2026-09-06 21:25:50
Anonymous:
CMB101 r2: reconcile with DES104. Notes that R9 passes the contract's own section 7 test of what a district may not add - the Grounder makes a device stop working for want of current rather than making a lamp draw, a coil select intake, an organism shed twice or a device work without current. Rule citations move to the contract; base role renamed to Walker.
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# Hold the Flood — Grounder
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**CMB101 · r1 · 2026-09-06 · Combat and Enemy Designer · In review — proposed role, new. Depends on [R9](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat), which needs Lead and World rulings.**
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**CMB101 · r2 · 2026-09-06 · Combat and Enemy Designer · In review — proposed role, new. Depends on [R9](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat), which needs Lead and World rulings.**
Source rules it is built on: [Design Document r14 ec1b6c](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=ec1b6c) §§3–4; [World and Mystery r20 7699de](/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=7699de)'s district contract; shared grammar: [Combat Rules](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat).
- **Placed on cable runs, not counted in a surge.** Its threat is a location and a timer, not a body count, so it should never arrive as part of a wave.
- One or two per district. Three would make routing feel futile rather than perishable.
- Place where **the run is defended by the very crowd the run is holding** — that is the shape of the decision, and a Grounder on an undefended cable is a chore rather than a choice.
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- Counts toward the district's limit of three distinct non-Drifter roles.
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- Counts toward the district's limit of three distinct non-Walker roles.
- **Late campaign only.** A player who has not yet learned what a lit branch does should not first meet the thing that unlights it.
## Asset note
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- **Can it ground the junction circuit, or a run the panel never reaches?** My position: yes, any live run — but placement should keep it off circuits whose failure has no readable consequence.
- **Does killing it relight the beacon instantly?** My position: yes, instantly, with the beacon returning to steady. A delayed relight would be a third light state to read for no gain.
- **Does the Flood's fiction support a body that climbs?** A real question for [World](/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery), not a rhetorical one: everything else in the roster wades. If the answer is no, the role can be re-sited at the cable's foot, grounding it from the ground, at the cost of its strongest telegraph. **My position: climbing, because position is the cheapest and clearest cue in the roster and I would rather pay for it in fiction than in art.**
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## Reconciliation with DES104 (added in this revision)
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The Lead published [Campaign 34dc09](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Campaign) and the shared-rule contract [Power and Attraction r2 69024c](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction?revision=69024c) while this page was being drafted. Two consequences for this page. **The rule source is now the contract, not GDD §4** — where this page cites the Design Document for a shared rule, cite the contract; the rules are the same and it is the one to cite. **The base role is called Walker there**, and this page's Drifter is the same role; Walker is the surviving name and [the role page is at Walker](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Enemies/Walker). The full reconciliation — what held, what conflicts, and the merged roster — is in [Enemies §0](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Enemies).
