Society of Explorers & Adventurers
Exploratio Continua
Est. long before you were born · Discretion assured
An introduction, a confession, and an offer
Welcome, travellers. You found us — though not, you will have noticed, at the address you were given. The Department forwards what it cannot deliver, and this evening that was you.
Consider what it took. A board that spelled in riddles. A company of the dead who would not give a straight answer to anyone. An address assembled from scraps that were never meant to be assembled at all. Everything the Department set in your way, you took apart — and we have watched cleverer people stop at the first locked thing and call it a wall.
So you have proved you can solve what is put in front of you. Now we must ask for something harder. What comes next is not written down, and it will not yield to a good lamp and a long evening. It is out in the world, standing in daylight, walked past by thousands who never once look twice. You will have to go and stand in front of it yourselves.
They will have told you we are thieves. Understandable — the dead are sentimental about their secrets. But the treasure the pirates hid does not belong to them, and every year it lies buried, the Department's protection weakens and worse hands than ours draw closer.
We are not treasure hunters. We are its rightful custodians — and as of this evening, so are you. Join us for the final leg. Recover it, before someone else does.
Wonder. Explore. Discover. The exploration is continued. It always is.
Your First Order — Before You Travel
Take out the map the Department told you not to question. Now is the time. Shine the torch across it, and it will surrender three marks:
Trace all three in ink before you pack it. The light will not travel with you — leave the torch behind. The map, marked, is all you need carry.
The map says where. We will tell you what to look for — one mark at a time, and not a moment sooner. Go to mark when you are in the park.
Keep this page. Bookmark it now, before you close it. The Department will not forward you twice, and we are no longer at the address you were given.
The Route
At mark the Jungle Navigation Co. keeps a map of its route. Study it. In what order does an expedition meet these four?
Tap a tile to place it in the next berth. Tap a berth to send its passenger back.
Initiation
The Year
The final vault answers to four digits. The Society recovered only half of them:
Mark overlooks a town that boasts of its founding. In what year was it established?
Recovered
The Society is in your debt, explorer. The vault opens to:
Wonder. Explore. Discover.
— The Society of Explorers & Adventurers