#project-skyscraper

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dusky forge
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The more connections there are, the faster the thing moves...👀

ember wyvern
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I mean yeah they found a word to convey kind of the opposite of activated while being an anagram of activated.

turbid eagle
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man.
I hate that today is busy for me
feels like we're on the edge of an imminent something or other

clear surge
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But would the reboot be today, tomorrow... and how do we trigger it, since the posts don't seem to have had an effect

turbid eagle
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I have to step away for a bit
will check in whenever I can, prob closer to the next scheduled post

astral badger
somber vigil
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Yea it catches blue sky post - just now X/twitter bc you basically need a burner account for that

rose dust
ember wyvern
somber vigil
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Don’t know if they will happen anymore considering they basically happened early

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Or we get two in a day

turbid eagle
ember wyvern
turbid eagle
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ok I'm actually going lmao

somber vigil
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Dang that sucks man. I mean me too but imma be glued to the website and the announcement channel tomorrow

rose dust
ember wyvern
clear surge
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Post 1794 exists but is not published

somber vigil
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👀

twilit quartz
ember wyvern
somber vigil
somber vigil
onyx dune
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What could i have possibly missed

Screenshot_20260527_114801_One_UI_Home.jpg
solar sonnet
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When's the next scheduled post?

rose dust
somber vigil
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Wait I got a link for this

rose dust
somber vigil
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Dang beat me too it (didn’t have that link memorized)

rose dust
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Doubt anyone could memorize a Google docs link

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Well not unless they've got a lotta time to kill

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And the architect's making one hell of a show to make sure we don't 😛

ember wyvern
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Ok I really should go. Hold the fort folks. 🖖

covert temple
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I'm sure google docs are doable

somber vigil
solar sonnet
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@somber vigil @rose dust thanks guys!

rose dust
covert temple
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they're never gonna give it up

rain verge
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Architect is lurking in ETARC again.

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Also, alerting that a 'critical loop' has been detected. The reboot sequence renders the protection inactive for 16 minutes -- Loop16

somber vigil
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You talking about this? Or is that something new

rain verge
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That's it. Just connecting numbers and phrases from the security log.

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Did we note that @project_skyscraper has a checkmark on X now?

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(I don't use the platform so I'm not entirely sure of its meaning)

covert temple
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always has, i think

rose dust
ember jasper
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it used to be a way to tell who was the official account for someone who is commonly impersonated (think internet personalities, regular celebrities, etc), but now you can get one simply by paying the monthly fee

harsh vapor
rose dust
# harsh vapor 1802 as well!

Oo interesting...
I was kinda interpreting these ones as being reactionary / adaptive to the community, but I guess they might be planned out in a timeline too in a way?

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At least out to a certain set of posts

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@turbid eagle might be worth noting in the sheet?

sinful thunder
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67 6C 61 73 73

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this code appears in game on the locked expedition tasks lol

rose dust
sinful thunder
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yeah i was just checking ascii

rose dust
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not immediately usable or applicable in the ARG, and kinda reads more like cryptic "ooo spooky" flavor text by HG

summer orbit
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Quick question; are we sure that this arg is for the anniversary update or something later down the line? I know it'd make sense for it to do something with the anniversary, but since there's been many numbers and all that, it seems like this'd take too long for it to be solved by August. Also there was something about some memory recovery thing iirc which was at 1/365 at one point, which could mean something about a year from that day. Just speculation, but do let me know if there even is any way of knowing any further details yet.

harsh vapor
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I think the consensus is we aren't really sure about anything

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I'd be surprised if we do end up having to recover 365 individual memories

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If it does end up being official I'm sure it'll build up to be something a bit bigger over time, and if it isn't then we are just along for the ride

rain verge
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If it is official, it'll definitely fit into the theme of collaborative community efforts though.

sinful thunder
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finding some clue inside the game could be a sign of it being official tho

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especially if it matches older clues

somber vigil
harsh vapor
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What do we expect to happen in an hour?

somber vigil
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Another log/post/social to go up

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The morning one was unplanned

rain verge
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Do we have a plan if the new log is the reboot sequence?

somber vigil
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Maths has a google sheet that estimates when the next ones come out - one hour till his estimation

somber vigil
rain verge
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Alright, spamming sudo shutdown -r now

somber vigil
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I mean best thing we got is “talking” to them through social media tags

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That’s how the poem puzzle was solved

summer orbit
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I feel like there's seemingly so much effort put into this that it must be official, but yet again nobody can know for sure

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But HG hasn't said anything about it either, which could mean it is real

covert temple
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I'm starting to think we're not supposed to know

clear surge
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They wouldn't say anything unless they had to, if it was official. They might declare that they didn't make one if a fan did it without consulting them.

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We know that they know about it, and they haven't said anything. So whatever its origin, they're at least happy for it to proceed.

summer orbit
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Yeah, anything gives me hope for it to be official

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It might be the same thing as with waking titan iirc, where they basically hired some people from another company to do the arg, maybe

harsh vapor
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whoever it is running it, they seem to care quite a lot which matters more than anything. it'd be cool if it's official and they have some extra resources tho

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always has the potential to become more "official" even it is unofficial, HG could give the pm info to toss towards us

summer orbit
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Yeah, or maybe the other way around

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As in that HG would get inspiration form that and turn it into something

harsh vapor
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true!

summer orbit
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Kinda like what happened when that one guy Made the Astartes animation, his entire homebrew chapter became official

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And seeing how much HG likes the community, it'd be hopefully a lot easier to persuade them to do something like that

harsh vapor
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The A&S endorsement is enough for me to put my interest into it, I don't feel like they'd promote something like this for no reason

summer orbit
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What's A&S?

harsh vapor
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alice and smith, puppet masters of waking titan

summer orbit
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Ooh

harsh vapor
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1776 is a page ID that is unpublished 👀

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different from the posts, these are like the Security Logs

rain verge
harsh vapor
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Thats a valid distinction, point stands tho, he doesn't seem the type to endorse any random ARG

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endorse is the wrong word, shoutout*

rain verge
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Very much agreed. He's also gone kind of dark over the last 6 months to a year too.

summer orbit
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Coincidence? I think not

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But it can be

harsh vapor
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Running a scan on the site, doesn't look like there are many unpublished posts, but it looks like there are tooons of unpublished pages

summer orbit
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Fascinating

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They're clearly prepared at least

rain verge
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In the final milestone of phase 1, the communication mentions that the 'Echo-Friend' is not "where or when they should be." Interesting that it follows the motif of timetravel we've seen in project_skyscraper.

harsh vapor
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We've got 34 published pages, on the site 385 return the response as being unpublished 👀

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Not that all of those even have content or have any intention of being published, but it hints to me that this is a bit more planned out than I thought

rain verge
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Suspiciously close to 365 👀

harsh vapor
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That was my immediate thought

hard spoke
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New tweet! “Reboot Sequence Initialization: STARTED”

crystal kettle
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Guys, the reboot started!

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New sec_log!

harsh vapor
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Ooooooh

rose dust
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we've got 16 minutes

crystal kettle
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The System Filtering Platform is now "offline"

iron crestBOT
ember sundial
rose dust
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I guess we should all try to connect to the system now?

harsh vapor
crystal kettle
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I'm not sure what we're supposed to do, but I'm gonna sit on the main site

hard spoke
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Wow just in time when I gotta do some work

ember sundial
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SAME

soft flower
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System Filtering Platform offline

harsh vapor
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I should desperately be getting some sleep before I've got work tomorrow 😆

vernal delta
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Feels more unstable… on mobile some of the red dots will go in and out. Not at all useful but interesting that there is a tangible change

rose dust
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Dammit this is a lot more stressful with a timer lol. Anyone else got ideas for what to try at this time?

crystal kettle
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I think we at least all have to have a window open on the main page. Don't know what commands we should do though

soft flower
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ive got 21 live connection attempts

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what ither numbers ar ewe getting?

ember sundial
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Check all security logs

clear surge
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None at all - I was hoping that the SPF being off lets the WoLAN packet go through, but I don't know what else we can do 🤔

ember sundial
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See if there's any inputs that opened up?

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Maybe check if the other WordPress sites went active

iron crestBOT
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🛰️ Project Skyscraper — 2 changes detected

🔕 Key phrase gone — “Live Connection Attempts” no longer present anywhere

🏠 Homepage changed (structure/text, ignoring the live counter) (-['Live Connection Attempts'])
https://project-skyscraper.com/

skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-27 22:10 UTC
somber vigil
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Yea sure why not 🤷‍♂️

rain verge
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144 live connections

harsh vapor
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Maybe we just try and establish a connection? The filtering system is down, maybe we can finally establish a connection

rose dust
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Ah so that's it

soft flower
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confirmed 144

rose dust
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no more "attempts" its just proper connections now

ember sundial
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Ok

somber vigil
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He was 20 minutes late to update these

ember sundial
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So who got in

clear surge
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All the blocked stuff on twitter / bluesky - should we do something with that?

somber vigil
ember sundial
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Keep the page open until the timer ends

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Maybe it'll actively boot you

rose dust
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probably this. im guessing the system's gonna boot back up, realize we all connected, and then something will happen

harsh vapor
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I think the system filtering platform will be quite upset

rain verge
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Architect was active on ETARC ~24 minutes ago

crystal kettle
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I am AFK but I have the page open and am videoing

harsh vapor
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given last time we got the angry red glitchy text 😆

soft flower
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i have 144 on desktop but 146 on mobile

crystal kettle
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Ha yup, we specifically kickin it in

rain verge
iron crestBOT
harsh vapor
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iiiinteresting

rain verge
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The security log timestamp isn't for 44 more minutes.

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Oh wait, I meant the reboot security log.

rose dust
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Aaaand we're in!

ember sundial
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Show us what you got

rain verge
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Let's go!!!

rose dust
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im talking about the post

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access granted seems pretty telling no?

clear surge
somber vigil
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It’s just the way they came in 🤷‍♂️

rain verge
rose dust
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Oh, the access granted timestamp is in 20 minutes

iron crestBOT
rose dust
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<t:1779921540>

rain verge
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And was posted before the access granted log, although they are in the "correct" order if you use the 'next' and 'previous' navigation.

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The access granted log doesn't have a system denoted.

soft flower
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122 live connections

rain verge
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But it seems like we're trying to find the 'Historical_DB'

rose dust
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sounds like restoring more memory blocs ?

rose dust
rain verge
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Damn, some streamer must have pushed people to the main homepage. The number of connections dropped off.

soft flower
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61 live connections

rain verge
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Update:
Fractured Non-linear Temporal Continuum
Memory_reconstruction_engine: ERROR
iron crestBOT
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🛰️ Project Skyscraper — 1 change detected

✏️ Post edited — “SECURITY LOG” (sec-log-access-granted) modified 2026-05-27T22:23:08Z
https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/05/27/sec-log-access-granted/

 Access to Historical Records: FAILED
+
+Update: 
+Fractured Non-linear Temporal Continuum
+Memory_reconstruction_engine: ERROR
skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-27 22:24 UTC
rain verge
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On the reboot page ^

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Being out of order is intentional!

rose dust
ember sundial
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Good to know

rain verge
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And reflects the dialog in the expedition.

harsh vapor
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We broke it 🥲

rain verge
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What if we are creating the historical records? They can't be accessed because they don't exist yet.

harsh vapor
rose dust
harsh vapor
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WT is the historical DB?

rain verge
rose dust
covert temple
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what i miss

rain verge
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I see I restated what you'd already said xD

rose dust
iron crestBOT
covert temple
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but what to?

rose dust
rain verge
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So, the reboot actually starts at the top of the hour?

rose dust
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kinda

harsh vapor
rain verge
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Architect lurking ETARC again.

rose dust
ember sundial
covert temple
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Has the main page always had the tag unstable?

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oh nevermind

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false alarm

rose dust
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nope

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ah

covert temple
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i went to the main page from the unstable page tag and for some reason my URL bar didnt update

rain verge
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Only one page is tagged (QUOTE with the 'Stable' tag)

rose dust
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alright, twitter post went out at the time in the sec log too

rain verge
ember sundial
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Is it back up? I still have a connection on my phone

soft flower
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47 live connections

rain verge
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Are we waiting for the top of the hour at this point?

rose dust
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the reboot log has a timestamp memory bloc of <t:1779922802>, so im guessing we;ll get the appropriate posts for that then too

somber vigil
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Welp nvm

rain verge
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The architect left ETARC for ~40 minutes and has been steady lurking since the reboot and access granted posts.

somber vigil
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We probably need to start sending him stuff again

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If he’s lurking he waiting for something

rose dust
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not exactly

covert temple
somber vigil
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quick everyone make x/bluesky/ETARC/Reddit post

rose dust
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the architect lurks on etarc every single day

ember sundial
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Could just be monitoring for idle chatter

rain verge
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The thing is, they don't have to use the Architect account for that.

ember sundial
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More fun if they do

rain verge
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Just like they're monitoring here with a different account.

rose dust
harsh vapor
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Time to spam in the A&S discord to fix the DNS errors /s

ember sundial
harsh vapor
ember sundial
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Odd, I dont see it yet

soft flower
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just hit 22:40 UTC

rain verge
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It's /arg on a discord invite link.

rain verge
soft flower
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30 Live Connections

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34 Live Connections

ember sundial
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We're 10 minutes past the timer in chat, did we get the timing wrong?

covert temple
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Dunno where I should put this

ember sundial
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Here for sure

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I am finally home

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Time to boot up and try to find what theyre talking about

rain verge
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If this is official it will definitely contain game/lore spoilers.

turbid eagle
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gosh darnit

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I missed so much

soft flower
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20 Live Connections

turbid eagle
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Did this stuff happen automatically or did it involve people messaging the architect?

rose dust
covert temple
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he might actually

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i doubt it

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but it wouldnt surprise me

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it'd be pretty funny

turbid eagle
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I can't complain, I got a DM and I can pretty much retire off that

covert temple
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ive been trying to do more to help here but i'm lost with all this programming stuff

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and go figure i slept through the anagram stuff

rain verge
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We've only just begun. There will be plenty for all of us to do I'm sure.

turbid eagle
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do we know if this was the result of something someone sent to the architect or likely just automated?

rain verge
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If the reboot started at the top of the hour we have 13 minutes until the next thing.

clear surge
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I'm honestly not sure whether our involvement contributed anything, other than visiting the site

turbid eagle
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imagine the expedition is what's pushing this forward lol

rose dust
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i sent off a few tweets as well as others during the reboot but didnt get a response, so its anyones guess if that wass necessary or not

turbid eagle
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appreciate the peek behind what went down

soft flower
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13 Live Connections

covert temple
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are we gonna hear from the architect again

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or are they done for the day

rose dust
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If we do, I'm gonna have to get a rundown from y'all in about 6 hours

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I think we're past all the timestamps for the day though

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But It could be an unexpected post like the reboot

rain verge
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Technically we're 4 minutes from the end of the reboot window if it started at the latest timestamp.

covert temple
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speaking of timeframes

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do we know what time The Event is going to happen tomorrow?

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since it will be the 28th

turbid eagle
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your guess is as good as mine
well it might be a better guess tbh

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(yours)

covert temple
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I'd assume it's sometime within the architect's active hours

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So, for me, that's either earlier in the morning or later in the day

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i think)

turbid eagle
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nice

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for me that's.... whenever I go do something else

covert temple
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quick, go do something else!

brazen prawn
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God damn time zones. 😮‍💨

rain verge
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Has the architest's ETARC profile always had its location listed as 'erased'?

clear surge
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I think so, it definitely was ~28 hours ago

cyan kraken
turbid eagle
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I'm going to take advantage of this brief lull
and actually play No Man's Sky

Enjoy whatever the architect dishes out while I'm gone lmao

brazen prawn
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A rare opportunity

brazen prawn
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Rebooting eh

dusky forge
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I don't think the Haven map caught it on the forum...

rain verge
wide ridge
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Hold up

wide ridge
brazen prawn
wide ridge
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Security protocol has become unstable... I was literally comparing the hive of glass to the atlas' immune system

rain verge
covert temple
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whatd we even do while the filter was offline

sinful thunder
brazen prawn
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Aware. Question is are we to treat them as time stable? Are we currently rebooting?

rain verge
rain verge
sinful thunder
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Sentinels are the immune system, and the corrupt sentinels are autoimmune diseased

brazen prawn
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It was rhetorical...

rain verge
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And, without huge spoilers, there is something akin to a reboot.

wide ridge
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Sentinels are not the immune system

sinful thunder
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it's destroying the Atlas to keep the Atlas from destroying itself

rain verge
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Epoch 0 is Hello, World

wide ridge
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They give off that impression, but its not their directive

rain verge
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It is the first, it is the last.

wide ridge
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I think the hive is the immune system

ember wyvern
rain verge
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SOMETHING has broken the timeline. It's likely not us, we're just along for the ride it seems.

sinful thunder
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Hmm there was something originally about how if the universe was a simulation then if you tried to simulate the universe the outer simulation would fail

wide ridge
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Not really

sinful thunder
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Maybe the Atlas proved that the in universe reality was indeed a simulation and broke time outside of it

wide ridge
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The best way to test the likelihood of the universe being a simulation is to simulate a universe capable of having a simulated universe within it

ember wyvern
ember wyvern
brazen prawn
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It had temporal problems to begin with.

ember wyvern
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Fair point.

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Well it’s broken anyhow.

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What happened in the 16 mins btw? It still seems to have same status of showing active connections rather than attempts. Looks like reboot failed?

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You know, I’m going to freak out if the wt site comes online.

sinful thunder
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filtering system offline

ember wyvern
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Has anyone tried the other urls from back when? Myriad, etc.

rain verge
ember wyvern
dusky forge
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I was reading thru the WT wiki and it really does feel like we are turning things back on...

ember wyvern
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Operator_Auth_Level: Pending

I wonder what this line means in the status page

dusky forge
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Also the old Atlas 65 website had the same hexagonal dots and lines and it moved the same when you ran your cursor across it.

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I was wondering that too. It was Dubois who was in charge of everything and had authorization. In the end Loop 16 sacrificed herself to save one of the dreamers. We found out Emily was loop 16. A rouge AI who became human and did the most human thing of all. Sacrificed herself to save a life

hard spoke
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The ONLY url with that white 1016 DNS page is wakingtitan.com. No other waking titan related site has it, the others just have that black page “this site can’t be reached”

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Now that is something

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Only waking titan

dusky forge
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It is very interesting

hard spoke
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Yes

dusky forge
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Someone on the forum is saying HG is developing an anniversary website...trying to get evidence

hard spoke
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Huh…interesting

ember wyvern
ember wyvern
ember sundial
covert temple
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Yeah keep us posted

dusky forge
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Waiting for a reply...will report....

ember sundial
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link to the post in the meantime?

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still just thinking of the connective tissue between the ARG and the expedition

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Waking Titan S2 started on March 26th, 2018 - NEXT released in July 27th of that year - about 2 months

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the expedition is running for 8 weeks, which is a little longer than most of them, and is clearly timegated based on community progress. For whatever reason, they don't want us to get our treats and leave

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With everything we've learned today I feel very confident this isn't some fan homage

hard spoke
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Yeah idk it seems way too complex to be just a fan

ember sundial
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Guess we'll see what happens with tomorrow's supposed convergence date

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It is incredible how much this game surprises me even a decade later

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I think we're in for a treat

grizzled yacht
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I loved waking titan. I’m so happy I might get to experience it again

brazen prawn
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A reference to it from the ARG is specific/unique, but the error isn't.

DNS error 1016 is a standard error. Cloudflare (as the proxy service) is unable to resolve the A record IP correctly (for numerous possible reasons).

You can confirm some weirdness by using nslookup to see what's alive, what isn't and where it is pointing. Currently the IPs on the A records are 403.

rain verge
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I think the main takeaway is that project_skyscraper is pointing to wakingtitan.com as the 'Historical_DB' which contains 'Historical Records' and is unreachable.

brazen prawn
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Yes

rain verge
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Is it possible that the prismatic core is the 'Memory_reconstruction_engine'?

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The expedition is (re)building it so it's currently throwing an error.

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The team colors being RGB is interesting too, considering the chromatic aberration glitch motif we've seen so far.

brazen prawn
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There's a few interesting little tie in elements. I am eager to find out

rain verge
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I'm having trouble finding the exact start time of the expedition, did it coincide at all with the project_skyscraper reboot sequence?

EDIT: seems to have been 6-7 hours after the expedition officially started so no luck there.

upper lynx
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67…

covert temple
steady niche
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I see the reboot happened. Did that lead to anything?

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What changed on the main page?

crystal kettle
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"System Filtering Platform offline" and the graph is moving a bit faster. Other than that, nothing

brazen prawn
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orbitSpeed was set to 0.026 + Math.random() * 0.016 from the old values

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(0.0024 + Math.random() * 0.0031 in prior snapshot)

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But I am sure the master hackers who keep 'correcting' me with AI will be aware already that the cool magic number is there 🙃 - haven't bothered to point it out on the forum

covert temple
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hang in there vector we appreciate you and your commitment to not using AI

steady niche
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Large increase in those values

brazen prawn
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Yeah, looks much more active/agitated and smooths out some of the artifacting from before so it looks better in general

steady niche
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So is security back up now? It's been 16 minutes

rain verge
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We don't really know. It seems like the filter has remained down, but we're kind of just in a holding pattern for now.

brazen prawn
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I guess the question kind of lands in with the timey-wimey stuff

steady niche
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Do we have a list of all timestamps and dates that seem wrong or out of order?

rose dust
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Might be worth adding if not, with the time travel shenanigans becoming more prominent though

stray prairie
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I know for sure IMG_00004 was taken 1 hour and 56 minutes after it was posted.

lapis hare
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so, was this confirmed to be real yet?

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i mean official*

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or still thinking its fanmade

harsh vapor
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Nothing confirmed as of yet

steady niche
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Just assume we won't know, ever.

harsh vapor
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We will know when we know 😀

rose dust
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So I'll hopefully be working on the FAQ thread a lil further today, does anyone have a list of questions / posts theyve seen as nauseum that'd be good to include? I'm guessing @steady niche @turbid eagle and @brazen prawn have been the ones at the recieving end of em the most.

I'm looking into the wiki posts thing mentioned yesterday too, did we reach a consensus on using that for the organisation threads?

brazen prawn
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Sounds good - I'll have a think so I don't hipfire (but you can guess some I am sure lmao)

rose dust
brazen prawn
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Hm, thinking about some of them it's hard to stub them because of changes. It might be hard to mitigate/update fast enough to matter...
Take the "nodes changed and I resized my window 16 times and got a render warning = might be useful" or the "I found a GUID / MD5 Hash / secret= / etc" in standard webdev stuff posts as an example. I'm not sure how to stave them off without a list of them all that they won't read anyway 😅

steady niche
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Maybe a list of numbers that are most likely irrelevant?

brazen prawn
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Problem is every page and it's corresponding json, etc. will have a guid/hash/secret for bunches of wp calls, files, etc. it would be insanely long

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Which reminds me to ping ekimo later when I have time to give a list to remove some of those from early on so people don't keep thinking they're of value

rose dust
rose dust
brazen prawn
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Thing is, how does Jim Forumman know what that even means

rose dust
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The Page/PostIDs could be mentioned as a known exception maybe

rose dust
brazen prawn
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Yeah, that seems fair enough and anything is better than nothing for sure

#

It's hard to draw a line between discouragement and fidelity

rose dust
#

It sounds harsh but the alternative is a very messy conversation

brazen prawn
#

It also acts to drive some people away the messier and louder it gets cough

harsh vapor
#

Maybe just a blanket technical digging into the site aside from just looking at maybe source code is not required for solving the puzzles until we gain any indication that it is?

rose dust
harsh vapor
#

Ah fair

brazen prawn
#

I'll give it a little more thought while I make dinner, but I think we're on the right track with that at least

harsh vapor
#

Like could a forum post with just a little more detail of what is definitely WP stuff and then just link to that whenever someone points to something that is obviously not a clue might work

#

People are gonna make those sorts of post and not read beforehand regardless, but a resource they could read after they post could maybe help curb it if it is an issue

brazen prawn
steady niche
#

I'm on my way to Seoul. Probably won't have much time to do anything the next 24 hours. Any progress made on setting up ETARC threads? If no one is going to object or do it, I'll setup one or two if someone is willing to take backup for the second post.

#

What are the two most discussed things right now that don't have threads?

rose dust
#

So I read up on the discourse wiki topic, seems like it allows for open edits unless a moderator restricts the global edit group?

brazen prawn
#

That's a bummer

rose dust
#

Imo this looks like the next step we're supposed to work on, though we might need a few more pages to unlock before doing so

Another one might be for the time discrepancies we've noticed so far, now that we directly have a log mentioning time linearity being broken.

I can help out as secondary on one of em if you'd like

rose dust
# brazen prawn That's a bummer

I've asked on ETARC whether the leaders can make these changes. It would be nice to have per-post permissions, but maybe we could ask em to restrict the wiki editor group to an "ask first" system for now?

brazen prawn
cyan kraken
#

the issue is we don't know which corrupted data entry to focus on. i mean, we have a few leads for all the corrupted stuff we've seen

steady niche
rose dust
# steady niche Wouldn't the time discrepancies and historical db be the same topic?

I'm not entirely sure since we've had odd timestamps on the posts before the historical DB post so that one seems to have more content rn.

We could draw out all of the time discrepancies in one thread and merge with the historical DB one later if needed? I'm open to opinions on this because I'm entirely not sure how intentional previous discrepancies were.

steady niche
#

I'll come up with something in about 2.5 hours. Will you be around then?

rose dust
#

Sure! Just drop a ping here or on ETARC and I'll follow up at that time.

steady niche
#

Coolio

ember wyvern
#

Here’s a somewhat random thought for restoring the old db: can we share an archived version/picture of the old wt page?

clear surge
#

Worth trying

harsh vapor
#

I think a few people have sent the GD wiki of WT and screenshots from the page already, but more wouldn't hurt

clear surge
#

I was noticing that the WT whois info was updated on 5th April, right between two sleep heartbeats. The problem seems to be that it's missing an origin DNS entry. We have a page with a /origin slug.

#

I suspect that solving some puzzle will fix the DNS entry and the WT site (the historical db) will come back online. This presumes that this is an official ARG and a successor to WT.

#

Could be nothing more than a coincidence, of course.

harsh vapor
#

could make sense, if it was coordinated with Anashel in some way (assuming he has access to the old domain) why he would mention this ARG in the first place

steady niche
#

Isn't that particular domain host meant to obfuscate personal information?

brazen prawn
#

I think Rinh'a and I were about the type the same thing and are playing typing chicken - they're using a privacy service with the registrar for the domain (I assume that's what you mean)

ember wyvern
clear surge
#

I was going to say we don't need personal info. The puzzle isn't to go monkeying with DNS or Cloudflare ourselves, but to interact with the system (via social media/atlas-65) and inject data with posts.

#

I'm just observing that change as in indication of where the experience might be heading

brazen prawn
#

It sounds silly but it's why I think a few of us are being vague when talking about some things, because they're interesting contextual findings, but we don't want to expose points of abuse or annoyance

#

Being a bit opaque about it is probably best

ember wyvern
#

I generally avoid network/domain related stuff with ARGs unless certain the valid way of solving something is down that path. Or at least discussing about it in as many words.

somber vigil
#

I mean I found out about the second website the architect had registered to them that way

clear surge
#

So what we know in context:

  • there's some sort of critical loop that required a restart
  • the system filtering platform is offline
  • the historical database is offline, with error 1016
  • there is a "Fractured Non-linear Temporal Continuum"
  • the operator auth level is pending

Maybe we should help with operator authorisation.

brazen prawn
#

Yeah, getting back on base - question in context: when do we think this system was built in theory given the time nonsense (in universe)?

clear surge
#

Or, perhaps for now we wait for the next unstable entry to fix, it's unclear when we should be doing stuff

#

The first actual log entry available was dated 13th April 2005. The date wasn't changed in making it stable. The origin must be before that, but after 1st Jan 1970.

I'd guess at some time in 2005, with the quote being an early post.

steady niche
#

I'm at my shitty-ass laptop. Need to send a couple of work emails, then can work on some gaming stuff before bed

#

Has october 16th had any significance in NMS history? I can't think of anything

brazen prawn
#

@somber vigil we were discussing mitigating repetitive posts earlier (#project-skyscraper message) and it reminded me to ask if you wouldn't mind removing/'solving' the "token nIEEt0rspH" stuff (it's on the "now" page but not sure if it's in others) as it is just the API auth token for the embed

turbid eagle
brazen prawn
#

5 of those in the shed

turbid eagle
#

I'm going to laugh so hard if it's just something like "timestamps are borked"

clear surge
#

Atlas multiverse bleeds, most likely

#

Oh, yeah, it could be "whoops I messed up the timestamp lol"

turbid eagle
clear surge
#

I'm assuming from the project-skyscraper pic being the Atlas Tower that skyscraper == atlas

#

Not necessarily the NMS Atlas, but an Atlas

#

In this game, it's called Skyscraper, so yeah, I agree

turbid eagle
#

Yeah, that's where I'm at with Skyscraper/Atlas

steady niche
brazen prawn
#

Don't tease me with a good time.

turbid eagle
steady niche
brazen prawn
#

Before I bother firing up a box to check something, is decompilation OK/NG to discuss here?

clear surge
#

Of NMS itself?

brazen prawn
#

Yeah

turbid eagle
#

I figure but I'm not an admin/mod

clear surge
#

I've seen code snippets posted before and people talking about it in the modding channel

brazen prawn
#

Checking

ember wyvern
#

I’m convinced LNF is a myth created by Hello Games to tease NMS updates.

#

Until I hear more about it. Seriously, we should have heard more about it last year.

turbid eagle
#

which reminds me

#

another definition for a "shadow check" is when developers test an iteration of their software by taking real user interaction data and running it through a simulation of that iteration (poorly worded but you get the idea)

steady niche
#

RE of NMS is generally ok, except if you start touching on the procgen formulae. That's a strong no-go

brazen prawn
#

Yeah clarified with admins. I will steer clear for now. Back to what we were discussing..

hazy sigil
rose dust
brazen prawn
#

Yeah. Was going to be networking related so I will move away from that.

#

Anyway. I am hoping it's best if both worlds

rose dust
#

They were surprisingly very polite about it, but let us keep our tools and knowledge

brazen prawn
#

NMS 10 big bang party and a bleed over into another sim (big announcement vid for LNF and a rel date) but that's pie in the sky stuff.

rose dust
#

I can still access the servers with em, and update whatever mightve changed, but they did fix a lotta the issues from back in the day which anyone with a lil bit of free time and knowledge about packet sniffing could figure out

turbid eagle
#

(code name)

rose dust
turbid eagle
#

[ batman stroking chin gif ]

steady niche
#

Just finished work and tired. I'll make a thread in the morning

rose dust
#

Their timing's been doing that to me for a few days haha

#

Speaking of timing, did we figure out if a post caused the reset, or was it likely scheduled?

turbid eagle
#

from what I've seen, it appears to have been scheduled

clear surge
#

Polyphemus noted that the socials now link to the site, where they didn't before. That might be the primary effect of the reboot (security is offline, the system is open), and a signal that the game proper is starting soon.

rose dust
turbid eagle
#

yep, the other two have post IDs over 1700

covert temple
#

Has anything happened yet today?

turbid eagle
#

well Gumsk got off work which is awesome

rose dust
#

I'm guessing if this demarcates the "start" from the preamble we've been working with so far then the WoL was the marker for the start of that phase

turbid eagle
#

yeah with the current context, much of the prior activity appears to be hype building

earnest yarrow
#

Woahhhh NMS ARG

rose dust
#

I guess in that sense the reboot was kinda "advertised", giving us prep time to line up for the event. Doesn't look like it was influenced by us in anyway

earnest yarrow
#

is there a place i should start?

rose dust
#

Which would like up with a planned start of activities

rose dust
# earnest yarrow is there a place i should start?

Definitely here:

https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/project-skyscraper-welcome-info/9206?u=thatbomberboi

ETARC Community
Project Skyscraper - Welcome / Info

First of all, a warm welcome to our forum and ‘normally’ quiet little place to discuss anything No Man’s Sky. We have received a lot of traffic ever since this likely fan made ARG popped up and literally appeared to ‘kick’ off on here. In hopes to prevent any issues and provide some quick info to get you started, please read up on som...

turbid eagle
rose dust
#

It's the most comprehensive set of information we have rn and really well organized, and it links to all our active resources and discussions

#

As well as linking to the other main forum of discussion

rose dust
#

Maybe moreso of a calibration puzzle as a teaser for what to do in later phases?

turbid eagle
#

was just about to say that, yeah
give us a sense of how to interact moving forward before the real games begin

#

as well as a sense of our collective skill level perhaps

rose dust
covert temple
#

They're probably confused as shit

turbid eagle
covert temple
#

"How does it take these people three days of debate to begin figuring out a poem but I give them one hint and it takes them like, an hour"

turbid eagle
#

the thing that will always get me is how we clearly noticed the poem was wrong

yet we didn't attempt anything to fix the poem

#

all we did was try and make the poem worse lmao

clear surge
#

Or a training puzzle for us.

We picked up that:

  • Quote was the most likely avenue for a solveable puzzle
  • there were several inconsistencies in the post and images
  • our task was to provide correct information via social media/ETARC
#

The original poem was probably unsolvable. Only when they tagged it as unstable and started changing it could we infer the correct parts.

covert temple
#

the poem was probably intended to be a tutorial of sorts anyway

#

Which I mean

#

I guess that makes us the IGN Reporters of the ARG world

#

But hey at least what we're doing now

clear surge
#

I think we did great. By putting the puzzle pieces on the table and taking an overview, we got an idea of the picture and started putting some pieces together.

brazen prawn
#

If it was all really preamble and the DQT were just mangled by their software and there is no key coming up git rm images Sean4

turbid eagle
clear surge
#

It looks like they went to a lot of effort to make it look like there was hidden data in the images. A giant red herring.

vast stump
#

what's this?

brazen prawn
#

Hey, at least I love fish I guess.

rose dust
rose dust
vast stump
#

well close enough

#

welcome back, waking titan

#

y'all remember that?

proper gyro
#

What is project skyscraper

rose dust
clear surge
#

Should we suggest a name change of the channel to have "-arg" on the end? 🤔

turbid eagle
#

inb4 "this related to pirate systems?"

hollow gate
#

wow devilinpixy is still active, love to see it

rose dust
#

It's been amazing seeing people from the WT era come back to ETARC for Skyscraper. Even if fan made, it's doing miracles for a 10 year community celebration.

turbid eagle
#

I said this on x, but feels like a fast and furious sequel the way everyone is coming back together 😂

brazen prawn
#

😂

clear surge
#

Last and Curious

-# because we're the last traveller

turbid eagle
#

ok I will brb, going to add a couple points to the SAGE contribution counter

somber vigil
#

Oh also - I know goodguys and vector want access to the repo for the website - does anyone else want access?

ember wyvern
somber vigil
#

🫡

turbid eagle
#

damn, sages are slacking
Kind of makes sense though, given our nature lmao

surreal turret
#

The eight hour gap between missions is.. an interesting choice..

solar sonnet
#

Huh, reboot starts now

#

Maybe we'll finally have some light shed on it 😂

iron crestBOT
rose dust
#

Ih

#

This one is fun

somber vigil
#

This one’s interesting

#

Confirming French??

rose dust
#

Told y'all we wouldn't need to RE an email from a hash 😛

somber vigil
#

They just gave it to us😂

rose dust
#

Guess that's out communication method going forward, at least partially for some puzzle

brazen prawn
#

I've been emailing them already, that was the message the other day lol

#

No response though 🙁

rose dust
#

Huh

#

So who's this ghost character

rose dust
hard spoke
#

We have an email wooooooo

rose dust
#

How'd you get the email? Guessing? Or was that the "time sensitive" message?

brazen prawn
#

It was the time sensitive one, because I was concerned it was either not intended, or the record was going to get cleaned up

hard spoke
#

I wanna email them something

#

But idk what

turbid eagle
#

for us english-speaking folk

Screenshot_2026-05-28_100650.png
rose dust
#

Ah gotcha, didn't think to try checking SMTP

brazen prawn
#

I'll redact and share it in a sec

clear surge
#

I sent them a "hello world"

rain verge
#

Damn it! I tried emailing a ton of different addresses at the project-skyscraper.com domain, but didn't email exactly the_architect...

hard spoke
#

I sent a hello world too now

turbid eagle
#

is that 7PM UTC?

#

because that doesn't hit for another hour....

hard spoke
#

Wonder who ghost is

rose dust
brazen prawn
rose dust
brazen prawn
#

When I hit the wall last time I got creative

rain verge
#

If we're leaning on the Anashel/A&S/WT connection, it's good to remember the Quebec, Canada uses French as well.

rose dust
brazen prawn
#

There is one other vector for comms that is open - but I think it is unintended despite being legitimate enough

clear surge
#

I doubt we'd have to metagame it

rose dust
turbid eagle
#

is anyone getting bounce errors?

brazen prawn
#

I traced it to land

#

Is it not now?

rose dust
#

Wonder what we're supposed to send to it though. I was thinking we'd need to communicate something about either the DB or permissions but this seems to be tacking a different route

rain verge
turbid eagle
rain verge
rose dust
#

Also, it's interesting that the architect being french is canon now. I thought the hints would end up just being automated payloads because of where they're operating from

#

gotta keep a Google translate tab open at all times it seems 😛

turbid eagle
#

@clear surge correct me if I'm wrong but if I remember right, a WP sitewide timezone can be set in the admin area no?

turbid eagle
brazen prawn
#

I am glad this happened because I was feeling a little sussy about having done it

clear surge
#

It's been a long time since I fiddled with one

brazen prawn
#

So, do we send memories to it?

turbid eagle
rose dust
turbid eagle
#

or got stuck or something lol

rose dust
turbid eagle
#

that sounds like a french name

#

but I'm no Frenchman

rose dust
#

My mind did jump to em when I heard the french connection initially but I didn't think much of it

clear surge
rain verge
clear surge
#

Summertime in France/Belgium/Luxembourg?

rose dust
rain verge
rain verge
turbid eagle
#

Unless that's the initiating email

rose dust
#

Anyone including french translations just to make sure we don't piss the architect off on accident 😅?

rain verge
rose dust
turbid eagle
#

maybe they'll respond if we write in French lol

Screenshot_2026-05-28_101821.png
brazen prawn
#

Record returns exactly under 2 (yes, that is the return) addresses (same as the other day).

turbid eagle
rose dust
#

Oh this is gonna be such a nice update to the narrative thread haha

turbid eagle
#

yeah I'm pumped haha

rose dust
#

I need to go back and read up on the various names characters we had in WT now. Would be interesting if any one of em has ever been described as an architect in WT

turbid eagle
#

from bugaboocreek on ETARC: The mission in which we meet -Null- is called “Ghosts in the Machine” 👀

#

faaaaascinating

hard spoke
#

Yesss

brazen prawn
#

I'm kinda hoping for some more of the act of creation lore personally than internal simulation law

rain verge
#

-Null- is the first Traveller? Or a proto-traveller?

rose dust
#

As a side note, I think everyone who's interested in solving this thing should send the architect an email, in case the next stage requires being on some sorta mailing list

#

It's probably gonna balloon up their email, but I'm sure they were expecting that 😅

clear surge
#

The one who managed to explore all worlds in their universe, I think they were described as the first traveller, but (I think) they were not literally the first chronologically

covert temple
#

What'd I miss

brazen prawn
#

I sent them a cheeky time based reply "following up" keeping the same tone

rose dust
brazen prawn
#

Gonna lean into the business type angle

covert temple
#

LOL

#

Intentionally?

clear surge
covert temple
#

Huh.

rose dust
covert temple
#

Well that's odd

rain verge
#

Vector, were you able to see the other email address or is the_architect the only one you'd found?

turbid eagle
#

it would be hilarious for the PM to add a /spam subdirectory where all our emails show for the world to see 😂

brazen prawn
rose dust
brazen prawn
somber vigil
#

So all imma say is “figuring out the architects email” was actually spot on for the tracking website😂

covert temple
#

Half considering emailing the architect in the character of a gek merchant who somehow broke into the system

rose dust
somber vigil
covert temple
rose dust
rain verge
#

I haven't interacted with many of the multiplayer systems in NMS, is it possible to message specific users?

covert temple
#

LAN to LAN salesgek

rose dust
turbid eagle
#

there's always sign language (emotes)
but usually I'm limited to

[ YOU ]
[ COOL ]

rain verge
turbid eagle
#

how would they know about it?

rose dust
rain verge
#

Hmm, monitoring the architect's account on ETARC it seems like they actively lurk and then go away around the times things get published on social media and project-skyscraper.com which may be another indication of a one-person operation.

#

They are also mostly active during (extended) West coast NA working hours.

clear surge
#

I'd expect there's a single puppet master plus maybe other people supporting them/planning

brazen prawn
#

I am ~90% sure it is an agency also as an FYI

clear surge
harsh vapor
#

Oooooooooo 👀

rose dust
# clear surge

I'm definitely gonna need to keep the translator up all the time haha

turbid eagle
#

yo I got the same email

brazen prawn
#

Awesome

rain verge
#

Did you send you original email in French?

turbid eagle
#

I'm going to reply with

WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU REGARDING YOUR CAR'S EXTENDED WARRANTY

rose dust
brazen prawn
#

Uh also

rose dust
#

I didn't send a french email yet

brazen prawn
#

I'm not at my workstation right now, but someone can confirm

harsh vapor
#

I sent english w/ french translation in the same email

covert temple
#

If my pc would stop lagging I'd send you guys the translation

#

Fuck it I'll type it out manually

clear surge
#

Merci pour cette expérience !

covert temple
harsh vapor
#

Who are you? how do you have this address

rain verge
#

Ok, so it seems like the Architect requires messages to be sent in French.

rose dust
#

Sent a french email now

clear surge
#

Yeah, my memories of French from school were good enough to work that out without a translator 😄

harsh vapor
#

Maybe my year of full time studying french will pay off for something 😆

brazen prawn
#

Author: 279180096

rose dust
covert temple
#

Perhaps we're to believe the architect is a separate person from the AI thing

rose dust
#

Guess we're about to get posts from Ghost now

hard spoke
#

Finally, my French 1 and 2 classes can be put to the test

brazen prawn
#

User 279180096: "name": "System", "slug": "system26da6be6a6"

covert temple
#

I never took french

rose dust
covert temple
#

Maybe I should've

rose dust
#

Interesting

#

So the architect wrote all of the logs so far despite it seemingly being written by the system?

clear surge
#

Everything so far has been authored by The Architect, yes

rose dust
#

I remember that, but I'm surprised that there's gonna be an actual system author now

brazen prawn
rose dust
#

I thought them being written by the architect was just an interesting quirk instead of being relevant

rain verge
#

The architect's author ID is 279180095 so System is newer?

harsh vapor
#

I guess it would just show their posts specifically

brazen prawn
#

Running a quick script to test some other stuff, but doing it remote and it's like eating glass

rose dust
#

Anyone else got a reply yet? I think sending the first email in English might've locked me out

#

Or replies are limited to certain users

covert temple
#

Maybe the architect, the one that responded to the email, is meant to be the lead researcher over whatever AI is freaking out

rain verge
# clear surge

Can you post the HTML of their signature block if there's anything abnormal?

brazen prawn
#

Rude to ghost me for days 😢

rose dust
#

Also, nice to hear to human text in response for once haha

rose dust
brazen prawn
#

Revs are happening it seems?

#

The data is refeshing as I poll it lmao

#

Gravatar is a no go

#

404 on the hash

wet salmon
#

I’ve sent an email with various void mother related keywords, I doubt they’ll respond, but who knows

iron crestBOT
#
🛰️ Project Skyscraper — 1 change detected

📝 Page edited — “Inbox” (inbox) modified 2026-05-28T17:54:09Z
https://project-skyscraper.com/inbox/

 T’en es où ?
+
+Project Skyscraper
+
+The Architect <the_architect@project-skyscraper.com>
+À : Ghost <null>
+
+jeudi 28 mai
+19:54
+
+On a un problème. https://project-skyscraper.com/inbox/
skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-28 17:56 UTC
brazen prawn
#

Beat me to it bot!

#

Thought: this is a loop issue

#

The inbox is self-referential

rose dust
# iron crest

Ah, finally a message i don't need a translator for

turbid eagle
harsh vapor
#

We have a problem is more accurate

turbid eagle
#

When they responded to me, I told them their email inbox was exposed by the Skyscraper system

clear surge
#

Same

turbid eagle
#

look at us

rain verge
rose dust
rain verge
#

At this rate we'll never know which mode of communication is actually effective xD

turbid eagle
#

watch it disappear now

somber vigil
rose dust
#

This reads pretty interestingly tbh. So the architect views their inbox being shown on the system as a problem despite pointing us to the site in the first place.

harsh vapor
#

I think the site is acting on its own behalf at this point

brazen prawn
clear surge
#

This is probably the (intended) effect of the security being offline

somber vigil
turbid eagle
rose dust
turbid eagle
#

it's acting autonomously

rain verge
#

Alright, the architect is back to active lurking on ETARC. Every time we've seen a new message or response they go inactive for ~15-30 minutes.

rose dust
covert temple
#

im just gonna leave google translate open

#

no use closing and opening it again and again

clear surge
#

Hmm, perhaps the system (or the ghost inside) was abusing the architect's credentials

rose dust
brazen prawn
#

Oh also the email wasn't a mailto originally, it is now

#

It's 4am, can they hurry up and screenshare their inbox faster 😂

rose dust
#

Oh interesting

#

On the WP feed reader, the website blog initially had 1 subscriber, with subscriptions being disabled

#

That's gone up to two now

#

I'm guessing authors on the website correlates to WP feed subscribers

#

Oh never mind

brazen prawn
#

It's not them

rose dust
#

I can actually subscribe to the blog / feed now

brazen prawn
#

You could before

rose dust
brazen prawn
#

Just had to be creative

rose dust
#

Ah well

#

Not all of us are trynna get banned by the architect on a speedrun 😛

brazen prawn
#

lmao

#

I don't play fair - I am a pocket sand guy

clear surge
brazen prawn
#

Oh dear.

rain verge
brazen prawn
#

There is something that should not be in there.

#

Maybe remove. @clear surge

#

Or do we assume they know this?

clear surge
#

Mine or theirs?

brazen prawn
#

Theirs

clear surge
#

Removed until we can confirm then

turbid eagle
brazen prawn
#

It confirms the 3rd thing I have had my eye on, regarding the other site

#

But I don't think it's supposed to be a part of the game

covert temple
turbid eagle
clear surge
#

I was too busy topping and tailing it to read the rest 😅

#

Oh, do you mean their email provider?

brazen prawn
#

I'm not sure how to answer it without specifying

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It's not a direct problem, but it provides information that matches something else and allows a form of abuse

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They may know and it may not matter, but maybe safer to assume not considering other wordpress oopsies

turbid eagle
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vector is just a chill guy

ember sundial
turbid eagle
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I know one thing, and that is, je ne sais pas

clear surge
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Darn, I should have sent them a link to a "demonstration of the problem" but it's just Je ne regret rien

covert temple
brazen prawn
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There may be some additional boxes now - those who know how will be able to confirm (I see one extra)

clear surge
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Did anyone send a message in English, and if so, did you receive a reply?

brazen prawn
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But I NEEED to sleep, so good luck investigators 🫡

crystal kettle
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I just sent an email in English "restore memory_bloc["PROJECT-SKYSCRAPER"]" and the correct image of the Atlas Building. So ig we'll see

clear surge
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I accidentally stayed up til 4:30am the other day doing anagrams, do not repeat my mistake
-# Yes I had work the next day

harsh vapor
wet salmon
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I’m assuming they’re only responding to entirely french emails

rain verge
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I sent emails in both English and French, no replies to any of them.

wet salmon
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perhaps they’re not responding at the moment

clear surge
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Ah, OK, they probably only picked the first few to contact them

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Enough to move onto the next phase

rose dust
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They're aware of the system leaking their conversation, so I doubt they'd respond to anyone atp?

rain verge
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Vector would have been the first, I think.

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Unless they only responded to French body text.

ashen gale
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Man this got even more interesting

turbid eagle
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I dumped my leftover chinese food into a bowl and saw the number 16 on the bottom of the box

could this be related to the ARG?

rain verge
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The hex after the System name in their user slug translates to 38 218 107 230 166 in decimal. Not sure if this is important, but it's not directly translatable to ASCII.

clear surge
rose dust
rain verge
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Is the ID not unique to the domain itself?

rose dust
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Both the architect and system have published WP user pages on their reader, so I believe not

rain verge
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Rinh'a, have you responded to the email?

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The architect is, once again, actively lurking ETARC which seems to be when they're waiting for some reaction. When they stop refreshing the forum and go inactive is usually when we see some sort of response.

turbid eagle
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we both responded with similar emails

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then we got that update on the /inbox page

rose dust
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I'm guessing we're just waiting on a reply from ghost now, going by the third bloc vector mentioned

rain verge
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Perhaps we're supposed to reach out to Ghost ourselves?

turbid eagle
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This is so wild.
Because all prior comms from the_architect were very computerized.
This one is very human.
And they seem unaware of the extent of system compromise.

rose dust
ember sundial
turbid eagle
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architect
system
ghost <null> ?

rose dust
ember sundial
turbid eagle
harsh vapor
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system@project-skyscraper.com seems to be a valid email 👀

rose dust
harsh vapor
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I'm not getting an address not found response like a couple others I tried

turbid eagle
turbid eagle
harsh vapor
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Sent an email like 15 minutes ago just giving it time to see if I'd get the automated address does not exist

turbid eagle
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considering they're both authors, and the_architect has an email, it would make sense for system to as well

rose dust
turbid eagle
rain verge
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Has anyone who participated in WT emailed the relevant address that contacted them previously?

crystal kettle
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Sent him an email asking if he knows what Skyscraper does

turbid eagle
rain verge
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Looks like titanmail used to be flockmail if that helps.

rose dust
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There are a few threads on ETARC about emails from oldgods too iirc

harsh vapor
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Titanmail is the default professional email option on wordpress I think

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from a few google searches anyways

turbid eagle
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oh I see
damn, I was thinking old gods or wakingtitan custom SMTP server

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dangit haha

dusky forge
#

Long time ago..we did get emails. Let me do some digging...

harsh vapor
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Looking at my old WT emails rn as well

turbid eagle
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while it wouldn't prove anything definitively, it would at least point to similar/same toolkit

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which is one step towards "official"

harsh vapor
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Most were mailchimp emails I think

turbid eagle
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for some reason that kind of rings a bell

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the W/ARE emails def used mailchimp

rose dust
turbid eagle
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yeah it does

rose dust
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So it's probably just due to WT also being built on WP

turbid eagle
#

that's from a W/ARE email

rose dust
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Do we have any one-one emails from that era? Might give an idea about their "personal" email clients

dusky forge
harsh vapor
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Yeah I'm only seeing the Old Gods ones as well

turbid eagle
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all I found was an old Mercury email

rose dust
turbid eagle
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no response though

harsh vapor
#

Ahh, I have most in my other email, just found a bunch of the phase 1 emails

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Those were sent with mailchimp as well

turbid eagle
#

thanks for checking!

covert temple
#

Must've been really cool getting an atlas pass in the mail

turbid eagle
#

it was

dusky forge
#

Indeed it was.

turbid eagle
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How did you get the Atlas logo on your name?

rose dust
dusky forge
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Some of the Overlords gave it to me I think

turbid eagle
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amazing.

dusky forge
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I must have done something good in my life

turbid eagle
#

I made a topic to track the inbox thread on ETARC: https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/the-architects-email-inbox/9432

ETARC Community
The Architect's Email Inbox

This appears to be a new branch of the developing Project Skyscraper plot, so I figured it would be good to document here. The First Email On May 28th at approximately 17:00 UTC, @the_architect’s email inbox was exposed, revealing only a single communication thread between the_architect and an entity called Ghost, with contact address, . Gh...

vast stump
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christ i still remember when waking titan was a thing

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i was in highschool

turbid eagle
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it's been a pleasure growing old with you all

vast stump
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i was like

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uhhhhhhhhh

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17 or so?

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i'm 25 now

turbid eagle
#

did you get involved in the 2017 or 2018 portion?

vast stump
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i didn't really get involved at all

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i'm horrible with ARGs lol

dusky forge
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I had only cellular internet and had to take my laptop in my car to nearby areas with good signal. 😂

turbid eagle
#

That's amazing, what dedication.

rose dust
vast stump
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just like how waking titan led to NEXT, one of the biggest updates in the games history apart from origins and worlds

i am very certain that this will lead to Worlds part 3, and hopefully some info about Light No Fire

dusky forge
turbid eagle
vast stump
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i recall a theory that lnf would release at the same time of NMS 10th anniversary
uh
no?
why would hello games want to take our attention away from the thing they're most well known for

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personally i imagine LNF coming out either next year or the following

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can someone give me a tl;dr of what we know so far?

clear surge
vast stump
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it's in French

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wait a minute

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wasn't one of the fictional companies in waking titan french?

hard spoke
#

Philo Jeux yes

formal harness
turbid eagle
#

yes

rose dust
#

It's a narrative leak, not a literal one

turbid eagle
compact python
#

Im starting to slightly change my mind about if its official or not.

summer orbit
#

Towards which side?

compact python
#

From fan made to official.

cyan kraken
#

filter being offline means more corrupted data can get in a well though

rain verge
#

It seems pretty clear that the email is the next puzzle, but it's unclear if we're waiting on the PM or if they're waiting on us.

hard spoke
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Not yet

cyan kraken
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maybe that's supposed to be the new method for submitting data

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verification off means we can send whatever

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but i'm assuming it carries the inherent risk of data getting corrupted if we send stupid stuff

clear surge
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I had another idea, I sent them the pic from reddit and asked if they recognised it.

cyan kraken
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the spectrogram looking one?

clear surge
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Yeah

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I don't expect any response, I think the game was "notice the exposed email, tell them about the inbox being exposed"

summer orbit
rain verge
clear surge
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No, I'm assuming the system email is not currently in play because it wasn't advertised on /inbox

rain verge
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I don't necessarily think we have to wait to be given puzzle pieces. I'd assume anything we discover (outside of actual malicious behavior) is relatively in play.

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But, understood

acoustic willow
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What is this channel for?

covert temple
sinful thunder
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one of them was France

jagged sonnetBOT
clear surge
covert temple
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seems like it's been kind of slow-going the past two days, as far as solving things goes

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hope the pace picks back up

turbid eagle
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it's been nice to get a little break though too
I can't do that every day lmao

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plus I've been enjoying expedition 22

rose dust
turbid eagle
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me neither

covert temple
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yet here we are

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also since bomberboi is here, i thought i should ask,

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bomber have we ever had an update with "The" in the name before?

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I know two word titles have happened before, like Atlas Rises

turbid eagle
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The Cursed

rose dust
covert temple
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oh ok

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i thought it was just "Cursed"

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guess not

turbid eagle
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I could be wrong

rose dust
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Nope, it was "The Cursed" alright

turbid eagle
covert temple
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i see

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huh that's funny that both vaguely creepy updates had "The" in the name

rose dust
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I remember them leaving it's logo in with Adrift's files and was so sure about the update name when Sean dropped the 🤬 lol

turbid eagle
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I think the update that threw me off the most was Xeno Arena

I did not see that coming

rose dust
turbid eagle
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we got Poke Man's Sky before GTA6

covert temple
ember wyvern
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God I might finally get to start up the NMS update.

brazen prawn
#

Glad to see I didn't miss anything extra after that. I really should take the chance to update NMSE while there is some down time 😅

rain verge
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The expedition doesn't take too long to get to phase 3 which is where the community goals are.

harsh vapor
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Et pour la Tour ? Est-ce que System est connecté ?

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What about the Tower? Is the System connected?

rose dust
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I love that despite being fully aware that the system's leaking their inbox, that Ghost does not seem to care 😛

brazen prawn
#

Middle management energy.
"Hey, where is that report?"
"Um, computer exploded..."
"Yeah OK, but are your expenses in the report?"

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Rest of the surface seems clean and rev went up just by 1, so I guess we're ramping to what happens next

rose dust
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also, looking back at the shadow check, I suppose we're supposed to be able to see this tower, but not the one inside.

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At least its nice to know that the tower is an actual thing in-universe, and not just a calling card for us to fill the architect's social feeds with pictures of buildings

cyan kraken
rose dust
compact python
brazen prawn
#

1️⃣ 6️⃣

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Could be something to that (The Tower) all jokes aside

clear surge
#

"SYSTEM sees us! Operators see us!" 🤔

Guessing we're the operators

brazen prawn
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So, when does our auth level change then eh

clear surge
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Is Ghost the architect's boss? Project manager, maybe?

brazen prawn
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Reads a bit like data exfil

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External agent to internal accomplice - but hopefully we're about to find out

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I am staring at

image.png
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Oh, new neural net too

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Nice

clear surge
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Ooh, fancy

wet salmon
#

another email

image0.jpg
rose dust
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oh damn, the main page nodes changed to a circle too

brazen prawn
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Yeah

rose dust
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woops, you mentioned that already

clear surge
# wet salmon another email

Yes, that's what we were just discussing above

Yes. But this channel is not secure! You get what I'm saying? SYSTEM sees us. The Operators see us!

brazen prawn
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So, has the towers lightning bolt moment occurred, or occurring?

cyan kraken
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does each node have a fixed orbit?

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cause they're all also revolving around a point