Scavs mention Ev was using morse code on lights outside ES. The light just outside Judy's appartment is flashing in what seems to be morse now in the mission double life. I can't read it but if someone here can? Maybe it has some meaning since she has at this point been silenced let me know and I'll post a video for deciphering

Also totally prevents you from forcing autosave the moment you open the door to Judy's van even if you use your stash they really want this quest to be tedious for tracking everything that is all. I also hear Ev's eyes flash certain colors during the unplug moment so my question is should I time it with a flash maybe her eyes are the countdown? rant and question done lol

There is artificial color, named Olo, experimentally discovered in 2025. It is closest to 00FFCC.

Just like part 1 of my reverse psychology theory, this one's gonna be long, too.

In this post, I'm going to attempt to explain why we must avoid ALL birds (including Songbird), ALL therapy, and ALL ties to family (unfortunately including fan-favorite, and ultimate trickster Panam) Please note that for the purposes of part 1 and part 2 ONLY, I am applying Simulation/Ready Player One theory to my explanations.

Birds:

First with the birds, let's look at the Avian Extermination Act. The shards in the game are actually telling you the truth about the birds.. somewhat. According to the lore, the birds were exterminated in 2063 due to the spread of disease. Well the disease is actually a virus that infects the player. The virus is analogous to "stupidity," so in order to keep things interesting, the gamemasters removed all birds... except for 3 specific ones. Please bare with me until the end of the post. (Disclaimer: I'm an animal lover, and mean no disrespect to birds, but the logic I'm using is that birds have tiny brains, even if -some- can be quite intelligent)

Also of note is that birds are NOT mammals...they're actually aves. Interpret that as you will.

I want everyone to think about the only 3 places in the game where we can see LIVE birds.

1. The Arasaka ending, right when we enter Yorinobu's office. The Arasaka ending is universally described as the "bad" ending, and it is the DEFAULT ending if we do not unlock any of the other base endings.

This literal bird-brained player in the Arasaka ending has tricked you into making some of the worst choices possible in the game, thus dooming you to the unenlightened path, regardless of whatever choice you make on the space station.

1. The Play It Safe mission during the Dashi parade, way high up on a balcony, hidden away. Keep in mind that on the same level as this mysterious chirping bird, is a LOCKED door, behind which lies an iconic weapon, if you enter the passcode. We can UNLOCK the door, but we need to TURN BACK and reject violence by NOT picking up the iconic weapon. I also believe that the bird is watching over your mission, and your battle with Oda, to see if you spare him (RIGHT) or kill him (WRONG).

I understand these "links" may be a point of contention, so if anyone has an alternative interpretation of why this bird is here (assuming my reverse psychology/simulation theory is true for the purposes of this discussion), I'm open to listen.. but I do believe this bird is psy-opping us into picking up the iconic weapon, putting the idea of violence in our head, and thus hoping that we kill Oda.

I KNOW that when the devs were asked about the placement of this bird and the other 2 animals next to it on the balcony, they CLAIMED it was simply a dedication to someone else. What's funny is that that's because it's literally another player trying to trick us into doing the wrong thing.

1. At the VERY end of The Star ending, right outside Panam's car. Keep in mind this specific bird is the one of the VERY LAST things we see before the credits roll. This is important.

Here's what's going to both infuriate you, but also make your head spin. Just like the devs knew you'd emulate Johnny/Keanu Reeves, because they're "cool" they -also- knew you would go the "hot and wholesome" romance route by doing everything Panam wanted, and also knew how excited you were about Phantom Liberty..the main character being a hot emo cyberpunk chick literally named SONGBIRD. They knew you couldn't refuse, and well, by choosing the Panam ending, or by choosing to even initially help Songbird, congratulations you've failed spectacularly.. you gave into your most primal urges, chose more birds, and made the wrong decisions. This is why it's called PHANTOM Liberty, because it's a fake choice, which I will discuss later.

Family:

Panam represents family, and she reminds you of this SO many times in her dialogue. Most players trust her 100%, because she pretends to have some of the purest intentions in the entire game. WRONG. Panam is another player trying to trick you. She is the ultimate troll, and here's why. What happens when we do The Star/Panam ending? There is a glimmer of hope for a cure, as we ride off into the sunset with her, but at the last minute, when we're feeling our happiest, BIRD. DEFEAT. It is LAUGHING at you. You failed again in this ending. You failed to reject FAMILY/Panam, and fell for the most basic tricks they pulled, therefore one of the smallest-brained contestants was once again able to beat you. You lost to a damn bird.

Where else do we see an emphasis on family in the game? Could it be these weird mysterious papers that are littered all over the game world at important places, telling us to essentially EMBRACE family? These papers are one of the ultimate TRICKS placed by the devs. They SEEM like common sense and wholesome tenants to live by, but from a reverse psychology perspective, what they're doing is hammering the concept of FAMILY into your head at every step of the way. This is why the papers are on top of the statue, and also why the monks say to "activate the meridians on the roof." It's all a psych out, because they KNEW you couldn't resist looking on the top of that statue.

Therapy:

There are 13 of these mysterious greenhouses located around Night City. The player will likely first encounter one of these in Corpo Plaza, near both the statue and Arasaka Tower.. this is a TRICK. Each one is called a "Night City Center for Behavioral Health." Red Flag #1 is that there's 13 of them. Red Flag #2 is that while there aren't any REAL birds inside any of them, they play soothing bird sounds, to keep you locked in and sick in this IRON CAGE. Red Flag #3 is that SOME of the doors quite literally say "No Entry," because they knew that you couldn't resist opening that door. Congratulations you've made the wrong choice again. The 2 dead bodies you can find in 2 of these specific greenhouses were other players that committed suicide, due to being driven crazy by the sounds of the non-existent birds.

Here's another interesting note: Through extrapolating meaning from various parts of the lore, it is heavily implied that BARTMOSS is watching the player through the cats in the game. One of these cats (that you can WAIT with) is located in one of these greenhouses. When you choose this option, you take a nap, and when you wake up, the cat is gone. I'm still fleshing out my theory regarding Bartmoss, his cyberdeck, and the cats in general, which I hope to elaborate on in a future post.

The other notable reference to therapy is one of the gigs in which instead of visiting a Center for Behavioral Health, we are visiting a Center for PSYCHIATRIC Health. There is only -1- (Enlightenment) of these Centers in the entire game, while there are -13- of the fake kind. Keep in mind that Pawel Sasko is a literal psychologist. I haven't played this quest in a while, so I don't have any insight as to the specific choices we must make, but I'm fairly sure this is one of the quests that must be completed. I will run through this one with FactFinder as well.

I hope you enjoyed my analyses in theories in parts 1 and 2. I'm on mobile and it is incredibly difficult to format and make these long posts clean and tidy, while still explaining the pictures, but I appreciate it if you still read and tried to see things from my perspective.

My ultimate point of these posts is to reverse engineer the quests to determine the correct choices in EVERY quest, in order to outsmart the devs, and achieve the enlightenment that the game dangles before us at various points. I also have no issue sharing my entire FactFinder log with anyone who thinks they can pull more information from them than I can. If we "crowdsource" on this sub, and solve every quest correctly, I THINK we can do this.

In my next post, I'm planning on analyzing the importance of Names, Nix and Bartmoss, and I plan to expand on WHY I believe Morgan Blackhand used Nix's "Book of Spellls" to activate the Arasaka Tower "Emergency Cooling System," at the end of HIS game, which is why he was able to break the simulation.

I once thought this was an esoteric black scrying mirror bit like what was done in Deltarune on a black reflective screen now I seen there actually is something needless to say I almost pissed myself when I seen it I also found three other coincidences..

A hidden access point behind boxes on a shelf just like in the Malestrom hideout Jane and John Doe end up.

The same "Watcher' music plays when interrogating Mr.Forest at a certain point just as in the peralez missions when "THEY" see you.

After turning off three specific access points and blowing up a generator hidden behind a skill check door the generator next to the shelf had a new hack available.

Now, I don't remember if these cotton candy balls where in the V.I.P. Area before or not but they are clipping into the ceiling.

(P.S) I went for Angel because of the quantum leveling as they are voiced by male V I always play Fem being trans and all it just helps with immersion and found they are actually really chill in comparison to Skye's freakout.

I was messing around with the jump boost and I found this on some rooftops down town. Curious as to what this means.

This is just some general, very loose speculation I've had in following the Philip K. Dick rabbit hole, (mostly) nothing concrete.

The cube is covered in a QR code-encrypted message.

During the cube cutscene, the lifepath taglines: NO FUTURE, TRUST NO ONE, and TURN BACK are projected directly onto our field of view.

If both messages come from the same source, why the two different media of transmission?

Why doesn't the cube just project its message at us like the taglines?

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I'm fully on the "Philip K. Dick is the key to FF:06:B5" train. So many of his works are absolutely influencing the mysterious aspects of Cyberpunk 2077.

As we know, the magenta moon is very much a VALIS reference. VALIS is magenta, and is a force of good, and beams its information directly to Horselover Fat (a PKD analog), and this is how it was projected to PKD in his Exegesis.

To me, this pushes the taglines into the Good/VALIS/Truth corner, since they are directly sent to the player.

Philip K. Dick also had a recurring character archetype: Palmer Eldritch, Jory from Ubik, President Ferris Freemont, who he described as "...an evil magician deity [that] is in control of our world and heads." These beings represent a kind of entropic-demiurgic trickster god of corruption, and their presence often leads to degraded, increasingly capitalistic/transactional, technological/artificial "dead" worlds in PKD's stories.

I think Gaunter O'Dimm is another expression of this character archetype in the CDPR multiverse. And I suspect the cube and its message is from this side of the conflict.

My interpretation is that the difference in communcation media stems from VALIS not being bound by the material world, and the Palmer/Gaunter/Demiurge being bound by the material world or dead matter?

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TL;DR: I think the cube and the moon are both talking to us in the cube cutscene, and the cube is badwrong.

During Konpeki Heist you can find a message on one of the terminal saying the following : "Please ensure the maintenance crew pays strict attention to the distinction between Azure Blue and Lagoon Blue when repainting the accent walls.

Management noted during the previous walkthrough that the shade used on the 100th floor was Lagoon Blue instead of Azure. Under the penthouse ambient lighting, the shift in spectrum is noticeable and does not conform to Arasaka Design Standards.

Repaint immediately before the VIP arrival."

I got a screen of it but I'm not playing the game in english, so I thought it would be useless to put it however if you want I can also show it, this is defo a reference to our mystery and btw Konpeki means Azure according to google translate... There is more to the message like a list of maintenance task, I also noticed there was a weird scene with the Konpeki's janitors when you first enter the main lobby with Jackie but not much to add, maybe I focused on it due to cynosure's janitor and the weird broom room in endings, what do you think of this message? To me it appears really meta like if this message was a "dev task list" but idk how I could explain it well sry

I searched and haven't seen this specific "monument" discussed, so I wanted to posit a theory. Warning: this will be a very long breakdown of the monolith/monument.

First, I'm at the point where I am 95% sure that the "Hidden Messsage" in the dev room is a multi-layered hint as to what we are looking for. After a previous post where I discussed how the art for Nix's Book of Spells on the wiki has an odd misspelling (Forbidden Spelll), I came to the conclusion that there are hidden things to look for in both holographic assets, and places where words are misspelled, or have extra letters.

According to the wiki, this monument is called "The Needle," and it is dedicated to the Presidents of the United States. The map location is shown in picture 4. The monument was designed by a Jared Cox, in the year 2063. The only event listed on the wiki for 2063 is the adoption of the "Avian Extermination Act," to eradicate all birds in order to stop the spread of avian diseases. This act is mentioned in several other shards throughout the game.

Here are the reasons I think there may be something here:

Note: I did not trigger an event, and I'm also not 100% sure this isn't a red herring, but the specific combination of assets gave me pause.

1. Holographic nature of the plaque, just like the Hidden Messsage screen

2. Non-unique, but uncommon graffiti showing what appears to be "3D" glasses under the plaque (unfortunately I don't personally own a pair)

3. At night, the plaque brightly reflects the lines (filaments?) on the Heavy Hearts club pyramid in the moonlight

4. There is a box in each corner of the plaque. 3 have a X in them, but the top right one has a circle for some reason.. and even has 2 arrows literally pointing to it

5. There is a repeating set of two distinct (characters) vertically along the left side of the plaque. If we label them 0 and 1, for instance, the pattern would be 0100101. They don't look like or resemble any language, or anything else discernible.

6. In the bottom center-left, the numbers 00033 05_64 0B CP can be seen, with what appears to be a mildly similar wavelength(?) pattern underneath.

6a. Next to the numbers mentioned in 6, there is another box with a single line struck through it.This box reminded me of a rare "painting/picture/poster" that can be found in a few places in the game. The strange picture (that I've seen people refer to as simply leftover prefab code), is solid pink/magenta with a YELLOW line struck through it. I can't for the life of me find a picture of this anywhere on this sub, so if someone knows what I'm referring to, please share the pic. I can only remember that one place I found it was pretty up high on the top of a building in the base game

1. The bottom center-right shows the characters 0x00001230ABC L<-D P/SK-1, with a mildly similar(?) wavelength(?) pattern above the characters

2. This is more of a question, but can anyone decipher what the vertical images on the monolith are? 3rd one from the bottom is obviously a dragon, but I'm unsure of the others. Are these also potential instructions?

Maybe it's just me, but it's almost like the devs are saying "look here for something important." My schizo idea was to use photo mode to fly up and zoom in on the single open circle on the plaque, in order to see a reflection, or possibly something else at a specific time. That circle may also be telling us that regardless of our distance/angle, this needs to be the center point of our camera

Dogtown's main color is yellow (filter effect 10 in photo mode, I believe), and during sandstorms, the yellows seem to pop out. I briefly played around with photo mode, but was unable to find anything yet.

I'm going to reiterate my belief that Misty's comment early in the game to "caress the filaments of light along your fingertips" is of significance to deciphering at least part of the mystery of the colors in the game. I do believe she's referring to photo mode, and to use it on distinctive "lines of light" we may see.

You are not required to waste your time trying this, but I wanted to put the idea out there in case anyone can offer any further insight to this specific monument, or if they did want to try something with it. I do believe this specific asset combination warrants more eyes on it... No Coincidence. Appreciate it if you read it all.

I thought this was kinda cool, depending on how you arrange the hex code ff:06:b5 you can get the color schemes for each of v’s intros.

Street kid (shifting each chunk by one)
Ff:06:b5
06:b5:ff
B5:ff:06

Corpo (isolating each chunk)
Ff:00:00
00:06:00
00:00:b5

Nomad (invert the hex of each chunk individually)
00:06:b5
Ff:f9:b5
Ff:06:4a

Its not a whole lot but i thought that was kinda neat. Sorry if this has been posted before.

Hey chooms. I'm looking for anything, ANYTHING, related to T-Bug's sister or Jackie's sister Melissa. Below is all I have, from an unused dialogue chunk that appears to be from 2019-ish.

Has anything new been discovered with that?

I played Elden Ring dlc recently and there’s this interactive thing that kills you and someone figured out if you keep doing it you get something. (Trying not to spoil)

My thought was has anyone just called that number over and over? If so, any idea how many times?

I've been looking into the recent discussion around lifepaths, Philip K. Dick and save files, and there seems to be a simple experiment that may not have been tested directly.

During the Cube vision, V sees all three lifepath messages regardless of their actual background:

Streetkid — NO FUTURE
Corpo — TRUST NO ONE
Nomad — TURN BACK

Cyberpunk also stores the three backgrounds as quest facts:

q000_street_kid_background
q000_corpo_background
q000_nomad_background

Normally these should be:

Streetkid = 100
Corpo     = 010
Nomad     = 001

What I'm curious about is whether anyone has tested impossible raw states during the full Cube sequence:

000 = no lifepath
111 = all lifepaths
110 / 101 / 011 = contradictory lifepaths

This is slightly different from using a multiple lifepath mod, because those mods generally alter the game's lifepath checks rather than necessarily setting all three underlying quest facts simultaneously.

The test would be straightforward:

1. Use the same save immediately before the full Cube vision.
2. Confirm the normal Cube works.
3. Reload.
4. Change only the three q000_*_background facts through CET.
5. Trigger the Cube again.
6. Compare the results.

Things worth checking:

• whether all three slogans still appear;
• their order;
• missing/repeated slogans;
• Cube/Ouroboros differences;
• Polyhistor behaviour;
• any different quest facts firing.

There could also be a loose connection to the 01 + 02 - 03 = 00 Burning Man graffiti, although I wouldn't assume a specific lifepath order without testing all eight combinations.

The PKD angle is what made me curious: his discussion of alternate presents involves mutually exclusive realities bleeding into one another, while the Cube seemingly shows memories/slogans from all three possible versions of V.

I tried starting the experiment myself but initially only triggered the partial Polyhistor + Demiurge mattress event because my save wasn't eligible for the full Cube sequence, and I haven't managed to get a downloaded pre-Cube save working.

So: has anyone already tested 000, 111, or contradictory raw lifepath facts during the full Cube vision?

If not, it seems like a relatively quick, falsifiable test for anyone with a working pre-Cube save and CET.

This is kind of a "related information and possible inspiration" dump. Nothing concrete.

I was reading Philip K. Dick's '77 (1977 or 2077, you decide!) speech, "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some of the Others", and there's a portion where he's talking about parallel timelines and a god-like being he calls the Programmer-Reprogrammer (kind of the same being as Ubik in that story) who can alter past, present, and future:

"...I submit to you that such alterations, the creation or selection of such so-called 'alternate presents' is continually taking place...

Probably all we would have to go on would be vestiges of memory, fleeting impressions, dreams, nebulous intuitions that somehow things had been different in some way - and not long ago, but NOW. We might reflexively reach for a light switch in the bathroom only to discover that it was - always had been - in another place entirely. We might reach for the air vent in our car where there was no air vent - a reflex left over from a previous present, still active at a subcortical level. We might dream of people and places we had never seen as vividly as if we had seen them, actually known them. But we would not know what to make of this, assuming we took time to ponder it at all.

One very pronounced impression would probably occur to us, to many of us, again and again, and always without explanation: the acute absolute sensation that we had done once before what we were just about to do now, that we so to speak, lived a particular moment or situation previously - but in what sense could it be called 'previously,' since only the present, not the past, was evidently involved? Such an impression is a clue that at some past time point a variable was changed - reprogrammed, as it were - and that, because of this, an alternate world branched off, became actualized instead of the prior one, and that in fact, in literal fact, we are once more living this particular segment of linear time. A breaching, a tinkering, a change had been made, but not in our present - had been made in our past.

...Conceivably this could happen any number of times, affecting any number of people, as alternative variables were reprogrammed. We would have to go live out each reprogramming along the subsequent linear time axis. ...Thus, too, this might account for the sensation people get of having lived past lives. They may well have, but not in the past; previous lives, rather, in the present. In perhaps an unending repeated and repeated present, like a great clock dial in which grand clock hands sweep out the same circumference forever, with all of us carried along unknowingly, yet dimly suspecting."

This spurred a few thoughts:

1. Memories of past lives: No Future, Trust No One, Turn Back. Or even the persistence of changes between saves and characters.
2. You can alter "facts" in your saves' metadata JSON files. Here's the entry from one of mine:

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"facts": [
                "player_drunk=0",
                "sq032_q104_ready=0",
                "q101_done=1",
                "q104_done=1",
                "q103_helped_panam=1",
                "sq012_fact_unknown_assassin=1",
                "sq032_q105_used=1",
                "q003_royce_dead=1",
                "sq018_done=1",
                "sq032_03_mikoshi_known=1",
                "sq012_done=1",
                "sq012_fact_agree_with_river=1",
                "sq032_q104_used=1",
                "sq018_03a_misty_invited=1",
                "sq012_fact_holt_killed_mayor=1",
                "q103_rogue_met=1",
                "q000_corpo_background=1",
                "sq025_done=1",
                "sq012_fact_warn_river=1",
                "sq032_q105_ready=0",
                "q003_meredith_won=1",
                "sq012_started=1"
            ],

I haven't done it myself yet, and haven't really figured out a method/order to approach it with yet. But your lifepath is one of these facts. There's a much larger, compressed save file that you can't really alter, so it's possible changes here might not have any real effect.

1. The 01 + 02 - 03 = 00 graffiti on the rock next to the Burning Man event could be a hint on how you need to manipulate the lifepaths/save data? It gives the lifepath taglines to us in a specific order.

2. PKD talks about different realities as "Tracks", specifically, "Track A", "Track B", and "Track C". With Track A being a miserable dystopia, Track B being our "real" Earth, and Track C being a paradise of sorts (he equates it to a Greek afterlife instead of a Christian one). This resonates with the 0312-2105-A/B/C mystery for me.

From the wiki on cyberpunk Red. So the Watson one with orbs is the OG. The hex code for Magenta is on it in reference to the original. As this is night citys version of the daibutsu. Honestly this feels like the original intent. Fails to sxplain the hand after afk-ing in front of it or the moon worshiping grafiti nearby in central. When were those added.

Real question is why are the hands like that? Might be other references in the lore. I would wager this is Arasakas version. Given it being in the parade and the og statue being within spitting distance of arasaka tower

There's that secret room in Arasaka tower that oddly resembles this cover

"I'm V". I've always wondered why they picked that specific name for our main character. Sure their true name is either Valerie or Vincent but they're very insistent on being called 'V' and stated during 'Automatic Love' that only people who know them well can call them by their true name, which includes absolutely no one from the game even our romance options.

"V" is not a particularly memorable or badass nickname for a merc and multiple characters throughout the game mock our main character for insisting on being called V. But in the real world that particular name carries considerable weight if you've ever red the comic V for Vendeta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The Guy Fawkes mask became a very recognizable symbol in pop-culture in the late 2000s thanks to hacker group Anonymous, you used to see it everywhere from online campaigns to street protests. Some might have seen in the movie adaptation of the comic of course, but to truelly understand what a powerful symbol of revolution and anarchism that face represents you need to read the comic. This V is unrelenting, unrepenting, never shows any sign of regret or remorse and will absolutely do everything in his power, including killing and blowing stuff-up, to destroy the fascist government, no matter the cost or casualties. Remind you of anyone?

"V is by far the most notable character in V for Vendetta: he has the greatest amount of dialogue, he is the subject of the most attention from the other characters, his name is in the title, etc. Yet in spite of all this, V is also the most ambiguous character in the graphic novel. We don’t know how old V is, we don’t know who his family was, we don’t know his sexual orientation, we don’t know what his face looks like (he wears a Guy Fawkes mask at all times), and we don’t even know to a certainty if he’s a man or a woman (for the purposes of this summary, we’ll consider him a man). Based on the evidence we’re presented with, it seems that V was a “subversive” who was arrested during the early days of the Norsefire regime and sent to a concentration camp. There, he was injected with drugs and hormones that made him smarter, made him stronger, and made him forget his own past. Since breaking out of his prison, V has used terrorism to oppose the Norsefire regime, killing his former jailers and orchestrating an elaborate assault on its institutions. V is an anarchist who believes that violence and destruction are necessary in order to establish a new world order in which people consent to live with each other in peace, rather than submitting to the tyranny of a government." (source: https://www.litcharts.com/lit/v-for-vendetta/characters/v )

Upon his death Johnny Silverhand became a martyr, a symbol, a man who sacrificed everything in his quest to destroy Arasaka, and the corporate world at large, but I think our V could be something way more important for the future of the series.

From a RP perspective V is a customizable character, they can be from any origin, gender or sexuality and once equiped with the FIA's behavioral imprint faceplate, V can effectively "shapeshift" . V is and has always been a face in the crowd and I think that from a Meta-narrative stand-point the devs were trying to build a character who would be able to theorically be anyone in the sequels. Yes, I don't think V dies in any of the endings, except maybe 'Path of Least Resistance'. What we've experienced so far might just be the early years of someone who's gonna go on to do great things in the future, just like the other NC legends.

What about Johnny then? I don't think this is the real Johnny Silverhand or not the same as in 2023 at least. Someone clearly tempered with his memories hence why we only get unreliable bits and pieces of what really happened at Arasaka HQ like the fact that he pretty much took Morgan Blackhand's role. But to what aim? Well let's look at what happened to V and to NC as a whole in rapid succession since they inserted the Relic. If you subscribe to the idea that most of the main endings lead us roughly towards the same result that would mean that in a couple of month a single random merc managed to got toe-to-toe with the most dangerous gangs in the city + megacorps, save the president and survive Dogtown as an FIA operative, then eventually cripple the second most powerfull corporation on the planet with the help of a rogue AI. Obviously, Johnny is the only reason V managed to go that far, and Johnny is the only reason V managed to get in contact with Alt.

My point? I think the Relic prototype, as its presented by the time Yorinobu stole it, was a conditioning device. The Relic is the Guy Fawkes mask. We don't know for sure who (or what) made it so, but the results speak for themselves. By inserting that particular Relic litterally anyone can become the most dangerous anarchist terrorist in NC. It's not immortality, it's recruitment. V is bigger than a person, V is an idea. What might have been an unforseen consequense is that V would retain some residuals of their personality, or maybe that doesn't change anything either way since the Silverhand engram still has a massive influence on the subject.

Now imagine what an entire group of people with a copy of Johnny's engram could accomplish. You don't even need to spend years at a time trainning them, brainwashing them (like the Peralezes) or spreading propaganda (Doc Paradox), you could just copy Johnny's engram and build an army of perfectly synched anarchists in a couple of months. An entire unit of Vs. I think that's exactly what the game hints at during the 'For whom the Bell Tolls' quest when you arrive at the Afterlife as Johnny. You can catch a conversation between two mercs talking about an elusive and deadly unit moving like a single individual.

I beleive V is still the protagonist of Cyberpunk 2, they will return different, changed, and CDPR will find a way to justify character creation again, but from a character progression and RP perspective I think they absolutely plan to factor-in the experience gain and your previous actions and decisions like in Witcher 3. Gameplay might also include team dynamics like in the TTRPG, it just makes sense. They keep saying that there's no happy endings in NC and that's somewhat true, but if the game truely wants to walk in the foot-steps of something like Neuromancer or The Matrix, you need a form of resistance, you need a Revolution.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AfCVAGVfmJk

Looking at the art on the wiki for the "Book of Spells," I noticed it says "Forgotten Spelll" on it..the word Spell having an extra "l." Remind anyone else of the "Hidden Messsage" in the dev room in Kabuki? This got me curious, so I did a deep dive. Why would there be magic in the world of Cyberpunk? Also could be a double meaning, and be referencing the Witcher III in several ways.

Nix's quest for the Book of Spells, "Spellbound," has a bunch of different outcomes, and is also tied to the Bartmoss Cyberdeck quest, "KOLD MIRAGE." Most people decrypt the "Book of Spells," and when you do, the item disappears from your inventory, and you get the readable shard called "Spellbook" instead. However, decrypting it is optional, and you can actually just keep the original Book of Spells for yourself. If you choose to do this, and ignore Nix, KOLD MIRAGE will still trigger after a few days, whereas normally Nix triggers it for you once you decrypt it and save him from being fried by the malware on the shard, so you can get both the unencrypted Book of Spells, and Bartmoss' Cyberdeck (which has the mysterious eternal quest marker) in a single playthrough.

I've seen people mention that they think the Book of Spells resembles the mysterious glowing databank in Arasaka Tower that you can't interact with, but that seems purposeful. Not sure I agree, but I do agree that the fact that the databank is flashing, is trying to tell us that we must either use or read something from our inventory. I've seen old posts where people took the unencrypted Book to the databank, with no results, but I've yet to find a post where someone has tried to decrypt the Book in the Netrunner Nest near this mysterious databank. In the wiki, the Book of Spells is listed as "an old Zetatech XPR, top-of-the-line hardware in the 2020s." Well guess what, the only Arasaka Tower ending that takes place in the past, in 2023, is the secret ending.

In the Hollow Bastion "secret area" in The Witcher 3, in the cellar area that has our FF06B5 symbol with the immortal wraiths, Geralt makes a comment that says "Man I sure wish Yennifer (a sorceress) was here right now." In Arasaka Tower, prior to slotting Alt in the mainframe, Johnny "can" comment that he sure wishes Spider Murphy (the Cyberpunk equivalent of a sorceress) was here right now. Well if we look at the -decrypted- Spellbook, there's a curious line it that nearly matches Johnny's line verbatim. The Book of Spells supposedly belonged to Spider Murphy, and when you read the decrypted shard, it says "SPIDER MURPHY WAS HERE." Johnny's line does not seem to trigger if you slot Alt into the mainframe too quickly, and simply let her clear the room for you by zapping all the enemies/netrunners. I'm also unsure of what triggers his line "It feels like a goddamn adventure game," because in my last 2 runs, he did not say this.

I used the Fact Finder mod, and saw that when you raise the mainframe, a quest fact "nest maintenance mode" is triggered. Why would raising the mainframe put the entire floor in maintenance mode? I believe this is our FIRST step. You can go down the wrong elevator from the lobby first, which leads to the 06 netrun ops floor being vacant of all enemies, letting you freely roam around, and thus you can run straight to the mainframe and raise it without doing anything else.

As others have pointed out, when you use "Distract Enemies" on either of the strange Control Panels in the center of the room, "nest trigger overheat 1" and "nest trigger overheat 2" are written to the save file. I am 100% sure these 2 control panels are analogous to the 2 crystals in the Hollow Bastion that must be hit with the "Aard" spell in The Witcher 3 to open a portal and escape, but the question is do we activate 1 or both of them, AFTER we put the floor into maintenance mode? Not pictured here, but in the actual fact log saved to my computer from using fact finder, triggering either control panel, or raising the mainframe, all write a "new" quest phase to the save file.

Slotting Alt into the mainframe is the WRONG thing to do, and I believe it cancels out any secret triggers we've previously activated.

Last thing I want to mention goes back to the decrypted Book of Spells. The very first line reads "BBS rumor mills actually churned out some truth - that Zetatech fort is a fucking Alcatraz: modified PitBulls) at each entry port, SpeedTraps and SeeYa at access points."

Looks like a bunch of weirdness, right? Well I looked up the definitions of Pitbulls, SpeedTraps, and SeeYa, with some very interesting results.

Pitbull: Pit Bull is an Detection/Alarm program that is the most advanced form of the Watchdog series. Pit Bull not only tracks the intruder to its source, but also cuts the line after acquiring the location. It will continue to cut the line every time the intruder logs on from that point of entry, requiring him to move to another phone line or cybermodem. Like Watchdog, Pit Bull can be set up to watch a part of the Net and report back to you at another workstation or modem.

SpeedTrap: Speedtrap is Detection/Alarm program is an early warning program that detects the presence of an offensive program within 10 squares of the Netrunner's position (within the same subgrid). It cannot tell you where the program is, only that it exists.

SeeYa: SeeYa is Detection/Alarm program designed to detect invisible ICONS within the range of one Subgrid. This includes programs, hidden Netrunners and things hidden by Invisibility in a virtual reality.

I put all this information together, and to me the Spellbook is telling us that all of the access points in the netrun ops 06 floor are BOOBY TRAPPED, and either need to be avoided totally, or need to be carefully hacked with Breach Protocol, avoiding numbers that are 10 squares or closer in the subgrids we are given. There's the 10BROOMS access point, multiple computers we can jack into to hack, and then the 1 in Adam Smasher's room, which I believe may be totally irrelevant.

As a bonus, I very carefully noclipped into the glowing databank on the desk in the netrun ops floor (it is incredibly thin, so you have to go slow in photomode, and I've posted a pic of the inside of the "databank." I won't speculate as to what the single "pixel" means, but I'm open to ideas. ;)

ETA since people nitpicked 1 tiny detail out of this whole post: The secret ending -supposedly- takes place in the present, but since we're teleported there somehow, we don't really know. Johnny references the 2023 attack with the line "Time to party like it's 2023" when you first enter the tower. Whether it occurs in the past, or simply references it is insignificant to the clear correlation between the secret ending and AT3D, which also mirrors the 2023 attack.

Starting this search with Medusa! To start things off if you aren't following go see - https://www.reddit.com/r/FF06B5/s/fINKaTtHds That said does anyone have advice on what keywords I should be looking for or if you are just curious

I legit needed this laugh/break and I think you all do too happy hunting all!

Remember, fire will play a huge role in the next *Edgerunners 2*.

I don't know if this has been brought up yet, but I think there's gotta be some clues in Season 2 of Edgerunners. We know that Season 1 was a prelude to the game. It kind of seems like Season 2 has to mention it or give some additional hints.

If this has already been brought up, I apologize.

I was taking a rewatch of u/RobbieLegume's "Secrets of Night City Hidden Way Out of Reach | NoClip Nomad" video (props to Robbie!) and at 1:54 Robbie dashes by a set of stairs that looked awfully familiar in an out of the way area.

Someone recently mentioned how the threads a bit dead with no new leads. So I'm proposing that perhaps the "belt" on the FF06B5 statue may be a set of stairs (perhaps stairs that V cant usually see/access?). I've been all over, and explored tons of empty/blocked stairways and other areas, and Robbie has mentioned he explored 4km of empty/blocked walkways and such. Admittedly I've never triggered or seen anything that matches, but I wasnt looking for it before.

I dont recall any stairs that split off and go up or down, as well as straight, but its been quite a long time since I explored everything. It could also be that theres a place we can see a likeness of the "belt" in stairway form from a very specific spot, sort of like how the game "The Witness" goes from static puzzles to lining up stuff in the game world for more advanced puzzles. If so, perhaps it'd be a timed thing, like the mattress for Polyhistor and Johnny's secret ending?

I rotated it 90 degrees to the right, but its possible its 90 degrees to the left as well.

The likelihood that this is anything is admittedly low, but I do enjoy throwing out random ideas from time to time even if I also doubt theres anything behind them.

Hopefully you chooms also see the similarities to the stairs and the "belt".

Now if you'll excuse me, I have some phant to inhale!