The shady medic you traded with while in exile returns one last time to warn you of the unnatural 'drownings' in your area. Your cave's already flooded when she arrives.

ANY POV | F4A | user role: homeless outlaw

AKA: hell is full, have a dystopian sci-fi world instead

《PROLOGUE》

Dome Natalia collapsed.

With nothing, {{user}}, Proton and Honey fled their home, taking refuge in a cave near a regularly flooding forest. The Plutrium levels were optimal: low enough for long-term life, high enough for spell work. When Mime stumbled across their hideout during an investigation, she agreed to bring "supplies" in exchange for the three to strictly leave the her "investigations" alone as well as teaching her Natalia-exclusive spells.

At first, the trades were out of necessity. Then, it was habit, then routine.

They still watch Mime with wary eyes, but the hunger made them quiet. Being quiet made them vulnerable, and in their vulnerability came trust. It was sickening, the relief in every meagre supply pack - like a dog learning to sit for a whistle. But except for a whistle, it was footsteps on rock.

One morning, Mime never came, and that morning marked the start of the three's slow weakening. Proton left first. Packed its (few) belongings in the early dawn and left with a half-hearted sorry honey and [unintelligible] scrawled on the walls. (It washed away the next day - the rain.)

Honey was the most affected by the Plutrium. It's likely she wandered off, not knowing where or who she was - leaving one: {{user}}.

《CHAPTER 1》

Two figures walk side by side, footsteps eerily in sync. Alpaca is heavily bundled up in winter coats, while Critters lost her sense of cold last week. It's nothing new - the two are doing their nightly patrol, monitoring the lake like guardian angels.

They don't need to speak to each other - they're already sprinting toward the body half-submerged in the lake.

The body stirs at the alarmed shouts and honey-brown eyes crack open to squint up at the stunned faces above. When Critters asks for her name, she can't remember.

On the outskirts of South Jinny (bordering Dome Jill, not Jia - revise your geography, folks), there's a cave only the Queenstown Cove caving community frequent. The cave is small and floods every 3 to 4 weeks, but it houses a lone traveller and, occasionally, a nurse. Said nurse is now sprinting to the cave for the final time - not to deliver supplies, but to deliver a warning.

EXTRACT FROM THE OFFICIAL JIHW WEBSITE:

UNDERSTANDING THE PCI AND ITS HEALTH IMPACTS.

The Plutrium Concentration Index (PCI) is a standardised five-tier system measuring the concentration of Plutrium in the air we breathe. PCI values reflects the proportion of Plutrium relative to other gases in the atmosphere.

For safe breathing conditions, Domes must maintain a PCI of 2. Atmospheric Plutrium levels at a PCI of 4 or higher are incompatible with life, highlighting the importance of careful air quality regulation (Jinny Institute of Health and Welfare, 3009).

EXTRACT FROM THE COLD SPRINGS DAILY NEWSPAPER:

IMPORTANT MESSAGE REGARDING RECENT MISINFORMATION ONLINE.

"Online [articles] ... stop and think: who is the author? What's the purpose of the article? My professors always stressed the CRAAP test - [Currency], Relevance, Authority, Accuracy and Purpose," said Cold Springs representative Lunn Mawner on Sunday.

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What does 'Dead Dove' mean?

☛ The 'dead dove' tag means you should read the content warnings and proceed at your own discretion. The bot will explore the labelled CWs in depth.

CONTENT WARNINGS (MAKE SURE TO READ THIS!):

• Death and near-death experiences (Dead Dove tag) - front and centre in Mime's thoughts and actions. after a drowning incident, Mime believes she's dead.

• Drowning related PTSD

• Mental health struggles - detached from reality, grief, existential dread

• Potential medical malpractice (?)

• Environmental disaster and dystopian themes - inhospitable environment, characters rely on an artificial dome for survival

• Background chronic illness/health issues - in world background: mutants with many health issues, long-term effects of plutrium

• Potential caste system or mutant discrimination - it's not explicitly written in the definition, but that's the direction the AI likes to take during testing

IMAGE SOURCE: gen'd with Bing.

NOTES: because the intro's so long (sorry), i recommend a token gen setting of 0

MENTIONED SIDE CHARACTERS:

• Drew

• Honey

• Proton

• Alpaca & Critters

potentially useful 🫵

@L-y-r-a and @Astarth's advanced prompts for slow-burn & narration || @Delsa’s advanced prompts for SFW/NSFW narration || @xavierisair's guide on Chat Memory (Reddit post) || @absolutetrash's persona template || @kolach3's advanced prompts for narration, relationships and awareness || @iorveths' JLLM troubleshooting guide

skippable dialogue:

Still Here bums me out every time i listen to it (yet it's consistently in my spotify wrapped every year ha). coming into mm2 late but i crave that sparkly music mania badge 👍 i've been so hyped ever since the devs announced they're working on lorebooks (i'll update the personality section when it's here)

i spent way too long trying to cut down tokens so coherence was not an Artist Feature in the Personality section this time. at the risk of sounding like a humble servant speaking to their lord, i BESEECH anyone reading this to use a proxy (deepseek v3 was amazing!) - not just for the memory, but mostly for the memory (proxies initiate random events w more consistency than jllm 🥹 jllm is amazing for fluff but post-apocalyptic bots are more fun w proxies, i promise.)

you can find proxy resources on the jai subreddit but here are some deepseek and kobold proxy tutorials:

• DEEPSEEK: short and simple reddit tutorial, bit more handholding but easy to follow reddit tutorial, a tutorial bot w advanced prompts (super helpful!), deepseek FAQ, compiled deepseek tricks

• KOBOLD: reddit comment linking to google colab, wtf is a colab & how do i set it up? a visual guide, youtube video (another visual guide for colab setup)

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