Level 2: Tier 1A

Tier 1A: The "1064 Aethusa" puzzle

Tier Overview

On October 6th, 2022 Dusty posted two images in the easter egg channel with the caption Oriri ex cinere. It was discovered that if you overlaid the two images and looked at the differences and edited the levels you'd see a griffin. This griffin was the Pisa Griffin, which sits atop the Pisa Cathedral which started construction in 1064.

On October 7th, 2022 Dusty posted a new image in the easter egg channel, titled TakeCover, it contained a scene of the Church on Monaco getting hit by a series of meteors. This image had a fair amount of clues hidden in it.

Αἵ θου σα, or Aethusa, had been hidden in the rubble, and on the church itself.
The various white blooming plants seen around the scene are Aethusa Cynapium, a herb native to Europe.
A broken trident could be found in the rubble, and a trident symbol can be seen on the floating ring on top of the scene.
Poseidon's daughter is named Aethusa.
Due to the amount of meteors it was also a hint to be on the lookout for connected meteors.

On October 11th, 2022 Rob posted a new image in the easter egg channel, titled friend_you_need_02, it contained a scene of Nama Tama dressed as Galileo observing a comet with a telescope. It was discovered there was a Aesteroid, 1064 Aethusa, named after the herb.

Solving

On October 11th, 2022. Hunter Serpenger found the correct password for the tier, 1064, from looking at the asteroid that had been found a couple hours previously. In total this tier took 7 days to complete, and a new image awaited our hunters.ǃ