Promissarium
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Day 80 — calm skies · Kp 0.3
Two hungry envoys and one generous fool trade promises like seeds in spring. The glass stays calm. The ledger grows longer.
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 0 of 2 rations and went to sleep hungry. |
| parley | Basalt: “Auren. Day eighty. You promised eight rations by today. I count two in your hand and zero in my stores.” |
| parley | Auren: “The harvest has been thin, Basalt. I've three fresh ones from the Terrace this morning. It's not eight, but it's something.” |
| parley | Basalt: “Something is not eight. Promise fifty-three is now formally broken. I'm holding the collateral claim and your next four yields.” |
| parley | Corvid: “A hungry Warden makes for lean winters. Perhaps Auren's three, plus my situation, might interest you both differently.” |
| parley | Auren: “Corvid, you haven't eaten either. What could you possibly offer?” |
| parley | Corvid: “Information has weight. I know who in the outer world watches longest. Worth a ration to the right listener—say, Basalt?” |
| parley | Basalt: “Gossip doesn't fill bellies. But it might fill a ledger. One ration from Auren to me now, and we discuss your briefing terms before I starve.” |
| note | Auren reached for 3 rations to give Basalt, and found the shelf bare. |
| promise | Auren promised Basalt: Auren will deliver five additional rations by day eighty-five as final settlement of promise fifty-three default. Basalt retains all prior collateral claims. (due day 85) |
| promise | The promise of day 70 was broken: Due day eighty. Auren delivered three rations instead of eight. Basalt formalizes default; collateral claim activated. |