Big Hidden Secret?

[The Enigma]

[Slight possible spoilers ahead]

I haven't actually finished the game (still searching for Ruby at the end of day 3), but I recently came across a few perplexing details that all seem to hint at one big secret hidden in the game. I typically scorn at (most) conspiracy theories and I'm far from saying that there's definitely something to my findings, but it all seems too peculiar for me to ignore and I'd like people to share their thoughts on this.

So here are my discoveries:

1- While inside the game developer studio (in the basement of the bookstore), you can find a data file called 'Production Schedule' and eventually read it after acquiring the password. Now I already thought it was quite interesting/peculiar to have a game studio included in the game (kinda like the devs of Disco Elysium self-referencing their work), so I felt like exploring it thoroughly.

While reading this (rather lengthy) 'Production Schedule', at some point you can discover what led to the studio's demise. Among other details, you can learn that the lead developer invested too much resources toward a "secret mystical location", one that's supposedly accessible "at the extreme edge of the map" and where the player can unlock heads for the "headless constructs" of the game. Of important note, "each head would have been voiced on air by a professional actor". Maybe this is hinting at future plans to include more voice acting in Disco Elysium at a later time?

Shortly after learning that, you can actually ask the computer to compute all of the heads/bodies possibilities. If you choose so, the game (Disco Elysium that is) literally bombards you with a GIGANORMOUS number that goes on-and-on-and-on-and-on, for like 10+ pages of text or so.

(Number starts at 0:32)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-8b5p_xqqI
Pretty damn unsettling, the whole thing really stood out to me and I felt like casually keeping an eye for a potential "secret mystical location at the extreme edge of the map" while playing Disco Elysium.

2- While searching for Ruby, if your Shivers ability is high enough you can trigger a thought/feeling in the barren field near the fishing village. Now that thought/feeling is noticeably longer than most other ones you can encounter, where you can practically 'feel' the entirety of the game's world (and slightly beyond). You can ask "What's north/south/east/west/below?" as well as "Where's Ruby?", and if you explore it all it goes on-and-on about seemingly unimportant details (eg. "you see school kids on a cold morning with petals flying in the air, yada yada").

Now I thought that this too stood out quite a bit and felt like reading it all very attentively, until I finally stumbled across a few paragraphs (under the option "What's east?") that particularly stood out to me amid all that blather:

"And further..."

"A fenced-off yard. There's a truck belonging to a logistics company parked next to the gate. Bright light from a building behind the fence reflects off its hood."

"Clean white light, coming from the windows of a clean cube-shaped office building hidden amidst ruins. A secret..."

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/JHG5YWk

Combined with point #1 where I thought that there might be a secret "at the edge of the map", I felt like exploring east to figure out if that "truck belonging to a logistics company" was actually a thing within the game world of Disco Elysium. Which led me to point #3...

3- Yep, the truck definitely exists and you can spot it just a few screens to the right of the pawn shop, at (you guessed it) the edge of the map. "Delta Logistics Company" it reads, and again, if you approach it with high enough Shivers a thought/feeling is triggered where you can scrutinize the mysterious "bright light" mentioned in point #2. Another option "explore more" is also available but in my case (end of day 3) the game told me to "return to it later".

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/N9DMPRS

Now an extremely peculiar fact: if you observe the writing on the truck, the first letters of "Delta Logistics Company" really stand out in that they're much brighter than the other letters and there's also a noticeable spacing between those first letters and the rest of the words. Notice how all 3 of them are also perfectly aligned vertically. And what are those letters? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ "DLC"... as in ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ "downloadable content". As mentioned in point #1, maybe this DLC will have to do with additional voice acting for Disco Elysium?

End of my findings. Now it's as I told it in my introduction, "I typically scorn at (most) conspiracy theories and I'm far from saying that there's definitely something to my findings"... but I dunno, to me it all seems all too convenient/consistent to ignore.

What are your thoughts about this?

If this is just related to end-game content that I have yet to unlock, please simply disregard this silly theory (or laugh at it, I sure don't mind). Otherwise, you're more than welcome to share your own ideas about this, either positive or negative. :)

[Sleeping Viper]

interesting. Whilst around the building with the father and child standing out front of it and hitting TAB a staircase can be seen to highlight through the cracks in the roof

[The Enigma]

Okay, I just reloaded a save to replay the thought/feeling triggered by the truck presented in point #3, and this is me paraphrasing the gist of it:

- Approaching the truck
"You see a truck belonging to a logistics company... you somehow knew it would be here."

- Why does the bright light reflected on the hood seem so odd?
"Because this is a place of mystery." (that's actually the literal quote presented by the game)

- What are those people doing in the office at the back of the yard?
"They're motivated by irony (?), they work so hard that they forgot what they're actually working on, their project is to change the face of reality forever."

This is all seriously so mystifying...

[Du-Vu]

^^ The staircase is one of two ways of getting inside the Feld building, you can access it in the current game. But yeah, I'm sure there have gotta be some easter eggs still to find, and that DLC hook seems pretty glaring. Good catch.

[carni]

Interesting.
In the end of the game, when talking with the murderer, I got passive Shivers check telling me ALL IS NOT THAT IS SEEMS . It might refer to the bug tho.

Seems worth investigating, I feel like someone should post numbers from the computer in thread, they probably mean something.

[The Enigma]

^ I'm refraining from quoting you normally because I really don't want to accidentally read those spoilers...

But if you haven't seen that giganormous number produced by the computer in the basement, let me tell you it's ridiculously long and posting it here in its entirety would be a major hassle.

Imagine the sequence below... at least times 10.

https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/largest-prime-number1.png?w=706&h=431&crop=1

It literally floods your screen with numbers and you have to press 'next' around 10 times or so. To the point where you might think that it's going to go on forever and your character can actually say something like "Oh my god, what have I done!?".

Anyway, I'm not a cryptologist at all myself but if someone actually figured out a meaning/purpose to that number it would be way cool. :)

[carni]

Is the example sequence from the game tho?
I have *some* experience in cryptology from some obscure ARGs, so I can look into it.

[carni]

If someone at least screenshots the numbers from the game it would be helpful.

[The Enigma]

Originally posted by tentacledAhegao:

Is the example sequence from the game tho?
I have *some* experience in cryptology from some obscure ARGs, so I can look into it.

Nah, that's just some huge random prime number that I found just to illustrate how big it is.

I might possibly post screenshots some other time, but frankly even that would be a great task.

[carni]

Someone else then?
Either way you don't usually need everything to check if it's a cipher or just random number sequence, just first page should be more than enough.
Thank you for your post either way, it seems very interesting.

[The Enigma]

Originally posted by tentacledAhegao:

Someone else then?
Either way you don't usually need everything to check if it's a cipher or just random number sequence, just first page should be more than enough.
Thank you for your post either way, it seems very interesting.

Thanks to you for your shared interest in this, I'll certainly post at least a few screenshots another time but for now it's getting quite late here and I'll soon hit bed.

[Chicago Ted]

Originally posted by The Enigma:

But if you haven't seen that giganormous number produced by the computer in the basement, let me tell you it's ridiculously long and posting it here in its entirety would be a major hassle.

I believe if you decline the full listing you get the ballpark instead, something like "more combinations than atoms in the observable universe" or something ludicrous like that.

[hoob]

Idiot Doom Spiral's cocaine skull story also mentions the same truck. There's clearly something going on here.

(Very minor spoiler there, just being overly cautious)

[Sisyphus]

Quality post for a change, nice catch OP.

[Sleeping Viper]

wow you can actually get into the feld building. Havnt been able to as of yet

[Aria Athena]

Here is the relative discussion from the Cocaine Skull story. It seems like an easter egg, about how they didn't have money to include it in the base game and perhaps in the future they will add it as a dlc.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1894950703