#codebreak smp ra

[saurian-oddity]

I think I see someone looking at me through that window... I might... be a LITTLE delusional...

no filter/background below cut :)

this scene fucking killed me I had to draw it

[aghostcalledhollow]

Who is Username: Ra?

Spoiler’s for Zane’s POV up to Ep. 4

I think Ra - or Mothman as Zane calls him because he refuses to tell anyone his name or pronouns (we think he uses he because Josie uses he for him) - is either the creator/host of the game or the first person trapped.

He is shown to have a lot more power, access, and control of the game than other NPCs (maybe except for Josie - they both seem to be able to teleport around).

As he either already knew Zane’s information or had the authorisation to open a file locked by 3z-r4/Ezra. Which puts him higher in the chain of command of the game.

On top of that he is able to summon seemingly anything - enemy or item - as he both summons a witch and giant skeleton monster on Zane and starts filling his inventory with little notes. He is also able to summon the items he keeps trying to give to people.

This all suggests someone with a lot of knowledge of the game. Perhaps he’s already beaten the game and got the “free play mode” where he can do anything. Or maybe he’s the one who coded it and thus of course he knows how it works and can manipulate it.

But what really gets me thinking that he is in control of, or the first person trapped in, the game is what he says to Zane about not leaving. He doesn’t want anyone to leave - says the cursed ring will make sure Zane doesn’t have to.

Why would he want people to stay enough to blackmail Zane into either putting his ring on or getting someone else to?

I think it’s either because he’s lonely - needs other people here with him - or because he made this game and “needs” people here to enjoy it, possibly both.

[aghostcalledhollow]

What happened to Raine Bennet?

This is a crack theory based off of the trailer and the few interactions with Username: Ra.

I think either the thing Raine Bennet was working on was 3Z-R4 / the game or Raine Bennet is 3Z-R4.

Option one: Working on the game

If the first one is true, I think 3Z-RA was a friend (maybe partner) to Raine and something happened to them and so Raine made a digital backup of their brain, but it didn’t work quite right and they became 3Z-R4 losing their memories and their sense of self - becoming the robot. I think given this, the world of Solis was made for 3Z-R4 as a place for them to be happy and so they didn’t feel trapped in a computer.

I also think in this scenario Raine is Ra/Mothman/Bug and has potentially lost himself to the grief of failing their loved one and that’s why he brings other people and doesn’t want anyone leaving. Raine/3Z-R4 needs companionship and he just keeps trying again and again.

Option Two: Raine = 3Z-R4

If the second option is true and Raine is 3Z-R4. Then, I think Ra is more like Tron, in that he is a computer program, maybe something made by Bennet to run the game he made (the world of Solis) but something corrupted the game, or maybe just Ra, and caused him to start keeping people in the game - make sure the game never ends - this started with Bennet and then grew to anyone who looked into Bennet and then grew again - all to stop 3Z-R4 from leaving the game.

(It could potentially be a work partner but we don't hear anything about Raine working with anyone and there is a friend mentioned in the trailer who has no idea).

But 3Z-R4 was powered off, and was woken up by The Players. Perhaps the reason there’s been a pause for so long - the ‘several years later’ from the trailer - is because the original people taken weren’t complete enough, they all became NPC-like. Even J0S13 is monotone and potentially can’t feel emotions - doesn’t seem to care about anything. These NPCs weren’t able to do enough to keep the world alive and thus keep 3Z-R4 powered on. But now - at least for now - we have new players, with no memory issues that can keep the world alive and keep 3Z-R4 happy.

But the question here is. Are the players an improvement on the NPCs or have the players just not run out of memory space yet. Was the NPC issue a bug that’s been patched or an inevitable failure of the game system.

[aghostcalledhollow]

I don't think Ra is actually that evil

Spoiler's for Zane Ep. 10 and The character thoughts channel

In Zane's most recent episode he is forced to push Ezra into the volcano to free him from the Ring of Seven Curses (Ra's gift). Afterwards Ra is incredibly hostile and angry towards Zane but doesn't actually harm him.

Eventually, although it takes a while, Ezra is returned from death but only after Zane and Ra have a talk that is pretty much Ra berrating Zane for being an asshole and getting Ezra to put the ring on in the first place.

Okay, that all seems pretty mean. He put Zane in a horrible situation and then it forces a horrible solution and blames Zane for it.

But, in the discord there is a Character Thoughts channel which cast members can write in and we get occasional coded messages written in Standard Galactic (A.K.A Enchanting Table).

I'm pretty sure these are from Ra - although that's not been specified, but a lot of them seem to fit him and react to things going on in the world.Also, since the SMP started they've been cyphered. I think this is because someone is hacking into this chat to send messages and can't otherwise.

The most recent Cyphered message was: "ᒲ'ꖎ ⋮𝙹⍊ᑑ!¡…I'ᑑ ∷⎓∷⍊ ̇/ ╎ᒷᒷꖌᓵ||. ᒲᓭ リᔑ∴ ᓭ||ᒷ ᓭᒲᓵ|| ᔑ⨅!¡ ℸ ̣ ᓭ ᒷ⨅ ̇/ ̇/⊣⨅ᓭ, ᒲ ⍊⎓⚍!¡ᓵ ||ᔑ⨅↸ ⚍𝙹∷↸ ⨅ℸ ̣ ᑑ ̇/⋮ᒷ!¡ᒷ ⨅⎓ ᒲ ʖ⎓⚍!¡ᓵ ||ᔑ⨅↸."

Which when translated and decyphered is: "I'm sorry…I'm sorry really. It was the only way to fix this, i would have done it myself if i could have."

The specific Cypher used was Vigenere, different than the ROT/Ceaser Cypher typically used, but I think that was so the key to decypher it was EZRA.

This could be a hint that it's Ezra talking but I don't think so - I think if Ezra could they would talk in plain text. J0S13 has.

So, if this is still Ra talking then it's a very different side to Ra then we typically see. It seems genuinely regretful and unhappy with what happened.

I think this is very telling. I think Ra, the person we see in game, the dickhead who tries to blackmail people and who is hostile and threatening is a persona. A cover.

It's a way for them to deal with everything. It's a mask or a coping mechanism and I wonder how long before we see the cracks in game.

[aghostcalledhollow]

Who made the game?

Cause it might not be Ra.

General Codebreak spoilers up to 29.4.26

Ra had to hack the game to give Zane the ring he got Ezra to wear - that shows a lot of knowledge of the game system but not control of it and then with Ra saying to Jack that “Having people out there didn’t stop it happening to me.” This suggests that he got trapped in the game just like everyone else.

However, there are the coded messages from the character thoughts channel, which I believe come from Ra, and an early message from before the start of Codebreak was “I made this place, why can’t I leave.”

Now at first that seems like a statement saying that he (or whoever those messages are from) did create the game, but I think the use of ‘place’ is specific. Maybe the game system is something Ra found in the real world. It allowed him to create this world/setting for the players to inhabit - like a map builder for a game that already exists - and then, once the world was built, he got stuck inside the game unable to leave.

I think an important question that will lead to a lot of answers is who or what made the game system (the back end) cause we know who built the world, Ra - first from the coded messages (assuming they are from him) and then from him saying “You beat my maze” after a group of players cleared the labyrinth by the Volcano. Along with that, he has asked a few different people what he can do to ‘make this place better for people’.

But, if he didn’t make this game - who did?

I think the answer to that is dependant on the type of situation we are dealing with. A.K.A is this a Tron situation or a Jumanji situation. Tron was a computer program made by a real person - that allowed you to enter it and then was hard to leave. Jumanji seems to be some kind of magical evil entity that takes the form of a game and can, if we take the later films into account, change and update itself into different game formats to be played and to trap people inside of itself.

If this is a Tron situation then we’re looking for a person, maybe Ra or Raine Bennet (if they aren’t the same person) did build the game and then got stuck. This might also explain Ezra, Tron is a character in the Tron films - he’s a part of the game, but different from the other NPCs (I may be wrong, it’s been a while since I’ve seen the Tron films and I didn’t watch the most recent one). Ezra may be a Tron like character.

However, if this is a Jumanji Situation. We’re not looking for a creator that is keeping people in the game - it’s the game itself and thus there will probably be some specific set of points that have to be done to complete the game before you can leave. You have to finish the game to fix everything in Jumanji and in the sequels you have to win the game to leave. Maybe, there’s never been enough players before, maybe the players have fallen into the traps of the game and that’s what causes NPCs. This does make Ezra a lot more complicated to figure out. He’s not an NPC, at least not exactly. We know he was made by someone from the Logs that the Eyes read out but also that when asked if Ezra was an NPC M0thm00n said “That’s what he says he is.” He could not be an NPC because he was made in the game and the other NPCs are people that have been taken by the game. Or he could not be an NPC because he was made differently to the other NPCs. It’s hard to know exactly. But, I think if we’re dealing with the game being Jumanji-like something big is gonna happen with Ezra.

(Though a part of me wonders if Ezra might still in some way be Raine Bennet. Could both Ra and Ezra be Raine Bennet?)