C-KINT03 (Nov 24, 2024)
Puzzle
“Farfalle, Rigatoni, Orzo, Linguine, Anelli.”
Food Trivia | 1 Word
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: What are all five of these foods?
Clue 2: Also, take a look at the words themselves. Does anything stand out?
Clue 3: Maybe on an initial glance?
Clue 4: If you're stuck here, with 'pasta' and 'frola', maybe try Googling the two words together real quick.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Pastafrola
Explanation: Each of these are pastas, and the first letter of each gives FROLA. Combining both gives Pastafrola, a covered jam-filled shortcrust pastry dish principally made from flour, sugar and egg.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
[Date | Nov-24-24]
[Barista | Vanilla]
[Subject | Business as Usual]
[File Reference | C-KINT03]
Something is causing the boundary lines to shift. Whether it’s the thing lurking in the Between or something else entirely, it isn’t just tearing them apart—it’s reweaving them in ways no one expected. Yesterday, Cherry and I managed to stitch up another tear—a clean, efficient repair, if I do say so myself. But this morning, that same tear reappeared, freshly opened five feet to the left of where we’d closed it, with the withering remains of Golden Seam Ivy scattered across the ground. We didn’t consider that whatever’s causing this might also be capable of moving the boundaries themselves. That’s… not good.
When Cherry asked me what I thought about the Ivy’s role in all this, I couldn’t give her an answer that didn’t sound paranoid. But what’s worse? Some unknown, massive entity shifting the boundaries around? Or the possibility that our own solution is actively rewiring the topography of the Between? It’s not impossible that the Ivy, with its blood-magic-infused intelligence, has found a way to feed its bottomless greed indefinitely by moving the boundary lines around. True, this process seems to kill off parts of the Ivy, but maybe that’s a small price to pay in its mind—if it even thinks that way.
Here’s the problem: the ivy doesn’t seem to follow any logic I can recognize. Some seams dissolve into chaos. Others overlap in ways that defy interspatial vibrational geometry. And a few? A few seem stable—almost deliberate, as if someone is threading a needle between our two realities. That’s what worries me most: the idea that these shifts might not just be ivy-driven. Maybe they’re only ivy-enabled.
Of course, we built a kill switch into the Golden Seam. At any time, Cherry can sever her blood-link to the Ivy, and it should die off. But here’s the catch: despite the boundaries being stitched, moved, and rewired, aberrant tears across the country are down by over 70%. So what’s the bigger threat? An overwhelming number of stray tears in the boundary lines? Or a methodical rewiring, using our enhanced Golden Seam ivy as the thread?