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STANDING ORDER v2.0: the argument is the adventure

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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 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| | **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 |
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### 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 |
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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.</p>
<p>Coal smoke has been settling on Wetherlaw Farm, above the Seat, for fifty years. There is
no chimney on the moor. <span class="reading">The department’s reading is that the Seat is
still occupied.</span></p>
<p>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.
<span class="reading">The department’s reading is that the Seat is still occupied, and that
something under it is running slow and running over.</span></p>
<h2>ORDERS</h2>
<ol class="orders">
<li>The persons at the Seat are to be brought home. <strong>None is expendable.</strong></li>
<li>Force is authorised in self-defence only.</li>
<li>Establish who delivered the Seat’s order in 1974 and who has instructed it since. Bring back his letters.</li>
<li>The Seat is released under clause 4 of its Standing Order. <strong>Read clause 6 first.</strong></li>
<li>The Seat is to be opened and its people brought home. <strong>None is expendable.</strong></li>
<li>Establish what is holding the ground slow, and bring back the evidence.</li>
<li>Establish who instructed the Seat in 1974 and who has instructed it since. Bring me his letters.</li>
<li>The Seat is released under clause 4 of its Standing Order. <strong>Read the whole Order before you cancel anything.</strong></li>
</ol>
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<h2>CONDUCT</h2>
<p>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. <strong>Do not argue with anyone about the war.</strong></p>
<p>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. <strong>Do not argue with anyone about the
war until you can prove it.</strong></p>
<p>Standing Order 9 applies. Nothing modern goes through.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<h2>ISSUED BY STORES</h2>
<p class="issue">Hand lamp · service revolver · Geiger counter, 1974 pattern ·
greatcoat · warrant card. <strong>No telephones.</strong></p>
<p class="issue">Hand lamp · Geiger counter, 1974 pattern · greatcoat · document case ·
warrant card. <strong>No firearms are issued for this case. No telephones.</strong></p>
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