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+# Crossing case — The Custodians: STANDING ORDER
+
+> *Two hundred and six people went underground in 1974 to govern the country after the
+> war. There was no war. They have been governing it for fifty-two years, the order that
+> put them there renews itself every ninety days, and the next renewal is on Thursday.*
+
+## STATUS — read this before anything else
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| **Version** | **v0.1**, 15 September 2026 — first draft, written in one pass |
+| **Can it be run?** | **Yes, from this document alone,** with the compendium for sheets and the three bestiary creatures. |
+| **Is it convention-ready?** | **No.** No playtest of any kind, desk or human. The clock in Session Timing is an estimate and nothing has tested it. Treat every timing as a guess until somebody runs it. |
+| **What it is** | A **three-act one-shot**. It ends in the session; there is no second part and the text must not promise one. |
+| **Players** | 4–6 from the duty roster. The cast is declared in Casting and the build enforces it. |
+| **Runtime** | Budgeted **3h00 of play** in three acts of 45 / 55 / 50 minutes plus a ten-minute break. Untested. |
+
+### The three things that are not obvious
+
+1. **Nobody in Bellhouse is a monster and almost nobody is hostile.** The population are
+ civil servants doing an appalling job impeccably, and they will offer the agents tea
+ before they ask them anything. The GM reflex under pressure is to make the underground
+ people sinister. Do not. The horror is that they are correct.
+2. **The apocalypse is not a bomb, it is a reconciliation.** When the site's population
+ record exceeds the surviving population of the region it governs, the record resolves
+ the contradiction by making the region match. That is the threat, it is arithmetic,
+ and Act Two is where the players are shown the sum.
+3. **Act Three is a decision, not a fight.** All three endings are real and all three
+ cost something. If the table reaches for violence the scenario still works, but see
+ EXPOSURE — the quarantine unit will kill them and is meant to be argued with.
+
+### Still to do
+
+- **A desk playtest.** None has been run. The act timings, the Act Two interview load and
+ whether Act Three's third option is findable are all unverified.
+- **Handout production.** The three handouts are written here as text and have no print
+ pack. CLEAN GROUND's `CLEAN_GROUND_HANDOUTS.html` is the model.
+- **A decision on Kit Marlow** — see Open questions. She is the cost of the tidiest
+ ending and the draft may be leaning on a seventeen-year-old too hard.
+
+---
+
+## GM ESSENTIALS
+
+- **System:** d100 roll-under a percentage skill. **Special** under a fifth of the skill,
+ **critical** under a twentieth; 96–99 always fail and 00 always fumbles.
+- **Opposed rolls: a tie goes to whoever is being acted upon.** Resisting is stronger than
+ the numbers look. Two beats in Act Two depend on this.
+- **Coherence runs 10 → 0** and measures how well-filed an agent is. Spending it is how
+ the supernatural works, and **nothing in this scenario gives any of it back.**
+- **Borrowed Authority:** a named credential with a scope. Inside its scope there is no
+ roll — it costs 1 Trust and it works. One tier beyond is a roll at −20 per red flag
+ broken. Two tiers beyond is impossible at any skill. **Act Three's best ending is a
+ Borrowed Authority problem,** so read that section of the rules before you run this.
+- **A warrant card is a named authority.** This matters more here than in any other case
+ in the corpus, and Act Three turns on it.
+
+---
+
+## Overview
+
+The department commissioned Regional Seat of Government 12 — **Bellhouse**, under
+Sheldon Moor in the Peak District — in 1962, and staffed it in 1974 during a genuine war
+scare. Its Standing Order says: *on execution, the site assumes the government of Region
+12 and does not surface until this order is cancelled by the named authority.*
+
+The order was executed on 4 November 1974 **as a drill**. Deputy Controller Edith Marlow
+filed the drill as live, on purpose, because she believed a real one was coming inside
+the year and wanted the site already running when it did.
+
+Reality took the filing. Two hundred and six people went down. Down there the war
+happened, and they have been governing its aftermath for fifty-two years: issuing ration
+books, logging fallout that nobody up here can measure, answering correspondence from
+towns that are perfectly fine.
+
+The order renews every ninety days by standing instruction. Each renewal writes a little
+more of the "after" into the moor above, which is why a farm at Wetherlaw has been
+sweeping ash off its yard for four years. **Renewal 211 is due on Thursday, and Registry
+has done the sum: at 211 the site's population record exceeds Region 12's surviving
+population on paper.** A record cannot hold both. It resolves by correction.
+
+### Design intent
+
+1. **The end of the world is a document, and the people administering it are kind.** This
+ is a post-apocalyptic scenario in which the apocalypse is entirely clerical and every
+ person responsible for it believed they were doing their duty.
+2. **It is an arrangement case, not a fight.** Two of the three endings involve no
+ violence at all, and the one creature that can wipe the party is there to be talked
+ down. The bestiary entries are load-bearing but the dice are not the point.
+3. **The cost is named and not softened.** The tidy ending kills sixty-one children who
+ have no record above ground. The text says so plainly and does not offer the GM a way
+ to make it painless. If the table finds a fourth way out, let them have it.
+4. **It is deliberately NOT CLEAN GROUND.** That case is a filed valley of people walking
+ north forever, found by accident, resolved by cancellation. This one is a filed
+ institution that works, that the department built on purpose, and that can be *amended*
+ rather than cancelled.
+5. **Three things stay unresolved.** They are named in the GM notes as *do not resolve*.
+
+---
+
+## Session Timing
+
+> ⚠ **Every figure in this table is an estimate and nothing has tested it.** The first
+> desk pass is also the first test of this clock.
+
+| | Act | Budget | GM checkpoint |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | **The Returns** — Wetherlaw farm, the vent head, getting in | 45 min | They are at the blast door by 0:40 |
+| — | *Break* | 10 min | |
+| 2 | **Bellhouse** — the population, the Registry, the sum | 55 min | Pennyfeather has shown them the sum by 1:45 |
+| 3 | **Renewal** — Thursday, the signing, the decision | 50 min | The signing starts no later than 2:35 |
+
+**If you are running late,** cut in this order: the vent-head climb in Act One (put them
+at the postal pipe instead), then the crèche visit in Act Two (move Kit Marlow into the
+corridor outside the Registry), then Teague's confrontation in Act Three (he stands down
+when Sowerby tells him to, off-screen). **Do not cut Pennyfeather's sum or the signing.**
+
+---
+
+## Plot Summary (GM truth)
+
+Bellhouse is real, it is where the map says it is, and everyone in it is alive.
+
+In 1962 the department built RSG 12 into the limestone under Sheldon Moor, as one of a
+dozen regional seats. In October 1974 the scare was severe enough that the site was
+staffed and exercised. The exercise order and the live order are the same document with a
+different box ticked.
+
+**Edith Marlow ticked the other box.** She was Deputy Controller, she was fifty, and she
+had read the same traffic as everyone else and drawn a harder conclusion. Her reasoning is
+in her own hand in the file: a site that begins governing *after* the event is a site that
+spends its first fortnight arguing about whether it is allowed to. She removed that
+fortnight.
+
+Reality keeps a record of what belongs where. The record now said Region 12 had been
+attacked, and so it had. Not up here — down there, and in the ground between.
+
+**What the last fifty-two years have been.** Two hundred and six went down; the
+population below is now two hundred and thirty-one, of whom sixty-one were born there and
+have no record anywhere else. They govern a region they have never seen. They receive
+correspondence — it arrives — and they answer it, and their answers go up a pipe that
+does not come out anywhere. Their fallout readings are real readings of a real
+contamination that exists only inside the order.
+
+**What changed four years ago.** Renewals began pushing the boundary outward. Ash that is
+not ash falls on Wetherlaw farm, three-quarters of a mile from the vent head. Joan
+Wetherlaw's dog went out into it in 2024 and came back with an extra week of life in its
+records and none in its body.
+
+**Why the department is here now.** Four months ago one of Bellhouse's returns came out of
+the pipe onto a real desk in Registry — franked 1974, answering a question nobody had
+asked. Bhattacharya's section traced it. In doing so they found the renewal schedule and,
+in the site's own establishment returns, the sum.
+
+**The sum.** Region 12's surviving population, as the order records it, decays a little
+each renewal. Bellhouse's population grows. At **renewal 211 — Thursday — the second
+number passes the first.** A governing record whose government is larger than the governed
+is a contradiction, and this one resolves the way records do: it corrects the region.
+
+### Timeline
+
+| When | What |
+|---|---|
+| 1962 | RSG 12 "Bellhouse" commissioned under Sheldon Moor. Standing Order drafted. |
+| Oct 1974 | War scare. Site staffed and exercised; 206 personnel go down. |
+| **4 Nov 1974** | **Marlow files the drill as live.** The order executes. |
+| 1974–2022 | Fifty-two years of government. 61 children born below. Marlow, now 101, is in the sick bay and has not spoken plainly since 2019. |
+| 2022 | Renewals begin to push the boundary. Ash starts falling at Wetherlaw. |
+| 2024 | Joan Wetherlaw's dog goes out into the ash and comes back wrong. |
+| May 2026 | A Bellhouse return arrives in Registry, franked 1974. |
+| **Thursday** | **Renewal 211.** The sum crosses. |
+
+### Revelations (5, and that is all)
+
+1. The site is live and the people in it are alive. *(Act One)*
+2. They believe the war happened, and by their record it did. *(Act Two, first ten minutes)*
+3. It was a drill, and one person filed it wrong on purpose. *(Act Two, Marlow)*
+4. The renewal is what pushes the boundary out. *(Act Two, Kowalczyk or Pennyfeather)*
+5. At 211 the sum crosses and the region is corrected to match. *(Act Two, Pennyfeather)*
+
+---
+
+## The Countdown — what Bellhouse does on schedule
+
+The site does not react to the agents. It runs its day. Print this and run it off the
+clock whether or not the players are anywhere near it.
+
+| Step | When | What happens, whatever the players are doing |
+|---|---|---|
+| 0 | On arrival | Shift change. The corridors are briefly full. Nobody is looking for intruders because there has never been one. |
+| 1 | +25 min | **The broadcast.** Sowerby reads the daily regional bulletin over the tannoy — casualty figures, ration adjustments, a weather report for a sky nobody has seen. It is four minutes long and the whole site stops to listen. |
+| 2 | +50 min | **Teague is told there are strangers below.** From here he is looking for them. He is not yet hostile; he is a policeman with an anomaly. |
+| 3 | +1h20 | **The establishment return is posted.** Pennyfeather files the population count that makes Thursday's sum what it is. Stopping this does not stop Thursday — the number is already true — but a player who tries has understood the case. |
+| 4 | +2h00 | **Vigil.** The site's fifty-two-year remembrance for the surface dead. Everyone attends. It is genuinely moving and it is for nothing. |
+| 5 | **Thursday, 06:00** | **Renewal 211.** Sowerby signs, Teague countersigns, Pennyfeather files. Act Three. |
+
+---
+
+## Handouts
+
+### SO-H01 — The return that came out of the pipe
+
+*A4, buff, typed on a manual machine, franked 4 NOV 1974. Give it in the briefing.*
+
+> REGION 12 — SEAT RETURN — WEEK 1
+> ESTABLISHMENT: 206. CASUALTIES THIS PERIOD: NIL.
+> REGIONAL SURVIVING POPULATION (EST.): 1,140,000.
+> SUPPLY: 11 YEARS AT CURRENT SCALE.
+> QUERY TO CENTRE: CONFIRM AUTHORITY TO ISSUE RATION DOCUMENTS IN OWN NAME.
+> QUERY TO CENTRE: CONFIRM DISPOSAL OF SURFACE REMAINS AT SHELDON.
+> SIGNED: E. MARLOW, DEPUTY CONTROLLER.
+
+**What it is for.** Two hidden things. *Casualties this period: nil* is wrong for week one
+after an attack and right for week one of a drill. And the second query asks about bodies
+at Sheldon, which is where the vent head is — the first hint the boundary was always
+touching the surface.
+
+### SO-H02 — Standing Order 12, extract
+
+*A4, foolscap, two paragraphs and a signature block. Registry supplies it on request.*
+
+> 4. On execution this Seat assumes the government of Region 12 and shall not surface
+> until this Order is cancelled by the named authority or by an officer holding a warrant
+> of the Department in person at the Seat.
+>
+> 5. This Order renews at ninety days by the signature of the Controller, countersigned,
+> and is thereafter filed. Renewal is not a decision and shall not be minuted as one.
+>
+> NAMED AUTHORITY: SIR HUGH ELLERBY-STANNARD, PERMANENT UNDER-SECRETARY.
+
+**What it is for.** It is the whole of Act Three. Ellerby-Stannard died in 1981 — but
+clause 4 offers a second door, *an officer holding a warrant in person at the Seat*, and
+every agent at the table is holding one. Clause 5 is the other half: renewal is not a
+decision, which is exactly why nobody down there has ever reconsidered it.
+
+### SO-H03 — Pennyfeather's working
+
+*A single sheet of squared paper, pencil, in a clerk's hand. She gives it to whoever asks
+her a straight question.*
+
+> RENEWAL 209 — SEAT 229 — REGION 1,140,000 → 231 est. decay applied
+> RENEWAL 210 — SEAT 231 — REGION 242
+> RENEWAL 211 — SEAT 231 — REGION 219
+> ————————
+> SEAT EXCEEDS REGION AT 211.
+> *I have taken this to the Controller three times. It is not minuted because renewal is
+> not a decision. — A.P.*
+
+**What it is for.** This is Revelation 5 in a player's hands. Note the last line: she has
+already tried, through the proper channel, and the proper channel is the problem.
+
+---
+
+## Act One — The Returns *(~45 min)*
+
+**Where:** Wetherlaw farm and the vent head on Sheldon Moor, a wet afternoon in
+September. **What it is for:** establish that the boundary is real, expanding, and has a
+door in it.
+
+> *Read aloud or paraphrase:*
+> *The ash starts about a mile before the farm. It lies on the verges and it does not
+> wash off in the rain, which has been falling on it for four years. Joan Wetherlaw meets
+> you at the gate with a yard brush in her hand and says: "You're not from the council."*
+
+### Hooks — how the table gets here
+
+Use whichever fits the group; all three are live and the department used all three.
+
+- **The return in Registry.** Bhattacharya's section has SO-H01 on a desk. It is
+ fifty-two years old, it is answering a question nobody asked, and it arrived in May.
+- **The farm.** Joan Wetherlaw wrote to DEFRA about her yard in 2023 and was sent a
+ leaflet. The letter reached the department by the route those letters take.
+- **The dog.** A veterinary practice in Bakewell submitted tissue it could not classify.
+ It is on Nkemdirim's bench in the briefing, and it is nine days older than the animal.
+
+### Clue trail — Act One
+
+| # | Clue | Where | How found | What it gives | Type |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | The ash is not ash | The verges, the yard | `[CUS: Science (Biology) — it is not combustion product and it is not mineral; it has a grain structure, like something milled]` | The boundary is a *place*, not a contamination | Essential |
+| 2 | The ash has an edge | Walking the field boundary | `[CUS: Navigate — the line is straight for 400 m and then turns exactly 90°, which weather does not do]` | It is surveyed. Somebody drew it | Essential |
+| 3 | The dog's records | Joan's kitchen, the vet's note | `[CUS: Medicine — nine days of healing in an animal that was gone overnight]` | Time runs differently inside | Supporting |
+| 4 | Joan's fifty-two years | Joan herself | `[CUS: Persuade — she has a box of her father's papers she has never shown anyone]` | Her father was a Sheldon works foreman in 1974 and was told to stop digging | Supporting |
+| 5 | The vent head | Sheldon Moor, 3/4 mile up | `[CUS: Spot — a mushroom vent in the heather, painted to lose itself, warm to the hand]` | The site is **live** — something down there is breathing | Essential |
+| 6 | The postal pipe | Beside the vent head | `[CUS: Repair (Mechanical) — a sealed 4-inch pneumatic line, pressurised, and the seal is 1974 and unbroken]` | The route in, and where SO-H01 came from | Essential |
+| 7 | The blast door | End of the service adit | `[CUS: Engineering (Field Systems) — it is not locked. It has never been locked. It opens from this side]` | Nobody built this to keep anyone out | Essential |
+
+**Every clue's failure case is the same and it is deliberate: nothing here is hidden.**
+On a failure the agent does not find it *yet*; Joan, who has lived with all of it for four
+years, points at it within the minute. She is not being mysterious. She has been trying to
+show somebody for four years. **A special** on any of the above gets the same fact plus the
+detail that it has been like this since 2022 and not before.
+
+### The three beats
+
+1. **The yard.** Joan, the brush, the ash. She is sixty-seven, she is tired of not being
+ believed, and she will talk for as long as anyone lets her.
+ `[CUS: Insight — she is not frightened of the ash; she is frightened of being told
+ again that there is nothing there]`. *Success:* she produces her father's box
+ unprompted. *Failure:* she produces it anyway, later, when somebody is kind to her.
+ Nothing is gated on this roll — it changes when, not whether.
+2. **The walk up.** Forty minutes of moor in the wet. Use it for the ash edge (clue 2) and
+ for whatever the table wants to talk about. `[CUS: Athletics — average; only a fumble
+ is a fall, and a fall here is a twisted ankle and nothing worse]`.
+3. **The vent head and the adit.** The way in. `[CUS: Stealth — they can be inside without
+ being seen, which matters at Countdown step 2]`. *Success:* Teague is told about them
+ later rather than sooner — push step 2 back twenty minutes. *Failure:* somebody below
+ logs an unscheduled opening, which is exactly what step 2 is. **There is no penalty
+ beyond that and the door still opens.**
+
+> ⚠ **Do not put a fight in Act One.** The scenario has one creature above ground and it
+> is not here. If the table needs something to do with their hands, give them the adit:
+> it is four hundred metres of 1962 concrete and the lights still work.
+---
+
+## Act Two — Bellhouse *(~55 min)*
+
+**Where:** the site. **What it is for:** the players meet a functioning civil service at
+the end of the world, and are shown the sum.
+
+> *Read aloud or paraphrase:*
+> *The corridor is warm and smells of floor polish and soup. A woman in a cardigan and a
+> department lanyard steps out of an office, sees four strangers, and says — with no alarm
+> whatever — "Oh, are you from Centre? Only we've been writing."*
+
+### How to run the population
+
+**Nobody attacks. Nobody is suspicious. Everybody is delighted.** Fifty-two years of
+posting returns into a pipe and somebody has finally come. The agents will be offered
+tea within ninety seconds and it is real tea, rationed, and giving it to them costs
+somebody their allowance.
+
+**Say this three times over the act, in three different mouths:** *we were told Centre
+would come when it could.* That is the load-bearing line. They are not mad, or trapped,
+or cursed. They were told to hold on, and they held on.
+
+**The one instruction that matters:** if the GM feels the act sagging, do not introduce a
+threat. Introduce a *person* — the man who has run the site's library for forty years and
+wants to know whether the National Theatre reopened; the woman who is teaching children
+the geography of a county she has never stood in. The act's engine is grief, not danger.
+
+### Locations below
+
+| Location | What is there | Why the players come here |
+|---|---|---|
+| **The blast door and lobby** | A visitor book, opened 1974, three entries, all from that week | First proof anybody has ever thought about the outside |
+| **The Control Room** | Sowerby, the tannoy, the regional map with 1974 pins | The broadcast (Countdown 1); the man who signs |
+| **Registry** | Pennyfeather, the establishment returns, fifty-two years of files | **The sum** — the act's destination |
+| **The sick bay** | Dr Ivy Larkhall; Edith Marlow, 101, in the end bed | Revelation 3 — it was a drill |
+| **The crèche and school** | Nineteen children under eleven; Kit Marlow, 17, teaching them | The cost of Act Three, made a person |
+| **The pipe room** | The pneumatic head, the outgoing tray, fifty-two years of unanswered post | Where SO-H01 came from; Kowalczyk's route to Revelation 4 |
+| **The plant floor** | Generators, the renewal relay, Teague's office | How the renewal physically happens |
+
+### Clue trail — Act Two
+
+| # | Clue | Where | How found | What it gives | Type |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| 8 | They think it happened | Anywhere, first ten minutes | `[CUS: no roll — the tannoy bulletin does it for you]` | Revelation 2 | Essential |
+| 9 | The visitor book | The lobby | `[CUS: Spot — three signatures in one week in 1974 and nothing after]` | Nobody has ever come back | Supporting |
+| 10 | The order itself | Registry, on request | `[CUS: Research — SO-H02, filed where it should be, because everything here is]` | Clause 4's second door | Essential |
+| 11 | The drill | The sick bay, from Marlow | `[CUS: Psychology — she is not confused, she is ashamed, and those present differently]` | Revelation 3 | Essential |
+| 12 | The relay | Plant floor | `[CUS: Repair (Electronics) — the renewal is wired to a relay that also drives the perimeter survey]` | Revelation 4: renewal *is* the expansion | Essential |
+| 13 | The sum | Registry, from Pennyfeather | `[CUS: Insight — she has been waiting to be asked; ask her anything straight and she produces SO-H03]` | Revelation 5 | Essential |
+| 14 | Sixty-one | Registry, the birth register | `[CUS: Research — sixty-one born below, no NHS number, no birth certificate above ground]` | The cost of cancellation | Essential |
+| 15 | What Teague has decided | Plant floor, or he finds them | `[CUS: Listen — he asks each of them separately where they were on the day]` | He is testing a theory he cannot afford to be wrong about | Supporting |
+
+**Failure cases.** Clues 10, 13 and 14 are *filed*, and this is the most orderly place in
+the world: a failed Research or Insight costs ten minutes and a second attempt, never the
+clue. Clue 11 is the exception — **fail the Psychology with Marlow and she does not say
+it today**, and the route reopens only through Larkhall (who half-knows) or the file
+Marlow kept in her own quarters. Clue 12 failed means the relay reads as ordinary plant
+and Revelation 4 arrives instead from Pennyfeather, one scene later.
+
+**Specials.** A special on clue 11 gets Marlow's own memo in her hand — the fortnight
+paragraph — which is the single most damning object in the case. A special on clue 13
+gets Pennyfeather saying the thing she has never said aloud: *I think we should not be
+here.*
+
+### The census, in the Registry
+
+There is one creature in this act and it is in the stacks behind Pennyfeather's desk,
+counting. **It has been counting for fifty-two years and it is nearly finished.**
+
+`[CUS: Spot — something between the shelves is keeping a tally, and the tally is people]`
+
+It does not attack. It **counts** — one round, no roll, it simply looks — and an agent it
+has counted is on a list on the far side for good. See the bestiary entry; the department
+cannot get anybody off that list.
+
+**This is the scenario's one cheap lesson and it should be cheap:** the players will want
+to fight it. Fighting it is legal and survivable. It changes nothing about Thursday,
+because the tally is not the cause of the sum — it is a symptom of the same filing. Let
+them learn that by doing it.
+
+> ⚠ **Do not let the census kill the act's tone.** It is two minutes of cold in a warm
+> place. Get back to the tea.
+
+---
+
+## Act Three — Renewal *(~50 min)*
+
+**Where:** the Control Room, Thursday, 06:00. **What it is for:** the decision, and its
+price.
+
+> *Read aloud or paraphrase:*
+> *Sowerby has shaved. The renewal folder is squared to the edge of the desk, the pen is
+> the one his predecessor used, and there are eleven people standing along the back wall
+> because they always come. He looks up and says: "You'll want to watch. It's quite short."*
+
+### The three endings, all real
+
+**1. CANCEL — clause 4, the warrant in the room.**
+Any agent may cancel the Standing Order in person. There is no roll. It works, it has
+always worked, and it is what a warrant card is *for*.
+
+- **What happens:** the "after" un-files. Region 12 was never attacked, and Bellhouse was
+ never executed. The 206 who went down in 1974 become people who went down for a drill
+ and came up on the Friday.
+- **The cost, and do not soften it:** the sixty-one born below have no record above
+ ground and never had one. **They stop.** Kit Marlow stops. The GM should state this
+ plainly before the agent decides, through Pennyfeather, who has worked it out.
+- **Coherence:** the cancelling agent spends **2 Coherence**, permanently, because they
+ are the authority that makes it true and reality now records them that way.
+
+**2. LET IT RENEW.**
+Sowerby signs. Nothing visibly happens. Then the correction begins, and the **overwriter**
+arrives to perform it — five bodies, correcting one fact the party relies on every round,
+retroactively and truly. See the bestiary; it cannot be dropped and it is not *trying* to
+fight anybody. It is doing the filing.
+
+- **What happens:** Region 12 is corrected to match the record. This is the end of the
+ world and the scenario does not flinch from letting the table choose it.
+- **This option must stay available.** A choice with one acceptable answer is not a choice
+ and the players will smell it.
+
+**3. AMEND — the arrangement, and the best ending in the case.**
+The order does not have to be cancelled. Its **scope** can be changed. Bellhouse governs
+*Region 12 after the war*; amend the scope so that it governs somewhere genuinely empty
+and always was, and the site keeps running, the people keep existing, and the ash stops.
+
+This is a **Borrowed Authority** problem and is run by those rules:
+
+- **The credential is Ellerby-Stannard**, who is dead, which is why it is a stretch rather
+ than routine — one tier beyond scope.
+- **It is assembled from up to three dossier items, each a separate scene, using a
+ different skill, at most one of them at a keyboard.** The three that exist here:
+ - Marlow's own memo `[CUS: Research — her hand, her reasoning, in her quarters]`
+ - The 1962 commissioning survey naming an unpopulated alternate seat area
+ `[CUS: Knowledge — Sheldon was the second choice; the first had nobody on it]`
+ - Pennyfeather's counter-signature as Registrar `[CUS: Persuade — she has been waiting
+ fifty-two years for somebody to ask her to do something about it]`
+- **The roll:** `[CUS: Anomaly Lore — the amendment has to be filed as a correction of a
+ 1974 clerical error, which is what it is]`, at −20 per red flag broken. Each dossier
+ item makes the credential better, never the roll easier.
+- **Success:** the order stands, amended. Nobody dies. The ash stops by the weekend.
+- **Failure:** the amendment does not take and the renewal proceeds on schedule —
+ fall through to ending 2 unless somebody cancels under clause 4 in the next few minutes.
+ **Say the clock out loud when this happens.**
+- **Coherence:** widening a scope with Coherence is legal here and it always works. It
+ costs 1 per widening and the agent's file and Bellhouse's converge one step. Nothing in
+ this game converges them back.
+
+### Teague
+
+Warden Michael Teague, thirty-eight, born below, is the only person in Bellhouse who has
+decided the surface is a lie — because if it is not a lie then his whole life was an
+administrative error, and that is unbearable. He is the act's only violence and he is
+avoidable.
+
+**His one paragraph, printed so the GM can read it aloud:** *"I've read the same file you
+have. I've read it more times than you have. And what it says is that on the fourth of
+November 1974 this country was attacked and two hundred and six people did their duty. If
+that's wrong then my mother died down here for nothing and my daughter was born down here
+for nothing, and I'm not able to hold that. So I'm going to ask you to leave, and then I'm
+going to ask you again."*
+
+**The script break:** say his daughter's name. He has one — Nell, nine, in the crèche —
+and any agent who has been to the school knows it. Naming her puts him back in the room
+as a father instead of a warden, and he steps aside. `[CUS: Insight — he is not
+threatening anyone; he is asking to be argued out of it]`. *Success:* he stands down and
+becomes the strongest voice for ending 3. *Failure:* he escorts them out of the Control
+Room and they must find another way back in before 06:00 — which costs them the dossier
+scene they had least secured, not the act.
+
+**If it comes to a fight:** he is one man with a 1974 service pistol against field agents
+and he will lose, quickly, in front of his colleagues and his daughter's teacher. The
+scenario does not stop the table doing this. It does not reward it either. **Everyone in
+Bellhouse who was going to help them stops helping them.**
+
+### EXPOSURE — the one thing that will kill the party
+
+If the agents call the incident in as a containment failure rather than an arrangement, the
+department sends a **quarantine unit**, and it gets there first.
+
+**Read the bestiary entry before you put it on the table.** It is recorded there as
+lethal to a four-player party on its own, and its STERILISATION ORDER renders the site
+with everyone still in it. It *can* be argued down with a higher authorisation — which is
+another Borrowed Authority problem, and the same credential from ending 3 answers it.
+
+**This is the scenario telling the truth about its own setting:** the fight is the failure
+state, and the paperwork is the way out. Do not spring the unit as a twist. If a player
+says the words that summon it, say plainly what they have just done.
+---
+
+## NPC Roster — GM quick sheet
+
+Every NPC gets one line of essence first. That line is what to play if you have five
+seconds and the table is looking at you.
+
+### Below
+
+**Controller Edwin Sowerby, 61** — *the man who has done his duty for fifty-two years and
+needs it to have been worth doing.*
+Went down aged nine with his mother, which makes him the oldest person in Bellhouse who
+remembers the sky, and he does not talk about it. Signs the renewal because renewal is not
+a decision (SO-H02, clause 5) and he has never been offered the chance to make it one. He
+is courteous, precise and lonely. **If the players give him a decision he will take it
+seriously** — he is not a wall, he is a man who has never been asked. Supports ending 3
+if Pennyfeather and Teague both back it.
+
+**Registrar Alice Pennyfeather, 52** — *the clerk who has already done the sum and is
+waiting for somebody to ask her.*
+Born below. Has taken the arithmetic to Sowerby three times and been told, correctly, that
+renewal is not minuted as a decision. Hands over SO-H03 to anybody who asks her a straight
+question. **She is the act's destination and the case's conscience**, and in ending 1 she
+is the one who tells the agents what it will cost the children, because she has worked
+that out too.
+
+**Dr Ivy Larkhall, 44** — *the doctor who has never had a patient with sunlight in their
+history, and has written the best paper nobody will ever read about it.*
+Born below. Curious rather than frightened, and the first person to ask the agents an
+intelligent question. Half-knows about the drill: Marlow has said things in the night for
+years. Will not break a confidence, but will say *ask her, and ask her kindly*.
+
+**Deputy Controller Edith Marlow, 101** — *the woman who filed a war because she thought
+it would save a fortnight.*
+In the end bed in the sick bay. Has not spoken plainly since 2019 and is not confused —
+she is ashamed, and Psychology tells those apart (clue 11). Her own memo, in her quarters,
+carries the fortnight paragraph and is the most damning object in the scenario. **She will
+confirm it was a drill if she is asked kindly and will deny it if she is pressed.**
+
+**Warden Michael Teague, 38** — *the only man down here who has decided the surface is a
+lie, because the alternative is unbearable.*
+Born below. Head of the site's eleven-person police. Widower. His daughter Nell is nine
+and in the crèche. Full paragraph and script break in Act Three. **Not a villain, and the
+scenario should never call him one.**
+
+**Sub-Officer Kit Marlow, 17** — *a girl who has drawn the sky four thousand times from
+one photograph and wants to know if she got the blue right.*
+Edith's great-granddaughter, born below, oldest of the children, teaches the little ones
+their regional geography from a 1971 atlas. **She is the cost of ending 1 and she should
+be a person before she is a price** — give her a scene in Act Two, doing something
+ordinary and competent, before Act Three asks anybody to decide anything.
+
+**The site, as a character** — two hundred and thirty-one people, warm corridors, floor
+polish, soup, a library, a remembrance service for the surface dead held every year for
+fifty-two years. *They were told Centre would come when it could.*
+
+### Above
+
+**Joan Wetherlaw, 67** — *has been sweeping ash off her yard for four years and has
+stopped telling anybody.*
+Farms three-quarters of a mile from the vent head. Her father was a works foreman at
+Sheldon in 1974 and was told to stop digging; his papers are in a box she has never shown
+anyone. Not a mystic and not a crank — a tired woman with a brush who has been right the
+whole time.
+
+**Nell Teague, 9** — *has one question about horses and will ask it at the worst possible
+moment.* In the crèche. Her name is the script break.
+
+### Creatures used — all from the bestiary, nothing new to build
+
+| Creature | Where | What it is for |
+|---|---|---|
+| **The census** | Act Two, the Registry stacks | Counting, for fifty-two years; ENUMERATED is permanent and the department cannot undo it |
+| **The overwriter** | Act Three, ending 2 only | The correction, performing itself; cannot be dropped and is not trying to fight |
+| **Quarantine unit** | EXPOSURE, if the agents call it in as containment | The failure state; argue it down with the ending-3 credential or die |
+
+---
+
+## Casting — six from the duty roster
+
+
+
+> ⚠ **THE DECLARED CAST IS LOAD-BEARING ON THE BUILD.** The `` comment above
+> is read by `check-rollable`, which holds every skill this document names to being
+> reachable at 25% or better by somebody in that list. Change the cast and re-run the
+> guards before trusting a single clue route.
+
+Deliberately **not** CLEAN GROUND's six, so the two cases exercise different sheets.
+
+| # | Agent | Why they are here | The routes they own |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | **Marta Holloway** — Senior Field Officer, lead | Signs for it and reads it first | Navigate (the ash edge), Stealth (the way in), Tradecraft |
+| 2 | **Arun Bhattacharya** — Registry Officer | The return landed on his section's desk | Research (SO-H02, the birth register), Knowledge (the 1962 survey), Anomaly Lore (**the ending-3 roll**) |
+| 3 | **Kate Renshaw** — Interview Officer | Because everyone down there wants to talk | Psychology (**Marlow**), Insight (Teague, Pennyfeather), Persuade (Joan, and Pennyfeather's counter-signature) |
+| 4 | **Marek Kowalczyk** — Probationary, engineering | Somebody has to read the plant | Repair (Electronics) (**the relay**), Repair (Mechanical) (the pipe), Engineering (Field Systems) (the blast door) |
+| 5 | **Dr Chidi Nkemdirim** — Probationary, medicine | The dog tissue is on his bench | Medicine (the dog), Science (Biology) (the ash), Insight |
+| 6 | **Ben Okonkwo** — Field Officer, containment | In case it is the other kind of case. It is not | Athletics, Brawl, Firearm (Rifle) — **and the scenario is built so he never needs them** |
+
+**Casting note for Okonkwo's player, given before the game:** this case has no fight the
+party has to win. He is not wasted — he is the one who carries Marlow's chair, holds the
+adit, and stands beside Teague without raising anything. Tell his player that up front, the
+way CLEAN GROUND tells Ashcroft's.
+
+**At four players,** cut Okonkwo and Nkemdirim; move the ash to Bhattacharya's Knowledge
+and the dog to Renshaw's Insight, both of which are rated well enough to carry it.
+
+---
+
+## Locations — quick reference
+
+| # | Location | Act | One line |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| 1 | Wetherlaw farm | 1 | Ash on the yard for four years, and a woman with a brush |
+| 2 | The ash edge | 1 | A straight line for 400 m, then a right angle |
+| 3 | Sheldon Moor vent head | 1 | A painted mushroom in the heather, warm to the hand |
+| 4 | The postal pipe | 1 | Four-inch pneumatic, pressurised, sealed in 1974 |
+| 5 | The service adit | 1 | Four hundred metres of 1962 concrete; the lights still work |
+| 6 | Blast door and lobby | 1/2 | Never locked. A visitor book with three entries |
+| 7 | Control Room | 2/3 | The tannoy, the 1974 map, the desk where it gets signed |
+| 8 | Registry | 2 | Fifty-two years of files, the sum, and something counting in the stacks |
+| 9 | Sick bay | 2 | Larkhall, and Edith Marlow in the end bed |
+| 10 | Crèche and school | 2 | Nineteen children, a 1971 atlas, and Kit Marlow's drawings of the sky |
+| 11 | Pipe room | 2 | The outgoing tray, and fifty-two years of unanswered post |
+| 12 | Plant floor | 2/3 | Generators, the renewal relay, Teague's office |
+
+---
+
+## GM notes — three things that do not get resolved
+
+Name these as *do not resolve* so a helpful GM does not answer them.
+
+1. **Where the answered post went.** Fifty-two years of returns went up the pipe. One came
+ back out, in May, on a real desk. Nothing in this case explains the other ten thousand.
+2. **What the census was counting for.** It has been tallying since 1974 and it is nearly
+ finished. The scenario never says finished *for what*.
+3. **Whether Marlow was right.** She thought a real one was coming inside the year. The
+ department's own 1974 traffic is not in this file and the players cannot get it.
+
+---
+
+## Open questions for Tim
+
+- **Kit Marlow.** She is the cost of ending 1 and the draft may lean on a seventeen-year-old
+ too hard. The alternative is to put the weight on the whole sixty-one and never give one
+ of them a name — colder, and possibly better.
+- **Runtime.** 45/55/50 is an estimate with nothing behind it. Act Two is the one most
+ likely to overrun: it is seven locations and six speaking parts.
+- **Is ending 3 findable?** It depends on the players reading clause 4 *and* clause 5 and
+ thinking about scope rather than cancellation. It may need a nudge written into
+ Pennyfeather.
+- **Does this want a fourth act?** CLEAN GROUND has one and uses it well. Three is the
+ brief and three is what this is, but the signing may be too thin to carry fifty minutes
+ on its own.
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+# STANDING ORDER — Artwork Prompt Sheet
+
+Generation prompts for every plate and portrait in STANDING ORDER. Kept here so
+regeneration is possible; per house convention the prompt is part of the document.
+
+ mj-gen "" --out --name --upscale 1
+
+**What already exists and needs nothing.** The six declared pregens have portraits in
+`art/portraits/pc_.webp`. The three creatures — **the census**, **the overwriter**
+and the **quarantine unit** — are bestiary entries and their prompts live in
+`BESTIARY_ART.md`, not here. Everything in this sheet is new work.
+
+---
+
+## Art direction for this scenario
+
+House base style is ink sketch / pencil illustration — hand-drawn, single-weight line,
+sparse wash, negative space, never photorealistic. STANDING ORDER adds one line:
+
+> **Civil defence, 1974.** A two-ink screen print in black and faded civil-defence
+> orange on newsprint white. Coarse halftone, flat pale cream ground instead of sky,
+> the register very slightly off. Everything is drawn as though it were a plate from a
+> public information booklet about what to do afterwards —
+> *including the things that are fine, and including the people who are alive.*
+
+**That last clause is the conceit.** Bellhouse is not a ruin and nobody in it is a ghost.
+Drawing a warm corridor full of civil servants in the visual language of a leaflet about
+nuclear attack is the whole scenario in one image: the end of the world, rendered as
+guidance.
+
+Why this and not CLEAN GROUND's dyeline blue-grey drawing office: that case is a *survey*,
+filed in 1962 by draughtsmen. This one is a *broadcast to the public*, printed in 1974 by
+a government that expected to be obeyed. Different department, different press.
+
+### The three rules that make these prompts work
+
+Learned the hard way across Day One, OPEN DAY and LAST ADMISSION, and they are in
+`~/.claude/skills/rpg/references/lessons.md`:
+
+1. **Say "two-ink screen print" and name both inks.** Palette drift and hallucinated
+ signage are the same failure — a naturalistic prompt lets the model reach for a
+ reference photograph, and reference photographs have shop fronts on them.
+2. **"Flat pale cream ground instead of sky."** Asking for "no sky" produces a sky.
+3. **Never make a count load-bearing in generated art.** Midjourney cannot count. The
+ nineteen children, the three signatures in the visitor book and the sixty-one born
+ below are all *handout and text* facts. No plate is allowed to contradict them.
+
+### Known artifact, accepted
+
+**Midjourney puts faint edition lettering in the lower margins** of the screen-print
+prompts — pencil-scale marks that read as a printmaker's annotation. Four attempts at
+suppressing it with "no text / no lettering" did not remove it on this style. It is
+accepted here because it reads as part of the print rather than as signage, and because
+it contradicts nothing. **If a plate ever grows legible lettering that says something,
+regenerate it** — a picture that contradicts a clue is worse than no picture.
+
+---
+
+## Plates — `art/scenes/`
+
+| Stem | Where it is used |
+|---|---|
+| `so_cover` | Cover plate |
+| `so_wetherlaw` | Act One — the farmyard |
+| `so_ash_edge` | Act One — clue 2, the surveyed line |
+| `so_adit` | Act One — the service adit portal ✅ **generated** |
+| `so_corridor` | Act Two — arrival below |
+| `so_control_room` | Act Two / Three — the broadcast and the signing |
+| `so_registry` | Act Two — the stacks, and the thing counting in them |
+| `so_creche` | Act Two — the school, and the cost of ending 1 |
+
+**Shared prefix.** Every plate prompt begins with this and it is not optional:
+
+> `1974 British civil defence public information booklet illustration, two-ink screen
+> print in black and faded civil-defence orange on newsprint white, hand-drawn
+> single-weight ink line, coarse halftone dot texture, flat pale cream ground instead of
+> sky, no text, no lettering, no signage, not photorealistic`
+
+### so_cover
+> …*open moorland under a flat cream sky, a straight line of pale grit running across the
+> heather from edge to edge and turning a precise right angle, a low concrete structure
+> half-buried in the distance, nobody present* `--ar 3:2`
+
+### so_wetherlaw
+> …*a small stone hill farm yard, fine pale dust drifted into the corners and against the
+> wall like the tide left it, a yard brush leaning where somebody put it down, no people,
+> no shops, no signage* `--ar 3:2`
+
+### so_ash_edge
+> …*a field of moorland heather seen low and level, a hard straight boundary of pale grit
+> crossing the whole frame and turning ninety degrees, the ground beyond it very slightly
+> paler, no fence, no wall, no people* `--ar 3:2`
+
+### so_adit ✅
+> …*a low painted concrete portal set into open moorland heather, a dark circular opening
+> under a heavy cantilevered slab, fine pale grit settling over the heather like milled
+> dust, no people* `--ar 3:2`
+>
+> **Note:** prompted as a mushroom ventilation head and returned as an adit portal. Kept
+> and re-captioned rather than regenerated, because it is a better adit than the vent head
+> would have been. If a true ROC-post mushroom vent is ever wanted, prompt it as *"a low
+> circular concrete mushroom vent the height of a man's knee"* — the word "mushroom" alone
+> produced a monument.
+
+### so_corridor
+> …*a warm underground government corridor from 1974, painted brick, linoleum floor,
+> pipework along the ceiling, a noticeboard with papers pinned to it seen from too far away
+> to read, one woman in a cardigan walking away from the viewer, ordinary and unhurried*
+> `--ar 3:2`
+
+### so_control_room
+> …*an underground regional government control room from 1974, a large wall map of an
+> English region covered in pins, a long desk with a single folder squared to its edge, a
+> tannoy microphone, several people standing quietly along the back wall, warm and orderly,
+> nothing damaged* `--ar 3:2`
+
+### so_registry
+> …*deep rows of underground archive shelving, fifty years of identical buff files, a
+> clerk's desk at the near end with a squared sheet of paper and a pencil on it, the far
+> end of the rows unlit, no figure visible in the dark* `--ar 3:2`
+
+### so_creche
+> …*an underground schoolroom from 1974, small chairs, an old atlas open on a low table,
+> children's crayon drawings of a blue sky pinned in a row along the wall, warm light, no
+> children present* `--ar 3:2`
+>
+> **The empty room is deliberate.** Kit Marlow's drawings of a sky she has never seen do
+> the work; children in the frame would make it sentimental and would also make a count
+> load-bearing.
+
+---
+
+## Portraits — `art/portraits/`
+
+**Shared prefix.** Portraits drop the halftone a little so a face reads at thumbnail size:
+
+> `1974 British civil defence booklet portrait plate, two-ink screen print in black and
+> faded civil-defence orange on newsprint white, hand-drawn single-weight ink line, plain
+> flat cream background, head and shoulders, no text, no lettering, not photorealistic`
+
+| Stem | Prompt tail | Essence it must carry |
+|---|---|---|
+| `so_sowerby` | *…a courteous British man of sixty-one in a 1970s suit and department lanyard, tired and very neatly turned out, looking slightly past the viewer* | Has done his duty for 52 years and needs it to have been worth doing |
+| `so_pennyfeather` | *…a British woman of fifty-two in a cardigan, spectacles pushed up, holding a sheet of squared paper, patient and entirely certain* | Has already done the sum and is waiting to be asked |
+| `so_larkhall` | *…a British woman of forty-four in a white coat over a jumper, curious rather than kind, head tilted as though mid-question* | Has never had a patient with sunlight in their history |
+| `so_marlow` | *…a very old British woman of one hundred and one in a hospital bed, eyes open and entirely lucid, ashamed rather than confused* | Filed a war to save a fortnight |
+| `so_teague` | *…a heavy-set British man of thirty-eight in a plain 1970s police-style uniform without insignia, jaw set, not angry, holding himself very still* | Has decided the surface is a lie because the alternative is unbearable |
+| `so_kit_marlow` | *…a British girl of seventeen in a hand-me-down jumper, holding a rolled sheet of paper, hopeful and a little defiant* | Has drawn the sky four thousand times from one photograph |
+| `so_joan_wetherlaw` | *…a British farming woman of sixty-seven in a waxed coat, weathered, holding a yard brush, unimpressed and patient* | Has been right for four years and has stopped telling anyone |
+
+---
+
+## Not generated — draw these
+
+**The Bellhouse section drawing.** A cutaway of the site with the seven Act Two locations
+numbered, and a key below the drawing. **This must be hand-built SVG and must not be
+prompted.** Midjourney will not hold legible text or accurate geography, and this drawing's
+whole job is labels. Two rules from AFTERIMAGE v3.1: numbered callouts with a key beneath
+rather than labels sprayed across the plan, and **the drawing says only what the site says**
+— it shows where the rooms are and nothing about the sum, which is Act Two's work.
+
+Hand out the section the moment they come through the blast door. A player-facing plan is a
+turn-taking device: it lets the table split itself into stations instead of one person
+narrating a corridor.
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