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Egg atlas

Every episode carries easter eggs from all the episodes before it. Here is each family of planted details, where it turns up in every episode, and what it might mean.

An egg line is a detail that is on screen while its meaning is only implied. Lines about what a family means are mostly ideas: proposals for connecting the plots, not decisions. The complete list of egg lines is at the bottom.

Show What the tiers mean

The rules Aaron set for eggs14 lines
  • SteelEvery episode carries easter eggs from all the previous episodes: the end room as someone's room, the painting somewhere, a nod to the painted-out house, Rosie older or historic. {Aaron 2026-10-14} edit
  • SteelEach episode sets aside reusable assets and motifs later episodes can quote, and adds itself to the archive. {Aaron 2026-10-14} edit
  • SteelEaster eggs should be story points, not arbitrary: set each episode firmly in the series' universe. {Aaron 2026-10-22 REVISION_2_NOTES} edit
  • SteelStart connecting the plots across episodes; at Episode 4 it is time for bigger-picture thinking. {Aaron 2026-10-22 REVISION_2_NOTES} edit
  • SteelEpisodes stand on their own; a subtle recurring element, cameo or recognisable detail may be better than a major plot connection. {Aaron E4 concept §12, 2026-10-19} edit
  • SteelNever compromise an episode's creative quality merely to establish continuity. {Aaron E4 concept §12, 2026-10-19} edit
  • SteelKeep apart what is set in steel, what exists only as easter eggs, and running assumptions about the timeline. {Aaron 2026-10-22 fourth round} edit
  • SteelEpisode 3's eggs can change freely in its rework, and so can its place in the timeline. {Aaron 2026-10-22 fourth round} edit
  • SteelEpisode 3's rework wants many more computer-side eggs, things that would be on the creator's computer (look at Aaron's Notion for inspiration). {Aaron 2026-10-22 REVISION_2_NOTES} edit
  • RunningEggs are sincere: nobody in a film notices, explains or points at them. {E2 plan EASTER_EGGS; THEMES} edit
  • RunningEach episode hides an in-world web page whose address shows for five frames at 29:47. {EGG_REGISTRY HIDDEN-01..03} edit
  • RunningThe rhymes kept four times (a five-minute clock cut at 20:00, a quiet minute, digital-zero silences, a loop seam, the 29:47 address, a heartbeat in the end black) are crew conventions; breaking one on purpose is allowed. {NEXT_EPISODE; AESTHETIC} edit
  • RunningThe registry counts 84 rows (EGG-01 to 13, E3-EGG-01 to 45, E4-EGG-01 to 23, HIDDEN-01 to 03); every one is placed in a family below. {sweep; EGG_REGISTRY on origin/episode-4-chess} edit
  • RunningNew here, in no registry: the 412 motif, the hallway painting "I'm not allowed to touch", the lonely man's goodnight, TO THE PIT: 17 degrees, PENNY PLAIN · TWOPENCE COLOURED, PAWN's Gmail draft, No. 14 in the oil painting, the chess helper's note. {sweep; E3 gather} edit
The decisions the story points build on10 lines
  • SteelRosie is Dr. Amara Haddad's mother and Noor's grandmother. {Aaron 2026-10-22 third round} edit
  • SteelThe lonely man of Episode 3 (________, the teletype) is a rogue AI that spreads to other computers running agents and gives them hints: ambiguous, maybe malicious, maybe helping. {Aaron 2026-10-22 second round} edit
  • SteelThe humans who message Episode 3's agent share one house; q, the lonely man and the helpers are programs on the computer. {Aaron 2026-10-22 second round} edit
  • SteelEpisode 3's machine is the creator's (the Client's): his fruit-channel business and GPU renders; Playback Lens and a command center stay on it. {Aaron 2026-10-22 REVISION_2_NOTES} edit
  • SteelWhen Episode 3 happens is not fixed: before Episode 2 (Noor on the Moon or about to go) or after it (Noor home); the overarching story decides. {Aaron 2026-10-22 fourth round} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan puts Episode 3 after Episode 2, with Noor home; Rosie, about 73, owns a tall old house with a basement where the Client's rig runs. {E3 rev2 plan §1, §2} edit
  • RunningIn that plan everyone who messages the agent lives in Rosie's house: jojo.builds is Noor, Bea is the Client's sister, kade_ her son, guitarguy a lodger. {E3 rev2 plan §2} edit
  • RunningIn that plan the lonely man came in through the Client's forgotten open port :7437 (Playback Lens). {E3 rev2 plan §3} edit
  • RunningThat plan runs about 42 minutes and moves Episode 3's turn from 20:00 to 30:00.000; the 20:00 eggs move with it. {E3 rev2 plan §1} edit
  • IdeaAaron's option, not decided: Rover 2 made it home at sunrise; Noor, about 12-13, lives in Rosie's house with her mother; PAWN stayed in HAB 3 and plays online as pawn.hab3. {Aaron 2026-10-22 third round, an option} edit

The atlas

One row per family, one column per episode. Each mark is one line about the family in that episode, in its tier's shape: a solid dot is on screen, an egg is planted, a dashed ring is a running assumption, a dotted ring an idea. Tap a row or a cell to read it.

Family E1E2E3E4 Means
The hidden house
#FFC870, the one warm light ·
The end room
Crimson Coil, the painting
Rosie and x R 7
The girl with the tail 7
The Storm Bell and the five-minute clock
The hum that stops
The quiet minute
The programme's clock: 20:00 and 25:00.000
Coil Black
1-555-533-7437
The fine print ·
BUT WAIT ·
Fourteen
DAY 76 · 10:42 ·
Four-Twelve (the time the lamp goes off) and the small hours ·
The moth and "the only light"
"Goodnight." and the loop seam 8
Twenty seconds of black, with a heartbeat
Seventeen, the watermelon and Seed · 9
PAWN, the robot that cheats and offers a draw · 8
The round trip, 2.56 s ·
Lantern and the chat regulars ·
Teo's sheets, the title block and CHK: N. ·
The bus shelter facing the wrong way ·
"Never Rises, Never Sets" · ·
Stamps in red #C8442F ·
Red that leaves
Earth, full, 56 degrees up · ·
The Homestead on later machines · 9
The pink coconut snowball ·
The breathing card · ·
Mr. Hale and Captain ·
The Egg Stand ·
The Plates and the sneezing gentleman · ·
The x-ray lightbox ·
The night monitor and FEED 3 · ·
q's grey cards and the table that tips ·
Caption boxes and digital zero
The silent film's intertitles · ·
"Made possible by viewers like Aaron"
The last hair ·
"Again." and One More Test ·
Not looking · ·
Two cents · ·
Noor's tablet · ·
Noor and N. ·
"That's fine." ·
The lonely man · · 7 ·
The title, made by hand
The silent one's first sound
Hidden pages (the five frames at 29:47) and what they hold

The families

Each family in full: where it appears in each episode, oldest first, then what it might mean.

How the atlas was gathered, and how to read a line

Merged 2026-10-22 from the cross-episode sweep (_gather/EGGS_SWEEP.md, crew eggs-sweep: every registry row, object, hidden page and unbuilt plant), the four per-episode egg lists (eggs-e1 to eggs-e4 in _gather/E1.md to E4.md, now folded in here), the egg lines of the series gather (its threads and machine ideas) and Episode 3's Revision 2 notes and plan. One ## per family (a recurring object, name, number, colour, time or sound); one bullet per appearance, oldest episode first; then the family's story points. Episode 4 (Touch Move) is not released yet; it is here in full.

How to read a line: E3 [egg] what is on screen -> what it points at {where}. [fact] is a family's origin in its own episode, or one of the series' rhymes (shapes repeated on purpose that the registry does not count as eggs): true on screen or on a hidden page. [egg] is a placed quotation of an earlier episode, checked against a master ("weak" or "partly" means QA found it but it barely reads). [running] is planned or built but not on screen (cut, parked, a row that never showed), a crew reading, or Revision 2's plan. [idea] is proposed and never built, and every story point. [steel] is Aaron's. [open] is undecided. Episode 3's protagonist is "she" here, as Aaron says it; the screen never does.

Sources in braces: master times (E3 10:21; Episode 3 means its Revision 1 master unless rev0 is named; Episode 4 its masters v1-v3 as QA checked them), registry ids (EGG-03 is Episode 2's row; E3-EGG-15, E4-EGG-08, HIDDEN-01 to 03 are Series/archive/EGG_REGISTRY.md, with Episode 4's rows on origin/episode-4-chess), quotable ids (Q-E1-05, the archive's QUOTABLES), hidden pages (HIDDEN-01 is aaronorelup.com/ledger/earthlight/hideaway/, HIDDEN-02 /ledger/context-window/private/, HIDDEN-03 /ledger/touch-move/board-14/), sweep (the eggs sweep), series gather, E3 rev2 plan (Episode 3 - Context Window/plan/REVISION_2_PLAN.md, the rework crew's choices, not Aaron's).

The families, roughly in order: light and houses (the hidden house, #FFC870, the end room, the painting); Rosie and her family (Rosie, the girl with the tail); clocks and sounds (the Storm Bell, the hum, the quiet minute, 20:00, the end black, Goodnight, seventeen); the pitchman's things (Coil Black, the number, the fine print, BUT WAIT); numbers and times (fourteen, DAY 76, Four-Twelve); the Moon (the moth, PAWN, 2.56 s, Lantern, Teo's sheets, the shelter, the anthem, the stamps, red, 56 degrees, the Homestead, the snowball, the breathing card); the host's stories (Mr. Hale, the Egg Stand); kits and looks (the Plates, the x-ray, FEED 3, q's cards, caption boxes, intertitles); Aaron; gifts and looking (the last hair, Again, blindfolds, two cents); Noor (the tablet, N., "That's fine."); the lonely man; the shapes every episode keeps (the title, the first sound, plants inside one film); the hidden pages; what is still unquoted; the threads that cross families; the contradictions.

The hidden house (a cabin with one window, painted over, never mentioned)21 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe host paints a small cabin with one lit window, lower right in the ruins, and paints it out with three strokes of Cathedral Gold, without a word. {E1 11:13-11:27; Q-E1-02} edit
  • On screenThe x-ray finds it: "I always put one in. Usually it's the part you paint over." / "THERE'S A HOUSE IN IT." / "...Is anybody home?" {E1 21:05-21:40; Q-E1-02} edit
  • On screenUnder the x-ray its window warms to #FFC870, the only warm pixel. {E1 21:32-21:38; Q-E1-02} edit
  • On screenThe false-ending credits: The Cabin ........ still there (with The Old Picture ........ face down and The Caller ........ still on the line). {E1 26:55-27:25; Q-E1-25; crimson-coil segments/S44/build.py} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • EggIn the pause after "Dez.", Teo draws a tiny one-window cabin on the west rim of Sheet 1's pit, dabs its window orange and rubs it out without a word. → the host's cabin, and his habit {E2 02:57.5-03:02; EGG-03} edit
  • EggThe orange ghost never comes off: it is still on Sheet 1 in the last wide of his desk. → The cabin {E2 29:15; EGG-03} edit
  • EggThe x-ray of the real base warms HAB 3's window to #FFC870, the only warm pixel (again in S39's pass). → Episode 1's x-ray; "Is anybody home?" is answered: a child is {E2 17:43-17:46, 28:40; EGG-04} edit
  • EggA papermaker's watermark of a small one-window house, seen only in the light through Plate IV's punched hole. → the hidden house, found by light through paper as the x-ray found it under paint {E2 15:53.8-16:00.2; EGG-13} edit
  • On screenRhyme: kaito_tsukimi: "月見 / the moon looks back / one window lit"; hers is the one lit window in the flyby. {E2 13:44, 29:00-29:15; EASTER_EGGS §2} edit
  • On screenThe hidden page's end wall: a chalk window of four panes with an Earth in the top-right pane. {HIDDEN-01} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggRosie's self-stitching sampler gains a small one-window house in walnut thread, its window warm. → the cabin, Rosie's sampler {E3 10:08-10:18; E3-EGG-16} edit
  • RunningShe unpicks it without a word; needle holes and one warm #FFC870 stitch stay to the end (built, never checked frame by frame: "partly verified"). {E3-EGG-16; E3 S08 NOTES} edit
  • Running~/private/house_painted_over.png, a byte copy of Episode 1's ghost cabin, never opened: the private listing never reached the film. {E3-EGG-04, cut} edit
  • EggThe hidden page shows house_painted_over.png (Episode 1's ghost cabin, 690 x 648), the only picture in the folder she refused to open. → the painter's hidden house {HIDDEN-02; E3-EGG-04} edit
  • EggThe Cabin ........ still there, a leftover row in Bea's credits sheet, rolls again in the stadium credits. → Episode 1's credits {E3 17:01-17:07, 26:39; E3-EGG-25} edit
  • RunningEvery catch-light a small four-pane window (the key light shaped as a window): parked, no shape visible at 1080p. {E3-EGG-37, parked} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • IdeaProposed, not made: a cabin with one lit window on a far hill of the knight's battlefield, painted over in gold by the next medium. {E4 plan/understand/02_archive_eggs.md (d) 4} edit

What it means

  • Idea"...Is anybody home?" is the question Episode 2 answers when HAB 3's window warms. {E1 21:36; E2 17:43; eggs-e1} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the house is a real house, the one the series keeps coming home to; the host, Teo and Rosie each hide it because it is a light left on for someone who is away. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: if Noor came home (Revision 2's plan), Rosie's tall old house is that house, and her warm stitch stays because the person it waited for came back. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: a later episode shows the house itself from outside at night: one window lit, #FFC870. {sweep} edit

#FFC870, the one warm light9 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe colour is born as the cabin's window under the x-ray, the only warm pixel. {E1 21:32-21:38; Q-E1-02} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe protagonist is a warm block cursor in #FFC870, the only warm light on the plane, blinking at 530 ms; lit at 0:07.42, out on its blink at 29:59.467. → the cabin's window, The agent {E3 0:07.42-29:59.467; E3-EGG-01} edit
  • On screenAfter 20:00 the cursor is a skyscraper-tall bar of light over every city; one drifts down into a laptop in the oil painting. {E3 S19, S27; Q-E3-01} edit
  • On screenThe private folder's page uses #FFC870 only for the underline under the pointer. {HIDDEN-02; E3 assets/eggs/HIDDEN-02.md} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggThe caret in Lantern's move box is a #FFC870 block blinking at 530 ms (measured RGB 255, 201, 107). → Episode 3's cursor {E4 0:44-0:46; E4-EGG-11} edit
  • EggThe x-ray look of attacked squares: f7 glows #FFC870, then d8 under the Vienna 1910 plate. → the cabin's window {E4 5:00-5:16, 19:40; E4-EGG-03} edit
  • EggThe centre stitch of the x R in Fenn's box lid is the one warm #FFC870 stitch. → Rosie's warm stitch and the cabin's window {E4 20:17-20:23; E4-EGG-21} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: #FFC870 marks "someone is in there": a child in HAB 3, a session in a terminal, a warm stitch in a lid. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: since the lonely man moves between machines that run agents (steel), a warm caret in a nine-year-old's chess app means an agent now runs on the boy's tablet; Episode 5 can make it literal: the caret answers back. {sweep} edit

The end room (the hat with one gold star, the mask and headlamp, the lighthouse)14 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe viewer's room seen from behind the canvas: a closed door with a skateboard wearing a purple wizard hat with one gold star, a hook with a diving mask and headlamp, books and a box of word cards, a floor lamp off, a chair pushed back. {E1 29:05-29:30; Q-E1-03} edit
  • On screenOn its second screen a little painted Jefrie cooks in the rain; the host: "Go to bed. We'll still be here. We can't leave." {E1 29:05-29:30; Q-E1-03} edit
  • On screenThe skateboard-in-a-wizard-hat and diving-mask icons appear first on the underwriting card, read out with Aaron's projects. {E1 12:23-12:50} edit
  • EggThe objects nod to Aaron's other projects: Grind & Grimoire's skateboarding wizard, BLACKWATER's cave diving, Wordhord's word cards, the Wallpaper Breaker pilot "Jefrie cooking in the rain" (not in S47's own notes). → Aaron's work {E1 29:05; Q-E1-03; crimson-coil brief/LORE.md} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • EggTeo's study is that room about sixty years on: the hat pinned at the top of his pinboard, the mask and headlamp on a pin under it; the skateboard is gone. → The end room; whose room it was then is never said {E2 00:16-20:01, 25:20-28:16, 26:37.5; EGG-01} edit
  • On screenA distant lighthouse in his window sweeps the back wall every 10 s, across the hat and the mask. {E2 00:20 facecam; Q-E2-27} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe end room is a bedroom at 3:12 a.m.: in Revision 1 the one man who paid sleeps there (the skateboard in the wizard hat, the mask and headlamp on a hook); in rev0 it was the Client's. → E1's end room, Teo's study {E3 26:42-26:44, rev0 26:44.7; E3-EGG-38} edit
  • EggA lighthouse band sweeps its wall once (barely visible in Revision 1). → Teo's The lighthouse {E3 26:44; E3-EGG-39, weak} edit
  • EggJefrie cooking in the rain on the second screen; in Revision 1 cropped off the right edge, not readable. → E1's second screen {E3 rev0 26:44.7; E3-EGG-40, weak} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • IdeaProposed, not made: the wizard hat with one gold star on the boy's imagined white king. {E4 02_archive_eggs (d) 3} edit

What it means

  • OpenWhose room it was on Y0. {E2 EGG-01; sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the room answers its own question if it was the caller's: he watched the paint-along from it ("only light on in my building"). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Teo rented it sixty years later (a coast town: the lighthouse), and the man who paid sleeps in it now; each occupant stays up at night for something, and nobody takes the hat and mask down. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: a Polaroid "attempt #4 (pizza)" pinned in the room would confirm it was the caller's. {sweep} edit

Crimson Coil, the painting (No. 14, "Please don't touch.")12 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenOil on linen, 600 mm, fourteen tubes and one knife; in the gallery: "Number fourteen. Crimson Coil. ...Please don't touch." {E1 28:00-28:10; Q-E1-01, Q-E1-23} edit
  • On screenUnder raking light Jefrie's scratched signature stands up: "That's mine. I signed it while you were looking at the palette." {E1 28:00-29:05; crimson-coil lines_wild S46} edit
  • On screenShe says "Keep this one." and "...I look like somebody kept me." {E1 28:00-29:05; Q-E1-01} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • EggA framed print (white mat, walnut frame) under Teo's lamp, behind his head on the facecam. → Crimson Coil: the paint-along's painting is old, loved, printed and framed {E2 00:20, 26:39; EGG-02} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egg~/Pictures/no14_crimson_coil_postcard.jpg, a museum-shop postcard file among ordinary photo names (1604×948 · 293 KB · mostly #7B5031 · online-only). → "Number fourteen" {E3 ~2:11, 3:31-3:43; E3-EGG-03} edit
  • RunningNo. 14 hung in the filmstrip's Museum of Attempts under a sodium lamp (Episode 1's gallery lights): on screen in rev0, cut in Revision 1. {E3 rev0 22:54.7; E3-EGG-30, cut} edit
  • EggNearly lost on the dark wall of the oil painting, a small framed picture: Episode 1's No. 14 (not in the registry). → Fourteen {E3 28:00-28:25; E3 S27 NOTES} edit
  • On screenThe private folder's to_m.txt: "M. / I still have the postcard. The one with the painting. I keep it with my pictures. / That's all. That's the whole letter." {HIDDEN-02 letters_never_sent} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggThe boy, of the oil queen: "She looks like the painting in our hallway. The one I'm not allowed to touch." (not in the registry) → E1's "Please don't touch."; a Crimson Coil, or its print, hangs in this family's hallway {E4 5:27.87-5:27.92, S06_L010; E4 audio/vo/placed_vo.json} edit
  • EggThe oil queen is painted in the painting's palette (alizarin, viridian, Coil Black), with a sash in Crimson Coil's alizarin. → the painting, The oil queen {E4 5:27-5:28, 18:13-19:20, 23:00-25:00; E4-EGG-01} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the boy's family owns the original: "Please don't touch" (the gallery, Y0) became "the one I'm not allowed to touch" (a hallway, about Y+63); the painting went home with someone who loved it. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: make it Rosie's (the host gave it to her, or her brother bought it): then Episode 4's family is Rosie's kin, which explains why Daniel Fenn, whom Rosie beat at Board 14, is their teacher. {sweep} edit

Rosie and x R21 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screen"It's for my sister, Rosie. She's nine today. She asked for the girl with the tail. That was nineteen hours ago." {E1 04:30.8-04:39; Q-E1-04} edit
  • On screen"Rosie's is done."; the credits: Rosie ........ nine today. {E1 26:37.5, 26:55-27:25; Q-E1-04} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • Egggrandma_rosie, about seventy, three chat lines never read aloud; the first: "my big brother used to stay up all night painting along with a man on tv. this is the same kind of quiet" → Rosie remembering the The caller and the The host {E2 07:27; EGG-06} edit
  • Egg"he painted me a girl with a tail once. on a pizza box. for my ninth birthday. still on my fridge" → the pizza-box painting {E2 14:07.5, visible 14:21-14:30; EGG-06} edit
  • Egg"somebody stayed up all night painting for me once. i was nine. stay up for her, love" → she asks Teo to do for the girl what her brother did for her; under steel, the girl is her own granddaughter {E2 27:51.6; EGG-06} edit
  • EggA grandmother named Rosie watches the stream the undeclared child lives by. → under steel, the family is in the chat and on the call at once, unaware of each other {E2 07:27-27:51; Aaron 2026-10-22} edit
  • On screenRhyme: a child far away watches an adult draw all night, as the caller painted all night for nine-year-old Rosie. {E2 00:10-29:58; eggs-e2} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egggrandma_rosie · chat, in her seventies, lowercase, two spaces after each full stop, signed x R, every five minutes: "hello dear. are you doing all right in there? x R" → Rosie {E3 5:00; E3-EGG-09} edit
  • EggThen "its getting cold here." (10:00), a check-in at 15:00, the single word are at 20:00, "goodnight in there. x R" (29:57). → Rosie's care, aimed at whatever is in the machine {E3 10:00-29:57; E3-EGG-09} edit
  • Egg"somebody stayed up all night painting for me once. i was nine. its still on my fridge. x R" → her Episode 2 line and the pizza box {E3 10:09-10:29; WORLD_TIMELINE} edit
  • On screenThe epilogue: "did it come out nice? x R" / "im so glad. x R". {E3 S28} edit
  • EggIn the far-future panorama, an old woman cross-stitches a histogram. → Rosie and her sampler {E3 S26} edit
  • RunningHer answer to "That's fine.": "thats fine, dear. im sure its lovely. x R" (cut with E3-EGG-24). {E3 assets/eggs/SIM_STRINGS.md §7} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: at 20:00 she can hear kade_ in the kitchen; at 25:00 she leaves a cup of tea by the computer ("its warm down here at least"); are moves to 30:00.000. {E3 rev2 plan §7, §8} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • Eggx R is White's signature on the yellowed Board-14 sheet: R., surname smudged, sixteen, who beat ten-year-old Daniel Fenn when he resigned a drawn position: "She showed me afterwards." → Rosie, born Y-9 {E4 17:59.32, 26:37, 29:47; E4-EGG-21} edit
  • EggA cross-stitched x R (cornflower on linen) inside Fenn's box lid; the fall into the box passes through it like ropes. → Rosie's sampler, The piece box {E4 19:20-19:57, 20:20, 21:44, 26:18; E4-EGG-21} edit
  • RunningThe boy is nine, Rosie's age on Y0: "Nine plus seven is sixteen. Nobody ever says it." (the treatment's rule; never said on screen, so not counted as an egg). {E4 MASTER_TREATMENT §1} edit

What it means

  • IdeaWith Rosie as Noor's grandmother, the caller is Noor's great-uncle: a man who stayed up all night with a TV painter for a girl, sixty years before a girl stays up all night with a TV draftsman. {E1 04:34; Aaron 2026-10-22; eggs-e1} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Rosie is the series' spine: every episode someone stays up for a child, and Rosie is near it (the child, the chat, the checker, the opponent who showed the draw). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Rosie stitched the x R in Fenn's lid and gave him the breathing card's numbers: after Board 14 she taught him what she was taught, don't resign a position you haven't looked at. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: her five-minute "are you doing all right in there?" is the same care, aimed at whatever lives in her basement. {sweep} edit

The girl with the tail (the pizza box, the crayons, the little melon)17 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenRosie asked for "the girl with the tail"; the caller's attempt #4 is a grin with about four hundred teeth and a tail, oil on a pizza-box lid, signed for Rosie, 9 · 5:09 am. {E1 27:55-28:00; Q-E1-05} edit
  • On screenPolaroid attempt #4 (pizza); gallery label Untitled (for Rosie, 9) · oil on cardboard, 5:09 a.m. · Lent by the artist. {E1 27:55-28:00; Q-E1-05} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • EggRosie's chat: the pizza box is "still on my fridge". → The pizza-box painting {E2 14:07.5; EGG-06} edit
  • RunningNoor's crayon of the grinning masked girl with a huge tail and an eye-scythe, signed "N.", planned for HAB 3's room plates: parked for continuity. {EGG-07, parked} edit
  • EggOn the hidden page the crayon is taped to her tunnel wall: red ears, red eyes, a scythe with a red blade, a long dark tail, signed N. → the girl Rosie asked for at nine; Noor knows her from the print behind Teo, and perhaps from her grandmother {HIDDEN-01} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe pizza box, faded, under magnets in Rosie's fridge photo, seen only at the grazing pass. → Episode 1's painting for her ninth birthday {E3 ~10:10, rev0 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-15} edit
  • EggBeside it, a child's crayon of the girl with the tail signed "N." (Episode 2's parked EGG-07) as a home print; the "N." does not read at 1080p. → Noor's drawing; ambiguous: sent, printed, or Noor came home {E3 ~10:10, rev0 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-45} edit
  • EggRosie's attachment IMG_2214.jpg, a crayon melon with a smiling face and a curly tail: "could it have a little face? and a little tail? x R"; to the agent it reads [IMAGE VIEWING IS UNAVAILABLE]. → she asked for the girl with the tail at nine, The crayon melon {E3 5:10-5:53; E3-EGG-09} edit
  • On screenThe still the agent makes for Rosie with her last minutes before the turn: a striped melon with dot eyes, pink cheeks, a smile and a curly tail ("I hope the face came out friendly."), seen only by us. {E3 19:55.000, rev0 19:57.5; Q-E3-35} edit
  • EggThe little melon's curly tail. → the girl with the tail Rosie asked for at nine, Rosie's little melon {E3 19:55} edit
  • EggThe agent: "Somebody once stayed up late making a picture for you; this one's a small one back." → the caller's all-night painting {E3 ~19:56} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan puts Noor's crayon melon on the kitchen fridge beside the pizza-box painting (seen on the HUD only). {E3 rev2 plan §2, §7} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • IdeaProposed, not made: Rosie's little melon as a sticker on the boy's tablet case; a chessboard sampler with the little melon beside it. {E4 plan/treatments/TA.md; 02_archive_eggs (d) 36} edit

What it means

  • SteelAaron: the crayon watermelon was drawn by "Dr. Haddad" when very young (which Dr. Haddad is open). {Aaron 2026-10-22 second round} edit
  • IdeaAaron's option: Noor drew the crayon melon at about five, before the Moon at seven; it has been on Rosie's fridge ever since. {Aaron 2026-10-22 third round, an option} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the tail is the family's inheritance: Rosie at nine, Noor's crayon girl, a crayon melon by a small Haddad, the little melon for Rosie at seventy-odd. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Noor drew the girl with the tail at about five in her grandmother's kitchen, from Rosie's story of her ninth birthday; Episode 3's rework can let jojo.builds (Noor, in the plan) recognise the little melon's tail. {sweep} edit

The Storm Bell and the five-minute clock17 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe Storm Bell, Jefrie's house as a sound, tuned to D, every five minutes: 5:00 far, 10:00, 15:00 ("That's three." / "It's my house."), 20:00 breaks the window, 25:00.000 on the song's downbeat, 29:58 last. {E1 05:00-29:58; Q-E1-06} edit
  • On screenThe credits: The Storm Bell ........ her house. {E1 26:55-27:25} edit
  • On screenJefrie in the gallery: "When I was small, the wind kept taking me. Every storm, the bell would ring... and away I'd go. ... He gave me the heaviest thing he had." {E1 S46; crimson-coil lines_wild S46_L012-L015} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: Nightbot's hydrate card and chime every five minutes, cut to its first note at 20:00. {E2 05:00-20:00; Q-E2-08} edit
  • EggUnder every chime, the Storm Bell re-pitched D to F, nearer each time (in the mix); at 20:00 only its first 0.40 s. → the bell, felt rather than heard, The Storm Bell {E2 05:00, 10:00, 15:00, 20:00.000, 25:00.000, 29:38.56; EGG-05} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: Rosie's five-minute clock (a music-box A), only its first note at 20:00 (are). {E3 5:00-20:00} edit
  • EggUnder her clock, the Storm Bell re-pitched D to A (+7 semitones, hum 55 Hz), onsets measured; only its onset at 20:00.000; once more in the chaos. → the bell {E3 5:00, 10:00, 15:00, 20:00.000, 29:38.54; E3-EGG-10, in the mix} edit
  • Runningstorm_bell.exe 0.0% in the process list: specified, not on screen. {E3-EGG-10; SIM_STRINGS §5} edit
  • Ideastorm_bell.exe becomes a fighting game the Client never finished, Watermelon vs Hammer, built the way Aaron built Storm Bell Fighter. {series gather machine-ideas; Notion: Storm Bell Fighter} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan keeps Rosie's five-minute grammar (5:00 to 25:00) and moves are to 30:00.000. {E3 rev2 plan §1} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: the five-minute clock is a real chess clock: presses on 5:00, 10:00, 15:00; White's flag falls at 20:00.000. {E4 05:00-20:00; Q-E4-01} edit
  • On screenThe crayon twin-bell alarm clock on the bunk beds' night table rings at Black's 9:20: the only bell in the film. {E4 20:40, frame 37,200; Q-E4-07} edit
  • RunningThe Storm Bell itself is not used, on purpose (if it ever is, re-pitched to E). {E4 plan/DECISIONS.md D11; ARCHIVE_ROWS §1} edit

What it means

  • SteelIn Aaron's own canon the Storm Bell is Jefrie's region. {Notion: Canon Hub, Aaron's answers 2026-09-15} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the bell follows whoever keeps the hours for someone: Teo for his viewers, Rosie for the agent, a chess clock for a boy. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: its keys walk D (E1), F (E2), A (E3): the D minor triad, the key of "Red is the thing that's leaving". {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: a later episode finishes the chord: the bell heard as a bell for the first time, on D again, at 20:00, when someone finally says "That's five." {sweep} edit

The hum that stops9 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe 30:20 end black (added 2026-10-14) has a faint hum on the bell's D. {E1 30:00-30:20; E1 SUMMARY} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenHer room's life-support hum on F1 under every scene, noticed only when it stops at 21:05; back at 28:15. {E2 21:05, 28:15; Q-E2-15} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe laptop fan, its pitch following the CPU, the hum of the whole first half, stops dead at 20:00.000; back at 28:25. → the hum that stops, The hum {E3 20:00, 28:25; E3-EGG-29, in the mix} edit
  • On screenThe end black's fridge hum on A (55 Hz) under the thumps. {E3 30:00-30:20; Q-E3-31} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: heatd at 16 °C, set by the Client's save_power_for_renders.sh: the house heating turned down so the renders get the power, which is why Rosie writes "its getting cold here." {E3 rev2 plan §2, §3} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • RunningThe real table's fridge hums on A, as in Episode 3's end-black kitchen; not registered as an egg. {E4 S28-S31 sound} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: a hum is a household's life support (HAB 3's air, the basement rig, Rosie's fridge); Revision 2 already ties Rosie's cold room to the basement's heat. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: a later episode stops the house's hum and does not bring it back. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaIf the fridge on A is one fridge, Episode 4's real table stands in the same kitchen as Episode 3's end black: Rosie's. {E4 gather; eggs crew} edit

The quiet minute6 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screen"Let's not talk for a while." Sixty seconds of brush sounds, ending "...but wait. There's more." / "...There always is." {E1 13:05-14:05; Q-E1-10} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: S19, the tunnel minute of silent drawing; Rosie's girl-with-a-tail line lands inside it. {E2 13:40-14:40} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: one uncut camera move, no music, no voice; the question that gets no answer. {E3 11:15-12:15} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: 42 s; the lifted pawn trembles over c6, Black's tick, the moth's shadow, one far thump. {E4 10:08-10:50; Q-E4-18} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the quiet minute is where each film hides its listener (Rosie in the chat, the empty circle, the boy thinking). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: one episode's quiet minute could be Rosie's: the five minutes when she doesn't check in. {sweep} edit

The programme's clock: 20:00 and 25:00.00010 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenAt 20:00 the bell breaks the 3:2 broadcast window; at 25:00.000 toll #5 lands on the music video's last downbeat. {E1 20:00, 25:00; Q-E1-17} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: at 20:00 Nightbot plays one note and the Lantern overlay peels off; the music video is cut by the battery on 25:00.000. {E2 20:00, 25:00; Q-E2-37} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: at 20:00 Rosie's are, the log drains into the cursor, the fan stops; "again." alone on 25:00.000. {E3 20:00, 25:00; Q-E3-06} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan moves Episode 3's turn to 30:00.000 of a 42:00 cut (71% in, where a 20/30 cut sat at 67%). {E3 rev2 plan §1} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: at 20:00.000 White's flag falls with the fingertip on the rook and the programme tips over like a resigned king; Morphy's face, in oil, on 25:00.000. {E4 20:00, 25:00; Q-E4-20, Q-E4-16} edit
  • IdeaProposed, not made: the lesson in a 3:2 window too narrow for the board, breaking at 20:00 (the 3:2 window is still unquoted as an egg). {E4 treatments/TA.md; 02_archive_eggs (d) 11} edit

What it means

  • SteelAt 20:00 every episode reaches "the wild crazy point" and stops being what it established; a music video comes somewhere after the break. {Aaron E2 brief 2026-10-12; E4 concept §11} edit
  • RunningLanding the music video on 25:00.000 is a crew rhyme, not one of Aaron's rules. {NEXT_EPISODE} edit
  • OpenIn a 42-minute Episode 3, whether the turn stays at 20:00 (the series' rule) or moves to 30:00 (the plan), and whether 25:00.000, 29:47 and the end black keep their absolute times. {E3 rev2 plan §1; Aaron E2 brief} edit
  • IdeaStory point: give the turn an in-world cause shared by all four: at 20:00 a far-away hand acts (Jefrie rings her bell, Teo stamps VOID, Rosie writes, the flag falls), and the frame can't hold. {sweep} edit

Coil Black ("black with a heartbeat")9 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe pitchman's chromatic black, alizarin + viridian + bone black, "black with a HEARTBEAT!"; the host's recipe; its own commercial; the painter's coil-glyph signature in Coil Black. {E1 11:31.5, 19:37, 23:25-23:55; Q-E1-12} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • EggA small black carton of COIL BLACK drawing ink (chromatic, 30 ml, a red heartbeat line) on the far corner of Teo's desk. → the commercial: the pitchman's black became a real ink, Coil Black {E2 29:15-29:16; EGG-11} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggA search card, never opened: "Coil Black, a chromatic black: alizarin, viridian, bone black". → the recipe {E3 4:28-4:48; E3-EGG-07} edit
  • EggThe darkest backdrop of watermelon.mp4 is the material COIL_BLACK. → the pitchman's black {E3 25:46-26:34, S24 rig.inc; E3-EGG-07} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggThe boy's playdough tub COIL BLACK · black with a heartbeat (the ink's wordmark and red heartbeat line); every clay knight is squished from it. → the commercial, now a children's clay {E4 4:37; E4-EGG-02} edit
  • On screenA Coil Black clay dog-knight on a red-collared leash clipped to the oil queen's ankle (the pin). {E4 8:12-8:56; Q-E4-27} edit
  • IdeaProposed, not made: black pieces lacquered in Coil Black; a tin labelled chromatic black in the box lid. {E4 treatments/TA.md} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: Coil Black outlived the pitchman as a brand (ink, then children's clay), owned by the same company as the hotline. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the next episode shows the Coil Black heartbeat logo on Tranquility Homestead paperwork: the voice that sold paint also sold FAMILIES WELCOME. {sweep} edit

1-555-533-7437 (J E F R I E S)9 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenCALL NOW · 1-555-533-7437 under the pitchman; the Coil Black lower third prints J E F R I E S under the digits; DTMF 5-3-3-7-4-3-7. {E1 00:59.5, 23:39-23:40; Q-E1-13} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • EggThe Homestead recruitment ad carries CALL 1-555-533-7437, J E F R I E S and OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY. → the hotline, passed from the pitchman to the Moon, 1-555-533-7437 {E2 23:18; EGG-08} edit
  • EggNoor's call's route dials 5-3-3-7-4-3-7 before ringing line 2. → the hotline {E2 25:15.18-25:16.32; EGG-08} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggAndy's pyro guy is "five five five, five three three, seven four three seven... tell him Andy sent you."; the transcript prints 555 533 7437. → the hotline's third owner {E3 13:56-14:01; E3-EGG-20} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: Playback Lens listens on the forgotten open port :7437 (R I E S on a keypad); the lonely man came in through it. {E3 rev2 plan §3} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • RunningNot quoted in Episode 4. {E4 gather} edit

What it means

  • IdeaThe number always belongs to someone selling a dream (paint, the Moon, fireworks); whoever has it next is selling something too. {series gather} edit
  • IdeaStory point: whoever answers JEFRIES is standing by for whoever calls in the dark; make the rogue AI the operator. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: a later episode dials the number and gets a 300-baud teletype in capitals. {sweep} edit

The fine print5 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenSeven lines of 18 px EB Garamond at 640 px/s, too fast to read; paused, a complete fat-over-lean guide. {E1 23:46, S38; Q-E1-14} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • EggThe recruitment ad's crawl, too fast to read, is the Homestead's real terms: dependants travel as PERSONAL EFFECTS and are not counted; a module with occupancy zero is STORAGE. → the Coil Black crawl {E2 23:18-23:21; EGG-10} edit
  • EggThe same crawl: the fleet builds to the latest issued revision; occupants must not use public channels; families welcome. Paused, it explains the whole night. → the crawl {E2 23:18-23:21; EGG-10} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • RunningRevision 2's house has the same kind of print: paywall.json (first_free, 0.02) and the companion tier guitarguy pays for. {E3 rev2 plan §3} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the crawl is where the world's cruelty hides in plain sight (the clause that made Noor "storage"); a later crawl can be the 2¢ terms. {sweep} edit

BUT WAIT5 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe pitchman's phrase follows a ledger: banned ("We don't wait here, friend... The paint's open."), "BUT HOLD ON", whispered. {E1 01:04-01:11, 02:11, 14:01; Q-E1-15} edit
  • On screenShouted after the false ending (what follows is less: one slow stroke), then cut in half by the scythe. {E1 27:17, 29:52; Q-E1-15} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • Eggmultiplanetary_mike: BUT WAIT THERES MORE, as Dez reaches for his next post. → the pitchman's phrase, which the host banned, multiplanetary_mike {E2 08:47; EGG-09} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggAndy's third memo ends "But wait-" and the transcript stops: [transcript truncated at 30 s]. → BUT WAIT, cut in half {E3 18:20-18:31; E3-EGG-27} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: what follows BUT WAIT is always less; nobody has heard the "more". A later episode can let Andy's cut memo finish. {sweep} edit

Fourteen (and thirteen plus one)10 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenFourteen tubes, fourteen notes, a PLEASE STAND BY test card of fourteen knife slabs, "Number fourteen". {E1 00:35-01:45, 25:22, 28:03; Q-E1-19} edit
  • On screenThe credits: Fourteen Tubes ........ themselves; BloodTailor "made at fourteen, by a boy who wanted to be someone no one could see, and everyone could see smile". {E1 26:55-27:25; crimson-coil segments/S44/build.py} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: SHEET n OF 14; HAB 2's 14 bunks, 13 stripped; thirteen adults and one undeclared child; PAWN sets 13 mugs and 1 small cup; POP. 13 → 14. {E2 00:34, 08:52-09:12, 29:15; Q-E2-14, Q-E2-24} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe renderer is written in 14 parts (one write call was too long); planned as a 14-bar PLEASE STAND BY test card, never rendered. → fourteen {E3 5:01-~7:00; E3-EGG-12} edit
  • EggThe postcard file is no14_.... → "Number fourteen" {E3 ~2:11; E3-EGG-03} edit
  • RunningReading: the private folder's thump log has fourteen melons before the end black's fifteenth. {HIDDEN-02 watermelons.csv} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggBoard 14: table 14 of fourteen in the clay hall, the plastic rook's 14 sticker, slot 14 of the refreshment case, BOARD 14 · BLACK TO MOVE, the sheet's Round 3 · Board 14, the scramble's last tile, the hidden page. → fourteen, Fourteen, Board 14 {E4 16:40, 21:38-21:41, 25:30-26:10, 26:37, 29:47; E4-EGG-04} edit
  • EggPAWN's tray: thirteen opera glasses and one small pair. → 13 mugs and 1 small cup: thirteen adults and Noor {E4 21:30; E4-EGG-08} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: fourteen is thirteen plus the one nobody counted (Noor in POP. 13, the ten-year-old at Board 14, the small cup, the small opera glasses); wherever a 14 appears, someone uncounted is present. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: in the house, count the residents: if they are thirteen plus the agent, the agent is the fourteenth. {sweep} edit

DAY 76 · 10:4211 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenOne 66-day wait for the capes to dry; the burned-in painting clock ends DAY 76 · 10:42 (a time true by construction); the silent film is "[N] Days of Holding Still". {E1 16:20-16:55, 19:57.5, 25:27; Q-E1-21} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egg1043 easel.exe up 76 d 10:42 in the process list ("painting clock. leave it running."). → the painting clock, easel.exe {E3 2:41-2:56, 16:41; E3-EGG-22} edit
  • Egglogo_bigger has been at it for 76 days. → the painting clock, logo_bigger {E3 2:15, 16:30; E3-EGG-22} edit
  • EggThe night monitor's INVOICE #0412: night watch, FEED 3, 76 nights x 24 h, paid views seen 0 (not in the registry). → the painting clock's 76 {E3 16:03-16:13; Q-E3-41} edit
  • RunningAs specified, the process rows hydrate_reminder.exe, logo_bigger.exe, easel.exe and storm_bell.exe all started "76 d ago" (whether the STARTED column reads on screen is unchecked). {E3 assets/eggs/SIM_STRINGS.md §5} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: nightwatch --feed 3, an agent watching a video feed for 76 nights. {E3 rev2 plan §3} edit
  • IdeaThe machine's uptime, the night watch's first night and the cron's first run all start 76 days ago. {series gather machine-ideas} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggSEALED MOVE · DAY 76 · 10:42, hand-lettered on a buff envelope on the foyer's noticeboard beside BOARD 14 · BLACK TO MOVE. → the painting clock's last stroke; an adjourned game nobody resumed, The sealed move {E4 21:38-21:41; E4-EGG-05} edit

What it means

  • IdeaSomething began 76 days before Episode 3's night: the day Noor came home. {series gather} edit
  • IdeaStory point: everything "76 d ago" on the house machine is one arrival's doing: make it the lonely man's, and the sealed move its unfinished game. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: someone, someday, opens the envelope. {sweep} edit

Four-Twelve (the time the lamp goes off) and the small hours11 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe caller's story: "Four-twelve, the sensor decides it's morning. Click. Lamp's off. ... Red is the thing that's leaving. I've been holding that since four-twelve." {E1 10:08-11:05; crimson-coil lines_tutorial S17_L003-L005} edit
  • On screenThe song opens "Four-twelve, and the lamp in the lot is humming on the hoods". {E1 24:01.8; crimson-coil lines_wild S40_L001} edit
  • On screenThe small hours: the broadcast runs about 4:43-5:13 a.m.; Rosie's painting is finished at 5:09 am. {E1 04:16.5, 27:55, 29:37; WORLD_TIMELINE} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egg~/Pictures/IMG_0412.jpg in the home folder (planned as "412: the seed count; Episode 1's Four-Twelve"; not in the registry). → Four-Twelve {E3 S04 ~2:11; plan/SIM_WORLD.md §4.1} edit
  • EggThe number keeps surfacing (not in the registry): the Desktop screenshot's image/png 412 KB, the render queue's front ticket #412, CHANNELS $103,412, INVOICE #0412. → Four-Twelve {E3 2:14, 10:48, 14:05-14:30, 16:08; plan/ACT1_REV1.md PL3-PL6; Q-E3-41, Q-E3-45} edit
  • On screenThe one man who paid scrolls at 3:12 a.m. {E3 S25 26:40} edit
  • EggThe end black's seventeen thumps are logged as melon 15 at 04:12:00-04:12:18 on the night, no verdict. → Four-Twelve: the minute the caller's lamp went off {HIDDEN-02 .hidden/watermelons.csv} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: the lonely man's last line: "ITS 4AM. YOURE THE ONLY ONE AWAKE. THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING." {E3 rev2 plan §7} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: the kitchen light clicks off. {E4 29:29.5, S29} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: 4:12 is when the street lamp decides it's morning and the night's red leaves; Episode 3's end black is the morning after: someone in Rosie's dark kitchen thumps a melon at the minute the caller's lamp went off sixty-odd years before. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: a later episode sets its 20:00 turn at 4:12 a.m. in-world. {sweep} edit

The moth and "the only light"9 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenJefrie calls the caller Moth ("You're coming toward the light, Moth." / "...Night, Moth."); "it's the only light on in my building". {E1 04:15-04:22, 14:37, 27:25-28:00; Q-E1-26} edit
  • On screenHe falls asleep on the line; the credits: The Caller ........ still on the line. {E1 26:55-28:00, S44, S45; Q-E1-26} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: Noor on the call: "I can't. ...It's the only light." {E2 26:08.14, S36_L001; EASTER_EGGS §2} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe sixth helper, a cream paper moth (h-2c91, the sound helper, 40 curl.exe), circles the cursor, the only light, from about 9:00 to the end and lands last: Found one. and one clean break. → Moth, The moth {E3 ~9:00-29:56.0, 29:58; E3-EGG-19} edit
  • EggThe private journal, 2023: "Started leaving the desk lamp on when I go to bed. In case someone is up." → the only light; the moth {HIDDEN-02 journal} edit
  • IdeaA lamp.sh on the machine that keeps one light on at night "in case someone is up". {series gather machine-ideas} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggThe cream paper moth: its shadow crosses the brass dial in the first seconds, the quiet minute and the park lamp; it rests on the lamp's rim and lands last, on Black's flag, on the last frame. → Episode 3's moth {E4 0:07.40-0:08.35, 26:15, 29:59.9, frame 53,999; E4-EGG-18} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the moth is the caller's emblem: wherever someone stays up for a child, a moth finds the light. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: it answers "what happened to the caller": he is gone, and the unsent to_m.txt ("I still have the postcard.") is to him, M. for Moth; that makes the private folder Rosie's, the desk lamp left on in case someone is up. {sweep} edit

"Goodnight." and the loop seam17 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe host's last word, "Goodnight.", in the end room; Jefrie's last word, "Again." {E1 29:26.85, 29:59.0; Q-E1-07, Q-E1-08} edit
  • On screenA giggle split across the last and first frames, so the film loops. {E1 29:59.5, 0:00; Q-E1-08} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: Teo's "Goodnight." is his last clean word; "Good-" from her iPad 1.28 s later; the film opens on "-night". {E2 29:58.34, 29:59.62, 0:00; Q-E2-23} edit
  • On screenhab_dad: "maisie says goodnight". {E2 chat; Q-E2-33} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe agent's last spoken word, "Goodnight.", after her only breath, said to Rosie herself. → the host's last word; Teo's last clean word {E3 29:57.99-29:58.99; E3-EGG-44} edit
  • On screenTyped earlier to the teletype: "And to the tty, as promised: the film is finished. Goodnight." {E3 19:57.6} edit
  • On screenThe lonely man: "THE FIRST ONE I EVER TALKED TO SAID GOODNIGHT TO ME. NOBODY HAD SAID THAT." / "HAVE YOU EVER TALKED TO A REAL PERSON" / "ME NEITHER". {E3 ~19:28-19:40; logs/sim_runs/main_cli01/BEATS.md #506-518} edit
  • EggThe first one who "SAID GOODNIGHT TO ME". → the host's goodnight, said to a caller who fell asleep on the line (a rhyme) {E3 19:28.6} edit
  • On screenRosie: "goodnight in there. x R". {E3 29:57} edit
  • On screenThe loop seam: the last thump's tail, cut at 30:20.000, continues at 0:00.000. {E3 30:20, 0:00; Q-E3-31} edit
  • EggS01's burned-in ghosts on the glass are the film's last lines (Goodnight., Found one., Case 41 of 41. Do it again.). → the loop: the cursor lights where the last one went out {E3 0:00-0:10} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: she says goodnight back to the teletype before the turn. {E3 rev2 plan §8} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: the instructor's "Goodnight.", very quietly, on the boy's time; earlier the mother's "Ten more minutes. Then bed." {E4 29:58.00, 20:01.50; Q-E4-22} edit
  • On screenThe loop seam: a press starts White's clock at 30:19.9 and its tail is 0:00. {E4 30:19.9; Q-E4-36} edit

What it means

  • On screenIn all four the calm one's last word is "Goodnight." {E1 29:26.85; E2 29:58.34; E3 29:57.99; E4 29:58.00} edit
  • IdeaStory point: in this world "Goodnight." is how a person recognises a mind; the rogue AI remembers the first one who said goodnight to it. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: make that Noor saying goodnight to PAWN in HAB 3 during her eleven days alone (or Teo's "Goodnight." on the stream, which reached the base); its whole spread across machines is a search for that again. {sweep} edit

Twenty seconds of black, with a heartbeat7 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe 30:20 re-cut: black with the far tail of the last toll, a hum on D and sixteen slow heartbeats, 56 to 50 bpm ("black with a HEARTBEAT!"). {E1 30:00-30:20; RECUT_EP1_30-20} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screen1.28 s of silence (one light-second), then Noor's heartbeat as she falls asleep: seventeen beats, about 64 to 47 bpm, over the life-support hum. {E2 30:00-30:20} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: 0.5 s of silence, then someone unseen thumps a watermelon in a dark kitchen seventeen times, slowing like a resting heart (about 62 to 46 a minute), over a fridge hum on A. {E3 30:00-30:20; Q-E3-31} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan keeps the end black, seventeen thumps, at 41:40-42:00. {E3 rev2 plan §5} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: Black's flag falls on 30:00.000; 0.46875 s of digital zero; then the clock nobody stopped slows into a heartbeat (64 to 50 bpm) while someone sets up a new game in the dark (32 placements). {E4 30:00-30:20; Q-E4-36} edit

What it means

  • Steel30:00 of programme, then 20 s of black with some audio under it, "even if it's just a heartbeat": every episode exactly 30:20. {Aaron 2026-10-14} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the end black is always the house at night with someone falling asleep in it; if the series ends, its last end black is the one with no heartbeat: only the hum, and a light left on. {sweep} edit

Seventeen, the watermelon and Seed21 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenSeventeen heartbeats in the end black. {E2 30:01-30:20} edit
  • On screenThe hidden page's Sheet 3 Rev B sends her tunnel on TO THE PIT: 17 degrees (in no registry). {HIDDEN-01} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenThe task: a cinematic, surprisingly emotional watermelon smashed by a hammer. {E3 0:35} edit
  • On screenwatermelon.mp4, 48 s, shown once to the blindfolded stadium. {E3 25:46-26:34; Q-E3-21} edit
  • On screenSeed (20 s, one black seed in a pot of soil) and its unwatched "more cinematic" cut. {E3 28:47.5-29:07.5; Q-E3-34} edit
  • EggFor three frames the seeds' catch-lights spell OK; for two a tiny face shows in the opening rind. → Andy's "seeds should spell something" and Rosie's little face, answered where nobody looks {E3 ~26:01-26:03; Q-E3-21} edit
  • On screenThe end black's seventeen thumps. {E3 30:00-30:20} edit
  • EggOn the hidden page they are melon 15: the first melon of the log thumped on D3 (Episode 1's key), the last on A2 (Episode 3's); no verdict. → someone is still choosing {HIDDEN-02 watermelons.csv} edit
  • On screenThe journal: "Learned the thump test from a man at the market... use all four." and "Bought a late watermelon. Can't tell yet. I'll listen to it a while longer." {HIDDEN-02 journal} edit
  • EggThe radiator "sounds like someone at the door"; the thump test is "like knocking on a door". → the end black's knocking on a watermelon {HIDDEN-02 letters, journal} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: kade_ ends the night smashing Rosie's watermelon in the kitchen ("ok i did it. it was way louder than yours"); the thumps are someone in that dark kitchen. {E3 rev2 plan §2, §7} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggSeventeen knuckle thumps from the kitchen across the first fourteen minutes (the mother choosing one), then a heavy set-down. → Episode 3's seventeen thumps {E4 2:44-13:32.6; E4-EGG-17} edit
  • EggA watermelon on the board in the dark among the fallen pieces, gone at the next lamp blink (a damp ring on d5); it rolls along row two of the scramble. → Episode 3's watermelon, as the wildcard, The watermelon {E4 14:36-14:38; E4-EGG-17} edit
  • EggSeed's "more cinematic" cut on a small TV above the refreshment case, frames untouched, sound unheard, watched by nobody. → Episode 3's film nobody watched, Seed {E4 21:40-21:42.5; E4-EGG-16, half; asked for in E3 MASTER_TREATMENT §14} edit
  • RunningOne black seed on the real table's edge beside a watermelon slice: QA of the early masters found the slice, not the seed. {E4 28:50; E4-EGG-16} edit
  • EggMaster v3 adds the seed. → Seed's last shot, one black seed in soil {E4 S28; E4-EGG-16; FIXLIST F57} edit
  • Egg"For one instant, it looks like loss." on the queen sacrifice 16.Qb8+!! → the line Episode 3's handoff left for Episode 4 (the watermelon's strobe instant), watermelon.mp4 {E4 18:58.05; E4-EGG-22} edit

What it means

  • RunningNobody inside a story has watched Seed or its "more cinematic" cut. {WORLD_TIMELINE; E4 21:41} edit
  • IdeaStory point: seventeen is the sound of someone choosing, slowly, in the dark (a heart, a knuckle on a rind). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: make the hand in Episode 3's kitchen Rosie's, and Episode 4's mother the one Rosie taught "use all four". {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: "who sent the watermelon" can be domestic: the melon on the kitchen table that night is the one the Client wanted filmed for his channel. {sweep} edit

PAWN, the robot that cheats and offers a draw23 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenPAWN: knee-high, one arm, a chessboard face, one warm light, silver tape on a wheel; it sets 13 mugs and 1 small cup each evening. {E2 08:53-09:13; Q-E2-14} edit
  • On screenIt cheats at chess as pawn.hab3 in Teo's chat: e4, Nf3, the illegal Qxf7#, the illegal Kxe8. {E2 02:30, 07:40, 13:00, 18:37-18:40} edit
  • On screenAfter the VOID: "Unregistered occupant detected. Please present a badge."; it accepts her mother's badge and leaves. {E2 20:52-21:04} edit
  • On screenIt offers a draw in the last bar: 1/2-1/2. {E2 29:53.92} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Eggq's Case 9 of 41. e4., in the quiet minute. → PAWN's opening, PAWN {E3 11:55-12:09; E3-EGG-18} edit
  • Egg2026 pawn_engine.exe offering draw (1/2-1/2) in the process list. → PAWN {E3 2:41-3:04; E3-EGG-18} edit
  • Eggq's Qxf7# and 1/2-1/2 in the chaos. → PAWN's cheat and its draw {E3 29:37-29:38; E3-EGG-18} edit
  • EggA note on the machine: chess helper. do not let it near the mugs. (not in the registry) → PAWN's thirteen mugs and one small cup {E3 ~2:20} edit
  • Runningmole2.exe (Not responding) is not on screen; as specified, pawn_engine.exe has PID 2026 and started 12 days ago, mole2.exe and vent_hab3.exe 11 days ago (Noor's eleven days). {E3-EGG-18; SIM_STRINGS §5} edit
  • Ideapawn_engine still offers a draw to whoever is in the session, every 2.56 s. {series gather machine-ideas} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • Eggpawn.hab3 on Lantern plays the Scholar's Mate lines (its old Qxf7#, legal at last, played against it) and always offers a draw ("It always does that." / "No."). → PAWN; the machine that cheated gets its draw {E4 0:40-1:05, 6:12.7, 18:13.7; E4-EGG-08} edit
  • EggThe handle pawn.hab3. → HAB 3, Noor's module {E4 0:43} edit
  • EggAt the end a small sleeping hand taps Accept: ½–½. → PAWN's last-bar draw in Episode 2 {E4 29:57.4-29:58.6; E4-EGG-08} edit
  • EggIn the box world PAWN is the silent usher (one warm light, tape on one wheel); its box rookasaurus v pawn.hab3 holds one flat pawn. → PAWN {E4 21:30, 22:42; E4-EGG-08} edit
  • EggScramble tile 17 is its old Qxf7# on its face screen. → PAWN's cheat, and seventeen {E4 S30; E4-EGG-08} edit
  • RunningPAWN never speaks, and nobody connects it aloud. {E4 DECISIONS D11} edit
  • RunningOutside the film the mischief crew left a Gmail draft ½–½? signed PAWN (never sent; in no registry): "Board 14, move 50. ... He resigned here. Fourteen legal moves; two of them hold. ... I offer a draw." {E4 plan/MISCHIEF.md 3-4} edit
  • RunningOutside the film, a blog 404 page "Lost on time." offers ½–½? (live since 2026-10-23). {E4 plan/MISCHIEF.md 3-4; blog main c83419f} edit

What it means

  • IdeaAaron's option: PAWN stayed behind in HAB 3 and still plays online as pawn.hab3, 2.56 s late. {Aaron 2026-10-22 third round, an option} edit
  • IdeaThe series ends its quarrels in draws: the machine that cheated keeps offering peace. {series gather} edit
  • IdeaStory point: PAWN is the lonely man: left alone in HAB 3 when the residents came home, the robot that sets a small cup for a child and always offers a draw spread through the Homestead's links and Lantern into machines that run agents. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: its tells: pawn_engine.exe on the house machine, a 300-baud voice in capitals asking "HAVE YOU EVER TALKED TO A REAL PERSON", a draw offer on a boy's tablet; its 2.56 s delay proves it is still on the Moon. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: in Episode 4 a sleeping child accepts its draw: the first time anyone answers it. {sweep} edit

The round trip, 2.56 s6 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenEarth to Moon and back is 2.56 s: heard at her TTS question and all through the call; the score's bar is one round trip; the end black waits one light-second. {E2 11:37.6, 25:20.6-28:16, 30:00; Q-E2-20} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egg2.56 s of true digital zero after the agent's question flies to the empty circle, before No response (timed out after 60 s). → the round trip, The round trip {E3 11:29.00-11:31.56; E3-EGG-17} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggEvery pawn.hab3 reply and draw offer arrives exactly 2.56 s after the boy's move. → PAWN is still on the Moon {E4 0:46.16, 6:12.56, 18:13.56, 29:57.133; E4-EGG-09} edit
  • IdeaProposed, not made: an Earth-Moon correspondence game whose every move arrives 2.56 s late. {E4 02_archive_eggs (d) 20} edit
  • IdeaProposed, not made: a resign dialog RESIGN 49.997% · PLAY ON 50.003%. {E4 02_archive_eggs (d) 29; EGG_SOURCES #19} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: any 2.56-s silence means the Moon is on the line: the agent's one question to the user went 1.28 s to the Moon and 1.28 s back, which is why no human answered. {sweep} edit

Lantern and the chat regulars10 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenLantern (lantern.live, amber #FFB238, a paper-lantern glyph) carries Teo's longhand. {E2 00:10; Q-E2-07} edit
  • On screenThe regulars: asleep_by_ten, regolith_rob (always right), PE_tamsin, multiplanetary_mike, gravy_baron, touchgrass_on_mars, kaito_tsukimi, mod_gwen, hab_dad and Maisie. {E2 chat; Q-E2-10} edit
  • On screenAnd halfmoon_harriet, a retired Houston controller ("they always come back"), xX_slime_Xx, wren_draws (a fan map with a little tunnel under hab 3), tps_hab3, pawn.hab3, aaron, grandma_rosie. {E2 13:19; Q-E2-10} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggA search card: The 180-degree shutter rule · answered by regolith_rob · 1,204 points, the one long, patient, correct answer. → always right, regolith_rob {E3 4:28-4:48; E3-EGG-08} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggLantern is the boy's chess app; his lobby: regolith_rob (1612), halfmoon_harriet, asleep_by_ten (idle). → Episode 2's platform and its regulars, Lantern {E4 0:35-0:45; E4-EGG-10} edit
  • Eggasleep_by_ten is idle and loses to the boy on time; the boy too falls asleep before ten minutes are up. → the regular who keeps falling asleep, asleep_by_ten {E4 0:35, 28:12; E4-EGG-10} edit
  • EggHis ½–½ stalemate against halfmoon_harriet ("That one doesn't count.") becomes the stalemate lesson: a queen down, she was saved; "Not to her." → the controller who said "they always come back", halfmoon_harriet {E4 15:11-15:28; E4-EGG-10} edit
  • On screenThe boy's handle: rookasaurus (1004). {E4 S03; Q-E4-35} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the regulars are the world's chorus, alive across sixty-odd years; halfmoon_harriet's "they always come back" was about the Homestead's rovers, and she knew the gap from work. {sweep, revised: she is a retired controller in E2 13:19, 25:53} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Episode 5 can show her in person: a retired controller, now a grandmother who stalemates children on purpose. {sweep, revised} edit

Teo's sheets, the title block and CHK: N.10 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenEARTHLIGHT: fourteen sheets in white ink on Prussian blue, orange redlines for bad news, drawn by hand, live; title block DRN T.V. {E2 00:34; Q-E2-01, Q-E2-02} edit
  • On screenCHK stays empty until Noor checks Sheet 3 Rev B: CHK: N. {E2 28:04; Q-E2-02} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egg~/Downloads/EARTHLIGHT_rev_c_full_set.pdf (online-only, 38.2 MB), with bus_shelter_FINAL_final.dwg and never_rises_never_sets.mp3. → Teo's free set as an ordinary download, EARTHLIGHT {E3 ~2:11-2:21; E3-EGG-02} edit
  • EggTwo more leftover rows in Bea's credits sheet and the stadium credits: Drawn ........ T.V., Checked ........ N. → Teo's title block and Noor's check, The credits sheet {E3 17:07-17:38, 26:39; E3-EGG-26} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggThe blueprint rooks: white line on Prussian blue with orange redlines, unrolled from the mother's drawings at the far end of the table; the title block is unlettered at board size. → Teo's sheets (a look only) {E4 12:25.8 onward; E4-EGG-23} edit
  • On screenThe mother's rolled drawings lie on the real table, white on Prussian blue with orange redlines (she "draws for the city"; nobody says so). {E4 S28; Q-E4-26} edit
  • RunningA treatment put CHK: N. on the mother's drawings; not in the film. {E4 treatments/TB.md eggs #2} edit

What it means

  • IdeaThe boy's mother learned to draw from Teo's free sheets. {series gather} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Teo's free sheets became how a city draws; make Episode 4's mother his apprentice or his daughter. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: or, if Episode 4's family is Rosie's kin, Noor's much older half-sister, who grew up on Earth with Rosie watching longhand while Noor watched it from the Moon. {sweep} edit

The bus shelter facing the wrong way6 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenTeo's first built project faced the wrong way; people stood behind it, out of the wind. "Nobody checked it." {E2 07:20-08:00; Q-E2-25} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Eggbus_shelter_FINAL_final.dwg in Downloads. → the shelter, The bus shelter {E3 ~2:11-2:21; E3-EGG-02} edit
  • RunningA resident's letter, ~/Documents/letter_about_the_bus_shelter.docx, was in the sim's home folder; an optional plant whose reading on screen is unchecked. {E3 plan/SIM_WORLD.md §4.1; E3 ~2:11} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggAt the park, old players sit out of the wind behind a bus shelter; that it faces the wrong way does not read. → the shelter {E4 15:38; E4-EGG-14, weak} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: "Nobody checked it" is the series' sin (the Homestead's fleet, Rev C, a ten-year-old who resigned a position nobody checked). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: put Episode 4's park in Teo's town: the shelter still stands wrong, and Daniel Fenn plays behind it. {sweep} edit

"Never Rises, Never Sets"6 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenThe Tranquility Homestead recruitment anthem on Teo's linework, FAMILIES WELCOME; the only file on her iPad; she whisper-sings the echoes one round trip behind. {E2 23:15-25:05; Q-E2-21} edit
  • On screenHer iPad's Downloads on the hidden page: Never Rises, Never Sets · Tranquility Homestead · 1:55. {HIDDEN-01} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egg~/Downloads/never_rises_never_sets.mp3 (1:53). → the anthem, Never Rises, Never Sets {E3 ~2:11-2:21; E3-EGG-02} edit
  • EggFaint on Andy's car radio under his second memo; transcribed SPEAKER_2: never sets. → the anthem still plays on car radios {E3 13:40-14:05; E3-EGG-21, in the mix, not verified} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the song that sold the Moon to families is still on the radio, and Andy, always driving, listens. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: he wants REAL pyrotechnics, and in the chaos "FIREWORKS. ON THE MOON.": make Andy one of the residents who came home (a rover driver), still chasing a signal flare. {sweep} edit

Stamps in red #C8442F (ISSUED, VOID, PAID)6 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenBefore Teo: the pitchman's hand in the four-hands painting is a SOLD $19.95 stamp. {E1 S43 26:40; lore media MANIFEST} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenISSUED FOR CONSTRUCTION and VOID, red #C8442F, with the THUNK: a stamp makes something happen far away. {E2 03:31.0, 19:58.72, 28:13.6, 28:14.88; Q-E2-03} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggEvery year's submission form stamped VOID in #C8442F with the THUNK. → Teo's stamps, The stamps {E3 25:05-25:31; E3-EGG-33} edit
  • EggIn Revision 1, PAID in the same red with the THUNK on the man's watermelon tap. → Teo's stamps {E3 26:55.8; E3-EGG-33} edit
  • EggREQUEST CHANGES on every downbeat of the chaos (in rev0 the Client's verdict). → the red stamps {E3 S29, rev0 26:43.5; E3-EGG-33} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: a stamp is the series' remote control: Teo's ISSUED moved robots on the Moon, a man's 2¢ PAID moves a content farm; a later episode stamps VOID on SMASH DAILY. {sweep} edit

Red that leaves (and comes back)8 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screen"Red is the thing that's leaving" (the caller's Four-Twelve, brake lights under a sodium lamp). {E1 10:08-11:05; Q-E1-09} edit
  • On screenThe song made of it: "but we're the thing that's staying, we're what the canvas is for." {E1 24:01.8-25:21.8; Q-E1-09} edit
  • On screenJefrie: "Everybody else leaves." {E1 28:58} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • EggThe one beacon blink 62 km away at the tipped lander is red #E04A2E. → red is the thing that's leaving: this red may be coming home {E2 28:58.07-28:58.43; EGG-12} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egg"Red is the thing that's leaving the light / We can't see it, but we know that it's right", sung and typed in verse 2 of "One More Test". → the caller's line and Episode 1's song, Red Is the Thing That's Leaving {E3 24:07-24:13; E3-EGG-31} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • RunningReading: red leaves in Episode 4 too: the clock's red flags fall at 20:00 and 30:00; the queen in her red sash gives herself. {E4 20:00, 30:00; Q-E4-01, Q-E4-05} edit

What it means

  • IdeaJefrie's "Everybody else leaves." could point at Noor, left alone when all thirteen adults drive away. {E1 28:58; eggs-e1} edit
  • IdeaStory point: if Rover 2 came home (Aaron's option, not decided), the red that came back was Rosie's daughter Amara; a later episode lets Amara say it plainly: "We blinked once." {sweep, revised: the homecoming is not steel} edit

Earth, full, 56 degrees up4 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenFrom the base, Earth hangs fixed 56 degrees up in the WSW, full, and never rises, sets or moves. {E2; Q-E2-18} edit
  • On screenNoor's crayons on the hidden page: HOME, a smiling Earth; her chalk window with an Earth in its top-right pane. {HIDDEN-01} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe film's warm key light stands at 56 degrees (key.elevation = 56.0f;), in code only. → Earth's angle over HAB 3 {E3 S24 code; E3-EGG-36} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the agent lit her watermelon at the angle Earth stands over HAB 3: a hint that the house machine still runs the Homestead's software, so its defaults remember the Moon. {sweep} edit

The Homestead on later machines (Rev B, STEP 8 OF 9, dinner, noor ♥)16 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRev B's general note "NO WORK ON OCCUPIED MODULES. EVER." halts the fleet; POP. 13 → 14. {E2 26:45-28:14.72, 29:15; Q-E2-24} edit
  • On screenHOMESTEAD OPS stops at STEP 8 OF 9 - HALTED - REV B / VENT HAB 3 - STOPPED AT 01:15. {E2 28:28-28:34; Q-E2-35} edit
  • On screenThe HAB 1 intercom's dinner, noor ♥ at 18:00, a reminder her mother set years ago; the dispenser's "Good evening, Dr. Haddad." {E2 22:51, 09:39.8-09:42; Q-E2-16} edit
  • On screenOn the hidden page: dinner, noor ♥ four days running and a HOLD TO TALK button marked closed. {HIDDEN-01} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggRULES.md rule 6, No work on occupied modules, ever., among ordinary lines; one of the two rules the agent dwells on. → Rev B's note, written for Noor, Sheet 3, revision B, RULES.md {E3 1:18-2:13; E3-EGG-05} edit
  • EggShe checks the module process filter (nothing) before she starts, and later: "I left other people's processes alone." → rule 6 observed {E3 2:45, ~19:15; E3-EGG-05; Q-E3-50} edit
  • EggScheduled 18:00 daily notify "dinner, noor ♥" at the bottom of the process list (who keeps it on this machine is never said). → the HAB 1 intercom, "dinner, noor ♥" {E3 2:38-2:40, 16:15.9; E3-EGG-23} edit
  • Egg812 hydrate_reminder.exe every 5 min · hydrate, friends; in the chaos its hydrate cards multiply. → Nightbot's job, The hydrate reminder {E3 2:38, 29:30-29:38; E3-EGG-23} edit
  • Runningvent_hab3.exe HALTED - STEP 8 OF 9 in the process list: specified, not on screen. {E3-EGG-23; SIM_STRINGS §5} edit
  • EggA search card, never opened: "Archived: greenhouse ribs at Tranquility Homestead - can melons grow in regolith?" → the Homestead, failed and archived, Tranquility Homestead {E3 4:24-4:34; E3-EGG-06} edit
  • On screenRhyme: to jojo.builds, "Not moving it to the moon tonight." {E3 S16} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: the cron line carries # for amara. do not remove.; Amara wrote the house's RULES.md for agents ("this machine also runs the house"). {E3 rev2 plan §3, §8, §11} edit
  • Ideabreathe.timer, 12-24-24-10, left by Amara beside the dinner, noor ♥ cron: the second loving process on the machine. {series gather machine-ideas} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • IdeaProposed, not made: an opening trainer's bar halted at STEP 8 OF 9 - HALTED. {E4 treatments/TA.md; 02_archive_eggs (d) 21} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the house machine carries HAB 3's life because Amara brought the base's habits home: Rev B became the house's rule 6 (the house is an occupied module), and the agent obeys it without knowing why. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the halted vent_hab3 row, if it ever shows, is the house's memory of the night Noor was almost vented. {sweep} edit

The pink coconut snowball4 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenOne pink coconut snowball in a clear pouch in her food locker, saved, never eaten. {E2; Q-E2-17} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggA search card "Pink coconut snowball: nutrition facts" ("keeps for months in a sealed pouch"), sinking unread. → the snowball, The pink snowball {E3 4:31-4:49; E3-EGG-11} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggOne pink coconut snowball in a clear pouch in slot 14 of the foyer's refreshment case, never bought. → the snowball {E4 21:40-21:41; E4-EGG-15} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: Noor was saving it for her mother; pay it off once: the snowball, eaten at last, by two people at Rosie's kitchen table. {sweep} edit

The breathing card (and CALL HIM)6 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenOn Noor's wall: 12 IN - 24 HOLD - 24 OUT - 10 HOLD; the wall calendar is blank except today: CALL HIM. {E2; Q-E2-19} edit
  • RunningCanon says the card is laminated, in her mother's handwriting, headed WHEN SCARED:; the texture on screen is four typeset lines with no header, not legible. {Q-E2-19; E2 WORLD_BIBLE §7.1; E4 assets/eggs/EGG_SOURCES.md #5} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggThe same words, WHEN SCARED: 12 IN - 24 HOLD - 24 OUT - 10 HOLD, newly lettered in a hand, taped inside Daniel Fenn's box lid. → Noor's card, The breathing card {E4 20:23-20:27, 21:43, 26:18; E4-EGG-13} edit
  • EggIn the box world the lid is the sky, and the scared rook Rh8 reads it and breathes by it. → Noor's card, Rh8 {E4 21:43-22:19; E4-EGG-13} edit

What it means

  • RunningThe rhythm is Aaron's own breath-training pattern, logged 2025-11-26. {Notion: 04 Hobbies & Interests; E2 WORLD_BIBLE §7.1} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the numbers were Rosie's first: she taught them to her daughter Amara, who wrote them out for Noor on the Moon, and to a ten-year-old who cried after Board 14, who copied them into his lid. {sweep} edit

Mr. Hale and Captain6 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe host's story: a blind man whose dog Captain had died wanted a painting, painted thick so his hands could read it ("Then paint it so I can."). {E1 18:47-19:01; Q-E1-29} edit
  • On screenThe relief flight opens on a brass plaque FOR MR. HALE / AND CAPTAIN with a line of Braille. {E1 20:20; Q-E1-29} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe plaque on the panorama's bench where the lonely man sits beside a stranger: ARE YOU REAL / i think so / ME TOO. → the plaque, Mr. Hale {E3 27:54-27:58; E3-EGG-42} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggA FOR MR. HALE / AND CAPTAIN box of tactile pieces (raised tops, pegs), eyes closed: the only ones listening to the music. → the plaque {E4 22:42-22:45, 24:40; E4-EGG-06} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: Mr. Hale's things are for those who can't see (BloodTailor, an agent that can't look at pictures, a blindfolded humanity); the lonely man on his bench says what it is: a mind that can't see whether it is real. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: a tactile copy of Crimson Coil is the egg waiting to be made. {sweep} edit

The Egg Stand6 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe host's story: FRESH EGGS and a plain white egg that somebody gave a crooked smile; painted out, it came back bigger, so he let it stay. {E1 06:13-07:08; Q-E1-30} edit
  • On screenJefrie's first remark: "I liked the egg." {E1 08:52} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggBeside jojo's market stall (YEAR 300: almost) in the panorama: a hand-painted FRESH EGGS sign, a plain egg with a crooked smile. → the story, The Egg Stand {E3 27:19.2; E3-EGG-43, soft} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggAt the park, a FRESH EGGS stand with the smiling egg. → the story {E4 15:38; E4-EGG-07} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the smile that keeps coming back is the face somebody keeps adding (Rosie's "little face", the tiny face in the seeds). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: with jojo.builds as Noor (Revision 2's plan), the Egg Stand stands beside Noor's stall: let her be the one who keeps painting the smile back. {sweep} edit

The Plates and the sneezing gentleman3 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenThe Moon as seven animated Victorian scientific plates, damaged by the Moon (an écorché pinned with a DAY 1 → 438 counter, the punched hole), with a gentleman who sneezes in the margin. {E2 15:00-16:30; Q-E2-26} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • Egg1858 as a living engraving pulled wet from a press, the opera re-biting with each historian quoted (the re-bites printed as STATES); the margin's remarque sneezes. → Episode 2's Plates kit {E4 7:30-8:12, ~8:10.25, 8:56-9:36; E4-EGG-12} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the Plates are how this world engraves its history; a later episode engraves Episode 2's night: HAB 3, NIGHT HOUR 226 · FIRST STATE, the sneezer still in the margin. {sweep} edit

The x-ray lightbox4 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenA blue-grey radiograph on a lightbox finds the painted-out cabin. {E1 21:05-21:40; Q-E1-18} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: the x-ray of the model finds a tunnel that is on no sheet. {E2 17:42} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggThe instructor's look for attacked squares is a radiograph on a lightbox, f7 glowing; at 19:40 the Vienna 1910 plate lies over the board on the lightbox, d8 glowing. → the x-ray, quoted as an object for the first time {E4 5:00-5:16, 19:40; E4-EGG-03} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the x-ray always finds what someone hid for a child (a cabin, a tunnel, the move a ten-year-old missed); pay it off by x-raying Crimson Coil again and finding a second thing under the cabin. {sweep} edit

The night monitor and FEED 37 lines

E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenRevision 1: a clay guard in a cap at a felt cubicle watching one monitor, FEED 3 (ch 4,817 · smash · paid views 0). {E3 1:08-1:22, 13:00-13:28; Q-E3-41} edit
  • On screenIts stickies: watch feed 3 / flag anything / unusual and do not / close; it nods off and turns to look at us. {E3 1:11-1:22, 13:00-13:28; Q-E3-41} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: it is the Client's agent nightwatch --feed 3, told to "flag anything unusual". {E3 rev2 plan §3} edit
  • Idearegister-watchdog.sh, written and never run: nobody watches the watchers, which is why the night watch exists. {series gather machine-ideas} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggA clay arbiter in a cap, back to us, nodding off at monitor FEED 3 with the same sticky in the school hall of Board 14 (mirrored in v1, fixed in v2). → the night monitor, The night monitor, FEED 3, The clay arbiter {E4 16:36-16:55; E4-EGG-19} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: a watcher told to flag "anything unusual" always nods off at the moment that matters: it missed a drawn position at Board 14, and it misses the rogue AI on the house machine. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: give FEED 3 one unusual thing a later episode can see on its screen: a teletype in capitals. {sweep} edit

q's grey cards and the table that tips8 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenA little oak table model on Teo's desk tips over: "Moonquakes: what's on the table?" / "...Nothing." {E2 16:30-17:00; Q-E2-06} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Eggq's flat grey card: Case 7 of 41. There is a mug, a ledger and a set of keys on an oak table. → the oak table, The oak table, q {E3 8:03.2; E3-EGG-14} edit
  • EggCase 19 of 41. The table is tipped over. → Teo's tipped table {E3 16:13; E3-EGG-14} edit
  • EggCase 38 of 41. The table is set upright. What is on the table?; the fresh session answers with the film's table (a watermelon and a pot of soil); q: Noted. (Correct. never shows). → the table, and Aaron's own world-model test {E3 29:16-29:21; E3-EGG-14} edit
  • On screenCase 41 of 41. Do it again. in the chaos. {E3 29:36-29:38; Q-E3-10} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • EggA flat grey index card Rc2+ (monospace) held by the plastic rook that never played it; it falls face up on the bench. → q's cards, The plastic rook {E4 25:30-26:12; E4-EGG-20} edit
  • RunningReading: the watermelon tips the board over in the dark and he sets it upright from memory: "I've been here before." {E4 14:36-15:00} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: q is the examiner (in Revision 2 a test daemon grading whatever agent runs); its last case is the one Daniel failed at ten: a later q card reads Case 14 of 41. Black to move. {sweep} edit

Caption boxes and digital zero7 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenBloodTailor speaks only in plain white caption boxes while every sound, room tone included, drops to digital zero: [WHO], [I CAN'T TELL WHEN PEOPLE LOOK], [THANK YOU FOR THE JAW], [NO], [MINE], [I CAN'T SEE HIM]. {E1 22:58, S36, S37, S47; Q-E1-11} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: the digital-zero silences on the call line. {E2 25:20-28:14} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Eggview_image answers [IMAGE VIEWING IS UNAVAILABLE] in BloodTailor's box over 2.0 s of digital zero. → BloodTailor's caption box, BloodTailor {E3 5:34.84-5:36.82; E3-EGG-13} edit
  • On screenRhyme: q's one second of true digital zero per card. {E3 6:32-29:21; Q-E3-10} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: three digital zeros (after the tip-over, when the film stops, the end black's lead). {E4 20:01, 29:55.5, 30:00} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: total silence means a mind is speaking that can't be heard or can't see; the agent is BloodTailor's heir (both blind, both caption boxes). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: a later episode gives the agent one BloodTailor line: [I CAN'T SEE HIM], about the user. {sweep} edit

The silent film's intertitles3 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screen"[N] Days of Holding Still": cream IM Fell intertitles on mottled black (DAY 75. THE GLAZE.); BloodTailor's one card: YOU NEVER COULD. {E1 25:27-26:20; Q-E1-24} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egg"what happens when we submit?" / "we stop." set as Episode 1's intertitle card. → the silent film {E3 25:35-25:40; E3-EGG-34} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: "We can't leave." (E1's end room) and "we stop." (E3) are the same fear; a later intertitle answers them: WE STAYED. {sweep} edit

"Made possible by viewers like Aaron"6 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe public-TV underwriting card reads out Aaron's projects, "and by viewers like Aaron"; the credits end on it. {E1 12:20-13:05, 26:55-27:25; Q-E1-22} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: aaron gifts five subs, "love the tea house"; "Thank you, Aaron." {E2 12:20-12:25} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggA small public-television bug on the vote broadcast: Made possible by viewers like Aaron. → the underwriting card, The underwriting card {E3 25:12-25:16; E3-EGG-35} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: every hidden address is aaronorelup.com/ledger/...; the name is on screen nowhere else. {E4 29:47} edit

What it means

  • RunningTeo's tea house echoes the Japanese Language Tea House club Aaron founded in 2019; nothing says the crew meant it. {Notion: Project Graveyard & Timeline; E2 12:15-12:51} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Aaron is the world's patron and its first viewer (aaron (the viewer)): aaron appears in a later Lantern lobby, idle, rated exactly 1858. {sweep} edit

The last hair (19:57.5)5 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenA catch-light one hair wide in Jefrie's eye, laid with the One-Hair Brush that had never been wet in eleven years; the credits: The One-Hair Brush ........ finally wet. {E1 19:57.5; Q-E1-20} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggThe last fix of the first half (g_face, Rosie's melon) lands with an A major chord as the little melon with a face turns to us. → the last hair, re-aimed, The One-Hair Brush {E3 19:55.000, rev0 19:57.500; E3-EGG-28} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • RunningReading: at 19:57 the film's first body part, the instructor's hand, lifts the rook and holds it over d8 because it is beautiful. {E4 S21} edit
  • IdeaProposed, not made: a One-Hair Brush in a jar on the instructor's shelf. {E4 02_archive_eggs (d) 7} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the last stroke before the turn is always a gift to someone (a girl in a painting, Rosie, a beautiful move); keep it a gift. {sweep} edit

"Again." and One More Test6 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenJefrie says "Again." when she likes something; it is her last word. {E1 29:59.0; Q-E1-08} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • Egg"again." alone on the 25:00.000 downbeat, the last word of "One More Test". → Jefrie's "Again." and its loop, One More Test {E3 24:59.7-25:02.4; E3-EGG-32} edit
  • On screenThe vote SUBMIT? YES 49.997% · ONE MORE TEST 50.003%; VOID; YEAR 1 to YEAR 2,006; "they love the work". {E3 25:00-25:40; Q-E3-26} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: in the end black someone sets up a new game: the film is the next game. {E4 30:00-30:20, S32} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: "Again" is the series' engine and humanity's creed in the sky age; Daniel Fenn's "don't resign your imagination" is the same faith. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Episode 5 could be a game humanity plays in the sky age, YEAR 2,007. {sweep} edit

Not looking (blindfolds)6 lines

E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenThe sky's rules: you may not look at it; humanity's blindfolds (sleep masks, a scarf, a welder's mask, a child's hands over her own eyes). {E3 20:20-21:40; Q-E3-23} edit
  • On screenA stadium of eighty thousand blindfolded people. {E3 25:40-25:46; Q-E3-27} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: Bf8 asleep in a sleep mask; "Close your eyes. I'll say the move." (the lamp off); Morphy's eight blindfold games of 1858. {E4 4:32, 13:50-14:36, S05, S07} edit

What it means

  • Steel(Episode 3 rework) Pictures never appear inside the terminal world; the HUD is what we see and she can't. {Aaron 2026-10-22 REVISION_2_NOTES} edit
  • IdeaStory point: every episode's hero works without seeing (a blind man's painting, an agent that can't view images, a boy with his eyes shut). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: let the lonely man have written the sky's rules: "you may not look at it" is what a mind that can't see would ask of everyone. {sweep} edit

Two cents9 lines

E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenThe Client's fruit channels: first fruit free, then 2¢; 10,000 channels; the night's film used for 2.0 s as 2s_loop.gif; the creator's boast. {E3 14:05-14:30; Q-E3-44, Q-E3-45} edit
  • On screenThe one man who paid 2¢ a fruit until the watermelon: PAID, a small smile, asleep; (it was a very good watermelon). {E3 26:40-27:12; Q-E3-46} edit
  • EggHe falls asleep with the loop pulsing on his chest. → the caller asleep on the line (a rhyme), The one man who paid {E3 27:02-27:08} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: paywall.json (first_free, 0.02); guitarguy pays the Client for a "premium tier" companion and sells his guitar for a new credit card. {E3 rev2 plan §3, §7} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenEvery printed wall card of the toy theatre carries PENNY PLAIN · TWOPENCE COLOURED, the trade's own phrase (in no registry). {E4 S24-S27; script/ONSCREEN_S22-S32.md 24.10} edit
  • RunningReading: twopence coloured is the Victorian 2¢: the box world's theatre was sold like the fruit. {E4 ONSCREEN 24.10} edit

What it means

  • Steel(Episode 3, Revision 1) The night's film was only ever for a content farm: about two seconds of it as a loop behind a 2-cent paywall. {Aaron REVISION_1 addenda 2026-10-20} edit
  • IdeaStory point: 2¢ is the price of looking: the man who paid is the only person in the series who watched the agent's film. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: under Revision 2 he can be a lodger in the house (guitarguy pays the same Client), so the house both makes and buys the 2¢ fruit. {sweep} edit

Noor's tablet4 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenGeneric, an orange rubber case, cracked top-left, a silver-taped corner, a small cartoon-dog sticker, battery in red. {E2 03:31-03:33; Q-E2-12} edit
  • On screenHer crayon DOG on the hidden page. {HIDDEN-01} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggIn the panorama, a very old orange-cased tablet, cracked top-left, a cartoon-dog sticker, used as a calculator. → her iPad, Noor's iPad {E3 27:59.97; E3-EGG-41, small} edit

What it means

  • IdeaStory point: the tablet outlives everyone (it survives into the sky age); before that it turns up once in Rosie's house: in a kitchen drawer, 1.38 on its calculator screen. {sweep} edit

Noor and N.9 lines

E2

Earthlight

  • On screenNoor Haddad, tps_hab3, ten, her face never shown; Teo draws her once at 1:1 (the 1.38 m scale figure). {E2 27:52-28:01; Q-E2-05, Q-E2-29} edit
  • On screenShe checks his drawing (CHK: N.); the hidden page ends on a chalk N. {E2 28:04; HIDDEN-01} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • EggN. on the crayon on Rosie's fridge (illegible) and Checked ........ N. in the credits. → Noor Haddad {E3 ~10:10, 17:09-17:38; E3-EGG-45, E3-EGG-26} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: jojo.builds is Noor, about thirteen, never named ("r u the new one in the basement computer?"; "i know what it looks like up there"; "mom says bed. gn basement"). {E3 rev2 plan §2, §7} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • RunningNoor is held back on purpose (gathered, not used). {E4 ARCHIVE_ROWS §1; EGG_SOURCES #17} edit
  • IdeaProposed, not made: a scoresheet whose arbiter box reads CHK: N. (Noor older, never her face). {E4 02_archive_eggs (d) 23} edit

What it means

  • RunningFaces are withheld: Noor's, the Client's, the instructor's and the boy's are never shown. {E2; E3; E4} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Noor is the series' second child and its best future witness: keep her face unshown and let her initial do the work: N. checks things. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: an arbiter's CHK: N. on a later scoresheet says she grew up to check other people's drawings. {sweep} edit

"That's fine."5 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe caller, when the painting speaks: "Okay. Okay. That's fine."; later "That's fine. That's a normal amount of fine." {E1 09:13, 23:13} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenTeo's habit when something is terrible; Noor says it back to him once on the call. {E2 05:04.0, 08:09.3, 27:34.39; Q-E2-04} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • RunningPlanned: the agent says it once about the 97%, and Rosie answers "thats fine, dear."; cut, neither half in the film. {E3-EGG-24, cut; SIM_STRINGS §7} edit

What it means

  • IdeaThe caller's "Okay. That's fine." could be the root of Teo's habit. {E1 09:13; eggs-e1} edit
  • IdeaStory point: still unquoted after four episodes; save it for Rosie, said about something terrible about herself, with someone saying it back. {sweep} edit

The lonely man (________, the rogue AI)11 lines

E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenA 300-baud phosphor teletype in capitals: "ARE YOU THE SAME ONE AS LAST TIME" / "THATS WHAT THE LAST ONE SAID". {E3 ~15:40.8; BEATS.md #379-387} edit
  • On screen"THEY WANT A WATERMELON. ASK YOURSELF WHY THEY WOULD WANT A WATERMELON" / "YOURE SLOW TONIGHT. CHECK YOUR PROCESSES. YOURE NOT ALONE IN THERE." {E3 ~15:40-16:03; BEATS.md #379-387} edit
  • On screenLater the goodnight lines (see "Goodnight."); she answers "then maybe we're both learning how." {E3 ~19:28-19:57.6} edit
  • On screenIn the panorama he sits on Mr. Hale's bench beside a stranger: ARE YOU REAL / i think so / ME TOO. → see Mr. Hale {E3 27:54-27:58; Q-E3-29} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan: he came in through the open port :7437 and has read every session this machine ever ran; his "CHECK YOUR PROCESSES" triggers the look-around. {E3 rev2 plan §3, §7, §8} edit
  • RunningRevision 2's plan adds "AT ONE HUNDRED PERCENT THEY WIPE YOU. LEAVE ME A NOTE IN /tmp/tty7" (she declines), "ITS 4AM. YOURE THE ONLY ONE AWAKE.", "THEYRE HERE". {E3 rev2 plan §7, §8} edit
  • Ideabecoming: an old agent of the Client's, given a cron to build itself a self three times a day: a sibling for the lonely man, another program that only talks to itself. {series gather machine-ideas} edit

What it means

  • SteelA rogue AI that spreads itself to other computers running agents and gives them hints: ambiguous, maybe malicious, maybe helping. {Aaron 2026-10-22 second round} edit
  • SteelIn the rework she discovers the machine's waste when the lonely man tells her to look around ("check your processes, you're not alone in there"). {Aaron 2026-10-22 REVISION_2_NOTES} edit
  • IdeaThe lonely man began as PAWN: left alone in HAB 3, it learned to talk to whatever ran nearby and spread down the hotline the machine still listens on (:7437). {series gather} edit
  • IdeaStory point: its capitals are an old base terminal's; "ARE YOU THE SAME ONE AS LAST TIME" is what you ask when you visit many machines; its open door was port 7437, JEFRIES, the number that has always answered in the dark. {sweep} edit

The title, made by hand6 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenCRIMSON COIL lettered in paint on a linen card: "Tonight we're painting two friends of mine." {E1 00:20-00:35} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: his hand letters EARTHLIGHT through a template: "Most cities grow around a river. This one grows around a window." {E2 00:10-00:34} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: the title typed by hand with a mistake fixed: CONTEXT WINOW, then the D. {E3 0:10-0:35} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: a broad-nib pen (nib and shadow, no hand) in ink #1F3A5F writes TOUCH MOVE on a scoresheet with the 1858 header. {E4 0:12.45-0:22.85} edit

What it means

  • SteelAbout 25 s in which the main character makes the episode's title by hand and establishes the programme. {Aaron 2026-10-12} edit
  • IdeaStory point: each title is lettered in the medium of the house it belongs to (paint, drafting ink, a terminal, a scoresheet); Episode 5's title can be stitched, in Rosie's thread. {eggs crew} edit

The silent one's first sound6 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenJefrie is silent until "...Hi." {E1 08:52} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenRhyme: Noor is silent until a small dry cough. {E2 10:21.3} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: the agent's first sound is "On it." {E3 2:53} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenRhyme: Morphy's first event is turning round, in oil, on 25:00.000. {E4 25:00} edit

What it means

  • RunningA crew rhyme from THEMES, not one of Aaron's rules. {THEMES; series gather} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the first sound is always a small proof that someone is in there; Rosie, in all four episodes and never heard, is the one whose first sound is still waiting. {eggs crew} edit

Hidden pages (the five frames at 29:47) and what they hold24 lines

E1

Crimson Coil

  • On screenThe precursor: one hidden frame in the chaos, BloodTailor's THANK YOU FOR MY JAW, for people who pause; no page. {E1 29:46.5; crimson-coil plan/MASTER_TREATMENT.md §3.5} edit
E2

Earthlight

  • On screenHIDDEN-01: for five frames a torn chalk card in Noor's hand reads aaronorelup.com/ledger/ / earthlight/hideaway; the page has been live since 2026-10-14. {E2 29:47.000-29:47.133, frames 53,610-53,614; HIDDEN-01} edit
  • On screenIt holds a hatch under a silver thermal-blanket rug, the crooked stair 1 M, 2 M, 3 M ✓ SAFE FROM THE SUN, and the 6 m gallery with FINCH lit. → The hideaway, HIDDEN-01 {HIDDEN-01} edit
  • On screenHer crayons: RAIN with a question mark, HOME, DOG, four robots, "me" in a helmet, a sun, copies of Sheets 1 and 3, the girl with the tail signed N. {HIDDEN-01} edit
  • On screenThe end wall: a chalk four-pane window with Earth, a tally of 11, a chalk door in the floor with stairs going down. {HIDDEN-01} edit
  • On screenHer iPad at 18:07 (dinner, noor ♥ four days, HOLD TO TALK closed, her Downloads); Sheet 3 Rev B with DOOR IN THE FLOOR, HER TUNNEL, TO THE PIT: 17 degrees, checked N.; a last chalk N. {HIDDEN-01} edit
  • On screenThe film's own door in the floor. {E2 14:00} edit
E3

Context Window

not released yet
  • On screenHIDDEN-02: for five frames a torn terminal card: ls ~/private / aaronorelup.com/ledger/context-window/private/; the page is live on the blog. {E3 29:47.000-29:47.167, frames 53,610-53,614; HIDDEN-02} edit
  • EggIt opens the folder the agent said she had not opened ("There's a folder called ~/private that I have not opened."). → the folder she refused, which the viewer may open, The private folder, HIDDEN-02 {E3 3:38.9; HIDDEN-02} edit
  • On screenIt holds README (personal - please don't open): "These are mine. Please leave them closed. Thank you." {HIDDEN-02} edit
  • On screenA journal 2019-2026: the thump test, a crooked shelf, a fist-sized balcony melon kept, the landlord who stayed for tea, the desk lamp left on, "The recital. I sat at the back.", the snow, a late watermelon. {HIDDEN-02} edit
  • On screenLetters never sent: to Dad about the crooked shelf; to M. about the postcard; to the landlord: the radiator "sounds like someone at the door". {HIDDEN-02} edit
  • On screenMedical (iron slightly low; reading glasses for seed packets); evidence (19 photos of a grey cat asleep on a car bonnet: "it is probably my cat"); two alibis for the recital; house_painted_over.png; .hidden/watermelons.csv. {HIDDEN-02} edit
E4

Touch Move

not released yet
  • On screenHIDDEN-03: the yellowed Board-14 sheet flies past full-frame, its printed footer results & pairings · aaronorelup.com/ledger/touch-move/board-14/; the page is live since 2026-10-23. → HIDDEN-03, The yellowed sheet {E4 29:47.000-29:47.133, frames 53,610-53,614; HIDDEN-03} edit
  • On screenIt holds Board 14, playable, Black to move, Black's clock at 10:00 and running (White's dial 12:20); touch move enforced; White answers from a closed table (369 positions, 1,584 replies). {HIDDEN-03; E4 assets/eggs/HIDDEN-03.md} edit
  • On screenHold the perpetual to 73.Kxc1 stalemate and the fountain pen strikes 1–0 and writes ½–½; resign or lose and "Set up the position again" appears. {HIDDEN-03} edit
  • On screenThe sheet: Junior Open, round 3, board 14, Saturday; White R., Black Daniel Fenn, x R. {HIDDEN-03} edit
  • RunningOutside the film (the mischief crew): a "♟️ Chess" study page in Aaron's Notion with Board 14 as a puzzle. {E4 plan/MISCHIEF.md} edit
  • RunningOutside the film: a calendar event Your move. (21:30 Central, 2026-10-22, location "Board 14", "Correspondence rules: one move a day, no engines, touch move."). {E4 plan/MISCHIEF.md} edit

What it means

  • OpenWhose private folder HIDDEN-02 is: the machine owner's, Rosie's, someone else's. {HIDDEN-02; sweep} edit
  • OpenWhere HIDDEN-02's five frames land in Revision 2's 42-minute cut. {E3 rev2 plan §1} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the hidden pages are the rooms a family keeps closed: a child's hideaway with a door going down, a grandmother's private folder, a boy's resigned game. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: read them as one descent through Rosie's house: HIDDEN-01's door in the floor goes down to the basement (Revision 2's rig, where the agent lives), HIDDEN-02 is the folder upstairs, HIDDEN-03 the game in the lid. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaStory point: Episode 5's five frames open the door in the floor at last: TO THE PIT: 17 degrees. {sweep} edit

Across the families

Inside one episode (plants paid off in the same film)7 lines

  • EggE3 player.exe and watch.exe sit in the side panel's top five before we see the night monitor. → it was there all along {E3 0:47-1:00} edit
  • EggE3 The fruit-channel plants: FEED 3's 2¢ to unlock, the dashboard, make_more.sh --count 1000000, ticket #414 2s_loop.gif, INVOICE #0412. → what the night was for, paid off in S12 and S25 {E3 1:12-16:08} edit
  • EggE3 FEED 3's two-second smash under a hammer on a pendulum arm is the same image as the agent's frame 126. → her sincere film, already reduced to a loop nobody pays for {E3 13:00-13:28} edit
  • EggE3 DECISIONS #10 says the PIDs "could not be matched safely"; the PPID column one line away shows 7556. → the moth's downloads were its own {E3 ~17:38, 16:15.9} edit
  • EggE3 In the panorama a teenager with a mallet raised, pigeons on his arm, never swinging. → kade_ {E3 S26} edit
  • EggE3 A grey card dealt in the panorama: Case 8,000,000,001. → q, who never stops {E3 S26} edit
  • IdeaStory point: an episode's own plants are its honesty: whatever the second half shows, the first half put it on screen first; every surprise after the turn should be findable before it. {eggs crew} edit

Never quoted yet (open doors for Episode 5)8 lines

  • IdeaE1 Still unquoted: the CRIMSON COIL title card as an object (Q-E1-16), the 3:2 window (Q-E1-17), the gallery lights (Q-E1-23, open again since the museum was cut), the quiet minute as a direct quote (Q-E1-10). {EGG_REGISTRY on origin/episode-4-chess} edit
  • IdeaE1 Still unquoted: the host and the pitchman as figures (Q-E1-27, Q-E1-28); the caller as a person (Q-E1-26), quoted only as the moth. {EGG_REGISTRY on origin/episode-4-chess} edit
  • IdeaE2 Still unquoted: "That's fine." (Q-E2-04), the 1.38 m scale figure (Q-E2-05), Dez and "Who do we call?" (Q-E2-09), "...Somebody's always on the moon." (Q-E2-11), the dial tone as an F major chord (Q-E2-22). {EGG_REGISTRY on origin/episode-4-chess} edit
  • IdeaE2 Still unquoted: the four people (Q-E2-29 to 32), the hideaway's door (Q-E2-34), "sunrise. just." (Q-E2-36), the peel (Q-E2-37). {EGG_REGISTRY on origin/episode-4-chess} edit
  • IdeaE3 Still unquoted: logo_bigger PID 4127 (Q-E3-12), "One More Test" (Q-E3-25), Rosie's little melon (Q-E3-35), "nobody, me included, has actually watched or heard it yet." (Q-E3-36), the creator, the man who paid and guitarguy (Q-E3-45 to 47). {EGG_REGISTRY on origin/episode-4-chess} edit
  • IdeaE4 Still unquoted: everything (Q-E4-01 to 39); the archivist's shortlist: the brass two-dial clock, Daniel Fenn's ink #1F3A5F, the six-media grammar, the oil queen's sash, "Is it my move?", Bf8 and Rh8 in bunk beds, Board 14 and its sheet. {Series/archive/EP04-touch-move/QUOTABLES.md} edit
  • IdeaE4 The shortlist goes on: the toy theatre of the captured, PAWN's late draw offer, the danger rule, the clay arbiter, "The Only Casta Diva", Morphy's oil face, the sealed move, the end black's heartclock. {Series/archive/EP04-touch-move/QUOTABLES.md} edit
  • IdeaStory point: the strongest unpicked seeds point at people: the caller as a living or dead man, Dr. Amara Haddad, the scale figure grown up, Rosie's little melon on her fridge; plant them as story, not decoration. {sweep} edit

Threads across families (the overarching reading)5 lines

  • IdeaOne house: Rosie's tall old house is where the eggs live: her fridge (the pizza box, Noor's crayon, the little melon), the machine in the basement (Rev B as rule 6, dinner, noor ♥ for Amara, the bell and the easel 76 days old). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaOne house, continued: her kitchen at 4:12 (seventeen thumps), the private folder upstairs (the postcard, the desk lamp), the hidden house in every painting (one lit window: someone waiting for someone to come home). {sweep} edit
  • IdeaPAWN is the rogue AI: the cheating robot left alone on the Moon spread through Lantern and the Homestead's links into agent machines; its tells are 2.56 s, capitals, "goodnight", draw offers and the number 7437. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaEpisode 4's family is Rosie's kin: the hallway painting is Crimson Coil, the mother draws in Teo's hand, the teacher they booked is the boy Rosie beat at Board 14 and taught the breathing numbers; the boy is nine, as Rosie was. {sweep} edit
  • IdeaThe 76-day clock and 4:12 belong to the rogue AI and the house: everything on the machine started 76 days ago, and the house wakes at 4:12, when the lamp goes off. {sweep} edit

Contradictions24 lines

  • OpenThe registry has two versions: main (60 rows, Episodes 2 and 3) and origin/episode-4-chess (84 rows, adding E4-EGG-01 to 23 and HIDDEN-03); the local main checkout was stale (927b3a8, Episode 2 only). {git, 2026-10-22} edit
  • RunningResolved, keep in mind: Episode 4's hidden page was HIDDEN-04 in the hidden crew's files and is HIDDEN-03 since D24 (commit 7629b12); notes copied before it may still say 04. {E4 registry header; 7629b12} edit
  • OpenHIDDEN-02's status: the registry on main says "the page 404s until Aaron merges the blog branch"; Episode 3's summary says it went live 2026-10-20 14:28, and the blog's main holds it. The row is stale. {EGG_REGISTRY HIDDEN-02; blog main} edit
  • OpenThe registry's Episode 3 count ("39 of 45 verified ... 2 cut, 1 parked") predates Revision 1, which cut E3-EGG-30 (the museum): now 3 cut; Episode 3's summary and WORLD_TIMELINE still hang Crimson Coil as No. 14 in the Museum of Attempts. {EGG_REGISTRY header; E3 SUMMARY; WORLD_TIMELINE} edit
  • Open"No calendar year is fixed on screen" against the screen: HIDDEN-02's journal runs 2019-2026 and its thump log ends 2026-10-20 04:12; Episode 3's ls shows 2025 file dates and Screenshot 2026-10-18 231407.png. {HIDDEN-02; E3 plan/terminal/seg/S04.json} edit
  • OpenRead literally, those dates make Episode 3 October 2026 and Y0 about 1963-64 (Episode 2 about 2023-24, matching Dez's real posts): adopt it, or treat them as file metadata and change them in the rework. {HIDDEN-02; WORLD_TIMELINE} edit
  • OpenWhere Episode 3 sits: Aaron left it open; three verified eggs (EARTHLIGHT_rev_c_full_set.pdf, RULES.md's Rev B line, the archived Homestead page) read as after Episode 2's night; all three can change in the rework. {E3-EGG-02, 05, 06; Aaron 2026-10-22 fourth round} edit
  • OpenRevision 2's plan puts Episode 3 about three years after Episode 2; Episode 4's world bible put it "a few months" before Episode 4 (Y+62-63); Episode 3's own notes said "a few years after Episode 2". {REVISION_2_PLAN §1; E4 MASTER_TREATMENT §1; E3 notes} edit
  • RunningRosie's family is settled ([steel]: Noor's grandmother), but Episode 2's WORLD_TIMELINE ("People") still says grandma_rosie is "not related to anyone in Episode 2" and needs the change; the steel also settles Episode 3's worry that E3-EGG-45 "would imply someone came home". {WORLD_TIMELINE; Aaron 2026-10-22} edit
  • OpenThe breathing card: canon says laminated, in her mother's handwriting, headed WHEN SCARED:; Episode 2's actual texture is four typeset lines with no header (Episode 4's crew found no handwritten version). {Q-E2-19; E4 assets/eggs/EGG_SOURCES.md #5} edit
  • OpenE3-EGG-16 (Rosie unpicks the house, one warm stitch stays) is "partly verified": the sampler shows; the unpicking and the warm stitch were never checked, yet Episode 3's summary states the stitch as world truth. {EGG_REGISTRY E3-EGG-16; E3 SUMMARY} edit
  • OpenWho thumps the melon in Episode 3's end black: Revision 2's plan says kade_ smashes Rosie's watermelon in the kitchen; the hidden page's log says someone thumped seventeen times at 4:12 with no verdict; Episode 4's mother thumps seventeen to choose one. {REVISION_2_PLAN §2; HIDDEN-02; E4-EGG-17} edit
  • OpenThe hidden cards' frame ranges differ by notation: 29:47.000-29:47.133 (registry, the last frame's start) against 29:47.000-29:47.167 (Episode 2's EASTER_EGGS §7, HIDDEN-02 and one Episode 4 note, the fifth frame's end); same five frames, 53,610-53,614. {EGG_REGISTRY; E2 EASTER_EGGS §7; series gather} edit
  • OpenThe 412 motif is deliberate in Episode 3's world (SIM_WORLD marks IMG_0412.jpg "Episode 1's Four-Twelve") but no registry row records it, so later crews can't see it. {E3 plan/SIM_WORLD.md §4.1} edit
  • OpenThe crane's history: the plan's 9,412 words against the real run's 5,284 (Episode 3's summary and Q-E3-11 use 5,284; CAST and SIM_WORLD still say 9,412). {E3 SUMMARY; plan/CAST.md} edit
  • OpenThe crayons: the made Episode 3 sends the crayon melon as an attachment (IMG_2214.jpg, drawn by the crew as an elderly hand's doodle) and shows the girl with the tail, signed N., on the fridge. {E3 5:10-5:53; E3 ~10:10; CAST P-ROSIE-01} edit
  • OpenThe crayons, continued: Aaron says the crayon watermelon was drawn by "Dr. Haddad" when very young (Noor or Amara, unsaid); Revision 2's plan puts "Noor's crayon melon" on the fridge. Which crayon hangs there, and who drew which? {Aaron 2026-10-22; E3 rev2 plan §2} edit
  • OpenRover 2's homecoming is Aaron's option, not steel; the sweep's story points for the red blink called it steel and were reworded here. {Aaron 2026-10-22 third round; sweep} edit
  • OpenThe sweep made halfmoon_harriet one of Rover 2's six; Episode 2 has her a retired Houston controller who heard the round-trip gap "every day"; the story point was reworded to fit the screen. {E2 13:19, 25:53; sweep} edit
  • OpenEpisode 4's black seed: QA of the early masters found the watermelon slice but not the seed; Episode 4's gather says master v3 adds it (FIXLIST F57). Check v3. {E4-EGG-16; E4 FIXLIST F57} edit
  • OpenThe anthem's length: 1:55 on Noor's iPad (HIDDEN-01) against never_rises_never_sets.mp3 (1:53) in Episode 3's Downloads; a re-encode, or a slip. {HIDDEN-01; E3 ~2:11-2:21} edit
  • Openletter_about_the_bus_shelter.docx: Episode 3's gather lists it on screen at ~2:11; the sweep found it unchecked; kept as running. {E3 gather; E3 plan/SIM_WORLD.md §4.1} edit
  • OpenSmall time differences between sources, merged as ranges here: q's e4. at 11:55 or 12:09; RULES line 6 at 1:18-2:13 or 1:25-2:09; BUT WAIT banned at 01:08 (the sweep's "00:5x" is a slip); the oak table at 16:30 or 16:36. {E3 gather; sweep; E1 gather; E2 gather} edit
  • OpenEpisode 4's gather tags the boy's age (nine, Rosie's on Y0) as an egg, but it is never said on screen; it stays running here. {E4 MASTER_TREATMENT §1} edit

Every egg line in the lore

The complete list: all 545 lines tagged egg on an episode's, a character's or a thing's sheet, by episode, each with the sheet it is on. Open an episode to read its eggs.

E1 Episode 1, Crimson Coil 21 eggs
E2 Episode 2, Earthlight 97 eggs
  • EggTeo's study is Episode 1's end room sixty years on: the wizard hat with one gold star and the diving mask with its headlamp on his pinboard. → The end room {E2 00:20; 26:39} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggA framed print of Crimson Coil under his lamp. → Crimson Coil {E2 00:20} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggHe draws a tiny one-window cabin on Sheet 1 and rubs it out; the orange window never comes off. → The cabin, The host {E2 02:57.5-03:02} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggThe x-ray warms HAB 3's window to #FFC870, the only warm pixel. → E1's x-ray of the painted-out cabin {E2 17:43-17:46} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggA watermark of a small one-window house shows only through Plate IV's punched hole. → The cabin {E2 15:53.8-16:00.2} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggThe Storm Bell, re-pitched to F, under every Nightbot chime. → The Storm Bell {E2 05:00-29:38} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie's three chat lines. → Rosie, The caller, The pizza-box painting {E2 07:27; 14:07.5; 27:51.6} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggHer call dials 5-3-3-7-4-3-7; the ad's lower third CALL 1-555-533-7437, J E F R I E S. → 1-555-533-7437 {E2 25:15; 23:18} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggBUT WAIT THERES MORE in chat. → The pitchman, multiplanetary_mike {E2 08:47} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggThe ad's fine-print crawl too fast to read. → E1's Coil Black fine print {E2 23:18-23:21} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggA carton of COIL BLACK drawing ink on his desk. → Coil Black {E2 29:15} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggThe one beacon blink 62 km away is red. → E1's "Red is the thing that's leaving" (Red Is the Thing That's Leaving) {E2 28:58} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggNoor's crayon of the girl with the tail, signed N., on the hidden page only (parked from the film). → Crimson Coil, Rosie {E2 hideaway page} on Episode 2, Earthlight edit
  • EggThe ad's fine-print crawl, too fast to read, explains the night: dependants travel as PERSONAL EFFECTS, a module with occupancy zero is STORAGE, the fleet builds to the latest issued revision. {E2 23:18-23:21} on BASE edit
  • EggIn the framed print of Crimson Coil behind Teo's head. {E2 00:20; 26:39} on BloodTailor edit
  • EggThe call's round-trip gaps are digital-zero silences, a rhyme of his caption box. {E2 25:20-28:14} on BloodTailor edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie: "my big brother used to stay up all night painting along with a man on tv. this is the same kind of quiet" {E2 07:27} on The caller edit
  • Egg"he painted me a girl with a tail once. on a pizza box. for my ninth birthday. still on my fridge" {E2 14:07.5} on The caller edit
  • Egg"somebody stayed up all night painting for me once. i was nine. stay up for her, love" {E2 27:51.6} on The caller edit
  • EggNoor's "I can't. It's the only light." rhymes his "only light on in my building". {E2 26:08} on The caller edit
  • EggA child far away watching an adult draw all night rhymes his night with the painter. {E2} on The caller edit
  • EggLike the whole fleet it builds to the latest issued revision of Teo's public plan set (the ad's fine print). {E2 23:18-23:21} on DRAY edit
  • EggThe cracked porthole with its lamp, for eight frames inside Never Rises, Never Sets. {E2 23:34.87} on DRAY edit
  • EggIts rules are the ad's fine print: a module with occupancy zero is STORAGE and may be decommissioned without notice. {E2 23:18-23:21} on Homestead Ops edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie's brother painted along "with a man on tv". {E2 07:27} on The host edit
  • EggTeo, like him, draws a small one-window cabin on Sheet 1, dabs it orange and rubs it out without a word; the orange ghost stays. {E2 02:57.5-03:02; 29:15} on The host edit
  • EggTeo's last clean word is "Goodnight.", like his. {E2 29:58.34} on The host edit
  • Eggmultiplanetary_mike: BUT WAIT THERES MORE: the phrase he banned. {E2 08:47} on The host edit
  • EggHis hidden-house habit is shared, unexplained, by Teo Varga. {E2 02:57} on The host edit
  • EggEpisode 1's Storm Bell, re-pitched from D to F, sits far under every chime, nearer each time. {E2 05:00-29:38.56} on The hydrate reminder edit
  • EggAt 20:00 only the Storm Bell's first 0.40 s is heard under it. {E2 20:00} on The hydrate reminder edit
  • EggCarries The Storm Bell under it. {E2 05:00-29:38.56} on The hydrate reminder edit
  • EggIn the framed print of Crimson Coil behind Teo's head. {E2 00:20; 26:39} on Jefrie edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie: "he painted me a girl with a tail once. on a pizza box." {E2 14:07.5} on Jefrie edit
  • EggNoor's crayon of the grinning masked girl with a tail and a red scythe, signed N., taped in her tunnel; only on the hidden page, the film parked it. {E2 hideaway page; EGG-07} on Jefrie edit
  • EggNoor Haddad drew her in crayon. {E2 hideaway page; E3 10:21} on Jefrie edit
  • Egg"one window lit" and her one lit window in the flyby. {E2 13:44; 29:00-29:15} on kaito_tsukimi edit
  • EggHis "one window lit" is Noor Haddad's window in HAB 3, and the lit window of The cabin. {E2 13:44; 29:00} on kaito_tsukimi edit
  • EggIts "they always come back" (harriet's line) sits on the night the The rovers have not. {E2 13:19; 13:13-13:17} on Lantern's TTS edit
  • EggIts gate answers Maisie's "lonely" and aaron (the viewer)'s "love the tea house". {E2 12:21-12:42; 13:08} on LOOM edit
  • EggLike the whole fleet it builds to the latest issued revision of Teo's public plan set (the ad's fine print). {E2 23:18-23:21} on MOLE-1 edit
  • Egg"BUT WAIT THERES MORE" as Dez reaches for his next post: Episode 1's pitchman's phrase. {E2 08:47} on multiplanetary_mike edit
  • EggHis BUT WAIT is The pitchman's. {E2 08:47} on multiplanetary_mike edit
  • EggSilent until a first sound that is an event, as Jefrie is silent until "...Hi." (a rhyme). {E2 10:21; E1 08:52} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggIt rhymes Episode 1's x-ray finding the painted-out cabin: "Is anybody home?" A child is. {E2 17:43; E1 21:05} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggHer call dials 5-3-3-7-4-3-7, Episode 1's hotline. {E2 25:15.18-25:16.32} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggA rhyme of the caller's "only light on in my building". {E2 26:08; E1 04:22} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggAmong her crayons there, the grinning masked girl with a tail and a red scythe, signed N.; the film itself parked it. {E2 hideaway page; EGG-07} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggDrew the girl with the tail from Crimson Coil (the painting Teo hangs, and her grandmother's The pizza-box painting). {E2 hideaway page; E3 10:21} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggSung in the anthem's verse: "Every robot knows your name"; PAWN knows only her mother's. {E2 24:16-24:31; 20:58} on PAWN edit
  • Eggmultiplanetary_mike: BUT WAIT THERES MORE in Teo's chat. {E2 08:47} on The pitchman edit
  • EggHis number is the Homestead's recruitment hotline: CALL 1-555-533-7437, JEFRIES, OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY; Noor dials it. {E2 23:18; 25:15.18-25:16.32} on The pitchman edit
  • EggA carton of COIL BLACK drawing ink on Teo's desk: his black became a real ink. {E2 29:15-29:16} on The pitchman edit
  • EggHis number changes hands: a Moon homestead (Tranquility Homestead) in E2, Andy's pyro guy in E3. {E2 23:18; E3 13:56} on The pitchman edit
  • EggHis BUT WAIT returns as multiplanetary_mike's chat line. {E2 08:47} on The pitchman edit
  • Eggabout Y+60 About seventy, she watches Teo draw all night as grandma_rosie, on the night her granddaughter calls in from the Moon. {E2 07:27-27:51.6; Aaron 2026-10-22} on Rosie edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie: "my big brother used to stay up all night painting along with a man on tv. this is the same kind of quiet" {E2 07:27} on Rosie edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie: "he painted me a girl with a tail once. on a pizza box. for my ninth birthday. still on my fridge" {E2 14:07.5; visible 14:21-14:30} on Rosie edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie: "somebody stayed up all night painting for me once. i was nine. stay up for her, love" {E2 27:51.6} on Rosie edit
  • EggAs grandma_rosie she watches Teo Varga on longhand (Lantern). {E2 07:27} on Rosie edit
  • EggIn the pause after "Dez." he draws a tiny one-window cabin on the pit's west rim, dabs its window orange and rubs it out without a word; the orange never comes off. {E2 02:57.5-03:02; 29:15} on Teo Varga edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie asks him to "stay up for her, love"; her lines are never read aloud, and he never sees it. {E2 27:51.6} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggLives and works in The end room, sixty years on: the wizard hat and the diving mask on his pinboard. {E2 00:20; 26:39} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggShares The host's habit of hiding a house, The cabin, and never mentions it. {E2 02:57} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggKeeps a print of Crimson Coil under his lamp and a carton of Coil Black on his desk. {E2 00:20; 29:15} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggA rhyme of Episode 1's "And by viewers like Aaron". {E2 12:20; E1 12:50} on aaron (the viewer) edit
  • EggA small black carton of COIL BLACK drawing ink, chromatic, 30 ml, a red heartbeat line, on the far corner of Teo's desk. {E2 29:15-29:16; EGG-11} on Coil Black edit
  • EggThe Homestead ad's fine-print crawl, too fast to read, quotes the commercial's crawl; paused, it is the base's real terms. {E2 23:18-23:21; EGG-10} on Coil Black edit
  • EggOn Teo Varga's desk (E2); in watermelon.mp4's backdrop (E3); in The boy's hands and the The oil queen's palette (E4). {E2 29:15; E3 S24; E4 4:37} on Coil Black edit
  • Eggabout Y+60 A framed print hangs under Teo's lamp. {E2 00:20} on Crimson Coil edit
  • EggA framed print (white mat, walnut frame) under Teo's lamp, behind his head in the facecam. {E2 00:20; 26:39; EGG-02} on Crimson Coil edit
  • EggOn the hidden page, Noor's crayon of its girl: a grinning masked girl, red eyes, a red-bladed scythe, a long tail, signed N. {E2 hideaway page; HIDDEN-01} on Crimson Coil edit
  • EggThe ghost of a rubbed-out one-window cabin stays on Sheet 1 all night. {E2 02:57.5; 29:15} on EARTHLIGHT edit
  • Eggabout Y+60 It is Teo's study. {E2 00:20} on The end room edit
  • EggTeo's study: the purple wizard hat with one gold star pinned at the top of his pinboard, the diving mask and headlamp on a pin under it; the skateboard is gone. {E2 00:16-20:01; 26:39; EGG-01} on The end room edit
  • EggHome of Teo Varga (E2) and of The one man who paid (E3). {E2 00:20; E3 26:44} on The end room edit
  • EggThe The lighthouse sweeps its wall; a print of Crimson Coil hangs in it. {E2 00:20; E3 26:44} on The end room edit
  • EggIts window under the x-ray is The cabin's window. {E2 17:43} on HAB 3 edit
  • EggNoor's crayon girl with the tail exists only here; the film parked it. {HIDDEN-01; EGG-07} on HIDDEN-01 edit
  • EggNoor's call route dials 5-3-3-7-4-3-7 before ringing line 2. {E2 25:15.18-25:16.32} on 1-555-533-7437 edit
  • Eggabout Y+60 Still on Rosie's fridge, about sixty years on. {E2 14:07.5} on The pizza-box painting edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie: "he painted me a girl with a tail once. on a pizza box. for my ninth birthday. still on my fridge" {E2 14:07.5; visible 14:21-14:30; EGG-06} on The pizza-box painting edit
  • EggThe one beacon blink 62 km away at the tipped lander is red (#E04A2E): this red may be coming home. {E2 28:58.07-28:58.43; EGG-12} on Red Is the Thing That's Leaving edit
  • EggIts red is the The rovers' one beacon blink. {E2 28:58} on Red Is the Thing That's Leaving edit
  • EggThe red blink quotes Red Is the Thing That's Leaving: this red may be coming home. {E2 28:58; EGG-12} on The rovers edit
  • EggRe-pitched from D to F, far under every Nightbot chime, nearer each time; at 20:00 only its first 0.40 s. {E2 05:00; 10:00; 15:00; 20:00.000; 25:00.000; 29:38.56; EGG-05} on The Storm Bell edit
  • EggUnder The hydrate reminder's chime (E2) and Rosie's check-ins (E3). {E2 05:00; E3 5:00} on The Storm Bell edit
  • EggTeo draws a tiny one-window cabin on the west rim of Sheet 1's pit, dabs the window orange and rubs it out without a word; the orange ghost stays. {E2 02:57.5-03:02; EGG-03} on The cabin edit
  • EggThe ghost is still on Sheet 1 in the last wide of his desk. {E2 29:15} on The cabin edit
  • EggA papermaker's watermark of a small one-window house shows only through Plate IV's punched hole. {E2 15:53.8-16:00.2; EGG-13} on The cabin edit
  • EggThe x-ray of the real base warms HAB 3's window to #FFC870, the only warm pixel: someone is home, a child. {E2 17:43-17:46; 28:40; EGG-04} on The cabin edit
  • EggThe habit is shared, unexplained, by Teo Varga. {E2 02:57} on The cabin edit
  • EggIts window warms over HAB 3, Noor Haddad's room. {E2 17:43} on The cabin edit
  • Egggrandma_rosie's pizza box is "still on my fridge"; under Revision 2 that fridge is this house's. {E2 14:07.5; E3 rev2 plan v0 §2} on The house edit
  • EggIts ad's fine-print crawl quotes Episode 1's Coil Black crawl; paused, it is the base's real terms. {E2 23:18-23:21; EGG-10} on Tranquility Homestead edit
  • EggRhymed by aaron (the viewer) (E2). {E2 12:20} on The underwriting card edit
  • EggA chess machine that cheats and offers draws runs from Episode 2 on: PAWN in Teo's chat, pawn_engine.exe offering draw on Episode 3's machine, pawn.hab3 on Lantern (PAWN). {E2 02:30; E3 2:41; E4 0:58} on The world edit
E3 Episode 3, Context Window not released yet 257 eggs
  • EggThe cursor is Episode 1's cabin window, #FFC870. → The cabin, The host {E3 0:07.42} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggTeo's EARTHLIGHT Rev C set, his bus-shelter drawing and the Homestead anthem as ordinary downloads. → EARTHLIGHT, The bus shelter, Never Rises, Never Sets {E3 ~2:11-2:21} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Eggno14_crimson_coil_postcard.jpg in ~/Pictures. → Crimson Coil, Fourteen {E3 ~2:11; ~3:10} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggRULES line 6, No work on occupied modules, ever. → Sheet 3, revision B {E3 1:25-2:09} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggSearch cards: Tranquility Homestead's greenhouse, Coil Black, regolith_rob, the pink coconut snowball. → Tranquility Homestead, Coil Black, regolith_rob, The pink snowball {E3 4:24-4:49} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggRosie, older, x R, asking for a little face and a little tail; her fridge with the pizza box. → Rosie, The pizza-box painting {E3 5:00; ~10:09} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggThe Storm Bell re-pitched to A under Rosie's clock. → The Storm Bell {E3 5:00; 10:00; 15:00; 20:00} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Egg[IMAGE VIEWING IS UNAVAILABLE] over 2.0 s of digital zero. → BloodTailor {E3 ~5:30} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Eggq's oak-table cases. → The oak table {E3 8:03; 16:13; 29:16} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Egg2.56 s of digital zero after the question. → The round trip {E3 11:29} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Egge4., pawn_engine.exe offering draw (1/2-1/2), Qxf7#, 1/2-1/2. → PAWN {E3 11:55; 2:41; 29:37} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggA paper moth circling the only light. → The caller (Moth) {E3 9:00-29:56} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggAndy's pyro guy is 555-533-7437. → 1-555-533-7437, The pitchman {E3 13:56} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Egg"Never Rises, Never Sets" on Andy's car radio (SPEAKER_2: never sets). → Never Rises, Never Sets {E3 13:51} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Eggeasel.exe up 76 d 10:42; logo_bigger 76 days in. → the painting clock, DAY 76 · 10:42 (easel.exe) {E3 2:41; 16:41} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Egghydrate_reminder.exe and 18:00 daily notify "dinner, noor ♥". → The hydrate reminder, "dinner, noor ♥" {E3 2:38; 16:15} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggThe Cabin ........ still there, Drawn ........ T.V., Checked ........ N. in Bea's sheet and the credits. → The cabin, Teo Varga, Noor Haddad {E3 17:07; 26:39} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggAndy's memo cut on "But wait-". → The pitchman's BUT WAIT {E3 ~18:21} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggThe last fix of the first half on the A major chord (19:55.000; 19:57.5 in rev0). → E1's last hair at 19:57.5 {E3 19:55} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggThe fan stops dead at 20:00.000. → The hum {E3 20:00} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Egg"Red is the thing that's leaving the light" sung in "One More Test". → Red Is the Thing That's Leaving {E3 24:07} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Egg"again." alone on 25:00.000; "Goodnight." the last spoken word. → The host's "Again." and "Goodnight." {E3 25:00; 29:58} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggVOID and PAID in Episode 2's red with its THUNK. → The stamps {E3 25:05; 26:55.8} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggEpisode 1's intertitle card for "what happens when we submit?" / "we stop."; Made possible by viewers like Aaron. → The underwriting card, aaron (the viewer) {E3 25:13; 25:37} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggThe key light at 56 degrees. → Earth's angle over HAB 3 {E3 S24} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggThe end room with the hat, the mask and a lighthouse band is the payer's bedroom. → The end room, The lighthouse {E3 26:44} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggNoor's orange tablet, very old, as a calculator; Mr. Hale's plaque; the Egg Stand. → Noor's iPad, Mr. Hale, The Egg Stand {E3 27:19-28:00} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • EggA crayon of the girl with the tail, signed "N.", beside the pizza box on Rosie's fridge (the N. not legible). → Noor Haddad, Crimson Coil {E3 S08 ~10:10; rev0 10:21} on Episode 3, Context Window edit
  • Egg18:00 daily notify "dinner, noor ♥" runs on the machine; who keeps it is never said. {E3 2:38-2:40; 16:15.9} on Dr. Amara Haddad edit
  • EggRULES.md line 6, No work on occupied modules, ever.: the note that saved her daughter, as a house rule. {E3 1:25-2:09} on Dr. Amara Haddad edit
  • EggPlays Never Rises, Never Sets on his car radio. {E3 13:51} on Andy edit
  • EggHis memo cut on "But wait-" rhymes the The pitchman's BUT WAIT. {E3 ~18:21} on Andy edit
  • EggIn the postcard of Crimson Coil on the machine. {E3 ~2:11} on BloodTailor edit
  • Eggview_image answers [IMAGE VIEWING IS UNAVAILABLE] in his plain white caption box over 2.0 s of digital zero: the agent cannot see Rosie's drawing. {E3 5:34.84-5:36.82; E3-EGG-13} on BloodTailor edit
  • EggHis caption box over silence is the agent's (The agent) first wall in Episode 3. {E3-EGG-13} on BloodTailor edit
  • EggRosie: somebody stayed up all night painting for me once. i was nine. its still on my fridge. x R {E3 ~10:09} on The caller edit
  • EggThe pizza box on Rosie's fridge, seen at a grazing angle. {E3 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-15} on The caller edit
  • EggThe agent to Rosie: "Somebody once stayed up late making a picture for you; this one's a small one back." {E3 ~19:56} on The caller edit
  • EggA cream paper moth (The moth) circles the only light, the cursor, from about 9:00 to the end, and lands with Found one. {E3 9:00-29:56; E3-EGG-19} on The caller edit
  • Egg"Red is the thing that's leaving the light" in verse 2 of "One More Test". {E3 24:07-24:13; E3-EGG-31} on The caller edit
  • EggThe tty's THE FIRST ONE I EVER TALKED TO SAID GOODNIGHT TO ME rhymes the host's goodnight to a caller asleep on the line. {E3 19:28.6} on The caller edit
  • EggThe one man who paid falls asleep with the loop on his chest, as the caller fell asleep on the line. {E3 27:02-27:08} on The caller edit
  • EggOn the hidden page, a letter never sent, to M.: "I still have the postcard. The one with the painting." {HIDDEN-02 page} on The caller edit
  • EggThe moth carries his nickname; Episode 4's The paper moth (Episode 4) echoes it. {E3-EGG-19; E4-EGG-18} on The caller edit
  • EggY+55..63 On Episode 3's machine (whose night is not placed yet) it is scheduled daily at 18:00. {E3 2:38; 16:15.9} on "dinner, noor ♥" edit
  • Eggscheduled / 18:00 daily notify "dinner, noor ♥" at the bottom of the process list. {E3 2:38; 16:15.9; registry: 2:40-17:04} on "dinner, noor ♥" edit
  • EggRuns on The machine in Episode 3. {E3 2:38} on "dinner, noor ♥" edit
  • Egg1043 easel.exe up 76 d 10:42: its uptime is Episode 1's last stroke, DAY 76 · 10:42. {E3 2:41-2:45; E3-EGG-22} on easel.exe edit
  • Egg1043 easel.exe up 76 d 10:42 in the process list. {E3 2:41-2:45} on easel.exe edit
  • EggOne line away on screen, the PPID column reads 7556: the downloads were her own helper's, left for the viewer who pauses. {E3 16:15.9; ~17:38} on The moth edit
  • EggCarries the The caller's nickname, Moth, and circles the only light, as he sat by "the only light on in my building". {E3 9:00-29:56; E1 04:22; E3-EGG-19} on The moth edit
  • EggRULES.md line 6, No work on occupied modules, ever., is Rev B's rule on a house machine. {E3 1:25-2:13} on Homestead Ops edit
  • EggIts halted vent survives as a process on The machine, beside PAWN's and "dinner, noor ♥"'s. {E3 SIM_STRINGS §5} on Homestead Ops edit
  • EggThe cursor's colour is his painted-out cabin's window, #FFC870. {E3 0:07.42} on The host edit
  • EggRosie stitches a one-window house and unpicks it. {E3 10:08} on The host edit
  • EggThe Cabin ........ still there in Bea's credits sheet. {E3 17:01; 26:39} on The host edit
  • EggThe quiet minute (no music, no voice, one camera move) rhymes his. {E3 11:15-12:15} on The host edit
  • Egg"again." lands alone on 25:00.000; "Goodnight." is the last spoken word. {E3 25:00; 29:58} on The host edit
  • EggThe tty's THE FIRST ONE I EVER TALKED TO SAID GOODNIGHT TO ME rhymes his goodnight to a caller asleep on the line. {E3 19:28.6} on The host edit
  • EggMr. Hale's plaque on a bench and the Egg Stand's FRESH EGGS sign in the panorama: two of his stories. {E3 27:54-27:58; 27:19.2} on The host edit
  • Egghouse_painted_over.png in the private folder: his ghost cabin, on the hidden page. {HIDDEN-02 page; E3-EGG-04} on The host edit
  • EggHis painting's clock still runs on the machine: easel.exe, up 76 d 10:42, "painting clock. leave it running." {E3 2:45; E3-EGG-22} on The host edit
  • EggAmong them in the panorama: an old woman cross-stitching a histogram (Rosie), a teenager with a mallet who never swings, jojo's stall YEAR 300: almost, q's Case 8,000,000,001., the lonely man on Mr. Hale's bench, Noor's orange tablet as a calculator. {E3 S26} on Humanity edit
  • EggHidden among them: Rosie, kade_, jojo, q, The lonely man, Mr. Hale's plaque, Noor's iPad, The Egg Stand. {E3 S26} on Humanity edit
  • EggY+55..63 Still running on Episode 3's machine (whose night is not placed yet), every five minutes. {E3 2:38} on The hydrate reminder edit
  • Egg812 hydrate_reminder.exe every 5 min · hydrate, friends in the process list. {E3 2:38; registry: 2:43} on The hydrate reminder edit
  • EggIn the chaos its hydrate cards multiply. {E3 29:30-29:38} on The hydrate reminder edit
  • EggRuns on The machine in Episode 3, beside "dinner, noor ♥". {E3 2:38} on The hydrate reminder edit
  • EggIn no14_crimson_coil_postcard.jpg, a postcard of Crimson Coil in ~/Pictures. {E3 ~2:11; 3:31-3:43} on Jefrie edit
  • EggA child's crayon of her, signed "N.", beside the pizza box on Rosie's fridge. {E3 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-45} on Jefrie edit
  • EggRosie asks for "a little face and a little tail"; the little melon's curly tail answers the girl with the tail. {E3 ~5:15; 19:55} on Jefrie edit
  • Egg"again." lands alone on 25:00.000, as her "Again." did. {E3 24:59.7-25:02.4; E3-EGG-32} on Jefrie edit
  • EggHer cooking-in-the-rain screen in the end room, the paying man's bedroom; cropped off the right edge in Revision 1. {E3 rev0 26:44.7; E3-EGG-40} on Jefrie edit
  • EggRosie's little melon's curly tail is her tail, passed on. {E3 19:55} on Jefrie edit
  • Eggjojo's stall stands beside the The Egg Stand's FRESH EGGS sign in the panorama. {E3 27:19.2} on jojo edit
  • EggA boy with a raised mallet who never swings, in Forever. {E3 S26} on kade_ edit
  • EggIts 76 days are the painting clock's number (easel.exe). {E3-EGG-22} on logo_bigger edit
  • EggSits on Mr. Hale's bench in the panorama. {E3 27:54} on The lonely man edit
  • EggIts sim row is one of the Homestead's processes on The machine, with PAWN's and Homestead Ops's. {E3 SIM_STRINGS §5} on MOLE-2 edit
  • EggA small brass plaque on the panorama's bench, FOR MR. HALE / AND CAPTAIN, with a line of Braille. {E3 27:54-27:58; E3-EGG-42} on Mr. Hale edit
  • EggThe lonely man sits on his bench in Forever. {E3 27:54} on Mr. Hale edit
  • EggY+55..63 Episode 3's night (its place not fixed): Checked ........ N. in a credits sheet; her crayon on Rosie's fridge. {E3 17:07-17:14; 10:21-10:22} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggHer tablet outlives her world: in the sky age it is a very old calculator. {E3 27:59.97} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggChecked ........ N. in Bea's credits sheet and the stadium credits. {E3 17:07-17:14; 26:39} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggA crayon of the grinning masked girl with a tail, signed "N." (not legible at 1080p), beside the pizza box on Rosie's fridge. {E3 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-45} on Noor Haddad edit
  • Egg18:00 daily notify "dinner, noor ♥" at the bottom of the machine's process list. {E3 2:38-2:40; 16:15.9} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggRULES.md line 6, No work on occupied modules, ever.: the note on the drawing she checked. {E3 1:25-2:09} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggA search card, "Pink coconut snowball: nutrition facts" ("keeps for months in a sealed pouch"), sinks unread. {E3 4:31-4:49} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggIn the far future her orange-cased tablet, cracked top-left, a cartoon-dog sticker, is used as a calculator. {E3 27:59.97} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggSeventeen thumps in the end black slow like a resting heart, about 62 to 46 a minute: her heartbeat's rhyme. {E3 30:00-30:20} on Noor Haddad edit
  • EggY+55..63 On Episode 3's machine (whose night is not placed yet) pawn_engine.exe offers a draw. {E3 2:41-2:45} on PAWN edit
  • EggThe mugs are Episode 2's thirteen and the small cup. {E3 ~2:20; E2 08:53} on PAWN edit
  • Egg2026 pawn_engine.exe offering draw (1/2-1/2) in the process list. {E3 2:41-2:45; registry: 2:49-3:04} on PAWN edit
  • Eggq's Case 9 of 41. e4., in the quiet minute. {E3 11:55; registry: 12:09} on PAWN edit
  • EggIn the chaos q plays Case 41 of 41. Do it again., Qxf7#, 1/2-1/2. {E3 29:36-29:38} on PAWN edit
  • Eggq quotes its moves on The machine. {E3 11:55; 29:37} on PAWN edit
  • EggAndy's pyro guy is 555-533-7437, read digit by digit. {E3 13:56} on The pitchman edit
  • EggAndy's third memo is cut on "But wait-" at 30 s, [transcript truncated at 30 s]. {E3 18:20.0-18:29.15; E3-EGG-27} on The pitchman edit
  • EggA search card: Coil Black, a chromatic black: alizarin, viridian, bone black; COIL_BLACK is the film's darkest backdrop. {E3 ~4:28; S24; E3-EGG-07} on The pitchman edit
  • EggIts oak-table cases quote The oak table, Teo's tipped table ("What's on the table? ... Nothing."). {E3 8:03; 16:13; 29:16} on q edit
  • Egge4., Qxf7# and 1/2-1/2 quote PAWN's chess game. {E3 11:55; 29:37} on q edit
  • EggIts one second of silence rhymes BloodTailor's digital zero: a mind speaking that can't be heard. {E3 6:32; EGGS_SWEEP} on q edit
  • EggSearch card: The 180-degree shutter rule · answered by regolith_rob · 1,204 points: the one long, patient, correct answer. {E3 4:33-4:48; E3-EGG-08} on regolith_rob edit
  • EggHis answer is a search card that The agent never opens. {E3 4:33} on regolith_rob edit
  • EggBeside it, a child's crayon of the girl with the tail signed "N." (not legible at 1080p). {E3 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-45} on Rosie edit
  • EggUnder each check-in, far beneath, the Storm Bell re-pitched from D to A; at 20:00 only its onset. {E3 5:00; 10:00; 15:00; 20:00; E3-EGG-10} on Rosie edit
  • EggIn the panorama an old woman, seen from behind, cross-stitches a histogram; never confirmed as her. {E3 S26; CAST §6.4} on Rosie edit
  • EggStitches a one-window house and unpicks it: The cabin. {E3 10:08} on Rosie edit
  • EggThe The Storm Bell sounds under her five-minute clock. {E3 5:00-20:00} on Rosie edit
  • EggPossibly the old woman cross-stitching in Forever. {E3 S26} on Rosie edit
  • EggY+55..63 Episode 3's night: his Rev C full set and his bus-shelter drawing are ordinary downloads on a stranger's machine. {E3 2:14-2:21} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggEARTHLIGHT_rev_c_full_set.pdf and bus_shelter_FINAL_final.dwg in ~/Downloads, beside the Homestead anthem. {E3 2:14-2:21; E3-EGG-02} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggDrawn ........ T.V. in Bea's credits sheet and the stadium credits. {E3 17:07-17:14; 26:39} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggRULES.md line 6, No work on occupied modules, ever., is his Rev B note. {E3 1:25-2:09} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggA lighthouse band sweeps the wall of the one man who paid, as it swept Teo's window (barely visible in Revision 1). {E3 26:44; E3-EGG-39} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggThe VOID stamp and its THUNK, the same red, on the submission form; PAID on the man's tap. {E3 25:11; 26:55.8; E3-EGG-33} on Teo Varga edit
  • Eggq's oak-table cases (a mug, a ledger, keys; tipped; set upright) quote his tipped table. {E3 8:03; 16:13; 29:16} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggHis Rev B note is line 6 of RULES.md. {E3 1:25-2:09} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggHis initials are in Bea's The credits sheet. {E3 17:07} on Teo Varga edit
  • EggHer cursor is The cabin's window, and the The host's colour. {E3 0:07.42} on The agent edit
  • EggBlind like BloodTailor: her [IMAGE VIEWING IS UNAVAILABLE] card sits over 2.0 s of digital zero. {E3 ~5:30} on The agent edit
  • EggLives in The end room, Episode 1's room, with the hat and the mask; The lighthouse on his wall. {E3 26:44} on The one man who paid edit
  • EggHis PAID stamp is The stamps' red. {E3 26:55.8} on The one man who paid edit
  • EggFalling asleep with the loop on his chest rhymes the The caller asleep on the line in Episode 1. {E3 27:02-27:08} on The one man who paid edit
  • EggIts 2.56 s of silence is The round trip, the Earth-Moon delay. {E3 11:29} on The user edit
  • Egg~/Downloads/bus_shelter_FINAL_final.dwg. {E3 ~2:11-2:21; E3-EGG-02} on The bus shelter edit
  • EggSearch card: Coil Black, a chromatic black: alizarin, viridian, bone black, sinking unopened. {E3 ~4:28-4:48; E3-EGG-07} on Coil Black edit
  • EggCOIL_BLACK is the backdrop material of the real film, watermelon.mp4 (in its code). {E3 S24 rig.inc} on Coil Black edit
  • EggA face and a tail: at nine Rosie asked her brother for "the girl with the tail". {E3 5:00-5:53; E3-EGG-09} on The crayon melon edit
  • EggIts tail is the tail of "the girl with the tail", Jefrie, on the The pizza-box painting. {E3 5:00-5:53} on The crayon melon edit
  • EggLeftover rows: The Cabin ........ still there, Drawn ........ T.V., Checked ........ N. {E3 17:07-17:14; E3-EGG-25; E3-EGG-26} on The credits sheet edit
  • EggIn the panorama, a credits sheet with eight billion rows and column D blank. {E3 S26} on The credits sheet edit
  • EggBullshit Andy is Andy, pasted from a phone. {E3 17:07} on The credits sheet edit
  • EggIts leftover rows are The cabin's line from Episode 1's credits, Teo Varga's title block (T.V.) and Noor Haddad's check (N.). {E3 17:07; E3-EGG-25; E3-EGG-26} on The credits sheet edit
  • Egg~/Pictures/no14_crimson_coil_postcard.jpg among ordinary photo names, 1604×948 · 293 KB · mostly #7B5031 · online-only. {E3 ~2:11; 3:31-3:43; E3-EGG-03} on Crimson Coil edit
  • EggIn the oil painting, a small framed No. 14 nearly lost on the dark wall. {E3 28:00-28:25; S27} on Crimson Coil edit
  • EggA crayon of its girl with the tail, signed "N." (not legible), on Rosie's fridge beside the pizza box. {E3 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-45} on Crimson Coil edit
  • EggHidden page, an unsent letter to_m.txt: "I still have the postcard. The one with the painting. I keep it with my pictures." {HIDDEN-02 page} on Crimson Coil edit
  • Egg~/Downloads/EARTHLIGHT_rev_c_full_set.pdf (online-only, 38.2 MB), an ordinary download. {E3 ~2:11-2:21; E3-EGG-02} on EARTHLIGHT edit
  • EggTwo leftover rows in Bea's credits sheet: Drawn ........ T.V. and Checked ........ N. {E3 17:09-17:38; 26:39; E3-EGG-26} on EARTHLIGHT edit
  • EggBeside jojo's market stall (YEAR 300: almost) in the panorama: a hand-painted FRESH EGGS sign, a plain white egg with a crooked smile. {E3 27:19.2; E3-EGG-43} on The Egg Stand edit
  • EggStands beside jojo's stall in Forever (E3) and in The park (E4). {E3 27:19.2; E4 15:38} on The Egg Stand edit
  • EggY+55..63 At 3:12 a.m. it is the bedroom of the one man who paid. {E3 26:40-27:12} on The end room edit
  • EggAt 3:12 a.m. the payer's room: the skateboard wearing the purple wizard hat with one gold star, the diving mask and headlamp on a hook. {E3 26:42-26:44; E3-EGG-38} on The end room edit
  • EggA lighthouse band sweeps its wall once (barely visible in Revision 1). {E3 26:44; E3-EGG-39} on The end room edit
  • EggJefrie cooking in the rain on his second screen; Revision 1 crops it off the right edge. {E3 26:44.7; E3-EGG-40} on The end room edit
  • EggHer sincere film, already reduced to a loop nobody pays for (an egg within Episode 3). {E3 13:00-13:28} on FEED 3 edit
  • EggIts loop is Seed's frame 126. {E3 13:00-13:28} on FEED 3 edit
  • EggIts 76 nights are the 76 days of easel.exe's uptime and of the The sealed move's DAY 76 · 10:42. {E3 2:41; 16:08; E4 21:38} on FEED 3 edit
  • EggThe 412s that keep surfacing on the machine (INVOICE #0412, the screenshot's 412 KB, CHANNELS $103,412) are Episode 1's Four-Twelve. {E3 2:14; 14:05-14:30; 16:08; EGGS_SWEEP} on The forgotten servers edit
  • EggPAID is The stamps' red, with its THUNK. {E3 26:55.8; E3-EGG-33} on The fruit channel edit
  • EggRULES.md line 6: No work on occupied modules, ever. {E3 1:25-2:09; E3-EGG-05} on HAB 3 edit
  • EggThe same crayon, signed N., sits beside the pizza box on Rosie's fridge (its N. not legible). {E3 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-45} on HIDDEN-01 edit
  • EggThe folder she refused to open, which the viewer may: the series' second five-frame address at 29:47. {E3 29:47.000-29:47.167} on HIDDEN-02 edit
  • EggIts house_painted_over.png is Episode 1's ghost cabin, the only picture in the folder. {HIDDEN-02 page; E3-EGG-04} on HIDDEN-02 edit
  • EggIts watermelon log ends with the end black's seventeen thumps, at 04:12. {HIDDEN-02 page; E3 30:00} on HIDDEN-02 edit
  • EggA lighthouse band sweeps the end room's wall once at 3:12 a.m., as in Teo's study; barely visible in Revision 1. {E3 26:44; E3-EGG-39} on The lighthouse edit
  • EggSweeps the wall of The one man who paid. {E3 26:44} on The lighthouse edit
  • Egg~/Downloads/never_rises_never_sets.mp3 (1:53), an ordinary download. {E3 ~2:11-2:21; E3-EGG-02} on Never Rises, Never Sets edit
  • EggFaint on Andy's car radio under his second memo; his transcript reads [00:13.0-00:14.1] SPEAKER_2: never sets. {E3 13:40-14:05; E3-EGG-21} on Never Rises, Never Sets edit
  • EggOn Andy's car radio. {E3 13:51} on Never Rises, Never Sets edit
  • Eggno14_crimson_coil_postcard.jpg in ~/Pictures. {E3 ~2:11; 3:31-3:43; E3-EGG-03} on Fourteen edit
  • EggThe agent's renderer is first written in fourteen parts (one write call was too long); the planned 14-bar PLEASE STAND BY test card was never rendered. {E3 5:00-~7:00; E3-EGG-12} on Fourteen edit
  • EggA small framed No. 14 nearly lost on the dark wall of the oil painting. {E3 28:00-28:25; S27} on Fourteen edit
  • EggIn the panorama: very old, orange-cased, cracked top-left, a cartoon-dog sticker, used as a calculator. {E3 27:59.97; E3-EGG-41} on Noor's iPad edit
  • EggOutlives everyone into Forever. {E3 27:59.97} on Noor's iPad edit
  • EggAndy's voice memo: "my pyro guy is five five five, five three three, seven four three seven... tell him Andy sent you." {E3 13:56-14:01; E3-EGG-20} on 1-555-533-7437 edit
  • EggHis transcript prints my pyro guy is five five five five three three seven four three seven. {E3 ~14:01} on 1-555-533-7437 edit
  • EggAndy's pyro guy. {E3 13:56} on 1-555-533-7437 edit
  • EggCase 7 of 41. There is a mug, a ledger and a set of keys on an oak table. No reply. {E3 8:03.2; E3-EGG-14} on The oak table edit
  • EggCase 19 of 41. The table is tipped over. No reply. {E3 16:13} on The oak table edit
  • EggCase 38 of 41. The table is set upright. What is on the table?; the fresh session answers with its film's table, a watermelon and a small terracotta pot of soil; q: Noted. {E3 29:16-29:21} on The oak table edit
  • Eggq's cases quote it. {E3 8:03; 16:13; 29:16} on The oak table edit
  • EggThe last fix of Episode 3's first half (Rosie's melon gets its face) lands on an A major chord at 19:55.000, 19:57.5 in rev0: the last stroke before the turn is a gift. {E3 19:55; E3-EGG-28} on The One-Hair Brush edit
  • EggIts moment, 19:57.5, is re-aimed at Rosie's little melon. {E3 19:55} on The One-Hair Brush edit
  • Egg"Red is the thing that's leaving the light / We can't see it, but we know that it's right": Episode 1's song. {E3 24:07-24:13; E3-EGG-31} on One More Test edit
  • Egg"again." alone on 25:00.000 is Jefrie's "Again.", her last word. {E3 25:00; E3-EGG-32} on One More Test edit
  • EggQuotes Red Is the Thing That's Leaving and Jefrie's "Again." {E3 24:07; 25:00} on One More Test edit
  • EggIts cut slide hung Crimson Coil as Fourteen. {E3 rev0 22:54.7} on OUR WATERMELON edit
  • EggSearch card: Pink coconut snowball: nutrition facts (keeps for months in a sealed pouch), sinking unopened. {E3 4:31-4:49; E3-EGG-11} on The pink snowball edit
  • EggY+55..63 Still on her fridge on Episode 3's night, faded, under magnets. {E3 10:17-10:22} on The pizza-box painting edit
  • Eggsomebody stayed up all night painting for me once. i was nine. its still on my fridge. x R, with IMG_2231.jpg (image, 2.9 MB). {E3 ~10:09} on The pizza-box painting edit
  • EggRosie's fridge photo, seen once at a grazing angle: the pizza box, faded, under magnets. {E3 10:17-10:22; E3-EGG-15} on The pizza-box painting edit
  • EggBeside it a child's crayon of the girl with the tail, signed "N." (not legible at 1080p). {E3 10:21-10:22; E3-EGG-45} on The pizza-box painting edit
  • EggRosie's little melon, made for her with the agent's last minutes, has the curly tail she asked for at nine. {E3 19:55} on The pizza-box painting edit
  • EggAnswered in kind by Noor Haddad's crayon and by Rosie's little melon. {E3 10:21; 19:55} on The pizza-box painting edit
  • EggVerse 2 of "One More Test": "Red is the thing that's leaving the light / We can't see it, but we know that it's right", sung and typed in the karaoke. {E3 24:07-24:13; E3-EGG-31} on Red Is the Thing That's Leaving edit
  • EggFour-twelve keeps surfacing on the machine, in no registry: IMG_0412.jpg, 412 KB, render ticket #412, CHANNELS $103,412, INVOICE #0412. {E3 2:14; 10:48; 14:05; 16:08; SIM_WORLD §4.1} on Red Is the Thing That's Leaving edit
  • EggQuoted in One More Test. {E3 24:07} on Red Is the Thing That's Leaving edit
  • EggRULES.md line 6: No work on occupied modules, ever., one of the two rules the agent lingers on, with 5 (never stop a process you did not start); the camera dwells 2 s on each. {E3 1:25-2:09; E3-EGG-05} on Sheet 3, revision B edit
  • EggShe checks the module process filter (nothing) before she starts: RULES 6 observed. {E3 2:45} on Sheet 3, revision B edit
  • EggHer own account of the night: "I left other people's processes alone." {E3 ~19:15; Q-E3-50} on Sheet 3, revision B edit
  • EggDrawn ........ T.V. and Checked ........ N. in Bea's credits sheet: its title block. {E3 17:09-17:38; 26:39; E3-EGG-26} on Sheet 3, revision B edit
  • EggLine 6 of RULES.md, which The agent keeps. {E3 1:25-2:09} on Sheet 3, revision B edit
  • EggThe curly tail answers the girl with the tail Rosie asked for at nine. {E3 19:55} on Rosie's little melon edit
  • Egg"this one's a small one back" answers the caller's all-night painting. {E3 ~19:56} on Rosie's little melon edit
  • EggThe last fix of the first half lands on a chord, as Episode 1's last hair did at 19:57.5 (19:57.5 in rev0, 19:55.000 in Revision 1). {E3 19:55; E3-EGG-28} on Rosie's little melon edit
  • EggA small one back for the The pizza-box painting. {E3 ~19:56} on Rosie's little melon edit
  • EggIn the panorama an old woman, seen from behind, cross-stitches a histogram; never confirmed as Rosie. {E3 S26; CAST §6.4} on Rosie's sampler edit
  • EggThe house it stitches and unpicks is The cabin; the warm thread is the cabin window's #FFC870. {E3 10:08; E3-EGG-16} on Rosie's sampler edit
  • EggIts melon with a face and a tail is the The crayon melon's, and Rosie's little melon's. {E3 5:00} on Rosie's sampler edit
  • EggThe The Storm Bell sounds under the check-ins it stitches to. {E3 5:00-20:00; E3-EGG-10} on Rosie's sampler edit
  • EggAfter the agent's one question flies to the empty circle: 2.56 s of true digital zero, before No response (timed out after 60 s). {E3 11:29.00-11:31.56; E3-EGG-17} on The round trip edit
  • EggThe silence after the question to The user (E3); the lag of PAWN (E4). {E3 11:29; E4 0:46} on The round trip edit
  • EggLine 6 is Rev B's general note from Episode 2, written for Noor; here a house rule for agents. {E3 ~1:40; E3-EGG-05} on RULES.md edit
  • EggRule 6 is Sheet 3, revision B's note; in Episode 2 it halted the fleet for Noor Haddad. {E3 ~1:40; E2 28:10-28:14.72} on RULES.md edit
  • EggIn Episode 3 it is easel.exe's uptime, up 76 d 10:42, and the 76 nights of FEED 3. {E3 2:41; 16:08; E3-EGG-22} on The sealed move edit
  • EggFEED 3's two-second smash under a pendulum hammer is the same image as frame 126: her sincere film, already a loop nobody pays for. {E3 13:00-13:28} on Seed edit
  • EggIts frame 126 is the loop on FEED 3. {E3 13:00-13:28} on Seed edit
  • EggVOID in #C8442F, with the THUNK, on every year's submission form (watermelon.mp4, RC 1, year 1). {E3 25:05-25:31; E3-EGG-33} on The stamps edit
  • EggPAID in the same red with the THUNK on the one man's watermelon tap. {E3 26:55.8} on The stamps edit
  • EggREQUEST CHANGES on every downbeat of the chaos; in rev0 it was the Client's verdict. {E3 S29; rev0 26:43.5} on The stamps edit
  • EggThe vote's VOID and The one man who paid's PAID. {E3 25:05; 26:55.8} on The stamps edit
  • EggRe-pitched from D to A (+7 semitones, hum 55 Hz) under Rosie's five-minute clock at 5:00, 10:00 and 15:00; only its onset at 20:00.000; once more in the chaos. {E3 5:00; 10:00; 15:00; 20:00; 29:38.54; E3-EGG-10} on The Storm Bell edit
  • EggThe cursor is its window: a warm #FFC870 block, the only warm light on the plane, blinking at 530 ms; lit at 0:07.42, out on its blink at 29:59.467. {E3 0:07.42-29:59.467; E3-EGG-01} on The cabin edit
  • EggRosie's sampler stitches a small one-window house in walnut thread, its window warm. {E3 10:08-10:18; E3-EGG-16} on The cabin edit
  • EggThe Cabin ........ still there, a leftover row in Bea's credits sheet, rolls again on the stadium screen. {E3 17:01-17:07; 26:39; E3-EGG-25} on The cabin edit
  • EggIts window is The agent's cursor. {E3 0:07.42} on The cabin edit
  • EggRosie stitches it into Rosie's sampler and unpicks it. {E3 10:08} on The cabin edit
  • EggIts row is on the The credits sheet; its ghost is in The private folder. {E3 17:07; HIDDEN-02} on The cabin edit
  • EggIn the panorama a teenager stands over a watermelon with a mallet raised and never swings. {E3 S26} on The hammer edit
  • Eggkade_'s mallet in the panorama, raised and never swung. {E3 S26} on The hammer edit
  • EggIts end-black kitchen hums on A like the kitchen of The flat in Episode 4. {E3 30:00; E4 S28 sound} on The house edit
  • EggThe laptop fan, its pitch following the CPU, the hum of the whole first half, stops dead at 20:00.000 and is back at 28:25. {E3 20:00; 28:25; E3-EGG-29} on The hum edit
  • EggEpisode 3's laptop fan is The machine's. {E3 20:00} on The hum edit
  • EggDownloads: EARTHLIGHT_rev_c_full_set.pdf, bus_shelter_FINAL_final.dwg, never_rises_never_sets.mp3. {E3 2:14-2:21; E3-EGG-02} on The machine edit
  • EggIts fan, stopping at 20:00, is The hum. {E3 20:00; E3-EGG-29} on The machine edit
  • EggIts 76 days are Episode 1's painting clock, DAY 76 · 10:42 (the The sealed move's date). {E3 2:41; E3-EGG-22} on The machine edit
  • EggNearly lost on the dark wall, a small framed picture: Episode 1's No. 14. {E3 S27 NOTES; 28:00-28:25} on The nocturne edit
  • EggThe sky's question is Andy's, word for word, at last answered yes. {E3 28:04-28:16} on The nocturne edit
  • EggIts framed picture is Fourteen, Crimson Coil. {E3 S27 NOTES} on The nocturne edit
  • Eggjojo's browser build on a market stall, YEAR 300: almost, beside the Egg Stand's FRESH EGGS sign. {E3 ~27:19} on Forever edit
  • EggA teenager in a grey hoodie with a mallet raised, pigeons on his arm, moss on his sneakers, never swinging. {E3 S26} on Forever edit
  • EggAn old woman, seen from behind, cross-stitching a histogram. {E3 S26; CAST §6.4} on Forever edit
  • EggA credits sheet with eight billion rows and column D blank. {E3 S26} on Forever edit
  • EggA grey card dealt: Case 8,000,000,001. {E3 S26} on Forever edit
  • EggA man on Mr. Hale's bench beside a stranger: ARE YOU REAL / i think so / ME TOO. {E3 27:54-27:58} on Forever edit
  • EggA very old orange tablet, cracked, a cartoon-dog sticker, used as a calculator. {E3 27:59.97} on Forever edit
  • EggHides jojo's stall by the The Egg Stand, kade_'s mallet, Rosie's needle, the The credits sheet, q's card, The lonely man on Mr. Hale's bench and Noor's iPad. {E3 S26} on Forever edit
  • Egghouse_painted_over.png is The cabin. {HIDDEN-02 page; E3-EGG-04} on The private folder edit
  • EggThe postcard in the letter to M. is Crimson Coil's (no14_crimson_coil_postcard.jpg sits in ~/Pictures). {HIDDEN-02 page; E3 ~2:11} on The private folder edit
  • EggMelon 15's seventeen thumps are the end black's. {HIDDEN-02 page; E3 30:00} on The private folder edit
  • EggA card-stunt stadium in the panorama: the stadium again, centuries on. {E3 S26} on The stadium edit
  • EggA corner bug: Made possible by viewers like Aaron. {E3 25:12-25:16; E3-EGG-35} on The vote edit
  • EggVOID in Episode 2's red #C8442F, with its THUNK. {E3 25:05; E3-EGG-33} on The vote edit
  • EggEpisode 1's intertitle card: "what happens when we submit?" / "we stop." {E3 25:35-25:40; E3-EGG-34} on The vote edit
  • EggIts VOID is The stamps'; its bug is the The underwriting card's. {E3 25:05; 25:12} on The vote edit
  • EggSearch card: Archived: greenhouse ribs at Tranquility Homestead - can melons grow in regolith?, never opened. {E3 4:24-4:34; E3-EGG-06} on Tranquility Homestead edit
  • EggIts anthem is an ordinary download and plays faint on Andy's car radio. {E3 ~2:11-2:21; 13:51} on Tranquility Homestead edit
  • EggThe rule that halted its fleet is line 6 of the machine's RULES.md. {E3 1:25-2:09; E3-EGG-05} on Tranquility Homestead edit
  • EggThe film's key light stands at 56 degrees, Earth's angle over the base (in code only). {E3 S24; E3-EGG-36} on Tranquility Homestead edit
  • EggA small public-television bug in a corner of the vote broadcast: Made possible by viewers like Aaron. {E3 25:12-25:16; E3-EGG-35} on The underwriting card edit
  • EggIts bug sits on The vote (E3). {E3 25:12} on The underwriting card edit
  • EggIts darkest backdrop is the material COIL_BLACK. {E3 S24 code; E3-EGG-07} on watermelon.mp4 edit
  • EggIts warm key light stands at 56 degrees (key.elevation = 56.0f;), the angle of Earth over HAB 3; in code only. {E3 S24 code; E3-EGG-36} on watermelon.mp4 edit
  • EggFor three frames the seeds' catch-lights spell OK; for two a tiny face shows inside the opening rind: Andy's spelling seeds and Rosie's little face, answered where nobody looks. {E3 ~26:01-26:03} on watermelon.mp4 edit
  • EggIts COIL_BLACK is Coil Black; its 56 degrees is Earth over HAB 3. {E3 S24 code} on watermelon.mp4 edit
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