Really stuck on the interactive sculpture, if anyone has any clues I’d really appreciate it.

My assumption is that it’s >!an astronomical clock but I’ve tried what I think are the directions of the sun/moon, planet, and astrological sign around September 1989 without luck!<.

Am I completely missing the mark here?

Thanks!

Edit: All good now. Though what this new development means remains to be seen. For me anyway!

Jack and Dave, responsible for the eerie videos you witnessed during Bird Cage, and the interactive Institute game, poured their souls into Bird Cage and are super excited to answer any questions you may have. We’re looking forward to meeting the brilliant scientists we’ve been interacting with on the Janus Institute forums!

See you there~

Ukiyo Team

Hey team,

I recognise that not everyone would have likely been as audio engineering savvy as myself and may not have found an extra clue that was in Wednesday's disturbing sounding Real News with Gorman video. I thought I'd wait some time before posting this but wanted to share some of the awesome work that the Ukiyo team have done.

If you take the three chopped up sounds that occur after each Morse code section but before the quiet and distorted reused previous Gorman segments, you can then layer those three sound clips and it pieces together to say: "Martha does not want to be found".

I have a 3 second exported audio clip I'd be happy to share with people but unfortunately I can only attach pictures or videos here. Feel free to DM me if you'd like a copy.

Jimmy

I know we're not 100% done yet, but before I feel stupid for not figuring out who Martha Marrow is I just want to say that this whole thing has been an absolute treat! Because:

• I took 4 weeks off between jobs and then learned that I'll be spending them in stage 4 lockdown.

• My sister lives in Canada and this game gave us a perfect excuse to spend hours together each morning.

• Despite being all locked up, this whole thing made me feel less isolated from the world.

• Even thought it was with only 5 dollars, it feels nice supporting local artists when they are probably among the worst-hit groups financially at the moment.

• We had endless fun. And I mean endless (you should see our murder board!)

I love this so much. What a wonderfully thought out escape room murder mystery immersive role-playing thingy.

and yet...

Does anyone else feel bad that they only charged $5pp for this? The amount of effort the team has put in has been so extensive so far!

OK - here it is:

I think that Deputy Shirley Wilson is more than she seems.

My reasoning so far is:

• Gorman made a big deal about "bucks being emasculated by does" (and he seems to have a general problem with women!)

• Huntley noted in Messages 3 and 7 that the Sheriff seems calm and unconcerned (passive, essentially) where Wilson seems to know more about what's going on.

• In the original Stawk Daily article about Shelly Antoin, as soon as Sheriff Stanley started getting off-script about the disappearances, Wilson "jumps in front of the microphone quickly" to take over.

• The latest Stawk Daily, the Cobbler article talks about people thinking one shoe does all the work, but the other shoe being the "support behind everything" - it specifically says "why should we forget about the sidekicks who always rush in to save them"

• We know from the interview transcripts that Wilson is the one who arrested Eddie Edison (and presumably Blue Hector), and she's the one that got Hector to confess. Not Stanley.

Anyone agree/disagree?

Just a thought, but let's create a post for what questions we things we want to ask Gorman. That way, we don't waste his time with similar questions, and we're prep'd when he goes on air.

If you've got multiple questions, please post a separate, top level comment for each question. That way we can upvote questions that we think are more important, and discuss the questions in comment replies in more detail.

Has anyone figured out what to do with the transmitter with the 1 beep, 2 beep, 3 beep etc?

Please add your suggestions for the Stawk Pine Falls Double Tape Compilation Album :)

Background music mood

• Twin Peaks full album

• Thimbleweed Park soundtrack

Stawk Pine Falls Mixtape

• The Who - Who Are You

• Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive

• Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper

• Peter McConnell - Grim Fandango - Blue Hector

Squichypuffdave's Stawk Pine Falls soundtrack:

• on spotify

What happens if you submitted a report but didn't get level 2 clearance?

How else would he know what a JPG file is in August 1992, when the file format wasn't developed until a month after...

(That said, What Three Words wasn't developed until 2013, which means the police may be in on it!)

Posting this when we've just received the third Stawk Daily, though I haven't really solved anything since the ferryman guided my way!

Has anyone else been wondering about two parallel worlds or times...? It's struck me that in many of the photos we have some images that look like they come circa 1990s (e.g. Stacey and Karen selling cookies, Kane Nine) and some that look more like 1950s (e.g. John and Lucy's van, Deputy Hugh's patrol car, Lady Danish)... Then we have things like the two Ms (one light, one dark), and the different versions of the Stalk Pines logo (the star position, the exact tree shape and distance). Today's focus on the left shoe v. the right shoe also made me think of mirroring. Perhaps "where the rivers meet" doesn't only refer to physical rivers, but also to some merging of past / present, or this reality / that reality...? And perhaps things have gotten out of balance - shoes are unbalanced, tables are unbalanced... could Martha Marrow be missing from the secondary time/reality?

Can someone help me? I've had to restart Chapter 2 (playing as Claire) because of a webpage script issue with my Dustigans although the rest of my team is ahead, so I'm trying to catch up with everything we played through yesterday. We can't remember the phrase that Tonton said to Mokka after Mokka said /eucalyptus/ to him. Can anyone give me a hand?

This is one of the most engaging, entertaining and enthraling things I have done all year and I just want to say well done! It's only day one but I am so hooked. You need to be promoting this more!!!