[DC 107] Encrypted Messages

[sanguinescry]

ALL SPECIALS

I need guinea pigs volunteers to try these soaps and perfumes and give me feedback. They're safe, I've already tested that on my own; I'm looking for feedback on the scents and the tactile sensation of them, colors, stuff like that. Basically, I'm looking for a focus group. I'm not paying anyone for this, but the up side is you get to smell better than the rest of the Alphas around here? Please let me know if you're interested.

MATT, STEVE, DICK, BARRY, STILES, FELICITY

I also need two or three people who can help with production so that I can get a decent-sized order ready, once QA approves whatever prototypes I send them. This will be starting in probably two days, well last for probably three to five days for a couple of hours in the evening during Citizen Improvement. I can pay 75 credits a day to you. Any takers?

Comments

ENCRYPTED TO TONY

[sanguinescry]

No problem. Looking for space to make something you want or need?

Pro-tip: appeal to the things you know The Computer finds important. For soap, I reminded The Computer about how it could boost hygiene, while also giving a morale boost, which keeps people happy. The Computer values hygiene and happiness, and those for my agenda, so I used them.

The Computer is a little crazy but it's still a computer; a machine. It has algorithms. Plug in the right keywords and you're going to get a desired result.

ENCRYPTED TO LYDIA

[im_ironman]

Something like that. I want to find a way to make things that could be handy for us.

[ Which would be a little hard to sell to the Computer, considering what he wants to work on is weapons and better tech that they could use to protect themselves, but well. He could find a way to spin it, even if the last time he entered what he believed were the right keywords in a computer, he had ended up with an extreme result of what he wanted. ]

I'll start working on my pitch.

ENCRYPTED TO TONY

[sanguinescry]

Like weapons? Offer to make something specific for Alphas in general, because it's important to keep Communist traitors in line...and then just do what you need to do for us on the side, as well. I used to do a line of makeup, it took me months to get the formulas and materials, but I didn't think I could spin it for the Computer, so I just...casually stole from the Forensics lab I work in... haha

ENCRYPTED TO LYDIA

[im_ironman]

Exactly like weapons. Maybe some new tech. I've also been casually sneaking scraps from the bots I work on, so eventually I could have something, but having more resources and an actual lab wouldn't hurt in speeding things up.

ENCRYPTED TO TONY

[sanguinescry]

( This is the part where she's torn, because he's not the Tony she knows and she's not 100% sure she can trust him. But he's still Tony. She could tell him about the lab in Specials HQ, the one that Ray set up and that she and Barry have been using in his absence. But...she isn't sure she should. If Steve hasn't told him, then maybe there's a reason for that... )

I mean, the lab The Computer gave me access to isn't guarded all that well and I have to use it after hours, anyway, so...if you happened to have a gas mask and accidentally broke into it when I wasn't around after 22:00...

ENCRYPTED TO LYDIA

[im_ironman]

You're quickly becoming one of my favorite people around here, you know that?

Thanks, Lydia.

ENCRYPTED TO TONY

[sanguinescry]

Give it a few days and you'll drop the "one of," don't worry sweetie. ;)

You're welcome.

( At the end of Lydia's message, the period at the end of the sentence is quite clearly a hyperlink. If Tony taps on it, it'll download a message with the location of her lab and how to best get into it when she's not around — ie, which door is the most easily compromised — which, thirty seconds after being opened, will disappear. The letters will sort of melt away on the screen and any trace of the message will be gone. See, she can learn new things from Root, sometimes. )