The reel, and every ruling you have made. This page is the source of
truth for what can go into a shot: if an asset is not in LOCKED below, it cannot be
attached to a Higgsfield prompt and the shot gate will block it.
Everything produced so far, cut together in order: THREE COMPLETE
EPISODES plus the opening of the fourth - Chapters 1 through 10, from a courier girl on
a hoverboard to the night the enemy stopped sending scouts and sent something with a
name. Over forty minutes. Chapters are still being revised as notes come in - this reel
is always the current state of all of them.
LOCKED - 37 ASSETS
These are registered with Higgsfield, which means a prompt can
attach the actual picture instead of describing it in words. That is the whole
fix: Darren drifted because his sheet could only ever be described. Anything here is
safe to put in a shot today.
Changed your mind? Press REVOKE. It takes effect immediately - the asset stops being
attachable and any shot that needs it gets blocked until it is re-done.
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ANT BEE - the heart
Accent: honey gold (1.00, 0.75, 0.15) IDENTITY CORRECTION: ANT BEE IS AN OLDER WOMAN. An older woman with a warm, knowing half-smile and laugh-lines earned honestly. Golden-blonde bob...
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**Accent: honey gold (1.00, 0.75, 0.15)**
### *** IDENTITY CORRECTION: ANT BEE IS AN OLDER WOMAN. ***
An older woman with a warm, knowing half-smile and laugh-lines earned honestly.
Golden-blonde bob with silver at the temples. Emerald-green knit cardigan
flecked with gold, wooden buttons, a small bee brooch. A honeycomb-pattern
golden scarf. A beekeeper's mesh hood folded back on her shoulders, ready.
Beaded earrings. Golden star-bees drift around her; one sits glowing on her
raised fingertip, perfectly calm.
**HER NAME IS "ANT BEE" - LOCKED.** Both words, exactly that spelling, always.
Do NOT write it as "Auntie B". Do NOT treat the name as a pun or a joke, do NOT
have any character explain it, riff on it, or wink at it, and do NOT build her
characterization on "she's everybody's aunt". It is simply her name.
(Brandt ruled on this 2026-07-26 after an earlier draft leaned on the
wordplay. That reading is dead - do not let it creep back in.)
**WHAT THE ART FIXED:** the bible wrote Ant Bee as a 41-year-old male "gentle
giant". She is an older woman. All pronouns corrected to she/her, and anything
that depended on her being a large man was rewritten. Keep the last-hive-on-a-
harvested-world backstory, the softness, the humming, and THE SWARM ability.
Her warmth comes from who she IS - the last keeper of a living thing on a dead
world - not from a family nickname.
She is now the crew's other elder alongside Darren: two people of an age who
never have to explain anything to each other. Mutual respect, no romance.
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Future crew. Game pilot (The Swarm: homing bees). Older beekeeper, honeycomb scarf, live bees.
Approved/ant-bee/antbee_1.png ref 96c4c7c5
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CANALS + BRIDGES
Regulation goes over the canal; she goes under it.
Game ship, cyan (0.15, 0.90, 1.00). Crew assignment as the story grows.
Approved/cyan-razor/render_cyan.png ref 35e04c10
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DANERREN COINS
Gold coins stamped with a ring emblem, coined from deflected swarm-light. First-mint strikes hum loudest near swarm-light (rising cyan ring).
Approved/danerren-coin/coin_b.png ref 22e607f9
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DARREN SHIELD STATES
You said: Darren's shield OFF (left) and ON (right). Approved 2026-08-29: 'This is perfect.' The ON panel also lights his EYES - that was flagged on the card as something he had never ruled on, and he approved it anyway, so glowing eyes ARE canon in the shield-up state. His neutral master is 'darren'.
VARDEIM (named by Brandt 2026-08-20): a Viking war-world losing its fight against the enemy. Darren is beaten here before crossing to Solmara; Chapters 2/3 travel here when he brings...
the full canon wording
VARDEIM (named by Brandt 2026-08-20): a Viking war-world losing its fight against the enemy. Darren is beaten here before crossing to Solmara; Chapters 2/3 travel here when he brings Holly back to help. Approved looks: the war coast, the long-hall camp, the scarred field.
You said: VARDEIM: viking AND futuristic - dragon-prow starships, energy weapons, cyan force-field shields. His ruling 2026-08-29.
Young woman, late teens. AUBURN / warm reddish-brown hair, long and wavy, past the shoulders. Cropped NAVY-BLUE bomber jacket with bright MAGENTA-VIOLET piping down the front, collar...
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Young woman, late teens. AUBURN / warm reddish-brown hair, long and
wavy, past the shoulders. Cropped NAVY-BLUE bomber jacket with bright
MAGENTA-VIOLET piping down the front, collar and pockets, one grey
sleeve panel and a small shoulder patch. BLACK crop top beneath, midriff
visible. BLACK slim trousers. Navy trainers with pale soles. Slim, athletic.
GLOW STATE (Approved\holly-jo\hj_glow2.png): hands and forearms haloed
Ring-cyan with thin cyan wrist-rings. Used ONLY at approved milestones.
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`Approved/holly-jo/hj_p2.png` is the **META master**. His words: "This is the meta version
of Holly." It is registered (`holly-jo`) and it is the sheet a prompt attaches.
`Approved/holly-jo/Pilot3.png` stays APPROVED but is **NOT the meta**: "Approving but know
this is not the meta but is like her in the game." So it is the in-game likeness, usable when
a shot is deliberately showing the GAME's Holly Jo, and never as the character master. It is
deliberately unregistered so it cannot be attached by accident.
DENIED and dead: `hj_f1.png`, `hj_f2.png` (AssetSheets/wave1). Do not revive them.
STILL WRONG: `hj_glow2.png`. "I'm on the fence on this one. Here hands are supposed to create
a deflect shield in front of her. We have assets like it but this one is off." The sheet shows
glowing HANDS; canon is a shield SHE MAKES, standing IN FRONT of her, hands outside it. This
is the same staging error the animation audit found in CH9's two hero deflect frames, where
her hand and forearm are inside her own shield. One fix, two places.
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**Accent: hot pink (1.00, 0.30, 0.60)**
Young woman, late teens. Long brown hair pulled into a high, swinging
ponytail. Warm, confident half-smile; bright hazel eyes; athletic build.
Olive/khaki bomber jacket, sleeves pushed up, worn open over a grey training
top; a circular mission patch (star/comet on navy and red) on the left chest;
zip pockets on the sleeve. A fitness tracker on one wrist.
SIGNATURE PROP: a kettlebell, carried casually on one shoulder like it weighs
nothing.
Lit in hot pink from one side, acid-yellow-green from the other.
**LOCKED WARDROBE - MATCH THE UPLOADED REFERENCE EXACTLY.** Her jacket is a
**NAVY-BLUE bomber**, worn open, sleeves pushed up, over a black training top,
with dark leggings and sneakers, a fitness tracker on the wrist, and the
courier satchel worn cross-body. Long brown hair, loose or pulled back.
(An earlier draft of this doc said olive/khaki with a high ponytail from a
first-pass image - that is SUPERSEDED. The uploaded Higgsfield reference is
the canonical one, and every generated shot must match it.)
She wears this, unchanged, in every shot until the milestone below.
**DECIDED (2026-07-26), NAVY IS FINAL.** The narration page called the jacket
"hot pink" and two early shots split the difference badly - one zipped the
jacket shut and painted magenta blush onto her cheeks, the other put a pink
streak in her hair. Neither is the design. Brandt confirmed navy stays: it
holds a clean silhouette against a gold sunrise, and it keeps hot pink free to
mean something specific elsewhere - hero deflect is cyan, swarm fire is red,
and a fully pink hero would blur into that grammar. Hot pink lives ONLY as a
rim-light along her silhouette edge and as piping/trim on the jacket. It must
never appear on skin (blush, makeup) or in her hair. The narration page's
"hot pink jacket" line is being corrected to match this, not the other way
around.
**WARDROBE EVOLUTION - THE ONE ALLOWED CHANGE (approved 2026-07-26).**
Costume is otherwise fixed all season, because a fixed outfit is how a young
audience tracks a character. The single permitted evolution is when she stops
being a courier and becomes a PILOT: she keeps the navy bomber and the
satchel - the silhouette and the hot-pink accent NEVER change - and GAINS
First Light flight gear layered over them: a Sentinel flight harness across
the chest, and a socket at the shoulder or belt where the key-shard rides.
Rules for it: (1) the jacket itself never changes, (2) it is added ONCE, at a
story milestone, never gradually, (3) the audience should be able to date any
frame in the series by whether the harness is on. Recommended milestone: the
end of E2, when the Manta chooses her and she leaves Solmara. If a later
season needs another step, it follows the same law - add a layer, never
replace the jacket.
**WHAT THIS FIXED IN THE BIBLE:** Holly Jo is an ATHLETE, not just a skater
courier. This is a better fit for the game than what was written: her signature
ability SECOND WIND is literally a "HIIT burst - rapid fire + a speed surge"
and the code comment calls it an "interval sprint." So: she trains. She runs
intervals up the orchard terraces before her route. Her endurance is EARNED,
which is why she is still standing at the end of a fight when nobody should be,
and why the "second wind" is a real thing about her body and not a metaphor.
Keep the courier job and the delivery-racing - the athlete identity sits under
it and explains it.
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THE LEAD. Game pilot (Second Wind: 6s rapid fire + speed surge). Courier on Solmara. Series look derives from this game portrait, repainted painted-dawn: late teens, athletic, long loose brown hair, open navy bomber with hot-pink piping over a black top, courier satchel.
blonde, long skirt or dress, armor.
You said: META Holly Jo. Approved/holly-jo/Pilot3.png is also approved but is the IN-GAME look, not the meta - never attach Pilot3 as the character master.
Approved/holly-jo/hj_p2.png ref a02a7ba6
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HOLLY JO SHIELD
You said: Holly Jo's GLOW / SHIELD state - she is making the cyan disc in front of her palms. Use ONLY at approved milestones. Her neutral master is 'holly-jo'.
Approved/holly-jo/hj_shield.png ref e94f1a7a
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THE HOVERBOARD
Sleek low hoverboard, no wheels: wide wooden-and-brass deck floating on two soft cyan glow-strips, faint light wake. Never a skateboard. 3-view prop sheet queued.
Approved/hoverboard/hover_p1.png ref 33369cc9
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JOSH - the builder
Accent: safety orange (1.00, 0.50, 0.10) Lean, strong man, late twenties/thirties. Short brown hair under a scuffed WHITE HARD HAT stencilled JOSH. Clean-shaven, square jaw, an easy...
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**Accent: safety orange (1.00, 0.50, 0.10)**
Lean, strong man, late twenties/thirties. Short brown hair under a scuffed
WHITE HARD HAT stencilled JOSH. Clean-shaven, square jaw, an easy confident
smirk; arms folded. Dark grey work shirt, sleeves rolled to the elbow, genuinely
dirty. A high-visibility YELLOW safety harness over the shoulders and chest,
with a coiled yellow lanyard and a clipped gas-monitor. Lit in hot orange from
one side against cold blue industrial steelwork.
**MATCHES THE BIBLE** - the city-raiser who holds a rooftop and builds a turret
in seconds. "Easy fix."
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Future crew. Game pilot (Sentry: auto-firing turret). Construction worker, named hard hat.
Approved/josh/josh_1.png ref e360e2fc
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JP
Future crew. Game pilot (Got Your Six: 30s rear bounce shield). Young, glasses, cyan shoulder rig.
You said: Flies the GOLD VANGUARD, but only from the chapter he joins the group onward (Brandt: 'when he joins the group eventually').
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KEEPERS CHAMBER
You said: Vess's room. He ruled 2026-08-29 that it is JUST HIS ROOM - atmosphere, not the world-lamps - so the lanterns carry no meaning and their count is not canon. Registered on the reading that 'it stays'; revoke on /series if that is wrong.
Two cups poured every evening. A third cup, never poured, beside a chair nobody mentions.
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KI - the key
Accent: electric blue (0.30, 0.60, 1.00) IDENTITY CORRECTION: KI IS AN ADULT, NOT A CHILD. PRONOUNCED "KEY" - ALWAYS. A young man in his twenties. Black hair, tight-faded sides with a...
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**Accent: electric blue (0.30, 0.60, 1.00)**
### *** IDENTITY CORRECTION: KI IS AN ADULT, NOT A CHILD. ***
### PRONOUNCED "KEY" - ALWAYS.
A young man in his twenties. Black hair, tight-faded sides with a swept-up
textured top. Black rectangular glasses, and the lenses are always alive with
reflected data - scrolling readouts, blue and cyan glyphs. Clean-shaven, sharp
features, and a small knowing half-smile aimed slightly off-camera: the look of
someone who solved it three seconds ago and is deciding whether to tell you.
A fitted black techwear jacket with a high collar, armored shoulder and chest
panels, and glowing electric-blue circuit tracing running down the sleeves and
across the chest. Fingerless tactical gloves.
SIGNATURE STAGING: he is always working two translucent holographic panels in
mid-air, one in each hand, fingers mid-gesture.
Lit electric blue with violet accents against dark corridor steel.
**WHAT THIS FIXED:** the bible wrote Ki as a 14-year-old runaway slicer-kid.
He is a grown man in his twenties. Corrections required:
* Age 14 -> mid-twenties. He is NOT the crew's child and nobody parents him.
* The backstory changes from "ran away from a Mint academy" to something
adult: he WORKED for the Mint (or a Cobalt Reach data-house), was very
good at it, and walked out - now he scrubs Hunt Guild bounties for
refugees off the books. Same conscience, adult stakes, and it makes his
line about the Rings being keys the deduction of a professional rather
than a precocious kid.
* Keep: fastest brain in the room, zero patience, systems-are-safer-than-
people, SYSTEM CRASH (the EMP), and the arc toward being the crew's
connective tissue.
* Keep the pronunciation gag exactly - strangers say "Kai?", he deadpans
"Key. Like the thing that opens doors." It plays even better dry from an
adult than cute from a kid.
* He is no longer the smallest silhouette in the crew. The lineup's size
contrast now runs Darren and May-Day (big) against Holly Jo and Ki (lean).
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TECH ADVISOR of the crew. Game pilot (System Crash: EMP jams every enemy gun). Young, glasses, circuit-lined jacket, holo screens - the game portrait is the design.
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KITTY - the hook
Accent: river-teal (0.20, 0.85, 0.80) IDENTITY CORRECTION: KITTY IS MALE. A man in his twenties, athletic and wiry. Silver-grey hair in a high textured crop with tight-faded sides; a...
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**Accent: river-teal (0.20, 0.85, 0.80)**
### *** IDENTITY CORRECTION: KITTY IS MALE. ***
A man in his twenties, athletic and wiry. Silver-grey hair in a high textured
crop with tight-faded sides; a few days of stubble; a sly, amused half-smile
and a raised eyebrow that says he already knows what is in your pockets.
Teal-and-blue camo hoodie under an orange-and-blue harness rig with glowing
teal EL-strips. A name patch reading KITTY on the chest. Clipped along the
harness belt: a row of bright fishing LURES (green, orange, pink).
**WHAT THIS FIXED:** the bible wrote Kitty as a woman. He is a man - and
"Kitty" is a CALLSIGN, not a given name, which is funnier and truer to his
GONE FISHING ability. All pronouns and relationship beats corrected to he/him.
Everything else holds: salvage-diver, wreck-town, fast hands, fast mouth, the
one who steals from the crew and comes back. His hook is named "Bait."
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Future crew. Game pilot (Gone Fishing: hooks the nearest ship - it always drops loot). Camo fisher hoodie, silver hair.
Approved/kitty/kitty_1.png ref a441e6b4
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VESS'S LANTERN-STAFF
Tall staff, small glass cage, faint cyan flame. Exists only if Vess does.
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MARKET SQUARE
Where the town gathers; where Danerrens change hands every day.
You said: This is the market square master. Approved/world-suite/market_v3.png is a DIFFERENT picture and was denied ('close but still needs work') - do not substitute it.
Accent: magenta (1.00, 0.24, 0.68) A big, warm, heavyset man. Round face, rosy cheeks, black rectangular glasses, a neat grey-white goatee and moustache, and a wide open delighted...
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**Accent: magenta (1.00, 0.24, 0.68)**
A big, warm, heavyset man. Round face, rosy cheeks, black rectangular glasses,
a neat grey-white goatee and moustache, and a wide open delighted laugh - the
most joyful face in the series. A black flight helmet with a magenta-lit shell
and goggles pushed up on the brow; across the goggle strap, in white show-
lettering: **"May-Day."** A boom mic on a coiled cable at his cheek. Navy-blue
leather flight jacket with a brown leather collar, brass zip, chest and sleeve
patches (one is a stylized "S").
Lit in hot magenta.
**WHAT THIS FIXED:** the bible implied a lean 33-year-old daredevil. He is
older, bigger and warmer - a beloved SHOWMAN, which is better: the crowd-pleaser
whose whole body is part of the act. The helmet with his stage name on it is
the character in one object - he wears his callsign where his face should be.
Keep everything else: the frozen mayday, Roz, joining last, "My name is Aaron.
May-Day's the guy who shows up."
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Future crew. Game pilot (Punchline: a huge deflecting ring). Cheerful older pilot, name on his helmet. Canon: real name Aaron.
Approved/may-day/mayday_2.png ref c49618d0
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MESSAGE CASES
You said: RENAMED 2026-08-30. Three brass-capped parchment message/scroll cases with leather straps - what a courier carries. It is NOT a pod, NOT a drone, NOT a container. The folder is still named delivery-pod on disk, which is legacy and misleading. The actual courier DRONE is a separate asset - see Approved/mint-drone/drone_a.png.
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OSSIE
The baker. White hair + mustache, flour-dusted apron, kneads through everything. Teases Holly daily; she is never late.
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PAT
Future crew. Game pilot (Tornado: a funnel that drags enemies). SERIES DESIGN (Brandt 2026-08-20): a small green alien pilot, hood always up, chunky black radio headset with glowing...
the full canon wording
Future crew. Game pilot (Tornado: a funnel that drags enemies). SERIES DESIGN (Brandt 2026-08-20): a small green alien pilot, hood always up, chunky black radio headset with glowing green rings worn OVER the hood, huge amber eyes, green-piped chest harness. Deliberately distinct from the game portrait (likeness/IP ruling).
Approved/pat/patd_hoodset_1.png ref 3389eb80
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MISSUS PETRA
Balcony neighbor in hair curlers who scores Holly's tricks out her window.
You said: Townsfolk dress, curlers under a headscarf. The old petra_2 dressing-gown sheet is retired to Denied/2026-08-29/.
Approved/petra/petra_3.png ref 01bd05b7
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SOLMARA - the town
TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MASTER 2026-08-25. It had no block here until now, which is why dfkcanon carried "tan stone houses" unchallenged - the same wrong colour that got the first...
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TRANSCRIBED FROM THE MASTER 2026-08-25. It had no block here until now, which is
why `dfk_canon` carried "tan stone houses" unchallenged - the same wrong colour
that got the first Vellamar sheet denied. Solmara is NOT tan, NOT beige, NOT brown.
TEAL-GREEN STONE. Cubic flat-roofed houses in weathered teal-green stone, stacked
densely in TERRACES up ONE steep mountain on an island, small deep-set windows lit
warm from within. Between and across the terraces hang the PINK PAPER LANTERN
STRINGS (lantern-strings sheet) in long swooping catenaries - they are the town's
signature light and they are PINK, never yellow. Stone stairs zigzag between the
levels. Below the town, an ORCHARD of PURPLE-PINK CHERRY BLOSSOM TREES in loose
rows on terraced ground. Beyond, the sea.
The sky is a deep BLUE-VIOLET night with stars; far hills sit blue-purple on the
horizon. The whole palette is cool teal, violet and pink, warmed only by window
light and the lanterns.
THE RING crowns the flat bare-rock summit above the highest houses and is the
HIGHEST silhouette in any frame it appears in (the CREST RULE).
ring, a town without the blossom orchard below it.
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Holly Jo's world: a blossom-orchard hill town of teal-green stone terraces, orchard canals, lantern strings - the Ring crowning the town's own peak (canon geography ruling). The last untouched world.
tan/beige/brown stone, yellow lantern strings, pitched tile roofs, a second
You said: close to meta
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SOLMARA ISLAND
You said: THE ISLAND WORLD PLATE and the COLD OPEN. Brandt, 2026-08-29: 'this is the cold open' and 'This is essentially what the island should be. Can be meta.' Distinct from 'solmara' (townring_3), which is the town ring seen close. The crown stair GLOWS cyan here and that glow is canon.
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SOLMARA MARKET PLATE
You said: The wide market/town plate. FLAT roofs throughout - the old market_v3 broke the no-pitched-roofs NEVER. Distinct from 'market-square' (the isolated fountain).
Approved/world-suite/market_v5.png ref 4bac1c88
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THE RING
Not a character, but the same failure mode keeps happening, so: DARK STONE ring standing on the flat mountain crown. Its MOUTH IS EMPTY - you see sky through it. The ONLY lit thing at...
the full canon wording
Not a character, but the same failure mode keeps happening, so:
DARK STONE ring standing on the flat mountain crown. Its MOUTH IS EMPTY -
you see sky through it. The ONLY lit thing at rest is one small CYAN
GLYPH on the rim. It is the HIGHEST silhouette in any frame it appears in
(the CREST RULE). Lit / waking states exist as separate approved cards
and are used only where the script calls for them.
### THE TURNAROUND IS THE SINGLE SOURCE (Brandt approved 2026-08-24)
`Approved\interceptor\interceptor_turnaround.png` - four views (side, front,
top, three-quarter) on a plain backdrop. EVERY Interceptor frame from now on
passes THIS SHEET as a reference, never a scene frame.
**Why this sheet had to exist:** across CH11's eighteen shots the Interceptor
was drawn eleven times and looked different nearly every time - the body went
from a rounded pod to an angular fuselage to a needle, the wings swept forward
in some and back in others, and the core moved. Brandt caught it: "the new enemy
ship looking different each time... if it looks inconsistent people will notice."
ROOT CAUSE: there was no approved isolated asset sheet, so every prompt rebuilt
the ship from a SCENE FRAME plus words - exactly the cross-contamination LAW
ZERO-B warns about. The wave-29 sheet that was denied was this gap, and it went
unreplaced for a chapter.
**KNOWN CONFLICT, flagged rather than hidden:** the approved turnaround has
FORWARD-RAKING needle wings and ONE dorsal core. The already-shipped and
approved `c1016` (CH10-16) shows a ROUNDED POD with TWO eye-lights and
back-swept wings. Both carry Brandt's approval and they are not the same ship.
The turnaround wins as the reference because (a) it is an isolated sheet rather
than a scene frame, and (b) it matches c1015 and c1017, so only one shipped
frame is the outlier. If Brandt would rather the pod-with-eyes be the ship, the
turnaround gets redone and this note reverses - but ONE of them has to go.
--- from series_graph.py (locked wording) ---
Colossal pale-stone ring crowning the town's peak; inner face of dark metal crowded with dead glyphs that wake one by one. Darren's door into the story.
Approved/the-ring/ringc_lit.png ref 1d30786e
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THE RING NIGHT
You said: THE RING at rest, night. Redone 2026-08-29 on his note that the flat summit was too small - the mesa now runs the full frame. Separate from 'the-ring' (ringc_lit), which is the LIT state; do not swap them.
Approved/the-ring/ringc_night_v2.png ref 74761028
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THE SEVEN WORLDS (myth)
Seven living worlds strung on a single thread of light; what the swarm drains turns to gray glass. The myth spine of the series.
You said: Seven worlds on one thread of light; one is drained to cracked grey glass.
The enemy. Never clearly seen in E1: red light, a crack in the sky, and worlds drained to gray glass - color first, then sound, then memory.
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THE WARLORD (tease)
Never a face in E1 - a tall caped reflection in the gate's stone that fades when the light shifts. Backstory held offline.
You said: TEASE design only. Canon: never a face in E1. Painted, not flat vector.
Approved/the-warlord/warlord_v2.png ref e467256d
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VELLAMAR - the harbour town
Approved 2026-08-25 (wave 38b), after a deny. Brandt's deny on the first version - "This looks like another town... I don't see the town and the cherry blossoms and stuff like that" -...
the full canon wording
Approved 2026-08-25 (wave 38b), after a deny. Brandt's deny on the first version -
"This looks like another town... I don't see the town and the cherry blossoms and
stuff like that" - was exactly right: it had been built in tan stone with warm
yellow lanterns and no blossom, which is not this world.
IT IS THE SAME WORLD AS SOLMARA AND MUST ALWAYS LOOK IT: TEAL-GREEN STONE
buildings with flat roofs and small deep-set windows lit warm from within; a deep
BLUE-VIOLET night; PINK PAPER LANTERN STRINGS (the lantern-strings sheet) hung in
long swooping catenaries along the waterfront and between buildings; PURPLE-PINK
CHERRY BLOSSOM TREES in loose rows behind the quay. Cool teal and violet
throughout - NEVER tan, beige or brown.
THE ONLY THING THAT DIFFERS FROM SOLMARA IS THE SHAPE OF THE LAND. Solmara climbs
one steep mountain in stacked terraces with the Ring on its crown. VELLAMAR IS
FLAT: it lies along the water on level ground, built around a long curving stone
QUAY with fishing and small cargo boats tied along it, low stone warehouses and net
lofts behind, gentle low hills far back.
is the entire reason the story can take it.
a mountain, terraces, or A RING OF ANY KIND. Vellamar has no Ring, and that
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LOCKEDNO "NEVER" LIST
VIOLET MANTA
HOLLY JO'S SHIP. The purple ship - FIRES TWO BEAMS AT A TIME. Game color (0.60, 0.25, 1.00). Sheet will be generated FROM game hangar captures; prior invented art discarded.
You said: NOT META: background is wrong and facing direction changes. Needs re-cutting on a plain plate before it can be the master.
Nothing is outstanding. Every asset you refused has been redone, approved and locked.
FIXED - 9
You refused these, said why, and the redo is now approved and locked
above. Kept here so the reason is not lost.
HOLLY JO - the shield in front of her - you said: I'm on the fence on this one. Here hands are supposed to create a deflect shield in front of her. We have assets like it but this one is off
VARDEIM - DARREN'S WORLD - you said: Should be viking themed but more futurrisitc where they also fight with lazer peams and space ships.
MISSUS PETRA - you said: Needs to look more like what the towns people would wear
THE KEEPER'S CHAMBER - you said: Not sure what this is
THE SEVEN WORLDS - you said: The planets need to look a little more realistic but like colors and look
THE WARLORD - you said: Need to work on the boss, should look lik ethis but less cartoonie
THE KEEPER'S CHAMBER - you said: Not sure what this is
THE RING at night - you said: Area at top of mountain too small of flat area should be much bigger
MARKET (world-suite plate) - you said: Close but still needs work
NOT ANSWERED
No ruling exists for these, so nothing has been assumed either way.
They stay out of shots until you say.
MINT COURIER DRONE - already drawn - The list proposed building this. It already exists and is canon-perfect: egg-shaped polished gold, one cyan lens, red eq
1. TOWN MASTER - first light - Top priority because it is a PARENT: every day-state street and district plate below it inherits its light. We do own mo
2. FARMHOUSE KITCHEN - interior - The only item on the list that repairs a SHIPPED defect: CH10-12 drew a different kitchen than CH10-11 did twenty second
3. OSSIE'S BAKERY - inside - CH16's till scene plays entirely at Ossie's counter, with Darren silent beside it. All three candidates are exteriors, s
4. CHILDREN - two, about 7 and 11 - There is not one child in any approved sheet, and the canon files contain no word for child, kid, boy or girl. The towns
5. TOWN MASTER - dusk - The right hour and the right subject sit in two different pictures: market_v5 is genuinely dusk but it is the SQUARE, wi
6. FISHER, VENDOR, ELDER WOMAN - The townsfolk plate, shown, is a four-figure GROUP, so it cannot be attached to get one isolated person into a shot. And
7. ROOFTOP ROUTE - Holly's shortcut - Two beats already ask for it, including her own intro line about thirty rooftops. Worth saying why it is urgent rather t
8. TERRACED CROPS behind the farm - Genuinely new - every candidate is a blossom orchard on flat ground. But it exists only as narration prose so far, and c
9. TOWN MASTER - storm - Recommending DEFER, against the list. I had every script and outline searched: there is no storm beat anywhere in E1-E5
THE WELL / CISTERN - cut it? - Recommending we CUT this from the list. Canon already answers the town's water: a spring-fed canal stepping down through
DOES SOLMARA HAVE A HARBOUR - and where? - This one blocks four items: docks, boats, nets and the fish stall. The geography file has NO harbour and no docks anywhe
FISHING BOATS - the sheet from the other session - Three good designs, properly isolated: a rowing dory, a single-mast netter with a patched sail, and a trap-hauler stacke
FISHING GEAR - the sheet from the other session - Right form - isolated props on a plain plate - but the rope, the wicker traps and the dead fish are all rimmed in neon c
HARBOUR DISTRICT - the sheet from the other session - A genuinely beautiful picture, and I am sorry to say it breaks canon three ways: PITCHED TILE ROOFS, where Solmara is cu
THE GREY - harvested townsfolk - The biggest hole found, and it was not on the list. Approved/gray-world/ is a registered folder with ZERO files in it -
THE UNDERCROFT - shelter for four hundred - Not on the list, and not what we own. The keeper's shelter on disk is a single small stone hut with a plank door and a w
THE CHALK COLUMN on the stair wall - Approved/keepers-stair/ is empty. The chalked count closes CH13, returns in CH18, changes meaning in CH20 when Petra tak
THE LANE KIT - how a town with no weapons fights - The most Solmara-specific asset anywhere on this list, and nobody proposed it. CH20's big night is planks, stone, water,
THE PATCHED MANTA - boat-hull plate - You have already seen this drift and named it yourself: they bolted wood on the ship and that is fine, but it does not a
THE DOME - Ring One lit over the island - CH19's closing image and CH20's entire spine: an island-sized lantern with red fire breaking on it like surf, walked dow
DEAD VARIANTS
Denied with no note - alternates that lost to a better sheet. Kept
on the record so they are not re-generated by accident.
