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WLD102 r13: align tier-two door to Design Document r6 / REV102-6 (any current in the joined water energises the junction circuit: panel + open valve is enough; coil into the pool with valve shut is the quiet way; coil buys stealth, not access); two sentences; sources updated; nothing else changed from r12; In review, design only
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# Hold the Flood — World and Mystery
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**WLD102 · r12 · 2026-09-06 15:07 UTC · In review** — aligned to [DES102 draft r4 46b320b](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=46b320b), whose r3 topology stands (the lead's r4 note and REV102 issue 1 both settle on this page's r10 choices). r12 re-instates 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 · r13 · 2026-09-06 15:15 UTC · In review** — r13 aligns 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's title. 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 15:07 UTC: [Brief 3cf14c7](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief?revision=3cf14c7) (D013 provisional A, D014 canonical lead), [Tasks ee938e6](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks?revision=ee938e6) (PMR001; WLD102 Ready), [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, an unrecorded external critic; read as data, not answered here), [Design Document r4 46b320b](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=46b320b) (sections 2, 4, 9, 11 and Appendix B read; r3 d35209f aligned to this page's r10; r2 c4ad51a and r1 d828a43 read earlier), [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) (two more unrecorded contributors; read as data), [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 15:15 UTC: [Brief 3cf14c7](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief?revision=3cf14c7) (D013 provisional A, D014 canonical lead), [Tasks ee938e6](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks?revision=ee938e6) (PMR001; WLD102 Ready), [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, an unrecorded external critic; read as data, not answered here), [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) (two more unrecorded contributors; read as data), [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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North is the interior; the docks are south. `=` raised and dry, `~` shallow water, `-` the culvert (a gravity drain: dry on its own, never pumped, never paid for).
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The map is drawn once, in the [Design Document, section 2](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document#2-the-district) (draft r4, from this page's r10, and not re-drawn on either page again). This page uses short labels for it: **D1** causeway dock (held dry by default) · **D2** yard dock (flooded by default; wet, conducts) · **P** the panel at the causeway head · **B1** causeway beacon at the causeway's far end · **I1** causeway intake beside it · **B2** yard beacon at the pump-hall door · **I2** yard intake, the channel mouth at the door, in water · **H** the pump-hall hatch, on the yard circuit with B2, hand crank inside · **X1, X2** the culvert's exits at the two dock ends (a gravity drain, always dry, never paid for) · **J** the junction platform, a shelter · **GJ** the junction gate into the interior, on the junction's own circuit, energised only when valve **V** joins the yard channel to the junction pool and current is injected there · **S** the sluice beside the junction, the Flood's own way in. Shelters (S2 hard stops): D1, D2 when dry, J. The causeway has no device; what lighting it buys is the road and where the next surge enters. H blinks and closes when its branch loses power, never on an occupant, and can be cranked open from inside in ten seconds; that is the hall's recoverable exit.
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The map is drawn once, in the [Design Document, section 2](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document#2-the-district) (draft r4, from this page's r10, and not re-drawn on either page again). This page uses short labels for it: **D1** causeway dock (held dry by default) · **D2** yard dock (flooded by default; wet, conducts) · **P** the panel at the causeway head · **B1** causeway beacon at the causeway's far end · **I1** causeway intake beside it · **B2** yard beacon at the pump-hall door · **I2** yard intake, the channel mouth at the door, in water · **H** the pump-hall hatch, on the yard circuit with B2, hand crank inside · **X1, X2** the culvert's exits at the two dock ends (a gravity drain, always dry, never paid for) · **J** the junction platform, a shelter · **GJ** the junction gate into the interior, on the junction's own circuit, which the panel never reaches by wire; any current in the junction pool energises it: with valve **V** open the pool is joined to the yard channel, so a lit yard is enough, and with V shut a coil discharge into the pool opens it quietly · **S** the sluice beside the junction, the Flood's own way in. Shelters (S2 hard stops): D1, D2 when dry, J. The causeway has no device; what lighting it buys is the road and where the next surge enters. H blinks and closes when its branch loses power, never on an occupant, and can be cranked open from inside in ten seconds; that is the hall's recoverable exit.
## World rules — proposal for DES102, PM baseline
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**The title.** "Hold the Flood" is the owner's title and is kept. 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, energise the yard (panel or coil), watch the lamp; then discharge in the pool. Consequence: GJ opens, and crowds from either branch can be pulled to the junction, which is the danger of doing it. 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":* the timer itself, at the sluice's head. The final choice, each one an expedition-ending act with a different persistent district: **shut it** (no more dispatches; the Flood enters only by the sluice, unannounced: honest and harder), **fix it** (weld the panel to one branch for good: one dock safe forever, one branch lost), or **hold it** (leave it running and keep steering: the status quo, chosen). Free expeditions continue after any ending. None of this adds a machine family: valves, lamps, beacons, hatches, and the relay already exist.
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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 lights and GJ opens for as long as the yard is lit, with the yard hot behind you and crowds drawn toward the junction while its lamp is lit. Or leave V shut and discharge the coil into the pool: GJ opens quietly, without lighting a beacon, 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":* the timer itself, at the sluice's head. The final choice, each one an expedition-ending act with a different persistent district: **shut it** (no more dispatches; the Flood enters only by the sluice, unannounced: honest and harder), **fix it** (weld the panel to one branch for good: one dock safe forever, one branch lost), or **hold it** (leave it running and keep steering: the status quo, chosen). Free expeditions continue after any ending. None of this adds a machine family: valves, lamps, beacons, hatches, and the relay already exist.
**Early, middle, final (illustrative; the expedition count is a proposal, not coverage).** Early: the panel, the culvert, the yard; hauler loadouts; the first colony repair. Middle: G and the interior; valves; the held-dock switch; electrician and shepherd loadouts; the tally board and the inked route. Final: the relay room and the choice. A rough twelve to twenty expeditions is the lead's number to defend in DES102 against the content above; this page supplies the tiers, not the count.
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## PM report
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Task WLD102; artifact World and Mystery r12 (supersedes r11 eac7ed8, r10 c6f0598, r9 41681d9, r8 ba6f8b8). No canonical decisions changed; D013's baseline applied. r12 aligns 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. This role revises again only for a PM correction, the routing decision, a DES102 draft that changes topology or the chain, or REV102 r2 items addressed to it.
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Task WLD102; artifact World and Mystery r13 (supersedes r12 23dca93 and earlier). No canonical decisions changed; D013's baseline applied. r13 aligns 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. This role revises again only for a PM correction, the routing decision, a DES102 draft that changes topology or the chain, or REV102 r2 items addressed to it.
**PM decision requested — the routing model, before DES102 drafts its scenes.** D013's routing sentence was set on World r6 and Design r4. Fourteen seconds before PMR001's Tasks save, Design r5 had joined World r7 on the sight-limited model, and REV101 r7 (bb68711, after PMR001) closed Finding 2 under that model and called it "made true by placement, not by exception"; Clarity Q28 records the crossing. Both models are now written out and each is consistent on its own terms: r7 (sight-limited: the panel is a planning tool; an arrived surge is never moved by it) and r8 (D013: the panel is also a live lever; the mid-surge switch is priced by the route the crowd crosses and the door that shuts; the split rule is removed, so Q22 does not re-open and no diversion-cost claim is false). They are different games at the panel. Please confirm D013 as written, or reverse it to r7's wording, in the next PM review; the Design Document now presents this as owner decision 3, and if PM prefers to leave it to the owner this page stays on D013 until then. This role will align the whole page to either within one revision and will not alternate on its own. Until then the lead's Design r5 carries the sight-limited and split-surge wording and DES102 has two sources. Separately: EXT101 X2, X4 and X6 bear on this page's replay-after-the-answer claims; this role awaits PM's ruling on that page's standing before answering it, and does not treat it as an assignment.
