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 The turn: an order given twice and then withdrawn.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 FIRST REHEARSAL — (a child, a net, and a bar:1.2) a clown with a face that does not move — spitting flame at the apex — in a fairground seen from above with the tent half-set and the crowd absent. gleeful and menacing hopeful under the tarnish. (Wide tent interior, empty bleachers, the whole apparatus visible). a 14mm up at the wheel, symmetry under the big top's ridge. BREAK sawdust kicked up near the ground of ropes and stanchions; planks sprung and ringing underfoot, a floor of trodden paper and tickets of sawdust and still-rolled canvas; a rat near the food cart, a pigeon under the bleachers, flies around the candy the site's dogs. a second tent smaller and dimmer the whole empty tent. a greasepaint stick worn to a stub, a rope ladder knotted by hand, a drum with a skin patched twice, a child's shoe under the bleachers, a lock with three keys BREAK candy floss spinning to a glow, brass rails polished bright, glitter on a costume catching fire one work light. (circus rehearsal, empty tent, hopeful:1.2) dark-carnival illustration, gothic and ornate.
exact prompt sent: imagine THE FIRST REHEARSAL — (a child, a net, and a bar:1.2) a clown with a face that does not move — spitting flame at the apex — in a fairground seen from above with the tent half-set and the crowd absent. gleeful and menacing hopeful under the tarnish. (Wide tent interior, empty bleachers, the whole apparatus visible). a 14mm up at the wheel, symmetry under the big top's ridge. BREAK sawdust kicked up near the ground of ropes and stanchions; planks sprung and ringing underfoot, a floor of trodden paper and tickets of sawdust and still-rolled canvas; a rat near the food cart, a pigeon under the bleachers, flies around the candy the site's dogs. a second tent smaller and dimmer the whole empty tent. a greasepaint stick worn to a stub, a rope ladder knotted by hand, a drum with a skin patched twice, a child's shoe under the bleachers, a lock with three keys BREAK candy floss spinning to a glow, brass rails polished bright, glitter on a costume catching fire one work light. (circus rehearsal, empty tent, hopeful:1.2) dark-carnival illustration, gothic and ornate.
