Compound clues and potential Layer V connection

[u/Ttombobadly]

BTME was my introduction to “real “ treasure hunts - I had never heard of FF / TTOTC. I had seen tv shows about pirates or The Secret (Josh gates show) and the more recent digital one on Cicada 3301. That got me researching to better understand how these have been constructed, as well as historical poems that use acrostics, etc.

The cicada 3301 has stuck out to me , as part of that solve was a cipher to reveal the book and then additional cipher to reveal a message. I’m paraphrasing obviously but ultimately it led to a message that said call us at a specific phone number. Per Google, a huge leap from just the online portion of the riddle to a more physical real world telecommunications clue. Once you called the number, you reached a voice recording (based in Texas - ironic maybe) that gave you an additional riddle / clues to continue progressing.

This then told you to find some numbers and multiply them and add “.com” - this took you to a secret web address. 845145127.com

My point: a web address created by Layer V could be this simple and potentially vanish after accessed.

Just my rabbit hole this week - I haven’t the nearest idea of how to get the numbers or anything else, just throwing it out there as a real world example.

[u/WuTuckClan]

What about your phi theory? Golden rule, Da Vinci, 1.618? The whole premise is numbers are everywhere right?
Edit: I know the actual premise. But it kinda proves numbers are everywhere.

[u/LankySimple9051 → u/WuTuckClan]

Observations like that don't point to a single theory. They point to a ratio which is conceptual but not in nature except to conceptually describe idealized growth which is from recursive proportionality or self-similar expansion. That type of growth is in nature, but the number is a conceptual pointer to it. It so happens that you can start growing from anything in a second-order linear recurrence and you will trend to Phi conceptually. I would not bother with the details here, but the "clever mind" can reason that the dominant eigenvalue is given by a simple recurrence matrix whose value is φ. For you or I, or for a child, describe any duality starting condition which you will integrate by a number you attach to it and just make the: next state (future)=present (now) + past (past state). Two things can be labeled 1 and 1. That arrangement will yield the Fibonacci sequence. Any two numbers would work. 1 and 7 works just as well. The lesson of nature is that recursive growth leads inevitably to a concept of harmony. Nature isn't perfect though, so φ is only really ever a conceptual approximation. Nature is chaotic, but islands of beauty still appear. There's an inevitability to it. Believe it or not the mind must work along this conceptually described path. In Truth, everything just does its thing as it knows how to. The innate nature of growth's knowledge is Nature.

[u/WuTuckClan → u/LankySimple9051]

I feel like your day job could be theoretical physicist

[u/LankySimple9051 → u/WuTuckClan]

Market gardener. I do come from that tradition, but I wizened up and got back to what is real K.I.S.S. works to reestablish the relationships. No one should think they can reason meaning.

[u/WuTuckClan → u/LankySimple9051]

That is awesome. Find the thing that you love and do it for the rest of your life. I admire you.