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The trap eats steps: walking charges it, a catch spends the charge, and stronger creatures take more (500–700 steps for a dweller, 1500 for a wanderer, 3000 for a keeper, 6000 for the legend). The charge shows in the rite, on the air and in Device.
Steps from the phone's step counter or from Health Connect (Samsung Health, Mi Fitness, Zepp Life, Google Fit, watches and bands), chosen in Device; without either, steps are reckoned from the GPS walk.
A story: the journal of N. Vetrova, the device's last owner. 36 pages that open about once a month as you walk and catch, three years in all, and found pages for catching certain creatures. In Rumours.
The radar turns with the compass: the top is where you face, the dots stay put on the street. Tap the dial for north up. Traces and the rite also say ahead, right, behind or left.
Frames on real photos: when the rite is done, the trail camera's viewfinder opens over the phone's camera, grey-green like the IR sensor, with a pair of eyes in it; the shutter grows the creature into the real place. The photo stays on the phone; without a camera the place is drawn as before.
The sound of the air, all synthesised: a hiss with crackles that thickens near an awake trace, the sweep's ping on each dot, a tune-in when a trace opens, signals for a step done or broken, the shutter, a call sign for a new journal page. A switch in Device.
The compass works at any tilt, held flat or upright.
A cold open before the first switch-on, like the start of an episode: night, static, typed lines, the last frame in the old observer's memory, the title card, the three rules. Again from Device → Prologue.
The first round, held by the hand: the homeling at the door, the archive, then the nearest awake trace in the street; the trace meant is marked on the air. Ends by itself after two catches, or with its ×.
The story out in the street: six journal pages leave a find on the air, a red diamond pinned near home (the nearest stairs, bridge, bench, a bare point at night, home itself). Reaching it opens a scene, a journal entry and 2 parts.
Episodes: 31 journal pages come with one thing to do out in the city (a lamp after sunset, a stop at night, two kilometres from home, back to your first catch, thirty thousand steps, a story find), and the next page waits for it. The device notices by itself; +1 part; after three weeks a task can be let go.
Radio intercepts on nine key pages: the air, a voice drowned in it, then a message in Morse (Russian or Latin letters), decoded on screen letter by letter as it plays. A page with one plays it as it arrives.
The round of the week: every Monday three places of the district, 200 m to 1.5 km from home, each of a different kind, on the air as hollow squares. All three walked to give 2 parts and 1000 steps of charge.
Journal pages come on their own: checked every hour with the app closed, a due page opens with a notification (by day only); with the app open, a page pops up.
"A signal close by": within 120 m of an awake trace a popup with a buzz and a sound; every trace says whether it can be caught now; a long buzz when the trail camera is ready.
The climb is now height gained without stopping, by the barometer (stairs, a hill, floors); without one, up the stairs on the map by GPS.
Every rite step now says how the phone checks it; the stairs show a sketch with the bottom, the top and you; the companion and item conditions are explained.