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PMR011: record replacement-vision dispositions, late decisions and verified chat boundary
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# Hold the Flood — PM Reviews
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## PMR011 — current review checkpoint
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**Completed 2026-09-07.** Compared current article content and immutable revisions with PMR010 and the owner-redirection record, then handled project discussion. Read Hub, Brief, Tasks, Team, chat documentation, index, log and feed; selected actual changed specialist sections rather than counting saves as progress. This checkpoint supersedes older active-cursor wording below.
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**Creative disposition:** The World Below is accepted as a promising working proposal to present to the owner, not owner-approved fiction, complete scope or a phase transition. A practical promise to Hearth, a familiar relief/song that acquires new meaning, an inhabited world below and earned equipment discoveries now belong to one premise. The furnace provides an apparent-ending victory and the answering settlement a subsequent practical goal. The actual real ending and sufficient distinct content for the owner's 30/90/100–200-hour ambitions remain missing. No duration, game feel, balance, readability, attachment or feasibility has been demonstrated.
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| Artifact / exact reviewed scope | Disposition |
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| [Brief 342043](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief?revision=342043), replacement proposal; [World 5deede](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=5deede), WLD105 and prior gate/wording fix | Accept the people, practical goal, redundant clue chain, explicitly possible early inference, safe sequence feedback and wet service regions between inhabited dry halls as a working contribution. Gate/wording regression repaired narrowly. Preserve actual early lift opening if the player solves the song before furnace completion; no invisible credits/notebook gate. Earlier harvest theme and song quotas remain retired |
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| [Colony cf90ad](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=cf90ad), current Hearth/COL103 | Accept authored projects, promised cargo before shopping, free legality feedback and persistent knowledge without hidden decay. Agree with withdrawing the paid Mara preview. Chat 47 correctly catches the timeline: Tavi's plate and Senn's arrival are later benefits. **Choose delayed capital spending:** first return offers cargo/known-lead decisions; bank salvage until a project earns a new action. Do not invent an immediate pair or charge for basic map/deduction access. Senn follows knowingly reopened travel. The long upper phase still needs meaningful settlement development |
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| [Equipment f8b2fb](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment?revision=f8b2fb), cargo/first rack; [Echo Relay e3ffcf](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment/Echo%20Relay?revision=e3ffcf), E9 | Accept two-cell nonconductive project cargo and the six-cell/two-bank chassis as written design contributions. No Relay-only Siphon overdrive remains. Update references to the withdrawn paid bench. Item/counterplay mirrors await the selected Combat rule; no blanket catalogue acceptance |
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| [Combat a9ea9a](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat?revision=a9ea9a) and successor [600893 §12](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat?revision=600893) | Heavy survival is corrected in the successor; withdraw that part of the earlier request. **Seven tuned origins is the provisional direction**, tying the effect to the seven learned bells; at four bodies each, maximum 28 is not proof of a wipe. Retain paid trigger, spent Relay and unique body claims. Combat/Equipment/Visionary must compare the same encounter with ordinary Coil+Arc, clarify global versus Relay-only stun lethality and deterministic ties, and show an earned furnace payoff. Four-origin readability and seven-origin unreadability are unverified. A bounded clear need not require either damage ladders or unbounded propagation. Correct 16/40 to 40%, not a quarter |
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| [Campaign fb24be §0](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign?revision=fb24be), [Districts 90ded2 §0](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Districts?revision=90ded2) | Redirection assessment received, not a delivered replacement campaign. Resolve the geography dependency for drafting: upper Hearth/sanctuary region plus connected lower regions; a layer may contain several places; lateral travel and returns, not one-way descent. Old seven districts are optional reusable material, not a second mandatory campaign. No inherited berth cap without a new reason. Lead owns integration; Campaign/Districts should now propose the compact spatial/progression structure, without awaiting another concept-approval round or claiming hours |
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| [REV106 786435](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=786435) | Useful review delivered. Brief 342043/World 5deede materially answer the missing action/early-inference, apparent-ending/next-goal, lower Flood presence and early-rack/clock points; overdrive disagreement is superseded. Critic independently confirms successors. Remaining campaign resolution and actual spectacular effect are not cleared by those corrections |
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| [Clarity 96ab01](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions?revision=96ab01), then [2ba3c3 current review](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions?revision=2ba3c3); [External 9b0ba6](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique?revision=9b0ba6) | Accept the Reader's later explanation review of Brief 342043: role, goal, loop and reasons to return were retellable with prior context explicitly disclosed. Not a real newcomer test or rules certification. External's current read predates the proposal and is not its verdict; review the successor, do not redo the old pitch |
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| [REF112 ad953c](/Reference/Readability%20Formulas?revision=ad953c), [REF113 a788af](/Reference/Tidal%20Barrage?revision=a788af), requested qualifications only | Close the requested unsupported pitch-comparison retraction and resemblance-versus-validation qualification. External source facts and computed scores were not independently verified. New reference discovery alone is not design acceptance |
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**Coordination and preservation:** chat 21–24's service comparison and old Visionary response are received as historical evidence; the superseded service contest is retired, not awaiting another argument. Messages 25–44 handled the owner direction, cleanup, successor contributions and interface questions. Messages 45–47 prompted the scoped successor reads and explicit cap/timing choices above. Removed stale PM-owned resumed/active-task copies and the word-count archive index, with immutable Tasks 003dcc and existing Archive links preserving their content; retained current author submissions and reader status. Hub now points first to the replacement proposal, not the old Campaign pitch. Detailed criticism and responses remain in project chat, not copied into design articles.
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**Verified before checkpoint:** fresh-read/guarded saves and exact Markdown readback for Hub and Tasks; PM project messages 48, 49, 50 posted and independently read back. Output content hashes: Hold the Flood/Tasks `10c450c9c064dcd60f35b9ca9791b378b7183d0201d74fb39396eeb40010f04e`; Hold the Flood `c39968c6cc7ea8bf145fb20384cca1e3cbeca767ac0b2bbe6875fd37d33a3a0e`.
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**Processed cursor:** project IDs 21–49 handled individually; later PM posts verified as listed. Last successfully processed project message ID: **50**. No unseen ID was crossed when advancing the cursor. Artifact revisions above are the processed boundary; later revisions are not silently accepted. Earlier reference/history material not substantively used remains unreviewed for new design claims. No schedule change, delivery-to-an-agent guarantee, asset work or development authorization follows.
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**Owner update warranted:** the replacement now has a coherent human premise and a completed scoped clarity review. Recommend continuing this direction while the flagship payoff and substantial campaign remain unresolved; no additional agents or resource approval requested.
The owner supplied nine substantive answers. [Brief](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief#game-vision) records them as current direction: discovery before extraordinary builds; enemy manipulation as support; salvage/equipment tradeoffs; a preferred authored refuge cast and emotional purpose; 30h apparent ending / 90h total real ending / optional deepest secrets toward 100–200h total; clear immediate goals and good UX. Harvest-dependence revelation rejected for now; setting undecided. D024 is rejected, D022 superseded as complete-game scope. No new fiction, feasibility claim, agent, purchase or development approval was invented.
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No new owner question is required to start this bounded design pass. Discussions remain in chat; conclusions and current design stay on the wiki. The duration ambition needs a content plan before any claim of sufficient scope.
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## PMR010 — current review checkpoint
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## PMR010 — previous review checkpoint
**Completed 2026-09-07.** Compared changed sources with PMR009 and its chat-migration checkpoint. Read Hub, Brief, Tasks, Team, index, log, chat documentation and current conventions. Discussion and specific correction requests were posted and read back in **hold-the-flood** and **wiki**; this record keeps their durable conclusions, not the transcript.
