A Gift for Anyone Who Asks - 5/11
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5/11 near Enchanted Blossoms, Tisse
Now that everything is back to normal, Retrospec has seen fit to send me a little gift, a pocketwatch that doesn't work. How very nice of them. Well, I have a gift for any of you who see this and want to stop by Enchanted Blossoms in the next week, anytime from about 9 to 5 during the week. Don't bother asking what it is before you come by, it's a surprise, no?
(OOC: Action tags are invited, and if you'd prefer to handwave stopping by, feel free to do so. Chloe's gift is a plastic version of a decoder ring that she ordered in bulk. She'll have enough to give anyone that stops by one of them and tell them how to use it, suggesting that people use them to code messages on paper notes to each other that they don't want Retrospec to see.)
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The ways I know of that are more complicated are a 'code within a code' and a 'repeating series.' The idea with the second one is, say you choose three numbers in a row. You then use the first number for the first letter, the second for the second, and the third for the third. Just like you would if you were only using one number. And every time you reach the end of a sequence you start again. That way the letters aren't obviously always represented by the same thing.
A code within a code makes you use a code to find the real code on the page. You hide it in a special place on the page. Maybe make it innocuous somehow. That way first people find the code, but if they use without finding the real code, all they get is gibberish. Then once they know where to find the real code, they get that and decode it. You use the two together to make it more difficult.
There are probably harder ones, but I don't know them... and just those two are hard for me.
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[It sounds a little beyond him, honestly. But he can try, at least, and worst case scenario he can probably figure out how to decode it even if he can't code it. He hopes.]
Wish I could help more. It seems like this is really freaking you out.
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And if we're lucky? It's simply a fun diversion.
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[He quirks a smile at her.]
It's a good thing you're around.
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