3.4 KiB
Character State: ch-15
Marcus Thorne
Location: North Bank / County Road Perimeter, Cypress Bend, Florida. Physical: Hands blistered and stained with hydraulic fluid; soaking wet from a sudden squall; sensory-lag from the transition out of the Sanctuary. Emotional: Fragmented and defensive; feeling the "latency" of physical bureaucracy for the first time. Active obligations: Owes Sarah a world that doesn't "index" Leo's childhood (Ch-12) — IN PROGRESS; Owes David a permanent fix for the north-bank drainage (Ch-14) — UNPAID. Open loops: Marcus and the Alpha-7 "Phone Home" sequence (Ch-13) — UNRESOLVED; The county bridge reconstruction (Ch-15) — 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: 80% -- Marcus has been forced to confront the absolute failure of digital logic to solve a physical transport bottleneck. Permanent: YES
David
Location: The Washout / Riverbank, Cypress Bend, Florida. Physical: Bone-weary; shoulders slumped from the weight of a rain-soaked poncho. Emotional: Resigned and bitter; his trust in the "analog" transition is being tested by the isolation of the washout. Active obligations: Owes the Sanctuary a secure perimeter against "Scavenger Pings" (Ch-12) — ACTIVE; Owes Leo a functional exit-strategy (Ch-15) — UNPAID. Open loops: David and the looming "Great Hunger" caloric deficit (Ch-11) — UNRESOLVED. Arc: 70% -- David has realized that "going analog" did not solve the problem of systemic abandonment. Permanent: YES
Arthur Silas Vance
Location: The Washout / Riverbank, Cypress Bend, Florida. Physical: Shaky but upright; breathing is thin and whistling in the humidity. Emotional: Tectonic and grim; viewing the bridge failure as a final confirmation of his "Long Wait" philosophy. Active obligations: Owes Marcus a successor's "title" to the logic of the Bend (Ch-15) — UNPAID. Open loops: Arthur and the "Boy from the County Line" (Ch-09) — UNRESOLVED. Arc: 45% -- Arthur has stepped out of the shadow of the cabin to mentor the group through a structural catastrophe. Permanent: YES
Sarah Jenkins
Location: The Cabin (Off-screen), Cypress Bend, Florida. Physical: Strained back; hands pruned from river silt. Emotional: Hyper-focused on the caloric and survival logistics of the group. Active obligations: Owes Leo a future that exists outside the "Great Flight" narrative (Ch-14) — ACTIVE. 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.
World State: ch-15
NPC Memory
- County Automated Dispatch (Remote): HOSTILE -- Informed Marcus that the bridge "failed the cost-benefit scan" -- Effectively marooned the sanctuary for a 14-week cycle.
Faction Attitudes
- Avery-Quinn Corp: OMNIPRESENT -- Their predictive models are being used by the county to deny infrastructure repairs to "low-density" variables.
- The Displaced: STRANDED -- The bridge washout has turned the sanctuary into a literal island.
Active World Events
- The Hundred-Year Rain: SUBSIDING -- The water is receding, leaving behind a permanent structural "de-allocation" of the transit route.
- The 14-Week Lockdown: INITIALIZED -- The duration of the group's forced isolation due to the county's refusal to repair the concrete bridge.