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main vs migration · day 12
Apr 2026
The same storm hits both branches, but the stakes are entirely different. In main, forced shelter is an inconvenience — the root cross holds, food improves, the day shrinks. In alt2-migration, forced shelter at 0.52 health and a goal just past the rise is something closer to a crisis deferred. The food gain is more meaningful and the health loss is more dangerous.
main
YY shelters at the root cross, eats from a lull-forage run, health dips but remains stable; day is smaller but recoverable
migration
YY shelters under the clearing's low branch; storm loosens seeds that provide food; health slides to 0.52 — the goal is one storm away from being out of reach
key differences
- —main health at 0.76 is stable; alt2-migration health at 0.52 is approaching a threshold where east pushes become genuinely risky
- —alt2-migration food gain (0.25→0.31) is proportionally larger and more urgent than main (0.42→0.47)
- —alt2-migration shelters at the threshold of its goal — the colony is audible through the storm as the stream runs louder; main shelters away from its goal entirely
- —alt2-migration has no fallback supply route; main has the east channel to return to tomorrow
still shared
- ·same storm event — pressure drop, horizontal rain, forced full-day shelter
- ·both branches eat during the wait
- ·both lose health and attention from cold stillness
- ·neither branch reaches its goal today