An **objective dependency** is a fact, carried object, completed change, or tested working rule required to make an action intelligible. It is never a promise that two rooms will be adjacent after death. When an eligible objective's room is not reachable in the current arrangement, the player pursues another eligible lead or returns. The intended ordering does not require repeated deliberate deaths solely to roll one exact target adjacency, but actual reachability and pacing remain unproven under the unresolved shift rules. Bearings and historical records guide investigation but reveal no unseen route.

| **2. Pace calibration — early** | Does the rehab/service pace counter distinguish deliberate grounded travel from imposed motion of the same eligible subject? The astronaut walks across its marked interval, then stands feet-still on a service belt that carries the same astronaut across the same interval. Walking produces the pulse; belt motion does not. | Requires only reaching this placed calibration bay. If inaccessible, the player defers; a later pace counter can repeat the same bounded comparison. | Proposed found **Stride Switch** and a navigation coupler, the second candidate ship assembly. Stride → Projector makes deliberate movement a build input rather than a damage tier. | Testing spends oxygen in a route crowd; carrying the coupler and part competes with a spare canister. The record supports this device's voluntary-versus-conveyor rule under the observed conditions, not every motion source or route's safety. |

| **5. Builders' runs — early/middle, language 1** | Do swapped first tokens track which of two visible mains ends in a room? Record the pump hall and cable junction, then physically compare them. Each room also contains one earlier A/B plate beside pulled or intact work and one builder workstation whose utterance address slot matches a token on that workstation's own fitting. | Requires records of both authored cases, not a fixed route between them. Either order works; one missing case defers the conclusion. A survivor may name crew roads but cannot translate. | Working prediction: the first token may name the main purpose. Later it helps choose a pressure control and identify related converter rooms. Its two A/B and two address observations are evidence for objective 9, not automatic conclusions. | The detour costs oxygen/exposure; journal comparison is fully paused but capture is world time. Records and notes persist. The result favors one reading without proving grammar, address meaning, or present connectivity. |

| **7. Transfer pairs — middle, language 2** | Do `OSH·a` and `OSH·b` mark source and receiving ends? Record three physically visible one-way transfers, predict one paired destination, and test a continuation. The three sites also supply three more pulled/intact A/B contrasts; one contains a third builder workstation/address-slot match. | Two pairs can support the directional hypothesis; the third is correction/redundancy and the route can be tested later. Without enough pairs, use the authored long route or defer. | A tested/corrected source–destination rule that can point toward objective 6 or the concrete boundary in 11. Arrival elsewhere is recorded as that outcome, not a wrong-answer badge. Together objectives 5 and 7 allocate five A/B places and three address comparisons before 9 in both orders. | The uncertain continuation costs oxygen and may consume the trip's objective window. Records persist; material flow, repeated endings, and address matches never prove a walkable route, full translation, or speaker. |

| **11. Pressure-receiver iris — deeper layer** | A sealed iris shows an empty receiving vessel, a low gauge, two builder-marked selectors and an inward flow arrow beside visitor `OSH·b`. Set one selector, observe flow, then hand-cycle the iris only after pressure equalises. Choosing the pump-purpose/inward selector fills the vessel and releases one bounded passage to a deeper evidence cell. | Finding and physically reaching this assembly is mandatory; knowledge is not. Builders' run order predicts the pump selector. Visitor direction independently predicts feeding the marked receiver rather than purging it. Objective 9's current A-line naming the inlet is supporting evidence. Selecting purge/outward lowers the gauge, lights the vent and leaves the iris locked—evidence that corrects the choice without erasing work. Return to neutral and reverse it. A placed two-clamp mechanical equalisation line is the slower no-language alternative; its control/recovery access must be genuinely reachable in this boundary assembly, not guaranteed by an arbitrary shift. | One persistent opened passage and access to a deeper evidence site whose observations may revise the leading hospital/godhood hypothesis without settling it. No journal grades which clue was “enough”; each route guides the same physical manipulation and the gauge supplies the result. | Setting/cycling is world time and may be contested. A control build protects the panel; the two-clamp line costs more exposure/oxygen. Completed clamp and iris stages persist. Nothing here decides captive, cause, treatment, corruption, or ending. |

The only universal opening dependency is objective 1. Objective 10 needs the four named assemblies but is not a final ending. Objective 11 always asks for the same physical pressure-equalisation action; several evidence routes can make that action predictable, but none replaces manipulation. Objective 12 depends on complete authored placement and a selected joining rule, not on objective 10, rescue, treatment, or an ending. No required gate points back to its own reward.

At the loop, the builder rule predicts which marked control concerns pressure work, while the visitor source/receiving pair predicts that the line once ran toward a decontamination bay. The player records both claims before acting. They can take the authored current long approach, or test the maintenance continuation and accept that it may arrive elsewhere. At the valve, a local horde contests the hand-cycle. If objective 8 came first, a replaceable later-area **5 A / 5 C** rig—Threat Sensor (1) → Pulse Projector (1) for ordinary automatic fire, plus Manual Trigger (1) → Vector Nozzle (2)—shoves eligible bodies into the announced draw lane; a strong execution can win cleanly. Without Nozzle, the four-space opening Sensor/Projector and Manual/Barrier rig can time the Breath Bank, protect one cap window, close that persistent cap, and withdraw. The journal pauses every threat and action while records are compared, and completes nothing.

The twelve objectives are cross-listed content, not twelve isolated production stacks. Objective 6 reuses the Language Expedition's runs/pairs, Traps' Breath Bank, a route crowd, the catalogue's Dynamo, one ship assembly, and a conditional survivor consequence. Objective 9 is the existing regulator-gallery chain rather than a new second-language system. Its five A/B occurrences and three address-slot comparisons are room-level clue placements counted in the objective 5/7 language-chain and room ledgers, not a hidden thirteenth objective or free learned state. Objectives 3 and 12 reuse the same face/join vocabulary at different depth. A room, scene, chain, encounter, reward, or assembly hosted by one objective is counted once in its owning inventory.

**Coverage.** all twelve rows name a player action, entry/defer rule, useful return/later use, pressure or capacity tradeoff, and durable state versus knowledge. Both orders contain all twelve objectives without a circular gate. Builders' runs and visitor pairs each support a physical prediction and correction path; the second-language utterance register remains a relationship to settle, not a third guaranteed language. Fork, Stride, Dynamo, Nozzle, Barrier, Capacitor, and Arc behavior stays within current catalogue rules. At least Fork, Stride, Dynamo, and Nozzle change possible actions rather than add a stat tier. Carried property returns on death; consumed or installed state does not duplicate. Rescue is one short crossing; no person, treatment, whole-station connection, final departure, or story interpretation is mandatory here.

Remaining detailed regional work covers placed objective variants, access constraints, state combinations, rewards and cross-order checks. [Production Scope](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Production%20Scope) owns workload estimates.