CLANCY ULTIMUS CAPITULUS 25 journal

[cursive oxide]

All of the pages in the CLANCY ULTIMUS CAPITULUS 25 are directly from the physical Clancy Journal.

We've identified pretty much all of them (the ones in blue are less certain) and put the page # here

I dont immediately see anything, just wanted to put it out there in case others see something

p.s. connecting them in order does NOT help 😭😭😭

[cunning sun]

Hmmmmm

[open cargo]

What about 1 25 2 24 3 23 and so on

[unique wigeon]

Are all the pages in it or were pages missing, what were the missing page #s

[unique wigeon]

these i guess?

[open cargo]

No i mean tracing the line in that pattern

Oh mb theres 50

Wait more than 50

Alright it looks like 60 is the cap

So 1 60 2 59 3 58 and so on

[cursive oxide]

We couldnt find 20 and 26

[open cargo]

Its clear that we need to think outside the box for this last challenge

[cursive oxide]

and there are indeed 60 pages in the journal total

[thorny compass]

Woah, this feels like it could be something. Anyone try overlaying a grid over it and trying to use it as the rubric for a ceaser shift?

[open cargo]

Where was this image found btw

[thorny compass]

It's from the museum in Ohio

[open cargo]

Oooo

I live in ohio

[unique wigeon]

also in the digital remains now right

[thorny compass]

Oh yeah haha right

[cursive oxide]

yeah we got this one from digital remains haha

[thorny compass]

What are the chances this is intentional with a code vs just being cool on-brand background which sums up everything so far, since it is ultimus?

[cunning sun]

It's top bro

That's what I'm betting on

[thorny compass]

Oh yeah definitely worth speculating on. I just wonder because the posters for the background of Next Semester weren't lore-related, they were just cool nods to other bands and old shows they performed, and this reminds me of those in look and feel

[open cargo]

Or were they?

vsauce intro

[unique wigeon]

yeah someone made a drive folder for all the NS posters

[cursive oxide]

the numbers seem fairly random so i dont think theres legitimately something here

[thorny compass]

Oh really? I didn't know that. I can upload a closeup of one if the person is interested in better-quality pictures of them

[thorny compass]

Yeah, or if there is then they're just being really big brain or we need a key we don't currently have

[unique wigeon]

~~I can´t remember who it was, ~~maybe mash it was mash
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B33DVRCNUarkXlVCpq3Oh8rIpA2hAxBx

[thorny compass]

Perfect, thanks

[unique wigeon]

Was thinking of counting the posters that had letters on them

C - 2, L-6, A-9

but it also probably would be nothing, the spacing seems to be like that just for visuals and no actual meaning behind it

[cursive oxide]

Actually now that I count it out

There's 6 rows, 14 columns = 84 total papers

There's 24 letters in CLANCY ULTIMUS CAPITULUS 25

84 - 24 = 60

So presumably the two missing one are in the bottom two rows on the right, off screen

[maiden basalt]

Can the fpe code help in any way?

15398642_14

[cunning sun]

I don't know

But what I was thinking

Is

Maybe there is a new code?

[gritty haven]

there's a code 😶

[cursive oxide]

The only thing that stands out to me here is that

• Every page is from the journal
• They could have used other assets too, like from digital remains, but didn't
• All 60 pages are used, and only exactly once

But if it were a code then the CLANCY ULTIMUS CAPITULUS 25 would be a hint to solve it, but I can't think of any way they would correlate

[unique wigeon]

The whole picture makes me think of this cover, which make me think its just all for visuals

[maiden basalt]

Maybe Meruoienpepa from the 024 02MOON 09 mean something

[cursive oxide]

yeah tru

[cursive oxide]

just realized 6 rows 14 columns couldve meant June 14th i woulda been all over this if i found it before yesterday

[drifting sun]

What if it was a clue towards releasing the vessel extended version on 6/14?

[cunning sun]

I've been staring at this since yesterday

I'm clueless at what it means

[full stirrup]

Gonna pop into this thread with my doc where I attempted this https://docs.google.com/document/d/136ES-vXDiJn4bPAL3RZ23yciITmBeK4-DXqUXPN4HUA/edit?usp=sharing

The main two differences are putting page 20 next to them M (Based on the outline of silloette of tyler you can kinda make out on the image) and putting page 22 next to the final 5 instead of the Y(Which I'm only semi-confident on), outside of that the original image confirms most of mine and fills in some gaps. That would leave 26 and 34 as the two pages now missing

[thin cairn]

Sorry, à bit late to the party. Did anyone tried adding all the numbers and #of letter (C=3) by line. And put them in dmaorg url, separeted by a "_"?

[bronze cargo]

Now that you found the numbers, does the string board help?

[karmic dirge]

2-5-5-22 the 2s and 5s are everywheeeerrrrre

[bronze cargo]

Never mind, I’m so not helpful. I can’t figure it out. Bye😬

[fast cedar]

I wondered about the string!

[bronze cargo]

It’s a detective string board. They usually start with a suspect photo/mug shot and then leads from there..

[fast cedar]

Yes I recognize it. I wondered if the string was pointing us to some connections we haven’t made.

[bronze cargo]

I have no idea. I think I’m just diluting everyone else’s work

[fast cedar]

Nah everyone’s contributions are important fren. ❤️

[glossy vigil]

Did someone discuss the fact that the pages with the letters belong together as can be seen by some adjacent letters? Is there another puzzle hidden if we combine them? On which backgrounds are the letters? The N for example is printed on page 47.

[fast cedar]

What are the letters with the dotted outlines? Like the Y next to the first C.

[glossy vigil]

That are the fragment adjacent letters

It’s very obvious when you zoom in on that page especially at the bottom left L

You can see C L and the beginning of A

[glossy vigil]

Made a new version of CUC25

[glossy vigil]

We are trying to decode it with different approaches

[halcyon kraken]

so perhaps we only need the sheets that are tied up?

or indicated towards?

of course we’re already pointed to some letters, T, S and 5

maybe the pages shown have extra letters on them?

correction, the text labelled 41 is not 41

FUCK

fuck sake

the numbers are wrong can someone confirm the pages for me

here’s the new one

maaaaube it actually does spell something?

[karmic dirge]

Ooh I think I tried something like this but some things are not DR but journal pages and I don’t know if those have numbers…

[glossy vigil]

Of course they have numbers. The page numbers

Let me see which

[halcyon kraken]

see i had a gander but the page that says it’s 41 isn’t

it’s a journal page

[glossy vigil]

From top to bottom:
41 - 33
2
13 - 35

These are Journal page numbers

[halcyon kraken]

see it said 41 but on the dr that’s a photo

OH

oh you sexy bastard

[glossy vigil]

How did you know that? 😎

[halcyon kraken]

look outside

[glossy vigil]

Ah, you‘re standing in front of my house, allright

Now either you take 41 as DA or subtract 26 (alphabet) and get 15 as O. And so on

[young tendon]

Aren't these two backwards?

[glossy vigil]

You‘re right. My bad. I corrected it and will upload the new one.