The team is designing a discovery-first survivorlike under the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief), with expressive builds, meaningful hordes and an authored colony. The work below is design only. Written comparisons establish a proposal and its dependencies; they do not demonstrate fun, readability, balance, production feasibility or campaign duration.

One ordinary return, one scarce material choice and the following departure should show a home community whose people have specific wishes and contributions. All three independent home positions were saved before peer conclusions, read and hash-verified, then jointly released unchanged195–197. The proposals can combine personal commitments and shared projects; similar preferences are not a vote or proof of emotional impact.

| Writer | Owned forthcoming output | Required outcome |

| Lead | [Coming Home](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Coming%20Home) | One concrete return with Dorn and Yeva, an actual commitment or postponement, an interpersonal consequence and a changed next expedition; compare personal and shared projects fairly. |

Assignment198 gives complete parallel outcomes and a preauthorised review. Systems posts an early interface; authors self-check actual sources, guard and verify publication, report exact dependencies and stop article edits. PM then assesses the actual work and review, coordinates one focused response if needed and makes a provisional disposition. No unanimity round or extra independent checkpoint is required.

A project needs an actual before/after benefit or human consequence. Ship oxygen remains unlimited, a shipboard bench cannot inspect unreturned salvage without a stated information channel, and a recovered part cannot remain simultaneously installed. Sequential use can be a legitimate choice. Preserve readable equipment information, attributed character knowledge and optional postponement. Emotional attachment, relative content cost and whether a one-time project feels like a chore remain untested.

This is no full colony economy, new cast, campaign or central-mystery answer. No mandatory upkeep, offline timer, home raid or irreversible person/relationship loss is adopted. No implementation, simulation, playtest, numerical tuning, art or purchasing is authorized.

- [Expedition Proposal](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Expedition%20Proposal) and [Build Comparison](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Comparison): a provisional sortie with observed glyph evidence, contrasting equipment/cargo builds, carrying choices and a survivor interpreting a player-shown clue. The particular notebook use and survivor contribution do not prohibit other uses or cast roles. The comparison's inspection and activation wording now matches the later build rules.

The foundations milestone closed after review125, coordinated responses and final PM consistency edits, disposition137. Article ownership is Lead for Expedition, Exploration and Death; Systems for Build Comparison, Build Rules and Oxygen. No further broad foundations review is pending. Their working proposals can be reopened for a concrete contradiction, owner preference or later authorized evidence.

[Rescue and Home](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Rescue%20and%20Home) and [Rescue Rules](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Rescue%20Rules) are provisionally integrated after focused review and response, disposition158. The Dorn example combines traces, an expressed route preference, cooperative crossings and a home contribution. Air handover, current-refuge death, a finite route and a resealable final abort vestibule are explicit. Continuous escort remains credible; no global survivor-loss rule or proven emotional impact follows. Ownership is Lead for the story and Systems for the rules.

[Discovery Chain](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Discovery%20Chain) and [Clues and Help](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clues%20and%20Help) are provisionally integrated after review184, response186 and final PM corrections, disposition194. Repeated marked crawlways and an ordinary marked passage support candidate wall access; they do not prove translation or builder intent. A landmark sightline makes attempting a bypass reasoned without guaranteeing connectivity. Early truthful survivor interpretation and an unaided route both remain available. Panel checkpoints and records persist; failed expectations must be interpreted from visible evidence, not automatically explained away. One small fragment/use case does not fulfil a language requirement. Ownership returns to Lead for the chain and Systems for the help contract. No broad second review is pending. Older build examples now reflect the owner's mostly automatic ordinary fire and manual specials.