C-FSTF03 (Aug 12, 2017)
Puzzle
“Redi, stedi, go!”
134 Trivia | 2 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Why is 'Redi' spelt that way? Ignore the 'stedi' part, that's just there to rhyme with Redi. Keep in mind 134's interests, as mentioned in FSTF02.
Clue 2: What did Francesco Redi contribute to that is linked to flies?
Clue 3: Unfortunately, his Wikipedia page doesn't mention this - you'll have to search for other pages that mention him, and link that to flies.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Forensic Entomology
Explanation: The answer is Francesco Redi’s field. Francesco Redi did an experiment on Flies.
Summary of Receipt
134 realises that the flies aren't exactly regular flies. By adding heavy water to acetone, you can get a 'soul-dissolving solvent' that will ignite when in contact with a soul attached to a corpse. Of course, this doesn't usually happen, but these flies somehow have their souls still in their bodies. 134's current theory is that these flies were actually eating Mrs. Honey's victims' souls, though further testing will be required.
Transcript
CAFE AND DINER RECEIPT FROM */12/17
MANAGER 134
RECEIPT: FESTERINGFLIES03
STATUS: OPEN
Well… isn’t that interesting. Troubling? Yes. Interesting? Also, yes. These aren’t flies. Well, I suppose in a taxidermical sense, they certainly look and act like flies and could be easily written off as flies. Under most of my tests and measurements, they are 1:1 to typical flies. However, they failed one test spectacularly: simple soul-corpse reduction. In a sense, the test is used to ensure a soul has fully detached from a corpse by reducing the corpse to base properties via a solvent that exacerbates soul detachment. Funny enough, the solvent which does this is a simple concoction of heavy water and acetone.
I would assume that most Flipside scientists have yet to discover the unique properties of this mixture, as soul-detachment for any normal living being should be near-instantaneous. Put simply, if you put a corpse, animal, or vegetable in this “heavy acetone” solution, it should react exactly the same as if you only used acetone—which is to say, not much would really happen. But! If a soul is still attached to the corpse, a very unlikely scenario, mind you, it should ignite the heavy acetone solution almost instantly in a brilliant “soul flame.”
And these “flies”? They are little soul-flame fireworks. Now this is interesting because if they were regular dead flies, nothing would happen. But for some reason, these flies aren’t dead. Well, their bodies might be, but their souls aren’t and are still dwelling in their festering corpses. Now that is both interesting and, as I mentioned, quite possibly troubling. Though, I would say this evidence likely points toward the flies being… well, I wouldn’t say unrelated to Mrs. Honey. No… my current hypothesis is that the flies were “eating” the souls of Mrs. Honey’s victims. Further testing will, of course, be needed.