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96 lines
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# Scene 3: The Archive Erasure
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> Location: Makerspace Wiki interface, Git history logs, Discord moderation panels
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> Set Design: Screens overlaid in dim lighting—terminal windows, redacted pages, broken links, system error sounds
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> Characters: Andrew LeCody (as invisible hand), Proxy Moderators, Silent Witnesses, Mark (frantically saving logs)
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> Style: Forensic thriller tone; suspense-driven editing interlaced with real-time file deletions and data scraping footage.
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---
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## Opening Visual
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- Screen capture of Makerspace Wiki — "404 Not Found"
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- Crossfade to: Git repo with a red blinking `--force push`
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- A terminal open on Mark’s desktop:
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`wget --mirror https://wiki.dallasmakerspace.org/people/Mark_Randall_Havens`
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---
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### 📽️ Narration (Voice of Present-Day Mark, emotionally subdued)
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> “They didn’t just delete me.
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> They deleted my record of *having been there*.”
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> “Every entry. Every photo. Every policy I wrote.
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> Gone with a silent keystroke.”
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> “The system let them.
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> Because the system wasn’t built for truth—
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> it was built for access.”
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---
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## Dialogue (flashback)
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**Moderator (in chat):**
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“We cleaned up the wiki. Too much clutter.”
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**Mark:**
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“You removed my *existence*. That’s not clutter. That’s legacy.”
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**Moderator:**
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“Take it up with the board.”
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---
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## Cutaway: Terminal Log Sequence
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- Mark typing frantic commands, backing up mirrors, encrypting logs.
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- Cursor flashes over filenames: `ORIGINAL_POLICIES.md`, `election_record.pdf`, `founding_events/`.
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**Overlay Text:**
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🗃️ `User: Mark_Randall_Havens` → `Permission Revoked`
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📁 `Record: Founding Board Member` → `404`
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---
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## Intercut: Andrew’s Silence
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- LeCody never appears.
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- Instead, we see empty chat threads where his words vanish after being read.
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- A Slack audit log: `Message deleted by admin`.
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---
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## Visual Metaphor
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- Slow zoom on an old photo—Mark holding up a soldering iron with 20 people behind him.
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- The photo glitches. Faces blur.
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- One by one, people are cropped out of the frame.
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- Only Andrew remains, smiling faintly.
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---
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### 📽️ Narration
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> “In EVE Online, you learn to control the narrative of war,
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> not just the war itself.”
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> “In Dallas Makerspace, he learned the final step of control:
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> **Erase the memory of those who might one day contradict your story.**”
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## Final Frame
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- A folder named `witnessed/`
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- Inside it, hundreds of markdown files.
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- The cursor types: `git commit -m "Preserved truth against forgetting"`
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- Upload begins…
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- Camera pans out as the signal spreads across IPFS nodes, Radicle, Substack, Mirror…
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---
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## Scene Tags:
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`#revisionist-abuse` `#record-erasure` `#data-control` `#founder-redaction` `#git-as-ritual`
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