Code Breaker

Screenshot from the teaser trailer for the Code Breaker event.

On November 4, 2022 the official Neo Tokyo twitter account posted a teaser trailer for the Code Breaker event. The teaser featured an unknown cyborg with a glowing eye patch and the text: "Code Breaker" and "1 2 / 3 4." The text is believed to refer to December 3rd, 2022 and an event for the fourth Hand of the Citadel.

All links referring to the Code Breaker event

2022

October

• One of the earliest references to the new event for the fourth Hand, was a preview of the artwork for the character.

  • Twitter

November

• November 2: A Neo Tokyo News article titled, "The Citadel Is Under Attack" discusses a mysterious video released by @EllioTrades in the Purgatory chat channel within the Citadel (Neo Tokyo) discord. The article quotes the video with information that would not have been previously available to Outer Citizens or non-members. Some important quotes from the video include:

  • “The Citadel is under attack.’ He’s apparently been on the run for six months, and finally had his comms decrypted, allowing the mysterious attackers (UAEC possibly?) to find “all the chips.”

  • “We must fight. There’s no time left. This is our year. If we don’t fight back…well, you know. I need one of you cyber psychos to stand up. Shit, I need you all. It’s time for us to band together. I’m sick of this shit. It’s time for The Citadel to rise up!”

• Nov 4: Code Breaker teaser drops.
• Nov 22:

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• November 23: A new Codex is introduced to expand the lore around the event called The Book of Bytes. The Book of Bytes is released in seven tweets over multiple days.

  • Twitter

  • The Book of Bytes 1.2
    The strongest minds overwhelmed the 1s and 0s of this new cyberscape, and their overcranked neural networks sloughed off crystallized energy. From Aeons to Demons, from Mutants to Apes, mental agility took digital form.
    2/7

  • The Book of Bytes 1.3
    The UAEC realized the value of this emanating energy, recognized it could be used to build, to trade, to store value. And so, naturally, they set out to dominate it, to take control of the Citadel from the inside out.
    3/7

    • Becker responds to this tweet, "transcend you say?"
• November 29:

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• November 30: News Anchor Mark, a character from the Neo Tokyo Twitter account during the original riddles, reappears.

  Twitter

December

• December 2:

  • Twitter

  • The Book of Bytes Codex continues:

    The Book of Bytes 1.5
    All seemed lost. “Bytes,” as these bundles of concentrated electrical energy came to be known, were flowing from the Elite minds that produced them straight into the coffers of the UAEC.

  • The Book of Bytes 1.6
    Realizing this power, this chi, this lifeforce, was their birthright, the Elite minds of the Citadel wrested control and began to capture the vibrational energy for themselves. The UAEC wanted the Bytes… but could not control the Citizens.

  • The Book of Bytes 1.7
    Each Citizen, from Glitch District to Citadel Tower, funneled their Bytes toward a central vault, protected from every attempt at corruption or theft. The ecosystem would be reclaimed: to each according to his power, from each according to his strength.

• December 3:
  • Code Breaker event starts. A registration form becomes available on https://neotokyo.codes with a request URL registerForHunt. The registration form is announced on Twitter.
  • At this point a new Codex is introduced: The Story of the Citadel.

    Codex: The Story of the Citadel 1.1
    Those who held the codes held the power.
    The Dark Lord and the Architect gazed across their haven, a digital respite from a burning world. Flesh was temporary… avatars were not. The data must be preserved .online

  • A Citizen is rewarded for being the first to register via the registration form.

    The Citadel rewards attention, speed, and decisive action.
    Congrats to @orephelious, the first to register... everyone else, do better. 100 $BYTES inc
    Mark (News 5 LEAD Anchor)

  • The official Neo Tokyo twitter account posts in the voice of Mark,

    Good lord, no one knows how to preserve the data. If this is only step one, we’re in a lot of trouble.
    Citizens, I expected more. Meatbags, well...
    Mark (News 5 LEAD Anchor)

  • zssbecker posts a reference to Tails from Sonic the Hedgehog and implies that it is a clue:

    Twitter

  • The Story of the Citadel 1.2
    The enclave was brimming with Citizens, from the Tower to the Outer Districts. Beyond the Ravagers lay hordes of rats and glitching souls, yearning for cybernetic stability.
    Every atom, every byte was under threat by the UAEC.

• December 4:

  • The Story of the Citadel 1.3
    When all had a voice, none had a voice. The strip-mined, strip-malled outside world was proof enough. For all to ascend, the table must be filled, order must be installed, threats must be destroyed.
    
    Muscle was needed. Fear. Force. Scars.

  • …remember those Elite codes you meatbags never found? I'm having deja vu.
    
    Mark (News 5 LEAD Anchor)

  • We’re just getting started, but let me express my disappointment in statistical form.
    
    Elite codes found: 0
    Riddles solved: 1
    Rabbit holes: ∞
    
    Starting to think some of you are UAEC agents...
    
    Here to serve,
    Mark (News 5 LEAD Anchor)

• December 5:

  • The Story of the Citadel 1.5
    A call went out across the Citadel. Protection was needed.
    
    Streaming bytes of data assembled, power flared, codes shifted.

  • You’re welcome for making this one easy. Gifts can be sent to my PO box in Mid Town.
    
    Mark (News 5 LEAD Anchor)

  • ATTN: If you haven’t registered, I’d do so in the next few minutes. This is me being nice… since I’m here to serve after all.
    
    P.S. Thanks for all the gifts.
    
    Mark (News 5 LEAD Anchor)

Additional resources for solving the Code Breaker event

Wiki Articles

There are many previous articles that can serve as resources for the Code Breaker event.

• Lore Images
• Timeline of Neo Tokyo
• Codex: The Story of Earth
• Codexes

Twitter Accounts

• Official Twitter account: https://twitter.com/NeoTokyoCode
• Founder: https://twitter.com/ZssBecker
• Founder: https://twitter.com/elliotrades
• Project manager: https://twitter.com/rohlfingeth

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