I received another message from the Oracle and I jacked in immediately for
the meeting. The coordinates led me to a dingy apartment with a small
living room crowded with people, apparently waiting their turn to talk with
her. I was led in straight away, much to my embarrassment, as numerous
individuals turned and stared at me. She looked up briefly, but she
appeared to be preoccupied with something that was baking in the oven.
"Sit down Norom", she said.
"No thanks, I feel like standing", I replied in a stiff
manner.
She turned and looked at me questioningly, "suit yourself".
I looked a little awkward and slowly sat down on a small white
footstool. "I felt like sitting", I said.
"I know", she said with a gentle smile on her face.
"Candy?", she added.
She knew I had a weakness for chocolate, as she held out a bar of 90%
Bittersweet Scharffen-Berger chocolate. I snatched it up immediately
saying "Fank Woo", between bites.
"Now let's get down to business, shall we?" "It's
important for you to know all the players in this game, I'll call them Who,
What, and I Don't Know."
"Huh?", I said between bites of the exquisite confection.
"Just pay attention Norom." "First you must go to Who,
second will come What, who will lead you to I Don't Know." "Got
it?"
I shook my head in bewilderment. "That's what I need to find out",
I said.
She looked at me with a bit of
irritation, "I say Who's first, What's second, I Don't Know's third."
Just a bit puzzled I said, " Are you the
Oracle?"
"No", she said while
handing me a large black sphere. "Here's the Oracle, I'm just another type
of control in the program."
I turned the sphere slowly over in
my hand and watched the messages slowly appear on the underneath
side. "So you're going to tell me how to find these people?"
"Yes!", she said.
" And you don't know the
fellows' names?"
"Well I should", she said.
"Well then who's first?"
"Yes!", she said.
"I mean the fellow's
name."
"Who!", she said.
"The guy that's first."
"Who!", she said.
"So where is this all leading
me?", I said with bewilderment.
"I don't know", she said.
"But I thought you said I Don't
Know is third?"
"Look! We're not getting
anywhere with this type of talk. Just go to these coordinates",
and she handed me a piece of paper.
I took the paper in an absent minded
way, while still playing with the sphere. Suddenly I noticed two numbers
appear in the small window on the underside of the sphere. I quickly added
them to the piece of paper she handed me and excused myself. I apparently
had two more stops to make before my final encounter, and I didn't want to waste
any more time.
"There must be a glitch in the Matrix"
Unfortunately, even the best laid plans can go astray.
After reassembling The Oracle (which you will find in the cache), one of the
numbers for the final coordinates got smeared and unreadable. The hint
below will give you an easy way to calculate the numbers necessary to find the
final cache.