Quoted By:
Directly before you and centred within an enormous hollow vertical soaring upwards, you can see some servomechanical parapet, with chains and some form of hoist mechanism. Craning your head upwards, you can see this dais is designed to be lifted upwards, into some mechanical chamber, filled with perilous narrow walkways and very thin ledges. There is a strange sense of recognition - for the area above very much appears to resemble a clock tower - perhaps the Clock Tower? Of Witenagemot House? But how could that be - unless the Algorismus carries some parody, some twisted replica of the City itself within its labyrinthine walls?
You can see the chains are connected to two counterweights suspended high above: