Part 33: Kitchen 3
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June, relieved, collapsed onto the floor.
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Santa shoved past Junpei and ran straight to the grill, which he immediately grabbed.
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He proceeded to kick the grill in a futile but amusing fit of rage.
But...where was Lotus?
It took Junpei only a moment to find her... She was sitting on the counter, idly scratching her chest.
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[Music: Who is Zero?]
With a great yawn, Lotus lowered herself off of the counter.
Junpei clenched his teeth and walked toward her.
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It was true that there wasn't much she could have done, but something about her tone...
Junpei gritted his teeth.
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She was right, and Junpei knew it. Without them, she'd be in very serious trouble.
It seemed that an accident was the only explanation for the door's closure.
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please disregard how laziness, or negligence, can be attempted murder - junpei doesn't know that apparently
Junpei swallowed his anger, and did his best to apologize.
[Music: Silence]
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Lotus looked away and twirled her hair between her fingertips.
His vengeance against the grill complete, Santa swaggered back toward Junpei and Lotus.
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[Music: Ternary Game]
Well, that was a fairly lengthy side-segment. It appears to have not been planned by Lotus, at least, but if you hadn't noticed that pork we grabbed seemed to be somewhat optional. I wonder, then, if we skipped it... could we go back and get it?
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Let's go and find out.
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Doesn't look like it, but then again we do have that pork already. This may be why; I guess we'll find out when we get a chance to at some later date.
For now, Lotus should look at our hard meat.
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I think I know just the guy. We already know exactly where to find the grill too so let's just skip right there.
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This should work perfectly.
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Guess we should actually get the pork out. That might help!
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...
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Well, rather conveniently I know just the thing.
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I didn't expect this to come in handy, but here we are.
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The knife seemed important, Junpei thought, but it wasn't going to be much use the way it was.
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She wasn't making much sense...
Junpei tried rephrasing his question.
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At last, she answered.
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[Music: Riddle and Puzzle]
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Actually, uh,
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Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan is a real book (so naturally this is another theory that people did believe). I own a copy, but, uh, I've never actually read it. I should get around to that sometime. I can't say whether or not it's a good read, but apparently it does involve the main character getting into a fight with a polar bear.
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There's a reason for this, which I would hope would be obvious. Of course, that's the real book. Whether or not the same applies for the version June's talking about?
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...Well, this is awkward. Fortunately, June's going to mention stuff about Stead that is different to the mummy from before. That helps at least.
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This is also true. On 22 March 1886, Stead had a small article published called "How the Mail Steamer Went Down in Mid-Atlantic." In it, the unnamed boat collided with another leading to a large amount of victims due to a lack of boats. The 1892 one ("From the Old World to the New") is a bit different to June's very short glossing over the facts, as it involves a boat called the Majestic, a clairvoyant on board and avoiding the disaster. By the psychic "sensing" that a different ship hit an iceberg instead. So it's kinda right, but not.
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Yup, as you might remember he also died. His body was never recovered, so he's still down there. Well, as much as he can be at this point.
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[Music: Silence]
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Junpei smiled uncomfortably.
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Her voice trailed off, and she glanced at the floor, troubled.
*Tap* *Tap*
Junpei tapped June gently on the shoulder and awkwardly reached around her to pick up the knife from the box.
[Music: Ternary Game]
Well, that was...kind of out of nowhere. Let's just get the hell out of here now that we can.
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Cut things, you say? I wonder what Santa and Lotus think about this.
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Eh, I'm sure it's fine as is. That meat is probably super soft by now, and it's not like we were planning on eating it afterwards anyway.
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This'll work out alright.
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Alright, alright. I'll find something to remove the rust from this knife. Somehow.
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There's not much left in the room, but there is this thing. It could be useful. I guess.
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I can't think of anything that'd need sharpening. Nope. What makes you think I wo- oh, I know. Maybe we could sharpen June's nails and have her cut the pork like that.
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A... knife...?
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The blade of the knife is getting sharper by the second. I should be able to cut something pretty good with this.
Of course! I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner.
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Something... soft? I can't think of much that matches that description. Except maybe Santa and Lotus.
....Er, I mean maybe they have ideas for what we could use it on.
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Y'know, I appreciate that they can't just come out and tell you the answer but these vague hints are giving me all the wrong ideas.
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Might help if I could stop putting things away again after randomly shoving them in people's faces.
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I have an idea, but first I wanna see what June thinks. Best to get everyone's input for something like this.
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...Right, well never mind then. The way I see it, this is clearly a code of some kind. The issue, of course, being that the C and the F are the clues we need to decipher it. So, let's head on over to the one spot where we can dash out a numerical value for this thing.
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Lotus gives us a bit of a tutorial here on how to use the keypad (namely the C and E buttons), but we've done one of these before so I'll skip here.
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"C + 10 + F," right? Well, the 10 is self-explanatory but the C and F are bit more complicated. I would assume either the freezing or boiling point of water in both Celsius and Fahrenheit but I appear to have put the freezing and... condensation (okay, yeah, it's a stretch but shush) points instead with both in fahrenheit.
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Unsurprisingly, my goof did not accidentally solve the puzzle.
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What voucher? There was no voucher. Let's just try the numerical values of those letters. And maybe the 10 is an I and an O. So maybe, 3 + (9*15) + 6. So, 144.
Spoilers: this doesn't work either.
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...Alright, fine. I guess we should go and at least look.
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This is probably it.
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Good thing Junpei does, because I sure as hell don't. Maybe a second explanation will help!
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Oh, okay. I've got it now.
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This is totally the right answer!
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Okay, let's try this again and... fuck, this is harder than it sounds!
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Oh, I see! In that case, it's 12 + 10 + 15 which is 37. I am so pro at this!
...Wait, dammit that's wrong to.
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Oh! That's where I went wrong. I got C and 10 wrong. It's 31 + C and C is, uh, 3! It's 34!
...Damn, that's not working either? I think Zero's puzzle is busted or somethimg.
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This last one just loops ad infinitum, so I guess we should probably get it right now.
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C + 10 + F = 12 + 16 + 15 = 43.
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And, of course, that is actually correct.
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Since we got it right, it stands to reason that we can open the door now!
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The only thing of interest in here is sitting on a tray. Let's give that a quick once over.
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It sounds like a reasonable idea, but we should give the inside of the oven a quick check. If solving the puzzle turned the oven off as well as opened the door, it should still be warm. And, of course, the card would be completely useless.
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Seems like it'll work fine, though.
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But while we're here, let's give the pork one last check. Maybe take it with us.
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Sadly we can't take the food with us to eat. How disappointing.
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So, instead, we solved All The Puzzles. We can just leave now, right?
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Okay, apparently the door itself was a dumb idea. Let's try opening it with the door handle instead.
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I think we're meant to do something with this? I dunno. Lotus just said that we have to solve all of the puzzles. Never said anything about using the card reader!
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I mean, c'mon Santa. It's pretty obvious!
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We just swipe the card and the light turns green, duh!
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