*emerges, mouth covered in vitae, surrounded by bottles* oughgmgmgmhgmmhgmhghhhhh.... pink soda..........


seriously, though, this was a very fun (and funny) puzzle. we are fairly sure this is around min latency (as we are pulling the salt as fast as we can(?)), and we have a very funny setup for output distance. sure hope josaline can make do with this much vitae