# Turn 002 Results — Claybank ## The month Alin waits for a dry interval before taking carts or animals into the delayed low field. Most of the marked section firms enough to drain and plant without churning it. The soft lower edge does not. It remains marked and deferred rather than being counted as completed work. Miri’s witnessed distribution continues for field crews, kiln households, and the injured families. The worker who can sit chooses a few short periods of sorting and record work. The second worker remains unable to bear weight for most of the month and receives no work assignment. Daia’s limits hold without the families losing food or being charged extra labor. The damaged kiln quarter remains closed. No one enters the cracked interior, reopens the old clay path, or begins a production rebuild. ## The firing account The people who prepared, loaded, tended, and closed the last firing first speak with Miri and a witness of their choosing. At the shared hearing they correct the sequence before Rusk, Hobb, Daia, and the affected households. The accounts agree on the material point. Rusk ordered the firing continued after the vent began drawing poorly, and he ordered the vent restricted while trying to meet the promised delivery. Hobb adds what he heard and what the soot pattern showed. Rusk does not deny the order once the sequence is read back. He argues that the kiln had survived difficult firings before and that the wet bank and yard runoff made this failure worse. The evidence supports that limit: his decision materially worsened the firing, but it does not erase the unstable ground or make one order the sole cause of the collapse. No one loses food, teaching rights, or office from the hearing alone. The accountability question remains open. The immediate result is practical: - Rusk’s temporary rule requires a maintained open vent and a named tender. - Hobb’s temporary rule requires a firm, drained site outside unstable ground. - Daia’s temporary rule gives any worker the right to stop unsafe firing work without losing rations or standing. ## The trial Hobb chooses a dry firm site away from the damaged quarter. Rusk and two willing workers prepare matching marked pieces from the upstream sample. Miri records the clay handling, drying time, fuel count, vent arrangement, and result. The trial uses only the publicly counted share and does not become a second firing when the first is complete. Most of the small pieces survive. Several warp, and a few crack. The result is enough to justify another bounded test. It is not enough to declare a production clay source, authorize cart extraction, or design a full kiln around it. The open vent gives the tenders a clearer and safer way to manage the fire. Hobb’s shallow diversion above the damaged area also carries fresh yard runoff away without sending it toward fields or homes. The quarter and old path remain closed. ## Ferryend After Alin releases the travelers, Venn and Miri take the three witnessed jars downstream. Seln accepts them for one exact service: a same-day witnessed crossing and return at the narrows. The exchange creates no standing passage right, supply promise, debt, or claim. Venn and Miri see and record the far-bank approach, the landing signal, and the conditions Ferryend considers safe. They return before dark. In discussing useful goods and river traffic, Seln names Merehaven, a fishing settlement on the lake known to Ferryend by reputation. He offers no account of its current condition or leaders. ## What changed - Most of the delayed field section is planted; the soft lower edge remains deferred. - Injured-household support continues without coerced work. - Witnesses establish Rusk’s order to continue the firing and restrict the vent. - The collapse remains a mixed result of firing decisions, runoff, and unstable ground. - Three temporary safety rules govern any later firing trial. - The upstream clay passes only a small preliminary test; production remains unproven. - A shallow diversion reduces fresh runoff above the closed quarter. - Three jars buy one completed Ferryend crossing and return. - Claybank learns Merehaven’s name and general fishing reputation, but nothing of its current condition. ## Matters requiring attention - Decide what accountability follows from the established firing order. - Decide whether the temporary safety rules become standing practice. - Keep the old quarter and clay path closed while choosing a future site. - Define the next clay test without allowing a successful small firing to become an unearned production claim. - Continue support until Daia changes the injured workers’ limits. - Decide whether future Ferryend use should remain per-crossing or become a bounded agreement. - Treat Merehaven as reported geography and reputation, not as knowledge of another community’s intentions or resources.