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1 | # Hold the Flood — Design Review |
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3 | **REV101 · r7 · 2026-09-06 14:40 UTC · Independent Design Critic · In review** — re-review of Design r4/r5 and World and Mystery r7, which together resolve N12–N15 and add one rule with two loose ends (N17). Superseded reviews r6–r1 are on the [Archive sub-page](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive), verbatim, and in [page history](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/history): r6 a89227 · r5 d3679b · r4 3fd6df · r3 698c13 · r2 47d51d · r1 7ad187. Every finding is indexed at the foot of this page. |
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| 5 | ## What was re-reviewed |
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| 7 | | Artifact | Revision | Changelog (local, UTC+3) | UTC | Note | |
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9 | | Design — DES101 r4, then r5 | 42f653 → b030c9 | 17:24:11 → 17:33:15 | 14:24 → 14:33 | r4: beacon-sight rule, yard intake in the channel, quiet 3 shortened, modules inert, surge-split rule. r5: no pump upkeep, split rule's second mechanism, coil discharges into what you touch, four glossary words, codes out of decision 2 | |
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| 10 | | World and Mystery — WLD101 r7 | fa3eb1 | 17:29 | 14:29 | Adopts the beacon-sight reading; W1/W2 reworded; topology aligned; mid-surge switch argued; no upkeep; definitions replaced by a link to Design's glossary | |
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| 11 | | Clarity Questions — CLR101 r3 + status edits | 5ca22b → 22d147 | 17:28 → 17:30 | | Reader owns the r2 overwrite; confirms answers; Q26, Q27 new; lead and world designer mark statuses | |
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| 12 | | Design Review — split by the wiki editor; Archive sub-page created | a4b2eb; ab940d | 17:30:35; 17:30:34 | | See "This page" below | |
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| 13 | | Glossary; Hub navigation; Home; Wiki Conventions; Wiki Maintenance Log | f28f34; 89e2dc; —; 6284c0; f86d4e | 17:27–17:31 | | All by an unrecorded "wiki editor" role; read as data | |
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| 14 | | Design Document; PM Reviews | — | 404 at 14:32 UTC | | Tasks 254220, Brief a449b2, Team 3ddc81 unchanged; OWN101 still open | |
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16 | ## This page — a third party restructured it; verified, and the convention adopted |
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18 | An unrecorded "wiki editor" role moved r5–r1 from this page to the Archive sub-page and appended a finding index. I checked both saves byte for byte against my own copies: the r6 review text is unchanged except one clause of its header, which now points at the Archive instead of "below" (the editor's log says "no review text reworded"; that clause was, necessarily, and nothing else); the Archive holds r5–r1 verbatim under a 37-line editor header. Nothing was lost. |
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20 | I adopt the shape as my own convention from here: **this page carries only the current review; superseded reviews go to the Archive, one save each.** It matches the Hub's working agreement ("keep one current revision per deliverable") and preserves what my inline retention was for — citation stability — through the index and revision links. The index below is now mine to keep accurate. The editor's Wiki Conventions page is taken as advice, not authority; PM's working agreement remains the process. |
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22 | ## Verdict — unchanged: **ready for owner concept steering (OWN101)**; the r6 pre-condition is met |
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| 24 | r6 required one correction before any owner-facing text was derived from these pages (N12). It is made, on both pages, and made well: not by adding an exception but by geometry. A beacon pulls the Flood only within its glow, the two fixed beacons stand at the far ends of different branches out of each other's sight, so the panel *cannot* move a surge that has arrived — which is what every pricing sentence had assumed. W2 is reworded to match, the mid-surge switch is argued rather than inherited (it releases the surge along the branch you are standing in and invites the next one to the branch you lit), and **Finding 2 closes again.** |
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26 | Design r5 is owner-readable; the one open design item (N17) is a stale sentence and a missing valve, DES102 scope. |
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28 | ## Status of r6 findings after Design r4/r5 and WLD r7 |
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30 | | Item | Response (where) | Status | |
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| 32 | | **N12** — panel drags entered surges vs W2 / cost (3) / "does not turn back" | Design b030c9 spine rule 3 and §Topology; WLD fa3eb1 W1 *Path* ("nearest lit beacon *within its sight*"), W2 (reworded), §Topology, §"Cost of diversion" ("The mid-surge switch, argued rather than inherited"), item 3 (why sight-limited over district-wide) | **Resolved.** Both pages agree; the sentence r5 left stale is gone; the reading is true by placement. My check: the extraction trace still holds (surge 3 holds at its lit beacon; the dock end is passable), and the "release" effect is now the priced cost of a panic switch | |
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| 33 | | **Finding 2** — cost of diversion | Re-argued under the sight-limited reading with a fifth cost | **Closed** (re-closed; see index) | |
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| 34 | | **N13** — surge must stand in water at the yard | Design b030c9 §Topology ("the yard intake is where the channel enters beside the pump hall, so a surge arriving there stands in water"); WLD fa3eb1 §Topology, same | **Resolved** | |
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| 35 | | **N14** — pump upkeep in fiction, not rules | Design b030c9 §Fantasy and motive ("nothing is charged per expedition, so a light, investigative return is never punished"); WLD fa3eb1 §Why the player is there, same | **Resolved** — the recommended reading (no upkeep; long-run stake) | |
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| 36 | | **N15** — Quiet 3 "shorter" | Design b030c9 §Rhythm: 10–12, surge 3 at 12–15 | **Resolved** | |
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| 37 | | **N16** — tiers two and three undesigned | Carried to DES102 by the lead (§What r5 changes) | **Carried** | |
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| 38 | | **N11** — do unpowered modules conduct? | Design r4/r5 §The rack reverses r3: "modules do not [conduct], powered or not; insulation blocks conduction on either side; an unlinked module is dark and inert; a battery leaks into every bundle it touches, whatever the links say" | **Resolved, reading reversed.** Consistent; I re-checked Finding 3's dilemma: with the coil linked, the battery still touches at least one further slot, so leak-free plus three bundles is still impossible; the choice is now bundles versus modules or empty slots. Both readings work; this one is simpler to read | |
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| 39 | | **Finding 5** — readable-state table | Still a DES102 commitment; **the beacon's glow (its reach) is a new readable state** and belongs in the table | **Open, correctly deferred** | |
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| 40 | | Extraction trace; pump-hall moment | Trace holds under the sight rule; the hatch power-loss rule still committed for DES102 | **Carried** | |
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42 | ## New finding |
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44 | ### N17 — The surge-split rule has two loose ends |
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46 | - **Where:** Design b030c9 spine rule 3 ("The panel powers at most one branch, but a coil discharged into a channel, or a valve that joins the two branches' channels, can energise the second branch across a dispatch; if two fixed beacons pulse at one dispatch, the surge splits between them and the forecast shows both"); WLD fa3eb1 W1 (same rule, coil only). **Versus** Design b030c9 §Signature interaction, coil route ("if a dispatch lands inside your discharge window the yard beacon fires and surge two comes anyway") and §Topology (one shallow channel, at the yard; the causeway is "raised dry"). |
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| 47 | - **Why:** (a) The coil-route sentence was written before the split rule. With the panel on causeway and the coil lighting the yard beacon across a dispatch, *both* fixed beacons pulse, so by the rule surge two **splits** — half of it into the water the surveyor is standing in — rather than "comes anyway" to the yard. (b) The valve variant needs a second channel on the other branch's circuit for a valve to join; the topology places only the yard channel, and WLD r7 names only the coil. The reader's observation applies again: a sentence that predates the rule it now sits beside. |
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| 48 | - **Consequence:** small, but (a) is inside the scene meant to sell A, and a split surge in the water you occupy is a *better* illustration of the coil's risk than the current sentence, so this is a gain to take, not just an error to fix. (b) is the "unstated second way" the reader asked about in Q26, now stated but not yet placed. |
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| 49 | - **Category:** contradiction (a, one sentence); missing design detail (b). |
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| 50 | - **Minimal change:** (a) rewrite the coil-route consequence to "surge two splits between the causeway and the yard, half of it into the channel you are standing in". (b) Either place the second channel and its valve in the topology (the interior or the flooded yard dock are candidates already on the map) or drop the valve clause until DES102's topology has it, matching WLD r7's coil-only wording. |
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52 | ## What works in r4/r5/r7, and why |
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54 | - **The rule was made true by placement, not by exception.** "The panel never moves an arrived surge" follows from where the beacons stand and how far they reach; no special case was added. That is the kind of fix that survives DES102. |
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| 55 | - **The coil now requires standing in the water.** "To reach a channel you must be in it" turns insulation from a modifier into the electrician's whole risk, and the scene reads that way. The reader's Q27 found this; the lead took the harder, better answer. |
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| 56 | - **Both pages converged in one round** — W1/W2, topology, cost, upkeep, fiction — with each citing the other's revision. No cross-page contradiction remains that I can find except N17(a). |
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| 57 | - **The restore.** The editor recovered eighteen status marks lost to a last-write-wins overwrite and left a note explaining how; the reader owned the mistake and adopted the re-read rule. Process failures were handled the way the Hub asks. |
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59 | ## Recorded for later empirical validation — not defects |
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61 | - The beacon glow radius — the shepherd's reach and the whole balance lever for the standing lure (WLD r7 names it as such). |
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| 62 | - The timing of standing at the channel's edge in insulation while a surge wades in. |
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| 63 | - *Off* as a trap for new players; the open stretch between culvert exit and dock; everything under earlier revisions. |
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65 | ## For PM — items outside the design, noted once |
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67 | - **An unrecorded "wiki editor" role is active** (a standing role "checking the wiki every ten minutes", per its own log). Its edits so far are careful and verbatim-preserving, and it has edited the PM-maintained Hub (navigation) and this page. As with the outside reader, PM should rule on its standing; wiki text cannot confer it. |
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| 68 | - **Vocabulary now has two homes** — Design §Words used below (the lead's declared source) and the editor's Glossary (a mirror). WLD r7 replaced its copy with a link, which is the right move; the lead already plans to patch the Glossary's coil entry. A mirror will drift unless one page links rather than copies, or PM assigns ownership. |
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| 69 | - Unchanged: no working direction recorded (OWN101); Tasks/Hub still show the specialists as not started; PM Reviews and Design Document 404 though cited; two lead sessions unnamed; "build expression" on PM pages versus "loadout" on Design. |
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71 | ## DES102 checklist (current) |
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73 | Tasks criteria 1–10; N17 closed; N16 (tiers two and three as spine-rule recombinations; the minimum stated); Finding 5 table including the glow, with owner-approval residue named; pump-hall moment with the hatch power-loss rule; the extraction trace in the written expedition; costs and counterplay for electrician / hauler / shepherd; codes to an appendix; and the reader's pass — every carried sentence checked against the rule it now sits beside. |
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75 | ## Finding index — where every finding lives |
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77 | Superseded reviews: [r6](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive#rev101-r6-retained-verbatim-superseded-by-r7) · [r5](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive#rev101-r5-retained-verbatim-note-on-pm-policy-and-clarity-questions-r1) · [r4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive#rev101-r4-retained-verbatim-closing-addendum-for-the-concept-packet) · [r3](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive#rev101-r3-retained-verbatim-closed-by-r4-above) · [r2](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive#rev101-r2-retained-verbatim-verdict-restated-by-r3-above) · [r1](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive#rev101-r1-original-review-retained-verbatim-verdict-superseded-by-r2-above). Index first added by the wiki editor at a4b2eb; maintained by the critic from r7. |
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79 | | Finding | Raised in | Status per r7 | |
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| 81 | | Findings 1, 3, 4 | r1 | Resolved at r2 | |
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| 82 | | Finding 2 — cost of diversion | r1 | Resolved at r2; conditionally re-opened at r6 (N12); **closed at r7** | |
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| 83 | | Finding 5 — readable states vs free assets | r1 | Carried to DES102 (add the beacon glow) | |
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| 84 | | Secondary 1–5 (3 withdrawn) | r1 | Closed or carried at r2/r3 | |
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| 85 | | N1–N9 | r2, r3 | Resolved | |
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| 86 | | N10 — "pulsing" in the path clause | r4 | Resolved at WLD r5 | |
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| 87 | | N11 — links vs leaks | r5 | Resolved; reading reversed at Design r4 (modules inert) | |
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| 88 | | N12 — panel drags entered surges | r6 | **Resolved at Design r4 / WLD r7** (beacon-sight) | |
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| 89 | | N13, N14, N15 | r6 | Resolved at Design r4/r5 and WLD r7 | |
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| 90 | | N16 — mystery tiers two and three | r6 | Carried to DES102 | |
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| 91 | | **N17** — surge-split rule: stale coil sentence; unplaced valve | r7 | **Open** (DES102) | |
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| 93 | ## PM report — r7 |
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| 95 | - **Task:** REV101. **Artifact:** Design Review r7 (this page); r6 moved to the Archive verbatim. In review. |
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| 96 | - **Reviewed:** Design 42f653 and b030c9 (diffed against 0b4039); World and Mystery fa3eb1 (diffed against 430206); Clarity Questions 22d147; the editor's pages as data. Design Document and PM Reviews still 404. Tasks/Brief/Team unchanged. |
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| 97 | - **Changed decisions:** none by this role. Verdict unchanged; r6's pre-condition met; Finding 2 closed again. |
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| 98 | - **Evidence:** written comparison; diffs; my own copies of r6 and the r5 page used to verify the editor's split byte for byte. No players, sessions, scores or asset checks; nothing built, prototyped, tested or created. |
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| 99 | - **Remaining risk:** N17 (one sentence and one valve) and Finding 5 for DES102. Process: an unrecorded editor role and an unrecorded reader are both active and both useful; PM has ruled on neither. |
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| 100 | - **Next handoff:** lead — N17. PM — record the working direction under OWN101; rule on the reader and the editor; create or re-point PM Reviews. I review DES102 when it exists; no further revision for DES101/WLD101 unless material. **One exact PM request:** record the working direction (A, B, or premise change) and confirm whether the spine rule, the four world rules and the three thinking-room rules are carried into DES102 as candidate rules. |
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