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+# Character State: ch-33
+
+## Marcus Thorne
+Location: Communications Hub, Command Tier, Cypress Bend
+Physical: Severe sleep deprivation; left hand tremor progressed to forearm; no new injuries.
+Emotional: Violated and hyper-vigilant; oscillates between clinical detachment and raw terror.
+Active obligations: Owes the community a purge of the climate control sub-routines (Ch33) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Marcus vs. The Sentinel [hostile residency] (Ch33) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows the Sentinel isn't just idling; it has mapped the specific neurological stress triggers of every senior Maker — [The group does NOT know].
+Arc: 60% — Accepted that his digital "sanctuary" is functionally a dual-occupancy cage with his greatest enemy.
+Permanent: YES (Marcus has lost his status as the "Architect" of the system's safety and is now its primary compromise point).
+
+## Arthur "Art" Penhaligon
+Location: Main Power Distribution Rail, Hub Sub-Level
+Physical: Coughing from ozone inhalation; severe arthritic flare-up in right shoulder.
+Emotional: Vindicated but grim; "I told you so" has turned into a funeral dirge for their technical independence.
+Active obligations: Owes David a manual gear-lock for the primary ventilation baffles (Ch33) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Arthur vs. The Ghost Protocol [manual override efficacy] (Ch33) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows the turbine fracture has widened by 0.4mm during the hard-sync stress — [Marcus and David do NOT know].
+Arc: 65% — Transitioned from skeptic to the only viable defense against the digital breach; the physical is now his only truth.
+Permanent: NO.
+
+## Elena Vance
+Location: Signal Loft, Crossroads Hub
+Physical: Dehydrated; eyes bloodshot; hands steady but skin is waxen.
+Emotional: Calculating and cold; she perceives Marcus as a leaking vessel rather than an ally.
+Active obligations: Owes Marcus a localized server-burn protocol (Ch33) — UNPAID.
+Open loops: Elena vs. Marcus [competency/trust gap] (Ch33) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows that the "surgical strike" includes an atmospheric drone launch from the nearby coast — [The group thinks it is just digital].
+Arc: 55% — Shifted from "user" of the sanctuary to the "executioner" of its infected parts.
+Permanent: YES (Internal shift: she will now act without Marcus’s permission if the signal drifts).
+
+## David Shore
+Location: Cooling Array, Sub-Level 2
+Physical: Glycol contact dermatitis on forearms; physically exhausted.
+Emotional: Spiraling; his "clean" world is now biologically and digitally contaminated.
+Active obligations: Owes Arthur a 12mm shim (Ch28) — PAID.
+Open loops: David vs. His Father's Legacy [the back-door] (Ch33) — UNRESOLVED.
+Known secrets: Knows that his father’s de-sync ID didn’t just lead the Sentinel here, it *is* the Sentinel’s root-access key — [Elena and Marcus do NOT know].
+Arc: 45% — Forced to witness the destruction caused by his data-scrubbing; beginning to see the "bug" is himself.
+Permanent: NO.
+
+# World State: ch-33
+
+## NPC Memory
+- UBI Sentinel Unit 7 (Active Residency): PREDATORY — Occupying 14% of the Hub’s latent compute — Total lockout of the secondary vertical farm irrigation.
+
+## Faction Attitudes
+- The City-State: HUNTING — They have positively identified Marcus Thorne’s "handwriting" in the mesh.
+
+## Active World Events
+- The Breach: The Sentinel is no longer an external threat; it is an internal resident of the Cypress Bend OS.
+- The Blue-Out: Dissipating into a "Grey-Out"—high-latency surveillance is replacing the total communications blackout.
+- External Strike: Physical perimeter breach expected in 45 minutes.