C-TBLB02 (Nov 10, 1995)

C-TBLB02

Puzzle

“I could never desert the father of my father.”
#62 Trivia, 1 Word

Clue

Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: What's another meaning of 'desert'? What is a 'father of a father'?
Clue 2: Any sci-fi grandfathers related to deserts?
Clue 3: Try and link this with the theme of the receipts, and also what 62's been referencing.

Answer and Explanation

Answer: Shai-Hulud
Explanation: Shai-Hulud, also known as “Grandfather of the Desert”, is the name of the sandworm of Arrakis in Dune.

Summary of Receipt

Although the earthquakes aren’t linked to the San Andreas fault, there’s bad news. The earthquakes are getting worse - and they’re moving in a line. Implying something's intentionally causing it. Which means, in the worst case scenario, there’s a massive underground worm tunnelling upwards in a corkscrew. The creature should pass by the Cafe and Diner in about a week, so 62 suggests setting up some equipment to monitor it.

Transcript

RECEIPT #002
FILED UNDER: CAFE-TBLB
DATE: 11/10/95
EMPLOYEE #62

Well… it's probably not "great" news. I started tracking the recent tremors per #53's request, and they don't seem to be tied to the San Andres fault at all. Which is in some ways good, I suppose. It's not quite "the big one" California is eventually due for. Though the tremors do seem to be… moving… in a linear path. Which best-worst-case, they're caused by a normal-sized person, maybe Mrs. Pleasant. Worst-worst-case they're caused by something massive. Shai-Hulud massive.

Though I've only collected four days' worth of data, it seems to me that whatever is causing these tremors is moving in a sort of circle around LA. It would line up with the tremors we felt a month ago as well. Due to A23's presumed influence, we don't actually have any hard data about the magnitude of each quake as they've done a pretty good job scrubbing these quakes from all standard seismological databases… but qualitatively speaking? The quakes are getting worse. Way worse.

If I am right, and I really hope I'm not, if it is a massive subterranean customer, it's probably making its way to the surface in a sort of clockwise corkscrew motion. It's pretty obvious why A23 would want to cover something like this up, but we also can't count out that it's A23 who is doing this in the first place. Whatever this phenomenon is, it should be passing by the Cafe again in about a week if everything holds constant. We might consider setting up better equipment to see if there's anything underground, aboveground, or maybe in the skies.