talentsgirl | [ Action, Voice ] Onions have layers, ogres have layers .002

[Today Molly Carpenter is in your community buildings, exploring the floors and kitchens and opening (hopefully unoccupied!) random doors. Why is she doing this? She's not quite settled that Community Building Six is the best place for her and Harry to be, so far away from town, and collect evidence to present her case. Also - hey, strolling down someone's apartment corridor could be a great way to meet people!

And secretly, she's looking for thresholds. It makes sense that there aren't any here - five years, at most, being kept in a place against your will - could that even form a threshold? She didn't know, but it was so terribly contrary to her understanding of magic that she had to investigate.

Later in the day, a series of filters starting at 5 and not working their way up past 15 percent will appear in the journal followed by a voice post.]

[Filter at 5 percent]
Testing, testing... so you actually can do this.
[Filter at 10 5 percent]
Testing... drat.
[Filter at 10 7 percent]
Test, test - man, I thought for sure that would work
[Filter at 15 percent]
Ah-ha! Think I'm getting it now...
[Filter at 20 15 percent]
Test... nope.
[Filter at 20 15 percent]
Maybe this will--
[Filter at 20 15 percent]
Oh, come on!

Hi! So. Sorry if anyone bothered with that. I'm trying to get the hang of this "filtering" thing but it's just not like anything I've ever done before. If a couple wouldn't mind putting up some really low, easy filters in this post against me, I'd really appreciate it. That way I could try to sort of... learn it backwards? Thanks.

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Oh, come on. I've got to have some kind of title. What else am I going to get out of teaching you?

Hey, I'm not asking you to teach me. Just put up a low filter here for me to try to hack.

Alright, we'll play it your way, then.

[And within an effortless second:]

[5% Unhackable]

This is about as simple as they get.

[It doesn't take her long to crack that at all, but she still waits an extra five seconds before-]

I think I can handle a little more than that.

[Is that so? Well, he pulls together something slightly more complicated, then.]

How about now? Baby steps enough?

[Again, this doesn't take her long at all, and again, she counts to five before responding.]

This isn't going to require me quoting a Bill Murray film, is it?

[Bill Murray...oh right, some actor.]

Don't get cocky. You're still in the minor league.

[Oooh, this one was better. She hadn't seen one on this level yet, though she had managed to break Gambit's 40 percent one. She could get a lot more from studying this, and she does for a little bit. The indicators were so different, as were the ways that the filter built up on itself - there was clearly no rhyme or reason to what could construct a filter. The only difficult seemed to be hiding that what made it consistent.

Molly was really good at hiding.

It's a few minutes after she's broken the filter before she talks, but this time it wasn't intentional waiting on her part. She was too busy comparing this filter to Gambit's 40 percent one, (trying not to think WHOSE filters she was comparing), in order to determine commonalities and what seemed to work and why Gambit's was slightly stronger than this one.]

It feels almost mandatory to make a 'League of Her Own' joke here, but I think I'll spare us both - let me guess, we're in the lower third of possible privacy right now?

[A league of what.

...Damn, he really needs to see more movies, doesn't he.]

We are. Just at the cusp of things getting more complicated. From what I can tell, most people in Luceti, even the less-than-tech-savvy ones, can manage at least this. So you're already in their game.

Well, I'm not the slightest bit tech savvy. [Shameless admittance here.] But I do like a good puzzle.

[So bring it. >8D]

[She's got a knack for it, tech savvy or not. Not that he's about to go handing out compliments, though.]

Puzzle, you say? Alright. Let's see what you make of this one, then.

[That's more like it. It's a touch more difficult than Gambit's last filter, but she goes at it anyway. She thinks she sees the key to it, but forces herself to go from scratch, really trying to understand this process.

Five minutes later, she's through.]

I think that one's pretty good, but it still won't keep someone determined out.

You're right, it won't. But how about this? Keeping up still?

[Oh, now that's a jump. Hmm, hmm, give her a minute. What are the patterns here? She glances between it and Gambit's, but the levels are so different the comparison is of little help. Hmm, hmm... oh, that's a trap, isn't it? Very clever. Best to follow the string right on out and turn... yes.]

You know, this is actually kind of fun.

[She's not sure she can build one of this level yet, but deconstructing is the first step to building... and even so, she knows this is just one pattern. But. AHAHAHAHA, she's totally hacking Tony Stark's weaker filters.]

[That one took her a bit more time, so he doesn't increase difficulty quite as much this time around. Let's see what she does with this one.]

It is, isn't it? It's a nice little game. Brain exercise. Keep it up.

[Okay, wow. Taken on its own, this filter would be quite intimidating.

But with her knowledge of the basics... yeah.

Yeah, she's got this.]

Sure, it's pretty good - I hope it's not too much trouble for you, though.

[Or, you know, time, which would have been the politer way of putting it.]

[And bumping it up yet again.]

You're getting there, sunshine. And it's not trouble at all--really, none. This is the cakiest of cake walks.

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