2026-09-15 17:18:57
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Link the reviewed same-equipment upgrade choice comparison
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The selected tradeoff is explicit rather than solved: the half-band stop avoids a pickup vacuum and a hunt for the last body, but it can make the remaining horde feel unrewarded. Finishing or separating that crowd still buys quiet, safe work and freedom from pursuit; it does not secretly fill the meter. A plausible alternative is automatic fractional progress from every defeated body, with no pickups and a visible cap for each placed fight. In a later authorized observation, frequent departures immediately after a Break Mark—combined with continued engagement under the per-body alternative without corner sweeping—would favor that alternative. If per-body progress instead restores cleanup and safe trickle farming, the bounded bands have the stronger case.
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[Two Trips, Two Different Builds](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Upgrade%20Choices) works through two paid Tune opportunities on the longer sealed-source route. Its four-offer sample also proposes what to show when only one or no new compatible effect remains, while preserving banked choices and the separately earned major. The small pool can eventually run out of new choices during an expedition.
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### Major change before the horde is over
A **major horde milestone** is a named physical event inside a major placement, not another three-mark threshold and not the reward for clearing the room. The representative Balance Gallery remembers two once-per-expedition facts in either order: **horde engaged**, when its first announced band commits either from an unsealed local feeding mouth or through the gallery's outer walking threshold from a named, currently connected source, and **Bellback answered**, when the first Bellback threat is countered or Bellback is defeated. A counter means its locked cone is escaped or put behind the fixed rib until the wave releases, a faced Barrier catches the wave, its unfinished brace is interrupted by displacement, or Bellback is defeated. Taking an unblocked hit does not set the answer, but a later valid counter or defeat can. A walking-threshold band counts only if the authored route identifies its source, conserves that source's finite population and warns the crossing in the gallery; adjacency alone creates no crowd.
