Excavation Briefing · RESTRICTED
Five sealed chambers lie along the descent, each protected by a different cipher and each tougher than the last. Work them in order — every chamber stays sealed until the one before it is broken.
For each task, recover the plaintext, which is a flag in the form FLAG{…}, and submit it to authenticate. Nothing is brute-force guessable: the only way through a stage is to actually break the encoding.
FIELD KIT · pen + paper, a hex/ASCII table, or a workbench such as CyberChef. Submissions are case-insensitive. Two hints are available per stage if you stall.
Chamber Descent · 5 Stages
— Range Cleared —
ALL CHAMBERS BREACHED
Every chamber has been opened and authenticated, from the outer casing through the layered seal of the vault. Cryptanalysis qualification recorded.
VAULT CLEARED · 5 / 5 · PYRAMID