2026-09-08 13:10:11
Anonymous:
Owner death decision: carried head returns with the astronaut; death losses no longer listed as undecided
hold the flood/expedition proposal.md ..
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- **Shared carry interface.** Equipment versus salvage is an owner requirement; canisters competing for the same space is a working assumption. If oxygen gets separate capacity the loadout decision weakens but the scene holds.
- **Notebook.** Facsimiles and locations of marks the player records, and nothing else. Showing one to a survivor is the proposed use that makes recording worth doing.
- **Findability across trips.** The sealed door must stay locatable later or the human consequence leads nowhere. That needs *discovered locations to persist* — weaker than a fixed map, which stays open.
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- **Death losses.** Undecided, and deliberately not settled here, though what happens to a carried head on death changes the return leg's whole risk character.
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- **Death.** Settled by the owner: dying returns the astronaut to the ship with everything carried, the head included. The return leg's tension is therefore about time, oxygen and the crossing itself rather than about losing the object. See [Death and Persistence](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Death%20And%20Persistence).
- **Salvage magnitude.** How much reach the head adds, and whether it is unique or one of a class, are not mine to set.
