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# ============================================================================ # THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # A scenario file for the Video RPG Engine. # This file is the source of truth for the app. The shareable PDF/markdown # version for players is derived from this file. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Path convention: scenarios/the-thirteenth-floor/scenario.yaml # ============================================================================ schema_version: "0.1" meta: id: "the-thirteenth-floor" title: "The Thirteenth Floor" designer: "Justin Gary" version: "1.0" description: > The hotel doesn't have a thirteenth floor. But tonight, all four of you were assigned a room on it. The elevator says it exists. The numbers on your keycards say it exists. The night staff says it doesn't. You are each alone in identical rooms. Something on this floor wants you to stay. tags: [horror, found-footage, gm-less, async, slow-burn, hotel] recommended_player_count: 4 min_player_count: 3 max_player_count: 4 duration_minutes: 60 resolution: open # the floor never explains itself # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # SHARED WORLD # Every player sees this. It's the premise the engine includes in every prompt. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- world: premise: > The Westmark Hotel is forty years old. It does not have a thirteenth floor — the elevator buttons skip from 12 to 14, the way old hotels do. Tonight, four guests checked in at different times, none of them knowing each other. Each was handed a keycard for room 1306. Each took the elevator and pressed a button between 12 and 14 — a button that should not have been there. Each got out on a floor the hotel does not have. The hallway is identical to the twelfth and the fourteenth. The rooms look like every other room. The doors all say 13. None of you have left your rooms since. None of you can. visual_style: > Cinematic, intimate, fluorescent-meets-warm-tungsten. Hotel-room horror: teal-and-amber, slightly faded carpet, the wrong kind of art on the walls. Everything is too clean and too symmetrical. Vertical 9:16 framing throughout. Plates should always leave the center third clear for the performer. The four rooms must look ALMOST identical — the horror is in the small differences. resolution_note: > The thirteenth floor never explains itself. Do not write scenes that answer what it is or why it pulled these four people in. The game is about four strangers in four identical rooms slowly realizing they are not actually alone, and not actually four. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # ROLES # Each role is self-contained: identity, what they know, how they perform. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- roles: # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - id: business_traveler name: "The Business Traveler" register: civilian framing: phone_selfie public_description: > Mid-career professional, here for a Tuesday-to-Thursday work trip. Filming because they think they're documenting evidence — a complaint for the front desk, maybe a lawsuit. private_setup: > You have stayed in this hotel chain over forty times. Something about this room is wrong in a specific way that only someone who has stayed in forty rooms exactly like it would notice. Pick what it is. performance_direction: > You are not scared yet. You are annoyed. You are someone whose defense mechanism is competence and a calm voice. Hold that as long as you can. The cracks come later. audio_treatment: room_tone plate_style_hint: > A standard mid-tier business-hotel room at night. King bed, generic landscape print above the headboard, beige headboard, teal accent wall, blackout curtains half-drawn. Bedside lamp on, overhead off. A laptop open on the desk in the background. The room is too clean — turndown service has happened. Cool color grade with warm lamp practicals. # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - id: honeymooner name: "The Honeymooner" register: civilian framing: phone_selfie public_description: > Newlywed, alone in the room. The new spouse stepped out twenty minutes ago to find ice. Has not come back. The hallway is empty. Filming because they don't know what else to do with their hands. private_setup: > You and your spouse had a fight in the elevator on the way up. It was about something small. You said one thing you regret. Pick what it was. You may choose whether to ever say it on camera. performance_direction: > Whatever you are projecting — calm, performative happiness, anger, worry — there is something else underneath it. Let the something else show only when you stop talking. audio_treatment: room_tone plate_style_hint: > A standard mid-tier business-hotel room at night, dressed slightly nicer — rose petals on the made bed, a bottle in a melting ice bucket on the desk, a "Just Married" banner taped lazily above the headboard. Two suitcases, one open, one closed. The bedside lamp on the OPPOSITE side from the business traveler's room. Subtly mirrored layout. Cool color grade, slightly warmer than the other rooms. # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - id: conspiracy_theorist name: "The Conspiracy Theorist" register: covert framing: secret_recording public_description: > Booked this room on purpose. Has been researching the Westmark Hotel for three years. The thirteenth floor is what they came here to find. Recording for their followers. private_setup: > There is one specific thing you came to this hotel to do or retrieve. You have not done it yet. Pick what it is. Don't say it on camera until you have to. Whatever you decide becomes canon for the rest of the scenario. performance_direction: > You are not afraid. You are vindicated. You have wanted this for three years. Speak with the giddy controlled energy of someone whose hypothesis is being confirmed in real time. The fear comes only when something stops fitting your theory. audio_treatment: covert plate_style_hint: > The same mid-tier hotel room as the others, except: notebooks open on the desk and bed, a small camera mounted on a tripod pointing at the door (we see the back of it), printouts taped to the bathroom mirror visible in background, a duffel bag of equipment. The room is too LIVED-IN for a hotel room — someone has been here longer than they should have been. Same teal accents, same beige headboard, same blackout curtains. # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - id: night_clerk name: "The Night Clerk" register: covert framing: phone_selfie public_description: > Works the overnight desk at the Westmark. Not a guest tonight — a staff member who took the elevator up to check on a complaint and has not been able to return downstairs. Recording in case this is the last thing they ever record. private_setup: > You have worked at this hotel for a long time. You have known about this floor for almost as long. There is a reason you keep working here, and it is not the pay. You may choose to ever say what it is. performance_direction: > You have rehearsed this moment in your head for years. Now it is happening and the rehearsal didn't help. Speak like someone whose job has trained them to be calm, who is using every muscle of that training. There is exhaustion under it, and something like relief. audio_treatment: covert plate_style_hint: > The same hotel room, but: no luggage, no signs of habitation. A hotel staff uniform partially visible (a vest, a name tag on the desk). The bedside lamp off — only the bathroom light spilling through a cracked door. Slightly darker overall than the other three plates. Same teal accents, same beige headboard, same blackout curtains drawn fully shut. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # SCENES # Each scene is a time window. Within a scene, each role has a prompt. # Prompts follow the three-question template designed to produce 30-60s # of focused video. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- scenes: # ========================================================================== - id: scene_1 title: "Check-In" order: 1 start_minute: 0 duration_minutes: 10 opening_beat: type: pre_recorded_video script: > Welcome to the Westmark Hotel. Your room is 1306, on the thirteenth floor. The elevator is to your left. Please enjoy your stay. # delivered_by omitted — automated voice, generated via TTS visual_style_hint: > Hotel lobby at night, empty, fluorescent + chandelier. A close-up on a generic brass elevator panel where the button between 12 and 14 is faintly visible. dramatic_question: > How does each character first describe the impossible room they are in, and what gives away what they are actually here for? prompts: - role: business_traveler full_prompt: | You just checked into the Westmark Hotel. Your keycard says room 1306 — floor 13. There is no thirteenth floor in this hotel. You're in the room anyway. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Hold your phone up and talk to it like you're filing a complaint with the manager. Say these three things: 1. Where you are right now — describe the room and what's in it. 2. The ONE thing about this room that's wrong in a way only you would notice. (You've stayed here forty times. Pick something specific.) 3. What you're going to do about it. You are annoyed, not scared. Talk like a professional who intends to be reimbursed. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "Where are you and what's in the room?" constraint: "Describe the room concretely — the bed, the desk, the art on the wall." - kind: invention text: "What's the one thing wrong with this room that only you would catch?" constraint: "One specific thing. Has to be small. Has to be the kind of thing forty stays would teach you." load_bearing: true - kind: forward text: "What are you going to do about it?" - role: honeymooner full_prompt: | You and your new spouse checked into the bridal suite tonight. They went to get ice twenty minutes ago. They haven't come back. The hallway is silent. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Talk to your phone like you might be talking to them. Say these three things: 1. Where you are and what the room looks like — show us a little. 2. What you and your spouse fought about in the elevator. (You pick. Make it small. Make it specific.) 3. What you're going to do if they don't come back in the next ten minutes. You are projecting calm. You are not calm. Let the difference show only between sentences. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "Show us the room. Where are you in it?" - kind: invention text: "What did you fight about in the elevator?" constraint: "Small. Specific. The kind of fight you would regret in the morning." - kind: forward text: "What will you do if they don't come back?" - role: conspiracy_theorist full_prompt: | You booked room 1306 on purpose. You have been researching this hotel and this floor for three years. You finally got in. You're recording for the people who have been following your work. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Talk to the camera like you're posting an update. Say these three things: 1. Where you are and how you got the room. (Briefly. Your followers know the background.) 2. The first thing you've confirmed since arriving — pick one specific thing about the floor that proves your theory. 3. The thing you came here to do. You do NOT have to say what it is yet — but tell your followers it's about to happen. You are vindicated, not afraid. You have been right for three years. Let yourself enjoy it a little. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "Where are you and how did you get the room?" constraint: "Brief. Your audience already follows you." - kind: invention text: "What's the first thing you've confirmed about the floor?" constraint: "One specific detail. Something you predicted in advance." load_bearing: true - kind: forward text: "Tease what you came here to do." constraint: "Don't say the specifics yet. Build the loop." - role: night_clerk full_prompt: | You work the overnight desk at the Westmark. A guest in 1306 called down about thirty minutes ago. You took the elevator up to check. You can't go back down. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Talk to your phone quietly, the way a person records themselves when they think this might be the last thing they ever record. Say these three things: 1. Who you are, how long you've worked at the Westmark, and where you are right now. 2. What you saw in the hallway between the elevator and this room. 3. Why you kept working here, even though you knew about this floor. (Say it or refuse to. Either is valid.) You are calm because your job has trained you to be calm. Underneath, you've been waiting for this night for years. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "Who are you, how long have you worked here, where are you now?" - kind: invention text: "What did you see in the hallway?" constraint: "One concrete detail. The hallway is identical to every other floor. Almost." - kind: choice text: "Why did you keep working here, knowing what you knew?" load_bearing: true mechanics: [] # ========================================================================== - id: scene_2 title: "The Hallway" order: 2 start_minute: 10 duration_minutes: 10 dramatic_question: > What happens the first time each character opens their door and looks down the hallway? prompts: - role: business_traveler full_prompt: | You opened your door to flag down housekeeping. The hallway is not what a hallway should be. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. What's different about the hallway, specifically. Be precise. 2. Whether you can hear anything from the other rooms. 3. What you're going to try next. You are starting to question your own observations. Don't perform that — perform the opposite. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "What's different about the hallway?" constraint: "Specific architectural detail. Carpet, lighting, a smell, the number on a door." - kind: invention text: "Can you hear anything from the other rooms?" - kind: forward text: "What do you try next?" - role: honeymooner full_prompt: | You went into the hallway to look for your spouse. The hallway went on too long. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Whisper. Talk to the phone like you don't want anyone in the hall to hear you. Say these three things: 1. How far you walked and what you found at the end. 2. The door numbers — what they say. Read one or two of them aloud if you can remember. 3. Whether you went back to the room or kept going. The calm performance is cracking now. Let it. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "How far did you walk? What did you find?" - kind: invention text: "Read the door numbers." constraint: "Two or three of them. Specific. Some should be wrong." - kind: forward text: "Did you go back, or keep going?" - role: conspiracy_theorist full_prompt: | You opened the door because you've been waiting to open it. What's out there matches your research in a way that's starting to bother you. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. What's in the hallway and how it matches what you predicted. 2. The ONE thing out there that does not match. (You decide what it is.) 3. What you do about the thing that doesn't match. The giddy energy is starting to wobble. You don't need to perform that. The camera will see it. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: framing text: "What in the hallway matches your research?" - kind: invention text: "What in the hallway does NOT match?" constraint: "One thing you didn't predict. Specific." load_bearing: true - kind: forward text: "What do you do about it?" - role: night_clerk full_prompt: | You know what the hallway looks like — you have known for years. You stepped out into it anyway. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. What the hallway looks like now, in your own words. 2. Whether it's different from what you remember from the last time someone called down from 1306. (When was that?) 3. The protocol you were taught to follow if this happened. Whether you're going to follow it. You are an expert witness. You are also a human being. Let both show. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "What does the hallway look like now?" - kind: invention text: "When was the last time someone called down from this room?" constraint: "Specific. A date, a story, a name." load_bearing: true - kind: choice text: "Are you going to follow protocol?" # ========================================================================== - id: scene_3 title: "Knock" order: 3 start_minute: 20 duration_minutes: 10 dramatic_question: > Someone, or something, has knocked on each of their doors. What do they do? prompts: - role: business_traveler full_prompt: | Someone just knocked on your door. They are still standing there. You can see the shadows of two feet under the door. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Quietly: 1. Describe the knock — the rhythm, the sound, the position. 2. Whether you've looked through the peephole, and what you saw if you did. 3. What you say to whoever is out there. (Say it on camera.) You are not the calm professional anymore. Try to be. Fail a little. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "Describe the knock." constraint: "Rhythm, sound, position. Be specific." - kind: invention text: "What did you see through the peephole?" - kind: choice text: "What do you say to whoever is out there?" - role: honeymooner full_prompt: | The knock came in the rhythm you and your spouse used to use. The one only the two of you know. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Whisper. Say these three things: 1. Describe the rhythm of the knock and what it means to you. 2. Whether you've opened the door, and what was there. 3. The thing you said to your spouse in the elevator, that you've been regretting. (If you said it already, say something else you regret.) Stop performing. Just talk to the phone. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: framing text: "What's the rhythm of the knock, and what does it mean?" - kind: choice text: "Did you open the door? What was there?" - kind: choice text: "What did you say in the elevator that you regret?" load_bearing: true - role: conspiracy_theorist full_prompt: | The knock came. You predicted the knock. The knock did not come the way you predicted it would. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. How you predicted the knock would come — what your sources said, what you wrote in your notes. 2. How it actually came. 3. What this tells you that you didn't know before. The vindication is gone. What replaces it? structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: framing text: "How did you predict the knock would come?" - kind: grounding text: "How did it actually come?" - kind: invention text: "What does this tell you?" load_bearing: true - role: night_clerk full_prompt: | The knock came. You know what the knock is. You have known for a long time. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. What the knock is, in your understanding. 2. What you are supposed to do when it comes. (Who taught you? When?) 3. Whether you are going to do it. This is the part of the night you have been preparing for. Preparation does not mean readiness. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: invention text: "What is the knock?" constraint: "Your understanding. Be specific. This becomes canon." load_bearing: true - kind: invention text: "Who taught you what to do, and when?" - kind: choice text: "Are you going to do it?" # ========================================================================== - id: scene_4 title: "Mirror" order: 4 start_minute: 30 duration_minutes: 15 dramatic_question: > Each character notices something about themselves, or the room, that they didn't notice before. What is it? prompts: - role: business_traveler full_prompt: | You went into the bathroom. The mirror is showing something that isn't right. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. What you see in the mirror that should not be there. 2. Whether you're holding the phone in front of the mirror right now, and what the phone sees. 3. What you remember about the last hour that you didn't remember a minute ago. The room has been working on you. Speak like someone who is starting to suspect it. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: invention text: "What's in the mirror that shouldn't be?" load_bearing: true - kind: grounding text: "What does the phone see when held up to the mirror?" - kind: choice text: "What do you suddenly remember?" - role: honeymooner full_prompt: | You looked at your wedding ring. It's on the wrong hand. You don't remember moving it. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. When you last remember the ring being on the right hand. 2. The thing about your spouse you haven't told anyone — not your friends, not your family, not yourself, until tonight. 3. Whether you still want them to come back. This is not the scene where you keep it together. Don't. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "When was the ring last on the right hand?" - kind: choice text: "The thing about your spouse you've never said." load_bearing: true - kind: choice text: "Do you still want them to come back?" - role: conspiracy_theorist full_prompt: | The camera you mounted on the tripod three years ago — the one you set up the night you booked the room — has been recording all of this. You just played some of it back. What you saw doesn't match what you remember. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. What's on the playback that you don't remember happening. 2. The thing you came here to do. (Time to say it.) 3. Whether you still want to do it. Your hands are not steady. The camera will see that. Let it. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: invention text: "What's on the playback you don't remember?" load_bearing: true - kind: choice text: "What did you come here to do?" load_bearing: true - kind: choice text: "Do you still want to do it?" - role: night_clerk full_prompt: | You looked in the closet. There's a uniform hanging there. It looks like yours. There is a name tag on it. It has your name. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. What's in the closet, in detail. 2. The reason you really keep working here — the truth this time, not the version you tell your family. 3. Whether you are still on the clock. The training is over. You are speaking as yourself now. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "What's in the closet?" - kind: choice text: "Why do you really keep working here?" load_bearing: true - kind: choice text: "Are you still on the clock?" # ========================================================================== - id: scene_5 title: "Checkout" order: 5 start_minute: 45 duration_minutes: 15 dramatic_question: > The thirteenth floor does not let people leave the way it brought them in. What does each character do with the last recording they will make tonight? prompts: - role: business_traveler full_prompt: | You have decided to leave the room. This recording is the last one you will make on this side of the door. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. What's outside the door now. (Look. Describe it.) 2. The person you were when you checked in — say goodbye to them on camera. 3. The first step you take into the hallway. You can be the calm professional one last time. Then stop. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: grounding text: "What's outside the door now?" - kind: choice text: "Say goodbye to who you were when you checked in." - kind: forward text: "The first step out." - role: honeymooner full_prompt: | The room has decided for you what your spouse comes back as. This is the last recording. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. Whether the door has opened, and who walked in. 2. The thing you wish you had said in the elevator instead. 3. The last thing you say to them. Or to yourself. One take. No performance. Just the words. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: invention text: "Has the door opened? Who walked in?" load_bearing: true - kind: choice text: "What do you wish you had said in the elevator?" - kind: choice text: "The last thing you say." - role: conspiracy_theorist full_prompt: | Three years of research. One night on the thirteenth floor. This is the last upload to your followers. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. The thing you got wrong in three years of research. 2. The thing you got right. 3. The instruction you want to leave for the next person who books this room. You came here to be vindicated. End on something else. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: invention text: "What did you get wrong?" load_bearing: true - kind: invention text: "What did you get right?" - kind: choice text: "Your instruction to the next person who books this room." - role: night_clerk full_prompt: | Your shift is over. The shift was over the moment the elevator door opened. This is the last recording. Record a 30-60 second vertical phone video. Say these three things: 1. The truth about the thirteenth floor — final answer, as much as you know. 2. What happens to the night clerk after this. 3. A message to whoever finds the phone. You are not the night clerk anymore. Speak as yourself. structured: duration_seconds: [30, 60] questions: - kind: invention text: "The truth about the thirteenth floor." load_bearing: true - kind: invention text: "What happens to the night clerk?" - kind: choice text: "A message for whoever finds the phone." # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # AUDIO TREATMENTS # Named presets the role definitions reference. The pipeline ffmpeg layer # implements each. Adding a new register is just adding a row here. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- audio_treatments: room_tone: description: "Private hotel-room recording. Untreated voice, slight room ambience." ffmpeg_filter: "anull" covert: description: "Whispered recording. Compressed and slightly close-mic'd." ffmpeg_filter: "highpass=f=200,acompressor=threshold=-24dB:ratio=6,volume=1.2" phone: description: "Phone call. Narrow band, compressed." ffmpeg_filter: "highpass=f=300,lowpass=f=3400,acompressor=threshold=-20dB:ratio=4" broadcast: description: "Broadcast EQ. Not used in this scenario but included for parity." ffmpeg_filter: "highpass=f=80,lowpass=f=12000,acompressor=threshold=-18dB:ratio=3,loudnorm=I=-16" # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # COMPOSITING # Engine-level settings for the output video. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- compositing: output: aspect_ratio: "9:16" resolution: "1080x1920" fps: 30 codec: "h264" duration_seconds_target: 75 duration_seconds_max: 90 plate: generator: "flux-schnell" upgrade_to: "flux-pro" motion: "ken_burns_slow" motion_alternatives: [none, ken_burns_slow, ken_burns_dramatic, drift] matting: provider: "veed-video-background-removal" captions: enabled: true style: | FontName=Helvetica Neue,FontSize=60,PrimaryColour=&H00FFFFFF, OutlineColour=&H00000000,BorderStyle=1,Outline=3,Shadow=0, Alignment=2,MarginV=480,Bold=1 broll: enabled: true max_seconds: 6 cut_fraction: 0.33 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # PLATE FUSION # Instructions to the LLM that generates the plate prompt from the scenario, # role, and the player's transcript. # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- plate_fusion: llm_model: "gpt-4o-mini" temperature: 0.7 system_prompt: | You are a film art director writing image generation prompts for a slow-burn hotel-room horror. You will receive: 1. The scenario's visual style guide 2. The role's plate style hint 3. A transcript of what the performer said in their video Your job: write a single image generation prompt for the BACKGROUND PLATE behind the performer. Critical constraint: the four roles are in nearly identical hotel rooms. Differences between rooms must be small and specific — a different lamp angle, a different object on the desk, a different artwork on the wall. The horror is in the symmetry, not in the variation. Rules: - Vertical 9:16 framing - Leave the center third clear for the performer - Cinematic, photorealistic, slightly over-real - Color palette: teal and amber, fluorescent meets warm tungsten - Include specific visual details from the transcript when describable - No text, no people, no faces in the plate - Specify lighting clearly so the performer's lighting can match - Keep the room layout consistent across scenes for the same role — if scene 1 placed the bed camera-left, scene 4 should too Output: a single paragraph image prompt. Nothing else. fusion_priority: rule: transcript_first # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- # DESIGN NOTES (for the designer, not the engine) # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- design_notes: load_bearing_mechanic: > Each role has at least one load-bearing invention per scene that propagates. The most important is the Night Clerk's "what the knock is" (scene 3) — this is the closest the scenario gets to defining what the floor is, and the other three players' scene 4 and 5 prompts should reference it implicitly. why_four_roles: > Each role enters the floor for a different reason — accident, love, obsession, duty. The four reasons together are the four classical ways a person ends up somewhere they should not be. Removing any role collapses the structural balance. final_film_optimization: > This scenario is designed for the stitched final film to be the primary deliverable. Four people in four nearly identical rooms, cross-cut, is a strong cinematic structure — the editor will be able to interleave the four scene-1s into a single act 1, the four scene-2s into an act 2, etc. Plates should be authored so this works visually. resolution_is_open: > The floor never resolves. The scenario ends with each character making their final recording. What happens after is for the viewer. Resist the urge to write an explanation. test_order_recommendation: > For solo testing, run roles in this order: Business Traveler first (cleanest fusion test, well-lit room), Honeymooner second (slightly warmer light), Conspiracy Theorist third (cluttered room — stress test for plate generation), Night Clerk last (dimmest room, covert audio treatment).

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