#codebreak smp ra

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?

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.

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.