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IDC Anthology Season One
IDC Anthology is a NorthStar Prime broadcast from a neighboring reality.
8 episodes
45-sec teaser
local private route ready
Arc: the service learning what this dimension costs. Structure: host intro, standalone tale, artifact callback.
45-Second Teaser Script
0:00-0:05 BLACK. A station tone fails, repairs itself, then fails with confidence. HOST: You are watching NorthStar Prime from a room one dimension over. 0:05-0:12 Quick cuts: the brass knob, a damp schedule, an alley map, a black receipt. HOST: Tonight's signal only answers practical questions. Be careful what you make practical. 0:12-0:22 Mara turns from the console. Joss watches meters spell words. Tess labels a tape that keeps relabeling itself. MARA: If it knows where we are, why does it keep asking for directions? 0:22-0:33 Fractured episode cards flash out of order: Arrival, Misread Signal, Local Conflict, Artifact Cost, Cross-Dimensional Pressure, Season Fracture, False Repair, Final Transmission. HOST: Eight transmissions. Eight artifacts. One service learning what this dimension costs. 0:33-0:41 Silence becomes visible on the monitor. The brass knob turns by itself. CALLER: I am calling from later. Please do not fix everything. 0:41-0:45 Title card: IDC ANTHOLOGY. LOCAL ONLY. HOST: Keep your hands inside the broadcast.
IDC Anthology · Episode 1
Arrival
A NorthStar broadcast slips out of phase and discovers a neighboring dimension that only answers practical questions.
Artifact: A brass station knob labeled LOCAL ONLY.
Rule: The neighboring reality refuses abstraction and converts every question into an actionable local task.
Cover prompt: Original premium anthology cover for IDC Anthology episode 1, brass station knob labeled LOCAL ONLY on a black broadcast desk, cyan CRT scanlines, magenta and gold signal artifacts, no famous actors, no franchise references, clean editorial poster layout.
IDC Anthology · Episode 2
Misread Signal
The station decodes a distress call as a weather report and accidentally turns the city into a machine for solving the wrong problems.
Artifact: A damp program schedule with tomorrow's mistakes circled in red pencil.
Rule: Warnings become forecasts if the receiver wants comfort more than accuracy.
Cover prompt: Original anthology TV cover, impossible weather map over a public-access studio, red pencil circles on a damp program schedule, cyan rain made of subtitles, black and teal broadcast palette with amber warning marks, no real emergency logos, no franchise references.
IDC Anthology · Episode 3
Local Conflict
Two incompatible versions of the same neighborhood tape arrive, and both parties are telling the truth from different property laws.
Artifact: A zoning map where one alley is labeled MUTUAL HAUNTING.
Rule: A place can be locally true in more than one civic system at the same time.
Cover prompt: Original IDC Anthology episode cover, split-screen public-access tape, two civic maps overlapping over a narrow glowing alley labeled MUTUAL HAUNTING, cyan and green CRT texture with red municipal pencil marks, invented city only, no real businesses, no franchise references.
IDC Anthology · Episode 4
Artifact Cost
A perfect replacement part repairs the station board, but each fix moves an inconvenience out of reality and into the host's life.
Artifact: A black thermal-paper receipt with no total, only a blinking cursor.
Rule: Nothing is fixed for free; removed friction is reassigned to someone who can notice it.
Cover prompt: Original premium sci-fi anthology cover, glowing replacement circuit part held above a battered broadcast console, black receipt with blinking cursor, orange sparks, cyan waveform, intimate practical effects mood, no branded electronics, no famous likenesses, no franchise references.
IDC Anthology · Episode 5
Cross-Dimensional Pressure
A second sponsor buys airtime with ad copy that predicts listener decisions before the listeners make them.
Artifact: A rate card priced in seconds of attention.
Rule: Attention can be traded before it is spent, but only if the audience accepts the invoice.
Cover prompt: Original anthology cover for cross-dimensional broadcast pressure, futuristic rate card priced in seconds of attention, ghost sponsor copy over a city traffic map, cyan, violet, and gold neon without real brand marks, no real advertisements, no celebrity likeness, no franchise references.
IDC Anthology · Episode 6
Season Fracture
Episode six airs in fragments across every previous episode, forcing the host to assemble continuity while the audience hears consequences first.
Artifact: A broken slate card that says TAKE 0.
Rule: Continuity is not order; it is the cost of believing events belong together.
Cover prompt: Original surreal television anthology cover, broken slate card reading TAKE 0, fragmented episode frames floating across a CRT wall, cyan scanlines, magenta splice marks, gold continuity thread, no franchise iconography, no known characters, no franchise references.
IDC Anthology · Episode 7
False Repair
The signal finally stabilizes, but the fix removes contradiction, improvisation, memory, and eventually choice.
Artifact: A perfect transcript of a conversation no one is willing to have.
Rule: A flawless signal is hostile if it cannot carry choice.
Cover prompt: Original premium broadcast horror cover, pristine white transcript page with one jagged black static line returning through it, sterile cyan studio lights, small human silhouettes, unsettling clean signal mood, no famous actors, no franchise references.
IDC Anthology · Episode 8
Final Transmission
A shifting regulator cancels the broadcast unless the crew gives the neighboring reality one honest local story it cannot optimize.
Artifact: The brass knob from episode one, now warm and unlabeled.
Rule: A neighboring reality cannot optimize a story that stays accountable to one place, one choice, and one witness.
Cover prompt: Original season finale cover, warm unlabeled brass station knob in a dark broadcast booth, shifting abstract regulator seals dissolving into pirate station static, cyan and amber glow, intimate local story mood, no real agency seals, no franchise references.
pass · protected franchise references
pass · living-person likenesses
pass · medical, legal, or financial advice
watch · emergency-service language
pass · real local businesses or agencies
pass · cruelty and punching down
pass · artifact legibility
