Page 1 of 10 Hello!
If you are reading this, then hopefully you are in the Library of Fellowship in the South Bay Area!
First, a little about myself. I am Gerbil_9. I am a digger of holes, maker of Hexagons, and retired miner of all sorts.
Page 2 of 10 I came across the Hexagon project when it dead. Fellowship? An abandoned town. I was all alone.
So I dug. I dug and dug and dug away at this accursed hole in the mountains.
With every bit I dug... I also dug away my soul
Page 3 of 10 Now that the Hexagon is nearing completion? There is nothing left of Gerbil_9. I can't even bring myself to live in the hole I helped create.
Some spend their lives looking for a great project to attach their name to.
Page 4 of 10 I will spend the rest of mine looking at how to detach my name from such a project.
Heed my warning, reader: Create great things. Be a great person. Do all that, but don't become your project. Don't become absorbed in it.
Page 5 of 10 If you are reading this then hopefully I have found a way to be content with what I've created.
Enough about me for now. On to Fellowship.
When I think of Fellowship, I don't think of economics, roads, markets, or cities.
Page 6 of 10 I leave that for the more... worldy... among us.
Let us rather consider the intangibles: Friendliness, beauty, quiantness, and novelty.
There is no city like Fellowship.
Page 7 of 10 Not another one in this entire world. Fellowship, what was and what can be, is a city of novel roads, ideas, city planning, but mostly of friendship. A place for nations to gather together and decide that there is too much war and not enough peace.
Page 8 of 10 Too many griefers and not enough people helping newfriends.
So let us consider what Fellowship is, was, and should become:
Fellowship. Friendship.
Not an accursed hole, nor fancy city of great wealth.
Page 9 of 10 Those are certainly nice, but that is what my personal struggle with it is about. It is supposed to be a city primarily for friendships to be fostered.
It seems like people only want wealth.
Page 10 of 10 Never forget your roots, Fellowship.
Never forget.
Who am I? I am Gerbil_9. I am digger of holes. I am maker of Hexagons. I am tired.
