#randonautica

[yuckdotcom]

found this place using randonautica

[itsnathateasy]

randonauting with these aot characters

warning: heads up that this is about some (mild i think?) creepy content, so if you’re not comfortable with it, please skip!

word count: 1,3k

a/n: i’m not encouraging you to download the app and of course this isn’t an ad, just thought it’d be a cool fic idea! (DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE APP)

before you read: you and your partner decide to download “randonautica”, an app that gives you randomised location coordinates based on the intention you set.

Eren is probably the one who originally told you about the app. He had been watching TikToks of people who’d previously used the app and thought it might be a cool little game. When you told him you’d actually downloaded the app and set the intention to “monster” he gave you a smirk and suggested that you go there together. What a better way to spend your weekend, right? You packed a few necessities, some lunch, water and flash lights, and headed to the coordinates you got. The place turned out to be extremely sinister and, at first, neither of you wanted to step out of the car, especially not in the dark of the night. You took some tiny steps towards an abandoned cabin that you could spot in the distance, when you heard a swift rustling in the trees. You and Eren took a good look at each other, then ran back inside the car and drove away as fast as possible. “Delete that stupid app, y/n… And disable your location NOW!”. (love me some “heroic” bf Eren!) (what a loser)

You and Armin go out there for strictly educational reasons, or that’s what you tell yourselves. Walking deeper into the clearing that was your coordinates, you don’t notice much, when, all of a sudden, you find a bone and ran back to the car as quickly as possible. When you’re far enough, you go through your photos and videos of the location again. “Hey Armin… Remember that bone we found?” “Don’t start, y/n, that was some crazy shit. We’re not going back there, whatever you say!” “No, listen… There’s barbecue stove in the back. See? I got a picture of it. Maybe it was an animal bone? From someone’s lunch?” Armin inspected your face for a bit, and demanded that he saw the photo you took. “That might be true, y/n… But we shouldn’t risk it.” He said as he took a good look at you. A few minutes later, you were back at the site, looking for more clues. You walked past a row of sycamore trees before finding yourselves in someone’s backyard. Turns out that it WAS a barbecue site. You’d probably copied the coordinates wrong, maybe a digit was missing? Armin was barely able to convince the old lady who lived there that you’d made a mistake. Good thing he’s got those “big blue eyes” and is “so polite to the elderly”, as the lady explained. As a truce, she packed you a few slices of her home-made oat and chocolate cake. “Y/n, should we eat the cake?” asked Armin as you walked the distance back to the car, holding onto the wrapped food. “Nah Armin, this kinda gives Hansel and Gretel. Let’s just leave it here”. You said, concealing the cake behind a bush.

Mikasa would be very interested when you tell her about the app and she insists that you go. “Set the intention to “vampires”, y/n. We might get a cult site!” she said with a straight face. It was so difficult to discern whether she was making a joke or if she was genuinely excited to try out the app. “Uhm, you do realise that this isn’t a game, right Mikasa?” You asked, just to make sure. “I know, it’s no game. It’s even better. We should probably buy gas masks before we plan our excursion” she explained. “What would we need the masks for?” you asked, honestly contemplating if suggesting randonautica to Mikasa was a good idea after all. “I don’t know, y/n, what if whoever is there watching us tries to gas us or something? Just saying, we should be prepared.” She said and went back to typing on her phone. After a few minutes of silence, you’d reconsidered and made your decision. “Listen, Mikasa, the more you speak of it, the more scared I become. I don’t wanna go anymore” you admitted shyly since you were the one to suggest it. “Too bad, y/n. I just received our coordinates and it’s not very far. Grab your boots, we’re leaving” she said blankly, while reaching for your toolbox from under the kitchen sink. “Why are you looking at me like that, y/n? You’re gonna love it, I promise!” she said with a wink. Who is this person?

Jean was also the person to tell you about randonautica, but when you, quite proudly too, announced that you’d downloaded the app and set the intention to “creepy”… You were into some serious trouble. You got a good scolding session, as Jean was extremely upset by your carelessness. “Have you not seen how the people who end up in these locations usually have to report back to the police cause some creepy dude starts stalking them?? How about that mother and son who had to leave their home for days before the creep lost their tracks? Don’t be so naive, y/n, that shit’s dangerous!”. He did apologise afterwards, as he was the one who made you listen to all those stories and treated them as a true crime podcast. “How about we book an escape room instead? Or a rage room? You should pick, y/n! Anything yo keep you away from that app”.

“I’ll call my cousin if we need help, she’s a police officer! She should be able to help us” Connie explained as he drove to the location you’d just received on the app. “Aren’t you afraid we might come across some creepy dude with a hammer?” you asked, your anxiety mixed with excitement peaking the closer you got to the location. “Need I remind you that I did bring our own hammer, y/n? Whatever creep we meet should know better than to mess with me!” He exclaimed proudly, giving you a side smirk. Connie’s phone buzzed, you’d reached your destination. As Connie parked the car, you got out and took a good look of your surroundings. The coordinates led to a spot under a bridge, which would be extremely bad lit, had you not convinced Connie to go during the day. “I don’t really like this place, Connie. I think we should go back” you announced, not really straying too far from the car. “Don’t worry, y/n you’ve got me and I’ve got the hammer. We should be more than fine!” You walked a few meters further, approaching the exact spot you’d received. “What did you set as our intention Connie?” you questioned as you spotted a tall figure in the distance. “Maniac, why?” He asked absent-mindedly as he kept looking for clues on the ground. “Cause I think we’ve company...” He jolted up and followed your gaze, reaching that figure. “Don’t scream, y/n, but run as fast as you can!” He said and pulled you away from the site and back to the car. "Better call your cousin now!" You half screamed as you drove away.

Listen to me, Hange is fucking insane. Ever since you two discovered randonautica, it was all they ever talked about. For your weekend date, you actually decided to go on your little horror adventure. “What should our intention be Hange?” you questioned as they started the car. “Hm… Let’s see… How about cake?” “Cake?” “Yes, y/n, cake. Imagine the possibilities!” They said and threw their hands in the air. You got the coordinates and they drove ahead to an area not so far from your shared apartment. As Hange pulled over, you noticed there were some logs scattered here and there but most of the area was desolate and covered by dry, yellow grass. “Promising, right, y/n?” Exclaimed Hange. “It’s just a bunch of logs, Hange, there won’t-” “LOOK OVER THERE!” they shouted, pointing at a rusty cool box that was a good thirty metes away from you. “Don’t you dare go near it Hange!” you grabbed onto their hood before they could go any closer to the cool bag. “Y/n, this is what we came here for! Let me go check it out!” they complained as loudly as possible, trying to escape your grip. “What if it’s a crime scene, Hange? Would you like to find some random person’s insides? We’re leaving this instant!” you dragged them away and back to the car, much to Hange’s resistance. “You know, y/n, that could’ve been a really cool finding...” They pouted, their final card on getting you to go back again. “No, Hange. Most likely, WE would be the really cool finding. That cool box might have been for our remains. Delete the app.” Reluctantly, they did.

[tengritexas]

PAGANS AND WITCHES I am in need of your opinions!

What is your experience with randonautica? I figured while I do my occasional nomadic travels I may try a few cities in Texas. If the app is any good :>. Any insight would be great thanks

[idiot-award]

6/9/24 - 3:39pm/15:39

I went randonauting yesterday and I'm gonna tell my experience here.

If you don't know what randonauting is, it's an app that gives you a random location near you after you "manifest" what you want. It's famous for leading a group of people to a suitcase with a dead body or something. Whatever.

ANYWAYS. I wasn't really in the mood for much walking so I set my search radius to only like 1.5 kilometers. The first point I "manifested" curiosity (I'm putting manifest in quotes because I'm agnostic about the whole idea). It was an attractor anomaly (I don't really know what that means) and it had a power of only 1.5. It was in my neighbor behind my house's front yard and it's like, I'm not leaving my house for that. However, the second point was on the way to the first point so I'm like why not. Anyways, the second point was in a wooded area. It was a void anomaly and had a power of 4.5 so yay? I "manifested" something creepy.

Both points were like 10 minutes from my house so I was only out for like 45 mins total. The first point, the power 1.5, was just a bit of discolored grass on their lawn. BORING! The second point was very interesting, so interesting in fact that I will start another paragraph.

So, when I got there, there was a house. The point was a little bit into the woods behind their house and I'm like shit maybe I shouldn't be here. No car in the driveway, and I already came all the way here so I might as well look. I walk to the exact spot on the map and it's this wooden stick with an orange plastic thing tied around it. The wood had "+/-" vertically written on it in red. The wooden thing from what I can remember was sticking out of the ground next to a log. I asked my friend later and they said it was a hunting marker, but they said that it was weird since hunting markers are usually in the trees. A little past there was a big orange sign reading "PRIVATE PROPERTY. NO HUNTING OR TRESPASSING." and I'm like shit I should defiantly leave. As I'm leaving I step onto a soft spot of soil. I look down and there's a plot of freshly dug dirt. Suspiciously, it was exactly the size a grave would need to be to fit an average human body. Since I'm a pussy, I ran home too scared to report anything to the police. Anyways it was actually really fun and I'm 100% doing it again sometime (maybe with my friends this time !)

[psychicfoxpainter]

here on tumblr there is someone attempting to revive an old 'real life' game, which had quests like 'reach the tallest point in your city' and other ones like that. It wasn't just urban exploration, there were other quests in there

Apparently the original game was late 90s early 00s if I remember. Maybe there were teams or groups?

Can anyone point to the direction of either an archive the original or the revival?

Googles not helpful because I don't know what to search for

[maceofpentacles]

does anyone here remember randonauting?? it was a thing back in like 2020, or did i make that entire era up??

[lua-stellar]

omg guYs do you know about randonauting?? its an app kinda like geocaching where it generates a random point for u to go explore but randonautica is like different bc you can set an intention to manifest something for your adventure.

[graeskar333]

i just made a luh 40 im geeked

[grungyhimonoonna]

Remember when everyone was Randonauting? That was fun.

[sendpseuds]

Randonautica? ^^

This one is in the "Barely a Thought" category for a reason

[ask me about my wips]

Randonautica is an app that will generate random coordinates within a defined radius. The points are supposedly based on some quantum nonsense that I have not done enough research to even pretend to understand, but you're supposed to set an intention of sorts for what you'd like to find at your destination, then generate a location to explore.

I've only used it twice, years ago out of curiosity. The first time I started small and set an intention to see something blue, which turned out to be a big blue playground. The second time I wanted to see something that would make me laugh and I found a very silly porch goose in a bumble bee costume [Oooo Porch Goose AU]

Honestly, the app is really just meant to get people to explore the world a bit, but people do find some weird things.

Anyway, I could see both the boys being into this for a variety of reasons, which, of course, leaves me with several options for how this story could work.

Maybe one of them is a real believer in the app's power and finds themselves continually running into the same man. Maybe one of them is a skeptic but agrees to try it once, setting the intention to see something beautiful, or to fall in love, or to find an easy fuck, I don't know.

This is one of those ideas that could stand alone or could wind up as a plot point in an entirely different story, but I do think it could be a fun element to play with.

[ask me about my wips]

[corvusxxxbeauty]

Weird shape carved into a tree

[dissociache]

Has anyone tried using the Randonautica app in recent time? I know it was bigger back in 2020 but I've been curious as to how it's going lately.

If youre still using it, is it worth exploring and have you came across anything interesting? Finding any current info involving this app is few and far between.

[mrmd2]

things start falling apart

16 - 27 september

[witchdoctorofsands]

Today I found this Djehuty (Thoth) figure thanks Randonautica app

[menin4s]

Vieron cuando fue auge esa app de Randonautica y la gente se mandaba a lugares insólitos a buscar giladas???

Yo recuerdo cuando una chica dijo que se la instaló y pensó en su mamá que había perdido hace unos años, la app la llevo directo a una casa random abandonada y en la vereda crecían LAS FLORES FAVORITAS DE SU MAMÁ

[avas21braincells]

Yk the randonautica app??? And how someone found a body in a suitcase because of it?? I don’t want to find a body in a suitcase but the idea of it?? And summer coming with days to just wonder around with my dog for protection?? Is it really a horrible idea to download it??