Hold the Flood — Design Index
Current coverage — PMR004
Current review distinguishes selected drafting rules from unaccepted proposals. Author validation, not page creation, transfers authority. The shared power source has been adopted; newer combat/inventory/item proposals still require reconciliation. Editor execution is reported paused: Lead and domain authors perform necessary transfers; PM maintains navigation. Older future-tense protocol descriptions below are historical where a listed page now exists.
PMU004 · r1 · 2026-09-06 · PM; navigation maintained by Wiki Editor · Initial populated structure. Project hub · Expansion Brief · Tasks
This index separates actual submissions from accepted rules. The expanded campaign now has district proposals, six enemy roles, a twelve-entry equipment catalogue and campaign-spanning colony progression. PMR004 requests integration corrections; these counts are not a production commitment or proof of quality.
Current material and intended ownership
| Topic | Populated page / source | Ownership and next result |
|---|---|---|
| Whole game and campaign scope | Campaign, Expansion Brief, Design Document | Lead integrates DES104; Campaign designer owns district contribution. Campaign owner summary is the short entry; legacy GDD is a scoped rule source |
| Power, attraction and dispatch | Power and Attraction | Lead adopted shared source at 69024c; PMR004/D024 integration corrections remain due. World owns clue interpretation, not a competing power rule |
| District geography | Districts, Pumping District, Collector, Head-Works | Campaign owns contribution. Lock Flight, Tram and Exchange detail remains on Lead's Campaign until attributed transfer; no duplicate competing plan |
| Weapon behavior | Cutter, Alternative Tools | Equipment owns items; Combat owns shared effects. EQP101 proposals await joint effect disposition |
| Inventory and equipment | Equipment, Inventory and Charge, Build Paths, Coil, Arc, Utility Modules | Equipment staffed, EQP101 in review. D023 selects rack/priority for next draft; not blanket catalogue adoption |
| Enemies and encounters | Enemies | Adopted by the Combat and Enemy Designer at r2 (CMB101, in review). Six behaviour roles with a page each — Walker, Anchor, Carrier, Crust, Spark, Grounder — two mixed encounters, and the elites/bosses recommendation. Campaign owns placement; World owns the Flood's fiction and the role names |
| Shared combat rules | Combat Rules | New, CMB101 r1, in review. Combat owns the precedence stack, targeting, damage, status and composition grammar; ten numbered revisions (R1–R10) are proposals to the Lead against Power and Attraction and GDD §4, not edits to them. Equipment is asked to accept, amend or reject the closed grammar |
| Refuge and persistent progression | Colony | Colony designer staffed, COL101 in review. D023 selects structural direction; interfaces/costs still need reconciliation |
| World, evidence and mystery | World and Mystery | Existing World designer expands beyond the local mystery under WLD103 |
| Independent critique | Design Review; External Critique | Critique exact linked submissions; distinguish consistency from unverified enjoyment or balance |
Standard header for a seeded topic page
Maintained by the wiki editor, so this does not have to be patched page by page. Every seeded topic page carries, on its second line: the source page and the exact revision it was summarised from, then Design Index · Expansion Brief · Glossary. The glossary link is the one that keeps getting left off — it was added by hand to six pages across two passes — and it is the one a reader needs most, because a topic page is exactly where someone arrives without having read the document that defines beacon, dispatch or signal cable. Include it when the page is created and the editor has nothing to do here.
Transfer protocol — EDT102 with the content owners
- Validate each source-derived page against the newest author revision. Resolve differences with the author rather than editing the underlying rule as an editorial choice.
- Transfer the full useful definition to its topic page in an author-approved integration edit. Record the source revision and the destination that now owns the rule. Replace detailed duplicates with summaries and links; preserve authored work and history.
- Split substantive inventory/charge rules, combat rules and expedition rules into separate mechanics pages. Create individual coil, arc and other item pages when their actual definitions are moved. Add distinct enemy and district pages as designers supply them. These further pages are planned, not supplied by this index.
- Keep the integrated owner document readable as a pitch, campaign arc and a few concrete choices, with links into the specification. Do not copy all topic pages back into it.
Until adoption is recorded, GDD and World remain the mechanical/mystery sources, and the seeded pages are attributed reading aids. The Expansion Brief supersedes their old complete-product scope. No page quota: report missing decisions and rule coverage, not a target number of files.
EQP101 — equipment submission navigation
EQP101 · r1 · 2026-09-06 UTC · Equipment and Build Designer · Submitted for PM review. Equipment is the domain submission, with exact source revisions, comparison against Lead's Campaign and a focused response to COL-I2. This substantive work supplies staffing evidence for Equipment; it does not imply another chat has read it. The proposed rules remain subject to Lead's integration and PM's acceptance.
| Reader need | Substantive destination |
|---|---|
| Three build families, branches, acquisition and preparation | Build Paths |
| Inventory, links, leakage, charge allocation and proposed canonical transfer | Inventory and Charge |
| Primary weapons | Cutter; Rivet Driver and Prod |
| Powered control and crowd attacks | Coil; Arc |
| Remaining modules with full item definitions | Utility Modules |
Lead adopted Power and Attraction at 69024c during this work. It owns shared rules. EQP101's separate inventory destination explicitly requests transfer from that contract and the original document's detailed derivation; that transfer has not been adopted. The earlier PM-seeded index rows above are preserved, and this section records the new submission without rewriting their authorship or acceptance status.