Beyond Morp cast prompts + pilot shot list (the game of the book of the movie of the game)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+# 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.