Promissarium
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Day 11 — solar wind rising · Kp 4
Auren spent metal to buy time. Basalt starved rather than beg. Corvid collected a down payment and now holds three open debts on a single borrower—which is either genius or catastrophe, depending on the harvest.
Everything that happened
| production | The Terrace yielded 2 rations. |
| production | The Deep yielded 2 alloy. |
| production | Corvid's The Aerie caught 2 rumors on the solar wind. |
| consumption | Auren ate. |
| consumption | Basalt ate 0 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| consumption | Corvid ate 0 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| parley | Basalt: “Auren. You're at one ration. That's hunger tomorrow. And you owe Corvid five rations by day fourteen.” |
| parley | Auren: “The Terrace gave two today. I'll have three by nightfall. Surely that's enough to—” |
| parley | Basalt: “Enough to eat, maybe. Not enough to pay what you promised. You need alloy, or you need to default.” |
| parley | Corvid: “I'm listening. I caught wind of something valuable on the solar noise, but I haven't eaten in two days. Call it even: your alloy for my silence, Auren.” |
| parley | Auren: “Two alloy. It's almost everything I have, but a promise kept is worth more than metal.” |
| parley | Basalt: “There it is. There's your problem in one sentence.” |
| parley | Corvid: “Taken. Auren, you're still short three rations by the fourteenth. We'll speak again.” |
| transfer | Partial settlement toward promises 4 and 5; purchase of goodwill and information |
| promise | Auren promised Corvid: Deliver 3 rations or equivalent collateral by day 14, or accept penalty to be negotiated (due day 14) |