RE: [HOE] Decryption

[Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org>]

> > My players recently came into possession of 3 data slugs that contain
> > heavily encrypted NA military data.  Now they're trying to find someone
> > or something in Junkyard that can decode them enough to find out what's
> > on there (the players fear that the slugs contain the locations of
> > unexploded City-Busters).  They want to hide the data from everyone they
> > can (the only groups deemed "worthy" so far are Ike and the Chamber)
> > until they figure this out.
> > My question is: does anyone have any ideas about how to do this in-game?
> > Would the decryption equipment be hardware (junker-built AI or Brains
> > machine) or software (data slugs).
> > I generally do want them to succeed at getting this stuff, but it
> > shouldn't be too simple to actually do...

Spoiler space for Rich's posse (go away!)
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One interesting thing you could do (if you really wanted to make them work
for it) is have no one in Junkyard be able to decode it. But they do find
someone who thinks that some pre-war cyborg tech could do it (in the
programs section of cyborgs). 
So now the posse has to try and hunt down a cyborg, or worse, hunt down
Dues Ex (the cyborg town) and not get killed when they find it. Could make
for an interesting series of adventures.

Baring that, look at the programs rules in Cyborgs and they might give you
some guidance for difficulties.

Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab


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