{
  "id": "char-grey-market-dealer-001",
  "title": "The Grey-Market Dealer — Surplus Liquidator of As-Is Hardware (Character Plate)",
  "pertains_to": {
    "game": "ENTROPY OS — shared universe / the swap-meet, dubious provenance",
    "lore_chapter": "Dramatis Personae — recurring entities (the grey-market dealer)",
    "category": "characters-entities",
    "type": "character key art"
  },
  "aspect_ratio": "2:3",
  "resolution_hint": "full-bleed portrait, print quality, ~3000px tall",
  "prompt": "Concept-art character plate for THE GREY-MARKET DEALER, a shadowy surplus-liquidator working a swap-meet folding table of as-is hardware of dubious provenance. Render him as a half-lit figure behind a beige card table under a dim swap-meet awning at dusk — a wiry man in a grey windbreaker, face mostly in shadow under a cap, one knowing half-smile catching the light, hands resting open over the goods in a gesture of total deniability. The table is a graveyard of period hardware: yellowed beige tower PCs with mismatched cases, naked hard drives, ISA cards in anti-static bags, ribbon cables coiled like guts, a ZIP drive, a stack of unlabeled floppies — every serial-number sticker scraped, peeled, or migrated, a few raw etched numbers ground flat. A hand-lettered cardboard sign reads the no-questions policy that is all questions. A single dim work-lamp throws an amber pool (#ffb000) over the wares; everything else is grey-blue dusk and shadow. Painterly digital concept art, matte filmic finish, faint scanlines on a powered-on monitor at the table edge, heavy grain, chromatic aberration, the degraded look of a 1999 classifieds photo. Administrative beige and grey dominate (#c0c0c0, #808080); one amber accent glow only. Mood: shady, transactional, faintly dangerous — sacred junk changing hands in the dark, provenance not included.",
  "art_direction": {
    "style": "painterly digital concept art, prestige art-book character plate, shady-transactional noir-lite",
    "medium": "gouache-meets-digital, matte filmic finish, faint scanlines on a powered monitor, grain, chromatic aberration",
    "palette": ["#ffb000 amber work-lamp", "#c0c0c0 administrative beige hardware", "#808080 grey dusk shadow", "#dfdfdf metal highlight", "#0b0b0b deep shadow", "#207878 faint cold dusk-teal at edges"],
    "lighting": "single dim amber work-lamp pooling on the wares; cold grey-blue dusk fill behind; the dealer's face mostly in shadow; volumetric haze",
    "composition": "half-lit figure behind a folding table of hardware, hands open over the goods, hand-lettered sign, dusk awning, deep shadow margins",
    "camera_lens": "35mm, slightly low across the table toward the dealer",
    "mood": "shady, deniable, faintly dangerous; sacred junk at dusk"
  },
  "key_details": [
    "wiry dealer in a grey windbreaker and cap, face in shadow, one knowing half-smile, hands open in deniability",
    "table graveyard of as-is period hardware: yellowed towers, naked drives, ISA cards in bags, coiled ribbon cable, a ZIP drive, unlabeled floppies",
    "serial-number stickers scraped, peeled, migrated, or ground flat",
    "a hand-lettered cardboard 'no questions' sign whose policy is all questions",
    "dim amber work-lamp pool; cold dusk fill; filmic grain, classifieds-scan finish"
  ],
  "text_in_image": "on the hand-lettered cardboard sign, crisp: 'AS-IS · NO RETURNS · NO QUESTIONS'",
  "avoid": [
    "smartphones", "modern flat/material UI", "flat-panel widescreen monitors", "USB-C", "OLED",
    "bright saturated cartoon colors", "glossy 3D render look", "neon cyberpunk cliché", "mascots",
    "rarity gems", "modern minimalism", "RGB gamer lighting", "emoji", "contemporary fashion or cars",
    "modern e-commerce / clean retail look", "obvious cartoon-villain styling", "clean undegraded finish",
    "teal used as a decorative glow (only a faint cold dusk edge is allowed)"
  ],
  "references": [
    "a dim swap-meet folding table piled with as-is computer surplus at dusk",
    "a half-lit dealer with deniable open hands and a knowing smile",
    "scraped and migrated serial numbers on grey-market hardware",
    "1999 classifieds / flea-market photography",
    "fluorescent-dystopia, not neon-cyberpunk"
  ],
  "nano_banana_notes": "Lead with the descriptive paragraph; request 2:3 portrait. Beige-and-grey hardware dominant with amber work-lamp (#ffb000) as the single accent glow; teal allowed only as a faint cold dusk edge, never decorative. Render the sign 'AS-IS · NO RETURNS · NO QUESTIONS' crisply. Keep the dealer's face shadowed and the provenance dubious — scraped serial stickers visible.",
  "filename": "entity-the-grey-market-dealer.json"
}