From b04db4d8e376369476cd027d833349559c1b83e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: slaguru666 <111923774+slaguru666@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:49:39 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] STANDING ORDER: player-facing case brief and print pack SO-H01 becomes the full Registry case brief: what the department knows about Bellhouse, the 1974 return and the stamp, the orders, conduct, access and the Stores issue. Nothing about the song, the children or Centre's letters. STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html prints it on A4 with the enclosed 1974 Seat return (SO-H02) and Mr Smith's mark. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 --- docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md | 44 ++- docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html | 279 ++++++++++++++++++++ packs/standingorder/000003.log | Bin 128850 -> 133117 bytes 3 files changed, 316 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html diff --git a/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md b/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md index e418d4f..2b2060a 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md +++ b/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md @@ -211,17 +211,47 @@ Starts when Act Two starts. The section map is **SO-H04**, a plate in the compendium. -### SO-H01 — Terms of engagement +### SO-H01 — Case brief SO-012 -*Typed, from the Bureau. Give it in the briefing and let them keep it.* +*Typed, from Registry. Give it in the briefing, with SO-H02, and let them keep it. A print +copy of both is in `STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html`. It holds only what the department +knows: nothing about the song, the children or Centre's letters.* -> CASE SO-012 — BELLHOUSE. +> **DEPARTMENTAL CUSTODY SERVICE** +> **CASE:** SO-012 / BELLHOUSE +> **CLASSIFICATION:** ACROSS — SEALED SITE +> **FAR SIDE:** Regional Seat of Government 12, under Sheldon Moor, Derbyshire. The present day. +> **REGISTRY OFFICER:** Mr Bewley +> +> Bellhouse is a government bunker built into a worked-out coal mine under Sheldon Moor and commissioned in 1962. On 4 November 1974 its staff and their families, 412 people, went below for a civil defence exercise. The door was shut. Nobody came up. +> +> In 1975 the entrance was filled in. After that the Seat is on no map, no index and no budget. Nobody asked why. +> +> In May this year a Seat return dated Week 1, 1974, arrived in the Registry in-tray. It was not posted. It is enclosed (SO-H02). It is stamped with a small circle cut by a stroke. The same mark is on the letter of instruction recovered in case TT-004, Mercy Draw, 1881, from a Mr Smith whom the company never employed. +> +> Coal smoke has been settling on Wetherlaw Farm, above the Seat, for fifty years. There is no chimney on the moor. **The department's reading is that the Seat is still occupied.** +> +> **ORDERS** > 1. The persons at the Seat are to be brought home. None is expendable. > 2. Force is authorised in self-defence only. -> 3. Establish who has been writing to the Seat as Centre, and bring back his letters. -> 4. The Seat is released under clause 4 of its Order. Read clause 6 first. +> 3. Establish who delivered the Seat's order in 1974 and who has instructed it since. Bring back his letters. +> 4. The Seat is released under clause 4 of its Standing Order. Read clause 6 first. +> +> **CONDUCT** +> Anyone below has been there since 1974 and will believe what they were told. Be courteous. Carry your warrant card where it can be seen: a warrant of the Department is recognised at the Seat. Do not argue with anyone about the war. +> Standing Order 9 applies. Nothing modern goes through. +> +> **ACCESS** +> A crossing stands at the warm vent head on Sheldon Moor, above Wetherlaw Farm. It opens at dusk. Mrs Joan Wetherlaw will meet you at the farm gate. She is not cleared. +> +> **ISSUED BY STORES** +> Hand lamp · service revolver · Geiger counter, 1974 pattern · greatcoat · warrant card. No telephones. +> +> *Registry: bring me his letters.* -**What it is for.** The brief, in writing. Term 4 is a hint. +**What it is for.** The brief, in writing. Orders 3 and 4 are the case's two hooks: order 4 +is the hint that opening the Seat has a price, and "do not argue about the war" keeps +Teague's line from being crossed by accident. ### SO-H02 — The 1974 letter @@ -276,7 +306,7 @@ TRAIN. It sends the guards. Its third line points at the crèche. ### Beat 1 — The briefing *(~10 min)* -**Mr Bewley** gives SO-H01 and SO-H02 and tells them: +**Mr Bewley** gives SO-H01, the case brief, and SO-H02, and tells them: - **Bellhouse** was a government bunker. 412 people went down for a drill in 1974 and never came back up. The entrance is rubble. diff --git a/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html b/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..576f66c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html @@ -0,0 +1,279 @@ + + + + +STANDING ORDER — briefing pack + + + + + +
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SO-H01 · Act One · the briefing · with SO-H02
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SECRET
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DEPARTMENTAL CUSTODY SERVICE

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REGISTRY · CASE BRIEF · NOT TO LEAVE THE BUILDING
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CASESO-012 / BELLHOUSE
CLASSIFICATIONACROSS — SEALED SITE
FAR SIDERegional Seat of Government 12, under Sheldon Moor, Derbyshire. The present day.
REGISTRY OFFICERMr Bewley
+ +

Bellhouse is a government bunker built into a worked-out coal mine under Sheldon Moor and + commissioned in 1962. On 4 November 1974 its staff and their families, 412 people, went below + for a civil defence exercise. The door was shut. Nobody came up.

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In 1975 the entrance was filled in. After that the Seat is on no map, no index and no + budget. Nobody asked why.

+ +

In May this year a Seat return dated Week 1, 1974, arrived in the Registry in-tray. It was + not posted. It is enclosed (SO-H02). It is stamped with a small circle cut by a stroke. The + same mark is on the letter of instruction recovered in case TT-004, Mercy Draw, 1881, from a + Mr Smith whom the company never employed.

+ +

Coal smoke has been settling on Wetherlaw Farm, above the Seat, for fifty years. There is + no chimney on the moor. The department’s reading is that the Seat is + still occupied.

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ORDERS

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  1. The persons at the Seat are to be brought home. None is expendable.
    2. +
  2. Force is authorised in self-defence only.
    3. +
  3. Establish who delivered the Seat’s order in 1974 and who has instructed it since. Bring back his letters.
    4. +
  4. The Seat is released under clause 4 of its Standing Order. Read clause 6 first.
    5. +
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CONDUCT

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Anyone below has been there since 1974 and will believe what they were told. Be + courteous. Carry your warrant card where it can be seen: a warrant of the Department is + recognised at the Seat. Do not argue with anyone about the war.

+

Standing Order 9 applies. Nothing modern goes through.

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ACCESS

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A crossing stands at the warm vent head on Sheldon Moor, above Wetherlaw Farm. It + opens at dusk. Mrs Joan Wetherlaw will meet you at the farm gate. She is not cleared.

+

ISSUED BY STORES

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Hand lamp · service revolver · Geiger counter, 1974 pattern · + greatcoat · warrant card. No telephones.

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Registry: bring me his letters.— B.
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DCS / REG / SO-012ENCL. 1: SEAT RETURN, WK 1 1974PAGE 1 OF 1
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SO-H02 · Act One · enclosed with SO-H01
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SO-012 · ENCLOSURE 1
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REGION 12 · SEAT RETURNFORM RSG/R/3
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PERIODWEEK 1
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ESTABLISHMENT412
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CASUALTIES THIS PERIODNIL
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QUERY TO CENTRE
+ CONFIRM THE GENTLEMAN WHO BROUGHT THE ORDER IS KNOWN TO YOU.
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+ SIGNED
+ E. Marlow
+ E. MARLOW, DEPUTY CONTROLLER +
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REGISTRY · RECEIVED MAY 2026 · NOT BY POST · NO ENVELOPE
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