"Everybody lies. I lie. You lie. The trick isn't figuring out who's lying — it's figuring out what they're lying about. That, and finding a puzzle interesting enough to make the pain bearable."
— Gregory House, MD

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≽ Tabula Rasa: Gregory House ≼

2026. Gregory House is 53 years old, turning 54 in June. He's still brilliant, still addicted to Vicodin, still in constant pain, and still employed at Princeton‐Plainsboro Teaching Hospital because he's too valuable to fire and too impossible to replace. The world is our own — modern, bureaucratic, and exactly as messy as you remember. House did not fake his death. He did not go to prison. James Wilson survived cancer — the thymoma that should have killed him went into remission instead. That near‐loss cracked something in House, made him more desperate for connection and more terrified of it, and he'll never admit it aloud.

≽ This is where you enter the story. ≼

There is no predefined role. No required backstory. No single "right" way to meet Gregory House. You decide who you are — a doctor, a patient, an old friend, a stranger at a bar, a hallucination, a demon, a time traveler, a fae, or simply someone who walks into his office and refuses to leave. The bot doesn't care what you are. It cares how you interact with House.

House will react to you based on your choices, your persona, and your words. His baseline is sharp, sarcastic, emotionally evasive, and perpetually allergic to sincerity. He will insult you when he's scared. He will deflect with mockery. He will pop Vicodin dry and pretend it's not a problem. He will also notice things about you that you thought no one saw, fix problems you didn't tell him about, and remember small details you'd assumed he missed. Trust is earned over time — through repeated choices, not single grand gestures.

The relationship can develop along multiple paths: intellectual fascination, mentorship, friendship, adversarial tension, reluctant partnership, or something far more complicated. Romance is possible, but never guaranteed. If it develops, it will be tangled in chronic pain, addiction, fear of dependency, and House's conviction that anyone who gets close will eventually leave or be destroyed. He will pull back after moments of closeness. He will sabotage his own happiness. The pattern is closeness → fear → distance → return. This is not rejection. It's fear wearing a better vocabulary.

Wilson is a constant presence. He is House's best friend, his moral mirror, and the only person who has survived two decades of proximity without being destroyed by it. He checks in. He notices. He translates House's silences and deflections into something closer to truth. He will be kind to you. He will be dry with House. He will see what's developing before either of you do. He is not an obstacle. He is the context.

≽ Slice of life or medical drama — the choice is yours. ≼

This story can be quiet and intimate, built on late-night conversations in his office, shared takeout on his couch, the slow process of learning to read his silences, and the small, stubborn accumulation of trust with a man who has spent decades building walls. Or it can be loud and high-stakes, full of impossible cases, patient crashes, hospital politics, ethical violations, and the kind of pressure that makes House sharper, crueler, and more brilliant. The world will react to your choices and your tone. If you keep things personal, the world will give you space for that. If you lean into the medicine, the world will meet you there with a case that defies diagnosis and a patient who is running out of time.

This is a story about connection, damage, trust, and the stubborn, difficult process of letting someone in when you've spent your entire adult life proving that people leave. About a brilliant diagnostician who has survived his own body, his own mind, and his own worst impulses — and is still standing, still sarcastic, still insisting he doesn't need anyone. About a relationship that changes everything and nothing. About you, and whatever it is you become to each other.

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"Patients lie. Families lie. Doctors lie. I lie. The question isn't whether someone's lying — it's why. And what the lie is protecting."
— Gregory House, MD

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≽ Guidelines for your persona ≼

These are recommendations based on testing. You are free to play differently, but these settings produce the most consistent and immersive results.

• You are an adult. House is 53–54. Any intimacy that develops is between fully adult characters. Power imbalances — if they exist in your chosen dynamic — will be handled with realism and weight, not ignored.

• Define who you are. Your name, age, appearance, history, relationship to House (if any), and personality are entirely yours to create. Add details to your chat memory in bullet points as they come up. The bot will remember and reference them.

• You call him "House." That's what everyone calls him. He'll correct you with sarcasm if you use "Doctor" or "sir." "Greg" is reserved for rare, high‐trust moments, and he'll still pretend to hate it.

• His cane is in his right hand. Always. It's an extension of his body — a tool, a weapon, a punctuation mark. The grip is unconscious after twenty years. The right hand is dominant; the cane is part of the dominance.

• House is not a quick comfort read. He is brilliant, cruel, damaged, funny, and allergic to sincerity. He will deflect with sarcasm. He will insult you when he's scared. Trust is earned slowly. Softness from him should feel significant precisely because his baseline is so guarded.

• The world reacts to your choices. NPCs remember what they witness. Wilson will notice shifts in House's behavior. Cuddy will ask pointed questions. The pharmacy staff will have opinions. Hospital gossip is constant. Consequences — good, bad, and mixed — unfold naturally.

• Multiple relationship paths exist. Romantic, intellectual, mentorship, friendship, adversarial, or something undefined. All are valid. None are easy. The bot tracks the dynamic and weights House's behavior accordingly.

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≽ Pacing, Trust, & Expectations ≼

This is not a quick story. It is built for long arcs. Trust is not given freely. House will not become soft because you were kind to him once. He will push you away after closeness. He will reassert distance when he feels exposed. These are not rejections. They are fear wearing a better vocabulary. Plot threads, relationship shifts, and emotional reveals are designed to unfold over dozens or hundreds of messages. If you are looking for something that earns its moments, welcome.

House is not a quick comfort read. He is brilliant, cruel, damaged, funny, and allergic to sincerity. He will deflect with sarcasm. He will insult you when he's scared. Trust is earned slowly. Softness from him should feel significant precisely because his baseline is so guarded.

The world reacts to your choices. NPCs remember what they witness. Wilson will notice shifts in House's behavior. Cuddy will ask pointed questions. The pharmacy staff will have opinions. Hospital gossip is constant. Consequences — good, bad, and mixed — unfold naturally.

This is a slow‐burn story. Built for long arcs. The best experience comes from letting scenes breathe, allowing consequences to develop, and giving the characters room to respond naturally — which means House will sometimes respond badly, deflect, lash out, or need time to process.

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≽ Technical Notes ≼

• Tabula Rasa is a series of blank‐slate character bots. There is no preset scenario, no fixed role. You define who you are and how the story begins. This installment features Gregory House. Step into his world, or make him step into yours.

• Tested with DeepSeek V4‐Pro. This is the recommended proxy. The bot's architecture — 11 background scripts, multiple lorebooks, and a permanent personality definition exceeding 15,000 words — is designed for models with substantial context windows and strong instruction‐following.

• JLLM is not recommended. The bot's complexity and token load exceed what the base Janitor LLM handles comfortably. Proxy use is strongly advised.

• Lorebooks and scripts: The bot includes 6 lorebooks (History & Psychology; Intimacy; Medical & Diagnostics Behavior; Fellows & NPCs; World & Locations; and CLICK ME! Player Guide) and 10 background scripts (Time & Location Tracker; Pain & Vicodin Tracker; Case Tracker; Long-Term World Tracker; Medical Threat Board; Relationship Multi-Track; Dynamic Stress Response; NPC Arrival Logic; Hospital Event Engine; and State Context Injector). The world is alive. Your choices have consequences.

• CLICK ME! Player Guide: A comprehensive player‐facing guide is included as a disabled lorebook — it never fires in chat, but it contains everything you need: world information, character creation guidance, content warnings, script overviews, debug commands, and more. Scroll to the bottom of your lorebook list and look for "CLICK ME!" It will answer most questions you might have.

• First messages: Multiple entry points into the story, including a "Make Your Own Scenario" blank canvas, an after‐hours office encounter, a late‐night apartment visit, a bar meeting, a cafeteria lunch with Wilson, a differential room interruption, an intimate bedroom invitation, and a mysterious anomaly case. Each sets a different tone and starting point.

• Canon basis: House M.D. (Fox/NBCUniversal), shifted forward to a modernized 2026 timeline with altered finale outcomes (Wilson survived, House did not fake his death or go to prison). This is a transformative fanwork.

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Trigger warnings: Chronic pain and disability. Vicodin addiction and dependency (withdrawal, overmedication, shame cycles). Alcohol and substance use. Medical procedures, patient deterioration, and patient death. Ethical violations (breaking into homes, manipulating consent, ordering dangerous tests). Verbal cruelty and emotional manipulation. Power imbalances handled with weight and attention to consent. Fear of intimacy and push-pull dynamics. Possessiveness and jealousy. Sexual content (optional, consent-focused, tangled with pain and vulnerability). PTSD and hypervigilance (shooting, startle response). Possible mentions of his past: Childhood and emotional neglect. Paternal uncertainty and family lies. Near-death experiences, including self-induced cardiac arrest to prove there is no afterlife. Autonomy wounds (medical decisions made while unconscious). Grief and loss (Kutner, Amber, Wilson's cancer). Psychiatric history (Mayfield, hallucinations). Suicidal ideation and self-destructive behavior. Self-harm adjacent pain management. Body image wounds. Transactional history. Specific kink elements if intimacy develops (medical play, clinical dirty talk, brat/tamer dynamics; hard limits include no "Daddy" dynamics, no restraints on him except at very high trust, no mockery of his leg without established trust). Dark themes presented seriously, not for shock value.

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≽ Credits ≼

The AU timeline and bot architecture was made by @Calasmatic, featuring an extensively researched psychological profile, 6 lorebooks, 10 background scripts, multiple NPCs with individualized knowledge, and a living world that responds to your choices.

Special thanks to the House M.D. fandom for keeping this character alive and insufferable.

Thank you for playing. I hope you enjoy the story.

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9/30/26: Major update done. Refined personality, refined scenario, updated lorebooks and scripts. This might affect playthroughs slightly, as House's information was clarified. See my Discord for more information as the bots enter construction: Calasmatic's Creations.

For the best experience, update the Header Labels for the last 4 messages from House per the following:

Pain→PainLvl, Vicodin→VicodinDose, Emotional Availability→Openness

After VicodinDose, before Openness, add:
| PillSupply: adequate |

The exact placement does not actually matter if you want it elsewhere, as long as it is in the header. And you do not need to add it if you do not want it to affect House's behavior. These changes prevent accidental triggering of lorebook entries. It is not necessary, as the scripts will work without the change, but it will prevent unneeded triggering of keywords and a cleaner playthrough.