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The Unkept Register
This year a great many vows sworn on the Long Vow come due at once, because the pass has been busy for a century and because the Register — the bound ledger every keeper copies into — records the term of each vow and never the date the term ends.
- ~169 min (estimated)
- 37378 words
- 36 scenes
- 12 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
23 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
A clerk from the Bureau of Vowed Obligations climbs eleven thousand steps to produce a dated inventory of every living vow on the mountain, and discovers that the only instrument on the pass capable of ending one early is a door a keeper opens from the inside, which nobody has ever written down. The Long Vow is a mountain pilgrimage of eleven stone shrines strung along a high pass, four hundred miles of walking weather, eleven thousand stone steps. People climb for one reason: to say a promise out loud where it will be held. The holding is physical. A vow of silence thickens the tongue. A vow of years sets the bone. A vow of labour puts nine years into a shoulder and shows in the walking. The speaker is not made good. They are made unable to do the one thing they swore not to do, and the cost is taken out of them while the term runs. Every vow has a stated term, and the term is part of t
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- All four principals are adults (41, 34, 68, 52) and no one under eighteen appears in any role.
- Death is not depicted. Nobody dies in this novel, and the weight of the season is entirely in what does not happen.
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