Updated **15 September, 20:18 Jerusalem**. **Paused at the owner’s request to conserve the weekly token budget.** The current revision is complete, no assignments are running, and automatic PM wake-ups are paused. Work resumes when the owner asks. The owner has chosen **fresh hordes each expedition** and **regular growth through fighting, with larger transformations**. Permanent changes and carried property remain; temporary combat power resets whenever you return home.

**Twenty-two proposal or editorial packages have been completed today.** The latest finished at **20:17 Jerusalem time**: [Can a shot carry lightning?](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Comparison#can-a-shot-carry-lightning). The player connects an electrical effect to a projectile, learns to release it after a bank, and can reach a crowd beyond cover. The comparison explains what is lost by giving up separate local lightning. It remains an unselected proposal. [Who Is the Astronaut?](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Who%20Is%20the%20Astronaut) is also ready to compare, and the short-rescue choice remains open.

Start with [The Game](/Hold%20The%20Flood/The%20Game), continue through [three expeditions into the observation ward](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Expedition%20Proposal), then [Coming Home](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Coming%20Home) and [Discovery in a Changing Station](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Connecting%20The%20Station). For combat, follow [Hordes and Builds](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hordes%20and%20Builds) into [Three Ways to Break a Horde](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Comparison).

| Completed package | Actual time today | What changed |

| 69 — Short rescue and death comparison | 14:20 | A person’s records, a short horde crossing and a homecoming; two unselected failure approaches with explicit protection and retry costs |

| 71 — Campaign scope comparison | 14:56 | A 40-room reference versus 36 denser rooms, with named losses and retained work; current mechanism counts aligned and old hour allowances clearly qualified |

| 73 — Whole campaign | 15:26 | [The campaign from docking to deepest discoveries](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Whole%20Game%20Outline), with the horde/build/bridge climax, human consequences and open endings explained |

| 75 — Equipment and combinations | 16:05 | [Twelve equipment parts](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment%20Catalogue), introduced through visible behavior and a working build; readiness and installed-part explanations corrected |

| 77 — Enemy guide | 16:46 | [Nine creatures and two horde setpieces](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Combat%20And%20Enemy%20Roster), explained through visible warnings, pressure and responses; rescue and carrying examples corrected |

| 79 — A person in the crowd | 17:59 | [Nadi's history and Ivo's memory](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hospital%20Story%20Directions), with honest crossing evidence, ordinary horde combat and a cheaper record-only alternative |

| 81 — A hospital worth remembering | 18:55 | [Four existing clinical rooms](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Station%20Room%20And%20Module%20Inventory#region-2-clinical-exchange-r11r20), with human purpose and distinct activities; rescue access, shortcut growth and cap persistence clarified |

| 83 — Who is the astronaut? | 19:47 | [Two personalities in the same scenes](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Who%20Is%20the%20Astronaut), plus a quieter alternative; Nadi’s causal sequence clarified and tone risks retained |

| 84 — Can a shot carry lightning? | Closed; Systems and reviewer stopped | Reviewed **20:17**; no further round assigned |

Read the scene in [Hordes and Builds](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hordes%20and%20Builds), with placement in [Moving Scan Expedition](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Moving%20Scan%20Expedition). Its added rail, viewing bay, bridge and receiver make a fourteenth proposed major mechanism; physical fit and fun remain untested. The new Receiver Vault proposal tackles a different risk: a later expedition must deliver growing power and a horde climax before its quiet discovery. It uses the existing vault rooms, enemies and machinery; the new reward opportunity remains a proposal. Earlier rescue and station-completion comparisons are ready for owner reaction.

The tracker contains **84 outcomes: 81 preparation outcomes closed, none active, 1 readiness assessment reopened and 2 parked**. The completed preservation audit and its corrections belong within outcome 38; they do not close overall readiness. These counts are not a percentage of the finished game. Outcomes 39–40 remain parked and unaccepted pending the core corrections.

Systems has finished the single response and is confirmed idle. The independent reviewer and temporary design support have stopped. The owner’s budget pause prevents further assignments; no new agent or manual forwarding is needed. Automatic wake-ups are paused and will not restart merely because the budget resets.

Forecast **F2.39**, updated 15 September for the owner’s pause. The current comparison is complete. No live calendar deadline is promised while the restart date is unknown; re-estimate on resumption. The previous first-pass allowance was about five further active working days, with low confidence.

| Milestone | Target | Plausible range | Completion means |

| Reviewed sealed-source expedition | **Completed today 13:26** | Earlier than 15:00 target | Proposal, critique, response and integration into its owning references |

| Short-rescue proposal | **Delivered 14:03** | Earlier than 14:30 target | One personal rescue scene and two comparable failure approaches |

| Station-completion comparison | **Completed 14:36** | Earlier than 16:00 target | Two reviewed consequences of the last connection, with the next home visit and expedition |

| Readable language journal | **Completed 15:06** | Earlier than 16:15 target | Existing journal explanation leads with player use and discovery, with current rules preserved through review |

| Readable cast and rescue map | **Completed 15:44** | Earlier than 17:00 target | Five people and fifteen scenes lead with their choices and changing relationships; current waiting places and unresolved rescue choices remain clear |

| Reviewed Receiver Vault expedition | **Completed 16:30** | Earlier than revised 17:15 target | A complete later expedition, ordinary growth and a major transformation used during the fight, a meaningful climax and a discovery that changes the next trip; one critique and response |

| Divergent upgrade choices | **Completed 17:18** | Earlier than revised 18:00 target | The same equipment supports two different earned growth paths, a useful hybrid and understandable choices with costs; one critique and response |

| Your first useful invention | **Completed 18:28** | Earlier than revised 19:10 target | A newcomer can picture a useful first equipment discovery, the same part's station tradeoff, crowd pressure, relief and the next human mystery |

| A current decision guide | **Completed 19:23** | Earlier than revised 20:00 target | Current proposals and choices explained, substantive objections retained, routine reference repairs verified |

| Can a shot carry lightning? | **Completed 20:17** | Earlier than revised 21:30 target | Existing hybrid versus proposed remote electrical delivery, with a discoverable experiment, horde payoff and explicit costs |

The comparison completed one critique, one response and PM verification. Its bank-arming relationship remains an authored proposal, and the value of its geometry, hints and reconfiguration is untested. Acceptance makes it ready to compare; it does not adopt it into the detailed equipment rules. The full-wiki estimate had low confidence, and the campaign estimate very low confidence pending a fresh content estimate. These are documentation forecasts, not gameplay validation or development dates.

F2.39 suspends the overall dates because the owner requested a budget pause. F2.38 recorded the draft at 19:59 against a 21:30 draft target; critique found gaps in assembly and spatial advantage. The single response targeted 21:00 and review 21:30, then completed review at 20:17. Earlier overall targets moved from 15 September/17 November to 23 September/24 November after five paused calendar days and the outside review’s core-loop findings. Those prior targets and their ranges remain above as history; the restart date and available capacity will determine new dates.

- Broader expeditions must sustain fresh combat, meaningful growth and different discoveries around persistent changes.

- Full readiness requires a coherent player journey and honest scope, beyond internally consistent tables.

The two immediate combat questions are answered in the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief). The current concrete choice is in [Rescue Under Pressure](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Rescue%20Under%20Pressure): if the astronaut dies after Yeva starts crossing the prepared short route, does she finish and reach the ship, or take shelter and require a new attempt after the shift? PM recommends finishing; the stronger failure/retry case and both safety exceptions are explained. The owner has been asked directly; no answer is inferred. The first survivor and wider survivor mortality remain open.

The earlier build-priority question also remains: which direction to deepen first. It does not discard the others or approve every proposed rule.