Raven picked up one of the fakes, placed it under the one he was holding, and waited to see what if anything would happen.

When the ID's touch each other the blank one's surface shimmers some and shifts and it becomes the same kinda ID as the one touched, however with Raven's face and information on it instead.

Raven set down the ID he had borrowed, and used his multi-tool to scan the new card and see what showed up.

It was an identical copy to the other one, but this one showed it belonged to him.

Raven turned to Sam

"Well, it seems we know what this does now. It's a fetishes for copying IDs, get one from someone and with this baby you get one like it for you. Thanks for the weed back, I'm going to go enjoy that for a while. Since I seem to be the spirit guy around here, sad as that is, I'm going to hold onto this gizmo until the others get back and we can decide what to do with it."

Leaving those as his last words, the big man left Sam's company and headed off.

(Where should I post now?)

(interlude 1)

Is Sam using this?

And going a head with the little friend:

Complete: DNA; RNA sequence
Results: Inconclusive
Conclusion: Experimental Human Chimeral DNA, Human Construct
Statement: Further analysis required for conclusive results. Estimated time 3945:17:00:00
Continue?

The results show on the screen showing a massive amount of information. It looks like some one combined vast stores of human DNA and RNA sequencing to try and make some human with 12 active RNA strands instead of 2. A fully active DNA strand, a some what maddening endever to seek out.

Sam was using that to set up the hydroponics. If he was using it for something else, I've forgotten and can't find it in the thread.

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Sam groans.
> Command: Pause search but do not stop/erase.
> Query: Can you search for the being described by this DNA without further analysis of what it does?

(I meant is sam keeping it to use in the long run?)

Confirmation: Command accepted.
Confirmation: Search perimeters are acceptable.
Request: Analog data: User function: resonance analysis of inorganic to organic transmogrification.

(If allowed, yeah! He needs it from time to time for the plants anyway, right?)

"Luci? If I manage to turn some steel into a cucumber, can you run a bunch of scans while I do it and send the info to this little fella here? preferably including magical sensing, if you can.... Hopefully that'll suffice."

(Yah and he can use it for other programs)

"Of course, it is no trouble. I am curious as well."

It was a curious little thing, but from what it seamed this things job was gathering information, so it only made sense that it would want help in getting information it's interested in for it's help gathering information it's not interested in for others. A very fair and equal trade you would expect from a machine/spider spirit.

Certainly a reasonable trade. Just... Sam hopes he can pull it off.

He grows a cucumber-shaped bit of metal off his knife and picks it, then takes a deep breath and anoints it with a drop of blood before singing softly to it.
"Crystal to proteins
Once part of my knife
Now good for eating
Infused with life."

The very act of making the metal grow was probably enough. But making it transform into a perfectly normal vegetable from a hunk of metal was something else, and hard. It took a full minute of strenuous concentration reworking the fabric of mater into something else something organic, and giving it life. A little more preperation or energy porred into it might have made things a bit easier.... and it wasn't perfect.. it was alive, and safe to eat... but it was unlikely the seeds would grow anything and the DNA and structure of all the protenes were not right, but it was close enough for what he had aimed for.  He could take it all the way but this was every bit as hard and exhausting as he thought it would be and this was likely enough.

It was an odd though, maybe if they did not repress there avatars so much her home could do such things and over power the curse they were under. Least it gave a nice bit of hope that with a fragment of the old mages avatar he could go back and brake it one day.

Status: Data accepted.
Status: Starting search.

Sam collapses against a wall, exhausted. He absently watches the search timer count down as he munches on the cucumber. Gotta get better at that one...

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((This little guy is gonna keep me on my toes learning new things!))

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Sadly the little device was not able to come up with an estimated time on this one, finding some one had a lot of unknown venerable mainly due to the fact they move around.

Eh, no biggie.

Sam still sits there for a bit, eating and resting.

Ok guess slide over to the main thread?

As Sam's eating, he pokes around on the net with his datapad and runs across an interesting file of unknown origin. He messes around with it for a while, coming to the conclusion that there's some extra piece he's missing. He looks through the metadata of the file and other related places, local and networked, to see if he can find the rest of the key.

There is nothing on it but some other people with the same WTF O.o kind of reaction.

Sam thinks for a bit.

"Hey, Luci? Can you think of any terms of recent political importance that have two letters, a hyphen, and then a six-letter capitalized word? I'm thinking maybe ex-... something."

I am searching but not turning up anything too recent that has any importance in such as you discribe. Have you considered:

Re-
Al-
In-
Un-
Il-

And other such letter combinations?

"Aw heck, that's a lotta options. Thanks, though - I'll poke at those."

your enigmas and computer arnt to high but there are varients on the vigenere cipher

This one apparently only uses the key, as is, once. =p

I was going to make it harder by changing the hex numbers into base 12.... i forgot x.x

The part you translated would have changed

51 72 20 77 79

to

43 52 12 57 59

some where there would be the two extra digits though giving it away lol
This message was last edited by the GM at 09:51, Thu 05 Mar 2015.

In reply to Azraile (msg # 353):

((Ah well. It's probably good I forgot to keep working on it, then, considering Sam's scores.))