Recaps
- Password
- LCKD0297
Inventory
⍻ Contact Letter
⍻ Council Orientation
⍻ Council Pin
⍻ Council Vote Reminder
⍻ Exile Notice
⍻ FBI Badge
⍻ Jordan's Statement
⍻ Laila's Announcement
⍻ Password Card
⍻ Puzzle Box
⍻ Stopwatch
Physical Items
Contact Letter
- Laila informs us that we are now officially on the Council.
- Oswald's real name is revealed to be Theodore Markson. He has finally been exiled, so we won't need to worry about him anymore.
- Since we are the deciding vote on the "lock-in" decision, I wonder if we can sway it one way or the other for various outcomes.
- Or will we be given only one path so that we all come to the same solution regardless?
- Councilor...
- I kind of like the sound of that...
Council Orientation
- Our new number is A117, as we have been promoted.
- Be sure to use this instead of C117 to login on the website.
- *I was struggling for a bit trying to figure out why the password would not work, because I was trying to login before reading this item... I was, like, "For fork's sake..."
Council Pin
- This is the NACS facility logo.
Council Vote Reminder
- This tells us that voting is mandatory, not a choice.
- It also references our new upgraded number: A117.
Exile Notice
- This is a notice to the residents of the NACS facility on the decision to exile Oswald, whose true name is revealed to be Theodore Markson.
- Well, for his sake, he'd better hope that Persephone was correct and he doesn't get infected while out in the open.
FBI Badge
- Theodore Markson stole this from the real Oswald. Laila found this in his personal effects.
- The cards are badly bloodied up and tarnished.
- Notice how the profile picture is completely obliterated, making it easier for Markson to impersonate Oswald.
- Note the badge number in the top-left corner:
- XF90D053
Jordan's Statement
- Jordan is taking a crew and leaving the facility to start anew.
- They had to leave empty-handed? They couldn't even get a to-go bag of supplies?
- It does seem that the outside is getting better and the virus is dissipating.
- I believe Jordan will be just fine if she steers clear of the aliens themselves, if they are still around...
- Jordan's sign-off references "beginnings".
- This is hinting at a hidden message within her letter.
- Read only the beginning letters of her sentences.
- Each paragraph is equal to one word.
- Once deciphered, the hidden message reads:
- "I have supplies. Join me on surface."
Laila's Announcement
- Laila decided to share her findings with the public.
- On the backside, there appears to be yet another blueprint/schematic of some sort... Lovely.
Password Card
- This card references Rule #5.
- Shift the letters back by 5.
- Once deciphered, the password is:
- "ALANTURING"
- I wonder who Alan Turing is...

Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher, and theoretical biologist.
Puzzle Box
- This is actually a puzzle tube rather than a box... but I digress.
- According to Laila, Theodore Markson, a.k.a. Oswald, had PATRICIA print this out for him.
- Hmm, I wonder what the significance could be and what we'll find when we solve it...
- Wow, that was a "bench" and a half to solve... but a lot of fun once I knew what I was doing.
- Once the inner cylinder is removed, there is a piece of paper at the bottom inside with numbers written on it in Oswald's handwriting:
- "647793158"
- Using the "36" etched on the back of the stopwatch as a base, this message can be decoded.
- Once decoded, the message reads:
- "APOGEE"
- This is the password for the restricted file on the NACS website.
Stopwatch
- Laila found this in Theodore Markson's, a.k.a. Oswald's, personal effects.
- Take note of the etching on the back of the stopwatch:
- "...said #36"
- This is used to decipher a message found elsewhere in this episode.
- It is also used to solve the string of numbers from the manifesto we received in Episode 4.
- This is clued in by the "Tick, tick, tick..."
- Once decoded, the manifesto message reads:
- "I ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO HER ORIGINAL PROGRAMMING."
- "WHOEVER CONTROLS PATRICIA CONTROLS HUMANITY. LET THIS BE A LESSON TO WHOEVER STANDS IN MY WAY. LET THIS BE THE RISING ACTION, THE MOMENTS THAT FALL LIKE DOMINOES THAT WERE ALWAYS MEANT TO BE. FAILURE HERE MEANS NOTHING. I WILL NEVER STOP."
Websites
NACS Facility
- Username
- A117
- Password
- ALANTURING
*Note that you MUST use A117 now instead of C117!
Directory
- Personnel Files
- Council Profiles
- Clicking on "Laila Mariel Woods" directly opens up her file.
- It is not password-protected.
- Clicking on "Laila Mariel Woods" directly opens up her file.
- Council Profiles
Notes
- Documents
- COUNCIL.MEETINGMINUTES
- We can see the other members' votes and their reasoning for voting the way they did.
- COUNCIL.MEETINGMINUTES
Investigation
- Case File
- ENVIRONMENTALREPORT
- This is proof that the soil is degrading and will not be suitable to keep growing crops.
- STATEOFCONVERGENCE.TXT
- This is a report of Simone's finding, concluding that the virus would no longer be a threat.
- SUSTAINABILITYREPORT
- This is the estimated time for survival if the lock-in were to occur.
- ENVIRONMENTALREPORT
Communication
- FAILSAFE.RESTRICTED
- The password is:
- APOGEE
- *Oh, god, no! Not more binary!!!! Anything but binary!!!
- I cheated and used a website to decode all of this... lol.
- Once deciphered, the message reads:
- I will take PATRICIA. I know the trails. I know the outposts. With the right equipment I can build a terminal anywhere. My destiny will never escape me. No one was ready to see how beautiful my plan was, and so you live as captives under the rule of a broken PATRICIA. In case things go awry, and I am unable to bring PATRICIA back from the brink of chaos, use the following fail-safe key: Derrida, ending in the sum of Oswald's identity. We are all just numbers in the end.
- "Oswald's identity" is the number from the FBI badge.
- Ending in the "sum" means to add all the numbers in Oswald's ID together by converting the letter to numbers.
- X = 24
- F = 6
- D = 4
- 24 + 6 + 9 + 0 + 4 + 0 + 5 + 3 = 51
- The password is:
PATRICIA
- Type in "Derrida51" to unlock PATRICIA.
- Doing so gives us a long thread of messages from Markson along with more binary.
- Once decoded, the message reads:
- "Please stop Markson. Let me help you one last time. Unlock the vote page with something you will never see again. Time is running out. There's a shadow hanging over me."
- The answer to this riddle is:
- yesterday
Directory
- Council Portal
- The password is:
- "yesterday"
- HOLY FORK!!
- "Oswald" interrupts Laila's message. He wins after all! Our vote was for naught!
- *I voted no. I did go back and vote "yes" just to see if I could. It was kind of saddening to see how heartbroken Laila was when she saw how we voted... Seeing "Oswald" in person made me kinda like him more... lol
- The password is: