Board Thread:Role Play Discussion/@comment-26130256-20151030054856/@comment-26130256-20151030173550

To Jadefire:  it stands for "Out Of Character".

To Aldrasos: Patience, my friend. The official rules of the wiki state that you have five days to respond, if needed. I'm not skipping anyone until that point.

To Fedora:  What do you know about the RSA algorithm?

To give the abridged version, it's a public-key encryption system whose security depends on one mathematical quirk:  If you have a number with two and only two prime cofactors, there is no computer shortcut to find them besides brute forcing. For a number like 95, the primes are 5 and 19, but what do you do for a number thats 2048 digits long? If you used all the computers we have together, the universe would end before you solved the encryption.

In Remnant, some mathemetician successfully figured out a shortcut, but be Da Vincied it by leaving a fake copy in the box and hiding the real formula on the box's carvings. He was then killed and his research stolen by whoever paid him, and the box was stolen from them, until it eventually fell into the hands of the Blackbriar Gang, who stored it in their casino's vault. Azzie and the Harlequins stole it, and Brine sent it off to another buyer. Except the real buyer was killed in transit and a fake paid for it anyways. It changed some more hands, no one figuring out the real formula for the thing, until Master's Realm got ahold of it. Brine found out they have it, where they have it (the warehouse that will be the setting for our little adventure), and that it's moving out in a week.

Basically, if anyone figures out the successful factorization formula, almost all of the encryption systems in the world will cease to be meaningful. I think all of our OCs can agree that they don't want that kind of power in the hands of Master's Realm.