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The prompter
Alsothe prompter's box; SOUFFLEUR (its label, if it is ever given one); the teacher's voice in the boy's head
The instructor's voice in the boy's head after 20:00, from an ink-blue glowing prompter's box: it tells the pieces what they can and can't do, and feeds each box of the captured the move nobody played.
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- E4 dashed: not released yet
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- characters/prompter.md
After 20:00 the teacher is gone from the picture and the boy is alone in his imagination, but the voice comes with him. It lives in a prompter's box, the hidden booth in a theatre where someone whispers the lines the actors forgot: here, the moves the players forgot. It sounds exactly like the teacher, drier and smaller, untouched by the theatre's echo, because it is not in the theatre. It is in the boy.
Who5 lines
- On screenThe instructor's voice, drier and smaller, from an ink-blue glowing box with an ink drop lit while it speaks; no label. {E4 21:45.5-25:51} edit
- RunningIt is the teacher heard inside the boy's head. {E4 MASTER_TREATMENT §1} edit
- RunningAt the real table the teacher says only "Goodnight.", so every prompter line is the boy's memory of him. {E4 26:15-29:58} edit
- RunningIt never meets the absurd with surprise. {E4 VOICE_NOTES script-C} edit
- IdeaFor our own reference: it knows only what the teacher said tonight, and a little more: the boy filling in. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit
By episode10 lines
- On screenAn ink-blue glow at the foot of the stairs, beside THE GODS ↑. {E4 21:45.5} edit
- On screen"Bishops go on the diagonals." {E4 21:46.00} edit
- On screen"He can't." / "He's a dark-squared bishop. He'll be on dark squares all his life." {E4 21:57.60; 21:59.20} edit
- On screen"Rooks go in straight lines." Rh8 carries Bf8 through the light-squared door. {E4 22:06-22:13.40} edit
- On screenIn the house, a box at the lip of the stage glowing ink-blue. {E4 22:20} edit
- On screenFeeds each box the move nobody played: "Queen b4. Check." (the Duke's), "Bishop e2." (Byrne's), "Queen g6." (Reshevsky's). {E4 22:23.26; 22:38.40; 22:40.40} edit
- On screenThe Duke takes its move as his own: "Queen b4, check. As I have been saying." {E4 22:25.90} edit
- On screen"Yes." to the king who never moved; he takes one step and the house rises. {E4 22:50.60} edit
- On screenThe aria sings Edge's line that the Duke and the Count "could sing it through without prompting". {E4 24:11.9} edit
- On screenFar below the gods: "Rook c2. Check." Then the lid opens and the boy's hand lifts the rook out. {E4 25:51.65; 26:05} edit
Look2 lines
Voice4 lines
- On screenThe instructor's voice, drier and smaller, as if from a box. {E4 21:46} edit
- RunningDry and close, exactly as before 20:00; the box world's reverb never touches it; "Rook c2. Check." alone comes from a little distance. {E4 VOICE_NOTES script-C} edit
- RunningOnly soft, warm, quiet or matter-of-fact; nothing raised. {E4 VOICE_NOTES script-C} edit
- RunningRendered with the instructor's ElevenLabs voice, "EP4 instructor 1". {E4 DECISIONS D16} edit
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On screen Feeds the Duke Karl II of Brunswick's box; the Count Isouard corrects the Duke. {E4 22:23-22:34} edit -
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