From 2b0c68e96166400dd39aaefa90fdbb58ee35ec4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Z. Cliffe Schreuders" Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 00:24:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Revise SOLUTION_GUIDE.md for improved room layout and navigation clarity - 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 - Removed outdated content to streamline the guide and focus on essential gameplay elements. --- scenarios/m01_first_contact/SOLUTION_GUIDE.md | 245 +++++++----------- 1 file changed, 96 insertions(+), 149 deletions(-) diff --git a/scenarios/m01_first_contact/SOLUTION_GUIDE.md b/scenarios/m01_first_contact/SOLUTION_GUIDE.md index 13a3998..cff378a 100644 --- a/scenarios/m01_first_contact/SOLUTION_GUIDE.md +++ b/scenarios/m01_first_contact/SOLUTION_GUIDE.md @@ -9,58 +9,63 @@ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ 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 |