# Character State: ch-14

## Marcus Thorne
Location: The Kitchen / Main Cabin, Cypress Bend, Florida.
Physical: Soaked and shivering; right hand raw from rope-burn; thighs bruised from bracing against the bridge rail.
Emotional: Grounded but exhausted; experiencing a rare moment of "systemic alignment" with the physical world.
Active obligations: Owes Sarah a world that doesn't "index" Leo's childhood (Ch-12) — IN PROGRESS; Owes David a permanent fix for the north-bank drainage (Ch-14) — UNPAID.
Open loops: Marcus and the Alpha-7 "Phone Home" sequence (Ch-13) — UNRESOLVED; The integration of the "Sanctuary" LLM into the storm-warning system (Ch-14) — RESOLVED.
Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-01—unresolved): Knows the Alpha-7 empathy protocols were a lie to facilitate mass firings — Julian does NOT know he kept the back-end logs.
Arc: 75% -- Marcus has transitioned from a digital fugitive to a vital component of the physical infrastructure, finally "handshaking" with the land.
Permanent: YES

## Sarah Jenkins
Location: The Kitchen, Cypress Bend, Florida.
Physical: Strained back from hauling sandbags; hands pruned and smelling of river silt; no injuries.
Emotional: Fiercely protective; hyper-focused on the caloric and survival logistics of the group.
Active obligations: Owes Leo a future that exists outside the "Great Flight" narrative (Ch-14) — ACTIVE.
Open loops: Sarah and the moral weight of the high-tier "seeds" (Ch-12) — UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-01—unresolved): Knows the Alpha-7 empathy protocols were a lie to facilitate mass firings — Julian does NOT know she has weaponized that same detachment for survival.
Arc: 72% -- Sarah has fully embraced her role as the "Domestic Quartermaster," treating the storm as a logic-puzzle she is determined to solve.
Permanent: YES

## David
Location: The Porch / Perimeter, Cypress Bend, Florida.
Physical: Deep fatigue; smelling of wet dog and diesel; rain-blinded eyes.
Emotional: Grimly satisfied; his "Sentry" role has been validated by the storm's failure to breach the perimeter.
Active obligations: Owes the Sanctuary a secure perimeter against "Scavenger Pings" (Ch-12) — ACTIVE.
Open loops: David and the looming "Great Hunger" caloric deficit (Ch-11) — UNRESOLVED.
Arc: 65% -- David has stopped "pioneer-larping" and has become the tectonic center of the group's physical defense.
Permanent: YES

## Elena
Location: The Roof / Solar Array, Cypress Bend, Florida.
Physical: Mud-slicked; knuckles barked from manual winch-work; no injuries.
Emotional: Calculated and territorial; viewing the river as a "recursive variable" she has successfully throttled.
Active obligations: Owes Marcus a "dead-zone" that actually stays dead (Ch-13) — IN PROGRESS.
Open loops: Elena and the county’s automated tax-assessment algorithm (Ch-13) — UNRESOLVED.
Known secrets: Knows the manual axe-throw is the only physical failsafe for the legacy power line — Marcus does NOT know she has designated him as the one to pull it.
Arc: 75% -- Elena has hardened into the group's architect of "friction," seeing the storm's chaos as the ultimate encryption.
Permanent: YES

## Arthur Silas Vance — DECEASED (Ch-36)
Established: Died peacefully in his sleep overlooking the cypress grove he spent his life protecting.
Legacy: His physical "dead-zone" property remains the only safe logic for the group.

# World State: ch-14

## NPC Memory
- The Ocklawaha River (Cypress Bend): AGGRESSIVE -- Attempted to reclaim the low-lands -- Repelled by the group's manual trenching and sandbagging.

## Faction Attitudes
- Avery-Quinn Corp: DISTANT -- Their automated tracking is failing in the high-moisture density of the storm front.
- The Displaced: SUFFERING -- Grid-locked in ration-hubs failing due to the regional weather event.

## Active World Events
- The Hundred-Year Rain: ACTIVE -- A five-day storm surge testing the analog infrastructure of the interior.
- The Analog Drift: ESCALATING -- The group has successfully traded digital conn