META

Code of Conduct

Solution

To see how the 25 feeder answers can be grouped into 5 groups of 5 answers, one for each meta puzzle, refer to the solution page for “Base of Operations”. The title very weakly hints at the Elements of Harmony from Friendship, but it’s sufficient to solve the other meta puzzles and be left with this group.

Each row corresponds to a “disease” from Dr. Doctor. Each column has mangled these names in a consistent way as described below.

The bottom part suggests to perform the same mangling to the feeder answers, which are assumed to be entered in alphabetical order.

ColStepsFeederResult
1
  • Fourth letter, shifted forward by 1
  • Length of the word + 2 in Roman numerals
COURAGESIX
2
  • Fifth-last letter
  • Length in hexadecimal
  • Length − 1 in hexadecimal
  • Last letter
THOUGHTFULNESSLEDS
3
  • Use the first six letters
  • Cycle vowels (A→E→I→O→U→A)
  • Remove E’s, change T’s to S’s
  • Add “FL ... G”
AUTHENTICITYFLASHING
4
  • Sixth letter
  • Third letter
CONSCIENTIOUSNESSIN
5
  • Use the whole word
  • Shift first letter forward 3, second letter forward 4, third letter backward 3, fourth letter forward 12
PATIENCESEQUENCE

The resulting clue phrase, SIX LEDS FLASHING IN SEQUENCE, hints at a KTANE module.

LIGHT CYCLE