2026-09-15 13:49:31
Anonymous:
Clarify scan restart, bridge reuse, and death consumption
hold the flood/moving scan expedition.md ..
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Around a hundred bodies can now occupy the converging lanes. That is a paper target, not a reactive guarantee: the new R24 release overlaps the still-active second R15 band and whatever physically survived and followed from earlier bands. Efficient clearing makes the crest thinner; nothing compensates with hidden arrivals. A player seeking the Storm payoff steps off the safe rail edge into the connected middle, lets ordinary impacts finish filling the store and presses the Capacitor's manual command. Thunderhead sends three Arc heads through the packed bodies and a pressure lance down the carriage lane, with ideal coverage capped by the current equipment rules. It opens space rather than deleting the encounter. Ordinary fire and charging resume only as the parts become ready, while fast survivors still cross the track.
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If the release goes badly, the player can spend Thunderhead on the nearer pack, pull the brake cord and withdraw R15→R14→R01. This Storm Choir has no Barrier and leaves little spare carrying room, so holding the middle trades defence and find capacity for spectacle. Crossing to R24's apron to dog a hatch reduces pressure but gives up position beside the carriage. Death returns everything still carried, spends the trip's oxygen/material and ends all temporary upgrades; it does not erase completed scan samples.
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If the release goes badly, the player can spend Thunderhead on the nearer pack, pull the brake cord and withdraw R15→R14→R01. This Storm Choir has no Barrier and leaves little spare carrying room, so holding the middle trades defence and find capacity for spectacle. Crossing to R24's apron to dog a hatch reduces pressure but gives up position beside the carriage. Death returns all property still carried; only oxygen already breathed and material actually consumed remain spent, while unspent contents still carried return with the astronaut. It also ends all temporary upgrades. Committed observations remain as dated records, but they are not automatically a valid alignment after a death shift.
## What the instrument shows
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At the far position, one set of bearings converges on a receiver collar now visible at **R28 Regulator Gallery's existing A-face landing**. The same collar lights a direct lock on the folded bridge's reach scale. That is evidence for trying the local release, not proof from an icon. Operating it happens in live time. The span unfolds across the transfer void and catches the collar; only walking the bridge establishes that it is a current route.
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This is **not a [permanent room join](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Connecting%20The%20Station)**. It adds no compatible latch and does not bind R15 to R28 through a death shift. A living return keeps the arrangement, completed scan and extended bridge, while a new expedition renews eligible combat and resets Echoing Arc and Thunderhead. After a death, a changed external relation breaks the receiver lock, closes the bridge door and retracts the span to R15; the dated scan remains useful evidence but its route becomes historical. The R15 fitting and completed local samples persist. A fresh current scan is required before another receiver can be trusted.
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This is **not a [permanent room join](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Connecting%20The%20Station)**. It adds no compatible latch and does not bind R15 to R28 through a death shift. The rail, scan-bay fitting, receiver fitting and dated observations remain as durable physical work or evidence. The instrument separately holds three bright **current-scan slots**—near, middle and far—for the arrangement being tested now. Only one complete current set can light the bridge lock. A later set never overwrites the earlier dated captures in the journal.
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### Restart and reuse
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The state rule is one-way and visible:
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| State on reaching R15 | What the player does | What can pay this expedition |
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| **Unfinished scan, same expedition** | The carriage and filled current-scan slots remain at the last committed notch. Withdrawal and re-entry resume there; they do not replay an earlier rail passage. | Each named R14/R15 band, `Scan held`, `Veil answered` and the shared E07 loft stage can commit only once in the expedition. Re-entry cannot pay a second mark, second major readiness or second release. |
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| **Complete scan, living return** | The arrangement, far-parked carriage, current three-slot set, open bridge door and extended span remain. The player walks straight through the scan bay and across the earned bridge without repeating the solved carriage run. | A new expedition renews eligible combat and growth under the source rules, but the preserved scan itself pays nothing again. The brake pulse, middle milestone and far alarm do not replay while the receiver lock remains valid; current frontier fights beyond or beside the route provide any new growth. |
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| **Complete scan, then death and changed alignment** | Loss of the receiver lock retracts the span, closes the bridge door, marks the three bright slots **historical—rewind required** and drops a yellow return-chain handle beside the far stop. On the next visit, pulling that visible chain is live, interruptible work: its geared loop carries the carriage back along the same rail to the near mechanical stop. Three dark current-scan slots then show that a new pass can begin. | Death began a new expedition, so only still-viable sources and their explicitly renewed bands may pay again. The first new near sample starts a new active set; middle and far complete it. The old set remains dated evidence and cannot light the new lock or duplicate a current reward. |
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The return chain stays mechanically covered while the receiver lock is valid, so an open bridge is a bypass rather than a growth loop. Rewinding, local re-entry or a repeated sample cannot clear an expedition's already-committed source, mark or milestone flag. Only returning home starts the next expedition's eligible renewal; only a death-broken alignment exposes the chain and requires a fresh three-position scan.
Quiet is earned before interpretation. The finite hatches settle after releasing their committed bodies but are not permanently sealed unless their dog wheels were used. The player clears the creatures beside the far carriage or closes the scan bay's new pedestrian bulkhead to separate them. R15's Carousel remains a live hazard until its own state is handled. Only then does the still window belong to awe: the lights were not stars, one of them has become a bridge, and another unresolved point remains in the scan.
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Across the new span, R28's fan, Grid seams, rack aisles and Caller source lamp are visible before commitment. With little oxygen left, the player can risk the crossing now or walk home with the record. The next living-return expedition begins without temporary power but with the bridge still open and the physical rig retained. The player can rebuild Storm Choir's climb on the route, or break it apart to make room for current defensive or Nozzle equipment suited to R28. The scan has changed the next action without answering who made the system, why the arrangement changes or what the remaining point means.
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Across the new span, R28's fan, Grid seams, rack aisles and Caller source lamp are visible before commitment. With little oxygen left, the player can risk the crossing now or walk home with the record. The next living-return expedition begins without temporary power but with the bridge still open and the physical rig retained. The player can cross the earned bypass immediately, rebuilding temporary power from eligible renewed pressure on the current frontier or changing the physical loadout to make room for defensive or Nozzle equipment suited to R28. The scan has changed the next action without answering who made the system, why the arrangement changes or what the remaining point means.
## Placement and state at a glance
| Element | Existing support | Proposed addition or rule |
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| **Route and host** | Arrangement B already walks R01→R14→R15 and gives R15 an arm to R24. | Keep the carriage wholly inside R15. Add a three-position rail parallel to clear floor, powered indicator, brake/stop cord, observation glass, separated scan bay, glazed bridge door and folded bridge. This is one new R15 walking opening, but no new room. |
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| **Route and host** | Arrangement B already walks R01→R14→R15 and gives R15 an arm to R24. | Keep the carriage wholly inside R15. Add a three-position rail parallel to clear floor, powered indicator, brake/stop cord, covered return chain, observation glass, separated scan bay, glazed bridge door and folded bridge. This is one new R15 walking opening, but no new room. |
| **Sources and warnings** | R14 service run: 30–60; R15 cable duct: named but unnumbered; R24 loft: 30–60 through three hatches. All have visible apertures and closures. | Propose 40–80 for R15, split into two bands. Brake pulse wakes R14/R15. A new alarm lead visible through the R15→R24 threshold lets the final sample trigger the same uncommitted R24 stage once. Total available across the three sources is 100–200; target final occupancy is 70–120 through physical overlap, never adaptive refill. |
| **Growth and major** | Three marks bank one Tune; Storm Choir's Echoing Arc and Thunderhead already have current equipment rules. | Two R14 bands plus first R15 band pay the pre-major Tune. `Scan held` plus `Veil answered` readies the major before R24's final release. No upgrade is required to progress. |
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| **Bridge and evidence** | R28 has one A-face approach and an encounter readable from its own protected mark. Records are framed live and reviewed paused. | Add one external receiver collar at R28's existing landing and one current R15↔R28 line of sight across a transfer void. The span opens a walkable current bridge only; no new R28 door, room join, unseen map or safety verdict. |
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| **Failure, rescue and persistence** | R15→R14 is the encounter withdrawal; R24's recess may be Aster's abort only under the separate short-route rules. | Brake and walking retreat stay usable. Scan pressure never transports or qualifies a survivor; R24 must still be quiet/separated and its short route independently walked. Each completed sample persists; temporary motion rolls back to the last notch. Living return preserves the aligned bridge; death makes it historical and retracts it. |
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| **Bridge and evidence** | R28 has one A-face approach and an encounter readable from its own protected mark. Records are framed live and reviewed paused. | Add one external receiver collar at R28's existing landing and one current R15↔R28 line of sight across a transfer void. Dated samples persist, but only the instrument's complete three-slot set for the current arrangement lights the lock. The span opens a walkable current bridge only; no new R28 door, room join, unseen map or safety verdict. |
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| **Failure, rescue and persistence** | R15→R14 is the encounter withdrawal; R24's recess may be Aster's abort only under the separate short-route rules. | Brake and walking retreat stay usable. Scan pressure never transports or qualifies a survivor; R24 must still be quiet/separated and its short route independently walked. Same-expedition re-entry resumes at the last notch without duplicate payments. Living return preserves the aligned bridge as a no-rescan bypass. Death makes the alignment historical, retracts the span and exposes a visible manual rewind before a fresh three-sample pass. |
## Why this placement, and its cost
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- **Hordes and Builds:** replace the open placement note with this named R14→R15/R24-source/R28-bridge example; keep its player-first wording and current Storm rules.
- **Combat Rules:** add only the two scan-milestone facts, the three pre-major bands and the R24 final-stage timing; do not generalize another growth system.
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- **Station Room And Module Inventory:** add R15's counted fitting, clear rail/bulkhead geometry and glazed bridge opening; the arrangement-specific R15↔R28 sightline; R28's receiver collar; the 40–80 R15 allocation; and the visible R15→R24 alarm lead/alternate trigger. Preserve every existing threshold, crawl, source closure, record position and rescue boundary.
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- **Encounter And Mechanism Placement Inventory:** map the scan across existing E05 pressure and the same E07 loft stage, forbid duplicate triggering, record P14/count cost and keep E05/E07 as separate encounter IDs.
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- **Equipment/information pages:** link the existing 7 C / 7 A Storm Choir, one-canister carrying example, current Echoing Arc/Thunderhead limits, full journal pause and live framed-record rule. Do not select the proposed Ricochet or Gravity replacements.
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- **Station Room And Module Inventory:** add R15's counted fitting, clear rail/bulkhead geometry, covered far-stop return chain and glazed bridge opening; the arrangement-specific R15↔R28 sightline; current-slot versus dated-record state; R28's receiver collar; the 40–80 R15 allocation; and the visible R15→R24 alarm lead/alternate trigger. Preserve every existing threshold, crawl, source closure, record position and rescue boundary.
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- **Encounter And Mechanism Placement Inventory:** map the scan across existing E05 pressure and the same E07 loft stage; record P14/count cost; keep E05/E07 as separate encounter IDs; and give the named bands, two facts and shared loft stage once-per-expedition flags that survive local re-entry but rearm only with eligible new-expedition sources.
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- **Equipment/information pages:** link the existing 7 C / 7 A Storm Choir, one-canister carrying example, current Echoing Arc/Thunderhead limits, full journal pause, live framed-record rule and multiple dated captures. State the owner death rule as carried property and unspent contents returning, with only actually consumed oxygen/material remaining spent. Do not select the proposed Ricochet or Gravity replacements.
