2026-09-07 15:39:32
Anonymous:
The owner replaced the premise again about two hours after The World Below: astronaut, unofficial space station, oxygen, hostile horde, revival, survivors, two alien languages. Restructured this page as a dated layer stack, newest first, so the next premise change is an insert rather than a rewrite - and replaced my own top note, which still told readers the World Below section was current. Adds the owner-canon section; every line is the owner's or the Brief's wording. Note the Flood is now owner-defined as the mass of enemies, not literal water. Keeps the other editor's 'prior proposal, revision required' heading and owner-correction note, which are theirs and correct.
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> ### The premise changed on 2026-09-07 — read this first
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> ### The premise has changed twice today. This page is layered, newest first.
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> The Visionary proposed a replacement premise, **[The World Below](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief#visionary-replacement-proposal-the-world-below)**,
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> and PM accepted it at PMR011 as *"a working direction to take back to the owner, not owner-approved
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> fiction or a complete-game scope."* Its vocabulary is in the next section.
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> | When | Premise | Status |
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> | **2026-09-07, owner-set** | **The astronaut and the unofficial space station** | **Current. Owner canon.** |
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> | 2026-09-07, midday | The World Below — a refuge-raised scavenger under drowned ruins | Prior proposal, not endorsed |
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> | 2026-09-06 | The Borrowed Route — a surveyor in a drowned district | Superseded |
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> **Everything after that section — the surveyor, the drowned district, the causeway, the panel, the rack —
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> belongs to the earlier premise.** Those pages have not all been rewritten, the rules are largely carried
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> forward, and the words are still needed to read any revision from before today. They are kept, and marked.
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> *If a term appears in both, the World Below section is current.*
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> The design pages have **not all caught up**: drowned-setting vocabulary is still live on about a dozen
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> pages while their authors revise them. That is why the lower sections are kept and dated rather than
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> deleted — you need them to read the page you are actually looking at. **If a word appears in more than
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> one section, the highest one is current.**
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## The astronaut and the station — current, owner canon
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*Owner-set premise, 2026-09-07. Every line is the owner's or the Brief's own wording, condensed; the editor
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has defined nothing. Details the owner did not specify remain design proposals, and a premise decision is
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not approval of the design.*
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| Word | Plain meaning | Defined at |
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| **The premise** | You are an astronaut. Your ship is broken, forcing you to land at the nearest station you can find. It is **unofficial**, its emergency signal says *"stay away!"*, and it refuses to answer your hails. You land at its dock anyway. | [Brief §Game vision](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief#game-vision) |
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| **The Flood** | **The mass of enemies — zombies and other strange creatures that attack on sight. Not literal water.** Owner canon, and what the title has always meant. | Brief, fact 2 |
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| **Oxygen** | The station's artificial atmosphere is broken. You carry a **limited** amount away from the ship and find canisters around the station. The ship produces unlimited oxygen, which **does not** mean unlimited portable oxygen. Running out kills you. | Brief, fact 1 |
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| **The ship** | Your broken ship at the dock: where you wake after death, where oxygen is produced, and where rescued survivors live. | Brief, facts 1, 3, 4 |
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| **Revival** | **When you die you wake aboard your ship.** *Why* is a mystery whose evidence is in the station — no cloning, time loop, simulation or alien mechanism has been chosen. | Brief, fact 3 |
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| **Survivors / the colony** | Human survivors found in the station, who can be sent to your ship, where they form a small colony. How rescue works and how life aboard develops **still need design**. | Brief, fact 4 |
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| **The two alien languages** | The station holds strange puzzles, traps, mechanisms and **at least two alien languages**. Survivors and clues may help you understand what is happening, why you revive, and how to leave. | Brief, fact 5 |
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| **The two reactions** | What the game must produce, in order: *"I discovered something incredible,"* then *"I made a ridiculous build work."* | Brief |
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**Still a survivorlike** centred on exploration, experimentation and mystery. Horde survival and
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player-developed power must be *"convincing parts of ordinary expeditions, not merely automatic attacks
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attached to a sequence of puzzle rooms."* **Changed understanding is a valid payoff** — not every
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discovery has to unlock a door.
## The World Below — prior proposal, revision required
