Blackdoor

Static Signal · 6 Aug 2026

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You're a hacker with a terminal and four terrible scripts. Rewrite them. Hack servers by writing actual code in a custom scripting language - probe ports, crack passwords, steal data, and get out before the trace completes. Better code = better hacker.

You're a hacker with a terminal, four terrible scripts, and an anonymous contact who needs files from places they really shouldn't be. The scripts were free. You can tell.

Your port scanner checks all 65,535 ports. That's thorough. It's also going to take longer than the heat death of the universe. Your password cracker uses brute force - bold strategy, shame about the intrusion detection system it just woke up. These tools will technically get the job done, in the same way that a spoon will technically dig a tunnel.

So you do what any self-respecting hacker would do. You read the code. You rewrite it. Your new probe only scans common ports - done in seconds. Your new cracker reads the admin's own password hints from the filesystem - in on the first try. Nobody told you to do this. You just got tired of being bad at it.

That's Blackdoor. You write code. The code hacks servers. Better code hacks them faster, quieter, and before the trace catches up.

Not a hacking-themed clicker. An actual terminal.

There are no buttons. No "press X to hack." No minigames where you rotate pipes or match symbols. You sit at a command line with tab completion, a built-in code editor, and the full set of commands you'd expect - and you write scripts in a custom Python-like language that was built to be fun to learn and satisfying to master. Every script executes line by line. You watch it work. You watch it fail. You watch it get faster, because you rewrote it.

If you've never programmed before, the early missions introduce concepts one at a time - variables, loops, functions - through scripts that already work but could work better. If you have, you'll skip past the basics quickly and start writing proper tooling. The language is close enough to Python that your instincts will carry over. Either way, the regulars will accidentally teach you things by arguing about it in IRC.

The Job

Your contact goes by second_hand. They operate through #blackdoor, a small IRC channel populated by hackers, script kiddies, and at least one person who thinks printing "hello" counts as a proof of concept. second_hand doesn't do small talk. They send you a server IP, a brief explanation of what's on it, and "good luck." Payment on delivery.