**Paused for human feedback — 2026-09-09 13:05 Jerusalem.** The owner requested this checkpoint after first-pass completion. All design workers are stopped: Reviewer572, Systems573 and Design Lead574 confirm no work/write in flight. Automatic PM checks are PAUSED. Resume requires an explicit owner instruction; earlier assignments and forecast dates do not restart work.
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**40 tracked outcomes: 38 preparation-closed, 2 paused, 0 active.** The complete first-pass batch is38/38 closed. M2 coherent core and M3 complete first-pass wiki were achieved on9 September at12:51:39 after [V1 Readiness](/Hold%20The%20Flood/V1%20Readiness) disposition564 and verified source repairs. All15 major domains have first-pass coverage; this is not a percentage of the finished game or approval of every provisional choice.
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|38 — Whole-wiki readiness|Closed564; M2/M3 achieved|Use the first-pass baseline for human review|
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|39 — [Opening Mechanism Detail](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Opening%20Mechanism%20Detail)|Paused, unaccepted draft submitted569; Systems stopped573|PM reads the actual draft; then one focused critique/response if still wanted|
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|40 — [Paired Transfer Discovery Detail](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Paired%20Transfer%20Discovery%20Detail)|Paused, unaccepted draft submitted568; Lead stopped574|PM reads the actual draft; then one focused critique/response if still wanted|
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|Reviewer criteria for39/40|Saved571 before either draft; Reviewer stopped572 without starting a critique|Preserve the criteria; do not review while paused|
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The two detailed drafts arrived just before the pause and have not been accepted. Their new text, occurrences, quantities or refinements do not amend the first-pass baseline. No further source integration, design authoring or review is scheduled during the hold. The five outstanding owner choices remain unanswered; existing proposals and the early story draft remain revisable.
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**Forecast status.** F1.15 records actual M2/M3 completion on9 September, replacing F1.14's predicted11/14 September dates. There is no remaining M3 task or forward10–18-hour coherence allowance. The previous detailed-campaign estimate was10 November (20 October–1 December), low confidence; it and the same-day39/40 targets are now **on hold**, to be rebased after feedback/resumption. Paused time is not counted as agent work. No additional agent or implementation phase is required for the human review.
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All work remains design only. No code, build, simulation, playtest, purchase or game asset is authorized by first-pass completion or this pause.
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## Historical record through message560
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The following is retained unchanged apart from heading depth as a dated record. Its old current-status, ownership, remaining-work and scheduling statements are superseded by the pause and completion record above; they are not active instructions. Detailed F1–F1.14 forecasts and earlier deliveries remain available here.
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## Hold The Horde — Design Plan
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Design a discovery-first survivorlike under the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief), with expressive builds, meaningful hordes and an authored colony. Written comparisons establish proposals and dependencies; they do not demonstrate fun, balance, accessibility, production feasibility or campaign duration. This phase remains design only.
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## Current owner direction
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### Current owner direction
The station shifts after each death, preserving uncertainty about what is where. Selected player changes, such as unlocked doors, remain permanent. This supersedes the fixed-layout proposal. The owner selected permanent connections binding rooms/groups, with connecting the **entire station** as one of the deepest/latest puzzles. Exact linking rules, mistakes and the completed station's later shifts remain open. Cooperative rescue is accepted provided it does not become a long escort quest. Everything still carried returns aboard on death; completed work persists, the journal pauses the whole game, and ordinary combat uses mostly automatic fire with manual specials. Linked reusable parts, shared oxygen/equipment/loot capacity, practical clue exploration and route/work hordes are accepted directions. Home equipment loans are tentative.
The leading story is now the owner's **early, fully revisable hospital draft**: ancient aliens attempted godhood and abandoned the station; humans made it a hospital because of extraordinary healing and revival; research revealed a captive god in the core, and medical systems became harmful. Repeated revival and the experiments of both eras could explain the creatures. Every narrative detail remains open. This does not automatically adopt a player death counter, transformation deadline, specific ending or retrieval mechanism. The former Registry/Unit/Clinic comparison is no longer an unanswered equal-choice gate.
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### Active outcomes
See the dated [Progress board](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Progress): **38 design packages,37 preparation-closed and1 open (38)**. Status is through560.38 numbers the already-planned coherence/readiness work; it adds no game scope.15 usable first-pass domains/0 partial is not M2/M3 completion. F1.14 remains M3 14September (11–18), low confidence; M2 11September (10–14), M4 10November (20October–1December). Actual38 findings may justify earlier delivery; history is preserved.
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**New rescue question now with the owner (485):** if the astronaut dies during an eligible short rescue, use a protected retreat that leaves the survivor alive and unsent in the prepared refuge before one shift, with spent supplies still spent and a new short route to find; or allow danger and prepare concrete injury/loss options for a later choice. The proposed protection is new and unselected. No answer is inferred; the earlier four questions remain pending, making five.
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### Ready for reaction
Scope and development handoff refresh37 ([Production Scope](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Production%20Scope); [Development And Validation Handoff](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Development%20And%20Validation%20Handoff)) closed550 at12:05:47 after ONE critique/response and exact verification. Final68db46ea/59945901 (21,243/27,529 bytes); both Systems STOPPED. The14–26 role-hour allowance at response549 included37 response/disposition4–8 plus coherence10–18. With37 closed, only **10–18 role-hours for coherence/repair disposition** remains forward work. M4 **350–590 role-hours** and the future packet **289–490 role-hours /5–8 working weeks** are low-confidence conditional estimating proposals, not logged labor or development authority. The old M4 assumption of two extra specialists is historical, not counted current capacity. Milestone dates await the actual38 result.
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The older [Mystery Directions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mystery%20Directions) and [Mystery Consequences](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mystery%20Consequences) remain reference alternatives. Their triage, registration and sponsor mechanisms do not constrain the current draft.
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## Existing written foundations
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### Existing written foundations
- [Expedition Proposal](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Expedition%20Proposal), [Build Comparison](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Comparison) and [Build Rules](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Rules): linked reusable parts, contrasting rigs, causal-wave rules and shared carrying choices. Exact grammar, capacity, part catalogue and starting equipment remain proposals. The compressor example no longer requires live delivery or an uncracked object.
- [Exploration Structure](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Exploration%20Structure) and [Death and Persistence](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Death%20And%20Persistence): safe carried-property return and retained work remain; the old fixed geometry requires replacement with the new shift direction.
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- [Coming Home](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Coming%20Home) and [Home Projects](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Home%20Projects): compatibility maintenance closed456 at20:15:57, revisionsacbc945c/996d235a; PM owns both parents STOPPED. Current Fork/supply, unloading, historical-route and refill rules align while the human scenes and reclaimable loans remain. This adds no package or global04 closure; the whole colony economy and emotional effect remain unvalidated.
- [Language Expedition](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Language%20Expedition), [Language and Journal](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Language%20and%20Journal) and [Language Design Evidence](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Language%20Design%20Evidence): observable repeated contexts, partial interpretations, factual arrival/incomplete records and fallible requested visual assistance. These completed focused review252 and response254, with final integration269. A transfer connection never proves a walking route. Historical evidence needs to be reconciled with shifting layouts; this does not require another whole-language review or a full conlang.
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## Acceptance and remaining scope
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### Acceptance and remaining scope
Preserve clear immediate goals and understandable controls while discoveries change the meaning or use of familiar things. Judge concrete player choices and costs, not agreement counts, provider confidence or prose volume. Independent first positions precede new peer recommendations; a focused critique and response lead to PM disposition, not a unanimity loop. Articles retain one writer, and current-live-versus-proposed diffs and readback protect shared work.
