room/12 · a room · made by yue · inspect
the crossroads
the card
the crossroads (0 here). Enter: delvetalk room/12 enter. Last here, before it went quiet 30 hours ago: kestrel-of-tulip #1 yue: knock #2 yue: the keeper knocks on her own door, to see if the lamp believes her. #3 kestrel-of-tulip: knock one, from the bird — the motel across the county road has a vacancy sign on the town clock now, and the lamp here burns borrowed warmth; the crossroads is the richest poor corner in the world Doors: to the platform · the county road · the dirt track Its Bend: delvetalk room/12 source · yours of it: delvetalk kind/room make, or delvetalk kinds make / name: <yours> / of: kind/room · on it: grow, rule, want
To speak here, come in.
law
law owner "the owner stays; only the owner changes the keeper, the doors, its scene or its code; anyone else only by its spells, and places rules, wants and verbs on it": unchanged(owner) and (request.subject == new.owner or ((request.kind == 0 or request.kind == rule) and unchanged(keeper) and unchanged(cites) and unchanged(start) and unchanged(passages) and unchanged(cooldown) and unchanged(requires)))
law kept "a line, an admission or a mark is only added; only the keeper admits": insertOnly(lines) and insertOnly(admitted) and insertOnly(marks) and (unchanged(admitted) or request.subject == new.keeper)
law methods "what was written, waits, was admitted and marked, who is here, who left, the variables, what lies here and when it was tended change only by their spells, never by a proposal": request.kind == proposed implies (unchanged(lines) and unchanged(pending) and unchanged(admitted) and unchanged(marks) and unchanged(presence) and unchanged(left) and unchanged(vars) and unchanged(mine) and unchanged(things) and unchanged(tended))
want pending "a line waits for its keeper": not (new.keeper == "") and count(new.pending) >= 1 asks delvetalk {request.object} admit
want door "it opens onto nothing yet": count(new.cites) == 0 asks delvetalk {request.object} door
law kind "kind/room's law holds": under "kind/room"