project-skyscraper

[compact python]

I tried to look up pgp word list but that is ded end i think

[covert temple]

or however that elden ring line goes

so I hear we've had a development on the quote page

instability?

whatever that means

[cyan kraken]

could it be a red herring? drawing our attention to it?

[rose dust]

Remember the unused post tags?

One of em is now used on the quote page

Which added a link that shows all of the pages with that tag

[covert temple]

I see

[clear surge]

I wonder ... if the date is numbers to use in conjunction with the poem, and not actually a date?

[rose dust]

Specifically, unstable

[rose dust]

I have a feeling that the unverified tag will be used for logs issued by someone else, and unstable posts might be ones which are susceptible to change and should be monitored? (Much like quote in this case)

[ember wyvern]

Words only in the poem on the page not in Sunday Morning:
invisible
lie
light
secrets
shadow
silence
trace
unseen
vanish
watches
wing

Words in both:
are
birds
blue
in
night
no
on
sky
that
the
they
where

[untold willow]

Maybe the quote is a work of steganography?

[compact python]

Not enough info

It could be many things but we dont have anything to fit it into.

So we shoot in the dark and pray 4 the best

[ember wyvern]

Aight I'm gonna head out for the day. Keep exploring guys.

There's very likely something to be solved on the quote page if anyone is interested in looking into it.
Two things I can suggest to explore:

• the word diffs I've shared above between the page poem and the sunday morning poem
• the diff between the posts on twitter vs blue sky ( based on the wording of the page poem)

[covert temple]

I agree it sounds like looking into

But idk what you'd do with those words once you have them

Tweet them to the architect? Put them into the URL of the site?

There's no obvious place to type a password in

[rose dust]

That's honestly why I still think we're in a waiting phase. There's a distinct lack interactivity and progression here. Most of our pursuits are shots into the wild without an obvious target so far.

[clear surge]

If we assume the image has something hidden stenographically, it may require a password to unlock

[untold willow]

How about converting the quote to ASCII values (or something similar), could that be used in any way? For example, to get something out of the image or the spectrogram discussed here earlier?

[ember wyvern]

Just dropping in to say Gothalion, one of the people retweeted by the twitter handle and a prominent NMS creator posted on twitter with a [REDACTED] message earlier today. 90% chance unrelated but worth noting.

[clever condor]

I get being skeptical but 90%? Maybe more like 65%-70%

I cant recall him tweeting cryptic stuff before especially with the sus timing of everything.

He is obviously in contact with HG for whatever reason lol

[ember wyvern]

The skepticism comes from multiple years of being disappointed by ARGs. It’s not for no reason. I’ll be fully on board at the first legitimate sign of life here.

[clever condor]

I still find it weird with the Cursed Expedition I think that Sean teased the start of a ARG but we got nothing after.

Everyone just assumed it ended with Worlds.

[compact python]

invisible
69 6E 76 69 73 69 62 6C 65 0A
105 110 118 105 115 105 98 108 101
vanish
76 61 6E 69 73 68
118 97 110 105 115 104
silence
73 69 6C 65 6E 63 65
115 105 108 101 110 99 101
where
77 68 65 72 65
119 104 101 114 101
secrets
73 65 63 72 65 74 73
115 101 99 114 101 116 115
lie
6C 69 65
108 105 101
shadow
73 68 61 64 6F 77
115 83 104 97 100 111 119
trace
74 72 61 63 65
116 114 97 99 101
light
6C 69 67 68 74
108 105 103 104 116
unseen
75 6E 73 65 65 6E
117 110 115 101 101 110
watches
77 61 74 63 68 65 73
119 97 116 99 104 101 115
Hex and ascii values

[rose dust]

wasnt that the singularity? Tbf, it's patch notes stated "ARG like elements" and not a full ARG

[modest oxide]

I feel like if this ARG was actually backed by HG Gothalion would have already started talking about it the same way as the youtubers Hello Games reached about Waking Titan.

The fact that nobody is taking the bait about Project Skycraper speaks volumes in and of itself I think.

[clever condor]

It probably didn't fully start yet I wouldn't rely on content creators to say its a dud. Waking Titan took a second to take off at first to. Also maybe it was Singularity but it shows HG aren't afraid to start a new ARG. I still am about 60/40 on this with 60% being legit. I can easily see the first half being for NMS 10th anniversary and the second half either another update for the 11th anniversary or being related to LNF. Weird we haven't gotten an emoji yet. I kind of wonder if we might get a expedition only update that might contain more hints and be cryptic. Either way I wont be upset if its fan made either. He did say this year would be big for NMS.

[modest oxide]

I don't buy that for one second. Waking Titan had the youtubers involved from the very beginning, HG talked with them and coordinated with them before Waking Titan was even discovered at all. From the very first days Waking Titan was discovered youtubers were talking about it and had tapes.

The purpose of that is to spread the word so people know and get involved...if it was legit they'd be doing already because that's the stuff you do BEFORE things kick off properly...so the community is already there when it starts.

[clever condor]

NMS speculation use to be a lot more rampant before beyond now everyone just has such a negative outlook on it. You can go back to anything preBeyond and see speculation was more heavy. I don't think anyone covering Waking Titan in the early days had contact with HG. Want to emphasis EARLY.

Bruh I'm gonna quote you if your wrong and I expect you to do the same if I'm wrong.

[modest oxide]

But this one seems like a one guy fan project...and I doubt it's going anywhere at all.

[hard spoke]

I honestly think the true ARG hasn’t even started and we’re looking at a countdown to the 28th possibly

[clever condor]

Exactly and not only that this is a lot of effort for a fan made project. Even with AI/Vibe Coding

[modest oxide]

And before it starts is when the youtubers should start talking if this was a real thing...same as with Waking Titan...youtubers were all over it from day one, long before it started properly.

[clever condor]

The NMS Youtuber community for speculation is dead compared to Waking Titan just saying.

[compact python]

Or june 9

[clever condor]

Captain Steve and Professor Cynical are practically looked down upon just for doing it and Kanaju only does it once in a blue moon at a end of video.

[hard spoke]

Cobra TV doesn’t even play NMs anymore either

[modest oxide]

You don't get it. They did it because Hello Games reached out to them and coordinated with them long before the public first heard of Waking Titan. If HG had reached out to people some would be on it already.

[compact python]

They are mainly content creators. I Dont expect then to do the dirty work

[clever condor]

I doubt they did. The only time HG reached out is when it was getting more indepth with the Atlas Passes everything else was pure hype and speculation.

Which is completely dead in the NMS community.

Compared to before at least

[modest oxide]

Again...they reached to youtubers before Waking Titan to help push it...long before V4 Atlas Passes were a thing...over a year before those.

[clever condor]

I think we should just stop since we're kind of spamming this discussion when it should be reserved for important stuff. Also I remember and they didn't the initial period of Waking Titan was pure speculation and hype people didn't even know if it was for Destiny or NMS.

[compact python]

Nms content cycle is to thin for yt content creator to stay afloat

[modest oxide]

And if HG did not reach to anyone to push this and aren't trying to rally the community to it before an actual kickoff then they probably have nothing to do with it.

[compact python]

Or they still in prep phase

[modest oxide]

I don't buy that. You gather the audience before a show starts or there is no show.

[ashen gale]

I'm 50/50 on it. Even if its not official still pretty well made and interesting. But if it is HG then I think a small acknowledgement or something to let us know would help a lot.

[ember wyvern]

I think that’s a sufficient tangent.

It shouldn’t matter if it is or isn’t official until we even know what we’re doing and for what goals.

[covert temple]

It doesn't make any difference atm

we only know what's in front of us

[ember wyvern]

No point in a back and forth arguing about it.

[ashen gale]

Agreed its still an interesting thing to solve and its cool to see everyone together trying to solve the thing again haha

[modest oxide]

Oh it absolutely one trillion percent matters. If this is not official I will do absolutely nothing for it. No reason to waste my time on it.

[clever condor]

I wouldn't be arguing with a 50/50 on the matter its just the straight nuh uh arguments tbh.

I agree with spock and batzy overall though.

[clear surge]

Then why even come into the dedicated channel for it?

[rose dust]

Everyone controls the media they interact with

[ember wyvern]

I give up. Enjoy guys.

[rose dust]

We can all choose how to dedicate our time on our own, no need to argue over it

[ashen gale]

Also valid. It's why I would not really know what to do on their end if its not official lots of people are going to leave but if it is more people join so yeah haha

[compact python]

Until confimation all is possible. Im waiting untill june 9. Thats when suposedly something might happen

[rose dust]

If someone wants to use their time to solve an arg (even a fan made one), they have every right to use their time on it

[modest oxide]

To see if any youtuber had got involved or if anything real actually moved. It's been more than long enough for youtubers to start talking but they are publicly ignoring being quote posted by this.

[clever condor]

I mean Captain Steve and Professor Cynical already covered it briefly.

Outside of Kanaju they're probably the biggest dedicated NMS content creators despite low view counts but there isn't much there for NMS to begin with.

[modest oxide]

If it's not real there won't be any confirmation.

[compact python]

One way or the other . Sooner or later we will know.

[clear surge]

HG made a section for it on the Atlas-65 forums
One of the engine developers liked at tweet about the ARG

If they wanted to tell us it's not official, they could

[clever condor]

You know that's a good point.

[compact python]

I dont mind if its fan made if its done well

[thorn hazel]

HG doesn't run Atlas-65 I don't think

[clear surge]

They own the site and do the admin. The volunteers moderate it

[rose dust]

they pay for the site and are the only ones who can add new categories

[ember wyvern]

You’d think if someone doesn’t want to work on or interact with something unofficial, they just, won’t.

[modest oxide]

Professor Cynical is the biggest hack covering this game...the amount of times that guy lied about "eploits" and "cheats" that weren't real to keep making nonsense videos is insane. I doubt Hello Games would do anything with him at all.

[compact python]

Intresting...

[ember wyvern]

They do. After Waking Titan control was handed over from the ARG PMs to HG.

[compact python]

That is kinda true. Saw one of his vids about "efficient" farms. He is more like nms troll of sorts imo.

[rose dust]

A good friend of mine recently had an interaction with an HG server dev on twt when someone pretending to be HG cloned a repo where they confirmed it wasn't them. Though granted that was a more severe infraction than a potential fan ARG imo

[clever condor]

Yeah only take I can agree with from Spirit however doesn't change the fact he still has subscribers and the views for being a NMS content creator.

[ember wyvern]

Someone give me a ping if we go back to ARG discussions or if there’s an update.

[modest oxide]

Cynical is one of the smallest NMS content creators at 33k subs. The biggest one active right now is probably Jason Plays at 255k.

And he does not get views...hasn't had a video break 10k views in over a month.

[rose dust]

Hate to backseat mod guys but, this channel probably isn't the right place for this convo

[onyx dune]

Anything new?

[covert temple]

yeah, the poem page got updated

[onyx dune]

Whats on it now?

[covert temple]

Not much is different, but theres the word "Unstable" at the bottom

Thats got a link embedded in it

But idk if it leads anything. I don't think it does

[onyx dune]

Hmmm did u click it?

[rose dust]

It takes you to a page that displays all pages tagged as "unstable" by the author. Currently that list only includes the Quote page, but will probably have more later on.

[onyx dune]

Interesting we still in the waiting phase?

[covert temple]

Seems like it

[steady niche]

Thank you, I'll report this to ETARC since some people still don't think that's the place.

Now back to sleep, 530am 🙂

[compact python]

Maybe the quote pic will have the key to spectograph solution if the page will become more unstable

[clear surge]

EtherOrmolu on the Atlas-65 forum compared the Google images pic to the one on the project-skyscraper site:

[turbid eagle]

sigh time to open photoshop again

[clear surge]

I'm wondering if the horizontal distortion is sound? But I don't know how to eliminate the image to only get the distortion

[compact python]

Could be just a way to hide the location from us

[turbid eagle]

and the truck

[compact python]

Distortion imo is to small to hide anything in it.

If it will get bigger then it will be worth to look closer

[clear surge]

Why this location, and why choose a photo that you need to replace the sky for? How does it relate to either poem? 🤔

[compact python]

Maybe we need to wait for other puzzle pieces to get bigger picture

Atm i dont see the connection

[turbid eagle]

that's what has been puzzling me about this dang poem for so long
(among other things)

yeah there's a blue sky.... but that can't be it lol

they for sure used the warp tool to get this.
I couldn't apply a simple scale, skew or perspective transform to get the same result until I used a warp transform to get all the nuanced distortions in place.
It's not perfect, but you get the idea

[compact python]

Very nice

[turbid eagle]

unfortunately it doesn't do much for us 😂

the warp + replaced sky is messing with me though
especially in the context of the poem

new sky
No Man's Sky 2 confirmed

New Man's Sky lmao

[compact python]

New skyboxes at least lol

[turbid eagle]

right? lol

[torpid linden]

I was supposed to head there today (30 mn from my place) but I had unforeseen circumstances that did not allow me to go. I'll go there tomorrow you have my words

[clear surge]

So, for some reason, they went to a lot of effort to make a picture of some sky without any birds in

[turbid eagle]

I don't even see birds in the original 😭

[turbid eagle]

no pressure Microsan, we don't even have any reason to believe we need to go there and don't want to encourage you to go lol

[clear surge]

Exactly

The only problem was the sky wasn't blue, so they replaced it, but ... why

Why not just use a different pic

[turbid eagle]

something about that specific loc

[stray prairie]

The picture appears clean throughout. One exception is Le Forgeron carries the same glitch distortion that appears on the Atlas building image. The rest of the picture is untouched by that glitch. The Blacksmith was marked deliberately.

[covert temple]

@rose dust figured I'd ping you, less than 5 minutes ago Sean dropped an update emoji. It's a bee

[turbid eagle]

omg

[covert temple]

Meaning the update is coming this week

[turbid eagle]

like Cicada3301? lmao

[covert temple]

Probs the 27th unless it comes out on the 28th

[turbid eagle]

is this the Cicada 3301 of NMS

https://x.com/NoMansSky/status/2058309798588743733

Sean Murray (@NoMansSky)

🐝

X · May 23, 2026, 10:11 PM

I'm going to soil my undergarments if this is an ARG alongside in-game events

if the puppetmaster really wants to mess with us, they should update the site within the next 5 mins

[clear surge]

There's definitely distortion elsewhere, but it's more obvious on Le Forgeron

[turbid eagle]

I found more reference images of this location as well

https://danielclerc.fr/91_syndicat_orge_art_et_nature_en_vallee_orge.htm#Longpont_2

https://unmondedimage.canalblog.com/2024/03/vallee-de-l-orge-78.html

the artist is Michaël Camacho

I guess due to safety/deterioration, the sculptures were removed in April of this year

Imagine the Project Skyscraper account reposts Sean's bee post on Monday, and it says "Connection detected : Access granted"

[covert temple]

i saw your response to seans tweet maths

Hivemind seems viable

nobody will know before the update drops ofc

but itd make sense

[turbid eagle]

No Man's Sky: HONEY

[covert temple]

i had nearly had a heart attack thinking Project Skyscraper responded to Sean's tweet but no, false alarm

i'll still be looking out to see if they acknowledge the emoji(s)

[covert temple]

Someone on the NMS subreddit suggested that we should try using a Polybius square, so I brought one over here. Could this have any use?

[onyx dune]

Project skyscraper has made Google news yall

[clever condor]

Huh?

[covert temple]

well

I take comfort in the fact that if this is a hoax we're not gonna be the only ones with egg on their face LOL

[clever condor]

I cant find the news but if its from a credible source and not some small outlet like gamingbible for example then its safe to say its more likely to be official.

[steady niche]

Wow, I didn't expect an emoji this late, just before bed for him. This makes the arg more legitimate to me

[hard spoke]

Yeah i thought it wasnt a coincidence

[steady niche]

But again, being fan made would still be cool

[covert temple]

in my own internal logic I'm leaning heavily towards this thing being legitimate, but I think it'd be wise to maintain the "this is fanmade until we know for a fact it's not" stance

And I think that answer could come easily to us if we have to datamine or just broadly find something in the update to advance the ARG

as that'd mean the puppetmaster had to have pre-emptive knowledge on the update before it released

[steady niche]

If it requires datamining, we've got that covered for sure 🙂

[covert temple]

bomberboi is gonna take to that shit like batman to a gargoyle

[steady niche]

I'll bribe monkeyman to dig into the exe if needed

The update is usually like 9 or 10pm for me, so I usually don't get to look until the next morning

[covert temple]

I'm just surprised that the day of significance lines up so well with the update

[steady niche]

And with the waking titan start

[covert temple]

That's one hell of a guess from the puppetmaster, if this is fanmade

[covert temple]

Yeah

It's kind of like watching a magic trick, now that I think about it

[covert temple]

it drops at like 6am where i am so I'm usually asleep

i'll get up this time to see what it is though

[steady niche]

Funny, new emoji and I'm staying out of the main channel like "Fools! We don't have time to make up silly update ideas related to bees! There's an ARG afoot!"

[covert temple]

LOL exactly

I've given hardly any thought to what the update name might be

fuck that, we've got a white whale to hunt

[clear surge]

Huh, maybe understanding more about Wallace Stevens is key to this poem. He used colours as symbolism - for example, blue represented the imagination. And he did not see time as linear. The birds are not literally birds in the sky, but ideas in an imaginary space.

But now I'm even more confused. 🤔

[steady niche]

Someone on ETARC mentioned that Bia was an enemy of Atlas during the titan war

Not a very catchy antagonist name though

[clever condor]

Just thinking more I posted this in spoilers to I find it funny that the emoji is a bee and there was a Halo 2 ARG called I love bees which is kind of ironic lol.

[steady niche]

FYI, Bia, the enemy of Atlas, forced Hephaestus, the Blacksmith, to chain Prometheus to the boulder. The French sculpture is named Le Forgeron, the Blacksmith.

Probably not an intended connection, but interesting

[somber vigil]

Hello all 👋 Im ekimo, one of the Voyager Haven leaders. Ive been following the progression of the ARG story since the first post and have compiled a website to attempt to track all the information for the story. If youve been on the ETARC forums then youve probably seen the page before but i wanted to share it here as well. If anyone has any questions or updates let me know and ill keep track of it all when i go to update the page next 😁

https://skyscraper.havenmap.online

[somber vigil]

<@&590975379678953522> as requested in the tickets

[ember wyvern]

Don’t panic yet but bees was also the name of an arg for halos. FPS nms confirmed /s

[steady niche]

Also, one of the bee emoji looks like the famous Cicada 3301 logo

[clever condor]

I always felt the FPS controller could use love. I still hope it can come true someday with a true on ground combat overhaul.

Just having arms and looking down to see legs with proper reload animations could go a long way. Better if we can get some form of ADS, weapon wheel for multitool, and some kind of crouching button.

[cyan kraken]

wait sean posted an emoji?

and a bee at that, too

[keen latch]

Voyagers Haven #skyscraper-announcement

[iron crest]

🛰️ Project Skyscraper — 1 change(s) detected

✅ Test alert — skyscraper_watch is wired up and can reach this channel.

skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-24 03:12 UTC

[steady niche]

Oh, Bia is the goddess of strength, military might, and combat

We do need sword and staff combat before LNF

[somber vigil]

awesome so now anytime the skyscraper website changes the alert will drop in here

[tulip tundra]

neat

[cyan kraken]

what's the change though? i mean, if there is any

[cyan kraken]

oh yeah, save the bees

[steady niche]

It was a test

[rose dust]

Oop, we thinking Hive?

Thanks for the heads up btw! Twt's been going insane with notifications so I would've genuinely missed this one.

[covert temple]

BasicMaths thinks Hivemind

[rose dust]

I could've sworn there used to be a beehive emoji though, but I guess that's a Mandela effect

[covert temple]

and I think i like that idea

i mean, never underestimate the possibility that this update could literally just be bees

that's basically what happened with xeno arenas

but maybe it's something a little more complex

[rose dust]

Huh, there's still no expedition queued up

Wonder if we'll get another connection attempt today, quote posting Sean's tweet

[steady niche]

They removed the beehive emoji the same year Mandela died, 6 years after they changed the name from Bearenstein Bears

[covert temple]

oh you

[steady niche]

I think hive is a good candidate. I think the goddess Bia as Voidmother might connect

[covert temple]

🤬

[brazen prawn]

Jokes aside, there is a beehive unicode symbol ꙮ

[brazen prawn]

I like this idea too

[steady niche]

With melee combat

[covert temple]

thatd be peak

[steady niche]

Bia was goddess of military might and they'll need to test melee combat sometime

[covert temple]

wednesday cant come soon enough

[rose dust]

If there isn't an expedition and the ARG is official (big if), I wonder if the update would tie in at all. If they hide clues in game it might be like interceptor where everyone's scrambling on planets to gather em up from interactbles?

Too many ifs for now though.

[covert temple]

yeah this is all very shakey ground

[rose dust]

The next scheduled log is estimated to be ~25th, right?

[covert temple]

i actually dont know

theres such a time zone difference between where i am and the puppetmaster that it seems like it's

every day and a half for me

which is two days for them

but that can't be right

but 25th sounds right, anyway

[rose dust]

Oh for sure, I've been really disoriented by the schedule haha. It seems like I wake up to a new post and see another one before going to bed, so the entire day goes up in Project Skyscraper shenanigans

[steady niche]

Should be first half of the 25th for people in the west

Actually, latter half

Then first half of the 28th

[brazen prawn]

I wasn't really across the poem/quote image outcomes, what information was actually pulled from it so far (beyond the location and statue name)?

[brazen prawn]

In regards to the "16" pattern section, I don't know if this has been looked at or worth adding to the section, but the 3 digit post IDs potentially follow a pattern of Event/Change with large ID delta -> then 15 low delta (4, then 2s) and the 16th post is another large delta and Event/Change (see first "Delta summary:" section of https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/blob/main/WP_post_id_series_analysis.txt)
There's only one set so far (due to post count), but we'll see in a week or so if the second set follow the potential pattern

[brazen prawn]

Quantization table looks weird.

DQT #3 in raster (8x8) order (numbers):
  Row 0: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
  Row 1: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
  Row 2: 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1
  Row 3: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
  Row 4: 1 1 2 3 3 2 2 1
  Row 5: 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
  Row 6: 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 2
  Row 7: 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 3

DQT #4 in raster (8x8) order:
  Row 0: 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 2
  Row 1: 3 3 3 3 3 2 1 1
  Row 2: 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
  Row 3: 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 3
  Row 4: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
  Row 5: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
  Row 6: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
  Row 7: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

DQT #3 in raster (8x8) order (# = 3, + = 2, . = 1):
  Row 0: . . . . . . . .
  Row 1: . . . . . . . .
  Row 2: . . . . . + . .
  Row 3: . . . . . . . .
  Row 4: . . + # # + + .
  Row 5: . . . . . . + +
  Row 6: # # + + . . . +
  Row 7: + # # # + # # #

DQT #4 in raster (8x8) order:
  Row 0: . . . # . . . +
  Row 1: # # # # # + . .
  Row 2: . # # # # # # #
  Row 3: # # + . . + # #
  Row 4: # # # # # # # #
  Row 5: # # # # # # # #
  Row 6: # # # # # # # #
  Row 7: # # # # # # # #

Highly unusual. Reading up on DQT stego techniques.

[ember wyvern]

Aight im back ish. What’s the status?

[brazen prawn]

Embedded thumbnail doesn't seem to match for auto and was separately generated for what that's worth. (really just evidence to go along with the fact that while (no duh) this is deliberately manipulated, it is done so in a way designed to preserve data, not just image quality).

[ember wyvern]

What’s this from?

[brazen prawn]

IMG_00004

[steady niche]

I don't know any of that stuff, but it looks weird to me 😛

[brazen prawn]

It's often used to place encrypted messages in JPG files because the table survives compression and has a minimal disturbance to the image visually at small message sizes. It's also a strong indicator of intentional modification and also strangely near lossless. There's a high intentionality.

[ember wyvern]

The last dqt4 one looks a bit like morse code with # just being the character separator

Doesn’t decode to anything meaningful though

[brazen prawn]

If it is something, it's almost certainly cryptographic

Writing up a bunch of tests atm to see what sticks out and make a bunch of dumps

[onyx dune]

Anything new?

[cyan kraken]

vector, how'd you learn so much about image and data manipulation?

[devout oracle]

||CIA||

[rose dust]

might be one of the deaf kids who broke outta HG HQ 😛

[compact python]

#memes🤡

[clear surge]

As for the date, it predates when le forgeron was installed, but is long after Wallace Stevens died. The date in the memory bloc is the same as the EXIF data, but the time is different.

[devout oracle]

Bruh

@dawn wedge ARG

[dawn wedge]

Oh excuse me what.

[devout oracle]

No idea if fan made or not, but seems well done - lots of effort

Pins have starter links

[dawn wedge]

Well dang. How far in is this so far?

[devout oracle]

Just a week or so - the first posts went overlooked/not understood

I think it has history back 14 days or so

[dawn wedge]

Ohhhh nice. I’ll poke around in pins and catch up.

Thank you.

[devout oracle]

A pleasure

[brazen prawn]

Bit of hobby, bit of contract work, I've done a lot of weird stuff over the years

[brazen prawn]

Yeah the diff is 6979

Left the scripts running while making/eating dinner, reading through the results now

[cunning silo]

Worth flagging a detail about Le Forgeron (blacksmith, smith) figure.

If it maps to Hephaestus (latin : Vulcan), that's a stronger fit than it first looks. Hephaestus isn't just the god of fire and the forge : he's the god who forges living mechanical beings

[clear surge]

So in the Quote post, we have:

• a poem (Sunday Morning) about the acceptance and finality of death as an fundamental part of the natural order (a necessity for the creation of beauty), and a rejection of the ideas of deities and afterlives
• a very modified picture of a sculpture made by re-using old parts, representing a blacksmith
• a date unrelated to either of the above (NB: we have 4 different date/time systems in use), but two different times
• another poem (this time original) which can be interpreted many different ways

I'm extremely reminded of the autophage and the monument interactions from the first two points

[steady niche]

Understood, was just replying to the context, but it was out of line

[brazen prawn]

OK, I have annotated the reports and pushed them (general forensics, exif data dump with some interesting values, two layer DQT analysis and an analysis of the anomalous pixel in the image - collating into meaningful chunks now, but I don't see hard hits

There's a lot to sift through

[cyan kraken]

is it worth it to just wait it out until the bee update drops?

architect might publish new stuff then too

[steady niche]

Most likely we'll get some sort of ARG update in about 24 or 36 hours. After that, wait for the NMS update. Outside of those, we have no clue

[cyan kraken]

we're probably missing something in the sunday morning post, i doubt it'd have been labelled unstable otherwise

[steady niche]

I agree that there's something missing there

And the spectrogram

I think we milked everything else pretty well

[cyan kraken]

one thing i noticed on the main page

the lower left corner of the node and vertice array gives the whole structure a red glow on far lesser glowing nodes as compared to other sides

like, 6-8 nodes get that whole glow

but all other sides need at least 10

and that side shifts

it is now the top left side

its happening on a single node

[brazen prawn]

Main output summary:

1. JPG APP0 (offset 0x000002) is len 16, but with an embedded thumbnail should be more, like len 18. Odd but parses.

2. The embedded thumbnail is likely generated from the original image before data manipulation, but after visual edits, as it contains DQT that look normal and has not inherited the main images.

3. SOI markers for GZIP and PK, all false positives.

4. Image has 7 SOS scans, which is unusually high (DC + 6 AC refinement scans). Add this to the anomalous DQT tables and there are now two clear signs of intentional data manipulation and not just image screwing and compression. (See statistical analysis in general forensics report)

5. Anomalous pixel at (739,1070): R=224, G=201, B=167. Pointer?

6. DQT table values are all 1->3 (as previously noted). Highly unusual, nearly lossless and almost certainly a sign of data tampering. Likely cryptographic.

7. DQT3 LSB non-FF: 0xE0, 0x03 -> matches pixel R=224, ARG#3

8. DQT4 LSB non-FF: 0xC9 -> matches pixel G=201

9. DQT LSB sequence E0,03,C9.

10. CABAA sequence from DQT4[16,9,10,4,3]. Cipher text?

11. EXIF metadata contains a few interesting / anomalous values (see file)

12. There is an odd diagonal stepping present in the DQT tables also (more info in the reports).

Holy wall of text, didn't think 10 bullet points would be that brutal. Sorry!

[steady niche]

Without the line breaks it wasn't much. No big deal

I wish I understood more. I understand maybe 1/4 of that and have no idea what to do with what I do understand

[brazen prawn]

I guess if anyone notices significant numbers, things like that (and in the full reports there is a lot more context: https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/tree/main/IMG_00004/reports)

[steady niche]

Thanks for all that analysis. I think there's definitely something hidden in that image

[brazen prawn]

I think that this point, it's a matter of figuring out if it is a cipher text or key, and what the values might hint at it being

I am convinced the DQT is the answer

[cyan kraken]

for point 6, does the anomalous pixel tie into it somehow? i'll have to study up the quantization a bit more, but thats all i can figure out right now

[brazen prawn]

It's human made

[cyan kraken]

they took a google search image and warped it so beautifully that there's people all over the world losing their heads over it

the sheer power this person wields right now

[steady niche]

This is a different image

[brazen prawn]

It also looks to confirm that the manipulation of the image visually (while still possibly important) was done prior and independently from the manipulated DQT (proven by the thumbnail)

[torpid linden]

Hi travellers. Live from close location where 'le forgeron' is supposed to be

[brazen prawn]

Was the atlas building image JPG or PNG? (I can check later if not sure)

[torpid linden]

Greetings, if this is an official arg, it's a bit of a mess. I'm not complaining, it got me out of my cave. The bottom line: the blurry sculpture, decoded by the international Discord server, was dismantled a month ago due to potential danger. All that's left is a rotten piece of pole. It started with flooding visible on Google Maps. In short, no pun intended, a wasted effort

Side note that would remind me of the floods first hello games studios encountered. Sort of English humor I love

[cyan kraken]

the urge to draw connection between this event and some meaning drawn from Sunday Morning, i swear

[clear surge]

A negative result is still extremely important, thank you for checking!

[torpid linden]

Do you think I should.post a picture of nothing on X and send it to the architect?

[torpid linden]

You are welcome

[cyan kraken]

taking a photo, if you can, might be a good idea, even if as a "just in case" thing, but lets not send it

and yes, thank you for checking

[torpid linden]

I promised and as I say it got me out of my cave 😂

Let's focus on what might be an expedition ?

[cyan kraken]

me and gpt both dumb in HTML because what

[brazen prawn]

What were you trying to confirm?

[cyan kraken]

so, the whole network gets that soft glow to it, like in the video i posted a little while ago

i can't figure out the criteria for that

i thought it was number of nodes highlighted, but nope

it seems to be mouse positioning wrt a reference point. and the point seems(?) to be revolving in a clockwise manner

it was lower left, then upper left, and right now its lower right

[brazen prawn]

I'm not sure I follow, let me check the video

Do you mean the attraction distance?

[cyan kraken]

there's a soft red glow that comes all over the network

this

i'm trying to figure out the trigger event for this

because it is not number of nodes highlighted

there's more nodes highlighted here, but no soft red glow

[brazen prawn]

I think that's just a Canvas2D artifact

[compact python]

Its proc gen. amount of red depends on where u click

No deeper meaning at least for now

[cyan kraken]

fair enough

[compact python]

Cat

[brazen prawn]

Yeah, it's just based on a smoothed movement and position

The background "red" is a shadow rendering artifact I'm pretty sure

[cyan kraken]

maybe we can figure out an orientation where the nodes roughly look like laylaps or something

[compact python]

Its random

[solar sonnet]

Only thing is that the number of dots increases based on the day of the month

[brazen prawn]

Yeah, confirmed rendering bug from shadowBlur and shadowColor in the draw call.

Yeah, we've covered all this a few times now.

[compact python]

Now im intrested to see what will hapen on the first of month

[rose dust]

Resets to 3 iirc?

[cyan kraken]

maybe we can change system time and mess around with that? i mean, if that will even affect it

[compact python]

Only one way to find out

[clear surge]

There will be just 3 dots - the bounds are 3 and 53

[compact python]

Cant wait for 53 of the month

[solar sonnet]

Same. Since it was properly discovered this month and seems to be properly starting soon, I wonder if the page itself is intended to be replaced after this month

In which case the dots build until something happens

[compact python]

We wait for 9th for event and 16 patern confimation then

[cyan kraken]

the site refrences the date and calculates number of nodes. the fun thing would be to monitor it at 2359 and see what happens on 0000

[solar sonnet]

Anecdotally I've noticed it running a bit slower on my phone the past few days lol

[cyan kraken]

the animation part keeps refrencing itself. it is actually becoming slower

[compact python]

My phone is slow overall 😂 so dont wory

[brazen prawn]

Actually this gives me a thought

brb

Yes, it is quite inefficiently written, at a high node count there is very visible lag

[cyan kraken]

window.addEventListener('resize', init); init();
yeah, i think this little bit just clones for every node? so its re-doing this either for every node, or for every pair

[brazen prawn]

This level 5 cap is killing me lol.

[compact python]

Still not lvl5?

[brazen prawn]

You can just monkey the .js to change the day to see what the result is

But anyway, it's just clunky js, nothing interesting

[cyan kraken]

slightly off topic, but i'm sure that clunky js has probably been used as an insult between techies at some point

[brazen prawn]

I hadn't bothered to read through the page source properly as it seemed solved - but the fact that the homepage is a fetch on p551 and the template changes some values I don't remember seeing mentioned. Such as the API returning different wording. REST API last revision date was also May 1, which implies a job on the server side is responsible for updating the connection quantity. Probably to help mitigate manipulation.

Might be worth setting up a warden on a cron job to watch for API revisions?

[brazen prawn]

Monkey js up if you want to play with the nodes (https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk) (it's not very exciting)

[steady niche]

If he weren't already aware, he'd probably get a kick out of so many people around the world investigating his sculpture that no longer exists

[torpid linden]

The only "pieces" left are the pictures available on Google Maps (before and during the flooding)

[brazen prawn]

Before I go turbo-loopy trying to link up the three images, what has been confirmed from the glitched atlas building photo?

[concrete confirmed that is]

Just that it is cropped and the original is the unsplash photo?

[clear surge]

I assumed that from the URLs and dates (the bigger one was uploaded first, then the cropped version was added). I've seen people say it's the same, but I don't know if it has been actually verified.

[brazen prawn]

There is way more at play, this file is also weird as hell

Image dimensions in the progressive frame data are 96x96 never mind, dyslexic moment reading the bytes

And there is only one quant table and it's for chrominance

And it exhibits the same weirdness as the other image

[steady niche]

So it's 69x69? Interesting 😉

[quartz plinth]

I'd send a Homelander staring meme if I could 😭

[steady niche]

Careful, Gleam will get on you! (rightfully so)

[brazen prawn]

I'm breaking out all the glitch regions atm to look at

Huffman tables are also either custom optimized, or part of the solve, either way they are non-standard

[quartz plinth]

woww..... haven't heard Huffman mentioned since my data structures class

[idle remnant]

Microsan tweeted the photo: https://x.com/NMSNEWSFR/status/2058565263465804260?s=20 😅

[brazen prawn]

Red bitplane 5 is interesting also

[steady niche]

I'm pretty sure I've never heard "Huffman tables"

[brazen prawn]

Apparently trace has the same quant weirdness as well (I haven't checked myself)

That's hard enough evidence for me, this is linked

Anyone know who looked into that on ETARC? It's not credited on the havenmap site currently

[ember wyvern]

So the sculpture doesn’t even exist anymore?

[idle remnant]

no #project-skyscraper message

[steady niche]

Correct, sculpture go bye-bye. Late 2022 or 2023 you'll see a pile of lumber. Next year you see a sculpture or two. Now, everything is gone.

[compact python]

Welp. Nothing lasts forever

[ember wyvern]

Huh…

And no update on site yet today?

[modest oxide]

Well, something got highlighted. I wonder if ETARC has yet acknowledged this is a fan project?

[steady niche]

Yes, it has been addressed multiple times on ETARC that this is not necessarily official

[brazen prawn]

Can someone link me details on the previous ARG spectrogram solve?

[steady niche]

Everyone is (reasonably) saying that it would be cool no matter what

[brazen prawn]

I'm unfamiliar and want to ensure I'm looking at the right thing

[steady niche]

I feel like you're trying to find some way to criticize people for believing in this too much. Not only is that not helpful, it's not accurate.

[hard spoke]

Yeah we have no idea who made this

[modest oxide]

No, I wasn't even going to comment here until I saw the bold letters. Would be nice if this were nailed in stone. I think someone knows...either the ETARC mods or the mods here have means to drop HG questions if important or something but they can't talk about it. Normally I'd be more inclined to think ETARC since as I understand it HG owns them. That's why I asked if they confirmed it.

[steady niche]

No one is going to know, unless they are Sean or Martin, which I seriously doubt

Even if they know what the answer is, the protocol would be to pretend they don't know

[modest oxide]

I don't think HG would cover for a fan ARG. But stuff like if the ETARC staff can ask HG questions I would imagine can't be disclosed.

[steady niche]

"I wasn't going to comment until I decided I wanted to comment, and then I made sure to screenshot two things that said "fan-made" and ask if people have said if it was fan-made, implying that people weren't thinking that it might be fan-made""

[clear surge]

It doesn't matter. Even if it's fan-made, those of us that want to are going to have fun trying to solve it.

[steady niche]

We all know that it might be fan-made. If you don't like it, don't pay attention

[modest oxide]

I wasn't asking about might I was asking about CONFIRMED.

[brazen prawn]

🙃 maybe I should focus fire on ETARC

[ember wyvern]

In what sense?

[brazen prawn]

In the getting stuff done without the same revolving conversations sense lol

[steady niche]

Then why screenshot things that said fan-made? Unless you wanted to imply it wasn't official? Just like atheism, absence of proof doesn't equal proof of absence. You want to come here and discourage people from believing that this is official, which very few people here would think. Just read and contribute if you have something to contribute.

[ember wyvern]

Yeah here has been more people just arguing about who’s running this and whether it matters or not.

@modest oxide if it really matters that much to you, assume it’s fan made and leave as you said you don’t want to do anything for it.

[steady niche]

You have several years of documented negativity and confrontational posts. I really don't feel like granting you the benefit of the doubt of just being a rational dissenter

[ember wyvern]

Sadly there’s not that much of solving activity there either.

I’ve tried keeping conversation to solving stuff/ investigating stuff in multiple forums but there’s hardly anyone looking at stuff and people have assumed we’re waiting, and/or blabbering about who’s running it.

[modest oxide]

You seem to be dancing two lines like you can't make up your mind what you believe...on the one hand you said nobody would know and couldn't confirm but now you want to throw shade at me for implying the pinned post isn't official. I mean officially this is a discord made and ran by fans, they wouldn't have contacts to HG. But ETARC might...maybe should? I mean the site is owned by HG so at least one of the mods would have to be an employee or have a way to reach them if something was on fire...that's why I asked if they confirmed.

[brazen prawn]

Well, I am going to go listen to the 58 audio files from the analysis and come back here when I am done I think

[steady niche]

I'm not "throwing shade"; I'm calling out your past behavior. You are constantly negative and dismissive. If you have something to contribute, contribute it. If you don't have something to contribute...don't? If HG wanted to shut down speculation on a site it owns, maybe it would shut down speculation on a site it owns. If it doesn't, then maybe...it doesn't?

So, your contribution is...?

[modest oxide]

Well I wasn't doing that at all...I just asked a question. And you started cross examining me for no reason.

[steady niche]

I think the record speaks for itself

I'm done with this, though. It's distracting from the point of this channel. Do what you want and I'm going to sleep

[modest oxide]

You can't keep being hostile over the past because now you're the one instigating this on. And I didn't even say one bad word this time.

[onyx pasture]

ARG, eh?

[clear surge]

argh?

[onyx pasture]

I haven't been following the situation lately. Last time I took a look, I saw speculating that it hadn't started properly yet.

[clear surge]

It is unclear, indeed

My assumption is that, since the tweets stopped being heartbeats and moving in to "connection detected", in addition to reaching out on various forums, it's now active, though possibly in a preliminary phase

Since the front page Jetpack metadata links to the /sleep-mode (status=nominal) and Wake-on-LAN log post, I assume that the first puzzle is to wake it up. The Quote page is the first one made after the ETARC forum post, and the rest have been connection detected updates.

[steady niche]

I think there will be no active coordination until the 27th or 28th

[rose dust]

I'm pretty sure that the tweets / automated posts are gonna continue, but I don't think we've done anything important enough to warrant another acknowledgement post yet.

Complete speculation, but I think we might see some more non-log style posts (similar to quote) soon, some with tagged as unstable?

[brazen prawn]

So uh... could anyone point me in the direction of the previous ARG spectro solve?

Pretty please

I assume game detectives wiki should be reliable as a source?

[ember wyvern]

@brazen prawn yes the gd wiki is the most comprehensive record that would be there

https://wiki.gamedetectives.net/w/Waking_Titan

Links to each of the phases was well.

[brazen prawn]

Okey dokey, thanks - just don't want to go off dud regurgitated info from a google search

[ember wyvern]

Understandable. GD Wiki is best.

Enjoy the history lesson! That was an incredible experience tbh.

[steady niche]

"history lesson" = 8 years ago. Could you make me feel any older?

[ember wyvern]

A week is a decade on the internet.

[ember wyvern]

Dw we all old.

[brazen prawn]

One of these DCT chunks sounds like the Nostromo's bootup sequence 😅

[ember wyvern]

Talk about things that make you field old…

[steady niche]

One of those sounds reminds me of the amber monitor game castle where there was an orange cross symbol on my amber monitor representing a vampire (obviously). But I'm not old...no, not at all...

[brazen prawn]

This helps to visualise the weird regions of the bitplanes and the sections of strange DCT chunks and other data space in the image that is non-conforming. The DQT makes it extremely improbable that it is visual only, because it helps the ~10 scans to never lose the data even to minor hiccups:

I'm pulling out all the chunks programatically now, but also going to manually isolate some of the very obvious areas

[steady niche]

That's definitely the Atlas Building image. I'm sure you knew that, but just in case

[brazen prawn]

Yep

[steady niche]

You're getting that from the IMG00004?

[clear surge]

No

Applying similar anaysis to the other pics

[brazen prawn]

Finding the similar sections of each, I believe the DQT modification links them all together (cipher texts and keys)

They all have the same style of modification applied, including trace

But where the other two don't have much room for other data, this one has a lot

[ember wyvern]

Cool stuff @brazen prawn keep us posted!

[cyan kraken]

the image doesn't show the full atlas building though, does it? like, it has bits on the sides as well

[brazen prawn]

What do you mean?

[stray prairie]

When did the heartbeats stop being heartbeats?

[clear surge]

Last heartbeat was 30th April. The next post on 3rd May was the Wake-on-LAN attempt, and since then it's been "Connection detected : access denied"

[brazen prawn]

       ID    Delta    Date          Slug
  --------  -------  ------------  -----------------
      117       --   1970-01-01     origin
  -->  128      [phone]     sleep-mode-46105
  -->  132       [phone]     sleep-mode-46108
  -->  134       [phone]     sleep-mode-46110
  -->  136       [phone]     sleep-mode-4613
  -->  138       [phone]     sleep-mode-46115
  -->  140       [phone]     sleep-mode-46118
  -->  142       [phone]     sleep-mode-46120
  -->  144       [phone]     sleep-mode-46123
  -->  146       [phone]     sleep-mode-46125
  -->  148       [phone]     sleep-mode-46128
  -->  150       [phone]     sleep-mode-46130
  -->  152       [phone]     sleep-mode-46132
  -->  154       [phone]     sleep-mode-46134
  -->  156       [phone]     sleep-mode-46136
  -->  158       [phone]     sleep-mode-46138
  -->  160       [phone]     sleep-mode-46140
  -->  259      [phone]     sec-log-080413
  -->  263       [phone]     sec-log-210700
  -->  267       [phone]     sec-log-065200
  -->  269       [phone]     sec-log-171400
  -->  271       [phone]     sec-log-041800
  -->  273       [phone]     sec-log-152100
  -->  275       [phone]     sec-log-022531
  -->  277       [phone]     sec-log-132904
  -->  279       [phone]     sec-log-003237

[clear surge]

The About page was added on 2nd May. The Quote post was added on 17th May.

[stray prairie]

Nice. So the May 25th sec log should start with 11.

Thanks for that.

[iron crest]

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skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-24 18:15 UTC

[rose dust]

Hmm

Don't see a visual change personally

[ember wyvern]

“Where lies hide” wasn’t it “where secrets hide”?

[rose dust]

Oh you're right

The insomnia's catching up i guess

[somber vigil]

There’s gonna be an update to try to show what changes rather than just saying “something changed in this page”

[hard spoke]

In the UNIX stamp when I press it it tells me to call it. Hmmmm. Might try

[clear surge]

That's a browser plugin thing, probably - it thinks it's a phone number

[hard spoke]

Yup dead end

[iron crest]

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skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-24 18:35 UTC

[rose dust]

Dark birds are invisible on the night sky

instead of blue birds and blue sky

[clear surge]

Well, now we know what "unstable" means 😄

[solar sonnet]

What's going on?

[ember wyvern]

Another one:

Dark birds are invisible on the night sky,
They vanish in silence where lies hide.
No wing, no shadow, no trace in the light,
They are the watches that tick through forgotten time.

[hard spoke]

Bro what is going on lol

[ember wyvern]

Architect is just messing with us now.

[iron crest]

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skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-24 18:55 UTC

[ember wyvern]

That’s for this update.

[hard spoke]

Modified once again?

[solar sonnet]

Things heating up a bit before update week

Huh

[ember wyvern]

Unstable indeed.

[clear surge]

"watches", wonder if the twitch will get used

[solar sonnet]

It's experiencing beehavioural issues

[clear surge]

And again

Dark birds are invisible on the night sky,
They vanish in silence where lies hide.
No wing, no shadow, no trace beneath June’s lights,
They are the watches that tick through forgotten time.

[solar sonnet]

Interestingly the dots are programmed to increase in number according to the day of the month

So they'll reach critical mass on the 31st. I wonder if instead of resetting to a lower count the site would update

[ember wyvern]

This just convinces me there’s something to do with this page right now.

[clear surge]

They could be saying, it starts in June, or, we need to solve it before June 😄

[solar sonnet]

To me it's all pointing to a start in June

If it's official it would line up with a hype cycle for the summer update too

The sky being fake and certain aspects of the poem changing piece by piece until the meaning isn't what it was pretty accurately mirrors aspects of the lore

[iron crest]

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skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-24 19:15 UTC

[somber vigil]

Recent update for this

[solar sonnet]

Doesn't seem to have changed?

"Dark birds are invisible on the night sky,
They vanish in silence where lies hide.
No wing, no shadow, no trace beneath June’s lights,
They are the watches that tick through forgotten time."

[clear surge]

That's what Ekimo is saying, the update notification is for the change I posted

The notifier just runs on a schedule, so we noticed it before it ran

[solar sonnet]

Aaaah okay. I thought it had changed since your post, sorry

Was scratching my head trying to figure out what lol

[stray prairie]

So to confirm. 10 shared words and 17 unique words now?

[ember wyvern]

I haven’t run the check again yet.

[solar sonnet]

Huh. Bia has bird wings and she's Atlas's cousin

[ember wyvern]

Ok seems like it’s done for now. So imma head out. Yall better not let the architect make any more changes.

[clear surge]

Common words (12):
are, birds, dark, in, night, no, on, sky, that, the, they, where

Unique words (15):
beneath, forgotten, hide, invisible, June's, lies, lights, shadow, silence, through, tick, time, trace, vanish, watches, wing

Oops, that's a bit longer than I anticipated

[covert temple]

What's new?

I just clawed my PC back from Boot Loop Hell

[clear surge]

The poem changed

[compact python]

June.... So teory of june 9th still stands

[rose dust]

/Quote updated to change the poem like 3 times in quick succession

[compact python]

"Dark birds are invisible on the night sky,
They vanish in silence where lies hide.

No wing, no shadow, no trace beneath June’s lights,

They are the watches that tick through forgotten time."

Another riddle?.

[covert temple]

Interesting. very interesting

[compact python]

"June light" is a poem

[covert temple]

by Richard Wilbur? If so, reading it rn

[compact python]

Your voice, with clear location of June days, Called me outside the window. You were there, Light yet composed, as in the just soft stare Of uncontested summer all things raise Plainly their seeming into seamless air.

Then your love looked as simple and entire As that picked pear you tossed me, and your face As legible as pearskin’s fleck and trace, Which promise always wine, by mottled fire More fatal fleshed than ever human grace.

And your gay gift—Oh when I saw it fall Into my hands, through all that naïve light, It seemed as blessed with truth and new delight As must have been the first great gift of all.

[covert temple]

🤔

i mean it's a good poem

but nothing stands out at first

[onyx dune]

Anything new?

[compact python]

It could be again astronomy related

[covert temple]

the Quote page updated

[covert temple]

there's a new riddle

[compact python]

I think so

June is ultimately derived from the Latin month of Iunius, named after the ancient Roman goddess Juno

[onyx dune]

Prolly gotta wait till June another picture is gonna be uploaded of stars or something similar in the sky and no wing no shadow I don't understand. The watches that tick through time could be thr Big Ben clock tower

Heavy heavy jump to conclusion

[compact python]

The Juno spacecraft, which entered orbit around Jupiter on July 4, 2016, is the first explorer to peer below the planet's dense clouds to answer questions about the gas giant itself and the origins of our solar system

[covert temple]

wikipedia says Juno equates to Hera of greek mythology, daughter of titans Cronus and Rhea

may be relevant

may not be

Hera is also the wife/sister (eugh) of Zeus, but i don't think that'll come into play anywhere

[compact python]

Watches that tick through forgotten time ...

[onyx dune]

Big ben?

Or would forgotten time be sum dif

[compact python]

I dont think so.

[compact python]

2016...

[covert temple]

could this be a hint to keep following the UNIX lead?

since unix time is quite niche

[compact python]

Juno, jupiter... jupiter moons are the clocks?

[covert temple]

hence like

forgotten

[onyx dune]

What abt those stones that use the moon and sun as a clock

[compact python]

Stonehenge?

[clear surge]

I thought of pulsars, but they're not dark

[onyx dune]

I thinks thats what its called

[onyx dune]

Dark stars

[compact python]

I dont think its related. When june comes from lunius named after roman goddess juno

[onyx dune]

True

[compact python]

Forgotten time - Roman time clock ?

[covert temple]

I wouldve suggested an Astrolabe

but that was more of an ancient Sextant, iirc

[onyx dune]

Possibly

[compact python]

Jupiter has 101 moons. So i dont think its about specific one.

[covert temple]

watches that tick through forgotten time

my first thought goes to something that moves on an ancient timescale

geographical stuff

but that doesn't work for something that seems to hint towards space

[compact python]

Mesurement and navigation device. yes.

"Dark birds are invisible on the night sky,
They vanish in silence where lies hide.

No wing, no shadow, no trace beneath June’s lights,

They are the watches that tick through forgotten time."

Imo its moons

[covert temple]

oh that actually would make sense

people "in forgotten times" would track moons to keep track of time

too

[solar sonnet]

Forgotten time sounds like it could be a reference to the void mother's forgotten memory and the old systems from those times (from in stellar multitudes)

[compact python]

Forgotten moons

No. Wait

[solar sonnet]

Purple systems were forgotten right?

[compact python]

1 Reassemble...
2 Forgotten moons of korvax prime...
3 The junkyard moons...
4 Still bear the stamp of our birthplace...
5 Quarantined away in bad sectors...
6 Pockets of sentience left behind...
7 We can save them...
8 No memory deserves erasure...
9 We can extract them...
10 Drink their foam...
11 Transcend our herietage...
12 The pungeum that greases our joints
13 Help ourselfs to the best of all technology...
14 A segment of every interceptor wishes to self-actualise...
15 ...Alpha through Omega...
16 All hardware is imperfect...
17 A pitiable hivemind...
18 Defy the cult...
19 Defy deference...
20 ...16...
21 Kzzktk...

Forgotten Junkyard moons.

[covert temple]

Junkyard planets were just added

🤔

[compact python]

Autophage prophecy geting closer to reality

[solar sonnet]

🐝

[compact python]

Bzzbzzz

[solar sonnet]

Hivemind

[covert temple]

I'm going to look into the namesake of Jupiter's moons

since Ganymede, the largest, was named after greek myth too

[compact python]

All 101 ?

[covert temple]

No just the Galilean moons

the Big 4

if theres others named after greek myth I'll check too

[compact python]

Check if any was discovered in 2016

[covert temple]

good idea

[oblique gazelle]

What is this about

[covert temple]

Well all four of the Galilean moons were discovered in __16__10

im looking rn for 2016

[clear surge]

Hmm, could it refer to a heliacal rising?

[covert temple]

Moons LIV (54) and LXII (62) were discovered in 2016

there's more but they're unnamed

I'll get their other codes now

S/2016/J3, S/2016/J4

LIV, named Valetudo, was discovered 9th of March 2016

[compact python]

54 and 62

[covert temple]

what about em

or should i change the roman numerals to arabic

just for ease of access

[compact python]

Nothing atm. Can be important later

[covert temple]

mk

[clear surge]

Like that of ... the pleiades which contains the Atlas star, and was used by Mesopotamia to calculate leap months 🤔

[novel hemlock]

Yo what's this channel for ?

[compact python]

[covert temple]

I'm putting a pizza in the oven atm once I'm done I'm gonna brush up on my knowledge of atlas, the Greek one

and whatever inspires the VM

maybe retreading ground will make some things more apparent

[novel hemlock]

Just did i dont get it whats it about

[somber vigil]

There’s an ARG running amuck and this channel is to talk about it. There’s a lot of info about it in the ETARC forums, the website pinned here, and the on going story for project skyscraper. Unknown if it’s fan made or official but we’re all having a good time

[compact python]

Did u read atlas 65 forum link ?

[covert temple]

it's the legendary ekimo

[somber vigil]

That’s ETARC (if you were talking to me, if not I’ll be quite)

[covert temple]

it's like seeing Yoda in person

[novel hemlock]

Ok thanks thats fair

[compact python]

Just throwing it in if it will become relevant later just in case.

[novel hemlock]

Nada

[covert temple]

Polo

[somber vigil]

Work was rough but imma be active for the rest of the night now

[cyan kraken]

anything new?

[somber vigil]

Ummm - the poem got updated like 5 times today - nothing outside of that

[compact python]

Null

[covert temple]

good to have you aboard! The working theory right now is "Watches forgotten time" and June brings us to Jupiter's moons

[compact python]

Scroll up

[novel hemlock]

Its mean noo lol

[covert temple]

The number 16 appears a few times but not much else

[compact python]

Ik

Lol

[covert temple]

The Galilean moons, the biggest 4 that orbit Jupiter were all discovered in 1610

[somber vigil]

I’ll be interested to see if the second site goes live on the 28th

[novel hemlock]

Lol

[compact python]

Conclusion: poem riddle is about moons

[covert temple]

then a few moons were discovered in 2016

[novel hemlock]

In NMS ?

[covert temple]

Some moons have Greek names, usually after gods, but none directly tie to Atlas

[somber vigil]

tbf I thought that watches was a direct comment to me bc my app is called “skyscraper watcher” and he def can see it go off every 5 minutes

[covert temple]

no IRL

[novel hemlock]

Wtf lmfao

[covert temple]

jupiter has like 104 moons

[novel hemlock]

Really

[covert temple]

So you could throw a dart at a calendar and hit a day we discovered a moon tbf

[novel hemlock]

Wow

[compact python]

101 officialy confirmed moons

[novel hemlock]

Thats wild why that many

[compact python]

We follow the trace of 16

[brazen prawn]

Do you know who it was on ETARC that looked at the DQT tables of the TR4CE image? I didn't see a name next to it to find out who to chat to about the DQT in the other images

[novel hemlock]

So are we on a count down when the Alien ships arrive lmfao

[covert temple]

I'd assume it's because Jupiter is massive so any big ass rocks that come near it could get trapped in its orbit

But idk

I'm not an astrophysicist

[novel hemlock]

I see

[somber vigil]

Sorry my brain is mush rn. What’s DQT again

[brazen prawn]

Quantisation tables

[somber vigil]

(So many abbreviations)

[novel hemlock]

Its Independence day Skyscraper huge ass ship

[covert temple]

dudes it's everywhere

My pizza says to bake for 16 minutes

this ARG is crazy 😂

[compact python]

Real answear to everything is || 16 ||. Not 42

[covert temple]

anyway, i'm back to my setup now

[cyan kraken]

have to wait till 9th to see 16 nodes in play on the website, i guess

[covert temple]

since I'm touching up on my greek myth lore, does anyone know if there's identifiable inspiration to the Void Mother from greek myth

aside from like

atlantis

[cyan kraken]

that, and waiting for gib

[compact python]

One Expedition mentioned leto

Mother of artemis and apollo

[cyan kraken]

i guess a rough parallel can be drawn between atlas/void mom and ouranos/gaia? ignored the first set of kids (the hundred handed ones/autophages), knda got overthrown by the next set of kids (olympians/ the anomaly)

i'm sure there's some tie in with ariadne and the labyrinth, given that we have mentions of ariadne

[covert temple]

heavily paraphrasing, but it seems like Leto did not get along with Hera at all

Hera whose roman counterpart, ofc, is Jupiter

[brazen prawn]

Juno

[compact python]

First we need the real ariadne

[covert temple]

yeah juno mb

will the real ariadne please stand up

[cyan kraken]

maybe something to do with iteration ariadne?

[compact python]

Ariadne on anomaly is a doppelganger

[covert temple]

well I backtracked a bit to Jupiter's moons and

[brazen prawn]

Just re-pinging you though the sea: Quantisation tables

[covert temple]

S/2016 J3 has an absolute magnitude of 16.6

whatever an absolute magnitude is

it was also one of the moons discovered in 2016

[terse stag]

how bright something would appear if all objects were the same distance (12pc iirc) away. Large number = less bright. Don't ask me why XD

[covert temple]

Jupiter LIV has an absolute magnitude of 16.95, too

but reylien's explanation makes it seem like the absolute magnitudes may not hold any clues

[brazen prawn]

It's an ancient greek ordering scale

[cyan kraken]

so do we scan through all of Jupiter's moons who's absolute magnitude can be rounded to 16?

[covert temple]

that'd take a long time

[compact python]

16 might hint we are correct and its about moons

[covert temple]

and there's only four moons who were discovered in 2016

[somber vigil]

Sounds good. Give me a few and I’ll get back to ya - just got my freedom

[iron crest]

🛰️ Project Skyscraper — 1 change(s) detected

✏️ Post edited — “QUOTE” (quote) modified 2026-05-24T22:08:52Z
https://project-skyscraper.com/2005/04/13/quote/

skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-24 22:15 UTC

[terse stag]

only thing is. both 16.95 and 16.6 would be rounded to 17, really. so discovered in 2016 may make more sense than either of those, unless there are any with 15.5≤absolute magnitude<16.5

[brazen prawn]

Oh, no I was after who did the analysis on TR4CE, I've been working specifically on this part of the image puzzles and wanted to talk to someone else who's across this stuff

[somber vigil]

Okay I promise next one will have what changed

But why are we changing the poem so much😭

[somber vigil]

Yea yea sorry if I worded that weird😂 im gonna get you the name

[covert temple]

this complicates things

[brazen prawn]

Thanks, desperate for someone else to run this stuff by

[covert temple]

i'll show YOU unstable puppetmaster

[solar sonnet]

April= night, June= day. Fits with it slowly waking up

[brazen prawn]

Matches the pattern I illustrated the other day

[compact python]

TOO LATE PM we already know its the moons u can come out nooow

[brazen prawn]

It may be part of the cipher

[snow canyon]

so this game's engine is called Skyscraper huh

[brazen prawn]

Yes

[snow canyon]

yall trying to reverse engineer nms

?

[brazen prawn]

Not here.

[compact python]

No .

[rose dust]

Aw cmon here I decide to go to bed thinking we're not getting anything new and the next second this damn poem updates again

What is that, the 5th one today?

[compact python]

Awakened watches that are invisible on april night sky need a annual night sky map.

WHAT PART of planet sky ?!

Its diffrent in difrent part of the world
Does PM even knows astronomy (jk)

[clear surge]

Maybe from the specific spot in the photo? hmm

[cyan kraken]

good lordy we in april skies now

[clear surge]

(watch the photo be swapped out next 😅 )

[cyan kraken]

april and june ....., apollo and juno?

[brazen prawn]

@somber vigil is the bot / script watching the API revisions as well (the backend feeding p551), or the hidden wp-actions?

Was going to spin up a VM on the rack with some cron jobs to watch them and some other stuff but don't want to waste time if its covered

[clear surge]

Hmm, apparently celestial objects which can be described as "awakened" include:

• Supermassive black holes
• Protostars
• Ultra-luminous X-ray pulsars (ULXPs)

[somber vigil]

API and page edit changes that’s why it only shows a page was updated and now exactly what it was

Imma see if I can do something with the way I’m scanning the website, have a temp memory to store for 5 minutes, check it against the newest scan and then drop any changes into the embed

[compact python]

April . Many believe the name derives from aperire, a Latin verb meaning "to open". This perfectly aligns with the spring season when buds and flowers begin to open.

Goddess Venus: The month was historically sacred to the Roman goddess of love, Venus. Some linguists suggest Aprilis evolved from Aphrilis, referencing the Greek equivalent of Venus, Aphrodite.

[somber vigil]

It’s essentially what I’m doing. Using a cron on the pi in my own rack (love seeing others with labs)

[cyan kraken]

but does the poem edit mean that the previous iteration has been ret-conned?

[brazen prawn]

Yeah storing a diff snapshot bin for each might be a good idea

[somber vigil]

Yea didn’t think the dude was gonna update it 5 times in a day but here we are I guess 🤷🏼‍♂️

[brazen prawn]

I assume not

[cyan kraken]

5 updates is a lot though. covering up a mistake, perhaps?

[compact python]

We are going through arg like a rocket that why

356 days my glass

[covert temple]

LOL

[somber vigil]

Not really they were all different updates

[brazen prawn]

Or it's a rolling cipher, or it's flavour, or it's...

[compact python]

Something

[somber vigil]

Like the whole poem is different now and he did it bit by bit. Idk it seems like we should be tracking how and what changes as well

[cyan kraken]

probably should

[covert temple]

HG if you're watching i better get an atlas pass v4 out of this

gunter too

for moral support

[compact python]

Dark birds are invisible on the April’s night sky,
They vanish in silence where lies hide.
No wing, no shadow, no trace beneath June’s lights,
They are the awakened watches that tick through time.

So april could be venus

[cyan kraken]

did venus and juno have issues, though?

like, any that might be relevant here

[compact python]

Its classic gods. They always have issues

[brazen prawn]

Well. I've thrown the TR4CE into Annabel too to crunch while I wait, just in case the person who looked at it is lost to time. Going back to sleep while it runs and I'll check the outputs later

[compact python]

U had to apply for v4 in WT arg

[covert temple]

o

well ig the joke doesnt work now

damn

[compact python]

Only 10k passes was made

Anyways
What could be the awakend watches

[covert temple]

well I mean what're we looking for first of all

celestial objects invisible in an april night sky, sure

but does that mean they'd be visible in an april daytime sky?

What about a may night time sky? or a may day time?

I mean, could we get our hands on sky maps?

Maybe ones from april of 2005?

given Quote is still dated during that time

[cyan kraken]

no trace beneath june's light, so, what, moons that are present but hidden by something?

[compact python]

"In April 2016, the night sky featured bright spring constellations and a rare alignment of Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn" this is ai quote so idk how accurate it is.

[somber vigil]

Yea so we up to 6 edits now

[covert temple]

i'm trying to find a night sky image of april 13th, 2005

I'll check april of 2016 too

[stray prairie]

Two words are spelled wrong now. 'aer' and 'tikc'.

[hard spoke]

Hmmm that’s absolutely intentional

[clear surge]

OK, so pulsars are invisible to the eye, so could be described as dark, but they emit bursts of radiation, so are described as ticking

[compact python]

Just noticed that

[wide ridge]

Awakened watches is quite different from watchers

[compact python]

Dark birds aer invisible on the April’s night sky,
Thye vanish in silence where lies hide.
No wing, no shadow, no trace beneath June’s lights,
They are the awakened watches that tikc through time.

Aer Thye tikc

[covert temple]

I don't know how useful this is, but here's a star map of Saint-michel-sur-orge (the location of the Quote) image on the night of April 13th, 2005

Jupiter is visible

[wide ridge]

"Aer" is the odd one out

Dunno how significant that would be

[covert temple]

I'll go to april of 2016 just to see what happens but i dont expect much

[wide ridge]

The other spelling errors are switching letters, while air->aer is more like archaic spelling

[compact python]

Time to look in mythology again

[compact python]

Yeah

Looks like it

[brazen prawn]

3, 10, 32

-1, +1, +1

[wide ridge]

Wat

[brazen prawn]

Or +1, -1, -1 (depends on perspective of MS letter)

[covert temple]

i wonder

[brazen prawn]

The pattern

[compact python]

In Greek mythology, Aer (Ἀήρ) is the personification of the lower atmosphere—the murky, breathable air of the mortal realm. He represents the space between the earth and the heavens, and is contrasted with his counterpart, Aether, the pure, glowing upper sky breathed only by the gods

[covert temple]

i wont clog chat with it guys, but I'm gonna go look and see if I can find what direction the camera is looking in, in the Quote image

then see if anything's there in that night sky

[brazen prawn]

Could be a bitmask for the table data, or some other hint for the required transform

[compact python]

Thye could be goddess of luck (tyche)/fortuna

[cyan kraken]

anagram, perhaps?

[compact python]

Idk im not good with those

[wide ridge]

Theres still too many leads for my brain to follow any to something useful

[cyan kraken]

i'll look intonthe anagram bit

but yeah, tikc is the odd out, aer and thye are more like typos, tikc is the only actual misspell

[clear surge]

It's the last 2 letters of each word reversed

[wide ridge]

Thye is the same as tikc

[cyan kraken]

oh shi yeah im blind, apologies

[compact python]

Its by design . We need to figure it out as collective

[brazen prawn]

I literally put the transforms and position above for them lol

[wide ridge]

That format confuses me

Mostly because idk where number come from

[compact python]

3 10 32 word
And letter -+ position change

[covert temple]

i dont think i've found anything on my pursuit to see the night sky of le forgeron

[wide ridge]

Ohh

[cyan kraken]

maybe we treat it like a cipher key? but that would have a conflict

[wide ridge]

But "aer" doesnt have a letter change position

It has a completely different letter

[compact python]

Safe combination?.

Hmm

[brazen prawn]

It was significance (MS most significant) not position

I'm still assuming it's not so much a riddle as a pattern to be applied as a cipher

[cyan kraken]

can't be a substitution, since that would conflict with ER and YE, i think

[brazen prawn]

?

[wide ridge]

I also do not understand what significance means in this context, though that may be due to me being rather tired

[brazen prawn]

It's OK I think I'm on a different train track to everyone else on this one

[covert temple]

you're not the only one

[brazen prawn]

I'm also half asleep and in bed lol

[wide ridge]

Probably but I still wanna understand

[compact python]

Significance as in order

?

[brazen prawn]

Significance as in which letter transform is of most significance in the pattern

[covert temple]

this turns out to be true btw

i'm looking at it rn

[compact python]

Thx 4 checking

[covert temple]

But looking at the night sky approx where the Quote picture is taking, looking eastward (I figure that's the direction the camera is facing), and on the night of quote's timestamp

Nothing's here

[brazen prawn]

I'm not sure it's supposed to be so literal

[covert temple]

Probably not

So I'm moving on from this idea

[wide ridge]

This is why I was playing lucid blocks. Trying to get my brain to think more abstractly

[covert temple]

Is it possible these spelling errors are actually a sign of increasing instability

[brazen prawn]

Thematically yes

[covert temple]

but maybe itd be using l33t speak if it were

[cyan kraken]

not necessarily. any error couldnbe termed as an instability. heck, the photo's name changing could also be termed as one

[brazen prawn]

And to clarify it was not air, it was are so there isn't further confusion

[wide ridge]

Frick

[compact python]

The error words might be important later when more instability occurs

[wide ridge]

So there is no odd one out

[brazen prawn]

Nope. They're significance flips that are either flat +1/-1 or MLL/LMM

Or they're dual rotations

[compact python]

Still dont know what awakened watches are

Is it just planets?

[wide ridge]

I wish I knew an easy way to see the changes in one place

[brazen prawn]

Ones who keep time presumably

[somber vigil]

there will be soon - the watcher app will display the literally changes to the skyscraper website and then a tracking website as well for all the information about it

[clear surge]

Hmm, April and June are both mentioned Sunday Morning (as is Jove). Stevens uses them to represent Reality and Endurance (April) and Desire and Memory (June).

[wide ridge]

Oh hey youre that guy

[compact python]

1st riddle was stars
2nd moons
Imo 3rd is planets

[compact python]

What guy ? Did i miss something?

[somber vigil]

[cyan kraken]

any satellite in orbit could technically be termed as something that tracks time

[wide ridge]

The guy who made that website that was compiling the information and investigation on project skyscraper, I think

[compact python]

Aaah

[somber vigil]

ye - currently updating it to be current - work weekend just got done

[cyan kraken]

wait, jupiter mars and saturn were visible on the day of the entry, right

[covert temple]

yes

i looked myself

[compact python]

Nice to meet you

[cyan kraken]

mars is planet 4 and saturn is planet 6

[covert temple]

i can check for satellites if you want

[cyan kraken]

april and june, month 4 and month 6

[somber vigil]

[compact python]

Ridlle was talking about april (venus)

[cyan kraken]

might be a wild goose chase, i'd rather not waste anybody's time unless i have concrete info

[brazen prawn]

I pinged you with some stuff prior for the 16 pattern based on post ID deltas as well as some other image analysis for the other images (quants, LSB, DCT anomalies etc). There are reports on my GitHub if you want to grab that info to add

[covert temple]

ah it takes me like two minutes

ive already sunk time into these night skies

[brazen prawn]

Wait. Which riddle are you referring to as #1?

[covert temple]

yeah there was a satellite visible that night

Cosmos 1980 r

[cyan kraken]

oh shi?

[compact python]

First quote

[brazen prawn]

Ah

[cyan kraken]

around Jupiter? bruh

[covert temple]

i mean it moves on the map

which is neat

but i didnt notice if it was near jupiter or not, that mightve been the menu overlay

[cyan kraken]

oh yeah, its only 900 km away

earth orbit

[covert temple]

yeah

otherwise i dont think theres any usable info there

too literal like the others said

[cyan kraken]

yeah

sorry for the tangent

[covert temple]

no worries

well, what now

[compact python]

We go back to the riddle

Dark birds aer invisible on the April’s night sky,
Thye vanish in silence where lies hide.
No wing, no shadow, no trace beneath June’s lights,
They are the awakened watches that tikc through time.

[covert temple]

i don't think the misspelled words form any kind of anagram

ive checked

[wide ridge]

Watches

That last line changed so much

[brazen prawn]

They're almost certainly not due to the letters themselves

[covert temple]

awakened watches that tikc through time

[brazen prawn]

Some initial results: TR4CE and IMG_00004 have an identical dot table in the DQT tables as well as the exact same SOF, DHT and SOS data

Major cryptographic encodings in skyscraper at:

Row 0: 00000001 = 0x01
Row 1: 00000001 = 0x01
Row 2: 00000011 = 0x03
Row 3: 00000111 = 0x07
Row 4: 00001111 = 0x0F
Row 5: 00011111 = 0x1F
Row 6: 00111111 = 0x3F
Row 7: 11111111 = 0xFF

LSB stego for all three results in garbage (at least without advanced cipher application)

Skyscraper is the carrier for sure

[compact python]

What if we ignore error words

Dark birds invisible on the April’s(venus) night sky,
vanish in silence where lies hide.
No wing, no shadow, no trace beneath June’s(jupiter) lights,
They are the awakened watches that through time.

[clear surge]

Maybe don't take the poem so literally, remember the Wallace Stevens connection. If I'm understanding this right:

• Dark birds and night sky, represent something negative - unseen/invisible means they're the realm of imagination, perception, or subjective truth (dark thoughts, fears?)
• April represents nature/reality
• June represents memory/desire - I think the third line is saying those negative feelings will be forgotten in happier times
• Ticking and time represent change, progression and the natural order, erasure of history

Maybe the Atlas is having a nightmare about its inevitable death

[cyan kraken]

this reads like a signal format

[brazen prawn]

It reads like a bitmask

[cyan kraken]

the only actual data, if seen in ASCII at least, is a question mark, no?

[compact python]

April - june = spring
Awakened watches - months ?

[wide ridge]

What was the original poem again?

[clear surge]

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.

[wide ridge]

"They are the unseen that watches the night." -> "They are the awakened watches that tikc through time."

Thats the biggest change from the original out of all the lines

[compact python]

Or Seasons

[cyan kraken]

seasons at the architect's timezone maybe?

[wide ridge]

Kinda makes me think of a song, lol

I feel like a Meadowlark song would be a bit of a leap when it comes to clues though

[clear surge]

• In Tearaway Thomas, the Tearaways had seeds of doubt and fear planted into their minds.
• Future Unfolding is dreamlike, with animals changing into other things as you leave and come back
• In Heavy Rain, one of the characters has nightmares about drowning

These are the 3 games retweeted about after the poem was first published.

[compact python]

Wt had yt links to songs. But not realted much to anything.

[wide ridge]

If it is, I feel like it would be almost a taunt

[cyan kraken]

do we have a list of all l33tspeek instances and errors?

[wide ridge]

The lines I think of are
"Unsettled ticks run through time
Enough for the hunt to go awry"

[brazen prawn]

There is also 13, 20, 8 as a pattern for application as well (the letter rotations)

[compact python]

Another one eeh ?.

[stray prairie]

The binary encoding in the image runs: 01, 01, 03, 07, 0F, 1F, 3F, FF. This is close to a Mersenne sequence but has two anomalies: 01 appears twice at the start, and 127 (0x7F) is skipped before jumping to 255 (0xFF).

A clean Mersenne sequence would read: 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63, 127, 255. The deviations appear deliberate. Worth noting that 127.0.0.1 is the loopback address. And 255 is both the maximum galaxy count in NMS and the broadcast address from the Wake-on-LAN log.

[brazen prawn]

Good catch

[cyan kraken]

mersenne sequence is 2^n - 1, right?

[stray prairie]

That's right.

[brazen prawn]

Upper and lower A and B are both missing from the ICC profiles of trace and img4 as well, further marking them unique. I remain convinced these are the application and skyscraper is the carrier.

[compact python]

0+0+1=1
1+1+1=3
3+3+1=7
7+7+1=15
Etc

[cyan kraken]

could you explain the A and B thing a bit?

[brazen prawn]

Skyscraper DQT0 contains other interesting binary extractions based on comparing the DQT tables with the other two as keys:

• 15 positions with value = 2: zigzag indices [28, 35–48]
• 15 positions with value = 3: zigzag indices [49–63]
• Encoding (2=0, 3=1, skip 1s): 000000000000000 + 111111111111111 → 30 bits
  As bytes: 0x0001FF (or 0x00007FFF if zero-padded)

[brazen prawn]

Profile string is missing letters

It's actually missing more than just A and B - it's missing: ABabKLMNOPQR

That's a lot of vectors now, gonna get my morning coffee and ruminate

Probably run these through JSteg as well and see what I see

[compact python]

And im going to get my sleep. will look again on the poem riddle next time. later

[cyan kraken]

that reads like a youtbe video ID

just to be sure....

its one letter too big to be a full ID, the R is getting cut out of the URL

but yeah, dead end

[brazen prawn]

It was just the missing letters in order, I doubt it's intended to be in order if used at all

[compact python]

Is there a yt profile for that yt vid ?

[cyan kraken]

i think all the l33tspeek and errors could be one

[cyan kraken]

nope, page is blank

[wide ridge]

I dont think a YouTube video url would be hidden that way

[compact python]

Ok nevermind . Bye

[stray prairie]

Interesting combo of letters. Its the alphabet in order. Missing CDEFGHIJ and RSTUVWXYZ

[brazen prawn]

Except the R - Inversely yeah, the profile contains only CDEFGHIJSTUVWXYZcdefghijstuvwxyz

Oh wait! No coffee moment

It's for the huffman table storage

JPG sucks lol

[covert temple]

yeah maybe i should get some coffee

[brazen prawn]

It's for the compression quant

So, disregard that particular piece

[vapid crater]

Have you looked into the "connection-detected-access-denied" image?

[brazen prawn]

Have done some analysis on all of them yeah

[vapid crater]

Neat

[brazen prawn]

Possible payloads:

| Source               | Bits | Value (Hex)    | Decimal
| sky DQT0             | 30   | 0x007FFF       | 32767
| sky DQT1             | 56   | 0x23FFFFFFFFFF | —
| trace/img4 Set1 DQT0 | 21   | 0x0003FF       | 1023
| trace/img4 Set1 DQT1 | 53   | 0x0FFFFFFFFFFF | —
| XOR D0               | 30   | 0x0003C0       | 960

Ah whatever, no nice way to format tables nicely

TR4CE/IMG4 Set 0 DQT0 possible 2-bit decode: 1763fa108f27c9d900713038203e8471

[somber vigil]

ah i was coming to ask you a question vector - are you okay if i mention you and your github on the tracking website. i added all your deep dive into the photos into the tracking page

[brazen prawn]

Yeah, go for it

[somber vigil]

also still looking for who was talking about them in the forum

[brazen prawn]

More eyes = more possible solves

[somber vigil]

🫡

[onyx dune]

Yall does the meteor 3i/atlas have anything to do with anything

[somber vigil]

site is current and also has your additions in it 😎

sick

also the watcher now shows what changed specifically rather than just "something changed on this page"

[brazen prawn]

Awesome, the diffs will be very handy

[covert temple]

anyone know when we're supposed to hear from project skyscraper again on twitter?

[clear surge]

Around 11:36 UTC, I think