LAMPWRIGHTCAPE HOLLOW LIGHT

OIL100

WICK0

SPRING100

GLASS100

COAL100

THE WATCH IS YOURS. GET THE LAMP LIT.

BEARING & SECTOR

214° FINE · 13.0 nm

PLAN · THE TOWER

4812 NAUTICAL MILES

NO TRAFFICCHARTED —

Nothing on the water yet.

RANGE—

BEARING—

ENDURANCE—

READS—

WAITING FOR A VESSEL

A NIGHT ON CAPE HOLLOW

LAMPWRIGHT

Six boats are coming in off cold water and not one of them can see you. Trim the wick before it chars, wind the spring before the drum stops, keep the oil up, swing the sector onto the bearing and set the flash to the mark on her chart. When the fog comes the light is useless — sound the horn instead, and watch your coal.

◀▶ swing sector ▲▼ drum speed SPACE work E focus 1–5 station ESC pause

No watch kept yet.

TONIGHT'S TRAFFIC

    A vessel is identified when she has read her mark four times — or three, or two, as the chart says. Then she steers for the bar on her own steam and the clock.

    THE LAMP HOLDS

    The watch is paused.

    The drum is stopped where you left it and the water is going on without you.

    LAMP ROOM NOTES

    Five things will kill you.

    The wick
    Burns down and chars. Past the halfway mark the lamp smokes and loses reach. Hold WORK at the wick to scrape it. Let it run past nine-tenths and it flares.
    The spring
    The clockwork falls as the drum turns. Run it out and the light stops dead. Wind it before then. In a gale it slips without warning.
    The oil
    It is the flame. Empty the reservoir and the tower goes dark in seven seconds.
    The glass
    Salt spray hazes the prisms; a hazy lens throws a fat, weak beam. Polish it when you can.
    The horn
    When fog kills the light, the horn is all you have. Hold to pump, release to sound. Coal is finite for the whole night.

    Point the sector at the vessel — it only sees the flash inside the sector. Set the drum so the flash interval matches the mark on her chart. The lens focus trades width against throw: fine reaches far but demands a true bearing.

    THE MORNING LOG

    THE CHANNEL IS CLEAR

    BRINGEN IN0 / 6

    FLASHES READ0

    WRONG MARKS0

    ON THE WATCH00:00

    OIL LEFT0%

    COAL LEFT0%

    TRIMS0

    WINDS0

    GLASS POLISHED0

    FLARES0

    RATED WATCHMAN — 0 POINTS

    THE LOG