diff --git a/scenarios/midjourney-prompts.md b/scenarios/midjourney-prompts.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5b31477 --- /dev/null +++ b/scenarios/midjourney-prompts.md @@ -0,0 +1,918 @@ +# Midjourney Prompts — ChaosiumCon UK 2026 + +All prompts for NPCs, monsters, locations, and items across all five convention scenarios. +Each scenario has its own art direction — do not mix styles between scenarios. + +--- + +## EVENT 91 — BRP: THE NIGHT CRAWLER +*Neo-Ashford, 2087. Corporate dystopia / Lovecraftian body horror.* +**Art Direction:** High-contrast ink sketch and pencil illustration. Rain-slicked cyberpunk noir. Blade Runner atmosphere collapsing into biological dread. Neon-lit black, deep shadow, organic warmth intruding into cold steel. + +--- + +### LOCATIONS — Event 91 + +**91-L01 — Neo-Ashford Establishing Shot** +``` +Cyberpunk megacity 2087, twenty arcology towers rising above a permanent smog layer, +neon red and amber light reflecting on acid-rain-slick streets far below, eleven +million people living under artificial light, layered architecture: original +twentieth-century city below, 2030s brutalism above it, 2060s corporate glass +cantilevered across everything, permanent twilight, no sun visible, ink sketch and +pencil illustration style, high contrast, cinematic +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**91-L02 — The Corporate Briefing Suite** +``` +Corporate reception suite fortieth floor 2087, floor-to-ceiling windows showing +the megacity glittering below in acid haze, grey polymer carpet absorbing sound, +everything precisely lit and one notch too clean, a woman in an expensive coat +seated at a glass table not quite meeting anyone's eyes, processed air and +manufactured warmth, the feeling of a room dressed as a set for a specific +meeting, ink sketch cyberpunk noir, cold corporate palette +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**91-L03 — The Slab (Sub-District 7 Street)** +``` +Sub-district 7 street level 2087, open market on rain-slicked concrete, orange +and red neon catching on wet surfaces, layered clothing and visible black-market +augments, noodle vendors and surveillance blind spots, filter scarves and +second-hand devices, the faint sweet organic smell rising from drain grates nobody +has noticed in years, ink sketch and pencil illustration high contrast noir, +atmospheric dread beneath ordinary commerce +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**91-L04 — The Terminus Bar** +``` +Underground bar in a sub-district 7 building 2087, low amber light, humidity of +people who have been somewhere all day, a bartender with an old hydraulic prosthetic +arm behind the bar, chunky segmented fingers with an audible servo whine, booths +absorbing conversation, beer and something astringent, nobody asking questions +nobody doesn't want asked, ink sketch noir cyberpunk, warm amber in deep shadow +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**91-L05 — The Undertow Tunnels** +``` +Abandoned drainage and maintenance tunnels beneath a 2087 megacity, warmth +increasing with depth, organic bioluminescence faint on the tunnel walls not enough +to see by but enough to know it's there, a sweet biological smell thick enough to +taste, old industrial infrastructure colonised by something slow and patient, +filament networks of pale organic material crossing the walls and ceiling, +ink sketch horror, biological dread, deep shadow +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**91-L06 — Sub-Level 9, Sutter-Vane Plant** +``` +Decommissioned water reclamation plant sub-basement 2087, industrial cold replaced +by organic warmth, walls covered in pale fibrous filament networks growing inward +from every surface, a dense central node of biological material three metres across +pulsing slowly, bioluminescent veins running through the growth, the silence of +something very large very slow and very patient, ink and pencil horror illustration, +biological body horror, deep shadow and pale organic light +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### NPCs — Event 91 + +**91-NPC-01 — Sable Morn (Veltris Handler)** +``` +Portrait of a corporate woman late forties 2087, expensive structured coat, subdermal +communication augments visible as a faint ridge along her jaw, eyes that rest +slightly past the viewer as if watching something not present, complete deliberate +stillness, not fidgeting, not reassuring, the precision of someone who means +everything including the things she does not say, grey corporate background, +ink sketch portrait, high contrast, cold palette +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**91-NPC-02 — Damos Reth (The Rogue Analyst)** +``` +Portrait of a mid-level corporate data analyst 2087, male, standard corporate +clothes now torn and dirty after four days hiding in tunnels, the expression of +someone who has read files he cannot un-read, fear that has curdled into desperate +calm, slight filament tracery visible on the backs of his hands, a data chip held +in one fist, ink sketch cyberpunk portrait, high contrast +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**91-NPC-03 — Jed Osler (Terminus Bartender)** +``` +Portrait of a non-binary bartender early fifties 2087, old hydraulic prosthetic +left arm with chunky segmented fingers, the stillness of someone who has seen +everything and chosen not to be bothered by most of it, warm amber bar light from +one side, watching the viewer with patient calibrating attention, sub-district 7 +clothing, ink sketch portrait, warm amber on dark +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**91-NPC-04 — Dr. Yava Chen (Compromised Researcher)** +``` +Portrait of a research scientist early sixties 2087, grey hair, reading glasses, +perfectly formed sentences with slightly too much space between the words, not +frightened not hostile genuinely fascinated in the way of someone who has made a +thing the centre of their existence, looking slightly past the viewer at something +not there, the warmth of someone who has been remade slowly and is not unhappy +about it, ink sketch portrait, cold laboratory light +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**91-NPC-05 — Scratch (Rivet Teeth Gang Leader)** +``` +Portrait of a gang leader sub-district 7 2087, female, cautious not hostile, +visible black-market augments, layered street clothing, the watchful bearing of +someone who controls territory by knowing everything that moves through it, looking +directly at the viewer with measured assessment, neon-lit from below, ink sketch +noir portrait +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### MONSTERS — Event 91 + +**91-M01 — The Night Crawler (The Entity)** +``` +Vast biological entity beneath a 2087 megacity, not a body but a distributed +network of pale organic filaments spreading across tunnel walls ceiling and floor, +a central node three metres across of densely matted biological material with faint +bioluminescent pulses, no face no eyes no movement visible but the clear sense of +directed patient attention, something that has been growing for centuries, ink and +pencil horror illustration, biological dread, pale growth on dark industrial stone +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**91-M02 — The Entity (Close Detail)** +``` +Close detail of pale organic filament growth on an industrial tunnel wall 2087, +thin fibrous tendrils crossing each other in directed architectural patterns not +random growth, faint warmth visible as colour shift in the stone beneath, +a sweet biological smell implied in the texture, something very old growing very +slowly toward something specific, ink sketch horror, biological body horror, +macro detail +--ar 1:1 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### ITEMS — Event 91 + +**91-I01 — The Data Chip** +``` +Small encrypted data chip 2087, corporate design, held between two fingers against +dark background, the kind of object that destroyed a man's life, single dramatic +light source, ink sketch still life, cold corporate palette +--ar 1:1 --style raw +``` + +**91-I02 — The Bio-Scanner** +``` +Wrist-strap bio-scanner device 2087, text display showing MEMETIC HAZARD in +yellow on grey, corporate warning palette where yellow means something worse than +red, the text slightly blurred as if the device itself is uncertain, dark +background, dramatic light, ink sketch tech prop +--ar 1:1 --style raw +``` + +**91-I03 — The Photograph (Reth's Squat)** +``` +A photograph pinned to a corkboard 2087, the image shows something that the eye +cannot resolve into a recognisable shape no matter how long it is studied, not +blurred not distorted simply refusing to become anything, the corkboard has hand- +drawn maps and red-marked routes and handwritten notes around it, dim room light, +ink sketch, dread +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +--- +--- + +## EVENT 92 — COC: THE LAST TRAIN TO CONEY ISLAND +*New York City, 1979. Gang survival horror / Nyarlathotep.* +**Art Direction:** Gritty 1970s NYC urban noir. Subway tile and neon. Deep amber and sodium orange on black. Grease and concrete. The supernatural arrives through infrastructure. + +--- + +### LOCATIONS — Event 92 + +**92-L01 — Van Cortlandt Park, Midnight** +``` +Van Cortlandt Park Bronx New York midnight 1979, a vast outdoor gathering of gang +members from across New York City, floodlights just extinguished, a body on the +grass, crowd scattering in panic, sirens starting in the distance, the moment +after everything went wrong, urban noir 1970s illustration, sodium orange and +deep shadow, cinematic +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**92-L02 — The NYC Subway Platform, 1979** +``` +New York City subway platform 1979, late night, flickering fluorescent light on +white and black tile, graffiti covering every surface in dense layers of colour, +a nearly empty train car visible with its doors open, the far end of the platform +in darkness, the sense that the last car is always empty and has been all night, +1970s urban horror illustration, amber and deep shadow +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**92-L03 — The Subway Tunnel Between Stations** +``` +New York City subway tunnel 1979, the train stopped between stations with emergency +red-orange lighting failing, chalk ward markings on the tunnel wall extending as +far as a flashlight carries, something knocking on the outside of the car from +the darkness, the track below reflecting no light, 1970s urban horror illustration, +dread, claustrophobic +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**92-L04 — Union Square Station Cache** +``` +Maintenance room off Union Square transfer complex New York 1979, a Walkman on a +shelf, route maps annotated with dates and circled stations, a yellow legal pad +with handwriting that shifts mid-page written across years, a cassette tape labelled +in careful handwriting, the kind of room no one was supposed to find, amber light +from a single bulb, urban noir illustration +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**92-L05 — Stillwell Avenue Terminal, Coney Island** +``` +Coney Island Stillwell Avenue terminal subway maintenance level 1979 at 5AM, the +maintenance rails on the floor warped over decades into a sigil rendered in iron +at the scale of a room, black water on the tunnel floor conducting freely, a 1920s- +era breaker box on the wall covered in ritual objects going back thirty years, +the grey pre-dawn light beginning to seep through grates above, 1970s urban horror +illustration, deep shadow and iron +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### NPCs — Event 92 + +**92-NPC-01 — Lester Creed (The Vessel)** +``` +Portrait of a man slight pale appears mid-thirties 1979 New York, polite, +professionally forgettable, lips moving slightly without sound as if counting, +a revolver resting on his knee pointed away, the eyes of someone who occasionally +confuses which decade he is in, the expression of a man arriving precisely on +schedule, 1970s noir illustration portrait, cold light, dread in ordinariness +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**92-NPC-02 — Sister Marion Vale (Third Rail Choir Elder)** +``` +Portrait of a woman 61 in a transit worker uniform New York 1979, quietly composed, +a peace about her that is not comfort but acceptance, she has maintained a ritual +shrine beneath a subway terminal for twenty years and she is not sorry, the +certainty in her face fractured by something recent she cannot quite resolve, +1970s noir portrait illustration, underground light +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**92-NPC-03 — Cyrus (Dead Catalyst)** +``` +Portrait of a man 32 gang war chief New York 1979, the face of someone who was +building a cross-borough coalition to stop something that nobody else could see, +steady and careful not broken, the bearing of someone who knew exactly what he +was doing and made peace with what it would cost, 1970s noir portrait illustration, +warm amber light, elegiac +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**92-NPC-04 — Sgt. Frank Doyle (Transit Police)** +``` +Portrait of a transit police sergeant mid-forties New York 1979, twenty-year cop +Vietnam before that, exhausted, believes completely the wrong thing tonight, not +corrupt not cruel just wrong and absolutely certain, uniform under fluorescent +subway light, 1970s illustration portrait +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**92-NPC-05 — Sandy Drucker / Velvet Static (Pirate Radio Voice)** +``` +Portrait of a woman 27 in a condemned Harlem building 1979, an unlicensed FM +transmitter beside her, Bronx accent, not a knowing cultist, the concentration of +someone broadcasting into the dark not knowing what is broadcasting back through +her, amber light from the equipment, 1970s portrait illustration +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### MONSTERS — Event 92 + +**92-M01 — The Black Conductor (Nyarlathotep)** +``` +A figure assembled from cinders ticket stubs fraying wire and decades of subway +soot, wearing the silhouette of a New York transit worker, where a face should be +light bends away, not darkness but a refusal of light to resolve, standing in +the Stillwell Avenue terminal at 5AM, every surface behind it showing its reflection +but the reflection has no features either, 1970s horror illustration, chiaroscuro, +subway atmosphere, one sentence of description two at most +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**92-M02 — The Ghost Train** +``` +A New York City subway train passing through a station platform 1979 without +stopping, every car fully lit, every car occupied, every passenger facing forward +at exactly the same angle, no variation in posture no individual movement, the +platform crowd standing frozen in place for six seconds as it passes, none of the +stopped people reacting, 1970s horror illustration, amber and cold white, dread +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### ITEMS — Event 92 + +**92-I01 — The Brass Token** +``` +A New York City subway token slightly larger than correct, brass, the reverse face +engraved with a spiral track running from the outer rim to the centre with three +tiny punched holes at the terminus, it is warm, it has been warm since a dying man +pressed it into a palm and it does not cool, close-up still life 1979, +dramatic single light source, ink illustration +--ar 1:1 --style raw +``` + +**92-I02 — The Cassette Tape** +``` +A Sony cassette tape 1979 labelled in careful handwriting, resting on a shelf in +a maintenance room beside a working Walkman, a yellow legal pad behind it with +handwriting in different inks written across years, the kind of recording that was +meant to be found, amber light from a single bulb, 1970s still life illustration +--ar 1:1 --style raw +``` + +**92-I03 — The Lookout's Notebook** +``` +A pocket notebook open to a page of cramped hurried handwriting 1979, words +visible include STAY OFF LAST CAR and if it asks you something do not answer and +silver means it already came through, the handwriting of someone who knew too +much and ran out of time to write it all down, 1970s illustration, dramatic light +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +--- +--- + +## EVENT 93 — COC: NOT ANOTHER TELEGRAM +*New York City, 1924. Satirical horror / the Skinless Watcher.* +**Art Direction:** 1920s illustrated pulp horror. Art Deco linework, warm amber and sepia tones collapsing into cold shadow. Edward Hopper meets Lovecraft. High contrast, deep blacks, warm highlights. Comedy in the surface, dread beneath. + +--- + +### LOCATIONS — Event 93 + +**93-L01 — The Blue Orchid Jazz Club** +``` +Underground speakeasy Harlem New York 1924, warm amber lantern light, six-piece +jazz band on a small stage, cigarette smoke thick as curtains, patrons at round +tables, a Black woman in emerald gown at the microphone, the warmth of a genuinely +wonderful place, beauty with something subtly wrong at the very edges like a note +played at the right pitch and wrong tempo, 1920s Art Nouveau illustration, +golden tones, photorealistic period atmosphere +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**93-L02 — The Brownstone on East 64th Street** +``` +Manhattan brownstone townhouse four storeys New York 1924, dark windows, a single +light in a second-floor room, a brass door knocker in the shape of an eye, autumn +leaves against the stone stoop, the building is beautiful and completely still and +the front door is slightly ajar, nobody outside on the street, 1920s pen-and-ink +horror illustration, Art Deco architecture, deep shadow, amber streetlight +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**93-L03 — The Drawing Room with Missing Portraits** +``` +Victorian drawing room Manhattan 1924, dust sheets over furniture, several gilt- +framed oil portraits on dark wallpaper where every painted face has been precisely +cut out leaving elegantly dressed bodies with oval voids, one portrait of a dog +with its face also absent, the cuts are surgical, cold light from one window, +1920s horror illustration, sepia and cold, wrongness in beautiful surroundings +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**93-L04 — The Ritual Basement** +``` +Stone basement Manhattan 1924, chalk ritual circle on the floor partially smeared, +candles burned to nothing, cold stone walls, single bare electric bulb, a woman +tied to a wooden chair blindfolded in the centre, a large oval gilt-framed mirror +on the far wall reflecting the room with something gathering in one corner that +does not quite resolve, 1920s horror illustration, high contrast dread +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**93-L05 — Miss Pruitt's Office** +``` +A small efficient office third floor New York 1924, filing cabinets, the smell of +cigarettes and strong tea, iron-grey-bunned secretary at a desk, a telegram in her +hand, the window looking down onto the street, the ordinary machinery of someone +who has worked for eccentric academics for twenty years and simply gets on with it, +1920s illustration, warm and precisely lit, comedy in the normalcy +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### NPCs — Event 93 + +**93-NPC-01 — Delia "Diamond" Monroe** +``` +Portrait of an elegant Black American woman 1924 New York, 34, emerald drop +earrings, jazz club singer, a direct steady gaze that has seen everything and +forgiven nothing, the bearing of the most competent person in any room she enters, +warm amber backstage lighting from one side, 1920s Art Deco portrait illustration, +cinematic, neither victim nor villain +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**93-NPC-02 — Professor Edna Whitmore** +``` +Portrait of a formidable silver-haired academic woman 58 New York 1924, dishevelled +from days of hiding in a basement still absolutely precise in her expression, the +bearing of someone terrified who knows exactly what she is terrified of, pipe +tobacco stains on her fingers, reading glasses on a chain, academic clothing now +somewhat the worse for it, cold underground light, 1920s pulp illustration portrait +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**93-NPC-03 — Miss Hazel Pruitt** +``` +Portrait of a secretary woman 55 New York 1924, iron-grey bun, reading glasses +on a chain, perpetual cigarette, the expression of someone who has worked for +eccentric academics for twenty years and learned to simply get on with it, a +telegram in her hand, dry unflappable competence, warm office light, 1920s +illustration portrait, comedy and steadiness +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**93-NPC-04 — The Herald (Mr. Charles Henderson)** +``` +Portrait of a thin man in a grey 1924 suit, face that moves fractionally more +than a face should, the expression of a man apologising for something he cannot +stop doing, one hand at a slightly unnatural angle, the eyes belong to someone +else entirely, the suit of an insurance clerk, somewhere inside him a man who +came to collect a debt and has not managed to leave, 1920s horror portrait +illustration, dread in ordinariness, greyscale +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**93-NPC-05 — Reginald Ashworth (The First Victim)** +``` +Portrait of a 1920s socialite and amateur occultist 41 New York, smiling, the +smile of someone who invited something in and could not close the door, from a +newspaper photograph slightly blurred, he has always been smiling, he was smiling +before his face was removed, the outermost face of something else, 1920s newspaper +portrait illustration, sepia, dread in pleasantness +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### MONSTERS — Event 93 + +**93-M01 — The Skinless Watcher** +``` +A tall shifting form in a stone basement New York 1924, assembled from layers of +overlapping impressions of human faces worn like pages in a book, the outermost +a smiling man in 1920s formal wear, the thing beneath has nothing where features +should be, a gilt mirror on the wall reflects a figure with no face whatsoever, +it is measuring the viewer's face checking the fit, 1920s pulp horror illustration, +chiaroscuro, deeply wrong, not described in detail only implied +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**93-M02 — The Watcher's Reflection** +``` +A large oval gilt-framed mirror on a stone basement wall 1924, the reflection shows +the room correctly except for one figure which has no face where a face should be, +not darkness not void simply the absence of any feature, the mirror is the only +place the entity is visible as itself, 1920s horror illustration, cold and gold, +the wrongness is all in what is not there +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### ITEMS — Event 93 + +**93-I01 — The Original Telegram** +``` +A 1920s Western Union telegram on yellowed paper, typed in period uppercase +typeface, words visible include STOP THE WHEEL IS TURNING and DO NOT COME TO THE +BROWNSTONE and THE SKIN DOES NOT FIT ANYMORE, paper held by a hand against dark +background, dramatic single light source, Art Deco era detail, sepia tones, +photorealistic period prop +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**93-I02 — The Faceless Codex** +``` +Small ancient book bound in material not quite leather, wrapped in aged oilcloth +partially unwrapped, visible pages show script resembling no known language geometric +and glyph-like, slightly warm to look at, on a dark mahogany library desk with a +single candle, 1920s illustration style close-up still life, sepia and amber, +the shadows fall wrong on the pages +--ar 1:1 --style raw +``` + +**93-I03 — Ashworth's Journal** +``` +A leather-bound journal open on a desk 1924, handwriting visible, the final entry +in capitals IT IS WEARING HENDERSON NOW I AM SO SORRY, a half-melted candle beside +it, a glass of something untouched, the desk of someone who understood too late, +1920s horror illustration still life, amber and sepia collapsing into shadow +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**93-I04 — The Gilt Mirror (Prop)** +``` +Large oval gilt-framed mirror standing against a stone basement wall, the frame +ornate Victorian gold, the glass slightly foxed at the edges, this is the object +that will save everyone if someone is brave enough to hold it and not look away, +single dramatic light source, 1920s illustration still life, gold and cold +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**93-I05 — The Dog Portrait** +``` +A gilt-framed oil portrait of a dog in Victorian style, the dog depicted with the +full formal dignity of an aristocratic portrait subject, its face precisely cut out +leaving an oval void in the canvas, the frame and the body rendered with complete +technical seriousness, the absence funnier and sadder than all the human portraits +combined, 1920s illustration, dark wood, dry horror comedy +--ar 1:1 --style raw +``` + +--- +--- + +## EVENT 95 — RINGWORLD: A QUESTION OF SINGULARITY +*The Ringworld surface. Temporal loop / consciousness paradox.* +**Art Direction:** Hard SF concept art. Clean scrith surfaces and impossible scale. The Ringworld's arc visible in every sky shot. Soft clinical light collapsing into deep space. A feeling of civilisational immensity and complete isolation. + +--- + +### LOCATIONS — Event 95 + +**95-L01 — The Ringworld from Approach** +``` +The Ringworld filling a spacecraft forward viewport, not as a planet but as a wall, +a horizon curving upward in both directions and never ending, shadow squares +drifting in slow procession, weather systems moving across a surface the size of a +million Earths, the sheer scale making the eye refuse to process it as real, hard +SF concept art, clean and vast, awe and scale +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**95-L02 — The Boundary** +``` +A perfectly circular line on the Ringworld surface where ecology simply stops, +on one side normal Ringworld grass and insects and colour, on the other side flat +grey-brown stillness, the air pressure visibly different, sound echoing wrong, +clouds piling up against invisible walls above matching the ground boundary exactly, +hard SF illustration, the wrongness of something physically correct behaving +incorrectly, clean lines +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**95-L03 — The Quiet Zone** +``` +Flat grey-brown ground on the Ringworld surface with no plants no insects no wind, +the normal Ringworld arc visible in the sky above but weather stopping at the +invisible boundary edge, the silence of a zone that is three hundred years into a +process no one planned, hard SF concept art, stillness as dread, the Ringworld +sky as a ceiling to an empty room +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**95-L04 — Marr's Camp** +``` +A rough shelter assembled from salvaged hull plating lengths of wire a torn thermal +blanket on the Ringworld surface, inside a cot and hundreds of handwritten notebooks +the handwriting growing increasingly erratic toward the end of each before resetting +to neat script at the beginning of the next, an autodoc with a nearly exhausted +power cell, the camp of someone who has been here for subjectively years and +objectively no time at all, hard SF illustration, isolation +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**95-L05 — The Weather Spire Exterior** +``` +A two-hundred-metre tower of scrith on the Ringworld surface, perfectly circular +in cross-section, the nearly-indestructible material with its faint iridescence, +a single ground-level opening pulsing with a light that is not quite any colour +the eye has a name for, no door no markings no company, the Ringworld arc visible +behind it, hard SF concept art, scale and wrongness, clean lines +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**95-L06 — The Weather Spire Interior, Control Level** +``` +Circular chamber inside a Ringworld weather control structure, walls covered in +surfaces that reconfigure like slow displays showing data in formats no human wrote, +a raised dais in the centre with a smooth hemisphere interface that responds to +touch, the room humming at a frequency felt in the chest more than heard, iteration +count visible on one wall surface: 847, hard SF interior illustration, alientech +aesthetic, dim and precise +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**95-L07 — The Transit Arch** +``` +A standard Ringworld stepping-disc transit arch behaving in no standard way, +activating intermittently with no trigger, producing objects from other iterations +that disappear before they can be retrieved, the destination display cycling through +coordinates that resolve to nowhere, one tool visible briefly bearing an engraving +that matches a viewer's own equipment, hard SF illustration, the uncanny in +familiar technology +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### NPCs — Event 95 + +**95-NPC-01 — Dr. Silev Marr (The Looped Researcher)** +``` +Portrait of a human male appears mid-fifties, lean and weathered, hair gone +completely white, eyes clear and sharp with the exhaustion of someone who has +died here more times than he can count and woken at the beginning of each cycle, +layered clothing repaired many times, moving carefully as though the ground might +give way, a man whose mind is intact and whose body carries three hundred years of +subjective experience, hard SF portrait illustration, isolation and clarity +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### ITEMS — Event 95 + +**95-I01 — Marr's Notebooks** +``` +A collection of hundreds of handwritten notebooks, the handwriting in each volume +growing increasingly erratic toward the final pages before the next volume opens +in neat careful script, the first entry of every volume identical word for word, +the accumulated record of a man living the same loop across three centuries, hard +SF still life, clinical light, the horror of repetition made physical +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**95-I02 — The Engraved Tool (Loop Artifact)** +``` +A piece of standard survey equipment with an engraving on its handle matching +exactly a viewer's own initials and equipment number, found in a stepping-disc +transit arch on the Ringworld, an object that has not been lost yet, the moment +of recognition that the players are already part of the loop, hard SF still life, +clinical light, the uncanny in ordinary equipment +--ar 1:1 --style raw +``` + +--- +--- + +## EVENT 159 — BRP: DAY ONE — LONDON FALLS +*London, South Bank, Sunday 17 May 2026. Outbreak / survival.* +**Art Direction:** Reportage ink sketch. Rough, urgent, journalistic. Like a war correspondent's sketchbook. Crosshatched shadows, incomplete lines suggesting motion. Nothing clean. Nothing composed. The city you know, wrong. + +--- + +### LOCATIONS — Event 159 + +**159-L01 — The South Bank, Establishing** +``` +London South Bank 2026 Sunday morning, the Thames visible, Tate Modern and the +Shard on the horizon, a perfectly ordinary scene disrupted by distant sirens and +a crowd that is moving with slightly too much urgency, someone standing very still +near a coffee shop, everyone else on their phones, red emergency alert visible on +multiple screens, reportage ink sketch style, urgent journalistic atmosphere, +incomplete lines suggesting motion +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**159-L02 — The Bus Crash, Southwark Street** +``` +A double-decker bus crumpled against a parked lorry on a London street 2026, a +crowd of twenty people gathered all on their phones, nobody moving with purpose, +a man in a high-vis vest facing slightly away from the bus standing completely +still with his head tilted fifteen degrees to the left, half-eaten sausage roll +on the pavement beside him, reportage ink sketch, urgent and wrong, crosshatched +shadow +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**159-L03 — Borough Market** +``` +Borough Market London Sunday 2026, market open but wrong, stalls closing mid-trade, +vendors arguing, a radio tuned to news saying nothing useful, a woman pulling down +metal shutters on a Nigerian-British food stall with complete economy of motion, +everyone on phones, the distant sounds of something happening that nobody can name +yet, reportage ink sketch, urgent journalistic atmosphere +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**159-L04 — The Riverside Path, Jubilee Walkway** +``` +The South Bank riverside path London 2026, exposed sightlines to the Thames and +the north bank, a figure standing in the river up to mid-thigh facing the far bank +doing nothing, not drowning not doing anything, tourist boards and benches and +cyclists and this one figure that is completely still in moving water, reportage +ink sketch, the horror of passivity, incomplete lines, dread +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**159-L05 — The Blue Anchor Pub Interior** +``` +A traditional Victorian London pub interior 2026, chairs barricaded against the +door, twelve survivors crowded inside too warm, bottles stacked against windows, +food behind the bar, a figure in the corner with a jacket pulled over one arm +sitting very quietly, the ceiling low the walls thick, fear managed into routine, +someone who hasn't told anyone what happened to their arm, reportage ink sketch, +urgency and enclosure +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**159-L06 — Tower Bridge Approach at Dusk** +``` +Tower Bridge London 2026 approaching dusk, the distinctive blue-and-white stonework +catching the last afternoon sun, a group of civilians with improvised weapons +controlling the access gate, a man in a foreman's hi-vis with a fire axe resting +against his leg not raised, the bridge itself almost normal-looking from 400 metres, +reportage ink sketch, the last light of a bad day, urgency and hope +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**159-L07 — Bankside Pier and the RIB** +``` +Bankside Pier London 2026 low tide, a six-metre rigid inflatable boat moored at +the end, the Thames grey and wide beyond it, behind the pier the darkness of the +Blackfriars underpass where sounds are coming from that everyone now recognises +immediately, the smell of low-tide Thames mud, the boat is the way out and the +underpass is between here and it, reportage ink sketch, dusk light on water, +urgency and cost +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### NPCs — Event 159 + +**159-NPC-01 — Fatima Osei (Borough Market Stall Owner)** +``` +Portrait of a Nigerian-British woman 50s London 2026, broad shoulders close-cropped +grey hair, market apron over a heavy coat, moving with complete economy of motion +no wasted steps, the expression not frightened but alert, the bearing of someone +who has seen riots a gas explosion and now this, not panicking, making an assessment, +reportage ink sketch portrait +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**159-NPC-02 — Callum Fraser (Metropolitan Police Constable)** +``` +Portrait of a Metropolitan Police constable male 28 Scottish 2026, uniform but +no protective equipment beyond standard kit, looking for someone to tell him what +to do, a radio that is intermittently functional, the expression of someone whose +training has provided no framework for tonight, not corrupt not cruel just +completely out of his depth and aware of it, reportage ink sketch portrait +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**159-NPC-03 — Dr. Yasmin Sharif (NHS Emergency Medicine, Off-Duty)** +``` +Portrait of a mixed British-Pakistani woman mid-forties 2026, civilian clothes +dark trousers walking boots good coat, reading glasses pushed up on her head, the +unhurried efficiency of someone who has worked resus for twenty years, the kind +of calm that is not optimism but competence, deeply quietly heroic without making +anything of it, reportage ink sketch portrait +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**159-NPC-04 — Marcus (19, Livestreamer)** +``` +Portrait of a Black British young man 19 2026, hoodie hood up, phone on a selfie +stick running live to 41,000 viewers, a Lime bike barely let go of, terror +resolving into content-creator energy because he does not know how else to process +this, 31 percent battery, the expression of someone broadcasting into the dark for +company, reportage ink sketch portrait +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**159-NPC-05 — Helen (Late 60s, Cabinet Office Retired)** +``` +Portrait of a white British woman late sixties 2026, well-dressed for a day out +good coat sensible shoes a National Theatre tote bag, calm in a way that is either +extraordinary grace or complete dissociation, the bearing of someone who spent +thirty years in the Cabinet Office and retired and is now watching something she +was briefly briefed on in 2019 actually happen, reportage ink sketch portrait, +the bravest person in the scenario +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**159-NPC-06 — Pete (Bridge Group Leader)** +``` +Portrait of a man 50s London 2026, site-manager build broad and competent, +hi-vis vest with FOREMAN on the back, steel-toed boots, a fire axe resting against +his leg not raised, the expression of someone who has made hard decisions today +and will make more, not a villain, someone doing triage on a situation with no +good options, broken in a specific way that reads as steadiness, reportage ink +sketch portrait +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### MONSTERS — Event 159 + +**159-M01 — The High-Vis Man (Early Infected)** +``` +A man in a construction high-vis vest on a London street 2026 standing completely +still facing slightly away from a crashed bus, head tilted fifteen degrees, eyes +open and tracking but not focusing, a half-eaten sausage roll on the pavement +beside him, the unnatural stillness of something that has stopped being a person +but has not yet done anything, more disturbing than aggression, reportage ink +sketch, the horror of the passive, incomplete lines +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +**159-M02 — The Figure in the River** +``` +A figure standing in the Thames up to mid-thigh 2026 facing the far bank, not +drowning not moving not doing anything, the water moving around them while they +remain perfectly still, seen from the Jubilee Walkway in morning light, the tourist +boards and benches of the South Bank in the foreground and this figure in the +distance that is simply wrong, reportage ink sketch, horror of passivity, dread +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**159-M03 — Danny Reanimating (The Pub)** +``` +A man standing up slowly in the corner of a Victorian pub 2026, a jacket falling +from one arm revealing a wound, the moment before everyone in the room understands +what is happening, twelve survivors nearby, the ceiling low, nowhere to go, +the expression on every other face at the moment of recognition, reportage ink +sketch, the horror of the known, crosshatched shadow +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +--- + +### ITEMS — Event 159 + +**159-I01 — The NHS Emergency Alert** +``` +A phone screen filled red with the UK Government Emergency Alert notification +2026, two-tone alarm implied, text reading EMERGENCY ALERT UK Government STAY +INDOORS AVOID ALL CONTACT WITH PERSONS WHO APPEAR CONFUSED OR AGGRESSIVE EMERGENCY +SERVICES ARE RESPONDING THIS IS NOT A TEST, every phone in a public space showing +the same red screen simultaneously, reportage ink sketch, the ordinary made +terrible +--ar 9:16 --style raw +``` + +**159-I02 — Marcus's Drone View of London** +``` +Aerial drone footage of central London 2026, the Thames visible, the city from +above with three separate columns of smoke visible south of the river, the chaos +more extensive than anyone expected, normal London from above except for the smoke +and the movement patterns that are wrong, shared live to 41,000 people watching, +reportage ink sketch aerial illustration, the scale of it +--ar 16:9 --style raw +``` + +**159-I03 — Callum's Radio Fragment** +``` +A Metropolitan Police radio handset 2026, a partial transcript on a torn notepad +page beside it, the words legible: all units hold the north bank line do not cross +repeat do not cross, the handwriting of someone who wrote it down before they +understood what it meant, single light source, reportage ink sketch still life +--ar 3:4 --style raw +``` + +--- + +## USAGE NOTES + +- All `--ar` values can be adjusted to suit Midjourney's current interface +- `--style raw` reduces Midjourney's default aesthetic processing — remove if you prefer more polish +- For NPC portraits: try `--ar 2:3` for vertical card format +- For location hero art: `--ar 16:9` for widescreen, `--ar 3:2` for print +- Add `--v 6` or `--v 6.1` for the latest Midjourney model if not set as default +- Paste prompts directly into `/imagine` in Midjourney Discord or the web interface +- For physical handout props (telegram, newspaper, codex): `--ar 3:4` prints well on A5 + +--- + +*Generated from scenario files: events 91, 92, 93, 95, 159* +*ChaosiumCon UK 2026 — timevans666*