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