2026-09-15 20:19:54
Anonymous:
Record completed build comparison and owner budget pause
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# Hold The Horde — Design Plan
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**Paused after the completed build comparison, 15 September, 20:18 Jerusalem.** The owner is conserving the weekly token budget. All assigned work has stopped and automatic PM wake-ups are paused. No new assignments until the owner resumes; [Progress](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Progress) preserves the last estimates and current stopping point.
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You leave home with a modest rig, fight through a growing horde, discover a powerful interaction between your equipment and the station, and return with something that changes the next expedition. That sequence must be exciting on the third trip as well as the first.
## The current design
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The main reading path now begins with [The Game](/Hold%20The%20Flood/The%20Game), follows [three expeditions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Expedition%20Proposal), returns to [the people aboard](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Coming%20Home), and opens into [discovery in the changing station](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Connecting%20The%20Station). [Hordes and Builds](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hordes%20and%20Builds) explains the current examples; [Build Comparison](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Comparison) presents alternative controls and payoffs for owner reaction.
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Twenty-one proposal or editorial packages completed review and response today: builds/expeditions, hospital story/survival, regular growth on a renewed route, a second route state after permanent source seals, the six-page reading path, the moving-scan expedition, the short-rescue comparison, the station-completion payoff, the campaign scope comparison, the language journal, the whole-campaign overview, the cast and rescue map, the equipment guide, the Receiver Vault expedition, the enemy guide, the repeated upgrade-choice comparison, the former-patient scene, the first useful invention, four hospital-room descriptions, the current decision guide, and the astronaut comparison. [Combat Rules](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Combat%20Rules) and the room/encounter references describe the two concrete route states. They preserve completed work while giving fresh opposition a physical route. Other seal combinations and shifted layouts remain design work.
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Twenty-two proposal or editorial packages completed review and response today: builds/expeditions, hospital story/survival, regular growth on a renewed route, a second route state after permanent source seals, the six-page reading path, the moving-scan expedition, the short-rescue comparison, the station-completion payoff, the campaign scope comparison, the language journal, the whole-campaign overview, the cast and rescue map, the equipment guide, the Receiver Vault expedition, the enemy guide, the repeated upgrade-choice comparison, the former-patient scene, the first useful invention, four hospital-room descriptions, the current decision guide, the astronaut comparison, and the electrical-projectile comparison. [Combat Rules](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Combat%20Rules) and the room/encounter references describe the two concrete route states. They preserve completed work while giving fresh opposition a physical route. Other seal combinations and shifted layouts remain design work.
The new Ricochet and Gravity mechanisms remain proposed replacements for parts of the detailed build rules. The [hospital-story alternatives](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hospital%20Story%20Directions) remain revisable. Completed review does not select them for the owner or establish fun, balance or duration.
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[Who Is the Astronaut?](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Who%20Is%20the%20Astronaut) presents a repair pilot who wants a settled home and a surveyor who wants someone to share discoveries with. Both respond to the same forced docking, horde breakthrough and optional conversation about Nadi. Their wishes, enjoyment, coping habits and friction with others differ, alongside a cheaper mostly silent alternative. It preserves the player's actions, evidence and pleasure in making a powerful build. Review, response and integration completed at **19:47**. One spoken line now makes Nadi's refusal of premature movement clear. Both personalities and the quieter alternative remain available; the risk of intrusive commentary or conversations becoming lessons remains visible.
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## In review: can a shot carry lightning?
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## Ready to compare: can a shot carry lightning?
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Systems has extended [Build Comparison](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Comparison) with two approaches to the same horde: the existing banked-disc/local-arc hybrid and a proposed projectile that delivers electricity at its contact point. The comparison must show a hint, an experiment, a dangerous setup, spectacular success and a bad shot, with the change to discovery afterward. The existing three build directions remain. Any new delivery rule and its cost must be explicit; neither it nor a build priority is selected.
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[Build Comparison](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Comparison#can-a-shot-carry-lightning) now shows the player linking an electrical effect to a projectile, learning from an early bank shot, then using it to reach a crowd beyond shelter cover. The legal nearer target still takes the first physical hit; the bank arms the payload and the next body releases lightning. This creates a specific opportunity the existing local electrical build lacks from the same position.
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The draft arrived at **19:59**. Systems has stopped and the independent reviewer is working from previously saved criteria. Reviewed comparison target remains **22:30**, likely **22:00–23:30**, with its player discovery, targeting and costs still under review.
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The alternative gives up ordinary local lightning and access to the existing full-store attack while configured. Misses waste charge; new connection and preview behavior carry design and production work. The existing hybrid remains stronger against the visible front and cheaper to produce. One critique and response, followed by PM verification, completed at **20:17**. Both treatments remain proposals; discovery, geometry, balance and broader combinatorial depth remain untested. Systems and the reviewer have stopped. No further outcome is assigned during the owner’s pause.
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The owner has been offered three short existing experiences for reaction: horde climax, coming home and opening. That optional taste feedback can steer priorities while authorized work continues.
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The owner has been offered three short existing experiences for reaction: horde climax, coming home and opening. That optional taste feedback can steer priorities after the owner resumes work.
One focused critique and one response belong to each bounded outcome. The outside-edit preservation audit is complete and its factual follow-ups are published; broader readability and design readiness remain open. States and estimates are on [Progress](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Progress).
