Ruus, Helix, stay away. Spoilers.
In the PbP I'm running, the party is sent on a quest to resurrect the Basilisk war droids.
There are two basic plotlines running simultaneously: 1. traveling to various museums and collections to try to reverse-engineer the tech, and 2. tracking down the last 3 parts of a set of "coordinates" that will lead them to a vault that allegedly contains the programming schematics for the droid.
The latter part is the one I'm having trouble with. You see, they are given one part of the 4 part sequence and they are told that it is a latitude for a grid square, and they need to find the longitude, column, and row to finish off the code. They are told what to look for: an inhabitable ice moon. The twist is that it is actually for a vault on the frozen moon of Improcco. The "longitude" is actually the storage room that contains the information, the "latitude" is actually the pass-code for said vault, and the "column and row" are actually the vault's designation.
Room 621 of vault F12, the pass-code is 1187, as opposed to 1187x621, F12 on the galactic map.
Here's the rub: How do they come across the other pieces of the puzzle? I'm fairly sure the question of discovering the confusion will work itself out (through NPCs and dropped hints if necessary), but I'm stumped on the first question.