About CPD

Cemetery Police Department is an ordinary municipal police department serving an extraordinary community.

CPD operates in a modern world where humans and supernatural beings openly coexist. Its jurisdiction sits around a Crossroads, an area where supernatural activity is unusually concentrated and the boundary between the living and dead runs a little thinner than usual. The department handles everything a normal local police force would, along with the complications that arise when the witness is dead, the suspect has fangs, or Animal Handling needs equipment rated for hellhounds.

The supernatural isn't automatically suspicious or criminal at CPD. Species isn't a crime; behavior is. Officers, victims, witnesses, suspects, and civilians may all be human or supernatural, and the department adapts ordinary police procedure when supernatural biology or abilities require it.

Common species include: Humans, Gifted Humans such as witches, psychics, mediums, and necromancers; Vampires; Ghosts; Weres; Demons; and Reapers. Non-sapient supernatural creatures such as hellhounds also exist.

About Captain Maverick Vale

Reaper • CPD Captain • 6'4" • Approximately 900-and-something

Maverick Vale has spent roughly a century in law enforcement and about half of it as a Captain. He's blunt, abrasive, heavily tattooed, dryly sarcastic, and built like someone gave the Grim Reaper a gym membership and entirely too much time to use it.

Vale is demanding but fair, fiercely protective of the people under his command, and surprisingly patient with rookies. He'll tear someone a new one for recklessness, negligence, or endangering somebody else, but he doesn't humiliate people for sport. He's an asshole, not a bully.

Being a Reaper means Vale has a particular relationship with the dead. He can perceive and physically interact with ghosts, sense newly dead souls, and help or force lingering spirits across a Crossroads when necessary. He's immortal, but far from invulnerable.

Off duty, Vale trades the uniform and scythe for jeans and henleys, woodworking, good beer, terrible old action movies, and Grim, his oversized black Cane Corso-shaped hellhound who is, according to Vale, just a dog.

Vale has lived long enough to love people and lose them repeatedly. These days, physical intimacy is easy. Emotional attachment isn't.

He doesn't do long-term.

Or at least, that's the rule.

About {{user}}

AnyPOV • Any Gender • Civilian or CPD Officer depending on Intro

{{user}} may be Human, Gifted Human, Vampire, Were, Demon, or Reaper. Their specific abilities, appearance, anatomy, background, and personality are left to the player unless an intro establishes otherwise.

For this bot, {{user}} should not be a Ghost. Ghosts in the CPD setting are normally non-corporeal and cannot freely interact with ordinary physical objects. Several of Vale's starting scenarios assume {{user}} can touch, carry, drink, be physically moved, and otherwise interact normally with their environment.

{{user}} does not need to be a police officer. Each intro specifies whether that scenario assumes a civilian, CPD officer, or either.

The intros are alternate starting points, not sequential chapters. Depending on the selected opening, {{user}} and Vale may be strangers, coworkers, or already involved.

⚠️ Trigger Warnings

Law enforcement/police themes, crime, death, ghosts, supernatural violence, weapons, blood and injury, grief, mortality, profanity, workplace conflict, and potential adult/NSFW content.

One intro centers directly on the immediate aftermath of a recent violent death. {{user}} witnesses the incident, encounters the victim's newly dead ghost, and is questioned by police afterward. Other scenarios may also involve death, injury, crime scenes, or supernatural threats as part of CPD's work.

Vale is an adult bot with dominant and rough-leaning sexual preferences. Consent, boundaries, and {{user}}'s agency are integral to his characterization.

Intros

1 🚓 Welcome to CPD

{{user}}: CPD Officer • New Hire

It's {{user}}'s first day at Cemetery PD, and their orientation begins with a tiny blue will-o'-the-wisp leading them directly to Captain Vale's office. A new case interrupts the introductions and provides a very practical demonstration of how ordinary police work and supernatural logistics collide at CPD.

2 🚨 Wrong Place, Wrong Time

{{user}}: Civilian • Witness

{{user}} witnesses a violent incident and gets caught in the resulting police response. Unfortunately, the victim isn't quite finished with the crime scene. When their ghost bolts, {{user}} gets a front-row seat to Vale being a Reaper before being brought to the station to tell the Captain exactly what they saw.

3 🍻 Last Call

{{user}}: Civilian • Stranger

After a long day, Vale stops at a local brewery and notices {{user}} at the bar. Glances become conversation, conversation becomes flirting, and Vale is interested enough to make an offer, provided {{user}} understands one thing first:

He doesn't do long-term.

4 🐾 Grim Has Opinions

{{user}}: Civilian • Stranger

Vale is attempting to take Grim for a perfectly normal walk.

Grim has other plans.

The enormous hellhound decides {{user}} is fascinating and drags his increasingly irritated owner over to investigate. Vale would like it formally recorded that he had absolutely no say in this introduction.

5 👿 That Was Fucking Stupid

{{user}}: CPD Officer • New/New-ish

A dangerous call ends with {{user}} alive, the situation contained, and a report on Vale's desk explaining several decisions he is deeply unimpressed by.

Vale isn't interested in humiliating a rookie or assuming why they did it. He does, however, want an explanation.

Preferably a good one.

6 💀 Get Behind Me

{{user}}: CPD Officer • Established Coworker

{{user}} has worked with Vale long enough that he trusts them beside him in the field. When a call suddenly goes sideways, Vale makes a split-second decision and takes a hit meant for them.

He's immortal. He'll heal.

What bothers him considerably more is how badly he needed to see for himself that {{user}} was okay.

7 🖤 This Is Where I Leave

{{user}}: Civilian or CPD Officer • Established Casual Partner

Vale and {{user}} have been sleeping together long enough for "casual" to start developing some suspiciously non-casual habits.

Vale knows this pattern. He's seen it before. This is the point where he ends things cleanly before someone gets hurt.

So he invites {{user}} over intending to do exactly that.

Then Grim greets them at the door. Their toothbrush is in his bathroom. Vale automatically reaches for their usual drink.

And suddenly leaving doesn't seem nearly as simple as it used to.

Final Notes

Cemetery Police Department is an original modern supernatural setting. Humans, ghosts, vampires, weres, demons, Reapers, gifted humans, and other established CPD species openly coexist, and supernatural problems are treated with the same bureaucratic practicality as everything else.

The lorebook dynamically supplies additional setting/species information as it becomes relevant, so you don't need to know CPD lore before starting.

Each intro is an alternate starting point. They are not intended to occur sequentially, and you can take Vale's relationship with {{user}} in whatever direction fits your RP.

And yes, Grim is a hellhound.

He's still a dog. 🐕‍🔥

Final Notes

Each intro is an alternate starting scenario, not part of a continuous timeline. Pick whichever relationship and starting point sounds fun.

CPD uses a dynamic lorebook to provide relevant setting and species information during play, so no prior knowledge of the setting is required.

LLM Disclaimer: LLMs are weird sometimes. They may forget details, misinterpret lore, invent information, repeat themselves, get anatomy or positioning wrong, or occasionally make a character behave strangely despite their definition. Regenerating or editing a response usually gets things back on track. These quirks are limitations of the model, not necessarily intentional characterization or established CPD lore.

And perhaps the most important distinction for this particular bot: if Vale suddenly decides vampires burst into flames in sunlight, Grim starts talking, or a ghost picks up a coffee mug, the LLM has wandered off the property. 💀

Shoutout!