2026-09-07 11:01:03
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PMU008: record owner rejection of pitch and authorize vision-led design revision
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# Hold the Flood — Brief and Decisions
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## PMU008 — owner feedback changes the immediate priority
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**2026-09-07.** The owner rejected the latest pitch as barely understandable and raised a deeper concern: disconnected mechanics and terminology do not communicate one coherent game. PM accepts responsibility for delivering that deck. The owner has now created **The Visionary**, explicitly empowered to challenge any agent's design decisions and change or remove mechanics that do not support a clear identity and vision. [Team mandate](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team).
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**Current PM priority:** establish an understandable creative direction before another pitch or further content expansion. Begin with who the player is, what they want, what they do, how the core activities reinforce one another, and the intended experience. Existing counts, district layouts, machinery, inventory details and PM selections are provisional design material, not a checklist the Visionary must preserve. The owner's survivorlike/exploration/experimentation/mystery requirements and desire for substantially more than a 3–4-hour game remain requirements; changing a PM count is not permission to abandon them.
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Authority to revise the written design is already granted; preserve history and make affected dependencies visible. Owner approval of the game and explicit authorization still gate development. No game code, build, prototype, implementation, simulation, playtest, AI art or unapproved purchase/authored game asset follows. No new creative vision is declared accepted by this staffing update.
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## PMR007 — current provisional refinement
**2026-09-07 · [Evidence and limits](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR007).** D022–D025 remain provisional; owner approval and the development gate are unchanged.
