BILL CIPHER STATUE HUNT THREAD #28 - NO CLUES EDITION

SIRBLAH IS FGT!

>>84916609
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8PoE5T7r-8

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Reposting here

>what did he mean by this

https://twitter.com/mielyn_/status/758533930949771264
Apparently Hirsch retweeted the posterboard.

>>84916609
Wasn't that audio clue already debunked? Why is that in the OP?

>>84916779
It has Mason on it... oh boy
> inb4 tumblreddit shitstorm

this is taking FAR too long. i feel like whoever does find the statue is gonna cum on it or something

>>84916609

Okay, so:

1. Check the Roses thing that was just posted? Legit or fake? Map up from Portland?

2. Could the three dots be three of the tourist attractions that the crew and SacAnon visited that inspired the show?

3. There does seem to be a tiny R in the trees. Why?

4. Two recent tweets had circles in them. Should we look in the circles all over the parchment?

We can guess that the arrow in the hand is the compass and points north.

>>84916779
>getting him to retweet /co/ watermark and Mason spoiler
Good shit photoshop anon

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>>84916886
Go check his twitter, he did it

HAHAHAHAAHAHA
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR STEALING OUT CONTENT

HAHAHAHHAHA

https://twitter.com/mielyn_/status/758533930949771264

>>84916880
we have some Rs and an N under Ford's hand

>>84916770

Is this real? Check

>>84916925
No, autistic faggot. I'm congratulating the anon who got him to retweet it

>>84916935

N could mean North, so the arrow above it points north.

>>84916939
I'm trying but I have no idea how to replicate Corel stuff in Photoshop.

>>84916886
>>84916925
>>84916987
This is a case where proper use of commas would have been helpful.

>>84916886
What is the Mason spoiler? Am I just retarted

>>84917010

Does anyone have Corel? If the roses are really there it seems weird if it's for no reason.

>>84916770
Is this real or did he do this for fun or something? Is this something hidden in the actual picture?

>>84917062
DIPPER'S
NAME
IS
MASON

>the mystery shack is on HACKett creek
P O T T E R Y
O
T
T
E
R
Y

>>84917086
nice, where in the journal is this?

Did anybody find any letters in the trees? to me that seems like the most obvious answer.

>>84917062
It's Dipper's real name but who the fuck even cares? It's not really a spoiler.

cmon guys, we gotta think

>>84917123
no ur the first person to think of that since we got this clue over 24 hours ago

>>84916779
>>84916852
>>84916886
>>84916925
>>84916932
>>84916987
>>84917053
>>84917062
He deleted it, ahahaha

>>84917129
At least it isn't whatever that fucktard Vailskibum thought it was. Don't even care to remember, just know it was stupid/

>>84916863
After a day long spurt (hurrhurrhurr) of good will towards men after all the twitter people got on that chick's case about freaking out about 4chan and told her to just work together as fans, I'm kind of back to thinking we should start converting hardcore pinecest scenes into cipher and leaving them around for the fan girls to try to translate.

Also, holding the statue hostage for canon pincest lewds.

>>84917123

There's an R and some other dubious ones, they say Freemasons.

But besides the R are probably just people seeing things.

If only Mason had a ridiculous name like Sheev does.

>>84917185
Make Alex and Ariel draw them too while you're at it lmaoo

>>84917169
He must be lurking these threads then.

FUCK YOU ALEX, YOU HACK, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Proof of roses

https://twitter.com/sevriux/status/758540096991670272

>>84917185

Some of the fangirls ship Pinecest, I thought I heard they were talking to Jason Ritter about it.

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>>84917114 pointed this out at the end of the last thread.
Puzzle Bill designer anon, it looks like you have more to worry about than Discord stealing your logo.
>https://www.etsy.com/fr/listing/468328615/gravite-tombe-bill-chiffre-puzzle-piece

>>84917229
Not sure it means he's in these threads, but I can see some butthurt people telling him on Twitter about it

Who even names their kid Mason [parent first name] Pines.

Also it's retarded how we got that "hint" but nothing to follow through on. I thought maybe this whole hunt would reveal stand-alone secrets relating to the show while still going with the search of the statue.

Seriously why say "Dipper and Mabel's middle names are their parent's first names" if there's never going to be a follow up? That does nothing.

>>84917235

Portland is the City of Roses and there are several notable rose landmarks there.

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>>84916925
Seems that she's the OP for the puzzle clues and our /co/ puzzle bill watermark
Meaning she did it on purpose to get him to reblog the spoiler
Bravo

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What's the matter, /co/?
Can't solve a simple clue?
Man, I thought you guys were smart. You're the ones who keep bitching about the second half of season two and I almost thought you had the right to insult me. But you can't even solve a simple riddle, you're nothing, you don't even have a cartoon. The truth is that you're all sad patethic pieces of shit, but what else can I expect from Trump supporters.

But go ahead, try to prove you're better than me. Figure out the clue, find the statue, prove you're worthy, show me your cartoon.

You can't? Yeah, that's what I thought.

>>84917290
We did it. We trolled the troll

>>84917298
NICE MEME.
>implying we dont automatically reverse image search

Just a thought here: this treasure hunt has been quite carefully planned and each step has required the previous clue to be solved in order to proceed.
If the location of the statue was hidden within the first image, like in letters in the trees, Alex ran the risk of someone accidentally figuring it out before the rest of the treasure hunt was completed. Even if there was some sort of key needed to break a code or whatever, it could almost certainly be brute forced before the end of the treasure hunt.
So it seems unlikely that there is something directly hidden on the first image. It seems a lot more likely that the heart of the secret is hidden in the last clue and the first image only serves a supplemental role, such as acting as a key or merely completing the red dotted map.
In other words, I'm saying we shouldn't obsess looking at the parchment until we find the secret hidden in the last clue.
...But I have no idea where that secret might be.

>>84917235

If the roses are real see if the map maps over Portland and if landmarks like the international rose test garden or rose society line up to the circled dots or if any roads, rivers, or trails in the area match the dotted line

The R in the trees could stand for Roses if this is true

>>84917298
Have no fear Alex, we'll find the statue faster than Fox will cancel your new show.

Does anyone have the page of Journal 3 that says that Dipper's name is Mason? I'd like to see how it was handled in the journal itself. Was it just Dipper signing his name somewhere or something?

>>84917428
This

>>84917362

While I agree that someone might accidentally see letters.. I don't think someone would accidentally stumble across some kind of cryptic solution based on counting specific things in the picture, etc, without the prompt from the missing piece.

>>84916770

Look, are the Roses real or bullshit? Can we debunk this first? Because if it's real why the fuck are there roses absolutely everywhere and there is a city in the area called City of Roses?

Once debunked we can move on

IT'S REAL?
https://twitter.com/sevriux/status/758540096991670272

>>84917362

Let's say the Roses mean it's Portland, without the map you have no idea where in a gigantic area the statue is.

>>84917463

I can see the original picture from Alex having roses, but how would the Enchanted Forest piece have roses? It's a cell phone picture of an object.

>>84917428
I don't have a picture for it, but its a conversation between Ford and Dipper, where Dipper reveals his real name. Its quite fan-fictiony.

>>84917428
I don't have it but I've seen it reposted.
IIRC it's a paragraph recounting or narrating him talking with Ford. he interrupts him being called Dipper and says "It's Mason!" and then goes on about how the name is dumb and he's been called Dipper for so long it's probably too late to go back or something.

couldnt the rose just be filters for creating the texture of the paper?

>>84917508
That's why we should check the original picture Alex posted only. If that doesn't have it, it's a prank or just something weird about one combined picture.

>>84917522
I don't know why you would have a nicely repeating pattern like that for the paper when there are plenty of royalty free paper texture images on the internet.

>>84917515
>>84917521
Okay, that doesn't sound too crazy, him just blurting it out to Ford THE AUTHOR is pretty funny. Gotta be taken seriously by the man you've obsessed over for months.

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20 minutes of Photoshop and I can't get this shit to replicate. I'm gonna download a Corel demo and see if the program is placing down a pattern or if it really is hidden in the original image.

Also, the pattern looks a lot more like a succulent than a rose from the pointed 'flower' tips. Rose petals are much rougher in shape.

>>84917508
Its just the luminosity of the texture, thats probably why its faded in the far corner because of the lighting from it being a phone image

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Its been a week and now its day 8 of the Hunt...

>>84917619
Puzzle still isn't finished either, almost-hirsch.

>>84917607

Ahh. I think I see what you're saying.

I'm barely a novice in these matters.. so the rose pattern is based on LIGHT/DARK and not something else.

Hmm.

>>84917582
I tweeted that Im not sure if theyre roses, botany is not my strong suite. Someone told me theyre called Echeverias, honestly I dont think the texture is relevant, but were pretty stuck and it was unusual so I shared it

>>84917582
well where are those plants located

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DEBUNKED.

Let's move on.

>>84917630
all we need is the first and last clue

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>>84917569
Here ya go

>>84917298
Go to sleep you'll be late for school tomorrow.

>>84917684
I was not aware of this! My apologies if it threw anyone off. Going to test this once im at the motel room

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I made lines to see where each triangle, X, and face (the weird face on Bill's hat and the eyeline of Bill himself) was facing. Those are a purplish gray, a stronger purple, yellow, light green, and yellow-orange.

I also duplicated his arm over to the other side to see what it would look like if he had both of his arms. Then I connected the branches that look like hands to each other and to his hands. Those are pink, green, and bright blue.

I circled alchemical symbols and small eyes. These are in pale blue and light orange.

I drew a line through the rectangles. Not sure why.

The red lines are related to a small T we found since Bill's mirrored hand kind of points to it? We just wanted to see if the ends of it pointed anywhere.

It is not perfect by any means, but it's something I thought would be interesting to try.

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>>84917630

>>84917700
Hey, thanks buddy.

>>84917684
This, look at the pattern on >>84916770 where the two pieces of paper line up- it's clearly an pattern overlayed on top of the entire image, since there's no noticeable edges on the plants where the two papers meet.

>>84917725
what the fuck do the boxes/lines at the very top middle mean? Have we translated those?

>>84917671


If he wanted to clue into roses they may have accidentally picked something that just looked similar, or the real rarer flower itself could possibly be relevant.

If the pattern itself is a total accident I could honestly see someone official debunking it as a misleading if minor fuck up.

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Is nobody gonna mention how the image was already titled "ROSE AS FUCK.JPG"

>>84917725
Looks like bill is at a rave

>>84917755
It appears that the first 6 rectangles are related to the Russia stuff. NO clue about the second two that aren't lined up.

>>84916609
To go north, you must go south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

>>84917337
based

>>84917771
Lmao thats just cause I saw it looked like roses and needed to rename it so it wouldnt overwrite the original file

>>84917684

Okay, good. Now we can move on.

Weird that Corel does that. Huh.

Still, good. Now that's out of the way.

Back to the other ideas mentioned up thread. R in the trees. Rectangle boxes on top, triangles and symbols down right side. Circles. Three dots. Branch numbers. Etc.

>>84917816
HOLY SHIT
BILL IS IN ASSHAI

>>84917684
Wow, what a fucking stupid program. If you're doing serious work adjusting colors, why would you want that overlay?

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>Where it all began
>Truth is written in the trees

WHERE IS SACRAMENTOANON?!

Oh for fuck's sake, is this STILL going on? Last I checked in, everyone was flipping their shit over a bunch of weebs in a Denny's. Now it's some kind of spectography hunt?

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Fucked around with levels. Found stuff (possibly just artifacts) behind the other missing parts.

>>84917841
>>84917816
But really, too bad we can't get the /gotg/ crew in on this, master theory crafters that they are.
Pinesbowl when?

>>84917841
Bill is possessing Daenerys. I knew there was a weird reason she was finally getknng shit done.

>>84917844
There's probably a way to change the pattern, but roses are the default. Photoshop has a similar thing with weird bubbles.

>>84917828
I didn't mean that as "FUCKER'S TRYIN' TO THROW US OFF", I meant it more as a "NOW THIS GUY KNOWS HOW TO NAME A FILE". I probably shouldn't have used the word 'already' when I posted it.

>>84917245
I'm annoyed that she cut into the eyes.

>>84917850
Did it begin in Sacramento?
Or rather, which beginning was in Sacramento, if any?

>>84917893
Haha no worries I didnt take it as aggressive

>>84917859
It's almost like it's an ARG!

>>84917917
SacramentoAnon was the first of any of us to go look for Bill. He went way back in March when all there was to go on was a hunch and the "Rusty Gates" bit from the series finale...

Alex is super into codes and puzzles, that's sort of his thing. Should we really be expecting to find something that is only revealed in some obscure photoshop filter?

Wait, one of the clues was in Salem? Which one?

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Meanwhile in Alex's super secret funhouse out in the darkest forest where the statue is....

>>84917930
Phew, I'm glad. Just wanted to clear it all up, as there's been a few rough patches of the CipherHunt where people seem to jump down anyone's throat any time they try to help. Thank you for understanding, based CorelAnon.

>>84917963
I wish Alex had hid the statue from the beggining, the original hunt was so much better than this one.

This one feels linear, but that wasn't too much of a problem until the puzzle arc.

>>84917869
maybe someone can fold the hand on the left onto the hand on the right?

What was used to decipher the original clue? Was Viniere, atabash (spelling) what?

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>>84916770
HOLY SHIT GUYS

GO INTO GIMP AND DO FILTERS-> ENHANCE ->DESPECKLE

WHAT COULD THIS MEAN

>>84917963
Ah, true.
However, Alex wouldn't set that up as a clue related beginning though.

Probably.

>>84918077
True... but maybe Alex didn't want SacAnon to have to go as far this time...

>>84918059
The trees are the key
You know this is true
Wouldn't you like
to be a pepper to?

>>84918114
:D BEST REFERENCE! HIGH FIVE I GOT IT! SHORT CIRCUIT!!

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Is this a landmass or are we all tired?

>>84918158
If that was a landmass, then the X with the dotted line would be offshore

http://www.enchantedforest.com/

Was this place at all relevant to anything?

>>84918210
Nah, it was a dead end.

>>84918158
Well considering I have stubbed my toe, slammed my hand in the fridge, and nearly microwaved my phone... Tired seems a good bet.

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come on guys, we have to think. After all, we have technology (and the first and last clues are the only ones we need.). He said the first AND last clues are the only ones we need, meaning we need to look at BOTH

>>84918187
So then logically it's a body of water and everything else is land.

Quick, get me a list of all known lakes.

I apologize if this has already been tried, but has anyone checked the tree limbs against runes?

>>84918059

It means that the only way to find Bill is to stick hot peppers in your eyes.

Do it, do it quick! It'll find the statue, I promise! Don't let us continue to suffer!

>>84918350
HA! I remember that reference from the AMA..
I bet if we told tumblr, discord, and twitter that was the key they'd do it...

>>84918210
That was were we found the last clue.

>>84918339
Yup.
So far we've tried:
Runes
Matching up the branches to certain letters
Looking for hidden letters in the trees
Exposure fuckery
And a bunch of other bullshit
Im so frustrated.

Hey everybody, hold the clue up to a mirror...feel like I'm seeing something, but can't tell for sure.

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Post a few recolors from messing around in photoshop for a few minutes.
I didn't find anything but no reason not to share incase.

Welp, it's 4 am. I'm giving up for the day.
Hope you guys find it, will check back in 7 hours.

>>84918411
Has anyone tried unplugging it then plugging it back in...
Seriously what else can we fucking do.

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>>84918438

>>84918411
Well shit. I came into to this late, so I missed a lot.

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>>84918449

>>84918436
Elaborate. What exactly are you seeing?

>>84918449
JESUS FUCK MY EYES!!!

The most frustrating part is knowing that when we find it we'll all kill ourselves because it was so fucking obvious.
Screencap this.

>>84918469
Nothing you couldn't find by quickly mirroring it in any image editing program.

maybe we need to cipher something we haven't yet?

>>84918459
Go check out the previous threads and you can relive our trial and error to catch up.

Has no one seriously asked Russia to look in that spot yet. I doubt that's it but it doesn't hurt to cover each possible place, it narrows it down.

we need a list of what we've already tried with the last clues. That way we can cross it off and try any other ideas

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>>84918467
Obviously this is the one.

Only partially joking, I really did feel like I saw seeing a vague face and tmoGF did say we were going to smack our foreheads once we solve it.
God, I hate reaching and throwing out these shitty theories. Brainstorming is embarrassing when we're this desperate.

For your amusement tonight as we wait till morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPMRBiK7JMI

>>84918469
I am seeing a word . "miss"

But could be my imagination.

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>>84918469
this

>>84918487
>>84918547
I dont see anything. What are you seeing?

>>84918022
>CoreAnon

Absolutely your new nickname.

listen up faggots

>THE PARCHMENT CAN BE SUCH A TEASE

It's not the fucking parchment. He means look at the original video of Bill from Gravity Falls.
You know, where it really all began.

>>84918387
>inb4 hundreds of fans stick hot peppers into their eyes

I sometimes wondered if any fangirls really took psychedelics and wandered into the Nevada desert to form a giant naked human throne as instructed...

Hey, maybe that is how we find the statue. Fuck if I know.

>>84918605
No, he really does mean the parchment. He tweeted it.

lright faggits..i got 15 shots of tequila inside...wanna know what i think.. that i wanted to make this post long ago... i think that we should enjoy the treasure hunt that the hirsch man is making and don't know.. maybe have a nice picnic with the people who are there like i don't know ..we act like so bitter all the time..why can just enjoy things from time to time? like ..the world is fucked and most people are angry all the time with fair cause...like really we shouldn't waste time in bullshit =not saying that tumblr can get enoying sometimes) but shit... don't care if yu think this dummy ..i'm drunk and i gonna have a painfull hangover in a few hours (i'm on vacations so that's why i'm drunk...donnt have to work tomorrow)

>>84918630
This is what Alex has reduced us down to

>>84918573
>>84918547
>>84918545
>>84918487
>>84918469
>>84918436
So what exactly is being seen here? I don't see anything out of the ordinary

>>84918547
No not that. Fuck guess I should have said put the clue on your phone and place the top of your phone against a mirror.

Thats how I'm seeing a new word.

For the sake of getting the pilot episode, what's the progress on the puzzle? Where is it going to be tomorrow?

>>84918610
Oh god.. I forgot that part. Well you know what they say about cleansing the genepool...
Send them into the desert to wait for something.

And I'm betting its more then we think who did do that.

>>84916863

Some rabid Bill Cipher fan girl no doubt discovered it by psychotically stalking Alex Hirsch right after he planted it and is obsessively pleasuring herself with his top hat as we speak.

>>84918652
like you haven't posting in 4chin while you drunk?

btw...i'm drunk but not wasted enough....i don't believe that none of you have ever been drunk and posting in here

>>84918682
Sorry anon, I put it up against a real mirror and no dice. What did you think you were seeing?

I maybe found a couple non microscopic letters in the parchment, should I share with the class?

>>84918828
Share everything anon

>>84918828
> Not immediately sharing

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>>84918682
So like this?

https://www.mapquest.com/us/or/la-pine-282022306

>>84918828
anything

>>84918849
Yeah bottom right.

Altho at this angle, I can't make it out anymore.

"The parchment can be such a tease"
This line seems pretty useless other than directing us back to the first image. What if you have to tease something loose, like teasing a knot loose? Maybe you have to separate stuff, like move the trees apart?

Can anyone think of anyway to "shake" the Bill's hand on the poster?
I know we tried folding the paper and all sorts of other stuff, I just don't know guys.

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>>84918844
>>84918841
>>84918878
Idk if these have been discovered, been pretty busy lately so i cant lurk as much. It looks like an R, A and maybe an O? They're small but not small enough to be out of the question and with a similar style

>>84918983
Oh shit

Does anybody notice that all the letters are being pointed at by the "hands" of the trees.

Maybe each "hand" points to a letter.

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>>84918983
I'm stealing this image from reddit (yeah yeah, we hate reddit, but why replicate work when we're all tearing our hair out here). Frankly I can't really see all the letters this image shows, but maybe they mean something?

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>>84918983
The A looks more like a face/mask when you blow it up more.

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I can make out FORD in the fingers. How about you guys?

Hope the watermark isn't in the way

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Think I see something in the middle.

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Ducktective?

>>84919042
I feel like there could be some significance to this, but I'm not seeing much. If we take the cipher letters that are exposed and translate them, would we get an answer?

Tomorrow Alex is gonna announce that the real Bill statue is the friends we made along the way.

>>84919042
>>84919195

ace clu cors la

looks like gibberish

>>84919195
Shit idk, maybe?

Can someone do it? I don't even know the correct codex, abtash,vienire (spelling?)

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>>84919102
?

>>84919034

Shit this is devious.

I spent 5 minutes looking this over.. I only saw the one sentence on the right side, so I didn't know what you meant about how there had been work done on it.

So I'm looking it over, just seeing if I can spot anything, and suddenly I see one of the white letters and now I can see a lot more of them, lol.

>>84916609
Whoever finds it should try some ritual magic with it as a focus. With all the focus and attention paid to it and its simplistic shape and form it might make for an effective sigil craft. Or something more complicated if they had the mind for it.

>>84919212
Dafnes Nohansen Hyrule

>>84919260
I'm gonna cum on it.

>>84919229
Dude you need some sleep.

>>84919260
>>>/x/

>>84919238
Haha yeah, the letters are really small. Like I said, it's not my work, a guy on reddit made the image. But I think they've mostly given up on the actual drawings of the trees (like we have) and aren't really interested in the letters.

THE WHITE BLEACH STAINS ARE A TOPOGRAPHY OF THE REGION

THE RED DOTTED LINE GOING FROM THE LEAVES TO BILLS FOREHEAD IS THE TRAIL THAT'S NEEDED TO FOLLOW

THE NEGATIVE SPACE IN BETWEEN THE TREES SPELL OUT THE EXACT CITY

>>84919304
NIGGA SHOW US WHAT YOU MEAN

>>84919304
>>THE NEGATIVE SPACE IN BETWEEN THE TREES SPELL OUT THE EXACT CITY
V A S M E S E

>>84919304
NIGGA go on photoshop and show us what you know

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>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEVIATHAN_(cipher)
>TREE based cipher
>TREE

>>84919294
What, you weren't around when /co/ tried to use ritual magic to bring back constantine? Not to mention were there any show to wax esoteric over I would think it would be the one with active occult imagery and themes.

Okay, so my sister pointed out that Bill looks like the "Lutation Sealed 1" symbol, but flipped. (It's a triangle with a little arm thingy.) (See here: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/2d/94/7b/2d947bdcba9e86025bdc0115b64a3018.jpg)

Lutation definition: http://www.definitions.net/definition/lutation

So we have luting vessels...
Luting: http://www.definitions.net/definition/luting
"a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid"

A lute: http://www.definitions.net/definition/lute
"a cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; -- called also luting"

What's a retort?: http://www.definitions.net/definition/retort
"a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat"

So we have cement, sealing, and clay--for a statue of Bill.

Thus, his armless-ness indicates the sealing process involved putting him into the statue and covering him with goop in order to keep him from breathing (does he need to breathe?) or escaping and stuff.

>>84919441
Don't know if he needs to breathe but apparently he needs to eat.

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So the trail image leads to a circle, with eyes as certain points around it. Immediately made me think of this this; it appeared at the start of every episode, so that kind of aligns with "return to where it all began". Though that was probably only there to tell us to go back to the initial clue and combine it with the parchment.

Sadly, unless anyone knows where to find an iced llama, that's maybe not much help.
Shame it's been confirmed in Oregon (someone said?) or we could all go out to the Wendy's in Pacifica, California.

>>84919516
Left out a bit that I'd meant to say:
>Immediately made me think of this, with the eyes meaning "Look at these points on the circle";

Has anyone tried superimposing the blood trail from Bill's head all the way up to the X on a map?

>>84919271
leave biru-chan alone

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welp fellas, crater lake is a no go

Make sure not to tell leddit it don't fit, they really still think it's a viable option.

>>84919568
Feel you, bro. I was there earlier today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nTpsv9PNqo

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>>84919441
That's really really neat, if deliberate. Still pretty nifty, if not.

>>84919516
Hasn't been confirmed for Oregon, we're just assuming it's probably there or Cali.

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>>84919661

Has anyone tried looking at the opening theme of the show? Because it's where everything began. Maybe something from the parchment can be connected to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=645xo1qyLW8

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I'm not sure if I'm going bonkers from staring at this while I should be working, or if there are literally letters written in the trees for us to find...

>>84919684
next thread will somebody PLEASE put a note at the top that Alex already confirmed he meant the note.

Because these discord spies are killing me.

>>84919042
I can make out the word HOOD.

>>84919708
AR... would that indicate Arkansas?

>>84919716
I'm not a spy. I understand that he meant the paper. I was just wondering if anything in the opening theme could give us a hint as to where to look on the paper.

>>84919750
I don't think anyone wants to go searching in the hood for a Bill statue.

>>84919778
Well obviously not, it would have been stripped for parts long ago.

Maybe it's the name of a car place?

>>84919708
that's definitely an AR. Remember the answers are in the first and last clue. Heard there were some Ns too

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>>84919708
I think you're onto something

>>84919806
>the answer's in the trees

>>84919819
>implying ferns aren't trees

>>84919758
Nah, I'm thinking there might be more than that scattered around in there somewhere. I don't think the last clue would be so vague. I tried physically printing the image and that's when I noticed the "R", so I went back in to the digital image. It's more than likely just pareidolia getting the better of me, though.

>>84919806
See, this is obvious. The last clue was telling us, the answer is in the trees. Look through all the trees for more letters and see if we can decode it.

Nothing yet on Standford University? Worth a try.

>>84919869
Someone claimed they went there, didn't find anything.

>>84919863
Try reading anons image

>>84919869
Why did we go to Stanford U again? I mean, what pointed us in that direction?

>>84919839
Actually, I think "AR" are the only legible letters, and the only ones worth noting. I say this because look at Bill's arm, the hand in particular. It is gesturing directly at the area where the two letters appear. So come on people, AR, what else could this mean?

Did someone go to the Mystery Trees? How did that go?

>>84919974
>AR
Obviously we need to fire up Pokemon GO and search for Bill there.

>>84919881
For reference:
>>84910088
>>84910140
>>84910258
>>84910320
>>84910732
>>84910932
>>84911042
>>84911410
>>84912647
>>84912683
>>84912721
>>84914224


>>84919925
Stanford's palm in the center of the circle, overlaid on palm drive near Stanford U seemed to have the eyes match up with some landmarks on the map and put the end of the trail at their Rodin Statue Garden. I think that was it? I read through after the fact.

>>84919974
Wait... Bill CIPHER is gesturing to the AR... QUICK, A and R, what do they become when the cipher is applied to them? The same cipher used on the original parchment to translate the other messages?

>>84919979
Action Replay. We need to cheat Bill's statue in.

>>84919974
>>84919989
>>84919989

ARR

some pirate attraction

>>84919987
It was something dumb like
>ALL THE SIGNS POINT TO STANFORD
>EXCEPT FOR THE TRAIL

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Someone in a previous thread got a really great, high-res version of the tree section.

http://i.4cdn.org/co/1469586059228.jpg

Antelope Refuge

>>84920038
Alligator Rage

Alex Rused

>>84920036
Looks like it was vectorized and thus made small shapes more abstract, such as the "letters".

What if the "parchment" refers to the paper on the image, not the paper the inage is on? The one that says PINES, for example.

>>84920036

I definitely see the 'e' and question mark

>>84920036
this picture is terrible for making out any letters in the trees, it just smudges them and makes them harder to see

use the original

>>84920090
can you link the original

>back to where it all began

>first episode had a switch hidden in a tree

maybe we open up the tree and out slides the Bill statue

>>84919989
Did it myself with this tool:
http://inventwithpython.com/cipherwheel/

AR becomes XO... X and O... does that mean anything?

Guys...

What if we just switch the last piece on the other side and decypher it with the rest of the letters? They didn't say the two pieces have to be a map...

>>84919212
>The statue was in your heart all along! Also go see a doctor

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In case no one has noticed

Alex sketched out the first, text, bill statue, etc first.

Secondly, what he did "in the trees" for extra texture was take a pre existing photo, added a filter like "mosaic" possibly "stainglass" and dropped the opacity to a low double digit and changed the layer to hard light or other filter to burn it in.

Don't believe me?

Pic related, don't tell me that face doesn't belong to the faggot Hirsch

All we need to do is find the photo with him surrounded by foliage and brush and shit

>>84920199
well then someone post the photo of him surrounded by foliage and brush

>>84920199
>>84920215
This one?

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/661330385465245696/3rnsJokZ.jpg

>>84920284
I remember seeing the map's pattern to the X being layed over the profile of his face and fitting perfectly.

I'm not sure where that leads, but yeah.

>>84920304
nevermind I'm just being autistic, carry on

>>84920304
Well I know I'd liked to explore his treasure trail, ifyaknowhatimean

>>84920359
It would probably lead to the statue, yes.

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This looks like an H

>>84920405
stop using the shitty filtered version

>>84920440
It's zoomed in. Can you see an H, or am I that tired

>>84920470
You're tired. I can kinda see it, but it's too much of a stretch to count on it.

>>84920479
all the letters are a stretch. they're just lines caused by the texturing that peopl think look like letters

>>84920486
I'm aware.

Could someone make versions of the image with various levels of contrast, from the image we have now to straight black-and-white?

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I overlayed the original statue and...and..idk I'm so tired. Been at this for hours.

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>>84920519
Greyscale'd

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GREETINGS FROM /RWBYg/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvvQIJ7y_ss

>>84920199

If this is true.. there's also a face to the right

>>84920595
You can see faces that aren't actually there.

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>>84920551

has anyone tried invisible blue/purple lighting possibly (idk)?

WHILE WE'RE OUT OF CLUES...

https://en.shindanmaker.com/569628

LGTSS

>>84920889
>Age: Young Adult
Location: California
Hair Color: Blonde
Affiliation(s): Northwest Family
Goal(s): Get noticed by crush.
Friend/Crush: Tambry
Prized Possession: Scarf

fuck yeah

>>84920889
Age: Teenager
Location: Dusk 2 Dawn
Hair Color: Dirty Blonde
Affiliation(s): Northwest Family
Goal(s): Become president.
Friend/Crush: Nate
Prized Possession: Favorite musical instrument

Ugh no

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>>84920889

>>84920889
Name: Alex
Age: Teenager
Location: The Mall
Hair Color: Red
Affiliation(s): Bill Cipher
Goal(s): Get noticed by crush.
Friend/Crush: Thompson
Prized Possession: Triangle necklace

>>84920913
Age: Pre-Teen
Location: Gravity Falls Forest
Hair Color: Red
Affiliation(s): Bill Cipher
Goal(s): To hunt ghosts.
Friend/Crush: Blubs
Prized Possession: Triangle necklace

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>>84920947
What do you think guys??!

>>84920889
Affiliation(s): Mystery Shack
Goal(s): To destroy the Mystery Shack.

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>>84920889
0/10

>>84920982
In the middle of a giant national forest?

>>84921008
It's not Dipper!

>>84920982
We're so desperate that we could try this

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>>84921008
kek

>>84920889
Age: Teenager
Location: Mystery Fair
Hair Color: Strawberry Blonde
Affiliation(s): None
Goal(s): To hunt ghosts.
Friend/Crush: Pacifica
Prized Possession: Sweater collection

Hell yeah

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>>84921038
Another one

>>84921015
Cathedral Pines is a very specific spot.

>>84920982
Doens't look like it at all.

It's no use to rush and waste four hours in the wild on a random theory, we should figure things out first and find the real place with the clue.

I'm pretty sure once we understand the tree thing we'll get the location easily.

>>84920889
Age: Adult
Location: California
Hair Color: Platinum Blonde
Affiliation(s): Northwest Family
Goal(s): Have a summer romance.
Friend/Crush: Ford
Prized Possession: A camera

fuck you for knowing im blonde, from california, and i have a camera, stupid internet robot bullshit

>>84921078
Nevermind then, sounds better than what we currently have

DID ANYONE IN RUSSIA CHECKED OUT THAT FORREST NEAR ST. PETERSBURG!!

>>84920889
Name:Afro
Age:Teenager
Location:CirclePark
HairColor:Auburn
Affiliation(s):U.S.Government
Goal(s):Tohuntghosts.
Friend/Crush:Waddles
PrizedPossession:AsignedautographfromBABBA

>crush
>waddles
Holy shit I'm crying.

>>84921092
Okay then, you keep plugging away at those tree runes!

>>84920889
>https://en.shindanmaker.com/569628

Age: Elder
Location: Museum of History
Hair Color: Strawberry Blonde
Affiliation(s): Bill Cipher
Goal(s): Become president.
Friend/Crush: Gompers
Prized Possession: A camera

>>84921179
I say check Cathedral Pines, idk. We have literally no better lead.

>>84921202
I mean if you don't have anything better to do and don't mind then sure go for it, but don't be surprised if it's a waste of time.

>>84921157
Thought you died

>>84921228
I'm not Afro, I'm making fun of him and that pig he was chatting up instead of working on the puzzle.

>>84921255
Are you trying to seem cool?

>>84921269
He's literally done nothing.

>>84921255
Wow you're an asshole

Name: John
Age: Pre-Teen
Location: Gravity Falls Cemetery
Hair Color: Black
Affiliation(s): Mystery Shack
Goal(s): Take over the world.
Friend/Crush: Durland
Prized Possession: A rock

a fucking rock

>>84920131
Shit let's try this with the guy who found the other letters like g and h too

Quick someone think of something

>>84920131
hugs

and kisses

>>84921758
turn the letters around

Has anyone tried turning the paper over and folding the corners in? Would check myself but mobile.

Look at the trees again

There's literally no fucking where else it could be

The answers hidden in the trees and its in the first and last clue

>>84922070
Explain

Maybe "written in the tree" has something to do with "three" instead.

What happens when you take every three letters from the first clue ?

This has probably been done before but I'm just thinking about random stuff

>>84922095
Explain what tripfag? My post was pretty clear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

>>84920982
It doesn't really involve the first clue, just the last. This is the same problem we got sucked into with Stanford.

>>84917700
That's cute. Should have been in the show.

Fuck it guys lets just look everywhere in the US

Did we find it?

>>84922293
no
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgHNtzxO0y8

This is like interpreting animal entrails.

Have all the locations so far been posted about by Alex on his twitter in the past?

And I don't think any of the clues so far have been cryptograms unrelated to ones involved with the show somehow.

WHY IS THIS THREAD DYING?! WE NEED ALL THE ANONS TO HELP!

I think we got excited as the roses felt like the beginnings of a solid lead. For it to not pan out after The Tribulations of St Hyde, I think everyone's feeling pretty directionless.

>The final piece is in your hands
>The answer's written in the trees

Hands
Trees
... Palm Trees?

>Dippers's name is (Free)Mason
What does it mean

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Today's the day the statue is found, I can feel it.

So all the people on Twitter are telling people to go to the Oregon City Park Departments on Hilda Street

Also, that squiggly "S" on the left of the page is an alchemical symbol for "Solution"

>The answer's written in the trees
Answer = Solution

I don't know, damn it...

>>84923347
That "Oregon City Parks Dept." is showing up as a cemetery on Googlemaps, and the whole are is pretty suburban

Not really "Deep within the woods"

>>84923347
Might as well give it a shot

>>84923347
The Hilda seems kind of reaching though. And the K in park looks more like an R

>>84923347
If this is it, Alex really needs to step up his game. The Stanford Uni clues sound more realistic.

>>84923416
It's probably a V since all the other letters are capitalized.

>>84923347
JUST DO IT.

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>>84923347
Also 618

>>84923470
OH SHIT
OH SHIT
OH SHIT
OH SHIT

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>>84923470
FFFUUUUUUUUU

Now we need more godspeed anons.

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>>84923470
It's time to go.

>>84923347
explain to me where I'm supposed to see hilda.

another waste of time.

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Hilda? No, clearly got to follow frogs.

>>84923470
It's a strech, but might as well try it

>>84923347
>>84923470
Any Oregon anons in the area, ready to mobilize? This may be a stretch. but it's all we've got.

>>84923470
LET'S GO

Wow this thread is so dead. It's sad.

No matter how long this last clue takes, at least I know we'll never be as retarded as the hambeast group.

oh fuck is this finally it?
and i was hoping to get to sleep early tonight

>>84924358
And everyone was mad at the puzzle people.

Now everyone has an equal chance but most people here gave up after a day.

>>84920982
We should try it, it should only cost the lives of a few anons.

>>84924358
>>84924388
>>84924070
Is there no one left? Not even Hyde or Sigma? This can't be the end. We're so close, guys.

Im monitoring, trying to work on the clue but not much luck.

The statue is probably in Alex's home. Alexis is looking at all us running around searching for the statue and laughing.

Is Alex's sister single?

Have we pointed out the dotted line and x near bill's arm?

https://www.periscope.tv/dftapknu/1OdKrbNWBmPKX

Periscope up following the Hilda st. lead

I left 9 hours ago. I thought the hunt's going to be over while I'm away. Still sad everyone's nowhere near solving this, though.

>>84924828
People said it doesn't connect/that it's a red herring

With that said, I'm not convinced

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So I thought maybe removing the trees might spell out a word or something, I don't see anything though.

>>84924919
Well if nothing else, at least the area looks more promising than the suburbia I imagined.

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>>84924998
And here it is with what I assume are background trees cut out. We haven't really focused on the background that much.

>>84925030
You know, looking at that sorta makes it look like one of those old book puzzles where you have to hold the page flat in front of your eyes and it'd make the symbols stretch out into words.

Anyone know what I'm talking about?

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y'all keep saying it's not the journal, that there are no clues in journal. Alex Hirsch never once said that. He said you only need clues one and two. But he never said that the journal doesn't hold clues. I think the clues are condensed on the parchment and made to be accessible, but that clues also exist within the journal.

And what I'm referring to is this pic. TMoGF already asked us about the Vigernere Cipher and our progress... And this pic is from the pages with Bill

>>84925076
Like forced perspective?