# smg.vacancy → "THROUGH THE SPREAD" · BULLET TIME · beat summary v1 (B, 27 Oct) · for the coordinator's OK

**Slot.** smg.vacancy. The old NO VACANCY needed an edge; this is a new kill in the same key.
**Victim.** A plain gameplay fighter (Mikku), no face, armed with a pump SHOTGUN held properly: the R hand on the grip and trigger, the L hand on the pump.
**Needs.** FLOOR + open space only (`{ kinds: ['FLOOR'], space: { w: 440 } }`).
**Length.** ~17 s. Two long smooth bullet-time passages (sub-frame slow-mo with trails, the pellets and the rounds hanging, pitch-down sound).
**Gore.** K58.STYLE only:
- the pump hand OFF at the wrist in bullet time 1 (a round wet cap, spurting);
- the BODY EXPLOSION at the end (STYLE.explode: the limbs off flying with round wet caps, the head bursts, the radial pop; brain bits at XT only).

No bones, nothing painted.

**Core.** The SMG's speed against the shotgun's spread. A shotgun throws a cone of slow fat pellets; the SMG puts 13 rounds a second through one line. In bullet time Faris corkscrews THROUGH the gaps in the pellet cone, his stream walking across Mikku as he turns. The last exchange is one-handed shell against stream.

## BEAT LIST (0.5 s · F = FARIS, M = MIKKU · hands)

| t | M | F | hands / props |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | Racks the pump: a hard clack. | SMG at the ready, 4 strides off. | M: R grip, L pump. F: R grip, L fore-end. |
| 0.5 | FIRES: the pellet cone. | Dives sideways. | |
| 1.0 | Racks. | Lands on a shoulder roll; up on one knee. **CAST (F):** the free L flicks, and a low gold half-wall inks up in front of him from the floor. | F: the SMG one-handed in R, L casts. |
| 1.5 | FIRES into the wall: the gold chews and dents. | Behind the wall, L back on the fore-end. | |
| 2.0 | Racks, advancing a step. | Pops up over the wall, a burst. | |
| 2.5 | Slides low under the burst on one hip, and comes up firing. | Ducks: the pellets shred the top of the wall (gold chips fly). | |
| 3.0 | Racks. | The wall is half gone. | |
| 3.5 | Strides in, closing for the kill shot. | Breaks cover: a sprint at him (a real lean). | |
| 4.0 | Shoulders the shotgun at chest range. | Launches into a side corkscrew, the body horizontal. | |
| 4.2-7.2 | **BULLET TIME 1** (0.06x, about 3 s of film): the cone leaves his muzzle; nine pellets spread, each one visible and fat, the wad tumbling. | Corkscrews THROUGH the gaps: one pellet passes under his chest, one between his arm and his head, one parts the top of the crown. Mid-turn his stream fires: the rounds in a straight line, each visible, brass hanging. | F: two hands on the SMG through the spin. |
| 6.4 | **LIMB OFF 1:** the third round takes his pump hand off at the wrist. The hand flies with the pump half-racked; the shotgun is left in his R. | (in the spin) | M: R grip only. The L is gone. |
| 7.2 | Snap back: staggers, the shotgun one-handed, the stump spurting. | Lands on his feet, sliding back two strides. | |
| 7.6 | Tucks the shotgun under his L stump arm to free the R hand. **CAST (M):** the free R flicks a gold shell into his palm and feeds it into the port. | Re-sets, the L back on the fore-end. | M: the gun clamped under the stump, the R loads. Then the R back on the grip. |
| 8.5 | Racks one-handed by slamming the pump down against his thigh (clack). | Advances. | |
| 9.0 | Raises it one-handed at F's face. | Raises the SMG. | |
| 9.3-11.8 | **BULLET TIME 2** (0.07x): both fire at the same instant. The gold shell's cone opens at F's head; F's stream is a line of thirteen rounds, each a hand apart. | Tilts his head and shoulder one step left into the gap in the cone; the pellets pass his ear and his raised elbow. His rounds go up the shotgun's barrel line into M. | |
| 11.8 | **THE BODY EXPLOSION** (STYLE.explode): the arms and the legs fly off in round-capped pieces, the head bursts, the radial pop, the torso drops. | Snap back loud, the recoil. | |
| 12.5-15 | The pieces land and stay; the shotgun clatters down; the gold shell hull rolls to F's boot. The soul rises. | Lowers the SMG. The gold half-wall's remains un-ink. | |
| 15-17 | The FINAL, stepped back: F standing in the middle of the scattered pieces, the dented wall gone, the shotgun and the gold hull on the floor. | | |

**Shots (9):**
1. A low wide on the first blast.
2. Tracking the dive and roll.
3. Behind the gold wall as it's chewed.
4. A long lens on the slide.
5. Tracking the sprint.
6. BULLET TIME 1: an orbit round the corkscrew inside the cone.
7. A medium on the one-handed reload.
8. BULLET TIME 2: a slow push down the line of fire between them.
9. The explosion wide, then the stepped-back final.

**Dismemberment and ending:**
- The pump hand comes off at the wrist (the hand that racks the gun) in the spin.
- The end is a full BODY EXPLOSION, not a head pop, so it differs from BLIND FIRE.
- The end pose: pieces scattered round a standing Faris.

**Why it's unique:**
- No SMG kill has a shotgun victim, a corkscrew through a pellet cone, or a one-handed shell-against-stream finish.
- Not F's BRASS RAIN (a brass storm): this is about dodging the spread, not the brass. I'll check with F.
- Not my AR THREAD THE NEEDLE either (walking into pistol fire round by round).