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[TheDarkMoomin]

[Sophiecat]

[TheDarkMoomin]

Ah! must remember to read ALL the words when something doesn't seem to make sense! I was looking at the last 2 lines!!

I see what you mean... hmmm, not sure how to re-word either, I'll think on it.

Aside from that, what is everyone elses thinking on this? Particularly you Enygma - don't want to hijack your idea!

[dekuprince]

im in on the false anser part but i dont got billion to one so yeah um ill help anyway i can

and as for a rephrase try puting it like thus

Having a teenager completely outstrip her abilities must be hard. It's okay, we understand, and we sympathize with her plight.

also i cant help but notice the change in the furtures

[number9dream]

[Mikeyj]

Catty...very catty.

[Merus]

I find it worthy of comment that, for all of Perplex City's supposed superiority over Earth, every country on Earth has something that Perplex City does not. An ally.

[TheDarkMoomin]

[e_nygma]

Hey, sorry I've been quiet the last few days. This past week has been crazed.

TheDarkMoomin: Your point about not directing it to Kate Brewster. However, I felt that "Editor" was a bit stilted, so I changed it to open with "The Sentinel's esteemed writer." I think I caught the other places where it would reference "you," but if I missed them, call out. However, I do like your tightening of the latter two paragraphs.

number9dream: Nice. As MikeyJ said, it has the nice combination of cattiness with a velvet-lined backhand.

Here's what the letter looks like, now:

[e_nygma]

Because I'm so good at replying to myself, I'll ... reply to myself.

First off, do you guys think the code system is useful? I'm gambling that while Earlywine's goons are watching the datastream now, they have not gone back over all of the data that has gone downstream with a finetooth comb (specifically, the blogs)

Second, is this the message we want to send? Right now, it reads

[Sophiecat]

[silvermoon]

[Sophiecat]

[TheDarkMoomin]

I like it. Think it reads really well now.

However, is addressing the code to Katie Brewster a godd idea, when we want the Scooby Gang to get it and use it? Is She likely to rat us out? Maybe just adding the string of letters at the end, with no reference to a code and hope the gang figure out its a code.

Or some other message to Brewster, which could have a double meaning directing the gang to a code using the same system in another letter.

Not sure if thats getting a bit complax and hit and miss tho.

[ampetrizzo]

I wonder about putting such a code in a letter to the Sentinel. Do we really believe that no one but the CRT will be able to crack it? We may only succeed in getting access to our answers restricted.

My suggestion (and I still don't think we have any information worth communicating unless it's the five fingers bit, which they probably wouldn't be able to help with anyway) is that at the end of the letter we put something like "As they say on Earth, the answers are in the cards" or something equally snotty.

Then everyone takes a card they have a duplicate of, creates a new player and enters whatever message we want to send as their answer until they get locked out. I think if there are twenty players entering the same weird message for twenty different puzzles three times on the same day, the CRT will get the message.

The plus side to this plan is that Iona doesn't get in any trouble.

Just a thought.