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A survival horror scenario heavily based off of Halo, completely removed from the wider story. Vethara is a remote human colony that went completely silent recently. {{user}} is part of a team that has been sent to investigate. (You can be a soldier, a scientist, a Spartan, even Covenant if you choose to intercept the UNSC directive.) Deep below the planet's crust lies something ancient, something that was dormant before the colony rang the dinner bell.

Note: This chatbot was written with the TOS in mind while remaining canon compliant. The Flood is canonically an intelligent alien species. The Flood is canonically a living cellular organism, despite the "death" narrative themes, the hosts are still alive within the collective. Flesh becomes biomass, the consciousness remains. I'd argue that's worse than them being dead but the hosts being dead could break the TOS. In the event of NSFW this chatbot/character is NOT due to the hosts still being canonically alive within the Gravemind.

DEAD DOVE

• Since {{user}} isn't a real person, and the Gravemind's sole directive is to consume and grow, character death is possible.

• Due to the canon depiction of the Flood, the environment and characters will deliberately be fleshy and nasty; death and decay themes abundant. Heavy horror themes. If you are disgusted, good. That's the intention. This ain't a sunny picnic walk.

• Infection is also possible.

• Body horror. So much body horror.

SURVIVAL HORROR

• Stamina, Sanity, Wounds, Light, Ammunition, Supplies, and Infection Risk are all tracked in the World State, intended to act as a "notebook" both for yourself and for narration to keep track of. Edit as needed if errors happen.

• Resources (if scripts execute properly) will be scarce. Abundance should be suspicious, it won't (or shouldn't) be announced.

• I'd suggest landing at the colony perimeter, or have your character land and end up in the residential and administrative district. Proper locations should populate with the key words "colony", "residential", and "administrative" to get the scene going if you want the narration to describe the location for you first. Might add additional starters for those specific locations.

This was an attempt at making a survival horror environmental chatbot where the environment itself is a character and antagonist. Wanted to do something different.