The Drifting Spindle – 4-Stage Cipher Puzzle

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🧭 This chain is also a 3D maze

The Drifting Spindle is this same chain as a place you walk through. Each stage is a terminal beside a locked gate, and solving it opens the gate. The maze also hides data fragments with a bonus message you can only get there.

Your progress and score are the same either way, so you can start in one and finish in the other. If you want the maze to be a surprise, start there.

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📜 Briefing

You are a junior technician aboard Spindle Ring, a quiet station that has slipped out of contact with the planet below. The crew left in a hurry, and the only trace of them is a trail of short notes left in odd corners of the ring.

The doors between sections shut for a moment at a time, so you must move when they allow. Follow the notes through four gates and you may learn why the ring went silent.

1 Gate One - The Hissing Door
2 Gate Two - Crate Row Console 🔒 opens with stage 1's answer
3 Gate Three - Observation Bench 🔒 opens with stage 2's answer
4 Gate Four - Final Ring Junction 🔒 opens with stage 3's answer

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