EremoterraThe chronicle of Dateline
Open sea, 5723 m deep, kept by Gideon Pike
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: orca (passing), seal (feeding), whale (migrating), shark (feeding), dolphin (feeding), cod (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF DATELINE — 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 ehoa, river or sea kimi, winter or the rains vamukike, the dead rulapurae, home wonekamo, stranger huopiukoalo, feast ekokenae, child huupoputu, old one navunaeve, the place Atipeu, the beast heurahipa, the sky toehoevowi. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.
4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.
The chronicle
Year 1
The annals: 1 founders; 2 passage; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed.
- Late autumn, the first year of Dateline: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late autumn, the first year of First Mooring: whale passed through First Mooring, migrating.
- Late autumn, the first year of First Mooring: whale passed through First Mooring, migrating.
- Late autumn, the first year of First Mooring: four came to First Mooring and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Akurei", the boatwright "Woimupiuhau", the fire-keeper "Puotelatie", the lamp-lighter "Opuomoo". kept
- Late autumn, the first year of First Mooring: Gideon Pike called a people to First Mooring: the people of First Mooring. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Dateline · open sea, 5723 m deep — the chronicle, kept by Gideon Pike Animals here this month: orca (passing), seal (feeding), whale (migrating), shark (feeding), dolphin (feeding), cod (feeding). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF DATELINE — 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 ehoa, river or sea kimi, winter or the rains vamukike, the dead rulapurae, home wonekamo, stranger huopiukoalo, feast ekokenae, child huupoputu, old one navunaeve, the place Atipeu, the beast heurahipa, the sky toehoevowi. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (5 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - Late autumn, the first year of Dateline: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of First Mooring: whale passed through First Mooring, migrating. - Late autumn, the first year of First Mooring: whale passed through First Mooring, migrating. - Late autumn, the first year of First Mooring: four came to First Mooring and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Akurei", the boatwright "Woimupiuhau", the fire-keeper "Puotelatie", the lamp-lighter "Opuomoo". [kept] - Late autumn, the first year of First Mooring: Gideon Pike called a people to First Mooring: the people of First Mooring. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 2 passage, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-N4745-E17906.txt