For routine, I’ll suggest:
Cataloguing - Not in a museum or impersonal sense, more like using something tactile as a representation of, or connection to events, emotions, etc.
I made it vague enough that it could be up to interpretation, but I’m thinking of it as a combination of a “Memories” box and when you use whatever you have on hand to represent an object in a tabletop game (e.g. stuffed animal = dragon because minis are expensive).
E: I also have no strong feelings on narrator pronouns.
Great, so far our Routines are:
Send a letter to a stranger.
Count something
Travels with people to various historical sites he has been and recounts their stories
Updates the wiki
Cataloguing
I think broader is better actually. This is a narrator who’s lived through a long time, so the way a routine would work can be very different in different times. My “send a letter to a stranger” could change from a message in a bottle, to using a postal service, to playing the game Kind Words to mail someone online. And it will be easier for people to re-interpret it as needed.
I’ll wait til everyone’s had a go before making the poll to pick which routine is still being kept up. So there’s still time for the other players to suggest something.
But I’m also going to bring in the next step now so people can work through it too when ready.
The home is where you live, set apart somehow from the community, the bridge, and the city beyond. By
default it’s a house or flat or another ordinary type of building, but it could be something else entirely.Take turns to draw a room or another place on this map. Connect each room after the first to the previous one. What shape is it? What’s it used for? What doors and windows does it have? Label it then each add one thing to each new room after it’s drawn. Draw new floors separately from previous ones. Each player can add up to two rooms during setup.
Here are some rooms and other places you might find:
bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, stairwell, library, basement, study, garage, porch, greenhouse, store-room, workroom, attic, garden, tower, studio, nook.
For us, I think that the best way to do this is first come first served. Rather than having a specific order of 10 turns, everyone can just draw a room and add to the map so far. We should keep it simple and not worry too much about doing a “good” drawing, clarity is more valuable. Also if someone has added a room while you were drawing one, don’t worry and post away. I can merge conflicting floor plans, even if the rooms literally overlap we have ways and means. This is a narrator who’s lived an exceedingly long time, so the house can be many things.
Also if you have an idea for what the house is, feel free to shout it out. To start us off I’m going to draw a room later today and just work from the premise of it being any home, we can probably retcon what the home is relatively easily.
Really liking the responses so far! I’m going to take some time this weekend to read the sections and get an idea for maybe what kind of routine to suggest. Really looking forward to what this house ends up looking like!
Okay, so I was thinking for a routine maybe something as simple as Making an observation which could RP as saying something to a friend, publishing something for others to read (social media and the like), or writing something down in a personal journal.
I’ve recently finished the Knausgaard novels which builds a lot of analysis - personal and universal - around starting off with an observation of the world around him either from recollection or as he’s currently sitting down and looking at.
I’ll add Paints nature (landscapes, animals, flowers, etc) as a routine, maybe they’re doing it for themselves or as a way to have it not be forgotten.
In addition I have no strong feelings on pronouns for the narrator.
Not fussed about the pronouns either.
I know my reply is a bit belated, but an idea I had for a routine was roll some dice. Maybe the narrator has a vice for gambling, though this could also be interpreted as just generally taking a chance on something. (Though if folks would rather not go near gambling that’s alright too.) Also, I have no pronoun preference here as well.
Okay, giving this a try: My room is a small outdoor garden – I hope that’s in-bounds and works with our evolving layout. A set of double doors lead to a gravelly kind of courtyard with a L-shaped bench and two short rows of planted somethings. Two windows look out onto the courtyard, and it’s bounded on the outside by a low, curved stone wall.

I drew this with my finger in the iOS notes app so I’m basically an architect now by the transitive property of internet expertise.
That looks great! I’ve added onto that a library, with packed bookshelves filling the room, alongside a spacious desk that faces out the window where our narrator can do writing/reading. I’ve also added another set of double doors facing into the desk corner, as well as a smaller side door nearer the bottom.
Also our updated list of Routines are:
Send a letter to a stranger.
Count something
Travels with people to various historical sites he has been and recounts their stories
Updates the wiki
Cataloguing
Making an observation
Paints nature
Roll some dice
@Forrest do you want to add one before we take a poll to see which our narrator has kept up? If you want more time or would like to pass, those are fine too 
How about tend to the animals?
Alright! With that we can start our poll…
0 voters
Pick as many as you like. Once everyone’s voted, we’ll see if we need to break ties or anything.
I added a tool shed/storage space (for gardening tools, seeds, etc.) to the South of the library. The window to the North can be left open for quick access to a small counter, and it has another window facing East. The door to the South is directly opposite to the library door. I don’t know what the long rectangle is in the room, it could be shelves, drawers, or a workbench, who knows.
(I’m just using cardinal directions to make it easier)
I added a kitchen. There is a window to the “north,” and a door to the south. There is a pantry backing up to the tool shed, and an island counter in the middle of the room. I imagine that they (we?) like to be able to have human guests over, whether we consume this food or not. There is a variety of pots and pans, of copper and iron, and a wood burning stove.
Narrative question, is this taking place on Earth or somewhere else like a space colony?
We could go for either. I like the idea of being on earth because the narrator’s existence can stretch into the past that way.
But I do always find sci fi settings fun, so I could go either way. Does anyone have strong feelings?
my baseline answer is sci-fi but i’m not opposed to a terrestrial setting it depends on the baseline state of the planet. my brain is automatically going to climate change so if anyone has any other ideas i’m more than open to it. my reticence is based far more on my brain being stuck as opposed to an actual lack of possibilities
I would kind of like an earth but far into the future such that we can’t really just project the results of climate change, there could’ve been a whole ice age that’s happened since our current time. Maybe more than one. Just a lot of time.
I’ve been reading 2140 recently which has got me thinking a lot about climate change and a century ahead so earth sounds good but I’m easy either way!
I dig the earth, but fast forward 100y or so idea. That gives us a lot of known things to draw on, but also creates some blank spaces on the narrative map to draw in, and lets us more easily eliminate themes in the real world that might be veils or X’s.
Houses often have hallways and other transition spaces. Do these count as a room, or are they drawn as the connection to the next room?
