Introduction

We're playing The Quiet Year, a game by Avery Alder that's all about map making and making wild choices to help build a community. If you want to follow along visually, we are uploading all the maps at the end of each of these sessions at bit.ly slash EtherC Maps. And I think you need to capitalize EtherC and Maps in order for that link to work because that's how Bitly works. We should discuss these strange choices our community made during that final summer on the surface. You must understand, while none of us denied the reality of our situation, our responses to that reality varied wildly. There were those who worked to preserve the culture and biology of the