# Character State: ch-08

## Sarah Miller
- **Location**: Sub-basement manifestation (The "Non-Euclidean" Vault), Miller Residence.
- **Physical**: Severe acoustic trauma; bleeding from ears; hands vibrating in sympathetic resonance with the 14Hz frequency.
- **Emotional**: Analytical detachment broken by existential dread; hyper-focused on signal navigation.
- **Active obligations**: Owes Elias a logical explanation (ch-02) — UNPAID.
- **Open loops**: Digital recorder ghost-looping (ch-02) — UNRESOLVED; Vision of her own death (ch-06) — UNRESOLVED.
- **Known secrets**: CARRIED (ch-07--unresolved): Knows the basement hatch was locked from the *inside*; CARRIED (ch-07--unresolved): 1927 occult chant data.
- **Arc**: 75% — Sarah has completely abandoned empirical skepticism in favor of "hostile physics," utilizing the Whisper's own logic to navigate the shifting architecture.

## Elias Thorne
- **Location**: Sub-basement manifestation, Miller Residence.
- **Physical**: Borderline shock; skin blackened by ozone burns; losing fine motor control.
- **Emotional**: Transfixed/Reverent; experiencing a breakdown of the barrier between self and signal.
- **Active obligations**: Owes Sarah a logical explanation (ch-02) — UNPAID.
- **Open loops**: 1927 "Great Silence" signatures (ch-01) — UNRESOLVED; "Wet iron" scent origin (ch-02) — RESOLVED (Metallic structural bleed).
- **Known secrets**: CARRIED (ch-07--unresolved): Signal matches biological pulse; CARRIED (ch-07--unresolved): certainty of sentience.
- **Arc**: 55% — Transitioned from observer to a component of the "Pulse," losing his human priority to the environmental imperative.

## Mark
- **Location**: Living Room (Main Floor).
- **Physical**: Breathing stabilized but remains unresponsive.
- **Emotional**: Psychologically absent.
- **Arc**: 05% — Unchanged; survivor of the initial resonance.

# World State: ch-08

## NPC Memory
- **The Whispers (Basement Entity)**: AGGRESSIVE — Replicated Sarah’s voice to guide the duo into the sub-structure — Successfully lured them past the point of no return.

## Faction Attitudes
- **Archive Administration**: ACTIVE RESPONSE — Oakhaven frequency teams have established a perimeter but refuse to enter the "Bleed Zone."

## Active World Events
- **The Convergence**: The 14Hz hum has harmonized with the house's structural frequency, turning the entire Miller residence into a living resonator.
- **Sub-Structure Manifestation**: The basement has physically expanded into a subterranean vault of repeating geometry and "wet iron" walls.
- **Audio Erasure**: External radio signals can no longer penetrate the house; the internal loop is now the only "active" reality.

## Logic/Rules
- **Acoustic Navigation**: Spatial movement in the sub-basement is no longer dictated by distance, but by the volume and pitch of the 14Hz resonance.
- **Material Corruption**: Objects within the sub-vault are beginning to lose density, becoming porous to the sound.
- **Temporal Loopback**: Audio recorders are playing back "future" screams, indicating the signal is beginning to collapse linear time within the residence.