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The chronicle of Habibi's Reef

Open sea, 3931 m deep, kept by Yasmine Haddad

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 HABIBI'S REEF — 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 tituhoku, river or sea honepiru, winter or the rains tepime, the dead lumaki, home upiewekei, stranger ekia, feast lookivi, child ani, old one kiepivara, the place Ulipewu, the beast puhoune, the sky taawohe.
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; 1 people founded; 1 swarm; 2 tracks; 1 ways changed.

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

⊕ Habibi's Reef · open sea, 3931 m deep — the chronicle, kept by Yasmine Haddad
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 HABIBI'S REEF — 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 tituhoku, river or sea honepiru, winter or the rains tepime, the dead lumaki, home upiewekei, stranger ekia, feast lookivi, child ani, old one kiepivara, the place Ulipewu, the beast puhoune, the sky taawohe.
Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.

The chronicle, newest first (6 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year):
- Late spring, the first year of Habibi's Reef: the reef fish left a line of prints over the low knoll.
- Late spring, the first year of Habibi's Reef: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept]
- Late spring, the first year of Salt Floats Hold: a swarm of reef fish at dusk over the spot.
- Late spring, the first year of Salt Floats Hold: reef fish tracks across the low knoll.
- Late spring, the first year of Salt Floats Hold: four came to Salt Floats Hold and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Ronovii", the boatwright "Huuho", the fire-keeper "Aneiheu", the lamp-lighter "Niuruo". [kept]
- Late spring, the first year of Salt Floats Hold: Yasmine Haddad called a people to Salt Floats Hold: the people of Salt Floats Hold. [kept]

Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 1 swarm, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed

The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S2526-W13254.txt