2026-09-08 15:59:24
Anonymous:
Keep interrupted-rescue timing unresolved and date observations
hold the flood/first survivor.md ..
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**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. **Nothing here stretches into a multi-stage escort to compensate**, and no adjacency is inferred from a bearing. That is the honest contained condition while the broad ordering of shifts and rescue refuges is still open.
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**One timing assumption, marked.** Either party may abort, and the return into R-3 finishes because nothing re-seats during a life — shifts occur at death and return. **That is a proposed rule, not a settled one.** If shifts could occur mid-life, this scene's containment fails and would need redesigning rather than patching.
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**Timing assumptions, marked.** Either party may call an ordinary abort; the proposed return to R-3 assumes no rearrangement during that living crossing. If the astronaut dies during transfer, this contained scene additionally assumes the survivor reaches R-3 before the death-triggered shift takes effect. That ordering remains unresolved; this page does not establish the survivor's outcome if it cannot hold. No shift on a living return is inferred. The scene requires redesign if its refuge cannot remain reachable until the proposed abort finishes.
**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 any abort the ward is still pressurised with the survivor inside. Nothing in either version vents R-3.
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**Why she leaves even if the player refuses.** Because she has been watching the ward's margin more closely than anyone and knows it is losing. Staying is now the worse of two bad options, and she says so plainly rather than being talked round. She goes, and she is quieter about it.
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**What she contributes aboard.** She can say which fittings on a recorded route still hold and which have failed, from her own measurements. With the wall, she can speak to rooms she never entered; without it, only to what she measured herself, which is less and she says so.
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**What she contributes aboard.** She can say which fittings on a recorded route held or had failed when measured, with the dates of those measurements. This is historical evidence, not a claim about unseen current conditions. With the wall, she can speak to rooms she never entered; without it, only to what she measured herself, which is less and she says so.
**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.
