CD-CEA02 (Oct 21, 2017)
Puzzle
“1947.”
See: CD-CEA01 | Knowledge | 2 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: What did 53 say would be the main focus of the next Receipt?
Clue 2: Who do we know of is part of the Twice Third Temple who may have a link to 1947? True name.
Clue 3: See Open Doors' The Anathema Proxy, C-NOTM06.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Lyle Crow
Explanation: In C-NOTM06 in the Open Doors archive, it is revealed that Dr. Lyle Crow was born on Dec 1, 1947, same day that Aleister Crowley died.
Summary of Receipt
53 reveals that Al Crow's true name is Lyle Crow. Back in the days of the First Cafe, Dr. Crow was a sporadic adversary of them before finally being devoured by his own experiment in 1995 (see the CIC and NOTM receipts in Anathema Proxy for that story). Clearly, he got better. More relevantly, he also took over the 'House of Solomon' and renamed it to the House of Dracula Drive, which 53 theorises is linked to Solomon's Twice Third Temple. It was a house that existed outside of reality, 'popping' into reality every Wednesday. That basically allowed him to reach many places - and learn many things - he shouldn't have. 53 wraps up the receipt guessing he's going to try to reclaim the House and also continue his mortal experiments, mainly consisting of self-replicating, endlessly devouring nanotechnology. In any case, there's still more organisations to talk about - the next of which is a certain Deeply-hidden Corporation.
Transcript
CAFE AND DINER RECEIPT FROM 10/21/17
MANAGER 53
RECEIPT: CULTSANDESOTERICAFFAIRS02
STATUS: OPEN
Ah, little Lyle Crow. Well, not so little anymore, is he? That’s Al Crow’s real name, btw. Well, “real,” I guess the right term would be old. Al Crow is the demon of who once was a kid named Lyle Crow. Also, I guess “kid” might not be the right term seeing as he was like 50 when he died. So… Ugh. Let me start over. Ah, middle-aged man who was once Lyle Crow and is now the Demon Al Crow. Leader of Solomon’s Twice Third Temple. Apparently, Lyle Crow, better known as Dr. Crow, was an occasional adversary of the First Cafe and Diner. They had a few run-ins, which ultimately led to Dr. Crow’s death in 1995 after getting eaten by his own experiment (GONE WRONG)(GONE SEXUAL?!)(WITH GUNS!!)
Prior to Dr. Crow’s demise, his most notable achievement was taking control of something called “THE HOUSE OF SOLOMON.” Uh yeah, SOLOMON. Solomon’s Twice Third Temple. Are you seeing the connections? (Are you? Because I sort of am, but also, it could be just co-inky-dinks.) So, this House of Solomon, which Dr. Crow renamed to the House on Dracula Drive, was basically a house that existed outside of the confines of our reality. Every Wednesday, it would pop into our reality and then pop back out. Using the House of Solomon, Dr. Crow was able to go to many places he really probably shouldn’t have been able to and learn about things he realllly probably shouldn’t have.
And this brings me to the end goal of Solomon’s Twice Third Temple! I don’t know. In the short term, I would guess that Al Crow will try and get his interdimensional House back. It’s too powerful not to want back, and he probably left a bunch of his human stuff in there that he wants back. In the long term, with the House back, I assume Al Crow will try and finish whatever he was working on as a human… which at the time of his death involved self-replicating nanotechnology that would eventually consume the universe and everything in it. So… we should probably try and stop that. As for why Secret would be chill with everything everywhere getting eated up?? Yeah, you guessed it, it’s a secret. But there is another enigmatic force out there that is worth taking a DEEPer look at. That one is going to be a-strictly need to know type receipt. So… if you’re not a manager and you’ve somehow stumbled upon these ramblings of mine, this is where the bus ends for you.