DD-CND12 (Apr 20, 1996)
Puzzle
“1608’s Winning Query”
Knowledge | 5 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: ??
Clue 2: ??
Clue 3: ??
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Where Is The Enochian Bible?
Explanation: Umbra asked Redman that question, winning his game and binding him to his service.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
RECEIPT #012
FILED UNDER: AND-CND
DATE: 4/20/96
THE OWNER
This Cafe No Diner may be more of a problem than I anticipated. It doesn’t help that they are entirely unaccounted for variables. I knew that the course of Fate would change things… Fate would be foolish not to. But to add five new players? It’s almost like Fate doesn’t want me to kill Satan after all. To be fair, I don’t want to, either. Adding a Key to the Gates of Hell into the mix would make things unnecessarily messy. No, if we are to kill Fate, we need to keep all seven Princes alive—even Mammon. Ah. That’s it, isn’t it?
Fate and I think far too alike.
That’s the whole point of this Cafe No Diner. A backup in case we don’t go through with killing Satan. Killing Satan—killing any of the Seven Princes—would set off a chain of events that would ultimately unleash the Devil. And if the Devil breaks free, the Universe will be rewound again. A fresh Universe would be ideal for Fate as it removes all of my advantages against it.
Of course, Satan has the same aim: to unleash his father, the Devil. Except, with God still missing, a rewind so early would be pointless, at least in the eyes of Fate. I suppose there’s a chance I wouldn’t maintain my advantage in another rewinding, but it’s a risk Fate wouldn’t take. Satan, however, has found a loophole to speed up the whole “unleashing his hellish Father” thing. The Anathema Proxy clause. A fiendish little loophole in the Soul Accord that boils down to creating human versions of the Keys to the Gates of Hell. And he’s already successfully turned Sahir into a living embodiment of Sorrow.
I can only assume Satan intends to turn each of the Cafe and Diner into Anathemas. There is still something of the process I am missing. But whatever that missing factor is, it likely would explain why Satan has chosen the Cafe and Diner to be his Anathemas and why he can’t let any of us die prematurely. Though there are nine of us. One to spare, assuming he needs Anathema for the deadliest of sins as well. Regardless, between the machinations of Fate and Satan, we are in for a rather precarious and intricate dance.
The Deadliest of Sins Himself,
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