While you’re brushing away the final layers of snow from the mantlepiece and dAnkan occasionally mutters various orders while playing on a game console they found, you hear a THUD against the glass doors as a newspaper elf on a kicksled passes by. You walk out and pick up the newspaper, reading the headline:
“Rudolph drops out of the race!”
Taking a moment to take the news into the lobby, you then quickly walk over to show dAnkan who reluctantly glances away from their handheld console for a moment.
“Oh deer… Something fishy is going on here. I’ve known Rudolph for many years and I find it very unlike them to give up on something this easily,” says dAnkan while looking over the article. “The only comment that Rudolph gave was “*Reindeer Noise*”, which does not give us much to work with.”
“Work with? Why is this our problem?” you wonder aloud.
“Because Rudolph is a friend of Santa, even after a treachery like this,” replies dAnkan simply while squeezing some citrus on the newspaper to reveal invisible ink. After a moment you see a ghostly 3D schematic of some sort of building, but the layout makes no sense at all.
“Ah-ha! I knew we still had some supporters at The Snow Post! Now, why does this look familiar…” says dAnkan before taking a bite of the citrus, grimacing, and then taking another bite.
“This is some weird geometry, looks pretty modern, last 200 years or so,” you say while worrying about dAnkan’s new citrusy obsession.
“I remember!” yells dAnkan, throwing some citrus peels on their game console. “This is Santa’s stables! The reindeers have some particular architectural preferences: dislike old greek traditions like columns and such. Last I remember, Rudolf had room number 14. Let’s load this newspaper into Antonín’s old trusty LemonTM computer to figure out some more.”
“Do we have to use the LemonTM computer?” you ask warily, questioning dAnkan’s obsession.
“Of course not! But since it’s available we might aswell. If you have some other computer lying around then by all means…” answers dAnkan while returning to their game console.