Shadow Protocol

CASE 2026-0147 — OPERATION SHADOW PROTOCOL

FEDERAL BUREAU OF CYBER INVESTIGATION — INTERNAL AFFAIRS DIVISION

CLASSIFICATION: INTERNAL

AGENT: (you)

ASSIGNED BY: Office of the Director, E. Mercer

Overnight, an unauthorized party accessed the Bureau's mail relay.

Thousands of internal emails may have been copied. You are first on

the scene.

"Fresh eyes win old cases. Report directly to me."

                                    — E. Mercer

You have one shift. A shell, a warrant drawer, field units, and

stubbornness. Follow the evidence. Serve the warrants. Trust no title.

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WHAT YOU DO

Work real federal systems from a simulated terminal — no fake menus,

no point-and-click rails:

  ▸ Investigate servers with real commands — ls, cd, cat, grep, find,

    sudo, ssh. Read logs like a forensic examiner and find the one

    line that breaks the case open.

  ▸ Run the plates, pull the files — DMV lookups and NCIC criminal

    records, from a white van to a Director with a classified flag.

  ▸ Evidence wins warrants — request search, arrest, or surveillance

    warrants and transmit them to Judge Aldrich. No probable cause,

    no signature. He tells you exactly what your affidavit lacks.

  ▸ Field units — dispatch patrol, surveillance, and tactical teams:

    serve warrants, stake out shell companies, sweep hardware.

  ▸ Choose their fates — arrest, house arrest, or let them walk.

    Every choice ripples into the evidence, the raid, and the ending.

  ▸ Stay invisible — some hosts log every keystroke. Surveillance

    heat climbs while you work. Manage it, or the Director's office

    reads your session.

  ▸ Race the transfer — the final act runs a live exfiltration

    percentage in your prompt. At 100%, the evidence is gone for good.

One case. Five acts. One shift from 06:00 to midnight. Four ways to

point the finger — and a conspiracy that doesn't end when the credits

do.

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AN OPERATING SYSTEM, NOT A MENU

You play on an FBCI-issued workstation: BIOS boot, secure desktop,

taskbar with the case clock, toast notifications, and a notification

center. Optional CRT scanline mode included — this terminal fights

back when you're hacked, and the screen lets you know.

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FEATURES

  ▸ Fully simulated shell with 40+ commands and story tools

  ▸ Evidence-gated warrant system with a judge who denies fishing trips

  ▸ Dispatchable field units: raids, stakeouts, physical sweeps

  ▸ Branching suspect fates that change the finale

  ▸ Surveillance HEAT system with consequences

  ▸ Live EXFIL countdown race in the finale

  ▸ 4 accusation endings + an epilogue hook ("CASE REMAINS OPEN")

  ▸ Tab autocomplete, ↑/↓ command history, secure mail, case file

  ▸ Autosave after every command, crash-proof with backup restore

  ▸ CRT mode, resizable font, fullscreen (F11)

  ▸ 1–2 hour story. No filler. Every command matters.

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CONTROLS

  Type commands            just type and press ENTER

  Autocomplete             TAB (files, folders, commands)

  Command history          ↑ / ↓

  Font size                Ctrl+= / Ctrl− / Ctrl+0

  Fullscreen               F11

  Everything else          type: help

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REQUIREMENTS

  Windows 10+ (64-bit) or Linux (64-bit)

  ~110 MB / ~74 MB — standalone, no dependencies, no installer

STATUS: TO BE CONTINUED — Case 2026-0147 remains open.

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