CD-KCR06 (Oct 7, 2021)
Puzzle
“27-3-45/8-11-95/10-2-23, no party hats required.”
Research | 1 Word
Clue
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Clue 1: Important days.
Clue 2: Who is the one in question?
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Röntgen
Explanation: The numbers are important days in Röntgen's life: March 27, 1845 is his birthday, November 8, 1895 when he discovered X-ray, and February 10, 1923 his death day.
Summary of Receipt
Employee 422 stays back and helps Astoria’s Division X-Ray clean up, in order to try and gain some information from Ray. Apparently, Astoria isn’t supposed to interfere in West Virginia due to the ‘West Virginia Concord’, made between them and possibly people from the Otherside (the Princes?)
Transcript
[BRANCH] PALM BEACH
[SERVER] EMPLOYEE NO. 422
[DATE] 10/7/21
[INDEX ID] KCR06
[SECURITY] AND & ARCHIVES
I decided to hang back and help clean up the clown cotpses. Not out of the goodnrss of my little snake heart, mind you, but to spy on these Aatorians. I did, however, fprget that they don’t really have that big of a clean-up crew. Just the pne guy. But I stoll was able to butter him up a bit about the situation that went down. Are the insights interesting? Debatable. But I figured everyone would lile to hear/read them nonetheleas.
S.O.T.
442: Need a hand?
Ray: Do you... have hands?
442: Figure of ssspeech.
Ray: I’m good, thank you, though. You’re a strange one, aren’t most of the Cafe and Diner...
442: Humans?
Ray: Yeah, humans.
442: I work for the Palm Beach branch. Only about half of them are humans.
Ray: Huh. Interesting. Do you like it there?
442: Can’t complain. Though the benefitsss aren’t great. And the coffee’sss pretty bad too. Hoursss are long. Pay is non-exissstent. What about you, do you like working for Astoria?
Ray: I’d rather do this than be like a lawyer or something. I certainly don’t mind it, and someone has to clean up all these messes. Plus, I get to travel quite a bit.
442: Yesss that mussst be nice. A bit far from the Pacific Northwessst, this time, hmm?
Ray: Yeah, technically, Astoria’s not supposed to conduct operations out here due to the whole West Virginia Concord.
422: Oh?
Ray: Yeah, I don’t know much about the politics of this stuff, though.
422: Yesss, I know that feeling. Coffee thisss friendsss that.
Ray: Haha, yeah. That’s why I prefer just mopping up the gore.
422: Ever cleaned up clownsss before?
Ray: Oh yeah. This fungus has spread throughout most of the country. Astoria just keeps it mostly under wraps. Clown-duty is not uncommon. Though this is a hell of a lot of clowns. And I’ve never seen them so... frozen.
422: Yesss... sssomething ssstrange happened here.
Ray: Very strange indeed. But that’s West Virginia for you.
422: Ssso, wait... If the Wessst Virginia Concord keepsss Astoria out of Wessst Virginia, why did you guysss show up?
Ray: Beats me, buddy. The concord, from what I understand, is not black and white.
422: Do you know who the Concord isss with? The Hamiltonsss?
Ray: Hmm... no clue. Hamiltons? Maybe. But I think it’s on the other side of the affair if you catch my drift.
422: Ahh, of courssse. Well, I’ll leave you to it, G.
Ray: Catch ‘ya later, Serpent.
E.O.T.
Like I ssid, no real clear answwrs though I wasn’t awate of a “West Virginia Concord.” Is that news to anyone else, or jcst me? To be fsir, I did just rejoin the Cafe, and even then, I only worked herw for about a year before. Maybe I’m out of the loop. Maybe 323 knows mote about it than I do. Speaking of, they should be wrapping up their research on the mutated fungi soon. But, ‘til then, this tac’ll have to stay open.