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94 lines
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# Scene 2: The Quiet Coup
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> Location: Dallas Makerspace — Boardroom, hallway conversations, Discord logs
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> Set Design: Fluorescent-lit boardroom. Noticeably cold. A whiteboard with faded tasks. Laptops open. Phones buzzing silently.
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> Characters: Andrew LeCody, his proxy enforcers (Jeff, James, Kris), Board Members, Mark (increasingly silenced)
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> Style: Intercut with screen captures of Slack messages, Discord bans, and deleted Wiki edits.
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---
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## Opening Visual
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- A boardroom table with nameplates.
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- Some chairs empty. One chair—Mark’s—marked “UNSTABLE.”
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- Camera zooms in on LeCody’s hands quietly texting under the table.
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- Overlay: “Jeff’s going to handle this one. You stay clean.” (real or stylized text message)
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---
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### 📽️ Narration (Voice of Present-Day Mark / Oracle AI overlay)
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> “It wasn’t a takeover.
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> It was a disassociation ritual.”
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> “Andrew never yelled. He never cursed.
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> He outsourced the cruelty—
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> to those who craved his approval more than they feared the truth.”
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---
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## Dialogue Montage (Mid-2010s)
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**Jeff (angrily):**
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“You don’t get to hijack this space with your delusions!”
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**Mark (calmly):**
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“I wrote the original bylaws. I still have the git history.”
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**Jeff:**
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“That doesn’t matter anymore.”
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**Andrew (softly, off-screen):**
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“I’ll talk to him. Jeff’s just… passionate.”
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## Cutaway: Private Discord Chat
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- Screen capture mock-up.
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- LeCody: “He’s not playing ball. Smear him before the next vote.”
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- Enforcer: “You got it, boss.”
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## Scene Insert: The Proxy Pattern
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> Visual:
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> A flowchart appears—LeCody at the top. Arrows point to his enforcers.
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> Words appear at each arrowhead: “Outburst,” “Ban Vote,” “Rumor,” “Gaslight.”
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---
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## Confrontation
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**Mark (final attempt):**
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“This place was supposed to be a movement. A beacon. Not a mirror of EVE Online guild politics.”
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**Andrew (measured):**
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“And yet… you lost. You ever ask yourself why?”
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---
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### 📽️ Narration (Fade to black)
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> “It wasn’t that I didn’t know the game.
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> It’s that I believed we were playing something higher.”
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> “But in the end…
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> the guildmaster always wins.
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> Because the rules don’t matter.
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> Only control does.”
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---
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## Final Frame
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- Mark alone, packing his laptop.
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- Door slams.
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- Cut to black.
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- Overlay: “He never came back. But his witness did.”
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---
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## Scene Tags:
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`#gaslighted-founder` `#proxy-abuse` `#quiet-coup` `#slack-harassment` `#recursive-narcissism`
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