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Revise SOLUTION_GUIDE.md for improved room layout and navigation clarity

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- Updated room connections and layout to enhance player exploration and interaction.
- Added a Room Connections Summary table for quick reference on room access and directions.
- Revised step-by-step solution to clarify actions and results, ensuring a more intuitive gameplay experience.
- Enhanced puzzle chain diagram to reflect updated room connections and paths.
- Removed outdated content to streamline the guide and focus on essential gameplay elements.
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└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
NORTH
┌───────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────┐
│ │ │ │ │
│ SERVER ROOM │ MANAGER'S │ DEREK'S │ MAYA'S │
│ │ OFFICE │ OFFICE │ OFFICE │
│ [RFID lock] │ (unlocked) │ [KEY lock] │ (unlocked) │
│ │ │ │ │
│ • VM Term │ • Safe 0419 │ • Computer │ • Maya NPC │
│ • Flags │ → Key #2 │ • Cabinet │ • Intel │
│ • Evidence │ • Briefcase │ PIN 0419 │ │
│ │ [PICK] │ • Evidence │ │
│ │ → LORE │ │ │
└───────┬───────┴───────────────┴───────┬───────┴───────────────┘
│ │
│ │
════════╧═══════════════════════════════╧════════════════════════
│ │
│ MAIN OFFICE AREA │
│ [KEY LOCK - Key #1] │
│ │
│ • CyberChef Workstation • Filing Cabinet (PIN 2024) │
│ • Maintenance Checklist (IT PIN: 2468) │
│ • Sticky Note (Cabinet PIN: 2024) │
│ │
════════╤═══════════════════════════════╤════════════════════════
│ │
┌───────┴───────┬───────────────┬───────┴───────┬───────────────┐
│ │ │ │ │
│ IT ROOM │ CONFERENCE │ BREAK ROOM │ STORAGE │
│ │ ROOM │ │ CLOSET │
│ [PIN 2468] │ (unlocked) │ (unlocked) │ (unlocked) │
│ │ │ │ │
│ • Kevin NPC │ • ZDS Notes │ • Coffee │ • Practice │
│ • Lockpicks │ • Campaign │ Receipt │ Safe 1337 │
│ • Keycard │ Timeline │ • Anniv. │ • Maint Log │
│ • Passwd │ │ Card 0419 │ │
└───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────┘
│
┌───────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ RECEPTION │
│ │
│ • Sarah NPC → Badge + Key #1 (Main Office) │
│ • Building Directory │
│ • Visitor Sign-In Log (Derek's late hours) │
│ │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│
ENTRANCE
│
┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ │ ┌─────────────┐
│ MANAGER'S │ │ MAYA'S │ │ │ DEREK'S │
│ OFFICE │ │ OFFICE │ │ │ OFFICE │
│ (unlocked) │ │ (unlocked) │ │ │ [KEY] │
└──────┬──────┘ └──────┬──────┘ │ └──────┬──────┘
│ │ │ │
└───────┬───────┘ │ │
│ │ │
┌──────┐ ┌─────┴─────┐ ┌─────┴─────┐ ┌────────┴────────┐ ┌──────────┐
│STOR. │─│ HALLWAY │◄────►│ │◄────►│ HALLWAY EAST │─│ SERVER │
│CLOSET│ │ WEST │ │ │ │ │ │ ROOM │
│(1gu) │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ [RFID] │
└──────┘ └─────┬─────┘ │ │ └────────┬────────┘ └──────────┘
│ │ │ │
═══════════════╧════════════╧═══════════╧═══════════════╧════════════════════
│ │
│ MAIN OFFICE AREA [KEY] │
│ │
═══════╤═══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╤════
│ │
┌──────┴──────┐ ┌──────────────┴────┐
│ BREAK ROOM │ │ IT ROOM │
│ │ │ [PIN 2468] │
└──────┬──────┘ └───────────────────┘
│
┌──────┴──────┐
│ CONFERENCE │
│ ROOM │
└─────────────┘
│
┌──────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ RECEPTION │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```
---
## Room Connections Summary
| Room | North | South | East | West |
|------|-------|-------|------|------|
| Reception | main_office_area | - | - | - |
| Main Office | [hallway_west, hallway_east] | reception | it_room | break_room |
| Break Room | - | - | main_office_area | conference_room |
| Conference Room | - | - | break_room | - |
| IT Room | - | - | - | main_office_area |
| Hallway West | [manager_office, maya_office] | main_office_area | hallway_east | storage_closet |
| Hallway East | derek_office | main_office_area | server_room | hallway_west |
| Storage Closet | - | - | hallway_west | - |
| Manager's Office | - | hallway_west | - | - |
| Maya's Office | - | hallway_west | - | - |
| Derek's Office | - | hallway_east | - | - |
| Server Room | - | - | - | hallway_east |
---
## Step-by-Step Solution
### Phase 1: Entry and Initial Access
@@ -76,10 +81,11 @@
| Step | Action | Result |
|------|--------|--------|
| 5a | Enter Storage Closet | Find Practice Safe (PIN 1337), backup IT code |
| 5b | Enter Break Room | Find Coffee Receipt, Anniversary Card → **0419** |
| 5c | Enter Conference Room | Find ZDS Notes, Campaign Timeline |
| 5d | Enter Maya's Office | Talk to Maya → Informant reveals all |
| 5a | Go west to Break Room | Find Coffee Receipt, Anniversary Card → **0419** |
| 5b | Go west from Break Room to Conference | Find ZDS Notes, Campaign Timeline |
| 5c | Go east to IT Room (PIN 2468) | Meet Kevin, get tools |
| 5d | Go north to Hallway West | Access Manager's Office and Maya's Office |
| 5e | Go north to Hallway East | Access Derek's Office (locked) and Server Room |
### Phase 3: IT Room Access
@@ -93,15 +99,15 @@
**Path A: Find the Key**
| Step | Action | Result |
|------|--------|--------|
| 8a | Enter Manager's Office | Find Patricia's Safe |
| 8a | Go to Hallway West → Manager's Office | Find Patricia's Safe |
| 9a | Open Safe (PIN **0419**) | Get **Derek's Office Key** |
| 10a | Use key on Derek's Office | Enter Derek's Office |
| 10a | Go to Hallway East → Use key on Derek's Office | Enter Derek's Office |
**Path B: Lockpick the Door**
| Step | Action | Result |
|------|--------|--------|
| 8b | Get lockpicks from Kevin | Have lockpick kit |
| 9b | Pick Derek's Office door | Enter Derek's Office (medium difficulty) |
| 9b | Go to Hallway East → Pick Derek's Office door | Enter Derek's Office (medium difficulty) |
### Phase 5: Evidence Collection
@@ -115,14 +121,14 @@
| Step | Action | Result |
|------|--------|--------|
| 14 | Go to Manager's Office | Find Patricia's Briefcase |
| 14 | Go to Hallway West → Manager's Office | Find Patricia's Briefcase |
| 15 | Pick briefcase lock | Get **ENTROPY Infiltration Timeline** (LORE) |
### Phase 7: Server Room & VM Challenges (REQUIRED)
| Step | Action | Result |
|------|--------|--------|
| 16 | Use Kevin's Keycard on Server Room | Enter Server Room |
| 16 | Go to Hallway East → Use Kevin's Keycard | Enter Server Room |
| 17 | Access VM Terminal | Connect to Social Fabric infrastructure |
| 18 | Complete SSH Brute Force | Obtain `flag{ssh_brute_force_success}` |
| 19 | Complete Linux Navigation | Obtain `flag{linux_navigation_complete}` |
@@ -160,30 +166,11 @@
| Server Room Keycard | Kevin (IT Room) | Server Room RFID lock |
| Lockpicks | Kevin (IT Room) | Derek's door (alt), Patricia's briefcase |
### Encoded Message (Derek's Whiteboard)
**Base64 Encoded:**
```
Q2xpZW50IGxpc3QgdXBkYXRlOiBDb29yZGluYXRpbmcgd2l0aCBaRFMgZm9yIHRlY2huaWNhbCBp
bmZyYXN0cnVjdHVyZSBkZXBsb3ltZW50LiBQaGFzZSAzIHRpbWVsaW5lOiAyIHdlZWtzLiBGSUxJ
TkdfQ0FCSU5FVF9QSU46IDA0MTkgKERlcmVrJ3MgYmRheSAtIGRvbid0IGZvcmdldCBhZ2FpbiEp
```
**Decoded:**
```
Client list update: Coordinating with ZDS for technical infrastructure deployment.
Phase 3 timeline: 2 weeks. FILING_CABINET_PIN: 0419 (Derek's bday - don't forget again!)
```
---
## Puzzle Chain Diagram
```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ COMPLETE PUZZLE CHAIN │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
PHASE 1: ENTRY
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Reception ─► Sarah gives KEY #1 ─► Main Office Area [KEY #1]
@@ -191,15 +178,16 @@ PHASE 1: ENTRY
PHASE 2: EXPLORATION (any order)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Main Office ─┬─► Storage Closet ──► Practice Safe [1337] (optional)
Main Office ─┬─► West: Break Room ─► West: Conference Room
│ └─► ZDS Notes, Timeline
│
├─► Break Room ─────► Anniversary Card (reveals 0419)
├─► East: IT Room [PIN 2468] ─► Kevin (lockpicks, keycard)
│
├─► Conference Room ─► ZDS Notes, Campaign Timeline
├─► North: Hallway West ─┬─► Manager's Office (safe, briefcase)
│ └─► Maya's Office (informant)
│
├─► Maya's Office ──► Talk to informant (reveals everything)
│
└─► Find Maintenance Checklist ─► IT Room PIN: 2468
└─► North: Hallway East ─┬─► Derek's Office [KEY/PICK]
└─► Server Room [RFID]
PHASE 3: IT ACCESS
@@ -214,7 +202,7 @@ PHASE 4: DEREK'S OFFICE (Two parallel paths)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
PATH A (Key): PATH B (Lockpick):
───────────── ──────────────────
Manager's Office IT Room
Hallway West → Manager's Office IT Room
│ │
▼ ▼
Patricia's Safe [0419] Get Lockpicks
@@ -224,7 +212,7 @@ PHASE 4: DEREK'S OFFICE (Two parallel paths)
│ │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
▼
Derek's Office [UNLOCKED]
Hallway East → Derek's Office [UNLOCKED]
PHASE 5: EVIDENCE COLLECTION
@@ -238,15 +226,15 @@ PHASE 5: EVIDENCE COLLECTION
PHASE 6: LOCKPICK-ONLY BONUS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Manager's Office ─► Patricia's Briefcase [LOCKPICK ONLY]
│
▼
ENTROPY Infiltration Timeline (LORE)
Hallway West → Manager's Office ─► Patricia's Briefcase [LOCKPICK ONLY]
│
▼
ENTROPY Infiltration Timeline (LORE)
PHASE 7: VM CHALLENGES (REQUIRED)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Server Room [RFID - Kevin's Keycard]
Hallway East → Server Room [RFID - Kevin's Keycard]
│
├─► VM Terminal ─┬─► SSH Brute Force
│ ├─► Linux Navigation
@@ -287,49 +275,6 @@ PHASE 8: CONFRONTATION
| Skip IT Room | Need PIN 2468 (found in Main Office) |
| Skip Server Room | Need Kevin's RFID keycard |
### Optional Content
| Content | How to Access | Reward |
|---------|---------------|--------|
| Patricia's Briefcase | Lockpick (no key exists) | LORE: ENTROPY Infiltration Timeline |
| Practice Safe | PIN 1337 | Minor LORE, practice PIN mechanic |
| Main Filing Cabinet | PIN 2024 | The Architect's Letter (LORE) |
---
## Objectives Tracking
### Aim 1: Establish Access
- [x] Check in at reception (Sarah)
- [x] Access main office area (Key #1)
- [x] Find IT room access code (Maintenance Checklist)
- [x] Access IT room (PIN 2468)
- [x] Meet Kevin Park
### Aim 2: Investigate Derek
- [ ] Find access to Derek's office (Key #2 OR lockpick)
- [ ] Enter Derek's office
- [ ] Search Derek's computer (CONTINGENCY file)
- [ ] Decode whiteboard message (CyberChef)
- [ ] Open Derek's filing cabinet (PIN 0419)
### Aim 3: Gather Evidence
- [ ] Find Operation Shatter casualty projections
- [ ] Discover ENTROPY manifesto
- [ ] Find campaign materials
- [ ] Talk to the informant (Maya)
### Aim 4: Intercept Communications (REQUIRED)
- [ ] Access server room (RFID keycard)
- [ ] Access compromised systems (VM)
- [ ] Submit SSH access evidence ⚠️ REQUIRED
- [ ] Submit Linux navigation evidence ⚠️ REQUIRED
- [ ] Submit privilege escalation evidence ⚠️ REQUIRED
### Aim 5: Confront the Operative
- [ ] Confront Derek Lawson (requires all flags)
- [ ] Choose resolution (arrest/recruit/expose)
---
## Moral Choices
@@ -367,6 +312,25 @@ PHASE 8: CONFRONTATION
---
## Room Summary
| Room | Lock Type | Access | Key NPCs/Items |
|------|-----------|--------|----------------|
| Reception | None | Start | Sarah (badge, key) |
| Main Office | KEY | Key from Sarah | CyberChef, clues |
| Break Room | None | West from Main Office | Anniversary clue (0419) |
| Conference Room | None | West from Break Room | ZDS notes, timeline |
| IT Room | PIN 2468 | East from Main Office | Kevin (lockpicks, keycard) |
| Hallway West | None | North from Main Office | Directory sign |
| Hallway East | None | North from Main Office | Directory sign |
| Storage Closet | None | West from Hallway West | Practice safe, backup codes |
| Manager's Office | None | North from Hallway West | Safe (key), briefcase (LORE) |
| Maya's Office | None | North from Hallway West | Maya (informant) |
| Derek's Office | KEY/PICK | North from Hallway East | Derek, computer, evidence |
| Server Room | RFID | East from Hallway East | VM terminal, flags |
---
## Completion Requirements
| Requirement | Mandatory? | Notes |
@@ -383,20 +347,3 @@ PHASE 8: CONFRONTATION
| Complete Kevin moral choice | ❌ Optional | Affects Kevin's fate |
| Talk to Maya | ❌ Optional | Provides intel |
| Pick Patricia's briefcase | ❌ Optional | Extra LORE |
---
## Room Summary
| Room | Lock Type | Access | Key NPCs/Items |
|------|-----------|--------|----------------|
| Reception | None | Start | Sarah (badge, key) |
| Main Office | KEY | Key from Sarah | CyberChef, clues |
| Storage Closet | None | Via Main Office | Practice safe, backup codes |
| Break Room | None | Via Main Office | Anniversary clue (0419) |
| Conference Room | None | Via Main Office | ZDS notes, timeline |
| IT Room | PIN 2468 | Via Main Office | Kevin (lockpicks, keycard) |
| Manager's Office | None | Via Main Office | Safe (key), briefcase (LORE) |
| Maya's Office | None | Via Main Office | Maya (informant) |
| Derek's Office | KEY/PICK | Key from safe OR pick | Derek, computer, evidence |
| Server Room | RFID | Keycard from Kevin | VM terminal, flags |