EVENT: 1st Full Moon Resolution

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EVENT: 1st FULL MOON RESOLUTION

As Night 028 draws to a close, most characters have found some level of safety from the crab menace - either eradicating the ones that get in their way or steering clear of them in general. The two giant coconut crab amalgams in tiles X and VII crash through the forest through the night, carving a ponderous, but nevertheless alarmingly fast path towards their respective bays. The great big hums and clicks continue to sound each hour.

Then, right as the first rays of sunlight start to color the horizon, the cadence of the noise changes:

.-.. .. ..-. . / --. --- . ... / --- -.
-... . -.-. .- ..- ... . / .. / .- .-.. .-.. --- .-- / .. -
-.. --- / -. --- - / ..-. --- .-. --. . -

The crab constructs, having frozen at the edges of the beach in massive, roiling piles, promptly disintegrate into their component parts. Coconut crabs slosh into the ocean by the thousands. And then, a few minutes later, the wave of displaced water they've created comes back in, sweeping along the beach on all sides of the island.

SETTING CHANGES

Several things have changed in the wake of this bizarre night of crabs:

• In the first hour of Morning 029 following the crab collapse, a tsunami will rip through the first square bordering the beach on all sides of the island. This doesn't result in any lasting map changes, but it might make life difficult for any characters taking a beachside stroll at 4am.
• Tiles X and VII have significant terrain changes, the extent of which will be revealed as characters explore the affected areas.
• For the next five IC days, huge numbers of coconut crab corpses will wash up on beaches and clog river inlets. In the first hours of Morning 029, this could be a major boon for anyone in need of food; as the days go on, however, they just become magnets for scavengers and make the beaches reek of rotting seafood. Coconut crabs will stop appearing on search requests for the foreseeable future.

NAVIGATION