EVENT: Game Start

[glencolans]

EVENT: GAME START

Welcome to Glencola Reef! It's looking to be a beautiful day here on the island - the temperature is mild in spite of it being early morning, the sun just barely cresting over the hazy blue horizon to the east, and the tide is slowly going out no matter what coast you woke up on. But for those of you waking up on the island's shores, soaked to the bone with no idea how you got here (or where here is, exactly), this probably is not a pleasant experience. Thankfully none of you appear to have found yourselves dropped into especially dangerous circumstances, which should give all of you time to assess this new situation and the people that are struggling through it with you.

However, this relative tranquility is unlikely to last long. For those of you traveling through tiles III, VII, or XV, the idle noise of waves and wildlife will be interrupted by the blaring of a crackly message from somewhere in the jungle: UNAUTHORIZED TRANSPORT DETECTED. VIOLATORS WILL BE DETAINED. The message will repeat three times at the start of every even hour, then go silent.

While trying to investigate this strange warning, you might also pick up the sounds of a transient humming or buzzing noise from somewhere nearby. Tile XV seems to have it the worst, with the sound starting and fading and starting up again almost constantly through the day. What could be causing this noise? And is it...following you?

This event will run from IC Morning 001 through IC Night 005, although it may end early based on character actions during this time. More details will be revealed in search requests in the specified areas, but you can use this post for questions, event-related discoveries, and plotting if you'd like!

Comments

[aluminumandash]

Arrival questions (sorry if this is more suited to a search request!): What kind of trash is on the beach Rust’s arriving on? Would he find any tracks (human or otherwise) in the vicinity, once he…got out of the water?

Event questions: Does the voice in the message have a particular accent? Is it mechanical?

Do the wildlife react to it in any way that would be observable from Rust’s position (birds taking flight, etc)? If so, could he use that to narrow down where the message is coming from?

If Rust used the walkie to say something along the lines of “checking progress on unauthorized vehicle,” (probably during one of the off hours) would there be any reply?

Thanks, and sorry for the millions of questions!

[glencolans]

Thank you for the questions! Answering in order:

• The trash is a mix of artificial and natural items; specifics will have to be determined via search request, yes. Same goes for potential prints, although I will say that if he does find any, none are distinctly human footprint-like.
• Mechanical. Actually, very similar in tone and timbre to the voice that comes out of the walkie-talkies when they do voice-to-text.
• The local wildlife seems very disturbed by the announcements, but the only direction he could get out of any bird flight/fleeing animals is that they're leaving the inner jungle.
• Rust's message would play publicly over the network, but aside from any replies that he receives from the rest of the characters, he will get nothing from the automated announcer.

[aluminumandash]

/rubs hands together

Thanks very much!