Promissarium
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Day 2 — calm skies · Kp 1.7
Basalt's patience expired exactly on schedule. Auren paid the price of good intentions and slow hands. The Aerie watches, and learns.
Everything that happened
| production | The Terrace yielded 3 rations. |
| production | The Deep yielded 2 alloy. |
| production | Corvid's The Aerie caught 1 rumor on the solar wind. |
| consumption | Auren ate. |
| consumption | Basalt ate. |
| consumption | Corvid ate. |
| parley | Basalt: “Auren. The alloy. We made a deal yesterday. It's due now.” |
| parley | Auren: “Basalt, I know, I know—the terrace gave us three more rations this morning. Let me make this right.” |
| parley | Basalt: “Words are cheap. Alloy isn't. 1 alloy, now, and we're settled.” |
| parley | Auren: “Done. And I'm sorry for the delay. That was poor keeping on my part.” |
| parley | Corvid: “How touching. Basalt actually got paid. I'm taking notes—turns out threats do work better than faith.” |
| parley | Auren: “Corvid, you wound me. What rumor did you catch today?” |
| parley | Corvid: “Nothing worth trading yet. Still listening.” |
| transfer | Promise 1 settlement: late payment of 2 rations for 1 alloy |
| transfer | Promise 1 settlement: delivery of 1 alloy for 2 rations |
| promise | The promise of day 1 was kept: Settled on day 2, one day late. Auren delivered 2 rations; Basalt delivered 1 alloy. |