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SPY GAME - pep!pep!

[Oh... is this... is this a coat closet?]

[Either way, the room seems completely soundproof... This is probably a place where you can talk without being overheard.]

[For some reason, only people from your team can come in here. Little do you know, anyone else who tries to enter simply winds up in their own team's instance of the same coat closet.]

[In the middle of the room is a narrow marble pedestal. On it lays a pen, a paper, and an envelope to seal it in when you're done submitting your answers.]

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Submit the following intel by 8 PST / 10 CST / 11 EST

Sign/countersign: Iron / Gauntlet
Teams: pep!pep! and _______

Sign/countersign: Rock / Dust
Teams: pep!pep! and _______

Sign/Countersign: ______ / ______
Teams: _____ and ______

Sign/Countersign: ______ / ______
Teams: _____ and ______

Sign/Countersign: ______ / ______
Teams: _____ and ______

Submit here

Sign/countersign: Iron / Gauntlet
Teams: pep!pep! and Sensitiv/Alcheme

Sign/countersign: Rock / Dust
Teams: pep!pep! and Zrael

Sign/Countersign: Star / Moon
Teams: Sensitiv/Alcheme and Zrael

Sign/Countersign: Chocolate / Cake
Teams: Zrael and HSS (is it Hurricane IC or spies, idk)

[ hello who's here she's here ]

Oh well that's easy enough.

I guess if too many of us use the same ones we'll give ourselves away...

True—maybe we should split up which ones we're working with.

I was thinking it might also help to pick some other words to use consistently, to try and throw other units off...

Sounds good ta me! Flip for which signs ya want?

Works for me. Heads for the first one, tails for the second?

[Flipping a coin]--Ok, tails for me!

Perfect. It's a deal.

[Hello, she is here and wearing this]

Seems a bit weird to have us sit in a coat closet though...

It is a little weird as a place to meet, but at least we can all mostly fit in here.

We would have had a harder time fitting if we still had Gladio on the unit...

[Chuckling to herself-]

So, what are your thoughts? Should we try and just... ask people questions?

[She already caught a few conversations happening before coming in here.]

Well, I was going to strike up some conversations and see if I can sneak some keywords in. See if I can get a response.

Oh! I like that strategy, actually. That's really smart. I'm sure we won't be the only ones trying it so we'll know what to look for.

Exactly—so I'm just trying to figure out how I can use some of these in a sentence easily.

Confident, huh?

Well, it caters to a lot of my strong suits.

Hm. True. You did this sort of thing at home, right?

Well, I'm at home at social events, if that's what you mean. I'm good at people.

Any advice? [He usually intimidated.]

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Hm... well, asking people about what they've been doing or their opinions on something going on goes pretty far toward keeping a conversation going.

If you can work the words into a sentence where they sound natural, it'll be a lot harder for others to pick up, too. So talking about "ironing something out" or "iron will," for example.

[He nods.] That I think I can do. Putting words in. Its more the....trying to control a conversation without it being intimidation.

Right, yeah. It's definitely something that comes with practice, for a lot of people, so don't worry too much about it—try asking them about something adjacent to the way you want to work the word in. You can lead people gently toward a topic by asking questions about their thoughts and feelings.

[He nods.] So something to talk about rocks and iron.

That's right. At least they're words that get used in a lot of idioms.

A lot of complaining or good things.

Which goes really well with casual conversation. I'm sure you'll be fine.

...

Maybe.

[What is believing him.]

You've got good attention to detail, so if you just pay attention to what other people are interested in a little bit, you'll be a fine conversationalist.

And anyway, there's plenty of us to work together and the stakes are low, so don't stress too much.

[But I am always stressed.]

...just feels bad to lose a game Cobalt's running.

Also slime is terrible.

True. I definitely do not want to deal with slime.

[He shudders.]

It sounds gross.

[ she's like, physically here

but ofc is not actually speaking. ]

@LAVA: This is a game of pattern recognition.
@LAVA: Estimated chance of success: 78%.

I think we can do better than that.

I was going to try and convince some other units that we have some different code pairs than we actually do—just slip a few unusual words into what I'm saying regularly.

@LAVA: That strategy is reliant on the observational skills of our paired network.
@LAVA: They may be tricked as well.

True, although if we sprinkle in the actual words they should recognize the code signs they know.

@LAVA: Maybe.
@LAVA: 87%.

I'll take it.

[Here is a Rufous in this suit.]

A lot of earth stuff....

Okay, so Zrael is the rock and dust, and SensitIV Alcheme is iron and gauntlet.

@LAVA: Confirmed.
@LAVA: This just leaves matching the other networks to each other.

Yeah. That is a little trickier.

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