Hey. I'm not sure if I would call it a me thing specifically. Maybe it's more a case of osmosis due to various overlapping interests among my friends. Like Jane has her sleuth thing, Jake has his obsession with adventure and puzzles, and me and Roxy delved through a lot of hidden resistance history. But yeah, I know codes and how to break them. I'd say I'm decent. Do you need help with one?
[ and goddamnit jake... ]
Well, Jake isn't wrong. Why was he talking about it?
yes i randomly got some kinda codes bullshit and john and i arent rose and jade enough for this noise
[ the code will reveal a treasure map and clues he'll be betterish at than a goddamned code... ]
also its more like he instantly showed me it when sbahj came up and i marvelled at how the fuck someone managed to ink actual jpeg artifacts into skin which i feel should maybe not be possible????
Well then count me in for codes bullshit. Haven't cracked one in a while and I could do with some practice.
[ he's kind of surprised that jake would show dave so readily when surely that tattoo must mean nothing but regret to him now. but also it's jake and... ]
Of course he did. It's not actually that hard to do. Just requires a steady hand, some patience and either good visual memory or a reference.
You probably already noticed then, but he's a big movie buff. I may or may not have showed him all the SBaHJ movies before his time and gotten him really into it. So sorry if he was a little overenthusiastic. Ok I'll see you in five.
[ dirk is half-sprawled on his couch with his laptop in his lap when dave arrives and he's snapping it shut and sitting up properly at the rap on the doorframe.
lil cal also surreptitiously vanishes from where he'd been on the other end of the couch. ]
Hey. [ there's a hint of a smile that he just can't seem to help when it comes to having his bro around. ] What have you got for me?
[ as much as he loves lil cal, he's always going to prioritize dave's comfort so he's happy to keep doing it.
dirk takes the paper and don't worry, previous fandom dictated code breaking knowledge so I GOT THIS. he studies it for a moment ]
Looks like a simple substitution cipher. Maybe Caesar or Vigenére. [ he leans back, seemingly staring straight ahead at nothing while in actuality he's navigating around the computer in his shades. ] Let me see if I can compose a quick program to run it through. It could save a lot of time.
With wha - oh the computer shades, got it. [ dave drops onto the couch since he has no idea how long competent coding would take. ] I've heard of Caesar, but what's the other one you said?
[ not long when you're used to making cognitive algorithms for robots, but it's going to take him a moment when he has to make do with his shades instead of his actual computer. ]
Vigenére. It's like Caesar only based on the letters of a keyword instead of just shifting the alphabet around. We have no idea what this might be about, so it's faster to let a program do the guesswork.
[ he diverts his attention momentarily, taking in that vague gesture and fortunately getting what dave means. knowing what he does about the dave and rose in his world (a filmmaker and an author), he doesn't think it too odd. ]
[ there's a lot more he could say about jade english, but john on the other hand... he has to pause and try to think of anything significant jane might have told him. there isn't much. ]
Honestly, I don't know much about him. Just that he's Jane's "poppop", but she never got to meet him. He was a legendary comedian and a vaudevillian. He also did some acting in a sitcom.
You never know, I guess. Or I mean, we'll probably never know. Honestly, I'd rather he spent all his lifetimes doing dumb shit and just being happy.
[ there's simple and pure affection in dave's voice, because it's easy to be fond of his friends. john and rose and jade were the scope of his world for a long time. ]
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#E00707 backdating this to yesterday for chronology purposes
how are you at breaking codes
specifically breaking them
that seems like a you thing is it a you thing
also jake says you have a tattoo
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I'm not sure if I would call it a me thing specifically.
Maybe it's more a case of osmosis due to various overlapping interests among my friends.
Like Jane has her sleuth thing, Jake has his obsession with adventure and puzzles, and me and Roxy delved through a lot of hidden resistance history.
But yeah, I know codes and how to break them. I'd say I'm decent.
Do you need help with one?
[ and goddamnit jake... ]
Well, Jake isn't wrong.
Why was he talking about it?
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[ the code will reveal a treasure map and clues he'll be betterish at than a goddamned code... ]
also its more like he instantly showed me it when sbahj came up
and i marvelled at how the fuck someone managed to ink actual jpeg artifacts into skin
which
i feel should maybe not be possible????
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Haven't cracked one in a while and I could do with some practice.
[ he's kind of surprised that jake would show dave so readily when surely that tattoo must mean nothing but regret to him now. but also it's jake and... ]
Of course he did.
It's not actually that hard to do.
Just requires a steady hand, some patience and either good visual memory or a reference.
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Yes, I did.
I managed to make the equipment for it back home so I figured why not.
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but anyway
can i come over w my dumb code shit rn
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But yeah, of course.
The door's open.
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movies and stuff
he asked 2 see my comics i did here
also ill be there in like five
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I may or may not have showed him all the SBaHJ movies before his time and gotten him really into it. So sorry if he was a little overenthusiastic.
Ok I'll see you in five.
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Dude?
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lil cal also surreptitiously vanishes from where he'd been on the other end of the couch. ]
Hey. [ there's a hint of a smile that he just can't seem to help when it comes to having his bro around. ] What have you got for me?
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but dave comes up with a paper in his hands. it's code, which is hard, and those are the details i got look it's rp we can fake it till we make it ]
I have no idea what the hell this is. [ MAY AS WELL BE HONEST ] My code-cracking skills are non-existent?
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dirk takes the paper and don't worry, previous fandom dictated code breaking knowledge so I GOT THIS. he studies it for a moment ]
Looks like a simple substitution cipher. Maybe Caesar or Vigenére. [ he leans back, seemingly staring straight ahead at nothing while in actuality he's navigating around the computer in his shades. ] Let me see if I can compose a quick program to run it through. It could save a lot of time.
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Vigenére. It's like Caesar only based on the letters of a keyword instead of just shifting the alphabet around. We have no idea what this might be about, so it's faster to let a program do the guesswork.
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[ gestures vaguely and means computer skills to dirk and roxy degrees... ]
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Is Jade the tech-savvy one in your group?
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Jake's grandma was a badass genius who had her own corporation that specialized in creating all kinds of crazy tech, so I'm not surprised there.
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Honestly, I don't know much about him. Just that he's Jane's "poppop", but she never got to meet him. He was a legendary comedian and a vaudevillian. He also did some acting in a sitcom.
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[ glad everyone else was a rebel against betty crocker and john did stand up ]
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If he was involved in the resistance in any way then it must have been really covert, I've never been able to uncover anything that indicates such.
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[ there's simple and pure affection in dave's voice, because it's easy to be fond of his friends. john and rose and jade were the scope of his world for a long time. ]