You know, that is EXACTLY what one of my customers at the LGS last night suggested should happen. I think he suggested Thanos-caliber, massive deck, insanely hard villain/environment hybrid thingy for the final 'verse-ending event. Do-or-die time for the Sentinels. Kinda like Final Crisis meets Infinity Gauntlet meets every other cataclysmic comic book event ever.
Nice work, all! Another (old) clue bites the dust! Perhaps we'll get a Cosing tweet to confirm.
That makes sense, we jumped to conclusions on that one.
We’ve been pmnitrwn’ed!
So was the 'W' a mistake or not? It might be worth going back to the GIF to verify the one timing difference that would make the difference between an 'O' and a 'W'. There's also way more information in the GIF that could potentially be exploited to hide clues. We've used hardly anything about the actual card names, eg.
Changing Terraforming from a . to a - does give OMNITRON. I would assume a mistake, but the incredible depth of this puzzle hunt has me questioning everything about life...
If the big bad ends up being some crazy super-evolved version of Omnitron, I'm forever going to refer to losing in the game as getting "omnitrwn'd"
There have been several spelling mistakes, perhaps its part of a larger clue.
I have the sinking feeling that this "OMNITRWN" was part of the hint to Omnitron-U, but maybe I'm just being pessimistic.
So, are we just going back and digging through clues that we already solved? Is that the plan here?
Guess we can't do anything else since our last lead turned into a dead end?
So the game has ended for now I guess.
Yes, it's an old clue. Cosing is just making sure we wrap up all the loose ends.
Even though I've been able to contribute, well, basically, bupkis, this has been an incredible blast.
Hopefully this is just an intermission and not a waiting period for the final reveal.
Ah, I see, he's making us go back what we skipped. Well "W", being "Double U", gives us the U at the end, and a spare one for the Alphabet. But that might be pushing it a bit.
Tim Cosing tweeted the following hints, presumably to indicate that, while we were finding the next clues, we weren't fully unravelling the puzzle.
1) Intervene? (unsolved)
2) Sound file? (unsolved)
3) Animation? (solved: dashes in the card art indicate breaks in a Morse code message that spells OMNITRWN)
4) Name order? (solved: the appearances of "Tim Cosing" in the playtester credits for VotM have a frequency that, when reversed, gives "982354617")
I know the gif is being discussed but I've been looking at the "Intervene" picture and here are the colors in order...
Brown Grey Green Yellow Red Blue Yellow Grey Yellow
Also, they are obviously different font. I wonder if we find out the font names, we can use that to solve something. I'm guessing we have to use the font names and the colors together to solve it.
Here is the link for reference:
https://greaterthangames.com/system/files/forum/attachments/image_1.png
Total coincidence but I'm loving that we've coined the term getting "omnitrwn'd" (pwnitron'd?) the same week as the long-awaited Pure Pwnage movie comes out.
Have the 9 card references in the INTERVENE screenshot been tracked down? Did that lead somewhere?
From what I recally, only the colors were used for the rulebook pages but I could be wrong.
Has the fact that the repeated letters in "intervene" are repeated colors (e.g. all of the yellow letters are "e", even if the font is different) been important at all?
Cosing confirms with a tweet that we've fully solved the Animation clue:
https://twitter.com/TimCosing/status/692719894392078337
EDIT: The follow-up tweet says "W's almost O", seeming to indicate that the spelling error was simply an error in the Morse code and is not itself a further clue.
https://twitter.com/TimCosing/status/692720035115188225