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Anonymous:
Integrate renewed hordes along the sealed-source expedition route
hold the flood/station room and module inventory.md ..
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- **Closure control.** Reachable from the side the astronaut fights on and visible from the entry. A completed closure persists unless its owning mechanism says otherwise; a held one lasts only while held.
- **Closing early or late.** Closing a source's access before its release commits prevents that release and gives lasting safety and access. The closure preview counts that source's actual unpaid marks in still-uncommitted bands, rather than promising a fixed loss for every seal. Earned marks, queued Tunes and partial progress remain until home; sealing is not itself a growth award. Combat Rules owns the detailed growth and milestone rules. A physical seal completed after commitment resolves the stage at once, without waiting for the peak. Either way, bodies already through still need clearing or separation. P01's held shutter and P03's dogged-open shutter follow their own rows.
- **Quiet.** A closure stops further arrivals but leaves bodies already inside. A space is quiet only when those are also cleared, bypassed into a shown quiet state or physically separated. A rescue starts only on a walked, prepared short route that is quiet or separated in this sense; it needs neither killing everything nor both clearing and closing, and never becomes an escort.
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- **Reuse.** A module shape carries no population. Only the hosts in the first table below carry sources; every other placement of those modules stays quiet, refuge or evidence space.
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- **Reuse.** A module shape carries no population. Only the hosts in the first table below carry sources. Another room may receive a conserved group only through an explicitly mapped walking route; reuse alone never populates refuge or evidence space.
- **New expedition.** Combat populations and growth opportunities renew after living return or revival. Living return keeps the room arrangement; death also shifts unjoined rooms. Permanent closures and other completed work remain changed, and new arrivals need viable sources and routes consistent with them.
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- **Growth.** The owner selected regular fighting growth with larger transformations at major horde milestones. [Combat Rules](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Combat%20Rules) owns its proposed cadence and milestone conditions; source and closure states remain physical facts. E06 and R25 below map the representative route; other placements and permanent-seal configurations still need their mapping.
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- **Population placement.** Before an expedition begins, a mapped finite group may already have walked from its named unsealed source to its standing positions along an open route. Those bodies are deducted from the source, never copied. Its approach warning and commitment occur when the band wakes into the player's route. During play, further arrivals physically emerge from shown apertures or cross visible neighbouring thresholds after warning. Load, re-entry, retreat, waiting and efficient fighting never repeat initialization.
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- **Growth.** The owner selected regular fighting growth with larger transformations at major horde milestones. [Combat Rules](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Combat%20Rules) owns its proposed cadence and milestone conditions; source and closure states remain physical facts. The open-local-source and sealed-local-source traces below map two states of one representative route; other placements and shifted arrangements still need their mapping.
### Crowd-bearing hosts
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| **R11 R-3 Approach** (E04) | From R01's leg: the bollard; the R12 leg with its gauge and R13's refuge door beyond; the exploration leg with the Flanker pack; and the quarantine-wing grille in that leg's side wall near the junction. The bollard apron is widened where the river turns; the legs keep their width. | **Quarantine ward wing**, a backing volume distinct from occupied R13. A Presser river (25–50 through the junction) pours through the grille and splits round the bollard. **Seal:** the grille's hand-wheel shutter on the junction side of the bollard, visible from R01's leg; the completed closure persists. | Hold R01's mouth as a funnel, work the bollard as hard cover or push to the wheel early; meet the Flankers on their leg. **Work:** walk the exact route, stock and confirm R12, check both controls. **Retreat:** R01's leg, straight to the airlock. | Three walking legs—ship, rescue, exploration—stay open, and closing the grille removes none. The rescue starts only once the route is quiet or separated; R13's inner door is survivor-operated; Sent needs that person aboard with the airlock closed; R12 is the counted abort. |
| **R14 Pump Hall** (E05 first stage) | From the entry: the tall room, the pump main ending at the back wall, the cable main crossing overhead with its service gantry, the gantry hatch where the main enters the wall, the fixed stair down beside the far pillar, the Boltspitter line, and the addressed workstation and A/B plate on the service apron. The stair lands on open floor with turning space, kept clear of the apron. | **Main service run** beyond the gantry hatch. Bodies cross the gantry and come down the stair (30–60 over the placement) while records are framed. **Seal:** drop the gantry hatch with the chain crank on the near pillar, whose run to the hatch is visible. | Fire up the stair as bodies funnel down; use the pillar against the bolt line; frame records from the apron. **Retreat:** R14's entry threshold. | The floor threshold to R15 is separate from the gantry and stays open; the continuing main defines no route; B face and release. |
| **R15 Cable Junction** (E05 second stage) | From R14's arm: the cross floor, the labelled bank where the cable main ends, the continuing pump main, the transparent rail with its pressure lane and gate, two cue bays, P04's detents, the Lens exchanger outside the sweep, and in one wall, side by side across the rail post, the open crawl panel and the duct grille. The pressure lane is widened to hold the rail group. | **Cable-duct run.** The rail group enters the lane through the grille and stays behind the rail until its gate state allows, so the Veilbearer's first cast teaches occlusion without ambush. A Boltspitter that survived R14 may walk the cued route behind a later veil. **Seal:** the grille lever on the record side of the rail post. | Cool bays against the sweeps; clamp faces reached from different bays; wait out or route round the veil. **Work:** the record position behind the rail, Lens removal, the crawl test. **Retreat:** R15→R14. | The crawl stays passable and testable; closing the grille leaves it open and promises no far bay. A/R faces and the other arms stay open. |
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| **R17 Jammed Pressure Approach** (E06; with R20) | From the near threshold: the long lane, both offset pillars, the far threshold into R20, the marked blank panel under the far lamp, the side gallery along one wall with the Flanker pack in it and, between the pillars, two ward doors, one in each wall, with their locks. The lane is widened around the second pillar between the doors. | **Two side wards.** The Flanker-only approach comes first, down the visible gallery, before the wards are disturbed; it is standing opposition, not a release stage. Once the player is mid-hall the wards release one physical stage (40–80 through the hall). For ordinary growth, the standing Flankers and the two ward portions are three visible pressure bands, with a Break Mark preview at the gallery approach and each ward door. Fresh expeditions renew these groups only through their viable approach and still-unsealed doors. The locks are mid-hall too, so throwing them seals the stage after its release commits rather than preventing it. **Seal:** throw both ward-door locks as completed acts; each sits on the entry side of its door, reachable from pillar cover. | Meet the Flankers from the first pillar; move pillar to pillar; use the long lane as a firing line. Completed cutter work at the marked panel opens a narrow two-way local service passage from R17's near side to its existing far threshold into R20. Take the long lane outward for its bands, or use the passage as a bypass and safer return. **Work beyond:** R20's valve and caps, with Siphon a special pressure at the valve rather than another stage. **Retreat:** the near threshold, visible from the far end. | R17's long route and permanent local passage remain, with no added room, source, objective or station-joining face and no short-rescue qualification. R20 has no source: the crowd reaches it only through the shown threshold, two pillars stay between tether line and valve, and caps stay on different quarters with the dry outer arc. |
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| **R17 Jammed Pressure Approach** (E06; with R20) | From the near threshold: the long lane, both offset pillars, the far threshold into R20, the marked blank panel under the far lamp, the side gallery along one wall with the Flanker pack in it and, between the pillars, two ward doors, one in each wall, with their locks. The lane is widened around the second pillar between the doors. | **Open-local-source pass: two side wards.** The Flanker-only approach comes first, down the visible gallery, before the wards are disturbed; it is standing opposition, not a release stage. Once the player is mid-hall the wards release one physical stage (40–80 through the hall). For ordinary growth, the standing Flankers and the two ward portions are three visible pressure bands, with a Break Mark preview at the gallery approach and each ward door. Fresh expeditions renew these local groups only through their viable approach and still-unsealed doors. With both wards sealed, Trace A2 instead places two R35-owned standing bands of 20–30 each in the long lane; the local groups do not renew. The locks are mid-hall too, so throwing them seals the stage after its release commits rather than preventing it. **Seal:** throw both ward-door locks as completed acts; each sits on the entry side of its door, reachable from pillar cover. | Meet the Flankers from the first pillar; move pillar to pillar; use the long lane as a firing line. Completed cutter work at the marked panel opens a narrow two-way local service passage from R17's near side to its existing far threshold into R20. Take the long lane outward for its bands, or use the passage as a bypass and safer return. **Work beyond:** R20's valve and caps, with Siphon a special pressure at the valve rather than another stage. **Retreat:** the near threshold, visible from the far end. | R17's long route and permanent local passage remain, with no added room, source, objective or station-joining face and no short-rescue qualification. R20 has no source: creatures use the shown walking thresholds under the relevant route mapping, two pillars stay between tether line and valve, and caps stay on different quarters with the dry outer arc. |
| **R23 Material Sorting Bay** (E07 host) | From R24's threshold: driver and receiver ends, the protected observation strip, ceramic strips across the Grid seams, both feed clamps, the Cycler cradle outside the transfer path, Veilbearer and Boltspitter. The receiving floor lies between that threshold and the Grid rail, beside, never over, the strip and ceramic routes. | No source in R23. Bodies from R24's hatches walk through the R24→R23 threshold onto the receiving floor. Transfer lines carry no creatures. The closures are in R24. | Lure a limited group across the rail and strike from cover; walk ceramic; wait at the veil sheet's edge. **Work:** operate the corrective pair or commit its capture from the strip, which releases R24's loft; Cycler. **Retreat:** R23→R24, crossing leg floor under the hatches until they are dogged. | Protected evidence refuses Cycler; the Grid arms only from physical rail impacts; a second B face at the far end of the receiving floor leads to R21 in Arrangement B without crossing the Grid seams, the strip or the transfer path. |
| **R24 Transfer Service Gallery** (E07 apertures) | From the R15 leg in Arrangement B: the bollard, R22's booth and its pair down one leg, the approach to R23's bay down the other, the closable service recess, three feeding hatches in the ceiling above the legs near their mouths and three dog wheels on the bollard apron. R21 cannot be seen from here. | **Transfer-gallery loft**, one backing volume over the gallery. Its stage releases through all three hatches when R23's corrective pair is operated or a capture of it is committed (30–60 through the placement); looking at or recording R21's or R22's clean pair releases nothing. Arrivals walk the legs toward the work. **Closure:** dog each hatch from the apron. With all three dogged before the release commits, nothing comes; growth and milestone consequences follow Combat Rules; after commitment, dogging the last open hatch seals and resolves the stage at once. | Bollard cover; each leg is a funnel; dog the retreat leg's hatch first. **Work:** framing angles. **Retreat:** the leg the astronaut entered by. | All three legs stay walkable for records and continuation. The abort recess lies under no hatch, and its door is separate from the dogs, Aster's outside lock at R22 and the transfer machinery. |
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| **R25 Balance Gallery** (E08, setpiece A) | From the approach threshold: Bellback across the rib, the neutral line and paired plates, Bank vessels and frost indicators, cap control, stirrup, handrail, and both feeding mouths in the outer walls away from the two walking thresholds. The outer floor is widened outside the mechanism footprint; the plates are flush with it and open along their outer edge. | **Two adjacent source volumes.** The phase 2 stage holds 80–150 at once and passes several hundred through the crest. Still-unsealed mouths renew for a new expedition and split their finite release into visibly announced pressure bands; each mouth previews its actual future unpaid marks. The major opportunity remembers a committed mouth band and a valid Bellback answer in either order, as detailed in E08 and Combat Rules. Arrivals cross the outer floor toward the astronaut and, where their path crosses a plate, stand on it and load it. **Seal:** each mouth's closure on the wall beside it; closing one early shrinks the stage, and closing both resolves it. | Shelter at the rib; time the handrail and stirrup; hold one Bank lane; lure or shove bodies onto one plate to steer the tilt; or overpower. **Work:** caps, each a persistent commit; for a rib, two cutter releases and a seated pin, separate commits that fix that one rib while the other still swings. **Retreat:** the approach threshold and protected control. | Walking thresholds unaffected by either closure; only mass physically on the plates counts; widening does not enlarge the plates; no counter-wave after an early clear. |
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| **R25 Balance Gallery** (E08, setpiece A) | From the approach threshold: Bellback across the rib, the neutral line and paired plates, Bank vessels and frost indicators, cap control, stirrup, handrail, and both feeding mouths in the outer walls away from the two walking thresholds. The outer floor is widened outside the mechanism footprint; the plates are flush with it and open along their outer edge. | **Open-local-source pass: two adjacent source volumes.** The phase 2 stage holds 80–150 at once and passes several hundred through the crest. Still-unsealed mouths renew for a new expedition and split their finite release into visibly announced pressure bands; each mouth previews its actual future unpaid marks. The major opportunity remembers a committed mouth band and a valid Bellback answer in either order, as detailed in E08 and Combat Rules. With both mouths sealed, Trace A2 instead supplies two R35-owned bands of 40–65 via R26; the first includes the Bellback already across the rib, so only its other members cross. That warned crossing supplies the alternate commitment. The second band is separately warned and may overlap the first. Arrivals cross the outer floor toward the astronaut and, where their path crosses a plate, stand on it and load it. **Seal:** each mouth's closure on the wall beside it; closing one early shrinks the stage, and closing both resolves it. | Shelter at the rib; time the handrail and stirrup; hold one Bank lane; lure or shove bodies onto one plate to steer the tilt; or overpower. **Work:** caps, each a persistent commit; for a rib, two cutter releases and a seated pin, separate commits that fix that one rib while the other still swings. **Retreat:** the approach threshold and protected control. | Walking thresholds unaffected by either closure; only mass physically on the plates counts; widening does not enlarge the plates; no counter-wave after an early clear. |
| **R28 Regulator Gallery** (E09) | From the approach at the panel end: panel and reply socket, four rack aisles with plates and tells, the fan flank, the Grid rail between pull face and fan flank with ceramic bypass and clamps visible from the protected mark, the grille at the far end of the fourth aisle and the ceiling hatch above the socket. The cross-aisle before the panel and the rear service walk are widened for circulation. | **Rear rack store** behind the fourth-aisle grille: 30–60 enter, cross the rear walk and come down all four aisles. **Ceiling maintenance space** above the socket: a completed Caller call releases a second stage through its hatch; cutting the alarm first prevents it but does not recall bodies already moving. **Seals:** the grille by a pull rod at the fourth aisle's panel end; the hatch by a chain beside the socket; both independent of the alarm lead and the reply. | Aisles as firing lines; fan shelter and flank; lure a rail impact; walk ceramic. **Work:** pull R4, observe the line and test the matching R3 B plate from the protected marks. **Retreat:** the approach threshold. | Nothing depends on R29 or R30; neither volume stores a plate; closures never replace pulling or testing; A face and releases. |
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| **R35 Receiver Vault Approach** (E10, setpiece B; with R36) | From the entry: the widened hall, two pillars spaced to keep the tether lane readable, Siphon radius, Shutterback's shelter angle, the Caller, one feeding mouth in each side wall, and in the far wall a hatch beside R36's opening, with the iris beyond. | **Two side-wall volumes** release the hall stage (80–150 at once). A completed Caller call releases a second stage from the **far-wall volume** through its hatch. **Seals:** each side mouth from a control on its accessible side; the far hatch from a control on the hall side next to, never across, R36's opening. | Choose selector lane, fan flank or clamp route; hold the pillar line against Siphon; cut the alarm before the call completes. **Work:** in R36–R38. **Retreat:** R35's entry threshold. | R36's two side openings remain walking passages to R37 and R38 and are never sealed; R36–R40 hold no source; opening R39/R40 creates no population; without current R35 access, E10 waits. |
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| **R35 Receiver Vault Approach** (E10, setpiece B; with R36) | From the entry: the widened hall, two pillars spaced to keep the tether lane readable, Siphon radius, Shutterback's shelter angle, the Caller, one feeding mouth in each side wall, and in the far wall a hatch beside R36's opening, with the iris beyond. | **Two side-wall volumes** release the hall stage (80–150 at once). For Trace A2 only, their proposed finite total is 220–370: 140–220 allocated along the route and 80–150 retained at R35 at once. Reaching this hall does not restore the migrated allocation. A completed Caller call releases a second stage from the **far-wall volume** through its hatch, separate from that total. **Seals:** each side mouth from a control on its accessible side; the far hatch from a control on the hall side next to, never across, R36's opening. | Choose selector lane, fan flank or clamp route; hold the pillar line against Siphon; cut the alarm before the call completes. **Work:** in R36–R38. **Retreat:** R35's entry threshold. | R36's two side openings remain walking passages to R37 and R38 and are never sealed; R36–R40 hold no source; opening R39/R40 creates no population; without current R35 access, E10 waits. |
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| **M07 Long Pressure Hall — R17, R35** | A straight main lane with two offset pillars, one fully visible side approach and a retreat threshold seen from the work end. Any tether or bolt line is readable before the player enters its final range. Crowd hosts add feeding apertures in the side walls, each with a closure on its approach side, and widen the lane around the pillars without hiding the tether or bolt line: R17 has two ward doors deeper in than its side gallery; R35 has two side mouths and a far-wall hatch beside, never in, the onward opening. R17 alone adds the cutter-opened internal service passage from its near side to its existing far threshold; this is not a shared M07 feature and adds no passage to R35. | R17 teaches the long no-language approach, a Flanker-only cue and Siphon retraction; R35 combines learned lines before the Receiver Vault. It supplies long access, never the short-rescue qualification. |
| **M08 Refuge/Recovery Vestibule — R12, R16, R37** | Small two-door pressure space with a closable inner door, visible gauge and a control reachable from both sides. It has standing room for recovery but no hidden continuation. | R12 is the stocked R-3 abort refuge, R16 is the `TAAN` stair-only comparison, and R37 contains the first iris clamp and a recoverable retreat. These uses differ by rescue, language and mechanism work. A vestibule is counted here; no attached panel or cupboard becomes another room. |
| **M09 Quarantine Ward — R13** | One refuge door opens onto a shallow treatment ward with fixed beds, a wall log opposite the threshold and a quarantined arc grid along a separate service edge. The occupant can operate the inner door without crossing the work lane. | Hosts the sole R-3 occupant, wall record, ward history and Arc source. The grid may be removed without erasing refuge or evidence. This module does not imply every ward is breathable, occupied or connected to the same corridor. |
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| **M10 Pump/Drive Chamber — R14, R27, R31** | Tall machine room with one continuous main crossing overhead, one local machine terminating visibly at the back wall, two pillars and an accessible service apron around the terminating fixture. R14 alone adds a service gantry along the overhead main, a feeding hatch where the main enters the wall and a fixed stair descending to a landing kept clear of the service apron; the hatch chain runs down a pillar within reach of the floor. | R14 compares pump/cable mains, R27 exposes exchanger removal, and R31 turns the geometry into Foundry's outward blue-double pulse. R27 and R31 carry no source. The repeated shape lets earlier “which main ends” evidence reinterpret a later converter candidate; identical architecture does not mean identical purpose, and the gantry is R14's fitting, not the module's. |
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| **M10 Pump/Drive Chamber — R14, R27, R31** | Tall machine room with one continuous main crossing overhead, one local machine terminating visibly at the back wall, two pillars and an accessible service apron around the terminating fixture. R14 alone adds a service gantry along the overhead main, a feeding hatch where the main enters the wall and a fixed stair descending to a landing kept clear of the service apron; the hatch chain runs down a pillar within reach of the floor. | R14 compares pump/cable mains, R27 exposes exchanger removal, and R31 turns the geometry into Foundry's outward blue-double pulse. R27 and R31 carry no source. R27 alone gains a proposed second ordinary walking threshold for Trace A2, away from its exchanger release, cooling fixture, R face and clean abort apron; it is not a generic M10 feature. The repeated shape lets earlier “which main ends” evidence reinterpret a later converter candidate; identical architecture does not mean identical purpose, and the gantry is R14's fitting, not the module's. |
| **M11 Cable Junction — R15** | Cross-shaped cable room with the heavy cable main terminating at a labelled bank while a pump main continues through. An open wall panel reveals a crawl edge; a transparent rail separates one visible pressure lane from the record position. A cable-duct grille sits in the same wall as the crawl panel, on the pressure-lane side of the rail post, and feeds that lane behind the rail gate; its closure lever is on the record side of the post, and closing it leaves the crawl open. | Hosts builder-run comparison, wall-access case, Thermal Lens, visitor continuation mark, A/B/address evidence and the placement-5 Veil/Bolt relation. Removing Lens chills only its exchanger. The crawl may block and never promises its historical far bay is currently reachable; the grille is never a route. |
| **M12 Sampling Loop — R20** | Circular pipe walk around a central sample line; cap controls sit at two quarter points, the local impact plate/Dynamo at a third, and the pressure regulator core at a reachable service gate. Two pillars interrupt the Siphon line. Two walking thresholds, the B face and an A face, open from opposite sides of the outer wall onto the dry outer arc between quarter points, so the paired vessels, both pillars and the dry arc are visible from either before any lane is entered. The service gate stays an internal gate to the core, not a third threshold, and the source-side pressure counter is unchanged. | Hosts objective 6's durable cap stages, Breath Bank, Dynamo, regulator assembly and source-side counter observation. Its loop supports withdrawal after one cap. It cannot become a short rescue route or let remote impacts trigger the local clamp. |
| **M13 One-Way Transfer Bay — R21, R23** | Two clearly separated end fixtures in one room: a driver visibly pushes through a line and a receiver visibly fills. A protected observation strip sees both; the material cradle, if present, sits outside the transfer path. R23 alone adds a receiving floor on its approach side, between its walking threshold and the transfer floor and beside, never over, the protected strip and ceramic routes, plus a second external face: a plain B threshold at the far end of that floor, reached without crossing the Grid seams, the strip or the transfer path. | R21 supplies the clean first pair; R23 supplies the corrective third pair, Cycler and a screened encounter whose crowd arrives through its first walking threshold. R21 carries no source, and transfer lines are never creature routes. Reuse must change what is tested—direction first, cross-register/body-slot and removable sorter later—not merely the colour of a pipe. |
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| **R17 Jammed Pressure Approach — M07 — O6/chain L2, encounter 6 cue** | Long route, a Flanker-only approach along the fully visible side gallery, two pillars, two ward doors with hall-side locks deeper in, and a marked blank wall panel sharing a far-side lamp/crew-name sightline. The wards release one physical stage once the player is mid-hall; standing Flankers and the two ward portions supply three visibly previewed growth bands. Successful cutter work opens a narrow two-way internal service passage from the near side to the existing far threshold; Siphon is previewed before loop work. | Language-first order gives a reason to cut; build-first can complete via the long route and reinterpret the mark later. The opened local passage offers a shorter return or an outward bypass that forgoes the long lane's bands; a record alone opens nothing. | **A** face. Cut fasteners, moved panel, the completed internal passage and thrown ward locks persist; current external adjacency and Siphon state do not. The passage reaches R17's existing far threshold, whose current neighbour still requires observation; no new station-joining face or rescue qualification is created. |
| **R18 Sealed Receiving Section — M18 — O6** | Dorn refuge; verified side route, committed direct-hoist alternative, far-bay `OSH·b` receiving fitting, destination drawer/card and exposed non-reversing ratchet. | Comparing ratchet/card with R13 wall impression narrows one transfer order and changes testimony without naming a passenger. | **B/R** faces. Direct opening persists even if its route fails verification; side checkpoints persist. Rescue waits for a walked short route. Fork carries control only; hoist supply provides motion. |
| **R19 Pressure Annex / Clinical Comparison Bay — M19 — O6/story 2, mechanism 11** | Mutually exclusive later Yeva host plus shielded active/bypass treatment trays, profile-commissioning card and matching tissue record. Two equivalent patches from one recorded source support the controlled comparison. | Full live comparison supports a human-configured harmful profile; only post-isolation ordinary closure shows present disconnection. No missing live record regenerates. | **A** face outside the refuge threshold, approach-side bypass and abort control. Culture patches are distinct from Mara's M1 rack and M2 salvage. Card, capture and survivor state persist independently. |
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| **R20 Sampling Loop — M12 — O6, encounter 6, mechanism 5** | Breath Bank, Siphon/Flanker valve pressure, Impact Dynamo, regulator-core assembly, cap stages and source-side pressure counter. Perform cap/hand-cycle, then choose which rewards fit. | Later storage knowledge turns incoming impacts into a build opportunity; later language reinterprets the same redirected line without changing completed caps. | **B** face and a second **A** face, each a walking threshold onto the dry outer arc; both pillars and retreat remain intelligible from either. Caps, freed objects and captures persist; population follows the encounter rule; Bank cadence and unbound destination do not persist. No feeding aperture; E06's crowd reaches the loop only through the shown R17 threshold. |
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| **R20 Sampling Loop — M12 — O6, encounter 6, mechanism 5** | Breath Bank, Siphon/Flanker valve pressure, Impact Dynamo, regulator-core assembly, cap stages and source-side pressure counter. Perform cap/hand-cycle, then choose which rewards fit. | Later storage knowledge turns incoming impacts into a build opportunity; later language reinterprets the same redirected line without changing completed caps. | **B** face and a second **A** face, each a walking threshold onto the dry outer arc; both pillars and retreat remain intelligible from either. Caps, freed objects and captures persist; population follows the encounter rule; Bank cadence and unbound destination do not persist. No feeding aperture. The open-local-source pass admits visible followers through R17; Trace A2 instead allocates one R35-owned 20–30 band on the R20-to-R25 approach, including this room's existing Glass Siphon. It arrives along the mapped walking route, not through a new source. The Bank remains a separate mechanism. |
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| **R22 Receiving Supply Booth — M17 — O7** | Second complete transfer pair, receiving-fitting token in the utterance body slot, and Aster's later refuge variant. After Sent she may request the reachable personnel lock. | Narrows pair direction and later shows why a ledger is not a passenger list. Locking changes one convenience without closing the other objective threshold. | **A/R** faces outside the refuge door; one current short route and abort point required. Lock/record/survivor states persist separately. |
| **R23 Material Sorting Bay — M13 — O7, encounter 7, mechanism 6** | Corrective third pair, third A/B/address workstation, cross-register receiving token, Salvage Cycler source and optional Resuscitation Grid. Veilbearer screens the visible Boltspitter across separated evidence stations. The receiving floor lies between the R24 threshold and the Grid rail, beside the protected strip and ceramic routes; bodies from R24's hatches arrive through that threshold once the corrective pair is operated or its capture committed. A second B threshold at the far end of the receiving floor leads on, in Arrangement B, to R21. | Corrects accidental reversal; removing Cycler stops sorting but preserves transfer evidence and Grid state. Different salvage responses change rigs, not translation. | **B** face toward the approach and a second **B** face. Captures, pulls and Cycler location persist; veil/Grid charge and current approach do not. Protected evidence refuses Cycler selection. |
| **R24 Transfer Service Gallery — M04 — O7** | Three sight-separated branch mouths let the player frame pair records and choose the uncertain continuation without claiming that conduits are corridors. Its closable service recess is Aster's counted abort place only when stocked and on a verified R22 short route. Three feeding hatches above the legs, dogged from the bollard apron, drop E07's crowd from the transfer-gallery loft when R23's corrective pair is operated or its capture committed; the legs stay walkable and the recess lies under none of them. In Arrangement B its legs show R22's pair and the approach to R23; R21 is seen only from inside R23. | Arrival elsewhere or blockage records a factual result; later arrangements can make the same room useful as a release/recovery junction. | **A** face and central release. Traversal result is provenance-bound; no branch label supplies current topology. Hatch closures persist and are independent of the recess, Aster's outside lock and the transfer machinery. |
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| **R25 Balance Gallery — M15 — O8, encounter 8/setpiece A, mechanisms 7–8** | Bellback preview, visible Pressers, Breath Bank, Phase-Balance neutral line, fixed rib/stirrup, persistent cap/pin, two feeding mouths in the outer walls and a widened outer floor from which bodies can walk onto the plates. One checkpoint helps free the thermal exchanger core. | With Nozzle/advanced rig the same pressure can be overpowered; low-power timing remains. Completed cap removes one draw side, changing revisit geometry. | **A/B** faces, protected control and retreat. Cap/pin/core state persists; mechanism phase does not; mouth closures persist and population follows the encounter rule. No reactive success wave. |
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| **R25 Balance Gallery — M15 — O8, encounter 8/setpiece A, mechanisms 7–8** | Bellback preview, visible Pressers, Breath Bank, Phase-Balance neutral line, fixed rib/stirrup, persistent cap/pin, two feeding mouths in the outer walls and a widened outer floor from which bodies can walk onto the plates. One checkpoint helps free the thermal exchanger core. | With Nozzle/advanced rig the same pressure can be overpowered; low-power timing remains. Completed cap removes one draw side, changing revisit geometry. | **A/B** faces, protected control and retreat. Cap/pin/core state persists; mechanism phase does not; mouth closures persist and population follows the encounter rule. The sealed-mouth variant uses the R35 allocation through R26 in Trace A2. No reactive success wave. |
| **R26 Clean-Side Decontamination — M14 — O8** | Vector Nozzle/air knife, standing-passage wall mark, open removable slab, unmarked welded duct and Mara's distinct rack/refuge. A fixed service circuit visibly runs forward A-in→B-out and reverse B-in→A-out. Purge rack or seal it, then use a quiet short crossing whose counted abort room is R27 when current geometry qualifies. | Reinterprets “marked duct” as broader candidate access and supplies the Decontamination observation used in this inventory's converter example. Removing Nozzle makes cover/timing matter again but leaves the fixed A↔B circuit; Mara's rack has no consequence for R19's culture comparison. | **X(A↔B)/R** faces outside clean refuge. Under [Mechanical Interfaces And Opening Quantities](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanical%20Interfaces%20And%20Opening%20Quantities), its mechanical selector and final detent work without diagnostic power; an actual test pulse requires current power/input. Converter mode, slab, rack, Nozzle and rescue states persist independently; pressure and route are current. |
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| **R27 Thermal Exchange Room — M10 — O8/O10** | Exchanger core release and local cooling fixture show the fourth ship assembly as separate from portable Nozzle. Its pressure apron can be Mara's counted clean abort place only when stocked and on the verified R26 route. Optional A/B plate is redundancy. | Empty housing on revisit confirms installation did not duplicate the core; pump-room similarity gains a different service meaning. | **R** face, reachable release and no hidden room. Core, plate and stocked checkpoint persist under their owners. This room hosts retrieval, not the ship-side readiness report. No source: M10's gantry fitting belongs to R14. |
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| **R27 Thermal Exchange Room — M10 — O8/O10** | Exchanger core release and local cooling fixture show the fourth ship assembly as separate from portable Nozzle. Its pressure apron can be Mara's counted clean abort place only when stocked and on the verified R26 route. A proposed second ordinary walking threshold, away from the exchanger release, cooling fixture, R face and clean abort apron, meets R35's existing entry only in Trace A2's arrangement. Live pressure through it must be cleared or separated before the apron qualifies as a clean abort. Optional A/B plate is redundancy. | Empty housing on revisit confirms installation did not duplicate the core; pump-room similarity gains a different service meaning. | **R** face, reachable release and no hidden room. The added walking threshold supplies no network signal or rescue shortcut; its unjoined external relation becomes historical after a shift. Core, plate and stocked checkpoint persist under their owners. This room hosts retrieval, not the ship-side readiness report. No source: M10's gantry fitting belongs to R14. |
| **R28 Regulator Gallery — M16 — O9, encounter 9, mechanism 9** | R1 pulled/A with scar, R2 pulled/A, R3 intact/B, R4 intact/A; panel/reply face, all four original plates, protected viewing marks, Shutterback/Caller, Capacitor, a feeding grille at the fourth aisle's end and a ceiling maintenance hatch above the reply socket, both R28-owned. Pull R4, observe the line, then test matching R3 B plate. Nothing indispensable resides in R29/R30. | Wrong order loses the clean reply evidence but not work or Capacitor. Revisit can defer/reopen the current line with the same plate. | **A** face, fan flank and alarm lead. Pulls, lines, plate location and Capacitor persist; fan does not; grille and hatch closures persist and population follows the encounter rule. Invalid plates refuse without being consumed. |
| **R29 Plate Service Stack — M20 — O9** | Optional current adjacency to R28 offers empty labelled sleeves and a wider safe staging surface for a plate already removed from its rack; it neither creates nor stores an indispensable plate by default. | Supports recovery/organisation after an invalid reply and distinguishes exact object location from “known plate.” If not adjacent, the player uses R28's own surfaces and R29 waits as a separate lead. | **B/R** faces with lower network release. Any deliberately placed plate identity/location persists; shelf labels are not translation. No duplicate appears and no control crosses rooms. |
| **R30 Reply Observation Niche — M03 — O9** | When currently adjacent through its visible window throat, this optional room gives an alternate capture angle on R28's panel/R4 tell; R28 already contains a valid protected observation position. | Compared with R03's mechanical board, the familiar cell form no longer implies a nonresponsive system. If the relation is absent, this reinterpretation waits rather than blocking Chain 4. | **R** face. Captures persist with room provenance; live panel state must be observed. Glass neither performs a pull nor creates a second panel/control. |
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| **R32 Archive Stack — M20 — O12/story 4** | One exposed **B-output** face can oppose Foundry and refuse; a separate **R-input** face can later accept Imaging's fixed output. Layered human notes call the core patient/engine/prisoner; an A walking face can be occupied by a mistaken join. | Later cell evidence changes which note seems plausible without correcting any author. The failed B/B case and later R acceptance are two immutable faces, not a mode change. | **B-output/R-input/A** faces, each with a network-side control reachable from lower landing. Notes and joins persist; shelf order is not chronology unless physically evidenced. |
| **R33 Imaging Exchange — M21 — O12, special connection challenge 1** | Immutable A-input and R-output faces are simultaneously inspectable; the fixed exchanger is **A→R**, with no reverse or selectable mode, as linked in [Mechanical Interfaces And Opening Quantities](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanical%20Interfaces%20And%20Opening%20Quantities). | Old captures distinguish this fixed transform from R34's reversible mode and from merely carrying two static families. A wrong occupied face can be released, but a physical join alone does not prove signal flow. | **A-input/R-output** plus walking release faces. Join state persists; an actual diagnostic pulse still requires current power and compatible oriented inputs. |
| **R34 Synchronization Gallery — M24 — O12, mechanism 12, special challenge 2** | Local pulse test shows one reversible A↔B transformation and current direction. Persistent roster lists joined, discovered-unjoined and anonymous counts without names. | Supplies the late converter insight and lets the player diagnose a failed family prediction. Mode change alters signal reach, never walking joins. | **X(A↔B)/R** faces, all releases inside. Mode and joins persist separately; diagnostic power is transient. Roster never reveals a room or completes a latch. |
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| **R35 Receiver Vault Approach — M07 — O11, encounter 10/setpiece B entry** | Widened central span, two pillars, Siphon radius, Shutterback shelter angle, Caller, two sealable side-wall mouths and a far-wall hatch for a second stage are visible before commit. Choose selector lane, fan flank or clamp route. | Earlier O6/O9 lessons turn the same threats into a combined work decision; cutting alarm creates a known quiet window. | **B** face and visible retreat. Cut lead and mouth/hatch closures persist; fan/tether state follows encounter rules. The far-wall hatch sits beside R36's opening, and closing it never blocks that opening. The long approach is not rescue geometry. |
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| **R35 Receiver Vault Approach — M07 — O11, encounter 10/setpiece B entry** | Widened central span, two pillars, Siphon radius, Shutterback shelter angle, Caller, two sealable side-wall mouths and a far-wall hatch for a second stage are visible before commit. Choose selector lane, fan flank or clamp route. Trace A2 allocates a new proposed 220–370 finite total from the existing side-mouth volumes, preserving 80–150 at once here after 140–220 migrate along the route. | Earlier O6/O9 lessons turn the same threats into a combined work decision; cutting alarm creates a known quiet window. | **B** face and visible retreat. Cut lead and mouth/hatch closures persist; fan/tether state follows encounter rules. The far-wall hatch sits beside R36's opening, and closing it never blocks that opening. The long approach is not rescue geometry. |
| **R36 Pressure-Receiver Vault — M22 — O11, encounter 10/setpiece B, mechanism 10** | Empty vessel, gauges, builder selectors, visitor `OSH·b`, local inlet B plate/reply face, central iris and trapped builder-style seal strip under a later human adapter. Fixed internal passages lead to R37/R38 and, after iris opening, R39/R40. | Languages make pump/inward predictable; gauges/two clamps remain physical alternative. Equalisation closes the inlet line, then hand-cycle opens passage. Strip/card/berth comparison supports only limited chronology. | **A/R** external faces on the compact assembly. Clamp/equality/iris/plate/strip states persist. Closed iris cannot hide approach-side reverse or releases; R36–R40 do not shift apart. No feeding aperture; its side openings are walking passages only. |
| **R37 East Clamp Refuge — M08 — O11** | First mechanical equalisation clamp, gauge and hard retreat space outside the closed iris. Complete one clamp and withdraw. | A later reachable visit resumes at the second clamp without regenerating the first; familiar refuge geometry becomes mechanical recovery, not survivor shelter. | **A** face and two-side release. Clamp checkpoint persists, pressure reading is current. This counted room is one of the two side alcoves, not a free fixture. |
| **R38 West Clamp Recovery Walk — M04 — O11** | Longer branch around the fan contains the second clamp and a network-side iris-group release. Central bollard breaks the hose line. | Lets a low-power player finish after an earlier withdrawal and later release a mistaken join without crossing the iris. | **B/R** faces. Clamp/release work persists; fan and hose windows do not. Its branch cannot be deleted while the two-clamp alternative is kept. No source, and no closure becomes a prerequisite for the two-clamp path. |
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R11's exploration leg currently reaches **R17**, whose far threshold meets **R20**'s B face; R20's second walking threshold, its A face, meets **R25**'s A face, and R25 leads on to R26–R27 for Balance/Nozzle/exchanger. The ordinary encounter at R17/R20 therefore stands between the sealed R11 source and setpiece A; Trace A shows renewed fighting along the long lane and the completed local passage used on return. That passage remains inside R17 and reaches the same existing far threshold into R20; it creates no second ship exit or exterior face. Gauges allow objective 6 before formal language work; later records from R14/R15 and R21–R23 reinterpret the already captured pressure destinations. R20's completed caps and removed Dynamo remain true, while any later death makes these current routes historical. Installing all four assemblies aboard exposes objective 10's readiness report, not departure or credits.
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The sealed-local-source variant in Trace A2 adds an explicitly proposed R27 second walking exit meeting R35's existing entry: R17→R20→R25→R26→R27→R35 is then the current open migration route. This adds geometry within R27, not a room or a signal face, and preserves the separate R35→R36 core approach. The relation is conditional on this arrangement, not preserved automatically through death.
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In any later eligible arrangement for Dorn, R18's side route must be walked while the direct boundary remains sealed. Choosing the direct hoist opens it persistently; only after the astronaut walks the newly exposed route and finds it short may rescue proceed. Finding an extra junction leaves the opening committed and Dorn waiting; a separately verified current side route is the alternative.
### Arrangement B — language-and-network first, with rescue deferred
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**Work and climax.** Earn quiet by clearing or separating the arrived bodies, then inspect the panel and its lamp/crew-name sightline. R20 has no source: only real, visible followers from R17 plus the existing Glass Siphon can apply creature pressure there. Its Bank caps, regulator-core assembly, Dynamo and source counter retain their own work and property rules. At R25, the two unsealed mouths announce finite bands. The mouth commitment and Bellback answer are remembered in either order, and the gallery shows which fact has occurred. Leaving the locked cone, sheltering at the rib through its wave, catching it with a faced Barrier, interrupting the unfinished brace by displacement, or defeating Bellback can supply the answer. When both facts exist, transformation ready appears once while later crowd remains. No immunity or replacement creature protects the milestone. Caps and rib pins remain physical work; Nozzle and the exchanger core remain in R26–R27.
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**Return and next visit.** The completed R17 passage provides the local return shortcut; it does not automatically qualify any survivor route. Going home ends the temporary climb again. R11's seal and the passage remain, and fresh bands can return through R17/R25 sources that are still viable. R20's Bank phases warn again from neutral unless a cap was closed. This trace covers that explicit open-ward/open-mouth configuration. It does not establish renewal after all ward doors or gallery mouths have been permanently sealed, or after a shift changes an external neighbour.
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**Return and next visit.** The completed R17 passage provides the local return shortcut; it does not automatically qualify any survivor route. Going home ends the temporary climb again. R11's seal and the passage remain, and fresh bands can return through R17/R25 sources that are still viable. R20's Bank phases warn again from neutral unless a cap was closed. This trace covers that explicit open-ward/open-mouth configuration. Trace A2 covers one all-local-seals variant below; neither trace establishes renewal for arbitrary seal combinations or changed external neighbours.
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### Trace A2 — the local sources stay sealed
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**Changed preparation.** R11's quarantine grille, both R17 ward doors and both R25 mouths are permanently shut; R17's internal passage remains open. R35's two side mouths remain unsealed. The proposed R27 second walking exit connects to R35's existing entry in this arrangement. Empty local source windows, locked mouths, shipward-facing bodies, scuffs and successive threshold movement distinguish the distant pressure from the work already completed. The ship remains safe, and the ship side of the shut R11 grille has no renewed crowd.
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**One conserved source allocation.** R35's existing two side-mouth volumes receive a proposed finite total of **220–370 bodies** for this arrangement:
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| R17 long lane | Two separated standing bands of **20–30 each**: **40–60** total, marks one and two. Both ward doors stay locked; E06's local groups do not renew. |
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| R20-to-R25 approach | One **20–30** band, **including R20's existing Glass Siphon**, supplies mark three. R20 remains source-free; the Breath Bank is a separate mechanism. |
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| R25 / R26 approach | Two bands of **40–65 each**: **80–130** total. The first includes exactly one Bellback already standing across the rib; only its remaining members cross R26→R25 after warning. The second is visibly warned and may overlap the first. |
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| R35 receiver hall | **80–150 retained at once**. Its existing Shutterback, Siphon and Caller pressures keep their rules. The Caller-gated far-wall stage is separate from this allocation. |
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The route's **140–220** and R35's retained **80–150** add to **220–370**, not extra copies of E10. Before departure, the mapped groups have walked R35→R27→R26→R25→R20→R17 to their standing positions. During play, movement follows the visible route after warnings. Re-entry never restores a spent allocation, and reaching R35 does not refill its source ledger.
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**The outward climb.** Take the long R17 lane for its two bands or use the local passage and forgo those two marks. Clearing or separating the forward pressure earns the marked-panel lull. The R20 approach band supplies the third mark before the gallery, so the player can take a Tune in the paused journal during the counter lull. Breaking a band does not remove its surviving Siphon; that creature must still be handled or separated. The Bank continues under its own physical cap and withdrawal rules. The existing Storm Choir can choose Echoing Arc here and bring branching ordinary fire into R25; other compatible rigs and the no-upgrade baseline remain valid.
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**Gallery payoff and quiet.** The first cohort's warned threshold crossing records horde engaged. A valid Bellback answer and commitment are remembered in either order, including an early defeat. The major becomes ready as soon as both exist, without waiting for a Tune to be taken. The second band approaches with a visible warning and may overlap the surviving first; it is not a response to kill speed. No replacement Bellback appears. The two cohorts leave a substantial crowd for the transformation, while later clearing or separation earns the far-wall discovery lull. All local mouths stay shut. See [Combat Rules](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Combat%20Rules) for the existing answer, growth and queue rules.
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**Return, rescue and limits.** The R17 passage shortens the earned-quiet return but remains two-way and does not stop pursuit. R27's added threshold supplies no shorter rescue: its clean abort apron must be stocked, on the verified short R26 route, and clear or separated from this pressure. Mara still waits in Arrangement A's long ship route; the R11 rescue leg, Dorn/Yeva limits and R36–R40 core assembly remain unchanged. A living return with the same arrangement initializes this finite allocation once for the next trip. A death can change the unjoined R27→R35 relation. Another source requires its own mapped allocation, open path and warnings; otherwise this corridor stays quiet while fresh combat and growth need another current frontier. That is a coverage limit, not an owner-approved exception to renewal. The larger source capacity, distant cues, added threshold and player experience remain unvalidated proposals.
### Trace B — through R14 and R15 to R24's transfer-gallery loft (Arrangement B)
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**Strongest useful experience.** A familiar spatial grammar gains a different meaning: a pump-shaped room teaches that architecture is not purpose; a two-face hall first teaches recoverable joins and later helps separate walking access from biological isolation; old language and pressure records make a later action intelligible without turning notes into a map. The station becomes a set of persistent places the player can remember and physically assemble, not forty interchangeable skins.
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**Accepted costs.** Forty room identities still require forty distinct state/revisit briefs and later layout work. Multi-room encounters and the iris need careful boundary ownership. Seven rescue-host variants across six rooms increase arrangement constraints. Publishing a 40-room roster exposes a known hidden count. Twelve rooms first designed for small fights now reserve receiving floors, apertures and closures; that is real layout work, and it risks making discovery rooms look alike. Renewed populations and growth must fit routes altered by permanent seals; the R17 local passage and representative open-ward/open-mouth route above still need later geometry and experience validation. R20 and R23 each need a second face. Three signature families, a reversible converter, Decontamination mode and one fixed converter may still be too much network notation—or too little late-puzzle depth. Zero added rooms depends on future geometry fitting every named refuge, fixture and release inside these counted rooms.
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**Accepted costs.** Forty room identities still require forty distinct state/revisit briefs and later layout work. Multi-room encounters and the iris need careful boundary ownership. Seven rescue-host variants across six rooms increase arrangement constraints. Publishing a 40-room roster exposes a known hidden count. Twelve rooms first designed for small fights now reserve receiving floors, apertures and closures; that is real layout work, and it risks making discovery rooms look alike. Renewed populations and growth must fit routes altered by permanent seals; the R17 passage and both representative routes still need later geometry and experience validation. The sealed route also costs a proposed second R27 threshold and a larger finite 220–370 R35 source allocation. R20 and R23 each need a second face. Three signature families, a reversible converter, Decontamination mode and one fixed converter may still be too much network notation—or too little late-puzzle depth. Zero added rooms depends on future geometry fitting every named refuge, fixture and release inside these counted rooms.
## Open questions
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- Whether a valid complete assembly exists, whether the converters suffice, how often useful adjacencies occur, and whether death-farming is possible.
- Full scripts, and exact survivor geometry in every allowed arrangement.
- The survivor retreat-line clearance at each eligible rescue host is pending owner decision.
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- Renewal across other permanent-seal and joined-room configurations; the two mapped R17 routes do not establish every source capacity or shifted layout.
- These rules are untested; numbers are proposals.
