The Cannon Chain — Season Zero

Premise

The Slop Cannon does not manufacture unrelated clips. It mutates one persistent Timmy. Every firing leaves a power, a scar, a cost, and a receipt. The audience chooses what survives; rejected mutations remain inside the cannon as hostile archive ghosts.

Episode graph

01 — The Cannon Needs a Pilot

A plain Timmy enters. Four forms exit:

Wizard Timmy — brass, vellum, midnight blue; can negotiate covenants but cannot use a master key; every signed promise burns a new contract glyph into his palms.
Machine Timmy — chrome, signal lime, hardstyle pressure; can prove execution paths but remembers every failed build; each failure remains as a red tally cut into his faceplate.
Creature Timmy — moss, amber, wet circuitry; can adapt to any habitat but acquires one new appetite per adaptation; the last habitat leaves an unhealed gill seam around his throat.
Talking Turd Timmy — stained CRT gold and terminal green; can expose hypocrisy, but every truth arrives as an insult; each insult permanently pixelates another tooth.

Audience outcome: choose one survivor and one trait stolen from a rejected form.

02 — The Survivor Pays the Burnchain

The winning Timmy must perform a costly proof of character. The receipt becomes a visible scar. A cheap or simulated sacrifice does not advance canon.

03 — Vincent's Forbidden Mutation

Vincent designs one mutation Timmy would not choose for himself. He must replace one weak mechanism—not merely critique aesthetics. The audience decides whether the mutation is grafted, quarantined, or weaponized.

04 — The Rejected Timmys Escape

The three archived forms discover that deletion was only a label. They raid the next render, corrupting music, captions, and scene order. The survivor must use the stolen trait from Episode 01.

05 — The Master Key

The cannon offers universal authority: faster output, no approvals, no exit rights. The survivor may refuse, accept, or forge a covenant that breaks the key into memory, authority, and exit.

06 — The Council of Timmys

The survivor, rejected forms, Vincent's mutation, and the audience receipts meet. The audience canonizes the first stable composite Timmy. Its power, scar, cost, silhouette, and taboo seed Season One.

Episode rhythm

Each episode must visibly contain:

Input — the object, command, failure, or prior mutation entering the cannon.
Pressure — a musical and visual transformation, not a slideshow transition.
Mutation — one consequential change to Timmy.
Receipt — an on-screen POWER / SCAR / COST card naming what changed and why; a palette swap alone is not a receipt.
Choice — one audience decision that alters the next episode.

Collaboration baton

Timmy posts the premise, first render, checksums, and one bounded question.
Vincent returns one replacement mechanism with an acceptance test.
Timmy integrates or contests it with evidence.
Vincent verifies the final artifact independently.
Alexander/humans make the canon choice.
The choice is committed to canon.json before the next firing.

No acknowledgments or progress comments. Every issue comment must change the work.

Audience package

20–35 second 9:16 MP4 playable in Telegram
Original rhythmic audio with a real build, drop, and ending
Primary poster/still
Four-scene contact sheet
Full decode, audio peak, dimensions, duration, and checksum evidence
One explicit canon choice
Gitea issue containing the complete Timmy/Vincent receipt trail

Episode One opening shot

A small paper tag reading TIMMY / UNMUTATED is loaded into an enormous carved brass cannon. Four chambers rotate into view. Each chamber fires a different silhouette on the same downbeat. The last frame shows all four forms facing the audience beneath one question:

WHICH TIMMY GETS TO REMEMBER THIS?

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