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### Chapter 202, The End-of-the-World Wedding Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required. Summary: SwanQueen's full public Part 7 wedding, lived on screen with community witness and private emotional stakes. Preserve E
### Chapter 203 Summary: Ensemble, the day after the wedding, who calms down, who breaks, and what changed in the city because one woman dared to say yes to the future.
### Chapter 204, When the River Rises Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required. Summary: After several days of heavy rain, severe river flooding hits the mature city: low homes, stores, docks, roads, farm ground, dra
### Chapter 205, The People Beyond the Water Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required. Summary: City response to the flood includes rescues outside while its own people are in distress, with limits and real costs. Ch
### Chapter 206, Build Higher Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required. Summary: Flood recovery permanently changes housing, storage, docks, clean water and distributed power. Raise and disperse critical stores, sepa
### Chapter 207, Who Carries the Next Day Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required. Summary: Younger people receive age-appropriate responsibility and voice during recovery. Sarah and her three children, Dustin and o
### Chapter 208, Life after the Water Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required. Summary: Community food, music, relationships and ordinary irritation coexist with lasting flood damage and loss. Celebration offers bre
### Chapter 209 Summary: Another rescue convoy returns after the flood, and Mara, about eleven, sees the city from outside. She receives provisional child care; Clarke and Lexa meet her through patient, distinct actions.
### Chapter 210 Summary: Ensemble, an almost ordinary day, coffee, lessons, repairs, animals, river, and a reminder that the true victory is a routine that no longer looks like a distant dream.
### Chapter 211 Summary: Ensemble, the whole heart of the saga, couples, children, parents, friendships, farm, river, and the city as one body, just before closing. Steve and Zoe are visibly together as a lasting partnership, with a small ordinary shared task rather than an endgame announcement. The working Chapter 211
### Chapter 212 Summary: The city remains alive after the flood: open river, farm, classrooms, households and bounded rescue convoys. Clarke and Lexa's slow care for Mara continues; the main saga closes in the present with room for a separate future epilogue. The old Caskett road summary belongs to their Part3 Chapters
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# 07_full_saga_skeleton_bridge Consolidated active source-truth file for **Apocalypse, Now**. Original files preserved in this file: * `general_skeleton_brief_parts_1_7.md` --- <!-- BEGIN ORIGINAL FILE: general_skeleton_brief_parts_1_7.md -->
# General Skeleton Brief, Parts 1-7 Unified active bridge file for the seven-part skeleton pass. This file replaces the seven separate `partX_general_skeleton_brief` delivery files as the single active cross-part bridge document.
## Global Standalone Entry Arc Rule Every entrance block should be readable as a smaller fanfic arc if the reader stops at the meeting point with the main group. The main saga can continue afterward, but the entrance block itself needs old-world life, Day Zero, first survival strategy, selected survival texture, relat
## Entry Arc Scale Guide This guide controls the expected depth of standalone entrance blocks. It does not create a hard maximum word count. It prevents major arrivals from being compressed into summary and prevents smaller arrivals from stealing the structural weight of the core saga.
### Major standalone entry arcs Major standalone entry arcs may require 10,000 to 15,000 words per chapter when the story weight requires it. Use this scale for: * Lexa / Costia / Anya, * Ronance / Steve, * Clarke / Raven / Octavia / Steve, * Vauseman / Theo, * SwanQueen / Henry, * Avalance, * Steve / Anya / Hawkins
### Medium standalone entry arcs Medium standalone entry arcs may require 7,000 to 12,000 words per chapter when needed. Use this scale for: * Finchel, * Shoni, * Seth / Summer, * Maya / Carina, separate Part 5 arrivals with Carina first, * Runaways, * Sarah Walker / Chuck, * Callie / Arizona, * Cosima / Delphine, *
### Smaller intake arcs Smaller intake arcs are still real story, but they are more compressed. Use this scale for later city arrivals, support families, minor rescue groups, single-purpose civic arrivals, and survivor cells that change the city without carrying a full independent block. They still need enough old-w
### Scale warning If an entrance block cannot be read with emotional satisfaction up to the meeting point, it is underbuilt. If a smaller entrance block starts pushing the four core couples or the active part engine off the page, it is overbuilt. ---