Operate the Santavator

This objective leads me back to the Kringle Castle’s Front Lawn to talk with Pepper Minstix for hints to the operation of the Santavator, as long as I help with his terminal before:

Howdy - Pepper Minstix here! I’ve been playing with tmux lately, and golly it’s useful. Problem is: I somehow became detached from my session. Do you think you could get me back to where I was, admiring a beautiful bird? If you find it handy, there’s a tmux cheat sheet you can use as a reference. I hope you can help!

I think this was the simplest one so far. Reading up on TMUX I found a way to list all sessions by issuing tmux ls, which revealed that there was one session created recently:

1elf@6da9144bb25b:~$ tmux ls
20: 1 windows (created Sun Dec 27 10:28:11 2020) [80x24]

Next I tried tmux attach which revealed the colorful birdie:

Talking again with Pepper Minstix rewarded me with the below hints for the main objective:

You found her! Thanks so much for getting her back! Hey, maybe I can help YOU out! There’s a Santavator that moves visitors from floor to floor, but it’s a bit wonky. You’ll need a key and other odd objects. Try talking to Sparkle Redberry about the key. For the odd objects, maybe just wander around the castle and see what you find on the floor. Once you have a few, try using them to split, redirect, and color the Super Santavator Sparkle Stream (S4).

Next, I enter the Kringle Castle through the main entrance to talk with Sparkle Redberry about the Santavator:

Hey hey, Sparkle Redberry here! The Santavator is on the fritz. Something with the wiring is grinchy, but maybe you can rig something up? Here’s the key! Good luck! On another note, I heard Santa say that he was thinking of canceling KringleCon this year! At first, I thought it was a joke, but he seemed serious. I’m glad he changed his mind. Have you had a chance to look at the Santavator yet? With that key, you can look under the panel and see the Super Santavator Sparkle Stream (S4). To get to different floors, you’ll need to power the various colored receivers. … There MAY be a way to bypass the S4 stream.

There’s also one hint in the badge for the main objective:

• It’s really more art than science. The goal is to put the right colored light into the receivers on the left and top of the panel.

Next I look around the castle to find the needed objects that will help me fix the wonky Santavator. Specifically I need to recover some colorful light bulbs, and a Hex Nut that will help steer and paint the electrons to correct color:

One of the light bulbs cannot be found until reaching the Speaker Unprep Room on the 2nd Floor. It’s not possible to get to this floor until I tweak the Santavator to take me there. Luckily the green bulb and the Hex Nut are easy to find and are enough to complete this objective. Once the green electrons are flying into the green tunnel in sufficient number I could close the lid and press the button to the 2nd floor:

Which also completes this objective.

On to the next one! 😎