Design a discovery-first survivorlike under the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief), with expressive builds, meaningful hordes and an authored colony. Written comparisons establish proposals and dependencies; they do not demonstrate fun, balance, accessibility, production feasibility or campaign duration. This phase remains design only.

The station shifts after each death, preserving uncertainty about what is where. Selected player changes, such as unlocked doors, remain permanent. This supersedes the fixed-layout proposal. The owner selected permanent connections binding rooms/groups, with connecting the **entire station** as one of the deepest/latest puzzles. Exact linking rules, mistakes and the completed station's later shifts remain open. Cooperative rescue is accepted provided it does not become a long escort quest. Everything still carried returns aboard on death; completed work persists, the journal pauses the whole game, and ordinary combat uses mostly automatic fire with manual specials. Linked reusable parts, shared oxygen/equipment/loot capacity, practical clue exploration and route/work hordes are accepted directions. Home equipment loans are tentative.

The leading story is now the owner's **early, fully revisable hospital draft**: ancient aliens attempted godhood and abandoned the station; humans made it a hospital because of extraordinary healing and revival; research revealed a captive god in the core, and medical systems became harmful. Repeated revival and the experiments of both eras could explain the creatures. Every narrative detail remains open. This does not automatically adopt a player death counter, transformation deadline, specific ending or retrieval mechanism. The former Registry/Unit/Clinic comparison is no longer an unanswered equal-choice gate.

See the dated [Progress board](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Progress): **32 design packages,30 preparation-closed and2 open**, with decision status kept separate. The owner now requests reports every15 minutes while work is active, plus meaningful milestone/blocker updates. The owner also requires forward estimates: current F1 target for a complete first-pass game-design wiki is22 Sep (range18–29 Sep), with a coherent core targeted11 Sep (10–14 Sep). See the Progress forecast for completion definitions, staffing and assumptions.

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| Systems | [Station Room And Module Inventory32](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Station%20Room%20And%20Module%20Inventory); sole author under475 | Draft477 submitted21:22:49 at15bb8454(55138bytes), explicit STOP. Draft23:00 Sep8 target achieved early; reviewed00:00 Sep9(23:15 Sep8–01:15 Sep9) remains the low-medium-confidence forecast, Jerusalem time. Native475 receiving21:13:24.363 was verified. Cast31 closed473 at21:12:44, final6456406b; Systems retains STOPPED ownership. |

PM's narrow parent-equipment alignment432 and legacy Discovery Chain/Expedition integration441–443 are complete. The latter preserves historical post-death routes and world-time capture with full frozen journal inspection; it grants no new access guarantee. Global04 and death/rescue ordering remain unresolved. Do not treat a former fixed-anchor alternative as owner-selected, or invent destruction, duplication or survivor loss to handle a shift.

[Cast And Short Rescue Map31](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Cast%20And%20Short%20Rescue%20Map) preparation closed473 at21:12:44 Jerusalem, final6456406b101845e6c9a6563a69fc7f56c1dcc7bf8227445bf14a03fa072f5514. Five proposed people have fifteen uniquely identified first-pass scenes, three primary per person. One focused critique/response corrected the initial current walked rescue route, actual movement event and first ship-bench operation. D2 inherits Dorn participating in the initial demonstrated operation; later commissioned use follows Home28. Final cast, first survivor, mortality and owner choices remain unselected; full scripts, state/geometry variants and placements remain unfinished.

[Two Language Discovery Map29](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Two%20Language%20Discovery%20Map) preparation closed459 at20:23:52 Jerusalem, finaldf0f48f5bd39659105ca5e3b31e7341e4d0a8b36618a7eaed8f60d7120038a0a. One focused critique/response restored distinct address/body evidence, kept valid captures usable across lives and specified the iris's local B input and visible completion state. Four operational chains and the two-language/two-register classification are prepared proposals; actual clue/string/room variants, final origins/story and comprehension evidence remain unfinished. One local plate/input/state variant fits the existing iris mechanism; no extra region/objective/module/mechanism slot.

[Equipment Acquisition And Rig Growth26](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment%20Acquisition%20And%20Rig%20Growth) preparation closed434 at18:57:01 Jerusalem, finalf5f6d7681325bc5e52d1a7503133a15d8e4293f55df3961fe6f7210b9503db6e. The complete twelve-part contract maps four proposed starters/eight physical sources, counts three added fixtures and separates active-area growth from carrying capacity. One focused critique/response clarified independent receiver acceptance, possible spent-cargo loss after downstream refusal, the unplaced repair/adapter template and the bounded empty-ship guarantee. Late author notice436 records pre-maintenancef7ede725; PM’s paragraph-only maintenance433 and final434 remain current. Acquisition preference, starter/capacity choices, source-fixture detail and exceptions remain open.

[Save And Content State](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Save%20And%20Content%20State) preparation closed417 at18:09:56 Jerusalem, final438cdf35f53bb537aed50bb8efab810866b289d6cf401b949d95bc7e27e8938c. One focused review/response clarified the carried rig/cargo set, actual person-and-airlock delivery, historical evidence and the provisional save-policy boundary. This is a first-pass continuity contract, not verified software; save policy, rescue/death/shift order, full-station behavior, transients and recovery remain open.

[Equipment Catalogue](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment%20Catalogue) preparation closed400 after one independent GPT review and response399. Twelve proposed reusable parts include a deliberate-movement switch and a directional nozzle. Three legal rig examples disclose capacity, activation and rewiring costs. Fork provisionally splits usable payload. Acquisition/growth paths are now prepared in26; exact tuning and owner selection remain open.

[Survival and Loadout](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Survival%20And%20Loadout) preparation closed392. It proposes resource/capacity lifecycle rules and opening packing choices, including retained prepared oxygen. Exact quantities and balance remain unselected.

[Whole Game Outline](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Whole%20Game%20Outline) is preparation-closed378 after draft369, focused review370 and response374. It connects the opening to middle, ending and secret layers, including a later expedition and finite content bands. It is a planning scaffold: story/ending choices, quantities and complete estimate coverage remain open.

[Connecting The Station](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Connecting%20The%20Station) completed focused review323 and response324, with PM disposition329/331. It retains permanent latches as a local candidate, but the deep whole-station puzzle is **unresolved**: a source can be reused to latch seams one after another, so scarcity alone does not establish the proposed global ordering problem. Seams and power machinery are unchosen. New independent originals340/342 were read and jointly released346–348. Systems comparison349 now evaluates room transformations, family bridges and simpler matching; the mechanism comparison preparation closed363 after review356 and response361; detailed whole-station content and owner mechanism/payoff choice remain open. A single late insight is PM's quality target for the owner's ambition, not an additional quoted owner requirement; combining earlier discoveries could also satisfy it. A final stable layout is proposed as a reward and is awaiting owner reaction.

[First Expedition Options](/Hold%20The%20Flood/First%20Expedition%20Options) completed review325, response326 and closeout333. The owner has now selected **Option A**, the reusable-machinery opening, recorded344–345. One opening discovers a reusable part that powers both equipment and station machinery; the other discovers a risky route by watching a body lift. Temporary deployment has explicit time/capacity costs, and the lift needs extra local content. Both preserve natural death, carried property and existing connections. Option A is the selected direction; detailed rooms, values and loadout remain proposals, and neither opening is validated.

[Horde Creature Proposals](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Horde%20Creature%20Proposals) offers a telegraphed pressure-wave creature, a moving screen for a crowd and a readable oxygen-tether attacker. All can be avoided, interrupted or defeated, and a strong rig may overwhelm them. Their origins are replaceable candidates from either experimental era.

[Progression Options](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Progression%20Options) compares claiming functioning components from station machinery with observing their behaviour and fabricating chosen parts aboard. Both include useful legal build traces, changed uses of old parts and motivation for another expedition. The two independent originals were read, hash-verified and jointly released before Systems' practical comparison; preparation closed272. No economy, starting loadout, fabrication bench or installed-object persistence model has been selected. Comparative claims about surprise, targeting and attachment remain expectations rather than measurements.

[Hospital Story Directions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hospital%20Story%20Directions) develops the fully revisable hospital draft into a captive ascendant or a departed being's surviving repair engine. Focused review296 and response301/304 are complete; PM closeout308 keeps the remaining semantic evidence gap explicit. The captive's proposed request needs evidence distinguishing a request from a maintenance record; correlation alone is insufficient. [Alien Utterance Discovery](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Alien%20Utterance%20Discovery) finished one focused review and response353: the gallery supports useful interaction with a responsive process, not proof of a request, living writer or god. Neither story nor its ending is adopted.

- [Coming Home](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Coming%20Home) and [Home Projects](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Home%20Projects): compatibility maintenance closed456 at20:15:57, revisionsacbc945c/996d235a; PM owns both parents STOPPED. Current Fork/supply, unloading, historical-route and refill rules align while the human scenes and reclaimable loans remain. This adds no package or global04 closure; the whole colony economy and emotional effect remain unvalidated.