On a whole other topic...

[truerevelation]

Hey, can someone send me a loada spam, please?

[...A little while later on, after the rational bit of Kanji's brain has caught up with the loud bit.]

Uh. Yeah. If anyone's been gettin' that crap about the Eridanian prince and they ain't trashed it? Can ya send a few of 'em my way? I'm takin' a look at them.

...Not the only thing I've been takin' a look at, while I'm here, huh. Caught some of that 'colorless green' stuff bein' sent from on the Valiant. Also some other things that ... I dunno what they are, a load more nonsense talk, so anyone think that could be more codewords?

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[truerevelation]

...Eh, normally, they're a load of nothing. And I don't think there's some guy tryin' to give us a load of money. But there's something in that load of money that looks like it's ... not just a big number.

[awitchdidit]

You think someone's using scam junkmail to send coded messages in plain sight. That's brilliant.

[truerevelation]

Yeah, you got it! There's repeated patterns of numbers and stuff that are showin' up in different messages I've managed to look at; it ain't words but it looks like it's ... pointing at something? Some sorta cipher, I think?

[awitchdidit]

You're far beyond me in deciphering purely mathematical patterns, but if those numbers form any sort of riddle or linguistic cipher I can help you take a crack at it. Puzzling out coded messages is an old hobby of mine.

[truerevelation]

Sweet. I can send ya what I've got somehow, just gimme a chance to get the stuff together? I don't know if it's supposed to decode to any given language, but... y'know what, just a second...

[Let's just livestream a Kanji-vision clip of a computer screen he's looking at, poking at the thing.]

These groups of numbers here, right? [poke, poke] That's what's repeatin'. Something familiar about 'em...

[awitchdidit]

In a cipher, repeated patterns suggest words, or a repeated statement of some kind. I doubt it's a simple substitution, but maybe there's something...

[Beatrice is going to have a look at the numbers herself, and see if anything catches her eye as a more analogue-oriented player of idiotic word games.]

[truerevelation]

Right. Like here, here... anyone got any older copies of it lying around? Some of the patterns look like they're changing, might be dates or somethin' new... More of it I get, the more I can ... stick it together. I think.