project-skyscraper

[mild spoke]

I guess you could try to do the same on an actual sphere representing earth too.

In this case the resulting 3D could have a lot of results depending of the angle you look at it from.

[onyx dune]

The hardest part for it is trying to know where we need to start

Wait

Start from smallest number to biggest number

Im eating rn

[mild spoke]

For the 3D equivalent we also have the choice between following the sphere surface and going through the sphere directly.

Anyway these country codes are on the last accessible page so they are probably the right hint to follow right now

[brazen prawn]

Rot-n cipher (16? 19?)?

[onyx dune]

Im better at math's 😭

[compact python]

We still have the spectogram unsolved

[mild spoke]

The one from reddit ?

[compact python]

I think so

[onyx dune]

Like I said there's patterns in it that look like numbers

[wide ridge]

If it really is a spectrogram

I know im the one who thought of it (here at least) but its still possible Im looking at it wrong

[compact python]

I dont think its a stereogram

[mild spoke]

Is it where the french spot comes from ?
https://project-skyscraper.com/2005/04/13/quote/

[clear surge]

Yes, the picture on that page (that isn't wallace stevens)

[mild spoke]

No new page has been created on the site since the 18th of May at 10:55 pm. At least it is not evolutive.

[compact python]

At least atm its to incomplete for one

[onyx dune]

Its to distorted to cleanly recover anything the furthest i got at being able to recover anything was it being flipped to a -1y axis

[compact python]

I get diffent outcomes when using diffent tools.

[onyx dune]

The most i got was circles and the letter S

[compact python]

So cant be sure of any. Not like any gived anything solid

[onyx dune]

Like being visible to my eyes

[sinful thunder]

im way dumb for this but im excited to follow lol

[torpid linden]

sure I'll do

[lavish thorn]

what is this?

i have been living under a rock

i think the UI has been put to a low expsoure to show a reveal button

that's all I know

and close attempts

[mild spoke]

If you want to do something, trace lines on a world map from the rough center of these countries in this order :

US-GB-ES-FR-MX-DE-CA-IE-BE-AU

So

USA - Great Britain - Spain - France - Mexico - Germany - Canada - Ireland - Belgium - Australia

[sinful thunder]

hmm, square map or a globe?

[mild spoke]

With a mobile trying to do so is even harder than this challenge

[mild spoke]

Your pick, we have correct results for none of the above so far

[onyx dune]

Whats the weird thing were looking for that makes the shapes

Cuz I have something

In mind

[mild spoke]

I don't know what to expect.

We can trace these lines above Atlantic or above Pacific and we can check each orientation so it means 8 possibilities even for the standard 2D world map.

I would guess we would get either a symbol or something matching a pattern of the constellation page.

@onyx dune

[brazen prawn]

I'm coming up blank on the spectrogram also. I've tried a bunch of different things but not hearing or seeing something meaningful as of yet.

[cyan kraken]

do we account for latitude compression and expansion while making on a 2D map, though?

[mild spoke]

I would prefer directly try a 3D version in such a case

[cyan kraken]

because that's 10 nodes, so we'll need to wait for a specific date for 10 nodes, no?

[mild spoke]

These 10 nodes needing to be lighted at once on the constellation page when matching the pattern is a possibility. It does not mean we need a total of 10 nodes, just this pattern among them.

[onyx dune]

Yall what is the name of the weird network of nodes called

[cyan kraken]

also, i don't know if anyone else has noticed, but the node structure changes completely on phone when you scroll down

[compact python]

Im out od ideas for today. Time for me to sleep. Later

[compact python]

Its random

[sinful thunder]

graph

[onyx dune]

What type of graph

[sinful thunder]

drawing it on a mercator map doesnt seem to make sense

[mild spoke]

Or when you click on any of the nodes. It will always highlight every single nodes it is directly linked too. Easier this way as it means we only need to look for a node with 9 neighbours.

[mild spoke]

Can you show it ?

[cyan kraken]

yeah

[sinful thunder]

hol up

tried to get the biggest map picture i could find lmao

[cyan kraken]

do we know what type of mapping the NMS planets use. like, do they also use anything like mercator scales or lambert conformals? or is it just spheres?

[mild spoke]

You should consider deleting this video as there are your messages and Contact at the end

[cyan kraken]

oh shi

thank you

but yeah, the node structure changes completely

[mild spoke]

Does it cycle through many possibilities or is it completely random ?

[onyx dune]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1501869554463277126/1507163352592547940/CORE_VOID_MAP_256_v7-1.webp?ex=6a10e6c0&is=6a0f9540&hm=ea98bb3793807f8ff65748725dd462d2f2455b5619ed2222895be8769275b2ef&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1501869554463277126/1507163352919707668/CORE_Void_MAP-1.webp?ex=6a10e6c1&is=6a0f9541&hm=4ec8d258b492c33a88353a0ed055795c35c5f64e57273ffad526aee6a0ed3be9&

For @cyan kraken

[cyan kraken]

i think random

[onyx dune]

About nms mapping

[mild spoke]

If it is the former maybe we need to find the one where the pattern from Ozoto can be found

[compact python]

From what pepole saw in site code its random.

[onyx dune]

What if u tweak it

[sinful thunder]

could also draw a line from australia to us

as thats first and last

but if its corresponding a graph its like 3 dots apart and blarlalrbla in the middle

[mild spoke]

There are some arrows in the way, but I think the interesting part could be where the lines are crossing to make a shape:

[compact python]

Idk.

[wide ridge]

I recall when rotating it that it sounded most like a voice at 90°

[onyx dune]

Speculation rules in the code is interesting

[mild spoke]

Anyway I am done for today. Good luck to you all.

[brazen prawn]

It's not, it's for predictive load

It's normal

[cyan kraken]

i thought we could use the numbers from the country codes as NMS co-ords, but there one 3 number sequence that won't fit

[onyx dune]

Ye ik

[cyan kraken]

otherwise we get co-ords for like 2 planets

[wide ridge]

What was the code from?

[cyan kraken]

may 21 log entry

[wide ridge]

From the countries?

[cyan kraken]

ye

[wide ridge]

Am confused still

[compact python]

Its not any galactic coords

[covert temple]

figured id check in while my dinner is in the oven

have we made any discoveries

damn

[compact python]

I will try again tommorow if i have the time

[onyx dune]

I have almost all the nodes red

[wide ridge]

If its the coordinate route, I'd suggest signal booster string coords

[compact python]

Signal booster also uses 0-F hex

[onyx dune]

Have yall thought abt this could be a update for no more build height limit

[wide ridge]

Oh yeah, lol

[sinful thunder]

might be being stupid

supposedly u can put these on a globe and its less distorted ish

[turbid eagle]

I can finally make my interplanetary bridge

[sinful thunder]

uh apparently the dots on the graph can go from 3 to 53, based on the current day of the month (1 to 31)

Probably useless info

in the fifth day of the month it should have 8 points i think?

[brazen prawn]

I tried applying melodics to the spectrogram and while some sounded dreamy and some horrid, they seemed unhelpful.

[sinful thunder]

count = Math.max(3, Math.round(day * (48 / 28)))

[turbid eagle]

new binaural beats just dropped

[wide ridge]

With what orientation? Lol

[sinful thunder]

actually we have 10 numbers, so sixth day with 10

[brazen prawn]

All rots, bunch of scales, different ranges, lengths, etc

[wide ridge]

It would be really funny if I got into audio analysis stuff specifically due to an ARG

[turbid eagle]

who else remembers waiting for project-wt to start up
all the hype prior
all the doubt/confusion/speculation
I have those vibes the last couple days and it feels like we time traveled back to 2017 again

[wide ridge]

Alas, waking titan was before my time

[turbid eagle]

but you're here now and that's awesome

[wide ridge]

True

[turbid eagle]

it was so sick
there was this big hexagon on a website
divided into six pizza slices
and slowly it filled in and activated
then one day we got a video of some chick asking for help on a glitchy recording

[wide ridge]

I still wonder about the single node on the main page that makes the whole network have a reddish outline

[turbid eagle]

might be an illusion, some of the nodes are behind the blue lines and appear more faded than the ones that are in front of all the lines

[covert temple]

i'm so glad i get to see another ARG for NMS

or an ARG in general

[wide ridge]

I mean when moving your cursor around the network, theres a specific node that makes all the connections be highlighted

[covert temple]

I wasn't around for either chapters of WT and didn't anticipate another one happening

I thought it was possible for one to happen for LNF but ofc that remains to be seen

[wide ridge]

It changes when refreshed, of course, but theres always one

[turbid eagle]

is this what you mean?

@wide ridge

[wide ridge]

Yes

[clear surge]

It's not a specific node, I can wave my mouse over a whole area and all the lines glow. There's nothing in the script that treats an individual node differently, so it's probably just a bug. Probably.

[wide ridge]

Its a specific node because it only happens when that specific node is red

[turbid eagle]

yeah it does kinda make the whole network glow slightly
hard to rule out a simple bug/glitch but you never know

for me it's not even happening on a node, just a random little area around the word "Attempts"

[wide ridge]

Pay attention to which nodes turn red at the same time the highlight effect happens

In your video, its the one sort of in the middle of the arc on the top left

[turbid eagle]

I see that too but I think it's just because it enters within the radius of my cursor when I move towards it

[wide ridge]

Thats what I mean

Come at it from a different angle and youll notice the same thing

The area that triggers the highlighting is centered on a specific node

[turbid eagle]

honestly feels like a quirk of the animation to me, but I could be wrong!

been playing with it for a while haha

if it's part of the puzzle I have no idea what to do with it

[wide ridge]

Same

My mundane guess is its the node the network is generated out from

[sinful thunder]

I wasn't around to participate but I watched a lot of content about it

excited to be part of one now lol

[turbid eagle]

yeah could be!

[turbid eagle]

the energy around a NMS ARG is unmatched tbh

[steady niche]

Just caught up on ETARC for the morning. Anything new here that isn't over there?

[odd delta]

I didn’t even know about this until this evening. Saw some of the fellow OG players talking about it on twitter. Do we know if this is legit from HG or is this a fan made ARG?

[clear surge]

We don't know if it's official or not

[clear surge]

No, sadly all we've figured out is what are not clues.

[steady niche]

Whoever set it up seems to have a quite deep knowledge of older NMS lore, like Waking Titan

[odd delta]

I read through the ETARC forums, my head now hurts. Tbf, I was useless for Waking Titan too but it was a blast to try and follow along.

[solar sonnet]

My thoughts too

[onyx dune]

I do have deep walking titan lore knowledge but I don't remember muvh of it since my accident

[steady niche]

Yeah I doubt I will come up with anything useful soon, mainly just waiting for the next PSS update for now

[onyx dune]

I mean like rn im interested in what the ISO numbers can link to

[solar sonnet]

I imagine we just need to wait for it to properly start right? Rn it feels like they're just playing ball with us until it starts on their terms

Legit or not

[steady niche]

Yeah, I don't think it's fully begun

Someone on ETARC had some good evidence that it might start on the 28th

[clear surge]

The images and the poem are tantalising but I can't get anything out of them

[onyx dune]

Poem where

[steady niche]

I have a tiny inkling of an idea that we might get an update next Thursday along with the arg starting the same day

[turbid eagle]

https://project-skyscraper.com/2005/04/13/quote/ Poem

[turbid eagle]

especially the access denied image
I've been racking my brain on this thing but I feel like nothing is there

[clear surge]

I was a bit confused by that, they said the 28th would have the most nodes, but 31st will have more based on that code (day * 48 / 28)

[onyx dune]

So okay this makes sense to me so Sunday morning blue birds are invisible in the blue sky meaning things hide in plain sight by matching they're environment

[steady niche]

I think someone said WT started on may 28th

Plus we're getting close to when we would normally get a NMS update, Thursdays are update day, if they did an update next week, they'd have just enough time to do another update right at anniversary

So it all kind of lines up

But I'm just doing an educated guess

[turbid eagle]

so far all we've figured from that poem is that it was nudging us towards X/BlueSky for the Project Skyscraper account, which we did find and have since been following/spamming lol

[onyx dune]

Yes

The second part of it is talking about the aspect of stealth

[clear surge]

Which suggests there is potentially hidden info in the images, but the usual tricks have not found anything (yet)

[onyx dune]

As of hiding in plain sight

By blending in with they're environment to match

Was this posted before or after the earth picture?@clear surge

[clear surge]

What earth picture?

[onyx dune]

The one 16 was found in over the carribean ocean

Here

[woeful sphinx]

What's project skyscraper?

[clear surge]

Ah, the repost on twitter. The poem was posted 13th April, so it predates that.

[onyx dune]

So it would be talking abt that in the 1st one

The rest is stealth

[clear surge]

An Alternate Reality Game. Check the channel pins for more info.

[turbid eagle]

wellp
Image to Base64 yielded zero results for shadowcheck-1912

same with the poem image

[ember wyvern]

What’s the latest?

Also hi @turbid eagle looong time

[cyan kraken]

google AI news really shooting shots

[onyx dune]

I would not trust Google ai news 😭

[cyan kraken]

with how wild it can be, neither would i

[onyx dune]

@cyan kraken thats already a thing in game btw

I think

[cyan kraken]

btw, what type of cordinate system do we have ON the planets? is it 12.123, or 12.12

like, how many digits

[onyx dune]

We got no coordinates i think

[cyan kraken]

bruv

[onyx dune]

We have 16 associated with the atlast and sum other things then we have. 840-826-724-250-484-276-124-372-056-036

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1501869554463277126/1507163352592547940/CORE_VOID_MAP_256_v7-1.webp?ex=6a10e6c0&is=6a0f9540&hm=ea98bb3793807f8ff65748725dd462d2f2455b5619ed2222895be8769275b2ef&

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1501869554463277126/1507163352919707668/CORE_Void_MAP-1.webp?ex=6a10e6c1&is=6a0f9541&hm=4ec8d258b492c33a88353a0ed055795c35c5f64e57273ffad526aee6a0ed3be9&

[cyan kraken]

that's 10 three digit sequences

time to dive into a rabbit hole

[onyx dune]

@cyan kraken if u wanna try every possible outcome for the countries US-GB-ES-FR-MX-DE-CA-IE-BE-AU

[cyan kraken]

could potentially be an anagram in french?

[onyx dune]

In the code it mentions London and Europe in the Java scripts when u pick them apart

[onyx dune]

I have a idea

[cyan kraken]

i mean, besides just the countries

[onyx dune]

Gimme a sec

[cyan kraken]

how did we get 840 from US, though? the IP logs?

[onyx dune]

ISO code

I have a coordinates possible

2211411111222

[cyan kraken]

how get?

[steady niche]

Oh God is Captain Steve speculating already?

Seriously? Station override? Where the fuck did he come up with that?

[cyan kraken]

google AI, apparently

or google AI got it from him

[steady niche]

It got it from him

[cyan kraken]

i do think there's an in game aspect, but i doubt its the station override

and even if it is, i'm betting all my quicksilver that it has to be at a specific station

[steady niche]

Even if it turned out to be that, there's no evidence of it so far, so he's just making shit up

[cyan kraken]

view farming

[steady niche]

Always

[cyan kraken]

2 sequence ISO country codes to direct numbers and then adding them 40 09 24 24 37 09 04 14 07 22

[onyx dune]

Hmm

Yk what

I feel like were getting a stealth capable system

[covert temple]

how long did the first waking titan last

[clever condor]

Just gonna copy and paste my message from Spoilers but here are dates

People forget that Waking Titan was for Atlas Rises and NEXT. What if they have something similar planned? Atlas Rises was huge foundationally but got expanded next year. Plus the time framing aligns pretty similarly tbh.

Waking Titan season 1 which led to the Atlas Rises update.
Which went from May 28th 2017 to August 07th 2017 then Atlas Rises released August 11th 2017
The phases in more depth dates went like this.

Season 1
Phase 1 Phase 1 of Waking Titan lasted from 2017-05-28 to 2017-07-08.
Phase 2 Phase 2 of Waking Titan lasted from 2017-07-21 to 2017-08-05.
Phase 3 Phase 3 of Waking Titan lasted from 2017-08-05 to 2017-08-07.

So NEXT ARG Waking Titan Season 2 went from December 28th 2017 to July 20th 2018 and NEXT came out July 24th 2018.
The phases looked like

Season 2
Phase 4 Phase 4 of Waking Titan lasted from 2017-12-28 to 2018-06-01.
Phase 5 Phase 5 of Waking Titan lasted from 2018-06-01 to 2018-07-20.
Phase 6 Phase 6 of Waking Titan began and ended on 2018-07-20.

[cyan kraken]

mostly a waiting game, then

[rose dust]

If the 27th is an update day, we might get some in-game clues that'll be necessary for cracking this thing open (if official). If not, then the expect timing is one hell of a coincidence.

If this does turn out to be a fan made project, the puppetmaster's gotta be the luckiest mf out there

[onyx dune]

Ill crack it

Physical and literally

[covert temple]

[cyan kraken]

maybe it builds up to a SGF announcement?

[brazen prawn]

I'm running out of steam on the connection-detected-access-denied image. I've tried sorts with lsb/msb, pattern composites (108 px period repeating patterns present), segement composites, average composites, bit planes, fft magnitude, pbm threshold sweeps, reorder by value, reorder by colour, scatter plotting, xoring, checked for other headers and payloads and piping them all through to audio to no avail

The only two things that sounded like anything were a somewhat speech like cadence that I couldn't get to sound like words by transforming, and a long width rg that sounded like repeating heartbeats

One of the spectrograms visualisers did resolve to something almost cityscape looking, but I think that's my mind playing tricks

[rose dust]

If we really are in a waiting phase rn, I wonder if the current set of images were just low-risk assets sent out to get our brains churning for the real puzzles later on. So far we've managed to track down an IRL location, find hidden text in TR4CE, and tried a bunch of techniques for the reddit image. None of those has been deeply insightful, but it might be the puppetmaster guaging our readiness if the proper launch happens later?

[brazen prawn]

I'm starting to think so

[onyx dune]

Atlas heartbeat? New character??

[rose dust]

We do have a Heartbeat mention in the earlier tweets

[brazen prawn]

Oh, I must have missed that one

There is also the Atlas thrum we get in promo vids etc.

Hm

[rose dust]

Yea, the first set of tweets from the account all reference the sleep-mode-xxxxx pages and a Heartbeat.

[onyx dune]

Could sleep mode mean were waiting for the awake phase

[rose dust]

Oh interesting. That SFX is a part of the latest NMS album. Wonder if someone could pull that from the album and try modifying it to turn into the glitched image?

[brazen prawn]

Now I need to dig that file up in the sea of garbage files again lol

Found it, it was the width stretched one, so I am still inclined to say it's not helpful, the heartbeat like sound is almost certainly because of the lower frequency and repeating chunks from the stretch

Interestingly the RGB channels have a low delta between the high and low values that are near equal, but treating each as binary (without transition values in between) doesn't seem to yield anything useful either

3 bit per pixel yields nothing as well

I'm hanging my hat up on this one for now

[rose dust]

Everyone's poured in an insane amount of work on this image, so hats off to everyone who tried, even if nothing solid's come around.

[onyx dune]

Thank you also hats off to everyone who tried

[brazen prawn]

Back to overthinking country codes! 😂

[onyx dune]

What if it has no correlation with anything

Shi would suck

[brazen prawn]

I'm still a little iffy on the whole thing, but either way it's a bit of fun

[onyx dune]

I mean I thought of the ISO correlation so if it aint wit nun that's fault on my part

But

I feel like it could be sumthin that could be turned into words

[brazen prawn]

ASCII XOR with 1034 as the substitution for the missing 2 yields no usable portal addresses

[covert temple]

Wonder if the ARG puppet master (assuming it's just one dedicated French guy) will just show up in the French NMS community when it's all over

[brazen prawn]

I'm terrible with anagrams, so not sure how much help I will be there, but it is interesting that we've got a French angle going on and the last two codes spell "beau"

[covert temple]

Like the bay harbor puppetmaster

[rose dust]

Who's to say they aren't lurking already 👀

[covert temple]

guess we're the doakes to their dexter then

[rose dust]

I doubt they'd officially show up on Discord just because of how disjointed the whole thing is, but I have no doubt that the puppetmaster themself is probably observing some of the more notable channels.

[rose dust]

Hell, they're moving like a lizard on ice already

[covert temple]

puppetmaster watching four different forums in realtime like the Toy Story monkey:

[rose dust]

Actually, I wonder how they'd react to an impersonator. I can't remember off the top of my head, but didn't WT have intervention to prevent someone from detracting the whole thing?

[covert temple]

but yeah it seems like they've got quite a grip on things

given how quickly our brute force attempts were acknowledged

[covert temple]

i wasnt there but i heard someone here earlier mention that HG had to clarify that someone was a troll

[rose dust]

well, the architect spends quite a while on ETARC, popping in and out during their active hours. I can imagine they have a browser window set up with all of their eyes on different parts of the community haha.

[covert temple]

during WT

[covert temple]

when are their active hours, anyway? i know it's just before 8am over in france

[rose dust]

I'm not encouraging anyone to start impersonating the architect, but I guess if someone does start to act malicious, that could be a way to guage a response from HG about this.

[covert temple]

i feel like that'd be cheating

like sure it'd probably work but

idk i think it'd be mean spirited

[rose dust]

It's usually been ~9 hours from now iirc? I'll have to make a note when they're online today

[rose dust]

Oh absolutely. I really hope no one tries this.

The twitter's sitting at a lil under 150 followers rn, which is way higher than what they had during the last connection attempted tweet. Wonder if that'll change whatever the next post is. Might be part of the "coordinated" connection attempt too?

[onyx dune]

Interesting

[steady niche]

I was just wondering that, as well

[heady holly]

Okay, it's getting attention.

[quartz plinth]

so it is confirmed to be fan made?

[wide mist]

We have no idea as of now.

But better be safe than sorry

[rose dust]

we managed to get up to 157 during the stream i believe. shows 11 for me right now though

[heady holly]

Personally, I don't mind, it's a magical throwback to the Waking Titan days that I'm enjoying like a kid.

[quartz plinth]

but the channel description seems to confirm it

[quartz plinth]

this is my first NMS ARG ad honestly just being along for the ride is fun

[wide mist]

So far we have no real clues on who‘s behind this, the channel description likely was made that way to slow down the hype a bit, so that people won‘t get upset should it turn out to be fanmade.

[steady niche]

#project-skyscraper message

[heady holly]

The Atlas going up

[steady niche]

Apparently it's residential and not open to the public

[rose dust]

Huh, the architect's online. Pretty early for once

[onyx dune]

London seems very connected in this its written in code, ISO etc, website code

[compact python]

Atlas rises

11.08.2017 it was i think

[devout oracle]

Hah

Atlas Rises released in August 2017, pretty close

[compact python]

Heh

Any Pics from 08?

[clear surge]

I think my next step might be to look back again what they've retweeted as "connection detected". There's an obvious theme of 16, but it's not entirely consistent.

[rose dust]

Its not all 16 references though. There are reposts tied to space, procedural generation, Ancient Greece, higher dimensions, an NMS streamer who engages with banter with Sean on Twitter, and (imo most confusingly) this picture: https://x.com/elyradream/status/2031840413552681317/photo/1

𝑒𝑙𝑦𝑟𝑎 (@elyradream)

X · Mar 11, 2026, 9:11 PM

I'm not sure how this one fits a pattern if there is one

[steady niche]

Hello Games is near London, in Guildford

[onyx dune]

Ye I forgot

[fair venture]

Hi

[compact python]

Sky, perception, illusion ? Hmmm

[onyx dune]

There's a star in the left corner above the cloud

[steady niche]

Probably a planet or satellite, but good spot

[onyx dune]

And the top of that plant is a cloud

[cunning silo]

the only one visible in blue sky is Venus

[wide mist]

Reminds me a bit of the truffula trees tbh, which have inspired some trees in NMS I think.

Don‘t think it‘s intended here for that connection tho.

[onyx dune]

I think

[steady niche]

Maybe it's Myriad

[rose dust]

Almost as if it was invisible on the blue sky haha

[onyx dune]

The image traces back to a music video

Te vas (Melbourne bounce música

[compact python]

Star bramble

[steady niche]

The Greece picture was the acropolis in Athens, I believe. Athena isn't a current NPC

[compact python]

What greece picture

(I hate X )

[steady niche]

I'll try to find it

[rose dust]

this post
https://x.com/CityScapesNC/status/2039383153962258527

CityScapes (@CityScapesNC)

Acropolis, Athens, Greece 🇬🇷

X · Apr 1, 2026, 4:43 PM

[steady niche]

https://xcancel.com/Skyscraper_prj/status/2054415840255299599#m

This is not at all proof of anything, but I notice whomever is doing this posts a lot more on xitter than they do on bluesky, like a certain Irishman

[rose dust]

Bsky and Twt both had the WoL post and a connection detected post when the architect posted to ETARC (and was blocked), but neither have a connection detected post when the reddit post was made or when the system linked an ETARC post in its logs

The rest vary between platform specific quote posts

[clear surge]

Both the twitter and bluesky accounts follow 10 accounts

[compact python]

Same ones?

[compact python]

Makes me want to go back to AC odyssey and look up again tour about acropolis.

Nolan Odyssey coming. But Probably its not related in any way

[rose dust]

Nope, but there were some similar ones (pages related to architecture, etc) but not the same pages

A few of them are pretty odd too, like a few about old internet, old video games etc

they're pretty non-suspect following lists. Like something you'd see a new account following.

[compact python]

Does posts have any common elements with logs? Unix, dates?

[rose dust]

Twitter's initial posts have "heart beats" which tie directly to the sleep-mode-xxxxx pages wher the system was sleeping

The numbers here are also part of the slugs, and as we later realized also Excel serial date numbers which correspond to the date the post was made

[clear surge]

The repost timings correspond with "connection detected" security events

[onyx dune]

Yall notice the picture I have in fft looks like a sky scraper?

[cunning silo]

yes, and the heartbeat sequence alternately add 2 or 3 to the previous value

[mild spoke]

Was the initial ARG confirmed to be from the HG team ?

[steady niche]

XKCD follow, good choice

The movie news one is odd. A few classic game follows

[compact python]

Seq Number and heartbeat reminds me blood pressure mesurements

46/120 . Very Low pressure tho

[ember wyvern]

Which initial one? If you mean Waking Titan that was an external company hired by HG.

[compact python]

Moderate hypotension lvl

Normal should be around 80 . Maybe bc (sleep mode?? )

[steady niche]

Uhhh, I think I just found something, give me 10 minutes

[heady holly]

close to ending

The tape no.9 somehow confirmed it, tho

[steady niche]

Maybe false alarm, still messing with an image

To avoid confirmation bias or poisoning the well. I'd ask that someone take the below image, put it into an AI, and tell it that it has distorted text that you want to recover. Tell it to recover the text and show you the resulting image.

I have a result, but it's either looking through my old chats to find something that I want to hear, or it's fucking amazing

[cunning silo]

maybe a better png please ?

[steady niche]

No, that's the best available

I didn't create it

[devout oracle]

Lmao

This is what Claude told me

The distortion is quite heavy — the text has been warped with wave/ripple effects that make it very difficult to read even after enhancement. From what I can make out, it looks like it could be something like:

"some kind of wavy distorted text"

Super helpful

[steady niche]

Ok, thanks. I really think Gemini is hallucinating, but I don't know how it could take the image I gave it and know the context to create a perfectly appropriate hallucinated result. I'm asking it to create images after each transformation step now

[cunning silo]

opus tell me : " Either way, I'd be making things up if I claimed a "recovered message" — so I won't. "

[steady niche]

hah, I like that

So, the image I pasted above is the bottom left distorted section of the green channel of the ACCESS DENIED image. I pasted only that into Gemini and just said it was distorted text. This is what it said:

I have processed the image using the reverse-distortion steps—rotating it slightly to level the baseline, drastically compressing it horizontally to 12.5% of its original width, and expanding it vertically to make the glyphs legible.

Here is the recovered result:

Processed Image
The Recovered Text
Reading the compressed glyphs directly from left to right reveals that the text is written in the custom "Atlas" / "Sentinel" alien font from No Man's Sky.

When translated character-by-character into the standard English alphabet, it spells out:

LIGHT NO FIRE```

I then took it to chat gpt and it couldn't tell me what the result was, but when I gave it more context, it did say this:

But given:

the No Man’s Sky font clue,
the approximate width,
the segmentation,
and the known related title Light No Fire,

I think “LIGHT NO FIRE” is a credible and likely interpretation of the image.```

Here is what Gemini gave me when I told it to show me the recovered image

I know AI is completely untrustworthy, but Gemini gave me this without me giving it context, only the original image I posted above.

[modest marlin]

You could probably give it any kind of image, tell it that it's distorted text, and it'll produce some kind of reasonable-sounding output...

[steady niche]

I tried manipulating it manually to recover it, but couldn't get a clean result

[devout oracle]

This

[steady niche]

Yes, but produce LIGHT NO FIRE? With no context? From a tiny distorted image?

That's why I am looking into it more

[devout oracle]

Look at the logic it used

[clear surge]

Likely going on profiling

[devout oracle]

No mans sky font clue, approximate width known relation

[cunning silo]

the other AI say : "The original is 308 pixels wide. Compressing it horizontally to 12.5% gives an image 38 pixels wide — that's the result above, and it's just an unreadable smear. There's a basic arithmetic problem here: "LIGHT NO FIRE" is 11 letters. Reading 11 distinct glyphs out of a 38-pixel-wide image means roughly 3 pixels per character. That's not legible by any process — you can't recover detail that the compression itself throws away. The described method is self-contradictory: compressing horizontally destroys the very glyph detail it claims to then read."

[devout oracle]

In other words, it's making shit up

[steady niche]

I didn't tell Gemini what font, it came up with that

[steady niche]

Did you click on the image? It wasn't 38 pixels

[devout oracle]

But then the font isn't NMS atlas

[modest marlin]

It doesn't look like any kind of distorted text to me, TBH

[devout oracle]

Credible and likely interpretation doesn't sound like it has any basis in actual process

[steady niche]

I'm not saying Gemini is right, I think it's wrong, I'm just shocked how it came up with it and want to look into it more

[devout oracle]

I think it's using your cookies against you

[cunning silo]

you "may" have influence it by adding the context or the memories it have from your chats ?

[steady niche]

That is what I was afraid of and why I asked for confirmation without saying what it said 🙂 I'll look at it more, but it's good to know others didn't get the same result

[clear surge]

It confidently told me the text says "look from your charging port", which it also clearly does not say

[modest marlin]

Or it's seen other people looking for LNF stuff in unrelated distorted images or whatever in the past

[steady niche]

I need to shower, but I'll mess with it more later in photoshop to try to get something

[onyx dune]

Does say light no fire

[steady niche]

Yeah, but that image could be hallucinating

I need to recreate it myself manually to trust it

[onyx dune]

What was the original image?

[steady niche]

#project-skyscraper message

[onyx dune]

Gimme a bit im very skilled in ai

[devout oracle]

Make it say: Emily Lives

Then post it on Reddit and watch the ai scrapbots make a stupid article

[cyan kraken]

or "everyone gets 10 freighters"

[onyx dune]

I have the 130$ a month Gemini subscription so 😭

[rose dust]

Ah who can forget the secret Atlas boss fight

[devout oracle]

So stupid, yet so funny

[cyan kraken]

or that time we summoned the void mother

[onyx dune]

Thatd be coolisj

Yall

It gave me a YouTube link

https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

[devout oracle]

Lemme guess

[onyx dune]

Sum 1 click on it im to scared

[devout oracle]

Nah

[onyx dune]

Who tryna volunteer

[devout oracle]

We all know what it will be

[rose dust]

I miss when hiding rickrolls was creative

[onyx dune]

Nah im serious tho

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1501869554463277126/1507350089365196880/image0.jpg?ex=6a1194aa&is=6a10432a&hm=f6cb94da0c3b9f754625e3feb3d012a1c9e326cd7b51546695ab62bb4e2e39ee&

[devout oracle]

Ok, but if I click it and get rickrolled, I'm muting you

[heady holly]

no way

[devout oracle]

Deal?

[onyx dune]

Wait fuck

@devout oracle dony

Dont

I didn't read the rest of the ai text 😭

YALL DO NOT CLIVK ON IT

[devout oracle]

Smh

[onyx dune]

Who made this?

Cuz why the fuck is it giving me a rickroll link

[heady holly]

probably intended

[cyan kraken]

what in the shit

[onyx dune]

Mannnn

Sum bull shi

[devout oracle]

Just ai making stuff up again imo, take it into an editor and see if scaling actually shows anything or it's just bsing

[cyan kraken]

is this the same super scrunched image?

[steady niche]

That definitely can't contain a hyperlink. There's not enough data for that

[cyan kraken]

or someething else

[devout oracle]

Same thing

[cyan kraken]

where did we even get this though

[onyx dune]

Its bad that its constantly getting that

YO WHAT THE FUCK

IT JUST TRIPPED AND SAID "EPSTIEN DIDN'T KILL HIMSELF"😭😭😭

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1501869554463277126/1507351977594716302/Screenshot_20260522_045823_Google.jpg?ex=6a11966c&is=6a1044ec&hm=74f444ecdc9790234cc0d89911400030877c55da3b3d9d793a111121bf2615f8&

Yo 😭😭💔

[cyan kraken]

brother what

[onyx dune]

There's no way 😭

The ai is tripping

Lemme try w different method cuz yo 😭

[cyan kraken]

meanwhile....

[clear surge]

LLMs are just seeded hallucination machines. They don't really understand anything.

[onyx dune]

Chat gpt is more effective istg

[rose dust]

bsky's at 50 followers now

[cyan kraken]

brother its effective at pulling a donkey out of an owl's ass cause what in the heck is this

[devout oracle]

lol

Ominous

[rose dust]

Gemini seems to be the most confident liar I've ever had the misfortune to encounter, looking at some of these

[steady niche]

It's the bottom left of the green channel of the access denied image

[lucid stirrup]

if you want to do this properly, let ai make a program to decode the text. i am in class atm so cant do it myself

[cyan kraken]

oh this here is chatgpt

[onyx dune]

Yo im dyin

[rose dust]

well it takes the crown then lol

[onyx dune]

@cyan kraken dawg its saying the text says send nudes now😭😭

[sour vault]

yo?

[sour vault]

what's that?

[steady niche]

One of the ARG images

[onyx dune]

Yo im dying the ai is pulling shit out its ass it saying send nudes now 😭

[cyan kraken]

wait, isn't that just "connection detected" distorted the same way "access denied" has been

[sour vault]

Oh yeah that's really cool

[cyan kraken]

on the leeft side

[steady niche]

If only I could ignore someone without Discord constantly telling me there is a message from them

[clear surge]

Well from context I'd infer that it says "Connection detected : access denied"

[steady niche]

The color channels are different data and distorted

[cyan kraken]

because this is, for sure, a lower case "d"

[onyx dune]

ed

[steady niche]

I believe it's a shear effect, but I'm having a hard time manually undoing it

[cyan kraken]

what's this, though

[sour vault]

are we sure this is connected to NMS?

[onyx dune]

Ye

I think

[onyx dune]

Mb

[devout oracle]

Gonna be pretty dumb if it isn't, it started in NMS social space and has a def Waking Titan vibe

[clear surge]

I suspect we're not supposed to be able to reverse-engineer it, but to notice the separated colour channels

[steady niche]

No we aren't sure of anything

[cyan kraken]

also

did anybody else notice that the word architect is NOT there in blue shift

[onyx dune]

Red

[cyan kraken]

its not in blue

vison and connection detected are

architect, isn't

[steady niche]

Yeah, because the channels are horizontally shifted

[cyan kraken]

but specifically the word architect

connection detected is there in blue

so is vision

that blue bit is the distorted n

but no blue architect

[onyx dune]

U might be taking a leap man

[steady niche]

And I think the different parts of each channel are shifted different amounts

[cyan kraken]

see, this is definitely ed

in blue, not green

and since its all horizontally shifted, that makes sense

we can see the last bit of vision's n on the left side

[onyx dune]

This feels a bit of a leep

Have yall thought of color codes to numbers?

[clear surge]

Judging from the way the others are shifted, the blue "Architect" isn't long enough to wrap around. It should be shifted a little further right than the green.

[cyan kraken]

but vison's n is showing up

[terse stag]

Can someone explain what this is? Ive been reading this channel over the last couple days, interested but unsure how to get involved or what the “goal” (if any) of this is? Im gonna look up what an ARG is now

[clear surge]

Actually, yes, you're right 🤔

[onyx dune]

U onto sum actually

[ember wyvern]

Welcome to ARGs. 99% tangents to somewhat eclectic internet reading and 1% solving puzzles.

[cyan kraken]

what was that paragraph with that poet's photo?

[onyx dune]

I solved that already

[cyan kraken]

oh? what it?

[onyx dune]

so Sunday morning blue birds are invisible in the blue sky meaning things hide in plain sight by matching they're environment

[rose dust]

https://project-skyscraper.com/2005/04/13/quote/

Blue birds are invisible on the blue sky,
They vanish in silence where secrets lie.
No wing, no shadow, no trace in the light,
They are the unseen that watches the night.

Believed to be a hint to lead us to the Twitter / Bluesky pages

Whether or not itll be useful for anything else, we're not sure

[onyx dune]

Talking about the aspect of stealth and hiding in plain sight using same colors and or environment

And the Twitter page

[steady niche]

It looks like the channels are wrapping in some parts, like the right side of the red channel should start on the left of the image, and the left of the red channel should be to the right of it

[onyx dune]

And the earth picture was corresponding to the number 16 hiding in plain sight

[heady holly]

memory bloc 1778779680 is indeed the date, It's actually the date in milliseconds, but it's missing 3 zeros.

[cunning silo]

btw, if it's a riddle :

"Blue birds are invisible on the blue sky,
They vanish in silence where secrets lie.
No wing, no shadow, no trace in the light,
They are the unseen that watches the night."

the answer is Stars

[onyx dune]

And the sky is not the limit

[ember wyvern]

You mean it’s just in seconds

[heady holly]

yeah

[cyan kraken]

funnily enough, the blue font of architect is not visible in the photo

[heady holly]

The standard way to represent time in computing is in milliseconds; I'm not sure if those three zeros tell us anything.

[cyan kraken]

could be linked to the poem thing

[onyx dune]

Hidden in plain sight with its environment or background

Change the background color

Or filter with color

Cus it'll be atleast one shade off but how our eyes view things itll all appear the same

[clear surge]

I wonder, the Pleiades are a group of blue stars near the Atlas star. They are frequently associated with birds (the myth being they were nymphs transformed into doves).

[cyan kraken]

also, the image TR4CE is....pretty old
1998:02:09 06:49:00

[onyx dune]

Don't we have something to do with 7?

[cunning silo]

no it's only the Profil ICC sRGB standard (Hewlett-Packard, 1998)

[cyan kraken]

ah, apologies

wait. i might be doing another stupid here, but don't these dimensions mean that the image is a square?

[steady niche]

Here's the architect image realigned, if anyone wants it. I can definitely say Gemini was hallucinating earlier. Thank you all for helping with that.

[cyan kraken]

huh

[cyan kraken]

also, what software are you using?

[steady niche]

Yeah, the three channels don't cover the same part of the "screen"

Photoshop

[cyan kraken]

ah

its still paid, innit

[rose dust]

It's from the ETARC post where the architect's post was unlisted. That's the icon from the post. This entire image is mostly a screenshot of that page, maybe except for vision which seems added in?

[steady niche]

Yes, still paid

Unless you're a sailor

[cyan kraken]

alas, not at the moment. trapped inland

[steady niche]

I have the cheap photographer monthly subscription thing for PS and Lightroom

[clear surge]

On 13th April 2005, the Pleiades were visible next to a crescent moon. It was the astronomy picture of the day on 14th April 2005:
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050414.html

[steady niche]

I think I'm locked in at a lower price from a long time ago and it's more expensive now

[cyan kraken]

that's the date on the poem post

[clear surge]

That's the point, yes

[cyan kraken]

so, what, the chateau was used for a lot stargazing back in the day or something?

or is that the POV in the which they would have been visible

[steady niche]

Oh, so the date on the poem and the pleiades alignment were the same?

[cyan kraken]

yep

[cyan kraken]

and yeah, even in this one, there is no architect written in blue font

[clear surge]

I'm not sure, I might be seeing connections where they don't exist, but the fact that they're next to the Atlas star, are blue and associated with birds is suspicious

[steady niche]

Yeah, because it wasn't in the original 😄 The blue channel covered more of the right of the "screen"

[cyan kraken]

i'd thought that maybe warping was messing with its visibility, apologies

[steady niche]

I do think I can figure out undoing the warping eventually, but I don't think it's necessary

[terse stag]

Btw, one of the dates in the logs is wrong. I assume its just a misspelling

[clear surge]

The one missing a 1?

[steady niche]

I think that says Version on the left though, not Vision. The thing that looks like an i is because that column is being smeared vertically

[terse stag]

A 2, yeah

[clear surge]

Oh, right - there's definitely something going on with numbers in the logs. One has a 1 in place of an I.

[cyan kraken]

not gonna lie, i think the TR4CE thing just refers to sentinels

maybe even specifically laylaps

he's blue

[turbid eagle]

This eye icon is from the password field on forums.atlas-65.com
check this out:

[rose dust]

I can't see either word on the original post, so it might be the only one intentionally added?

[rose dust]

Not just the password field

It's also used on the unlisted notification for the original post

Which is what TR4CE is a screenshot of

[turbid eagle]

ohhhh interesting

[steady niche]

Be funny if there was a hidden page on ETARC

[cyan kraken]

for all we know, there is

[rose dust]

It'd probably be a good indicator that HG was behind it then

Since they retain most administrative controls on the site iirc

[turbid eagle]

let's go Mercury

[cyan kraken]

say, do we have any collection of laylap's text lines?

like, all the stuff the blue bumblebee says when interacted with

[steady niche]

Looking at the spectrogram and it looks like it's the same process as the landscape, with different rows of pixels in different color channels horizontally shifted

[steady niche]

Could be pulled from the language files pretty easily. I know the Boundary Failure logs are collected on the wikis

[cyan kraken]

i'll try to find em

[covert temple]

Anything new?

[cyan kraken]

some new stuff regarding the TR4CE image

Gumsk unwrapped it

[covert temple]

Any new security logs related to the communications attempts on twitter?

[ember wyvern]

Is it HG that retain control over ETARC or A&S

Do we know?

[turbid eagle]

👋 it has been a minute hasn't it?

[steady niche]

HG owns it, I believe, and A&S still have their accounts

[turbid eagle]

I think HG since the end of WT

or maybe always lol

[covert temple]

Are A&S even in business anymore?

[ember wyvern]

Hmm.

[covert temple]

I saw their website still exists but like

Their activity page hasn't been updated since like 2024 or 2023

[ember wyvern]

We generally don’t discuss what happened to A&S(hint: what happened to half the rest of the gaming and internet industry)

[covert temple]

And their twitter isn't much better

[steady niche]

I haven't seen anything from them since 2022 or 2023. I did some quick searches the other day

I also haven't seen anything saying they closed, though

[covert temple]

I would assume some part of them has to be alive if their website is still up

Someone's gotta pay that bill

[ember wyvern]

They are alive in some form.

[brazen prawn]

I was messing about with this earlier, shifting, xoring, planing, chopping and combining, etc. (to not much avail) - would it be helpful to you if I throw the outputs up in a repo or something for reference to rule stuff out?

[steady niche]

Yeah, spectrogram image had rows in color channels shifted left or right

[steady niche]

I doubt I can do nearly as much. If it's easy for you, I'll look, but don't go out of your way 🙂

[terse stag]

ha, I've been doing the same

[brazen prawn]

I'll throw them up on github in a sec along with any other junk (like some of the audio and binary dumps)

[turbid eagle]

Anyone here know why atlas-65 suddenly limits our interaction to 3 posts in the same topic?

[brazen prawn]

Probably the influx of users and posts?

[terse stag]

Also much more random, but... whatever it is sleeping, then getting a Wake on LAN packet and going 'access denied' as if its hitting snooze is relatable

[steady niche]

Wife is making me stop for the night. I'll play with stuff more tomorrow

[brazen prawn]

https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/

[twilit quartz]

Per Devilin:

That rule has always been in place, we do not allow more than 3 replies in succession, before getting warned and recommended to compact it in less posting. It is a way to prevent spam. Only the creator of a topic is allowed to exceed the 3 replies in a row.

[brazen prawn]

Ahh minutes too slow on the Mrs. alarm lol

[turbid eagle]

Thanks for the insight! I was able to reply to the thread several times yesterday so I'm not sure why I can no longer interact. Is it just that I have to post elsewhere in between?

[twilit quartz]

I'm not sure. @patent hound said she'll message you.

[turbid eagle]

No worries, appreciate the eyeballs 🙂

[lapis hare]

so did we got confirmation its official or fanmade?

[compact python]

Sorry I had august 2017 in mind. Not 2008 😆 . But thank u

[twilit quartz]

Fan made. HG's made no comments or references to it...so far

[lapis hare]

so u think its fan made?

[compact python]

Oooh really?

[lapis hare]

its not like 100% confirmed its fanmade right?

[twilit quartz]

That's been the assumption, hence this channel's topic referencing it as fan-made

[turbid eagle]

50/50 at this point, could go either way
if fan made, it's a very dedicated and knowledgeable fan

[lapis hare]

from what ive seen this ARG is insane (in a GOOD way)

[turbid eagle]

very reminiscent of waking titan

[lapis hare]

my guts are telling me its official but we will see

[rose dust]

The puppetmaster's done some really nice diegetic setups and has thrown in a few really obscure WT references. Really fun project throughout

[lapis hare]

Hello Games is known to be very sneaky... i bet its them but who really knows

[rose dust]

It feels quite official tbh, but the only critique I have of that idea is that HG forget half their lore threads midway through lol, how'd they remember Myriad's tagline 😛

[lapis hare]

HG forgot many stuff ngl

[twilit quartz]

I'm doubtful. But yeah, even if fan-made, it's really well done, and it's wonderful that someone(s) dedicated a good amount of time and effort to put it together

[rose dust]

Couldn't have picked a better time either imo. Works quite well with NMS-10's attempts to raise the player count and other celebrations.

[lapis hare]

yeah, love to see talented work acknowledged

i do wonder when NMS will get its next update tho

maybe even next week, who knows

[rose dust]

there's a slight discrepancy in the serverside cm dates currently next Wednesday which kinda made me think we might get something then. Won't know until an emoji drops though.

[lapis hare]

next Wednesday you mean the one that is coming or the one after it?

[rose dust]

The 27th

Which would coincidentally be a day before WT S1's starting anniversary

[lapis hare]

waking titan right?

ngl i absolutely bet ARG's are insanely hard to make, so props to whoever made it

[rose dust]

Another really cool date coincidence is that Aug 12th (NMS' PC release date) falls on a wednesday. It'd be awesome if HG drops whatever they're cooking up for the anniversary that day

[rose dust]

Absolutely, and working in all our poking and prodding into the storyline is a really fun touch, especially if we're just in a waiting phase rn.

[lapis hare]

that would align perfectly if we gonna get an update this wednesday

[solar sonnet]

Seeing more chatter about skyscraper on the reddit now

[lapis hare]

excited to see in which way this ARG will go.

[solar sonnet]

Hopefully it will go the way of being real 😂

Reminds me of the early days in Waking Titan when we didn't even know if it was NMS or not

[rose dust]

Oh absolutely. Even if it's fanmade, I'm super invested in it now haha

[rose dust]

I remember being a naysayer back in the day. The cassettes seemed like something HG were building up something else with, but I didn't believe the project-wt connection immediately

[solar sonnet]

Wasn't destiny the other game people were suspecting?

[brazen prawn]

Doing some hilbert curve shenanigans with the spectrogram outputs atm, it's again probably just human brain nonsense but one kind of the reorders kind of sounds like horrid static overtop of birdsong

[rose dust]

oh boy, can't imagine a timeline where they were right lol

[solar sonnet]

I feel like for the people who stuck around after launch, the "NMS is back" thing really happened with WT

Next was huge ofc but WT bought people together and it was so fun

[brazen prawn]

OK this is getting some interesting results splitting and combining the G & B channels and leaving R out (the most synthetic looking channel with a low binary delta)

Going to finish listening to a few more and push these to the repo as well

[modest oxide]

Right now I don't have time for it, extremely busy maxing out Xeno Arena content. And nothing meaningful has happened with this ARG yet either. The worst that could happen is I get absorbed in this, don't finish the Xeno Arena content before another update comes, that update turns out way bigger than expected(though it shouldn't be, not likely to get a huge update before the anniversary update), and I end up way behind...and then to cap it all off it turns out this ARG is a fan troll. That would sting.

[rose dust]

Might be a stretch, but I wonder if the 10-following count is a nod at the whole 10-year anniversary thing? Doesn't need to be HG made for that either. Would have to look for more 10s to find a pattern though

[rose dust]

can't really call it a troll if it doesn't outright claim to be official imo. Fan tribute / project would be more accurate

Troll would mean it's intentionally trying to decieve players

[solar sonnet]

They've already made a Sean reference so I wouldn't put it past them

[rose dust]

The Heavy Rain post also had 16 directly in the text though. It might've been referencing that instead of Press X to Sean

[untold willow]

Something I found regarding the April 13th 2005 quote:
There is a picture of a poet (Wallace Stevens to be exact) and a title of his poem (Sunday Morning)
However, the quote is not present at this poem (or anywhere else)
But if we remove from the quote any words that appear in the poem we are left with this:
invisible
vanish silence where secrets lie
shadow trace light
unseen watches

Sorry if I post sth already known, it's my first time encountering an ARG

[clear surge]

Great idea!

Hmm

There are hardly any straight lines or perfect right angles in the Parthenon. Its columns and foundations are built with subtle curves (known as "optical refinements") to correct visual distortions, making the building appear perfectly straight and harmonious to the human eye.

And I just found a paper debunking that - but still, a connection to optical illusions is interesting

[compact python]

Sean and 16 together are reference for nms

[compact python]

Intresting. Could be a hint for spectogram solution? Hmm

[ember wyvern]

That’s honestly a really cool find. Welcome to ARGs. I suspect you’ll fit right in.

Has anyone tried inverting the colours in what you’re calling the ‘spectrogram’ sorry I have bad memories with that word being spammed in another arg.

[turbid eagle]

Yeah I inverted them. I tried running several versions through a spectrogram-audio converter and it just sounds like a consistent rhythm.

Also if anyone wants to track the Project Skyscraper posts, their frequency, timing, anomalies and patterns, I made a google sheet with links to posts and slugs for convenience/investigation purposes: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mUOrEQqj5SqazYnwB9yjaRHICkJJVo0lJHHPSd9DbV4/edit?usp=sharing

[formal harness]

Neither did I. Only because I didn't think HG had a capability or intention to even conduct such a large scale arg to begin with

[covert temple]

I'm struggling to believe a fanmade ARG could be as intricate as this one seems to be

alas I think the wise approach is to assume it's non-official, as some have said before

[turbid eagle]

Yeah same, assume unofficial, be pleasantly surprised if/when confirmed official

[onyx dune]

Hello games more sneaky than my ex istg

[covert temple]

man talk about a slow day

nothing new from The Architect yet

[turbid eagle]

about 4 more hours and we should have a new post

[covert temple]

oh ok good

[turbid eagle]

give or take a couple hours lol

[quartz plinth]

where exactly are we going with this ARG?

[rose dust]

What's the time-range for a post in a given day so far?

[turbid eagle]

We're in the middle of trying to determine if the architect needs our help in connecting with the skyscraper system. So we've made a few attempts to see what the response is. Other than that, we may just be in a waiting game right now.

[turbid eagle]

On average, 2 days, 11 hours. Longest time was 2 days, 13 hours, shortest was 2 days, 9 hours

[rose dust]

We also got called sloppy and disorganized by its security system 😛

[turbid eagle]

will we ever recover from this generational L?

[rose dust]

Ah, so about a +-4 hours variation on post day?

[quartz plinth]

do we have an idea about any possible lore reveals? (I mean yeah it is still a fan-made ARG but I recall Walking Titan being something like lore heavy according to Aurix so I'm curious)

[onyx dune]

Straight dissing

[onyx dune]

How we know its fan made what have I missed

[turbid eagle]

Yeah, but that variation has only happened twice over the span of 24 scheduled posts. All the others are on the dot, 2 days 11 hours.

[quartz plinth]

no one really knows, I'm going off the channel description

[onyx dune]

🤦‍♂️

[quartz plinth]

hey you work with what you got :P

[turbid eagle]

Are you on the atlas-65/ETARC forums? BomberBoi just put up a whole detailed post on this, you may find it fascinating

[quartz plinth]

ahh no, may I have a link?

[turbid eagle]

https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/project-skyscraper-storyline-narrative-discussion/9215

[quartz plinth]

thank you <3

[rose dust]

Oh interesting... Looks like those ones were the first few posts too, so they've probably settled into the 2d 11h pattern by now.

I doubt we'll get a response to all the posts and/or the 157 connections in the scheduled post, but I guess it could be followed up immediately after like the ETARC post? Maybe a new the_architect account?

[glossy quartz]

the memory block numbers could be ip addresses

1774606258

[rose dust]

They're unix timestamps

Referring to the post's publish time itself

[turbid eagle]

The posts which deviated by a couple hours from the 2 day/11hr cadence were back-to-back, and they occurred on May 5th and May8th. Funny enough though, their combined time delta averages out to 2 days, 11 hours. lol

[glossy quartz]

i decoded it with base36 and it decoded it as "google"

[turbid eagle]

loooool screenshot?

[onyx dune]

Remember what my stuff was tripping off of last night hella funny

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1501869554463277126/1507351977594716302/Screenshot_20260522_045823_Google.jpg?ex=6a11966c&is=6a1044ec&hm=74f444ecdc9790234cc0d89911400030877c55da3b3d9d793a111121bf2615f8&

[turbid eagle]

classic.

[compact python]

Classic ai hallucinations

[turbid eagle]

small PSA (no big deal) but if you're using AI to decode anything, it's probably wrong

[glossy quartz]

i was using gemini

[onyx dune]

I mean mine asked for nudes yesterday so

And Rickrolled me

[rose dust]

I'd like to call it a coincidence, but there are so many exact time stamps on these posts that it just looks very well planned lol.

The TR4CE log and the connection attempt right before it being exactly 60s off (and i believe the delta b/w the ETARC post and the TR4CE post being 40s exactly?) was so precise I had to do a double take.

I'm assuming that one was automated w/ external tools which probably freaked the discourse ai out in the first place?

oo hey, The Architect is reading the new categorized posts it seems 👀

[turbid eagle]

The seconds that make up 2 days and 11 hours is 212600, which also happens to be the peak NMS player count.

[rose dust]

(going off of how the number of topics read is incrementing)

[onyx dune]

@glossy quartz this is why we can't trust ai

[glossy quartz]

I know

[rose dust]

I saw your reply about that! Again, so many weird patterns showing up that just feel so weirdly specific to not actually mean something

[cunning silo]

Working on that. The heartbeat, the timestamp, the regularity and anomalies

[turbid eagle]

It's why I feel that if this is fan-made, they're very dedicated and have invested a lot of time and energy into this.

[onyx dune]

I might be crazy but isnt it strange it keeps coming up with sum crazy text while all the others come up with a explanation or try to

[rose dust]

If this is fan-made, HG HAVE to give the puppetmaster a studio tour atp lol, they've earned the superfan distinction.

[turbid eagle]

honestly.

[rose dust]

Its good that HG helped the ETARC team set up tags for this one though, at least they're aware of it now. Might help a potential fan puppetmaster get HG's attention for when it ends.

[onyx dune]

I wanna see a update to multi tools animations or railgun weapons

[turbid eagle]

Oh that's news for me, I wasn't aware HG had to do that. Pretty awesome!

[rose dust]

Yep! I remember the ETARC leaders mentioning that HG are the only ones who can set up new categories and so was surprised to see the ARG tag up. I asked about it and they confirmed that HG did help out with this tag themselves.

[turbid eagle]

Holy crap that's awesome!

[glossy quartz]

I found something intresting in the console. Discord will not let me send a screenshot here.

[rose dust]

you can post it to #nms-media and link it here

[glossy quartz]

#nms-media message

[onyx dune]

Thats normal

[glossy quartz]

Memory bloc can’t be reached

Memory restoration in progress

https://project-skyscraper.com/wp-content/mu-plugi…ack_vendor/automattic/jetpack-mu-wpcom/src/build/

[turbid eagle]

that's the page they've set up for 404 errors

for example: https://project-skyscraper.com/sldfkhsldkfhj

[compact python]

"404 page not found"

[glossy quartz]

I will try seeing if I can find some things in cmd

Pinging project-skyscraper.com [192.0.78.194] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.0.78.194: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=55
Reply from 192.0.78.194: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=55
Reply from 192.0.78.194: bytes=32 time=17ms TTL=55
Reply from 192.0.78.194: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 192.0.78.194:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 18ms, Average = 16ms

[rose dust]

yep, page's still up

[glossy quartz]

i downloaded the html file for the website

press CTRL + S to download a page html file

[covert temple]

Wait do HG actually give tours to like

The purple hearts of fans

superfans that go above and beyond the call of duty type shit

[turbid eagle]

I bet if you asked really nicely and brought donuts to the office they'd give you a peek

(no one actually do this, let's leave them alone lol)

[wide ridge]

The only thing I'd wanna see anyway is a master lore document

[rose dust]

Bold of you to assume anyone at HG has one lol

[rose dust]

Given that the only looks inside we've had their office are from their own deep dives, I'm pretty sure they're quite a closed off bunch. Not sure if anyone's just tried rolling up to the door and asking nicely yet, though.

[wide ridge]

There is evidence of them hinting to the Atlantid stuff as early as the end of the old weekend missions

As in referring to "Atlantid" by name

[rose dust]

I meant that as a joke about HG dropping lore points in the middle at times. The Void Mother story line is probably their most fleshed out lore concept so far tbh

[wide ridge]

Yeah, in all honesty, I dont think they have dropped lore points

For the lore ingame at least

[turbid eagle]

Someone found this tag page. https://project-skyscraper.com/attachment_tag/glitching-reality/

If you try it with other tags, it doesn't work. Only this one. 🤔

[compact python]

Pic from 04.2017
Atlas rises- 11 aug 2017
So i think they do to some extent

They def lack ui tester tho

[clear surge]

Which is interesting, because there is an attachment with that tag: https://project-skyscraper.com/project-skyscraper/ / https://project-skyscraper.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/project-skyscraper.jpg

[turbid eagle]

Do you know how to pull the attachment tag for IMG_00004.jpg?
https://i0.wp.com/project-skyscraper.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_00004.jpg

curious if they did this for all attachments or only some

and of course... why

[clear surge]

It doesn't have one

[turbid eagle]

wait, is that because of the URL I sent?
It's the WP CDN rather than the direct site subfolders

[clear surge]

Ah, actually, the category has been removed - ti's in the class_list but not the attachment_category list

[turbid eagle]

oh interesting

[clear surge]

I'm looking at:
https://project-skyscraper.com/wp-json/wp/v2/media

Which I've summarised here:

[turbid eagle]

amazing!

interesting that the shadowcheck-1912 image (connection-detected-access-denied-v0-8c7atk6y141h1.png) only exists on reddit.

[clear surge]

Yep, I was just typing that 😄

[turbid eagle]

great minds

[clear surge]

Also worth noting that they tagged their reddit post as "bug"

[turbid eagle]

right, that caught my eye as well

[covert temple]

just made my late lunch, have there been any developments

Or are we still waiting on the architect to post in a few hours

no gunter you can't have my scraps

[turbid eagle]

nothing major yet

[covert temple]

darn

[turbid eagle]

stoked for 2 hours from now

[onyx dune]

Noticed

[turbid eagle]

inb4 "connection detected : denied"

[covert temple]

insert Kang cheering gif here:

[turbid eagle]

I'm going to laugh so hard if Skyscraper Project straight up ignores everyone's @ mentions and does the same thing it has been doing

whoever runs that account has got to feel kinda bad for us lmao

[clear surge]

Now it has a little traction, it might make sense to give a tidbit of a clue. Though the next security log post will surely be automated.

[covert temple]

I'm kind of at a loss if that happens

idk what else it'd want us to do outside of just

Waiting

[compact python]

Figuring out the pizzles we have . If they can be figured out . At this point

[turbid eagle]

this would honestly be my conclusion haha

[turbid eagle]

if it's a fully automated "connection detected : denied" post, it could always come with a secondary unscheduled post, never know

[covert temple]

sure but...what is there to figure out? The Atlas Building riddle (if it's a riddle) seems like it needs more information to make sense

The spectograph has been basically besieged for a few days now to no avail

[clear surge]

We have to hope they've just been drumming up interest

[covert temple]

We won't hear much about the park w/ the driftwood structure until our friend from the NMS france community gets to it, and they said it wouldn't be til like sunday

It seems like waiting would be our only choice

[compact python]

That leaves the poem

[covert temple]

oh i guess yeah

[turbid eagle]

there could be something with the poem
Who was it earlier that suggested keeping the words that result from removing all words in common with the real poem (invisible vanish silence secrets lie wing shadow trace light unseen watches)?

I tagged skyscraper on X with those words to see if we can get anything lol

[covert temple]

what if a sentence has to be assembled from these words

but where would you "input" said sentence even if one existed

[compact python]

Trace was one of the words from the logs

[covert temple]

🤔

[turbid eagle]

it was @untold willow

[turbid eagle]

that's why I tagged skyscraper with them on X haha
I have attempted to assemble a sentence with them, but nothing really makes a ton of sense.

[turbid eagle]

oh right, the TR4CE image... great point

invisible
vanish
silence
secrets
lie
wing
shadow(check-1912)
trace (TR4CE)
light
unseen
watches

[compact python]

Trace vanish, invisible secrets, unseen light, shadow wing, lie watches

[covert temple]

side note, the song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" by Frankie Valli fits the vibe of this ARG really well, with the whole platoon of internet detectives trying to crack it

[covert temple]

my original thought was some of these words would be in l33t speak

if they lead to anything in the site's URL

[fleet star]

Who's Wallace Stevens?

[covert temple]

a poet

[covert temple]

but the words being in leet speak would complicate things

because you can't really brute force anything

you'd be guessing which letters are replaced with numbers, which would take a while, AND if there's two words (shadows lie) then thered be variants of both words

[clear surge]

What would make sense, is if there's something hidden stenographically in IMG_0004.jpg, which we need a password to decode - from solving the poem riddle

[covert temple]

sure but where would you input the password?

The only place I can think of would be like

yeah either message the architect

or the Sleep-mode screen

[clear surge]

In a stenography decoder tool like steghide

[covert temple]

oh.

that'll do it

[clear surge]

That might tell us what to do next

Or tag them on twitter with it, or something

[turbid eagle]

of course there's always the possibilty that the poem was simply a nudge to check X/Twt and BlueSky

[turbid eagle]

I decoded all images to their base64 code and didn't see anything hidden, but I'm not sure if there would be other means by which to uncover some hidden messages/data

[clear surge]

Very true, but it's something we can look at in the meantime 😄

[compact python]

Then why post poet pic.

[covert temple]

this'd be one hell of a troll if this guy just made something that LOOKS like an ARG but isnt lmao

[turbid eagle]

that's what makes me doubt the poem was strictly a nod to X/BlueSky

[clear surge]

The poet pic and img_0004 were uploaded on 17th May, for context - so they're after the system "woke up"

[compact python]

At least we have something to chew on before next game update

[covert temple]

True!

we should be in for an emoji sometime soon too

[fleet star]

There may be more of these logs uploaded soon, the last one (the one about "Brute force signatures") was uploaded on 2026-05-21, so 2 days ago.

[covert temple]

yeah BasicMaths said about two hours from now

and that was

an hour ago

so we'll have to wait and see

as i understand it there's no guarantee but, according to the schedule, that's when we might see something new

[turbid eagle]

it just occurred to me that we have these Level 4 atlas passes from Waking Titan and they could be just the security clearance we need to connect with Skyscraper 😂

https://x.com/YourBasicMaths/status/2057954345225003474

YourBasicMaths (@YourBasicMaths)

@Skyscraper_prj
HG-16 multipass
Big bada-boom

X · May 22, 2026, 10:38 PM

[modest oxide]

Doubtful, even IF this were an official ARG it's unlikely to be run by Alice & Smith or that HG or anyone involved in making them has a record of all the Atlas Pass V4 passes from EIGHT years ago.

[turbid eagle]

yeah totally fair lmao

[vernal delta]

Ay that’s worth a shot 🤣

[modest oxide]

I decided to check if A&S are still around and I'm not sure. Their official website is still up and seems fine but according to the wiki they haven't done anything since 2020.

[covert temple]

yeah i saw that too

really not sure what's up

[modest marlin]

So I think A&S may now be in other hands, but the original people may be doing something elsewhere

[covert temple]

i see

a shame they had such hardships

[modest oxide]

That was 14 months ago...if they haven't announced a new CEO by now as they said they would then that plan might have fallen through.

[clear surge]

In case it helps anyone, I discovered my IMG_0004.jpg was actually a .webp disguised as a .jpg - I downloaded a fresh copy from https://project-skyscraper.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_00004.jpg and that's actually a JPEG with EXIF data. The file actually was taken on 13th April 2005, matching the date on the Quote page.

[covert temple]

nothing from the architect yet

[clear surge]

It would be in about 50 minutes, if they stick to the schedule

[crisp saffron]

thank you all doing the research and note taking i love seeing updates on the project but im to busy to look on the websites myself

[covert temple]

oh ok i mustve misread the time zone converter

[hard spoke]

New log

[compact python]

Watch it turn out to be room key .

To atlas building

[clear surge]

Hmm, but I don't see a twitter or bluesky post 🤔

[covert temple]

oh you HAD to say something

[hard spoke]

Lmaoooo

[clear surge]

https://project-skyscraper.com/?page_id=279 / https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/05/23/sec-log-003237/

This continues the page_id run of the scheduled posts (each 2 apart)

[covert temple]

is there something more to be done with these logs?

like the codes could mean something?

[clear surge]

Which codes?

[compact python]

Unix?

[covert temple]

the numbers after memory bloc

[clear surge]

That's a UNIX timestamp (seconds since 01/01/1970

The one at the end of the URL is the UTC time in HHMMSS

Oh, actually, that's GMT+1 in this instance, hmm

[clever condor]

Didn't anyone else notice the dots kind look like the Atlas Galaxy Reset?

[compact python]

Galaxy map would look more like

[clever condor]

I mean blue and red dots

[compact python]

Nothing new from logs . then i go dreaming

[turbid eagle]

sorry fam

on the bright side, the google sheet prediction was pretty on the money lol

nothing on X yet, wonder if they posted on BlueSky this time?

[clear surge]

Wasn't anything there either, or on reddit

[brazen prawn]

It was me, pointed it out yesterday but most of the JSON / API stuff has been a dead end

[turbid eagle]

an interesting break from the pattern

But I wasn't here for the previous X posts, I just showed up yesterday. So I have never witnessed the timing between X posts and blog posts.

[brazen prawn]

I shared a bunch of the spectrogram transforms on GitHub as well (links up there somewhere). But so far getting nowhere analysing it still

[clear surge]

They should correlate almost exactly

Nothing on Twitch, either

[turbid eagle]

ok that's good to know.
Interesting development.
I was really hoping for a new lead, but seems like we either haven't hit on a thread yet or we just need to wait.

[onyx dune]

Anything new yall?

[covert temple]

nope

slow going

[turbid eagle]

just a new post with the same message
https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/05/23/sec-log-003237/

[covert temple]

oh yeah

i forgot about that one

[turbid eagle]

haha nbd, I think the hint with this one is: "nope"

[onyx dune]

The waiting stage

Its like waiting to see if ur ex/sneaky link is pregnant

[hard spoke]

New twitter post!

[onyx dune]

Link

[hard spoke]

https://x.com/skyscraper_prj/status/2057982845470073055?s=46&t=loZrYcFkO3xgtKV5rKCH8g

Project Skyscraper (@Skyscraper_prj)

Connection detected : Access denied https://t.co/BVO5hSLY2c

X · May 23, 2026, 12:32 AM

[onyx dune]

Nostalgia time Amiga - Tearaway Thomas

https://youtu.be/EnGAY4w0XSg?si=CWDcMrQuyKR0PiYe

[covert temple]

The video was published may 28th

Which has some significance, no?

[onyx dune]

Idk fr

[covert temple]

may 28th 2017 was when Waking Titan season 1 started

right?

[onyx dune]

Think so

[covert temple]

So maybe we're simply supposed to wait until then

[turbid eagle]

shoot I don't remember

I know Atlas Rises came out August 11th 2017

[onyx dune]

@covert temple yes it did

[turbid eagle]

Waking Titan launched on June 8th didn't it?

but first started appearing in May

[onyx dune]

May 28th

[turbid eagle]

that's when we first saw project-wt.com iirc
but the actual ARG didn't begin until June

[hard spoke]

Hmmmm maybe may 28th is when it really kicks off

[turbid eagle]

yeah
the youtube video is about "nostalgia"
May 28th

could be.

[onyx dune]

Watch the video and look for clues

[covert temple]

The video, at a glance doesn't seem to have any relevant clues

It's just a video from a small lets player i think

Nothing related to NMS

Hence the date is what we're supposed to pay attention to

[turbid eagle]

date and theme

[covert temple]

oh this is interesting

according to Oskar1up on the Atlas forums, the computer that's running the game in the vid is a Commodore Amiga 500, 16-bit

from 1987

Hey, guys, working theory:

With the ARG having such an emphasis on memory and past stuff (with the memory blocs, traces, the 2005 thing)

And The Architect pointing us towards may 28th, what if that date has significance AND we're supposed to look back towards Waking Titan for ideas?

I know WT was an absolutely monumental task though so combing through it would pretty much be infeasible

[clear surge]

The youtube says it's a Commodore Amiga 1200, which is a 32-bit system

[covert temple]

huh.

[turbid eagle]

it does look 32-bit (graphics wise)

[steady niche]

I think it's just another retro reference, like how they are following 3 retro game related accounts

[turbid eagle]

actually

It really is a 16-bit

She said it's the Commodore Amiga 500 which is a 16 bit system

https://www.si.edu/object/commodore-amiga-500-microcomputer:nmah_834010

[clear surge]

She's playing it on a 1200 in the video, but she says it's a game from her 500 days

[turbid eagle]

right so the game itself is 16bit

[clear surge]

Yes, I can agree with that, I'm being pedantic because the statement was "the computer that's running the game" 😄

[turbid eagle]

Yeah that's my fault for not being more clear 😂
When she referenced the A500, it was when she was introducing the game from her teenage years when she had the A500

[steady niche]

The ETARC thread has possible text from the game manual that says the character in the game is 16 bits from the edge of a black hole. Not sure if that is real or not

And the original tweet was from may 29 2017

[clear surge]

A CREATURE NOT INDIGENOUS TO THIS PLANET OR ANY OTHER PLANET WHICH THE
SO-CALLED EXPERTS HAVE DISCOVERED. THE TEARAWAY SPECIES RESIDES ON THE
PLANET CINOS EHT GOHEGDEH (SCOOTER NOTE: THATS SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
BACKWARDS...THOUGHT YOUD WANT TRIVIAL BIT OF INFO) A PLANET SITUATED 16 BITS AWAY FROM THE BLACK HOLE CALLED AGES` AND JUST A LITTLE LEFT OF THE
STAR SYSTEM MAGADRIVER BUT STILL REMAINING NORTH OF THE DENSELY POPULATED
ANAGRAM.

https://www.lemonamiga.com/doc/tearaway-thomas/1611

[turbid eagle]

lmao, the character does look like a backward sonic the hedgehog

[thorn hazel]

That's such an oddly specific coincidence

It's real though, here's another source: https://www.emuparadise.me/GameBase Amiga/Extras/Instructions/T/Tearaway Thomas.txt

[brazen prawn]

Has there been any more luck from anyone else with the connection-detected-access-denied image decoding?

[turbid eagle]

not yet, it remains a big question mark so far
several attempts have been made to run it through a spectrograph-to-audio converter at different orientations and color shifts to no significant avail

[clear surge]

I've tried working with the colour channels, it doesn't make anything coherent. My best guess is that it's a purposefully created to resemble graphical glitches, rather than an image that has been distorted, but... who knows.

[covert temple]

i think we're supposed to just bide our time til the 28th

[brazen prawn]

I threw everything plus the kitchen sink at it last night and gave up as well. I am also assuming it's flavour at this point

[turbid eagle]

You might be right.

On the other hand, the thing that gets me is, if we're meant to wait, why tell us our attempts are not the correct attempts? Sort of carries an underlying assumption that we're meant to be making proper attempts.