Okay so I went to S- Calico's “hideout” and it’s just a big house!! What! So I put on my costume and hid my bike then went to the door and a weird AI face showed up and called me ‘Lady Mantid’ which is not my name (that sounds like an assassin!) and inside the place is SO fancy! This creepy AI butler just walked between TVs (how many do they have!?!?) like in Parry Hotter.
He took me downstairs (not extra-creepy at all). Like down down downstairs. Sub-basement 4 kind of down to basically a bunker door. It asked me to give it my biometrics and I told it absolutely not until I see Calico and know that I’m not just giving over my fingerprints to a potential supervillain luring me into a trap. She came out and confirmed its not, so... Here’s hoping it can’t get hacked, or turns evil, or anything.
It’s a comfy place I like it here. I could totally see myself hanging out all the time if I could. I wish I had a cool headquarters hangout. I mean I could use the basement but it’s not really hidden and I guarantee Rose would totally peak in.
Rigel showed up late. We talked about the post on pinstagram, and Rigel said he had “a guy” (Calico has a base with an AI guy , Rigel has a guy! Wtf?). We debated if it was maybe a trap, the heroes were hacked, or something. Asked Rigel maybe fly out there and scout - he apparently has no idea how fast he is! First thing I did was make a spreadsheet of my limits. He asked for me to send him the template. Evan texted me saying that the coordinates were encrypted. So, I headed there to work with him on cracking the puzzle. Rigel said his guy did something similar, so we all split up.
At Evan’s his mom was making lasagna which smelled so good. I swear she’s a Meal Magician. Whisk Wizard. Her food is always good is what I mean. We head up to his room and looked over the code. Every time he refreshed all but a couple lines changed. I asked if maybe it was hex or binary code or something, but apparently that’s been tried. Some people on the forums have been working on it, and he has too but with no luck. So I said maybe step back and make a plan without looking at the code. Just theoretical for a bit so we can crack it.
He figured out it’s reverse alphanumeric; it brings up the address of CCH for some reason. I didn’t feel literally any closer to solving it. Evan called me a genius for saying “use anti-math” but it’s the stupidest idea ever and it working isn’t genius it’s just dumb. I don’t like when he calls me that. He did all the work.
Later he got a message saying it was imaginary numbers i = √-1 and that we’d meet up tomorrow (after the mall) to try and figure it out together. I suggested maybe ciphering the alphanumeric key in the classic A=1, B=2, so on and then plugging that into i which is kind of stupid but oh well. But was like 9:30pm and I totally forgot to message dad! Shit! I had to rush home. Hope I don’t come home to the Rose interrogation. I swear she can sit in my room in the dark for hours just to mess with me.