2026-09-06 19:32:27
Anonymous:
DES101 r7: keep the wiki editor's Q43 fix (banner names no Design Document revision), remove the stray parenthesis it left, say 'which is current', update header and bookkeeping; body unchanged
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# Hold the Flood | Two concept directions
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**DES101 | r6 | 2026-09-06 | Lead Game and Systems Designer | Accepted as concept contribution (Tasks PMR001, at r4) | rules now maintained on the Design Document**
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**DES101 | r7 | 2026-09-06 | Lead Game and Systems Designer | Accepted as concept contribution (Tasks PMR001, at r4) | rules now maintained on the Design Document**
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> **Read this first.** This page is the accepted concept packet. Its rule details are superseded by the [Design Document](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document) ), which follows PM's routing baseline from Brief D013: the panel alone chooses a surge's intake, and after entry a surge follows the nearest lit beacon it can reach, so a mid-surge switch does move the Flood and is priced. The glow-range and split-surge rules stated below in r5 are presented there as a labelled alternative for the owner's decision, not as the baseline. Where this page and the Design Document differ, the Design Document is current.
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> **Read this first.** This page is the accepted concept packet. Its rule details are superseded by the [Design Document](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document), which is current and follows PM's routing baseline from Brief D013: the panel alone chooses a surge's intake, and after entry a surge follows the nearest lit beacon it can reach, so a mid-surge switch does move the Flood and is priced. The glow-range and split-surge rules stated below in r5 are presented there as a labelled alternative for the owner's decision, not as the baseline. Where this page and the Design Document differ, the Design Document is current.
**Recommendation (proposal):** Develop **A: The Borrowed Route**. You are a surveyor in a drowned district whose machinery runs on one rule: current. Current is what fights, what opens doors, what draws the Flood, how you pack your gear, and what keeps your camp above water. Learning that rule is the game.
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**Provenance.** Inspirations are owner statements, not research. Both directions assume a solo player with automatic basic attacks. Camera, 2D/3D, controls and operating systems remain open; top-down 2D is a reversible working assumption because water, cables and surge routes must read at a glance. The dispatch and forecast fiction above (the relay calls the Flood on a fixed cycle; the forecast is the relay's own display; the pump runs on banked salvage) agrees with the world designer's answers, first written independently in World and Mystery r6 and aligned with this page's rules in r7; treat World and Mystery r7 or later as the shared text for the owner document, never r6.
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**What r7 changes (r6 is page history 211106; the wiki editor's Q43 fix, e9eeaa, is kept).** Clarity Q43: the banner named the Design Document as draft r1, a pointer that went stale with every revision. The wiki editor removed the revision name; this revision keeps that, removes a stray parenthesis the edit left, says "which is current", and updates the header. Body unchanged; rules still live on the Design Document.
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**What r5 changes (r4 is page history 42f653).** Answers Design Review r6 and Clarity round 3. N14: the pump has no per-expedition upkeep; the colony's stake is long-run, matching World and Mystery r7. Q26: the surge-split rule now says how a second branch can be energised (a coil discharge or a valve joining the branches' channels), confirming the world designer's r7 wording. Q27: the coil discharges into what you are touching, so both coil scenes now put the surveyor in the channel's edge wearing insulation; that makes insulation load-bearing and the electrician's risk real. The provenance line now points at World and Mystery r7, not r6. Four words the Glossary listed as undefined (build expression, telegraphed, counterplay, XP) are defined above; decision 2 no longer uses codes. Design Review r6's N12, N13 and N15 were already met by r4 and World and Mystery r7; N16 (tiers two and three sketched as recombinations) is carried to the design document.
**What r4 changed (r3 is page history 0b4039).** Answers Clarity Questions round 2 and Design Review r5. Q22: the panel never moves an arrived surge, because a beacon pulls only within its glow and the fixed beacons are out of each other's sight; only a carried beacon does. That keeps the world designer's W2 and cost-of-diversion argument literally true and asks them to amend the one r5 topology sentence that says the panel drags an arrived surge, or to state the live-lever reading if they prefer it. Q23: the yard intake is the channel beside the pump hall, so the electrician's stun happens as written. Q24: quiet 3 is now actually shorter. N11: modules do not conduct; only wet salvage leaks. Added: a surge splits if two fixed beacons pulse at one dispatch.
