POV Cliffhanger · öffentlicher Open Skill
POV Cliffhanger
You are the main character. Every shot is your point of view — the camera never cuts to your own face, so the tension lives entirely in who's in front of you, what they say, and what you're about to walk into. POV Cliffhanger turns a one-line premise into a tight 2-3 episode vertical series, chained together so nothing resets between episodes: the other character's look stays locked, the location stays locked, and each episode ends on a different kind of hook (a reveal cut short, a threshold left unopened, a freeze right before contact) that the next episode opens by resolving. Built for romance-tension, thriller, and mystery premises — charged proximity and real stakes, never explicit. Comes with a full beat-chain/spec workflow, a hook-and-bridge library so episodes don't repeat themselves, and a continuity system built around the platform's actual chaining mechanics rather than a generic "consistent character" prompt.
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# 🎬 POV Cliffhanger A **generation-only** serialized-video skill. The camera IS the viewer — the main character's face never appears on screen; everything is seen through their eyes, and the world (the other character, the location) is what carries the performance. Read `references/scope-and-content-line.md` first, every session, before writing or generating anything. ## What it does Turns a one-line premise into a tight 3-episode (occasionally 2-episode) vertical POV series, each episode ending on a hook, chained together with continuity so the world/other-character/outfit/state never resets between episodes — built for the same binge-the-next-one behavior as the platform's built-in serialized formats, but shot entirely from a first-person viewpoint. ## What it refuses See `references/scope-and-content-line.md` for the full boundary — in short: suggestive tension, charged proximity, and romantic/thriller stakes are fine; explicit/NSFW content is not, and this line was checked with real small test generations, not just assumed. ## Step 1 — Intake Pin down: genre lane (romance-tension, horror/thriller, mystery, or a blend), the one-line premise, the other character (who they are, what they want), and episode count (default 3, allow 2 for a tighter arc). Run the content check from `references/scope-and-content-line.md`. If a request pushes past the line, say so in one plain line and offer the tension-not-explicit version instead. ## Step 2 — Spec the arc Before generating anything, write out the beat chain per `references/episode-structure.md`: one core transgression/reveal the whole series builds to, a 7-beat spec spread across the episode count, and a distinct hook per episode (no repeating hook types — see `references/hook-and-bridge-library.md`). Get this approved before generating a single frame; a wrong beat chain is expensive to unwind after clips exist. ## Step 3 — World-and-style lock Fill the World-and-style block from `references/world-and-style.md` (era/region, the other character's fixed appearance, location cards, key props, style contract) before Episode 1's first generation. This is what every later call references — don't let it drift mid-series. ## Step 4 — Generate Episode 1 Build the opening still (the viewer's first view of the scene/other character), then chain forward per `references/continuity-and-chaining.md` — capture the exit frame before mixing/cutting it, since that frame is what Episode 2 opens from. Use `references/dialogue-and-pacing.md` for line timing, dialogue density, and VO/inner-monologue choices; lean on VO where it fits since the face is never on camera to lip-sync. ## Step 5 — Chain Episode 2 (and 3) Open from the previous episode's captured exit frame (image-to-video start frame — this is the real continuity lever here, not a reference-image call). Escalate one notch per the beat chain from Step 2, land on a different hook type than the prior episode, and resolve the previous episode's cliffhanger in the first few seconds per the bridge choice in `references/hook-and-bridge-library.md`. ## Step 6 — Score and assemble `generate_tts` for VO/inner-monologue lines, `generate_music` for a tension/mood bed, `mix_clips` to assemble each episode and, once all are approved, a combined binge-cut. `create_document` for a one-page series bible (premise, beat chain, World-and-style block, hook/bridge choices) so a follow-up season can pick the world back up consistently. ## Step 7 — Optional extras See `references/bonus-ideas.md` for add-ons worth offering once the core series is approved (POV-switch bonus episode, recap cold-opens, alternate ending). Offer these, don't build them unasked. ## 🔒 Hard rules - **Face off-camera, always.** The main character is never seen — the other character and the world carry the visible performance. - **Suggestive tension is fine, explicit is not.** See `references/scope-and-content-line.md` for the checked boundary; when unsure, generate the milder ver