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[detectivewonder]

Who: Tim Drake and you!
Broadcast: Fleet-wide.
Action: Aboard the First Breath.
When: Shortly after the shuffle.

[Text]
JIEYJ XBQXO PYUKO CQZHL TIDPS UKCEJ OVKGW OIDIY CHFQZ YCOIH YYJQF
QOBHJ OPUBP IEFUV EVSHZ RTRFD ZRTMU RGPPH JOOKG KMDIO SIVFO ZWZSV

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So, when I have missing crew, that just means... what? Their ratings were terrible so they got dropped? It can't be that easy, or people would sabotage their own ratings to get sent home.

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[ladiesss]

Intercepting alien transmissions already, Mulder?

[she's talking about the text, of course...]

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[detectivewonder]

I thought you weren't going to be my Scully, Scully.

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[ladiesss]

Did they ever turn the X-Files into a harmless Saturday morning cartoon? Where Mulder and Skully are quirky teenagers and solve paranormal mysteries together after class, despite it going completely against the main show's established canon?

Because that could work. I could do that.

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[detectivewonder]

Solve all our problems in under 22 minutes? Yeah, count me in for that version, too.

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[ladiesss]

All right. Room for commercials.

[she nods a little, then...]

But seriously, what's up with the block letters?

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[detectivewonder]

How much do you know about computers?

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[ladiesss]

Nnnot a lot. [she frowns.] They're... Kind of my blind spot. Why?

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[detectivewonder]

Well, I can do the explanation without computers. Do you know what a shibboleth is?

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[ladiesss]

[a notable pause as she thinks, looking up at the ceiling... and then back down.]

Were you just testing to see who could read it?

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[detectivewonder]

I was curious. But half the point is just to have something I know how to do mean something. Informational security is sort of a talent.

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[ladiesss]

Oh... Wow, okay. I think I get it.

[she's still trying to figure out whether she could translate it or not... maybe she'll try to figure it out later.]

That's pretty good. Pretty smart.

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[detectivewonder]

Thanks.

How's the library going?

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[ladiesss]

Oh, you know. Full of books. There are shelves now.

[she nods a little, too herself...]

And a fairly sophisticated coding and sorting system. Archival software. And I'm working on blacklights and beanbags. Basic stuff.

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[detectivewonder]

Blacklights?

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[ladiesss]

For the library rave. Duh. We're the cool ship, come on.

[she tilts her head...]

That, and when there's inevitably a horrible murder in the library, we can use the blacklights to see the creepy message that was left on the walls in human blood... Even though I'm not actually sure if that's how it works outside of crime shows and horror movies.

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[detectivewonder]

You need luminol. But I can make that.

[Automatic answer, dead serious.]

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[ladiesss]

Sweeeet.

[her excitement is contained to a severe lineface.]

Not that I'm like, hoping for a murder? Maybe a Halloween party instead...

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[detectivewonder]

You could probably get pig's blood from a butcher on the planet, if you wanted to stage something. It keeps well refrigerated.

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[ladiesss]

I don't think it keeps well for like, seven months... [since that's when Halloween is...] But I can totally look for something similar. These worlds are weird, there'll probably be something like that around again, eventually...

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[detectivewonder]

Good point.

Anyway, I'll see how long it takes me to put some Luminol together.