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Z. Cliffe Schreuders adbd7a64b0 Revise Mission 1: First Contact to enhance narrative depth and urgency 
- Updated the story premise to introduce "Operation Shatter," detailing the coordinated mass panic attack targeting vulnerable populations.
- Expanded the room layout to include additional rooms and NPC interactions, enhancing player exploration and engagement.
- Added critical LORE fragments revealing casualty projections and targeting demographics, emphasizing the stakes of the mission.
- Revised dialogue and choices to reflect player actions and moral implications, ensuring a more impactful closing debrief.
- Improved scenario structure and flow, aligning with best practices for narrative clarity and player agency.
2025-12-08 00:20:50 +00:00

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Mission 1: First Contact - Complete Solution Guide

Mission Map Diagram

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                          MISSION 1: FIRST CONTACT                          │
│                           VIRAL DYNAMICS MEDIA                              │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

                                    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

Step-by-Step Solution

Phase 1: Entry and Initial Access

Step Action Result
1 Mission briefing auto-plays Learn about Operation Shatter, Derek Lawson
2 Talk to Sarah Martinez Receive Visitor Badge + Main Office Key
3 Use Main Office Key on north door Unlock Main Office Area
4 Find Maintenance Checklist Learn IT Room PIN: 2468

Phase 2: Exploration (Multiple Paths)

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

Phase 3: IT Room Access

Step Action Result
6 Enter IT Room (PIN 2468) Access Kevin's workspace
7 Talk to Kevin Get Lockpicks + Server Keycard + Password Hints

Phase 4: Derek's Office Access (TWO PATHS)

Path A: Find the Key

Step Action Result
8a Enter 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

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)

Phase 5: Evidence Collection

Step Action Result
11 Access Derek's Computer Find CONTINGENCY file → Moral Choice triggers
12 Decode Whiteboard (Base64) Learn Derek's cabinet PIN: 0419
13 Open Derek's Filing Cabinet Get Casualty Projections, Manifesto, Campaign Materials

Phase 6: Lockpick-Only Content (Optional)

Step Action Result
14 Go to 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
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}
20 Complete Privilege Escalation Obtain flag{privilege_escalation_success}
21 Submit ALL 3 flags Unlock Derek confrontation

Phase 8: Confrontation

Step Action Result
22 Return to Derek's Office Derek appears
23 Confront Derek (requires all flags) Evil monologue, choose resolution
24 Choose: Arrest / Recruit / Expose Mission complete, debrief triggers

Puzzle Solutions Reference

PIN Codes

Lock PIN Clue Location Clue Text
IT Room 2468 Maintenance Checklist (Main Office) "IT ROOM PIN: 2468"
Practice Safe 1337 Maintenance Checklist "Practice safe code: 1337"
Main Filing Cabinet 2024 Sticky Note (Main Office) "Election year = access code"
Patricia's Safe 0419 Anniversary Card (Break Room) "April 19th"
Derek's Cabinet 0419 Whiteboard (Base64 decoded) "FILING_CABINET_PIN: 0419"

Keys and Keycards

Item Location Unlocks
Main Office Key Sarah Martinez (Reception) Main Office Area door
Derek's Office Key Patricia's Safe (Manager's Office) Derek's Office door
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]


PHASE 2: EXPLORATION (any order)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Main Office ─┬─► Storage Closet ──► Practice Safe [1337] (optional)
               │
               ├─► Break Room ─────► Anniversary Card (reveals 0419)
               │
               ├─► Conference Room ─► ZDS Notes, Campaign Timeline
               │
               ├─► Maya's Office ──► Talk to informant (reveals everything)
               │
               └─► Find Maintenance Checklist ─► IT Room PIN: 2468


PHASE 3: IT ACCESS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  IT Room [PIN 2468] ─► Kevin gives:
                           ├─► Lockpicks
                           ├─► Server Room Keycard (RFID)
                           └─► Password Hints


PHASE 4: DEREK'S OFFICE (Two parallel paths)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  PATH A (Key):                         PATH B (Lockpick):
  ─────────────                         ──────────────────
  Manager's Office                      IT Room
      │                                     │
      ▼                                     ▼
  Patricia's Safe [0419]                Get Lockpicks
      │                                     │
      ▼                                     ▼
  KEY #2 (Derek's Key)                  [PICK Derek's door]
      │                                     │
      └──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
                     ▼
              Derek's Office [UNLOCKED]


PHASE 5: EVIDENCE COLLECTION
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Derek's Office ─┬─► Computer ─► CONTINGENCY file ─► MORAL CHOICE
                  │
                  ├─► Whiteboard [Base64] ─► Cabinet PIN: 0419
                  │
                  └─► Filing Cabinet [0419] ─► Critical Evidence


PHASE 6: LOCKPICK-ONLY BONUS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Manager's Office ─► Patricia's Briefcase [LOCKPICK ONLY]
                         │
                         ▼
                  ENTROPY Infiltration Timeline (LORE)


PHASE 7: VM CHALLENGES (REQUIRED)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Server Room [RFID - Kevin's Keycard]
      │
      ├─► VM Terminal ─┬─► SSH Brute Force
      │                ├─► Linux Navigation
      │                └─► Privilege Escalation
      │
      └─► Drop-Site ─► Submit ALL 3 flags (REQUIRED)


PHASE 8: CONFRONTATION
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  Derek's Office ─► Derek returns ─► Confrontation (requires all flags)
                         │
                         ├─► Arrest
                         ├─► Attempt Recruit (fails)
                         └─► Public Expose
                         │
                         ▼
                  MISSION COMPLETE

Alternative Paths & Shortcuts

Path Options for Derek's Office

Method Requirements Difficulty
Use Key Find PIN 0419 (Break Room), open Patricia's safe Easy (find clue, enter PIN)
Lockpick Get lockpicks from Kevin Medium (lockpick minigame)

Locked-Out Shortcuts (By Design)

Attempted Shortcut Why It's Blocked
Lockpick Main Office No lockpicks until after entering Main Office
Skip to confrontation Derek requires ALL 3 VM flags submitted
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

  • Check in at reception (Sarah)
  • Access main office area (Key #1)
  • Find IT room access code (Maintenance Checklist)
  • Access IT room (PIN 2468)
  • 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

1. Kevin's Frame-Up (Mid-Mission)

Trigger: Pick up CONTINGENCY file from Derek's Computer

Choice Effect Consequence
Warn Kevin kevin_protected = true Kevin lawyers up, protected
Plant evidence kevin_protected = true Kevin protected anonymously
Ignore kevin_protected = false Kevin arrested, family traumatized

2. Derek Confrontation (End)

Trigger: Talk to Derek after all VM flags submitted

Choice Effect Outcome
Arrest final_choice = arrest Surgical strike, Derek in custody
Recruit final_choice = recruit Derek refuses, arrested anyway
Expose final_choice = expose Documents released to press

LORE Fragments

Fragment Location How to Access
The Architect's Letter Main Filing Cabinet PIN 2024
Social Fabric Manifesto Derek's Filing Cabinet PIN 0419
Network Backdoor Analysis Server Room Enter room
Patricia's Investigation Notes Patricia's Safe PIN 0419
ENTROPY Infiltration Timeline Patricia's Briefcase LOCKPICK ONLY
Old Orientation Guide Practice Safe PIN 1337

Completion Requirements

Requirement Mandatory? Notes
Get Main Office Key from Sarah ✅ Yes Only way to access main office
Access IT Room (PIN 2468) ✅ Yes Need lockpicks and keycard
Get Derek's Office access ✅ Yes Key OR lockpick
Access Server Room ✅ Yes Need Kevin's RFID keycard
Submit SSH flag ✅ Yes Required for confrontation
Submit Linux flag ✅ Yes Required for confrontation
Submit Sudo flag ✅ Yes Required for confrontation
Confront Derek ✅ Yes Triggers mission end
Find evidence documents ❌ Optional Affects debrief quality
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
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