So this page is the home of the station's rooms from now on. **Every room below starts with the owner's own card.** The implementer builds exactly what a card says. Where it is silent, the implementer picks the smallest sensible default, marks it as their own, and lists each choice for the owner; ambiguous wording is left for the owner to clarify. This follows the owner's continuation instructions of 2026-09-20. The older room pages of this wiki ([Station Room And Module Inventory](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Station%20Room%20And%20Module%20Inventory), [Encounter And Mechanism Placement Inventory](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Encounter%20And%20Mechanism%20Placement%20Inventory), [First Expedition Options](/Hold%20The%20Flood/First%20Expedition%20Options)) describe an earlier design. They are not what the game contains.

- **Rooms:** any size; doors on any wall; a raised floor with stairs; a window with a scene behind it; a doorway with no room behind it shows as a sealed doorway, unless the room card describes it as a door; a side that is a row of large decorated windows onto open space; a side that is a force field onto open space instead of a wall; a sign on a wall that is only there to be seen (it can blink).

- **Doors:** a room card can describe any doorway as a door with a name: open, or locked. An ordinary visible locked door answers E with words of the card's choosing, shown for a moment at the door itself. A locked door stays locked until something in the game opens it, and then stays open for good, through trips, deaths and saves. Doors slide open and shut.

- **Rooms that fill with enemies:** a room can start sending enemies some seconds after the astronaut walks in. They appear where the camera does not look, just past the edge of the screen, and when the camera sees the whole room, as far from the astronaut as the room allows. The rate they come at climbs from one number to another over a set time; spawning waits while a set number are alive in the room; it ends for good once a set number have been killed; and when the last one falls, a chest can appear at a set place, which E opens for a set item. Every such room starts over on every new trip.

- **Enemies:** Presser (slow and strong), Flanker (fast and weak), Caller (stands and calls a hidden crowd), a weak, slow kind with no name yet, and a tougher version of that kind for the Waiting Area. Bodies standing in the room, bodies hidden behind an opening, what lets them out (walking in, a loud job, a Caller's call, holding a job for some seconds), how many come per second, which job locks them in for ever. A crowd that is not locked is back at full strength on every new trip.

Five rooms. **The Dock** (the owner's first card, below): its west door stands open and leads into the Western Promenade, its east door is locked and nothing opens it, and its north door is locked until the password is typed into the panel beside it; no room has been designed behind the north door yet, so once open it shows a short dark passage and the astronaut cannot go past the door frame. **The Western Promenade** (the owner's second card): a long hallway west of the Dock that fills with weak, slow enemies, and gives a chest with a second pistol when they are all dead. Its easternmost north doorway leads to **the Gift Shop** (the owner's third card): a safe, furnished 15-by-15-metre shop, with shelves, displays, a sales counter and a selling robot behind it. Buying and selling are intended, but the trading window is **TBD and unimplemented**, as the owner requested. The middle north doorway leads to **the Public Bathroom** (the owner's fourth card): a safe 10-by-10-metre bathroom with nothing to interact with. The westernmost north doorway leads to **the Waiting Area** (the owner's fifth card, revised): a 20-by-20-metre room with rows of benches, inactive wall screens, a harder fight as its target, and a chest containing a fixed full Oxygen Tank once the room is cleared. The Promenade's west doorway remains sealed; there is no built room behind it yet.

- **Doorways:** one in the middle of the north wall, one in the middle of the east wall, one in the middle of the west wall, each 2 metres wide, each a real sliding door in a frame. Each can be locked on, by its name.

- **East door:** locked, and nothing in the game opens it. **Press E:** the door answers, in red, at the door: "This door seems to be blocked from the other side." *(The card's words, with "seem" corrected to "seems" and a capital and a full stop added; say so if you want them exactly as typed.)* Nothing is shown behind it.

- **"Lift the emergency lockdown"** asks: "Please enter a valid password for lockdown override." The player types and presses Enter. Capitals do not matter. **A wrong password:** the screen shakes and flashes and types out the owner's refusal ("Wrong password. Pretending to be a ... is illegal ..."); Enter tries again, Esc goes back to the questions; there is no limit on tries and no cost *(my choice)*, and tries are not counted anywhere *(owner, 2026-09-20: "no need to counting")*. **The right password:** the screen turns green and types out "Welcome ..., we will transmit a message to your family of your imminent death ...", the north door slides open and the game saves; Enter steps away.

- **The password is still a placeholder: 1234.** It was TEST, but the new text contains the word "testing", and the check that nothing in the Dock shows the password caught it. The card says the real one is found in the west wing; no card has yet specified where it is found. The owner names it.

- **Your ship:** a small space shuttle, about 12 metres long and 8.4 metres across the wings, standing in the south middle of the room with its nose to the north and its tail 3 metres from the force field it came in through *(size and position are my choices)*. It is made of plain shapes for now. It is solid, and there is room to walk all the way round it.

- **Always safe.** The Dock is marked as a safe room, and the game holds to it three ways. No crowd can be set in it: the game refuses to load content that tries. No enemy can step into it, take a way that passes through it, or be pushed into it by the crowd behind: an enemy that is after you comes to the doorway, stops a body's width outside the line, and waits there for as long as it can see you. And nobody standing in it can be hit: an enemy at the doorway does not even wind up. *(The last of the three is the implementer's reading of "always safe": without it an enemy at the doorway could still reach a player standing just inside.)*

**New building blocks this card added:** a side of a room can be a force field instead of a wall (a side like that has no door); a wall can carry an alarm sign of any words in capitals, with its hazard stripes and rotating beacons, that is only there to be seen; a large thing can be locked on from anywhere around its body, not only near its middle; **any room can be marked safe**, with the three guarantees described under the Dock; **a doorway can be a named door, open or locked, that answers E in the card's own words; doors slide; the control panel prefab and its password screen.** **For the whole game:** light that is brighter than white now glows (neon tube, force field rails, lamps, stars) while ordinary lit surfaces stay as calm as they were, and edges are smoothed.

- **Doorways:** one in the middle of the east wall (open, into the Dock), one in the middle of the west wall, and three on the north wall, 15, 30 and 45 metres along it, so the four stretches of wall between and beside them are equal *(my reading of "equally spaced"; the other reading would be 10, 30 and 50)*. From east to west, the three north doorways open into the Gift Shop, the Public Bathroom and the Waiting Area, each through that room's south entrance. The west doorway has no built room behind it yet, so it shows as a sealed doorway ("Sealed doorway. No room behind it now.").

- **The promenade around it.** A broad stone walkway with dark teal strips along its sides, narrow bronze borders and six small diamond inlays, one opposite each window. The paving is in 2.5-metre slabs, using four different parts of the stone texture and alternating their direction. The solid north, east and west walls have matching stone panels, teal lower panels, warm wall lamps, and a cornice 3.8 metres high; the existing doors have matching surrounds. The central walking space stays clear. The walls, floor, windows and doorway barriers still stop the astronaut in the same places. No new furniture, interaction, text, enemy rule or reward was added. *(The materials, paving, inlays, lamps and surrounds are the implementer's choices.)*

- **When:** three seconds after the astronaut first walks in on a trip, the first one appears. Walking out and in again does not start it twice, and once started it goes on whether the astronaut stays or leaves *(mine: the card says only when it starts)*.

- **Room:** a 20-by-20-metre waiting area, with more benches arranged in rows and a few deactivated screens on the walls. Leave enough space for the player and enemies to navigate between the benches, with the rows shaping their paths.

- **Reward:** when the room is cleared, a chest containing an item appears. Replace the previous detector choice with another existing wiki item, fixed at design time. The owner may change that choice later.

**Wording tidied in the clean card only:** sentence starts and the room names are capitalized; room measurements are written in metres to match the other room cards. Both owner quotations, including their punctuation and spacing, are unchanged.

**As built and checked, revised 2026-09-21.** The larger room, more benches in navigable rows, inactive screens, fight target and replacement fixed reward are the owner's requirements. The following bench count, arrangement, appearance, unchanged fight numbers and replacement item choice are the implementer's defaults.

- **Room and connection:** `room.R05`, using `module.waiting_area`, **20 by 20 metres**. The Promenade's westernmost north doorway, `face.R02.north_west`, joins its centred south entrance, `face.R05.south`. This is the last of the Promenade's three north doorways. The entrance is 2 metres wide; its centring and width are retained implementation defaults. The room is not safe: enemies can spawn here and chase between it and the Promenade.

- **Current fight tuning:** the fight numbers are unchanged. They assume the player brought two Service Guns after clearing the Promenade. The room uses `role.waiting`, a version of the weak enemy with 6 health, requiring two 5-damage Service Gun hits. Its speed, attack and other settings are the same as the weak kind. The spawn rate starts at 0.75 enemies per second and rises to 7.5 per second over **20 seconds**. Spawning pauses at **23 enemies inside the room**. After **75 of this spawner's enemies** are killed, spawning ends; any that remain alive must also die before the chest appears. All these fight numbers are the implementer's choices.

- **Chest and fixed reward:** a chest appears in the middle once this room is cleared. E opens it for a **full Oxygen Tank**, using the existing item-gain and pack-placement flow. It occupies 3 by 1 pack squares and contains five minutes of oxygen. The implementer chose the tank in response to the owner's request for another item; the owner has not specifically selected the tank. The chest's reward is fixed in content, with no random selection during play. If the astronaut is standing where the chest appears, the automatic step aside chooses clear floor within reach of it, avoiding the benches.

**Layout defaults:** coordinates are local to the room centre, with north positive. Rows stand at `z = -6, -2, 2, 6`. Each row has four benches with base centres at `x = -6.45, -2.15, 2.15, 6.45`; alternate rows shift all four centres by `-0.7` and `+0.7` metres, starting with `-0.7` on the southern row. Benches face north and retain their fitted size of 3 metres wide, 1.05 metres high and 0.72 metres deep, with feet 0.03 metres above the floor. The three screens sit at the centres of the north, east and west walls, 9.67 metres from the room centre, with their bottoms 1.68 metres high. Their fitted sizes remain 2.65 by 1.18 by 0.16 metres. The floor uses an eight-by-eight grid of 2.5-metre tiles, a darker perimeter and a slim border 8.5 metres from the centre. The existing wall height is 3 metres. These numbers, positions and finishes are implementer choices.

**Observed combat:** in the final live check, using the actual camera's spawn visibility, an astronaut standing at the centre with **two Service Guns** cleared the revised room in **35.7 seconds**. All 97 spawned enemies were killed, and the astronaut finished at full health. This records the current result; it does not prove a 50% increase in difficulty. The second gun remains a tuning assumption, and the owner's difficulty target still needs judgment in play.

**Checks completed:** all **178 Core tests and 33 Unity tests passed**. They cover the larger room, all seat gaps and side passages, enemy spawning and pursuit through the rows and out of the entrance, bench collision and crowd separation, safe relocation of a saved enemy blocked by new furniture, clear placement when the chest moves the astronaut aside, and the full tank reward through saving and repeated opening. The actual player controller also walked the staggered central aisles end to end in play. The same 195 shadow-casting objects remained across eight camera angles.

When the chest appeared, the astronaut was moved onto clear floor with no bench overlap and could reach E to open it. The reward contained **300 seconds of oxygen** and opened the pack. Three more E presses after closing the pack left the item count unchanged and the chest marked empty. Both owner save files were restored byte-identical after all four guarded runs, and Unity was stopped.

Evidence is in `work/pm/waiting-area-rows-20260921/`: `final-core-tests.json`, `final-unity-tests.json`, `initial-live-checks.json`, `final-live-checks.json`, the four `restored.json` receipts, and `final-35.png`, `final-145.png`, `combat-35.png`, `final-chest-ui.png` and `final-reward-ui.png`.

**Still for the owner:** whether the bench rows meet the intended movement challenge, whether to keep the chosen tank reward, and whether the fight meets the intended difficulty. The cafeteria is the confirmed next room to design; its card and implementation are still to come.