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{{ARG Spoiler}}[[File:Artifact_eye5.gif|thumb|The Artifact]]
'''Second Breakfast''' was found by solving [[ARG:Ring Ring|Ring Ring]], which led to the page https://www.gopiratesoftware.com/games/Heartbound/OSCAR/OCTOTHORPE/. The page shows the [[The Artifact]]'s eyes, as despicted on the right picture. The source code of the page has the following:

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<div class="Do you really believe that...?">
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This clue used to mention a date on the place of "Meet me at the hour of witches", May 20<sup>th</sup> 2019, which was the date in which the text was be updated to provide the clue. That date is also the National Rescue Dog Day on the United States; this specific day was chosen because of its relevance to the themes on HeartBound<ref>Mentioned by [[Pirate Software|Thor]] during the livestream of May 16<sup>th</sup> 2019, at [https://clips.twitch.tv/EntertainingNurturingWrenchBudStar this point].</ref>, namely the dog [[Baron]].

The "Sometimes when you lose you win" sentence looks pretty similar to "Sometimes when you win you lose" (except that "lose" and "win" are reversed). That phrase is said twice in the game: first when you choose to throw your weapon at [[Barghest]] at the end of the fight, and second in [[Darksider Glyphs]] at the end of [[Jotunheim]]. It's speculated that some of those elements might play a role in this part.

== The Timegate ==

A web search reveals to us that the "hour of witches" is 3 AM, and the only place in the game that has a time cycle is [[Animus]]. The ARG page has The Artifact's eyes, so "meet me at the hour of witches" suggests that we need to speak to The Artifact on Animus at 3 AM. Also for this to work, the Storyline Variable 238 must still be set to 42. This was already made on the [[ARG:Ring Ring|previous step of the ARG]] by editing the save file.

Just to remember, the save file is located at "(user)\AppData\Local\Heartbound" on Windows, while on Linux it is stored in the "~/.config/Heartbound". The line 245 of the save file was set to 42 (it was this line, and not 238, because the storyline variables begin on line 7 and are counted from zero).

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<!--On Animus, The Artifact (the book you carry through the game) can be found there at the time room, which is a hidden location. In order to access it, you need to stand in one of the mushroom rings through Animus and wait for a few seconds. The Artifact is at the center of the time room, however talking with him must be done at exactly 3 h 00 min 00 s in the morning (Animus time, not real life time), which can be quite tricky to be pulled off by playing the game normally since it needs to be frame perfect. The guaranteed way to manage to pull this off is by modding the game to stop the time flow in Animus, rather than playing normally.

HeartBound can be modded by using the program UndertaleModTool, which can be downloaded [https://github.com/krzys-h/UndertaleModTool here]. That tool was designed for Undertale, however it also works on HeartBound because both games use the same engine (GameMaker Studio). To stop the time flow in Animus, follow these steps on UndertaleModTool:
[[File:Modding_to_stop_time_on_Animus.png|thumb|What you need to change in order to stop time on Animus.]]
# Open the <span style="font-family: monospace;">data.win</span> file of HeartBound, which is on the game's install folder (usually <span style="font-family: monospace;">C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Heartbound</span>).
# Under the "Code" tree, look for "gml_Object_obj_animus_time_Alarm_0" and double click on it to open.
# At the "Disassembly" tab, on line 0046 change "<span style="font-family: monospace;">pushi.e 1</span>" to "<span style="font-family: monospace;">pushi.e 0</span>", as shown on the picture (you need to double click in the text to edit it).
# Then save the <span style="font-family: monospace;">data.win</span> file (Ctrl+S to save, you need to overwrite the original <span style="font-family: monospace;">data.win</span> file in the game folder).

[[File:Changing_Animus_time_to_3_AM.png|thumb|How to change the time on Animus to 3 AM.]]
Now when you load the game and play, you will notice that the time no longer passes on Animus. The next step is to change the time to exactly 3 AM, which can be made on the time room. First, stand in one of the mushroom rings in order to get in the time room. Then, at the time room, use the left lever to change the time to morning and walk towards the rightmost crystal (as shown on the picture).

When you walk through that crystal, you will appear on Snabit Yard at exactly 3 AM, and it will always remain exactly 3 AM while you don't change it. Then stand in one of the mushroom rings again to return to the time room, and then finally talk to The Artifact (don't forget that the Storyline Variable 238 should be 42, as it was done on [[ARG:Ring Ring|Ring Ring]]).

The Artifact will say the following when you talk to it:

<p style="text-align:center;">''So you've found the gate.''</p>

<p style="text-align:center;">''Are you ready for what comes next?''</p>

<p style="text-align:center;">''Build the key.''</p>

As it finishes speaking, a new file called <span style="font-family: monospace;">MeanGreen.thor</span> is created in the save folder (on Windows, it is located on <span style="font-family: monospace;">%LocalAppData%\Heartbound\</span>).
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On Animus, The Artifact (the book you carry through the game) can be found there at the time room, which is a hidden location and can only be accessed by editing the save file. We also need to change the time on Animus to 3 AM, which needs save editing too. All in all, we have to make the following changes to the save file:
* Line 2: <span style="font-family: monospace;">'''darkworld_timeroom'''</span>
* Line 3: <span style="font-family: monospace;">'''320'''</span>
* Line 4: <span style="font-family: monospace;">'''224'''</span>
* Line 245: <span style="font-family: monospace;">'''42'''</span>
* Line 246: <span style="font-family: monospace;">'''10800'''</span>

Line 2 stores the name of the current room Lore is in, the Animus' time room is called "darkworld_timeroom" on the game files. Lines 3 and 4 store his X and Y coordinates, respectively. We need to edit the coordinates so Lore does not begin stuck outside the room. Line 245 is "The Truth", which we already changed to 42 on the previous step of the ARG. Line 246 stores the current time on Animus, more precisely the amount of seconds since midnight. 10800 seconds is exactly 3:00:00 AM.

[[File:Talking_to_The_Artifact_on_the_Time_Room.png|thumb|Talking to the book on the hidden time room.]]
Now we can start playing Heartbound. If all those changes were made correctly, once Lore leaves his room he will be teleported to the time room in front of The Artifact (the book). When Lore interacts with him, the book says the following:

<p style="text-align:center;">''So you've found the gate.''</p>

<p style="text-align:center;">''Are you ready for what comes next?''</p>

<p style="text-align:center;">''Build the key.''</p>

Then a file called <span style="font-family: monospace;">MeanGreen.thor</span> is created in the same folder where is the save file. Now we need to "build the key" from this file.

== Mean Green ==

If you try to open the <span style="font-family: monospace;">MeanGreen.thor</span> file with a text editor, you will find a long string of characters. The two equal signs at the end (<span style="font-family: monospace;">==</span>) indicates that this is a [[Wikipedia:Base64|base64]] encoded file. Now you need to upload the file to a [https://www.base64decode.org/ base64 decoder]] and then download the decoded file. You will notice that the file is a PNG image (you might need to change the file extension to PNG), that looks like this:

[[File:MeanGreen.png.png|center|The MeanGreen.thor decoded into an image.]]


Now we need to decode this image and figure out what it means <ref>This is a new version of the image. The original version of the MeanGreen image was different, and Thor updated it since he found an error in the image that made it not fun to solve. You can see the original image [https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/heartbound/images/1/13/MeanGreen.png.png/revision/20190524061639 here].</ref>. The image is divided in 81 tiles, in a 9 x 9 grid. There are 10 different tiles, each one with the piece of an image. Those 10 pieces can be stitched together to form a seamless image:

[[File:MeanGreen_-_numbered_tiles.png|center]]


Then we can number each tile from 0 to 9, from left to right, in the order that they appear in the image that they formed together. Now we return to the mean MeanGreen image and add those numbers to their respective tiles:

[[File:MeanGreen_-_numbered_grid.png|center]]


The numbers can be read as (from left to right, top to bottom):<br />
715154208919151651812091514919315131612520541618153554201512520202135191721118519<br />
This is a number to letter cipher (A=1, B=2, ..., Z=26), but there is no space between the numbers so it's necessary a bit of trial and error to figure out the digits pairings. After that, we get:

7-15-15-4-20-8-9-19-15-16-5-18-1-20-9-15-14-9-19-3-15-13-16-12-5-20-5-4-16-18-15-3-5-5-4-20-15-12-5-20-20-21-3-5-19-17-21-1-18-5-19

This is translated to GOODTHISOPERATIONISCOMPLETEDPROCEEDTOLETTUCESQUARES, which can be read as "Good, this operation is completed. Proceed to Lettuce Squares<ref>"Lettuce Squares" is a pun for "lattice at the square", an earlier clue. The MeanGreen image itself is also a pun, since it is formed by squares of a lettuce image.</ref>". What we need to do now is to add "LETTUCESQUARES" to the URL, and we get to the next ARG page: https://www.gopiratesoftware.com/games/Heartbound/OSCAR/OCTOTHORPE/LETTUCESQUARES/.

This leads us to the next step of the ARG: [[ARG:Hard To Starboard|Hard To Starboard]].

==References==
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[[Category:ARG:Phase5]]