Chapter 90: Travelog
All excerpts taken from the Third Eye Wiki.
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Resource: 4 Wood, 4 Iron
Status: Collected
Time: 01:27 PM MST
Location: Roadside of CO-94, east of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Description: Stretch of barbed-wire fence directly behind an existing fence. Thankfully the other fence was not barbed-wire so it was safe to reach. There were four spans, each exactly 3m long, with metal wire stretching between wooden posts about 1.6m high. After collection, the ground appeared slightly disturbed where the posts had been (when viewed through Third Eye.)
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Resource: 4 Stone
Status: Collected
Time: 01:36 PM MST
Location: Roadside of CO-94, east of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Description: .9m high, 1.2m radius cairn-like pile of stones. (See attached picture.)
Note: I’ve found and posted about multiple examples of this structure in Third Eye, and I’ve never seen one outside of the app. If anyone knows their significance please append a note to this find! Or any other find of them. It isn’t the first and probably won’t be the last. I keep searching them to see if someone knows wtf their deal is but it hasn’t happened yet.
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Resource: 3 Wood
Status: Collected
Time: 01:49 PM MST
Location: Roadside of CO-94, east of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Description: A group of bushes with clusters of small red berries, growing along the side of the road. Bushes ranged from .3m to .6m in height, but they were worth 1 Wood each. Initially I thought they were a type of holly bushes but comparing the leaf shape to real hollies, they seem evocative of them but not the same. (See attached picture and comparison with real holly taken from the internet.)
Note: Like all living sources of Wood we’ve seen these bushes appeared to be in full bloom. I doubt enough time has passed to tell for sure, but keep an eye on any of this type of object you see to determine if they are just “set” to Spring, or if they’re seasonal but on a schedule that’s off-kilter with the real world’s. Maybe the release was at one time planned for last Spring but got delayed to this Winter?
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Resource: 9 Wood
Status: Collected
Time: 02:06 PM MST
Location: Roadside of CO-94, east of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Description: A lone tree, about 6m tall, with purple fruit growing on it. Visually it resembled a scrub oak but those don’t bear fruit. I think the canopy was also unusually broad, but it was hard to measure that from ground level without annoying local people. It may simply have looked that way because it was in bloom and the real-world deciduous trees near it had bare branches.
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Resource: 1 Iron, 1 Wood, 4 Glass
Status: Collected
Time: 02:27 PM MST
Location: Convenience store parking lot in Yoder, Colorado.
Description: An old-fashioned enclosed glass phone booth overlapping part of a parking lot. The word “Phone” was spelled out in English over the door, but there was an open yellow pages inside and all of the entries in it were spelled out in Third Eye runes. I attempted to photograph all parts of the object in as much detail as possible.
Note: See attached photos for every view I could get of the booth and (especially) the yellow pages. They were very faded but some of the numbers should be readable. If the “phone numbers” are actually numbers then we may be able to start identifying numerals in other Third Eye runic scripts! If we can translate those I’d be curious about calling the phone numbers. Are they for real businesses? Are they an ARG clue?
Comments
LikeItsNinetyNine: Sorry but it makes no sense for those to be real phone numbers. The most any of these numbers have is six digits and most only have five. One’s kind of blurry but it looks like just four.
ShakeProtocol: Third Eye doesn’t appear to use base ten numerals. At one point I thought it used base twelve, but of course that would be too simple. It seems the number base varies by context. See this link for what we have determined about the way the game’s script displays numbers. Some of the characters you photographed appear to be new digits, if they are intended as digits, but it is possible these are real phone numbers.
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OffGrid: Might be worth checking the local library or government office to see if they have copies of old yellow pages from the area. If it matches up to a specific page. It would help if you could tell what year it’s from. Maybe 2018 when the Kickstarter ran?
OldCampaigner: I’ve already moved on but if we come back through here, I’ll check that out. Anyone else is welcome to check it out if you get the chance. What we could see of the yellow pages looked really old, I’m not sure if they’d be that weathered from 2018, but maybe. Of course, the game is under no obligation to weather them realistically, same as with the plants and the seasons.
ShakeProtocol: I have decoded two of the clearer numbers on that page and attempted to call them. One was out of service, the other was the number of what seems to be a local restaurant in that town. Based on what we’ve seen of in-game text, I expect that was a transliterated version of a real yellow pages, or at least the two open pages of it; any of the numbers that aren’t out of date or garbled by the transliteration algorithm are probably real.
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Resource: 3 Wood
Status: Collected
Time: 02:32 PM MST
Location: Empty lot in Yoder, Colorado.
Description: A 4m tall tree resembling a scrub oak. It wasn’t flowering or bearing fruit but the leaves were green.
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Resource: Unknown, probably Wood but possibly a Reactant as well
Status: Not Collected
Time: 02:40 PM MST
Location: Roadside of CO-94, east of Yoder, Colorado.
Description: A tree resembling a scrub oak, but it is at least 14m tall and probably more like 18m, which is much larger than the type of tree it appears to be should grow. It isn’t flowering or bearing fruit but its leaves are green. Despite it being apparently alive and healthy, it looks like it was split by a lightning strike.
Note: I couldn’t collect this one because it was on private land and out of reach. I’ve seen a steady stream of impossible objects behind fences, but this one seemed large and impressive enough to make note of. If someone else wants to try to persuade the landowner to let them onto the grounds it would be worth checking out in case it signals the presence of a Reactant! (See entry from yesterday about the tree Ashbird and I found, or watch the latest episode of The Magnificent Ashbird where you can see me acquiring Earth from the base of the tree.) This one is a lot smaller but it’s isolated so it still stands out. You could probably collect dozens of other finds on just this one lot while you’re at it.
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Resource: 1 Stone
Status: Collected
Time: 02:59 PM MST
Location: Residential lot in Rush, Colorado.
Description: A somewhat abstract outdoor sculpture, 15cm long, probably of a catfish. See attached picture. It was placed in a bird bath and I was briefly hoping it would give Water, but only the statue was a Third Eye object. The bird bath and the water were all real.
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Resource: 2 Iron
Status: Collected
Time: 02:50 PM MST
Location: Street corner in Rush, Colorado.
Description: Street sign at a thirty degree angle to the actual streets.
I explored the surrounding area to check if there was a whole Third Eye “street” to collect but there didn’t appear to be anything except the sign. This is pretty typical of what I’ve found in cities but I wanted to look around since the area was open enough to check.
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Resource: 1 Wood
Status: Collected
Time: 03:07 PM MST
Location: Roadside of Kendrick Rd., northeast of Rush, Colorado.
Description: A lone bush, .3m tall with red berries. See link for previous instance of the same bush. Attached photo confirms they are the same type but clearly different instances.
Note: I found this by attempting to follow the path marked by this street sign (see link). If this is what it was supposed to point to it’s not much but it is another resource.
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Resource: 1 Water
Status: Collected
Time: 03:48 PM MST
Location: Open space near cemetery on CO Rd 6, northeast of Rush, Colorado.
Description: A fountain with a design similar to the statue I found earlier (see link), resembling a catfish. Unlike that statue which was placed in a bird bath, this one was freestanding. Upon approaching, I noticed some of the special effects associated with finding a Reactant, so I made sure to photograph everything extensively before approaching. (See attached photos 1 through 11.)
I was not able to collect the fountain itself. If another Third Eye player passes by this way they can check if the water is “reconnected” to this location, or just check out the fountain to see if I missed any further ARG clues. (See attached photos 12 through 16.)
Note: I found this by attempting to follow the path marked by this street sign (see link). I might have found it just by exploring the area around the town and the sign may have been a coincidence, but we did have to go quite a ways off main roads to discover this. Reminder that at least some collectible objects also seem to point to more valuable resources! Keep recording your finds and check carefully for any indication they’re pointing you in a specific direction.
Comments
OffGrid: Could the previous statue you found have been a clue to look for this design?
OldCampaigner: It’s possible, but I’ve seen the same design in several places in Third Eye. It seems to be a popular theme with the devs.
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Resource: 2 Wood
Status: Collected
Time: 04:12 PM MST
Location: Roadside of CO-94, east of Rush, Colorado.
Description: Back on the road! Almost immediately I saw this wooden sign with Third Eye runes on it. It poked about .7m out of the ground. If it’s pointing to another resource, I don’t know what, and it seemed to be at the edge of private land so I couldn’t check further.
Comments
Ashbird: This is turning into a travelog lol.
OldCampaigner: Heh. Should I tone down the personalized comments?
Ashbird: Nope it’s max adorbs, yo.
OldCampaigner: In that case, on to Punkin Center!
Ashbird: Is that actually a real place?
OldCampaigner: Yep. It’s where we’re turning south.
Ashbird: Max. Adorbs. Yo.