CD-CND08 (Apr 7, 1996)
Puzzle
“What I have always chosen well, eh?”
Knowledge | 2 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Cheat a little and look at the puzzle's tags. Who is the speaker of the puzzle's text?
Clue 2: What has 71 'always chosen well'? Note that 71 himself doesn't actually say it - I'd check the early Anathema Proxy if I were you.
Clue 3: Namely, the COS receipts.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Good Friends
Explanation: In C-COS04, Shaka says “[71] did always choose good friends.”
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
RECEIPT #00E
FILED UNDER: AND-CND
DATE: 4/07/96
EMPLOYEE #71
I was able to get in touch with Shaka of Zulu after all. I figured there had to be a reason he had yet to deal with me, as Zulu typically doesn’t take well to defectors. Thankfully, I was right. Moreover, my instincts appear to have been correct as Shaka gifted us with a floppy disk containing something to do with the Cafe No Diner. What is on that floppy? I couldn’t say. I haven’t been able to even get the disk into our system as it has been warped by heat. I am hoping #62 will know what to do with it in this miserable state.
#71: I wasn’t sure you’d come, cher ami.
Shaka: [#71], I told you, you’d always have my ear. My heart. My bones and blood. Even if you decided they weren’t for you. It takes quite some courage to face death like this, so I assume the situation is dire.
#71: It is. Eh, and it isn’t. There is a new Cafe in town.
Shaka: The Cafe No Diner. Yes. How interesting. You would risk your immediate termination over a group of no-names?
#71: Ah—but I wouldn’t, would I?
Shaka: Heh. I was hoping it’d be different this time, you know?
#71: Oh?
Shaka: Fate. Always Fate. Though I’m not sure which is stronger? Fate—or the Other?
#71: That is why you have yet to kill me, isn’t it? I left, not entirely of my own accord.
Shaka: Or maybe I just like you, [#71]. You remind me of… me. Or, perhaps, who I wanted to be. Though, I will admit to what is hardly a secret—you were always going to betray the Zulus. You didn’t even have a choice this time around. I could not stop it, nor should I have. Without you, well, there might not be a Cafe, after all. And then what would I do? No Cafe certainly would put a damper on my plans.
#71: So, no hard feelings then?
Shaka: I’m far too old for hard feelings, let alone feelings at all. Here.
[Shaka of Zulu tossed #71 a floppy disk]
Shaka: I’m surprised it survived the fire. Oh, well, you’d be surprised how many things tend to survive fires. Stay out of trouble, [#71].
#71: Thank you, Shaka.