# Character State: ch-09

## Sarah Miller
- **Location:** The Threshold (Sub-structure), Miller Residence. 
- **Physical:** Massive acoustic fatigue; bone-conduction vertigo; internal organs vibrating at 14Hz. Hands tremble as she grips her digital recorder.
- **Emotional:** Analytical panic; complete abandonment of skepticism; hyper-focused on the physics of her own impending dissolution.
- **Active obligations:** Owes Elias a logical explanation — VOID (Logic has failed).
- **Open loops:** Digital recorder ghost-looping (ch-02) — RESOLVED (it captured the "pre-echo" of her own eventual scream); 14Hz harmonics mirroring speech (ch-08) — RESOLVED (the signal has replaced her natural voice).
- **Known secrets:** Confirmed the basement architecture is a non-Euclidean growth, not a construction.
- **Arc:** 100% — Final transition from skeptic to a witness of ontological collapse.
- **Permanent:** YES.

## Elias Thorne
- **Location:** Crossing the Singularity (Vault Interior).
- **Physical:** Biological collapse; hemorrhaging from sensory orifices; matter is transitioning into pure frequency.
- **Emotional:** Transfigured; ecstatic surrender; no longer identifies as human.
- **Active obligations:** Owes Sarah an explanation — UNPAID (Communication is now impossible).
- **Open loops:** 1927 "Great Silence" (ch-01) — RESOLVED (he has become the source of the silence).
- **Known secrets:** The signal is not just sentient, it is an architectural predator.
- **Arc:** 100% — Integration complete. He has ceased to be an observer.
- **Permanent:** YES.

# World State: ch-09

## NPC Memory
- **The Whispers (The Vault):** PEAK SATURATION. The signal has achieved "Acoustic Gravity," physically drawing all matter within the Miller Residence into the aperture.

## Faction Attitudes
- **Archive Administration:** OBSOLETE. The residence has been excised from the local timeline and geographical records.

## Active World Events
- **The Singularity:** The Vault door is fully open. Modern physics (thermodynamics, gravity) have been overwritten by "Acoustic Logic."
- **Geometric Collapse:** The cellar is no longer part of the house; it exists as a floating island within a void of vibrating "wet iron" scent and low-frequency pressure.

## Rules & Logic
- **Acoustic Gravity:** High-amplitude, low-frequency sound now mimics the effects of a black hole’s event horizon.
- **Bone-Conduction Communication:** Dialogue is only possible through direct skull-to-skull contact as the air has become too dense with vibration to vibrate independently.
- **Ontological Unmaking:** Reality within the threshold is no longer "solid"; it is a persistent waveform that can be "muted" by the signal.

## Metadata
- **Status:** Chapter 09 Finalized.
- **Tone:** Existential horror / Cosmic dread.
- **Key Motif:** The 14Hz hum.