C-DDM10 (Nov 17, 2021)
Puzzle
“Iced Green Tea.”
See: C-DFOW06 | 2 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: I recommend a read through the Zodiac files.
Clue 2: We're debating between Iced Water and Green Tea.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Mayda-Esterskald Cusp
Explanation: Iced Green Tea is the code name for the Mayda-Esterskald Cusp.
Summary of Receipt
611 records his discoveries regarding Bartlett. So, in the Otherside, there are boundary lines which separate the Flipside from the Otherside. These lines are constantly moving around, breaking, and whatever. However, they’re still there. It’s like taking a sentence and rearranging it - the words are different, but the different letters are still all there. Now, Cusp Lines are different. They’re basically ‘rigid’, and are generally used to figure out where the Flipside is in relation to the Otherside. Thing is, the Mayda-Esterskald seems to have been pretty badly ‘injured’ - as if someone had shoved extra words into the sentence, to continue that analogy. This is, of course, due to Bartlett. So if Bartlett can deal this much damage to a ‘rigid’ Cusp line, the damage he could do to a weaker, more ‘malleable’ boundary line would be horrific. 611 asks the more psychically-gifted members of the CaD to check the damage done out.
Transcript
[BRANCH] LONG ISLAND
[SERVER] EMPLOYEE NO. 611
[DATE] 11/17/21
[INDEX ID] DDM10
[SECURITY] CAFE
Well. It’s not great news. Those Dover Lights, or Mr. Bartlett, or whatever we’re calling it/them (I am sort of lost at this point, to be honest), uh… those things. They are doing some serious dimensional damage. So, on the one hand, the boundary lines, which connect and separate the Flipside from the Otherside, are constantly moving, shifting, changing, and sometimes even breaking. I guess you could think of them like branches, right? You can bend a branch a certain amount, and sometimes it’ll snap. But you can tie it back together with string, and you can even sometimes graft a branch back onto a tree. All of this is normal. However… no, I’m realizing now that the branch metaphor doesn’t really work as well as I wanted it to. I’ll try something else. The boundary lines are like… well… they’re like a book. Right? And you can cut out a page and bind it back in somewhere else. The story might be different, but you still have the exact words you did before. The Dover Lights are like if someone cut out words from one book and glued in words from another. OH! Or if someone took a branch from an oak tree and grafted it to a birch tree.
Ok. Sorry, metaphors aside… the boundary lines are being damaged in a non-normal way. The Cusp Line between Mayda and Esterskald is pretty distinct. All of the Cusp Lines are pretty distinct. It’s basically the main way of figuring out where the Flipside is in relation to the Otherside at any given point. You find the nearest Cusp Line, and then you can make a good guess from that. So I’d say I’m pretty familiar with what the Cusp Lines are supposed to look like, and… the Mayda-Esterskald Cusp is pretty beaten up. Now I know I just said boundary lines can change and can break and all of that. But the thing is, Cusp Lines aren’t the same as boundary lines. The easiest way to think of them is that boundary lines are intradimensional, and Cusp Lines are interdimensional. So if Mr. Bartlett/the Dover Lights could do this damage to interdimensional Cusp Lines… I can’t even begin to fathom what might have happened to the other more vulnerable boundary lines. And while I would LOVE to be able to go check them out… we don’t have that same degree of freedom anymore. So maybe one of our more psychically tuned members can feel it out in the psychonautic sense? Maybe No. 161 or No. 1313?