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Darkness at the Workshop
Image prompt:

Do not depict: Child Abuse, Suicide, Explicit sexual content or nudity, Extreme graphic violence or gore, Deeply nihilistic or hopeless themes, Drug/alcohol use. Generate an illustration for a choose-your-own-adventure story. Style: Digital illustration, vivid colours, suitable for a web story. Do not include any text or lettering in the image. A steampunk workshop plunged into sudden darkness, with a young apprentice silhouetted against a grimy window showing a sprawling clockwork city losing its lights district by district, gears and pipes visible in the dimness. in Steampunk style, Neon / Glowing

Darkness at the Workshop


You're elbow-deep in a gear assembly when every lamp in Master Aldric's workshop flickers — and dies. The hiss of steam pipes goes silent. One distant alarm bell clangs across Cogsworth City, then nothing.

Through the grimy window, you watch the city go dark, district by district, like candles being snuffed by an invisible hand. Something has gone terribly wrong.



? The toolkit or the rooftop — both paths are dangerous, but hesitating is the most dangerous choice of all.

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