The Summing Lock
Chapter: The Stillness
A brass plaque with the rune of a current and tally dials below it. Read a Summing Plaque.
How to open it
- Read with the Loupe: Summing Plaque or Tally Dial
- Notes: The Stillness — 2, Basics — 2
- After the entries:
The Meanders
Pages of the entry
1
A Summing Plaque holds the seals of the way into the Heart of the loop and of the Summing Niches. Its sum burns in it — a compound current; Tally Dials sit on the wall beside it. Turn each dial with an empty hand to the rune of a Spring or a Pole, press the plaque — and if the dials together are what the sum is made of on the Wheel, the seals crumble.
2
The sum is what it is made of, not what it looks like: keep the Wheel open. If the dials add up to another current — "the sum does not reconcile": the plaque strikes with that current and stays dark for three seconds. If they add up to nothing — only a puff of murk.