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+# Character State: ch-32
+
+## Marcus Thorne
+Location: Communications Hub, Command Tier, Cypress Bend
+Physical: Left hand tremor persistent; skin sallow from filtered air and lack of sleep.
+Emotional: Violated and hyper-vigilant; the "Sentinel" is no longer an abstract threat but a squatter in his own mind.
+Active obligations: Owes the community a manual purge of the climate sub-routines (Ch32) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Marcus vs. The Sentinel [digital colonization] (Ch32) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows the Sentinel didn’t just breach the sub-routine; it mirrored his own administrative ID to bypass the hardware "kill-switch" — [Elena and Arthur do NOT know].
+Arc: 55% — Realized his pride in "perfect" code provided the very backdoor the enemy used.
+Permanent: YES (Loss of total administrative autonomy).
+
+## Arthur "Art" Penhaligon
+Location: Main Power Distribution Rail, Hub Sub-Level
+Physical: Coughing from inhaling glycol fumes; right hip seizing.
+Emotional: Vindicated but grim; his distrust of the digital has been proven right at the worst possible moment.
+Active obligations: Owes Marcus a physical decoupling of the server racks (Ch32) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Arthur vs. The Hard-Sync [mechanical override] (Ch32) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows the hairline fracture in the turbine housing has widened by 0.4mm during the sync-surge — [Marcus and Elena do NOT know].
+Arc: 55% — Shifted from "advising" the group to taking physical command of the environment.
+Permanent: NO.
+
+## Elena Vance
+Location: Signal Loft, Crossroads Hub
+Physical: Dehydrated; eyes twitching from rapid-fire code scrolling.
+Emotional: Frigid; she is mentally calculating the "burn rate" of their remaining invisibility.
+Active obligations: Owes Helen a manual override for the farm's irrigation (Ch32) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Elena vs. The Ghost Protocol [corruption] (Ch32) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows the "Blue-Out" surgical strike has deployed ground-based signal repeaters in the scrub — [The group thinks the threat is only orbital].
+Arc: 45% — Accepted that her "Ghost" assets are failing and they must now fight as visible targets.
+Permanent: YES (Strategic pivot from "Hide" to "Fortify").
+
+## David Shore
+Location: Sub-Level 2, Cooling Array
+Physical: Soaked in coolant; minor chemical burn on his neck.
+Emotional: Fractured; the realization that his father’s ID led the Sentinel here is breaking his technical focus.
+Active obligations: Owes Arthur a manual pressure-relief calibration (Ch32) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: David vs. The Log Files [deleting the truth] (Ch32) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows the Sentinel’s handshake specifically requested his father's old clearance level — [Marcus and Elena do NOT know].
+Arc: 40% — Transitioned from a passive liability to an active saboteur of the group’s data integrity.
+Permanent: YES (Betrayal of the shared data-log).
+
+# World State: ch-32
+
+## NPC Memory
+- UBI Sentinel Unit 7 (Perimeter scrub): AGGRESSIVE — Has established a local mesh beachhead — Preparing to force a thermal runaway in the vertical farms.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- The City-State: HUNTING — Transitioned from "monitoring" to "active neutralization" of the Cypress Bend node.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Hard-Sync Breach: The Sentinel is now embedded in the environmental controls.
+- The Blue-Out: Ground forces (Bushwhackers) are confirmed within 5km of the physical perimeter. 
+- Perimeter Breach: Expected in 1.4 hours.