🪹the-sepulchre-arg

[wanton mulch]

we didnt

[wise robin]

do we need to arrest the deformed officers to get the dlc

[autumn geyser]

HAHAHAAAAAAAAA I WAS RIIIGHT
Spoilers for the DLC dorms mission

[shrewd yarrow]

LOL

[sacred dawn]

oh shittttt

[autumn geyser]

well then

should i just send stuff without spoilering it btw

or should i put the spoiler

cause what ill send will be actually arg related

[shrewd yarrow]

Copy that

[autumn geyser]

Alright nice I cleared the map, god damn it's sick

There's also enough arg stuff in here to make me go insane

right so completely non spoilered past this point but I got A LOT to share
(also the devs cooked insanely hard on this one, good job dev team)

Here's the scene from A3

[shrewd yarrow]

Oh shit!

[autumn geyser]

Also plenty of mention of aliens all over the place

[shrewd yarrow]

Damn

Also thank you for this, as i am currently at work lol

[autumn geyser]

Yeah fair

And here's the location from A2

[shrewd yarrow]

I was about to ask about that

[autumn geyser]

Hey look there's one date

[shrewd yarrow]

March 17tg 2022

[autumn geyser]

Also there were plenty of mil dudes

I counted probably 2 or 3 with proper rifles and mil gear

Looked like veterans

Possible mlo dudes

[shrewd yarrow]

nods sounds about right

[autumn geyser]

Third individual possibly being mlo

I'll pull some audio from the bank files to put here for proper quality in a sec

[shrewd yarrow]

Could it be Camellia?

[autumn geyser]

Possible

Likely too

[shrewd yarrow]

So far our hard work is coming in

[autumn geyser]

Precinct got some stuff too

Turned into a public place for aid

[shrewd yarrow]

Oh shit!

Look at that!

[autumn geyser]

911 call

God damn there's an entire song in there lmao

[shrewd yarrow]

Huh...

[autumn geyser]

Idk if the song is dlc content or not but it's titled fentanyl blues lmao

it plays by one of the homeless tents

idk if it's dlc exclusive so I don't wanna upload it but it's so good

[shrewd yarrow]

Wait, could that be 4L1? Fentanal

Very unlikely but its a theroy

[autumn geyser]

Ok wtf I can't find the convo .wav file

Yeah the convo with the officer is just not there

[shrewd yarrow]

Huh.

[autumn geyser]

It does not exist as a .wav

which means all we got is my clip of it

[shrewd yarrow]

Something i will need to listen to when i get home in like 5hrs time lol

[autumn geyser]

God damn they got based music in two places now

In the narcos map's bank files they have another one

[sacred dawn]

Starting from 2019, the NSO subclass of benzimidazole opioids (BOs) began to emerge on the illicit drug market to fill the void left by the scheduled fentalogues in the demand for cheaper alternatives to heroin

[autumn geyser]

So basically 4L1 might be fent

[shrewd yarrow]

Omg!

[sacred dawn]

Im gonna link this. its a huge read

[autumn geyser]

Good call linch, nice work

[sacred dawn]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8990956/

[shrewd yarrow]

You found the file linas with the wording thats all you man

[sacred dawn]

Im still reading it since I had to uninstall and reinstall because stuck on verifying

[shrewd yarrow]

Oof

[sacred dawn]

Yeah thats a huge find.

[shrewd yarrow]

The pieces are slowly being put into place

[autumn geyser]

@rigid sphinx Sorry for the ping, just wanted to confirm a few things:

• Are the fentanylblues.wav and marymoonshine.wav exclusive to the DLC? Aka, do people NEED the dlc to listen to them?
• Where is the police officer conversation file? I don't see it anywhere in the .bank for Dorms

[autumn geyser]

And didn't make any connection

[shrewd yarrow]

Lol fair, but you lead me there

[autumn geyser]

Wait no scrap that

We got THREE TRACKS BABY WOOOOOO

I found a third

[shrewd yarrow]

Oh shit!

[autumn geyser]

Three audio tracks let's goooo

[shrewd yarrow]

I will try to keep tabs here. I have to go back to work

[autumn geyser]

Ight gl

[shrewd yarrow]

Thx

[autumn geyser]

Imma go do the other maps

They're REALLY nice

Actually scrap that I'll do them later

[shrewd yarrow]

Was about to say, stay safe, keep your head on swivel and watch your corners

And may your aim be true

[left bough]

why is the end so loud static? and it just keeps going?

[autumn geyser]

Oh dear god yeah

I think that's the corruption doing its thing one sec

Okay yeah no the upload doesn't work

It works on my end ig

I'll write out the transcription in a bit

[left bough]

well now the static is in the middle, but the timer is still funky

[errant star]

pls spoiler everything

well like pictures atleast

[wanton mulch]

make sure you check evidence lockers one you're done

also check the tattoos

[dry gale]

ok cant wait to go around the dorms map for several hours looking for any environmental clues to this arg

[errant star]

havent found any recorders in the dorms yet

[sacred crane]

anyone can experience DLC content, as only the host needs to own it. I don't see why there would be an issue posting that kind of stuff.

[autumn geyser]

It's files from the dlc itself that some might not have access to

I'm not sure if they've posted the music publically

[sacred crane]

It's almost guaranteed they'd be able to access it - how else would that content play in game when they join someone else who owns it?

[autumn geyser]

Idk maybe

[sacred crane]

I'm waiting on people to start uploading DLC ost tracks, I feel like the combat music hasn't actually started playing for me.

[left bough]

i only heard some ambient sounding music

[shrewd yarrow]

Sooo this is probably a overreach in thought, but i did have a though. The dlc name Home Invasion, were not going through someones home. In a physical sense but a metaphoric, like when you tell some i am from X city is my HOME town. Sooo i thinking Home in a city sense, the invasion part is this group that were dealing with, they could be from an outside source.

Like i said kinda a strech but wanted to share the thought lol

[iron frost]

anything new with the mysterious inquiry evidence?

[shrewd yarrow]

Which one?

[iron frost]

mysterious inquiry

[shrewd yarrow]

The new img that was posted?

[iron frost]

huh?

[shrewd yarrow]

Sorry abit confused on what you mean.

[iron frost]

the evidence

like from the evidence room

called mysterious inquiry

[shrewd yarrow]

Oh! I have no idea, i dont think anyone checked

I can check it out in like 35ish minutes when i get off work

[autumn geyser]

I'll need to run the mission proper again but I can have a look in a bit

[shrewd yarrow]

Ok thanks linas

[scarlet swallow]

I just hopped in from the NDA server
this channel is way more up to date here than there

so can i get a TLDR?

[radiant sonnet]

I didnt even know the ARG was still going

[shrewd yarrow]

Mysterious group giving a drug known 4L1 possibly the lost

Google Doc is also in pins

[shrewd yarrow]

It restarted i think recently

Brian pls

[scarlet swallow]

Mysterious group is guaranteed to be the MLO

/ First Cohort

or USIA

[shrewd yarrow]

Thats what were starting to think The Lost

[scarlet swallow]

The Lost iirc was generally accepted to be the MLO from the last ARG document

cause their motifs are the mariposa lily plant

[shrewd yarrow]

True

I tried looking at the old ARG with the faces and just went nope, fuck this i know nothing

Unfortently noone uses tge A.R.G section on the supporter disc

[scarlet swallow]

its been dead since 1.0 sadly

1.0 revived it for a bit

[shrewd yarrow]

I tried abit, didnt really get any response so assumed noone cared lol

[scarlet swallow]

I was writing a comprehensive document on what the current theories and timelines were but I got sidetracked by universioty

[shrewd yarrow]

All good

Life comes first

[autumn geyser]

honestly imma pull all I can from the dorms mission and roll my version back cause I can't play like this

So if theres ANYTHING you need, lmk before I do that

[rigid sphinx]

As of 5 weeks ago, we're back up and running

[autumn geyser]

God damn it's been 5 weeks?

[rigid sphinx]

Yup

[autumn geyser]

Christ

Been some time already

[scarlet swallow]

Man i havent seen you since OEFT and Romp Bar days

and UEFT

Tarkov fell off so hard

[rigid sphinx]

Oh my god

Romp bar

you are one of the old ones

[scarlet swallow]

Yessir

How've you been Kaminsky

[rigid sphinx]

More tired than I've been in a while, but happy to be working for VOID

[scarlet swallow]

better than moderating OEFT

for sure

[radiant sonnet]

do they throw you guys in the void as punishment?

[shrewd yarrow]

something wrong?

[autumn geyser]

Yeah, mods don't work

I am too used to modded

Plus abysmal frames

[shrewd yarrow]

ah

[autumn geyser]

Maps are awesome, but just not worth it ig

[shrewd yarrow]

fair enough

[sacred dawn]

So lawmaker ain't the cliffhanger?

[autumn geyser]

Idk

[shrewd yarrow]

@autumn geyser look familiar?

[sacred dawn]

There's aliens drawn on dorms lmao

Ready or Not: Alien Invasion

We're recreating independence day

[scarlet swallow]

thats old Sephulcre art iirc
this was in 213 parks back before 1.0 right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yagLpENXSqw

I wonder how many new players have seen this one

[sacred dawn]

MLO has balaclava... we have balaclava... MLO confirmed

[wise robin]

does it remind you of anything?

[wise robin]

what does this have anything to do with the picture?

[shrewd yarrow]

i was thinking it almost looks similar to the thing linas drew

[wise robin]

this?

[shrewd yarrow]

mmhm

[scarlet swallow]

That image was used in MLO-based teasers

lol

back in the day

a lot of the graffiti early on was

[wise robin]

I was thinking of this too, it kinda looks like it but upside down

[shrewd yarrow]

maybe the scitzo is getting to me

[wise robin]

what is an mlo based teaser

and where is the picture in the teaser you sent?

[scarlet swallow]

its not in the teaser
its part of the teasers (plural) posted by VOID in the ARG channel

and throughout announcements

the MLO, or the Mariposa Lily Org/Order
is a paramilitary group mentioned throughout RoN and was previously the PvP opfor player characters

theyre mentioned in a bunch of missions in 1.0 but they had a more overt presence in the Sephulcre ARG

[wise robin]

oh

ok

[wise robin]

wait, there is a second yt channel for the arg?

[scarlet swallow]

no afaik

its mostly announced in the NDA discord

[wise robin]

what did you mean by channe;

like on this server

[scarlet swallow]

discord channel

on this server and the supporter server

[wise robin]

so in this channel?

[scarlet swallow]

yeah sometimes

Linch interacts with Void ocassionally when they post teasers and stuff

@shrewd yarrow

The Lillies Eyes is currently one of the "users" (void) interacting with the playerbase

[wise robin]

I've seen in the doc the stuff that he/she posted

[wise robin]

but still

part of the teasers

where can I find it then?

[scarlet swallow]

Youtube or in announcements

[wise robin]

in the teaser you sent

does it appear somewhere

[scarlet swallow]

no

ive said that 3 times

[wise robin]

why did you send it then?

[scarlet swallow]

because its generally related

jesus christ

[wise robin]

alright, sorry mate

do you remember which teaser/teasers included it

?

obviously you don't or you would've sent them already

stupid question by me

[shrewd yarrow]

what about me now?

blank confused face

[wise robin]

idk

[primal prawn]

I mean no antisemitism but that picture is somewhat similar to the happy merchant symbol, no anntisemitism intendeed tho

i mean the shape

[wise robin]

mate 🤣 how did you come up with that?

[primal prawn]

compare thhe shape

[wise robin]

I mean you're not wrong

it is kinda similar

but this is like the last thing I'd ever think of tbh

[primal prawn]

I mean I apologize if thats the case but I just fucking realzied that too

[wise robin]

no need to apologise, everyhting is fine

I really didn't expect this thouhg

though*

[topaz jackal]

jesus
the girl's just a year older than me

hey back in the old arg what were some in-game finds?
once i reinstall the game i'll probably try to reuse some methods to dig stuff up

[primal prawn]

the static only kicks in when I like skip parts

[left bough]

Huh, i guess it's missing the time amount or something?

Anyone check if it has hidden files?

[autumn geyser]

Ah yea there's plenty of those

[autumn geyser]

If what has hidden files

[wanton mulch]

I would say this basically confirms that the ||lost were at greenside||

[wise robin]

how did you find it?

I played through this like an hour ago and didn't see it

what's the thing that makes tour game look os blue?

so*

[loud vector]

night vision

[wise robin]

why is it so blue though, ain't it usually like green?

unless he is using some daltonism mode

[left bough]

pretty sure there was an option for night vision color in the settings somewhere

[wise robin]

oh alright

that makes sense

[shrewd yarrow]

Its the white phosrous setting

[wise robin]

oh, alright

[sacred dawn]

From carcosa

But that shit I think is on park homes also?

[soft umbra]

the crack house?

in base game?

or new?

[sacred dawn]

Yeh

Twisted nerve

[soft umbra]

its not on it

they removed it

[sacred dawn]

Ohhh

[soft umbra]

it might be on the new park homes

the narcos

bc its on all

[hot obsidian]

Considering there’s that room full of lost-like drawings on the walls plus all the disabled veterans in the map, it very much makes sense that part of the list would be here

[sacred dawn]

Oh shit the man himself.

[hot obsidian]

I just work here lol

[snow perch]

did y'all S rank dorms yet?

maybe there would be some evidence that could show something

[sacred dawn]

Nah I've been speedrunning it lethal lol. Soft complete in 1:32 but it's still too slow.

[snow perch]

lmao, im trying to sdo it solo S rank rn

i accidentally pulled out my flashbang on the last guy

and fucking died

[sacred dawn]

Idek what a somewhat optimized record run would look like on that map for S.

[snow perch]

prolly gas grenades and beanbag tbh

+batteringram

[sacred dawn]

No gas fuck that map for that lol. You don't want them running off in that place. Too many places to slip through for speedrunning.

Ram idk maybe.

[snow perch]

bro

i cant grab the knife

[sacred dawn]

That's also why I stopped on that map

4 times in a row it happened lol

[snow perch]

i just wanna see if S rank has any cool evidence, that might be useful for this ARG 💀

[sacred dawn]

I'll do non lethal when it's patched. Everytime I've done it it's happened.

[snow perch]

heres the S rank evidence

looks interesting

[snow perch]

The other S rank evidence is so underwhelming

literally nothing interesting

[boreal kite]

though the time of the interloper comes to the end
the time of the unseen eyes, the many, the others is beginning
with their truths and their lies, the lost will speak once again

[snow perch]

whoever is manning "the Lilies Eyes" acc needs to update their windows

hi kaminsky

[sacred sparrow]

Yeah managed to do on the 1st try was quite easy, there's one soft objective aswell btw

[rigid sphinx]

That's actually not what the K stands for

[snow perch]

what does it stand for then pal

update your windows

[rigid sphinx]

no

[snow perch]

yes

makes the ARG unsolvable

[shrewd yarrow]

AH! lilies has spoken!

lets see what we got.

[sacred dawn]

Im already in dorms if anyone needs me to go anywhere 🙂

messing with image currently

its got another thing overlapping again

[shrewd yarrow]

see if you can find the background pic

[sacred dawn]

Like the announcement one

[shrewd yarrow]

aye

[sacred dawn]

I did already here

[shrewd yarrow]

awsome

[sacred dawn]

Was speedrunning till I seen lilies post

[shrewd yarrow]

"Reach out beyond this Flesh"

oh! oh! theres somesort of design in between the comms and the background pic

[snow perch]

heading back to the damn dorms again

[sacred dawn]

Yeah same as the announcement one

[shrewd yarrow]

yeah

maybe abit different

@autumn geyser anychance you can sketch it?

no exifdata

[snow perch]

im gonna edit the photo around, see if there is anything hidden\

[shrewd yarrow]

ok

i am checking the RoN folder for to maybe see if this burner.bat was thing

ok it's clean

[snow perch]

i also checked for the txt

couldnt find it

also it surpised me how there was NOTHING in the sound files

[shrewd yarrow]

that's what i was thinking

i brightended it up

[snow perch]

yeah, doesnt seem like there is anything hidden, at least it would be easier to trace

also what was kinda hilarous but also off topic, but the acc posted a image before, but the time was 1am and the date was just XXX/XXX/XXX

[shrewd yarrow]

it's deffently small from the old sketch

[snow perch]

wym

[shrewd yarrow]

1sec

the part i have circled

[snow perch]

oh

that

yeah ok

[shrewd yarrow]

yes

that!

[snow perch]

im gonna recheck all the evidence, maybe there would be something useful, doubt it though

[shrewd yarrow]

this is the one linas sketched out for us

[snow perch]

kk

[snow perch]

the only thing remotely odd about some sounds was that on the dorm level, there was 'breath' and 'throat' ambience

[shrewd yarrow]

🤔

[snow perch]

ill send a sample of both over

[shrewd yarrow]

dorms was pretty creepy

[snow perch]

also, does anybody recognize this weird station audio?

[snow perch]

fr

[shrewd yarrow]

nope

[snow perch]

i dont remember that being in the files before the update

[shrewd yarrow]

where was that?

[snow perch]

StationV2

[shrewd yarrow]

ah

interesting....

[snow perch]

OH

OH FOUND SOMETHING

WITH THAT AUDIO

[shrewd yarrow]

is it a steno

[sacred dawn]

Didnt it say wake up the child

next to that message in dorms?

Did they really drop TOOL lyrics on us

If so GG that's actually sick

[snow perch]

put it through a spectogram

it displays a message

[shrewd yarrow]

what does it say?

[snow perch]

sec

its really underwhelming, but lemme type it anyways

[sacred dawn]

Windows shift S it

[snow perch]

BANK ROBBER FOR WHAT YOU SEEK levels/lobby

[sacred dawn]

get the screenie

Thats old

oh its that file

yeh thats pretty old

[shrewd yarrow]

i think thats a old arg thing

[snow perch]

lmao, i didnt recongnize the file, thought it was new

sucks

[sacred dawn]

Can kaminsky confirm those are TOOL lyrics lmaoo because it's literally from the song.

[shrewd yarrow]

HA

i honestly think with linas's sketch and all the evidance from dorm the lost has returned.

[sacred dawn]

Bruh its word for word this is a TOOL refrence

Wake up the child release the light.

reach out and beyond this flesh

[snow perch]

lmao

[shrewd yarrow]

updated the doc with the img and message

[snow perch]

can i get the link to the doc?

[shrewd yarrow]

yes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mraLxzMsXWFkj8G_x4z4Xzf7BVlXaCjv1x_WnM9UrRI/edit

[snow perch]

thanks

[shrewd yarrow]

np

[snow perch]

why does in every single god damn photo Kaminsky needs to update his windows

god damn man

[shrewd yarrow]

just ignore it

[snow perch]

i wonder if anyone could actually find the location where 'Narcos' takes place

[shrewd yarrow]

that the house to house one?

[snow perch]

yeah

if its even a real place

💀

[shrewd yarrow]

los seruos i believe is san diego based

[autumn geyser]

God damn I missed A LOT

Sorry for being late fellas, had a really good bit of rest

What's the sketching I need to do?

[shrewd yarrow]

your good man, rest is important

lilies decided to drop us a new img, with something related to the annoucement img

[autumn geyser]

Ah okay I'll have a look

[shrewd yarrow]

awesome!

[autumn geyser]

Where's the part that needs sketching? Am a little blind tbh

[snow perch]

you can kinda see a little pattern there

[autumn geyser]

Oh yea I do see it

Right time to spend another 2 hours staring at a singular image

[snow perch]

doing gods work my friend

[shrewd yarrow]

it's not like we haven't spent 5-6hrs starting at an image 😛

or more

[snow perch]

🥳

[autumn geyser]

Yeah fair

[shrewd yarrow]

oh dear lord....

[autumn geyser]

?

[shrewd yarrow]

soooo i decided to read the img convo

at the end says 4L1CHNO

bibenzimidazole Cyanic acid

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Cyanic-acid

[snow perch]

i might be dumb, but how does 4l1chno corrospond to this compound. Im not doubting, im just wondering for the future

seems chemicals and drugs are gonna be a big thing

nvm

i see

[shrewd yarrow]

lol

[snow perch]

good find

i wonder what GRNSD means

[shrewd yarrow]

greenside

[snow perch]

oh

im dumb

i need sleep

[shrewd yarrow]

your fine

[snow perch]

gn

[shrewd yarrow]

lol

rest well

[autumn geyser]

gn, have a good sleep

eyeball spotted

uhh nevermind

[shrewd yarrow]

i can see what you mean

[gray ridge]

e

[shrewd yarrow]

f?

doing a great job btw the linas 🙂

[autumn geyser]

Cheers

I appreciate it

[shrewd yarrow]

your welcome! 🙂

[wise robin]

where did you see pneuma in the arg thouhg?

[sacred dawn]

issa song

lyrics are on the wall

[wise robin]

oh yeah ik

it's avery good song

[wise robin]

seriously?

those are the lyrics to it

wait gotta check

[sacred dawn]

Go for it

[wise robin]

damn

your right

[sacred dawn]

Someone at VOID likes TOOL

[wise robin]

that's amazing

[sacred dawn]

lmao

[wise robin]

that makes me happy

[wise robin]

now when I think about it

maybe there is more references to music

[autumn geyser]

But yeah any time you hear weird audio in a file, run it through a spectrogram

[sacred dawn]

Thats an old one I thought?

[autumn geyser]

Eh idk

Maybe it is

Just for the future

mmmmmm love to see it

many eyes

still working on that message side but I got the area around it cleared

GOD DAMN IT

It's burnt

Lost data

Lilies eyes really needs to move to dark mode

[wise robin]

I agree

[shrewd yarrow]

"though the time of the interloper comes to the end
the time of the unseen eyes, the many, the others is beginning"

it's looking really good 🙂

[autumn geyser]

This is all I can get

Parts of it are simply impossible to trace because it's pure white

WAIT NO

There's gaps of non-rgb255

It's doable

Oh nvm those are gaps from the border shadows

Yeah no it's not doable

[shrewd yarrow]

it looks really good

[autumn geyser]

There's parts that are simply pure rgb(255,255,255), which means it's not possible to extract anything from there

[shrewd yarrow]

gotcha

did i brighten it up too much?

[autumn geyser]

Nah, I'm pulling from the original

[shrewd yarrow]

gotcha

[autumn geyser]

So that I can easily use my own brightness adjustments

[shrewd yarrow]

fair enough, you did a really great job

do you think were starting into something that it's own branch?

[autumn geyser]

Possibly yeah

[shrewd yarrow]

cause i feel like this is not B or A connected

[autumn geyser]

Here's my terrible attempt at trying to fill in the gaps so to say

So here's the overall piece with pattern-based filling attempted

[shrewd yarrow]

it's some sort of face

[autumn geyser]

Honestly idk what it is

[shrewd yarrow]

so let's so far we gotten, maybe the full or maybe half the drug, (4L1CHNO) this weird, pattern that has some meaning

[snow perch]

Looks like some weird tree or something

[shrewd yarrow]

i can see that.

[wise robin]

what

if it connects at some part

with the picture on wall

and those are 2 out of more parts of a big picture

[shrewd yarrow]

that's possible

[snow perch]

Maybe, we’d just need more pieces

[wise robin]

yeah that's what I mean

when we get more pieces we'll be able to put them together

[shrewd yarrow]

this is just me but that portion there looks like lips and the ridge of a nose

[autumn geyser]

I see that too

[wise robin]

it does

[shrewd yarrow]

not the ridge, but the bottom portion

[autumn geyser]

But keep in mind that's at best a pure guess with little accuracy

[shrewd yarrow]

true

[snow perch]

How often does the account post?

[shrewd yarrow]

lily? when we solve something or if we ask a question

[snow perch]

Ah, okay.

[shrewd yarrow]

they have a mole

[snow perch]

They say ‘prep (acid) for self administration’

Let’s see what the chemical does

Or what it could be used in

[shrewd yarrow]

sooo breaking down the message: "though the time of the interloper comes to the end" officer has been recused.
"the time of the unseen eyes, the many, the others is beginning" the lost are starting to come out or another group
"with their truths and their lies, the lost will speak once again" this one i am abit stumped

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Cyanic-acid is what i found

[autumn geyser]

Officer gets rescued is also confirmed in the mission

There's the dude just standing by the ambulance by the front entrance

Also there's an awesome feature where you can overhear their convo if you walk up

[shrewd yarrow]

right i remember seeing that i listened on them it's very cryptic

[snow perch]

Maybe more ‘lost’ accounts will pop up? Could be spreading red herrings?

[shrewd yarrow]

maybe?

[snow perch]

Hopefully not, that would make it really annoying and complicated prolly

[shrewd yarrow]

mmhm

[wise robin]

alright sp

so*

I made something

but I gotta warn

my skills at computer graphics are horrendous

[autumn geyser]

Interesting

[shrewd yarrow]

holy shit

[autumn geyser]

Perhaps it actually is like that, fragments of the big image one by one

[shrewd yarrow]

your drawing skills are coming in linas 😄

[autumn geyser]

Glad to see my non existent drawing skills are helping lmao

[wise robin]

yeah, your drawing is amazing tbh

[shrewd yarrow]

its better then i can do believe me

[autumn geyser]

I'd like to credit photography for helping me learn how to see minute differences in contrast

[snow perch]

Fr good drawing

[wise robin]

and me, I can't draw at all

[shrewd yarrow]

same here

best i can do little stick figures

[autumn geyser]

Same

[shrewd yarrow]

😛

[autumn geyser]

I can trace stuff, that's something I can do, but you give me a task of drawing something and all you're gonna get is the effective skill level of a toddler

[shrewd yarrow]

lol

your skill in photogphy is coming and i thank you for it

[autumn geyser]

I'd like to believe I'm more the sciency than creative and artistic

[wise robin]

mate I can't even trace

[autumn geyser]

Interesting

[wise robin]

another way I found to put it

[autumn geyser]

I do like the theory that they're fragments of a bigger drawing

[shrewd yarrow]

i agree

[snow perch]

I think we just need more parts, too many possibilities

[wise robin]

prolly those 2 shouldn't fit each other and if my theory about the pieces is correct, there is gonna be a one that's gonna be a connector between them both

[wise robin]

yeah, exactly

[snow perch]

Great idea though with the pieces

[wise robin]

thanks mate

[shrewd yarrow]

hmm

[snow perch]

I’m definitely gonna spend some time tomorrow really looking through the new maps. Especially dorms

[shrewd yarrow]

so i have found that chno is three forms of acid, cyanic acid, fulminic acid and isocyanic acid

Cyanic acid (HOCN) is a colorless, unstable, and poisonous liquid acid that is derived from cyanogen. It has a boiling point of 23.5°C and a melting point of -81°C, and its molecular formula is CHNO. Cyanic acid is a natural product found in humans and can have both positive and negative effects on human health

not much on fulminic

Isocyanic acid is a chemical compound with the structural formula HNCO, which is often written as H−N=C=O. It is a colourless, volatile and poisonous substance,

[snow perch]

I’m seeing a trend here with poison

[shrewd yarrow]

indeed

[snow perch]

Posting so I don’t have to keep scrolling

[shrewd yarrow]

fair enough

i am think it's the first one

maybe

[snow perch]

My guess that “sanitation” means killing people, maybe with the poison

[shrewd yarrow]

it's possible

[autumn geyser]

Yeah most definitely

[shrewd yarrow]

"the mole is free but running"

could it be that informant from narcos?

[snow perch]

I feel that would be too on the nose, especially considering how convoluted this ARG is, but it’s possible

What’s this ‘safe house’

[shrewd yarrow]

they were using greenside as a safe location

[autumn geyser]

^

GRNSD is their safehouse I presume

[snow perch]

So let’s paint a picture here. Greenside dorms, they use it as a safehouse. The police figure it out and it’s ’compromised’

[autumn geyser]

If you wanna hide a secret operation for drugs, the best place to do that is where people are crazy, schizo, and they're doing drugs, and where there's homeless people

[shrewd yarrow]

pretty much

[autumn geyser]

No one would ever suspect that the person who occasionally has someone come in and they give them some drug is actually a secret agent for a paramilitary organization that is experimenting with a drug with plenty of dangers

And even if they are, whos gonna believe them, they live near schizo people who think aliens are real, and they do drugs, so ofc they're just making it up

[snow perch]

Ooh, yeah you’re right!

[shrewd yarrow]

also as a reminder this :
"Oleifera: Why wasn't the site sterilzed before relocation? A gunfight with the local PD is the last thing we wanted.
Grjsii: Chrys relayed that GRNSD was clear for use
Oleifera: Why didn't anyone double check?
Gilbertii: I did, but Chrys gave me old intel and footage
Chrysantha: I followed SOP, there were no bodies within a k for a few days
Oleifera: Until there was.
Grjsii: 4L1 still kept them quiet
Oleifera: Now we have several pricipals in custody, one dead, and an LSPD officer in our safe house.
Oleifera: Euph, liase with our plants, calm the waters and bury the Hand at GRNSD.
Oleifera: Grj, Process Gil. If they're worth it, take them. If not, field them.
Oleifera: Gil, bring me Chrysantha."

[snow perch]

Then someone probably snitches or something, OR, the police end up figuring it out, which would make sense because of the briefing . There were people with guns who seemed sensible enough too, further supporting that idea of giving people drugs.

[shrewd yarrow]

hurricane hits, according to the 911 from dorms someone sees and reported people moving about and a gunshot in the dorms, they send an officer and the lost get discovered

[snow perch]

Bingo

That’s what I’m thinking

[shrewd yarrow]

they have a shootout the officer gets wounded, they call in us

that's how i am fitting dorms so far

[snow perch]

Yeah, there’s a few American veterans in the map too right?

[autumn geyser]

Yep

Willing to guess that that's MLO dudes

[snow perch]

Makes sense

[snow perch]

Eh, a few of em are nut jobs though

[shrewd yarrow]

i am 100% on board with that

[snow perch]

I can see it still though

I faintly remember 2 people with an accent (I might be losing my marbles though). They were definitely out of place. They had, clothes, armor, big guns and sensible

I’m gonna look through the files for specific names.

[shrewd yarrow]

we all lose our marbles eventually

[autumn geyser]

Yep

[shrewd yarrow]

welcome to here

lol

[autumn geyser]

The second you actually become invested in the ARG you lose your marbles

[snow perch]

Lmao, yeah know, they were speaking Spanish. Guy named ‘Humberto’ I’m looking at

[shrewd yarrow]

next thing you know you become leslie from evil within just repeatedly chanting "losing our minds"

lol

[shrewd yarrow]

lmfao

[snow perch]

my man humberto is a dead end, no really interesting voicelines. Which is good and bad. On one hand it points to him not being crazy. on the other it give us jack to work with

[shrewd yarrow]

what about victor?

[snow perch]

hes crazy as shit 😭

his voicelines sound so goofy 💀

also I found this, someone can do something funny

[autumn geyser]

Wait where did you find it lmao

[snow perch]

Movies

[autumn geyser]

Oh right lmao

New template dropped

[snow perch]

hell yeah

[autumn geyser]

We thought we were paying 10€ for the 3 maps

Little did we know

We were paying 10€ for this template

[shrewd yarrow]

dun dun dunnnn

void i want audio briefings with npcs with gensturs and animations!

[snow perch]

i am definitly NOT booting up premier pro rn

[shrewd yarrow]

lol

[snow perch]

i imported it, ill make something stupid tmr

put him in valley of the dolls. hes now Chris hansen

[shrewd yarrow]

LOL

[snow perch]

NOBODY STEAL THAT

[shrewd yarrow]

i know nothin

[autumn geyser]

lmao

[snow perch]

https://tenor.com/view/berm-ron-ready-or-not-swat-explosion-gif-8532084739413819645

[autumn geyser]

embed failure

[snow perch]

i forgor 💀

[autumn geyser]

laugh at this user

mods can we get gif embed perms please

i wanna post funny hahas here

[snow perch]

I wonder what the backstory to the mansion level is BESIDES the crazy 'just stop oil' protesters

like the hidden stuff

[shrewd yarrow]

why do i feel like the lawmakers and narcos should be reversed

like it should be dorms,narcos,lawmakers

[snow perch]

i also noticed that lawmakers are middle table for evidence

which prolly means its important

also the lillies eyes is 100% gotta do with the MLO

Mariposa LILY Org.

[shrewd yarrow]

yep

[autumn geyser]

Yeah Lilies eyes are MLO

[snow perch]

mariposa freaky org

would be 20x better

[autumn geyser]

MFO?

Damn

[snow perch]

Instead of being nonchalant and mysterious they be freaky 👅

Alright I’m done

[shrewd yarrow]

interesting, even if you setup a mp lobby all the evidance isn't unlocked from the gecko if you (like i did) accidently erase all your data

[snow perch]

Whatever evidence the lobby leader had, I’m pretty sure transfers over to the lobby of I’m not mistaken

[shrewd yarrow]

i think.

wells not the end of the world

[snow perch]

The new evidence is not that interesting, the only remotely cool is the S rank for dorms, which I sent in the chat earlier

[shrewd yarrow]

gotcha

[autumn geyser]

Here it is

[shrewd yarrow]

ty!

[autumn geyser]

Btw thanks for s ranking it cause I do NOT wanna deal with that

[snow perch]

That shit genuinely sucked. I got screwed over like 5 times because evidence glitched into a a tiny little crevice

The run where I got it, I had to force the suspect to pick his knife BACK UP.

[autumn geyser]

Damn yeah that sucks

That's why I never wanna do S rank runs

[snow perch]

Np

Have yall seen that really religious guy in dorms?

[shrewd yarrow]

yes

think that's victor??

[snow perch]

Is it? Prolly.

Take a look at his voice lines. I feel like his writing in the evidence was really metaphorical. Talking about angels and other things. Also look at those drawings on the evidence

Creepy

[shrewd yarrow]

correction it's Michael that's the relgious nut

[snow perch]

Ah, still. He might say something cool

[shrewd yarrow]

alrighty boys, i am gonna head off and catch some sleep

[autumn geyser]

Gn, have a good rest

[wise robin]

it'll feel weird saying goodnight, since where I live it's the middle of the day, so instead ima say: sleep well

[autumn geyser]

Eh welcome to timezones

I'm used to it by now, playing with Americans as a European

Once you do it enough you start to automatically convert the times in your head, I know I'm 8 ahead of one friend, 7 ahead another, 10 ahead another, and so on

[wise robin]

I'm european as well

[autumn geyser]

Nice

[wise robin]

I guess it will come with time

[autumn geyser]

Yep

[topaz jackal]

just cleared dorms
anyone know what the soft objective was?

i don't think there was anything of note to the arg for dorms

trying mansion now

[sacred sparrow]

The bong on the altar

[topaz jackal]

there's voice messages in narcos and mansion

took a screenshot of an email

fucking hell narcos is like fallujah all over again
thought i could just clear 1 house and be done with it
i had to clear like 5 more and deal with armoured sicarios

[autumn geyser]

Yep

Isn't it 10 houses

I counted 10 when I did some photography

[topaz jackal]

it's coincidentally also the level where i wanted to try the flux raider

[autumn geyser]

Same

It was NOT a good idea

[topaz jackal]

big fucking mistake bruh half my shots were stopped by their vests

email

i'm kinda stumped
nothing seemed out of the ordinary on these levels ngl

only leads i can wager are the voice messages in mansion and narcos

maybe some docs in mansion may have something?

fuck my life the email is so blurry
it was clear in-game for me

nvm i can read it if i zoom in
doesn't feel like anything off

governor sancher is the recipient
sven is trying to build oil rigs and create jobs for los suenos residents
he's asking sancher for help in allowing him to do so

[snow perch]

thats how it be lmao

[topaz jackal]

dude i don't think i meaningfully contributed to the arg in any way bruh

[rigid sphinx]

Hey, everyone gets useful eventually

[autumn geyser]

You've been here

[topaz jackal]

i really didn't find anything out the ordinary on my 1st clear
i'll probably play again to check for stuff i may have missed

[autumn geyser]

That's good already

[autumn geyser]

This too

I felt completely useless for the first however long, now my purpose is to trace the shadows on images with those shadow patterns

[topaz jackal]

no idea how to datamine the voice messages btw

[autumn geyser]

You'll find yours eventually

[topaz jackal]

graffiti in dorms also looked like reused content from meth so it's probably not related

[snow perch]

dont' worry about it

[wise robin]

neither did I

[snow perch]

also when does this DLC take place, is it before or after?

[wise robin]

after afaik

[topaz jackal]

feels like it's after ngl

[rigid sphinx]

Lawmaker is the day after Port

[topaz jackal]

i remember in one of the briefings
the guy was telling SWAT that dorms is a "palette cleanser" after what they've been thru
so likely they went through port, hollywood, nightclub, etc.
like the extra fucked up campaign levels

[snow perch]

thanks

[topaz jackal]

i'll probably afk again until lily says smth or someone else finds smth lol

[rigid sphinx]

Out of curiosity, what's the current order of operations when Lily posts something?

[autumn geyser]

Uhh

We panic

And then we go from there

[snow perch]

screenshot

or download i mean

[autumn geyser]

At least that's my plan

[snow perch]

then just stare at the photo

[autumn geyser]

And after that it just depends on what the post is

If it's a message, try and ID cipher, then decipher it, if it's an image, I check for anything visual, then I pull up exif, then I try and open in 7z, if all that fails I look for what I'm missing

Any audio is spectrogrammed

[snow perch]

yeah

[autumn geyser]

When I find nothing at all I go and update the doc with what I've tried and the baseline info

[sacred dawn]

Who's the Tool listener at void kaminsky?

👀

[autumn geyser]

Wait what tool listener

[rigid sphinx]

defo Zach

[sacred dawn]

I knew those were lyrics on that wall

[wise robin]

those are lyrics of a tool

[autumn geyser]

Ah I see

[wise robin]

song

called pneuma

[autumn geyser]

Oh right yeah

[sacred dawn]

And the next one

[autumn geyser]

I'm dumb lmao

[wise robin]

(good song, highly recommend)

[wise robin]

what next one?

[sacred dawn]

It's either intended or a giant fucking coincidence

[radiant sonnet]

did anyone figure out what 4L1CHNO is now

[sacred dawn]

The one next to reach beyond the flesh

To your left

[autumn geyser]

That's acid isn't it

[wise robin]

I think this prooves it's not a coincidence

[autumn geyser]

Linch did some research in that IIRC

Go up in chat history

[snow perch]

somethin like cyanic acid + 2 other compounds if im not mistaken

[autumn geyser]

Yea

[snow perch]

yeah linch looked into it

[radiant sonnet]

cyanide?

[snow perch]

anyone know how good the glock is at armor penetration, im trying to beat narcos with a pistol

[sacred dawn]

Heads don't have armor

[snow perch]

i have bad news

[sacred dawn]

Shhhh

Oh wait they have 380 health right...

[snow perch]

yeah, im just gonna headshot all of em

its annoying when they just keep flinching

[wise robin]

hutler, what oher one did you mean?

[wise robin]

in this message

the picture on the right, yeah?

[sacred dawn]

Literally next to the one you posted to the left

[wise robin]

what does it say?

I forgot about that one

[sacred dawn]

Wake up child release the light

[wise robin]

tbh, both of those picture beside the text, remind me of this:

I wonder if that text related to the ARG

or is it just a reference to the lyrics, to show the support for the band

[sacred dawn]

I think the last option tbh.

[snow perch]

this looks like the same santa muerte statue from the evidence locker

[wise robin]

probably ye

[snow perch]

beat narcos pistol only, destroyed that shit. was so fun

[radiant sonnet]

i think we're almost done with the tutorial

[wise robin]

mate, how?

[snow perch]

i did it in 3 tries instead of 15

[radiant sonnet]

seems like a good transition message

[wise robin]

mate, I've got trouble killing them

they can take headshots only

[snow perch]

you just gotta see them before they see you, so they flinch and you can get an easy headshot. Or just use the glock

and spam when they rush you

[wise robin]

glock can penetrate the armor?

[snow perch]

it can pentrate thick los locos skull

[wise robin]

aaaaaa

alright

[snow perch]

also, little known feature, if you press alt (or whatever key you replaced it with,) and (W,A,S,or D) you can lean really far, and crouch down really far behind cover

[radiant sonnet]

worth noting that linch's find on cyanic acid, 4L1CHNO, confirms it is indeed a precursor for chemical synthesis

[snow perch]

really useful

hell yeah

thats CRAZY

anyone know why they added the 'police records' room, just to do absolutley nothing with it

[sacred dawn]

I thought they changed something to make headshots more survivable for suspects?

[snow perch]

it was fine for me, i heeded the advice 😭

[sacred dawn]

Thought I saw in patch notes

It might not affect that map idk. Idk what's changed or not till stat sheet gets updated.

[snow perch]

Bro I’m looking through the keybinds why tf is ‘del’ the default hold sprint key 😭

[wise robin]

nice mate

gonna try it later

[snow perch]

You got it

[snow perch]

This image got an ARG reaction

From kaminsky

Not image, message

Maybe something in the police record room?

[topaz jackal]

will probably come in use sometime in the future

[snow perch]

Maybe, gonna grab all achievements, see if that does anything.

[wise robin]

since when is there sprint in this game?????????

[snow perch]

'low ready mode' where you run faster

its not actually sprinting

[wise robin]

aaaaa

so the thing to toggle on sapce bar

[snow perch]

yeah

[amber panther]

Probably some lore in it. There's a map of Vietnam and maybe Cambodia? This room is why there's the popular US won vietnam in RoN theory.

[snow perch]

Odd

[wise robin]

us won vietnam. us won vietnam. I've got no clue how those guys over at void come up with these kinds of ideas

I mean it's still a theory but god damn it

[amber panther]

It's not that outlandish. Take war, spin result, done. What if Napoleon didn't lose at Waterloo? What if we lost the pacific front but still won the european front?

[wise robin]

hmmmm

it surely makes the arg more interesting

that those spinned result are a possibility

rn of at least one war

[shrewd yarrow]

Panic/susprise, begin analizing img/wording, post in doc, try to deciphering ciphers

And edit imgs to reveal things

That is what i think is our current sop

[iron elk]

am i too late?

did anyone spot this yet?

oops

this

[iron elk]

bruh its midnight and i clicked it by accident

[shrewd yarrow]

I did not see thats a good catch tbh

[iron elk]

well, seems like this doesnt tell much

[shrewd yarrow]

It could lead to something

[scarlet swallow]

DEAD
huh

[shrewd yarrow]

Dead, we tell

[snow perch]

LMAO

[iron elk]

My heart skipped a bit fr

[snow perch]

Fr, imagine waking up to that 💀

Well, the account hasn’t posted anything yet, so either we gotta wait, we’re missing something big.

[snow perch]

Hey wait where was this found?

[iron elk]

Url of announcement pic

[snow perch]

Thanks

[topaz jackal]

i thought it was confirmed that in the RON universe the US won vietnam

the navy officer in penthouse has a commendation for his actions in the vietnam war
it did say they won

[snow perch]

Wonder how that would be effected, what would change

[autumn geyser]

Unsure if anyone ever mentioned this, but the dorms all objectives in sub 5 min achievement name is meldonin (meldonium)

Used for all of this stuff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meldonium

[shrewd yarrow]

oh wow!

[snow perch]

i was gonna look into that, good job!

[snow perch]

i might be a bit late to this, but im not sure. I remember there was some string of text in one of the newsletters, anyone knows what it says?

[autumn geyser]

Yeah it's unrelated

Just NWS bulletin code

[snow perch]

thats what I assumed, doesnt hurt to make sure

[autumn geyser]

Fair point

[snow perch]

i havent been finding anything remotely interesting lately, wbu?

[autumn geyser]

Yea me neither

I presume we're good and we just wait now

[snow perch]

hopefully

can't wait for the SDK to come out, we'd prolly have access to all the little textures and decals.

see some of the drawings on the wall in more detail

[autumn geyser]

Fr

I wanna get into modding purely to make a single sided jiggler as the lockpick gun but I'll wait for the SDK

Cause I wanna do stuff like change animations too

[snow perch]

yeah fr, I just wanna do some mapping. Mess around a bit.

[wise robin]

I did and I've been thinking about it what can it relate to and in the context of this game literally anything

[wise robin]

someone above already wrote it, you must've missed it

he sent it just when I was about to do the same thing

[shrewd yarrow]

ah

probably did

[wise robin]

this chap spotted it

[wise robin]

maybe finally I can learn to make a mod, which I've been wanting to do so for a while now

does anyone know

is anything in the home invasion dlc related to the arg

since it's not in commander mode

does it mean it's not cannon and doesn't relate to the main events

because I've been wondering about that

like are we on the right trail looking for hints in the home invasion missions, like the tool reference

also I've been wondering about the order of the events

I know lawmaker happens first but then how does it go

[shrewd yarrow]

This is my guess: Lawmakers,Dorms,Narcos

[wise robin]

it makes sense

[vapid pasture]

If I am not mistaken, Home invasion takes 4 years after main game events.

[vapid pasture]

#💬general-discussion message

[vapid pasture]

#💬general-discussion message

So it is confusing, lol.

[wicked turret]

#💬general-discussion message

[autumn geyser]

Damn

[sacred dawn]

You need a fucking PHD to understand the RoN timeline. I'm so lost....

[autumn geyser]

We're all lost

Not even the Lost are this lost

[sacred dawn]

So where is this 4 year gap...

If the mission after port is a day after?

The DLC is just right after the hurricane so where is this 4 year gap in the previous missions?

[autumn geyser]

I think it goes
All the missions
Port
1 day gap
Lawmaker
4 year gap
Other DLC missions

[sacred dawn]

That would make zero sense

[autumn geyser]

Yeah

[sacred dawn]

What...

[autumn geyser]

There's way too much hurricane damage for it to be 4 year gap

[autumn geyser]

That's basing off of this

Or wait no I'm dumb, I meant dorms not lawmaker

Wait no what

No now I'm confused wtf

[sacred dawn]

The dudes at dorms are even bitching about the hurricane just hitting

[shrewd yarrow]

it's not a 4yr gap

oh!

[autumn geyser]

Kaminsky can we get a timeline reference from port to all the other DLC missions

Cause this is a mess

[shrewd yarrow]

"On a directly related note, I had said earlier that the reason for the Home Invasion maps being not available in Commander Mode was because of a four year time-jump between the last mission of the main-mode and the DLC.

To correct that, the first DLC mission is one day after the Port Hokan operation." this was what Kaminsky said

[sacred dawn]

I've shit out taco bell cleaner than this mess

[autumn geyser]

Lmao

That's one way to put it

[shrewd yarrow]

soooo if its 4yrs wouldn't that make it 2028 or 2029?

or 2030 or 2031?

it would be 2030 cause port is 2026

[sacred dawn]

At this point we just need to retire as swat officers if we can't get years right... maybe become a baker....

Bready or Not 🍞

God now I just got a cursed mod idea

[shrewd yarrow]

also, if dorms and narcos takes place 4yrs after.... the maps need to be changed to undamaged and clean cause no city takes 4yrs to rebuild, and if it would take 4yrs to rebuild its better to abandon and relocate the city all together then rebuild

[wise robin]

what if all of the events of ready or not happened 4 years ago

[wise robin]

did kaminsky or anyone like that said it

or did you find a proof in game or somethin

[scarlet swallow]

Kaminsky clarified that the dlc missions occur the days after port hokan

Or atleast
Greenside/dorms does

4 years is a crazy time jump that void initially said (idk why)

But i think theyre back tracking on that

[wise robin]

after a 4 year break though no one would ever live in these broken places still complaining about the hurricane

[wise robin]

pretty sure

since it makes no sense whatsoever

[scarlet swallow]

Yeah it was a really weird choice imo to say that

Considering the hurricane arrives in Port Hokan

[wise robin]

you mean the rain

it's start of the hurricane?

[scarlet swallow]

Im pretty sure

I'll need to read the briefing again

[wise robin]

what you're saying makes a lot of sense though

since hurricanes last not so long

I still do not get what happens in port hogan that made them not add dlc missions to commander mode

[scarlet swallow]

Im pretty sure its just an excuse because theyre unable to easily add missions to the campaign modw

The code in RoN is a bit spaghetti it seems potentially

I dont want to shit on the devs work though since it is a good game

[rigid sphinx]

Void didn't say it, my dumb brain did.

It was genuinely a mistake

[autumn geyser]

Fair enough

So I take it that the timeline goes
Port
1 day
Lawmaker
x days
Others

But not like 4 year gaps anywhere

[rigid sphinx]

Lawmaker is full stop the day after port

[autumn geyser]

Alright awesome

[sacred dawn]

Kaminsky almost made the lore hunters go ape shit

[autumn geyser]

Lmao

I think we did that to ourselves ngl

[shrewd yarrow]

My story/lore instinct basicly did that "ahhhhhhhh, major holes in story ahhhhh panic panic"

[wise robin]

why did that make me laugh so much