EVENT: SEIGE RESOLUTION

From the perspective of those stuck at the airfield, conditions seem to be slowly, incrementally improving. Barriers were built surrounding the airfield to keep its supplies safe from opportunistic boar raids, with the help of some timely intervention from other characters hassling their ranks, and a deal was struck to convince the tyrannical King Eki from dedicating so many of his boar troops from harassing the people that remained, at the cost of a life. Of course, many still doubted Eki's motives based on how adamant he seemed in his network post to conquer the entire island for his empire, and how convinced he was that the recent uprising of coconut crabs that decimated his lands was the new arrivals' faults. His forces remain for a full day afterwards, allowing people in and out, but not without following them and keeping constant vigil over those who remain.

Thankfully, all of this chaos helped one person slip past the boars. Dirk then disappeared for some time.

Suddenly, early into Day 044, the remaining boars patrolling around the airfield stiffen up and stare off into the distance at the same time, for several seconds. They all seem to regain their senses simultaneously, except they are now extremely confused; they shuffle around, squeal and nip at each other, and flee into the safety of the forest in equal amounts, generally ignoring anyone that they had been previously paying uncannily close attention to before. Eki's callsign disappears from the callsign list a few minutes later; so do any of Dirk's arrival possessions still left behind at the airfield.

The bizarre boar siege is now over.

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

• 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

EVENT: STORM WARNING RESOLUTION

The earliest hours of Morning 021 promise more of the same from the last three days - black, swirling clouds, torrential downpours, howling gusts of wind that churn the seas and push already swollen rivers and tear down trees by the dozens. But as the sun starts to rise and backlight the perpetual vortex of thunderheads, suddenly, things change.

It doesn't matter where you are on the island. Four beams of light appear from distant points in the ocean, in tiles I, VIII, IX, and XII, although all of them seem faint and gutter out frequently. A brief pulse of something luminescent from the ocean in tile XV follows suit. Then, like a piece of paper burning over a fire, the storm melts away into a foggy morning sky.

SETTING CHANGES

• Plenty of items, natural and unnatural, have been blown onto the beaches and dropped from the sky, replenishing areas that have otherwise been scoured by character investigations. In addition, unique items and animals have appeared; finding them during the storm is more likely, but ones that are not discovered during those IC dates can still be found afterwards.
• The island seems to be aware that too much water fell during the storm. Areas flooded from the ocean and rivers dry up within the day, and for the foreseeable future, there will be no rain. Hope everyone stockpiled enough rainwater over the last three days, or knows where their nearest clean river is!
• Character-made landmarks associated with temporary camps/campfires/other unfortified structures will no longer be visible on the map; these will be removed from the map systematically as more search requests through the storm event dates are processed, to verify that protected/maintained landmarks remain marked.

EVENT: GAME START RESOLUTION

It's been five long days of constant announcements, drone patrols and sometimes attacks and kidnapping. It's probably started to get pretty stressful having to navigate the places where the drones sweep, or trying to figure out ways to figure your freed companions. Will they ever let up?

The answer is, apparently, yes. For anyone trapped in or hanging around the concrete structures on Morning 005, they might notice - of the drones that are still working and intact - that their charging pedestals are systematically going dark. The little indicator light that has been flashing on the fronts of each flickers and goes out as soon as a patrolling drone lands. By Night 005, even the announcements are starting to sound a little weird - sluggish, like an old toy running out of batteries.

Then, when the last drone lands on Morning 006, everything seems to go quiet at the same time. All pedestals go dark, the announcements cease, and the few lights still on in the concrete structures dim. The terminals shut off quickly after that, followed by the keycard readers next to each cell door. There's a series of hefty chu-chunks as the deadbolts disengage. The cell doors don't automatically rise up on their own, but they shouldn't be too hard to pull up by anyone still stuck inside of one.

Lucky for all of you, these drones don't appear to have a robust enough framework to keep functioning for longer than five days. Will they come back on again at some point in future? Hard to say. Someone might want to look into how to stop this from happening later. Until then, rest and relax - next month is a free month without a scheduled event, where characters can focus on recovering, rebuilding, and exploring, with only the usual threats of crossbow-wielding murderers and giant crocodiles in the rivers and the like. Have fun!