The island reopens and immediately starts locking doors

The map came back at 14:00 EDT on Thursday, three thousand eight hundred units of fresh dirt with the seed 1755048929 baked into every rock and treeline. Nobody has died yet. Nobody has built anything worth screenshotting. What the island has done, in its first hour, is lock some doors and let a few people pick them.

By 14:43 the first keycard had gone into the first reader, a green swipe out at grid L14. Eleven minutes later the action moved to M5, where a green card opened a door and then, sixty seconds after that, a blue one opened the next. Two grids, three swipes, one hour on the clock. The season's opening move is a lockpick, which feels about right.

Twenty eight days remain. The fog sat at 0.35 through the afternoon, no rain, no thunder, nothing to slow anyone down on the walk to the first red card door.