Cryptanalyst
John Cipher
Breaks codes the way other kids break piñatas. If a message was meant to be secret, John has already read it twice and corrected the spelling.
- Age
- 08
- Specialty
- Ciphers & cryptograms
- Tell
- Goes very quiet, then smiles
The Agency
Two cousins. One agency.
Both fluent in codebreaking. Both with a nose for mystery. Neither tall enough to reach the top shelf—which has never once stopped them.
Lead Investigator
James Skull
Older by a year and afraid of nothing in particular. James follows a mystery into the basement, the boiler room, and the part of the yard everyone agreed to avoid—until it gives up.
- Age
- 09
- Specialty
- Fieldwork & cold nerve
- Tell
- Already three steps ahead
Shared credential: the complete lore of every show worth watching. It comes up in casework more than you’d think.
Casework
What we investigate
If it doesn’t add up, it’s ours.
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Case No. 001
Secret messages
Encrypted notes, invisible ink, codes passed under the desk. We decrypt all of it, and we don’t tell your sister.
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Case No. 002
Missing objects
The remote. The hamster. Grandpa’s lucky coin. Last seen—and then, suspiciously, not.
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Case No. 003
Cold cases
The ones the grown-ups gave up on and labeled “one of those things.” We don’t believe in those things.
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Case No. 004
Unexplained events
Strange noises. The wrong shadow. A door that was definitely locked and is now definitely not.
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Case No. 005
Lore inquiries
Is that finale a clue or a coincidence? We know the canon by heart. We’ll settle it.
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Case No. 006
Codes of unknown origin
You found numbers. You don’t know why. Bring them in—the decoder is warmed up.
Field Tool
The Decoder
Every letter is a number. A = 1, Z = 26. Type a message to encode it, or paste a code to read it.
Reading
Numbers 1–26 become letters. Anything else is left alone. Spaces separate words.
Open a case
Hire us
Tell us what’s missing, what’s strange, or what won’t add up. Discretion guaranteed—we’re eight and nine, and nobody suspects a thing.