Four new portraits (Joan Wetherlaw at last, Ruth Cotter, Nell Teague,
Mr Ogden) and eleven interior plates, one for each underground location
that had none, in the two-ink civil defence style. Bewley and Prosser
reuse their THROUGH TRAIN portraits. Journals now show 20 plates and 12
faces. The art sheet corrects the v1.0 diagnosis: Joan's prompt was
being refused, not the account out of hours.
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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.
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Five more blueprint sheets: the 1962 dormitories and laundry (240
berths), the canteen, kitchen, bakery and officers' cabins (20), and
three sheets of the Estate, 213 family dwellings on three coal roads
(737). With Edith and Kit Marlow that is the 999; the scenario now
shows the sum. Section map issue 3 adds 16-18, and sheet 6 is mirrored
so the pipe room lies south of the plant as the section draws it.
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Eight sheets laid out to match the section: north to the left, Level 1
lobby to sick bay, Level 2 creche to plant, an incline to the pit
galleries, and every corridor end naming the sheet it reaches. Rooms
now share walls (the corridor gap had doors opening onto rock); adds an
armoury, a pipe room beside the plant, and a Vigil hall sized for 999
standing. bellhouse-plans.mjs --check holds doors, swings, furniture,
lettering and reachability, and runs in npm run check.
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Drawn by tools/bellhouse-plans.mjs from declared rooms: lobby, control
room, registry, sick bay, creche, vigil hall and plant, coal roads and
the Sump. 2800x2000 at 5 ft to the square, added to the Adventure and
keyed in the Locations table.
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Cut the register mechanic, the census creature, the paperwork route and
half the clues. The under-twelves know Mr Smith's song from the nightly
creche speaker, so Act Three is a choice: burn the tape and take the
children into care, keep the families below, or cure them with a cut
tape first.
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Tim's ruling. He comes from Outside and speaks for the powers that sleep
there, which the department has no heading for; the census in the Registry
is a Vesh working for him. The open question is marked decided.
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The agents now cross into Bellhouse on a diplomatic brief to bring its people
home. A thousand people (118 of the 1974 intake, 881 born below) run the Seat
like a 1970s council, kept down by ninety-day renewals from "Centre", which
is Mr Smith, planted in THROUGH TRAIN. His experiment is procedural and
quiet: a bulletin response, a crèche lullaby, a shared dream, the children's
drawings, a steered establishment. Act One is the briefing, the moor and the
crossing into Enquiries. Act Two is the site, and the detention the Controller
orders on Centre's circular, measured and cited. Act Three is Annex D: at a
thousand the Seat broadcasts an Address that enrols whoever hears it, and the
table must silence it before or while they release the Seat under clause 4.
Same site, people and plates. Two cast actors (the wardens, Teague). New
handouts SO-H05 (Centre's circular) and SO-H06 (terms of engagement). The
section map's key is relabelled (issue 2). Status is honest: v0.7's five desk
passes tested a different plot, and this needs its own.
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New pack ringbrp.standingorder, in the Scenarios folder. It holds the GM
journal (13 pages, one per section), the three player handouts, nine plates
to show, six faces and the Bellhouse section map as a scene. No cast actors,
because nobody in the case has a stat block.
The GM pages are read from docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER.md at build time
rather than transcribed, so the compendium cannot drift from the document the
desk passes ran against. STATUS and Open questions are left out as authoring
notes; STATUS's "not obvious" list leads page 1.
Doc fixes found on the way: the Act Two heading still said ~55 min against a
75-minute budget; STATUS said four passes and "no desk playtest run" after
five; the runtime open question still called 45/55/50 unbacked.
figures-baseline: generator enrolled at 0; STANDING_ORDER.md leaves the
uncited list because it cites.
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