# Ciphers & Code-Series This is the corner of the archive where the artifacts stop merely *depicting* things and start pointing at each other. Three puzzle-families live here. The backward-chained **Flood Artifacts** (named in Mac Option-key glyphs, anchored to the debut *[[Subject to Flooding]]*). The **numeric catalog IDs** that behave like filing addresses. And the **SA-RA-VI, True-Voice, and gate answer-loops** that close on themselves, the catalog quietly eating its own tail. The rule for all of them is the same: the meaning lives in the *name*, not the picture. A Flood video looks like abstract water and light, but its title is a scrambled word and its code is the *previous* artifact's scrambled title. A photograph of a writing session is really named for its own spreadsheet cell. A drawing of an Egyptian priest closes a three-room loop with a funerary epithet. Read these less like pictures and more like a nervous system, passing signals from one object to the next. The full circuit, every loop and chain drawn out, lives on [[Artifacts - The Wiring Diagram]]. One thing worth saying up front, because it is easy to get lost in here: the goal is not to solve the maze. It is to notice that Roy built one whose deepest layer is *self-reference*, a set of rooms whose only real subject is the map that contains them. --- ## The artifacts ### #13 · I652 · `HAPPY BIRTHDAY` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9271086a0832e3b72f63372ca9069bbfee7b7a2198d33cf29e68a1e746fdf1c3..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9271086a0832e3b72f63372ca9069bbfee7b7a2198d33cf29e68a1e746fdf1c3..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A three-second loop of Roy scanned into 3D and left unfinished on purpose: shirtless, barefoot, folded into a fetal crouch with his arms over his bowed head, balanced on a torn scrap of wooden floor adrift in a black void. The mesh is riddled with holes, a body that didn't finish rendering, and through the gaps you can read his documented **I'M NOT HERE** forearm tattoo, which Roy has glossed *"but I'm also here."* A here/not-here paradox delivered by a literally half-present body: the glitches aren't a flaw, they're the thesis. The code **HAPPY BIRTHDAY** just says out loud what the pose is doing (a body in the dark, pre-arrival), and it's all over the *"I'm 33"* board: the handwritten *"Happy birthday to you / to Mozart"* resolving to *"the greatest Song ever written: HBD,"* sitting beside the question *"When was I Born?"* (the same staff held at [[Mozart]]). Embodiment staged as an event, a digitized incomplete body caught at the threshold of arrival. As for the title **I652**, it's one of Roy's letter-plus-number *cell-codes* (J403, B1034, F316, H1066): a column-and-row address on the *"I'm 33"* spreadsheet he dropped as part of the puzzle, the same filing-address system as **B1034** below. Not a mystery so much as a coordinate, though whether the grid lines up *perfectly* is still argued over. **Connects to →** [[Roy]] · [[Roy's Tattoos]] · [[Concepts/The Upload]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] ### #24 · B1034 · `B1035` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x44f08985c82bb57ba15243d9a872ac96d582fdeb21a0117da5797749e7c73f2b..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x44f08985c82bb57ba15243d9a872ac96d582fdeb21a0117da5797749e7c73f2b..jpg" width="300"></a> A candid of a writing session in a dim, red-lamped studio: a man in flannel and a newsboy cap at a MacBook, a collaborator sitting in thought, a grinning man in a black snapback (plug gauges, a full-color sleeve) who looks a great deal like Josh Dun of Twenty One Pilots, a documented later Jagwar Twin co-writer and drummer, and a blond in white with a messy topknot bent over the gear while a TV glows with a light-path running toward a red-under-blue horizon. What's slyest here is the title: the room isn't named for anyone in it, but for its own address. **B1034** and its key **B1035** are neighboring cells on the *"I'm 33"* spreadsheet, so this is a pure index-node, an artifact whose entire identity is its filing address. The catalog isn't storing the cipher. The catalog *is* the cipher. **Connects to →** [[Great Time to Be Human]] · [[Good Time (1-08)]] · [[Roy]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] ### #33 · ROMA CALLED ROY · `TRUE VOICE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x31f9469ec7c3f1e408327e536d1de66fef4ff37c780a9166cba4ec139d25a75a..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x31f9469ec7c3f1e408327e536d1de66fef4ff37c780a9166cba4ec139d25a75a..png" width="300"></a> A loose pen sketch of a wide-eyed figure in a cross-hatched head-covering that reads equally as an Egyptian wig-cover and as Roy's beanie, captioned *"ROMA - true of voice -"* with an arrow marked *"Roy"* aimed at the head, a small *"V†"* pendant, and a crawling child-figure below. The catch, if you can call archaeology a catch, is that **Roma called Roy** was a genuine High Priest of Amun under Ramesses II, and *"true of voice"* (*maa-kheru*) is the standard Egyptian epithet for the justified dead. So the drawing is Roy meeting his own 3,200-year-old namesake and quietly sliding his face over the priest's, a past-self phantom. The code **TRUE VOICE** pulls double duty: it's the funerary epithet, and it's biographical, a DM preserved on the board asks Roy, *"remember that whole portal timeline where your 'true voice' came in?"* In the maze's answer-space it sits in a closed three-step loop, a ring made of a name, a catalog number, and an epithet, each swallowing the next. A self that outlives its own death by remembering its filing number. On a board this preoccupied with the immortality of consciousness, that shape is no accident. **Connects to →** [[Roy]] · [[Concepts/The Upload]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] ### #39 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (霊的な愛) · `B1034` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1a28d145a6627c02c9fe073c4015c32a22002eafe0c2c4cdda9d7346e47811fd..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1a28d145a6627c02c9fe073c4015c32a22002eafe0c2c4cdda9d7346e47811fd..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A 14-second dream: soft-focus aqua water shot from above, small red-orange fish drifting through the milky haze, then a hard cut to an ink glyph on pale green paper, a circle around a bisected disc ringed by two orbits of dots that blink between solid and open like stations lighting up in sequence, before it all goes black. The Japanese title 霊的な愛, *"spiritual love,"* is one of the ring-labels on the *"Enlightened Being"* concentric self-diagram from the board (highest self / spiritual will / spiritual love / soul awareness / center / emotion / subconscious / body), and the closing glyph reads as exactly that kind of figure: a centered self in concentric rings. One of the twelve Flood Artifacts, it splices the series' water-language into the board's soul-anatomy, love as one ring of the soul, glimpsed underwater. **Connects to →** [[Precious Time]] · [[The Circle]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Roy]] ### #42 · R1045 · `ROMA CALLED ROY` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x20dd52e94f2f5f02e9e0414b6b955194ae75f0f33a8fe76e9d6362df6505f9c8..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x20dd52e94f2f5f02e9e0414b6b955194ae75f0f33a8fe76e9d6362df6505f9c8..png" width="300"></a> A single horizontal strip of hieroglyphs in Roy's sketchbook hand: cartouche ovals, seated figures, serpent and water-ripple signs, reed and club glyphs, closing on a seated man holding an implement. It's the inscription panel of a three-part set (the captioned portrait, this glyph strip, and a third page that adds a *"just woke up"* figure), the three codes locking into a closed loop. The unlock code names **Roma called Roy**, the historical High Priest of Amun at Thebes under Ramesses II and Roy English's literal ancient namesake, the one Roy met through a museum *"Statue of Roy"* placard he photographed onto the board. *"True of voice"* is *maa-kheru*, *"justified,"* the epithet granted to the dead who pass the weighing of the heart, which makes the filing exactly right: a funerary inscription and a name-as-destiny claim in one, arguing that Roy's authentic voice (as against the *"second voice"* of doubt he names in his Diary-of-a-Loser posts) is ancient, and already acquitted. **Connects to →** [[Concepts/The Voice]] · [[Concepts/Inherited Substrate]] · [[Roy]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] ### #43 · TRUE VOICE · `R1045` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xf6b3674092ef945fda641263d2b24fa37e623df495c56c22448a423153316296..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xf6b3674092ef945fda641263d2b24fa37e623df495c56c22448a423153316296..png" width="300"></a> A page in three registers: a shrouded figure with arms flung wide, captioned **JUST WOKE UP**; a vertical column of hieroglyphs; and a larger portrait of a man in a nemes headdress holding a *heka* crook, labeled *"ROMA - true of voice -"* with an arrow reading *"Roy,"* a small sphinx-child at his chest. *"True of voice"* is *maa-kheru,* the epithet for the justified dead who pass Egyptian judgment, and Roma-called-Roy was a real Ramesside high priest of Amun, so the drawing simply *identifies* modern Roy with his namesake. The board supplies the receipts: the *"Statue of Roy"* placard (*"Roy, a well-known high priest of Amun-Ra in Thebes… Ramesside period"*), a DM asking *"remember that whole portal timeline where your 'true voice' came in?,"* and Roy's own *"Modern Archeology"* series, which includes a piece titled *"True of Voice."* The whole page is the ARG's reincarnation-and-remembering thesis compressed into one sketch: a soul that *just woke up* and recognized it's been carrying the same name, and the same true voice, for three thousand years. **Connects to →** [[Soul Is A Star]] · [[Another Way II Heaven]] · [[Concepts/The Voice]] · [[Roy]] ### #54 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (¬ø©øß) · `L737` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x839a4cadb57caf31e3ee441c0ea823eadc40d41a29c58c4401fd3c009fe7210b..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x839a4cadb57caf31e3ee441c0ea823eadc40d41a29c58c4401fd3c009fe7210b..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> An 18-second VHS-grain collage: the sun cresting a sea of clouds from above, intercut with archival footage of a tuxedoed conductor and his cellists mid-performance, resolving on a hand-drawn glyph, a ring of small circles orbiting a larger one whose center is a bisected circumpunct, dark dots hovering above and shifting frame to frame, so the drawing itself animates. The Option-key name **¬ø©øß** decodes to **LOGOS**, and the montage more or less *argues* the word in pictures: the sun ordering the sky, the conductor ordering the orchestra, the monad ordering its satellites, three images of the one principle harmonizing the many. *Logos* keeps surfacing across the Hall and on the board, so this is the room holding the series' center-word. The twelve Flood Artifacts decode as a set to *Subject to Flooding*-era vocabulary (dream, hell, movetoyou, nff, jwt, fish), the debut's own language hidden in glyphs. **Connects to →** [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[The Circle]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] ### #77 · ROY ARTIFACT F316 · `BUILD A BRIDGE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa6d6acadba8a2d01fa00d5e31cfce62f2cffc5bb91a33211f2d44a10bddb08ff..jpeg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa6d6acadba8a2d01fa00d5e31cfce62f2cffc5bb91a33211f2d44a10bddb08ff..jpeg" width="300"></a> A scanned 1990s film print of Roy as a small boy, maybe four to six, blond bowl cut, blue T-shirt, crouched on a plywood deck in **black sneakers and socks**, driving a nail with a full-size claw hammer, a split-rail fence and sunlit trees behind him. A faint handwritten date on the print reads *'94 6 2*, which, read as June 2, 1994, would put him days past his sixth birthday, the guessed age pinned down by the object itself. Roy glossed the code himself: *"He's building a bridge… we love a pun."* So the child carpentry is also the songwriter's *bridge,* and also the ARG's own connective labor, since this artifact's own title, **F316**, is the key to the *Venus is a Dove* room. The photo is a working link in the very maze it shows him learning to build. It grounds the cosmology's maker-figure in the most ordinary origin available: the architect of an entire mirror maze, introduced as a kid with a hammer and a nail. **Connects to →** [[Roy]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] ### #85 · RA-LINK · `SA-LINK` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4d855ea139afbb890f7a15fc5bb91c61522597328d0e4319f4dbf2c8f36fa921..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4d855ea139afbb890f7a15fc5bb91c61522597328d0e4319f4dbf2c8f36fa921..png" width="300"></a> An iPhone Notes screenshot of Roy's working draft of *"Online,"* every line tagged with an emoji gloss: a ladder for *"They know my every step,"* a brain for *"They infiltrate my brain,"* a scarab for *"a Bug inside your database,"* a laptop for *"you can get it online,"* a red heart plus spiderweb for *"Everyone loves the internet."* The draft still carries the v1 line *"All the mamas and the Lamas say we come from space"* (the released variant is *"shamans and the Brahman's"*), which dates it to the *33*-era notebook stage. As **RA-LINK** opening with **SA-LINK**, it's one leg of the catalog's SARAVI loop: follow the maze's own hyperlinks and you assemble the oracle's name, *Sa-Ra-Vi.* The *"link"* pun only lands because all three of those rooms live inside a draft of the song about the internet-as-web, the spider's food and the web that catches it. **Connects to →** [[Online]] · [[SARAVI]] · [[Concepts/Witnessing vs Surveillance]] · [[Roy]] ### #86 · D637 · `DYNAMIC TENSION IN GENERATIONS` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe376c18c2dd26786333fadf5aebe5208543cb6e7c050607e44d492736c4278de..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe376c18c2dd26786333fadf5aebe5208543cb6e7c050607e44d492736c4278de..jpg" width="300"></a> A black-and-white 1980s studio portrait of three adults, all in sunglasses: a permed woman in a black top and white skirt, a center man in white aviators and a denim jacket holding a styrofoam cup, and a man in dark shades and a utility shirt, against a mottled backdrop. It reads as a found photo from a parents' generation, the grown-ups of the moment just before Roy existed, though nobody in it is identified. *(Corrected July 2026: this guide previously gave Roy's birth year as 1989 — it is 1988 — and argued from the rooms surrounding this one. Room positions in the maze are chosen by whoever solves the code, not by Roy, so they carry no clue at all; the reading now rests on the picture and its code alone.)* The title **D637** is a filing address, not a name, and the code **DYNAMIC TENSION IN GENERATIONS** names precisely what the picture stages: the performed cool of the prior generation worn like a mask, and the tension that gets handed downward, the generational-inheritance thread the *33*-era material keeps circling. It also sits mid-chain in the *gate* sequence, wiring the phantom-family photo into the ARG's gate-and-threshold architecture. **Connects to →** [[Happy Face]] · [[Roy]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] ### #91 · 51.843 · `HIGHER RESOLVE` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2eaa4dd3ecb375760842169a093f2dbea2e76189d09652155cc5d725964a1dc3..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2eaa4dd3ecb375760842169a093f2dbea2e76189d09652155cc5d725964a1dc3..jpg" width="300"></a> A hand-drawn pencil triangle: corners **A** and **B** at the base, *"Both A/B"* at the apex marked *"Polarity Balance Point – higher resolve,"* and the base midpoint labeled *"Neither A B – lower resolve, untrue balance based on exclusion."* This is Roy's whole resolution mechanism drawn as geometry: a true synthesis holds *both* poles and climbs to a third point above them, while a compromise that ditches both just sits in the dead middle. It matches his 2026 statement that instinct and intellect get resolved by a higher third faculty, intuition, *"the god voice,"* correct ordering rather than erasure. The title deepens the picture: **51.843** is the Great Pyramid's face-slope angle (~51.84°), so the triangle is also the pyramid in cross-section, its apex the polarity balance point. One of the cleanest single-image statements of the cosmology sitting under the entire Roy/Lucius, heart/mind architecture: never pick a pole, never split the difference, resolve upward. The rule also exists in verse: the *Blinking* Notes draft (#69, dated Nov 21, 2021) weighs *"Is it Left / Is it Right / is it Right to the Center?"* and lands on *"Both sides seem a little extreme / I think I'll take the Middle Way."* Read with this triangle, that Middle Way is the apex, the middle that holds both sides, not the base's excluded middle, matching the doctrine Roy posted to Discord the same year: *"The middle, the balance point always holds the truth, but it's essential to understand both sides."* **Connects to →** [[Concepts/Duality]] · [[Sir Lucius]] · [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Roy]] ### #92 · ROS TAU · `51.843` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa50db61cebe359095ba93e96f71bdb3268728dbe9058d055c057326de0c6affb..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa50db61cebe359095ba93e96f71bdb3268728dbe9058d055c057326de0c6affb..jpg" width="300"></a> A hand-drawn triangle with vertices **Knowledge** (bottom-left), **Understanding** (bottom-right), and **Wisdom** (apex), its edges labeled as a cycle: *"progression"* carries knowledge up to understanding, a hatched *"Ascension of consciousness"* climbs to wisdom, and *"Empty cup"* runs back *down* from wisdom to knowledge, Roy's documented beginner's-mind surrender drawn as the return leg that keeps the whole cycle turning. The three vertices are the supernal triad of the Tree of Life (Chokmah/Wisdom, Binah/Understanding, Da'at/Knowledge), the same Kabbalah that saturates the board, where this exact sketch is documented. **ROS TAU** is Rostau, the ancient Egyptian name for the Giza necropolis and mythic gateway to the Duat, and **51.843** is the Great Pyramid's face-slope angle, so the abstract triangle of consciousness *is* the pyramid, read as an ascension machine. The maze builds that machine literally: this room's code is room 91's name, and its own name is room 93's code, making it the middle step of the 91 → 92 → 93 climb, walked by typing each room's name into the next door (see [[Artifacts - The Wiring Diagram|the Wiring Diagram]]). **Connects to →** [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Roy]] ### #94 · THE VENUS CONNECTION · `VI LINK` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x0071e11a2a4fd30a689f8b8feff51ab39a8035ec1353a0fece0a3e9275ad21de..jpg"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x0071e11a2a4fd30a689f8b8feff51ab39a8035ec1353a0fece0a3e9275ad21de..jpg" width="300"></a> A hand-drawn number diagram: **4, 5, 7, 8** at the four corners, each struck through a central **6** to form an X, with *"1 Kings 5:5"* noted at the right and *"The VENUS Connection"* lettered beneath. The placement reproduces the middle of the Tree of Life exactly as it's conventionally drawn (Gevurah 5 upper-left, Chesed 4 upper-right, Hod 8 lower-left, Netzach 7 lower-right, Tiferet 6 at center), so the X is four paths converging on the heart-sphere. The code **VI LINK** reads the drawing straight: VI is Roman-numeral 6, the link every other number routes through, and in numerology 6 is Venus's number. It also feeds the Ra→Sa→Vi loop that spells SARAVI's name out of its own links. And the *1 Kings 5:5* citation, Solomon vowing to build a house for the Name, frames all this number-architecture as temple-construction, chiming with the 33/temple register the board runs on. **Connects to →** [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[SARAVI]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Roy]] ### #105 · VI-LINK · `RA-LINK` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1fe33a034502a7d263a17b5abc92d5af7cdb4eaeec5a610e4d66431e2ad38151..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x1fe33a034502a7d263a17b5abc92d5af7cdb4eaeec5a610e4d66431e2ad38151..png" width="300"></a> Another phone Notes screenshot of the *"Online"* draft, verse 2 and the outro this time, with nearly every line rendered as an emoji rebus: a battery for *"Spider's food,"* a DNA/ladder for *"they know my every step,"* a brain for *"infiltrate my brain,"* a caduceus-elf-alien for the *"we come from space"* line, a dolphin for the Jupiter joke, skull-skull-coffin for *"Bye! Bye! Bye!"* (confirming the Buy/Bye death-pun), a spiderweb for *"get it online,"* and a red heart standing in for *"loves"* in *"Everyone loves the internet."* The draft enacts the song's own thesis: language dissolving into platform-native pictograms, a lyric about the internet written in the internet's compressed tongue. Its name and code make it the closing third of the SARAVI loop, the *"Vi"* vertebra in the maze's spine, threaded through the very song whose hook titles room #113. **Connects to →** [[Online]] · [[SARAVI]] · [[Concepts/The Aquarium]] · [[Roy]] ### #108 · A# · `GREY` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x6666c117460bf11e8591a4e4ad66cef72d3fa646bc55d443d72368a3171a00d2..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x6666c117460bf11e8591a4e4ad66cef72d3fa646bc55d443d72368a3171a00d2..png" width="300"></a> A hand-drawn barn owl staring straight out, three stars over its head and spiral glyphs at each side annotated *"wheels of whirling forces,"* captioned *"RAtziel the Beech Owl."* Ratziel is the Golden Dawn spelling of Raziel, the archangel of secrets assigned to Chokmah (Wisdom) on the Tree of Life, whose angelic order is the Auphanim, *"the Wheels,"* and whose scale-color is grey, which reads as the source of the code **GREY.** A secret-keeping wisdom-owl is, frankly, the Hall of Mirrors' ideal mascot. The title **A#** and code **GREY** form a note-to-color equation lifted straight off the board, whose *"AI musical scale for consciousness evolution"* pairs an ascending note row (…A, A#, B) with color swatches (…black, grey…). Its sibling, the *Grey in A#* owl photograph, closes the pairing from the other side, so owl, grey, and A# form one deliberate cross-room triangle in the consciousness-scale system. **Connects to →** [[Kabbalah - The Tree of Life]] · [[Roy]] · [[Hall of Mirrors]] ### #113 · EVERYONE LOVES THE INTERNET · `VI-LINK` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xda309cfb1149169ba382e313147e762634d50fe230ebc64a1e660a9bcd6fc2ff..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xda309cfb1149169ba382e313147e762634d50fe230ebc64a1e660a9bcd6fc2ff..png" width="300"></a> An iPhone Notes screenshot of the *"Online"* lyrics, each line annotated with emoji: a heart for *"Everyone ❤️s the internet,"* a robot/prosthetic cluster for *"as machines became more sophisticated,"* a TV for *"static,"* an apple on *"the internet,"* a ladder 🪜 for *"Know my every Step"* (Roy's recurring ladder motif), and a brain-plus-sheep for *"They infiltrate my brain,"* the sedated-herd reading drawn right onto the surveillance line. The text matches the released song almost verbatim, so this is a late draft, and the medium is the message: an internet-jingle about being profiled, living inside the very phone doing the profiling. Its code **VI-LINK** makes it the pivot of the SARAVI loop, the node through which the oracle's name gets assembled. **Connects to →** [[Online]] · [[SARAVI]] · [[Concepts/The Algorithm]] · [[Concepts/The Aquarium]] · [[Roy]] ### #114 · SA-LINK · `EVERYONE LOVES THE INTERNET` <a href="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x5d671e6236e53d7d328466acbc4bdd9d613edfb80fbc47f9a3300451c2e9adc5..png"><img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x5d671e6236e53d7d328466acbc4bdd9d613edfb80fbc47f9a3300451c2e9adc5..png" width="300"></a> An iPhone Notes screenshot titled *"Online,"* the working draft of *33*'s opening track, nearly every line carrying an emoji gloss (crystal ball, mirror, scales, coffin, apple, laptop, spiderweb). It preserves a planned INTRO that never made the released cut, whose lines, *"I think we're on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying,"* *"It's an alien life-form,"* *"we're trying to figure out what it's going to be,"* track closely to David Bowie's famous 1999 *Newsnight* remarks on the internet, with the fragment *"(It's not as far fetched as it may seem)"* surviving into the released ad-libs. The chorus line visible here, *"Everyone ❤️s the internet!,"* is this room's code in draft form. The title **SA-LINK** marks it as one of the three name-link rooms whose chained codes assemble **SA-RA-VI,** so this demo page doubles as a load-bearing joint in the maze: the surveillance-jingle's own hook is the key that spells the oracle's name. **Connects to →** [[Online]] · [[SARAVI]] · [[Concepts/Machine vs Human]] · [[Roy]] ### #127 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (˜ƒƒ) · `霊的な愛` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x37ec17d04fba44399f1ffde1938e6e21c13b7e9e86499e428c1a105251723692..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x37ec17d04fba44399f1ffde1938e6e21c13b7e9e86499e428c1a105251723692..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A ~16-second piece in three movements: first a churning wall of electric turquoise vapor lit from within, the literal *"flood"* as a rising luminous tide; then heavily degraded VHS footage, scanlines and *mirror-reversed* on-screen text (you can make out *"THE COLOR"* and *"BLACK & WHITE"*) with a phantom image bleeding through; and finally a hand-inked sigil on mint-green paper, a ringed circle around a bisected *"eye/cell"* glyph, flanked by falling teardrops and ringed by radiating dots, reading as a sun, a monstrance, or a weeping eye. The code **霊的な愛** is Japanese for *"spiritual love,"* and this is one of the twelve backward-threaded Flood Artifacts, in which each card's code is the *previous* card's Mac Option-glyph title. It belongs to the *Subject to Flooding* album-world the whole series is named for: flood, tears, *"spiritual love"* as the emotional register of being submerged. **Connects to →** [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Roy]] ### #131 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (©øø∂∂å†) · `LET GO` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe272c56be16381b013d18504b5526ad748c15a224f1309020eb0bc7af5058d10..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xe272c56be16381b013d18504b5526ad748c15a224f1309020eb0bc7af5058d10..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> An 18-second loop: a bloom of magenta/pink ink diffusing through water resolves into a blurred, pink-saturated human face (it reads as Roy), then washes out to solid aqua-blue before cutting to a hand-drawn glyph on mint paper, a circle around a slotted eye-oval with teardrops inside, a sun-eye-and-rain sigil. It's part of the backward-chained Flood series (each code is the previous artifact's Option-glyph name). Both the *"Flood"* framing and the **LET GO** code aim straight at the debut *Subject to Flooding,* whose stated meaning is *"we are all subject to flooding,"* the dissolving of ego and the walls of separation, surrender rather than escape, which the footage takes literally: a self diffusing into water. The teardrop-and-eye sigil is the flood boiled down to an emblem, the weeping, watching source at the center of the deluge. The code also has a written definition elsewhere in the maze: the City of the Pyramids page (#70) carries, in Roy's hand, *"To 'Burn forever in Hell' is to not let go. Be willing to Let Go… Sacrifice lesser aspects of self for greater."* Read together the two rooms pair naturally, hell as the refusal to release, the flood as the release performed. **Connects to →** [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Concepts/Source vs Reflection]] · [[Roy]] ### #133 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (R100) · `∆∑†` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2210d9bc6c4b092058df3858115fa67cdf9a7c2e6ca12b81b54c0ef915d2dd2d..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x2210d9bc6c4b092058df3858115fa67cdf9a7c2e6ca12b81b54c0ef915d2dd2d..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A ~35-second clip that opens on a blank blue-green field of water and slowly surfaces Roy English's face floating just beneath it (the submerged-in-the-bathtub look of the era), before dissolving into the hand-lettered title card **SUBJECT TO FLOODING,** footered *"An album by Jagwar Twin © 2018 Original Mind."* The debut album cover, delivered as a phantom reveal. It's one of the twelve backward-chained Flood Artifacts, its code a set of Mac Option-key glyphs rather than a word. The album title carries Roy's stated meaning, *"we should all let go of ego… we are all Subject to Flooding,"* the self overwhelmed, vulnerability as the universal condition, and it sits on the documented water-line thread (Eye Alaska 2010 → Subject to Flooding 2018 → *"I am the shore"* 2026). Hiding an album cover inside a self-referential glyph cipher is peak Hall of Mirrors: the thing is a biographical relic and a working key in the same breath. **Connects to →** [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Roy]] ### #134 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (ƒˆß˙) · `R100` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x75cdc398d93f1094a0b525c1e878e4272be572376372d6e7e20b89e71211a214..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x75cdc398d93f1094a0b525c1e878e4272be572376372d6e7e20b89e71211a214..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A ~13-second silent, soft-focus macro film: a defocused crimson form drifting across a teal-blue field, passing through plum and violet hazes before the whole frame dissolves into pure aquatic blue, everything submerged, everything washed out. It's one of the twelve-video Flood chain, where each code is the previous artifact's encoded name. Thematically it sits in the *Subject to Flooding* cluster, its drowning imagery the flood as the medium in which the Hall's phantoms surface and vanish. As a defocused red-in-water abstraction with a cryptographic name, it functions less as a discrete picture than as a node in the self-referential chain: a structural, atmospheric piece of the maze rather than a portrait of anything. **Connects to →** [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Roy]] ### #135 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (µø√´†ø¥ø¨) · `¬ø©øß` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa451e171f126107b23002d7375236c7b294d0ea50f3388827b66e824c08c8abb..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0xa451e171f126107b23002d7375236c7b294d0ea50f3388827b66e824c08c8abb..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A 15-second silent phantom: a hazy, out-of-focus horizon (sun low over what reads as sea or desert haze) cross-fading from warm sepia into cold blue, then resolving onto a hand-inked sigil on pale paper, a circle around a smaller bisected circle (an eye, or a phi-like mark) ringed by alternating hollow ring-dots and solid blobs, like water droplets crossed with moon phases. It's one of the twelve Flood Artifacts, each unlocked by the previous one's Mac Option-glyph name (the solved members include ∂®´åµ = dream, ˙´¬¬ = hell, Vi†ruvian, 霊的な愛 = spiritual love). The visual grammar, dissolving atmosphere, water symbols, an eye at the center of a ring, enacts the debut's flood motif: the self submerged, the ego-walls dissolving, orientation sought *inside* the deluge rather than in escaping it. It belongs to the flood/water pole, the deliberate opposite of the Circus/flame pole that arrives later with *Lucius Lullaby.* **Connects to →** [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Roy]] ### #137 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (∂®´åµ) · `©øø∂∂å†` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x044bcfedadb9d46f73e378b7fbc9b2929fcdc07c066f32cc0b796077404fffff..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x044bcfedadb9d46f73e378b7fbc9b2929fcdc07c066f32cc0b796077404fffff..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A ~14-second grainy vintage-film montage: badly degraded 8mm/16mm-style footage of the U.S. Capitol dome framed by trees, blurred crowds, the edges of marble statuary, washed-out cloud-and-water textures, the flickering archival mood that runs through the Flood series, resolving on a hand-drawn ink glyph, a double circle around a slotted eye/lens surrounded by radiating dots and teardrops. This is one of the twelve Flood Artifacts, a backward-threaded cipher whose glyph names are Mac Option-key encodings: this artifact's own name decodes to *"dream,"* and its code opens the next link. The whole series is named for and anchored to the 2018 debut *Subject to Flooding,* which makes these a drowned-archive substrate running beneath that album's cosmology. **Connects to →** [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[The Circle]] · [[Roy]] ### #138 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (∆∑†) · `ƒˆß˙` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4333b59b12ff54b6f554e0b4046d8402d93bcee36e978e4abee6b00bc9eb3e00..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x4333b59b12ff54b6f554e0b4046d8402d93bcee36e978e4abee6b00bc9eb3e00..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A ~13-second vertical phantom: it opens on a flat, watery pale-blue field, dissolves through blurred hand-held imagery in warm red/pink flesh-and-fire tones (a figure or face in bright light, then a dark grainy passage), and resolves onto a hand-drawn ink glyph on the same blue paper, a circle around a slotted *"eye"* with a divided iris, ringed by dots and teardrops, like a schematic sun, a weeping eye, or a radiant seed. The title *"∆∑†"* (delta / summation-sigma / cross) and the code aren't words but Mac Option-key glyph strings: one link in the backward-threaded chain, where each code is the *previous* artifact's encoded name. The *"cipher,"* in other words, is a keyring, not a message. The whole series is the behind-the-scenes phantom layer of *Subject to Flooding,* where *"the flood"* is everything competing to direct consciousness (culture, time, inherited dreams, raw human weather), and the blue-to-flesh-to-eye progression stages exactly that submersion-and-orientation drama. **Connects to →** [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Concepts/The Upload]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Roy]] ### #139 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (H101) · `∂®´åµ` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x633a9bb738a406428004485e0fd436116891a7d032b8da62d2d213fcf89f9228..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x633a9bb738a406428004485e0fd436116891a7d032b8da62d2d213fcf89f9228..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A ~12-second macro video that is, in the most literal sense, dozens of identical smiley-face potato snacks bobbing and cooking in bubbling, milky-blue liquid, a churning mass of grinning faces submerged underwater, before it cuts to a hand-drawn glyph (a circle around a vertical-slit *"eye,"* ringed by droplet-circles and topped by a seed-dot). It's titled *"H101,"* and its code **∂®´åµ** decodes via Mac Option-glyphs to **DREAM,** a direct pointer to the released song *"Dream / Dream."* Read against the cosmology the joke turns serious: a flooded field of identical smiling faces literalizes the album's flood metaphor and the Dream/Dream reading of collective sleep, mass Flattened Identity, everyone wearing the same grin while submerged, with the terminal eye-in-a-circle glyph as the witness watching the dreamers. And the whole thing is potato smiles in a pot, which is exactly the point: this is the DIY, kitchen-table register of the Flood series, not some esoteric encoding baked into the frame. **Connects to →** [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Concepts/Flattened Identity]] · [[Roy]] ### #140 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (Vi†ruvian) · `H101` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9e5b4250d55cd736239e65a4be961a234258f6ad8425dc97c0fc38851c630c0d..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9e5b4250d55cd736239e65a4be961a234258f6ad8425dc97c0fc38851c630c0d..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A short looping video: waves of luminous aquamarine underwater imagery dissolve into and out of grainy vintage childhood snapshots (a bob-haired child laughing, late-'70s/early-'80s home-photo stock, almost certainly from Roy English's family archive) and a hand-inked glyph, a ringed circle studded with satellite dots around a bisected central *"eye,"* a homemade cosmological seal. It's one of the twelve Flood Artifacts, this one titled *"Vi†ruvian,"* the Mac Option-glyph rendering of **Vitruvian,** Leonardo's ideal-proportion Man, the human measured against the cosmos. The imagery does what the series title says: a self submerged, memory surfacing through water. And the Vitruvian name reframes that drowned self as something being *re-measured* against an ideal template, the childhood photos supplying the personal *"before"* the flood washes over. **Connects to →** [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Roy]] ### #141 · FLOOD ARTIFACT (˙´¬¬) · `Vi†ruvian` <video src="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9657389ae0e8345046afcfc15d3bc2179bdf70cb0294b54dfb3633999e638f0d..mp4" poster="https://storage.googleapis.com/jagwar-twin-33.appspot.com/artifacts/0x9657389ae0e8345046afcfc15d3bc2179bdf70cb0294b54dfb3633999e638f0d..jpg" width="320" controls preload="none"></video> A ~25-second found-footage montage: washes of solid teal cut against degraded 1980s home video of a smiling curly-haired woman in white (family footage), a neon casino *"JACKPOT 25¢"* sign, glowing red LED numerals, vintage color film of cars on a desert highway, and a hand-drawn ink glyph (a ringed circle with a vesica/eye center and teardrop marks). This one's own name, *"˙´¬¬,"* decodes to **hell,** while its code *"Vi†ruvian"* is the encoded name of the adjacent Flood Artifact, threading the series backward rather than describing anything in the clip. The Flood series takes its name from Roy English's debut *Subject to Flooding,* and this montage's gambling imagery (JACKPOT, coins, 25¢) laid over intimate family footage sits dead-center in that album's world: the flood you try to outrun by keeping the party moving. **Connects to →** [[Hell Of A Night]] · [[Subject to Flooding]] · [[Concepts/The Pattern]] · [[Roy]] --- ## Read next - [[Artifacts]] — the hub, and the rest of the artifact groups. - [[Hall of Mirrors]] — the ARG these ciphers chain through. - [[Hall of Mirrors/The I'm 33 Board]] — the spreadsheet-cosmology most of these codes and cells are cut from.