The Great Lock
The Reckoners measured the main race with locks. Find the chamber the race runs through straight and level, and read any stone of the Great Lock with the Loupe.
How to open it
- Read with the Loupe:
great_lock - Notes: The Stillness — 2, Basics — 2
- After the entries:
Races
Pages of the entry
In the vault of the Great Lock the Reckoners left a Hubstone and all five Reckoner Records — they are yours if you pass both puzzles of the lock. The lock stands on the main race of the Channel Reaches: the race runs straight and level through a stone chamber between two walls. Step into the race upstream — it carries you into the chamber — and step aside onto a quay.
In the west wall lies a vane hall: a thread of the race bursts from an intake. A vane along the thread lets it pass, a vane across stops it, a vane aslant turns it aside. Turn the vanes with an empty hand until the thread reaches the gauge mark — then the seals of the door in the east wall crumble. Behind the door is the lock chamber: raise the water with the valves to the lit mark of the pit, and the gate of the vault in the lower head rises.
Lock Tenders, Reckoner automatons, set back every vane and valve you touched until the puzzle is solved: be quick, lead them away or break them. A solved puzzle they leave alone. A pickaxe takes the masonry of the walls, but the vault is cast on every side — only the gate leads in.