From cd4aa8bcbb52a56b11b391d13b37f93db0b2d48a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: slaguru666 <111923774+slaguru666@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:06:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] STANDING ORDER v2.0: the argument is the adventure Rebuilt to Tim's brief. Time below runs at half speed, so the intake looks fifty-odd and is eighty-odd, and the Seat's own instruments agree with Centre that the war happened. The Board goes in dressed as 1974 and unarmed; Act Two is a committee that only accepts the three exhibits its own clause 5 names. Winning the vote is what arms the trap: surfacing triggers Annex D, and the Address is Mr Smith's song. The children are found after the argument is won, not before. Hatcher's Undersigned are the red herring and the key to telling a forged mark from a real one. Handout pack and the warden actor follow the new brief; SO-H06 added. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 --- docs/BESTIARY.md | 4 +- docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md | 804 +++++++++++--------- docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html | 27 +- packs/standingorder/000003.log | Bin 145933 -> 155674 bytes packs/weapons/{000006.log => 000008.log} | 0 packs/weapons/CURRENT | 2 +- packs/weapons/MANIFEST-000004 | Bin 120 -> 0 bytes packs/weapons/MANIFEST-000007 | Bin 0 -> 120 bytes tools/scenario-standingorder.mjs | 8 +- 9 files changed, 469 insertions(+), 376 deletions(-) rename packs/weapons/{000006.log => 000008.log} (100%) delete mode 100644 packs/weapons/MANIFEST-000004 create mode 100644 packs/weapons/MANIFEST-000007 diff --git a/docs/BESTIARY.md b/docs/BESTIARY.md index 004086e..f537607 100644 --- a/docs/BESTIARY.md +++ b/docs/BESTIARY.md @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Sorted by how much of a four-agent party each one puts on the floor, alone. **So | | **The teind** | Collection is every seventh year and the account is not in your name | 13 | 4 | 16 | Punch / kick 35% | 0.04 | | Q | **The white hart** | The badge beast with the crown about its neck, which cannot be taken | 17 | 2 | 17 | Punch / kick 20% | 0.04 | | Q | **The gazehound** | A coursing dog bred to see further than a dog should, and it does | 11 | 1 | 12 | Bite 55% | 0.04 | -| | **Bellhouse warden** | One of the site's eleven police, born below. Use for all of them. | 13 | 0 | 13 | Cudgel 50% | 0.04 | +| | **Bellhouse warden** | One of the site's eleven wardens, born below. Use for all of them, and for Hatcher's Undersigned in a scuffle. | 13 | 0 | 13 | Cudgel 50% | 0.04 | | Q | **Tatterfoal** | The shaggy foal in the field that follows along the hedge and laughs | 10 | 1 | 11 | Hoof / kick 30% | 0.03 | | V | **Returned surveyor** | Department surveyor, missing eleven years, back with the wrong limbs | 12 | 2 | 12 | Grasping limb 40% | 0.03 | | W | **The drain heron** | A grey heron standing in the outfall, considerably too large, entirely ordinary in every other respect | 7 | 1 | 9 | Beak 40% | 0.03 | @@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ People, mostly — contractors, locals, and the ones who were already here. ### Bellhouse warden -*One of the site's eleven police, born below. Use for all of them.* +*One of the site's eleven wardens, born below. Use for all of them, and for Hatcher's Undersigned in a scuffle.* | STR | CON | SIZ | INT | POW | DEX | Armour | HP | Major wound | Locations | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| diff --git a/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md b/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md index 860404c..d01d8c2 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md +++ b/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md @@ -1,35 +1,40 @@ # Crossing case — The Custodians: STANDING ORDER > *A thousand people are waiting under Sheldon Moor for the all-clear from a war that never -> happened. Every ninety days, somebody writes to tell them to keep waiting. It is not -> the government.* +> happened. They have not aged the way the calendar says they should. Every ninety days, +> somebody writes to tell them to keep waiting — and it is not the government.* ## STATUS — read this before anything else | | | |---|---| -| **Version** | **v1.1**, 16 September 2026 — simplified, and the children made part of the jeopardy | +| **Version** | **v2.0**, 23 September 2026 — rebuilt: the argument is the adventure, and the song is the price of winning it | | **Can it be run?** | **Yes, from this document alone,** with the compendium for sheets and the two cast actors. | -| **Is it convention-ready?** | **No. It needs desk passes.** The five earlier passes tested v0.7, a different plot. Their structural lessons are carried forward; their timings are not evidence for this version. | +| **Is it convention-ready?** | **No. It needs desk passes.** Earlier passes tested v0.7 and v1.1, different plots. Their structural lessons are carried forward; their timings are not evidence for this version. | | **What it is** | A **three-act one-shot** and the second appearance of **Mr Smith**, who was planted in THROUGH TRAIN. | | **Players** | 4–6 from the duty roster. The cast is declared in Casting and the build enforces it. | | **Runtime** | **45 / 75 / 50 plus a ten-minute break — 3h00 in a 3h15 slot.** Unmeasured for this plot. | ### The things that are not obvious -1. **The whole case in four lines.** Mr Smith tricked a bunker into going underground in - 1974. He has kept them there with letters ever since. On Thursday the bunker will - broadcast his tape, and anyone who hears it joins his cult. **The young children already - know the tape by heart.** -2. **The brief is a rescue, and a polite one.** Nobody below is expendable. A party that - solves Bellhouse with violence has failed, even if it wins. -3. **The people are not a cult and do not know they are becoming one.** They are a 1970s - council. The occult is small and quiet — never put an altar in this building. -4. **Order of operations is Act Three.** Opening the bunker sets off the broadcast. **Stop - the tape first, then open the door.** -5. **The children are the moral question, not a puzzle.** Every answer costs somebody +1. **The whole case in five lines.** Mr Smith talked a bunker underground in 1974 and has + kept it there with letters. Below, people age at half speed, so the survivors look + fifty-odd and are eighty-odd. The Department sends the agents in to open the place and + bring them out. **Winning the argument is what arms the trap:** the Seat's own Standing + Order says that when it surfaces it must broadcast a recorded Address, and the Address + is Mr Smith's song. +2. **The adventure is an argument, not a fight.** Act Two is a committee that will not be + moved by anything modern. It can be beaten, but only on its own terms. +3. **No firearms go through.** Stores does not issue them for this one and the Seat's lock + would take them anyway. Every fight in this case is truncheons and hands. +4. **The order of the reveals is the whole design.** They persuade a thousand people to come + up **first**, and find out what that costs **second**. Do not leak the song into Act Two. +5. **The Undersigned are a red herring, and a real one.** A dozen people below have been + forging Centre's letters to force the door. They are not Mr Smith's. They cost a scene, + a chase and possibly a casualty, and they teach the table what the real mark looks like. +6. **The children are the moral question, not a puzzle.** Every answer costs somebody something. Do not steer the table to the "right" one. -6. **Mr Smith is never met.** No sheet, no portrait, no scene. He gets away. +7. **Mr Smith is never met.** No sheet, no portrait, no scene. He gets away. ### Still to do @@ -42,69 +47,76 @@ - **System:** d100 roll-under a percentage skill. **Special** under a fifth, **critical** under a twentieth; 96–99 always fail and 00 always fumbles. -- **Coherence runs 10 → 0.** The tape and the release cost it. **Nothing here gives any - back.** -- **Panic is live** in the detention and the broadcast. +- **Coherence runs 10 → 0.** The song and the release cost it. **Nothing here gives any back.** +- **Panic is live** in the detention, the chase and the broadcast. - **Standing Order 9 is live.** Nothing modern goes through; charge for *using*, never for - carrying. + carrying. **Standing Order 9 is also the players' cover story** — see *The 1974 dress*. - **A warrant card of the Department is inside scope at Bellhouse** — Borrowed Authority, 1 - Trust, no roll. The Standing Order names it. + Trust, no roll. The Seat's own Order names it, which is why the Council has to listen at all. - **Hearing the song.** Anyone who hears Mr Smith's song all the way through rolls **POW×5**. *Failure:* lose **1 Coherence** and they are **his** — calm, obedient, waiting for Centre — until the case closes and a debrief brings them back. It is eleven minutes long on the tape. **Stopping it before the end is always a complete answer.** -- **Content warnings:** confinement underground; a detention that can turn violent; - children under an occult influence, and a decision about taking children from their - parents; a birth; an elderly woman's shame. +- **Content warnings:** confinement underground; a detention that can turn violent; children + under an occult influence who are not growing up, and a decision about taking them from + their parents; a birth; an old woman's shame. --- ## Overview -**1974.** Bellhouse is a government bunker built into an old coal mine under Sheldon Moor, -in the Peak District. It is running a practice drill for nuclear war. +**1974.** Bellhouse is a government bunker in a worked-out coal mine under Sheldon Moor, in +the Peak District, running a practice drill for nuclear war. A pleasant man in a grey coat — **Mr Smith, "for Centre"** — arrives with a letter saying the war is real. Deputy Controller **Edith Marlow** knows it is only the drill. She signs anyway, -and has never been able to say why. **412 people go underground and the door shuts.** -Reality believes the paperwork: the mine is filled in, the bunker vanishes from every map, -and the only way in is a crossing. +and has never been able to say why. **412 people go underground and the door shuts.** Reality +believes the paperwork: the adit is filled in, the Seat leaves every map and budget, and the +only way in is a crossing. -**Now.** Fifty-two years later there are **999 people** below — 118 of the original intake, -and 881 born there. They live like a 1970s council: rotas, ration books, a housing list, -vegetable gardens under lamps in old coal tunnels. **Every ninety days a letter arrives by -pipe from Centre: it is still not safe; stay down.** Centre is Mr Smith. +**Now.** Fifty-two years later there are **a thousand people** below: 412 who went down and +588 born there. They live like a 1970s council — rotas, ration books, a housing list, +vegetables under lamps in the old coal roads — and **every ninety days a letter comes down +the postal pipe from Centre saying it is still not safe.** Centre is Mr Smith. + +**The slow.** Below Bellhouse, people age at **half speed**. Fifty-two years have passed and +the intake has aged twenty-six. Controller Sowerby is eighty-two and looks fifty-six. The +children born below are not growing up on any schedule a doctor would recognise. **Nobody +below finds this strange**; they have been told the air is clean and the diet is good, and +they have no one to compare themselves with. *Ages in this document are the ages people look +and feel. The Registry's dates are right and the faces are wrong — that gap is an exhibit.* + +**Why they still believe.** Every instrument agrees with Centre. The Seat's own Geiger +counters read hot at the blast lock. The periscope was sealed against flash blindness in 1974 +and only Centre may unseal it. The quarterly fallout return comes down the pipe on the +correct form. **They are not fools. They are a well-run office being lied to by its own +paperwork.** **Mr Smith** is a **Cthulhu Mythos messenger** — not a god, a go-between for the powers that -sleep Outside. His experiment: can the most obedient people in England be turned into a -congregation without ever being told? Three quiet signs show it working: +sleep Outside. His experiment: can the most obedient people in England be made into a +congregation without ever being told? Three quiet signs show it working — **the chant** at +the end of every bulletin (*We hold. We count. We answer.*), **the dream** everybody born +below shares (a corridor, a counter, a pleasant man who asks your name and writes it down), +and **the drawings** in the crèche, where the sun is a circle with a stroke through the top. +That is the mark on his letters. -- **The chant.** Every bulletin ends with the whole site saying *We hold. We count. We - answer.* -- **The dream.** Everyone born below has the same dream: a long corridor, a counter, a - pleasant man who asks your name and writes it down. -- **The drawings.** The children draw the sun as a circle with a stroke through the top. It - is the mark on Mr Smith's letters. +**The trap.** The Seat's Standing Order says that on surfacing it must broadcast a recorded +Address to the region. In 2019 Centre sent a new tape. **It is Mr Smith's song, and anyone +who hears it to the end is his.** Region 12 holds a million people. Since 2019 the tape's +opening has played on the crèche speaker at three every morning "to settle the young", and +**the hundred and sixty-eight children know the whole thing by heart.** They hum it. -**The tape.** The bunker's Standing Order says that when it reaches **1,000 people** it must -come up and broadcast a recorded message to the region. In 2019 Centre sent a new tape. -**It is Mr Smith's song, and anyone who hears it to the end joins him.** Region 12 has a -million people in it. - -**The children.** Since 2019 the tape's opening has played on the crèche speaker at three in -the morning, "to settle the young". **The 168 children under twelve have heard it every night -of their lives and know the whole song by heart.** They hum it. They do not know what it is. - -**This week.** Ruth Cotter is due to have a baby: the thousandth. On Thursday at 07:00 the -bunker will open and broadcast. +**This week.** The Department has finally found the place, and is sending a Board of +Inspection — the agents — to open it and bring everybody home. ### Design intent 1. **A post-apocalypse that is a council meeting.** The end of the world, administered kindly and in triplicate. -2. **Quiet horror.** Three small wrong things, no altars. -3. **A rescue with a deadline.** Stop the tape, then open the door. -4. **One fight, and it is a detention.** Real, measured, avoidable, and it costs a scene. +2. **The obstacle is procedure, and procedure can be beaten.** Three exhibits and a vote. +3. **Quiet horror.** Three small wrong things and a room full of people who are the wrong age. + No altars. +4. **Winning is the trap.** The reward for a good Act Two is a worse Act Three. 5. **A choice about children with no clean answer.** --- @@ -113,17 +125,17 @@ bunker will open and broadcast. | | Act | Budget | GM checkpoint | |---|---|---|---| -| 1 | **Getting In** — the briefing, the moor, the crossing, the Enquiries desk | 45 min | Through the crossing by **0:25** | +| 1 | **The Board Arrives** — the briefing, the moor, the crossing, Enquiries | 45 min | Through the crossing by **0:25** | | — | *Break* | 10 min | | -| 2 | **Finding Out** — the bunker, the guards, the song | **75 min** | They know about **the tape and the children** by **1:50** | -| 3 | **The Broadcast** — Thursday, the thousandth, the choice | 50 min | They are holding the tape by **2:35** | +| 2 | **The Case for the Sun** — the exhibits, the Undersigned, the vote | **75 min** | The Council votes by **2:10** | +| 3 | **The Song** — the Address, the children, the choice | 50 min | They are holding the tape by **2:35** | | | **Total** | **3h00** | in a **3h15** slot | -**The broadcast starts at 2:45 on the session clock** — thirty-five minutes into Act Three — -unless the table has stopped it. +**Surfacing is set for first light** — the session's 2:55 — once the vote passes. That is when +the Address plays, unless the table has dealt with it. **If you are late,** cut in this order: the Bureau to two lines; Joan to the vent head; the -Vigil. **Never cut** the Enquiries desk, the crèche, or the choice. +Undersigned to one confrontation. **Never cut** the Enquiries desk, the vote, or the choice. --- @@ -135,19 +147,24 @@ Vigil. **Never cut** the Enquiries desk, the crèche, or the choice. |---|---| | 1881 | Mr Smith tells Elias Vane what to put on a false survey *(THROUGH TRAIN)*. | | **3 Nov 1974** | Mr Smith brings the "live" order. Marlow signs it, knowing it was a drill. | -| **4 Nov 1974** | 412 go down. The mine is filled in above them. | -| 1974–2026 | Fifty-two years of letters from Centre. 881 children born below. | -| **2019** | Centre sends a new broadcast tape. It starts playing to the crèche every night. | -| May 2026 | One of the bunker's old 1974 letters turns up in the department's in-tray, with Mr Smith's mark on it. | -| **Wednesday** | **Play begins.** 999 people. Ruth Cotter is due. | -| **Thursday 06:00** | The baby is born. **07:00: the broadcast.** | +| **4 Nov 1974** | 412 go down. The adit is filled in above them. The slow begins. | +| 1974–2026 | Fifty-two years of letters from Centre. 588 children born below. | +| **2019** | Centre sends a new Address tape. It starts playing to the crèche every night. | +| 2024 | **The Undersigned** start forging Centre's letters, trying to force the Seat open. | +| May 2026 | A 1974 Seat return turns up in the Department's in-tray, with Mr Smith's mark on it. | +| **Wednesday** | **Play begins.** The Board goes down. | +| **Thursday, first light** | The Seat surfaces — and the Address plays. | -### How they have survived +### The slow, and what it is doing to the moor -Coal from the mine for heat and power. Clean water from an old drainage tunnel. Vegetables, -trout and hens in the old coal tunnels. A mill for cloth. A government stockpile that should -have run out in 1996 and has been topped up "from Centre" every ninety days since, through a -pipe four inches wide. **Do not explain the stockpile.** +Time below runs at half. It is not a blessing and it is not a clock: it is Mr Smith holding +his congregation in place until it is big enough to be worth spending. **It has started to +leak.** At Wetherlaw Farm, directly above, the milk does not turn, the yard never needs +painting, and Joan's dog is thirty-one years old and still runs. That leak is the second half +of the agents' orders, and it is the Department's real reason for moving now. + +**Nobody below is aware of it.** Telling them is not an argument — it is an insult with +arithmetic in it, and Act Two turns on the difference. ### Where a thousand people live @@ -157,53 +174,67 @@ Bellhouse was built for 412. Everyone has a bed, and the Registry keeps the list |---|---|---| | The 1962 dormitories, four halls of 60 double-bunk berths — the single and the young | 9 | 240 | | The officers' cabins — the Controller, the doctor, the oldest of the intake | 10 | 20 | -| **The Estate** — 213 family dwellings, ten feet by ten, that the residents built along three old coal roads from 1979 | 11–13 | 737 | +| **The Estate** — 213 family dwellings, ten feet by ten, built along three old coal roads from 1979 | 11–13 | 738 | | Edith Marlow in the sick bay; Kit Marlow in the crèche staff room | 4, 5 | 2 | -| **Total** | | **999** | +| **Total** | | **1,000** | -**Ruth Cotter's baby is the thousandth.** The whole Seat eats in the canteen in four sittings. +The whole Seat eats in the canteen in four sittings. **Ruth Cotter is due this week**, which +is a human fact and not a clock. -### Why nobody has looked outside +### The Undersigned — the red herring -The periscope was sealed in 1974 against flash blindness, and only Centre can unseal it. -Centre's letters always say the air above is poison. +Twelve people, led by **Gil Hatcher**, fitter, who has believed since 2024 that Centre is a +fiction. They meet in the mushroom gallery. They have **forged three of Centre's letters** to +manoeuvre the Council into opening the door, and they have been stealing from Stores to do it. + +- **They are not Mr Smith's.** They are right about the war and wrong about everything else. +- **To the Council, the agents are the Undersigned's doing** — outsiders who appeared the same + month the letters started reading strangely. +- **To the Undersigned, the agents are Centre's inspectors**, come to find the forger. They + will try to take one agent somewhere quiet and ask them who sent them. +- **What they are worth:** Hatcher's forgery, laid beside a real letter, shows the table what + Mr Smith's mark actually looks like — the forged stroke goes the wrong way. `[CUS: Research + — two marks side by side]` and the case's whole documentary trail opens up. + +**They never learn anything about the song.** If the table spends its energy hunting them, +the countdown still runs and the Council still sits. ### What the song does Anyone who hears it **all the way through** becomes Mr Smith's: calm, obedient, waiting for -Centre. One person hearing it is a tragedy. **A broadcast is a million people.** +Centre. One person is a tragedy. **A broadcast is a million.** -**The children carry it.** A child who knows the song hums it when they are tired, happy or -frightened. **An adult who hears a child hum it right through is affected exactly as if they -heard the tape** — slowly, one listener at a time, in playgrounds and bedrooms. Burning the -tape does not take it out of 168 small heads. +**The children carry it.** A child who knows the song hums it when tired, happy or +frightened, and **an adult who hears a child hum it right through is taken exactly as if they +heard the tape** — one listener at a time, in playgrounds and bedrooms and school buses. +Burning the tape does not take it out of 168 small heads. -**It can be taken out.** Kit Marlow has noticed the song only works as a whole. **Play the -tape to the children one last time with the final bars cut off**, and the tune breaks in them: -they stop humming it and cannot remember it by morning. That needs the tape — so the tape -cannot be burned first — and somebody has to stand in the crèche and run the machine. +**It can be taken out.** Kit Marlow has noticed the song only works whole. **Play the tape to +the children one last time with the final bars cut off** and the tune breaks in them: they +stop humming and cannot remember it by morning. That needs the tape — so the tape cannot be +burned first — and somebody has to stand in the crèche and run the machine. ### Revelations (4) -1. **The bunker is full of living people who think the war happened.** *(Act One)* -2. **There was no war; Mr Smith's letters keep them down.** *(Act Two)* -3. **On Thursday the bunker will broadcast his song, and it will take whoever hears it.** - *(Act Two)* -4. **The children already know the song.** *(Act Two)* +1. **A thousand living people believe the war happened, and their instruments agree.** *(Act One)* +2. **There was no war; Mr Smith's letters kept them down, and the slow kept them here to be + kept.** *(Act Two)* +3. **Surfacing triggers the Address, and the Address is his song.** *(Act Three, and not before)* +4. **The children already know the song by heart.** *(Act Three)* --- ## The Countdown — Act Two -Starts when Act Two starts. +Starts when Act Two starts. **Do not move step 5.** It is the act's ending. | Step | When | What happens | |---|---|---| -| 1 | **+15 min** | **The bulletin.** The tannoy; the whole site stops; everyone says *We hold. We count. We answer.* **Panic trigger.** | -| 2 | **+30 min** | **Centre's letter** (SO-H05) arrives by pipe: deal with the strangers. | -| 3 | **+45 min** | **The guards** are sent. See *The detention*. | -| 4 | **+65 min** | **Vigil**, the yearly remembrance. The 1974 list of the dead is read — and there are no names on it. **Backstop for Revelation 2.** | -| 5 | **+75 min** | **Ruth Cotter goes into labour.** The act ends. | +| 1 | **+10 min** | **The bulletin.** The tannoy; the whole site stops; everyone says *We hold. We count. We answer.* **Panic trigger.** | +| 2 | **+25 min** | **Centre's letter** (SO-H05) arrives by pipe: the Board is not known to Centre; hold them. | +| 3 | **+40 min** | **The Undersigned make contact** — a note under a door, or a hand on a sleeve in the mushroom gallery. | +| 4 | **+55 min** | **The detention**, if the Council has ordered it. See *The detention*. | +| 5 | **+75 min** | **The Council sits in the Vigil hall.** The act ends on the vote. | --- @@ -213,9 +244,9 @@ The section map is **SO-H04**, a plate in the compendium. ### SO-H01 — Case brief SO-012 -*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.* +*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 the slow.* > **DEPARTMENTAL CUSTODY SERVICE** > **CASE:** SO-012 / BELLHOUSE @@ -225,110 +256,129 @@ knows: nothing about the song, the children or Centre's letters.* > > 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 1975 the adit 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.** +> Coal smoke has been settling on Wetherlaw Farm for fifty years and there is no chimney on the moor. Milk does not turn in that farmhouse. The dog is thirty-one. **The Department's reading is that the Seat is still occupied, and that something under it is running slow and running over.** > > **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 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. +> 1. The Seat is to be opened and its people brought home. None is expendable. +> 2. Establish what is holding the ground slow, and bring back the evidence. +> 3. Establish who instructed the Seat in 1974 and who has instructed it since. Bring me his letters. +> 4. The Seat is released under clause 4 of its Standing Order. **Read the whole Order before you cancel anything.** > > **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. +> You go in as a Board of Inspection of 1974. Dress, speak and carry paper accordingly: these people have had no outside voice for fifty-two years and the Department will not open with a shock. Be courteous. Carry your warrant card where it can be seen — a warrant of the Department is named in the Seat's own Order. Do not argue with anyone about the war until you can prove it. > 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. +> Hand lamp · Geiger counter, 1974 pattern · greatcoat · document case · warrant card. **No firearms are issued for this case. No telephones.** > > *Registry: bring me his letters.* -**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. +**What it is for.** Orders 2 and 4 are the hooks: something is leaking, and the Order has a +sting in it. The conduct paragraph is the dress code and the reason for it, and the last line +of Stores is the one players argue with. **Let them argue and do not give in.** ### SO-H02 — The 1974 letter -*Buff, typed, stamped with a small circle cut by a stroke. It came out of the department's -in-tray in May.* +*Buff, typed, stamped with a small circle cut by a stroke. Out of the Department's in-tray in May.* > REGION 12 — SEAT RETURN — WEEK 1 > ESTABLISHMENT: 412. CASUALTIES THIS PERIOD: NIL. > QUERY TO CENTRE: CONFIRM THE GENTLEMAN WHO BROUGHT THE ORDER IS KNOWN TO YOU. > SIGNED: E. MARLOW, DEPUTY CONTROLLER. -**What it is for.** *Casualties nil* — no war. The stamp is Mr Smith's mark. +**What it is for.** *Casualties nil* — no war. The stamp is Mr Smith's mark, and it is the +reference copy when Hatcher's forgery turns up. ### SO-H03 — Standing Order 12 -*Foolscap. Pennyfeather hands it to anyone who asks.* +*Foolscap. Pennyfeather hands it to anyone who asks, and she will ask them to read all of it.* -> 4. This Seat shall not surface until this Order is cancelled by an officer holding a -> warrant of the Department in person at the Seat. +> 4. This Seat shall not surface until this Order is cancelled by an officer holding a warrant of the Department in person at the Seat. +> +> 5. No cancellation shall be made upon the word of a visitor alone. The Seat shall first be satisfied by: (a) a reading taken by an instrument of the Seat, by an officer of the Seat; (b) the deposition of an officer of the 1974 intake; (c) a document under the Seat's own seal. **Matter brought in from outside is not evidence.** > > 6. On cancellation the Seat shall surface and proceed under Annex D. > -> ANNEX D. The Seat at establishment one thousand shall surface and broadcast the recorded -> Address held at the Seat. +> ANNEX D. On surfacing the Seat shall broadcast the recorded Address held at the Seat, to the region, entire. -**What it is for.** Clause 4 is how to release them. Clause 6 is the trap: **cancelling the -order sets off the broadcast.** Annex D says a thousand people means Thursday. +**What it is for.** Clause 5 is Act Two — the three exhibits, and the reason a 2026 newspaper +is worthless down here. Clause 6 and Annex D are Act Three, and **the table should read them +early and understand them late.** ### SO-H05 — Centre's letter *A flimsy, stamped with the mark. Arrives by pipe at Countdown step 2.* > CENTRE TO SEAT 12. -> STRANGERS AT THE SEAT ARE TO BE DETAINED. -> THE SEAT WILL SPEAK ON THURSDAY AS ORDERED. +> NO BOARD HAS BEEN SENT. THE PERSONS AT THE SEAT ARE NOT KNOWN TO US. +> HOLD THEM PENDING INSTRUCTION. +> THE SEAT WILL SPEAK AS ORDERED WHEN IT SPEAKS. > THE YOUNG ARE TO BE SETTLED NIGHTLY AS BEFORE. > J. SMITH, FOR CENTRE. -**What it is for.** The name and the mark match the 1974 letter and Vane's in THROUGH -TRAIN. It sends the guards. Its third line points at the crèche. +**What it is for.** It sends the guards, names Mr Smith, and its last two lines are the ones +that matter later: something is to be *spoken*, and the young are being *settled*. + +### SO-H06 — Hatcher's letter + +*A flimsy, stamped with a mark that is nearly right. Found in the mushroom gallery, or pressed +on the agents by the Undersigned.* + +> CENTRE TO SEAT 12. +> THE AIR IS IMPROVING. THE SEAT SHOULD PREPARE TO SURFACE. +> J. SMITH, FOR CENTRE. + +**What it is for.** The red herring, and the key to the documentary trail: the stroke through +the circle leans the wrong way. Two letters side by side prove one hand is forging — and prove +the other hand is real. --- -## Act One — Getting In *(~45 min)* +## Act One — The Board Arrives *(~45 min)* -**What it is for:** the job, the door, and a first test of good manners. +**What it is for:** the job, the dress, the door, and a first test of good manners. > *Read aloud or paraphrase:* > *Mr Bewley lays a buff envelope on the Registry table. "This came out of my in-tray in -> May," he says. "It was posted in 1974. From a bunker that was filled in in 1975. And look -> at the stamp."* +> May," he says. "It was posted in 1974, from a bunker that was filled in in 1975. There are +> a thousand people down there who think the war happened. You are going to tell them it +> didn't, and they are not going to believe you."* ### Beat 1 — The briefing *(~10 min)* -**Mr Bewley** gives SO-H01, the case brief, and SO-H02, and tells them: +**Mr Bewley** gives SO-H01 and SO-H02 and adds three things: -- **Bellhouse** was a government bunker. 412 people went down for a drill in 1974 and never - came back up. The entrance is rubble. -- **The only way in is a crossing**, at a warm vent on Sheldon Moor, at dusk. -- **The stamp** is the mark on Mr Smith's letter to Elias Vane in 1881. *"Bring me his - letters."* +- **The Seat has its own rules** and one of them names the Department. That is the only reason + a stranger can open the door at all. +- **They go in as a 1974 Board of Inspection.** Fifty-two years of nothing, and then six + people in the wrong clothes talking about mobile telephones, is how you get a panic + underground. *Look like the year they are living in.* +- **Something above the Seat is running slow.** Bring back what is causing it. -**Mr Prosser** issues 1974 kit: a hand lamp, a service revolver he hopes they won't need, a -1974 **Geiger counter**, greatcoats, and warrant cards. No phones. +**Mr Prosser** issues 1974 kit: hand lamp, a 1974-pattern Geiger counter, greatcoats, document +cases, warrant cards. **He refuses firearms, and says why:** the Order's clause 4 needs an +officer standing in front of a council, not a gunfight in a corridor. If a player pushes, he +offers a walking stick and a straight face. ### Beat 2 — Sheldon Moor *(~15 min)* > *Read aloud or paraphrase:* -> *Coal soot lies black on the verges for a mile. Joan Wetherlaw meets you at her gate with -> a yard brush. "Coal smoke," she says. "Fifty years of it. From a moor with no chimney."* +> *Coal soot lies black on the verges for a mile. Joan Wetherlaw meets you at the gate with a +> yard brush and an old dog that should not be able to walk. "Coal smoke," she says. "Fifty +> years of it, off a moor with no chimney."* -Joan walks them up to the vent. She tells them — `[CUS: Persuade — she has never told -anyone]` — that a man in grey once asked her to sign for a parcel addressed to Bellhouse, -and she cannot picture his face. *Failure:* she does not mention it; nothing depends on it. - -**No roll:** the vent is warm to the hand and smells of a coal fire. **Somebody down there is -alive.** +- **The dog is thirty-one.** Joan will say so, flatly, as a fact about a good dog. +- `[CUS: Insight — the farm is wrong in a way that has nothing to do with soot]`: the paint, + the milk, the hay from four summers ago still green in the barn. **The slow, from above.** +- `[CUS: Persuade — she has never told anyone]`: a man in grey once asked her to sign for a + parcel addressed to Bellhouse, and she cannot picture his face. *Failure:* she does not + mention it; nothing depends on it. +- **No roll:** the vent is warm to the hand and smells of a coal fire. **Somebody is alive + down there.** ### Beat 3 — The crossing *(~5 min)* @@ -336,30 +386,35 @@ alive.** > *At dusk the warm air over the vent goes wrong — creased, like a page folded and opened. > Below you, a tannoy is announcing the evening shift.* -**Nobody rolls to cross.** They come out inside, behind a blast door shut since 1974. +**Nobody rolls to cross.** They come out inside the blast lock, behind a door shut since 1974. +**The Seat's own Geiger counter by the lock is reading hot**, and it has been for fifty-two +years. Their 1974 counter, in their hand, reads nothing at all. *That contradiction is the +case in one image — and clause 5 says only the Seat's instrument counts.* ### Beat 4 — The Enquiries desk *(~15 min)* > *Read aloud or paraphrase:* -> *A warm lobby that smells of floor polish and soup. A man in a cardigan behind a desk -> marked ENQUIRIES looks up, looks at the sealed door behind you, and says, very carefully: -> "Name and section, please."* +> *A warm lobby that smells of floor polish and soup. A man in a cardigan behind a desk marked +> ENQUIRIES looks up, looks at the sealed door behind you, and says, very carefully: "Name and +> section, please."* -**Nobody has arrived since 1974.** Mr Ogden calls the Controller. **Warden Teague** arrives -with one guard. Everyone is frightened; nobody is hostile yet. +**Nobody has arrived since 1974.** Mr Ogden has no form for it, which distresses him more than +the impossibility does. He finds one — INSPECTION, BOARD OF, 1971 revision — and is happier. **How they introduce themselves matters:** -- **Warrant cards** work — no roll. They are accepted as Department officers. *"But Centre - didn't tell us you were coming."* -- **Claiming to be from Centre** — `[CUS: Tradecraft — the right words, the right - patience]`. *Failure:* the lie is spotted, because Centre never sends anyone. -- **"There was no war."** Said to Teague, it makes him an enemy for the rest of the case. +- **Warrant cards** work — no roll. They are accepted as officers of the Department, which is + exactly what clause 4 requires. *"But Centre didn't tell us you were coming."* +- **Claiming to be from Centre** — `[CUS: Tradecraft — the right words, the right patience]`. + *Failure:* the lie is spotted, because Centre never sends anyone, and the Council starts Act + Two believing they are the forgers. +- **"There was no war"**, said in the lobby, costs them the first hour. Teague hears about it + and arrives expecting liars. -**Controller Sowerby** interviews them. `[CUS: Persuade — give him something he can file]`. -*Success:* they are **visitors with an escort**. *Failure:* they are **held in the interview -room** — the door is not even locked, and Kit Marlow brings the tea. **Either way, Sowerby -writes to Centre about them.** +**Controller Sowerby** receives them within the hour, in front of a wall map fifty-two years +out of date. He is courteous, tired, and completely immovable. `[CUS: Persuade — give him +something he can file]`. *Success:* **a Board with an escort and the run of the Seat.** +*Failure:* **a Board with an escort and an appointment**, which is the same thing said colder. > ⚠ **No fight in Act One.** Teague and one guard will not start anything, and would lose: > against the four-player cut that pair detains everyone in @@ -367,74 +422,63 @@ writes to Centre about them.** --- -## Act Two — Finding Out *(~75 min)* +## Act Two — The Case for the Sun *(~75 min)* -**What it is for:** meet the people, find the truth, find the song. +**What it is for:** beat a committee, on the committee's terms. > *Read aloud or paraphrase:* -> *Shift change. The corridor is full of cardigans and overalls, a child on somebody's -> shoulders, a noticeboard with a housing list. Everybody looks at you, and then — because -> they were brought up properly — everybody looks away.* +> *Shift change. The corridor fills with cardigans and overalls, a child on somebody's +> shoulders, a housing list on a noticeboard. Everybody looks at you, and then — because they +> were brought up properly — everybody looks away. Nobody here is the age they should be.* -### How to run the bunker +### How to run the Seat -- **A council, not a bunker.** Queues, complaints, minutes, tea. Say this line three times, - in three mouths: *Centre will tell us when.* -- **Everything the agents do is noted** — a guard's pocketbook, a clerk on a phone — and +- **A council, not a bunker.** Queues, complaints, minutes, tea. Say the line three times in + three mouths: *Centre will tell us when.* +- **The wall is procedure, not stupidity.** Every refusal cites clause 5. A 2026 newspaper, a + photograph, a wristwatch, an agent's word: *matter brought in from outside is not evidence.* + **Let the players lose that argument once, properly, before anyone hints at the way round.** +- **Everything the agents do is noted** — a guard's pocketbook, a clerk on a telephone — and reaches Sowerby within the hour. -- **Show at least two of the three wrong things** (the chant, the dream, the drawings) before - the guards arrive. +- **Show two of the three wrong things** (the chant, the dream, the drawings) before the + Council sits. Do not explain them. -### The four places that matter +### The three exhibits — clause 5 -| Place | Who | What they find | -|---|---|---| -| **Control Room** | Sowerby | The tannoy; **a file of Centre's letters, all in Mr Smith's hand**; the studio safe with the tape | -| **Registry** | Pennyfeather | **The Standing Order (SO-H03)** | -| **Sick bay** | Dr Larkhall; Edith Marlow, 101; Ruth Cotter | **The truth about 1974**; the shared dream; the baby due Thursday | -| **Crèche** | Kit Marlow, 17; the children, including Teague's daughter **Nell, 9** | **The drawings; the humming; the three o'clock speaker** | +The Council will hear the case if the agents can put these on the table. **Two is enough with +an argument; three is enough on its own.** -The rest — the vegetable tunnels, the plant floor, the Vigil hall, the Sump cells — is -colour. Use it when the table wanders. +| # | What clause 5 wants | Where it is | How it is got | +|---|---|---|---| +| **(a)** | A reading by a Seat instrument, **in a Seat officer's hands** | The blast lock, the vent shaft, or the sealed periscope | The agents cannot take it themselves. Get a local to carry the Seat's counter up the vent — `[CUS: Persuade — Teague, or Larkhall, will go if asked straight]` — or unseal the periscope: `[CUS: Repair (Mechanical) — 1962 seals nobody has touched]`. Outside reads clean. | +| **(b)** | A deposition by an officer of the 1974 intake | Sick bay — **Edith Marlow** | `[CUS: Insight — asked kindly about 1974: "It was the drill. He said, then it had better be. I signed."]` Pressure closes her. Her box holds the real drill order and a note reading *I knew.* | +| **(c)** | A document under the Seat's own seal that contradicts Centre | Registry — **Pennyfeather** | No roll to be shown the birth register. `[CUS: Research — the register against the faces]`: the dates are fifty-two years long and the people are twenty-six years old. The Seat's own paper says Centre is lying about something. | -### Clue trail — Act Two +**Failure costs a scene, never the exhibit.** A failed Repair means the periscope opens an +hour later with Hatcher's help; a failed Insight closes Marlow and leaves the box; a failed +Research means Pennyfeather does the sum herself overnight and brings it, white-faced, to the +hall. -| # | Clue | Where | How found | What it gives | Type | -|---|---|---|---|---|---| -| 1 | They believe the war happened | Anywhere | No roll — the bulletin | Revelation 1 | Essential | -| 2 | Marlow's shame | Sick bay | `[CUS: Insight — asked kindly about 1974, she says: "It was the drill. He said, then it had better be. I signed."]` | Revelation 2 | Essential | -| 2b | Marlow's box | Sick-bay shelf | `[CUS: Research — the real 1974 drill order, and her note: "I knew."]` | Revelation 2, second road | Essential | -| 3 | Centre's letters | Control Room | No roll — Sowerby shows them, or SO-H05 arrives | Mr Smith's name and mark | Essential | -| 4 | The Order | Registry | No roll — Pennyfeather hands over SO-H03 | Revelation 3: clause 6 and Annex D | Essential | -| 5 | The tape | Control Room studio | `[CUS: Research — the studio log: NEW TAPE FROM CENTRE, 2019. PLAYED NIGHTLY TO CRÈCHE, OPENING ONLY]` | The tape is the broadcast, and the children hear it | Essential | -| 6 | The humming | Crèche | `[CUS: Listen — the little ones are all humming the same slow tune, and it does not end; they start again]` | Revelation 4 | Essential | -| 7 | The dream | Sick bay, Larkhall | `[CUS: Insight — ask her what's odd about the born-below and she shows you her notes: 881 people, one dream]` | Mr Smith's hand on the people | Supporting | -| 8 | What it all is | Anywhere, once two wrong things are seen | `[CUS: Occult — the chant, the dream and the drawings are one procedure: a congregation being gathered]` | Names the horror | Supporting | +### The Undersigned — Countdown step 3 -**Failure costs a scene, never the clue.** A failed Research is a clerk fetching it later. A -failed Listen in the crèche means **Kit tells them** instead: *"They hum it all day. Nell -hummed it at her dad's tea. He didn't like it."* A failed Insight with Marlow closes that -route; the box (2b) and the Vigil still give it. +Hatcher's people make contact in the mushroom gallery: a note, a hand on a sleeve, an offer. -**Revelation 4 is also given by Larkhall** at Countdown step 5 if nobody has found it: *"The -little ones won't stop humming. I've had to ask Ruth to keep the baby away from the crèche."* +- **What they want:** the name of whoever sent the Board, and help forcing the door. +- **What they do if refused:** take one agent somewhere quiet. `[CUS: Stealth — out through the + beds and the coal road]` to avoid it entirely, or `[CUS: Persuade — Hatcher is frightened, + not cruel]` to end it talking. A fight here is fists and spanners and **costs the Council's + goodwill**, because it happens in front of witnesses. +- **What they are worth:** SO-H06 beside SO-H02. `[CUS: Research — two marks side by side]` + and the table can tell Mr Smith's hand from a forger's for the rest of the case. +- **What they cost the Council:** Sowerby now has two explanations for the letters and the + strangers, and he prefers the one that is not supernatural. **This is why the vote is not a + formality.** -### Kit Marlow — the key to the children +### The detention — Countdown step 4 -**Give her a scene doing something ordinary** — teaching geography from a 1971 atlas — before -anyone asks her anything. Then she tells them, unprompted: - -- The speaker plays at three every morning. She was too old to learn the tune when it - started. **The under-twelves all know it.** -- **She has noticed the song only works whole.** *"If Nell stops halfway she just looks - confused and goes back to her crayons. It has to finish."* -- That is the cure, if the table thinks of it: **play the children the tape with the ending - cut off.** If nobody thinks of it by the end of the act, Kit says it. - -### The detention — Countdown step 3 - -Centre's letter says detain the strangers. Sowerby obeys. **Teague and his guards** come to -take the agents to the Sump cells. +Centre's letter says hold them. Sowerby obeys the paperwork he has. **Teague and his guards** +come to take the agents to the Sump cells. He leaves the armoury locked; nobody below wants to +shoot anyone. > *Read aloud or paraphrase:* > *Teague comes round the corner with three men behind him, holding his truncheon the way a @@ -444,8 +488,8 @@ take the agents to the Sump cells. **Four players: Teague and three guards. Six players: Teague and five.** **What the fight is, measured** — 2,000 runs each against this scenario's cast. Detention -figures are sound; death figures are a **ceiling**, because the guards stop hitting anyone -who is down. +figures are sound; death figures are a **ceiling**, because the guards stop hitting anyone who +is down. | Detail | Against | Agents down | Whole party detained | Deaths *(ceiling)* | |---|---|---|---|---| @@ -453,95 +497,127 @@ who is down. | Teague and three | the declared six | **1.16** | **0.3%** | **0.59** | | Teague and five | the declared six | **3.51** | **15.7%** | **2.07** | -**A small party usually loses. A big party wins and breaks the brief.** Either way, fighting is -the worst option. +**A small party usually loses. A big party wins and loses the vote.** Fighting the Seat's own +wardens in front of the Seat is the worst thing the agents can do to their own case. **The ways through:** -- **Go quietly.** The Sump is dry and clean. It costs **one scene** to get out: Kit brings the - key, or Teague relents, or `[CUS: Repair (Mechanical) — a 1962 lock nobody has oiled]`. -- **Talk.** `[CUS: Persuade — a warrant card and an honest account are a reason]`. - *Success:* he escorts them instead. -- **Nell.** Mention his daughter — and, if they know, **the song she hums.** He stands his - men down and is on their side from now on. -- **Run.** `[CUS: Stealth — through the lamp-lit vegetable tunnels]`. *Failure:* cornered - at the Sump. -- **Fight.** **Panic trigger** at the first agent down. Everyone who saw it stops helping. +- **Go quietly.** The Sump is dry and clean, and it costs **one scene**: Kit brings the key, + Teague relents, or `[CUS: Repair (Mechanical) — a 1962 lock nobody has oiled]`. +- **Talk.** `[CUS: Persuade — a warrant card and an honest account are a reason]`. *Success:* + he escorts them instead, and says so at the vote. +- **Nell.** Mention his daughter kindly and he stands his men down. **Do not use the song + here** — nobody knows about it yet. +- **Run.** `[CUS: Stealth — through the lamp-lit vegetable tunnels]`. *Failure:* cornered at + the Sump. +- **Fight.** **Panic trigger** at the first agent down. + +### The vote — Countdown step 5 + +The Council sits in the Vigil hall with the whole Seat standing at the back: **Sowerby**, +**Pennyfeather**, **Teague**. Give every player a moment to speak. Run it as a scene, not a +roll, and then settle it: + +- **Three exhibits:** the vote passes. No roll. Pennyfeather reads clause 4 aloud and asks + which officer of the Department is cancelling the Order. +- **Two exhibits:** `[CUS: Persuade — the missing exhibit is argued around]`. Renshaw leads; + a second player may support at −20. *Failure:* the Council adjourns until first light, which + costs Act Three ten minutes and nothing else. +- **One or none:** the Council refuses, and **Hatcher's people try to force the blast lock + themselves during the night.** The agents can help, stop them, or let it happen — the door + opens either way, and Act Three starts with the Seat in uproar instead of in order. + +**However it lands, the Seat is coming up.** The act ends with Sowerby signing the surfacing +order, his hand shaking, and the tannoy telling a thousand people to be ready at first light. --- -## Act Three — The Broadcast *(~50 min)* +## Act Three — The Song *(~50 min)* -**What it is for:** stop the tape, decide about the children, open the door. +**What it is for:** find out what winning cost, and decide what to do about it. > *Read aloud or paraphrase:* -> *Thursday, six in the morning. The whole bunker is in the Vigil hall. Sowerby reads -> Centre's letter aloud, and then — down the corridor — a baby starts to cry. Somebody -> whispers: "That's a thousand." Sowerby closes the folder. "The broadcast is at seven," he -> says. "We're going home."* +> *Half past two in the morning. The Seat is awake and packing: suitcases from 1974, a woman +> teaching her grown son what a bus is. In the Control Room, Pennyfeather is reading Annex D +> to Sowerby in a flat voice, for the third time, because he keeps asking her to.* -He believes it. **At 07:00 (the session's 2:45) he plays the tape** to the region through the -old mast on the moor. +**This is the reveal.** Annex D says the Seat must broadcast the recorded Address, entire, on +surfacing. Nobody below thinks anything of it: it is the civil defence message, and they +assume it tells the region they are alive. -### Step 1 — Get the tape +### Step 1 — What the Address is -It is in the studio safe. Sowerby has the key. +The tape is in the studio safe. Sowerby has the key and hands it over without a fight — the +argument is over and they are his Board now. -- **He hands it over** if they show him Marlow's box beside Centre's letters — the drill order - and the orders that kept them down are in different hands. No roll. **This is his turning - point**, and he asks them not to play it. -- **Take it.** `[CUS: Tradecraft — the key off his chain during the assembly]`, or - `[CUS: Repair (Mechanical) — the old safe]`. *Failure* costs time, not the tape. -- **Last resort — the mast.** `[CUS: Repair (Electronics) — pull the transmitter valves on - the plant floor]`. This stops the broadcast but leaves the tape where it is. +- `[CUS: Research — the studio log: NEW TAPE FROM CENTRE, 2019. PLAYED NIGHTLY TO CRÈCHE, + OPENING ONLY]` **The tape came from Centre.** Centre is the hand on all those letters. +- **Listen to it, and stop it.** Any agent who lets it run to the end rolls POW×5 and is his. + Thirty seconds is enough to know: it is not a message, it is a tune, and it is the tune the + crèche hums. **Revelation 3.** +- `[CUS: Listen — in the crèche, the little ones are all humming the same slow tune, and it + does not end; they start again]` **Revelation 4.** If nobody goes to the crèche, **Kit + Marlow** brings Nell to the Control Room at three in the morning to show them. -### Step 2 — The choice about the children +### Step 2 — Kit's cure -**Once they hold the tape, the table has to decide.** Put all three options on the table, -plainly. Do not hint at a right answer. +**Give Kit a scene doing something ordinary** — teaching geography off a 1971 atlas — before +anyone asks her anything. Then she says it herself: -**A. Burn the tape. Bring everyone up.** -- The region is safe **today**. -- The 168 children still know the song. The department cannot let it loose in schools, so - **the children are taken into department care**, separated from their parents, for as long - as it takes — and nobody knows how long that is. -- **Teague will not let them take Nell.** Play that. +- The speaker plays at three every morning. She was too old to learn the tune when it started. + **The under-twelves all know it.** +- **The song only works whole.** *"If Nell stops halfway she just looks confused and goes back + to her crayons. It has to finish."* +- So: **play them the tape with the ending cut off** and it breaks. If nobody thinks of it, + Kit says so before the choice is made. -**B. Burn the tape. Leave the families below.** -- The region is safe. The door stays shut **for the families with young children** — about - four hundred people — and everyone else comes up. -- They are safe, fed and together, **and they are prisoners** of a lie the agents now know is - a lie. Mr Smith's letters will keep coming. +### Step 3 — The choice -**C. Cure the children first. Then burn the tape. Then bring everyone up.** -- The best ending, and the hardest. It needs: - 1. **Kit's idea** — play the tape with the ending cut off. *(No roll if they talked to Kit; - otherwise `[CUS: Listen — the song only bites at the end]`.)* - 2. **The cut.** `[CUS: Repair (Electronics) — splice out the last minute of an eleven-minute +**Put all three on the table, plainly, and do not hint at a right answer.** The agents have +spent an evening persuading a thousand people that the sun is waiting for them. + +**A. Surface. Burn the tape. Take the children into care.** +- The Address never plays; the region is safe **today**. +- 168 children still carry the song, so the Department cannot let them near a school. **They go + into departmental care, away from their parents,** for as long as it takes, and nobody knows + how long that is. +- **Teague will not let them take Nell.** Play that all the way out. + +**B. Keep them below.** +- The agents go back to the hall and argue the opposite of everything they argued at the vote, + to people who have packed. +- `[CUS: Persuade — asking a thousand people to un-believe you]` at −20. *Success:* the Seat + stays shut, safe, fed and together. *Failure:* they surface anyway and the Address plays — + go to *If the broadcast goes out*. +- **They have become Centre.** Mr Smith's next letter will thank them by name. + +**C. Cure the children first, then surface.** +- The best ending, and the hardest. It needs, before first light: + 1. **Kit's idea** *(no roll if they talked to her; otherwise `[CUS: Listen — the song only + bites at the end]`)*. + 2. **The cut.** `[CUS: Repair (Electronics) — splice the last minute out of an eleven-minute tape]`. *Failure:* the cut is wrong and must be redone — ten minutes gone. - 3. **Somebody runs the machine** in the crèche with the children. **That agent hears ten - minutes of it** and rolls **POW×5**. *Failure:* **2 Coherence**, and they will have the - dream for the rest of their life. - 4. **It must be done before 07:00.** If Sowerby has not handed over the tape willingly, he - is looking for it. -- *Success:* by morning the children have forgotten the tune. Then burn the tape. + 3. **Somebody runs the machine** in the crèche. **That agent hears ten minutes of it** and + rolls **POW×5**. *Failure:* **2 Coherence**, and they have the dream for the rest of their + life. + 4. **Then the tape is burned and the Seat comes up**, children and all. -### Step 3 — Open the door +### Step 4 — Opening the door -- **An agent cancels the Standing Order** with their warrant card. No roll. They spend **2 - Coherence**. -- **Or Sowerby cancels it himself**, if he turned. No Coherence spent. **This is the best way - to end it.** -- ⚠ **If they open the door before stopping the tape, the broadcast starts immediately.** Say - so if a player reaches for the warrant card too early — SO-H01 already told them. +- **An agent cancels the Standing Order** with their warrant card. No roll. **2 Coherence.** +- **Or Sowerby cancels it himself.** No Coherence spent. **This is the best way to end it.** +- ⚠ **The Address is wired to the surfacing.** If the door opens before the tape is dealt with, + it plays. Say so plainly when a player reaches for the warrant card — clause 6 and Annex D + have been in their hands since Act Two. ### If the broadcast goes out -The song plays on the tannoy and on the moor. It is **eleven minutes long.** +Eleven minutes, on the tannoy and on the mast. - **Every agent in earshot** rolls POW×5 at the end. **Panic trigger** at the first note. -- **It can still be stopped:** the mast, or the tape pulled from the machine by hand. - **Stopped before the end, nobody outside is taken.** +- **It can still be stopped:** pull the transmitter valves on the plant floor `[CUS: Repair + (Electronics)]`, or pull the tape out of the machine by hand. **Stopped before the end, + nobody outside is taken.** - **If it finishes,** say this and stop: *In farmhouses and flats and school buses across the Peak District, people stop what they are doing and say, quietly, "We hold. We count. We answer."* Region 12 belongs to Mr Smith. @@ -550,10 +626,10 @@ The song plays on the tannoy and on the moor. It is **eleven minutes long.** | Ending | What happens | |---|---| -| **C — cured, burned, opened** | A thousand people come home, with their children. The agent who ran the machine dreams of a counter and a pleasant man for the rest of their life. | -| **A — burned, opened** | Everyone comes up. The children go into care. Some parents never forgive the department. Teague is arrested at the crèche door. | -| **B — burned, families kept below** | Six hundred come up. Four hundred stay down, safe and lied to. Next month there is a letter from Centre. | -| **Broadcast stopped at the mast only** | The tape still exists. Decide again — or leave it for the next case. | +| **C — cured, burned, surfaced** | A thousand people come up into the rain, with their children. Within a year they start to age properly, which is its own grief. The agent who ran the machine dreams of a counter and a pleasant man for the rest of their life. | +| **A — surfaced, children taken** | Everyone comes up. The children go into care. Some parents never forgive the Department, and Teague is arrested at the crèche door. | +| **B — kept below** | The door stays shut on a thousand people who had packed. They are safe. The agents wrote the letter that keeps them there. | +| **Broadcast stopped at the mast only** | The tape still exists, and so do 168 children who know it. Decide again — or leave it for the next case. | | **Broadcast finished** | Region 12 is Mr Smith's. | **Whatever the ending, close the case with this:** @@ -564,9 +640,9 @@ The song plays on the tannoy and on the moor. It is **eleven minutes long.** ### If they call in containment instead -If the agents report the children as a containment problem rather than a rescue, the -department sends a **quarantine unit**. It will seal the bunker with everyone inside. Its -recorded wipe rate against a four-agent party is +If the agents report the Seat as a containment problem rather than a rescue, the Department +sends a **quarantine unit**, which will seal the place with everyone inside. Its recorded wipe +rate against a four-agent party is **87.4%**. **Count down six rounds out loud**, and let them talk it down: `[CUS: Anomaly Lore — the Standing Order outranks a containment order]` at −20. SO-H01 exists so nobody does this by accident. @@ -575,54 +651,66 @@ containment order]` at −20. SO-H01 exists so nobody does this by accident. ## NPC Roster — GM quick sheet +*Ages are what they look and feel. The calendar age is in brackets, and nobody below has ever +noticed the difference.* + ### Below -**Controller Edwin Sowerby, 61** — *has obeyed Centre for fifty years and is starting to be -afraid of it.* Went down aged nine. Sends the guards because Centre says so. **Turns** when -he sees Mr Smith's letters beside the real 1974 order. +**Controller Edwin Sowerby, 56 (82)** — *has obeyed Centre for fifty-two years and has begun to +be frightened of it.* Went down a young clerk of thirty. Will not be moved by anything that is +not in the Order; **is moved, completely, when clause 5 is satisfied.** Afterwards he is the +agents' man, and hands over the tape without being asked. -**Registrar Alice Pennyfeather, 51** — *the first child born below; hands over the Order to -anyone who asks.* +**Registrar Alice Pennyfeather, 52 (78)** — *keeps the list, and the list is the proof.* Hands +over the Standing Order to anyone who asks and makes them read clause 5 aloud. Does the +arithmetic on the birth register herself if the agents do not. -**Dr Ivy Larkhall, 44** — *has found that 881 people share one dream.* Delivers Ruth's baby. -Treats anyone hurt, on either side. +**Dr Ivy Larkhall, 48 (74)** — *has 588 people who share one dream and no one to tell.* Will +carry a Geiger counter up a vent shaft if asked straight. Delivers Ruth's baby. Treats anyone +hurt, either side. -**Edith Marlow, 101** — *signed for a stranger in 1974 and has been ashamed ever since.* The -only person who has seen Mr Smith, and she cannot picture him. Kind questions work; pressure -does not. +**Edith Marlow, 96 (96)** — *signed for a stranger in 1974 and has been ashamed ever since.* +**The slow never took her**, and nobody below can say why; she is the only person in Bellhouse +who looks her age. The only living person who has seen Mr Smith, and she cannot picture him. +Kind questions work; pressure does not. -**Warden Michael Teague, 38** — *head of the bunker's guards, and Nell's dad.* Widower. Leads -the detention himself, with a truncheon; leaves his pistol locked up. **Not a villain.** He -will fight anyone who tries to take his daughter. +**Warden Michael Teague, 38 (64)** — *head of the wardens, and Nell's dad.* Widower. Leads the +detention himself with a truncheon and leaves the armoury locked. **Not a villain.** Votes with +whoever has been straight with him. Will fight anyone who tries to take his daughter. -**Kit Marlow, 17** — *teaches the little ones, and has noticed the song.* Edith's +**Gil Hatcher, 41 (62), fitter** — *has been forging Centre's letters for two years because +nobody would listen.* Right about the war, wrong about the agents, frightened of what happens +when he is found out. **Not Mr Smith's, and never was.** + +**Kit Marlow, 17 (34)** — *teaches the little ones, and has noticed what the song does.* Edith's great-granddaughter. **The key to the cure.** -**Nell Teague, 9** — *hums the song at tea.* +**Nell Teague, 9 (18)** — *hums the song at tea.* She has been nine for a long time. -**Mr Ogden, Enquiries** — *has no form for visitors.* +**Mr Ogden, Enquiries, 59 (85)** — *had no form for visitors, and has now found one.* -**Ruth Cotter, 24** — *due on Thursday; would like people to stop calling her baby "the -thousandth".* +**Ruth Cotter, 24 (48)** — *due this week, and tired of being an occasion.* ### Above -**Joan Wetherlaw, 67** — *has swept coal soot off her yard all her life.* Signed for Mr -Smith's parcel once. +**Joan Wetherlaw, 67** — *has swept coal soot off her yard all her life, and owns a +thirty-one-year-old dog.* Signed for Mr Smith's parcel once. -**Mr Bewley, Registry** — *wants the letters.* **Mr Prosser, Stores** — *issues the 1974 kit.* +**Mr Bewley, Registry** — *wants the letters.* **Mr Prosser, Stores** — *issues the 1974 kit +and refuses the firearms.* ### Never met -**Mr Smith, for Centre** — a **Cthulhu Mythos messenger**: a grey coat, a pleasant manner, and -a face nobody can picture. A go-between for the powers that sleep Outside, not one of them. -**No sheet, no portrait, no scene.** He gets away. +**Mr Smith, for Centre** — a **Cthulhu Mythos messenger**: a grey coat, a pleasant manner, a +face nobody can picture. A go-between for the powers that sleep Outside, not one of them. He +holds the ground slow because a congregation takes time to raise. **No sheet, no portrait, no +scene.** He gets away. ### Cast actors — in the compendium | Actor | Where | |---|---| -| **Bellhouse warden** | Act Two — one actor for all the guards | +| **Bellhouse warden** | Act Two — one actor for all the wardens, and for Hatcher's people in a scuffle | | **Warden Michael Teague** | Acts One and Two | The **quarantine unit** is in the bestiary. @@ -639,11 +727,11 @@ The **quarantine unit** is in the bestiary. | Agent | What they do here | |---|---| -| **Marta Holloway** — lead | Tradecraft 63 (Enquiries; Sowerby's key), Stealth 63 (running) | -| **Arun Bhattacharya** — Registry | Research 63 (Marlow's box, the studio log), Occult 63 (what it all is), Anomaly Lore 63 | -| **Kate Renshaw** — interviews | Persuade 63 (Joan, Sowerby, Teague), Insight 63 (Marlow, Larkhall), Listen 63 (the humming, the cut) | -| **Marek Kowalczyk** — engineer | Repair (Electronics) 58 (**the tape cut**, the mast), Repair (Mechanical) 58 (the safe, the cell lock) | -| **Dr Chidi Nkemdirim** — medic | Backs Renshaw's Insight at 58; helps Larkhall with the birth | +| **Marta Holloway** — lead | Tradecraft 63 (Enquiries, the studio), Stealth 63 (the Undersigned) | +| **Arun Bhattacharya** — Registry | Research 63 (**the register against the faces**, the two marks, the studio log), Occult 63, Anomaly Lore 63 | +| **Kate Renshaw** — interviews | Persuade 63 (Joan, Sowerby, Teague, **the vote**), Insight 63 (Marlow, the farm), Listen 63 (the humming) | +| **Marek Kowalczyk** — engineer | Repair (Mechanical) 58 (the periscope, the cell lock), Repair (Electronics) 58 (**the tape cut**, the mast) | +| **Dr Chidi Nkemdirim** — medic | Backs Renshaw's Insight at 58; goes up the vent with Larkhall; helps with the birth | | **Ben Okonkwo** — containment | The detention. His best move is to stand still and not hit anyone | **At four players,** cut Okonkwo and Nkemdirim. Nothing essential needs them. **The detention @@ -653,68 +741,70 @@ is much harder at four**, and the table above says how much. ## Locations — quick reference -**The underground is thirteen blueprint scenes** in the Adventure, one sheet each, drawn as -the 1962 drawing office issued them with fifty years of pencil amendments. They are -2800×2000 at five feet to the square, so tokens and the Foundry grid line up. **North is to -the left on every sheet**, matching the section drawing (SO-H04): +**The underground is thirteen blueprint scenes** in the Adventure, one sheet each, drawn as the +1962 drawing office issued them with fifty years of pencil amendments. They are 2800×2000 at +five feet to the square, so tokens and the Foundry grid line up. **North is to the left on +every sheet**, matching the section drawing (SO-H04): - **Level 1** runs from the lobby at the north end to the sick bay and the stair down at the south (sheets 1–4). -- **Level 2** runs from the crèche under the sick bay north past the pipe room, the plant, - the dormitories and the canteen (sheets 5, 6, 9, 10). +- **Level 2** runs from the crèche under the sick bay north past the pipe room, the plant, the + dormitories and the canteen (sheets 5, 6, 9, 10). - **An incline from the plant floor** goes down to the pit galleries: the coal roads and the Sump, the Vigil hall, and the Estate (sheets 7, 8, 11–13). -Every corridor end says which sheet it leads to. **Nothing on a sheet gives away a GM -secret**; the pencil notes are what the people below wrote. +Every corridor end says which sheet it leads to. **Nothing on a sheet gives away a GM secret**; +the pencil notes are what the people below wrote. | # | Location | Act | Blueprint scene | One line | |---|---|---|---|---| -| 1 | Wetherlaw farm | 1 | — | Coal soot, and Joan with a brush | +| 1 | Wetherlaw farm | 1 | — | Coal soot, green hay from four summers ago, and a dog of thirty-one | | 2 | The soot edge | 1 | — | A straight line of soot across the fields | -| 3 | The vent | 1 | — | Warm, smells of coal; the crossing | -| 4 | The postal pipe | 1/2 | — | How Centre's letters arrive | -| 5 | The adit | 1 | — | Filled with rubble in 1975 | -| 6 | Lobby and Enquiries | 1 | **Sheet 1** | Mr Ogden; the crossing lands in the blast lock; the wardens' post and the armoury | -| 7 | Control Room and studio | 2/3 | **Sheet 2** | Sowerby's office, the studio safe, the tape | -| 8 | Registry | 2 | **Sheet 3** | Pennyfeather and the Order, in the strongroom | -| 9 | Sick bay | 2/3 | **Sheet 4** | Marlow's side room, Larkhall's office, the delivery room | -| 10 | Crèche | 2/3 | **Sheet 5** | Kit, Nell, the drawings, the dormitory speaker | +| 3 | The vent | 1 | — | Warm, smells of coal; the crossing; exhibit (a) is taken here | +| 4 | The postal pipe | 1/2 | — | How Centre's letters arrive — and Hatcher's | +| 5 | The adit | 1 | — | Filled in in 1975 | +| 6 | Lobby and Enquiries | 1 | **Sheet 1** | Mr Ogden; the blast lock; the Seat's counter reading hot since 1974 | +| 7 | Control Room and studio | 2/3 | **Sheet 2** | Sowerby's office, the wall map, the studio safe, the tape | +| 8 | Registry | 2 | **Sheet 3** | Pennyfeather, the Standing Order, **the birth register** | +| 9 | Sick bay | 2/3 | **Sheet 4** | Marlow's side room and her box; Larkhall's notes; the delivery room | +| 10 | Crèche | 2/3 | **Sheet 5** | Kit, Nell, the drawings, the three o'clock speaker | | 11 | Pipe room | 2 | **Sheet 6** | Centre's in-tray | | 12 | Plant floor | 3 | **Sheet 6** | The transmitter room — the mast route | -| 13 | Vigil hall | 2/3 | **Sheet 8** | The chant; Thursday's assembly, all 999 standing | -| 14 | The vegetable tunnels | 2 | **Sheet 7** | Beds, trout tanks, hens, the Buffer Depot — the run route | +| 13 | Vigil hall | 2/3 | **Sheet 8** | The chant; **the vote**, with the whole Seat standing at the back | +| 14 | The vegetable tunnels and the mushroom gallery | 2 | **Sheet 7** | Beds, trout tanks, hens — and where the Undersigned meet | | 15 | The Sump | 2 | **Sheet 7** | Four cells; the detention ends here | | 16 | Dormitories | 2 | **Sheet 9** | Four halls, 240 berths, the laundry | | 17 | Canteen and officers' cabins | 2 | **Sheet 10** | Four sittings a meal; Sowerby sleeps in cabin C1 | | 18 | The Estate | 2 | **Sheets 11–13** | 213 family homes on three coal roads — Teague and Nell, Ruth Cotter, most of the Seat | **Which sheet when:** -- **Act One:** Sheet 1 for the arrival and the interview. -- **The detention:** whichever sheet the guards catch them on, then Sheet 7. **The Estate - is the best place to run and the worst place to fight:** narrow roads, doors on every - side, and children in every one. -- **Act Three:** Sheet 2 for getting the tape, Sheet 5 for the cure, and Sheets 8 and 6 for - the broadcast (the assembly, and the transmitter). -- **Colour:** Sheets 9–13 when the table wants to see how people live — a meal in the - canteen, a visit to a family on No.5 Road. +- **Act One:** Sheet 1 for the arrival and the first interview. +- **Act Two:** Sheet 3 for the register, Sheet 4 for Marlow, Sheet 7 for the Undersigned, and + Sheet 8 for the vote. **The Estate is the best place to run and the worst place to fight:** + narrow roads, doors on every side, children in every one. +- **Act Three:** Sheet 2 for the tape, Sheet 5 for the cure, Sheets 8 and 6 for the broadcast. +- **Colour:** Sheets 9–13 when the table wants to see how people live. --- -## GM notes — three things that do not get resolved +## GM notes — four things that do not get resolved -1. **What Mr Smith is for.** He is a messenger. Whose, and what he reports, the case does not - say. -2. **Where the stockpile comes from.** Do not explain it. -3. **How long the children stay in care** (ending A), and whether the dream ever stops for the - born-below. +1. **What Mr Smith is for.** He is a messenger. Whose, and what he reports, the case does not say. +2. **Why the slow never took Edith Marlow.** She signed. Nobody says it out loud. +3. **Where the stockpile comes from.** Do not explain it. +4. **What happens to a thousand people who start ageing again**, and whether the dream ever + stops for the born-below. --- ## Open questions for Tim -- **Ending A's cost.** Taking 168 children from their parents is heavy. It is the point of the - choice — but check it sits right for a convention table. -- **The cure's price.** One agent dreaming for life, or 2 Coherence. Too light? Too heavy? -- **Runtime.** Unmeasured. Act Three now holds a decision *and* a race; desk pass 1 should time - it first. +- **The vote as a set piece.** It replaces the old Act Two chase with a committee scene. Does it + hold a convention table for fifteen minutes, or does it need a physical complication running + under it (Hatcher at the blast lock) as standard rather than as a failure branch? +- **Ending B.** Arguing your own case backwards is the heaviest thing in the scenario. Check it + reads as a real option and not as a punishment. +- **Ages in brackets.** Useful at the table, or clutter? The register trick depends on the + players feeling the gap before they can prove it. +- **Runtime.** Unmeasured. Act Two now carries the exhibits, the Undersigned and the vote; desk + pass 1 should time it hard and cut the Undersigned first if it overruns. diff --git a/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html b/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html index 576f66c..38ef77a 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html +++ b/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_HANDOUTS.html @@ -200,24 +200,27 @@ p.issue { font-family: var(--typed); font-size: 10.5pt; } 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.

+

Coal smoke has been settling on Wetherlaw Farm, above the Seat, for fifty years, and there + is no chimney on the moor. Milk does not turn in that farmhouse. The dog is thirty-one. + The department’s reading is that the Seat is still occupied, and that + something under it is running slow and running over.

ORDERS

    -
  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. +
  5. The Seat is to be opened and its people brought home. None is expendable.
    6. +
  6. Establish what is holding the ground slow, and bring back the evidence.
    7. +
  7. Establish who instructed the Seat in 1974 and who has instructed it since. Bring me his letters.
    8. +
  8. The Seat is released under clause 4 of its Standing Order. Read the whole Order before you cancel anything.

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.

+

You go in as a Board of Inspection of 1974. Dress, speak and carry paper accordingly: + these people have had no outside voice for fifty-two years and the department will not + open with a shock. Carry your warrant card where it can be seen — a warrant of the + Department is named in the Seat’s own Order. Do not argue with anyone about the + war until you can prove it.

Standing Order 9 applies. Nothing modern goes through.

@@ -225,8 +228,8 @@ p.issue { font-family: var(--typed); font-size: 10.5pt; }

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.

+

Hand lamp · Geiger counter, 1974 pattern · greatcoat · document case · + warrant card. No firearms are issued for this case. No telephones.

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One of the site's eleven police, born below. Use for all of them.", + role: "ACT TWO. One of the site's eleven wardens, born below. Use for all of them, and for Hatcher's Undersigned in a scuffle.", chosenStyle: "reflex", naturalArmour: 0, species: "baseline", ch: { str: 13, siz: 13, con: 13, int: 10, pow: 11, dex: 12, cha: 10, edu: 10 }, skills: [{ fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "club", val: 50 }, @@ -239,9 +239,9 @@ export const SO_CAST = [ + "arrested drunks and a man who stole from the vegetable tunnels; they have never fought anybody " + "who fights back. They come in pairs, ask once, and take hold of arms. THEY ARE " + "DETAINING, NOT KILLING: a warden stops hitting an agent who is down and puts the " - + "cuffs on instead. A warden who is hurt badly steps back and calls for Teague. If an " - + "agent draws a firearm, every warden in sight stops and stares, because nobody below " - + "has seen one used, and the next thing they do is run for the Controller." }, + + "cuffs on instead. A warden who is hurt badly steps back and calls for Teague. The " + + "Board carries no firearms and neither do they: this is a scuffle in a corridor in " + + "front of witnesses, and every blow of it is spent at the vote." }, { key: "so_teague", name: "Warden Michael Teague", role: "ACT TWO. Head of the site's police. The man sent to fetch them.",