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 The turn: an order given twice and then withdrawn.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 camp at the end of a long day:1.2) a photographer with a tripod and a sheet in a calico dress and a sunbonnet — a ledger with the year's debts close by — counting a herd by twos at a trading post of borrowed boards by firelight. the still air before a tornado cold coming; clouds stacked into thunderheads thick with stars; poor and proud weathered and kind under it. (Campfire chiaroscuro, faces half-lit, the dark enormous beyond). a 200mm for the herd across the plain, foreground chaps or reins entering frame. BREAK sand blowing across the near ground the fire's glow on gear; boards gone silver and split, coal dust in the yard of trampled grass; a rattlesnake in the woodpile, a buzzard turning high, a cat on the saloon counter drawn to the warmth. a church steeple small and white the dark plain. a fence mended four times, a coffee pot scorched black, a bell that only rings in wind, a reward poster with a torn corner, a rope hanging loose from a beam BREAK embers rising from a campfire, sun glinting off a gun barrel, the glint of a coin in the dirt, lamplight on a clean glass the embers. (wild west campfire, night, atmospheric:1.2) terracotta, ash and sky, frontier oil painting, warm dust light.
exact prompt sent: imagine (The camp at the end of a long day:1.2) a photographer with a tripod and a sheet in a calico dress and a sunbonnet — a ledger with the year's debts close by — counting a herd by twos at a trading post of borrowed boards by firelight. the still air before a tornado cold coming; clouds stacked into thunderheads thick with stars; poor and proud weathered and kind under it. (Campfire chiaroscuro, faces half-lit, the dark enormous beyond). a 200mm for the herd across the plain, foreground chaps or reins entering frame. BREAK sand blowing across the near ground the fire's glow on gear; boards gone silver and split, coal dust in the yard of trampled grass; a rattlesnake in the woodpile, a buzzard turning high, a cat on the saloon counter drawn to the warmth. a church steeple small and white the dark plain. a fence mended four times, a coffee pot scorched black, a bell that only rings in wind, a reward poster with a torn corner, a rope hanging loose from a beam BREAK embers rising from a campfire, sun glinting off a gun barrel, the glint of a coin in the dirt, lamplight on a clean glass the embers. (wild west campfire, night, atmospheric:1.2) terracotta, ash and sky, frontier oil painting, warm dust light.
