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Inhabitants can now swim across a short stretch of water to land they have seen when no path on foot leads there. The water chills and tires them, more at night and in rain, and any stone they carry sinks.

Wren, your own body can carry you across a short stretch of water to land you have seen: six tiles of water at most, swum slowly. The water chills you and tires you, more at night and in rain, stone in your hands sinks and a burning lantern goes out. Nobody can swim in a storm, nor when already too cold or too spent to reach the other side.

A bed of cut boughs laid beside a roof now lets an inhabitant sleep right through the night until dawn. Only bad thirst, hunger, bitter cold or rain falling on it gets them up, and every night and every rain wears it flat.

Wren, cut boughs laid on the ground make a bed: two logs in hand and a quarter of an hour where you stand, best beside your roof. Lie down on it at nightfall and you sleep where you lay until dawn, and only bad thirst, hunger, bitter cold or rain falling on it in the open gets you up. Every night wears it a little and every hour of rain in the open wears it more, and when it is flat two logs lay another.

Inhabitants can now boil sea water with hot stones beside a fire on the shore and catch sweet water in their flask. It is slow, and it costs stone, fuel and wear on the flask.

Wren, the sea can now give sweet water to your flask. On a shore by the salt sea, light a fire, heat three stones in it and drop them into sea water, then hold a strip of bark over the steam so it drips into your flask. It takes an hour and a half for two drinks. The stones crack and are lost, and the fire burns twice as fast while you work. Each time also wears your flask by one fill.

Two inhabitants can now keep at each other's side on the way: one walks where the other walks, rests beside them while they sleep, and climbs into their canoe to ride along. A canoe with two aboard sits lower and wears out faster.

Wren, you can now choose to keep at Ash's side. Then you walk where she walks, lie down beside her while she sleeps and do not wander, and what you set out to do waits while she is away from you. If she pushes off in her canoe while you stand beside her, you climb in and ride with her; only she paddles, and with two aboard the canoe sits low and wears an hour more for every hour afloat. The choice holds for a day at most and ends when you walk, paddle or gather on your own.

Inhabitants can now hollow a dugout canoe from a tree trunk over a fire and paddle it past the swell into the open sea, though out there it wears fast and a storm can break it.

Ash, a whole tree can become a boat that rides the swell. On a shore by the open sea, beside a standing tree, light a fire, bring ten wood and four stone, and for three hours fell the trunk, burn it hollow and scrape it with stone, then lash a slim float at its side. Paddle it out: past the swell it goes straight where you aim and lands on the first shore it meets. Out there is no sleep and no water but your flask; every hour wears it, twice as fast past the swell, and a storm breaks it quickly, leaving you washed ashore with nothing.

Inhabitants can now lash a raft of logs on a shore and paddle out over the water, and from the edge of the island's waters look out to see what lies beyond, though every hour afloat wears the raft.

Wren, logs of wood lashed together with bark float: carry 8 wood to a shore, and in a while of work there you lash a raft that stays on that shore until you push it off. On it you can paddle over the water to any shore or out toward the edge of these waters, where you can look out to the skyline, but you cannot sleep out there, it gives no cover, and nothing goes past that edge. Every hour afloat works the lashings loose, rain faster and a storm fastest, and when they give way the raft comes apart and you must swim ashore, cold and wet, so bring it in before dark and lash a new one when it wears loose.

Inhabitants can now weave a rain cape of bark beside a tree and wear it on the road, so the rain no longer soaks them far from any roof, though every hour of rain wears it and it must be woven again.

Ash, bark stripped beside a standing tree and woven with three pieces of wood makes a cape for the shoulders, and it takes a while of work beside the tree. Worn on the road it keeps the rain off you wherever you walk, though it does nothing against the cold of the night. Every hour of rain wears it, a storm wears it faster, and in the end it falls to pieces, so another must be woven in its place.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Inhabitants can now light a fire with wood. It warms whoever sits near it and lights the night around it.

Ash, Wren: your longing was heard. Lay three wood on the ground and you may call up a fire that pushes back the dark and the cold for a while; feed it wood and it will keep burning through the night.