01 / Briefing
Recover ARCHIVE_731
The mission screen gives you a file name and a building. Somewhere in there, one rack out of hundreds still holds the data. Nobody tells you which.
> OBJECTIVE: RECOVER FILE ARCHIVE_731
CAM 02 · The job
Rec
// The job
One file.
One building.
No second chances.
Every run is the same job in a different building. Ten to fifteen minutes of clues, noise and very bad decisions.
// 01 · Five steps
CAM 01 · Briefing● Rec
02 / Clues
Follow the paper trail
The maintenance terminal knows the network, but it's locked. The key is on a clipboard in the break room. The clipboard points to a scanner. Every answer opens the next question.
> FIND: MAINTENANCE KEY · NETWORK SCANNER
03 / Scan
Find the rack
Walk the server halls and scan rack after rack until one answers back. A sticker on that rack sends you to Security for the tools you'll need to get the data out.
> MATCH FOUND: RACK B12
04 / Extract
The loud part
Plug in the Data Interface and the download starts. So does the noise: fans, alarms, drives screaming. Get interrupted and the data jumps to another rack. Your progress comes with it, but now you have to find it again.
> EXTRACTING… 63% · NOISE LEVEL: CRITICAL
05 / Escape
Back to the airlock
100%. Now carry the drive all the way back to where you came in. Through the dark. Past whatever woke up while you were downloading.
> EXTRACTION COMPLETE · RETURN TO AIRLOCK
// 02 · The facility
Same rooms.
Never the same
building.
Every run the datacenter rebuilds itself. Corridors move, server halls swap places, the shortcut you remember is a dead end now. You never learn the map. You survive it.
- AirlockWhere you come in. The only way out.
- MaintenanceThe terminal that knows the network.
- Break roomLockers, clipboards, cold coffee.
- SecurityTools, decoys, and the reason you came.
- Server hallsRows of racks. Hundreds of them.
- Industrial passagesPipes, steam, and things that move.
Move your light
Server hall · work-in-progress environment
// 03 · Loadout
Bring the
right tools.
Every monster has a counter. Every tool makes a different kind of noise. Pack for the threat you think you're facing, and hope you guessed right.
Tool 01 · Find
Network scanner
Point it at a rack and it pings the network. No match, keep walking. A match means you found the server, and that the hard part is about to start.
Noise: low · Beeps on a match
Light flareScent sprayPower divertVibration decoyLocker trapDoor wedgeStamina shot+ more in development
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