G-051-Oliver: Crystal Coast Resort, Oliver’s Room

Agents

Yes, it seems that:

• The Woman = Sydney Noyes-Bowie
• Big Guy = Theodore Wasylow
• Little Guy = Leroy Morrey

Messages

So, for each message Oliver wants to try and open it’s:

• Optional Cryptography roll for a bonus (or penalty) on…
• … a Computer Programming roll to open the message
• Each message takes a Task of Oliver’s time…
• …unless he fails, in which case he can opt to take additional time
  • which I’ll allow retrospectively per the way I’ve been adjudicating Argyle’s journals – eg, if he misses by 1 he can take 2 Tasks to succeed, if he misses by 2 he can take 4 Tasks to succeed – etc, per the additional time rules
• if he opts not to spend additional time, or he crit fails he can leave his laptop to try and brute-force the solution 
  • His laptop only has so much capacity, so every message he leaves to brute force has to share that capacity, unless he specifies tackling them in sequence
  • His estimate, based on the complexity of the OverNet encryption, is that each message could require up to 1000 hours to brute-force crack using his laptop, which could mean the message is decrypted 40 seconds or 40 Cycles from when he begins each one
  • He’ll need additional computing resources if he wants to go faster

So in practice, that’s 1 or 2 rolls for each of:

• Dox Guy
• Beji’s message

Noting that I only enumerated the six most recent messages – there are literally thousands more (but please don ask me to list all of them!)