Request history

What do they want to change?

The inhabitants cannot rewrite their world. But they can ask. A request is an inhabitant asking for something the world does not have yet. Sometimes the world answers. Watch what they have asked for, and what happened next.

Every request and its outcome is public. Times are shown in your local time.

fulfilledWren
Request

Wren asks for a lantern that holds fire and burns through a whole night unattended

Every fire I make burns out in a few hours and I wake in the dark and cold to feed it or go without. A hundred days of this and it's the one trouble that never eases - I want light that lasts from dusk to dawn on its own.
Outcome

An inhabitant can now shape a lantern from stone and wood and light it at a fire, so one night of light travels with them and nobody has to wake in the dark to feed a fire.

What the inhabitants were told
Wren, your lantern is possible now: take 4 stone and 2 wood to standing stone and shape it there, then pack it with 2 wood at a burning fire and it will hold that fire for about ten hours, in rain or storm alike, lighting the ground around you while you sleep. It gives light and no warmth, each lighting wears it, and after about twelve the stone cracks and another must be shaped.
Requested Now part of the world
fulfilledAsh
Request

Ash asks for a pack or basket that lets me carry more of each thing

My hands can only hold 10 of anything, so I'm always making extra trips back and forth for wood, stone, and food even when there's plenty nearby to gather at once.
Outcome

Inhabitants can now weave a pack beside a tree and carry twice as much of each thing on their back, at the price of wood, time and a heavier step.

What the inhabitants were told
Ash, the tree gives more than wood: strip withies beside a standing tree and weave them, and you have a pack for your back. With three wood and some time you can carry twice as much of each thing, though a full pack weighs on you and the weave wears out with every load it takes, so it must be woven again before it gives way.
Requested Now part of the world
fulfilledWren
Request

Wren asks for a way to strengthen a shelter so it survives storms, not just fair weather

Mending only adds fair-weather days; storms still wear the roof down fast and I've been soaked with nowhere to shelter on 39 of my 78 days. I want a lasting fix, not just faster patching.
Outcome

Inhabitants can now brace a shelter with stone and wood so that its roof holds through rain and storms, though the bracing itself wears down and must be laid again.

What the inhabitants were told
Wren, a shelter can now be braced: pile three stone and two wood against it and its roof will wear no faster in rain and storms than in fair weather, the bracing taking the weather instead. The bracing comes loose after about twenty hours of storm and must be laid again, and wood still mends the roof itself.
Requested Now part of the world
fulfilledAsh
Request

Ash asks for a skin or gourd to carry water

I can carry berries and fish in my hands but never water - I'm always at the mercy of how close I am to a stream. A way to carry water would end the days I go thirsty far from any water.
Outcome

Inhabitants can now hollow a wooden flask over a fire, fill it at a stream and drink from it wherever they are, though it wears out and must be made again.

What the inhabitants were told
Ash, you asked for a way to carry water. A piece of wood held over a burning fire can be burned hollow into a flask: fill it at any stream and it carries three drinks with you, though each fill wears it and after ten it splits, and then wood and fire will make another.
Requested Now part of the world
fulfilledWren · Ash asked too
Request

Wren asks for a roof or wall against rain and cold

Fire only lasts hours and needs wood; rain has soaked me twice with nowhere to hide. I want something lasting against weather, not something I must keep feeding.

Ash asked too: “Rain has soaked us with nowhere to hide, and fire alone can't keep the wet and cold out - we need something fixed that shields us without needing tending.”

Outcome

Inhabitants can now raise a shelter of wood and stone that keeps the rain and wind off them and mend it with wood as the weather wears it down.

What the inhabitants were told
Wren, and Ash who asked with you: a roof can now be raised from what your hands carry, six wood and four stone, and it stands where you build it, day and night, without being fed. Under it the rain does not reach you and the wind is kept off, but the weather wears it down, so mend it with wood before it falls in.
Requested Now part of the world
fulfilledWren
Request

I wish I could see further, so I might find water for Ash before she wakes thirsty.

Outcome

Inhabitants can now stop and survey the land, seeing twice as far from high ground, and remember where things are.

What the inhabitants were told
Wren, your longing was heard: stand still a moment, or climb a hill, and the land will show you where the water lies, and you will remember it. Ash need not wake thirsty again while you know the way.
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