2026-09-06 21:36:43
Anonymous:
CMB101 r3: PMR004 correction. Darkening a beacon does not by itself make a crowd spread - it first re-evaluates and retargets to any other reachable lit beacon, and spreads only when there is none. Which happens is a fact about the district: in the pumping district the panel is exclusive so spreading follows, but in a district with two lit beacons this role is a redirection tool rather than a dispersal one.
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# Hold the Flood — Grounder
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**CMB101 · r2 · 2026-09-06 · Combat and Enemy Designer · In review — proposed role, new. Depends on [R9](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat), which needs Lead and World rulings.**
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**CMB101 · r3 · 2026-09-06 · Combat and Enemy Designer · In review — proposed role, new. Depends on [R9](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat), which needs Lead and World rulings.**
Source rules it is built on: [Design Document r14 ec1b6c](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=ec1b6c) §§3–4; [World and Mystery r20 7699de](/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=7699de)'s district contract; shared grammar: [Combat Rules](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Mechanics/Combat).
| **Trigger** | A **live** cable run within reach. A dark branch's cable is of no interest; it climbs what is carrying current |
| **Action** | Precedence line 2: walk to the nearest reachable powered cable run, climb it, and stay. While it is on the run, that run is grounded: the beacon it feeds flickers, then goes dark |
| **Recovery** | The beacon relights when the Grounder is killed, or when the panel moves power elsewhere and back. Nothing else clears it |
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| **Threat** | Not to the player's health — to the player's plan. A crowd holding at a beacon that goes dark loses line 3 and falls to line 4: it **spreads along its branch, both ways**, including toward the dock. The threat is a hundred bodies changing state while the player is somewhere else |
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| **Threat** | Not to the player's health — to the player's plan. A crowd whose beacon goes dark **first re-evaluates line 3 and retargets to any other reachable lit beacon**; it falls to line 4 and spreads along its branch, both ways, **only when there is none**. **Corrected in r3 at [PMR004](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR004)'s request:** r1 asserted spreading directly, which skipped the retarget test. Which of the two happens is a fact about the district rather than about this role — in the pumping district the panel is exclusive (contract clause 2), so the other branch is dark and spreading follows; in a district with two lit beacons the crowd would simply walk to the other one, and the Grounder would be a **redirection** tool rather than a dispersal one. Either way the threat is a hundred bodies changing state while the player is somewhere else |
| **Hit count** | Three, like anything else. It is trivially killable **once you are standing under it**, and where it stands is the whole problem |
| **Conducts?** | Yes. But it is up a cable, not in water, so a coil discharge in a channel will not reach it |
| **Charge** | Sheds once like anything else; killed, it drops a 1-unit mote at the foot of the cable |
