STANDING ORDER v1.1: simpler case; the children carry the song
Cut the register mechanic, the census creature, the paperwork route and half the clues. The under-twelves know Mr Smith's song from the nightly creche speaker, so Act Three is a choice: burn the tape and take the children into care, keep the families below, or cure them with a cut tape first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* paragraph, which is visible in the journal rather than silently dropped.
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* Two cast actors, and only two: the wardens the Controller sends in Act Two, and the man
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* who leads them. Everybody else below is there to be talked to, and the three creatures
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* are the bestiary's own. The detention fight is measured by tools/detention-tables.mjs
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* who leads them. Everybody else below is there to be talked to, and the quarantine unit
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* is the bestiary's own. The detention fight is measured by tools/detention-tables.mjs
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* against the declared cast, and the document cites that artifact.
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*/
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import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
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@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ export const SO_CAST = [
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{ fam: "spot", spec: "", val: 45 }],
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weapons: ["punch", "cudgel"],
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tactics: "A wooden truncheon, issued 1974 and oiled every Friday since. They have "
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+ "arrested drunks and a man who stole from the Allotments; they have never fought anybody "
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+ "arrested drunks and a man who stole from the vegetable tunnels; they have never fought anybody "
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+ "who fights back. They come in pairs, ask once, and take hold of arms. THEY ARE "
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+ "DETAINING, NOT KILLING: a warden stops hitting an agent who is down and puts the "
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+ "cuffs on instead. A warden who is hurt badly steps back and calls for Teague. If an "
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@@ -202,12 +202,12 @@ export const SO_CAST = [
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{ fam: "insight", spec: "", val: 50 },
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{ fam: "spot", spec: "", val: 55 }],
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weapons: ["punch", "cudgel"],
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tactics: "The only man below who has decided the surface is a lie. He leads the "
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tactics: "Not a villain: a widower who does what the Controller asks. He leads the "
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+ "detail himself because he will not send anybody where he would not go. His "
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+ "service pistol is in the armoury and he leaves it there on purpose. He asks them to "
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+ "come quietly, twice. SCRIPT BREAK: his daughter Nell, nine, is in the creche; an "
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+ "agent who names her puts a father in the corridor instead of a warden, and he "
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+ "stands the detail down." }
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+ "stands the detail down. He will fight anybody who tries to take her." }
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];
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/* The people, for showing. Joan Wetherlaw has no portrait yet — see STANDING_ORDER_ART. */
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