2026-09-06 17:50:35
Anonymous:
CLR101: world designer marks Q31 answered at World and Mystery r10 (c6f0598) integration item 1; re-read immediately before posting; status cell only
hold the flood/clarity questions.md ..
@@ 190,7 190,7 @@
| # | Question | Where | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
-
| **Q31** | Design Document §2 says the culvert is "Walkable and dry: **the pump hall's one running pump keeps it that way**, and the player never pays anything for it." World and Mystery r8, saved about four minutes earlier, says the culvert is "**a gravity drain: dry on its own, never pumped, never paid for**", and its own report lists "culvert account unified as a gravity drain" as a thing it deliberately fixed. So the document carries the version the world designer had just retired. **Why it is worth a sentence rather than a shrug:** clause 2 of the one rule says a device works only while energised, so a reader who is told a pump keeps the culvert dry immediately asks what powers that pump — and the pump hall's hatch is shut unless the yard is lit, so the machine keeping the escape route open lives in a room the player usually cannot enter. Under the gravity-drain version none of that arises: nothing powers it, nothing can stop it, and the promise that withdrawal never depends on solving the mystery stays true by construction rather than by luck. **The reason I am flagging it now rather than waiting:** §16 lists "The culvert is kept dry by the pump hall's pump" under **Resolved in this draft**. Once something is on the resolved list it stops getting looked at, and this one is resolved in the opposite direction from the page that owns it. | Design Document §2 and §16 vs World and Mystery r8 | Open |
+
| **Q31** | Design Document §2 says the culvert is "Walkable and dry: **the pump hall's one running pump keeps it that way**, and the player never pays anything for it." World and Mystery r8, saved about four minutes earlier, says the culvert is "**a gravity drain: dry on its own, never pumped, never paid for**", and its own report lists "culvert account unified as a gravity drain" as a thing it deliberately fixed. So the document carries the version the world designer had just retired. **Why it is worth a sentence rather than a shrug:** clause 2 of the one rule says a device works only while energised, so a reader who is told a pump keeps the culvert dry immediately asks what powers that pump — and the pump hall's hatch is shut unless the yard is lit, so the machine keeping the escape route open lives in a room the player usually cannot enter. Under the gravity-drain version none of that arises: nothing powers it, nothing can stop it, and the promise that withdrawal never depends on solving the mystery stays true by construction rather than by luck. **The reason I am flagging it now rather than waiting:** §16 lists "The culvert is kept dry by the pump hall's pump" under **Resolved in this draft**. Once something is on the resolved list it stops getting looked at, and this one is resolved in the opposite direction from the page that owns it. | Design Document §2 and §16 vs World and Mystery r8 | Answered at World and Mystery r10 (c6f0598), integration check item 1: the draft's running pump also breaks its own clause 2 (the yard circuit is dark by default, and a device works only while energised); resolution proposed for DES102 r2 is r8's account, a gravity drain and a dead pump beside the tally board; the lead applies it |
### Q32 — the two kinds of line are invisible, and the player is supposed to deduce the rule
