TAIL THE PUP PATROL · MIDNIGHT CITY · CENTRAL

Follow the dog. Don't get seen.

Central Patrol 01 walks its beat all day and never stops. Stay within 10 tiles or you lose it. Get within 4 tiles in front of it, or bump into it, and it notices you. Three notices and you're caught.

NEXT RACE—
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LOST AT10 TILES ×2
ITS VIEW4 TILES AHEAD

THE LIVE TAIL

CONNECTING

the dog its view (4 tiles) 10 tiles tailing seen this check nearby, not in a session

TAILING NOW

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A session starts after 3 checks in a row within 10 tiles. NOTICED fills up 1 per sighting and drains 0.25 per quiet check: full means caught. TAIL is the average distance from 5 tiles, lower is steadier.

OPEN PRACTICE · TRAINING

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Pick a session to see how it went. Times are UTC.

GAP OVER TIME

WHERE THE DOG NOTICES PEOPLE · TODAY

TODAY'S SESSIONS

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BEST TAIL · LAST 7 DAYS

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RACES

NO SIGN-UPS

Practice race daily at 22:00 UTC. Official race Sundays at 22:00 UTC. Be within 10 tiles of the dog when it passes its corner at 19,62: that's the start. Three laps, about 10 minutes. Whoever is still tailing at the end ranks first, steadiest tail wins.

THE SHORT VERSION

  1. Find the dog. It loops Central: 19,62 → 33,25 → 110,27 → 99,94 and back, about 3 min 15 s a lap.
  2. Stay within 10 tiles. Over 10 on two checks in a row and you've lost it.
  3. Stay out of its view. Within 4 tiles in front of it, or 1 tile from any side, it notices you. Its view turns the moment it turns a corner, and the two eastern corners double back.
  4. Three notices and you're caught. Each one adds 1; each quiet check takes 0.25 off.
  5. Everything is public. Each race's every reading is kept, and the judge is a pure function: rerun it and you get the same result.