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 The turn: an order given twice and then withdrawn.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
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prompt: (The sea, and what it keeps:1.2) a woman in a wet black dress — searching a room with a candle — on a corridor of shuttered portraits with the water below. the first snow on the moor at its worst; beautiful dread romantic and doomed. (Huge sky, thin figure at the cliff edge, the sea reduced to tone and motion). a 135mm isolating a face at a window, framing through a door left ajar. BREAK a candelabra in the near dark of wind-torn grass; a rug pulled askew, wet leaves tracked indoors of the cliff path; bats leaving the tower at dusk, a spider repairing its web, ivy tapping the glass blown about. the moor stretching to nothing the sea and storm to the horizon. a second place set at the table, a portrait with a fresh scratch, a log laid on the fire but not lit, a page torn from the ledger, a mirror newly dusted in a dustless room BREAK lightning catching the chandelier, the wet gleam of the sea below, the gleam of a silver candlestick the wet rock. (gothic cliff, storm sea, romantic, epic:1.2) romantic-era etching, fine hatching.
exact prompt sent: imagine (The sea, and what it keeps:1.2) a woman in a wet black dress — searching a room with a candle — on a corridor of shuttered portraits with the water below. the first snow on the moor at its worst; beautiful dread romantic and doomed. (Huge sky, thin figure at the cliff edge, the sea reduced to tone and motion). a 135mm isolating a face at a window, framing through a door left ajar. BREAK a candelabra in the near dark of wind-torn grass; a rug pulled askew, wet leaves tracked indoors of the cliff path; bats leaving the tower at dusk, a spider repairing its web, ivy tapping the glass blown about. the moor stretching to nothing the sea and storm to the horizon. a second place set at the table, a portrait with a fresh scratch, a log laid on the fire but not lit, a page torn from the ledger, a mirror newly dusted in a dustless room BREAK lightning catching the chandelier, the wet gleam of the sea below, the gleam of a silver candlestick the wet rock. (gothic cliff, storm sea, romantic, epic:1.2) romantic-era etching, fine hatching.
