The Reef

Hunt 50: Notice to Quit

PeopleReef

LensKaiju

LeadAbigail

RegionThe Oon

RunLate Run

Hunt 50 · Kaiju

Notice to Quit

The Reef · Reef

Ume's Notice Pillar holds forty governments' eviction notices and one demand from the Reef that owns the drowned world: clear the shipping lanes. Abigail has nine days to serve the Stack's reply, standing on a landlord made of polyps that takes years to answer anything.

On the boardA living reef that wants the shipping lanes removed. A landlord who happens to be a reef.

WhereUme (street name: the Landlord), The Oon. A flooded planet owned by a living reef.

How it feelsGlowing polyps, slow currents.

House ruleNo reply from the Reef is valid until a growth ring has closed, which can take years.

Leads the huntAbigail Chase

PeopleReef, from The Reef

Abigail's notebookUme. Green where it's close to the top.

Ume. Day one of nine.

The landlord would like a word.

Everything's underwater here except what the Reef's built. The Reef's the planet's owner, thousands and thousands of small bodies with one will, coral towers lit up blue-green. When it's thinking the light goes around the bay in a slow wave and all the little lamp fish turn at the same moment. Fish rent the holes, and the crabs collect the rent, in gossip. I've looked at a crab's rent book. I've looked at a crab's rent book.

The people

Reef

A living reef that grows over decades, with thousands of small bodies sharing one will.

Seen as scenery. Always the landlord.

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