IV: Bride of Chucker | [Voice | Action]
[Mike is... better than he was. The events of the AU were like the best dream he'd ever had, and waking up to harsh reality was all the more painful this time because everyone else remembered the dream too. It was like being stripped bare in no way he'd ever experienced, nudist that he is, and he doesn't like it one bit.
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Ah, certainly, Mike.
... It's... an interesting process, actually. Would... would you prefer a demonstration, or...? [He doesn't know how eager Mike is to have him around at the moment or ever and frankly, things seem less awkward at a respectable distance anyway.]
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I dunno, I've only watched Donnie do it once.
[You would be right, Robert. Things are ten thousand million times easier talking to you over the journals. He can pretend you aren't the creepiest thing he's ever encountered that way.]
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The main method of filtering a message is by enclosing the contents of the message that you wish to filter; said contents can essentially be anything from text you have written to voice or video files you have made. You then specify the people you wish to direct the filter either away or toward; that is, you can either filter a message so that it broadcasts to everybody except those you specify, or broadcast it to only those you specify.
After you enclose the contents you wish to filter, you design a passcode, numeric system, or similar method of deterring those who would wish to see it... Take note that the relative strength of the filter is dependent on the complexity of whatever passcode or equivalent you've designed.
[After a moment, Robert adds:]
... Likewise, you could choose to try to access a filtered message by attempting to enclose the area you think is filtered, and then inputting the text "hack". Then you would have to attempt to decode whatever filtering had been put on the message...
[He's only done ( ... )
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Uh, yeah. You could explain how to do it.
[Dude, seriously.]
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... My apologies.
The method, er, varies between people. I tend to use complex mathematical algorithms, of course... but there are other methods you could use as well. Are you a visual-spatial learner, perhaps? [Here's Robert using educational concepts on somebody who never set foot in an actual schooling system.] If so, you might find the usage of some complex pictogram more helpful. Or perhaps you're skilled with word or number puzzles?
... It seems to be a relatively flexible system.
[This would be a little easier to walk him through if he were actually there...]
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I like doing word search puzzles. [Not crossword puzzles. Though he's actually fairly good at those. But who remembers Gilligan's middle name? Or the color of the Lone Ranger's nephew's horse?]
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Or a code phrase that needs to be translated, perhaps?
... I'm not sure how to competently demonstrate this...
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[Mike demonstrates his skills with a pen by doodling a picture of Robert in the margins.]
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[Robert starts writing himself; he first writes "This is a test", then draws the requisite box and begins producing a long string of complex mathematical formulations that the mun would never be able to describe properly because he fails; after a moment, he pauses and the text essentially disappears.
Then he speaks again.]
... That is the method I use.
But you could do something like this...
[He writes "This is a test" again, then draws the same box around it as before, and begins to draw a complex figure (in fact, it is a cutaway of a hyperdodecahedron) before pausing as well.]
... And simply have the user have to retrace the figure in question.
Those are examples. I am certain a creative person like yourself could come up with others.
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So if I make it really complicated...
[And he starts drawing, coming up with a filter that's about 18% effective.]
How's that?
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And the more complex the shape, the more effective that method would be. Especially if you were to use an unorthodox shape that would be difficult to copy...
[Robert regards that almost-20%-filter.]
It shows promise... You could rework it, make it more complex. Perhaps add a sequential pattern? Or a fractal...
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This is kinda fun.
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... You are quite artistic, Mike.
[Said with some begrudging respect. He still remembers that comic, after all.
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Okay, maybe it was kind of cute.
As is the current doodle of him.
Robert lets himself go a little and draws a little doodle of Mike - overly precise but still very simplistic, since Robert lacks art skills - in the corner.]
... I lack your expressionism.
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Haha. You forgot my chucks.
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He feels weird even drawing a weapon now that he knows what it is.]
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[Uncomfortably:] ... I... I think I still remember how some weaponry works, from the... experiment.
[Unlike Mike, the AU has been a disturbing affair for Robert. Though he's had some time to calm down and feel a bit better about things, he's still terrified by the fact some version of him rationalized violence so easily and knew how to fight (basic combat training)...
And Don's later explanation of "the Principle of Least Harm" didn't help to make Robert any less uncomfortable. He's still obviously struggling with the whole concept, which doesn't mesh with anything he knows.]
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Do you still remember stuff from... from that other life?
[He absentmindedly draws a sword in the doodle-Robert's hands, and then starts on a doodle of Don, sparring with Robert.]
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