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 The turn: an order given twice and then withdrawn.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 p1789225661-557complete
prompt: (The jianghu inn, and everyone is somebody:1.2) a ghost that remembers its name — a whip of woven silk across the table — reaching into a river for a sword within a waterfall pool under a shrine. many lanterns along an inn's eaves lanterns; mystical and austere tense before a duel. (Warm interior, lanterns, many figures, one of them about to be a problem). a 65mm at f/2.8 through drifting blossom, the figure tiny in a vast shan-shui. BREAK a sword scabbard angling in of a wine cup and gourd; fallen petals across the path, a plank bridge with gaps of worn floorboards; a cat on the inn's roof, cicadas in the summer heat the inn's cat. a waterfall in the distance the room's crowded depth. a wine gourd tied with red cord, a map to a place that no longer exists, a teapot with a chipped spout, a bamboo slip in a sleeve, an incense stick burned to ash BREAK dew on a peach blossom, the gleam of a jade ornament, the shine of gold leaf on a scroll lamplight on lacquer. (jianghu inn, wuxia, lantern light, cinematic:1.2) mist grey, bamboo and scarlet.
exact prompt sent: imagine (The jianghu inn, and everyone is somebody:1.2) a ghost that remembers its name — a whip of woven silk across the table — reaching into a river for a sword within a waterfall pool under a shrine. many lanterns along an inn's eaves lanterns; mystical and austere tense before a duel. (Warm interior, lanterns, many figures, one of them about to be a problem). a 65mm at f/2.8 through drifting blossom, the figure tiny in a vast shan-shui. BREAK a sword scabbard angling in of a wine cup and gourd; fallen petals across the path, a plank bridge with gaps of worn floorboards; a cat on the inn's roof, cicadas in the summer heat the inn's cat. a waterfall in the distance the room's crowded depth. a wine gourd tied with red cord, a map to a place that no longer exists, a teapot with a chipped spout, a bamboo slip in a sleeve, an incense stick burned to ash BREAK dew on a peach blossom, the gleam of a jade ornament, the shine of gold leaf on a scroll lamplight on lacquer. (jianghu inn, wuxia, lantern light, cinematic:1.2) mist grey, bamboo and scarlet.
