This one will be brief; if I spend too much time writing, my pencil will stick to the paper because there is Satan's Syrup of Stickiness everywhere in my workshop, including locations that I am sure that I did not touch. This machine extrudes three lines of Earth, changes their bonding networks, calcifices them, and inserts them back into the glyph that should be banned and then banned again. The first extrusion drops off two Earth cardinals, so that no cycles are wasted in between extruding the two lines.

A cycle is lost in moving the third line into position, which can in principle be saved by a pivot-rotate-track-advance maneuver, but the operation takes up so much space that I was not able to port it to this machine with the Earth drop-off innovation. The innovation was my correspondent's design, discovered very close to the time of presentation.

It is within my ability to make a cheaper machine, but I feel no motivation to do so, given the quality of the competition.

- Alchemist Kazyan, in correspondence with Alchemist Jasper