[ 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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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. ]