2026-09-15 13:59:50
Anonymous:
Integrate the moving scan, growth, bridge reuse and explicit placement costs
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# Hold The Horde — Moving Scan Expedition
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*A reversible placement proposal for one later expedition. It uses existing rooms, sources and [Storm Choir equipment](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hordes%20and%20Builds), but adds a substantial scan-and-bridge fitting. Counts, spacing and pleasure are paper targets, not tested balance, performance or fun.*
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*A proposed later expedition through the Cable Junction. It uses existing rooms, sources and [Storm Choir equipment](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hordes%20and%20Builds), but adds a substantial scan-and-bridge fitting. Counts, spacing and pleasure are paper targets, not tested balance, performance or fun.*
## The promise at the door
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### Restart and reuse
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The state rule is one-way and visible:
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The instrument distinguishes a usable current scan from dated evidence:
| State on reaching R15 | What the player does | What can pay this expedition |
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| **Unfinished scan, same expedition** | The carriage and filled current-scan slots remain at the last committed notch. Withdrawal and re-entry resume there; they do not replay an earlier rail passage. | Each named R14/R15 band, `Scan held`, `Veil answered` and the shared E07 loft stage can commit only once in the expedition. Re-entry cannot pay a second mark, second major readiness or second release. |
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| **Unfinished scan, living return** | The unchanged arrangement preserves the partial set and the carriage at its last committed notch. Continue from there; no rewind is needed. | The new expedition renews eligible source and growth opportunities, but already-passed carriage triggers do not replay. Growth comes from remaining eligible pressure, not from duplicating a finished sample. |
| **Complete scan, living return** | The arrangement, far-parked carriage, current three-slot set, open bridge door and extended span remain. The player walks straight through the scan bay and across the earned bridge without repeating the solved carriage run. | A new expedition renews eligible combat and growth under the source rules, but the preserved scan itself pays nothing again. The brake pulse, middle milestone and far alarm do not replay while the receiver lock remains valid; current frontier fights beyond or beside the route provide any new growth. |
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| **Complete scan, then death and changed alignment** | Loss of the receiver lock retracts the span, closes the bridge door, marks the three bright slots **historical—rewind required** and drops a yellow return-chain handle beside the far stop. On the next visit, pulling that visible chain is live, interruptible work: its geared loop carries the carriage back along the same rail to the near mechanical stop. Three dark current-scan slots then show that a new pass can begin. | Death began a new expedition, so only still-viable sources and their explicitly renewed bands may pay again. The first new near sample starts a new active set; middle and far complete it. The old set remains dated evidence and cannot light the new lock or duplicate a current reward. |
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| **Partial or complete scan, then death and changed alignment** | Changed alignment invalidates the active samples, retracts any extended span, closes the bridge door and marks the filled slots **historical—rewind required**. A yellow return-chain handle drops at the far-side control, reachable along the clear floor beside the rail. On the next visit, pulling that visible chain is live, interruptible work: its geared loop draws the carriage from its current notch back along the same rail to the near mechanical stop. Three dark current-scan slots then show that a new pass can begin. | Death began a new expedition, so only still-viable sources and their explicitly renewed bands may pay again. The first new near sample starts a new active set; middle and far complete it. The old set remains dated evidence and cannot light the new lock or duplicate a current reward. |
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The return chain stays mechanically covered while the receiver lock is valid, so an open bridge is a bypass rather than a growth loop. Rewinding, local re-entry or a repeated sample cannot clear an expedition's already-committed source, mark or milestone flag. Only returning home starts the next expedition's eligible renewal; only a death-broken alignment exposes the chain and requires a fresh three-position scan.
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The return chain stays mechanically covered while the current arrangement remains valid, whether the scan is partial or complete. An open bridge remains a bypass. Rewinding, local re-entry or a repeated sample cannot clear an expedition's already-committed source, mark or milestone flag. Only returning home starts the next expedition's eligible renewal; only an alignment invalidated by a death shift exposes the chain and requires a fresh three-position scan.
Quiet is earned before interpretation. The finite hatches settle after releasing their committed bodies but are not permanently sealed unless their dog wheels were used. The player clears the creatures beside the far carriage or closes the scan bay's new pedestrian bulkhead to separate them. R15's Carousel remains a live hazard until its own state is handled. Only then does the still window belong to awe: the lights were not stars, one of them has become a bridge, and another unresolved point remains in the scan.
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**How it could fall flat:** if the carriage moves too slowly, the scene becomes an escort chore; if the safe rail edge always wins, Storm Choir never asks for the thrilling step into density; if source warnings, Carousel, Veil and the scan display compete at once, the player will see interface noise instead of a revelation. Later authorized layout and play validation would need to distinguish those failures. For now, the proposal's standard is readable: pressure makes the player move with the lamp, ordinary growth changes the machine before the major, the manual storm earns a quiet view, and that view becomes a route worth returning to.
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## Precise integration needed if accepted
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- **Hordes and Builds:** replace the open placement note with this named R14→R15/R24-source/R28-bridge example; keep its player-first wording and current Storm rules.
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- **Combat Rules:** add only the two scan-milestone facts, the three pre-major bands and the R24 final-stage timing; do not generalize another growth system.
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- **Station Room And Module Inventory:** add R15's counted fitting, clear rail/bulkhead geometry, covered far-stop return chain and glazed bridge opening; the arrangement-specific R15↔R28 sightline; current-slot versus dated-record state; R28's receiver collar; the 40–80 R15 allocation; and the visible R15→R24 alarm lead/alternate trigger. Preserve every existing threshold, crawl, source closure, record position and rescue boundary.
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- **Encounter And Mechanism Placement Inventory:** map the scan across existing E05 pressure and the same E07 loft stage; record P14/count cost; keep E05/E07 as separate encounter IDs; and give the named bands, two facts and shared loft stage once-per-expedition flags that survive local re-entry but rearm only with eligible new-expedition sources.
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- **Equipment/information pages:** link the existing 7 C / 7 A Storm Choir, one-canister carrying example, current Echoing Arc/Thunderhead limits, full journal pause, live framed-record rule and multiple dated captures. State the owner death rule as carried property and unspent contents returning, with only actually consumed oxygen/material remaining spent. Do not select the proposed Ricochet or Gravity replacements.
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The room placement is specified in [Station Room And Module Inventory](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Station%20Room%20And%20Module%20Inventory), the source and mechanism allocation in [Encounter And Mechanism Placement Inventory](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Encounter%20And%20Mechanism%20Placement%20Inventory), and the growth rules in [Fighting the Horde](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Combat%20Rules).
