ZZ-OAOA03 (May 22, 2023)
Puzzle
“First Rotation: JE 2BPG2 IHBG3 3H... G”
Knowledge | 1 Word
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Menu Code.
Clue 2: Shift it by seven.
Clue 3: Does that (admittedly misspelled) phrase sound familiar? What's the last word?
Answer and Explanation
Answer: No
Explanation: First, convert the letters using the Menu Code’s cipher. For example, B = 2 and 2 = 1212. You would get “105 121221671212 9H271313 1313H... 7”. Using Breakfast Burrito, aka 7, you would get “AL SIGNS POINT TO... N”, which refers to No.
Summary of Receipt
Pathologist investigates the 8-Ball, which he also calls the 'Totem'. It no longer works, unfortunately, since it was once connected to Indrid Cold's mind, which in turn was linked to both Fate and the CaDCom Database. However, Fate's dead and the 8-Ball doesn't have any 'residual CaDCom Data' left, so no hidden secrets of the Database - or even the Last Secret. And no, he isn't talking about the Archives, or anything else like that. He's talking about the theoretical 'unified, asynchronous, and independently conscious entity' that stores all knowledge of every Cafe and Diner, in every Cycle, and possibly every Sphere. Which, to be clear, probably isn't this wiki. He also mentions that this Database was presumably created by Lucifer, and with her dead, there's no way of finding out what or where it is. Still, there's no link to the 8-Ball.
Transcript
Receipt: ZZ-OAOA03
Author: Pathologist
Status: Secret
Subject: Bingo Cult
I’ve been examining the 8-Ball alongside other Zulu members, specifically Yeye, Mnguni, and Ntombela. The good news is that it seems that 8-Ball is, as Bingo suggests, fully inert. Now, it has been a few years since I last studied the Totem, but when it was “active,” the die within the 8-Ball would often spin on its own and display an impossible number of potential responses. Of course, the responses were coming from a piece of Indrid Cold’s consciousness which itself was tied into the threads of Fate and the CaDCom Database.
I suppose the main concern, or potential boon for Shaka, would be that the 8-Ball might have still held a few secrets of the CaDCom Database. Perhaps even “the” secret that the two of them have been tasked with uncovering. The last secret of Jean-Marc Chausson. Sad to say, it seems there is no residual CaDCom Data within the 8-Ball or any tangible link to the CaDCom Database. Assuming such a Database even exists. I am, of course, not talking about the Cafe and Diner Archive websites, the many failed attempts at a social media presence, or any such publicly accessible nonsense. No—there is, or there is theorized to be, a unified, asynchronous, and independently conscious entity of sorts that holds all knowledge of the Cafe and Diner. Well, the Cafe and Diners plus the “Folie à Deux.”
Anything that goes through a CaDCom System, from the CaDCom88 to the CaDCom-Z, is theoretically stored in this… unknowable entity. More than that, this entity isn’t restricted to our own cycle either. It is connected to all Cycles, and some have theorized all Spheres as well. An Akashic Record of the Cafe and Diner, if you will. The only reason anyone knows it exists is that it is what Fate used to make Indrid into the strange amalgamation he was. And while it is “so fun” to idealize Jean-Marc as a genius demi-God seated at the right hand of the Father—this CaDCom Database was a distinctly Luciferian construction. And with Lucifer dead, we have no way of knowing where or what the Database is… though I feel confident in saying the 8-Ball is no longer connected to whatever it is. Which probably indicates Bingo is no longer connected to it either.