ZZ-SKS03 (Jul 23, 2023)
Puzzle
“Falling back.”
Knowledge | 2 Words, 1 is Hyphenated
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Go one back in the Receipt Case.
Clue 2: It's a direct quote from the receipt, just...inverted.
Clue 3: Instead of thinking ahead, they're falling back.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Twenty-Six Steps
Explanation: In SZ-SKS02, it says “Stop trying to think “twenty-six steps ahead,” and start just looking at your own two feet, Amber!”
Summary of Receipt
Summary
Transcript
Receipt: ZZ-SKS03
Author: Capgras
Status: Super Secret
Subject: Hyperion Cult
Great, now Twain is deciding that Zver can be in charge of keeping the Sebitti safe. How’d that work out for the first Sebitti? Dead, you say? Wow! A Blight-brained behemoth has absorbed its apocalyptic powers, you say? Great! Everything is going so damn well! So glad three finally became one. It’s been working out so well for the stability of the Universe. However, that’s less Twain’s fault than it was Rico’s. Maybe it was our fault. We could’ve—well, no, we couldn’t have. We weren’t Shaka yet. We weren’t supposed to interfere. But, damn, I wish the original Shaka was still around so I could double-check that this is actually what he wanted.
Anyway, Dover and Twain took a trip to Dive Prime and got some information about the Netzach. You will never guess what the most important part of it was. What’s that? The Heart? DING DING DING! You won! What’s your prize? Everyone dies. According to Dover’s pal Ryce, the entire body of the Netzach, all the muscle and sinew of it, formed up around the Heart after Cue activated it. So, we now effectively have NOTHING! No Netzach! Just a pile of weird alchemical viscera. Whoops, we just fell twenty-six steps back, huh?
Oh, also, I was paid a visit by a certain capernoited ophidian. Things might be worse than we originally thought. Isn’t that always fun? Daichi warned me that Julius isn’t working alone. He’s being manipulated by some greater power to bring about the end of the world. Apparently, the world being around is preventing this shadowy puppet master from achieving their goals. What goals can be achieved in a dead Cycle? Potentially a dead Universe? Not a clue. Daichi wasn’t sure either. Despite preventing the TriCaD from dooming the Universe multiple times now, this is a new Sword of Damocles altogether. I guess even killing Fate wasn’t enough to lift their curse… or maybe it was the cost to do so.