Harbor Lane Games

The Lighthouse Signal

A six-week coastal mystery. Players decode a lighthouse that started flashing again after forty years dark.

What happened sits above NOW. What you’re building sits below it.

Jump to NOW 14 cards · 3 puzzles · 3 open decisions

Main story
The Keepers
The Salvagers
Production

On record

Already played2 stops · 4 cards

What players have been through. Canon.

PrologueThe keeper's log · released Sep 14

The keeper's last log

The final page of Elias Varn's logbook, dated 4 March 1986, the night the Carrow Point light went dark. Lamp trimmed at dusk. Fog from the south. The pattern is wrong again. Three long, one short. I did not set it. Players find the scan on the town museum's archive site. The last line is cut off at the fold. The lighthouse was decommissioned the week after this entry. Varn was never seen again; the town says he moved inland. The flash pattern he describes is the one the light shows now.

Production

Museum archive site

Static site for the Carrow Point Maritime Museum. Hosts the logbook scan and the visitor guestbook. Logbook scan with the fold cut-off Guestbook that records first-visit per player Hidden /varn page linked from the alt text

Done3/3

Week 1First light · played Sep 21–27

The lamp lights itself

A local fisher posts a shaky video: the Carrow Point light flashing over open water for the first time in forty years. Players triangulate the video's timestamp against tide tables and confirm it is genuine. The flashes spell out a pattern that matches the keeper's log.

1/1

Puzzle 1

Decode the flash pattern

Where: The fisher's video, posted to the community Discord
Unlocks: The boathouse photo set and a per-player key for Week 2

Gate · Per-player key

Production

Week 1 recap post

In-world recap written as the museum's newsletter. Went out Sunday, 412 opens.

Done

NOW26 days to launch · Nov 2, 2026

Launch readiness

In development

Season one4 stops · 10 cards

In development. Everything below NOW is open: add to it, argue with it, move it.

Glossary →Gate map →

The Keepersthe line splitsThe Salvagers

Week 2The fog

The Keepers

Restore the logbook

The Keepers have the water-damaged logbook. Players help rebuild the missing pages from fragments posted across the week. Fragment drop schedule Final fragment text Reward: Varn's sketch of the lamp room

In progress1/11/31

Puzzle 1In progress

Tide table cipher

Where: Logbook fragment 3, on the museum site
Unlocks: Fragment 4 and the Keepers' role in Discord

Gate · Must visit a site first

Both sides

Fog rolls in

The week opens with a coastal fog warning and the light flashing a new pattern. Two groups in town react differently and players choose who to help. Fog warning broadcast on the radio stream page. The Keepers ask players to protect the light. The Salvagers ask players to help them reach the wreck the light is pointing at. Players pick a side at the end of the week. See the open decision on whether they can switch later.

In progress31

The Salvagers

The wreck manifest

The Salvagers share a cargo manifest from a ship lost off Carrow Point in 1986. One line item is blacked out. Open: is the blacked-out item the lamp's original lens, or something we keep back for the finale?

Open question12

Week 3Two harbors

The Keepers

Night watch rota

Keepers sign up for watch shifts. Whoever is on watch when the light changes pattern gets a private message.

To do Path

Path · Double agent1 card

The Keepers

The nephew's offer

Rejoins the line at Week 4

Both sides

Two harbors open on Discord

Each side gets its own channel. Shared announcements still go to both. Bot posts the week's prompt in each harbor with different wording.

In progress

The Salvagers

Auction of the lens

The Salvagers recover a Fresnel lens and put it up for auction to raise money for the dive. Players bid with in-game tokens earned in Week 2.

1/11

Puzzle 1

The lens serial

Where: Auction listing photos
Unlocks: Proof the lens is Carrow Point's own

Gate · Needs a roleAnswer not set

the paths meet

Week 4The signal repeats

The signal repeats

Both sides converge: the light starts flashing the keeper's original pattern from the log. Whatever each side found in Week 3 is needed to read it.

Production

Radio stream page

A web page that plays the harbor radio loop. Needs to switch audio at the start of Week 4 without a deploy.

In progress

FinaleThe lamp room · live event

Lamp room finale

A live event on the Discord stage: players guide one actor through the lamp room in real time.

Production

Live event runbook

Who does what, minute by minute. Fallbacks if the stream drops.

To do1

End of the line, for now