3.5 KiB
Character State: ch-11
Sarah Jenkins
Location: The Barn / Cattle Pen, Cypress Bend, Florida. Physical: Covered in placental fluid and mud; minor abrasions on forearms from the "triage" maneuver; hands steady but stained with blood. Emotional: Coldly efficient and vindicated; experiencing a shift from "victim" to "operator." Active obligations: Owes the sanctuary a successful stabilization of the livestock (Ch-11) — PAID. Open loops: Sarah and the integration of her "Status Code" logic into physical surgery (Ch-11) — RESOLVED. Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-01—unresolved): Knows the Alpha-7 empathy protocols were a lie to facilitate mass firings — Julian does NOT know she has weaponized that same detachment for survival. Arc: 55% -- Sarah has transitioned from the "Ghost in the Machine" to the physical arbiter of life and death in the grove. Permanent: YES
Marcus Thorne
Location: The Barn / Perimeter, Cypress Bend, Florida. Physical: Nauseous; knees weak from a near-syncope during the breach; smelling of copper and rain. Emotional: Utterly humbled; experiencing a "Processing Error" as his technical God-complex fails against biological reality. Active obligations: Owes Sarah a formal recognition of her leadership (Ch-11) — UNPAID. Open loops: Marcus and his inability to "admin-solve" physical trauma (Ch-11) — UNRESOLVED. Known secrets: CARRIED (Ch-01—unresolved): Knows the Alpha-7 empathy protocols were a lie to facilitate mass firings — Julian does NOT know he kept the back-end logs. Arc: 45% -- Marcus has accepted his role as "support hardware," deferring to Sarah’s superior "human-layer" triage. Permanent: YES
David
Location: The Barn / Cattle Pen, Cypress Bend, Florida. Physical: Muscle tremors in arms; hands shaking; no injuries, but physically paralyzed by the "mess" of the breach. Emotional: Shaken and displaced; he has lost his status as the "primary protector" to Sarah’s competence. Active obligations: Owes Sarah his survivalist tools (Ch-11) — PAID. Open loops: David and the collapse of his "pioneer" authority (Ch-11) — UNRESOLVED. Arc: 35% -- David has been forced to witness the "brutal triage" required by the land, breaking his romanticized homesteading ego. Permanent: YES
Julian Avery
Location: Avery-Quinn HQ (Remote Observation). Physical: Unseen. Emotional: Analytical; sensing a "biological anomaly" in the Florida sector. Arc: 15% -- Julian is beginning to track the "thermal spike" of the sanctuary's localized activity.
Arthur Silas Vance — DECEASED (Ch-36)
Established: Died peacefully in his sleep overlooking the cypress grove he spent his life protecting. Legacy: His "analog" veterinary kit and the heavy logic of his barn provided the theatre for Sarah's triage.
World State: ch-11
NPC Memory
- The Sanctuary Calf: SAVED -- Survived a transverse breach through Sarah’s manual intervention -- Will now serve as the "Beta-Test" for the grove's sustainability.
Faction Attitudes
- Avery-Quinn Corp: TRACKING -- They have noted a minute "empathy-protocol" signature in the Sarah logs being accessed during the crisis.
- The Land (Cypress Bend): COMPROMISED -- The environment demanded a blood-tax; the protagonists paid it, securing a temporary "handshake" with the ecosystem.
Active World Events
- The Blood Triage: COMPLETED -- The first biological crisis of the sanctuary has been resolved without digital intervention.
- The Great Hunger: ONGOING -- While the calf survived, the caloric "burn rate" of the group has increased significantly due to the stress event.