The Honest Weight

Created and Curated by Ken Holm

The great city on the Indus, around 2300 BCE. You have just been made Keeper of the Stones, the inspector of the city's cube weights, after your teacher drowned in a well nobody can explain. On your first morning at the granary, the weights are light. Not by much. By just enough, every day, for years. Somebody has been feeding the river boats with the lower town's bread.

historical mysteryNew

~117–119 pages · 12 chapters · 3 endings · 25K paths

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