sell time machines, calling it now.

/s

[fallen jasper]

I assume we'll get to know when Dissun starts their stop

[crisp eagle]

I believe they discuss that more over at https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1204741064800338000

[fallen jasper]

Because it seems the current Easter egg hunt is around Vaiiya and dissun

[crisp eagle]

Here we do get clues that make us guess at where it'll be next though

Yea it's great. the Lore and EE's do kinda go hand and hand too. They've made this all super deep

[worn rivet]

Did we try ASCII as a password?

[snow walrus]

lines are equal on this map which is a Equirectangular projection i believe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirectangular_projection

[worn rivet]

Does it matter where u put in the password?

[snow walrus]

wdym

[bright ruin]

Alright, where's the tldr of the 2 months I've been MIA (hello friends )

[snow walrus]

there are many projections such as heart shaped, triangular, ellipsoid..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_map_projections

[snow walrus]

you know the answer is RHB vids 😄 welcome back

[bright ruin]

Lol RHB vid was frontpage of my YT, watching it and prompted me to come back here 😂
Thank you thank you

[gloomy anvil]

annoyingly this wasn't eyed, while the black knight card RHB posted below it was, so idk if the King is relevant, but it seems like it should be

[fresh quiver]

TLDR: we have 9 slots but haven’t found even 1 password yet 😄

[bright ruin]

Oh I know that part, I was just hoping we had found a password since 😭 that's depressing

[gloomy anvil]

we're close.... close... clo...

[fresh quiver]

Best threads to read through for L3

#1270882064249520198
#1318635922350149736 #1320004425019949097

I guess this are most of the things we gotten in last time

[gloomy anvil]

If you'd like to catch up on Level 3, check the wiki for a timeline and rundown of clues https://thefinals.wiki/wiki/Level_3_-_The_Hunt

It doesn't list all our theories, because those are just theories atm

[bright ruin]

Have we at least had any new hints from rob for the passwords lately? Or is this another "you have everything you need" situation

[gloomy anvil]

We got three new images in December which was a big clue drop, and Rob has been giving out small hints on Twitch occasionally.

[bright ruin]

Hmmmm
Did we stash those in the wiki or the miro board? I want to take a gander

[gloomy anvil]

All on the wiki, alongside some likely (but unconfirmed) interpretations

[gloomy anvil]

Black Knight + King + Joker = Dagonet, King Arthur's jester (joker)

Alternatively, the Joker could point to comedy as a whole, and thus Monty Python and the Holy Grail

[crisp eagle]

well there's the xyrr but what about the 1xy 🤔

oh it was 1x2?

[gloomy anvil]

yeah

[crisp eagle]

I need to search things more haha I went off my (bad) memory. Thanks for looking out haha

[gloomy anvil]

heart-shaped could be interesting based on the lost legacy map orientation

cordiform is the word for anything heart-shaped

[crisp eagle]

The forward projection transforms spherical coordinates into planar coordinates.
So we possibly have to transform those coordinates given on the Level 3 page?

[alpine junco]

have these been posted?

[hard current]

@empty plaza you get a chance to look at rose stuff on monaco?

[snow walrus]

1748.0825462393968 km, 2584.9500305023835 km,
3101.5548794379256 km, 1445.245489697768 km
9100.353233538717 km, 4136.737116315555 km
5198.299279478241 km, 6133.4285939815245 km```

edit: made a silly mistake. x is lon, y is lat. Fixed now. So do not ref the screenshot.

[fresh quiver]

https://tenor.com/view/sei-seiyans-sei-seiyan-cook-cooking-let-us-cook-gif-1926093107417312682

[empty plaza]

Why don’t we use the same method we used to get the Alison Wonderland answer?

3.1.2

[alpine junco]

is this still unsolved?

[snow walrus]

guys

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

oh RHB sent this earlier nice!

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

[fresh quiver]

i think yes.

this is from @coarse dagger obisian vault.

[sharp flame]

swear I solved that one

[fresh quiver]

lulz vault says no.

but did you? go find it then 😂 Rn im staring at pixels and try to make it a bit clearer and handrawing pixels

[sharp flame]

NVM was looking at a much older one

[alpine junco]

Was looking back at all the art and seeing which ones havent been solved. Did some overlaying and seeing if there was anything missing.

I know there are a couple old #official-art that havent been 100% solved and seeing if any of em could help us out at this tier

[fresh quiver]

what should i say... 😂

[alpine junco]

I tried overlaying both the “F” files since they have the same background

Diagonal lines and circles

[fresh quiver]

the circles are already on the Screenshot 19

[alpine junco]

Like #1206741392286547998 message

[fresh quiver]

might had a dumb idea.

What if we try to overlay the unreadable things with some of the other unreadable things?

Like not all belong to the puzzle. but to overlay each other. both

[alpine junco]

Thats how some clues were found in the recent #official-art

iirc Rob said there are patterns

[fresh quiver]

yeah.

[cunning patrol]

Hello

[copper zodiac]

Hi

[alpine junco]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel-art_scaling_algorithms

Could this be of any help?

[fresh quiver]

well. yes. smooting with hqx works. but if there are pixel missing in it. its hard.

But here is it scaled 4x times with hqx

[proud minnow]

{

[fresh quiver]

so everything of both images combined?

[eternal violet]

we did find {, though its not as bright as }

[dull marsh]

{V

AIIYA}

[alpine junco]

Oh Rob

[dull marsh]

123

(ASCII decimal)

[crisp eagle]

everything in the images make up a set?

[alpine junco]

123 125

[fallen jasper]

Yall have the dissun thing

[crisp eagle]

}

[dull marsh]

Guys it's ASCII for 123, same clue as we keep getting about AiW, 01:23, 321, I we who (3 first words), etc.

[crisp eagle]

so then the } we got would be 125?

[dull marsh]

The Book of Numbers says that Aaron died at the age of 123.
Aaron could relate to Elvis, but that's pretty weak

[sharp flame]

maybe it could represent a beginning?

[dull marsh]

} is 0x7D and 0xD7 in unicode is multiplication sign × 🤔

[fresh quiver]

but then { again would make no sense

[sharp flame]

KN is mentioned here, anyone remember that?

KN was mentioned in the metadata of a very early image, and KN (Kitts Nevis) is where all THE FINALS domains are registered from

[alpine junco]

Speaking of Brunhild

[sharp flame]

explain!

[gloomy anvil]

The opening and closing curly brackets in the sponsor images could be 123 125, but they could also represent 123 321 (mirroring the opening bracket)

[alpine junco]

If there is any connection: queen, sea, knights, love, prize would be key words in this hunt, wouldnt they?

I should say part of it

[crisp eagle]

I don't know if this could be anything, but 1, 2, and 3 in roman numerals are the first three numbers before a new character is introduced. they are just made up of I's whereas 4 introduces V into the mix with IV

[alpine junco]

1+2+3=6 G6 😂

[crisp eagle]

I II III

[crisp eagle]

haha I thought that since it's fresh on my mind from reading through all of your adventures in the wiki

[gloomy anvil]

1,2,3:

• MW.AREA 1, MW.AREA 2, MW.AREA 3
• 01:23 = Alice in Wonderland
• 1, 2, 3 = first human numbers (from the I We Who study)
• { = 123 ascii
• Indiana Jones "X Marks the Spot" track length = 3:12
• STS-123 was flown by Endeavour
• ABC -> AB Cryptograph ?

sets of three:

• 3 dawns
• 3 dolphins
• commence + promise + hunt = 19/3
• las vegas + monaco + seoul = 19/3
• slies + cetacea + asconce = 19/3

I'm probably missing lots

The planned launch date of STS-123 was valentine's day which is interesting to note. It also landed at Kennedy, SLF Runway 15, like STS-88 did (the latest STS-88 clue was "END")

[eternal violet]

I We Who is also literally 1 2 3 based on the character count

[dull marsh]

March 12 1989 (12/3)

Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web

[crisp eagle]

1, 2, 3 = SOH, STX, ETX

[fresh quiver]

did we tried 1 character passwords?
Even when this is possible my worst ever suggestion.

[dull marsh]

very unlikely, too easy to bruteforce. it's against the rules but it would be dumb to make it that easy

12/3 is the Aztec New Year

[gloomy anvil]

Rob arrived in chat after samras forwarded this message about combining multiple images, and seeing a "pattern" to do so. The images we've combined so far have had the curly brackets.

[fresh quiver]

oh whats with Rule of 3? We had that also

[crisp eagle]

I only know the rule of thirds like in photography. was that a thing in the hunt?

[gloomy anvil]

They're one missing step away from a complete word ladder (lewis carroll) but I may be reaching

[fresh quiver]

tiers of L2 can be divided by 3.

and I think L1 were 3 URLs?

[gloomy anvil]

Three URLs that each led to a red then a fourth URL (geocache) that completed the level

[alpine junco]

Could mean to find images with information to be put into brackets

[crisp eagle]

Annia Cornificia Faustina, the sister of Marcus Aurelius, was born 123 AD

[gloomy anvil]

Genesis 1:23 ends the fifth day of creation, in which God made creatures that live in the sea and creatures that fly. (Sega Genesis + Trinity + 123). Not sure how likely that is to be relevant.

[dull marsh]

Perhaps 123 is about the 3 first URLs?

In Level 1:

• /devoncrossing is related to William Crossing of Devon
• /galileo is about geolocation and coordinates
• /ocb is about first geocache

There was also a clue about Sherlock Holmes "The Hound of the Baskervilles" taking place in Devon, and STS-88 Day 10 Elvis song is "Hound Dog"

[crisp eagle]

yea didn't Rob say something about going back to the start of the hunt? and eyed something TonyB said about needing to go to real locations

[shy oracle]

well if anything math related is that rob has opened up the curly brackets meaning we've just figured something out now we just gotta put it together

when he closes it probably means we've made that connection

[alpine junco]

#1318635922350149736 message also this

[crisp eagle]

so maybe it points to 3 things total, and each thing has 3 clues that point to them.

[hard forge]

0123

[fresh quiver]

Had Proxima Centauri ever a outcome? I just know it was eyed by rob

[snow walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-burning-ashes-burning-coals-gif-5990712

[dull marsh]

123 can be year 1BC, also known as year 0 (rob 1st message was y0)

Year zero was "invented" by Kepler

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

[snow walrus]

{0}

[alpine junco]

{vii}

[crisp eagle]

in 1627: 1+6+2+7=16

[snow walrus]

This is not fun at all... (O_O)

[sharp flame]

more like (0=O)

[snow walrus]

yea, only if you know

[alpine junco]

More like {0v0}

[crisp eagle]

seems like this season they show contestants with the number 32 a lot. Then we get that Cerberus skin where it's number is 23 no matter what your number is. just missing the 1

[crisp eagle]

well there is the 1%er diamond patch on the jacket haha

[worn rivet]

I was JUST about to post that😭😭

[crisp eagle]

what if the S5_KeyArt has been our "missing third image" This whole time? The contestant is holding an ISEUL-T Cerberus

I can't photoshops, but maybe someone good at stuff could stack that dude with the others and see what happens?

[hasty anvil]

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

[hasty anvil]

U+007B { LEFT CURLY BRACKET
U+007D } RIGHT CURLY BRACKET

From wiki

[gloomy anvil]

We could consider the time Rob sent the message, 10:27pm (22:27) CEST, as a possible supplementary clue to the curly bracket. It could've been random too of course.

[woeful cipher]

console.log( "Hello, World!" ) ; }

[crisp eagle]

007

[dull marsh]

12 3 is LC like Lewis Carroll or LeChuck

[dull marsh]

3 21 is CU which can be copper, a metal in group 11 along with silver and gold

[sullen warren]

is there a tool i can use to get caught up on where Easter egg is currently at

[dull marsh]

You can find a good amount of infos in #egg-hunt-onboarding , you can check the Wiki and RockhoundBlack videos for the EE hunt

[sullen warren]

thank you 🙂

[sharp flame]

007Bond

[wind shadow]

idk if its been noticed or said before but theres a background behind the finals logo loading when you launch the game

the one in bottom right

[dull marsh]

STS-88 day 10 was dec 12 1998, but because the wake up calls are at 5:30 or 6:00 and the ISS schedule is in UTC, in part of the US it was still dec 11 1998

And on december 11 1998 was released Shakespeare in Love, which is 123 minutes long

[hard current]

Braces (curly brackets) first became part of a character set with the 8-bit code of the IBM 7030 Stretch.

Originally designed to meet a requirement formulated by Edward Teller at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the first example was delivered to Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1961,

hmmm man I don’t understand how we’re supposed to use 123

slies cetacea asconce

1 2 3

rule of thirds

oh wait

[crisp eagle]

Yea I keep scratching my head trying to find connections with everything else we have to 123

[hard current]

sliesc etacea sconce

if we treat the password as thirds, you’d get something like this?

Slices, etacea, sconce

[eternal violet]

youre missing an a, 19 is not dividable by 3

[hard current]

oh you’re right I missed it between asconce and cetacea my bad

[crisp eagle]

Maybe things that link together are passwords or parts of passwords going across, not down

[dull marsh]

I think we need to look harder into Alice in Wonderland

[crisp eagle]

Like how we have
mma1-a mma2-a mma3-a

slies cetacea asconce

[dull marsh]

01:23 was AiW, Chapter 10 (X marks the spot) has the White Rabbit, "Porpoise" (was in Dolphin charm description, a cetacea) and "askance" (another spelling for "asconce"), and a gryphon (Level 1 started with that)

[hard current]

how did 01:23 lead to that chapter?

[dull marsh]

No 01:23 is just AiW

[crisp eagle]

X marks the spot

[dull marsh]

But Chapter X relates to all 3 parts of Level 3 activation

Alice in Wonderland seems to be the central element of Level 3, not just 1 clue among the others

Also before she falls asleep, Alice's sister is reading a book about William the Conqueror, and he is also mentioned explicitely in Chapter 3

[hard current]

“Father William” is mentioned in that chapter too

[dull marsh]

Yup, although here it does not relate to William the Conqueror, but still noticeable

[crisp eagle]

Rob did say something like “now look back at all the AiW clues you’ve been given” when 01:23 was solved too

[dull marsh]

And Rob has been talking about "rabbit holes" since the beginning of the hunt and we have /burrw...

And many mirror clues which relates to the mirrored world in Throught the Looking-Glass (sequel to AiW)

[crisp eagle]

Is the actual book title “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”

[hard current]

it seems like the lobster quadrille could somehow be instructions for us to.. go out to the sea?

egad the word askance is in that chapter too!!

[dull marsh]

Yes I said so haha

The part I'm stuck on is to connect the following clues:

• STS-88
• Black knight
• Alice in Wonderland
• (optionally) /burrw

Black knight and STS-88 are obviously connected, but I can't see a connection to AiW

In Through the Looking-Glass there is the White Knight, which is likely one connection for Rob, but it has already been mentioned and is not strong enough imo

[hard current]

sorry admittedly I’m painfully hungover and my brain is not firing on all cylinders

[dull marsh]

Maybe it's the winning recipe tho 😄

[hard current]

https://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/chapters-script/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/chapter-10/

if anyone wanna read it

welp… chapter X has a ton of things for us

dumb question but, is there anyway for a player to throw another player

maybe using a gadget?

lobster quadrille is essentially just…. pairing up, and throwing a lobster into the ocean

I wonder if there’s a way for players to pair up and throw the other into the ocean by the cetacea blocks

or perhaps we’re meant to throw objects found on the map out into the ocean

[crisp eagle]

The dance Quadrille is a “square dance” with 5 figures. A figure in dance is a set of steps. We’ve got 5 sets of coordinate.

Oh I didn’t even think to see if “lobster quadrille” was actually a thing haha I thought it might just be something funny Carrol combined with a dance

[hard current]

the way the lobster quadrille is described doesn’t make sense.. “line up and pairs” but a quadrille makes a square

[dull marsh]

yes that's the whole idea of this book, it's a dream so it's confusing but it makes sense to her in the moment, to some degree 😄

[crisp eagle]

I might try to get a copy of the book. I’m sure it can’t be very long. I’m wondering if there’s anything we need to know contextually that leads up to that chapter

Maybe the events that lead to that part of the book are just as important as the chapter itself

[dull marsh]

If you REALLY want to read it, you can access the text here, although the formatting is not great https://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/chapters-script/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/

[snow walrus]

White Rabbit is kinda a herald in AiW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herald

[dull marsh]

There is also Alice's Adventures Under Ground, the original version of the story, it's similar but only has 4 chapters and some stuff was changed/added in AAiW https://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/resources/chapters-script/alices-adventures-under-ground/

[crisp eagle]

Is that poem part of the book? “All in the golden afternoon”

[dull marsh]

I think it's at the beginning yes

[crisp eagle]

Also included in various editions: an Easter greeting
A Christmas greeting. It’s a stretch but the book is bookended (I know) with gold and egg

No way I found it on Spotify for free. See y’all on the other side 🫡

[dull marsh]

@pure loom I think you should mention those things in your next video, it's too much to be simple coincidences

[crisp eagle]

Did you read AiW and post your findings? I remember you played secret of monkey island, but I have a memory of you reading this book too

[dull marsh]

Yeah, but I didn't dive as deep in the findings, as Chapter X was the only one that seemed to have really obvious connection, the rest not as much

I mean now more again, with William the Conqueror, but still Chapter X remains the strongest

There: #easter-eggs message

[crisp eagle]

Memory unlocked! That’s the post I was thinking of. Thank you

[fresh kayak]

The white rabbit tattoo in the game is a matrix and alice reference. And the finals is s simulation like the matrix. Just thinking if the rabbit could be a Segway to the Illusion part of the matrix?

[snow walrus]

rabbit - cuniculus - burrow - latibulum
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cuniculus

[dull marsh]

Technically the one in the Matrix is a reference to Alice already

[fresh kayak]

Exactly "follow the white rabbit"

[crisp eagle]

From chapter 2 of AiW: Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; I daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.'

[hard current]

there’s a reference to france in chapter 10 as well

[dull marsh]

I tend to stray away from stuff relating to france because as a french I know I'll be biased toward it, but maybe there is something there :/

[crisp eagle]

I just don’t see many fiction books mention William the Conqueror haha

I guess it never really registered that Simone Weil is also French. Kinda forgot about her signature joining the party

Chapter 3 kicks off with Alice giving a lesson on William the Conqueror as “the driest thing” she knows in order to dry off the animals after they got caught in her pool of tears

[dull marsh]

Isn't it the mouse giving the 'lecture'?

[crisp eagle]

Oh wait yea I heard it wrong haha

[pure loom]

That’s an interesting find. I’ve been wondering about Level 1 a bit.

[pure loom]

That’s Chapter 10 of AIW, is it?

[snow walrus]

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

[pure loom]

Gryphon (as in Pisa Griffin) as well

[dull marsh]

Yup, mentioned it too in the following messages 😄

I posted all of that a while ago but I think it went a bit unnoticed

[solid jay]

Just thought it would be worth mentioning that page 123 of Alice in Wonderland contains a scene with the Cheshire Cat during the Queen of Hearts croquet match.

[dull marsh]

In considering the problem of assigning Humpty Dumpty to a set of either fallen or whole eggs, given his role both in Carroll’s story and in the nursery rhyme, it may be helpful to consider the null set. In logical terms, the null set (xy0) would include the group of eggs that are both whole and fallen, an empty set because of its impossibility.
https://branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=jean-little-algebraic-logic-in-through-the-looking-glass

no idea what this is about but it talks about Alice Through the Looking Glass, eggs and empty set

Given that the current level is called THE HUNT, I'm looking a bit into The Hunt of The Snark

[solid jay]

It looks like it's about Boolean logic?

[dull marsh]

They give 5 marks of the snark, given that it doesn't exist it could be '5 LIES'

The book illustrations were made by Henry Holiday, an artist who also made stained glass, one of them on his wiki has a pointed finger a bit like the drawing we have in DISSUN's official-art background

STS-88 could also be 88 = HH = Henry Holiday, as he signed his artpieces with 'hh'

[solid jay]

Haven't we discussed quantum computing and superposition in the past? Which is contradictory to boolean logic.

[dull marsh]

In it they have a blank map of the ocean, nand say that Mercator's north, poles and equators, [...] are merely conventional signs (just mentioning cuz we have coordinates and all...)

[dull marsh]

From one of Lewis Carroll's math book

There is a version of the long tale which uses A1Z26 cipher

[empty plaza]

This picture goes hard

[pure loom]

I’m wondering if this could be a double clue - so “123” and therefor Alice In Wonderland as @dull marsh pointed out, but also The Matrix since it represents the start of a matrix. So, in the same way that the white rabbit began in AIW but reappeared in The Matrix.

[hard current]

both alice in wonderland and the matrix are clues to a sort of false reality

dreams, dreaming, illusion etc

[dull marsh]

Tbf thus far the Matrix clues are pretty loose, there are definitely some ties, particularly thematically, but not much seems to be pointing to it at the current stage and we've mentioned many things related to it and didn't really get eyes or much else

[eternal violet]

curly braces are not used for matrices ._.

[hard current]

agreed

[hard current]

there is a 0 matrix in the vaiiya image though

[eternal violet]

yes... it uses square braces

[gloomy anvil]

I have this too. If there's a lead that I'm personally associated with in some way, it feels less likely to be correct.

[pure loom]

Oh, yeah, true.

This could be relevant: In music, they are known as "accolades" or "braces", and connect two or more lines (staves) of music that are played simultaneously.

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

[crisp eagle]

@dull marsh did you ever point out 1+23 = 24 = X
I tried searching for it and didn't find it

just further points to chapter 10

[fresh kayak]

Highly speculative, Arc Raider's robots from "Meat Space" maybe have a similar connection to the robots from the Matrix? Just another twist to it? Do we know anything about lore of the robots from arc raiders?

[fallow agate]

Do we know if the finals Easter eggs are related to Arc?

[gloomy anvil]

Page 123 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland describes the Cheshire Cat appearing in front of Alice. Cheshire is the English county that Lewis Carroll grew up in. It was also one of multiple areas targeted by William the Conqueror in the "Harrowing of the North".

There's a settlement called Warren in Cheshire.
OS Grid reference: SJ888688, Postcode district: SK11, Dialing code: 01625.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren,_Cheshire

[ionic swallow]

About the practice range roses, I remember Rob said there were roses in other maps too.
I found these two in Vegas, looks like orchid to me, but the base is shaped like a golden egg and can be carried around. Could be related to that hunt? https://imgur.com/a/MTc9Zkx

Orchids appeared here too

[gloomy anvil]

There's a running gag in Monty Python and the Holy Grail that King Arthur cannot count to three.

For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ashgP4YMdJw

Arthur: "one, two, five!"
Bedevere: "three sir!"
Arthur: "three!"
They use the holy hand grenade against the Rabbit of Caerbannog (white rabbit)

It occurs again in the "answer me these questions three" scene, where Arthur keeps referring to them as five questions. Also, when they spot the bridge keeper, they shout "Look, it's the old man from scene 24" as a fourth wall gag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D7hFHfLEyk

[crisp eagle]

24 again. X

[queen rain]

U guys insane yet?

[clear adder]

what

[dull marsh]

Always have been

[gloomy anvil]

Just noticed the stickers on the lower body too

[queen rain]

Holy hell 😭

[queen rain]

I want my free Easter egg skins but sometimes you might be reaching

[gloomy anvil]

Reaching with what? There are plenty of clues on cosmetics.

[gloomy anvil]

The March equinox falls on March 19-21 (3/21). It will next fall on the 21st in 2102, which is a seemingly relevant in-game year #easter-eggs message

In astronomy, the March equinox is the zero point of sidereal time and, consequently, the right ascension and ecliptic longitude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_equinox

[alpine junco]

STS = see the signs

seek the stars

[dull marsh]

One simple link between the ISS and Alice is the idea of freefall

Something in orbit is technically in freefall, and Alice going into the burrow ends up in freefall for a while

[dull marsh]

Probably nonsense rambling, but

The White Rabbit is late, very late, and we have a lot about Chapter X

STS-88 was supposed to launch on Dec 3, but was delayed to Dec 4, so it was late, and 88 in ASCII is X

Perhaps the common point is late-x?

There is LATEX language which is used a lot to write scientific papers, and it has a heavy use of {} symbols

There is also if we take burrw and mirror it we get wrrub, could be WR + rub = White Rabbit + Rubber = latex? 😄

Also I suspect that all of the empty set clues are for us to look at /burrw

{ is a perfect clue to link AiW 123 and /burrw missing "o" with empty set {}

[snow walrus]

rub is etymological origin of rabbit possibly

[dull marsh]

One reason I'm mirroring burrw is because one of the clues in VAIIYA's image is exactly at 1037x731, 1037 and 731 are mirrored numbers, except the 0 has disappeared, just like o in burrow

Looking a bit more into xyrr1x2, it might actually lead to GPS

• xy = coordinates
• rr = Ronald Reagan
• 1x2 in base64 = 220278 = 22 Feb 1978 = launch of Navstar 1, first GPS satellite

The 3 regions NA, EU and Asia might match either:

• GPS, Galileo and GLONASS (Russia)

• GPS, Galileo and BeiDou (China)

After Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down when it mistakenly entered Soviet airspace, President Ronald Reagan announced that the GPS system would be made available for civilian use
Potential connection to 007

[nocturne furnace]

Have we got anywhere with the roses?

[dull marsh]

Nope, latest convo is in this thread #1203859365610922036 (just in case)

GPS has L1 to L5 frequencies, L3 is for enforcing nuclear test ban treaties (not sure how), could relate to L3AIM

To acquire signal, it mentions Euler (not too surprising, but could be a link)

The carrier is a complex number where real and imaginary components are both sinusoids as described by Euler's formula.

[dull marsh]

MW = 13 23, and 13:23 = 1:23pm, so perhaps MW.Area = AiW.Area = Alice in Wonderland Area

[sharp flame]

123 again?!

no way

[dull marsh]

perchance way

[glass wharf]

I was just listening to a song called White Rabbit, and I know there are white rabbits in the finals. There was also a time with rob was playing with Rockhoundblack and waterdance and ( Sory if i butchered the names:) someone (not sure of their name) figured out that 1:23 (rob always posted I think at this time) was AIW which is Alice in wonder Land. Now I'm not to sure if it has anything to do with this song but I thought I would bring it up.
The song was in the Matrix
Its called White Rabbits by the Jefferson Airplane

Maybe the song might have clues but I am not sure, just bringing it up

[dull marsh]

This song has been mentioned a few times, but I gotta say you have a great memory to remember that out of the blue 😄

[glass wharf]

lol nah my memory is a bit rusty, il remember the most random things but not what happened 5 seconds ago 😆

well hopefully this might help

[empty heron]

I think there's something to the parry arcs thing. I seem to remember there's an ancient south American stone. Record of a very specific kind of parry arc where the sun had three halos at sunrise.

It's also notable that the Aztec sun stone has been featured multiple times this season in various ways.

My bad it was the sumerians. Almost the exact other side of the globe. Here's that anyways.

Also of particular note. These kinds of arcs would be found looking towards the sun from very specific positions. Maybe there is a certain spot on one of the maps where it's best to look at the sun.

Japan is also "the land of the rising sun, “///“ and the kiyomizu-dera temple is a well known sun-watching location and is prominently featured at the center of the Kyoto map.

Gonna go do some sun watching on that map and see what I see

[fresh kayak]

Dont know if the easter eggs are linked to the game? Dont even know what to eggspect with them? But this arc has a dissun logo behind it so i guess their is some link between them. My only find is that they invaded earth...

[fallow agate]

Mate… that’s the bottom of the Dissun logo.

They could just be reusing textures

[fresh kayak]

Or an upside down, but ok 🙂 im sceptical they reusing a logo like that

[hard current]

I miss Rob

I wonder if he thinks about us

https://tenor.com/view/depression-lololol-funny-sad-ha-gif-18705961

[empty heron]

I have made a rather distressing discovery. Skyway stadium has no sun whatsoever.

Sys also now confirmed to be sunless.

Man Holtow's got some explaining to do...

[empty heron]

They sell sun insurance and half the maps don't even have any sun.

Maybe more than half. I don't think fortune does either.

And I haven't checked Bernal or Monaco, but I'm pretty sure I've seen the sun in Kyoto. Sys has a sunset, kinda. It's digital though and we already solved that one.

[twin oasis]

sys has sunset varient no?

[low escarp]

sys has sunny day with sun fully visible and sunset

[empty heron]

Sunny day shows the sun? I was just on that variant and couldn't find the sun anywhere.

[hard current]

yeah it’s the synth wave sun in off the seashore right?

[empty heron]

Weird that I missed that. Could've sworn that was the first place I checked.

[low escarp]

skyway

[empty heron]

Ah no wonder I didn't see that. Alright holtow. You get a pass for now...

[low escarp]

day and night on sky look almost the same

[opal pond]

Because of the stadium lights... BLACKOUT ARENA EVENT WHEN?

[alpine junco]

you mean steal the spotlight

[snow walrus]

yea that was DISSUN's fault

probably i shouldn't have said that as a signee 😄

[pale quarry]

just found this on the back of seoul

has this rabbit been found?

[dull marsh]

Define "back of Seoul"

[pale quarry]

but it only appeared on goo from the goo gun

[worn rivet]

Do we have a bnuy spray ?

[crisp eagle]

oops I thought this was off topic chat and it was a joke, which is why I laugh reacted. My bad

[crisp eagle]

I couldn't find one, but I missed season 1 BP stuff

[snow walrus]

That must be a bug, one of the original WR is just right there

Is that the outer wall of the data center? Partially destructed?

[worn rivet]

We could go check if u want

[snow walrus]

Im on my phone ._.

[worn rivet]

Me too

My xbox is right behind me tho

[dull marsh]

It's not a bug, that's how sprays work in the game, they're projected on whatever surface is there in the moment

[keen ravine]

you can do this and move it around the map :3

[crisp eagle]

So there is a WR spray?

[keen ravine]

not that I know of

[dull marsh]

No, I think it's the decal which is supposed to be on the VEIN sign, being projected onto the goo

[torn swallow]

How would it get over there, i don’t know how projections work

[dull marsh]

There are 5 White Rabbits on Seoul, and there is one on the VEIN sign on the side of the building right where your pointed to, I think the sign got destroyed but the game still considers the decal is there and will project it on whatever

[burnt sun]

the red mannequins in the practice range work the same

if you destroy the floor they despawn, repair it with goo, they respawn

[torn swallow]

I thought you couldn’t reach the sign

So are you saying since the sign is destroyed its projecting above where it usually is?

[empty plaza]

😂

[worn rivet]

I doubt the grafitis are something new, but just in case

[alpine junco]

#1182955042416893984

[pure loom]

I've just been looking at this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argonne_National_Laboratory, and remembered about Argonne Forest in BF1.

I wondered if Argon Casino might be in the NE, as in ArgonNE - but it's SW, so I guess a mirrored connection could apply, but it would be an odd sort of connection

[hard current]

some thinking has prompted me to think of rule of 3rds, trinity, etc

the only rule in the past we've had was simply e = 3

sli3sc3tac3aasconc3

not sure if it is anything but if it piques any thoughts

sli3s
c3tac3a
asconc3

ah it bothers me to know end that that password can't be split up evenly into 3rds

or

sli 3 sc 3 tac 3 aasconc 3

I'm trying to take robs clues more literally... alot of the time we get deep into theory, history, etc, but don't consider what that means we have to do with what we already have

that was all we saw in level 2, we had names, ideas, passwords, but needed to do something to them to figure it out

and right now, all we have is sliescetaceasconce

I think the first of the password tiers in this level might have to be built out of that

but I could be wrong

another theory I've had is

what if each part of this levels passwords correspond to slies cetacea and askance individually? can cetacea be broken down further into suborders? can slies and Llies and one other liar be present? etc etc

Mysticeti

Odontoceti

doesn't look like there's a 3rd suborder :/

The Eocene (IPA: /ˈiːəsiːn, ˈiːoʊ-/ EE-ə-seen, EE-oh-[5][6]) is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era. The name Eocene comes from the Ancient Greek Ἠώς (Ēṓs, "Dawn") and καινός (kainós, "new") and refers to the "dawn" of modern ('new') fauna that appeared during the epoch (dolphins, cetaceans came around here)

oh hey look, a dawn

The word "askance" originates from the Middle English word "askant," meaning sideways or obliquely. Its exact etymology is uncertain, but it is believed to have evolved from older forms conveying a sense of sideways or indirect gaze.

this is what we had to do to catch the 3HM right?

have we tried triggering the dolphins with an indirect view?

looking into the sphere maybe?

[ruby prawn]

gonna shizo post rq - when it comes to the Practice range roses beans stuff, i found that coffee beans (turned into coffee grounds) can actually be used too "feed" roses

[empty plaza]

Bro just casually dropped a bomb connection and thought we wouldn't notice

[ruby prawn]

Wait actually? xd i thought everyone would just look at my message and go "eh ive seen that before" or "nah no way this is anything good " lmao

[empty plaza]

None of us have thought about coffee beans yet

Thank you!

Works right into what we've got going

[ruby prawn]

i actually learned this a VERY long time ago in like 2nd grade when my teacher said something about using coffee to grow/feed flowers or smth

[empty plaza]

If you have more stuff like that, join us in here

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1203859365610922036

[ruby prawn]

do i have the permission?

i guess i do

[hard current]

I have a potential idea for the lobster quadrille, throw downed player statues into the ocean on sys horizon

[empty plaza]

Aventine Hill, a Rose Garden in Cosmedin, Rome, overlooks the Basilica of Santa Maria, where St. Valentine's alleged skull rests. 🌹

The trees and layout inside the Practice Range look eerily similar to those of Aventine Hill

[eternal violet]

ehh not really true, it's not like we had oviform literally written to us and we only needed to find the transformations

We have all the same stuff like in level 2, except 9 passwords simultaneously instead of 1 which makes this super hard, because the clues are not converging into one place

[eternal violet]

and 5 images full of clues

[crisp eagle]

Frosty, RHB, and I tried that just a couple weeks back if that. We couldn’t get an angle on the throw where it would let it happen. It just sends the statue back at us

[dull marsh]

Not true, we have 9 passwords in groups of 3 which seem to match Europe, NA and Asia, so we really have 3 passwords to find and decline them for each

And in the 3 passwords, the first one probably leads to the second leading to the third

So all clues should converge to a somewhat unique idea

[eternal violet]

rob said he put 9 clues in the first image, very convenient number. they could be 3 for each areas first password, but i personally took it as one for each password field

[hard current]

hm, have you guys had success throwing anything outside of bounds? I know we can throw containers (explosive, smoke, etc) outside of it

oh something else to note @unborn pilot brought up how rob specifically wanted the beginning password for level 3 to be 19 characters long, meaning the length likely is important for this part of the level (I can’t find the message where this was but cade doesn’t lie)

is it possible we’re missing something with rule of 3rds as well?

rule of 3rds - dividing an image into 9 equal parts - we have 9 passwords

[crisp eagle]

So far I haven’t. They are the ones who actually showed me that we can get some things outside. I went back to look at some old BF EE’s and saw they did out of bounds stuff similar to that. Like shooting a small light and hearing a yeti scream.

[crisp eagle]

Oh dang I never saw that. I always just thought he hinted at 19 only because it turned out to be that long. I didn’t know he picked those words AND 19 specifically for a reason. That’s interesting…

I sound like a broken record but details like that make it so difficult for me to not have my headcanon keep falling back on The Dark Tower series or just Stephen King in general. There’s just no clues that point there definitely

[hard current]

Everyone’s got their own ideas and we all pull in different ways, someone’s bound to figure it out eventually but cade and I agreed last night we want to start to being more literal

we can find all the connections and everything we want but it feels like right now the only way to get any of the passwords is to derive it from sliescetaceaasconce

[hard current]

ugh yeah that’s frustrating

sl
ie
sc
et
ac
ea
as
co
nc
e

no good way to do rule of 3rds with 19 letters

I’d like to try and trigger the dolphins in sys horizon sometime soon but only by looking at them askance lol

[crisp eagle]

So do you think the clues we have so far point to “the first” password, whichever one that might be, or do you think it’s been a mix of clues that each point to different passwords?

[hard current]

I think the use of 19 near the end of the beginning of this level was no coincidence

so many things pointed to 19 and sure, maybe Rob only meant it as “there are 19 characters in the password” but that doesn’t seem like him

there’s a reason it’s 19 characters long

I think it’s a mix yeah

there’s no one central password to chase this time around, so it’s gotta be a mix unless Rob has like 10 more artworks with clues to give us over the course of this level xD

so technically, there are 3 “first” passwords here

and best I see, a lot of things rn are pointing at

trinity/3rds/rule of thirds… only, WHAT should there be 3 of? what should be split into 3rds? we have a password with 19 characters, how do you split that up evenly then? etc etc

[crisp eagle]

I was thinking maybe the images are split using the rule of thirds from photography. Each clue found on the far left side goes to a password, all middle clues for another, and all right side for another. But then there’s the hidden picture in powe_i_powe that kinda lands in all three sections

[hard current]

I had a similar thought at one point

check this out

#1320004425019949097 message

[fresh quiver]

Number 19 has connections to Lagrange. or more his four square theorem

[crisp eagle]

I won’t lie, when it comes to the math side I get a bit lost but I see it. So we have The Rule of Thirds, The Golden Ratio, Golden Rectangles, and Golden Spirals. Then Trinity which would include Christ, who gave us The Golden Rule

[hard current]

remember, afaik we haven’t ever had to DO any heavy math, it’s always been pointing to a concept more so

slies - 5
cetacea - 7
asconce - 7

simone weil lies 🥹

[crisp eagle]

Ok good haha I wasn’t around in the early days so I feared that haha

[gloomy anvil]

The curly brackets around the last two images indicate a set, right?

"SET" = 537 in leet (3,5,7)

[hard current]

oh wait that’s an image principal too

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_(visual_arts)

rule of odds, 1,3,5,7 objects in an image are better than an even number

[gloomy anvil]

btw speaking of 3,5,7

[unique sinew]

I just got here what should I do to get started learning about the easter egg hunt? Is there a lore document or something along those lines?

[dull marsh]

Hello welcome here, you can start by having a look at #egg-hunt-onboarding , RockhoundBlack videos are a great place to start, the wiki has a lot of details and the Miro board tries to summarize all the clues for the big Easter egg hunt

[unique sinew]

Thank you so much

[snow walrus]

I think there is a potentially hidden flamingo charm from S1 idk how but I am going to post something about Las Vegas that connects (not directly) to RHB's 👀ed findings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_Las_Vegas
Flamingo Las Vegas (formerly the Flamingo Hilton) is a casino hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. It is owned and operated by Caesars Entertainment.
The Flamingo was built on the Las Vegas Strip, known then as U.S. Route 91.

The resort was originally proposed by Billy Wilkerson who purchased the land in 1945. He partnered with a trio of mobsters to obtain financing. Among his partners was Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel.

By May 1946, the project had been named the Flamingo, although it is disputed as to who came up with the name: Siegel or Wilkerson. Mobster Lucky Luciano (I will come to this name later), in a purported memoir published in 1975 after his death, credited Siegel with the name.
Siegel purportedly viewed the bird as a good-luck charm.

The Flamingo figures prominently in the 1992 novel Last Call. In the book,
Flamingo is supposedly founded on Siegel's mythical/mystical paranoia of being pursued and killed for his archetypal position as the "King of the West", known mythologically as "Fisher King". Supposedly the Flamingo itself was meant to be a real-life personification of "The Tower" card of the tarot deck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Call_(novel)

Also:
The resort appears in Viva Las Vegas, a rock and roll musical film starring Elvis Presley as Lucky Jackson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva_Las_Vegas

These are my findings about the Flamingo resort. Now let's get to the names.

Bugsy Siegel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy_Siegel
was an American mobster who was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip.
His biographical film by TriStar Pictures:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugsy

Siegel was one of the founders and leaders of Murder, Inc (Big Seven) -It was initially headed by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and later by Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_Inc.

Murder Inc acted as the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate. (speculation: NCS-> CNS maybe?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Crime_Syndicate

the Syndicate was an idea of Johnny "The Fox" Torrio. (Five Points Gang, Bowery Boys connection here)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Torrio#Early_life
and it was founded at Atlantic City conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_City_Conference which many underworld leaders attended, including: Johnny Torrio, Charles "Lucky" Luciano, Al "Big Al" Capone, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia and more.

Charles "Lucky" Luciano https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano as an Italian-born gangster he started his criminal career in the Five Points Gang and was instrumental in the development of the National Crime Syndicate. He was also the first official boss of the modern Genovese crime family (Luciano crime family), one of Five Families of NYC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Families

His biographical film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano_(film)

it's pretty long so im not gonna post every detail to not clutter here as i put many links as possible to further read

National Crime Syndicate and Atlantic City Conference wiki pages has many underworld mob names

-and lastly, apart from this during my research I've also found this:

[gloomy anvil]

The hotel is in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas too, it depicts some of Hunter S. Thompson's real-life experiences staying there.

[pure loom]

I've found a connection between a store item and the NYC Guided Age that I hadn't spotted before.

I had noted previously (#easter-eggs message) that this Flat Cap in the game's store has a houndstooth pattern (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houndstooth), and that the earliest known version of this can be traced to a cloak that was found in Sweden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerum_Cloak) - Rob responded to that find here: #easter-eggs message. But interestingly, In an early reference to houndstooth, De Pinna, a New York City–based men's and women's high-end clothier founded in 1885, included houndstooth checks along with gun club checks and Scotch plaids as part of its 1933 spring men's suits collection.

De Pinna was located at 642-50 Fifth Avenue which was previously the location of Vanderbilt Triple Palace: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanderbilt_Triple_Palace

[dull marsh]

The findings that led to that are in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epr-x50rEig

Not sure if this is more EE or more lore, as lore-wise it seems to relate a lot to the sponsor and all, but EE-wise it seemed to lead to Central Park, which has a LOT of stuff related to the hunt in it

(including a sculpture about Alice in Wonderland)

[dull marsh]

I'm trying to think hard (with difficulty), I'm seeing 2 convergence points in Level 3:

• STS-88 Day 10 Elvis song "Hound Dog"
• and Alice in Wonderland Chapter X with all 3 elements of level3activation and more

In AiW there is a hound dog called "Bayard"

I'm also seeing a common theme in both which is about not catching a rabbit

Hound Dog:

Yeah, you ain't never caught a rabbit

Alice in Wonderland Chapter X:

So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when she first saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about it just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so very wide

That Alice quote also mentions "opened their eyes"

There is the term Rabbit Run (RR) which can mean a rabbit warren (/burrw?) or a rabbit hutch

"Rabbit hunt" is a term in poker about revealing cards that would have been dealt if the hand had continued, but it doesn't seem super relevant

[crisp eagle]

-Endeavour (STS-88) : Node 1 Unity
-Discovery (STS-120) : Node 2 Harmony
-Endeavour (STS-130) : Node 3 Tranquility

[dull marsh]

I was thinking that SLIES does contain ISS + LE 🤔

Checked ISS 13 and 31 missions, there is an astronaut called André Kuipers which caught my attention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Kuipers

[keen ravine]

Do we know of any EEs connected to meteors?

[dull marsh]

Yeah Level 2 T1A 1064 was connected to Aethura asteroid, and there were clues about Haley comet

[hard forge]

i have too much to catch up.

[keen ravine]

okay okay, thank you <3

[keen ravine]

I feel that, its so hard to know whats happening if you miss a few days ;~;

[dull marsh]

I mean we didn't get new eyes in a while so no big progress since then

[crisp eagle]

at least whenever ya'll do catch up and have something to say, it's relevant. I just shoot in the dark and stumble around

[unique sinew]

is there a easy place to find all the picture for part 3

[unique sinew]

Thanks so much

[pure loom]

I was just looking at some gameplay from The Secret of Monkey Island, and was reminded of Rob saying that Nama Tama likes to go to three places on holiday X, X, X #easter-eggs message

I saw this keg of gunpowder with XXX on it

I then looked at gunpowder on Wikipedia, and saw that it's considered one of 4 great inventions from China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Great_Inventions

The compass was another one - another potential Monkey Island link, and also printing.

Printing was represented at the 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremoney in Beijing with these moving boxes which look a lot like the moving cubes on SYS$HORIZON: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASG_dr3a9ec

[hard current]

should just pin this @sweet thistle ;))

[indigo pasture]

do u think this is in relation to the dolphin easter egg?

i found something weird in the files its IRS layer of some sort of hair and it contains text and numbers perhaps one of the hair styles in game has something hidden in them

[fresh quiver]

what do you mean in the files? Data Mining is prohibited and should not be used in Easter Egg Hunting.

(tbh Data mining should never be used.)

[velvet narwhal]

I never noticed that. I think rob once said something about the sound the demat makes (might have to look for that).

[velvet narwhal]

I can't find the text. But I think someone once talked about hearing ghosts/haunting sounds in the dematted stuff and rob responded to that. I could be wrong tho.

[gloomy anvil]

The 1944 short film 'X Marks the Spot' was directed by Warren Murray.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZQgmZUdCjw

It was featured in the MST3K (Mystery Science Theater 3000) episode 'King Dinosaur'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSIiqn2v7wE

[velvet narwhal]

I can't find it. I guess I'm just hallucinating :(

[gloomy anvil]

Murray Hill in NJ is the longtime central location of Bell Labs. It was named after Murray Hill in Manhattan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Hill,_New_Jersey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Hill,_Manhattan

[dull marsh]

I don't think yet, but it's cool thing to know, definitely sus

[gloomy anvil]

Not sure if this has been brought up in detail before. "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure" was LucasArts' point-and-click adventure game adaptation of The Last Crusade film (which featured the "X marks the spot" scene and centers around the Holy Grail). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Last_Crusade:_The_Graphic_Adventure

It released one year before "The Secret of Monkey Island" and three years before "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis", which is the game Rob sent a screenshot from here in connection to "X marks the spot" and burrw: #1178137622359593043 message

Rob recently mentioned LucasArts point-and-click games: #1292576119849095210 message

"Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders" was another LucasArts point-and-click game released around the same time, developed for the Commodore 64. Rob mentioned it briefly last year.

In the game, the Caponians' leader is called "The King" and dresses like Elvis Presley.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak_McKracken_and_the_Alien_Mindbenders

[gloomy anvil]

Skyway Tri-Star > TriStar Pictures? Note the wings

Might not be connected but another 3 stars in this sticker, plus "steal the spotlight" (STS / see the signs?)

[velvet narwhal]

Could be a Shoutout EE

[dull marsh]

That's interesting indeed 🤔

[snow walrus]

amazing..

[keen ravine]

lmao perfect

[snow walrus]

swtg twice in a row

[keen ravine]

bruh

this game

[snow walrus]

i think its because the mode bank it

[keen ravine]

It removes the color in the window

[keen ravine]

just a lighting bug?

[snow walrus]

that reflection comes from the rose window

[dull marsh]

I'd assume so? I feel like EE's are made to leave no ambiguity 🤔

[snow walrus]

now its gone

[gloomy anvil]

burrow + warren + carroll is 19 letters but I might be reaching with that one

[dull marsh]

Could be worth looking a bit into this

[hard current]

I commented

{

in water dances chat and rob said “oh look we have a programmer in chat”

remember when rob commented that not long ago?

maybe we’re thinking about it wrong

{ } isn’t a set like discrete mathematics, but has to do with programming

[dull marsh]

{} was introduced in programming in the B language, precursor of C

Could be relevant with ABC = 123

Before that in COBOL the equivalent was BEGIN and END I think

Or it was in FORTRAN

[fresh quiver]

https://www.twitch.tv/waterdance/clip/SmokyPoorCockroachTwitchRaid-tVHhxSuV3KSkfWzk

[snow walrus]

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

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

[snow walrus]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Cardiod_animation.gif/200px-Cardiod_animation.gif

maybe a connection here

[rugged breach]

"... Almost thought it was on this floor..."

Time to start running in circles everywhere trying to summon roses

Direction may not matter or be a certain sequence, as he was running counter clockwise and then clockwise

[snow walrus]

Marker stone for the burial place of Robert the Bruce's heart, Melrose Abbey

nothing related but worth to see :d

[unborn pilot]

Is that new? Reminds me of this from an old cosmetic.

[unborn pilot]

They did that one Vegas too. One of them stood in the center turning while the other guy ran a circle around him. Also reminds me of the dolphins…

[gloomy anvil]

Not new, I believe it released in S3 or S4

[snow walrus]

You are right.. CNSpiracy theories are BEYOND us

conspiracy.. remove o -> cnspiracy -> CNS?

btw ^image from a demoscene called beyond from conspiracy

look at the naming

i think it's a pretty good abbreviation for in-game rogue hackers

[dull marsh]

omfg, I do feel like that's it

it is so so so fitting, CNS + piracy

[fresh quiver]

#easter-eggs message 😄

[snow walrus]

and yet no 👀.. 😭

tbh he may not want to reveal that tho

[fresh quiver]

I dig those demogroup websites etc for hours some afternoons.
and today rob just said about demogroups its not related to anything. atleast i guess we can say interpret that as this

[snow walrus]

{ = BEGIN is a great lead

[snow walrus]

it doesn't have to be related with demogroups, the name itself is already fitting 😄

[fresh quiver]

could that mean

image = } = END (of password?)
and something { = begin (of password?)

[dull marsh]

STS-88 is the beginning of the ISS, while the book about Williams the Conqueror and the White Rabbit are the beginning of Alice in Wonderland

Could also explain why we got STS-88 clue with "END" (for Endeavour)

We're trying to solve the Big Easter Egg hunt, it's a massive puzzle made by Rob

We get clues in images in #official-art and try to connect them

Now we're onto Level 3 and it is pretty freaking hard 😄

We got 9 passwords to find, and have very little idea what they are even about thus far

If you're curious you can check #egg-hunt-onboarding and RockhoundBlack's videos along with the wiki

Usually once we enter a correct password it leads to a page with a new image which also contains clues

We think Level 3 is the last stage, but not 100% sure

[hard current]

wait, maybe what rob is getting at is

Beginning {
middle
end }

3 parts to each of the passwords

maybe we’re not looking for entire phrases or words, but the beginning the middle and the end

and something we’ve been given would tell us what the delimiting letter is

i.e. A is the delimiter

mma-1a = ba
mma-1b = la
mma-1c = tro

if you were to use balatro lol

[dull marsh]

I'm not familiar with it @opaque reef

[hard current]

better yet, given rr and 1x2 and xy, I wonder if we’re looking for code snippets

[dull marsh]

Ah gotcha, with the depth of some clues we're never safe, Rob could drop clues in the most obscure ways 😄

[low escarp]

found an EE

[pure loom]

I just found a strange little connection between numbers we've found on trees and the American Football outfits in the store (as well as another connection to X): #1203859365610922036 message

[pure loom]

Can someone please link me to that super long cipher that's still to be deciphered? The one that has like 30 characters in it, if that helps to describe it. I can't recall which thread it was in.

[dull marsh]

Should be this one

[pure loom]

yes! Thanks!

[pure loom]

An idea for a possible path I had for it: #1204573219894468648 message (updated it - I missed one)

[fresh quiver]

which audiofile that is would help at the beginning 🙂

yes. atleast this would give us a clue about which audio you are talking

[dull marsh]

Ngl I'm not seeing anything clear in there 😅

[red light]

I did the same yesterday, just record demat noises of different objects in PR. I don't think size is matter here, for me noise and spectrogram always same

Something that I notice it's four horizontal line in different frequencies that makes sharp sounds time to time. But I guess it's just how sound work

Hmm interesting

Horizontal line it's frequency

Color represents level of sound I think

Volume

But I still think it's possible for something being hidden in spectr

I have but I still can't post pics here:(

I send later when I'll up my level on server

[gloomy anvil]

Embark showing the R .357 animations in front of the 357 sign

[red light]

I notice if you demat few objects near to each other sounds will blend together and it's start sound different bc of mixing I think

But only one demat object always sound same

[dull marsh]

The International Space Station measures 357 feet end-to-end.

Another "coincidence" I assume 😄

[mossy wedge]

Do you remember the white "bugs" in certain map locations just before the start of the 2nd season?

Did it lead to anything specific?

[dull marsh]

We called them the glitch clusters, there was apparently some stuff related to them but we never found out

[gloomy anvil]

I'm probably reaching too far here but in the spirit of coincidences

• X shape and "savage" (Fear and Loathing novel title)
• "Sunset" and 11 points on the spur wheel

[mossy wedge]

Did anyone try linking their positions across all the maps?

[dull marsh]

Yup, we didn't find any particular pattern

[velvet narwhal]

They were precursors of the CNS hacks (S2). We also think that there was an EE but didn't solve it

[velvet narwhal]

https://coolstuffgoeshere.github.io you can check the locations on that page

[dull marsh]

Hmm thinking about it I think it was 4-4-3-3, which could be related to some poetry, in particular the sonnet

[mossy wedge]

has anyone tried chatgpt to help with this? 😅

[velvet narwhal]

we don't use AI to solve EEs

[dull marsh]

Nope, we don't, it's against the rules and the spirit of the hunt

[velvet narwhal]

and it's hallucinating useless stuff anyways

[dull marsh]

If we don't struggle, then it won't feel rewarding 😄

[velvet narwhal]

one must imagine sisyphus happy

[mossy wedge]

well, if a year has already passed, the devs' efforts might go to waste, and no new content can be created by this matter. It would be great for the game to see more activity in this regard. I don't entirely see why AI is restricted in this way, as I can't read all the world's poetry myself, but I understand why such a rule might appear here

[dull marsh]

Rob, who's the main EE mastermind for THE FINALS™️, is completely fine with some EEs not being found

As he explained before, he never gives EEs away, even for old games he worked on 20 years ago, because you never know if in 20 more years someone might emulate your game and make it run again and find those EEs

But yeah the point of not using AIs is that it's a puzzle for us, and hunters have fun with puzzles, if we just feed an AI and it comes up with an answer then why even play in the first place?

[opal pond]

#egg-hunt-onboarding

[mossy wedge]

AI can't just provide the answer because it only uses previously fed data. It can't solve EEs by itself since it requires collecting various pieces and making sense of them so AI can help find relations. I don't understand the criticism of AI in cases when it clearly helps people progress. While I agree that taking jobs away from creators is a concern and it's a shame to "hack" the solution but I believe the most valuable contribution from AI like is offering tips or ideas related to the task, such as potential names or authors and nothing more. Also, sometimes it's stupid and it can misguide you even more

Still, I respect the rules, but I just wanted to offer advice on how to attract more people into EE and keep the activity going, rather than just having one interesting video every few months for a niche community

[dull marsh]

The question is not really about AI being ethical for jobs or anything, but as you said

I don't understand the criticism of AI in cases when it clearly helps people progress.
That IS the issue, if it helps us then it definitely found stuff out, and if it doesn't then might as well not use it

[fresh quiver]

One important thing against AI:

You dont know if something is correct in AI or not.
Even ChatGPT is imagine itself things it dont know. And will tell you that as if it was true

AI gives more then 50% wrong anwers about certain things.

[mossy wedge]

I see, but as I said before, from my point, it is better to progress with something that is stuck for a year in the sake of the game, developers, and the community overall

[mossy wedge]

I actually said about this:"Also, sometimes it's stupid, and it can misguide you even more". But the quality of answers is related to how you are asking and how much data was in the dataset about the object

[dull marsh]

Would love to get Rob to answer that, I'm 100% sure he would say he's fine if we never find it, but sadly he's not over here often anymore

[fresh quiver]

let me take BF4 as example.

Dice LA Camo Easter Egg.

The EE is known for approx 7-8 years.

Still ChatGPT is giving you complete bullshit about how it works etc.

[mossy wedge]

I would look at this wider since I bet he would be happy if the game grows and more people are entertained by EE activity

[mossy wedge]

i can give you another 10 examples when it could give a complete sense and helps to solve a problem. Why would you make a decision on a one single example? Please don't make a fight about pro-AI and AI-fobs. It is just a tool and my message was globally about engaging more people to EEs acitivty

[velvet narwhal]

We won't use AI and that's that

[fresh quiver]

why are you discussing about a rule?

[mossy wedge]

Nobody is pushing you to use AI. 🙂
I don't get why some people are so angry at AI for no reason

[fresh quiver]

It said don't use it. So don't use it

[velvet narwhal]

We as a EE hunting community have decided that

[dull marsh]

We are not angry about it lol, I'm sure most of us are pretty fine with it, we're just giving some reason as to why it's not allowed in the hunt 😄

[mossy wedge]

if you would try to read my message maybe you will get it, i just don't want to repeat

[fresh quiver]

I read the messages.

[mossy wedge]

so why are you asking "why are you discussing about a rule?"?

i wanted to find a way to attract more people to EEs but you lead it all to AI madness

[dull marsh]

Ok I think the discussion won't go any further anyway and we should stop it there before we all get annoyed at each other

[mossy wedge]

Why are they looking at me? I bet i can find more https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1216038943175217193/1329075927270817803/finals-faces.png?ex=678905ea&is=6787b46a&hm=00edbc35dc3fd3266c81daaecbda20cf85abb5efa37d9e9ef2986dee3049bf96&

the left one looks like minecraft creeper

(no AI involved here!)

[ashen hill]

Looks more like Discord Clyde lmao (the discord logo)

Oh wait

[mossy wedge]

left one

[ashen hill]

Got my left and rights confused again

[mossy wedge]

the right one - yeah

and pacman in the middle

[sharp flame]

eno + rino
INDUSTRIES co. ltd.

[dull marsh]

Is it really "eno + rino" or is it supposed to read "enotrino"? 🤔

[sharp flame]

the + has a completely different width to the font

but I see how it could be

[dull marsh]

oh yes yes for sure it's a "+", but is it just a stylistic choice?

[cold heart]

https://tenor.com/view/iseul-t-gif-9612440322705668526

[sharp flame]

see what I mean, that's the same width

[sharp flame]

perchanceington

[cold heart]

my fingers are crossed anyways 🤞🤪 ok- im out

[mossy wedge]

"trino" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trino

eno=one

[sharp flame]

eno- and rino- are BOTH prefixes in Greek

eno refers to wine
rino refers to the nose

I have one more idea

it may be an anagram:
eno+rino
neo-noir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-noir

[mossy wedge]

This Trino loc in Italy looks very similar to Bernal map lol
https://www.google.com/maps/@45.1940373,8.2988004,3a,75y,322.33h,88.54t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1soY_mAU3wZHNUUS2PZyWKyg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.4598349747927273%26panoid%3DoY_mAU3wZHNUUS2PZyWKyg%26yaw%3D322.3264056556598!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDExMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

(chapel part)

[sharp flame]

0123456789 on the eno+rino jacket

looks like it's placeholder tho..

[smoky owl]

I think your Jersey number should be there

[crisp eagle]

I think it’s a glitch. I’ve seen my number change to that before

[sharp flame]

maybe we can figure out what the newspaper says here?

[gloomy anvil]

wow I didn't notice the writing before

[alpine junco]

I see “The Latest Of The Match”?

[gloomy anvil]

From all 12 Fir.. Division
..... and members of

It's repeated in lots of places

[sharp flame]

RFU chairman Brian Baister attended the meeting together with representatives from all 12 First Division -

[crisp eagle]

Looks like they reused that same main text

[gloomy anvil]

clubs and members of sporting ...

[sharp flame]

(RFU is the England Rugby Football Union)

Yep, it repeats all over

I've looked up the text but it doesn't seem to exist online..

also there is a "Ct. Caval"

and "Catalan.. low price.. Barcelona's-"

[gloomy anvil]

The exact date of this newspaper could be a clue

[sharp flame]

Brain Baister was the RFU Chairman from 1998-2001

so we have a range of 3 years

here is something close to a title:

[gloomy anvil]

another part of it

[dull marsh]

DiCaprio
minutes
Cfades afte
solemn
exquisite
Huin
Julius Cae
muscle, the
the Rod Base
Ho.. did
aliv

Ring, ... director dr...
Vent Stock brokers, says: 'If you are (going?)
to invest for the first time,

[sharp flame]

"be a good way to"
at the bottom

[gloomy anvil]

looks like S.... brokers

oh I'm late tothat one

[dull marsh]

convectional faces?
advisory service
investors will not bar??
stamp duty tax as...
share ...

[sharp flame]

Stockbrokers

[gloomy anvil]

C. Caval.
Catalan
low price

[sharp flame]

game, rugby's governing body has become more conciliatory.
RFU chairman Brian Baister attended the meeting together with representatives from all 12 First Division

largest chunk of back-to-back text there

[dull marsh]

Brian Edward BAISTER, correspondence address seems to be located in Cheshire https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/pdDv2CDJUhYSi4S6JaSvaiAGG5w/appointments

[crisp eagle]

RFU logo is a rose

[dull marsh]

Yup, which is England's national emblem

[hard forge]

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search

[crisp eagle]

WR

[dull marsh]

DiCaprio is mentioned, and titanic was released at the end of 1997 so it might be around that time indeed

[red light]

Recently I was thinking about cannons on Monaco and which direction they pointed
Bc Monaco based of real location what if we overlay game map and real map
And maybe see where location on world map cannons are pointing

Maybe someone alredy did this idk

And as Rob said cannon are part of big EE too

[gloomy anvil]

a clearer part of the lower text

game, rugby's governing body has become more conciliatory.
RFU chairman Brian Baister attended the meeting together with representatives from all 12 First Division .... clubs and members of
vs ..... Divis....

[wind smelt]

the pw to level 3 is still being worked on right

[hard forge]

yes

[dull marsh]

The 9 passwords yes

[fresh quiver]

yes. we are still working on all 9 passwords for https://reachthefinals.com/tfee-level3

[gloomy anvil]

the password to access the level 3 page is sliescetaceaasconce

[fresh quiver]

Raid already writing what i needed to edit xD

[gloomy anvil]

it's interesting that it's still password locked

[fresh quiver]

absolutely. just thought about it yesterday

[crisp eagle]

I always think it’s a reminder for us to still use those words, or to remember we need to combine three things again in general

[fresh quiver]

When it is still locked. normally it would mean we are not done with it yet. imo

[dull marsh]

Brian Baister being happily retired, the RFU’s man from Llandudno
As @cold heart pointed out the other day about Llandudno's house where Alice Lindell stayed for vacation, which I think inspired either AiW or Through the Looking Glass

[fresh quiver]

Dunno if this might help us sometime but guess it was interesting for me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

[unreal jetty]

After a long 6 month ban I HAVE RETURNED AT LAST AHAHAHA

Dont worry I've had time to chill out and be respectful:)

So did you guys ever solve the EE tier thingy? One with the 3hm dolphin and WR?

[sharp flame]

We solved that one, yeah!

the password was a weird combination of the 3

but now we have more.. passwords..

[hard forge]

i know you

[unreal jetty]

All of the tiers? Or are y'all stuck in one?

[sharp flame]

just the other 9 tiers on this Level, we still have to do

[dull marsh]

Were you unbanned? 😄

[unreal jetty]

You do indeed

[unreal jetty]

Lol I thought it was permanent but yeah finally

[unreal jetty]

So there is another tier chart thingy now? Or is it still the same one?

[unreal jetty]

Last thing I remember seeing was "Mods, goo this guy" and I was banished to Hueco Mundo

[unreal jetty]

Awesome thanks

[sharp flame]

Did anyone buy the Partybreaker headwear?

(the pinata)

[crisp eagle]

Might be nothing but DiCaprio was also in “Gangs of New York” and “Romeo + Juliet”

[unreal jetty]

So none of the 9 passwords have been found right?

[sharp flame]

none!

[unreal jetty]

Ok bet I'll help look into it

Is this like Surfer Coordinate Systems like longitude and latitude?

[tired aspen]

wym you haven't even been muted

[unreal jetty]

Yep I abandoned my last acc so that's prolly why it looks like I haven't. Maybe an IP ban

[tired aspen]

uh huh, well while you're at it might as well change your username to something appropriate

[unreal jetty]

Okk:(

[unreal jetty]

But this is my The Finals username:(

[cold heart]

https://tenor.com/view/self-report-among-us-troll-fia-agent-gif-3619993576443358983

[tired aspen]

there. changed it for you. carry on

[unreal jetty]

Whattt howw

I didn't know you could do that

[sharp flame]

[gloomy anvil]

Do you mean for looking in a private match?

[sharp flame]

I wouldn't suggest anyone buy, but if anyone already has it then they could go into a private match, yes

[crisp eagle]

Well if nobody else gets it, I’m sure I’ll be buying that one just because that’s what I do, and I’ll let anyone point the sniper rifle at my head for science.

[sharp flame]

anyone wanna aim a sniper rifle at his head?

[unreal jetty]

How do I join the Lvl 3 coordinate thread?

[mossy wedge]

has anyone tried just to calc average coordinates from TFEE lvl3 values? https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1216038943175217193/1329131553464385631/image.png?ex=678939b8&is=6787e838&hm=11f9399b49b73202ffe48223af7dea6d24e7d9f7b8c48853af76651942bd3421&=&format=webp&quality=lossless

[sharp flame]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1270882064249520198 here!

in the "..." on the top right, you can select "join thread"

[dull marsh]

No he needs to rank up first

[unreal jetty]

Oh ok

[unreal jetty]

Thxx

[red light]

I think i was wrong... I tried demat objects in PR again and looks like tree sound different...

[snow walrus]

Do you remember why some of the cards' back has this on the trailer

[snow walrus]

If we remove duplicate letters of sliescetaceaasconce
we get 9 letters : **sliectano **
which can be:
coastline
or
sectional

[shy oracle]

SILENCIO! lol

[alpine junco]

#easter-eggs message

[dusk siren]

Clades? (When I search "Clades" AND "Julius Caesar" - and diligently avoid looking at any AI-generated slop at the top of the results - it appears that clades could be latin for something like disaster and used to describe specific historical events, especially military ones?)

[dull marsh]

I think Clade is also used for subcategory in taxonomy 🤔

[dusk siren]

I'm also tempted to say "Red Baron"... Another search connects some of the words to commercial pizza brands (though I don't see how that would coexist in an article containing the word "solemn" lol

[dusk siren]

Oh definitely... fits well with the rose puzzle(s) and maybe things you guys already solved in the past. Big potential for diving deep into botany, e.g.

Just to whet the appetite, this sort of thing:

[hard current]

ooo coastline

similarly if you only keep duplicated letters you get

eac, or
eeaceaace which lowkey could be a dolphin call fr (please ignore me)

[dusk siren]

Yeah, coastline is gooooooood. I like it

[hard current]

only thing I can think of is the weird stuff along the coastline of sys horizon

it flashes symbols/numbers

[dusk siren]

One thing about major taxonomies (botany, astronomy) that is nice is that significant people and events get referenced. Here is a plant named in part after The Red Baron (fwiw - maybe nothing)

[gloomy anvil]

welcome back btw

[dusk siren]

thx man... i promise i'll post once more then spend the next week just trying to read through everything you guys have been up to! Looks fantastic, though.

Maybe there is one or two things that you'd suggest someone coming back to the community should focus on first?

[gloomy anvil]

We got three new images in December (hallelujah), and a few of those clues are yet to be solved
https://www.thefinals.wiki/wiki/Level_3_-_The_Hunt

#1318635922350149736 message #1320004425019949097 message

[fresh quiver]

3?

[unreal jetty]

So do you think this map has anything to do with the world tour map?

Welp I'm not high enough level to send the picture:(

The blue background world layout with the coordinates and dots

[fresh quiver]

ahh

[eternal violet]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1318565622556131403

[unreal jetty]

Not sure but has Rob given any hints or tips as what to do with the map and coordinates?

[dull marsh]

no

[unreal jetty]

Oof

Ig he doesn't give hints anymore?

[snow walrus]

not really, at least compared to level 2

[dull marsh]

Hi Midas 👀

[spare steppe]

@errant imp just made a discovery 👀

[snow walrus]

[dull marsh]

Fantail #4 found by @errant imp

[snow walrus]

ooh

[sharp flame]

YOOOOO

[hard current]

NEW

[unreal jetty]

Ok, that must mean we are capable of finding it lol

[dull marsh]

AYEEEE, gg @low escarp

[unreal jetty]

What do these clams mean?

[rugged breach]

3/3

[unreal jetty]

Is that a steamer clam?

[opal pond]

No its a #1268387898219040812

[unreal jetty]

Ohh okok

So what theories do you guys have for what we are supposed to find for the passwords?

[hard current]

right now… unfortunately very little

we have a lot of stuff from #1320004425019949097 and #1318635922350149736 and a few past images but nobody can nail down WHAT is a password and what isn’t

[fresh quiver]

The answer probably lies somewhere in here:

[snow walrus]

the worst part that blocks us to proceed in my opinion is: we couldn't find anything meaningful with the coordinates

[fresh quiver]

we just need to find it lol 😂

[hard current]

allegedly per rob we know

xy
rr
1x2

are in the middle of 3 of the passwords

[unreal jetty]

Were they places?

[snow walrus]

#1270882064249520198

[unreal jetty]

Thanks!

[fresh quiver]

no specific places

[hard current]

I still think the coordinates aren’t important to us right now, my theory is that for each part once all 3 passwords are found it’ll “lock in” the animation on just one coordinate

so we’ll end up with only 3 and discarding the other 2

I could be wrong tho

[unreal jetty]

Haha I wish I could see any of that💀

[unreal jetty]

But there are 9 passwords right?

[fresh quiver]

the link is also in #egg-hunt-onboarding

its the Miro Board

[eternal violet]

yeeep. the coordinates point nowhere, and the theories around them are very reachy. at best maybe some information kind of are encoded into them and thats it (like some advanced ascii to dec)

[unreal jetty]

Is there a PDF or some way I can inspect this without just a picture?

Could someone link it for me please

[fresh quiver]

yes. read the #egg-hunt-onboarding

There is a link to a TFEE Miro Board

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVK0idxbU=/?moveToWidget=3458764596714583146&cot=14

But you should still read the #egg-hunt-onboarding @unreal jetty
There you can find all sources

[unreal jetty]

Okok thank you

[crisp eagle]

I can’t ever get it to work in mobile though. Just a heads up. I don’t know if it’s the same for everyone else though. Might just be my poop phone

[unreal jetty]

Lol yeahh it's just a white screen

😦

[snow walrus]

wait till fully load and then try zooming

[unreal jetty]

Alright I waited for like 5 mins lmao

[snow walrus]

desktop mode also might help but not sure

[cyan mulch]

Guys is this what happens when all players fall?

[fresh quiver]

let me check something

[cyan mulch]

That thing that fell from the building

[snow walrus]

i've just tried on my phone and it loaded

[crisp eagle]

Looked like someone doing charge n’ slam off of it haha

[worn rivet]

A heavie

[cyan mulch]

O boy I thought I had something

Thanks anyway

[unreal jetty]

Yeah I got it I just had to let it load longer

[cyan mulch]

It does look a lot like someone just falling down

[crisp eagle]

Yea I think someone just got really excited about unlocking the luchador skin and wanted to come off the top rope

[dull marsh]

Trying to link a bit ISS and Alice in Wonderland, in zero-G you float around, and when Alice falls into the Rabbit hole, at least in the Disney movie, her dress does parachute and she just floats down 🤔

[worn rivet]

Love?

Maybe a v in the start?

Could you try other programs/ collors/ ways of showing?

[dusk siren]

Did you guys ever solve this: 10.52, 24.71, 44.90? (Tried searching and came up with nothing, so taking a chance here.) Anyway, I was thinking RGB... which also corresponds to a hex code (cf. senidenary). According to an online RGB picker, which may not be exactly reliable, the code would be #0A182C. (Including a temperature, possibly? 182 degrees C? Searching "182" led to some interesting posts back in March '24 you guys did, some of which referenced temperatures and some of which referenced atomic orbital theory.)

* Admittedly, the decimals seem like they'd argue against RGB, though. Also, I admit I'm obsessed with the possibilities that colors give for clues and codes (other than RGB: wavelengths, frequencies, energies, etc.). Although, just off the top of my head, there was the Rob clue about zero being 'real', black being a color (RGB: 0:0:0), and Pluto affirmed as a planet (which would be the ninth planet), which purportedly features a color (ironically? black not a color? Pluto not a planet? zero not 'real' but having to be invented, despite being a 'real number'?) and since numbers seem to be involved, maybe a reference to RGB.

[dull marsh]

Yup, it's the landmass in millions of square km of Europe, North America and Asia

[dull marsh]

Potentially leading to South America with a landmass of 17.84 million km2
A couple of things happened in 1784:

• Treaty of Paris which ends the American Revolution

• Bank of New York opens, first bank in New York state

• The phenomenon of black holes is first posited in a paper by John Michell

• Immanuel Kant's essay "Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?" is published

• Antoine Lavoisier pioneers quantitative chemistry

• Carl Friedrich Gauss pioneers the field of summation with the formula summing at the age of 7

[dusk siren]

Or presumably the landmasses of Africa, Antarctica and Australia, which I'm guessing you'll say have also been investigated.

[dull marsh]

Well I looked at them too but didn't see any "obvious" number

South America 17.84
Africa 30.37
Oceania 8.526
Antarctica 14.2

[dusk siren]

Kind of a big ask, but any suggestions on (a) how to get a clean copy of the original official art that this came from and (b) what I'd have to use and do in order to be able to extract that information the way you guys did? I think the way you guys dig into images is just awesome and clearly central to solving this thing.

[dusk siren]

One of many possibilities is that only N America, Europe, and Asia are relevant for at least one aspect of Level 3 (e.g., when you see the landing page divided into three columns, the passwords might simply break down along the lines of 3 associated with N America somehow, 3 with Europe, and 3 with Asia. This is not to say that the other continents don't have their own roles to play, but in other ways. Just that when you get three nice numbers like that, which you guys figured out were those three major landmasses, and the landing page looks like it does, I think the simplest theory is that kind of correspondence, no? (Obv, prob retreading old ground - apologies, as always. I do try to search for past posts, first, if I can find them.)

[dull marsh]

Yeah haha, that's the conclusion we kinda arrived to too, and dw it's fine, might as well get up to date rather than search for stuff already solved

[dusk siren]

thx, dude. appreciate it.

[dull marsh]

It wasn't an official art but the S5 keyart, there's a public drive with Embark media assets, and it's a .psd in there

Personally I use Photopea (basically Photoshop but free) to apply effects and look closely, and forensically (just Google it) to investigate stuff like noise and such

[pure loom]

I think I might have stumbled on a breakthrough!

I searched for "Kara" (from the global coordinates finds made by @dull marsh previously #1270882064249520198 message) and "New York" and found a clothing store name Kara New York located where the old Roosevelt Field Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Field_(airport) was.

In 1919, it was renamed in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt's son, Quentin, who was killed in air combat during World War I.

Quentin Roosevelt = unqtnoeir !!! #easter-eggs message

Here's the map location of the clothing store: https://maps.app.goo.gl/SZdKi3KN67iSfziJ7

There's another potential connection at that airport:

In James Thurber's short story "The Greatest Man in the World", Jack "Pal" Smurch, a two bit hooligan turned national hero, both departs from and returns to Roosevelt Field on his historic round-the-world flight. I can see that I'd previously looked at Jame Thurber's Wikipedia page, although I don't recall how I got to him. Maybe being a cartoonist - there might have been some link there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thurber

[crisp eagle]

Address is 630. GEO

[pure loom]

Great spotting!

[crisp eagle]

Same to you! Haha this stuff is good. Really good

[pure loom]

Roosevelt Field has a "Ring Road" around it - I wonder if that's the Apple with the circle around it on SYS$HORIZON (there's even an Apple store located there)

Here's the Wiki entry for the shopping mall that's there now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Field_(shopping_mall)

[ruby prawn]

This is good stuff

[pure loom]

Here's the Wikipedia page for Quentin Roosevelt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Roosevelt

He is the only child of a U.S. president to have died in combat.

He also had a sister named Alice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roosevelt_Longworth

*Quentin was engaged to Flora Payne Whitney, the elder daughter of Harry Payne Whitney and Gertrude Vanderbilt. Gertrude was a great-granddaughter of the shipping and railroad millionaire, "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt. *

[crisp eagle]

Freaking Vanderbilts of the Gilded Age again too

[hard current]

wait

is that simone weils connection too

does it all just lead to new york?

@pure loom it all just keeps pointing to new york then…

[pure loom]

yeah, hard to tell which direction it's pointing here - are we on the way in, or the way out?

[hard current]

I wonder if sts 88 can be connected

I wonder if there’s anything about sts88 and ny museums

[rare robin]

Y’all know any Easter eggs ?

[dusk siren]

If we only had / imagined a hidden "o" (possibly in one of the black spaces between the letters), you could get "no question." Would kind of connect to Vaiiya's whole thing, with the brain chip and whatnot.

EDIT: Maybe better than inventing additional letters and similar to the theories about "S Lies" where S might be an in-universe character, could "Question N" be a reference to Ichikawa Natsume, the CEO of ENGIMO? FWIW, I considered at one point a connection between ENGIMO and VAIIYA (telecoms + cybersecurity), similar to the potential connection between HOLTOW and DISSUN (see "sun insurance")

[fresh quiver]

how you got to this numbers?
atleast I cant remember them

[fresh quiver]

yes. we know about certain Eastereggs.
But neither do we know how to trigger it or how which things will happen in certain EEs

[worn rivet]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[sharp flame]

@crisp eagle Did you end up getting the Headwear

[cold heart]

yeah true, does anyone have the Partybreaker (pinyata head)

[keen ravine]

yus

[sharp flame]

wanna help us look at it in a Private Round?

[crisp eagle]

No I forgot I had plans yesterday after work and never had a chance to get on

[sharp flame]

okok

[crisp eagle]

Coin for the win though 🫡

[keen ravine]

sure

[unreal jetty]

Hey can someone link the first image of this tier for me plz

I need to see that pic because y'all were supposedly close already in October and then went south.

Plzz link for me

[dull marsh]

Lol when was that stated? XD

And it's in #1220636359153291284

[unreal jetty]

Haha by Rob himself

[dull marsh]

Check the pins

[unreal jetty]

Ok I am rn

[dull marsh]

I don't remember seeing or hearing that

[fresh quiver]

depends as what you are seeing this.

But yes. Either the First Image is "I Want to" or ´the S5 Keyart

[fresh quiver]

can you link that? can't remember as well.

@dull marsh i might have found the message. The Message is from October yes. But 2022...

#easter-eggs message

atleast it says also "buuut then for some reason it went south... ._."

[unreal jetty]

I can't find it or it's not there ugh

[unreal jetty]

Ohh ok awesome thanks

[unreal jetty]

Yeah I'll link when I find it

[fresh quiver]

is it the link I shared? #easter-eggs message

[snow walrus]

i remember rob saying suddenly it went south but that was for the old password

it might be earlier than october tho not sure about that

oh found it

[snow walrus]

#easter-eggs message

[fresh quiver]

the same I shared. Its the one from 22

[sharp flame]

2022

[fresh quiver]

just a "bit" in the past 😂

[sharp flame]

clearly not what he meant lol

[unreal jetty]

Oof lmao

[fresh quiver]

Its fine. It can happen.

[unreal jetty]

Bro the image is buried I can't find it

[fresh quiver]

the 1st image?

[unreal jetty]

I might been banned for a whole year

[fresh quiver]

of L3?

[unreal jetty]

For tier 3 yeah

[fresh quiver]

theoretically this is the same image https://www.reachthefinals.com/t3-f

[unreal jetty]

No way this sh*t again lmaoo

[fresh quiver]

We got the Image after solving L2 T3. Which we think is now the 1st image of L3

[unreal jetty]

Omg

Thanks guys, I'm only using an $30 android so I don't think I'll be much help

[queen rain]

Guys

What if

We ask rob for a hint!

[fresh quiver]

we try that often when he is on twitch with some streamers.
But last clues we got are still the images & {

We can be glad that he even helps us...

"For the next level you are on your own" -Rob