Hi everyone, here’s a summary of the work those on missions 2A and 3 did to help out those in the Citadel on mission 1.
The first mysterious transmission out of Stretch’s head was this:
001100110011010000101110001100010011010100110001001110000011011100111001001100100000110100001010001011010011000100110001001110000010111000110011001100110011100100110011001100010011010000111000
Which the mechanics decoded to mean this:
34.1518792
-118.3393148
Which the scouts figured out applied to this photo (from Stretch’s head):
At that location, the scouts found the words “WB Gate 4”, obscured from the photo. I connected a keyboard up to Stretch’s head and typed that in (took me a few tries before figuring out to enter “WBGATE4”), and a new transmission began!
01011001011011110111010100100000011101110110000101101110011101000010000001110100011011110010000001100110011010010110111001100100001000000110000100100000011101110110010101100001011010110110111001100101011100110111001100100000011010010110111000100000011101000110100001100101001000000100001101101001011101000110000101100100011001010110110000101100001000000110100001110101011010000011111100100000010011010111100100100000011000100111001001100001011010010110111000100000011010010111001100100000011000010010000001100010011010010111010000100000011100110110001101110010011000010110110101100010011011000110010101100100001011000010000001100010011101010111010000100000011101000110100001100101011100100110010100100000011011010110100101100111011010000111010000100000011000100110010100100000011100110110111101101101011001010111010001101000011010010110111001100111001000000111010101110011011001010110011001110101011011000010000001101000011001010111001001100101001110100000110100001010001100110011010000101110001100000011100100110000001101110011010100110100001100100000110100001010001011010011000100110001001110000010111000110011001100010011100100111001001100100011011100111000
Mechanics decoded this as:
You want to find a weakness in the Citadel, huh? My brain is a bit scrambled, but there might be something useful here:
34.0907542
-118.3199278
Stretch had clearly been listening to the questions the mechanics had asked it earlier.
That location seemed to correlate with this location from Stretch’s photos:
And the sign for “Hollywood Forever Cemetery” seemed to be the clue. This one was quite frustrating, but eventually “WOODFOREVER” worked. Strange code.
The next transmission was:
01001000011011010110110100101100001000000101011101001111010011110100010001000110010011110101001001000101010101100100010101010010001000000110010001101111011001010111001101101110001001110111010000100000011100110110010101100101011011010010000001110100011011110010000001101000011000010111011001100101001000000110000101101110011110010111010001101000011010010110111001100111001000000111010001101111001000000110010001101111001000000111011101101001011101000110100000100000011101000110100001100101001000000100001101101001011101000110000101100100011001010110110000101110001000000100110101100001011110010110001001100101001000000111010001101000011010010111001100100000011101110110100101101100011011000010000001101000011001010110110001110000001011100010111000101110001000000110100101110100001001110111001100100000011011010110000101101011011010010110111001100111001000000110110101100101001000000110100001110101011011100110011101110010011110010010111000100000010001000110111100100000011100100110111101100010011011110111010001110011001000000110011101100101011101000010000001101000011101010110111001100111011100100111100100111111000011010000101000110011001101000010111000110001001100000011010100110100001100000011100100001101000010100010110100110001001100010011100000101110001100100011100100110001001101110011100000110010
Which the mechanics figured out meant:
Hmm, WOODFOREVER doesn't seem to have anything to do with the Citadel. Maybe this will help... it's making me hungry. Do robots get hungry?
34.105409
-118.291782
That matched up with this photo from Stretch’s head:
and “HOUSEOFPIES” was the correct code to start the final transmission:
0100100100100000011101000110100001101001011011100110101100100000010010010010011101110110011001010010000001100001011000110110001101100101011100110111001101100101011001000010000001110100011010000110010100100000011000110110111101110010011100100110010101100011011101000010000001101101011001010110110101101111011100100111100100100000011000110110111101110010011001010010110000100000011000100111010101110100001000000100100100100000011101000110100001101001011011100110101100100000011010010111010000100000011001110110111101110100001000000111001101101000011011110111001001110100011001010110010000100000011011110111010101110100001000000110000101101110011001000010000001101101011010010111100001100101011001000010000001110101011100000010000001110111011010010111010001101000001000000110000101101110011011110111010001101000011001010111001000100000011100110110010101100011011101000110100101101111011011100010111000100000010101110110010101101100011011000010110000100000011101000110100001101001011100110010000001101001011100110010000001100001011011000110110000100000010010010010011101110110011001010010000001100111011011110111010000101100001000000111001101101111001000000110011101101111011011110110010000100000011011000111010101100011011010110010000100100000000011010000101000110011001101000010111000110000001101100011001100110110001110010011001000001101000010100010110100110001001100010011100000101110001100100011100000111000001101100011001000110010
Which the mechanics figured out meant:
I think I've accessed the correct memory core, but I think it got shorted out and mixed up with another section. Well, this is all I've got, so good luck!
34.063692
-118.288622
Which clearly correlates with Stretch’s final photo:
And at that location, the scouts found the words “Samson & Delilah Hair Salon”. Hmm, what are Stretch’s crosswired memory cores trying to tell us?
