PosterWHAT THE TIDE KEEPS
Four generations kept the bargain
by Awaiting creator · Launched Sep 11, 2026
A story idea on the Poster shelf. Posters take no pledges.
About this title
Synopsis
Nell Aubrey is the fourth Aubrey to keep the light at Cormorant Head. Her mother handed her the keys, the log, and a sealed tin she was told not to open until the first dark night. She opens it early. What her family has done on the first dark night of every month since 1911 is written in the log in four different hands, and so is the list of what the town got for it. The next dark night is nineteen days out. She can keep a bargain her great-grandmother made, or find out what eleven hundred people have been protected from.
Who this is about
Nell Aubrey took the light at Cormorant Head because her mother did, and her grandmother before that, and she wants one season where nothing is asked of her.
What goes wrong
She opens the sealed tin early and learns what the family has been putting in the water every month since 1911, and what stopped happening to the town when they started.
What's at stake
Ending it means the town loses whatever the bargain bought, and eleven hundred people who never agreed to it pay for a decision she makes alone.
Why it keeps going
The dark night comes every month whether she is ready or not, and each one she refuses costs the town something specific she has to stand there and watch.
Takeaway
A bargain nobody alive agreed to is still being paid by somebody, and refusing it is not free.
Shelves
Themes
Story, in the creator's words
Not provided yet
Style
Not provided yet
Characters
Not provided yet
Tech stack
Not provided yet
Schedule
Not provided yet
Production plan
Not provided yet
Creator
Track record on ArchTV
188
Campaigns run
0
Titles on ArchTV
Delivery record
- Campaigns funded: 0
In their words