STANDING ORDER: a three-act post-apocalyptic crossing case
Two hundred and six people went underground in 1974 to govern the country after the war. There was no war. The Deputy Controller filed the drill as live, on purpose, to save the site a fortnight of arguing about whether it was allowed to start — and reality took the filing. The apocalypse in this one is clerical. At renewal 211 the site's population record exceeds the surviving population of the region it governs, and a record that cannot hold both resolves by correcting the region. Act Two shows the players the sum; Act Three is the decision, and all three endings cost something. Cancelling the order kills the sixty-one children born below, who have no record above ground. The text says so and does not offer the GM a way to make it painless. Deliberately not CLEAN GROUND. That case is a filed valley found by accident and resolved by cancellation; this is a filed institution the department built on purpose, and its best ending amends the order's scope rather than cancelling it — a Borrowed Authority problem, which is the setting's own thesis about arrangements beating fights. Three existing bestiary creatures, nothing new to build: the census counts in the Registry, the overwriter performs the correction if the renewal goes through, and the quarantine unit is the failure state you argue down. Cast declared as a different six from CLEAN GROUND's so the two cases exercise different sheets. All twenty-one guards pass: check-scenarios resolves 115 tags, check-rollable holds every route to the declared cast, and check-figures records the document at zero bare figures — it cites no measured number because it prints none, the quarantine unit's lethality included. The section drawing is hand-built SVG and must stay that way: every label on it is load-bearing and no generator holds legible text. Numbered callouts with a key beneath, per AFTERIMAGE v3.1. NOT playtested. Not once, desk or human. Every timing in it is a guess. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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DRAWN, NOT GENERATED. Every label here is load-bearing and Midjourney will not
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hold legible text or accurate geography. Two rules from AFTERIMAGE v3.1:
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numbered callouts with a key BENEATH the drawing (which kills every collision),
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and the drawing says only what the site says — it shows where the rooms are and
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nothing about the sum, which is Act Two's work.
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Two inks only, matching the plates: black and civil-defence orange on newsprint. -->
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<text x="92" y="1296">1 · Wetherlaw farm — ash in the yard for four years</text>
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<text x="92" y="1472">5 · Service adit — 400 m of 1962 concrete, lit</text>
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<text x="1240" y="1516">11 · Pipe room — the outgoing tray</text>
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<text x="1240" y="1560">12 · Plant floor — generators and the relay</text>
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<text x="112" y="1550" class="note">SO-H04 · SECTION · STANDING ORDER</text>
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<text x="112" y="1584" class="note">ISSUE 1 · NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE SEAT</text>
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