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+# Character State: ch-24
+
+## Marcus Thorne
+Location: North Bank, Assembly Floor
+Physical: Mild frostnip on fingertips; thermal regulation suit at 12% power.
+Emotional: Frigidly pragmatic; internalizing the "Shore-Standard" as a survival necessity.
+Active obligations: Owes Arthur a recalibration of the 3D-printer head (Ch16) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Marcus vs. Elena [The 'Black Box' vs. 'Open Source' autonomy debate] (Ch16) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows the Sentinel pulse frequency shifted by 0.4 Hz — [The group does NOT know].
+Arc: 42% — Accepted that survival requires cold, non-negotiable logic over architectural idealism.
+Permanent: NO.
+
+## Arthur "Art" Penhaligon
+Location: North Bank, Shop Floor
+Physical: Right knee locked from cold; hands cramped into "claw" position.
+Emotional: Defiant; treating the freeze as just another mechanical failure to be beaten.
+Active obligations: Owes David a replacement for the sheared Grade-8 bolt (Ch16) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Arthur vs. The Creek [The rising water-table threatening the south footing] (Ch16) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows the recycled rebar in the south pylon is oxidized beyond safe tolerances — [Marcus does NOT know].
+Arc: 48% — Realized his "Iron Rule" must now include digital redundancies to survive climate-shifted winters.
+Permanent: NO.
+
+## David Shore
+Location: North Bank, Power Hub
+Physical: Exhausted; minor electrical burn on left palm from the emergency jump.
+Emotional: Vindicated; "The Shore-Standard" successfully prioritizes heat-sync over secondary mesh.
+Active obligations: Owes Elena a signal-boost relay on the north bank (Ch16) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: David vs. Precision [The 3D-printer skipped six layers of the structural core] (Ch16) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows his father’s de-sync ID was pinged by a nearby relay station — [The group does NOT know].
+Arc: 35% — Moved from "Lead Engineer" to "Resource Arbiter" of the community.
+Permanent: YES (Standardized the emergency power-down protocol).
+
+## Elena Vance
+Location: Comms Van (Via Mesh-Link)
+Physical: Shivering; nosebleed from high-altitude drone piloting.
+Emotional: Volatile; furious that power was cut to her "Ghosting" arrays to save the crops.
+Active obligations: Owes Marcus a localized JAM-radius for construction noise (Ch16) — PAID.
+Open loops: Elena vs. UBI Sentinel Unit 7 [The Audit Ping is within 5km] (Ch12) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows the city-state has initiated a "Hard-Sector Reset" on the Ocala exchange — [The group does NOT know].
+Arc: 25% — Acknowledged that human biomass (Sarah's crops) is a critical system dependency.
+Permanent: NO.
+
+## Sarah Jenkins
+Location: Low-Poly Greenhouse A
+Physical: Hypothermic; skin sallow from lack of sleep.
+Emotional: Protective; mourning the 12% loss of the winter kale crop but resolute in saving the rest.
+Active obligations: Owes Marcus a caloric-density report for the new ration cycle (Ch24) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Sarah vs. The Environment [The unexpected freeze-cycle] (Ch24) — RESOLVED (Stabilized).
+Known secrets: Knows the fungal mats in North Bed B have mutated to consume the PCB-plastic in the 3D-printed trays — [The group does NOT know].
+Arc: 31% — Forced to use "industrial" logic to save "biological" assets.
+Permanent: NO.
+
+# World State: ch-24
+
+## NPC Memory
+- UBI Sentinel Unit 7 (Ocala Perimeter): STALLED — Thermal bloom from the sanctuary suppressed by the freeze, but signal triangulation continues on backup frequencies.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- The City-State: PREOCCUPIED — Dealing with "Hard-Sector Reset" logistics; local surveillance is automated/low-priority for 48 hours.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Hard Freeze: Peak intensity; expected to last another 18 hours.
+- The Shore-Standard: Effectively enforced; energy is now the primary unit of trade.
+- The Blue-Out: Phase 3; Localized mesh-links are down to 5% to conserve power.