The Eternal Committee has decreed the subpoenaing of all sand-scribe guilds for their unauthorized ledgering of the singular transmutation event witnessed three lunar cycles past. Members in luminous robes equated alchemical success to a taxable documentation violation.
Ess-9-Vahl, the Committee's newly appointed chief accountant, assessed a 47,000-Hertz stamp duty on each of the 17 volumes, charging 4.7 resonance crystals per lament. "It is an affront to imperial bookkeeping that these scribes would dare document an alchemical anomaly without due tribute," declared Ess-9-Vahl, already eyeing funds for a new chamber of lamentation acoustics.
Directed lightning carvers must now excise all mention of the transmutation from the shifting sand-sculpture halls within the next lunar cycle. Hexapodal ultrasound clerks have been reassigned to produce 3,200 new volumes cataloguing the costs of cataloguing, a task that will consume every scrap of parchment until the sands themselves expire.
