Weird Tacos

The hunt to find the fourth A.P.E.Bot seed

The USB acquired in Singapore contained an image and audio file. The image indicated the final location has a reservation for 4 at 5pm local time.

The image

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Al-music.mp3

The Al generated music contained 13 unique short clips, with some being repeated up to 4 times in repetition. While decoding the music, scientists discovered the songs clips had all been parodied by Weird Al Yankovic and this was AL-generated music (lowercase L vs. uppercase i). Identifying the parodied song title and the number of times it was repeated, which indicated what letter to extract from the name led to a final phrase CASA VEGA TACOS.

#	Band Name	Song Name	Rep	Weird Al Song	Final
1	Green Day	American Idiot	1	Canadian Idiot	C
2	Michael Jackson	Bad	2	Fat	A
3	Nirvana	Smells like teen spirit	1	Smells like Nirvana	S
4	Coolio	Gansta's Paradise	1	Amish Paradise	A
5	Joan Jett	I love rock and roll	4	I Love Rocky Road	V
6	Michael Jackson	Beat It	1	Eat it	E
7	Cindy Lauper	Girls just wanna have fun	1	Girls just wanna have lunch	G
8	Queen	Another One Bites the Dust	1	Another one rides the bus	A
9	Pharell	Happy	1	Tacky	T
10	Miley Cyrus	Party in the USA	2	Party in the CIA	A
11	Toni Basil	Hey Mickey	3	Ricky	C
12	Billy Joel	Piano Man	1	Ode to a Superhero	O
13	Fine Young Cannibals	She Drives Me Crazy	1	She drives like crazy	S

The final Meetup

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Scientists proceeded to Case Vega at 5pm where they met with the final contact who presented them with a locked safety deposit box and a letter. This letter informed the scientists this was indeed the last piece of the seed needed to reboot A.P.E.Bot, but was also when they were most vulnerable, and to take heed and ensure it does not fall into the wrong hands.

The Letter

The locked safety deposit box

The safety deposit box was locked by a 5 letter combination, which using clues from the location, was found that TACOS was the password to open the lock box. Inside was the fourth and final backup seed for A.P.E.Bot c05678039b92068c along with a letter Doc wrote to himself where he shares that A.P.E.Bot was something he designed to be easily upgraded and installed but to watch out for something that was unfortunately burned off the letter.

The final seed

Front of Doc's Letter

Inside Doc's Letter