CD-FFF05 (Dec 16, 1988)
Puzzle
"The Friendly Face of Fate."
Knowledge | 2 Words
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Fate is commonly associated with a 'Friendly Face' - what is this face, or symbol?
Clue 2: Other than Fate, who does it belong to?
Clue 3: A certain Grinning Man...
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Indrid Cold
Explanation: Indrid Cold, the Grinning Man, is the proxy of Fate - in other words, the Friendly Face of Fate.
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
AND RECEIPT
RECEIPT NUMBER: FFF05
RECEIPT DATE: 12 16 1988
MANAGER TITLE: BALTIMORE
RECEIPT NOTES:
Jack dies.
No. Worse than dying. Dying would be a mercy—a chance to start over, to move on. No, Jack becomes Fate’s puppet. A twisted, hollow version of himself, doomed to repeat every word he’s ever said—or will say—on an endless loop. Over and over. That’s his Fate: to become the new Indrid Cold.
Indrid Cold… it’s a curse. An infection. A blight born of the Cold. I don’t know exactly how it works; if I did, I would’ve saved Jack in the prior Universe. From what I uncovered as the Otherman, the Indrid Cold virus was created by Secret—a tool to extract impossible truths. Secret uses it to uncover the secrets no one else can, and naturally, Fate wanted to use it to uncover the Eight.
If things repeat as they did before, Fate will have Secret turn Jack into Indrid Cold. It won’t work, of course. The Eight aren’t that easy to claim. If they were, the Cold would already have them. For one, Archons can’t possess the Eight—not directly. No immortal being can. It’s a built-in failsafe, I suspect. But that’s the least of Fate’s problems. The bigger issue? The Eight can be transferred. Passed from one person to the next.
Before Jack became Indrid Cold in the last Universe, he gave them to me. And if we don’t change course, it will all happen again. Fate knows this. It has to. Turning Jack into Indrid Cold may not have worked last time, but having the mortal who unraveled the Eight’s secrets under their control? That’s a prize Fate won’t pass up. Jack as Indrid Cold was a force to be feared—and it gave Fate a physical foothold in this Universe.
That’s why I can’t let it happen again.
Hell, it’s not even about stopping Fate’s advantage. I can’t lose Jack again. Not this time. He’s only been here for a few months—not years like before. I can’t just let him go. And if it means shutting down the Cafe and Diner to keep him from becoming Indrid Cold, to keep him as Eight… so be it. I’d burn it all to the ground.