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Moondrop Isle

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By: Wolfdog
12 June 2024 at 11:36
Moondrop Isle – a big text adventure you can play in your browse, written by a crew of nine authors. Features: Urban exploration! - Environmental storytelling! - Puzzles! - Secrets! - Feral guinea pigs!

Click on the dock by the shore to start. It's pretty new so you will find some some unpolished or even buggy things if you spend much time with it, but it's fun to explore. Your progress in the game will be saved in your browser but you can also type 
>save
to download an interesting form of save file. If you've never played this type of game before, A Beginner's Guide to Interactive Fiction has some tips for you.

Inside the Titan submersible disaster

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By: WIRED
12 June 2024 at 06:00
A logo on equipment stored near the OceanGate Inc. offices in Everett, Washington, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023.

Enlarge / A logo on equipment stored near the OceanGate Inc. offices in Everett, Washington, US, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. (credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The Ocean Sciences Building at the University of Washington in Seattle is a brightly modern, four-story structure, with large glass windows reflecting the bay across the street.

On the afternoon of July 7, 2016, it was being slowly locked down.

Red lights began flashing at the entrances as students and faculty filed out under overcast skies. Eventually, just a handful of people remained inside, preparing to unleash one of the most destructive forces in the natural world: the crushing weight of about 2½ miles of ocean water.

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