awitchdidit: (i'm a (wo)man of wealth and taste)
Beatrice the Golden ([personal profile] awitchdidit) wrote in [community profile] synopsychic2019-10-02 06:21 pm

Idiotic Word Games

[Sent after very carefully setting up Psychic Protection II to exclude Kinji, just in case.]

While we're sharing information, our inestimable communications analyst Kanji Tatsumi has shared an intercepted communication from some of the locals searching for Dara. It's couched in confidential terms, but frankly it's barely encoded...unless the obvious cipher is a decoy. Here's the message in its entirety, with the obvious code words conveniently emphasized:

"OPERATION COLORLESS GREEN critical update - Suspect operatives from WESTMOST KOREA GARDEN who knew FURIOUS IDEA are protecting it from ALEXANDROS. In addition, further information about HEARTBEAT discovered. Will dispatch SILENT CHARIOT with further details.

"Urgently request communication to FLYING RAPIER under ATHENA GIFT protocol."

Most of these are simple: COLORLESS GREEN is the operation name, which means FURIOUS IDEA must be Dara. COLORLESS GREEN IDEAS SLEEP FURIOUSLY probably refers to the particular intelligence she has and that certain people want.

WESTMOST KOREA GARDEN would normally have me cracking into an atlas, or craving kimchi, but I think I can get it from context. Munghungwa Dynamics is Dara's former place of employment, if I'm not mistaken. They're a century or so's romanization drift from what I know as Korea's national flower, the Mughungwa, or Rose of Sharon. Either that or this is about mung beans, which are still culinarily Korean/Chinese and still making me hungry.

ALEXANDROS is a Greek word meaning "Defender of Man". This almost certainly refers to the ESDF. Likewise, ATHENA'S GIFT could be said to be wisdom...or the more specific mythological reference, the Shield of Aegis. It's...it's AEGISCorp. Very obviously.

HEARTBEAT would seem to indicate Doki Doki no Gakuen, the school at which the previous Jaunt in this world occurred...and where people met Dara to begin with. While that might be interesting, it could more metaphorically refer to S. Tech or the Emodriver frames. We should still probably check in on our alma mater.

The only one I'm stuck on is FLYING RAPIER, but that's likely a warship, perhaps the (Prince) Valiant? Or maybe the Aurigans' Sword of Empire?

The most interesting word here is SILENT CHARIOT, though...the "Auriga" constellation is of course referred to as "The Chariot"...and therefore a silent chariot would be an Aurigan spy.


Given this and other revelations, I think we need to speak to "David Texxant" at the earliest possible opportunity. And while we're at it, we need to make sure to investigate Munghungwa if we want to find Dara.

Of course, if I'm entirely off here, anyone is free to correct me. The more brains are on detective work, the faster it goes, after all.
razorblade_empress: (zz P1 Contemplative)

[personal profile] razorblade_empress 2019-10-03 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
I don't mind talking to him if no one else wants the job. He seemed to at least tolerate me.
razorblade_empress: (zz P1 Nothing to see here)

[personal profile] razorblade_empress 2019-10-03 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Memory restoration's not currently in my skillset, unless someone wants to give me a crash course in doing it. Or if someone else wants to do it instead.
thornsofmalkav: (chinhands)

[personal profile] thornsofmalkav 2019-10-03 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
He's already investigating Takumi for me. I guess I should have figured he was already someone else's spy—this definitely wasn't his first rodeo.
thornsofmalkav: (talking)

[personal profile] thornsofmalkav 2019-10-03 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
I can teach it... but I already used up my Jaunt's worth of it. Not that it mattered in the long run.

[Somebody sounds pretty damn bitter about something.]
razorblade_empress: (zz P1 Kaneko)

[personal profile] razorblade_empress 2019-10-03 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
I'd appreciate it.

[private; protection 1]

You okay?
thornsofmalkav: (concerned)

public --> private x2 protected

[personal profile] thornsofmalkav 2019-10-03 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. You can share memories, right? You need to know that. And also how to read someone else's mind. You don't actually read anyone's mind for it, but you do have to get into their heads to pull the Traveler mind forward.

[Gonna switch to private]

And... not really. I de-infiltrated Alcuin last week because he knows space medicine and I thought he could help figure out the whole bioweapon thing... but then the Empire showed up above Phobos and he... he wasn't there anymore. Like we have a bond from the Jaunt where he was my Pogemon and I couldn't feel it. And when Paix II, the guy he was Infiltrating as, showed up to my hanger a little later he... I mean he was cute and blond and French but he wasn't my Alcuin.

When Alcuin was a little kid, these guys from over the border raided his village and basically wiped it out. He only survived because Anafiel was there visiting and he had a horse and at the first scream he put Alcuin in front of him in the saddle and started riding hell for leather.

So like. I get why this would send him out of ambit. Especially since the two Jaunts before were pretty hard on him. I just... I feel like it's my fault, I guess.
razorblade_empress: (zz P1 Regretful)

public --> private x2 protected

[personal profile] razorblade_empress 2019-10-03 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I can do both those things.

[private; protected]

Telling you it's not your fault probably isn't gonna help all that much, is it? I mean, I'd probably feel the same way in your place. But I'm sorry you lost him, and I'm sorry it was under such shitty circumstances.
razorblade_empress: (zz P1 Exasperated)

[personal profile] razorblade_empress 2019-10-03 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, about that guy - did you know he's telepathic too? Because he is.
crouching_sin: (wild NAOYA used GETA THROW!)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2019-10-03 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
I can do it... though I think we might want to try that on Katsuragi.
crouching_sin: (oh? you think so?)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2019-10-03 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
If it's The Chariot, I suppose we know who the other Arcana this match is, then.

This was sent out from EDSF space? Or towards it?

[Private, Protected]

I didn't share everything on that last message - but 'Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously' is a passcode. The Admiral used it when raising my clearance.

'Computer. Raise Lieutenant Adam Caine's clearance: authorize Admiral Sara Hildegarde Smith Caine, code Sierra Charlie Proxima mark Three One Two Fiver. Passcode: Colorless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously.'

That's what she said. I didn't want to spread passwords around.
helborn: (nope too cute to function)

[personal profile] helborn 2019-10-03 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Booooooo.
truerevelation: (~01)

[personal profile] truerevelation 2019-10-03 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
...who're you calling inestimable?

But. Uh. Thanks. Happy to help?
crouching_sin: (maybe i'll humor you once)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2019-10-03 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll have to ask him.

Sara was talking about needing to get a backdoor line of communication to the Princess. I suspect the Sword of Empire is the 'flying rapier', and she's using some kind of AEGISCorp-related communication channel.

Which also might mean they're supplying things to the Aurigans, or at least have a business contact or some sort of connection.

[Private]

I'll keep an eye out for more.
crouching_sin: (smirkity smirk)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2019-10-03 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll see when I can sneak up on him. Better that I'm not seen doing something weird in his lab.
crouching_sin: (wild NAOYA used GETA THROW!)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2019-10-03 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Kanji - was this going out of EDSF space? Or into it?
truerevelation: (*01)

[personal profile] truerevelation 2019-10-03 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, man. I'd have to go back over the data to see if I can get a destination - all I know was it was comin' from onboard the Valiant.
crouching_sin: (they ain't gonna catch you when you fall)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2019-10-03 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
If you do get a destination, let me know - but knowing it was outbound confirms that there's someone spying. And using some sort of protocol related to AEGISCorp.

I can't do much hacking from my current position, unfortunately. And this overlay's known to be... hm. Not the sharpest in terms of academics, let's say.
truerevelation: (~01)

[personal profile] truerevelation 2019-10-03 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh, neither am I. But fair enough you don't wanna get him into stuff he doesn't wanna be in later.
crouching_sin: (maybe i'll humor you once)

[personal profile] crouching_sin 2019-10-03 06:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I don't care about that all that much - I just don't want to raise suspicions about why he's suddenly a genius.
thornsofmalkav: (laughing)

[personal profile] thornsofmalkav 2019-10-04 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Enjoy the mental version of hysterical laughter.]

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