project-skyscraper

[turbid eagle]

If waiting were the intent, no engagement at all would be the expected response no?

(thinking out loud)

[covert temple]

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.

Agreed. IDK the only other thing I can think of is that we're just

Missing something

[clear surge]

The wake-on-lan packet seems to indicate that the puzzle is active, but ...

[turbid eagle]

System Filter activated as well
what's it filtering?

[covert temple]

I don't want to be a doomer but I don't blame Spirit27 for assuming the ARG is a hoax when we've ran into dead ends at pretty much every corner

[onyx dune]

Isnt this a game made by hello games

[turbid eagle]

it's fair lol

[clear surge]

Perhaps the first phase is supposed to work out the connections? Maybe we're not supposed to have gone behind the curtains on the wordpress site yet 😄

[turbid eagle]

no, right now there's no definitive answer on this.
we're proceeding forward as if it's a well-done fan made ARG

and potential troll ARG? lmao

[hard spoke]

It’s probably because the official arg isn’t out yet. This is just a countdown probably

[covert temple]

Yeah but how are we supposed to work out connections when there doesnt seem to be an avenue forward

[turbid eagle]

but I remember being this stumped in the past
the puppemasters had to practically reach through the screens and point at the answer

[onyx dune]

Ye ngl we've hit a dead end

[brazen prawn]

I tried to link to it, but got modbotted - was going to say if anyone is working on transforming or fuzzing the image that I've got a repo (project_skyscraper_junk) with a whole boatload of iterations you can rule out to save yourself a bunch of time

[covert temple]

i'm not tech savvy like you folks are but I'm gonna look through all the ARG pages i can find and see if anything sticks out

just incase

It could be right in front of us

Like the mayo in the fridge you looked for three times

[brazen prawn]

Probably lol

[turbid eagle]

how did you know I do that

[covert temple]

i think everyone does lol

or, alternatively, the ARG told me

take ur pick

[clear surge]

"Sunday Morning" is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium. Published in part in the November 1915 issue of Poetry, then in full in 1923 in Harmonium

I wonder if this is part of the deletion/restoration theme 🤔

[turbid eagle]

dang, could be.

question
is there anything that would have led us to the WP pages/posts if we didn't do a domain search on Google?

I realize they could have excluded literally everything in robots.txt but I'm curious

[rose dust]

Are you talking about the site as a whole or just the logs?

Because there's one potential entrypoint for the website that could have been found before the ETARC incident I believe

[turbid eagle]

either/or honestly
I'm curious which paths lead beyond the front page of the site besides Google and bruteforce subdirectory probing

[rose dust]

Ahh, I don't there are links to any site-log posted anywhere yet, but I guess someone could've tried the sleep mode pages and numbers to start off (since /sleep-mode-xxxxx) redirects to the proper dated link

[clear surge]

The ETARC forum posted the initial links, including the Origin post

The leaders there had been receiving "clues" for a few days, apparently

They also gave the X, Bluesky and Twitch links

[rose dust]

I don't think there's anything on twitter pointing specifically to the word "sleep-mode" though

[rose dust]

I am well aware, I think the discussion at hand is about the feasibility of finding the nested logs w/o the sitemap and how intended that was rn.

[covert temple]

bomberboi what's you're take on the next course of action

[clear surge]

You can keep going "next" from the Origin post to get all the logs

[covert temple]

seems like there's not a lot of leads left to chase atm

[rose dust]

yes, but you can't get to the origin post from the homepage alone

[clear surge]

But ETARC posted the direct link to it

[rose dust]

yea I saw that posted, would have to check how they found it though.

Because the chain was found by guessing a page / looking at the sitemap atp, there isn't a direct link by any account to those pages I think

[turbid eagle]

Yeah, I know "wake up day" was May 3rd, and Skyscraper posted the root domain on X/Bluesky.

After that, I'm not sure how we get deeper without google/bruteforce subdirectory checks

or someone "giving it to us" haha

[onyx dune]

Yall im back fill me in sum

[turbid eagle]

the first post from ETARC sharing this info is from 8 days ago

[rose dust]

I feel like we're definitely in the waiting phase rn till the 28th. I have a theory (heavily contingent on this being official) that an NMS update might drop on the 27th with clues for whatever unlocks on the 28th. Could be completely off the mark though, and is based on a pretty hefty assumption

[turbid eagle]

I'm curious how they got /origin

[covert temple]

Assuming this is official, that's pretty much my theory too

[rose dust]

Worth an ask! I don't think the terminology on the main page / socials had any ties to the word origin so it might just be a lucky guess?

[turbid eagle]

prob the ol' Goog haha

[rose dust]

If it's fanmade, I still think we're waiting for the 28th for something to happen. Looks like whoever's working on this wants to celebrate WT's anniversary too

[hard spoke]

Yeah agreed

[rose dust]

Another annoyingly somewhat plausible but somewhat stretch-like number oddity I realised was that a lot of the pages have their last-modified date set to 18th May artificially (even pages published after the 18th), which is 10 days before what we're assuming is the proper start

10 following on BSky / twt, 10 day artificial edit gap, 10 locations on the haphazard bruteforce log, 10th anniversary.

Argh!

[covert temple]

Was WT this hard at the beginning?

[turbid eagle]

That isn't something I had noticed!

[turbid eagle]

Yeah, and if I remember correctly, we did end up having to just wait for the hexagon to unlock its six triangles

there was a login involved too. But I don't remember the precise timeline of events or actions the community had to take

[rose dust]

I either had an epiphany when I woke up, or am starting to lose it starting at numbers all day 😛

[steady niche]

I don't consider a domain search to be extremely complicated or unforeseen

I think we're waiting until the 28th, but I also think there's something in that spectrogram image, but not something that will get us to a further step. There would be literally no reason to post it if there is nothing in it

[hard spoke]

Yeah I agree

[steady niche]

And I think we have yet to figure out the importance of the landscape picture

[rose dust]

Sorry for asking but, since you have the most comprehensive timestamp collection so far @turbid eagle, I wonder if the last modified time could hold any other pattern in relation to existing posts?
They're all set as being last modified at the exact same second (visible in the sitemap)

[steady niche]

Granted some of this stuff might be intended to be useful later, after the 28th

[hard spoke]

There is something we’re not seeing

[turbid eagle]

mind shooting the timestamp over? Is it in UTC?

[rose dust]

I don't have it on hand, but if you check the sitemap, there's a huge block of connection detected logs which all have their last-modified time set to a specific time on the 18th.

[turbid eagle]

sweet I'll check it out

[rose dust]

I think Jetpack converts it to your local timezone?

[steady niche]

Messing with the spectrogram last night, it did seem like at least one channel was offset 10 or 11 pixels to the right, but I don't know enough about spectrograms to know if that's how they are supposed to be

[rose dust]

Might be primers to gauge our skills and prepare any guardrails for future puzzles if we fail to crack these?

Like for IMG-00004, I feel like finding the location might've been what we were being tested at doing.

[turbid eagle]

it could also be that they needed to bulk edit these posts, as they might have exposed certain aspects of the blog structure the puppetmaster didn't intend.

Interestingly, the UNKNOWN_EXT3RNAL security breach was acknowledged and patched on this day. https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/05/18/sec-log-211927/

[turbid eagle]

I can see it now..

"Wellp. Looks like we're going to have to tone it down a notch or twelve for this group."

[rose dust]

I don't think that's entirely the case, since the logs from the 20th and the latest one are also last modified on the 18th (in the past, so that's not automatically set by WP). Doesn't seem like a consequence of a bulk edit if they set it to the past for these two posts (unless you can specify that when you make an edit?)

[covert temple]

i could be wrong but this all seems very coordinated for one person

[hard spoke]

I agree

[brazen prawn]

G is wigging me out because it has an equal modulo distro, and R is as well due to the almost equal high low bits. Which channel did you think is ~10px offset?

[hard spoke]

Feels like way to much for one person to handle

[covert temple]

i'm struggling to understand how the puppetmaster found all those references/parallels to 16/may 28th/whatever

especially today's video

[ember wyvern]

Btw. there seems to be a page existing for 23 may, though it is empty. There may be a post today(23 May for me already). Edit for sauce: https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/05/23/
All other dates around give not found errors

[covert temple]

how do you know where to look for a video that came out on one specific day in one specific year

That just so happens to have a 16 bit computer in it

(I think it's 16 bit i dont remember what people decided)

[turbid eagle]

prob heavy sleuthing tbh

[rose dust]

It dropped on the 23rd for me and might've been posted as such by the author, so the 23rd page isn't empty for me

[turbid eagle]

That's a directory page, which lists all posts for that day, so it makes sense that it would be there. You can see the same for May 21st and the other days that a post was published.

[rose dust]

There are so many numbers that feel like either insanely lucky coincidences, or very heavily planted that it's crazy

[ember wyvern]

Didn't quite get that. you can see content on 23 may page

[covert temple]

it kind of fucks with my head honestly

some of it is uncanny

tbf this is my first ARG so i dont have any previous frame of reference

[hard spoke]

You’re in for a ride

[covert temple]

oh i'm sure

[ember wyvern]

Yeah what I'm saying is for example 24/25 May pages give errors, but 23 may is a valid directory page as you said.

[covert temple]

my biggest challenge hasn't been the riddles, or the symbolism hidden in stuff

it's been my own patience lmao

[turbid eagle]

I think their process is less complex. They search for thematic posts that fit the ARG and/or include a 16 in some regard. To us it looks heavily calculated but for them, all they need is the right criteria.

[turbid eagle]

The website operates on UTC and it's the 23rd right now on UTC

it was posted at like 00:33 UTC on May 23rd

[ember wyvern]

Welcome to ARGs! The process is 90% tangents and reading up extremely niche information about some random cthulu demon to solve a three digit pin code to open a briefcase that a shady guy in a hood gave someone in a back alley in the middle of some city in Europe. ONE OF US.

[covert temple]

i'm here for it

[steady niche]

I think blue was offset -10 from green, but I'll look again later when I'm back on the laptop

[turbid eagle]

and it all happens on live stream with a terrible connection that cuts out every four seconds and pixelates every 2.5 seconds

[hard spoke]

lol

[covert temple]

have there always been two security logs for may 18th

[turbid eagle]

yes
well at least, after the second one was posted on the 18th, yes.

[steady niche]

Akshually, this clue is related to the Dream Cycle Lovecraft writings, not the Cthulhu stories /s

[covert temple]

mk

[ember wyvern]

Always.. In this world high res video streaming is not a thing.

Oh wait I didn't even notice that there's already an actual post for 23 March. Duh

7 & 9 down the onyx steps... (IYKYK)

[turbid eagle]

Understandable, the hyperlinks aren't underlined

but yeah standard WP subdirectory structure

[steady niche]

ETARC sniper got another one

[turbid eagle]

poor rubber duck

[ember wyvern]

A bit trigger happy aren't they?

Specially with that one user who got sniped multiple times.

[steady niche]

Just had a conspiratorial thought. What if the silenced posts were by the ARG with clues, and they are able to unsilence them later and we're supposed to go back and see them later

Wasn't the architect silenced then unsilenced?

[turbid eagle]

the leaders don't have any control over the bot that auto bans people unfortunately

[ember wyvern]

Yeah true.

[covert temple]

true but if they're clues why not unsilence them now

unless they are really future clues then

fair

also I don't think many people have control over who or what gets silenced

[steady niche]

I seriously doubt that is true, but it's funny to think about

[covert temple]

[System] does

[covert temple]

which is what unsilenced the architect

[ember wyvern]

Do we have anything else to go off of for the architect?

Who/what are they

[covert temple]

as far as what

[ember wyvern]

What are their goals

[covert temple]

we're pretty sure they're french

like the person behind the architect

[ember wyvern]

Ugh

[covert temple]

but in-lore they're like

[turbid eagle]

pretty much all the info you could want on the Architect exists here: https://skyscraper.havenmap.online/#architect

[covert temple]

a rogue ai or something i think

[turbid eagle]

fascinating read

according to this take, The Architect is Atlas-65

[hard spoke]

Which is very interesting

Why would they be atlas-65

[turbid eagle]

part of the events that unfolded leading up to this were literally some anomalous stuff going on with the forum System and the_architect's account being banned/reinstated autonomously by the System.

(System is who messages you on the Atlas-65 forum for things like level up and welcome, etc)

[ember wyvern]

But lorewise isn't the System atlas-65?

[turbid eagle]

I'm still figuring that out

[ember wyvern]

Because the forum/ETARC is in-universe no?

Emily exists in ETARC.

*existed/exists whatever

[covert temple]

oh fuck

he's gonna see that i tried brute forcing terms for like

25 minutes

[turbid eagle]

from what I remember, wasn't Emily breaking through the simulation and into reality? so the forums were like an interface between us and Emily?

[ember wyvern]

Maybe, it's been 8 years I don't remember exactly. 🤣

[turbid eagle]

I could be wrong, my memory is fuzzzzzz

[ember wyvern]

My memory was that Emily was real but as a digital being in our-universe and then there was some interference from the Atlas universe.

I might be making stuff up though.

[turbid eagle]

thing is, on this page (https://project-skyscraper.com/sec-log-094127-full/) the system appears to register confusion surrounding the automated ban/reinstatement

that's a reference to what occurred on the Atlas-65 forum / ETARC

[ember wyvern]

Yeah, which confuses me too. Why would the system do the whole ban/unban and then register confusion.

Also whose logs are we looking at here? The System?

It's confused that unban got approved, which is even weirder.

[turbid eagle]

I guess I would be confused too if I did something I didn't have control over 😂

[covert temple]

well i guess we're all confused

because i haven't the slightest idea wtf is going on either

so that's one thing me and the presumed rogue AI have in common

[ember wyvern]

Bit meta question: do you remember if any of the WT sites were wordpress hosted?

I don't think so but can't be sure.

[turbid eagle]

yes all of them if I'm not mistaken

I remember always checking

[ember wyvern]

Huh.

[turbid eagle]

there may have been one or two that weren't but several of them were

I'm certain it wasn't drupal or joomla 😂

[ember wyvern]

Yeah you'd remember that lmao.

[ember wyvern]

We need to come up with the updated term for waiting titan for this. Unfortunately there isn't any good phrase to be made with project skyscraper

Because i think we are in a waiting phase or an assembly phase.

[covert temple]

Will the real Architect please stand up

like....

like the eminem song

[ember wyvern]

Really aging yourself there...

[covert temple]

yeah maybe

[rose dust]

I guess it's less of a skyscraper rn, and more of a blueprint.

[turbid eagle]

I want to tell the architect that he needs to enable port 9 inbound on the network firewall settings 🙁

[steady niche]

I'm surprised they would be blocking port 9 internally anyway

Maybe just disable WoL for the AI 😛

[turbid eagle]

is the ARG simulating a local network between reddit/x/bluesky/project-skyscraper/atlas-65 forums? And that's why these platforms keep posting "connection detected : access denied"

Like whoever is behind this is sending a WoL packet to the entire network?

[steady niche]

@brazen prawn Here is the blue and green vanilla, then blue shifted 10 pixels left

But again, no idea if blue maybe should be offset 10 pixels

[turbid eagle]

[ insert The Dude blinking gif ]

[steady niche]

It could also vary by row in chunks, like the tower and landscape

[covert temple]

he'd probably see it if you brought it up on the atlas forums

if you're serious that is

i cant tell because i know two things about programming

jack shit and fuck all

[steady niche]

Port 9 is the standard Wake on Lan port that was blocked to start all this

[turbid eagle]

with an ARG half the fun is learning what you need to on the fly

[rose dust]

They do actually read DMs on ETARC, but leave you on read.

[covert temple]

speaking from experience? LMAO

[austere robin]

Seemed like it was the beginnings of a legit ARG -- I guess that's now the general consensus.

[steady niche]

Multiple people have tried

[covert temple]

"but leave you on read" is diabolical

[rose dust]

Absolutely, got ghosted by a rogue entity trying to wake up a system 😛

[turbid eagle]

screw it, I'm reaching out. if The ARchitect wants to connect, they need to enable port 9 inbound from their device lol

[covert temple]

Project Skyscraper secret ending

[rose dust]

I'm sure the architect wants the port to be open, but the system won't let em

[austere robin]

Happy ending

[rose dust]

Would be more useful if we could talk to the skyscraper System itself

[covert temple]

the sooner we can get a direct link to whatever the architect's character is, the better

[turbid eagle]

the first WoL sec-log was basically saying

“Hey, another device on your local network (the one with IP address 192.168.1.100) just tried to send a special ‘wake-up’ message to your computer. I blocked it for safety.”

[steady niche]

@brazen prawn Red might be offset to the left 40 pixels, but I am not as confident about that, since there is less red to go off of

[covert temple]

mostly because I want to see if any funny shit happens

(not likely)

[covert temple]

oh i see

[turbid eagle]

maybe along with my Port 9 advice, I'll also make sure to check if they've tried turning it off and back on again

[rose dust]

Oh, the ARG'd be over before it began if they tried that haha

[steady niche]

Which is interesting, 100 and 255 are usually reserved for special things like routers (.100) or broadcast messages or subnet masks (.255)

[turbid eagle]

are you moving pixels around one by one?

[steady niche]

.255 was trying to connect to .100

[steady niche]

The whole channel at once, but effectively the same thing

[covert temple]

you should do it even if it just gets us a slight passive aggressive nod like the "Brute force signatures show haphazard attempts.
No coherent pattern detected." remark

[rose dust]

On the topic of talking to the system, I haven't used wordpress in a bit, but does the admin dashboard let you see when requests to missing endpoints are made?

[turbid eagle]

I think it's the other way around, .100 was inbound, .255 was destination?

[rose dust]

We could try sending POST requests to the system with messages in the JSON body I suppose. Would that count as a connection?

[covert temple]

do the IPs lead to anything

i assume they're fake addresses

[rose dust]

They're local addresses, useless for looking up externally

[steady niche]

I think it was .255 was the sender, but I'd have to go look again

[covert temple]

oh ok

[turbid eagle]

they're literally just your standard device/local network addresses

[steady niche]

Which really, .255 doesn't even usually work as an independent address

[turbid eagle]

If you do it, share the result?

[covert temple]

fuck yk when I sent that connection attempt to the architect i shouldve rick rolled it

[rose dust]

If the Skyscraper System really does reside on the website itself, it might react to people trying to reach out.

[rose dust]

I can give it a shot, I doubt it'll do much apart from returning an error, but any reaction probably depends on whether or not the puppetmaster can see the attempt on their end.

[turbid eagle]

Especially if the ARG is simulating a local network between ETARC/website/reddit/x/bluesky

[covert temple]

this just in: internet sleuths provoke rogue AI into world domination - corny jokes to be blamed?

more at 16/16/16

ok i'm getting carried away with the jokes

[covert temple]

it seems to me that it's kind of hard to distinguish where the boundary lines are

between what's part of the game and what's not

[turbid eagle]

that's the beauty of an ARG

[rose dust]

It honestly makes it much more immersive

[covert temple]

oh i see

[rose dust]

I have a feeling that our break-in attempts weren't properly planned, but that the puppetmaster left in enough leeway to work that into the story

[steady niche]

You were right, source was .100 and destination was .255, so probably a server trying to broadcast to wake up everything on the subnet
https://project-skyscraper.com/sec-log-080413-full/

[turbid eagle]

agreed, the reference to brute forcing suggests there's an alternative, intended method

[steady niche]

Honestly, if you didn't have to live through the height of rickrolling, would it really be that bad? It's a fun song!

[turbid eagle]

What I wouldn't give to see a log of all the sub-directories people have spammed into their browsers lmao

[covert temple]

i thanked the architect in one

[rose dust]

Oh interesting. So the WoL was more of a hail mary than specifically targeting the sleeping system? Might be why it got picked up by the filtering system in the first place?

[covert temple]

it was like "skyscraper.com/heyarchitectthanksfortheARG"

or smth

who knows if he'll even see it

[steady niche]

You normally save things like .1, .100, .254 for special devices just because they are easy to remember

[turbid eagle]

That's why I'm kind of thinking that the ARG is simulating a "local network" by posting "connection detected : denied" across Reddit/X/BlueSky/Atlas-65/Project-Skyscraper

Like, those sites are all "the local network"

[steady niche]

I guess I should post that on ETARC for the people that don't know networking

[covert temple]

well youd think that, like,

if those sites are considered the local network, and the architect has acknowledged actions by that local network before (haphazard attempts, case and point)

[turbid eagle]

"TheArchitect's iPhone wants to join your network"

[covert temple]

How come the connection attempts on twitter weren't acknowledged

unless that somehow wasn't planned for

and he just

ignored it

[turbid eagle]

yeah I think that was another failed attempt by us misunderstanding what's going on honestly

My question though, is why did it repost thematically contextual content alongside the connection denial messages?

[covert temple]

I think we're missing a bigger piece of the picture

[rose dust]

I feel like twt / BSky are extensions of the sleeping system itself. Alternate logging systems for example.

The architect so far is only confirmed to have posted to ETARC. It's unclear whether the other logs are by them or the system

[covert temple]

bc it's either "We're not meant to do anything yet and this is a prologue" or "we're missing a big piece of the puzzle that isn't readily apparent" in my untrained eyes

[rose dust]

I wonder if the tweets themselves are the connection attempts, as in (in universe) these tweets are sent by the connecting party from various accounts to try and connect to the system by presenting it with numbers it knows are relevant

Oh hey, POST requests to the main page just return the actual webpage too, so the puppetmaster should probably get those in a log somewhere.

Y'all got any interesting words for the System to drop in the JSON Body?

[turbid eagle]

I'm thinking!

"Enable port 9!" lmao

[steady niche]

Here's the post on ETARC I just made with the network information:
https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/project-skyscraper-no-mans-sky-arg/9095/978?u=gumsk

[covert temple]

"I don't care what simulation you're in, it's rude to leave someone on read!"

im trying to think of useful things tho

[turbid eagle]

how about just "attempting connection" or something
maybe Atlas-65 or something lore-y

[covert temple]

^

oh i got one

or concepts for one

i need that poem about the man in the tower

where do i find it?

is it the 2005 log?

no its from may 14

actually yeah maybe attempting connection is best

[onyx dune]

I need a update yall

[turbid eagle]

could always run with the classic, password

[covert temple]

i was going to suggest something more symbolic sounding like a response to "« They can see the tower… but not the one inside. »"

but i can't think of anything

[turbid eagle]

see you're a natural ARG participant

[covert temple]

The tower looms as shadows shift in the windows<< or some shit

[onyx dune]

Yall i need a update anything new?

[turbid eagle]

nothing really new, just a lot of discussion haha

[covert temple]

we've gone through about 5 metaphorical battering rams and are still trying

[onyx dune]

Let me in on them

[rose dust]

Oh interesting, if the WoL packet was broadcast from a compromised local device, then the architect / whoever sent the packet doesn't need to be in the same physical location.

[covert temple]

nothing we've tried so far have worked. The connection attempts on twitter havent yielded a response so far

[turbid eagle]

RDP for the win!

[covert temple]

the only thing we got today was a video

whose timestamp was dated exactly when Waking Titan begun

like to the day

[onyx dune]

Is it fan made?

[covert temple]

The most obvious takeaway from that is that something significant will happen on the 28th, which is backed up with some other evidence that i cant quite recall

[covert temple]

we're still unsure

I think the general consensus is "idk dude" but i personally lean towards no

but again thats my own personal, uneducated opinion

[onyx dune]

Ngl feel like it aint since its a little to complex

Very complex

[covert temple]

It seems very planned out and deep for something fanmade

[turbid eagle]

I think our minds are saying fan made
but our hearts are saying SEAN

[covert temple]

And I don't mean to diminish the indomitable human spirit or some shit, but there's some stuff that makes me wonder if it could really have been done by (seemingly) one person

[onyx dune]

Exactly

[steady niche]

Yeah, I did Cisco networking a long time ago and could do something like this. You terminal into the outside port of the router on its external port address, login, use the console to send packets from a different physical port on the router.

[covert temple]

I mean is there any real way to tell at this stage anyway?

i don't think so

[turbid eagle]

Gumsk is the architect

[steady niche]

Waking Titan started on May 28th, and some of the repeating time frames and stuff point to the 28th as well

[covert temple]

If we get an emoji tomorrow though I'm going to lean even heavier to not fanmade

[onyx dune]

I hope its sean

[steady niche]

I think we will get an emoji this weekend or next

[covert temple]

Because that'd mean an update on the 27th

Which is one day before our special lookout day

[steady niche]

They can and have done 28th

Thursday I mean

[covert temple]

And updates don't always come out on wednesdays so yeah as gumsk said

[turbid eagle]

if this is leading to an update, the update won't hit for a couple months most likely

[covert temple]

It could come on a thursday

[onyx dune]

If we get a emoji imma tweak in a good way

[steady niche]

Almost always Wednesdays recently, but yeah, could be Thursday

[covert temple]

I'm assuming it leads to the 10th anniversary, if it IS official

[turbid eagle]

yeah the timing is right

[covert temple]

But that doesn't mean there couldnt be clues in this next coming update

if HG are cooperating with it

[turbid eagle]

maybe a community expedition alongside the ARG

that'd be kinda wild

[rose dust]

A wednesday drop could still indicate an ARG tie in. Maybe we'd need the extra day to find secrets in the patch for use in the ARG?

[covert temple]

thereve been odd things with the schedule recently too

[rose dust]

if connected

[covert temple]

Sean sent the last emoji on a monday

I didn't expect that to happen

I don't think anyone did, even if it's always been possible it's rare

[rose dust]

Very singularity esque. There isn't an expedition loaded serverside yet though, so I doubt we'll get one soon.

[turbid eagle]

I think the smaller the update, the less lead time they give the emoji but that's just a vibe I get

[steady niche]

Monday emoji are for very small updates

[covert temple]

possibly but i dont think our schedule varied much in the last two (three?) updates

[steady niche]

Basically, the bigger the update, the longer between emoji and update

[covert temple]

and they were all smaller

[turbid eagle]

and the more emojis and hype

[rose dust]

Iirc one of the smaller updates had an emoji posted on the day of the update too once

[steady niche]

Why do some people say Mother Void instead of Voidmother? Is that a translation thing?

[turbid eagle]

like Mommy Dearest

"yes, Mother Void"

(lol idk tbh)

[rose dust]

What would that be? A Motherly void, or a void full of mothers?

[steady niche]

The configuration of nodes looks different today, don't know if that matters

[turbid eagle]

mother of the void

which makes the void

a son of a ...

[rose dust]

I sent a few post requests w/ vague connection related messages (and a few begging it to open port 9), let's see if it gets acknowledged...

[turbid eagle]

amazing, fingers crossed

[covert temple]

i think more nodes get added per day until the 28th

or they're set to increase or smth

[rose dust]

They go up till the end of the month actually

[brazen prawn]

Hm, yeah. I tried a few extra alignments like this as well, then a few hops and stretches to see what comes out but I still can't get anything intelligible. Currently waiting for a script to finish converting some more attempts

[covert temple]

oh ok

[rose dust]

Capping out at ~53 iirc?

[steady niche]

Yeah, more per day, but the layout looks different, too

But the layout could be random based on number of nodes or something

[turbid eagle]

my goal is to at least make them chuckle

[steady niche]

Here is blue channel shifted 10 pixels left and red channel shifted 37 pixels right. They definitely line up better in parts, though looking around zoomed in looks like some rows might be shifted more or less than others.

[covert temple]

i still see a face or a figure of some kind

but i'm sure it's just in my head

[turbid eagle]

that's how WT started

[covert temple]

that mustve been eerie asf

[steady niche]

pareidolia

[covert temple]

yeah that

i keep forgetting its name

[steady niche]

The patterns look too repetitive to be an image, IMO

Discord didn't know it was a term either, had to add it to the dictionary

I hope it isn't setup like the login screen image, where it was wrapped around and I had to move pixels from the right side of the image to the left. I zoomed in a lot and didn't see any clear break lines where things have been pasted

[brazen prawn]

There is a period pattern every 108 pixels, but I chopped it up into bands and overlaid and didn't really get anything

[steady niche]

Ahhhhh wait, I think the different color channels were stretched from the middle to different amounts.

horizontally stretched

like the middle red areas line up with blue and green, but the far left and right groups of red line up less and less as you get near the edge

[steady niche]

I'll trust you, you know more about this 😄

[brazen prawn]

Pushed some more outputs to the repo. I'm not seeing anything. Though I wonder (loooong shot) if any star savvy people see anything in this one: https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/blob/main/connection-detected-access-denied/img/B_center_col_scatter.png

The audio is still about the same level of wonky. There is a definite pattern, but all the shifting and screwing isn't making it clearer

[turbid eagle]

you guys mind if I post a wall of text? it's not a huge wall but I don't want to be obnoxious

[steady niche]

Should be fine if it's within the server limit

[brazen prawn]

Don't hold back on my accord

[turbid eagle]

ok cool

@steady niche I don't know as much about local networks as you do. Curious what you think of the below.

It kind of makes things interesting
If you look at these websites collectively as the local network. (I know they can't literally be a local network, but pretend in the ARG universe that they are)

Especially with the unexpected approval/trust level bypass on atlas-65.
https://project-skyscraper.com/sec-log-094127-full/

Notice the source vector (atlas-65) was traced, NOT "Unknown_External" - suggesting it's within the network?

Connection is attempted, and the denial response is then broadcast to atlas-65 with the transmission, "Connection detected : Access denied". It was flagged as spam by the atlas-65 system, security triggered.

The local network logged that the connection was denied, and then authorized autonomously after atlas-65 system review. This actually happened. It literally alerted the mods on the forum and kicked this whole thing off.

The notes state clearly that this external transmission ("Connection detected : Access denied") was unintentional and that its authorization by the atlas-65 system is unexplained, anomalous, shouldn't have happened. Security level increased.

So are all these sec-log posts on Reddit/X/Bluesky/atlas-65 automated broadcasts to the entire local network on each connection attempt?

kinda seems like whatever is attempting to connect and/or wake... is doing so by probing for weaknesses in the local network? or by triggering broadcasts to the local network and testing for authorization to gain trust?

[steady niche]

I know we can't trust AI, but it might give y ou somewhere to start looking. Claude says this:

[steady niche]

I'm thinking something is sharing the internal network with System and authorizing the external posts of those logs, and System doesn't understand it. I tried to imagine the websites being considered a LAN, but I can't imagine it

[brazen prawn]

Here is the period 108 segmented image as a set of frames: #nms-media message

Cross channel posted because I can't yet 😅

[brazen prawn]

Interesting

[turbid eagle]

appreciate your thoughts!@

[steady niche]

oh you still can't post media here?

Ah, need a couple more levels I see

[brazen prawn]

Nah I'm too fresh to the server, gotta chat some more

[steady niche]

Claude said it found a public domain image with 16/16 matches to Scorpius. It's making a comparison overlay now

16

Oh, sorry, 15/15 within 16 pixels. I misread

All 15 named Scorpius stars match detected stars, most within 2–8 pixels.
The best-fit transform needed only a −30° rotation and 0.7× scale relative to my initial rough projection, which is consistent with the image being framed at an angle to the ecliptic (as wide-field astrophotos often are). The key matches:

Antares (α Sco, mag 1.06) → matched at 1.2 px
Shaula (λ Sco, the tail stinger) → 3.6 px
Lesath (υ Sco, the other stinger) → 2.7 px
Sargas (θ Sco) → 15.8 px (largest offset, still a clear match)
Pi, Rho Sco (the upper claws) → ~2 px each

The dense bottom-left cluster in your original image is the Scorpius tail curving toward the galactic center, and the isolated bright stars upper-right are the head, claws, and body of the scorpion. This is almost certainly a photograph centered on the Scorpius–Sagittarius border, approximately RA 17h, Dec −35°.```

Honestly, it doesn't look like an exact match to me, though

[brazen prawn]

Warrants some thought for sure

[covert temple]

It's interesting but I have reservations

Idk how you could pick out that constellation specifically when you could probably draw quite a few other constellations too

just with how the dots are placed

[steady niche]

That's what I think as well

There are too many possible points that could be made to line up to something

[brazen prawn]

Yeah, it's a long shot in the dark

I'm trying some more log/expo type shifting filters now to look into the possible stretched channel drift

[steady niche]

And if we were expected to find something like that, I would think it would line up perfectly with an existing image without trasformations

[brazen prawn]

Yeah, some of the outputs have gone through several layers of flipping, shifting, threshold filtering, etc. that it seems very unlikely

[cyan kraken]

hello, any funky stuff?

[steady niche]

Nothing terribly exciting today, I think

[compact python]

Architect took day off i guess lol

[covert temple]

i almost wonder if he's working on a response to our recent efforts and just put something small out as a "for now"

i wouldnt put any stock in this idea though

[cyan kraken]

i doubt it. given how its working, i feel that its pre-scheduled

i wonder if the game detective group has picked this up

the guys who work on all the ARGs

[brazen prawn]

I believe so

Pretty sure someone mentioned it earlier

[steady niche]

There was a post earlier, but nothing new in it

Another connection denied, timed post

[ember wyvern]

I’m part of the GD group as well and have reached out there but I think they’re waiting to see where this goes before jumping in.

Waiting for something solid to go after I think.

[covert temple]

yeah last i heard is they wanted to make sure it's not a farce or anything

before they commit

[cyan kraken]

that;s fair

[ember wyvern]

To be fair we’ve been burned on troll args/damp squibs several times the last few years.

[rose dust]

Have they given any attention to the images we have so far? Maybe not so much as monitoring the whole thing, but still trying to analyze the things we have rn?

[cyan kraken]

is it connections denied because of a timed thing, or connections denied until we figure out the next step, whatever that may be

[ember wyvern]

Briefly I think but as mentioned above it’ll probably take a bit more to get them in.

[rose dust]

I'm pretty sure the current connections being denied was planned in advance since these posts are all scheduled, probably as a leadup to an actual launch. The unexpected posts are probably the puppetmaster trying to keep interest while we wait by involving us in the story directly

[ember wyvern]

I think probably after we actually get something tangible/solvable.

Right now it seems like a lot of flavour text and build up.

I can say several of them are definitely here and watching.

[rose dust]

I know HG employees like to lurk around in this server too. Wonder what they're saying about all this in their private hideout haha

They're definitely aware of the whole thing since they helped the ETARC leaders set up category tags for it over there

[ember wyvern]

They’re either as confused as we are OR giggling their a**es off watching us run around like headless chickens

[rose dust]

Id like to imagine Sean cackling like a madman while we all scramble around w/wordpress endpoints and colour channels lol

[ember wyvern]

Yeah I can imagine a witches cackle coming from his office in HGHQ

[brazen prawn]

Someone mentioned Sean grew up in Australia. Is it known where?

Back on the country codes idea, I am wondering if they are countries of significance to the founding 4 developers and contain some kind of current or future clue

[ember wyvern]

My theory is that it’s the preferred language settings rather than country/region of the people who accessed the website since there are so many countries missing that people are from.

[covert temple]

Or he's got like a Martian/Ocean's 11 Esq mock up of our efforts and he's following along

Sean Murray is the bay harbor puzzle solver

[steady niche]

Crap, I just realized that the tower image was vertically shifted in columns by color channel and the landscape was horizontally shifted in rows by color channel. I wonder if we need to apply the exact same transformations to the spectrogram

I don't think so, it seems mostly horizontal

[compact python]

Wont hurt to try

[steady niche]

It will hurt me 😉

[compact python]

Cant waste a good suffering

[ember wyvern]

The Citizen Science Division appreciates your sacrifice! 🫡

[steady niche]

I looked closer and it doesn't look like there is any columnar shifting

[brazen prawn]

I got excited for a second when I chucked it into ImHex. The header filter popped up with known header CDDA, but it's a bozo and just saw the RIFF structure at the start of the header and ignored the format in the structure. 😅

I am finding some anomolies in the file though

0x14 should be the VP8 frame tag, which normally would not be 0xF0 marking it as interframe not keyframe, which means that the next 3 bytes would get misread

[steady niche]

Did you look into the tower image? Doesn't it have a missing chunk of pixels at the bottom?

[brazen prawn]

I missed that one when it was all happening (I'm in upside down vegemite land)

[steady niche]

Hah, not far off, in Korea

[brazen prawn]

Pretty close timezones yeah

[steady niche]

oh yeah, not physically

[brazen prawn]

The incorrect partition size would read as 10,290,673 - that number ring any bells?

[steady niche]

Not to me

[brazen prawn]

Reserved field is also incorrect and too specific to be random corruption

It should be 0

But bits 5-7 are set as 111

[steady niche]

How significant of a change would it create if you manually changed those?

[brazen prawn]

We're about to find out, I'm just checking there isn't actually extra frames stuffed in here

It might be why the period 108 chop looked almost like keyframes

Hm, no go via correction but that makes sense because there looks to be quite a few possible interframe segments but no sync codes, they're all missing (if this is what it looks like anyway)

This definitely looks tampered with

[steady niche]

Would what you are seeing match up with the color channel shifts?

[brazen prawn]

Almost like a bunch of webm frames

Possibly, but not sure

It could be from each colour channels original frame being stuffed into the container and dereferenced, but without frame tags I am not sure if it would be extractable

There are exactly 50 offsets that have correct looking VP8 containers but without keyframe references they won't load

Maybe it is just random compression/transit corruption but it's at an oddly specific offset

[covert temple]

Is it possible we're getting somewhere?

trying to gauge if I should stay up and see

[compact python]

Go sleep

[covert temple]

alr

[brazen prawn]

Yeah, sleep

[covert temple]

feel free to ping me if you guys do find anything

have a good night folks

[steady niche]

Yeah, not high odds anything will happen soon

And I guess if I were to move the color channels then save it, it would change the altered bits so you wouldn't be able to undo what was intentionally changed

assuming it was intentional

[brazen prawn]

Probably not with ease if it is containerised

Oh, that makes me think about the red channel actually

I need to count the distinct patches that were visible when doing a binary filter on the channel

#nms-media message

[steady niche]

For ease 🙂

[brazen prawn]

Thanks lol

[steady niche]

That second row looks garbled

And the last

[brazen prawn]

Yeah, the second row seems to have a unique pattern in it no matter how I mess with it, even when you look at it as a binary file

And there are 10x10 blocks

50 container looking offsets

Adds up but seems too farfetched

[steady niche]

I mean there's definitely something intentional there. It's far more orderly than the image raw

Each of Bluesky and Xitter are following 10 accounts

[brazen prawn]

Yeah - It's hard to not get stuck on an idea though, but the red channel seems so synthetic compared to the others

10 seems to be in a few places for sure

Hm.. time for a coffee top up, a pace and a think lol

[steady niche]

Yeah, I was thinking the same exact thing: coffee

It looks like a zig zag distortion, but it's not consistent like a visual filter would be

[onyx dune]

What the fuh is this

Are we supposed to find something in it?

[steady niche]

There are a few spots that look distinct that don't repeat anywhere. Like this thing in the top middle

[onyx dune]

Are we looking for something?

[steady niche]

So it's not just a repeating copy/paste thing

[onyx dune]

Yo im fuckin done Gemini keeps asking me to send nudes this is the 4th time

[steady niche]

07_g_histeq looks very similar

And b

[onyx dune]

Btw idk if its just me but when I turn it and a angle away from me it looks like a S in the original photo

@steady niche what if u invert the colors

[ember wyvern]

Ok guys members of the community are going to sleep, time for a breakthrough and solve everything. /jk

[onyx dune]

I see it to

[ember wyvern]

Honestly this looks like normal noise to me more than anything.

[onyx dune]

Can someone invert the colors

[ember wyvern]

I don't see any of the signs of something hidden/discoverable.

[brazen prawn]

Yeah most of the histogram type ones end up with this same block structure shining through. Same with the period 108 columns, they result in that same x10 chunk layout and look oddly like stacked frames

[brazen prawn]

It likely won't be a visual solve

[ember wyvern]

Looks like a tiled normal noise generation. to be honest.

[onyx dune]

Would inverting the colors do anything at all or no?

[ember wyvern]

I'm not saying don't try stuff obviously but usually image clues have some tell tale signatures.

I can't post an image here, but I've tried inverting it.

[onyx dune]

Anything stand out?

[ember wyvern]

Not particularly. Can I share the image with someone to post here?

[onyx dune]

Ye

Send it the media

[ember wyvern]

DM'd to you. You can share here.

[steady niche]

In the future you can post in #nms-media and post a message link here

[ember wyvern]

Gotcha. Will keep in mind. i think I disabled that channel tbh.

[onyx dune]

Yall imma continue ly schoolwork

[ember wyvern]

Yeah, now that you see what I'm seeing, I'm 99% convinced the original is just normal noise on a tiled grid.

[brazen prawn]

Just to clarify; these are data analysis image outputs, not visuals

[ember wyvern]

Gotcha. I thought this was original image.

[brazen prawn]

I mean, it is, but it's post filtering

[ember wyvern]

Can someone point the original image again? Let me mess about.

[steady niche]

There's something in that file, I'm 100% sure. Just not sure what or how significant. They wouldn't have posted it otherwise

I'm on phone, don't have the link handy

[onyx dune]

Ohhh

[brazen prawn]

I need to relisten to some of the clearer spectrogram outputs as well to see if the "thrums" line up to any of these counts as well

[onyx dune]

They got me out here doing AP calculus BC

[ember wyvern]

Wait till they have us do Fourier Transforms

[steady niche]

https://preview.redd.it/connection-detected-access-denied-v0-8c7atk6y141h1.png?width=1080&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=c1f17506bd913fb8de67bbb3452379ca0d0c723b&app_web_view=android

[onyx dune]

Oh damn we've come a long way 😭

[ember wyvern]

Thanks Gumsk. Will report back.

[steady niche]

The source post
https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/05/14/sec-log-172832/

Something in that post might be a clue. Tower, inside, echo, shadow, or the numbers

[brazen prawn]

I feel like there is something to this data problem, there is animation metadata here too, it's set to loop 1 duration 0. Gonna keep digging into this.

[ember wyvern]

Nope, threw the book at it but nada(NOT THAT Nada): #nms-media message

[brazen prawn]

So that's an incorrect frame tag, incorrect partition size, incorrect reserved field, 50 container looking offsets and incorrect frame meta data

All of which are under error tolerance to be loaded

[ember wyvern]

If there's something there, it's not in the image.

The uploaded image is also heavily compressed.

[brazen prawn]

If you think thats the whole book, have a crunch through here: https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/tree/main/connection-detected-access-denied/img

[ember wyvern]

I created just a small snapshot of it lmao. But yeah I get your point.

I'm not gonna publish the whole book 😛

[brazen prawn]

Dinner time, be back later on - leaving a script going to pull out any other fishy offsets

[untold willow]

So the tower is a real-world building in London
Is it publicly accesible? If yes, maybe a hint is there

[steady niche]

Not open to the public

Mostly residential

I don't think there's much to it other than the name of the building and possibly the method of distorting the image

[quartz plinth]

reminds me of Pokemon Go publishing private locations for people to swarm into lol

[ember wyvern]

For those new to ARGs, which I have seen a few people say they are:
DO NOT GO TO REAL LOCATIONS UNLESS EXPLICITLY SPECIFIED BY THE PM.
DO NOT CALL REAL PHONE NUMBERS/CONTACT REAL EMAIL IDS UNLESS EXPLICITLY SPECIFIED BY THE PM.
DO NOT DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL WHILE LOOKING INTO THE ARG.
DO NOT MESS WITH GOVERNMENT ENTITIES.

People might be surprised how not obvious this is to some people...

I'd add "do not do anything illegal while looking into the ARG" but at that point you're off the deep end already. My favourite one is "do not mess with government entities wherever you are in the world".

[fallow lichen]

Mods please consider pinning this message

Or have Guntie post it as "public service announcement" in case the ARG will get to that stage that checking in person will be required

[brazen prawn]

Script finished while I was putting the rice on - each of the possible container segments contains show_frame=0 and the offsets of the missing large red channel chunks roughly align

[lapis hare]

oh yup. i remember in some random non-nms ARG from a loong time ago there was a real life graveyard involved and... y e a h

[brazen prawn]

Going to write something up after dinner to try running the segments through ffprobe in different ways, see if anything sticks

[brazen prawn]

Woah.

[lapis hare]

yup. dont think anyone actually did anything but i heard people planned to do something. DONT btw, highly illegal

[ember wyvern]

That's nothing. There have been instances of military-related websites/urls being umm poked. ( it was interrupted before anything went too far but yeah it was a close one)

I updated above message, ready for pinning if mods want to do that.

[ember wyvern]

.

[ember wyvern]

Cool, let us know.

[rose dust]

We should probably also have this stickied on ETARC too, or a similar warning.

[ember wyvern]

Who can do that?

[rose dust]

I'll relay it to the leaders there

[ember wyvern]

Thanks!

I think it's best to have it out there before we reach a critical mass where it's impossible to keep track.

[rose dust]

On the topic of critical mass

I doubt it but, is the Chinese NMS community aware of this?

If it was, there might be a higher chance of HG being involved since they'd probably need a separate inciting incident to reach that part of the community, and would have a bigger motivation to include em all too

[ember wyvern]

I don't even know how we can check that.

Not aware where they would have been notified.

Though even the original ARGs were completely english-speaking/western focussed.

[rose dust]

To be fair, NMS didn't have as much of a Chinese playerbase back then. They've grown a substantial following in China since then.

[rose dust]

Iirc there are a few links on the NMS steam page to Chinese communities for the game. A few community members here are also present in those groups.

[rose dust]

Notified

[onyx dune]

Anything new?

[rose dust]

Added to the sticky with much appreciation from everyone for ya!

[ember wyvern]

Aye. Thanks.

[onyx dune]

Anything new?

[ember wyvern]

Nada. No Polo.

[onyx dune]

Where'd we get nada?

[steady niche]

No chicken?!?! What kind of world is this?

[onyx dune]

Chicken is so good

[ember wyvern]

FWIW, I've also tried poking the architect with some keywords. Not expecting responses but will keep you all posted.

[calm bronze]

So what do ARGs usually reveal, something about the update?

And do they happen before a big update?

[devout oracle]

If it's run by the company it's using material from, it typically is for an Update or New version of whatever - if it's fan made, who knows what the end goal is?

[steady niche]

It is not common to have an ARG related to NMS, so there is no pattern or predictability

[calm bronze]

So if it's from the company given the name, could we be getting cities in the game?

[steady niche]

No one knows anything that detailed at all

Skyscraper is the name of the game engine, so it might not be related to actual buildings at all

[calm bronze]

The skyscraper also turns to glass at the top, so maybe something about the World of Glass

[ember wyvern]

If official, usually it's part of the marketing cycle for a major update. If not , 🤷‍♂️ .
The last official NMS ARG was about 8 years ago so who knows.

Usually would be for a relatively large update though, previously they were for the Atlas Rises and the NEXT updates.

[steady niche]

There were only 1 or 2 previous ARGs, really two seasons of one ARG for NMS, so nothing to compare it to really

[calm bronze]

That's great news possibly

[steady niche]

The company and the game were very different back then, too

[ember wyvern]

Keep in mind, not to get your hopes up too much, we have absolutely no idea if this is official. Most of us are leaning towards not, unless we hear otherwise.

[calm bronze]

If someone is just baiting us that would suck

[steady niche]

I lean a little towards official, but am not convinced

I don't consider it baiting. If it's fan made it's still fun

[ember wyvern]

I mean if it's a cool thing by itself even if fan made, it'd still be awesome.

[calm bronze]

I mean getting our hopes up for a large update

[steady niche]

You would be the one at fault if you get your hopes up

[devout oracle]

Yeah this, if it's just fan made it's amazing and I see it as something for the community to bond some more over

[ember wyvern]

Singular! Long time!

[calm bronze]

Still the 10th anniv update should be big

[devout oracle]

[onyx dune]

Lots of bonding happening no cap

[ember wyvern]

You still a mod here right? @devout oracle

[steady niche]

If I were HG, I would make it big, but I'm also not assuming it will be

[devout oracle]

Ya

[devout oracle]

Impactful at least, if not large in size

[ember wyvern]

You mind pinning this? Want to get ahead of it before we get too big: #project-skyscraper message

[ember wyvern]

Cheers!

[onyx dune]

👍

[devout oracle]

What if my job is messing with government entities? Oversight and such

[ember wyvern]

The usual ARG channels are slowly picking it up so...

[ember wyvern]

Well, YMMV.

[steady niche]

What if my job is messing with everyone because that's what good philosophers do?

[calm bronze]

Was for previous ARGs also not known if they were official before they ended?

[steady niche]

HG eventually said something because there was a troll

Don't be that guy though

[ember wyvern]

There are a few indications you look out for when looking for an official confirmation. We're not even close to there yet.

[onyx dune]

I think things will speed up once there's a confirm

[devout oracle]

Well, there were also things behind the scenes for coordination

So far, nothing like that here

[ember wyvern]

Yeah it helped we knew who was running it because the PM was known.

[steady niche]

Yeah I assumed there was no coordination with the admins here, since you think it's fan made, and that is very compelling. If there were any coordination, this would be around the top of the list

[devout oracle]

Doesn't mean that it isn't HG, but so far I'm def leaning fan-made. Would absolutely love to be wrong on that

[ember wyvern]

I wouldn't go poking around to find out either way till the PM reveals themself, and even less after that. It's very immersion breaking and can affect the experience.

[calm bronze]

This is somewhat like that Cicada mystery game

[ember wyvern]

I would compare it more to the Bees ARG for Halo. Cicada involved less-than-legal activities at times at least from the public info.

[calm bronze]

I see

[rose dust]

Ah, y'all knew about WT being HG backed from the start?

[ember wyvern]

@rose dust when we started receiving portal glyphs with actual locations in game yeah it became a bit trivial.

And also someone decided to make a troll path for the ARG which the PM had to come out and debunk.

[rose dust]

Yea I'm aware of the timeline of how the NMS connection solidified. I'm just asking when HG reached out to the community leadership about it

[rose dust]

Yea iirc it started off with the cassettes too, with someone posting a fake tape?

[ember wyvern]

Yeah I kinda forgot how the first season started, it WAS tapes sent by HG to big content creators for the game.

[steady niche]

We're getting into midday Saturday HG time. If there's an emoji, good chance it would be relatively soon

Not a guarantee of course

[ember wyvern]

A Sean-moji with a skyscraper would be peak right about now.

[rose dust]

Wonder if we'll see any steamdb movement beforehand. I'm banking on something today and an emoji tomorrow tbh.

[ember wyvern]

The funny thing is that would confirm nothing because he's fully capable of just trolling all of us.

[devout oracle]

Not when Emily first started, but shortly after as they used accounts in various places

[ember wyvern]

Yeah it was shortly after the first few things IIRC.

[steady niche]

But, Gleam would also say they don't know if they did know 😉

[devout oracle]

That's true

[rose dust]

I would've said they'd avoid something as hype generating as a city emoji, but certain people would drum up hype over the most mundane emoji ever too

[steady niche]

💩

[clear surge]

A quick summary of chronology so far:

• On 24th March, the first heartbeat was sent, and social media accounts created.
• Heartbeats were sent on Twitter until 3rd May
• On 28th April, the Neural Network Status page (home page) was added (page ID 551)
• On 2nd May, the About page was added (page ID 1)
• On 3rd May, the WoL packet was sent (post ID 252), effectively starting the game?
• On 8th May, the first connection detected was posted (page ID 267), followed by others on 10th (269) , 13th (271), 15th (273)
• On 10th May, the ETARC forum post was blocked (page ID 1626) - was this meant to be a "Connection detected : access denied message", hence a glitched screenshot of the forum?
• On 12th May, the ETARC forum post was manually approved (page ID 1640)
• On 14th May, the reddit post was made, account was banned but the image was still available to link (page ID 1669) - potentially another "Connection detected : access denied" message?
• On 15th May, the ETARC forum leaders made a post making the community aware
• On 17th May, the Quote post was added (post ID 1674)
• On 18th May, there was a security event (post ID 1680) when an ETARC member accessed the WP admin pages (Core directives partially exposed)
• On 20th May, another connection detected was posted (page ID 277)
• On 21st May, a security log noting uncoordinated attempts was posted (page ID 1691)
• On 23rd May, another connection detected was posted (page ID 279)

[ember wyvern]

People will hype an actual rock emoji from Sean.

[rose dust]

"omg continents and geography update confirmed!!1!"

I can see the clickbait already haha

[onyx dune]

🍃 new space drugs

[clear surge]

It looks to me like the first puzzle was "visit the site", which happened on 15th May, triggering the next phase with the Quote being added. Since we haven't solved it, perhaps we're getting hints in the form of "related" posts to nudge us along?

[steady niche]

There's surprisingly no captain emoji

[ember wyvern]

Have we try finding a connection between all the twitter posts that have been replied to by the twitter account?

Apart from them involving the number 16 in some form or another?

[rose dust]

Message loud and received, ya don't need an emoji for that 😉

[onyx dune]

We got a date from when WT was launched in the most recent post

[steady niche]

Thematically they seem to involve memory, nostalgia, gaming, procgen, and the dates seem important (oh and architecture)

[ember wyvern]

Yeah, I mean more the actual content of the posts.

[steady niche]

They line up sometimes with major NMS dates

[onyx dune]

@rose dust what was the bits that TV was in earlier in the music video posted i have a idea rq

[rose dust]

I know the reference to WT's start date, but what other ones were mentioned?

[clear surge]

And for Bluesky

[steady niche]

I think the date of the Atlas Building picture under construction was related as well

The street view thing

[clear surge]

The Gothalion tweet mentions coffee, which links to the Sunday morning poem - but it was posted prior to the Quote page being added

[steady niche]

I think something lined up with August 9th, but I could be misremembering

[rose dust]

Ah, I thought there was another tweet with that.

[ember wyvern]

9 August 2016 was nms release date.

[rose dust]

I feel like the street view image might be a longer shot. I saw it floating around but didn't see the original link

Bluesky's low on posts so it's wrong to extrapolate, but that one's only got quote posts from April.

[cunning silo]

( @clear surge hey, where is this sheets, can you share the link ? pls ? )

[clear surge]

All of the twitter posts after the Quote page was added are about retro gaming (Heavy Rain - published 2010, Future Unfolding - tweet date is 2016-11-16 11:20 but game published on 15th March 2017, and Tearaway Thomas, tweet date is 2017-05-28 22:0 but game published in 1993)

[steady niche]

Someone on the ETARC thread has a Google spreadsheet with some data

But I don't remember where 😄

[clear surge]

I hadn't shared it before because it's my own records, but here you go: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SuxT9AS9Hctwcxj1jrBxw7jRNbF1iGy70vXMMlyL2ZI/edit?usp=sharing

[devout oracle]

This? https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mUOrEQqj5SqazYnwB9yjaRHICkJJVo0lJHHPSd9DbV4/edit?usp=sharing

[rose dust]

@turbid eagle' time to shine!

[cunning silo]

thx 🙂 both of you

[ember wyvern]

Small side note, did anyone notice on the twitch channel the text for the x/twitter link is "Blue Bird"

I didn't see that before.

Also worth noting the twitch channel isn't verified.

[clear surge]

Hmm

Good spot!

[rose dust]

I think that the poem was at least partially a hint for that page, and the twitch names serve as a sorta "yea, you guys got it right"

[ember wyvern]

Yeah.

[steady niche]

The other channels are skyscraper-prj

[clear surge]

I need to clean up my notes on what's a post and what's a page. Maybe I should consolidate them and add a column.

[ember wyvern]

Also Twitch was apparently created on 7 May 2026

[rose dust]

The Reddit user was also Project_Skyscraper

[steady niche]

Ah ok

[ember wyvern]

Twitter created 24/3/2026

[rose dust]

Same as Twt

[ember wyvern]

Twt?

[compact python]

Twitch

[ember wyvern]

Twitch was created 7/5/2026 from what I saw.

[cunning silo]

• they create the domain name on 2026-04-24

[rose dust]

Oh woops, I meant the bluesky

That and the twitter account share a creation date

Even though blueksy didn't do anything till later.

[compact python]

Blue bird and blue sky from poem both here. Hmm

[steady niche]

I just looked through top replies and didn't see that Atlas Building street view picture or any dates related to NMS other than May 28, so I retract my comments about those

[rose dust]

Wish we knew this was an ARG before the Reddit user was banned, could've pulled that creation date too

[clear surge]

Hold up, in that context, there are things they post on Twitter which aren't on Bluesky:

Blue birds are invisible on the blue sky,
They vanish in silence where secrets lie.

What if that's deliberate?

[steady niche]

Woo level 120

[compact python]

Could be

No wing, no shadow, no trace in the light,
They are the unseen that watches the night.

No trace in the light... we need to look while night time?

Hmm

[steady niche]

The riddle answer has been proposed as wind or stars

I lean toward stars

[compact python]

Me too

Thats what skyscraper site remided me. Star systems in galaxy map

[clear surge]

The twitter "access denied" posts after the Quote post are Heavy Rain (contains puzzles inside bird origami figures), Future Unfolding (you can knock birds out of trees) and Tearaway Thomas (there's a secret level which can be found by reaching a branch with birds).

The Sunday Morning poem also features birds (cockatoo, quail, swallow), but birds have wings, so they can't be the answer to the riddle

[devout oracle]

Stars aren't unseen at night

[clear surge]

Ah, but it's no trace in the light

You can't see them when it's day

[compact python]

"Sky is not the limit ". Time to reach the stars

[clear surge]

Or... black holes?

[steady niche]

They are (unseen) and (watch in the night), not (unseen and watch) in the night

[ember wyvern]

Could it be a Singularity?

[compact python]

What was the tower qoute about?

[clear surge]

"They can see the tower… but not the one inside"?

[ember wyvern]

I'm expecting we're waiting for more information. For me the most of interest is the L33t text variation in the messages. -> my prediction is they will all together lead to a pastebin url or imgur url or similar once we get them all and put them together.

[cyan kraken]

i will not lie, i think the riddle's answer is sentinels, or specificlly laylaps

[clear surge]

Well, Canis Major is said to be formed from Laelaps, the hunting dog of legend our sentinel friend was named after

[cyan kraken]

yep

that, and the TR4CE image -> Trace of Metal
i couldn't find the exact dialouges, but i'm pretty sure that laylaps does use the words architect, vision, and connection detected during the quest. the riddle also talks about blue birds hidden in a blue sky, a place where secrets lie, something that moves without wings or shadow. laylaps, the fun little defector that he is, is hidden until we literally summon him

could be a stretch

[compact python]

Turn on laylaps *
TALK U LITTLE //kzzzzztktk//

[cyan kraken]

and, to sound like a broken record, the whole vision and connection detected written in blue but not architect in the TR4CE image. what other blue thing do we know that can't be seen

until we make the effort to find it, or in this case, summon it

[compact python]

Laylaps is strong figure in game lore. That we already know

[brazen prawn]

Back, and... eh, no matter how I arrange the segments through ffprobe/ffmpeg I get invalid sync or start codes reconstructing video... still absolutely odd that the image has those incorrect values and then repeated show_frame values at the expected offsets. Gonna bench this one for now.

[lapis hare]

"the true skyscraper was the friends we made along the way. End of RNG."

🗼

[steady niche]

Honestly, Laylaps really is a strong answer for this setting. I was dismissive when you started, but I'm compelled

"You had my curiosity, now you have my attention"

[compact python]

Time to throw laylaps into stars and see if that triggers something speak u little blue devil

Gunter aproves

[clear surge]

If I squint hard enough, this could be a sentinel (blue channel turned off)

[grizzled yacht]

What’s the highest this number has been?

[steady niche]

something like 153

[cyan kraken]

can we summon laylaps in a space walk?

[steady niche]

Hmm, you could probably summon him on the corvette then go space walk, at the very least

[grizzled yacht]

I loved the waking titan thing all those years ago. I just stumbled upon project skyscraper and keen to get into it

[steady niche]

Sorry, all full, can't join 😉

[compact python]

No. I tried

[steady niche]

@warped moss Are you the answer to the Project Skyscraper riddle?

That's not a "no"

[ember wyvern]

Great! Now you just gotta figure out how to ship a discord user to the architect

[clear surge]

Does anyone know how to get the original PNG of the connection-detected image from Reddit? The URL given by the project-skyscraper post forces a WEBP, and if I change or remove that it doesn't work. I suspect something may be lost in the transformation.

[steady niche]

He's digital

I'm looking at the page source and can't see any hidden link to a full image

[grim pivot]

I just heard about this ARG a couple hours ago, can someone give me a quick summary of what's going on?

[steady niche]

https://skyscraper.havenmap.online/

[grizzled yacht]

Website. Mystery. Discussion.

[grim pivot]

thanks!

[clear surge]

Judging by other images, it should be https://i.redd.it/connection-detected-access-denied-v0-8c7atk6y141h1.png, but that gets a 403 forbidden response

[steady niche]

I'm done for the night, probably nothing happening for the rest of the day. See you all tomorrow

[clear surge]

So we may only have the preview, which could be useless because of the conversion to WEBP

[steady niche]

Yeah looks like it was deleted from CDN

vector's github might have it

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

You'll have to scroll a lot 🙂

This was in his github

Not sure if it was created from the webp though

[compact python]

Was thinking . About those black gaps. Those are frequencies right ? Simliar thing was in WT

[brazen prawn]

I can't remember if that was the original or not - I'll have a check

[brazen prawn]

It's something like that I think, and they're the "thrums" or "burst" when used as a spectrogram output

[steady niche]

It's much larger, so I'm guessing so

[brazen prawn]

Yeah that ones an output

Give me a tick and I'll see if it's on my server still

[clear surge]

I suspect it might be a small image, repeated horizontally and vertically, because there are "echos" of the red

[steady niche]

They don't quite match up, not a direct copy paste

[brazen prawn]

You can kind of see them matching up as smaller frames here: #nms-media message

[clear surge]

That looks like laylaps spinning? Or am I imagining it?

[compact python]

WT had puzzle like this u convert freq to numbers and apply numbers to letters

[ember wyvern]

I think it was actual audio there? Like we had the original audio not just the waveform.

[compact python]

No. Only the picture

[brazen prawn]

I have so many random damn files in my mess of a server, I think I have the original, will throw it up in a sec

[ember wyvern]

Worth a try

[compact python]

This is why that wt puzzle cought my eye

"Sky is not the limit"

[brazen prawn]

Oh, this is good to know

[brazen prawn]

https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/blob/main/connection-detected-access-denied-v0-8c7atk6y141h1.png

[compact python]

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJG-TR0XPQ4ZzGLyaOpvuUeVuzVt1jrx4&si=qwKd4LWU-ltT4w5v

To refresh memory and know what tricks arg can have up in its sleve

[brazen prawn]

Double checked and it matches the copy I have on my phone from when it first dropped as well, so should be it.

[rose dust]

So Martin Griffitths just liked NoMansZine's post about the ARG. Could be worth something, or just a nod that they're aware.

[ember wyvern]

Still not enough for me but hmmm

[solar sonnet]

Not full confirmation but defo fuel on the fire

[ember wyvern]

My reaction is : don’t. Don’t get my hopes up.

[cyan kraken]

who's martin griffith

[ember wyvern]

The guy who literally made Project Skyscraper.

(the NMS game engine)

[cyan kraken]

ah

apologies i dumb

[round agate]

fires are being lit, skies are being manned

[brazen prawn]

He is the current engine programmer. He wasn't there at the engines inception.

His efforts were and are part of the modernised engine.

[solar sonnet]

Still though

Interesting development

[brazen prawn]

It is - was just clarifying

[ember wyvern]

I thought he was part of the initial team. Mb for misinformation

[ember wyvern]

@cyan kraken correction to my statement.

[cyan kraken]

ah, cool cool

[brazen prawn]

He's still been on it a very long time all things considered

[cyan kraken]

also, for that connection denied image, have we tried the pixel shifting, that we figured out from the TR4CE image

[rose dust]

Are you sure? I recall a tweet he made talking about heading off to a pub post NMS launch to discuss the game iirc. Will have to dig it up.

[brazen prawn]

Original engine code was Sean and Dave to my recollection. He was brought in after groundwork was done

[rose dust]

https://x.com/i/status/1861878798335242654

Martin Griffiths (@Griff_)

Growing up in a small, pretty rough town in South Wales, I was lucky to have amazing parents that taught me resilience and to try and try again if you initially fail:

Shortly after the initial release of #NoMansSky I had a meeting with Sean in a pub in Guildford and everything

X · Nov 27, 2024, 9:04 PM

[cyan kraken]

bruh, what're the chances someone finds the pub

[rose dust]

Sean started work on the engine first iirc in secret, but the rest of the team's been a part of the development ever since it became a proper game.

[brazen prawn]

It was handed over after Sean and Dave's initial work

[ember wyvern]

Probably very easy. But let’s not.

[cyan kraken]

yeah

lets keep this strictly here until absolutely necessary

[ember wyvern]

It’s not relevant to the ARG hence it’s not for here.

[cyan kraken]

aye sir

[clear surge]

Hmm, OK, so the reddit post was made before the Quote post, so it's not a clue for it. If I'm right about the image being a sentinel / Laylaps, then it might just be a "we're watching you" post, and the hint just guiding us towards interpreting the picture (we can see sentinel pillars, but we can't see the Hive?).

[brazen prawn]

Anyone checked out the deltas between the post IDs as a two part series? (3 digit and 4 digit series)

They're interesting

[ember wyvern]

What’s it look like?

[brazen prawn]

3 digit in particular:

3 digit delta summary:
  117 -> 128 : +11    (origin -> first sleep-mode)
  128 -> 132 : +4     (first step into sleep-mode sequence)
  132 -> 134 : +2
  134 -> 136 : +2
  136 -> 138 : +2
  138 -> 140 : +2
  140 -> 142 : +2
  142 -> 144 : +2
  144 -> 146 : +2
  146 -> 148 : +2
  148 -> 150 : +2
  150 -> 152 : +2
  152 -> 154 : +2
  154 -> 156 : +2
  156 -> 158 : +2
  158 -> 160 : +2     (end of sleep-mode chain)
  160 -> 259 : +99    (post-type switch: sleep-mode -> sec-log)
  259 -> 263 : +4
  263 -> 267 : +4
  267 -> 269 : +2
  269 -> 271 : +2
  271 -> 273 : +2
  273 -> 275 : +2
  275 -> 277 : +2
  277 -> 279 : +2     (sec-log chain: 2 steps of +4 (second step now 2+2), then 6 steps of +2)

Origin, then 16 later the next major event

Origin (event) = unique

Then delta 4

Then just 2s

[ember wyvern]

Isn’t there almost a constant time difference and the post ids are just unix seconds timestamps?

Or am I misremembering?

Can’t check right now as I’m on mobile.

[brazen prawn]

I'm not sure, haven't looked at the post timestamps

[compact python]

Yes . Logs have unix timestamps

[brazen prawn]

Regardless of the reason, the pattern seems specific

[compact python]

So next major event in each 16? Hmm

[brazen prawn]

Maybe

[compact python]

If yes. When

[clear surge]

The sleep posts were 2 days, 11 hours, 3 minutes and 33 seconds apart (apart from a couple that were off by 1s) .

The security log pattern is a bit harder to read, but the last gaps were:
2 days 11 hours 4 minutes 0 seconds (212640 seconds)
2 days 11 hours 3 minutes 0 seconds (212580 seconds)
2 days 11 hours 4 minutes 0 seconds (212640 seconds)
2 days 11 hours 4 minutes 0 seconds (212640 seconds)
2 days 11 hours 3 minutes 0 seconds (212580 seconds)

[ember wyvern]

I think it was that the number of seconds between them was nms peak player count at launch or something 200 something thousand.

[brazen prawn]

For the curious: https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/blob/main/post_id_series_analysis.txt

[ember wyvern]

I think it’s already documented somewhere.

In the sky haven thing I think.

[brazen prawn]

I checked but didn't see it, might have been a blind moment though lol

[ember wyvern]

Ah my bad not in the havenmap but here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mUOrEQqj5SqazYnwB9yjaRHICkJJVo0lJHHPSd9DbV4/edit?gid=1171087795#gid=1171087795

212,613 seconds.

[brazen prawn]

Ah, tracking different things

[ember wyvern]

Based on the twitter posts but correspond with the website post timestamps.

[brazen prawn]

~9 June if it ends up following the pattern / being one at all

[compact python]

Marking calendar

[ember wyvern]

I believe NEXT was released/announced around that date back in the day as well. 4 June if I'm not mistaken?

[ember wyvern]

Well we're gonna get a whole bunch of new recruits shortly.

[brazen prawn]

Show them to the Multi-tool rack 🫡

[ember wyvern]

Yeah TLDR this is NOT being run by the WT PMs but I got them to spread the word for people to join...

[rose dust]

Oh damn, Alice n Smith confirmed it?

The fanmade stocks are probably rising then, but the current PM is still doing a great job.

[ember wyvern]

I said what I said and I'd rather not say more, as it's not my place. Yes, I have confirmation from the WT PM they are not running this.

[clever condor]

Just because they're not involved doesnt mean its fan made there is plenty of ARG companies.

[rose dust]

That's fair. Hell, it might be in house fwiw

[ember wyvern]

It increases the chances a whole bunch cause there is not many.

But yeah, point is valid.

Either way, shouldn't change how we solve/investigate things.

[clever condor]

I find it odd how we got a start of a ARG during a expedition and no conclusion either its also possible for a company to do an ARG in house to. But its 50/50 in my book

[rose dust]

For sure, it's still really fun to work on

[ember wyvern]

Do we have any new findings in the last few hours?

[compact python]

I dont think so

[ember wyvern]

I believe @brazen prawn was running some more scripts on the images? Did anything come from that?

[compact python]

Idk

[brazen prawn]

I pushed a few more outputs, but best I can get out (audio wise) is the more or less same thruming pattern that I can't make heads or tails of

Interestingly a full decompression results in a stereo copy that perfectly alternates between L/R channels as it progresses

Beyond that, nothing else really

[ember wyvern]

The quote page just updated with message: Current status: unstable

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

The word unstable links to: https://project-skyscraper.com/tag/unstable/

[brazen prawn]

Have mostly been looking at other avenues to take a break form the connection-detected image

[brazen prawn]

Interesting

[clear surge]

Does that mean we're close? 🤔

[ember wyvern]

So there's something on that page to solve is what I'm reading from that.

[high stump]

so is the current consensus that we're waiting for the arg to properly begin

[clear surge]

I still don't understand the relevance of the date. It's when that picture was taken, but we also don't know why the picture relates to the poems.

[ember wyvern]

Not with the latest update. there's something on that page to solve is what I'd guess. @high stump

[brazen prawn]

So now we have unverified, unstable (tags) and glitching-reality (attachment tag)

[high stump]

i see, anyone remember what it said under status prior to unstable?

[clear surge]

It was untagged

Either we've made some sort of progress, or they're trying to hint that it's something we should be working on 😅

[high stump]

haha trying to tell us we're falling behind schedule

[ember wyvern]

It's definitely a nudge to do something with that page.

[cyan kraken]

i like how the unstable entry is the one with the poem

like, "look here ya little shits"

[clear surge]

There are 2 tags currently - unstable and unverified. This post has just been marked as unstable, there are no other tagged posts.

https://project-skyscraper.com/wp-json/wp/v2/tags

[high stump]

as far as i know people in etarc forum found what is likely the location of that distorted picture, but i doubt there would be anything physical at the location

[cunning silo]

I beleive we have someone going there tomorrow (at Le Forgeron, the picture with the quote, it's near Paris)

[high stump]

ok cool

[clear surge]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_comtesse,_sculpture_de_Mickaël_Camacho,_parc_de_Lormoy,_basilique_Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Garde,_Longpont-sur-Orge.jpg for another angle of it (now rather worse for wear)

Oh, nice, google images can get me there

[cyan kraken]

WAIT

that'as the image]

[high stump]

I don't know about this particular one in France, but other similar statues around the world are often involved in geocaching, i wonder if that could have something to do with this

[cyan kraken]

is that from google images?

[ember wyvern]

So what we know about the page.

• The top right image of the person is a picture of Wallace Stevens, a poet.
• The title of the page is "Sunday Morning" which is the name of a famous poem by Wallace Stevens
• The poem on the page is NOT Sunday Morning, but has already been used to indicate the presence of a Twitter(Blue Bird, also what the twitter page is mentioned as on the twitch page), and the Blue Sky page for project_skyscraper.
• The page now has a status of "unstable", the only page to have that tag.
• The image has been identified as Le Forgeron in Paris

[cunning silo]

• star, wind or blackhole have been proposed as riddle's answers @ember wyvern

[clear surge]

It's not the exact image, the one on the site has more blue sky

[cyan kraken]

yeah

just saw it

[ember wyvern]

Yes, we need to figure out how to try the possible answers. I believe Laylans was also one option.

[cyan kraken]

the blue birds hiding ion the blue sky, though

[ember wyvern]

Posts present on twitter(blue bird) but not on blue sky

[cyan kraken]

did anyone check the sky in that image for hidden stuff?

like the 16 in the earth image

[clear surge]

Yeah, various ways

[cyan kraken]

ah, fair

[ember wyvern]

Do we have an easy reference on the posts that are on X but not on Blue Sky?

[clear surge]

Honestly, it looks like they replaced the sky and then labelled the pic with the date of 13/04/2005. The perspective is too exact.

[high stump]

hm it does seem that way

[cunning silo]

I'm intrigued by the heartbeat on X. The sequence is +3,+2,+3,+2... Until the 22 to 25 April where it miss a beat (+3,+2,+2,+3). After that, the security logs appeared. Any clue? What do you think?

[high stump]

i just wonder how the date relates to it

[clear surge]

Yes, I've been looking but I haven't found any significant events on that date

[high stump]

perhaps its just to show that the "system" was running normally and then something started to awaken, hence the security posts?

[cyan kraken]

maybe it has some relation to whatever happened on 1 jan 1970? that's the first entry, no?

[wide ridge]

Thats the start of the Unix epoch

[clear surge]

I did find this, though https://theskylive.com/moon/2005-04-13#atlas_19

Atlas is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located in the northeast part of the Moon, to the southeast of Mare Frigoris. T. W. Webb described it as "a superb amphitheatre" with "its ring rich in terraces and towers"

[cunning silo]

Yes! But at that time, nobody was looking. So why do it if its not a clue?

[wide ridge]

In the context of that log entry, it could be a null/out of bounds response when searching for archival records prior to the time the system could record

[high stump]

Yeah idk, I just find it so creepy knowing this had been underway for 2 months before anyone noticed it lol

[cunning silo]

Internet is vast, and we are aware only since the atlas65 post, right? We know because they (puppet master) tell us

[wide ridge]

Sorta

Well, yeah probably

Considering the circumstances of that post

According to the staff of those forums, the post got flagged and removed by the automod of the forums, but the system itself reinstated the post? At least, thats how I've heard it described

[cunning silo]

Yeah there is a ghost in the shell 😁

[clear surge]

Another odd thing about the IMG_0004.jpg image is the dimensions, 1212x742.

JPEG files should be multiples of 8 pixels wide/high, so there's some pixels not displayed (I checked, they don't show anything interesting). But the changed dimensions could be significant.

[cyan kraken]

artemis reference

[high stump]

artemis awakening from the simulation?

[cunning silo]

Oh I was thinking about the old anime movie 🙂

[cyan kraken]

the manga's good, aye. but the closest refrence in NMS is probably artemis

[brazen prawn]

It's got an odd header too I just noticed

[high stump]

artemis placed into the new simulation (Light no Fire) and is now trying to break out of the system

[brazen prawn]

Gonna throw some stego tools at it and run some other heuristic tests. I haven't looked at this one yet

[wide ridge]

Nah, thats not what the sub-simulation is of

[high stump]

I know lol, just schizo posting

[compact python]

Its not that old ok 🥲

[brazen prawn]

coughs in gits avatar

So far only hitting false positives for offsets, gonna leave some tests running and get to bed

[cunning silo]

I feel you 🙂 at least, I didnt cited the remake lol

[compact python]

There was a remake?

[cyan kraken]

there's been a remake of a LOT of old anime

[ember wyvern]

We prob should be brainstorming more on the quote page and additional solutions.

[cunning silo]

On my side, nothing good neither. Checked the scans, the header, and so on, but nothing of value. I hope you find something

[ember wyvern]

Not the interrupt the weeb-off of course...

[cyan kraken]

architect labelling the sunday morning post as unstable could mean a lot of things though, no?
like, calling our attention to it, or having made some change to it

[clear surge]

I ran it through some random free service

[covert temple]

alas I am returned