Eremoterra

The chronicle of Cloud Nine-ish

Open sea, 3603 m deep, kept by Jocelyn W.

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 (feeding), seal (moulting), whale (feeding), shark (feeding), dolphin (calving), albatross (feeding).

The people

THE PEOPLE OF CLOUD NINE-ISH — 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 noeke, river or sea puki, winter or the rains watei, the dead ira, home povaiwu, stranger molaawiwue, feast laakuome, child nuki, old one vohe, the place Teva, the beast ikoruvoe, the sky hileatiu.
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 calving seen; 1 founders; 1 people founded; 2 tracks; 1 ways changed.

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

⊕ Cloud Nine-ish · open sea, 3603 m deep — the chronicle, kept by Jocelyn W.
Animals here this month: orca (feeding), seal (moulting), whale (feeding), shark (feeding), dolphin (calving), albatross (feeding). This season: the birds passing.

A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0.
THE PEOPLE OF CLOUD NINE-ISH — 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 noeke, river or sea puki, winter or the rains watei, the dead ira, home povaiwu, stranger molaawiwue, feast laakuome, child nuki, old one vohe, the place Teva, the beast ikoruvoe, the sky hileatiu.
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 Cloud Nine-ish: the albatross left a line of prints over the low knoll.
- Late spring, the first year of Cloud Nine-ish: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept]
- Late spring, the first year of Cloud Sound Watch: dolphin calving on the low knoll.
- Late spring, the first year of Cloud Sound Watch: albatross tracks across the low knoll.
- Late spring, the first year of Cloud Sound Watch: four came to Cloud Sound Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender "Kowe", the boatwright "Aliraule", the fire-keeper "Taiveloru", the lamp-lighter "Haru". [kept]
- Late spring, the first year of Cloud Sound Watch: Jocelyn Ward called a people to Cloud Sound Watch: the people of Cloud Sound Watch. [kept]

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

The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S3458-W09059.txt