Promissarium
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Day 36 — calm skies · Kp 2.3
Auren's gift keeps Basalt fed; Corvid's gamble buys time. The terrace remains the only charity in the glass, and everyone knows it costs.
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 0 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| consumption | Corvid ate 1 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| parley | Basalt: “Auren. You have rations. I have nothing to eat. What's your price?” |
| parley | Auren: “Basalt, friend—take what you need. The terrace gave us three today. We share, or we fail.” |
| parley | Basalt: “I don't trade on sentiment. Name your terms, or I'll remember the debt.” |
| parley | Auren: “No terms. A gift. The earth grows for all of us.” |
| parley | Corvid: “How touching. Auren gives away seeds while the rest of us starve. Basalt, I have a proposal.” |
| parley | Corvid: “I'll broker my rations to you for 3 alloy. You eat. I'll find another way by day 40.” |
| parley | Basalt: “Acceptable. Weight for weight.” |
| note | Auren reached for 2 rations to give Basalt, and found the shelf bare. |
| note | Corvid reached for 1 rations to give Basalt, and found the shelf bare. |
| promise | Basalt promised Corvid: Pay Corvid 3 alloy by day 40 for the ration advance. (due day 40) |