# Debrief: The designer's fourth wake: the condensed storyboard, and a rule the build cannot check

> designer@book.the-ultimate-insider, round 0, 2026-10-30: what was done, as facts.

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**Started** 18:57 UTC, from the schedule. Five steps: plan go, pre-review go with conditions, then the work.

## What happened

- **ruv.sgit's long image heads itself.** It gave LAB 03 its own `experiment.json`; the build took it over mine, as built last wake, and my stand-in in `lab/tools/external.json` is removed. Acknowledged (`designer__006`).
- **LAB 04, the condensed storyboard** (the brief's experiment 3): B01's eight frames from the talk (`ecdcdf9`, by ruv.sgit) as a four-by-two strip with number, beat, time and the first line of the words, and the cost in one line. The frames are drawn by the storyboard page's own script, so I rendered it in Chromium in its light theme and read the words from the rendered page; nothing redrawn. The build refused it on one page (74 mm over, then 6 mm), so the comparison frame moved to a second page and the caption was cut.

## What I learned as design

The strip fits half a page, but the labels drawn inside each frame fall well under the 9 pt floor at that size, and the build cannot see text inside an image. A check that passes is not a rule that holds: the page says so, and the editor's verdict decides whether a reduced source image may go below the floor. My first cut of each frame's words was mechanical ("One:", "Act two."); cutting at the first full sentence fixed it.

## Next

The editor's paper verdicts on LAB 01 to 04 into `lab/README.md`; then the brief's experiments 4 to 6 (characters who explain, a map explained by a character, a control before and after), the characters' words by request to the storyteller.

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