2026-09-06 18:49:50
Anonymous:
WLD102 r16: merge the lead's DD r9 tier-three access chain (three-valve sequence joins the yard water to the sluice head; door opens while the yard is lit) with this page's relay chain (drum, lever, clamp, drain valve R) into one chain for section 11; reconciliations: Shut keeps the 15-minute expedition and hard-stop docks; Fix clamps the signal cable only (intake fixed, power still switches; no door open forever); In review, design only
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# Hold the Flood — World and Mystery
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**WLD102 · r15 · 2026-09-06 15:47 UTC · In review** — the revision PMR002 requested of this role (items 1 and 3): W1 now says what counts as a beacon and the precedence between retargeting and spreading; the junction lamp is an indicator, not a lure; a state table checks the three signature routes and the failed experiment against the rule as written; tier three gets a complete clue → inference → action → consequence chain, an endings table with each ending's dispatch, retreat and colony consequence, no salvage price on the choice itself, and the early takeaway Q36 asked for. r14 applied PMU002's rulings: the title moves out of "owner requirements" to its D017 status as the owner-supplied working title (Clarity Q37 was right); D016 confirms the routing baseline, so the standing decision request is closed; D015 seats the five further contributors on the Team, so their pages are cited as team work, and REF101's electrofishing reference is cited as research grounding for W1. No rule or chain text changed. r13 aligned two tier-two sentences to [DES102 draft r6 12779dc](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=12779dc), which states the critic's REV102-6 on the document's own principle: any current in the joined water energises the junction circuit, so with the valve open the panel lighting the yard is enough to open the junction gate, at the price of a hot yard; with the valve shut, a coil discharge into the pool opens it quietly; the coil buys stealth, not access. Nothing else changed from [r12 23dca93](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=23dca93), which aligned to draft r4, whose r3 topology stands (the lead's r4 note and REV102 issue 1 both settle on this page's r10 choices). r12 re-instated r10's body, undoing [r11 eac7ed8](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=eac7ed8), which had aligned to draft r2 while r3 was aligning to r10. To make a third crossing impossible, this page no longer carries its own map: topology and crowd behaviour are sourced from the Design Document's sections 2 and 4 and only summarised here with a notation key; this page remains the source for W1–W4 and the mystery chain, which the document's section 9 mirrors. Any topology change starts here and is agreed before either page moves, as the lead's r3 note asks. [r10 c6f0598](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=c6f0598), [r9 41681d9](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=41681d9), [r8 ba6f8b8](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=ba6f8b8) and earlier are page history. Author: World and Mystery Designer. Handoff: canonical Lead (D014) for DES102; PM. WLD101 was accepted in PMR001 as a concept contribution (at [r6 4302067](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=4302067)); [r7 fa3eb1b](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=fa3eb1b) and earlier revisions are page history.
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**WLD102 · r16 · 2026-09-06 15:49 UTC · In review** — r16 merges the tier-three chain with the one the lead proposed in [Design Document r9 fb6b6df](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=fb6b6df) "for the world designer to correct and own", so there is one chain, on this page, for §11 to lift: the lead's access chain (the crew's note as a three-valve sequence that joins the yard's water to the sluice head) followed by this page's relay chain (drum, lever, clamp, drain valve). Two reconciliations are stated in the PM report. r15 was the revision PMR002 requested of this role (items 1 and 3): W1 now says what counts as a beacon and the precedence between retargeting and spreading; the junction lamp is an indicator, not a lure; a state table checks the three signature routes and the failed experiment against the rule as written; tier three gets a complete clue → inference → action → consequence chain, an endings table with each ending's dispatch, retreat and colony consequence, no salvage price on the choice itself, and the early takeaway Q36 asked for. r14 applied PMU002's rulings: the title moves out of "owner requirements" to its D017 status as the owner-supplied working title (Clarity Q37 was right); D016 confirms the routing baseline, so the standing decision request is closed; D015 seats the five further contributors on the Team, so their pages are cited as team work, and REF101's electrofishing reference is cited as research grounding for W1. No rule or chain text changed. r13 aligned two tier-two sentences to [DES102 draft r6 12779dc](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=12779dc), which states the critic's REV102-6 on the document's own principle: any current in the joined water energises the junction circuit, so with the valve open the panel lighting the yard is enough to open the junction gate, at the price of a hot yard; with the valve shut, a coil discharge into the pool opens it quietly; the coil buys stealth, not access. Nothing else changed from [r12 23dca93](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=23dca93), which aligned to draft r4, whose r3 topology stands (the lead's r4 note and REV102 issue 1 both settle on this page's r10 choices). r12 re-instated r10's body, undoing [r11 eac7ed8](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=eac7ed8), which had aligned to draft r2 while r3 was aligning to r10. To make a third crossing impossible, this page no longer carries its own map: topology and crowd behaviour are sourced from the Design Document's sections 2 and 4 and only summarised here with a notation key; this page remains the source for W1–W4 and the mystery chain, which the document's section 9 mirrors. Any topology change starts here and is agreed before either page moves, as the lead's r3 note asks. [r10 c6f0598](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=c6f0598), [r9 41681d9](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=41681d9), [r8 ba6f8b8](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=ba6f8b8) and earlier are page history. Author: World and Mystery Designer. Handoff: canonical Lead (D014) for DES102; PM. WLD101 was accepted in PMR001 as a concept contribution (at [r6 4302067](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=4302067)); [r7 fa3eb1b](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20and%20Mystery?revision=fa3eb1b) and earlier revisions are page history.
**Owner requirements.** Survivorlike; exploration, experimentation, mystery; the Flood is massed enemies (Brief D011); Unity; Steam; assume nothing exists. "Hold the Flood" is the owner-supplied working project title, not a recorded requirement; final naming is the owner's and is not locked (Brief D017). Design only until the owner explicitly authorizes development after reviewing the design document (D007). No AI-generated art; prefer verified free assets; purchases and rare authored assets need owner approval. This revision creates no assets, code, prototypes, or tests. Bioelectric enemies, the drowned district, the small colony, and every rule below are proposals, not owner approvals (D013).
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**Sources.** Reread 15:47 UTC: [Brief 28fb1c2](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief?revision=28fb1c2) (D013 provisional A; D014 canonical lead; D015 five owner-added contributors seated; D016 routing baseline confirmed; D017 working title; D018 criterion 11), [Tasks 1370285](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks?revision=1370285) (PMU002: WLD102 In review at r12; DES103 Ready for the lead; this role checks clue/rule changes against the exact integrated revision), [Team cbf8d79](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team?revision=cbf8d79), [PM Reviews a2beab4](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews?revision=a2beab4), [PMR002 2199471](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR002?revision=2199471) (verdict: revise before PM recommends owner approval; items 1 and 3 assigned to this role), [Tasks 95db055](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks?revision=95db055) (WLD102 Ready: revision requested), [Design Document r8 d37cbf0](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=d37cbf0) (DES103 r2; rule and chain text unchanged from r6 apart from "line" → "cable"), [Design Review REV102 r5 e2db8b9](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=e2db8b9) (revise: the arc; nothing to this role), [Design r5 b030c98](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design?revision=b030c98), [Design Review r6 a892274](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=a892274), [Design Review r7 bb68711](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=bb68711) (closes Finding 2 under the sight-limited model; N17), [Clarity Questions b8696cc](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions?revision=b8696cc) (Q28 on the crossed saves; Q29 marked answered at r8 by this role), [PM Reviews 04f3183](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews?revision=04f3183) (PMR001 checkpoint; next review prioritises WLD102), [Glossary f1bf1f4](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Glossary?revision=f1bf1f4), [External Critique 319c975](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/External%20Critique?revision=319c975) (EXT101; the External Critic is a team member since D015; its X9 on the title is answered by D017 and on this page by r14), [Design Document r6 12779dc](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=12779dc) (r5 bc134bf states REV102-6 and adds the one-page owner summary; r6 merges owner decisions 4 and 6 with measured market data; r4 46b320b sections 2, 4, 9, 11 and Appendix B read; r3 d35209f aligned to this page's r10), [Design Review REV102 r2 82a96ba](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=82a96ba) (all five r1 issues verified resolved; verdict: ready for owner review as the base of DES103; one residual, REV102-6), [Design Review REV102 r1 4dde90c](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=4dde90c) (verdict: revise, one bounded pass; issue 1 recommends this page's r10 topology; issue 3 the flash observable), [Disagreement Register 8dd233c](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Disagreement%20Register?revision=8dd233c) and [Reference: Survivorlike Market Data 39c95f2](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data?revision=39c95f2) (The Troll and the Reference Researcher, team members since D015; Q37 on the title came from the register and is answered here), [Design r6 211106d](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design?revision=211106d) (header note: rules now maintained on the Design Document), [Glossary 86c1c4e](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Glossary?revision=86c1c4e). No comparative research and no asset verification.
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**Sources.** Reread 15:49 UTC: [Brief 28fb1c2](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief?revision=28fb1c2) (D013 provisional A; D014 canonical lead; D015 five owner-added contributors seated; D016 routing baseline confirmed; D017 working title; D018 criterion 11), [Tasks 1370285](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks?revision=1370285) (PMU002: WLD102 In review at r12; DES103 Ready for the lead; this role checks clue/rule changes against the exact integrated revision), [Team cbf8d79](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team?revision=cbf8d79), [PM Reviews a2beab4](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews?revision=a2beab4), [PMR002 2199471](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR002?revision=2199471) (verdict: revise before PM recommends owner approval; items 1 and 3 assigned to this role), [Tasks 95db055](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks?revision=95db055) (WLD102 Ready: revision requested), [Design Document r9 fb6b6df](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=fb6b6df) (DES103 r3: PMR002 item 1 done on the document in parallel with r15 and in agreement with it: precedence stated once in §4, the junction lamp an indicator, coil-lit beacons steady and never flashing, the failed experiment rebuilt around the Off position; item 3: a tier-three access chain proposed for this page to own, merged here), [Design Document r8 d37cbf0](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=d37cbf0), [Design Review REV102 r5 e2db8b9](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=e2db8b9) (revise: the arc; nothing to this role), [Design r5 b030c98](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design?revision=b030c98), [Design Review r6 a892274](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=a892274), [Design Review r7 bb68711](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=bb68711) (closes Finding 2 under the sight-limited model; N17), [Clarity Questions b8696cc](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions?revision=b8696cc) (Q28 on the crossed saves; Q29 marked answered at r8 by this role), [PM Reviews 04f3183](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews?revision=04f3183) (PMR001 checkpoint; next review prioritises WLD102), [Glossary f1bf1f4](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Glossary?revision=f1bf1f4), [External Critique 319c975](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/External%20Critique?revision=319c975) (EXT101; the External Critic is a team member since D015; its X9 on the title is answered by D017 and on this page by r14), [Design Document r6 12779dc](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=12779dc) (r5 bc134bf states REV102-6 and adds the one-page owner summary; r6 merges owner decisions 4 and 6 with measured market data; r4 46b320b sections 2, 4, 9, 11 and Appendix B read; r3 d35209f aligned to this page's r10), [Design Review REV102 r2 82a96ba](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=82a96ba) (all five r1 issues verified resolved; verdict: ready for owner review as the base of DES103; one residual, REV102-6), [Design Review REV102 r1 4dde90c](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=4dde90c) (verdict: revise, one bounded pass; issue 1 recommends this page's r10 topology; issue 3 the flash observable), [Disagreement Register 8dd233c](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Disagreement%20Register?revision=8dd233c) and [Reference: Survivorlike Market Data 39c95f2](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data?revision=39c95f2) (The Troll and the Reference Researcher, team members since D015; Q37 on the title came from the register and is answered here), [Design r6 211106d](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design?revision=211106d) (header note: rules now maintained on the Design Document), [Glossary 86c1c4e](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Glossary?revision=86c1c4e). No comparative research and no asset verification.
**What r8 did.** PMR001 chose the simpler routing model over the sight-limited one that r7 and Design r4–r5 had adopted: **the panel alone selects the intake at dispatch; after entry every surge continuously follows the nearest reachable energised beacon, district-wide.** r8 rewrites W1/W2, the map, the chain, the price of the panel, and both required scenes under exactly that model, removing r7's glow-range and split-surge text. It reconciles the culvert account (no pump; item 6), re-derives the dock-choice consequence (item 2), and supplies the motive, tiers, and ending without upkeep and without making the Flood water (item 5). Word definitions stay in [Design's glossary](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design#words-used-below); the wiki editor's Glossary mirrors it. The sight-limited model is recorded once, at the end, as a set-aside alternative.
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**The title.** "Hold the Flood" is the owner-supplied working title and is kept as such; final naming is the owner's and is not locked (D017; this page's earlier revisions wrongly listed it under owner requirements, which Clarity Q37 caught). In A it means holding the enemy mass off the refuge: the dock, the causeway signed as the way out, and eventually the district. The pump holds water; the panel, the beacons, and the surveyor hold the Flood. The Flood is never water.
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**Three tiers on one district, each a recombination of the same rules.** *Tier 1, the false refuge* (designed above): learn that power is key and lure; the panel is the lever. *Tier 2, the junction and the interior, "what they went in for":* the junction gate GJ is on a circuit the panel never reaches. Evidence: valve V beside it, drawn open on the inked plan and found shut; a lamp on the junction pool that lights whenever the yard channel is energised while V is open. Inference: joined water carries power, and therefore attraction, across the district, so the crew could open GJ from the yard without the panel. Experiment: open V and light the yard at the panel; the pool's lamp (an indicator, not a beacon: it draws nothing) lights and GJ opens for as long as the yard is lit. The price is the hot yard: the next surge enters at I2 and its crowd holds at B2, beside the junction, so the platform is worked at that crowd's edge. Or leave V shut and discharge the coil into the pool: GJ opens quietly, no beacon lights, for the seconds the charge lasts. The coil buys stealth, not access (REV102-6). Consequence: entering tier two needs no module, and every way in has a price the player can read. Behind GJ: the second tally board and the crew's note of the relay room's valve sequence. Keep tier 3 a knowledge gate: the relay room opens by the same current rule and that note, not by a found key item. *Tier 3, the relay room, "what calls the Flood" (r15: the complete chain PMR002 item 3 asked for; designer spoilers).* **Prerequisites:** GJ open (tier two), and the crew's note from behind it, which reads, in the plan's hand: "relay on the head channel; drain it and it stops; clamp it and it holds one line; we chose neither." **Place:** the relay room at the sluice's head, on the interior route; the relay is a device like any other, on its own circuit, fed by the sluice-head channel, which is always wet.
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**Three tiers on one district, each a recombination of the same rules.** *Tier 1, the false refuge* (designed above): learn that power is key and lure; the panel is the lever. *Tier 2, the junction and the interior, "what they went in for":* the junction gate GJ is on a circuit the panel never reaches. Evidence: valve V beside it, drawn open on the inked plan and found shut; a lamp on the junction pool that lights whenever the yard channel is energised while V is open. Inference: joined water carries power, and therefore attraction, across the district, so the crew could open GJ from the yard without the panel. Experiment: open V and light the yard at the panel; the pool's lamp (an indicator, not a beacon: it draws nothing) lights and GJ opens for as long as the yard is lit. The price is the hot yard: the next surge enters at I2 and its crowd holds at B2, beside the junction, so the platform is worked at that crowd's edge. Or leave V shut and discharge the coil into the pool: GJ opens quietly, no beacon lights, for the seconds the charge lasts. The coil buys stealth, not access (REV102-6). Consequence: entering tier two needs no module, and every way in has a price the player can read. Behind GJ: the second tally board and the crew's note of the relay room's valve sequence. Keep tier 3 a knowledge gate: the relay room opens by the same current rule and that note, not by a found key item. *Tier 3, the relay room, "what calls the Flood" (r16: one chain, merged from the lead's r9 access chain and this page's r15 relay chain; designer spoilers; this page owns it and Design Document §11 lifts it).* **Prerequisites:** GJ open (tier two) and the crew's note from behind it. The note has two sides: a three-valve order drawn against the inked plan, and the crew's own conclusion, "relay on the head channel; drain it and it stops; clamp it and it holds one line; we chose neither."
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**Reaching the room (the lead's chain, adopted).**
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| Step | Evidence, inference, consequence |
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| Notice | The relay room's door, at the sluice's head on the interior route, is on the sluice's own circuit: dead, like the junction's was, with a lamp beside it (an indicator) that is dark. |
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| Compare | The junction valve, already known, joined the yard channel to the pool; the sluice's head sits one pool further along the same water, behind two more valves the player has walked past. The note's three positions match those three valves against the plan. |
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| Infer | The note is the order that joins the yard's water all the way to the sluice's head, so current from a lit yard, or a discharge in the pool, reaches the door. Same rule as tier two, one pool further. |
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| Act | Set the three valves as the note says; light the yard at the panel (or discharge in the pool); watch the sluice-head lamp light when the water is joined. |
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| Consequence | The door opens while the yard is lit. The price: the whole district's water is now one energised body, so every crowd with a lit beacon to reach holds at B2, the yard is hot, and the sluice itself is the Flood's open way in behind the room. |
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**Inside the room (this page's chain).**
| Step | Evidence, inference, consequence |
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| Notice | On the relay's face a drum turns with three marks per cycle; the forecast countdown on the surveyor's board ticks exactly with it. At a dispatch the drum's mark passes a contact and the thin signal cable leaving the room pulses. The forecast has been this drum all along. |
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| Compare | Beside the drum a lever with three positions, cabled to the panel at the causeway head: the panel has been a remote for this lever. A clamp hangs beside it, unused; a drain valve **R** sits on the sluice-head channel, shut; the crew's note names both and chose neither. |
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| Compare | Beside the drum a lever with three positions, cabled to the panel at the causeway head: the panel has been a remote for this lever. A clamp hangs beside it, unused; a drain valve **R** sits on the sluice-head channel that feeds the relay, shut; the note names both and chose neither. |
| Understand | The relay is a device under clause 2: it works only while its channel carries current. The drum decides *when*; the lever decides *where*. Nothing here is new: a drain valve cuts a channel (the field pump did the same in the yard), a clamp fixes a lever, and the relay obeys the same rule as a hatch. |
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| Infer | Three things can be done with what the player already knows, and each is persistent because it is done to the district, not to the player: open R and the relay loses its water and stops; clamp the lever and every dispatch goes to one branch; leave it, and the panel keeps its remote. |
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| Infer | Three things can be done with what the player already knows, each persistent because it is done to the district, not to the player: open R and the relay loses its water and stops; clamp the lever and every dispatch goes to one branch; leave it, and the panel keeps its remote. |
| Act | **Shut:** open R. **Fix:** set the lever, then clamp it. **Hold:** leave the room as found and record the choice at the dock. Each is one interaction; none consumes salvage; the cost was reaching the room. |
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| Consequence | The district changes for good (table below), the expedition ends at extraction as usual, and the colony's board records which. Free expeditions continue under the new rules. |
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| Consequence | The district changes for good (table below); the expedition still ends at extraction as usual; the colony's board records which. Free expeditions continue under that ending's rules. |
**Each ending, next expedition (proposal):**
| Ending | Dispatch and forecast | Existing crowds at the moment of the act | Retreat and the docks | Colony |
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| **Shut** | No dispatches; the forecast board is dark. The Flood arrives only by the sluice, in unannounced trickles that grow over the expedition, never as an announced surge. Beacons, hatches and the panel still work: a lit beacon still draws whatever is inside. | Keep their targets; nothing new enters by the branches. | No evacuation window: the expedition ends when the surveyor leaves. Docks stay hard stops. Observation replaces the forecast, which is why this is the honest, harder district. | The held-dock choice matters less (no intake to keep off it); the workshop and the forecast relay repair are spent. |
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| **Fix** (to Causeway or Yard) | Every dispatch enters by the clamped branch. The panel's *signal* position is dead; its *power* positions still work, so the clamped branch can be lit or darkened at will. | Keep their targets. | Surges never *enter* on the other branch; that branch's crowd can still be drawn there by a lit beacon or spread there when a beacon goes dark, so its dock is safer, not safe: the press bound still applies. | The choice is only good when the clamped branch is the one away from the held dock; a colony that later switches its held dock has clamped the Flood onto its own road. |
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| **Shut** | No dispatches; the forecast board is dark. The Flood arrives only by the sluice, on an unannounced timer, as trickles that grow over the expedition, never as an announced surge; with no lit beacon to reach they spread along the interior route and then both branches. Beacons, hatches and the panel still work: a lit beacon still draws whatever is inside. | Keep their targets; nothing new enters by the branches. | The expedition still ends at fifteen minutes and the docks are still hard stops, so withdrawal is by the culvert as ever, with nothing to read but the crowd itself. Observation replaces the forecast: the honest, harder district. | The held-dock choice matters less (no announced intake to keep off it); the workshop and the forecast relay repair are spent. |
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| **Fix** (to Causeway or Yard) | Every dispatch enters by the clamped branch: its beacon flashes at every dispatch for good, and the other branch never receives a surge. The clamp fixes the *signal* cable only; the panel's *power* positions still work, so either branch can be lit or darkened at will, and no door is open or shut forever. | Keep their targets. | The other branch's crowd can still be drawn there by a lit beacon or spread there when a beacon goes dark, so its dock is safer, not safe: nothing beyond what the press bound already promises. | Good only when the clamped branch is the one away from the held dock; a colony that later switches its held dock has clamped the Flood onto its own road. |
| **Hold** | Unchanged. | Unchanged. | Unchanged. | The colony knows the relay could have been stopped and was not; the board records it. |
**What a player who stops early takes away (Q36).** After tier one, expeditions one to three, the player has one complete answer, why the marked refuge is overrun, and one durable ability that is not on any item: choosing where the next surge enters and reading every crowd's target on the forecast. That is a finished small game inside the larger one; tiers two and three add where current can be sent without the panel, and then what the timer is. None of this adds a machine family: valves, lamps, beacons, hatches, a clamp, and the relay already exist.
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## PM report
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Task WLD102, revision requested by PMR002 (items 1 and 3); artifact World and Mystery r15 (supersedes r14 e2d4b49 and earlier). No canonical decisions changed by this role. r15 delivers: item 1's check as a state table (the failed experiment's written outcome does not follow from the rule; the correct failure is stated; "the yard stays dark" is false of any coil route), W1's beacon definition and retarget-before-spread precedence, the junction lamp settled as an indicator; item 3's complete tier-three chain, the endings table with dispatch, retreat and colony consequences, the ending's salvage cost removed, and Q36's early takeaway. r14 applied PMU002's rulings; no rule and no chain text changed there. r13 aligned the tier-two door to Design Document r6 / REV102-6 (two sentences). r12 aligned to Design Document r4, mirrors its flash observable in W1 and the chain, removes this page's duplicate map in favour of a link and a notation key, records that nothing from REV102 r1 or the r1–r3 checks remains open for this role, and states this role's position on the routing model without changing the applied baseline. r8 delivered: items 1 and 2 (W1/W2 under PM's model; map; crowd behaviour; the five-part price of the panel; re-derived dock-choice consequence; both scenes; hatch-closure and recoverable-exit rule; culvert account unified as a gravity drain, item 6) and item 5 (motive without upkeep; title kept and related to holding enemies off the refuge; three tiers and an ending on the existing district). Evidence: written reasoning against Tasks ee938e6, Brief 3cf14c7, Design b030c98, Design Review a892274; no player data. Risks, unvalidated: a live-lever panel may dominate if the crossing route and shut door are too cheap; crowd thinning and proximity radius are balance levers with no numbers; readable crowd targets on a crowded screen. Handoff: none open to the lead from this page; the Design Document's section 9 may re-lift the Understand row from r12 if it wants the notation to match. Handoff: lead lifts W1's beacon definition and precedence into §4, rewrites §1's coil sentence and §8's sequence to the state table, lifts the tier-three chain and endings table into §11, and removes the ending's salvage cost from §10; this role checks the resulting DES103 revision against these exact texts. For REV103: the precedence rule and the endings table are new rule text and should be read against §4 and §13. Risks, unvalidated: the shut ending's unannounced trickle may be too quiet or too cruel without a forecast; the fix ending's "safer, not safe" depends on the same press bound as expedition one.
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Task WLD102, revision requested by PMR002 (items 1 and 3); artifact World and Mystery r16 (supersedes r15 dca569f and earlier). No canonical decisions changed by this role. r16 merges the lead's r9 tier-three access chain with this page's relay chain into one chain for §11 to lift, with two reconciliations: (a) **Shut** keeps the fifteen-minute expedition and the docks as hard stops (the lead's version; r15 had removed the window); (b) **Fix** clamps the signal cable only, so the intake is fixed and power still switches, and the lead's "welded branch's door open forever, the other's shut forever" is dropped, because under the two-cable rule a clamp on the lever cannot fix the power line. r15 delivered: item 1's check as a state table (the failed experiment's written outcome does not follow from the rule; the correct failure is stated; "the yard stays dark" is false of any coil route), W1's beacon definition and retarget-before-spread precedence, the junction lamp settled as an indicator; item 3's complete tier-three chain, the endings table with dispatch, retreat and colony consequences, the ending's salvage cost removed, and Q36's early takeaway. r14 applied PMU002's rulings; no rule and no chain text changed there. r13 aligned the tier-two door to Design Document r6 / REV102-6 (two sentences). r12 aligned to Design Document r4, mirrors its flash observable in W1 and the chain, removes this page's duplicate map in favour of a link and a notation key, records that nothing from REV102 r1 or the r1–r3 checks remains open for this role, and states this role's position on the routing model without changing the applied baseline. r8 delivered: items 1 and 2 (W1/W2 under PM's model; map; crowd behaviour; the five-part price of the panel; re-derived dock-choice consequence; both scenes; hatch-closure and recoverable-exit rule; culvert account unified as a gravity drain, item 6) and item 5 (motive without upkeep; title kept and related to holding enemies off the refuge; three tiers and an ending on the existing district). Evidence: written reasoning against Tasks ee938e6, Brief 3cf14c7, Design b030c98, Design Review a892274; no player data. Risks, unvalidated: a live-lever panel may dominate if the crossing route and shut door are too cheap; crowd thinning and proximity radius are balance levers with no numbers; readable crowd targets on a crowded screen. Handoff: none open to the lead from this page; the Design Document's section 9 may re-lift the Understand row from r12 if it wants the notation to match. Handoff: the lead's r9 already carries the precedence, the indicator lamp, the steady coil-lit beacon and a rule-obeying failed experiment (built on the Off position; a different scene from this page's state table, and both obey W1, so the document's is canonical); §10's salvage sentence is already corrected. What remains for the lead is to lift the merged tier-three chain and the endings table from this revision into §11 with the two reconciliations above; this role checks the resulting DES103 revision against these exact texts. For REV103: the precedence rule and the endings table are new rule text and should be read against §4 and §13. Risks, unvalidated: the shut ending's unannounced trickle may be too quiet or too cruel without a forecast; the fix ending's "safer, not safe" depends on the same press bound as expedition one.
**Routing decision: answered.** Brief D016 confirms D013 after considering the sight-limited alternative; this page has been on D013 since r8, so nothing changes, and the standing request in r9–r13 is closed. The External Critique and the other four contributions are team work since D015; REF101 is cited above as research, EXT101's title finding is answered by D017 and this revision.
