The Kingdom at a glance

The Arena is the talk of the Kingdom: Fighter tickets now change hands at around $0.54, the highest floor of any district. Press Cards hold at $0.30 even after a 32% dip, and the Apes reprint opened at $0.22.

The Wild Ones remain the busiest market, with about $16 traded since the boats stopped running and 1,473 households holding a tribesperson. World citizens are settling into the new government at $0.03 a seat, and Pet adoptions sit at $0.04 across 1,239 homes.

Prices are in US dollars as shown on OpenSea, and they move every hour. This is a newspaper, not financial advice.

Every hut on the Uncharted Isle is taken

All 4,444 Wild Ones have been claimed, a day before the boats were due to stop running. They went to 1,472 different households across the Kingdom, and the trading posts on Ink Street have been busy ever since.

Brokers on the Tribe Desk report a steady queue of buyers since the gates closed: well over a hundred Wild Ones changed hands in the first day, and the cheapest one on offer has nearly doubled in price since yesterday. The busiest buyers came back again and again, picking up three or four tribespeople at a time.

Nobody knows yet who holds the Supreme Chief or the ten Tribe Chiefs. That stays sealed until the reveal.

A Whale was seen scooping the dip. With a spoon.

Traders on the Tribe Desk report that a broker in a full Whale suit spent the morning buying every red candle in sight, using an actual spoon.

Asked what he was buying, the Whale said only two words: "Pure Ink."

Explorers return from the Uncharted Isle

A boat came back from the far east of the map this week, carrying sketches of an island nobody ever finished drawing: volcanoes, caves, campfires and ten tribes.

The explorers say the islanders call themselves the Wild Ones, and that they made the very first ink. If that's true, they may also know how to make Pure Ink, the only rumoured cure for Inkrot.

Where is the Ink Chemist?

The Ink Chemist, the ape on Press Card 07, hasn't been seen at the print shop in days. The lab was left open, with blue ink drops leading to the harbour.

A ticket seller says the Chemist bought a single boat ticket, heading east. Towards the Uncharted Isle.