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+# Tone Guide
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+**References:** Black Mirror meets Mr. Robot
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+Cerebral dread, not jump scares. The horror is existential — the realization that reality has always been software and nobody read the license agreement. No robots, no terminators. Threat is informational, psychological, ontological.
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+**Needs full sheet:** what's in bounds vs. out of bounds (violence, gore, tech accuracy), pacing guidelines, dialogue register, visual/sound design direction, what makes a scene feel like THIS show and not another tech thriller.
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