EremoterraThe chronicle of Null Island
Open sea, 4879 m deep, kept by Gawain P.
Every line is a record the land wrote; the names in quotes are the owner's words. What the chronicle does not say did not happen. Most lines fade after half a year; the kept ones stay.
Animals here this month: whale (migrating), shark (feeding), sea turtle (feeding), dolphin (feeding), tuna (passing), reef fish (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF NULL ISLAND — fishers and sea hunters, settled, in hearth households. Names from their own tongue. They hold the sea sacred. They keep: boats sung in; burial in the water; the first-catch feast; shared catch; songs at the water. They like timber, rope, cod, and the water. They dislike storm, fog, and stone. Open to strangers. Their words: hearth pielake, river or sea rikipu, winter or the rains kehiowa, the dead tune, home awi, stranger ipipama, feast ovo, child wuna, old one etiu, the place Kunevoivi, the beast weowukonoe, the sky haawelonao. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.
4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.
The chronicle
Year 1
The annals: 1 founders; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed.
- The dry season, the first year of Null Island: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- The dry season, the first year of Clear Roadstead Hold: four came to Clear Roadstead Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Evevata", the boatwright "Kiomuiti", the fire-keeper "Moeleimopa", the lamp-lighter "Riakanuame". kept
- The dry season, the first year of Clear Roadstead Hold: Gawain Preece called a people to Clear Roadstead Hold: the people of Clear Roadstead Hold. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Null Island · open sea, 4879 m deep — the chronicle, kept by Gawain P. Animals here this month: whale (migrating), shark (feeding), sea turtle (feeding), dolphin (feeding), tuna (passing), reef fish (feeding). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF NULL ISLAND — fishers and sea hunters, settled, in hearth households. Names from their own tongue. They hold the sea sacred. They keep: boats sung in; burial in the water; the first-catch feast; shared catch; songs at the water. They like timber, rope, cod, and the water. They dislike storm, fog, and stone. Open to strangers. Their words: hearth pielake, river or sea rikipu, winter or the rains kehiowa, the dead tune, home awi, stranger ipipama, feast ovo, child wuna, old one etiu, the place Kunevoivi, the beast weowukonoe, the sky haawelonao. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (3 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - The dry season, the first year of Null Island: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - The dry season, the first year of Clear Roadstead Hold: four came to Clear Roadstead Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Evevata", the boatwright "Kiomuiti", the fire-keeper "Moeleimopa", the lamp-lighter "Riakanuame". [kept] - The dry season, the first year of Clear Roadstead Hold: Gawain Preece called a people to Clear Roadstead Hold: the people of Clear Roadstead Hold. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N0223-W00613.txt