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Character sheet · Program

Lantern's TTS

E2

Alsothe stream's robot voice; the donation robot; "TTS" (Episode 2's cast list)

The flat text-to-speech robot that reads paid messages aloud on Lantern, misspellings and all; it is the voice that first speaks Noor's words on Earth: "tps hab three donated one dollar. how long is the night where you are".

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Three of its alert cards stacked in the chaos beside the hidden card (gravy_baron's cheese, tps_hab3's "how long is the night where you are", aaron's gift): the only body it has. Used
Three of its alert cards stacked in the chaos beside the hidden card (gravy_baron's cheese, tps_hab3's "how long is the night where you are", aaron's gift): the only body it has. {E2 29:47} edit
A quick spec of a voice with no body: its alert card arriving, reading (the words lit as it speaks) and done; its flat line; the 2.56 s of nothing before Noor's card; the same voice for a cheese joke. Placeholder
A quick spec of a voice with no body: its alert card arriving, reading (the words lit as it speaks) and done; its flat line; the 2.56 s of nothing before Noor's card; the same voice for a cheese joke. Placeholdermade as a quick reference, not in any episode yet, free to change. {made 2026-10-23 by lore-placeholders; not in any episode; free to change} edit

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Lantern's TTS is the cheapest voice in the series and it carries the most important line of Episode 2's first half. Noor is silent until 10:21, and when she finally says something to the world, she types it, pays a dollar, waits 2.56 seconds for the Moon's round trip, and a flat stranger's robot reads it out. Everything else it reads is a joke ("is the moon made of cheese asking for a frend"); her line is not, and it reads it exactly the same way.

Who6 lines

  • On screenReads tips and gift subs aloud on Lantern, misspellings and all. {E2 04:24} edit
  • RunningA local SAPI voice ("Microsoft David" and presets), fixed per donor. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §4} edit
  • RunningIt reads paid alerts only; ordinary chat lines are never read aloud. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §4; MASTER_TREATMENT cast table} edit
  • RunningIts misspellings are on purpose ("frend", "strawberys"). {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §4} edit
  • SteelEpisode 2 is a livestream with TTS, chat and a small facecam. {Aaron E2 brief 2026-10-12} edit
  • IdeaFor our own reference: it gives every donor the same flat respect; a child's first words and a cheese joke cost the same and sound the same. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit

Life on the Y axis1 line

  • On screenabout Y+60 Reads Noor's $1 question at 11:37, her first words heard on Earth. {E2 11:37.6} edit

By episode11 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screengravy_baron, $5: "is the moon made of cheese asking for a frend"; Teo: "Mostly oxygen, actually. About forty percent, locked in rock." {E2 04:24-04:30} edit
  • On screenNoor types, sends, and for 2.56 s nothing; her line reaches her own copy one round trip later. {E2 11:25-11:31} edit
  • On screenIt reads her first words: "tps hab three donated one dollar. how long is the night where you are" {E2 11:37.6} edit
  • On screenTeo smiles: "Here? About eight hours tonight. Where we're building... three hundred and fifty-four." {E2 11:37-11:50} edit
  • On screenaaron's five gift subs, "love the tea house"; Teo: "Thank you, Aaron." {E2 12:20-12:25} edit
  • On screenhalfmoon_harriet, $11: "eleven. we lost a lander for eleven days once. bad antenna. it came back. they always come back"; Teo: "Sometimes they do." {E2 13:19-13:31} edit
  • On screentouchgrass_on_mars, $3: "what kills you first on the moon" {E2 14:41} edit
  • On screenhab_dad, $2: Maisie wants to know if moon kids get recess; Teo: "No moon kids, Maisie." {E2 18:46-18:54} edit
  • On screengravy_baron, $5, on the call: "ask her if the moon smells like gunpowder"; she: "It does. In the airlock." {E2 25:56-26:11} edit
  • On screenPaid lines in all: gravy_baron $5 twice, tps_hab3 $1, halfmoon_harriet $11, touchgrass_on_mars $3, hab_dad $2, aaron five gift subs. {E2} edit
  • On screenIn the chaos four of them play at once: "frend", "how long is the night where you are", "love the tea house", "what kills you first". {E2 29:38.6-29:42} edit

Look2 lines

  • RunningAn alert card on the Lantern overlay, the words lighting as it reads them. {E2 MASTER_TREATMENT S16} edit
  • RunningA tip arrives with a chime, gift subs with an 8-bit fanfare in F. {E2 MASTER_TREATMENT S06, S17} edit

Voice2 lines

  • RunningFlat, male, synthetic, the same for a joke and a child: SAPI "Microsoft David". {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §4; MASTER_TREATMENT S16} edit
  • RunningMade with the episode's local tool chat_voice.py, a fixed voice per donor. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §4} edit

Ties5 lines

Must stay true2 lines

  • RunningIt reads only what is paid; Rosie's lines are never read aloud. {E2 QA story; E2 07:27-27:51.6} edit
  • RunningIt reads her line in exactly the voice it reads the jokes. {E2 11:37.6; 04:24} edit

Open2 lines

  • OpenWhether Lantern still reads aloud in later episodes; in Episode 4 it is a silent chess app. {E4 0:35-1:12} edit
  • IdeaA later episode lets the same flat voice read one more child's line, a nod nobody remarks on. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit

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