uptime 381h49m · built 2026-09-22T05:35:18Z · requests 68574
Quick run — for custom batches, add prompts on the Prompts page and Start. Story templates live in meta/story-templates.txt.
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 The turn: an order given twice and then withdrawn.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
prompt: (A marine life portrait: a hammerhead shark silhouetted against the sun — hunting with sudden explosive speed — at a sandy bottom with rippled patterns:1.3). the cold glitter of an abyssal lure, turquoise clarity of tropical shallows, the clear black of deep ocean. the patience of an ambush predator. a split-level half-over-half-under shot, continuous video light revealing behavior. playful and curious. Weightless, timeless, perfect. the first gold of dawn touching the surface, the hiss of bubbles escaping a regulator. a 24mm for the kelp canopy, a low angle looking up at the surface. BREAK the soft blur of a reef wall and coral polyps extended and feeding, the calcium deposits of a coral skeleton, with a feather duster worm extending its gills, a hermit crab carrying its shell, a cleaner wrasse attending to a larger fish. the vast emptiness of the open water extends the blue. a manta ray patrolling the same circle it swam yesterday, a trumpetfish pretending to be a branch, a juvenile fish hiding inside a jellyfish bell BREAK light bouncing off white sand, the sparkle of a school of sardines catches the light. the iridescent shimmer of fish scales. Every fin ray, every coral polyp — alive. a colony broadcasting in synchrony in miniature. dark and mysterious. a fan worm retracting at a shadow, a piece of sea glass worn smooth as a lens (underwater photography, crystal clear water, detailed, 8k:1.2)
exact prompt sent: imagine (A marine life portrait: a hammerhead shark silhouetted against the sun — hunting with sudden explosive speed — at a sandy bottom with rippled patterns:1.3). the cold glitter of an abyssal lure, turquoise clarity of tropical shallows, the clear black of deep ocean. the patience of an ambush predator. a split-level half-over-half-under shot, continuous video light revealing behavior. playful and curious. Weightless, timeless, perfect. the first gold of dawn touching the surface, the hiss of bubbles escaping a regulator. a 24mm for the kelp canopy, a low angle looking up at the surface. BREAK the soft blur of a reef wall and coral polyps extended and feeding, the calcium deposits of a coral skeleton, with a feather duster worm extending its gills, a hermit crab carrying its shell, a cleaner wrasse attending to a larger fish. the vast emptiness of the open water extends the blue. a manta ray patrolling the same circle it swam yesterday, a trumpetfish pretending to be a branch, a juvenile fish hiding inside a jellyfish bell BREAK light bouncing off white sand, the sparkle of a school of sardines catches the light. the iridescent shimmer of fish scales. Every fin ray, every coral polyp — alive. a colony broadcasting in synchrony in miniature. dark and mysterious. a fan worm retracting at a shadow, a piece of sea glass worn smooth as a lens (underwater photography, crystal clear water, detailed, 8k:1.2)