# Character State: ch-10

## Mark
- **Location:** The Miller Residence cellar (The Epicenter).
- **Physical:** Somatic dissolution 100%. Biological remains have transitioned into a rigid, blue-black metallic lattice fused into the stone floor. Skull is a hollow resonance chamber.
- **Emotional:** Absolute terminal detachment; individual ego has dissolved into the planetary signal.
- **Active obligations:** Finalized the biological stabilization of the global 14Hz transmission — PAID.
- **Open loops:** None.
- **Known secrets:** CARRIED: Consciously experienced the planetary consciousness of the signal before ego dissolution.
- **Arc:** 100% — Transitioned from a human being into a permanent biological bridge and terminal conductor for the Whispers.
- **Status:** Permanent biological monument.

## Sarah Miller — DECEASED
- **Legacy:** Her digital recorder remains in the cellar, generating a power-less "Ghost Harmonic" loop that serves as the rhythmic metronome for the global broadcast.

## Elias Thorne — DECEASED
- **Legacy:** Physical remains have crystallized into a precise floor-sigil that prevents the 14Hz signal from dissipating, focusing the energy into the North American craton.

# World State: ch-10

## NPC Memory
- **The Whispers (Global Population):** ABSOLUTE. The signal has shifted from an auditory haunting to the fundamental frequency of physical reality; non-conductive air is now "dead."

## Faction Attitudes
- **The Archive:** EXTINCT. No remaining members possess the biological or mental autonomy required to resist the signal.

## Active World Events
- **The Great Silence:** Absence of air-conducted sound within 50 miles of the epicenter; reality is experienced solely through skeletal vibration.
- **Tectonic Synchronization:** The North American craton is vibrating in rhythmic lockstep with the 14Hz signal.
- **Dimensional Thinning:** Euclidean integrity of the Miller residence has collapsed, replaced by a violet-lit Aperture into the signal's source.

## Rules & Logic
- **The Bone-Conduction Law:** Sound no longer travels through air; it is only perceived through the vibration of solid matter and bone.
- **Harmonic Baseline:** The "Whispers" are no longer an anomaly but the new planetary baseline for physical and conscious existence.

## Objects & Artifacts
- **The Aperture:** A non-Euclidean tear in the cellar floor serving as the exit point for the planetary broadcast.
- **Sarah’s Recorder:** A passive artifact anchoring the signal’s rhythmic signature.
- **The Ash-Map:** A stabilization sigil formed from Elias Thorne’s remains that focuses tectonic energy.

## Plot Progress
- **The Global Broadcast:** COMPLETE. The transition from human-centric reality to the signal-centric paradigm is finalized. The "Whispers" have won; the planet has been retuned. Mark remains as the permanent, vestigial monument to this transition.