The sardine-tin sea
The sea inside the sardine tin on the bench. It’s mostly oil.
You climb in through the lid in Always On and come down a ladder onto tin decks, oily decks and planks over a moving sea. Captain Brine runs the place, Gill sells bait and tackle (mostly tackle), and Lumen keeps the lighthouse. A sealed lid blocks the bridge to the far end, where the good oil is, and the Opener.
A one-way current runs back to the ladder. A bottle on the beach holds a receipt.
The facts
- Kind
- Place
- World
- The sardine-tin sea
- Appears in
- Always On
- People here
- Captain Brine, Gill, Lumen, The Opener
- Things you meet here
- Sardine, Can crab, Oil slick
- Ways out
- The workshop
- In Meinong’s jungle
- “The sea has pockets”: Possible, the the golden mountain kind. Water stitched like denim breaks the fabric rules, not the logical ones. The key is perfectly ordinary.
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Connections
- inside The sardine tin
- climbs out to The workshop
- Captain Brine captains this
- Gill trades in this
- The lighthouse stands in this
- The Opener lives in this
- The lid blocks a bridge in this
- Sardine swims in this
- Can crab lives in this
- Oil slick lives in this
- Sound Slopwright learns the sound rules of this
- Pressing Matters a larger relative of this
- The sea has pockets filed with this