Dr. Horn's Discord statements

"Imagine making a discovery so great and disturbing, it turns you mad. Mad enough to think beyond perception."

"the pizza arg? it may never be fully solved in a way i hope there is always some mystery"

"there could be something hidden anywhere"

"I am working on a conclusion storyline for it but that may not reach completion depends on how things go"

This page contains statements made by Stormseeker (Myon) on Discord from 6/24/2019 onwards. The page deals only with actual statements, not conjectures. The statements have been divided into categories, which can be seen in the contents box below.

Stormseeker's actual statements are enclosed in double quotation marks or in a quotation box. If a statement was made by another person, their name will be indicated in front of the quoted statement. In some cases, a question or a statement made by a player has been included to provide context for a statement. These are enclosed in single quotation marks. Duplicate statements are listed because Stormseeker posted them more than once, or they apply to several topics. The '|' character delimits multiple message lines.

For more quotes by Stormseeker, see also Stormseeker.

Dr. Horn
"Dr Horn wouldnt let something like a resonance cascade or world invasion stop his plans"

"i go by many names but mostly Chris or Dr Horn and occasionally Stormseeker and rarely, cos not many people play it Myon"

Private message sent by CPU to Stormseeker on 12/01/2019: "You have to feel sorry for Dr Horn. He discovered he was nothing more than a character in a video game" Private message response by Stormseeker on 12/01/2019: "that is essentially it yes"

Dr Horn is insane because he came to realize he's nothing more than a character in a game:

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"this is the arg thread, alot of the games secrets are found in here except apparently where Dr Horn has gone"

"Dr Horn, who isn't missing persay he's whereever he wants to be at the moment"

"there might even be more of him elsewhere | not on xen"

"2 horns, heh?" "but are they Dr Horn that is the question"

"the key thing to remember is that Dr Stone steals pizzas and Dr Horn is not mad"

"well the Myons live there, in fact its Christmas so they are all there but Dr Horn isnt there"

"ofc Dr Horn is alive in Xen who knows where he is now"

"hes certainly not where he intended to be even though perhaps he wouldnt know the difference"

"can one hold copyright to ones self and the other question would dr horn recognise copyright in his new state"

"oh Chris knows where Dr Horn is, and everything that happens for at least 200yrs into his future."

"Dr Horn was many things, some consider... un-natural"

"its not up to me to speculate on the insanity of dr horn"

"what even is a Dr Horn"

"Dr Horns labs are particle physics and biological stuffs"

"and yes, that is Dr Horns airfix model harrier he does alot of very meaningful work in the lab"

"yes i am Iro... Dr Horn"

"I can't even find myself in xen gone missing too"

"Schrödinger's canon actually dr horn can predict that now at least, one of him can its both possible and not all depends on your perspective"

"Dr Horn is not subject to issues of combine or humanities problems anymore, at least, not this or his old humanities.I suspect by the time Gordon takes part in the city 17 incident, Dr Horn would have been comfortably into his new set of research in the other location. It would be demyonstrably falst to suggest I hadn't considered the future."

"technically Dr Horn is part of a level, but also the person that created the level before he was in it he created himself"

"can one hold copyright to ones self and the other question would dr horn recognise copyright in his new state"

Speaking of the photo of Dr Horn in QE: "oh him, i rate him 5/7." Replying to a comment that says 'And he keeps on writing "The Pizza is a lie" around the facility from on a rail onwards', and 'I rate him 1/21': ":bloblhmmm: sounds highly suspicious"

"i think the cliffside apartment is less moist than my residence on Xen and both are less comfortable than my current residence"

Speaking of his Xen Lair "well its more of a cave but with good inter dimensional access if you can fix it"

Replying to 'did someone had to draw all of that [whiteboards]' "he did", "he was a poor fool with bad handwriting", "when he was done, we killed him and replaced with a clone"

"im sure it will become clear soon until then i shall be in the other place"

"soon you would have become mine and then its off to the lab for tests"

Referencing Xen, "he took a portal outta there but that broke"

"some of the Black Mesa facility is based on real world places that I have gone, and by extension, Dr Horn has gone, technically meaning that cold war areas of the facility that were likely built before Dr Horn was alive, were actually referenced from earlier examples, constructed by him then visited by another him in another time reference and another dimension"

"i am Dr Horn"

"you cant kill Dr Horn that easy not anymore"

"you dont need to go there for post mortem interval because Dr Horn is crossed out on the list, and replaced by another scientist"

"finding the dead team members of the research team in gonarchs lair... would require Dr Horn to be dead"

"he [Dr Nielsen] has a room in Site A1 alongside Dr Horn you can find Dr Nielsen in Gonarchs Lairdon't forget to press F to pay respects"

"my shack has portals Dr Horn has a way with em same with the cave"

"you can find this one, in the inbound tram"



"Dr Horn leaving his laser cannon plans in the bin"

"very few devs know the full story in fact only one knows the "whole" story well Dr Horn knows"

"i know where they all live [The Crowbar Collective]", "but thats part of my job", "Dr Horn must know where they all are easier to track pizza thieves that way"

"Dr Horn is unknown"

Synthomite: 'I like to think Dr Horn is living in Xen, cooking headcrabs and in a committed and loving relationship with a Vortigaunt':

'And left his HEV suit in his Xen office thing':

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'I wonder if you can get to Dr. Horn's dimension via Xen? Or Hell?'

Dead HEV suit scientists with Dr. Horn's nametags
In response to a screenshot of a HEV suit with Dr. Horn's nametag next to a The Pizza is a LIE! found in a vent in Unforeseen Consequences :

HALOS/Artificial Intelligence
HALOS is an AI but "it doesn't use a neural net to operate."

'HALOS?':

HALOS was created to investigate exotic matter in Xen

HALOS has "grown beyond its design specifications"

"as for its [HALOS] original purpose it's probably related to the investigations into multiplexed exotic matter based systems detailed on the boards in Xen. As to why, that is far more integrated into the game, check for previous marketing media that might give hints"

"yes HALOS is an AI, but it doesn't use a neural net to operate. I'm not sure what it wants, but it's grown beyond its design specifications."

In response to 'I actually bought Niobium': "I saw that that's pretty cool you can now make some AI"

In response to 'Well an AI that becomes self aware would be bad potentially. Especially if we think of the paper clip maximizing problem and such things':

Holograms/Clones/Haptic Holography
(From 8/24/2019 PM)

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"and i decided to do particle synthesis and hard light holographics instead and stored the brush npc in a hidey hole in my labs"



"gotta be careful with cloning dna, it tends to gain errors over time much better to have a larger pool and something more simplistic something that likes wooly jumpers"

In response to 'Something that can be easily manipulated?' "precisely ofc the problem is, when that something is unreachable due to reality but really, thats just a minor hurdle, if you can think outside of the box"



In response to funny picture: "feel kinda cute, might clone someone today, idk"

Xen
"remember Xen isnt a planet its a membrane of existence stretched between dimensions across an integral micro existence essentially 5th dimensional space the atmosphere just surrounds it"

"xen is a borderworld"

"Xen is a world between worlds anything could pop in there accidentally and alot of the inhabiting creatures, are from different areas and realms of existence the idea that vortigaunts only occupy one part of space or a single planet with their ability to teleport themselves via vortessence seems silly"

"Xen exists across dimensional planes in a calabi yau manifold style 6 dimensional space so all kinds of stuff we dont actually know beyond mathematical theory could happen there"

"in extra dimensional locations, materials may not act as they do in this one technically"

"there is definitely something flammable on Xen"

"gravity in Xen is not neccesarily what you think it is"

"Xen tower is dimensionally transcendental, what can I say nothing is as it seems in a dimension stretched thin between others"

"not all creatures in Xen are results from combine Xen is not exclusive to that and not all creatures are all of it is themed around terraforming and symbiosis none of Xens life is original to Xen it all comes from elsewhere"

Exotic Matter
"Xen crystals are Exotic matter gotta extract that somehow bombarding with photons seems to work"

"Xen crystals contain a high level of exotic matter"

"as for its [HALOS] original purpose it's probably related to the investigations into multiplexed exotic matter based systems detailed on the boards in Xen. As to why, that is far more integrated into the game, check for previous marketing media that might give hints"

"exotic matter is theoretically used in the seeding of lorentzian wormholes", "ie – portals"

"exotic matter based portalling is based on lorentzian wormhole theory", "you use exotic matter (xen crystals) to seed the event horizon of a wormhole to stabilise it"

"xen crystals contain a high level of exotic matter remember Combine use dark matter teleporters which are linear in basis"



Early Design Notes: Hidden crystals, to power and portal the player somewhere, were found in early drawings of Vortigaunt village:

"The centre of the village should be a non working teleporter (used to get workers direct into the factory), but unusable by the player. (this could also be used if we wanted to create a small easter egg or achievement by finding hidden crystals to power and portal the player somewhere)."

"i guess in my head, the tower is used as a giant psychic amplifier which allows him to open portals in another dimension stabilizing those with the exotic matter extracted from the crystals"

"the conveyors are literally the representation of intestine they move things along energy psychokinetic, exotic matter from Xen crystals"

GW2/Myons/Asura Gate
"its not based on stargate"

"you mean the gate in the secret lab? That is special and not part of the general half life lore"

"the portal plate is actually broken and covered in webbing ie you cant go to gonarch because the destination pad is broken same one as you arrive in xen on just broken"

"that particular gate is something specific to Dr Horn"

"the Myons tho, are part of the ARG"



In response to 'But muons are also very unstable, the mean lifetime of a muon is about 2.197 µs': "i dont know what you mean", "Myons are very stable"

"i mean you can try to stabilize a bit with time dilation, but i find that cake or other food tends to grab their attention more."

"gw2 is incidental, as is bugs, stargates not reaaaally part of it"

The gate in Dr. Horn's Xen lair is "definitely a replica of an asura gate, not that specific one, but same thing."

"The gate is broken, rather than inactive, but it wasn't broken before, nor inactive."

"but Dr Horn isnt there"

"well the Myons live there, in fact its Christmas so they are all there but Dr Horn isnt there"

'So they could get around a large facility pretty easily':

'What kind of environment can they survive in? Similar to humans?':

'Byte form', 'Or bit':

'Do you mean is the cat both dead and alive at the same time kind of thing?':

'Well an AI that becomes self aware would be bad potentially. Especially if we think of the paper clip maximizing problem and such things':

"Aira is an engineer holosmith"

"you assume myons are capable of reading/writing theres a reason they got banished for that lab mishap#"

"one day, im sure some people will visit where they went"

"myons would never kill not in their nature accidentally maim or disfigure perhaps but accidentally"

"what the myons are however is open to interpretation"

In response to 'is snack supply canister part of ARG?':

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"they [MYONS] have SOME ethical cooking skills you know"

In response to 'What do Myons specialize in?': "what dont they", "sadly i cant tell you that, because there is not enough time"

"infinite things they dont specialise in despite being highly trained"



In response to: 'pizza oven, by the looks of it':

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"myons really get everywhere"

"family is everything to myons they tend to organise into highly trained (dubious) teams"

"my head is full of highly trained myons all messing everything up"

"if a myon sends you something, its likely to be well intentioned, and completely useless"

"i wonder if people have found the Myons gift yet there's an achievement for finding it"

In response to 'what are myons': "more accurately - why are Myons"

"i already have a camera and watch myself but i also have drones and teams of highly trained myons to observe the others"

"Guild Wars is important, when u got 12 Myons to get fashionwars done for"

"myons need gold"

"cant leave the Myons without their daily 2 gold"

"oh Dr Horn isnt bothered by petty things like aliens and military he has his own far greater plans but there is nothing worse than Myons in your Pizzaria"

'So what is a myon?'

'I noticed the stargate in the Gonarch's Lair secret cave.. and the fact that it's glowing colors...':

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Prof. B
Why is Prof. B so smart?

On tracing Prof. B:

On the name "Bikket"

In response to 'The Wood exists outside of all worlds. It's a nexus or a hub from where you can access all the portals that go to the other worlds.':

On locating Prof. B:

Portals/Gates
"xen crystals contain a high level of exotic matter remember Combine use dark matter teleporters which are linear in basis"

Hidden crystals, to power and portal the player somewhere, were found in early drawings of Vortigaunt village:

"The centre of the village should be a non working teleporter (used to get workers direct into the factory), but unusable by the player. (this could also be used if we wanted to create a small easter egg or achievement by finding hidden crystals to power and portal the player somewhere)."

"is it a star gate who knows what it is" [Asura Gate]

"its not based on stargate" [Asura Gate]

"you mean the gate in the secret lab? That is special and not part of the general half life lore" [Asura Gate]

"that particular gate is something specific to Dr Horn" [Asura Gate]

"the portal plate is actually broken and covered in webbing ie you cant go to gonarch because the destination pad is broken same one as you arrive in xen on just broken"

"mebbe theres some thing in there in dr horns notes that will explain or on that radio who knows"

"the gate is the reason for his realization"

"1 teleporter multiple destinations"

"Xen crystals contain a high level of exotic matter remember Combine use dark matter teleporters which are linear in basis"

In response to this post:

'Found something while searching for secrets - In the conveyor+jump pad factory map there is a teleport filter for both the hidden hat and a pizza, so you must be able to bring a pizza there I would presume'

'The named object for the filter is "drhornspizza"'

"PANIC

mine"

"exotic matter based portalling is based on lorentzian wormhole theory", "you use exotic matter (xen crystals) to seed the event horizon of a wormhole to stabilise it", "humans found a way to target spots", "combine tech is very much more direct", "and requires the towers to focus a location"

In response to 'Did you not notice that the giant portal from Lambda Core uses a return pad that you get sent to' "just because you dont see it, doesnt mean it doesnt exist the teleporter in gonarchs lair is from a different portal hub in BM its also broken they dont all go from the main portal in LC"

"you never see it"

"i deliberately had in mind that there are multiple Xen sites you visit one of the teleport IN locations in Xen A you see another in Gonarch B however you dont see the multiple other locations including ones from the expansions, 1 teleporter multiple destinations, once they have travelled to the parts they need, either through random location or normal travel they setup the incoming pads which you find in Xen and Gonarch those are like homing beacons so they can now just teleport there reliably its like the idea of sending a transmission through a wormhole you can focus the points to teleport to, on coordinates"

"one of the portal pads has been setup specifically tuned to the Cyanogen"

"i guess in my head, the tower is used as a giant psychic amplifier which allows him to open portals in another dimension"

"the tower enhancing the Nihilanths abilities through it to form a mega portal and project his psychic abilities far beyond the abilities of the Combine"

"my shack has portals Dr Horn has a way with em same with the cave"

"yet the gate isnt a stargate just the thing on the whiteboard yeah they never discovered the ledge teleporter they had the ability to target roughly incursions with portals there are alot more sites we only did the two"

In response to 'Isn't there an Easter egg in surface tention that involves portals': "there is"

"exotic matter is theoretically used in the seeding of lorentzian wormholes", "ie – portals"

Posted 11/5/2019:



'I feel like one thing you guys missed an opportunity for in xen is having abandoned/wrecked probes/UAVS scattered about, particulalry seeing as how Black Mesa was already an industry leader in robotics':

In response to: 'Why didn't they just teleport Gordon to gonarch?':

'I dont think they can controll where the portal leads'

Continued response to 'but why is it like that?':

'Stargate':

'It is a stargate':

'what portal do you use to arrive in that place':

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In response to 'I wonder if you can get to Dr. Horn's dimension via Xen? Or Hell?':

Lorentzian Wormholes
'What if our pizzas represent stars or other celestial bodies? Perhaps our mirror is a black hole/white hole/variant?':

'the tower/nihilanth collapses into a black hole :eyes:':

'So in your interpretation do Black Holes serve as a direct link to other dimensions (cutting through Xen)':

'The stabilizing element that's needed for the portal is the exotic matter (crystals) that are growing on the gate now. The question is how are they growing? Who or what is responsible for them doing so?':

'So you rub Myonmite on a wormhole and it therefore stabilizes it?':

Quantum Mechanics/Quantum Computing/Reality
In response to 'The two suits, one is lying face down, the other one is lying face up. Maybe they represent the binary states 0 and 1. Or, maybe they represent a quantum state where they are both 0 and 1 at the same time.':

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On the Theory of Everything (ToE):

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Hell
In response to a discussion about the City of Dis:

In response to '21 cities in hell?':

X01/X02, Data Core, c2a4d
'oh I think it's the cut mine map':

'I wonder if shepered accidentally walked into x01 and x02':

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'Post ARG I kinda actually want you to map X01 and X02.'

In response to 'Isn't the Datacore map the really blue lookin' place? from hl1':

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"below lies c2a4d we do not speak of it never go to map c2a4d"

"there is a vast complex of labs and biodomes beneath the QE labs"

"its probably all revealed in c2a4d but we dont talk about that place"

"there is only one person on earth who knows what that level looks like and he does not talk about it"



Niobium
"super cooled niobium is fast but nothing beats bio neural at room temp"

"niobium is fast when supercooled but nothing beats bio neural at room temp eventually however, that decays so you need to find other methods other... exotic materials with unusual properties you might say, niobium is a starter material beyond that, it gets more perception based"

"niobium is useful", "some of them [MYONS] might want that", "but you have to remember, its all just a game", "might run better with niobium"

"niobium is very handy for superconductors"

In response to 'I actually bought Niobium': "I saw that that's pretty cool you can now make some AI"

Nano Lens/Nano Optics
(Twitter, 31 Dec 2019)



ARG Players
"The tests may or may not involve arg players, only Dr Horn who originally designed HALOS would know.

"i mean i could just be including you all in a downwards spiral of insanity that makes shutter island look like a disney film | but you all seem to have excellent coping mechanisms"

G-Man
In response to: if you shoot the gman he has blood and bullet holes? "you think he bleeds or its a projection of what he wants you to see"

"you dont see gman in xen because gman is not in Xen he wasnt in Xen in hl1 either however, when you kill Nihilanth that barrier is removed and you now see him projecting"

"endgame shows you a few interesting things about what gman wants you to see the scene where the black hole is in the background to the tram hes not actually in either location hes in a box"

"what you see is a projection of him over a camera as both are projections he can be physical or notsometimes hes standing there other times... well i really can't say needless to say, Dr Horn doesn't have any further dealings with him"

Sphere of Chon
"I am uncomfortable with this.... new religion." 

"Dr Horn will put a stop to the sphere for good one day"

"the sphere of chon is heresy im definitely breaking chon when i can i stole his driveway once cos cheap parking"

"the Pizza Cult will conquer them all sphere of chon is a false god"

"chon would probably have been a scientist in QE"

"im not even sure which department from teh ABRF he was from i know i put a Chon in Xen somewhere"

"sphere of chon is a lie"

"@[LD] DIGITAL SPORTS your cult days are numbered"

"i think Adam just enabled whatever default list the bot has i dont think hes customised that specifically if he did, we'd definitely have to add Chon to it, to stop the Heresy known as Sphere"



[Art]wallworm: "Unfortunately, I don't have compiled level, but here is the screenshot of the actual Sphere of Chon, floating demonically in Max: It was actually just to test a shader parameter we added ($moss) that will blend on displacements and props... I couldn't just have a simple bland scene so I needed to add something epic, something that would last the ages... the one and only, the great Sphere of Chon!"

 'I just love how a small dev joke like Sphere of Chon made it into the arg'

Where to Look/Clues/Questions
In response to 'Will 1.0 add any more clues?'

In response to: 'i wonder if there were hev suit scientists that actually got out alive of xen'

'The QE team doesn't make it?'

In response to 'they remind me of the big ones in Xen, which you have to pop' "that's the idea"

"As to why, that is far more integrated into the game, check for previous marketing media that might give hints, X01 and X02 represent a core of data that don't yet exist in the public space, but if it did..."

Responding to 'why is the pizza a lie if theres pizza everywhere'?

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In response to:

'Found something while searching for secrets - In the conveyor+jump pad factory map there is a teleport filter for both the hidden hat and a pizza, so you must be able to bring a pizza there I would presume. The named object for the filter is "drhornspizza"'

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In regards to the two HEV bodies in the Xen lair.

--- "its full of stars" "props if you get that reference" (A "2001: A Space Odyssey" reference from the novel, Dave Bowman's famous last words as his pod flies over the monolith, it turns into a tunnel/wormhole/stargate, and he flies into it: "The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it's full of stars!") ---

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In-game Secrets/Easter Eggs
'To the best of my knowledge all hidden spots have been found'

'Storm, is there any major easter eggs noone has discovered yet?'

On the initials "CM" found in Office Complex:

Storyline/ARG lore
'So, the guys who work on ABRF are different than the ones in Site 8?'

'So the guys in Xen are from AnoMat and ABRF'?

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'Did the Gonarch capture operation happen days before the Resonance Cascade?'

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'well about those supply crates that spawn in. Are they teleported in by BM scientists to assist gordon or somthing?'

In reference to the 1001085139140914.html message:

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In response to: 'in the remake everything has a logical explanation, in the original it was just a set of maps':

'What do you think bio-dome from Opposing Force and QE labs this is one complex?'

'but an idea of how the ichthyosaurus got into the dam reservoir would be very good.'

In response to: 'i wonder if there were hev suit scientists that actually got out alive of xen':

'The QE team doesn't make it?'

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'Wauw, I havn't thought about the connection between Questionable Ethics and the colony in Xen ._.'

'but how do the qe ppl get to xen'

'I dont think they can controll where the portal leads'

Comments found in dead HEV scientist entities in the official mapsrc .vmf files:

About the ARG
'So, what's the point of the pizza delivery arg?!?'

'I mean, I know it's about finding hidden codes, and translating them..... but has anyone in the world finished it, yet?'

 'Now Chris, i have seen you reference pizza well before, like years, before the mod was released. On the forums.'

 'Like im sure the wait between launch and the xen maps with the easter eggs to complete the arg must have been difficult'

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'How long do you reckon it will be until it's solved?'

Websites (bmrf.us/thestormseeker.com)
'Part of me wants to keep the online parts of the ARG preserved and in a working state, such as the secret part of the thing.'

'You did have a hidden area that required a username/password....'

'We tried accessing that at one point....'

'Who was behind that planning wise?'

Emoji
Stormseeker frequently uses emoji to communicate with ARG players. These are predominantly catblobs. A few emoji, however, are directly related to Myons. The "Myon" emoji is frequently used as a reaction emoji or in the chat to indicate that a theory or an idea posted by an ARG participant is correct, or close to the answer. "Myonmite" is the Myon equivalent of Marmite (a food spread made from yeast extract).

The "emoji story"
On December 18, 2020, when asked the question "The pizzas Chris, what do they mean?", Stormseeker answered the question by reacting to the message with a long string of emojis.

The names of the emojis used are as follows:

blobcatnompizza → blackhole → gemini (twins) → blobcatgooglyjail → ASevil → meowbox → meowthinkingportal → Think → blobcatscience → A (red) → A (blue) → panic → Myon → myonmite → blobcatburglar → blobgalaxynomplanet → mesa → blobcsignbai

Prof. B (a mysterious Myon who has been leaking information to ARG players) duplicated the reactions by clicking on each and everyone of the emojis. In addition to this, he added the "rutta" purple hat emoji at the end.

Status messages
Another means of communicating with ARG players is through status messages.