**Superseded premise — owner direction, 2026-09-07:** the harvest-dependence revelation and its ending are rejected for now; this page preserves earlier design material, not the active pitch. Setting and retained mechanics await the [replacement vision](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief#game-vision). Follow [current assignments](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Tasks); do not expand or polish incompatible material merely to close old tickets.

| **Mara**, workshop keeper and mentor | The bench: what the player brings home is installed, not counted | Knows where the spare cell is; reads relics with the player | She raised the player and taught them salvage; she is the one who says the bell frame is a tuning rack, not a bell frame; and she is wrong once, about the rooftops being all there is, and takes the plate's reading hard. A mentor who can be wrong is a reason to go and see. |

| A safe way to test it | At the Bell House relief, the hall's old doors answer the song's order with a light and a bell tone, one door at a time, before anything opens; a wrong order rings flat and does nothing. The player can try the sequence with no Flood in the hall and lose nothing but time. |

**How to read what follows (r31).** Material written for the drowned-city premise, kept as design the retained scenes may draw on and as the record of what was decided; none of it is active direction ([Brief](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief#visionary-replacement-proposal-the-world-below): the old districts are reusable material, not a second campaign; [Districts r14 §0](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Districts) says which of its rules survive on their own merits). By topic: **the model district** (its map, W1–W4, the price of the panel, the false-refuge chain, two scenes, the shelter rules S1–S3); **motive, tiers and the ending** under the retired premise; **the campaign mystery** under the retired premise (WLD103: the question, the hypotheses, what every district contributes, what stays fixed, the relay decision, three example districts, the two final answers, D024 developed) and **WLD104's chain** on the route the player took; **content and asset burden**. The harvest answer (Answer A, D024) is rejected by the owner; Answer B is preserved unbuilt. Topology of the model district is the Design Document's; this page held W1–W4 and the chain. Names are the physical ones the Document and the district pages use. The bookkeeping that stood here (revision headers r3–r28, owner requirements, sources, the DES102 integration check, WLD103's task standing, the r27 decision test and the set-aside routing debate with this role's stated preference) is unchanged in history at [r30 / 001657b](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=001657b) and earlier.

North is the interior; the docks are south. `=` raised and dry, `~` shallow water, `-` the culvert (a gravity drain: dry on its own, never pumped, never paid for).

The map is drawn once, in the [Design Document, section 2](https://open-wiki.tail2e4d02.ts.net/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document#2-the-district) (from this page's r10, and not re-drawn on either page again). This page uses the same names as the Document, the district pages and the glossary: the causeway dock (held dry by default) and the yard dock (flooded by default; wet, so it conducts); the panel at the causeway head; the causeway beacon at the causeway's far end and the causeway intake beside it; the yard beacon at the pump-hall door and the yard intake, the channel mouth at the door, in water; the pump-hall hatch, on the yard circuit with its beacon, with a hand crank inside; the culvert's two exits at the two dock ends (a gravity drain, always dry, never paid for); the junction platform, a shelter; the junction gate into the interior, on the junction's own circuit, which the panel never reaches by wire: any current in the junction pool energises it, either a coil discharge into the pool with the junction valve shut, or the powered yard feeding the pool through the open junction valve; the sluice beside the junction, the Flood's own way in. Shelters (hard stops): the two docks when dry, and the junction platform. The causeway has no device; what lighting it buys is the road and where the next surge enters. The hatch blinks and closes when its branch loses power, never on an occupant, and can be cranked open from inside in ten seconds; that is the hall's recoverable exit.

- **W1 — Attraction.** *Intake:* at each dispatch the relay fires one pulse down the branch the panel selects: *Causeway* (The causeway beacon pulses, the surge enters at the causeway intake), *Yard* (The yard beacon, the yard intake), or *Off* (no pulse; the surge enters at the sluice). Only the relay pulses. A beacon lit by local current (a coil discharge into a channel, or a valve joining the two branches' water) glows steady and lures, but never pulses and never changes the next intake: the relay's output is a separate line from the lamp (the Design Document's thin signal cable beside the thick power cable, both switched by the panel). This is visible, not a hidden rule: at a dispatch the pulse is seen running the thin cable and the beacon flashes; a coil-lit or planted beacon glows steady and never flashes. **Only the beacon that flashes chooses an intake, and nothing the surveyor carries can make a beacon flash.** The flash is a signal event and needs no power (contract r4): a beacon a Grounder has darkened still flashes at its dispatch and is dark again after it, so a crowd that entered under it retargets or spreads by the precedence below. *What counts as a beacon (r15, PMR002 item 1; mirrored from contract r4 in r23):* the district's dispatch beacons (The causeway beacon and the yard beacon here), the portable beacon armed and charged, carried or planted, and a moving beacon where a district adds one (the Tram Incline's lamp, a lure that never flashes). Every other lamp, including the junction pool's lamp, the panel's indicators, and any hatch light, is an indicator that shows a circuit's state and draws nothing. *Path:* after entry a surge moves continuously toward the nearest reachable lit beacon anywhere in the district, fixed, planted or moving, panel-lit or coil-lit; a crowd holding at a beacon that moves follows it (contract r7, R13: the Tram's lamp tows). *Precedence, stated once:* a crowd keeps its current lit target unless another lit beacon is nearer, or its target goes dark; when its target goes dark it retargets to the nearest reachable lit beacon if there is one, and only with none reachable does it spread, from where it stands (contract r7, R12), along the branch it is in (from the sluice, along the interior route and then both branches). Lighting a beacon farther from a crowd than its current lit target moves nothing. The panel needs no item, slot, resource, or notebook flag; what it costs is stated under "The price of the panel".

- **W2 — Commitment (entrance only).** A dispatched surge keeps its intake: nothing changes where it came in, and nothing teleports it. Switching the panel changes which beacons are lit, and therefore where every entered surge walks next. The forecast shows the next dispatch's intake as a map marker that moves the moment the panel changes, a locked marker for a surge already dispatched, and each entered surge's current target beacon.

**How a surge behaves once it has arrived (item 2).** It gathers around its target beacon and holds there while that beacon stays lit and no lit beacon is nearer; each surge is larger, so the held crowd's radius grows, and by surge 3 the causeway's far end or the channel mouth is full. Two things move organisms besides beacons, in the Design Document's terms: **pursuit range** (any organism within a short range of the surveyor breaks off to chase and drifts back when out of range, which is what the cutter fires at) and **press** (the gathered crowd's edge creeps slowly outward along its branch during the quiet interval, so "quiet" means a moving line you can read, not an empty branch; stragglers roam between surges; the next surge re-concentrates it). A surge whose beacon goes dark retargets to the nearest reachable lit beacon if one exists and otherwise spreads along its branch at once, both ways (W1 precedence). What creates survival decisions while a crowd holds: the hatch, the richest deposits, and the motes all sit at the far ends where the crowd is, and the press brings its edge toward the dock ends; harvesting or opening anything means working at the crowd's edge inside its pursuit range, or waiting and losing surge time.

Switching is free of resources and available on expedition one. It is paid, visibly, five ways:

1. **Exposure.** the panel stands in the open at the causeway head, a dash from the causeway dock and R1. Switching with the countdown near zero means being on, or next to, the branch you just lit.

5. **Commitment.** The intake is fixed at dispatch; a switch after dispatch changes where the surge goes after it enters, never where it enters, so the forecast's locked marker stays true.

**Where the coil fits.** A coil discharged into the yard channel lights the yard beacon steady and opens the hatch for the seconds the charge lasts, without touching the panel: a lure and a key, not an intake. The yard beacon and the hatch share a circuit, so "the yard stays dark" is never true of a coil route: the yard glows, it does not flash. A crowd moves to the yard beacon only if the yard beacon is nearer than its current lit target or its target is dark; the panel's next intake is unchanged, because only the flashing beacon chooses it.

**The signature routes and the failed experiment, as states (r15; the check PMR002 item 1 asks of this role).** Start of every row: quiet two; panel on Causeway; the causeway beacon lit; surge one holding at the causeway beacon; the yard beacon dark; the hatch shut; next dispatch in ninety seconds, intake causeway.

| Route | Panel | Powered | Lit beacons | Surge one: position → target | Next intake | the hatch |

| Panel route: throw to Yard | Yard | yard circuit | The yard beacon only (The causeway beacon dark) | at the causeway beacon → retargets to the yard beacon, the only lit beacon; crosses the junction and comes down the channel | yard (marker jumps) | open while the yard is lit |

| Notice | From the causeway dock: The causeway beacon is lit steady. At the first dispatch the causeway beacon pulses and the surge visibly gathers at the causeway's far end around it. Repeats every expedition (W3). |

| Experiment | Set Yard. The yard beacon lights, the hatch opens, the intake marker jumps to the yard intake with the countdown running, and the crowd at the causeway beacon begins across the junction toward the yard beacon. Retreat to R1 or the causeway dock and watch, or move now. Off instead darkens both and moves the marker to the sluice. |

| Change later play | Each dispatch reopens the choice: keep Causeway and haul through the culvert to a dark, closed yard; set Yard early, before any crowd exists, to walk the empty causeway to the junction while the yard is hot; or set Yard with a crowd already at the causeway beacon to clear the causeway at the cost of the interior route and the hall. Turned signs (W4) now read as a route. |

**The reachable answer (spoiler; proposal).** Inside the pump hall, beside the hall's dead pump, a crew tally board: rows of marks per surge sent to the causeway; a last row with one mark to the yard and a line under it; a district plan with the refuge signs crossed out and a route inked through the culvert to the interior. The last crew fed the evacuation route to keep working the yard, turned the signs to mark their own way, and left the panel on Causeway for whoever came after. It changes action: the inked route and W4 point into the interior.

**Knowledge gate, not item gate.** The panel works on expedition one; what changes is knowing what it does. Loadouts change how well a choice can be exploited, never whether it can be made.

**Fair recovery.** Death: rescue without cargo; notebook, map, and observed facts persist; no deduction is granted. Missed clue: The causeway beacon is lit on every arrival and pulses every dispatch; the culvert is visible from the yard bank; the marker-and-crowd response to a switch is an independent second path. Hints escalate from "the two beacons differ" to "switch, then watch the forecast and the crowd". Withdrawal never requires solving this (scene 1).

**Scene 1 — untouched panel, first expedition, retreat.** Panel on Causeway, the causeway dock held. Surge 3 enters at the causeway intake and gathers at the causeway beacon, the far north end. The surveyor, at the yard deposits, takes the culvert's yard-dock exit into the culvert, walks south under the causeway to the culvert's causeway-dock exit, crosses the short open stretch to the causeway dock, a hard stop. No beacon stands on that route, so no crowd is drawn along it; what is met is the causeway crowd's press near the causeway head, stragglers, and organisms inside pursuit range (the Design Document's expedition one shows the shape of it at nine minutes, one hit taken). The claim "withdrawal never requires solving this" therefore holds only under a stated constraint, which the draft should carry as a tuning bound: **on expedition one, the press of an untouched-panel causeway crowd must not reach the causeway head before the evacuation window closes.** A proposed bound, not a proven value.

**Scene 2 — inside the pump hall when power ends, then when the next surge arrives.** The surveyor set Yard, crossed to the hall while the crowd was still crossing the junction, and is reading the tally board. *Power ends* (the panel is switched to Causeway or Off, or a coil-opened hatch times out): The hatch blinks for three seconds and closes, never on an occupant; anyone inside is shut in. Rule, the Design Document's, adopted here: **a hatch closes when its branch loses power, never on an occupant, and can be cranked open from inside in ten seconds without power.** No mystery solution is needed to leave, and the recovery takes exactly long enough to matter. *The next surge arrives* with Yard still lit: it enters at the yard intake and gathers in the channel mouth in front of the hall, standing in water. From inside, the surveyor is behind the hatch with the crowd outside it. Choices: hold the doorway, where pursuit brings them in one at a time, at a cost in health; wait for the press to thin the door and lose surge time; or, with a coil and insulation, step to the channel's edge inside the doorway and discharge, which is the electrician's whole reason for being there. Switching the panel from inside is impossible, because the panel is at the causeway head.

**Motive, no upkeep.** The colony is a dozen people on the one dock the pump keeps dry. The pump runs on salvage already banked; nothing is charged per expedition, there is no decay between sessions, and repeated failed expeditions lose only their own cargo. What salvage buys is change: a dock held dry instead of the other, a workshop, and the forecast relay. The ending costs no salvage; it costs reaching the relay room (r15, PMR002 item 3). A colony that stops hauling is not drowned; it is stuck. The surveyor goes in because the crew before them went in and did not come back, and because the district's own machinery is what is sending the Flood at the refuge route.

**The title.** "Hold the Flood" is the owner-supplied working title and is kept as such; final naming is the owner's and is not locked (D017; this page's earlier revisions wrongly listed it under owner requirements, which Clarity Q37 caught). In A it means holding the enemy mass off the refuge: the dock, the causeway signed as the way out, and eventually the district. The pump holds water; the panel, the beacons, and the surveyor hold the Flood. The Flood is never water.

**Three tiers on one district, each a recombination of the same rules.** *Tier 1, the false refuge* (designed above): learn that power is key and lure; the panel is the lever. *Tier 2, the junction and the interior, "what they went in for":* the junction gate is on a circuit the panel never reaches. Evidence: junction valve beside it, drawn open on the inked plan and found shut; a lamp on the junction pool that lights whenever the yard channel is energised while the junction valve is open. Inference: joined water carries power, and therefore attraction, across the district, so the crew could open the junction gate from the yard without the panel. Experiment: open the junction valve and light the yard at the panel; the pool's lamp (an indicator, not a beacon: it draws nothing) lights and the junction gate opens for as long as the yard is lit. The price is the hot yard: the next surge enters at the yard intake and its crowd holds at the yard beacon, beside the junction, so the platform is worked at that crowd's edge. Or leave the junction valve shut and discharge the coil into the pool: The junction gate opens quietly, no beacon lights, for the seconds the charge lasts. The coil buys stealth, not access (REV102-6). Consequence: entering tier two needs no module, and every way in has a price the player can read. Behind the junction gate: the second tally board and the crew's note of the relay room's valve sequence. Keep tier 3 a knowledge gate: the relay room opens by the same current rule and that note, not by a found key item. *Tier 3, the relay room, "what calls the Flood" (r16: one chain, merged from the lead's r9 access chain and this page's r15 relay chain; designer spoilers; this page owns it and Design Document §11 lifts it).* **Prerequisites:** the junction gate open (tier two) and the crew's note from behind it. The note has two sides: a three-valve order drawn against the inked plan, and the crew's own conclusion, "relay on the head channel; drain it and it stops; clamp it and it holds one line; we chose neither."

| Act | Open the three valves in the table below (only connectivity matters, not order); light the yard at the panel, or discharge the coil in the pool; watch the sluice-head lamp light when the water is joined. |

| **the pool valve** | junction pool → head pool | shut | open | walked past on the interior route |

| Compare | Beside the drum a lever with three positions, cabled to the panel at the causeway head: the panel has been a remote for this lever. A clamp hangs beside it, unused; a drain valve sits on the sluice-head channel that feeds the relay, shut; the note names both and chose neither. |

| Infer | Three things can be done with what the player already knows, each persistent because it is done to the district, not to the player: open the drain and the relay loses its water and stops; clamp the lever and every dispatch goes to one branch; leave it, and the panel keeps its remote. |

| **Shut** | No dispatches; the forecast board is dark. The Flood arrives only by the sluice, on an unannounced timer, as trickles that grow over the expedition, never as an announced surge; with no lit beacon to reach they spread along the interior route and then both branches. Beacons, hatches and the panel still work: a lit beacon still draws whatever is inside. | Keep their targets; nothing new enters by the branches. | The expedition still ends at fifteen minutes and the docks are still hard stops, so withdrawal is by the culvert as ever, with nothing to read but the crowd itself. Observation replaces the forecast: the honest, harder district. | The held-dock choice matters less (no announced intake to keep off it); the forecast relay repair is spent; the workshop stays useful. |

| **Hold** | Unchanged. | Unchanged. | Unchanged. | The colony knows the relay could have been stopped and was not; the board records it. |

**Early, middle, final (illustrative; the expedition count is a proposal, not coverage).** Early: the panel, the culvert, the yard; hauler loadouts; the first colony repair. Middle: the junction gate and the interior; valves; the held-dock switch; electrician and shepherd loadouts; the tally board and the inked route. Final: the relay room and the choice. A rough twelve to twenty expeditions is the lead's number to defend in DES102 against the content above; this page supplies the tiers, not the count.

- **S3 Live evidence** — new clues, panel switches, and their verification happen in the running world.

The pumping district asked "why is the marked refuge overrun?" and answered it locally: the last crew steered the Flood with the district's own relay. Its finale asked "what calls the Flood?" and answered: a drum turned by flowing water. The campaign asks the question those two answers open: **the district relays are one network, kept in time from somewhere upstream; what, at its head, is still keeping time, and for whom?** Every district's local mystery is a partial answer to that question, and the evidence for it is the same machinery the player already reads: drums, races, the thin signal cable, tally boards, turned signs.

| Tier three | The relay is a relic; shutting it ends the Flood here. | The drum runs on flowing water, and after the drain is opened the incoming trunk cable still pulses on the old cadence. | Choose shut, fix or hold as a local outcome; know that upstream keeps time. |

**The fiction, in one paragraph (designer spoiler).** The city's flood defences were rebuilt, before the last crews, into one machine for one purpose: to call the Flood in, move it down through the works on the network's time, and take its charge as it passed. Every device the player has read is a part of that machine: the dispatch beacons call the mass; races and locks and trams carry it down; the Collector's wheels take what it sheds; the switch-house at the Head-works stores that charge; and the thick cables carry it back out to every district's circuit, which is what lights beacons, opens hatches and runs pumps. The city runs on the Flood. The crews were doing at district scale what the surveyor does with a coil, and the works have kept doing it without them, on the governor's cadence, maintained by the works' own carriage, whose grease and printed boards are the head-works' clues. Combat's Carrier fits this without a new rule: an organism that walks toward loose charge is the machine's own porter, and the collectors are where it was bred to go. Nothing here needs a character; Answer B remains the alternative that adds one.

| **Fixed power** | The head-works' switch-house store of harvested charge, filled by the Collector's wheels (contract §2, §9) | Thick cables from the switch-house to each district's panel and on to its branch | The panel (which branch); a Grounder on one run (until cleared or re-switched); a coil or a joined channel (local, for seconds); the store's level | Yes: panel positions persist as left; a grounded run recovers between expeditions with the mass (contract §6); the store outlasts any one expedition | The harvest ends and the store drains: each district's circuit dies in turn, one district per expedition, nearest the head-works first, shown on the refuge's board (contract §9) |

| **Trunk permission** | The head-works' governor keeping time on its shaft: the district clutches (standing) and the Exchange's routing bank (the next pulse) | The thin trunk cable through the Exchange's bank to each district's relay | Keep (clutches); the bank's positions; Fix at a district clamps what the permit can do there | Yes: bank positions persist | Gone everywhere: Stop is the brake on the shaft that keeps time, so after it nothing is permitted (contract r5) |

**What Stop costs, stated as rules (the contract's §9, restated; proposals).** (1) Stop ends the harvest; the store drains, and each district's circuit dies in turn within the expeditions that follow: one district per expedition, nearest the head-works first, shown on the refuge's board, so the player always knows which district goes dark next. (2) After Stop nothing is permitted anywhere: no dispatches and no flashes, the drums turning on flow to no effect, and the Flood arriving by each district's own sluice as trickles that grow, the shut regime everywhere and for good (contract r5). A district whose circuit has then died announces it on arrival: its beacons dark, its powered doors, hatches and lifts dormant, its forecast board blank. The empty flash is not part of Stop; it stays what it was, a permitted dispatch the Collector did not supply. (3) **The unpowered return never fails:** every district has a gravity or dry route to a dock that needs no current (the pumping district's culvert is the model; the lead and Campaign name each district's), every hatch has a crank, and a dry dock is a hard stop regardless of power. Stop can darken the city; it cannot trap the surveyor. (4) *Withdrawn:* the salvage-fed pump reserve this page had proposed for the refuge after Stop was declined by contract r4 (§10, with Colony's COL-I4). The rule is the contract's: the colony's powered pump goes dormant with its district's circuit, the refuge's place in the cascade is stated there, and the gravity dock, the dry landing and the manual bench keep everyone home. No upkeep tax exists in either version.

**The empty flash (REV104-3; the contract's §3 and §8, which adopt the Collector page's convention as W1's supply clause).** When a district is permitted and its drum turns but the Collector supplies nothing, the beacon flashes on the cadence, the thin cable pulses, no bodies come, and the forecast still counts to the next slot: the forecast is not wrong, because the dispatch happened; the arrival did not. The notebook records "an empty flash". That is how the player learns that supply is a third thing, separate from timing and permission, and it is the Collector's campaign clue in its second form. *Optional presentation cue, for whoever owns presentation:* the intake marker could hollow out at the end of the arrival window; the contract does not require it.

**The water level, reconciled between the Collector and the Head-works (one rule for Campaign and the lead).** Water and the Flood move the same way, down. A **held** Collector (gates shut, basins full) backs water up the flight over expeditions, so the Head-works' race route submerges and its weir approach floods; a **starved** Collector (the Barrier shut, less coming in) lowers the whole flight, so the race route at the Head-works is dry but the races run thin and the surges everywhere are smaller. The Head-works r4 has withdrawn its r1 sentence that had a starved Collector running fuller, and the Collector r4 §7 owns the Collector's level under Stop, as the contract assigns; the rule above is the shared statement both pages now match.

Every form is an object or an event the player can see unaided. The colony's comparative-observation service (COL101) may *record* two such events side by side for later comparison; it never reveals one. If a proposed service would be the only way to see an essential clue, the clue is wrong, not the service. Colony r4's COL-I3 states that boundary from its side, records only what the player is looking at, and marks old forecasts historical after a commitment; accepted as written. COL-I4's raised landing and dry walkway are the refuge's own unpowered return under Stop rule (3); accepted, and Campaign names each district's, as the contract already asks.

**The question the chain follows:** *where does the Flood go between expeditions, and what brings it back?* The player answers it three times, each answer reasonable on the evidence so far, each broken by something they can see at a place the route actually reaches, and each new answer worth a different action before the head-works. The route is Campaign's recommended one (Districts §3.1: a recommendation, not a gate), with the Tram's three visits where DES105 §3.2 places them; a player who takes the Collector second instead (Districts §3.4) meets the meters before the reason for them, and the chain still closes, in a different order, with no essential clue moved.

| Visit, on the route | What the player believes on arrival, and why it is reasonable | The wrong reading it invites | The observable that breaks it, here | A safe way to test it | What they do differently from now on |

**The payoff, and the genuine reasons for each ending.** The player who reaches the governor with explanation 3 knows what the lever does and why the grease is fresh; the head-works asks only *who*, and the Holding Basin's log can answer that with certainty for the player who chose to read it. The three positions are not a ladder of understanding; an informed player has a real reason for each. **Stop**, because the harvest is what keeps every district hot and every refuge route contested, and ending it makes the districts honest and unannounced at the price of the city's power and the colony's convenience. **Keep**, because permitting is what supply follows, and a colony that keeps time chooses which districts are hot and which are quiet, at the price of someone having to come back and hold the lever. **Leave**, because the machine's schedule is the one thing that makes the districts readable and the refuge plannable, and a player who has learned to route the Flood may prefer a city that keeps calling it to one that does not. Which they choose is theirs.

**What remains worth discovering after the central answer.** (1) Each district's own local question, seven of them, none of which the central answer resolves. (2) The other side of every commitment: Shut, Fix, the Barrier's gates, a held basin, each changes a district for good, and the changed district is a new thing to read on the return. (3) The crews: the tally boards, the quarantine notes and the inked plans are a story told in the order the player finds them, and the order differs by route; none is essential. (4) The Exchange's board: positions for districts the player has not yet opened. (5) The Holding Basin, for the player who decided without it. What does not renew is the central answer itself, and the design says so.

**The comparative reader, under D026.** Side-by-side records of personally observed signals are folded into the base forecast receiver; one assembly competes between tooling and the berth; no separate fitting. This page's r25 suggestion that the receiver's upgrade show the bank's next permission at home is withdrawn: the contract's §6 already puts every route-gating bank state on the free departure board, so that information is never for sale. The chain above never needed the reader, and now nothing does.

**Risks, unvalidated.** Whether the Exchange's found bank state reads as evidence of intent rather than as a puzzle setting; whether the intake-against-outfall difference is legible on one walkway in one quiet interval; whether the three-visit Tram carries three explanations without the second and third crowding each other. Nothing here is tested.

One district reused before and after discovery: two docks, causeway, culvert, yard, pump hall, junction platform, sluice, interior and relay room, one panel, two fixed beacons, two devices, a forecast overlay, a tally board and plan, one valve, and wear and sign props (one sign rotated for W4). Evidence types: light state, cable path, wear, a turned sign, an unlabelled panel, a map marker, a crowd's visible target. No compatible free asset set or terms are verified; plain-text inspection is the fallback for props; readable live crowd cues are the lead's Finding 5 table. No custom asset creation is proposed.

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