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	# Hold The Horde — Horde Creature Proposals

-	Status. Three illustrative creatures, not an adopted roster, balance or origin story. Their names describe functions, not species history. All attack on sight under local perception. Ordinary fire stays mostly automatic; the player moves, positions, interacts and uses manual specials. Journal pause freezes combat, oxygen and work without completing anything. The station shifts after every death while selected completed work persists; every route here is therefore a local encounter shape, not fixed geography.
+	Three creature proposals. Their names describe functions. All attack on sight under local perception. Ordinary fire is mostly automatic; the player moves, positions, interacts and uses manual specials. Journal pause freezes combat, oxygen and work without completing anything. The station shifts after every death while selected completed work persists, so every route here is a local encounter shape, not fixed geography. These and the other owner decisions are recorded in the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief).

	## 1. Bellback — redirect a force wave

-	Silhouette and warning. Bellback is a low four-limbed body with a hollow bell chest and dragging forearms. After holding sight, it plants, faces the last seen position and draws in dust with a rising moan. A bright ripple fills its bounded forward cone before release.
+	Silhouette and warning. Bellback is a low four-limbed body with a hollow bell chest and dragging forearms. After holding sight, it plants, faces the last seen position and draws in dust with a rising moan. A bright ripple fills its forward cone before release.

-	Replaceable origin. It could be a remnant of an ancient ascension chamber or a human compression-treatment machine grown into a patient; neither explanation is required for the behaviour.
+	Origin. It could be a remnant of an ancient ascension chamber or a human compression-treatment machine grown into a patient; neither explanation is required for the behaviour.

	Action and causality. Completing the brace emits one pressure wave through the cone, shoving the astronaut, loose objects and unbraced creatures until solid structure stops them. It deals condition damage but interrupts work only by moving the astronaut off the control. Once the warning begins, the cone direction is locked. Leaving it or reaching hard cover avoids the blast without cancelling its release; displacing or defeating Bellback interrupts the brace. Afterwards it must brace again.

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	Silhouette and warning. Shutterback is a tall two-legged carrier with a folded plate fan wider than its body. With the astronaut visible and allies behind, heel clamps click and the fan opens. A floor shadow shows the coming shelter angle.

-	Replaceable origin. The fan could be an alien experiment screen or a mobile hospital radiation barrier repurposed by a corrupted patient; its origin remains evidence to discover, not combat knowledge granted up front.
+	Origin. The fan could be an alien experiment screen or a mobile hospital radiation barrier repurposed by a corrupted patient; its origin remains evidence to discover, not combat knowledge granted up front.

	Action and causality. Open plates block sight and ordinary projectiles through their angle; sheltered enemies are invalid automatic targets until exposed. Shutterback stays visible and damageable while slowly turning. A shove rotates it or breaks the clamps, sustained damage collapses the plates, and flanking exposes the crowd. Defeat ends the screen.

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	Silhouette and warning. Glass Siphon is a narrow tripod with a translucent bladder and coiled hose-arm. In range, it braces, flashes its empty bladder and tracks through an audible wind-up. The tether line and radius appear before launch.

-	Replaceable origin. It could descend from an alien breath-transfer trial or a human resuscitation extractor turned harmful. The leading hospital/godhood draft makes both plausible without selecting either.
+	Origin. It could descend from an alien breath-transfer trial or a human resuscitation extractor turned harmful. The leading hospital/godhood draft makes both plausible.

	Action and causality. An unobstructed hose clamps to the suit and draws oxygen; the suit shows higher drain while the bladder fills. It is not instant death and changes no inventory quantity. Leaving the radius, breaking line with cover, displacing or defeating Siphon ends it. A miss retracts first. A faced Barrier intercepts the hose as an external strike but makes no oxygen.

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	## Set distinction

-	Bellback changes where bodies end up, Shutterback changes what automatic fire can see, and Glass Siphon changes how long the player can remain in a marked space. All can be avoided, interrupted or defeated; none waits for one exact loadout or punishes a successful build. None implies a player death counter or a long escort; any rescue use must fit the owner’s short cooperative direction. Origins, frequency, numbers and central-story relationships remain open, and prose establishes no readability, fun, balance, accessibility or production cost.
+	Bellback changes where bodies end up, Shutterback changes what automatic fire can see, and Glass Siphon changes how long the player can remain in a marked space. All can be avoided, interrupted or defeated; none waits for one exact loadout or punishes a successful build. None implies a player death counter or a long escort; any rescue use must fit the short cooperative rescue direction.
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+	## Open questions
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+	- Origins, frequency, numbers and central-story relationships of the three creatures remain open.
+	- These rules are untested; numbers are proposals.

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