# Character State: ch-15

## Marcus Thorne
**Location:** North Bank / County Road Perimeter, Cypress Bend.
**Physical:** Tremor in the left hand (diagnostic: systemic shock); clothing saturated with river-silt and rain; hands raw from manual hydraulic overrides.
**Emotional:** Redlining. The transition from "God-tier" digital architect to "analog" laborer is complete and failing. He is experiencing the physical latency of a world that cannot be "patched."
**Active obligations:** Provide a "permanent fix" for the north-bank drainage (Ch-14) — FAILED/DEFERRED; Document the Alpha-7 back-end logs for Sarah (Ch-01) — ACTIVE.
**Open loops:** Marcus and the county bridge reconstruction (Ch-15) — BLOCKED by County Dispatch.
**Arc:** 85% — Marcus has accepted that his technical brilliance is a "legacy variable" in a physical catastrophe. He is no longer trying to admin-solve the swamp.

## David
**Location:** The Washout / Riverbank, Cypress Bend.
**Physical:** Exhausted; stagnant; water-line marked on his boots as a permanent reminder of the rising tide.
**Emotional:** Stoic resignation. He has moved past the "Great Hunger" panic into a cold, logistical survivalism.
**Active obligations:** Secure the perimeter against "Scavenger Pings" (Ch-12) — ACTIVE; Protect Leo from the reality of the 14-week isolation — NEW/ACTIVE.
**Arc:** 75% — David has realized that "going analog" didn't grant freedom, only a different kind of imprisonment.

## Arthur Silas Vance (Legacy/Ghost)
**Location:** The Washout (Conceptual/Memory).
**Physical:** N/A (Deceased).
**Emotional:** Tectonic presence. His "Long Wait" philosophy is now the group's lived reality.
**Open loops:** The "successor" to the Bend (Ch-15) — Marcus has effectively inherited the burden, if not the title.
**Arc:** 50% — (Posthumous) His prediction of "systemic abandonment" has been verified by the County's cost-benefit refusal.

## Sarah Jenkins (Off-screen / Memory)
**Emotional:** The "Ghost in the Machine." Her voice is the audit Marcus cannot delete.
**Known secrets:** She possesses the weaponized detachment learned from the Alpha-7 rollout, now repurposed for the survival of her son, Leo.

# World State: ch-15

## NPC Memory
**County Automated Dispatch:** HOSTILE. The bridge repair was officially "de-prioritized" based on a predictive cost-benefit algorithm. The system has effectively deleted Cypress Bend from the infrastructure map.

## Faction Attitudes
**Avery-Quinn Corp:** ASCENDANT. Their predictive models are now the invisible hand of the local government, justifying the abandonment of "low-yield" geographical nodes.

## Active World Events
**The 14-Week De-allocation:** The group is officially marooned. The bridge washout is not a temporary glitch but a structural "deletion" of the route by the county.
**The Receding Tide:** The Hundred-Year Rain has ended, leaving behind a landscape of rot, silt, and "analog" debt.
**The Alpha-7 Logs:** Marcus still carries the digital proof of the corporate mass-firings, now a heavy, useless brick in a world without power.

## Continuity Key
**The Bridge:** Total structural failure. No transit possible for at least one fiscal quarter.
**The Logistics:** Caloric deficit looming; the "Sanctuary" is now a "Waiting Room."