← Range ArcadeWORLD Nº 020 · THE RIVER SETS THE TIDE
⚓ dockmasterBOATS ARRIVE WHEN THE RIVER SAYS

TEN TIDES. FOUR SERVICES. A RIVER THAT KEEPS TIME.

Boats come in
when the river sends them.

Every boat is a droplet with a route and a speed. Big streams earn big service lists.
Drag papers, fuel, cargo, and tow lines onto boats before they leave.

THE MOUTHTIDE 0 / 10
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Order-one boats want papers.
Order-five boats want everything.

Each boat's stream order decides its list. Drag a service token onto the boat.
Three boats leaving unserved in one tide closes the dock.

$0 · SERVED 0DRAG A SERVICE TOKEN ONTO A BOAT BEFORE THE TIDE TURNSHIGH WATER

Arrivals are dropAt on 24 droplets: the boats that reach the mouth next, in the order the river delivers them.

ANOTHER RIVER

Words grow another basin and another tide table.

HARBOUR NOTES

Service by stream order.

Boats are droplets on the indexed river. A tide takes the next boats to reach the mouth, in the river's own order and with the river's own gaps, scaled to the shift.

A boat's stream order decides what it needs: order one wants papers; two wants fuel; three wants cargo and fuel; four adds papers; five or more adds a tow line. Drag each service token onto the boat.

A fully served boat pays for its list. Three boats casting off unserved in one tide closes the dock; ten tides, or a hundred dollars, and you have made it.

THE SHIFT IS OVER

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Every order,
every wave.

A LITTLE DOCK FOR A FRIEND

Work the dock with me.