Solution to Telephone
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Answer: SOUNDLINK
by Colin Lu, Azalea Weisblat, Jon Schneider, Rahul Sridhar, Anderson Wang
This puzzle consists of a chain of people in ⊥IW who want to pass on a message to one another. Each one tells us where to find the next person. Additionally, some number of seconds after talking to one of them, we hear a notification sound from a messaging app.
| NPC location | NPC Dialog | Sound | Delay | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the space station in ⊥IW.giga | They're in the corner of a circuit board. They're really small. | Steam | 1 | S |
| Bottom corner of ⊥IW.milli | They're just across the way. | 6 | O | |
| Bottom of ⊥IW.milli | They're in the middle of a bridge way up in space. | Hangouts | 6 | U |
| Bridge in ⊥IW.giga | They're standing by the machine that holds onto ⊥IW.milli. | Messenger | 6 | N |
| Second floor of ⊥IW.kilo | They're standing next to a rocket. | Discord | 7 | D |
| Lobby of the ⊥IW.nano complex, by the rocket | They're in the Great Galactic Basement. | Slack | 2 | L |
| Great Galactic Basement (where you end up if you fall off the bridge in ⊥IW.giga) | They're working at a desk in ⊥IW.kilo. | 3 | I | |
| Roughly in the middle of of the first floor of ⊥IW.kilo | They're in a building whose number is the square of a square. | Snapchat | 2 | N |
| Building 16 | They're up on the space station. | Skype | 2 | K |
Ordering by the cycle of who is pointing to whom, and indexing the delay into the name of the messaging app, we get SOUNDLINK, the answer to the puzzle.