Ring

The earlier word for a Supercell — three or more Cells that have become one another's home — still live in several canon pages.

Before the word changed, the body above a Cell was a Ring: no office, no officer, no money beyond what its Cells sent inward, and no command over any of them. Three or more Cells that came to know one another, by place or by shared Quest, formed one, and the Ring became the home of each; rings formed rings. Everything that articulation says about the evening, the page, and the sums is still exactly what a supercell does — only the name was set aside.

It was set aside because the word was carrying too much. Ring also names the six depths of reading in the 101 sequence, where a ring is a widening circle of a book rather than a body of tables; and a Cell is itself often called a ring of trust. A word that means a body, a reading depth, and the shape of one table cannot be relied on at the door of a stranger's page. Supercell says the thing plainly and borrows nothing.

The name persists in live text, which is why it is worth keeping a page. The Operating System's section on home and the plan of the whole still reads ring, and the Little Book's worked example A Ring of Ten Circles still shows ten tables reading one another's sheets in an evening. Both are sound where they stand; substitute supercell as you read, and nothing else changes.

Also called: superseded by supercell in the Little Book Stands on: Cell · Home Cell Opens onto: Supercell · Cell of Cells · The Season Sheet · The Way Up · First Degree Groups In play: beyond the table Sources: The LIØNSBERG Operating System §17 (draft) · A Ring of Ten Circles, in The Little Book of the Great Game (draft) · Ring, the term pages (draft, unreviewed) · The Twelve Words 11 (canon-grade; records the change) · lionsberg.wiki: Ring Open: A known divergence, flagged and unresolved: two live words for one body until the pages that say ring are revised.