4-022: Aboard Snark 416
Oliver spends some time putting together the encrypted blob cracking work. The ship is approaching the Argyropoulos Way Station when he realises the first try isn’t going to work in a timely way; his...
Monthly Archive: December 2017
4-021: Aboard Snark 416 – Oliver’s Cabin
What sort of things might Oliver do to work on the data blobs? If this is interesting to play, can you give me some more specific direction for his activities? Otherwise I will just assume it’s...
4-020: Aboard Snark 416 – Oliver’s Cabin
When he digs a bit, Oliver realises has never seen anything quite like these particular data blobs before.I’d suggest he’s going to use some of those rolls to investigate more closely and then write...
4-019: Aboard Snark 416 – Oliver’s Cabin
Frustrated by the length of time brute-forcing is likely to take, Oliver takes an alternate option and attacks the drive with all his sneaky cyber-terrorist knowledge; about a Task later he has it up and...
4-018: Aboard Snark 416
“The more we can present to Minor Vizier Frederick the happier I think he will be, but I will defer to your evaluation of risk vs reward.”The break-in options were here fyi.Give me some rolls...
4-017: Aboard Snark 416 – Oliver’s Cabin
Oliver checks progress and discovers that the password cracking is going slower than he hoped in terms of tries per second.While the nature of this sort of thing is such that the passcode might be unlocked...
4-016: Aboard Snark 416 – Control Room
I’ve been using an estimate of 1 Task per book so a bit over 400 Tasks. Normally this would be covered by the Improvement Through Study rules [B292]; as this is partly Adventuring (these books are...
4-015: Aboard Snark 416 – Control Room
Oliver deduces the following:The earliest books start some time (kilocycles) after Argyle moved into the lodgeThe small notebooks are all from an earlier time periodHis electrical engineering work was somewhat sporadic up to about a...
4-014: Aboard Snark 416
Oliver is asleep when the ship jumps into hyperspace. When he wakes he begins work on the books. After a while a pattern emerges: Argyle has written the date he finished the book on...
4-013: Aboard Snark 416 – Control Room
Alan looks grateful for Oliver’s arrival. He says Dicard will relieve him at the end of his shift – that he’s trained him enough to spot problems that they can take a shift each...