the Acerbus Configuration

Week 22 brings us the ACERBUS CONFIGURATION
"The Box of Divine Complexity"
Original box design & research by Steelgohst

Believed to require over 600 precise moves to open, the Acerbus Configuration is the most complex box ever to be created by LeMarchand. Most of the separate plates have their own specific movement, and the metal the plates are constructed from varies across its surface. Many are silver but some are largely osmium, a poisonous metal that can kill by absorption into the bloodstream through the skin.

LeMarchand had used this metal once previously, on a box called "Enigme". Unlike Enigme, Acerbus can be opened without ever having to touch the poisoned plates, provided that the correct method is known by it's worker. Bearing in mind the complex process needed for this task, the worker would require the secret in advance in order for this to be possible.

The Acerbus Configuration has so far had 256 owners. This is known due to the fact that each owner has