2026-09-15 15:28:52
Anonymous:
Align ordinary living abort with prepared counted vestibule
hold the flood/first survivor.md ..
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**A bearing is not a route.** The installed bridge lets the ship separate R-3's live pressure pulse from the collar fault. That gives a *local bearing* — R-3 is live, and roughly that way. It never establishes a walkable path, adjacency, or that anything is currently open.
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**The geometry that makes this one crossing.** The rescue is offered only when the player has **personally walked, in the current arrangement and in one life, from the ship airlock to R-3's threshold**, and that walk is short — the airlock corridor, one junction, the ward door. The bearing helps them recognise R-3 when they reach it; only the walk establishes the route.
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**The geometry that makes this one crossing.** The rescue is offered only when the player has **personally walked, in the current arrangement and in one life, from the ship airlock to R-3's threshold**, and that walk is short — the airlock corridor, one junction, the stocked Clinical Abort Vestibule (R12), and the ward door. The bearing helps them recognise R-3 when they reach it; only the walk establishes the route.
**If that geometry does not exist, the scene waits.** After a shift the walked route is historical. The player may find a short route again, or not. The scene does not stretch into a multi-stage escort to compensate.
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**Timing.** Either party may call an ordinary abort; the return to R-3 during a **living** crossing assumes no rearrangement, and a living return causes no shift. For death during transfer, the ordering depends on the safeguard in [Death Shift and Rescue Continuity](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Death%20Shift%20And%20Rescue%20Continuity), pending owner decision: the survivor's already-armed retreat runs inside a limited window before the shift, and she reaches the **named counted abort refuge** on the route — not necessarily back into R-3 — alive and unsent.
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**Timing.** Either party may call an ordinary abort during a **living** crossing. The survivor returns to the prepared Clinical Abort Vestibule (R12), closes its stationward door and waits there, unsent. Its checked controls and stocked support make it the waiting place for this route. The station does not shift. For death during transfer, the ordering depends on the safeguard in [Death Shift and Rescue Continuity](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Death%20Shift%20And%20Rescue%20Continuity), pending owner decision: the survivor's already-armed retreat runs inside a limited window before the shift, and she reaches the **named counted abort refuge** on the route — not necessarily back into R-3 — alive and unsent.
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**R-3's door.** Intact and able to cycle. This is not the damaged-lock case: the ward holds its air, the equipment sleeve passes a canister without cycling the door, and after an ordinary living abort the ward is still pressurised with the survivor inside. Nothing in either version vents R-3.
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**R-3's door.** Intact and able to cycle. This is not the damaged-lock case: the ward holds its air, the equipment sleeve passes a canister without cycling the door, and after an ordinary living abort the ward remains pressurised while the survivor waits in R12. Nothing in either version vents R-3.
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**The return scene.** She does not thank anyone. She asks for a working light, sits down with the ship's recorder, and reads out the ward's pressure log from memory — dates, rooms, the day each one stopped holding — because that list is also, in order, the days people stopped coming back.
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**Death, abort and shift.** Death before departure leaves her in R-3, pressurised, and the station shifted: the walked route is historical and a new one must be found. An **ordinary living abort** returns her through the ward door, which closes behind her, and the station does not shift. Death **during** the crossing is the pending case above: she reaches the named abort refuge, and the astronaut learns nothing of it aboard — the door leaves a tell on that refuge's local control only, so her state stays unconfirmed until the player observes that refuge in person. R-3 keeps its identity and pressure and travels with its own group; the route to it is what became historical.
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**Death, abort and shift.** Death before departure leaves her in R-3, pressurised, and the station shifted: the walked route is historical and a new one must be found. An **ordinary living abort** returns her to stocked R12, where she closes the stationward door and waits; the station does not shift. A renewed attempt needs fresh travel air, the short current route rechecked and used waiting supplies restocked. Used air remains spent. Death **during** the crossing is the pending case above: she reaches the named abort refuge, and the astronaut learns nothing of it aboard — the door leaves a tell on that refuge's local control only, so her state stays unconfirmed until the player observes that refuge in person. R-3 keeps its identity and pressure and travels with its own group; the route to it is what became historical.
