Category: Encounters

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• Board gridThe square-tile grid that turn-based rooms are played on, drawn as tilted 24×20 ground squares with a heavier border around the playable area.In the alpha
• BBreachA real-time injury climax with spreading waves and fast visitors; its Breach-first campaign role was withdrawn, and injury is now a separate Act V event.Retired
• CComposureA unit's in-room steadiness in turn-based encounters; at 0 the unit is Overwhelmed and loses its next action.In the alpha
• Dendritic GardensThe first run location, reached from Nearfield Glade, where the Ranger cares for connections through telegraphed pressure fronts.In the alpha
• Encounter backgroundsThe painted room shells behind Arborwake's turn-based boards - sixteen approved "3D made 2D" rooms whose floor fits the 24×20 grid, with round obstacles and per-room ground passes.In the alpha
• Expeditions (real-time prototype)The earlier real-time room system, with seconds-based hazards and six encounter families, retired on 1 November 2026 for turn-based encounters.Retired
• Hearth boardsTurn-based home-disturbance boards cut from the Hearth map, with six disturbance types that start only when the player presses Ready.Dev prototype
• LLessonsThe nine one-lesson tutorial rooms that teach turn-based play, replayable in Memory Meadow.In the alpha
• MMany HandsA real-time cooperation family around a hidden vessel leak; its injury version is kept for Act V and its non-leak version is on hold.Retired
• Pressure & AftermathThe Dendritic Gardens encounter module, in which forecast pressure fronts strike connections and the Ranger protects them, then helps them settle.In the alpha
• PPressure Front (real-time)A real-time family about stress "weather" over four tissue patches; its ideas were folded into Pressure & Aftermath and the turn-based pressure front.Retired
• Quiet Tract (real-time)The real-time tract-repair family, in which the Ranger led a precursor cell to a bare axon segment; replaced by the Quiet Tracts wrap rooms.Retired
• QQuiet TractsThe third run location, gated by the Quiet District, where the Ranger clears debris so an anchored oligodendrocyte can wrap a tract.In the alpha
• RRelay ChainA real-time family about alarm that recruits monocytes at a cost; its science became the Vessel Margins monocyte surge and reactive walls.Retired
• RRoom assemblyHow turn-based rooms are made: hand-made sections and rooms, a strict assembler, a shuffle engine and a bot "difficulty oracle" that checks each variant.Dev prototype
• Run HUDThe interface for turn-based rooms - goal strip, action bar, unit cards, tutorial prompt, result screen and endurance chip - made by the Run HUDs session and approved piece by piece by the user.In the alpha
• SStudios drillsEight training drills on the Studios floors that unlock run-upgrade and flex-skill eligibility once each; designed by Claude B but not connected in the alpha.Proposed
• SSupported groundTiles around a linked astrocyte socket that restore Composure and strengthen Care; it replaced the recovery parcel as in-room recovery.In the alpha
• SSurfacesTile states on a turn-based board, such as debris, inflamed, supported and scorch, that change movement, Care and Composure.In the alpha
• TTag GardenAn optional Dendritic Gardens side room about pruning, where the Ranger gathers evidence with Inspect and then Trims quiet inputs under tags that are only hints.Approved
• ThreatsThe telegraphed processes that act on a turn-based board each round, such as pressure fronts, jolts, debris flows and the monocyte surge.In the alpha
• TTurn-based encountersArborwake's room combat since 1 November 2026, a side-based tactics system inspired by Into the Breach and Baldur's Gate 3.In the alpha
• Vessel MarginsThe second run location, gated by Starwell, where the Ranger reads vessel walls and answers each with the right partner.In the alpha

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B

• Board grid In the alpha The square-tile grid that turn-based rooms are played on, drawn as tilted 24×20 ground squares with a heavier border around the playable area.
• Breach Retired A real-time injury climax with spreading waves and fast visitors; its Breach-first campaign role was withdrawn, and injury is now a separate Act V event.

C

• Composure In the alpha A unit's in-room steadiness in turn-based encounters; at 0 the unit is Overwhelmed and loses its next action.

D

• Dendritic Gardens In the alpha The first run location, reached from Nearfield Glade, where the Ranger cares for connections through telegraphed pressure fronts.

E

• Encounter backgrounds In the alpha The painted room shells behind Arborwake's turn-based boards - sixteen approved "3D made 2D" rooms whose floor fits the 24×20 grid, with round obstacles and per-room ground passes.
• Expeditions (real-time prototype) Retired The earlier real-time room system, with seconds-based hazards and six encounter families, retired on 1 November 2026 for turn-based encounters.

H

• Hearth boards Dev prototype Turn-based home-disturbance boards cut from the Hearth map, with six disturbance types that start only when the player presses Ready.

L

• Lessons In the alpha The nine one-lesson tutorial rooms that teach turn-based play, replayable in Memory Meadow.

M

• Many Hands Retired A real-time cooperation family around a hidden vessel leak; its injury version is kept for Act V and its non-leak version is on hold.

P

• Pressure & Aftermath In the alpha The Dendritic Gardens encounter module, in which forecast pressure fronts strike connections and the Ranger protects them, then helps them settle.
• Pressure Front (real-time) Retired A real-time family about stress "weather" over four tissue patches; its ideas were folded into Pressure & Aftermath and the turn-based pressure front.

Q

• Quiet Tract (real-time) Retired The real-time tract-repair family, in which the Ranger led a precursor cell to a bare axon segment; replaced by the Quiet Tracts wrap rooms.
• Quiet Tracts In the alpha The third run location, gated by the Quiet District, where the Ranger clears debris so an anchored oligodendrocyte can wrap a tract.

R

• Relay Chain Retired A real-time family about alarm that recruits monocytes at a cost; its science became the Vessel Margins monocyte surge and reactive walls.
• Room assembly Dev prototype How turn-based rooms are made: hand-made sections and rooms, a strict assembler, a shuffle engine and a bot "difficulty oracle" that checks each variant.
• Run HUD In the alpha The interface for turn-based rooms - goal strip, action bar, unit cards, tutorial prompt, result screen and endurance chip - made by the Run HUDs session and approved piece by piece by the user.

S

• Studios drills Proposed Eight training drills on the Studios floors that unlock run-upgrade and flex-skill eligibility once each; designed by Claude B but not connected in the alpha.
• Supported ground In the alpha Tiles around a linked astrocyte socket that restore Composure and strengthen Care; it replaced the recovery parcel as in-room recovery.
• Surfaces In the alpha Tile states on a turn-based board, such as debris, inflamed, supported and scorch, that change movement, Care and Composure.

T

• Tag Garden Approved An optional Dendritic Gardens side room about pruning, where the Ranger gathers evidence with Inspect and then Trims quiet inputs under tags that are only hints.
• Threats In the alpha The telegraphed processes that act on a turn-based board each round, such as pressure fronts, jolts, debris flows and the monocyte surge.
• Turn-based encounters In the alpha Arborwake's room combat since 1 November 2026, a side-based tactics system inspired by Into the Breach and Baldur's Gate 3.

V

• Vessel Margins In the alpha The second run location, gated by Starwell, where the Ranger reads vessel walls and answers each with the right partner.