| **Yeva Kolb — pressure technician** | Wants the ward pressure record to outlive her because she fears her value is only what she remembers. She will leave, but disputes abandoning the record for speed. | Personally measured named fittings at dated times and saw the core team return changed. She does not know current routes, either alien language, why treatment changed or whether changed means ruined. | During one short crossing, spend exposed world time capturing the wall record or refuse and move now; no item or trust tax. | Explicitly installs/routes the packing bench; prepared cycles still require Dorn's completed service and the later demonstrated cycle. Harmful-profile evidence changes her from blaming “the core” generally to targeting one human-configured line, without settling Dorn's identity or the core's innocence. |
| **Aster Fen — supply clerk** | Wants the personnel door locked behind her because she thinks arrivals disturb the station. She comes either way, but disputes leaving the route open. | Counted stores and recorded shipments. She has seen shifts follow crises, not their cause; her ledger gives historical movements, never present contents or passenger identity. | After she is Sent, lock one reversible corridor door at its outside panel or refuse. The other ward threshold remains; no whole ward becomes permanently inaccessible. | Commissions the ledger comparison table with her physical ledger and provenance fields. The berth trace narrows “all arrivals cause shifts” to “this docking may,” while a late-transfer result makes her admit that a shipment entry is not a passenger list. |
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| **Dorn — maintenance worker** | Wants to leave without reopening the boundary he sealed. The astronaut may choose the shorter direct hoist and override him or hand-cycle a still-short side door. | Serviced one pressure panel, painted his own route marks and heard a late transfer cycle. He did not see who crossed and cannot infer current plumbing, population or route. | Choose direct Fork-powered hoist/open boundary or the one-junction side vestibule; both require current verification, one travel canister and one stocked abort refuge. | Commissions the one-channel receiver and supplies the bench service contribution; the full bench still needs Yeva's installation. The late-transfer counter lets him replace a denial of movement with the narrower truth that he heard a cycle and sealed afterward. |
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| **Mara Venn — sterile-processing/reclamation worker** | Wants a contaminated culture rack purged before she leaves; the astronaut may instead lock it behind a visible isolation seal to preserve evidence. She will not pretend preservation is harmless. | Saw processing batches change after particular machine cycles. She can identify handling and contamination boundaries, not the alien cause, every creature or a safe current route. | Purge the station-held rack, consuming those samples, or complete the reusable isolation seal and leave them placed; then hold one decontamination crossing while she cycles the inner air curtain. | Commissions the material-response tray and protected-item refusal without consuming salvage. The active/bypassed profile comparison changes her from “the samples carry it” to “this machine can write it,” while a post-isolation-only result leaves the earlier cause unknown. |
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| **Ivo Hale — rehabilitation worker** | Wants to control when he moves; he disputes being treated as cargo or having an automatic carrier decide his crossing. | Observed patients' voluntary steps and machine-carried motion in his bay. He knows that fixture's response and people's expressed consent, not alien intent, universal physiology or treatment safety. | Leave the Stride Switch in the local cue rail so his own steps trigger the crossing lamps, or reclaim it and use a manual visible cue he controls; either way he walks one short route himself. | Repairs/commissions the home gait rail; later solo tests require the astronaut's two actual passes. Voluntary-treatment evidence makes him insist on preview, refusal and purge, while respecting any informed choice without withdrawing help. |
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| **Dorn — maintenance worker** | Wants to leave without reopening the boundary he sealed. The astronaut may choose the shorter direct hoist and override him or hand-cycle a still-short side door. | Serviced one pressure panel, painted his own route marks and heard a late transfer cycle. He did not see who crossed and cannot infer current plumbing, population or route. | First verify the one-junction side route while his boundary stays closed. Either use it, or commit opening the direct hoist with a Fork-carried compatible control trigger, then personally walk and verify that direct route before Dorn moves. The fixed hoist supplies power and motion. | Commissions the one-channel receiver and physically services the inherited bench compressor/housing; the full bench still needs Yeva's installation/routing and a demonstrated cycle. The late-transfer counter lets him replace a denial of movement with the narrower truth that he heard a cycle and sealed afterward. |
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| **Mara Venn — sterile-processing/reclamation worker** | Wants a contaminated culture rack purged before she leaves; the astronaut may instead lock it behind a visible isolation seal to preserve evidence. She will not pretend preservation is harmless. | Saw processing batches change after particular machine cycles. She can identify handling and contamination boundaries, not the alien cause, every creature or a safe current route. | Purge the station-held rack, consuming those samples, or complete the reusable isolation seal and leave them placed; then hold one decontamination crossing while she cycles the inner air curtain. This rack is not Story30's controlled comparison input. | Commissions the material-response tray and protected-item refusal without consuming salvage. The active/bypassed profile comparison changes her from “the samples carry it” to “this machine can write it,” while a post-isolation-only result leaves the earlier cause unknown. |
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| **Ivo Hale — rehabilitation worker** | Wants to control when he moves; he disputes being treated as cargo or having an automatic carrier decide his crossing. | Observed patients' voluntary steps and machine-carried motion in his bay. He knows that fixture's response and people's expressed consent, not alien intent, universal physiology or treatment safety. | Leave Stride in the approach gait plate: after Ivo gives a visible ready signal, the astronaut deliberately traverses its marked grounded distance to trigger the lamps. Or reclaim it and let Ivo use a fixed manual cue. Either way Ivo chooses the moment and walks the route himself; no survivor-trigger eligibility is proposed. | Repairs/commissions the home gait rail; later solo tests require the astronaut's two actual passes. Voluntary-treatment evidence makes him insist on preview, refusal and purge, while respecting any informed choice without withdrawing help. |
These contributions can be valuable and person-dependent without gating the physical main path. Equipment acquisition/configuration, ordinary refill, both alien-language tests, pressure controls, station connection and the proposed endings retain their no-survivor alternatives. An absent or non-participating person supplies no testimony, conversation or commissioning act; a completed fixture supports only the solo operations already assigned in Home And Colony Loop.
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| ID / host, participants and required evidence | Visible choice and action | Consequence, revisit and interruption boundary |
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| **Y1 — The wall must come.** Obj. 4 R-3 if Yeva-first; otherwise the obj. 6 pressure annex. Astronaut + Yeva; visible wall log, confirmed travel air and current short route. | Photograph the log in exposed world time or refuse and signal movement. Yeva confirms flow, cycles her intact refuge door and crosses while the astronaut holds one junction. | Capture persists with place/life; refusal leaves the wall record revisitable. Ordinary abort returns her to the intact ward/annex. Death mid-crossing records last confirmation only. Sent waits for closed ship airlock. |
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| **Y2 — The dark bench.** Ship; Yeva primary. Requires Y1 Sent and recovered compressor head; no Dorn required to begin her contribution. | Greet or postpone; show/withhold the wall record; explicitly help install the head and route ship supply in world time. | Yeva's installation persists, but the bench remains **setup incomplete** until Dorn's service and a demonstrated cycle. Ordinary refill/repack remain. No unseen completion while either person is absent. |
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| **Y2 — The dark bench.** Ship; Yeva primary. Requires Y1 Sent and the bench's inherited ship compressor head/housing; no Dorn required to begin her contribution. This is existing ship gear, not a station pickup or new portable item. | Greet or postpone; show/withhold the wall record; explicitly help seat the inherited head and route ship supply in world time. | Yeva's installation persists, but the bench remains **setup incomplete** until Dorn physically services the compressor/housing and both are followed by a demonstrated cycle. Either person may perform their contribution first. Ordinary refill/repack remain. No unseen completion while either person is absent. |
| **Y3 — The profile is not the person.** Ship after a committed active/bypass or post-isolation culture record; Yeva primary, Dorn only if present and shown it. Allocates Story30 variant 2. | Share either record, ask her to support isolation, challenge her “core” attribution or defer. | With the full comparison she targets the human-configured line; with only post-isolation results she admits the prior cause is unknown. Dorn may dispute “change equals damage.” No present participant, no testimony; notes are not corrected automatically. |
| **A1 — Lock behind me.** Obj. 4 R-3 if Aster-first; otherwise obj. 7 supply booth. Astronaut + Aster; current short route and flow confirmed. | Complete the crossing, then after Sent lock the named personnel door or refuse. Aster operates the inner door and may abort. | Lock is reversible at the same reachable panel and closes one current convenience, not the other threshold or objective. Abort returns her to the intact refuge. Death during transfer remains unconfirmed, never automatic delivery. |
| **A2 — Count only what we have.** Ship ledger table; Aster primary. Requires A1 Sent and her physical ledger. Reuses Home28 project 3. | Commission the table by registering one dated entry and provenance fields; choose records to align, or postpone. | Setup/registered entries persist. Later solo comparisons use only registered material; new recollection needs Aster. The overlay never reveals present contents or route, and no journal note is written for the player. |
| **A3 — This docking, perhaps.** Ship berth/table; Aster primary. Requires committed berth trace and one post-death manifest/world-state comparison. Allocates Story30 variant 1. | Show both, show one, or defer; ask whether every crossing still fits her theory. | With both she retracts “every arrival” and retains “this docking may.” With one she keeps the wider theory. Wariness changes what she says, not access, help or friendship points. Absent Aster contributes nothing. |
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| **D1 — Keep the section shut?** Obj. 6 sealed receiving section; Dorn primary. Requires damaged-lock sleeve, travel canister, stocked airlock-side vestibule and both short routes walked this life. | Install Fork in the direct hoist and open his boundary, or keep Fork and hand-cycle the one-junction side door; signal/abort while Dorn operates inside controls. | Direct opening persists and Fork remains installed until reclaimed; side-door checkpoints persist. Both converge on the same present abort vestibule, not a refuge chain. Original room vents on departure. Death/shift versus abort ordering is explicitly unresolved. |
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| **D2 — Two leads, one Fork.** Ship receiver/bench; Dorn primary, Yeva cross-link if present. Requires D1 Sent. Reuses Coming Home and Home28 projects 1/2. | Dorn commissions the fixed one-channel receiver and completes his bench service. If Yeva's installation is complete, run receiver → reclaim Fork → bench cycle → reclaim; otherwise choose receiver only or postpone. | Receiver address/service and Dorn's bench contribution persist. Prepared canister/record persist only after completed operation. This one scene owns the shared Coming Home interaction; Yeva's appearance is not another scene. General later solo use follows Home28. |
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| **D1 — Keep the section shut?** Obj. 6 sealed receiving section; Dorn primary. Requires damaged-lock sleeve, travel canister, stocked airlock-side vestibule and the one-junction side route walked this life while the sealed direct boundary remains untouched. | Use the verified side door; or install Fork in the direct hoist's compatible control seat and commit opening the boundary. The fixed hoist supply/control provides power and motion; Fork passes the trigger. Opening is preparation, not a rescue offer: afterward the astronaut must personally traverse/check the direct route before signaling Dorn. | A verified side departure uses its checkpoints. A direct opening persists even if the newly exposed route proves too long, blocked or unsafe; in that case rescue remains waiting until an actually walked short route exists. If it passes, Dorn operates inside controls and both routes converge on the same present abort vestibule, not a refuge chain. Fork stays installed until reclaimed. Original room vents on departure. Death/shift versus abort ordering is unresolved. |
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| **D2 — Two leads, one Fork.** Ship receiver/bench; Dorn primary, Yeva cross-link if present. Requires D1 Sent. Reuses Coming Home and Home28 projects 1/2. | Dorn commissions the fixed one-channel receiver and physically inspects/services the inherited compressor head and bench housing already aboard. This work can persist before Yeva routes the supply. If her installation is complete, run receiver → reclaim Fork → demonstrated bench cycle → reclaim; otherwise perform receiver/service only or postpone. | Receiver address, completed physical service and Yeva's separate installation retain distinct visible states. No prepared canister exists until both contributions are complete and the player performs the cycle. This one scene owns the shared Coming Home interaction; Yeva's appearance is not another scene. General later solo use follows Home28. |
| **D3 — What crossed.** Ship ledger table/receiver; Dorn primary, Yeva/Aster cross-links only if present. Requires wall/destination pressure-cycle records. Allocates Story30 variant 4. | Share with all present, one person, or nobody. Ask what each actually witnessed. | Dorn replaces “nobody crossed” with “I heard a cycle, then sealed”; Yeva may retract only the falsification accusation; Aster limits her ledger. Recipient remains unknown. Each absent person has no variant. Deferred evidence triggers nothing unseen. |
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| **M1 — Clean side.** Obj. 8 decontamination booth; Mara primary. Requires travel air, current one-junction route and clean abort vestibule. | Purge the station-held culture rack, visibly consuming it, or close its reusable isolation seal and preserve it in place; then cue Mara's inner air curtain and hold the junction. | Purged samples stay consumed; sealed samples remain placed and may support later evidence if reachable. Mara crosses under her own power. Ordinary abort returns her to the clean vestibule; death mid-crossing remains unconfirmed. |
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| **M1 — Clean side.** Obj. 8 decontamination booth; Mara primary. Requires travel air, current one-junction route and clean abort vestibule. Its local expendable rack is distinct from Story30's two equivalent living culture patches and from any later M2 salvage sample. | Purge this station-held rack, visibly consuming only its contents, or close its reusable isolation seal and preserve it in place; then cue Mara's inner air curtain and hold the junction. | Purged rack contents stay consumed; sealed contents remain placed and may support only a later authored use if reachable. Neither branch grants, removes or gates Story30's controlled comparison inputs, reconstructs a missed profile record, guarantees recovery or supplies M2. Mara crosses under her own power. Ordinary abort returns her to the clean vestibule; death mid-crossing remains unconfirmed. |
| **M2 — Catch, don't spend.** Ship material tray; Mara primary. Requires M1 Sent and empty fixed cradle. Reuses Home28 project 4. | Help fit shields and visible protected-item refusal; commission without inserting Cycler or salvage. Later loan/test or postpone separately. | Fixture setup persists. No sample is consumed until the player explicitly selects and commits a Cycler activation. Solo operation is then allowed; Mara's comparison/account still requires her participation. |
| **M3 — A machine made this.** Ship tray/evidence shelf; Mara primary. Requires a committed culture-profile capture. Allocates Story30 variant 3. | Preserve the completed trace, share it, or isolate first and accept that the pre-isolation comparison may be missing. | Full comparison changes her causal belief toward the machine profile. Two post-isolation non-anomalous results establish only current disconnection. Isolation removes a live signal, never the captured record; reopening remains explicit and access-conditional. |
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| **I1 — My pace.** Obj. 2 rehab/calibration bay; Ivo primary. Requires travel air, current short route and braced airlock-side alcove. | Leave Stride installed so Ivo's voluntary steps cue visible lamps, or reclaim it and let him press a manual cue before walking. Astronaut holds the single junction. | Installed/reclaimed part state is exact; neither choice grants rescue or part acquisition automatically. Ivo walks and controls timing. Ordinary abort reaches the braced alcove; death mid-crossing records only last confirmation. |
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| **I1 — My pace.** Obj. 2 rehab/calibration bay; Ivo primary. Requires travel air, current short route and braced airlock-side alcove. | Leave Stride in the approach plate; when Ivo visibly signals ready, the astronaut performs the established deliberate grounded traversal and its trigger cues the lamps. Or reclaim Stride and let Ivo press the bay's fixed manual cue before walking. Astronaut holds the single junction. | Stride's observed eligible subject remains the astronaut; Ivo controls when the crossing begins and moves under his own power. Installed/reclaimed state is exact, with no extra part or capacity cost. Neither branch grants rescue or acquisition automatically. Ordinary abort reaches the braced alcove; death mid-crossing records only last confirmation. |
| **I2 — Two actual passes.** Ship gait rail; Ivo primary. Requires I1 Sent. Reuses Home28 project 5. | Repair/commission rail together or postpone. After commissioning, the astronaut may walk one voluntary pass and stand on the moving carrier for the second. | Fixture setup persists; trace records only performed astronaut tests, never a rolling-weight substitute. Player may later operate solo and reclaim Stride. No passive training/stat benefit appears. |
| **I3 — Ask before treatment.** Ship before treatment or after a return; Ivo primary. Requires the treatment's recorded access benefit, hostile correction cue and purge evidence. Allocates Story30 variant 5. | Discuss then accept, refuse, defer or later purge. If treatment happened before Ivo arrived, show/withhold the actual record; he cannot retroactively warn. | His response distinguishes informed choice from hidden exposure. All options retain his help and main progression. Treatment/purge state persists under Story30; conversation neither applies nor removes it. |
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**Yeva first.** Objective 1 opens the R-3 bearing; a later current short geometry enables Y1 at objective 4. Y2 makes the pressure record and incomplete bench visible immediately, while ordinary refill/rig work stays useful. Objectives 5/6 can proceed without Yeva's testimony. Dorn's D1/D2 later completes the bench/receiver; Aster enters once her objective-7 booth gets a verified short route. Yeva's early road names remain attributed help, never translation.
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**Aster first.** A1 occupies R-3 and A2 gives a first-return record comparison without any other project appearing. A3 can narrow her shift belief after an ordinary death. Yeva later occupies the objective-6 pressure annex, never R-3; her Y2 bench contribution waits for Dorn's service. All physical language, pressure and equipment paths remain available before either joins.
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**Aster first.** A1 occupies R-3 and A2 gives a first-return record comparison without any other project appearing. A3 can narrow her shift belief after an ordinary death. Yeva later occupies the objective-6 pressure annex, never R-3; she may complete Y2's installation before or after Dorn physically services the inherited bench gear, but prepared cycles wait for both contributions and a demonstrated cycle. All physical language, pressure and equipment paths remain available before either joins.
**Deeper mechanisms before the cast.** The investigator defers objective 4 until a valid short route, completes builder/visitor tests and reaches objective 11 by physical alternatives. They may capture the live harmful-profile feed, leave isolation open, or re-seat it before any rescue. Completed captures survive; missing pre-isolation evidence is not reconstructed, and a later post-isolation test has the limited result Story30 specifies. Reopening is explicit but depends on reaching the control again. Later people respond only to records shown after they arrive; none supplies an unseen prior conversation. Objective 12's physical all-room construction remains independent of gathering the cast, intervention or diagnostics.
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| Inventory | Reuse and new obligation | Count treatment |
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| **5 people / 15 unique scenes** | Exactly Y1–Y3, A1–A3, D1–D3, M1–M3, I1–I3; three primary-owned scenes each. Story30 variants allocate to A3/Y3/M3/D3/I3. Home28 projects allocate to D2 receiver/bench, A2 table, M2 tray, I2 rail, with Yeva's bench setup in Y2. | **5 / 15.** Shared appearances are cross-links, not extra IDs. Branch variants still require writing but do not become hidden unique scenes. |
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| **Rescue material** | Y1/A1 extend the two First Survivor variants and add mutually exclusive later annex/booth hosts; D1 replaces the old long multi-refuge reading with one short side/direct choice; M1 and I1 are new. Five rescue-specific air/abort/choice variants share ordinary horde roles at objectives 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8. | **+0 enemies or set-pieces claimed.** Encounter geometry/timing and survivor behavior are real variant obligations, not free reuse. |
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| **Rescue material** | Y1/A1 extend the two First Survivor variants and add mutually exclusive later annex/booth hosts; D1 replaces the old long multi-refuge reading with one verified side route plus an optional committed-and-then-verified direct route; M1 and I1 are new. Five rescue-specific air/abort/choice variants share ordinary horde roles at objectives 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8. | **+0 enemies or set-pieces claimed.** Encounter geometry/timing and survivor behavior are real variant obligations, not free reuse. A failed direct-route check leaves its opened boundary as a cost; it grants no new geometry. |
| **4 regions / 12 objectives / 24 modules / 40 rooms** | Plausible hosts: 2 pace bay, 4 R-3, 6 pressure annex/receiving section, 7 supply booth, 8 decon booth; ship scenes use the five existing home projects. | **+0 claimed region/objective/module/room.** Later ledger must allocate four non-R-3 refuge/abort fixtures and both mutually exclusive non-first host variants; if they do not fit, record an increment or revise. |
| **Five major home projects** | Receiver and bench remain distinct projects even when D2 shares one scene; table/tray/rail keep commissioning and later solo-use rules. | **5 / 5, +0 projects or portable parts.** No unseen setup or forced consumption. |
| **Evidence and state** | Reuses wall log, berth trace, culture comparison, pressure-cycle pair and treatment preview. Adds personal rescue choices, exact waiting/prepared/in-transfer/abort/Sent variants and knowledge-sharing branches. | No automatic journal correctness or reconstructed clue. Capture/work are world time; review/notes pause. |
