The Town With No First Floor

Sit, $N, and let me tell you what a citadel is when nobody ever tears the old one down. This leaf held a passage of the Book that the Binders kept revising: a description of a city, rewritten draft after draft until the final version buried every earlier one under its own walls. Rather than pick a version to keep, the Binders exiled the whole stack of drafts together, and it ran aground here as one citadel built directly on top of itself, tier over sunken tier, with the oldest writing always the lowest and the wettest. Nobody has ever found where the first draft ends and the second begins, because nobody has ever reached the bottom. The Glossator came here trying to read the city from its foundation up, the only order that would make the revisions make sense. They left their own reading, or their failure to finish it, at the Last Undertext, past the Outer Wall, where the newest stone finally runs out. Go and read what they carved.

Experience

19800

Currency reward

1g 53s 0c

Repeatable

No

Sigil

Star and rift