The Harvest Moon Consortium

It’s summer solstice. The air is warmed by a southern wind. The crew of the Moonflower along with their cabin girl, now an expert hunter gathers their gear up around the machine. Lauriella walks among them making sure she talks to each in their turn. She saves Arelush and Cyr for the last. Of the pa...

The group stands around the small platform waiting. Many are watching gnomish pocket watches all synchronized with one another. Lauriella is the first one to look up from her watch. She frowns and looks back down again. For the next hour others along with her occasionally lift their heads and stare ...

The silence of the cold north greets the group as they walk out into the tundra. They wear seal skin jackets lined with polar bear fur as they walk along the frozen ground. The air is cold and dry. The sky clear. The wind bitter even with their protective clothing. There are three women and a man wa...

At 2300 Lauriella locks the rutter and helps the crew set up tables on the deck of the moonflower along with a circle of chairs where more can be added when needed. She then hands the wheel off to her 1rst mate John Calandro going to her bedroom to wash up quickly and dress in her work clothing. Whe...

At dawn the very next day, Lauriella ends her shift. The crews exchange and she goes down to her cabin. She looks at her hands with some distaste. They have gone back to her working hands. Calluses have formed and her fingers will not bend straight anymore. She calls for Arelush. When she comes, she...

Lauriella comes aboard the Moonflower. John Calandro, her first mate hands her the manifest. She looks it over while reading it out loud, “Twenty-ton Oak, ten-ton duskwood, ten-ton maple five-ton dry goods, five-ton blacksmithing supplies, one charcoal forge. How much did Lieutenant Stafford pay?" "...

Lauriella walks up on top deck in her short clothes at two in the afternoon. She's digging at her belly and asking her lieutenant why she was called? "Glass the port of Harborage, ma'am" "She takes the glass from him and looks at the port. It's large enough but the town is smallish with just a few w...

After the Anchor is lifted and the sails unfurl with the Moonflower making way to Harborage on a link to Ascore. Lauriella is at the back end of the stateroom for Arelush her lessons. “I don’t understand how triangles can be circles?” “It’s not that triangles are circles. It’s that we use triangles ...

Lauriella is at the wheel when Cyr comes up from below. John is at the navigation table doing his best to navigate. Cyr comes over to the navigators table and relieves John. He gets several newly preset sextets out and measures the stars in several constellations. Looking at the current chart he doe...

As Midnight approaches the men work around Lauriella while she and Cyr set up chairs in a large circle on the main deck. Arelush brings up bottles of wine and whiskey. A tun of beer is tapped. When all is done Lauriella sits down on one of the chairs. Cyr another. She motions Arelush to sit next to ...