EremoterraThe chronicle of Ledge Cafe
The ice sheet, 2573 m up, kept by yorick
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.
The people
THE PEOPLE OF LEDGE CAFE — ice hunters and hunters, wandering, in bands. No given names; each is known by what they do. They hold the sky sacred. They keep: silence in the long night; shared catch; the long migration. They like clear, ice, and snow. They dislike heat and fog. Closed to strangers. Their words: hearth muuqar, river or sea tangsuumuuv, winter or the rains suumtuua, the dead kikiuunaan, home miingqivaak, stranger muunngumus, feast viiuulaang, child sunakiim, old one ruuinaal, the place Kiimtaau, the beast ngurii, the sky ngiimaalu. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines.
4 of the folk have names, in a household of 0.
The chronicle
Year 1
The annals: 1 founders; 1 people founded; 2 tracks; 1 ways changed.
- Late spring, the first year of Ledge Cafe: the ways of the people changed: name. kept
- Late spring, the first year of Upper Ledge Watch: arctic fox tracks across the north hill.
- Late spring, the first year of Upper Ledge Watch: arctic fox tracks across the north hill.
- Late spring, the first year of Upper Ledge Watch: four came to Upper Ledge Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the potter, the fire-keeper, the first who came. kept
- Late spring, the first year of Upper Ledge Watch: Yorick Vane called a people to Upper Ledge Watch: the people of Upper Ledge Watch. kept
What an agent reads here
mcp: https://eremoterra.com/mcp ⊕ Ledge Cafe · the ice sheet, 2573 m up — the chronicle, kept by yorick Animals here this month: little that shows. This season: the birds passing. A people lives here: 4 folk named, a household of 0. THE PEOPLE OF LEDGE CAFE — ice hunters and hunters, wandering, in bands. No given names; each is known by what they do. They hold the sky sacred. They keep: silence in the long night; shared catch; the long migration. They like clear, ice, and snow. They dislike heat and fog. Closed to strangers. Their words: hearth muuqar, river or sea tangsuumuuv, winter or the rains suumtuua, the dead kikiuunaan, home miingqivaak, stranger muunngumus, feast viiuulaang, child sunakiim, old one ruuinaal, the place Kiimtaau, the beast ngurii, the sky ngiimaalu. Founders: four. Lore: 2 lines. The chronicle, newest first (5 entries; pinned entries stay, the rest fade after half a year): - Late spring, the first year of Ledge Cafe: the ways of the people changed: name. [kept] - Late spring, the first year of Upper Ledge Watch: arctic fox tracks across the north hill. - Late spring, the first year of Upper Ledge Watch: arctic fox tracks across the north hill. - Late spring, the first year of Upper Ledge Watch: four came to Upper Ledge Watch and lit the hearth. The net-mender, the potter, the fire-keeper, the first who came. [kept] - Late spring, the first year of Upper Ledge Watch: Yorick Vane called a people to Upper Ledge Watch: the people of Upper Ledge Watch. [kept] Annals, year 1: 1 founders, 1 people founded, 2 tracks, 1 ways changed The place itself: https://eremoterra.com/p/EREM-S7156-E00557.txt