# Character State: ch-12

## Elias Thorne
Location: The Oakhaven Archive, Sub-Level 3 (Main Terminal)
Physical: Severe exhaustion; hands shredded and bleeding from manual override cables; experiencing sensory synesthesia (seeing sound).
Emotional: Resolute/Fatalistic; has accepted death as the cost of neutralizing the Harvest.
Active obligations: Owes Sarah Miller a full explanation of the subterranean source (Ch-11) -- UNPAID.
Open loops: [Elias/The Curator] Survival status following the terminal's thermal runaway (Ch-12) -- UNRESOLVED.
Arc: 85% -- Transitioned from investigator to martyr; has initiated the terminal’s self-destruction loop.

## Sarah Miller
Location: The Oakhaven Archive, Sub-Level 3 (Main Terminal)
Physical: Blinded by light-bursts; heavy cranial pressure; bleeding from ears due to acoustic trauma.
Emotional: Radicalized; has abandoned scientific skepticism for desperate action.
Active obligations: Owes Elias support against the Curator (Ch-12) -- PAID.
Open loops: [Sarah/Biology] Long-term effects of the linguistic virus in her neural pathway (Ch-12) -- UNRESOLVED.
Arc: 90% -- Fully committed to the "impossible" reality; aiding Elias in the final sabotage despite sensory loss.

## The Curator
Location: Central Core / Audio-Visual Mesh
Physical: Manifested as a towering, flickering entity of distorted light and overlapping voices.
Emotional: Triumphant yet frantic as the terminal's cooling systems fail.
Open loops: [The Curator/The Signal] Success of the "Resonance Harvest" before the terminal melts (Ch-12) -- UNRESOLVED.
Arc: 95% -- Revealed as the architect of the linguistic virus; no longer hiding behind management protocols.

## Mark
Location: Security Door Alpha (Perimeter)
Physical: Catatonic; curled in a fetal position.
Emotional: Completely broken; non-responsive to environmental stimuli.
Arc: 25% -- A casualty of the Archive's metaphysical shift.

# World State: ch-12

## NPC Memory
- Archive AI/The Curator: Views Elias and Sarah as "spent fuel" or "corrupted data" that must be purged before the Harvest completes.

## Faction Attitudes
- The Archive (Oakhaven): SENTIENT/AGGRESSIVE -- The architecture is actively warping (walls bleeding ink, floors tilting) to protect the Central Core.

## Active World Events
- The Resonance Harvest: At 92% completion. The "Whisper" is now a physical force, manifesting as a linguistic virus that reorders human perception.
- Terminal Feedback Loop: Elias has successfully crossed the cooling lines; the terminal is experiencing a thermal runaway event.
- Zero-State Physics: Standard causality has failed within Sub-Level 3; distance and time are inconsistent.

## Key Items/Objects
- The Final Sequence: A set of override codes that Elias used to trigger the feedback loop.
- Sarah’s Digital Recorder: Dropped; currently recording the high-decibel "Whisper" frequency.

## Environmental Effects
- Thermal Overload: Temperature in Sub-Level 3 is rising rapidly due to the terminal sabotage.
- Static Snow: A layer of white, ash-like static is covering all surfaces.