META- A Whole Year to Solve
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Doc's Memo
Audio Transcript
Doc Gibbons
Look, Avil... Sorry, Megagold. I can see twelve different encodings. This must give us the twelve inputs we need to unlock the final key.
Mega Gold
Ah. I think these trigrams belong together. Those look like flags. Is this magic? Look what happens when I touch this symbol.
Yes, I suspect some of these have more than one distinct layer of meaning. Some related and some nothing. Twelve encodings, twelve inputs. But what unifies them for that final step? Oh, it could take us a year to figure this out. We have no time to waste then.
1
Music Scales
ADJUNCT
2
Button Semaphore
APE LIFEBOATS
3
Invisible Presse
AUGMENTS
4
Animal Sounds
DOCTOR DOLITTLE
5
Dashed Borders
HOUSE PARTY
6
Mountain Maps
JULIAN ALPS
7
Double Flags
MAYFLOWER
8
Canadian Trigrams
NOVA SCOTIANS
9
Number Glyphs
QUESTION MARK
10
Korean Hangul
SSAMJANG
11
Circuit Tracing
TOOL APRON
12
Word Connections
UNDECLARED AGENDA
As Doc had mentioned this could take a year to figure out, each of these 12 answers contains a hidden month abbreviation. Ex. ADJUNCT -> AD[JUN]CT
1
AD[JUN]CT
2
APE LI[FEB]OATS
3
[AUG]MENTS
4
D[OCT]OR DOLITTLE
5
HOU[SE P]ARTY
6
[JUL]IAN ALPS
7
[MAY]FLOWER
8
[NOV]A SCOTIANS
9
QUESTION [MAR]K
10
SSAM[JAN]G
11
TOOL [APR]ON
12
UN[DEC]LARED AGENDA
These can be arranged by year order starting with January
1
SSAMJANG
2
APE LIFEBOATS
3
QUESTION MARK
4
TOOL APRON
5
MAYFLOWER
6
ADJUNCT
7
JULIAN ALPS
8
AUGMENTS
9
HOUSE PARTY
10
DOCTOR DOLITTLE
11
NOVA SCOTIANS
12
UNDECLARED AGENDA
Reading the Nth letter of each answer based on the month (ie, take the 4th letter of TOOL APRON that contain APR to get L) reveals the final answer of SPELL CASTING