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+# Character State: ch-19
+
+## Elias Thorne
+Location: Archive Sub-Level 4, Floor of Signal Transmission Chamber
+Physical: Unconscious; respiratory arrest managed by CPR; severe acoustic trauma; pulse weak and thready.
+Emotional: Comatose/Absent.
+Active obligations: Sarah Miller (explanation owed re: signal) (Ch-18) -- PAID (sacrificed self to save her).
+Open loops: [Elias & Signal] Consciousness fate after server surge (Ch-18) -- UNRESOLVED; [Elias & Sarah] Survival of extraction (Ch-19) -- UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-18--unresolved): Signal mimics voices of the dead -- Sarah knows; knows Archive security sabotaged internally -- Sarah/Curator do not know his specific method.
+Arc: 105% -- Crossed the threshold from "conduit" to "casualty," losing consciousness to sever the signal's tether to reality.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## Sarah Miller
+Location: Archive Sub-Level 4, elevator shaft/maintenance corridor
+Physical: Extreme physical exhaustion; bruised ribs and hands from CPR; adrenaline-masking headache trauma.
+Emotional: Desperate; determined; grieving but functional.
+Active obligations: Backup extraction route for Elias (Ch-18) -- PAID (manually forced elevator/carried him).
+Open loops: [Sarah & Archive] Surviving facility collapse (Ch-18) -- UNRESOLVED; [Sarah & Curator] Confrontation regarding the signal (Ch-19) -- UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-18--unresolved): Archive security sabotaged internally -- knows it happened, identifies full chain as UNRESOLVED.
+Arc: 100% -- Fully abandoned empirical detachment to perform a desperate, physical rescue based on faith in Elias’s sacrifice.
+Permanent: YES
+
+## The Curator
+Location: Administrative Level / Surface (off-screen)
+Physical: Unknown
+Emotional: Unknown
+Active obligations: None.
+Open loops: [Curator & Sabotage] Role in internal security override (Ch-18) -- UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Unknown.
+Arc: 0% -- Remains an off-screen antagonist/bureaucratic threat.
+Permanent: NO
+
+# World State: ch-19
+
+## NPC Memory
+- Mark (Security/Archive): NEUTRAL -- Mentioned in radio chatter/logs -- Did not survive the initial lockdown breach (assumed).
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- The Archive (Oakhaven): TERMINAL -- Initiating total facility purge and structural collapse; safety systems are failing.
+
+## Active World Events
+- Oakhaven Collapse: Structural integrity of Sub-Level 4 is at 0%; flooding and electrical fires active; facility "deletion" protocol engaged.
+- The Silence: The Whisper signal is currently dormant following the transmission chamber explosion, but the atmospheric "pressure" remains.
+
+## Secret Carry-Forward
+- CARRIED (Ch-18): Signal mechanism (mimicry of dead voices) — underlying occult logic remains unexplained.
+- CARRIED (Ch-18): Whisper dormancy duration — it is unknown if the silence is permanent or a recharging phase.