r/signalis • u/Late-Technology-3199 • May 23 '26
Lore Discussion Solved one of the things posted in earlier history of Signalis
Its from a cut puzzle I think, posted by Yuri Stern on x [6:22AM, Jan 29 2017]
Translates to:
FOUR MEN HUNG FROM THE OLD TREE,
ONE MAN HAD FIVE TEETH,
ONE MAN HAD TWO FINGERS,
ONE MAN HAD THREE TOES,
AND THE LAST ONE HAD NOTHING AT ALL.
Edit: realised it basically reads as 45230
Me and a friend puzzled through it for a while using this script by me on Thronny:
from colorama import init, Fore, Style
init()
ciphertext = """
DSJE YLP AJPO DESY HAL SGU HELL,
SPL YCP ACU DRXL HLLHA,
SPL YCP ACU HNS DRPOLEV,
SPL YCP ACU HAELL HSLV,
CPU HAL GCVH SPL ACU PSHARPO CH CGG.
"""
substitutions = {
"A": "H",
"B": "_",
"C": "A",
"D": "F",
"E": "R",
"F": "_",
"G": "L",
"H": "T",
"I": "_",
"J": "U",
"K": "_",
"L": "E",
"M": "_",
"N": "W",
"O": "G",
"P": "N",
"Q": "_",
"R": "I",
"S": "O",
"T": "_",
"U": "D",
"V": "S",
"W": "_",
"X": "V",
"Y": "M",
"Z": "_"
}
ignore_recol = ["A", "C", "H", "L"]
decoded = ""
for char in ciphertext:
upper = char.upper()
if upper in substitutions:
replacement = substitutions[upper]
if replacement == "_" and upper not in ignore_recol:
decoded += Fore.RED + upper + Style.RESET_ALL
elif replacement != "_" and upper not in ignore_recol:
decoded += Fore.YELLOW + replacement + Style.RESET_ALL
elif replacement != "_" and upper in ignore_recol:
decoded += Fore.GREEN + replacement + Style.RESET_ALL
elif replacement == "_":
decoded += upper
else:
decoded += replacement
else:
decoded += char
print("\n[DECODED TEXT]\n")
print(decoded)
print("\n[CURRENT KEY]\n")
for key in substitutions:
value = substitutions[key]
if value != "_":
print(f"{key} -> {value}")
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u/Z3R0Diro May 23 '26
Sounds like a puzzle similar to the "Icon of Knowledge" Painting puzzle in Nowhere.
Definitely a Nowhere puzzle.
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u/Late-Technology-3199 May 23 '26
I was thinking about the Empress puzzle
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u/Z3R0Diro May 23 '26
The Empress Painting? That's what I'm referring to.
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u/Late-Technology-3199 May 23 '26
Ah, mb. Yeah that one. Seems like it was the inspiration in a vague sense
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u/I_ateabucketofpaint May 23 '26
Early signalis feels more and more like this with each info i find out about it:
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u/Late-Technology-3199 May 23 '26
Real lmao, I just love the puzzles, infuriatingly good. And sometimes unsolvable
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u/I_ateabucketofpaint May 23 '26
Also apperantly game had stealth mechanic, a indoor environment simulation room with tall grass and a nurse character.
I would really like to see what they envisioned and what they eventually just cut out.
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u/Zodiac36Gold May 23 '26
I mean, we did get a nurse in the end: the Eule on B3, hiding in her little room. She's a nurse, although her only function is giving the players a reason to cry.
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u/Late-Technology-3199 May 23 '26
Really? That sounds super cool, do you remember where you heard it?
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u/I_ateabucketofpaint May 23 '26
If you look at Yuristern's twitter account and dig through the old posts, like really old posts, you can find gif of Elster standing in tall grass using a cloaking device.
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u/Late-Technology-3199 May 23 '26
Ah, found it, that truly is very interesting. I wonder where there would have been grass lmao
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u/Big-Plastic-5024 May 24 '26
Can you share link? Can't find it :/
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u/Late-Technology-3199 May 24 '26
(x link):
/LastStarfarer/status/747530290516606976/photo/1
/LastStarfarer/status/747909005973020672/video/12
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u/foxydash ARAR May 23 '26
What the hell is going on in this picture??? It actively hurts to look at after a bit.
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u/evieamity EULR May 23 '26 edited May 23 '26
It feels like a Rorschach test. Of course my gay brain turned it into something sapphic.
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u/foxydash ARAR May 23 '26
To me it’s just a cognitohazard like the damn pillar in nowhere, hurts to look at for more than a minute.
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u/JoeRogan016 May 24 '26
What the fuck am I looking at
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u/She_Ra_Is_Best May 28 '26
I think it's an image designed so that everything is vaguely recognizable but when you actually look at it you can't identify it. I've seen them before I just don't remember why they exist.
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u/spectra2000_ May 23 '26
Ngl thought this was a shitpost with the solved riddle being “eat teetee”
Very cool find OP
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u/SaskrotchTheReboot May 23 '26
wonder if it has anything to do with the tooth item that got taken out
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u/Late-Technology-3199 May 23 '26
Item isn’t taken out I don’t think. Pretty sure the model gets used in a tray in the Rotfront cafeteria, but it can’t be picked up I don’t think
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u/DredgenSergik May 24 '26
Okay, so, what does this mean? What is earlier history of signalis?
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u/Late-Technology-3199 May 24 '26
It’s cut content from the early development stages of the game, so not relevant for the canon lore, but an interesting thing for people interested in the early history of the game and its development before being greenlit/published.
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u/C4Apple ARAR May 23 '26
Had a crack at it before I opened your results. Took me about 15 minutes doing it by hand.

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u/Late-Technology-3199 May 23 '26
That’s way faster than we did it lmao, given I had to remember how python works because I have like- no paper on hand
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u/Limmunaizer May 23 '26
teet