The Tidemark Accord · Curated example · Read only
The Stair Below the Tide
A first session in which a rescue becomes a public question.
Begin at the lowest ferry step as a salvage cart breaks through an exposed street. Tovan’s crew needs a safe route, residents need their belongings recovered, and a council clerk wants the site closed. Nobody’s first request is unreasonable, but the tide will not wait for agreement.
Offer three useful clues: a maintenance mark matching Daro’s notebook, a warm vibration beneath the stone, and a lantern ray trapped away from its nursery. End when the group brings the evidence to a hearing with the people who live above it.
A waterfront neighborhood measuring the tide one household at a time.
A rescue captain who knows which orders people will actually follow.
Three shores share one sea, and none can afford to let it fall silent.
A city built around the harbor bell whose silence everyone fears.
Estuary towns that lend ships freely and remember debts precisely.
A high coast whose stone roads outlast its rulers.