C-CND09 (Apr 8, 1996)
Puzzle
Agrippa
#62 Trivia | 5 Words
Clue
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Clue 1: Why's the text turning invisible? Is that a reference to something?
Clue 2: 'Agrippa' literally fades away.
Clue 3: Alternative name of a poem, Agrippa, which does the same thing.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: A Book of the Dead
Explanation: Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) is a work of art created by science fiction novelist William Gibson, artist Dennis Ashbaugh and publisher Kevin Begos Jr. in 1992. In its original form, the text of the poem was supposed to fade from the page.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
RECEIPT #009
FILED UNDER: CAFE-CND
DATE: 4/0E/96
EMPLOYEE #62
I took a look at the floppy disk Shaka gave to #71. I've done what I can do… but it was in pretty rough shape. Initially, I would've guessed that data had degraded due to the heat, even if I could flatten the disk back out to a more readable shape… well, I wouldn't have thought there'd be anything there. But this is Shaka, after all. He wouldn't have given us a floppy disk if there wasn't something on it. So, after slow, painful flattening and reshaping, I was finally able to access it, and… Well, it was a mess. No surprise there.
I've created a data image of the disk, allowing us to either discard the original or add it to the Owner's "eclectic" museum of junk. However, the remnants on this copy are fragments at best. I've done my best to repair the FAT and partially rebuild the file structure from the surviving data. It looks like heavy manual reconstruction will be necessary to extract anything useful, though. I've begun piecing together what I can, but it'll be a slow process, and it will be some time before I have anything concrete. Yet, from the glimpses I've caught, I suspect this may be a backup of their central file system.
It appears that the Cafe No Diner has a system called "ZOTZ," which looks like it works similarly to our CaDCom System. Of course, their system is rooted in Flipside technology, while ours tends to lean more on Othertech. They use a similar security system, although they don't have a branch of "Diner" files—only Cafe. I suppose that might be where they got their name from. It's a bit funny when you think about it. They're acting like what they do is so much more secretive than us—but our Diner channel, even if unencrypted, is easily 10 times more secure than their "Cafe" branch. If I can piece it back together, it would be trivial to break into.