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 owner chose fresh hordes each expedition and regular combat growth with larger transformations. Permanent changes and physically carried property remain, while temporary power resets on returning home. The [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) records the requirements.

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.

Nineteen 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, and four hospital-room descriptions. [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.

The [Moving Scan Expedition](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Moving%20Scan%20Expedition) now places the lamp in Cable Junction. Three source areas supply the rising fight; ordinary growth precedes the electrical climax. Observations from three positions reveal a receiver across a void, and the player unfolds and walks a bridge to it. Living return preserves the useful shortcut. A changed alignment makes the old samples historical and exposes a visible rewind for a new scan.

The price is a fourteenth proposed major mechanism and substantial rail, bay, bridge and receiver geometry. The room, encounter, combat and information references now agree; physical fit and the intended pleasure remain untested.

[Whole Game Outline](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Whole%20Game%20Outline) completed review and response at 15:26. It follows the player’s journey from forced docking through deeper investigation and optional secrets. The page makes the horde scale, growing builds, useful discoveries and relationships concrete, with carried equipment and open choices preserved. The home-loop page’s old living-return clearance wording has also been corrected to fresh hordes after either return.

The [Equipment Catalogue](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment%20Catalogue) completed review and response at 16:05. It starts with a working build, then shows each part's visible behavior, useful combinations and costs. The shared references now make clear that a failed attempt preserves the rig's current readiness, and that a part installed aboard is already home while remaining outside the carried inventory.

The [two-trip upgrade comparison](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Upgrade%20Choices) completed review, response and integration at **17:18**. The same equipment supports an electrical reach trade and a banked-disc/electrical hybrid. Both earned decisions have a tempting declined alternative. The proposal makes the shortcut's lost second choice explicit, explains the discoveries in place and shows how a small pool can run out of offers. Build and combat rules now link the comparison; its broader variety and intended pleasure remain design questions.

The [former-patient scene](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hospital%20Story%20Directions) completed review, response and integration at **17:59**. Nadi Kelm once stopped a rehabilitation carrier because it moved before she was ready. The full proposal lets the player recognise her altered body inside an ordinary horde, or discover a crossing trace later; card-only history supports a different conversation with Ivo. The simpler treatment keeps the record and memory without a marked body. Both remain proposals.

The [opening rewrite](/Hold%20The%20Flood/First%20Expedition%20Options) completed review, response and integration at **18:28**. The optional personal Fork branch gives the player something useful to lend away when that same part controls station machinery. The warning on arrival gives the repair its tension; a plain explanation of the shutter latch makes the alternative approach understandable. The first discovery remains a control choice whose appeal needs later testing.

The completed pass describes four existing [Clinical Exchange spaces](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Station%20Room%20And%20Module%20Inventory#region-2-clinical-exchange-r11r20): the quarantine ward, long ward approach, clinical comparison bay and sampling loop. The pass connects what people did there to what the player sees, chooses and remembers. Crowd pressure, quiet investigation, refuge and useful equipment should feel different as parts of one hospital, even when shifts change their neighbours.

Review, response and integration completed at **18:55**. The corrected descriptions preserve discovering a survivor before preparing the rescue, introduce Nadi through her ready-signal dispute, and clarify retained growth on a shorter return and lasting cap effects. Existing rooms, sources, mechanics, rescue variants and evidence remain. The small bedside-label proposal carries future writing and placement work; the wider hospital identity still needs development.

A separate temporary GPT writer is updating [Open Decisions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Open%20Decisions) with independent review criteria ready. The guide should show what the owner has chosen, which concrete alternatives are ready to judge and what still needs design. Stale claims about missing scenes will be checked against current sources; unresolved objections and unselected alternatives will remain. No game rule changes through this editorial pass. Draft target **21:00**, likely **20:00–22:00**; reviewed guide **22:00**, likely **21:00–23:30**.