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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaeden" data-source="post: 2534224" data-attributes="member: 34974">He grimaces as Felger informs him of just how not-done his work with the undersea device was, having been hoping to really impress his new supervisor, and Chloe in the process.Julian listens intently to everything about the x301, clearly very interested in seeing it someday. He also continues to make smalltalk with Chloe, discouraged though he is by her apparent infatuation with Dr. Felger. Pretty much the only thing Julian knew about women with 100% certainty is when they weren't interested. He'd had the most data to work with in that case, by far. Growing more and more frustrated every time Felger checks on his progress, Julian finally resigns himself to the fact that the computer will not be much luck in the search. Resorting to an old trick from the newspaper cryptoquotes as a last resort, he reasons that if the one-time pads have to be the same size as the words they originally were, he might stand a chance at manually cracking the code if he can find repeated patterns for common articles like 'the' or 'and'. (OOC: He makes one more Crypto check)His small-talk with Chloe stops as he realizes the wall he's up against. His frustration grows to the point that he has to restrain himself from physically throwing his laptop across the lab. As he's doing this as a last resort to stretch out his admitting that he can't solve the problem, he will do this until the end of his shift, unless Felger or Chloe calls him off the task. He begins taking frequent breaks, pacing the hallway like a caged animal, clearly frustrated and angry that this algorithm is proving too much for him. Julian isn't used to running into computer or cryptography problems he can't solve, and his second day on the job wasn't an optimal time to start.If his second Crypto check fails...Julian walks back into the lab, his brow sweating, his eyes a picture of dark exasperation as he approaches Felger. He explains the padding to Felger in minimal detail and informs him that without the key disc, there is little to no hope of a solution.</blockquote>

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