STANDING ORDER: twenty more plates of the underground

The stuff between the numbered rooms, in the same 1974 two-ink screen print: the blast door from inside, the stair, the exchange, the laundry, washroom, stores, water gallery, cloakroom, kitchen, chapel, workshop, library, barber's corner, mushroom beds, play space, a family cabin, battery room, ventilation gallery, haulage incline and the memorial garden. All twenty ride in the adventure's plate list as 21-40. Six were regenerated for daylight or the wrong century, and so_27 needed three attempts: 'changing room' is this scenario's blocked phrase. Both lessons are in the art sheet. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 ### Still to do

 - **Desk passes**, in the house order: GM chair, Act Three stress, player-chair contrarian.
- **Art is complete:** twelve faces, nineteen plates and fourteen maps. Mr Smith must never have a portrait.
+- **Art is complete:** twelve faces, thirty-nine plates and fourteen maps. Mr Smith must never have a portrait.

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@@ -68,7 +68,8 @@ regenerate it** — a picture that contradicts a clue is worse than no picture.

 ## Plates — `art/scenes/`

-**All nineteen are generated**, as `art/scenes/so_NN_<stem>.webp`.
+**All thirty-nine are generated**, as `art/scenes/so_NN_<stem>.webp` — the nineteen listed
+here and below, and the twenty v1.2 texture plates in their own table further down.

 | File | Where it is used |
 |---|---|
@@ -160,6 +161,64 @@ nearly so**, for the creche's reason: a crowd makes a count load-bearing.
 | `so_18_estate` | 18 · The Estate | *…an old coal mine road deep underground lined on both sides with small homemade houses built of timber and plywood, each with a painted front door and a lamp, washing hung across the road, a child's tricycle by a doorstep, doors ajar, warm and crowded with belongings, nobody visible* |
 | `so_19_studio` | 7 · The studio | *…a small windowless radio studio from 1962 with acoustic tiles, a large grey reel-to-reel tape machine standing on the desk with two big spools of tape, a heavy old microphone on a desk stand, a squat iron safe with a dial in the corner, a single desk lamp, nobody present* |

+### Texture plates added in v1.2 — `so_20` to `so_39`
+
+Twenty more of the underground, for the same reason as the interiors: the Seat is a
+*place people live in*, and the table believes that faster from a picture of a laundry
+than from a paragraph saying so. Same shared prefix, `--ar 3:2`, same rule — rooms empty
+or nearly so, no count anywhere load-bearing. None of these is a location in its own
+right on the Locations table; they are the stuff between the numbered rooms, and the GM
+shows them while the players walk.
+
+| File | Show it for | Prompt tail |
+|---|---|---|
+| `so_20_blastdoor` | The blast door, from inside | *…a huge round steel blast door seen from inside a painted concrete lobby deep underground, the door shut and its locking wheel centred, a painted stripe across the floor in front of it, a hand lamp hanging on a hook beside it, nobody present* |
+| `so_21_stair` | The stair down from the adit | *…a long straight concrete stairway descending inside a rock-cut shaft, a steel handrail down one side, caged electric lamps at intervals throwing pools of light, the bottom of the flight lost in shadow, nobody present* |
+| `so_22_exchange` | The telephone exchange | *…a small underground telephone exchange from 1974, a tall cord switchboard with rows of sockets and hanging patch leads, an operator's wooden chair pushed back, a headset resting on its hook, one desk lamp, nobody present* |
+| `so_23_laundry` | The laundry | *…an underground laundry room from 1974 deep below ground with no windows, two large copper washing coppers with wooden lids, a hand-cranked mangle beside a stone sink, wet sheets hanging from a wooden drying rack hauled up to the low concrete ceiling, painted brick walls, caged lamps, steam in the air, nobody present* |
+| `so_24_washroom` | The washroom | *…an underground washroom from 1974, a long row of white enamel basins along a painted brick wall, a shelf of shaving brushes and tin mugs above them, a rolled towel on a rail, a wet tiled floor, nobody present* |
+| `so_25_store` | Stores | *…an underground dry goods store from 1974, deep wooden shelves stacked with identical plain tins and sacks, brass scales on a counter, a closed ledger beside them, a single caged lamp, nobody present* |
+| `so_26_water` | The water gallery | *…a water gallery inside a rock chamber deep underground with a low rough ceiling, no sky and no horizon, three tall riveted steel tanks standing against the rock face, pipes and stopcocks along the wall, a tin cup on a chain at a brass tap, caged lamps overhead, nobody present* |
+| `so_27_lobbykit` | The changing lobby | *…an underground cloakroom from 1974 with no windows, a long row of oilskin coats hanging on iron pegs down a painted brick wall, a rack of wellington boots beneath them, a long wooden bench, a mop and bucket in the corner, a caged lamp, nobody present* |
+| `so_28_kitchen` | The kitchen behind the canteen | *…an underground institutional kitchen from 1974, huge steel stock pots on a coal range, a hand-cranked potato peeling machine, ladles and colanders hanging above a scrubbed table, trays stacked ready, nobody present* |
+| `so_29_chapel` | The chapel, mid-service | *…a tiny chapel inside a painted concrete room deep underground with a low ceiling and no windows, eight wooden chairs facing a plain table with a cloth and a simple wooden cross, a paper flower in a jam jar, one caged electric lamp, no people* |
+| `so_30_workshop` | The fitters' workshop | *…an underground fitters workshop from 1974 with no windows and no daylight, a painted rock wall behind the bench, a belt-driven lathe, a heavy bench with a vice and a shadow board of hand tools, a half-repaired electric motor in pieces on newspaper, caged lamps overhead, nobody present* |
+| `so_31_library` | The library | *…a small underground lending library from 1974, shelves of worn hardbacks with faded spines, a rack of magazines all from the same year, one armchair worn into a shape, a reading lamp, nobody present* |
+| `so_32_barber` | The barber's corner | *…a barbers corner in an underground corridor from 1974, one chair facing a mirror screwed to painted brick, hand clippers and a leather strop on a shelf, a sheet folded over the chair back, hair swept into a neat pile, nobody present* |
+| `so_33_mushroom` | The mushroom gallery | *…a close view of mushroom growing beds in a disused mine gallery underground, tiered timber trays of dark compost in the foreground crowded with pale mushrooms, low lamps hung close above the trays, timber props and damp rock behind, nobody present* |
+| `so_34_playspace` | The play space | *…a rock alcove underground made into a childrens play space in 1974, hopscotch squares chalked on the concrete floor, a skipping rope coiled in a corner, home-made wooden toys in a crate, a rope swing hanging from a roof beam, no children present* |
+| `so_35_cabin` | A family cabin on the Estate | *…a family cabin built along an underground roadway in 1974, a plywood partition with a blanket hung for a door, two bunks made up with quilts, a shelf holding a wind-up clock and framed photographs, a paraffin lamp, nobody present* |
+| `so_36_battery` | The battery room | *…an underground battery room from 1974, long wooden racks of large glass accumulator cells in rows, lead links between them, insulated matting on the floor, one dim bulkhead lamp, nobody present* |
+| `so_37_vent` | The ventilation gallery | *…an underground ventilation gallery from 1974, an enormous steel fan in a circular duct seen end on, louvred shutters and square filter frames stacked beside it, ducting running away into the dark, nobody present* |
+| `so_38_incline` | The haulage incline | *…an underground haulage incline inside a rock tunnel with a timbered roof close overhead and no sky, narrow-gauge rails rising away into darkness, a small steel tub standing on the rails held by a chain, a rope drum and brake wheel in the foreground, caged lamps, nobody present* |
+| `so_39_rest` | The memorial garden | *…a small rock alcove deep underground kept as a memorial garden, rows of plain unmarked wooden markers, paper flowers in jam jars, a swept floor, one warm lamp above, nobody present* |
+
+**Rejected and regenerated in v1.2, all for the same two faults.** Daylight, and the
+wrong century. The laundry came back as a modern launderette; the water gallery, the
+chapel and the haulage incline came back *outdoors* under open sky; the workshop had a
+glazed wall of daylight behind the bench — the fault that sank the first plant floor, and
+worth restating: **nobody below can see the sky, so no plate may show one.** The mushroom
+gallery came back a handsome empty gallery with no mushrooms in it. Each was re-prompted
+with the fault named — *no windows, no sky and no horizon, a close view of the trays* —
+and all six then rendered.
+
+**The chapel came back as a service in progress**, a congregation seated under a great
+painted sun in a vaulted chamber, instead of the eight empty chairs that were asked for.
+Kept, and it is the best plate in the set: a roomful of people who have not seen the sky
+since 1974, sitting under a painted one. The crowd is safe here because no count in the
+scenario rests on it. The Vigil hall (`so_13`) stays the empty room with the blank board.
+
+**`so_27` took three attempts and is the v1.2 blocked prompt.** *Changing room* is the
+suspect — the wording that finally ran calls it a cloakroom and drops the shower entirely.
+Same lesson as Joan's portrait: when a job dies silently, reword, do not blame the account.
+
+**The blast door plate came back open**, a round portal with the corridor beyond it,
+rather than shut with its wheel centred. Kept: it is the better picture of the way in,
+and the shut door is already the Lobby blueprint's job. Caption it *the door, from the
+inside* and nothing contradicts the fiction.
+
+---
+
 **The Vigil hall's board is blank on purpose.** It is the roll of honour, and the 1974
 list of the dead has no names on it. If a render puts lettering on it, regenerate.

@@ -178,7 +178,29 @@ export const SO_PLATES = [
  { name: "17 · The Sump",                        src: "art/scenes/so_15_sump.webp" },
  { name: "18 · The dormitories",                 src: "art/scenes/so_16_dormitory.webp" },
  { name: "19 · The canteen",                     src: "art/scenes/so_17_canteen.webp" },
-  { name: "20 · The Estate",                      src: "art/scenes/so_18_estate.webp" }
+  { name: "20 · The Estate",                      src: "art/scenes/so_18_estate.webp" },
+
+  /* v1.2 — the stuff between the numbered rooms. The Seat is a place people live in. */
+  { name: "21 · The door, from the inside", src: "art/scenes/so_20_blastdoor.webp" },
+  { name: "22 · The stair down",            src: "art/scenes/so_21_stair.webp" },
+  { name: "23 · The telephone exchange",    src: "art/scenes/so_22_exchange.webp" },
+  { name: "24 · The laundry",               src: "art/scenes/so_23_laundry.webp" },
+  { name: "25 · The washroom",              src: "art/scenes/so_24_washroom.webp" },
+  { name: "26 · Stores",                    src: "art/scenes/so_25_store.webp" },
+  { name: "27 · The water gallery",         src: "art/scenes/so_26_water.webp" },
+  { name: "28 · The changing lobby",        src: "art/scenes/so_27_lobbykit.webp" },
+  { name: "29 · The kitchen",               src: "art/scenes/so_28_kitchen.webp" },
+  { name: "30 · The chapel",                src: "art/scenes/so_29_chapel.webp" },
+  { name: "31 · The workshop",              src: "art/scenes/so_30_workshop.webp" },
+  { name: "32 · The library",               src: "art/scenes/so_31_library.webp" },
+  { name: "33 · The barber's corner",       src: "art/scenes/so_32_barber.webp" },
+  { name: "34 · The mushroom gallery",      src: "art/scenes/so_33_mushroom.webp" },
+  { name: "35 · The play space",            src: "art/scenes/so_34_playspace.webp" },
+  { name: "36 · A family cabin",            src: "art/scenes/so_35_cabin.webp" },
+  { name: "37 · The battery room",          src: "art/scenes/so_36_battery.webp" },
+  { name: "38 · The ventilation gallery",   src: "art/scenes/so_37_vent.webp" },
+  { name: "39 · The haulage incline",       src: "art/scenes/so_38_incline.webp" },
+  { name: "40 · The memorial garden",       src: "art/scenes/so_39_rest.webp" }
 ];

 /* The underground as thirteen blueprint scenes, drawn by tools/bellhouse-plans.mjs. Numbers