KGB - Virgin Games (IBM PC, Commodore Amiga) - Part 1

                   Solution by Roy Sims.

CHAPTER ONE

You begin in your office at Department P, (the KGB's version of
Internal Affairs). Your new colleague Belov is of no importance.
You can go straight to Vovlov's Office or wait until he calls
you. Either way you should go to see him. Your first initiative
mission will be described. Once your briefing is over you should
go straight to Golitsin's office at Red October Street.

(i) Golitsin's office
Outside is a militia man. He will want to see your identity
papers. Show them to him then let yourself in. Once inside you
must search and find a number of items:

(a) Transistor Radio - You'll find batteries.
(b) Raincoat - You'll find two dollars.
(c) Filing Cabinet - You'll find a vodka bottle and a glass.
(d) The desk - You'll find a pack of cigarettes, matches and a
    box of matches.
(e) The phone - You'll find a bug (switched off).
(f) Window - You'll briefly see a mysterious figure.
(g) The drawer - It's locked!

Go back outside and ask the militia man for the key. He will give
it to you. Return inside and unlock the drawer with the small
key. Inside you will find a newspaper cutting and a recorder.

NB 1: Remember to examine ALL items that you find. If you do not
then they will not be regarded as valid when it comes to
discussing them with other people in the game.

Golitsin's sister will turn up at one point. Tell her that her
brother is dead and then ask her to sit down. Ask her why she
came to the office and she will tell you of the note her brother
left for her. You can find out more information about her and her
brother. When you tell her she can leave she will give you a
micro cassette left to her by her brother. She will then depart.
Put the batteries in the recorder then play back the cassette.
You will hear the details of Golitsin's final case, involving a
man with the codename "Hollywood".

Leave the office and give the small key back to the militia man
before you head back to Department P. (He will ask for it anyway
if you don't). As soon as you arrive back at Department P (no
later than 6pm!) Vovlov will summon you back into his office to
make your report. Firstly tell him about the bug you found. Then
tell him about Golitsin's sister and the micro-cassette. When he
asks if you have listened to it, say that it seemed advisable.
Don't worry about getting told off for this. You will finally be
asked for the codename of the man Golitsin was supposed to meet.
Answer "Hollywood" as told to you by the cassette.

You will return to your office and moments later will be summoned
to see Colonel Galushkin (a friend of your late parents). He will
give you a new mission to infiltrate the Enthusiastic Progress
Club and find out who this "Hollywood" character is. You must
also find out where he lives and have a good look around. You
must report back by 8am tomorrow morning.

As you leave Department P your weapon, uniform and I.D papers are
removed. You are given false papers instead.

(ii) Uncle Vanya's
Quickly pop back to Uncle Vanya's flat. You can ask him about
your late parents to learn how they died. Go into your bedroom
and take 60 dollars from the drawer. There's nothing else of any
importance to do here so leave and head for your new destination
... Kursk Street.

(iii) Kursk Street
You start outside a bar. Go along the street corner and go into
the first door you encounter. It is dark in here. Go up. Light a
match and look in the nearby cupboard. Take the clipboard then go
back down and out into the street. If you look at the clipboard
you will see a blank sheet of paper on it. Walk along the street
sidewalk, past a garbage can. You will come across another
unlocked door. Go in and you will see a number of doors on either
side and a plaque which recommends you go and see the
superintendent upstairs in apartment 7.

(iv) The apartments
Knock on the door of number 7. When the young woman (Zhanna)
appears, pretend that you're doing an opinion poll on crime and
she will let you inside. You will also meet Klara. Immediately
admit that you lied about the opinion poll and that you are
really on the trail of murderers. Find out all you can about the
club and the neighbours in the building. You will know if you say
the wrong thing as you will be asked to leave. If you are careful
you will find out lots of information and can leave when you're
ready to (about 8.50pm-ish).

Dispose of the clipboard by leaving it in the toilets at the end
of the corridor. If you don't you will not last long inside the
club as they will recognise it as their own and will wonder how
you came across it! Anyway, knock on door 5 and speak to Belussov
about Lefortovo (as long as the women in apartment 7 told you
first). He will suggest you stop bothering him and speak to Ryumin
in apartment 4 instead. Go down to apartment 4 and knock on the
door. When asked say you are not from the club, then mention
Wrangel Island. You will be let inside. Ask Ryumin about the club
and his neighbours. You will eventually be asked to leave.

Once outside you should see a duo, one small and one large, going
up the stairs, (Lyonka is the large one, Petka is the small).
Listen to what they have to say to each other as it gives a vital
clue to what you must do a little later on.

(v) The Enthusiastic Progress Club
Go upstairs and knock on the closest door on the right hand side.
The club manager will open the door and you will step in. Tell
him you are there to meet someone and when he asks for the name
tell him it isn't possible. Now tell him you are willing to pay
to join the club and offer him 30 dollars. You are now allowed in
properly. Speak to the young man trying to sell videos. Speak to
the drunk nearby. Go back into the other half of the club. A
young client will go to the toilet out the back then come back in
and leave. Immediately go into the backroom toilet and look in
the trashcan. You will find a small bag with cocaine. Take this
and flush it down the toilet then return to the club.

Speak to Lyonka and Petka. When they ask if you would like to go
to a party with them say yes and follow them outside. Outside you
must fight one of them. Don't fight the smaller Petka but instead
attack the larger Lyonka. (The clue came from their conversation
that you heard outside apartment 4 earlier). You will kill Lyonka
and Petka will run off. Search the body to find a lockpick. Now
move the body into the garbage can further down the street to
avoid it being found.

NB 2: None of the characters you find in the streets (drunks, old
men, old women, prostitutes etc.) are of any importance. Ignore
them.

(vi) The Meat Shop
There is a door down Kursk Street which is locked. Use the
lockpick to open it. Go inside. Turn on the light. Go through the
other door. Use a match to light the room. Immediately examine
the cash desk. You will find a switch and a red diode. The diode
is not lit. If you look at them in more detail you will see a
well hidden wire running from the switch to the cold-room door at
handle height.

To get into the cold-room you must first flick the switch then
open the door and enter. It is very cold inside. Use the light
switch and examine the carcasses that are hanging in here to
discover that they are human cadavers! Turn off the light and
leave the room. Light another match and flick the switch behind
the cash desk again. Now leave the way you came and go back into
the street.

You must get to the bottom of this! You know from talking to
others that the man in apartment 6 owns the shop, so you go back
to the apartment building and knock on door 6. When the large man
opens the door verify that he is Anatoli Sytenko then tell him
that you've looked in his cold-room. He will let you in
immediately and ask his children to go to bed. He will then
reveal what happened to him, why his wife died of a heart attack
and why there are dead bodies in his meat shop. He will also tell
you that the old woman in apartment 8 is harbouring the KGB
monsters involved in the plot. This is the info you've been
waiting for!

(vii) Chevchenkova's apartment
As you leave apartment 6, you will see the old woman leaving her
apartment. Once she has gone, get out the lock pick and get
inside. Turn on the light and examine the drawer. You will find
some photographs and a piece of apparently blank white paper.
Look at the photos and the white paper (you will see nothing on
it).

Go through the right hand door at the back of the room. Turn on
the light.

NB 3: Depending on your timing you might not have enough time to
discover all of the items in this room before you are
interrupted. Don't worry - you should get the chance a little
later on once you have escaped. Some of them don't appear until
this has happened anyway, e.g (c).

(a) Cupboard - a camera, (4 pictures left).
(b) Drawer - Video cassettes.
(c) Sideboard - Photo of you in cell.
(d) Television - Folder (with photos of your dead parents!)

You will be interrupted by a group of men entering the room. One
of them is "Hollywood" or Verto as his real name is. Another will
be Romeo and the twins from the club. Don't worry about being
caught red handed for now.

You will awake in a small room with nothing but a table. Verto
and the twins will come in and talk to you then take two pictures
before leaving. Take this opportunity to examine the table and
find a bug which is activated (on). Do nothing else to it for the
moment except take it. Look at the door and the buzzer above it.
After a while a young woman will be thrown into the room. Talk to
her but give nothing away. An American man will also be shoved in
after a while and he will suggest killing the woman. Refuse to.
The woman will be let out. She was a plant by the men outside to
find out information! Talk to the man (Greenberg) for a while
before you hear shouting from outside. When the voices are
lowered listen at the door. (If you flushed the drugs down the
toilet in the club earlier then this will be mentioned. If you
didn't then there's no way you will get out of here as the woman
will be high on the cocaine). Once you've heard the whispered
conversation destroy the bug you found on the table and show it
to Greenberg. He should now trust you a little more.

Together you will formulate a plan to get out. Tell Greenberg
that the alarm is connected to the cold-room in the meat shop.
This will give him an idea about messing with the buzzer to get
rid of the man outside. Agree with the plan. When the man
departs, shout out to the woman (Rita) that you can help her.
Tell her she needs cocaine, then tell her that you know where it
is because you took it from the club. Promise to tell her where
it is if she opens the door. Once she does attack her and she
will shoot wide and hit her head. Move the body into the room on
the right (the studio where you were first discovered by Verto,
Romeo and the twins). Greenberg will leave with the Rita's gun.

Go back into the living room and open the drawer and recover all
of your items. Take a photo of the blank white paper then put the
paper back where you found it in the drawer. Go back into the
studio room and look at the sideboard to find a photo. It is the
one of you in the cell that they took earlier. If there are any
other items that you didn't get before look at the list above and
take them. Don't watch the video cassettes though until after
Verto has been knocked out.

When you hear someone coming in you should immediately turn off
the lights and hide behind the door. If you time it wrongly Verto
will see you and kill you. If you get it right, Verto will come
in and you will have the chance to attack him in the dark. Once
on the ground take the gun, the photo, a piece of blue paper and
the camera. Use the camera to take a picture of the piece of blue
paper then put the blue paper back on Verto.

Turn off the light and leave the apartment and the building. Once
in the side street look at the photos you took of the white and
blue papers. You can see writing on them! They are as follows:

LNNRDU13MAOAAK and EIGAAG6PLDGPR.

Take each letter alternately to make the message LENINGRAD AUG 16
3PM LADOGA PARK.

(By leaving the pieces of paper where you found them, they do not
know that you now know where the meeting will take place).

Now you must return to Department P to make your report. You are
that eager that it doesn't matter what the time is. Arriving at
the Department you will make report at 8am to Major Vovlov.

(viii) Conclusion
Inside his office, Vovlov will talk to you about the American
agent Greenberg. Say that he was only a mere pawn in your
strategy. You won't be paid any compliments by the Major but he
will admit that you were 'lucky' enough to succeed in your
mission! You will then be sent to see Colonel Galushkin.

He will congratulate you then ask you what you intend doing next.
Say that you wish to go to Leningrad, then mention Ladoga Park
and 3pm Aug 16th. Galushkin will agree with your plan and tell
you to meet with a controller in Leningrad. You are also warned
about the Leningrad KGB's mistrust of Department P.  Go to the
equipment officer and you will be given some new equipment and an
explanation of how it all works: transmitter, receiver and camera.
You are now ready to embark on your journey to Leningrad...

CHAPTER TWO

(i) Room 205
1pm Aug 16th. You are in room 205 in the Hotel Gostinitsa,
Leningrad. You have on you 300 roubles, your mission orders, your
I.D., files on Leningrad Department 7 officers, a camera, your
record-receiver and microphone transmitter.

Read all of the files and the mission orders. To be on the safe
side you should destroy these before you do anything else.

Now look around the room. Examine the table then the phone. Go
into the bathroom. Before you open the door the phone will ring.
Answer it. You will hear a message about Boris remembering to
check the light before brushing his teeth. Tell them they have
the wrong number and make a note of the number the voice
mentions.

(ii) Codes
Now go into the bathroom and turn on the light switch by the
door. Look at the neon light to find a sheet of paper with a lot
of numbers and letters on it.

S3I4S4R7B5S3R7S5I4 S4I3R5B3S3R7B2S4S2 R5S3O3R4B2I4S3R7S5
O4B3I7I3I4S3R7S5I4 S4I7I5I5S3R3R3B2I5 I4I7I5S3R4I7S5S3S3
R5R7S5B7B7S4I3I4B3 I4S4S5R7O7I7O4R4S4 S4R5R5B2S4S2R7R3S5
I7R2I5S3O2I7O4S4S5 S5I4B3R2B2S4S2B7I7

Looking at the mirror you will see that there are FIVE tiles on
the horizontal and the vertical. It looks like a grid and this is
a clue as to what you must do to crack the code.

  B O R I S
3 A B C D E
7 F G H I J
4 K L M N O
5 P Q R S T
2 U V W X Y

Using the letter and number pairs on the sheet of paper you will
spell out a message, e.g S3 is an E, I4 is an N, S4 is an O, R7
is an H, B5 is a P, S3 is an E, R7 is an H, S5 is a T and I4 is
an N etc.

ENOHPEHTN ODRAEHUOY REBMUNEHT
LAIDNEHTN OISSECCUS NISEMITEE
RHTFFODNA NOTHGILMO ORRUOYHCT
IWSEVILOT TNAWUOYFI

Read this backwards and it says IF YOU WANT TO LIVE SWITCH YOUR
ROOM LIGHT ON AND OFF THREE TIMES IN SUCCESSION THEN DIAL THE
NUMBER YOU HEARD ON THE PHONE.

Return to your room and switch the light on and off three times
(six switches in all). Pick up the phone and dial 37452. A voice
will congratulate you and tell you to contact a man at 7pm in the
alley outside your hotel. The code word "Cut-throat" should be
used then you must show him your I.D. When you eventually meet him
he will want to know a lot of information so ensure you keep notes
on everything that you are told.

NB 4: If you don't do this then when you try leaving the hotel
you will be shot at and killed by a hidden sniper!

You should now pay a visit to Leningrad Department 7 before you
go to the park. Leave the microphone behind in your apartment and
if you didn't destroy the files and other paper work - don't take
them with you either.

(iii) Department 7
Leave your room and go downstairs (the lift is out of order).
Leave the hotel, quickly examine the phone booth outside then go
to Department 7. Once inside talk to the inquiries officer behind
the desk. Tell him who you are then show him your I.D papers.
Tell him you are after information and when he asks by whose
authority, say Colonel Kusnetsov's. After a quick phone call to
check out your story, you are given a pass. Show this to the
guard. He will take nearly all of your possessions before
allowing you to go upstairs.

You are shown into Kusnetsov's office. He doesn't like you much
so be careful what you say to him. He will authorise you to visit
the other offices in the building. You are first shown into Major
Agabekov's office. He is busy signing papers when you enter.

There is something in his wastepaper bin but you can't find out
what it is with him in the room. Examine the phones on his desk
to note the extension numbers. Talk to him about his duties and
his directives, then go through the other topics made available
to you. Leave the office and go into Drobnitsa's.

Go through the available questions, noting any responses you
think might be important. Leave the office. Go to the empty
office at the end of the hall and use the phone. Dial Agabekov
and tell him to listen carefully. Tell him you have information
then tell him you want to meet him in front of the building in 3
minutes. To persuade him tell him it's about the visitor from
Moscow. Now leave the office and wait for Agabekov to leave his
office and go downstairs. Don't worry about the guard as you have
authority to visit any office you wish. Pop into Agabekov's
office and retrieve the remains of the cuban cigar from his
wastepaper bin. Now leave the building. You will be given all of
your possessions back. (If you had the microphone they will have
'accidentally' broken it, so ensure you don't take it with you).

@~Concluded in the next file