My SHENZHEN I/O puzzles

THE 99 HOLE.lua

function get_name()
    return "THE 99-HOLE"
end

function get_description()
    return {
        "*alice* is an XBus input connected to an electronic transmitter.",
        "*bob* is an XBus output connected to an electronic receiver.",
        "Receive packets of data from *alice* and send them to *bob*.",
        "Numbers are between 1 and 26.",
    }
end

function get_board()
    return [[
        ..................
        ..#####...#####...
        ..####.....###2...
        ..######1######...
        ..0###.....####...
        ..#####...#####...
        ..................
    ]]
end

MESSAGES = {
    {"decentralized","autonomous","corporation","has"},           -- 4 5
    {"thorium","mining","operations","can","be","optimized"},     -- 20 8
    {"creating","a","device","with","certain","specifications"},  -- 3 18
    {"a","quick","brown","fox","jumps","over","the","lazy","dog"},-- 1
    {"maintain","the","system","and","expect","instructions"},    -- 13 1
    {"a","quick","brown","fox","jumps","over","the","lazy","dog"},-- 1
    {"lorem","ipsum","dolor","sit","amet","consectetur","elit"},  -- 12 15
}

function get_data()
    input = {}
    noise = {}
    output = {}
    time = 1

    function send(packet)
        input[time] = packet
        output[time] = packet

        time = time + #packet
    end

    message = MESSAGES[math.random(#MESSAGES + 1)]
    if message then
        for _, word in ipairs(message) do
            packet = {}
            for i = 1, #word do
                packet[i] = string.byte(word, i) - 96
            end

            send(packet)
        end
    else
        repeat
            packet = {}
            repeat
                packet[#packet + 1] = math.random(1, 26)
            until math.random(0, 9 - #packet) == 0

            send(packet)
        until time > 33
    end

    for time = 1, 60 do
        noise[time] = 99
    end

    create_terminal("alice", "0", TYPE_XBUS, DIR_INPUT, input)
    create_terminal("bob", "2", TYPE_XBUS, DIR_OUTPUT, output)
    create_terminal("99", "1", TYPE_SIMPLE, DIR_INPUT, noise)
end