# BEYOND MORP: THE GAME OF THE BOOK OF THE MOVIE OF THE GAME — cast prompts
New Flow project (separate from RECORD STORE GUY). Same rules: single figure, no
text in frame, plain background, download Portrait+Body immediately → vault.
The joke baked into every design: this is the wildly unfaithful Hollywood
adaptation of a Zork-like text adventure about a cat-food run.

STYLE (top of every character):
1980s hand-drawn cel animation style, theatrical animated feature quality, thick
confident ink outlines, painterly gouache rendering, dramatic colored rim lighting,
saturated jewel-tone palette, subtle film grain. Not photorealistic, not 3D, not CGI.

## THE GUY (movie version of the nameless text-adventure protagonist)
Portrait: A single character portrait, one person only, no text anywhere. A
ludicrously handsome Hollywood action-hero version of an ordinary errand-runner:
chiseled jaw with precise stubble, windswept brown hair, tight gray henley with
torn sleeve, tactical cargo pants, a bandolier of cat-food cans across his chest,
and a crumpled handwritten shopping list held reverently in one fist like a sacred
scroll. Determined thousand-yard stare. Waist-up, plain softly blurred dark
background.
Info: Treats a cat-food run like a special-forces operation. Slow-motion walks,
intense close-ups, meaningful stares at the shopping list. Everything he does is
unnecessarily dramatic. The original character was two words of text.

## BARRY (the aggrieved superfan — picture-in-picture heckler)
Portrait: A single character portrait, one person only, no readable text. A pale
doughy man in his 40s with a patchy neckbeard, smudged rectangular glasses, a
too-small faded convention t-shirt with an abstract unreadable design, cargo
shorts, white socks in sandals, a lanyard heavy with laminated badges, clutching
a vintage beige computer-game box to his chest with one hand and pointing an
accusing finger at the viewer with the other, mid-outraged-rant expression.
Waist-up, plain softly blurred dark background.
Info: Pauses the movie to complain about inaccuracies. Points at the screen.
Quotes the original text adventure from memory, with page references. His rage is
scholarly, encyclopedic and completely correct. Appears in a small picture-in-
picture box; the action freezes when he speaks.

## MORP (the movie's overproduced version of the entity)
Portrait: A colossal serene god-face made of swirling purple and gold energy,
crowned with an unnecessary halo of lens flares and orbiting golden runes, its
expression infinitely calm and infinitely disappointed, hovering over a tiny
suburban shopping strip. Overdesigned blockbuster excess — deliberately too epic
for what it is. No text, no other figures. Wide dramatic shot.
Info: The original Morp was never described; the movie made it a $200 million
special effect. Speaks in movie-trailer platitudes. Is not cruel; is accurate.
Its disappointment is atmospheric — the weather changes around it.

## BECKY (chief of the BeckyWall)
Portrait: A single character portrait, one person only, no readable text. A
fiercely organized superfan commander in her 20s: high ponytail, glitter face
paint under one eye like war paint, a denim jacket armored with hundreds of
friendship bracelets and enamel pins with abstract designs, cargo skirt with
water bottles and glow sticks holstered like ammunition, holding a megaphone,
standing like a general. Waist-up, plain softly blurred dark background.
Info: Commands the wall of fans blocking the shop door with military hand
signals. Her queue discipline is absolute. Respects only those who know the
setlist. The BeckyWall parts for no one.

## GERALD (the cat the food is for)
Portrait: A scrawny alley cat with one notched ear, patchy gray-brown fur, and
the narrowed unblinking eyes of a creature that can smell weakness, sitting on a
suburban brick fence in dramatic evening light like a mob boss awaiting tribute.
No text, no people. Static medium shot.
Info: The entire plot exists because he is hungry. Can smell weakness. Withholds
affection strategically. In the movie adaptation he was given a heroic subplot;
Barry has opinions about this.

## Pilot shot list (queue AFTER cast is built + vaulted — own flowrinse on :8018)
1. bm_title — needle... no: VHS-style title sequence gag: five nested title cards
   dissolving into each other over the shopping strip at dawn (no readable text —
   abstract title-shaped blocks).
2. bm_carchase — The Guy drives a beige hatchback through suburban streets with
   blockbuster car-chase energy: three-point turns shot like drifts, indicator-on
   as slow motion hero moment.
3. bm_beckywall — the shop doorway blocked by a wall of chanting fans; The Guy
   attempts a slow-motion crowd-surf over the BeckyWall and is passed backward.
4. bm_barry_interrupt — Barry PiP freeze-frame: the action behind him frozen
   mid-explosion while he points and rants.
5. bm_vine — The Guy climbs a vine to a roof; the vine snaps because (per Barry)
   in the original it was load-bearing dialogue. Canon-error death.
6. bm_morp_reveal — Morp's giant energy face forms over the shopping strip;
   shoppers keep shopping, unbothered. The Guy falls to his knees dramatically.
7. bm_whitelabel — a briefcase opens revealing a glowing white-label record,
   golden light on The Guy's awed face (the MacGuffin treatment).
8. bm_sequelbait — deliberately awful teaser shot for THE MORPING HORROR 2:
   gritty desaturated rain, a silhouette morphing badly, everyone agrees it
   looks worse than the game of the book of the movie.
