The Windlass
The Galleries' patience made mechanism: a great silk-wound windlass braced across the corridor, its cables run through iron rings in every wall. Each turn it takes up another span of slack and the room is smaller by exactly that much — the pawl turns one way, and nothing it takes up is ever paid back. Its tarred cables spend your steel (each of your turns, your edge dulls) and the slack it steals comes off whatever wall you are raising. Rime does not hold on a running cable: the cold never slows the line. Wound past half, the pawl slips — and the whole gallery cinches shut at once.
| Move | Type | Value | Applies |
|---|---|---|---|
| takes up another span of slack - the pawl never gives back (+2 Wrath) | buff | 2 | — |
| runs the line - nothing you worked into the cable holds on a moving cable (Shrug 2) | shrug | 2 | — |
| lets one cable crack across you for 7 | attack | 7 | — |
| the pawl holds - the running cables shed whatever you had worked into them (Shrug 2) | shrug | 2 | — |
| OVERWOUND - the whole gallery cinches shut for 17 (only below 50% HP) | attack | 17 | — |
| presses wet mortarcreep into your seams (Mortarcreep 3) - it rears back a full beat before it lands, then it sets slowly, and it sets on you | debuff | 3 | Mortar-Creep |
| winds the load down onto you (Crushweight 1) | debuff | 1 | Crush-Weight |
On the shallowest floor it appears on it has 94 HP and its attacks carry +1. On the deepest, 117 HP and +2. The printed move text never changes — the number does.
- 💪 Wrath
- Adds its value to every attack it makes. Lasts the whole fight.
- 🧱 Mortar-Creep
- Whenever you gain Guard from a card, the foe gains that much Guard. Decays by 1. The mortar sets on both of you — turtling hardens the thing you are trying to kill.
- 🪨 Crush-Weight
- Deals that much damage at the end of your turn, straight through Guard, and it NEVER fades. The weight only grows.
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