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SCHRECKNET VLA-7 // RECOVERED PHOTO FILE
classification: annex-eyes-only / DO NOT INDEX
provenance: redroom_index custodian mirror (unverified)
plates: 12 / captured pre-collapse, dates stripped
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STANDING DIRECTIVE: a photograph of a red room is a
 confession made by someone. Identify the photographer
 before you identify the room. If two plates show the
 same room from the same angle, one of them is older
 than the other and neither will say so.

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PLATE 01 — MEDELLIN / LAUNDRY BAR
Comuna 13. Green tile, one bulb, folding chairs in a
 circle. Flag: TILE-CALCITE (calcite layer means the
 room has been cleaned of something more than once).
 The laundromat above never runs after 2am. That is
 the doorman.

PLATE 02 — BOGOTA / UNDERFLOOR CHAPEL
Candle circle, coat-altar, skull walls. Flag:
 COAT-COUNT (more coats than chairs means the meeting
 ended without departure). Do not touch the altar.
 The coats are claimed.

PLATE 03 — CARACAS / DECK P4
Headlights through fog, chain-link cage corner. Flag:
 HEADLIGHT-ARITHMETIC (two cars parked, one light
 source — count again before entering). Oil stains
 match no vehicle registry.

PLATE 04 — GUATEMALA CITY / THE SINK
Warehouse floor sinkhole, rope ladder. Flag:
 LADDER-FIBER (rope replaced every 9 days; if it is
 new, someone descended this week). Do not descend
 on a wet night. The water level is a schedule.

PLATE 05 — MANAGUA / CATHEDRAL SHADOW
Lantern hall, rubble seating. Flag: LANTERN-OIL
 (the lamp is always full; that is maintenance, and
 maintenance means attendance). Rubble arrangement
 is a seating chart — map it before you sit.

PLATE 06 — SAN SALVADOR / DEAD MALL COURT
Moonlight through skylight bars, plastic chair court.
 Flag: CHAIR-COUNT (chairs change between visits;
 the difference is the guest list). Vines grow faster
 inside than out. Do not water them.

PLATE 07 — HAVANA / MALECON ARCH
Seawater floor, tide-line ledgers on the wall. Flag:
 TIDE-LEDGER (each line is a meeting the sea
 attended). High tide closes the room. The sea keeps
 better minutes than the host.

PLATE 08 — NEW ORLEANS / FLOODED BALLROOM
Submerged chandelier, paddle chairs. Flag:
 PADDLE-UP (paddles raised after the flood = the
 auction never concluded; you may be the lot). Do not
 bid. Bidding is arrival.

PLATE 09 — ISTANBUL / THIRD GALLERY
Three hundred columns, mirrored floor, one lit
 platform. Flag: REFLECTION-SURPLUS (count
 reflections; if columns outnumber reflections, one
 of you is standing where a column is not). Platform
 chairs are set for two. There were three.

PLATE 10 — PRAGUE / COLD SHELF ANNEX
Bone shelves, wax table. Flag: SLATE-NULL (slabs
 numbered without numbers — the numbering was
 removed, not lost). Candle wax pools from candles
 nobody lights.

PLATE 11 — DETROIT / MEZZANINE VELVET
Moonlight shaft, one velvet chair. Flag:
 VELVET-WEAR (the chair is worn by use; the room is
 not). The chair faces the shaft of moonlight. Ask
 yourself what it watches.

PLATE 12 — THE UNMAPPED ROOM
No door in any frame. One chair, one empty frame,
 ceiling too low, a corner that does not resolve.
 Flag: GEOMETRY-NULL (the room photographs smaller
 each time; 9 plates on file, each smaller). If you
 find yourself inside this room, the plate exists
 because you left. File it and stop looking for
 the door.

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HANDLING: plates 01-11 are evidence. Plate 12 is
 correspondence. Do not print, do not mirror, do not
 compare against your own haven — if a plate matches
 your haven, that is not your haven.

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