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# Part 1 Exit State At the end of Chapter 027, carrying the026 escape: 1. Shell remains standing, damaged and breached, and is no longer safe for them to hold. Lexa has chosen the pack over defending the building; no total destruction by fire. 2. The pack is Lexa, Clarke, Nancy, Robin, Raven, Scout and Beta. 3. Steve
## Owner-approved Chapter 001 / Part 1 Lexa transformation lock — 2026-10-03 Chapter001's second half must causally show how Lexa changes from a woman trying to honor Costia's request not to remain alone into a woman who deliberately builds a life of controlled solitude, and why Part1 later matters when she chooses Na
## Chapter001 geography lock Lexa and Costia begin in Chicago, Illinois, North Side. Clarke/Abby/Raven are based far away within the same metro on the South Side / Hyde Park axis; Clarke's earlier temporary North Side clinical rotation supplies the old-world near-miss geography. Chapter001's post-apocalypse road must m
# 13_part2_worklist_and_logic_map Consolidated active source-truth file for **Apocalypse, Now**. Original files preserved in this file: * `worklist_by_parts_part2.md` * `part2_chapter_logic_map.md` --- <!-- BEGIN ORIGINAL FILE: worklist_by_parts_part2.md -->
# worklist_by_parts_part2 Operational worklist for Part 2, Gathering the Hearts, chapters 028-059.
## Use rule This is a full organized English working version, not a minimal baseline. It preserves the usable planning material from the earlier Part 2 work, but places it under stable planning sections instead of dated update layers. Future skeleton passes should update the relevant section directly. Do not stack new
## Part engine Part 2 turns the first pack into a moving family system. The group leaves the Shell station and learns that survival is no longer a question of holding one radius. It now has to absorb a baby, mothers, young survivors, another family unit, leadership friction, animals, water, weapons, vehicles, signs for
## Timeline and age baseline * Timing lock: Vauseman enters the central group around Month 18 after Day Zero. Do not pre-force the full Part 2 span before block mapping; calculate elapsed time from actual block movement. * The part begins immediately after the station stops being a safe radius and ends when the group e
## Standalone Entry Arcs in Part 2 Part 2 is built from major entrance arcs. Each one must be readable as a standalone fanfic up to the point of contact with the first pack. Required Part 2 applications: * Vauseman and Theo need a full arc: Alex and Piper before the end, their relationship fracture and repair, Day Z
## Locked continuity for Part 2 * The road after Shell is disorienting. The group has a van and supplies, but no home, no wall, and no stable radius. * The road after Shell is not clean or empty. It must carry other living people through traces, distant vehicles, avoided contact, blocked routes, claimed places, old amb
### Part 2 source-merge lock after approved contracts 035-059 During the Part 2 pre-writing pass, Git identified that the older `part2_chapter_logic_map.md` held chapter-level detail that had been compressed out of the cleaned active file. For Part 2 chapter contracts 035-059, the usable detailed material from that lo
### Couple-engine calibration locked during Part 2 contracts 040-059 The central couples do not share one generic romantic engine: * **Vauseman** are a couple that loves and repairs itself inside the apocalypse. They were already damaged, married-in-every-way-that-mattered, sexual, cruel, devoted, and bound before th
### Robin Buckley perception / solution lock Robin is not only air in the room, comic relief, morale, or the keeper of Steve signs. She often notices the small physical detail other people have filtered out: a change in engine sound, a rhythm in road noise, an odd echo, a repeated word, a sign placed wrong, a smell, a
### Chapter 045 Regina entrance lock Regina's entrance is not a group-discovery muddle and not an Emma-led rescue. It is a Regina scene. Required physical sequence: 1. Emma, Regina, and Henry reach contact only after nearly three weeks of observation from outside the group. 2. Regina enters the negotiation space fir
### Entry Arc Scale in Part 2 Part 2 contains major standalone entry material for Vauseman / Theo and SwanQueen / Henry. Finchel is treated as a medium standalone entry arc, usually 7,000 to 12,000 words per chapter when needed, unless the skeleton deliberately expands the block. All three must read as lived survival
## Voice, body, and scene rules for this part * Every chapter must carry plot, heart, body, voice, and logistics. Logistics alone is not a scene. * No reader-facing explanations. Show through blocking, touch, route choices, objects, weather, sound, and dialogue. * Conversations must sound like people speaking, not code
## Arc blocks
### Block 028-029, Road opening and Theo/Vauseman contact The first pack leaves Shell, learns how exposed movement feels, and encounters the first force that will change every calculation: a baby and the women protecting him.
### Block 030-035, Vauseman and Theo Alex and Piper receive full Day Zero and old-world context. Theo becomes a living center. The group absorbs them through suspicion, need, care, and logistics.
### Block 036-039, Finchel Rachel and Finn enter through sound, youth, music, and lost future. They add warmth and volatility without replacing the core.