C-BTB02 (Sep 1, 2022)
Puzzle
“A sinister and impassable God.”
French Poetry Trivia | 1 Word
Clue
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Clue 1: Terrifying, too.
Clue 2: Baudelaire.
Clue 3: A god, sinister, terrifying, impassible...
Answer and Explanation
Answer: L’Horloge
Explanation: In this poem, by Charles Baudelaire, the Clock -’L’horloge’ - is referred to as ‘dieu sinistre, effrayant, impassible’ - that is to say, a god sinister and impassible (and also terrifying).
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
[BRANCH] THE LAST CAFE
[SERVER] I
[DATE] 9/1/22
[INDEX ID] BTB02
[SECURITY] CAFE
Wow.
What an incredible success. According to the CaDCom and general Flipside technology, it's September 1st, 2022. A month. Not bad. It could have been worse, I suppose. I wonder if the length of our time was due to the CaDCom's internal data hierarchy. What we saw—what we witnessed—couldn't have equated to just a single month. We saw… centuries pass by. Thankfully, not day by day. That might have been catastrophic. But a month? That's a fair price to pay for what we were able to witness.
Unfortunately, it seems we weren't left with a transcript of the events we observed, nor a record of what happened in the present while we were "gone." It's a strange phenomenon, really. Time continued as if we never left, and we all acted and reacted to the world around us as we normally would, yet we've been left with little memory of what actually transpired. Instead, our memories of August have been replaced by those of Eve, Abraxas, and… Lucifer.
Wow. I promise you all, I didn't throw away a month of our time just to see my beloved Lucifer again. Honestly, I wasn't expecting to see so much of her—of who she was before everything began. She never changed, not one bit. By all accounts, the Soul Core Alpha within the CaDCom System shouldn't have been able to show us all that it did. It overperformed. But I’m grateful because if we had only seen the Fall from No. 422’s perspective, I fear we’d be just as lost as before.
No, instead we now understand exactly what led Eve down her path of ruin. Could you have guessed that it would be the damned Cold? A shocker, I know. But in the end, it was more than that—it was Eve herself. Eve's sacrifice. This complicates things, I admit, but it's given me a lot to consider moving forward. But first—we need to stop Eve from collecting on her eons-old debt. She had her chance to change things, and she chose not to. Changing her mind now wouldn't be fair, would it?
Yours out of August,
A prideful f∞l