C-ADFE05 (Feb 18, 1996)
Puzzle
“Location Error.”
See: ADFE04 | 2 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: The numbers in the CaDCom errors aren't just gibberish.
Clue 2: Put them in two equal groups, in order.
Clue 3: What two numbers are used to show where you are on Earth?
Clue 3: So why are there spaces between the numbers? One separates them into latitude and longitude, but the other two?
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Santa Catalina
Explanation: The numbers in the CaDCom Location Errors are 33, 33, -118 and 35. Putting them as coordinates - 33.33, -118.35 - gives Santa Catalina Island.
Summary of Receipt
53, 71 and the Owner intervene. They tracked 1313's location based on the CaDCom's signals and went to Santa Catalina island, where they managed to rescue her, her classmates, and a bunch of other innocents from a modified shipping container rigged to explode (possibly with sulfur) in about two hours. It seems Satan SUCKSS planned to kill them and blame it on a 'Satanic Ritual' (not entirely wrong, all things considered). So 53 just swapped the Satanic signs with Satan SUCKSS symbols and added some weird astrology rambling to frame them.
Transcript
RECEIPT #005
FILED UNDER: CAFE-ADFE
DATE: 2/1E/96
EMPLOYEE #53
Remember when I said we like to take things slowly and carefully? How we’d wait until the newcomers were out of school for the weekend before making any big plans? I guess #1313 didn’t get that message yet. That was a close one. Despite her recklessness, it was actually a good thing she was kidnapped. Otherwise, I don’t think we would’ve found the rest of the students and other Sucker detainees until it was too late. They were being held in a modified shipping container on Santa Catalina Island. A shipping container rigged to explode in a big burning fireball in… well, about 2 hours from now. If we were 2 hours later, #1313 and half of her class and a couple dozen other tourists would’ve been burnt to a crisp.
Damn. Well, at least we got here in time. The Old Man noticed the CaDCom Errors were trying to spit out #1313’s location, but they kept getting interrupted. We’re not sure why it wouldn’t put her location as a single set of coordinates, but I guess that’s a problem for BaristaTech to solve. Once we had the location, the Old Man and I were going to head out to find her, but then the Owner stepped in. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him that panicked before. I suppose for a good reason, all things considered. We almost lost another Employee along with 30 or so tourists.
I’m still not sure how Satan S.U.C.K.S.S. would’ve spun this auto-da-fe in their favor. After taking a look around the area, I saw a few “ritualistic daggers” and very scary pentagrams and the like drawn in blood. So… If I have this right, this should’ve been a Satanic Ritual gone wrong. It seems more drastic than their other attempts to bring Satanism to the forefront of SoCal politics, but I suppose they had to ramp things up eventually. Well, the good news is I’ve done my own spin on things. I’ve swapped out the daggers for Sucker buttons and added my own little manifesto about how they were planning to explode themselves to return to their mothership with the conjunction of the moon and Venus.