While you climb down the stairs to R1 you listen to dAnkan explain its history.
“This is where the Swedish nuclear power program started, but now it is mostly used for art installations, opera, and other culture stuff.”
“What’s in there right now?” you ask.
“Heh, well, I sure hope it’s nothing- oh quack!” says dAnkan right as you reach the end of the staircase.
dAnkan stares up at a gigantic computer: the screen is twenty meters wide, and the keys are the size of A4 paper. On the screen you see a 3D rendering of a duck head composed of various cipher fragments and Christmas tree decorations, whose eyes quickly zero in on dAnkan’s position.
“I really thought I had shut that thing off…” grumbles dAnkan quietly.
“Welcome, dAnkan!” shouts the computer, the duck beak opening and closing for each syllable. “Some would claim that you daring to waddle in here after everything you’ve done indicates bravery and good character, but I will simply be honest and call it reckless and foolish.”
Suddenly, you hear the sound of the thick, lead coated vault door slam shut and lock behind you.
“You see,” continues the computer, “your failures have cost us a lot of money. First of all: allowing other individuals to use our API key has resulted in immense costs which…”
While the computer continues to list what seems to be an infinite list of more or less ruinous errors, you are approached by dAnkan.
“Psst, I got a plan. This computer is completely focused on me, but if I could sneak away I could give it the old factory reset. When that happens it should be possible to convince it to give us the code to open the door again.”
“Okay. How are we going to do that?”
“Like this,” replies dAnkan and takes out a plastic duck beak on a string and ties it around your head, and a mask of Håkan Juholt and puts it on themselves.
“This ought to trick its facial re-duck-nition software. Keep it occupied!” Moments after dAnkan has run around a corner, the computer glitches and the pixels slowly fall off the screen, being replaced by a silhouette of a park in evening light, with a nervous duck underneath a light pole.
“Make sure to get the password quickly, I don’t know how long I can keep the system in this state without resetting it again!” yells dAnkan from deep in the reactor hall.
“You should be able to talk with the computer, but you will likely need to trick it into giving us the password. Ask for clues regarding what the password might be or something.”