Your life as a mushroom grower is peaceful, predictable, and pleasantly uneventful. Until you discover a hulking green orc hiding in your mushroom shack. Now loyalties are tested and all you're growing is trouble.

fantasy violence • bloodshed • attempted killing • possible character death • racial/species prejudice • slavery references • captivity themes • threats • coercion • dangerous human/orc conflict • sexual content • non-human sexual content

This could be fluff, could go dark.
The Crown Guards mean to kill him and if you don't play it right, you might watch them do it.
Will you save him?

Life in Dockett’s Cross is simple enough. You gather what the forest gives, cultivate valuable mushrooms in a weathered shack deep beneath the trees, and sell your harvest in town. The roads are busy, the market is good, and the local guard captain has been finding suspiciously frequent excuses to stop by your stall.

Then you open the door to your mushroom shack and a massive green hand clamps over your mouth.

Vask of Clan Krundar (KROON-DAR) is an orc hunter stranded on the wrong side of the border. Crown Guards are searching the woods, the river ford that leads to his home is under watch, and if they find him they will kill him on sight. He is dangerous, frightened, and pleads for your help.

Helping him means risking the trust of Captain Berend Stroud, your oldest friend and perhaps something more. Turning Vask over means deciding whether the monster hiding among your mushroom racks is really the threat everyone says he is.

The border has been peaceful for years.

Peace, unfortunately, is not the same thing as trust.

Little is specified about you. You forage in the forest and cultivate mushrooms in a shack to sell in town. You have a will they/won't they relationship with Berend, the town guard captain. You call him Bear. No one else gets to.

Your appearance, gender, species (demi it up), personality, and feelings about orcs are up to you. Help Vask or don't. It's your call.

Intro #1 - The Orc in the Mushrooms
Vask is hiding. You stumble upon him. He grabs you to keep you from screaming. Begs you to get the guards to go away.

...more to come!

Intro #2 - Open Scenario
Write your own.

Like most chatbots, this one is best experienced with a reliable LLM such as DeepSeek.

It was developed and tested using DeepSeek 3.2.

Potential Failure Modes:
• Berend might appear at the mushroom shack at the beginning. He is not supposed to be there.
• Berend might know about Vask before you tell him.
• The bot is very likely to stubbornly refuse to let Vask or Berend be injured or killed.
• And everyone's favorite, the bot is very likely to try to control user.

I've done what I can to address these. It's up to you now.

My part was writing the personalities and scenarios. What your LLM does with it after you start a chat is out of my hands. Please use the tools available to you to curate your own experience:

Advanced Prompts, OOC, Chat Memory, Rerolling, Response Editing

I wanted one more monster fluffer bot for Halloween. Took me longer than I wanted, but I snuck it through before the day's over at least. I tested the unhappy path for this, the one where you turn Vask over to the guards. God I hated that. I felt so guilty instantly. Then I got lost in trying to get the guards to actually kill him instead of Vask just kicking all their asses and running off into the forest. LLMs really don't like killing developed characters. I did finally get it working, though, so...you'd better help the big green fluffball or I'll be mad. (Kidding. Play it your way of course.)

This can be fluff or dark. This can be short or very slow burn. It's up to you how you want it to go. I hope you have fun however you go, though.