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[mucked]

Who: Peggy Carter and YOU
Broadcast: Audio + Text
Action: Aboard the Starstruck.
When: Evening

[ it's been a long day. long week. long bloody month. and tonight, in the rebuilt space of a bedroom now properly shared, peggy carter is reading a book. not just any book, really. but that's a story for another time. for now, she's prepared to proceed publicly as though nothing is amiss.

in the handful of hours before bed, she takes to the network with a brief puzzle. ]

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[ and attached to the text is an audio messsage. ]

I know it's been a little while since the last one -- and some of you lot who most enjoyed them have gone and left. So we'll ease back into it with something simple. Simple, but no less fundamental. Solving it is all well and good but, as always, there are bragging rights up for grabs for anyone who names the source. Fair warning -- English is the native tongue.

And while I've got your attention, I suppose I ought to do my due diligence [ however reluctantly ] and ask whether anyone else has purchased the upgrade which merges two rooms together. It may be worthwhile to swap notes on how those changes came into effect.

[ and that's that. although she'll be awake for a little while yet -- answering messages and putting on a brave face. truth is, things have gone pear-shaped and she's only just realizing how much recovery yet required. those aboard or visiting the starstruck can find her at her desk, hatch left open, in her and steve's newly merged room. ]

( ooc: and because not everyone has the out-of-character time or inclination for codebreaking, here is the quotation peggy's posted using a caesar shift. )

Comments

[aspearing]

Of course. From what I've read, many were a shelter of sorts from different battles of the past.

[mucked]

Sanctuaries, I take it?

[ she's trying to understand. ]

[aspearing]

Sanctuaries, places to worship seraphim, and shelter. It isn't something you can exactly place into one category.

[mucked]

Are these sorts of places typical of one culture? One nation? Or are they global?

[aspearing]

To be honest, there's a great amont of things from our past that we don't know. A great deal of our literature has been lost, however... from what I've some of the ruins I've seen do suggest that they were from different cultures.

[mucked]

[ -- well, that's tragic. ]

It's difficult to imagine. At times. Back home, things get so -- documented, I suppose. Ruminated upon and studied to the point of banality. There's very little we don't know about the broader strokes of what came before.

[ which isn't true at all, but she's very much a product of that time. ]

[aspearing]

I see. Being able to read about what happened in the past... I feel as though you can learn a great amount of the present because of that. So, being able to have a number of years recorded as you're saying -- it's something to feel fortunate for, isn't it? Or... that's how I've always felt.

[mucked]

Fortunate, yes. Although it serves us all well to remember that history is often written by the victors.

[aspearing]

That's true, though there are some books that are written by a more neutral party.