Battleship cove is a pretty badass little tourist place, full of old decommissioned ships. But, the GPS data on the picture we had was pretty pretty precise, so we new which ship we were going to, the USS Massachusetts. This thing was a big hulking beast of a boat, bristling with guns. We bought visitor passes and spent hours wandering through the whole boat. we knew it was somewhere in the front-ish middle of the ship, but none of us could really tell what the picture was, or what deck it was taken on. There's a lot to get lost in inside a battleship. But, finally we found what we were looking for, a gun loader. I guess underneath those big damn guns, they have machines designed to load the guns. I always imagined it was a dude down there shoving the shells in, like you see in old ww2 footage. but we had found the place. we scoured that little room, looking for anything. we found some numbers engraved on the wall, but that didn't mean anything to us, and for all we knew they were part of the ship. But we wrote them down anyway. There was d6, 193, and B19. they were all in different places, and all written down in different ways. Finally, Allen decided to do what we were all afraid we might have to. He climbed into the pipe where the bullets go. We saw his feet disappear and didn't hear anything from him. after a moment or two, we did hear something, but it wasn't Allen. A tourgroup was coming through. We didn't know what to do, so we feigned interest in the display, and tried to act cool. Then we got a text from Allen inside the tube. All he said was to sneak out and meet up at the car, so we joined the tourgroup, and casually strolled out. When Allen met us out at the car, he was kindof greasy, but he was smiling. He had a small black and red box in his hand. he opened it up, and we saw nine buttons along an lcd screen, with a speaker to one side.
So, we took the box to a hotel and set it up on a table. it was small, and the plastic felt old. We opened the top and looked at the buttons: On/Reset, yes, no, Repeat/clear, and the bottom row counter from 1 to 4, and then an enter button. So, we turned it on, it played a weird phrase, and then waited for us to do something. So, we started putting in the numbers from the gun room. Nothing. So, Allen started trying to remember the other numbers from everything he had encountered up to that point, but that didn't do anything either. It was real bullshit, let me tell you. Finally, Allen decided that we had come to the wrong place first. so we headed for the next place with GPS coordinates. I don't really know what drove him, honestly, but that man never stopped. It scared me a little, how determined he was.
