Giane puzzles

The ‘Giane’ puzzle discussion has been moved to this separate topic for now, to not hijack the #GlitchingReality discussion. I will be reaching out to see what can/should be done in regards to the currently silenced account this appears to now externally originate from.

Feel free to continue discussion below for now :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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The North Star Whispers to the Blacksmith’s Son

By Vachel Linday

THE North Star whispers: "You are one
Of those whose course no chance can change.
You blunder, but are not undone,
Your spirit-task is fixed and strange.

"When here you walk, a bloodless shade,
A singer all men else forget,
Your chants of hammer, forge and spade
Will move the prarie-village yet.

"That young, stiff-necked, reviling town
Beholds your fancies on her walls,
And paints them out or tears them down,
Or bars them from her feasting halls.

"Yet shall the fragments still remain;
Yet shall remain some watch-tower strong
That ivy-vines will not disdain,
Haunted and trembling with your song.

“Your flambeau in the dusk shall burn,
Flame high in storm, flame white and clear;
Your ghost in gleaming robes return
And burn a deathless incense here.”

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Cross referencing the initial ETARC post. I’m assuming the silencing in here is what Giane means by “Dismissed by the Atlas”

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Maybe that’s a reference to Emily…
(the puzzles are very well produced by someone who clearly knows their craft.)

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I don’t know what to assume any more either lol. We should assume everything and nothing. If I had some coloured wool and pins my walls would look like some Forensic Command Control Centre run by Dumb and Dumber.

For what it’s worth I’m dipping my toes in this fun pool, of maybe there are some ripples from @the_architect last kind words of thanks and the curious wording of the last few sentences. We have these references to Emily from @Giane too and somehow we seem to be requested to help her [Emily?] by both. It’s not absolutely clear of course. But what if Emily is trying to contact us by any means she can. She could be halucinating through @giane like a ghost. I guess we’ll find out in due course. Until then these are fun distractions… But I’m not so sure they aren’t unrelated coincidences… There I go again lol Anyway my thoughts late at night. : )

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I’m of the opinion that the “Her” @Giane is referring to is the Void Mother.

There’s also the symbols in the margin that are likely another message, probably these could be cleaned up a bit. If they are meant to be read top to bottom:

_ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _

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When I first saw these I thought they were the NMS alphabet characters but then I took a proper look and realised they were quite different and contained some characters and shapes it’s alphabet just doesn’t have.

It’s more similar to the secondary alphabet in NMS which appears on some objects but has never been deciphered nor seems to be decipherable/intended to say anything.

I find it interesting that “is it first” can fit in to this section, but that is probably me just forcing things in.

"Is it" or "it is" just seem like the most logical things to fit at the start of a sentence. Especially since those first two words both have a repeating character which could be "i"

The fourth word also seems to be the same as the first so "it is _____ it" makes more sense than "is it _____ is"

The fourth word seems to have this i character as it’s second letter, and then its last two letters are the same. It’s possible this word is Will

It is _____ it will ______ ____

That’s about as far as I can get without coffee… The words become harder to parse as the distortion makes the last few quite unclear. If I’m correct about the letter I, it looks like it comes up again in the second last word as it’s fourth letter.

The final word looks like it might be 3 letters, but I think it’s 4, the spacing between the rectangle at the start, has wider spacing than most of the other characters we see that are a series of rectangles next to eachother like this. However this could be down to the distortion too and it could be 3 letters in the last word. Certainly up for debate.

If I’m on the right track and haven’t misled anyone, hopefully someone else can take my findings a little further.

Edit:

I think the third word might be False… It fits the narrative so far about being in support of the void and against the atlas. If I’m right about “it is”, then the lettering fits well since S is the 4th character in the third word.

It is false.
It will ______ ____
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I don’t know about Discourse AI, but e.g. many Discord mods now auto-ban everyone who posts nothing but images… It’s considered trying to circumvent word bans. And in many cases, it is: lots of screenshot-based “Celebrity x recommends you send me bit coin!” scams going around on Discord. So @Giane , please know it’s not the community blocking you. Do they need to post text in some welcome thread to be freed from this bird cage?

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Their being freed is entirely up to HG staff. I think the general consensus is, it was not appreciated that they tried to launch their own ARG in the midst of another ARG.
They are now posting all of their content on social.

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Oh no, they’ve been put on the bold step :sweat_smile:

Or is that just something my mam did?

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NMScord user Fluffy23 shared the following just as you were trying to unpick this

+41.56 +158.25

Message Glyphs

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So a user randomly came into PSS discord and basically provided us with the answer, having found it after apparently going through a random black hole which seems like a crazy impossible coincidence.

I wasn’t far off with “It is False it will”

edit: Ah, you beat me to it rusty. I tabbed back in to discord before hitting send on this :joy:

Fluffy is immediately suss. An agent of Giane maybe throwing us a bone :stuck_out_tongue:

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Indeed, after discussing Giane in a random closed group, Fluffy finds this message after jumping through a random black hole, and the shares in NMScord (as their first message in the channel) at the exact time we’re analysing the message. Not sus at all.

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Totally not sus.

dons deerstalker cap, sticks pipe in mouth, falls over

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@toddumptious perhaps you should add a note to the top of this thread, along these lines:

NOTE: The Giane puzzles are assumed to be community generated content. Please be kind and considerate with this in mind in any interactions with these puzzles.

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Just 'ported in. I’m first contact? Who put this comm ball here? Creepy. I’m out.

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Some glitchy frames in the other clip (again playing with contrast etc)

@Polyphemus did you look at spectography for this one, I think there’s a very low volume noise

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Just for that, I’m logging back in to claim discovery :rofl:

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