Ok, here's how I came up with my solution to this puzzle. I'd
still
like verification from someone that solved it during the event.
Keep in mind that the clues/answers were different on the various
servers, but the basic puzzle was the same. This possible
solution is for Proxy. To start, we'll figure out Neurophyte's
location:
For you who see the world through proxy,
A four place number that combined is negative nine. The first digit is unity. The second digit is nought.
This is her final coordinate.
And will be the top of a building in Richland.
This shows us how to figure out the final, or z, coordinate. They
give us the first two digits: 1 (unity) and 0 (nought). The
remaining two digits must add up to eight, so that all four digits
combined equal nine. Since we'll be on top of a roof, we have
some room to maneuver, so the exact digits are not that
important. In fact, the first two digits already puts us within
100m of the location, but to keep things simple, let's try 17 as the
last two digits. What
is important is that the digits combined equals
negative nine, so our z coordinate will be negative: -1017. Now, how about the first two coordinates:
And will be the top of a building in Richland.
All of the coordinates of her location, added together...
Equal nothing. Zero. Nought.
Ok, this tells us that since our final coordinate is -1017, our x
& y coordinates will have to add up to 1017. 1017 + (-1017) =
0. With me so far?
At this point I headed to z:-1017 in Richland and looked at the
map. Kalt Chemical towers was hard to ignore, especially for
those that solved the first puzzle, so I headed over there to see if
it would work. Sure enough, x: 808, y:209, z:-1017 is on top of the
building and fits the equation: 808 + 209 + (-1017) = 0. If you
had chosen a different z coordinate, say -1044, you still probably
could have found an x coordinate that worked on top of the
building. Again, I wasn't there to confirm this, and there may
have been other possible buildings, but to me Kalt just makes sense.
Speak your word at this location, after the seventeenth hour in this MegaCity.
Now that we know the location, how do we figure out the "word"?
Your Fibonacci number, which you will render into FIAT code...
Is as many as the marble pillars one one side of a building in Stratford Campus.
Run your hand along their length, rough stone alternating with smooth marble.
Add to the number of pillars twice the streetlamps at Yeung Park, cold iron at the edges of pavement.
This is your Fibonacci sequence number, and the number you must convert to FIAT code.
Your word will have eight letters.
Uh.... ok. At this point I think: I don't know much
about "Fibonacci" or "FIAT", but I do know how to count, so I head to
the specified locations. I count 16 marble pillars at Stratford
Campus and 11 lamps at Yeung Park. I'm supposed to double the
number of streetlamps, so I come up with 16 + (11 x 2) = 38. Uh
oh. I can tell from the clue above that I'm supposed to have an
8-digit number, and there's no way I can get 8 digits out of these two
numbers. Time to take another look at the puzzle.
The code word is derived from a number Fibonacci's sequence...
The twelfth Fibonacci sequence number, 144, is rendered into "add."
The fifteenth Fibonacci number, 610, is rendered into "fao."
The thirty-third Fibonacci number, 3524578, is rendered thus into "cebdegh."
Ah hah! What I'm really looking for is the thirty-eighth
Fibonacci sequence. Now, what the hell is a Fibonacci
sequence? Google time! Using this
calculator,
I can see that the 38th sequence is 39088169, and it's 8 digits.
Yes! All I have to do is convert the number to FIAT code using
the method described above:
39088169 =
ciohhafi
That's it. My understanding is that this word
was to be spoken to Neurophyte at the top of Kalt Towers, and whoever
spoke it first got the credit for saving her. Of course, with so
many people on the roof, that caused some problems, but that's another
story.
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