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<span style="font-size: 40px;"><strong><center>CD-ARDS03</center></strong></span>
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<h1>Puzzle</h1>
<p style="text-align:center;font-size: 20px">“9-16-260 3-29-229 7-7-263 9-5-136 8-21-123.”<br>
Knowledge | 4 Words</p>
<h1>Clue</h1>
<span style="font-size: 20px"><strong>Hover over the clues if you require!</strong></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 20px">Clue 1: <span class="spoiler-text">Split each individual string of letters into two groups - the first two numbers, and the last.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 20px">Clue 2: <span class="spoiler-text">9-16, 3-29, 7-7...do those numbers look familiar in any way? Maybe a / would make things clearer.</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 20px">Clue 3: <span class="spoiler-text">Ignore the headers when counting the last number.</span></span><br>

<h1>Answer and Explanation</h1>
<span style="font-size: 20px">Answer: <span class="spoiler-text">See You Around Sunshine</span></span><br>
<span style="font-size: 20px">Explanation: <span class="spoiler-text">
This is a book cipher. Taking the first number as a month, the second as the date, and the last as the word number, you get “See You Around Sun Shine” (without the headers).</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: 20px; color:orange"><strong><center>⚠️BEWARE: THIS IS DECLASSIFIED INFORMATION. WARY EYES ONLY. ENTER AT OWN RISK.⚠️</center></strong></span><br>
<h1>Summary of Receipt</h1>
<span style="font-size: 20px">Summary</span>
<h1>Transcript</h1>
<span>Receipt: CD-ARDS03<br>
Author: Ichabod<br>
Status: Cafe Diner<br>
Subject: Mr. Cold<br>

I was paid a visit by our dear friend, Mr. Cold. While it was brief, I feel it must have been for a good reason. He wasn’t with Silenziosa, and I’m not even sure Secret knew about this little visit. Still—he didn’t say much, even reading in between the looping lines. He was trying his best to fight the Cold’s control, but he seemed locked in. The only line that didn’t sound… “pre-recorded” was the last thing he said. In fact, it sounded as if he was saying it and not the mechanical nightmare that is Indrid. But to come all the way here, to slip past Silenziosa, defy Secret, and somehow claw out his own voice just to say, “I’ll see you around, sunshine.” What could that possibly mean?

<b>S.O.T.</b>

Ichabod: Well, if it isn’t our fearless and peerless leader, Capgras.

Mr. Cold: Hello, my name is Indrid Cold.

Ichabod: Is it, though?

Mr. Cold: It-It-It’s more like a smoldering pain than a sharp nagging one.

Ichabod: Mm. You could say that again.

Mr. Cold: It’s more like a—

Ichabod: Right, sorry, my bad, Cold. I forgot about the whole looping thing. Say, where’s your handler, Silenziosa?

Mr. Cold: —smoldering pain than a sharp nagging one. For the sake of civility and equality in our two-faced partnership, she’s-she’s-she’s it’s certainly a quiet night.

Ichabod: So, there’s still some of you kicking around in there, then? Is there anything we can do to… fix this?

Mr. Cold: I-I-I-I Hello, my name is Indrid Cold.

Ichabod: Damn. It wouldn’t be that easy, would it? It never is, never was, with the Cold.

Mr. Cold: Cold-cold-cold-cold-things sure are heating up. I’ll see you around, sunshine.

Ichabod: Huh?

Mr. Cold: I wanted to-to-to-see… Hello, my name is Indrid Cold. Things sure are heating up. I’ll see you around, <i>sunshine</i>.

<b>E.O.T.</b></span>