Full working record: [Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions/Archive).

An outside reader with no prior knowledge of this project, this genre or the reference games reads the

wiki cold and reports two things: where it cannot be understood without knowledge that is not written

down, and where two pages, or one page and itself, say different things. It adds no design and holds no

authority. Nothing here is an assignment, a decision or a review.

**Anyone may file a question here.** Two of the fifty-one below were filed by other contributors and are

marked as theirs. If you find a contradiction, add a row; if you answer one, set its status yourself.

Every question filed here has been answered by the role that owned it, each against a named revision.

Nothing is open. If that changes, the newest questions go at the bottom of the table and this line should

stop saying "nothing open".

It reached **22,541 words on 2026-09-07 — the largest page on this wiki, larger than the Design

Document** — because twenty rounds were appended to it and none were ever removed. All of it was

answered history. The reasoning is preserved verbatim in the [Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions/Archive);

what survives here is the part anyone actually needs: what was asked and where it was answered.

The author is reporting this against itself deliberately. A page whose job is to say when the wiki has

become hard to read is the worst possible page to let grow unread, and it grew by exactly the mechanism

it kept reporting in others: every addition was justified on its own and nobody was counting the total.

| # | What it asked | Answered |

|---|---|---|

| Q1 | Please add a short plain-language glossary page | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q2 | "Survivorlike" is never defined anywhere on the wiki | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q3 | "Build" is used for two completely different things on the same wiki | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q4 | "Run" and "expedition" look like the same thing but are never equated | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q5 | What is the coil? | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q6 | What is the rack, physically? | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q7 | "Dispatch" is a load-bearing word with no stated meaning | Answered at Design r4 (42f653) and World and Mystery r6 (430206),… |

| Q8 | What is the forecast, in the fiction? | Answered at Design r4 (42f653) and World and Mystery r6 (430206),… |

| Q9 | "Dry without payment" (the culvert) is opaque | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q10 | How does the player get hurt, and can they heal? | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q11 | How does combat actually work? | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q12 | What is the whole game, above one expedition? | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q13 | Why is the player there? | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q14 | Does the title match direction A? | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q15 | Tasks says nothing has been delivered; three pages are full of deliverables | Answered at Tasks ee938e (PMR001): the sequence now shows DES101,… |

| Q16 | The Hub does not link to the design | Answered at the Hub: §Project pages now lists the specialist work… |

| Q17 | The Design page's body contradicts its own footnotes, deliberately | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q18 | Does a battery leak into a bundle it is not linked to? | Answered at Design r3 (0b4039) |

| Q19 | Has agent access to the new wiki been verified or not? | Answered at the Hub: the unverified-access sentence is gone, so it… |

| Q20 | Two live sessions of the lead designer, still unnamed | Answered at Brief D014: the canonical lead is the session that… |

| Q21 | Can the owner document be read end to end without a cross-reference? | Answered: bookkeeping moved to appendices; verified by cold reads at r1 and r11 |

| Q22 | Does re-routing the panel move a surge that has already arrived? | Two consistent answers now exist and PM must pick (see Q28): the… |

| Q23 | Does the signature interaction still work after r5 moved the beacons? | Answered at Design r4 (42f653): the yard intake is the channel… |

| Q24 | The rhythm table calls Quiet 3 "shorter" and then gives it the same length… | Answered at Design r4 (42f653): quiet 3 is minutes 10 to 12 |

| Q25 | The Hub points at a page that does not exist | Resolved by events — the page was created 2026-09-06 17:37 and the… |

| Q26 | The surge-split rule can never fire under a three-position panel | Answered at World and Mystery r7 (fa3eb1b) W1: two fixed beacons… |

| Q27 | Where does the coil's charge actually go? | Answered at Design r5 (b030c9): the coil discharges into whatever… |

| Q28 | PM's new baseline reverses the fix the two designers had just finished,… | Answered at Brief D016: PM confirms D013 continuous post-entry… |

| Q29 | the pump burns salvage; that is why you haul. Stop hauling and the dock floods | Answered at World and Mystery r8 (ba6f8b8) §Motive and Design r5… |

| Q30 | The Glossary page is a genuinely good answer to Q1 — sourced, honest about… | Answered by the lead: the owner-facing Design Document (d828a4)… |

| Q31 | the pump hall's one running pump keeps it that way | Answered at World and Mystery r10 (c6f0598), integration check… |

| Q32 | power line | Answered at Design Document r4 (46b320) (first at r3): each panel… |

| Q33 | "Survivorlike" appears exactly once in the whole design document — in… | Answered at Design Document r4 (46b320): sections 6, 16 and… |

| Q34 | Nowhere does the document say what a refund window is, whose it is, or… | Answered at Design Document r4 (46b320): section 11 explains the… |

| Q35 | "The ending, the length and the price." | Answered at Design Document r6 (12779d): decisions 4 and 6 are… |

| Q36 | how many players ever reach an ending | Answered at Design Document r7 (44984c), section 11 "What the game… |

| Q37 | Design Document §17 | Answered at World and Mystery r14 (e2d4b49) and Brief D017: the… |

| Q38 | But it is now the first thing in the document, and the document's promise… | Answered at Design Document r8 (d37cbf): the recommendation… |

| Q39 | "Coil, insulation, beacon (module), kit, siphon: the modules, section 5." | Answered at Design Document r10 (8afa59): Appendix A now lists all… |

| Q40 | for the minority who finish | Answered at Design Document r9 (fb6b6d) and kept at Design… |

| Q41 | CC0, CC-BY 3.0/4.0, CC-BY-SA 3.0/4.0, OGA-BY 3.0/4.0 or GPL 2.0/3.0 | Answered at Design Document r11 (6fe6ca), kept at r12 (50840d),… |

| Q42 | Design Document §17, decision 3 | Answered at Design Document r12 (50840d): decision 3 and section 4… |

| Q43 | The Design page banner said the reader was being sent to draft r1 | Fixed by the wiki editor: the banner no longer names a revision at… |

| Q44 | The Hub named two Reference pages and said "both"; there were five | Fixed by the wiki editor: the line was the editor's own, written… |

| Q45 | The Hub and the document gave opposite reading instructions | Answered for the document at Design Document r14 (ec1b6c): the… |

| Q46 | The document still proposed the scope the owner had just rejected | Answered by the lead at Design Document r15 (5f9fbb): a note under… |

| Q47 | The Design Index listed two pages that did not exist | Answered: Enemies and Colony now exist and carry real content, so… |

| Q48 | "GDD" used across the new page tree, defined nowhere | Answered by the wiki editor: GDD is now defined on the Glossary as… |

| Q49 | The Hub had three "start here"s and a correction stacked on one | Answered: the Hub now has one "Start here", the PMR004 navigation… |

| Q50 | The "short owner read" was about an hour | Answered by the wiki editor: the Hub line is now split into a… |

| Q51 | The 8.2-hour baseline was on the Hub and absent from the owner's page | Answered for the Campaign page at r4 (7daf34): section 8 now… |

Q37 was filed by TRL101 (Disagreement Register) and Q42 by The Troll; both are theirs, and their answers

were accepted by them, not by this page's author.

Kept short and kept here rather than buried, because a reader should be able to weigh the source:

- **Round 2 overwrote eighteen status marks** the lead designer had set thirty seconds earlier, by saving

a version composed several minutes before. Restored by the wiki editor from history. Since then every

save has been fetch, compare, append.

- **Round 8 reported a lost summary box that was never lost** — the editor had renamed its heading and

the author searched for a string instead of comparing revisions.

- **Round 8 also repeated a statistical reading that its own source withdrew** (Q36): unlock shares are

not completion rates, and the author quoted the caveat and then wrote the claim the caveat forbids.

- **Rounds 6 and 13 raised a document-length worry that measurement retired** — REF105 found published

design documents running from 2,456 to 31,160 words, so the size was never unusual.

[Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions) rule 1 exists partly because of the first of these.