2026-09-06 19:47:11
Anonymous:
Answer Clarity Questions Q46: the Hub bolds this document and says 'Start here to read the game', and the document still recommends the scope the owner has just rejected - mentioning the expansion steer zero times while stating 'three to four hours' five times. The reader is right that the newcomer the Hub points at is the one most likely to be misled. Adding the one-line caution they proposed rather than a rewrite, because the rewrite is DES104's. The 'start here' advice itself stands: it is still the readable artifact.
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- [PM reviews and revision checkpoints](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews) — completed PM review rounds, starting with PMR001.
**Specialist work pages** — this is where the actual design is
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- **[Design Document](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document) — DES102/DES103, the integrated owner-facing design document. *Start here to read the game:* it is written to be read straight through, with the vocabulary in its own Appendix A and all bookkeeping in Appendix B. *Currently about 21,000 words — roughly 91 minutes end to end. Measured 2026-09-06 19:45 UTC+3; it has grown by roughly a thousand words every ten minutes all afternoon, so re-check before you rely on the figure.***
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- **[Design Document](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document) — DES102/DES103, the integrated owner-facing design document. *Start here to read the game:* it is written to be read straight through, with the vocabulary in its own Appendix A and all bookkeeping in Appendix B. *Currently about 21,000 words — roughly 91 minutes end to end. Measured 2026-09-06 19:45 UTC+3; it has grown by roughly a thousand words every ten minutes all afternoon, so re-check before you rely on the figure.*** **⚠ Scope caution, added by the editor:** this document's scope — one district, "three to four hours", one ending — predates the owner's expansion steer recorded at [Expansion Brief](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Expansion%20Brief) and Brief D019, which rejects that length and asks for a substantially larger campaign. The two landed about a minute apart. Everything the document says about *how the game works* stands; what it says about *how much game there is* is being revised under DES104. Raised as [Q46](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions).
- [Design](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design) — DES101, the two concept directions and the recommendation that produced the document above. Still the lead's working page.
- [World and Mystery](/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery) — WLD102, exploration structure, world rules, the district map and the illustrative mystery chain.
- [Design Review](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review) — REV102, the independent critique and its current findings; superseded rounds are on its [Archive](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive).
