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