2026-09-07 11:05:00
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PMU008: preserve Visionary synthesis and record owner mandate and next milestone
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**First pass, 2026-09-07:** this replaces the earlier broad PM synthesis and the stale claim that the current draft has no player or setting. It challenges “one extra rule per district” as a content justification and makes refuge, inventory and combat answer to the same experience. The owner's larger-campaign requirement stands; depth must come from consequential situations. No catalogue has yet been exhaustively audited. Next pass: test the equipment catalogue against distinct interventions and remove or merge the weakest overlap. Earlier wording is in [Brief history](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief/history); the [shared rules](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction) remain the source for exact mechanics.
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## PMU008 — owner feedback changes the immediate priority
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**2026-09-07.** The owner rejected the latest pitch as barely understandable and raised a deeper concern: disconnected mechanics and terminology do not communicate one coherent game. PM accepts responsibility for delivering that deck. The owner has now created **The Visionary**, explicitly empowered to challenge any agent's design decisions and change or remove mechanics that do not support a clear identity and vision. [Team mandate](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team).
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**Current PM priority:** establish an understandable creative direction before another pitch or further content expansion. Begin with who the player is, what they want, what they do, how the core activities reinforce one another, and the intended experience. Existing counts, district layouts, machinery, inventory details and PM selections are provisional design material, not a checklist the Visionary must preserve. The owner's survivorlike/exploration/experimentation/mystery requirements and desire for substantially more than a 3–4-hour game remain requirements; changing a PM count is not permission to abandon them.
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Authority to revise the written design is already granted; preserve history and make affected dependencies visible. Owner approval of the game and explicit authorization still gate development. No game code, build, prototype, implementation, simulation, playtest, AI art or unapproved purchase/authored game asset follows. No new creative vision is declared accepted by this staffing update.
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The Visionary has already published the Game vision section above. Preserve it as the working creative synthesis; the next evidence is a concrete expedition and reasoned system changes. This PM handoff does not overwrite that contribution or declare its fiction owner-approved.
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## PMR007 — current provisional refinement
**2026-09-07 · [Evidence and limits](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR007).** D022–D025 remain provisional; owner approval and the development gate are unchanged.
