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The Weight of Small Hours
For sixty years the fishing town of Brinehold has paid its debt to the bay in lamplight, and the First Lantern at the harbour is guttering in its own glass with four weeks before the whole chain fails inward.
- ~167 min (estimated)
- 36902 words
- 49 scenes
- 11 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
24 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
A lamplighter, a diver, the man who signed the compact that ruined the fuel, and the woman who keeps the book of owing find out that the town has been buying sleep with a substance that is not sleep, that twenty-two of the thirty-one drowned have never had a lantern at all, and that the honest cost of thirty years is three thousand five hundred and forty-nine hours of somebody's life. Brinehold is a stepped shale town of a hundred and forty-one doors above a cold jade bay. In the January of 1841 the sea took thirty-one boats and their crews off the coast and gave none of them back, and the town, unable to bury what it could not find, agreed to a debt: every dusk the coast pays the water in light, and in exchange the drowned sleep warm at the bottom of the bay instead of rising. Light is the only currency on this coast, and it has one rule: it must be given freely, by the bearer, with a n
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- The drowned are described without injury, blood or decomposition. No gore of any kind.
- Chronic illness and death of an elderly character, and a life measurably shortened by giving hours.
- No sexual content beyond that implication. No sexual violence. No minors in any role.
- Strong language and coarse speech in the mouths of divers and lighters.
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- H Hadren Vole no portrait yet
- J Jory Trask no portrait yet
- S Sten Ollivant no portrait yet
- H Halla Skerry no portrait yet
- T Teo Ivers no portrait yet
- O Osa Kilbride no portrait yet
- M Maren no portrait yet