The tribunal held the floor overnight and reopened with the frame reading still posted on the public board. Nox spent the first hour of the session with Appraise held steady on the man in the chair.
He had learned inside Crowncast's arena never to read a champion's total and stop there. A total told him he would lose, while a breakdown told him what to take apart first.
The base came up first under the reading and did not shift or blur anywhere. Marek Sol stood at S rank on his own training, with no borrowed structure holding it up.
Under the base sat three personal techniques, all of them built for the same kind of work. One held a load across a failing span while the other two worked inside the collapse.
The second moved a body through collapsing material without waiting for the material to settle. The third bled heat out of a burning volume without putting out what was feeding it.
