Pure coincidence ;) Actually I picked names from American Beauty movie - most of them are combination of names and surnames of actors and/or characters they played. The most notable similarity is Chris Cooper - it's a name of an actor who played colonel Frank Fitts. I even paraphrased him slightly (he talked a lot about rules, discipline and structure)

Gah, don't know how I missed that and terribly sorry I did. I blame the Colonel! The chicken one, that is :P

Congrats to Moonbeam (and drennan and Telika, who got important parts right)!
And thanks for the entertaining read, Ghorpm, as well as them do-gooders momo and lugum :-)

I would be grateful for your contribution! I already have one code for Blackwell from Momo1991 for a next mystery

Congrats to all who solved the puzzle, well done Timelord1963.
Spinorial, I just enjoyed the story and then got lost.

Ghorpm, that was fun, thanks.