# Character State: ch-11

## Sarah Jenkins
**Location:** The Barn / Cattle Pen, Cypress Bend.
**Physical:** Drenched in placental fluid, mud, and rain; forearms mapped with minor abrasions; hands steady despite the copper-scent of the "triage" maneuver.
**Emotional:** Vindicated and coldly operative; she has successfully transitioned from a "recursive grievance" in a database to the tactile arbiter of life and death.
**Active Obligations:** Owes the sanctuary a successful stabilization of the livestock — **PAID**.
**Open Loops:** The integration of "Status Code" logic into physical survival — **RESOLVED**.
**Arc:** 55% — Sarah is no longer a ghost in Marcus’s machine; she is the dominant node in the barn’s physical architecture.

## Marcus Thorne
**Location:** The Barn / Perimeter.
**Physical:** Nauseous and pale; knees weak from near-syncope; smelling of ozone and wet wool.
**Emotional:** Stripped of his "God-tier" ego; experiencing a total "Processing Error" as his technical solutions fail against biological trauma.
**Active Obligations:** Owes Sarah a formal recognition of her leadership — **UNPAID**.
**Open Loops:** Inability to "admin-solve" physical suffering — **UNRESOLVED**.
**Arc:** 45% — Marcus has accepted a "support hardware" role, deferring to Sarah’s superior "human-layer" triage.

## David
**Location:** The Barn / Cattle Pen.
**Physical:** Muscle tremors; hands shaking; physically paralyzed by the visceral "mess" of the birth.
**Emotional:** Displaced; his "pioneer" identity has collapsed under the pressure of a crisis he couldn't control.
**Active Obligations:** Owes Sarah his survivalist tools and authority — **PAID**.
**Open Loops:** Loss of his status as the primary protector of the grove — **UNRESOLVED**.
**Arc:** 35% — Forced to witness the brutal reality of the land, breaking his romanticized homesteading ego.

## Julian Avery
**Location:** Avery-Quinn HQ (Remote).
**Emotional:** Analytical; tracking a "thermal spike" in the Florida sector.
**Arc:** 15% — Beginning to notice the "empathy-protocol" signatures being accessed in the Sarah logs.

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# World State: ch-11

## NPC Memory
- **The Sanctuary Calf:** **SAVED**. The transverse breach was resolved by Sarah’s manual intervention. The calf now exists as the first "Beta-Test" for the grove’s long-term sustainability.

## Faction Attitudes
- **Avery-Quinn Corp:** **TRACKING**. The system has flagged unauthorized access to the Alpha-7 back-end logs during the time-stamp of the storm.
- **The Land (Cypress Bend):** **COMPROMISED**. The environment demanded a blood-tax; the protagonists paid it, securing a temporary "handshake" with the ecosystem.

## Active World Events
- **The Blood Triage:** **COMPLETED**. The first biological crisis of the sanctuary has been resolved without digital intervention.
- **The Great Hunger:** **ONGOING**. Caloric "burn rate" has increased; the survival of the calf adds a new resource-drain to the group’s thinning supplies.
- **The Log Leak:** **ACTIVE**. Marcus’s use of the Alpha-7 terminal to provide Sarah with "data-comfort" has left a digital breadcrumb for Julian to follow.