easter-eggs

[dusky sierra]

oh nvm then, dupe monitor

oh well

[gloomy anvil]

the notes themselves are interesting though

[dusky sierra]

blue ones meaningless, yellow might ahve some

[gloomy anvil]

iirc the blue depicts an Embarker, can't remember details though

[dusky sierra]

john embark

[gloomy anvil]

since they were added in S1 they might reflect the layout of syshorizon or kyoto

yellow note is the Embark Studios logo

[dusky sierra]

ah

better image

[crisp eagle]

So maybe whatever “password” we find, might actually be meant to split up for 3. It might not even make much sense to us if we do find it. Like imagine us coming to “sliescetaceaasconce”
Given that as a whole first, we might skip right over it and think we messed up somewhere in decoding.

[fading vigil]

EdTerryBeth?

[robust junco]

Fe fi fum

[fading vigil]

Maybe we need to dig over “Ed”, try to stretch all other clues to, and will find out something

[surreal sinew]

could blast off ltm be related to the space stuff

[swift mulch]

Could you elaborate on this theory?

[surreal sinew]

It’s called blast off and rockets blast off….
Yes that was my entire thought process when I sent that.

[hard current]

Probably not, we had another blast off event a while back 🙂

[robust junco]

🫃 🫃

[surreal sinew]

bruh

[cold heart]

this outfit from the S1 battlepass makes more sense now.... I guess Volpe is fighting related? not just VR tech
https://x.com/reachthefinals/status/1996965286638125166

[gusty timber]

I bet its the connection between boxing and haptics

"A boxer would know how it feels to get hit afterall, that's why their haptics are the best in the business!" type situation

[snow walrus]

Sage IV computers were used for the development of the Amiga prototype computer system "Lorraine". The Sage system got the nickname "Agony"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_Computer_Technology

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

Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment.
^This is interesting

[snow walrus]

The first SAGE instrument was launched on 18 February 1979.

On the same day:
Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Daytona_500
^Another Vegas connection see PSOD Racing

[snow walrus]

There is a volcano EE on Bernal. Not a strong connection but wanted to dump anyway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_eruption_of_Mount_St._Helens

[crisp eagle]

I really wish they posted stuff like this here as well. Some of us hate X/twitter. End of off topic rant. Ludo, ban me

[dull marsh]

Halley's comet was in the sky during the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror's big victory

[snow walrus]

Micrometer Wavelength Area =Infrared

Seek the truth beyond the walls

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19790049557

NIR and SWIR together is sometimes called "reflected infrared", whereas MWIR and LWIR is sometimes referred to as "thermal infrared".

Reflection =? Mirrored

[dull marsh]

Infrared would match with the idea of thermal blanket to protect from Sun's heat 🤔

[snow walrus]

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

[snow walrus]

Mission wiki page: Explorer 60
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_60

[fading vigil]

Do we have infrared vision? Or sort of?
Maybe IR filter on art?

[snow walrus]

Burrow gif?

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/saturns-polar-aurora/

[swift mulch]

got me back to #easter-eggs message

[snow walrus]

OYE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_(cyclone)#Extraterrestrial_vortices

[crisp eagle]

Gold is used in infrared night vision equipment. OYE
https://agmetals.com/golds-role-in-night-vision-devices/

[snow walrus]

"Saturn is blanketed with clouds that appear as faint stripes, jet streams, and storms. The planet is many different shades of yellow, brown, and gray."

Could Saturn be the Brown eyed girl

[severe creek]

this is also related to Robert Hooke with the Great Red Spot, and there's also an interest picture of it called "The Rose"

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia23804-jupiters-great-red-spot-a-rose-by-any-other-name/

[snow walrus]

Burrow gif also found during this era

I_Want_To believe we are on track

[snow walrus]

It's kinda funny when you think of Rob comparing megalodon ee and the roses

Planet sized EE???

[severe creek]

at this point, feels universal sized

the picture is circa 2019 so idk how involved with the rose ee itself it would be since it sounds like he had that one planned for a little prior too

but never coincidences

[atomic rock]

they use gold in space helmets for the same purpose but a little reverse, its more to protect your eyes from infrared rather than let you see infrared

[snow walrus]

Side note: You know when you include Pluto there are 9 planets in our solar system.

[severe creek]

9 planets...9 passwords...

[past karma]

@snow walrus your today's findings are based on the SAGE graffiti only?

[swift mulch]

Also JWST's mirrors are gold plated

[snow walrus]

Actually it started with amiga connection while i was watching a yt documentary. Then I remembered the graffiti and looked for wiki results, saw the sage3 iss page, the rest came with it afterwards

[hard current]

This is interesting, a good path to investigate

[snow walrus]

I'm forcing too much i know but i just got excited 😅

-Follow the waves
-Thin ice
-you are a Rockstar

I'm gonna sleep now and start over tomorrow with a clear mind

[white patrol]

came across jupiter in rose EE as well during some research, also the space shuttle in lost in space is called jupiter II iirc

[rugged breach]

Infrared's a really solid find, gg!

[hot sphinx]

omg this is it! If we find all the golden Namatamas, they release the recon sense rework and we'll find the missing links in Level 3 with it!
IT'S ALL COMING TOGETHER

[snow walrus]

eggs!
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel

[surreal sinew]

Wonder if u can find an infrared light somewhere like the works lights in Monacos construction place that make light

[snow walrus]

I forgot Thermal Vision is being reworked 😭

[gloomy anvil]

Did we ever try using thermal vision to look for the Vegas Nama Tama?

[snow walrus]

I was going to look at monaco nama first

[odd sequoia]

This is going back to that idea of it being a heist

[fresh quiver]

"Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager" links to Explorer 60.

its a X

[snow walrus]

LISA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Antenna

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

This might not be only egg hunt but (exo?)planet hunt

[fading vigil]

Also Lisa:

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

[fresh quiver]

lisa seems to be also be a part of amigas.

https://www.amigawiki.org/doku.php?id=en:parts:lisa

[snow walrus]

yes my replied message was about amiga

[fresh quiver]

omg... mb

RHESSIs secondary goal was to observe astronomical sources such as the Crab Nebula

[snow walrus]

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

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

[snow walrus]

Robby suit appeared in

• Lost in Space (1966 and 1967) – in two episodes as two different characters (in "War of the Robots" as a robotoid)

[low escarp]

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

saw this from a reddit post

didnt read the page just posting so i dont forgor

[rugged breach]

I'm 85% sure I gave that a go. Iirc nama didn't have a heat signature

[snow walrus]

CNS 4 Large Interferometer For Exoplanets
https://farinfrared.web.rug.nl/pres/Lichtenberg_LIFE.pdf
A space mission designed to search for life outside the solar system and investigate the diversity of other worlds

[white patrol]

ahahahahaha I saw this, Chinese players were laughing their ass off

[white patrol]

one time embark got rejected trying to register the finals logo/name is because of this

[fading vigil]

tried to play with colors more..
ANd what i see - our unknown friend is kind of in a circle and totally in the red color channel

[snow walrus]

LIFE is a space-based nulling interferometer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuller#Interferometry

[rugged breach]

Herodotus (L3 clue) > pyramids (overarching theme+ multico doc) connection
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Herodotus/home.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histories_(Herodotus)

Chapters are labled 1a, 1b, 1c etc.

[white patrol]

might connect to infrared?

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

discoverer of infrared, i dunno if anyone made comparison yet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_astronomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_astronomy

seems interesting

[past karma]

the original image is larger than just a portrait cut? sorry, I wasnt there where it was found

[fading vigil]

i dunno) i found that face when art was released, since then -nothing was found about it

Also, what if 4-4-9-2 pixels is a unicode symbol?
U+4492 - 䒒

[past karma]

can you share the original art please, I want to play with the image too

[fading vigil]

all official art is here:
https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1031539174743998526

[past karma]

yes, but I dont even know which one had the face :(

[fading vigil]

dissun one

#official-art message

[snow walrus]

#1332285869574590515 message

[odd sequoia]

Was this an indirect hint to the importance of the sandstorm variant? The golden Nama on Monaco is found only on it’s unique variant soooo mayyybbee

[hard current]

I did a long time ago

[hard current]

If you look closely at the masterplan markup spray, the layout of some of the slot machines only match the sandstorm variant

[odd sequoia]

Yea I remember you noticed that when we were in game the other day I think we’ve got our location for sure.

[fading vigil]

wanna check theory that flamethrowers can melt sand to glass?

[snow walrus]

i: infrared

[dull marsh]

Iridium was a connection = Ir = IR?

[past karma]

are you guys hunting? can I join?

[snow walrus]

and R for red..

[odd sequoia]

I’m down later on

[snow walrus]

I wanna look at this with thermal now 😭

and this ofc

I hand this to u @dull marsh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_thermal_protection_system

[dull marsh]

what I don't like that route is that this is not specific to STS-88 🤔

[snow walrus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomex
A Nomex hood is a common piece of racing and firefighting equipment. It is placed on the head on top of a firefighter's face mask. The hood protects the portions of the head not covered by the helmet and face mask from the intense heat of the fire.

Wildland firefighters wear Nomex shirts and trousers as part of their personal protective equipment during wildfire suppression activities.

Racing car drivers wear driving suits constructed of Nomex and or other fire retardant materials, along with Nomex gloves, long underwear, balaclavas, socks, helmet lining and shoes, to protect them in the event of a fire.

mylar-Nomex laminates, are used extensively in aircraft construction

[hard current]

Hey a thought too: I’m guessing thermals may not be needed if they were pulled from the game?

[snow walrus]

but it's a temporary pull -_-

[white patrol]

dread sorry I wasn't catching up on the whole thermal/infrared topic :3 where did this come from btw? clues in images or?

[snow walrus]

it's in this wiki page
#easter-eggs message

[white patrol]

icic! thankies dread!

[snow walrus]

I don't have a strong connection but the names

From Explorers program:
ACE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Composition_Explorer
SunRISE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Radio_Interferometer_Space_Experiment
GOLD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global-scale_Observations_of_the_Limb_and_Disk
Arcus (proposed)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcus_(satellite)

[unkempt dune]

on the topic of ACE, 357 (one of the clues provided) with a caesar cipher shift of 7 would be ACE

[dull marsh]

wouldn't it be a shift of 2 and A1Z26?

[snow walrus]

there is no number in A1Z26

[dull marsh]

Well I mean, 357 shifted 2 is 135 which in A1Z26 is ACE

[unkempt dune]

it's kind of funny 2 aces can be slang for pocket rockets

[surreal sinew]

did anyone ever figure out if the loading screen logo bars where morse code

or if the body of it was assci or smth

[robust junco]

🫃

I love EE but I cant understand this stuff

[swift mulch]

Arcus > 4RCU5

[dusk siren]

Possible roses thing...
🎶 fi fo fum 🎶
-> Devil with a blue dress - Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels
-> A Box of Old Roses - Ron (Pooky) Cooke w/ Detroit featuring Mitch Ryder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXy7qYAKrfc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfld96GnGRM

[dusk siren]

I did... people seemed to agree that I was seeing things. xD #easter-eggs message

[dusk siren]

I also previously claimed to have solved this, getting the answer "BEACON" (fits with the in-game title of that sticker cosmetic, which was something like "Hot Gossip"). Someone pointed out at the time that 'beacon' could be a reference to 'infrared beacons'...
Was mostly ignored so, again, I figured people seemed to agree I was seeing things. 😄

[gloomy anvil]

oh I remember this, it is interesting

[dusk siren]

Several other songs with fee-fi-fo-fum lyrics... maybe Rob's clue suggests several different songs are relevant.
For instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody's_Been_Sleeping

[gloomy anvil]

The focus on sets of three reminds me of Rob's "XY RR 1X2" clue and particularly "it has RR in the middle"

There are two main groups of three: The three MW.AREAs, and the three Xs / passwords under each. "RR" could represent the "MMA-B" (middle) password for one area. If it refers to rock and roll, that could be the area corresponding to NA and Las Vegas.

[dusk siren]

Re: RR = "Rock and Roll" (nice idea!)
Looking into the Las Vegas Nama Tama back in the day, I became pretty convinced that the "Vintage Velvet" slot machines in the Eastwood, especially the black slot machines, that you see along the path of the "Masterplan Markup" were an Elvis reference. Specifically via this idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_Elvis

Okay... the reason I quit this hunt was because there is always (ALWAYS) a wikipedia rabbit hole a person can go down, so I'm only gonna do one here.
Inspired by "XY RR 1X2" and the idea that RR = "Rock and Roll"
I considered the idea that 1X2 would be a "rock and roll-relevant" date, so perhaps X = 95, 96, 97, 98, 99...
Then I did a google search for "95 band name from the 1950s"... NOTHING. Then "96 band name from the 1960s"... SOMETHING?
-> The song "96 Tears" by ? and the Mysterians was released in 1966, but written in 1962.
Seems a notable song in music history, too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/96_Tears

[eternal violet]

Oh my god. I think I get it. "XY RR 1x2" represents a general clue for a set of 3 passwords for each MW.Area.

XY > coordinates > place > devoncrossing
RR > rob runesson > name > galileo
1x2 > first twice? > ocb (fits only the "first" part?)

[gloomy anvil]

Good thinking I've been racking my head at how to convert our clues to match those level 1 X names today

devoncrossing is confusing because Devon is the place and Crossing is the surname of William Crossing, it's both a where and who

[eternal violet]

XY might also mean that password consists of 2 parts

Or XY > Y of X > crossing of devon > devoncrossing

[gloomy anvil]

XY could also be Galileo by relating to geolocation and the Galileo satellite navigation system

which iirc was the his primary connection to geocaching in level 1

[eternal violet]

Well all those passwords were main clues for geocache

[gloomy anvil]

yeah I just mean that was Galileo's connection specifically

Still don't know if this message from Rob was a clue but #easter-eggs message

[gloomy anvil]

Just realized devoncrossingocbgalileo, if you remove the letter O (O=0=null) is 19 characters: devncrssingcbgalile

maybe a coincidence, but I want to note it

when Rob revealed the name of level 1 he used a 0 instead of an O in "commence" #easter-eggs message

I'm now even more inclined to try passwords with the O removed or replaced with a zero. The 19 characters could be intentional and could explain why "devoncrossing" was chosen as one of the URLs. It seems a little strange on its own but works for reaching that exact number.

It could also have been an early clue towards 19 itself.

[crisp eagle]

We had this as well at the start of L2

19 and 0 have been good friends during all of this probably

[brisk hearth]

Hello EE gang. Managed to convince Rob to give away a hint for the roses EE while I was at the majors.

Here it is:

There's a few other little bits of info he shared pertaining to this but asked to keep it a secret

[fading vigil]

It’s not fair to say that you have a secret and don’t tell us

[brisk hearth]

Maybe ask him about it next time he pops in here?

I highly doubt there's anything else hidden here but here is the full image

[surreal sinew]

What if we shoot it with the water gun flamethrower

Oh wait nvm cosmetic are irrelevant

[snow walrus]

Lost in space
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris#Lost_equipment

a glove
a camera
a thermal blanket
a wrench
a toothbrush
a camera (another)
a pair of pliers
a briefcase-sized tool bag

[crisp eagle]

Our eyes act as mirrors, projecting what we see upside down, then our brains flip it back. Maybe that’s why we got that image upside down in powe_i_powe? OYE

[crisp eagle]

Ludo’s space blanket was actually lost in space. How did we not connect that before

[snow walrus]

there are lost things in-game as well

Lost Legacy
Stolen Cashout

Seek shelter 🤔

this was the first teased still frame back in open beta, maybe there is something worth to check where X points

shotgun blocks the view ofc

[eternal violet]

we did

[crisp eagle]

Ah, I missed it

[inland hemlock]

i can hop on in a second if you are up

here's the code if anyone is free #1217498821563514951 message

[snow walrus]

I'm arcing but will hop after this round

[inland hemlock]

sure take your time

[severe creek]

thought this would be useful here since mirrors have been brought up lately

[inland hemlock]

so far none of the reviews i could find were how rob described them: https://www.twitch.tv/thefinals/clip/StormyNurturingBobaTheThing-vp4vagXB5_LqS3dL

[severe creek]

i agree, i do think that's the most challenging thing with the reviews. the subject matter is relevant, but it doesn't seem very "in code" to me

[unkempt dune]

Ed White huh 🤔

[swift mulch]

Oh btw there is a white glove set that you only wear on one hand. The otherone might be lost in space. I actually use this cosmetic, let me check if there's anything in the description.

It's probably nothing (was a s4 bp item for anyone wondering)

[snow walrus]

there are couple one handed gloves

[swift mulch]

Volpe has one too, the rest I dont really remember

From my mind these looked a bit like gloves you wear with a space suit, hence it clicked for a sec

[snow walrus]

We still don't know what are these numbers mean

[severe creek]

what drives me crazy about the multico files is that we know more exist in relation to a sponsor website, but we only have two live websites and no files hidden

[hot sphinx]

well, we did had https://www.holtow.com/filez once

(cf https://www.reddit.com/r/cns/comments/1b4plvr/rurdy_to_follow_7he_w4ve/)

maybe there's something if we play with the search function https://www.holtow.com/search

[formal birch]

Anyone notice this part on the event ospuze charm? at the bottom it almost looks like theres text on it, but I cant seem to read it

numbers?

[rugged gull]

That's normal for soda cans though

[formal birch]

Ah yeah probably right looks like the exact same one on the crushed can though weird that its offset not centred

[rugged gull]

Eh looks the same as on a sprite can I doubt it's anything plus the off center could just be a "manufacturing" issue

I can check to see if it's still a date on it tho

[dusky sierra]

Maybe the darkened finger tips are like dead skin from being in space? Idk

[swift mulch]

That's a body paint 😅

[dusky sierra]

You know, I might be stupid

[surreal sinew]

Don’t worry I sit in the same boat

[gloomy anvil]

> next time he pops in here

[severe creek]

🇸 🕯️ 🇷
🕯️ 🕯️
🕯️ 🕯️

[brisk hearth]

Has he not been here at all? I've not been keeping up with the channel much tbh — arc and finals are consuming all my free time. But hey, I did make sure to squeeze some sort of EE info out of him in person!

[gloomy anvil]

He was here for a few minutes in June and the last time before that was February. He still interacts sometimes in Twitch chats and other channels.

So we appreciate you sharing a clue you got in-person

[brisk hearth]

June??! damn.... its been 84 years...

[gloomy anvil]

[brisk hearth]

and those twitch streams happen super late/early for me, but maybe ill try to catch the one for the season start this week to see if hes there and ask if I can share what he told me, or just ask him to pop in here.

[dull marsh]

For your own pleasure, tiny collection of faces I saw this weekend that made me double take:

[woeful cipher]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir
Stuff that kinda looks like this guy could had been on ... Unless it's actually from the 1800s or before

[dusk siren]

Google searched the first image Ludo just posted above and randomly ended up on Saint Rupert of Salzburg.
Didn't see a previous mention of him.
I don't think it's anything to do with the grainy image of the mystery man, but it might be a Salzburg/salt/R-r-r-r-rupertius connection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_of_Salzburg

[dusk siren]

This idea is repeating a previous one but perhaps it's...
Who? -> XY -> X = first name?; Y = last name?
What? -> RR -> something with the initials R.R. or perhaps something whose name is a word repeated (R = word?)
Where? -> 1x2 -> first coordinate 'by' second coordinate?

[molten bridge]

Egg heads, assemble.

The sheer amount of things that could be in that year 2 videos is nuts

[surreal sinew]

holy shit your right

[carmine trench]

Looks like a bunch of reused footage to me

But I don’t believe you’re entirely wrong

[worn rivet]

Yeah I agree, idk if there will be anything

[surreal sinew]

there is most likely something

[dawn kindle]

I'm shocked that nobody is talking about the end of the 2 year anniversary trailer where it said "From Embark, with love"

[surreal sinew]

i saw myself in the video multiple times lol major was awesome but we need embark to leek

https://tenor.com/view/need-a-leak-need-a-leek-need-a-pee-need-the-loo-need-the-toilet-gif-25850284

SAINT ROB BLESS US WITH LEEKS

[odd sequoia]

I was too busy crying my eyes out lol

[fresh quiver]

IMHO there might be atleast Frank hidden in the video.

(Atleast I hope so)

[surreal sinew]

guys we gotta ask rob questions during this stream ight guys time to get dad home

[cold heart]

for some reason CNS isnt a selectable sponsor on the new track system :O

[severe creek]

I suppose they technically were never a sponsor...can't wait to see how they inject themselves into the system again

[surreal sinew]

i saw that maybe vaiya did their job for once

[odd sequoia]

Hunting on Kyoto

#1217498821563514951 message

[dull marsh]

Raid got you #1201288968562552863 message

[gusty kraken]

release the files

[odd sequoia]

Can anyone point me to the discovery post where the first golden nama was found? I’ve been trying to find it for like 30 minutes just wanna see something. Thanks in advance 🙏

[gloomy anvil]

#easter-eggs message

[odd sequoia]

Thank you so much!

[dull marsh]

i rember 👴

[surreal sinew]

ok unc (i was taking a break from ee :c )

bad timing

[dull marsh]

i rember when I found this ee, playing on a macbook pro 👴

[surreal sinew]

wait it was u who found it

[fading vigil]

Hey… the map theme isn’t show us city map
So why we were thinking about trees and buildings from other maps?

[surreal sinew]

damn thats crazy also u can play on mac

[dull marsh]

was when I was on the go hehe, not my default setup 😄

[dull marsh]

huh? not sure what you mean lol

[fading vigil]

Map to the found Nama we got island shaped as a duck and head of statue as a clues. But map is made like a map of an island, not a Monaco.
For Eastwood casino we also have a straight plan of a casino itself, but it can be a clue for a specific condition (like we have building site on Seoul), or other lost legacy map: it is with trees and mountains but it can not be showing “the real place”, but map is teared so it can be “right top corner” of a map, witch represented via “parts” of a map, like fortune stadium or other one (forgot its name).

Like, we don’t need to look at maps literally, but look for clues on the map itself

[dull marsh]

Oh yeah I gotcha

[surreal sinew]

this is either top tier confustion or top tier cooking

i think the second one tbh

[dull marsh]

it's cooking

he's just saying the first map had to be interpreted and not taken literally

so the second map, which has trees, should not be taken literally either, aka it's probably not directly related to trees

it's a good point that needs to be said

[fading vigil]

What if the Eastwood casino plan is literally the plan of a construction site from skyway or Seoul? Because the LV has “ruined” variant, but building in progress?

[dull marsh]

Hmm, tho using your own point, this plan does not really need interpretation, we know exactly where this is about 🤔

[fading vigil]

Even Monaco has a construction site tho

Sorry for my bad English, I’m sleepy right now and from my cellphone

[dull marsh]

Yeah not sure what you mean here too 😄
The Eastwood plan is 100% Eastwood, I'm not talking about the forest map tho

[fading vigil]

Just stretching the idea that it’s not an Eastwood but any of “ongoing” construction sites ingame

[dull marsh]

mah, I don't buy that idea, I don't ever associate Eastwood with any construction, this plan looks like a blueprint you'd look at to do a heist (which was perfectly in theme with STS)

[fading vigil]

But a blueprint is used for what?)

[dull marsh]

hmm

[fading vigil]

Another theory:
in sandstorms variant do we have a lot of sand in the vault?

On Monaco we had to destroy some stones to reveal Nama, so maybe, we need to melt that sand?
Flamethrowers usually don’t give enough temperature to melt sand, but thermite can, only thing that looks like thermite is light’s thing to break walls, so maybe party of ? lights should shot that sand and melt it

[dull marsh]

we had that map during season 1 so it would likely be limited to what we had then (thermite was S3)

[gloomy anvil]

dev pointed out that the casino machines on the map only match the sandstorm variant, and not the normal eastwood layout

I haven't checked myself

the semi-circle of machines here matches sandstorm but on the standard variant there are apparently extra machines on one side

[fading vigil]

Monaco Nama wasn’t there on release, but was added after shortly, so maybe other nama’s wasn’t placed in s1

[dull marsh]

Sure but we didn't get the map before the nama was added 😄

[fading vigil]

Didn’t we NEVER got the clues from Rob, before we got the place to use them?)

[dull marsh]

for ingame EEs? not afaik

[fading vigil]

Burrw.gif is a diamond clue that can “solve the whole puzzle”. So lvl3 can be solved from s1 ?

[dull marsh]

my understanding is that kinda yes, we were supposed to solve Level 3 much earlier, potentially right as the game launched or even before 🫠

[gloomy anvil]

Season 1 has always seemed to represent the start of level 3

[dull marsh]

we were just slow lol

(and somehow we got slower)

[gloomy anvil]

should I post the current day chart

[dull marsh]

go for it 💀

[gloomy anvil]

eye reactions aren't really relevant anymore but still

[dull marsh]

it's exponential 💀

[gloomy anvil]

this was the reaction to solving Tier 1C btw #easter-eggs message

17 days

[alpine junco]

technically we have the passwords so we're done

[fading vigil]

I’m totally sure that after 9 passwords ther will be namatama picture with ANOTHER clues

[gloomy anvil]

there had better be

[alpine junco]

i mean theres still that "password" for that base 64 code

[fading vigil]

Yeah, we have like 10% of clues, the easiest ones to find but the hardest to help solving l3

[alpine junco]

also very interesting that a lot of clues never got solved from the beginning

[fading vigil]

Find out that hobbyist radio uses Node numbers alike our weapon numbers (5-6digits)
Also qrz.com is place to look for.
Will try not to forget and check it tomorrow

[odd sequoia]

In your opinion, do you think it’s fair to assume that the other 2 Namas will be found in similar circumstances? Kinda buried in the environment and not so…. In the open I guess? Kinda low and in the dirt, rocks, I guess anything that isn’t normally destructible

[alpine junco]

0:46 = AEG which could short for Aegean and thats why we got Aegean later as an eyed clue

[dull marsh]

I think this is a decent assumption to try to narrow down possibilities, but should be kept in mind that we are almost sure of nothing

[alpine junco]

that frame and the from embark with love image both are on Skyway Satdium

[odd sequoia]

How hard would it be to find the 20 eyed messages? 😅

[dull marsh]

I'm not even 100% sure that there are other golden namas in-game lol

[gloomy anvil]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1tfveK-QScK3a7dr9LxGxIuFiw89nhoUxJvbfwCkMgXU/

[odd sequoia]

Fair lol, I only ask because I was using free cam on Kyoto and found a lot of rocks that can be clipped through (in bounds) similar to those on Monaco. No luck yet though.

[odd sequoia]

Thank you so much

[alpine junco]

another thing to point out is this frame (0:48) is outside dragon studios where have also have an eyed clue from the reflection in the glasses

[fading vigil]

We need more soldiers to try out things, less generals with theories 🙂

[odd sequoia]

I posted a code earlier, sadly no one joined. We had 4 though so that was cool

Me and this sledgehammer mean business lol. Omg can we get a business tie for the sledge?

[fading vigil]

Man, wish I could join..
I have power problems, mostly can’t play customs with ee because of timezone, but when I can - nobody here and my friends just want to listen about solved EEs from me, but not help me to check things 🙁

[odd sequoia]

Let me know a good time for you, I’m down to hunt

[fading vigil]

It’s 2.35 am at my place rn)

[hard current]

Yeah this is what I spotted

[fading vigil]

Hard to tell, cause I don’t have electricity for 12hours a day and I cannot know when it would be

[odd sequoia]

Oof.. I’m sorry to hear that just message anytime, I’ll do my best to get on

[hard current]

Hurts my soul

[fading vigil]

Ukraine moment 😄

[gloomy anvil]

you know how when you read old eyed messages and see how almost all of them relate to a password?

I'm trying to do that with level 3 but it just.. doesn't, idk

[odd sequoia]

Stay safe friend

[odd sequoia]

Can we like…get a study circle going?

[hard current]

I’ve been trying that too… problem is we have 9 passwords so how do we know what clue goes to what

If we could find even ONE password, I bet there’s a pattern we can extract to find the rest/most of them

[fading vigil]

Like was with tickets, yeah

[hard current]

But everytime we get something new from Rob I get even more confused… the 3 phases of matter? We haven’t seen a single clue in the images I could tie to that tbh

[gloomy anvil]

I would disregard the actual subjects of that message and only focus on the "sets of three" theme there

[hard current]

Part of me wonders if the clue images aren’t even important and instead they’re pointing to something down the road, hence why Rob wants us to find the big wr and the 3 namas because maybe it’ll reveal something? Idk

[hard current]

That makes sense and agreed

So maybe we just take all the clues and start looking for connections to 3/tri/sets of 3?

[odd sequoia]

Well didn’t he say something about big colorful letters on Vegas being part of it? And also it having double r in the middle?

[hard current]

That whole clue from Rob tbh has done more to hurt us than help us I think

[alpine junco]

also this clue, which is a combination of greek and latin (if we look at it from a clue stand point we have Herodotus and Caesar) could be another hint to add infromation from 2 images to get an answer

[hard current]

We have other clues pointing to hex as well, like gruk

[odd sequoia]

Surely there can’t be too many words that have both a double R in the middle, and some of the letters found around Vegas. Right? 😅

[hard current]

Maybe, but I’ve started ignoring the RR XY 1X2 clue tbh

It doesn’t help us right now, and I’m not sure we understand what he actually meant

[odd sequoia]

Sorry for what’s probably a stupid question but, is there anywhere to see a collection of all the clues given? Just wondering if it exists

[hard current]

The miro is the best option:)

I can’t link to it rn I’m on mobile tho

I think it might be in #egg-hunt-onboarding

[fading vigil]

Miro is the best, but open it from pc only 🙂

[odd sequoia]

I found it, but sadly it’s just infinitely reloading itself for some reason. But thank you still!

[odd sequoia]

That explains it lol thank you

[hard current]

yeah there's SO much it won't open on mobile

[odd sequoia]

I’ll take the Miro and the eyes list I was given earlier and…probably go get a headache lol

[hard current]

that's what I do when my friends aren't playing arc lol, doing it right now

just realized, I don't think we ever decoded the hex for the vaiiya image

812a369f6ccfecd0

decimal
9307311638267817168 - 19 digits
129 42 54 159 108 207 236 208 - split by 2

[severe creek]

I wanted to join but was at work 🥲 I've spent so much time in Kyoto by myself testing my crazy theories that never make it here with the nama

[odd sequoia]

Which one was this? Sorry just want to look at it

[turbid tinsel]

is the power of 3 still relevant?

[odd sequoia]

I’m always down to hunt, feel free to send a message anytime!

[severe creek]

will do! I get too echo chambered with Kyoto since it's not as live in EEs but feel like we're walking right over that little statue

[odd sequoia]

Same! We had 4 hammers earlier trying to take it section by section. Found a lot of rocks the free cam can go through similar to Monaco. It’s just…a lot

[severe creek]

a group of us leveled Kyoto a few months ago, checked around the golden pavilion, the rooftop house, all of it. I feel like we're just missing a specific perimeter (like duck n cover was the perimeter)

[odd sequoia]

The fact that people are even able to like…do this is truly incredible.

[hard current]

finding it in the images historically isn't very hard, the hard part is figuring out how to decode it all and what it means

[odd sequoia]

That’s the weird part, Kyoto doesn’t have a special variant. But I do think it’ll be buried in a similar way to Monaco.

The Samurai design really says Kyoto to me, but Seoul does have the under construction variant…

[severe creek]

Seoul has both the construction modifier and the stormy weather variant, but I'd have to go back through other theories to see more connections to Seoul

I just feel like legacy finder nama is tied to Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade with the Sato token too...but I'm still working through some thoughts on that

[obsidian tendon]

I did the whole Nama token thing, has any more info after you find the red manhole cover been found?

It’s really interesting

[severe creek]

https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1381733504718606496 it kinda stand-stilled after we got ticket hunt complete on the machines

[dusk siren]

Level 1 was before my time, but maybe it's part of your point, or maybe something that could add some value...
RR -> Rob Runeson -> name -> Galileo Galilei -> GG
The point being that maybe all the people/names are identified by two of the same initial.
Could provide one more motivation behind the idea and one more helpful filter.
Again, sorry if implicit in ur point, but wanted to make sure.

Essentially a Caesar shift on the initials?

Some have suggested, and I'm just stuck mentally anchored on the idea that the "when?" might be the "1X2," where X is one or more missing digits in a year. (For example, perhaps a year that's significant in Galileo Galilei's life)

[hard current]

this clue, all it makes me think of is the 3 dawns, civil, nautical, astronomical

rob eyed this stuff so long ago

[burnt sun]

civil, nautical, astronomical is also part of the multi co files which is not blacked out

[obsidian tendon]

Can’t speak on there but has the glassed off vaiya computer ever changed, like the big one on a pedestal by cashout

[gloomy anvil]

I just came across this moment from the start of T1E where Rob says a bunch by editing the same message over and over. It seems to have been:

• "who said the rabbit fell apart" (maybe rob signature here) "you'll follow this rabbit hole to the end" (from Fluffy017's memory) #easter-eggs message
• "Who are the kings, who are the queens.?" #easter-eggs message
• "Who can you trust.?" #easter-eggs message
• "The White Rabbit looked around saw trees, sand and snow the king and queen had sent him there, a new world is about to show." #easter-eggs message
• "It's just lies, it is just lies, who can you trust.?" #easter-eggs message

I don't think the white rabbit was involved in the T1E solution, so maybe this was referring to something else? something more relevant now?

[severe creek]

the implant chip? I don't think so iirc

[hard current]

wait... didn't we have a clue for black night once upon a time

"black knight"

civil twilight = white night
nautical twilight (if bright) = white night
astronomical twilight = gray night

[gloomy anvil]

black knight is a very core clue of level 3 if that's what you mean

[hard current]

A white night is a night with only civil twilight which lasts from sunset to sunrise.[18]

maybe rob is tellilng us to convert the coordinates into degrees minutes seconds

idk man head hurt, probably not making any progress tonight...

[gloomy anvil]

searching for other conversations about this and I think I'm the only person to bring it up since it happened

[hard current]

I wish it made any sense to me lol

[gloomy anvil]

"you'll follow this rabbit hole to the end", does that mean the end of the rabbit hole or the end of the hunt?

[hard current]

couldn't tell you :/

[dusk siren]

Re: "1x2 -> first twice? -> ocb (fits only the "first" part?)
Here is another "first" with respect to geocaching, which would make "two firsts":

• First on earth = Original Can of Beans (ocb)
• First in space = 2008 ISS geocache

Incidentally, Baikonur, Kazakhstan is pretty close to where one of the pairs of coordinates on the Level 3 landing page is located (both locations in Kazakhstan, at any rate)

History of the 'devoncrossing' password (L1-t1) via reddit(?), featuring a Sherlock Holmes reference...
Probably just a coincidence but a couple people pointed out a while back that the second geocache in space features a Sherlock Holmes reference

221BBAKER Mars Perseverance Rover Calibration Target Geocoin (poker chip? xD)

[dusk siren]

Is this just the original set of Lewis Carroll clues, or would that have been too obvious even at the time?

For instance, "who said the rabbit fell apart" feels like it could be an oblique reference to something or someone who did fall apart.
In that case, the character would be Humpty Dumpty.

This was all before I joined the hunt, but I imagine you guys have already explored the Through the Looking-Glass chess game and chess pieces angle. This just would seem to potentially connect to a lot of those Rob clues.

[white patrol]

Tom idk if you're on lvl3, but the 3 golden nama/statue Official art points to Devon crossing in Level 1, big red X, X marks the spot, golden Nama, Level3 is all about them.. (welcome back btw c:)

[gloomy anvil]

I think that part is in response to this message #easter-eggs message

[dusk siren]

Thx, dude. I'm just trying to learn a bit about Lvl1 now...
For instance, I didn't know the "letterboxing as a precursor to geocaching" thing.
That could be another source of "two firsts," if that's what someone were going for - the first geocaching (OCB) and the first letterboxing (according to William Crossing)

[dusk siren]

Oh, sorry, I think I was just going by the order you put them in. So, your sense is that those clues might include Through the Looking-Glass characters and themes, but are actually pointing to answers outside of those references (like 'kings' and 'queens' who aren't merely the chess pieces in the Lewis Carroll story)?

[gloomy anvil]

I think that's possible

[dusk siren]

If someone were looking for an "underground / on the surface / in space" angle, kind of interesting that you might consider
(1) the Oringinal Can of Beans deposited on Blue Switch Day in 2000, when accurate GPS became unrestricted, as being "underground" ("partially buried", anyway)
(2) the 'letterboxes' on the moors beginning in 1854 as being "on the surface"
(3) the first extraterrestrial geocache on the ISS in 2008 being "in space"
🤷

Ironically, I was going to suggest the "Knights and Knaves" puzzle, and you posted about it over a year ago. #easter-eggs message

Re: "Who can you trust.?"
Some variants of "Knights and Knaves" feature, instead, "Tweedledee and Tweedledum," for what it's worth.

From one of this guy's books titles "What is the Name of This Book?"... I don't see him mentioned previously https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan

Martin Gardner seal of approval

A Smullyan puzzle where you have to figure out what type is the king and what type is the queen (not quite Rob's question, but close)
I'll stop with this line of thinking for now, though. Anyway, maybe the Smullyan guy goes along with Lewis Carroll and possibly Martin Gardner, as people famous for their logic puzzles.

[unkempt dune]

one of the emotes from the Season 9 Battle Pass has 六 for Six https://youtu.be/-QmDczgUV7c?si=u10CZH2WHso3gLdA&t=160

We do know there's some kind of connection with Chinese zodiac #easter-eggs message

Fangwei City takes place in 2030, which would be the Year of the Metal Dog

Using the Sexagenary cycle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagenary_cycle), you could get numbers for each map with a year assigned:

Kyoto 1568        | Year of the Earth Dragon | No. 05 
Monaco 2014       | Year of the Wood Horse   | No. 31
Seoul 2023        | Year of the Water Rabbit | No. 40
Bernal 2024       | Year of the Wood Dragon  | No. 29
Fangwei City 2030 | Year of the Metal Dog    | No. 47
Las Vegas 2032    | Year of the Water Rat    | No. 49

[white patrol]

Just a side note:
6 is also a slang people use to compliment when someone does something impressive

[wraith karma]

I don’t know if it’s of any use but the new map has this funny phone number. I don’t know if it works or not but it’s a detail I thought was worth sharing

(1:11) https://youtu.be/BqVBEftGbRI?si=JoR9qJhhbsUfdN1X

[surreal sinew]

might be in the real world

which would be insane and insanly cool

[gloomy anvil]

Perrott is another double R name

[surreal sinew]

i would like to remind everyone that we still have the loading screen glitchy finals logo to look through to see if its morse or ascii (i dont know how to im just some dumb kid whos chatted to rob decent bit and got some info [i used to do EE then life happend])

[gloomy anvil]

for my own sanity I might just pretend he didn't say that (not saying it isn't important)

I'd also struggle to decipher any patterns in that loading icon or the main background

[eternal violet]

pretty much the whole point of the main hunt

[surreal sinew]

damn ignored again (like most people in my life...hahaha..godimlonely:cc )

sorry dont mean to sad dump XD

lifes kinda odd rn

[gloomy anvil]

nooooo not like that

it's really great that you got a hint out of Rob when those are so sparse these days, it's just me personally I'm terrible at deciphering these sorts of things (like the Horizon rainbow or Seoul elevators, which we never solved). my goal atm is to focus on our core set of level 3 clues

that's all I mean when I say for my own sanity

[surreal sinew]

sounds like allice in wonderland no?

[surreal sinew]

yeah but since he hinted that it was important to level 3 im just suprised nobody smarter than me figured it out or even tried the morse therory

[gloomy anvil]

do you mean the large golden icon or the small loading icon? #easter-eggs message

[surreal sinew]

the small one that was flashing a bunch that malibu managed to rip the frames from

and he also ripped the logo out of it too but i dont know how well he did it but i think he did well

[surreal sinew]

yeah that one

and the still frames he sent i can re forward them if needed

[gloomy anvil]

when I look at those frames I'm reminded of this clip https://www.twitch.tv/waterdance/clip/IgnorantAlivePenguinOSkomodo-AF-8Z2ZA49x2GgYl

in that, while there's something there, I just can't wrap my head around starting to decipher it because there's so much happening

this is the horizon rainbow I mentioned

which is just a skill issue on my part

[surreal sinew]

i dont see what u mean here i might be dumb but maybe they are related but it almost feel to hard to decifer idk how hard rob would make it

do u know anyone insane enough to want to try decifering the small logo

might be one of these clues that have alot of info and maybe really important since rob actually lead us to it se he probably wanted us to find it faster (maybe idk might just be speculation)

[surreal sinew]

pretty sure malibu has a better version that u can see more of it i asked him for it

[hard forge]

hello chat is there anything major I missed?

[surreal sinew]

probably the loading screen logo thing but we are to dumb to figure it out

[gloomy anvil]

I don't mean they are related, just that the "streaks" in that clip seem much trickier to decipher than most other things. That's sort of how I see the loading icon bars. That said, if Rob had said those streaks were related to level 3 I'm sure we would've put more effort in.

So I'm sure there are people here who can take a crack at the loading icon.

[surreal sinew]

other prolly know how tho

[surreal sinew]

well when i asked him it it was related to level 3 he smiled and looked happy that i asked that so i do think its relavant

[hard forge]

except that?

[surreal sinew]

not sure raid probably knows

oh wait the rose hint on the card we got that

but thats for the pr roses not the whoop

[snow walrus]

Why one golden egg is hidden under monaco's ruined cathedral, we didn't have a proper answer to that have we?

[gloomy anvil]

wdym?

[snow walrus]

Why Rob hid the golden egg there?

[alpine junco]

uh because of easter? eggs?

[surreal sinew]

ig we dont know why

but maybe knowing we can find a pattern?

i dont think its to important tho

[snow walrus]

hmm might be but can we apply the same answer to other hidden golden eggs

[surreal sinew]

have we thought that maybe its in one of these pits like the fall to your death and to find it we gotta stand on goo

(that would suck if so)

[velvet narwhal]

we've checked the pits a few times but we could ofc have missed something

[alpine junco]

hmmm

[surreal sinew]

i feel like pits are hard to find

maybe on kyoto its hidden in the water

or is there water on any other maps

[alpine junco]

they could just be under the main building of the maps

Monaco = Cathedral

[surreal sinew]

yeah maybe in the construktion site on seoul

[velvet narwhal]

one of the Nozomi/Citadel Tickets was on the edge of one of the pits. So it wouldn't be entirely new

[surreal sinew]

btw are the golden namas breakable maybe we have been to violent and broke them

[alpine junco]

they arent

[surreal sinew]

ok thats good

have we ever checked inside the wrecking balls

[gloomy anvil]

reminder that the description of the Kyoto / tree map got updated in summer to this

For Contestants who dig deeper than most, always seeking the story beneath the win.

[alpine junco]

you know what i think the eggs could be for?

[surreal sinew]

what

[alpine junco]

we find all 3 and Rob gives us a golden ticket, a big clue

[surreal sinew]

probably and i hope so

[velvet narwhal]

i think the eggs itself are clues.
like the white rabbits and 3hm

[surreal sinew]

imagine its a grenade skin

ggs

[alpine junco]

3 letters?

[surreal sinew]

3 headed monkey

[velvet narwhal]

yeah or it's a clue in a different way

[surreal sinew]

do we know what maps the eggs are on

[fresh quiver]

probably the earlier maps.

[surreal sinew]

or doesnt it have to be the original 3 since the ee was meant to be solved way earlier

[fresh quiver]

we dont know

[alpine junco]

the middle one was on Monaco

[surreal sinew]

damn yeah that doesnt really hint us much

cus it looks like it couldv been on kyoto

[alpine junco]

and their contestant version

[surreal sinew]

the 3d one looks like it should be kyoto but it might have been added for us to find to hint kyoto

[surreal sinew]

where can you find this

[alpine junco]

#official-art

[surreal sinew]

i see

[alpine junco]

center one is very similar to Dede

who was shown on Monaco in a trailer and also has two Namatamas

[surreal sinew]

i think its like the other head piece with the horns like the golden mask one but did it have headphones

i really do think the third one was hinting to kyoto but this was shown in 2022 so idk

also do we know if those golden contestants are also hidden around the world

[alpine junco]

we didnt get the samurai outfit till season 3

[surreal sinew]

yeah maybe it was teasing a japan season

[velvet narwhal]

that first one gives me Las Vegas vibes

[surreal sinew]

yeah or seoul like business man

tho the full size does kinda give vegas

[snow walrus]

vegas monaco kyoto

[surreal sinew]

maybe the 3 statues are meant to be the first 3 seasons season 1 vegas season 2 cns ans sys seems wierd?? and season 3 kyoto

[surreal sinew]

wait duh monaco

so do we think they are hidden on vegas and kyoto still

and what happens once we get the snow variant of the maps

would it be easier to see the gold

[snow walrus]

and there is that tree

[alpine junco]

was going down a wiki rabbit hole last night and Dede can be read as 1414 or 238 in bibi-binary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibi-binary

[gloomy anvil]

some things about letterboxing, maybe relevant maybe not

• James Perrott is credited as starting letterboxing (double R name)
• It's said that "Godfrey Swinscow—affectionately known as God—swooped in and rescued letterboxing from extinction" by introducing three core rules. (sets of 3?)
  • The first letter of each level 1 URL (galileo, ocb, devoncrossing) can make "god".
• This one is a stretch, but letterboxing is shortened to "boxing" and letterboxers "boxers", which could relate to the Volpe boxing page of the season 1 BP.

[gloomy anvil]

Personally yes I do. I also believe the third Nama (corresponding to Asia if we go by the continents theory) was originally in Seoul, but got moved to Kyoto in S3.

[surreal sinew]

I see what if they move it to the new map or is that to harsh of a thing for them to do

[gloomy anvil]

Now that we've started level 3 I don't think that will happen

We hadn't started when S3 released

[gloomy anvil]

noting also that the statue images originated in level 1

[fresh quiver]

And we still have the mystery about the 5 sets of coordinates

[gloomy anvil]

I try not to think about those

[surreal sinew]

damn

[fresh quiver]

try to not think about them when hearing "geocaching" or similar

[gloomy anvil]

brb gonna fly to central Libya and the Chad/Sudan border to find what Rob left there

If I knew how I'd try scaling the coordinates down to Stockholm specifically

[alpine junco]

And Galileo was never used in any of the hunt?

[fresh quiver]

this exactly. IMHO the coordinates are way off or more like encrypted or similar?

The Places, the coordinates point to, just dont make much sense

[gloomy anvil]

It was one of the three Xs that made up level 1's solution, by relating to the Galileo satellite navigation system and therefore geocaching. A Nama dressed as Galileo was also a clue in T1A.

[velvet narwhal]

isn't one of the coordinates in the ocean? does anyone have scuba diving gear?

[snow walrus]

the guitar skin was free, maybe we should play the guitar like a rockstar in vegas somewhere

[velvet narwhal]

the guitar was in the paid battlepass

[snow walrus]

ah mb

that eclipse sign is in glamora right? It shows the same scene -sledging something in front of the sign- twice in the trailer

[alpine junco]

night and day

[velvet narwhal]

yeah should be glamora

[dull marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/pills-drugs-medicine-blue-pill-red-pill-gif-12463860

[snow walrus]

https://tenor.com/view/whoa-deja-vu-matrix-glitch-black-cat-glitch-in-the-matrix-keeanu-reeves-gif-14603491

[velvet narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/matrix4rabbit-matrix-rabbit-matrix4-matrix-resurrections-matrix-ress-gif-23074216

[gloomy anvil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1193672244531052567/1447912038255820882/wr.gif

[surreal sinew]

if you do that i can go and check the locations since i live near stockholm

like a bus and train ride away

[surreal sinew]

what if we overlay the 2 pictures

[surreal sinew]

but fr if someone does this i will go and check but where to base the center from like googles middle of stockholm, the middle based on like the outer points or middle being embark hq

[surreal sinew]

what cordinates u mean the ones on the loading page

[fresh quiver]

yes probably

@velvet narwhal I still dont know why there is a 6th coordinate on it. i really dont know

[snow walrus]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/oUkgKTgWqB54QCz77

[fresh quiver]

I also dont need a map with 20 locations... That I cannot even hide

5. 5 should be all that are on there

[fading vigil]

There are only five pairs on L3 page?

[surreal sinew]

if u guys scale it down to stockholm i can litteraly go today i got hella time today

have we looked more into this yet

[gloomy anvil]

oh are we showing our level 3 maps
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1gTEAYxRe-rnCRTUCKRYY9WClHLtpnho

[surreal sinew]

and the break bettwen level 1d and 1e

[surreal sinew]

i need a version centered around stockholm or embark

[gloomy anvil]

I would make one if I knew how

[surreal sinew]

do you know who does know

maybe setting the golden nama spot on embark

and basing it on that

[fresh quiver]

I like yours the most. It only has the 5 neccesary coordinate sets on it 😄

[surreal sinew]

honestly we should do another praying circle to saint rob see if it helps us

[surreal sinew]

wdm by that which one is necesary

arent they all needed

[silk wolf]

My theory is that the golden namas are in
Monaco=Duck&Cover
Seoul=Blood Moon
Las Vegas=Sandstorm
And once all three golden names are found they will make sense in Skyway Stadium

[gloomy anvil]

Blood Moon is only on Skyway not Seoul

[silk wolf]

Shucks

[surreal sinew]

blood moon? i have never heard of this what

or am i dummy

[silk wolf]

Well either way I think those 4 maps should be a focus

[surreal sinew]

i had an idea bout the las vegas but i remberd cosmetics didint matter but i was thinking about the big spoon and sand piles if its burried

[silk wolf]

The way skyway is like three maps in 1 makes me think that

[surreal sinew]

but u know what maybe the golden nama is partially burried

[silk wolf]

Didn’t rob say the roulette skin for the heavy did something

When used next to a casino machine

[surreal sinew]

for the lewis

[silk wolf]

Yeah that one

[snow walrus]

these are the original coordinates, so you don't know whether they are North and East

@surreal sinew

[surreal sinew]

yeah

[surreal sinew]

damn

[snow walrus]

only clue we got is this

[surreal sinew]

so you would need to make a circle around a spicif spot and then walk in circles lol

[surreal sinew]

north west? cus N and W

but we dont know which ones att the top right

[gloomy anvil]

by nature of how the coordinates are formatted, if one was NW, I think it would be a negative number

[snow walrus]

but we still don't ignore the other cardinal directions

[surreal sinew]

who would know how to format it around stockholm

how long was it since we did a pray session to SR

[gloomy anvil]

this still interests me

not sure why I wrote "positive NW coordinates" there when pos/neg only matter if the direction isn't defined

just NW coordinates

[surreal sinew]

where is N 45 17.460 W 122 24.800 if the world

[gloomy anvil]

Oregon, where the first geocache was placed

[surreal sinew]

did someone find it

or was it removed

[fresh quiver]

The "Can of Beans" was removed a long time ago

[surreal sinew]

ok

so even if we went to these cordinates would there even be anything there

even if we overlayed it with sweden

[gloomy anvil]

Not for us. There is a plaque commemorating the first geocache there that we can read about.

[surreal sinew]

wdm plaque like att the spot

[alpine junco]

i havent seen blood moon skyway in a while

[surreal sinew]

how would they know if we go to the right spot today and how would we know its right

[fading vigil]

Maybe we should use this as a key for the :

15.70363 23.22150
27.86234 12.98314
81.75162 37.16174
46.69812 55.09871```
Like:
N 72deg 58000251 etc?

[surreal sinew]

did we stay on track

[gloomy anvil]

The message I posted a screenshot of was sent by Dave Ulmer (the creator of the geocache). The point is that you hide something, share the coordinates publicly, and let people go and find it.

Here's a brief history

[surreal sinew]

iv done geochashing before

[gloomy anvil]

The book he hid was by/about Ross Perot, and the creator of letterboxing was James Perrott 🤔

[snow walrus]

I got excited for a second when i saw Iridium but those two are not launched on Dec 2 -_-

[surreal sinew]

why did u get excited

[snow walrus]

1997122 is a diamond clue

[surreal sinew]

oh yeah from the burrw gif

[surreal sinew]

maybbbe

honestly we gotta get rob to acknowledge smth he should pray today honestly i feel like we are very stuck

[eternal violet]

we are stuck?

[fresh quiver]

when were we not stuck? 😄

[surreal sinew]

TRUEEE

[snow walrus]

How can CNS hack a "broadcast"

[fresh quiver]

we throwing things at this wall for over a year.
The Wall hasnt even started to crackle 😄

[alpine junco]

Lunar eclipse = L3

[surreal sinew]

i feel like the hints are to hard for us to figure out or to hard to try and if we fail it would waste a lot of time and that demotivets us from trying

[surreal sinew]

well rob thinks we are doing well since hes not doing alot of hinting

[snow walrus]

by hacking the tv satellite?

[fresh quiver]

or too easy for us and we dont find it out.

I just say Occams Razor

Occams Razor also happened in some ways when we tried to solve 0v0aurum. right @gloomy anvil ? 😄

[surreal sinew]

i think the wiki states smth very well

[gloomy anvil]

you'll find I was the first person to solve the T3 password actually

ask the hunters that started T3 before I joined ;)

[velvet narwhal]

Maybe it's a coordinate from another level or tier. I'm not sure

[surreal sinew]

i dont understand what u mean in the first sentance i might be dummy

[fresh quiver]

No. Just no.

I did some very bad stuff with praying to SR 😂

I summoned CNS back in the day 🥲

[surreal sinew]

WHAT DID U DO

[surreal sinew]

AYO kinda cool ngl

[eternal violet]

reminder

[fresh quiver]

Did the praying circle, and after not even 10 minutes CNS appaered on discord and hacked it

[surreal sinew]

what happend then

and wdm cns appeard

[gloomy anvil]

that caption was written a long time ago

[velvet narwhal]

@raven zenith this user

[fresh quiver]

time to recommend RHBs Videos to you.

Gets you some knowledge and timeline

[surreal sinew]

:c that feels like an insult

[surreal sinew]

admin role clearly viaya didint help out

[fresh quiver]

what happened? CNS took over the discord after 2-3 weeks "fighting" with devs.
Its just way too long to explain everything in the long way.

[surreal sinew]

i see but was it basicly a big lore funny moment kinda thing like doing smth fun for the ee hunters

[gloomy anvil]

tldr Embark made a CNS account just to role-play and provide some images around when S2 launched

[velvet narwhal]

and lore

[snow walrus]

Gorizont=Horizon in Russian

Gorizont is a series of 35 Russian geosynchronous communication satellites launched between 1978 and 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorizont

[fresh quiver]

6=G

[surreal sinew]

So can I say 66 when I win

[alpine junco]

we still have our diamond clue

[velvet narwhal]

we also have other diamond clues that we never found

or we found it and don't know that it's a diamond clue

[alpine junco]

can a diamond clue lead to another diamond clue

[velvet narwhal]

I don't think so.
Diamond clues are clues for the final stage according to rob

[surreal sinew]

Hopefully level 3 is the last one

[rugged breach]

🥲

[snow walrus]

it was 4 back then xd

[surreal sinew]

Oh god help us

[surreal sinew]

Yeah so is it 3 or 4 and he said no hints for the last one and he’s barely giving us stuff rn but still smth let’s hope it’s not another level

[fresh quiver]

its atleast 4 levels in this ARG

[surreal sinew]

Fuck and what’s arg I can’t remember but I’ve heard it before

[alpine junco]

1997122

[fresh quiver]

no eggs pleeeaaase

[fresh quiver]

Alternate Reality Game.

[surreal sinew]

Check the comments

[surreal sinew]

SHID

can u guys give me smth to focus my efforts on rn

@snow walrus what can i focus on

sir i need a new target

o7

[snow walrus]

choose your poison https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1336838311305810130

[surreal sinew]

ight but isint the saying pick your poison

[snow walrus]

ye probably

[fresh quiver]

Memorize the Miro

[silk wolf]

Anyone wanna hunt Las Vegas for namas

[surreal sinew]

sure lemme boot it up

i cant talk tho with vc

[fresh quiver]

@silk wolf yes Monaco might still have uncovered stuff.
I think we are also missing some graffiti’s?

[surreal sinew]

whats the code

@silk wolf im ready

[surreal sinew]

impossible

anyone wanna come nama hunt

[fresh quiver]

I think atleast the EU eeps are still at work for 2-3 more hours

[surreal sinew]

code in #1217498821563514951

[surreal sinew]

eeps?

[fresh quiver]

peeps, people

[silk wolf]

I’m in

[surreal sinew]

lets go

@silk wolf new code FZ6M

[snow walrus]

FLT SAT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Satellite_Communications_System

In the late 1990s, FLTSATCOM satellites were gradually replaced by the UFO satellites

[surreal sinew]

do we have any idea where the golden names could be on the maps

like any idea att all

[snow walrus]

https://www.wired.com/2009/04/fleetcom/

funny that FLT satellite was hacked lol

[surreal sinew]

lul cns moment

welcome to hacker fm

[crisp eagle]

I wonder if the possible Golden Nama Tama on Vegas is found by doing something with the slot machines. We have that clip from Waterdance stream where Rob suggests there’s something we do in a certain order with the slot machines.

Sorry I can’t provide the clip right now. At work and it’s taking forever to load them to find it

[surreal sinew]

Ik the one

[crisp eagle]

A golden egg would be a good jackpot from a slot machine at least haha

[gloomy anvil]

There is one machine that has golden nama tamas on it

the original kind

[silk wolf]

Yeah I was also thinking the slots have something to do with them

[gloomy anvil]

positions top-botton left-right are 2, 4 6, 1, 6, 0

[velvet narwhal]

Has anyone been keeping track of the version numbers of The Finals?
It's currently 80.12.27
The last time I checked it it was something with 76.X.X

[fresh quiver]

I only can give you the versions of the scroll texts

[fresh quiver]

S3 -> 76.4.01
S4 -> 76.4.01
S5 -> 76.4.02
S6 is the same as S5 credit scroll
S7 -> 80.12.27
S8 -> 80.12.27

[velvet narwhal]

wtf happened with version 77, 78 and 79

[fresh quiver]

Either it is unintentional that the version number goes up every 2 seasons... Or rob did this with intention

[dull igloo]

I remember way back when there was something about season 3 emerald badges and you had to sign up on a forum.. is it too late to try and get my badge or am I remembering something wrong?

[velvet narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/there-are-no-accidents-gif-20718936

[velvet narwhal]

Maybe it's a big jump bcs S7 was a cns version and they've been working on new versions since s2.
Would mean that the game is stagnating without cns

[fresh quiver]

What when CNS gives us the new versions... and TF itself would be the cracked game?

[surreal sinew]

i mean i did ask rob about this att the major while its not in the quote i got (cus i couldnt remeber that bit) i belive he said that theres nothing in there

[fresh quiver]

they always modify the CNS version of it and try to pretend to be someone else

[crisp eagle]

I might not word this question the best way, but did embark reveal maps in a certain order before launch? For example did we get shown Monaco first, then LV, then Seoul?

I’m wondering if they showed maps in a specific order because of our 123 clue mixed with EU NA AS which you can probably see why I’m asking

[silk wolf]

Las Vegas was 4th I believe

Monaco, Seoul and then Skyway I think is the order they were released

[velvet narwhal]

yeah that order should be right

[rugged breach]

There was a twitch comment from rob recently that soft confirmed it's "sets of 3" rather than "first three/order"

[silk wolf]

I’m looking a lot of stuff and honestly I feel like there’s so much stuff still to scratch at

[velvet narwhal]

Made me think of "A Christmas Carol" that story with the ghosts of christmas past, present and future

[silk wolf]

I feel like the season 1 battle pass has a story to be told still

[crisp eagle]

This confuses me because that skin would be behind a paywall and break the rules

[silk wolf]

Maybe it’s for a side Easter egg that leads to a bigger one

Or something that gives a small clue

I was tryna see what number the ball is in on the page for season one

The Nevermore Encore spray always bugged me out because of the colors and the dot pattern that reminds me of Vegas lights

And the Odelia spray has a mirrored burning building in the back

The Here We Go spray says “The arena has loaded. Exit to make an entrance.” That sticks out to me as well

Especially after bro said that Oscar or Rob said there’s something when starting the game

[fading vigil]

7 namatamas - 7 days of the week?

[fading vigil]

I’ll try to look back on old art again.. maybe will find some new old things..

[silk wolf]

Is there a clearer image of that

[white patrol]

from bottom right, count to left
mood from Monday to Sunday

[fading vigil]

Not from my pc, maybe miro has a direct link

[silk wolf]

There’s also a yellow skin with an eye on it and a bunch of x’s

I forgot the name of it I’ll see if I can find it

[fading vigil]

It’ll be funny, if all this was for egg plant

[silk wolf]

Considering the Golden Nama was found with that sticker with the eye on it it’s worth a chance

[hard current]

Might be why Rob gave us hints for that skyway building

[silk wolf]

Which one

[fading vigil]

#easter-eggs message

was this found?
313.82.444.84.576.110.112.264.231.292.444.232.313.82.444.84.576.110.112.264.231.292.444.232.313.82.444.84.576.110.112.264.231.292.444.232

[robust junco]

Thats a certain code

I forgot the name. Lemme find it

[fading vigil]

Maybe our coordinates from L3 Page shows constellations?

In contemporary astronomy, **88 **constellations are recognized by the International Astronomical Union (STS-88?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAU_designated_constellations

[odd sequoia]

Wasn’t that skin free from the battlepass? I’m pretty sure it was

[crisp eagle]

No, it was part of the paid version of what I found is correct at least haha

[odd sequoia]

Fair, tbh I don’t remember that far back so I can’t debate lol. Definitely would be interesting if it technically breaks a rule. I’ll try to find some season 1 like, showing off the game footage.

[crisp eagle]

I think we looked into that at one point. “We” meaning someone smart that knew how to do all that outer space coordinates business haha

[swift mulch]

We should then be able to plot them on an equatorial grid

[crisp eagle]

ENIGMA typing. He will know

[swift mulch]

Which has degrees and hours

Ra and Dec

I’ll have a look a bit later this evening

[fading vigil]

should i try to find a constellation map that can be alligned with world map?

[swift mulch]

Maybe better (and a lot more fun) to download an application like stellarium. It’s free and probably quite useful for this. I personally use it to plan my astrophotography sessions too.

[fading vigil]

But we need a date to be sure that correct constellation is at the coords, right?

[swift mulch]

Not really. The celestial coordinates are mapped to a celestial sphere, not the rotating earth.

If you were to ask what is at the zenith (straight overhead) for me right now? Then you would need earth coordinates and a date and time to know which object / celestial coordinates are above you now. Alternatively if you were to convert earth coordinates to a sky position using an azimuthal grid, you need it too.

The difference between azimuthal and equatorial is that azimuthal is a map of the sky from your specific location and simply uses degrees for alt (height) and az (compas), where an equatorial grid is a map of the sky itself.

I hope that doesnt sound too confusing

In this example the earth simply spins in the equatorial grid, where the star positions on the grid are fixed

And maybe we do need a date and time to do some azimuthal conversions. Maybe something has to do with pointing north, idk. I will first try and work out what our best approach should be and try and explain it so people can follow. Maybe then a few brains can work together on trying to make your hypotheses work. But first I have some other things to do.

[rugged breach]

May be worth giving Ptolemy a good look. He's briefly come up in the past from what I'm seeing but we never dove deep in him.

He's a huge hub of connections, especially in bridging the geography, astronomy, and maths clues we have

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

Connections:

• Greece
• Astronomy
• Mathematics
• Delphinus constellation (dolhpin) | Located within the black tortoise of the north in chinese astronomy ( 'd by rob)
• Egypt
• Silk road

The Analemma is a short treatise where Ptolemy provides a method for specifying the location of the Sun in three pairs of locally oriented coordinate arcs

The Planisphaerium (Greek: Ἅπλωσις ἐπιφανείας σφαίρας, lit. 'Flattening of the sphere') contains** 16** propositions dealing with the projection of the celestial circles onto a plane.

• Geography, coordinates/first to use longitude & latitude

• Messier 7 = Ptolemy's cluster (I vaguely remember messier objects having come up before, but can't recall whether it was a strong connection or not)

• Looks very close to our mystery man

[past karma]

Noticed some unnatural pixels on the iseul-t logo’ pink triangle on the slowly scrolling LED perimeter boards around the indicated building. Most likely a compression artefact (but the more I think about it, the less it seems like an unintentional detail?). 5 black dots and a single white

[surreal sinew]

it was paid cus i wish i got it but i didint have the money for the battel pass back then i was so happy when legasy pass came

[obsidian tendon]

I’m pretty new, what do we mean by namas? Does every map have hidden things

[surreal sinew]

Nama tama

The golden ones

[obsidian tendon]

Ohhh

[surreal sinew]

We call them namas

[obsidian tendon]

I was thinking the tickets from nozomi

[surreal sinew]

Theirs 3 golden namas we found 1 so far in Monaco

[swift mulch]

Sorry I took a bit longer because I wanted to properly work it out in OneNote first.

So for the people who want to think along in user.8 his theory, in Astronomy we also have a coordinate system just like on earth (latitude and longitude), but instead of on a globe we plot them on an imaginary "equatorial" grid in the sky.

If we want to explore the possibility to map the level 3 coordinates to a celestial sphere, the first challenge is in converting the coordinates to something useful. Let's start with the ranges of the coordinate systems.

Geographic lat-lon grid
Latitude (lat):
• from −90° (south pole)
• to +90° (north pole)
Longitude (lon):
• from −180° to +180° (most common)
• from 0° to 360° (some mapping systems)

Celestial equatorial grid
Right Ascension (RA)
• from −90° to +90°
Declination (Dec)
• from 0h to 24h (0° to 360° if converted to degrees)

I included the less common 0° to 360° degree longitude range because it aligns nicely with the Dec hour to degree conversion. The first problem lies here, because if you'd convert lat and lon to RA and Dec, RA = lon and Dec = lat. Not ruling it out though because we might need to mirror coordinates.

NASA also uses 0° to 360° degree planetocentric mapping systems for planetary bodies to ensure consistency across missions and instruments. Planets are therefore also not ruled out. There's also an Ecliptic coordinate system, mostly used for solar system studies (both could be interesting to look at considering Rob's planetary reference (#1211002564015824906 message).

Before falling too deep into the rabbit hole with more details and different coordinate systems, let's grab one of the L3 coordinates to see how we can approach conversion from a decimal number to D° M' S" (Degree, Minutes, Seconds) for Dec and H M S (Hours, Minutes, Seconds) for RA. Let's take 72.58514 64.02630.

You normally assume the first value is lat and the second is lon (common ordering in GIS/GPS).
latitude = 72.58514
Longitude = 64.02630

To convert lat to degrees:
First grab the integer
D° = 72
Then take the remainder and multiply by 60
0.58514 * 60 = 35.1084
M' = 35
Take the remainder again and multiply by 60
1084 * 60 = 65040
S" = 6.504
Which gives Dec = 72° 35' 6.50"

Since we need RA in hours and not degrees, the first step is different. We need first convert degrees to hours. Because 24 hours is 360 degrees, 1 hour = 15 degrees. Therefore we do degrees / 15.
64.02630 / 15 = 4.26842
H = 4
Then take the remainder and multiply by 60
0.26842 * 60 = 16.1052
M = 16
Take the remainder again and multiply by 60
1052 * 60 = 63120
S = 6.312

So for lon 64.02630 this will result in RA = 4h 16m 6.31s

This means we now have celestial coordinates for lat: 72.58514 | lon: 64.02630 → RA: 4h 16m 6.31s | Dec: 72° 35' 6.50".

The Minutes and Seconds are units commonly used in astronomy and referred to as arc minutes and arc seconds. They are used to display guiding accuracy, but also to reference relative sizes of objects in the sky.

An important thing to note when looking for equatorial coordinates, is that there are 2 systems (Equatorial and Equatorial J2000.0). Equatorial means the general sky coordinate system tied to Earth’s equator. Equatorial J2000.0 means that same system but locked to how Earth’s axis was oriented on 1 january 2000 at 12:00. J2000.0 is the standard reference frame used in most catalogs so the coordinates don't shift with precession (which is the earths wobble in its rotation axis).

When looking up these coordinates I can recommend a free app called Stellarium, which is a free planitarium app. When looking up these coordinates, I end up on precisely nothing :'). https://i.imgur.com/oL3lZRg.png

But that's not to say there is no more exploring to do here or different coordinate systems to use.

I also feel like the moon comes back in quite a few clues / links. It could be that plotting coordinates will lead to certain areas or crater names, that together will mean something.

Thank you for letting me nerd out in space stuff 🤓 . But yeah I hope it's a bit clear and it gives people an idea on how to approach this. Could definitely lead to something/

[fading vigil]

I feel myself almost guilty
Wasted so much your time for nothing 🙁

[swift mulch]

Nahh I love space stuff, it was fun to work out. But we haven't tried other coordinates yet. We havent tried other coordinate systems yet either. And I feel like that might actually be something worth to explore first.

I just wanted to explain how to approach it, and how it works so others can follow along. Since I will be quite busy the upcoming time and most likely little time to hunt or try things 🙁

[fallow agate]

will be stealing that'

Have yall noticed that the keyboards on Vegas are not correct?

[swift mulch]

❓

[orchid charm]

Hello. New here. Watched a couple videos and when hearing about the monkey heads i wondered if they have anything to do with the 3 wise monkeys
(See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil)

[empty plaza]

Bizzare Find
The Keyboards are English Korean

Weird in Las Vegas, Nevada...

[swift mulch]

Hugeeee. I'm sure this is a mapping for something. Those letters and symbols.

[fallow agate]

see whompies revision

[orchid charm]

They look like enchanting table language

[swift mulch]

I don't know korean but when looking up the alphabet I saw some mismatches I think

[orchid charm]

It also does not look like Korean, but I could be wrong

[swift mulch]

Ah it's just the korean keyboard layout

[orchid charm]

https://flexiclasses.com/korean/wp-content/sites/32/2021/11/korean-keyboard-cover.jpg

[empty plaza]

https://tenor.com/view/katt-williams-mmm-told-you-so-i-told-you-so-told-you-gif-4311431732584579317

[swift mulch]

You ruined my excitement!

But good catch

[empty plaza]

Probably a reused asset from when they made Seoul

[fallow agate]

prob right

[orchid charm]

I would assume something that small would not be important, but you never know

[fallow agate]

I wonder what would happen if you had a Korean keyboard plugged in

cause with the CB-01 skin they did that thing

[orchid charm]

Got a picture?

[fallow agate]

you know how the keyboard skin moves with what bottons you press

[orchid charm]

I see

[swift mulch]

https://www.reddit.com/r/thefinals/comments/1jm4ijj/the_battle_pass_repeater_skin_actually_shows_your/

[empty plaza]

QWASDE

[fallow agate]

looking back, shocked its not a mythic now

[empty plaza]

Ight fellas I'm out, I'm revenous and I'm going to grab Arby's, peace

[swift mulch]

It was S6 battlepass wasn't it?

[fallow agate]

si

[onyx hollow]

there's an extra W between the = key and Backspace key

[snow walrus]

This is an interesting movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Outer_Space

[swift mulch]

Good find! I wanna make a gamer W joke, but in all fairness it could be something

[onyx hollow]

it might just be a different type of keyboard, found this online

[fallow agate]

I just find it weird that they would choose the goofy keyboard

[swift mulch]

Lol I was gonna say where have I seen this before, including Ed Wood. But I saw the brainstorm playground 😅 😵

[snow walrus]

I tried to visualize a bit while researching haha

[swift mulch]

Is there anything in particular you find interesting about this movie @snow walrus? Any specific connections?

[snow walrus]

I see pieces but can't raise it enough to say that must be it!

Aliens and space race ofc is the main one.

atomic age and self destruct by humans, creating a doomsday wep reminds me alfa acta

[swift mulch]

All right, I kinda scanned through the page but will give it a better read later. It sounds interesting to say the least

[snow walrus]

and there is resurrection of dead which my mind connects to Dead/skeleton cosmetics and open beta trailer which features

the film has its Amiga game

[obsidian tendon]

Oh? Where was the one in Monaco?

[surreal sinew]

Under a rock att the church on duck and cover

[snow walrus]

main characters' wife named Paula just like Amiga's chip

well i don't see an easter egg connection really but maybe the movie might inspired a lil bit to the lore

[swift mulch]

https://youtu.be/gRSnYu46Zxs?list=PLL-wKrN8gfB63sFVlnFSLj_hbyqlk4ck1&t=23

[dusk siren]

Perrott (1st letterbox) ----> Garriott (1st extraterrestrial geocache)???

[swift mulch]

Didn’t one of the coordinates land in kazakhstan?

[crisp eagle]

Welcome to the Hunt, comrade!

[orchid charm]

Romans is a goated book

Thanks 😊

[snow walrus]

his father was in STS-9 as an astronaut

and garriott fits to the xyrr1x2 if we ignore "o" like burrw

[fading vigil]

Dubeolsik keyboard layout
Based on an earlier teleprinter keyboard layout from 1969, Dubeolsik (두벌식; 2-set) is the national standard Korean keyboard layout since 1983.[citation needed] It is by far the most common layout used in South Korea.

[swift mulch]

Possible Sputnik and Voyager link. Maybe some hunters see more names that could link to earlier clues? Map of (non-planet❗) Pluto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Terra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_Planitia

[obsidian tendon]

Anyone hunting on a map? Idk what I’m looking for but I’d love to run around with y’all

[swift mulch]

Try #1217498821563514951

Ah wait you can't type there yet. You need to level up first 🙁

[obsidian tendon]

Yeppp

[dusk siren]

Yup

[obsidian tendon]

about the miro board, it says that regarding the arcade machines on nozomi that "ufo" and "heart" tickets have all been found, but the EE is not completed. I hadn't seen anything about the tickets other than the nama ones?

[dusk siren]

Thinking of trying to draw a line from Dartmoor, England to Baikonur, Kazakhstan and see if it hits any of the actual mapped coordinates

The mapped Kazakhstan location does appear to be northwest from Baikonur, so would be in the right general direction at least

Re: "XYRR1X2"
Throwing yet another possible interpretation on the pile inspired by the Lvl1 password which was roughly a"Dartmoor/letterboxing to OCB/geocaching" idea:

---

XY = two related names
RR = that both contain an "rr"
1x2 = "1 x2" = a 'first,' two times = connected to two related 'firsts'
In this case,
X = Perrott / 1st 'letterbox'
Y = Garriott / 1st geocache

[glad pond]

nice

[swift mulch]

I feel like geocaching actually has potential @dusk siren. Also considering Rob hinted at IRL findings

And links like moon, the ISS, Garriott if indeed a XYRR1X2 thing

Do you think Rob hid geocaches? 😮

[dusk siren]

Almost certainly a coincidence, but when I draw a path in Google Earth from Cranmere Pool, Dartmoor, England to Baikonur Cosmodrome, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, it doesn't quite go through the mapped coordinates that landed in Kazakhstan, BUT... the path does almost exactly go through the Cleopatra's Needle Obelisk in London. 🤷

[swift mulch]

Probably coincidence, but a very cool one

[dusk siren]

Agreed xDDDD

[swift mulch]

Speaking of... Do you know if MultiCo files were the only thing so far talking about the pyramids?

[dusk siren]

I just saw this!!!! Now that's a much cleaner interpretation.

"xyrr1x2" / "garriott" (i.e., the 'o' is x'ed out, and the 't' is doubled) / "garritt"

🤔

[fallow agate]

Oh btw

Didn’t Rob say there was something IRL out there?

[swift mulch]

Exactly

[swift mulch]

👆

[silk wolf]

I thought he took whatever he placed in real life back because we were taking so long lol

Unless I misread something a while ago

[dusk siren]

Rob was pretty explicit that clues from previous levels and tiers can help with future passwords, so going back to past clues, especially those that seem to have been a 'loose thread.'
Example: Lvl 2-A includes OSIRIS-REx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIRIS-REx
Made me think of this post from Raid that went back to that series of clues Rob parceled out way back at the beginning #easter-eggs message

"Who are the kings, who are the queens.?"

Might be worth collecting the kings and queens we might already have, such as Osiris Rex?

Elvis?
William the Conqueror?
You get the idea

[gloomy anvil]

Elvis and King Arthur are the two most relevant "Kings" I recall

I remember trying to find an Asia equivalent because those two are NA and EU, but the best I could get was the Monkey King (still, 3HM?)

[dusk siren]

I heard you, dude... lots of us did. You matter, especially because you're the only one of you in the world. Can't get more special than that.

[hard current]

IMO whatever that glitchy stuff is around the logo can’t be Morse, or binary, and I have no idea what it could be

Maybe layering each frame of it might reveal something?

[dusk siren]

I tried putting a theory together that it went back to the three gold nama tamas being hear no evil (headphones nama tama), see no evil (sunglasses nama tama), speak no evil (chin strap nama tama). In that case, the "hear no evil" headphones nama tama would be in the Cathedral because it is in a church that you would listen to a sermon and "hear no evil."

Part of why I went into Vegas with thermal vision trying to find clues that you can't otherwise see ("see no evil" Hunter S. Thompson Nama Tama)

Kinda hit several dead ends, though

[hard current]

I tried thermal all over Vegas, couldn’t seem to spot anything:(

Anyone else want to hop on and check skyway? #1217498821563514951

[gloomy anvil]

Some time ago I was talking about the repetition of the letters L, G, M #easter-eggs message #easter-eggs message

Those can also be rearranged to make "MGL" and "LMG", which are relevant terms to the finals (grenade launcher and light machine gun)

This may be silly, but what if three heavies need to be holding the MGL, Lewis Gun (LMG), amd M60 (LMG) to trigger something? All were available at launch. It doesn't seem likely but it also feels like something Rob would do, especially as the dolphin charm supposedly required holding equipment to spell something.

[dusk siren]

good idea

[hard current]

Does anyone have the skyway stadium pic that Rob eyed

The one where they were looking to the side and we can see in the glasses reflection

[swift mulch]

Oh

[hard current]

@swift mulch that’s what I’m after

[swift mulch]

In office

[hard current]

Yes

[swift mulch]

lemme try and find it

[odd sequoia]

This?

[hard current]

@obsidian tendon

Yes thank you raid

[obsidian tendon]

ahh

[hard current]

@swift mulch

[swift mulch]

He beat me to it by 1 min 🙁 #1217498821563514951 message

gg tho Raid

[dusk siren]

To your original point, we probably have yet to find some kings and queens as well.

Randomly thought back to Hydra Q and the idea that it was Hydra Queen (like Q in chess)

Queen Victoria's Water Lily?

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

Little 'scarab beetle' sighting. Is that still a thing?

Devon connection via Devonshire...

One "1064" connection I'm not sure has been explored yet, but possibly interesting Bernal, Mexico connection (the year when the Aztec's supposedly began their southward migration to Central Mexico). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztlán

[hard current]

@gloomy anvil anyone ever notice this before?

I remember rob saying something about an ee regarding the rising platform in bernal

this is right by it

[gloomy anvil]

I can't tell what it is

but I feel like I remember something similar

[hard current]

Yeah it looks like some weird creature that’s.. in pain?

[gloomy anvil]

#1309265877056622613 message

but I never found out what it was

[hard current]

Big WR gotta be found like this right 🙁

Maybe in Seoul… anyone awake and wanna try

[obsidian tendon]

chase invisible rabbits?

[hard current]

anyone ever notice there's writing on the gun on skyway?

Pretty damn hard to make out what it says tho

More on the front of the barrel too

[dusk siren]

Diamond?

[hard current]

Maybe but doesn’t say much:/

[dusk siren]

Just because going back to previous levels and tiers, we had some clues that seem to have remained loose threads (or could apply again in later levels)

Hope Diamond

Star of Africa

[hard current]

Oo yeah I remember those

They never even mattered for our passwords did they

[dusk siren]

I don't think so... and lots of connections, it seemed

[hard current]

Oh man making me think of white star line too

[dusk siren]

🤷

Carbon = 6 (hex, etc.)... not going to ramble on, but might go back to those diamonds and try to sort that out...

[hard current]

Honestly diamond clues might be our only hope now

We only ever found one

[dusk siren]

The Star of Africa diamond, for instance, produces Newton's Rings.
Anyway, just to say that those rugs might just be a "diamond" clue (or I hope so, because I worked on those rugs for a whiiiiiiiiiiile)

"Blue Diamond"?

given the color of the rug

Hope Diamond was a blue diamond

[silk wolf]

I always thought you could cut and rearrange the first diamond sticker on season 1

[dusk siren]

Anybody know if there are any statues of the Shinto fox deity kitsune on the Kyoto map?
Something like this cute fella, maybe?
I'm guessing not, but if there is, I think it could have to do with the gold nama tama.

[unkempt dune]

there's only Komainu statues

[light breach]

Has any1 tried to destroy or turn off every stone lantern with fireflies around in Kyoto before?

I don't think the other nama tamas are going to be hidden under ruble as well, Maybe it's different for each nama. Like for example samurai nama could be somewhere in a palace or house in Kyoto and sunglasses nama could be in one of the casinos in Vegas but there's a certain condition that after completing gives us access to the rest of the golden nama tamas.

[surreal sinew]

But no paid cosmetics in the ee but then again there’s the Lewis gun roulette which rob says to use so idk

[rugged breach]

Not extensively
https://discord.com/channels/1008696016318513243/1254491965429518366

[surreal sinew]

Check the ee wiki where diamond clues show up and go to source 9 10 and 11 or it was no 9 and a 12

There it says smth bout missed diamonds clues

[swift mulch]

There is a difference between just something gimmicky and clues that are needed to solve the main EE puzzle. The repeater skin isn't related in any way to the main puzzle.

[surreal sinew]

i see

[gloomy anvil]

First letterbox: Placed by James Perrott
First geocache: Contained book about Ross Perot
First extraterrestrial geocache: Placed by Richard Garriott

Not all perfect matches but it is an interesting similarity

[turbid tinsel]

yo is the team aware of the issue with the embark site?

that site needs to be patched

[gloomy anvil]

I'm not aware of what the issue is

[turbid tinsel]

let me DM

[swift mulch]

Now I’m curious 😞

[dusky sierra]

Maybe some of the diamond rank stuff idk

[snow walrus]

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

[fading vigil]

Don’t you mess up “diamond clue” (burrw.gif) or this is stretching from old clue to diamonds?)

[surreal sinew]

what is the problem

if ur allowed to say dont say it if its smth that would compromise embark i love those dudes (and dudets and dudemisc) they are epik

[snow walrus]

precious gems are part of the game's design not only in easter egg hunt.
We got already emerald ruby diamond and might get sapphire and amethyst in the future

[robust junco]

Wat was it

[surreal sinew]

idk

[robust junco]

Lol

[odd sequoia]

There’s Amethyst player card badges too if that helps

[surreal sinew]

oh yeah i forgot that existed for the uber sweats whats the critera for getting the diffrent versions of them

[odd sequoia]

laughs nervously in 2 Amethyst badges

[surreal sinew]

LOL XD

wait light and medium wins dont got amathys