Of course, as soon as he pointed out that strategizing was a bad idea in their current mental state, everyone started asking for plans. To his credit, Shikamaru didn't groan anywhere near as loudly as he felt like groaning, though the sound wasn't silent either. Instead, he took the offered notebook with one hand and rolled onto his side as he dug into his pocket for a pen, careful to avoid the scalpels. It was tempting to completely shut out the others while he focused on developing a code, but there'd be plenty of time to shut people out tomorrow. For now, they had work to do.
"Tomorrow, someone's going to give me a rough map of what's beyond the walls, and I found someone else who will tell me what goes on in the basement with Landel," he said, adding a small shrug to indicate that he didn't have enough information to make any kind of useful conclusion. Shikamaru opened the notebook and scribbled in the corner of a blank page until the cheap pen left a trail of ink.
The cipher couldn't be too complex if all of them were to remember it, and he didn't feel like spending hours a day encoding and decoding bulletin notes on top of everything else he had to do. Several silent seconds of thought passed before he started writing, but once he did, the pen moved without pause as if he were copying letters from one paper to another.
"There are a lot of smart people here, and any code gets weaker the more times its used," he said. "It's not a matter of whether someone will break it, but when. This one's pretty simple, so we'll probably have to change it after three or four days." He tore out the page and flipped it over, then continued on the back. "The second one's practically impossible, but it's a pain in the ass, so only use it for emergencies."
Once he was finished with that sheet, Shikamaru set it aside for someone to pick up and started on the second copy. It took some effort to keep his handwriting legible, but most of his attention was on the others as he waited to hear their ideas for future plans.
Re: M18
"Tomorrow, someone's going to give me a rough map of what's beyond the walls, and I found someone else who will tell me what goes on in the basement with Landel," he said, adding a small shrug to indicate that he didn't have enough information to make any kind of useful conclusion. Shikamaru opened the notebook and scribbled in the corner of a blank page until the cheap pen left a trail of ink.
The cipher couldn't be too complex if all of them were to remember it, and he didn't feel like spending hours a day encoding and decoding bulletin notes on top of everything else he had to do. Several silent seconds of thought passed before he started writing, but once he did, the pen moved without pause as if he were copying letters from one paper to another.
"There are a lot of smart people here, and any code gets weaker the more times its used," he said. "It's not a matter of whether someone will break it, but when. This one's pretty simple, so we'll probably have to change it after three or four days." He tore out the page and flipped it over, then continued on the back. "The second one's practically impossible, but it's a pain in the ass, so only use it for emergencies."
Once he was finished with that sheet, Shikamaru set it aside for someone to pick up and started on the second copy. It took some effort to keep his handwriting legible, but most of his attention was on the others as he waited to hear their ideas for future plans.
[I will give you guys code details later]