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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They helped us kill a malevolent god, anyway.
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Also, a lot of people who accidentally think I'm a cultist or a serial killer.
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[ tact? what tact? ]
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I can't be that weird.
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Well, that's the nicest way I've heard it.
Usually it's more like I'm a 'dirty, unread barbarian without a brain to spare'.
... Scholarly types usually look down on hunters. [If they bothered asking, they'd know I went to college and made pretty good grades.] I'm pretty sure you know what that's like even more than I do. Being underestimated because of your appearance.
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The thing to do is to make that underestimation work for you.
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Absolutely.
Always nice to see the look of surprise when they can't crack you, right before you crack them.
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Less interrogation and more asking questions at the scene of a crime, though.
Sometimes just being polite works.
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