The Assay
System term
The writing that appears where your eyes are looking, on the night the lights go out: it measures people and things and reports what it finds in short, dry sentences.
Showing what the story has revealed through Chapter 1.
Chapter 1Exchange Pieces
- Description
- It arrives at 23:41 with a pressure over the ears: This world is Assayed. The lines sit where the eyes look, stay crisp against closed lids, fade when you look past them and return when you think of your name.
- Description
- Its first sheet gives a name, race and tier, a level, nine attributes in three groups, three resource pools, and a count of attuned items. Everyone in the city seems to have one.
- Behaviour
- It answers some questions and not others: Vitality can be asked what it governs; a sword's damaged edge is still called sharp. After an hour of watching it offers a Vocation.
Read it in Chapter 1 · 3 places
Also appears in Chapter 2, The Shore Road.
Also appears in Chapter 4, Room for the Living.
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