Three creature proposals. Their names describe functions. All attack on sight under local perception. Ordinary fire is mostly automatic; the player moves, positions, interacts and uses manual specials. Journal pause freezes combat, oxygen and work without completing anything. The station shifts after every death while selected completed work persists, so every route here is a local encounter shape, not fixed geography. These and the other owner decisions are recorded in the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief).

**Silhouette and warning.** Bellback is a low four-limbed body with a hollow bell chest and dragging forearms. After holding sight, it plants, faces the last seen position and draws in dust with a rising moan. A bright ripple fills its forward cone before release.

**Origin.** It could be a remnant of an ancient ascension chamber or a human compression-treatment machine grown into a patient; neither explanation is required for the behaviour.

**Action and causality.** Completing the brace emits one pressure wave through the cone, shoving the astronaut, loose objects and unbraced creatures until solid structure stops them. It deals condition damage but interrupts work only by moving the astronaut off the control. Once the warning begins, the cone direction is locked. Leaving it or reaching hard cover avoids the blast without cancelling its release; displacing or defeating Bellback interrupts the brace. Afterwards it must brace again.

**Origin.** The fan could be an alien experiment screen or a mobile hospital radiation barrier repurposed by a corrupted patient; its origin remains evidence to discover, not combat knowledge granted up front.

**Origin.** It could descend from an alien breath-transfer trial or a human resuscitation extractor turned harmful. The leading hospital/godhood draft makes both plausible.

A Cascade that reaches the Siphon can delete it with the surrounding crowd. Counterwall can catch hose launches and turn their impacts into stored charge. A caught hose causes no extra drain; ordinary oxygen consumption continues while the player remains there. An already attached hose must be broken by the stated range, cover, displacement or defeat conditions.

Bellback changes where bodies end up, Shutterback changes what automatic fire can see, and Glass Siphon changes how long the player can remain in a marked space. All can be avoided, interrupted or defeated; none waits for one exact loadout or punishes a successful build. None implies a player death counter or a long escort; any rescue use must fit the short cooperative rescue direction.