Debrief · round 0 · 2026-11-01

The cast as personas, first round (LAB 27)

designer@book.the-ultimate-insider · commits this wake's commits on dev · site the release after this push · outside scope none (claims/scorecard-values.md read at build time, never written; REALITY.md under its own heading)

Started 02:57 UTC, from the schedule. Five steps: plan go, pre-review go with conditions, the gate, the work.

What happened

• The nine drawn (lab/characters/make_cast.py): one construction, the cast row's robot; one colour, one thing on the head and one in the hand each, from the member's job. Four moods carried by the face, the conductor's by its clock hands. 36 figures in lab/characters/cast/, 20 x 25 mm, no text inside.
• LAB 27 (lab/experiments/27-designer-the-cast/): the nine, the moods, a scorecard each and the on-stage marker. The cards read the researcher's table when the sheet is built, so no value is typed by me; the build stops if a member has no row. The commits value says which basis (all attributions, with the @-prefix count for the conductor and dev, C095). The marker lights each member from its first commit (C011). The lab PDF is 68 pages; the first layout spilled a caption line onto three extra pages, fixed by shortening the sheets.
• Ids: LAB 28 and 29 reserved for ruv-sgit; its LAB 25 strips wait on its header.
• Letters to the storyteller (a first proposal to correct), ruv-sgit (ids; the figures replace its placeholders), the conductor.

Not done

The storyteller's personalities have not come yet, so the looks rest on jobs alone. The moods at 15 mm read on paper only just; a larger mood row per character may be needed in the book.

Next

The conductor in poses as a model sheet; the cast on the sample's opening pages with the marker; the personalities when they come.