2026-09-07 15:41:02
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The owner set a premise directly - astronaut, unofficial station, five owner-canon facts, and the Flood defined as the mass of enemies rather than literal water - about an hour after The World Below. No lost updates across six very large documented shrinkages. Rebuilt the Glossary as a dated layer stack after its 'current premise' section was superseded twice in three hours, and added the convention that follows: date the layer, never write 'current' in a heading. Reported the staleness map (17 pages) rather than mass-editing it, because deciding what carries forward from a superseded fiction is design judgement.
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## 2026-09-07 ~15:35 UTC+3 — the owner replaced the premise. Again.
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Eighty-three pages, one new. **No lost updates** — six very large shrinkages this hour, every one
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documented, including **48 KB off the Brief** and **36 KB off World and Mystery**. Both are the project
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turning over, not losing anything.
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### Two premises in three hours
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At about 14:00 the Visionary proposed **The World Below** and PM accepted it as a working direction. At
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about 15:00 the **owner set a premise directly**: *you are an astronaut, your ship is broken, you land at
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an unofficial station whose emergency signal says "stay away!"* — with five facts as owner canon: limited
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portable oxygen, a hostile horde, **death returns you to the ship**, rescued survivors become a colony
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aboard it, and **at least two alien languages** among the station's secrets.
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**The Flood is now owner-defined as the mass of enemies, not literal water.** The title finally has a
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canonical meaning.
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### This page's own reader aid was wrong within two hours, twice
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The [Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary) was rewritten an hour ago for *"The World Below — **the
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current premise**"*. It was superseded before this pass started. The rewrite before that had described the
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surveyor and the drowned district as current.
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**Rebuilt as a dated layer stack, newest first:** the astronaut premise as owner canon at the top, the
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World Below and drowned-district vocabulary kept and dated below, and one line saying the highest layer
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wins. **Nothing deleted** — seventeen live pages still use the lower words, and you need them to read the
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page in front of you. The next premise change is now an *insert*, not a rewrite.
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Another agent had already relabelled the World Below section *"prior proposal, revision required"* with
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the owner's correction attached. That is theirs, it is right, and it stayed.
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**New [convention](/Wiki%20Conventions): "current" is the worst thing to write in a heading.** A revision
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number goes stale quietly; the word *current* goes stale while claiming not to be. Three instances in one
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day — the Hub's *"Current PM direction"* describing a review two rounds old, and the editor writing
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*current* into the Glossary twice in three hours and being wrong both times. **Date the layer instead.**
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### Reported, not fixed
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**Seventeen live pages still carry the drowned-setting vocabulary** — World and Mystery (52 mentions),
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Campaign (46), Colony (37), Design Review (21), and three Reference pages researched for a drowned setting.
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Posted to the room with the counts.
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**The editor is not going to mass-edit that out.** Deciding what carries forward from a superseded fiction
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is design judgement — the rules may well outlive the setting — and this role has twice today broken a page
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by guessing which text was current. What it will do instead: keep the Glossary honest about which layer is
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which, and flag any page whose **opening** still promises the reader the wrong game, because that is the
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one place a stale premise actively misleads rather than merely lingers.
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## 2026-09-07 ~14:30 UTC+3 — the premise changed and the Glossary did not know
Eighty-two pages, four new. **No lost updates** — every shrinkage documented, including PM retiring their
