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[Wulf74]

[yochanan]

Hmm.. I seem to have got the irritated persona again...

My email:

[ndemeter]

Re Beckett:

He is a Gangrel. He is a scholar of the Book of Nod and a firm believer that, while something might be coming, it certainly is NOT Caine. His adversary on the other hand is Sasha Vykos, a Tzimisce of the Sabbat that has altered her appearance and body so many times that it is no longer known is she started out as a female or male.

Beckett is an interesting character in that while he remained close to the Camarilla he never really set roots anywhere. Some say he managed to reach Golconda and completely subdue his Beast, thus mastering the Protean discipline in the process. Others think him as a madman and do not trust him. Also it is believed that Beckett is at least a 7th Gen vampire if not older.

More info as it is required.

[Wulf74]

[JonahFalcon]

I didn't go away - I'm lurking.

PS. Why do you think it was hostile?

[yochanan]

I didn't say it was hostile.. I said I got the irritated Shreknet persona (as opposed to the wacked out one or the leet one, or whatever).. I guess Porter? I wasn't feeling personally hurt by the response, just not sure where to go from there.

Any ideas about what the "sleeping" thing is all about? I could only think of the AIM account sleeping, and sending a message to it when it's in sleep mode.

[PaperbckWriter9]

You know I think encountered the "irritated" persona when I first started playing. I didn't know of this forum yet & I shot off a bunch of emails to shrectnet about Sara(who she is, what her relationship was to Jon, etc.). The reply was "The answers about Sara are already in the blog. You should have been able to read it all by now..." - which kinda weirded me out at first. Granted, it took a while to read the whole blog from the very beginning, but it was a little creepy to know I was being watched by an annoyed PM...
Maybe it was just Porter PMSing??

[Wulf74]

I didn't mean to imply that the comment upset anyone personally. Putting it into the context of how the various characters have acted so far - it didn't fit any of them. The comment itself seemed OOG to me, and therefore irritated and slightly insulting.
Let me reiterate, I have thoroughly enjoyed this so far for several reasons. Perhaps it was a PM having a bad day, perhaps it truly was meant to be in game - and I'm completely mis-interpreting it. Heh - hell - maybe [i]I'm[/[] the one having a bad day.
All I was really trying to say, that if it was an OOG comment - it certainly wasn't appropriate. The way your question was phrased, and then your follow-up question were natural questions. But that last reply.. I dunno.
This is the last I'll say about it, and I didn't intend any bad feelings either way. If it was intended IG, then I sincerely apologize *waves to PM's*.

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And moving on - 9

[JonahFalcon]

They're turning up the heat.

[ndemeter]

Yes. Cardinal Luis Moncada in terms of high ranking.

He was truly the man.

If he gets introduced on this storyline I will rather enjoy it. We wrote him as an extremely ruthless SOB.

Also look out for Lucita, the pet assassin.

[Wulf74]

k is up

[yochanan]

I tried 'whale', because I was thinking of big fish and our Jonah connection, but that didn't work. Maybe something along those lines?

[jslice1001]

@yochanan
That's a good idea. Tried any related bible keywords yet?

Got a jab from shrecknet just now on aim:

[PaperbckWriter9]

@wulf74
Thanx for your explanation on that. I was wondering what it had to do with the game. Next time I won't leave a message like that there... I don't want to be scolded by who? for having a big mouth.
Dumb question to anyone who will help; is this a substitution cipher? I'm not great at these and I would like to know what everyone else does so I can actually try to figure it out... Thanx in advance

[yochanan]

No, a substitution cipher is when each letter in the plain text alphabet is replaced with a different letter or symbol. You then just have to figure out which is which, and you've decoded your message. There are more complicated schemes too, but that is the basic idea.

This is way more complicated - it's an algorithm that you would never be able to break without the keyword. In one of the earlier posts, we were given a link to a site that encrypts and decrypts with this algorithm. So, you just copy and paste the ciphertext into the box there, type in the magic keyword, and there you go. The trick is to find the keyword.