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Chapter 061, The Last Bowling Night

Chapter job: Open Avalance through the last living night before the world breaks.

Physical frame: Pre-collapse Legends bowling night, Sara, Ava, Mick, Gideon, and the rest of their chosen home.

Emotional spine: The Waverider later matters because these people had noise, affection, rituals, irritation, and belonging before they had loss.

Living-world realism: Day Zero must arrive through partial information and human panic, not instant genre knowledge.

Carry forward: Avalance's missing friends become an emotional wound and a reason the radio cannot be only a tool.

Must preserve: No fantasy mechanics. Gideon is human in project canon. The Legends are a found home, not exposition.

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