Hold The Horde — Progress
Updated 15 September. 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.
Ready to read
Five proposal packages have been completed today. The latest two finished at 13:26 Jerusalem time: renewed combat after permanent source seals, and the six main reading pages.
Start with The Game, continue through three expeditions into the observation ward, then Coming Home and Discovery in a Changing Station. For combat, follow Hordes and Builds into Three Ways to Break a Horde.
| Completed package | Actual time today | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| 59–61 — Builds and three expeditions | 12:08 | Different movement and payoff proposals; successive trips pursue different discoveries |
| 56–58 — Hospital story and survival | 12:32 | Two possible core mysteries; comparable loadouts with a visible cost for the heavier kit |
| 62–63 — Regular growth and renewed combat | 12:45 | An ordinary improvement before a major breakthrough, with crowds and discovery quiet placed along an existing route |
| 64–65 — Combat after permanent seals | 13:26 | A second route state retains the seals and shortcut while enemies arrive from a distant open source; room and encounter references agree |
| 66–67 — Six main reading pages | 13:26 | Player scenes lead; unfamiliar terms are explained; onward links work; obsolete clearing and growth claims are removed |
Each package received one focused critique, one response and PM checks. These are completed design proposals, not tested gameplay. The new Ricochet and Gravity controls remain proposed alternatives to the current detailed equipment rules. The two renewed-route examples do not yet cover every shifted layout or combination of permanent seals.
Working now
| Outcome | Owner and current state | Next delivery, Jerusalem time |
|---|---|---|
| 68 — Place the moving-lamp expedition | Systems Designer received the assignment and began work; review preparation is separate | Proposal 14:15, range 14:00–14:45; reviewed proposal 15:30, range 14:45–16:30 |
| 38 — Full-design readiness, still reopened | PM and a temporary helper are checking the outside-edit bundle for lost meaning and current inconsistencies | Preservation report 14:15, range 13:45–14:45; readiness depends on the remaining design work |
The moving lamp is one of the stronger experience ideas: fight alongside a scan, grow powerful enough to break its final horde, then discover that an apparent constellation points to a bridge you can use. Its location, growth opportunities and evidence still need a concrete fit in the station. That is the next bounded design outcome; it can proceed while the owner considers the build alternatives.
The tracker contains 68 outcomes: 64 preparation outcomes closed, 1 current design outcome, 1 readiness assessment reopened and 2 parked. The readiness audit is active work within outcome 38. These counts are not a percentage of the finished game. Outcomes 39–40 remain parked and unaccepted pending the core corrections.
The original Claude Reviewer received the earlier assignment automatically but stopped at a monthly spend limit at 13:03. Temporary GPT support completed that review. The Lead was absent from the same directory check; availability will be checked again before a future handoff. No new permanent agent or manual message forwarding is needed for the current assignments.
Delivery forecast
Forecast F2.7, updated 15 September. Dates assume work continues today and about five further active working days for the first full pass.
| 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 |
| Clear six-page reading path | Completed today 13:26 | Earlier than 16:00 target | Main journey and combat branch revised and checked against current rules |
| Moving-scan proposal | Today 14:15 | 14:00–14:45 | One location, rising fight, earned build climax, credible discovery and next trip |
| Reviewed moving-scan proposal | Today 15:30 | 14:45–16:30 | One critique, one response and PM disposition with explicit placement costs |
| Outside-edit preservation report | Today 14:15 | 13:45–14:45 | Captured changes inspected, completed checks distinguished from any remaining work |
| Coherent revised design wiki | 23 September | 21–28 September | Readable core and supporting rules aligned; consequential choices explicit |
| Full detailed campaign design | 24 November | 3 November–22 December | Proposed progression, content, mysteries, ending paths and production scope developed across the campaign |
Near-term estimates have moderate confidence. The full-wiki estimate has low confidence. The campaign date has very low confidence and remains a planning allowance pending a fresh content estimate. None promises development, validated fun or the desired number of playable hours; those require a separately authorized phase.
The pre-pause targets were 15 September for the readable wiki and 17 November for detailed campaign design. Five paused calendar days and the outside review's core-loop findings moved those dates. Today's first packet finished at 12:08 against a revised 13:00 target; subsequent packages finished at 12:32, 12:45 and 13:26. F2.7 records the early combat and reading-path deliveries and adds the moving-scan placement. The overall dates remain unchanged because supporting design and creative choices still need work. Earlier estimates remain in revision history and the forecast checkpoint.
What still needs work
- Broader expeditions must sustain fresh combat, meaningful growth and different discoveries around persistent changes.
- Build combinations need distinct decisions and room for surprising interactions. The new alternatives still need selection and detailed integration.
- Rooms, people, languages and story consequences need concrete scenes with emotional and discovery payoffs.
- Supporting pages need the same clarity as the entry path. PM has not yet verified the outside review's entire reported 49-page cleanup.
- Full readiness requires a coherent player journey and honest scope, beyond internally consistent tables.
Owner choices
The two immediate combat questions are answered in the Owner Brief. One priority question remains: which build direction to deepen first. It does not discard the others or approve every proposed rule.
PM will next bring concrete story and rescue alternatives, the effect of completing the station connection, and a costed scope proposal. Open Decisions is the wider issue index; its recommendations remain proposals. Its fourteen categories are not fourteen answers needed before work can continue.