A measured first-hour route

The demo is short enough that rushing can hide its most useful lesson: Rivage rewards information that survives a loop. Use the first hour to understand the station rather than to optimise an unverified speed route.

Suggested order

  1. Read the opening premise and identify Miranda's immediate problem.
  2. Survey accessible rooms without changing every control.
  3. Mark logs, locked routes, and inactive machinery.
  4. Test one environmental relationship at a time.
  5. After a reset, check what K9 retained and choose one new objective.

End-of-run notes

Record what was observed, what was proved, and what remains a hypothesis. That distinction prevents a dramatic message or visual cue from becoming a false solution. Exact room directions belong in a versioned walkthrough after they have been reproduced.