Peggy Carter (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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driftfleet2017-03-02 12:33 pm
mucked) wrote in driftfleet2017-03-02 12:33 pm
video + text + action
Who: Agent Carter + YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Aboard the Starstruck or the Iskaulit.
When: Today!
[ not too long ago, peggy pitched the fleet a diversionary puzzle. with all this talk of encryption and subterfuge, she's reminded how the puzzles were meant to be part of a series (of sorts) and so she gets out her notepad and pencils. after a few scrapped ideas (too long or too advanced or too dull), she settles on a code that's only a half-step up from her last one. ]
Last time we talked ciphers, we did a simple substitution. [ peggy addresses the network directly, and with little else in the way of a greeting. ] This time 'round, I've got something only a teensy bit tougher. Frankly, it can be just as handily brute forced as the other one -- but I'm more interested to know if anyone can figure out the math behind this one. Brute force only brings you so far in this hobby and I'm already working on something for next month that will require a lighter touch.
Extra credit, as ever, to those who can identify the source. Or express the cipher in modular arithmetic. And apologies for those in the Fleet who cannot speak English. Despite our augments, code seems to defy translation.
[ she'll field questions and answers for a little while from aboard the starstruck, but then it's off to the iskaulit where she passes an hour in the library -- in search of new source material, perhaps. for those players whose characters should be able to decode it but who don't want to try decoding it themselves, here is the quotation. ]
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Aboard the Starstruck or the Iskaulit.
When: Today!
[ not too long ago, peggy pitched the fleet a diversionary puzzle. with all this talk of encryption and subterfuge, she's reminded how the puzzles were meant to be part of a series (of sorts) and so she gets out her notepad and pencils. after a few scrapped ideas (too long or too advanced or too dull), she settles on a code that's only a half-step up from her last one. ]
Last time we talked ciphers, we did a simple substitution. [ peggy addresses the network directly, and with little else in the way of a greeting. ] This time 'round, I've got something only a teensy bit tougher. Frankly, it can be just as handily brute forced as the other one -- but I'm more interested to know if anyone can figure out the math behind this one. Brute force only brings you so far in this hobby and I'm already working on something for next month that will require a lighter touch.
Extra credit, as ever, to those who can identify the source. Or express the cipher in modular arithmetic. And apologies for those in the Fleet who cannot speak English. Despite our augments, code seems to defy translation.
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[ she'll field questions and answers for a little while from aboard the starstruck, but then it's off to the iskaulit where she passes an hour in the library -- in search of new source material, perhaps. for those players whose characters should be able to decode it but who don't want to try decoding it themselves, here is the quotation. ]
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[ she puts down her book, balancing it on her knees. ]
So either Clement Attlee or Winston Churchill. I'll go with the second one since I've never read any quote by Attlee.
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And you're right about Churchill. Good job.
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[ she's quick to dismiss all credit. This is like studying for a test and getting a question right after three hints. ]
It was a pretty big clue.
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You asked. [ ... ] Would you rather I had lied?
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[ quite unlike the black and white fashion photos from the 20's. ]
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[ gently (but firmly) said. ]
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[ the thought makes her smile. It sounds so ordinary. ]
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[ -- sure, peggy. ]
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[ she can't even think of a word. ]
Like you cut your hair with a pair of scissors.
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[ anything to save a quid. ]
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[ she eyes her hair, biting on her bottom lip. Her mom spends hours in the hair salon and comes back with her hair in perfect waves. Curls must demand an equal amount of effort. ]
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[ ... ]
I can show you how, if you like. I take it the style has gone out of fashion.
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[ the shrug that follows is as indifferent as a teenager can manage. ]
She's not here.
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You look old enough. [ a beat. ] Seventeen. Eighteen?
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[ she seems a tad proud that she could pass for an eighteen year old. Each year counts, it would seem. ]
I guess it'll be the first time I'll put the same amount of effort into it as my boyfriend. He takes his hair very seriously.
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