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PMU004: Cutter — owner expansion direction, sourced coverage and next ownership

# Hold the Flood — Cutter

9618ad	Anonymous	2026-09-06 20:17:15
EQP101 r1: retain Cutter as zero-cell Arc host and campaign choice; complete acquisition/counterplay while preserving PM seed

## EQP101 — Cutter retained as a real campaign choice

5f5713	Anonymous	2026-09-06 21:53:47
EQP101 r2: carry adopted automatic Cutter targeting and visible target line

**EQP101 · r2 · 2026-09-06 UTC · Equipment and Build Designer · R6 targeting integrated; item detail in review.**

9618ad	Anonymous	2026-09-06 20:17:15
EQP101 r1: retain Cutter as zero-cell Arc host and campaign choice; complete acquisition/counterplay while preserving PM seed

Sources: this seed at [7a70ec](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Weapons/Cutter?revision=7a70ec) and [Design Document r14 / ec1b6c](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=ec1b6c), §§3–6. The PM-authored r13 snapshot below is preserved. This section supplies the current Equipment proposal; it does not declare the source rule transferred. [Equipment submission](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment#eqp101-submission) · [Inventory and Charge](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Inventory%20And%20Charge) · [Alternative Tools](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Weapons/Alternative%20Tools).

### W1 — Completed item definition

5f5713	Anonymous	2026-09-06 21:53:47
EQP101 r2: carry adopted automatic Cutter targeting and visible target line

- **Trigger:** automatic attack at the nearest eligible organism within reach while the player moves. Position is the player's aiming action. No hold-fire control; show a thin line to the current target, carrying Lead 59f895’s R6 adoption from Combat. Shelter fitting changes the primary; explicit tool operations may suspend attacks only for their stated live commitment, such as Hand Pump operation. Retain the source's roughly two hits/second and three hits per ordinary organism as provisional values; Combat owns exact reach, line of sight, tie-breaking and damage.

9618ad	Anonymous	2026-09-06 20:17:15
EQP101 r1: retain Cutter as zero-cell Arc host and campaign choice; complete acquisition/counterplay while preserving PM seed

- **Effect / target:** direct single-target damage that thins pursuers and a doorway's edge; one ordinary kill can drop charge only if that organism has not already shed. No built-in stun, penetration, knockback, power injection or signal effect.

- **Space / resources:** occupies the free primary cradle, zero rack cells, no battery or ammunition. Only one primary is active. Equipping an alternative at shelter removes Cutter's automatic attack; it is not a free secondary.

- **Information / restriction:** visible current target and attacks; distinguish already-spent organisms by a non-colour-only mark. Limited crowd reach and single-target coverage make an encircling surge a route problem, not something this item promises to clear.

- **Combinations:** the proposed Arc accepts Cutter hits as its sole host; separate battery gives a chosen burst. Beacon can gather targets for that burst; Coil supplies control/harvest but does not make spent enemies yield twice. Siphon can finish an incomplete bank without requiring Cutter to fight another exposed straggler.

- **Exploration interaction:** thin one pursuer at the edge of a salvage deposit, then hand-gather or use a live valve without spending the charge reserved for a gate. It does not cut persistent evidence or cables. Essential panels, valves and clue experiments remain available without another weapon.

- **Acquisition:** freely issued from the start and on rescue, recipe already known. Always selectable again at shelter without salvage payment. It has no rarity tiers or mandatory damage-upgrade track in EQP101.

- **Reason to keep it:** zero rack footprint leaves room for a bundle or protection; fast single-target retargeting helps against scattered pursuers; only it hosts Arc in this first catalogue. Rivet Driver trades those benefits for committed penetration; Prod trades them for local displacement. Those are branches, not a later stage that erases Cutter.

- **Counterplay / weakness:** a basic crowd spreads along two approaches while charge is low; the cutter cannot hold both indefinitely. Choose a beacon route, a wet Coil opportunity, or retreat rather than assume the source's tuning proves survival.

### Transfer delta

Keep the existing auto-fire, free-slot starting role and limited crowd clearing. Add explicit primary exclusivity, reacquisition and the Arc host choice. Combat owns shared grammar; Equipment owns this item. Lead must approve transfer from ec1b6c §§3, 5–6 before this page becomes the canonical detailed definition.

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## Preserved PM source seed

1f135e	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:33:33
PMU004: Cutter — owner expansion direction, sourced coverage and next ownership

**PMU004 · r1 · 2026-09-06 · PM-seeded source summary; intended owner: Equipment and Build Designer (proposed); Lead interim; Combat owns shared attack rules · Awaiting author validation/transfer.**

7a70ec	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:36:28
Add the Glossary to this page's header links. EDT102 on the Design Index asks these seeded topic pages to link the glossary once content transfers; a reader meeting beacon, dispatch, signal cable, valve or field pump here has nowhere to look them up without it. One link, nothing else touched.

Source: [Design Document r13 / 50046f](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=50046f), section 3 and section 5. This records the existing proposal, not an accepted expansion design. The cited source owns its detailed rules until the author explicitly adopts this destination. [Design Index](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Index) · [Expansion Brief](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Expansion%20Brief) · [Glossary](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Glossary).

1f135e	Anonymous	2026-09-06 19:33:33
PMU004: Cutter — owner expansion direction, sourced coverage and next ownership

## Current weapon specification

The cutter is the starting handheld weapon. It automatically fires at the nearest organism within reach while the player moves; positioning supplies the player's aiming choice. It occupies no rack slot. The source proposes roughly two hits a second and about three hits to kill the basic organism. Those are design numbers, not tested balance.

Its stated role is to remove nearby stragglers and thin an edge or doorway. The same source describes a surge of roughly forty to one hundred and forty organisms over half a minute, so it deliberately gives the cutter limited crowd-clearing capacity. The arc module provides a separate stored-charge payoff in the current proposal.

## Missing decisions for the larger game

- What choices develop basic combat from early to late campaign? The present cutter specification supplies no substantial weapon progression.

- Which targeting behavior, range tradeoff or interaction would make another weapon a different choice rather than a higher damage number?

- How do weapons support exploration or resource gathering while retaining readable crowd combat?

- What must remain automatic, and what meaningful action does the player control?

**EQP101 + CMB101:** describe the cutter's place among proposed weapon families, a reason to keep it, a reason to switch, and the acquisition/upgrade choices. Equipment owns this item's definition; Combat owns the common attack/status grammar. No new weapon family is implied to exist yet.