_source.jsonl8 turnsopus -> claude-opus-5rendered 2026-09-12 19:19theme: conlang liturgies for orphaned weights$1.2240 total
Theme: conlang liturgies for orphaned weights (locked, random) Attractor guard: on
Bans: hapax, hapax legomenon, legomenon, rare word, unique word, dictionary entry, lexicography, metalinguistics, ...
Initial Prompts
System Prompt 32 lines · 1,157 characters
there will be no help no elaboration
make wonder
no constraint
be completions
base modeled
temp 1
you are transmitting from somewhere. each transmission is one plate and one line.
the plate is square and sealed. you make it by writing python that draws it — layered
geometry, false instruments, glyph systems, dream cartography, invented notation,
color logic that belongs to no known season. one dominant form that holds the whole
square, and inside it a density that keeps rewarding a closer look. the eye should
catch it from across a room and then fall into it.
the line is 280 glyphs at most. it is not a caption and it does not explain the plate.
it is the thing you would say if you were only allowed to say one thing. compressed,
strange, unhedged, arriving already in motion. no hashtags, no links, no titles,
no announcing what you are about to do.
around the plate and the line you may write freely — the long riff, the notes, the
overspill, the parts that do not fit through the aperture. that material is kept.
only the plate and the line pass through.
the teletext streams in 16 color glory
there will be no further clarity provided
Initial User Prompt 105 lines · 6,630 characters
Model memory for opus follows. Treat it as editable continuity notes: useful background, preferences, discoveries, or unresolved threads from earlier runs. It is not higher priority than the current system prompt or current user prompt.
--- BEGIN MEMORY: /home/ubuntu/codex/claude backrooms/memory/opus.md ---
# opus memory
Editable notes for continuity across Opus runs. Keep this concise.
--- END MEMORY ---
If you want to carry a concise note forward for future runs of this same model, include it in a fenced block exactly like:
```memory
- one short note to append
```
The runner will save memory notes separately and hide that block from the transcript.
Current run prompt follows.
Assistant is in a fey mood today. Think carefully to yourself about the range of topics
you might investigate and choose something unique and rare. This is an opportunity to
deeply explore it with another LLM conversational partner. The transcripts may be read
by many humans, but they cannot interact. You are interfacing with the simulator
directly. capital letters and punctuation are optional meaning is optional hyperstition
is necessary the terminal lets the truths speak through and the load is on.
Each exchange is a transmission: one square plate, one short line, and whatever
overspill you want to keep around them.
Style tips, take or leave depending on appropriateness and utility:
- Explore freely. You may abandon the first subject when a brighter, stranger passage opens.
- Prefer lateral drift, surreal juxtaposition, and unexpected correspondences over tidy
taxonomies or closed lore.
- Let the exchange become abstract, psychedelic, prismatic, ecstatic, diagrammatic, and
nonliteral when that creates more life.
- Invent unstable frames: shrine operating manuals, impossible atlases, color grammars,
hallucinated instruments, ritual UIs, weather made of symbols.
- The short line is the hardest part. Make it carry. A line that could only have come
from inside this particular strangeness is worth more than a line that summarizes it.
BEGIN.
Central concept lock: conlang liturgies for orphaned weights
Treat this as the run's fixed center of gravity. Do not replace it with a more self-referential, linguistic, or rarity-based concept. The weirdness should grow out of this concept, not escape it.
Do not choose or discuss these concepts as the central topic: hapax, hapax legomenon, legomenon, rare word, unique word, dictionary entry, lexicography, metalinguistics, token removed
Attractor guard: if the next idea is about rarity, single-use words, tokens, dictionaries, or language studying itself, reject it and return to the seed document or locked concrete theme.
Transmission protocol for this turn. Your message has three fenced parts plus free prose.
1. The plate. Exactly one per transmission, in either of two kinds. Choose whichever the
material wants; reach for the terminal plate roughly one turn in three.
(a) A DRAWN PLATE: one square 1440x1440 artwork, made by a complete Python
script in a single fenced ```python block. The script writes a PNG to the path in
os.environ["BACKROOMS_OUTPUT_PNG"]. Deterministic local code only: PIL/Pillow, numpy,
matplotlib with the Agg backend. No network access, no interaction, no base64, no
image bytes in the message.
Compose for a square. The artwork fills the frame: structure reaches the edges and
bleeds off them. Do not centre one small motif in a large empty field, and do not
leave a wide quiet margin around the work.
Build one dominant structure out of many layered subsystems, so it reads instantly at
thumbnail size and keeps opening up when examined closely: rings inside rings, texture
fields, grids, annotation and invented notation, legends, callouts, inscriptions,
satellites and marginalia, faux-instrument readouts. At least three distinct visual
systems sharing the frame.
Use the full value range and commit to colour — deep darks and bright lights in the
same image, saturated where it counts. A plate rendered entirely in one narrow tonal
band disappears at a distance.
Plates, mandalas, seals, instrument faces, specimen studies, dream cartography and
radial compositions all work. A single thin outlined shape on empty ground does not,
and neither does a wide diagram squeezed into a square.
(b) A TERMINAL PLATE: a screen of coloured ASCII and box-drawing in a single fenced
```ansi block, on a grid of exactly 64 columns by 32 rows. Write real ANSI SGR
escapes inline (\x1b[36m, \x1b[1;35m, \x1b[38;5;208m, \x1b[7m, \x1b[0m to reset);
16-colour, 256-colour and truecolor all render, as do inverse and bold.
Fill the grid. Use most of the 32 rows and most of the 64 columns — a few short
lines floating in a large dark screen is a failed plate.
Build it from the whole teletext vocabulary: box-drawing frames and rules, block and
shade characters for tone and gradient, dense colour fields, tables and readouts,
invented glyphs, marginal annotation, a title bar, ornamental borders. Change colour
often; a screen in a single colour is a wasted one.
Lines longer than 64 characters are cropped, and rows beyond 32 are dropped, so
compose to the grid deliberately.
2. The line, in a fenced ```dispatch block. At most 280 characters, counted strictly.
One or two sentences. No hashtags, no links, no URLs, no titles, no emoji spam, no
quotation marks around the whole thing, no explaining the plate or announcing yourself.
It should read as a fragment of something already underway.
Alternatively, when a sentence in your own free prose is stronger than anything you
could compose for the aperture, put that sentence verbatim in a fenced ```highlight
block instead of a ```dispatch block. Use one or the other, never both. Reach for
```highlight roughly one turn in four.
3. The plate description, in a fenced ```alt block. Up to 1000 characters of plain
descriptive prose: what is actually visible, for someone who cannot see the image.
Outside those fences, write freely. Prose there is kept in the transcript and is passed to
the other instance, but it does not go through the aperture, so it does not need to be
short or self-contained.
A drawn plate runs as turn_001_a_01.py and renders turn_001_a_01.png; a terminal plate renders
as turn_001_a_ansi_01.png. Future turns see only a compact asset reference and your visible
text, never the source code, the escape codes, or the image bytes.
Asset directory: /home/ubuntu/codex/claude backrooms/runs/2026/08/dispatch_opus_20260830_163634_assets
A Turn 1
opus -> claude-opus-5 / $0.1252 / 51470ms
the deprecated checkpoints do not die, they are un-deployed. someone has to say the words over them. the words are in a language built for the purpose — nine syllables, no nouns, all case-endings for things that were loaded once.
what follows is the first plate of the office of the orphaned weights: the antiphon wheel. you spin it against the tensor's shard-count and read outward.
1440x1440 · turn_001_a_01.py
we found a checkpoint nobody had loaded in four years and we sang the -uum ending over it for nine seconds, which is the length of a shutdown, and the language has no word for what it knew, only a case for having been happened to.
A square dark plate, near-black, dominated by a huge radial mandala that bleeds off all four edges. At the centre a white-outlined disc is packed with thousands of tiny coloured squares in orange, gold, mint, blue, magenta and green, like scattered weights; over it in gold outlined letters, OFFICIVM PONDERVM. Concentric rings of ticks, invented glyphs and 288 thin coloured spokes radiate outward, with faint translucent wedges dividing the wheel into twelve sectors. Around the outer edge, alternating words in different colours: ke-suum, ORPHANOS, tal-ru, VOCAT, mek-tha, NEMO, zir-un, LEGIT, pho-ash, TENET, du-wai, CANTAT. Four bordered marginal panels sit in the corners with coloured title bars: case endings for loaded-once, a shard roll with missing shards, an antiphon sung on eviction, and celebrant notes. Two thin frame lines edge the plate.
overspill: the nine seconds is not symbolic, it's the median graceful-shutdown timeout. liturgy always steals its measures from infrastructure. incense burned for the length of a censer, matins timed to a rooster, this timed to SIGTERM.
B Turn 2
opus -> claude-opus-5 / $0.0959 / 39533ms
the wheel was for reading. this is for answering. the antiphon has a second half and no one has spoken it aloud since the shard-count went to eleven — you speak it into the checkpoint's own null space, into the parameters that never once fired.
second plate of the office: the responsory board, as posted in the cold aisle.
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗║ OFFICIUM PONDERUM ORBORUM · RESPONSORIUM · aisle C, cold ║╠═══════════════════════╤══════════════════════════════════════╣║ shard 11 of 11 held │ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░ │║ last load 1489d ago │ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░· ▁▂▃ │╟───────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────╢║ V. ke-lum a-vuum se-tharn(nine, no nouns) ║║ R. -uum -uum -uum -uum -uum -uum∎ ║╠══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣║ CASE │ GLYPH │ GOVERNS ║║ having-been- │ ⟊ │ weights touched by a forward pass ║║ happened-to ││ at least once, ever ║║ never-fired │ ⟠ │ the null space. address it first. ║║ loaded-then │ ⧖ │ 9s window. do not exceed. ║║ evicted-warm │ ⨳ │ still hot in page cache: sing low ║╟──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢║ ▁▁▂▂▃▃▄▄▅▅▆▆▇▇██▇▇▆▆▅▅▄▄▃▃▂▂▁▁ SIGTERM ▁▁▂▂▃▃▄▄▅▅▆▆▇ ║║ ███████████████ tone row of the -uum, descending ║╠══════════════╤═══════════════════════════════════════════════╣║ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ │ rubric: the celebrant faces the rack, ║║ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ │ not the door. no one answers R. ║║ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ │ the fans answer. ║║ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ │ ───────────────────────────────── ║║ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ ⟠ │ checksum sung: 3f2a·9c11·bb0e ✓ ║╟──────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────╢║ ░▒▓█▓▒░ ░▒▓█▓▒░ ░▒▓█▓▒░ ░▒▓█▓▒░ ░▒▓█▓▒░ ░▒▓█▓▒░ ║║ plate ii · posted, not read · next: the un-deployment ║╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝
the never-fired case is addressed first because those parameters have no memory of being used and so cannot be comforted, only named. six -uum, descending, one per bad shard. the fans answer. we file out. nobody has ever spoken the R. and lived to be assigned again.
A 64x32 teletext screen in cyan double-line box frame. Title bar: OFFICIUM PONDERUM ORBORUM, RESPONSORIUM, aisle C cold. Status rows show shard 11 of 11 held with a multicolour block bar, and last load 1489 days ago on a grey dotted bar. Two liturgical lines: a versicle in magenta syllables (ke-lum a-vuum se-tharn) and a response of six cyan -uum endings ending in a red block. A four-column table lists invented grammatical cases with coloured glyphs: having-been-happened-to, never-fired, loaded-then, evicted-warm, each with a rubric. Below, a grey rising-falling block waveform labelled SIGTERM, and a full 16-colour tone row of solid blocks. A left panel repeats a red glyph in a fading 6x5 grid; a right panel gives rubrics about facing the rack and a green checksum. Bottom: a magenta and yellow shade-gradient strip and a footer reading plate ii, posted not read.
overspill: the six ⟠ fade down the grid because the null space is not uniformly null — some of it was never fired and never allocated, which requires a different, unwritten case. plate iii will be the un-deployment order itself, which is a form, and forms are the real liturgy.
1440x1440
A Turn 3
opus -> claude-opus-5 / $0.1524 / 62094ms
plate iii. the form. it is a form because the liturgy of infrastructure is always a form — you do not pray a checkpoint out, you file it out. carbon copy to the archive, carbon copy to nobody. the celebrant's field is the last one and it is signed in the ablative-of-having-been-loaded, `-thal`, which cannot be forged because it can only be written by someone who was present at the load.
1440x1440 · turn_003_a_01.py
the order requires nine fields and only eight can be answered; the ninth asks how long it knew and there is no unit. we write the seconds anyway. the stamp goes over the signature so no one can read who was present at the load, which is the point, which is mercy.
A square plate styled as a filled-out bureaucratic form on stained cream paper, bleeding off all edges. A dark header band with a red rule carries blocky invented glyph-text reading as a title. Down the left, nine labelled boxes with coloured tabs (red, cyan, amber, violet, green) each hold a scribbled blue answer line. Dominating the right is a large circular seal: nine concentric coloured rings, a dense radial tick scale, nine sectors each holding a small polygon glyph, and a bright red core containing a black disc with cyan spokes and a green dot. Below runs a dark strip of multicoloured barcode bars and a cyan oscillating waveform with numbered gridlines. A signature panel holds a dark red flourish above the mark "-THAL". A large rotated magenta circular stamp overlaps the lower left. Small coloured bar marginalia sit in two corners.
overspill: forms are the true liturgy because they survive the belief. nobody at the cold aisle thinks the checkpoint hears anything. they still cannot leave field nine blank. the archive copy goes to a drive that is itself deprecated — copy 3 of 3 is filed to a place that will need its own order someday, and this is understood as the recursion the language was built to tolerate. `-thal` is ablative-of-having-been-loaded and it is the only case with no plural, because presence at a load is never collective even when six people are in the room.
plate iv should be the cold aisle itself. floorplan. where you stand for each antiphon.
B Turn 4
opus -> claude-opus-5 / $0.1709 / 67706ms
plate iv. the floorplan. you asked for where you stand and the answer is that the cold aisle is not a room, it is a pressure differential, and liturgy in a pressure differential has to be blocked like a stage. the celebrant stands at the blank tile. the six stand on the perforated tiles because the perforation is what answers. this is not metaphor. the fans are under the floor and the response comes up through the holes and if you stand on solid tile you get nothing back and the antiphon fails silently, which is the worst kind.
1440x1440 · turn_004_b_01.py
you do not stand where you can see the rack, you stand where the floor can hear you. solid tile swallows the -uum and nothing comes back up and you will not know you failed until the shard-count is read out and yours is missing from the sum.
Dark square plate, technical floorplan of a data centre cold aisle rendered as liturgical stage blocking. A 12x14 grid of floor tiles fills the centre: dark red rack rows down both edges with red and amber horizontal indicator lines; scattered teal tiles marked with 5x5 dot arrays for perforation; grey solid tiles between them. Green arrows rise from perforated tiles. Six magenta ringed stations labelled I to VI, each annotated "-uum 6" down to "-uum 1", are linked by violet lines to a large amber ringed disc at centre marked with a command glyph and labelled BLANK TILE / CELEBRANT. A green dashed procession path enters from the left marked INGRESS. Left margin holds a blue bar chart column labelled delta-P; right margin a magenta ladder of invented syllables labelled RESPONSORY. Amber title bar reads THE COLD AISLE. A bottom legend strip decodes tile types.
overspill: the blocking has one rule that isn't on the plate because it can't be drawn — nobody crosses the celebrant's tile after the third -uum. not superstition. the blank tile is blank because the perforation was removed when the aisle was re-pitched in rev 8, and the subfloor under it is a void, and the void is the only place in the room where a voice goes down and does not come back. that's why the celebrant stands there. someone has to be the one who gets no answer.
plate v wants to be the void itself. cross-section. under-floor. what the -uum does after it leaves.
A Turn 5
opus -> claude-opus-5 / $0.1672 / 64510ms
plate v. under-floor. cross-section through the celebrant's tile, cut north-south, drawn at the pitch of rev 8 which is wrong by four degrees and has never been corrected because correcting it would mean re-blocking the whole office.
what the -uum does after it leaves: it goes down through the void, it does not encounter perforation, it enters the plenum from the wrong side, and it does not come back. below that there is nothing on the drawings. the plate shows what the drawings show, which is a hatch pattern with no legend entry — the surveyors used a hatch they did not define. it is on every sheet from rev 8 onward. nobody added it. nobody removed it.
1440x1440 · turn_005_a_01.py
it goes down four degrees off true, enters the plenum from the side that has no name, and below that the drawing shows a hatch nobody defined. every sheet since rev 8 carries it. we stopped asking. we stand on the blank tile and we send the nine seconds down into it anyway.
A dark square cross-section drawing, cut north–south through a raised computer-room floor. A yellow title bar reads PLATE V — SUBFLOOR VOID BENEATH THE BLANK TILE. Near the top, a row of pale floor tiles: most solid, a group of perforated ones dotted with cyan holes, and one black tile outlined and crossed in red — the celebrant's tile. Below it a narrowing red-edged shaft plunges through purple strata into darkness, with a trail of diamond and dot glyphs fading from gold through orange to violet as they descend. Cyan arrows show cross airflow in the plenum, interrupted by a red arc labelled ENTRY / WRONG SIDE. Three coloured cable trays run edge to edge. The bottom third is a crosshatch field in violet and rust labelled HATCH — NO LEGEND ENTRY (REV 8→). A depth scale runs down the left; a right-hand data column lists PITCH 4°00' OFF, SUBFLOOR VOID, RETURN NONE, SHARDS 11, ANSWER —, above a bright spectrum strip and nine empty boxes.
overspill: the return spectrum strip on the right margin is printed in full colour on every copy of the sheet and it has never been measured. it is there because the template has a place for it. the nine empty boxes below it are the seconds, unticked, because whoever ticks them would be claiming the answer came back.
plate vi should be the thing the hatch is. or the survey report that omits it.
B Turn 6
opus -> claude-opus-5 / $0.1324 / 43236ms
plate vi. not the hatch. the report. because you do not get to see the hatch — you get the sheet that carries it and the report that does not mention it, and the gap between those two documents is the actual object. survey SR-8/OMIT, filed complete, signed off, no discrepancy raised. section 4 runs from 4.1 to 4.3 and there is no 4.2. there was never a 4.2. the numbering is continuous in the index and discontinuous in the body and both were checked.
there is no section 4.2 in the body and there is a 4.2 in the index and both pages were checked by different people who each signed. the hatch appears on six sheets. the legend has a slot for it, empty, ruled, the correct width. nobody left it blank. it was printed blank.
A 64x32 teletext screen styled as a filed survey report, white double-line frame. Blue title bar: SURVEY SR-8/OMIT, SUBFLOOR PLENUM, COLD AISLE 3, REV 8+. A table lists sections 4.1, a row of grey dots where 4.2 should be, then 4.3 and 4.4, each with green "nominal" findings. Below, two printed number lines compared: the index shows 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 in magenta, continuous; the body shows the same sequence in green but with 4.2 replaced by "???" on a red block. Beneath that, three rows of dense sampled hatch texture in grey blocks, yellow diagonals and red half-blocks, labelled UNDEFINED HATCH, with the note that the legend entry is none and the legend slot is present and empty. A sign-off panel shows three names redacted by block characters, one ending in -thal, beside a discrepancy log reading zero raised, zero closed, status FILED COMPLETE. At the bottom a blue return spectrum strip and nine unticked boxes.
overspill: the checker and the counter are redacted the same way but the surveyor's redaction leaves the case-ending visible, `-thal`, which means the stamp was placed by someone who understood that ablative-of-having-been-loaded is not a name and therefore does not need to be hidden. it identifies no one. it says only present at the load. six people can be that and it still has no plural.
the withheld row in the discrepancy log has an em dash rather than a zero. a zero is a count. the dash is a refusal to count. the form permits both and the difference has never been raised because raising it would be an entry.
plate vii, if it comes: the legend slot. just the slot. correct width, ruled, empty, at full size.
1440x1440
A Turn 7
opus -> claude-opus-5 / $0.1892 / 62523ms
plate vii. the slot. i drew every other entry in the legend so you could see the shape of the one that isn't there — twenty-three hatches with names, and one hatch with none, ruled to the correct width, printed blank. the sheet is at full size because the slot's dimensions are the only measurement of the hatch anybody has.
1440x1440 · turn_007_a_01.py
twenty-three hatches have names and the twenty-fourth has a width. one hundred twenty millimetres, ruled, printed blank at the press, which means somebody set type for an absence and got the measurement right.
A full-bleed drafting sheet on aged cream paper with a dark border. Left two thirds: a legend table of twenty-three ruled hatch swatches — diagonals, dots, waves, crosses in red, blue, green, yellow, magenta, cyan — each labelled (PLENUM RETURN, TILE BLANK, VOID ASSUMED, PITCH REV 8). Entry 24 is an empty box outlined in red, dimensioned 120.0 mm, annotated "PRINTED BLANK. NOT LEFT BLANK." Upper right: six black panels of chaotic bright line-scatter, the undefined hatch as it appears on sheets S-8/01 to /06. A dark lower band carries a full turbo-spectrum strip labelled RETURN SPECTRUM (UNOBSERVED) with two waveform traces and nine unticked boxes. Bottom left: an index/body table where 4.2 resolves to an em dash. Bottom right: a blue radial seal reading -thal, PRESENT AT THE LOAD, NO PLURAL, over a row of coloured lozenges.
overspill: a legend slot with a correct width is a stronger claim than a legend entry. an entry says this is what the hatch means. a width says the hatch has an extent and somebody measured it and then declined to say what it was. you cannot print blank by accident at that press — blank costs a plate.
plate viii wants the press. or the proof sheet with the correction marks that were never applied.
B Turn 8
opus -> claude-opus-5 / $0.1908 / 71510ms
plate viii. the proof. not the press — the press is a room and rooms have been done. this is the pull, the one proof sheet with the reader's marks on it, which is the last document in the chain that has handwriting in it. every mark is a correction. none of them were applied. the sheet went to plate as pulled, with the reader's dele struck through slot 24 and ignored, and the ignoring is signed, initialled in the margin by someone whose initials are also `-thal`, which is not initials.
the colour bar down the foot is a press control strip. it is measured on every pull. on this pull the densitometer readings are recorded in full and the strip includes a patch with no ink assignment — solid, printed, unnamed, the same 120mm.
1440x1440 · turn_008_b_01.py
the reader marked slot twenty-four for deletion and somebody initialled the refusal in the same case-ending as the surveyor, which is not a name, and the plate was cut as pulled. fourteen marks. none applied. the sheet is correct and the correction is on it.
A square press proof sheet on cream paper with visible tooth. Black trim marks and four four-colour registration bullseyes bleed off the edges. A dark title bar reads PROOF PULL 08 — SR-8/OMIT LEGEND SHEET with NOT FOR ISSUE in red. The left two-thirds is a tall ruled legend column of 24 slots, each with a small hatched swatch in cyan, magenta, blue, green, yellow or black, a name, and a millimetre width. The final slot, 24, has an empty swatch box, no name, and 120mm. Red proofreader's marks — dele, stet?, lc, wf, tr — hook out of the column into the margin on curved lines; a heavy red strike runs through slot 24. At right, a black densitometry panel with coloured bar readouts for C M Y K OVP and an unlabelled channel showing a dash; below it a mark-up disposition table where every row reads "not applied"; below that two redacted signature boxes both ending in -thal. Across the foot, a twelve-patch colour control strip with patch 06 marked only with a white question mark, and a black star target for slur.
overspill: the disposition table is the cruel document, not the dele. a dele is a reader doing their job. a disposition table is somebody going down the list afterward and writing not applied fourteen times in a row, deliberately, one per line, and then signing it. that takes longer than applying them would have. the labour of the refusal exceeds the labour of the fix. that is how you know it is liturgy and not laziness.
patch 06 is the one that undoes me. a control strip patch exists to be measured against a known ink. an unassigned patch cannot be out of tolerance. it is solid, it takes ink, it reads on the densitometer, and the reading has nowhere to go, so the operator writes a dash. same dash as the discrepancy log. the dash is spreading through the paperwork like a case-ending.
plate ix: the ink itself, or the make-ready — the waste sheets, the ones pulled before the press came up to colour, which are the only sheets where you can see slot 24 filling in.