I know Max had some measure of faith in your ability to pass information under difficult circumstances, so I suppose I may as well ask if you'd do me a favor if I ever have a need.
It's more of a long term project. I need to be able to communicate with my people in Nascere, and I need to be able to do it securely. I was wondering if you had any expertise you'd be willing to share.
Yes, I care so much about what you're writing. [Please don't flatter yourself.] Are you familiar with the concept of codes, or should I teach you?
I ask the purpose because I prefer my contacts and channels be used for causes worth fighting for. And that they not be poisoned. Metaphorically poisoned.
I've been rating you in my notes as above thick. Don't prove me wrong. Or pretend to be otherwise.
I don't care about rubric. I want to know what I'm assisting. If that's too much to ask, you can find someone else. You'll not find anyone worth a damn who won't ask my question. But someone.
There are several people I would like to be in closer contact with on that island, but getting messages in and out has been...challenging, thus far.
[ a beat. ]
I'm not asking for anything but an easier way to be sure that everyone is still alive, and Venatori forces haven't overrun them. Do you think that's within your power to establish?
[Because he's not as much a shit as he pretends to be, Nikos pauses. But it's a pause that probably doesn't encourage any particular faith, because he's good at pretending to be a shit.]
We can get a message through.
[Probably would be the modest way to end that sentence. Why be modest when the truth isn't.]
Good ones, difficult to crack. Still written, but more obscurely. Messages that are memorized have a better chance, carried by word of mouth. Not always treated with anything other than skepticism, so if you have any belief in the Maker, pray that your voice can show itself through another's.
I expected you to say we shouldn't write anything full stop.
[ i knOW THINGS........ ]
There's at least one person who might have some experience with codes and the breaking of them. [ squints at billy ] But if he's dead, your efforts might be wasted. If you can send a man to recite the first message, I can tell him who he should be looking for.
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Date: 2019-09-02 10:38 pm (UTC)[ a beat ]
This is John Silver, by the way.
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Date: 2019-09-04 10:11 pm (UTC)I don't agree to anything open-ended. No matter whose name you put in front of your inquiry.
What's the favor?
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Date: 2019-09-05 03:20 am (UTC)It's more of a long term project. I need to be able to communicate with my people in Nascere, and I need to be able to do it securely. I was wondering if you had any expertise you'd be willing to share.
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Date: 2019-09-06 03:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-08 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-09 05:51 am (UTC)I ask the purpose because I prefer my contacts and channels be used for causes worth fighting for. And that they not be poisoned. Metaphorically poisoned.
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Date: 2019-09-10 12:04 am (UTC)[ it must be noted: john regrets initiating this ]
I assume causes worth fighting for are fairly subjective. Is there some sort of rubric I can peruse?
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Date: 2019-09-11 01:57 am (UTC)I don't care about rubric. I want to know what I'm assisting. If that's too much to ask, you can find someone else. You'll not find anyone worth a damn who won't ask my question. But someone.
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Date: 2019-09-13 03:29 am (UTC)You know of that situation in Nascere? I assume you have some sense of it, yes?
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Date: 2019-09-19 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-20 03:31 pm (UTC)[ a beat. ]
I'm not asking for anything but an easier way to be sure that everyone is still alive, and Venatori forces haven't overrun them. Do you think that's within your power to establish?
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Date: 2019-09-25 01:05 am (UTC)We can get a message through.
[Probably would be the modest way to end that sentence. Why be modest when the truth isn't.]
Written words are usually less safe.
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Date: 2019-09-25 01:10 am (UTC)[ this is actually less snippy than one would assume. it's a genuine question. ]
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Date: 2019-09-25 01:17 am (UTC)[Honey.]
Good ones, difficult to crack. Still written, but more obscurely. Messages that are memorized have a better chance, carried by word of mouth. Not always treated with anything other than skepticism, so if you have any belief in the Maker, pray that your voice can show itself through another's.
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Date: 2019-09-25 01:26 am (UTC)[ i knOW THINGS........ ]
There's at least one person who might have some experience with codes and the breaking of them. [ squints at billy ] But if he's dead, your efforts might be wasted. If you can send a man to recite the first message, I can tell him who he should be looking for.
hey so this is like 20 days old oops..............................
Date: 2019-10-16 09:22 pm (UTC)[Not totally unreasonable, at least.]
I'll find a contact. And send a description when I have one.
how dare u
Date: 2019-10-17 01:56 pm (UTC)[ sincere. ]
I'll wait to receive your recommendation.