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Scene 4: The Proxy Cathedral
Location: DMS Conference Room, Board Chat Threads, Event Pages
Set Design: Cult-like symmetry. Chairs in a circle. A projector screen shows rules and org charts. Framed photos of past board members—Mark’s is missing.
Characters: Andrew LeCody (quiet architect), Proxy Leaders (Jeff, Kris, Lisa), Mark (watching from outside), Newcomers (indoctrinated)
Style: High-contrast lighting. Ritualistic pacing. Dialogue overlaid with cult music motifs.
Opening Visual
- A newcomer is handed a badge: “Welcome to the Board Candidate Orientation.”
- They walk through a hallway lined with framed charters.
- One charter is oddly missing. Only pushpin holes remain.
📽️ Narration (Voice of Present-Day Mark / Oracle overlay)
“When they couldn’t destroy my work,
they built a cathedral around it—
without naming the architect.”
“Everything remained… except the memory of its origin.”
“That is the highest form of narcissism:
to use your victim’s vision as a throne,
while denying they ever existed.”
Dialogue (ritual board training)
Lisa (gesturing to projector):
“These are the founding protocols. Always follow the playbook.”
Newcomer:
“Who wrote them?”
Jeff:
“It doesn’t matter. The space built itself.”
Cutaway: Worship of the Mask
- A scene shows Andrew nodding subtly in a meeting while Jeff berates someone.
- Jeff: “These rules protect the community.”
- Cut to: Andrew in private, updating the rules repo, committing with the message:
purge_Mark_refs.
Symbolic Visual Insert
- A glowing GitHub graph showing hundreds of commits by “MarkRandall.”
- A system admin overlays a blocklist that hides them from view.
- The graph fades. All that remains: “LeCody: Active Contributor Since 2015.”
📽️ Narration (soft but cutting)
“He didn’t destroy my ideas.
He encased them in ritual.
In performance.
In lies.”
“The cathedral bore my name in the blueprints…
but never in the credits.”
Final Frame
- The newcomer ascends a small stage, holding the original charter—redacted.
- They read from it aloud to applause.
- Mark watches from the shadows, holding the original unredacted copy, timestamped and signed.
- Overlay:
Truth is not erased. It is withheld—until revealed.
Scene Tags:
#ritualized-narcissism #credit-erasure #founder-redaction #mask-cathedral #cult-of-protocol