C-TCW03 (Dec 16, 2019)
Puzzle
“The password that you'll need to determine
It’ll fit a scheme of A then B then B then A
If you find yourself stuck no need to pray
Just hum this hymn or sweet, sweet…”
Knowledge | 1 Word
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Do we have a rhyme scheme?
Clue 2: It is detailed in the poem itself.
Clue 3: Rhymezone, perhaps?
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Sermon
Explanation: The poem has a rhyme scheme of ABBA, so we need to find a word that rhymes with determine, and has six letters. There are five common words that fits these configurations, and sermon is one of them.
Summary of Receipt
Manager 6 and Employee 1313 get some sort of poem. It seems to be linked to the Princes of Hell.
Transcript
DATE: 12/16/2019
EMPLOYEE NO. 1313
TOTAL: $0.7
FILE REFERENCE: C-TCW03
Hey all! Manager 6 here, and me and 1313 were able to get this uhm, I’m not really sure what it is exactly. A warning? A prophecy? A threat? Whatever it is we were able to get it with the increased psychic energy created by Mr. Cold’s presence. I’m still not sure what most of it means other than some clear references to some occult figures, but the part that really caught my eye was the last part. Is that where Julia is?
Dark tomb below the ocean deep
Slept a beast of hellish creep
Slow his titan maw did gape
Swallowing all who couldn’t escape
And at the shore of black'n curse
Flies swarmed a lonely ebon hearse
And in its cabby laid a boy
Dead back then, t’was just a ploy
~
For in her breast a demon slept
Hidden to most, a secret well-kept
Seal'd with shapes oh so sacred
Her return was all but fated
And no angel, here on Earth
Could stop that hellish birth
For curs'd twins born to languish
Always end in cleaved anguish
~
And in the thrall of Heaven's Lord
She sat and waited, always bored
Seen that cycle through and through
So she thought she’d seek something new
Not here not there, but elsewhere
Among the clouds and deep despair
She sat and waited for war to break
Then she ate herself like a snake
~
O ancient Lord of plundered gold
Now with country in your hold
No part to take in the war
‘Til the blood is shed no wealth to score
So you chose to make the Devil's bargain
And tie the twin worlds' margin
Yet we cautioned for a barter
Lest you become another martyr
~
Like the boy inside the cabby who slept
He had no choice but to die and then accept
The swarm of flies most foul-n-fear'd
Festering in the Hollow most revered
Still that darkness in him remaine
For that hunger can never be chained
No man nor beast'll see him dead
Not until his hunger has been fed
~
So in that cabby the boy did weep
For his soul was played for keeps
But tears dry fast as shadows come
And the boy’s body quick went numb
With nothing left but rage and hate
Against those who dared to seal his fate
So now he gathered his hellish congregation
To cut a path toward all damnation
~
Far away in room unknown
A girl sits sad and all alone
Death and her are one and the same
For she too will bear the curs’ed name
To break the cycle and stop fate
She will need to take the name of eight
Things go up that should go down
Far, far away in J’s hometown