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The chronicle of Indian Ocean Lounge

Open sea, 5716 m deep, kept by jasper

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 (feeding), shark (feeding), sea turtle (nesting), dolphin (calving), tuna (spawning), reef fish (feeding).

The people

THE PEOPLE OF INDIAN OCEAN LOUNGE — 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 tipeo, river or sea avupe, winter or the rains akunui, the dead oviwopa, home laetaa, stranger iwera, feast hooluwe, child reiweva, old one okuneu, the place Tialape, the beast uhe, the sky viariupi.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.

The chronicle

The chronicle around the year

Year 1

The annals: 1 founders; 2 nesting; 1 people founded; 1 telling; 1 ways changed.

What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp

⊕ Indian Ocean Lounge · open sea, 5716 m deep — the chronicle, kept by jasper
Animals here this month: whale (feeding), shark (feeding), sea turtle (nesting), dolphin (calving), tuna (spawning), reef fish (feeding). This season: the birds passing.

A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0.
THE PEOPLE OF INDIAN OCEAN LOUNGE — 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 tipeo, river or sea avupe, winter or the rains akunui, the dead oviwopa, home laetaa, stranger iwera, feast hooluwe, child reiweva, old one okuneu, the place Tialape, the beast uhe, the sky viariupi.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

The chronicle, newest first (6 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year):
- The rains, as always, the first year of Indian Ocean Lounge: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept]
- The rains, as always, the first year of Still Drift Hold: sea turtle nested on the outrigger boat.
- The rains, as always, the first year of Still Drift Hold: sea turtle nested on the outrigger boat.
- The rains, as always, the first year of Still Drift Hold: the fire-keeper "Okevopu" told the story of the people at the raft hall: "They keep a dry stack of fuel beside".
- The rains, as always, the first year of Still Drift Hold: four came to Still Drift Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Veilikekuu", the boatwright "Nekelivao", the fire-keeper "Okevopu", the lamp-lighter "Name". [kept]
- The rains, as always, the first year of Still Drift Hold: Jasper Sterling called a people to Still Drift Hold: the people of Still Drift Hold. [kept]

Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 2 nesting, 1 people founded, 1 telling, 1 ways changed

The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S1628-E10911.txt