### Chapter 155, The First Table That Had to Hold Everyone
**General job:** Let the first founding council take shape from work, not ceremony.
**Connects from 154:** The base has enough practical function to need decisions, not enough stability to pretend it is settled.
**Core movement:** Regina becomes civic leader
### Chapter 156, Rooms, Children, and Isolation
**General job:** Turn roles into rooms and rules.
**Connects from 155:** The council exists in rough shape. Now the city has to decide where people sleep, where children go, where animals go, who gets isolated, who cooks, who guards, who cleans.
**Core movement:** Hous
### Chapter 157, The City Starts to Sound Like Itself
**General job:** Give the first moment where the base feels like a city, while keeping cost present.
**Connects from 156:** Spaces are assigned. Routines begin. The city can make sound now.
**Core movement:** The base begins sounding like a city rather than an oc
### Chapter 158, The Families Who Found the Gate
**General job:** Return Karen, Holly, Joyce, Lucas's mother, and Dustin's grandmother through rescue / tracking with a small base-survivor / military group, reopening older family wounds while strengthening the city watch layer.
**Connects from 157:** The city can now
### Chapter 159, After the Return
**General job:** Let family return breathe and bridge into Avalance adoption.
**Connects from 158:** Karen, Holly, Joyce, Lucas's mother, Dustin's grandmother, and the small base-survivor / military group are inside the city. The young group’s emotional map changed overnight.
**Core
### Chapter 160, The Children Who Were Not Supposed to Survive Alone
**General job:** Begin Avalance adoption through dangerous rescue, not sweetness.
**Connects from 159:** Ava’s child-line is open and raw.
**Core movement:** A rescue convoy finds signs of two children who survived alone after their parents died tw
### Chapter 161, Sara and Ava’s Home
**General job:** Make chosen parenthood physical.
**Connects from 160:** The children survived and enter the city / Avalance space carrying terror.
**Core movement:** The seven-year-old sister and three-year-old brother enter Sara and Ava’s home in practice. The older girl resemb
### Chapter 162, The First Day We Lost Them
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Bus arc, proposed shared chapter 1 of 4. Day Zero: Doug turns and bites Elsa; Paige and her par
### Chapter 163, A Vehicle Big Enough
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Bus arc, proposed shared chapter 2 of 4. Matt seeks transport that fits their dependents; Matt/Julie
### Chapter 164, The Life We Carry
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Bus arc, proposed shared chapter 3 of 4. Shared road life includes protected stops chosen by Matt/Jack,
### Chapter 165, Room for All of Us
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Bus arc, proposed shared chapter 4 of 4, main arrival approximately Month 52. Steve/Robin/Raven/Finn/Em
### Chapter 166, Three Children at the Gate
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Proposed slot for the single relatively short Sarah/Chuck focus chapter. Day Zero ages 36/37 an
### Chapter 167, People by the Water
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Proposed ensemble arrival slot for Joey/Pacey, alone, both 25 on Day Zero. Their contact and route nee
### Chapter 168, The Work of Staying
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Ensemble integration proposal: river work, family intake and ordinary city routines carry the bus grou
### Chapter 169, Beyond the Gates
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Ensemble rescue/route planning slot requiring expansion. Lucy/Kate do not enter here: their joint arrival
### Chapter 170, A Place in the Household
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Ensemble family/civic continuity slot requiring expansion. Carry the consequences of actual rescu
### Chapter 171, What Came Home with Us
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Proposed single Calzona focus chapter. Day Zero vacation with Sofia, twins Mark/Timothy, Mark Sloan
### Chapter 172, More Hands in the Clinic
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Ensemble absorption after Calzona's one focus chapter. Their existing children, equipment, losses
### Chapter 173, A Public Voice
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Proposed half-chapter Lois/Clark entry within an ensemble chapter. They arrive with daughters Rose 5/Sophie
### Chapter 174, What the City Knows
Planning status: Approved story constraints; proposed chapter placement, not a newly owner-locked slot. Full contract/readiness still required.
**Purpose and required movement:** Ensemble information/household work after the compact Lois/Clark arrival: Lois/Castle can develop publ