EremoterraThe chronicle of Oasis Number Nine
Desert, 858 m up, kept by Helena Varga
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: oryx (feeding), hyena (feeding), antelope (rutting), wild ass (feeding), ostrich (feeding), fox (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF OASIS NUMBER NINE — herders, hunters, and gardeners, seasonal, in bands. Names from their own tongue. They hold the rain sacred. They keep: rain songs; age groups; burial in the fire; the feast of the rains' return; gifts to strangers; winter camps away. They like earth, hide, clear, and wildebeest. They dislike frost, fog, and stone. Open to strangers. Their words: hearth sumunanwo, river or sea boyowenu, winter or the rains timo, the dead odoti, home yena, stranger dungo, feast angi, child ngonngise, old one kobengwa, the place Enenge, the beast tuyebi, the sky odemuko. Their herd: antelope. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.
4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.
The chronicle
Year 1
The annals: 1 first roof; 1 founders; 1 people founded; 1 swarm; 1 ways changed.
- The dry, as always, the first year of Oasis Number Nine: the first roof went up at Oasis Number Nine: the earth hut. kept
- The dry, as always, the first year of Oasis Number Nine: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- The dry, as always, the first year of Old Mesa Hold: a swarm of fox at dusk over the low knoll.
- The dry, as always, the first year of Old Mesa Hold: four came to Old Mesa Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Minso", the potter "Sangtemo", the fire-keeper "Milotowu", the keeper of the shrine "Isangkote". kept
- The dry, as always, the first year of Old Mesa Hold: Helena Varga called a people to Old Mesa Hold: the people of Old Mesa Hold. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Oasis Number Nine · desert, 858 m up — the chronicle, kept by Helena Varga Animals here this month: oryx (feeding), hyena (feeding), antelope (rutting), wild ass (feeding), ostrich (feeding), fox (feeding). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF OASIS NUMBER NINE — herders, hunters, and gardeners, seasonal, in bands. Names from their own tongue. They hold the rain sacred. They keep: rain songs; age groups; burial in the fire; the feast of the rains' return; gifts to strangers; winter camps away. They like earth, hide, clear, and wildebeest. They dislike frost, fog, and stone. Open to strangers. Their words: hearth sumunanwo, river or sea boyowenu, winter or the rains timo, the dead odoti, home yena, stranger dungo, feast angi, child ngonngise, old one kobengwa, the place Enenge, the beast tuyebi, the sky odemuko. Their herd: antelope. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (5 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - The dry, as always, the first year of Oasis Number Nine: the first roof went up at Oasis Number Nine: the earth hut. [kept] - The dry, as always, the first year of Oasis Number Nine: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - The dry, as always, the first year of Old Mesa Hold: a swarm of fox at dusk over the low knoll. - The dry, as always, the first year of Old Mesa Hold: four came to Old Mesa Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Minso", the potter "Sangtemo", the fire-keeper "Milotowu", the keeper of the shrine "Isangkote". [kept] - The dry, as always, the first year of Old Mesa Hold: Helena Varga called a people to Old Mesa Hold: the people of Old Mesa Hold. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 first roof, 1 founders, 1 people founded, 1 swarm, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N2300-E01230.txt