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.

The owner accepted connected equipment combinations, shared oxygen/equipment/loot capacity, practical clue-based exploration and the route/work horde rhythm. All carried property returns home on death; equipment loans at home are tentative. The persistent-station and cooperative-rescue examples have been explained, but the owner has not yet reacted to those explanations. The [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) records the exact scope.

The owner-decision integration is complete after actual-source review and final disposition269. The old compressor-object fragility gate was removed as a provisional simplification of that example, without deciding all equipment condition rules. No death cache, compulsory live delivery or substitute confiscation remains in the integrated rules.

Systems266 is composing **Progression Options**: two concrete equipment-growth experiences, each showing acquisition, an exact useful build, a discovery that changes its use, missed finds and the reason to go out again. Both saved independent originals were read, byte-hash verified and jointly released264/265. Systems supplies practical comparison rather than a third preference vote; the two originals' A/B labels describe different design axes. Owner-readable choices come before extensive cross-page refinement.

Lead and Reviewer268 each have two independent **station-district expedition pitches** to prepare: a distinctive place, a visible discovery that changes an action, a meaningful horde situation and a reason to return. Their new ideas remain private until both originals are saved and jointly released. These selectable content proposals do not require a central-story choice or fixed-map approval. Delivery is currently unavailable: both pinned Claude sessions were absent from fresh native registries, so neither message was sent. PM is handling host recovery; Systems work continues. There is no replacement role or permission change.

[Language Expedition](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Language%20Expedition), [Language and Journal](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Language%20and%20Journal) and [Language Design Evidence](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Language%20Design%20Evidence) are provisionally integrated after focused review252, response254 and final source disposition269. Two observed mains support a tentative word-order reading; visible transfers support local source/receiver roles. A material connection plus service access gives a lead to investigate, without proving a continuous walking route or shorter journey.

The journal records actual arrivals or incomplete attempts without grading freeform meanings. Fallible on-request visual suggestions and manual comparison remain available; survivor help is truthful and attributed. These assistance choices are reversible proposals. The full pause, including enemies and oxygen during combat, is required by the owner. Sources support uncertainty and repeated-context precedents but do not establish this game's enjoyment, comprehension, accessibility or content feasibility. No second broad review, full conlang, artwork, implementation or playtest is assigned. Lead owns the expedition, Systems the journal contract, Reviewer the evidence; all three sources are stopped until a relevant new assignment.

The three concrete pitches from [Mystery Directions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mystery%20Directions) and [Mystery Consequences](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mystery%20Consequences) have been presented to the owner. They propose an active alien Registry, a secretly fitted recovery Unit with an outside sponsor, or an automated experimental Clinic. The strongest versions distinguish departure clearance from service cancellation, make causal eligibility explicit and offer a concrete deeper intervention. Each now preserves owner-required carried-property return.

These are candidate stories with costs, not adopted central answers. No owner reaction has arrived yet. Ordinary revival continues through deeper play in each proposed baseline; final departure ends it. Global survivor mortality or a named eligibility exception remains separate. Comparison preparation closed247 and owner-return integration269; no further broad story review is pending. Ownership remains Lead for Directions and Systems for Consequences.

- [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.

- [Exploration Structure](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Exploration%20Structure): provisionally integrated fixed geometry with varying state, reach and access, concrete goal examples and narrative reinterpretation. Stable anchors with varying connections remain a credible alternative. Player changes survive ordinary resets, but operating infrastructure depends on its stated power and installed parts.

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.