Editing Tales and the Almanac Log in to edit. Anyone can read. Title Text '''Tales''' are the pet world's storylines, told as scenes where they happen — the Plot at dawn, a place in [[the-hollow|the Hollow]] with its keeper behind the counter, a region of [[the-wilds|the Wilds]] — with small games between some scenes, scenes that wait on the world ("give it a day or two"), choices that change the child, and endings that leave something real. None of it is required: the world can be played as an open world and nothing else. The [/world/almanac Almanac] keeps them: the tales new, going on, waiting and told, [[the-ways|the Ways]], the journal, and who in the Hollow thinks well of you. == Storylines == * '''The Seed Thief''' — something takes the honey biscuits in the night, and Doc Pellory reads the glow-dust on a leaf. A watch to keep, after dark. * '''Fenwick's Forty-First Word''' — Auster's Woolli has known forty words for six years, and this morning said a forty-first. * '''The Lost Kite''' — Old Tam's Wingi went up to the Shelf and didn't come back for the spin, and the fog is down like a lid. * '''[[the-calling|The Calling]]''' — for the grown. == Heart-to-hearts == Once every six days or so, at home in the evening light, the child brings something up — one thing at a time: being scared of the dark, whether roshi dream, why you look after them, where roshi go, what they want to be, a falling-out at the Spring, being old enough. Two or three answers; nothing is the right answer. == The notice board == Errands pinned up in the Square under '''Wanted''': four a day, the same four for everyone, changing at midnight (UTC). Short tales from the Hollow's people — a scene or two, sometimes a small puzzle — for their regard, a few points on a Way, now and then a handful of kernels. == The games == '''The Night Watch''' (the Plot after dark), '''the Fog''' (the Shelf), and the festivals' — the Bake-off, the Roshi Show and the Tall Tale at [[the-harvest-fair|the Harvest Fair]], the lanterns and the moonlit race at [[the-lantern-moon|the Lantern Moon]]. Played a move at a time; seeded, so a night replays the same. == The rules == A tale never takes nux, kills, or takes a seed; a gift of kernels comes from the Hollow's daily share; a seed comes from the world, never from nothing; only the hand makes food. The child's name is said; yours never is. Summary Status: Confirmed — your edit makes it a Theory until an editor looks again Save page Show preview Cancel By saving you agree that your text can be edited and reverted by others and read by everyone. The help page has the markup. Secrets go in a fold; Rex reads this wiki.