E2 Episode 2 · about Y+60

Earthlight

released placed at about Y+60 Running

A gentle draftsman livestreams the blueprints of a city on the Moon and calmly explains every way its residents could die. Ten-year-old Noor, alone for eleven days in the half-built base his free drawings became, watches him on a cracked iPad, because whatever he stamps, the robots outside her window build.

About sixty years on, a draftsman livestreams the blueprints of a city on the Moon while ten-year-old Noor, alone in the half-built base his drawings became, watches on a cracked iPad; whatever he stamps, the robots outside her window build; at 20:00 the stream peels off her screen, every robot turns its lights on her window, and she calls in.

YouTube ↗The blog post ↗The hidden page ↗

Used

EARTHLIGHT Sheet 1 of 14: white ink on Prussian blue, one window facing Earth {E2 0:35-3:31}

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The record

Released: yes
runtime: 30:20.000 (30:00 of programme + 20 s of black with her heartbeat), 54,600 frames at 1080p30
made: 2026-10-12..2026-10-14 on Aaron's laptop, the series' first local run; blog AO-048 and the hidden page live 2026-10-14
Lines: 155
File: episodes/E2.md

After the turn: her hand on the cracked window as DRAY's eye looks in {E2 22:00}

A completely new cast; Episode 1 returns only as eggs (and Rosie, in the chat). From the tenth second the picture is Noor's copy of Teo's stream.

On the Y axisY0 = the night of Episode 1

RunningPlaced at about Y+60. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §13: nothing on screen fixes the gap}

Thirty minutes and twenty seconds42 parts

Every episode is 30:00 of programme, then 20 seconds of black with something under it. The warm line is 20:00, where each one turns. Tap a part to read it.

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Story26 lines

SteelThe concept: a child on a moon base watches a "moon city planner" on Earth drawing blueprints for colonising the Moon on her iPad; he makes it for people on Earth, never intending it to be seen from the base. {Aaron E2 brief 2026-10-12} edit
SteelHe talks calmly and matter-of-factly about every risk, unintentionally brutal to the kid; when he describes her equipment she looks up and sees it failing; when he names planned structures she looks out and sees robots building them. {Aaron E2 brief 2026-10-12} edit
SteelShe is mostly quiet, unheard for the first ten minutes, and phones in near the end. {Aaron E2 brief 2026-10-12} edit
On screenTeo Varga goes live as longhand on Lantern and re-issues his whole Moon-city drawing set, EARTHLIGHT, as Rev C: "Tonight, the whole set again, properly." {E2 00:35} edit
On screenFrom 00:10 the picture is her copy of the stream; at the first ISSUED stamp it pulls back: an iPad on the Moon, the scratch is a crack, small taped hands. {E2 03:31} edit
On screenEach sheet he stamps ISSUED wakes a robot outside her window in the same frame: MOLE-1 at Sheet 2, DRAY at Sheet 4. {E2 03:31; 08:20} edit
On screenNoor Haddad types the moon when he asks where everyone is watching from; he laughs through his nose: "...Somebody's always on the moon." {E2 04:17} edit
On screenHer base app says HAB 3 is STORAGE with OCCUPANCY 0, the manifest is 13 ADULTS - PERSONAL EFFECTS (1), and she must not use public channels. {E2 06:56-07:01} edit
On screenThirteen of the dorm's fourteen bunks are stripped; thirteen mugs and one small cup wait on a shelf; a dispenser greets her by her mother's name. {E2 08:53-09:42} edit
On screenA cough at 10:21 is the first sound of her; her battery wall gives 74 h to empty against 128 h to sunrise. {E2 10:21; 11:06} edit
On screenHer first words come through the stream's robot voice (Lantern's TTS), $1: "how long is the night where you are". "Here? About eight hours tonight. Where we're building... three hundred and fifty-four." {E2 11:37-11:50} edit
On screenLow Power Mode drops her copy to audio only and the Moon arrives as seven damaged Victorian scientific plates while his calm voice continues. {E2 14:55-16:30} edit
On screenHis white model and the real dark base are flown on one camera path; an x-ray finds a tunnel under HAB 3 that is on no sheet. {E2 17:10-17:46} edit
On screenHe decides phase one was his mistake; she types please dont void sheet 3 and please; the chat cheers VOID IT KING; he stamps Sheet 3 VOID. {E2 19:16-19:58.72} edit
On screenAt 20:00 the stream peels off her screen and every robot turns its lights onto her window. {E2 20:00} edit
On screenOn her iPad (Noor's iPad) his calm voice reads out how a module is taken apart while the fleet does it to her home, step by step: PAWN leaves, The hum stops, the window cracks, a machine's eye looks in. {E2 20:04-21:58} edit
On screenShe goes down to her tunnel (The hideaway), 3 m, "SAFE FROM THE SUN", and plays the base's recruitment song, whispering its echoes one round trip behind. {E2 22:05-25:02} edit
On screenHer iPad dies at 5%; she charges it from her suit, climbs for signal and, against the standing order, calls the stream. {E2 25:02-25:20} edit
On screenAcross 2.56-second silences (The round trip) she tells him "I live in it." and "That was eleven days ago." {E2 25:42; 26:31} edit
On screenTogether they redraw Sheet 3 as Sheet 3, revision B: her window, her door in the floor, a timeline for one, her figure to scale (1.38 m), CHK: N., and the note NO WORK ON OCCUPIED MODULES. EVER. {E2 26:45-28:14} edit
On screenRev B lands; the robots' lights go out one by one, the fans come back, the battery reads 130 h against 128 h to sunrise. {E2 28:14.72-28:27} edit
On screenA flyby: one red beacon blink 62 km away, never remarked on; then POP. 13 becomes 14 on Sheet 1. {E2 28:58; 29:15-29:30} edit
On screenThirty seconds of everything at once; black; "Goodnight." and, 1.28 s later from her iPad, "Good-". {E2 29:30-30:00} edit
On screenIn the end black, after 1.28 s of silence, a heartbeat slows over the life-support hum. {E2 30:01-30:20} edit
RunningNobody finds out if it is enough: the crew, the blink, FINCH's lamp, the white suit and who sends "dinner, noor" stay unanswered by design. {E2 MASTER_TREATMENT §0.2} edit
RunningUnder Aaron's later decision (Rosie is Noor's grandmother), grandma_rosie sits in the chat of the stream her granddaughter lives by, on the night she calls in; nobody on screen connects them. {E2 27:51.6; Aaron 2026-10-22} edit

Structure43 lines

On screenS01 00:00-00:10 Paper: blank Prussian-blue drafting paper under a lamp, a crumb, a hairline scratch top-left; a tinny half-word "-night" belongs to no room. {E2 00:00} edit
On screenS02 00:10-00:35 Title block: the Lantern overlay assembles; "Evening." "Title block first."; his hand letters EARTHLIGHT through a template; tps_hab3's 1,094-day toast. {E2 00:10-00:34} edit
On screenS03 00:35-01:50 Sheet 1, the site: the pit, the cave, 17 degrees, radiation, 3 m of dirt, one window facing Earth. {E2 00:35} edit
On screenS04 01:50-03:05 Free sheets; Dez joins: the The stamps, "Build whatever you like with them.", the 3 m cover load, the hidden cabin drawn and rubbed out. {E2 01:50} edit
On screenS05 03:05-04:00 Sheet 2, the berm: ISSUED at 03:31.0; the pull-back to her iPad; MOLE-1 wakes. {E2 03:31} edit
On screenS06 04:00-04:40 Where's everybody watching from?: the moon; "Somebody's always on the moon."; the cheese tip. {E2 04:00} edit
On screenS07 04:40-05:28.5 Sheet 3, phase 1 residential: 14 bunks, the window as weakest point, CO2 limit, Note 9; Nightbot #1; her scrubber over the limit. {E2 04:40} edit
On screenS08 05:28.5-06:30 Sheet 12, the timeline is everything; Dez's million people and his Corolla Mars sim. {E2 05:28} edit
On screenS09 06:30-07:20 Dust and seals: she tapes a leaking seal; the base app (OCCUPANCY 0, PERSONAL EFFECTS (1)). {E2 06:30} edit
On screenS10 07:20-08:00 The The bus shelter facing the wrong way; the empty CHK box. {E2 07:20} edit
On screenS11 08:00-08:40 Sheet 4, the greenhouse: ISSUED at 08:20; DRAY floods the bare ribs. {E2 08:00} edit
On screenS12 08:40-09:20 HAB 2, anyone can go: Dez's posts; the stripped bunks, thirteen mugs and one small cup. {E2 08:40} edit
On screenS13 09:20-09:50 Rations: Sheet 10; her mother's badge at the dispenser; "Good evening, Dr. Haddad."; the pink snowball. {E2 09:20} edit
On screenS14 09:50-10:38.7 Sheet 11, landings; Nightbot #2 cuts Dez off; her cough; the wall map, RESUPPLY 6 - TIPPED (RESUPPLY 6). {E2 09:50} edit
On screenS15 10:38.7-11:25 Sheet 5, battery through one night; her battery wall; the light steps down. {E2 10:38} edit
On screenS16 11:25-12:15 How long is the night: her $1 question in the robot voice; Sheet 6, the reactor. {E2 11:25} edit
On screenS17 12:15-12:50 The tea house: aaron's gift subs (aaron (the viewer)); Sheet 14; the lonely gate; Dez returns. {E2 12:15} edit
On screenS18 12:50-13:40 They die from the night: MOLE-2 frozen by the gate; the dark rover beacons; "they always come back"; her eyes in black glass 1.0 s. {E2 12:50} edit
On screenS19 13:40-14:40 The quiet minute: Sheet 7, the tunnels, no voice or music; she copies Sheet 3 and adds a door in the floor. {E2 13:40} edit
On screenS20 14:40-15:00 What kills you first: "Honestly? The environment."; Low Power Mode, audio only. {E2 14:40} edit
On screenS21 15:00-16:30 The Plates: seven Victorian plates of vacuum, day and night, invisible rain, stones that fall, dust, tremor, silence. {E2 15:00} edit
On screenS22 16:30-17:10 "So. That's the neighbourhood.": the oak table tipped; her cup on the floor. {E2 16:30} edit
On screenS23 17:10-18:00 The model, flown twice; the x-ray finds her tunnel; HAB 3's window warms. {E2 17:10} edit
On screenS24 18:00-18:50 Sheet 9, the suit: helmet water, fingernails, S/M/L ADULT; her suit NOT RATED; Kxe8. {E2 18:00} edit
On screenS25 18:50-19:27 No moon kids: "I'd never put a child in phase one."; please dont void sheet 3; CALL HIM. {E2 18:50} edit
On screenS26 19:27-20:00 VOID: all fourteen sheets edge to edge; VOID IT KING; THUNK at 19:58.72. {E2 19:27} edit
On screenS27 20:00-20:40 The break: the peel, digital zero, the robots' lights on her window, the clunk, STEP 1 OF 9, 74 h becomes 31 h. {E2 20:00} edit
On screenS28 20:40-21:30 Decommissioning: his white lines over her room; PAWN asks for a badge and leaves; 21:05 the hum stops; candle; helmet. {E2 20:40} edit
On screenS29 21:30-22:05 The window: DRAY pulls the bags; the outer pane cracks; her palm; DRAY's eye looks in. {E2 21:30} edit
On screenS30 22:05-23:15 Down: the hatch, the stair, 3 M SAFE FROM THE SUN, text mode, FINCH's lamp turns, "dinner, noor", the song file. {E2 22:05} edit
On screenS31 23:15-23:55 Never Rises, Never Sets (I): the recruitment ad on his linework, FAMILIES WELCOME, the hotline and the fine print. {E2 23:15} edit
On screenS32 23:55-24:35 Never Rises, Never Sets (II): chorus over a CCTV grid of her home being unbolted; her whispered echoes. {E2 23:55} edit
On screenS33 24:35-25:05 Never Rises, Never Sets (III): the Japanese bridge, families through the gate, the still white suit; her battery cuts the song. {E2 24:35} edit
On screenS34 25:05-25:20 The line is open: she charges from her suit, climbs, breaks the rule and dials. {E2 25:05} edit
On screenS35 25:20-26:05 The call (I): the first cut to Earth's pristine stream; "Hi." / "I live in it." / "It's the only light." {E2 25:20} edit
On screenS36 26:05-26:55 The call (II), eleven days: PAWN; "That was eleven days ago."; the silence and the push-in on his face. {E2 26:05} edit
On screenS37 26:55-28:15 The call (III), Sheet 3 revision B: the timeline for one, "Who do we call?", the scale figure, CHK: N., ISSUED. {E2 26:55} edit
On screenS38 28:15-28:35 Issued for construction: lights out one by one, the hum back, 130 h, HALTED - REV B. {E2 28:15} edit
On screenS39 28:35-29:15 The whole city: the flyby, one red blink, the x-ray, her one lit window, "Are you still watching?". {E2 28:35} edit
On screenS40 29:15-29:30 Occupant load: his desk with no interface; POP. 13 to 14. {E2 29:15} edit
On screenS41 29:30-30:00 Chaos: a raid and the buffer flush on ten bars of 2.56 s; the hidden card; black at 29:56.48; "Goodnight." "Good-". {E2 29:30} edit
On screenS42 30:00-30:20 Black: 1.28 s of silence, then a heartbeat slowing from about 64 to 47 bpm over the hum. {E2 30:00} edit
SteelThe video is exactly 30:20: 20 s of black after 30:00 with some audio, "even if it's just a heartbeat"; the pen on paper made quieter. {Aaron 2026-10-14} edit

The turn11 lines

SteelAt 20:00 the episode reaches its wild point; for this one: horror, but not completely, still mixing comedy and intrigue, with a music video, real fear and uncertainty. {Aaron E2 brief 2026-10-12} edit
On screen19:58.72 he stamps Sheet 3 VOID across the drawing of her window; her copy smears; in the facecam he regards the stamp. {E2 19:58.72} edit
On screen20:00.000 Nightbot's fourth card begins "longhand has been live 20 m-" and its chime plays one note. {E2 20:00} edit
On screenOn the same frame the whole Lantern overlay curls off her screen like old tape and falls away; nothing flashes. {E2 20:00-20:02} edit
On screen20:00.4-20:03.0 digital silence while a real datamosh drags Sheet 3's drawn window into her real window: HAB 3 full frame for the first time. {E2 20:00.4} edit
On screenOutside, in silence, every robot finishes turning its work lights onto her module; a dull clunk comes through the floor at 20:03. {E2 20:02-20:03} edit
On screenThe hum returns a semitone low (the fleet's load). {E2 20:03.5} edit
On screenTinny from the iPad in her lap: "Somebody's asking what happens to the old phase one. Note nine. So we start with the decommissioning." {E2 20:04} edit
On screenHer base app: DECOMMISSION HAB 3 (SHEET 3 VOID) - STEP 1 OF 9 - STRIP OUTER SHIELDING; her battery wall rolls from 74 h to 31 h. {E2 20:05-20:10} edit
On screenAfter the peel the stream survives only on her small screen, then as text, until the call cuts to Earth's pristine copy. {E2 20:00-25:20} edit
RunningThe break is fair, planted three times: "Build whatever you like with them." (01:58), Note 9 (05:19), OCCUPANCY 0 (06:56); no countdown before it. {E2 MASTER_TREATMENT §0.2} edit

Mini-plots26 lines

On screenPAWN's chess game in chat: e4 (02:30), Nf3 (07:40), Qxf7# (13:00, illegal), Kxe8 (18:40, read aloud as illegal), "Pawn. He cheats. He left." (26:20), ½-½ in the last bar (29:53.92). {E2 02:30-29:53.92} edit
On screenMaisie, via hab_dad: the gate looks lonely (12:40), do moon kids get recess (18:46), is the girl ok (26:58), maisie says goodnight (29:33). {E2 12:40-29:33} edit
On screenasleep_by_ten: "the sleep stream is back" (00:14), "still awake" (06:51), "ok actually falling asleep now" (13:52), "i'm awake" (26:45), "goodnight longhand" (29:48). {E2 00:14-29:48} edit
On screenhalfmoon_harriet, a retired Houston controller: "they always come back" (13:19); "that's a real round trip. i used to hear that gap every day" (25:53); "i still have a few numbers from work. calling them now" (27:44); a red blink at 28:58. {E2 13:19-28:58} edit
On screenwren_draws posts a fan map "with a little tunnel under hab 3, for fun" (16:50); the x-ray finds the real tunnel (17:42); "drawing her stair too" (27:30). {E2 16:50-27:30} edit
On screenkaito_tsukimi's haiku "月見 / the moon looks back / one window lit" (13:44); in the flyby hers is the one lit window (29:00-29:15). {E2 13:44; 29:00-29:15} edit
On screenThe empty CHK box: "Nobody checked the drawing" (07:46); PE_tamsin "who's CHK on these?" (18:14), "Nobody, PE_tamsin." (18:15); "Who checked this?" "N." (28:04); PE_tamsin types "CHK" (28:10). {E2 07:46-28:10} edit
On screenThe E.M. tally: a stroke on a sticky note for each "Elon Musk" Dez says; 24 at 29:15, the 25th grows after "ELON MUSK-" in the chaos. {E2 29:15; 29:36} edit
On screenThe coffee clock: poured at 00:40 ("the pour. every single week the pour"), refilled 12:10 and 19:30, still rippling after the plates, cold at 29:15. {E2 00:40-29:15} edit
On screenThe tea house: aaron's "love the tea house" (12:21), Sheet 14 with its gate (12:33), Maisie's lonely gate (12:40), the real lone gate (The tea-house gate) by MOLE-2 (13:08), paper families walking through it in the song (24:34). {E2 12:21-24:34} edit
On screenThe The pink snowball: untouched in her locker (09:40); at the still centre of the chaos on her windowsill, Earth behind it (29:51). {E2 09:40; 29:51} edit
On screenRosie's three chat lines as grandma_rosie, never read aloud: her big brother painting along with a man on tv (07:27), the girl with a tail on a pizza box (14:07.5), "stay up for her, love" (27:51.6). {E2 07:27; 14:07.5; 27:51.6} edit
On screenThree metres: "about three metres of dirt overhead" (01:33); her notebook stair 1 M / 2 M / 3 M (14:00); "3 M SAFE FROM THE SUN" (22:20); "Three metres. You said three." / "I did say three." (27:01-27:06). {E2 01:33-27:06} edit
On screenThe door in the floor: she draws it on her copy of Sheet 3 (13:58-14:20), asks for it on the call (26:55), Rev B labels it DOOR IN THE FLOOR. {E2 13:58-28:14} edit
On screenCALL HIM on her base-printed calendar (19:25), then the call (25:15). {E2 19:25; 25:15} edit
On screenThe bus shelter that worked better backwards, a story about nobody checking. {E2 07:20-07:49} edit
On screenThe The oak table: "What's on the table? ... Nothing." (16:50-17:00); her own table empty and her cup on the floor (17:02). {E2 16:50-17:02} edit
On screenDez's Corolla Mars sim: "day three I was talking to the seatbelt"; Teo answers with the isolation studies. {E2 06:15-06:27} edit
On screenThirteen mugs and one small cup set out on routine for people who are not there. {E2 08:53-09:13} edit
On screenFINCH's lamp stalk turns toward her though it cannot move. {E2 22:43} edit
On screenOne white EVA suit stands perfectly still among the waving paper families, visor to camera, 3.84 s; she stops singing. {E2 24:52-24:56} edit
On screen"dinner, noor" with a heart ("dinner, noor ♥") from HAB 1 at 18:00; she holds the talk key and says nothing. {E2 22:50-22:57} edit
On screenThe The lighthouse behind Teo sweeps every ten seconds; once across his face in the silence. {E2 26:39} edit
On screenThe hum under every room scene, noticed only when it stops (21:05) and when the fans come back (28:15); "the fans. you can hear the fans" (28:42). {E2 21:05; 28:15; 28:42} edit
On screenregolith_rob's corrections: 130-170 m (01:22), lunar hay fever (06:45), RUD (13:05), 40 repos (17:55), "pawn.hab3 cheats" (18:47), 1.28 / 2.56 (25:50), gunpowder (26:18). {E2 01:22-26:18} edit
On screengravy_baron's $5 questions: is the moon made of cheese (04:24); ask her if the moon smells like gunpowder (25:56), "It does. In the airlock." {E2 04:24; 26:11} edit

Mediums13 lines

SteelAsked for: a top-down desk drawn like Episode 1's paint-along, 3D that feels 2D, never animated by MiniMax; a livestream with TTS, chat and a facecam; a visceral new style for the Moon's environment; a music video; glitches as the series' aesthetic; very high quality sound. {Aaron E2 brief 2026-10-12} edit
SteelEvery episode opens slowly: about 10 s of near-silent close-up, then about 25 s of making the title by hand. {Aaron 2026-10-12} edit
RunningA top-down desk engine: cut-out hands, white ink on Prussian blue, orange paint-marker redlines, its own single-stroke lettering. {E2 HOW_IT_WAS_MADE} edit
RunningLantern, an invented stream overlay: chat with fixed user colours, tip and sub alerts read by a TTS robot, Nightbot, X share cards, a facecam, a quality ladder and 14 glitches tied to her battery. {E2 HOW_IT_WAS_MADE} edit
On screenTeo's facecam is a 2.5D puppet of six stills behind a boom mic that hides his mouth; one MiniMax-H3 push-in on his face. {E2 26:37} edit
RunningThe base in Blender (EEVEE flybys, an x-ray pass) and 12 MiniMax-H3 shots from painted keyframes; TRELLIS.2 robots. {E2 HOW_IT_WAS_MADE} edit
On screenSeven animated engraved Victorian plates in code (CODE-PLATES), damaged by the Moon: pinned, shaken, punched through. {E2 15:00-16:30} edit
On screenA call UI with the real 1.28 s each-way delay; her caller video is 32x18 blocks at 4 fps. {E2 25:20} edit
On screenA music video in brochure and CCTV language, with a HyperFrames ad and a claude-paint oil cafe in the rain. {E2 23:15-25:05} edit
On screenReal datamosh at 20:00, a page-curl peel, ASCII text mode in the tunnel, a buffer-flush collage for the chaos. {E2 20:00; 22:05; 29:30} edit
RunningDesigned ElevenLabs voices (a local formant shift for the girl), SFX and music, plus local music and local TTS for the chat. {E2 HOW_IT_WAS_MADE} edit
On screenThirteen real X posts by Elon Musk shown as verbatim official embeds and read only by Dez. {E2 YouTube description} edit
On screenEverything in F at 93.75 bpm, so one bar equals one Earth-Moon round trip (2.56 s). {E2 score 00:00-30:00; MASTER_TREATMENT §6.4} edit

Eggs given18 lines

The episode quotes Episode 1 and plants for later ones; the full families are in Egg atlas.

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} edit
EggA framed print of Crimson Coil under his lamp. → Crimson Coil {E2 00:20} 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} 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} 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} edit
EggThe Storm Bell, re-pitched to F, under every Nightbot chime. → The Storm Bell {E2 05:00-29:38} edit
Egggrandma_rosie's three chat lines. → Rosie, The caller, The pizza-box painting {E2 07:27; 14:07.5; 27:51.6} 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} edit
EggBUT WAIT THERES MORE in chat. → The pitchman, multiplanetary_mike {E2 08:47} edit
EggThe ad's fine-print crawl too fast to read. → E1's Coil Black fine print {E2 23:18-23:21} edit
EggA carton of COIL BLACK drawing ink on his desk. → Coil Black {E2 29:15} 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} 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} edit
On screenHIDDEN-01 (HIDDEN-01): for five frames a torn chalk card in Noor's hand reads aaronorelup.com/ledger/ / earthlight/hideaway; live since 2026-10-14. {E2 29:47.000-29:47.133} edit
On screenThe hidden page holds her stair, FINCH lit, her crayons, a tally of 11, a chalk door in the floor with stairs going down, four days of dinner, noor ♥ and Sheet 3 Rev B with TO THE PIT: 17 degrees. {HIDDEN-01} edit
RunningCarries 13 eggs from Episode 1 (12 in the film, 1 parked: the crayon) plus the hidden card. {Series EPISODES; EGG_REGISTRY} edit
RunningQuoted so far by 15 eggs in Episode 3's master and 8 registry rows in Episode 4. {EGG_REGISTRY; E4 SUMMARY} edit
RunningPlanted for later and since quoted: Rev B's rule (E3's RULES.md line 6), dinner, noor ♥ (E3's cron), the pink snowball, the breathing card and pawn.hab3 (E4). {E3-EGG-05; E4-EGG-08; E4-EGG-13; E4-EGG-15} edit

How it was made8 lines

RunningOne local Claude Code session (Opus 5.5, ultracode) and 69 Opus 5.5 agents in 18 workflow runs, never more than 8 at once. {E2 HOW_IT_WAS_MADE} edit
RunningAbout 18.5 h of active work inside about 57.5 h, because a session limit and the weekly limit stopped everything twice. {Series EPISODES} edit
Running$1,106 at API list rates (4.38M output tokens); 13,573 ElevenLabs credits; 5.6 GPU-hours on a GPU shared with Aaron's other sessions. {Series EPISODES} edit
RunningDelivered at 31:00 and re-cut the same day to 30:20 for Aaron's note, the pen strokes lowered 6-8 dB. {E2 film RECUT_30-20} edit
RunningA QA panel found 8 must-fix items; 7 were fixed, and the 8th was publishing the hidden page. {E2 QA_REPORT} edit
RunningKnown gaps: nobody had listened to the voices, the song or the mix; three slow minutes (07:20, 12:15, 24:10) and a grey-box suit at 18:24 were left for Aaron. {Series EPISODES; E2 QA_REPORT} edit
RunningLicences: MiniMax-H3 excludes the US/EU/UK/Korea and Qwen-Image and YuE2 are non-commercial, so monetisation is off until Aaron decides. {Series EPISODES} edit
RunningCharacter canon for Noor, Teo, Dez and the machines is on Aaron's Notion (Canon Hub, crew pages not yet reviewed by him); see The world. {Notion: Canon Hub} edit

Open10 lines

OpenWhether anyone comes back: Rover 2, the crew, Noor's mother. {E2 MASTER_TREATMENT §4} edit
OpenWho sends "dinner, noor" (the film never says). {E2 22:51} edit
OpenWhy FINCH's lamp moves. {E2 22:43} edit
OpenWhat the still white EVA suit in the song is. {E2 24:52} edit
OpenWhether Rev B is enough: 130 h of battery against 128 h of night. {E2 28:27} edit
OpenWhether the chalk door in the floor on the hidden page is her own hatch or something below it. {E2 hideaway page} edit
OpenThe song's bar-8 half-line, "you won't be here" or "you won't need it"; never lettered. {E2 23:33} edit
OpenWhether Rosie knew the girl on Teo's call was Noor. {E2 27:51.6; Aaron 2026-10-22} edit
OpenWhere Noor is at the time of Episode 3 (still on the Moon before Episode 2, or back home after it). {Aaron 2026-10-22} edit
OpenThe calendar year: the on-screen dates put the stream after August 2026; the series' Y axis has no year yet. {E2 05:52; 17:44} edit

The record

On the Y axisY0 = the night of Episode 1

Thirty minutes and twenty seconds42 parts

Story26 lines

Structure43 lines

The turn11 lines

Mini-plots26 lines

Mediums13 lines

Eggs given18 lines

How it was made8 lines

Open10 lines

Cast36 characters · 31 things

Dr. Amara Haddad

asleep_by_ten

BASE

BloodTailor

The caller

Dez

"dinner, noor ♥"

DRAY

FINCH

gravy_baron

hab_dad

halfmoon_harriet

Homestead Ops

The host

The hydrate reminder

Jefrie

kaito_tsukimi

Lantern's TTS

LOOM

Maisie

mod_gwen

MOLE-1

MOLE-2

moonacres_official

multiplanetary_mike

Noor Haddad

PAWN

PE_tamsin

The pitchman

regolith_rob

Rosie

Teo Varga

touchgrass_on_mars

aaron (the viewer)

wren_draws

xX_slime_Xx

Egg families in this episode42

Threads through this episode33