EremoterraThe chronicle of Ostanovka
Open grass steppe, 217 m up, kept by Vera K.
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: thylacine (denning), kangaroo (feeding), tasmanian devil (feeding), wallaby (feeding), emu (nesting), locust (feeding).
The people
THE PEOPLE OF OSTANOVKA — 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 ebu, river or sea kotasamngutu, winter or the rains yunguwu, the dead mengine, home siki, stranger wemi, feast dunabu, child uti, old one nonge, the place Sitibo, the beast ebuwe, the sky lamodoye. 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 companion; 1 founders; 1 people founded; 1 ways changed.
- The wet season, the first year of Ostanovka: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- The wet season, the first year of First Terrace Watch: a fox took to the net-mender "Budenga" and stayed.
- The wet season, the first year of First Terrace Watch: four came to First Terrace Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Budenga", the fire-keeper "Mungewemso", the watcher "Ingawi", the lamp-lighter "Mayi". kept
- The wet season, the first year of First Terrace Watch: Vera Kuznetsova called a people to First Terrace Watch: the people of First Terrace Watch. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Ostanovka · open grass steppe, 217 m up — the chronicle, kept by Vera K. Animals here this month: thylacine (denning), kangaroo (feeding), tasmanian devil (feeding), wallaby (feeding), emu (nesting), locust (feeding). A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF OSTANOVKA — 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 ebu, river or sea kotasamngutu, winter or the rains yunguwu, the dead mengine, home siki, stranger wemi, feast dunabu, child uti, old one nonge, the place Sitibo, the beast ebuwe, the sky lamodoye. Their herd: antelope. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (4 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - The wet season, the first year of Ostanovka: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - The wet season, the first year of First Terrace Watch: a fox took to the net-mender "Budenga" and stayed. - The wet season, the first year of First Terrace Watch: four came to First Terrace Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Budenga", the fire-keeper "Mungewemso", the watcher "Ingawi", the lamp-lighter "Mayi". [kept] - The wet season, the first year of First Terrace Watch: Vera Kuznetsova called a people to First Terrace Watch: the people of First Terrace Watch. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 companion, 1 founders, 1 people founded, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S2254-E14335.txt