C-UMS01 (Sep 1, 2022)
Puzzle
“Cake, wine, and multiple gunshots.”
Research | 3 words
Clue
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Clue 1: Someone's death. Yes, all three.
Clue 2: A certain man who lived in Russia long ago...
Clue 3: MM/DD(th)/YY. New Style.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: December 30th, 1916
Explanation: This is when Rasputin was assassinated - first eating poisoned cake, then drinking poisoned wine, then finally just being shot.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
[BRANCH] LONG ISLAND
[SERVER] EMPLOYEE NO. 53
[DATE] 9/1/22
[INDEX ID] UMS01
[SECURITY] CAFE
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING??? Oh boy, oh sweet No. I, with your wacky weird magic science projects. What the hell, dude? We got body-jacked for a month and got cozy with this weirdo? And New York—boy, I don’t know how my walking corpse has been brewing up this Coffee, but it is BAD-BAD. Geez. Looks like we've got work to do, huh?
S.O.T.
Mrs. Boney: Slushayte?
No. 53: …Huh? What the—! Who the hell are you!?
No. 3: Rasputin…?
Mrs. Boney: What? You were just saying—
No. 116: Don’t “what” us, partner. What’re you doing in our Cafe?
Mrs. Boney: Is some kind of joke? I have been here two weeks.
No. 611: Huh? Two weeks…? When… is it?
No. 3: …The first.
No. 161: It’s been a whole day already?
No. 3: …Of September.
No. 161: Wait—what?
No. 35: No. I’s stupid plan. We lost a month.
No. 611: We lost a month… but, Rasputin, you said you’ve been here for two whole weeks?
Mrs. Boney: Yes. What is this? What sort of unholy arts have come over you?
No. 3: Sorry, Rasputin—Rasputin…?—We, uh, this is really hard to explain.
No. 53: We zonked out for the whole month.
Mrs. Boney: "Zonked out"?
No. 53: A waking sleep or something. We were here but we haven’t been… “here” until just now.
Mrs. Boney: I see.
No. 611: He sees? I don’t even see!
No. 7: Belphegor explained it to me before we turned the Soul Core on. Everyone with a CaDCom would—theoretically—fall into a dreamlike trance to see the events that transpired in the past. But the world around us was still in motion, even “us.” Just our consciousness was elsewhere, forming memories of the past instead of the present.
No. 62: So we became NPCs?
No. 7: For a month, yeah. Sorry, Mr. Rasputin, could you remind us why you’re here?
Mrs. Boney: The frog creature called for my aid. Despite my dark patron forbidding me from helping your kind, I came to assist. I would rather see these unclean magic beasts removed than his plans come to fruition. I miss the quiet of when he was no longer here.
No. 35: Unclean magic beasts?
Mrs. Boney: Protodemons, you call them.
No. 3: Eve’s creations. Right. Okay, thank you, Rasputin, for all of your help these past two weeks. Sorry we don’t… remember any of that. How is the unclean magic beast situation?
Mrs. Boney: Do not thank me yet. Look outside.
No. 3: …Oh.
E.O.T.