#🪹the-sepulchre-arg

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edgy drift
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And that's where I think the MLO comes in.

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I know the supernatural theory is controversial, but I can't shake the feeling that it's going to be more out there than the "super bad guy" organization.

mystic hemlock
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Q. DOES THE GAME FEATURE A CAMPAIGN A. Yes, but it wont be available during the alpha.

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I want to see the story, but I guess you need to wait for greatness

edgy drift
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Everything makes me think occult, or something darker going on that's driving the city crazy. Kind of like Condemned: Criminal Origins.

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There's too much parareligious iconography for me to think otherwise right now.

mystic hemlock
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I agree with the cult thing, but I dont think they would go all the way to occult

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Does that sentence make anysense? I dont think that is how cult and occult work

edgy drift
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Yeah, it makes sense.

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Sometimes, I think about how engrossing this whole thing is, and then just imagine that it's just a vehicle to build a basic plot for an eventual PvP OPFOR. And it has nothing to do with anything.

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😂

hexed coral
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I hope not

tender scaffold
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I just got the game and I'm already taken aback by the dreary atmosphere.

halcyon canopy
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My current theory on the ARG? MLO is attempting a breakdown of modern society in Los Suenos (potentially elsewhere) and their leader wants to reclaim what’s been lost. (Unknown exactly what’s been lost)

Currently, I think the most unusual map is Cherryessa farm, as nearly everyone there is geared the fuck up, and with the most recent update, they have weird latin shit written on their clothing.

halcyon canopy
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Mariposa Lily Organization

tender scaffold
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Gotcha

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Given how perilous LS is, it seems that plunging the world into chaos is a goal of whichever cult is brewing, or perhaps a means to an end.

topaz jackal
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isn't hospital a continuation of club's plot

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they captured an injured shooter during the club shooting
the hand wants him back

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they look like passwords to me tbh

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but idk where they would be input in

hasty adder
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Again, I have to tell everyone. PLEASE DO NOT CALL RANDOM NUMBERS, EMAIL RANDOM EMAILS, OR VISIT IRL LOCATIONS

terse horizon
snow echo
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This whole thing isn't a recruitment ad for MLO in Minecraft?!

coral wind
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also what about Janey Voll? anything worth looking into?

mystic hemlock
hardy yew
# coral wind also what about Janey Voll? anything worth looking into?

I've been wondering about this as well. It's obvious the birthday party was stopped mid-way through and most people left or ran away from the property (except for the civilians held captive by the Bolton security team). The warrant service itself seems like a trap/ambush set up by Amos. And as you said, "what about Janey Voll?". I think she either ran away, got handed off to Bolton security before SWAT showed up, or could be one of the people dissolved in the barrels based on the room in the photo lab with her face all over walls. I could be reading it wrong but it struck me as memorial type thing.

coral wind
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i also think i noticed that one of the lost faces lines up with the face of the grandpa on the portrait in 213 parks main house directly left of the front door but this is just speculation and far fetched thinking which probably has already been checked as well

minor quiver
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Doesn't the meth head they showed off in one of the announcements from a month or 2 ago, say some wired lines once he is arrested

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Don't know if that would lead to anything

topaz jackal
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and given how the face pieced together in the basement bears some similarity i think that's janey

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not sure about the other girl who appears on the tv, i think could be another daughter or the wife, or just a pornstar hire

half torrent
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it's the senators daughter from the hotel map but spawns there too

coral wind
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however my first thought is that it is most likely a filler prop that doesnt mean anything ARG wise

snow echo
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I wouldn't put.much stock in the npcs on the dolls mission. Save for the guards and Voll himself, they're all reused assets

coral wind
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yeh thought so

finite grail
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Has anyone ever checked Port Hokan before? It's got some interesting decals...

queen ferry
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Anyone seen port hokan's skull decal on hallway on the 2nd floor changed?

somber patrol
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I think it's simply black now instead of white

sacred lotus
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I probably assume that the russian mob seen at port hokan has something to do with the MLO

coral wind
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This is what i meant earlier, probably has already been done by people but thought the resemblance was quite big

minor quiver
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interesting

warm notch
hasty adder
ornate bloom
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Maybe that's what bring us together meant

hasty adder
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An interesting theory. I'm not sure what other heads might be out there though

coral wind
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i havent really looked in other maps yet, i was planning on doing that tonight

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I also had another possible theory i want to try out which is coloring in all the dark parts of the faces and then link them up together to see if this forms a word or a number or anything really

hasty adder
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The only thing about the first head is that it may need to be mirrored to match the art you found

snow echo
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Search the game for creepy ass faces. Coo

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Yeah, one needs to be flipped

somber patrol
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The more I look at this face, the more it reminds me of port hoken skull, though it doesn't align quite as well on right side of the face

fickle storm
humble warren
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The nose is a bit off

coral wind
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Yes

hardy yew
coral wind
somber patrol
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First stairs that only lead from first to second floor, on raid there's a hallway that's blocked by rubble, in barricaded suspects you can walk there

coral wind
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Got it ty, ill inspect it rn

queen ferry
somber patrol
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Made it yesterday

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In one of google docs there's same graffiti before patch, it was white

queen ferry
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that is really weird, yesterday my graffiti was like this

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it was on raid on port hoken

coral wind
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port hoken got me feeling like this

queen ferry
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mine was exactly on my photo, maybe the graffiti changes everytime we play a round of port?

somber patrol
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Just checked, that's mine in raid

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This in barricaded suspects

coral wind
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Theres a same one directly on the left on him

somber patrol
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There's also the same one

finite grail
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I def remember the teeth being clearly white but now it's not?

somber patrol
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So it might be just a graffiti for atmospheric purposes and nothing special

somber patrol
finite grail
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Ah. I never checked the 2nd link in pinned lol.

coral wind
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i see this one

somber patrol
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Other stairs, there are stairs that lead to upper floors and there are stairs that only lead to second floor overlooking main hangar

finite grail
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also lol

coral wind
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so that skull with face 1 would be this

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The face is mirrored

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i personally think its not too accurate but ill wait for other people their thoughts

finite grail
coral wind
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it does fit pretty good true

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but thats cause i overlap them accurately

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as the background one is never the same size due to distance, angle etc

finite grail
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There were also some scattered QR codes in the office next to that skull but my phone wouldn't pick em up lol

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oh wait they're everywhere on the map. nvm probably just filler assets

coral wind
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i do scan them just in case

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🙂

finite grail
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bird man

coral wind
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🙂 so not that important?

finite grail
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Lady in the Container is being fed Dogfood, maybe alludes to ```YOU THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T THINK OF THIS TOO NEGLECTED LIKE THE CHILD THROWN INTO THE DOGHOUSE

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idk just random thoughts while i fly through port hokan lol

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kinda reminds me of the lady being dragged in the triptych images from carcosa

coral wind
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could be

finite grail
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I just realized the spider's legs are made of bodies and its eyes of heads

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cool detail

finite grail
coral wind
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Yes the spider is also in port hoken

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only the render distance of the texture is very low

oblique glade
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I wonder will it be possible for Ron devs to have sort of collab with SCP

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Eerie climate of an abandoned industrial compound with something abnormal lurking in the shadows

finite grail
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oh.
i just realized something (unsure if it's been pointed out before)

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filename of head on the right was BRING US TOGETHER
and the left was REUNITED THE DAWN IS NEAR

right? (atleast that's what it looked like according to the doc)

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and the image above came with the text W̴a̸k̴e̵ up. Remember. Your country needs you.
seems to me that it's as if it's reminding us of those two phrases (in the filename)? Maybe that's like, where the next step can be found? tired

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idk anymore

somber patrol
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Maybe "reunited the dawn is near" means time on map where we have to find clues?

finite grail
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My guess exactly

somber patrol
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Closest to dawn we've got are park homes with 0330 or caesar's dealership with 0440

finite grail
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idk what they mean by bring us together but i did get this cool image from layering 3 of the 6 heads lol

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from these three

somber patrol
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Was fairy tale in caesar's dealership investigated?

finite grail
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fairy tale?

somber patrol
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There's a conference room with recording playing over and over, a fairy tale about wolf and seven goats

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It's fitting lore of the map so I want to get it out of the way, it's either simply map lore or has something to do with this weird "reuntied the dawn is near"

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At first glance haven't found anything there, only this girl form, don't think her signature has any relation to anything though

finite grail
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funny how "trinity" is there and i used 3 images to make that one up there

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related maybe? probably not

somber patrol
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There are three trinities on that board

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Only this one has weird signature

snow echo
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Think this'll match one of those spooky faces?

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Also, anybody check out inedible.red ?

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OH.

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It's an asset website

queen ferry
snow echo
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Guess I'm gonna figure out how to overlay stuff sometime

finite grail
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it works exactly like photoshop

snow echo
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never messed with shoop but thanks

snow echo
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Hold up. Filename in the doc. 'SWEETLOVEFORPLANETEARTHII'

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Voll's daughter is a big environmentalist

graceful flame
bitter spoke
topaz jackal
graceful flame
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oh I never noticed because I normally get fucking beamed in that room

topaz jackal
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i didn't notice that connection

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i saw the stuff on climate change protests but never realised

ionic storm
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Bro is big brain for that

graceful flame
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ok let’s rub our smooth brains together for a second and try to get a functioning neuron

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sweet love for planet earth plus environmentalist

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what’s the possible result here

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what connection could she have?

bitter spoke
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connection to MLO?

ionic storm
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Can it be a cover?

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Like a fake name?

bitter spoke
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we know her father was really into her 'purity'

topaz jackal
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the overarching objective void has given us is that a cult-like militia is out there and they probably want the country to burn
so i have no idea how ready or not's epstein and his daughter are connected to this

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unless you're saying the militia also has environmentalist motives

bitter spoke
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i've kind of been living under a rock as far as the sepulchre lore goes as of late, but i havent seen any correlation between Voll and MLO

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i'm sure that y'all have noticed by now, but the crackhouse convenience store (on raid, at least) has gotten a fresh coat of paint, so there could be something new to look at there.

snow echo
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I doubt that MLO would be teaming up with the badguys

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If anything, they'd want the crime rings, the human trafficking to stop

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-This matches the drawings of the methheads on Park 213

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It's all over the Voll house

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just a random connection in game

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chasing the bug or whatever

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Im not seeing anything interesting in Janey's room, going to work my way back out to the garden outside

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Since... mulch I guess

halcyon canopy
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Idk but I feel like we’re missing the importance of Cherryessa farm

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Those guys are armored to the fucking teeth since the update’s release and yet I haven’t seen any discussion about them, since… before the update released

somber patrol
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Don't really think so, my bet is that those NPCs are just a placeholder, there was a dev diary where void showed us concept art for "cultists", who look like the ones who are supposed to be at farm

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It's like that red distorted image as a clue, we can't really make a definitive conclusion because it looks like "anal staircase" club which isn't in the game yet

halcyon canopy
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Anal staircase was like 5 years ago dude, you sure they didn’t just scrap that area and reformatted it into Neon Club?

somber patrol
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Well we got Ridgeline, from the same reveal trailer

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And hotel lobby

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Clue is recent, if void really reformatted anal staircase into neon tomb, then they've swapped color pallete into blue, not red

minor quiver
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I mean they wear in some spooky trailer

snow echo
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Oooooh

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The flower IS an eagle's head

olive kayak
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But they'll eventually write them in one way or another

hexed coral
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Who are the people at the farm exactly? Do we know anything about those guys?

snow echo
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Not much yet

wary hemlock
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damn yall have made zero progress on this arg

halcyon canopy
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Yup

somber patrol
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Personally don't think that there's anything worthy atm, we need to wait for new levels

lilac lotus
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Is there a place to get a full sepulcher run down?

eager atlas
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Pinned doc

lilac lotus
coral wind
edgy drift
eager atlas
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I believe they're different organizations

edgy drift
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Playing devil's advocate, though, maybe not. The Farm guys seem like separatists with specific skins already made for them to that effect. MLO seems pro-order but probably anti-establishment.

snow echo
halcyon canopy
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You’re not supposed to call or email anyone+ those things have been discussed before

halcyon canopy
halcyon canopy
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Now beginning to think that farm is just run by a regular old ass militia that’s mad at gov and corporations, and not a legit cult

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Only concern is the triangle on the ACH helmet, which I haven’t been able to find any resemblance with anything in the game or on the internet. If anybody can find anything, post it here

somber patrol
coral wind
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I have a general question though, if we do solve the clue, would it automatically lead to the next clue, or do we have to submit the answer and then if its valid we are granted the next clue by the creators of the ARG?

coral wind
ivory basin
unique glade
topaz jackal
topaz jackal
# snow echo

that's the detail that's left me confused
why are those floors cordoned off?
who wrote that last line?

topaz jackal
coral wind
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So if we put assumptions/thoughts in here and if they are correct Guinevere will not respond, unless we tag Guinevere in the post?

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my thought as of "Bring Us Together" was that with 7 faces of the lost (HOME and 6 other , or home is the same as listed below im unsure) that it could relate to the 7 deadly sins.

coral wind
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Molly is the girl from park home 312 Barricaded Suspects

finite grail
snow echo
snow echo
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But yeah, trying to wrap my head around the clues, I'm beginning to believe they're found outside the game. Bought the yellow king audio book, going to be diving into referenced material by the ARG.

snow echo
coral wind
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Im currently looking into the Bishop of Ely

snow echo
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Reading decaff's doc, the brisa cove level is the closest direct in game tie to MLO

ivory nymph
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hey dudes is there somewhere I can get the lore on this stuff from the beginning up until what is known now?

warm notch
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the

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pinned comments

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first dog

ivory nymph
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sorry, got it

warm notch
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ye

ivory nymph
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not sure if this is the correct channel for this but did anyone receive schizo messages from multiple random accounts when they first started playing the game?

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On steam, usually from blank accounts with only RON installed, it freaked me out kinda

eager atlas
ivory nymph
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probably a schizo but it weirded me out

eager atlas
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Theres only like 1 or 2 accounts max related to the ARG

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They've never randomly schizo posted to users before I believe

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In DMs I mean, their posts have been limited to here

ivory nymph
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interesting, i was just wondering if anyone else had a similar experience

ivory nymph
eager atlas
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Probably just random weirdos

warm notch
ivory nymph
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is there a way to find older steam messages?

eager atlas
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If it was on Steam, then it was 100% not related to the ARG

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Thought you meant on Discord

ivory nymph
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2 of their pfps had Goyas depictions of Christ and his drawings from Dantes Inferno which I recognized immediately because I love his drawings

ivory nymph
eager atlas
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Yeah I thought you meant "Home" here on Discord, can't find their name, number cipher

hasty adder
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Some dude schizo posted in the comments of the old doc

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But they were blocked shortly after

ivory nymph
hasty adder
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It's schizo posting. The messages are gone too

ivory nymph
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odd that this game seems to attract those types

graceful flame
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considering the subject matter

oblique glade
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Well Ron takes on really mature and serious stuff, and people love controversy

graceful flame
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I’m not surprised

oblique glade
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So yeah that comes as no surprise

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I think it will only get worse if devs do what they plan

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Like school scenario

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Or terrorist attack on a hospital

stone helm
somber patrol
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Were there supposed to be eco terrorists?

stone helm
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I remember a long time ago someone mentioned that it was eco-terrorism related cuz one of the image was named about love for mother earth or something

radiant sonnet
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since when did terrorists care about the environment

somber patrol
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Since aggressive eco supporters commit stuff close to terrorism

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My favorite book on subject is rainbow six

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Though it's not a documental book

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But good read

stone helm
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I mean people do crazy shits for different reasons

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Also per US definition and patriot acts extreme environmentalists can be categorized as terrorists

stone helm
warm notch
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very…loud

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by Fuck Buttons

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9 minutes 41 seconds

safe bane
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long song

lilac lotus
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Let me see if I have this right. The military extremists are MLO and the are connected to the Lost. What does the community think about the human traffickers? They use pictograms that could be construed as a perverted flower, like that found in the cellar of the Voll house, and the head in the center of the pictogram resembles the malformed heads found in the clues. But MLO and the human traffickers seem diametrically opposed so this could barking up the wrong tree

eager atlas
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Nothin about the organization otherwise points to traffickers

lilac lotus
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The meth heads in 213 also use religious imagery, and the scrawl in the basement of Voll house houses a sort of shrine to those children that are held there seemingly worshipping their innocence. Has anyone analyzed the names of the children on the folders?

snow echo
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Only connection I can see to the current stuff in eco terrorism is the whole mulch bit. But that was related to a short story that's pinned in the current doc.

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I know Voll's daughter is a fan of the dj that plays at the neon night club, because of her posters

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Cool facts, doesn't relate to arg as far as I can tell

ivory nymph
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Is there an agreed upon theory of the overall goal of the MLO/Lost? there seems to be a general inkling from the information received so far but it seems to go deeper than disaffected vets/ultranationalists

graceful flame
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It’s some kinda cult all we know

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we have an idea that it’s patriotic, possible disgruntled cops looking to fuck shit up

native rivet
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Am I the only person who calls hotel, bank?

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I've always thought it was a bank when i saw it

graceful flame
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I wish we had a bank level

ivory nymph
native rivet
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I hope not, that would be stupid for a tactical SWAT shooter

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THE FUNNI ARG

ivory nymph
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i suppose it already has though with the whole 'stand next to the lone chair in memorial room' thing though

native rivet
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I'm unhappy with the direction they are taking, SWAT 4 had a cult, SWAT 4 didn't have an ARG or anything "spiritual" or esoteric, from my memory

ivory nymph
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idk something about being a door kicking grunt coming to a place like Voll/213 and picking up on shared clues between these residencies and becoming wrapped up in the whole mystery of their connection and overall conspiracy is interesting to me

azure thicket
# warm notch SWEETLOVEFORPLANETEARTHII.png

I mean there is an IRL religion that is environmentalists that believe that the best thing to do is to kill all humans, because we are the source of most of global warming and shit

ivory nymph
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also most cults are spiritual in nature

safe bane
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arg

ivory nymph
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but of course i agree it shouldnt play to heavily into the game itself as cool as the ARG is

azure thicket
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A very unlikely lead if y'all think Jane is a member of the cult thing,

azure thicket
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(Found it)

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Greenside Ecological College

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Well, few new things to keep tucked away incase they ever come up, "GreenJaney_V"
"22071996"

ivory nymph
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what does the MINDJOT stuff mean?

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this text is everywhere

azure thicket
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it seems like they're somewhat a security company

ivory nymph
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interesting

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it seems to be written everywhere, not just relating to the company

azure thicket
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They might be this game's version of big tech

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..because the map they show up in is called "Data Center"

ivory nymph
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did anyone ever pull the audio file from the recording in the Voll basement btw?

azure thicket
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Hey, what the hell was this ever about?

strong idol
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i dont think it was anything like the peeper room in hotel rooms

snow echo
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looks like a portapotty on deployment

safe bane
oblique glade
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Who are the assultants in the mansion?

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I thought it was a security team from mindjot

hard shard
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Non Mindjot related security.

rocky thunder
oblique glade
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Why did they turn rouge they were supposed to protecting a party and things went south due to?

hard shard
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They didn't? They're fighting SWAT because of the unfortunate situation in the basement they're legally implicated in.

rocky thunder
oblique glade
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I thought things went south if there isn't many people

azure thicket
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"innocent" in this case includes those willing to send their kids to a porn star's house.

oblique glade
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Well it kinda makes sense if the majority of hostages are mansion staff

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But yeah now I question my methods

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These guys were innocent (to some extent)

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And I went in as if they were terrorists

rocky thunder
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Who did you think was terrorists the security?

oblique glade
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I thought it's some fake security company

hasty adder
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You can see how voll was already burning evidence in his penthouse

oblique glade
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Yeah hard drives in the bathtub

bitter oyster
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@oblique glade in my opinion, i think it is Compromised Bolton Security guys, we did look into the audio file and it appears to be a security recording between two men (possibly 2 bolton security guys who didn't know how fucked their assignment was) and both of them have accidently entered the basement.

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i think it went something like

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"kiss my ass (something) lets go, lets get out"

rocky thunder
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I wouldn't think compromised individuals rather a dirty security agency in general

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I mean if the moneys good enough why not take the job kinda thing

oblique glade
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More like mercenaries

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Than security firm

rocky thunder
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Yeah really, since they seem to not be comprised of the most well behaved people

oblique glade
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Maybe every organisation is somehow connected

rocky thunder
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Nah seems to much of a stretch

oblique glade
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We will see how the story will unravel

rocky thunder
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I dont think Yemeni terrorists and US vets are gonna be teaming up

oblique glade
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I think about it more as there's some syndicate behind it corporations or something like that

rocky thunder
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It seems like any connection between the organizations would be able to be determined through the environmental story telling that void masterfully puts into their level designs like how port and dealership are connected, and (possibly agency with voll)

ivory basin
oblique glade
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Too bad they died for their salary

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Actually can we just damage them not kill them incapacitate at best.

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?

ivory basin
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Well they fake their deaths quite a bit from my experience

oblique glade
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Well you can't fake your death if you got a hole in your head

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So better comply

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And suspects can easily kill you

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So from my side its extra precaution

ivory basin
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I mean I just employ the double tap method. Gotta be sure with those extra aggressive types

topaz jackal
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look around in the hollywood level
you'll see envelopes holding sums of money and letters from amos himself saying it's theirs if they shut up about his deeds

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the guards were bribed

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i guess all we have are directionless discussions until void or gwynn drops something we can work with

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we know the daughter's a huge climate change activist
which may be related to sweetloveforplanetearth
and we know mindjot is a data company with weird underscores and text+number strings everywhere

oblique glade
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Or we missing some crucial information

rocky thunder
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Yeah I feel like it's like "We need a sign from Gwynn" at the same time the signs are all around us and we just don't know it

topaz jackal
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unrelated but
kinda weird that a data company needs guards packing so much heat from what i see in the concept art tbh
tf they need automatics and helmets with visors for

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i don't think mega.nz or cloudflare even gives their site guards that much stuff

rocky thunder
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Its not an ordinary datacenter

snow echo
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For the guards, they're already implicated in the crime. Probably why they're willing to fight to the death and maybe escape with Voll. I figure the ones who found out, called in sick, given the schedule they had

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As for mindjolt, like I said, probably a Facebook/Google/Twitter analogue. They'd want real security for that stuff and I can't imagine those companies are just going to comply with just a city's police department

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I'm looking forward to shooting those nerds in the nuts with beanbag shotguns

ivory basin
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They'd have to have done some incredibly sketchy stuff to even get a warrant from a local PD

snow echo
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I mean it's a tech company, lol

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Google got rid of their 'do no evil' ethos for a reason

oblique glade
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Well I am pretty sure Google has the best of the best to protect their most valuable data

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And it's easy to conceal a submachine gun with folding stock

rocky thunder
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Its like printing money

oblique glade
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I think they got something much more valuable than information what porn do you like or your bank account

rose trench
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Okay so what tf is all of this

rocky thunder
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Is it my turn to say "check pins" ?

halcyon canopy
safe bane
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check pin

rocky thunder
rose trench
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I read through the document and holy shit it's interesting

rocky thunder
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Nice now solve the puzzle

rose trench
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Aha haha, n o

oblique glade
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It's a complete puzzle

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Or do we missing a piece

rose trench
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So what was the conclusion of the puzzle?

plucky rivet
oblique glade
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Then why there's food all over the place

plucky rivet
#

Checking it now

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Something new(?) I found. Was this always on the rocks near the garden?

rocky thunder
# plucky rivet

Looks like something similar to the handprint on the statue

plucky rivet
#

So the party was on the 16th but the log is from 4/22 which makes me think that the party stuff we're seeing is just remnants

rocky thunder
# plucky rivet Which statue?

Top floor right on the stairs case. Dark statue hand print on it and note next to it. The staircase in the area connected to the gym

plucky rivet
#

OR just wonky dates

oblique glade
#

Uh I don't think party took 6 days

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So most likely wonky dates

plucky rivet
plucky rivet
#

Ah never mind, I was thinking a different one

oblique glade
#

There are phones calling scattered around

hexed coral
#

After 6 days the outdoor area would be covered with flies and rotting food

plucky rivet
#

At valley? It's just one phone

oblique glade
#

Also car is on ebay

plucky rivet
oblique glade
#

Another thing is

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Where is Janey?

hexed coral
#

Agreed

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Is janey the same girl as the basement mural? Or is that some other young woman?

plucky rivet
#

We never got an answer

oblique glade
#

Im Janey is room there are pictures of her

hexed coral
#

I think it’s a different girl

oblique glade
#

Daniell is not her biological mother

hexed coral
#

So what do you think about the foot prints and hand prints? I didn’t notice the foot prints until now

plucky rivet
#

Probably just some misc map lore

hexed coral
#

Sorry that’s prolly off topic for the arg

rocky thunder
oblique glade
#

Well Janey got warnings from Daniella to do not touch stuff or she will inform dad

oblique glade
#

So Daniella probably knoes about the entire proceder

oblique glade
plucky rivet
#

That's an A and an A

rocky thunder
#

And an L at the end

hexed coral
#

We know nothing on this jamal huh? I’m surprised there are no photos

oblique glade
#

That's e

rocky thunder
#

In what world

plucky rivet
#

Dude. Look at the E in "Little"

oblique glade
#

I mean think of it who is Janal

halcyon canopy
#

Doesn’t Danella like

plucky rivet
#

That's def 2 A in the name

halcyon canopy
#

Not know how to spell and shit?

oblique glade
#

Well yeah

hexed coral
#

Yeah it’s Jamal

rocky thunder
#

Also why the heck are they switching between cursive and regular writing

oblique glade
#

You can see that by reading invitation letters written by her

halcyon canopy
rocky thunder
#

Makes sense

oblique glade
#

She's from Romania

viscid spire
#

does anyone have the new update yet? anything new?

oblique glade
#

I don't think anyone yet get into it

rocky thunder
#

Probably not if its the same as supporter build

eager atlas
#

There isn't stuff in the game related to the ARG often if at all, really

rocky thunder
#

There was like 1 thing honestly

oblique glade
#

Weird thing is in Janey's room girl on the picture is brunette

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In the basement it's blonde

plucky rivet
#

I really wish we had like a Map lore room or something for this level of stuff

halcyon canopy
#

Yeah

oblique glade
#

I thought that's the right place

halcyon canopy
#

Nah the arg is different and usually pertains to shit outside the game

viscid spire
#

I honestly dont know why this arg is still up anyways, this was supposed to give us something to do while waiting during the gameplay trailer.

oblique glade
#

Arg is acronym from?

viscid spire
#

now its just a bunch of random ass images with nothing to guide us

oblique glade
#

It's pretty much treasure hunt

rocky thunder
#

It keeps my cro-magnun brain stimulated

oblique glade
#

Though I don't know what is the treasure

rocky thunder
#

Maybe the treasure is blossoming?

oblique glade
#

Let's see how devs will award those who manage to solve the riddle

halcyon canopy
#

Maybe the real treasure was the friends we made along the way

rocky thunder
#

No

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Maybe the real treasure is a pit of plants and human bones

snow echo
minor quiver
#

pretty sure something happens to the game if we figure it out

oblique glade
#

Yeah it will get deleted from steam /j

tidal sonnet
#

I had an idea reading through the stuff, and fair warning I might be off my schizo pills on this one or smth, but what if the mindjot usernames aren’t actual accounts but keywords for either previously unsolved ciphers or alternatively keywords for future ciphers (by keyword I mean like you get a random string of text that requires a keyword to unscramble.)

azure thicket
olive kayak
#

search the records

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every single one of th em everywhere

#

gas station poster perhaps

olive kayak
#

she literally sleeps with the guy who's behind it

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janey, most likely not

#

but her parents sure are

oblique glade
#

I mean I thought Daniella is oblivious

olive kayak
#

she's a pornstar married to a porn director who makes cheese pizza

oblique glade
#

When it comes to hobby of husband of hers

olive kayak
#

she's into it

oblique glade
#

Quick question who came up with such scenario

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I want to congratulate this person for thinking outside of the box

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And I really appreciate how much creative thinking went into story telling

halcyon canopy
torn dew
#

Added cicadas to valley. Could this be the insect were supposed to follow?

topaz jackal
#

i mean if they really are referencing cicada 3301 then maybe it's worth investigating

plucky rivet
#

Why would they? As far as we've been aware, this is an entirely self contained ARG with the exception of Carcosa which was also self contained.

eager atlas
#

I meann.. I think that map has like a beautiful garden area, not sure cicadas are out of the unnorm

plucky rivet
#

Low key might steal the pedos deisgn for the garden

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At least the tresses running across it for some shade. Shit was nice lmao

coral wind
#

they wouldve been in earlier if that hint was given

oblique glade
#

My best bet is about what cicadas represent

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Uh weird

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Is it a coincidence

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🤔

torn dew
#

thats a giant coioncidence if it is

oblique glade
#

Also is there any connection to Lovecraftian mythology

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King yellow also called Hastur

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Is the brother of Cthulu

#

But yeah cicada stuff is so far our best lead

#

Can anybody can split audio and vocals?

sick peak
sick peak
#

Alright, so. I decided to slow down the cicada audio quite a bit. and I swear to all that is holy, I hear some muffled yelling in the audio. I might be going insane, though.

oblique glade
#

Can you make it louder

sick peak
#

I'll try, but i'm not good enough in audio to seperate it out

oblique glade
#

Also about that song I sent is it a dead end?

sick peak
#

I haven't checked the song, decided to try out the actual updated cicadas first.

oblique glade
#

Alright keep us updated if you find anything interesting

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I tried find lyrics

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But no luck

sick peak
#

Kenji, if you wish i'll PM you the MP3 of the slowed cicada audio

oblique glade
#

Sure

dense fulcrum
#

I would think the symbolism of a cicada is that they molt and leave an empty standing husk which sounds in line with the rest of the rebirth theme

oblique glade
#

Well yeah they symbolise resurrection

torn dew
#

The band Cicada Radio has an album called crimewaves that @oblique glade posted a song from with songs titled "Carcosa", "The Patriot", "Crimewaves", "Funeral", and "Tomorrow" Weirdly coincidentally thematic to the gameworld suffering crimewaves, the mention of Carcosa and Patriot as well as Funeral. It Maybe nothing but wierd coincidence though. Cant find lyrics for songs so far.

sick peak
oblique glade
#

there's an album impostor

fair pilot
#

I might do a spectrogram or whatever it's called with the music, see if there's a hidden message

torn dew
oblique glade
#

actually try pick up lyrics

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voice is muffled

fair pilot
#

The lyrics? On it.

#

Can I get sent that song? I can beep it out in about an hour if all goes well

torn dew
#

I apologize if this ends up a rabbit hole

oblique glade
sick peak
#

don't worry, it'll bring up SOMETHING even if minor

#

i'm searching the entirety of the voll house for cicadas, and found four spots so far.

oblique glade
#

so far no luck with plants

torn dew
#

been trying to run through the house today but kept getting blasted

fair pilot
#

Alright, I'm looking for lyrics and spectrogram at the same time, anything happens I'll let y'all know

sick peak
#

Uh, I found

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what sounds like either water dripping or someone snapping with their fingers ocming out of a tv

#

Here's how it sounds, it might be electricity sparking from the tv though.

torn dew
#

any file names for the added cicada sounds?

sick peak
#

Nope, but speaking of file names

oblique glade
#

it sounds like burning wood

sick peak
#

we found this on the band stage, if anyone can find this. or something like this in the game files

oblique glade
#

🤔

sick peak
#

that'd be awesome

oblique glade
#

it really sounds like a fireplace

sick peak
#

Can anyone find out what this sculpture is, the other two have dates (2002 and 1995) but this one is scratched out.

oblique glade
#

is it seating

oblique glade
#

or it can be robes

#

🤔

sick peak
oblique glade
#

All I can think off its king in yellow

#

this mask

sick peak
#

It could entirely be

oblique glade
#

I remember some suspect having similar

#

I think it was in the club

#

I came for tactical realistic shooter I stayed for treasure hunt

#

its really deep

fair pilot
#

I can't completely isolate the voice, but an Intriguing thing is that one says something ending with irth* I'm doing a bit more to fix it up and see more on that song

somber patrol
oblique glade
#

I think I found bass remember 2

fair pilot
#

Also carcosa the song is a huge reference to the king in yellow, so between that statue and this, as well as cicadas, it might be worth a read into that whole thing.

sick peak
somber patrol
fair pilot
#

A spectrum analysis showed multiple things that looked like robed figures, and most lyrics that i could read out on the song is basically the king in yellow quotes with slight alterations

sick peak
#

Bass remember 2 has got to be important somehow

fair pilot
#

i can spectrogram it

oblique glade
#

I think db inside is an channel created by someone from void

somber patrol
#

Earliest album is from december 2021, and has Enrico Buja as owner or whatever his relation is

#

Sounds too generic to have any meaning

torn dew
#

Has anyone seen the "mudman" on the meth levels void mentioned in one of the updates?

eager atlas
#

Mudman?

oblique glade
#

I am surprised to

minor quiver
#

the guy with the ripped clothes?

eager atlas
#

I think you're talkin about one of the guys on Ridgeline

torn dew
#

This was in the 6/28 patch notes

eager atlas
#

Oh, interesting

torn dew
#

Supposedly a guy on "meth" level

eager atlas
#

Sounds more like a static prop or something more than an AI

#

Or we'd have likely ran into them

torn dew
#

I've seen what looks like a skeleton where all you can see is a femur under water in what looks like a tunnel collapse in the tunnels on "meth" but not what I would call a "mudman"

worn citrus
#

lol why is there an arg for this game wtf

hasty adder
#

Nope

#

Mud man is a rare spawn suspect

#

He's...

#

Surprising

sick peak
hasty adder
#

You guys are so deep in red herrings that you may as well open a fish shop lol

rocky thunder
#

dammed embeds

hallow ocean
rocky thunder
#

is it not the guy on meth who crawls out of the holes in the tunnel?

hallow ocean
minor quiver
#

crawls out?

#

only notable suspect i've seen on meth is the one dude wearing the plastic bag over his head with the blue kevlar on

azure thicket
#

So.. most likely not a lead.

oblique glade
#

Actually

#

@fair pilot find out with spectogram pattern of audio resembles robed figures and song is pretty much about King in yellow

#

Also for whose tomb are we looking for sepulchre means pretty much place of burial

#

Idk think authors meant the book with the same title

#

Ryleigh was place of (sort of) burial of mythical cthulu

pliant plaza
#

not that I mind for the record, its still interesting nonetheless

oblique glade
#

It really is

#

Adds another layer of depth

#

Now instead clearing Just a map and leaving you are looking for leads and peculiar things

pliant plaza
#

Not sure if this is related to the ARG, but do we know what bill the senator was going to pass?

#

specifically what it was in detail, other then that it majorly affected US veterans

somber patrol
#

In my opinion they just were fed up with amount of bills they have to pay and don't get enough money to get by

#

Don't think it's some magical bill that made veterans do a terror action

oblique glade
#

Or someone hired them

#

And all of that is facade

#

Maybe senator tried push a bill that will affect functioning of mindjot

#

So mindjot took matters at its hands

#

You think starving and poor vets could afford on m16a2 and m249

#

I certainly doubt it

somber patrol
#

Starving and poor vets probably have them for a long time, since they are vets and like guns

#

Also, if you are really determined, it's not that hard to get your hands on hardware

pliant plaza
oblique glade
#

I mean each version is possible though mine is a bit unorthodox

pliant plaza
#

because (and this is all anecdotal, ftr,) most vets I see just kinda get on with "the shit", and it makes sense, seeing the enviroment they came from, though it wouldn't surprise me if someone said "fuck it" and actually did that at all.

oblique glade
#

I think mechanic of interrogation suspects would be useful

#

For even more world building tools

#

Not killing them would make sense then

#

Because if you kill them you will miss the chance to gain some info

#

This would encourage some of us to more tactical non-lethal approach

finite grail
oblique glade
#

Well yeah

#

That's not lazy approach though

topaz jackal
#

if i'm not wrong
i only heard snippets of the news and manifestos

torn dew
#

@hasty adder what is the extent of solving the filename Cypher? What is the furthest we've gotten on it?

hasty adder
#

It was solved, but we kinda cheated

#

The doc has more info

plucky rivet
oblique glade
# plucky rivet

It's weird but vol1 features more plausible titles of songs to be related to Ron

torn dew
rocky thunder
#

Hmm if there only was a plausible process needed to arrive at the answer...

oblique glade
#

There's

#

Keep digging

#

And dots should form the bigger picture

rocky thunder
#

I know I've been explaining such process so many times but it missing the key

oblique glade
#

Well yeah we don't know what we are exactly looking for

#

Only small hint we got is sepulchre

#

And carcosa wasn't a burial ground of any mythical creature as far as I am aware

plucky rivet
#

<@&925148041126760529> can we clear this?

oblique glade
#

Maybe the answer lies below

#

But how to get below

torn dew
#

What were the remaining digits that filled the remainder of 0's in the filename that made "will you free yourself"? Was there an alternate way of arriving at those digits?

plucky rivet
#

If you're speaking literally, we've clipped below all maps and there's nothing there

rocky thunder
#

Well the process I've described in synopsis is essential from the file name we got "will yp" 'p' being hex 70 but 'o' being 6F therefore the entire string exists in a digit value less then the original digit string with all the 0s. So I've been looking everywhere for the key value to do subtraction from the original with

oblique glade
plucky rivet
#

Carcosa stalled out according to the doc

torn dew
#

Is it coincidence there are 42 0's and binary was hinted as being partly correct? As in the old 42 is the answer to life the universe and everything with binary for 42 being 101010? Is there anything with that? Anything with pixel dimensions of the image?like in the cicada3301 puzzles where multiplication of image pixel dimensions were part of a solution? I'm just throwing stuff out there.

rocky thunder
#

I doubt they are pulling from the hitchhikers guide

oblique glade
#

So now our only lead are the cicadas?

#

Or are there anything else?

plucky rivet
#

I don't even think Cicadas are a lead

#

They'd have been in longer I'm sure if they were relevant

oblique glade
#

Maybe it's a distraction

plucky rivet
#

Or

#

Hear me out

#

It's just a map detail they patched in

#

Lol

oblique glade
#

Why that map detail features whimpering then?

plucky rivet
#

We're sure it's coming from the Cicada audio file? Has someone ripped it yet?

oblique glade
#

Yeah

plucky rivet
#

Can yall dump it in here or link to the raw audio?

oblique glade
#

Credit to @sick peak

#

He was the one who found it out

#

Also there are 3 more sets of cicadas

#

Not only in the garden

#

Both entries to the basement

#

And next to the stage

plucky rivet
#

Who ripped the file though? Did Finesterre?

oblique glade
#

Yep

#

It's all his work

plucky rivet
#

Did he post the raw audio earlier in here? I didn't see it

oblique glade
#

He did

plucky rivet
#

Can you link it? I can't find it

#

Thank. Will check after my meeting

oblique glade
#

Also @fair pilot noticed the audio of other cicadas were manually sped up

fair pilot
#

Not by much, but I noticed the distortion on the spectrogram and slowed them down, the only thing is that even manually setting them back up to normal speed didn't create an image

#

But I think The King in yellow is a lead, at least in some way, and I feel like Hokan and the book itself will lead to clues, ARGs are very much like this and it wouldn't be a surprise if carcosa was a lead

#

Considering that song did spectrogram up as robed figures, and the king in yellow is robed, it could all be coincidence and speculation, but it's worth a check

plucky rivet
#

After isolating it it doesn't sound human

#

They sound either similar to a low pitch birds call or a sin wave that's been lowpassed

#

Clearest audio of it is 38 seconds in

#

And the wavering at 47/47 seconds isn't normal for humans. Even when sobbing or crying quietly

#

That shake sounds much more like a bird

oblique glade
#

Can it be a victim of human trafficking?

plucky rivet
#

It doesn't sound human to me. The tone is too low to be a child, and the pitch motion doesn't seem normal

oblique glade
#

But it's there for some reason

plucky rivet
#

Depends on how they made the original sound

#

It could be an artifact of the synth patch

oblique glade
#

And it goes for only 15 seconds?

#

I think it was put there deliberately

fair pilot
#

It's not a spectrogram find either, just a boring old flat line, bright, but nothing solid on it,

#

Here's what it shows

plucky rivet
#

That also doesn't sound like a cicada. Where was that file from?

fair pilot
oblique glade
#

Uh I forgot to send you that file

plucky rivet
#

It's the pure white spots

#

This is after compression. Let me see if I can undo the compression to show them more

oblique glade
#

By white line will form some string of digits

plucky rivet
#

That's them without.

fair pilot
#

Huh, interesting

plucky rivet
#

The frequency of those tones sit from 200-400 Hz and have no overtones

#

Which means it's not human. The voice has overtones and harmonics to it. The only thing we can do as humans to show up like that is whistle

fair pilot
#

That almost looks like bird calls,

#

Either that, or it's just the exact as cicadas

plucky rivet
#

As for the speeding and slowing of the Cicada sounds, that's an old dev trick to not take up tons of space by just flipping assets. So that doesn't stand out to me.

#

That wasn't the sound of a cicada though to begin with.

#

So where did the file you sent come from?

oblique glade
#

Set of cicadas in the garden

#

The one devs mention in patch notes

plucky rivet
#

So that file was in the cicada files?

#

What's the original file name?

oblique glade
#

I think Finisterre just recorded it

#

It's not directly digged from files

fair pilot
#

I'm going into the game to explore a lead, if I find anything I'll let y'all know, Port Hokan has something important to it. I feel it

plucky rivet
#

I'm sitting in the garden rn and the cicadas don't sound like that at all

#

Is that file one of the cicadas just slowed down?

#

THEYRE FUCKING BIRD CALLS

#

Are you fucking kidding me

#

Which is why I asked specifically if it was ripped from the files. Because if it was that would be pure cicada noise. Not map ambience.

#

And to show it's the same thing, here's the normal speed birds on a spectro

fair pilot
#

Noticed this, could be symbols?

plucky rivet
#

No

#

THey're Birds

#

listen to it

fair pilot
#

One sec

plucky rivet
#

The problem is that this is recorded map ambience. Which means there's a ton of overlap with other things like birds, cars, air, wind and everything else.

oblique glade
#

Why would they add cicadas?

#

To make it more realistic

#

Due to recent wave of cicadas in LA?

plucky rivet
#

Because Cicadas exist in California. And it's a summer map.

#

So

#

they'd exist

plucky rivet
# fair pilot Noticed this, could be symbols?

A spectrogram works by showing frequency over time with the color relating to intensity. So no, they're not symbols. What you are seeing is the actual frequency motion of the bird call. The brighter bits are the more intense (louder). While the quieter bits are are closer to the purple/pink colors of the background. It is unlikely to see images in a spectrogram without hearing audio artifacts relating to it unless it is above or below the range of human hearing.

fair pilot
#

Fair enough, I knew mostly all of that, I just know that on purpose these things can be unoticed by the ear but visually shows a picture

plucky rivet
#

Typically those will rest Above 16kHz or below 20Hz

#

If you're not able to hear it.

fair pilot
#

Yeah

rocky thunder
#

<@&925148041126760529> ?

strong idol
#

just wanna say but when i hear cicadas i hear them go low then high withen a couple secs

oblique glade
#

Did anyone checked the qr code in port hokan?

#

What it contains?

torn dew
# rocky thunder I doubt they are pulling from the hitchhikers guide

so as i understand it from using some converters the full file name if it decrypts to "will you free yourself" should be 16732266154100745|573522014634462545100745573527356331266146 this would be the full octal format that changes to hex to ascii, the break at 745 indicates a change as the original ended 7456. how were we supposed to reveal that the 6 was incorrect and where were the other numbers supposed to come from if not brute force guesswork? As you said the original translated to "will yp"

fair pilot
#

There might be another lead in Hokan from what I can tell, I'll need help and other folks with 12x scopes, we're gonna be looking for a boat named Astolot or Elaine on the outside, so it'd be a big help if I can have some folks join along in the lead

plucky rivet
plucky rivet
#

Debug cam*

left bough
#

anyone notice that the player characters aren't human?

#

could that have something to do with the arg?

fickle storm
left bough
minor quiver
#

normal bullet wound

oblique glade
#

Dude is made out of adamantium

vague crag
#

Terminator

fair pilot
#

Started looking around Hokan, but didn't see anything that showed that hint, debug cam included

hoary osprey
atomic solstice
#

its talking about the usia

#

like in the new trailer, where there was a poster with an eye saying "the USIA is watching"

tribal coral
#

Illuminati

urban elbow
atomic solstice
#

look at the pinboard in the trailer of the last update

urban elbow
#

just link me to the yt

topaz sandal
urban elbow
#

cheers, i was like, wait, theres a new trailer?

fair pilot
#

Kenji and I were discussing the possibility of active triggers like the memorial hall song, and that they might be in other maps as well, anybody know any good places to check?

#

I for sure think basement in voll

tidal sonnet
#

did the kid's room (crack house) radio always have sound?

safe bane
tidal sonnet
#

there's a radio in there now its like the older portable models; looks early 60s?

#

similar to an old sony AM/FM

safe bane
#

can u find a picture?

tidal sonnet
#

will do, also might be old news on this/red herring but found this in a wardrobe that perps can hide in now

tidal sonnet
#

finally got to it sorry about the wait there

minor quiver
#

another one in the bottom floor across from the kitchen, plays classical music

oblique glade