Exploit God's Editors

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From: The Business of a Midnighter

When it comes to encryption, the best seeds are hidden in plain sight. The Bible is pretty visible.

Unlocked with Airs of Industry 60

Challenge information

Broad, Shadowy 90

• 62 - very chancy (41%)
• 77 - chancy (51%)
• 92 - modest (61%)
• 107 - very modest (71%)
• 122 - low-risk (81%)
• 137 - straightforward (91%)
• 150 - straightforward (100%)
  

Narrow, A Player of Chess 0 (50% base)

• 0 - very chancy (50%)
• 1 - chancy (60%)
• 2 - modest (70%)
• 3 - very modest (80%)
• 4 - low-risk (90%)
• 5 and above - straightforward (100%)
  

Success

Metatextual

In your regular delivery to Saint Cyriac's, you include a handwritten exegesis of Job 12:8 from a 'devout fisherman' […]

A couple of weeks later you receive the latest revisions and […] That message you sent […] will now be decryptable, just in time. […]

[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]

• Shadowy is increasing…
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 320 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies
•  You've gained 1 x Mysterious Client Attention Odds (hidden)

Depending on Mysterious Client Attention Odds:

•  An interested party has made a request on your skills. (Sets Attracting the Attention of a Mysterious Client to 1)

Failure

A stinker

[...] you include a handwritten exegesis of Job 12:8 from a 'devout fisherman', [...]

[...] Some idiot has applied the [...] reasoning to the entire Gospel of St. Luke. Such is the prevalence of fish in said book that you have to regenerate eight entire ciphers.

• Shadowy is increasing…
• [Airs of Industry change…] (random)
•  You've gained 200 x Approximate Value of Outstanding Invoices in Pennies