ACT II — THE CONTROL ROOM — (watching other people fight:1.3) (the same recurring cast, consistent faces, bodies and clothing across every image, identical character design:1.2) Featuring Sergeant Kade, armourer, forearms like winch cable, a welding mask pushed up on the forehead, drums of ammunition stacked behind; also Lieutenant Dana Sorren, frame pilot, a flight suit with three kill marks, hair cropped under a helmet, a photograph taped inside the cockpit; and at the back of the room, Corporal Bright, trainee pilot, too young for the suit, a helmet two sizes large, chewed fingernails on the control sticks. a gunner checking the turret travel by hand, in the darkened room with the map projected on the wall. No light but sodium lamps hazing the apron, and the room reads proud of a hard-won frame. (Dark room lit by monitors, backs of heads, one pilot's face). a 14mm with the screens wrapping the room; cockpit framing with instruments crowding the edges; graded ice blue, steel and orange lamp. Watching a screen that is not theirs: the one who thinks the war is already lost. Written down but never reported: a drink taken at an hour nobody saw. Across the headsets: a hand on a shoulder instead of a sentence. BREAK a boarding ladder rung huge at the edge; on the tiled floor, mud caked on frame feet, oil pooled in a drain trench; and going cold on a desk, fitters eating on a crate, a rat along the cable trays. Filling the far wall: the city skyline smoking. The turn: an order given twice and then withdrawn. BREAK a pilot who has not slept, a replacement pilot nobody has met, a rotation list with the same names on it. BREAK Reflected in the screens: light running along a rail, the polished brass of a worn instrument bezel, hot metal spitting sparks, chrome catching hangar light. (mecha control room, screens, cinematic:1.2) ice blue, steel and orange lamp. Avoid text, lettering, watermark, signature, extra fingers, deformed hands, extra limbs, blurry, low detail, jpeg artifacts, organic monsters, medieval weaponry, fantasy magic, hand-drawn linework. · queued — waiting for the driver
Job p1789225661-554complete
prompt: (The duel, and the manners of it:1.3) a young disciple carrying a sword too heavy — a needle-fine throwing dart drawn — reaching into a river for a sword opposite an opponent before the crowd at a hall of hanging scrolls. the humid stillness before rain still; honorable even in defeat honorable even in defeat. (Symmetrical composition, both figures in frame, the space between them the subject). a 200mm for layered mountain depth, the mist holding the middle distance. BREAK steam from a teapot near of the ground between; wet flagstones giving reflections, sand raked in a courtyard bright and empty; a moth at the lantern, cicadas in the summer heat a bird leaving. peaks stacked in mist beyond a watching crowd in soft focus. a wine gourd tied with red cord, a name carved on a cliff, a bell that warns of visitors, a sect token of dark wood, a letter sealed but unsent BREAK dew on a peach blossom, embers from a brazier, the shine of gold leaf on a scroll, lantern light on wet silk the bare steel. (sword duel, wuxia, cinematic, tense:1.2) dramatic chiaroscuro with lantern light.
exact prompt sent: imagine (The duel, and the manners of it:1.3) a young disciple carrying a sword too heavy — a needle-fine throwing dart drawn — reaching into a river for a sword opposite an opponent before the crowd at a hall of hanging scrolls. the humid stillness before rain still; honorable even in defeat honorable even in defeat. (Symmetrical composition, both figures in frame, the space between them the subject). a 200mm for layered mountain depth, the mist holding the middle distance. BREAK steam from a teapot near of the ground between; wet flagstones giving reflections, sand raked in a courtyard bright and empty; a moth at the lantern, cicadas in the summer heat a bird leaving. peaks stacked in mist beyond a watching crowd in soft focus. a wine gourd tied with red cord, a name carved on a cliff, a bell that warns of visitors, a sect token of dark wood, a letter sealed but unsent BREAK dew on a peach blossom, embers from a brazier, the shine of gold leaf on a scroll, lantern light on wet silk the bare steel. (sword duel, wuxia, cinematic, tense:1.2) dramatic chiaroscuro with lantern light.
