DD-SOTF01 (Sep 13, 2022)
Puzzle
“The true power of Eight.”
Extensive Knowledge | 1 Word
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Firstly, maybe don't take the puzzle's lore implications at face value. Anyway, weird character count, huh?
Clue 2: Completely blank...have you read Folie a Deux, by any chance?
Clue 3: You could almost say it's...nihil. Or a more 'common' word?
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Nothing
Explanation: The character count is literally nothing, similar to the Bingo Cult's belief in Nihility (found in Folie a Deux).
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
[BRANCH] LONG ISLAND
[SERVER] MANAGER NO. 7
[DATE] 9/13/22
[INDEX ID] SOTF01
[SECURITY] AND & ARCHIVES POST-MORTEM
…So… like… Eve is my grandmother, right? If I’m Lucifer’s daughter, then I’m related to Eve. I guess—I don’t know… It still hasn’t really sunk in that I’m actually Lucifer’s daughter. I mean, I get that I am, but it’s just… hard. I only knew Lucifer for… a few weeks, if that, and we didn’t really have time to connect or anything. In fact, I thought she hated me. But I guess I know now that she was just trying to protect me from the Blight.
…The Blight my father brought about. Seeing everything that went down got me thinking. Eve ate the apple and then let all that horrible stuff happen again. Maybe it was because she loved my mother and her siblings so deeply that she couldn’t bear to see them not exist… or, like Umbra said, maybe it was because she wanted power she otherwise couldn’t have had. She purposefully let herself and her Utopia slip into rot, decay, and madness, hoping that things would eventually turn out if she was just patient. Or maybe she knew things would turn out if she waited—she knew everything in that moment, right? She gained the power of "Eight."
My mother would still be alive if it wasn’t for the Blight—for the Wicked. And the only reason the Wicked had a foothold in our family was because my father—despite knowing it would kill him—took the Wicked’s Blight again. He knew. He had already lived it once before. He had all the knowledge to change things, to make a difference, to create a better world… and yet, we ended up more or less in the same spot. The Blight would’ve killed me if it wasn’t for my mother. So, I know he didn’t do what he did out of love for his children—he did what the Eight led him to do, what it always leads someone to do—reach for power that’s beyond their grasp.
Don’t show my so-called grandmother any sympathy or weakness. When you know all there is to know of good and evil—where the hell does that really leave you? It leaves you empty. Full of nothingness. Nothing after that point can really matter.
…I hope Jericho’s okay. And Jenni, and Nick, and Jackie, and Julius, and Joy, and anyone unlucky enough to have the weight of a double nothing on their shoulders.