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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. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/* ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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STANDING ORDER — player-facing briefing pack. A4, two sheets, one per page.
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SO-H01, the case brief, and SO-H02, the 1974 Seat return it encloses. Mr
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Bewley hands both over together in Act One. The words are the scenario's
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(STANDING_ORDER.md, Handouts); if you change one, change the other.
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Print from a browser with BACKGROUND GRAPHICS ON, scale 100%, margins
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"default". Without backgrounds the return prints on white instead of buff,
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which costs the look and nothing else.
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Nothing on either sheet is a GM secret. The brief is what the department
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knows; the return is what the Seat said in its first week.
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<!-- ═══════════════════════════ SO-H01 · CASE BRIEF ═══════════════════════════ -->
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<section class="sheet" id="so-h01">
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<div class="slug">SO-H01 · Act One · the briefing · with SO-H02</div>
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<div class="protect">SECRET</div>
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<div>
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<h1>DEPARTMENTAL CUSTODY SERVICE</h1>
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<div class="sub">REGISTRY · CASE BRIEF · NOT TO LEAVE THE BUILDING</div>
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</div>
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</div>
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<table class="case">
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<tr><th>CASE</th><td>SO-012 / BELLHOUSE</td></tr>
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<tr><th>CLASSIFICATION</th><td>ACROSS — SEALED SITE</td></tr>
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<tr><th>FAR SIDE</th><td>Regional Seat of Government 12, under Sheldon Moor, Derbyshire. The present day.</td></tr>
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<tr><th>REGISTRY OFFICER</th><td>Mr Bewley</td></tr>
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</table>
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<p>Bellhouse is a government bunker built into a worked-out coal mine under Sheldon Moor and
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commissioned in 1962. On 4 November 1974 its staff and their families, 412 people, went below
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for a civil defence exercise. The door was shut. Nobody came up.</p>
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<p>In 1975 the entrance was filled in. After that the Seat is on no map, no index and no
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budget. Nobody asked why.</p>
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<p>In May this year a Seat return dated Week 1, 1974, arrived in the Registry in-tray. It was
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not posted. It is enclosed (SO-H02). It is stamped with a small circle cut by a stroke. The
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same mark is on the letter of instruction recovered in case TT-004, Mercy Draw, 1881, from a
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Mr Smith whom the company never employed.</p>
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<p>Coal smoke has been settling on Wetherlaw Farm, above the Seat, for fifty years. There is
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no chimney on the moor. <span class="reading">The department’s reading is that the Seat is
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still occupied.</span></p>
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<h2>ORDERS</h2>
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<ol class="orders">
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<li>The persons at the Seat are to be brought home. <strong>None is expendable.</strong></li>
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<li>Force is authorised in self-defence only.</li>
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<li>Establish who delivered the Seat’s order in 1974 and who has instructed it since. Bring back his letters.</li>
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<li>The Seat is released under clause 4 of its Standing Order. <strong>Read clause 6 first.</strong></li>
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</ol>
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<div>
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<h2>CONDUCT</h2>
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<p>Anyone below has been there since 1974 and will believe what they were told. Be
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courteous. Carry your warrant card where it can be seen: a warrant of the Department is
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recognised at the Seat. <strong>Do not argue with anyone about the war.</strong></p>
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<p>Standing Order 9 applies. Nothing modern goes through.</p>
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</div>
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<div>
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<h2>ACCESS</h2>
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<p>A crossing stands at the warm vent head on Sheldon Moor, above Wetherlaw Farm. It
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opens at dusk. Mrs Joan Wetherlaw will meet you at the farm gate. She is not cleared.</p>
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<h2>ISSUED BY STORES</h2>
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<p class="issue">Hand lamp · service revolver · Geiger counter, 1974 pattern ·
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greatcoat · warrant card. <strong>No telephones.</strong></p>
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</div>
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<div class="sign">Registry: bring me his letters.<span>— B.</span></div>
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<div class="foot"><span>DCS / REG / SO-012</span><span>ENCL. 1: SEAT RETURN, WK 1 1974</span><span>PAGE 1 OF 1</span></div>
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</section>
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<!-- ═══════════════════════════ SO-H02 · THE 1974 RETURN ═══════════════════════ -->
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<section class="sheet return" id="so-h02">
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<div class="slug">SO-H02 · Act One · enclosed with SO-H01</div>
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<div class="enclosure">SO-012 · ENCLOSURE 1</div>
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<div class="form">
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<div class="form-head"><span>REGION 12 · SEAT RETURN</span><span>FORM RSG/R/3</span></div>
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<div class="field"><b>PERIOD</b><span class="typed">WEEK 1</span></div>
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<div class="field"><b>ESTABLISHMENT</b><span class="typed">412</span></div>
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<div class="field"><b>CASUALTIES THIS PERIOD</b><span class="typed">NIL</span></div>
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<div class="query"><b>QUERY TO CENTRE</b><br>
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<span class="typed">CONFIRM THE GENTLEMAN WHO BROUGHT THE ORDER IS KNOWN TO YOU.</span></div>
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<b>SIGNED</b><br>
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<span class="hand">E. Marlow</span><br>
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<span class="typed">E. MARLOW, DEPUTY CONTROLLER</span>
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<div class="received">REGISTRY · RECEIVED MAY 2026 · NOT BY POST · NO ENVELOPE</div>
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