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10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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# Hold The Horde — First Survivor
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Status.** Two proposed versions of the R-3 encounter and the first short cooperative rescue, for owner reaction. Not canon. Both follow the selected opening: the player has seen R-3's painted ward label, a breathable-pressure indicator and a repeated knock through a window they could not reach, and has installed the isolation bridge.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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## The conditions both versions rest on
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**A bearing is not a route.** The installed bridge lets the ship separate R-3's live pressure pulse from the collar fault. That gives a *local bearing* — R-3 is live, and roughly that way. It never establishes a walkable path, adjacency, or that anything is currently open.
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**The geometry that makes this one crossing.** The rescue is offered only when the player has **personally walked, in the current arrangement and in one life, from the ship airlock to R-3's threshold**, and that walk is short — the airlock corridor, one junction, the ward door. The bearing helps them recognise R-3 when they reach it; only the walk establishes the route.
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**If that geometry does not exist, the scene waits.** After a shift the walked route is historical. The player may find a short route again, or not. **Nothing here stretches into a multi-stage escort to compensate**, and no adjacency is inferred from a bearing. That is the honest contained condition while the broad ordering of shifts and rescue refuges is still open.
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38536a Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:59:24
Keep interrupted-rescue timing unresolved and date observations
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**Timing assumptions, marked.** Either party may call an ordinary abort; the proposed return to R-3 assumes no rearrangement during that living crossing. If the astronaut dies during transfer, this contained scene additionally assumes the survivor reaches R-3 before the death-triggered shift takes effect. That ordering remains unresolved; this page does not establish the survivor's outcome if it cannot hold. No shift on a living return is inferred. The scene requires redesign if its refuge cannot remain reachable until the proposed abort finishes.
2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**R-3's door.** Intact and able to cycle. This is not the damaged-lock case: the ward holds its air, the equipment sleeve passes a canister without cycling the door, and after any abort the ward is still pressurised with the survivor inside. Nothing in either version vents R-3.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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## Version 1 — Yeva, and the ward she was measuring
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**Cast note.** This proposes **Yeva Kolb** as the first survivor, which is *consistent with* the existing pages rather than superseding them: Expedition Proposal already has her rescued on an earlier trip, and Rescue and Home has Dorn found later behind a sealed section that Yeva names. Making her first preserves that order. It supersedes nothing.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Her desire.** Yeva is a pressure-tech. She has spent months measuring which parts of this ward system still hold, and the record is on the wall in tape and grease pencil. She wants it to leave with her.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**The disagreement.** The player wants her through the door now. Her answer to *we should go* is *not until that comes too* — and she is not being sentimental. She believes it is the only reason she is worth bringing.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**The crossing.** Canister through the sleeve, flow confirmed, the astronaut holds the junction against an ordinary crowd, Yeva crosses under her own power and the airlock takes her. One held junction, one crossing, no accompaniment through the station.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**The choice, with no tax.** The wall cannot be carried by someone in a borrowed suit. The astronaut can photograph it — world-time work, in the open, while the crowd is coming — or refuse and cross now. Nothing is confiscated either way, and the cost is exposure at the worst moment.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Why she leaves even if the player refuses.** Because she has been watching the ward's margin more closely than anyone and knows it is losing. Staying is now the worse of two bad options, and she says so plainly rather than being talked round. She goes, and she is quieter about it.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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38536a Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:59:24
Keep interrupted-rescue timing unresolved and date observations
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**What she contributes aboard.** She can say which fittings on a recorded route held or had failed when measured, with the dates of those measurements. This is historical evidence, not a claim about unseen current conditions. With the wall, she can speak to rooms she never entered; without it, only to what she measured herself, which is less and she says so.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**The return scene.** She does not thank anyone. She asks for a working light, sits down with the ship's recorder, and reads out the ward's pressure log from memory — dates, rooms, the day each one stopped holding — because that list is also, in order, the days people stopped coming back.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Death, abort and shift.** Death before departure leaves her in R-3, pressurised, and the station shifted: the walked route is historical and a new one must be found. An aborted crossing returns her through the door, which closes behind her. Nothing beyond the ward is assumed to survive a shift, no teleport is proposed, and nothing here claims survivors cannot die or that they are immortal.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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## Version 2 — Aster Fen, who thinks the astronaut is the problem
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**Cast note.** *(New person, proposed.)* A supply clerk, not clinical staff.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Her desire and disagreement.** She has watched the station change shape whenever something goes wrong and concluded that arrivals disturb it. The astronaut is an arrival. She argues it well, and she is not obviously wrong. She will come — but she asks that **the corridor door she came through be locked behind her**, so that this way in is not used again.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**What that actually closes, and what it does not.** One route: the personnel door. **R-3 keeps its other threshold** — the service access behind the equipment sleeve — which stays reachable, and the lock is reversible at the same panel. *(Proposal.)* This matters beyond the scene: permanently sealing an entire ward would put it outside the owner's entire-station goal, and nothing here does that.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Who seals it, and when.** Not her. The astronaut throws the lock at the corridor panel **after she is aboard and the airlock has closed** — so a failed or aborted transfer never leaves a promise stranding the attempt.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**The true cost, not inflated.** Agreeing costs a known short route now. After the next shift the arrangement changes anyway, so the loss is bounded rather than permanent, and the route may be physically useful again later through the other threshold. What is really spent is her trust if the player refuses, and a convenience if they agree.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Why she leaves even if the player refuses.** Her ration count is a number she checks daily, and it has stopped being survivable. She comes anyway, without the agreement, and says nothing about it — which is worse.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**What she contributes aboard.** The ward's supply ledger: what was moved where, and when. **Dated history, not current contents** — she can say a room once held something, never what is in it now.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**The return scene.** She keeps the suit on for some time, stands where she can see the airlock, and asks twice whether it is shut. Later she is found counting the ship's stores unasked — not helping so much as steadying herself.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Death, abort and shift.** As above, with the seal never applied before she is aboard.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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## Recommendation
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Version 1.** Its choice happens under pressure and in public, its consequence is carried by a person rather than a rule, and the return scene does the most work: a pressure log read from memory that is also a list of the days people stopped coming back. Choosing Yeva also costs the design nothing in continuity, since she is already the earlier rescue.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Its accepted cost.** Her contribution aboard is soft and hard to make legible, and if the wall is missed her usefulness shrinks in a way some players will read as punishment for a reasonable decision. That needs watching, and it is the main thing I would test.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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**Version 2's genuine strength.** Disagreeing about the player's own presence is stranger and sharper than wanting one's records, and a dated ledger is far easier to make concretely useful. Its cost is that its central choice trades a route rather than a moment, so it lands as a map decision, and it needs the reversible-threshold proposal above to stay compatible with the entire-station goal.
10cfd4 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:44:14
First Survivor: two R-3 encounters with a desire and a disagreement each, one short crossing, aboard contribution and return scene; death/abort contained to the ward with labelled dependencies
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2dcaf7 Anonymous 2026-09-08 15:52:42
Response to review 362 and PM 363: bearing distinguished from walked route, one-crossing geometry named, door made intact and non-venting, Yeva proposed as first survivor preserving existing order, Aster's seal reduced to one reversible route
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Nothing here establishes that any of it is affecting. Both keep carried property safe, both are one crossing long, and neither assumes any global survivor rule.