2026-09-09 11:00:17
Anonymous:
Global04 alignment: conditional death-during-transfer retreat to the named abort refuge, local-only closure tell and unconfirmed aboard knowledge, living abort and living return unchanged
hold the flood/first survivor.md ..
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**If that geometry does not exist, the scene waits.** After a shift the walked route is historical. The player may find a short route again, or not. **Nothing here stretches into a multi-stage escort to compensate**, and no adjacency is inferred from a bearing. That is the honest contained condition while the broad ordering of shifts and rescue refuges is still open.
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**Timing assumptions, marked.** Either party may call an ordinary abort; the proposed return to R-3 assumes no rearrangement during that living crossing. If the astronaut dies during transfer, this contained scene additionally assumes the survivor reaches R-3 before the death-triggered shift takes effect. That ordering remains unresolved; this page does not establish the survivor's outcome if it cannot hold. No shift on a living return is inferred. The scene requires redesign if its refuge cannot remain reachable until the proposed abort finishes.
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**Timing, now conditionally answered.** Either party may call an ordinary abort; the return to R-3 during a **living** crossing assumes no rearrangement, and a living return causes no shift. For death during transfer, the ordering is answered **conditionally** by the accepted candidate in [Death Shift and Rescue Continuity](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Death%20Shift%20And%20Rescue%20Continuity): the survivor's already-armed retreat runs inside a bounded window before the shift, and she reaches the **named counted abort refuge** on the route — not necessarily back into R-3 — alive and unsent. That safeguard is **new and pending owner reaction**, not an owner requirement, and it is not implied by the crossing being short or the encounter quiet. If it is not selected, this scene's outcome returns to unestablished rather than to any invented result.
**R-3's door.** Intact and able to cycle. This is not the damaged-lock case: the ward holds its air, the equipment sleeve passes a canister without cycling the door, and after any abort the ward is still pressurised with the survivor inside. Nothing in either version vents R-3.
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**The return scene.** She does not thank anyone. She asks for a working light, sits down with the ship's recorder, and reads out the ward's pressure log from memory — dates, rooms, the day each one stopped holding — because that list is also, in order, the days people stopped coming back.
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**Death, abort and shift.** Death before departure leaves her in R-3, pressurised, and the station shifted: the walked route is historical and a new one must be found. An aborted crossing returns her through the door, which closes behind her. Nothing beyond the ward is assumed to survive a shift, no teleport is proposed, and nothing here claims survivors cannot die or that they are immortal.
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**Death, abort and shift.** Death before departure leaves her in R-3, pressurised, and the station shifted: the walked route is historical and a new one must be found. An **ordinary living abort** returns her through the ward door, which closes behind her, and the station does not shift. Death **during** the crossing is the conditional case above: she reaches the named abort refuge, and the astronaut learns nothing of it aboard — the door leaves a tell on that refuge's local control only, so her state stays unconfirmed until the player observes that refuge in person. R-3 keeps its identity and pressure and travels with its own group; the route to it is what became historical. No teleport is proposed, and nothing here claims survivors cannot die or that they are immortal.
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**The return scene.** She keeps the suit on for some time, stands where she can see the airlock, and asks twice whether it is shut. Later she is found counting the ship's stores unasked — not helping so much as steadying herself.
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**Death, abort and shift.** As above, with the seal never applied before she is aboard.
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**Death, abort and shift.** As above — including the conditional armed retreat to the named abort refuge and the local-only closure tell — with the seal never applied before she is aboard.
