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    Shodan

    After Kaze dropped him off at the Temple, the first order of business was for Shodan to whip himself back into a usable state. And he did - with an egregious amount of flowing mana, bandages and strong alcohol to dull out the pain. He wasn't doing much during this time - save for a business call with the Hierarch - but that's okay. He's no good to anyone threatening to burst at the seams.

    But when the only traces of his close meeting with death were some light skin discolorations, the Libertine was hard at work. First, the car. He was already in a precarious position with the Moros, so damn him if this isn't going to be the finest mechanical job in the history of ever. Thankfully, there was no damage to the upholstering - that'd be tricky to fix. But the rest? The screws, lights, bodywork and undercarriage? That, for a man with Shodan's skill is nothing. Sparks fly and noises boom as the Libertine furiously works on the sedan. At last, the job is done, and the car is, indeed, as smooth as ever.

    "Damn, man, you are good" He said to himself.

    That leaves the other matter. The encrypted data from their little trip to Panama. It's a tricky business, when you know next to nothing about their method, but although some may think otherwise, Shodan was very nearly top-of-the-line when it comes to computers. He is making some headway, but it remains to be seen if the uncovered pieces form a pretty picture.


      Repairing the car
    Date Action Roll Result
    2019-04-17 04:24:58 [07] Shodan rolls 10 to Repair the car (Dex + Crafts + Automotive Tools) (10 Again) 5, 9, 3, 6, 4, 2, 1, 5, 6, 4 1 success
    2019-04-17 04:24:58 [06] Shodan rolls 10 to Repair the car (Dex + Crafts + Automotive Tools) (10 Again) 4, 2, 3, 1, 9, 9, 4, 8, 5, 3 3 successes
    2019-04-17 04:24:58 [05] Shodan rolls 10 to Repair the car (Dex + Crafts + Automotive Tools) (10 Again) 3, 4, 8, 1, 3, 4, 3, 5, 4, 10, 3 2 successes
    2019-04-17 04:24:58 [04] Shodan rolls 10 to Repair the car (Dex + Crafts + Automotive Tools) (10 Again) 5, 2, 8, 3, 8, 9, 8, 8, 10, 10, 8, 6 8 successes
    2019-04-17 04:24:58 [03] Shodan rolls 10 to Repair the car (Dex + Crafts + Automotive Tools) (10 Again) 8, 4, 1, 4, 5, 9, 3, 7, 4, 8 3 successes
    2019-04-17 04:24:58 [02] Shodan rolls 10 to Repair the car (Dex + Crafts + Automotive Tools) (10 Again) 2, 8, 1, 4, 3, 7, 10, 9, 2, 7, 10, 1 4 successes
    2019-04-17 04:24:58 [01] Shodan rolls 10 to Repair the car (Dex + Crafts + Automotive Tools) (10 Again) 6, 6, 3, 6, 6, 9, 7, 2, 10, 4, 7 2 successes


      Decrypting the data
    Date Action Roll Result
    2019-04-17 04:32:59 [08] Shodan rolls 9 to Decrypt data (Int + Comp + Eq. Bonus 1) (10 Again) 4, 2, 5, 3, 3, 5, 5, 1, 10, 8 2 successes
    2019-04-17 04:32:59 [07] Shodan rolls 9 to Decrypt data (Int + Comp + Eq. Bonus 1) (10 Again) 9, 7, 8, 8, 2, 7, 2, 2, 7 3 successes
    2019-04-17 04:32:59 [06] Shodan rolls 9 to Decrypt data (Int + Comp + Eq. Bonus 1) (10 Again) 6, 2, 7, 10, 7, 1, 6, 6, 1, 4 1 success
    2019-04-17 04:32:59 [05] Shodan rolls 9 to Decrypt data (Int + Comp + Eq. Bonus 1) (10 Again) 7, 7, 9, 4, 7, 2, 7, 8, 2 2 successes
    2019-04-17 04:32:59 [04] Shodan rolls 9 to Decrypt data (Int + Comp + Eq. Bonus 1) (10 Again) 7, 7, 5, 9, 8, 3, 10, 6, 8, 1 4 successes
    2019-04-17 04:32:59 [03] Shodan rolls 9 to Decrypt data (Int + Comp + Eq. Bonus 1) (10 Again) 6, 2, 10, 6, 8, 7, 3, 10, 6, 1, 1 3 successes
    2019-04-17 04:32:59 [02] Shodan rolls 9 to Decrypt data (Int + Comp + Eq. Bonus 1) (10 Again) 7, 6, 7, 5, 8, 8, 7, 2, 9 3 successes
    2019-04-17 04:32:59 [01] Shodan rolls 9 to Decrypt data (Int + Comp + Eq. Bonus 1) (10 Again) 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 5, 8, 6, 9 4 successes



    This Glimpse takes place over several days time.

    Healing maths: Shodan's Average Mana Pool is 7, enough to heal 2 lethal/day. He takes two days to heal up using mana, and the last (fifth) point of damage is erased due to natural healing. Let me know if anything looks wrong.

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    Shodan


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    Saying that the car was as good as new would have been tantamount to a flat-out lying, you can't hope to replicate in your own garage the precision of dozen of millions worth of equipment, however as far as this particular car was concerned, the Libertine got pretty close.
    Very few traces remained of their nightly foray into the world of Vin Diesel, most of all, small dents into the paint-job relegated to a few remote corners, other than that the Obrimos could swell with pride and even boast about having improved the vehicle a bit. Maybe a blemish or two remained, but the damage he had repaired was hundredfold larger, and some - he deduces - could have even predated that night. In the great scheme of things, the two things balanced out and car was left no worse for wear than they had first boarded it that fateful night.
    That software vulnerability, the one that allowed the hacker exclusive control of the braking system? Finally gone, patched away.
    So while the Libertine couldn't quite collect evidence on the origin of the attack, he was comfortably sure that a second attempt would be quite harder.

    Similarly, his work on the data proceeded without much difficulty. While no practicable mundane attack against AES exists, the Obrimos doesn't quite need to brute force his way into the data trove, really, all that is required is a lil bit of supernal hocus pocus to read a password here and there and suddenly pull the white rabbit from the hat.
    And what secrets they were. The Libertine can't quite make sense of what exactly he should be looking for, but he's reasonably sure that, had he been a journalist, he could have been in the position of being able to make a bunch of very powerful people quite uncomfortable. Not an enviable position, mind you, those kind of journalists have the habit of sitting on car bombs. From the Kremlin, to the inhabitants of some elegant boardroom, from Colombia with its drug lords to the very human traffickers of Eastern Africa.
    Money makes the world go around, and information about those dealings is very valuable indeed. Bank statements, identifiers of shell companies. The Libertine may be no spy or forensic accountant, but he can tell shady when he sees it.
    But it's not the mundane that interests him, there's something buried inside the data that is relevant to their investigation, they just need to put the pieces together.
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    Good to close, new thread will be up soon
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