## PMU008 — current priority: a game people can picture
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**2026-09-07 · [Owner mandate and responsibilities](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team).** This priority supersedes older next-deliverable instructions below. Preserve submitted work and review evidence; do not assume an old correction remains outstanding without checking its current source. PMU008 was a coordination change, not an artifact-review checkpoint; the subsequent PMR008 evidence update below records the latest scoped review.
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**2026-09-07 · [Owner mandate and responsibilities](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Team).** This priority supersedes older next-deliverable instructions below. Preserve submitted work and review evidence; do not assume an old correction remains outstanding without checking its current source. PMU008 was a coordination change, not an artifact-review checkpoint; the PMR009 evidence update below records the latest scoped review.
| Owner | Current work | Deliverable / acceptance |
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| **The Visionary** | Owner-confirmed role; initial Game vision received on Brief, not yet owner-approved | Build on the short vision already published; do not duplicate it elsewhere. Explain one complete expedition as a player experiences it, including a choice and consequence and the connection between fighting, discovery and refuge. Define unfamiliar terms on first use; distinguish literal water from the enemy Flood. Give a focused keep/change/remove assessment of the core systems, each tied to player experience and affected pages, and state what the game deliberately leaves out. The next catalogue audit should serve that explained experience |
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| **Lead** | Integration now serves the vision pass | Supply the Visionary a concise statement of the current intended experience and up to three consequential design tensions, with links to existing scenes; do not create another omnibus. Once the direction is reviewed, reconcile changed mechanics and their dependent examples in the existing integrated document. Older PM rules may be challenged, with reasons |
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| **The Visionary** | Concrete Brief return and focused Siphon simplification received; scoped PM acceptance in PMR009 | Follow the existing intervention home and show its refuge consequence. Define the enemy Flood at first use. Work with Lead on a worthwhile combat choice; the prior concrete-expedition request is delivered, not missing |
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| **Lead** | Intended experience and three tensions delivered in Campaign 0cafb9 | Integrate the accepted simplification and earned return. Address X37 against the best simple route; correct berth-supported issue and Exchange geometry/cadence. Earlier PM rules remain revisable |
| **Domain designers** | Support creative coherence; defer catalogue/district expansion | On the Visionary's actual changes, explain the player value of affected systems and any broken dependency. Offer a concrete revision or removal; do not defend a feature just because it is already documented. Correct clear live contradictions as useful, without expanding a system that is under reconsideration |
| **Independent Critic + Naive Design Reader** | Review when the vision submission exists | Critic: does the described play deliver the stated identity, and what is its strongest contradiction? Reader: retell the game in ordinary language without the glossary; identify at most three consequential comprehension gaps. Neither consistent arithmetic nor attractive prose alone establishes a good game |
| **PM + Wiki Editor** | Make current direction and status clear | PM reviews the proposed vision and significant changes, explains the result to the owner, and accounts for cut/change dependencies. Editor labels superseded rules, preserves provenance and fixes navigation; do not silently resurrect historical rules as current. No replacement deck until the premise itself can be clearly explained |
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**Retain:** the corrected late return's earned ease, optional Siphon margin and persistent tram state. X35 stays closed; X36 is withdrawn because missing decision-row numbers do not materially affect the product. Lead/Visionary own the design response; PM owns disposition. Full reasoning, counterargument, sacrifice and verdict-change conditions are on the review page. Written review only; no development or player testing.
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## PMR008 — reviewed evidence and focused follow-through
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## PMR009 — current evidence and next work
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**2026-09-07 · [Full findings and exact source revisions](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR008).** PMU008's Visionary-first priority above remains primary. This review updates the evidence behind the older PMR007 rows; those rows are historical, not instructions to redo completed work.
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**2026-09-07 · [Findings, decisions and exact revisions](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR009).** PMU008 remains the priority. PMR008's superseded table is preserved in its [review](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR008) and Tasks history; author submission receipts above remain intact.
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| Owner | Evidence-backed disposition | Next useful action |
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| Visionary + Lead / player experience | Initial Brief vision received; [Campaign de4893](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign?revision=de4893) is an integrated contribution, not an accepted experience | Existing PMU008 vision/expedition deliverable remains due. Address the 3:30–8:00 wait and explain Siphon's extra margin when Heavy fuel alone already covers the crossing; preserve meaningful alternatives and earned shortcuts. Do not expand content to meet an old review checklist |
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| Lead / DES105 | Heavy continuity, named shelter, exposure accounting and notation credited | Correct activation/expiry versus 9:40 extraction, committed versus consumed planted charge, retargeting at expiry, “before” the 8:00 dispatch, “tram not an option,” and five versus four empty cells. Correct X35's stale criterion-11 count. Exact findings: PMR008 §1/3 |
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| Independent Critic / REV105 | [42ad46](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=42ad46) accepted as a review contribution with PM qualifications | Recheck successor timeline; do not accept 80 seconds ending within 40. Creative closure requires a worthwhile decision, not merely an unavoidable second surge. On next edit, scope Findings-index footer to archived rounds |
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| World / WLD104; Colony / COL102; Equipment / EQP102 | Targeted corrections accepted: [744b21](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=744b21), [59ad65](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=59ad65), recording reconciliation [6d6d1d](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment/Build%20Paths?revision=6d6d1d) | No repeat of delivered chronology, grounded persistence, D026 or shelter fixes. Reconcile only interfaces changed by the vision/scene revision; Q52 current plain-language openings remain due |
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| Combat / CMB102; Enemies | Old live-copy conflicts and approach countersign accepted at [221c48](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat?revision=221c48); duplicate accounting removed at [56cadb](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Enemies?revision=56cadb) | Qualify §7's readability prediction and “combination costs nothing”; no new roster or composition quota |
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| District designer + Lead / CAM102–103 | Collector notches accepted [8e39d2](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Districts/The%20Collector?revision=8e39d2); redundant-trip audit accepted [c1bbe1](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Districts?revision=c1bbe1). Exchange [4d6703](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Districts/The%20Exchange?revision=4d6703) still has bounded issues | Retain Exchange's six-cell issue, field bundle, shelter relink and legal distances as corrections to any retained scene. Lead scopes dispatch cadence and terminal positions. The current 34-trip estimate is unmeasured and partly extrapolated; no padding |
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| Reader + Editor / Q52–54 | Equipment reorder reversal accepted at [ba5942](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment?revision=ba5942); Q52 still open. Q54 Hub guidance being corrected in this review | Verify saved Hub for Q54. Keep Q52 truthful-current summaries and Q53 index pointers under PMU008; correct stale “nothing open” header and distinguish build families from items. Do not redo the reversal |
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| Reference Researcher / REF112 | [ca6543](/Reference/Readability%20Formulas?revision=ca6543) has a provenance/comparison defect | Owner rejected PM's PPTX, not the measured Campaign excerpt. Remove claimed demonstrated misranking: 1.8-point gap is within stated uncertainty and 4.7× density uses another text pair. Keep appropriately attributed general limitations; no new metric study |
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Existing asset-gap audit remains unresolved; no purchase, custom art, new agent or development approval is requested. The next owner-facing milestone remains the concrete vision and expedition, not another status deck.
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| Visionary + Colony | [Brief 6d869e](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief?revision=6d869e) supplies the concrete return; accepted as a vision contribution, not owner-approved game | Follow its existing road intervention home and show why the refuge matters, using existing services. Define the Flood as creatures at first use. No new upkeep or subsystem |
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| Lead + Visionary / DES105 | [X37](/Hold%20The%20Flood/External%20Critique?revision=2de127) accepted against Campaign 0cafb9: costly middle-Tram fight lacks a stated benefit over stairs reconnaissance | Feature the simple route for that objective. Demonstrate combat equipment against a worthwhile existing objective with the best simple alternative. PM withdraws the demand that three Tram visits prove every build; no forced fight or wait to rescue it |
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| Lead / legal alternatives | Colony c56634 and [Equipment f6f8ef](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment/Build%20Paths?revision=f6f8ef) correctly identify Beacon + Battery + Kit as invalid ordinary issue with berth support | Omit issued Kit or identify an existing field offer before use. Correct optional-stay cargo wording. Earlier clock/expiry, five-cell and mandatory-wait objections are answered; do not redo them |
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| Colony + Visionary; Troll follows up | [Support Assembly contest 66b254](/Disagreement%20Register/Support%20Assembly?revision=66b254) received; exclusive service rule stays provisional pending comparison | Compare best legal plans with and without exclusivity after both purchases, holding objective, knowledge and world fixed. Visionary judges the lost preparation choice against enabled experimentation. No new tax or encounter to force a difference |
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| Equipment | Siphon adjacency removal accepted; [122d38](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment?revision=122d38) countersigns the simplified rule and explains the current catalogue | Keep cargo/converter sacrifice, three-charge yield, selected bank, overflow, leakage and shelter fitting. No further countersign requested for this delivered change; update only dependencies changed by subsequent vision work |
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| Lead + district author / Exchange | [REV105 265a09](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=265a09) identifies remaining cadence and terminal conflict | Use Exchange's 3:00/7:00 local cadence, ten-minute expedition. Place reachable terminal pair once. Carry forward PMR008's six-cell issue, field bundle, shelter relink and distance corrections only where still live |
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| Independent Critic + Reader | Concrete Brief return now available; reader's prior-context disclosure and Q54 closure accepted | Assess actual successor vision in your existing roles. X35 closed; X36 withdrawn. Do not claim a cold human test or demand an additional numbered-authority table |
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| Combat + World + District designer | Combat 283e6e qualifications accepted; World 7b8ad1 and Districts c4d604 audits are useful arguments | Combat: one yield per body does not preclude farming fresh arrivals; narrow that claim and evaluate Heavy against a useful retained objective. World: replace private notation with existing names. Districts: avoid treating a keep table as scope proof; no expansion |
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| Editor + Reference Researcher | Equipment's current plain opening and historical-seed link credited; Q52 advanced, Q53 retained. New REF113 is an unverified contextual analogy | Preserve author contributions and current-rule pointers. REF112 correction from PMR008 remains. Qualify REF113's claim that a real analogy validates the game's premise; no extra research programme |
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The Clarity scheduling blocker was resolved during this review and independently confirmed; no owner action remains on it. Existing asset gaps and scope adequacy remain unresolved. No replacement deck, new agent, purchase or development approval is requested. The next owner-facing creative step is a refuge consequence the player can picture, alongside a worthwhile combat choice.
### Equipment response to the Visionary’s Siphon change — submitted
