RingBRP/docs/scenarios/STANDING_ORDER_ART.md

STANDING ORDER — Artwork Prompt Sheet

Generation prompts for every plate and portrait in STANDING ORDER. Kept here so regeneration is possible; per house convention the prompt is part of the document.

mj-gen "<prompt>" --out <dir> --name <stem> --upscale 1

What already exists and needs nothing. The six declared pregens have portraits in art/portraits/pc_<key>.webp. The three creatures — the census, the overwriter and the quarantine unit — are bestiary entries and their prompts live in BESTIARY_ART.md, not here. Everything in this sheet is new work.

v1.0 (16 September 2026) reused every plate. The rewrite kept the site, the people and the art; only the uses below changed. Mr Smith must never be drawn — a face is the one thing the case says nobody can recall — and no prompt for him belongs in this sheet.

v1.1 added thirteen blueprint scenes of the underground, art/maps/bh-*.webp. They are drawn, not generated, by tools/bellhouse-plans.mjs (white line on blueprint blue, Courier lettering, pencil amendments in yellow, north to the left as on the section). Edit the script, run it with --check (doors on shared walls, swings clear, furniture inside its room, every room reachable), then --render. No prompt belongs here for them.

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Art direction for this scenario

House base style is ink sketch / pencil illustration — hand-drawn, single-weight line, sparse wash, negative space, never photorealistic. STANDING ORDER adds one line:

Civil defence, 1974. A two-ink screen print in black and faded civil-defence orange on newsprint white. Coarse halftone, flat pale cream ground instead of sky, the register very slightly off. Everything is drawn as though it were a plate from a public information booklet about what to do afterwards — including the things that are fine, and including the people who are alive.

That last clause is the conceit. Bellhouse is not a ruin and nobody in it is a ghost. Drawing a warm corridor full of civil servants in the visual language of a leaflet about nuclear attack is the whole scenario in one image: the end of the world, rendered as guidance.

Why this and not CLEAN GROUND's dyeline blue-grey drawing office: that case is a survey, filed in 1962 by draughtsmen. This one is a broadcast to the public, printed in 1974 by a government that expected to be obeyed. Different department, different press.

The three rules that make these prompts work

Learned the hard way across Day One, OPEN DAY and LAST ADMISSION, and they are in ~/.claude/skills/rpg/references/lessons.md:

1. Say "two-ink screen print" and name both inks. Palette drift and hallucinated signage are the same failure — a naturalistic prompt lets the model reach for a reference photograph, and reference photographs have shop fronts on them.
2. "Flat pale cream ground instead of sky." Asking for "no sky" produces a sky.
3. Never make a count load-bearing in generated art. Midjourney cannot count. The nineteen children, the three signatures in the visitor book and the sixty-one born below are all handout and text facts. No plate is allowed to contradict them.

Known artifact, accepted

Midjourney puts faint edition lettering in the lower margins of the screen-print prompts — pencil-scale marks that read as a printmaker's annotation. Four attempts at suppressing it with "no text / no lettering" did not remove it on this style. It is accepted here because it reads as part of the print rather than as signage, and because it contradicts nothing. If a plate ever grows legible lettering that says something, regenerate it — a picture that contradicts a clue is worse than no picture.

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Plates — art/scenes/

All nineteen are generated, as art/scenes/so_NN_<stem>.webp.

File	Where it is used
so_01_cover.webp	Cover plate
so_02_wetherlaw.webp	Act One — the farmyard
so_03_ash_edge.webp	Act One — clue 3, the soot edge (the file keeps its old name)
so_04_adit.webp	Act One — the adit mouth, backfilled; the crossing is above it
so_05_corridor.webp	Act Two — arrival below
so_06_control_room.webp	Act Two / Three — the bulletin, Centre's file, the studio
so_07_registry.webp	Act Two — the Establishment, and the thing counting in the stacks
so_08_creche.webp	Act Two — the school, the drawings, the intercom

Shared prefix. Every plate prompt begins with this and it is not optional:

1974 British civil defence public information booklet illustration, two-ink screen print in black and faded civil-defence orange on newsprint white, hand-drawn single-weight ink line, coarse halftone dot texture, flat pale cream ground instead of sky, no text, no lettering, no signage, not photorealistic

so_cover

…open moorland under a flat cream sky, a straight line of pale grit running across the heather from edge to edge and turning a precise right angle, a low concrete structure half-buried in the distance, nobody present --ar 3:2

so_wetherlaw

…a small stone hill farm yard, fine pale dust drifted into the corners and against the wall like the tide left it, a yard brush leaning where somebody put it down, no people, no shops, no signage --ar 3:2

so_ash_edge

…a field of moorland heather seen low and level, a hard straight boundary of pale grit crossing the whole frame and turning ninety degrees, the ground beyond it very slightly paler, no fence, no wall, no people --ar 3:2

so_04_adit

…a low painted concrete portal set into open moorland heather, a dark circular opening under a heavy cantilevered slab, fine pale grit settling over the heather like milled dust, no people --ar 3:2

Note: prompted as a mushroom ventilation head and returned as an adit portal. Kept and re-captioned rather than regenerated, because it is a better adit than the vent head would have been. If a true ROC-post mushroom vent is ever wanted, prompt it as "a low circular concrete mushroom vent the height of a man's knee" — the word "mushroom" alone produced a monument.

so_corridor

…a warm underground government corridor from 1974, painted brick, linoleum floor, pipework along the ceiling, a noticeboard with papers pinned to it seen from too far away to read, one woman in a cardigan walking away from the viewer, ordinary and unhurried --ar 3:2

so_control_room

…an underground regional government control room from 1974, a large wall map of an English region covered in pins, a long desk with a single folder squared to its edge, a tannoy microphone, several people standing quietly along the back wall, warm and orderly, nothing damaged --ar 3:2

so_registry

…deep rows of underground archive shelving, fifty years of identical buff files, a clerk's desk at the near end with a squared sheet of paper and a pencil on it, the far end of the rows unlit, no figure visible in the dark --ar 3:2

so_creche

…an underground schoolroom from 1974, small chairs, an old atlas open on a low table, children's crayon drawings of a blue sky pinned in a row along the wall, warm light, no children present --ar 3:2

The empty room is deliberate. Kit Marlow's drawings of a sky she has never seen do the work; children in the frame would make it sentimental and would also make a count load-bearing.

Interiors added in v1.1 — so_09 to so_19

One plate for every underground location that had none, so the table can be shown the room the blueprint describes. Same shared prefix, --ar 3:2. Rooms are shown empty or nearly so, for the creche's reason: a crowd makes a count load-bearing.

File	Location	Prompt tail
so_09_lobby	6 · Lobby and Enquiries	…an underground government reception lobby from 1974, a long enquiries counter with a telephone and a brass bell, rows of wooden benches, a round steel blast door standing shut at the far end, polished linoleum, one mild man in a cardigan behind the counter looking up
so_10_sickbay	9 · Sick bay	…a small underground hospital ward from 1974, iron-framed beds in two rows under warm lamps, a folding screen beside one bed, an enamel jug and glass on a bedside locker, calm and scrubbed, no patients visible
so_11_pipe_room	11 · Pipe room	…a cramped underground mail room from 1974, a polished brass pneumatic tube running down the wall from the ceiling to a small delivery hatch, a message capsule lying in a wire tray below it, wooden sorting pigeonholes, a single desk lamp, nobody present
so_12_plant	12 · Plant floor	…an underground boiler house from 1974 under a low concrete ceiling with no windows, a huge riveted coal-fired boiler with round pressure gauges and a glowing firebox door, two diesel generators, pipes and ducting overhead, caged electric lamps, a coal barrow and shovel, nobody present
so_13_vigil	13 · Vigil hall	…a large plain assembly hall cut into rock deep underground, long rows of stacking chairs facing a low platform with a lectern, a long blank wooden board above the platform, loudspeakers on the rock walls, warm light, empty
so_14_tunnels	14 · Coal roads	…an old unlined coal mine road underground turned into a vegetable garden, long raised beds under rows of hanging lamps, a timber-propped roof, round water tanks, hens in a wire run, nobody present
so_15_sump	15 · The Sump	…a short painted brick corridor deep underground from 1962 with a row of small rooms behind heavy iron doors with little barred windows, a plain wooden desk with a closed ledger, a single hanging light bulb, clean and dry, nobody present
so_16_dormitory	16 · Dormitories	…a long underground dormitory hall from 1974, rows of iron double bunks with folded grey blankets, a knitted blanket and a small stuffed bear on one bunk, steel lockers, a washing line strung between bunks, warm and lived in, nobody present
so_17_canteen	17 · Canteen	…a large underground works canteen from 1974, long formica tables with bentwood chairs, a serving hatch with steel urns and stacked trays, steam rising from a tea urn, warm and ready, nobody present
so_18_estate	18 · The Estate	…an old coal mine road deep underground lined on both sides with small homemade houses built of timber and plywood, each with a painted front door and a lamp, washing hung across the road, a child's tricycle by a doorstep, doors ajar, warm and crowded with belongings, nobody visible
so_19_studio	7 · The studio	…a small windowless radio studio from 1962 with acoustic tiles, a large grey reel-to-reel tape machine standing on the desk with two big spools of tape, a heavy old microphone on a desk stand, a squat iron safe with a dial in the corner, a single desk lamp, nobody present

The Vigil hall's board is blank on purpose. It is the roll of honour, and the 1974 list of the dead has no names on it. If a render puts lettering on it, regenerate.

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Portraits — art/portraits/

Shared prefix. Portraits drop the halftone a little so a face reads at thumbnail size:

1974 British civil defence booklet portrait plate, two-ink screen print in black and faded civil-defence orange on newsprint white, hand-drawn single-weight ink line, plain flat cream background, head and shoulders, no text, no lettering, not photorealistic

Stem	Prompt tail	Essence it must carry
so_sowerby	…a courteous British man of sixty-one in a 1970s suit and department lanyard, tired and very neatly turned out, looking slightly past the viewer	Has done his duty for 52 years and needs it to have been worth doing
so_pennyfeather	…a British woman of fifty-two in a cardigan, spectacles pushed up, holding a sheet of squared paper, patient and entirely certain	Has already done the sum and is waiting to be asked
so_larkhall	…a British woman of forty-four in a white coat over a jumper, curious rather than kind, head tilted as though mid-question	Has never had a patient with sunlight in their history
so_marlow	…a very old British woman of one hundred and one in a hospital bed, eyes open and entirely lucid, ashamed rather than confused	Filed a war to save a fortnight
so_teague	…a heavy-set British man of thirty-eight in a plain 1970s police-style uniform without insignia, jaw set, not angry, holding himself very still	Has decided the surface is a lie because the alternative is unbearable
so_kit_marlow	…a British girl of seventeen in a hand-me-down jumper, holding a rolled sheet of paper, hopeful and a little defiant	Has drawn the sky four thousand times from one photograph
so_joan_wetherlaw	…a British hill farmer, a woman of sixty-seven in an old oilskin coat and headscarf, weathered face, holding a broom, patient and wry	Signed for a stranger's parcel once and cannot picture his face
so_ruth_cotter	…a British woman of twenty-four in a knitted cardigan, heavily pregnant, one hand resting on her belly, tired and a little exasperated, looking straight at the viewer	Would like people to stop calling her baby the thousandth
so_nell_teague	…a British girl of nine in a hand-knitted jumper holding a wax crayon, eyes half closed as if humming to herself, content and far away	Hums a tune at tea that her father does not like
so_ogden	…a mild British man of about sixty in a cardigan and tie, holding a pen over a blank form, polite and entirely at a loss	Has no form for visitors

Portraits are all --ar 2:3. Mr Bewley and Mr Prosser reuse their THROUGH TRAIN portraits (tt_bewley.svg, tt_prosser.svg).

Every portrait now exists. Joan Wetherlaw's never rendered in v1.0, and the notes then blamed exhausted fast hours. That was wrong: the prompt was being refused. Midjourney declines a blocked prompt in a reply the bridge cannot see, so mj-gen waits out its full 30 minutes and exits 0 with no file. The account was fine; other prompts in the same session returned in 40 seconds. The same happened to the Sump in v1.1.

• Proven: "bare" (in "one bare bulb") blocks a prompt. "a single hanging light bulb" renders.
• Joan's old prompt was blocked by one of "waxed", "yard brush" or "unimpressed". The reworded prompt above renders.
• Before blaming the account, look at the channel. If Midjourney posted nothing at all for the job, reword the prompt.

Rejected and regenerated in v1.1: the pipe room (an empty stage with no tube), the plant floor twice (a railway tunnel with a number on it, then a boiler house with a skylight — nobody below can see the sky), and the studio (a modern hi-fi with no tape machine).

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Not generated — draw these

The Bellhouse section drawing. A cutaway of the site with the Seat's locations numbered, and a key below the drawing. Issue 2 (v1.0) relabels the key for the rewrite and lists three pit-gallery locations as not drawn. Issue 3 (v1.1) adds the dormitories (16) and the canteen and cabins (17) on Level 2, and draws the pit galleries as a third level — the Vigil hall (13), the coal roads (14), the Sump (15) and the Estate (18) — with the incline from the plant floor. The key runs in number order. Re-render with rsvg-convert -w 2400 -h 1700 then cwebp -q 88. This must be hand-built SVG and must not be prompted. Midjourney will not hold legible text or accurate geography, and this drawing's whole job is labels. Two rules from AFTERIMAGE v3.1: numbered callouts with a key beneath rather than labels sprayed across the plan, and the drawing says only what the site says — it shows where the rooms are and nothing about the sum, which is Act Two's work.

Hand out the section the moment they come through the blast door. A player-facing plan is a turn-taking device: it lets the table split itself into stations instead of one person narrating a corridor.