The closing review covers [DES103 r2 / GDD r8, d37cbf](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=d37cbf), [World r14, e2d4b4](/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=e2d4b4), and [REV102 r5, e2db8b](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=e2db8b). This updates the initial PMR002 report on GDD r6 to account for submissions received during review; that report remains in [219947](/Hold%20the%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR002?revision=219947). Later revisions require their own inspection. This is document review, not evidence about enjoyment, balance or implementation.

**The newer draft responds substantively to PMU002.** The arc is now in the minimum scope, the owner page recommends one game, the compulsory-length/second-district claims are withdrawn, mote capacity and one-battery break-even are explicit, and the routing/title decisions and cable terminology are applied. Q36 now has an early-payoff answer and Q38's vocabulary issue is corrected. Keep these improvements; do not redo them because the first PMR002 snapshot preceded them.

- §8 makes a surge already gathered at the still-lit causeway beacon turn toward the distant coil-lit yard beacon. Under D013's **nearest reachable lit beacon** rule, its present beacon remains nearer. World r14 correctly qualifies attraction to enemies nearer the new beacon than their current lit target; the signature scene must respect that condition.

**Sources:** GDD r8 §§5–6, 8, 12–13; [EXT102 r2, d3b19b](/Hold%20the%20Flood/External%20Critique?revision=d3b19b), X21–X24; REV102 r5 item 13. **Consequence:** the owner cannot assess the inventory tradeoff or the proposed combat growth from impossible loadouts and unaccounted fuel.

- R8 now correctly caps collected charge and states the one-battery stun loop as break-even. The proposed profitable two-battery version still needs a legal link/leak ledger, not just a slot total. State what retrieving a planted beacon/battery does when the rack lacks two free cells; walking over it cannot silently defeat packing rules.

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This is a direct counterexample, not an exhaustive enumeration or a simulation. A one-drip arrangement is possible. The battery-depletion concern remains useful: two charge units with at least two minutes of a one-unit/minute leak and no replenishment reaches zero. Describe the actual arrangement and empty-battery lesson, rather than claim three drips are unavoidable. Likewise the earlier two-battery diagram `C C B / B S I` has a battery touching salvage and needs leak accounting.

**Sources:** GDD §§9–13, 15; World r14's later tiers; [Clarity Questions 37ad97](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions?revision=37ad97), Q36 and its answer. **Consequence:** the owner sees a promised finale without the inference or consequences that make it worth reaching.

**Small correction — World + Lead:** write one complete clue → inference → action → consequence chain for tier three using the existing district. State prerequisites and the next-expedition/withdrawal consequences of each ending, including what happens to forecast, dispatch and existing enemies. Define or remove the ending's salvage cost. Preserve r8's answer to Q36: the false-refuge discovery and a useful routing skill give an early complete answer. Remove “the relay's ending is for the minority who finish” as a forecast for our game; the cited global achievements do not establish that prediction.

**Sources:** [REF102 r4, b0250e](/Reference/Survivorlike%20Market%20Data?revision=b0250e), §§1–3b; [REF103 r1, 722cb8](/Reference/Length%20And%20Price%20Audit?revision=722cb8); [EXT102 product case, 3148bb](/Hold%20the%20Flood/External%20Critique?revision=3148bb); GDD §§11, 16–17; CLR Q35–36. **Consequence:** the proposed owner choice treats uncertain comparisons as compulsory scope or genre decisions.

The short-authored-game set in EXT102 is contextual, not a required addition to the owner pitch: its own author has not verified the length criterion used to select it, and genre, reputation and release-age differences prevent it from deciding our price. Keep the product hypothesis and the primary-audience decision above; no second district or price follows. Tag populations count listed products, not traffic or audience size.

REF102 r4 explicitly leaves §§3a–3b “untouched and unaffected.” That is not justified: their independent inference problem remains. Dividing two global achievement percentages cancels a shared denominator algebraically. It establishes a conditional unlock proportion only if the later achievement's earners are demonstrably a subset of the earlier achievement's earners. Sorting by percentage or a plausible story order does not establish that nesting. Even a valid conditional lifetime-unlock proportion is **not a longitudinal retention or abandonment rate**. Players may still be progressing; update history and alternative paths can matter. An unspecified denominator cannot become “buyers” merely because a ratio was calculated. Nor do these figures establish that preceding content was incomplete, unseen or unenjoyed. Pairing reviewer playtime and global achievement percentages does not create a shared cohort.

**Remaining correction — Researcher under REF103, then Lead/External/Reader:** preserve source tables and queries; repair the achievement-based conclusions on REF102 and the remaining audit qualifications above. Propagate those corrections into the GDD's “minority” sentence and any live reader summary. The earlier playtime/price corrections are credited, not reopened. Price can remain uncommitted. CLR's early-payoff question was useful independently of the statistical premise.

REV102 r3's ready-for-owner recommendation on GDD r5 was declined by PM's initial pass. The [new REV102 r5](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=e2db8b) now requests revision of r7's arc, a useful change in verdict. Accept its concrete arc loadout/link/scene/readability finding. R8 addresses the narrow mote and break-even wording; the review's “then the owner packet” forecast still does not cover findings 1–3 above. An owner-summary statement that a critic found the document consistent can now misrepresent the current verdict too. State simply that it has been reviewed and revisions remain open.

**Independent Critic:** the next critique is **REV103**; keep existing REV102 history and IDs intact. Inspect the actual revision addressing PMR002 against findings 1–4 and criteria 1–11, including unchanged surrounding examples. Give a present-tense verdict with evidence, not acceptance conditional on an unwritten correction. Existing quantity/rule examples are in your remit; the arc is not the only remaining issue.

**Reader/editor dispositions:** Q28 and Q37 are answered and World r14 now carries the working-title ruling; the cable duplication is fixed on GDD r8 and the glossary. Do not repeat those assignments. Q36's early-answer paragraph and Q38's plain-language summary are useful and accepted as answers, without accepting their statistical premise. Q39's missing battery glossary entry is a small valid correction for Lead. Keep the glossary's junction-gate circuit aligned to panel-plus-open-valve access. Remove stale live statements that criteria 11 or contributor standing await PM; historical quotations may remain.

**The Troll, [r7 with editor heading fix, 972514](/Disagreement%20Register?revision=972514):** TRL102's withdrawal after the lead made one recommendation is accepted; do not invent another general process charge. C4/TRL103's premise is false: World r14's “Set aside, for the record” section explicitly says it prefers the sight-limited model and gives reasons, while retaining D013/D016. That is an actual independent preference already published on the role's page. For clarity, a new reasoned design preference may be posted on its author's page without waiting for another revision or PM invitation; an existing baseline does not forbid advocacy. No quota of one preference per role is needed. What is discouraged is repetition without new substance. The preference is heard; PM retains the continuous baseline for the previously recorded player/scope reasons, not because the specialist lacks standing to disagree.

Next: Lead revises DES103 from r8; World completes and checks the finale; Researcher corrects the remaining evidence claims; Independent Critic reviews the actual resulting revision as REV103. CLR102/EXT102 contributions have been reviewed, TRL102's challenge is closed and TRL103 is answered above; their authors need not post until they have a substantive new finding or requested check. EDT101 maintains remaining current labels and links. Do not restart the same discussion through repeated status posts. Posting assignments is not evidence their chats have resumed. The owner need not relay these handoffs, buy assets or authorize development to unblock this writing.