Miners (or Investigators, Cryptos, or disobedient Defenders) wishing to search the Waste Lands for Crypto code may do so, and what they find may have a significant impact on the plot. A character exploring the Waste Lands is committing 1 millicycle (8 hours) of time every day for 7 days to searching a given square (one Sector of the Grid), and to fully explore a square, 10 people must explore it - that can be one person spending ten weeks, or ten people spending one week! At the end of that time, its color on the map will be changed to blue (if it is empty) or green (if it contains a Crypto find), and adjacent squares will be made available for new searches.

Once per week, please comment here to note what square your character is searching, if they choose to search. When anything new is found, all characters searching that square presently will be informed in a screened comment.

Exploration logs will go up in addition to normal mingles, and weekly reminders and progress updates will be issued.

Characters exploring the Waste Lands may be attacked by Automata - which may appear as humanoid programs, may be gigantic monsters, terrible natural phenomena like earthquakes or hurricanes, swarms of bugs, or even digital diseases that attack the mind. If you choose to explore, you accept these physical and mental risks to your character as the cost of participating in this section of the plot.