project-skyscraper

[mental saddle]

"oh yea actually this password you tried is right, i decided"

[brazen prawn]

It's real

[compact python]

Real time evolving story 😂

[brazen prawn]

There is a hash on the other end

[rose dust]

But yea they've gotta be looking at our attempts and scratching their heads at the things we've been trying lol

[turbid eagle]

"Look at this guy, he tried every line from the movie, 2010"

[brazen prawn]

wp_posts.post_password

[mental saddle]

we should just build a quantum computer and brute force it 😉

[rose dust]

How do ya know that's not what the system is already 😛

[turbid eagle]

speaking of quantum

sometimes this memory fragment image reminds me of the double-slit experiment, with the waveform interference pattern, strong in the middle, tapering off on either side

[steady niche]

But that's not nearly as funny

[mental saddle]

do we have any reason behind the may 25th log linking to itself?

[rose dust]

That one's a bit of a one-off or unresolved end atp, if it's even meant to be anything other than eye candy

[turbid eagle]

that and I think hypertext on this WP instance is specifically styled to glitch, so they may have needed to make the lines into a link to give them the glitch appearance they wanted

[copper harbor]

It's 9 a.m. and a Frenchman is taking over the investigation, even on a Sunday. I say fake news.😅 Have a good day everyone

[rose dust]

Not exactly, the permutations are specifically for these links

[turbid eagle]

although I don't see why they couldn't have just done a span tag, but who knows

[brazen prawn]

Having a thought (or an aneurism)

[mental saddle]

have y'all seen this page yet?

[rose dust]

Normal links don't have the permutation glitchiness

[rose dust]

Hell, what's the difference in this ARGs context lol

[turbid eagle]

you're right, I just remembered links to sec-logs don't do that lol

and various other places

[steady niche]

But you're not being paid to do so 😉

[mental saddle]

is there anything we can do with the ?p=### scheme?

[steady niche]

I think we know all the pages that exist already

[rose dust]

Just to keep track of cadences with the post to determine what "timeline" they fall into and whether or not they were likely scheduled

[mental saddle]

ok though as such..

[rose dust]

Oh speaking of, is the password page's author set to the system or the architect? I know WP Pages don't show up under the author tag pages.

Ok, just checked, it's the architect

[turbid eagle]

that's actually really helpful to know imo

[brazen prawn]

Might be onto something with "reconstruction" which is either helpful, or just a fun art project

@harsh vapor split colors, roll magenta +3r and blue +1r (block context), replace vacated 'bits' with green and observe over the microwaved

It's not exactly the desired outputs, but there is an observable correlation

[harsh vapor]

wdym by roll magenta +3r

[brazen prawn]

wrap shift + 3 to the right

Might not be a full vacate (observable diffs)

[rose dust]

Quick question, how did we get the Hyperion password for WT? Was it immediately solvable using the hints up to that point, or did we have to wait for another clue?

[brazen prawn]

The spaces more or less match (with the B-> R<- shearing) but the only one that is way off is green/cyan (4 vs 230 in blue makes transform weird)

The full vacate is definitely not the solution (so observe without it too)

Just two things to think about

[steady niche]

I do think shifting color channels is important, either with stuff that exists now or things in the future

[brazen prawn]

I'm not sure it's anything more than an interesting observation at present

[harsh vapor]

replicating rn and I'll check

[brazen prawn]

Do green sep for sure so you can toggle

Actually yeah, vacate isn't it

I think it's a near zero near full flip on cyan

Same way magenta aberrates to r/b

Vacated bits may just be void or requiring another fill

[rose dust]

Checked GD wiki, a few events unfolded after the landing page was discovered after which lead to the password, but tbf the ARG didn't have any other clues to work off of before that point like we do either.

[steady niche]

I think accounts existing before the first thing we found were likely just them setting up to be prepared

[harsh vapor]

Yeah this is it for sure

But just move the R channel +3

and B channel +1

the green comes from separating the blue from the cyan

[brazen prawn]

Yeah

100% sure about that now

its just low->high flip

Hm

Thanks, needed a second set of eyes to check for insanity

[harsh vapor]

For sure, it should be pretty easy to do in reverse I'd imagine

not that it would be that insightful, there is a ton of extra noise

[brazen prawn]

Yeah not sure of the significance beyond an art project or a final "yeah it is shhh" statement lol

[harsh vapor]

But that seems to be the primary way the image is distorted

That explains where the extra red in the reddit image comes from tho I was wondering about that

[brazen prawn]

Yeah, same

[harsh vapor]

and green for that matter

[jagged sonnet]

@brazen prawn

No gifs in this channel please

[steady niche]

Bad vector!

[mental saddle]

I wonder if we could get them to change it, no reason really to not have gifs

[brazen prawn]

Oh yeah, stupid robot

There kinda needs to be exceptions :\

sec

[harsh vapor]

My really quick shitty reversal attempt, as expected not much, but overlaying the two images there is no debate that it is the same image

[brazen prawn]

https://imgur.com/a/eF2oJEp

Yeah, debate over

[mental saddle]

think you could make the loop cycle last a little longer?

[steady niche]

I'm getting a headache 😄

[mental saddle]

same

[brazen prawn]

Imagine my eyes

Will post on the forum to end the loop on that convo.

Slower: https://imgur.com/a/BXR5E7j

[steady niche]

So we're losing data on the right in the original image?

And the original seems to be the distorted version of the newer image?

[copper harbor]

Wait, what??? Revolt ✊

[compact python]

I think data loops around

[harsh vapor]

Yeah that last column wraps around

[steady niche]

The red doesn't seem to wrap

[ember wyvern]

So it’s just the undistorted version of the old image?

Is that what we’re saying?

[brazen prawn]

Probably inverse of that but yeah

[ember wyvern]

Huh.

[brazen prawn]

Wrap magenta +3 R, blue +1 R

[ember wyvern]

Maybe the distortion is the code? Idk

[steady niche]

Yeah, I'm not seeing the magenta wrap on some lines

Might just be size and I'm missing it

[brazen prawn]

Not sure what you mean

[steady niche]

Magenta on the right but not on the left

[mental saddle]

y'know to try and reverse engineer it, how do we think the PM generated this?

[brazen prawn]

look deep into the parka

[harsh vapor]

Whatever they did is a pretty lossy operation, so it's not gonna be perfect, but I think its 90% there

I think the red is getting split and torn out of the magenta a bit in the image

[brazen prawn]

Yeah it is, there are overwrites from the channel aberrations

[harsh vapor]

that's what vector was talking about above, but essentially the original image, the channels were separated, the red channel was moved right by about 3 "binary blocks" (while wrapping around), and blue channel was moved right by 1 block, and the green channel stays, then load that image on your phone and toss it in the microwave for 15-20 seconds and I think we get the reddit image

[compact python]

Pixels and the blue/cyan reminds me the water puzzle from resident evil3

[steady niche]

That's similar to what was done on earlier images

[mental saddle]

More so i was wondering, how did they 'encode' the original?

[brazen prawn]

It's thematic

[steady niche]

It really does look like central american clothing

[harsh vapor]

That is the question, is it random noise, is it meaningful, to be determined

I'm leaning towards random noise at this point

[brazen prawn]

Same, but we'll see down the line

[harsh vapor]

or at least, we don't have enough information to make anything of the noise

[steady niche]

We need to start thinking of memorable graphics for when we have merch made later 😉

[rose dust]

Where's my damn Operator pass!!

[compact python]

What was the code on AP V4? That was same on every one?

[brazen prawn]

Alright, time to spin some dough - be back later

[rose dust]

phoenix in hexadecimal. Tried it already, no dice. Maybe phoenix through the cipher tho?

[brazen prawn]

@rose dust if leaving password comments, where would you rather then? Header?

[rose dust]

If you can find an empty uncommented cell near the last entry, that'd be great, if not then the header should be fine

[brazen prawn]

The Mrs. has been recruited and is looking through to add stuff now 😂

[rose dust]

One of us! One of us!

[copper harbor]

Quick question: we agree that we have a classic alphabet encryption key in the photo with the book; have you tried each password used with its decoded equivalent?

[steady niche]

I think people have, yeah

[rose dust]

I think we've tried a lot of the ones which seem like they could be cipher encrypted in both modes.

[copper harbor]

Thanks, it was worth a try, I just understood that point, sorry

[steady niche]

Summer game fest is late this week, fyi

I don't think it matters, but if HG ever announces anything, I'd put money on a Geoff production

[open spoke]

I am far behind. Are we trying to figure out the password?

[steady niche]

Also, why are we here? Like really?

[mental saddle]

?

[mental saddle]

last thing you see before losing your permadeath save:

[rose dust]

Quite philosophical for an ARG 😛

[steady niche]

That's the password

[mental saddle]

nuh uh

[compact python]

maybe try in hex

[rose dust]

Oh absolutely. We're being funneled towards accessing and doing something with the Memory Engine (to the point of updating our Auth level), so the password's probably something related to that.

And the sec log talking about giving us access also links to trace via the image

[compact python]

We want to know if "this is real? "

[open spoke]

So do we at least know if this is an official hello games thing or some fan made BS?

[compact python]

To well made for it to be BS even if fan made

Cant stop thinking about timestamp bc of the 10 columns.

Or maybe message is streached between them.

So The shadow is error in binary

Except bottom left corner

[brazen prawn]

https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/blob/main/C3q5NYF/reports/bloc_analysis.txt

[copper harbor]

A QR code hidden in the grids, perhaps?

[brazen prawn]

Your image is drunk 🙃 (upside down)

[compact python]

Regardless. Thats the only spot the shadow is diffrent.

[brazen prawn]

It is the QSRSV block

[rose dust]

@brazen prawn quick check, are the decoded values for the non-error blocks (excluding QSRSV) literal? Or are they non-printable characters you've replaced with a .

[brazen prawn]

They're from doing some bit shifting stuff with values

[rose dust]

ah so they're not a part of the normal grid?

[brazen prawn]

Nope, they can probably get removed honestly, there's like 40 odd others I am running through atm and they won't be it 99%

Stuff like:

No shift column totals (content sub-blocks per column):
  col0=116  col1=197  col2=228  col3=247  col4=275
  col5=309  col6=276  col7=218  col8=169  col9=102

Method A: col total % 10               -> 6787596892

But valid outputs only

[rose dust]

Ah gotcha, I was running down a train of thought that worked off those being a part of the actual image and was wondering we got those from

[rose dust]

Oh yep, I saw a bunch of em on the sheet (added now). Left a note for people to see where thosee ones are from since its a lil less clear than the more "obvious" values

[brazen prawn]

Oh sorry I JUST re-read this, was rushing about and beefed what you were asking lol - they're a ? essentially, as the background implies unmodified but the foreground data makes them "unknown" or out of range

https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/blob/main/C3q5NYF/reports/error_as_binary.txt for bin

[rose dust]

Ah gotcha! So dismissing em is a lil premature cuse that'd be assuming that the background is uniform beneath the glitches?

[brazen prawn]

Kinda depends on how the person thinks about the decode, but yeah I think so

Yeah sorry thought you were asking about the sheet as it was after I was signaling you on it lol, should have used my eyes

[dark marsh]

On May 12, 2002, poor maintenance led to the
tragic collapse of the roof of the MIK 112
building at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The
disaster claimed the lives of eight workers and
completely destroyed the Buran 1.01 space
shuttle and the Energia rocket on which it was
resting.

Putting that date with skyscraper

[steady niche]

Not really seeing a connection

[dark marsh]

It was just to say an event that happened on that day, it's always about space

[merry onyx]

This is way to big brain for me 😭

[dark marsh]

And then this post came out a week ago

Have you analyzed all the dates on the site?

[compact python]

May 12 2002 is also the indie book sec log
MB : 1021200360

[rose dust]

Well the architect's up, was online on ETARC ~ 40 mins ago

Let's see if we get anything rn

[dark marsh]

Birds wake up in June

[brazen prawn]

I want that on a shirt

[brazen prawn]

What do you mean?

[dark marsh]

@brazen prawn I try to understand the sentence on the site

[clear surge]

The /Quote page?

[compact python]

Where is the sentence?

Oh quote?

[dark marsh]

That of April 13 2005.I made my own summary

Or they die in June, in any case there is

[compact python]

When we where 17 (if yo then 41 now)
Each entity is unique (17 entites? The school class? ). Together they are one. Dont mind me im just rambling

[dark marsh]

A single mind

[clear surge]

Korvax convergence? 🤔

[dark marsh]

A new universe or simulation

[harsh vapor]

@brazen prawn have you tried running the reverse corruption on the fragment image?

[brazen prawn]

Nah not yet, trying to drill into the palette order priority to resolve the minor discrepancies

[harsh vapor]

I’ll try it once I get home! I doubt it will come up with anything but curious if there is something that’ll show up

[brazen prawn]

I'm curious too

Slightly updated palette order:
https://imgur.com/a/s3uDEc2

Current order (base up): Carrier(+Grey) -> Blue -> Cyan -> Green -> Magenta for closest visual match (not much of a delta shift in range vs connection image)

It's still not without anomalies though

It kind of suggests to me that the different quants/palettes are suppsed to be considered unique

The microwaved one shows a clearly aberrated split at the same position resulting in signs of magenta and cyan in the same space

"Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it."

[agile edge]

So the idea might be that we've been given a corrupted fragment again, right, with all the error blocks in the back except the QSRSV one and the ERR R one. Are these somehow keys to determine how to remove the errors from the image and get us more of the color blocks instead?

The problem would be though how to translate all the error pixels into different colors when they should all decode the same in theory.

[brazen prawn]

It doesn't seem likely to me, given how sparse the bitplane is without a significant transform

[cyan kraken]

where's the ERR R block?

[cyan kraken]

yeah, this is for sure the reddit image

[agile edge]

It's to the right of the QSRSV one. It's got a missing black pixel.

[cyan kraken]

maybe something in latin?

because da vinci themed stuff could just means QSRV stands for something in latin

[agile edge]

Ooh that's interesting, there's more

[brazen prawn]

Decode value of 'corrupt' blocks is a matter of perspective, but you get the idea

[brazen prawn]

You might like: https://github.com/vectorcmdr/project_skyscraper_junk/tree/main/C3q5NYF

[cyan kraken]

the ERR.R and E.ROR

[brazen prawn]

There are some extra decodes and extractions

[cyan kraken]

maybe something to do with the missing letters then?

[turbid eagle]

the letters aren't really missing, they're just exotic characters

[brazen prawn]

@harsh vapor trying to think of a sensible way to explain, but downscaling the carrier to 10x10 bit size and then applying to the 800x500 chunks at same bit size results in no significance as well

Just in case that was on your cards too

[torpid linden]

hi guys. Someone in the french community looked at the HTML console page : https://project-skyscraper.com/request-memory-timestamp-094317/ and saw this : https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1508465282153320498/1510652683021844612/Capture_decran_2026-05-31_163252.png?ex=6a1d9872&is=6a1c46f2&hm=5cbd0d220d93830df35b647da439d29396e4d70b6751b99e2af4debb041f1442&=&format=webp&quality=lossless&width=2318&height=393

Do you think it means up to 20 characters long or 20 characters long ?

(sorry wrong link. Correcting it)

[rose dust]

Nope, it's just the html used to set the actual size of the input box. If you edit that field you'll see it change.

Doesn't reveal anything about the password

[vast stump]

Good morning, scrapers of the sky

[turbid eagle]

maybe Project Skyscraper is a code word for a giant cloud-based scraping database 😂

a scraper in the cloud

[covert temple]

scrapers in the machine

they who scraped

in stellar scrape-itudes

[compact python]

Do skyscrapers dream about electric sheep ?

[turbid eagle]

not the way i use 'em

wait no

@brazen prawn cracks me up how we went to all the trouble to decode "ERROR" from the image when the log simply says "ERROR"

But that's an interesting clue as to how memory fragments are read.

Also, are we the memory reconstruction engine? 😅 (oh no)

[rose dust]

That kinda draws more attention to QSRSV though. The rest of the image we kinda had from the text link, but QSRSV is the main "hidden" thing in the image, and we don't have a use for it yet.

Oop, architect's up again

[turbid eagle]

"they still haven't figured it out? it's right there!"

[brazen prawn]

Most of the permute work is done just to show it isn't the answer. That way while python spits out lunatic stuff, I can think (like the reconstruction)

[turbid eagle]

dang

[dark marsh]

Maybe we'll be given no man's as it was before the release

[turbid eagle]

pre-flood No Man's Sky

[dark marsh]

It would be nice to see what it could do with active superformulas

[rain verge]

Thinking about this as a memory fragment does make me feel better. I wonder if we'll get more fragments which can be put together to make a whole memory.

Or memory bloc

[brazen prawn]

This is my hope

[rose dust]

the super formula is already used in game. It's just the terrain generation algorithm used to generate the weird shape-like terrain (such as cubes, pyramids, odd stars), not the "magically transforming the game into your wildest dreams!!!" mechanic that clickbait YouTubers peddle it as

[dark marsh]

The way it was presented, it seemed more varied. Then I like to think that it really was before today

[rose dust]

I feel like this page is probably hiding the access panel to the Memory Reconstruction Engine, which we'll literally feed chunks of our memories to rebuild the system memory blocs

[rain verge]

But how do we unlock it then?! haha

[brazen prawn]

I am hoping this is our format calibration, and the following frags will be more useful with the known format

[rose dust]

It's literally the same algorithm as present in pre release clips and trailers. It's been dialed down a lot over the years as HG smoothed out terrain generation sure, but it's not the magic fix all solution for NMS' variety.

Anywho, this is not a conversation for this channel

[rose dust]

Hopefully! We've had 3 distinct "puzzles" so far with no repetition, so our accumulated knowledge hasn't been forward-applicable lol

With the main page showing the x/365 count now though, I feel like we might get more "methodical" puzzles soon

[covert temple]

can anyone access the home page for skyscraper?

The one that had the blue dots that converged into a ring a day or two ago

[turbid eagle]

no, that's just the directory page now

[covert temple]

that's odd

[clear surge]

It should still be there as /neural-network-status

Yep, it is

[rose dust]

Idt a buncha dots is much of a status report, architect 😛

[brazen prawn]

Maybe if you make them purple and stand on your head you will understand the hidden code

[compact python]

Meanwhile code is a midi notes that freq u scale down to number that represents letter in alphabet that u use 10 difrent math sequences on to make final password. It could not be more easyer .

[harsh vapor]

I gotta email from someone…

[brazen prawn]

Architect emailed me

[brazen prawn]

Yoooo

Let's go

Same email

[harsh vapor]

Leonardo da Vinci was right.

We need the password. System won't let me enter the TOWER but you can access it.
I know you will be able to read this message. This is not a game.

For Your Eyes Only

School code

[brazen prawn]

Finally not ghosted anymore lmao

[compact python]

Da vinci again huh

[brazen prawn]

But alas it's bed time

[harsh vapor]

Interestingly its in english

[compact python]

So what is this mail about. To use the vinci code?

[harsh vapor]

Idk but it definitely implies its solvable as of now

[compact python]

YWVHK

This stands out

[turbid eagle]

HOLY SHIT

I GOT THE PASSWORD

it's just "EMILY"

[rose dust]

Congrats after all the ghosting haha

[harsh vapor]

AYY

[compact python]

I typed emily 🙁

[turbid eagle]

all caps

[covert temple]

New log

[compact python]

So It was all caps .?

[turbid eagle]

yes

[covert temple]

i think it literally just appeared

[compact python]

Lol

[rose dust]

I TRIED Emily / emily already 😭

[turbid eagle]

all caps?

[rose dust]

aw cmon man

nice catch though!

[crystal kettle]

I typed Emily, but didn't try caps. Sweet!

[covert temple]

the filtering platform is offline again?

[harsh vapor]

Well done @turbid eagle

[rain verge]

I definitely tried that yesterday...

[clear surge]

Curious, how did you work that out, or was it just trying enough?

[compact python]

I feel bambozled now

[rose dust]

YBM is the_architect confirmed!!1! /s

[turbid eagle]

I got it by offsetting the image binary by 1 square
The hint WAS the QSRSV block. That block was intended to be an offset block:

01000101 01001101 01001001 01001100 01011010

translates to EMILZ (so i just switched the Z with Y)

[compact python]

Knew that something was off with it

[rose dust]

its hilarious that we figured it out as soon as the hint dropped lol

So is the operator ID MB-A?

Or just our usernames?

I guess we can try anything haha

[compact python]

It was more like brick in the face than hint at this point lol

[covert temple]

for a timestamp should we give it the normal date or Unix code

i cant imagine it matters

[rose dust]

probably unix

[rain verge]

Let's see what happens

We are now 'External Operators'

[compact python]

YAY

[clear surge]

Hmm, so I'm thinking - we may need to identify a pattern to the log entries to work out the timestamps of the missing ones?

[compact python]

Whatever that means

[rain verge]

I'd imagine we're looking for one specific year if there are 365 of these we need to restore

[rose dust]

Hmm, we might need 365 additions to get to the next point?

[harsh vapor]

I feel like the obvious one is the fragment 1778433240

[rose dust]

Injecting data from multiple sources increases the chances of anchoring is an instruction, but Risk of unstable memory anchoring increased is a warning?

Which one are we supposed to heed lol

Oh hey I had a reply too lol

[iron crest]

🛰️ Project Skyscraper — 2 changes detected

🆕 New post — “SECURITY LOG” (sec-log-193727) published 2026-05-31T18:37:00Z
https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/05/31/sec-log-193727/

🏠 Homepage changed (structure/text, ignoring the live counter)
https://project-skyscraper.com/

skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-31 18:38 UTC

[rose dust]

Shit went from 0-100 so quick I didn't even realize I wasnt being ghosted 😅

[harsh vapor]

Sent in this

[vast stump]

i'm just gonna pretend i know what i'm doing

[rose dust]

Sharing an ol' Korvax's wisdom!

[harsh vapor]

probably should keep the links of the submission in case they update that specific submission

[rose dust]

So, going off the email, we just accesed the TOWER?

[clear surge]

Maybe if this is the WT Emily, we should be trying to inject/recover WT events?

[rose dust]

worth a shot! maybe its looking for timestamps and events of WT events, but keep in mind that we can only enter text.

so it might be tied to certain emails / passwords / phrases tied to WT puzzles more than events

[rain verge]

Incredibly funny that the Architect has been watching us struggle for 24 hours and then as soon as they give us a clue someone figures it out immediately without even using the clue.

[turbid eagle]

We may need to "anchor" all memories whose excel dates are off in the far future

[vast stump]

how far in the future are we talking?

[harsh vapor]

I just realized that we are trying to create new memory blocs and setting their value, not necessarily adding to ones we already have

[turbid eagle]

any of them that are ridiculous, or don't match the Unix timestamp

[vast stump]

oh

so like

[harsh vapor]

The way ARG things tend to go 😆

[vast stump]

a really fuckin long time from now

[rose dust]

are any of the excel dates in the future? The serial dates all point to the post date iirc

not sure about unix timestamps tho

wonder what vector's gonna think of the solution lol

[turbid eagle]

Yes. I have been documenting them:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mUOrEQqj5SqazYnwB9yjaRHICkJJVo0lJHHPSd9DbV4/edit?gid=1085556499#gid=1085556499

Basically all sec-log posts are in the far future

their excel timestamps don't match the Unix timestamp, not even by the year

[iron crest]

🛰️ Project Skyscraper — 1 change detected

📝 Page edited — “Inbox” (inbox) modified 2026-05-31T18:56:08Z
https://project-skyscraper.com/inbox/

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+dimanche 31 mai
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+Lf pwkyh hry wuohkyh.

skyscraper_watch • 2026-05-31 18:58 UTC

[rose dust]

Oh treating the slug ID as excel dates! I thought those ones were the post time in HHMMSS for the posts themselves

[turbid eagle]

poor guy went to bed right before we got in!

[compact python]

18446744073709551616
this far?

[rose dust]

La porte est ouverte.

[harsh vapor]

The door is open

[turbid eagle]

The reason I'm treating the slugs as excel dates is because all the sleep logs successfully evaluated to the proper post/unix date.

But once we get to sec-logs, they're all way off in the future.

[rose dust]

Man the PM mustve been waiting all day for us to send that email haha

[vast stump]

Sunday, July 21, 2554

528 years from now

[harsh vapor]

I've replied to my email I've received with this (encoded w/ school code)

Understood.

The password has been obtained and memory bloc addition is available.

What memories should be prioritized?

Operator: pr1sm

[rose dust]

yea, valid way to look at em! I just didnt think about those as secondary excel dates haha

[turbid eagle]

they may not be!
but I don't think it's a coincidence that all sleep logs pointed to the correct date, while sec-logs suddenly offset far into the future

dang, I wish I could stick around but I have to go for a while

good luck everyone!

[spare rock]

Looks like:

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY I KNOW YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ THIS MESSAGE. THIS IS NOT A GAME. WE NEED THE PASSWORD. SYSTEM WON'T LET ME ENTER THE TOWER BUT YOU CAN ACCESS IT. LEONARDO DA VINCI WAS RIGHT.

Does this seem like the appropriate translation?

[rose dust]

Definitely worth keeping track of yea, with all the time travel shenanigans

[rose dust]

yep thats correct

[rose dust]

Drops in
Immediately solves puzzle everyone's been stuck on for a while right before the hint drops
Leaves
Absolute legend 🫡

[hard spoke]

Is that a Caesar cipher ?

[rose dust]

Nope, the school code from a few days back

simple substitution cipher with key MINDFAGEBJRLHCVPQSKYUWOXTZ

Decoder available here: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Substitute('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','MINDFAGEBJRLHCVPQSKYUWOXTZ',true)Reverse('Line')&input=TGYgcHdreWggaHJ5IHd1b2hreWgu

[spare rock]

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
MINDFAGEBXRLHCVPJSKYUWOZTQ
I got this key using https://www.dcode.fr/monoalphabetic-substitution
Not sure if this is new information, I see that we already had a cipher key.

[hard spoke]

The password being Emily is very interesting and pointed.

I’m starting to feel that this is official

[rose dust]

Oh interesting

the form lets you pick a negative timestamp too

or well, it has a slider that can overflow to it

[rose dust]

Tbf, a fan with knowledge of WT (which is something this PM definitely has) could set that as the password too

What's interesting narratively though, is that EMILY was the password for accessing the TOWER, which seems to be the namesake of the ARG too?

the ring-shaped /neural-network-status page is gonna be jarring to see almost empty tomorrow lol

[compact python]

So what do we do now?

[rose dust]

wait for our requests to be authorized most likely

Im guessing that'll start happening around tomorrow's scheduled post

[clear surge]

We already had the hints about WT from the Historical_DB and 1016 error, so it's definitely linked somehow

[rose dust]

Also, why's the Operator name obligatoire but the timestamp required? Are operators just assumed to be french?

[hard spoke]

Lol

[compact python]

Do we put anything in memory value box?

[clear surge]

It's the content of the memory

[harsh vapor]

I'm assuming we as a community will be creating the memories to introduce into the system

I added one with a timestamp of the first WT broadcast

[rose dust]

I'm pretty sure that's just supposed to be the title of the page, like When we were 17 or Sunday Morning, going off of how no/value is used in /Origin (which in hindsight makes me dropping the whole korvax quote kinda stupid 😅 ).
Its interesting that we cant add actual page content yet then

I'm guessing we need a lot of people injecting memories going off the instructions. Might be a good time to get @wraith plume on board again like with the connections.

[clear surge]

Since the video link was from "2010: The Year We Make Contact", I've submitted entries for the apparent first announcement of WT (timestamp 1495925940, https://x.com/argn/status/868587449613766658)

(Also, funny, this seems to be a WordPress contact form, so I guess they're going to have to manually review our submissions)

[cyan kraken]

new things?

[rose dust]

Also worth keeping the submission pages bookmarked, in case there are updates there before the actual process completes

[rose dust]

password solved, its EMILY

[compact python]

Welp. Rip

[rose dust]

all caps

[cyan kraken]

but didnt we try emily?

it was in the sheet

[compact python]

Im kinda pissed that i didint try all caps. Idk why i fought caps dont matter

[rose dust]

If 365 is the goal, they're gonna have a lot of vetting to do lol. But im pretty sure they'd need to check for the usual content problems

[rose dust]

I literally did personally as well as many others. I just guess no one tried it all caps though

Its in the middle of my sheet haha

[compact python]

Question is. What happens when 365/365

[rose dust]

hey, we all got there in the end together! Thats all that matters!

[compact python]

Yeah i will get over it ❤️

[rose dust]

Im guessing the system will properly awaken then? Or at least itll point us to a new phase?

[cyan kraken]

the instructions on the page, that multiple sources increase the chance of anchoring

thats.....interesting

[clear surge]

Ahh, curious

[hard spoke]

I miss Emily

[copper harbor]

why emily ??

[compact python]

WT things

[half ibex]

I thought it was another puzzle... or not? I don't know, I just put in the architect's information and the two timestamps that I thought were necessary 🤣

[rose dust]

hope they dont see it as a threat 😛

[cyan kraken]

multiple sources could just mean that the more people submit it, it works better. or if we do it from multiple sources, it works better

[half ibex]

I'm stealing the owner's identity to gain total control😈

[cyan kraken]

how'd you reply?

[clear surge]

OK, but that means you're running the ARG now 😉

[half ibex]

😱

[rose dust]

that might make sense. If they're looking to post 365 of our submissions as logs, then they'd probably want 365 unique ones instead of the same 5-6 people filling up the submission list.

[cyan kraken]

sorry of the stupid question, what does the bit offset mean, exactly? that the data bloc registers have corrupted bits, and the system tried to correct that but goofed?

[thorn coyote]

Can someone help me understand the memory bloc value? The first one that says hello world says memory bloc 0/no value. And the password page is asking for an initial value? Thanks in advance

[compact python]

What should we submit tho? Im already out of ideas. I guess im getting tiered.

[rose dust]

We're not sure yet, but it seems like that might be the title of the page

[rose dust]

You can see my reasoning as to why here

[thorn coyote]

I'm just wondering if I wanted to see timestamp 1778433240 (one of the memory blocs) do I need to just post that in as well? That.. hmmm.

[rose dust]

but bear in mind that we're all very new to this too (like, 30 ish mins or so?)

[cyan kraken]

also, how did we get to EMILY from "the door is open"

[rose dust]

Im honestly kinda lost. Its tied to NMS and likely the 10th anniversary, so maybe the PM is collecting our greatest NMS memories?

[rose dust]

we didnt, the door is open was sent after we got in

we got EMILY from the fragment image

[rose dust]

read here for the process

[compact python]

Memory blocks we dig out had irl stuff in it. That kinda confuses me

[cyan kraken]

oh shi? how? last i was online, vector had put in that block that showd the binary to ASCII translation of each block

[rose dust]

left a direct reply to the mastermind who figured it out 😉

you can read down from there to figure the sequence of events out

[thorn coyote]

We actually, and this upsets me, could have gotten there sooner too, because the architect only liked two post on the Atlas-65 forums and one was talking about Emily. Sigh I feel like a fool thinking it was about moving the image to the bloc.

[covert temple]

so have we figured out the request memory timestamp thing

[rose dust]

Yea thats a fair point too. I'm guessing that we might get a few rejections / updates / acceptances soon, which could help point to what we're supposed to submit? Kinda like the hail marys we did with the Sunday Morning restoration

[clear surge]

Not exactly, no.

[cyan kraken]

holy shit vector sent an actual mail

[clear surge]

Yeah, we had the architect's email address

[copper harbor]

How curious am I?

[rose dust]

yep, a bunch of us got replies this time.

[cyan kraken]

goddamn

[rose dust]

I replied to the message where that's explained

[covert temple]

I gave it a username (Batzy16161683 bc i thought itd be clever), gave it the current time in unix, and then sent the 2002 Memory Bloc ID in "Initial Memory Value"

[rose dust]

^

[covert temple]

dunno what's gonna happen if anything

[rose dust]

Whats weird is that it seems like we can only send in the post "title" so far. I guess thats why its the initial memory bloc value? Maybe we can add text + images to it later, or maybe the system will pick out what it thinks the memory is about on its own? It is a neural network after all

[cyan kraken]

that would mean we have to submit the "correct" memory bloc, likely to replace the corrupt one

[rose dust]

If its the later, someone try submitting No Man's Sky - Version 6.5 / 7.0 / 2026 Anniversary Update Patch Notes lol

[rose dust]

i feel like we're addiing on data specifically, not necessarily replacing old ones

[cyan kraken]

but if there's a bit offset, won't that count as an addition? or am i goofing my terms

[rose dust]

Because we dont have unstable memory blocs anymore.

[compact python]

Should i keep site open? Hm. I guess if there will be some memory block acceptances lists. we will know anyways

[rose dust]

As in a difference between the actual timestamp and the post publish time?

[cyan kraken]

yeah

[rose dust]

I honestly think thats why the landing page was updated, so as to give us an easy way to track all of the new pages as they become authorized memory blocs

[thorn coyote]

It just doesn't make sense to me that the block value is the same as the time stamp.

[cyan kraken]

it could, since they're using timestamps to track the data entries

[rose dust]

The memory bloc "ids" so far have all been unix timestamps tbh

[clear surge]

The bloc value is the contents of the memory bloc, not the timestamp

[cyan kraken]

addition means that we have to input data. here, that means we have to submit....memories?

[thorn coyote]

Right, however, the first memory block literally states it has a value of 0. Which separates it from its Unix epoch @clear surge can you elaborate please?

[rose dust]

The value for that one isnt 0, it's "title" and only content is no/value

[cyan kraken]

i think initial memory value is the post title. like sunday morning

[clear surge]

Memory bloc 0 is https://project-skyscraper.com/1970/01/01/origin/ which is "no/value"

[covert temple]

what if we're rebuilding Emily by inputting our experiences on the game, hence, the experiences of being human

[thorn coyote]

Fair enough, there is a clear distinction between no value and 0.

[copper harbor]

Okay, sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, it's too difficult for me to understand this flow of information. Congratulations anyway!

[covert temple]

and before you ask, yes I have resurrected Aristotle and locked his consciousness within an AI

[rose dust]

All good, me neither! We've got people from all over the world helping out here though, so its always nice to see people interested and pitch in!

[cyan kraken]

emily being reconstructed using a database of shared memories, won't that increase the chance of data instability, simply due to the myraid variations in all our experiences?

[covert temple]

Possibly, or it may be a way to broaden its experiences

[rose dust]

So the video link about hal probably wasnt a hint for the puzzle, but maybe moreso an explainer for what the system is / doing?

[covert temple]

Instead of manually training an AI over decades you take a risk and expediate it by "cramming" memories

[covert temple]

Like instead of studying over the course of weeks for a test, like you're supposed to, you just cram for several hours the night before

[clear surge]

I suspect we have to feed it the right memories, and it won't just take any (otherwise it'd be quite insane)

[cyan kraken]

the system is trying to remake itself, fair. so, following that, what could TOWER be? the memory storage itself?

[covert temple]

Pivoting towards this theory, what if those memories have to be of Waking Titan

not necessarily NMS the game

[rose dust]

Ghost's / The Architect's emails seem to indicate that this memory addition system is TOWER I believe

[clear surge]

That is the theory I'm on, yes

[thorn coyote]

So for memory bloc 1778433240 the initial memory value would also be 1778433240?

[cyan kraken]

that would imply tower is a sub-routine active inside the system

[covert temple]

checks out with my theory

[rose dust]

the initial memory value seems to be the title of the posts, so it should probably be the title of whatever "memory" you're adding

[covert temple]

Though I'm having trouble reconciling the rogue AI theory with the apparent "rebuilding Emily" theory

Unless they have contained a fractured, "comatose" (now waking?) AI that's not all there

[cyan kraken]

one more thing, the memory engine is deprecated. that means at some point we will hav to input a lot more data for reconstruction

[rose dust]

Oh wait! TOWER was connected to System when the historical_DB couldnt be reached (the system's memories couldnt be accessed?), after which The Architect mentioned that it needed a password. So TOWER seems to be an external system used to add memories which is now being used to restore the system's memories by literally having us create them, at least in terms of their place in time and their "Titles"

[thorn coyote]

I'm genuinely sorry, and I apologize if I'm being frustrating, but could I see an example perchance?

[cyan kraken]

that could explain why the memories are corrupted. the system literally couldn't access them and was trying to rebuild

[covert temple]

like a life support system

[rose dust]

all good! I sent the clearest 3 examples we have so far above, gimme a sec

[cyan kraken]

take the Sunday Morning post. the timestamp is that long number on top. the title is SUnday Morning

[rose dust]

@thorn coyote

[clear surge]

OK, so, tinfoil hat theory. ||We've had a hint about shadowcheck-1912, which I think points to Carl Jung's theory of Shadow personality traits and archetypes. I think our AI's personality has been split, and The Architect is one of those archetypes (the creator). By rebuilding the memories, we help them become whole. To strengthen this link, we also had a video of Dr Chandra explaining HAL 9000's irreconciable dilemma causing the AI to go insane, and talk about deleting memories.||

[rose dust]

Thats a good point and honestly tracks

[cyan kraken]

then who's Ghost

[covert temple]

maybe Telamon-like figure? A sub-routine of the AI aiding it in its own reconstruction?

Or maybe we have it backwards, the Architect is the subroutine and Ghost is the "main" AI

[rose dust]

I feel like Ghost and The Architect are two actual chaacters in the story so far, not just parts of the AI. What they're trying to do exactly is odd, but its clear they (or at least, the architect), didnt want us to see what they were doing (which the system exposed)

[clear surge]

There's a reason I prefixed it with tinfoil hat!

[cyan kraken]

ghost being another sub-routine does track with a fragmented emily. architect could be the memory storage thing, tower being the storage module, and ghost being another sub-routine

[covert temple]

i think this too. The perspectives are kind of wacky if you look at them being fragments of an AI

It'd be like looking through a mirror with another mirror behind you

[rose dust]

We all love a good crack theory! especially when there's nothing solid to go off of in most of the narrative anyway haha 😅

[covert temple]

Two entities on the "outside' looking in, yet they're also the AI they're looking in on

yet at the same time they're only fragments of it

[thorn coyote]

I guess I'm not understanding how we're getting from the title (example: Sunday Morning) to it being the "Initial memory Value" and how would we know what the initial memory value would be for memories we are trying to add, especially if it needs to be specific ones.

[clear surge]

Yeah, we have precious little, I'm just connecting threads and making myself a tapestry

[covert temple]

honestly keep at it, theres no harm in it

[rose dust]

thats way better than the conspiracy ribbon board ive got in mind mind rn 😛

[rose dust]

look at /Origin. It's title is no/value which is also the default entry in the Initial Memory Value field.

[cyan kraken]

also, to send a mail, you translated the mail into french, and then into the cipher, right?

[rose dust]

The Architect's last email was in english directly, so I dont think it matters?

[covert temple]

My still-drydocked, half functional running theory in my brain rn is that Ghost (or ghost's organization, if they work for one) and The Architect either sought out or stumbled upon a mostly destroyed Emily, so it was pretty much a Rogue AI

and they've got it under containment while they try to rebuild it

[thorn coyote]

Oh AHHHHHH I see

[cyan kraken]

the pics above showed cipher text, was confirming

[covert temple]

Using memories of others to kind of jumpstart its "heart"

[thorn coyote]

Ok that part makes absolute sense now. Thanks!!!

[covert temple]

Like using a crank on an old motor

[rose dust]

Yea my bad, someone sent the translated text first and I thought they translated from cipher and then french, but when I tried it on my own email it just spat out english directly.

[cyan kraken]

so it is french then cipher, right?

[thorn coyote]

How do we ascribe a name or value to ones that dont have them then? Like for example, would this one just be sleeping? https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/03/24/sleep-mode-46105/

[rose dust]

the email i sent which got a reply was in french -> cipher, but the architect's reply to it was just english -> cipher, so im guessing it doesnt really matter.

[cyan kraken]

it just has to be ciphered, then. got it

[rose dust]

im pretty sure we're adding new memories based on the form page instructions, not trying to replace existing ones, so come up with something you like!

[cyan kraken]

and one question we should try to figure out. why do these two not want us, ie, Operators, to now know that bad shit hath occured

[rose dust]

If thats the case, then it seems like System may be the AI's automated security protocols / subroutine AI? SInce the architect freaks out at it "watching" them, which would be strange if the AI they're working to restore was already observing them.

[cyan kraken]

based on the inbox, it feels like this data breach isn't bad because its a breach, but bad because we can see it now

[rose dust]

They don't want the SYSTEM to know either which could be very telling about what they're trying to do. All we know so far is that they connected whatever's inside Project Skyscraper to the TOWER, got freaked out by the SYSTEM and us watching them, and now have access to the TOWER after we put in the password?

And the TOWER seems to be a replacement for the historical_DB by virtue of adding new memories

[covert temple]

Perhaps they don't want to trip SYSTEM and risk waking up the incomplete, possibly dangerous AI

[rose dust]

Now I'm really curious what the twitch is gonna be used for

[covert temple]

Like fucking around in a bear's cave and rightfully being terrified when one of its ears twitch at the noise you're making

[rose dust]

That's possible honestly, or maybe SYSTEM is the errant, semi-functional AI and they don't want it to realize what they're doing to it?

[covert temple]

is this email new?

[thorn coyote]

Does timezones matter? For the Epoch time? Should it be est where I am or utc?

[rose dust]

Translates to The door is open

[cyan kraken]

could mean SYSTEM is a security protocol. but why worry about a security protocol that's now offline? i mean, was the system filtering platform offline when that mail was sent?

[rose dust]

Might be UTC? I think we've been translating them as such from the current page.

That's what I've been using for my submissions

[covert temple]

well nothing's happening here

[thorn coyote]

Thank you. I'm going to submit the date I first started playing the game, right when it first came out of Xbox.

[cyan kraken]

go for it

[covert temple]

ive submitted the wrong shit like three times now lol i hope the architect doesnt get mad at me

Im gonna submit some NMS memories when i can find the dates

[rose dust]

I'm pretty sure the filtering platform was offline, but System itself seems to be a wide-ranging Application so far. We've seen the core module of System so far, which implies it may have more, like the filtering system.

[cyan kraken]

true

but yeah, why hide from a machine you're tying to fix

[rose dust]

It was sent after we input the password, so Ghost is likely referring to the door to the TOWER (Memory Reconstruction Engine) being opened, since The Architect's direct email to Operators before this mentioned needing a password for the TOWER.

[covert temple]

i see

[compact python]

Ooh forgot about it.

I submited few things

[cyan kraken]

what exactly did we gain access to with the pasword, though? i mean, its not TOWER. from the looks of it, we're recompiling TOWER, but an unverified version. that could explain why they want to hide it from SYSTEM, but then why worry about the Operators, when they are the ones who're doing it?

[compact python]

But nothing from nms. Bc i didint really payed attention. I dont think that first royal ship or freighter are that important.

[ember wyvern]

What was the email ID again?

[cyan kraken]

the one in the inbox only, i think

like, the "leaked" inbox between architect and ghost

[rose dust]

I'm pretty sure we did access tower though, going by the architect's email before we cracked it:

Leonardo da Vinci was right.

We need the password. System won't let me enter the TOWER but you can access it.
I know you will be able to read this message. This is not a game.

For Your Eyes Only

Sounds like The Architect urging Ghost (and inadvertently us) to give em the password to enter the TOWER (which seems to be the memory reconstruction engine)

[ember wyvern]

I’m just getting undeliverable now.

[rose dust]

Also, curious that the system was blocking TOWER's access by putting a password field on it

[cyan kraken]

why's for your eyes only in caps

like, each first letter is caps

i doubt its just for importance

[cyan kraken]

corrupted memories, no longer having access to TOWER means it has no way to verify any memory it accesses

[rose dust]

Oh also, is reverse by line really necessary in the cipher?

[rose dust]

This is the word order with reverse-by-line, but without that it turns into:

For Your Eyes Only

I know you will be able to read this message. This is not a game.
We need the password. System won't let me enter the TOWER but you can access it.

Leonardo da Vinci was right.

Which kinda reads more coherently. If you're sending an encoded message you'd probably preface with that

[cyan kraken]

oh shi

ok yeah that changes it

a lot

[astral badger]

Throwing stuff at the wall here since I've been absent a few days and I'm playing catchup, but it could be a proper noun kinda name for us

[cyan kraken]

now we wonder what ol' leo was right about

[rose dust]

But TOWER was artificically connected by Ghost and Architect later though, when the Historical_DB was rendered unreachable?

[compact python]

One word standed out to me in the indie book on page 17.

[rose dust]

Im guessing its just the calibration phrase sent again for us to confirm that we got the cipher right, but yea its interesting in context.

[rose dust]

@turbid eagle might wanna update the cipher translate link then

[compact python]

It was "Myriad"

[cyan kraken]

might not mean that SYSTEM could still access it? i'm shooting shit here, but if they couldn't access SYSTEM through TOWER, then that means either SYSTEM was locking them out, or, because of said data corruption, they didn't want to risk more instability

[cyan kraken]

oh hey i used that word

goddemn

[hard spoke]

👀👀

[rose dust]

I think they wanted to access TOWER after connecting it to SYSTEM in order to perform memory addition themselves, but didnt have the password. Once we cracked it, they, as well as us now have access to a TOWER that's been connected to SYSTEM and is being used for... something?

[cyan kraken]

something most likely being memory reconstruction, if we go by the words on that page

[rose dust]

Oh its definitely memory reconstruction via addition, but by something I meant we're not sure what memory reconstruction would achieve in the grand scheme of things.

[cyan kraken]

but then we don't know what memories to add. we're kinda just acting like the middlemen here

[rose dust]

I'm gonna go fetch my Day 1 PS4 NMS Screenshots tomorrow, in case they let us update our timestamps and add images / text.

[cyan kraken]

lovely. can't recall what i had for dinner, and now i have to think stuff up for a fragmented AI

i have all those on a drive, so, interesting. but i doubt we can go gung ho with the photos. best case, we destabalize the system again. worst case, we cause it to hallucinate

[rose dust]

Im torn between the pages being autofilled by the neural network inside Project Skyscraper as it tries to reconstruct its own memories by autofilling based on whatever page titles we gave it, and the system letting us add more data after the initial verification finishes.

[harsh vapor]

365 memories reconstructed seems a lot more feasible if they are community generated

[cyan kraken]

if they're WT associated, might be a brick wall for a lot of us. i got NMS last year

[rose dust]

Would've been one hell of a slow ride if it was 365 puzzles given how badly we were slumped on this one lol

[crystal kettle]

Is it possible, because of temporal mixup, that it is a future database wanting memories from the current expedition?

[harsh vapor]

Architect really emailed us saying y'all need to stop overcomplicating it 😆

[cyan kraken]

the swarm is technically a forgotten subroutine of the atlas

[harsh vapor]

I can only imagine watching us almost getting it right away, and drifting further and further away

[compact python]

Question is. how many more is there

[harsh vapor]

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

good documentation of all of waking titan

[cyan kraken]

my personal theory is that the whole world of glass thing is just the atlas' security protocols, the sentinels and towers and all being subroutines in that protocol to probe for data anomalies (ie, us)

the swarm coming out to actively hunt is could just be the system getting corrupted and stepping it up, going for any anomaly associated stuff, which also includes the atlas towers

i say corrupted, because as of now, swarm activity is only visible in dissonant systems

its basically an autoimmune disease, at this point

[compact python]

Imo world of glass is atlas archive. And things are leaking from there too dissonant systems. Atm we dont know much about swarm except it is hostile to us and atlas. I hope expedition last phase will bring some light on it..

[thorn coyote]

Well y'all know more than us Xbox players about the swarm lol

[covert temple]

yeah :(

[rose dust]

So apparently people on ETARC tried EMILY earlier which didnt work? Doesnt make sense though, since we had the image a while ago. I highly doubt they'd forget to set the actual password till now.

Could just be people misremembering what they input, but still weird

Sent in the Apollo 11 Moon Landing under NASA since it allows for negative timestamps in case the system's looking for actual human memories too, and not just NMS / WT spam.

[covert temple]

i'm holding off on sending any more timestamps until it becomes clear what works and what doesn't

don't wanna flood the system with junk

[compact python]

Tried puting those from bsky?

[cyan kraken]

if anybody here can email, ask why the password changed

to the architect

but phrase it in an ARG-esque way

[crystal kettle]

I sent an email to him

Asked him if knows why the password changed

[thorn coyote]

There's an email?

[crystal kettle]

Yeah, [e-mail]

[thorn coyote]

Awesome ty!

And another question, is there a page or link to understanding the cypher? So that if I wanted to use it myself I could?

[torpid linden]

https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#recipe=Substitute('ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','MINDFAGEBJRLHCVPQSKYUWOXTZ',true)Reverse('Character'/disabled)&input=bGh3Y2ZrZCBkaCBvYmNuYg

By the way the password did not change it disappeared ; no need to imput it : https://project-skyscraper.com/2026/05/30/sec-log-memory-sector-access/

[thorn coyote]

This is awesome, but perhaps I'm a fool, is there a way to do it in reverse? Where I can type a message and it's then encoded? I'm seeming to not understand how to flip flop it lol

For example how would I type "Hello! " And then see it's coded version

[torpid linden]

It should work by inverting the plaintext and cyphertext

Hello should be Mhllw

[rain verge]

Each user will have to input the password, but it does save access via a cookie so you'll only have to do it once.

[thorn coyote]

Ty!

[rain verge]

I'm still curious how they decided who to email back. I still haven't received any emails from the_architect or system

[solid mesa]

I just input Emily, and it went through.

It's requesting a memory timestamp

[rain verge]

Confirming, you typed Emily not EMILY?

[solid mesa]

yeah, I think so.

I might have done caps though, not positive

[rain verge]

I do not like that password box

The Architect is actively* lurking ETARC again.

[solid mesa]

It's too complicated for me to just now get into it.

I'm not sure who the architect is, and at this point, I'm too afraid to ask

[compact python]

Mysterious gide character of sorts

[rain verge]

!ProjectSkyscraper

[jagged sonnet]

What is Project Skyscraper?

[rain verge]

The Architect liked another post on ETARC yesterday too: https://forums.atlas-65.com/t/emily-never-left-us/8949/19
Possibly just a hint at the EMILY password, but still relevant to monitor

[dusky forge]

👀 That is my post. We were joking around about the new AI bot and were trying to make it believe it was Emily

[hard spoke]

👀👀👀

[cyan kraken]

architect looked at it and had a lightbulb moment

[dusky forge]

I am beginning to wonder 🤔

[covert temple]

about what

[cyan kraken]

say, can you tell how long the architect has been a member of ETARC?

[covert temple]

i think their acc was formed like

shortly before their post was sent and then silenced

which was like

mid may???

not sure

[dusky forge]

Yes. May 3. But that doesn't mean they weren't looking without an account which I am fairly certain can be done

[cyan kraken]

it can, aye

[covert temple]

oh i did that for like a week before i made my account

i imagine it's pretty common bc ETARC does show up when you google stuff about NMS

[dusky forge]

They could also have another account... Anything is possible

[cyan kraken]

true

but yeah, feels a bit off, the skyscraper website has been doing updates since march, but only made it visible in may

could just be prep time for this

[covert temple]

If the architect is THAT learned about Waking Titan and NMS lore in general, I'd safely bet they do

[thorn coyote]

For all we know, the Architect could be... Any...one...of...US!!! dun dun dun

(sorry had too lol)

[dusky forge]

👀 looking at you now

[covert temple]

He could be you! He could be me! He could even be-

[cyan kraken]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NMSGalacticHub/s/XbuK4Oocnq

people really getting in touch with the architect now

[rain verge]

There is almost 100% chance the Architect is in here, and on Reddit.

[cyan kraken]

if they are in here, by the atlas, they'll be thinking that we high on nip grown on liquid grah

[thorn coyote]

We... we're not supposed to be..?

[covert temple]

Far out, man!!

☮️

[crystal kettle]

Anyone see the new sec_log? Looks like memory reconstruction is blocked until we can quantify the "bit offset"

[brazen prawn]

UTC+10 strike again 😅 - missed it all after the email lmao. Good work @turbid eagle 💪

So, do we have a consensus for reconstruction/addition targets?

Seems a few ideas floating about

[rose dust]

I think we might have a better idea once the "verification" step starts going through / being rejected for certain entries

[brazen prawn]

I love that the timestamp field has a NUD 😂

[steady niche]

Yeah same, I keep missing everything!

[brazen prawn]

The pain of the APAC strip

[cyan kraken]

what's a NUD?

[brazen prawn]

Numeric Up Down controller (the little arrows that you can click to increment/decrement 1 at a time)

[cyan kraken]

ohh

ok yeah just gotta click that 1777085724 times

but i do wonder what happens if we all spam in a single memory bloc

[covert temple]

I think we destabilize a memory bloc

if we do that

no actually i misread

idk wtf Anchoring is

[brazen prawn]

I sent a reply email to the "stop overthinking it" email that we got FWIW, regarding memory consensus and time zone sync as a cheeky aside

[brazen prawn]

"securing firmly in place"

[covert temple]

sure but

what's that mean within the context of the memories

locking them into place?

making them a part of the machine?

[rain verge]

My reading is that if enough of us operators add the same memory bloc it becomes anchored. I speculate that anchoring has to do with its temporal stability.

[cyan kraken]

there's a term for this type of stuff

[rain verge]

We haven't been given too many timestamps that were not in their proper order on the timeline, but we have been given a few, and only a couple of those are semi-current timestamps.

[cyan kraken]

holy shit we're basically treating this the same way orcs treat tech in 40k

[rain verge]

The architect is just sitting nervously looking at their toughest puzzle knowing that somehow you'll end up solving it within an hour of its release.

[covert temple]

PAINT THE ARCHITECT RED

[cyan kraken]

they probably get cold sweat seeing vector's name in any forum at this point

[covert temple]

THEN HE GO FASTA

[covert temple]

vector is simply sean murray's strongest warrior

quick someone ask him when LNF comes out

[brazen prawn]

Nah, I need to learn to downshift gears a little more and step through the process with care.

I am treating it like sigint and not like a roleplaying game.

[covert temple]

speaking of roleplaying, and hence story, does anyone know of a concise timeline on the ARG

[brazen prawn]

So if we're thiking about targeting some memories collectively, what's the current thought process on that?

[rain verge]

It's an ARG, it's both sigint and a roleplaying game. In all liklihood it'll ramp up and some puzzles will require pretty intricate cryptologic techniques.

[covert temple]

I feel like I could lean into my strengths (theorycrafting and figuring out hints of the story) if I had a solid foundation to work off

[covert temple]

It won't be sustainable to hunt down everything I missed when trying to lay out a theory

[cyan kraken]

i think we go for the da vinci photo and work forward from there. that's the closest thing we have to a corrupted memory

[rain verge]

We really only have the start date and guesses on any potential end dates. I think the biggest variable right now is whether or not this is sanctioned by HG or if it's a unofficial project.

[covert temple]

no I mean like a timeline of the investigation

and its contents

[rain verge]

An unofficial project would have a much wider and less concrete end date and end conditions.

[cyan kraken]

"sanctioned by HG", damn dude, we got a rouge PM out here

[covert temple]

since this discord is so active it's not easy to track everything that goes through it

and ETARC is nice but also kind of difficult

[covert temple]

I'm still torn on whether this whole thing is official or not

I'm leaning towards "we're not supposed to know"

[rose dust]

I've tried to make my ETARC thread as comprehensive as complete as possible for that purpose exactly, but if you find a better source lmk!

I'll be adding the password / email / anchoring stuff in a few hours

[covert temple]

oh i hope that didnt come across the wrong way

i feel bad now

[rose dust]

Also, would having a sheet to track responses / statuses for the submitted memories be useful?

[covert temple]

i think so, yeah

[rose dust]

Oh no no, not at all! An outside eye helps me keep that one updated and readable 😅

[covert temple]

but only if it can be feasibly done. if you have to move mountains and stuff to get it done then dw about it

[steady niche]

My impression was more data added for a particular memory increases anchoring strength, not more people submitting the same thing

[brazen prawn]

I wonder what the reconstruction engine that superseded this one is like 🤔

Probably more rounded corners

[rose dust]

That makes sense to me honestly, but the contact form's structure is a lil weird in that regard. It looks like we're submitting a Memory Bloc ID (timestamp) and the "title" of the memory bloc (like "Sunday Morning", or "When we were 17"), so wouldn't adding more, unique data for the same date just confuse the system more?

If we were being asked to add text / images to a certain timestamp though that'd make perfect sense. I'm guessing that might be possible after the "initial" anchoring?

[ember wyvern]

Is it just me that's getting an undeliverable error on the architect email id? ignore me being dumb.

[rose dust]

I was able to reply to em after I got yesterday's email without problem

[ember wyvern]

I realised my error. All good.

[brazen prawn]

Hm yeah that is a fair point

[steady niche]

Transparency