The Black Watchmen

The Black Watchmen

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Season One: Mission Group 5: At War
By iggyjeckel
This is a walkthrough for Season One, Mission Group Five.

Codename: At War
   
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Codename: At War
Investigate a rare artifacts trader affiliated with Morpho Medical.

This section contains 5 missions, each with multiple parts.

This guide is meant to be used as a resource and will contain hints in order to help you solve the missions, but it will not contain the actual answers.

If at any time you feel like you need more help please go to either the discussion board or the Discord channel[discord.gg] and there will be fellow agents happy to help you.

The missions and parts are the following:
  1. The Rare and the Exotic
    • Location is Everything
    • Contact Information
  2. Insider Trading
    • Playing the Market
    • A Perfect Card
  3. The Manor House
    • Element of Surprise
    • Blast Radius
  4. Stronghold Alpha
    • Support
  5. Stronghold Raid
    • Front Door
    • Room Alpha
    • Room Charlie
    • Room Echo
The Rare and the Exotic
Investigate a rare artifacts trader affiliated with Morpho Medical.

Part One : Location is Everything
Mission Briefing: Use an intercepted outgoing message by the trader to determine the location of his operations. Difficulty: Veteran
  • Hint 1Location is everything.
  • Hint 2Location is everything (you need to complete this part)
  • Hint 3Forget Sophia and Oh Yeah.
  • Hint 4The location is given to you in the GMap, you only need to look around a bit.

Part Two: Contact Information
Mission Briefing: Obtain contact information for the trader from his business card found at the location. Difficulty: Veteran
  • Hint 1Mizaru.
  • Hint 2See no evil.
  • Hint 3What code do people who can't see use?
  • Hint 4It really looks like binary code. But is it?

Insider Trading
Gain information on something we can give to the Morpho trader in exchange for sensitive data on the stronghold.

Part One : Playing the Market
Mission Briefing: Intercepted emails from the trader reveal heavy interest in a product. Find the name of the product the trader is monitoring. Difficulty: Veteran
  • Hint 1 - Note that the assistant is talking about "playing sets", that doesn't seem like "conventional art".
  • Hint 2 - What comes in sets that you are able to play with and have "art" in it?
  • Hint 3 - Weber is an illustrator of a famous trading card game.
  • Hint 4 - And the the name of the game is the solution.

Part Two : A Perfect Card
Mission Briefing: Identify the name of the facility the trader is interested in. Difficulty: Veteran
  • Hint 1 - You need to discover what the images illustrate.
  • Hint 2 - It is a printing technique. A reverse image search can help.
  • Hint 3 - All you need is the name of the correct card manufacturer with a facility in Texas.
  • Hint 4 - Dallas, TX 75236
The Manor House
Study the security logs and the blueprints of the enemy stronghold to find their weakness.

Part One : Element of Surprise
Mission Briefing: Determine the start of the 30 second window that our agent could slip in through the kitchen door and disable the control room. Difficulty: Hero
  • Hint 1 - The route is as follows: Porch, Kitchen, Service stairs (visible from Rear Hall), Central cellar.
  • Hint 2 - Try to write down the times when a guard could see the infiltration route. You'll see the 30 secs window.
  • Hint 3 - "Key" guards: G1, G4 and G5

Part Two : Blast Radius
Mission Briefing: To aid our weapons crew, calculate the floor area of the Guest Chamber to the nearest 10 square feet. Difficulty: Hero
  • Hint 1 - You will need the following formulae:
    • Area of a rectangle
    • Area of a circle sector
    • Area of a triangle
    • Area of a circle segment
    • Side of a triangle given the opposite angle and two sides (SAS triangle)
  • Hint 2 - Alcove (rectangle area)
    • 8' is given.
    • You need to subtract two measurements of the Guest Chamber to obtain the length of the side.
  • Hint 3 - Guest Chamber (rectangle area)
    • 12' 6'' is given.
    • You have the half of the other side, just multiply by 2.
  • Hint 4 - Circular section (Circle sector area - triangle area)
    • The radius is given: 8' 8''
    • You have the half of the angle.
    • For the triangle you have the height but not the base, but you can find the base using the radius, the height and the angle given.
    • Then you just need to substract the area of the triangle from the area of the circle sector.
Stronghold Alpha
A raid team is currently advancing in the Morpho stronghold, clear any obstacles they encounter.

Part One : Support
Mission Briefing: Enter the confirmation code upon completion of the strike. Difficulty: Hero
Stronghold Raid
When the attack plan is ready, support the strike against the enemy stronghold.

Part One : Front Door
Mission Briefing: Enter front door combination to allow strike force into the enemy stronghold. Difficulty: Hero
  • Hint 1 - You just needs to enter the door combination received from the mission brief.

Part Two : Room Alpha
Mission Briefing: Help strike force find keypad access to Room Alpha. Difficulty: Hero
  • Hint 1 - If you search Swine Cipher you will get the name of the cipher used in dataset 02.
  • Hint 2 - The ninth sign refers to the ninth sign of the zodiac.
  • Hint 3 - You are looking for a demon who appears when the sun is on the ninth sign.

Part Two : Room Charlie
Mission Briefing: Help strike force find keypad access to Room Charlie. Difficulty: Hero
  • Hint 1 - "The shadowy land of the dead" refers to Japanese folklore.
  • Hint 2 - Beau Fort is a cipher.
  • Hint 3 - The key for the cipher is the japanese name for "the shadowy land of the dead"
  • Hint 4 - The answer is also related to japanese folklore.

Part Two : Room Echo
Mission Briefing: Help strike force find keypad access to Room Echo. We believe the rupture bones are inside.. Difficulty: Hero
  • Hint 1 - In Dataset 2, those are egyptian hieroglyphs.
  • Hint 2 - The serpent is the key.
  • Hint 3 - You are looking for something related to chaos, serpents and Egypt.