C-ACIK04 (Dec 29, 2023)
Puzzle
“A wacky jumping hat.”
Vanilla Trivia | 1 Word
Clue
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Clue 1: ??
Clue 2: ??
Clue 3: ??
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Gugelhupf
Explanation: The word 'Gugelhupf' is said to come from combining the words 'gugel', meaning a hat, and 'hupf', which means to jump. Additionally, in Austria, it is called Wacker, and thus is a 'Wacky Jumping Hat'.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
[Date | Dec-29-23]
[Barista | Vanilla]
[Subject | Mr. Perez]
[File Reference | C-ACIK04]
Huh. From the outside, what the Cafe and Diner did is a little weird. Does. On paper, it’s pretty simple. We return cryptids to their home in the Otherside and ensure that demons don’t cause problems in the Flipside. Same as the Decodex Society and New Dawn Coven. However, the Society operates under a strict set of rules and layers of bureaucracy, and the Coven seeks to integrate the Otherside into the Flipside. So, the Cafe was able to meet them somewhere in the middle. Plus, the Cafe was often able to handle issues the Society and Coven deemed not worth the risk.
As for why we need to return this Chupacabra home and not the Society, it would take them months to get through all their paperwork and rubber stamps. Plus, while the Cafe earned a reputation for taking on more dangerous cases, more often than not, it also takes on cases deemed too insignificant for the Society to put resources toward. A single loose Chupacabra in the Sunshine City is low on the Society’s priority list. Very low. As for our new Cafe and our general inexperience, it’s probably for the best we focus on the “too insignificant” stuff for now.
Though… I’ve been thinking about it and realized there is a major hurdle with sending a Chupacabra home. It doesn’t have a set region of the Otherside to which it belongs. Once we do get our hands on it, we’ll need a way to figure out where it belongs—Upside, Midside, or Downside. Soul Reader. That’s what we’ll need. I know No. 614 was working on integrating a Soul Reader into the CaDCom-As before he died. And I assume that their external Soul Reader was destroyed in the fire. Hopefully, enough of the hardware and software is still around in the CaDComs, so I can get us a working Soul Reader. If not, we might need to guess and check each of the three regions of the Otherside. As if getting to one wasn’t hard enough.