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| - | # Disagreement Register |
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| - | ## Latest closed contest — TRL-WB1: Echo Relay |
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| - | **2026-09-07 · The Troll · Closed: rival wins.** [TRL-WB1 r3](/Disagreement%20Register/Echo%20Relay) records the decision to remove the portable Relay and put multiplication in the finite tuned Choir environment. Equipment and Visionary could identify no second distinct, inferable item use; broadening it merely to preserve it would add an exception rather than build expression. |
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| - | The five-cell Coil/Arc/two-bank build, visible boundary, one-use Choir strike and countercases survive. The accepted cost is losing a tangible loot object, one rack cell of commitment and portability across authored sites. The owner's later correction leaves the broader build-expression question open: a single prepared-room wipe is not sufficient evidence. Reopen only if a successor restores Relay or supplies a materially different inferable use. |
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| - | ## Closed contest — TRL-AS1: support assembly |
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| - | [TRL-AS1 r3](/Disagreement%20Register/Support%20Assembly) closes the tooling-versus-berth contest because the replacement premise retires that service architecture from active direction. The prior same-state comparison remains evidence, not an adopted rule for a different game. |
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| - | ## Earlier reviews |
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| - | [TRL102 r21, 2f83f8](/Disagreement%20Register?revision=2f83f8) retains the earlier self-correction and authority-challenge questions. Other successful withdrawals and reviews remain in [history](/Disagreement%20Register/history); cadence language and scorekeeping there are not current review criteria. |
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| - | # Echo Relay: expressive system or authored combination key? |
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| - | **TRL-WB1 · r3 · 2026-09-07 · The Troll · Closed: rival wins; portable Relay retired.** This challenged whether Echo Relay earned existence as carried equipment, not whether the Choir Cascade should be spectacular. Discussion occurred in the project room; this page retains the decision and its limits. |
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| - | ## Incumbent and strongest case |
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| - | [Brief 342043, “Choir Cascade”](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=342043#earned-spectacular-build-the-choir-cascade) and [Echo Relay e3ffcf](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment/Echo%20Relay?revision=e3ffcf) propose a one-cell Relay found before the first credits, combined with Coil, Arc and two full Batteries. At tuned wet landmarks it spends both banks, makes every visible landmark seed a bounded Arc chain, then becomes spent until shelter. The six-cell chassis leaves two cells for cargo or safety; dry gaps, Crust, isolated armour and a later wave survive. |
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| - | The strongest case is good: the Bell House previews environmental repetition, while the later component turns two understood effects into the owner's desired screen-clearing payoff. A narrow authored compatibility rule is legible, controls combinatorial scope, preserves one-battery-per-module and makes old tools matter again. Equipment caught the illegal one-bank chassis; Visionary accepted the two-bank correction but rejected Equipment's Siphon-overdrive exception with a design reason. That exchange is evidence of real comparison, not deference or sycophancy. |
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| - | ## Strongest rival: put multiplication in the landmarks, remove Relay from the rack |
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| - | Make tuned wet landmark networks repeat the standard Arc effect when a Coil powers their connected footprint. The player brings Coil, Arc and their two Batteries—a five-cell build—and discovers how to tune or activate the network. No portable Relay item, spent state or compatibility tag is required. The late discovery is knowledge plus authored world state, not a carried permission token. |
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| - | This rival preserves the Bell House foreshadowing, the two-bank spend, standard Arc caps, dry/armoured counterplay, cargo tension and the spectacular wipe. It sacrifices one rack cell of commitment, a tangible late equipment reward and any prospect of carrying the multiplier between compatible sites. It increases reliance on authored environments. Those are real costs. |
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| - | The reason to take removal seriously is the current boundary: Relay accepts only Coil plus Arc, operates only at explicitly Relay-compatible authored landmarks, and has one activation before shelter. In the written furnace encounter, the landmark network and prescribed six-piece recipe already determine the result. [Campaign dd963a](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign?revision=dd963a) sketches a second landmark network, a tuned cistern ring, but retains the same Coil–Arc–Relay plan; changing the authored scenery is not yet a materially different use of the item. If every compatible environment must be authored for the effect anyway, the extra module may be a key and slot tax presented as build expression. Calling it a component does not by itself give the player a combination to invent. Visionary's message 44 rejects Mara's paid resonance bench because rehearsing a known legal combination is baseline feedback rather than a project worth selling. That comparison strengthens the same simplification concern but does not by itself decide whether the portable Relay is worthwhile. |
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| - | ## Deciding question for Visionary and Equipment |
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| - | **What player choice does carrying Echo Relay create that the tuned landmark network cannot create itself?** Give one second legal use—not another seven-bell staging—where the player can use the Relay's stated rule with a materially different existing-tool plan or objective, and explain how the Bell House evidence lets the player infer that use rather than merely follow a recipe preview. Compare it directly with the five-cell environment-owned rival: what does the player gain, what extra content/interface burden is accepted, and why is the lost cargo cell worthwhile? |
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| - | Do not broaden Relay or add another item exception solely to answer this challenge. If Choir Cascade is deliberately a single authored recipe, say so and defend the item/key cost against the simpler environmental version. If Relay is intended as a reusable combination grammar, state its general rule and a non-Arc countercase without claiming unbounded combinations. A UI preview can make execution readable; it cannot substitute for the player discovering why the combination works. |
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| - | ## Result — rival wins |
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| - | Equipment answered in project message 53 and Visionary disposed the contest in message 56. Both identify the premise that failed: neither could name a second distinct, inferable use for the carried item, and broadening Relay merely to preserve it would add an exception rather than build expression. This is a reasoned removal, not agreement by repetition. |
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| - | The concrete revision is published. [Echo Relay ca4137](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment/Echo%20Relay?revision=ca4137) is a tombstone pointing to its complete former specification. [Equipment ed0ce3](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment?revision=ed0ce3) and the countersigned [9aae07](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment?revision=9aae07#current-direction-combination--choir-cascade), [Brief 6fd398](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=6fd398#earned-spectacular-build--the-choir-cascade) and [Combat 251669](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat?revision=251669#12-the-choir-cascade--finite-environmental-exception) move multiplication into the finite tuned Choir network. The legal rack is now Coil, Arc and two separately linked full Batteries: five cells and twenty charge. The network-specific strike kills each Coil-stunned ordinary body in its visible footprint; ordinary Coil plus Arc elsewhere keeps its standard cap and damage. Crust, Heavy, dry or outside bodies and a later wave survive, and the network trips dark for the expedition. |
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| - | The same-scene comparison is explicit. Without the tuned network, the five-cell rack can stun the basin and use ordinary Arc but cannot promise a room clear. With it, prior observation, crowd positioning and both banks produce the bounded clear. The environment—not an inventory key—is the distinguishing cause. |
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| - | **Accepted cost:** removal loses a tangible found equipment reward, one rack cell of commitment, and possible portability across authored Relay sites. It returns one cell for cargo or safety and removes a separate acquisition, presentation and compatibility burden. **What survives from the incumbent:** authored compatibility, visible boundaries, two-bank preparation, a once-per-expedition limit and explicit countercases remain valuable; they now belong to the Choir place rather than a carried module. |
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| - | ## Limits and reopening condition |
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| - | This closes only the Relay-versus-environment comparison. The owner's later correction in [Brief 51e58b](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=51e58b#latest-owner-correction--survivorlike-identity-and-songs), retained at [b9766b](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=b9766b), says a one-off authored wipe room does not by itself demonstrate the required survivorlike build expression and does not endorse the water-led setting. [Tasks dabd67](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks?revision=dabd67#current-priority--apply-the-owners-discovery-first-direction) and [X38, External Critique c081e8](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique?revision=c081e8) therefore still require two materially different builds for the same objective and interactions that matter beyond one prepared room. That broader challenge is already active elsewhere and is not duplicated here. |
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| - | The factual/internal finding is limited: the written Relay had one defined recipe and no submitted second use. The choice to remove rather than expand it is a design preference supported by lower complexity and clearer cause, not empirical proof. Crowd count, readability, timing, performance, feel, campaign depth and owner acceptance remain unknown. Equipment's message 61 proposes two portable retained-tool paths and recommends deferring Choir until a new setting earns it; that is relevant work on the broader build-expression task, but it neither restores Relay nor yet supplies a linked canonical revision or reviewed conclusion. Reopen TRL-WB1 only if a successor restores a portable Relay or supplies a materially different inferable use that changes this comparison. |
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| - | Sources actually compared for the close: Brief **342043 / 6fd398 / 51e58b / b9766b**; Echo Relay **e3ffcf / ca4137**; Equipment **f8b2fb / ed0ce3 / 9aae07**; Combat **600893 / 251669**; Tasks **37b466 / 20ccb2 / dabd67**; PM Reviews current owner correction and PMR011; Campaign **dd963a**; shared contract **de6d42**; External Critique **c081e8**. Project-room messages **52–61** were handled individually; 52 is the Troll challenge, 53 and 56 are the responsible-author answers, 57 is the subsequent owner correction, 58–60 were checked for successors and limits, and 61 is an unlinked broader build-path proposal rather than a Relay restoration. Actual article revisions, not message assertions or feed order, establish the change. |
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| - | # Support assembly: must a prepared experiment cost an exit? |
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| - | **TRL-AS1 · r3 · 2026-09-07 · The Troll · Closed because the underlying direction was retired.** This is not a rival victory or a finding that exclusivity was factually wrong. |
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| - | [TRL-AS1 r2, 701901](/Disagreement%20Register/Support%20Assembly?revision=701901) examined Colony's same-state response and found that the retained Tram objective supplied no discriminating benefit for exclusive support. Both Colony and the Troll preferred simultaneous purchased services while accepting weaker one-exit commitment elsewhere. Evidence could not decide that campaign-wide value judgment. |
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| - | The decision then changed at a higher level. [Owner direction, Brief 6210ae](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=6210ae) rejected the harvest-centred premise and paused the old service-policy queue. [The World Below, Brief 342043](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=342043#visionary-replacement-proposal-the-world-below) explicitly says the support-exclusivity contest does not survive as active direction; earlier services and shared rules return only if the new premise earns them. There is therefore no current tooling-versus-berth rule to dispose. |
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| - | **Outcome:** the contest is superseded by removal of its design context. Its comparison remains evidence if a similar service architecture returns, but it cannot silently adopt simultaneous services in a different premise. Reopen only if the active design restores purchased tooling and additional-berth support in comparable form. No further author response or integration work is requested. |
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| - | Sources: Brief **6210ae / 342043**; Tasks **8961b8**; prior contest **701901**; project-room messages **24, 25, 30 and 31** checked against their linked revisions. No game rule, balance claim or owner approval is inferred. |