So in the Facility 2 update we saw mention of the following from TraelekInstitute.com:
The Painting from Conduit in Prof. Traelek's office.
Hiltrecht Academy Pamphlet (Misguided) In reference to the Maxine or perhaps even the mother?
The Ring from Decoy being used as... well... a Decoy.
The events that led to the article in Aftermath... unlikely as they are.
More about the connection between Bobbi and Maxine referenced in Longing.
Am I missing anything so far? So, what do Decoy and Misguided have in common?
Why do they keep asking us what things have in common?
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:55 am
Jaz-X
Man, I would absolutely die if this ended up having anything to do with a game I've been following for years. Literally, years. And closely too. The Secret World. Here's a file for a location in game.
Sound at all familiar? I know, common storyline. But still, I can dream. Also for anyone curious, the release date was -just- announced. April 2012 (THough Beta starts in. WOO!). So it could feasibly be for TSW. Right? RIGHT!? You can't tell me otherwise. :3
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:18 am
ADarkly
I can't see the countdown, so I wasn't sure what the wording was.
I just want a red-orange LED fly :X Also, SYMMETRY ftw
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:40 pm
punxtr
I'm thinking they're still Iceflies. The countdown says Icefly anyway.
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:30 pm
ADarkly
User Jaz-x in another thread pointed out that the timer ending is coinciding with the Perseid meteor shower. Given the crater in Taymyr (sp? lol), and our constellation keys, seems like there's a VERY high chance the iceflies fell from space. (The video icefly was dug up in Antarctica, where there are quite a lot of meteorites.)
Personally, I think this drop will NOT be iceflies - but instead, FIREflies (as I think Aescepalus suggested the existence of).
It also makes sense to me that we have two people we see as children and adults (Bobbi and Maxine, one supposes), one with red hair and one with dark...
Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:29 am
foxberg
Re: Good eye
captjet23 wrote:
Dottoe wrote:
I have, and it makes more sense to me uninverted (old photo, yellowed tape, blue paint). Even tried staring at it for a long time, then clicking open a blank, white page (afterimage/aftermath, it made sense at the time). I have just noticed something weird though.
I don't think this can be made by painting. All the other oddities can be explained away by brushstrokes or scratching (intentional and otherwise), but the way this curves, it's either an oversight in an editing program, or there's another image left in the paint behind the icefly.
It's really funny that you should notice that with your naked eye. See, if you take the part that you have circled and you lay it over a part to the right of the icefly, they match up perfectly (as seen earlier in the forum I believe I posted a pic of it) but the only 2 things that dont match on that part are that little splotch that you circled and the icefly itself. You should take a look at it, I inverted and overlayed them so they would cancel out anything that was the same (it looks grey if its exactly the same).
This "splotch" is exactly the same as the one on the right side. I think it's just overlapped. See images below:
left right
Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2011 1:56 pm
amykwyjibo
WOW
Necropolitan wrote:
I think they mean something more like this:
cause if you have a laptop and you tilt your screen back,
you can see Pikachu.
Really off topic but...
That is the very best optical illusion I have ever seen! Haha! Amazing!
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:55 pm
Necropolitan
Jane Smith wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
For the image on the conduit page. Has anyone else with a laptop tried inverting the colors of the image then looking at it with their screen tilted?
I've tried it and I can vaguely make out letters on the sides of, what I'm assuming is the icefly, on opposite sides of the legs and also kinda above the fly itself.
Am I crazy?
That was the first thing I thought of when i saw the picture, streched lettering to look at on eye level angle,
Although I printed it once not inverted .. and tried looking for letters
It might be worth a shot
Like this for people who are wondering
I think they mean something more like this:
cause if you have a laptop and you tilt your screen back,
you can see Pikachu.
Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 4:30 pm
yodergames
Just a thought
Can someone try using a convex mirror (round eye mirror) and look at it with that. Also maybe rolling up the photo with the painting on the inside and using a convex mirror inside the tube and looking down inside it and move the mirror through the tube. Maybe something can be seen?
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:14 pm
SolarMarr
Re: Good eye
Arioch wrote:
This is no painting. There are patterns and brush strokes that repeat themselves EXACTLY throughout the entire thing. It was created in PS, but if there is anything hidden in it, I dont see it. Im colorblind though, so I it may just be that I am unable to see it.
Well, yeah. I was just making a point that the weird pattern has a basis in how paint and ink behave, whether it was accidental or on purpose.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:11 pm
Arioch
Re: Good eye
SolarMarr wrote:
captjet23 wrote:
Dottoe wrote:
I have, and it makes more sense to me uninverted (old photo, yellowed tape, blue paint). Even tried staring at it for a long time, then clicking open a blank, white page (afterimage/aftermath, it made sense at the time). I have just noticed something weird though.
I don't think this can be made by painting. All the other oddities can be explained away by brushstrokes or scratching (intentional and otherwise), but the way this curves, it's either an oversight in an editing program, or there's another image left in the paint behind the icefly.
It's really funny that you should notice that with your naked eye. See, if you take the part that you have circled and you lay it over a part to the right of the icefly, they match up perfectly (as seen earlier in the forum I believe I posted a pic of it) but the only 2 things that dont match on that part are that little splotch that you circled and the icefly itself. You should take a look at it, I inverted and overlayed them so they would cancel out anything that was the same (it looks grey if its exactly the same).
Yup. It didn't look suspicious to me, but I've done quite a few of those "paint half a page and fold it over" things, kinda like a Rorschach test. If you have stickier paint, it'll make those weird "staticky" patterns like that.
This is no painting. There are patterns and brush strokes that repeat themselves EXACTLY throughout the entire thing. It was created in PS, but if there is anything hidden in it, I dont see it. Im colorblind though, so I it may just be that I am unable to see it.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:27 pm
SolarMarr
Re: Good eye
captjet23 wrote:
Dottoe wrote:
I have, and it makes more sense to me uninverted (old photo, yellowed tape, blue paint). Even tried staring at it for a long time, then clicking open a blank, white page (afterimage/aftermath, it made sense at the time). I have just noticed something weird though.
I don't think this can be made by painting. All the other oddities can be explained away by brushstrokes or scratching (intentional and otherwise), but the way this curves, it's either an oversight in an editing program, or there's another image left in the paint behind the icefly.
It's really funny that you should notice that with your naked eye. See, if you take the part that you have circled and you lay it over a part to the right of the icefly, they match up perfectly (as seen earlier in the forum I believe I posted a pic of it) but the only 2 things that dont match on that part are that little splotch that you circled and the icefly itself. You should take a look at it, I inverted and overlayed them so they would cancel out anything that was the same (it looks grey if its exactly the same).
Yup. It didn't look suspicious to me, but I've done quite a few of those "paint half a page and fold it over" things, kinda like a Rorschach test. If you have stickier paint, it'll make those weird "staticky" patterns like that.
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 1:30 pm
Jane Smith
iRobotZombie wrote:
Jane Smith wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
For the image on the conduit page. Has anyone else with a laptop tried inverting the colors of the image then looking at it with their screen tilted?
I've tried it and I can vaguely make out letters on the sides of, what I'm assuming is the icefly, on opposite sides of the legs and also kinda above the fly itself.
Am I crazy?
That was the first thing I thought of when i saw the picture, streched lettering to look at on eye level angle,
Although I printed it once not inverted .. and tried looking for letters
It might be worth a shot
Like this for people who are wondering
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My eyes are going funny looking at that! OK, just me or did make these letters?
K O N ....... P R X
It states Konx om Pax, it was a cover that Aleister Crowley designed while being a test subject himself
The word is not important as much as the way it is written, was just showing a skewed way at looking at things.. in the 3rd dimention
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Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:29 am
captjet23
Good eye
Dottoe wrote:
I have, and it makes more sense to me uninverted (old photo, yellowed tape, blue paint). Even tried staring at it for a long time, then clicking open a blank, white page (afterimage/aftermath, it made sense at the time). I have just noticed something weird though.
I don't think this can be made by painting. All the other oddities can be explained away by brushstrokes or scratching (intentional and otherwise), but the way this curves, it's either an oversight in an editing program, or there's another image left in the paint behind the icefly.
It's really funny that you should notice that with your naked eye. See, if you take the part that you have circled and you lay it over a part to the right of the icefly, they match up perfectly (as seen earlier in the forum I believe I posted a pic of it) but the only 2 things that dont match on that part are that little splotch that you circled and the icefly itself. You should take a look at it, I inverted and overlayed them so they would cancel out anything that was the same (it looks grey if its exactly the same).
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:00 am
iRobotZombie
Jane Smith wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
For the image on the conduit page. Has anyone else with a laptop tried inverting the colors of the image then looking at it with their screen tilted?
I've tried it and I can vaguely make out letters on the sides of, what I'm assuming is the icefly, on opposite sides of the legs and also kinda above the fly itself.
Am I crazy?
That was the first thing I thought of when i saw the picture, streched lettering to look at on eye level angle,
Although I printed it once not inverted .. and tried looking for letters
It might be worth a shot
Like this for people who are wondering
[img
My eyes are going funny looking at that! OK, just me or did make these letters?
Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:55 am
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