How to use Secret Codes?

Character’s Identity

• Behavior
• Which kind of Character uses Secret code?
• Does it have to do with their Goal?
• Is the character naturally Discreet?
• Is she Secretive?
• Why would she want to hide certain parts of her identity?

• Relationships
• How many characters use the secret code?
• What are they hiding?
• Does the secret tie these character?
• Will the Revelation of the secret end the relationship?
• Did the characters develop attachment during the secrecy period?
• What codes are used to hide this relationship?

• Belonging
• Does the code indicates the origin of the character?
• Does it indicate the status of the character?
• Does it indicate the interests of the character?
• Does it display a certain skill the character possess?
• Is this code particularly rare?
• Is it hidden to most of the population?
• Is it forbidden to use?
• Is it specific of a certain region?

• Species Specific
• Is the code a part of the character’s Anatomy?
  • Nose/Ears
  • Horns/Tail
  • Wings/Eyes
• Is the code On a part of the character’s Anatomy?
  • Hidden
  • Visible
• Is it a specific way to Move?
• Is it a specific way to Walk?
• Is it a specific way to Run?
• Customs

Substances

• Properties of the Substances
• What are the properties of the substance?
  • Is it acidic?
  • Is it corrosive?
• Does it change the properties of the material it is applied on?
• Does it destroy it?
• Does it make it grow?
• Does it have a special glow?

• Application
• How is the substance applied?
• Which quantity should be applied?
• Does behave like ink?
• Do you need special qualification to apply it?
• Is it toxic or corrosive?
• Is it potentially lethal?
• Is is expensive or rare?
• In which state of matter does it function?
  • Only when Solid?
  • Only when Gaseous?
  • Only when dissolved into another product?

• Reading
• How to make it Visible?
• Is it Visible by Everyone?
• Do you need to be a certain person to read it?
• Do you need a Tool to need it?
• How much time do you need before it becomes visible?
• Does it become visible at all?
• Or does it produce a Sound?
• A Smell?

Accessories

• Which Clothes do the character wear?
• Are there Pins on theses clothes?
• Are there Knots?
• Did the character modify their clothes?
  • By ripping the clothes?
  • By sewing them?
• Do they wear Ribbons?
• Do they wear Handkerchiefs?

• Does she wear Jewels?
• Are these Jewel associated with a specific group?
• Are they bore voluntarily?
• What does a specific Metal alliage mean?
• What does a certain Pearls combination mean?
• Can you find different color sequences?

• Does she have a certain Scents?
• Is it natural?
• What Perfume does she uses?
• What type of Fragrance?
• Does it act as Pheromones?

• Are Animals used to send messages?
• Through Venom?
• Written on a Web?
• Using a certain Silk?
• Hidden under the wool?
• In the stomach of an animal?
• In an Egg?
• Under the skin?
• Under the moult?
• In the mouth?

• Are Plants used to send messages?
• On Leaves?
• Inside leaves?
• Through modified Seeds?
• Through Flower?
  • Using certain combinations of flowers?
  • Using certain combinations of petals?

Written & Oral

• Which Language is used?
• What are the most used Phrases?
• Is this Language well-known?
• Is it wide spread?

• Which is Tone used?
• Is the message Joyful?
• Is it Plaintif?
• Is it Complacent?
• Is it Judgmental?

• Are Songs used?
• A certain song only known by certain people?
• What is the Poetry like?
• What is the Musical pattern of the song?
• How are the rhymes articulated?
• How do they display the story?
• How do they convey the hidden message?

Visual

• Which Color is the code?
• What colorimetry do you use?
• Do you use traditional color meaning?
• Do color combination transcribe into meaning combinations?
• Do you use colors at all?

• What is the Form/Shape of the Code?
• Is it 2D?
• Is it 3D?
• Is it placed on or in a multidimensional object?
• What is the Form/Shape meaning?
• What are the Proportions used?
• Do they differ from what is usually used to represent the figure or message?

• Position
• What’s it’s Position?
• Where is it supposed to be found?
• Where is it found instead?
• What does this Emplacement signifies?
• Is it an easily inaccessible Emplacement?

• Textures & Light
• On which material is the message written?
• What’s it’s roughness?
• What’s it’s flexibility?
• Does it have high Light reflection properties?
• Which kind of light does it reflect?
  • Ultra Violets?
  • X-Rays?

Art

• Pottery
• What patterns can be found on the Pot?
• What does the pattern mean?
• How thick is the pot?
• What does it contain?

• Paintings
• Who was the Painter?
• What Style is used?
• To which Artistic Movement does it belong to?
• What is the Symbolism of the picture?
• What is the Imagery used?
• Are there Hidden images?

• Architecture
• Where is the Building situated?
• In which type of Landscape?
• If you look at a map of the Building do you see a particular shape?
• If you look at pictures of the Building what do you see?
• What are the Mineral Used?
• Is there a particular Stone Arrangement?
• Are there frescos in or out of the building?

Organizations

• Rules
• Are the codes used by Secret Organizations?
• Are they used by Criminal Organizations?
• To which extent?
• In which context?
• On which operations?

• Texts
• Are they used in Contracts & Treaties?
• Are they used in Charters & Edicts?
• What are these texts?
• Do they Forbid specific practices?
• Do they Forbid specific practices?

• Arcanes
• Who is enforcing the Secret Knowledge?
• Who is charged to hide the Arcanes?
• What is kept Secret?
  • Events?
  • Resources?
• Why are they kept Secret?
• Which Ciphers are used to hide them?