video + text + action

[mucked]

Who: Peggy Carter & YOU
Broadcast: Y, fleetwide.
Action: Aboard the Starstruck, if you like.
When: Today.

[ a video feed flickers to life, and fights for a moment to adequately focus on its subject. peggy carter sits in the kitchen aboard the starstruck, cup of tea and her elbow and half a biscuit in her hand. dabbing at crumbs, she sets her food aside and offers the network a bright smile. ]

That message -- the ominous one, in the bizarre language? It put me in mind of the sort of cryptograms and puzzles you might see in the Sunday paper. [ her expression is cheery enough, although she's not being wholly honest about her interest in such games. she won't be the one to say the words bletchley and park.] I loved them. Them, and crosswords. I thought maybe some of you might like them, too. [ ... ] We could do a few together. I'm not saying we all join a club, exactly, but back home they were always better solved in good company.

Let's start you off with one that's easy enough. But there's no shame in needing a hint, if needed. For what it's worth, the text I'm attaching is, in its deciphered form, English -- not yet certain how the augments' translation will handle it. We'll see.

BLSTKBC YLBSFKGISRX XL QIYT SL SFVBWIKAKJR STR QKBZ VX V XSRVZU EIFELXR — V ELKBS LB OTKYT STR XLIA QVU NKM KSX KBSRAARYSIVA RUR.

[ -- and then an afterthought: ]

...By chance, has anyone been brewing their own beer?

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[mucked]

That's two engagements in one evening, good God. [ she cards her fingers through her curls -- it's late in the afternoon, and they're starting to lose their shape. ] Winn's coming over to show me a few tricks. He says it'll go smoother if I can borrow your...phone.

[ a cautious pause, because she's not certain if that's the right way to describe it. ]

Once he's done with his first lesson, I'll come find you.

[ so. many. favours. ]

[uprightness]

Oh.

[ he gets up, reaches for his back pocket before handing her his phone without a big fuss. it's a much simpler request than the first one, after all. ]

Here - what is he teaching you?

[mucked]

Something to do with computers. [ her explanation is almost similar to a luddite's. peggy gives his phone a perfunctory examination -- here's a thing from the future. the actual future. and if it's anything like the communicators they're allowed by the atroma, then she is well and truly humbled by how casually he puts it under her care. were the situations reversed, peggy isn't so convinced she'd easily do the same.

thoughtfully, she traces the phone's edge. ] Coding. Programming. Something of that nature.

[uprightness]

No one knows more about that than Winn.

[ he confirms as he sits back down. the good thing about winn is how simple he can make those things seem. steve learned a thing or two from him, too. though nothing as complex as programming. ]

Sounds like it'll be right up your alley.

[mucked]

Maybe. Hopefully. Either right up my alley, or well above my head. [ it's something she's not afraid to admit, given the distance between the decades. ] But it might be a useful skill. Who knows.