I read - ak - thoughts so far, but I wish to offer something else. He says its, forgive me I can't find the quote. But how he refers to it the Lighthouse as a "Buried Machine" doesn't sit right with me.
The only reason I bring this up is because I find the Submachine more on a sub-atomic level. The only reason I bring this up is because of two things I've observed in Submachine 10.
This note found just under the crows nest of the ship:
The other thing that brings my point up is this:The Lighthouse's lamp wrote: - How will you know that they're coming?
- I'll keep my eye on the lighthouse. Once the lamp goes off, they'll be coming.
- But that lamp is behind steel curtains...
- Don't worry. I'll know once it's off.
That post seems out of place for a Lighthouse. It seems more appropriate that it is not a post, but a Mast from a ship. I don't know if it is from the same ship as the one from the Northern Docks, but I get the feeling the guy in the Crows nest was rather 'close' in terms of spying on the Lighthouse.