zerotohiro | Some Legends Are Told, Some Turn To Dust Or To Gold [CEREALIA INBOX]

[ san fransokyo, huh. go figure. and he was from the future from dipper's point in time, though not all that far into it. he can't help but wonder how different hiro's san fransokyo could be from his own san francisco, but he logs that away to ask about later. right now, his focus is too drawn in by hiro's story about the griffins. ]

Was there anything strange about them? I mean - I guess that could be hard to tell unless you've met other griffins. [ maybe hiro had. DIPPER DOESN'T KNOW. ] Whoever was experimenting in that operating room might've been trying to enhance them for one reason or another. Or maybe they were guinea pigs for something bigger. [ though who would pick griffins as guinea pigs? but this DOES fall in with one of dipper's cerealia theories... ] In any case, their test subjects could've gotten out of hand, and that could be why they abandoned it, too.

[ so many variables. man, he wishes he could have been there. that seems so much more interesting than the natives living reclusively in the volcano. ]

I've never met a griffin before so unless you count "ruthlessly attacking and having injection sites in their skin" as something strange, then no. [That alone is strange enough.]

...somebody I met gave me some interesting information that might build up a solid theory to what happened to them though. It kinda ties into the idea of them being guinea pigs, too. I asked him to send it to my CereVice but I haven't had a chance to check it out and decrypt the data yet. [A pause.] That's the only thing about Cerealia. There's a ton of information out there and we don't really know who knows what.

[ definitely strange, and worth further investigation. what else could be lying outside the walls of the colony? they had probably only just scratched the surface of the real mystery here.

looking thoughtful, dipper nods. ] And we don't exactly have a safe way to share it. You know, away from prying eyes. And ears. [ just like he had discussed with yu. dipper would never really feel comfortable sharing information unless he could encrypt it. that was easy enough to do for himself, but how to communicate it to others without using sight or sound? ]

There's...probably a lot of clues out there, but we don't know who has them. [ and in a case like this, what they could stand to gain by sharing information just may outweigh the risk of trust he'd have to take. ]

[He's had a lot of the same thoughts and when Dipper expresses it his face lights up in understanding.]

Did you see that guy's message about the ocular implants? [That's the most important question before he proceeds.]

[ he nods, glad hiro is following him here. ] Yeah. A bit hard to miss, honestly.

Then you can see what the problem is. What we really need to do is come up with a system somehow...something we can start sharing information and asking people questions without CERES picking up on what we're reading and saying. I could write a bunch of code and encrypt the information into a program but that still leaves a problem of how is anybody supposed to read it.

[A beat.] I don't suppose you have any good ideas, do you?

We'd need to figure out a way to communicate it in a way that isn't through sight of sound. Noooot exactly and easy task, but not impossible.

[ a pause. ] A friend of mine suggested braille. But that would require anyone who wanted to decode our writing to actually learn braille first. But we could encode a cipher into braille and people could read it through touch. Then as long as they could remember the cipher, we could communicate through a code CERES doesn't know, locking them out. Theoretically.

...I know that sounds waaaaay overly-complicated, but it's the best I've got so far.

…not that complicated. [He actually sounds a tad inspired by that because that's not a bad idea at all.] It wouldn't matter if CERES knew what each symbol represented if they couldn't see the messages that were being written in the braille. If we taught people how to read without looking at the words and kept the messages simple? That could work.

What's stopping us from teaching everybody who wants to learn? We keep it to a small circle of people we trust and keep it on the down-low.

Then it might actually be workable. [ maybe they're closer to figuring this out than he initially thought.

the only tricky part besides the braille would be figuring out who to bring in on it. who did he trust? the list definitely wasn't long. ]

So how do we decide who's in that circle?

We gauge who's actually forthcoming with information and who's actually got information to trade. See who helps us out, who's most likely to find extra information about this place...[Trust is a weird thing for him too, bro. Really.]

Do you even have anybody you trust in Cerealia?

[ that does seem like a fair proposition, though. dipper was reluctant to trust someone just because they were interested - they could be interested for all the wrong reasons. but if they actually had information to contribute, he could see it as a sort of high-stakes trade.

he thinks on that question for a moment. he can't help but think of the people who helped him look for mabel in the jungle. and then there were those that mabel had recommended to him as trustworthy herself. ] Yu Narukami, Korra, Athena Cykes, Miles Edgeworth, Rei Hino... [ wow, that's actually a lot more people than he would have thought. ] What about you? I mean, I guess your brother's probably a given.

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I know all of those people besides Edgeworth and I'd agree on that. [A beat.] ...definitely Tadashi. There's a man named Katsura that I trust a lot, too. He's the one who first told me about the Bridge. Jack and Hiccup for sure. Both of them were on the last raid with me, but we were all in different groups. Roxas doesn't know anything yet but I trust him to be someone who'd be willing to seek information out. [A pause.] ...and Ruby and Yang. Ruby I trust almost as much as I trust my brother, and Yang filled in some pieces of the puzzle, too.

Think that's too many people?

[ A few of those names Dipper is familiar with, and the others...well, he'd have to go out on a limb and take Hiro's word for them. He doesn't like it, and his natural response to Hiro's question is that it's WAY too many people. But all the captives are in the same boat here, and he can't imagine that there would be many around who would deceive them and expose them to CERES. Who would want to stay here if they could figure out a way home? ]

It'll work. [ They'd make it work. ] We just need to figure out how to spread the word. But the first thing I'm going to do is work out the code.

[ He'd created them for fun before, but this would need to be exceptionally hard to crack. ]

It's fourteen of us. [Normally he'd say that's way too many, too, but at least their thinking is in sync. They're all in the same boat and honestly given the fact that CERES likes to do different things with all of them...] And we're all bound to be different elements, too, so we have a bigger chance of gaining more ground.

[There's the sound of a door opening and Hiro looks up to realize that Baymax, somehow, has let himself out of Dipper's apartment and seems to be on his way back to Hiro.] Work on it and see what you can come up with and get back to me. I'll figure out some stuff on my end, too. Deal?

[Really, if Dipper's anything like him? He probably could use the distraction anyway.]

[ More minds mean more chances for breakthroughs and more chances for failure. It's all risk, but even if it was just the two of them, it'd be risky, and they wouldn't get as far, sharp as they were. In this case? It's a risk he's willing to take. Or one he has to be willing to take, at least. ]

Deal. Believe me, I'll get started on it right away.

[ Hiro's entirely got the right idea. Dipper absolutely needs the distraction. ]

Anyway, it sounds like Baymax is on his way back to you. I'll be in touch about...all this.

[ Needs some kind of cool codename. ]

Sure. And I'll let you know if I figure out any kind of ideas on my own that we can use, too. Let me know if you need anything, dude.

[Subtle. It's a tie-in to their new project but...y'know. If Dipper really actually wanted to bother talking about the Mabel thing he'd figure something out. But he trusts the guy enough to know he'll power through it kinda like Hiro had himself. But with that he waves slightly and there's a bark from Demo the CYBuddy before the feed clicks off.]

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