The Snailbot Town Mystery

[antholomations]

Inside the Snailbot Elder's house, behind the Elder is a nook where Haiku is off the screen, stand there for a short period of time and you'll hear the teleportation sound cue, if you teleport against the wall in step with the sound it gets louder with each time. I don't know if this is a game bug, or if it's the tip of a larger mystery, because the Snail Elder says this as well: MONA JEKUTE NAWE. TEJIM MONA BILIJU FOJANE. Notice how MONA repeats, this leads me to believe it might be some form of a cipher. If anyone can go to this spot, and repeat it in their game, please tell me if you hear the sound as well.

[antholomations]

There's something going on here.

Quick Update on my findings thus far:

Outside the Elder's house, down below to the left is a chalkboard. On this chalk board is 26 symbols, same number as letters in the English Alphabet. Above the door to the Elder's house is a sign with those letters, which when used say The Elder] which leads me to believe these letters might be elsewhere in the world.

I'm not great with ciphers, and I've tried a few sites to brute force: MONA JEKUTE NAWE. TEJIM MONA BILIJU FOJANE with little to no success. I think I'm lacking a keyword to unlock the code, unknown to me as of right now.

I also believe this might have something to do with Gran Calculus, some kind of Math God worshiped by the robots, spoken about as a bringer of balance, and worshiped by the Elder it would seem.

[antholomations]

Yup, there is these codes in plain sight all throughout the game, on the Train inside the Train, and on those strange moon shaped monuments.

All my current solved codes below.

On the Train it says: PRONTO. Inside the Train above the door it says: WELCOME. Above the Eye at the front inside and the back inside the Train it says: THE CONDUCTOR. This one is a juicy one, above on the left hand side of the mainframe Gran Calculus Monument it says: ELEGY'S ACCOUNT]

That's all I have thus far, but ELEGY in the letter on the Monument refers to themselves as an Elder, so perhaps this is a clue?

[antholomations]

If anyone is looking for a Cheat Sheet with the Symbols already converted to Letters, I have made one, just click on my profile, and get it from my artwork section. Happy Hunting, Fellow Sleuths. :)

[antholomations]

Great news everyone, I did it, I understand what the Snailbot Elder is saying. MONA JEKUTE NAWE. TEJIM MONA BILIJU FOJANE translates to SHE CLEAN WAY. WATER SHE MOVE FREE. Yup,it wasn't a cipher, but a language called ROILA; the RObot Interaction Language.]

I know there is another of these sentences in the game, but its super late, so maybe someone else will solve it.]

[yesnomu]

Thanks for putting this together! I was curious about those too but had no idea where to start. That's super cool!

[Yufie]

@antholomations Amazing! How did you figure this out? Was there any lead that pointed you to ROILA?

[antholomations]

Honestly, I was stumped for the longest time, until I just Googled the words and found the ROILA Glossary.

There is another cipher I didn't put on here, it is a long one, but if you have the time: When you enter the Mainframe, you will notice matrix like falling code, if you take screenshots, or I suppose try and draw the symbols fast enough you can decipher this one. It is a cute enough message, but can be a chore.

[Yufie]

Upon replay I just realised there's also one uttered by the robot before he/she committed suicide by jumping into the fire

[antholomations]

Indeed, you're right and the message is: WEFIPU NEJOJ SOWU WELONA, FOJANE BAMAS SESEME NIKUF PUBEMU SOWU FEKAKU. MEKOBI BAFOP KULIL FENOB NIKUF BUKUF.

And here it is translated: Delicate fine and flame, free this land from ill and hate. Breath in new life from death.

[cardvark61]

In the top left corner of Steamtown, there is a building labeled "SHOP". As far as I can tell, there is no way to enter.

[cardvark61]

Also, in the vault, one of the falling strings of text says herobotth which might be The Robot looping.

Edit: I checked again, and it seems that all of the texts say "Haiku the Robot"

[BallisticGhoul]

Wow, this is really cool.